Paris Hilton and her missing pet Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, have been reunited, Hilton's spokeswoman said Wednesday. Yeah! I was getting worried.
No further details were available, Gina Hoffman told The Associated Press.
Nor are they needed...
Syndicated TV show "Extra" had earlier reported that Tinkerbell, who disappeared last Wednesday, was alive, but that no details on the dog's condition or where she had been found were available.
"Leave twenty bucks in small bills by the dumpster behind the bus station or you'll never see Tinkerbell alive again!"
The 23-year-old talentless hotel heiress, who has starred for two seasons on Fox television's "The Simple Life" proving that nepotism is alive and well with her friend Nicole Richie, had offered a $5,000 reward for Tinkerbell. Posters for the pampered pet had been displayed all over the West Hollywood area. It was unclear how the dog managed to get away from Hilton's Hollywood Hills home. Tinkerbell — decked out in pink coats or puppy-sized sneakers (later sessions w/the dog shrink will be needed methinks)
— has made regular appearances on Hilton's reality show. I always thought Paris Hilton could pass for a cheap Yugoslavian hooker.
I saw the video. She has many of the same skills...
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Hey, for $5000 I'd pick up a pound puppy and paint it pink....
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Tut tut, class, be nice. At least Paris Hilton managed to accomplish one thing in life. She most certainly has accommodated more foreign pr!cks than her namesake.
A tutu-clad Canadian who jumped into the Olympic diving pool after a competition was convicted Wednesday of interrupting the games and sentenced to five months in jail. He was released pending an appeal. Ron Bensimhon, 31, of Montreal, jumped off the 3-meter springboard at the diving venue Monday night wearing a blue tutu and white tights with polka dots. "I didn't think what I did was so serious. I won't do it again," he told the judge.
Hope your cellmate likes the tutu, Ron.
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If Greek prisons are anything like Turkish prisons...
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"I didn't think what I did was so serious. I won't do it again," he told the judge.
Horsesh!t. He potentially ruined the chances of whichever team was in the water at that moment. Considering how they had practiced for years to get there, the duration of his sentence is fitting.
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I question the mentality of a person who shells out thousands to cross the globe for the opportunity to convince those who know him that he is a jerk. I have a feeling that most of his eighbors and family knew he was a jerk without the extra proof he has now provided.
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Du dummer Stehpinkler! Das is verboten! Hast Du einen Vogel?!
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The Germans take one more squat closer to the French
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"The manufacturers of the WC ghost, Patentwert, say they are ready to direct their gadgets at the British market."
There's always a compromise solution if you think hard enough: piss in the sink.
But Klaus Schwerma, author of Standing Urinators: The Last Bastion of Masculinity? doubts whether it will ever be possible to convert all men. "Many insist on standing, even though it leads to much marital strife," he said."
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Well, the obvious male solution to this problem is not to lift the (seating) lid before urination, just the cover lid, if the toilet has one. Either that or to use the sink.
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LMAO, I saw this on German TV about 6 months back.
RONCO has finally made it to Germany!
Now if they could only make a clapper product that could shut up your nagging German wife. Then I'd be able to say "I just don't own a "Halt die Klappe", I own the company."
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This reminds me of the rhyme I learned when I was a young'un trying to perfect my aim
(since lifing the seat at that age was obviously out of the question):
If you sprinkle while you tinkle,
please be neat and wipe the seat.
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A German truck driver lost control of his vehicle while trying to swat a wasp and spilled his 15-ton load of jam jars on the motorway, police said on Tuesday.
What a maroon - he got his just deserts. First rule of human-wasp relations: keep your cool; don't swat. Especially when trying to drive at the same time. Wasps and bees hardly ever sting unless provoked. Even if they do - what's one little wasp sting? Clueless girly wimp.
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The "wasp" was probably a yellow jacket -- its the same word in colloquial German. They are of the "sting first -- lots!, ask questions later" mindset, and their sting burns like hot coals. It probably followed the driver from the last rest stop, attracted by the sausage on his breath.
Still stupid to panic, though. German drivers are usually much smarter than that.
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Wasps don't have barbs on their stingers, so they can sting repeatedly, unlike honeybees.
True, but so what? The typical wasp sting is less painful than honeybees'. Your best chance of not getting stung is to keep your cool and not annoy the insect. Right now I've got hordes of wasps outside my window attracted to Virginia creeper. I'm leaving the window wide open most of the time and wasps are frequently in and out. Do I panic? No! Have I been stung? No! Have I been stung before? Yes! When a kid, so I know what to expect.
trailing wife - that's a lot of assumptions about the critter without any evidence, AFAIK. Even if it was a, rarer, hornet, and say, even if the driver was allergic to stings, the sensible course of action would have been to stop the vehicle and get out. He remains very much a maroon...
This was a specially-selected suicide attack wasp, sent to cause this very accident so that his brother wasps might gorge on the sweet, sweet jam.
First the beer-swilling bear, and now wasps reading truck manifests. Nature is becoming smarter. (Hmmm...there was a science fiction story like this. Something to do with an increase in c and a decrease in the fine structure constant.)
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Risking the relatively minor and transient pain of a few wasp stings isn't good enough reason to crash a lorry, no.
You know, I don't see how that guy could do such a thing. A few years back, there was a yellowjacket in my truck and I just rolled down the back window, flailed my hand at the insect once or twice, and out it went. Maybe this guy just couldn't multitask...
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My apologies, Bulldog. Yellow Jacket is American for those hornets that buzz around the trash cans at picnic areas. They are fond of meat, beer, and stinging. And they are the very opposite of rare in my experience, at least on the playgrounds of Frankfurt am Main.
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This is what happens when you kill off all of your decadent bourgeois scholars. Now no one can tell the difference between a T'ang dynasty jade carving and a piece of worthless crap bought off of the Home Shopping Network. Does anyone wonder why Taiwan just laughs hysterically whenever China demands that they return all those antiquities the communists didn't manage to smash or burn during the "cultural revolution?"
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...sentenced to death for stealing the artifacts he was meant to protect...
I guess they took it seriously.
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Because the cadres and Politburo bureaucrats had been planning to pocket the money for themselves, that's why, Zenster.
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News flash: museums around the world substitute fakes for the real things all the time. There are lots of reasons for doing it, some even reasonable. Intentional vandalism, theft, and just ordinary wear and tear from being exposed to people who touch and the lower humidity on display than in proper storage, plus routine cleaning. The racket involved in stolen art is almost legitimate at times: selling to an individual collector *on condition* that he never display the piece, and that the museum is still the "official" owner of it--for the box office draw.
The reasoning is, "does it really matter?", in that unless you could take the fake apart or examine it under a microscope, you really can't tell the difference.
The value of art is entirely subjective.
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museums around the world substitute fakes for the real things all the time. There are lots of reasons for doing it, some even reasonable
Yep, leave the thinking about this to the experts, several of my professors were experts and had excellent collections of pre-columbian artifacts. Luckily I was quickly found-out and forced to desist from looking at the ground and perchance kicking me boot. I thank allen every day I was saved from a life of illegal collecting.
August 18, 2004 Osaka: Half of Japanese primary and secondary school students have never seen the sun rise or set, a survey has found. The study, conducted last year among 900 children, found Japanese youngsters spend significantly less time outdoors than previous generations. Must be the high residual background count.
Compiled by Tetsuro Saito, of Kawamura Gakuen Women's University, the survey shows that 52 per cent of today's children have never seen either a sunrise or a sunset. Thirteen years ago, when the first such survey was conducted, the figure was 41 per cent. One word: Troglodytes
"Today's parents don't have a lot of experience with nature," said Professor Saito, who advocates changing the classroom-bound education system to allow for more time for outdoor learning. Parents' groups and other social analysts blamed factors such as an urbanised lifestyle with its emphasis on consumption, few opportunities to spend time outdoors, and Japan's notorious cram school system. But Professor Saito and others said young people's apathetic, sometimes hostile, attitude towards nature was often shared by their parents. In Dogs and Demons, the US author Alex Kerr says Japanese prefer things to be neat, orderly and convenient rather than natural. "Thus, many municipalities in Japan cut the branches on roadsides before the leaves turn in the autumn, because residents find fallen leaves dirty and messy," he says. Nature abhors a vacuum cleaner.
In Kyoto, more people have complained about croaking frogs in nearby rice paddies keeping them awake than about the sound trucks of right-wing parties blasting their hate messages in the streets. Go figure.
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Sunset? Sunrise? What is this Sun you speak of?
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A limbless woman sued Air France on Friday, saying she was prevented from boarding a flight four years ago by an airline employee who insulted her, saying "a head, one bottom and a torso cannot possibly fly on its own."
I haven't flown Air France that I recall. Their employees are that stupid are they?
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Their employees are that stupid are they?
They are French.
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Sorry Fred - did not see the earlier post. I heard this on the radio overnight. It pissed me off, and I had to find it.
In the clear light of day it comes to me that the woman probably was given trouble because some Air France employee views prosthetic hook-hands as a potential threat to the pilot. The poor lady can't win.
Slowly, a Counter-Empire is emerging of disillusioned and resisting people - from South American revolutionaries to Islamic fundamentalists. Soon they will rise up and institute "global citizenship". Negri begins to laud, as he often does, "the communist and liberatory combatants of 20th-century revolutions", as if there was no contradiction between communism and liberation.
I try to think of a polite way to remind him of the fact that every communist revolution of the 20th century lead to tyranny and mass murder. And a nice way to say that communism was a betrayal of the democratic values of the left. I fail. I blurt it out. "These communist regimes are waiting for a historical revision. They may not be seen so negatively in the next century," he says, as though this was perfectly obvious.
Negri recently described the Soviet Union as "a society criss-crossed with extremely strong instances of creativity and freedom", which is more than he has ever said for any democracy. He even says that the Soviet Union fell because it was too successful. I point this out, and he replies: "Now you are talking about memory. Who controls memory? Faced with the weight of memory, one must be unreasonable! Reason amounts to eternal Cartesianism. The most beautiful thing is to think 'against', to think 'new'. Memory prevents revolt, rejection, invention, revolution."
Read it, if you're into incomprehensible innalekshul gibberish...
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Knowledge of Cartesianism is valuable when programming waypoints.
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Or digging wells...
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SH, Fred,
Sure, go ahead and mock me with your talk of limited Cartesianism. Damn it! I'm talking about eternal Cartesianism!!! Why won't you understand me? You stupid oafs!
How the mighty have fallen
German research organisation, Bertelsmann Foundation, says Germany's ranking has declined to the lowest among the world's 20 developed member countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Germany's ranking has been particularly impacted by its weakness in economic growth and rigid labour market, the organisation said following a study it conducted. Called "Benchmarking 2004: Labour Market and Employment", the study makes a comparative evaluation of the various states based on factors such as unemployment rate and the gross domestic product.
While in 1991 Germany was still ahead of other countries such as the USA, Britain, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands, these countries have, meanwhile, been able to overtake Germany mainly because of two factors: the weak labour market and the low economic growth in Germany. "Other countries have succeeded, despite the same basic global economic conditions, to increase employment," maintains Eric Thode, an economic researcher with the Bertelsmann Foundation and a co-author of the study.
Since the last study was compiled, some 700,000 jobs were lost in Germany. Between 2000 and 2002, the employment rate (the share of the working force having a steady job) was around 65.3 percent. As a comparison, some 80 percent of the work force in Switzerland have jobs. "Viewed from a long-term perspective, the employment rate in Germany has stagnated at a relatively low level," the Bertelsmann study says. "A big problem is that no new jobs are being created because of over-regulations," says Thode.
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What happened in 1990? West Germany absorbed East Germany. Germany did not do a great job of bringing their easterners back into the fold.
It took about 100 years for the south to be fully re-integrated into the U. S. after the civil war, so we shoiuld not expect Germanys aggregate numbers to return to the top of the heap anytime soon.
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But they just invented the anti-Stehpinkler device! I can't believe this!
If we do pull more troops out of Germany and close down bases, it doesn't look much better for their economy in the short term.
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I guess acquiring Chrysler wasn't the answer. :-)
On a reality note - I don't know who theses 20 states are but with respect to economic power Germany is definitely not 21.
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Last time I checked, Germany was still the 3rd largest economy in the world, and we export more goods (services excepted) than any other country in the world.
Yes we have problems, we missed opportunities in the 90s, we let ourselves be dragged down somewhat by the rotten East German economy.
If you took the figures for West Germany alone, you'd see what I mean. Unemployment in Southern Bavaria or Baden-Wuerttenberg hovers around 5-6 %, while in the East it can jump to 25% in some regions.
What we need to do:
Enact radical labor market reforms
Push for tax cuts Bush style
Push for social security reforms
plan for a smart immigration policy (mandatory integration, not parallel "multiculturalism")
abolish unnecessary bureaucracy
As for foreign policy, I don't need to explain again what needs to be done
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TGA, whoever barfed out this new list demonstrates a total lack of understanding about what the industrial base of a country really is. I am sure that India or China can chunk out an impressive GNP, but the most important part of an industrial country is the infrastructure and production equipment - some of it so old that it has been depreciated off the books. An example can be seen in Iraq where Sadaam spent his hords on weapons and palaces instead of powere generators. Now lack of power generation will strangle their growth for at least the next decade and the problem will only be eventually be solved if they decide to bite the bullet and invest continuously.
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And check how the average Chinese away from Shanghai or Indian away from Bangalore lives...
China, with its ever growing needs for energy, would probably implode if we faced a real energy crisis.
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TGA, when Germany was reunited, the industrial base must have been as unbalanced as America was after the Civil War. Has there been any progress with respect to improving infra-structure or is the process still in the hazmat clean-up stage?
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Too funny!
How Kerry trolls in the chicks the way he does is beyond me...!
('Course she doesn't look or sound like the sharpest knife in the drawer...)
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lovely lady - nice pics - met at Earth Day? So it wasn't an intellectual relationship?
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While at the site, you can buy her tell-all roman a clef novel of a poor, innocent girl caught up in a web of romance and intriuge with a U.S. senator, Hedge Fund Mistress. I don't know that it's any good as a story, but it has naked boobies on the cover.
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Oh, yegg. That's enough to gag a maggot.
"John KICK GEORGE'S BUTT for all of our sake. We need a real leader who makes decisions that are in the best interest of the United States. George
took 7 minutes before reacting to 9-11? You need
your VP before reacting?! In Vietnam if John had
waited 7 minutes or for someone else, he and his men would be dead. (Read pg. 102 Kranish, Mooney,
Easton). George did we go into Iraq because of Elie Wiesel's fears for Israel?! (pg. 320, Plan of Attack, Woodward) You're scaring the hell out me, George. George Bush has got to go. I hate George Bush. John is the natural leader and he is not void in any area. Vote for John Kerry in November!"
Sweetie, you sound like exactly the sort of brain-dead idiot who'd vote for Kerry. You, my little plumpling, are the quintessential Democrat.
God help us all if this putz wins the election.
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Wonder if she's seared into his mind? Or just another chippie.
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Wow! This web site is awesome. It's hard to believe that Karl Rove is that good. He and Chainey's minions (as Muckie would put it) must have had a blast putting this together.
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Is she still this side of embalmment? A moment of lucidity - "Kerry Bad", along with the usual hot air of "Bush Bad".
She has been theoretically non-functional since they quit calling on her at the White House press conferences. She wants attention from someone.
Bottom line, Kerry is so objectionable because he is a smug dork. Even some of the liberal commentators, including the "venerable" Ms Thomas have to sense that as much as they like at least some of his unfocused views, he has the personality of a pickled herring. And, when his views go too far off their provincial(e) reservation, they will no longer remain silent.
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If anyone doesn't know, the *only* reason Helen Thomas gets any respect, even any acknowledgement, is because she is one of the last remaining relics of "Camelot", the mythical New Jerusalem that democrats harken back to as "when things were perfect." At that time, she was an unimportant, remora-like toady to the Kennedy administration.
Since then, they have accorded her with every convenience, every courtesy, and puffed her up like a balloon.
There are hundreds, or even thousands of journalists far more worthy of having her seat at the WH press room.
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Anonymoose: You've caused me to flash back to high school (quite a while ago) when the whole school was forced to sit through a haigiography of JFK and recounting of the glories of Camelot by Ted Sorenson. I can't exactly say that the event was seared into my memory. But I do believe it was a turning point in becoming libertarian.
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Actually, they still call on her. I think that they just decided discontinue calling her a "jounalist" when she cashed out of her UPI post and became a "columnist" meaning that now her work is full of her own opinion instead of being "hard news."
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I understand that the campaign of candidate John Kerry is now asserting that not only did Navy Lt. Kerry visit Cambodia in his swift boat in 1968-69, but he performed four missions to drop off agents inside Cambodia. Perhaps, but I don't think so. . . . The Navy kept track of Communist shipping to Cambodia, and the U.S. mission in Vietnam was persuaded that most of the munitions to the Communist forces in the southern half of South Vietnam were delivered through the Port of Sihanoukville. Line crossers were not generally used in the populated portions of Cambodia that stretched along the borders of Vietnam's III and IV Corps to the Gulf of Siam because of the concern for the impact on civilians that could enrage Prince Sihanouk, the fiery head of state of Cambodia. Intelligence operatives had great trouble penetrating base areas. Even Cambodian provincial officials were prevented from traveling in their jurisdictions where there were base areas.
This was, by the way, one key reason for the overthrow of Prince Sihanouk in March 1970. His seeming acceptance of Vietnamese Communist usurpation of Cambodian land alienated many of his subjects, including the peasants on the border who were shot at by both sides. The Cambodian farmers detested the land grabbing of the Vietnamese. The relative openness of the terrain also militated against armed groups of Americans scouring the countryside. I believe, based on the foregoing, that I would have been aware of Navy operations inserting agents into the southern parts of Cambodia. Please read whole article
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What are the odds on Kerry being gone by October and the Dems pull a Jersey style switch?
Waiting for the SCOTUS appeals to put the new guy on the ballots.....
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It would certainly make for interesting politics here in Illinois. The Dems in the Statehouse threatened all spring and summer to keep W's name off the ballot since he wasn't going to be nominated in time for the ballot to be printed. (They relented after a lot of wrangling.)
Should the shoe end up on the other foot with less than a month to go...
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Great read! This guy knows what he is talking about, much unlike a certain Dim presidential nominee.
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Wouldn't that type fo operation be declassified at this point so that the Kerry campaign could prove their case? If the information is classified, then isn't Kerry divulging classified information every time he publically announces what has been seared in his mind?
Personally, I hope he dons his lucky hat for us at least once before this all blows over.
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Two newspapers want a judge to unseal the estate records of the late Sen. H. John Heinz III, contending the documents possibly could shed light on Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign. The Morning Call of Allentown and the Los Angeles Times petitioned Allegheny County Court to make the records public. Common Pleas Administrative Judge Frank Lucchino has scheduled a Sept. 14 hearing on the request.
The Los Angeles Times? Investigating the estate Teresa inherited?
Heinz, a popular Republican senator from Fox Chapel and heir to the Heinz food fortune, was killed in an April 1991 plane crash. His widow, now known as Teresa Heinz Kerry, inherited his wealth and married Kerry in May 1995. The day after John Heinz died, Common Pleas Judge Nathan Schwartz ordered that all documents in the senator's estate be shielded from public view. The court edict did not reveal why the records were sealed and did not indicate a hearing was held on the matter.
Odd, that.
Probate records generally are public information in Pennsylvania. The newspapers' petition states the public has a constitutional right to inspect such records. "There is no indication ... that this estate requires special treatment that justifies maintaining the blanket sealing order currently in place," states the petition filed by attorneys Scott Henderson of Pittsburgh and Kelli Sager of Los Angeles. "In fact, records relating to the estate of Senator Heinz's mother remain available to the public in San Francisco County Probate Court." The litigation was filed July 9, which was 20 days before Kerry accepted the Democratic nomination for president at the party's convention in Boston. Kerry's political ascension provides a compelling reason to unseal the records, the petition notes. "These records would provide valuable insight into the extensive philanthropic activities of Mrs. Heinz Kerry, and answer questions about whether those activities bear any relationship to the presidential campaign of her husband ... Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry."
Ah hah, just another smear job by that well known right-wing, Bush supporting newspaper, the LA Times. Oh, wait....
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I was wondering when the Tribune Co. would do this. So I have to give them some kudos even though I think they've overstepped.
They opened this can of worms when they went fishing for Jack Ryan's sealed divorce documents. Their Op-Ed that explained their reasons for doing so stated that public officials basically have no right to privacy because the public needs to know.
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The LA Times, a tool of the VRWC - gimme a break. The real investigation should take place at teh late senator's gravesite. I'm pretty sure that an astute private investigator would find some evidence of the deceased repeatedly barrel-rolling in his coffin over the use of his family forture to fund lefty hate-Americanism.
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I was just thinking. If they made a movie about Teresa Heinz Kerry, would they call it The French Lieutenant's Woman?
BTW, if someone else made this joke previously, I apologize.
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Tibor, that post needs a "coffee alert" along with it.
From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
... Experts say Islam encourages sports and physical activity for all -- the Prophet Mohammed is said to have invited his wife, Aisha, to a foot race and finished a distant second. ... But in some conservative Muslim countries, sports are permissible only if strict guidelines on modesty are observed. For women, that means covering their bodies and hair. In a handful of countries like Iran, it even means prohibiting women from participating in sports unless there are no men nearby. ...
In most sports, Islamic robes and head scarves would make it impossible for an athlete to perform at her best. There are some exceptions. Olympic competitors Lida Fariman (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996) and Manijeh Kazemi (Sydney 2000) both wore the hijab and chador when competing for Iran in pistol- and rifle-shooting. ....
Mahin Gorji, a journalist in Tehran who specializes in women's sports, says Islamic clothing requirements prohibit Iranian women from competing in most Olympic sports. In others, where robes and head scarves would not be a detriment, the sportswomen are simply not good enough. "[Iran's] women have not been able to meet [the Olympic] standard in Taekwondo and canoeing. They cannot compete in volleyball or swimming or any of the sports other women in the world can participate in, because of dress restrictions. So only Nassim Hassanpour will participate in the Olympics," Gorji said. ....
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Just like South Africa [was] banned [from the Olympics] for nearly 30 years because of its apartheid policy, we want the countries who do not allow women to participate to be excluded from the Games.
Works for me. Either that or all of them must face a first round elimination against Israeli athletes. Joke 'em if they can't take a f&%k.
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Tell that to the 12 year old Afgani boy who was beaten to death for playing with a soccer ball.
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this in off topic but is anyone else see em stevo on fox news? he is 14 year old who is help em marines in iraq. they are try get him to america cuz him mom was kill for him helping.
From Shareeah Question:
Is Digital Photography Haram?
Answer: Asalaamu alaikum
The pictures which have been forbidden are the pictures drawn by hand or designed by hand such as cartoons ... As for the photographic images, in reality it is a "precise recording" and not drawing, it is a recording of the light as there is recording for voice. And using it too often with no need is haram. As for using it for identifying a figure or verifying a person or personality WITHOUT showing private parts or fitnah (things which lead to haram) or making a figure be exalted beyond his humanliness and changing the creation to outgo his reality (editing the photo), if all that is not available, then it is permissible insha Allah."
Especially if the camera is recording you and your buddies, appropriately menacing, masked, and armed, with a helpless captive on his knees before you. As Allan is my witness.
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I can't be more precise, total BS. Wally is a Hockpock ass bite so take a picture of this.
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It steals your Muslim souls (insha Allah) and no virgins in the afterlife are possible. Same for soap and dentistry.
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"or making a figure be exalted beyond his humanliness"
Anyone else find yourself wanting clarification of what this is to mean? I guess Jihadist cowards find thier 'humanliness' lacking and have been taking viagra prior to each decapitation video. Guess they'll have a horrible case of blue-balls once they get to paradise and are given a handful of raisins.
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What the hell is it with Muslims and their inability to make even simple moral or ethical judgements without asking an imam what to do? Don't these people have any capacity at all for distinguishing right from wrong on a day-to-day basis?
"Asalaamu alaikum"
Up yours too, you ignorant wog.
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I think, therefore I am.
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What the hell is it with Muslims and their inability to make even simple moral or ethical judgements without asking an imam what to do?
That would lead to them thinking for themselves, which leads to asking questions. Can't have that, mullahs would be out of work. So they are trained from day one not to think.
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Is Digital Photography Haram?
Who cares? If you don't like it, don't use it. Simple as that.
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The pictures which have been forbidden are the pictures drawn by hand or designed by hand such as cartoons ...
Artistic talent condemned...I had heard about this but does anyone know WHY? Is it because the ability to create representational imagery ("graven images")is considered a threat to God's creative powers?
Flawed though Western culture can be as far as the arts go, I am glad we respect talent and celebrate the gifts of artists like Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Titian, Sargent, Hopper, Freidrich, Monet, Adams...We are not afraid to stand before God with admiration for artistic genius. God is not threatened.
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What the hell is it with Muslims and their inability to make even simple moral or ethical judgements without asking an imam what to do?
Because it makes everything oh so (mock)intellectual, don't you know. Worrying about exactly how to wipe your *ss in every conceivable situation so that Allen will not become enraged at you and send you to hell for all eternity just shows how super-refined and sensitive your moral sensibilites are.
Don't you know that everyday is absolutely rife with the possibilities of offending Allen for the slightest little thing? Its best to know the law to the nth degree and spend you day obsessing about it so that one might have the least chance of appeasing the most merciful and compassonate one.
The most telling evidence that mohammed could not see the big picture and had no special knowledge of anything including religion is in cases like these. Its clear that it didn't even occur to him that representative images could have the potential to communicate. All he could see was that art had been abused by some and warped by them into a worship of the created rather than the creator.
The difference between representative art which communicates at a level where words would only get in the way and art which is created to be worshipped in place of God is something that should have been clear to both God and mohammed if he was the prophet that he claimed to be.
Art was in fact not forbidden even in the Hebrew Tabernacle or Temple. They both had direct representations of beasts, plants and fruit for the purpose of beautifying the place. But it was clear to the Jews that these were just that, decorations and not for worship. The first Christians followed that lead and also had art in their places of worship with the clear understanding that these things only pointed to the glory of the one true God. From this proper understanding of art's place in worship we get the first gorgeous icons and frescoes of the Byzantine period and from there the Sistine Chapel, the Pieta etc. From these we derived the concept of art as a means high communication and we were able to see the edifying value of having it and creating it. Our world is the richer for it.
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Well stated, Peggy. The taboos regarding imagery were probably originally aimed at idolatry, which is the mistaking of an image of a god for the god itself. But in most religions, the literalists tend to dominate, and so we get total prohibitions on perfectly harmless things. Literalists probably tend to dominate because they are able to establish rigid criteria for being a member of the in-group. The less literal-minded people quickly drift into the out-group, even though they may have been closer to the original spiritual teaching.
By Matthew Moore, Herald Correspondent in Jakarta August 18, 2004
About 1.7 million Indonesians have gone hungry for the past three weeks because a government ban has stopped the distribution of thousands of tonnes of rice donated to feed the country's poor. Some 8500 tonnes of rice have already been placed under government seal in Jakarta warehouses and a further 25,000 tonnes, including 4676 tonnes of rice from Australia, will be held under same ban when they arrive in coming weeks. Western countries donate the rice to the United Nations World Food Program, which has been selling it to the poorest families since 1998. But this year the program has been caught up in the Government's ban on imported rice imposed in January to shore up prices obtained by Indonesian farmers. Starve your buying public to death and watch what happens to your farmers' market for domestically produced rice.
The deputy country director for the program, Terri "Back Seat" Toyota, said Jakarta had this year exempted several thousand tonnes of the rice as humanitarian aid, but her office had so far failed to negotiate a broader exemption. Last week the Government decided to extend the ban from August until the end of the year, a move some observers say is designed to attract support from farmers in the final round of presidential elections scheduled for December 20 no matter how many people it kills.
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Same stuff went on during the patato famine. Some sick puppies. Maybe we should chip in an by these poor some guns and let them sort these stupid politicos out themselves.
Iran's conservative parliament is preparing designs for national Islamic costumes to combat the corrupting influence of Western fashion, a prominent MP said Wednesday.
They have designs for Iranian national underwear, too...
"We have to design new trends within the framework of an Islamic dress code. Both men and women need a national costume," Emad Afroogh, head of the parliamentary cultural commission, told student news agency ISNA.
"We're talkin' turbans and traditional curly-toed slippers, here..."
He added that a national fashion reform bill had been put before the parliament's research centre for approval. The move comes after the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the nation in July about a "cultural invasion" and the dangers of imitating foreigners, asserting that Iranians needed to design their own styles.
"... big, baggy pants, kinda like M.C. Hammer wears..."
In recent weeks state television has dedicated part of its main news programme to the question of "What is fashion?" - a series of interviews with residents, clerics and "experts" aimed at defining what can and cannot be worn.
"... and capes. We think people should wear capes."
The Tehran chief of police warned women a few days ago not to dress like "models", while a general clampdown over the last few months has seen police rounding up hundreds of young women sporting flimsy headscarves, three-quarter-length trousers and shape-revealing coats.
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A US naval ship in the Gulf has rescued six Iranian sailors from their sinking vessel, the US navy's Fifth Fleet says. The navy's John F Kennedy aircraft carrier despatched helicopters to winch the Iranians to safety after receiving a distress signal from their boat. The six sailors had a medical check and a meal aboard the US ship before being put on an Iranian boat passing nearby. The US and Iran do not have diplomatic relations and recent dealings between the two have been marked by suspicion. The Iranian dhow, named the Naji, had a broken propeller seal which was letting in water, the US navy spokesman said.
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We are assumng these six were civilian sailors and the dhow was not the IRN PuebloNaji?
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One would hope that those Iranian sailors got to see the flight deck activity on the Kennedy close up, just to see what they'd be up against in the event that the Mad Mullahs decide to challenge us head on.
From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran Daily reported on 16 August that there has been a marked increase in suicide attempts in the Kermanshah and Ilam provinces since 2001, particularly among women resorting to self-immolation. Hadi Motamedi of the Office for Social Disorders of the State Welfare Organization said that a survey carried out in Kermanshah Province, where the number of suicides has increased by 37 percent in the past three years, found that more than 50 percent of women there suffer from depression, of whom about 15 percent attempt suicide. Motamedi said that the eight-year war with Iraq left these women vulnerable to mental illness. "These women have been suffering from dual deprivations due to being unaware of their rights," Motamedi said. "Factors such as a rise in education level, lack of jobs, lack of access of counselors and psychiatrists, mistreatment, and abuse by their spouses, family violence, [a] growing awareness of social conditions, and inappropriate family behavior and relations can induce suicide attempts among women." Motamedi said that he hopes the newly created Welfare and Social Security Ministry will effectively address the problem.
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These women have been suffering from dual deprivations due to being unaware of their rights," Motamedi said.
You have the right to be married off underaged to your cousin. You have the right to be beaten. You have the right to see 2nd, 3rd, 4th and temporary wives in your household. You have the right to 1/2 of what a man gets. You have the right to honor killing and suicide. You have the right to keep quiet.
You do not have the right to humane treatment, opportunity or your body. Any questions?
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You also have the right to be instantly divorced for any reason and be sent home to your parents without your children. You have the right to be forbidden an appeal. You have the right to live your whole life desparately trying to please your husband so that he won't rip the rug of your whole life out from under you for whatever reason seems good to him. And you also have the right to be stuck with an abusive no good husband like it or not because your a silly flighty woman who isn't capable of making such a big decision on her own. You have the right to have to seek permission from the court to divorce your husband and the right to wait forever while your case is simply ignored for your own good.
Immigration rights groups in the United States are demanding an immigration-based reality show be pulled off the air. Gana La Verde (Win the Green), a television program broadcast on West coast Spanish-language stations, gives illegal immigrants a chance to win a year's legal counsel towards a green card by competing in contests ranging from jumping between speeding transport trucks to eating the worm from a bottle of tequila. The Central American Resource Center and American Immigration Lawyers Association called for the show to be pulled or advertisers will be boycotted and legal action will be taken. Lenard Liberman, co-owner of Liberman Broadcasting, said the popular show will stay on the air, claiming they are just trying to "help Maria go from a nanny to a nurse."
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The Central American Resource Center and American Immigration Lawyers Association called for the show to be pulled or advertisers will be boycotted and legal action will be taken.
All right, what's the catch here? If it's because they think that the idea of an illegal immigrant getting a green card without jumping through the same hoops like everyone else is wrongheaded, I'd be surprised, to say the least. However, given the track record of most Latino immigration groups/advocates, not following the law is not likely to be the reason for their objection to the show.
Youths, thin and covered with bites, returned to state Tuesday, August 17, 2004 Posted: 12:50 PM EDT (1650 GMT) HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Seven Texas children were discovered abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage, ravaged by disease and malnutrition, and have been brought back to the state. Child Protective Services, which received emergency custody of the children Monday, is investigating accusations that the children's adoptive mother in Houston abandoned them in Nigeria in October while going to work in Iraq as a private contractor. The children returned to Texas on Friday. Three of the children were hospitalized with malaria and later released, said CPS spokeswoman Estella Olguin. The youths were thin and covered with mosquito bites, infections and scars. The three boys and four girls, ranging from 8 to 16, were discovered in late July by a visiting Texas missionary who notified American lawmakers. "It's horrible, horrible," Olguin said. "I haven't seen anything like it. Seven children fending for themselves in a foreign country where they have no family members."
Now, they are living in two Houston foster homes. Four siblings were adopted from Houston in 1996, followed by a set of three siblings from Dallas in 2001, according to authorities who interviewed the children and their adoptive mother. The woman, whose name was not released, took all the children in October to Nigeria, where a relative of her fiance lived. The children were enrolled in school and the mother returned to Houston about 30 days later. She went to work in Iraq in April. But the children were later removed from school because payment for their tuition stopped and lived in a wooden shack. Nigerian child-protection authorities found the children malnourished and sick and moved them to an orphanage in late July. A minister from a San Antonio church who overheard the children speaking with American accents interviewed them, then alerted U.S. congressmen who called CPS. State officials will determine whether criminal charges will be filed against the adoptive mother, who is due back in court August 26. Yet another argument for requiring a license to have children.
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Nigerians - probably the most hopeless people in the world.
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I wouldn't put Somalia behind Nigeria in that Hopeless category, and Sudan's a front-runner as well.
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Nigerians, Im dealing with one right now here at work. Went to our online store and made a huge order for CD's. Now they want me to help them get a ton (literaly) of Bibles from any store in the area and they are just itching to email me credit card info. Cant stand these lowlifes. Now I have the work of straigtening out the online order for the CD's paid for with more than likely a stolen card. Losers.
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State officials will determine whether criminal charges will be filed against the adoptive mother, who is due back in court August 26.
Far as I'm concerned, this selfish bitch should have her citizenship revoked and be exiled to Nigeria
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I've only known two Nigerians--my pal Kayode who was a great, hard-working computer consultant and wound up going to Microsoft after a few months working at our company, and his wife whose name escapes me but she was a cardiologist finishing her residency here in Pittsburgh. Don't lump them in with the filth that steal credit cards and send out email scams. We got plenty of Americans that do that, too.
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I AM HAVE EXCELLENT BUSINESS IOPPORTUNITIES FOR YOU!!!!
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This was the top story in today's Houston Chronicle. It wasn't clear whether the woman was Nigerian; the Chronicle didn't name her because she hadn't been charged with a crime (yet).
Her story and the kids' story does not match up. I think she needs to be strung up by her intestines. The Chronicle article says she's living in a boarding house and driving a late-model Mercedes.
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Far as I'm concerned, this selfish bitch should have her citizenship revoked and be exiled to Nigeria
But, Frank G, where's the luv snarkiness that we all count on you for so much?
I think she needs to be strung up by her intestines.
Warmer ... you're getting warmer, Angie. Personally, I was considering forced sterilization, but I'm sure there's some niggling amendment in the constitution prohibiting it.
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