Grouchy is hosting a new video contribution. If you're not familiar with him he created several wonderful videos ("Die, Terrorists, Die", "Taliban Bodies") a few years ago saluting our troops. He's also hosting similar videos such as this one. Great stuff!
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Great - as always - a top shelf production! Thx Dar!
GlobeTel Communications Corp. has introduced a new genre of air craft dubbed Stratellite, by Sanswire, its wholly owned subsidiary. It is not a balloon or a blimp. It is a high-altitude airship designed to provide a stationary platform situated in the stratosphere, from which it will be able to transmit wireless communications services presently transmitted from cell towers and satellites.
The craft is powered by solar powered electrical engines. The outer envelope is covered in film photovoltaic units.
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04/18/2005 8:29:12 AM ||
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Wouldn't it be cool if it were shaped like a giant pig with little wings?
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I saw a brief segment about this on the news over the weekend. It's really interesting but it seems the biggest problem is how to get the thing up to 65,000 feet without the winds at lower altitudes tearing it appart. Frank, I don't think your SE5A will get to this altitude.
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Why aren't they doing it the same way you do with the high altitude weather ballons? Partial inflation so they can take the stresses - the gases will expand at altitude anyway - and hold off on full inflation until past the jet stream. If they haven't figured out how to get them aloft, then this is a wank-fest, lol!
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This smells a little bit like the Sky Station International Inc. spiel. Is Al Haig Jr. or Martine Rothblatt (formerly known as Martin) or Richard Butler on board?
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DOD has been investingating potential uses of HAA of late. This has the smell of a placeholder until they can demo something to any of a variety of potential backers / buyers.
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Hmmm .... Sanswire is a small company that went public by a reverse merger into an existing shell. It's in the process of being bought by Global Tel Corp.
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The news article didn't say how it is built but at 245 feet long, 145 feet wide and 87 feet tall it's pretty dang big. Even at partial inflation something with that much surface area will have a lot of stress on it from high winds. One thing that was suggested was sending an aircraft ahead of it to monitor wind speed and direction so the safest course could be plotted. It's not impossible to do.
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Hundreds of people on the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean have fled their homes because of a volcanic eruption. At least 17 people were killed when Mount Karthala spewed ash and flung boulders of molten lava down its slopes. Some of them died when they inhaled noxious gases. Reports from the islands, which are situated off the coast of east Africa, say the area around the mountain is in total darkness with ash and gritty rain falling. The volcano last erupted in 1991 and no one was injured, but boulders were hurled for several kilometres.
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It never occurred to an election candidate in Tabuk that he would be forced to withdraw from the April 21 municipal election race because of his campaign advertisement and subsequent phone harassment, Al-Madinah reported. The candidate had advertised with his photo and his agenda along with his mobile number. Ever since he placed the ad he was receiving phone calls from local Tabuk women admiring his looks. This made his wife very jealous and upset and she forced him to withdraw from the race.
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RIYADH: A Saudi man was beheaded by the sword on Sunday in the kingdom's eastern province after he was convicted of murdering two Indians and a Pakistani, the Interior Ministry said. Abdul Rahman bin Sultan bin Daifallah al-Otaibi was convicted of robbing and killing Pakistani Muhammad Irshad and Indians Senior Mayo and Tido Shankar, as well as injuring another Indian, said a statement on the official SPA agency. The latest execution takes to 38 the number of beheadings announced by Saudi authorities so far this year, more than the number of executions for the whole of 2004.
Still no holy men, though...
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good to go.
...dogleg right, w/- Callaway's new Fusion chop wedge.
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Roses are red
Olives are green
Daddy likes little boys
And he's oh so mean!
-Pliny the Younger
I'm curious why NASA IR tech is getting so much credit. Wavelength variation and filtering for document evidence study is old hat at the FBI. Hell, CSI does it every other week. Odd why simple IR was not tried on unreadable docs before now. Is this a case of soft-science academics having control and an unwillingness to use outside help - or keep up with scientific & tech advances - for more than a century?
Something's not quite right about this, if you think about it.
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I think it's more a matter of them finally getting around to these documents. I remember seeing references to this technique being used on the Dead Sea scrolls a decade ago.
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Lol - you're prolly right. "Oxford's classicists" are so very very busy, I'm sure, heh. So many teas and luncheons, so little time...
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Very busy indeed. This mentions:
"One article, âDead Sea Scrolls Come to Life in Infrared,â (1987) discusses the then new technologies that helped make the scrolls more accessible. âScientists at the Rochester Institute of Technology have found a way to decipher unreadable fragments⦠Under infrared light, the original writing is revealedâand even when it isnât, a computer can often fill in whatâs missing. RIT is storing the reconstructed images on CD-ROM disks for remote retrieval."
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Odd why simple IR was not tried on unreadable docs before now. I thought that as well. A possible answer is once they are scanned and digitized the software guys take over with their programs that try and piece together the fragments - Its like a jigsaw puzzle with most of the pieces missing. The average classist will know buggerall about software.
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#1
Mexico's a basket case, and their toxic mix of corruption, economic incompetence, narco-politics and oligarchy will sooner or later cause that country to blow up.
In the meantime, our southern border provides the perfect opportunity for Al Qaeda to infiltrate the US and pull off a series of mass slaughters in public places such as malls, schools, sporting events etc.
It's long past time we got serious about protecting the border. Mark my words: AQ will hit us on our home ground within the next 12-18 months using infiltrators hidden among the many thousands of illegals crossing the border each week. This isssue is huge and it may well determine the outcome of the 2008 election.
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This isssue is huge and it may well determine the outcome of the 2008 election.
It's a huge issue all right, but none of our politicians is taking it seriously. The only way that action might, MIGHT, be taken is if a number of Americans killed on home soil can be clearly attributed to terrorist activity.
#4
We ned to work out some sort of land for people deal with Mexico. If they want to send us their people, we get some of their land. Within 10 years we will have annexed the place.
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04/18/2005 9:51 Comments ||
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The only solution, long-term, is the one that Mexico's corrupt and incompetent political class will never achieve: give Mexican workers decent skills and real opportunities in a liberalized, growing economy.
Fox is simply exporting his economic and political failure. Bush surely knows the game but is apparently too wary of leaning on pro-Republican business owners who welcome cheap, easily exploitable labor. The biggest victims of this corrupt bargain are working class families in Mexican towns that have lost all their able-bodied males to shitty, illegal jobs in El Norte, and working class families in the US that see downward pressure on wages due to illegal competition.
This is a spectacular failure of our political class. Sooner or later, the voters will demand an end to the farce.
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Timeout. Let's get one thing clear: Immigration is not a Pub or Donk game - both are equally complicit in stonewalling enforcement of the law. It's not pro-Republicans who are doing it - it's BOTH. Stop dropping this bag of turds on the Pub doorstep.
I'll bet a shitload of money that the Democraps own just as many businesses and employ just as many illegals as the Pubs.
The failure here is human greed - and knows no party bounds. I'll bet you could count the number of Senators who actually want what you want (simple enforcement of immigration law) on one hand - and congress member on you fingers and toes.
Money talks and bullshit walks is what's going on here.
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Calma te, .com. I don't let either party off the hook. Obviously, our political class is eager for hispanic votes in those battleground southwestern states that in all likelihood will determine the outcome in 2008. Neither party shows any real focus, let alone intelligence and courage, on this issue, partly because almost no one outside the southwestern region bothers to notice it or try to understand hispanics and their anglo neighbors on their own terms.
But of course I focus on Bush first because he of all politicians should understand this issue. When he was elected, everyone thought that this spanish-speaking (mas o meno) Texas governor would at least address the issue, if not come up with some kind of workable solution. Bush used this perception to increase his party's share of the hispanic vote very substantially in south Texas and elsewhere in the region.
What are the results? Bush the Mexico Hand has let the issue languish. Fox is running rampant. The problem is arguably worse than before Bush took office, if only because Mexican instability is worsening and AQ is starting to figure out the opportunity.
Do the Dems bear some blame? Of course. But the buck stops with the president. Sorry, but the burden of solving this rests with the man in the Oval Office, not Teddy K or Byrd or Pelosi or the other dwarves on the hill.
Fuck. NO US Preident has enforced the law in my lifetime, but you slam Bush. Okay. Fine. I hear you. You're playing the meme of evil Pub Business. You should know better.
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Lex, you're off-base. In my personal experience, businesses are generally apolitical: they will support any politican that will help them, and hedge their bets as well.
Another comment based on experience: 'immigration' in Texas is viewed differently than in the rest of the Southwest. Then again, they've long had a mixed culture, plus they're drawing from a different part of Mexico as well.
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If a Democratic candidate were willing to tighten the borders and crack down on illegals, why would he or she not deserve an Arizona minuteman's vote instead of a Republican who will not address the problem?
Why are you so eager to let Bush off the hook on this? It was Bush who told us that his relationship with Fox and his knowledge of Mexico would bring results. Of course the WOT intervened, but my point here is that this is indeed a front in the war. Bush needs to get serious about it, and fast.
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Pappy, I live in Texas. It seems like half the male adult population of Guanajuato lives in my city. I can imagine the devastation that this sham solution has wrought on that beautiful, now depopulated, Mexican hill town.
As for my fellow Texans, the biggest hostility to the illegals comes from legal Mexican immigrants whose wages are being crushed by the illegals. The status quo is a failure.
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Can we dispense with the political blame game BS? Remember two things: 1)The problem exists far beyond border states; and 2) The failure of our govenment to act affirmatively crosses all party and jurisdictional lines. The issue should be be high on the national agenda for a variety of reasons. To date, it is not. People who enjoy the benefits of the status quo could care less, those of us who experience the multiple problems of uncontrolled illegal immigration are po'd. The simple truth is that this problem is huge and being largely ignored by our government. Whether it be the "pubs" or "donks" somebody has to deal with this sooner rather than later.
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Go ahead and "dispense with blame" if it makes you feel better. But if you care about preserving Republican control of the White House in 2008, then you'd better tell your party leaders to get serious about this issue, and fast, because it's far more likely than not that the Dems will grab it and tip Colorado, NM, NV and maybe even Arizona into their column. They've already shown their strength in Colorado, and if they get the lion's share of the anti-illegal immigration vote, then they'll have a lock in that state and its 9 electoral college votes in 2008.
If Texas comes into play, then the Republican candidate in 2008 will have an uphill battle, to say the least. Do you really think that Hillary and her advisers won't figure this out?
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lex - I am not eager to let anyone off the hook. Don't be disingenuous - you picked Bush out as Pres and laid at his feet quoting Harry. You ignored our 535 legislators and everyone else who has ever served as Pres or in the US Congress and then ,in a fit of meme blindness, you specifically said:
"pro-Republican business owners who welcome cheap, easily exploitable labor"
That's a meme. A BULSHIT meme. And beneath your analytical bent.
BTW, I'm a native Texan and know the place well. I was a poor boy and grew up in a "Mexican" neighborhood where the knife was King.
I know Bush knows what all of the border state Governors know: the citrus, fruit, and vegetable industries, just as an example, would fail overnight were it not for illegals. There would have to be a transition of some sort if you wanted your OJ or your salad - or any number of other goodies on your dinner table. We could import food, of course. We haven't even touched on the hundreds of other businesses which would suffer.
I know and understand the danger our open borders represent as well as you do. I know it has to be done for our security. How is the magic. Knee-jerking won't work. I know you know all this. Why, pray-tell are you being self-righteous about your view, as if none of what I've just said is true? Let's reason. First, be reasonable.
Credit where due. Blame where due.
How far back would you like to go to start this? Did it all just spring up out of the ground on 9/11? No. So where do we begin, since blame appears to be all you're interested in?
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Well, we have no difference then, we're just pissed about the same facts: our Govt is moving too damned slow on a critical issue of national security.
And yes - we should beat the crap out of the lot of them for it.
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I do think that this issue will explode on the national political scene by 2008, based on my reading of the electoral equation: Colorado is already a large swing state; new Mexico is a small swing state. Nevada may be in play, as well as Arizona. All of these states are growing rapidly and will have even more EC votes in 2008 than they had in 2004 (9 for CO and 5 each for AZ, NM, NV).
The swing voters are the hispanics and the minutemen, and neither party seems to understand or appreciate these groups' concerns.
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Either this get de-politicized - and I don't know how to do that, or we find ways to provide cover for our politicians so they will get with it.
To remove the political concerns, and put some backbone in our politicians... on the combative side I see two:
1) Publicizing the way that legalized ex-Mexicans, now Americans (I refuse to hyphenate, lol!), feel about these queue-jumpers who've tainted their hard-won legal efforts would be a good start. I'm sure funding for rational immigration can be found to put their message out there.
2) Publicly excoriating the idiot orgs, such as La Raza, who have agendas that would scare the living shit out of Joe Average - if he knew what they were espousing and brow-beating the Pols with.
These might give them some of the coverage they "need" to come out from under the rocks and start doing something.
Bush did have some sort of transitional plan - which was ripped to shreds by the two extremes before I even knew the details and could work out the ramifications. As far as I know, it's dead - and no one else has had the balls to even whisper anything but extreme positions, according to whichever position pleases their base of support.
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Reform in Mexico?
Just google the Mexican Constitution. There is no way to reform within that system. Oh, and note well the xenophobic declarations in it. The whole dirty house has to come down, before any real reform occurs. That means you either sit on your ass and let the powers to be in Mexico virtually annex great sections of the US or you annex Mexico .
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.com, the way to start a rational solution is first to handle the existing situation - i.e.: shut the border down. Then negotiate what is best for America, not Mexico. If workers are needed, and they promise to return home, then institute a secure worker program, but stop the flood now, then work on a solution
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I agree totally that the legal immigrants who have been harmed by illegal competitors should be the spokesmen for reform. Great idea.
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Frank - I refer you to #14. You're talking suicide for the economies of all border states - and I'm only barely exaggerating. It has to be a planned process that leads to satisfying both requirements.
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I strongly disagree, PD - you think if the next wave didn't arrive that all would fail? You have to start from scratch IMNSHO, and if Mexico won't quit encouraging the flood, then you're not negotiating, you're simply asking to get a reacharound.
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Close the border and figure out a solution. Meanwhile to calm .com fears of economic hardship, we don't let the current illegals out, until the crops in.
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Effectively police the border but don't forget the other end of the equation - US citizens who have no qualms about hiring illegals. We need to make it too risky for people and businesses to knowingly employ illegals in the US. If enforcement is effective and the penalties for violating the law are high enough to deter, the various players involved will have some sort of incentive to work through a planned process. As things stand they really don't. It would be difficult and painful perhaps, but the sky won't fall because of it.
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Polipundit has a breakdown of Jon Kyl's policy paper called âNecessary Conditions for Immigration Reforms (R-AZ) (from the Senate Republican Policy Committee)
see the Polipundit link for the executive summary and the link to the paper. Kyl gets it
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So far, no one, including Kyl "gets it" about the economic ramifications - that is at the heart of the matter for the businesses who donate to the politicians.
a quickie imaginary scenario...
Okay, so the border is closed, aliens are deported by the trainload and Fornicalia, which relies very heavily upon illegals, has its produce rot in the fields - you're not going to give up your civil engineer job to pick it, are you? No one else, in sufficient numbers, will either. It rots. And it won't be replanted if there's no work force come next cycle - the farmer lives by the skin of his teeth, already.
Initially, it saves a ton of tax money that used to go for social services the illegals used.
Would Willy Brown up in Sacramento cut your taxes? Lol!
Would you have food to eat? How about Minnesota and Wisconsin and the Dakotas, not known for growing enough food locally to feed their fly populations, much less the humans?
Wouldn't the people in the agri-business, legal people, be devastated and suddenly require more social services to survive?
I haven't even begun to tally what's on the other side of the equation, but this is a start.
BTW, never needed a reach around cuz no one's ever had my ass, lol!
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BTW, I'm not sure how I got stuck playing LH on this thread, lol! I'm done. The facts are hardcore and a knee-jerk would be a disaster - and in this case, the politicians get it. It's their cowardice for not working us out of this fix that's criminal, and I'm including Fox and his fuckwit predecessors.
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#19: Arizona does not have five EVs; we have ten, about as many as WI, TN, or IN. We have always voted R in presidential elections (unless a 3-way split like in 1996), but that could change (a Democrat is Governor right now, and the Legislature was split a few years back). A Democrat that was serious about border control (and was not lying: i.e., had a voting record to back it up) could indeed beat an open-borders Republican. You win AZ and CO and you don't need Ohio.
#30: "How about Minnesota and Wisconsin and the Dakotas, not known for growing enough food locally..."
Huh? I'm not sure about the Dakotas, but MN and WI are huge farming states. Not citrus, of course, but wheat, corn, dairy...
But that's a minor point. I would agree with your major point that timing would be important. However, making the border impermeable would not get rid of the millions of illegals alreay here. If we said that in 2005 the border will be shut, in 2006 illegals are not eligible for any benefits, then in 2007, we fine employers who hire them, that gives a little time to adjust. Yes, food prices would go up and food stamp expendiatures would increase, but welfare and (espeically) medical expenses would drop. Social Security and Medicare would receive more revenue. Those business that rely on illegals would have incentives to automate more. Teen unemployment would drop (especially summer), and maybe we could get Black 16-21 unemployment down a tad.
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It would not be difficult at all for a Democrat to reconcile border control with support for working people. In fact, the two go hand in hand: it's contractors, carpenters, journeymen etc who are crushed by cheap illegal labor. Arizona, NM and Colorado are there for the taking by any intelligent national politician who cares about this issue.
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Utah will never go blue but there's a good chance that a border-control Dem could sweep the other southwest mountain states. Assuming Texas and Calif remain red and blue respectively, a sweep of CO-NM-AZ-NV would give at least-- assuming the EV totals are not increased prior to 2008-- 29 electoral votes to the border-control candidate.
That's a large enough prize for any ambitious pol. Someone will figure it out.
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My exceedingly lovely wife is of Hispanic heritage, though her family has lived here in Texas for 200 years.
Her cousin Luis, a highly skilled tile-layer with 20 years experience, is now doing yard work for $7/hour instead of three times that in his chosen trade. The reason? Illegals will do the skilled (and back-breaking) tile work for even less than Luis gets for raking leaves and mowing grass. He refers to illegals as "comancheros" btw.
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.com, sorry it doesn't wash. Excluding illegals will not cause the economy to collapse or fields to lie fallow.
If there is insufficient labor for these tasks, the demand can be met by a legal, coherent, responsible process of immigration. Why isn't this happening now? The reason is that illegals are not just taking jobs that Americans don't want. If they were, the legal green card process would be adequate to meet the demand. OTOH, the voters would not stand for a legal process that brings in cheap labor to put Americans out of work. Illegal labor is a way to have cheap labor without the political consequences, until someone wises up what is really happening.
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The end result of this will be a huge resurgence of union membership in this country, as unions drop their multi-cult propaganda stance and begin fighting illegal immigration. We may even see this in hard-core right-to-work states like Texas. The political left would seem to be doomed as the current war progresses, but the short-sighted and ruthless Republican policy of flooding the country with cheap labor could save the Dhimmicrats from the oblivion they have done so much to deserve.
Another result, as Fox and his corrupt gang lose their safety valve, will be a revolution in Mexico. Just who might come out on top is anyone's guess, but a giant-sized version of Castroism is not impossible.
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C'mon - are you saying the entire US Congress doesn't know what's going on? Sure they do. WE know, why wouldn't they? They just won't budge until they have ample ass coverage.
The Third Rail of politics isn't Social Security, it's JOBS. When the pols figure out how to take this on without losing jobs, then they will be ready. I used to know many TexMex guys, from truck drivers to programmers - and they do indeed suffer greater that whites when the job market's tight. Cheap labor would certainly be another cause in certain market segments.
Hmmm. Odd that, up there in Lubbock - after having written before regards temporary / day laborers IIRC, you would say that it wouldn't be a devastating blow to many businesses if done wholesale and suddenly. The number of different businesses that would be hit, from agriculture to construction, would very suddenly convulse... and I believe your reference to this had to do with construction. It was a long time ago, so I could be mistaken. The new houses, pre-sold at X price, with cheap labor built into the price, would put some / many builders out of business. The crops would, indeed, rot in the fields.
There are magnifiers in the economy - which work in reverse when the money flow slows due to job losses... I'm afraid the hit would be bigger than anyone wants to admit, and I can't figure out why no one's willing to admit it.
S'okay. We can differ. We know why the changes aren't coming without some kind of political cover. I've given a couple of ideas - one of which you confirmed, to a degree. The Minutemen will provide a third: shame.
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Congress is certainly aware of this.
I didn't say otherwise. My point was that nobody needs illegals to fill the jobs that Americans won't take, so that is not the reason for this surrender of national sovereignty.
It is the voters who do not seem to understand the real nature of the problem.
Incidentally, a very high percentage of the agricultural field workers in this area are citizens or legal aliens. The illegals are taking the construction and light industrial jobs that used to go exclusively to those with a right to be here.
Businesses that cannot survive without cheap labor will take the hits, no doubt about it. Why shouldn't they? They are breaking the law, unenforced though it is, and undermining national security. Losing profitability is the very least that should happen to them.
As some businesses lose, others will take up the slack if the demand exists---and it will. Costs will rise in some areas, and fall in others. Some businesses will benefit as more Americans get back to work at higher wages, and fewer billions are sent or carried back to Mexico. The housing market is a prime examples, costs are lower with illegal labor, but illegals do not buy homes here.
That is the nature of free enterprise.
I am also afraid of a political disaster if the Dhims and the McCainists come out swinging on this issue in '08. Right now, the left-conformist mantra is that all opposition to immigration, legal and otherwise, is "racism" and therefore comprehensively proscribed. Union propagandists have the skill and the incentive to reverse this, however, and the lefty masses will unquestioningly accept the voice of authority even if it contradicts decades of indoctrination.
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One thing the Minutemen have done is make it much harder for the libs to hijack this issue completely during the next few years.
The MSM have unwittingly helped this by going out of their way to reflexively characterize the Minutemen as gun-crazed wing-nut vigilante types, thereby ensuring some awareness that this is a cause of the political right.
#41
A resurgence of the Democratic Party would first require a massive purge of left-wing ideologues and their media allies. Illegal immigration could well be the issue that brings this about, driving a wedge between labor and classical liberals on the one hand, and grievance group multi-cultists and foreign influenced subversives on the other.
The latter will never accept restrictions on immigration, even if they are convinced that the hated Republicans actually profit from it. What they want is the greatest power for themselves and, like their role models Hitler and Stalin, they will do literally anything to advance that purpose. They have already struck a de facto alliance with terrorists and Castroites to accomplish this, a similar alliance with the Bush wing of the GOP is not unthinkable.
The Whites:
Organized labor (except public employees)
Residual Dem moderates (Scoop Jackson/Sam Rayburn diehards)
Consumer products corporations (major Dem supporters in recent years)
Classical liberals (John Glenn, etc.)
Neo-populists
The Reds:
Multi-cult academics
Public employee unions
Media conformists and celebrity authorities
Peace hypocrites
Religious left
Terrorist sympathizers (CAIR etc.)
Single issue pressure groups (gay marriage, etc.)
Grievance group collectivists and shake-down artists.
#44
The big company-owned businesses will survive, no sweat, but the little guys, from the lumber yards to the farms, will take the hit.
Not only that, but yeah -- they're evil criminals. Grandpappy started them on the road to ruin when he opened up that lower 40 back in the 30's coming out of the depression, but fuck 'em - send 'em all to Leavenworth. No, wait, just line 'em up and shoot 'em.
Hell yeah, shut the fucking borders. Tight. Tonight. And crush everyone who ever hired an illegal like a bug. Fucking traitors. It's the least that should happen to 'em.
#45
lol PD - hyperbole contest? We had another Suburban full of illegals crash 3 other innocent vehicles in BP pursuit this week...bet the suburban was stolen too... happens too f*&king often on highways 8 and 5
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Hey - no one's interested in doing it a planned or phased way, so fuck it -- and them. Kill 'em all. Pretty obvious that Farmer Brown's worse than the dope dealer and utterly responsible for the economic whirlpool that now, after about 200 fucking years of lax legislation and enforcement, becomes politically hot, front burner, a big deal. It's his fault he didn't see it coming, right?
#47
we agree to disagree and reassess in...say, one year?
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I'd like to light a fire under 537 asses - all equally negligent: The Leg, Prez, & VP - to come up with a real solution, make it law, and execute it, without exceptions. I just think it should involve some common sense and proportion. BTW, fuck Fox with a pitchfork - he deserves no say or influence whatsoever - nor do the insane Socialist orgs that pander to illegals.
A year? Hmmm. If the Minuteman thing continues and spreads, and I hope it does - like wildfire, and one or two other things come into play when the press jumps on the blame game bandwagon (which they will), then you're probably about right on the money in timeframe.
Y'know, I think I'm starting to get the hang of this Well Reasoned Discourse shit, heh.
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Stf*b - Yep - I encounter that often enough to make me scream out loud. Neighbors haven't complained, yet, but that's not saying they don't have a right to. Happens with both IE and Firefox.
I now copy everything into the paste buffer before hitting Submit. Drives me crazy. BTW, if you use IE and need / want a spell checker, go here - it's free, heh. Just right-click in the textbox and choose Check Spelling. Saves to a custom dictionary and the whole 9 yards. Way cool.
Sorry about your post. You've got 22 minutes (by my clock, anyway) if you want to try again, heh.
political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky said the Kremlin fears an uprising such as Ukraine's Orange Revolution last year. "This [Nashi] is an organization of young fighters, a preventive measure against a possible Orange Revolution in Russia," Piontkovsky said. He said a revolution was unlikely to happen but that the authorities were scared and acting "hysterically."
There is no real opposition to speak of, but that does not indicate that Putin's government is secure. It ain't. He's a puppet whose only independent source of power is $50/bbl oil. Were oil to fall in price, hsi ramshackle government would lose all authority and Putin would be overthrown by his FSB minders shortly thereafter.
A Melbourne businessman has paid for a series of television advertisements featuring World War II veterans condemning the Federal Government for the way it has handled negotiations with East Timor over the oil and gas rights in the Timor Sea.
The advertisements will air in the lead-up to Anzac Day but the Returned and Services League (RSL) says the campaign has misappropriated the Anzac spirit.
The ads, paid for by Melbourne businessman Ian Melrose, feature WWII veterans who served in East Timor and are angry at the Federal Government's handling of negotiations with East Timor.
They makes comments such as: "That's not the Anzac spirit" and "John Howard, I'd rather you didn't come to my Anzac parade".
Paddy Kenneally, 89, served with an Australian unit in East Timor in 1942 and features in the advertisements.
He says the help the East Timorese gave Australian soldiers in World War II is being ignored in the Timor Sea negotiations.
"Quite frankly, I and all the members of the unit believe that if we hadn't been assisted by the Timorese and the Portuguese at that time, we wouldn't have lasted 10 weeks in the mountains," Mr Kenneally said.
"They fed us, they sheltered us, they guided us, they carried the wounded."
'Fair go'
Mr Kenneally supports the view of the East Timorese Government that it is being denied its rightful share of billions of dollars in future oil and gas revenue.
East Timor says Australia's position that the sea boundary between the two nations exists on the continental shelf rather than halfway between the two nations is incorrect.
The Australian Government has also faced criticism for withdrawing recognition of the international court to avoid facing a ruling on the disputed boundary.
Mr Kenneally says the advertisements are airing around Anzac Day to remind the Government that it is disregarding the Anzac spirit.
"We're always boasting about a fair go and now we are depriving the poorest country and one of the newest countries in the world of the only resource they have," he said.
"Do you think the blokes who fought in World War I and World War II would agree with kicking a defenceless person when they're down?"
Offensive
The RSL's national president, Bill Crews, says his organisation does not support the adds and says some veterans would justifiably find them offensive.
"They should not, in my view and I'm sure in the view of the members of the RSL, use the Anzac spirit as the basis for criticising the Government on this particular issue," he said.
"The danger that most veterans would see is that we are misappropriating the Anzac spirit for this particular cause."
Prime Minister John Howard says Australia is negotiating a "fair" deal with East Timor over oil and gas rights in the Timor Sea.
Mr Howard says Australia has "bent over backwards" to accommodate the East Timorese, and made several concessions in the first round of talks.
"The stance taken by the Australian Government is fair and considerate and decent, but it is also a stance that looks after the interests of the Australian people, which is my first responsibility," he said.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says negotiations over resources in the Timor Sea are ongoing and "third parties" making "emotional but incorrect statements" will not help anyone.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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THE UN has called on the Australian Government to find a humanitarian solution to deal with the remaining asylum seekers detained on the Pacific island of Nauru. The Federal Government had an obligation to find a solution for the 54 asylum seekers on Nauru, almost all of whom have been denied refugee status but refuse to return to their homelands, Neill Wright, the regional representative for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said.
Los of uninhabited islands in the Pacific. Offer them a choice.
Mr Wright spent several days on Nauru last week and said he was concerned about the welfare of the asylum seekers held under the Government's Pacific solution of detaining asylum seekers offshore so they cannot access the Australian legal system. "They are between a shark rock and a coral reef hard place," he told ABC radio.
"They don't feel it's safe to go back to their own country and yet they have not been determined to be persons in need of international protection - in other words, refugees.
"As a result they are stuck in the offshore processing centre where they have been for the last three and a half years.
"I think there's a responsibility taken on by the Australian Government to find solutions for these people.
"They have been successful in a large part of the caseload but they've now got the remaining 54 who do need a solution."
"What I'm saying is not as a refugee advocate from the UNHCR, but as a humanitarian advocate: Let's try and find a solution for them that means that they won't spend the next three and a half years on this island in the Pacific."
Okay, how many will you personally sponsor in your own home? Oh right, you want someone else to take on the heavy lifting.
More than 1200 asylum seekers have been detained on Nauru since 2001, with around 700 resettling to other countries and about 470 returning to their native countries.
Mr Wright said the asylum seekers on Nauru were well treated, but he had concerns about their mental health. "In most cases it's not good for their mental health to be there - particularly in the case of women and children, who are particularly vulnerable," he said. "It's also not a place I feel, where although they receive basic education, children can be brought up for any length of time."
Meanwhile, Labor senator Kerry O'Brien visited the immigration detention facility on Christmas Island today and said the trip reinforced the Opposition view that children should be exempt from immigration detention. He said 35 Vietnamese nationals, including nine children, were detained at the centre and had been locked up for almost two years. "It's time the Government heeded Labor's call and stopped punishing children for their parents' decision to seek asylum in Australia," Senator O'Brien said.
So they can go back to Vietnam.
Meanwhile, Democrats senator Andrew Bartlett will visit the Baxter facility in South Australia tomorrow to scrutinise isolation cells in which Australian resident Cornelia Rau was held when she was wrongly locked up as an illegal immigrant.
Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said there had already been voluntary returns to Iraq and Afghanistan and those remaining had declined to follow this step. "These people have all been assessed at least twice and 45 of them three times, and found not to be in need of protection," Senator Vanstone said. "They could end their time on Nauru by agreeing to return voluntarily.
"Importantly, the UNHCR itself has found eight people within its current caseload on Nauru not to be in need of protection."
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Big mistake to send them to a place with beaches and the weather is nice with free room and board. Should have picked somewhere like Kerguelen or South Georgia and they would have been long gone since they can leave anytime they like, expenses paid.
Four people have been indicted on murder charges in the death of Italian financier Roberto Calvi, a banker with close ties to the Vatican who was found hanging under a bridge in London in 1982, a defense attorney said. Businessman Flavio Carboni;
Ahah! The ruthless and corrupt businessman! I saw this on ABC... Or was it NBC?... Or CBS?... Or Fox... Or UPN... Or all of them...
his ex-girlfriend Manuela Kleinszig,
Uhuh. Cherchez la femme. A platinum blonde who wears expensive gowns that look a lot like what she'd sleep in, if she slept in anything, and carries a cigarette holder in her hand and a rod in her Gucci purse...
and two men with alleged ties to the Mafia, Giuseppe "Pippo" Calo
Don Pippo, of course...
and Ernesto Diotallevi,
That'd be Big Ernie, the muscle...
will stand trial in October, Carboni's mouthpiece lawyer said Monday. Calvi was dubbed "God's banker" because of his ties with the Vatican's bank and its former top official, the American Archbishop Paul C. Marcinkus. Calvi's body was found under a bridge in London on June 18, 1982, his suit pockets stuffed with rocks and bricks, along with a falsified passport and thousands of dollars worth of various currencies, a fish stuffed down his throat, and a look of horror on his face.
"Cardinal Linguini! Send in my consigliere!"
"Yes, Your Holiness!"
"Then go for a walk!"
The discovery came days after the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, where he was president and in which the Vatican's bank held a significant stake. The collapse was Italy's biggest postwar banking scandal. Banco Ambrosiano fell apart following the disappearance of $1.3 billion.
Say that slowly: "the disappearance of $1.3 billion..." That's a letter "b", y'know, the equivalent of the annual budget of a small nation or smaller federal agency...
The Vatican's bank agreed to pay $250 million to the Italian bank's creditors, but denied any wrongdoing.
"Nope. Wudn't us. It wuz him. And he's dead now."
Marcinkus also denied wrongdoing.
"Wudn't me, neither! You can search me, if you want!"
In July 2003, Italian prosecutors issued a report concluding that Calvi did not commit suicide, but was killed.
Yeah. Fairly elaborate for a suicide. Especially the fish stuffed in his mouth...
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PARIS, April 18 (AFP) - Infighting over the EU constitution erupted in the French government Monday, amid clear signals that Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin will lose his job if opponents of the text win a referendum next month as polls currently predict. Tensions over the continuing failure of the government's "yes" campaign spilled over at a weekly ministerial breakfast meeting with what officials described as a "very violent argument" between Raffarin and Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin. Raffarin was reportedly furious with remarks made by Villepin in a radio interview Sunday that were openly critical of the way the government has handled the run-up to the May 29 vote and hinted at the prime minister's approaching replacement.
More than 15 opinion polls over the last month have shown that the "no" camp will win the referendum on the European constitution with a majority of between 51 and 55 percent - an outcome which would have enormous repercussions inside both France and the European Union.
According to an official who witnessed the incident at the prime minister's residence Monday morning, Villepin told Raffarin that what he had said the day before had been under orders - in other words, that his message had been authorised by President Jacques Chirac. Villepin - a staunch Chirac loyalist - held a private meeting with the president early Sunday, before telling Europe 1 radio that there will be a change of political direction after the May vote, whichever side wins. "You don't have to have second sight. You just have to look around. We will need policies that are much more determined, bolder and more socially-conscious ... in order to take into account the feelings, aspirations and frustrations which are being expressed," Villepin said.
The interior minister, who made his name as foreign minister in the run-up to the Iraq war, also dropped the latest in a series of hints that he would himself like to take over from Raffarin as prime minister - even though he has never once stood for elected office. "All one's life one prepares to take on certain tasks, which are sometimes difficult or unpredictable ... After that it is destiny - it is those above us who decide," he said.
Chirac said during a television debate last Thursday that he will not personally resign if the constitution is rejected by the electorate, but the dismissal of a prime minister is the standard way for a French president to extricate himself from political difficulties. The opposition Socialist Party (PS) revelled in the ministerial squabbling Monday, with spokeswoman Annick Lepetit saying that "the government evidently no longer trusts itself." Charles Pasqua, a former Gaullist interior minister and leading campaigner against the constitution, said Villepin's remarks were "the beginning of an answer to the question: what happens if the 'no' wins?" Raffarin took office in 2002 with the reputation of an economic liberal and has succeeded in passing reforms of the pension and social security systems, but his popularity ratings are among the lowest ever recorded for a prime minister. The latest, for a Sunday newspaper, put him at 29 percent.
Hopes that Chirac could revitalise the fortunes of the "yes" camp in last week's two-hour appearance before a group of 80 young people have come to nothing, with 53 percent of the public still intending to vote against the constitution, according to a poll in Liberation newspaper Monday. The biggest growth in support for the "no" vote has been on the political left, with the PS now evenly split between the two camps. By contrast voters for Chirac's ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) are largely in favour of the constitution. Rejection of the constitution is seen as the by-product of a widespread social malaise in France, feeding on high unemployment, fears of competition from foreign low-cost economies, and a chronic mistrust of the political elites in Paris.
Drawn up by former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the constitution is meant to simplify decision-making in the expanding European bloc but it must first be adopted by all 25 member states. A rejection in so important a country as France would throw the whole process into confusion. Inside France a "no" vote would gravely undermine the standing of Chirac's government. But it would also set off a bitter internal war among the Socialists, whose leadership is campaigning in favour of the constitution.
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Ah, Dominique. Making lots of friends, as per usual.
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This vain and comic little popinjay always makes me laugh: "All one's life one prepares to take on certain tasks ... After that it is destiny - it is those above us who decide"
I pity the French, to be ruled and patronized by such arrogant buffoons
A pro-European Union candidate was elected president of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state on Sunday, voted into office by Turkish Cypriots frustrated by decades of international isolation and a stagnant economy. Mehmet Ali Talat's victory signaled the end of the rule of Rauf Denktash, the hard-liner who has dominated the enclave's politics for three decades. Talat won 56 percent of the vote for president of the self-declared Turkish Cypriot state, while his main rival, Dervis Eroglu, polled just 23 percent, according to official results with all of the ballot boxes counted.
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His point is clearly made - and I like the UCLU, but I'd work on a better def for the acronym...
The Minutemen, and the spread of the idea - which is awesome, will put the spotlight on the Govt, in people's minds, whether the MSM covers it or not. We'll know out here in the blogosphere - and we'll eventually erode the MSM's willful moonbat blindness. They're not marching in perfect lockstep on many fronts, anymore - Iraq as an example, and some are beginning to see the writing on the wall and breaking rank.
Common sense and security will prevail, eventually - and The Minutemen are the lever that will start the ball rolling. *Kudos*
The ACLU is getting desperate to get something on the Minutemen and are trying to provoke incidents now. They pushed one of the Minutemen the other night trying to get him to push back. Didnât work. Then last night they walked up and shined a spotlight right in a Minutemanâs face from six inches or so away. Didnât work that time either. We immediately report these types of contacts with them to the Sheriff to counter any claims they try to make against us. They should be called the UCLU (Un-American Civil Lawsuit Union).
They give us the middle finger every chance they get to try to get us to react. We are still trying to figure out if that is their age or IQ.
ROFL! I'll take what's behind Door #2. :-D
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Dewd! Toke up fer civil libbirdies!
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LOL! That's great! Wearing "Legal Observer" tees while engaging in illegal activity--yup, no hypocrisy here!
In any case, they are helping the Minutemen to some degree by warning illegals away from the border where they patrol. The whole idea is to curtail and stop illegal immigration--thanks for helping in that area, ACLU f*ck tards!
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Now we know why the ACLU is so passionate about lax border security - they're worried about not being able to score some weed.
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BH,
That and being worried about not having a good source of almost-slave labor to do their cooking, yard work, menial work, sex, and babysitting their spawn....
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Beautiful! The glorious examples of the left is the scum of the right. Any non-minutemen affiliated people want to go down south and beat up some hippies?
This is a fascinating, if long, treatment of the HUAC and the 'Hollywood Ten.'
From the Article:
A more balanced view from a participant in the terrible events that began in October 1947 came from Patricia Bosworth, the daughter of Bartley Crum, one of the lawyers for the Unfriendly Ten. Crum was one of only two of the seven lawyers on the Ten's defense team who were not themselves members of the Party. Bosworth says that her father vigorously defended people as long as he possibly could afford it financially, because of his deep allegiance to the principles of the First Amendment. But the experience also made him very wary of the American Communists, because they were not in fact independent individuals but were men under stern Party intellectual discipline. He found them continually deceptive as to their intentions and motives. Crum was repelled by the Communists' "rude, plodding dogmatism, their habit of secrecy," and that included the behavior of the Party lawyers assigned to work with him on the case. It is Bartley Crum's conundrum which summarizes the issue addressed in this paper.
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I think it's noteworthy that through all of these allegations against Tom Delay the bloggers haven't been able to find anything Mr. Delay did that was illegal or unethical. Neither have the Democrats or the MSM. The Democrats on the Ethics Committee have refused to participate in a review of Mr. Delay saying there is no point because of the "stacked deck" of Republicans on the Committee. They want to stand back and throw mud but know there is no substance to the allegations so blame the Republicans when it is in fact themselves who are thwarting any review by the Ethics Committee. Looking at the world through dung colored glasses.
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Actually, the Donks are blocking Ethics Committee hearings because one of their own (name eludes me) has been convicted of a crime. If there were an Ethics Committee hearing, the majority party would make HIS case -- and his expulsion -- the first order of business.
This way the Donks get to make accusations against DeLay while covering for one of their own. Meanwhile, of course, our wonderful "independent" press goes along with them.
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Deacon is on target with the Donks. They refuse to participate and want Delay convicted in the editorial pages and not the ethics committee. The Minority Whip admitted as much on a show this weekend. He said that they were stonewalling the committee because it could not be fair. What is more fair than 50/50 split on a committee? As for DiFi and her comments about changing the rules, I wonder how the Democrats would handle the situation?
I dunno how long it will take for the vision of a common flying future, brewing for at least the last 50 yrs, to take off and become reality, but perhaps NASA's pgm will help. It's unclear how there is any coordination between vehicles - none is indicated I that read - so the magic of highways in the air is still dependent upon pilot skills. The FAA is as much a dinosaur as any Govt agency, so I don't figure there will be much cooperation from that direction, either. Fun to dream about, anyway. I've flown an ultralight - took about 10 minutes to "master" - that's total time on the ground and after liftoff - and it was a scream. To be in something better in terms of performance and directional control, yet as easy to fly, is a rush to consider, heh. Pricey, but the good shit always is.
April 15, 2005: The US has blocked Israel from working on development of components for the new F-35 fighter-bomber, because it is feared these new technologies will be leaked to China. This has happened often in the past, at least according to American intelligence agencies. The Israelis deny everything, but have been helping China with obtaining new military technologies.
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Keep an eye open; there's sure to be spying going on.
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Of course, Israel could help hide those kill switches for us.
Jokes aside I'll add, however, that transferring tech received from the US, gratis (but even if they paid for it), to defend them really really pisses me off. They're not stupid and self-defeating, as are their enemies, so this has never made sense to me. Even given some unmitigated greed factor, I believe that nobody in the Israeli defense industry could transfer the good stuff without Govt knowledge - it's just too small of a group & territory for the Mossad to be fooled for more than a minute. Makes. No. Sense.
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It's how they try to pay for their heavy defense expenses, .com. They did it with the Lavi fighter too ... made mostly with US tech, Congress finally overroad State Dept and killed that one as an Israeli plane for the IDF, but later they xfered the tech to China.
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B@st@ards. They are still our only dependable ally in the Mid East, but this is the pits. If we find, during a war over Taiwan, that Israeli technology helped kill American servicemen, they can kiss their aid package goodbye.
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A dependable ally? A pain in the as client is more like it. I don't know what they've done for us lately ever. But they are a democracy in the ME and a lot of Americans have friends and relatives over there, so they can get away with more shit than the French.
If we find, during a war over Taiwan, that Israeli technology helped kill American servicemen, they can kiss their aid package goodbye.
Tell that to the dead from the U. S. S. Liberty.
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Keep an eye open; there's sure to be spying going on.
Tip: Be real suspicious if there's a recommendation from a 'Jonathan J. Pollard' on a candidate's resume.
Australia will oppose Turkish plans to erect a stone wall as part of controversial roadworks at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Prime Minister John Howard announced the move as he flew out on an overseas trip that includes a visit to Turkey.
Mr Howard says the Australian ambassador will ask Turkish authorities not to build the stone embankment, or at least put the wall on hold. "We are concerned that that construction would significantly alter the appearance of the landing area and that would in our view be very regrettable," he said.
Labor's Anthony Albanese says the roadworks have uncovered bones, and the Government has not done enough to protect the site. "Unfortunately I think the damage is done," he said.
Previously Mr Howard's said roadworks would stop if bones were found. Today he says it is inevitable they will turn up. "That is a completely different thing from allowing any work to be carried out which disturbed existing war cemeteries." But he says any bones found deserve "respectful" treatment.
Prime Minister John Howard says the discovery of bones at the site of roadworks in Gallipoli is an unavoidable consequence of war.
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same here, Ship, but the place does belong to the Turks. I understand the Aussies concern, though.
It's kind of like the old song about Constantinople being changed to Istanbul, it's no boddy's business but the Turk's.
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The Ozzies should not be making an issue of it, especially when it's a no-win. It's the deeds done, not the deed held.
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As much as I love the Australians, they should leave it be. If a memorial cannot be built on the ground where an event happened, especially if it's on foreign soil, then the next best thing is to build it at home where it won't ever be disturbed.
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The civilized thing to do would be to dig up the whole area, one square meter at a time, remove all the bones, and return those that can be positively identified as allied servicemen to their countries of origin.
Just a few years ago, Canadian acheologists uncovered the skeletons of 12 American soldiers who had died in the US invasion of Canada during the War of 1812. Associated artifacts (buttons etc.) provided the determination of date and origin. The remains were sorted by individuals, placed in a dozen rather expensive coffins, wrapped in the Stars and Stripes, and conveyed across the border by an honor guard.
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In the Shinto religion, the return of dead soldiers to the homeland is considered a sacred duty. To this day, there are hundreds of Japanese who volunteer their vacation time to search and dig all over the Pacific and Asia in an effort to recover the remains of Japanese servicemen from World War 2.
At least seven people were killed in clashes between rival political supporters in Togo's capital this weekend, a rights group and party officials said, as fear gripped an edgy city ahead of presidential polls next Sunday. A rights group close to the ruling party said six of that group's supporters were killed and around 100 injured in street fighting in a northern suburb of Lome on Saturday. An opposition leader said one of their members was killed and 55 hurt. Both sides blame each other for provoking the first serious clashes between the rival groups since elections were called to end a political crisis in the West African nation.
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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.
Hundreds of people on the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean have fled their homes because of a volcanic eruption. At least 17 people were killed when Mount Karthala spewed ash and flung boulders of molten lava down its slopes. Some of them died when they inhaled noxious gases. Reports from the islands, which are situated off the coast of east Africa, say the area around the mountain is in total darkness with ash and gritty rain falling. The volcano last erupted in 1991 and no one was injured, but boulders were hurled for several kilometres.
RIYADH: A Saudi man was beheaded by the sword on Sunday in the kingdom's eastern province after he was convicted of murdering two Indians and a Pakistani, the Interior Ministry said. Abdul Rahman bin Sultan bin Daifallah al-Otaibi was convicted of robbing and killing Pakistani Muhammad Irshad and Indians Senior Mayo and Tido Shankar, as well as injuring another Indian, said a statement on the official SPA agency. The latest execution takes to 38 the number of beheadings announced by Saudi authorities so far this year, more than the number of executions for the whole of 2004.
Four people have been indicted on murder charges in the death of Italian financier Roberto Calvi, a banker with close ties to the Vatican who was found hanging under a bridge in London in 1982, a defense attorney said. Businessman Flavio Carboni;
At least seven people were killed in clashes between rival political supporters in Togo's capital this weekend, a rights group and party officials said, as fear gripped an edgy city ahead of presidential polls next Sunday. A rights group close to the ruling party said six of that group's supporters were killed and around 100 injured in street fighting in a northern suburb of Lome on Saturday. An opposition leader said one of their members was killed and 55 hurt. Both sides blame each other for provoking the first serious clashes between the rival groups since elections were called to end a political crisis in the West African nation.
