German brothels are to be ordered to offer work experience and trainee posts if they want to continue doing business. According to a draft bill that has been agreed by the coalition government, all companies with more than 10 staff members must provide work experience and training places. And brothels are no exception, says the German Ministry for Education, Training and Research. A number of Green Party politicians have called for an exception to be made for the sex industry. They say it would lead to bordello owners registering fewer girls as staff members in order to avoid the extra costs affiliated with providing training. In turn prostitutes who are not officially employed would receive no health insurance. But the Education Ministry rejected the Greensâ calls saying it would cause the lines between nightclubs and brothels to become blurred. The Ministry added that because prostitution was not a profession as such, the trainee and work experience posts offered by brothels should be for people working alongside the prostitutes as waiters and waitresses, book-keepers or sales and marketing staff.
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Now that's something to put on the ol' resume! "Assistant Hooker - Dominatrix Ilsa's House of Pain, 2004-2005....."
Lloyd Evans - Features Column EFL
...To be fair, the raw ingredients of poetry are certainly present here, namely language and feeling. Some of these efforts are not a million miles away from becoming poetry, in the way that a cow in a field is not a million miles away from becoming a hamburger. But a number of technical refinements will be required first: lyricism, music, metaphor, imagination, a sense of pace and rhythm, habits of verbal organisation, the feel for a resonant phrase that lingers in the mind after the page has been turned. All these are lacking from nearly all of these poems. Nor is there much political sophistication. Robin Lim (âvolunteer midwife in Indonesia and author of Eating Wisely For Twoâ) condemns the lies of her âso-called Presidentâ. And Di Brandt (âteacher of creative writing and author of questions i asked my motherâ) has a pithier summary of her leader: âlike Herod, like Hitler, like Bushâ. Ironic that the Westâs leadership should be demonised here in exactly the same way that, according to the protesters, the West simplifies and vilifies Islam. The Coalitionâs motives are likewise reduced to crude shorthand. Greed, oil-thirst, blood-lust and a batty desire to build a 1,000-year Reich from the profits of milkshakes and Mickey Mouse concessions. These are the only motives the anthology acknowledges. Deft knifework in the Poets Corner.
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Well, I guess many must have died. I mean, one cannot keep going without a brain, right?
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Yes, Steve from Relto, the condition is called Anencephaly. Very common amongst the current anti-war crop, only they don't seem to realize it is a fatal condition yet
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I think the medical condition they have is more properly termed rectal cranial insertion. It's the only medical condition where the victim is not the person with the condition....but the rest of us who have to deal with the moron.
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Oh yeah, and next time, if you link to a site that requires a username and password, GIVE THE NECESSARY LOGIN INFORMATION, for pete's sake. Nothing like staring at an "access denied" password-protected article.
Shucky darn, maybe that's because it's the time to kick @ss and take names. The only honorable peace that's to be had right now is after the war on terror has been won.
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"The only honorable peace that's to be had right now is after the war on terror has been won."
Which won't be the case, Zipperface, if we put your pals the Dimocrats in high office! (or in any office that matters)
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Probably to protect them from pornography...Like Rantburg. That becomes a problem when too many people learn English. You need enough to read the documents the spys steal, but not enough to read what's free.
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Most of the Chinese I've encountered (here in the US and in China) are extremely nationalistic. Exposure to the foreign media isn't going to do much to sway their opinions, given the foreign media's tendency towards moral equivalence. Xinhua (China's news-cum-spy agency) and People's Daily don't read all that differently from Reuters, AP, CNN and the BBC, except on Chinese news. I think the reason for this clampdown is to reduce ultra-nationalist debate and incitement, which have called for war with Japan over the Senkaku Islands and with the US over Taiwan.
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I thought the beneficent government was worried about some 13-year old getting an "education" from observation of a "Tall Blonde 'Round-Eye', with large. . ."
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sooner the better for the west if we had a war with china -- like it or not one it will happen and we have no choice in the matter. it will be either leave the pacific to the chicoms or go to war. i would rather it happen now while we have the tech leat and not leave it for my children or thier children.
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Single-elimination tournament:
Last Friday: More Science High vs. Communist Martyrs High
This Friday: More Science High vs. Islamofacist Dominion High
Next Friday: Winner vs. Golden Dragon High
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BigEd: I thought the beneficent government was worried about some 13-year old getting an "education" from observation of a "Tall Blonde 'Round-Eye', with large. . ."
Pirated adult material is readily available in China on VCD and DVD, despite the widely-reported crackdowns. Enough local cops have been bought that raids generally end up with a token number of arrests and a small amount of confiscated contraband. (Most of the internet connections in China are dialup, and Chinese credit cards don't work abroad, which kind of limits their ability to get and pay for online material).
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Most of the internet connections in China are dialup...
That may be. But there is still a whole lot of high speed going in. China added 10M DSL lines last year alone and is now the world leader in DSL.
I'm curious as to what effective speeds connection speeds are to the "outside" world. Sounds like much of the traffic gets bottlenecked through Great Filtering Firewalls of China gateways.
.com: Is Taj Mahal High going to be contending in this tournament?
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CL - Lol! I think they're having a private tourney with PakiWaki Cannon Fodder High... perhaps it's a warmup for taking on final winner in other bracket - perhaps it's a consolation game. Hard to tell if they want to be part of the Big World or continue to live in Regional World, heh. ;-)
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It is an interesting cultural difference. China bans internet cafes withing 220 yards of a school, and the librals attempt to ban guns with 1000 feet of our schools.
Personally, both policies are flawed for basically the same reason. The Chinese and the liberals are afraid of freedom and the responsibilities it brings.
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Vandals in the city of Verdun, in northern France, scrawled Nazi slogans and symbols on a memorial to Jewish soldiers who died in the World War I, Israel Radio reported Friday. The vandals drew swastikas and spray-painted the words âHiel Hitlerâ across the memorial. Last week, 127 tombstones were desecrated in a Jewish cemetery in France. Vandals spray-painted anti-Semitic phrases and swastikas in a Jewish cemetery in the western city of Herrlisheim-Hattstatt. French leaders responded to the desecration of graves with a wave of indignation. Anti-Semitic attacks have been on the rise in the country in the past three years.
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French leaders responded to the desecration of graves with a wave of indignation.
Yep. That'll stop it.
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Same tactics they used in 1940.
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Yeah, and by 1941 they were running their own concentration camps.
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Did anyone expect any more, after all it's the FRENCH. The Jewish relatives have to have their own resident 24/7 security patrol at the cemetery, and protect it themselves. Sad.
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In an online registry of the worldâs nations, organizers of the Olympic Games in Greece have omitted listing Israelâs capital. Is the US State Department hosting the site?
Instead of Jerusalem, the entry for "capital" has an asterisk that corresponds to a footnote reading: "Please visit the official United Nations website for further information regarding the capital of Israel." Well, God willing, the UN will one day be an asterisk.
The Olympics website also lists Israel under the category "Europe" while neighbors Jordan and Lebanon are listed under "Asia."
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I think the olympics will be a fiasco.
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* - Greece a former great power, the center of civilization 2500 years ago. Overrun by the Romans then the Ottoman Turks. Regained some of the former glory by hosting the 2004 Olympic games, then insulted a participating country by not knowing where its capital was.
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Don't forget they were taken over by the Macadonians (barbains to the ancient helos) long before the Romans. The only linkage the Greece of today has with the former great power Greece (not even sure if we could call it Greece then) is that they live on the same terroritory...
this olympics will be one of the worst...
probably setting myself up for some BS from aris but ohwell..
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The only linkage the Greece of today has with the former great power Greece,
Actually there was no single "former great power" Greece -- it was just a collection of states for most of the time, and only became a single power under Alexander's empire.
is that they live on the same terroritory
And the language ofcourse, which some still consider the primary characteristic of "national identity". Modern Greek's not the same from Ancient Greek ofcourse but it bears more resemblance to it (and its lines of descent are more clear) than any of the Latin-descended languages bear to Latin.
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well hello aris - thanks for adding the piece on language - i wasn't aware modern Greek language was that close.
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the capital of Israel is Tel Aviv
Not according to the Israelis. Their country, their capital.
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Dan> The language of the Gospels is still quite readable by your average Greek; we are likely to hit only a couple words per page that we couldn't understand, even though the grammar tenses of the verbs are a bit trickier, to me atleast -- Homeric Greek however is further removed, and practically everyone would have difficulty figuring it out in its original, unless they'd studied the language in length. Herodotus, if I remember correctly from highschool, lies somewhere inbetween, which ofcourse makes sense timewise.
*g* So it also depends on the timeframe in question.
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that's precisely why the Olympics website didn't mention the capital of Israel. what would be the best solution? mention only Jerusalem, only Tel Aviv, both cities? at least certainly put a link to an Israeli website.
Israel participates in many competitions as a European country, eg. soccer (member of the UEFA)
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Well, I read Homeric Greek, the classical dialects and Koine (New Testament) ... the latter is of course much simplified from the earlier forms of only a few centuries prior.
But when I come to modern Greek I see a lot of influence of Turkish on the language, primarily in vocabulary but also in some grammar and concepts.
In many ways modern Greece is a long way culturally from the city-states, and for that matter from Byzantium, and resembles Turkey and other mediteranean cultures to some degree.
And yes, Aris, the differences between Greece and Turkey are real and they matter ... but so does the similarity, which is striking to someone who meets the ancients first and then spends time in the modern state.
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What do you do if Cuba suddenly decides that its capital is Miami?
You mean to imply it isn't? Miami is already the capital of all Latin America. And oh yeah, possession is 10/10ths of the law.
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Seems some people have forgotten the definition of capital: the town where the government is installed. Israel's government is now in Jerusalem I believe.
Now I would welcome for Castro declaring Miami is Cuba's capital and moving there with all his ministers. Of course just a few hours alter Cuba would have still another capital: this time it would be Leavenworth
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President Bush made a strategic change in US policy when he, as President, officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Check it out if you don't believe me.
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Classically educated> There's indeed influence of Turkish in much of the vocabulary (wouldn't know about the grammar), especially the words concerning foodstuff, but what I told you nonetheless remains true: The Greek of the Gospels is still easily readable by your average Greek person, something which AFAIK isn't the case about Italian (or Spanish or French) and Latin.
As for how much similarity exists between Greece and other meditaranean states -- I never tried to argue that *culture* was one of the common points between modern and ancient Greece, did I? But that, I think, applies to pretty much every country. How much in common do the Britons of Boudicca have with modern-day Brits, or the ancient Germanic tribes with modern day Germany?
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The departures of Evan Cohen and his investment partner Rex Sorensen came just a week after the company said co-founder Mark Walsh had stepped down as CEO to take a smaller role at the company. The company also said last week it had forced out David Logan as head of programming.
Reads like the minutes from a meeting of the Youth Communists League.
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You just know the inevitable cratering of this nutwork will be blamed on the vast right wing conspiracy or Haliburton or black helicopters or the Philadelphia Experiment or the Joooos yadda yadda yadda. . . .
It couldn't possibly be laid at the feet of 'lot's of noise, nothing to say'.
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In these times of seditious behavior. Where the enemy within grows bolder and has the protection of the ACLU, and the like, including U.S. Senators and Congressmen.
I find that the decline of Air America restores some of my faith in the âthe T.V. tells me what doâ American public.
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Some last gasp Haiku for MoonBat Central:
Wishing and hoping
Don't pay the bills. Lights are on,
but nobody's home!
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President Bushâs campaign on Friday criticized the wife of Democratic candidate John Kerry for calling Vice President Dick Cheney "unpatriotic" while defending her husbandâs service in Vietnam against critics who had avoided the military. "This political line of attack is offensive and should be stopped," Bush-Cheney campaign chairman Marc Racicot said in a statement. Although they have questioned Kerryâs Senate votes on defense and foreign policy, neither Bush nor Cheney has commented personally on his service in the Navy during the Vietnam War. Bush served stateside in the Texas Air National Guard during the war while Cheney received five deferments from military service.
In an interview with Telemundo, NBCâs Spanish-language network, Teresa Heinz Kerry said, "To have a couple of people, who escaped four, five, six times and deferred and deferred and deferred calling him anything regarding his service is in and of itself unpatriotic. Unpatriotic." NBCâs "Nightly News" aired part of the interview Thursday. Said Racicot: "Every time the discussion focuses on John Kerryâs Senate record of voting against weapons systems, voting against support for troops in the field or his positions on both sides of critical questions of national security, his campaign falsely claims that his patriotism is being attacked."
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CORRECT TITLE
"Nurse Fuzzy-Wuzzy Speaks Out: A Series of Random Spittle and Wanton Ad Homonyms"
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kinda funny having this person say anything about being unpatriotic..
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That is the same lady who funds, through the Tides Foundation, all sorts of communist groups and muslim organizations. She knows what a Patriot is...
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No,let's keep Laura Bush as First Lady. She's such an incredible lady. She "gave up" her nonexistent career when she got married, became the passive wife of an alcoholic, and raised dysfunctional children. She has no voice and is embarassed by power. Everyone knows that she's smarter than her husband, but she knows her place. That's what a First Lady should be ... passive, complacent, and a good role model for our daughters.
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Let's all give a warm welcome to Anon4759, and try to smile and try not to yawn, as it reads boilerplate talking points from McAuliffe's DNC office.
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and raised dysfunctional children.
A4759 never tried to get a beer before birthday 21? Disfunctional daughters my @#$%^&*(!!!!!
THEY ARE NORMAL! Get a life A4759. If that's the worst trouble they got in, their folks are lucky! Also, they are more presentable than Kerry's sour faced duo.
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What's WRONG with these stupid people? The BUsh twins are just like their father--probably going to be rich from Daddy's money when they get older, and a bunch of dysfunctional super-republican tards (no offense to republicans--I happen to be one. I just hate extreme republicans.)
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How did the Bush twins get into this thread? I thought this was about Terry Kerry calling out Cheney? For the record though, I'd hit'em. Heck, even Kerry's girls as well, I'm not proud.
Our DNC-assigned minder realized this thread needed to be diverted from Kerry's anti-American activities, so it posted a smear against the President's family.
Yet another Moby.
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Anon 4759, you call a career as a librarian and teacher "nonexistent?"
What's wrong with libraries?
I thought you Libs lived in the library or else what's all the whining about the Patriot Act and John Ashcroft being able to find out what you're doing at the library?
And 4065, I hate extreme Dimocrats (=Pinkos) more than you profess to hate "extreme Republicans."
I wouldn't babble about "rich boys" if I were you!
Better to inherit Daddy's money than be a hired prostitute for it, like John Kerry!
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Better to inherit Daddy's money than be a hired prostitute for it, like John Kerry!
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Jen wrote: Better to inherit Daddy's money than be a hired prostitute for it, like John Kerry!
Not to nitpick, but that makes J Frickin' K a gigolo, not a prostitute.
Raj and Jarhead: here's why you wouldn't hit Courtney Love.
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Raj/Steve W. - hey bro's actually I would hit Courtney 'crackhead' Love as well - maybe w/a ballpean hammer but she'd get hit none-the-less. Just kidding I'd have to tag her as well, c'mon I have standards - they're just very low. 6 months on Okinawa or in the desert will do that to a guy.
(2004-05-07) -- Democrat presidential hopeful, and Vietnam veteran, John Forbes Kerry today said President George Bush is "not fit to be disgusted" at photos of U.S. military prison guards hazing Iraqi prisoners.
The president recently granted two interviews with Arab-language TV networks, telling reporters that he found the actions of the prison guards to be "abhorrent."
But Mr. Kerry immediately held a news conference to challenge the presidentâs credibility on the issue.
"While I was commanding a swift boat in the Mekong Delta, George Bush stayed stateside with the National Guard," said Mr. Kerry. "He never had an opportunity to commit atrocities against the enemy, like I did, so heâs not fit to judge the abuses in Abu Ghraib prison. America needs a commander in chief who knows the harsh reality of war and manâs inhumanity to manâŠthe darkness that lurks in the soul of even the most cultured, erudite and refined among us."
White House spokesman Scott McClelland said, "Senator Kerry is entitled to his opinion. I think the president was simply reacting to the photos the same way most Americans did."
A spokesman for the Kerry campaign said Mr. McClellandâs remarks represent another example of "Bushâs right-wing attack dogs questioning Senator Kerryâs patriotism."
Later, when asked by a reporter on his campaign plane what he thought when he first saw the prisoner-abuse photos, Mr. Kerry said, "I was disgusted. They were abhorrent."
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Lol! I'd have to agree - Skeery's got disgusting pretty well locked up. He devalued patriotism some 30 years ago, so that has to go in his column. Now he's making a play for abhorrent, too.
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The Abu Grhaib incident is very dangerous ground for Kerry. Scrappleface does a great job of parodying the danger. The Kerry strategists must be going nuts trying to figure out whether it is better to try to use war "atrocities" as a reason for removing Bush, when the guy they say should replace him has admitted to personally committing much more serious atrocities--against noncombatants no less (burning villages, random "harrassment" firing, etc). Bizarrely, Abu holds the potential to help Bush. When he learned of it he did exactly the right thing, expressed disgust, moved to punish the guards, took steps to prevent re-occurence. Compare that to Kerry who personally committed "atrocities," and heard confessions (supposedly) of soldiers who "raped," "cut off ears, head, and limbs," and used electricity to torture prisoners--and did nothing to see that they were punished.
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actually kaus says its looking like the worst of all worlds for Kerry. Economy strong, things going to hell in Iraq. Kerry is MUCH better off if things go well in Iraq and the economy is in bad shape. Much easier to offer clear alternatives on domestic policy. And Iraq splits us Dems, while economy unites us (more or less)
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Dimocrats like Kerry are behind this whole "Iraqi prisoner abuse" thing.
They were going to make this into the "My Lai massacre" of OIF.
Kerry was already muttering about the abuse of the Enemy by the military being "systemic."
Of course, this was supposed to wedge in nicely with his post-Vietnam, VVAW allegations in front of Congress of the military being "babykillers, murderers, animals, etc."
If those lying chickens come home to roost, so be it.
And sKerry hasn't heard the last from the Vietnam vets who were maligned by him so maliciously...
Those fine men who were defamed by him, Jane Fonda and the other Leftists to secure a Vietcong victory are just getting started!
Look for the Dim Convention in Boston this summer to be the anti-Dim Convention of 1968.
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I believe a lot of us feel the same way. Mr Kerry will NOT be my next CIC.
Wonât vote for Kerry
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
Since being in the military is not a criteria to become the president of the United States, why all the hoopla about who served? National Guard or U.S. Navy is not the issue.
Both Mr. Kerry and President Bush are American patriots who wish to represent our great nation in their own way. No issue here as the American voters make that decision.
My issue with Sen. John Kerry is his disrespect to me and millions of my Vietnam brothers. As a former U.S. Naval Officer who led men in battle, to testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 about atrocities committed by American soldiers in Vietnam was a slap in the face to all who served in that "police action."
More than 58,000 of my brothers on the Wall and more than 1,900 of my MIA/POW brothers that the U.S. government has abandoned there is my issue.
Mr. Kerry, my captain in Vietnam aboard the USS BEXAR APA-237 was Capt. Forrest S. Petersen. Captain "Pete" passed on Dec. 8, 1990, and is honored in Arlington National Cemetery. Check out this great American patriot and then tell me again about your association with Hanoi Jane and what a Vietnam hero you are.
When you threw your (which turned out they were someone elseâs you borrowed) three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and Vietnam Service Medals over the White House fence in the 1970s â which you gallantly deserved â you turned my stomach and millions of my fellow Vietnam veteransâ.
Where was your head at then, Mr. Kerry? In 1971, Vietnam heroes like John McCain and Edward Hubbard were being beaten daily in North Vietnamese prison camps and thousands of your Vietnam brothers were still fighting there.
I, for one, cannot vote for a man of your caliber to lead my great country.
JAY L. GARRETT
HANOVER
Thank you Brother for telling it like it is!
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And Honor Capt. Peterson, too. Moment of silence.
Rest in Peace, Peterson.
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U.S. employment surged for a second straight month during April, adding another 288,000 to payrolls, as jobs were created in nearly every sector at a pace that handily outstripped expectations, a Labor Department report on Friday said. Adding to evidence a revitalized labor market may take some sizzle from the jobs issue ahead of November presidential elections, the government revised up its estimates for job creation in both February and March. Kerry will probably ask Bush to resign.
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Yes, but do all those jobs pay $140,000 a year for not showing up - like my Senatorship? I think not! The President owes an apology to all Americans who don't get paid $140K to not show up! It's called a Living Wage...unless you've managed to marry a fine portfolio wife like I did...this was after I was getting wounded serving my country in Viet Nam, of course, but....
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the detail BLS report is at:
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
Notably, there was actually a gain in manufacturing jobs for the first time in many, many months.
If the jobs gain had been, say 400k instead of the 288k, the Fed would probably be under pressure to jack the prime up by 50 basis instead of 25 in their June meeting.
All in all, this report was about as good as anyone could wish for.
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The most recent manufacturing number showed increase in manufacturing employment over the last 3 months, speeding up each month. Not just last month.
There have been more calls for Mr Rumsfeldâs resignation from senior Democrat figures. On the campaign trail in California, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry said he had called on Mr Rumsfeld to quit "months ago" because of miscalculations on Iraq. Mr Kerry said the abuse scandal only "compounds" the evidence for him to step down. "I think he should have and I think he should have now," Mr Kerry said, according to Reuters news agency. Hannity exposed the hypocrisy well: Kerry-- who admitted to personally engaging in atrocities in VietNam-- now says as part of his campaign to be commander in chief that Rumsfeld is not qualified to be SecDef because much less egregious atrocities occurred on his watch. Huh?
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And I call for Kerry's resignation on account of he's a fucking hypocrite.
What a loudmouthed loser.
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Don't discount what Kerry says on this subject; he is a war crimes expert. I believe he has even testified before Congress about war crimes.
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Right on SuperHose. I suspect he may want to start a new set of hearings now to begin trashing the current Vets as he did in 1971. He is somewhat of an expert on these matters, I hear.
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SH - What do you think this whole 'prison abuse' 'investigation' is about? And just like before they (and 'news' outlets like the 'We Hate America' morning TV show) are using fraudulant 'evidence' to make a mountain out of a molehill.
Who knows if the Iraqis they are interviewing were actually 'abused' -- they could be anybody and the pictures had their heads covered - so the persons in the pictures are anonymous. These prisoners may have spent time in the prison but that does not prove they were the ones actually abused.
And Kerry is an expert at War Crimes.... such as Treason.... and Lying to Congress.....
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i am sick of the politics - we are in a war and do not a change like this. we already have bloated...plus lets face it...these photos were not that bad...no nails pulled...no slit throats..no raped and killed women...sometimes we need to get dirty..our enemies will not hesitate...Bush I believe has come out and did the right thing..now get on wiht the war
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Crazy Fool, exactly. Many have asked why Vietnam is applicable to today. I say because the same traitors are engaged in the very same activity. Watch as the left tries to cut funding to our soldiers again. I would hope that the voters take a dim view of the politicizing of this importantof an issue. Maybe we can get the writers from Sponge Bob to parody this perfidy - tha's about the level that most voters operate on.
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The Nation - Muslim Group Demands Rumsfeld's Resignation
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Whoa here. Kerry has ever right to call for a resignation. He is the nominee elect, aint he? Course he and his supporters may be twisted in thinkin that the only thing riding on the war is the election. Theys a few soldiers lives at stake aint there? Theys the freedom of 25 million Iraqis at stake? Theys the lives that'll be lost cause of bucked up terrorists at stake? But its just politics aint it?
(2004-05-04) -- The United Nations Security Council today voted to threaten the use of force against the United States of America unless it could prove that U.S. troops have stopped abusing Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib prison.
"Let it never be said that this world body stood idly by as prisoners were subjected to humiliation and injury," said former French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin (who is a man). "As the global defender of human rights, the U.N. is obligated to step in and protect the helpless innocents in Abu Ghraib."
Mr. de Villepin said the U.N. would assemble a multilateral coalition consisting of troops from every nation on earth, under French command, to ensure that the United States "verifiably complies with the letter and the spirit of the resolution."
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GOOD! A MULTINATIONAL FORCE READY TO SURRENDER!
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"As the global defender of human rights, the U.N. is obligated to step in and protect the helpless innocents in Abu Ghraib."
This is 100% pure USDA inspected top grade export quality banana oil! They allow the appointment of Sudan to the "Human Rights" panel without blinking as mass rapes go on in that country and then threaten to storm in and use force to prevent fairly mild prisoner abuse in Iraq.
"Global defender of human rights" my hairy @ss. How about they "protect the helpless innocents" in Sudan by disallowing that nation's participation on a panel supposedly devoted to preventing that same country's heinous acts against refugees.
I am astonished these people's heads don't explode from confining such completely anthetical thoughts within a single cranial cavity (operative term: cavity, as in "rectal cavity"). How can thinking beings even for one second believe that this sort of posturing carries any weight with those who possess the least shred of sensibility and ethics?
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the Mullahs drive Benz's and BMW's - or at least their chauffeurs do
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If the Mullahs can be overthrown by the Iranian people it will show the fence-sitters in the Islamic world that Theocracy is undesirable. This has earth-shattering implications for the neo-con strategy of Iraq and the greater middle east.
If the US gets invovled the lesson is somewhat lost.
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VDH is truly the Pole Star in America today! He really helps you get your (war) bearings back if you're lost.
Dig his penultimate graf:
We have to return to an audacious and entirely unpredictable combat mode; put on a happy, aw-shucks face while annihilating utterly the Baathist remnants and Sadr's killers; attribute this success to the new Iraqi government and its veneer of an army for its own 'miraculous' courage; ignore the incoming rounds of moral hypocrisy on Iraq from Europe (past French and German oil deals and arms sales), the Arab League (silence over Iraqi holocausts, cheating on sanctions), and the U.N. (Oil-for-Food debacle); explain to an exasperated American people why other people hate us for who we are rather than what we do; and apologize sincerely and forcefully once â not gratuitously and zillions of times â for the rare transgression.
And I can only add, not with the meaningless resignation of Rumsfeld, either!
We're winning the war right now--you don't change Commanding Generals in the middle of battle.
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VDH is prolly my favorite writer/expert to watch right now. Always nails it. Great article.
Army officials in India say an inquiry has taken place into reports that troops on the Siachen glacier may have faked enemy killings to claim bravery awards. They were reacting to reports which said nearly a third of enemy deaths reported last year may have been false. Siachen, which is in Indian-administered Kashmir, is often described as the world's highest battlefield. Indian and Pakistani soldiers regularly exchanged fire in icy conditions before a current ceasefire. A national daily, the Hindustan Times, reported on Friday that at least a third of nearly 50 "claimed kills" on the glacier last year, could be false.
Bet it's the same on the Pak side. Troops are trying to stay alive from the cold and the altitude and don't have much insentive to fight each other. If they don't report fighting the brass may come sniffing around, so they fake it.
A defence source told the BBC that an "an investigation was launched earlier this year after reports of irregularities about the claims of enemy killings came to light". He however, refused to disclose the outcome of the inquiry. An army spokesman said action would be taken if anyone was found guilty of "committing such grave irregularities".
What are they going to do, make them stay on the glacier?
Media reports say a young officer of the Gorkha Rifles battalion, currently posted in the Siachen Glacier, had revealed the specific details of the alleged "false killings" made by his company to an army court of inquiry. The alleged fraud was carried out between July and November last year. Reports said the fake killings were video recorded to stake claim awards and citations for "imagined gallantry".
Gee, now where have I heard that (cough*kerry*cough) before?
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Two girls were allegedly raped on the direction of a punchayat (local jury) on April 30 in Basti Danga Naich, a suburb of Kabeerwala. The brother of one the raped girls was accused of having illicit relations with the rapistâs daughter. Muhammad Saeed of Kabeerwala police station told Daily Times a case had been registered against the alleged rapist and members of the jury. One of the accused has been arrested and the other five are at large. Police said Ghaffar Jeer and Tajamal Naich of Basti Danga Naich had tried to rape Mumtaz, 16, on previous occasions and been told off by villagers. On April 30, Ghaffar allegedly sent his daughter Shahina, alias Sanee, to Mumtazâs house while her brother Muhammad Riaz was inside. Ghaffar reportedly then locked the main door of the house and called the other villagers around, accusing Riaz of having an affair with Shahina. Ghaffar then arranged for a panchayat of 50 people in his house. The jury, headed by Haji Muhammad Sultan, Haji Afzal Jeer and Ahmad Nawaz called Mumtaz and Riazâs sister-in-law Mudasan and ordered Ghaffar to rape them. Ghaffar allegedly took them to an outhouse and raped them.
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Good to see the world still turns, in a gentle way!
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This is Pakistan, not Afghanistan. One day while reading the traffic on Pashtun site I stumbled on their reactions about a case of judicial rape in Pakistan: everybody was shocked and I think it wouldn't have been pretty if the perpetrators had fallen into their hands. Interstingly there were a number of Taliban symathizers and we all know how the Taliban treated women but it din't include things like that (OK to stone women, not to rape them).
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A jury ORDERS a rape?! Sick b'fahsee! Hey Jury: ,,|,,
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This is the same story as the second post of the day, below. There was no mention there of a jury. That story says that the two women (Mumtaz and Mudasan, although they're not named in the previous story) had gone to explain to Ghaffar that Riaz and Shahina were not having an affair, following "a traditional conflict resolution practice of sending women between aggrieved parties to make peace". (Apparently this conflict resolution practice involves a lot of rape.)
Money Wymyn is the root of all evil.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending good rape.
To err is human, to forgive rape divine.
To be rape or not to be rape. A no-brainer!
Live and let live rape.
Don't worry, be happy rape!
Same shit, different day rape.
When in doubt, choose C rape.
etc...
No, in the West this would be ground for a criminal investigation.
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05/07/2004 12:07 Comments ||
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or vigilante castration and killing justice
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05/07/2004 12:23 Comments ||
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I think that Bush should apologize because of your insensitivity toward their supperior culture.
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No, in the West this would be ground for a criminal investigation.
In the West, it would've gone like this:
Mumtaz and Mudasan had gone to explain to Ghaffar that Riaz and Shahina were not having an affair, 'cause Riaz rilly rilly likes this other girl, 'K? And Shahina's all like, "I don't need no boyfriend, 'cause I'm gonna concentrate on getting into college", right? But they're like buds, ya know, and Riaz is like cryin' on Shahina's shoulder 'cause this other chick don't dig him? So, when Ghaffar hears that he's like, so relieved, ya know? So Mumtaz, she goes, "Cha!! What you got against my brother, anyway?" And Ghaffar's all like, "Hey, I got nothin' against Riaz, it's just that I don't want Shahina to be gettin' too serious about anyone, see? I want her to go to college and stuff"? Ghaffar is, like, rilly rilly strict with her and that's all he thinks about, college college college. He don't let her have any fun at all, it's so bogus, so anyway..."
Minister Zafarullah Jamali waded into US politics during an interview with The Associated Press, saying he wishes President Bush well in his re-election bid this November. Zafarullah Khan Jamaliâs comment was a rare taking-of-sides by a world leader in another countryâs election, and one that is particularly unusual given the American presidentâs low standing among Muslims angered over the war in Iraq, US support for Israel and allegations that American servicemen abused Iraqi prisoners at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. âToday we are lucky with the Republicans that the president, his secretary of state, the vice president and the secretary of defense â they all have a personal relationship with Pakistan, and also as a government, so that I think is a much better bet as far as Pakistan-American relations are concerned,â Jamali said Wednesday at his official residence on a hilltop overlooking the capital. He said the contest between Bush and Sen. John Kerry the presumptive Democratic candidate, is a matter for the American people to decide, and that Pakistani-U.S. relations go beyond personalities. But he added: âWhat the results of those elections are we must wait and see, though I would wish President Bush well, definitely.â
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Jamali's probably right. I don't know what actions Kerry would take in that part of the world, but with the Pakistani government a flipping and a flopping and Kerry flipping and a flopping, only pure luck would keep the canoe upright.
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Central bankers around the world raised concerns about the inflationary impact of higher oil prices on Thursday as crude rose to nearly $40 a barrel in New York - its highest level since October 1990.
Oil prices have risen by 22 per cent this year. Traders fear tight supplies will be even further stretched by rising tension and attacks in the Middle East. World equity markets retreated in response to inflation fears and the prospect of rising interest rates. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had fallen by just over 1 per cent at mid-session on Thursday.
In the UK the Bank of England pointed to the need to keep inflation under control as a reason for raising its main interest rate by a quarter-point to 4.25 per cent on Thursday. In a statement explaining its decision the Bankâs monetary policy committee cited sharply rising commodity prices. Although the European Central Bank kept rates on hold at 2 per cent, Jean-Claude Trichet, its president, adopted a more hawkish tone towards price rises. He warned that increases in oil prices might pose "an upside risk to price stability" and that Eurozone inflation could rise above 2 per cent over the next few months.
Last week Alan Greenspan, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, warned that the "dramatic" rise of oil and gas futures was "an economic event that can significantly affect the long-term path of the US economy". Earlier this week Mr Greenspan signalled that US interest rates would be raised soon, prompting speculative investors to start to reduce their risks. As a result, emerging market bond prices on Thursday suffered their worst one-day losses in nearly two years.
JP Morganâs EMBI+ emerging debt index was down 2.2 per cent as European markets closed, the biggest one-day decline since July 2002. John Bates, analyst at West LB, said: "There was an irrational stampede to get out - there were only sellers in the market." Tony Blair, Britainâs prime minister, said he had spoken to oil-producing countries about the impact of higher oil prices. Mr Trichet also repeated his recent call for oil-producing countries to exercise "responsibility" on the price of oil. "It is is a matter of importance," he stressed. However, an Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries official said there was nothing the oil cartel could do to reduce the soaring crude price. Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Iranâs representative on Opecâs board of governors, told Dow Jones newswires that security fears in the Middle East and the tight US petrol market had created a $6 a barrel premium in the oil price.
Opec, which accounts for about one-third of global oil output, quashed market rumours of an emergency meeting when an official said there were no plans for a meeting before the next scheduled gathering in Beirut on June 3. Oil prices have risen about 5 per cent since Saudi militants attacked western expatriates at a petrochemical plant at the weekend.
Since the price of transportation is a factor in virtually every part of our economy, any rise in the price of fuel is going to be reflected in the price of goods and services, and with a degree of amplification as the increased prices are stacked on for different stages of the distribution process.
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Just some insight about inflation that may be of interest to you.
In So Cal my brother, a good man, sold his 1100 sq ft home in Garden Grove, a city not far from Disneyland, a beach city tho not beach side, a stucco box in a grid of 1100 sq ft stucco boxes circa 1961 and tucked between two freeways, for $310,000. This home sold new prolly for $4597.98
He moved to an area, Lake Elsenor, many miles ESE away from the beach cities of Orange County. He bought a new 3 bdrm, 3 bath ranch in a new development for $325,000. His next door neighbor, who had been living there for less than a year put his similar house on the market and it sold for over $500,000. Now what does this mean. A home out in the distant burbs of Orange County (actually Riverside County, a place currently on fire) had an increase of value of about $200,000.
Good work if you can get it. I'm hoping that the Cal burp comes north to the Evergreen state. It has in the past. Come on ice cream.
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What's not right is that the US has not buiilt any refineries in decades. California, at a minimum, has a custom designed gasoline produced at a handful of refineries. Further, China's demand for fuel is skyrocketing. We can expect this situation to continue and get worse until the production pipeline including refining responds to higher prices.
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We can expect this situation to continue and get worse until the production pipeline including refining responds to higher prices.
In a normal situation, the response would be to increase capacity, as in build more refineries. Here in CA, that is not likely to happen. The enviro-weenies have too firm a hold on a lot of the population and their politicians, and combined with the typical NIMBY attitude of a lot of CA residents, a reasonable solution can't be expected anytime soon, if ever.
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Mr.Davis - you are spot on..the US is setting herself by letting the left - eco terrorists dictate energy policy. if we loose a few of these to terrorists attack we are in doodo..
and that customer formulated gas in california is helping the price stay in 2.15-2.45 range - man it is a killer.
plus our enemies want the price of oil to rise before the elections...
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Do they use MTBE as an additive in California? They're banning it here in Pennsylvania.
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Mr. Davis? Is your first name perchance Gray?
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Do they use MTBE as an additive in California?
They did. Then it was discovered that MTBE was contaminating groundwater, so it is being phased out.....
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We have regular gas now at 1.96/gal in Anchorage, Alaska. Oil demand is outpacing supply, plus some manipulation by OPEC. Oil is fungible, but it would be prudent to open alot of areas up to make up for Saudi output cutoff, which is going to happen sooner rather than later. Saudi imports of crude to the US amount to 17% of all imports. We better have a plan to make up for the loss.
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A Pakistani man allegedly raped two women at gunpoint, apparently to avenge his familyâs honour after his own daughter was accused of having a love affair with another villager, police said yesterday.
Honor in Muslim countries is fungible. If you lose yours, all you have to do is whip out a heater and take somebody else's...
Mohammed Ghaffar, 40, who is now on the run, was furious at the suspicion that 24-year-old Mohammed Riaz was involved with his 17-year-old daughter. He raped Riazâs sister and elder brotherâs wife last week in Basti Dinga, a village about 45km east of Multan, a city in the eastern Punjab province, local police official Saadullah Khan said. The victims had gone to Ghaffar to explain to him that there was no affair between Riaz and Ghaffarâs daughter, after three other villagers had persuaded them to follow a traditional conflict resolution practice of sending women between aggrieved parties to make peace. Instead of allowing the women to return home, Ghaffar allegedly took them to a deserted house surrounded by wheat fields and forced them to have sex with him at gunpoint.
Sounds like he was more interested in their slender young bodies than he was in his sister's honor...
Khan said police have arrested a brother of Ghaffar, but Ghaffar and three other men who had asked the women to mediate are on the run. All face charges of rape and complicity in rape and could face life in prison if convicted.
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The old honor rape defense, coming to a court house near you.
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All face charges of rape and complicity in rape and could face life in prison if convicted.
Not stoning? Awww...
This stinks: It's barely a step above stoning the victim, but "getting revenge" in this fashion works to spread the misery. That the "offended" party gets some personal "jollies" while doing so is even more odious.
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Alright shari'ah experts. Just what is the punishment for an honor rape? Does the perp get more virgins or less virgins than the blessed bomber who blows up kids on busses?
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Hmmmm, good question. Well, since he's sorta jumped the gun, so to speak, I'd guess that the number of rapes is deducted from his virgins account. Islam doesn't allow usury (interest), so that's prolly the sum of it, IMO. (Lol!) ;-)
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There is no way an honor rapist can be given the same number of virgins as a "blessed bomber." There is no support under Shari'ah for such an unjustified reward to an honor rapist, unless of course, the rapee was an infidel.
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