Accused madam Andrea Schwartz, 31, spilled details of an alleged three-year relationship with Time Warner honcho Wayne Pace during a jailhouse interview yesterday. And the married 60-year-old businessman, who rakes in nearly $7 million a year as the media conglomerate's chief financial officer, wasn't too happy about that.
The Brazilian bombshell claims she met Pace at the bar of the Four Seasons several years ago and he showered her with gifts of cash and clothing. They were so close, her story goes, that when she got married, she and her husband argued about the man she called her "sugar daddy."
"He's the reason we're living here," she told the hubby, referring to the Chelsea pad she claims to have bought with Pace's financial support.
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LONDON - Britains last survivor of the Western Front trenches of World War I, Harry Patch, celebrated his 108th birthday Saturday with memories of the mud and blood still in his thoughts. Patch marked the occasion with cream tea and strawberries at the retirement home in Wells, southwest England, where he lives.
Called up in 1917 at the age of 18 while he was working as an apprentice plumber in Bath, Patch was thrown into the 3rd Battle of Ypres, better known as Passchendaele. A total of 70,000 men were killed in three months of fighting, including three of Patchs mates when a shell fell close to him, leaving him with a welcome Blighty wound, meaning he was shipped home and out of the war.
It was mud, mud and more mud mixed together with blood, the former Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry private told journalists Saturday. My remembrance day is on 22nd of September when I lost three mates.
Patch said that after the war he met a former German soldier and we both shared the same opinion -- we fought, we finished and we were friends -- it wasnt worth it.
Britians oldest Great War veteran is Henry Allingham, 110, who was a mechanic in the Royal Naval Air Service, flying patrols in the North Sea as a navigator and repairing aircraft and engines during the battles of the Somme and Ypres.
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3rd Battle of Ypres, better known as Passchendaele. A total of 70,000 men were killed in three months of fighting,
And to think that people cannot bear 2500 dead in Three Years. Perspective, people.
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Australia on Sunday announced $12 million in funding over the next three years to improve the lives of children in Africa orphaned by AIDS.
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the government would join with international donors to give five million children better access to education and health care in Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique.
Mr Downer said many of the children had lost a parent to AIDS, forcing them to become the head of the household, and were unable to attend school because they were caring for a sick parent, or supporting their families.
TURKEY'S public television TRT, controlled by the Islamist-rooted government, has barred the popular Walt Disney cartoon Winnie the Pooh from air because it has a piglet as one of its main heroes, the Turkish press reported today. Several other cartoons featuring pigs also failed to win the green light from TRT management, according to the left-wing Cumhuriyet daily. The station initially considered scissoring the scenes showing Piglet, but abandoned the idea because the small pink-skinned character, one of Winnie the Pooh's closest friends, appeared too often, Cumhuriyet and the mass-circulation Sabah newspaper said. TRT officials were not immediately available for comment.
Pigs are regarded as unclean by Muslims and Islam prohibits the consumption of pork. Winnie the Pooh has been aired on other television channels in Turkey and its videos are easily available at the stores. Advertisement: Employees have recently complained of increasing government intervention in TRT's broadcasting policy, including also the appointment of ruling party cronies to key posts at the institution, which runs several television and radio channels.
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what year century is it in Turkey? A friend of mine likes to travel to Turkey and always talks about how cosmopolitan it is. *snicker*
This is the guy who got whacked for blasphemy; see below.
MULTAN: Clerics on Saturday refused to lead the funeral prayers of an alleged blasphemer, Abdul Sattar Gopang alias Tari, terming it a "great sin". However, Gopang's family on Saturday hired a religious seminary teacher to perform his funeral rites. Only 35 people of Gopang's family attended the funeral. A large police contingent was deployed in the area to deal with any untoward incident.
The Tehrik Khatm-e-Nabuwat has offered its full support for the accused and praised them for their action. "We will provide full financial and legal support to Waheed and Khan. We are proud of them for accomplishing this noble task," said a spokesman of the Tehrik Khatm-e-Nabuwat, Maulana Muhammad Siddique. Gopang was stabbed to death outside the Muzaffargarh district court, while he was on his way to attend hearing of a blasphemy case against him. He was being escorted by a police team and was attacked by two assailants Muhammad Imran Waheed, a student of BSc, and Muhammad Iqbal Khan, a vendor. The police latter arrested both the accused.
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Gopang's replacement: "That was easy!"
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(reprinted editorial)
No news story I've seen so far has done this man justice, so this is my own take on the life, loves, public service and tragic demise of the late, lamented Mr Ben Martinez, of Chama, NM.
Now Mr Martinez was no saint, that much has been established; but how much of a sinner must one BE for the Catholic Priest officiating at your funeral to rant and rave things like "the Lord vomits people like Ben out of his mouth to hell"?
For a little perspective, Mr Martinez was 80 years old, and for the last year of his life he was in poor health. And while this may have prevented him from regularly attending mass, according to this priest, it did not prevent him from courting his "many mistresses", his low and violent outbursts when intoxicated, his utter disrespect for both civil and church authority, willingness to gamble, curse, fight, steal, and vandalize.
So for the better part of an hour, according to his family, the priest, using the finest epithets of both the Spanish and English tongues, cursed and condemned Mr Ben Martinez all the way from where his coffin was removed from the hearse to when the earth finally was being thrown upon it.
The epilogue for this tale, though, has yet to be written, as it is for the family of Mr Ben Martinez to decide. They are suing the priest, not for the defamation of Mr Ben Martinez, but for the defamation of his survivors, who must now pass through town with others wondering if their patriarch is indeed slow-roasting in a Catholic afterlife.
Let us raise a glass in the honor and memory of Mr Ben Martinez, wherever he resides.
How many are going to decide it isn't worth it, and just decamp for home? Fewer parents are walking their children to school in this border city's Linda Vista neighborhood. The crowd of day laborers huddled in a parking lot outside McDonald's has dropped by half. The sidewalks are quieter. A sense of unease has spread in this community of weather-worn homes since immigration agents began walking the streets searching for people who are in the United States illegally. It's part of a stepped-up nationwide effort targeting an estimated 590,000 immigrant fugitives.
Juana Osorio, an illegal immigrant from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, said her San Diego neighbors have largely stayed indoors since agents visited her apartment complex June 2. "People rarely leave their houses now to go shopping," Osorio, 37, said as she clutched a bottle of laundry detergent in a barren courtyard. "They walk in fear." Her husband, Juan Rivera, 29, has stopped taking their two children to the park on weekends. "We want to go out but we can't," said Rivera, a construction worker.
In a blitz that began May 26 and ended Tuesday, federal agents arrested nearly 2,200 illegal immigrants, including about 400 in the San Diego area, more than any other city. It was the latest salvo in a crackdown on illegal immigration that has included arrests of nearly 1,200 workers at a supplier of wooden cargo pallets and the deployment of National Guard troops on the Mexican border. Meantime, Congress is considering a broad overhaul of immigration laws.
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ahhh, ain't that too bad. Get it used to it. My sympathies to the hard workers who came here thanks to winks from our useless lawmakers. I hope it works out for you. But I've lost my sympathy for the game - along with about 200 million other American citizens.
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You persued Socialist dreams, you broke the law, you protested, you used the church, you brought over drugs, you brought over gangs, you bankrupted healthcare, your filled up the prisons, You filled the schools, you tried to change the language, you jumped in line, you changed the political system here, you claimed land you had no right to, you abused the legal system, and you thumbed your nose at the law. Worse, You let your relitives and friends sit in that ruionious condition in Mexico which you can fix.
You are loved, but you can do far better and this and all of us know this.
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ME TOO 2B since i am a white constuction worker i GA i know how the gov is giving latinos a cheaper rate on workmans comp ins by about 14% but i guess white men like me won't do that kind of work?
fuck you mutherfuckers i don't feel sorry for your asses at all
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"We're all scared to go to school,"
If you were not a criminal you would have nothing to fear, but you are a criminal: you have entered without a visa, you are a foreign national here without permission, you have violated our sovereignty. You are a leech on our school systems and our hospital systems. Get out. Go home. Change your own country into what you want it to be; you have no right to change ours.
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GOT IT It took a while, but all the pieces are there.
First Piece, throw ALL the Illegals out, or scare them back home.
Second Piece, Talk about the Border fence (See point one) to keep them there.
Third piece. this new International Highway in the planning.
Conclusion, The United States plans to Bankrupt Mexico, Then offer "Economic Assistance" and quietly make Mexico a part of the United States.
Otherwise this planned Mega-Highway is a fools dream, BUT NOT IF IT'S ALL "AMERICA" in the end result.
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Waaah! Looks like liberal moonbats like a bargain too. How ironic that the anti-wal-mart, anti-capitalism crowd is putting this place out of business by buying books at the evil chains.
As a side note, where do people get off attacking chain stores anyway? Who says because I have a small business, I'm quaint, cozy, and 'local', that somehow this guarantees me the right to stay in business forever?
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All traditional books stores have faced strong competition from the web-based competitors like Amazon and Alibris. This is certainly true for specialty stores like Cody's and Moe's.
A lot of what a book store provides is ambiance, a nice place to browse and maybe get a cup of coffee. It has been a looong time since I was there, but part of the Cody's amibiance involved being hustled for spare change, man and stepping over unconscious junkes. Not exactly appealing to someone with a little money in their pocket.
But Reagan, Bushitler, the war in Irag and fascist AmeriKKKa do make better scapegoats. Just don't get bong water on the rug.
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How about because nobody wants to buy books about how bad America is, or Thai Vegan Cookbooks. You can only sell so many Cindy Shenan and Carl Marx hardback editions in a year.
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Part of Telegraph's appeal has always been its mix of freedom and unpredictable grit, and much of that spirit is still in evidence, with the homeless with worn eyes and dingy bedrolls regularly begging for change. In front of Cody's, some locals openly drink and smoke what is more than likely marijuana in the middle of the day.
Who else but the NY Times would consider this "part of Telegraph's appeal"?
I hope they tear it down and put up a WalMart.
Make that a Super WalMart...
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I don't remember Cody's. I remember Moe's and Black Oak Books. They both sold used books, and it was such a pleasure to wander in and nose around, never knowing what you might find. I bought Stobart's The Glory That Was Greece at Moe's, but they didn't have The Grandeur That Was Rome. I still don't have a copy of that. You can get it through Amazon, of course, but it's not the same. (Partly because most of the used book sellers on Amazon have no flippin' clue how to grade books, so you have no idea what you're getting.)
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I have mixed memories of Telegraph avenue. Colorful place, then infested with street people and hippies in the late sixties. Riots. Had a hard time getting home from class sometimes. Saw an Alameda Co. Sherrifs riot police guy shoot a guy on the roof in the face with buckshot (I was about 100 yd away, and skidaddled after that). Then Berkeley did a redevepment thing and spruced it all up. But the same people hung out there. Berkeley gets what it deserves. If I were a businessman there, I would get out of that town and deny the taxes to the traitor city council. Send a message. Hit them in their pocketbooks. Hell, they hassled the Sea Scouts on the gay deal.
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"The war in Iraq is sapping all the little economies across the country, and Cody's was hit by that, too," Mr. Lewis said. "It's sad. This corner was part of the Free Speech Movement. I just hope they don't take that away, too."
I was tracking with the story until this bit at the end. Berkeley is demonstrably NOT a little economy, and Iraq caused a bookstore to close????
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.
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TURKEY'S public television TRT, controlled by the Islamist-rooted government, has barred the popular Walt Disney cartoon Winnie the Pooh from air because it has a piglet as one of its main heroes, the Turkish press reported today. Several other cartoons featuring pigs also failed to win the green light from TRT management, according to the left-wing Cumhuriyet daily. The station initially considered scissoring the scenes showing Piglet, but abandoned the idea because the small pink-skinned character, one of Winnie the Pooh's closest friends, appeared too often, Cumhuriyet and the mass-circulation Sabah newspaper said. TRT officials were not immediately available for comment.
