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There may be some of the "lost tribes" in India, but I have my money on the England and the US being the descendents of Joseph and some of the northwestern European nations being the descendents of the other "lost tribes", so called.
France, being said to be mainly the tribe of Rueben, the first born of Jacob whose birth-right was taken from him and given to Joseph, goes a long way to explain the pissy French attitude =p
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Here is a nice summary of the various tribes of Jews in India. I'd be interested to see the results of a DNA study on the Ben Menashe...one was done on a variety of Cohens (Kahn, Kane, Koen, Spahn, etc) and Levys from around the world, and confirmed they were all related down the male, ie priestly, side. If they are indeed of one of the Lost Tribes, linkages should show up.
At last someone is addressing my pet hate.
Pardon me while I engage in an Andy Rooney-esque rant, but I'm deeply unhappy. Over a year ago, I noted the growing tendency of newspaper websites to require registration, and offered some suggestions on how they might avoid irritating their readers, along with a warning:
"Make it easy: Don't present people with long lists of questions. If you do, they'll just lie anyway. (Take a look at those lists of information you collect: how many people have given their email as 'nobody@biteme.com', and do you have an implausibly large number of 97-year-old black women living in Alaska as readers? I'll bet you do.) People don't mind a little of this kind of thing -- they appreciate that you're giving your product away. But they do mind when it goes beyond 'a little' -- and their idea of "a little" is 'really, only a little.'"
A Belgian aeroplane made an emergency landing after a cat got into the cockpit and attacked the co-pilot, it was revealed yesterday. The SN Brussels flight to Vienna, Austria, on Monday had been in the air about 20 minutes when "it was noticed" that a passenger's pet had escaped from its cage, "although it is not yet clear how", the airline statement said.
The cat wandered around the cabin and slipped into the cockpit when meals were delivered to the two flight crew. "At this stage the animal became agitated and nervous," the statement said. An airline spokeswoman added that the cat had scratched the co-pilot's arm. The pilot decided to return to Brussels as a precaution wuss, and the 58 passengers left Brussels two hours later on another flight. The grey cat, Gin, a prized animal which travels to cat shows around the world, had been checked in in an internationally approved "flight transport bag". The airline said it might change its procedures for pets in the cabin once it had concluded its investigation. "At no time throughout the incident was the passengers' security affected in any way," the statement added.
Cats, why do they ... oh hell, they hate everyone.
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"Cats, why do they ... oh hell, they hate everyone."
Tuesday, 10 August, 2004, 15:28 GMT 16:28 UK
Saudi Arabia has published rules for forthcoming municipal elections that observers say hold out the possibility that women may be allowed to vote. But only after a thorough beating by their husbands, fathers, brothers, uncles or any distant male relation.
The new law approved by the municipal affairs ministry does not explicitly say women may play a part in council elections starting in November. Then again, women have yet to achieve full status as human beings so all of this may not even apply.
But nor are women clearly barred. Some say this means women may vote, though others maintain this is unlikely. Saudi women are not allowed to drive or travel without a male chaperone. So, if no one is willing to escort them to the precint polling places, they don't get to vote. I knew there was a catch.
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Mr Z. Where do you find all this stuff?
Besides, we know that goats, sheep, and male Gorillas, and Chimps able to use sign language, will be given the "right to vote" in Saudi Arabia before the women will.
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Hell, BigEd, "goats, sheep, and male Gorillas, and Chimps able to use sign language" will be driving before Saudi women ever get to. And let me tell you, it's not pretty dredging through the sludge pits of modern media in order to cull these little gems for the merry crew at Rantburg.
If you thought Reuters coverage was anti-American before, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Financial news service Reuters Group PLC said yesterday it will eliminate up to 20 editorial positions in the United States and Europe and hire up to 60 replacements in India in a move aimed at cutting costs. The journalists, who will be based at a Reuters facility in Bangalore, will be responsible for compiling tables, writing short research alerts based on analyst reports and polling analysts for earnings forecasts, according to company spokesman Steve Naru.
Journalism positions are just the latest in a long line of jobs -- from manufacturing to radiology -- that have been sent offshore in recent years as advances in technology have made it easier to conduct business from abroad. Researchers have estimated that the number of jobs in the United States affected by such moves eventually could stretch into the millions as companies seek to capitalize on the availability of lower-wage workers in countries such as China and India. Naru said while information produced in Bangalore will be distributed on the news wire, Reuters does not envision the journalists reporting or writing actual stories. "We're of the mind that on-the-ground reporting needs to be done by reporters on the ground" rather than from remote locations, he said.
Naru said budgetary constraints were a factor in the decision, though he declined to say how much Reuters would save by eliminating jobs in higher-cost countries like the United States, and hiring lower paid Indian journalists instead. The move is part of an effort by the company to expand coverage of small and mid-cap companies. "It's all about efficiency. It's all about providing more. And it's about providing cost savings," Naru said.
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An an investor, I'm delighted at the cost-cutting move. As a consumer of news, I'm appalled - this is yet another reason for me to tune out Reuters reports, except when they are doing straight reporting of business news - which they do pretty well. (Their business analysis, like their political analysis, is crap, but I don't read either - just the straight business reporting).
The uncle and brother of a young Muslim woman have been jailed for a total of seven years for abducting her and forcing her back to her Yorkshire home after a row over an arranged marriage. The victim, Abda "Bibi" Bashir, 21, was taken from the streets of Dundee in Scotland and driven back to her Sheffield home, where she was held overnight. She managed to escape after dropping a note begging for help from an upstairs window to alert passers-by, who called in police. Taxi driver Lal Hussain, 64, of Goddard Hall Road, Fir Vale, Sheffield, was jailed for two years and his nephew Abdul Mutalub Bashir, 31, of Rothay Road, Grimesthorpe, received five years. Sentencing the men at the High Court in Edinburgh, Lord Nimmo Smith, said: "This court does recognise we live in a multi-cultural society and due allowance must be made for ethnic, religious and cultural differences. In a way though, there is no need for such allowances to be made because the situation that arose here is one found in many families, regardless of ethnic, religious and cultural differences. That is the situation where a child of the family becomes adult and decides to leave home and lead her own life as she chooses."
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she was going to have to abandon going to university to get a job, so that her husband would be allowed a visa.
I hope the men folk are repeatedly and savagely raped when 'inside'.
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What matters isn't this: "This court does recognise we live in a multi-cultural society and due allowance must be made for ethnic, religious and cultural differences.
But this: What you have been convicted of, and especially you Mr Bashir, is of depriving Abda Bibi of her personal autonomy, her freedom for herself to choose how to live..."
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What say we invite this woman to the U.S. and offer her a change of identity so her family can't find her? I fear a dishonor killing otherwise . . .
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Britain became a net importer of oil in June for the first time in 11 years, official data showed on Tuesday. News of the shift came as world crude oil prices touched record highs this week of $41.70 for benchmark Brent crude and $45.04 a barrel for West Texas Intermediate. The US government on Tuesday raised its central price forecast for US oil this quarter by $4 a barrel to $41 a barrel and predicted prices close to $40 a barrel next winter and in 2005.
The UK's oil imports were at their highest-ever level in the second quarter, according to data from the Office of National Statistics, a government agency. Meanwhile, oil production peaked in 1999 at 2.8m b/d, and has since been falling as the North Sea's reserves have been depleted. Wood Mackenzie estimates UK oil output at 2.2m b/d, and some forecasters see production declining to about 2m b/d next year.
"Fake drugs?" This could really ruin Mexico's reputation as America's premier drug supplier. Tue, Aug 10, 2004
By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer
Mexican authorities are investigating the sale of fake or substandard medicine in a border town so popular among Americans seeking cheap medications that it has more pharmacies than streets. More at link
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Oh medicine. I thought they were talking about baggies of oregano.
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Now ain't this a coincedence.Remember that discusion we had a couple of weeks ago concerning pharmecutical companies and thier refusal to reasearch cures for some diseases.Check out this e-mail I recieved 2 days ago:The Real Cost of Prescriptions
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:16:33 -0500
The women that signed below are Budget Analysts out of federal Washington,
D.C. offices.
Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active
ingredient in prescription medications? .... We did a search
of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found
in drugs approved by the FDA. ... a significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States
contain active ingredients made in other countries. .... we obtained the
actual price of active ingredients used in some of the most popular drugs
sold in America.
The chart below speaks for itself.
Celebrex 100 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $130.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.60
Percent markup: 21,712%
Claritin 10 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71
Percent markup: 30,306%
Keflex 250 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $157.39
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.88
Percent markup: 8,372%
Lipitor 20 m g
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37
Cost of general active ingredients: $5.80
Percent markup: 4,696%
Norvasec 10 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $188.29
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.14
Percent markup: 134,493%
Paxil 20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $7.60
Percent markup: 2,898%
Prevacid 30 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $44.77
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.01
Percent markup: 34,136%
Prilosec 20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $360.97
Cost of general active ingredients $0.52
Percent markup: 69,417%
Prozac 20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) : $247.47
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.11
Percent markup: 224,973%
Tenormin 50 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $104.47
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.13
Percent markup: 80,362%
Vasotec 10 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $102.37
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.20
Percent markup: 51,185%
Xanax 1 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024
Percent markup: 569,958%
Zestril 20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) $89.89
Cost of general active ingredients $3.20
Percent markup: 2,809%
Zithromax 600 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $1,482.19
Cost of general active ingredients: $18.78
Percent markup: 7,892%
Zocor 40 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $350.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $8.63
Percent markup: 4,059%
Zoloft 50 mg
Consumer price: $206.87
Cost of general active ingredients: $1.75
Percent markup: 11,821%
Since the cost of prescription drugs is so outrageous, I thought everyone I
knew should know about this. Please read the following and pass it on. It
pays to shop around. This helps to solve the mystery as to why they can
afford to put a Walgreens on every corner.
On Monday night, Steve Wilson, an investigative reporter for Channel 7 News
in Detroit, did a story on generic drug price gouging by pharmacies. He
found in his investigation, that some of these generic drugs were marked up
as much as 3,000% or more. Yes, that's not a typo.....three thousand
percent! So often, we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs,
and usually rightfully so. But in this case, the fault clearly lies with
the pharmacies themselves. For example, if you had to buy a prescription
drug, and bought the name brand, you might pay $100 for 100 pills. The
pharmacist might tell you that if you get the generic equivalent, they would
only cost $80, making you think you are "saving" $20. What the pharmacist
is not telling you is that those 100 generic pills may have only cost him
$10!
At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson whether or not
there were any pharmacies that did not adhere to this practice, and he said
that Costco consistently charged little over their cost for the generic
drugs. I went to the Costco site, where you can look up any drug, and get
its online price. It says that the in-store prices are consistent with the
online prices. I was appalled.
Sharon L. Davis
Budget Analyst
U.S. Department of Commerce
Room 6839
Office Ph: 202-482-4458
Office Fax: 202-482-5480
Email Address: sdavis@docgov
Do you understand the term"price gouging"?
I have editted the e-mail,if you want the complete text e-mail and I will forward it to you.
I have other suggestions: how about also investigating the smuggling of illicit drugs across the border and busting the rings that are doing this? How about also investigating and busting the rings that are smuggling people across the border?
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#2 all I have to say is that if the feds want to tell the pharma industry how much to sell meds then that will be the end of pharmacautical innovation in this country. On top of that there will be many people out of jobs, from the research chemists to the general contractors that would be used to build more facilities for new meds.
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The e-mail quoted in #2 ignores some obvious facts, such as: 1. development costs (non-generic), 2. packaging, and 3. distribution costs.
A good analogy for the folly of ignoring development costs would be to complain that a movie on DVD costs $20 when it only costs 10 cents to stamp the CD.
A good analogy for the folly of ignoring packaging and distribution costs is to argue that a $5 box of screws is marked up 100 000% because the cost of the metal is only half a penny.
Competition is all that is needed. Now I am still not sure if the beef is with the generic drug manu, or the pharmacist. In either case, if its such ripoff, buy a pharmacy or invest in generic drug manufacturing stocks.
From iafrica.com
Ignoring the pleas of his 14-year-old daughter to spare her life, Mehmet Halitogullari pulled on a wire wrapped around her neck and strangled her — supposedly to restore the family's honour after she was kidnapped and raped. Nuran Halitogullari, buried on Thursday in a ceremony attended by women's rights advocates, is the latest victim of a long history of "honour killing" which the Turkish government is struggling to curb.
Newspapers said Halitogullari was abducted in Istanbul on her way back from a trip to the supermarket and raped over six days. She was rescued by police and returned to her family. .... In a confession, Mehmet Hatipogullari told police that he and other relatives allegedly took the girl to an aunt's home where he strangled her, ignoring her pleas and her cries, Sabah news service said.
"I decided to kill her because our honour was dirtied," Sabah quoted the father as saying. "I didn't listen to her pleas, I wrapped the wire around her neck and pulled at it until she died." He said he buried her body beneath a chicken coop, which upset his other children, and later buried her in a forest. Sabah said Halitogullari also planned to kill his daughter's rapist. .....
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Religion of Peace and Tolorence who value their women....
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Organize mass public hangings to publicize the fate of honor killers - and the practice will end. Not before this. Note that this was the approach the British used to end the practice of bride burning in India.
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Sabah said Halitogullari also planned to kill his daughterâs rapist.
Oh, I guess that everything's ok then, since he is offing both people who committed crimes?
I like your idea, Zhang Fei. Public humiliation is exactly what is called for, not only for this savagery, but also for other acts of savagery committed in the name of Islam.
Frank J. Prial/NYT NYT Wednesday, August 11, 2004 BORDEAUX With their elegant gardens in the English style, their placid swans, their manicured lawns and their meticulously trimmed vines spreading to the horizon, the great wine chateaux of Bordeaux are pictures of prosperity. The 2002 vintage has just been bottled, and the small, uneven 2003 vintage, most of it already sold at double the 2002 prices, is maturing in oak barrels. But these great estates, most of them members of the prestigious Union des Grands Crus, account for barely 5 percent of the Bordeaux's production. For the 95 percent outside this magic circle in what was once the undisputed capital of the wine world, life has grown grim. Their vineyards are in what may be the deepest crisis since the phylloxera aphid devastated Bordeaux's vineyards more than 100 years ago.
For the French wine industry as a whole, these are tough times. Domestic consumption is down, foreign competition and the weakness of the dollar have battered exports, overproduction is rampant, and needed changes are thwarted by obsolete rules and regulations. Bordeaux has been hit particularly hard because it is the largest of the country's wine regions and wine is central to its economy. The Bordeaux appellation comprises well over 10,000 wine properties, most of them small (eight hectares or less, about 20 acres) and many of them in trouble. Privately, industry figures here predict that 600 to 1,000 smaller producers may be forced to close over the next few years. Patrick Tauzin is a small producer in the quiet southernmost reaches of the Bordeaux region. He has never dined with the Rothschilds at Lafite, but he is a Bordeaux winemaker nonetheless. He farms about 35 hectares of grapes at St.-Pierre d'Aurillac, 55 kilometers, or 35 miles, southeast of the city of Bordeaux. He produces about 16,000 cases a year. He is 44 years old, has a wife and two children and cannot make a living from his wine. Yet feels no compunctions about sneering at America. Continued on Page 49
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In the area around Maysville Kentucky, burley tobacco is the most prevalent crop. Currently, domestic consumption is down - but we haven't declared a national catastrophe. We consider ourselves healthier.
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Sorry but I don't feel your pain when I have read the same types of stories about near by California grape farmers. Losing it all is a drag but I can say I don't feel your pain. I prefer my wine without the chunks usuallty found in the vin ordinare these folks grow and would not drink it at 50 cents a bottle. Because your country men are back stabbing supporters of terrorists and antisemites I don't really care about you. Maybe the Spanish , Portugeese and, Italians in your "Latin Empire" might but hey, they grow there own wine grapes too. Sounds like a case of suck it up and STFU to me. Whaa!
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foreign competition and the weakness of the dollar have battered exports
Oh yes, it's the weakness of the dollar again. You guys are going to have to find another excuse when the dollar goes up and your sh*t still isn't selling. F*ck you all, I drink Australian.
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snicker...maybe you can ask your government to get their Islamic buddies to help you out....
but don't look to us...we've discovered that California, the other 50 states, and Austrailia...just to name a few... all make better wines than you do anyway....
Even if we weren't boycotting you, you've lost your perceived brand superiority and you can't get it back without earning it back...which isn't likely...seeing how your wine really isn't superior.
Dial 1-800-wha-whaa ....
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Hey Pierre, it's tough all over. I look forward to seeing shelves of cheap Bordeaux at Trader Joe's...not that I'd drink it mind you,
#10
I didn't drink a lot of Frog wine before they made public assholes of themselves (German, Italian, California were my choices), but now I wouldn't touch their plonk with a 50-foot tuning fork.
Just finished a nice Australian merlot the other night (Black Swan, I believe). I buy what tastes good, of course, but I BUY IT FROM FRIENDS, not Frogs.
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Caliifornia and Washington State wines are my poison. Besides it's more patriotic to drink domestic wine when toasting the victories of our soldiers and our spooks over the forces of evil.
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Maybe if France hadn't let 50,000 senior citizens-who had nothing to do but sit around and drink wine-die local consumption of wine wouldn't have fallen as much.(Say 25,000 drank wine at 160 bottles a year:25,000senior citizens x 4 months worth of wine they would have been drinking=1 million bottles not bought/consumed).Cause meet effect.
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Let them drink Ripple!
Have some T-Bird!
Get on the Night-Train.
From Compass Direct
Diyarbakir's first Protestant church in the history of the Turkish Republic continues to await a formal decision from Turkish authorities regarding its legal zoning status in the city. Guvener won a landmark court decision in May, when the Diyarbakir courts dropped all charges against the pastor for opening an "illegal" church and confirmed the congregation's constitutional right to conduct public and private worship.
But a local committee of the Turkish Ministry of Culture promptly rejected the church's zoning application, informing the church verbally that their decision had been sent to Ankara for formal ratification. Last week, the chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of Culture and Historical Sites in Diyarbakir told Guvener that his church's zoning application had been approved by Ankara. "She read me the approval decision over the telephone," Guvener said, "but then she said this approval was still awaiting ratification by the Ministry of Culture." The church has yet to receive any written decision either denying or confirming its zoning status.
Although initial blueprints for the church were approved in 2001, the construction and approvals process has been dogged by various legal hurdles ever since. With a congregation of more than 50, the church has functioned openly since the building was completed in April 2003.
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John Kerry accused President Bush on Tuesday of "breaking a promise" by authorizing a national storage facility for radioactive nuclear waste 100 miles northwest of here at Yucca Mountain. Polls show that most Nevadans oppose the $58 billion project, approved by Bush and Congress in 2002 over the objections of Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn, a Republican. Kerry voted against proceeding with the facility, which Nevada officials have fought since 1982 as an unwanted "dump." Over 36 years, the project would ship 77,000 tons of spent fuel from nuclear power plants, Navy ships and research reactors to Nevada by truck and rail from 111 current storage sites in 39 states. The program was set back last month by a federal appeals court ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency's radiation-safety standard for the site doesn't adequately guard public health. The Bush administration is considering an appeal to the Supreme Court.
Bush won Nevada in 2000 after promising to approve the project only on the basis of "sound science." But Bush endorsed the Energy Department's recommendation even though scientific questions about the site's safety were - and still are - unresolved. On Tuesday, Kerry told a woman questioning him in a school library: "With John Kerry as president, there is going to be no nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain - period. This is not just a Nevada issue. It's about promises kept and promises broken." The issue "absolutely could make the difference" for the state's five electoral votes by raising the turnout, says Ted Jelen, a political scientist at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. "It's not going to turn Republicans into Democrats, but it could turn non-voters into voters - and they'll probably vote for Kerry, because Kerry has a pretty good position on that. The case that Bush lied in 2000 has not been successfully rebutted."
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"With John Kerry as president, there is going to be no nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain - period. This is not just a Nevada issue. Itâs about promises kept and promises broken."
He'd know about that.
So where you gonna put it all, asshole? Nantucket Sound with the windmills?
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Kerry, of course, knows what to do with nuclear waste - we'll just store it in one of Teresa's five basements. It's not as if anybody other than the help will be there to be irradiated...
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"..The case that Bush lied in 2000 has not been successfully rebutted."
This "Bush lied" phrase has been beaten past the point of being useful for any sort of rational argument. Sorry boys, but mention it again, and you get tuned out immediately.
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If elected, Kerry said, heâll order the National Academy of Sciences to work with other nations on studying ways to store the spent fuel without leaking lethal radiation into water supplies.
Yeah, let's slap another study on it. This thing has been studied to death. It boils down to whom are you going to believe that will make a garrr-onnn-teeee that things will be copacetic for 10s of thousands of years. There are plenty of scientific 'hos that will take your money and run and come back with a study tailor made for YOU.
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"With John Kerry as president, there is going to be no nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain - period. This is not just a Nevada issue. Itâs about promises kept and promises broken."
If elected, Kerry said, heâll order the National Academy of Sciences to work with other nations on studying ways to store the spent fuel without leaking lethal radiation into water supplies.
So if the international study concludes that storing the world's nuclear waste products in Yucca Mountain would be the best move, will Kerry do it and break his promise? What if the conclusion is that Afghanistan or the Sudan or Iran offered the best alternative. Would dumping a bunch of radioactive waste in those places make sense?
This guy is really serious about internationalizing decisions. It's too bad that he's not serious about protecting America.
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A reader sent Instapundit a fax of the Boston Herald story in which Kerry says he went to Cambodia on Christmas, 1968:
On more than one occasion, I, like Martin Sheen in "Apocalypse Now," took my patrol boat into Cambodia
In fact, I remember spending Christmas Day of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese Allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real. But nowhere in "Apocalypse Now" did I sense that kind of absurdity.
What is it with Democrats and movies?
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Wonder if he did any water skiing? Wonder if he put in for at least a Bronze Star if he did?
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Don't forget : "I love the smell of Napalm early in the morning! Prolly what Ta-Ray-Suhs farts smell like.
....sorry folks, couldn't resist the obvious.
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senator get your facts straigt..martin was just a passenger in the patrol boat...
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"What is it with Democrats and movies?"
Hey! Kerry needed something to fill up the last 2 months of a 6 month tour he never completed.
BTW, if 4 months of a Vietnam tour means he's qualified to lead the most powerful country on earth. Then that means that there are tens of thousands of enlisted Vietnam vets that served 12 months (or more) that are WAAAAAYYY more qualified than scary Kerry right?
Deeds not words Kerry. Wounded 3 or 4 times and never had to be hospitalized....uh...No. (Maybe he got hurt on the set of one of those movies.)
(For the fellow vets out there)
When your ENTIRE chain of command says that you're a shitbag then chances are, they're right. Can I get an AMEN on that?
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Here we have photographic proof of a secret AF-Navy operation where Skeery bravely Skied Cambodia... humiliating Charlie, Chuck to those who bravely knew him well... [he took this picture, in fact...] or was it off Martha's Vineyard at that big drunken beach orgy? He can't recall, but the facts are seared, seared, in his, um, memory. They made him an honorary Seal, Eagle, Duck, and Jackass - and secretly gave him the Congressional Medal of Animals. He would reveal the award to the press to prove his fitness to overhaul Healthcare, but he threw it over a fence, sort of, cuz it got him laid by the hippie chick with the big personalities. Those pictures are available for the low low price of $29.95! Just click the link at then end of this advertisement - you did realize this was just another come-on to filch money for pr0n, didn't you? Heh, sure. Skeery's a wanker. Who really cares about politics? It's about power and money and gettin yer rocks off.
". . . I will maim you. .." Teresa to her first husband - a warning. . .
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED AUG 11, 2004 11:46:29 ET XXXXX
SEPARATE HOTEL ROOMS AFTER SHOUTING MATCH
**Exclusive**
Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry and his wife got into a heated argument after a campaign rally in Arizona Sunday night -- a heated argument so hot they spent the night in different rooms!
Johnny comes back - please pretty please I was wrong. Don't close the checkbook!!!
A well-placed law enforcement source tells DRUDGE how Kerry and Teresa Heinz moved to separate suites at Flagstaff's Little America Hotel.
"It was a cooling off, nothing more," says a top source.
ICE! CALL FOR ICE!
The stress of the campaign and the nonstop tour of battleground states is taking a toll on the Kerrys.
Teresa Heinz Kerry has been confiding in staffers how the tour is just "nonstop movement" and how there "is no time just to 'be.'"
Let it Be, Let it be, Let it be, let it be.... Speaking words of wisdom, let it be, let it be. - John Lennon 1967...
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I'm told you, Jawn. You shoulda stuck with the Senate. The idiots up here would just keep electing you and you wouldn't have ever had to do much, just sit around spending Mama Ketchup's money and show up around election time to spout bullshit like you always did.
But now? Christ, you can't even have a decent cat fight with the old lady without it being national news. Not to mention that Vietnam thing. A phony bastard like you, attention's the last thing you need.
Shoulda heeded my words John, shoulda heeded my words
Looks like this is the only defense Kerry's people have got against the claims about that lucky hat! Anti-Kerry Book Scribe Sorry for Slurs
By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer
One of the authors of a new anti-John Kerry book frequently posted comments on a conservative Web site describing Muslims and Catholics as pedophiles and Pope John Paul II as senile. Yeah? so this fellow shouldn't have been so perjorative. But the Catholic heirarchy has been so inane to the response of pedophile priests, and Islamism does have provisos for child brides. What does one expect in a chat room or a blog such as this when people vent frustrations.
But as he prepared to launch the book, "Unfit for Command," Jerry Corsi apologized for the remarks in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, saying they were meant as a joke and he never intended to offend anyone. He hasn't learned that the PC Totalitatian Police which have infected and control most major college campusus have a stupifying fear in what's in this book? This is their only defense against the truth. Unrelated attacks on those associated with the book.
In chat room entry last year on freerepublic.com, Corsi writes: "Islam is a peaceful religion — just as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered and the infidels are killed." So? This is what fundamentalis Islam (at least 1/3 of all Moslems) believe.
In another entry, he says: "So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the lawyers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that's probably about it." Sounds like other disheartened Catholics I know, though I am not Catholic.
Sounds like prob'ly a majority of the posters here, in fact...
Corsi, who described himself as a "devout Catholic," said the comments are being taken out of context. "I considered them a joke," said Corsi, who owns a financial services company and has written extensively on the anti-war movement. In a March posting, Corsi discussed Kerry's faith, writing: "After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judaism? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?" Kerry seems to be practising Chginese Restaurant Catholocism.
"I don't stand by any of those comments and I apologize if they offended anybody," Corsi said. The Kerry campaign called Corsi's Web chat postings disgusting. Particularly, since unfortunately, Kerry's press organs, namely NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN will tout theremarks like Pravda, and Izvestia toted the Communist party line in the old USSR.
"President Bush should immediately condemn this sleazy book written by a virulent anti-Catholic bigot. It says something about the smear campaign against John Kerry that it has stooped to enlist a hatemonger," said campaign spokesman Chad Clanton. Don't you just love the phony righteous indignation?
Calls to the Bush-Cheney campaign were not immediately returned. A little liberal spin by "Jennifer Kerr, AP Writer" As though if they don't respond in 30 seconds there is something amiss. What about the 48 hours of silence about Cambodia by Kerry's folks?
"Unfit for Command," which goes on sale Wednesday, accuses the Democratic presidential nominee of lying about his decorated wartime record and betraying comrades by returning from Vietnam and alleging widespread atrocities by U.S. troops. The book claims that Kerry earned his Silver Star not in a barrage of enemy fire, but rather by killing a fleeing Viet Cong teenager. It also questions the three Purple Hearts that Kerry earned, saying that none was for serious injuries and two wounds were self-inflicted. According to medical records from his naval service, Kerry still has shrapnel in his thigh from a war injury. Maybe that's the reason he lost control of the snowboard and cursed the Secret Service agent in March. A suden pain. At least his behind had all the shrapnel removed.
"I think it's important the country have the facts about John Kerry so that they can reach a reasonable decision," said co-author John O'Neill, who succeeded Kerry in command of a swift boat. O'Neill also is spokesman for Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which began airing an anti-Kerry ad last week. However many of the outlets are feigning unavailability of the book until after the election. Hmmmmm Sorry for the length. This all needed to be said
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Classic liberal ploy, divert/distort/deceive. No mention that he lied in the book. Only that he had some rants posted on Freep. He had nothing to apologize for, except for calling the Holy Father senile.
You and I both know that this is now the excuse to finally get the story before the mainstream media (The Dems may have erred-Pandora's box may now be opened). With the so-called "equal treatment" of this fellow's minor written indiscretions, combined with the serious charges of Kerry's honesty about Cambodia. I think this chatroom stuff is gone in a couple of days. Cambodia is with us for awhile.
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"Acheson's blunder wasn't in thinking what he did; it was in not recognizing that public pronouncements made by people in power can affect the judgments and behavior of adversaries. John Kerry, in trying to appeal for votes by distinguishing himself from President Bush in any way possible, has just made the same horrible mistake. It was an unforgivable lapse, and let us hope we don't someday pay a terrible price for it."
If he ends up being our president, we most certainly will.
This is the first really serious attempt I've seen to analyze the possible consequences of a Kerry victory; and it only scratches the surface. So far most commentators, fascinated by the daily rough-and-tumble of the campaign, haven't gotten beyond conjecture about whether Kerry will win. They, and we, need to start pondering what will happen if he does.
It won't be pretty.
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Annoyed by a stream of unwanted kisses, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has warned overzealous male fans and supporters that to avoid embarrassment they should not pucker up in her direction. "First, show some respect. Secondly, I am conservative. I do not want to be kissed by any man but my husband," she told a town hall meeting in Laguna province, south of Manila. Arroyo often receives kisses on both cheeks by unknown admirers in a practice known locally as "beso-beso" ("kiss-kiss"). Citing her conservative nature, Arroyo said she would only accept kisses from her husband, lawyer Jose "Mike" Miguel.
During a visit to meet Filipino workers in Kuwait last year, one of Arroyo's female bodyguards shoved away a man who approached the president with his lips puckered and ready to plant a kiss on her cheek. A picture of the man's foiled advance was published by many local newspapers. The presidential palace then announced that no one should ever try to claim a smacker from Arroyo, who is always protected by her troop of bodyguards. Hmm... Wonder if Arroyo's female bodyguards can match Gaddafi's GrrlSquad?
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Arroyo can come over here to America and kiss my @ss. However, I'm sure she's too busy kissing terrorist @ss in the Philippines to bother.
Tuesday, 10 August, 2004, 03:39 GMT 04:39 UK By Jonathan Kent BBC correspondent, Kuala Lumpur
The head of a commission inquiry into the Malaysian police says his panel has been inundated with allegations of corruption and brutality. Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi says he wants immediate action to put the commission's proposals into effect. Mr Abdullah has made eliminating corruption a centrepiece of his plans. He ordered a royal commission to be set up to look into the management and workings of the police shortly after coming to power in October.
Least-trusted body
After 26 public hearings around the country and a series of consultations, it has submitted its preliminary findings. The commission's chairman, Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah, said complainants had repeatedly alleged rampant corruption in the force's traffic, commercial crimes, narcotics and internal investigation divisions. Civil crimes just don't have the big payoffs.
The commission had also uncovered evidence that excessive force had been used against detainees, he said, adding that he and his colleagues will be investigating a number of deaths in police custody. In the police's defence, Mr Dzaiddin said they were hampered by a lack of money, personnel and equipment. I believe that they've been working on that "lack of money" angle.
The commission's assessment is likely to chime with the public. A survey two years ago by the Dutch embassy found the police were the least trusted official body in Malaysia. Many people report being asked for bribes by officers while others allege that police effectively operate a shoot-to-kill policy. Local media consistently report gun battles involving the police ending with all of the suspects being killed, but without any officers being injured. You have the right to remain dead!
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Jen - I don't follow gossip, so I don't know the timeline, but I wonder if his divorce to his wife of many years coincides with his downhill mojo slide.
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Guys, I don't think this is real; a quick perusal of the newsletter in question shows it comes from the "oil peak" people, who believe that oil production is rapidly falling because of depletion, and are ignoring other factors like the Lukoil scandals and the like.
These are the people who, for instance, plot a graph of Venezuelan oil production during the great strike of a couple years back, and proclaim that Venezuela must be rapidly running out of oil. (I don't know if they've mentioned Nigeria yet, but I'm willing to bet when they do they will mysteriously forget to mention the effects of Nigeria's continual almost-civil-war as well).
They mistake correlation for causation, IMHO.
I think part of this is to muddy the water on behalf of all the feudalists, fascists, and whatnot who want to convince themselves that not only is the US war in Iraq over oil, but the US war in Afghanistan (because of the pipeline), and before that, the Clinton Administration's war in the Balkans (after all, there's some oil there, and someone once thought for about five minutes or so about running a pipeline from Azerbajan to there... a while back...)
Anyway, read it for yourself and see.
Let me look for some good quotes:
"Only a few months ago there was much discussion of how OPEC would keep oil prices in a $ 22-$28 band, but those days now seem like distant history. The traders do from time to time grasp at straws and mark prices down on the basis of some ephermeral comment by someone, but before long the upward pressure reasserts itself. The flat-earth community in government and the official international institutes like to explain this in terms of political tensions in the Middle East or as a demand spasm in China, being unable to bring themselves to admit that the world is now running flat out with no spare capacity..."\
"OPEC was formed to restrict production to support the revenue of the main producing countries facing uncontrolled competition from the private industry, which was working flat out to bring in new production from places it did control such as the North Sea."
"The Organization was only marginally successful in its mission, largely because some of its members failed to respect their agreements. It is likely to be even less successful in any move to increace production to reduce price, even to the extent that it is physically possible. In fact, OPEC has effectively passed its peak becoming substantially redundant as Nature now does its job for it."
Here's another particularly telling quote:
"An alternative proposal for a line through Georgia to the Black Sea was also considered. But it involved the risks of increaced tanker traffic through the environmentally sensitive Bosphorus, or transshipment in Bulgaria to a second pipeline to the Adriatic passing through Kosovo, where a large US military base was established for possibly not unrelated reasons."
As I said, pious calculations meant to provide political cover for those who DON'T want to admit to themselves that political turmoil in the Middle East, or South America, or elsewhere is a major factor in oil prices.
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NEW YORK — "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace, arrested in a dispute with parking enforcement inspectors, says he wonders why anyone thought that he, at age 86, was a threat. Try obeying the law and that question won't even come up, jerk.
Wallace was handcuffed and taken to police precinct headquarters after the incident Tuesday evening. He was released after being issued a summons citing him with disorderly conduct. The dispute began as Wallace was leaving an Upper East Side restaurant, WCBS-TV reported. Wallace saw two Taxi and Limousine Commission inspectors interviewing his driver, who they said was double-parked outside the restaurant. The TLC said Wallace approached the inspectors and became "overly assertive and disrespectful," not to mention being a world-class asshole
interfering with their ability to perform their duties, according to WCBS. The inspectors then asked him to step away from the car and Wallace refused, lunging at one of the inspectors, according to the TLC. Spokesman Allan Fromberg told the New York Post that "the other inspector feared for his partner's safety." Wallace laughed off the notion. "I'm an 86-year-old man," he told the Post. "For whatever reason, this guy and his buddy were intent upon telling me that I was interfering with the execution of the law." "This guy and his buddy" - he even talks like a disrespectful old turd. I wonder if he threw in a "Do You Know Who I Am" for good measure. Tell it to the judge, you wrinkled old communist.
Luigi Militello, the manager of Luke's Restaurant, told WCBS that the inspectors "manhandled" Wallace. CBS said in a statement Tuesday that Wallace was at home and that more information would be released if it became available. Wallace has been with CBS since the 1950s and on its flagship "60 Minutes" newsmagazine since its inception in 1968. Wallace is due in court in October.
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Ashcroft sent us. We're here to "supress dissent".
He's 86! Considering he's on "Sixty Minutes", they probably call him "The Kid".
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Cause when you're a Celebrity
It's adios reality
You' can act just like a fool
People think you're cool
Just cause your on TV.
I can throw major fits
When my latte isn't just how I like it
They say I've gone insane,
I'll blame it on the fame,
And the pressures that it goes with
Being a Celebrity
uh huh
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Age 86. Yen for a meatloaf sandwich. Supress it. Bad for cholesterol. Helps avoid wrists getting chafed by steel braclets.
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Mike must not read the news. The folks in New York are keeping a keen eye on limousines. I guess when one of the them is packed with C-4 or ammoniun nitrate, Mike may be tad more understanding.
All of Russia's Soviet-era pigeons have yet to come home and roost. The true impact of incompetent and inept handling of these dangerous materials will be reflected in anomalously high cancer rates and birth defects for decades to come. This is the true legacy of communism.
C. J. Chivers/NYT NYT Fallout of arms race hits close to home Wednesday, August 11, 2004 MOSCOW The radiation experts arrived at Viktor Avram's auto repair shop last month, appearing beside the wall separating the shop from an enormous factory next door. The men warned Avram to take care where he strolled. "They told me I could walk on the road," he recalled, nodding toward a dirt track that descends to the Moscow River. "But they said I should stay to the left. To the right is radiation." Avram works beside a disquieting legacy of the early years of the nuclear arms race, a large radioactive waste site inside a city of 11 million people.
In the territory of the Soviet Union the work of finding and recovering radioactive waste does not go on solely near the plutonium-producing reactors in Siberia or the Urals and on the test range in Kazakhstan where Moscow's first atomic bomb was detonated in 1949. It also proceeds in the midst of daily life in Moscow - near offices, factories, train stations, highways and homes. It is a result of the peculiar history of a rushed Soviet effort to tease secrets from the atom. Every country with atomic programs has been left with the difficult task of recovering the byproducts and waste. But the Soviet Union, under orders from Stalin, undertook extensive nuclear research in its most populated and central place, its capital.
"The program of creating the nuclear bomb, the atom bomb, started in Moscow," said Sergei Dmitriyev, general director of the Moscow region's branch of Radon, an arm of the Russian government charged with locating, retrieving and securing radiological waste. Radon works to undo the consequences of an incautious time, when researchers, working in totalitarian secrecy and with only an incomplete understanding of radiation's dangers, built a network of institutes and factories with little planning for dealing with the discarded material. These sites left behind all manner of radiation-emitting waste; more than 1,200 abandoned sources have been retrieved in Moscow over the years, according to Alexander Barinov, chief engineer of Radon's Moscow branch. Moscow's own development made matters worse. Some radioactive material piled up at factories or laboratories. Much was hastily dumped in forests that, at the time, were outside the city limits. Then Moscow grew, overtaking its outskirts and sending down roots into illicit radioactive dumps.
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This is nothing new in and of itself. The Russians are just admitting it. Remember, there was a story some years ago about the higher than normal cancer rates in St George, Utah, downwind from the Nevada open-air Nuke tests performed in the 40's and 50's.
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No, nothing new, BigEd, but still something insufficient numbers of people are aware of. Communism has usually had many "hidden costs" which are most often footed by the lowest ranking members of their regimes. Socialists need this fact rammed up their collective @sses pushed in their faces at every opportunity.
Neil MacFarquhar/NYT NYT Wednesday, August 11, 2004 CAIRO Conducting his first news conference, Egypt's new tourism minister tried to duck a question about whether political reform here should include sweeping changes like direct presidential elections. Before Washington started talking about political reform in the Middle East, even raising the topic of such elections was considered taboo because it implied criticism of the aging president, Hosni Mubarak, for clinging to the job for 23 years and showing no signs of bowing out gracefully. Yet, the climate has shifted, however slightly, and these days the subject emerges occasionally, to the evident consternation of technocrats like the tourism minister, Ahmed El-Maghraby, a 49-year-old business tycoon. "I am not a political minister," said Maghraby, whose family interests include the largest hotel management group in the country, a chain of eyeglass stores and Egypt's most renowned brand of jam. "Although my political education is not yet fully completed, I intend to be politically indoctrinated in the shortest possible time and have ready answers for political questions." Run for the mosque, Ahmed!
He then proves that the aforementioned education has, in fact, started, by echoing remarks from his new boss about how Egypt must avoid changing too fast lest it hit sudden turbulence. Political change in the Middle East might have better prospects of gaining traction in Egypt than say, Iraq, regional analysts believe, because the necessary institutions have long existed, albeit now in anemic form. The generally unspoken subtext, which Al-Masri Al-Yom, a new independent daily launched in June actually had the gumption to say in print, is that all important decisions go back to Mubarak. So any political reform will almost certainly be confined to the margins as long as he remains alive president. Pessimists in Egypt (some say realists) look around and see a political system barely altered since the 1952 revolution, when a group of army officers tossed out the monarchy and asphyxiated the democratic system slowly emerging from Britain's colonial tutelage. Can't be like India, nope, never!
President Gamal Abdel Nasser was a military autocrat, followed by another, Anwar "sandman" Sadat, followed by a third, Mubarak, now 76. Until the constitution that granted the presidency such sweeping powers is replaced and long-standing emergency laws rescinded, the pessimists say, there is no hope for Egypt to join the club of truly free countries. Optimists spy the glimmerings of change, however, pushed not least by the fact that Mubarak's handsome young son, Gamal, 40, harbors presidential ambitions. Given his absence of a military background, the sole route left open is to cast himself as a reformer.
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Sometimes I see little glimmers too, but they go away when I clean my contact lenses.
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I do not think the US will allow a true reform to take place in Egypt. Corruptipon is the US method of controlling events in that area.
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Yes, yes. It is all America's fault. The only reason why we are rich is because we steal from poor countries. It is not because democracy and capitalisim actually works or anything...
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shhhhhh! you are giving away our bestest secrets! Next thing you know they will use a cooking tool to avoid our secret brain-changing low orbital ray cannons!
( I don't want to be the one to name the reflective kitchen tool since, you know, doing that is a real big no no as per Secret Presidential Order # 23)
er, not that we have brain-changing tech
or satellites, no we don't have those either
(and SPOs donât exist so don mention âem to nobody, especially number 23!)
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