The Blackberry breakup of Britney Spears and soon-to-be-ex-husband Kevin "Loser" Federline was caught on video by a crew from Canada's MuchMusic channel that had been covertly following Fed-Ex on the road to Dumpsville. After receiving a text message that read: I H8 U, loser! Federline, 28, became visibly upset, removed his microphone and left for a half hour before returning to finish an interview. "He had no idea it was coming," a Federline pal told The Post. "In fact, he had been looking into a possible divorce. She beat him to the punch."
But sources familiar with the couple's marital problems say the the writing was on the wall.
No! Reeeeeally?
"He knew what was happening," said a music-industry insider who has worked with K-Fed. "They were separated for months."
Not more than eleven months though ...
In fact, Federline has been lamenting that she was holding him back. "I will never make it big as long as I am with Brit -- I will always be Britney Spears' husband," the insider quoted K-Fed as saying.
Ummm... There was nothing holding you back before you became Mr. Britney Spears, was there?
Household name back then, he was ...
The source said Spears, 24, attempted to prolong the doomed union through the launch of Federline's new album out of pity.
"Ms. Spears? Your puppy's whining. I think he's unhappy."
"Well, give him a bone, Maurice. That always makes him feel better."
"Yes, Ms. Spears. Yer husband's whining, too, y'know."
"Oh. Him. Ummm... Launch an album for him."
"Might I say you are the soul of kindness, Ms. Spears?"
"Why, thank you, Maurice!"
"It's about time," someone close to Spears told the upcoming issue of People. "During the whole pregnancy, they had problems. She tried to support him as much as she could, but at the end of the day, she realized it wasn't best for her and her children [to stay]."
"I mean, here were are, in the finest house trailer in Beverly Hills, but it's still... ummm... a trailer house."
Only three weeks after Spears gave birth to Jayden, Federline and his entourage flew to Las Vegas and booked tables at the club Tao for at least two straight nights...
and were seen "surrounded by women, drinking a lot and dancing on the banquette," a source told Page Six at the time. "But every time one of the girls tried to take a picture, he freaked out and wouldn't let them."
Smart enough not to get get photographed, not smart enough to stay home and entertain the little woman...
One day after Spears filed for divorce from husband Federline, the rapper responded on Wednesday with court papers seeking spousal support and custody of their two children.
"Yeah, sure. I can provide a better home than her. All I need is a little money."
Fed-ex submitted his response in Los Angeles Superior Court, the same courthouse where Spears suddenly filed for divorce on Tuesday after two years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
"Yer honor, I need a divorce!"
"On what grounds?"
"He's a dipshit!"
"We object, yer honor!"
"On what grounds?"
"She's a dipshit, too! If they're both dipshits, then it ain't irreconcilable differences! It's in the Californy civil code someplace! You could look it up!"
The court papers show that Spears and Federline were prepared to fight over custody of the children in what could be a bitter divorce proceeding.
"It is not in the Californy civil code!"
"Is, too!"
"Is not!"
"Liar!"
[Thump!]
"Oops! I did it again!"
According to the Sun, Britney and Kevin had a bitter row before Kevin's performance for the West Hollywood Halloween Carnival last Tuesday, which ended with Britney screaming at him "You're useless -- you're a nobody!"
"I was a nobody when you met me!"
After she stormed out, Kevin was spotted kneeling and crying in a corner.
"Oh, my gawd! All that money! Gone!"
But he doesn't appear to be crying now, instead Federline is advertising his new status, letting the ladies know he may still be married, but he's available. At Chicago's House Of Blues on Wednesday night, he told the crowd: "Hey, I see a lot of fine ladies in here. You know I'm a free man, right, ladies? You wanna dance with a pimp?"
"No! You're a dipshit!"
"I wonder if Paris Hilton's seeing anyone?"
And on today's Drudge Report:
PAPER: BRITNEY SEX TAPE BLACKMAIL... Worried Britney Spears is being held to ransom over an explicit four-hour sex video she made with her dumped hubby...
"Here y'are. That'll be twenty bucks!"
"Yer sure this is the one where you made her preggers?"
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Sometimes I think Fred enjoys doing the nlines.
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Trailer trash with too way much unearned money and attention given to them.
That and their fellow gangsta rappers, prima donna sportmen, braindead actors,... tell a lot about the whole entertainment industry.
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Used to be such drivel was confined to gossip sheets and supermarket magazines where it belonged. Now it's "news" and treated with the same depth and attention that used to be accorded actual news. Which is now "reported" and presented in the manner of gossip and entertainment.
South Africa is sitting on a time bomb with its plans where it is envisaged that the government will expropriate farm land in a fashion similiar to the Zimbabwe-state sanctioned land grabs. This move that has been widely condemned by analysts will see the government going into an open war path with land owners as it has emerged that the government is most likely to resolve the land issue the "Zim Style". Many South African officials have been in the past making public statements that the government may broaden land seizures in order to boost black land ownership .
Vast tracts of land in South Africa are in the hands of white owners and the government has always made it known that historical land imbalances need to be corrected. But the official diplomatic stance by the government of South Africa is of denial that the government is considering any Zimbabwe-style land grabs.
Thus far expropriation has only been used in cases of land restitution -- where the government seeks to buy back white-owned land that was taken from blacks under apartheid, and where landowners and officials fail to agree on a price for the government to purchase it. The Land Department has always indicated that land reform apart from restitution also included redistribution and tenure.
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I wonder when the ANC will turn to open, full-scale genocide of the whites, instead of the "1000 cuts" ethnic cleasing through unchecked rampant crime?
Forces loyal to Congo's rival presidential contenders fought gun battles in the capital Kinshasa on Saturday in the latest violence to mar historic elections meant to end a decade of war and chaos. The government threatened to send in the army to quell the fighting, which began mid-morning in Kinshasa's main boulevard close to the office of Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel chief who says electoral fraud has hurt his challenge to President Joseph Kabila. "If this continues the army will have to intervene to restore order," Interior Minister Denis Kalume told Reuters.
They brought out heavy machine guns and mortar tubes from their base in Bemba's office compound. Some, carrying assault rifles or rocket propelled grenade launchers, wrapped lengths of colorful fabric around their loins before heading to a cemetery across the boulevard from where heavy gunfire was heard.
Bemba's men, many wearing red bandanas round their heads and scraps of fur or grass on their wrists or guns as lucky charms, took up positions in ditches on either side of the boulevard. They brought out heavy machine guns and mortar tubes from their base in Bemba's office compound. Some, carrying assault rifles or rocket propelled grenade launchers, wrapped lengths of colorful fabric around their loins before heading to a cemetery across the boulevard from where heavy gunfire was heard.
At least they're fighting in the right spot ...
Comrades dragged at least one fighter with apparent gunshot wounds back into Bemba's compound, and at least one more Bemba loyalist was wounded, a Reuters reporter saw. Kalume said one policeman was wounded.
The world's biggest U.N. peacekeeping mission sent reinforcements to the area and its head, William Swing, met Bemba in Kinshasa to try to calm the fighting. "Mr Swing is with Vice-President Bemba trying to resolve this problem. He is also in contact with President Kabila," U.N. mission spokesman Jean-Tobie Okala said. "We have been trying to resolve this situation, which is very confusing."
A European Union force, sent to secure Congo's first democratic elections in more than 40 years, was on high alert but had not been asked to intervene.
The rattle of automatic rifle fire and the boom of occasional rocket propelled grenades and mortar rounds echoed around the area as tires lay burning in the street and some civilians fled on foot. A European Union force, sent to secure Congo's first democratic elections in more than 40 years, was on high alert but had not been asked to intervene, a spokesman said. The U.N. and EU forces have stepped up patrols in recent weeks, hoping to avoid a repetition of August violence when Bemba's and Kabila's private armies fought fierce battles here.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The government believes Fidel Castro's health is deteriorating and that the Cuban dictator is unlikely to live through 2007. Anybody got a tissue?
No.
That dire view was reinforced last week when Cuba's foreign minister backed away from his prediction the ailing Castro would return to power by early December. "It's a subject on which I don't want to speculate," Felipe Perez Roque told The Associated Press in Havana.
U.S. government officials say there is still some mystery about Castro's diagnosis, his treatment and how he is responding. But these officials believe the 80-year-old leader has cancer of the stomach, colon or pancreas. Maybe all three!
He was seen weakened and thinner in official state photos released late last month, and it is considered unlikely that he will return to power or survive through the end of next year, said the U.S. government and defense officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the politically sensitive topic.
With chemotherapy, Castro may live up to 18 months, said the defense official. Without it, expected survival would drop to three months to eight months. 18 months in hell or eight months. I say give him the chemo.
American officials will not talk publicly about how they glean clues to Castro's health. But U.S. spy agencies include physicians who study pictures, video, public statements and other information coming out of Cuba. X-Ray Vision Satellites and microphones disguised as mosquitos.
A planned celebration of Castro's 80th birthday next month is expected to draw international attention. The Cuban leader had planned to attend the public event, which already had been postponed once from his Aug. 13 birthday. Why not postpone it to his funeral and do both at once?
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I'll actually be kind of sad to lose Castro. Like J.R. from "Dallas", he's the villian that I just love to hate. Raul just won't be the same, no matter how evil he is.
AMMAN - Gunmen in Haiti on Saturday shot dead two Jordanian UN peacekeepers, the official Petra agency reported. ‘A Jordanian UN peacekeeping patrol was targeted by unknown gunfire in Haiti. A lieutenant and a corporal died,’ it said, quoting a Jordanian official who did not elaborate. ‘The Jordanian government, which deplores the death of the two martyrs, will continue to assume its humanitarian role in restoring world peace and security,’ he said.
A 7,500-strong UN peacekeeping force was sent to maintain order after the February 2004 ouster of president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Jordan has around 1,497 soldiers in the force, half of which are deployed around the violence-wracked shantytown of Cite Soleil in the capital Port-au-Prince. At least six Jordanian soldiers have been killed in the lawless Caribbean nation since they were deployed in March 2004.
Last month thousands of Haitians protested in the streets of Cite Soleil demanding the withdrawal of United Nations forces.
I'd go along with that. All UN and other foreign troops out. Then cordon off the place and let the Haitians settle it. No one goes in, no one gets out, until they learn to be civilized.
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U.S. Border Patrol agents chasing suspected drug traffickers on the Texas border allegedly crossed into Mexico and had a brief standoff with Mexican police officers. No shots were fired, a Mexican official said Friday. Jose Luis Delgado, an officer in the town of Guadalupe, 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Ciudad Juarez — across from El Paso, Texas — said he and two officers were responding Thursday afternoon to a report that a pickup truck loaded with marijuana had been abandoned in the Rio Grande when they encountered several U.S. Border Patrol agents on Mexican territory.
Delgado said he and the officers arrived with their weapons drawn. "When we arrived (the U.S. officials) drew their weapons," Delgado said in a telephone interview. Delgado said 20 or 25 U.S. Border Patrol officers "wearing green uniforms" had formed a human chain along a shallow area of the river and were unloading the packages from the vehicle when he identified himself as a police officer and asked them to leave Mexican territory. The U.S. officials returned to the U.S. side of the border and a few remained there until Mexican officials towed the car, Delgado said. "They even asked us to turn the car over to them but I said no," Delgado said.
Rogelio Garcia, a spokesman with the U.S. Border Patrol El Paso sector, confirmed that U.S. agents seized about 140 kilograms (300 pounds) of marijuana from a pickup truck that at least two suspected drug traffickers abandoned in the river before running into Mexico.
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Must be planning on smoking burning the evidence.
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Felipe Calderon MexicoÂ’s president-elect who takes office on Dec. 1 has called the U.S. plan to build a 700-mile fence along the border "deplorable" and compared it to the construction of the Berlin Wall.
However, most Americans support legislation for construction of a fence. When asked why they support a fence to be erected between McAllen and Laredo, Eagle Pass and Del Rio, and El Paso to Las Cruces, N.M., they expressed three primary reasons for concern. Security, Uncontrolled migration, and Narco-Violence.
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Felipe Calderon MexicoÂ’s president-elect who takes office on Dec. 1 has called the U.S. plan to build a 700-mile fence along the border "deplorable" and compared it to the construction of the Berlin Wall
Felipe is asking the US to hurt itself. Why should he give a $hit if there is a wall around the entire US? It's to keep people out, not in. This is assuming Felipe believes that all cross-border traffic should be of the legal variety, of course.
Nicaraguan authorities said Friday they will continue using force against squatters who take over private land, a day after police evicted a group from property outside the capital.
Local television said the squatters insulted the police and said that they were sorry they had backed the leftist Ortega.
Police used tear gas and rubber bullets to force about 200 people from 70 hectares (175 acres) of land east of Managua, and arrested five, Deputy National Police Commander Cesar Cuadra said.
The incident came several days after elections that returned Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega to the presidency for a second term after several defeats. Local television said the squatters insulted the police and said that they were sorry they had backed the leftist Ortega.
Cuadra said removing the squatters was within the law and that the owner, identified as Maritza Salinas Lacayo, had filed legal action. After Ortega lost power in 1990, police took several similar actions, recovering private property that had been confiscated by the Sandinistas. Ortega had promised during his campaign this time around that there would be no further government confiscations or takeovers by squatters.
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BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer warned on Saturday that an independence referendum in Georgia’s separatist province of South Ossetia would only stoke regional tensions. ‘On behalf of NATO, I join other international leaders in rejecting the so-called ‘referendum’ and ‘elections’ conducted in the South Ossetia/Tskhinvali region of Georgia,’ he said in a statement. ‘Such actions serve no purpose other than to exacerbate tensions in the South Caucasus region,’ he added.
GeorgiaÂ’s Russian-backed breakaway province of South Ossetia was preparing itself Saturday for the controversial independence vote to take place the following day as TbilisiÂ’s diplomatic crisis with Moscow simmered. Populated by a mix of ethnic Ossetians and Georgians on RussiaÂ’s southwestern border, South Ossetia has long served as a flashpoint in already tense Russian-Georgian relations.
The Georgian authorities have slammed the poll and international observers have branded it ‘counterproductive’, while Russia has upheld the referendum as a legitimate reaction to Georgian pressure.
‘The international community, including NATO, has strongly and continuously reaffirmed its support for the territorial integrity of Georgia,’ said Scheffer. ‘I call on all sides to act in good faith to conduct negotiations towards achieving a political settlement.
‘Peaceful resolution is the only way to achieve long-term peace and stability in the South Caucasus region.’
Just let them go. In a few years the Ossetians will be sorry they tied themselves to Putin. In the meantime Georgia could focus on getting its own house in order.
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Hopes in Fiji that defiant military leader Frank Bainimarama will bury the hatchet with Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase appear dashed, with the military saying it has "given up" on the Government.
A recording of Commodore Bainimarama's closed door address on Friday to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs (GCC) revealed the military leader denouncing the Prime Minister's leadership and policies. "Mr Prime Minister, we've had enough of your lies," Commodore Bainimarama told Mr Qarase at the meeting, according to a copy of the recording received Saturday by AFP.
The emergency meeting of the Pacific island nation's traditional leaders was called in an attempt to broker a settlement between the two men. Although fears of a fourth military coup in Fiji in two decades have eased, tensions remain high. The military commander has kept up his verbal assaults on the premier, but backed away from threats to force him and the Government from office, accusing them of lies and corruption.
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Does this mean COCONUT TREES, etc will be blowing themselves up like the White House, thus like good God-based Lefties HAMAS, FATAH etal Spetzies are NOT responsible for coco chips/nuts falling from the sky???
The German government on Wednesday lowered the number of peacekeepers it can send to Bosnia, a first step toward the withdrawal of its troops.
The Cabinet agreed to cut the maximum number of troops Germany can send to Bosnia from 3,000 to 2,400. Only about 850 German troops are currently stationed there.
Parliament must approve the change as part of a one-year extension to the deployment.
Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung announced last month that he hopes to reduce Germany's contingent in the 6,000-strong European Union force in Bosnia.
The Balkan country held successful October elections, underlining its increasing stability since the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
EU officials are to meet in December to discuss plans for a withdrawal, which the German Defense Ministry has said could begin in the first half of 2007.
Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe said Wednesday that no date had been set for a complete withdrawal.
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Don't really care about the Germans. The Balkans is one place US forces should never have been and should be quit from as soon as possible. Unfortunately, this is the sort of feelgood, useless misadventures that we can expect to see more of from the Democrat congress.
France has sent a stiff complaint to Brussels about the European UnionÂ’s choice of logo to commemorate its 50th birthday next year. The offending image, a child-like rendition of the English word together, does nothing to serve the cause of European unity, the French Government claims.
Their objections come after a shower of rude comment throughout Europe about the logo, which was chosen at a cost of €200,000 (£134,000) last month by a jury of experts from EU institutions and member states. The winning entry from among 1,700 submissions was the work of a Polish art student.
Had to be an art student. No mere child could produce something this vapid.
A common gibe on the internet is that the jumbled letters evoke a ransom note more than festive celebration of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The full slogan says: “Together since 1957”.
The Commission announced national versions after an initial outcry about the original, which was only in English, a language that President Chirac has banned French officials from using.
... oh, that's why.
French anger went public last week when Barbara Cassin, a philosopher, wrote in Le Monde that the slogan had got everything wrong. “It is absolutely counter-productive and counter to the way that Europe wants to define itself.”
She was upset that the logo was in English and it looked like an inferior version of the logo for Google, the internet search website.
Nothing says 'inferior' like the EU ...
She hated the playful R (registered in a circle) which made the Union look like a commercial product.
And Y'urp-peons just don't do commercial enterprise, they just don't ...
French voters last year rejected the European Constitution in a referendum largely because the Union is seen as an Anglo-Saxon commercial venture.
Even though it was written by a Frenchie ...
In Brussels, Margot Wallström, the Commissioner for Institutional Relations and Communication, defended the choice in her blog this week: “I very much like the winning design, I think it is a good example of a ‘slogo’ — it combines a slogan with a logo. I find it fresh, light, modern and unbureaucratic.
"Do you know how many lunches we had over this? We had to come up with something!"“I have seen some pedantic criticism in the usual quarters saying that the EU has not been together since 1957. For me, that misses the point.”
The point is why ...
Germany is also unhappy because it will be holding the rotating presidency when the Rome treaty is celebrated. It plans to produce its own logo.
Europe has long run into trouble devising visual celebrations. Britain was criticised for using childrenÂ’s paintings for its 1998 presidency logo. Italy was upset then because it was represented by a pizza.
Instead of a mafia gangster ...
The biggest wrangle was about a design for the single currency in the late 1990s. EU leaders finally opted to put on euro notes a series of generic European bridges and windows, designed by an Austrian.
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LOL! I saw the title, looked at the graphic, figured it was cobbled together by Fred or Doc Steve as a joke, then started to read the story. The 'artist' is laughing, too. All the way to the bank...
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I thought the same thing! Maybe they could get Fred to put something together for them. Or skip the language thing altogether and have Prince come up with a unisex symbol for all to use.
And if that fails, I'll be glad to give it a try for a mere $100,000.
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The 'artist' is laughing, too. All the way to the bank...
The student artist probably got $500, a nice certificate, and a bullet on his resume. The rest of the 200,000 EU (!!) was spent on lunches. Now they'll spend 500,000 EU arguing about it.
The funeral of former Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit turned into a protest against the Islamic-rooted government on Saturday, when thousands of pro-secular mourners booed the Turkish premier at a mosque and vowed to defend the secular regime against the rising profile of Islam. "Turkey is secular and will remain secular," thousands of people shouted when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived at the Kocatepe mosque for funeral prayers for Ecevit, who died on Nov. 5 at age 81, after nearly six months in a coma following a stroke.
Ecevit, a respected pro-secular political force in Turkey for almost half a century, served five times as Turkey's prime minister. He was best known for ordering the 1974 invasion of Cyprus, which led to the division of the Mediterranean island, but made him a hero at home. His decades-long struggle for workers' social rights also made him popular with the working class.
Erdogan reacted angrily to the protest. "Who of you is saying this? You are saying this to someone who is struggling" for secularism, he said. "Is there anyone who is working against it that you are saying this to? These are not nice things."
The anti-government protests during his funeral on Saturday underlined growing concerns about the increasing role of Islam in this predominantly Muslim but officially secular country. The crowd booed Erdogan even louder as he left the mosque. Several other government members and Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc from Erdogan's Justice and Development Party were targets of similar protests.
Erdogan reacted angrily to the protest during a speech at his party congress later on Saturday. "Who of you is saying this? You are saying this to someone who is struggling" for secularism, he said. "Is there anyone who is working against it that you are saying this to? These are not nice things."
Since taking power in 2002, Erdogan has increased secularists' concerns by speaking out against restrictions on wearing Islamic-style head scarves in government offices and schools and by supporting religious schools. He also tried to criminalize adultery before being forced to back down under intense European Union pressure, and some party-run municipalities have taken steps to ban alcohol.
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"Who of you is saying this? You are saying this to someone who is struggling" for secularism, he said. "Is there anyone who is working against it that you are saying this to? These are not nice things."
Who's saying what? Well, let's see:
Since taking power in 2002, Erdogan has increased secularists' concerns by speaking out against restrictions on wearing Islamic-style head scarves in government offices and schools
That's bad.
and by supporting religious schools.
That's bad.
He also tried to criminalize adultery
That's bad.
some party-run municipalities have taken steps to ban alcohol.
That's bad, too.
Four for four is really kinda sucky, Recep old boy. A little too pro-Islamic for some folk it would seem. Maybe some nice Islamist will come along and 'splode straighten you out.
The French economy ground to a halt in the third quarter, prompting banks to lower their forecasts for growth across Europe on Friday. The surprisingly bad news also dealt the center-right government a blow as campaigning gains pace, with a presidential election just six months away.
France had been expected to grow by an annualized 0.5 percent in the third quarter after posting large gains in the second quarter. Along with declining unemployment, continued growth in France was expected to help the Gaullist governing party to rally voters. Instead French output was unchanged during the third quarter, while industrial production fell, reinforcing a picture of the French economy as somewhat plodding and unlikely to repeat the exceptional growth spurt in the second quarter anytime soon.
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From another article I saw last night, it seems that the Airbus fiasco is beginning to bite hard in both France and Germany. Explains at least part of the slowed growth, not that one normally uses the word 'growth' in referring to Europe.
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what does it say about frankenreich that 1 company can do this?
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could never have guessed they'd beat Al Franken's box office anti-success LOL
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After the debacle this past week, small pleasures in the world of trying to save traditional America from itself count large for me. This flop is smile-producing even in this grim time as the Democrats begin to unveil things we knew were coming but they never mentioned until after the election.......
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Look, to be honest, I could watch 93 minutes of Natalie Maines doing housework. That she has fantastic vocal chops is a major bonus, and her disdain for Bush is merely icing atop a significantly layered cake.
Yeah, that's about what I expected from a radio-television-film graduate.
Massively depressing, and highlights some of the hypocrisies and idiocies of American public life, and points out how... ignorant some Americans are, and makes you want to just give up and move to Mars and start all over again with a new revolution.
In other words, all of us are ignorant idiots who are incapable of comprehension, and we need to be led by the nose by liberals to the promised land. None of this "making your own decisions" nonsense - we might make the wrong choice!
Academy Award-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple does an excellent job capturing the Chicks' thoughts, and uses judicious clips from political speeches to put Maines' off-the-cuff comment into context.
Academy Award...check. Making excuses for a an attitude that alienates most of America...check.
WASHINGTON - The Democrats' return to power is increasing pressure on House Republican leaders to accept a limited expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling.
Supporters of such exploration say the next Congress, with Democrats in control come January, probably will not tamper with the long-standing drilling bans that have protected most coastal waters for a quarter-century.
A stubborn standoff has festered for months between the House and Senate over developing more of the oil and gas resources in the Outer Continental Shelf. The dispute is expected to be an issue in the final days of the Republican-run Congress this week when lawmakers meet in a lame-duck session.
The proposal is of great importance to Louisiana and three other Gulf Coast states. They stand to reap hundreds of millions of dollars under changes to the way the government shares royalties from oil and gas taken from the Gulf of Mexico. The rest at the link. Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, and Barbara Boxer want a bill passed that would ban any more offshore drilling anywhere. They want very badly to impose their priorities on the rest of us even though we don't get to vote for them. They seem to have forgotten they were elected to represent the citizens of the State of California, not the States of Texas, Louisianna, Missippi, Alabama, and Florida.
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any raises in the price of gas has to be placed at their doorstep, despite all MSM efforts to teh contrary. Perhaps www.Demsforhighergasprices.com?
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Now is the time to ram something through the House and Senate to allow oil & gas drilling off our own coasts! For God's sake, the Chinese and Cubans are drilling 90 friggin' miles off the coast of Florida and we can't drill withn 150?!
That's just assinine.
Ram something through now before you lose control!
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Time to start some serious work on "buyer's remorse". As bloggers, I think it's time to start hammering on the theme that the Dems plan to raise taxes, raise the price of gasoline by refusing to allow development of US oil reserves, refuse to allow the continued expansion of the US Military, refuse to continue to fight the War on Terror, are against securing our borders, are FOR amnesty for over 15 MILLION illegal aliens (many with criminal records), and much, much more. We can either raise a stink or go quietly into the dark. If we raise ENOUGH of a stink, we can criple the effectiveness of the donks in implementing their policies. I'm going to start writing letters to the editor as often as I can get them published. I also plan to rescusitate my blog, if I can find the time and energy to write on it. We need to shame the donks as often and as much as possible until we get what the United States needs, not what their green friends want.
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Okay, MADONNA, I'll bite, didn't the Dems run on US-SPECIFIC ENERGY INDEPENDENCE???
Federal investigators have resumed their inquiry into a rental deal between U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and a nonprofit agency, issuing new subpoenas in the days after he was elected to a full six-year term, according to a government source.
The subpoenas sought documents related to the more than $300,000 in rent Menendez collected from the North Hudson Community Action Corp. between 1994 and 2003, the source said. It was unclear what records were sought or who was subpoenaed.
"More are coming," said the source, who declined to be named because of the sensitive nature of the investigation.
and the damn fools reelected this criminal crony of a guy who bought his way into the senate and then the gov seat (Corzine) and lied his ass off about taxes and government services. Shame of it is, if he gets booted Corzine names the replacment. NJ-ers, you are way too stupid to be allowed to vote - look at the results. On the bright side, there goes the Dems "Open and Clean Government" campaign slogan.
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If he gets dumped for this, then there is an appointment and a special election. Keane could win that one because he already has name recognition, and coudl take advantage of "buyers remorse" in NJ. Thats if they arent so unthinkingly stupid as to pull the lever for anything with a (D) beside it (which is a very real possibility).
Irony is that if this does happen, the Repubs get the senate back - and with a lot of pro-gun pro-defense new people in it across the aisle (Webb, etc)
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On the bright side, there goes the Dems "Open and Clean Government" campaign slogan.
Really? Odds are that the closer he comes to conviction, the less his party affiliation will be mentioned in stories. Eventually some paper or TV station will make a "mistake" and slap an "(R)" after his name. Then the Democrats will crow about how his removal proves they're cleaning up the corruption.
The press is feeling its oats, realizing just how much help they can provide their chosen party. All they ask in return is a little help -- "campaign finance reform" and the "fairness doctrine".
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usually the Gov appoints a replacement
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"..investigators have resumed their inquiry..."
Attourney General Ondulay Gonzales runs a real pro active department! Maybe after the Thanksgiving and Christmas break he will resume the investigation of "Dollar Bill" Jefferson, Criminal LA,...that is if Dennis the Menace Hastert doesn't continue objecting that all Congresscritters are innocent, regardless of cold hard facts in the freezer.
Democrats will look again at the legislation mandating 698 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border and might seek to scrap the plan altogether when they take control of Congress next year.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi Democrat, told reporters this week that he expected to "revisit" the issue when he becomes chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee in the 110th Congress. Mr. Thompson said the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) new border enforcement program, known as the Secure Border Initiative or SBI Net – which includes monitors, cameras and other integrated surveillance systems – is a viable alternative to fencing. "We might do away with it, or look at [integrating it into] SBI Net," he said. "A virtual fence rather than a real one."
President Bush and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff have voiced similar concerns about building the fence. DHS spokesman Russ Knocke told United Press International that in remote border areas, "virtual fencing ... is more advantageous," whereas "traditional fencing has a core role in our border security strategy ... especially in urban areas."
"We're optimistic that working with Congress we'll get the flexibility to integrate traditional fencing into a seamless, high-tech border security system," Mr. Knocke said.
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If the President cuts a deal with these fools to cancel the fence and do some kind of amnesty deal, then I'll send them money to impeach him myself! Remember George"....foreign and domestic..."!
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Nothing in this to stop private landowners from building fences on their own property, as the Minutemen had started to do before they handed over their funds to whatsisname to [mis]manage for them.
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And that's where the fence will ultimately come from - private funds. Meaning only on Public lands wil there be an illgal alien freeway. And then it will be pleny easy to place the blame.
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What is the use of producing or owning anything if it all becomes public property when you do? Thou shalt covet thy neighbor, and his nice car, and his country, and his bank account, and his property, and his wife, and his children.
And in the Big Inning, there was Mexico, and Mexico made Eden in the image of Mexico.
In the big inning, there was southpark, and they made a mexican God, and God saw that it was good. And he laughed at the gutters and tripwires and mines they had set for themselves as he hitchhiked away to sweeden to attend a gay marrige and then to France because he had to take a dump. And there he laid a muslem - and he saw that it was good. So there was a division between night and day and he laughed as the tower of babel fell.
And the IT folks were devestated and they cried for woe R us, for we have no high tech jobs. And God laughed and said, ahh, but you can work as border control agents. "But from whence does the border start or end"? Said they. GOD laughed.
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So, if the Republicans are smart (which has become doubtful), and they want to win back the House and Senate in 2008, here is an issue practically gift wrapped for them. If they don't get wise we will have Democrats in control of the White House, the House and the Senate in 2008. Maybe this little fiasco of the 2006 elections will teach them a lesson. If you don't represent the people, how can you expect the people to support you? Oh, and all you idiots in places like Minnesota who don't believe this is a problem come see Southern California. Drive around in places like Escondido and Vista where they have Mexican flags on all the porches in some neighborhoods. They don't bother assimilating because they're taking over. They don't bother learning English because we're all learning Spanish. Did you know that California used to be a red state? Remember Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Pete Wilson, Sam Hayakawa, B1 Bob Dornan? Don't care if you lose California to Mexico? Hey, Minnesota. Hey, Mississippi. Checked inside the kitchens of your own favorite restaurants lately? Ever hear of demographics? Did you know that people from third world countries make more babies than we do? BTW, who mows your lawn?
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This is a non-issue anyways. They voted for it, but have yet to distribute funds to ACTUALLY build it. What IS great about America is groups like the Minutemen, who'll see to it that it's built on PRIVATE property before it's all said and done (unless they continue to mis-manage the funds a'la Congress does).
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"Cancel the border fence" > as iff RUSSIA-CHINA + SCO will be the ones to build the Global Trans-Continenteeel Highway.
A total of 4,098 patients with symptoms similar to dengue fever had been admitted to hospitals throughout the country up till Saturday, a Health Ministry press release said. Dengue fever has killed a total of 37 people in the country including 35 in Sindh and 2 in NWFP, while the total number of patients confirmed positive for the dengue virus is 1,487. In Islamabad and Rawalpindi, 619 patients with dengue fever symptoms have so far been hospitalised. The total number of confirmed dengue patients in the twin cities is 226.
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Only a miracle has kept dengue out of the US, from Mexico, where it is endemic. A mosquito borne illness, it has extraordinary and drastic symptoms that are acute for a week and make you miserable for three.
However, unpredictably, often with a second infection, it can turn into a hemorrhagic form, like ebola. Quite lethal.
For decades, it was mostly economic pressures pushing Palestinian Christians to emigrate, using family ties in the West or contacts from missionary schools. The Palestinian uprisings _ and the separation barrier started by Israel in 2002 _ accelerated the departures by turning once-bustling pilgrimage sites such as Bethlehem into relative ghost towns.
The growing strength of radical Islamic movements has added distinct new worries. During the protests after the pope's remarks in September, some of the worst violence was in Palestinian areas with churches firebombed and hit by gunfire.
The native Palestinian Christian population has dipped below 2 percent of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Arab East Jerusalem, down from at least 15 percent in 1950 by some estimates. Meanwhile, the Muslim Palestinian birthrate is among the highest in the world.
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The choice is either stand up against Muslim radicals or doom Holy Land Christianity to a slow death, said Ayman Abuaita, a Christian leader who previously served in the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, which has waged suicide bombings against Israelis.
"This is our land. This is where our faith was born," he said. "We cannot be weak and just fade away."
Some are trying to change the momentum. Groups dedicated to Muslim-Christian cooperation are active. During the protests over Benedict's remarks, militiamen from Islamic Jihad vowed to protect a West Bank church.
What's the point here? This article is all over the map. As far as I can tell, the point is: Christians should stay in the Holy Land so they can be human shields and pay money to the Muslim protection rackets. Uh.. no thanks.
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I am so sick of the "racism" lie. If every Arab in the West Bank was Christian I expect the whole thing would have been peacefully incorporated into Israel decades ago. Failing that, an Arab Christian Palestine would have become an independent state long ago and would thrive upon tourism and the fruits of its agricultural labour and high-tech micro-industry. The only difference between that would and the actual world is Islam, "religion" of failure.
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a Christian restaurant owner, Ibrahim Shomali, is selling what he can before he leaves with his wife this month. They will head for Flint, Mich.,
Isn't Flint a Muslim population center? I know this is probably just too paranoid, but this article just gives me pause regarding the possiblity of terrorists posing as Christians to put down people's guard to achieve their goals.
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One of reasons, but not the only reason, that Muslim birth rates are high is becuz Muslim mortality rates, espec among Males, is also high. Many Muslim males can survive childhood and teen years, but not early Middle Age like the Russians. An African is lucky iff he sees ages 15-18.
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
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The Blackberry breakup of Britney Spears and soon-to-be-ex-husband Kevin 
South Africa is sitting on a time bomb with its plans where it is envisaged that the government will expropriate farm land in a fashion similiar to the Zimbabwe-state sanctioned land grabs. This move that has been widely condemned by analysts will see the government going into an open war path with land owners as it has emerged that the government is most likely to resolve the land issue the "Zim Style". Many South African officials have been in the past making public statements that the government may broaden land seizures in order to boost black land ownership .
Forces loyal to Congo's rival presidential contenders fought gun battles in the capital Kinshasa on Saturday in the latest violence to mar historic elections meant to end a decade of war and chaos. The government threatened to send in the army to quell the fighting, which began mid-morning in Kinshasa's main boulevard close to the office of Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former rebel chief who says electoral fraud has hurt his challenge to President Joseph Kabila. "If this continues the army will have to intervene to restore order," Interior Minister Denis Kalume told Reuters.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The government believes Fidel Castro's health is deteriorating and that the Cuban dictator is unlikely to live through 2007. 
AMMAN - Gunmen in Haiti on Saturday shot dead two Jordanian UN peacekeepers, the official Petra agency reported. ‘A Jordanian UN peacekeeping patrol was targeted by unknown gunfire in Haiti. A lieutenant and a corporal died,’ it said, quoting a Jordanian official who did not elaborate. ‘The Jordanian government, which deplores the death of the two martyrs, will continue to assume its humanitarian role in restoring world peace and security,’ he said.
U.S. Border Patrol agents chasing suspected drug traffickers on the Texas border allegedly crossed into Mexico and had a brief standoff with Mexican police officers. No shots were fired, a Mexican official said Friday. Jose Luis Delgado, an officer in the town of Guadalupe, 40 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of Ciudad Juarez — across from El Paso, Texas — said he and two officers were responding Thursday afternoon to a report that a pickup truck loaded with marijuana had been abandoned in the Rio Grande when they encountered several U.S. Border Patrol agents on Mexican territory.
Nicaraguan authorities said Friday they will continue using force against squatters who take over private land, a day after police evicted a group from property outside the capital. 
Hopes in Fiji that defiant military leader Frank Bainimarama will bury the hatchet with Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase appear dashed, with the military saying it has "given up" on the Government.
The funeral of former Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit turned into a protest against the Islamic-rooted government on Saturday, when thousands of pro-secular mourners booed the Turkish premier at a mosque and vowed to defend the secular regime against the rising profile of Islam. "Turkey is secular and will remain secular," thousands of people shouted when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived at the Kocatepe mosque for funeral prayers for Ecevit, who died on Nov. 5 at age 81, after nearly six months in a coma following a stroke.
A total of 4,098 patients with symptoms similar to dengue fever had been admitted to hospitals throughout the country up till Saturday, a Health Ministry press release said. Dengue fever has killed a total of 37 people in the country including 35 in Sindh and 2 in NWFP, while the total number of patients confirmed positive for the dengue virus is 1,487. In Islamabad and Rawalpindi, 619 patients with dengue fever symptoms have so far been hospitalised. The total number of confirmed dengue patients in the twin cities is 226.
For decades, it was mostly economic pressures pushing Palestinian Christians to emigrate, using family ties in the West or contacts from missionary schools. The Palestinian uprisings _ and the separation barrier started by Israel in 2002 _ accelerated the departures by turning once-bustling pilgrimage sites such as Bethlehem into relative ghost towns.
