Friday, 13 August, 2004, 14:57 GMT 15:57 UK
A man standing trial for rape was killed by a group of women and children in court in the city of Nagpur in central India on Friday, reports say. Initial reports said about 14 women and several children forced their way into the courtroom and knifed the accused, Appu Yadav, to death. When you stick it to 'em like that, Appu, you'd better expect to get stuck as well.
The attackers then escaped from the scene of the crime. Police, who have launched an investigation, admit that they were caught unawares. "We did not for even one moment expect that bringing the defendant into possible contact with his alleged victims could possibly result in such dire retribution. All of us are, of course, shocked but do not expect to be fired for this exceptionally neglectful oversight."
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However, the BBC's Zubair Ahmed in Bombay says they also admitted they had to throw a security cordon around the defendant last week when he was jeered by angry women as he arrived in court. Yadav was facing 24 counts of molestation and rape. One can only assume that the "security cordon" must have immediately trotted off for a coffee break after delivering their charge into the courtroom.
Six months ago there was a similar incident in Nagpur, in India's Maharashtra state. A member of a criminal gang was killed by other gang members on court premises. Sounds like a baliff problem to me.
A man standing trial for rape was killed by a group of women and children in court
Works for me!
Ain't justice grand? :-p
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Instant Karma's gonna get you...
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Well thats a good way of dealing with this kind of skum but a quick trial first will keep the BBC happy. Now the BBC will winge for months about it.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Tropical Storm Earl gathered strength Saturday, growing from a tropical depression as it neared several eastern Caribbean islands.
Forecasters said Earl could strengthen to a hurricane by Monday, once it reaches the Caribbean Sea. The fifth tropical storm of the Atlantic season prompted storm warnings in the eastern Caribbean islands, from Trinidad and Tobago to St. Lucia.
Earl's center was forecast to move over those islands Sunday and could become the season's third hurricane -- with winds of 74 mph or greater -- as it moves toward Jamaica and Cuba, said Robbie Berg, a meteorologist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Cuba on Friday was battered by Hurricane Charley, which killed four people. At least 41 buildings collapsed in the storm, and 200,000 people were evacuated in western and central Cuba.
Saturday evening Earl had sustained winds of 40 mph and its center was located about 375 miles east-southeast of Barbados, according to the Hurricane Center.
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Famed chef helped popularize edible food fine cuisine in America
Julia Child, who revolutionized cooking in the United States with her cooking school, cookbooks and television shows, has died, according to a statement from her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. She was 91. Child died at her home in Santa Barbara, California, according to the release.
Years before any jerkoff halfwit television chef said "bam," Child was on public television instructing Americans in a warbling voice and a mischievous manner how to prepare everything from omelets to sweetbreads to coq au vin. She loved food and loved the camaraderie that came with it. "Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal," she said in the introduction to her seventh book, "The Way to Cook." "In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal." Indeed, she worried that food crazes and diets got in the way of enjoying a good repast. "What's dangerous and discouraging about this era is that people really are afraid of their food," she told The Associated Press in 1989. "Sitting down to dinner is a trap, not something to enjoy. People should take their food more seriously. Learn what you can eat and enjoy it thoroughly." Child was born in Pasadena, California, on August 15, 1912, to an upper-middle-class family that employed a cook. According to her biographer, she barely knew how to do more than boil water when she graduated from Smith College in 1934 with a degree in history. Child, who was 6-foot-2, intended to be either a novelist or a basketball player.
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During World War II she served with the Office of Strategic Services (an agency that later became the CIA), first in Washington, then in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and China. Little known to most people, Julia Child distinguished herself in the OSS with a flair for organizing and making usable the large quantities of random information that arrived at the Ceylon intelligence bureau. A later assignment in pre-communist China cemented her nascent interest in food preparation. All of this was a world apart from her cushy upbringing in Pasadena and these early foreign posts were fraught with hardship and risks. Continued on Page 49
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Zenster, your headline is not very nice.
Funny, but not very nice. :-p
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Who cares how she dressed--it wasn't about her clothes!
I met Mrs. Childs and cooked for her (for a KERA charity event).
She couldn't have been more gracious.
God rest her.
And we all owe her a great debt of gratitude for taking the best of French (spit!) cooking and appropriating it for American cuisine.
If butter, eggs, flour and salt --in short, Taste--don't disappear from the national diet, it's largely due to her influence.
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A good one she will be missed.
She was Oh So Secret from Day One, I once saw her do an 11 on a little Czech. I'll miss her, I mean if she's really gone of course... you never can tell with these tall Smithys, you may trust me on that.
I would not be too surprised to see an additional blue star show up in the atrium.
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If butter, eggs, flour and salt --in short, Taste--don't disappear from the national diet, it's largely due to her influence.
That's something we can agree upon, Jen. Even a Japanese born sushi chef I once knew freely admitted that it was impossible to cook most foods without using butter. To paraphrase one of my heroes, Jaques Pepin;
"You starve yourself constantly for years so you can do what, die thin?"
Breaking bread with friends (or strangers) will forever remain one of the most vital and pure forms of engagement available to humans. Whether I'm hovering over my vintage double oven O'keefe & Merritt or putzing around a campfire, few are the complaints I receive when chowtime comes. It is more than easy to trace back my love of fine food and cooking to watching "The French Chef" as a youth.
In the hurly burly of modern life, far too many people have lost (or never gained) the knack for cooking and, as is often the case, entertaining company at home as well. A huge number of modern society's malaises are directly connected to this fundamental breakdown in civility.
Julia Child masterfully helped to stem the rising tide of Velveeta and Spam that threatened to wash over America's collective palette in an oleagenous cascade of congealed food manufacturing byproducts. It is impossible to overstate the importance of her insistence upon eating what you enjoy. The continuous parade of fad diets and obsessive mania over caloric intake bespeak a nation so fixated upon the superficial that anorexia and bulemia are now common vocabulary. I, for one, am profoundly grateful that this gracious doyen of distinctive dining bravely fought that onslaught with tooth and carving knife. It certainly made my life one well lived and it is impossible to imagine doing without the conviviality of cooking an eight course dinner for good friends. Thank you, Julia, may you rest in peace.
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When asked how she outlived so many of the people who criticized the "unhealthiness" of her cooking she replied, "Maybe they didn't eat enough red meat". Eat well, live well for we do all die.
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When asked how she outlived so many of the people who criticized the "unhealthiness" of her cooking she replied, "Maybe they didn't eat enough red meat".
While I was reading Noel Riley Fitch's biography of this venerable dame, it was difficult not to howl out loud with laughter as Fitch chronicled the suicide of a woman who authored (I believe) "The Blender Cookbook."
I cannot possibly convey how outrageous hilarious it is to see people at the supermarket racking up $100-$200 grocery bills buying minuscule sized frozen food portions that effectively cost the same per pound as a fine New York strip steak. I do my best to steer people away from crap like the mono & diglyceride laden "ultra-pasteurized" whipping cream, and instead point them towards the real thing. It's always funny to see their neurons fire for a change eyes widen as I point out how what I buy has only one ingredient, i.e., CREAM.
If you ever want to have a laugh-riot, watch the episode of "Yan Can Cook" where he invites Jaques Pepin to appear. Pepin proceeds to take a dressed whole chicken and convert it into a completely boned out barrontine (sp?) in less than three minutes. Watching Yan STFU and stare for just once was more than worth the price of admission.
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Tonight, at the Casa de Loco en Tejas, we had grilled center-cut pork chops, mixed green salad with ALL the fixin's, guac ('nough said), pico de gallo, real corn bread (think lard) and home made tortilla chips.
I can feel my arteries hardenin'! But I will die happy. God speed Julia, I learned a LOT from you!
A woman sued Air France in federal court Friday, saying an employee told her she could not board a flight because she has no limbs. Adele Price, 42, who was born with birth defects caused by the leprosy treatment drug thalidomide, said at a news conference the employee told her that "one head, one bottom and one torso cannot and will not be allowed to fly on Air France" without help.
It wasn't as if she was going to charge the cockpit. Or hide a bomb in a shoe.
Price claims she suffered emotional and psychological damage and endured large expenses to complete a trip from Manchester, England, to New York on Aug. 19, 2000. Price said she paid someone to fly with her and eventually completed the trip. In England, Price had been told by an Air France agent that she would need clearance from an American doctor to return home, according to the lawsuit. When Price provided that clearance to an Air France agent in New York, she was asked for additional medical clearance, which forced her to stay in the United States another five days and cancel all the business she had intended on the trip, the lawsuit said. She eventually bought a ticket on British Airways, which let her travel alone. Chris Maio, a spokeswoman for Air France, declined to comment.
So much for the French being the enlightened ones.
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....but she raised her voice and they ran up a white flag.
She was obviously unarmed (dodges rotten veggies), but the Froggistanis don't care if you're a terrorist, they just care how easily they can insult you.
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Air Phrog has to work at being that dumb and insensitive. Boggles the mind!
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Most French people think this woman's lawsuit doesn't have a leg to stand on. Far from being cut off at the knees, I 'll go out on a (phantom) limb and wager that her complaint is on solid footing.
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Woman with no limbs; French with no brains -- sounds like its evenly matched.
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Far be it from me to defend the French but what are we talking here. A transatlantic flight. Would someone have had to carry her on and off the plane, fasten her seatbealt, help her eat? Would a steward have been expected to pick the lady up and carry her to the bathroom?
Then there is the liability because the seatbelts are designed for someone with legs and may not work as well. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered before I'm gonna pile onto Air France on this one. Certainly they were barberous about the whole thing, but they are French.
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OK - I'll be un-PC - we have so many situations where unrealistic expectations are imposed on existing facilities...... my Dad ended up in a wheelchair (brain tumor) but as a civil engineer (same as me, and AP) he noted that the demand for accomodations clearly exceeded the need, and only the noisy would get the accomodation. Lately, the immediate needs have been subsceded (?) to the legally-represented, with too much of needed re-contruction funs paying professional litigators and their professional clients.
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You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the h*ll else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah? Huh? Ok!
This is nuts. De Niro gives a perfect rendition of what it is to be Italian-American. Oh yeah? Us guys with names that end in 'o's says so - That's who - Capish?
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The Godfather was a little too romanticized. Goodfellas was perhaps a little harsh. I think Donnie Brasco was just about right - a portrait of mobsters as a bunch of murderous bumblers.
Such a title in our local press is strange. A title protesting Saudi women being denied the right to vote and the invalidity of elections that exclude women is equally strange. The local press has been full of articles and arguments discussing and demanding even more than these two seem to promise. The very fact that such a thing is being discussed and written about reflects real and genuine development. In fact the announcement in the local press of such things is illustrative of qualitative development and change and not merely a theatrical performance as seen in some other countries. Freedom comes by small steps that move forward through struggle; regardless of what we say, these are healthy and positive and mirror changes in the public. We should not consider protests as complaints or as discontent or negative. We should see them as a new state of being.
In a country such as this one, the norm has been a traditional political environment in which you can write and you can talk but you cannot imply that anything is wrong or in any way negative. Any criticisms, complaints or even suggestions simply disappear into thin air. Now, however, mental habits, needs and methods have changed — and we must change along with them so that we benefit from them and use them to our own advantage and for our own good.
As for the elections for men — and I hope we will soon see elections open to women as well — which will take place before the end of the year, they are both a giant and a historic step. True that some will say the step is a long overdue one but we must be glad the step is going to take place. We cannot deny that there is some natural anxiety about the step but that is normal in such a situation. And the anxiety has to do more with the results of the elections than with the elections themselves.
The political backwardness that is widespread in the Arab world has produced disappointing experiences when it comes to elections. Yet we must accept whoever is elected and we must participate in the choice of those individuals.
We know that the elections may strengthen certain of the less progressive tendencies in the community. We also know that it will be a long time before elections become the way to real modernization and updating of our society. We are prepared to be told, "Oh, you who complain about the elections are the very ones who asked for them." And it is true that we planted its seeds but we will harvest its fruits as well. We must accept all, looking to the day when the community will look to itself for development and modification.
Constructing and establishing these mechanisms and methodologies today is important and essential, regardless of results. For such steps move toward ensuring stability for today and tomorrow and equally toward success. Among our beliefs and convictions is one that a good community is able to remedy its problems as long as there is a chance to share responsibility. People naturally lean toward serving the general good and getting to know what is for the general good takes time and patience.
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This is long so got to the link to rtwt. via the Instapundit
Editor's note: In the aftermath of World War II, the philosopher Alexandre Kojeve presented the French government his "Outline of a Doctrine of French Policy," a document that remains today of scholarly, historical, philosophical, and—perhaps most startlingly—contemporary interest. This unabridged translation marks its first appearance in English. It was translated from the French by Erik de Vries, who recently completed his doctoral dissertation, "A Kojevean Citizenship Model for the European Union," at Carleton University and now works as a policy analyst for the Canadian government.
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THE Greek organizers of this summer's Olympics, which began in Athens yesterday, claim that more women athletes are competing than ever before. Women are also playing a high-profile role in making the whole enterprise, the biggest of its kind in Greek history, run as smoothly as possible. Seen from the Muslim world, however, the Athens game will look like a male-dominated spectacle in which women play an incidental part.
According to officials in Athens, the number of Muslim women participating in this year's game is the lowest since 1960. Several Muslim countries have sent no women athletes at all; others, such as Iran, are taking part with only one, in full hijab. And state-owned TV networks in many Muslim countries, including Iran and Egypt, have received instructions to limit coverage of events featuring women athletes at Athens to a minimum. A circular from the Ministry of Islamic Guidance and Culture in Tehran asks TV editors to make sure that women's games are not televised live: "Images of women engaged in contests [sic] must be carefully vetted," says the letter, leaked in Tehran. "Editors must take care to prevent viewers from being confronted [sic] with uncovered parts of the female anatomy in contests."
"You never know when their titties are gonna pop out!"
Women athletes in Athens are unlikely to wear the Islamic hijab or full-length manteaux that cover their legs to the ankle and their arms to the wrist.
Why yes, it is rather unlikely, isn't it?
The ministry's order thus could mean a blanket ban on images of female athletics. Fear of Muslim viewers seeing bare female legs and arms on television is also shared by theologians in several Arab states. Sheik Yussuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian theologian based in Qatar, claims that female sport is exploited as a means of undermining "divine morality." Ayatollah Emami Kashani, one of Iran's ruling mullahs, goes further. In a recent sermon, he claimed that allowing women to compete in the Olympics was a "sign of voyeurism" on the part of the male organizers.
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When the Pakistan Olympic team was introduced last night, Bob Costas noted that the woman was allowed to compete in swimming only because the swimmers are wearing those long bodysuits now.
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Three notes on the Olympics so far:
1-Greece has done a great job to pull this off, including a great opening ceremonies.
2-The press is just plain befuddled at the LACK of anti-US showing at the games. It's as if everyone DOESN'T hate us.
3-The Muslims really need to grow up. Keeping women down hamstrings your society by half.
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Agree, Sarge!
The opening ceremonies were wonderful!
And I felt really good to see the Iraqi and Afghan teams, too, and was proud that my country had liberated them so that they could be there.
I thought the reception for the Israeli team wasn't all that nice, though and I resent the fact that the Iranian wrestler can just drop out rather than wrestle a hated Israeli--that is what the Games are for, non-political competition!
But Aris and his fellow Greeks should be pleased and proud--the ceremonies were very nice!
(What was the deal with that "One Korea" showing? Did the South Koreans give them food or what?!)
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Gentle, dear, please let us know if you get to see the women's gymnastics, women's track & field, and other sports in which the women's bodies are appropriately, rather than fully, clothed. And, did your country send any female competitors?
Jen, what you said.
Frank, swimming, both male and female. I have to admit, I find it a matter of waaay too much information, and I spent an awful lot of my youth in leotards ;-)
But this question isn't about geographical degrees of latitude so much as psychological ones. Here's the real reason Lt. Kerry wasn't spending Dec. 24, 1968, on a secret mission in Cambodia: On the previous day, Dec. 23, the U.S. government finally secured the release, after a five-month diplomatic stand-off, of 11 Americans whose U.S. Army utility landing craft had made a navigational error and strayed into Cambodian waters. Prince Sihanouk had rejected U.S. apologies and threatened to try the men under Cambodian law. It's unlikely, 24 hours after their release, anyone in Washington was thinking, ''Hey, we need to send that hotshot Kerry in there.''
So what are we to make of Sen. Kerry's self-seared 30-year-old false memory of Christmas in Cambodia with its vast accumulation of precise details? Of being shot at by the Khmer Rouge (unlikely in 1968) and of South Vietnamese troops drunkenly celebrating Christmas (as only devout Buddhists know how)?
It's not about dates and places. For Kerry, his Yuletide mission was an epiphany: the moment when he realized his government was lying to the people about what was going on. This is the turning point, the moment that set the young Kerry on the path from brave young war volunteer to fierce anti-war activist.
And it turns out it's total bunk.
Thirty-five years on, having no appealing campaign themes, the senator decides to run for president on his biography. But for the last 20 years he's been a legislative non-entity. Before that, he was accusing his brave band of brothers of mutilation, rape and torture. He spent his early life at Swiss finishing school and his later life living off his wife's inheritance from her first husband. So, biography-wise, that leaves four months in Vietnam, which he talks about non-stop. That 1986 Senate speech is typical: It was supposed to be about Reagan policy in Central America, but like so many Kerry speeches and interviews somehow it winds up with yet another self-aggrandizing trip down memory lane.
A handful of Kerry's ''band of brothers'' are traveling around with his campaign. Most of the rest, including a majority of his fellow swift boat commanders and 254 swiftees from Kerry's Coastal Squadron One, are opposed to his candidacy. That is an amazing ratio and, if snot-nosed American media grandees don't think there's a story there, maybe they ought to consider another line of work. To put it in terms they can understand, imagine if Dick Cheney campaigned for the presidency on the basis of his time at Halliburton, and a majority of the Halliburton board and 80 percent of the stockholders declared he was unfit for office. More to the point, on the swift vets' first major allegation -- Christmas in Cambodia -- the Kerry campaign has caved.
Who is John Kerry? What is his ''unique truth?'' Consider this vignette from New Hampshire primary season as retailed in a recent 8,000-word yawneroo puff piece in the New Yorker:
'' 'He'll often thrash around in the night,' the filmmaker George Butler, who is one of Kerry's oldest friends, told me. 'He smashed up a lamp in my house in New Hampshire, in the bedroom where he was staying. Most Vietnam veterans go through this.'''
''Most?'' Whether or not John Kerry ever entered Cambodia, he seems unable, psychologically, to exit it.
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"And it turns out it's total bunk."
Which means it fits right in with damn near everything else the Democratic Party has been peddling for the last several years.
Up until last year I'd been a registered Democrat for my entire voting life, since 1972. But no more: I got tired of being taken for a gullible rube.
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This could be why Kerry's chin is so long - he's been wagging it too much.
I don't think he'll get to be president, unless people vote him in because he reminds them of Abraham Lincoln.
Then we'll really be in trouble
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My Dad's features reminded me of Abraham Lincoln. Kerry reminds me of Lurch.
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...Cambodia... I'm still in Cambodia...or is it Saigon...Saigon...Saigon...or is it...Nantucket...where did all those friggin windmills come from...must have the Band of Brothers bring the Scaramouche around
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im sympathize sear mind ive had days like that too you ever see the windbill of the swine? that will make you want to hunker down a eat jolly rangers with your pliers
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My favorite lines?
The Boston Globe writers capture a moment of sheer, abject incoherence, at a Democratic candidates' debate in Baltimore last September:
''If we hadn't voted the way we voted, we would not have been able to have a chance of going to the United Nations and stopping the president, in effect, who already had the votes and who was obviously asking serious questions about whether or not the Congress was going to be there to enforce the effort to create a threat.''
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The notion of Kerry using his Vietnam War record as the entire basis for his presidential campaign-- while trying to shove both his VVAW activities and his 19 years in the Senate down the "Memory Hole"-- is just mind-boggling.
Why is he being allowed to do this? It's almost as if his own campaign staff, and the Democratic National Committee, are deliberately giving him bad advice and setting him up for a fall.
Maybe they are.
A Kerry win this fall will doom Hillary Clinton's chances of ever being elected president. If Kerry turns out to be a popular, effective president (yeah, yeah, I know; I'm just being theoretical) then he'd be re-elected in 2008, meaning Hillary won't get her shot at the prize until 2012. But if Kerry turns out to be as much of a one-term loser as I expect he would-- much, MUCH worse than even Jimmy Carter-- then no Democrat, not even Hillary, will be electable as president for another generation.
I'm starting to wonder whether the Democratic Party leadership will allow Kerry to win. My bet is, they won't.
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SF Examiner (h/t Instapundit) - EFL
Kathleen Antrim - Friday, August 13, 2004 Backlash of Kerry claims
John F. Kerry's campaign for president is imploding. And he knows it. The anti-war candidate went public as a pro-war candidate this week, and the members of his beloved "Band of Brothers" are exposing a whole book's worth of ugly lies. And they've got details, evidence, footnotes, signed affidavits and witnesses who back up their claims.
Kerry himself bestowed immense credibility on his "Band of Brothers" when he used a picture of some of them in his campaign ad titled "Lifetime." Essentially, Kerry made Vietnam, and these men, the centerpiece of his campaign. Of course, that was when he thought they'd support his candidacy. No matter that he'd never bothered to ask their permission to use them to promote his political career. Now, however, the Kerry campaign is on a search-and-destroy mission to attack the credibility of these same men -- calling them liars, all 60 of them, and saying they didn't serve in the military with him. Really? Then why'd Kerry use their pictures in his ad campaign?
These are the same men who Kerry hailed as his "Band of Brothers," who he implied knew him well and could vouch for him as a wonderful soldier and man. These men, who Kerry inferred that we, the American people, could trust to tell us that he would make a great president, are suddenly liars. And why? Because they aren't saying what Kerry wants them to say. Because they aren't puppets. Because they're insisting on speaking the truth, a concept with which Kerry obviously isn't familiar. Could this attack on their credibility be related to the fact that they've announced that he's unfit to serve as president? Looks to me like he wrote the wrong names down in the reference column of his resume. ...more...
Finally, a well-known MSM publication has weighed in - with substance.
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THUD.
There went the first one. Will the MSM video ever catch on? Who will be last, ABC or CBS?
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MSNBC's free web video feed is carrying a 5-minute hit piece on O'Neil that's chock full of propaganda supporting Kerry's version of events (you know, the version that he's already retracted). The MSM is going to look pretty silly when the truth of this matter actually comes to light.
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Don't think too much of this, she has always been critical of Kerry. If this were the SF Chronicle or the LA Times maybe it would grow. So far the Liberal press has dutifully villified the Swiftees into some rouge Navy fringe with direct ties to Karl Rove. On the other hand these attacks (by the left) will almost cetainly backfire since the book is wildly popular on Amazon. Sooner or later Senator Kerry will have to make his records public or cast doubt on his stories of valor.
Friday, 13 August, 2004, 18:18 GMT 19:18 UK
One of Iran's best hopes for an Olympic medal will not be taking part in the Games after he refused to compete against an Israeli athlete. World judo champion Arash Miresmaili said he was proud to withdraw in solidarity with the Palestinians. Iran has a strict policy of sanctions against Israel and forbids any sort of contact with Israeli citizens. Unless it involves spattering them with blood, bone fragments plus assorted nails, ball bearings, razor blades or loose nuts and bolts.
Mr Miresmaili had been expected to carry Iran's flag at the Olympic opening ceremony on Friday night. According to the draw at the Ano Liossia stadium, Miresmaili would have had to fight Ehud Vaks of Israel in the first round. An official from the Asian Judo Union confirmed Miresmaili would be withdrawn from the competition. Under international regulations, he may even be sent home. To a hero's welcome, of that we can be sure. Goodbye, good riddance and good luck to your opponents. This is a perfect example of the hidebound mindset that Iran continues to hold at all costs and perfectly exemplifies how their continuing hatred of Israel makes it so important to blast their nascent nuclear weapons program to hell and back again.
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This reminds me of Tariq Aziz - former Iraqi FM or PM or whatever, but in any event now awaiting trial in Iraq as a henchman of Saddam.
He's a Christian and travelled to Rome shortly before America attacked. He was trying to drum up support against the looming war.
He was asked a question by an Israeli journalist at a press conference but refused to answer - more in objection to the questioner than the question - even when an Italian official insisted that he respond.
Also reminds me of the statement by Iran's chief terrorist after their recent earthquake: he would accept help from any nation except Israel.
No wonder Israeli teams compete in Europe rather than Asia.
Nigerian police say they have found a further 33 bodies in addition to the 50 already uncovered in fetish shrines in south-eastern Anambra state. A traditional cult reputed to carry out ritual killings is thought to have carried out the murders. Some of the corpses had hands, genitals or heads missing. Police have displayed skulls - and five men of the 30 or so people arrested in connection with the murders - to correspondents in the capital, Abuja. "Police are concerned about how the headless bodies found their way into the shrines," said deputy police chief Sunday Ehindero. However, a spokesman for those arrested denied any involvement in the killings.
"Who? Us? No, no! They wuz there when we rented the place! Really!"
"Since I have been there, for two years, I have not seen anybody killed by these people. Rather, the shrines kill," said Collin Obi. He said bodies had been brought to the Okija shrines by family members. Mr Ehindero said groups involved in disagreements had gone to the shrines to take part in black magic rituals. "What we are saying is that we found there is a parallel court," he said. Police found the shrines after being tipped off by a local villager in Okija who reported the priests had eaten the flesh of some of their victims.
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I'm still trying to figure out the family relationship.
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Sick!
Where do you find this stuff?
Really sick.
He should be killed.
What right has he to take the law into his own hands, and be proud of it too!
I can't believe this.
G. Bakhtadze, Chechenpress, August 4, 2004
The Chechen refugees living in Pankisi consider the events that took place at dawn of 3 August in the gorge a purposeful provocation of the Georgian force structures jointly with the Russian special services. Press service of the Ministry of State Security in a few words commented on the mentioned event: "The employees of the Ministry of State Security carried out today in Pankisi Gorge (Eastern Georgia) a preventive operation aimed at revealing the persons illegally living in the territory of Georgia. According to the information received from the press centre, 11 persons have been detained in the course of the operation, including the Chechen-Kists, ethnical Chechens residing in the territory of Georgia. Later, four of them were released, as they presented appropriate documents".
Looks like a fairly innocuous raid...
It is not clear what made the Georgian special services carry out the operation under cover of night, convoyed by armored troop carriers. The masked servicemen without producing any certificates or sanctions broke into the refugees' houses, beating the women, children, and detaining the men.
Ohoh! And they kicked the puppies and kittens and stomped the baby ducks, did they?
They arrived in 18 jeeps and 10 microbuses to conduct a night raid. 11 people have been arrested. All of them have been released. After the women blocked the road and tried to prevent the movement of the column, 10 to 12 of them were beaten, including a pregnant woman who was taken to hospital.
Sudan region already plagued by parasites civil unrest Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Posted: 12:39 PM EDT (1639 GMT) ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- Millions of career politicians locusts are probably heading for Darfur, a United Nations agency said on Wednesday, where genocide violence has already created a humanitarian disaster and two million people are short of food and medicine. "Swarms of UN diplomats could get into Sudan any day, but we of course don't know when," said Dr. Clive Elliott, senior officer in charge of the political plague locust group at the Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). "The FAO is in contact with the authorities in Sudan and our coordinators in Cairo are working with the countries around the Red Sea to get as prepared as possible for an invasion from the west," he said. Elliott denied reports that peacekeepers desert locusts had already arrived in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
"We're expecting it, but I'm not aware of any information that diplomats desert locusts have arrived in Sudan," he said. The region is facing its most serious locust crisis for 15 years, with swarms of diplomats desert locusts moving from northwest Africa into Mauritania, Mali and Niger, where many of the inhabitants are subsistence farmers. Desert locust swarms usually contain about 50 million insects per square kilometer and can travel up to 150 km (93 miles) a day. They can devastate entire gourmet markets and crop fields in minutes, adult diplomats locusts munching their own weight, about two hundred kilograms, of food a day.
At least one French swarm has reached Chad, bordering west Sudan's Darfur region where fighting between militiamen and rebels over crepes and confit has displaced more than one million people and created severe shortages of caviar, food, medicine and shelter. Elliott said the last swarm spotted in Chad was on July 27 in Batha province, only about 400 km (250 miles) from the Sudanese border. He said the UN diplomat swarm was smaller than those seen in Mauritania, reaching only about 4 km in length. "If they arrive in Darfur, they will eat anything expensive and pocket all the green ... So if the farmers have planted their crops, and they are nicely sprouting, those crops will clearly be at risk," he said. "They may not necessarily stay in Darfur ... It depends on the conditions," he said.
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