A food fight erupted in Taiwan's parliament on Tuesday as lawmakers quarrelling over a massive arms budget hurled their lunch boxes at each other. "You've got no shame!" screamed Chu Fong-chih of the opposition Nationalist Party, after throwing a take-out box of chicken and rice at Chen Tsung-yi, a legislator from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party who backed the special budget. Chen responded by accusing Chu of sympathizing with Taiwan's arch-foe China, and flung his own lunch box at her. Taiwan's parliament is notorious for fistfights, with many lawmakers enjoying the media attention when scuffles break out. Chairs and shoes have also been known to fly across the chamber on occasion. Legislators were meeting on Tuesday to decide if a proposed $18 billion budget to buy weapons from the United States should be put on the legislative agenda for Friday.
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It use to be that at least once a year some news network would always show one of these Taiwanese debates that evolved into some kind of elderly politico tae-kwan-do or WWF free for all. Love to see this trend move further west to the USA. Instead of a good old "f**k yourself" Cheney and Leahy could fling ham and eggs at each other.
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FOOD FIIIIGHT!!!
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I wouldn't support the idea of caning again in Congress, but the idea of a brace of pistols and ten paces should at least be considered. Considered since one party is unlikely to have much experience in handling the devices and I suspect the Fed Treasury could use some "Pay for View" revenue that is brought in at the expense of the politicians rather than the usual pound of flesh taken from the tax payer.
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French Polynesia's former President, Oscar Temaru, has gone on hunger strike to protest against his ousting. Mr Temaru, who favours independence from France, was replaced by the conservative leader who served before him, in a parliamentary vote on Friday. The new leader, Gaston Flosse, is a close ally of French President Jacques Chirac. Mr Temaru has accused France of political manoeuvring, but Paris has denied any involvement. Mr Temaru said he and two dozen of his supporters would continue with their hunger strike until "justice is returned to the people". "In our country today, there are two presidents - one elected by the people and a self-proclaimed president," he told a news conference. Mr Temaru, who has served less than four months of his term, was the first pro-independence leader to be elected in French Polynesia. He had replaced Mr Flosse, who had been in office for years. Parliament first approved a censure vote on 9 October, and that paved the way for a vote in which Mr Temaru was removed. Mr Temaru said he would call for new elections "to let the people decide". His ouster sparked huge protests on the streets of the capital, Papeete.
Free Oscar! Free Polynesia!
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The US should promite an end to Imperialism and the freedom of colonies around the world. French Polynesia would make a great start.
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I know Gaston Flosse. I have talked to him about this situation and I am prepared to send a division of marine expeditionary force motion picture executives to help restore peace by offering to film a remake of "Mutiny on the Bounty" thereby keeping the whole colony busy until the UN can pass a resolution in which Fred's popcorn is declared a Weapon of Mass Disfunction.
SENIOR French ministers admitted yesterday that they were taking English lessons to avoid being isolated in international meetings and ignored by global television networks. Their comments appeared to contradict in principle President Chirac's increasingly energetic campaign to halt the spread of the English language and of American culture. While the head of state is fighting to protect and promote French, his ministers say they are "perdus sans l'anglais" — lost without English. Cabinet members say that they receive few invitations to speak on international TV channels and are unable to hold informal discussions without interpreters.
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Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Prime Minister; Renaud Muselier, Foreign Affairs Minister; Patrick Devedjian, Industry Minister; Nicolas Sarkozy, Finance Minister
M Bertrand now has 90 minutes of English lessons a week and reads the English- language International Herald Tribune every day. "Whatever your area and whatever the nationality of your counterparts, English enables you to communicate directly," he said. "If you need an interpreter, you lose spontaneity."
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they receive few invitations to speak on international TV channels
Arabic is all they need for al-Jizz.
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Heh. Lingua Anglicana.
Has been for more than half a century now.
No need to translate "Liberty, equality, ... [fraternity?] brotherhood -- It will be gone in a little over a century too, replaced by simpler Liberty and equality. Some brothers (comrades) are always more equal than others.
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If the French ministers can stand the heat, they should come over to Rantburg and learn English from us. We speak the best colloquial and idiomatic English on the blogosphere. We would be glad to help them. We promise not to be too mean and uncouth until they are up to speed.
Cornîliës---in less than a century, the only thing the French will have left is equality, only some will be more equal than others. Liberty will be oot the door.
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Progress is progress, but I'm surprised that Dominique de Villepin is more proficient in English (Queen's? American?) than Nicolas Sarkozy! Sarkozy's the good guy! ;_;
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While the 2004 election is locked in a virtual dead heat, for nearly one in 10 likely voters it's all over but the counting: They've already cast their ballots. Nine percent of "likely" voters in the ABC News tracking poll say they've voted for president, either by absentee ballot or early voting, a number that's jumped in the last week. 51 percent say they went for George W. Bush, 47 percent for John Kerry.
That doesn't mean Bush is "winning" the absentee vote; the difference is within sampling tolerances. And among all likely voters, including those waiting for Election Day, the race is essentially tied: Forty-nine percent support Kerry and 48 percent Bush, with 1 percent for Ralph Nader in interviews Friday through Monday. Sampling, data collection and tabulation for this poll were done by TNS. That's the same as Monday's tracking result. The race tightened slightly from last week because Saturday and Sunday were two of Kerry's three best days since this tracking poll began Oct. 1; Monday, though, was a bit better for Bush. Tracking polls average results across days to build a reliable sample. There's been a recent jump in early voting: The number of registered voters who say they've already voted has risen from 1 percent in the first three weeks of ABC's tracking poll, through last Thursday, to 7 percent now. It reaches 9 percent when computed among the ranks of likely voters only. Early voting is more prevalent in the West than in other regions. (Oregon is one reason -- all voting there is by mail -- and there's high absentee voting in several other Western states.) Early voters are more likely to be older, women and following the race very closely. They're also a bit more likely to be Republicans than Democrats. As with any small subgroup, there's greater sampling variability in data on early voters. Given the increased opportunities for early voting in many states, they bear watching as their ranks grow in the coming days.
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The North Carolina Republican Party filed a complaint Tuesday with the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections, charging election officials coached voters on how to cast a straight Democratic-party ticket. According to the GOP, election officials have given ballots to voters at one-stop voting locations and then provided "unsolicited, yet explicit, examples of how to vote for U.S. Sen. John Kerry and then a straight-Democratic ticket." According to the complaint, voter Wayne Sorenson was told by an election official "to vote the straight Democratic ticket all you needed to do was push this button." The election official then held her finger over the button as if to suggest that she was happy to push the button for Sorenson, the complaint said. This pattern has been repeated by other election officials in Mecklenburg County, according to witness reports.
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Hollister (Cal.) - A political frenzy spurred by the upcoming presidential election that has commanded nationwide attention has made its way to San Benito County, with the destruction and theft of Republican presidential campaign signs. Sometime between Oct. 12 and Oct. 16 unknown suspects vandalized a large Bush/Cheney campaign sign posted in the 700 block of McCray Street, spraying vulgarities denouncing the president, according to a Hollister police report. Volunteers found the sign on Saturday, Oct. 16 and immediately took it down, said Jeannie Glass, San Benito County Republican Party volunteer. Including several obscenities splashed across Bush and Cheney's name, at the bottom the vandals sprayed the "F" word followed by the words Texas and Florida. "To combine that word with Florida and Texas, someone understood the past election and where Bush is from, which is what made it interesting," Glass said. "It wasn't just kids."
Several days later they noticed there was also a foot print on the sign, which meant someone had taken the large 4-by-8-foot sign down, sprayed the vulgarities on it and then put it back up, she said. Now the sign hangs in the front window of the local GOP headquarters on San Benito Street, with pieces of paper labeled "censored" across the swear words and "compliments of a Kerry supporter" taped to the top. Other than some signs being blown over in the wind, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) hasn't had any problems with their signs being stolen or vandalized, said Jeanie Wallace, San Benito County Central Committee chairperson. Wallace said any inference that Democratic Party volunteers could have anything to do with the vandalism is "offensive and outrageous."
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Hollister's a sleepy little town. Can't imagine this sort of thing happening there; it wakes up during that motorcycle thing that happens every year, otherwise it's only a small waypoint on the way to Pinnacles Nat'l Mon.
Vandals struck GOP headquarters, hurling a chunk of concrete through a glass door and knocking down a life-sized cardboard poster of President Bush. No one was hurt. There were no arrests in the incident at Santa Cruz County's Republican headquarters, police said Monday. The vandals struck after the office closed Friday night and before workers returned Saturday morning.
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The fact that there's Republicans at all in Santa Cruz County is amazing in itself. :)
Teresa Heinz Kerry, playing games with her tax returns, appears to be as much a flip flopper as her second husband, John Kerry, and she takes the public for as much of a fool as he does. The bizarre Teresa maintained for almost a year that she could not release her tax return because to do so would be bad for her sons, because it would show their assets and income. Newspapers across the country bought this story, even though any decent tax lawyer would have told the liberal media that it was nonsense, that trust income on personal returns shows the income only for that individual and not for any other beneficiaries of the trust. The proof of that is that when she finally did release her return nothing on it indicates the income of her sons.
Also, it is well known that Teresa has personal assets of over one billion dollars so the five- million-dollar income she shows on her personal return, which would hardly be adequate to sustain John and Teresa's lavish life style, tells you nothing about her real income. Her planes and five large houses are owned in separate trusts belonging to her and the expenses for running them (some deductible, some not) are paid out of those trusts, which themselves pay taxes. There may be a major tax saving, however in state taxes because the trusts may be located in a state with low or no tax, rather than in high-taxing Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
We will never know the whole truth, since Mrs. Heinz Kerry and her husband John do not want the public to know her full income or her real tax rate any more than they want the public to know what her charitable contributions--not the contribution checks she writes on the accounts from foundations set up by others--have been. We have always questioned (but the media did not) how Sen. Kerry managed to borrow millions on one half a house (given to him by Heinz Kerry) to bail out his primary campaign in Iowa. Could it be that Mellon Bank made the loan knowing that Teresa, the banks largest depositor, would pay it back if necessary after the elections. It is very doubtful that any ordinary person could get a mortgage on one-half a house What bank would want to foreclose on such an asset.
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I suspect some of the organizations she donates to may be less than savory with the average american voter.
OK Leftist Toady - Your turn... Hat Tip Drudge.... New Florida vote "Scandal" Feared {My Quotes}
By Greg Palast
Reporting for BBC's Newsnight
Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list". Sounds Ominous; a CAGING list.
It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida. An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day." And? Illegal voters are illegal. Where the mention of physical intimidation by AFL-CIO GOONS?
Ion Sancho, a Democrat, noted that Florida law allows political party operatives inside polling stations to stop voters from obtaining a ballot. Mass challenges
They may then only vote "provisionally" after signing an affidavit attesting to their legal voting status. Mass challenges have never occurred in Florida. Indeed, says Mr Sancho, not one challenge has been made to a voter "in the 16 years I've been supervisor of elections. Quite frankly, this process can be used to slow down the voting process and cause chaos on election day; and discourage voters from voting." Sancho calls it "intimidation." And it may be illegal. Only thing is physical or verbal intimidation in early voting whether its AFL-CIO, ACLU or even Danny DeVito!
In Washington, well-known civil rights attorney, Ralph Neas, noted that US federal law prohibits targeting challenges to voters, even if there is a basis for the challenge, if race is a factor in targeting the voters. Law prohibits targeting challenges to voters, except when its white heterosexual Christian or Jewish Republicans
The list of Jacksonville voters covers an area with a majority of black residents. When asked by Newsnight for an explanation of the list, Republican spokespersons claim the list merely records returned mail from either fundraising solicitations or returned letters sent to newly registered voters to verify their addresses for purposes of mailing campaign literature. Republican state campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker Fletcher stated the list was not put together "in order to create" a challenge list, but refused to say it would not be used in that manner. None of your f---ing business meddlesome foreigner...
Rather, she did acknowledge that the party's poll workers will be instructed to challenge voters, "Where it's stated in the law." There was no explanation as to why such clerical matters would be sent to top officials of the Bush campaign in Florida and Washington. In Jacksonville, to determine if Republicans were using the lists or other means of intimidating voters, we filmed a private detective filming every "early voter" - the majority of whom are black - from behind a vehicle with blacked-out windows. The private detective claimed not to know who was paying for his all-day services. Perhaps he's also filming intimidation of the few GOP voters by goons in the heavily Dem districts...
On the scene, Democratic Congresswoman Corinne Brown said the surveillance operation was part of a campaign of intimidation tactics used by the Republican Party to intimate and scare off African American voters, almost all of whom are registered Democrats.
The communist regime in Hanoi monitored closely and looked favorably upon the activities of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War during the period Senator Kerry served most actively as the group's spokesman and a member of its executive committee, two captured Viet Cong documents suggest. The documents - one dubbed a "circular" and the other a "directive" - were captured in 1971 and are part of a trove of material from the war currently stored at the Vietnam Archive at Texas Tech University at Lubbock. Originally organized by Douglas Pike, a major scholar who is now deceased, the archive contains more than 20 million documents. Many are available online at the Virtual Vietnam Archive and, as the election has heated up, have been the focus of a scramble for insights into Mr. Kerry's anti-war activities. The Circular and the Directive are listed as items numbered 2150901039b and 2150901041 respectively. Their authenticity was confirmed by Stephen Maxner, archivist at the Vietnam Archive.
The two documents provide a glimpse of the favorable way the Viet Cong viewed the activities in which Mr. Kerry was involved. They are from many documents of a kind that were ordinarily sent to a unit called the Captured Document Exploitation Center at the United States Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, which was headquartered in Saigon. Documents like these that were sent to the center were immediately translated into English and processed for battlefield intelligence for targeting or operations as required, or filed. The CDEC cover sheet of the "Directive" indicates it was "acquired" on May 12, 1971. The cover sheet itself is dated June 30, 1971, and is entitled "VC Efforts to Back Antiwar Demonstrations in the United States." It shows a detailed knowledge of such VVAW activities as the Dewey Canyon demonstration on the Mall in Washington in April 1971, mentioning the "return of their medals." And the Saigon American military intelligence cover sheet dates the information in that document as being assembled in Vietnam only a week after the Washington VVAW demonstration had taken place.
The CDEC Viet Cong document titled "Circular on Antiwar Movements in the US" notes, "The spontaneous antiwar movements in the US have received assistance and guidance from the friendly (VC/NVN) delegations at the Paris Peace Talks." It also notes that "The seven-point peace proposal (of the SVN Provisional Revolutionary Government) [the Viet Cong proposal advanced by one of its envoys, Madame Binh, operating out of Paris] not only solved problems concerning the release of US prisoners but also motivated the people of all walks of life and even relatives of US pilots detained in NVN to participate in the antiwar movement." The significance of the documents lies in the way they dovetail with activities of the young Mr. Kerry as he led the VVAW anti-war movement in the spring of 1971. It was in April that he gave his testimony to the Senate, in which he accused American GIs of having committed war crimes and belittled the idea that there was a communist threat to America. Mr. Kerry had already had, in June of 1970, a meeting in Paris with enemy diplomats, ostensibly, he has indicated, to get a sense of how American prisoners held in Hanoi might be freed. Two historians believe Mr. Kerry made a second trip to Paris in the summer of 1971 and held further talks with the North Vietnamese. The Kerry campaign has denied this.
Funny, you normally can't shut him up about all the leaders he meets with.
FBI surveillance and Mr. Kerry's own statements have established his two visits to Paris to meet with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations to the Paris Peace Talks as taking place in June of 1970 and August of 1971. An FBI surveillance report dated November 11, 1971, has also established that Mr. Kerry and Al Hubbard, the executive director of the VVAW who had brought Mr. Kerry into the organization, planned to return to meet with them again in Paris on November 15, 1971. A November 24, 1971, FBI surveillance report disclosed that Mr. Hubbard had also had meetings on his own with the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations in Paris. It noted that he had reported at a national meeting of the VVAW in Kansas City that the Communist Party of the United States had paid his expenses for the most recent one.
Another little bit of history they'd rather you didn't know.
The purpose of these meetings by the two top VVAW members, Messrs. Hubbard and Kerry, has always been assumed to be informational. But the documents in the Texas archive suggest another possibility. On July 23, 1971, The New York Times reported that Mr. Kerry held a demonstration in Washington in support of the "seven-point peace proposal" and, according to the Times, "Mr. Kerry, who is 27 years, introduced wives, parents and sisters of prisoners to plead for support." The Times's dispatch stated that Mr. Kerry charged "...the latest Vietcong peace offer in Paris, which promises the release of prisoners as American troops are withdrawn, is being ignored by Mr. Nixon..." The circular in the Texas archive states, "The antiwar movements in the US are trying to find means to cooperate... They are also trying by all means to support the seven-point peace proposal (of the PRG) [Viet Cong] and oppose the distorted interpretation made by the White House, the Pentagon and CIA."
Well, how about that, there's a whole week of October left.
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Related storie at WorldNet Daily:Jerome Corsi, a specialist on the Vietnam era, told WND the new discoveries are the "most remarkable documents I've seen in the entire history of the antiwar movement." "We're not going to say he's an agent for Vietnamese communists, but it's the next thing to it," he said. "Whether he was consciously carrying out their direction or naively doing what they wanted, it amounted to the same thing -- he advanced their cause." Corsi, co-author of the Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth best-seller "Unfit for Command," and Scott Swett, who maintains the group's website, have posted a summary of the discovery on the website of Wintersoldier.com. Corsi says the documents show how the North Vietnamese, the Viet Cong, the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, the Communist Party of the USA and Kerry's VVAW worked closely together to achieve the Vietnamese communists' primary objective -- the defeat of the U.S. in Vietnam.
"I think what we've discovered is a smoking gun," Corsi said. "We knew when we wrote 'Unfit for Command' that Kerry had met with Madame Binh and then promoted her peace plan. "This document enables us to connect the dots," he emphasized. "We now have evidence Madame Binh was directing the antiwar movement ... and the person who implemented her strategy was John Kerry."
Looks like someone saved the best for last. Of course the MSM doesn't have time to spread this story, I think we should help.
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Additional, Larry Kudlow at NRO picks up the meme: Just Like You Hunted the Viet Cong? In the final days of the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry is desperately attempting to make the case that he, not George W. Bush, can better defend America in the global war against radical Islam and its terrorist tactics. One of Kerryâs most extraordinary attacks came over the weekend in Colorado, where he told a Pueblo audience, âWith the same energy . . . I put into going after the Viet Cong and trying to win for our country, I pledge to you I will hunt down and capture or kill the terrorists before they harm us.â Huh? The Viet Cong? This is a dangerous rewrite of history.
American Enterprise Institute scholar Joshua Muravchik writes in the Weekly Standard that Kerry met with the two communist delegations to the Paris peace talks on at least two separate occasions, in 1970 and 1971. One delegation was from North Vietnam and the other was the Viet Congâs provisional revolutionary government. According to Muravchik, Kerry endorsed the Viet Congâs âpeace plan,â which was to set a date for American force withdrawal in order to have U.S. POWâs returned. When back in the states, Kerry cited Viet Cong foreign minister Madame Binh for this extortionate swap.
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This just gets better end better.This goes to my cuz.
EFL from WorldNetDaily
The first documentary evidence that Vietnamese communists were directly steering John Kerry's antiwar group Vietnam Veterans Against the War has been discovered in a U.S. archive, according to a researcher who spoke with WorldNetDaily. One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971 and later translated, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended. Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he happened to be in France on his honeymoon and maintains he met with both sides.
Well, he met with the North Vietnamese side and the Viet Cong side. That's both sides, in Kerry World.
But previously revealed records indicate the future senator made two, and possibly three, trips to Paris to meet with Viet Cong leader Madame Nguyen Thi Binh then promote her plan's demand for U.S. surrender. Jerome Corsi, a specialist on the Vietnam era, told WND the new discoveries are the "most remarkable documents I've seen in the entire history of the antiwar movement." Buh Bye Johnnie, this ought to put a stake through your treasonous heart.
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Too little too late. The MSM can bury anything for a week.
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For it to be a surprise, it has to be something people didn't think would happen. I wouldn't be surprised if he got a W-2 from the VC.
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The MSM will bury it forever, not just a week. Too bad there is no "diversity" in the media.
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Wonder if Shaun Hannity has the cajones to air this? I know that he's spearheaded a few items before. Then again, unless there's an authentication/positive custody trail...it won't happen.
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The media will say, "Oh, look, it's Corsi. He's responsible for that book full of lies from those swift people. And also those 'racist' posts on Free Republic."
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Yeah, I think there's a reason that O'Neill is the one who does interviews, and not Corsi... Who let Corsi out of his rubber-lined room?
Five'll get you ten this is random bullshit. It stinks to high heaven of the sort of rumor-mongering hysteria which I usually associate with my moonbat friends, most of whom I'm not speaking to this week for that very reason.
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actually, I think this is frightening! If this is true we should all be very concerned indeed!!!
The media thought it was imperative that they investigate Bush's AWOL to inform Their People(TM) about Bush's character - but we already know that we can't rely on the MSM to do anything other than bury this. But if it is true, and there is a good chance it is, Mr. Kerry is one of the biggest traitors who ever walked the face of the earth.
I know Kerry supporters will try to pshaw this, but if this is true, this makes him so incredibly dangerous that it's hard to fathom. Think about it. Think about what this means if it is true.
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To use a Democrat phrase, "forged or not, it has the ring of truth and deserves to be investigated." Or as they said once before, "the seriousness of the charge mandates further investigation."
Unfortunately nothing will happen. The bastard should have been charged with treason and shot 30 years ago. It's too late now. We missed our chance.
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You all have got to stop being cynics. It is unbecoming victors in the election campaign.
This is huge and whether Kerry wins this is a huge hammer hanging over our domestic left. It doesn't matter whether the MSM decides to run with it. The facts are there in black and white. This whole thing of putting Kerry's Viet Nam era record under scrutiny in fact places all the left under that same microscope.
Try to see it in its most proper light. Viet Nam era vets, the folks who held the line in the 60s and who have held the line in 2004 have just been given a wonderful welcome home and congrats gift: a permenant blackjack we can beat our domestic left with like they owe us money.
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call it what you want, mojo. But I'm not so jaded as to think that it's no big deal that Kerry, after(?) serving in the armed forces secretly met with the enemy and implemented their plans. Oh, and FACT..he was present during meetings which discussed the assasination of a sitting US congressman.
It just shows how powerful the media really is that so many Americans are actually considering voting for this horrible human being.
I used to wonder how it was that Hitler was able to murder 6 million Jews and the Germans just sat back and did nothing. Now I understand.
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a permenant blackjack we can beat our domestic left with like they owe us money.
If they were embarassed by the disclosure. But 1) they won't admit its truth, and 2) even if they do, it will be justified as opposition to the fascist US warmachine.
These people are not rational in the same way as you and me. That's why they opposed the war in the first place. They hate themselves.
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Right you are Mrs. D. This aren't voting for Kerry, they are voting to prove that they still aren't old and grey...they are still young and rebellious.
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mojo: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj2.htm
904. ART. 104. AIDING THE ENEMY
Any person who--
(1) aids, or attempts to aid, the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other things; or (2) without proper authority, knowingly harbors or [protects or gives intelligence to or communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly;
shall suffer death or such other punishment as a court-martial or military commission may direct.
or at the very least:
933. ART. 133. CONDUCT UNBECOMING AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN
Any commissioned officer, cadet, or midshipman who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
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Ok, well, as the the first (104 sec. 2), it's questionable whether the UCMJ is applicable to non-active-duty personnel. If it is, then 104 may be invoked, though a good civ lawyer might help. Or not, as Courts Martial are notorious for confounding civs. ;)
But 133 (Conduct Unbecoming) is a catch-all, and is used (pretty much exclusively) to screw the people whom the Bigs want screwed. It's a rigged game, in case you weren't aware.
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mojo, I was in SAC when I flew and didn't know how to do anything unbecoming and after I transferred to Systems Command couldn't think of anything far enough afield to be considered conduct unbecoming.
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Badanov,
I agree completely. This is how it will play out (if Kerry wins):
The media will sit on this to help him get elected. The left will be disappointed fairly early in his term (for not getting out of Iraq fast enough, not differentiating enough from Bush's policies, failing to build alliances, losing the war, whatever) and these lingering stories of his meetings with the enemy and the eventual leaking of the un-released military records will resurface, be fleshed out, and will destroy his presidency.
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I'm not sure the MSM can bury it until after the election. It is just too hot, and it appears to be well documented, someone is going to pick it up and run with it. The linked documents are also fascinating. As I read them, they played like a film documentary in my mind--a devastating documentary that could lead to impeachment if Kerry won. I'm not usually one to get too excited about these things (monday's "october surprise" in the Washington times was a big nothing in my opinion), but this thing seems very serious, with legs, traction, and every other relevant metaphor. Pass the popcorn.
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I'm betting Fox runs the story tonight, WaPo makes a mention tomorrow, CNN and MSNBC are shamed into covering the story by Friday. Fingers crossed.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton and Sen. John Kerry ganged up on President Bush on the campaign trail on Monday... (Philadelphia)
ANyone see that picture of Clinton? He looks really rough, almost gaunt, hair competely white, bags under his eyes... I wonder if the came back too soon - 7 weeks after heart surgery is hardly the time to start full-tilt campaigning. Shows the desperation level the Dems are having now that it has been showns in polls that Bush is drawing double the black vote he had the last election. I dind like Clinton as a president, but they realy need to be more careful and not kill a former president in their pursuit of power
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I suspect it's mostly the weight loss. He had the old glimmer in the eye and gave a heckuva speech, as usual. A formidable opponent even 7 weeks after surgery.
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Yep, he looks awful but he sounded great on the radio.
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I didn't hear the radio bit, but if he sounded tired, he might have a case of the "I can't believe I'm doing this for this guy" blues. I do remember seeing a picture of him standing behind Kerry the other day, and he wasn't smiling. Looked almost like he was thinking, "Why am I here?"
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I prefer to think of them as living in the golden age of least activity. But they are all good Americans like yourself RN and need a voice in Washington. You are an American aren't you RN? Not that it matters, some of my best friends are what I think of as tourist-Americans. Good workers each and every one.
Bush Aide Draws Fire with Pre-Election Speech Gives Speech to Florida Jewish Voters
President Bush's national security adviser touted the president's foreign policy to a Jewish group on Monday in a speech Democrats said was as a blatant foray into Bush's re-election campaign. Although Condoleezza Rice did not mention Bush's Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, by name, her speech reflected the Bush campaign's portrayal of Kerry as having a too narrow view of the war on terrorism. "For some it is a limited engagement whose goal is to go after Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, assume a more defensive posture at home and one day be able to put it out of our mind," Rice told the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "But this is not the struggle that we face. The global war on terror calls us, as President Bush immediately understood, to marshal all elements of our national power to beat terror and the ideology of hatred that protects them and recruits others to their ranks." Amen to that!
Democrats say Rice and other officials like Treasury Secretary John Snow and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge have been making most of their federally paid trips in swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio, all of which may be critical in deciding the outcome of the Nov. 2 election. The White House dismisses the criticism and insists Rice's speeches are not campaign events but reflect her responsibility to inform the public on national security issues. Kerry has said Bush's invasion of Iraq last year was a distraction from the war against terrorism and that it drained forces from the hunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the invasion of Afghanistan a year earlier. Distraction and Kerry are synonymous terms but not in this context.
Florida decided the 2000 election with a wafer-thin 537-vote majority for Bush and polls indicate the race will be very close again this year. Florida's Jewish community, which amounts to 4 percent of the state's population, overwhelmingly backed Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore in 2000 but polls show the Republicans are making inroads. With the Dems sucking up to the Palestinian types, do oyu wonder why?
Ed Koch is campaigning for Dubya in the Florida Jewish community. That is huge.
Democratic critics say that time Rice spends on the campaign trail is time she is not spending on national security issues. They point to revelations on Monday that 380 tons of explosives disappeared from a site near Baghdad shortly after the United States took control last year. {Drool and Heavy Breathing}
"This is a pretty desperate and dangerous move by the Bush campaign to allow Condoleezza Rice to take her eye off the ball in wanting to come to this event at such a critical time," said Morrie Goodman, ex-director of communications for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bill Clinton. NO! This is a chance for Dr. Rice to test her public speeking skills in the run-up to 2008, and give her boss a boost at the same time...
I'd vote for her over the Hildebeast in a New York minute.
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380 ton of explosive that wasn't even there according to NBC embeded personel via Drudge.
No the desperate moves have all be by the democrats.
Several of you provided a post to the Drudge story on the NBC News item on the missing explosives. It was posted yesterday, but I'm putting the link here again for continued commentary. Thanks to all.
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Yea I didn't see it before I went to school. Well just how hard the MSM goes after this story of the NYT again strping on it's parts to help elect Kerry Sorros Edwards is yet to be seen.
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Think the NYT will print a clarification anywhere near the front page?
Nope - maybe in A, somewhere near 11 or so, if not buried deep elsewhere in the paper.
You hear that CBS was originally going to "break" this story SUnday night right before the election, to try to thow it away from Bush before the administration would have had time to debunk it?
Is ther any doubt that CBS has violated the fair use of the public airwaves, and has become a house-organ for attacks by the Democrat/Soros/Dean/Moore party and should have its FCC licenses pulled?
From The New Yorker, an article by Philip Gourevitch
.... He is, in fact, an aristocrat —i n Ghana, where he was born and raised, his father was a traditional chief of the Fante people; through his mother, he is heir to the paramount chieftancy of the Akwamu. His wife, Nane Annan, is also of proud pedigree, a niece of Raoul Wallenberg, the martyred Swedish rescuer of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. .....
America's predominance has been the defining feature of Annan's tenure. "The rest of the world is trying to live in the shadow of the U.S., and they come to him and hope he will explain the U.S. to them, and hope he will explain them to the U.S.," Nader Mousavizadeh, a close aide to Annan, told me. When Annan took office, with the blessings of the Clinton Administration after it unceremoniously killed the reëlection bid of his Egyptian predecessor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, there was much grumbling in the international press that he was Washington's poodle. ....
The United States has always taken a selective approach to international coöperation, which puts Annan in a delicate position. "We need to be careful, and the U.S. also needs to be careful," he told me, adding, "One may not be happy with the U.N. today, or the Council today, because one is not getting one's way. But tomorrow one is going to need that organization." .... After September 11, 2001, the United States turned to the Security Council for support for the war in Afghanistan, but Washington's selective approach to multilateralism created resentment abroad, even among long-standing allies. ....
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But tomorrow one is going to need that organization.
Haahahaha....haaahahahaaa.....haaahahahahahaa....
And what, pray tell, does the U.S. "need" the UN for?
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BAR: The UN is like the Special Olympics of world politics. Everybody gets to play, emphasis is placed on friendship and cooperation, and we can all pretend that countries like Ghana and France actually have something to contribute. Isn't that special?
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Well, I got the distinct impression a few years back that a number of friendly governments with not-altogether-friendly Muslim populations wanted a UN resolution to give them political cover for helping us invade Iraq.
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UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General and Chief Kleptocrat Kofi Annan promised with his fingers crossed on Monday to push ahead with feigned reforms to put an end to the United Nations before the world corpse body marks its 60th anniversary of near-complete uselessness next year.
"I believe we can build a better United Nations but we won't. That's why I have appointed a High Level Panel on Bribes, Corruption and Chicanery Threats, Challenges and Change, which will very soon give me its report to be filed away in a safe, dark place," Annan said on the first business day to divide the boodle after United Nations Day, October 24.
"And that is why, only next year, I will be proposing increased per diems measures to renew the posssibilities for graft within the organization. I forlornly hope world leaders Dewey, Cheatham and Howe will respond with sloth vision, cowardice courage and malign desires good will when they meet for their usual banquet here next September -- five forgetful years after they adopted the whatinthehellisthe Millennium Declaration."
That boneheaded declaration commits the scheming, plotting member nations to talk about cut the influence of the US extreme poverty and hunger by half, cut infant mortality by two thirds by issuing more thick reports about infant mortality , slow pharmaceutical company earnings HIV infection, and improve access to abortion on demand reproductive care. "Fifty-nine very long years ago, the United Nations was founded as an instrument of obstruction peace, suppression of human rights and prevention of development.
"The world is not a better place because of the idiocies of the United Nations, but too many dead people today are still of course victims of violence and oppression, poverty and hunger, illiteracy and disease because of the actions of many UN members," he said. "We can and must do better but don't look at me, sister. All people deserve to live free from platitudes fear and kleptocrats want. They must hope that tomorrow will be better than today not that the UN can do anything about that.
"And we all need an effective United Nations, one that reflects the world we live in today, and can meet the challenges we will face tomorrow," Annan said.
Start by resigning.
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I've got a challenge for the UN.
MOVE TO FRANCE! Tomorrow.
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His plan is to do a Jim Jones on the UN, with himself as Jim! Oh..but then we'd be happy.
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Coffee and Bun reminds me of a homeless guy. I mean, he LOOKS like a homeless guy. Damn pity that he found a home in the UN. Could anyone have done worse? Maybe I shouldn't ask a question like that.
AMIR Tehrani is 23, hepatitis positive and three months clean of heroin. He is a volunteer at a radical syringe hand-out programme in the heart of working class south Tehran - a new front in Iran's long-fought war against drugs. With more than a million addicts, the authorities fear epidemics of hepatitis and HIV. "I was introduced to heroin by my mother and her friends when I was 15," Tehrani says. "I used to just smoke it but started injecting about three times a day last year. I've been on methadone for three months now but my family don't care. My mother has been in a string of temporary marriages with younger men and when I'm on drugs, it gets me off her back."
Tehrani now spends most of his time at the drop-in centre where addicts are given clean syringes, offered medical treatment for abscesses and other injuries, and encouraged to move to a methadone treatment programme. Sitting near the entrance to a small alley, the centre is reached through a nondescript door covered by a cloth curtain. In a courtyard, about two dozen men sit and chat, smoking cigarettes and waiting to see a doctor. They will each be given a pack containing free needles, disinfectant swabs, a spoon for preparing the heroin mixture and a filter to remove impurities in the drug. A woman sits to one side, moving her arms slowly and without co-ordination. Blood is caked on her forehead, and her black manteau - the long outer garment demanded by the religious authorities - is covered in dirt. For Iranian women, the stigma of addiction is greater than for men and many turn to prostitution to pay for their habit.
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Al Sadr is a dope dealer. The Heroin comes from Afghanistan via Iraq. Sick bastards.
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First I've heard of it. I would have thought the mullahs would have been in there hanging everyone in sight to stamp the problem out. Unless, of course, they are in with the pushers.
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Fred, I was shocked to se this article was posted by Mark Espinola! Yous should give us warning so that we aren't shocked. Someone could have a coronary.
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Mrs. Davis, are you looking for cheap gas? lol
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I heat with coal. I walk to work.
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Coal? Many wish they were as well now. The majority in the Northeast use natural gas, heating oil & a minority with wood. Very few can walk to work.
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Coal? hell I can't afford anything strong enough to burn coal. What is this work you speak of? My state is controled by democrats. They have killed of all the jobs I can do and regulated the private sector so heavly I can't even create my own. I have a propane heater in the living room and hope it heats the whole house.
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I remember very well going driving two days to visit my grandmother's apartment complex on the N. side of Chi-Town and getting filthy playing under the coal shoot, plus trying to shovel the coal in the furnace.
The USA has more coal reserves than any nation on earth (up to 250 years of reserves at today's production rates), while the Middle East has the most oil & natural gas reserves.
The website with this chart states: Production trend is up - - 2003 was 64% over 1975 (compared to 31% population increase)..
USA produces 28% of world coal production and consumes 26% of world consumption.
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After being hounded out of Mumbai by residents encroaching on their land, and by forest officials, the leopards of the National Park have ventured 100km north and are frightening employees at a nuclear power plant.
"I'm telling you, Sanjay, the thing was THIS-S-S-S big!"
Forest officials on Sunday trapped a leopard near a farm at Dahanu, a few kilometres from the power plant. They are on the lookout for another 22 foot tall leopard, which has also been spotted in the area. Employees at the Tarapur Atomic Power Station, north of Mumbai, sighted a leopard, which strayed into the high-security complex, but has been evading the traps set up by them. Some residents of Dahanu had spotted a pair of glow in the dark leopards moving around their farms about a fortnight ago. The big cats had attacked domestic animals and forest officials had laid traps for them. According to the officials, the leopards had strayed from the Borivali-Powai forests of Mumbai. Earlier in the month, a woman was mauled to death by a leopard near a forest at Mira Road, an extended suburb of Mumbai. Leopards have so far killed nearly two dozen persons in and around Mumbai this year. The authorities, under pressure from local politicians, have trapped over a dozen leopards and relocated them to forests in other parts of Maharashtra. Most of the leopards venture out of the forests in search of food. Several illegal slum colonies have mushroomed along the periphery of the national park, and the leopards attack domestic animals, including stray dogs, and even children.
They don't hate us, they're just hungry as hell.
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Just out of idle curiosity, who's #1?
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Barbara---I found this WHO site that had quite a bit of good info on TB. Here are the regions reported TB incidence and mortality (all forms) for 2002:
Africa 2.4 million 26%
The Americas .4 million 4%
Eastern Med 0.6 million 7%
Europe 0.5 million 5%
SE asia 2.9 million 33%
Western pacific 2.1 million 24%
As you can see it seems to relate to sanitation or lack thereof and population density.
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The LHC after converting a writ petition into a bail application, allowed interim bail to a newly married woman, her father-in-law and mother-in-law in a Hudood case. The court also directed Noor Hussain to present his son Qamar Abbas at the next hearing. Qamar Abbas was married to Noreen but the petitioner, through his counsel, contended that his son married an orphan but her uncle Inayat refused to accept the marriage and implicated them in a fake Hudood case after 13 days of marriage. He pleaded that the police was harassing them.
Uncle Inayat wanted the wench for himself, did he?
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Mr Temaru, who favours independence from France, was replaced by the conservative leader who served before him, in a parliamentary vote on Friday. The new leader, 
The North Carolina Republican Party filed a complaint Tuesday with the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections, charging election officials coached voters on how to cast a straight Democratic-party ticket. According to the GOP, election officials have given ballots to voters at one-stop voting locations and then provided "unsolicited, yet explicit, examples of how to vote for U.S. Sen. John Kerry and then a straight-Democratic ticket." According to the complaint, voter Wayne Sorenson was told by an election official "to vote the straight Democratic ticket all you needed to do was push this button." The election official then held her finger over the button as if to suggest that she was happy to push the button for Sorenson, the complaint said. This pattern has been repeated by other election officials in Mecklenburg County, according to witness reports.
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General 
