[FOXNEWS] A bathroom fight Friday among football players from Winston-Salem State and Virginia State during a CIAA championship game luncheon left the WSSU quarterback beaten and charges filed against a player from the other team. The conference announced that the title game set for Saturday in Winston-Salem in North Carolina has been canceled.
Rudy Johnson, the starting quarterback for the Rams, was "viciously beaten" by members of the Virginia State team, Winston-Salem State Chancellor Donald Reaves said in a statement. He said one Virginia State player admitted his role in the beating.
School spokeswoman Nancy Young identified the suspect as 22-year-old Lamont Daniel Britt. A Forsyth County jail official says Britt, a running back from Portsmouth, Va., was being held there Friday night on a charge of misdemeanor assault inflicting serious injury.
"There is no excuse for the behavior of the Virginia State players," Reaves said.
Young said Johnson was assaulted in the bathroom at the Anderson Conference Center on the Winston-Salem campus during the luncheon.
"Today's event was supposed to be a celebration for both teams and for all the players who were being recognized for an outstanding season," Reaves said. "The actions from the Virginia State players certainly changed the outcome for everyone."
Virginia State Athletic Director Peggy Davis didn't return a phone call seeking comment, but the school issued a statement on its website saying it is fully cooperating with the CIAA in its investigation and couldn't comment further.
Both Winston-Salem State Rams and Virginia State Trojans are 9-1. The Rams lost to Valdosta State in the NCAA Division II championship game last year, and both teams were in position to earn postseason berths this season.
The Winston-Salem Journal reported that five Virginia State players were involved and Reaves said university police are trying to identify the others. One of Johnson's teammates told the newspaper that "Rudy was beaten up bad and he can't play."
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Doris Lessing, the Nobel prize-winning, free-thinking, world-traveling and often-polarizing author of "The Golden Notebook" and dozens of other novels that reflected her own improbable journey across the former British empire, died Sunday. She was 94.
Her publisher, HarperCollins, said the author of more than 55 works of fiction, opera, nonfiction and poetry, died peacefully early Sunday. Her family requested privacy, and the exact cause of death was not immediately clear.
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She suffered from BDS before it was even identified by modern medicine. The only known cure for Bush Derangement Syndrome, death! Arrrgh, wat 'n fok'n oplugting [relief].
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I dunno. We sorta need more intelligent, irascible people.
"I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement," she told The News Agency That Dare Not be Named in a 2006 interview. "Whatever type of behavior women are coming up with, it's claimed as a victory for feminism - doesn't matter how bad it is. We don't seem go in very much for self-criticism."
In 2001, she told the Edinburgh book festival that modern men were "cowed" by women.
"They can't fight back," she said. "And it's time they did."
There is a phenomenon which I call the Educated Barbarian. This is someone who could have been in school or university for many years, could have won prizes by the score, and at the end has read nothing, knows no history, and above all is totally incurious. Quite a large number of my young friends are like this. They're all utterly delightful. We have a wonderful time together. We gossip, we go shopping. We chat about our friends, but at the slightest mention of anything literary their eyes glaze over. Looking back at my misspent youth, I can remember people who were not particularly literary. They were not even very educated, but they would take for granted that they should have read War and Peace. They did not say, "Oh this is so difficult. Oh this is too long and I don't understand the long words." They just read it. That's what people were like then.
It is my belief that we value narrative because the pattern is in our brain. Our brains are patterned for story telling, for the consecutive. I'm sure if it. I mean, there is nowhere else this pattern could be but in our brains: it doesn't come from outer space. The pattern is being broken up all the time, which means the substance of our brains is being attacked by the kind of books that we're now used to, all in little bits, or the kind of programs we're now used to, or some of the films that we now see, which are so fast that sometimes I find it hard to keep up. None of the young people do. The other night I saw a very gray, very slow, very beautiful film. A young person in the room was saying "cut, cut, cut, cut, cut." He couldn't stand it. He's used to "flick, flick, flick, flick, flick." I'm used to the long, slow narrative and a look on someone's face that tells you about a life and the slow way two people cross a room so you can see what they are like from how they move, and so on. There are two completely different sensibilities here.
Now this inconsequentiality, which we are educating our children to, teaches them they have nothing to do with what's going on. If there's a narrative, you are a part of it. If it is little bits of plot all broken up, then the person does not connect with it, and I wonder if this leads to remarks like that of a young man who murdered someone and said, "Oh well, I didn't realize it would hurt him."
the brains of people in a place like Zimbabwe, who have probably never seen a fax or word processor or computer or any of the stuff that we take for granted, might be in better shape than [those of] our kids because they have not been assaulted all the time. They are of course going to catch up with us, but probably not as efficiently because they have governments which steal everything that comes their way. It might in fact save them. This is a fairly cynical remark, but it's a funny thing that I can have a conversation with a young teacher in the bush who is trying to teach without proper textbooks, without an atlas, without anything, who loves books as the people in this room do, who yearns for them, and who sees books as a source of life, but I couldn't have this conversation with my highly-educated young friends in Britain, who are not interested. They are not interested in ideas. They're not interested in anything in books. I'm merely describing something. I have no solution for it. As I said before, I think probably many of you are familiar with a lot of what I have said.
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Back in the 1960's someone connected with the Nobel awards committee told Doris she would never win the literary Nobel. When she finally did, she said, "Who are these people? They're a bunch of bloody Swedes."
[Bangla Daily Star] Professor Robert Lanza claims the theory of biocentrism teaches that death as we know it is an illusion created by our consciousness.
'We think life is just the activity of carbon and an admixture of molecules -- we live a while and then rot into the ground,' said the scientist on his website.
Lanza, from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, continued that as humans we believe in death because 'we've been taught we die', or more specifically, our consciousness associates life with bodies and we know that bodies die.
His theory of biocentrism, however, explains that death may not be as terminal as we think it is. It is the belief that life and biology are central to reality and that life creates the universe, not the other way round. Ahah! Solipsism rears its attractive head again! I am reality and the rest of you guys are figments of my imagination.
This suggests a person's consciousness determines the shape and size of objects in the universe. If you utter the correct Words of Power you can make the continent tremble. I did it just last week. That's what happened to the Philippines.
Lanza uses the example of the way we perceive the world around us. A person sees a blue sky, and is told that the colour they are seeing is blue, but the cells in a person's brain could be changed to make the sky look green or red. But it would remain "blue." Whether you change the words or not. To a Vietnamese the sky is xanh, which is either blue or green, depending on what the speaker wants it to be. If he/she/it wants to refer to the color of the sky he/she/it says "xanh choi," which is the color xanh and the word for sky. At night he/she/it'd call it black, at sunset he/she/it might call it red or purple or multicolored. If it's overcast he/she/it might call it gray. But we'd both be seeing the same thing. I wouldn't be seeing it orange and he/she/it purple. Assuming we both speak the same language we'd be using similar words to describe it.
Biocentrism is classed as the Theory of Everything and comes from the Greek for 'life centre'. It is the belief that life and biology are central to reality and that life creates the universe, not the other way round. I think the universe will grind on quite unconcerned when I'm gone, probably sometime in the next ten years. I invite all of you to confirm or deny my belief, assuming you last that long. If all of you evaporate when I cross over into the Great Beyond, then I was wrong. On the other hand, if I'm just a figment of your imagination I can keel over dead and resurrect six or seven times without disturbing your dinner or your beliefs.
Our consciousness makes sense of the world, and can be altered to change this interpretation. This is the condition that used to be known as "insanity."
By looking at the universe from a biocentric's point of view, this also means space and time don't behave in the hard and fast ways our consciousness tell us it does. Descartes and Bishop Berkely are no doubt chuckling in their equally no doubt imaginary graves.
In summary, space and time are 'simply tools of our mind.' Go ahead. Imagine Lake Erie's someplace else and see what happens. Imagine real hard now.
Once this theory about space and time being mental constructs is accepted, it means death and the idea of immortality exist in a world without spatial or linear boundaries. If somebody pegs out in New Guinea and I don't hear about it is he still dead?
Theoretical physicists believe that there is infinite number of universes with different variations of people, and situations taking place, simultaneously. Many pages of science fiction have been written on this single unprovable theory. I remember one Keith Laumer wrote, where Herman Goering was a good guy. But he was doing a lot of drugs at the time. Laumer, not Goering.
Lanza added that everything which can possibly happen is occurring at some point across these multiverses and this means death can't exist in 'any real sense' either. I'd think it could in at least one of those multiverses.
Lanza, instead, said that when we die our life becomes a 'perennial flower that returns to bloom in the multiverse.' Some of us wink out of existence forever, some of us are gathered in to the Bosom of Abraham, some of us come back as cows, some of us are "perennial flowers." In terms of actual belief, I lean toward the "wink out of existence" theory, but in terms of hope it's me and Father Abraham all the way.
I have no idea what effect my consciousness might have on the actual existence of the afterlife. What if all this is actually real and it's the afterlife that's a figment of my consciousness? What if the Last Trumpet never sounds because my imagination doesn't stretch that far? Or I'm not listening because I'm an eternal flower with no ears? Does Eternity for everyone depend on my belief in it? Every time I ever watched Peter Pan, Tinkerbell came out okay, but I wasn't hoping every time, so I'm not too worried.
'Bottom line: What you see could not be present without your consciousness,' explained Lanza. 'Our consciousness makes sense of the world.' If I'm generating it, why does the universe seem so unconcerned at my existence?
Lanza cites the double-slit test to backup his claims. When scientists watch a particle pass through two slits, the particle goes through one slit or the other. If a person doesn't watch it, it acts like a wave and can go through both slits simultaneously. How do they know if they're not watching?
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If you could communicate with a baby one day before being born I imagine that every baby would think their entire universe is the womb and that there is nothing else beyond.
Yet after a traumatic event the next day the babies entire universe and existence changes forever without the possibility of returning to the old universe or existence.
[MYFOXDETROIT] Nothing quite communicates the wrath of a scorned lover like the middle finger. But in Bloomfield Hills, this middle finger is loud and proud - in the form of a near 12-foot high statue one man erected next door to his ex-wife.
Alan Markovitz recently moved into the home where the statue was erected, which happens to be next to the home where his ex-wife now lives with her new lover, whom she reportedly had an affair with while being married to Markovitz.
Markovitz tells Fox 2's Randy Wimbley his plan was to get even the ex-wife's new lover, and never meant for the matter be made public. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... it soon grabbed local attention when the ex-wife's daughter posted a picture of the statue on twitter.
The installation of the statue also included a spotlight to keep the message illuminated at all hours of the day.
Markovitz owns three strip clubs in bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... recently wrote a book about his entrepreneurship, which is reportedly being turned into a TV reality series on Cinemax.
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(Rooters) - Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago, the FBI warned this week.
The hackers exploited a flaw in Adobe Systems Inc's software to launch a rash of electronic break-ins that began last December, then left "back doors" to return to many of the machines as recently as last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a memo seen by Rooters.
The memo, distributed on Thursday, described the attacks as "a widespread problem that should be addressed." It said the breach affected the U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and perhaps many more agencies.
[Shabelle] Four villagers in north-east Kenya have chased down and captured two cheetahs which were killing their goats. The owner of the goats told the BBC that the cheetahs had been picking off his animals one by one, day by day.
The men waited till the hottest part of the day before launching the chase over a distance of four miles (6.4km). The cheetahs got so tired they could not run any more. The villagers captured them alive and handed them over to the Kenya Wildlife Service.
"I need compensation from them because the cheetahs killed most of my goats," Nur Osman Hassan told the BBC's Somali Service.
Correspondents say livestock is the backbone of the economy for the Kenyan-Somali community living in the arid north-east of Kenya.
'Daily kills'
Mr Hassan, from a village near Wajir town, said the cheetahs were attacking his goat herd over several weeks.
"These cheetahs killed 15 of my goats -- they were coming to my house daily to kill my goats," he said.
He said he decided to return to his village to organise their capture at a time of day when cheetahs get very tired and usually rest in shade.
"I was sipping a cup of tea when I saw them killing another goat," he said, explaining that this was early in the morning.
He said he waited until several hours later when the sun was high to go after them.
"I called some youths and we ran after them," he said. "We caught them and we brought them to the local authorities."
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I can think of some people on this side of the world that should take notes. Cheers for initiative and planning, and hopes that the publicity goads the authorities into paying them for the donated cheetahs.
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[An Nahar] Algeria's 76-year-old President Abdelaziz Bouteflika ... 10th president of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and is currently on his third or fourth term, who will probably die in office of old age... was on Saturday designated his party's candidate in the 2014 presidential election, despite having been largely unseen for months because of health woes.
Bouteflika, in power since 1999, returned home in July after nearly three months in La Belle France recovering from a mini-stroke, and presided over a cabinet meeting on September 29 for the first time this year.
Saturday's announcement was made by Bouteflika's National Liberation Front (FLN), which has 208 seats in the 462-seat national assembly.
"The central committee has chosen the president of the party, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, to be the FLN candidate in the next presidential election," said a party statement issued after a meeting in the capital.
"The choice was a natural one given the positive assessment" of his three terms as Algerian head of state, FLN head Ammar Saidani said in a speech at Saturday's meeting.
Bouteflika has not himself spoken of being a candidate in 2014.
A limit on the number of consecutive presidential terms was removed by a constitutional amendment in November 2008, allowing Bouteflika to stand for a third term in office.
On Saturday, Saidani insisted that the FLN decision to propose Bouteflika as its candidate in next year's election was constitutional.
"The former U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times, and he was in a wheelchair," he said.
"Mr Bouteflika's period of convalescence, which is coming to an end, does not legally prevent our president from seeking a fourth term in office," Saidani said.
Several members of the FLN central committee boycotted Saturday's meeting.
They called it illegal because of Saidani's controversial election as chief at an August meeting in which only some 273 out of 340 members of the central committee were present.
Saidani said 288 members of the central committee attended Saturday's meeting.
The gathering also urged Bouteflika to speedily revise the constitution to consolidate reforms announced in April 2011 to head off any spillover of Arab Spring violence.
Those reforms were seen by the opposition as timid at best.
One of the few remaining veterans of the war of independence against La Belle France, Bouteflika came to power after helping to end the country's civil war in the 1990s.
But in addition to health concerns in recent years, his rule has been dogged by corruption scandals implicating members of his inner circle.
The army of the North African country has chosen all of Algeria's post-independence leaders, and Bouteflika was no different.
With its support, he was elected in 1999 as the ruling FLN's candidate -- and as the sole contestant -- after the other six withdrew, charging that the poll would be fraudulent.
A dapper figure known for wearing a three-piece suit and tie even in the oppressive Saharan heat, Bouteflika is seen by many Algerians as a father figure who helped end the murderous civil war that killed at least 150,000 people from 1992.
The FLN has been in open crisis since parliamentary elections in May last year, and the internal turmoil worsened when Abdelaziz Belkhadem was ousted as party chief in February.
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The hideous and imbecilic dwarf as prez for life...the model for Barry Hussein Long Legged Mac Daddy...
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Combover Rulez™
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[MAGHAREBIA] Nouakchott police on Tuesday (November 13th) jugged Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! performer Leila Moulaye, one day after they took Mauritanian rapper Hamzo Bryn into custody.
The two youths' detention came in response to their September 28th online release of a video titled "It started from Nouakchott" by Hamzo's Group "Soco Izi", which provoked a wave of protests from the more conservative fringes of society.
The video features a Mauritanian girl, Leila, who appears with her head uncovered. The video garnered more than 21,460 hits within three days of its release.
The NGO "No to pornography" strongly condemned the video, demanding that authorities take legal action against those behind it.
NGO activist Sidi Ould Hassan said, "These rappers are viruses for the youth. They set a bad example."
"Justice must condemn them to prevent other young people from imitating them. We are a Mohammedan country and we must be guided only by values of the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad Peace be upon him," he added.
"Look around you," she added. "In schools, universities and markets, you'll see that my passion has done nothing to infringe the culture... I'm sure you'll meet many women on a daily basis who have their heads uncovered...."
"I'm really grateful to those who have supported... The thought of a united Mauritania scares some people. I'm talking about those who have always prevented young people from realising their potential," she noted.
Meanwhile, ...back at the game, the Babe was wondering why the baseball kept getting bigger and bigger. Finally it hit him... rapper Hamzo said, "People can say what they like! That won't change the way the wind's blowing. But I'd like to say to all those who are shocked at my video: shame on them, because they've just revealed their racist side!"
The arrest was also strongly criticised on the Mauritanian hip hop scene.
Bass player Abdallahi Fall told Magharebia: "It's not acceptable to want to prevent young people from doing what they want to do. We've already seen that people don't help them, and if they act on their own initiative, people always try to stand in their way."
"Mauritania is a multicultural country, and every person must respect that diversity. We must not allow hard boyz to force their law upon us," he said.
"These rappers have done nothing wrong but our society is bent on traditions. Despite television and other modern means of communication, Mauritanians still do not accept that young people become empowered," said Marième mint Snih, a student at the University of Nouakchott.
She noted that the video was proof that young Mauritanians "can do interesting things if they are encouraged. This is what the government should do instead of repressing them".
This view was shared by Hawa Ba, a student at the girls' high school of Nouakchott, "In some circles of our society, girls are not accustomed to wearing the scarf and that should be understood."
"I do not agree with the accusation of rappers... I know Leila is a good girl... Here we are all Mohammedans and people know what they're doing," she said.
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Arresting rappers - my emotions approve but my libertarianism objects. I had best stop thinking about it or my brain will explode from the contradiction.
[An Nahar] Anti-government demonstrators barricaded roads and threw stones in Guinea's capital on Saturday in protest at a Supreme Court ruling handing September's controversial elections to the president's governing party.
Groups of protesters chanting "No to the electoral stitch-up" and "Death to the Supreme Court" burned tyres, overturned bins and stopped traffic on the main road into central Conakry, forcing traders to close their shops, an Agence La Belle France Presse news hound saw.
Riot police were deployed in large numbers to trouble spots across the city but there had been no major festivities with protesters and no reports of serious injuries by midday.
The court confirmed the results late on Friday of parliamentary elections that handed power to President Alpha Conde's party, rejecting a challenge by his rivals.
Provisional results published on October 18 had given Conde's Rally of the Guinean People (RPG) party 53 seats in the national assembly.
The outcome gave the RPG together with its allies an absolute majority in the 114-member parliament. But the September 28 polls have come under heavy criticism from opposition parties, which won a total of 53 seats.
The opposition coalition alleged "massive fraud", claiming the polls were marred by irregularities including ballot stuffing, voter intimidation and minors casting votes.
International observers also said serious flaws had affected the credibility of the vote.
Opposition leaders were due to meet Saturday to decide how to proceed after the Supreme Court's ruling.
In 2010 Conde became the first democratically elected president of the west African country, which has a long history of political and military turmoil and bloody crackdowns on protesters.
Legislative elections should have taken place within six months of his inauguration in December 2010.
But they were pushed back, with opposing factions unable to agree on conditions for the elections, leaving the role of parliament to be played by an unelected National Transitional Council.
The last parliamentary elections in Guinea took place in June 2002 during the dictatorship of General Lansana Conte, who died in December 2008 after 24 years in power.
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[STREAM.WSJ] A previously unknown urban guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for the shooting of three alleged members of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party earlier this month outside local party offices in a suburb north of Athens. The group, the "Fighting Peoples' Revolutionary Forces," said Saturday it had shot the three men in retaliation for the recent [...] Remainder behind the pay wall, but I think we got the drift: Commies vs. Nazis.
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As in Berlin pre WW II, Adolf's feces eating Bears vs the Commie Effeminate Twinks...the homo war...See "The Pink Swastika"
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Rep. Jared Polis said Friday the key problem with health care right now is that illegal immigrants aren't included in Obamacare, and said part of the solution is to pass a bill granting them citizenship rights.
The House is debating a GOP-written bill that would allow Americans to keep their health plans that have been canceled under Obamacare, but Mr. Polis, a Colorado Democrat, said the chamber should instead be looking at ways to make sure everyone in the country is covered by the Affordable Care Act -- including illegal immigrants.
"American citizens are essentially being forced to pay for the health care costs of people who are here illegally every day, until we pass comprehensive immigration reform," he said. "We're wondering why rates are going up. ... It's no surprise. When somebody doesn't have insurance, their costs are shifted onto other people that do."
Let's load up ObamaCare with poor immigrants who have lots of kids and also that will bring in millions of their poor relatives once they have citizenship/Documented Democrat status. The tax payers and those who actually pay for insurance will save money because all these people will have free subsidized health insurance. To a Liberal this actually makes sense because regardless the cost they will be reelected in perpetuity.
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The stupider party? Math is hard for these people. We need an ASVAB for national government elected and appointed positions. Maybe not necessarily as a qualification per the Constitution, but so we can publicly post their scores just like existing public filing requirements.
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Speaker of the House Boehner has already said immigration will not be addressed this year. There's no point because he doesn't have enough votes within his party.
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More likely the esteemed Congressman from Colorado is thinking that employers will be paying to put their employed illegals on insurance. "American citizens" will still be paying, just not directly through taxes.
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Speaker of the House Boehner has already said immigration will not be addressed this year.
Hmm, that's interesting. Because some nimrod with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce called Thomas Donohue seems to think Boehner is going to deliver up sweeping immigration reform on a silver platter.
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I wouldn't say it's stupid - more like a low-life animal cunning.
Last year, Governor Brown managed to convince California voters to approve a tax increase to "fund education." Left out was that said tax increase freed up state funds already earmarked for education. Hence more money in the state's general fund for use elsewhere.
This would be essentially the same move, but more devious. As GBUSMC sed, it would pull money from citizens and business (like a tax would,) to buy votes from particular interest groups, and free up funds at the federal and state levels for buying even more votes.
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U.S. business leader remains confident Boehner will seek immigration reform increase competition for lower class jobs and lower wages making the upper classes yet more wealthy.
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...gee, sounds like such a reasonable solution to a problem created by party with the solution. Do you think that, just maybe, Cmdr. Zero has threatened to veto anything that takes the heat off the Obamacare debacle other than Immigration "Reform."
So, big business gets cheaper serfs labor = more profits (assuming good business model;
Unions and Democrats get more serfs voters;
So Unions can run an extortion racket and Democrats can continue the process of taking taxing away from businesses and serfs voters;
Then "redistribute" to the serfs voters (after first passing through whatever money-snagging conduits laws they have made available using business-paid lobbyists (lawyers), they to help design money-snagging conduits laws benefiting businesses.
And what facilitates this process are our elected representatives, also lawyers.
[BBC.CO.UK] Abdulla Yameen has won the presidential election run-off vote in the Maldives, officials say.
Mr Yameen secured 51.3% of the vote, compared with 48.6% for ex-President Mohammed Nasheed, the Election Commission said.
Mr Nasheed had won 47% in the first round this month, just short of the 50% needed for outright victory, in an election process mired in controversy.
He has accepted defeat, saying he supported the democratic process.
He had been seeking to regain power after he was forced to resign in 2012.
Mr Yameen, the half-brother of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom - who ruled the nation for 30 years - will be sworn in on Sunday.
Mr Nasheed, of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), said: "I graciously accept defeat. We lost by a very small margin. Democracy is a process. It is up to us to make it work."
He added: "The MDP has always asked for a government elected by the people. Today is a happy day for the Maldives - we now have an elected government."
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Kevin Fasick looks like he could break open Alec Baldwin like a cheap shotgun.
My old trainer, Smokin' Joe Frazier, once told me, "Son, an empty wagon makes the most noise."
Alec Baldwin is the emptiest wagon of them all.
This reporter got up close and apparently way too personal for the Bloviator outside his East Village home on Friday -- and the big mouth roared.
His chubby face contorted with rage, Baldwin bellowed at me to back away and then charged like a bull, pushing me into a parked car.
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Alec has enough money to hire people to do that sort of thing FOR him. He doesn't have to do it himself. Gunzels and Beef aren't that expensive. Oh, and retain a Lawyer and set up a set of hand signals.
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Every time he says something aweful they bury for a couple weeks, do a quick PR stint, and promote him.
In point, he has had a number of otherwise career enders with blacks, and they were followed respectively with the Cap1 series with C. Barkley and then again recently with his silliness with the black cop/SLJ new appointee.
It deviates from the successful vikings theme. So why can't cap1 let him go? Why does he not ever lose a job? How did he get a gig with good actors in Red October?
Its the same reason Bill Mahar gets his pass. If any powers do anything more than a bathroom intervention it will draw attention to just how aweful the entertainment industry really is. Remember back with Kanye had a bodyguard punch Perez Hilton because Hilly called Kanye a gay slur? Two A-list - music and television (at the time I think he was co/host of a couple TV shows), no news.
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The think I like about Baldwin is that you can always count on him to be a jerk. You need someone to play the part of a jerk in your movie? Baldwin's the guy. You need a buffoon to promote your credit card. There's no bigger buffoon than Baldwin. It's his schtick.
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Bangla Daily Star] Professor Robert Lanza claims the theory of biocentrism teaches that death as we know it is an illusion created by our consciousness.
[MYFOXDETROIT] Nothing quite communicates the wrath of a scorned lover like the middle finger. But in Bloomfield Hills, this middle finger is loud and proud - in the form of a near 12-foot high statue one man erected next door to his ex-wife.
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