A failed romance, how sad.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican giant panda Shuan Shuan was back in her Mexico City enclosure on Thursday, jet-lagged and chewing glumly on a pile of bamboo leaves after failing to find passion with a suitor in a Tokyo zoo.
Shuan Shuan, 18 and born in Mexico, was flown back from Japan earlier this week, dashing hopes that a far eastern romance might get her pregnant, after attempts to spark chemistry with Beijing-born Ling Ling, 20, fizzled out. "We couldn't get them to mate," said Mexico City zoo director Rafael Tinajero sadly.
The 1-1/2 year mating mission was part of a worldwide breeding program to try to bring pandas back from the brink of extinction. But Shuan Shuan and Ling Ling didn't hit it off. "The thing is, pandas are solitary animals so you can't just put them in together," Tinajero said.
"First, you have to look for signs they'll be receptive to stroking or touching each other. They had contact through bars, so they could smell and touch one another but it wasn't the right moment. Ling Ling was scared of Shuan Shuan."
Shuan Shuan was on heat twice during her sojourn at Tokyo's Ueno zoo but Ling Ling seemed put off by the fact his new lady friend weighed 30 kg (66 lbs) more than him, Tinajero said.
Attempts at artificial insemination also failed.
There are only around 1,000 of the much-loved black and white bears left in the wild in southern China. A handful of zoos in the world have breeding programs but costs can be high as China charges more than most can afford to rent a "stud."
Mexico has three giant pandas, all females, but is struggling to get them pregnant. The task is made harder by the fact females go on heat for just a couple of days each year.
The first panda born in captivity outside China -- the cub of two pandas China gave Mexico in 1975, Shuan Shuan was sleeping off her jetlag on Thursday, lolling about on her bed. "It makes us sad, but what can we do?" said her keeper, Joel Frias, as he prepared her lunch -- a stew of rice, mashed apple, grated carrots, chicken bits and chopped nopal cactus.
Keepers hoped romance would blossom between Shuan Shuan and Ling Ling after the pair seemed to flirt -- urinating, sniffing and eyeing each other -- on past trips Ling Ling made to Mexico to provide sperm for artificial insemination. But having both been raised alone, neither seemed eager to make room for the other in its cage, Tinajero said. "We're just glad she's back," he said. "And she's delighted to be home, in her own country with her own people."
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maybe she's just "big-boned" with a great personality?
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Shuan Shuan, 18 and born in Mexico, was flown back from Japan earlier this week, dashing hopes that a far eastern romance might get her pregnant, after attempts to spark chemistry with Beijing-born Ling Ling, 20, fizzled out.
Well that's a surprise - her illegal immigrant brethren here in the U.S. don't seem to have much trouble producing babies... ;)
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As a bartender in a college town, I appreciate the inventor's dedication; however, it is a huge no-no to put any part of the tap into or on the beer glass because of contaminants and contagions. I'd love to use these taps, but I don't think they'll fly with the Health Dept. in California (no blue state jokes, please; they won't fly in Arizona either.).
Sorry, Guys. I'm a killjoy.
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engineer's balance: perfect beer with perfect head.
prove me wrong. I dare ya
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Okay. Pour a Guinness with this thing, Frank, I dare you. You'll get neither the perfect beer nor head, but an engineering nightmare all over your sliderule.
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you pour perfect beers all night, the head comes later :-)
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Touche
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NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office â in case they offend Muslim staff. Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. Bosses acted after a Muslim complained about pig-shaped stress relievers delivered to the council in the run-up to the Islamic festival of Ramadan. Councillor Mahbubur Rahman, a practising Muslim, backed the ban. He said: âItâs a tolerance of peopleâs beliefs.â
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No, it's empowering the intolerance of others. And it has to stop, soon, or there won't be a Britain any more.
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Just remember, not every Brit has pigs, but a lot of people have dogs. And while the Prophet (piss be upon him) never told people not to eat dogs, they're just about as unclean as pigs. Maybe more so, because they disturb prayer with their barking.
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Just for the sake of a snarky argument, let's imagine a hypothetical Homeric religion - Homer as in The Simpsons, not the greek guy - that worships the Pig as a wonderful and magical animal. Think Hinduism, but with pigs instead of cows. If I wore my sacred pigskin necktie to work, would it be regarded with the same multicultural consideration as a headscarf or yarmulke?
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Women's ankle's are offensive to muslims. Time to invest in the fall burkha collection. Better yet Brit women, stay home 24/7 lest ye offend your muslim masters.
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I understand Disney World's Magic Kingdom has a new play area based on Winnie the Pooh. I wonder if Piglet's featured there, and whether that will offend anyone.
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From Disney World Site: "Visit all your friends from the Hundred-Acre Wood for a "hunny" of an adventure. It's the ride in which you get put in the middle of Pooh's blustery day. You'll bounce along with Tigger. Float through a floody place with Piglet..."
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Workers . . . were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including patentently offensive attacks on Islam, such as:
toys
porcelain figures
calendars
and even a tissue box
featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet."
All such items were replaced with mugs, calendars and wall posters featuring Osama Bin Laden and various Taliban military leaders.
Islamic neighborhoods all over Britain were celebrating another public relations victory over the gullible and weak-willed Brits in the run-up to the Islamic festival of Ramadan.
You know what the problem is over there? The Brits are so (culturally) convinced of their own superiority, and yet so insecure about it at the same time, all any Moslem has to do is say "boo" and they jump, rather, bend over.
BTW: believe it or not, this is probably one of the more significant "Islam is taking over the world" stories we've seen to date. Think about it. When people allow their culture to be controlled by hostile foreign interests and subvert their traditions and religion(s) to it, the end is not far.
Nice answer, Steve S. Would the Moslems be as "tolerant" as they are demanding others be toward them? No.
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Better to cover up or ban or ban all pictures of Al Aqsa Mosque, outlaw Moslem garb, and remove all art associated with Koranic themes from employee's spaces in public offices. Piglet, at least, is actually British. As is Bacon and eggs.
During last the 20 years, Colombia occupied the first place of a dishonourable list: to be the Nation in where more dollars were falsified. The last week, the Secret Service of the United States, the organism that, among other functions, is in charge to fight against that crime, revealed that the Colombians had left that doubtful honor, surpassed by Mexico and Israel.
According to a report of the Secret Service (Usss, by its abbreviation in English), the Colombians let handle the 43 percent of the marked one of false dollars and now only they dominate the 15 percent. To happen to continue in ' top 5 ' the news is positive for the country. But most interesting it is than, in agreement with the Secret Service, that encouraging result was possible thanks to the work of a Colombian and has own name: Juliette Kure Parra.
Kure is the greater one of the Police, head of investigation of Crimes against the patrimony económicó of the DijÃn. ........ and pop over to the link to see if Detective Juliette Kure Parra moonlights as Buffy the Vampire Slayer... or am I seeing things?
Tens of thousands of Chinese marked the 56th anniversary of Communist rule in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Saturday with the country enjoying the benefits of two decades of rapid economic growth but still facing deep-seated social problems. The crowds in the square enthusiastically waved Chinese flags and posed for pictures as security forces looked on placidly. Such a wonderful place. Why can't everywhere be Communist?
Security was tight in the capital Beijing at the start of the weeklong holiday. Police bomb squads were out in force, and human rights groups said authorities have been expelling people with grievances from the capital to prevent disruptions, a common move during politically sensitive periods.
On Friday, Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to press forward with rapid economic development but did not mention democratic reforms or any changes to one-party rule, touting the supremacy of the Communist Party. He only alluded to the social problems facing the country.
"China has undergone earthshaking changes and achieved world-stunning successes," Wen said at a reception for more than 1,500 foreign and Chinese guests at the Great Hall of the People in the heart of Beijing.
Increasing numbers of poverty-stricken farmers are protesting against widespread graft, industrial pollution and seizures of land for development. Analysts have warned that widening income disparities between the cities and countryside and rising unemployment could threaten social stability.
The Netherlands has legalized polygamy in all but name, granting a civil union to a man and two women. Victor de Bruijn, 46, of Roosendaal "married" both Bianca, 31, and Mirjam, 35, in a ceremony Friday, the Brussels Journal reported. "I love both Bianca and Mirjam, so I am marrying them both," said de Bruijn who previously was married to Bianca. Getting ready for sharia, I guess.
The couple met Mirjam Geven two and a half years ago through an Internet chatroom, and eight weeks later Mirjam left her husband to live with Victor and Bianca. After Mirjam's divorce the threesome decided to marry, the Journal reported. De Bruijn explained: "A marriage between three persons is not possible in the Netherlands, but a civil union is. We went to the notary in our marriage costume and exchanged rings. We consider this to be just an ordinary marriage." I don't.
DeBruijn insisted there is no jealousy between the three partners because Mirjam and Bianca are bisexual. "I think that with two heterosexual women it would be more difficult," he said, noting he is "100 percent heterosexual."
"Maybe 200 percent!"
Let's compute the possible permutations...
A fourth person would not be allowed in their marriage, de Bruijn said, emphasizing they want to take their marriage obligations seriously. You're supposed to put "drink alert" before saying things like that.
The Catholic Church is poised to join a mass protest against planned reforms of the education system in a fresh confrontation with the Socialist government. The Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) said it will support plans to stage a march in Madrid in November against the reforms, the Spanish daily El Pais reported. The reforms will make religious education classes optional, not compulsory, and non-gradable for students.
Juan Antonio Martinez Camino, CEE spokesman, said: "The Catholic Church does not call protests. But I hope they are called and that the government makes substantial changes to the law and that it eliminates the obstacles to the freedom of education." The reform is a reversal of the 1979 agreement between the Spanish government and the Vatican, which made it mandatory for schools to teach religion, although the classes are optional for students.
Relations between the church and the Socialist government have been worsening in recent months. Cardinals and bishops joined a mass march in July against the government's legalisation of same sex marriages. But the government this week extended an agreement whereby the State finances the Church by income tax returns for another year. In next year's budget, the State will give the Church EUR 144m. Pakistan?
I'm against religious states on principle and empirically: the Papal States were such a success, and Soddy Arabia's such a beacon for the rest of the world. I realize that Spanish culture includes a strong strain of Catholicism, but I also realize that until it began modernizing it was the poorest country in Europe. That doesn't say that Catholicism shouldn't be taught, only that it shouldn't be a requirement, which is the approach the Spaniards seem to be trying to take with it.
We've run into this before. As a principle of international law it sucks. It implies that Belgium has world-wide jurisdiction. Presumably Luxembourg does, too. And France. And Pakistan. And Nepal. But not the U.S., mind you. That would be hegemony...
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Y'know, we've been suggesting places the UN could take up residence?
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Brussels is full up, what with NATO, the EU bureaucracy, and Belgium's own Parliament and bureaucracy and all. Ten years ago they told me to expect one car crash per year, because of all the people on the road who think they are too important to obey the rules (It happened, too. On the very last day I owned the bloody car. $10 residual value in the carcass afterward.) And let's not forget that the Royal Family lives on the edge of town, too. Send the U.N. to Paris or Geneva, where they still have room for that sort of people.
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Catalonia's parliament approved a new charter Friday that called the wealthy region in northeastern Spain "a nation," wording that has some worried that the region is heading toward a break with Spain. Catalonia's semiautonomous parliament had gone through weeks of heated debates on changes to the charter, which defines its status within Spain.
"Catalonia is a nation," according to the first article in the 52-page charter, which the regional parliament approved with a 120-15 vote.
Spain's national parliament needs to approve the charter in order for it to become valid, but some constitutional experts warn that it may be unconstitutional. Opposition conservatives argue it represents another step toward the dismemberment of Spain. "Spanish citizens must be consulted before Congress takes irreversible steps," said Angel Acebes, secretary-general of the Popular Party, parliament's main opposition bloc, adding that the charter contained at least 50 points that were unconstitutional.
Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said the government supports approval of the charter.
Since socialists tend not to worry much about what's constitutional when they're the ones in power.
The Mediterranean coastal, whose capital is Barcelona, is Spain's economic engine and takes pride in its distinct cultural identity. Under Spain's constitution, it and the rest of the 17 regions have varying degrees of self-rule. But Catalonia and the Basque region, which already have the most, are always clamoring for more. And their respective languages are a particular source of pride - and friction.
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WASHINGTON: An investigation into a White House intelligence leak was nearing its conclusion after a New York Times reporter, jailed in July for refusing to testify, identified U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney's leading aide as her principal source.
Judith Miller was released from a prison in Virginia, where she had spent 12 weeks, and appeared in a federal court in Washington on Friday to give her account of a scandal that has been hanging over the administration for two years.
According to lawyers involved in the case, Ms. Miller identified Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby, the Vice-President's chief of staff, as the government official she had spoken to in July 2003 about a CIA undercover agent, Valerie Plame.
Ms. Plame is the wife of an administration critic, Joseph Wilson, who accused the White House of blowing her cover in retribution for his claims that the U.S. had fabricated allegations of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Mr. Wilson, a former Ambassador, had said he had been sent to Africa by the CIA to look for evidence of Iraqi uranium purchases and had found none, contrary to claims by the President.
Confidentiality
The scandal threatens the White House directly. Another journalist, Time magazine's Matt Cooper, has named Karl Rove, President's chief political adviser, as his source for revealing Ms. Plame's identity. Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby, two of the most powerful behind-the-scenes figures in the administration, have said they had revealed that Mr. Wilson's wife worked in the CIA and had been instrumental in sending him on the fact-finding mission.
But lawyers for both officials insist they did not break the law as they did not provide her name, and did not know she was undercover. Critics argue that identifying her as Mr. Wilson's wife was tantamount to naming her.
U.S. media reports quoted lawyers involved in the case on Friday as saying a decision on whether to press charges could come as early as next week, in the wake of Ms. Miller's testimony. The case has cast light on the relationship between journalists and their government sources, and the confidentiality of that relationship.
It has also provoked scrutiny of Ms. Miller. On her release, she said she had gone to jail ``to preserve the time-honoured principle'' of protecting journalistic sources, and had agreed to testify only after receiving a telephone call from Mr. Libby, waiving his right to confidentiality.
But Mr. Libby's lawyer, Joseph Tate, said his client had signed such a waiver in late 2003 and he had assured Ms. Miller's lawyer earlier last month that the waiver had not been coerced. Sending her to prison in July, the judge in the case, Thomas Hogan, argued she was not defending press freedom, because the government source she ``alleges she is protecting'' had released her from her promise of confidentiality.
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she's running out the clock on the charges of leaking info to a muslim charity raided the next day....
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No journalist would go to jail for a conservative, no matter the issue. This smells fishy, either this guy is some kind of closet moonbat, or he's agreed to take the fall to protect the real source.
Must be a slow news day...
(CNN) -- Michael Dukakis became the first Greek-American to be nominated for the presidency when he led the 1988 Democratic effort to win the White House following the popular presidency of Republican Ronald Reagan.
Today, Dukakis divides his time between Northeastern University in his native Massachusetts and the University of California, Los Angeles, where he teaches political science and public policy.
"I can bring to a classroom a wealth of information, because I have been there," Dukakis told CNN. I encourage all of my students to nurture their love of public service, but I tell them if they want to run for president to talk to me first."
Indeed, Dukakis has much to teach his students about the realities of political life. Duke's a wonderful guy, Kitty hits the bottle, blah, blah blah... rest at link.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has fined two leadership PACs associated with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in response to a Complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) on October 25, 2002. The FEC also has fined three campaigns that failed to return excessive contributions from Pelosiâs PACs within 60 days, as required by law.
Under conciliation agreements reached with the FEC, Pelosiâs two committees â PAC to the Future and Team Majority â will pay $21,000. Julie Thomas for Congress Campaign Committee (DâIA) and Van Hollen for Congress (DâMD) will each pay $2,500, and Joe Turnham for Congress (DâAL) will pay $2,000. The three campaigns also agreed to disgorge $5,000 each to the U.S. Treasury.
In its Complaint, NLPC alleged that Pelosi violated federal election law by operating two âleadershipâ political action committees (PACs) in order to circumvent contribution limits. Members of the Democrat and Republican leaderships in the House and Senate may legally have one so-called leadership PAC in addition to their own campaign committee. The purpose of leadership PACs is to make contributions to the campaigns of other Congressional candidates.
NLPCâs Complaint cited a second circumvention of the law, that of the limits on amounts donors may give to PACs. Team Majority, the newer PAC, reported sixteen contributions of $5,000 each from donors who also gave the maximum to Pelosiâs other PAC. Five of the donors gave to both PACs on the same day.
NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm reacted by stating, âWe are delighted that the FEC has acted favorably on our Complaint. No member of Congress has ever set up a second leadership PAC to evade contribution limits. Pelosi has been caught violating the clearest and most basic law of all, the limits on contributions. Talk about hypocrisy.â
Within twenty-four hours of NLPCâs Complaint, Pelosi announced she would shut down Team Majority and retrieve contributions already made to candidates. The PAC made thirty-six contributions to candidates in the amount of $5,000, the legal limit. Her surviving PAC, which is called PAC to the Future, distributed $1.7 million to candidates in the 2001-2002 election cycle.
Pelosi has been an outspoken advocate of campaign finance reform and Shays-Meehan, the companion bill to the McCain-Feingold legislation, that became law. In January 2002, she asserted, "One threat to our Constitution, indeed to our participatory democracy, is the role of the special interest money in the political process today."
At an April 2002 kick-off event in San Francisco to the so-called Campaign Finance Victory Tour, Common Cause President Scott Harshbarger proclaimed, "The cynics in Washington said we couldnât beat the entrenched power of big money, and thanks to courageous, independent people like Nancy Pelosi, we started the job."
Pelosi complained of "extremists in the Republican Party who have repeatedly tried to undermine campaign finance reform" and of "sneaky tactics employed by the Republicans" to weaken Shays-Meehan.
Team Majority did not officially exist until October 16, 2002 but had been raising money since April 2002, and by September 30, 2002 had made donations to five House and one Senate challenger. Leo McCarthy, the treasurer of both PACs and the former Lt. Governor of California, candidly admitted to Roll Call that the "main reason" for setting up the second PAC was to "give twice as much (sic) hard dollars."
The only defense offered by McCarthy was that he claimed the FEC somehow approved the improper arrangement in a phone call. He could not, however, provide the name of the FEC official with whom he allegedly spoke or provide evidence that such a call occurred. Indeed, it is the FECâs policy that so-called Advisory Opinions be obtained in writing. McCarthy further acknowledged that he obtained no legal counsel despite the fact that Pelosiâs PACs collectively raised over a million dollars.
Pelosi was elected Democratic Whip on November 14, 2002 after Richard Gephardt (D-MO) announced he would step aside. She was propelled to the post in part by her ability to raise money for her colleagues. In addition to the $1.7 million given to Democratic candidates by PAC to the Future, Pelosi also crisscrossed the country taking part in fundraisers that reportedly generated over $6 million...
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Most unfortunate for Bambi-eyes in headlights, Bela-pelosi.
Just when the donks are launching their party of corruption campaign against the Repubs, this news splashes.
If you haven't been to the Harry Ried, "Giveemhellharry.com" web site, it's a hoot. Check out the comments.
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Nope. Nothing to see here. Political persecution. Minor slip-ups. They all do it.
Let's talk more about Delay, the Indicted Republian from Texas.
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Captain, did ya see muckys comment at reid's site? Our man is on the case!
Didn't we just hear it her spouting about the party of corruption. FOAD.
Stretch Pelosi has a 6 ton come along mounted at the back of her head. no wonder she can't blink.
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So is any crusading AG gonna step up to the plate and harrass Pelosi? Fair is fair, y'know.
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Ok,so wear is the Grand Jury?Where is the Pelosi article?All I see ar 2 areticles on fuel prices.
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I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
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How come I never heard a peep from the national media that the top Democrat in the House of Representatives has been under investigation for the last 3 years for election law vioations? Gee I'm starting to think there is a code of omerta when it comes to the press and Democrats.
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Maybe it could be similar to the photo traffic ticket sent through the mail. No court time, just a picture of these guys crossing the border to be used for the crime, not needing a lawyer and all that goes with that.
Enforcement would be good.
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We don't enforce the existing laws, so let's pass tougher ones that we won't enforce, either.
Well, there's nothing like passing laws that give the appearance of doing something about a problem...
the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action
...hmmmm, just getting treated as they treat others.
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The important thing here is that it is state law. No need to wait for the feds for something to happen. A small step, maybe but one in a useful direction.
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The Minutemen are truly remarkable. A bona-fide demonstration of regular grass-roots Americans doing what needs to be done - while the "authorities" are either paralyzed or working against them.
Someday, not too distant, a call will go out for volunteers for a more assertive form of grass-roots American action. Rather more like the original Minutemen.
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Someday, not too distant, a call will go out for volunteers for a more assertive form of grass-roots American action. Rather more like the original Minutemen.
This geezer and wheezer will be with right with you there...I can still put a pretty good bluff in.
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The growth of the Minuteman patrols has stirred stiff opposition among Latino activists and many residents in towns and cities along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The California-based Brown Berets, a Mexican-American group that was allied with the revolutionary U.S. Black Panther Party in the 1960s, has vowed to confront the Minuteman volunteers during their October vigil.
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Met up with a Border Patrol agent recently. His sector in AZ is one of the busiest for illegal crossings. He said as soon as the Minutemen set up in the area, crossings dropped to a trickle. The Border guys could clearly see the Federales operating on the other side working to divert traffic.
The Mexican authorities have plenty of control when they choose to exercise it.
Another rich liberal
ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, who died of lung cancer in August, left an estate valued at more than $50 million, most of which was willed to his fourth wife and to two children from a previous marriage.
Jennings, 67, signed the will on April 21, 2005, 16 days after announcing on his World news Tonight program he had been diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. He died on August 7 in New York.
His will, filed for probate this week in New York's Surrogate Court, lists $50 million in personal property and $3.5 million in property in New York.
Besides leaving his widow, producer Kayce Freed, 50 percent of the "net marital estate," she also got their Central Park West apartment.
Jennings has appointed trustees to handle the distribution of funds for his two children, Elizabeth, 25, and Christopher, 23. Both children were from his third marriage to author Kati Marton, which ended in divorce.
He also left assets valued at $1 million to the Peter Jennings Foundation, a charity he founded in 1998 that gives money to fight homelessness, drug addiction, illiteracy and hunger.
Besides stock and real estate, Jennings' assets included ownership of a race horse, Channel's Gate and another horse, named Cabin Fever. What is it with these newsanchors and their race horses?
LAHORE: Shafiqabad police arrested two constables after registering a robbery case against them on Friday. Liaqat Ali told Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Aamir Zulfiqar Khan that he was returning to his hometown a week earlier when constables Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Yaseen, deputed at Shafiqabad police station, held him at gunpoint and snatched two cell-phones and Rs 800 from him. The SSP ordered an inquiry in which the constables were found guilty and the police registered a case against them.
"Hi, there, Officer Friendly!"
"Stick 'em up! Gimme yer dough!"
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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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NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office â in case they offend Muslim staff. Workers in the benefits department at Dudley Council, West Midlands, were told to remove or cover up all pig-related items, including toys, porcelain figures, calendars and even a tissue box featuring Winnie the Pooh and Piglet. Bosses acted after a Muslim complained about pig-shaped stress relievers delivered to the council in the run-up to the Islamic festival of Ramadan. Councillor Mahbubur Rahman, a practising Muslim, backed the ban. He said: âItâs a tolerance of peopleâs beliefs.â
The Netherlands has legalized polygamy in all but name, granting a civil union to a man and two women. Victor de Bruijn, 46, of Roosendaal "married" both Bianca, 31, and Mirjam, 35, in a ceremony Friday, the Brussels Journal reported. "I love both Bianca and Mirjam, so I am marrying them both," said de Bruijn who previously was married to Bianca. 
The Catholic Church is poised to join a mass protest against planned reforms of the education system in a fresh confrontation with the Socialist government. The Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) said it will support plans to stage a march in Madrid in November against the reforms, the Spanish daily El Pais reported. The reforms will make religious education classes optional, not compulsory, and non-gradable for students.
The former dictator of Chad â who has been dubbed 'an African Pinochet' - could face trial in Belgium for the atrocities he committed during his eight years in power. HissÚne Habré, who ran Chad from 1982 until 1990, has been charged under Belgium's 'universal competence' law which allows Belgian courts to try cases of human rights abuse â wherever the crimes are alleged to have been committed.
LAHORE: Shafiqabad police arrested two constables after registering a robbery case against them on Friday. Liaqat Ali told Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Aamir Zulfiqar Khan that he was returning to his hometown a week earlier when constables Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Yaseen, deputed at Shafiqabad police station, held him at gunpoint and snatched two cell-phones and Rs 800 from him. The SSP ordered an inquiry in which the constables were found guilty and the police registered a case against them.
