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I'm going to refrain from comments about the mother, but suggest that the unnamed Medford boy is ranked up there with Kim Munley as a domestic hero of the week.
Any factual stories out there about soldiers rushing Hasan and succumbing to their efforts?
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I ran through the article comments and saw a significant number of boneheads weigh in. More people responded with invective against the mother than calling the criminal what he is.
I would suggest refraining from comments about the mother, beyond the obvious: Don't leave your keys in the car. And I hope they lose the key after locking the crook up.
A new Guinness World record has been set in South Africa for the most women to parade around in a bikini, organisers say.
Kellogg's Special KR's Sarah Mansfield said 287 bikini clad women descended upon Melrose Arch in Johannesburg on Saturday to help break the record for the "World's Largest Bikini Parade". "Decked out with smiles, sunglasses and even heels, these confident and fun-loving women of all ages, shapes and sizes paraded
"We were delighted to see tall, short, boyish, curvy, pear and apple-shaped women all have the confidence to do things 'their way', and participate in the parade.
down 1,690 meters of Melrose Arch Boulevard to break the world record.
"We were delighted to see tall, short, boyish, curvy, pear and apple-shaped women all have the confidence to do things 'their way', and participate in the parade.
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287? That's called 10am-10:30am on a summer day at Mission Beach boardwalk
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The Babes better enjoy the sun, skin + skimpy "kinis = freedoms now before Radical Islam invades their country 2015-2020.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Doctors without Borders (MSF) says thousands of Hutu civilians were targeted by the Democratic Republic of Congo's army when they visited sites set up to combat a measles epidemic.
On Friday, Doctors without Borders denounced the attacks in the eastern province of North Kivu as "an abuse of humanitarian action."
"MSF denounces this clearly unacceptable abuse of humanitarian aid for military purposes," a statement by the medical group read.
The medical charity said the attacks happened on October 17 when it was vaccinating thousands of children against measles at seven sites in the rebel-held Masisi district in the region.
The UN mission in Congo (MONUC) has been called into question because of atrocities against civilians blamed on regular troops.
However, in the eastern Congo, the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and Hutu extremists of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) have also caused untold suffering for thousands of civilians.
The Hutu rebels have been fighting against the local Tutsi population and government troops since 1994. Some of the guerillas even participated in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
Congo launched an offensive in January against the militias, which have been destabilizing the Great Lakes region for years.
The eastern Congo has experienced interminable cycles of violence since the war began in 1998. The conflict has dragged on for over a decade and left over 5.4 million people dead.
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A hardline Kuwaiti Islamist MP on Sunday threatened to call for the prime minister to face a grilling in parliament after the government made music classes compulsory in schools.
"We hold the prime minister responsible for this decision... We call for halting this, otherwise, we will use constitutional tools. This could lead to grilling the prime minister," Mohammad Hayef told reporters. "We will not allow our schools to become centres for graduating dancers," said Hayef, who belongs to a group of ultra-conservative Salafi Islamists who consider, among other things, that music is prohibited under Islam.
Music has always been part of the curriculum in Kuwaiti schools despite opposition from hardline Islamists but the education ministry decided to include music as part of students' overall marks effective at the beginning of the school year in September.
"What is required now is for the ministry to revert to the old system, otherwise, we will submit a draft bill to ban music from schools," Hayef said. He said the education ministry's decision was an attempt to Westernise Kuwaiti society.
Over the past few years, the Kuwaiti government has tightened the screws on musical concerts under pressure from Islamist and conservative MPs who have been the dominant force in parliament. A few months ago, a concert by Egyptian pop singer Tamer Hosni was stopped by information ministry supervisors after a teenage girl went up to the stage and kissed him on the cheek.
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ION BANGLA, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM/BHARAT RAKSHAK > MAJOR TRANSNATIONAL LET [Taliban] PLOT TARGETS DENMARK, INDIA, + BANGLADESH [DHAKA Indian Embassy]; + MUMBAI II: US-BASED LET TERRORISTS ARRESTED BY FBI TORN BETWEEN DENMARK, INDIA TERROR STRIKE?
* SAME > INDIA: HEADLEY LET TERRORIST TRAINED IN PAKISTAN. Arrested US-Based Terrorists affiliated with LET + HUJT-B, etc. Milit-Terr Groups rumored to be suppor or linked to PAKISTAN ISI AGENCY = PAK SECURITY SERVICES???
A small opposition party said on Friday that Venezuela's new minister of electricity has been guilty of stealing power amid a crisis that has caused prolonged blackouts across the Andean nation.
A residence belonging to Minister Angel Rodriguez is being supplied with electricity via an illegal connection from a power pole, the MAS party said.
The residence is located in Puerto La Cruz, a city in the western state of Anzoategui.
The secretary of the MAS party in Anzoategui, Richard Casanova, called the power theft "unusual" in light of Rodriguez's statements urging Venezuelans "to accept rationing and to conserve electricity."
Rodriguez was sworn-in Tuesday as Venezuela's first minister of Electric Energy, a post President Hugo Chavez created a few weeks ago to address the oil-rich country's power crisis.
"With what moral authority will President Chavez demand that the country save energy, if his minister for the sector steals power," Casanova said at a press conference.
Chavez blames the crisis on "waste," on increased consumption accompanying economic growth and on the government's failure to build new power plants quickly enough.
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I didn't realize Al Gore had relatives in Venezuela.
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Ummm, If he's the head isn't the electricity his to start with?
I don't see theft here, no different from a meter that's simply ignored, never read, and never billed.
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Kinda like the head of public works living along the best-paved road in the county...
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduras' ousted president and de facto leader gave signs they would try again on Saturday to form a unity government to guide the country out of a four-month crisis after the process collapsed a day earlier. President Manuel Zelaya, a refugee in his own country in the Brazilian Embassy, early on Friday declared dead a pact to end the crisis, while de facto leader Roberto Micheletti said he would form a new government without Zelaya's participation.
The United States and the Organization of American States on Friday pushed the two sides to try again, while Latin American presidents urged Zelaya's re-instatement, which has been the sticking point of the accord.
In the latest twist in the long saga, Micheletti's government said it would suspend installing a new cabinet to give Zelaya the weekend to name members to it. On the other side, a negotiator for Zelaya said representatives from the two sides would meet on Saturday to continue the negotiating process.
The poor Central American country, which exports bananas, coffee and clothes, holds presidential elections on November 29. But if Zelaya and Micheletti cannot resolve their standoff, a newly elected president might not be able to win back diplomatic recognition and vital financial aid that were cut off to punish the country over the coup.
"We've possibly found a road. There's a pre-agreement, but I don't want to give more details," Jorge Reina, a negotiator for Zelaya, told a local radio station. "There's a new path."
"Micheletti ratified he recognized the importance of a waiting period during the weekend to form the unity and reconciliation government," his office said in a statement.
Zelaya was forced into exile by the army on June 28 after the Supreme Court issued an arrest order saying he violated the constitution by planning a referendum on possibly changing it. Congress placed Micheletti in the presidency but his government has not been recognized by other countries in what has become Central America's worst political crisis in 20 years.
Zelaya said the hard-won U.S.-brokered pact from October 30 was meant to restore him in power.
However the United States, Honduras' top trading partner, seemed to weaken his position by saying it would recognize the November 29 elections just on the basis of the signing of the accord.
Under the pact, Congress was supposed to vote on whether or not Zelaya would be reinstated. But there was no deadline given and lawmakers dragged their feet this week. When Zelaya saw he would not be at the head of a unity and reconciliation cabinet he refused to put forward names.
Micheletti had announced the new cabinet late on Thursday.
Zelaya sneaked back into the country in September and has been living in the Brazilian Embassy ever since. On Friday he told advisers holed up with him that the process was so broken down that most of them should leave the embassy.
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Starting to smell more and more like a complete US surrender and humiliation on this - hooray! Actually, the humiliation - and disgrace - was in the policy now being tacitly abandoned, so I guess that makes this the a "redemption".
Remember, the incredible idiocy and moral imbecility of those now in power - and their Beltway, media, and academic brethren - will NEVER cost them a thing. The bad (and stupid) guys ARE getting away with it, and WILL get away with it.
Then again, for a country that showed its lack of mettle and sense and honor in the last few years, it's getting about what it deserves.
The Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has issued a statement strongly suggesting that the government is preparing to carry out mass forced vaccinations with the untested swine flu jab.
In a statement posted on the government website, Yushchenko announced a crack down on political protests and orders for the arrest of public health officials who have opposed mass "swine flu" vaccinations and quarantines.
"I instruct the Government and the Ministry of Health to immediately start preventive and promotional work in areas where there is no epidemic, targeting primarily the special risk groups," he said.
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If the statistics we've seen the past few days are even close to right then martial law is probably called for. EXTREMELY rapid spread, and killed at least 4 doctors in a week.
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One of the problems is that many of the doctors there are convinced that it is pneumonic plague, and cannot be persuaded otherwise. My guess is they think it is a tandem epidemic with H1N1 and some other disease.
To make matters worse, there are conflicting philosophies, such as Cold War authoritarianism and secrecy, the anti-vaccination crowd, those who are convinced it is Russia's doing, etc. There are also scoundrels trying to make a quick buck selling "cures" to desperate people.
All told, it's turning into an episode of The Twilight Zone.
From WSJ, through Geostrategy-Direct
Neil Bush, the younger brother of former President George W. Bush, has taken on a lobbying role for the state-owned Chinese oil giant Sinopec Group.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Bush represented Sinopec in the companys bid for an oil field in Ghana.
The bid is part of Sinopecs effort, worth billions, to invest in resources in Africa and the Middle East.
Despite lobbying by Bush, the newspaper reported that Ghanas national oil company rejected Sinopecs offer for the oil field and is waiting to hear from other oil companies.
Neil Bush is currently co-chairman of a Beijing-based real estate company and has been working with big steel maker Shougang Holdings to help it break into Africa, the newspaper stated.
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In 2002, Bush signed a consulting contract that paid $2 million dollars in stock over five years to work for Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., a firm backed by Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, plus $10,000 for every board meeting he attends
Neil admitted to catching the STD Herpes after sexual encounters with high-priced escorts/prostitutes in Thailand.
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ION SINA WMF > US, EUROPE WANT TO USE GLOBAL WARMING CO2 PSEUDO-SCIENCE HOAX TO STOP CHINA'S RISE TO SUPERPOWER STATUS AND ITS DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR, SPACE WEAPONS???
* SAME > DALAI LAMA CALLS FOR US BASES TO STAY IN JAPAN AS HEDGE/COUNTER AGZ GEOPOL UNCERTAINTIES OVER RISING CHINA, NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR THREAT.
House Democrats narrowly clinched a landmark victory on a sweeping health care overhaul Saturday night, voting 220-215 to deliver President Barack Obama a key win on his No. 1 domestic priority. One GOP vote for- Cao from Louisiana
Contact both your senators to vote against the Senate version of the bill. If the Senate votes no, the House vote doesn't matter -- it needs to pass in each house of Congress, then a reconciliation bill has to pass both houses. Only then will it go to the president for his signature.
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The Associated Press has a delightful photo of Pelosi flanked by two others in front of George Washington's portrait. Their facial expressions, as contrasted with George's, says it all. I regret that I'm having trouble providing a coherent link; but if you google "Associated Press, photo, Pelosi, Alex Brandon", you'll get a link to the AP photo catalog and you'll find it.
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it'll never pass both House and Senate in a form acceptable to both. Keep up the pressure, though, and remind weak-kneed critters about next fall's elections. F*ckers
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I wonder what kind of contributions and favors the reconciliation committee members will be getting.
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subtitle: "George Washington's three assholes revealed"
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It just might pass the Senate, if Reid uses the "reconciliation" procedure to jam it through. He then needs 50 votes with Biden voting 51.
The House bill is horrific. We're going to tax small business into breaking. We're going to tax people who have insurance. We're going to force everyone to buy insurance. We're going to kill private insurance dead, dead, dead. We're going to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortions. We're going to force Catholic doctors to do abortions. We're going to bankrupt medical practices. We're going to stifle medical innovation, tax the pharmaceutical and medical device industries into submission, and kill the supply of new drugs. We'regoing to have 'comparative effectiveness' panels that will tell doctors what to do regardless of the medical circumstances and patient preferences. We're going to force senior citizens into accepting less care. We're going to put granny on an ice floe.
We're going to wreck our current medical care system which, with all its warts, is still one of the best in the world.
All so that the Democratic Socia1ists can boast to their Euro-weenie friends that the USA has now joined the club.
Idiocy.
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We attended several meetings with Cao: I believe the abortion funding ban amendment was what made it possible for him to vote for the bill. If one accepts the premise that as an elected Representative he is to represent his whole constituency and not just the party, then he probably voted appropriately - the district is the urban core of New Orleans and is strongly supportive of a bill generally like this. (MUCH harder to defend Owens' vote.) I am sure there were at least a couple of Blue Dogs who were similarly persuaded to vote for it. Smart move by Pelosi (even though you despise her, don't underestimate her political acumen.) In the end the abortions will be funded anyway - either the amendment will be dropped from the reconciled bill or they'll find it's unconstitutional to discriminate against women that way, or some other excuse.
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the district is the urban core of New Orleans and is strongly supportive of a bill generally like this
IOW they haven't been paying for their healthcare before, and they won't now. No skin off their fores...
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Daughter goes off our health coverage at the end of the year. She's been shopping and found a policy that costs 7% of her gross pay for $7500 deductable (with some preventative care outside the deductable.) That's all that she can fit in her budget. Obama care will boost even that out of her reach and force her into needing the 'government option'. Her peers don't feel they should have to even pay 7% - that they have a 'right' to care (and a lot better coverage than hers) without any obligation to pay for it. We've created a mindset of dependency.
Freddie Mac, the second largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Friday posted a loss of $5 billion in the third quarter and predicted it would need more government support amid a "prolonged deterioration" in housing.
Increases in the value of securities Freddie Mac held over the period helped buoy its net worth, however, erasing its need to tap government funds for a second straight quarter to stay solvent while continuing to buy and guarantee home loans.
Including a $1.3 billion dividend payment on senior preferred stock bought by the Treasury in previous quarters, Freddie Mac's third-quarter loss increases to $6.3 billion.
The home funding company's loss comes amid a rise in provisions for credit losses to $7.6 billion in the quarter, up 46 percent compared with the previous quarter, as delinquencies worsened on loans it guarantees. Provisions will remain high this quarter, it added.
"I would say we are just beginning to see the impact of the chargeoffs on their guarantee book," said Janaki Rao, vice president of mortgage research at Morgan Stanley in New York.
Its larger rival Fannie Mae (NYSE:FNM - News; NYSE:FNM - News) on Thursday said it would need $15 billion from the U.S. Treasury after a whopping $18.9 billion third-quarter loss.
Results at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are widely watched as a barometer of the U.S. housing market since they own or back nearly half of outstanding mortgages
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Another A-Pee article. Click on the link to read the whole thing.
President Barack Obama clearly recognizes as much. One year after his historic victory, he pleaded for his backers to be patient and asked them to stick with him.
"The challenges might not be met in one year or one term," he said in a video message last week. "We're making progress." "Vote me in for another term and I promise everything will turn out like I hope it will."
Fear about the economy and anger at incumbents are coursing through the country, while independents wary of government expansion and federal spending under the president they helped elect are shifting toward Republicans.
Democrats will be forced to explain votes and positions on the expensive economic stimulus plan, climate change legislation and, probably, the health care overhaul. Although Democrats have a popular president on their side, there are limits to Obama's clout; Democratic gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia lost last week even though he campaigned for them. Limits? Every time that guy puts the reputation of the office of the president on the line he gets smacked down.
Republicans hope to pick up seats by harnessing the sour public mood and voter wariness over Obama's policies. The GOP is re-energized, but faces tension between conservatives and moderates over the party's direction, just as Democrats did between liberals and moderates when they were out of power. And if they win, let's just hope the Trunks don't forget who put them there this time.
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Cokie Roberts and Donna Brazille were chuckling when this came up on a morning news show. They aren't worried, managing to mumble something about 'black and youth vote, age demographics' between guffaws.
We'll see if those smirks get wiped off their faces about a year from now.
Check out the last two paragraphs of this article. Looks like Pelosi et. al. are blowing smoke when they suggest that the recent election results don't suggest that Dems have nothing to worry about.
Hours after President Obama exhorted Democratic lawmakers to "answer the call of history," the House hit an unprecedented milestone on the path to health-care reform, approving a trillion-dollar package late Saturday that seeks to overhaul private insurance practices and guarantee comprehensive and affordable coverage to almost every American.
After months of acrimonious partisanship, Democrats closed ranks on a 220-215 vote that included 39 defections, mostly from the party's conservative ranks. But the bill attracted a surprise Republican convert: Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao of Louisiana, who represents the Democratic-leaning district of New Orleans and had been the target of a last-minute White House lobbying campaign. GOP House leaders had predicted their members would unanimously oppose the bill.
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[Straits Times] INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Saturday replaced the heads of the three services of the Indonesian armed forces, TNI, in a surprise move.
Army Chief of Staff Agustadi Sasongko Purnomo will be replaced by Commander of the Army Strategic Command George Toisutta while Navy Chief of Staff Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno will be replaced by Defence Ministry Inspector-General Agus Suhartono. And Air Force Chief Subandrio will make way for his deputy, Air Vice-Marshal Imam Sufaat.
There was no official comment from the military on the unexpected replacement of the three services chiefs just days before the Indonesian President leaves for an official visit to Malaysia and Singapore, where he will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit.
The three new chiefs, who were in No. 2 positions in their respective forces, will be sworn into office by Dr Yudhoyono on Sunday.
First Admiral Iskandar Sitompul, a spokesman for the Navy, said: 'I am surprised. Perhaps the information was relayed to the Navy chief directly.'
Army spokesman Christian Zebua told the Jakarta Globe that the presidential decree stipulating Gen Agustadi's replacement was issued last Friday.
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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.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Doctors without Borders (MSF) says thousands of Hutu civilians were targeted by the Democratic Republic of Congo's army when they visited sites set up to combat a measles epidemic. 
The Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko has issued a statement strongly suggesting that the government is preparing to carry out mass forced vaccinations with the untested swine flu jab.
Freddie Mac, the second largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Friday posted a loss of $5 billion in the third quarter and predicted it would need more government support amid a "prolonged deterioration" in housing.
[Straits Times] INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Saturday replaced the heads of the three services of the Indonesian armed forces, TNI, in a surprise move. 
