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It wasn't my taste, but Mrs. Obama was clearly happy about her stylishness. Hopefully she deals better with retiring from her highly paid, prestigious career to become the First Housewife than her immediate Democratic predecessor did.
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"Greer was a powerful voice of feminism in the 1970s, and her books were international best sellers, but over the past decade she has become better known for her contrary and controversial remarks."
That is, a bitter, shriveled up old prune with Trotskyite pretensions.
"When nature lover Steve Irwin was killed, she famously remarked that the animals would be relieved. She also described Princess Di as 'slow'."
She fits right in with the rest of the bigoted sluts who make up Al Guardian's notoriously vicious contingent of alleged women.
Shell-shocked veterans of the sexual revolution, they need therapy and meds, lots of meds, rather than a public forum for the display of their sadistic aberration.
#6
No, I didn't vote for Michelle's husband, but she is going to be first lady of the United States; and the stupid, sniveling insults directed at her by a washed up hag in a notoriously depraved British propaganda sheet could not be more offensive or irrelevant.
What really bugs these failed dominatrices of the left: Michelle's successful marriage to a powerful and handsome husband.
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THere are various pragmatic symbolisms that can apply to the dress - perhaps the greatest one is Michelle herself, i.e. PROUD BLACK/AFRICAN-AMER "BLACK" ON THE OUTSIDE, PASSIONATE LEFTIST-RADICALIST = "RED" ON THE INSIDE.
Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on state charges involving federal prisons in a South Texas county that has been a source of bizarre legal and political battles under the outgoing prosecutor. The indictment returned Monday has not yet been signed by the presiding judge, and no action can be taken until that happens.
The seven indictments made public in Willacy County on Tuesday included one naming state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. and some targeting public officials connected to District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra's own legal battles.
Regarding the indictments targeting the public officials, Guerra said, "the grand jury is the one that made those decisions, not me." Guerra himself was under indictment for more than a year and half until a judge dismissed the indictments last month. Guerra's tenure ends this year after nearly two decades in office. He lost convincingly in a Democratic primary in March.
Guerra said the prison-related charges against Cheney and Gonzales are a national issue and experts from across the country testified to the grand jury.
Cheney is charged with engaging in an organized criminal activity related to the vice president's investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds financial interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees because of his link to the prison companies.
Megan Mitchell, a spokeswoman for Cheney, declined to comment on Tuesday, saying that the vice president had not yet received a copy of the indictment.
The indictment accuses Gonzales of using his position while in office to stop an investigation in 2006 into abuses at one of the privately-run prisons. Gonzales' attorney, George Terwilliger III, said in a written statement, "This is obviously a bogus charge on its face, as any good prosecutor can recognize." He said he hoped Texas authorities would take steps to stop "this abuse of the criminal justice system."
Another indictment released Tuesday accuses Lucio of profiting from his public office by accepting honoraria from prison management companies. Guerra announced his intention to investigate Lucio's prison consulting early last year.
Lucio's attorney, Michael Cowen, released a scathing statement accusing Guerra of settling political scores in his final weeks in office. "Senator Lucio is completely innocent and has done nothing wrong," Cowen said, adding that he would file a motion to quash the indictment this week.
Willacy County has become a prison hub with county, state and federal lockups. Guerra has gone after the prison-politician nexus before, extracting guilty pleas from three former Willacy and Webb county commissioners after investigating bribery related to federal prison contacts.
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ask the judge on a hunting trip
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Vanguard Group, which holds financial interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers.
Thanks for the tip! Appears it's time to sell Vanguard. The One and the first lady will be opening prison doors soon and turning them into CCC camp dorms or people's farms.
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I think it is time to say something plainly: Once Obama is in office, the implied threat of violence will be the only thing keeping criminal Democrat office-holders everywhere from engaging in this kind of flagrant abuse of the legal process.
They just can't help themselves, 50 years of media indoctrination have institutionalized the double-standard throughout the spectrum of political discourse.
We would also be likely to see federally-mandated "advisory boards" of community activists (ie, lefty agitators and other thieves) censoring the media and looting businesses from coast to coast.
Never, ever, give up your guns. I hope it doesn't come to that, but they are our ace in hole. Any effort to suppress or seize them is a nakedly obvious attempt to empower totalitarian activists and corrupt office-holders.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term. The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday's count. That's an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.
Stevens, who turned 85 Tuesday, also revealed that he will not ask President George W. Bush to give him a pardon for his seven felony convictions.
That leaves Coleman, assuming he hangs on in Minnesota, and Chambliss, assuming he wins the run-off in Georgia.
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Good = got rid of a turd.
Bad = another seat closer to veto-proof margin for the Dems (and that's not counting squishes like McCain)
Thanks Ted you selfish asshole. I hope they give you real PMITA Prison time.
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You think that Stevens has issues? The apparent winner Mark Begich does, too. He is our mayor. Our taxes have gone up dramatically under his watch. Procurement has been circumvented. It has become a world of sleaze. We are having a meeting Friday night with an assemblyman on the situation and what we can do about it.
The maggots have infested congress and we are powerless to act. No disrespect to hard working maggots in nature.
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For this article, I think Seedy Politicians is a better category than WOT.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect--along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice--"house negroes." Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes."
The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.
The 11-minute 23-second video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders. In his speech, al-Zawahri refers to a Nov. 5 U.S. airstrike attack in Afghanistan, meaning the video was made after that date.
Al-Zawahri said Obama's election has not changed American policies he said are aimed at oppressing Muslims and others. "America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always," the deputy of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said.
He said Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist. "Be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them," he said.
Al-Zawahri did not threaten specific attacks, but warned Obama that he was "facing a Jihadi (holy war) awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Islamic world; and this is the fact which you and your government and country refuse to recognize and pretend not to see."
He said Obama's victory showed Americans acknowledged that President George W. Bush's policies were a failure and that the result was an "admission of defeat in Iraq."
But Obama's professions of support for Israel during the election campaign "confirmed to the Ummah (Islamic world) that you have chosen a stance of hostility to Islam and Muslims," al-Zawahri said.
* "Jihadi [holy war] awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Muslim world" > IT REMAINS MY BELIEF THAT THE DECISIVE BENCHMARK FOR RADICAL ISLAM'S JIHAD WILL BE IRAN SUCCESSFULLY CONDUCTING ONE OR MORE INDIGENOUS NUCBOMB TESTS [+ Missle], NLT 2020 [2012 absolute maxima]; + of course the US = US-ALLIES CONTAINING THEMSELVES, IFF NOW REDUX, TO ONLY IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN [Pakis].
"SAVING THE JIHAD" + "WAR OUTSIDE OF IRAQ" > IRAN'S/PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION + Islamist ground campaign in EURASIA, AFRICA, etc. espec in Asia proper, must proceed no matter the policies of the new OBAMA ADMIN 2009-2012/2016. THE ISLAMIST EFFORT TO MILPOL DESTABILZE AND BREAK-UP RUSSIA, CHINA, + INDIA, etc. Asian states WILL GO ON TO ITS END.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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