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While sitting in the office of the family Shaman this morning I read an article in Reader's Digest about the Framingham Osteoporosis Study that found beer drinking can help slow down osteoporosis. Maybe that's why my bone density scan is above normal even though I've been taking prednisone for 10 years.
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Tammy Jean Warner, 42, gave Michael Warner two large bottles of sherry on May 21, which raised his blood alcohol level to 0.47 percent, or nearly six times the level considered legally drunk in Texas, police detective Robert Turner in Lake Jackson, Texas, told the Houston Chronicle.
Bottoms up !!
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02/03/2005 11:27:40 AM ||
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A BAC of 0.47%? WTF was she trying to do, kill him and embalm him in one easy step???
Posted by: Dave D. ||
02/03/2005 12:59 Comments ||
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With friends like her, who needs enemas?
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What a hangover.
A headache, an ass ache and then you die.
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Also known as a lobotomy if you have sh*t for brains.
British TV personality Robert Kilroy-Silk has launched a new political party, promising tough action on immigration and the European Union. Calling the new party Veritas, the Latin word for truth, Kilroy-Silk told audiences in London on Wednesday that he would offer the electorate "straight talk". The 62-year-old former talk show host first entered politics by helping the UK Independence Party (UKIP) win seats last year in European elections, picking up one for himself along the way. But now is expected to attract fans to his new party as he is already a household name among middle-class Britons who are likely to be most swayed by his populist rhetoric against the European Union, immigration and crime.
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KS intended to use UKIP as his personal bandwagon but leapt off when they declined to give him the reins. That had been an symbiotic relationship - both parties benefitted - and the departure of KS will take the Star Attraction out of UKIP. But KS doesn't have the political skill or following, alone, to make a successful go of it, and his style of leadership discourages followers. He'll get a thorough drubbing in the national elections coming up.
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Next he'll pop up in a turquoise tracksuit proclaiming the end of the world is nigh ;)
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Howard - LOL! There's a bit of a resemblance too, isn't there? Personally, I hope the Reptillians get him before he does any more damage to the Eurosceptic cause. I think I read on Icke's site once that the Queen Mum has been kept in cryogenic storage for just such a mission.
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Queen Mum cryogenically frozen? Thought she'd pickled herself in gin?!
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Thought she'd pickled herself in gin?!
Apparently not. They tried that for nearly a hundred years but ultimately concluded that it had too many undesirable neuronal and cloacal side-effects. Freezing's more lizard-friendly.
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So, the under-Capo is Sodano? But what about Cardinal "Ratzo" Ratzinger, head of the Doctrines of the Faith (aka Inquisition)? After Cardinal "The 500 pound gorilla" Law was 'retired', I figured things would have settled down. Nobody wants a war.
A number of Native scholars and activists are challenging his posture of speaking for American Indians in his inflammatory writings on the 9/11 terrorist attacks and even his claim to be an American Indian.
The Oneida Indian Nation, which has historic ties to nearby Hamilton, issued the following statement:
''It's disturbing that anyone would use such hateful speech, and do so while claiming to be an American Indian when there is significant evidence that he is not. Oops. Professor Churchill caused many in the media to falsely believe an American Indian scholar could besmirch the lives of those who died on 9/11. Because of this, he owes every American Indian an apology.
''Likewise it is sad that he would perpetrate this apparent hoax on Hamilton College, an institution founded to help educate Indian students.'' (Hamilton was founded by Samuel Kirkland, 18th century missionary to the Oneidas, and the famous Oneida Chief Schenandoah is buried on its grounds.)
Churchill resigned his position as head of the CU Ethnic Studies program but kept his $96,000 per year teaching post. After initially planning to move the panel to a larger auditorium, Hamilton College cancelled it, citing credible threats of violence.
The Colorado University Board of Regents called for an emergency session but, according to reports just before press time, had decided it did not have legal authority to fire Churchill summarily from his tenured position. Misrepresentation sounds like good grounds to me...
Although the national furor struck with the unpredictable suddenness of a Great Lakes storm, Churchill has long been a divisive and somewhat feared figure in Indian country, especially among his former colleagues in the American Indian Movement. Some prominent activists involved in earlier confrontations have devoted a great deal of energy to investigating his claim to be an American Indian himself and have found no evidence to support it.
At various times, according to press reports, Churchill has described himself as Cherokee, Keetoowah Cherokee, Muskogee, Creek and most recently Meti. In a note in the online magazine Socialism and Democracy he wrote, ''Although I'm best known by my colonial name, Ward Churchill, the name I prefer is Butthead Kenis, an Ojibwe name bestowed by my wife's uncle.'' In biographical blurbs, he is identified as an enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees. But a senior member of the band with access to tribal enrollment records told Indian Country Today that Churchill is not listed. George Mauldin, tribal clerk in Tahlequah, Okla., told the Rocky Mountain News, ''He's not in the data base at all.''
According to Jodi Rave, a well-known Native journalist and member of the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Three Affiliated Tribes, Churchill was enrolled as an ''associate member'' of the Keetoowah by a former chairman who was later impeached. The one other known member of the same program, since discontinued, was President Bill Clinton Chief I Did Not Inhale When Puffing on Peace Pipe. Rave said that she made this discovery as a student in a journalism class at the University of Colorado. She was also in a class taught by Churchill. When her article came out, she said, he dropped her grade from an A to a C minus. Glad to see he didn't take it personally...
Suzan Shown Harjo, a columnist for ICT who has tracked Churchill's career, said that aside from the in-laws of his late Indian wife, he has not been able to produce any relatives from any Indian tribe.
Beyond the question of his personal identity is the question of his standing to represent Indian opinion, not only on 9/11 but also in his other published works. Mohawk ironworkers helped build the World Trade Center and other monuments of the New York City skyline, and one crew was actually at work in the flight path of the plane that struck the second tower. St. Regis Mohawk Chief James Ransom noted that they joined rescue teams at great personal risk.
Far from suffering for his views, Churchill appears to have been sought out by many in the universities as a representative of American Indian thinking. But to many Native intellectuals, he is traveling under false pretenses, both in his ideology and his personal identity.
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As soon as I heard the first reports of this "tough guy" in the context of the Hamilton college lecture, I just knew in my bones he would turn out to be a fraud.
My BS meter has been tuned superfine since 9/11.
I am sure that real Native Americans have a word for such wannabe poseurs (and I fully expect to learn it here on RB...)
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Why not let the Native Americans take care of "Chief Speaks with Forked Tounge" in the manner of their acentors. Not sure what the punishment was for lying, but it can't be bad enough.
#5
Tenure is not protection against Treason during time of war.
Of couse if any 'professor' had used similar language to describe the four little school girls killed in the Birmingham bombing in racially colored language you'd be sure the faculty senate would have run the man out of town on a rail.
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When her article (questioning his Indian heritage) came out , she said, he dropped her grade from an A to a C minus.
Damn, I thought that Churchill was such a strong advocate of free speech. My mistake. HIS right to speak apparently does not extend to OTHERS.
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As a Native American I'm sort of a washout - no elders around to teach me diddley-squat.
I did, however, spend a night or three in jail back in my misspent youth, and there was a ponytail-wearing, chanting, cussing Native American down the hall in the drunk tank, one night. All night long he cried (phonetically):
"koo-tah-haaay!"
All goddamned night long. You can say it is seared, seared I say, into my brain.
I have no doubt it is a colorful epithet, but I would most assuredly appreciate anyone who can translate it into AmerEnglish.
This happened in Utah, so he could have been Ute or Souix or or Flathead or from any of a half-dozen other tribes.
Thanks, in advance, if anyone can help - it's been bugging me for, oh, 35+ years, heh.
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the way he lies and poses, Ward Churchill's probably not his name
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.com, are you sure the chief was not a Somali?
Koo tahay or koo-ban tahay is definitely a somali expression. I know that it is somali, I am sure. By some coincidence it is connected to either alcohol or a substance abuse in general. I can't say no more. (cuz I know a fuque what that means)
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BTW, I found out when they released me that my cellmate was in for Murder One. He was a bar owner who blew his wife's head off - and then a customer's head off - double barreled 10 GA - one barrel each. She flirted and flaunted it in his face - for the last time. Nice guy. We played cards cuz we couldn't sleep with Chief Cutahay down the hall, heh.
HANOI : Vietnam said Thursday it is seeking international help to battle a worsening bird flu epidemic and to prepare a long-term plan to tackle the killer disease. Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat sent a letter late Wednesday to the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation asking for the assistance. The avian influenza was "spreading very quickly in the country", the minister said in the letter obtained by AFP. The government requested the "WHO and FAO's kind assistance in sending the qualified experts to Vietnam to collaborate with local (authorities) to study the outbreak and set up" a plan for its control. The virus has claimed 13 lives in Vietnam since December 30 and 33 since the end of 2003. Twelve people have also died in Thailand from bird flu, which has swept parts of Asia since December 2003. Bird flu has now spread to 33 of Vietnam's 64 cities and provinces, including northern Ha Giang province bordering China. Experts have long warned further outbreaks of the disease were inevitable in the country as long as humans live cheek by jowl with fowl livestock. I lived through SARS and there seems to be more to this than the numbers indicate.
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Sounds like a job for their (the communists) HERO - John Kerry....
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Glad to hear the UN is on the case. No need for us to overshadow them.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is probably the least sucky and most competent part of the UN. I know, faint praise indeed. Still, they managed to eradicate smallpox and had nearly done the same with polio up until muslim ninnies in Africa decided healthy children were an Evil Crusader Plot(tm).
There is no denying WHO is a large bureaucratic organization and part of the UN, to boot. But unlike their dung beetle diplomatic comrades, WHO has actually done some good in the world.
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Ok, yes, the Vietnamese government sucks. No argument on that.
But if you think that this disease couldn't possibly get over here, you're dead wrong. We're overdue for a big, ugly flu epidemic. I'd rather they get some help to deal with this (and in the process, learn about it and if it could mutate into something hideous we don't want to think about).
Put aside the ideology for a moment, guys.
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I'm with DB. IIUC this is one of the most likely sources of a pandemic. It's unlikely that anything bad will come of it, but the potential cost is in the range of Spanish Flu.
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Frank G - I might be wrong on this, but I thought the flu can cross species barriers from anywhere on the human-pig-bird (usually duck) transmission pathways. As in, human to bird to pig, or anywhere on those connections. I'm not putting it very elegantly, so I hope I'm communicating it ok.
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IIUC, pigs are considered the most likely path to humans, but the disease is still the same. This particular type of virus is considered to be a high risk.
Maybe it's a result of reading "Earth Abides" when I was very young, "The White Plague" when I was not much older, and seeing "Twelve Monkeys". Maybe my concerns are overblown. I consider this to be a risk on par with asteroids and comets, if not higher.
A significant part of my supporting OIF was opposition to the work of Dr. Taha.
Until such time as we have established isolated (non-terrestrial) populations, this will continue to be a risk.
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We all should be applauding Vietnam for admitting there's a potentially serious problem here and getting help right away -- a more honest and upfront response than that of China, for instance.
Pigs are closer to humans biologically, but we eat a LOT of poultry raised in crowded conditions. Having this jump to humans, as it apparently has begun to do, is a serious health threat. And db is right - we've got two generations of people (at a minimum) here who haven't had to develop strong immune response to the nastier strains of flu. Remember - antibiotics don't help. Don't know if something lik the retro drugs for AIDS might, but it would probably take time to engineer them.
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Another point: by destroying its poultry flocks to prevent the spread of the disease, Vietnam will be taking a real economic hit. This is one situation where (what is to us a modest amount of) economic aid would be the best possible positive reinforcement for responsible behavior.
PARIS: French police were Thursday investigating claims that a son of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi beat a woman in a Paris hotel earlier in the week. The Libyan embassy was asked to step in after scuffles in two separate luxury hotels, during which Hannibal Gaddafi allegedly produced a nine-millimetre handgun. After the first incident a woman was treated for bruises in hospital and later filed suit claiming to have been beaten by Gaddafi.
Gaddafi, who is in his late 20s, left Paris for Copenhagen on Wednesday after being questioned by police. It was unclear whether Gaddafi enjoys diplomatic immunity in France. Police were trying to determine whether Gaddafi has a permit to carry a handgun, but sources said this "doesn't seem to be the case". In September a bodyguard working for Gaddafi was fined and given a one-month suspended jail sentence for hitting a policeman after the son of the Libyan leader was caught speeding on the famed Champs-Elysees.
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A statue of former Belgian colonial king Leopold II has been re-erected in the centre of the Democratic Republic of Congo capital, Kinshasa. The statue of Leopold riding his horse is still dirty after spending 40 years in an open-air dump. Can they make a statue of a gallows and hang the Leopold statue on it?
The Congolese culture minister said DR Congo's history should be revived. Leopold II set up the Congo Free State in 1885 as his personal possession and left arguably the worst legacy of all the European colonial regimes.
Holocaust
Former BBC Kinshasa correspondent Mark Dummett says King Leopold II turned the country into a massive labour camp, made a fortune for himself from the harvest of its wild rubber, and contributed in a large way to the death of perhaps 10 million innocent people. Now, what punishment did Vachel Lindsay say he faced?
In front of the statue outside the central station, one man told the BBC:
"He left us in poverty. He exploited our raw materials and left us with nothing." Another said: "It's important for us to remember our past, like the Jewish people remember the Holocaust." Former President Mobutu Sese Seko had the statue removed in 1967, saying it was a constant and unwelcome reminder of colonial rule. Culture Minister Christophe Muzungu said people should not just see the negative side of the king - they should also look at the positive aspects. "We are restoring the history of our country because a people without history is a people without a soul," he said.
Meet your future, same as your past...
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Wasn't Kinshasa called "Leopoldville" in the past? I kinda remember seeing it on the wall map in high school. (a long, long time ago, to be sure)
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I want the ajoining sledgehammer concession. A dollar a whack.
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The sad part is that, with all that Leopold and his minions did, by the 1950's the Belgian Congo was a relatively well-run colony - i.e., the people in general had a much higher standard of living than they ever did afterwards, and certainly they are much worse off today than they were then. So it is not true that the colony was "left in poverty".
Its biggest problem was that the managerial/technical and even clerical middle class was almost purely Belgian/expat, to a greater degree than in nearly any African colony. When they were mostly driven out the place went to hell.
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"Listen to the yell of Leopold's ghost
Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell
Cutting his hands off, down in Hell."
Vachel Lindsay
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"Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying oneâs affiliations â unlike the symbolic Christian crucifixes or Jewish Kappas."
Um....since when? Wasnt this "made" "obligatory" in the 70's? What are the origins of the hijab?
Agreed--No hats means no hats. Why the constant assertion that the rules don't apply to muslims (rhetorical)?
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Obligatory to keep women from feeling equal to the insecure little men of Islam
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Hijab made the scene in Lebanon and Iran as political statements. There is no mention of it in the Koran as far as I know. Any claim that it is required religious garb would then be false. It's being used as a Trojan Horse.
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Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying oneâs affiliations â unlike the symbolic Christian crucifixes or Jewish Kappas."
Im confused - Kippas (not Kappas) (also called Yarmulkes) are NOT symbolic displays - they are REQUIRED when praying - which is not a once a week thing, but comes up before and after every meal for a fully observant Je*w, among other occasions. And since there are some occasions that can come up unexpectedly where a blessing is required, most Orthodox Je*ws consider head covering at all times to be mandatory.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Tammy Jean Warner, 42, gave Michael Warner two large bottles of sherry on May 21, which raised his blood alcohol level to 0.47 percent, or nearly six times the level considered legally drunk in Texas, police detective Robert Turner in Lake Jackson, Texas, told the Houston Chronicle. 
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PARIS: French police were Thursday investigating claims that a son of Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi beat a woman in a Paris hotel earlier in the week. The Libyan embassy was asked to step in after scuffles in two separate luxury hotels, during which 
