SARVER, Pa. - Lori Artman thought she'd uncovered a fortune when she found an old wooden box partially buried in her backyard. But there was no hidden loot in the box - just dynamite. There was almost an Earth-shattering KABOOM!
"We were hoping for money, a buried treasure," Artman said. "Instead we just had a crazy day with the bomb squad." Personally, I'd rather spend a crazy day with the Bombed Squad.
The box was found Friday when Artman, her boyfriend and her nephew were inspecting the fence around her property in Buffalo Township, about 25 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. I inspect my fences every week but so far I've never found anything other than rocks.
They called police, who summoned the Allegheny County bomb squad. DADADADADADADADA! Bomb Squad!!
The dynamite was wrapped in newspapers from 1968. Artman said she was told it likely came from an old mine or was left by a gas company that used it to blow up large rocks. Newy York Times? For a minute there I thought she said an Old Mime.
Authorities said they destroyed the 76 sticks of deteriorating dynamite by burning it in a field. 76 sticks? What, no Earth-shattering KABOOM? Marvin will be sooo pissed.
"It was very unexciting," said township Fire Chief Gary Risch Jr. "It looked like a bale of straw on fire." Sympathy cards are being accepted by the Township Fire Department.
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I remember reading about old-time dynamite "sweating" and becoming more unstable. Anybody know if the more modern stuff (or at least 1968-vintage) is more improved?
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Good stuff Deacon.... you been hanging with Tu?
Dynomite, even the modern and infinitely safer variety in use today (As opposed to ol'Al Nobel's original recipe) still can 'sweat' under the right temperature and humidity conditions. Most dynamite has been replaced by Dynagel (there's about a dozen different names for it) - looks for all the world like a blue raspberry freezer pop, but with considerably more punch.
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Tony Blair has indicated that Gordon Brown is likely to replace him as Prime Minister within a matter of weeks. "Within the next few weeks I won't be Prime Minister of this country. In all probability, a Scot will become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom," Mr Blair told party supporters at a Labour rally in Edinburgh.
His comments come on the day Mr Blair celebrates his 10th anniversary in office. Earlier, Mr Blair marked the occasion by promising a "definitive" statement to the British people next week on when he plans to leave Number 10.
With the party braced for a disastrous night at the polls on Thursday, Mr Blair is seeking to prevent disillusionment over his own premiership from overshadowing the arrival of his successor. There has been growing speculation Mr Blair will announce his resignation next week and then stand down towards the end of next month, with June 30 emerging as the favourite date.
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Good riddance. He had promise and was better than most of the alternatives - including the so called Conservative Party - but that is all I can say for the man.
Prince Charles compared the challenge of tackling climate change to the Allies' struggle in World War II during a speech to business leaders Tuesday. Addressing representatives from firms including Barclays Bank, British Airways and Rolls-Royce at Saint James's Palace, Charles said that "we need to act very rapidly indeed" to avert environmental disaster. "We can do it, just think what they did in the last war. Things that seemed impossible were achieved almost overnight," the heir to the throne added.
Charles has long harboured a passionate interest in green issues -- he has described climate change as "the biggest threat to mankind" while facing criticism that his own lifestyle does not match his rhetoric. He announced in December last year that he wanted to reduce the impact of overseas royal visits on the environment by replacing carbon-heavy private planes and helicopters with scheduled flights and trains "where appropriate."
But he raised eyebrows among figures including Britain's Environment Secretary, David Miliband, when he flew to the United States to pick up an environmental award. Charles said Tuesday that business leaders could pay a key role in tackling ecological issues, adding: "It cannot be business as usual."
"When I was serving in the Royal Navy... mayday, mayday, mayday was the distress call used in cases of emergency. It still is, and this is an emergency we face," he added, apparently punning on the date of his address.
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Will this moronic inbred turd please shut the fuck up! Climate change will mean nothing if we're all overrun by the Islamic assholes that this over-privileged and under-principled idjit is so fond of fellating. The World War currently being fought is against Islam, or hasn't he talked to his own son of late?
Venezuela stripped the world's biggest oil companies of operational control over massive Orinoco Belt crude projects on Tuesday, a vital move in President Hugo Chavez's nationalization drive.
The May Day takeover came exactly a year after Bolivian President Evo Morales, a leftist ally of Chavez, startled investors by ordering troops to seize his country's gas fields, accelerating Latin America's struggle to reclaim resources.
"The importance of this is that we are taking back control of the Orinoco Belt which the president rightly calls the world's biggest crude reserve," said Marco Ojeda, an oil union leader before a planned rally to mark the transfer.
The four projects are valued at more than $30 billion and can convert about 600,000 barrels per day (bpd) of heavy, tarry crude into valuable synthetic oil.
U.S. companies ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Britain's BP, Norway's Statoil and France's Total agreed to obey a decree to transfer operational control on Tuesday, although the OPEC nation complained ConocoPhillips was somewhat resistant.
In Puerto Piritu, near the facilities that refine Orinoco crude, workers prepared early on Tuesday to celebrate the takeovers, displaying Venezuelan red, blue and yellow flags and daubing a wall with Chavez's slogan: "Homeland, Socialism or Death."
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I'm sure there are a lot of unemployed Baathist hacks techies who ran an oil field or two who are available to show you how to run them into the ground.
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The asshole is already setting the stage to justify the coming decline in production. In his speech yesterday, he said that PDVSA would not be able to produce those field on its own because the multinationals damaged the wells. How? They did not use steam to get the oil out.
The saddest part is that the majority of the people there would believe it.
Turkeys highest court on Tuesday blocked a presidential candidate with a background in Islamic politics, pitching the country into early elections and a referendum on the role of religion in its future.
In a 9-to-2 ruling, the court upheld an appeal by Turkeys main secular political party, which sought to block Abdullah Gul, a close ally of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, from becoming president, objecting to what they said were his Islamic credentials.
But Mr. Gul, an observant Muslim who is Turkeys foreign minister, has kept Islam out of public policy in his four years in government, and his supporters said the decision was simply an attempt to hold on to power by Turkeys secular elite, which has controlled the state since Ataturks revolution in 1923.
In the ruling, the court annulled a vote for Mr. Gul held in Parliament on Friday because there were not enough lawmakers present. Secular parties boycotted the vote.
But the ruling was more political than legal, his supporters charged. Previous presidents have been elected with fewer lawmakers present in the first round of voting. The court, they argue, reflects the interests of a secular establishment that is now mounting an assault against Mr. Erdogan and the emerging class of religious Turks that he represents.
In remarks broadcast Tuesday, Mr. Erdogan said his party would press for early elections in late June or early July. Parliament must vote to begin elections, but the measure is supported by parties across the political spectrum and is expected to pass.
He also made what is likely to be a highly controversial proposal that would take the presidential selection process out of the hands of Parliament altogether and place it in a popular vote, which he would like to see happen soon, but which is unlikely to affect the current election. Turkey is a parliamentary system, and Turks vote for parties, which then form governments based on their allotment in Parliament.
The open question on Tuesday night was what action, if any, Turkeys powerful military would take. The military sees itself as the defender of Ataturks secular legacy and has ousted four elected governments since 1960. It issued a sharp warning to the government on Friday night that it would intervene if Mr. Erdogan strayed too far from the secularism that is the backbone of the state.
Turkish political analysts said Tuesday that the military was unlikely to intervene for now, thinking it had won a victory with the court decision. But some said the secular parties seem to be overestimating their popularity.
Heightening the tension was the arrest of more than 500 protestors, who were marching in an unauthorized May Day rally unrelated to the current political impasse. Television networks broadcast images of police officers in riot gear beating demonstrators and spraying them with pepper gas. The Turkish stock market continued its fall, and Mr. Erdogan made public remarks to restore faith in it.
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IRANWIRE.WORLDNEWS > EU TELLS TURKISH ARMY TO STAY OUT OF POLITICS, + TURKEY MUST TAKE KIRKUK AND BASRA articles. * FREEREPUBLIC/WORLDNEWS > TURKISH VOTERS VOTE AGZ RADICALS.
A Turkish court has been urged to reject an opposition challenge to the presidential election that has split Turkey, newspapers said on Tuesday, and police detained dozens of protesters in Istanbul.
The Constitutional Court is due to rule by Wednesday (today) on a request by the main secular opposition party to suspend the election. The opposition accused the Islamist-rooted government of carrying out an illegal vote in parliament last week. Suspension could trigger an early general election and, in the view of many analysts, help defuse escalating tensions between secularists, including the army, and the government.
The newspapers said the courts rapporteur -who acts as a prosecutor in such cases -Hikmet Tulen had recommended the bid by the Republican Peoples Party (CHP) be rejected. The recommendation is not binding. The court said it would start deliberating on the challenge at 2 pm (1100 GMT). Meanwhile, police fired tear gas when they clashed with protesters. More than 100 people were detained, predominantly members of the Revolutionary Workers Union Confederation (DISK).
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MADRID - The head of foreign relations for the conservative Popular Party, Jorge Moragas, asked the Spanish government to complain to Venezuela after its president Hugo Chavez likened Spain's ex-prime minister Jose Maria Aznar to Adolf Hitler. The Venezuelan president said at a student gathering that former Spanish president Aznar is "a fascist who supported the coup in Caracas in April 2002," and added that "he is the Adolph Hitler type, both disgusting and pathetic, a true lackey of (U.S. President) George W. Bush".
For Moragas, "the verbal hysteria of the Venezuelan caudillo stinks of totalitarianism." After saying, however, that the Popular Party "does not wish to enter into an exchange of insults," he demanded that the Spanish government send a "formal and public protest" against Chavez's remarks through official channels. The deputy considered it an obligation of the government "to defend Spanish authorities" and said that Aznar, as a former president of the government, "merits that consideration." Recalling Chavez's contemptuous comments about the ex-presidents of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, and of Mexico, Vicente Fox, he urged the Spanish government "not to hide" from the attacks.
Hmmm. Zappy must be less popular lately. It's been a while since Expatica published anything remotely positive about Aznar's party.
French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen called on his supporters Tuesday to abstain en masse from voting in Sunday's presidential election. Le Pen said neither socialist candidate Segolene Royal nor rightwinger Nicolas Sarkozy deserved the support of the 10.44 percent of voters who backed him in the first round of voting. "I call on voters who have shown their confidence in me to cast their vote neither for Madame Royal nor for Mr Sarkozy and to abstain en masse," said Le Pen, who came fourth in round one.
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AHRAM.org [Egypt]/BIGNEWS NETWORK > FRANCE WANTS SARKOZY. All things equal, and unless Sarkozy does something truly asinine/stupid agz his own interests-campaign, French voters will go for Sarkozy, NOT Segolene.
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From what I read on various blogs or websites from the national right, a large part of the "fachos" (rightwing nuts) if going to stay home, while some are going to vote ségogole, the nationalist leftists like the nationaux-bolsheviques.
Only a small part (20-30%?) is going to actually vote sarko, out of pragmatism and of the lesser evil principle.
Motivations for this lack of support range classically from his (supposed, though he certainly put this under scrutiny when he has a jewish adviser sez that "sarko is the natural candidate of the jews") jooooo-ishness, to his foreign policy (not "firm" enough, regarding you-know-who, those two countries that bully the world, France firstly), with some more interesting notions being floated, like his wish to remodel french society into a communautaristic model, his desire of re-imposing the EU "constitution" over the will of the people, his propping up of islam (though him having gotten only 1% of the muslim vote should help clear his mind about who are his supporters)...
That said, the "fachos" who make up the french nationalist internet are only a part of pépé Le Pen's electorate, most of it is actually "fachés" (disgruntled people), who will certainly vote for sarko in greater proportion than True Believers.
Still, ségogole being elected wouldn't surprize me a bit, as the rule of the Vth is that each successive president is worse than his predecessor.
her personal staff are working on initial plans for a trip to Venezuela, perhaps in the fall, to meet with Chavez.
H/T Gateway Pundit
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal editorial page reported that former vice president Al Gore had declined to meet with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, citing concerns about human rights.
Never mind why Uribe was seeking a meeting with a has-been pol -- the story of the shabby treatment of an American ally continues to get worse.
According to sources within the House Democratic leadership, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has denied the request for a meeting with Uribe when he comes to Washington next week.
Uribe's staff has attempted to set up a meeting with Pelosi, offering to come to her offices with Uribe if necessary. Pelosi has refused the meeting.
"She has third parties who have encouraged her not to take the meeting," says a leadership aide, who said a coalition of labor organizations and MoveOn.org had been pressuring her to not meet with Uribe. "We've never seen anything like it. It's not like we're talking about some family from San Francisco who stopped by her office unannounced. This is the president of a country."
In Colombia, Uribe has been struggling against communist terrorist groups financed by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, as well as leftist political pressure internally. All while attempting to work with the U.S. against narco-trafficking. "He's a friend and an ally," says a State Department source, who was unaware of Pelosi's snub. "I'd be surprised that one of our national leaders would not meet with a strategic partner of the United States of America."
Earlier this week Pelosi declined to meet with the man overseeing U.S. military forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petreaus.
Pelosi, though, is willing to meet with America's enemies. Against the advice of the State Department, Pelosi pressed for and did meet with the dictator of Syria earlier this month. According to leadership staff, she has members of her personal staff working on initial plans for a trip to Venezuela, perhaps in the fall, to meet with Chavez.
So what makes Uribe South America's strongest leader and why is it important to support the capitalist government in Colombia?
From Gateway: So what makes Uribe South America's strongest leader and why is it important to support the capitalist government in Colombia?
Publius Pundit explained why:
Hes destroying terrorism, installing free markets, and creating a new nation out of one of the worlds worst hellholes on a scale unseen almost anywhere else in the world. The stock market has gone up 500% since hes taken office. The debt has been repaid early, the peso is soaring, the jobless rate is tumbling (unemployment is down one-third since he took office!), investment both foreign and domestic has gone through the moon and confidence and optimism is returning. The economy grew at 5% last year. Crime has evaporated. The country reported exactly two kidnaps this year.
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Her priorities are so phuqued up that she has probably met with the company that owned the splodeytanker and made nice with them, forgiving anything Clyde Clutchrider did that caused the mess rather than expedite efforts to get repairs done or increase CDL requirements.
But then, that would be helping the little people and it didn't affect her commute one bit.
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Al Gore had declined to meet with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, citing concerns about human rights.
If Gore and all the other liberals are so concerned over human rights, why haven't they come out against sharia law for the massive crime against humanity that it is?
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Oh please oh please oh please don't meet with Uribe and then DO meet with Chavez. Please show the country what a friggin idiot and traitor you are. Show them that, without question, you support communism/socialism and are against capitalism.
The radio and blog world will tear her apart over this. She might even get a nasty editorial in the WAPO. She is just awful.
I'm sure this will be blaring from all the network news programs tonight...
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Jim McDermott was dealt a potentially crippling blow Tuesday when a federal appeals court ruled that he improperly made public an illegally recorded telephone conversation involving senior House Republicans. In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia discarded McDermott's claim that he was simply exercising his First Amendment right by turning over the tape 10 years ago to reporters for The New York Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"If the First Amendment does not protect Representative McDermott from House disciplinary proceedings, it is hard to see why it should protect him from liability in this civil suit," Judge A. Raymond Randolph wrote for the majority.
Tuesday's ruling was just the latest installment in a high-profile case that has been ricocheting through the federal courts for nine years. The narrow verdict by the Court of Appeals upholds an earlier decision requiring McDermott to pay more than $700,000. Ouch! Time to put a bigger For Sale sign on your office door, Jim?
An earlier court decision ordered McDermott to pay $60,000 in fines and reimburse legal fees to House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio. That cost has soared beyond $650,000.
Boehner, who is the highest-ranking Republican in the House, said he was pleased with the ruling. "As I've said many times, when you break the law in pursuit of a political opponent, you've gone too far," he said in a statement. "Members of Congress have a responsibility not only to obey the laws of our country and the rules of our institution, but also to defend the integrity of those laws and rules when they are violated."
Boehner sued McDermott in 1998, accusing him of violating his right to privacy for making public a telephone conversation involving Boehner, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other senior Republicans who were discussing ethics allegations against Gingrich. The cell phone conference call was recorded by a Florida couple, John and Alice Martin, who stumbled onto the conversation while listening to a police scanner.
In oral arguments before the appeals court in October and in January, Boehner's lawyer argued that McDermott could not claim First Amendment protection because he was a senior member of the House Ethics Committee at the time he received the tape.As a member of a committee that conducts most of its work in private, Boehner argued, McDermott was duty-bound to protect sensitive information, much like a judge or an Internal Revenue Service agent. Jim must've thought he gets some kind of exemption from being ethical, seeing how he's on the Ethics Committee and all...
The court agreed. "When Representative McDermott became a member of the Ethics Committee, he voluntarily accepted a duty of confidentiality that covered his receipt and handling of the ... illegal recording. He therefore had no First Amendment right to disclose the tape to the media," the decision said.
McDermott said in a statement that he and his lawyer were reviewing the decision. He has 90 days to decide whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
But he condemned the decision, suggesting that it could have a chilling effect on free speech. ...not to mention, his wallet.
"By a vote of 5-4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today sharply limited the free-speech protections of the First Amendment in violation of binding Supreme Court precedent," he said. So appeal it. Spend some more money.
The court did say that if McDermott were not a member of Congress, he would have been fully insulated by the First Amendment. Maybe should've resigned, Jim?
Judge David Sentelle disagreed with the majority, writing in a biting dissent that an Ethics Committee investigation into McDermott found that he violated the "spirit" but not the letter of the rule. Moreover, Sentelle mocked the court's reasoning, saying that McDermott -- or any other citizen -- would be protected for distributing information even if it was illegally obtained by someone else. "The tape in question had never become the possession of the committee, although the Martins may well have intended that it do so," Sentelle wrote. "Nor is it by any means pellucid that the tape was 'evidence related to an investigation' within the meaning of the rule at the time the Martins turned it over to McDermott. The release by McDermott was not in violation of an unambiguous rule." I tried, Jim! I really tried!!
Free-speech advocates have closely watched the case. Lawyers for 18 news organizations -- including major television networks, The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post -- offered briefs in support of McDermott, arguing that a Boehner victory could have a chilling effect on public expression and the media's effectiveness. Yep, always "chilling" when one of their own gets it in the neck...
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"The cell phone conference call was recorded by a Florida couple, John and Alice Martin, who stumbled onto the conversation while listening to a police scanner." Ahem, how many scanner are sold with recording devices?
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In other news, the Seattle papers are in shock over this turn of events......and the associated blogs are full of indignation over this chilling effect on free speech.
sad thing is, his legal expenses are probably coming out of our pockets since he is in office.
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Since I am a political geek, I remember the episode pretty well.
Far from being innocent scanner hobbyists, the Martins were politically active Democrats. They must have know that a) they could listen to old AMPS cell phone call with their scanner and b) a lot of Republican bigshots were nearby. The fact that they a) recorded the call and then b) immediately drove the recording to DC to turn it in to the 'authorities' was nothing more than a low down dirty trick.
I mostly care about public policy, especially regarding the War against radical Islam. I try not to care too much about partisan politics. However, this episode is one of many that has made me more partisan because it shows the dems have far more tolerance for corruption and dirty tricks while the GOP tends to purge its malcontents.
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Glolugum - this may be a rare instance where such worries are worthless. First, consider the result, then factor in the time, hassle AND expenses involved over 9 years as pointed out above. In other words, there's probably not that much profit left to make the lawyer (probably lawyers!) all that "richer".
This doesn't begin to measure up to the tobacco shysters, let alone the Breck girl.
Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim said on Tuesday that Allah, the Pakistan Army, and the United States support the government, as do the people of Pakistan. By gathering a few hundred people in Islamabad, the opposition tried to give the impression that the public was with it, the chief minister told a Labour Day rally of the PML, referring to opposition protests in Islamabad against the suspension of the chief justice. He added that the real picture could be seen at his partys rally that was attended by a sea of people.
Allah, the Army and America are with us besides the people, Rahim said, adding that with the blessings of Allah, General Pervez Musharraf, the prime minister, corps commander, and now Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao had survived attacks. He said that Gen Musharraf was more democratic than so-called democratic leaders, despite being in uniform. Rahim said that the PML could have organised such a rally on the day the hearing of the Supreme Judicial Council was held just as the opposition parties had, but the party did not want confrontation with the opposition. He said, however, that organising such a rally was necessary to show that the public was in favour of the president and not the opposition on the CJP issue.
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Police on Tuesday night arrested more than 400 activists of various political parties including the PPP and the PML-N from different cities of Punjab, Aaj TV reported. Over 200 political activists were arrested from Rawalpindi and 75 from Islamabad. Police also detained Rawalpindi JI ameers 85-year-old father, besides arresting 50 political workers from Lahore, 50 from Gujranwala, including Gujranwala bar former president Waqar Butt, and many others cities.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been accused of indecency after he publicly embraced and kissed on the hand an elderly woman who used to be his schoolteacher. At a ceremony on Tuesday ahead of Iranian teachers' day, Mr Ahmadinejad was photographed and filmed by state media stooping to kiss the woman's hand and then clasping her arms in an embrace.
The ultra-conservative Hezbollah newspaper, which is not related to the group in Lebanon of the same name, criticised him on the front page. "The Muslim Iranian people have no recollection of such acts contrary to sharia law during Islamic rule [since the 1979 revolution]," it said. "This type of indecency progressively has grave consequences, like violating religious and sacred values."
The elderly woman, who was not named, wore thick gloves along with a headscarf and long black coat, meaning that Mr Ahmadinejad avoided any skin contact. But his action raised eyebrows because according to sharia law, it is forbidden for a man to have any physical contact with a woman to whom he is not related.
While Mr Ahmadinejad is considered an ultra-conservative in the West, this is not the first time he and his Government have been attacked by hardline elements even further along the spectrum. He courted controversy when he unsuccessfully proposed women be allowed to attend football matches, and one of his vice presidents came under huge pressure last year after allegedly watching a woman dance at a ceremony in Turkey.
But other hardline publications published the images of the latest incident without further comment. "A kiss on the hand for the teacher," was the headline in the government daily Iran. Mr Ahmadinejad's action appeared to be a public gesture of humility before Iranian teachers, who have publicly protested against low salaries and accused the Government of not doing enough to improve their work conditions.
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Eventually the Iranian people will have had enough of these nutballs who live like kings on the oil money. There will be rebellion, bloodshed, and a new government sooner or later.
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I was under the impression that the people of Iran were pretty embarrassed by the whole lot of the Mullahacracy. Indeed, the ones I've met have considered themselves quite cosmopolitan.
It would be nice to get a little mockery of this into Iran--does VOA still operate? It would really set their faces burning over things like this to know that 1) it happened (they already know) and 2) they're being made fun of because of it.
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Islam always devours its own, nothing else is quite so halal. Ahmadinejad has stoked the flames of fundamentalism to the point where he will soon be roasted by his own bonfire. Islam is congenitally predisposed to the very worst form of "holier than thou" competitiveness. No matter how wacky Ahmadinejad might seem, there will always be other loons of far more distorted and stringent fundamentalist views. This puritanical criticism over reverence being shown for a school teacher shows just how warped Iran has become.
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Except for one completely raved out full-goose-bozo Islamo-loon in some camel-skin tent out in the desert wastes, every single other Muslim on earth is "Not Muslim Enough". This takfir bullshit will be the death of all Muslims. Unfortunately for the West, it will not happen quickly enough so that we can merely sit back and watch from the sidelines. Enough of these fanatics will still pose sufficient problems for us whereby it will be necessary to intervene further. Probably with nuclear weapons.
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Radical Islam's version of TEACHER-STUDENT SEX???
Methinks the true story here is that despotic TOTALITARIANISM in any form, including the GOD/FAITH-BASED TOTALITARIANISM = "PERFECTION" THAT IS RADICAL ISLAM-ISM, can only be "reformed" = un-done layer by layer, specific act by specific act, etc.
With budget deficits improving, the government said Wednesday it is discontinuing sales of three-year Treasury notes.
The Treasury Department said the last auction of three-year notes will occur next week as part of the regular series of quarterly debt auctions used to help finance the $8.8 trillion federal government debt.
The government's borrowing needs peaked in the 2004 budget year, when the federal deficit hit an all-time high in dollar terms of $413 billion. Since that time, the deficit has declined for three straight years and is projected to drop further this year.
Smaller budget deficits mean less need for the Treasury Department to sell bills, notes and bonds to the public. Treasury said it had decided to discontinue the three-year note in order to keep the amounts of the other securities at levels that would be popular with financial markets. Will this money stay in treasuries, or will it migrate to bonds or stocks?
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Here's one for you Jesse - university faculties. Take the University of Michigan Law School for example. They want diversity for their student bodies, so why not on the faculty?
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So what do you want for your kids this time "reverend"? A couple of gas stations in greater Chicagoland maybe?
By the way, how old's the little bastard now? Has he told you what he wants out of life yet? You may never get to retire from Ye Olde Racial Shakedown Inc...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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SARVER, Pa. - Lori Artman thought she'd uncovered a fortune when she found an old wooden box partially buried in her backyard. But there was no hidden loot in the box - just dynamite.
Tony Blair has indicated that Gordon Brown is likely to replace him as Prime Minister within a matter of weeks. "Within the next few weeks I won't be Prime Minister of this country. In all probability, a Scot will become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom," Mr Blair told party supporters at a Labour rally in Edinburgh. 
Prince Charles compared the challenge of tackling climate change to the Allies' struggle in World War II during a speech to business leaders Tuesday. Addressing representatives from firms including Barclays Bank, British Airways and Rolls-Royce at Saint James's Palace, Charles said that "we need to act very rapidly indeed" to avert environmental disaster. "We can do it, just think what they did in the last war. Things that seemed impossible were achieved almost overnight," the heir to the throne added. 
Venezuela stripped the world's biggest oil companies of operational control over massive Orinoco Belt crude projects on Tuesday, a vital move in President Hugo Chavez's nationalization drive.
Police on Tuesday night arrested more than 400 activists of various political parties including the PPP and the PML-N from different cities of Punjab, Aaj TV reported. Over 200 political activists were arrested from Rawalpindi and 75 from Islamabad. Police also detained Rawalpindi JI ameers 85-year-old father, besides arresting 50 political workers from Lahore, 50 from Gujranwala, including Gujranwala bar former president Waqar Butt, and many others cities.
