He received the Distinguished Service Cross, the nations second-highest combat medal, for his extraordinary heroism in action under heavy machine-gun fire during street fighting in Manila, Philippines, in 1945.
According to newspaper articles that year, Father Heindl entered a Bilibid Prison watchtower under fire to offer prayers for a dying soldier, then carried the body out. He returned to the tower and carried a wounded man through Japanese fire to safety. Two days later, he crawled through enemy rocket and mortar fire to drag a wounded officer to an aid station. He carried other casualties to safety and administered last rites to the dying, the newspaper reported.
Prime Minister Tony Blair has scotched notions that he might quit office in the coming months as bad news piles up for his governing Labour Party. He has seen his popularity dip and has been politically weakened by a series of scandals in his party over recent months -- the latest blow being the arrest of Lord Michael Levy, Labour's chief fundraiser, by police investigating alleged corruption in the way Britain's main political parties raise money. And Lord Roy Hattersley, a former Labour deputy leader, weighed in Sunday, urging the prime minister to step down at the centre-left party's conference in September.
But Blair, at the annual summit of the Group of Eight industrialised democracies in Saint Petersburg, gave his strongest indication yet that he intends to stay in office for at least another year. He said he did not want a "great bout of speculation" about his departure timetable. "I'm not sitting there, you know, obsessing the entire time about when the precise date is and all the rest of it," he told BBC television on Sunday. "I've made it clear all the way through, I'll carry on doing the job. And so I look forward to next year's G8 of course, but in the end the most important thing is to do the job," he added.
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Splitters! Cracks are becoming fissures in Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's self-declared revolution, as armed groups of leftist supporters clashed in recent weeks in a rough and poor barrio in skirmishes that left at least four dead.
The gunfights are the first between Chávez supporters in public and seem to illustrate the rough scramble over the benefits from Chávez's oil-fueled government as well as bitter jealousies among leaders of Chavista groups. ''Wherever you go in this country, you'll find a [poor neighborhood] . . . where there are internal fights,'' said Alberto Garrido, a longtime Chávez watcher and author of several books on the man and his ideology.
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Red on red!
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Some Tupamaros maintain their vigilante role and run government literacy and after-school programs, while others engage in criminal activities. But all are armed and seem to have benefited financially and socially from Chávez's rise to power. Some have government jobs, while others are living off the leftovers from the government's increased social spending.
Sounds like Massachusetts...except everybody's got automatic weapons.
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Sounds like Massachusetts...except everybody's got automatic weapons.
So it's more like Detroit, then?
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In some ways, Chavez reminds me of Alexander Kerensky, best known as being the president of the short-lived democratic Soviet Union, and having the personality of John Kerry mixed with Pee Wee Herman, alternatively boring and bureaucratic, and paranoid and panic-stricken.
He issued guns to the peasants, too. Guns that were used to overthrow his government a short time later.
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Hugo is such a fan of Marxism that he has now created his own version of the Red Guards wars in China. Also, arming the most likely candidates for gang activity is not the smartest move in the world. I am sure the local branches of the cocaine cartels are ever so grateful for the new hardware.
Negotiations are being held with Russia for moving the first President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia's tomb to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi from the Chechen capital of Grozny.
Zviad used to term himself "The Saddam Hussein of the Caucasus."
Georgia's foreign ministry spokesman Nato Chikovani told the APA's Georgia bureau that the first president's spouse Manana Archvadze-Gamsakhurdia and his sons appealed to the Ministry for moving the grave to Tbilisi. The reason why is because Russian representative office in Chechnya warned about building of a government residence in the place where the grave is. Chikovani said Georgian Foreign Ministry sent a note to Russian Foreign Ministry for delaying the construction of the government residence in Grozny in the period of negotiating and until the place of Gamsakhurdia's grave is determined in Tbilisi. "But we have not yet received any reply from Russia," the spokesman said.
Georgian Patriarch has also joined the process of moving the first President's tomb to Tbilisi. The then President Gamsakhurdia was buried in Chikashkari as he was born in Georgia but his spouse MananaArchvadze-Gamsakhurdia insisted on moving his tomb to Grozny later on.
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German police officers get a discount of 7 euros when they buy Femi-X, a herbal aphrodisiac for women which is sometimes refered to as the female equivalent of viagra. When the police officers buy a packet of 15 Femi-X pills they pay only 32 euros instead of 39. In addition they receive a free DVD with sex tips. Andreas Schuster, the police chief in Brandenburg, the province surrounding Berlin, told Bild Zeitung that Germany needs more children and the police want to set a good example. We all want more children. The Brandenburg Police is prepared to do its duty. Perhaps this pill will be helpful in this regard.
Germanys fertility rate is no longer sufficient to sustain its population. The number of elderly Germans (over 65 years old) is expected to rise from 17.5% of the population today to 27.9% by 2050. While the Germans do not have enough children, however, this does not necessarily imply that they do not have enough sex. Sex and procreation are not necessarily the same. The use of Femi-X pills by police officers will not help the demographics unless chief Schuster can convince his female officers not to use contraceptive pills with their Femi-X pills.
Germany has another demographic problem. In 2004, for the first time in recent history, the number of Germans leaving their country was greater than the number of immigrants moving in. There were 145,000 German emigrants and 128,000 immigrants. Most of the emigrants leave for the United States. One couple who moved to Florida told Die Welt: Here our children have a future in which they will not have to fear unemployment and social decline. Perhaps moving to America will be a better fertility boost for young couples than using Femi-X. The best aphrodisiac may be to leave the welfare state.
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The brain drain continues to favor the US. The smart and ambitious ones come here. The lazy and dense stay behind.
As for chick cops getting randy - cool. I dated a cop once - and she was really fun and adventurous. We finally had to declare the handcuffs as out of bounds, LOL.
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"The brain drain continues to favor the US. The smart and ambitious ones come here. The lazy and dense stay behind."
Well the problem is, they tend to bring their socialist tendencies as well. Just like Californians and Urbanites that move someplace to get away from the destruction they caused, only to begin the process all over.
Lets see...I do believe that it is called gentrification, only without the good aspects.
But, I guess we could always look at them as good breeding stock for when we can re-introduce them to their native range. You know, after we exterminate the Arabs/Mohammedans. God willing of course.
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Is Manolo a plant? ...like a CIA plant, not the flora type.
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"Is Manolo a plant? ...like a CIA plant, not the flora type."
Actually, I think of myself as being in the Cacti family, 'cause I'm so prickly!
CIA? That is funny. Why would you think that?
Face it, plenty of liberals/moonbats etc. move from someplace complaining of high taxes, bad schools and blah³, only to set about turning their new home into exactly what they left behind.
Don't believe me, ask the folks in Wyoming and Montana how they feel about all the Californians that moved there.
Or all the Massholes that moved across the line into Connecticut(sp?) and proceeded to crap the place up.
WASHINGTON -- With the Internet's No. 1 search engine under fire for playing political favorites with content, a search of Google's political contributions as recorded by the Federal Elections Commission shows a staggering $463,500 went to Democrats in the last three election cycles with a paltry $5,000 going to Republicans....
They are liberal assholes, further jaded by almost instantaneous wealth beyond our miserable working ilk's wildest dreams. Of course they give their money to Donks. From one Ass to another.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, returning to her red-state ties, chastised Democrats Saturday for taking on issues that arouse conservatives and turn out Republican voters rather than finding consensus on mainstream subjects. Without mentioning specific subjects like gay marriage, Mrs. Clinton said: We do things that are controversial. We do things that try to inflame their base.
We are wasting time, the senator told a group of Democratic women here, on part of a two-day swing through a state that could provide an alternate hub to New York if she starts a national political campaign. On recent weekends, Mrs. Clinton has been traveling the country and raising money at an extraordinary pace. But the trip to Arkansas this weekend had a more sentimental feel, reuniting Mrs. Clinton with her former political allies and giving her a platform to broadcast her more centrist background.
After speaking to the Arkansas Federation of Democratic Women, Mrs. Clinton was scheduled to visit the first home in Fayetteville that her husband bought for her, and where they were married. But she made the trip solo: Former President Bill Clinton has been in Africa, visiting projects run by the Clinton Foundation. Mrs. Clinton said her husband had called her to report that he had learned on his trip that the American ambassador to Malawi was from Arkansas, part of what she jokingly referred to as the Arkansas diaspora.
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This from an expert on being a waste
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Clinton, in Arkansas, says democrats are "Wasting Time oxygen."
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the pic is frightening! Sad but true I think she is right. If the Dems don't slide toward the center they will turn this country into a single party system.
But more important is her husband. Sounds like he is following the Jimmy Carter school of retired prezes. Now we will have to tolerate another moonbat ex prez out there saying stupid crap.
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In other words, "quit f*cking around and nominate me!"
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She's not telling the Dems to BECOME more centrist, she's saying to LOOK like they are, so they can win elections. Once in power, it will be another story. Typical neofacist crap.
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exactly, ex-lib. That pic completely haunts me. And, I'd add, with all the press on the National party, I can't see how they'd even win elections for dog catcher come November. Of course it does help when you can "Vote now and vote often."
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Hey, ex-lib, long time no see. How are things going?
(I might have tried talking to you earlier, and missed your response. I'm having a lot of crisis days these days...)
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Hey Phil. I haven't had time to surf the "Berg" in quite a while. Busy writing. Didn't even know Lebanon/Israel was heating up until cingold told me. Ha! I gotta get out more . . . Nice to read everyone's posts.
Liberal activists, including some California Democrats, are furious with Sen. Barbara Boxer -- a leading critic of the Iraq war -- for her active support of Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat who staunchly defends the war in Iraq. Lieberman is fighting for his political life in Connecticut, facing an anti-war opponent, cable magnate Ned Lamont, in an Aug. 8 Senate primary. Lieberman, his party's nominee for vice president in 2000, has already announced he will run as an independent in the fall if he loses the primary.
That decision has divided his Senate colleagues and Democrats nationwide. And the Lieberman race has ignited a fiery debate among Democrats, now raging on political blogs, about loyalty, political principles and whether the three-term senator has betrayed his party and should be tossed out. Boxer, a California Democrat, said she decided to support Lieberman, and campaign for him in Connecticut, even though ``we have no common ground surrounding the issue of the Iraq war.'' Lieberman has been one of her ``staunchest allies'' on the environment and reproductive rights, two issues very important to her, Boxer said in a statement. ``I will be campaigning with him to let the voters know about his record on those issues.''
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Watchin' BB cry reminds me of what's right in this world
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Interesting (and telling) that the current 'litmus test' for Donks is repudiation of national survival. The Dems are headed toward self-immolation. I just hope they don't take the rest of us with them.
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I thought these were the people who said their differing viewpoints and open course of debate made them stronger? That it was the source of their strength?
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How can any Dem win anything when their party is divided in half over 3 different issues? You can't be pro-war and anti-war at the same time, one half of them won't vote for you if you are in the other camp. I don't get it.
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I don't know which is worse when I read the word "Babs," BB or BS (Streisand). "Yooooouuuuu are the wind beneath my wings....."
Speakin' of wings, did you guyz hear that Hooters' founder's titzup? Sorry, borrowed that one from the rants over at that story, but I couldn't resist.
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Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of six returned to Earth through overcast skies Monday, ending a successful mission that put NASA back in the space station construction business. Discovery glided down through an overcast sky onto the Kennedy Space Center runway at 9:14 a.m., allowing NASA to declare total victory for the first time since before the 2003 Columbia disaster. It was so cloudy, shuttle commander Steven Lindsey couldn't spot the runway until about a minute before landing.
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That's what instrument approaches are for. Total victory? How about a design and testing for the next generation of spacecraft. The Shuttles are dangerous, tired, and in dire need of a replacement.
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The Shuttles are dangerous, tired, and in dire need of a replacement.
I believe the shuttles are supposed to be retired in 2010 when a new vehicle comes online (along with heavy lifters for the heavy lifting).
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shuttles are supposed to be retired in 2010
Ha! They were supposed to be retired in the 1980s IIRC. I'll believe NASA has a replacement when I see it.
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AP I believe the ceiling dropped like a rock at the last moment. Check out the video from the HUD if you can find it. Crazy cool. I kept waiting and waiting and the clouds were still there and dropping! Even at breakout viz was really marginal. Figure it happened sudden like.
A powerful earthquake sent a two-metre-high tsunami crashing into a beach resort on Indonesia's Java island Monday, damaging hotels and sending boats smashing into houses, a witness told a local radio station. People fled to a local hill to escape the wave on Pangandaran beach in west Java, a woman identified as Teti told el-Shinta radio station. All the houses are destroyed along the beach, she said. At least three people were killed, witnesses said.
The earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 hit at 3:24 p.m. local time and caused tall buildings to sway in the Indonesian capital and at least one other city on Java Island for around two minutes, witnesses said. A strong magnitude 6.1 aftershock later shook the southern coast of Java, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The Japanese and Pacific tsunami warning centres did not give the depth of the quake, but local media reports quoting Indonesian officials said it was more than 30 kilometres below the ocean floor.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has scotched notions that he might quit office in the coming months as bad news piles up for his governing Labour Party. He has seen his popularity dip and has been politically weakened by a series of scandals in his party over recent months -- the latest blow being the arrest of Lord Michael Levy, Labour's chief fundraiser, by police investigating alleged corruption in the way Britain's main political parties raise money. And Lord Roy Hattersley, a former Labour deputy leader, weighed in Sunday, urging the prime minister to step down at the centre-left party's conference in September.
Cracks are becoming fissures in Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's self-declared revolution, as armed groups of leftist supporters clashed in recent weeks in a rough and poor barrio in skirmishes that left at least four dead.
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Liberal activists, including some California Democrats, are furious with Sen. Barbara Boxer -- a leading critic of the Iraq war -- for her active support of Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat who staunchly defends the war in Iraq. Lieberman is fighting for his political life in Connecticut, facing an anti-war opponent, cable magnate Ned Lamont, in an Aug. 8 Senate primary. Lieberman, his party's nominee for vice president in 2000, has already announced he will run as an independent in the fall if he loses the primary.
A powerful earthquake sent a two-metre-high tsunami crashing into a beach resort on Indonesia's Java island Monday, damaging hotels and sending boats smashing into houses, a witness told a local radio station. People fled to a local hill to escape the wave on Pangandaran beach in west Java, a woman identified as Teti told el-Shinta radio station. All the houses are destroyed along the beach, she said. At least three people were killed, witnesses said.
