So it's hard to avoid concluding that eating cannot be personal. What I eat influences you. What you eat influences me. Our diets are deeply, intimately and necessarily political.
This realization changes everything for those who avoid meat. As a vegetarian I've always felt the perverse need to apologize for my dietary choice. It inconveniences people. It smacks of self-righteousness. It makes us pariahs at dinner parties. But the more I learn about the negative impact of meat production, the more I feel that it's the consumers of meat who should be making apologies.
But I wonder -- are we ready to do what must be done? Sure, we've been inundated with ideas: eat local, vote with your fork, buy organic, support fair trade, etc. But these proposals all lack something that every successful environmental movement has always placed at its core: genuine sacrifice.
Until we make that leap, until we create a culinary culture in which the meat-eaters must do the apologizing, the current proposals will be nothing more than gestures that turn the fork into an empty symbol rather than a real tool for environmental change.
You think you're a pariah now, Mr./Ms Op-Ed Writer? Just wait. And how do you plan to address the needs of those for whom eating meat is a health issue? When my father was deathly ill as a child, his physician wrote a prescription for pork consomme'. Daddy's ultra-orthodox Jewish grandmother prepared it with her own hands in her own, previously kosher kitchen.
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IIRC MVARIETYNEWS > PALAU MAY LOSE SIGNIFICANT LAND AREA DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE;
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TOPIX > UIGHURS SEEK PERMANENT HOME AFTER PALAU.
IMO read, GUAM-CNMI etal. As before, IMO the UIGHUR RELOC TO PALAU/BELAU is broadly symbolic of Radical Islam's desire to establish a formal,legal presence in strategic areas including but not limited to GUAM-MICRONESIA. BESIDES "CHINA VS. USA", in time, RADICAL ISLAM will likely become a new and separate bone of contention for any indigenous peoples and their traditional Govt-Society/Culture, espec as per ISLAM/ISLAMISM VS. CHINA VS. USA competition and struggle for influence, econ and political power.
THE VARIOUS SECTARIAN STRIFES, ANARCHIES AND BLOODY VIOLENCE AS SEEN ON THE ASIAN MAINLAND + MIDDLE EAST, ETC. MAY EVENTUALLY ALSO BEGIN TO OCCUR ON GUAM-MICRONESIA VEE THE "GREAT GAME OF GEOPOLITICS" = SUBSTITUTION OF RULING ELITES, WEALTH, AND NATIONS, ONE TO THE OTHER(S)???
Always bear in mind > Historically the US-WEST like to fight SHORT WARS; MUSLIMS otoh prefer to fight LONG WARS = WARS OF MANY YEARS, DECADES AND GENERATIONS. Despite its many political + military successes, the USA has NOT absolutely won the WOT yet, whereas Radical Islamism despite its many defeats and setbacks HAS NOT LOST THE WOT YET, IS ESCALATING + TRYING TO GO NUKULAAR.
And the above doesn't include any SPACE ROCKS, etal. FROM GOD.
I apologize that I am an OMNIVORE and am designed from top to bottom for eating both Meat and Potatoes. My teeth are as designed for tearing a yummie rare steak,hot off the grill, or a juicy falling-off-the-bone beef rib as it is for mashing corn-on-the-cob or mom's special mashed potatoes. My stomach can digest a couple of entire Big Mac's - the juicy hamburger patty, special sauce, lettice, tomato, cheese, and all-wheat bun.
I'm truly sorry that I can consume all those things - with nary a 'bite' of regret - and you can't - but have to preach how your unnatural lifestyle is somehow better than anyone else's
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Is it just me or is Mendiola off topic and on speed again.? And why is he flailing around and so LOUD? You get the impression from his hyper active posts that he is yelling into the dark somewhere up on the roof. Take your meds, Joseph. Slow down to Coherency on the Freeway of Life.
#5
You know, Crazy Fool, God made animals to eat other animals...and that's the same Creator who made Tarantula spiders and their tastes as well.
Prissy boy doesnt understand the real world as it actually exists. Blood is rather nice actually.
I ate a Steak this evening....a rather big Steak..."juicy"as they say, with a thin veneer of cooked surface and very red interior. Meat is good for you. It gives you a big greasy beard and you wash it down with strong drink.
I dont mind cutting the head and the feet off and slitting the belly open while the animal hangs by its heels. I know which knife works best for each cut and slice. One knife for the throat, another for the belly and the skinning. Sometimes you need a saw as well.
And I enjoy making the shot and the efficiency of setting up the kill no wasted motion..sudden and orderly...not everyone can do it.
Force, Time and Motion.. Its an intellectual exercise to make a good kill. Stupid people with shaky nerves or little boys.. cant do it. And its a very satisfying precision expression of synchronized thought and action ...to plan and execute...literally...a precise ( drop 'em right in their tracks with no fear and no warning) lethal kill. They dont suffer, they never even know they died.
Eject the cartridge.
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I don't see what the beef is here. So what if people don't want to eat meat. So what if they want to make it a culinary experience to come up with meatless dishes?
Oh, wait. I see. This guy isn't content just living his own life. He wants to come to my house for dinner and make me feel bad for serving meat.
Well, hey. I guess he won't make the invitation list, now will he?
#7
Perhaps he is already affected by his food choice.
I read an article a while ago about a young man who had some symptoms of MS - or something similar. Turns out he had not had meat - or vitimin supplements - in 12 years and his brain was damaged by the lack of B12 (I think), which is found (naturally) only in meat.
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When the prehistoric and early civilization crowd ran out of stuff gathered during the fall, around March or April, just what do these urbanized self worshipers think humans consumed till the next round of veggies made their edible appearence? Check the records for recent famines - matches people still stuck with non-modern farming methodologies and single grain stocks.
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Costco had some grass fed bison pot roast the other day, no hormones and no antibiotics, so I bought it. Didn't find out until we got home that it was quite expensive because I neglected to look at the price tag. But Mrs. Uluque cooked it to perfection. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. It was worth the price.
Bison, yummmmm. Pricy even when fairly local but well worth it when cooked right.
I think what Mr. Mediola is considering is the theory of mass immigration b/c of environmental shifts, in this case the greenary concept of cow farts melting ice and raising ocean levels, and the different approachs to conflicts which are considered inevitable. I tend to have the same conclusion short vs. long term conflict, but also tend to add china in the category of long term as well. I see it like this, college football rivalry - my team beat your team this year. "Yup" my team beat your team last year as well. again, "Yup, but over the next 10 years our overall record will be better."
#15
We know that something has to be done to save our food from corporate interests.
It took Veggie Boy awhile but he finally exposed the real demon the evil food corporations. And, indeed, how can us mere mortals save our food from our greedy over lords? Somehow we must find a way to sever the life-blood of the corporation. Yes, we must manipulate the ultimate beast capitalism itself. Thankfully our organic hero has given us a hint.
-- water so heavily subsidized that if irrigation supports were removed, ground beef would cost $35 a pound.
I believe its what Obamas new Regulatory Czar, Cass Sunstein, calls Nudge.
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I strongly suggest that if you want humans to stop eating meat, then first stop ALL CARNIVORE/OMNIVORES FROM EATING EACH OTHER then and only then should you try to convince people.
As an aside what are you going to do when the earth is only populated with Rats, having convinced Cats and Dogs NOT to kill them.
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I'm happy to see vegetarians. More steak for me!
I tried the veggie route for about a year. All I can say is....veggie proteins alone didn't cut it for me, no matter how I "combined" them. One thing they hate to admit is that there are people who literally have to eat meat to get decent amounts of protein. Theoretically, yes, it can be done without meat, but in actuality, lots of people aren't efficient at getting protein that way.
Anyways, not sure if the author is experiencing a B12 deficiency yet (if you don't supplement it, you will start to get one on a purely veg diet after some time since Bobby is correct), but he seems to overlook the fact that if water shot up to $35 a gallon, his veggies would also cost considerably more....unless he restricts himself to plants grown only with the purest rainwater.
I'm sorry you whiny-assed losers are too busy trying to run other people's lives to enjoy a good steak or some gen-u-wine bobby-que.
Well, not too sorry. More for me. :-D
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Militant vegetarians are like militant atheists: it isn't enough that they don't believe in God/eat meat, they don't want anyone else believing in God/eating meat.
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Being a Pisces, I prefer Alaska fish, but I also eat moose and caribou, and the occasional block of whale meat when I can get it.
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What's whale meat taste like, Paul?
You'd better not say "chicken"!
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Rosie O' Donnell
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Leads Nation in Syphilis, Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Rate
CNSNews.com) -- Washington, D.C., had the dubious distinction of beating all 50 states to post the highest rates in the nation for the sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) Chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.
The District of Columbia had a Chlamydia rate of 1,177 cases per 100,000 people--almost three times the rate of its neighbors, Virginia (405) and Maryland (439). Mississippi was a distant second, at 728 cases per 100,000 people. By comparison, California's rate was 407 cases per 100,000; New York came in at 458; New Mexico at 470; Utah at 377 and Maine's rate was a mere 198 per 100,000.
For gonorrhea, D.C.'s rate was 451.5 cases per 100,000--almost twice that of second-ranking Mississippi (256.8); more than three times the rate of its neighbors Virginia (134) and Maryland (118); more than 13 times the rate of Oregon (32.5) and more than 25 times the rate of Utah (18).
D.C.'s nation-leading syphilis rate of 24.8 cases (including both primary and secondary syphilis) per 100,000 dwarfed second-place Louisiana's 16.5 per 100,000 rate and third-place Alabama's rate of 9.7 per 100,000. It and was nearly four times the rate of Maryland (6.7). By comparison, the syphilis rate was 6.3 per 100,000 for New York; 6.0 for California; 4.3 for Illinois; 3.4 for Virginia and 0.05 for Iowa.
The CDC report is based on 2007 surveillance statistics, updated in 2008 and released Monday.
Col. Lewis L. Millett, an Army veteran of three wars who received the Medal of Honor for leading a rare bayonet charge up a hill in Korea, died Saturday in Loma Linda, Calif. He was 88.
Lewis Lee Millett was born in Mechanic Falls, Me., but grew up in Massachusetts. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1940, then went AWOL to fight for Canada on the side of Britain against Nazi Germany. After serving in England with Canadian troops, he transferred back to the American Army in 1942. A year later, the Army court-martialed him for having deserted. By then he was a sergeant, fighting in Italy, and had already taken part in the invasion of North Africa, winning a Silver Star in the Tunisian campaign. The Army fined him $52 and later gave him a commission as a lieutenant.
When he became a company commander in the Korean War, serving as a captain in the 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, he seemed a visage from battlefields past with his red handlebar mustache. On Feb. 7, 1951, he employed a tactic of bygone wars with a fury that overwhelmed the enemy. During the fighting near Osan, South Korea, Captain Millett's unit encountered Communist troops atop a spot called Hill 180. It would be remembered as Bayonet Hill for what the military historian Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall would call "the most complete bayonet charge by American troops since Cold Harbor," a reference to the carnage at an 1864 Civil War battle in Virginia.
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Pffftttt! He weren't no "community organizer" now were he? Underacheiver!
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We've often heard the term 'a real American' used to describe individuals that exercise behavior which strongly demonstrate the powerful beliefs we imagine ourselves to have in the defense of this great country of late.
Mr. Millett is an example of a great American, a great Canadian, a great Italian, a great Korean, but carrying the flag of duty to Freedom which many of us aspire to in his heart.
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So-o-o IOW, in addition to besides NOT teaching young teen Agent CODY BANKS how to talk to a girl, the MILYUHN-AND-ZILYUHN-AND-RILYUHN-DOLLAR BUDGETED SECRET GOVT. AGENCY also forgot how to teach 'im to flush???
Posted as an inquiry at Yahoo! Answers. Does not appear to be a joke.
It appears to be pure technical misuse for spoiling the life. It is really some technical matter. In last 2-3 nights, someone has been using some technology. When I was sleeping. I found. I was completely in WIFI-like- covered ( total body) area. Someone has done something in such a way that they can not only see me in my house but also make me feel as if they have got me on their computer screen and when they touch there any part of my body. I feel movement and shivering and pinching.
One night, when I was lying in my bed,someone moved one's fingers to completely move on my palm. It is really horrifing, now, whenever I go to my house and try to sleep,immediately,I get the feeling as if someone using the computer screen starts disturbing me.I am also getting pinched every now and then. At the moment,I am almost 1/2 km. away, here too, I am getting pinched and shivered.
I don't know how they are doing and which technology they are using to disturb my life.
I don't know what to do Best response so far:
You are clearly in the game "The Sims", that is the ONLY LOGICAL ANSWER!!1!1!!@1!! @r
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I talked with a woman recently who went to the hospital 3 times complaining that she had scabies. She kept telling the doctors to scrape her skin and test it, but she 'knew' what it was because she had x-ray vision...
Finally some doctor wised up. It wasn't scabies, it was cocaine psychosis.
The food at movie theaters is scarier than "Nightmare on Elm Street," a frightening new study reveals.
But at least it's not meat ...
The double-features of artery-clogging tubs of fatty-fried popcorn and sugary, super-sized drinks -- not to mention high-calorie candy -- is nothing short of a health hazard, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Thank goodness they don't serve bacon cheeseburgers at the theater ...
It sent food from three national theater chains to a lab and found they may have to soon start installing extra-wide seats.
No kidding. Theater food is bad for you. What granting agency funded this?
The worst offender, the study found, was Regal Cinemas, where a medium popcorn contains 1,200 calories oozing with coconut oil and saturated fat. The lab calorie counts were higher than claimed by Regal. The company said its medium popcorn has 720 calories.
"Oh, well. What's an extra 200 to 500 calories when your snack hovers around the 1,000 calorie mark? They don't call them tubs for nothing," the study said.
This is what passes for 'snark' in progressive circles ...
The analysis doesn't include the buttery-like soybean oil topping that packs on an additional 200 calories. A medium, 44-ounce soda at Regal includes 400 calories and 26 teaspoons of sugar.
A medium popcorn and soda pack on 1,610 calories. That's like eating six scrambled eggs with cheddar cheese, four bacon strips and four sausage links.
I'll take the eggs, bacon and sausage. Yum!
"Suggestion: Move your cardiologist's phone number to your speed-dial before the lights go down," said Jayne Hurley, the group's senior nutritionist.
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Damn! I used to love those... Don't have 'em around here.
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I wouldn't be overly concerned. This group issues statements like this all the time. They're sort of the Al Gore of wanting people to become puritans without any religion.
Heck, Rush loves to talk about how many times these guys press releases turn out to be horribly bad non-science.
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The purpose of treats is to be full of delicious unhealthiness. Given how often most people go to the movie theater nowadays, this really isn't a health concern the way it was a generation ago. It's quite interesting how many cause junkies are so far behind the curve.
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Butter? What butter? There's no butter in movie popcorn. Melted butter goes rancid quick. That stuff they drizzle on your popcorn is oil with artificial butter flavor added. Yuck. Make mine dry, it's good enough that way.
(CBS) Sarah Palin talked tough about the father of her grandson on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that aired Monday -- and Levi Johnston is giving it right back.
Johnston watched with cameras from "The Insider" rolling as Palin was interviewed by Winfrey and, says "The Insider" 's Chris Johnson, took exception again and again to things Palin was saying about him:
Palin: (It's) a bit heartbreaking to see the road that he is on right now.
Johnston: I think she's going out and talking and she's just digging a bigger hole for herself.
Palin: (It's) kind of this aspiring -- aspiring porn, some of the things that he's doing -- it's kind of heartbreaking.
Winfrey: The (upcoming) Playgirl centerfold (photo spread)?
Palin: Right. I call that porn. Yes.
Johnston: I just look at her in disgust. ... It's almost funny, that she's like, 46 years old, and she's battling a 19 year old, and I'm winning. And I'm telling the truth. She's lying and losing. ... If you look at her face, she's got -- she's really -- you can tell her mind's going 100 miles an hour when Oprah asked her those Levi questions. ... I've got a lot more knowledge and credibility than she gives me credit for.
You just keep telling yourself that, Levi dear. For the rest of your life.
When is this loser's 15 minutes of fame up?
The day after President Palin finishes her second term ...
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has this shitbird found anything productive to do with his life yet, besides posing for g4y pr0n magazines and repeating the liberduh party line?
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My my my. Doesn't he sound like the poor misunderstood adolescent child. Boo-Hoo.
Hey Shit-for-brains. When you actually make something of yourself then perhaps you might have something worth listening to. Until then the only people interested in you - are not interested in the um... articles.....
#4
Since Track Palin should be back from deployment, he should defend his mom's honor by taking on Levi in a televised cage death match. Or atleast a boxing match.
#15
Now he has a TV commercial for pistachios where he appears with a big body guard and cracks open a nut while the caption says "Levi Johnston does it with protection now."
Kinda makes me not wanna eat pistachios.
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I'm sure after the left's done with him he will join Cindy Shehag and they will have a good time reminiscing about their 'glory days' in the years to come.
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Kinda tough to peak at 19 and live the rest of your life sliding downhill.
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hitching your hopes to Palin for 2012 victory by the GOP is insane. Condoleeza blows the poor pathetic woman out of the water, and she actually has a record of relavent experience, AND she's accomplished at something other than beauty contests, find another rallying point GOP people or kiss the next one goodbye as well (which is not a good plan)
#20
Levi probably dated the girl because she was the Governors daughter. He got her pregnant about the same time she was chosen as vp and all his options evaporated. Then the left fond they could use him as a source to stab Palin and he'd be able to get some kind of revenge for having to toe the line for 6 months.
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hitching your hopes to Palin for 2012 victory by the GOP is insane. Condoleeza blows the poor pathetic woman out of the water,
Dr. Rice blows President Obama out of the water as well, 746. Rather farther out of the water, in my opinion. Unfortunately, Dr. Rice is a technocrat rather than a politician by nature, and has repeatedly demonstrated distaste for the necessities of political life. She won't ever run for anything more politically challenging than baseball commissioner or Stanford University chancellor.
As for Former Governor Palin, it remains to be seen what she will choose and be able to do. In the meantime, she is certainly an effective stick with which to press hot buttons on both the left and the right, which renders her highly attractive to a certain type of mind.
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I'm not sure how much more gown up a person can be than:
() coming out of the commons (didn't go to the politically acceptable collegiate institutions)
snagging a great spouse (he is his own man and enjoys time with the family)
() raising a larger than normal family (one of which with special needs cc white trash Levi and another with down syndrome also a challenge)
() becoming Governor of a major state (as compared to Kansas whose former governor is now in prominant health care position)
() has had the fortitude to do what she believes in (despite a full court press to discredit her)
I'm not pulling a wagon, just stating how I see it. She may not be ready at the moment, that is up to debate, but she is staying with it and getting to know a slew of different movers and shakers.
IMHO Governor has more in common with the Office of the President than, say, Senator or Representative - its a buck stops here decision making position and not everybody has that particular ability.
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Levi probably dated the girl because she was the Governors daughter.
The girl is clearly both pretty and personable, which is quite enough to be attractive, rjschwarz. The fact that she has a normal family was probably another strong attractant to someone with young Levi's background -- I've noticed that with some of the boys attracted to formerly temporary daughter. The mother's job was probably a turn-off rather than otherwise, what with the increased police and public attention, even before the presidential campaign.
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O/T Senator Kerry's daughter arrested
FORMER US presidential candidate Senator John Kerry¿s daughter, Alexandra Forbes Kerry, was arrested in Los Angeles overnight on suspicion of driving under the influence, police said.
The Los Angeles Police Departments Norma Eisenman told Fox News Forbes Kerry was released on $US5000 bail but did not release any other information.
Website TMZ.com cited police sources as saying Forbes Kerry, a 36-year-old film producer and director, was pulled over in Hollywood at 12.40am local time after allegedly violating a traffic law.
A formal blood alcohol test showed a reading of .06, TMZ.com said. The legal limit is .08 in California but drivers under the limit can still be prosecuted for dangerous driving.
#36
Competance is one thing - actual Leadership is another. And some honesty would be refreshing. Currently we have neither.
Being an expert in all matters isn't as important as being willing to listen to your advisors, LEARN from them, making a frigging decision and then sticking with it until proven wrong. (None of these apply to Obumble).
And how about someone who considers whats best for the NATION First and their own political career second.
And a good helping of RUTHLESSNESS. Someone's who's willing to compromise on some things sure - but not on certain core values. And if you double-deal them - you will pay a heavy price for it. One thing that drove me batshit about Bush was that he'll be slandered by the left, won't say anything and then come back for more (Blame for Katrina comes to mind).
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IMHO, Palin is not presidential material. However she is more presidential material than the Big O. Where I see Palin doing the most good is getting the grass roots organized. And that is where this country needs real attention, literally. Shaking up the repub leadership, the dems, and galvanizing the folks that make this country work.
M'Lady knows of Palin's interest in the schools. My son has dealt with her 3 times on issues. She is what you see, pretty straight forward.
She is not the Goddess. She is a hard working politician and mother, pilot, fisherwoman and hunter. She has done good things and has made mistakes.
There is a lot of envy, hate, fear and loathing of her, to the pathological level. She cares about this country and speaks her mind.
Anyway, that is my analysis, 2-cents worth.
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"She cares about this country and speaks her mind."
That's why there's so much "envy, hate, fear and loathing of her, to the pathological level" on the Left, AP.
Someone loving this country drives them batshit crazy. (Actually, that's not a drive, that's a two-inch putt.)
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i think most of the Loathing comes from the audacity that she really thinks she's qualified to have any job in an executive federal position. People were insulted when the GOP chose a good looking airhead to hold a responsible federal position representing the USA, namely VP. that hords of folks still cling to the feeble bandwagon that was Sarah while she was in the Actual Race for office, is strange and foolish. The loathing arises from the idea that there is a constituancy in the USA that would vote an obviously unqualified person into the 2nd highest office in the land.
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Airhead? I think not. She's more quaqlified than Obama ir Biden.
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RNC head. Bye bye Michael.
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As opposed to an constituency who would vote an even less qualified candidate to the highest office in the land? For someone who has never had to run a business. Or an executive office. Who consistently voted 'present' (or better yet - beyond my pay grade). Someone who has never had to make a real decision?
As for airhead - I think an airhead would be someone who didn't know which article of the constitution defined the very office he was seeking (and this after how many terms in Federal Government??).
Did Sarah blow an interview she had no hope of 'winning' anyway (the video editors, like those at ABC would see to that!). Possibly. Just a equually possible is that she simply didn't realize how low the networks would go to aid their 'chosen one'.
Is she unqualified? Very possibly. But I wouldn't judge solely by what the networks have cast her as. That data is sorely tainted. And I wouldn't count her out just yet.
However she seems to me to be something which you never see on the left - and rarely on the right: Honest, Straight, and Real.
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AP is from Alaska and has presumably seen Gov. Palin up close. I tend to agree with his assessment. Alaska's a large state in terms of territory and natural resources, but rather small in other ways ... population, the diversity of its economic base and the impact of federal policies and subsidies among them.
Re: Liz Cheney, she did serve as asst. secretary of state for 6 years, during a difficult time. At a guess - and it's only a guess, based on her participation in news shows - she'd be wasted in the House, might make an impact in the Senate but would do very well as an executive leader.
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I just looked up Liz Cheney on Wikipedia. She has 5 children, just like Palin. If the two of them ran together, they would have 10 children between them. I think that is more than anyone since Bobby Kennedy ran.
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even better, Andrew Sullivan's brain would pop like a pimple
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That's awfully generous, Frank - assuming the little weasel has a brain.
You're so much nicer than I am. ;-p
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Mrs. Palin would/will do the right thing for the country, whatever that is.
#48
Too early to decide whether she's presidential material. The president's job is to man the bully pulpit, give direction to the executive branch and make the tough decisions. We'll find out how well she can do the bully pulpit over the next couple of years.
Too bad she couldn't spend 8 years working for Lemuel Boulware. Or maybe her apprenticeship is just starting. Reagan didn't go to work for Boulware till he was 43. Palin's 45.
#49
Media barred from covering Palin at Bragg. No "grandstanding" no political, potentially anit-Obama speech either. But wait.... who was president on March 19, 2008?
Obama spoke this morning in Fort Bragg, NC about National Security and the War on Terror (today is the 5 year anniversary of the Iraq War). He stated that the US is less safe now and continued telling the fact that he opposed the war from the start. More info here
Obama's war stance is great although this headline isn't flattering: Audience hand-picked for Obama's war speech
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Meanwhile, Little Green C*cksuckers are displaying their class: Cato the Elder
But you did say she'd sell her downs' syndrome child to Dr. Mengele for a buck. Are we supposed to applaud you for being so 'edgey'?
/BTW...thank you for taking time off your busy schedule in the CSI hippie spit analysis lab.
I have no idea what that last line is about.
The thing I said about Palin was she would sell Trig for a dollar to Doktor Mengele if it would get her closer to power.
I take it back. She's a smart power-whore. She would sell him to the highest bidder.
#51
OK - what sleazy troll stole tipper's identity?
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that's a link to a LGF-approved commenter "Cato The Elder"'s comment - I saw it linked at Weasel Zippers for abuse. Thoroughly disgusting what LGF and their minions have become....
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The only good thing about LGF is that it led me here. And here is MUCH better, if much scarier:p I especially love to be stunned by the rather detailed technical physics discussions that sometimes occur here.
#54
Barbara, that's not tipper's opinion (I think...). tipper was just copying verbatim a comment from Churls Jhonson's virulent little green pool of pus.
Now if the guy said he was all for creationism, that would get him banned on that site. This dreck? Probably gets something "special" from Sharputa or Wild Irish Hose. Eww.
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Blondie, tipper's comment sure reads like she copied the first (italiced) half from LGF and wrote the last half herself.
If you're correct, my apologies to tipper.
If I'm correct, a hale and hearty "drop dead" to the troll.
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I did a sinful thing and clicked through. The italicized part was what a previous commenter posted, and the regular type was what Cato the Elder wrote in response.
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Thanks, Thing, for bathing in the sewer so we don't have to. I knew it didn't sound like tipper.
It makes me really sad - I was a lizaroid minion back when he was busting Dan Blather, but he went off the deep end at least a couple of years ago. I don't remember the last time I visited the site; I don't even have it in my favorites anymore. :-(
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The Rantburg tradition is to supply links exactly so that the reader can see for him/herself what was originally said. It worked well this time. And a hearty thank you to the Snowy Thing for sharing his experience so the rest of us don't have to get dirty at a place that once was sane.
tipper, I have no idea how you might have done that better -- perhaps someone else could make a suggestion?
Silentbrick, I'm glad you found your way here, along with so many others who've wandered in over the years. To our latest newcomers, both posting and lurking, welcome!
KINSHASA, Congo -- A passenger plane overshot the runway Thursday, landing in hardened lava surrounding an airport in eastern Congo and injuring 20 people, a U.N.-run radio station reported. Sorry to disappoint all those of you who (like me) clicked through expecting molten lava and lurid descriptions of melting aircraft-grade aluminum, jet-fuel fireballs, and spontaneously-combusting flight attendants.
An official from the U.N. mission in Congo, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he does not have permission to speak with media, (Sneaky of him, wasn't it?)
said there were 117 passengers aboard. They included the governor of North Kivu province, who was not hurt.
The plane was operated by CAA (Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation). Could have been worse, could have been Iran Air ...
A 2002 volcanic eruption sent lava oozing onto Goma's runway, truncating it from more than 2 miles (3 kilometers) to less than a mile (1.5 kilometers). Authorities have not removed all of the lava rock.
Congo has experienced more fatal plane crashes than any other African country since 1945, according to the Aviation Safety Network.
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Sorry to disappoint all those of you who (like me) clicked through expecting molten lava and lurid descriptions of melting aircraft-grade aluminum, jet-fuel fireballs, and spontaneously-combusting flight attendants.
exactly what i was expecting, and was a touch disappointed. the headline is still worth calling my 10 yr old son down to read tho.
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"Congo has experienced more fatal plane crashes than any other African country since 1945"
Goodness. I wonder why?
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Criminals gunned down a ward-level Jubo League leader and injured his companion in broad daylight yesterday in the capital's Maddha Badda area.
The victims, Nazim Uddin Khan, 30, Jubo League vice president of DCC ward-21, and Ujjal Hossain, 28, a cable TV operator, were residents of Badda.
The injured, Ujjal, told reporters that Nazim and he were talking with Hira and Kabil in front of an under-construction building in the area and at one stage of the conversation, Hira and Kabil with three others opened fire on Nazim around 12:30pm that left him dead on the spot.
As Ujjal screamed while the criminals were about to escape from the scene, they fired at him leaving him injured.
Ujjal was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with injuries to his hips. The body was sent to the hospital's morgue for autopsy.
Police suspected that the incident was a consequence of a feud between the attackers and the victims over sharing the money collected from cable TV business and construction materials supply in the area.
Officer-in-Charge of Badda Police Station Kazi Wazed Ali said Nazim and the attackers were involved in criminal activities.
Earlier, Nazim was sent to jail in Cox's Bazar while he was caught with arms, the OC added.
Locals said Nazim and his gang have taken control of mineral water business, cable TV business, and supplying construction materials in the area that might have caused the attack.
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No crossfire, no shoot-out, but otherwise the story is mostly almost the same as ever.
Two outlaws, one of them a regional leader, were arrested with arms and ammunition in Kushtia and Rajbari early yesterday.
The arrestees were identified as Rimon Reza, 36, and Bipul Kumar Biswas, 24.
Of them, Rimon is a top cadre of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz (GMF) in Kushtia while Bipul is a regional leader of outlawed Lal Pataka, a faction of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML).
Ah, a Purbo Communist. That sounds familiar.
On a tip-off
"Calling Mahmud the Weasel. Mahmud the Weasel to the white courtesy phone in the lobby. Mahmud the weasel to the lobby, please."
that some criminals were holding a secret meeting in Bakapol area in Kushtia,
"Hush! It's a secret."
a police team from Bheramara police station raided their den at about 3:30 am
"No bullets, boys -- we're swooping, instead."
and arrested Rimon.
Like eating diet pastries, it has the appearance but just doesn't satisfy.
Police recovered one light gun (LG) and two bullets from his possession.
His accomplices, however, managed to escape, police said.
Like they were never there.
Rimon, son of one Shamsul of Chourhas area in Kushtia town is husband of suspected woman cadre of GMF Boishakhi Rahman Chumki arrested on November 4.
How sad. It was to have been the start of a dynasty.
Chumki, who confessed to her links with GMF and killing of Bheramara Awami League (AL) leader Meherul on August 15, is now in Kushtia jail. Rimon was being quizzed at Bheramara police station at the time of filing this report at about 3:00 pm.
"The number 3 truncheon, sir?"
"No, look at the size of him. I'll be wanting the number 5, sure as Allah made little green onions."
Rimon went into hiding after his wife was arrested. Rimon was involved with various criminal activities including robbery, abduction, police said.
Wanted on seven systems, he was.
Police said, Rimon's wife Chumki admitted that her husband was a cadre of GMF.
*sob*"He was a badman, he was! And I was a badman, too!!"
According to Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-12 and district police, Rimon is a top listed criminal.
And yet he was arrested. Let's hope he doesn't slip in the jailhouse shower and break his neck before he goes to trial.
In Rajbari, a team from Pangsha police station raided the house of Bipul at Hatbongram village in Pangsha upazila in the district at about 3:00 pm.
In the afternoon? Oh dear.
Sensing police presence, Bipul tried to flee but police arrested him at gunpoint.
At least his Spidey Sense hasn't yet atrophied.
Later, police recovered one shutter gun and three bullets from his possession.
To be cleaned by the newest patrolman before being returned to Evidence, as always.
Police said, Bipul was leading Lal Pataka in Pangsha and Baliakandi upazilas in Rajbari.
It can indeed be found on the map. Somewhere. If one has a strong enough microscope and already knows where to look.
He is an accused in five cases including two for abduction and three for robberies filed with Pangsha and Baliakandi police stations, they said.
A thorough-going badman. A pity they don't do crossfires the way they used to, a few days ago.
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"Lay off the crossfires for a while, boys. Just grab 'em and toss 'em in the pokey for now. We'll get to 'em later."
Colombia's government said on Thursday Venezuelan soldiers blew up two small pedestrian bridges that stretch across their border in the latest incident to test diplomatic ties between the Andean neighbors.
Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva told reporters that uniformed men apparently from the Venezuelan army blew up the bridges with explosives in what he described as a violation of international law.
"Uniformed men, apparently from the Venezuelan army, arrived in trucks on the Venezuelan side at two pedestrian bridges that link communities on both sides ... and then proceeded to dynamite them," Silva said.
TEGUCIGALPA -- A top US envoy said Wednesday that Honduran elections were key to resolving the crisis set off by the June 28 coup, despite the rejection of the polls by ousted leader Manuel Zelaya.
Heh.
"The elections are an important part of the solution in order to advance," said US deputy assistant secretary for the Western Hemisphere Craig Kelly, in comments to journalists 11 days before the presidential polls.
Zelaya, who has been holed up in the Brazilian embassy since his surprise return home on September 21, has called on his supporters to boycott the polls after the latest crisis deal failed to return him to office beforehand.
Top regional powers Brazil and Argentina underlined Wednesday that they will not recognize the results if Zelaya is not first restored to power.
They may not but at some point Mel is going to have worn out his welcome at the embassy ...
The reports make it sound like he is not a comfortable house guest.
Kelly was in Honduras in the latest bid to revive a US-brokered deal to end the crisis, which has thrown the Central American nation into deeper poverty and polarization.
Under the October 30 deal, both sides agreed that Congress would vote on whether to return Zelaya.
But the agreement set no timetable for the 128-member body to vote, and the president of Congress said Tuesday that it would to decide on whether to reinstate Zelaya three days after the November 29 elections.
The US State Department insisted Wednesday that the Congress decision did not undermine the accord. "Since the accord never actually gave any kind of deadline... scheduling the vote on December 2nd... isn't necessarily inconsistent," spokesman Ian Kelly told journalists.
Kelly said that the democratically-elected president "has to be restored before the end of his term." Zelaya's term expires on January 27. "We will decide how to -- how to pronounce on the election when we see how it is conducted," Kelly added.
Zelaya, a former rancher who veered to the left after he was elected, criticized the "contradiction" of the US stance in comments from his embassy refuge. Zelaya has already said the US-backed deal has failed.
Supporters of the de facto regime led by Roberto Micheletti hope the elections will lift the international isolation provoked by the military-backed ouster of Zelaya.
Following a heavy-handed regime crackdown on Zelaya supporters, Amnesty International said Wednesday it would send a delegation to Honduras to investigate rights violations next week.
The Honduran Congress and Supreme Court, business leaders and the military all backed Zelaya's ouster after he pressed for a referendum to change the constitution, which they saw as a bid to stay in office.
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In Nixonian language: former U.S. support for Zelaya is now inoperable.
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Back in the 60's, student demonstrators would have taken the UCLA president hostage in his own office. What wimps.
Wait for it. This is just getting started. Universities around the country have bloated administrations, overpaid faculty and debt incurred for new facilities. Revenues are propped up by convincing a generation of students to load up on debt.
Like the rest of California's public institutions, the UC system is amongst the most bloated in the nation.
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I just hope that there's some good video of that from multiple sources. Not sure why the kid got tased, seems like someone got a bit overexcited on the blue side.
But yeah....gotta have that hike so they don't cut things like diversity awareness, human rights centers, social justice workshops, etc.
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I was listening to John and Ken on KFI on the ride home. The potential for tear gas, beanbags, and headcracking is there. Somebody just needs to throw a brick light the fuse
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"We are bailing out the banks, we are bailing out Wall Street. Where is the bailout for public education?" asked UCLA graduate student Sonja Diaz.
She does have a point.
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I loved this story. The '60's radicals that took over the education industry are beginning to reap the whirlwind they've sown over these many years. The university as an institution has become so bloated and unresponsive to market demands, so ridiculously unsustainable, and we are witnessing the first cracks in the foundation of this tenuous structure. Academics, meet the laws of economics.
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If they think the students are agitated now, just wait until they graduate and find that there are no jobs for people with degrees in (fill in whatever bulls**t diversity subject you want) studies that don't involve the phrase "You want fries with that?"
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Personally, right now I'd be happy to flip burgers full-time just so I could get insurance again, but illegals have the "fries with that" market locked up tight.
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Liberals hiking up tuition costs while at the same time killing jobs out in the market? Vicious system...
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We are bailing out the banks, we are bailing out Wall Street. Where is the bailout for public education?" asked UCLA graduate student Sonja Diaz.
She does have a point.
The reason there's no money for public education is because it all went to those other things. In the real world when you choose for one thing, you choose against all the other possibilities, Ms Diaz. A useful little concept clearly never taught in your subsidized public schools.
By Jeffry Bartash WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The number of people filing initial claims for state unemployment benefits was flat at a seasonally adjusted 505,000 in the week ended Nov. 14, the Labor Department reported Thursday. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch expected initial claims to drop to 500,000. The level of initial claims in the week ended Nov. 7 was revised up by 3,000 to 505,000. The four-week average of initial claims dropped 6,500 to 514,000.
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New jobless benefit claims unchanged at 505K Even as claims are falling and the economy has started growing, the unemployment rate is continuing to rise. It jumped to 10.2 percent in October from 9.8 percent, the highest level in more than 26 years, the government said earlier this month.
AND most economists say weekly claims would have to fall to about 425,000 for several weeks to signal that the economy is actually adding jobs.
So if the job loss claims follow trend and lose a net average of 80K/week, that means November's unemployment rate will end at 10.4-10.5%.
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note that the 4 week moving average (for initial claims)is still going down
that's the more relevant figure
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More BS from the wimps. The 10.2% figure is too low by at least 4 percentage points. First, their own estimates use outdated and inaccurate sectoral employment assumptions-- for ex., finance/insurance/real estate (FIRE) jobs have shrunk drastically since last October, yet the BLS is still using pre-10/08 baseline assumptions for FIRE employment. That's undercounting by at least several hundred thousand lost jobs right there.
Second, there are at least a million people who've been out of work for so many months, they've stopped looking. Add a point there to the overall unemployment rate.
Third, plenty of unemployed don't ever apply for benefits-- some are nominally "self-employed", if only to get access to group health insurance, for ex.-- and are likewise off the radar. Add another point.
Fourth, nearly every major corporation now imposes furloughs of up to 20% of pay periods, IOW, many of those with supposedly stable jobs are not fully employed. Cumulatively, that's at least another point, perhaps two.
In reality, the unemployment rate passed 15% many months ago. The stimulus has been a complete joke. The stock market recovery is fueled entirely by the same f***ing cheap money and liquidity bubble that got us into this mess.
Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible "global economic collapse" over the next two years, mapping a strategy of defensive investments to avoid wealth destruction.
In a report entitled "Worst-case debt scenario", the bank's asset team said state rescue packages over the last year have merely transferred private liabilities onto sagging sovereign shoulders, creating a fresh set of problems.
Overall debt is still far too high in almost all rich economies as a share of GDP (350pc in the US), whether public or private. It must be reduced by the hard slog of "deleveraging", for years.
"As yet, nobody can say with any certainty whether we have in fact escaped the prospect of a global economic collapse," said the 68-page report, headed by asset chief Daniel Fermon. It is an exploration of the dangers, not a forecast.
The underlying debt burden is greater than it was after the Second World War, when nominal levels looked similar. Aging populations will make it harder to erode debt through growth. "High public debt looks entirely unsustainable in the long run. We have almost reached a point of no return for government debt," it said.
Inflating debt away might be seen by some governments as a lesser of evils.
If so, gold would go "up, and up, and up" as the only safe haven from fiat paper money. Private debt is also crippling. Even if the US savings rate stabilises at 7pc, and all of it is used to pay down debt, it will still take nine years for households to reduce debt/income ratios to the safe levels of the 1980s. Société Générale is one of the main European financial services companies and also maintains extensive activities in others parts of the world. It is one of the oldest banks in France.
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The problem is considerably worse, because years of debt fueled economic activity or just plain bubble prices inflated government revenues. Those revenues will be substantially below recent years for many years to come. Thus accelerating the point where public debt is unsustainable.
BTW, Spain, Greece, and probably the UK are there already or will be in a few months.
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Deflation has its own adverse consequences, as does defaulting on debts (whether public or private), as does trying to run a nation's economy on the Gold Standard. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL)
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deleveraging. Is that what they're calling "everyone pay the financiers for the privilege of them deigning to tolerate our continued existence" now?
Smart move ...
MILAN (AP) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger won't say what his plans are when his term expires next year, but he won't be running for another office. "I have never labeled myself as a politician, so I am not going to run for anything else," Schwarzenegger told reporters in Milan on Tuesday. Good idea. Go back to the movies.
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, is restricted by California law from seeking a third term as governor when his tenure expires at the end of 2010. He has previously indicated that the only other political office he would be interested in seeking is president, and he can't run because he was born in Austria. And because by this point in his career there are only 191 people who'd vote for him, a simple majority of whom are horny homosexuals...
The governor said he will spend the next year trying to solve problems including a projected $21 billion dollar budget shortfall through next year. Start with dissolving the teachers' and public service unions, then dismantling most of the boards and commissions cluttering the Caliphornia bureaucratic landscape. Oh, and you might want to cut your business tax rate.
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"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."
The Awami National Party (ANP) has suggested that the government change the country's name from 'Islamic Republic of Pakistan' to 'People's Republic of Pakistan', a private TV channel quoted MQM leader Farooq Sattar as saying on Wednesday. According to the channel, the ANP had proposed the idea in a meeting of the constitutional reforms committee. Sattar said the MQM backed the suggestion. He also demanded that the government give Gilgit-Baltistan the same status as other provinces. ANP leaders Haji Adeel and Afrasiab Khattak denied the ANP had made any such suggestion.
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Why not just change it to something descriptive? I suggest "Blood Clot."
General Secretary of outlawed Gono Bahini, Azibor Rahman alias Azibor Chairman was killed by his rivals in India Tuesday night, his family and local sources claimed.
It starts promisingly...
However, police could not confirm the incident. An assistant police super told the Daily Star that they have heard the incident and are crosschecking it.
Of course, since it is an intra-criminal shoot-out, the police would know nothing.
The incident took place at Dhankhola village in Dhankhola thana in Nadia district of West Bengal, unconfirmed sources said.
According to sources, armed men riding a microbus came to Haskhali bazar and swooped on Azibor while he was talking on his cellphone at about 9:30pm.
Awfully early. There are still good citizens about at that hour. Something to work on, guys.
The gang picked up Azibor, took him to Dhankhola and killed him.
"Howdy, Azibor! Fine evening, ain't it. Say, why don't youse come wit us?"
Family sources claimed that they have heard the same details of killing of Azibor.
Azibor's mobile is in the hand of his killers and when his family members tried to contact him, the receivers identified themselves as police, family sources said
A surprise ending! Somebody is lying. But who?
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The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] in May demonstrated the ability of mobile laser weapon systems to perform a unique mission: track and destroy small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
During the U.S. Air Force-sponsored tests at the Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, Calif., the Mobile Active Targeting Resource for Integrated eXperiments (MATRIX), which was developed by Boeing under contract to the Air Force Research Laboratory, used a single, high-brightness laser beam to shoot down five UAVs at various ranges. Laser Avenger, a Boeing-funded initiative, also shot down a UAV. Representatives of the Air Force and Army observed the tests.
"The Air Force and Boeing achieved a directed-energy breakthrough with these tests," said Gary Fitzmire, vice president and program director of Boeing Missile Defense Systems' Directed Energy Systems unit. "MATRIX's performance is especially noteworthy because it demonstrated unprecedented, ultra-precise and lethal acquisition, pointing and tracking at long ranges using relatively low laser power."
Bill Baker, chief scientist of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate, praised his team and Boeing for these successful UAV shootdowns.
"These tests validate the use of directed energy to negate potential hostile threats against the homeland," Baker said. "The team effort of Boeing and the Air Force in developing MATRIX will pay major dividends for the warfighter now and in the years ahead."
As part of the overall counter-UAV demonstration, Boeing also successfully test-fired a lightweight 25mm machine gun from the Laser Avenger platform to potentially further the hybrid directed energy/kinetic energy capability against UAV threats.
Boeing Directed Energy Systems, based in Albuquerque, developed MATRIX, a mobile, trailer-mounted test bed that integrates with existing test-range radar. Directed Energy Systems and Boeing Combat Systems in St. Louis cooperatively developed Laser Avenger, which integrates a directed-energy weapon together with the existing kinetic weapons on the proven Avenger air defense system developed by Combat Systems.
Hundreds of Sarah Palin fans lined up Wednesday at a Michigan book store to get the chance to meet the former Alaska governor as she kicked off a national tour for her book "Going Rogue."
Some supporters camped out overnight to be among the first to get wristbands from the Barnes and Noble bookstore at Woodland Mall in Grand Rapids. Those with the orange bands will get the opportunity to have the former 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate sign their copies of the book at the three-hour signing event Wednesday evening.
The memoir was released Tuesday but has topped best-seller lists for weeks.
"Everyone here has been excited and patient," Barnes and Noble spokeswoman Maddie Hjulstrom said of the waiting crowd. Calvin College students Megan Patzky, of Racine, Wis., and Sarah Cranmer, of Chicago, were among those waiting overnight to get wrist bands. The two 20-year-olds skipped their Wednesday classes at the private college located less than a mile from the book store.
Patzky bought a copy last night for her father, a Palin supporter, and plans to give it to him as a Christmas present.
After standing in the cold all night, the pair was happy to get into the Woodland Mall around 6:15 a.m.
"We were hoping that someone would start selling coffee, but nobody did," Patzky joked.
Todd Shaffer, of East Lansing, said some of those in line were Palin supporters and other were there to get books signed to give as gifts.
A Transportation Security Administration worker at Lansing's Capital Region International Airport, the 38-year-old arrived early Wednesday at the bookstore and described himself as a conservative Republican who voted for Palin and presidential candidate John McCain last year.
Shaffer said he would vote for Palin if she ran for president in 2012.
"As a woman in politics, she's a pioneer in the Republican Party and she's opened a lot of doors up for a lot of women to think about politics" as a career, he said. "I thought she added a lot to the ticket." A good friend of mine was one of some 7,000 who waited hours to see Mark Levin (and get my book signed by Mark and Curtis Sliwa) in Vienna, VA last spring. That onslaught did not even deserve a mention by AP...or anyone else in the media.
It was an amazing event. NO rowdy behavior. NO trash on the ground. NO police intervention. and yes - - - NO media coverage of any sort.
This time, they say hundreds...knowing that the first edition is 1,500,000 copies.
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She's in Columbus tomorrow night on her book tour. Two hours and thirty minutes speed run down the Interstate.
I'm tempted. Really tempted.
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The Cincinnati stop is sold out. Literally. Those who pre-ordered her book at the Joseph-Beth bookstore had the option to purchase a ticket to get their book signed.
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.
So it's hard to avoid concluding that eating cannot be personal. What I eat influences you. What you eat influences me. Our diets are deeply, intimately and necessarily political. 
The food at movie theaters is scarier than "Nightmare on Elm Street," a frightening new study reveals.
Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible "global economic collapse" over the next two years, mapping a strategy of defensive investments to avoid wealth destruction.
Hundreds of Sarah Palin fans lined up Wednesday at a Michigan book store to get the chance to meet the former Alaska governor as she kicked off a national tour for her book "Going Rogue."
