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Lol. She's made her fortune pushing the material world, a morality of anything goes, purest raw sleaze, and craven opportunism, so, um, now she's free to spout from her castle how eeeeevil it all is? Lol. Ooooookay. You're aging badly, dear. You're getting kinda horse-faced, your ass and boobs are sagging, and no one really cares about your boutique religion and the sudden pretense that you either think or care about anything except yourself. Buh-bye.
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When your washed up with the hot celebrity spot, got plenty of money, and plenty of time, then you can give plenty of free advice.
We will take your track record into consideration when we consider your free advice, Mrs. Richie.
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does blowing a Doberman count against you, Madonna?
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Hey, hey, in Wild West lore any criticism of LILY LANGTRY was an automatic HANGING OFFENSE in the court of Judge Roy Bean. Don't let them get you down Madonna - me and Nostradamus, etal. know the real score.
WASHINGTON - He is "the architect" who steered George W. Bush to victory four times, twice as Texas governor and twice as president.
Victory? But, I thought Bush stole those elections?
But can Karl Rove organize his own garage? Can the master of Bush's political planning figure out where to put the ladders, paint cans and cardboard boxes?
I don't know, But I'm sure you'll tell us..
Rove's wife, Darby, raised the white garage door one morning last week to show journalists outside the million-dollar brick home that the deputy chief of staff, assistant to the president and senior adviser wasn't home. All the interest came on the eve of his testimony Friday before a grand jury investigating who in the White House might have revealed the identity of a CIA desk jockey operative. There was no car in the garage. And the stuff left behind turned out not to be much different from what gathers dust inside most American garages. The inventory, seen from outside:
*Some cardboard file boxes stacked one on top of the other, labeled "Box 6," "Box 4" and what appears to be "Box 7."
No doubt full of ballots from Florida and Ohio
No sign of boxes 1, 2, 3 and 5.
Four boxes are missing! Quick, convene a "independent" congressional investigation!
Or check Sandy Bergler's socks.
*What appear to be paint cans stacked alongside a folded, folding chair.
Simple cans of paint or Saddam's WMD? You be the judge.
*A rather large wood crate marked "FRAGILE" and painted with arrows indicating which way is up.
Ah hah, so that's where he's hiding AlGores brain
On top of the crate, two coolers.
Two coolers, a sure sign of a alcoholic
*A tall aluminum ladder.
Used for breaking and entering
*A snow shovel leaned in front of another cardboard box.
Why does he have a snow shovel ready in October? What does he know about the upcoming winter he's not telling us? And just what is in all those boxes?
*Wicker baskets inside of wicker baskets on top of a shelf running the length of the rear wall.
Baskets inside of baskets, that's symbolic of, er, something...
*Transparent plastic storage bins crammed with indiscernible stuff.
Transparent, yet indiscernible. Like the plan to invade Iraq
*Another cardboard box.
Possibly missing box 1, 2, 3, or 5. Or, maybe, a previously unseen unnumbered box.
*In one corner, the rear wheel of a bicycle sticks out, along with what appears to be a helmet.
Stolen from some poor drowned child in New Orleans
*Another ladder, this one green, leaning sideways.
I'll bet it was leaning to the RIGHT!
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"Ah hah, so that's where he's hiding AlGores brain"
Actually it was in the box labelled Abby-something.
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LOL! Excellent comments!
Lets have some fun and play with this and think of other things to place in the Evil Overlord's garage.
Must be something commonly found in a garage - and specify a location for the item
Mine:
One set of old-rusty keys hanging on a nail behind the above mentioned boxes.
The keys to the Flying Saucer (tm) used to buzz Farrakin's house in the middle of the night.
1000' of Twine on a wall next to the garage door switch.
Ah Ha! Part of the twine-and-soup-cans communications device used to secretly blow Plume's cover!
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Surely the Zionist Death Ray is hiding in there somewhere...prolly right under the Halliburton Earthquake/Tsunami Callibrator, which is disguised as a bag of garden gravel, which Rove personally swiped from the hands of innocent Paleostinian kiddies...crafty cunning and cruel, is ol' Karl.
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back in the days when a Yunick was not a eunuch
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Frank, Ima forced to recall the dark day when Bill France's flying monkey troop impounded Smokerys car and drained every last drop of preicous gasoline and weighed it. b4 and after. Smokey was pissed and yes, (itn true) fired up the car and drove it to the transporter.
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TROPICAL STORM WILMA FORECAST/ADVISORY NUMBER 8
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL242005
1500Z MON OCT 17 2005
AT 11 AM EDT...1500Z...THE GOVERNMENT OF HONDURAS HAS ISSUED A
TROPICAL STORM WARNING FROM THE HONDURAS/NICARAGUA BORDER WESTWARD
TO CABO CAMARON.
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING AND A HURRICANE WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR
THE CAYMAN ISLANDS.
TROPICAL STORM CENTER LOCATED NEAR 16.3N 80.0W AT 17/1500Z
POSITION ACCURATE WITHIN 30 NM
PRESENT MOVEMENT TOWARD THE SOUTHWEST OR 235 DEGREES AT 4 KT
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE 998 MB
MAX SUSTAINED WINDS 40 KT WITH GUSTS TO 50 KT.
34 KT....... 0NE 60SE 60SW 0NW.
12 FT SEAS.. 0NE 60SE 60SW 0NW.
WINDS AND SEAS VARY GREATLY IN EACH QUADRANT. RADII IN NAUTICAL
MILES ARE THE LARGEST RADII EXPECTED ANYWHERE IN THAT QUADRANT.
REPEAT...CENTER LOCATED NEAR 16.3N 80.0W AT 17/1500Z
AT 17/1200Z CENTER WAS LOCATED NEAR 16.4N 79.8W
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That reminds me...the last time I went to the Big Bathtub I took a picture of "A Metrobus Named Desire". Coming soon to a community theater stage near you.
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My wife went to a Brennan's restaurant the other day and ate off a plastic plate. That truly is a sign of the end times.
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What? Where was it? Is there a Brennan's outside NO?
A plastic plate. Sheesh, definitely a step down... I remember their Bread Pudding... I would skip on the Whiskey Sauce - which always made the waiter blanch in disbelief, lol.
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It was one on Canal St. that I don't know. To be clear, they're not short of china; they're short of dishwashers and other staff. And they're short of staff because the staff is short of housing. And the staff is short of housing in part because Nagin and Blanco are short a brain between them. Don't send us money, send us Giuliani.
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When Dad used to go to NO for Chevron business in the 60s he used to go to Preservation Hall for good dixieland, even used to play his banjo occasionally with them. I guess it is closed indefinitely now after Katrina....and now we are up to Wilma? Whats next?
*Xavier
*Yertle
*Zymurgy
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Greek alphabet is next -- Alpha, Beta.... really, really orginal.
#10
Yes, I heard about that, Sherry. Maybe we should start using Cajun names.
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Okay - I thought you were in Jackson, so was in double-take mode, lol. So the Mrs is looking to your property, I take it?
I'm sure they're just limping along - which is why the entire Nugget notion of mass repop is rather moronic outside of Algiers, at least as I understand the situation.
Rudy could, indeed, assess, prioritize, and organize the situation - cutting the time required dramatically, but that would stymie the Nugget & Blankout Graft commissions and keep them from doing what they do best.
Bro, I'm of two minds about this - and both have major sucking points. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. It's a certainty that the Politicians in place will make the entire process a very expensive clusterfuck. Sigh. I think another hurricane hit and Martial Law make more sense.
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AP, the French Quarter, thank God, came through in outstanding shape. I don't know if Preservation Hall is open right now but it wouldn't surprise me.
.com, Orleans Parish (which is not the whole City) right now looks sort of a like a donut, i.e., a large residential area that flooded surrounded by other areas that did not (Uptown, the French Quarter, the CBD, much of the Lakefront, etc.) The issue (or one of many issues) is under what conditions if any you allow rebuilding in the "hole."
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C'mon, no one remembers the suggestion of using Fred's random name generator? The next hurricane will be Hurricane Ulmupeter Hummerplink6098.
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Steve, by the time I said that it'd be here.
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Who care's about Brennans? What's the scoop on Mother's it's in a good spot, and jeez are they right for their new clientel.
MARYANNE! MaryAnne? I'm not walking all over this returant looking for MARYANNE YOUR FOOD IS READY! You paid for it, come and get it. MARYANNE! I swear some folks got a gift for extra slow MARYANNE! THIS ROASTER BEEF GETTING COLD! THIS IS THE LAST TIME I MEAN IT!
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Wid Sharpton sezzing that Dubya and the Fed are conducting a policy of genocide gas NOLA's black and poor, and while defending the right of NOLA's black and poor to permanently subsist on [intensified] Fed and only the Fed welfarism; and JACKSON criticizing the same for not allowing NOLA residents to return to a NOLA, never mind that isn't ready for habitation - along comes WILMA. The MSM hegatively stereotypes cartoon character FRED for allegedly beating his wife Wilma when every episode showz its Wilma that does any = all of the alleged hitting, ala pre-DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES!? Inereesting to see what WILMA-GATE brings.
U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy tried to save six fishermen stranded on a breakwater near the Kennedy compound yesterday, but had to turn back and hand the rescue off to the fire department. Kennedy called the Hyannis Fire Department around 11 a.m. when he saw the fishermen on the breakwater as waves up to 5 feet high crashed over it and winds gusted to 35 mph. The 69-year-old senator took out his flask whaler and got within earshot of the fishermen, but headed back because it was too dangerous, Hyannis Fire Capt. Craig Farrenkopf said. ``The senator was just coming into the dock on a whaler, he told us it was rough out there,'' Farrenkopf said. Farrenkopf said Kennedy is familiar with the water and ``thought he would do the right thing.'' Familiar with the water. Couldn't have said it better myself.
``He realized it was beyond his realm of handling the incident,'' Farrenkopf said. ...having been there before.
The men were fishing a couple hundred yards off shore near the Kennedy compound when the incoming tide stranded them. Firefighters made three trips to the breakwater, rescuing the fishermen two at a time. The fishermen were treated for minor hypothermia.
Normally when a Kennedy goes into the water, somebody dies...
#6
Notice how Teddy's basking in the attention - he was all over the local news today. I have no doubt he clearly informed the emergency personnel who was making the call.
Contrast this with the recent incident where Nomar and an acquaintance actually jumed into the water (one from a second-floor deck) to rescue some people and absolutely refused any comments to the media afterwards.
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#8
But If I rememeber correctly, I believe one of the Republican Senators is an MD (Frist, IIRC), and one time stopped at an accident scene and rendered aid.
I'm not fat!... I'm big-boned... Yeah, big-boned, that's the ticket.
Doctors have hit on a cunning plan to transform fatties into slimline wonders: stop sending emails. Health experts believe millions of hours of vital exercise are being lost every week thanks to the explosion in electronic messaging.
Once we walked to a colleague's desk to pass on a filthy joke or reveal what the boss and his secretary were doing in the photocopier room for three hours during the office Christmas party. Now it is easier to tap a short note on the computer, hit the send button and the world knows in seconds what has happened. It's great for gossip: bad for the figure.
As a result, Sport England, as part of its Everyday Sport campaign, is launching Email-Free Friday this week. Employers, it says, should introduce a ban on internal emails and get staff walking around their office - presumably to complain that they can no longer send emails.
'We're losing millions of hours of exercise through the explosion of email,' said Dr Dorian Dugmore, a health adviser to Sport England. 'People email colleagues who sit next to them, never mind those who work on the other side of the office. We have to change people's lazy attitudes.' Increasing activity levels by 10 per cent could save 6,000 lives and £500 million per year, as well as leading to one million fewer obese people in England, it is argued.
The idea also reveals a growing antagonism felt by many bosses to electronic messaging. John Caudwell, chief executive of Phone 4u, has banned his 2,500 staff from using email in the office. 'We have email paralysis,' he said. 'If you have a cancer, you have to cut it out.'
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Silly doctors, emails aren't fattening. It's SPAM that's the enemy. All that time hitting the "delete" key could be better spent doing sets and reps of 12 oz. curls.
Stuck in prison but want to look like you're vacationing with your family on the beach? For $10, a service called Friends Beyond the Walls takes prison waiting room pictures and with a little digital cut and pasting, puts the subjects somewhere more fun. Backdrops include gardens and ski lodges. The idea is to give families photos that they can display on desks -- or at school -- without embarrassment.
Think what they could do for the jihadis in Gitmo...
AVES ISLAND (AP) - Caribbean islands have long been a destination for newlyweds, but this remote, treeless speck of land isn't on any travel agent's list. Seventeen Venezuelan sailors now live at a newly established base here, and on Saturday two couples were married - apparently the first such ceremonies to be held on the island. Venezuela's mainland is 380 miles away, but it's asserting a claim of ownership despite the fact Isla de Aves - Bird Island - is much closer to Dominica, Antigua and Puerto Rico. "Aves Island belongs to Venezuela. Several nations in the Eastern Caribbean dispute that claim, but we are reaffirming our sovereignty here," Cmdr. Guillermo Isturiz said before anchoring near the three-story concrete outpost.
The dispute is about more than just the land. The sparkling fishing waters offshore teem with tuna, grouper and red snapper, while oil and natural gas are thought to lie under the sea floor.
No Blood for Snapper!
Despite protests from other Caribbean island countries, President Hugo Chavez insists the island rightfully belongs to Venezuela, and last year his government built the $9 million outpost now used by the military and a group of biologists, aiming to shed any doubts about the limits of Venezuela's maritime boundaries. The leaders of some Eastern Caribbean countries, including Dominica and Antigua, have argued that Aves - only 1,900 feet long and 1,640 feet wide, smaller than Minnesota's Mall of America - is nothing more than a sandbar and should not be considered Venezuelan territory. "It certainly is Dominica's as far as we are concerned," Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent told The Associated Press in a telephone interview last week. Dominica lies just 140 miles east of Aves. Former Antigua Prime Minister Lester Bird noted while in office in 2003 that if Venezuela's claim were acknowledged, its 200-nautical-mile "exclusive economic zone" to offshore areas would encompass Montserrat and Grenada.
Nothing to worry about. Hugo just wants a little "liebenstrum"
The dispute appears unchanged despite Venezuela's recent agreement to sell Caribbean nations fuel under preferential terms to help them cope with high oil prices. "We have developed very good relations with Venezuela, and we hope we can sort this out," Gonsalves said. Caribbean Community Secretary-General Edwin Carrington said from his home in Guyana that Aves remains "a disputed matter."
Meanwhile, more than 120 sailors and dozens of civilians disembarked on the island Saturday during a symbolic visit aboard two frigates bristling with machine-guns and artillery cannons. Officials said the weddings and three baptisms of sailors' children by a chaplain were the first ever on the island. "It's historic," said a beaming navy captain, Yldefonzo Gandica, as he sipped champagne with bride Geraldine Pibernat de Gandica in front of a maritime chart inside the outpost. A second couple had their wedding on the beach. Venezuela also has opened Aves to scientists who study the many bird species and endangered sea turtles. The island has in the past been claimed and occupied by various countries - Britain, Spain, the United States, the Netherlands - and now Venezuela. "It's our island. That's why we are here," said Andres Bocaranda, a foreign ministry official who was among the visitors.
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Ah, yes, nuthin' sez SOCIALIST EQUALISM that taking another nation's territory without their consent or negotiation - ala HILLARY, what does CHAVEZ's = FIDEL's = SADDAM's daughter say about it???
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Dubya's home state of Tehas/Texas has a city named GALVESTON thats on a SANDBAR, and which survived RITA, ergo CHAVEZ and Venezuela needs its own Sandbar subergo Dubya = CHAVEZ > Dubya and the GOP are the REAL SOCIALIST(S), not the Dems!?
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TW---Literally "Living Space" in German, IIRC. Nazis pushing into the East in WW2 was to get Lebensraum. Living space in a sandbar is pushing the envelope a bit, but if it is all you have, then it's good enough. Besides, Hugo just read the chapter from the Chicoms' playbook and is doing his exercises. Possession and the military to back it up is 9/10's of the law, so to speak.
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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid homage on Monday at a shrine for war dead seen by critics as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, drawing a swift protest from South Korea and certain to outrage China as well.
Japan's relations with its neighbors have already chilled because of Koizumi's annual visits to Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine, where war criminals convicted by an Allied tribunal are honored along with the nation's 2.5 million war dead.
Koizumi â clad in a dark suit rather than the traditional Japanese garb he has worn on some past visits â bowed, put his hands together in prayer and stood silently in front of an outer shrine for a moment before striding back to his car in front of a crowd that had gathered in a drizzling rain. Koizumi did not enter an inner shrine as he has in the past and made no remarks. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda told reporters the visit was made in a private capacity.
Japanese media said the low key atmosphere appeared to be an attempt to stress its private nature and mute the expected backlash from China and South Korea as well as domestic critics.
South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon, however, swiftly summoned Japanese ambassador Shotaro Oshima to complain. "We strongly protest the visit to Yasukuni shrine despite our request and strongly urge that it is not repeated," Ban said.
Japanese business executives have been worried that the strain in diplomatic ties will hurt burgeoning economic relations between China and Japan especially. Tokyo stock market investors, recalling a slide in share prices after anti-Japanese protests in China in April, were wary of the possible fallout from Koizumi's visit to the shrine.
Japan and China are trying to arrange talks in Beijing between Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura and his Chinese counterpart, Li Zhaoxing, to discuss a possible leaders' summit later this year, media have reported. It was not clear how the Yasukuni visit would affect those discussions.
Koizumi has repeatedly said he visits Yasukuni to pray for peace and honor the war dead, not to glorify militarism. Koizumi has avoided visiting the shrine on August 15, the anniversary of Japan's 1945 surrender that ended World War Two and an emotive date in the region, but his visits on other occasions have nonetheless infuriated China and other countries.
"It's fine for the prime minister to stick to his beliefs, but given his status as the Japanese leader he should think about relations between countries and the people's feelings," said Choi Young-soo, 44, a South Korean on a sightseeing trip to the shrine. "He should not stir up ill feelings."
Bitter memories of Japan's 1910-1945 colonization run deep in North and South Korea, while China has not forgotten Tokyo's invasion and occupation before and during World War Two.
Despite a huge victory for Koizumi's ruling Liberal Democratic Party in a general election last month, Japan's public is divided over the Yasukuni visits. Courts have given conflicting rulings on whether they violate the constitutional separation of religion and state.
Takenori Kanzaki, the leader of LDP coalition partner New Komeito â a Buddhist-backed party â told reporters Koizumi's visit was extremely regrettable, Kyodo news agency reported. But Hiroki Kanematsu, a 20-year-old law student who went to Yasukuni to watch Koizumi, said he backed the prime minister's stance. "Since he started making the visits, he should not stop just because of what China says."
Another student, Ai Yamaguchi, took a different view. "It would be fine for him to go as an individual, but he is the prime minister, so it is not good," she said. "We should seek good ties with China and South Korea because they are our close neighbors."
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...My understanding is that Yasakuni is not only Japan's Arlington, but there is a spiritual/religious aspect associated with it as well. Koizumi almost has to visit it - it would be much like the Pope not visiting St Peters.
Mike
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The big issue is external understanding of the faith system of Japan. This is about religion and doesn't effect the outside world.
These are not political visits. Praying to and for the people memorailzed is thought to help them move on.(Japan is Buddhist) It also is thought to settle their spirits and help maintain peace in the world of mortals.
The Korean's and Chinese know better. They can't resist the opportunity to dip Japan is crap over WW2.
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I think we have seen reunions with American and Japanese servicemembers at Iwo Jima and Okinawa marking the anniversay of the battles. It is appearent those who went through the actual horror are able to forgive far more easier than those who sat thousands of miles away and decades later. It may also be because Americans seldom believe in allowing history to destroy their future as all too many societies and cultures do.
THE last Australian to fight in World War I, William Evan Allan, from Victoria, has died at the age of 106. The death of the former able seaman was confirmed by veterans affairs officials in Canberra. Mr Allan, from Melbourne, was also the sole surviving veteran of both world wars.
Born in Bega in New South Wales in July 1899, Mr Allan enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy as a boy sailor at the outbreak of World War I when he was only 14 years old. As an able seaman, he was a member of the crew of HMAS Encounter from 1915 until 1918. He sailed in the Pacific and also in the Indian Ocean escorting troop ship convoys. Mr Allan served in the Royal Australian Navy for 34 years and also saw service in World War II. He retired from the navy in 1947 having attained the rank of lieutenant.
Mr Allan, who is survived by his daughter Judith Blake and grandchildren Duncan and Philippa, would be given a state funeral, said Victorian Premier Steve Bracks. Veterans Affairs Minister De-Anne Kelly expressed her sorrow at the passing of Mr Allan. She said he was the last remaining Australian to have seen active service and the last sailor who served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War I. "Mr Allan and his fellow servicemen were a vital part of the Australian forces during World War I. Their tireless devotion to duty was a credit to them and Australia," Mrs Kelly said. "Our World War I veterans helped to build this nation that we love. Mr Allan was just a boy when he went to war, much younger than most. His sacrifice is remembered and we honour him for his service."
Australia's proud naval tradition was built by men like Mr Allan who served more than 30 years in the navy, seeing service during World War II, Mrs Kelly said. "With his passing, we have lost an entire generation who left Australia to defend our nation, the British Empire and other nations in the cause of freedom and democracy," she said.
In WWI, Mr Allan's ship, the light cruiser HMAS Encounter, took part in the search for the infamous German raider Wolfe, which had been causing havoc with Allied shipping. Mr Allan continued his career with the RAN between the two world wars, being promoted and acquiring additional qualifications. During World War II, he served at sea in the Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser HMS Moreton Bay, as well as at Flinders Naval Depot, as Piermaster at HMAS Ladava at Milne Bay, New Guinea, in 1944, aboard HMAS Australia and as an instructor at HMAS Cerberus.
He had lived as a boy on a family property in Upper Brogo, New South Wales, and after leaving the navy returned to the land, this time on a small farm near Frankston, Victoria. In 1999, Mr Allan received the 80th Anniversary Armistice Remembrance Medal, awarded to all living Australian World War I veterans. He was also awarded the King's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935, the King's Coronation Medal in 1937 and the Australian Centenary Medal for the 2001 Centenary of Federation.
Only one former Australian WWI digger now remains alive. Wireless operator John Campbell Ross, 106, of Bendigo in Victoria, enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in February 1918 but the war ended before he saw active service.
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His life spanned 3 centuries! Amazing.
Godspeed, Seaman Allan. Thank you for your service.
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China has asked for permission to conduct uranium exploration and mining in Australia to fuel its growing nuclear power industry, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Monday.
Downer said the government had no objection to the principle of opening up Australia's significant uranium deposits to the Chinese, but would insist Beijing first sign a nuclear safeguard agreement.
"We wouldn't be exporting any uranium to China for military purposes of any kind," Downer said on national radio.
"By that I don't only mean for use in nuclear weapons, but also we wouldn't be exporting any uranium to China for use in military vessels or vehicles of one kind or another," he said.
Chinese officials first asked for access to Australian uranium deposits during meetings in February with the Australian Nuclear Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office, officials said.
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China is grabbing every energy source it can. The aggressive move would be to prevent them. It would also be stupid. If they want to invest in energy infrastructure, why should we stop them,? It will only make us invest more and raise the price of energy.
In 1931 Japan started WWII by invading China. China hasn't invaded anyone lately. The sooner they're rich, the better. Let's let them get as rich as possible as fast as possible but make sure we're always in a position to thump them if it becomes necessary.
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Thanks TE7582...they got that blood off the Tiananmen Square yet? No harm, no foul. One time occurence, as long as everyone obeys
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China hasn't invaded anyone lately.
Depends on what you mean by lately. The Dalai Lama may have a somewhat different view. The Taiwanese may agree but be concerned that the trend is about to change. The Japanese may look at the Spratly Islands (and possible oil and gas) and say "yeah, but ..."
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Gov. Kathleen Blanco appealed for an end to the bickering that has dominated Louisiana's hurricane recovery on Monday as she announced the creation of a new panel to oversee the process.
Only took her 49 days
The 24-member Louisiana Recovery Authority will be charged with developing everything from a 30-day plan to a five-year plan for helping the state's households, schools and businesses, Blanco said at the state capitol.
Ah, so they're not really doing anything, they're just going to develop a 5-year plan. How very Politburea of them
The panel will work with a similar commission set up by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Blanco said she had asked it to "ignore ancient rivalries of politics, race and religion."
Religion? Somebody start a religious war in Louisiana without letting us know?
"We can succeed only if we put aside politics and partisanship," she said.
"We must focus on putting the blame on George Bush. Somehow."
The call marks a shift from the bickering between state, local and federal officials since Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29, followed by Hurricane Rita weeks later.
Xavier University President Norman Francis will lead the panel and former CNN executive Walter Isaacson will serve as its vice chairman.
Dr. Norman C. Francis has been president of Xavier University (the only historically Black and Catholic university in the United States) for 35 years-since his appointment on june 26, 1968. His tenure is the longest of any sitting U.S. university president. he is a Louisiana native whose college degrees are from Louisiana universities: B.A. from Xavier University and a J.D. from Loyola University of New Orleans. he began his professional career as Dean of Men at Xavier in 1957. Walter Seff Isaacson: Born in New Orleans, Times-Picayune Reporter, Columnist. Starting in December 1995, managing editor for Time magazine, and in July 2001 appointed as Chairman and CEO of CNN cable network. Author of Kissinger: A Biography, and Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco appealed for an end to the bickering that has dominated Louisiana's hurricane recovery on Monday as she announced the creation of a new panel to oversee the process.
Is this a panel of people already on the take? Or will it be a new crop of trainees?
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We need a committee like we need a hole in the head. We need one guy/gal with the nads to make some tough decisions before the patient dies on the operating table.
Interesting, too, that despite the bitching about Mike Brown's lack of experience in disaster recovery neither Francis nor Isaacson has any experience in that department.
Francis is a good guy by all accounts but not what I'd call a dynamic leader. Isaacson's a local kid made good, but he's a frickin' journalist and maybe looking for material for his next book.
Ru-dy! Ru-dy! Ru-dy!
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It's pie cuttin time in NOLA!
Everybody gets a taste.
ASMAN: Right. Well, let me just ask you, I was reading a transcript of a speech you gave at the National Press Club, where you say the idea for this came about from a vision, in which you said the desire of President Reagan concerning the planning of a war involving young black men here on the soil of America, this is what inspired me to tour the country and this is what eventually led to the Million Man March on October 16, 1995. What was that vision all about?
FARRAKHAN: Well, I was in a tiny village in Mexico on the 17th of September, 1985. And I had a vision-like experience climbing a mountain there, on the top of which is a temple to the Mexo-American Christ figure, Ketso Quato. And one of these little UFOs came over that mountain and I was signaled from a group of persons to come. And I was beamed up into that small vehicle and carried to a larger vehicle, where I heard the voice of my leader and teacher, the Honorable Elijah Mohamed (search), saying these words to me, in early September, the president met with his joint chiefs of staff to plan a war. He didn't tell me who the war was against or what not. But early in the next year, it came to me while I was in Ghana that this war was against Libya and Libya's leader Muammar Qaddafi. So I went there and warned him of what was about to take place. And it did take place. And the following year, sir, I was sitting on an airplane, I happened to pick up the The New York Times magazine section, and it said America planned war against Libya, and down in the writing it said ...
ASMAN: So you think the vision came true?
FARRAKHAN: Oh, yeah, it definitely did come true.
ASMAN: But let me just ask if I could, you mentioned the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who founded the Nation of Islam. He also claimed that white men were created by an evil scientist many centuries ago. Do you agree with that?
FARRAKHAN: Well, I tell you, white people have done a lot of good, but they have also done a lot of evil. And all of us have done good and evil, so I would like to discuss the birth of the white race, as you know, anthropologists say all life began in Africa. The origin of man began in Africa, so the red, the brown, the yellow and the white are really children of the original ...
ASMAN: But 6,000 years ago, an evil scientist named Yacob, a black scientist, created the white man, is that what you believe?
FARRAKHAN: I believe, sir, that all of us come from the originator of the heavens and the earth, that white people are the newest people on our planet. And have been created by God to rule for a certain period of time. And you have ruled and you have done great things and awful things in the time of your rule, but a new world is coming in and white supremacy and black inferiority will have no place in that new world. We have to relate as human beings.
ASMAN: One of the parts of the old world that you suggest, what happened in 1927, that levees were purposefully blown up to decimate the black population in New Orleans. You said the same thing might have happened again. We just had on one of the engineers who, in fact, the man who you quoted, who says that, in fact â John Barry â who says nothing like that, in fact, happened. First of all, in 1927, the levees weren't destroyed in black populations, they were in white populations, so you got the 1927 story wrong, but also there is no sign of levees having been blown up during Katrina.
FARRAKHAN: Mr. Barry said that those levees were purposefully blown up.
ASMAN: Yes, but we just had John Barry on.
FARRAKHAN: Wait just a minute. Just a minute, he said it was not race, it was class.
ASMAN: Right.
FARRAKHAN: Now, here we are in 2005. Many, many people in the Ninth Ward, black and white, believe that what happened in 1927 happened again, but this time, race and class were used. Now, I don't know whether it did or did not happen, but when people believe something like that, it is the duty of those who can search out a rumor and prove it's truth or its falsehood should do that to either dispel the rumor or prove it's truth. So those who are culpable may be brought to justice.
ASMAN: Reverend Farrakhan, we have so many rumor mills at work in the world, partly because of the Internet, but we're always getting wild rumors. Why dignify a crazy hate-filled rumor like this with your word and with your suggestion that it might be true, when all of the evidence says nothing like that ever happened?
FARRAKHAN: No. All of the evidence is not in, sir, unless an investigation is carried out to prove that is only a rumor.
And whether it is or is not, look at the talk that's going on today that they don't even feel that the Ninth Ward should be rebuilt, that it should be made into a wetland. What will happen to the tens of thousands of persons who lived there and won't be able to come back and are not being called back to clean their neighborhood up and rebuild, as they were asked to rebuild in 1927?
ASMAN: All right. Well, John Barry, again, the man who wrote the book you quote says it did not happen, absolutely. You can bank on it, so please don't spread these rumors anymore.
FARRAKHAN: He did not say that, sir.
ASMAN: We just had him on. We just had him on.
FARRAKHAN: Yes. But you should read his book. I did.
ASMAN: We just had him on and we asked him point blank.
FARRAKHAN: He does say it.
ASMAN: Minister Farrakhan, look, we wish you the best of luck with what you're doing with the Million Man March and we do appreciate you coming on FOX today.
FARRAKHAN: Thank you for having me.
ASMAN: Appreciate it.
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Wow. Words fail me. He and Howlin' Howard Dean probably get along famously.
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It's not the nutty things you say, it's what's in that little heart of hatred that is twenty sizes too small Louie. How can you fault folks who prefer major psychological pathology in their leaders? Add on the gift of gibberish gab and a little skill in deception, slipspeak and the big lie, and you've got yourself one who can speak Troof to Powah. It's a regular parade of scary clowns at the NOI.
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Ketso Quato indeed! Dumb as a box of rocks, racist piece of sh&t
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Give Louie a break, fer goodnis sake - he was abducted by aliens - aliens who had come who-knows-how-many light years to tell him that the US was planning a war against Libya. Obviously, it was a message of galactic importance that should be treated with the respect it deserves. /tinfoil hat
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Obviously these were not aliens from who-knows-how-many light years away, but your common Mexican undocumented alien who worships Ketso Quato. Their native grown peyote is a mighty powerful mind bender. Done turned Louie's into a Ketso Quato pretzel. Don't even remember drivin over the border.
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What do you expect from someone who beleves in a religion which feels that he (and all blacks) has the 'heart of a donkey' and should only be slaves?
I googled this up, thinking maybe there's some slice of humanity which refers to Quetzalcoatl as Ketso Quato. Nope. 15 hits, all of them from Farrakhan. Point-and-laugh weapons free.
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I was aware that the NOI is not a kosher muslim sect, and knew about the aliens part (IIRC Apocalypse is going to be triggered by an ufo wave), the "evil sorcerer creating the white devils" bit,... but this is ridiculous.
Actually, the whole idea of blacks converting to this paternalistic, racist religion - in classical arab, the language of the Master Race of the Master Religion, there is a single word to say both "black" and "slave", Abid IIRC, and the arab slave trade started earlier, lasted longer, was bigger (17+ millions vs 11-14 millions), and was much more cruel (men were castrated, children and wimmen were put into sexual slavery), there was an high mortality (about 70 millions slave descendants in Americas, vs virtually none in muslimland),... - is ridiculous.
Still, islam is seen as the ultimate in-your-face to the western/white order (it is, actually), and has sort of became the banner of many such movements. It's very fashionable, in a way.
I remember reading an article in a french mag quite a while back, way before 9/11, about the way Us authorities were trying to "help" (so to speak) spread "mainstream" islam in jail, prisons being breeding grounds for islam converts, rather than the NOI version, which was rightly deemed as anti-whites and secessionnist. This had to be done in the late 90's I'd say. I wonder if that "mainstream" islam was of the salafist/wahabi trend, seeing how army muslim "chaplains" were formed?
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Farrakhan has made quite a career out of making outrageous statements. I think with the exception of a few his followers his claims are mostly dismissed. What is troubling is his false preaching that is accepted by some. Primarily his zero sum beliefs in racial equality that have a certain appeal to his core audience. He believes "personal responsibilityâ can only be achieved by taking it from the "dominant" race. One only has to look at what happened in Toledo to see how misguided that message is. How could what a group of Nazis say on a public street be worse then the violence that transpired. But of course rather then condemn their actions it is dismissed with the ole "What did you expect" excuse. But what do I know...I'm just a white guy with four centuries of privilege.
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Scott Ott at ScrappleFace may as well retire right now. He can't possibly make up anything stranger than what we are reading in the news every day. Ketso Quato and UFOs indeed. Farrakhan's followers can expect him to pass out the special Kool-Aid® soon.
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The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl was not exactly a 'Christ' figure. That is, unless I missed some part of the bible involving human sacrifice by cutting out the beating heart of the victim with an obsidian knife.
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A good news - bad news situation: The -35 program is going along pretty well, tho the ship is still having weight problems. On the other hand, the QDR may be getting ready to suggest a massive cut in tactical air - perhaps as much as 30%. And since the USAF buy is now down to only about 1800 aircraft, this could be a serious blow against the program. The USMC still intends a full buy, and the RN/RAF buy is a go, but the USN buy could be toast. Stay tuned....
Mike
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I believe the Wright Brothers also had weight problems with the Flyer I.
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Mysteriously, I haven't heard word one about a high performance aircraft that is remote guidanced. Such aircraft are an entirely different paradigm than are manned aircraft. Removing pilots changes everything.
Optimally, I can imagine such aircraft as being fully modular, size dependent only on engine, fuel capacity and weapons systems. Even the shape of the aircraft would be radically different, just in eliminating waste space.
Survivability and related costs could be much lower, even to the point of having an inexpensive version that is near-expendable.
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Check this for starters. Somehow, I doubt we'll see a lot about actual development aircraft until after first use. But the challenges will be substantial and countering it could be relatively easy. Perhaps there is a dual development strategy. One hi-tech model for use against China/Russia/France and one lo-tech for use against al-Qaeda/Mexico/Smugglers.
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The -35 program is going along pretty well, tho the ship is still having weight problems. On the other hand, the QDR may be getting ready to suggest a massive cut in tactical air - perhaps as much as 30%. And since the USAF buy is now down to only about 1800 aircraft, this could be a serious blow against the program. The USMC still intends a full buy, and the RN/RAF buy is a go, but the USN buy could be toast. Stay tuned....
From what I know, only the F-35B (USMC/RN) had weight problems, 8% too much. The problem is that the solution was to halve the air-to-ground payload to two 1,000-ton stores, preventing internal carriage of the Mk84, and to thin the skin. :(
Oh, and the F-35C might be cut, but perhaps the USAF should procure it instead? Considering that the F-35C might be more urgently to replace the Navy's strike fighters than the F-35A to replace the Air Force's air-to-air...
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Edward-
Frankly, in the opinion of this retired wing-wiper, what the USAF needs to buy is the VTOL -35B. Unfortunately, that would require the USAF to acknowledge that VTOL is not a tool of Satan that leads to the Dark Side - something not likely to happen even in this enlightened age.
Mike
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That video was so short. The thing lifts only a few feet off the ground before the end. It reminded me of David Blaine levitating more than a vertical take off.
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Word has it this is the last manned fighter we ever build.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Monday railed against U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling them "unholy men" and "international terrorists" bent on world domination. Mugabe departed from his text at a ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to accuse Bush and Blair of illegally invading Iraq and looking to unseat governments elsewhere.
"Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed (an) unholy alliance ... to attack an innocent country?" he said, occasionally gesticulating for emphasis. "The voice of Mr. Bush and the voice of Mr. Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq," he said. "Is this the world we desire? The world of giants and international terrorists who use their state muscle in order to intimidate us? We become the midgets," he said.
Some of the delegates applauded his fiery anti-Western speech several times. Zimbabwe is grappling with its worst economic crisis since independence in 1980, and aid groups have estimated 5 million of its 12 million people may need food aid this year. Mugabe's critics say his government policies have exacerbated the hunger. Mugabe blames Zimbabwe's economic crisis on sanctions it says Britain has organised in retaliation for Harare's land reform programme, which gave white-owned farms to landless blacks. In his speech, Mugabe defended the land redistribution saying it was needed to redress the "gross imbalances" of British colonialism.
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His plan is simple yet effective - tried and true.
First, you starve your people and then "they" send you billions in free money. You allow your enemies to starve and use the food to manipulate your friends. Works everytime.
Robert Mugabe, refereshed from his meeting with M. Chirac in February annouced March 21st [2003] that "I am still a Hitler". He clarified this by saying "let me be Hitler ten-fold and that's what we stand for."
In unrelated news the leader of the Zanu-PF party said late November 2002 "We would be better off with only six million people".
The current population of Zimbabwe is 12 million.
and still the plaintive cry: "Can someone please explain why this man is still gulping down oxygen"?
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"Can someone please explain why this man is still gulping down oxygen"
Chimpy McBushitlers personal refusal to sign up to Kyoto and limit C02 production?
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is to address the United Nations Food and Agriculture Association in Rome. The move has angered other governments. Zimbabwe is already struggling to feed an estimated 3.8m starving people in the rural areas, and has to import at least 37,000 tons of maize a week. The US ambassador to the FAO said he was amazed Mr Mugabe had been invited as he used food as a political weapon. Mr Mugabe is to address an international gathering as part of celebrations marking the FAO's 60th anniversary on Monday.
The US ambassador to the FAO, Tony Hall, said he was amazed the organisation had invited a leader "who has done so much to hurt his own people." "Food has been used as a weapon against his own people," Mr Hall said.
Mr Mugabe, who is exempt from an EU travel ban when on UN business, is due address an international gathering at the FAO headquarters later on Monday. Italian senator Sergio Agroni said Rome was welcoming "one of the most terrible dictators and destroyers on the African continent". "Robert Mugabe is coming to talk about food while his fellow citizens are dying in the streets because of lack of food and human rights," said Mr Agroni, who is a member of the Italian parliament's agriculture commission.
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Well, maybe his speech is about how not to grow enough food.
ROME (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe denounced U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as "unholy men" on Monday, comparing them to fascist leaders trying to dominate the world. "Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed (an) unholy alliance, formed an alliance to attack an innocent country?" Mugabe told the conference. "The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq," he said.
Delegates attending the FAO conference applauded Mugabe at the end of his speech.
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Sounds like Bob is a little nervous. He shouldn't be. He hasn't figured out Zimb's got nothing we want that we can't get and he's no threat to us. So we'll let Zimb stew in its own juices and reduce the pressure of the population bomb. Sort of like Zimb gets to be Africa's Russia.
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So, when will the UN be leading an international coalition to attack the US?
(Militarily, not the "soft power" way they've been for the last 60 years.)
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From the Freepers:
"PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe was last night branded "heartless" after he commandeered a London-bound Air Zimbabwe plane to the Italian capital Rome, sparking a four-hour wait for hundreds of passengers after the plane ran out fuel.
Air Zimbabwe has been forced to cancel several domestic, regional and international flights due to a crippling fuel shortage and the company's terrible track record of failing to pay for refueling and landing fees at airports around the world
Furious passengers told New Zimbabwe.com how Mugabe and his group forced a deviation in the plane's route, a decision which led to a four-hour grounding of the plane after Air Zimbabwe failed to pay soon after a refueling had been done.
"It seems Air Zimbabwe were afraid to tell Mugabe that the fuel would not complete the journey," said a passenger on the plane. "Frankly, I was pissed off that our journey was altered to suite Mugabe who dumped us when he got to his destination."
Another passenger confirmed seeing refueling trucks approaching the plane. He described dramatic scenes of seeing the plane's captain angrily remonstrating with one of the men who did the refueling.
"For long periods, we were just being told there was a problem. The nature of the problem was not revealed to us," said the passenger who cannot be named"
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due to a crippling fuel shortage and the company's terrible track record of failing to pay for refueling and landing fees at airports around the world
Better hurry up and starve more people so that the free UN money will start to flow.
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Fuel shortages are a problem, especially when airborne. Veddy bad, veddy veddy bad. I also wonder how the maintenance program for the aircraft fleet is doing. I'm Sure Zim-Bob is throwing his millions into that one.
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By Peta Thornycroft in Harare
(Filed: 26/03/2003)
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has compared himself to Adolf Hitler.
At the state funeral of one of his cabinet ministers, Mr Mugabe said: "I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their right to their resources.
"If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold. Ten times, that is what we stand for."
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Mr Mugabe, who is exempt from an EU travel ban when on UN business
At least it is now clear that the UN's "business" includes fawning over genocidal dictators while turning a blind eye to their brutal misdeeds.
Look, guys, this maggot is off of his turf. Isn't there some way to cap his worthless @ss? A two-legged sack of sh!t like Mugabe is a prime wetworks candidate.
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"PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe was last night branded "heartless" after he commandeered a London-bound Air Zimbabwe plane to the Italian capital Rome, sparking a four-hour wait for hundreds of passengers after the plane ran out fuel."
In truth, Bad Bob's Flying saucer's dilithium crystals have been depleted. So his warp drive shut down for want of maintenance. Forgot about that 1,000,000 light year tune-up. Last one was after descending on the Mexican mountaintop to have a session with Calypso Louie Farrakhan.
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Someone please tell me what that elongated growth on his upper lip is? Is it a war wound fighting for his now oppressed Shona people's freedom or an out of control mole. In either case somebody send him a quarter so he can buy a rat to chew it off his face.
Of course the reason the FAO is honoring Mugabe is that he (and the other dictators) are responsible for keeping the FAO in business (and these UN fat-cats rolling in dough. By starving their people and stealing the food).
I expect Kimmie-boy-the-baby-killer of North Korea to be honored next.
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The UN has become a parody of itself. Unfortunately, it's NOT funny. A human rights commission composed of third world tyrants. A (Nobel Prize winning) nuclear watchdog with no teeth, a Food and Agriculture commission applauding a tyrant who created starvation, Peacekeepers who rape and murder locals, massive theft, incompetence and corruption.
The UN is way past it's 'best used by' date and is stinking up the whole planet. Time to toss it in the trash.
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Hmmm ... has any Muslim leader blamed Allah for this tragedy? They were quick to call Hurricane Katrina a Soldier of Allah, so what does that make a quake the kills 54,000 Muslims?
Allah's "Shake and Bake?" Allah's "Tumble in the Rubble?"
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Maybe the Imams that credited Allan with the Katrina tragedy got buried in the rubble of the quake, hence the silence on Allan and his whims.
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Whoops! That was me. Moniker left over from yesterday's comment....heh.
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Not only did Allah blast them with the earthquake but he followed it up with hail and rain and cold; and he did timed it so they would be fasting for Ramadan during the day.
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Not only did Allah blast them with the earthquake but he followed it up with hail and rain and cold; and he did timed it so they would be fasting for Ramadan during the day.
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And then he had the lcoal terrorist imam go to the humanitarians cooking for the survivors and tell them they couldn't cook during the daytime because of Ramadan and if he caught them again, he'd burn the place down. ROPMA
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That a virtual viper's nest of terror instruction and jihadist inculcation was wiped from the face of this earth in one fell swoop would normally send me out into the streets dancing. Only the profound loss of life for innocent women and children stops me from doing so. A combination of healthy survival instinct, donor fatigue and simple outrage prevents me from feeling compelled to contribute a single plug nickle towards reconstruction. Choose a way of death and be rewarded with it.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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THE last Australian to fight in World War I, William Evan Allan, from Victoria, has died at the age of 106. The death of the former able seaman was confirmed by veterans affairs officials in Canberra. Mr Allan, from Melbourne, was also the sole surviving veteran of both world wars.
ASMAN: Right. Well, let me just ask you, I was reading a transcript of a speech you gave at the National Press Club, where you say the idea for this came about from a vision, in which you said the desire of President Reagan concerning the planning of a war involving young black men here on the soil of America, this is what inspired me to tour the country and this is what eventually led to the Million Man March on October 16, 1995. What was that vision all about?
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Monday railed against U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling them "unholy men" and "international terrorists" bent on world domination. Mugabe departed from his text at a ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to accuse Bush and Blair of illegally invading Iraq and looking to unseat governments elsewhere. 
