Down here in the Deep South, calls to bring back the hanging noose are coming from an unlikely source: a 62-year-old, black Republican mayoral candidate in Mississippi's largest city.
Long-shot George Lambus acknowledges his inflammatory platform has made some residents of Jackson slam doors in his face. Others walked out of a church where he spoke. Yet he insists his tough stand is welcome in some quarters of a state capital racked by crime, much of it black-on-black.
As the only GOP hopeful among nearly a dozen Democrats and four independents, his chances of winning the June election are slim: the majority-black city of about 180,000 is so heavily Democratic that no Republican has won the mayor's race in modern history. Yet, Lambus hopes to stand out in a crowded field by packing a silver pistol and talking bluntly about crime.
"Crime can only be alleviated by a noose and a stout tree limb," Lambus wrote in one of several homemade flyers he passes out in Jackson neighborhoods. "I will provide the noose and when the economy improves, I will get the jobs here."
The Mississippi Republican Party is not supporting Lambus. GOP Chairman Brad White said Lambus' message doesn't reflect "the values that we represent."
Deputy Dawg Leaves Full-Auto .223 on Floorboard of Car While He Goes into Convenience Store
A man fatally shot himself Monday with a rifle he stole from a Kershaw County sheriff's deputy's patrol car that was stopped at a gas station near Camden, sheriff's Capt. David Thomley said. Not the ending to the story one usually gets from this sort of thing.
Investigators believe shift Cpl. Brian Morris left the car unlocked when he went inside the station's convenience store to pay for gas and buy a soda about 2:16 p.m., Thomley said. Durr! I'm a dumbass who the government for some reason trusts with fully automatic weapons.
More than four hours later, a 47-year-old Darlington man was found dead in the backyard of an unoccupied home off Gardner Street -- about 1,000 feet from the station, Thomley said. He died of a single gunshot wound to the head, Coroner Johnny Fellers said.
Kershaw County Medical Center EMS had responded about 6:44 p.m., finding the man lying on the ground, said Donnie Weeks, the hospital's president and CEO.
Morris, who was taken off road duty and is undergoing counseling, left the .223-caliber rifle between the front passenger seat and floorboard, Thomley said. Counseling? Is that what they're calling getting his ass chewed out means?
He reported it missing about 4:45 p.m., Thomley said. Precisely when the man killed himself is unclear, Thomley said.
The sheriff's policy dictates firearms be secure, Thomley said. There is no locked device in the front of the car to keep a rifle, he said. What else did Thomley say? It's getting monotonous here...
"It would have been more secure in the trunk," Thomley said. "I don't think it's a good idea to have weapons in the front of the vehicle with the door locked or unlocked." Genius!
Morris, a seven-year veteran with no disciplinary record, had the high-powered rifle because he's a member of the Sheriff's Emergency Response Team (SERT), commonly known as a SWAT team. Not anymore.
Team members are on call 24 hours a day, and Morris was authorized to carry the weapon at the time, Thomley said. He was working a 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. shift, Thomley said.
The rifle, which has a switch to make it fully automatic, was fired once by the man, Thomley said. Which was enough ...
Surveillance images at the Lakeshore Drive gas station show the man standing at the rear of the patrol car and looking into the store, Thomley said. The images then show the man walking beside the car and out of sight, Thomley said.
The front half of the patrol car cannot be seen in the surveillance images, Thomley said. No one witnessed the man take the rifle, Thomley said. What is with these 7 one-sentence paragraphs in a row, with "Thomley said" at the end of them? Is this an article, or someone's notes? I routinely fix these and did so here for readibility, but it's a journalistic style that I think the BBC started: every sentence is its own paragraph. I think it makes it easier for editors to cut stories, though apparently it didn't work.
When Thomley talked to Morris on Tuesday night, "his only statement was, 'Captain, I'm not sure if I had my door locked or not,'" Thomley said. I'm leaning towards "not".
"He's been a great deputy," Thomley said. "He's very thorough, and he's very thoughtful, and this is something certainly that he's hating that happened, and he's living with it and struggling with it."
The man who died was laid off last week from his job in Columbia, and investigators later found a car he took without a relative's permission 20 miles away on I-20 at the Kershaw County/Lee County line, Thomley said.
It's unclear why the man was in the area and how he got to the gas station, Thomley said.
Thomley is not aware of the man having any criminal record or mental health history. No one in the sheriff's office is familiar with him, Thomley said.
Deputies continue to investigate. "We want to find out what went wrong and certainly what we need to do in the future to make sure something like this doesn't happen again," Thomley said.
A peck on the cheek in public? Probably OK. Steamy embrace? Get a room. That's the message coming from Dubai authorities in their latest struggle to tame public behavior in this glitzy Gulf city state that sells itself as a place where the Middle East meets the wild West.
Dubai revealed the new behavior guidelines last weekend in the local media, though it remains unclear if they will become law. The instructions -- touching on topics from miniskirts to angry outbursts -- could sharpen existing "suggestions" for modest dress and decorum and give police more leeway for fines or arrests in places such as beaches and malls.
But the possible curbs also dig deeper into Dubai's bipolar personality, which caters heavily to Western tastes and lifestyles for its international allure, but is still governed by rulers with traditional and conservative Gulf sensibilities.
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There is a real danger of "Las Vegas-izing" a really terrific country. They have a right to maintain their economic and cultural history and greatness, and these rules are a good way to go.
Think I'm nuts? Nope.
And the Socialist Dems who are actively ruining OUR economy and country should take some lessons from Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, ruler of Dubai. But they won't.
Read on-- just a few quotes from the the Sheikh:
"The record of the UAEs economy bears testament to the wise vision of the countrys leadership and the sound legislation that guarantees the stability of all investments in various sectors."
"Money is like water, block its flow and it will stagnate."
" We are proud of our past and our present and we face the future with unflagging determination."
"Those who neglect the new will remain at the back of the line; those who wait for luck to make things happen will be disappointed "
"The relationship between the leaders and the people of the UAE is one of the secrets behind the nation's success "
"Unlike others, we are not content to settle for what was accomplished in the past, because life doesn't stop and it doesn't care about those who stop because they are content with what they have achieved."
"We are very realistic, despite our big dreams, and we work hard to be the best, relying on God and our citizens."
"We have succeeded because we have always believed that tomorrow is a new day, that yesterday's achievements are in the past and that history will record what we achieve in the future, not what we have achieved in the past."
"The present and future generations of our country are the top priority of all development plans."
"There are several elements of creativity. It is important to cultivate these elements and even more important to put them into practice. This creates distinctive leadership."
"A mother remains a mother, in her sensitivity, emotions and love for her children, regardless of conditions, environment and age."
"Stagnation means regression, therefore you should strive to develop.If you cannot, you should give up your place to others."
"We have to make history and approach the future with steady steps, not wait for the future to come to us."
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They are trying to get the euro trash under control there. Imagine sitting on the beach outside your hotel while your on vacation with your family and two drunk eurotrash fools start having sex. In every state in the US that would be a felony. You can see this behavior all over the world, they act and wear things they would never do in their home town. Sheikh Rashid is just trying to keep it a bit under control, just like any destination resort area.
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Does this count as part of the Stimulus? If so, I am going to report it to Recovery.gov and get my $500 reward for adding 2 more employed to the employment rolls.
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A pittance in the sea of profligate waste going on today, but a highly visible example nonetheless...
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First lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to break ground Friday on a new garden near the fountain on the South Lawn that will supply the White House kitchen.
She will be joined by students from Bancroft Elementary School in the District of Columbia. The children will stay involved with the project, including planting the fruits, vegetables and herbs in the coming weeks and harvesting the crops later in the year.
I like the idea of a working veggie garden at the White House. I am a bit concerned by the imagery of (undoubtedly 'multi-cultural') children toiling at the executive Mansion, planting and harvesting the crops for free.
Not a bad example for inner city families that often don't eat much in the way of fresh vegs or salad. Urban gardens are one of the few successes community organizers can boast that really do make things better for the poor.
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Is this going to turn out to be one of those "lead by example, but take it way too far" type things?
I feel like they are setting us up for food rationing or something.
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I am a bit concerned by the imagery of (undoubtedly 'multi-cultural') children toiling at the executive Mansion, planting and harvesting the crops for free.
But isn't that what communism really is all about? "Children" working in the fields to grow arugula the aristocracy. I have to give the Obama's credit for being open and honest about their intentions. That said, it will be a more accurate image when they conscript the children into some sort of America Corp to do the chore in exchange for free housing and meals.
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everyone can grow a garden and have free food
Yeah, free food. You watch: free labor aside, they'll be buying and hauling in tools, a tool shed, top soil, peat moss, seeds, seedlings, fertilizer, etc. and they'll have the Secret Service guarding the plot from the birds and squirrels. There'll probably be a full-time USDA horticulturalist managing the watering. Michelle won't get her hands any dirtier that touching the pristine handle of her gold-plated ground-breaking shovel.
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You know, I'm not sure that's what matters here Darrell. Lots of Rantburgers b*tch, and rightly so, about welfare recipients who want handouts and don't take any initiative for themselves. An example of doing so, e.g. establishing and tending an urban garden, associated with a high-profile intact Black family might influence others to try it for themselves even if Michelle Obama's manicure never gets threatened.
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lopt - you make a good point. Had Michelle chosen a public site and allowed the food to be taken home or given to shelters she would have done a valuable public service.
But there is absolutely no way around the fact that the image of DC school children working the fields of the White House, to provide fresh vegetables for The Chosen Ones, won't conjure up an image of slavery.
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Just my 2c but some of yall might be a bit too hard here. Would you be saying these things if it was Laura Bush? I think this is a good learning opportunity for those students. I'm willing to cut her some slack on this one.
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Great idea! That'll be real useful in a couple years when US currency is worthless.
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Deacon, I understand your point. I don't have a problem with her promoting kitchen gardens. It's a noble goal. However, using school children to garden for the occupants of the White House is not representative of the American way. I supsect that if the Bushes had done this, hysteria would have been assured.
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I didn't see that on the first read: the kids are providing food for the OBAMA'S??? Give me a break. They should go home with the food. But the Obama's love to be adored . . . they will "let" the little children of DC do their gardening.
How about a city-wide neighborhood garden thing to teach neighborhoods how to grow food? Barak could use some of his "community organizing" skills for something better than tubing the world's economy.
Okay, to be fair--ONE garden at the White House, as the example to the neighborhood gardens, which Michelle could make her pet project--nutrition, self-sufficiency, hard work . . . uh-oh, I think that's starting to sound too "conservative" for the Obamas.
They're just trying to take attention away from the fact that they ditched all the DC programs of school choice, which has been really successful.
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Gluting Fillmore6653 I see your point, too, but I trust the Media about as far as I can throw my thumb. I wouold be very surprised if the Students were not allowed to take some fruits of their labor home. I am willing to wait and see on this one. I do wish Obama's agenda fails, but I am not yet ready to critisies everything that his wife does.
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and from the White House balcony....
"You are free to eat from any tree in the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,......."
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Now if school gardens got this kind of attention...
The older three kids attended an elementary school with 51% of the kids on free/reduced lunch and a 47% student turnover at that time. Our townhouse complex took Section 8 housing, and we were next door to the school and its garden.
When the school planted the garden, kids would sign up to help out over the summer. Of course, the kids went on vacation or had swimming lessons or whatever, and didn't come. I used to help in the garden, supervising kids; and the families from our tough little complex worked through the hot days. They found that all that work paid off when they brought grocery bags full of cucumbers home.
That particular school garden closed when the teacher heading up the program went to another school; and the floods of 1993 prevented planting the garden the following year. I hear it's back; but I couldn't find the article.
The best way to teach a kid the connection between hard work and food is to have them work in a garden. Inner city kids need this. So if this kitchen garden really serves kids in DC, and isn't just a photo op, it'll be of real value.
A Karelian woman vying for what Australian tourism officials call "The Best Job in the World" has been dropped from the competition after her home sex video was posted on the Internet.
Don't you just hate when that happens?
The contest organizers said Thursday that Yulia Yalovitsyna, a 29-year-old marine biologist from Petrozavodsk, was excluded from the shortlist of 50 candidates after they learned of an "inappropriate video" of her that appeared online.
Girls Gone Wild does Queensland .. and Moscow ...
"As such, Tourism Queensland has decided to exclude [Yalovitsyna] from the selection process under the terms and conditions of the job," Tourism Queensland head Anthony Hayes said in a statement.
Yalovitsyna was the only Russian to make it to the final stage of the contest, which attracted more than 34,000 applicants worldwide for the job of caretaker on Hamilton Island, off the Australian coast. The competition is part of a publicity drive by tourism officials in Australia's northern state of Queensland.
Yalovitsyna said Thursday that the sex video featuring her was on the hard drive of a computer that was seized as part of a criminal investigation against her husband, who is suspected of illegally distributing pornography.
And who apparently had a willing wife ...
She said those who leaked the video were conducting a "calculated campaign" against her and one of her many husbands, who she maintains is innocent of any wrongdoing, RIA-Novosti reported.
"Something that is part of my private life was posted on the Internet," Yalovitsyna told RIA-Novosti. "The sexual lives of me and of my beloved were opened to public access."
Private life, meaning pay-for-view ...
She said the confiscated hard drive contained thousands and thousands of images and videos that authorities could consider pornographic but that they were intended exclusively for private use.
Somewhere out there .com is pounding his keyboard in frustration ...
Yalovitsyna said she had agreed to be removed from the contest in order not exacerbate the situation, RIA-Novosti reported.
Reached by The Moscow Times on her cell phone Thursday afternoon, Yalovitsyna declined immediate comment.
The winner of the contest will be paid AU$150,000 ($95,000) for a six-month job that includes onerous duties such as whale watching, snorkeling and testing luxury spa treatments.
Each of the 50 finalists posted a short video on the contest's web site, and visitors were able to vote for their favorites. ...and she didn't win?
Yalovitsyna's video was in second place when she was dropped from the running. Must've sent in the wrong video.
The contestant who gets the most votes is guaranteed a final interview for the job.
Haynes said the criminal case involving her husband played no role in Yalovitsyna's exclusion from the contest. "[She] has told us she is not involved in this matter, and our investigations have not found any evidence to the contrary," Haynes said in the statement, which was posted on Tourism Queensland's web site.
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D *** NG IT, clearly the foul Purveyor of this dastardly deed can only be discovered through extensive close nano-scrutiny of the evidence!
President Robert Mugabe and a longtime opposition leader-turned-finance minister made an unusual joint appeal on Thursday for $5-billion in international aid to revive Zimbabwe's shattered economy.
The two men presented an economic recovery programme that scraps stringent price controls that fuelled black marketeering and inflation. It also sets up "safety nets and social protection for vulnerable groups exposed to market forces," Finance Minister Tendai Biti said, without offering details.
The longtime opponents disagreed, however, over the causes of the country's economic meltdown.
Biti said that Zimbabwe had to do its part by restoring democratic freedoms and the rule of law. He said a new wave of seizures of white-owned farms in recent weeks blamed on Mugabe loyalists must stop. "For the economy to turn around, we need to have good governance. Our politics must be right," he told business leaders and government officials at the presentation in Harare. "We are asking our international friends to help us."
Mugabe said economic recovery required foreign aid and the removal of Western economic sanctions he deemed "inhuman, cruel and unwarranted."
"We wish to appeal to all those countries which wish us to succeed to support our national endeavor. Friends of Zimbabwe, please come to our aid," he said. "I appeal for the removal of your sanctions which are inhuman, cruel and unwarranted."
Britain, the former colonial power, the European Union and the United States insist their official sanctions -- imposing travel and visa restrictions on Mugabe and more than 200 of his party leaders, government officials and loyalists - have little bearing on the economic crisis.
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$5 billion in Zimbucks? That's like, what, $1.75 USD?
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More loot to steal after they've milked the country dry.
Not NO, HELL NO, not a cent It'll go straight into Mugabe's pockets.
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We need a statement showing assets and liabilities. Descriptions of assets better than monetary value. We will fill in the blanks. In the case of Zimbob, a statement of financial condition is not necessary.
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Andry Rajoelina, Madagascar's interim president, has dissolved the national assembly and senate on his first day in office. Rajoelina, who forced Marc Ravalomanana from the presidency on Tuesday after a seven-week campaign of street protests, also appointed a number of ministers to his interim government on Thursday. The 35-year-old swept to power after the army took his side in a power struggle with the then-president, who Rajoelina accused of authoritarianism and misuse of public funds.
Rajoelina - who is six years too young to be president under the constitution - heads a transitional government which has pledged to hold elections within two years.
Sadc rejection
But nations of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) said on Thursday that it would not recognise Rajoelina as Madagascar's new president. After a mini-summit in Swaziland about the Indian Ocean island, Sadc urged the African Union and the international community not to recognise Rajoelina as president. Sadc's decision-making body called for a return to "democratic and constitutional rule in the shortest time possible".
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KUWAIT CITY - Calls mounted in Kuwait on Thursday for an overhaul of the political system after a new dispute between MPs and the government led to the dissolution of parliament for the second time in a year. The emir dissolved the 50-member assembly on Wednesday and called for new elections within two months in a bid to end years of political feuding that has stalled development in the oil-rich Gulf state.
Analysts said without major changes, including a comprehensive revamp of Kuwaits 1962 constitution to give Kuwaitis a greater role in choosing their government, there would be no end to the paralysing turmoil.
We need fundamental changes to our democratic system. The constitution must be revamped to allow a true parliamentary system in which the government is elected, said the head of Kuwait Society for Development of Democracy, Nasser al-Abdali. If nothing happens, we will return to square one after the elections and have the same crises. This could risk a suspension of parliament, he told AFP.
Kuwait was the first Arab state in the Gulf to embrace the parliamentary system and adopt a constitution in 1962, but it has often been described as a half democracy as political parties are banned. Although elected MPs enjoy extensive legislative and monitoring powers, the house has no say in the formation of the cabinet, which by tradition is headed by a senior member of the ruling Al-Sabah family.
A government is not required to win a vote of confidence from parliament before taking office and most ministers are not usually elected, although they enjoy the same voting rights as MPs. The cabinet is always headed by a senior member of the ruling family, which also holds the key posts of defence, interior, foreign affairs, oil and information.
Lawmakers can grill individual ministers and vote them out of office but have no power to bring down the entire cabinet.
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Lucy Baxter says she will even pay for a prostitute so he can lose his virginity. The mother has now set up a Bebo page for Otto appealing for potential dates to come forward. The leading campaigner has three other adopted sons with Down's.
She said: "I'd like all my boys to find love and enjoy sex. I always look at what other people are doing and why shouldn't they do the same things?
"I strongly believe, and have always said, that society has a learning disability when it comes to Down's syndrome.
"If he doesn't get a girlfriend, I will feel really bad, because I have sold him this thing that he is like everybody else. That's why I'm working overtime to get this sorted for him."
Otto enjoys acting and has appeared in local stage versions of Macbeth and The Canterbury Tales.
He persuaded his mum to help him find a girlfriend after being rebuffed for three years - and says presenter Fearne Cotton is his ideal woman. He said: "I'm on a mission to find a girlfriend. I'm looking for girlfriends everywhere."
Miss Baxter, 50, of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, has never married but has four adopted sons - James, 25, Otto, 21, Titus, 14, and Raphael, seven. She said: "Everyone else his age is having sex and enjoying being young adults, so why shouldn't Otto?"
Miss Baxter is a respected member of the Down's Syndrome Association.
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She could call my Senator (Vitter) - he knows a good madame who could set her son up. Or if she can't reach Vitter, maybe Eliot Spitzer could help. I bet most politicians could, for that matter.
(RIA Novosti) - Azerbaijanis have voted to scrap presidential term limits in a referendum held in the oil-rich former Soviet republic, the head of Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission said on Thursday.
Mazahir Panahov told journalists that with more than half of the votes counted, just over 92% of the electorate had backed a proposal to get rid of a two-term presidential limit. Turnout was around 71%, or 3,478,571 voters. "The percentages in favor are so high that we can already say that all the changes will be approved," he said.
He also said that a wide range of other constitutional amendments proposed in the referendum would be approved. These include media restrictions, and a law against showing "disrespect" to state symbols.
Opposition leaders have criticized the referendum, saying it was designed to allow President Ilham Aliyev, 47, to remain in power for life. Aliyev won a second five-year term last October in elections that were criticized by OSCE monitors.
Aliyev's late father, Heydar, was the leader of Soviet Azerbaijani, and also ruled the country for just over a decade following the break-up of the U.S.S.R. The Aliyev family has been in power in one form or another in Azerbaijan for four decades. Opponents of the referendum had called for a boycott, hoping that a turnout of below 25% would see the vote deemed invalid.
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Johnson! Stop the presses!! Not to worry, the workers already did ...
Striking workers on Thursday marched in France's second nationwide street protest this year to denounce President Nicolas Sarkozy's handling of the economic crisis. Unions and left-wing parties hope to draw more than a million people into the streets to demand a boost to wages and greater economic protection, with some 200 rallies planned across France.
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JUNEAU Protesting federal "strings," attached to stimulus funding, Gov. Sarah Palin said she doesn't want nearly half the estimated $930million Alaska is eligible for.
"Will we chart our own course, or will Washington (D.C.) engineer it for us?" Palin said.
She expected to file an appropriations bill this afternoon accepting about $251.5 million in stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, coupled with allocations of $262.6 million already requested for transportation and aviation projects for a total state take of about $514.1 million. Missing in her bill will be millions that Palin said are contingent on the state increasing the size of government, chipping in more dollars, or passing new laws that Alaskans might not want.
Among the money left on the table is about $170 million for education, especially under TItle One and for special education; millions for health and human services, including medical records and immunization programs; about $17 million for Department of labor programs, including vocational rehabilitation; about $7 million related to public safety; and several million dollars for energy projects, including some weatherization funding.
Palin pointed out that the energy money appears to require the state to pass a building code, while other funds could result in more state employees and programs that can't be maintained in the future. She said she's concerned about "managing expectations" of the people served by the state's programs.
In a press conference Thursday morning, Palin said she looks forward to a public discussion in the Legislature about other funding in what she dubbed a "growth of government package."
She said she hopes the Legislature will have enough time to take up the stimulus issues before an April 3 deadline for her to accept the federal money. It's unclear still if the Legislature will have additional time to evaluate the funds. "I would hope that's going to be enough time," Palin said. She also said she won't "get myself in a box" by saying she will or will not veto measures by the Legislature accepting more money than she is advising.
Legislative leaders have already questioned how Palin expects them to address several in-state natural gas development bills and other matters introduced halfway through the 90-day session. Her office issued a press release stating she doesn't see a need to call a special session offering lawmakers more time to deal with the stimulus package, energy, tighter state budgets and more.
At the press conference, Sen. Gene Therriault, R-North Pole, supported what he said is responsible restraint on the governor's part.
Palin's administration said the details of what she does and doesn't plan to accept will be made available online once the bill is transmitted to the Legislature.
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Reject the whole thing. All it is is reverse extortion. Unlike in Florida we have a RINO named Crist who is sucking up big time to Obama his nose is brown and wet.
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Texas Governor Rick Perry also rejected "parts" of the damned thing. Wish he had the balls to reject all of it.
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Anchorage School District School Supt. Carol Comeau came out wanting it on the news last night. Of course she does not have to worry about how the state govt has to expand to get her the money. Not my dept.....
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NEW DELHI: Four women and a man were sentenced to three months imprisonment Friday after one of them hurled a slipper at a Supreme Court judge.
The dramatic incident took place when judges Arijit Pasayat, who clearly was the target, and Asok Kumar Ganguly were hearing a case related to a music school in Mumbai. A total of seven people associated with the school were standing in front of the judges when one of them suddenly flung the slipper at the judge but missed him.
The shoe attack sparked a furore in the court complex.
Judges Pasayat and Ganguly handed down the sentence for showing disrespect to the court. Court officials identified three of the women who were sentenced as Leila David, Annet Kotian and Kavita Murali.
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So how many Indians does it take to hurl a slipper at a supreme court justice?
Israel's ex-president Moshe Katsav was formally charged on Thursday with several counts of rape, sexual harassment and an indecent act, the justice ministry said. "
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I spent a lot of time with obscurants, the natural enemy of lasers. A dozen US Army fog generators can lay a thick blanket of fog oil fog over a five square mile area very quickly.
Cheap and cheerful to make fog, night vision devices can see through it unless you add an inexpensive additive.
The Russians are big believers in obscurants, which is probably why Saddam torched the Kuwaiti oil fields. This has to be taken into account if you want to use combat lasers.
Salty, liquid water has been detected on a leg of the Mars Phoenix Lander and therefore could be present at other locations on the planet, according to analysis by a group of mission scientists led by a University of Michigan professor. This is the first time liquid water has been detected and photographed outside the Earth.
"A large number of independent physical and thermodynamical evidence shows that saline water may actually be common on Mars," said Nilton Renno, a professor in the U-M Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences and a co-investigator on the Phoenix mission.
"Liquid water is an essential ingredient for life. This discovery has important implications to many areas of planetary exploration, including the habitability of Mars."
Renno will present these findings on March 23, 2009 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston.
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Too bad they didn't photo the Martian that left it...
If you'll do the research, you'll find that life exists everywhere on Earth where it can, from deep ocean trenches to the higher leves of most mountains. I wouldn't be surprised to find "life" just about everywhere in our universe where it could develope. That includes Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and possibly even in the OORT cloud. It may not be life as we think of it, but it does what life does - absorbs energy in some form, grows, reproduces, and mutates. Some of it's going to be downright staggering when we finally acknowledge it.
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Lebanon''s Parliament on Thursday approved a draft-law to lower the voting age from 21 to 18, but the measure will not come into effect in time for the June elections. Parliament convened in a session attended by more than 100 deputies, who showed strong support for the proposal, which calls for amending Article 21 of the Constitution. Because the opinions of children are particularly valuable.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/20/2009 00:00 ||
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THE number of probes by the Federal Bureau of Investigation into corporate fraud and mortgage fraud is growing by the month. FBI deputy director John Pistole told a US House of Representatives panel that the bureau has more than 2000 open investigations into mortgage fraud as well as 566 corporate-fraud investigations.
While he was there on the hill did he pay a 'courtesy call' to Chris Dodd?
Mr Pistole said 43 of those corporate-fraud investigations involve "matters directly related to the current financial crisis".
Those numbers are all larger than those Mr Pistole offered to a Senate committee last month.
Comparing Mr Pistole's testimony to the House panel with the data he gave to the Senate Judiciary Committee in February, it appears the FBI has opened 36 new corporate-fraud investigations and 200 new mortgage-fraud investigations in recent weeks.
Mr Pistole said the FBI continues to experience "an exponential rise" in the number of fraud investigations it is conducting, "a trend we expect to continue". He said the FBI's investigations on corporate fraud and financial-institution failures are focused on accounting fraud, insider trading and financial-statement manipulation.
Mr Pistole told the Senate Judiciary Committee last month that the FBI's investigations into the current financial crisis involve companies "that everybody knows about".
Mr Pistole told the House panel that the growing number of fraud probes was straining the FBI's resources for investigating white-collar crime. President Barack Obama's 2010 budget proposal and various bills introduced in Congress call for additional financial resources for the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate fraud cases.
German Deputy Defence Minister Ruediger Wolf said Thursday that cancelling orders for the problem-plagued Airbus A400M military transport plane was a serious option.
Grace estimates the ECB has injected 2.1 trillion euros ($2.9 trillion) into the financial system, equal to 22.7 percent of the euro regions gross domestic product, while the Feds $2.2 trillion is 15.5 percent of the U.S. economy.
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If you translate these percentages into vacuum inches of mercury, then you can easily see who sucks more at this point in time.
ECB: 30 in-Hg x 0.227 => 6.81 inches of Hg
USA: 30 in-Hg x 0.155 => 4.65 inches of Hg
Now from a vacuum point of view, that sucks moderately. However, when you head up past 10 in-Hg you are getting into a zone of concern, and when you are at 20 is when the sucking sound becomes really noticeable. Keep reading the gauges, lads. It's just a small sucking sound now, but it could become the big vacuum easily.
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The number of US workers drawing state unemployment benefits has hit another record high. The Labour Department said on Thursday that 5.47 million people stayed on the benefit rolls in the first week of March, compared to 2.85 million a year ago. As a proportion of the work force, the number of Americans receiving unemployment insurance is the highest since June 1983.
Ian Shepherdson, chief US economist at High Frequency Economics, New York, said job losses in the US could reach 700,000 this month. "There is no sign of even a temporary easing in the downward pressure on employment," he said.
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03/20/2009 00:00 ||
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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.
Deputy Dawg Leaves Full-Auto .223 on Floorboard of Car While He Goes into Convenience Store
A Karelian woman vying for what Australian tourism officials call "The Best Job in the World" has been dropped from the competition after her home sex video was posted on the Internet.
(RIA Novosti) - Azerbaijanis have voted to scrap presidential term limits in a referendum held in the oil-rich former Soviet republic, the head of Azerbaijan's Central Election Commission said on Thursday. 
JUNEAU Protesting federal "strings," attached to stimulus funding, Gov. Sarah Palin said she doesn't want nearly half the estimated $930million Alaska is eligible for.
German Deputy Defence Minister Ruediger Wolf said Thursday that cancelling orders for the problem-plagued Airbus A400M military transport plane was a serious option.
The number of US workers drawing state unemployment benefits has hit another record high. The Labour Department said on Thursday that 5.47 million people stayed on the benefit rolls in the first week of March, compared to 2.85 million a year ago. As a proportion of the work force, the number of Americans receiving unemployment insurance is the highest since June 1983.
