I was hoping Gore would do jail time for his climate fraud scams, but this might be just as good.
AN investigation into claims of sexual assault by former US vice-president Al Gore is to be re-opened, US police said today. The announcement follows the identification of the massage therapist at the center of the allegations against Mr Gore.
Molly Hagerty, 54, told the National Enquirer that Mr Gore was "a pervert and a sexual predator" in an interview that hits stands tomorrow (local time).
She reportedly told the supermarket tabloid she had video surveillance and DNA evidence that would support her claims regarding her experience with Mr Gore.
Mr Gore was like a “crazed sex poodle,' she said, adding the encounter produced Monica Lewinsky-style stains on her black pants, which she has kept as evidence.
The tabloid said Ms Hagerty's name had been withheld initially as the victim "of a possible sex crime", but the massage therapist had chosen to go public to demand a police investigation into her allegations.
Shortly after the story broke, the District Attorney's office in Multnomah County, Oregon, and Portland police both released statements saying a woman raised a complaint in 2006 but withdrew it in 2007, before giving her statement in 2009, prompting police to investigate.
“If the complainant and the Portland Police Bureau wish to pursue the possibility of a criminal prosecution, additional investigation by the Bureau will be necessary and will be discussed with the Portland Police Bureau,' District Attorney Michael Schrunk said.
Ms Hagerty, from Oregon, said the 2006 ordeal took place in Mr Gore's room at the Hotel Lucia in Portland.
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she has DNA - notice:
1) the divorce from Tipper
2) His non-response
3) Nat'l Enquirer, killer of John Edwards' career and credibility, is leading this with a picture of pants in a Ziploc
my take: he's a pig, and a liar, and a snake oil salesman (all of which we knew). Now? He's a robotic, minor league Bill Clinton with sweaty paws, a poor choice in music and prey
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I don't think ManBearPeg was thinking about 'global' warming at the time.
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Not only is he an ignorant, blowhard dork, we now know he's a sexual incompetent who doesn't know the difference between a 'massage' and a masseuse. Gross.
As with Climategate, the truth turns out to be more extreme than anyone ever expected.
Cypriot police began looking for an alleged Russian spy wanted in the United States who vanished Wednesday after being released on bail a day earlier in the Mediterranean island nation, a police spokesman said. Jeeze, at least try to pretend you are not on the other side.
Spokesman Michalis Katsounotos says Christopher Robert Metsos, 54, who says he is Canadian, failed to report to police. "Mikhail, you clumsy oaf! You nearly blew the entire operation!"
"But Ivan, I escaped!"
"You don't get credit for that, Mikhail, you escaped from the West!"
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That was the plan. Why else was he granted bail?
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Canadian huh, with a fake passport? Mossad? Did he travel to Dubai to assassinate that Hamas Mook?
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The WSJ added this: Cypriot authorities had released Mr. Metsos despite U.S. concerns that he might flee. Cypriot police officials said Mr. Metsos had surrendered his Canadian passport and posted bail of €20,000 and 9,000 Canadian dollars ($32,900 total). Hearings were set to begin July 29 on a U.S. request to have him extradited on charges of conspiracy to conduct espionage and of money laundering.
"Our investigation suggests he may still be in Cyprus because the only way he could leave is with a fake passport," one official said.
Fake passports? PIFFLE!
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Question: if he was a Russian spy, what odds his Canadian passport was either a forgery or acquired under a false identity? And really, how difficult would it be for a real Russian spy to be given a new false passport by whatever the current incarnation of the KGB is called?
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$750 million, ya say? That is more than I will make in a lifetime, I think.
The previous owner of the company I work for told us,
"If it flies, floats, or f***s, it is cheaper to rent."
I do not agree with that philosophy, but in Tiger's case, it would have been the best alternative for him. Ima sure that it has not been good for the children.
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Whatever happened to the prenup? Void in the case of adultery or something?
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I think it was limited to the first 14 cases or so
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She probably got 25 million from the pre-nup. The other 725 million is to buy her silence (for the rest of her life) so she won't mess up Tiger's recovery.
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if he was stupid snough too messa arpond that fine ass woman i'm flad he ;oses everythin
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A true cinderella story, from nanny to one of the top 200 wealthiest women in America.
Her mother is one of the leading politicians in whichever Scandinavian country she hails from. The nanny thing was no doubt an au pair job, which is what nice European girls from good families do when they want to explore a foreign country beyond a summer vacation. I had four au pair girls during our time in Germany: one had a BA in computer programming, has since got her PhD, now teaches at a university in Washington or Oregon; the second was a secretary who wanted to improve her German and English, and subsequently got a BA in business and works at an international company in Prague; number three had a Masters degree in physical therapy, and could outdo entire units of American soldiers at their chosen athletic endeavor, while maintaining all the charming attractiveness an intelligent, blue-eyed, blond Czech girl is capable of; the last was an RN, as lovely and sweet as her predecessors, who was wooed by several hospitals -- and several eligible men -- when her year of service ended.
I rather imagine Mrs. Woods would have been much happier with a faithful husband than all of the future earnings of an unfaithful one... and probably doesn't really need the overfull checkbook she's extracted from him as punishment with as dull and rusty a scalpel as she could find in the interval.
Keep it in the barracks, where it belongs. China's military officers have added matchmaking to their duties, after the government banned troops from online dating over fears that lonely hearts might let sensitive information slip, state media said on Monday.
Commanders of the 2.3 million strong People's Liberation Army (PLA) are studying how to help single service members find love, the official China Daily said in a report on new rules governing what troops can and can't do online. Blogs are out, along with internet dating, online job hunts, and even making friends in the virtual world under the Internal Affairs Regulation, which came into effect on June 15, the report said, citing a military newspaper. "
People with ulterior motives may make use of the soldiers' personal information and pose a threat to the safety of the army," Yang Jigui, an officer in Tibet, was quoted by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Daily as saying.
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NET > at last check, the PLAN were testing various aircraft classes for use aboard their new future CV's, espec as per stengthening of airframes + load economies.
We contracted with Research 2000 to conduct polling and to provide us with the results of their surveys. Based on the report of the statisticians, it's clear that we did not get what we paid for. We were defrauded by Research 2000, and while we don't know if some or all of the data was fabricated or manipulated beyond recognition, we know we can't trust it. Meanwhile, Research 2000 has refused to offer any explanation. Early in this process, I asked for and they offered to provide us with their raw data for independent analysis -- which could potentially exculpate them. That was two weeks ago, and despite repeated promises to provide us that data, Research 2000 ultimately refused to do so. At one point, they claimed they couldn't deliver them because their computers were down and they had to work out of a Kinkos office. Research 2000 was delivered a copy of the report early Monday morning, and though they quickly responded and promised a full response, once again the authors of the report heard nothing more.
Guessing whether pollsters simply concoct their data -- it's cheaper, and more likely to please a client looking for a specific result -- is a parlor game among political consultants. That's what Markos Moulitsas is charging here.
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If there is fraud then Kos isn't the only victim
This is from Research 2000's website:
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Some of our most active media clientele include the Bergen Record, The Raleigh News & Observer, The Concord Monitor, The Manchester Journal Inquirer, The New London Day, The Reno-Gazette, The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, The Spokesman-Review, KCCI-Television in Des Moines, Iowa, WRAL-Television in Raleigh, North Carolina, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and KMOV-Television in St. Louis, Missouri.
Our Polls can be seen on CNN’S “Inside Politics” and are also mentioned frequently in the National Journal’s “Political Hotline”, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Wall Street Journal. Visit our In the News Page to see some online examples of this.
As of today, the company is denying every allegation.
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It might be they didn't get the result they wanted so are suing the polling company.
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I read the polling company is planning on suing him back.
Discovery should be fun. :-D
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Now, now. Many people have been burned by faked statistics. Do any of you remember Sir Cyril Burt? At least Markos admitted that the polling they commissioned was faked. He didn't cover up the problem.
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Great news! This means the Kos Kiddies will now start arguing for the conservative side since evidence points in the opposite direction.
Ay-Pee . . .
The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Some more at link.
It only took 70 days this time to figure out the obvious. He's getting better!
Am I the only one to think this guy couldn't find his own a$$ with both hands?
The only thing that makes sense is that he's trying to make this as expensive as he can to further bankrupt us.
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I always thought tools were used by men , not the other way round .. God I hate this man more and more each day
Its a crying shame , that with all the assistance the USA give people and countries in their hour of need , that its taken this long for Zero to do anything , when its in the other countries interest to help out ..
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He was hoping for a bigger crisis so he could get cap'n'trade passed in the enviroweenie backlash. Someone must've convinced him a few of us had this figured out.
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a bigger crisis so he could get cap'n'trade passed in the enviroweenie backlash
Gotta be something like that, Bobby. He is NOT stupid, so this stuff is on purpose, for SOME reason.
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Groucho: "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."
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T#1 comment. he's nopt getting better he's getting worse day by day
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Like watching a train vs. stalled vehicle. Can't stop the train, can't move the vehicle, just sit there and wonder why somebody would stop on the tracks for 10 feet of extra difference before the light changed.
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He was hoping for a bigger crisis so he could get cap'n'trade passed in the enviroweenie backlash.
That's why we've seen the stumbling, bumbling response. He didn't think it was bad enough by itself so he's trying to make it worse. But just remember, the same crooks and morons who allowed the oil spill to happen will be in charge of all the so-called green energy projects. They'll also be in charge of any new nuclear power plants that are built. Gives me bad dreams.
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Ordinary folks cannot believe O's agenda, but it has been clear from the time of the campaign. He thinks that he is the anointed One that will make a Marxist govt successful, where Mao, Stalin, et al failed.
The oil spill is no different. Never waste a crisis to destroy private enterprise and sacred institutions of our constitution.
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Ordinary folks cannot believe O's agenda, but it has been clear from the time of the campaign.
If they believed it they probably wouldn't have voted for him. Ordinary people really can't believe it because it's so preposterous. They don't understand it. I think they'll probably understand that things have gotten worse when the next election rolls around but I'm afraid there's already been a whole lot of damage done. Maybe he'll be like Carter where ordinary people shudder at his memory but then after a Republican president or two they'll forget and another FDR/LBJ/Carter/Clinton/Obama type will come along to ratchet up the government control a few more notches. It's been a long, slow process since FDR passed Social Security but they certainly keep at it, don't they?
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Blame *that* on the Education system which never mentions the millions killed for 'communism'. And the media which, even today, never mentions the evils of communism - but instead give us flat out lies about it's 'benefits'... (see Cuba Health Care).
Even 30-plus years ago when I was in high school they didn't teach the truth about communism....
With our Diminishing Resources™ and the urgent need for Social Justice®; the new, progressive society of the future must inevitably make hard decisions about the allocation of resources.
It's for the children™, you know.
Naturally, those who Work for Peace, Enlightenment, and Social Justice®; the administrators who make the tough decisions, the multicultural academics and workers who support them, and the media personalities who enlighten us; have greater needs than ordinary workers and peasants.
You just cannot expect leaders like Barbara Boxer or Keith Olbermann to subsist on the same gruel rations as, say, a car bicycle mechanic or an IT tech. Their retention of limousines and private jets would similarly not be an injustice but a publicly responsible effort to save one of our most precious resources, the time and energy of Those Who Sacrifice® so much on our behalf.
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Gee, AC, you make it sound like a criminal enterprise.
There are 58 Democratic senators, one for each state. Kagan is an androgynous ideologically reliable member of the East Coast elite (Caution: multiple redundancy alert.) OK, so she's never tried a case, taken a deposition, drafted a contract, probated a will or done any of the other tasks that practicing lawyers do, but that's not what this is about.
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Russia has angrily rejected allegations by Washington that it had cracked an undercover Russian spy ring, but US officials said the Cold War-style cloak and dagger saga would not undermine a thaw in relations.
Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin said US police who arrested 10 suspected spies in four cities in the eastern US on Sunday had gone "out of control".
"I hope that all the positive gains that have been achieved in our relationship will not be damaged by the recent event," Mr Putin told visiting ex-US president Bill Clinton in Moscow.
Russia's foreign ministry has called the allegations baseless and improper, and the country's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has questioned the timing of the charges.
"We have not had an explanation of what this is all about, and I hope that we will receive one," he said.
The arrests for alleged spying came only hours after Russian president Dmitry Medvedev left the G20 summit in Canada, and the White House has confirmed that US president Barack Obama knew about the FBI operation when he met Mr Medvedev for talks last week.
Russia's government says all of those arrested for espionage are Russian citizens and the charges against them are baseless.
"Lies! All lies!"
But both Britain and Ireland are investigating claims passports from their countries may have used by operatives in the ring.
An 11th suspect was arrested in Cyprus on Tuesday and freed on bail, police on the Mediterranean island said.
In Washington, administration officials said the case would not set back Mr Obama's drive to "reset" ties with Russia, one of the signature diplomatic initiatives of his administration.
"I think we have made a new start to working together on things like in the United Nations dealing with North Korea and Iran," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said. "I do not think that this will affect those relations."
The suspects, some of whom lived quiet lives in American suburbia for years, were accused of gathering information ranging from data on high-penetration nuclear warhead research programs to background on CIA job applicants.
Details emerged about the accused individuals, with much of the focus on a Russian woman called Anna Chapman. While other suspects blended seamlessly and quietly into suburban American society, like Richard and Cynthia Murphy in Montclair, New Jersey, Chapman was a high-flying New Yorker with a multi-million-dollar real estate business.
According to the charge sheet, Chapman had been leading a double life as a spy since January, going to coffee shops and transferring sensitive information to her Russian handler via her laptop to his passing van.
A Peruvian journalist who has worked in New York for 20 years and is notorious for a kidnap scandal in Peru was also among the 11 suspects. Vicky Pelaez, 55, was detained along with her husband as they returned from a party. She is best known for her opinion columns, which often criticise the US government.
In 1985 she made headlines for being kidnapped by and interviewing the communist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). In a murky affair, Frecuencia Latina later sacked her for allegedly fabricating the kidnapping. Pelaez emigrated to the United States soon afterwards.
Pelaez's family and friends released details of the FBI raid late Sunday in the northern New York suburb of Yonkers.
"They took them out of the car and led them to two vehicles," her son Waldo Mariscal told La Prensa Spanish-language newspaper, his mother's employer. He said FBI agents removed computers from the house and interrogated him about his parents' politics and finances.
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And he ought to know. After all he sent them here...
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Malone: "You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?" - Untouchables, 1987
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I guess Putin's idea of the Reset Button was a little different than Hillary's. Seems he re-booted to a much earlier version of the operating system.
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This is freaking hilarious! Just a day or two after Barry went on his date with the Russian puppet Prez, this comes out. Obumble and his minions look more like Keystone Cops with each passing day.
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Russia's government says all of those arrested for espionage are Russian citizens and the charges against them are baseless.
If the charges are baseless, why were these Russian citizens living under false identities?
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Yup, the charges are so baseless that one of the Russian suspects arrested in Greek Cyprus just jumped bail and disappeared rather than face the charges.
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Russian spy ring my @$$. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't a spy ring. Members of a spy ring don't know each other. Probably just some private attempt to con the KGB into sending them money. Since the US seems to be so inept these days, it is probably just being used as a distraction and to "prove" that our ability to keep tabs on this kind of thing is actually viable. There is no way that any kind of known, effective spy ring would be allowed to persist.
LUCKNOW: For a woman who had taken law into her hands an hour ago, Nishat Fatima looked unrepentant and happy. Nishat along with two other women had barged into Sultanul Madaris, a Shariat court in old Lucknow, on Tuesday to 'teach wayward maulanas a lesson of their lives.
Their grouse, the maulvis -- Maulana Moosa Rizvi, Maulana Asghar and Maulana Sadiq -- were bribed by their husbands for issuing a one-sided divorce decree. "Beating up these guys was such a relief I just cant tell (...dil ko kitna sukoon mila hai in logon ko peet kar... bataa nahin sakti hoon)," Nishat told TOI.
The middle-aged housewife, married to a Nainital property dealer Ali Kamal, was shocked to learn from her neighbours that Ali bought a 'talaqnama and was remarried to his two years girlfriend. "I made inquiries and found out it indeed was true. A 'talaqnama was issued from Sultanul Madaris this very month and my husband paid them Rs 2,500," she claimed.
Since there can be no divorce among Shias unless the wife is given an opportunity to plead her case, Nishat was livid and decided to settle scores with the maulvis.
"These men occupy an exalted position. One does not expect them to cheat. I would call upon other women who suffer silently to come out and raise their voice before it is too late," she said.
You go, girls
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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China's military officers have added matchmaking to their duties, after the government banned troops from online dating over fears that lonely hearts might let sensitive information slip, state media said on Monday. 
Russia has angrily rejected allegations by Washington that it had cracked an undercover Russian spy ring, but US officials said the Cold War-style cloak and dagger saga would not undermine a thaw in relations.
