November 27, 2006 1:18 PM
Joe Goldman and Rhonda Schwartz Report:
Amid a growing barrage of front-page headlines, U.S. embassy officials "strongly suggested" President Bush's twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara Bush, cut short their trip to Buenos Aires because of security issues, U.S. diplomatic and security sources tell ABC News.
But the girls have stayed on, celebrating their 25th birthday over the weekend and producing even more headlines about their activities.
Officials say the media coverage upstaged publicity plans for the new U.S. Ambassador Anthony Wayne, who had only recently arrived in the country. That explains it. The local Foggy Bottom-feeder is jealous.
Neither the White House nor the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires responded to requests for comment.
The Argentinean press blitz followed a report on "The Blotter" last week that Barbara Bush's purse and cell phone were stolen last weekend while dining at the popular San Telmo outdoor marketplace despite being guarded by the Secret Service. The agents were watching the young ladies, not their gear.
Stories of the twins' visit took on wild proportions in the Argentinean press. One tabloid headline had the young women running nude in the hallway of their hotel, a report the hotel staff denied to ABC News. What hotel was that again?
According to sources, the U.S. embassy encouraged the two girls to cut their stay short because the added attention was making their security very difficult. State does not provide security for the twins, Treasury does.
But to the dismay and anger of some U.S. embassy and security staff, the girls stayed on.
Thursday night, an ABC News producer was able to walk into their hotel unchecked and engage Barbara Bush in conversation while she checked her e-mail on a computer in the lobby. Jenna sat talking with friends on a sofa nearby. No Secret Service agents were anywhere to be seen in the lobby, according to ABC News' Joe Goldman. But try touching one of them, Joe, and you'd draw back a stump.
And yesterday the Bush twins were spotted at the Sunday soccer matches, wearing team jerseys and sitting in the owner's box, watching Argentina's top team Boca Juniors compete. Several games have been canceled due to violence in the crowds this year. In fact, last weekend no spectators were allowed to attend the match other than season ticket holders. Misdirection by invited inference.
Sources tell ABC News the twins plan to stick to their original itinerary and stay in Buenos Aires until Thursday.
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Another reason I still like George: even his daughters piss off the self-righteous careerist State Dept squids.
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Lol. They're having a good time, seem to be allowed to act (more or less) like normal kids their age, and (presumably) safe. Too bad we haven't heard more of their antics, lol.
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UN FRIGGIN BELIEVABLE! Rice should find out which LLL Wingnutjob in BA let out this memo and PNG their ass TODAY. FYI the Embassy works FOR the President and is SUPPOSED to present the BEST and BRIGHTEST picture of our little experiment in democracy in America. They are not there to second guess or left-handedly order the children of a sitting President to leave a country because said country has a HUGE crime problem. Also, they ought to just fire every one of the Embassy staffers around the world and just start over because they have definitely lost their way.
Enuff Paris and Britney. Pfeh. Barb Wire's back. TMZ has learned that Pamela Anderson has filed for divorce from husband Kid Rock.
Anderson, who is represented by celebrity hotshot lawyer Neal Hersh, cited irreconcilable differences.
The couple was married August 3, 2006. Earlier this month, Anderson suffered a miscarriage.
It looks like there was a rush to the courthouse. Kid Rock also filed divorce papers this morning, 53 minutes before her docs were stamped by the clerk.
Sources tell TMZ both Pam and Kid were in a race to get their papers filed first. The process server for Kid was at the courthouse when it opened at 8:30 AM and filed five minutes later.
Interestingly, Pam and Kid Rock gave different dates of separation. She says they split on November 21. He says November 26. Took him longer to recover.
We've learned there was not a prenup, however, the two were married for such a brief period of time it will probably have little impact.
Pam's website offers a short statement confirming the divorce, saying "Yes, it's true. Unfortunately impossible." Divorce petitions and some pix at link.
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Whaddya mean "No picture"? Sheesh. There's one here and more at the link, likes I said, lol. Not good enuff? You want the OTHER pictures, do ya? Huh? You mean like these? (NSFW)
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Pam once wrote (or had written) an autobiography. There was a chapter called, "A history of my breasts". She stated that all parts of her breast were made right here in the USA.
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Maybe I've been looking at "those" kinds of pictures too much and have gone blind, but while there are pics at the link, there was none embedded in the RB article here. I figured you would have a stock photo that was BSFW.
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What are you talking about: "none embedded in the RB article here"?
Mebbe we're talking past each other, but there is an embedded pic in the article.
There are the celeb type pix at the link, just as I said. From your first comment, I thought you wanted a little more, so I provided some mega-rez pix with "a little more". Beyond that, I have no idea what you want. I thought I'd done my duty - and a little more.
Ex-Seinfeld actor Michael Richards has told a US radio programme that his racist outburst at a Los Angeles comedy club has left him "shattered".
"My career! Gone! All that money! Gone! I'm... shattered!"
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"He pledges never ever to say anything like that again.
In related news, comedian Chris Rock, last years host of the Academy Awards, has pledged to increase the use of the N-word in his routines from 200 times per show to 500 per show.
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Nah. His career ended the day Seinfeld signed off.
The goof should've moved to Aruba and had them send down the syndication and CD royalties.
Although I'm sure the "Reverend" Jackson has his eyes on some of that action...
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By the reaction of the MSM it appears that Mr. Richards has to be a closet conservative registered Trunk, cause otherwise they'd forgiven him by now.
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I wonder how many other actors so loftily tolerant of the rest of humanity actually ever meet any of them who aren't servants.
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Shadoobee
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Richards is a bigoted chump who let his mouth kick his own ass. Just for now we'll ignore the deep hipocrisy that permits only blacks to use the word "nigger". Niggers come in all colors and some of the worst ones are white.
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I saw the video and heard the exchange. Richards was Kramer for keeps that evening. The hecklers in the back pushed THE button and Richards went apeshit. I would think that a guy in a stand up comedy club would be able to fend off hecklers, hell, it comes with the territory.
The next question was what Richards needed in doing a comedy gig in a club like that? He should have got enough money from the Seinfeld shows to be quite comfortable.
Or was the guy on drugs or what? He put on quite the tirade! Hell, he might have even got sinktrapped, heh.
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IIRC, the show was for some charity or other....
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Living on the Sienfield money is probably unsatisfying and his post Sienfield career has not taken off. My guess is Kramer feels the need to be relevant so he got up on stage. But he's not really a stand up, at least not befiting his name recognition so the hecklers ate him alive.
The United Kingdom should be broken up and Scotland and England set free as independent nations, according to a huge number of voters on both sides of the border.
A clear majority of people in both England and Scotland are in favour of full independence for Scotland, an ICM opinion poll for The Sunday Telegraph has found. Independence is backed by 52 per cent of Scots while an astonishing 59 per cent of English voters want Scotland to go it alone.
There is also further evidence of rising English nationalism with support for the establishment of an English parliament hitting an historic high of 68 per cent amongst English voters. Almost half 48 per cent also want complete independence for England, divorcing itself from Wales and Northern Ireland as well. Scottish voters also back an English breakaway with 58 per cent supporting an English parliament with similar powers to the Scottish one.
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This Scotland independence thing has been going on for a long time. So where will they get the money to run the country. Who gets dibs on what is left of North Sea oil? The devil is definitely in the details. And what happens to the muzzies? How do they fit into the perloo? Heh.
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Does this mean it's worse than Iraq?
Al
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frozen al---that's right it IS a Quagmire. However, only one quagmire at a time is recognized by the MSM.
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What about the Welsh and the different islanders?
Oh and when they break up can we have Diego Garcia?
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I've forgotten this part of Brit history, but isn't SCOTLAND technically already a independent sovereign nation, or supposed to be, that just happens to wilfully "freely associate" with England and is allowed to observe-participate in the English Parliament. SCOTS "FORGOT" THEY WERE INDEPENDENT + SOVEREIGN, THAT LEGALLY/TECHNICALLY THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO UNILATER LEAVE THE ANGLO-SCOTTISH "UNION" AT ANY TIME THEIR LOCAL GOVT CHOOSES??? The conquering English monarchs may had meant "unification" but instead wilfully proliferated the use of ambiguous, CONFEDERATIST diplom language and terms???
Lol. Men. Hours before. Lol. I can say no more without breaking Man Law.
British scientists have developed a revolutionary pill that men could take as a one-off contraceptive just before a date. The tablet would prevent a man from being able to impregnate a woman, but within a few hours his fertility would return to normal. This would make it much more acceptable to men than other 'male pills' under development, which alter hormone levels and have to be taken over the long term. It is also more likely to be trusted by women as they are not relying on their man having to remember to take his pill every day for it to work.
For women to trust it you'd have to make it in a variety of dose-paks:
a) the small dart gun, useful across a bar
b) the needle inside a large ring, to stab the male discreetly
c) the under-the-fingernail dose to embed into the skin (for the more athletic)
d) the oral, liquid 'male mickey'
The hormone-free 'male pill' was inspired by two medicines already in use and so the scientists hope it could be on the market within as little as five years. Experts believe it could transform family planning by allowing couples to share the responsibility for contraception - a role that traditionally falls to women. The new contraceptive is likely to appeal to women who are uneasy about the female Pill's ability to raise the risk of strokes, heart attacks and potentially-fatal blood clots. Critics argue, that men lack women's motivation to prevent pregnancy, making it hard for women to trust them to take a contraceptive pill.
No more difficult for women to trust men with this than with anything else men do
(oh wait don't go there) ...
Other male pills are under development but many of them are based on hormones that trick the brain into switching off sperm production. These are typically being developed as injections, implants and patches.
However the new pill being researched by scientists at King's College London, contains chemicals that prevent ejaculation and could be in tablet-form. Men could take one daily, just like the female pill, or have one a few hours before sex as a one-off contraceptive.
Sexual satisfaction is not affected and the absence of hormones means that a man's fertility should return to normal within hours of stopping the treatment. Researcher Dr Nnaemeka Amobi said: "The non-hormonal male pill could be taken when and as needed." Fellow researcher Dr Christopher Smith said: "If the man was taking the pill over a period of several months and decided to come off it, we would expect his fertility to return just as quickly as if he had taken it on a one-off basis."
So it works whether twice-a-week or (for my dating days) once-every-fifteen-years ...
The contraceptive was inspired by the observation that some drugs used to treat schizophrenia and high blood pressure also prevent ejaculation. However, side-effects including dizziness and drowsiness mean these medicines could not be marketed as contraceptives.
Drowsiness afterwards wouldn't be a recognized side-effect in men ...
After pinning down how the drugs stop ejaculation, the London researchers set about creating tablets that do the same thing but without the side-effects. Already tested in the lab, it is hoped human trials will start shortly and the pill on the market within the next five years.
Professor John Guillebaud, one of Britain's leading experts on contraception, described the pill as "a brilliant discovery". He said its strength lay in its ability to prevent pregnancy without using hormones which could cause side-effects such as hot flushes and moodiness.
If the male pill is successful it could bring in huge amounts of money to Kings College, which owns the rights to the discovery. Annual world-wide sales of the female Pill are worth £21billion a year.
Rebecca Findlay, of the Family Planning Association, said: "It gets really tiring for women to always be the one in charge of fertility. "For women, it would be another form of liberation. It's great."
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Put large doses of it in large population centers in the middle east, on a daily basis; if there's no discernible effects after a couple of years, switch to polonium.
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However the new pill being researched by scientists at King's College London, contains chemicals that prevent ejaculation
So what happens instead? An eyeball pops out, my eardrums explode? Something better happen, cause why else am I doing this shit?
Lemme know, willya doc?
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Put large doses of it in large population centers in the middle east, on a daily basis; if there's no discernible effects after a couple of years, switch to polonium.
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So what happens instead? An eyeball pops out, my eardrums explode? Something better happen, cause why else am I doing this shit?
Lemme know, willya doc?
Your tongue gets hard and everything taste like chocolate.
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OBVIOUSLY DON'T WATCH "ANIMAL PLANET", or DISCOVERY, or TLC, etc. *"Another form of liberation" - don't think so. Iff men don't enjoy it, the women won't be touched for anything which also means men won't be motivated to spend any $$$ on women which in turn means local economies will go down the tubes while more women end up on welfare = forms of public assistance to escape poverty. MEN WORK GLOBALLY, WOMEN WORK/NEST LOCALLY. ITS A MALE-ONLY, GOD/NATURE-CAUSED, "SELFISH GENE" THINGY - ONCE MORE, UNIVERSAL EQUALITY DOTH NOT [ALWAYS?] RESULT IN UNIVERSAL, ESCALATORY PROGRESS.
Leftist Rafael Correa, a friend of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who has pledged to radically reform Ecuadorean politics, appeared to have defeated a pro-US banana tycoon in Sunday's presidential election, according to an unofficial quick count and exit polls.
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Hugo: TMI. We don't need to know your pet name for your dingus.
Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez on Sunday promised hundreds of thousands of supporters he would win a resounding victory in his December 3 reelection bid he describes as a challenge to Washington. Whatever works, I guess.
The former soldier and self-styled revolutionary is favored in the polls to beat rival Manuel Rosales after building a solid political base through a social development campaign financed by oil revenues. I thought the US had some genius campaign in place so you would lose the "elections". You'd better be careful because it only took 50 years or so to get rid of Fidel.
Chavez supporters flooded Caracas thoroughfares waving flags and banners, congregating in different parts of the downtown a day after Rosales sympathizers held a similar march to close his campaign in the capital city. Hey, even the Bhagwan developed a cult following.
"We are confronting the devil, and we will hit a home run off the devil next Sunday," said Chavez, who ruffled feathers in October by calling President Bush the devil in remarks at the United Nations. I didn't know Bush was running in the Venezuelan elections.
"On December 3 we're going to defeat the most powerful empire on earth by knockout," Chavez said. Whatever he says, just nod your head.
Donning red like most of his supporters, Chavez delivered a two-hour speech marked by his signature combination of fiery leftist rhetoric and crowd antics typical of pop music concerts. Hey, Fidel was doing that even a few years ago.
He spent nearly ten minutes trying to see which of four groups of demonstrators could cheer louder -- then told them all to be quiet. "As your dictator I command you all to be QUIET or I'll turn you into a donkey!"
"Whoever talks first will turn into a donkey," he thundered, only to break into his unmistakable giggle. Well, someone had to laugh.
Following his speech, Chavez drove through the packed Avenida Bolivar standing atop a campaign vehicle, dancing to political jingles and occasionally reaching into the crowd to shake hands with supporters. If only one of them would have held on . . .
The weekend, with massive government and opposition rallies choking the capital's streets, reflected the country's political polarization. OK. Those with brains chant, those without wear red.
In the opposition stronghold of Altamira, Chavez supporters on their way to the march leaned out of windows waving posters of their "Comandante," and screamed "Viva Chavez." "Y eres un pendejo!"
Residents in expensive sports-utility vehicles honked their horns in protest and shouted the opposition slogan "Dare." "Y eres un pendejo!"
But a street cleaner and parking attendant held up their hands and spread their fingers, a symbol of Chavez's goal of sweeping 10 million of Venezuela's 16 million voters. Any more than that and it would be too obvious.
The demonstrations themselves were also markedly different, with Chavez's joking spontaneity contrasting with Rosales' emotional but stern and unsmiling appearance in the opposition's Saturday march. You'd be serious if Chavez's guys counted all the ballots, too.
Rosales in August united a fractured opposition movement that failed to oust Chavez through a botched coup and a grueling two-month oil strike in 2002 and a failed recall referendum in 2004. If he gets to be more than token competition, Rosales gets something else fractured.
Most polls give Chavez a wide lead, with one AP-Ipsos poll showing Chavez sweeping 59 percent of likely voters compared to only 27 percent for Rosales, who points to opposition-linked polls that show the race much tighter. Sounds familiar.
First elected in 1998, Chavez, a close ally of Cuba's Fidel Castro, has galvanized the nation's poor with promises of a revolution. But he has sparked outcries among middle class critics who call him an authoritarian. Hey, poor people: Look over your shoulder at the equity in Cuba. Everyone's poor there. Nobody to buy anybody's wares. Bad. Figure it out.
The State Department describes him as a menace to regional democracy, though Venezuela remains the fourth-largest exporter of oil to the United States. As usual the US goes for the expensive solution rather than just expanding its own oil production to beat down oil prices and reduce the petrodollars that get converted to extremodollars.
OTTAWA - Canadas House of Commons is expected to pass Monday a motion recognizing the countrys independence-minded Quebec province as a nation within the nation, a move critics brand a bombshell step that could splinter the country.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, after a surprise announcement last week, presented the motion asking that lawmakers recognize that Quebecers constitute a nation within a united Canada.
The move was seen both as a symbolic benchmark and a political ploy by the conservative government, but branded by newspapers as a political bombshell that could encourage Quebecs separatist movement. It is the first time a prime minister has recognized the concept of nation for the province, even if only as a symbolic gesture, said Antonia Maioni, who heads Canadian studies at Quebecs McGill University.
As Orrin Judd likes to say, any people that think of themselves as a nation are one. If the Quebecers want to be a nation, perhaps the rest of Canada should wave goodbye and focus on the Anglophone nation that's left.
For McGill political science professor Eric Belanger, Harpers move is a battle of symbols with an ultimate political aim. What matters is getting back the support of Quebec voters, he said, adding that Harpers Conservative Party-led government must make inroads in Quebecs electorate if it wants to win in the next parliamentary elections widely expected in 2007.
Harpers popularity in the mainly French-speaking province has dipped dramatically lately due to his opposition to the Kyoto Protocol to fight global warming and a foreign policy deemed too friendly to the United States.
But Michael Ignatieff, a prominent member of the opposition Liberals, also jumped on the issue of a resolution for Quebec, earning the ire of some his own party members. The issue has split Liberals, who are to vote in the coming week on a new leader, with Ignatieff one of the leading candidates for the post, which could put him in a position to challenge Harper for the prime ministers post next year. But some of Ignatieffs rivals are accusing him of opening a constitutional Pandoras Box over Quebecs status.
In a move meant to embarrass the countrys federalists, the separatist Bloc Quebecois were about to present their own motion on Quebecs nation status that did not mention Canada, before Harper pulled the rug from under them with his proposal which mentions Quebec as belonging to a united Canada.
Although they objected to that phrase, the Bloc on Friday announced they would support Harpers motion. Our motion will be defeated. But what is important is that the Quebec be recognized as a nation, said Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe on explaining his about-face.
The prime ministers motion is expected to sail through the Chamber of Deputies since all political parties have expressed their support.
We are delighted that this week Canada will become the first country to officially recognize the Quebec nation, Duceppe said, adding that the acknowledgment would become yetanother weapon in the regional groups arsenal aiming for Quebecs independence. Quebecers will eventually decide their own fate, not Ottawa, he added.
Quebec separatists, now in opposition in the province, have promised to hold another referendum if they return to power in the next provincial election, expected in 2007.
On his part, Harper on Friday tried to reassure English-speaking Canadians who accuse him of putting the countrys unity at risk that his motion is neither a constitutional amendment nor bill of law, but merely a statement of recognition and a gesture of reconciliation.
Recognizing that the concept of Quebec as a nation was difficult for many Canadians to swallow, Harper suggested a sociological definition for the term nation: a people sharing the same language, history and culture. Canadians often forget that French-speakers founded their country, he said.
No they didn't: French and English speakers together did so. See the Dominion Act of 1867.
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This thing is going on since ... at least 60's. Let 'em separate, for god's sake. They will end up with a territory about the size of West Virginia as Cree and Mohawks will take their chunks and join the rest of anglophone Canada. So, there would be continuous Canadian territory in any case, with kinda landlocked sliver of what would remain from Quebec. With no Albertan money coming to their piggybank, it would be a fun to watch.
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The thing most folks fail to understand is that the sovereigntists are not, for the most part, separatists. They want embassies and a flag and all that French crap but they want the rest of Canada to keep paying for their sorry asses. Unfortunately, most of Canada has been stupid enough to go along with this until now.
What I would like to see is a straight up or down referendum on whether Quebec should be expelled from Confederation. I think I know which way that one would go.
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This is similar to the Scotland independence thing. Bottom line is money: who is going to pay for the People's Paradise after the Revolution? Revolutions without good economics following is moronism. We have hundreds of examples throughout the world of failed revolutions, including Frawnce, heh.
Well, Alaska will take the Yukon, and you guys can divvy up the rest as you see fit. If it can't be farmed, it's gotta be mined.
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The way I understand it if Canada dumped their vaunted healthcare system (with 10 month maternity waits) they'd be very self-sufficient. Moreso without Quebec.
The earth experienced its biggest mass extinction about 250 million years ago, an event that wiped out an estimated 95% of marine species and 70% of land species. New research shows that this mass extinction did more than eliminate species: it fundamentally changed the basic ecology of the world's oceans.
Ecologically simple marine communities were largely displaced by complex communities. Furthermore, this apparently abrupt shift set a new pattern that has continued ever since. It reflects the current dominance of higher-metabolism, mobile organisms (such as snails, clams and crabs) that actually go out and find their own food and the decreased diversity of older groups of low-metabolism, stationary organisms (such as lamp shells and sea lilies) that filter nutrients from the water.
So says embargoed research to be published in Science on November 24, 2006. An accompanying article suggests that this striking change escaped detection until now because previous research relied on single numbers--such as the number of species alive at one particular time or the distribution of species in a local community--to track the diversity of marine life. In the new research, however, scientists examined the relative abundance of marine life forms in communities over the past 540 million years.
One reason they were able to do this is because they tapped the new Paleobiology Database (http://www.pbdb.org), a huge repository of fossil occurrence data. The result is the first broad objective measurement of changes in the complexity of marine ecology over the Phanerozoic. More at da link
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If that means it's because of that there are no megalodon lurking around near crowded beaches, then I'm all for it!
No the right time frame, still, I think. Oh, well.
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Thats a baby Megalodon, isn't it, as I've seen photos and book covers of larger SharkoSaurus'es where an adult man is roughly the size of a tooth??? IONews, LIVESCIENCE.com > GLOBAL WARMING THREATENS MALE CROCODILES; + FOX NEWS > NEW MALE CONTRACEPTION PILL WORKS. IOW, Iff GOD = NATURE DOESN'T KILL = CASTRATE US, WE MALE BRUTES ARE GONNA BUY AND [CHEMICALLY] CASTRATE = FEMINIZE/ANDROGYNIZE OURSELVES. Penn State doesn't need the FBI-CIA, etc. undercover - you know, the MAfia - anymore???
(Bloomberg) -- Iran has invited the managing director of China Petrochemical Corp. to Tehran to sign the development contract of Iran's Yadavaran oil field as well as oil and gas purchases worth as much as $100 billion. Quid Pro Moolah.
A deal for China's Sinopec Group, as China Petrochemical is known, to develop Yadavaran has been completed, National Iranian Oil Co. President Gholamhossein Nozari told Iran's oil ministry press agency Petroenergy Information Network yesterday. "All elements of the contract have been finalized and it is in the final process for signing by Sinopec,'' Nozari told Petroenergy. Sinopec has been negotiating to buy a 51 percent stake in the project since an initial agreement was reached in October 2004.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which has worked as a technical consultant for Sinopec on the Yadavaran oil field, will participate in the field's development, Iran's oil ministry said in September. Shell officials have said the company is seeking a 20 percent stake in the field.
If completed, the deal will allow China to buy 150,000 barrels of Iranian crude a day at market rates for 25 years as well as 250 million tons of liquefied natural gas. Under an initial agreement signed by the Sinopec Group in October 2004, China could pay Iran as much as $100 billion for the stake and the purchases of oil and gas over 25 years.
Yadavaran, with estimated reserves of 3 billion barrels, is expected to produce 300,000 barrels per day -- or about the same volume China currently imports from Iran, Petroenergy said.
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They used to be known as castrati. Beautiful voices but it scarcely seems to be worth the effort.
My vote for weirdest Donohue guest was a guy who had a sex change so he could become his wife's lesbian lover. She was also about 8' taller than he was.
I just watched a report of Fox that M-W is taking submissions for the 2006 Word of the Year. I almost chose "dhimmitude", but finally submitted "taqiyya". Go forth, make your word known... Vote for the 2006 Word of the Year
We're trying something a little different this year. Instead of reviewing millions of searches in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary to find our most frequently looked-up words, we're asking you to submit your choice for the one single word that sums up 2006. Which one of the hundreds of words you've encountered this year do you think best represents the year now quickly drawing to a close? Maybe it's one you've seen again and again in the headlines of newspapers and magazines, or one that seems to be a particular favorite in the blogosphere, or maybe it's a word you've heard bandied about ad nauseam by various TV and radio pundits. No matter where you've seen or heard it, every word is eligible to take the top honors for 2006.
There are no rules here, so feel free to be creative. If your nomination hasn't made it into the pages of the dictionary yet, this can be your way to let the Merriam-Webster editors know that it's a word that deserves to be closely watched.
So, take a moment to think it over, and then type your nomination for the Word of the Year in the box below, and click "send" to submit. We'll be taking submissions through Monday, December 4. And be sure to check back with us later in December, to see if your choice makes the "Top Ten!" I presume you can only submit one, lol.
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A tie, or should I say a draw, between "crumbling" and "courage".
Appeasement of Hamas. Appeasement of al-Sadr. An "ally's" refusal to identify Taliban as terrorists. Constitutionalized sharia gaining a couple seats of world power. Yet Denmark also stood firm in the Muhammad cartoons' meaty aftermath (rage-o-ramas ala Allah), America withheld funds from Hamas-beaten Palestine (so far), and Australia threw down a misogynist Muslim (am I being redundant?) for blaming women for rape. Hirsi Ali. Oriana Fallaci. The Pope. Robert Spencer, Charles Johnson, Rantburg's Fred.
What will next year's Word of the Year be? "Resolve"? "Disillusionment"?
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Wow, he got Troll tagged fast. Guess he'll be back before long with a new tag. It's so amusing when they try to come on here posing as 'conservatives' and 'republicans' yet spout Democrat talking points.
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In the tradition of taqiyya, I'd like to suggest America's own version of dissimulation for 2006:
"Republican."
Although, really, is there any difference between them and the blue team?
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Rob Crawford... are you responding on behalf of Republicans running from their platforms, or Democrats running after one?
Either way, I'll consider your suggestion.
Ms. Wife,
I believe lying may be justified for storytelling, but taqiyya is not simple lying.
My life has never depended upon having to lie, so perhaps denying one's deeply held convictions to buy a bit more time here on earth, would be justifiable.
Denying your political convictions to get re-elected, although frequently practiced, is never justified.
On the other hand, simple lying is probably really important in certain personal relationships.
Oh, yeah, and in resumes.
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It was not the hurricane season we expected, thank you. With cataclysmic predictions that hurricanes would swarm from the tropics like termites, no one thought 2006 would be the most tranquil season in a decade.
Barring a last-second surprise from the tropics, the season will end Thursday with nine named storms, and only five of those hurricanes. This year is the first season since 1997 that only one storm nudged its way into the Gulf of Mexico.
Still, Florida was hit by two tropical storms, Alberto and Ernesto. But after the pummeling of the previous two years, the storms barely registered on the public's radar.
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Seems clear we should detonate a nuclear bomb in the Sahara next August to raise sufficient dust to protect our valuable second homes on coastal islands. suggest ground zero at Khartoum.
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In the swamp they are complaining because several schools have refused copies of Al Gore's lunatic movie. Seem they can't except one lunatics movie unless they accept ALL lunatics movies.
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Like the SUN, that D *** nged GULF STREAM refuses to surrender! That D ***nged Gulf Stream will know the invincible power and might of the OWG when its tried in absentia, wid out notice, at NUREMBURG.
Why do I have a very bad feeling about this? High Court to Weigh Climate Change Case
The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in a case that could determine whether the Bush administration must change course in how it deals with the threat of global warming. Or cooling. Whichever, same same. Do they know which? Have the first clue? No.
Hey, I've got friends in town later this month. Should they pack windbreakers or woollies?
A dozen states as well as environmental groups and large cities are trying to convince the court that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate, as a matter of public health, the amount of carbon dioxide that comes from vehicles. Carbon dioxide is produced when fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas are burned. It is the principal "greenhouse" gas that many scientists believe is flowing into the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate, leading to a warming of the earth and widespread ecological changes. One way to reduce those emissions is to have cleaner-burning cars.
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"Global warming is the most pressing environmental issue of our time and the decision by the court on this case will make a deep and lasting impact for generations to come," says Massachusetts' attorney general, Thomas Reilly.
If this guy's the man they're putting all their chips on, we'll be breathing pure sulfur dioxide by 2010.
Bring your seeing eye dog, Tommy...
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The United States accounts for about one-quarter of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
In addition to phil_b's comment, I think I read somewhere that the US is a net carbon sink. If I understand correctly, our reforestation activities alone fix more carbon than we produce/release, and that doesn't even factor in all the nice golf courses or landscaping you see everywhere.
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I seem to recall that number two is volcanic emissions, something else the US government has no control over. And isn't #3 emissions from China or India, or forest fires lit by slash & burn farmers in Southeast Asia?
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The states, led by Massachusetts, and more than a dozen environmental groups insist the 1970 law makes clear that carbon dioxide is a pollutant - much like lead and smog-causing chemicals - that is subject to regulation because its poses a threat to public health.
I might be wrong but isn't soda filled carbonated water and isn't that another way of saying carbon dioxide-impregnated water? Same with beer? If so I should think there would be A LOT of money lined up against any kind of regulations.
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forest fires lit by slash & burn farmers in Southeast Asia?
Aka the infamous "brown cloud". But it's not pollution, no, it's... hummmm... errr... huh... well, it's not pollution anyway, since you can't blame the USA in particular, or Rich Capitalist White Men in general.
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.
TMZ has learned that Pamela Anderson has filed for divorce from husband Kid Rock. 
(Bloomberg) -- Iran has invited the managing director of China Petrochemical Corp. to Tehran to sign the development contract of Iran's Yadavaran oil field as well as oil and gas purchases worth as much as $100 billion. 
