BRAY, Okla. - A man has caused an uproar in this southwestern Oklahoma town by advertising in an unusual manner that he'd like to pay for a virgin to be his bride. A sign that 45-year-old Michael Thelemann posted in his yard Sunday said that he'll pay $1,000 for a virgin bride between the ages of 12 and 24. "I feel like I'm living down the street from a pedophile," said neighbor Christy Sternadel. "We want him out of this neighborhood. Who asks for a 12-year-old virgin bride?"
As of Wednesday, no one had taken up Thelemann on his offer, shocking, I know,
but he had heard several negative comments from neighbors, which he said he didn't understand. He said his grandmother married "a much older man" at age 14. That explains it...a family history of trawling junior high schools. Yuk.
"I'm just somebody who is getting up there in years, and I'm looking for a born-again, God-fearing virgin between the ages of 12 and 24 who can bear me children," said Thelemann, who was divorced in 1989. "What's the problem? I just think I have some wicked neighbors."
Neighbors asked the Stephens County sheriff's department to stop Thelemann from displaying the sign, but Undersherriff Bob Hill said the sign was gone by the time deputies visited Thelemann's home. That's because it was stolen, Thelemann said. He put up another sign Wednesday that didn't include the minor ages. The new sign also noted he's not interested in a "pig-worshipping, heathen, white-supremacist wife." Damn....and I had one all lined up for him, too!
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What the fuck? An 18-to-24 virgin wouldn't have been so weird (clearly legal), but... yeah, I don't know if he's got the idea yet that the law disagrees with him. And how the hell are his neighbors wicked than him?
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Jeez, he's 45 and nobody's hooked this prize catch yet? I, for one, find that hard to believe...
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A thousand dollars for a virgin? Jooooo bastard! Spend a buck and you might get something.
She can only be a virgin once, and I'm sure you could get a woman to sell you hers for that,(or at least say so, you'll never know anyway. Loser.) and you won't have to marry her. Didn't you learn anything from being married?
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My Mom and Dad got married when he ws 21 and she was 14. Been married 56 years and it looks like I'm their crowning achievemnt.
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*ahem*
nice endorsement, DB
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As shocking as this is, methinks the man is striking another blow for the ALternatist agenda in America. Pedophiles are going hell-bent for legality, as are Gays-Lesbians for "G-L Marriage" from Church and State. Illegal emigres are demonstrating for their natural + legal right to stay permanently illegal and publicly subsidized at their leisure/discretion. AL SHARPTON post-KATRINA > African Americans have the right to stay permanently poor and publicly subsidized while whites and non-Negros can do what ever they please - you know, Dem-Leftie Secular Progressiveness which aims to promote the best of society. No one should be surprised that the Left is going hell-bent for Alternatist-Anarchist agendas, i.e. the Cantonization-Mormonization of America, which in the end will be taken away from the ALternatists and Anarchists, etal. once democratic free America goes Socialist. Until then, its just faking suppor for laissez faire or libertarianism for the sake of political power. GWOT > Fascist = HalfCommie Clintonian SOCIALIST Amerika can make war for global empire all it wants as long as in the end it voluntarily or forcibly loses said empire, plus domestic sovereignty, freedoms, Govt. and endowments, to OWG - Hillary, Gore, Kerry, and Dean, etal. RINO CINO agenda-less Dems are there to ensure America PC loses to de facto OWG and Socialism-Communism. DEMS = IRAN = NORTH KOREA = TAIWAN, etal are there AMERIKA LOSES BY WINNING = COMMUNISM WINS BY WINNING, BY ANY EACH ALL and EVERY MEANS NECESSARY.
The Assistant Secretary of the General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation met Thursday afternoon in Tripoli with the Russian deputy foreign minister who handed him a letter to the Leader of the Revolution [that'd be Muammar] from the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. In his letter President Putin underlined Russia keenness on bolstering relations with Great Jamahiriya [that'd be Libya], convinced that increased bilateral cooperation between the two countries, would be an important factor for stability in the world.
President Putin also expressed his profound appreciation of the distinguished role of Great Jamahiriya, regionally, continentally and internationally. President Putin concluded his letter by saying; "We are ready to strengthen political consultations, and coordination with Libya in regional and international developments of common interest, including confronting the challenges imposed by the international developments and their changes for our conviction that there is a good base for carrying out this work through the joint efforts of both countries. The meeting which was attended by the director of the European Dept at the GPCFLIC, and the ambassador of Russia to Great Jamahiriya covered the discussion of bilateral relations and the ways and means of their promotion in all fields.
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At a time when Radical Islam is causing anarchy and mayhem all along the world's major trade routes and [former] Cold War chokepoints, our always loyal friend Russia decides to intensify pan-regional weapons proliferation in order to make sure the Spetzlamists have a good time "killing raping looting and having just a dandy ole time..." as some university profs would say.
The Algerian president has undergone medical checks at a top French military hospital. After the defence and foreign ministries had initially declined to comment on his presence, a French diplomatic source said on Thursday that "the Algerian president has been admitted to the Mal de Mer Val de Grace hospital for a medical check-up".
Mal de Mer Val de Grace in southern Paris is the hospital where Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 69, was operated on for a haemorrhagic stomach ulcer in December. The secrecy surrounding Bouteflika's visit bore similarities to the handling of his admission to hospital in November, when officials at first said he was in France for a check-up after suffering problems with his digestive system. Nine days later the official APS news agency announced the head of the oil-rich North African state had successfully come through stomach ulcer surgery.
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Yeah whitey cmon back. Do all my plantin n shit. 99 to 1 split. Seem fair to me. Just bring some pipes n shit. I rip it all up and trade it for a 3000 dollar pack of Marlboros.
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Under colonial rule, the best agricultural land was reserved for whites - a policy which Mr Mugabe says he is trying to reverse.
There's the glaring mistake right there, the land should be offered not to natives (You've already run out all the true farmers) But to succesful farmers in other nations, with very favorable immigration policies toward skilled people.
Problem is nobody believes him, they've already seen his tactics
1. Rob the successful.
2. Steal their land.
3. Exile the now broke victims
Not a chance while Muggabe still lives, and probably not for a good many years afterward.
Didn't I recently read that 30% of all Nigerians had AIDS?
Just wait a few years, then retake your own land back from the now empty nation that used to be Nigeria
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But Mr Mugabe blames Zimbabwe's economic problems on a plot by Western countries to topple him.
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Considering how some of the neighboring African countries have been quietly taking in the farmers that Maximum Bob kicked out, I'd be surprised if there are more than a couple takers on this "offer".
An Arab airline has hijacked the look of the cartoon kids from television's "South Park" to market its flights throughout the Middle East.
Air Arabia, a discount carrier based in the United Arab Emirates, features on its website the images of animated children who bear a striking resemblance to characters such as Stan, Kyle and Eric from the Comedy Central hit. When users return to the airline's homepage or simply click refresh on their browser, they're treated to several different characters. The imagery and facial expressions are similar to the boys from "South Park," but the kids are adorned in Arab-themed clothing and headgear, and thus, are not an exact match.
While no one from Air Arabia responded to WorldNetDaily's requests for comment, it appears the campaign began at some point in 2005.
Tony Fox, executive vice president of corporate communications at the Comedy Central network, said he was completely unaware of the purloined look until informed by WND. "It's amazing to me how quickly people will jump on a phenomenon," he said. "While I'm not a copyright expert, I don't know how we could have legal recourse for something that looks a lot like a 'South Park' character but actually isn't."
"South Park" has made its mark on society by poking fun at countless people and topics, and Fox noted there are certain liberties people can take to skewer others. "As satirists we can do that," he said. "Satire is protected by the First Amendment."
Fox added he'd bring the matter to the attention of Comedy Central's legal department for its opinion about the airline's use of similar characters to market itself.
Don't try. You can't buy this kind of advertising at any price.
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Team America will fix their little red wagons.
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"Fox added he'd bring the matter to the attention of Comedy Central's legal department for its opinion about the airline's use of similar characters to market itself."
Screw that. Don't get mad, get even: hijack these Air Arabia characters right back, and incorporate them into South Park episodes ridiculing Arabs. There's LOADS of comedy material there, all up for grabs.
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One of my relatives has a satellite dish with a suscription to various foreign channels, including Gulf ones... AND THERE IS AN ARAB VERSION OF SOUTH PARK, complete with "middle easternized" characters (don't know how they did for Kyle, who's indeed a jew), wearing ad hoc head gear, speaking arab, etc, etc, the total makeover.
I'm serious! I didn't dream it, and I wasn't under the influence (it was afternoon). Ok, I only saw 3-5 mn, could have been something else than a running cartoon serie, a one-shot parody, but the arabized South Park was a reality back then in 2003 IIRC.
Don't know if it's pirate, don't know the name, don't know anything about it, except that it DOES exist... perhaps theses ads feature theses arabic version.
Note that the Simpsons too have been adapted to the ME, as the shows aired there are not only dubbed, but also "arranged" and edited/redirected to suit "local susceptibilities".
Any cartoon connaisseur here, or perhaps someone good at searching for random bits of pointless information on the web???
Journalist Rabah Al-Quwayi, who was released earlier this week by the authorities, resumes work today at his Arabic daily Shams. All charges against him were dropped.
Al-Quwayi was arrested on April 3 over his writings on the Internet, which authorities said cast doubts on the journalists belief in Islam. Al-Quwayi, 24, a reporter in the Arabic daily in Riyadh, was summoned by a memo from the Hail police to conclude some paperwork related to his car which had been vandalized last November. When he showed up at the station he was arrested for his postings. They said they had closed the case of vandalizing my car and opened a new one that said they doubted my belief in Islam based on writings I posted on the Internet, said Al-Quwayi.
At the police station he was questioned by the Grand InquisitionCommission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice about his Islamic beliefs, Al-Quwayi told Arab News by phone from his jail cell on April 4. After being put to the question five days of detention at the police center he was able to assign lawyer Abdul Rahman Al-Lahem to his case. Al-Quwayis lawyer was not allowed to view any of his defendants arrest documents or the charges brought against him. They told me to check with the summary court as the case had been transferred to them, said Al-Lahem.
No further details about the case surfaced until Saturday afternoon when Al-Quwayi was suddenly released from detention. Al-Quwayis case is closed for good, said Al-Lahem. Arab News contacted Al-Quwayi after his discharge. Ill be back to work at the newspaper in Riyadh by the end of this week for sure and continue my job as usual, he confirmed.
Good luck to him. And Death to the Grand Inquisition.
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State media in China have imposed a blackout on reporting the heckling of the country's President during an address at the White House in Washington. President Hu Jintao's address at the White House was interrupted by a heckler standing in the press section. The woman shouted at President Hu that his days were numbered, and called on him to stop persecuting the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.
But as far as China's state media are concerned, the protest never happened. Newspapers, radio and television stations, and even accessible Internet sites in China have all failed to report it. A Foreign Ministry spokesman gave no explanation why it has not been reported and said it was up to the Chinese media.
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THe opinions of older or elderly adult Chinese still has value-impact in most of contemp China.
April 21, 2006: China recently got caught using a "honey trap" (sex scandal) operation on the head of the encrypted communications section of the Japan's Shanghai consulate. The man was being pressured by Chinese agents to hand over sensitive intelligence, or be exposed for sexual activities the Chinese lured him into (a "honey trap"). The Japanese diplomat committed suicide instead, while also alerting his superiors. Having the victim kill himself, instead of cooperating, is always a risk when running a honey trap.
When this honey trap blew up, it cost China quite a lot, and the Chinese are trying to make nice to the Japanese as a result. Japan was already pretty steamed about last years anti-Japanese riots, and China has apologized and paid compensation for destroyed Japanese property. But the Japanese were not mollified, and cut off a three decade old program that provided cheap loans to Chinese businesses. The two countries also do billions of dollars in business with each other annually. However, the Chinese need the Japanese (especially for their technology, technical advice and financing) more than Japan needs China. So the Chinese have assured the Japanese that there will be no more riots, and to make that happen, they cracked down on the ringleaders of the anti-Japanese demonstrations, and eliminated any anti-Japanese material in Chinese media.
Both sides continue to spy on each other, but now the Chinese have to be extra careful. This limits what the Chinese can do. Until the Japanese public calms down, which may take another year or so, the Japanese intelligence operatives in China can be bold. For even they get caught, the Chinese will have to suck it in.
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This is fortunate for us. The competition between these two is growing. Japanese tired of taking a back seat. The real rivalry is going to be over development of oil and gas fields in the South China sea. Japan is beginning to return to a much stronger military posture. This will frighten China much more than anything US says or does. A few Chinese can still remember what happened to them in the 30's.
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One anti-HU banner appears to had said "THE COMMUNIST PARTY IS DISINTEGRATING. ARE YOU READY?". Another seems to had read "ENSLAVED CHINA NEEDS FREEDOM/FREEDOMS" - Cheers to a peaceful, well-deserved implosion for democracy.
A chemical company in Shanghai has started producing an alternative fuel that could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if used to power the citys entire fleet of diesel buses. Bus engines must be refit before they can use the fuel, however. Shanghai Coking & Chemical Corp, a unit of domestic chemical leader Shanghai Huayi Group, put its 5,000-tonne-per-year dimethyl ether plant into operation earlier this week.
Dimethyl ether, or DME, is a clean-burning alternative to liquefied petroleum gas, liquefied natural gas, diesel and gasoline. It can be made from natural gas, coal or biological organisms. Market experts say that the new fuel can be profitably produced provided crude oil prices remain above US$40 per barrel. Currently global oil prices are around US$72 a barrel, almost triple 2002 prices. DME costs about $123 less per tonne than diesel fuel. The new fuel could help Shanghais diesel bus operators save more than 300 million yuan per annum. Around 15,000 of Shanghais 19,000 buses are diesel-powered.
Suddenly I like the Chinese a lot more.
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DME is essentially natural gas (methane) turned into a conveniently transportable liquid.
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China, with their fuel issues, would be a prime candidate for biodiesel. I'm not sure they are all that good at feeding themselves though so producing enough to run cars might be a challenge. Perhaps seaweed beds or something. Still, I thought they were the culture with the long term view of things and I haven't seen a whole lot of impressive long term solutions to their oil issues. They watched what happened to the west and followed lock-step.
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The West has done nothing for 30 years about the energy problem. It's been all talk. The actions have been legislation and regulation against sane solutions. China is at least ahead of us on that score. I preaching to the Choir be were are screw folks. Crunch time is upon us.
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While we're at it I don't understand why China hasn't cut a deal with South Africa to build a couple hundred pebble-bed nuclear reactors to provide their power needs. Its not as if Greenpeace is going to bother them.
And while they are at it why not create an Orion rocket ship. Truly take over space. Have the nations of the world complaining while also paying big bucks to get massive payloads into space. Who's gonna complain? Hell they could launch from Xinjiang, its not as if they care what the nuclear pollution might do to that Muslim dominated trouble-some corner of the Middle Kingdom.
I mean if China wants to give the finger to the world why not do it big. Why bluster over Tiawan when they could take the moon and have the Japanese Kow-towing to them for favors?
BRUSSELS - The recent surge in oil prices to record highs could cut short a decline in eurozone inflation and encourage the European Central Bank to raise interest rates, economists said on Thursday.
Earlier the European Unions Eurostat data agency reported that inflation in the 12 countries sharing the euro eased in March to 2.2 per cent from 2.3 per cent in February, confirming a previous estimate. That brought inflation closer to the European Central Banks preferred rate of less than but close to two per cent.
However, as oil prices reached new peaks on Thursday above 74.0 dollars in London and 72.0 dollars in New York, economists said that the downward trend in headline inflation towards the ECBs target would be temporarily reversed. Over the next few months, there may be a risk that the slowdown in the headline rate is held back from hitting 2.0 percent by the impact of the latest oil spike, but the underlying trend is definitely towards lower inflation in the coming months, said Bear Stearns economist David Brown.
Even though underlying inflation remained tame, economist Howard Archer with consultancy Global Insight said that upward march in oil prices would put pressure on the ECB to raise interest rates in order to keep inflation in check. The central bank remains concerned about the risks to medium-term price stability from persistently high energy prices, he said.
With oil prices currently hitting new record highs and a number of other commodity prices at elevated levels, this concern is likely to be reinforced, he added
ECB chief economist Otmar Issing indicated that the Frankfurt-based central bank might have to revise its inflation forecasts upwards following the latest surge in oil prices. In March ECB staff forecast that eurozone inflation would average 2.2 percent this and next year.
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Well, what are you going to do about it, Whitey!
UNITED NATIONS (where else?) (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Thursday he was seriously thinking about another White House bid in 2008 and will decide before the year is out. "Lovey, how much is in the Barclay's checking account?"
"I will make that decision toward the end of the year, but I'm thinking about it hard," Kerry said in response to a question at the Latin Economic Forum at the United Nations. "If you can get help me find 60,000 votes in Ohio ...," he joked, referring to the close race in that state on which his 2004 loss to President Bush hinged. He's not joking, it's the Dem Meme - Republicans don't win elections, they steal them!
Kerry, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, has criticized Bush on a range of issues, particularly the war in Iraq. And has written a whopping three bills in his entire 20 year Senate career.
On Thursday, he focused on Latin America, saying Bush lost interest in the region after the September 11 attacks. Well, except perhaps for all those illegals coming in from Mexico...
"Relations between the United States and Latin America today are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War," Kerry said. You think Hugo Chavez has anything to do with that, Senator?
Other Democrats seen as potentially seeking the nomination include U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and Kerry's former running mate, John Edwards. One thing's for sure - our bench is deeper.
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Best thing that could happen to the Republicans would be a Gore or Kerry ticket. Both fell flat because they had no charisma and no ideas and that will not change.
Best bet, in my humble opinion, would be for the Dems to put up Bill Richardson of New Mexico. Everyone else is just a whack-a-mole depending entirely upon the quality of the Republican Candidate rather than a statesman on their own right.
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Richardson was a major leaguer, Harkin was a fighter pilot, Kerry played spook in Cambodia, Gore was elected but not selected, Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman, Hillary forgave him (lol), and Teddy still leads Cheney 1-0 in personal murders committed...
A remarkably "truthy" bunch they are, and never actually called to task for it by the MSM.
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If the Democratic Party is going to continue yielding to its worst elements on the far left, best its moneyed members waste their funds on impossible-to-win candidates like Kerry... and then the Party centrists will find themselves voting Republican, yet again!, in self defense.
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It sounds like him. And Mr Muck4doo is back! Maybe we can start having some fun, again! We need Atomic Conspiracy and True German Ally to make it a real parrty!
Who cares what the looser Kerry decides to do. As I understand it, his way of being Senator leaves hims with very much spare time on his hands. He's so French, too!
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"Can't wait for the kerry - gore - feingold steel cage match in the Donk primaries"
to select the anti-DLC candidate (and dont forget Wesley Clark.
Im more interested in the other side, where the DLCers are agonizing over Hilary or not Hilary. Not Hilary being Mark Warner - Bill Richardson - Evan Bayh.
NPR, of all people, mentioned this AM that in the last 40 years Dems only win with southern governors heading the ticket - thats Warner, or sortof, Richardson. And then did an interview with Warner.
The argument for Hillary is that she can old the lefties, simply cause you righties slam her so much, while holding centrist positions. If the left gets angry enough at Hilary, anyway, then Warner-Richardson-Bayh look a lot better.
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What will be more fun is watching you guys wail when McCain whips George Allen, or whomever the hard right puts up.
Yeah, how horrible we like the First Amendment and the right to criticize politicians.
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yeah, except if you criticize Don Rumsfeld, then you should go to jail, per Tony Blankley. Or if you burn a flag. I guess if you had a corporate pac PAY millions of dollars to have a consultant produce a commercial in which a flag is burnt, and then run it on network TV a week before the election, it would THEN be protected speech. Cause, er, money IS speech.
Nice strawmen, too. What a pity none of them resemble my position.
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Good Lord, LH. You honestly think McCain is going to win the GOP primaries? Given that McCain's base is the television news PromTer Readers, I don't see it happening.
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L.H. It's unlike you to go on the offensive like a political hack. Do I sense a soft spot?Bwahahaha! You are correct about the shit storm that will happen in the Republican party though, could be fun too.
Does anyone think Bill Frist has a chance?
And, as a side note, if Jeb Bush never becomes POTUS, the Bush family will have erred by running Jr. ahead of Jeb. Jeb is the better candidate because he at least can speak.
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Liberalhawk, Tony Blankly didn't say folks should go to jail for criticizing Rumsfield, he said if it was a coordinated act then it could qualify under the law as mutiny which has serious penalties of which jail is included. If they did not coordinate than no crime has been committed and Blankly fully admited that if my memory serves.
2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was in Senate re-election mode on Wednesday when she collected the endorsements of top officials from New York City's two firefighters unions. But at the ceremony announcing their support, rank and file members of New York's bravest were nowhere in sight. "Mrs. Clinton chose to make a modest, almost quiet, appearance with about a dozen or so union officials in front of Ladder Company 157 on Flatbush Avenue," reported The New York Times. "The only audience members were hastily alerted reporters and camera crews, clustered on an empty sidewalk, instead of the crush of star-struck voters that often crowd her announced events."
The stealthily arranged ceremony - which was being touted as a major feather in Mrs. Clinton's political cap as soon as it was over - was undoubtedly kept on the QT to avoid an embarrassing repeat of what happened to Hillary the last time she met with firefighters. At Paul McCartney's post 9/11 concert for New York City, an audience of cops and firefighters booed her off the stage as a she struggled to introduce Jerry Seinfeld. The year before, the Uniformed Firefighters Association and the Uniformed Fire Officers Association had endorsed Hillary's opponent, Rick Lazio.
Mrs. Clinton's "tireless" work on 9/11 issues is said to have made the difference this time around. But judging from the sullen expressions sported by even the union chiefs as they bestowed their support on the former first lady, Hillary still suffers from a popularity deficit at the FDNY.
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My brother's a firefighter. His rule of thumb is when his union hacks endorse a candidate, he knows who not to vote for.
Al Gores global warming documentary hits theaters on May 28. Entitled, An Inconvenient Truth, the film purports to make the case for concern over manmade emissions of greenhouse gases.
Meanwhile at JunkScience.com , weve produced The Real Inconvenient Truth debunking two key myths of climate alarmism, including that the Earths atmosphere acts like a greenhouse and that reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emission will avert significant temperature change.
The notion that our atmosphere acts like a greenhouse that is, so-called atmospheric greenhouse gases, like water vapor and CO2, trap incoming solar radiation to warm the atmosphere is wrong. Not only doesnt the atmosphere work that way, greenhouses dont either.
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A real good debunking that attacks a core assumption about global warming. RTWT
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Yes, water is a greenhouse gas, some of the time, at least, and its effect is very hard to model because it works both ways (depending on the way cloud cover works).
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"Defend the Church of the Immaculate Global Warming! Destroy the heretics!"
yup, asking for the standard things in a scientific paper is heretic burning.
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Thats OK. I demand real facts, peer reviewed and scrutinized, based on the scientific method from the religion of enviormentalism. So far what they have is a total crock of crap.
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LH, I don't know if you are deliberately misrepresenting or just don't understand what he is saying.
His point is that many/most of those promoting alarmist global warming scenarios, don't even understand how the greenhouse effect works (or how a greenhouse works).
Otherwise, the article doesn't purport to be a scientific paper. Nor could it be published as a scientific paper, since you can't publish a paper covering what is already known and understood (except by the willfully ignorant such as most climate alarmists), or the shonky science behind a movie.
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not one citation. not one name of who wrote the paper.
So I take it the last op-ed you read about Gobal Wamming was chocked full of citations?
Or that Algore's screed-movie will be accompanied by a massive set of documentation?
Dunno who pissed in your Wheaties today, but you're liberal-ness has over-ridden your intelligence.
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The interesting part of the article is that the physics of radiation absorption conclusively proves that the greenhouse on its own can not produce runaway global warming. Rather the reverse is true and the additional warming effect will decrease to zero irrespective of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
To get warming beyond these levels you have to posit somekind of positive feedback that causes a runaway effect.
Were such a mechanism to exist, the earth would have long ago become and stayed a lot than it is or ever has been. Ergo such a mechanism don't exist.
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read the latest Michael Crichton (which has footnoted studies) and debunks your precious.....
Global Warming is a grant-sucking theocracy among the libs - don't buy it. Ask about solar cycles - ask how much the avg temp has risen since 1900 - ask if it EVER went up (or down) more... LH - your knee's jerking a little too much today
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liberalhawk,
Check your facts. Water vapor is not only a greenhouse gas, it is the number one greenhouse gas. Do your own googling and you'll find plenty of scientific proof. Or more to your mentality use wikipedia
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Holy shit, I hadn't seen that:
LH: "water vapour is not considered a green house gas."
Are you really this poorly informed?
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I'm pretty agnostic about this stuff. There will probably always be three business models out there:
1. Advertisers pay for mediocre content to be distributed for "free." (ABCCBSNBC)
2. You pay for higher quality content. (HBO)
3. The state taxes the hell out of you and uses your money to provide content that they think will better you or that the elites want to see on your dime. (BBC)
Personally, I'll take #1 or #2 any day. Of course, strictly speaking, #3 isn't a really business model. And now that you can download or stream just about anything on US TV, I predict that in five years, only two 90-year-old, crazy cat women in Edinburgh will still be watching the beeb.
#9
just in time - I'm shopping (May 1st to counter the mexican illegal's consumer boycott) to buy a big F'ing TV with DLP and HD...Now I can scratch Philips off the too-long candidate list - thanks assholes!
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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.
BRAY, Okla. - A man has caused an uproar in this southwestern Oklahoma town by advertising in an unusual manner that he'd like to pay for a virgin to be his bride. A sign that 45-year-old Michael Thelemann posted in his yard Sunday said that he'll pay $1,000 for a virgin bride between the ages of 12 and 24. "I feel like I'm living down the street from a pedophile," said neighbor Christy Sternadel. "We want him out of this neighborhood. Who asks for a 12-year-old virgin bride?" 
The Assistant Secretary of the General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation met Thursday afternoon in Tripoli with the Russian deputy foreign minister who handed him a letter to the Leader of the Revolution [that'd be Muammar] from the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin. In his letter President Putin underlined Russia keenness on bolstering relations with Great Jamahiriya [that'd be Libya], convinced that increased bilateral cooperation between the two countries, would be an important factor for stability in the world. 
The Algerian president has undergone medical checks at a top French military hospital. After the defence and foreign ministries had initially declined to comment on his presence, a French diplomatic source said on Thursday that "the Algerian president has been admitted to the 
Tony Fox, executive vice president of corporate communications at the Comedy Central network, said he was completely unaware of the purloined look until informed by WND. "It's amazing to me how quickly people will jump on a phenomenon," he said. "While I'm not a copyright expert, I don't know how we could have legal recourse for something that looks a lot like a 'South Park' character but actually isn't."
At the police station he was questioned by the 
April 21, 2006: China recently got caught using a "honey trap" (sex scandal) operation on the head of the encrypted communications section of the Japan's Shanghai consulate. The man was being pressured by Chinese agents to hand over sensitive intelligence, or be exposed for sexual activities the Chinese lured him into (a "honey trap"). The Japanese diplomat committed suicide instead, while also alerting his superiors. Having the victim kill himself, instead of cooperating, is always a risk when running a honey trap. 
A chemical company in Shanghai has started producing an alternative fuel that could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if used to power the citys entire fleet of diesel buses. Bus engines must be refit before they can use the fuel, however. Shanghai Coking & Chemical Corp, a unit of domestic chemical leader Shanghai Huayi Group, put its 5,000-tonne-per-year dimethyl ether plant into operation earlier this week.
BRUSSELS - The recent surge in oil prices to record highs could cut short a decline in eurozone inflation and encourage the European Central Bank to raise interest rates, economists said on Thursday.
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Thursday he was seriously thinking about another White House bid in 2008 and will decide before the year is out.
2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton was in Senate re-election mode on Wednesday when she collected the endorsements of top officials from New York City's two firefighters unions. But at the ceremony announcing their support, rank and file members of New York's bravest were nowhere in sight. "Mrs. Clinton chose to make a modest, almost quiet, appearance with about a dozen or so union officials in front of Ladder Company 157 on Flatbush Avenue," reported The New York Times. "The only audience members were hastily alerted reporters and camera crews, clustered on an empty sidewalk, instead of the crush of star-struck voters that often crowd her announced events."
