Kim Basinger has been arraigned on contempt charges. Former Hubby Alec Baldwin triggered the case by alleging that Kim is guilty of a laundry list of violations in their ongoing custody dispute. Among Baldwin's allegations -- that Basinger blocked his visitation rights, blocked his rights to speak with his daughter on the telephone and failed to notify him when the child suffered an injury. I wouldn't want him anywhere near my kid, either.
Basinger pled not guilty through her lawyer, Neal Hersh. The actress did not appear for the arraignment. Is the dink gonna be there? Then screw it.
The former couple has been locked in an epic custody battle over 10-year-old Ireland. Baldwin has alleged Basinger is thwarting his ability to parent. Basinger has said, right back at you, Alec. Heh. Epic. Heh.
Basinger faces 12 counts of contempt. Each count carries a maximum penalty of $1,000. Chump change. Anyone who bitch-slaps Alec Baldwin is okay by me. Kim is, um, extra-okay, lol.
Our Jackal has an alibi - he was here all day yesterday. :-) A pack of jackals prowling for food attacked villages in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, injuring at least 35 people, officials said on Thursday.
The attack took place in Madhubani district, about 120 km (75 miles) north of the state capital, Patna, late on Wednesday.
"We are still trying to ascertain the number of jackals involved in the attack and the extent of injuries sustained by human beings," Mala Kumari, a government official said over the telephone from Madhubani.
Jackals have sometimes been seen roaming the streets in India as their forest habitat dwindles, but reports of attacks on humans are rare.
"We have not seen or heard anything like this in the last 12 years," Santosh Kumar, who saw the jackals attacking the villagers. "Some of them were badly bitten," he said. It will be attributed to encroachment. Too many humans.
Jackals are a lot smaller than coyotes, more fox-sized, maybe like a Terrier. How in the world would some 35 people get mauled by something that small. Heck, you could kick them out of the way.
Oh, and I have a validated parking sticker for the U of A Medical Center for Wednesday.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - A spokeswoman for leftist legislators from Mexico City said Wednesday they would recognize conservative Felipe Calderon as president-elect, despite orders to shun him as part of protests over the July 2 election their party claims was fraudulent.
Nancy Cardenas said she was making the statement on behalf of the dominant 34-member delegation of the Democratic Revolution Party in the legislature representing the capital - a stronghold of party ex-presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. "We are going to recognize Calderon because he is going to take office on Dec. 1 as president of the republic, but it doesn't mean that we agree with his platform," Cardenas told reporters, according to a transcript of her remarks distributed to news media.
Asked if her comments reflected the opinion of all or only some of the 34 Democratic Revolution lawmakers from Mexico City, she responded, "It's the position of the group." In a later telephone interview with The Associated Press, Cardenas said that at "no time have I said that Felipe Calderon is a legitimate president," adding that "our legitimate president is Andres Manuel." But she also said that "we (lawmakers) are part of an institution and we have to act within the legal framework that governs us."
There's a novel idea.
Meanwhile, national Democratic Revolution spokesman Gerardo Fernandez told the AP the party position "is that we're not recognizing the election and this hasn't changed." "What Nancy Cardenas said was her own opinion," he added.
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Skeletons of 22 children and 29 adults have been found in a suspected Nazi-era mass grave excavated in Germany.
The remains were exhumed from the cemetery of a Catholic church in the village of Menden-Barge.
Officials said the dead may have been victims of Adolf Hitler's "euthanasia" programme, under which many disabled people were murdered.
Hitler's Nazi regime killed more than six million Jews and other minorities across Europe during World War II.
"We assume that these were victims of the Nazi regime," state prosecutor Ulrich Maass said.
Mr Maass said authorities would search for evidence about the suspected killings and witnesses to any atrocities.
At least one witness, a former church assistant, said he saw corpses brought to the grave by horse-drawn cart.
But he admitted that it could be difficult to find enough strong evidence to bring charges against any individual, 61 years after the end of the war.
Poisons often used to kill victims would be hard to detect after so many years.
The prosecutor said a culture of secrecy surrounded the grave until recent years.
The cemetery is near the site of a hospital once run by Hitler's personal doctor Karl Brandt, who headed the "euthanasia" programme, called Action T4. Victims were killed by lethal injection or by carbon monoxide fumes piped into sheds from car exhausts.
Plans to move Airbus operations out of Germany as part of a cost-cutting plan have angered politicians and officials who are calling on the German government to intervene in a bid to retain investment in the firm.
News that Airbus is facing an uncertain future due to the delayed roll-out of the A380 super jumbo jet by at least a year, and the proposed shifting of operations from Hamburg to cheaper sites in Russia, India and China, has angered politicians and industry officials in Germany. Politicians in Hamburg, home of the Airbus plant charged with building the super jumbo's cabins, are reportedly enraged at prospects of layoffs after the German state spent 750 million euros ($955 million) to keep the plant running.
Airbus is responsible for some 40,000 jobs in Germany. Berlin daily Berliner Zeitung said the German government was particularly concerned about the future of Airbus' factory in Hamburg -- which employs some 12,000 people amid rumors that all production activities connected with A380 superjumbo could be transferred to Airbus' parent company EADS (European Aeronautic Space and Defence Company) Toulouse in France.
Germany is present in EADS via German-US auto giant DaimlerChrysler, but the group has recently reduced its shareholding in the aerospace group from 30 percent to 22.3 percent.
Airbus boss Christian Streif has called for crisis talks with Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Michael Glos and will meet the minister on Thursday to discuss emergency measures to prevent Germany losing influence in Airbus. A spokesman for Glos confirmed on Wednesday that the minister would meet with the Airbus chief this week.
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It gets better, now the 350 might be delayed, via Bros. Judd:
Doubts cast on second Airbus project: report
Reuters
Thursday, October 5, 2006; 5:09 AM
PARIS (Reuters) - Airbus parent EADS reportedly raised the specter for the first time on Thursday that the woes affecting its A380 superjumbo could endanger its A350 mid-sized airliner project, sending its shares lower again.
Asked if the future A350 could be in danger because of EADS's problems, co-CEO Thomas Enders was quoted in Thursday's Financial Times as saying: "I cannot rule that out."
EADS was not immediately available to comment....
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Is the 380 the turkey or Airbus?? maybe 2, 1 big 1 smaller?
Last year at this time he had been written off as politically dead by California's political and media pundits. This year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has reinvented himself. Not only is he full of life, he also has made peace with the Democratically controlled legislature, thus, hemming in his gubernatorial opponent. He is on his way to a double-digit re-election victory on Nov. 8.
Last October he was in the last phases of stumping for four pet measures in a special election he had called at a cost of millions to the state's unhealthy treasury. Voters in increasing numbers had been telling pollsters they were angry that Gov. Schwarzenegger had insisted on a special election when the measures could have been added to the June 2006 primary ballot at no cost.
All year Gov. Schwarzenegger had been suffering from a case of Tin Ear Disease and ignored the voters' complaints. During the course of the year he got a great deal of advice and accepted some of the worst of it. He stiffed the legislature, believing he could "take his case to the people" over the legislators' heads as he had done in his first year. Alas, his vaunted early approval ratings, above 60%, moved steadily downward into 20s by the day of the special election. All of his measures took a beating.
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say what you like, but he's playing to the tune of "California, here I come" Go Arnie!
CA has long needed someone who could tame the populace and rid it both of the corrupt Republicans and corrupt Democrats.
Ok... so he flaked on global warming. Being that CA understands flakes, I would imagine that both red and blue voters in CA would be ok with that.
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They (the Reds) breathed a sigh of relief last week when he vetoed a bill to give California's presidential electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
The irony of this atrocious and unconstitutional piece of legislation is that it would probably have benefitted national GOP candidates--with leftoid conspiracy theories to follow.
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California always was purple. The Dems always managed to pull it off because the National Party didn't understand that Californians care about the environment and mass transit and increasing funding for public lands.
Let's face it. The Republicans aren't that great. We vote for them only because the Dems are sooo much worse. The Republicans may steal our money, but at the end of the day, at least they want America to be around so that they can continue to steal our tax dollars. Dem's, on the other hand, just want to burn it down so they can loot it.
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anon, one of the better analogies of both national parties I've heard in a while - good post.
Mine is - republicans like big government, the dems like bigger government. Or, republicans want to legislate your bedroom & the dems want to legislate your pocket book.
Personally I'd like to fire most of congress and stop this cycle of false senses of priveledge our elected officials have adopted.
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me too. We need to throw them all out and start over. We need to remind these self-proclaimed princes who is really in charge. Too late to do it this year, but I'm hoping that an effort will be made to do it for the next term. I'm sick of them all, the bloated tick perverts.
One term limits for all Congressmen. One term limits for all Senators. One term limits for all Presidents. No campaign conributions by anyone for any reason over $100. You wanna run? Fine. Use your own frickin money.
You say, How will anything ever get done? Precisely.
Oh, and if you're a lawyer, you're automatically disqualified.
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And of course this was discovered WHERE . Certainly not in the area of the world ruled by the Religion of Peace. Name one thing, just one freaking thing the Islamic world has contributed to the good of Humanity in the last 1000 years besides some nice architecture.
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.
Kim Basinger has been arraigned on contempt charges. Former Hubby Alec Baldwin triggered the case by alleging that Kim is guilty of a laundry list of violations in their ongoing custody dispute. Among Baldwin's allegations -- that Basinger blocked his visitation rights, blocked his rights to speak with his daughter on the telephone and failed to notify him when the child suffered an injury.
A pack of jackals prowling for food attacked villages in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, injuring at least 35 people, officials said on Thursday.
Plans to move Airbus operations out of Germany as part of a cost-cutting plan have angered politicians and officials who are calling on the German government to intervene in a bid to retain investment in the firm.
Last year at this time he had been written off as politically dead by California's political and media pundits. This year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has reinvented himself. Not only is he full of life, he also has made peace with the Democratically controlled legislature, thus, hemming in his gubernatorial opponent. He is on his way to a double-digit re-election victory on Nov. 8.
