Good luck. God love you all... HONG KONG - Paris Hilton says her upcoming album will be a mix of reggae, pop and hip-hop, with the first single being a reggae song called "Stars Are Blind." ...and they can't see, either.
Hilton will also do a remake of the Rod Stewart song "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?," she was quoted as saying in the June issue of Hong Kong magazine Prestige. "The whole album has so much different music on it. I like all music. It's not like I only like pop or only rock. I want to have something for everybody," Hilton said. Gregorian chants, polkas, Bollywood show tunes, whatever ya want.
Hilton said she wrote the lyrics to seven of her songs. The article didn't say how many songs are on the album. If it's over ten, her shoes gotta come off...
She said she had to overcome shyness to become a singer."I have always had a voice and always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think that is the hardest thing you can do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it is what I am most talented at and what I love to do the most," Hilton said. Don't know about that. I saw your movies on the internet. On second thought, you probably are a better singer...
Prestige reported the single, "Stars Are Blind," will be released this month by Warner Records and her own label Heiress Records, followed by a full album later this year. I'm getting my sleeping bag and heading for my nearest record store...
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Hell, if Steven Seagal can sing blues (and he appears to be good at it, shockingly), I'm sure the talented Paris Hilton will do just fine with reggae! Bob Marley's spirit lives on!
On this date in:
1431 - Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. the media blamed it on 'disenfranchised youths'
1539 - Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto landed in Florida. Castro immediately denounced him as a 'Yankee Imperialist Traitor'
1854 - The territories of Nebraska and Kansas were established.
1883 - A rumor that the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge was in danger of collapsing triggered a stampede that led to the trampling deaths of 12 people.
1911 - The first long-distance auto race in Indianapolis was won by Ray Harroun.
1922 - The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C.
1943 - American forces secured the Aleutian island of Attu from the Japanese during World War II.
1958 - Unidentified soldiers killed in World War II and the Korean conflict were buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1982 - Spain became NATO's 16th member. Once again reinforcing the uselessness of the organization.
1982 - Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of a record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.
1989 - Student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing erected a 33-foot statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy."
1996 - Britain's Prince Andrew and the former Sarah Ferguson were granted an uncontested decree ending their 10-year marriage.
1997 - Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka - a case that inspired "Megan's Law," which requires that communities be notified when sex offenders move in. Unfortunately, Timmendequas is still breathing air.
2002 - A solemn, wordless ceremony marked the end of the cleanup at Ground Zero in New York, 8 1/2 months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Never Forget! 2005 - American teenager Natalee Holloway, during a visit to Aruba, was last seen leaving a bar with three young men before disappearing; her fate remains unknown. Thus spawning month after month after month of useless news coverage on FNC.
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Yesterday was the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453.
And the first anniversary of the french "No" to the EU Überconstitution... I like Shiraq, he resumes the nuclear testings just in time for the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima, and he set the date for a referendum heavily tainted by the fear of a turkish EU adhesion on the date of the fall of Constantinople.
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HURRY UP!!!
At the rate I'm fattening, I'll soon collapse under my own weight, and turn into a black hole which will then suck out the entire solar system!
Time is the essence!
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Rense.com is a swell and well-known conspiracy website, with nice ufo pics and all, BUT it is rabidly anti-Bush in an "anti-NWO" fashion (IE 9/11 = inside job on behalf of the Establishment, etc, etc, you know the drill), antiwar, "antizionist" (they lament what happens to holocaust deniers and all),... all in all, i like the site, but sometimes I feel like i should need to take a mental shower after reading some articles. They're not even moonbats, they're fringe conspiracy theorists.
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I enjoy their PCT stuff (hollow Earth, ufos, haarp,...), but, yes, they are pretty disgusting, and are in the same league than Icke, without even being as wild and imaginative.
Six Nepalese UN peacekeepers have been captured in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by militia fighters who are demanding a ransom for their release, UN and Congolese sources said on Monday. The sources, who asked not be named, said the United Nations mission in Congo was in contact with the militia holding the Nepalese peacekeepers, who were seized during a U.N. military operation in violence-prone Ituri district on Sunday.
Luckily ransoms are usually pretty cheap in that part of Africa...
The incident showed that the 17,000-strong UN peacekeeping mission in Congo the biggest in the world was still struggling to pacify parts of the vast central African country ahead of historic elections scheduled to be held on July 30.
They're going to be struggling to pacify parts of the vast central African country 300 years from now.
The UN mission had said on Sunday it lost contact with the six soldiers, whose unit was involved in an operation targeting part of the Revolutionary Movement of Congo (MRC), a loose alliance of Ituri militia fighters. The "cordon and search" mission was taking place in Dhera, 100 km north of the main regional town of Bunia.
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Hope they'll make it out ok, I've got a soft touch for guys from Nepal. hopefully, they won't be eaten, like thoses pygmies or that couple of peacekeepers besieged in a jungle outpost.
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You mean, "soft spot," a5089 dear. A soft touch is someone who gives aid (usually money) to anyone with a sad story -- me, f'r instance, much to Mr. Wife's dismay. ;-)
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"We demand 18 servings of Hot Doro Wat, and.....and.....18 gallons of lunguila, not the sh*t from east Congo, mind you, but the good stuff from Bas.....and......and.... a new headlamp and tire for our Toyota truck! Or else!"
MUKALLA, YEMEN - Yemen and its oil-rich neighbour Saudi Arabia are due to sign this week the final maps marking their joint borders after land demarcation was completed, Yemeni officials said Monday. The officials said the maps would be signed during meetings of the Yemeni Saudi Higher Coordination Council (YSHCC), which is scheduled to begin in the south-eastern Yemeni city of Mukalla on Wednesday.
Demarcation of the joint Yemeni-Saudi 1,845-kilometre border was completed in 2004 after 824 markers were put in place. Last April, a German company delivered to the two states the final maps marking the border line based on a 2000 border treaty that ended a long-standing dispute. The treaty ended a 66-year-old dispute between Saudi Arabia and Yemen over the unmarked borders, including handing over sanddeserta big pile of rocks territory to each other as the border demarcation was completed.
On May 16, Saudi Arabia handed over to Yemen the last of 13 border outposts designated as Yemeni territory by the border treaty.
The two-day meetings of the YSHCC would also discuss several issues including economic ties, efforts to fight terrorism and the combat against cross-border drug and arms smuggling and infiltration of terrorists, Yemeni official said. Large quantities of arms and explosives are smuggled to Saudi territories through the porous border from Yemen every year.
We would have never guessed. It's the only booming export Yemen has.
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How many pumps are changing hands?
Oh. Never mind.
Officials from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Madinah arrested two youths in a raid on a house where alcohol was being brewed and sold. Acting on a tip-off, the officials confiscated 200 liters of alcohol, 35 Captagon tablets, a substantial amount of hashish, empty bottles, hashish wrapping paper and distilling devices. The young men had been operating from a small cabin, which had been built next to the house where they lived. The bootleggers had also placed a video camera at the front of the house to monitor whether the police were approaching or not. The administrative chief of the West Harra area also participated in the raid.
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The administrative chief of the West Harra area also participated in the raid.
Yeah and I bet when that substantial amount of hash turns up in court its looking a lot less substantial..
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Dhaka, Bangladesh (AHN) - Nearly 25 journalists were injured on Tuesday when members of the Bangladesh ruling party attacked them in the western town of Kushtia.
The attack took place when about 200 people, including journalists, had gathered to protest harassment by the local representatives of the ruling party.
Some senior journalists were seriously injured and undergoing treatment at a local hospital.
Controversy continued here over the deportation of foreign prisoners from British jails, whose inmates include 253 Indians and 416 Pakistanis. Deportation of foreign prisoners is among the major issues faced by new Home Secretary John Reid. The issue generated much heat in the House of Commons and in the media when it was revealed that many prisoners committed offences after being released.
Prime Minister Tony Blair recently said that foreign prisoners would be deported to their countries of origin, irrespective of the nature of their crime. Opposition MPs had protested that foreign prisoners had been allowed to remain in open jails after the government recently announced their deportation.
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Which way does the water spin as Europe flushes itself down the toilet?
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals, sparking widespread outrage. It takes a lot to stir "outrage" in the Dutch from what I've heard...
The Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party said on its Web site it would be officially registered Wednesday, proclaiming: "We are going to shake The Hague awake!" Wonder if they're gonna name names?
The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether.
"A ban just makes children curious," Ad van den Berg, one of the party's founders, told the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper.
"We want to make pedophilia the subject of discussion," he said, adding the subject had been a taboo since the 1996 Marc Dutroux child abuse scandal in neighboring Belgium.
"We want to get into parliament so we have a voice. Other politicians only talk about us in a negative sense, as if we were criminals," Van den Berg told Reuters. "As if we were criminals"?
The Netherlands, which already has liberal policies on soft drugs, prostitution and gay marriage, was shocked by the plan.
An opinion poll published Tuesday showed that 82 percent wanted the government to do something to stop the new party, while 67 percent said promoting pedophilia should be illegal.
"They make out as if they want more rights for children. But their position that children should be allowed sexual contact from age 12 is of course just in their own interest," anti-pedophile campaigner Ireen van Engelen told the AD daily. Ya think, Ireen?
Right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders said he had asked the government to investigate whether a party with such "sick ideas" could really be established, ANP news agency reported.
Kees van deer Staaij, a member of the Christian SGP party, also demanded action: "Pedophilia and child pornography should be taboo in every constitutional state. Breaking that will just create more victims and more serious ones."
The party wants private possession of child pornography to be allowed although it supports the ban on the trade of such materials. It also supports allowing pornography to be broadcast on daytime television, with only violent pornography limited to the late evening.
Toddlers should be given sex education and youths aged 16 and up should be allowed to appear in pornographic films and prostitute themselves. Sex with animals should be allowed although abuse of animals should remain illegal, the NVD said. Well, if it fails there, boys, there's always the EU. Call it something like The Child Enlightenment Act. You might have a shot...
The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public and promotes legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all. Oh, well. Free train travel? Why didn't ya say that in the first place?
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Take another hit on the hooka. The shock will dissipate with the hash smoke.
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What a cesspool.
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As one proeminent socialist french pol (Jack Lang, who fancies himself a valid candidate for the 2007 presidential election) once said, "child sexuality is still a forbidden continent, the explorers of the XXIth century will have to land on its shores" ("La sexualité puérile est encore un continent interdit, aux découvreurs du XXIe siècle d'en aborder les rivages.")...
The "progressist left" here has been cautiously trying to legitimate pedophilia since the 70's and the sexual revolution, at least until the mid/late 80's, its torch bearer being the leftist "Libération", one very mainstream french rag, publishing interviews of pedo criminals offering their view on the "man-boy love", etc, etc... (cf. that primer), dating back to a famous 1977 petition to free several men jailed for pedophilia signed by many leftist politicians (including future socialist ministers), showbiz people, academics,...
Several homosexual mag were also very involved in that, Jack Lang (who is a somewhat overt homosexual despite beign married) for example did a very ambigous interview to the "gay pied" mag in 1991 (note he was accused of being involved in pedophile affairs at least twice, including a supposed note by the RG intelligence police also implicating his wife and a rumor started by Shiraq, in 1995, but this has never gone beyond the smear attack/rumor level).
This is not a bug, this is a feature, as it is part of the same "progressive" trend. Read a little about the "Father of the Sexual Revolution", aka Kinsey, and you'll understand everything, especially if you take an holistic view and add Gramsci and the whole neomarxist attack on western civilization. And no, I'm not being paranoid.
BUT THERE WAS DUTROUX IN THE MEANTIME!...
And pedophilia is now accepted by the general public as the abomination it is, make no mistake about; exactly as about 70% of french people support the death penalty (which is now constitutionally impossible to apply here thanks to euro-treaties btw), the vast majority is clear-headed about that... and so the assaults of the "progressives" is on the backburner now, and they now center themselves on the gay marriage, and keep Morocco as the man-boy paradise for the french Elite.
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"The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public and promotes legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all"
Ok we'll approve the sex with 12yr olds but I draw the line at free train travel
Ummmmmm ... no. I'd wager it is the abuser who is the more curious of the two. A lot of child sexual abuse is accompanied by some degree of definite physical pain, something that children usually are not too keen on.
Ok we'll approve the sex with 12yr olds but I draw the line at free train travel
If God had meant man to fly, he'd never have given us the railroads!
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We were in Brussels in 1996... we left just before everything came out. The Belgian miscreants, protected and perhaps led by the police up to people in the office of the Minister of the Interior (possibly the Minister himself, although I believe that question was never openly asked), picked up children off the streets, mostly asylum seekers' kids but also local Belgian girls, and sold them mostly to the Dutch pedophiles and Dutch child pornography industry. Except of course, for the few they kept for their own private pleasure in secret basement dungeons that the police somehow couldn't find despite several times knocking on the front door of the known pedophile's house. That summer I didn't allow the trailing daughters to so much as cross the street more than an arm's reach distance from me. The Lowlanders have a very sick aspect to their cultural psyche, on both sides of the border.
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I'd imprison every one of these f*&kers with Bruno "The Endowed" and no lube. See who's curious now?
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A lot of child sexual abuse is accompanied by some degree of definite physical pain.
To a major degree. Particularly if you're three months old. To an infinite degree the soul-destroying psychological pain and altered life that is for the victims of pedoephilia.
ISTANBUL, May 29 (Reuters) - Turkey is sleepwalking towards a potential crisis with the European Union later this year, as electoral politics take precedence over EU-driven reforms in a mood of mutual disenchantment.
Far from accelerating Turkey's march towards membership, the start of entry talks last Oct. 3 seems to have prompted a step back on both sides, with Turks questioning Europe's sincerity, while many Europeans fret about whether they want Turkey at all.
The executive European Commission is set to give Ankara a critical interim report card when Turkish and EU foreign ministers meet on June 12 and negotiations on the first of 35 policy areas begin in earnest.
EU officials say it will point to persistent problems with freedom of expression, religious and minority rights and the role of the military in political life despite past reforms.
"The real problem is that they've halted the reform process," said one EU official involved in the talks, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The trigger for early trouble is Turkey's refusal to open its ports and airports to traffic from Cyprus, as required under a customs union with the 25-nation bloc, extended to cover the 10 new EU members in the so-called Ankara protocol last year.
"We will have some crisis with Turkey in the second half of the year because they haven't solved the Ankara agreement and Cyprus," said a senior EU ambassador in Brussels.
EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said in an interview with Reuters in March he was working to avoid a "train crash" over Cyprus and urged Ankara to step up the pace of reforms.
Cyprus, which like all EU members has a right of veto over the talks, has warned it will take a tough line on the review.
Yet despite a bout of financial market turbulence, there is no sense in Turkey of a European risk. Indeed the EU accession process that dominated politics for the last four years has almost vanished from the headlines.
A south Toledo man is using a replica of the Statue of Liberty to let the world know his thoughts on illegal immigration. Art Bollinger says he got this idea from an e-mail he received, and decided to duplicate the picture.
From the front, you can see the Statue of Liberty. From behind, it shows Lady Liberty's behind, in a thong bikini. The nearby sign says "Kiss my American Ass."
Bollinger tells News 11 he will accept anyone into this country as long as they come here legally, but he has no patience for those who sneak in. "You don't have rights. You are here illegally," said Bollinger of the people who cross the border without permission. "If I break the law, I go to prison. You break the law and the American government says they'll kiss your behind. No. That's ridiculous."
The US Senate bill passed last week would tighten the border, offer a guest worker programs to bring in new foreign workers and provide a chance at citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants already in the country. The US House bill generally is limited to border enforcement and cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants. Negotiators from both chambers will try to reconcile the differences and agree on a compromise.
Bollinger says his wife is from Russia and he had to jump through all kinds of hoops and pay for the process of her becoming a US citizen. He feels everyone else should do the same.
US Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., answered a flat "no'' when asked Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press'' whether he would accept any legislation that would put illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship. Sensenbrenner said the United States 20 years ago passed a bill that allowed illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S. and become American citizens. He said that only increased the flow of illegal immigrants.
US Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said the Senate took a comprehensive approach to dealing with illegal immigration and he took issue with Sensenbrenner's characterization of the Senate's approach. "Amnesty. That's nonsense,'' Hagel said. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said he, but not necessarily the Senate, could accept a phased-in compromise: enforcement first, then moving to citizenship issues. "I personally would, because I think, first and foremost, you've got to lock down the borders. You can't allow this hemorrhaging of millions of people,'' he said on "Fox News Sunday.''
Under the Senate bill, illegal immigrants who have been in the country at least five years can continue working and eventually become legal permanent residents and citizens after paying at least $3,250 in fines, fees and back taxes and learning English. Illegal immigrants in the U.S. between two and five years would be required to go to a point of entry at the border and file an application to return. Those in the country less than two years would have to leave.
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I tried to get a visa for my (ex) wife to come visit my home in the US (we lived in S.E. Asia at the time). Make a long story short, the financial expense was on the order of $30,000, and after a year of effort we finally had to give up. And this was just to visit -- not to immigrate!!!
The helpful suggestion of a senior INS official? "Get a visa for Mexico, and sneak across the border like everyone else".
True story.
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Face it, nobody in Washington really give a damn. If they did, Vicente Fox would be put on notice that the border is SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY until HE fixes it, no NAFTA, no nothing. Technology would be employed in less than 24 hours that would identify anyone coming close to the border. The Minutemen would be given 3 or 4 US Army engineer battalions and enough concertina to reach to the phueching moon.
Washington is simply posturing, stalling, and doing the minimum as usual. It's over.
In a passionate speech, Mr Gore said: "We face a challenge in the conversation of democracy that we must be up to in order to save the climate balance on which our civilisation depends." He said he believed scientists who said that there may be 10 years remaining to avoid "crossing the point of no return". "Then does that change you? It should, it's happening on our watch," said the former vice-president.
He said he was "carbon neutral" himself and he tried to offset any plane flight or car journey by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere". He tries to get Republicans to stop breathing
He said the only way to bring about the change was "a sea change in the public's understanding and opinion". "The only way that political leaders of all parties will find the courage for the bold actions that are needed."
Mr Gore was given a standing ovation by the audience whom he begged "to make the changes in your own life to make your part of the solution (to the problem)". He said: "There are more than enough people here to really change the world.
"I hope that many of you will accept and act on that - so much is at stake."
(NYT) WASHINGTON, May 29 Hoping to win a Congressional majority in November, some optimistic Democratic lawmakers have taken to referring to Representative Nancy Pelosi as "speaker," as in speaker of the House. So have some optimistic Republicans. "She ought to be a big component of the fall campaign," said Ed Rogers, a Republican strategist and lobbyist. "There are some Democrats who make really good bad guys."
Ms. Pelosi, the California Democrat and House minority leader, lends herself to easy caricature by Republicans. She is an unapologetic liberal, with a voting record to match (the Republican National Committee chairman, Ken Mehlman, said she was neither a "New Democrat" nor an "Old Democrat" but a "prehistoric Democrat"). She is wealthy (married to an investment banker, she has assets listed at more than $16 million). She represents San Francisco, which Republicans love to invoke as a hotbed of counterculture decadence and extremism.
"Is America ready for Nancy Pelosi's Contract With San Francisco?" asked Representative Ric Keller, Republican of Florida, posing a question that, one imagines, could form the basis of many Republican advertisements this fall.
(AP) WASHINGTON - Republicans are three steps from a November shellacking - each a grim possibility if habitually divided Democrats get their acts together.
First step: Voters must focus on the national landscape on Nov. 7 rather than local issues and personalities that usually dominate midterm elections. That would sting Republicans, who trail badly in national polls.
Second step: Voters must be so angry at Washington and politics in general that an anti-incumbent, throw-the-bums-out mentality sweeps the nation. That would wound Republicans, the majority party.
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How can the Donks possibly talk of landslide while Diebold, Halliburton, and Karl Rove are stalking the earth? FYI after all the ballyhoo here in the Golden State touch screen and electronic voting machines will be used next week in the primary election. After much (emotional) left-wing testimony and actual testing of machines the Secretary of State (a Democrat) could find no reason to un-certify the machines. Since our Right Wing Conspiracy can depend on the Diebold connection, all we need now is some mean looking poll watchers or police cruisers parked MILES away, and the Donks will flee without casting a vote. My prediction (nay Diebold promise) is a Republican sweep!
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It is possible that the Repubs will throw the bums out during the primaries and thus not have the same turnover during the national elections in Nov. After all folks are pissed now they may be less angry in Nov.
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CyberSarge, you miss what the Doinks are doing: by setting up these expectations now (and expect breathless reporting on Zogby polls all fall, since Zogby always gives the Doinks about 8 points in any head-to-head poll), when election day comes and the Republicans win enough seats to stay in power --
-- guess what the claim will be --
you guessed it: why, the Republicans must have stolen the election! Halliburton, Diebold and Rove, oh my! Couldn't possibly be that all the Doink-leaning polls were wrong, coud it?
You read it here first.
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I dunno. I got a bad feeling about all this-- REALLY bad.
Though the Donks seem hopelessly Stuck On Stupid and mired in the deep, deep recesses of the Fever Swamps, the Republicans never cease to amaze me with their cluelessness and their chronically tin ears.
Bush and the Republican congresscritters alike seem apt to engineer one clusterfuck after another, and I fear that with five full months to go before Election Day, they just might pull off a real doozie-- something so friggin' hairbrained that the entire electorate turns on them and says, "Enough of this crap! Get these bums OUTTA HERE!!!"
Like I said: I got a real bad feeling about this...
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But Steve if you only got to hear their emotional cries at the hearings about the past STOLEN elections. It would have been more believable if they had showed up to the hearing not reeking of marijuana and spouting "HALIBUTON". Trust me they are going to come unglued when they lose more seats in both houses. What is funny is that they really believe that Americans take them seriously. The best witness I saw was when a voting expert demonstrated that when he touched the screen at different places at the same time it failed to register his correct vote. Then he demonstrated that IF he had access to the RAW code he could in theory change that code (no duh). Clearly this was due to the Halliburton-Diebold-Rove cabal and rogue NeoCon programmers. How the committee kept a straight face during the hearings is beyond me.
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Ohio used electronic voting machines in the primary at the beginning of the month. My experience was smooth as silk, and I even got a printout verifying my choices, which went into a locked box in the precinct-- presumably to be opened if there is a serious challenge to the result.
Gunmen killed a woman and her lover after they were discovered having sex in a field near a tribal village in southern Pakistan, police said on Monday. Three men opened fire on the victims after spotting them in an "objectionable condition" in the field before dawn on Sunday near Mewa Khan Sunhari village, about 550 kilometres northeast of Karachi, said area police official Abdul Majeed Abro. The 33-year-old man, identified as Hadi Bakhsh Buledi, and the 25-year-old woman, identified by the single name Raji, died at the scene of the shooting, Abro said. Both had been married to other people.
"This is a case of karo-kari," Abro said, referring to an ancient custom of killing adulterers. Police were looking for the three suspected attackers and Raji's husband in connection with the killings, Abro said.
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How does that C&W song go?
Papa loved Mama,
Mama loved men,
Now Mama's in the graveyard,
Papa's in the pen.
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'Down by the river........I shot my Baby.........Down by the river.......dead..........hmmmm...........shot her dead'
Another two people died after drinking poisonous liquor on Monday, bringing the death toll from moonshine in Bahawalpur to seven. Seven people died on Sunday and two who were in critical condition died in Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital on Monday. Police said they had arrested the supplier of the liquor. "We have registered a case against bootlegger Muhammad Nawaz alias Shamla and police have arrested him for supplying the toxic liquor to people in Nazirabad Colony, Bahawalpur city," Bahawalpur District Police Officer Arif Zaman told Daily Times.
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"Meanwhile, officials at Anheuser Busch insisted that Budweiser is totally safe".
AMMAN A gathering of Islamic thinkers and leaders on Monday pledged to write a model constitution to be adopted by countries wishing to enact Sharia-based laws. It will be a guiding model of an Islamic constitution, Al Quds Centre for Political Studies Director Oraib Rantawi told The Jordan Times at the closing of a conference entitled: Towards a civic democratic Islamic discourse.
We just can't wait to see it...
... we may not live to see it ...
We have agreed to hold a special conference to draft a democratic Islamic constitution that among other things safeguards womens rights, he said.
Right. Under shariah.
For the past three days, Islamic scholars and representatives of Islamist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, have been engaged in long discussions centred on the need to introduce democratic civic discourse into Muslim societies. Syafii Anwar, executive director of International Centre for Islam and Pluralism in Indonesia, argued that Muslim countries should adopt a secular approach to state affairs but insisted that a contextual interpretation of the Koran should be the basis for writing an Islamic constitution.
You can't have a secular state with religious law. Y'gotta be either fish or foul.
According to Anwar, extremism emanates from the literal interpretation of scripture, regardless of the reality of the modern world and the context of the original text.
So the Koran's a "living document"?
The conference also called for participants to initiate dialogue between Islamist factions and selected governments of Arab and Islamic countries, Rantawi said. This dialogue will aim at pinpointing the needs of these parties in order to promote the democratic process in these countries, he said.
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Mutually exclusive terms. You cant use them this close together in a sentence. You cant even use them in the same sentence or paragraph or book. And if you try, why then by Allan (Ahkbar, who runs the 7-11), Ill explode.
A new military parachute system which fits wings on soldiers could enable them to travel to 200 kilometres (124 miles) after jumping, Jane's Defence Weekly defence magazine said Friday.
The system, which involves the development of new modular carbon-fibre wings, will mean that aircraft can drop parachutists from 30,000 feet (9,150 metres) into an area of operations without flying into a danger zone.
Trials of the modular wing are being developed by the German firm Elektroniksystem und Logistik and Draeger. They are due to finish by the end of 2006, with the entire parachute and wings combination expected to be available during 2007.
Peter Felstead, editor of Jane's Defence Weekly, said the new system has been in use with the German army since 2003, but the development of the new wing means soldiers can travel much further than the current 48 kilometres.
"The new wing will also reduce the impact of wind conditions on the jumper and allow operatives to travel up to 40 kilometres carrying loads of around 100 kilogrammes," Felstead said.
"The system is reportedly 100 percent silent and extremely difficult to track by air on ground-based radar systems."
Jane's Defence Weekly reported that the next stage of the development will utilise small turbo-jet drives, as used on unmanned aerial vehicles, allowing jumpers to be carried longer distances without jumping from such extreme heights.
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Course it's going to require each soldat to carry 150 lbs. of O2. Other than that we're set. Oh, and thermal protection, 50 lbs of insulation, other than that we're ready to go. Or and maybe some sort of navigation device, that's a long way to keep formation. Maybe a little GPS to go. Other than that....
Sounds like they just upgraded to carbon fiber wings for more control and slow final approach to something within reason of landing without major injury or parachute.
And I would imagine this would be reserved for SOF forces for many reasons. Expense, Special Training needed, and of course could you imagine trying to fly hundreds or thousands of these babies in the dark bad weather without a major FUBAR incident. I could easily picture 5-10 man squads gliding in thou. 40 miles would allow to drop in international air space and still glide in deep.
Military-ruled Myanmar has shrugged off international criticism of its decision to extend the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, calling it a domestic issue. "This is not an international issue. This is a domestic issue," Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win told reporters on Monday on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Malaysia.
On Saturday, Myanmar imposed another year of house arrest on Nobel peace laureate Suu Kyi despite international pressure for her release. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan had made a direct appeal to junta supremo Than Shwe to free her.
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Oh that's just too easy "Sucky"
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MORONI: Molten lava simmered in the main crater of the only active volcano in the Comoros on Monday but experts said there was little risk to humans from Mount Karthala's weekend eruption. As nervous residents in the capital cast wary glances at the imposing mountain, which erupted twice last year, vulcanologists said there was no immediate threat to either the city or villages in its shadow. "There is a bubbling lava lake (but) all the activity is confined within the crater," said Julie Morin, a volcano expert from the nearby French island of Reunion who was in several reconnaissance flights over the mountain. "We flew around the crater four times and we saw that all the activity was in the Chahale crater," she told reporters. Mount Karthala erupted late on Sunday, creating a red cloud over its crater as lava glowed through the night skies but there was no flow of molten rock or the ash and dust that have accompanied previous eruptions. "It was a mild magma eruption," said Hamidou Nassor, head of the Mount Karthala National Observatory, adding, however, that scientists could not rule out the possiblity of increased activity in the coming days. The 2,361-meter (7,746-foot) volcano lies just 15 kilometers (nine miles) from Moroni, the capital of three-island Indian Ocean achipelago on the main isle of Grand Comore.
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"...but have a comely virgin ready, just in case..."
The earthquake that killed over 5,000 people on Indonesia's Java island is linked to the one that triggered the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and may signal the imminent eruption of a nearby volcano, an expert said on Monday.
Indonesia sits in a seismically active "ring of fire", a region marked by regular volcanic and tectonic activity, and which bore the brunt of the December 2004 quake-generated tsunami which left more than 230,000 dead or missing. Edward Bryant, a scientist specialising in natural hazards at Australia's University of Wollongong, said the tremor that generated the tsunami, Saturday's quake and increased activity at nearby Mount Merapi are all likely linked. "Merapi itself is probably a product of the follow-up from the earthquake 18 months ago," Bryant told Reuters.
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Medical teams from around the world began flying into Java on Monday following the reopening of Yogyakarta's damaged airport, as the death toll from Saturday's quake passed 5,100. Australia and Japan also sent large cash donations in addition to medical teams, following the reopening of Yogyakarta's damaged airport. Paris-based charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) deployed a surgical team to the quake zone, while the Indonesia coordinator for international humanitarian aid organisation Medecins du Monde said that the immediate priority was to get medical teams to "the outlying areas" where the injured had little or no access to healthcare facilities.
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Why? It's not like the indonesians don't have money.
Those journalists who describe indonesia are ignorant, lying or both.
Java has more millionaires per square kilometre than Sydney does.
They just don't redistribute it through tax, and corruption helps them concentrate it in the hands of the rich.
Cut off the aid and make the rich of indonesia fork out for their own poor for a change.
Incidentally you do know they've bought themselves planes that have more strike power than the Royal Australian Air Force, don't you?
So how come we instantly give them $3 mill aid so they can buy more weapons?
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The abrupt and massive sea change regarding Indonesia's opinion of the USA and the reversal of their stand on Islamist terrorism definitely warrants a huge influx of American foreign aid.
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HONG KONG - Paris Hilton says her upcoming album will be a mix of reggae, pop and hip-hop, with the first single being a reggae song called "Stars Are Blind." 
Six Nepalese UN peacekeepers have been captured in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo by militia fighters who are demanding a ransom for their release, UN and Congolese sources said on Monday. The sources, who asked not be named, said the United Nations mission in Congo was in contact with the militia holding the Nepalese peacekeepers, who were seized during a U.N. military operation in violence-prone 
Officials from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Madinah arrested two youths in a raid on a house where alcohol was being brewed and sold. Acting on a tip-off, the officials confiscated 200 liters of alcohol, 35 Captagon tablets, a substantial amount of hashish, empty bottles, hashish wrapping paper and distilling devices. The young men had been operating from a small cabin, which had been built next to the house where they lived. The bootleggers had also placed a video camera at the front of the house to monitor whether the police were approaching or not. The administrative chief of the West Harra area also participated in the raid.
Controversy continued here over the deportation of foreign prisoners from British jails, whose inmates include 253 Indians and 416 Pakistanis. Deportation of foreign prisoners is among the major issues faced by new Home Secretary John Reid. The issue generated much heat in the House of Commons and in the media when it was revealed that many prisoners committed offences after being released. 
A south Toledo man is using a replica of the Statue of Liberty to let the world know his thoughts on illegal immigration. Art Bollinger says he got this idea from an e-mail he received, and decided to duplicate the picture.
Gunmen killed a woman and her lover after they were discovered having sex in a field near a tribal village in southern Pakistan, police said on Monday. Three men opened fire on the victims after spotting them in an "objectionable condition" in the field before dawn on Sunday near Mewa Khan Sunhari village, about 550 kilometres northeast of Karachi, said area police official Abdul Majeed Abro. The 33-year-old man, identified as Hadi Bakhsh Buledi, and the 25-year-old woman, identified by the single name Raji, died at the scene of the shooting, Abro said. Both had been married to other people.
Another two people died after drinking poisonous liquor on Monday, bringing the death toll from moonshine in Bahawalpur to seven. Seven people died on Sunday and two who were in critical condition died in Bahawalpur Victoria Hospital on Monday. Police said they had arrested the supplier of the liquor. "We have registered a case against bootlegger Muhammad Nawaz alias Shamla and police have arrested him for supplying the toxic liquor to people in Nazirabad Colony, Bahawalpur city," Bahawalpur District Police Officer Arif Zaman told Daily Times.
AMMAN A gathering of Islamic thinkers and leaders on Monday pledged to write a model constitution to be adopted by countries wishing to enact Sharia-based laws. It will be a guiding model of an Islamic constitution, Al Quds Centre for Political Studies Director Oraib Rantawi told The Jordan Times at the closing of a conference entitled: Towards a civic democratic Islamic discourse.
Military-ruled Myanmar has shrugged off international criticism of its decision to extend the house arrest of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, calling it a domestic issue. "This is not an international issue. This is a domestic issue," Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win told reporters on Monday on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement meeting in Malaysia. 
The earthquake that killed over 5,000 people on Indonesia's Java island is linked to the one that triggered the deadly 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and may signal the imminent eruption of a nearby volcano, an expert said on Monday. 
Medical teams from around the world began flying into Java on Monday following the reopening of Yogyakarta's damaged airport, as the death toll from Saturday's quake passed 5,100. Australia and Japan also sent large cash donations in addition to medical teams, following the reopening of Yogyakarta's damaged airport. Paris-based charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) deployed a surgical team to the quake zone, while the Indonesia coordinator for international humanitarian aid organisation Medecins du Monde said that the immediate priority was to get medical teams to "the outlying areas" where the injured had little or no access to healthcare facilities.
