How long would it take the PLA-Navy to refurb the Kiev into a working carrier? You know, if they wanted to.
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God help us! It looks like the Gobbler gone to sea.
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The Gobbler was tacky as h*ll. Food was really good years ago (if you could stand the surrounding colors), but got worse as the facility deteriorated. I believe the bar (a weird treat in itself) lasted sometime after the restaurant shut down and long after the guest rooms were uninhabitable. It IS Wisconsin, don't you see, and some things are more important than others.
Mr. Lileks does have a nice collection of early and later photos. Brought back a memory or two.
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Still a piece of junk.
I will be impressed when they introduce the gamma goat.
[Bangla Daily Star] The High Court yesterday turned down bail pleas of 11 pro-BNP lawyers accused of assaulting police personnel and preventing them from carrying out their duties on the Supreme Court premises.
Twelve lawyers filed two separate petitions on August 3 and 7 in connection with two criminal cases. However, Denver is the capital of Colorado... ABM Waliur Rahman Khan, voluntarily withdrew his name from the list of petitioners earlier yesterday.
The HC bench comprising Justice Mohammad Anwarul Haque and Justice AKM Zahirul Hoque summarily rejected their bail petitions in the afternoon as the accused lawyers did not appear before the court.
"The accused cannot shift the bail petitions to another High Court bench," Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told The Daily Star yesterday adding, "There is no legal bar on arresting the 11 accused now."
However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... Bodruddoza Badal, counsel for the accused lawyers, said the HC bench rejected the petition considering it as not placed before the bench.
"It was done in this manner so that my clients could move their petitions to another HC bench as we apprehended that this bench would not grant them anticipatory bail," he added.
Shahbagh police filed two cases against the accused lawyers on charges of assaulting police and preventing them from carrying out their duties on August 2 and 4 on the SC premises.
The accused are Mohammad Ali, Golam Mohammad Chowdhury Alal, Gazi Kamrul Islam Sajal, Shahiduzzaman, Mirza Al Mahmud, Sharif Uddin Ahmed, Abdullah Al Mahmud, MU Ahmed, Ashrafuzzaman Khan, Golam Nobi, and Mahmudul Islam Swapan.
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At the same time, his expensive education will have equipped him for nothing. His labor, even supposing that he were inclined to work, would not be worth its cost to any employerpartly because of the social charges necessary to keep others such as he in a state of permanent idleness, and partly because of his own characteristics. And so unskilled labor is performed in England by foreigners, while an indigenous class of permanently unemployed is subsidized.
The culture of the person in this situation is not such as to elevate his behavior. One in which the late Amy Winehousethe vulgar, semicriminal drug addict and alcoholic singer of songs whose lyrics effectively celebrated the most degenerate kind of life imaginablecould be raised to the status of heroine is not one that is likely to protect against bad behavior.
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Any video of not yuppy white kid in sweat pants sectors? To be fair on critique, the police need some line discipline and some good chants with buckler thumps. Honestly I've seen worse on a Friday night in Albequerque (not overall, just this video footage).
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As a former protester type I have this to day: the London police have no idea what they're doing. First, those riot shields are a joke compared to the full-body shields the SFPD Riot Squads use. Second, their tactics suck. They should be forming slow moving lines of two -- one for clubbing, the second for cuffing - with paddy wagons following slowly behind.
You get two three of these lines moving up different streets, forcing the bulk of the rioters in a particular direction -- usually a dead-end street -- where you've got a third waiting for them. Then it's beatings for everyone!
Mobs are dumb. Your tactics don't have to exactly be Alexander The Great level stuff.
h/t Instapundit
The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly increased in June to the highest level since October 2008 as a slump in exports exceeded a decline in shipments from overseas.
The gap widened 4.4 percent to $53.1 billion from $50.8 billion in the prior month, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. The deficit exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg News survey of economists in which the median was $48 billion. Exports declined the most since January 2009. Unexpectedly
[Emirates 24/7] The Fitch ratings agency on Wednesday confirmed that La Belle France was retaining its top triple-A credit rating amid rumours that it would lose the prized status.
La Belle France earlier in the day "categorically" denied rumours it was heading for a downgrade of its AAA credit rating after the United States was stripped of its top rating by Standard & Poor's last week. French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... cut short his vacation and promised to pare down huge debts to try to allay rising concerns that La Belle France could be the next triple A-rated economy to suffer a ratings downgrade following the United States.
Some analysts have warned that La Belle France -- the world's fifth-biggest economy and a driver of the eurozone -- can't afford to keep bailing out poorer European states, especially at a time when its own growth rates are moderating.
Sarkozy, who along with other European leaders has come under criticism for staying on holiday as the markets were gripped by fear, cut short his vacation on the French Riviera with his pregnant wife to summon key government ministers for an emergency meeting on the financial crisis.
No new measures were announced, but Sarkozy insisted that "commitments to reducing the deficit are inviolable and will be maintained."
Worries over the debt problems afflicting a number of European countries as well as the U.S. have knocked confidence in the global economic recovery and triggered turmoil in financial markets around the world.
Sarkozy said he's asked Finance Minister Francois Baroin to prepare a list of measures to guarantee the government attains its deficit-reduction targets. Sarkozy will take a decision on which measures to implement at an Aug. 24 meeting with Prime Minister Francois Fillon, Baroin and Budget Minister Valerie Pecresse. He also reiterated his call for a constitutional change requiring balanced budgets.
La Belle France has for years failed to deliver on its deficit reduction promises
It is now aiming for a deficit of 5.7 per cent of national income this year from 7.1 per cent in 2010, and 4.6 per cent next year. It's targeting a deficit of 3 per cent of gross domestic product in 2013, a target that has been delayed multiple times, which Sarkozy has blamed on the global financial crisis.
"We will take the necessary measures to reach these goals," finance chief Baroin said, without elaborating.
Baroin suggested earlier this week that Europe could boost the size of the eurozone bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility. But Germany, the region's strongest economy, has been reluctant to do more to support debt-ridden neighbors.
After ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. debt last week, worries surfaced that La Belle France could be next to lose the coveted and rare AAA rating, if it continues to contribute to further bailouts of eurozone countries.
Presidential elections scheduled for the spring of 2012 also mean it is unlikely the government will implement further austerity measures at a time when the economy is already slowing.
One indicator of this possible concern has been the recent rise in the spread between German and French yields to 15-year highs. Sarkozy's comments Wednesday appeared to only have a negligible affect on the spread.
"With yields now above those of the Netherlands, Finland and Austria, La Belle France seems in danger of slipping out of the core to become more closely associated with the eurozone's periphery," said Jennifer McKeown, senior European economist at Capital Economics.
While La Belle France's growth prospects are considerably better than the likes of Italia and Spain, no other eurozone economy with a triple-A rating has a higher debt than La Belle France's, which stands at around 85 per cent of national income.
In June, the S&P ratings agency warned that should La Belle France fail to carry out planned reforms and reduce the deficit, its rating could come under threat.
"If the French authorities do not follow through with their reform of the pension system, make additional changes to the social security system, and consolidate the current budgetary position in the face of rising spending pressure on health care and pensions, Standard & Poor's will unlikely maintain its 'AAA' rating on the French sovereign," S&P said in the June 9 report.
Concerns have also surfaced about French growth. Earlier this week, the French central bank said that La Belle France will likely grow only 0.2 per cent in the third quarter, while the bank's monthly industrial survey showed both corporate order books and factory utilization rates falling for the second month in a row in July.
Pressures have been mounting on Germany, starting to feel the pain of a slowing European and global economy as German companies see waning demand for their exports.
After Sarkozy's surprise appearance in Gay Paree in the midst of the sacrosanct August vacation season, officials in Berlin made clear Wednesday that Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... is sticking to her plans to stay on holiday and return to the office next week.
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"France can't afford to bail out poorer EU states"
You're just now noticing?
Guess what - we can't either.
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The Chinese lecture us but this just in"GaveKal-Dragonomics estimates that Chinas real debt-to-GDP ratio could be as high as 90 percent." Some say 70-80%. Playing with numbers. I can hear them now Who let the dogs out woof woof.
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency says contact with its experimental hypersonic glider was lost after launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast.
The agency says in Twitter postings that its unmanned Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle-2 was launched Thursday atop a rocket, successfully separated from the booster and entered the mission's glide phase.
The agency says telemetry was subsequently lost, but released no details.
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Not sure iff it was the now-lost FALCON HSV but I did observe intermittent, seemingly concise or strong lineal streaks of light oer LATE NIGHT GUAM-WESTPAC, which I don't believe to be au natural or Space Rocks, + despite on-going local inclement weather.
IFF IT WAS THE FALCON, THEN FOR SOME REASON IT TOOK DIVERSIONARY = DIRECTIONAL FLIGHT PATHS/VCTORS NOT DESCRIBED ON THE MSM-NET NEWS.
BEST ANALOGY = AN OFF-COURSE "LOST BIRD/PLANE" FLYING HIGH EVERYWHERE + NOWHERE, LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO LAND OR CRASH.
Does make you wonder! Hey, wasn't this a James Bond movie or something - super-secret flying thingie gets snatched by arch-criminal on its maiden voyage?
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.
