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Eisenhower had Operation Wetback during the 1950s--basically what you recommend anymouse. The phrase is so non-PC. How about "Operation Rio Grand Frogman?"
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Screw sending them back they will just come back again.
I say annex mexico cut it into a couple more states add the stars on the flag. 30million people we will absorb anyway at this rate so why not get the resources and taxes also. Mexico has great potential huge oil reserves, work force, good climate, great vaction areas, hell with thier corrupt government tanked and replaced it would be a great addition to the Union. Not to mention the new southern border would be less than a 5th of what we got to deal with now and all the nations further south would understand why as a government they should not attempt to push immigrants into thier northern nation as a buisness.
just for the schadefreude...heh heh....watch the Video
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I used to work in a government office. There was a boss-man there with a Napoleon complex who dictated everything. One day, in the middle of the afternoon, his sceretary busts out laughing, and nobody can figure out why. Turns out that Mr. Napoleon had been dictating, ducked into the john to relieve himself, and kept dictating through the whole process--it was, as they say, all there on the tape.
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damn - one stinking sentence and I mail it in. Preview is my fryend friend
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Lawls at the "he has three kids and the bitch is a control freak" comment.
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Quito, Ecuador: Maria Esther de Capovilla, the oldest person in the world according to Guinness World Records, has died at 116 years of age, her granddaughter said. Capovilla died on Sunday in a hospital in the coastal city of Guayaquil two days after coming down with pneumonia, her granddaughter Catherine Capovilla said. Her funeral was planned for yesterday. Born on September 14, 1889 the same year as Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler Capovilla was married in 1917 and widowed in 1949.
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Came in by lamplight, and went out by satellite.
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Um... if she died, she isn't the oldest living person anymore.
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa, which has backed Irans right to enrich uranium, says it is contemplating processing its own uranium to boost power generation and envisages building up to six new nuclear reactors.
But Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said in a speech at the weekend that any enrichment of uranium by South Africa would be pursued within international obligations.
South Africa has said it hopes to grow its economy by around 6 percent in the future and would need new energy capacity to fuel the expansion of the continents biggest economy.
South Africa abandoned its nuclear arms programme before the end of apartheid in 1994. But it opposes forcing nations to abandon uranium enrichment, saying this could hurt its potential commercial activities to supply the nuclear power industry. The expansion of peaceful uses of nuclear energy worldwide is looking more and more irreversible, Sonjica said. Clearly there is potential in this country and in this continent for us to look at ways of increasing the role nuclear technology plays in our economies.
Sonjica said nuclear technology could increase at least 5,000 megawatts of nuclear energy to the countrys power output by 2030. Sonjica said the proposed plan would require building of four to six new nuclear reactors, and that the country had enough uranium reserves to fuel such a nuclear energy programme.
South Africa produces nuclear electricity from its Koeberg power plant in the Western Cape province, which accounts for 6 percent of its electricity generation. Koeberg, Africas only nuclear-fired facility, imports all its fuel requirements, a spokesman said. Its two nuclear reactors each generate about 900 megawatts of electricity.
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Just following diplomatic meetings with Iran, what an amazing coincidence.
A powerful militant group in Nigeria's oil producing delta said it had ordered the immediate and unconditional release of an Italian hostage kidnapped last Thursday. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) was not responsible for the Italian's abduction, but has been instrumental in resolving some previous abductions in Africa's top oil producer.
The instruction reflects a growing view among activists in the region that their fight for more control over the delta's oil wealth is becoming overshadowed by a wave of criminality. "We have today directed the immediate and unconditional release of the Italian worker contracted to Saipem who was abducted on Thursday. This release will be effected any moment from now," MEND said in an e-mail to the media late on Monday. There have been eight separate abductions by various little-known groups in the Niger Delta in August, and most hostages have been released after the payment of ransoms. Three oil workers, including the Italian, are still in captivity.
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Saudi clerics want to impose restrictions on women praying at Islam's holiest shrine in Makkah.
"Eeeeewwwww! Women! Ucky!"
But women activists in Saudi Arabia say the idea is discriminatory and have vowed to oppose it.
"We're ag'in it!"
At present, women can pray in the immediate vicinity of the Kaaba. Plans by the all-male committee overseeing the holy sites would place women in a distant section of the mosque while men would still be able to pray in the key space.
"How distant?"
"How distant is Jakarta?"
"The area is very small and so crowded. So we decided to get women out of the sahn [Kaaba area] to a better place where they can see the Kaaba and have more space," said Osama Al Bar, head of the Institute for Haj Research.
"Yeah. We're just doin' it to make the little darlin's happy."
"Some women thought it wasn't good, but from our point of view it will be better for them ... We can sit with them and explain to them what the decision is [about]," he said. The decision is not final and could be reversed, he added.
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...from our point of view it will be better for us them...
Felipe Calderón seemed virtually assured of being designated president of Mexico next week after the country's highest electoral tribunal on Monday threw out legal challenges from his leftist opponent, who claims that widespread fraud warped the results of last month's national election. The seven-member tribunal stopped short of officially designating Mr. Calderón, a conservative, president-elect. But it ruled unanimously that the opponent, Ándres Manuel López Obrador, had failed to prove that irregularities in many polling places stemmed from fraud, nor had he proven that the errors affected him more than his opponent.
With this decision the constitutional order is broken and the road is opened for an usurper to occupy the presidency through a coup détat...
The judges said in open court on Monday that they had ordered the votes from scores of polling places annulled for irregularities found in a partial recount, but that the final result would not change. They also made it clear they found no evidence of fraud. "Based on all the annulments that were deemed necessary, all the parties lost a considerable number of votes, but that did not affect the result," said Magistrate José Alejandro Luna Ramos.
Mr. López Obrador, 53, a former mayor of Mexico City who favors spending more on the poor, has declared he will not accept the ruling, calling it part of a conspiracy to rob him of victory.
Speaking Monday evening in a rainstorm, Mr. López Obrador scoffed at the ruling, called his political opponents criminals and said Mr. Calderón had usurped his rightful victory. Today the electoral tribunal decided to validate the fraud against the citizens will and decided to back the criminals who robbed us of the presidential election, he said. With this decision, he added, the constitutional order is broken and the road is opened for an usurper to occupy the presidency through a coup détat.
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With this decision, he added, the constitutional order is broken and the road is opened for an usurper to occupy the presidency through a coup détat.
And with this declaration, he justifies his plans to try it for himself. Mexico is fucked.
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had failed to prove that irregularities in many polling places stemmed from fraud, nor had he proven that the errors affected him more than his opponent
....tbey just permitted him to win is all. Whahahahahaa
Europe's "Christian values" should be enshrined in a new version of the EU constitution, the German chancellor declared yesterday after meeting the Pope.
In remarks which will reopen the debate on religion in the EU, Angela Merkel threw her weight behind Pope Benedict's campaign to recognise Europe's Christian heritage. "We spoke about freedom of religion," she said after talks at the Pope's summer residence near Rome. "We spoke about the role of Europe and I emphasised the need for a constitution and that it should refer to our Christian values."
Since those are also Western values and values that the Euros used to believe in, once upon a time.
Mrs Merkel will take charge of efforts to revive the constitution when Germany assumes the EU's rotating presidency next January. Any attempt to mention Christianity - or simply God - in the text will be met by stiff resistance from secular France, from Britain, which treads carefully in this area, and from northern Protestant countries such as Sweden and Denmark. During the tortuous negotiations on the constitution in 2004 there were concerns that any religious reference could upset Europe's Muslims and Jews.
But Mrs Merkel, the daughter of a Protestant pastor, is determined to reopen the debate when she tries to revive the constitution, a controversial move in itself because many EU leaders want a slimmed down document after last year's no votes.
The chancellor is leader of the strongly Catholic CDU party whose most senior figure in Brussels is determined to include a reference to God in the new constitution. Hans-Gert Pöttering, currently leader of the EPP-ED group in the European parliament, is on course to become the assembly's president next year.
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True FREEDOM, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IS TOWARDS GOD, NOT FROM OR AGAINST GOD. Put everything out on the table, honestly and truthfully, and let the People = Voters decide. The People, the Nation, and the Good will prevail or win, even iff mistakes are made.
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There's is no European people, there is no European demos, there can be NO true European Democracy.
A constitution is for a country, Europe is NOT a country and will never be one. Europe should be a set of mutually agreed bi-lateral agreements, NOT a federal state.
A European federal state is the way to "civil" war.
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Absolutely right. If Germany wants more "Christian values" reflected in the constitution, forget about the EU and amend the German constitution. Europe for the most part has long since completely abandoned Christianity, and has even gone beyond post-modernism. It's perhaps the most secular region in the world. Attempting to get these secularist irreligious (except for the imported muzzies) states to agree on anything remotely resembling Christianity is an exercise in futility.
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For what it's worth, the Fars News Agency has released what they claim is the full text of the Midget's letter to the German Chancellor (via Lucianne.com)
Europe's "Christian values" should be enshrined in a new version of the EU constitution, the German chancellor declared yesterday after meeting the Pope.
However much Mosaic Law and current Constitutional law share a common origin, the two should not be conflated. Countering the Muslim incursion into Europe by enshrining "Christian values" is merely getting into a theocratic pissing contest. No matter how detestable Islam may be, it is wise to recall that one should never try to out-stink a skunk.
Former U.S. President Gerald Ford has been discharged from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota after nearly two weeks of treatment for heart problems. An aide to the president said he returned to his California home on Monday with his wife, Betty.
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Still much tougher than Pelosi
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Only one in five people in greater Bangkok are convinced an alleged attempt to blow up Prime Minister Thaksin Shinwatra was real, an independent poll showed on Monday. The Bangkok University poll of 1,174 people in the Thai capital and its suburbs over the weekend showed 49.8 percent of respondents were not convinced there was a real attempt to assassinate Thaksin with a sophisticated car bomb last week.
Only 20.5 percent believed the plot. The rest did not know what to believe about an alleged conspiracy uncovered on the official opening day of a campaign for an Oct. 15 general election re-run of an inconclusive April poll Thaksin called to counter a street campaign against him.
Of the sceptics in greater Bangkok, the region at the centre of the campaign, 60.6 percent believed the government had cooked up the alleged assassination attempt, the poll showed. Newspapers, many of which openly dislike Thaksin, have given plenty of reasons for doubts about a purported plot in which a lone army lieutenant has been arrested and charged, so far, only with illegal possession of explosives.
On Monday, they carried prominent reports of opposition calls on Thaksin to name four army officers he says were behind the plot but so far unidentified and apparently still free.
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Although the largest Muslim group in North America has chosen a woman as its next president, she will still not be allowed to lead congregational prayers. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which begins its annual conference in Chicago this weekend, chose Ingrid Mattson, a Canadian convert to Islam and an Islamic law scholar at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, as its president for the next two years on Friday. ISNA Secretary General Sayyid Syeed said on Monday that Ms Mattson would only lead ritual worship "for women," ruling out her entitlement to lead prayers as an imam.
ISNA is an orthodox and conservative group, sympathetic to puritanical interpretations of Islam. By way of reassurance, Syeed added, "That does not in any way limit her role as president." He said an ISNA president was rarely called upon to lead prayers. It was, however, quite clear that if such an occasion was to arise, the new president will not be able to stand at the head of a congregation at prayer time. The ISNA was established as an umbrella group for various Muslim organisations across the US and Canada.
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Well, yeah, but "That does not in any way limit her role as president."
I count one way. There may be others.
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She can still be president as long as she stands outside, inside her bag, and does not say anything. Very Islamic.
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.
Quito, Ecuador: Maria Esther de Capovilla, the oldest person in the world according to Guinness World Records, has died at 116 years of age, her granddaughter said. Capovilla died on Sunday in a hospital in the coastal city of Guayaquil two days after coming down with pneumonia, her granddaughter Catherine Capovilla said. Her funeral was planned for yesterday. Born on September 14, 1889 the same year as Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler Capovilla was married in 1917 and widowed in 1949.
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa, which has backed Irans right to enrich uranium, says it is contemplating processing its own uranium to boost power generation and envisages building up to six new nuclear reactors.
A powerful militant group in Nigeria's oil producing delta said it had ordered the immediate and unconditional release of an Italian hostage kidnapped last Thursday. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) was not responsible for the Italian's abduction, but has been instrumental in resolving some previous abductions in Africa's top oil producer.
Saudi clerics want to impose restrictions on women praying at Islam's holiest shrine in Makkah. 
Felipe Calderón seemed virtually assured of being designated president of Mexico next week after the country's highest electoral tribunal on Monday threw out legal challenges from his leftist opponent, who claims that widespread fraud warped the results of last month's national election. The seven-member tribunal stopped short of officially designating Mr. Calderón, a conservative, president-elect. But it ruled unanimously that the opponent, Ándres Manuel López Obrador, had failed to prove that irregularities in many polling places stemmed from fraud, nor had he proven that the errors affected him more than his opponent.
Europe's "Christian values" should be enshrined in a new version of the EU constitution, the German chancellor declared yesterday after meeting the Pope.
Former U.S. President Gerald Ford has been discharged from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota after nearly two weeks of treatment for heart problems. An aide to the president said he returned to his California home on Monday with his wife, Betty.
Although the largest Muslim group in North America has chosen a woman as its next president, she will still not be allowed to lead congregational prayers. The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which begins its annual conference in Chicago this weekend, chose Ingrid Mattson, a Canadian convert to Islam and an Islamic law scholar at Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, as its president for the next two years on Friday. ISNA Secretary General Sayyid Syeed said on Monday that Ms Mattson would only lead ritual worship "for women," ruling out her entitlement to lead prayers as an imam. 
