Hi, there, Dr. Eric. Welcome to Rantburg! What can we do for you?
ATTENTION:PRESIDENT/CEO,
That'd be me...
I am DR.ERIC CHIDI.,Project Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). My Committee is principally concerned with payment of all contract awarded from 1998 to date, in order of priority as regard capital projects of the NNPC. The information we gathered from the Foreign Office of the Nigeria Chambers of Commerce and Industries is so positive as to convince us that you would provide us with solution to a money transfer deal valued at Thirty One Million United States Dollars and subsequently a joint business venture.
Really? Shucks! That's a lotta dough! And I've never heard of a deal like this before...
In the course of our duties as values, and project inspectors for the on-going liquefied Natural Gas(LNG) project, we have over-invoiced the value of some jobs done by foreign contractors for the NNPC to the tune of US$31M. As follows: -Computer optimization and Installation $16,000.000.00,Installation of 250,000.00 Monax Turbine$10,000.000.00,Turn Around Maintenance $5,000,000.00 Our aim of over-invoicing this payment is to divert the excess amount to a discrete account abroad.
So, basically, you're saying you're a bunch of crooks? And all this time we thought the tales of endemic corruption in your country were just old wives' tales...
This fund is now floating in suspense account at the
Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN).
Inconvenient, ain't it?
This is the fund my colleagues and I have decided to transfer into your account since we, as civil servants are not allowed to operate or own foreign account.
Sure. Just drop it into my account...
The money will be shared as follows after transfer:30% for you (Account Owner)60%for me and my colleagues 10% to off-set both local and international expenses that Would be incurred in the course of this transaction.
And I'm sure that, having cheated your government, you wouldn't dream of cheating me...
To be able to claim the funds, we will be purporting your company to be the original contractor / beneficiary of the funds so all procedures for international transfer shall be strictly followed, as we have worked out all modalities for a swift and riskfree transfer.
Uhuh. Sure. Gotta watch those modalities, especially when my company has nothing to do with the oil business...
If this proposal satisfies you, please contact me
with the following important informations viz:
(1)Your Bank Name / Address Account Name, Account Number,Tel/Fax Telex of Bank.
(2)Your Personal Phone / Fax Numbers for easy
communication.
Why, sure. I'll get 'em right to you. Would you like to know which drawer my wife keeps her underwear in, too?
Take note that upon the reciept of the above informations this transaction will last for 14 working days from the time we submit the required information,as all Modelities concerning this transaction have been worked out and it is completely risk free.
Oh, certainly! Of course! No risk whatsoever!
Please be informed that this subject is classified sensitive. Therefore treat the transaction with utmost confidentiality and urgency.
Then why'd you post it here, where a few thousand pair of eyes can look it over?
EFL
... To avoid being sent to the United States, Fischer is also considering claiming German citizenship and is seeking political asylum in Japan or a third country. His past statements could cloud his chances for success, however. On a rambling Web site Fischer's supporters acknowledge to be his home page, Fischer launches numerous attacks on Jews and decries the "international Jewish conspiracy" and "Jew-controlled U.S.," which he says are behind plots to both rule the world and ruin his life. At one point, the site denies the Holocaust. "The so-called `Holocaust' of the Jews during World War II is a complete hoax! It never happened," it says. "The Jews are liars." "Japan beware you're backing a loser," it adds. "Don't go down the drain with the filthy Jew-controlled U.S." I guess his beliefs will limit him to emmigrating to only the majority of EU countries, any Arab or Islamic country, Russia, ...
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Jeez, what a loon. What, did a Jew kick his a$$ in chess?
From Compass Direct
Four months after he was tortured and jailed for "spreading Christianity" in Saudi Arabia, Indian Christian Brian O'Connor received his first official prison visits this week. O'Connor, 36, was lured out of his home in Riyadh on March 25 and arrested by a group of Saudi muttawa (religious police), who beat him severely, claiming he was dealing in drugs, alcohol and the spread of Christianity. This week two representatives of O'Connor's embassy visited him at Riyadh's Al-Hair Jail, followed the next day by an official representing the office of the governor of Riyadh. At the end of that interview, the man told O'Connor that within 10 to 15 days' time, he would either be sent back to his job or deported to India. "I am confident that the Lord will turn this mess into a message and my test into a testimony," O'Connor told a visitor last week. Although Saudi government officials claim to exercise "practical tolerance" toward non-Muslims who worship privately in their homes, in legal terms freedom of religion does not exist within the kingdom.
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Two weekends ago, a certain identifiable swatch of world community worthies--United Nations and European Union dignitaries, Muslim princes and ambassadors, NGO officials--came together in Bosnia to celebrate the reopening of the famous Mostar Bridge. It had been destroyed by Bosnian Croats in 1993, during the Bosnian War, to expunge a symbol of cosmopolitan Islam dating from 16th-century Ottoman times. Its destruction caused an uproar, and rightly so. Simultaneously, Bosnian Serbs were busy obliterating some 70% of the local Muslims' historic monuments. The Serbs then moved on to similar deeds in Kosovo.
The bridge's reopening had been a belated triumph. Under the aegis of Unesco, countries such as Turkey, Italy and Croatia contributed to the project for a decade along with town residents. At the same time, the town's old buildings underwent renovation funded by the Aga Khan and World Monuments Fund.
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To hell with desecrating the monuments. Wahhabi clerics are desecrating every single mosque they preach in. By advocating violent jihad, Wahhabists are inviting and actively precipitating the complete and total destruction of Islam as a whole. It's hard to desecrate one's own religion any more than that.
When one considers the incredible beauty of some mosques, like the Haga Sophia, the concept of Wahhabis "redecorating" such a world heritage site is simply an abomination. Most amazing of all is Islam's total state of denial over what Wahhabism holds for the future. Fused glass figures prominently in the very near term unless Muslims figure out some way to divest themselves of Wahhabism's destructive hammerlock. Saudi Arabia has essentially disfigured and maimed Islam as a whole and Muslims don't seem to care. How shocked will they then be to then discover that no one else in the non-Islamic global community will give a sh!t when Moslem countries come under subsequent nuclear attack for continuing Wahhabist atrocities?
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Mr Hoon's visit has been criticised by Spanish MPs as an "offensive action"
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After 300 years you would think Spain would get over it but it can't. After 200+ years the U.K. is well over it's loss of New England.
My suggestion to Spain. "Shove it."
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The difference is that having seen what happened to Boston, the British are happy to have had it taken off their hands, whereas the Spanish looking at what the Brits have done with Gibralter want it all the more. Not to mention they are cowardly and envious.
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Hat tip: Drudge. The page will load the embedded video. If you can, go to their site (SwiftVets.com) and donate to help them air this commercial NATIONWIDE for the next 90 DAYS!
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Devastatingly effective. Political decapitation.
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WATCH THIS!
Its fantastic as an antidote to to the Demo Convention glossing over everything Kerry did after getting back to Vietnam.
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Oldspook, isn't this too early. The DNC could still swap in someone with a clue.
He is really a bad candidate. If he's capable of delivering a "Go Buckeye" speech in Michigan, what kind of mess will he make in the Middleast? He claims extensive foriegn relations experience, but did he show up for any of the briefings? His attendence record for the Intelligence Committee looks like the employment attendence sheet of a crack addict.
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SuperHose - given the Dems recent tendency to swap in last minute candidates I'm concerned about this also. But Kerry would have to believe he was going to get pounded before he left the ticket which would probably not occur until Sept/Oct when the Dems can't legally change their candidate.
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AWW, Kerry would just get a visit from the cronies of Soros. I'm sure that he is dirty enough that they have something on him. The Dems would probably try to run Ben Afleck to capitalize on his name recognition. I don't think he is old enough, though. It sounds crazy but during term two of Clinton, I lowered my estimation of the collective mentality of the American people.
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For anyone who hasn't been infected with the blind idiocy of ABB, this is Game, Set, Match.
Either this election will be a blowout -- or it will be 2000 all over again, and that would be very very ugly.
EFL: John Kerry's bid to become commander in chief of wartime America has opened old wounds among some former Vietnam-era POWs who bristle over Kerry's anti-war activism and atrocity allegations during the Vietnam conflict.
Those activities and statements, pushed out of sight by a campaign that spotlights Kerry's service in Vietnam, were used by the POWs' North Vietnamese captors to sap the morale of prisoners and U.S. troops still in the field in South Vietnam, former POWs told United Press International.
This would be the part of Kerry's career that he'd like everyone to forget.
"They were always talking about that (anti-war demonstrations), and they picked right up on Kerry's throw-away line, 'Don't be the last man to die in a lost cause, or die for a lost cause,'" said Kenneth Cordier, an Air Force pilot who spent 2,284 days as a prisoner. "They repeated that incessantly. "They used these photographs and inputs, voice tapes, whatever, from these peace people to try to convince us the whole country had turned anti-war and we were showing a very bad attitude and would never go home." Jim Warner, a prisoner of the North Vietnamese in the Hoa Lo prison complex -- known to U.S. servicemen as the Hanoi Hilton -- remembers Kerry. He became acquainted with him, he said, when a North Vietnamese guard and interrogator the prisoners nicknamed "Boris" took Warner to the quiz shack in the complex's punishment camp called "Skid Row" in May 1971. During a four-hour propaganda and harassment session, Boris pulled papers from his pocket and gave them to Warner to think about, he said. Some were clippings from a leftist newspaper in the United States. The other was a typewritten transcript of Kerry's testimony before a U.S. Senate panel in which he repeated allegations of U.S. troops routinely committing atrocities, attacking the war and saying communism was not a threat in Vietnam.
The atrocity allegations were garnered from the so-called Winter Soldier Investigation in Detroit in early 1971, in which actress and activist Jane Fonda and Kerry, a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, were involved.
No film clips of these at the Demo convention either.
At that event people claiming to have seen combat in Vietnam alleged committing atrocities -- rape, cutting off of ears and heads, murdering women and children -- on a routine basis and with the knowledge of their superiors. Many of the allegations proved false or could not be documented, and the veracity and identities of many witnesses later came into question.
"It was the stuff about the Winter Soldier," Warner said. "The paper he showed me, the statements from John Kerry, were separate. And the stuff that was supposed to be from Kerry was a typewritten transcript of a few pages, but he was pointing to the statements. I can't quote the statements, but essentially they were the same as those being played now on talk shows of his testimony in front of the Senate."
Warner was in his Marine Corps F-4B aircraft when he was shot down over North Vietnam on Oct. 13, 1967, and was held for 1,979 days. He told UPI that in that confrontation with the North Vietnamese officer he was told "these statements (by Kerry) ... were proof I deserved to be punished. I was pretty sure they weren't going to do anything, but in the summer of '69 they had spent four months trying to get information out of me, and I still had the memory of my mistreatment -- sleep deprivation, leg irons, a cement box in the sun (and feet and ankles swollen from chains digging into the flesh).
"The memory of that was still pretty fresh in my mind, and I was extremely uneasy. Every time he mentioned (the papers), this officer said I committed crimes, that this war was illegal. I just had no idea. ... All along they told us they would execute us for our 'crimes.'"
Particularly galling for Warner was his parents' brief participation at an anti-war event in Detroit where they said their son was a prisoner and they hoped he would be released. Warner said he never spoke to his parents about that after his return -- it just wasn't something talked about -- but his sisters had told him Fonda and Kerry were involved in getting his parents to appear, an appearance he believes lent a measure of respectability to the event. Warner said Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, which had staged large demonstrations in Washington, were often mentioned in the radio broadcasts that played incessantly over the camp's loudspeakers.
"On our (former POW) listserve there are many people who mention hearing Kerry on Radio Hanoi and how much that infuriated them," Warner said, "but I don't know of anyone else confronted like that."
More at the link. Kerry's staff will try to spin it, but I doubt all of these brave men are right-wing Republicans.
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Take a look at this web page from the Swift Boat Vet's website :
Of course, Hannity has been playing the new ad by these guys, and, OUCH,....
"While in Cam Rahn Bay, he trained on several 24-hour indoctrination missions, and one special skimmer operation with my most senior and trusted Lieutenant. The briefing from some members of that crew the morning after revealed that they had not received any enemy fire, and yet Lt.(jg) Kerry informed me of a wound -- he showed me a scratch on his arm and a piece of shrapnel in his hand that appeared to be from one of our own M-79s. It was later reported to me that Lt.(jg) Kerry had fired an M-79, and it had exploded off the adjacent shoreline. I do not recall being advised of any medical treatment, and probably said something like 'Forget it.' He later received a Purple Heart for that scratch, and I have no information as to how or whom.
Lt.(jg) Kerry was allowed to return to the good old USA after 4 months and a few days in-country, and then he proceeded to betray his former shipmates, calling them criminals who were committing atrocities. Today we are here to tell you that just the opposite is true. Our rules of engagement were quite strict, and the officers and men of Swift often did not even return fire when they were under fire if there was a possibility that innocent people -- fishermen, in a lot of cases -- might be hurt or injured. The rules and the good intentions of the men increased the possibility that we might take friendly casualties."
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These are the brave ones, along with the ones presently in theater in Afganistan and Iraq. Shame on Kerry for drawing everyone's attention to him, for his own self aggrandizement.
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This Link from the Swift Boat Vets websight is pretty telling of what sort of reputation Kerry had with those he served with and under. Check out the list of signatures.
Whats sad is that Kerry has been lying for so long that more than likely he has passed the stage of believing his own lies.
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4+ years betraying those with whom he served by lying and denegrating them and their sservice?
4 terms in the Senate of doing NOTHING (never sponsored ANY meaningful bills) other than his 340+ votges for tax increases, votes agains the 1st Gulf War, and the "voted for before voted against" on this Iraq War, voting against 27 major systems that are now in use saving lives, and a vote to cut 45 billion in intelligence and defense spending right after the first World Trade center bombing in 93, etc, while racking up the rating as the Most Liberal Senator (beating out Kennedy!).
Pretty transparent to anyone that bothers to look.
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Maybe now people will believe me when I tell them Bruce Springsteen is a communist.
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The shows will be presented by MoveOn Pac, the electoral arm of the liberal interest group MoveOn.org, with an official announcement expected Wednesday.
Surprise, surprise...
"At some point, you can't sit still," said Vedder, a harsh critic of the Iraq war. "You can't spend your life, when people are getting killed, without asking serious questions about why."
Because Islam means Submission. It's pretty simple once the subject changes from 'which groupie do I want a blowjob from tonight?'
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The fact that Springsteen and Vedder are idiots is nothing new. But what is it about becoming a famous & wealthy celebrity that turns you into an asshat 90% of the time?
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There was no immediate word on prices for tickets, which were going on sale for all shows Aug. 21.
hehehe. How much do you think these socially-conscious comrades will charge? $90? $150? I'm starting to think that what these guys have against large corporations is professional jealousy.
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Give these old (really old in Bruce's case) washed up, has been, musicians a break. Their work this election may delay their having to start playing the ole Casino circuit for couple more years.
But ya know... damnit, you won't see KISS up on that stage of shame, hah. ;)
US expats living in Belgium will not even have to leave their own homes to register to vote in this November's Presidential elections, thanks to a new service unveiled on Tuesday. Volunteers from Democrats Abroad (DA), the expat wing of the US Democratic Party, are offering to visit unregistered voters in their homes and help them complete all of the paperwork needed to take part in the presidential poll. "We'll bring the papers to you, help you fill them out and even mail them in for you!" DA said in a statement issued on Tuesday. The offer is open to all unregistered US expats, whatever their political persuasion.
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that is some desperation...still disgusting that the dems would go so far to get a vote yet throw out the military mail in votes during the 2000 election...
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My, my! The "cafe of myyyyy choice"! Well, isn't that just...spiffy! I'll have to send Faversham down to pick up the papers...
Yesterday I commented under 'Two Americas Two Lunches' that the news item reminded me of a story I heard about Kerry eating a flight crew's only meal for the day they that were ferrying him around. CF said he hadn't heard it. So I dug up a copy on Urban Legends, but alas I screwed up the link as pointed out by Frank. For those interested here is the link to "John Kerry is known for behaving rudely towards others around him".
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When I met him, he was wearing a shirt with a picture of his sailboat on it. I told him I had a small 27 foot sailboat in Okinawa, he remarked "Oh I never sail on anything less than 135 feet."
You couldn't create copy with a more acurate description of this man. But hey, don't worry. He's looking out for you!
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The only time I behaved rudely was against the VC when I was in Vietnam killing gooks and earning Purple Hearts! I'm a WAR HERO, dammit! Shove it, Rantburg.com! "Civil, well-reasoned discourse" my ass!
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Johnny, yo' mama didn't teach you any manners, you rude conceited a**h**e.
"Mr Farmer, Are you absolutely sure theere are no Lyme Diseased ticks in this field? My campaign is so high speed, I can't stop to get treated!"
But then Kerry dug a huge hole for himself. On Sunday and into Monday, Kerry hit Michigan, where he attempted to use the same Ohio jokes. Clearly, the sports humor has to be taken out of his hands before he really embarrasses himself. "I just came here from Bowling Green," Kerry told the crowd to subdued applause. "I was smart enough not to pick a choice between the Falcons and the, well, you know, all those other teams out there. I just go for Buckeye football, that's where I'm coming from." Muahahaha.
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Is this Tuesday? I must be in Ann Arbor. You neglected the punchline:
At that point, before all the boos began raining down upon him, Kerry seemed to realize his error. In an attempt to silent the angry crowd of University of Michigan supporters, Kerry said, "But that was while I was in Ohio. I know I'm in the state of Michigan and you got a great big M and a powerhouse of a team." Then his face, presumably, the Botox permitting, turned Big Blue.
He should be more careful. If he accidently salutes the Steelers in Cleveland, he better don a helmet, pronto ... On second thought, he may be OK. That thing he's wearing looks like grey Kevlar.
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I see kerry as a knuckle dragger..... You know the guy walkin' around droolin' out of the corner of his mouth....more commonly known as Igor.
Is he a dumb fuck or what?
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08/04/2004 3:38 Comments ||
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"I was smart enough not to pick a choice between the Falcons and the, well, you know, all those other teams out there. I just go for Buckeye football, thatâs where Iâm coming from."
No, John. Yer coming die-rect from Tay-Ray-Suh's ass.
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I think you can count Missouri out too. If 71% of the VOTING people are against gay marriage, how many are going to jump on the Kerry bandwagon? Not many. FYI this vote was in response to the Massachusetts law permitting gay marriage. I hope Kerry has some more speaking engagements soon! Prediction: He will trail my double digits before the Republican Convention.
Posted by: Rex Mundi ||
08/04/2004 12:30 Comments ||
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I heard ESPN College Gameday is going to hire Kerry as an analyst.
Idiot.
Posted by: Chris W. ||
08/04/2004 12:34 Comments ||
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Da, I likes football.
This guy is so disconnected from the average American citizen its ridiculous. Stupid elitist.
Posted by: jojo the idiot circus boy ||
08/04/2004 12:57 Comments ||
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Hello, to all of you peasants out there. Enough of this,"I'm not a man of the people" balderdash. While dining at Wendy's with the Edward's by the by with Taaaraaaysa the other day, we sampled the chateau briand and it was fabulous!
So enough of that "I'm not a man of the people tripe", okay?
Ta-ta for now!
On other subjects, how's your local sports team doing? Fabulous, fabulous! I think they're great! And their biggest star?! He just fabulous!
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Good God. I loathe sports, and even I know "buckeye" goes with "Ohio," not "Michigan."
Wotta arrogant, ignorant maroon.
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Actually I think this has less to do with him not knowing that the buckeyes were not michigan and more to do with the fact that he forgot where he was a was just doing what he always does... telling people what he thinks they want to hear, not what he thinks.
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I recognize jokes..take, for instance, your tag line....
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I can see Kerry's confusion. I flew my plane all around Alaska villages a couple of weeks ago. I suffered from prop-lag. Didn't know where I was, half the time. The other half---had it nailed, by gum.....
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EFL - I believe that Cheney is blaming the wrong Democrats. It is falacious to say that the energy bill would have had any effect on gas prices this near term had it been approved, but I don't want a return to the days when the Department of the Interior was buying and confiscating huge tracts of land and the Department of Energy was mstly concerned that the Los Alamos janitorial staff was pleased with its badge color.
"John Kerry and John Edwards voted no," Cheney said. "It's another area where I think there is a significant difference."
Cheney advocated increasing domestic oil production in wildlife areas in Alaska and other regions that are off-limits to development. "We have put ourselves into a box. The only thing I can think of to do is to keep pushing for a comprehensive energy policy," he said. "We are at the mercy of those international oil prices."
-snip - Although, I'm sure that it is secret, I speculate that the Kerry-Edwards Energy plan leans heavily on juche philosophy for solutions. If I were Bush, I would call Congress back and bring the Energy Plan to the floor along with the 9-11 proposals.
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How about ONE formulation of gas for the entire nation?
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The J&J's energy plan involves sipping tea while talking about how nice it would be to put a wind farm up on poor people's land where it wouldn't interfere with their yacht sailing or the luxurious views from their third and fourth estates.
The rest of us want to put a windfarm up their hiney's
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We don't really have an energy shortage. All we really have is a shortage of will power and determination. We, and by we I mean the West, really need to be energy independent so our foreign polocies aren't dictated in the slums of Tehran or the palaces of the House of Saud
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You know Arizona is dotted with old drill sights,and the only way you would know an old site is you have to know what you are looking for.The average person wouldn't see anything but a flat spot.
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It is falacious to say that the energy bill would have had any effect on gas prices in the near term...
Well, remember, we're going on four years or so of sitting on our butts on that issue. We can never get there if we never get started.
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Another comment:
Although, I'm sure that it is secret...
I'm slowly beginnning to realize that that's how Kerry/Edwards are going to work on being all things to all people.
Do you realize they depend so heavily on this strategy if they win they'll seriously damage the democratic party? They have to choose between ****ing off all the people they've told they won't fight the war or pissing off all the people they've told they'll be better at fighting the war.
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We, and by we I mean the West, really need to be energy independent so our foreign polocies aren't dictated in the slums of Tehran or the palaces of the House of Saud
Easy to say. Putting it into practice is another matter entirely.
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The oil prices are not solely a reflection of the current amount of gasoline available to pump and the response of the current purchasers. The prices reflect an anticipation about the availability of oil over the projected future. This can be seen from the fact that the prices fluctate based upon news about what might happen based upon current information.
If there was the prospect of substantially more oil coming on the market in two years, oil prices would be lower than they are now. News concerning anticipated difficulty in the Middle
East over the medium-term would have a less damaging effect.
Consider an analogy: I'm sick, but the doctor will be coming in hour. And, I'm sick, but the doctor might not ever come. I will evaluate my condition differently based upon my belief about the future.
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You'd better have your Halliburton cronies start pumping more stolen oil out of Iraq then, Cheney.
/LLL
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#9 stop acting like a mouthpiece for the dnc and show the facts.... i find it hard to believe that the US has spent 14 years setting the stage for haliburton... show the facts or (as in the words of the some famous dems) shove it!
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Dan, his "/LLL" was a sign that it was all sarcasm..
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my bad - guess i am not up on pc lingo
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08/04/2004 14:38 Comments ||
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Dan,
...and don't forget that the DNC crowd actually pay $2.03 a gallon for gas instead of the 52.9 cents we here at Rantburg pay after they apply the secret "VRWC discount" when we purchase our gas with our Halliburton brand Gas card... Don't tell me you didn't sign up for one of those cards? I even got a new toaster with my last fill up...
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I use special fittings and help myself to the tanker trucks while they are eating burgers at the truck stops. Make sure the diamond signs read 1203 or you may be getting a load of diesel. Just kidding.
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The Secret Service is drawing criticism for asking journalists who cover presidential campaign events to disclose their race,just as President Bush and Senator Kerry prepare to address a national conference of minority journalists later this week.
Racial information is routinely requested by the Secret Service for background checks of journalists coming in close proximity to the president,the vice president, and the Democratic presidential nominees, according to spokesmen for the service.But editors at the Arizona Daily Star condemned the practice after the Bush-Cheney campaign appeared to single out a photographer of South Asian descent for extra scrutiny.
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I started posting this to my weblog, when Rantburg was down, but it's really more Rantburg's sort of material:
Georgian President Promises to Shoot Russian Tourists:Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has released another harsh statement against separatists. This time he expressed his opinion about Abkhazia, not South Ossetia. Moreover, the problem was not about the mutual relations with the government of the unrecognized republic. The Georgian president talked about Russian tourists.
On the eve of the 'velvet' season Saakashvili advised Russian citizens not to plan any holidays in Abkhazia. "The territory soaked with Georgians' blood, on which they played football with Georgians' heads, is not a holiday place for so-called Russian tourists," Saakashvili stated at a press conference on Tuesday night.
The president added, he ordered to open fire and sink all vessels, which attempt to enter Abkhazian ports without Georgia's permission. "Georgian ships are not allowed to appear in the Russian waters without Russia's permission. Russian ships will not be allowed to appear near the Abkhazian coast either," Saakashvili was quoted as saying...
...When Bush was questioned about his relationship with Kenneth Lay, the scandal ridden ex-CEO of Enron, Bush stormed off the podium and screamed to his aides: "Keep those motherf***ers away from me," and then "If you can"t, I"ll find someone who can."
Other aides report "In meetings with top aides and administration officials, the President goes from quoting the Bible in one breath to obscene tantrums against the media, Democrats and others that he classifies as "enemies of the state."
In interviews with several White House staff, they paint a picture of an administration under siege has emerged, led by a man who declares his decisions to be "God's will" and then tells aides to "fuck over" anyone they consider to be an opponent of the administration.
When Bush was first running for president, he was very adamant about telling the public he was a born again Christian, but his behavior is quite the opposite. The first sign that something wasn"t quite right was when Bush said he enjoyed the Austin Powers movies series. The Austin Power movies are heavily laced with sexual connotations, innuendos and overt sexual humor. A born again Christian would find these movies abhorrent.
I guess this is just more of the Pravda Funhouse Mirror version of "Christian Extremism."
There is more reason to be concerned because Bush has a history of chemical dependency. Bush is an admitted alcoholic, and he never sought treatment. Then there are the stories about his cocaine use when he was younger...
It goes on from there, with the usual stuff that floats around the lefftist conspiracy sites here. Then they link to the original sites themselves, notably Capitol Blue and Rense. It used to be that the useful tools would parrot what Pravda said, but now it's the other way around.
The Bush regime has only one card left to create public insecurity and hope that the people of the USA vote for the devil they know rather than Kerry, who, although he is an expert on National Security, is painted as a soft option by the Republicans.
What could be worse than a clique of pathological liars? After Colin Powell lied through his teeth at the United Nations building, when he presented his magnificent intelligence about Iraq s WMD programme, complete with satellite photographs with labels and arrows, which in the event was based on an eleven-year-old paper lifted from the Internet, now Washington launches an alert based on evidence which could be as much as four years out of date.
Financial institutions were put on alert yesterday after it was claimed that Al Qaeda was planning an attack on Washington and possibly London, based on e-mails found on the computer of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, arrested in Pakistan last week, who is wanted in connection with the bombing of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
However, security officials were baffled as to why such a high state of alert was proclaimed since there was no specific or direct evidence whatsoever that an attack was imminent. The New York Times and Washington Post have quoted intelligence officers who stated that there was no concrete evidence of attacks and that much of the content of the latest scare could be from before September 11th....
There are a lot of misconceptions going around about the intelligence, such that all of it is years old (which isn't true, and may not matter anyway, given how long Al Qaeda planned for 9/11). Anyone who's really keeping up with the news has probably already heard that it's not just because of data from the captures of Ahmed Ghailani and Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, or at least I hope they have. I also hope that everyone isn't of the belief that all of our intelligence sources for the heightened alert have or must become public. I am pretty much startled, however, at how much convergence there still is between Pravda and the domestic moonbats here. Does anyone know whether the Russian government still exerts editorial control over Pravda?
A postscript: I'm also beginning to think the Urdu press is more reliable. Or at least more interesting.
A renewed drive to immunise Nigerian children living amidst the world's worst outbreak of polio has run into fierce opposition from parents and Islamic teachers, health workers here told AFP. As the five-day campaign, launched on Saturday to great fanfare, approached its end, officials in the northern city of Kano admitted they would not hit its target of vaccinating four million under-fives against the crippling disease. "I worked on Saturday and Sunday but nobody I met would allow me to vaccinate his child. The first day I went to 16 houses and at each house I was rebuffed by the parents," said auxiliary health worker Shamsuddeen Falalu. "In some of the houses I was told it was in my own interest never to come back and wherever I passed carrying the polio kit I was booed by children who followed me chanting derisive songs," the 18-year-old told AFP on Tuesday.
In August last year, Kano State halted its participation in a UN-led global campaign to eradicate polio through mass immunisation after some Islamic radical leaders accused the United States of lacing the vaccine with anti-fertility agents. The region rapidly found itself at the epicentre of the fastest growing outbreak of the disease ever recorded and cases began to spread across Nigeria -- Africa's most populous country with 130 million people -- and beyond.
On Saturday, Kano's Governor Ibrahim Shekarau announced that local tests on a new batch of vaccine imported from Indonesia, a mainly-Muslim country, had proved the treatment safe. He called on families to protect their kids. But this week health workers found that much suspicion remains. "I began the second day by going to an islamiyya school (Islamic school) thinking that since the governor had spoken well of the vaccine the day before the teacher would allow me to vaccinate the children," Falalu said. "But as I came close the teacher motioned to me to turn back and before I said anything the kids took to their heels. I just went back and dumped the kit in the office and never went out again," he added. Fellow vaccination worker Saadiya Bello found the same story in the rural community of Kura, 20 kilometres (12 miles) outside Kano city, where some parents said they feared the vaccine could infect the children with the HIV/AIDS virus. "I was shocked when parents told me not to immunise their children because the vaccine could make their children barren and also contains HIV virus. Some of them were rude to me, calling me an American agent," Bello said. "Only a few people allowed their children to take the vaccine and in the course of my interview with these parents I realized that they had never believed in those rumours against the vaccine in the first place. "My colleagues recounted similar experiences in the areas they were posted for the vaccination campaign. With this attitude the four million target is really a joke, it can't be realized," he added.
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Marking a major turnaround in policy, the Sudanese government says its army is now fully engaged with Ugandan forces to capture the elusive leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army. Regional analysts are puzzled by Sudan's decision to help Uganda crush a rebel movement, which Khartoum has long tolerated, if not supported, for the past 18 years. The top spokesman for the Sudan People's Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Mohamed Bashir Suleiman, tells VOA that one of the army's first priorities now is to help Uganda capture rebel leader Joseph Kony and put an end to his nearly two-decade-long campaign of terror. The general says the army decided to assist the Ugandan army after assessing the needs of the people living in an area of southern Sudan where Mr. Kony and his LRA rebels have been based.
Last Wednesday, the Sudanese government gave Ugandan forces permission to cross the so-called red line to hunt for the LRA leader at his operational base, deep in southern Sudan. The massive raid was the first since the red line was established two years ago, setting a strict limit on how far Ugandan troops could enter Sudanese territory in search of the rebel leader and his followers. Kampala opposed the red line, saying it allowed LRA rebels to launch attacks on villages in northern Uganda and then retreat behind it to relative safety. Mr. Kony escaped Wednesday's raid, but the Ugandan army hailed it as a major success after its troops reportedly killed more than 120 LRA fighters and seized dozens of automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons. Two days after the raid, top Sudanese and Ugandan commanders met near Juba in southern Sudan and jointly pledged to stop the war, which has caused countless deaths and has driven more than a million and a half people from their homes in the region.
Regional analysts say that last week's events appear to mark a major thaw in relations between Sudan and Uganda. For years, the two countries had traded bitter accusations. Uganda charged that Sudan gave arms, food, and logistics support to the LRA. Sudan, in turn, claimed that Uganda actively supported the southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Army during the group's 20-year struggle against Khartoum. Many analysts, like Jim Terry with the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, believe there is some degree of truth to both claims. But Mr. Terry says he is puzzled by Khartoum's sudden decision to publicly denounce Mr. Kony and the LRA. "To be honest, I don't really know what is going on. Well, I can speculate about what is going on, but it is hard to tell just how significant that all is."
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