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Once at the link, you'll want to scroll forward and see Tony Snow wearing Elvis style shades. I don't know why you'll want to see that . . . you just will.
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#1: "I don't know why you'll want to see that . . . you just will"
Because Tony Snow's hot, silly. ;-p
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Yes, but everyone knows DC's greatest male sex symbol is Donald Rumsfeld. Well, that's what Clint Black said at last year's 9/11 post-march concert. Not that I care, really.
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I don't see "the clap" mentioned in this list. Are you certain this list is comprehensive? Why is Paris Hilton's name removed from the list--I mean, I think she is a global warming disaster?
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You missed the biggest disaster with the Global Warming[tm] which happened 18,000 years ago and allowed the settlement of Europe. It permited the existance of the moonbats screeching about 'distaster' today.
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Global warming should have let me grow warmer weather plants in IL. It hasn't happened. Even my attempts to grow Sequoias keep getting nipped in the bud by cold winters.
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Just as Bill Clinton + MSM used the exapnding Reagan-Bush 1-Repub economy to justify the Dem Party and Leftism-SOcialism once, before, and forever, where the DemoLeft doesn't ever have to prove the merits of their ideo to anyone ever again, THE FAILED LEFT-ENVIROS ONLY NEED ONE EARTH-IMPACTING, EARTH-BASED NATURAL = ASTRONOM DISASTER, INCLUDING COMBO, TO JUSTIFY EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING THEY'VE SAID. PLANET X + 2012 + 2029, etal. are still out there. plus mankind's Left-alleged failure to prevent same or any by NOT adopting OWG, Communism-Socialism, and National-Global Absolutism. Good Lefties don't wanna directly call or argue for OWG, just wanna instead achieve OWG by roundabout means.
(SomaliNet) Liberias ex president is not the only one under trial. Like his father, son of Liberias former warlord, Charles 'Chuckie' Taylor, is to be charged for atrocities against natives of Liberia during his stay in Liberia between 1997 and 2002. "Chuckie Taylor is implicated in heinous abuses against Liberians. The Department of Justice should investigate his links to these atrocities with a view to prosecuting him," said Elise Keppler, counsel at the Human Rights Watch.
Liberians suffered greatly during the period "Chuckie" Taylor led Anti-Terrorist Unit (ATU). Liberia was still under the leadership of Charles Taylor. Liberians were raped, beaten and many lost their lives and families to the activities of ATU. ATU was in support of Liberias government during this time. It is also accused of involvement in war crimes during the time Liberia was undergoing war.
"The U.S. attorney in Miami should ensure that federal law on torture and war crimes committed abroad doesnt just gather dust on the shelves.As far as we know, no one has ever been prosecuted under this legislation. Investigating 'Chuckie' Taylor would be a good start," said Keppler on Chuckle's involvement in war crimes in Liberia. The son of ex Liberia's president has been in US custody since March 30th.
Hummm, must have been washing my hair that day
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(SomaliNet) The story of Rwandas genocide is yet to settle. This time round, the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has got information that 12 of its employees had a role to play in the Rwanda genocide. "We should be ready with our findings around August," Everard O'Donnell, the acting deputy registrar of the Rwanda tribunal said, at the headquarters of the UN court in Arusha, Tanzania.
Rwandas government already presented the names of the 12 suspects to the tribunal. Rwanda government earlier noted that some members of the tribunal probing the Rwanda genocide were among those who killed Rwandans in 1994. The government in Rwanda revealed its fear that this would jeopardize the investigations and guilty Rwandans would be left scot-free. "We welcome the investigations but we want International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda to expedite the investigations," Alloys Mutabingwa, Rwandas government representative to the ICTR said.
This is not the first time people suspected of involvement in Rwandas genocide have been part of the investigative team. Simon Nshamihigo served as a prosecutor in South Western Rwanda till he was convicted for involvement in a genocide that left many Rwandans dead.
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"We should be ready with our findings around August," Everard O'Donnell, the acting deputy registrar of the Rwanda tribunal said
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Rwanda government earlier noted that some members of the tribunal probing the Rwanda genocide were among those who killed Rwandans in 1994.
Good gawd, is there no depth to the misery the UN causes? This is the first I've heard of this charge, and I'm always skeptical about named-names (the 12 mentioned in this article), but good grief....if true, we need to vow NEVER AGAIN (as in, never using U.N. to solve issues).
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RB had an article, original in French, posted awhile back directly linking de Villepin to Rwanda'a genocide, too, but the UN seems to be the common denominator in most of the world's woes.
Britain discussed the possibility of a nuclear attack on China in 1961 to defend Hong Kong, its former colony, secret documents from the British government revealed Friday.
Letters circulated to then prime minister Harold Macmillan recommended nuclear force as the only real alternative to abandoning the territory in the event of an attack by the neighbouring Chinese.
British officials discussed how to ensure that Beijing understood any attack would be met by the United States dropping nuclear bombs on China.
At the same time, the plan needed to avoid laying Hong Kong open to the claim that it was becoming a military outpost of the United States.
Details of the discussions emerged from records of Macmillan's office between 1957 to 1961, which were made public by the National Archives.
The suggested nuclear strategy followed communications on how best to strengthen Hong Kong's defences amid growing uncertainty about the intentions of its communist neighbour.
Hong Kong was particularly vulnerable, not least because its water and food supplies from China could be cut off at any time.
On February 22 1961, then foreign secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home wrote a letter marked "top secret" to defence minister Harold Watkinson and the prime minister.
In it, he said: "It must be fully obvious to the Americans that Hong Kong is indefensible by conventional means and that in the event of a Chinese attack, nuclear strikes against China would be the only alternative to complete abandonment of the colony.
"In these circumstances it is perhaps not so much formal staff talks with the Americans that we need so much as an informal exchange of views involving a discussion of the use of nuclear strikes.
"I need hardly say, however, that I agree entirely with your view that while we should encourage the Chinese to believe that an attack on Hong Kong would involve nuclear retaliation, we must avoid anything that would allow the Chinese to claim that the colony is a military outpost of the Unites States."
Secret meetings with US officials took place in Hawaii and it was advised in 1961 that further talks should be held on board a US naval carrier, which frequently visited Hong Kong.
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A deputy commander of China's navy has been dismissed and stripped of a seat in parliament for corruption, the government said Thursday, one of the most senior military figures to be punished in a multiyear crackdown on rampant graft. Vice Adm. Wang Shouye, 62, is accused of abusing his position to collect bribes and of "loose morals" for having an affair with a young woman, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. He was dismissed as one of six deputy naval commanders after the woman reported him in January, Xinhua said.
The announcement was the first mention of Wang's case by Chinese state media. Thousands of government and Communist Party officials have been punished, and some executed, in recent years to try to stamp out corruption that threatens to undermine public acceptance of communist rule. But such a case against a senior member of the politically active military is rare.
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PLAN Commanders of that rank are typically married men, albeit the name of spouses may not be readily revealed to the public.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's top brass has been charged with accepting millions of dollars in bribes from contractors after one of his mistresses blew the whistle, independent sources with ties to the military said on Wednesday.
If found guilty, Vice Admiral Wang Shouye, 63, one of five navy deputy commanders and a member of China's parliament, would be the most senior People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer ever convicted of a crime.
"Wang Shouye kept several mistresses. One of them reported him to the authorities" after he refused to give in to her demands for money, a source with knowledge of the case told Reuters, requesting anonymity
Sounds like you've got some energy left. Get your Wanger over here Admiral, we need engineers and folks who can relate to contractors.
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I b'lieve the admiral was the Chinese navy's chief civil engineer, Besoeker. When civil engineers take bribes from contractors, bridges collapse and dams don't hold -- not what we want here, especially when we're on the busy side of the thirty-year storm cycle.
A new study by the Chicago-based Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICfIaRR) says enough legal immigrants will be eligible to vote in the 2008 presidential election to "substantially and quickly alter the political status quo." They assume the newbies will vote Democrat.
There are 14.25 million potential new voters among legal immigrants, including 12.4 million who could cast ballots in 2008, the group said.
The study found 16 states where the number of unregistered immigrants who are eligible to vote is larger than the vote differential between President Bush and Democrat John Kerry in the last election. They include swing states such as Iowa, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon and Wisconsin. There are 17 states with gubernatorial elections this year, where the voting potential of 4.25 million children of immigrants "is either large enough to be a significant voting block or where the race is close enough for the immigrant vote to be a determinative swing," the study said.
Alex Orozco, an Iowa-based immigrant activist, said the issue is far more bipartisan than the report concludes. "The report blames Republicans for legislative attacks against immigrants, when in reality attacks have come from both parties," he said.
Iowa Republican Chairman Ray Hoffmann, an immigrant from Germany who runs a restaurant in Sioux City, said the GOP has nothing to apologize for in the immigration debate. "As a legal immigrant, I understand the importance of the immigration debate and believe as most people do that immigrants need to come into the country legally," he said. I suspect most legal immigrants would agree, and the illegal ones should not be voting anyway. "Illegal immigration is an ongoing debate that Republicans are fully engaged in."
There are an estimated 40 million immigrants in the United States, and the study said they could carry significant weight in the upcoming elections if they become motivated. What percent of eligible voters actually do so? Isn't it somewhere under 50%? Methinks the ICfIaRR are getting a tad overexcited... although I look forward to the next few elections with even more interest than before.
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Good lord, Barbara, "dead"?? How do you think of things like that? You can not say such things without giving fair warning! I wasn't sitting as securly in my chair as I'd supposed, you see... and I'm going to have a bruise to explain later. ;-)
Beware of travel feature stories posing as invitations to terror.
"The New York Times points cranks, radicals, al-Qaida operatives and would-be assassins to the summer homes of [V.P. Dick] Cheney and [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld" writes FrontPage Magazine's David Horowitz, who sees the June 30 Times feature article as an apparent retaliation for administration "criticism of the Times' disclosure of classified intelligence to America's enemies."
In the "Escapes" section of the June 30 edition, the N.Y. Times printed huge color photos of the vacation residences of Cheney and Rumsfeld, "identifying the small Maryland town where they live, showing their front driveways and, in Rumsfeld's case, actually pointing out the hidden security camera in case any hostile intruders should get careless," Horowitz writes.
Times Travel section writer Peter Kilborn even makes sure enemies of the two men will know such details as where Mrs. Rumsfeld shops in the eastern shore town of St. Michaels, Md. where the two administration officials have weekend retreats.
He even lets the curious know what street the Cheneys and Rumsfelds have to use to get to their own road.
It's all part of the war against President Bush, Horowitz charges.
"Make no mistake about it, there is a war going on in this country," Horowitz advises, noting that the aggressors in this war "are Democrats, liberals and leftists who began a scorched earth campaign against President Bush before the initiation of hostilities in Iraq."
One of the most prevalent weapons in this war, according to Horowitz, is the New York Times.
Isn't there some really noisy aircraft that need to fly low over the NY Times publishers residence at all hours of the night?
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This if frighten on so many points... and so wrong.
This is outright treason and an OVERT act to give aid and comfort to the enemy in the form of intel.
Arrests and imprisonment is in order NOW and not after some slow drag-their-feet investigation which allows the NYT to give even more intel to the terrorists.
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There are no limits when you know you are out of power and, unless your opponent commits suicide, not likely to regain it legitimately during your lifetime.
These people are beyond disgusting. I almost want full reciprocation for the entire staffs of the NYT, WaPo, Boston Globe, LA Times, SF Chron, Houston Chron, etc. Almost.
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Wasn't there a parody about this recently, where the NYT would reveal the exact location of a US soldier doing recon of an al-Qaeda camp, revealing exactly all the details necessary to kill that soldier?
Life is beyond parody, I think.
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I didn't know Joe Trippi was in the cabinet and had secret service attachments.
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I think the Times is about to get a nasty little visit from men in black suits.
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Bill introduced a month ago by Lugar, Specter, Dodd, Graham, and Shumer. Currently in Judiciary Committee.
Provides a shield unless non-disclosure is blocking the resolution of a criminal or civil case
Notwithstanding sections 1 through 6, a journalist, any person who employs or has an independent contract with a journalist, or communication service provider has no privilege against disclosure of any information to the extent such information is reasonably necessary to stop or prevent reasonably certain--
(1) death; or
(2) substantial bodily harm.
They can't protect their terrorist sources.
[However, the press has no privilege if a court has determined that]
"(2) in a criminal investigation or prosecution of an unauthorized disclosure of properly classified Government information by an employee of the United States, such unauthorized disclosure has seriously damaged the national security, alternative sources of the information identifying the source have been exhausted, and the harm caused by the unauthorized disclosure of properly classified Government information clearly outweighs the value to the public of the disclosed information." i.e. the press probably wouldn't have to disclose the Plame source, but they must disclose the source who outed the SWIFT program. (But then, they've been claiming that the Plame leak is serious, and reasonable people would agree that the value to the public is zero, so maybe they do have to disclose the source....)
Some classified information has no real importance, leak away, business as usual.
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The problems of this republic do not include insufficient protections afforded the media.
One problem that does exist, however, is the rampant bias and reckless abuse of privilege by the media.
First we need vigorous and relentless prosecution of leakers who have breached their oaths and clearly violated the law - to the detriment of the security of the US.
Second, the media involved are co-conspirators. There would be no incentive to leak without them. They are part and parcel. They are testing the limits of their power with acts of sedition. This will grow - and it is entirely likely it already has endangered the very existence of America.
Third, many of our legislators are complicit. Lugar, Specter, Dodd, Graham and Schumer (there are many others, of course) have identified themselves as either willful idiots, useful tools or co-conspirators. Actions are what matters - and attempting to provide additional, excessive, cover for seditious interests places them on the wrong side of the existing law.
This must be faced eventually. If not now, when? After the damage leads to thousands more dead Americans?
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We need existing laws enforced. Not more bullsh*t laws. Just like the illegal alien issue. The Executive branch has the authority to prosecute. They just need the will to do the right thing.
See Burglar, Sandy, et al
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BS You're absolutely right. Any bill like this implies the certification of who is and isn't a journalist. That's a road we DEFINITELY want to avoid.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday overruled a jirgas decision to marry off five minor girls to settle a dispute. The chief justice was hearing a petition filed by anthropologist Samar Minallah against the custom of swara. The jirga, presided over by Pakistan Peoples Partys MNA Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani had ordered that Amna, Noor, Bano, Benazir and Shehzadi be handed over to the family of a murder victim as compensation.
The dispute began in 1997 when Miandad Banglani was murdered in a shootout between Hafiz Qamaruddin and Ali Yar Banglani in Jacobabad district. The CJ directed the district police officer (DPO) to investigate the matter in the light of the information given by Sindh Advocate General Mansoor Khan and Additional Advocate General Khadim Hussain Qaiser. He said that a report should be submitted within 15 days with the Supreme Court.
The DPO told the court that the fathers of the children had said that their daughters were handed over to the victims family; however, the men denied this in court. The CJ retorted that they [the fathers] deserved to be imprisoned. The CJ said that no one had the right to run a parallel judicial system through the punchayat (village council), or of decreeing marriages of minor girls as compensation under the un-Islamic customs of vani and swara.
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I think the old surprise meter's getting a workout, isn't this the 2nd positive we've read out of Pakland this week?
Pakistan's six party religious alliance, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), has proposed three names Dar-ul-Islam, Bab-ul-Islam and Islam Var to bring an end to the decades-old dispute on renaming Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The MMA legislators have said that will support any one of these names when the matter comes up in the House, which is likely to happen during the current session. The former two of the proposed names are Arabic words that mean "House of Islam" and "Gate of Islam", while the third has been taken from the Pashtu language and means "Door of Islam".
How about Vanistan? Or Karo-Kiristan? Or Dar ul-Kaboom?
I guess Mordor was taken.
Meanwhile, a female MMA legislator from Mardan, Naeema Kishwar, submitted an adjournment motion in the NWFP Assembly secretariat asking that routine proceedings be suspended to discuss the important issue of renaming the province.
They're crawling with Islamists, people are getting their heads cut off, bin Laden's set up shop there, and the most important thing they can come up with to do is discuss renaming the province...
Almost all political parties and tribal leaders agree that the North West Frontier Province should be renamed, but there have been differences on names. The Awami National Party, the top nationalist group in the NWFP, led by Asfandyar Wali, seeks the name of Pakhtoonkhaw (abode of Pushtoons). The ruling party recently agreed to consider the name "Khyber" for the province, but the parties to the issue did not recommend the idea.
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Call it: Leachistan, in honor of what Pakistan takes from the world.
Indonesian military police are investigating a large stash of weapons and ammunition recovered from the home of a recently deceased army general, the army chief said.
Officers found 145 automatic rifles, 42 handguns, nine grenades, 28 binoculars and 28,000 rounds of ammunition at the home of Brig. Gen. Koesmayadi, who was the army's deputy logistic chief, army chief of staff Gen. Joko Santoso said.
"This is most irregular," Santoso told a media conference televised live late Thursday. He promised a full investigation.
Malaysian rights activists yesterday criticized a controversial plan by a hard-line Islamic party to offer cash and perks in return for converting indigenous people. This is a violation of human rights. It looks like religion is being made a commodity, said S. Arutchelven from human rights campaigners Voice of the Malaysian People. Indigenous people have their own beliefs and culture. We urge the Kelantan government to stop this program, he said.
Kelantan is the only Malaysian state under the control of the Pan-Malaysia Islamic Party (PAS) which wants to turn the multicultural country into an Islamic nation. State officials said Monday that cash and other rewards like four-wheel-drive vehicles would be offered to Muslim preachers who married and converted indigenous people. Kelantan Religious Affairs Committee chair Hassan Mohamood said the state government was unhappy with the conversion rate of indigenous people or Orang Asli, who do not follow mainstream religions. Most Orang Asli are animists and still embrace traditional medicine-men or witch-doctors to communicate with the spiritual world.
The Orang Asli are the indigenous Sakai people, rather nice Negrito woods dwellers who're racially distinct from the Malays. The Sakai have historically been horribly oppressed by the Malays — the sultans used to hold Sakai hunts for sport. They don't do well in captivity, having the habit of just giving up and dying. Looks like the Kelantan government has found a new way to oppress them.
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Orang Asli means forest man. That's about the limit of my Malay.
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KENNER, Louisiana (AP) -- Three people convicted of hauling away liquor, wine and beer from a grocery store after Hurricane Katrina were sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison. Judge Roy Bean presiding
The judge said he wanted to send a message that looting would not be tolerated when he gave the maximum sentence to Coralnelle Little, 36, Rhonda McGowen, 42, and Paul C. Pearson, 36, all of Kenner. "the cream of the community...."
A jury convicted the trio May 2 on a portion of the state's looting law that took effect two weeks before the Aug. 29 storm. The amended law set a three-year minimum sentence, and a maximum of 15 years in prison, for looting during a declared state of emergency.
They were convicted of attempting to leave the grocery with 27 bottles of liquor and wine, six cases of beer and one case of wine coolers, six days after Katrina made landfall.
Little, McGowen and Pearson each testified that they were not looting, but they offered conflicting accounts of matters such as who drove to the store.
Pearson's attorney, Bruce Netterville, said the sentence and conviction would be appealed. "We believe the sentence is excessive," said Netterville. Attorneys for the other defendants agreed. They nooded their heads like bobble dolls....
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And how many think that the 'white collar' criminals who stole relief monies are going to get 15 years? [And in my book that includes the Governor and the Legislative Branch of Louisiana and their outrageous request for monies far and beyond anything Mississippi asked for.]
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They were convicted of attempting to leave the grocery with 27 bottles of liquor and wine, six cases of beer and one case of wine coolers, six days after Katrina made landfall.
Little, McGowen and Pearson each testified that they were not looting, but they offered conflicting accounts of matters such as who drove to the store.
Good gawd, I first thought this sentencing was excessive but hearing these details make me think the punishment fits. I mean all of N.O. was basically a ghostown by 6 days after Katrina struck (the troops rolled in on Day 3, I believe, and the busses shipped others to Houston starting on Day 2, I think) and the fact that they could DRIVE to get there. Yeah, REAL needy. Listen, I understand swiping food/essentials, but driving up almost a week later in a ghost town to have your own personal Mardi Gras is ridiculous.
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Hmmm ... still waiting for widespread looting in Wilkes Barre, PA.
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Back in 1978 we had a bad blizzard in Providence, RI. The police were wallowing on foot. National Guard blocked major intersections (under 3 feet of snow). Looting started. Cops shot and killed a looter coming out of a store - turned out it was a kid, and he had a can of tomato sauce or such. The expected uproar ensued. The mayor (later convict) Buddy Cianci came on tv and said (paraphrase) 'This was tragic and I am sorry it happened, but I am not changing the orders of martial law, and future looters should expect the same.' There was no more looting.
Most visitors to the U.S.S. Intrepid, the vintage World War II aircraft carrier docked on the west side of Manhattan, come to hear combat stories--how the ship survived five separate kamikaze attacks--or to see some of the neat modern warplanes now parked on its flight deck. But when I got the opportunity this week to visit the carrier, I had something else in mind.
I wanted to get down into the belly of the floating war machine and see what few visitors have been allowed to see during the 2 1/2 decades that it has been on public display: the machinery that propelled this giant halfway around the globe to project American power first against the Japanese Imperial Empire and then, two decades later, against the North Vietnamese. . . .
. . . the ship is in pretty good shape considering that it has been sitting here for nearly 25 years. In 1976, real-estate magnate Zachary Fischer decided to rescue the Intrepid from the scrap heap and paid $25 million to have it brought to New York and set up as a museum. Today the museum spends $17 million a year on overhead and millions more on capital projects to keep the ship afloat and full of exhibits for 700,000 annual visitors. The Intrepid also raises money through its Fallen Heroes Fund to help wounded servicemembers from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families, and is building a $40 million physical rehabilitation center in San Antonio.
One soldier who visited the Intrepid recently had just returned from Iraq, where he had lost his left eye, part of his right hand, most of his left arm and his right leg. He came to express his gratitude to the Intrepid family for helping him. But Mr. White doesn't think that any thanks are necessary. Maintaining the ship, supporting troops returning from combat and reminding Americans that freedom isn't easily defended, he says, "is a duty."
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...My understanding is that Intrepid will be pulled from her berth late this year and drydocked for some time to recieve sorely needed maintenance. In the meantime, there are many other preserved warships along the east coast, including USS Massachusetts, USS North Carolina, and the Patriot's Point museum in Charleston with Intrepid's sister USS Yorktown. All are worth any drive and I have yet to see a family that wasn't awed and moved by these magnificent ships.
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I was in San Diego last month and took a tour of the USS Midway. Marvelous sight, and an added bonus of several restored vintage aircraft on her flight deck.
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Mike, I've been to the Charleston, S.C. group. Very impressive. In fact, one of the guys I work with has a son in Boy Scouts (he's Chinese). Anyways, their troop got to spend the night (including dear old dad) onboard the Yorktown and see firsthand how cramped it is. Truly a story of the American dream (the dad). His parents brought them here to the U.S. (from Hong Kong) when he was younger and landed in the middle of no-where, Mississippi (talk about culture shock). They had nothing, basically only the clothes on their back and worked their way up (the entire family, including 3 kids) to own several grocery stores in that area of Mississippi. He was the first to go to college (MS. State). Now, they're all about to retire millionaires because of how frugal they were and how they ran their business. Another interesting tidbit is that his father (who's now in his 80s at least) is now living with them here in Atlanta (the other siblings and mom live in MS.), and he fought for the Chinese against the Japanese in WWII (lost an eye to the Japanese). We jokingly call him the "Chinese Redneck" because of his upbringing in Mississippi.
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We've done a Cub Scout campover on the USS Little Rock, a late-war Cleveland-class light cruiser converted to a Talos guided missile ship which is up in Buffalo NY. Smallest space I've ever slept in, and that includes the bassinet I had when I was a newborn! Still, a fun time was had by all.
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Then we need to talk about living space aboard WW2 submarines, heh.
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See the U-505 at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry - if you can stand to wait in line long enough to get in.
ALso, I believe the USS Alabama (battlewagon) used to be in Mobile Bay as a museum, but that was 20 years ago....
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Bobby: It's still there. At least, before Katrina it was. I believe they had to do some repairs to her last year after Pensacola got nailed in 2004 (Hurricane Dennis, maybe?), but I think she's back in port in Mobile bay.
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USS Lexington is in Corpus Christi, TX, complete with lots of planes on board. Great way to spends some hours on the water.
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Miniter's a good writer, but am I the only one who cringed when reading the phrase "Japanese Imperial Empire"? Guess he didn't send the piece to the Department of Redundancy Department for proofreading...
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The Alabama is fine Bobby, Alabama state officials used it for dispesed HQ during the storms. It's a rock.
I was in San Diego last month and took a tour of the USS Midway
Whoa! I didn't know it was a museum ship! Okay, we got Essexs, Midways, now we need the ShityKitty for the collection.
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Up here in Fall River at Battleship Cove we've got the USS Massachusetts, USS Lionfish (a Balao class WWII sub. And AP's right. It's tight in there), USS Joseph P. Kennedy (which worked the Cuban blockade line) and the National PT Boat Museum, which has an Higgins and the last Elco PT boat in existence. Good take on a nice day. Kids eat it up.
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You could actually do a decent Navy tour up here. Charlestown Navy Yard for the Constitution (watch your head), right across the dock is the USS Cassin Young, a WWII Fletcher class destroyer that took a couple of Kamikaze hits at Okinawa. Then down to Fore River shipyard in Quincy to the USS Salem, a light cruiser. Then Battleship Cove. You could do it in a weekend.
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.
Air pressure changes, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, 
(SomaliNet) The story of Rwandas genocide is yet to settle. This time round, the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has got information that 12 of its employees had a role to play in the Rwanda genocide. "We should be ready with our findings around August," Everard O'Donnell, the acting deputy registrar of the Rwanda tribunal said, at the headquarters of the UN court in Arusha, Tanzania. 
A deputy commander of China's navy has been dismissed and stripped of a seat in parliament for corruption, the government said Thursday, one of the most senior military figures to be punished in a multiyear crackdown on rampant graft. Vice Adm. Wang Shouye, 62, is accused of abusing his position to collect bribes and of "loose morals" for having an affair with a young woman, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. He was dismissed as one of six deputy naval commanders after the woman reported him in January, Xinhua said. 
Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday overruled a jirgas decision to marry off five minor girls to settle a dispute. The chief justice was hearing a petition filed by anthropologist Samar Minallah against the custom of swara. The jirga, presided over by Pakistan Peoples Partys MNA Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani had ordered that Amna, Noor, Bano, Benazir and Shehzadi be handed over to the family of a murder victim as compensation. 
Pakistan's six party religious alliance, the 
