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Do note that the beard is going softly into the night. Dis bodes well for all. Well not all, theyn fishies gonna have a damn sure come-uppance once I can get their easierly.
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People ask of Cuban ration cards when the island is surrounded by ocean. The reason is: fishing fleets are often without diesel, thus are kept ashore. Also, fishermen are allowed to keep some catch for family use, and if they are fed up with government incompetence they often only take what they need, leaving markets bare. Export markets are favored because sea workers are kicked back some hard currency. Agricultural management is even worse.
María Dolores de Cospedal, a divorced single mother, has been named the secretary general of Spain's rightwing conservative opposition, the Popular party. The appointment of De Cospedal, 42, as number two to the party leader Mariano Rajoy is likely to anger Spain's Catholic church and rightwing elements within her own divided party.
The career politician, whose son was born by IVF treatment, is a supporter of so-called 'express' divorces and gay marriage, two controversial social reforms brought in by her political rivals, the ruling Socialists.
Remind me how she became a leader of the 'conservative' party ...
The move has been seen as an effort to move the party to the centre ground, after months of internal disputes between those on the right and centrists. Rajoy has already gone some way to attracting the female vote by naming another woman, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, 37, as the Popular party parliamentary spokesman, making her number three in the party.
Journalist Carlos E Cué, writing in the left-leaning Spanish daily El País, yesterday said: 'With De Cospedal, Rajoy has killed two birds with one stone. Naming her and Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría as number two and three in the party, it will be a counterweight to the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the first with more women than men.'
The new defence minister, Carme Chacón, 37, captured headlines not only for being the first woman to occupy this cabinet post, but being for pregnant at the same time.
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Remind me how she became a leader of the 'conservative' party ...
Using the McCain "Strategy"? Just a guess on the theory that similar results derive from similar methodologies.
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There are plenty of conservatives who are fairly liberal on social issues. Me for example.
I'd vote for her based on economic and national security issues.
I'm against gay marriage, but for me its economic issue disguised as a moral issue.
What people do in their own time on their property is entirely their business. But gay marriage is about gaining the financial benefits available to hetreo couples and these benefits revolve around producing and bringing up kids, which gay couples don't and can't do.
To use an Australia expression, Gay marriages rort the system.
A Sunni Tehreek worker was killed on Friday night on his way to attend a wedding ceremony in Lyari. The deceased Shabbir, 18, was a resident of Shah Waliullah Road and was an ST activist, said Kalri SHO Zahid Tanoli. The incident took place at Khadda Market, Baghdadi, when he and a friend, Ilyas, was going to a relatives wedding ceremony. Ilyas also sustained bullet injuries. Shabbirs brother, Shehzad, is the ST sector in-charge for Lyari Town. Shabbir was shot when some youth were firing guns in the air.
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Two thieves were brutally tortured and faced being burned to death before police intervened on Friday. Ali Raza and Muhammad Faisal were arrested by police on suspicion of stealing a mobile phone, Geo TV reported, following which the two were attacked by members of the public who witnessed the arrests. Police have filed a case against the two. This is the fourth such incident in Karachi this year, with citizens having previously burnt to death three suspected robbers.
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"He stole my pride, thief!"
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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.
