And the party was just ruined!
A bridegroom fatally shot his new wife, his best man and then himself after announcing to horrified guests that he had a "surprise" for them, authorities said Monday.
Witnesses reported that 29-year-old Rogerio Damascena, a sales manager in Camaragibe, outside the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife, did not give any previous indication that anything was wrong at his wedding reception, police investigator Joao Brito said.
Brito would not speculate on a possible motive, "Waddaya think, Sarge?"
"I think he's nuts, Muldoon."
saying family members were in shock and he had not interviewed them yet. Ummm, Sarge? Muldoon? Anyone think the bride might have been foolin' around with the best man? And the groom found out, but didn't take it well? Uh, well, yeah, cheez, Captain, that could happen but what are the odds?
Brito did say the killings are believed to be premeditated because of the groom's announcement and because he had hidden a gun in his father's pickup truck. Nothing gets past this police investigator, nothing I tells ya
Twenty-five-year-old bride Renata Alexandre Costa Coelho and best man Marcelo Guimaraes were both killed in Saturday's murder-suicide. A brother of the bride was treated at a hospital and released.
The website Globo.com quoted a sister of the bride who left before the shootings as saying she didn't believe it was a crime of passion. "My sister was a wonderful person who loved and wanted to be loved," Lucia Helena Coelho was quoted as saying. My sister was NOT a slut... and she was betrothed to a vengeful bastard!
"He was happy, she was happy, the party was beautiful. His family adored her and doesn't understand this," Coelho told Globo.com. "He revealed himself as a sociopath who fooled the entire family and killed his best friend, who was ... the best man."
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It's my party
And I'll die if I want to
die if I want to
die if I want to
You would die too
If it happened to you
[da-da da-da--da]
/channeling Leslie Gore
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AP go to your room while I try to eliminate that ear worm!
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I remember one very sad but honorable young man, who just a day before his wedding, chanced upon his fiancee, to find her servicing not one, but two former boyfriends.
For her to blurt out, "I want an open marriage!" right then was as good a defense as any other. Still didn't work.
This might explain why Harry Reid was re-elected. Whatever Harry is, he's no giant ...
The Paiutes, a Native-American tribe indigenous to parts of Nevada, Utah and Arizona, told early white settlers about their ancestors' battles with a ferocious race of white, red-haired giants....The Paiutes named the giants "Si-Te-Cah" that literally means "Teamsters Union organizers?"
"tule-eaters." The tule is a fibrous water plant the giants wove into rafts to escape the Paiutes continuous attacks....According to the Paiutes, the red-haired giants stood as tall as 12-feet and were a vicious, unapproachable people that killed and ate captured Paiutes as food. Yep, Teamsters all right.
The Paiutes told the early settlers that after many years of warfare, all the tribes in the area finally joined together to rid themselves of the giants. One day as they chased down the few remaining red-haired enemy, the fleeing giants took refuge in a cave. The tribal warriors demanded their enemy come out and fight, but the giants steadfastly refused to leave their sanctuary.
Frustrated at not defeating their enemy with honor, the tribal chiefs had warriors fill the entrance to the cavern with brush and then set it on fire in a bid to force the giants out of the cave. The few that did emerge were instantly slain with volleys of arrows. The giants that remained inside the cavern were asphyxiated. Later, an earthquake rocked the region and the cave entrance collapsed leaving only enough room for bats to enter it and make it their home.
Hundreds of years later archaeologists explored the cavern near Lovelock, Nevada--the cave the Indians had described. What the scientific researchers found was staggering: over 10,000 artifacts were unearthed including the mummified remains of two red-haired giants--one, a female 6.5-feet tall, the other male, over 8-feet tall....As the excavation of the cave progressed, the archaeologists came to the inescapable conclusion that the Paiutes myth was no myth; it was true. What led them to this realization was the discovery of many broken arrows that had been shot into the cave and a dark layer of burned material under sections of the overlaying guano....
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Interesting but fable until references are given.
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HMMM, HMMM, yeah, I remember reading of this ancient Indian lore + others when I was a kid in the early + middle 1970's.
* Compare wid FREEREPUBLIC THIS AM > seems the ANCIENT AINN RACE OF JAPAN + MAINLAND ASIA MAY HAD BEEN THE FIRST TO DISCOVER NORTH AMERICA, NOT INDIANS = AMERINDIANS.
IOW, "WE'RE ALL JAPANESE NOW", which by extension also infers "WE'RE ALL CHAMORROS/GUAMANIANS/ASIANS, OCEANIANS + PACIFICANS, since anecdotal evidence exists to infic or infer that ancient Guam Chamorros were allegedly descended from JAPANESE [or OTHER ASIAN STOCK]???
Lest we fergit, IRRC NET > 2008 -2009? > CHINA + INDIA BOTH also claim to be the TRUE "MOTHER OF ASIA/HUMAN CIVILIZATION", NOT DEM WILY MESOPOTAMIANS + SUMERIANS???
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Oddly enough, the perfidy of the federal government does much to keep this story, true or false, alive.
With the discovery of the 8,400 year old Kennewick man skull, the Indian tribes of the Pacific northwest intensely lobbied to have it reinterred, as they were clearly not Indian or east Asian, but Caucasoid.
Not only did the federal government withhold the skeleton from outside investigation, but fought in the courts to have it reburied, and covered the site where it was found with many tons of gravel, to prevent any further discoveries.
This was such a crude and stupid effort, that it rang a bell, how the federal government had long inveigled against discoveries that suggested early Viking settlements in the US.
So, did Vikings make it to Paiute territory? From Greenland to Nevada is about 2,500 miles. And geneticists have proven that human genes from ancient Japan made it to an Indian tribe in New Mexico, which is close to 6,000 miles.
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This might explain why Harry Reid was re-elected.
Since my cousin Bernie is the spokesman for the ancient-cannibalistic-giant community in Nevada, I'm fairly sure that they're going to disavow any responsibility for Reid.
(Although... can a hairy giant really be a cannibal from eating puny little bald humans?
L'anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland -- the only confirmed Viking settlement in North America -- is a bit closer. And then there's the "Maine Penny", a silver Byzantine coin found in a shell midden in Maine, in a layer dating to around 1100AD.
Not that these had to be "Vikings" or even real. There are lots of legends of fantastic people who lived in a region before the most recent inhabitants: the Celtic fay legends, for example. There are similar legends in South America, as well.
And there have been finds other than Kennewick Man. Some of the pre-Clovis human bones have mitochondrial DNA that don't connect to any existing human population, and some of the tools discovered bear a resemblance to some early European tools.
Unfortunately, the US Congress turned native-American creation myths into federal law (so much for not making laws respecting a religion), and this whole realm of research has been closed off. Pre-Clovis finds are too old to be connected to any known tribes, but still have to be turned over to them for "reburial"; they're invariably destroyed or tainted.
There's no real reason to think there have only been two waves of immigration into the Americas, and there's good evidence for three or more.
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I wonder if Indians look different from East Asians because they interbred with the indigenous inhabitants of North America.
Students intended to 'maliciously maim students with the intent to injure
"They said, 'maliciously maim students with the intent to injure.' And I don't think any of us here intentionally meant to injure anyone, or did," said Zakk Rhine, a junior at Battlefield High School.
The boys say they were just tossing small two-inch candy canes to fellow students as they entered school. The ones in plastic wrap that are so small they often break apart.
Skylar Torbett, also a junior, said administrators told him, "They said the candy canes are weapons because you can sharpen them with your mouth and stab people with them." He said neither he nor any of their friend did that. Were I a lawyer in that town, I would go after the school district pro-bono.
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Mother Kathleen Flannery said an administrator called her and explained "not everyone wants Christmas cheer. That suicide rates are up over Christmas, and that they should keep their cheer to themselves, perhaps."
Well, now I know what Debbie Downer's doing for a living. She's an "administrator" at Battlefield High...
I caught this story on Fox 25 this morning. One of the newscasters stated something that agree with completely. "At one time, if you were selected to lead the Pledge of Allegiance in class, it was something to be proud of." It is amazing how far we have come. I remember leading the class in the Pledge of Allegiance in the back the 1960's when I was in Elementary School and I was honored for being selected. It is not in the story below, but I remember also hearing that along with the permission slip, another document was also given to the students, outlining the meaning of terms in the Pledge so the parents or guardians can make a informed decision. Perhaps one of the Rantburgers could confirm this.
A Brookline school is issuing permission slips to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
The principal at the Devotion School says beginning next month his school will begin reciting the pledge over the school intercom.
He says students and teachers are not required to participate, but he's hoping the permission slips will encourage parents to have a discussion with their kids about the pledge.
I suppose it's progress. It could've been to open the day with quotations from Mao's Little Red Book. Although I doubt they'd ask for permission to do that.
Forget it, Jake. It's...Brookline.
It wuz an accident, honest, ossifer...
A 30-year old Michigan man shot himself Monday morning while napping in his car parked on the Ohio Turnpike. Troopers said it appears Mahmoud Ajaj of Dearborn, Mich., accidentally shot himself after falling asleep. Mahmoud was traveling with his wife, a 3 year old & a 7 month old. He parked on the shoulder of the road to take a nap, while holding a gun on his chest. "He said it was for protection in case someone tried to rob them," an OHP spokesman said. As Mahmoud slept, the gun discharged, the bullet going through his left thigh. He was later taken by ambulance to a Fremont hospital, then flown by medical helicopter to Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, where he was treated & released. Charges have not been filed. How about endangering children & careless use of a firearm? The reasoning behind this story makes no sense at all. Makes me wonder if there is a dead body hidden in the snow somewhere along the road that will turn up next spring or so, or maybe this was a bungled part of a terror attack.
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Hope they checked the trunk for smuggled cigarettes.
And WHY THE HELL ISN'T HE FACING WEAPONS CHARGES?! That's certainly not safe handling of a firearm, as a Michigan resident he almost certainly doesn't have a CCW permit, and he could very well have shot an innocent bystander.
(Oh, wait. Masturbating with a gun is part of his faith, innit?)
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Ya gotta protect yourself from them infidels. They're everywhere...
The Mossad too.
Hope Joseph M is on high ground
A tsunami warning has been issued after a tremor occurred in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Japan.
The United States Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.4, and was centred about 55 kilometres east of Chichi-shima in Japan's Bonin Islands, or about 1,050 kilometres south-southeast of Tokyo.
The quake was reported to have occurred almost 15 kilometres below sea level.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for the chain of islands, with people being told to evacuate coastal areas to higher ground. The warning said the tsunami was expected to be up to two metres.
Tsunami advisories were also posted for several islands and prefectures along the southern coast of Japan.
[Al Jazeera] Police in a provincial city in Tunisia have used tear gas to disperse hundreds of youths who smashed shop windows and damaged cars, according to witnesses.
There was no immediate comment from officials on Saturday's disturbances, and national media ignored the event.
Riots are extremely rare for Tunisia, a North African country of about 10 million people.
It is one of the most prosperous and stable in the region, but civil liberties are severely limited.
Witnesses said several hundred youths gathered in the city of Sidi Bouzid, about 200km southwest of the capital Tunis, late on Saturday.
They were angered by an incident where a young man, Mohamed Bouazizi, had set fire to himself in protest after police confiscated the fruit and vegetables he was selling from a street stall, the witnesses said.
"The violent festivities ended with the arrest of scores of people," a witness, who requested anonymity, told the Rooters news agency. "[There was] breaking of shop windows and smashing of cars, while police fired tear gas."
Another witness, Mahdi Said Horchani, said rioting had continued into Sunday.
Horchani, who is a relative of the man who set fire to himself, said: "People are angry at the case of Mohamed and the deterioration of unemployment in the region.
"Regional authorities have promised to intervene."
Horchani said Bouazizi was in a critical condition and had been transferred to a hospital in Tunis.
Footage posted on the Facebook social network site and YouTube showed several hundred protesters outside the regional government headquarters, with lines of police blocking them from getting closer to the building.
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According to Salawat Qutubu Az-zamaan, the disasters are expected to occur "as a result of the unbalanced nature of the world where there is too much weight to one side." He averred that the situation can only be prevented if huge pyramids are constructed along the equator.
Can't we just move the fat people around?
The spiritual leader's predictions about the future of the world have over the years come to reality. In 2009, for instance, he revealed that 2010 will experience a lot of disasters such as earthquakes, floods, wind fires, air crashes, volcanoes, epidemics severe weather conditions and many deaths among the youth.
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Pragmatically, IMO the global temerature changes wrought by the PERTS-forecasted 2012/13 TECHS-DAMAGING OR DESTROYING MASSIVE SOLAR STORMS is NOT enough to foster in a NEW ICE AGE OR MINI-ICE AGE.
IN ORDER FOR THE GOVT + MSM-NET PERTS "CLIMATE CHANGE/GW" FORECASTS TO HOLD TRUE, THE SOLAR STORMS + OBSERVED CHANGES IN SOLAR BEHAVIOR WOULD HAVE TO BE MORE POTENT + DANGEROUS THAN IS PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED.
[Iran Press TV] International pressure is mounting on incumbent Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo to step down as deadlock over the presidential election remains unresolved.
The United States has imposed travel sanctions on Gbagbo and 30 members of his government. In addition, the European Union is making efforts to freeze any assets that he may have in Europe, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported on Tuesday.
Gbagbo's rival candidate, Alassane Ouattara, who is recognized by the UN poll monitors as the winner of the election has urged the Ivorian people to rise up against the government.
UN Secretary General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon warned of a "dangerous" situation in Ivory Coast, saying it would be a travesty of democracy to allow the country's incumbent president to stay in power.
Following Ban's remarks, the incumbent president called on the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society peacekeepers to leave the West African country and has threatened to treat those who remain as rebels. The UN, however, has defied the order.
The UN Security Council decided on Monday to extend the forces' mandate for six months.
Also, Amnesia Amnesty International has pressed charges against Gbagbo's loyalists for killing of his political opponents. It has urged the international community to take serious measures to protect civilians.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned massive human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... violations in Ivory Coast, saying the violence that erupted following the November 28 vote has claimed 50 lives and injured 200.
The country's Independent Electoral Commission said opposition candidate Alassane Ouattara won the November 28 presidential runoff, but the country's Constitutional Council invalidated those results and declared Gbagbo the winner.
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I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know, where Ouattara gonna go,
When the Gbagbo blow.
(KUNA) -- The United States on Tuesday imposed travel restrictions on members of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbos cabinet.
"The citizens of Cote D'Ivoire expressed their will in elections on November 28, with results which were widely declared by credible international observers to be free and fair. Gbagbo's efforts to remain in power, despite the expressed will of the Ivoirian people for Alassane Ouattara to be president, threaten to compromise years of reconciliation and peace-building efforts on behalf of the Ivoirian people," State Department front man Philip Crowley said at press briefing.
The travel ban affects members of Gbagbos regimes, as well as other individuals who support policies or actions that undermine the democratic process and reconciliation efforts in Cote DIvoire.
Crowley said the ban affects at least a dozen individuals and is expected to affect more.
"We've put into place a process, but as events unfold it will potentially involve a fairly significant number of people, not only the president himself, his immediate family, but also those who are his cabinet ministers, and those who are continuing to help him remain in power," Crowley told news hounds.
The US move follows a similar step by the European Union as the international community seeks to ramp up pressure on Gbagbo to step down following a Nov. 28 election that the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society says he lost.
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[El Universal] Now, it is a fact. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela used its majority vote in the National Assembly to pass the reform to the Radio, TV and Electronic Media Social Responsibility Law (Resorte Law).
The online messages posted on the Internet will be regulated, after the amendment of the law.
Article 28 of the law, referred to "prohibitions" provides that "electronic media providers must set procedures to allow the restriction, without delay, of the dissemination of messages which, for instance, "create anxiety in the citizenry," "alter public order," "disrespect public authorities," or "incite or promote murders."
It further states that "electronic media providers will be responsible for the information and content deemed objectionable" disseminated in the web.
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Good. Let's start sending Hoogo obscene messages every morning.
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Russia's leading opposition newspaper said it would publish new WikiLeaks disclosures unmasking corruption among Russia's "highest political echelons".
Novaya Gazeta, a weekly known for its critical, anti-Kremlin investigative reporting, said by joining forces with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, it had gained unlimited access to new material linking Russia's political elite to organised crime.
"Assange said that in the near future, Russian citizens will learn a lot of new things about their country. He wasn't bluffing," the paper said on its website. "Our partnership is aimed at exposing corruption in the highest political echelons."
The new WikiLeaks material is a trove of "intriguing material" including documents on the trial of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and on the paper's own slain reporter Anna Politkovskaya, spokeswoman Nadezhda Prusenkova told Reuters.
"But what's most interesting to us," she added, "are cables showing corruption linked to the political establishment ... The authorities must be transparent."
President Dmitry Medvedev angrily dismissed as irrelevant US diplomatic cables published so far which cast Russia as corrupt.
"We don't give a damn about what diplomatic circles say, judging one or another public process in our country. It's only a matter of opinion," Mr Medvedev told journalists on the sidelines of an official visit to Mumbai, India. "What has been published to date, does not weigh at all on Russian interests."
The cables describing Mr Medvedev as a side-kick "Robin" to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's "Batman", portrayed Mr Putin as a ruler who allowed unscrupulous officials and crooked spies to siphon off cash from the world's biggest energy producer.
But the few disclosures on Russia so far seemed anti-climactic compared with the promise by WikiLeaks, which has unloaded thousands of diplomatic cables onto its website, to publish eye-opening secrets about Moscow's political underbelly.
"The American diplomatic cables were just a small part of the whole WikiLeaks dossier," Novaya Gazeta said on its website. "Now none of them is safe from the truth."
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Wonder how much of the material Novaya Gazeta reports will be completely fabricated.
Not that I doubt Putin's mobbed up; I have no doubt he's the chief mobster. But I doubt Assmange has the balls to touch real Russian material; he doesn't even have the balls to treat women well.
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No she claimed the one making the formal complaint was her 'evil twin' or something.
What gets me is that she, and her lawyer, now want 'compassion' for her 7 children. This bitch ( with apologies to all female dogs out there) and her lawyer showed no compassion to the officer - and attempted to destroy his career now wants compassion. And she knew it would destroy his career - she said just about as much on tape.
Give her her 6 months and, if she is the Australian equivalent of being naturalized - strip her of her citizenship and deport her back to the shithole she came from.
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Now if only Ned Kelly had used her defence:
"It wasn't me your Honour, it was someone else wot was wearing an outfit like mine", he might have escaped the gallows.
[Pak Daily Times] Belarus jugged more than 600 opposition activists on Tuesday, ignoring Western criticism of a police crackdown on protesters following the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko.
The activists were imprisoned for between five and 15 days, the Interior Ministry said. Their leaders, including at least five candidates in the election, face up to 15 years on charges of stoking violence on Sunday in the snow-bound capital Minsk.
Re-elected by nearly 80 percent of the vote to a fourth term in office, Lukashenko on Monday vowed to thwart any attempt at 'revolution' in the ex-Soviet republic and said there would be no more 'senseless democracy' in Belarus. His uncompromising tone suggested little immediate future for warmer relations with the European Union, which has been weighing how far to engage with the country of 10 million people on its eastern flank and possibly provide financial aid.
Russia underpins the command economy with energy subsidies, but relations with Lukashenko have become strained. The opposition said on Tuesday it would launch a 'campaign of solidarity' with those being held by police, starting with a picket at the jail later in the day. "The dictatorship has united the opposition," said Vyacheslav Sivchik, leader of the opposition 'Together' movement. The United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on Tuesday echoed US and European criticism of the crackdown, expressing concern over "violence against, and abduction of, opposition candidates and their supporters". Pillay also condemned the detention of human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... activists and "harassment" of independent non-governmental organisations.
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[Iran Press TV] Turkey's prime minister has reportedly written to the US president, warning Washington against declaring the World War I killings of Armenians in Turkey "genocide."
Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan sent the letter to Barack B.O. Obama on Monday, saying that a potential congressional vote in favor of the designation threatened to seriously damage the Turkish-American ties, dpa reported, citing the Turkish press.
"We are expecting that you will step in and intervene in Congress," he said.
Historians estimate up to one and a half million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks in 1915.
Turkey argues that the deaths had resulted from intercommunal violence at the time that also affected other ethnic groups and could not be labeled as genocide.
Earlier in the year, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives passed a "genocide" resolution in a 23-22 vote. The move "seriously disturbed" Ankara and prompted it to recall its ambassador to Washington, refusing to send him back for one month.
The House could hold a vote on the resolution on Tuesday.
Should it earn the representatives' approval, the resolution threatens a feeble rapprochement between Ankara and Yerevan.
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With all the stuff Erdogan has said about the US he can just FOAD!
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step in and intervene in Congress
It's not a parliament, dumbass.
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In 2009 Obama used the term 'Meds Yeghern' on Armenian Remembrance Day. Congress could do that also and if the rest the declaration actually said that Turkey should stop denial (Obama stopped short of that), that would move the issue along.
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threatened to seriously damage the Turkish-American ties
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Threatened to damage ties, huh? I think you already damaged them quite enough when you prevented our troops from moving into Northern Iraq and further damaged them with your pandering to Islamists since.
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refusing to acquiesce in the Turk's denial? Erdogan has done nothing to improve ties, and in fact has done much to damage them. We should lay the blame on his Islamist party and him personally
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The judge is somewhat notorious as a fruitcake. He was the one who overturned California's prop. 8. Among his other eccentricities, he has an aversion for sending white collar criminals to prison.
A dozen or more government warrantless wiretap cases have come before him.
[Dawn] The health authorities have discovered that more than 78 per cent of confirmed polio cases in Pakistain involved children who had been administered polio drops.
According to a report compiled by polio eradication section of the National Institute of Health, out of 136 polio cases reported this year, 107 children had been administered polio drops on several occasions under a prescribed schedule.
The data available on the website of the World Health Organisation also indicated that Pakistain had registered the highest number of polio cases in a decade this year.
Officials in the National Polio Control Programme said that the number of polio cases had increased during the last three years after going down for the previous seven years.
They suspected that the vaccine might have lost its efficacy after not having been stored at the required temperature, especially in far-flung areas where electricity supply is disrupted for long hours.
Prof Athar Niaz Rana, head of allergy and immunology department at the Shifa International Hospital, told Dawn: "Vaccine failure and failure to vaccinate are two important factors which have affected the national polio campaign."
He insisted that "security situation in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... is also one of the factors which has led to the failure of vaccine in that region."
Dr Rana pointed out that "the problem of vaccine storage in areas where refrigeration facilities are not available or power supply is discontinued very frequently also affects the efficacy of polio vaccine".
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They suspected that the vaccine might have lost its efficacy
Or perhaps the 'vaccine' they are administering is not the actual vaccine? Yeah, I know. Suspicion of malfeasance and skulduggery is an insult to Islam, but there you have it.
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One thing not mentioned in this article is that we here in the States don't give polio drops anymore. Both the Tsarevich and the Grand Duchess have gotten their polio vaccine via injection.
Too many kids apparently got polio from the Sabin vaccine. My kids' docs said that the live virus was present in the drops and the injection only has dead virus.
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Mammals and some other animals share a "speech and language" gene called FOXP2, which is also important for "modulating plasticity of neural circuits." Especially learning complex speech patterns such as birdsong.
But humans have an almost unique version of FOXP2, a mutation that is believed to do several things important to the use of speech to communicate, which may be a major reason that most of us no longer live in caves, unless Reaper UAVs are searching for us.
Likely this was a mutation of the mouse's FOXP2.
In past, scientists briefly put the human version into a mouse embryo, producing "chatty" mice with a greater vocal range than normal mice. But this was too dramatic for them, so they killed the mice and went on to other things.
I'm dying to see what would happen if they put the human version into dogs.
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Yes a dog that could talk and understand (More than they already do) Would be a godsend for handicapped folks, Gives a whole new meaning to "Helper dog" Think of a blind person's guide dog Saying, "Watch it there's a step Up here"
Or 911 yes, "Help my owner has collapsed"
Im all for it, would end animal cruelty when Fido can testify.
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The article seems to suggest the price rise of fuel - any everything else - is the result of the (zionist, perhaps) sanctions, but color me skeptical. The Mad Mullahs decided to raise the price of everything, all at once.
By the way, the old price of diesel was $0.06, so this is a pretty steep hike.
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if the Iranian drivers are anything like their Afghani or Pakistani counterparts, their "boy helpers" could have very sore bums by the time this strike is ended.
[Al Jazeera] Watching red and blue patches pop up on the US map at every election is part of the political junkie's nail-biting ritual.
However, The infamous However... it seems that US Census data released on Tuesday will deliver a bit of a spoiler. If you prefer to be surprised, stop reading. Otherwise, here it is:
The Census figures predict that Republican-leaning states in the US South and West will gain political clout from US population figures, dealing a blow to Barack B.O. Obama, US president, and his fellow Democrats that could linger for years.
The Census projections show a population shift from Democratic-leaning states in the Northeast and Midwest to Republican strongholds like Texas, Utah and South Carolina, giving those states more seats in the US House of Representatives.
The new figures, also could play a role in the 2012 White House race. The number of House seats determines each state's representation in the Electoral College, which is used to elect a president.
The release of the figures kicks off the once-a-decade, state-by-state fight over redrawing congressional lines to ensure each House district represents roughly the same number of people.
The process, known as redistricting, is intensely partisan in many states as the parties fight to draw the boundaries in a way that makes each of the 435 House districts more reliably Republican or Democratic.
States that gained seats must determine where to place the new districts, with the dominant party in each state looking for maximum political advantage. States that lost seats will decide which districts to combine, meaning some House incumbents will have to face each other in the 2012 election.
"Now everyone can start to figure out who has a target on their back," said Tim Storey, a redistricting expert at the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The figures were released by the Census Bureau in its 2010 national population survey, conducted every 10 years.
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A large amount of the red state growth is Latin American immigrants, who seem to vote strongly blue, which will move red states towards purple.
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redistricting, is intensely partisan in many states as the parties fight to draw the boundaries in a way that makes each of the 435 House districts more reliably Republican or Democratic.
I'd say that's a fair summary of the process, and not bad for Al Jizz.
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[Wall Street Journal] Federal telecommunications regulators approved new rules Tuesday that would for the first time give the federal government formal authority to regulate Internet traffic, although how much or for how long remained unclear.
A divided Federal Communications Commission approved a proposal by Chairman Julius Genachowski to give the FCC power to prevent broadband providers from selectively blocking web traffic.
The rules will go into effect early next year, but legal challenges or action by Congress could block the FCC's action. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) on Tuesday called the FCC's action "flawed" and said lawmakers would "have an opportunity in the new Congress to push back against new rules and regulations."
The new FCC rules, for example, would prevent a broadband provider, such as Comcast Corp., AT&T, Inc. or Verizon Communications Inc., from hobbling access to an online video service, such as Netflix, that competes with its own video services.
The rules would also require Internet providers to give subscribers more information on Internet speeds and service. Broadly, the rules would prohibit Internet providers from "unreasonably discriminating" against rivals' Internet traffic or services on wired or wireless networks.
The rules would allow phone and cable companies to offer faster, priority delivery services to Internet companies willing to pay extra. But the FCC proposal contains language suggesting the agency would try to discourage creation of such high-speed toll lanes.
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In Oct or so Comcast threatened/promised to up the charge on streaming video (except for Comcast content video). This has been hanging over companies like Blizzard and Netflix and Blockbuster which make $ from customers buying video.
This is, IMO, not so much a R vs D or left vs right contest as one between one type of business and another although the issues of interstate commerce, public purpose, etc. also arise.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Students intended to 'maliciously maim students with the intent to injure
[Dawn] The health authorities have discovered that more than 78 per cent of confirmed polio cases in Pakistain involved children who had been administered polio drops.
