Narcisso was driving down a country road, doing about 35 or 40 mph, when he looked over and a 6-legged dawg passed him. Narcisso sped up and the dawg looked over his shoulder and sped up, too, leaving Narcisso in the dust at 60 miles an hour.
Scratching his head, he kept driving, until he came to a little farm by the side of the road. There was Hector and the missus and their four kids, selling fruit from a stand.
"I just saw a six-legged dawg run right by me!" he said to Hector.
"One of mine," Hector responded. "Wanna buy some fruit?"
"Where'd you get six-legged dawgs?" Narcisso asked.
"We bred 'em. When we cook dog I like the leg. So's my wife. Trouble is, so do each of the kids. So we bred six-legged dogs so we could all have some."
"Well, I'll be! And how do they taste?"
"I dunno. We ain't caught one yet!"
[Straits Times] POLICE have seized 79 slaughtered dogs apparently being delivered to restaurants in the Philippines.
Police Officer Renato Niturada says the 400kg of dog meat in 10 sacks were confiscated on Sunday from a van at a checkpoint in northern Pangasinan province. Mr Niturada said on Tuesday the van driver was charged with violating animal welfare law. He faces up to two years in jail or a fine of up to 5,000 pesos (S$152).
Killing dogs for meat is illegal. But dog meat is a delicacy in northern Philippines, where back-street restaurants serve it despite protests from animal rights advocates. Mr Niturada says the dog carcasses were buried at a public cemetery.
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...The crew members were reclining in their horizontal couches, running through a checklist when a voltage transient was recorded at 6:30:54 (23:30:54 GMT). Ten seconds later (at 6:31:04) Chaffee said, "Hey..." Scuffling sounds followed for three seconds before Grissom shouted "Fire!" Chaffee then reported, "We've got a fire in the cockpit," and White said "Fire in the cockpit!"
After nearly ten seconds of frenetic movement noises Chaffee yelled, "We've got a bad fire! Let's get out! We're burning up! We're on fire! Get us out of here!" Some witnesses said they saw Ed White on the television monitors, reaching for the hatch release handle as flames in the cabin spread from left to right and licked the window. Only 17 seconds after the first indication by crew of any fire, the transmission ended abruptly at 6:31:21... Rest in peace.
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Keith Richards has given up alcohol. Oh, man. I think the earth just stopped rotating...
The Rolling Stones guitarist - who is known for his hellraising lifestyle - hasn't downed a drink in four months, despite previously claiming he would never become teetotal. A source close to the 66-year-old musician said: "There's no guarantees that he'll stay off it - but he's doing really well so far." Probably went up on the drug intake. I mean, ya gotta compensate...
"He has always quite enjoyed the fact that he seemed to be able to carry on drinking as much as he liked with no real negative impact on his health." His secret was exposed in Waynes World 2...
Garth: How can you sleep like that?
Del Preston: Listen, sonny Jim. Sleeping like this will add ten years to your life. I learned it from Keith Richards when I toured with the Stones. This may be the reason why Keith cannot be killed by conventional weapons.
It is believed Keith decided to quit booze after seeing his bandmate Ronnie Wood start drinking heavily again and eventually split from his wife of 23 years Jo to run off with 21-year-old cocktail waitress Katia Ivanova, who Ronnie is also now separated from. The source added to The Sun newspaper: "He has watched Ronnie fall well and truly off the wagon last year and he doesn't like what he sees." Man, how screwed up is your life when you disgust Keith Richards enough to make him quit drinking...woah!
"Plus he has started to feel for the first time like it might do him some good to give up the booze for a while." I don't know. This could be really dangerous...
Four years ago Keith suffered a brain hemorrhage after he fell out of a tree while partying on the Pacific island of Fiji, but made a full recovery. Aah, now there's the Keith we know and love...
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Now I fear for Keith's health. I have known a couple of filthy derelicts to have cardiac arrests while getting bathed. In a perverse way, the alcohol, drugs & tobacco may be serving as his life support system.
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- Inflation is completely gone, thanks to the abolition of the Zimbabwean currency in favor of a basket of other notes (including the dollar and the South African Rand). The highest rate seen in 2009 was a slim 1 percent.
Chance often plays a large role in the lives of our military's men and women. The sailors and service members aboard the USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) recognize that fact of life all too well today.
LSD 44 was supposed to be off the west coast of Africa today, working with partner navies and providing security and stabilization instruction and assistance to the nations and peoples in that region as the sea base for Africa Partnership Station (APS) West . Instead, they find themselves off the coast of Haiti, uniquely staffed and provisioned for a relief mission they could have never imagined.
Barahona is a quiet little town on the southern coast of the Dominican Republic. So quiet, in fact, that the town's airport closed twelve years ago.
Imagine the surprise of the town's inhabitants on January 22 as C-130's of the United States Air Force roared from the sky and onto the one runway at the airport. Barahona was about to become the front lines for assistance to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
From the aircraft deployed the men and women of the Kentucky National Guard's 123rd Contingency Response Group. With the cooperation of the Dominican authorities, the Guard went to work. I was able to interview Lt. Col. Kirk Hilbrecht, a public relations officer assigned to this mission.
The planes did not stop coming. By nightfall on that first day, seven C-130's had disgorged their cargo, vitally needed relief supplies destined for Haiti.
President Felipe Calderón's administration wants to dissolve Mexico's 2,022 city police forces, saying many of them are so badly educated and vulnerable to corruption that they are undermining the country's crackdown on drug cartels.
The proposal was announced by Public Safety Secretary Genaro García Luna as he released gloomy new statistics on Mexico's battle against crime. The country's murder rate rose from 9.69 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2007 to 14.72 in 2009, nearly triple the U.S. rate of 5.6. Cocaine use in Mexico has quadrupled since 2006, and methamphetamine use has quintupled, García Luna said, despite a massive, U.S.-backed buildup in federal police.
The government wants to replace Mexico's 160,967 municipal police officers with bigger state police forces and is lobbying governors for their support, García Luna told lawmakers during a congressional hearing late last week.
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Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez has left the government, reportedly citing personal reasons.
"The President of the Republic... accepted the resignation that was presented for strictly personal reasons by Vice President Ramon Carrizalez," Communications Minister Blanca Eekhout said in a statement on state television, Reuters reported.
The vice president, who also held the defense ministry portfolio, stepped down from that post as well.
Carrizalez previously served as infrastructure minister and housing minister.
State-backed news network Telesur said Carrizalez's wife, Environment Minister Yuviri Ortega, had also stepped down, but the network claimed there was no link between the decision and any differences she had with the government
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Reportedly? Is that like maybe he didn't actually say this to anyone face to face? Kinda like his personal reason had to do with rapid onset lead poisoning.............for two?
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Anyone else feel that the economy fell and is now grasping at the crumbling edge and it will only take a push to put it back in free fall? I think states starting to default will do that.
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Bloomberg article today said it cost more to insure US federal government debt than that of 8 leading US companies. Ie the markets think the US government is more likely to default on its debts.
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As someone who works for the stat I really hope that doesn't happen, but unless the legislature takes some real steps to CUT spending I dont see how they can make it through next year. They only answer they have for the budget shortfall is to raise taxes, they seem to forget that the sure way to avoid massive taxes is to move out of the state.
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They only answer they have for the budget shortfall is to raise taxes, they seem to forget that the sure way to avoid massive taxes is to move out of the state.
They could also roll back the highly punitive and counterproductive regulations that make it unprofitable to do business there and employ people who in turn could thereby afford to buy houses and pay taxes.
It would be nice if they did that. Mr. Lotp's boyhood home is there, currently rented out to a stable and quiet-lifestyled couple, and he hopes we can retire there in 12 years or so. And we both hope there is still value in that house to pass along to Ms. Lotp when we no longer have occasion to use such things.
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Romor has it that a major oil refinery there may close, at least in part because an upgrade - though cleaner and more efficient than the current operation - would still not satisfy the NIMBYs. Not price competitive in existing configuration & not capital competitive to meet Green demands, so close it and sell the equipment to China and buy refined product from overseas.
An incident in which the federal fisheries minister was hit with a pie by a seal hunt protester should be seen as a terrorist act, says a Liberal MP. An orchestrated plan by foreign conspirators to assault a federal minister for political purposes? That should meet the definition.
Gerry Byrne made the comment to Newfoundland radio station VOCM after Gail Shea was hit in the face Monday by an American animal-rights activist, unhappy with Canada's seal hunt. The video clip reports that a PETA-head has called Byrne's statement a "silly chest-beating exercise," something PETA would know all about since silly chest-baring exercises are their stock in trade.
New York City resident Emily McCoy, 37, a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is charged with assault. 37? Probably too old for one of their nekkid protests (accelerated aging due to tofu addiction).
Byrne told VOCM the government should investigate the incident based on the definition of a terrorist act under the law in Canada.
McCoy was arrested after the incident in Burlington, Ont.
Shea was not injured, and said she has not changed her support for the hunt.
In a statement following the incident, PETA executive vice-president Tracy Reiman said: "A little tofu pie on her face is hardly comparable to the blood on Ms. Shea's hands." Last I heard, Tracy, your media whorehouse of an "activist organization" has not replaced the courts as the final arbiter of justice in Canada. They may take a different view of your operative's actions.
A new economic report conducted by the Milken Institute and sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) shows that changes to economic and tax policies and investment in key infrastructure project categories could create more than 11 million jobs in the United States this decade. Has the Job Creation Czar seen this? The study analyzes how reducing corporate tax rates, establishing a permanent research and development (R&D) credit, modernizing the U.S. system of export controls and making major investments in energy and transportation infrastructure would create jobs and make the United States more competitive.
Key findings include:
1. Reducing the U.S. corporate income tax to match the average of other industrial countries (OECD nations) would trigger new growth. By 2019, it could boost real GDP by $375.5 billion and create an additional 350,000 manufacturing jobs - increasing total employment by 2.1 million.
2. A permanent R&D credit, increased by 25%, could boost real GDP by $206 billion (1.2%) and generate 316,000 manufacturing jobs.
3. Modernizing U.S. export controls could increase exports in high-value areas, enhancing real GDP by $64 billion by 2019 and creating 160,000 manufacturing jobs.
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Sorry, I thought I selected non-WOT.
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I fail to see how decreasing corporate tax rates can possibly cause increased employment in the US. US corporations seem hell-bent on exporting US jobs any way they can, and they've been very successful at this. The linkage between cutting corporate taxes and increasing US employment is driven by faith and wishful thinking.
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Exactly AH. Even though I think corporate tax rates should be zero (people, not legal fictions, pay taxes) the $700B/year monetary drain that is killing the US economy is from the failure to control imports. The rest is just nibbling on the margins.
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"The linkage between cutting corporate taxes and increasing US employment is driven by faith and wishful thinking."
It depends on what is considered a "tax". If you eliminate things like minimum wage laws that do nothing but drive up unemployment and increase poverty and maybe create a national "right to work" law that breaks the union stranglehold on wages in many industries, then yeah, we might get somewhere.
Otherwise the only increase in jobs we see are the white collar jobs from companies with a corporate headquarters in the US while their manufacturing is done elsewhere.
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I fail to see how decreasing corporate tax rates can possibly cause increased employment in the US.
Countries engage in tax competition for precisely this reason. In particular, it influences the location of head offices and other functions that could be located anywhere, such as IT.
So not only does it increase employment, it increases high wage employment.
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So not only does it increase employment, it increases high wage employment. You left out the key part about "in the US" plus another key part. A few corporate insiders sucking their bonus money out of corporate operations will do nothing to help the bagholders stockholders or the peons lower paid employees.
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The main winners from low(er) corporate tax rates are stockholders*. Countries with low corporate tax rates such as Holland, get the money back from high personal tax rates.
* Although the real winners indirectly, are consumers. Prices are lower due to the lower cost of doing business.
Economists will tell you that taxing businesses at all is a bad idea, because all the money businesses make flows to employees, stockholders, the government or new investments.
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The main winners from low(er) corporate tax rates are stockholders* More faith-based reasoning. When Goldman Sachs starts paying out dividends we can revisit this issue.
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Economists will tell you just about anything. They are not believable as a group. The track record of economists up to the onset of the crisis in 2007 STINKS.
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A charismatic but relatively inexperienced state legislator, newly elected to the Senate, with no track record, making a run for the White House? Never happen, I tells ya, never happen!
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Folks, he ain't even been sworn in yet. Let's all calm down...
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The only reason Obambi has any personal approval poll numbers left is because no one wants to say they disapprove of him personally for fear of being thought a racist. Were he white, his numbers would be in the low 20's.
The sad part for the Dems is that they don't see this, or won't speak it out loud. On second thought, maybe thats a good thing for the country.
WASHINGTON: Asserting that its sale to India will "improve interoperability with US Soldiers and Marines," the US defense agency tasked with transfer of military hardware and promoting military-to-military ties has notified the US Congress of the Obama administration's intention to sell 145 M777 Howitzers to India in a deal worth $ 647 million.
The mandatory notification follows a request from India for the light-weight towed Howitzer with Laser Inertial Artillery Pointing Systems (LINAPS), the first major artillery purchase by New Delhi after the star-crossed Bofors deal going back to the 1980s.
The $647 million deal will include warranty, spare and repair parts, support and test equipment, publications and technical documentation, maintenance, personnel training and training equipment, US government and contractor representatives' technical assistance, engineering and logistics support services, and other related elements of logistics support, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in its January 22 notification.
"This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to strengthen the US-India strategic relationship and to improve the security of an important partner which continues to be an important force for political stability, peace, and economic progress in South Asia," DSCA said.
The Agency said the howitzers will assist the Indian Army to develop and enhance standardization and surprisingly asserted it will also "improve interoperability with US Soldiers and Marines who use the M777 as their primary means of indirect fire." India will have no difficulty absorbing these weapons into its armed forces, it added.
In its standard caveat, the Agency also assured the Congress that the "proposed sale of this equipment and support will not alter the basic military balance in the region," and "there will be no adverse impact on US defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale."
The M777 purchase, seen in some quarters as a political decision favoring US, was not without the usual controversy that has come to dog almost every major defense acquisition in India.
The gun trailed the front-runner, the Pegasus lightweight howitzer developed jointly by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) and Singapore Technology Kinetics, for several months, But Pegasus was knocked out of the race following reports of corruption and bribery that necessitated a CBI investigation.
While that inquiry is continuing, the government decided to go in for the US artillery given the Army's urgent requirement.
The M777 howitzer was originally developed by the British Vickers group, but is now produced by BAE Systems Land Systems in the US. It has largely replaced the M198 howitzer 155mm towed howitzers in the US Marine Corps and US Army and has seen action since March 2008 in Afghanistan. US allies Canada and Australia are the only two countries the US has sold the guns to.
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LINAPS, now with JK* capability
*Jihadi-Killing
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Work on two more Fast Breeder Reactors, each of 500 Mwe, would begin here soon, according to Dr Baldev Raj, director, Indira Gandhi Centre For Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam.
These reactors are in addition to the FBR of 500 MWe that is fast coming up at Kalpakkam. While the first reactor would be commissioned in 2011, we hope to commission the other two reactors by 2020,' said Dr Baldev Raj. He was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the valedictory function for a batch of students from Kancheepuram district who successfully completed the vocational training course in non-destructive testing held by IGCAR.
Once the three FBRs become fully operational, Kalpakkam will pump 1,500 MWe power into the national grid. This is in addition to the 440 MWe generated by the two reactors at the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS). Dr Raj, who was recently elected to the elite International Nuclear Energy Academy, said that the civil works of the FBR were almost over. The sensitive inner vessel housing the critical components of the reactor will be lowered into the vault by March 2010,' he said.
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India's space agency has said it will launch its first manned mission to space in 2016.
A senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) in Bangalore said that two astronauts would take part.
"We are preparing for the manned space flight," Isro Chairman K Radhakrishnan told reporters.
"We will design and develop the space module for the manned mission in the next four years," he said.
Observers say India is emerging as a major player in the multi-billion dollar space market.
In September it launched seven satellites in a single mission, nearly a month after the country's inaugural Moon mission was aborted.
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Isro says that it will soon shortlist two astronauts to train for the space flight.
The manned mission will cost 124 billion rupees ($2,676,740,597).
Delhi has given its approval for the mission, space officials told the BBC.
India's space agency is also setting up a full-fledged training facility in Bangalore to train the astronauts.
The country's first unmanned Moon mission, Chandrayaan, was launched last year.
The second unmanned project, Chandrayaan-II, will be launched in the first quarter of 2013 - a prelude to the manned space mission.
India's first Moon mission had to be terminated because of a failure of critical communication components, but Isro officials termed the mission a success because 95% of the scientific objectives were completed.
India also plans a mission to Mars in 2030.
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ISLAMABAD: A black goat is slaughtered almost daily to ward off evil eyes' and protect President Asif Ali Zardari from black magic'. Does this, and the use of camel and goat milk, make the beleaguered president appear to be a superstitious man?
Well, not to his spokesman. It has been an old practice of Mr Zardari to offer Sadqa (animal sacrifice). He has been doing this for a long time,' spokesman Farhatullah Babar told Dawn on Tuesday.
But his detractors, who want to see him out of the Presidency, would see in his new-found religiosity a sign of nervousness in the wake of the scrapping of the NRO.
One thing is certain: Hundreds of black goats have been sacrificed since Mr Zardari moved into the President's House in September 2008. His trusted personal servant Bai Khan buys goats from Saidpur village. The animal is touched by Mr Zardari before it is sent to his private house in F-8/2 to be sacrificed.
Insiders say that when Mr Zardari moved into the President's House, a flock of black partridges were introduced there for their supposedly magical effects.
Unfortunately, the whole flock was electrocuted when a live wire fell on their cage.
A camel, a cow and a few goats kept on the grounds of the presidency, however, survive and provide milk for its worthy resident.
That tradition from celebrities like Mahatma Gandhi may be followed for health reasons as may be the Neem tree that President Zardari introduced there for its anti-septic qualities.
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Does this, and the use of camel and goat milk, make the beleaguered president appear to be a superstitious man?
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Insiders say that when Mr Zardari moved into the Presidents House, a flock of black partridges were introduced there for their supposedly magical effects. Unfortunately, the whole flock was electrocuted when a live wire fell on their cage.
Ooooookay...back to the drawing board.
What century is this?
NEW DELHI: South Korea and India have signed a series of comprehensive agreements, covering banking, space sciences, information technology and defence.
President Lee Myung-bak was also invited to join India's Republic Day celebrations, signalling a high-point in bilateral relations between the two countries.
In a rare honour which is reserved for close friends of the country, South Korean President Lee Myung Bak was the chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations.
Marking 60 years of the Indian Constitution, the Republic Day parade also showcases India's defence capabilities. And Seoul is clearly keen to engage Delhi in defence cooperation.
With the world's sixth largest armed forces, South Korea has already signed a pact with India for securing its sea routes.
With the world's sixth largest armed forces, South Korea has already signed a pact with India for securing its sea routes.
A major amount of South Korea's trade is conducted through the sea route and it has great interest in the protection of sea lines of communication in the Indian Ocean.
New Delhi also sees Seoul as a valuable partner for policing the sea routes.
Lee Myung-Bak, President, Republic of Korea, said: "It feels great to be here in India. I have high hopes for our bilateral relationship, not only in economic matters but expanding our cultural ties, strengthening our political and social ties as well as in science and technology and education.
"So, I believe we are entering a very great new era for our future together, going together for Korea and India."
The two countries have signed several memorandums of understanding for cooperation in banking, textiles, information technology, space sciences and transfer of sentenced persons.
Seoul has also offered to build nuclear reactors in India. The two sides have agreed to work out a framework for civil nuclear co-operation, particularly for developing peaceful nuclear technology.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said: "There is great admiration in India for rapid progress made by Korea in all fields. The economic growth model followed by Korea has brought unprecedented prosperity to the people of Korea.
"We would like to learn from the Korean experience as we enhance our own efforts to achieve rapid and inclusive growth in India. We are committed to developing a robust and comprehensive framework for strategic engagement with Korea."
Seoul and New Delhi inked a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement or CEPA last August.
Under CEPA, India will eliminate or reduce import duties on 85 per cent of Korean products and South Korea will do the same for 93 per cent of Indian products in a phased manner over the next ten years.
With this, India and South Korea are set to double bilateral trade to over US$30 billion by 2014.
South Korea is one of the major investment partners in India. There are about 300 Korean companies here, including Samsung, Hyundai motors and LG, and nearly 150 more are ready to set up shop in the next few years.
With CEPA, both the countries are looking to expand trade potential closer home, after the global downturn snapped their western markets.
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[Geo News] A 17-year-old Shazia, who was allegedly tortured by her husband, was brought to the Jinnah Hospital for medical examination on Tuesday.
She told media that she was not being allowed to visit her parents' house for the last several months.
A resident of Qasba Colony, Shazia, had married to Siddiq some 11 months ago. But only three months after the marriage, she was barred from visiting her parents' home and other relatives.
Shazia alleged that her husband would beat her with sticks and burnt her back with the iron. However, two days ago, she fled her house and reached parents' house at Qasba Colony.
After filing complaint of torture at the Pirabad Police Station, she was brought to the Jinnah Hospital, where Medico-lego officer Dr. Farida examined her.
According to initial report submitted by Dr. Farida, there are marks of torture on Shazia's cheeks and other body parts.
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The principal of an Islamic boarding school in Tangerang is vigorously denying allegations that he raped one of his teenage students. His defense: his "pet genie" did it.
A 15-year-old girl, identified only by the initials KHF, said she was raped at the school last July. She said she had gone to the office of the principal, identified as HDN, to report that she was stepping down as a head of the Student Council.
But she claimed the principal changed the topic of conversation by saying that one of his genies had a crush on her. He reportedly promised that she would be given certain "metaphysical powers" if she agreed to have sex with the genie...
.......she had kissed his hand as a sign of respect and then began to feel disoriented. The next thing she remembered was waking up in the principals office, exhausted and with pain in her lower body.
The principal has denied raping the girl and reportedly told her parents that his genie was responsible for the pregnancy. He said the genie must have been angry because it had not been fed for months. He is understood to have said the genie "borrowed" his body at the time of the rape. In response, the girls family challenged him to take a DNA test. He agreed and said he was sure the test would reveal the true culprit, the girls mother said. "Feeding the genie"? That's a new one...
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He said the genie must have been angry because it had not been fed for months.
Just how often has this lunatic been "feeding his genie"? Does he really believe a DNA test will reveal genie genes? I've heard a lot of creative monikers for a guy's tool, but "pet genie" is a new one on me.
If he rubs it hard enough, a genie pops out. Well, something comes out anyway. And it beats stroking a magic lamp, which is not always right at hand when you need a genie.
More "good" news for Obama and the Left.
Americans do not trust the major tv news operations in the country- except for Fox News.
Our newest survey looking at perceptions of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News finds Fox as the only one that more people say they trust than distrust. 49% say they trust it to 37% who do not.
CNN does next best at a 39/41 spread, followed by NBC at 35/44, CBS at 32/46, and ABC at 31/46.... This poll was conducted by Public Policy polling, an explicitly Democrat outfit.
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I personally blame Marsha McCallam and Megyn Kelly.
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So only those decidedly in the tank for the Left still slag off Fox? Fox is reaping the benefits of being the only TV news provider to treat Obama fairly during the election. For the others, actions > consequences. You burned your credibility, and you can't buy that back.
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Well, it's not like GE is worth a crap in anything they do with media. In fact, msnbc is all the propaganda fit to regurgitate.
Screw NBC and GE.
I look for the GE stamp on electronics so I know not to buy them. If I want to pay communists that are trying to destroy my country, I choose goods made in China. At least they are honest about it, cheaper, and do not pay zombies like keith olberman.
In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest. Could its fate be a sign of what others, including The New York Times, might expect? Magic Eight Ball sez: "It is quite possible"...
So, three months later, how many people have signed up to pay $5 a week, or $260 a year, to get unfettered access to newsday.com?
The answer: 35 people. As in fewer than three dozen. As in a decent-sized elementary-school class.
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hee hee hee...
and .... let me guess...
they all work for or are relatives of the owners of the paper?
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Hilarious. When I was blogging a lot--at my peak--I had a few more than 35 regular readers. And I was a NOBODY.
They might as well save overhead and startup newsday.blogspot.com.
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33 of the 35 are Ellie Light
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It's almost too good to check, but it turns out that the paid option is for people who don't have HBO locally to Long Island or a Newsday subscription. So it's for non-locals and folks off the grid. Since Newsday is no longer a paper with international or even national aspirations, this is more about the guys in the bullpen pissed about becoming a local paper of no greater importance than anything else.
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and wasn't it Newsday that cooked the circulation numbers by 100,000 some time ago ??
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no, but apparently 99,965 balked at paying
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Leftists in Brazil for a week of protests against capitalism denounced corporate greed on the second day of the World Social Forum, saying Tuesday that big companies humbled by the global meltdown must be prevented from controlling natural resources and harming the environment. They then asked the waiter to see the wine list...
In Peru, for example, foreign and domestic miners are vying for concessions to explore for gold, silver and zinc on traditional Indian lands where tribe members eke out a living from small farms threatened by contamination, said Carlos Candiotti, leader of an anti-mining group.
"These companies come into our territory without our approval, but the state must recognize our rights because we're the owners, with ancestral rights to the land where we live," Candiotti said.
Now in its 10th year, the social forum is a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum starting Wednesday in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, and leftist leaders are gleefully criticizing the bankers and business titans hit hard by the financial crisis.
But they said nations that have exerted greater state control over economies as a result of the meltdown must go further, warning that large corporations will try to reassert their grip on the world and push policies that critics say emphasize reliance on free markets at the expense of social welfare.
"We need to make sure the neoliberals never take over again," said Arthur da Silva Santos, president of Brazil's largest confederation of labor unions. "There are just a few hundred companies today that hold all the cards for the global economy."
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When is President Obama flying down to speak there?
Fox News was the top cable network in primetime last week, averaging the most total viewers between January 18th-24th. The last time FNC topped USA and came in first was during the week of the 2008 presidential election.
In a week dominated by coverage of the earthquake in Haiti and the U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, FNC drew an average of 3.2 million total viewers in primetime (Mon-Sun).
Fox was ranked 3rd in total day. CNN was 22nd in primetime and 19th in total day, and MSNBC was 25th in primetime and 31st in total day.
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Now and then I need some comic relief so briefly watch one of the MSM "news" programs and invariably there is some silly Sarah Palin hit piece or jab...that's one of many reasons people have turned to Fox.
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Every now and then when channel surfing, I hit MSNBC and see Keith Oberputz. I cannot stand to listen/watch to the silly jerk. No wonder Fox is #1. The rest are not to be trusted.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Keith Richards has given up alcohol.
Venezuelan Vice President Ramon Carrizalez has left the government, reportedly citing personal reasons. 
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In late October, Newsday, the Long Island daily that the Dolans bought for $650 million, put its web site, newsday.com, behind a pay wall. The paper was one of the first non-business newspapers to take the plunge by putting up a pay wall, so in media circles it has been followed with interest. Could its fate be a sign of what others, including The New York Times, might expect?
Leftists in Brazil for a week of protests against capitalism denounced corporate greed on the second day of the World Social Forum, saying Tuesday that big companies humbled by the global meltdown must be prevented from controlling natural resources and harming the environment.
Fox News was the top cable network in primetime last week, averaging the most total viewers between January 18th-24th. The last time FNC topped USA and came in first was during the week of the 2008 presidential election.
