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as of right now this post has 74 views. 63 are by Dr. Steve
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There were more than I thought... and quite a few of the ones pictured have been on Dancing With the Stars. Throw in Bristol Palin from this year and Tom DeLay from a little while ago...
is one of the casting directors for that show a conservative?
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There are plenty more who keep their opinions to themselves. I look forward to the artistic-political landscape a generation from now, when they've moved into positions of power.
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I suspect that with the fragmenting of the movie industry (only 30% of films are produced in California now), the in-house political mentality will also diminish.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Madagascar troops who staged a mutiny and claimed they seized power on the island were considering their next move Thursday after the government warned of reprisals against them, their leader told AFP.
"We are in a meeting to decide what we're going to do," General Noel Rakotonandrasana, a former armed forces minister who played a key role in the March 2009 coup that brought Andry Rajoelina to power, told AFP by telephone.
On Wednesday Rakotonandrasan declared that government institutions had been suspended and a military council was in charge of the country.
Prime Minister Camille Vital told AFP the mutineers numbered no more than 20 and a military source warned the government was preparing to get tough with them.
"If the negotiations fail the regime is going to take a much tougher stance. There won't be any en masse pardon. Orders have been given," the source said, asking not to be identified.
There were no signs of a military presence or unusual activity in the capital Thursday with traffic on the streets and shops open for business as normal.
Pedestrians and vehicles were moving normally through the street in front of the barracks where the mutineers are holed up, with just one sentinel standing guard at the entrance to the barracks.
Rajoelina, speaking Wednesday evening insisted that "the government will assume its responsibilities and consequently take action."
The mutiny took place on a public holiday as residents voted in a referendum on a new constitution organised by Rajoelina. This is the first poll since the March 2009 coup.
In the capital Antananarivo those who took part in the referendum voted overwhelmingly in favour of the new law, according to provisional results announced Thursday by the electoral agency, but turnout was only 40 percent.
The yes vote is likely to dominate everywhere as the opposition parties, led by the island's three former presidents Marc Ravalomanana, Didier Ratsiraka et Albert Zafy have called for a boycott rather than a no vote.
Despite the call by the mutineers "overall everything went off normally" during polling, Gisele Dama Ranampy, a member of the electoral agency, told AFP.
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MINA- Saudi Heath Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah said on Thursday this years pilgrimage has been free of communicable diseases.
Imagine our relief ...
Al-Rabeeah said this information was based the reports received from various health committees, including statistical data and other relevant information pertaining to precautionary measures taken by the Ministry of Health. He attributed a strict surveillance process at all ports of entry of pilgrims, arriving by air, land or sea that proved effective in preventing entry of infectious diseases into the Kingdom.
Remote digital monitoring cameras at all health care facilities helped in monitoring for any potential outbreaks, he added.
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besides Islam?
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I don't know. Isn't modern medicine considered haram? I mean, the Prophet (bpuh) didn't have all these newfangled medicines and remote digital monitoring cameras.
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[Emirates 24/7] A Saudi appeal court has upheld an earlier sentence by another court to amputate the hands of four men who were convicted of robbing several gold shops in the Gulf Kingdom, Kabar daily reported on Friday.
The court in the central town of Makkah, Islam's holiest shrine, approved the verdict by a court in the southwestern province of Asir, which found the four men guilty of robbery, it said.
"The appeal court in Makkah upheld the verdict to amputate the hands of the four thieves after they confessed to their crime," the paper said.
It did not identify the men or say how and when the sentence would be carried out.
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A DRUNKEN Muslim woman, who was spared jail for racially abusing a white couple, has now appeared in court charged with swearing at an Asian policeman.
Yasmin Ahmed hurled obscenities at Pc Abdus Salam when he went to arrest her friend for shoplifting, a court heard. Somalian-born Ahmed taunted Pc Salam with racist jibes, wiggled her backside at him and spat in his face, Snaresbrook Crown Court was told.
Don't Bobbies carry nightsticks for just such situations?
She was taken to Kentish Town police station, north London, where she hitched up her niqab and urinated on the floor.
Ahmed, 21, of Camden, admitted racially aggravated harassment, assaulting a police officer and criminal damage in June. She was freed on bail and will be sentenced after assessment for alcohol treatment.
Last year, Ahmed got a six-month suspended jail term for racially aggravated assault on a white couple.
[El Universal] In the third quarter of the year, the manufacturing industry stopped its decline, imports increased and there was a wider range of products in the market. However, The infamous However... despite these circumstances, consumption fell for the sixth quarter in a row.
Between June and September, the final private consumption rate declined by 2.1 percent, even though the government tried to push demand up with more imports of final consumer goods and managed to expand by 3.4 percent the government procurement of goods and services.
Government imports of final consumer goods increased by 139 percent in a year, from USD 300 million in the third quarter of 2009 to USD 717 million in the same period in 2010, thus accounting for 35 percent of total foreign purchases for final consumption.
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Manufacturing stopped its decline for the obvious reason it was near zilch previous. Who needs electricity? We got heavy oil.
[El Universal] After some meetings with government and Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) officials, Barclays prepared a report on Venezuela, according to which by the end of the year, the Venezuelan oil industry will place bonds in order to pay debt with the BCV and feed the Central Bank's securities trading system. The investment bank added that there will be a new devaluation in 2011.
In its report, Barclays said that in the first quarter of 2011, and specifically in the first weeks of the year, the government will devalue its currency by 15 percent.
Venezuelan authorities are changing their perception about currency adjustments and have said that they cannot repeat the mistakes they made during the 2005-2010 period, when the exchange rate was pegged and the average inflation rate reached 22 percent. They consider that after the devaluation in January, the consumer price index will end at the same levels of 2009.
Barclays said that if the government devalues the Venezuelan bolivar, the benchmark rate of the Transaction System for Foreign Currency Denominated Securities (Sitme) operated by the Central Bank will also be adjusted.
The British investment firm said that according to the reports provided by the Venezuelan authorities, Pdvsa will offer USD 2.5 billion in bonds to the BCV. Barclays expects Pdvsa to pay USD 1.8-2.0 billion out of a loan of USD 4.8 billion it has with the BCV. To make this payment, PDVSA is expected to make a private placement to the BCV of the new PDVSA 17 with a notional value of about USD 2.5 billion.
As regards the oil sector, Barclays expects more FDI in this area (USD 40 billion in the next five years) and a real possibility of increasing oil production by 400,000 bpd by 2013 in what has been called early production and 1.0 million bpd by 2016.
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Chris, while US and European 20 somethings have focused their energies on drugs, drink and ideologically driven social sciences, Chinese have constituted the majority of grad students in engineering and computer science for some time now. They've no need to copy at this point.
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Yes, it's pretty odd isn't it, that you can't find anyone who says that drinking and taking drugs are bad from the media or those in the universities or the "educated" classes.
And I wonder what institutions have ideologically driven the social sciences? There's a reason our kids think and do what they do, it's called setting an example as a society, and the "children" who run our institutions are the problem, not our 20 somethings.
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Reading this story, I can't help but wonder if some local pol or revenue officer will also read the same story and come crashing down on this poor woman for not having proper permits, business license, health inspector's certification, etc.
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Reading this story, I can't help but wonder if some local pol or revenue officer will also read the same story and come crashing down on this poor woman for not having proper permits, business license, health inspector's certification, etc.
Yep - I'm wondering the same thing.
I can sympathize with her though - she does have the gumption to start doing something that pays directly. All hail private enterprise, seeing a need and meeting it. After so many years of assured income, it is a leap of faith in yourself to go out and scrounge jobs.
I can sympathize with the effort it takes, since it is what I have been doing for the last two years or so; staying a half-step ahead of the bills, part-timing here and there, selling some of my books here, building a website for someone there ... this kind of life isn't for sissies.
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Walker used to make $100,000 a year as a nursing home executive until she lost her job a year and a half ago.
Well, since we are seeing a great shortage of old people and since the number of people retiring is declining rapidly and since the Bush Administration began shipping all of our old people to China and India, this woman's problems are only going to get worse.
/sarc
Now, tell me. Why would she have lost her job and be unable to find another in the one major boom industry in America?
(KUNA) -- Spain's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba affirmed Friday his socialist government was set to get on the bandwagon of euthanasia (or mercy killing).
No problem as long as the government ministers are first in line ...
"The government will in March, 2011, approve a draft legislation to allow patients with incurable illnesses to die with dignity," Rubalcaba told reporters here after a cabinet meeting.
The legislation specifies the conditions where life-support systems should be disconnected to allow patients have a dignified death and put an end to their and their families' long suffering.
"In such cases medicine has tools to ensure that death takes place without suffering," he affirmed.
The draft bill will be in line with the legislations already in place in other European nations, the minister added.
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The legislation specifies the conditions where life-support systems should be disconnected
ie, withing 24 hours of the expiration of Obamacare catastrophic benefits, or age 69, whichever comes first.
China didn't start this, Ben. The US did by over-emphasizing the housing market and not properly regulating wall street.
Surely China isn't helping, but we can only blame ourselves for putting ourselves into this position in the first place. It's called survival of the fittest. And judging by the latest regulatory legislation, we aren't really trying to survive.
Remember the solution to failed government regulation is more regulation. /sarc off
You don't need more regulation. You need regulators who will do their job. No one forces them to take the job. The job is not to be cozy with those they are charged with dealing with. The revolving doors between financial institutions and the government has got to end.
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"The migration of American industry to China must be stopped! These companies should be forced by the gov't to remain in the States, and go broke right here!" [sarc off]
That's not completely true, they are just a convenient victim, a symptom of the real cause.
The cause? Too much credit. The cause of that too low reserves. The cause of that Basel2.
First thing basel 3 did was raise reserves. Should have happened 10 years ago.
Seems the TSA is being used to "secure" us against non-transportion related threats. If the government doesn't like you, all they have to do is wait until you enter the TSA's sphere and you are theirs. To do with as they please. In this case, they seized a known hacker's phone and laptop. They were not transportation related threats, but that didn't stop the TSA from overreaching the scope implied by their title.
[Pak Daily Times] An international human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... advocate has joined calls for the release of a Christian woman sentenced to death under the country's blasphemy laws. Amnesty International on Friday also called on Pakistain to revise the law under which mother of five, Aasia Bibi, had been convicted this month. The case stems from a dispute between Aasia and a group of Mohammedan women over the use of a water bowl. The other women accused her of making blasphemous remarks. She has been in prison for one and a half years and her case had been appealed. Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday urged Pakistain to release Aasia. The case has drawn attention to blasphemy laws, which critics say were being used to persecute Christian and other minorities.
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[Pak Daily Times] At least 10,000 anti-government protesters returned to Bangkok's streets on Friday to mark the six-month anniversary of a deadly military crackdown, but there were no violent incidents.
Flag-waving, red-shirted protesters converged on the same shopping district they occupied during the April to May unrest that killed 91 people and maimed at least 1,800 in the worst political violence in modern Thai history. "People died here," the protesters chanted. Many called for those responsible for the killings to be punished. But the lack of clear leadership among the "red shirts" makes a prolonged protest this time unlikely, especially with memories still fresh of a May 19 crackdown that ended in a night of rioting in which more than 30 buildings were set ablaze.
"There have been and will be short and sporadic protests like this for some time," said Karn Yuenyong, director of independent think-tank Siam Intelligence Unit. "They aim to energize the people and remind the government that the resentment is still there but it's not about forcing an end game yet." The gathering at the Ratchaprasong area caused disruption to traffic and several luxury malls protectively closed their front entrances but remained open for business. The rally served as a reminder of fissures in Thai society that remain dangerously unresolved despite government promises of reconciliation.
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"Peopledied here," the protesters chanted.
as I recall, they burned to death at your hands. Am I right? YES
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Not only is she smoking hot - but she has a mind to match. I figure a lot of Pols found out the hard way that this wasn't your 'bimbo blonde' or dumbass news anchor.
She is what I figure reporters _should_ be like. Give her a line a crap and she'll call you on it on national TV.
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.
A Saudi appeal court has upheld an earlier sentence by another court to amputate the hands of four men who were convicted of robbing several gold shops in the Gulf Kingdom, Kabar daily reported on Friday.
(KUNA) -- Spain's First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba affirmed Friday his socialist government was set to get on the bandwagon of euthanasia (or mercy killing).
