Former British prime minister Tony Blair is extremely concerned over the impact his wifes upcoming book will have on his relationship with his successor Gordon Brown, The Sunday Telegraph reported.
Cherie Blairs publisher said earlier this month that she had struck a deal to publish a warm, intimate and often very funny portrait of a family living in extraordinary circumstances. Citing a friend of the ex-prime minister, though, the Sunday Telegraph reported that Tony Blair was concerned over the impact the book, set to hit shelves in about a year, would have on his improving relationship with Prime Minister Brown. Tony is extremely concerned about the book, the Telegraphs unnamed source was quoted as saying. He is getting on really well with Gordon at the moment and the last thing he wants is for damaging revelations to wreck things again. He cant stop Cherie from writing it, though. Blair and Brown have had an often divisive relationship in their 10 years together in power, when Brown was finance minister, and tensions were often close to the surface. Cherie Blair is said to have disliked Brown and at last years Labour Party conference was alleged to have dismissed as a lie that her husband and his number two had a close working relationship.
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will they have pics, like Trudeau's wife's? If so, there should be blackout goggles if you wander nearby. I don't need to see Cheri coitally intertwined with a hookah or a Kebab
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Tucson has told the Target Corp. thanks, but no thanks to a $100,000 plus grant to install security cameras downtown. Some council members thought that placing cameras downtown and along North Fourth Avenue was an invasion of privacy.
Merchants and others said they want the cameras to combat crime and aggressive panhandling.
The council "sure didn't" talk about the issue in public, said Donovan Durband, a member of the Tucson Downtown Partnership.
Durband noted the grant Target gave to Fort Worth, Texas, instead of Tucson was actually $250,000, not the $100,000 originally offered.
"Enough City Council members thought this was 'Big Brother,' so Target took its money to Fort Worth," Durband said. "They haven't owned up to the fact they didn't want it."
"It's not fair for the decision to be made behind closed doors," said Margo Susco, owner of Hydra Leather and More clothing store. "Our representatives owe it to us to let us have a say."
Susco said she had been asking around for several weeks to determine the status of the cameras, only to find out from a reporter that the grant had been declined. Tucson police Capt. Michael Gillooly also confirmed that Target's money went to another city.
"We can't get a whole lot of answers," Susco said of the council decision to pass up the Target grant.
The City of Tucson had identified 14 locations for the cameras, which would have been monitored from police headquarters. For example, officers would have been able to pan the cameras over an area and zoom in to capture a license-plate number or a possible suspect.
Footage would potentially have been stored for 14 to 30 days and then purged unless it was going to be used for evidence, Susco said.
Tucson may not be completely out of the running for a camera grant. Dana Pack, Tucson regional manager for Target, said Target is continuing to court cities for the program, and the city could have another chance for a grant.
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I see great potential for reform and success if the Democrat party adopts policies opposed to "reckless surveillance" by both the government and private organizations.
Since Prohibition, there has been a tremendous erosion of such liberties and freedoms, many of which were surrendered for false reasons, yet never restored.
By embracing real civil liberties, not just the oppressive special interest group largess they do today, the Democrats could again regain their purpose, and far greater legitimacy.
Please note that this does NOT mean surrendering to hardened criminals. It means that the public as a whole should not be treated as hardened criminals because a few hardened criminals dwell among them.
It also means to recognize some facts of life, such as blue-eyed, gray haired grandmothers in wheelchairs to not need to be strip searched in airports, but that groups of young Muslim males acting in an suspicious manner, certainly do, and "racial profiling" be damned.
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Some council members thought that placing cameras downtown and along North Fourth Avenue was an invasion of privacy.
Privacy in public places? This is anarchy masking under 'rights'. Too many activist intentionally confuse the issue of anonymity with privacy. You have certain rights to privacy, in your home, in your car, and on your immediate person. However, you have no 'right' to anonymity in your conduct in open public venues. If you post a cop in the very same location, there is no discussion of 'rights'. What is at issue is cost effectiveness. It's cheaper to have one cop viewing ten screens than ten cops standing in ten locations.
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It also means to recognize some facts of life, such as blue-eyed, gray haired grandmothers in wheelchairs to not need to be strip searched in airports, but that groups of young Muslim males acting in an suspicious manner, certainly do, and "racial profiling" be damned.
ht to Don Surber
Last Wednesday, while flying from Phoenix to the Alamo City on U.S. Airways Flight 207, a San Antonio man, Gil Anderson, witnessed something memorable. Shortly before takeoff, he overheard a flight attendant tell a young uniformed soldier sitting in front of him:
"A lady in first-class wants to switch seats with you."
The soldier accepted the offer and walked up to the first-class section.
"When the lady came back to our area, I had a tear in my eye," Anderson said when he phoned this column soon after his plane landed. "I gave her a little round of applause. Then, by golly, everybody in that area started applauding," he said in a voice tinged with emotion. "It was a very moving moment."
Acknowledging the applause of Anderson and the other passengers, the first-class lady said simply:
"I did it because he deserves it."
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When our daughters' friend came back on leave from his Marine Service last year, between trips to Iraq, emails went around to all the friends' families and about four dozen of us greeted him at the airport.
Some others standing nearby joined in the applause when he came down the escalator, and I overheard somebody nearby saying, "I am so glad I stuck around to see what was going on."
This was in Madison, WI, also known as Berkely on the Lake.
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My wife flew through Dallas yesterday and on either the incoming or outgoing flight the crew announced they had some servicemen on board returning from duty; the announcement was met with a rousing round of applause. (Nobody swapped First Class seating though - but it was Southwest, so there wasn't any)
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First Class on SWA is when the stews show you how to make an SWAburger - a raisin between two ahlves of a peanut. Everybody used to get them, but then some cost accountant figured out the raisins stained the carpets too much so they only issue them to VIPs now.
A suspect in the murder investigation of Chief Colonel Boob Boverieki of The Salvation Army (TSA)s Headquarters here reportedly escaped from the Civil Lines police station Sunday morning. Boverieki, a 45-year-old Norwegian, was found dead of a gunshot wound in his office on September 27. The police took Major Mark Younas Joseph, a TSA employee, into custody after another employee, Major Peter, nominated him as the prime suspect in the FIR. Younas was being interrogated at the Civil Lines police station lockup when he escaped. According to capital city police sources, CCPO Malik Iqbal has reprimanded SP Civil Lines Ahsan Younas for his negligence. He has also suspended ASI Muhammad Ashiq and constables Muhammad Ashraf and Zahid Hanif with immediate effect. Two teams have been formed to trace the runaway suspect.
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Of course he escaped it's Pakiwakiland.
Mad Hatter at the corner.
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I wish TSA were The Salvation Army. The airport lines would move a lot more efficiently and the music would be much better. But I can't imagine a guy named Boob writing for War Cry.
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I'm starting to think that sending your kids to public schools is the worst thing you can do to prepare them for the future. Yeah, even worse than staying home sharing Marlboros, Bud Lite and Springer reruns with Ma.
It's a shame. When I was growing up in the 50s & 60s, public schools took blue collar kids like me and imparted information and skills needed to be responsible & productive citizens. Teachers got parent support on discipline and homework loads. We kids groaned, did the work, went on to jobs or community college or more.
Then the ideologues joined with the teacher unions & the ACLU and it's been open lawfare on the dominant society here ever since.
Mr. Lotp's family included 4 generations of public school teachers, many dedicated and non-ideological. So not a judgement I make lightly.
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While Christmas has 'Christian' overtones, the Christmas we celebrate is a result of middle class New York merchants in the early 19th Century pushing a marketing opportunity. The friggin Japanese who are largely not Christians have adopted it [helped along by the American occupation troops in the post WWII period]. It's a cultural holiday. This is more about anti-Christian behaviors of the administrators than of the system's population. They're the excuse.
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"nearly half of whom are of Arab descent at Columbus Manor"
Now there's your problem. The obvious solution is to ban all traditions, including Arab ones. Just make it a good, secular American school. No prayers, no Ramadan, no head scarves, no Arabic... Let them eat anything they want that they can bring in a brown bag.
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Ban a holiday that celebrates world peace and goodwill towards man so as to spare the sensitivities of people who would sooner see all of us dead. [spit]
Fire the district superintendent, the school board and any principal who attempts to implement this Muslim-appeasing bullshit.
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Final decisions on which of the festivities will be axed will fall to the principals at each of Ridgeland School District 122's five schools, Supt. Tom Smyth said.
Can't you read the sign on his desk.
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Former British prime minister Tony Blair is extremely concerned over the impact his wifes upcoming book will have on his relationship with his successor Gordon Brown, The Sunday Telegraph reported.
A suspect in the murder investigation of Chief Colonel Boob Boverieki of The Salvation Army (TSA)s Headquarters here reportedly escaped from the Civil Lines police station Sunday morning. Boverieki, a 45-year-old Norwegian, was found dead of a gunshot wound in his office on September 27. The police took Major Mark Younas Joseph, a TSA employee, into custody after another employee, Major Peter, nominated him as the prime suspect in the FIR. Younas was being interrogated at the Civil Lines police station lockup when he escaped. According to capital city police sources, CCPO Malik Iqbal has reprimanded SP Civil Lines Ahsan Younas for his negligence. He has also suspended ASI Muhammad Ashiq and constables Muhammad Ashraf and Zahid Hanif with immediate effect. Two teams have been formed to trace the runaway suspect.
