"Papers? I don't need no stinking papers!"
MONTERREY, Mexico, July 19 (Reuters) - Hurricane Emily churned through the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and was expected to gain power before slamming into the U.S.-Mexico border area. Emily was a Category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph) in the morning but forecasters said it would recover some of its earlier power before hitting the border area on Wednesday morning.
"Strengthening is expected during the next 24 hours and Emily could become a major Category 3 hurricane before landfall," the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Emily is expected to make landfall south of the border, and emergency workers in Tamaulipas state near the Texas border have already begun evacuating people from low-lying areas along the coast.
The models keep saying she's going to turn west. I hope she has been paying attention.
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What I've long suspected from watching local broadcast TV news weather reports: weather stops at the US-Mexico border! It's almost amazing how it could be clear and calm on their maps, just south of the border, then all of a sudden, a major front sweeps north from the border.
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Good news water wise for S Texas, bad news is that the central pressure is dropping 3 mb/hr winds have not yet caught up to current pressure. Is Brownsville/NE Mex Coast a shallow water area?
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Anony,
That drives me nuts too! The radar maps end at the border with Canada too, like we would be giving away secrets to the Canucks or seein' Canukistan secrets if the Weather Channel showed real continuity of the fronts, or sumpin'. WTF? Mebbe I'll ask Ed over at LGF if he knows why.
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At 4 PM CDT...2100z...the center of Hurricane Emily was located near latitude 24.3 north... longitude 95.6 west or about 145 miles...
230 km... east-northeast of La Pesca Mexico and about 160 miles...260 km...southeast of Brownsville Texas.
Emily is moving toward the west-northwest near 12 mph...19 km/hr. A gradual turn toward the west is expected to occur late tonight or
early Wednesday morning. This motion should bring the center of Emily near the northeastern coast of Mexico by Wednesday morning.
Maximum sustained winds are near 100 mph...160 km/hr...with higher gusts. Emily is a category two hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Additional strengthening is forecast during the next 12 hours or so...and Emily could still become a major category three hurricane before it makes landfall Wednesday morning.
Still no left turn
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What?! Not Mohamed?! This is an outrage! Clearly the Google kuffars must die!
Black helicopter alert
There's some very good news today for those readers who do not have the good fortune to live in either the UK or the US of A - you now officially exist according to Google UK.
Yup, maps.google.co.uk has now restored those bits of the the globe previously not thought worthy of inclusion in the big map - which was everywhere except Blighty and the States, Canada, Central America, some Caribbean islands and the Irish Republic. There's more on the terrifying conspiracy theory behind this mass erasure in our previous report into the matter.
But before the black helicopters can return to base, we must ask this simple question: Why has Google Maps chosen to remain silent on the small matter of having located Jesus Christ in a Peruvian sand dune?
We find it impossible to believe that Google didn't spot this ghostly Turin shroudesque image of Our Lord in the South American sands. What are they not telling us?
A quick phone call to Erich von DÀniken confirmed our initial suspicions that the image was hewn from the sand by an ancient civilisation using hot air balloons and alien laser technology borrowed from the scientists of Atlantis. Either that or someone is projecting a picture of Charles Manson onto the desert from a low Earth orbit, Erich told El Reg before popping out to discover a representation of an extraterrestrial wearing an Apple iPod carved into a stone by Mayan artisans in 500BC.
Whatever the truth, the implications of this discovery are chilling indeed. Sinister things are afoot at Google, make no mistake. ®
Bootnote
Muchas gracias to reader Lee Staniforth for his satellite spotting skills.
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so...in 5 years Michael Jackson will look like sand dune? That's comforting
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Amazin how the brain finds patterns. I see an inspription on the top right that 'sez "your granny is worried about you and has a switch". I think it may be a sign from gawd.
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Its the King! Its Elvis! "Hey baby", he's saying. I knew he was alive. Hes showing himself 'cause its the end times. He's callin' me home. I'm comming...I'm comming...
#1
I read about this at the Beeb. Why does the UK court system allow a civil slander trial for a non UK resident who is a convicted child molester? The fact speak for themselves he as much admits to their veracity. Boggles the mind.
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Well, this is one case where I hope they both lose. Did you read about who was slandering him? Graydon Carter's Vanity Fair quoting Lewis Lapham. 2 Dinosaurs of the publishing industry. Uber East Coast elitist leftwing moonbats. I may even have to root for the Eurotrash filmmaker in this lawsuit. In Polanski's defense, it looks like Lapham already got the dates wrong, (though the article didn't mention that until the end - the despicable press defending their own?) just like he did with his infamous piece on the Republican Convention. I wouldn't count anything he says as true and nothing that Vanity Fair prints either.
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Boo-hoo! Tough luck, pedophile! Come back to the US and face your charges for screwing a 13 year old.
An Afghan warlord convicted over a "heinous" campaign of torture and hostage taking in his homeland is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey. Faryadi Zardad, 42, of Streatham, south London, was found guilty at a retrial on Monday of pursuing a reign of fear at checkpoints between 1991 and 1996. It is thought to be the first time a foreign national has been convicted in a UK court for crimes committed abroad. Zardad had denied conspiracy to torture and conspiracy to take hostages. Both charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. ...more at link...
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Why the f*ck (it's before the 9pm watershed) are we going to pay for him to be in jail the rest of his natural - any bets on < 5 years and he's out?
I say return him to Afghanistan at 32 feet/s/s - ie vertically.
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President Hugo Chavez urged Venezuelans on Sunday to embrace his "21st century socialism," while poll results showed less than one-third of the population supports the economic model.
Speaking during his weekly radio and television program, Chavez called on Venezuelans to "leave behind any confusion or any type of fears, phantoms," regarding socialism.
Chavez has repeatedly called for the expansion of state-run cooperatives and increased volunteerism under a socialist political and economic model. He has directed billions of dollars in oil revenues toward public and social programs.
In Sunday's program, Chavez urged his countrymen to work "to build this road: Venezuelan socialism of the 21st century."
Since taking office in 1999, Chavez has forged strong relations with communist-led Cuba. Numerous cooperation agreements have been signed between the two Caribbean countries.
The Venezuelan president has become a sharp critic of the Bush administration, accusing it of trying to topple his government and criticizing the U.S.-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas, or FTAA.
Chavez often tells Venezuelans that "being rich is bad" while calling capitalism a "savage" economic system used by the world's most powerful countries, including the United States, to "dominate and colonize" poor nations.
Many of the president's opponents fear he is flirting with communism while becoming increasingly authoritarian.
The results of a poll published Sunday in El Nacional daily showed that 28 percent of Venezuelans support the "socialist" model leftist Chavez is moving toward while slightly more than 28 percent said they favored a capitalist system.
Others interviewed did not respond or said they were undecided.
The survey questioned a sample of 1,300 Venezuelans and had an error margin of 2.7 percentage points. 28% vs. 28%. I would not say they were unresponsive to socialism, just unresponsive in general.
The first percentage is too high, and the second is suprisingly low, considering that not having the pro-socialist opinion but still expressing an opinion could cost you your job, your business, your house, your farm...
The Venezuelan government has warned it will confiscate hundreds of private companies that are lying idle if they fail to re-open. President Hugo Chavez said the firms' workers would be given help to set up co-operatives and re-start production for the benefit of the community. He said the move was needed to fight poverty and end Venezuela's dependence on "the perverse model of capitalism".
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Chavez could become more dangerous than Che Guevara (as an idol) because the utter failures of his politics are masked by ever rising oil prices.
Right now Venezuela should be filthy rich but it's getting poorer and poorer while the Chavistas get fatter.
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What would you do about him if you were Bush and/or German PM? Go anonymous, if needed, lol!
It's hard to imagine anyone could be so stupid as to vote for this throwback. Purest avarice is the only motive I can see, besides insanity, of course.
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I don't think Chavez has the advantage of living on an island as Castro does. His neighbors will not be passive to his brand of socialism. His oil wealth might buy him many things, however it can't buy him peace. He will never be satisfied in not exporting his ideology. He is a class A megalomanic. It's a recipe for strife and warfare.
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SPoD
You forget that neighboring Colombia has it's fair share of Marxist rebels, Bolivia and Ecuador might tip over, Brazil has a leftist government with some ego issues.
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The way to save Venezuela from Chavez is to nominate him to SCOTUS. Would he be willing to give up the uniform and write opinions for the enactment of socialism?
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Chavez is a danger there is no doubt but, so are the oligarchs he is threatening. Columbia will act if he is found to be interacting with the FARC in any concrete way. There is always the off hand chance the Hugo has an accident too.v Then he will become a hero of the "revolution" which the army will put on hold, forever.
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Kalle, I noticed that too. The sheer number of paid apparently leftist ads, not just here. They must have a problem getting their message across :-)
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It strikes me that the order from Chavez has more in common with fascism than socialism -- if the owners re-open the business, they'll still own it. Of course, the socialism and fascism are two sides of the same coin, so it's really just nit-picking.
(Cue MS to defend Chavez...)
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Good point Kalle, I've just clicked on all four (and came straight back of course!)
One of them *still* glorifies that pyscho murderer Che Guevara
I prefer this photo of him to the ones they had actually...
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is that a stake in his heart? If so, why doesn't he die?
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TGA - Right now Venezuela should be filthy rich but it's getting poorer and poorer while the Chavistas get fatter.
Sorta like Mexico and their ruling class already. Sad isn't it. Unfortunately for the real underclass of Venezuela [and fortunately for the US], they don't have a border with America.
Officials from the Beijing municipality said Tuesday almost 4,700 businesses will stagger weeklong shutdowns over the next month to ease an electricity crunch.
The State Electricity Dispatch Center predicted China will suffer its worst energy shortfall in 20 years this summer. Many cities have restricted power use by large consumers and ordered factories to stop work or introduce night shifts to cut electricity demand, Xinhua reported.
A spokesman with the Beijing municipal government told state-run media that workers from 962 Beijing-based industrial enterprises had started paid leave this week as the region enters the hottest time of the year.
Beijing Electric Power Corp says it has 58,817 industrial users in the Beijing municipality. The company says staggered shutdowns will ease power demand by 280,000 kilowatts. It also raised prices on July 1 in a bid to curb consumption.
Altogether 4,689 businesses will have "weeklong summer vacations for their employees" over the next month. The Beijing government issued a document saying affected businesses are allowed to adopt a temporary six-day week schedule to offset shutdowns and "catch up with their original production plans" this fall. Lack of power production capacity most likely, but when I saw this and couldn't help but wonder if the high price of oil was connected in some fashion.
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..couldn't help but wonder if the high price of oil was connected in some fashion.
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LR: Lack of power production capacity most likely, but when I saw this and couldn't help but wonder if the high price of oil was connected in some fashion.
Massive growth in power demand is more likely. FDI in China last year was $61B. In an economy where the nominal GDP is just over $1T, that's a pretty big number. Until the Chinese economy starts stagnating or the Chinese government stops subsidizing power bills, these blackouts are going to continue.
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Serious lack of capacity, to begin with. China has been the number one consumer of copper in the world for a couple of years. Last summer was called the worst, until this summer, that is.
The high oil prices are also taking their toll. Remember that consumer energy costs are still subsidized, though that has been changing just a little. Energy companies are discovering that full capacity means operating at a loss.
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...couldn't help but wonder if the high price of oil was connected in some fashion.
More likely, the high price of Communism is to blame.
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CS: Serious lack of capacity, to begin with. ... Energy companies are discovering that full capacity means operating at a loss.
The capacity is growing only at the rate necessary to stay profitable, given the subsidies. That's not the rate required to keep up with China's massive increases in demand.
Crash projects always cost more money - and it's crash projects that are required to keep China's homes and factory humming without interruption. Would Chinese consumers prefer higher prices to avoid the occasional blackout? They don't really have that choice right now - the government has decided that power will be priced at at so many yuan per kWh and power generation capacity will increase at so many MW per year.
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I would argue that China is a capitalist dictatorship.
In a convoluted way, you have a point. Since the Hong Kong turnover, Chinese leadership has been deluged with the power of Capitalism and have not stifled it as much as the hard-line Commies of yesteryear. They seem to understand that it makes them a lot more money than Communism, and I think it will lead to a wholesale renunciation of Communism within our lifetime.
My 2 cents.
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3 gorges dam went online, but Alaska Paul already pointed out the silty water exiting = very short impeller life...weakness in China's fwd growth is trying to go too fast on the cheap. Watch whole grids fail
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Watch whole grids fail
Like all overweight bureaucracies, particularly in "People's Republics" nothing will happen until... President Hu has a problem...
"What the F**K happen to my American Idol. Heads will roll!"
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Gray Davis did NOT GO to China. He is still in the US. He simply copied their methods. May they profit from his example. (Be on the look out for an increase in vehicle registration fees.)
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But the BBC told me Iraq had the worst power problems
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China has been the number one consumer of copper in the world for a couple of years.
Interesting... I imagine India will really compete with them for copper at some point if their growth broadens enough to actually built towards a full infrastructure.
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LR: Interesting... I imagine India will really compete with them for copper at some point if their growth broadens enough to actually built towards a full infrastructure.
A big chunk of it is re-exported as finished goods - electronics, cookware, et al. As long as India continues to stick it to foreign investors, its manufacturing sector will continue to be minuscule.
Hope for their sakes (or should I even care?) their weather isn't hovering in the upper 90's days and mid-70's nights, like ours in central Virginia is, & due to hit 100 first of next week.
(For our non-American Ranters, that's Fahrenheit. No, I can't convert that to Celsius - too lazy. ;-p]
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BS: A weeklong power shutdown?
For businesses. I guess these are furloughs by another name.
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BS: Hope for their sakes (or should I even care?) their weather isn't hovering in the upper 90's days and mid-70's nights, like ours in central Virginia is, & due to hit 100 first of next week.
Depends on where you're talking about. Summer temperatures in the coastal areas hover around the 90's and generally touch 100, with humidity typically above 60%.
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China uses coal to generate electricity. Increasingly that is imported. Last time I checked, the (internationally traded) price of coal had risen by more than the oil price (as a percentage). A quick check indicates it continues to rise.
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Shep: But the BBC told me Iraq had the worst power problems
I think Iraq does have worse power problems. I seem to recall reading somewhere that in Iraq, power is free. This creates a major incentive for abuse. Of course, the Iraqis also have a problem with bozos attacking the infrastructure.
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They have to import coal? Ouch. That is a really huge bulk commodity. Steel mills were historically sited near coal fields (Pittsburgh, etc.). It was cheaper to ship in everything but coal, then ship the product out, than to ship coal.
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If Noam is the King of the Moonbats, li'l Joey Vile was his Minister of Disinformation. If he is well and truly dead, this is a fine day indeed. I'm getting out the ululator.
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Heaven you say? Heck there doesn't even need to be a trap door. Imagine his surprise when he gets to heaven and finds out the guy sitting on the right hand is a Jew.
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Michael Moore
Noam Chomsky
Gore Vidal
Al Gore
Howard Dean
Jimmy Carter
All of the above are from a larger and more dangerous breed of Moonbat than Joe Whatshisface.
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One at a time, Chris...one at a time.
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Checked his website. Looks like a damn fine journalist to me. Look forward to meeting him soon. He can help me pick the burning locusts out of Joe Stalin's eyes. Again.
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I can't wait until this gets posted at DU -- they'll be blaming his death on a "Rove conspiracy" within minutes.
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Bads news! Joe had serious entertainment value. He always had these little maps of Iraq showing how the Republican Guard was about to surround and destroy the stupid Murcans controlled by the "slackjaws" at the Pentagon. And when his latest prediction didn't pan out, he would cheerfully move on to another prediction without any reference to the first. At a certain point stupditity becomes an art form.
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Belgium and the rest of "old Europe" think everyone is below them, is it suprising that they are trying to keep the club very exclusive? Turkey has made a lot of progress, and they have a lot of value to develope, but they don't have the breeding do they?
USA Today's report on Sen. Hillary Clinton's newfound appeal as a possible commander in chief omitted a key part of her resume that proves she's long been a hawk on military and defense issues: her attempt to join the Marines 30 years ago.
Or at least that's what she claimed.
Seated beside her husband, the former first lady recounted her military experience during a 1994 TV interview.
"Gee, now it was probably 19 years ago - in 1975," Mrs. Clinton recalled. "I decided that I was very interested in having some experience in serving in some capacity in the military."
"Because we all love the military so much," Mr. Clinton interjected helpfully.
Hillary resumed: "So I walked into our local recruiting office, and I think it was just my bad luck that the person who happened to be there on duty could not have been older than 21. He was in perfect physical shape."
She remembered telling the recruiter, "I wanted to explore - I didn't know whether I thought active duty would be a good idea, reserve, you know, maybe National Guard, something along those lines."
But Hillary's bid to become a leatherneck soon came unraveled.
"This young man looked at me and he said, 'How old are you?'" she recalled.
"I said, 'Well, 27' ... I had these really thick glasses on.
"He said, 'How bad's your eyesight?'
"I said, 'It's pretty bad.'
"And he said, 'How bad?'
"So I told him.
"He said, 'That's pretty bad.'
"And he finally said to me, he said: 'You're too old. You can't see. And you're a woman.' And then he went on ... this man, young man, was a Marine.
"He said, 'But maybe the dogs [Army] would take you.'"
"This is not a very encouraging conversation," Mrs. Clinton recalled thinking. "So maybe I'll look for another way to serve my country."
The original transcript of Hillary's "I-tried-to-join-the-Marines" interview has vanished from the LexisNexis archives, but excerpts from a rebroadcast on Rush Limbaugh's old TV show are still available. The mind boggles. Then throws up.
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Bullshit!
The only time she thought of the military is when her husband was giving commands to it. And even then, she wasn't that interested. Read the accounts of joint chiefs that worked for the Clintloooons.
Trying to get the middle America vote bitch? It ain't gonna work, we still hate your ass.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has decided whom to nominate to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court and was poised to announce his pick in a prime-time Tuesday night address. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the Bush administration was asking television outlets to broadcast the speech live. Bush's spokesman would not identify the president's choice. But there was intense speculation that it would be Judge Edith Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The televised speech was scheduled for 9 p.m. EDT.
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"I therefore nominate... KARL ROVE! BWAHAhahahahaha!..."
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More Clement links here and here. As a plus, People For the American Way don't like her.
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If PWTW doesn't like her that's a ringing endorsement. Can't wait for the morning, the moonbats will portray her as a racists bitch with hitler tendancies.
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Interesting, that we haven't heard a word about his Gitmo trip on Friday. Or did I just miss that news conference on the "tortures" he personally witnessed?
Rep. Barney Frank said late Monday that Congress should begin an impeachment investigation into the Bush administration's handling of the Leakgate scandal and not wait for Special Proscecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to determine whether any laws were broken.
"It's not about guilt or innocence, it's all about removing Republicians from office"
"During the Clinton impeachment, the Republicans kept saying, remember, impeachment does not mean the end of the process. It is the beginning," Frank told MSNBC "Hardball" substitute host Campbell Brown. "I must honestly say, I do not trust the president to do an independent investigation here," Frank explained.
"Yeah, we need Democratic party hacks for a real investigation!"
When reminded that the Leakgate probe was in the hands of a special prosecutor, Frank sounded confused, telling Brown: "Yes. But it is still also the president, because I donât think not being convicted of a crime [should] be the only qualification for being deputy chief of staff."
This would be the old "The seriousness of the charge outweigh's the lack of any evidence of a crime" meme.
Moments later, Frank was asked whether Democrats should really be "pursuing impeachment proceedings on this" rather than addressing issues like Social Security reform. "Yes. No, I think we can do both," he insisted.
Barney's been drinking with Teddy again
On Friday, Rep. Frank and his House colleague John Conyers asked the Library of Congress to determine whether "high-ranking members of the President's staff are subject to the Congressional impeachment process."
The Frank-Conyers letter continued: "We believe that the rationale for impeachment clearly applies to high-ranking officials who wield presidential authority in many cases with even more impact than some cabinet officers. And we do not see any Constitutional language that would exclude such officials from the impeachment process."
"After all, the Constitution is what we sez it is!"
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yawn. I want to see some puppets in this clown show.
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Actually I am in favor of letting the Dhimicrats have as much rope they want so they can hang themselves. Just like when they televised that mock impeachment hearing last month. Talk about a moon bat parade! Also their 'witnesses' couldn't control their mouths and started to spout the left-wing hate speech after only a few minutes on the 'stand'. So I say let them go and give it gavel-to-gavel coverage on all networks. After a couple of days of testimony, a democrat would be elected to dog catcher anywhere except the deepest liberal enclaves.
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If somebody says something on MSNBC and nobody's watching to hear it, did it really happen?
Advice for Barney. If you want to keep your reputation as one of the intellectuals in Congress, stay away from Conyers. Trust me on this.
Speaking to the nations' largest Hispanic civil rights organization, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., received a standing ovation Monday when she vowed her support for legislation that would allow illegal immigrant high school students to attend college.
Clinton made her remarks on various issues of importance to the country's Latinos at the annual conference of National Council of La Raza, attended by 23,000 people at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
The event started Friday and has included a rally in center Philadelphia in support of the so-called DREAM Act that would benefit illegal students.
On Tuesday, the chairpersons of both the Republican and Democratic national committees are schedule to address the conference, which NCLR officials say is a first for the organization and a sign that both parties have heightened their interest in the growing Latino population and its votes. jus a litter libertareeyen whislin inosently heer. :)
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Why don't they just say what we are talking about here. Attend college for free.
I work my ass off all my life and what do I get for going back to school to get my degree. 50,000 in student loans, these illegal bastards are going to go for free, so what do you think the tuition rates are going to do for the kids that have to pay? Gee, do ya think they'll go down?
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So the Hildabeast clearly does not care a wit about her oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. Since she has no loyalty to the United States of America, why does she suspect she would be granted high office outside states which back carpetbaggers.
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Clinton made her remarks on various issues of importance to the country's Latinos at the annual conference of National Council of La Raza
Anyone else more than a bit annoyed at politicians attending a meeting of the "National Council of The (Central American) Race"? Granted, Hildebeast is a Democrat, and they've never had a beef with any racist, anywhere, but it's just sad.
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really stooopoid move on her part. I can see an ad: "You work and scrimp and go into debt to try and make sure your children are able to go to college. Senator Clinton would allow ILLEGAL ALIENS to attend before your children, and your tax dollars would pay their way. Who's looking out for AMERICANS?"
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Mis cabritos pueden ir a la escuela americana para libre! agradece a americano estúpido.
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She seems to utterly enjoy putting her own foot in her A#@ every now and then. This latest one is a real gem.
#8
I am truly glad that she (obviously) has surrounded herself with True Blue Kool Aid Kidz. If she was smart, on the other hand, she'd play (read: suck-up to / try to hoodwink) to the center all of the time. She already has the Moonbats in her pocket. Every play to them diminishes her appeal to the center... because there's a blogosphere which doesn't forget like the MSM.
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This works for me. Getting them all identified as illegals and moved out of their neighborhoods should make it a lot easier to round them up and deport them.
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1) People all ate up for the return of "Aztlan" (legendary place from whence the Aztecs came to Mexico) pretty obviously don't know squat about the actual, historic Aztecs. Bloodthirsty savages.
2)Which "raza" would this be? European blondes from Mexico City? Indios from Huahaca? Dalmations? It's a freakin' mystery.
The United Nations Aids agency has warned that UN peacekeepers still do not have the knowledge and means to protect themselves from HIV/Aids.
I'll be glad to help them out with that: Keep your hands (and other appendages) off the natives you're supposed to be protecting, idiots.
Leaders from numerous countries have now acknowledged HIV/Aids is a serious problem in their armed services, according to a new UN report.
More than 100 countries contribute personnel to UN peacekeeping missions.
UNAids chief Peter Piot said there had been some progress over the past five years, but more needed to be done.
He said peacekeeping operations now had Aids advisers, trainers and counsellors, while troops were given awareness training.
Oh, ferchrissakes, no wonder "peacekeeping" operations cost so much. Camp followers are expensive. I can help cut that cost, Peter. Tell your men (and they're all men, aren't they?) to KEEP THEIR PANTS ZIPPED, and enforce it. There, problem solved.
He added that a small but growing number of military and political leaders also understood the need to address Aids among their armed forces, and called for voluntary testing to be expanded.
The UN Security Council emphasised in a resolution five years ago the need for strong action to curb the spread of HIV/Aids among peacekeepers.
A UN resolution. Uh-huh. Can't imagine why that didn't take care of the problem.
A new UN report says uniformed service personnel are considered one of the high-risk groups for contracting HIV/Aids Because they're more likely to rape the natives, perhaps?
and this could jeopardise the world's ability to generate future UN peacekeeping missions. Be still my heart. You mean fewer natives and goats might be snogged?
The head of UN peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehnno, said they had reduced the risk of peacekeepers contracting or transmitting the virus while on mission. With what, saltpeter?
He called for wide voluntary testing, but also for countries to ensure that treatment was available for those found to be positive.
Testing and treatment are nice, but the best course is DON'T GET IT IN THE FIRST PLACE. It's not like it floats through the air or anything. Not that these clueless twits would know that.
To quote that other great philosopher: Wotta buncha maroons.
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sure puts a damper on the UN Food for Sex Program
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And a lot of the bastards get HIV when they molest small children who have been infected by some other molester. I imagine they pass around some kid like a cigarette, until it's used up. Then, because they also have sores from all their other VDs on their genitalia, it's real easy for them to get HIV.
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But of course no one can actually, you know, say that publicly, can they, 'moose?
Wouldn't be PC. Might insult somebody.
I'm having a serious problem getting up any sympathy for these clowns. AIDS isn't like the flu; sexual contact is required to get it.
So we know how they're getting it, and how they could NOT get it. They know it too. They just don't care at the moment; they're too busy indulging themselves on the vulnerable.
I've got a suggestion for the UN that will solve this problem. Take all the money that would go into a "peacekeeping" operation, ARM the people the UN clowns are supposed to protect but never do, and stay the hell home. Magically, no UN peacekeepers get AIDS (on peacekeeping missions, anyway - no telling what who they'll do if they stay home) and the people they would have "protected" will actually have a better chance at living.
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Demands? Is africa really in a position to demand anything? They cant even feed themselves much less legislate their own countries, what makes them a good candidate for SC?
Excellent news for a number of reasons. India is a natural US ally. President Bush agreed yesterday to share civilian nuclear technology with India, reversing decades of U.S. policies designed to discourage countries from developing nuclear weapons.
The agreement between Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, which must win the approval of Congress, would create a major exception to the U.S. prohibition of nuclear assistance to any country that doesn't accept international monitoring of all of its nuclear facilities. India has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which requires such oversight, and conducted its first nuclear detonation in 1974.
Participants in the discussions said there had been debate within the administration about whether the deal with India -- which built its atomic arsenal in secret -- would undercut U.S. efforts to confront Iran and North Korea over their nuclear programs. There were also concerns about how the agreement would be accepted in Pakistan, India's regional rival and an ally in the U.S. campaign against al Qaeda.
But supporters of the approach said it was an important part of a White House strategy to accelerate New Delhi's rise as a global power and as a regional counterweight to China. As part of the strategy, the administration is also seeking ways to bolster Japan's posture in the region.
The Bush administration, which had not expected to reach agreement on the matter until a future Bush visit to India, said it moved more quickly because it had secured commitments from New Delhi to limit the spread of nuclear materials and technology. The agreement does not formally recognize India as a nuclear power -- a status India had sought -- but it is a significant plum for the world's most populous democracy and cements India as a key strategic U.S. ally in Asia for the coming decades.
R. Nicholas Burns, undersecretary of state for political affairs, called the agreement "a major move forward for the U.S." and "the high-water mark of U.S.-India relations since 1947." Burns said the agreement, the subject of months of talks and six weeks of intense negotiations, is in line with "efforts that nuclear powers have taken to maintain a responsible policy in terms of nonproliferation."
But some nonproliferation specialists found the deal troubling. "This is a stunning example of the Bush administration's policy of exceptionalism for friends at the cost of a consistent and effective attack on the dangers of nuclear weapons," said Daryl G. Kimball, director of the Arms Control Association.
According to a White House communique yesterday, Bush agreed that "India should acquire the same benefits and advantages" as other states with advanced nuclear technology. Bush vowed to "work to achieve full civil nuclear energy cooperation with India."
Under the terms of the deal, India agreed to place its civilian nuclear facilities -- but not its nuclear weapons arsenal -- under international monitoring and pledged to continue to honor a ban on nuclear testing. In return, it would have access, for the first time, to conventionalweapons systems and to sensitive U.S. nuclear technology that can be used in either a civilian or a military program. It could also free India to buy the long-sought-after Arrow Missile System developed by Israel with U.S. technology.
The agreement does not call for India to cease production of weapons-grade plutonium, which enables India to expand its nuclear arsenal.
The United States did not offer support for India's drive to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council (I suspect the USA is wisely staying out of the whole bunfight to avoid being blamed for its inevitable acrimonious failure), and the sides did not reach agreement on India's plan for a $4 billion pipeline delivering natural gas from Iran. The administration opposes the deal on grounds that it provides Iran with hard currency it can use for its own nuclear program. Mmm! Oil sales do that already. It's more it gives Iran leverage with India cos it can turn off the tap.
From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
.... on 26 June ... in Tehran ... 64 tons of drugs were destroyed in a bonfire. Speaking at the day's event, Ali Hashemi, secretary-general of Iran's Drug Control Headquarters, said that proximity to the biggest opium producer [Afghanistan] is the main problem confronting Iran, IRNA reported. He predicted that it would take a full 10 years to destroy drug-production facilities there."You have drug groups like guerrilla forces. They shoot heavily with rocket launchers, heavy machine guns, and Kalashnikovs."
Speaking at the same event, Hojatoleslam Qorban Ali Dori-Najafabadi, the state prosecutor-general, said that the country is threatened by a tidal wave of drugs that is even more dangerous than the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia six months earlier .... Drug Control Headquarters chief Hashemi discussed the country's counternarcotics campaign in late May. He said that in the space of one year, nearly 300 tons of drugs were seized, "Iran" reported on 23 May. This included 11 tons of morphine, five tons of heroin, and 182 tons of opium. Nearly 200,000 people were arrested for drug-related offenses.
Hashemi went on to say that Iran is bearing the main expense for protecting Europe from drugs. He added that during a recent trip he told his European counterparts that Iran needs night-vision equipment for helicopters, electronic eavesdropping devices, X-ray equipment, and similar tools, but it has not gotten them yet.
The head of the UNODC office in Tehran, Roberto Arbitro, noted the level of violence. "You have drug groups like guerrilla forces," he said in the 16 June issue of "The Times" of London. "They shoot heavily with rocket launchers, heavy machine guns, and Kalashnikovs." It is not unusual, therefore, that the Iranian military has played a big part in confronting traffickers. Brigadier General Hamid Gorizan, who commands the Mersad military base in the southeastern Kerman Province, discussed some of the armed forces' efforts in narcotics interdiction. He said the base was created in 1995 in order to counteract armed bands of traffickers, stop banditry, and in general terms, to restore a sense of security in the eastern part of the country, "Jomhuri-yi Islami" reported on 6 March.
Gorizan said the war on drugs exists on two levels. First, there is the erection of concrete barriers along the borders and in mountainous areas, as well as setting up 135 kilometers of barbed-wire obstacles in desert areas. He added that there are 630 kilometers of earthen barriers (berms) and 615 kilometers of canals. Furthermore, the Mersad base has been improved, and smaller bases were established in Sistan va Baluchistan Province, South Khorasan Province, and Kerman Province. "Based on these measures, I think there will be no safe point for traffickers throughout the entire east of the country," he said. ....
The Iranian narcotics-seizure rates are impressive, but UN officials told "RFE/RL Iran Report" that this is only 10-15 percent of the amount that enters the country. They estimated, furthermore, that 40 percent of the narcotics stays in Iran while the remaining 60 percent ends up in Iraq, Turkey, the Caucasus, and eventually Europe. ....
Drug Control Headquarters chief Hashemi ... said that number of known addicts is 2.5 million-3.35 million, "Iran" reported on 4 July. He noted that the number of addiction-related arrests has increased from 78,000 in 1987 to 431,430 in 2004. The amount of seizures during the same period is 10 times higher. He therefore asked, "Do these figures not point to an increase in demand?" He also noted the rise in prices for opium and heroin.
The prevalence of intravenous drug use by addicts has contributed to a climbing rate of HIV/AIDS. The UNODC report estimates that some 15,000 Iranians are infected with HIV/AIDS, and 65-75 percent of them got it by sharing needles. ....
Opiates are not the only drugs that Iran must confront. According to the UNODC report, 8 percent of 90 countries it surveyed said cannabis originating in Iran is a problem. After Morocco, however, Afghanistan and Pakistan were cited as the top sources. Iran seized 77 tons of resin in 2003. Drug Control Headquarters chief Hashemi said in the 23 May "Iran" that 82 tons of hashish and nearly 16 tons of other drugs were seized in the past year.
Iranians also are abusing synthetic drugs, such as crystal methamphetamine (known as "sisheh") and ecstasy ("qorsha-yi shadi-avar"). These drugs are becoming a serious problem, according to a mid-June report by Radio Farda. Tehran Medical Sciences University's Dr. Azarkhash Makari reminded Radio Farda's listeners that just because the drugs come in the form of pills they are not made in a real pharmaceutical factory. He said the use of ecstasy is more common in Iran than the use of crystal methamphetamine but that the latter drug is more addictive and more dangerous. .....
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[T]he state prosecutor-general, said that the country is threatened by a tidal wave of drugs that is even more dangerous than the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia six months earlier ....
Heh. Guess the CIA still knows how to run a war after all.
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Thats alot of dope and dopers for such a "religious" country. What folks are looking for an escape from the mad Mullah's BS? WHo would have thunk it! This is serious dope to as it seems tro mostly be opiates.
They can buy night vision good enough for police work from their Russian neighbors or the Ukraine. What they want is advanced military technology under the color of the of "war on drugs". They shouldn't get it from the west that's for damn sure.
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I'm impressed with the new propaganda Mike is coming out with these days. Hat's off to you Mikey.
It's of much better quality than previous you BS. For example - Yesterday we all had a good laugh over Teddy and the Teddies - but really it was just to present - as fact - that " an investigation" established that these "horrific underwear attacks" indeed did occur at Gitmo, even though there were no specifics to establish that it was little more than one prisoner's bogus complaint. And even though it's highly unlikely after what happened to the participants at Abu Gharib. And of course, there's that pesky little problem than no one really cares if they were putting underwear on their heads, but I digress...
Now, we have a title, 3 MILLION DRUG ADDICTS in Iran. One's first thought is really? But we happily lapp it up because we don't doubt that it sucks to be you if you live in Iran.
Of course, it's all just sugar to help the medicine go down. Here is the medicine: He added that during a recent trip he told his European counterparts that Iran needs night-vision equipment for helicopters, electronic eavesdropping devices, X-ray equipment, and similar tools, but it has not gotten them yet.
Thanks Mike. Good to know how they are trying to spin it.
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Re #3 (2b) Yesterday we all had a good laugh over Teddy and the Teddies ... no one really cares if they were putting underwear on their heads, but I digress...
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You haven't got squat, Mikey - though I must admit it might get you points from your team leader to apply towards your new Vespa. At the very least it should get you enough points for your new brown shirt with a Moveon logo.
Not a single named official. When you can quote an official and quote a source other than the NYT or Time Magazine - already discredited beyond repair - then I grant you your point. In the mean time, you just keep busing yourself as for most Americans, torture being described as "panties on the head" is just another symbol of how silly and out of touch the Dems have become, especially when our adversaries consider torture to be more along the lines raping ones children and torturing them before cutting them to pieces and delivering their body parts in a bag to your doorstep.
Maybe I've misjudged you, Mikey. Maybe you are a Karl Rove plant - sent to make the dems look like the silly idiot padnering fools they have become.
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You just don't understand Mike 2b. He's deep and nuanced, a professional with steel trap mind, finding and keeping the linkage of things sorted out for us.
President Robert Mugabe's destruction of Zimbabwe's economy began to strike home yesterday after he had to ask South Africa for a rescue package.
Unable to arrest the spiralling crisis or buy essential supplies of fuel, Zimbabwe has turned to its powerful neighbour.
Senior officials have visited South Africa to request an emergency injection of money likely to run into hundreds of millions of pounds.
About one third of Zimbabwe's economy has been wiped out in the past five years, putting it among the fastest shrinking in the world. Inflation runs at 164 per cent, the highest in Africa.
Mr Mugabe's seizure of white-owned farms, the destruction of commercial agriculture and the collapse of tourism mean his regime is incapable of paying its way.
Until recently, his response to this crisis was repeatedly to claim that Zimbabwe was enjoying a "strong recovery". Yet he has finally acknowledged the gravity of the situation by dispatching his key aides to South Africa.
A spokesman for South Africa's central bank said that Tito Mboweni, its governor, met a Zimbabwean delegation last Friday. Sources in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, said this was led by Gideon Gono, the governor of the Zimbabwean Reserve Bank.
If agreed, the rescue package would place a considerable burden on South Africa.
John Robertson, an independent economist in Harare, said Zimbabwe needed about £60 million for fuel and £110 million for importing maize to fend off starvation.
Zimbabwe owes the International Monetary Fund £175 million - more than seven per cent of its entire economy. The next meeting of the IMF executive board will discuss whether to cast Mr Mugabe into isolation by formally expelling Zimbabwe.
Since electricity and raw materials also have to be imported, an overall sum approaching £500 million may be required. Unable to turn to any international organisation, Mr Mugabe has no option but to approach South Africa.
"The government find it too embarrassing and too difficult to try to make things work in the absence of outside help," said Mr Robertson.
"The scarcity of fuel means the country is nearly immobile. You can park anywhere in town these days because there are so few cars about."
Mr Mugabe's demolition of township areas has worsened the economic crisis.
With hundreds of thousands left homeless, his regime has pledged to build new houses to replace those its bulldozers have destroyed. But there are no funds available.
The Reserve Bank will have no option but to print money to cover the cost of new housing. By turning to the printing press to fund his budget deficit, Mr Mugabe will cause inflation to rise still more. pathetic for Bob; tragic for Zimbabweans
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All that extra aid money for Africa to steal and none of it is making its way to Bobland. I predict an unfortunate accident for Mugabe in the very near future.
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bout time Mbeki had to pay for his support of the disgusting cretin
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Mugabe systematically destroyed his country. It is up to the people of Zimbabwe to pop his top and get rid of the cancer that has eaten up the country. If Mbeki of South Africa gives money to this psycho, then he should be next in line for removal.
It is time for the madness to stop. Send in Bono. He will fix it, and all will be peace and love.[/sarcasm]
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From breadbasket to basket case in one decade. Amazing...
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Jurors at Geuri Lugo's drug trafficking trial may not have gotten one of the cigarette breaks they requested, but that doesn't mean the guilty verdict should go up in smoke, the state Appeals Court has ruled. Lugo was convicted of trafficking in heroin and cocaine. He appealed, saying the judge's denial of the jury's request for a smoke break had contributed to a quick or compromised verdict. Too bad, so sad.
The Appeals Court on Monday rejected Lugo's appeal, saying it was within Judge Richard F. Connon's discretion to deny the request. It was during the first day of deliberations at Lugo's April 2003 trial that jurors sent a note with three questions, including a request to take a break outside to smoke. The other two questions were reported to be, 1. "Where are the WMDs?", and 2. "Why do they hate us?"
The judge denied the request, saying it was problematic to suspend deliberations and send court officers to stay with the jurors outside as they smoked. He also noted that jurors had just returned from lunch 30 minutes earlier and were scheduled to go home an hour later. No smokes for you!
"Lugo points to nothing other than the denial of the cigarette break; he does not otherwise show how the denial affected the outcome of the trial," the court said in its ruling.
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A drug dealer done in by addiction. Oh the irony.
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This goes against the grain of the typical legal thinking during a criminal trial. Think of all the reasons that lawyers can get a month, a week, a day, or at least several hours delay over some really petty reason. Even though judges don't like to make juries stay longer than necessary, anything that makes it sound like "hurry up and reach a decision" is going to create trouble. In this case, the jury itself had asked for a delay, which the judge denied. If this defendant keeps appealing, I would give him even odds of winning.
Via Drudge
The collapse of a giant ice shelf in Antarctica has revealed a thriving ecosystem half a mile below the sea.
In his house at Râlyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
Despite near freezing and sunless conditions, a community of clams and a thin layer of bacterial mats are flourishing in undersea sediments, along with a variety of formless protoplasm able to mock and reflect all forms and organs and processes - viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells - rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile....
"Seeing these organisms on the ocean bottom -- it's like lifting the carpet off the floor and finding a layer that you never knew was there," said Eugene Domack of Miskatonic University Hamilton College. Domack is the lead author on the report of the finding in the July 19 issue of Eos, the weekly newspaper of the American Geophysical Union. The discovery was accidental. U.S. Antarctic Program scientists were in the northwestern Weddell Sea investigating the sediment record in a deep glacial trough twice the size of Texas. The trough was unveiled in the 2002 Larsen B ice shelf collapse. Toward the end of the expedition the crew recorded a video of the sea floor. Later analysis of the video showed the clams and bacteria growing around mud volcanoes, alongside freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new, unknown odor whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage.
great starfish-headed barrels, with filmy great wings that they use to cross the enons of empty cold space
Since light could not penetrate the ice or water, these organisms do not use photosynthesis to make energy. Instead, these extreme creatures get their energy from methane, Domack said today. The methane is produced inside the Earth and is distributed to the sea floor by underwater vents. This recent discovery is the first cold-seep to be described in the Antarctic. The nearly pristine conditions -- which have been undisturbed for nearly 10,000 years -- will serve as a baseline for researchers probing other parts of the ocean. They better hurry though -- debris from the iceberg calving has already begun to bury some of the area. Any knowledge gained from studies into Antarctic life could help researchers search for life in other subterranean water locations on Earth. And, experts say, this research could better prepare scientists to examine the hypothesized ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa or on Saturn's moon Titan. Complete specimens have such uncanny resemblance to certain creatures of primal myth that suggestion of ancient existence outside antarctic becomes inevitable. To summarize, humankind is now in dire peril due to our terrifying error in awakening the Great Old Ones. Fear for the human race.
âYog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and the guardian to the gate. Past, present, and future are one in Yog-Sothoth.â
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âYog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and the guardian to the gate. Past, present, and future are one in Yog-Sothoth.â
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Um, this is sounding just a bit like a cult. You guys sure you're feeling okay? Any blacking out, sleepwalking, suddenly finding yourselves far from where your last memory indicates?
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i heard they found a mosque also--neptune ackbar!
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Bah! You've all got it wrong. The god whose name you can't repeat three times is Hasteur. Hasteur, I tell you! The books hold that if his name is repeated three times, something horrible will happen. This is all, of course, superstitious nonsense. Why, Hasteur is nothing but a shepherd's go3451@@#TZ1#$^&&&&&&&&
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Ima was in KFC drivethru
When Donald Duck came on CNN
Tellin me to take a trip to Yuppie Land
On the information superhighway.
Retired Gen. William Westmoreland, who commanded American troops in Vietnam â the nation's longest conflict and the only war America lost â died Monday night. He was 91. Westmoreland died of natural causes at Bishop Gadsden retirement home, where he had lived with his wife for several years, said his son, James Ripley Westmoreland. The silver-haired, jut-jawed officer, who rose through the ranks quickly in Europe during World War II and later became superintendent of West Point, contended the United States did not lose the conflict in Southeast Asia. "It's more accurate to say our country did not fulfill its commitment to South Vietnam," he said. "By virtue of Vietnam, the U.S. held the line for 10 years and stopped the dominoes from falling."
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"It's more accurate to say our country did not fulfill its commitment to South Vietnam"
I think George Bush will not repeat that mistake in Iraq
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"It's more accurate to say our country did not fulfill its commitment to South Vietnam," he said. "By virtue of Vietnam, the U.S. held the line for 10 years and stopped the dominoes from falling."
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Fred, this gentleman deserves today's headline. He is still much loved among veterans, and respected as a man who defended his people against incompetant and mean-spirited politicians.
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General Westmoreland waa a superb leader. Let's hope President Bush sends Rummy to attend his funeral.
This was a great man.
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Unfortunately, Westy was a company man. A good man, a man who cared, but not about winning. That trait is still imbuded into our GO corps. Not once did he or anyother military commander has put it all on the line by publically announcing his retirement from command because "the President and his advisers will not give me the resources to complete the mission and constrain me from military actions to destroy or cripple the enemy".
Harry Summers book On Strategy: The Vietnam War in Context which became a required read at the Army War College, points out that while the GOs were upset upon the conduct of the war in Vietnam, none took this option. And we sit and watch the terrorist come in from Syria every day now. Not much changes.
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Joluck: veterans do not blame "Westy" for staying in charge instead of resigning. He was well aware that LBJ would gladly replace him and his entire staff with toadies and lickspittles, who would utterly screw the soldiers. He was also uniquely able to short-circuit command decisions from other Washington insiders (such as "MacNamara's Band" and several congressmen), who thought themselves able battlefield commanders and issued orders to subordinate combat units from Washington. Much like General Bradley, he put more emphasis on protecting his people then accomplishing what was evidently an intentionally futile and micromanaged mission. On top of that, he ensured that every campaign that was launched would at least result in a technical victory, so that they enemy could never claim the US military had been defeated on the ground.
Harry Potter offers a new wonderfully harrowing story with a moral dimension.
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"It was, [Harry] thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew--and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents--that there was all the difference in the world."
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It's been pointed out that Harry Potter's greatest power is the ability to get other people to protect him, defend him, and rescue him. Actually, that is a highly effective power, and just like with weapons, goes to the heart of things. That is, if you have a weapon that gives off an enormous report, along with much smoke and flame, it is *wasting energy*, that *could* perhaps be better used on its target. The same would apply with "sorcery": is it more important to make a show, or to get a result? The ultimate martial artist is one who has developed such skill at diplomacy that he never needs to fight anyone. The ultimate sorcerer is one who never needs to obviously use his sorcery. He just gets what he wants, when he wants it, how he wants it, and no one can stop him. Without supposedly raising a finger. Everybody just thinks he is "lucky".
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??? Moose - that's totally off. His greatest power is in doing the right thing, for the right reasons, knowing there are severe costs (including possible death). Wonderful messages in the stories for kids (and adults): loyalty, overcoming (stronger) powers of evil by acting together...I could go on but won't - no spoilers, either, I'm on pg 298. J.K. Rowling has single-handedly led kids back to reading, and for that she deserves all the fortune she's made.
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Any kid that can read this to the end can read Penrod, Penrod and Sam or Ada.
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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.
Rep. Barney Frank said late Monday that Congress should begin an impeachment investigation into the Bush administration's handling of the Leakgate scandal and not wait for Special Proscecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to determine whether any laws were broken. 
Jurors at Geuri Lugo's drug trafficking trial may not have gotten one of the cigarette breaks they requested, but that doesn't mean the guilty verdict should go up in smoke, the state Appeals Court has ruled. Lugo was convicted of trafficking in heroin and cocaine. He appealed, saying the judge's denial of the jury's request for a smoke break had contributed to a quick or compromised verdict.
