You can comb them out, zap them with chemicals or simply keep scratching. But head lice have a habit of maintaining a firm grip on their habitat. And the bad news is they are becoming increasingly resistant to the most common treatments. Scientists believe that 80 per cent of the bugs are immune to over-the-counter lotions. They found lice were untroubled by the chemicals permathrin and phenothrin, found in popular bug-busting brands such as Lyclear and Full Marks.
The experts say the process of natural selection means the insects have developed a resistance to the lotions. The findings will not just leave children, parents and teachers scratching their heads. It will almost certainly start a scramble to discover a lotion to do the job better.
The very thought makes me itch.
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The Germans manufacture a stainless steel lice comb that's won industry awards. Comb through the hair daily, and the eggs don't stay around long enough to hatch. And boil/wash the bedsheets and pillowcases at least once a week -- it's 8-10 days between hatchings. The common treatment shampoos merely got rid of the crawly stage, the eggs still had to be dealt with the hard way.
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The Germans manufacture a stainless steel lice comb that's won industry awards. Comb through the hair daily, and the eggs don't stay around long enough to hatch. And boil/wash the bedsheets and pillowcases at least once a week -- it's 8-10 days between hatchings. The common treatment shampoos merely got rid of the crawly stage, the eggs still had to be dealt with the hard way.
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You should have seen the furor in France when Jerry Lewis went to a well known restaurant, ordered the best dish, the most expensive wine they had... and mixed it with Coca-Cola.
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I never understood why, for americans, Jerry Lewis is supposedly a big star in France.
I mean, that's just not true, he's pretty much *unknown*, even more compared to current US actors, and the last time I saw one of his movies on teevee (including cable) was perhaps 10-15 years ago, or even more (I remember only seeing one of his movies in my childhood).
Of course, he got some kind of medal by the french ministry of culture - yes, we have a ministry of culture, subventioned and official progressist culture -, but many others US actors got one as well, including Sylvester Stallone and Robert de Niro.
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that's interesting. So the whole Jerry Lewis is beloved by France is just a highly successful PR blitz? heh, heh. Well I'll be. Give a raise to the guy responsible for that one - if he's still alive.
He was a god of Bazin & the Cahiers du Cinema crowd back in the 60's since he was a good example of what they called an "auteur" (i.e. a director with total production control of his films, like Chaplin and Hitchcock) and he authored a book called "The Total Filmmaker." Also, he portrayed the American everyman as idiot, which appealed to anti-"Ami" bigotry.
JL wore out his welcome in the 80's, with the advent of new theories and the realization that he was not that funny.
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Sounds like Jerry is headed the way of the Dino ...
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Mr. Brown, thanks for the infos.
I didn't even know that, I've read the Cahiers du cinéma perhaps a dozen times in my whole waste-of-skin life, in high school library (very boring and overly intellectual), my jaded tastes leaned more toward the french "Fangoria", "Mad Movies", and a cool mag called "Starfix" (intellectual too, but in an hip way).
Anyway, the 60's are prehistory, the 80's only a bit less, and I maintain he's pretty much unknown to the general french public, except perhaps for the happy fews who read The Cahiers (is there any left?).
PARIS The highest court in France on Wednesday rejected a bid by George Soros, the billionaire investor, to overturn a conviction for insider trading in a case dating back nearly 20 years, leaving the first blemish on his five-decade investing career. Beside 2004's loss with his French candidiate for POTUS
The panel, the Cour de Cassation, upheld the conviction of Soros, 75, an American citizen, for buying and selling Société Générale shares in 1988 after receiving information about a planned corporate raid on the bank. 75, huh? Hope his family has bad genetics
Ron Soffer, his lawyer, said Soros planned to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights, saying that the length of the proceedings had prevented his client from having a fair trial. I'm sure your lengthy appeals had no part in it. The "Chirac" method...
"The investigation started in 1989," he said. "The appeals trial occurred in 2004. How can you call witnesses and ask them about what happened in 1988?" The French stock market regulatory authority investigated the matter separately and concluded that Soros had not violated the law or any ethical rules, Soffer said.
The French authorities have not yet determined what fine Soros will pay.
In a March 2005 ruling, a French appeals court confirmed a fine of 2.2 million, or $2.8 billion, set by a lower court for the illegal purchase of 95,000 shares in Société Générale. The Cour de Cassation ruled that the fine would be adjusted to reflect Soros' profits, and it ordered the case returned to the appeals court to clarify the amount. heh heh that's serious money
Soros, a Hungarian-born businessman, has acknowledged that he was told about a Paris financier's plans to take over Société Générale in late 1988 and began independently acquiring shares in the bank just days later.
But he denied that knowledge of the raid had amounted to insider information or influenced his transactions, which he said were part of a broader, documented strategy of investing in newly privatized French companies. Soros' lawyer said he had cooperated in the case from the beginning.
A spokesman for Soros, Michael Vachon, called the decision "an absurd miscarriage of justice" and said Soros was confident he would be cleared by the European court.
"As he has from the beginning, George Soros maintains that he engaged in no illegal or unethical conduct," Vachon said in a statement.
Soros, who emigrated to the United States in 1956 and set up Soros Fund Management 17 years later, has billions of dollars under management in his Quantum Fund.
He remains the only person convicted in the Société Générale affair. Two others, Samir Traboulsi and Jean- Charles Naouri, were acquitted.
At an appeals hearing in 2005, Soros told the court his insider trading conviction had been a "gift to my enemies" in the United States and elsewhere. "My reputation is at stake," he said.
Soros has often drawn criticism for speculating heavily on the collapse of fragile currencies. In 2004 he also angered many conservatives in the United States by pumping millions of dollars into election campaigns to try to unseat President George W. Bush.
PARIS The highest court in France on Wednesday rejected a bid by George Soros, the billionaire investor, to overturn a conviction for insider trading in a case dating back nearly 20 years, leaving the first blemish on his five-decade investing career.
The panel, the Cour de Cassation, upheld the conviction of Soros, 75, an American citizen, for buying and selling Société Générale shares in 1988 after receiving information about a planned corporate raid on the bank.
Ron Soffer, his lawyer, said Soros planned to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights, saying that the length of the proceedings had prevented his client from having a fair trial.
"The investigation started in 1989," he said. "The appeals trial occurred in 2004. How can you call witnesses and ask them about what happened in 1988?" The French stock market regulatory authority investigated the matter separately and concluded that Soros had not violated the law or any ethical rules, Soffer said.
The French authorities have not yet determined what fine Soros will pay.
In a March 2005 ruling, a French appeals court confirmed a fine of 2.2 million, or $2.8 billion, set by a lower court for the illegal purchase of 95,000 shares in Société Générale. The Cour de Cassation ruled that the fine would be adjusted to reflect Soros' profits, and it ordered the case returned to the appeals court to clarify the amount.
Soros, a Hungarian-born businessman, has acknowledged that he was told about a Paris financier's plans to take over Société Générale in late 1988 and began independently acquiring shares in the bank just days later.
But he denied that knowledge of the raid had amounted to insider information or influenced his transactions, which he said were part of a broader, documented strategy of investing in newly privatized French companies. Soros' lawyer said he had cooperated in the case from the beginning.
A spokesman for Soros, Michael Vachon, called the decision "an absurd miscarriage of justice" and said Soros was confident he would be cleared by the European court. "I've actually purchased them"
"As he has from the beginning, George Soros maintains that he engaged in no illegal or unethical conduct," Vachon said in a statement.
Soros, who emigrated to the United States in 1956 and set up Soros Fund Management 17 years later, has billions of dollars under management in his Quantum Fund.
He remains the only person convicted in the Société Générale affair. Two others, Samir Traboulsi and Jean- Charles Naouri, were acquitted.
At an appeals hearing in 2005, Soros told the court his insider trading conviction had been a "gift to my enemies" in the United States and elsewhere. "My reputation is at stake," he said.
Soros has often drawn criticism for speculating heavily on the collapse of fragile currencies. In 2004 he also angered many conservatives in the United States by pumping millions of dollars into election campaigns to try to unseat President George W. Bush. 'Landlord of Mark Mulloch Brown' alone should get your ass publicly stocked and flogged
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Katherine Jean Lopez at National Review posts this gem from her inbox:
Dear EmailNation Subscriber,
We know that cruises aren't for everyone but Nation publisher emeritus Victor Navasky and The Nation want to invite you on The Nation's ninth annual seminar cruise. Setting sail from Fort Lauderdale on December 16, the Holland America's MS Zuiderdam will cruise through the Caribbean on a seven-day tour, returning to Florida on December 23. Yes, seven days of sun, seasickness, seething, and solidarity with the working class on a cruise ship that's priced out of reach of the proletariat!
The dates have been selected to allow families and educators to make the trip. You'll be joining a distinguished group of speakers who will participate in a series of lectures, seminars, conversations and binge drinking cocktail parties over the course of the voyage. Confirmed speakers include Joe Wilson, (top secret CIA agent--shhhhh! don't tell anyone he's aboard!)
Scott Ritter, (youth counselor)
Steve Earle, (washed-up drug-addled folk singer)
Jane Smiley, (whodat? Did she invent the Wal-Mart smiley face icon or something?)
Jonathan Kozol, (rich guy who writes about poor people)
Molly Ivins, (former pro wrestler)
the Rev. Lennox Yearwood, (whoever the hell he is, he has the coolest name of the bunch)
and Jim Hightower (alleged radio personality)
as well as Nation writers David Corn and Katha Pollitt and RadioNation host Laura Flanders. They'll join Navasky and Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel in what has always been both an enlightening exchange of ideas and a no-hassle, nonstop Bush-hating frenzy relaxing vacation.
Best Regards,
Peter Rothberg, The Nation Imagine: a whole boatload of moonbats. Any chance we can get them to do an audience-participation reenactment of The Poseidon Adventure -- or at least Gilligan's Island?
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I really am half-tempted to sign up. I would start drinking after I woke, stagger from hatefest-to-hatefest, cast dispersions on Valerie Plames honor, and take a poke at Ritter. And that is just my day one activities! Day two I would bag me a couple of LLL m0onb@+ chicks after the (champagne reinforced) breakfast buffet, take another swing at Ritter, and then pee on David Corns leg in the mens room. Day three I accuse Jonathan Kozol of providing kids for Scott Ritter, take a swing at Steve Earle (Ritter avoids me by now), and throw Jane Smiley overboard. Day four David Corn offers to refund my passage if I leave quietly. I accept his offer then call him a pussy as I disembark in Belize with enough cash to party for a week.
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Memo to crew of the MS Zuiderdam: Don't base your Christmas shopping plans on planning for big tips from this one. Got a feeling it won't be too... lucrative.
Hopes for a quick compromise on immigration were dealt a blow Tuesday after House Speaker Dennis Hastert said he wanted to take a "long look" at a Senate bill offering possible citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants. Hastert said hearings on the Senate bill should be held before appointing anyone to a House-Senate committee to negotiate a compromise immigration bill. Later, he said he was unsure what the House's next move would be. "We're going to take a long look at it," Hastert said late Tuesday.
House Majority Leader John Boehner agreed. "I think we should know clearly what's in the Senate bill," Boehner said. But he added there are lots of ways to understand its contents. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, also scheduled a hearing for Monday to review provisions in the bill requiring employers to verify that their workers are legal. Cornyn said he opposes a provision allowing workers to use up to 20 documents to verify they are legal workers. Also, the Department of Homeland Security has raised concerns about how quickly it must have in place an electronic system that employers will use to verify their workers legal status, Cornyn's spokesman Don Stewart said.
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Long meaning until after the November elections. Long meaning that the public is boiling tar and they are getting a little scared. Long meaning that they think we have short attenction spans. Long meaning they need to actually do something this time cause the public is keeping lists and checking them twice.
#3
Anything to slow down the excreable Senate bill. Hastert has to do this to get the House version punched through.
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And expose all the hidden little goodies for illegals they stuck in. The Senate is beyond shame.
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Or long meaning just before the election so all the donks can run on their vote in contested districts. Since there are only about 45 districts, it won't take that long to do the polling. It's the televised hearings leading up to the vote that will take a lot of time.
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Frank, you're right. The Senate bill is a complete sham. Frisk has stacked the deck with RINOs. Haskert has no recourse.
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this per Robert Novak:
Immigration: House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) appears to be dragging his feet on compromising with the Senate's immigration bill. This is good news for House Republicans, considering the lessons of recent elections. Republicans win when they run away from Bush on immigration. If enough endangered House Republicans are arm-twisted into supporting a lax immigration bill, they will go down as a result.
The best outcome right now for the GOP, from a political perspective, is a failure to act, and that appears to be exactly what Hastert is encouraging.
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Can Tom Tancredo and JD Hayworth lead the house team in the conference committee?
A swarm of federal immigration agents sped silently, headlights off, down a Boston side street early Wednesday and surrounded an apartment house.
"Police! Policia! Police!" yelled Daniel Monico, a deportation officer, holding his badge to a window where someone had pulled back the curtain. "Open the door!" Moments later, agents led a dazed-looking Jose Ferreira Da Silva, 35, out in handcuffs. The Brazilian had been arrested in 2002 and deported, but had slipped back into the country. He now faces up to 20 years in prison.
In a blitz that began May 26, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested nearly 2,100 illegal immigrants across the country. Officials said the raids are aimed at child molesters, gang members and other violent criminals, as well as people like Da Silva who sneaked back into the country after a judge threw them out. The crackdown is called Operation Return to Sender. "This sends a message," said Monico, standing outside the gray Victorian apartment where Da Silva had been hiding. "When we deport you, we're serious." An Associated Press reporter and photographer accompanied a fugitive task force as it made Operation Return to Sender raids Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
The operation has caught more than 140 immigrants with convictions for sexual offenses against children; 367 known gang members, including street soldiers in the deadly Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13; and about 640 people who had already been deported once, immigration officials said. The numbers include more than 720 arrests in California alone. More than 800 people arrested already have been deported.
"This is a massive operation," said Marc Raimondi, a spokesman for immigration enforcement or ICE, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. "We are watching the country's borders from the inside."
If I had a evil mind I'd think somebody getting nervous about the poll numbers of their base
In New England, officials said the sweeps have caught more than 150, including 75 who had come back after being deported.
ICE has a network of 35 fugitive teams across the country. The 2006 budget increased that number to 52, and the Bush administration is pushing for 70 by 2007. The challenge, agents said, is staggering.
There are more than 500,000 "fugitive aliens" who have been deported by judges and either slipped back into the country or never left. There is often a disconnect between local and state prisons and the federal government that allows illegal immigrants to serve time and be released without being transferred to federal officials for deportation. The work that led to the series of arrests over the past 20 days began last winter. Agents in Boston, for example, began scouting targets four months ago, conducting street surveillance and following up leads from confidential informants.
"It's a lot of preparation, and it's a lot of patience," said Jim Martin, deputy director for ICE's New England field office. "All for a couple minutes of adrenaline."
During the raid late Tuesday, the federal squad, which includes a Boston police sergeant detective, wore bulging bulletproof vests and stiff Kevlar gloves to protect their hands from needles, knives and rusty fences. Badges dangled on chains around their necks as they passed around wanted posters and shined flashlights on the face of a 24-year-old Latvian man who had served prison time for assaulting a police officer. The team moved in the dark, climbing fences and hiding behind parked cars to encircle a three-story house in Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood. All at once they emerged from the shadows. A half-dozen agents filled the front porch, their knocks on the door echoing down the block. The target had moved, the agents learned, and a team split off and caught him in Weymouth, about 15 miles south of the city.
Another man caught in the recent blitz was a Salvadoran gang member who was convicted in a stabbing that left a 13-year-old boy paralyzed. Agents caught him working at Budget Rental Car at Boston's Logan Airport. "The problems with immigration aren't going to be solved overnight," Raimondi said as the team sped toward another raid. "You start chipping away at it ... The more teams we get up and running, the more dangerous people we are going to get off the streets."
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2100 down, 12,000,000 to go.
The federal gov would get a lot more "bang for their buck", if they would go after those who employee illegals.
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The federal gov would get a lot more "bang for their buck", if they would go after those who contribute the most to their campaigns employee illegals.
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It looks like they went after targets that are unlikely to be back on the street. The idea is to get the truly bad men behind bars and scare the average Juan to go home till after the election. I'll bet they have film of DaSilva doing the perp walk for the nightly news.
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thank you TomFeral, I agree:
Fine the hell out of employers, only then will they they think twice before hiring illegals with or without any ole funky ID.
If you care about our Citizen voting rights, health care, health care insurance payments, Social Security, Pensions, Taxes, and every other hidden yet burgeoning costs attritibutable to the millions of illegal immigrants here in America, then reject those hucksters who sell illegals as 'cheap labor'.. Somthin for Nothin IOW.
and It would help if everyone reminded our pols with these this year.
I printed a bunch then stuffed them back into their respective return envelopes and then mailed them back to..
President Bush's White House Invitation Dinner Invite [I receive them because I contribute, so does everyone else]
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The federal gov would get a lot more "bang for their buck", if they would go after those who employee illegals.
We want the illegals out, we don't want to create a massive new group of criminals. Besides, with 4.6% unemployment, many employers have to take what they can get. And finally, if the law were to make employers fully responsible, that would create 12 million jobless, starving people wandering through your neighborhood, overnight.
Rounding up the criminals, and building the fence, are a good start. Now, we need to seal the border, and be fair to productive workers. God knows we've been 'fair' to non-productive workers long enough.
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Here is a recent poll done by a group called "The Polling Station".
Do you believe that ILLEGAL immigration is a threat to US nationalism?
N = 13,550 Margin of Error +/- .5%
....... Yes ...... No .... Undecided
Dem ..... 51.1% .... 39.1% ... 9.8%
Ind .... 70.2% .... 23.8% ... 6.0%
Rep .... 90.9% .... 6.0% ... 3.1%
What world does the Senate live in? Who are they afraid of?
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RC - LOFL! I think Bush and Co have been using the Fumble tables on this issue so far. ;)
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Fine, the employers want them then stick the employers with the same requirements they've established for people seeking to marry foreigners, like the obligation for their welfare if for any reason they break up before 5 years. You think the employers will step forward to take that liability? Ha.
PESHAWAR: A meeting of the NWFP Assembly Special Committee on Higher Education, Archives and Libraries department was held here today under the chairmanship of MPA Anwar Kamal Khan Marwat. [Long list of names redacted] as movers of the adjournment motions regarding the alleged ban imposed on "Dars-e-Quran" or "Wazz-o-Nasihat" entrusted to The Committee.
In Peshawar? Pshaw.
And a hearty wazoo nasty hat to youse, too!
The members of the committee listened to the faculty members and the Vice Chancellor of the Peshawar University droning for hours whereby they explained their position with regard to the notification whereby an impression was created that the teaching of Holy Quran had been banned on the university campuses. The VC Prof. Dr. Haroonur Rasheed informed the meeting from the very outset that no ban on the teachings of Holy Quran what so ever had been imposed rather the university syndicate has recently decided to include the teachings of Holy Quran as part and parcel of the academic activities in each and every discipline of the university while different committees / organizations were working under the guidance of senior professors of the university to teach the students the Holy Quran. He also pointed out that the Supreme Court of Pakistan has imposed ban on political activities of students inside the education institutions. Later the members of the committee thoroughly discussed the issue of the aforementioned notification in detail in light of both the teachings of Holy Quran and Sunnah as well as the judgment of the Supreme Court of Pakistan banning political activities inside the educational institutions of the country.
Aha. This meeting is with regards to the fine "talibs" always pictured at the 'Burg with the Nazi flags. Looks like somone tried to rein them in and HQ pulled some strings, with a nice dog-n-pony show at the Chancellor's office.
Later the committee, decided to further probe the matter and if required they will again summon the university administration and will soon finalize its recommendations for submission to the Assembly.
Obviously, any sanctions on the, um...students is unIslamic, with jobs and possibly heads on the line.
I must say, the civic discourse in Pakland is rather...robust.
BARA: The situation remained tense in Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency on Monday as political authorities demolished a huge commercial plaza owned by Mengal Bagh, the commander of a self-styled Islamic Lashkar.
Followers of Mengal Bagh forcibly occupied a number of shops in the main Bara bazaar earlier in the week, spawning the latest wave of unrest in the tribal region.
In Landikotal, armed tribesmen from Khyber Pakhai Zakhakhel continued patrolling the main road to prevent Mengal Bagh and his followers from entering the area. Residents took up small and heavy weapons in order to deal with any unpleasant situation in a bid to protect their area in case of a possible attack by Mengal led-group. "We are carrying weapons for self-defence," said Shakir Afridi, a leader of the patrolling group.
The people of Pakhai Zakhakhel went to the Brug area on the invitation of some local elders to hold a public meeting (jirga) there at Karamna, but the local people were not present. They held a gathering at a mosque. Addressing the gathering here, Maoeen Shah, Malik Abdul Raziq, Jan Syed, Khaid Khan and Abdul Ghafoor stressed that the people of Zakha Khel Bazaar were their brothers but they had made a blunder when they had invited Mengal Bagh to the bazaar to damage the peace in the area. The speakers invited the people of Bazaar to forget about the flattened market stalls past mistakes and come to join with their brothers for expelling Mengal Bagh from Bazaar area.
Welcome, Hitch. We're proud you've chosen us; any nation surely would be enriched by you. Hat tip to Mark in Mexico. There's a lot in this article, I cut it just to the citizen stuff but encourage you to read the rest:
...At 57, the Oxford grad with the brooding look of Richard Burton has spent nearly half his life in the United States on a green card (and has three American daughters to show for it). "This being the generous country that it is, I was quite prepared to go on as an Anglo-American. I don't particularly want to vote. But after September 11th, I thought I was cheating on my dues."
Unlike other expat legendsrock stars Bono and Neil ("Shock & Awe") Young come to mindwho fashion themselves as U.S. foreign policy experts while keeping their citizenship and their vote elsewhere, Mr. Hitchens had a change of heart after terrorists attacked New York and Washington. He watched the Pentagon burn from the rooftop of his apartment in northern Virginia and later lost a mailman to anthrax. So one day this month he will walk into a government office just outside Washington, pledge his allegiance to the United States of America, and become a citizen.
"I realized that when I was reading arguments after 9/11 that said there was the American view and there was the European viewthat sort of tripethat as far as I could tell the American view is the one that I took. I felt a much stronger identification than I had before," Mr. Hitchens tells WORLD. "Before I was ready to curse alone. I was an outsider in both countries. But it felt like, feels like, is a gesture of solidarity."
Solidarity with what, exactly, in a country cleanly divided over war in Iraq and led by a president whose policy toward terrorism has dropped his poll numbers into the dustbin?
"It's fallen on the United States to be the country that resists the renewal of barbarism, of religious barbarism in the world," Mr. Hitchens answers. "It doesn't particularly want the job, it doesn't do it terribly welland I think would have escaped it if it couldbut there's something about the United States that makes it both hated and antagonistic to this barbarism." He adds, "If one wants to defend the deployment of forces of fellow citizens, one probably ought to be a fellow citizen."
As a journalist Mr. Hitchens extensively covered the Bosnian war and the Gulf War, yet describes 9/11 as "an exhilarating moment" because it crystallized his views. "Everything I hate is on one side, and everything I love is on the other. I'm never going to get bored with this."
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well...ok Hitch. But if you really want to experience the American way - don't allow all of this puff piece press go mak'n you think that you are special. That's the real American way. Don't know if you can handle that aspect or not - but good luck to ya.
A U.S. district court judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a California atheist against the U.S. government for its use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on its coins and currency. Michael Newdow, the Sacramento, California lawyer and doctor who had previously launched a court challenge on behalf of his daughter over the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance said in schools, had argued that "In God We Trust" on monetary instruments violates his rights.
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I'd suggest Newdow, could stop using monetary instruments altogether, as a form of protest. ;-)
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He can change all his money to French franks. Or Italian lira. Or German marks. Or Irish punts. Maybe Spanish pesos?
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Better yet, he can exercise his right of movement and seek a home in a country without all that 'church and state' problem. Someplace that shares a common view with his intolerance. Generally found in 'advanced' blue countries often identified by dropping populations.
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I'll be back! I'll show you! I'll show ALL OF YOU!!!
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"A California atheist" point of order your honor. Nitwit Newdow is not from Californaia. His wife divorced him and moved here with their daughter. Newdow used his daughter (without his wife's support) as a prop for his stupid lawsuits. We have enough nuts here and we don't need to adopt anymore. On that note, can the previous owners of Babs Boxer please claim and repatriate her?
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bigjim: Note he doesn't file this frivilous lawsuits in Ali-bammy or Mississippi, eh? And, truth be told, I think the "religious right" sees the press they can get with nuts like Newdow filing lawsuits (often w/ the ACLU) all over the place. Even common-sense agnostics or atheists haven't tried this before and are probably thinking....who cares? And, like others said, he's free to "protest" by not using said US Dollars in my book...ptui!
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In a plastic card society, there is no need for him to use federal notes or coins. He exposes himself [in more ways than one] by choosing to use the currancy.
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
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Hopes for a quick compromise on immigration were dealt a blow Tuesday after House Speaker Dennis Hastert said he wanted to take a "long look" at a Senate bill offering possible citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants. Hastert said hearings on the Senate bill should be held before appointing anyone to a House-Senate committee to negotiate a compromise immigration bill. Later, he said he was unsure what the House's next move would be. "We're going to take a long look at it," Hastert said late Tuesday. 
A U.S. district court judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a California atheist against the U.S. government for its use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on its coins and currency. Michael Newdow, the Sacramento, California lawyer and doctor who had previously launched a court challenge on behalf of his daughter over the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance said in schools, had argued that "In God We Trust" on monetary instruments violates his rights.
