A GUATEMALA soccer team made up of prostitutes cried foul after being ejected from a tournament because of their profession. "Just for being prostitutes, society marginalises us, and we want to exercise our rights as women and as mothers," said the team captain, Valeria, who did not give her last name. Her team, the Stars of the Line, lost 5-2 to the Blue Devils, fielded by an exclusive girls' school in the Guatemalan capital, and were ejected from the tournament after Monday's game. Officials cited the use of foul language from the team's fans as the reason.
The Stars of the Line take their team name from Guatemala City's red-light district, called the Train Line, because it faces the city's railway line. The squad was drawn from the 200 women who work there. "What we want is to play soccer with any other team," Valeria said. "Being prostitutes does not mean that we are violent, because we are well disciplined," she said. The officials heard things differently. "One, two, three, whore," went the grandstand cheer, according to the judges' decision. "We have a lot of children here, and it is not very nice to hear such language," said Eduardo Navas, manager of the Futeca stadium. Valeria said that foul language was not the issue. That language is pretty tame compared to what you might hear in the grandstands of an major league baseball game.
"When they found out we were prostitutes, they tossed us out like cockroaches," she said. "It is really discrimination." The Stars began training daily with the backing of a group of Spanish journalists who were in Guatemala to make a documentary about prostitution. What are the odds that the NEA is funding their field trip?
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Deadly Hurricane Jeanne strengthened rapidly as it crossed the northern Bahamas on Saturday on its way to deliver a record fourth hurricane strike in one season to densely populated Florida.
Been nice knowing ya, Florida
Up to 3 million storm-weary Floridians were told to evacuate coastal islands, mobile homes and flood-prone areas. Others battened down the hatches one more time, stocking up on batteries, water and gasoline and shuttering homes, or streamed into public shelters. Many on the storm-scarred Atlantic coast, emboldened by having survived Hurricane Frances three weeks ago, vowed to remain at home, an act of defiance that alarmed authorities.
Just let us know where to contact your next of kin.
As Jeanne's 115 mph winds, up from 105 mph overnight, and 8-foot storm surge lashed Great Abaco island in the Bahamas, a 700-island chain of 300,000 people stretching from Haiti to off the Florida coast, U.S. officials urged residents not to be complacent. Gov. Jeb Bush said people living in Florida's coastal areas could not assume they could ride out Jeanne just because they had survived the previous hurricanes.
"People on the barrier islands who think they can ride this storm out should think again," Bush, brother of President Bush, told reporters. "It is getting bigger and stronger." By 11 a.m., the storm, which has already killed up to 2,000 people in Haiti and 31 in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, was just west of Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco, at latitude 26.6 north and longitude 77.6 west, or 155 miles east of Florida. Jeanne picked up speed overnight and was traveling westward at 14 mph.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center warned the storm, now a strong Category 3 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, could strengthen further over warm water between the Bahamas and the southeastern United States.
Along Florida's Atlantic coast, including the densely populated counties of Broward and Miami-Dade, 3 million residents were told to evacuate.
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Got a place there between St. Augustine and Daytona on the barrier island. She has survived the last two blows - Charley and Frances pretty well. Good old structural concrete and steel hurricane rollup doors on all windows etc. Plus our dune can withstand up to a 12foot storm surge. Everyone is evacuating and going west this time. No sense going north or south. We are safe right now in New York but heading back in mid-October. It could be interesting to see how this plays in the election. People may be too worn out emotionally and physically to give a rats ass and stay away. Got a feeling most of them are dimmies.
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Jaysus! 4 hurricanes and the Dolphins suck this year. Why does god hate Florida - besides hanging chads I mean.
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Talk about heading back to the snow if one 'lives' in the Sunshine State. At least the lights & heat remains on plus the fact snow as a rule does not blow down houses.
Florida, nice to visit during the dead of winter, then return home.
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O! Lord Thank you in this time of distress, for the pounding you are giving the Northmen Amen. Save them all, but sear in their brain the times of low pressure.
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I blame the Democrats. They're already sending their lying mouthpieces lawyers there. God's saying: "as long as you have an infestaion, you might as well catch all hell to know what it'll be like if they succeed"
or maybe not
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She calls herself Ireland's "Princess Diana" and has endured an excruciating love-hate relationship with the press. But Sinead O'Connor, Ireland's misunderstood singer turned priest, has finally snapped after a joke about head lice. The singer, who has endured 20 years of abuse for shaving her head, tearing up a picture of the Pope on live TV and being ordained as Mother Bernadette Maria by a quasi-Catholic group, placed a full-page advert in an Irish broadsheet yesterday begging for mercy from Mother Ireland.
In an extraordinary, 2,000-word plea she said she had lost the will to live after being "ridiculed, lashed and called mad", as part of a "national pastime" of Sinead-bashing since she started her career at 17. The final straw came this week when she said a Dublin tabloid mocked her calls for a national "delousing day" to combat the problem of nits. The paper went too far, in her view, when it got personal by comparing her with her brother, the novelist Joseph O'Connor, who recently topped the book charts with the acclaimed Star of the Sea after it was championed by the Richard and Judy show.
Sinead O'Connor objected to the paper mentioning her allegations of child abuse against her mother, but the paper stood by the story. The 38-year-old, whom one journalist once called "six tracks short of an album", then placed an advert in the Irish Examiner saying she was sick of being labelled a "crazy bitch" and could no long cope. BIG CLUE: Not being able to cope with the publicity that you constantly stir up might be a sign of mental deficiency.
She said: "I beg ye, I can't live with the pain of being this nation's whipping post any longer. Untie me please and hose wash me down I ask ye." She said the abuse she endured at the hands of her mother in Dublin in the 1960s and 1970s was horrific, but she had been vilified for speaking about it publicly. The details of the abuse would make Ireland "cry for a month". She said the Irish press would not dare to treat its other pop icon, Bono from U2, in the same way. She said she wanted to be left alone to make religious music. ADDITIONAL BIG CLUE AT NO EXTRA CHARGE: If you want to be "left alone" keep shaving your head try not to place 2,000 word full page adverts in the local newspaper. Nothing says "I vant to be alone" like a giant splashy tabloid article. F&%king nitwit.
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The 38-year-old, whom one journalist once called "six tracks short of an album", then placed an advert in the Irish Examiner saying she was sick of being labelled a "crazy bitch" and could no long cope.
Sinead, very wise man ( John 'Bluto' Blutarsky ) once said, and here is what you do to cope:
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Well now I feel bad about always refering to her as Skinhead O' Connor. I suggest a course of intense counciling and a course of anti-depressants.
"Sinead, very wise man ( John 'Bluto' Blutarsky ) once said, and here is what you do to cope: Start drinking heavily." But badanov, I thought she alread was?
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at one time, she was a talented performer. She's quit being talented, and set her resume on "publicity by outrage". When your articles in the media don't mention any popular product, just your antics, your 15 minutes are about up....see "Madonna in the Holy Land" appearing on infomercials in the high-hundreds cable channels near you
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In an extraordinary, 2,000-word plea she said she had lost the will to live after being "ridiculed, lashed and called mad", as part of a "national pastime" of Sinead-bashing since she started her career at 17.
The solution is a very simple one: Stop being a dumbass.
BELCHING and farting sheep and cattle, blamed by doomsters for driving the planet towards climate catastrophe, may have met their match. Eructations from farm animals account for a fifth of all global emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas that is less plentiful but far more potent than the most notorious culprit, carbon dioxide (CO2). Chewing over the problem, scientists at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation believe a new vaccine can help protect Earth from the ruminant menace, New Scientist reports.
A vaccine against three species of microbe which produce methane in sheeps' stomachs reduced methane belches by 8 per cent in a 13-hour test. The formula is only a prototype, for the scientists believe they can wack more of the remaining species of microbe, which together account for 80 per cent of sheep methane, the British weekly reports next Saturday.
Methane is 23 times more potent volume-for volume than CO2 in its ability to trap heat from the sun. It is responsible for a fifth of the enhanced greenhouse effect over the past 200 years. The gas is released into the atmosphere from agriculture, landfill and mining as well as from natural wetlands. CO2 is mainly disgorged into the atmosphere from burning oil, gas and coal. Greenhouse gases are so called for their ability to hang in the atmosphere like an invisible shroud, trapping solar heat instead of letting it radiate out into space.
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Teach them to light their farts; problem solved...
A strong earthquake rattled the coast of the Gulf of California Friday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damages. The 5.8-magnitude quake hit early Friday and was centered in the Gulf, the body of water that separates the Mexican mainland and the Baja California peninsula, according to Dr. Luis Mungia, a seismologist with the Center for Scientific Studies and Higher Education.
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Wonder if this is on the southern end of the San Andreas fault, which runs down the center of the Gulf of California. If so, it may be the precursor to additional quakes all up the chain, all the way to San Francisco. Something to keep an eye on, and to think about!
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I think we've been having a lot of very small quakes in Washington state - Mt St. Helens area.
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"...hailed as a potential cancer therapy..."
So is sitting in a mine breathing radon. "Hailed as a potential" is reporter-speak. It means "placebo".
"...and a mixture of carbon and oxygen gas by a mask..."
Sounds messy and unpleasant.
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So many things are attributed to Vit. E that I am suspicious. Frankly, I'd rather drink beer. At least its non-specific goodness has the virtue of including among other things making ugly women the world's situation look better. (ducks and grins)
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Actually, Vitamin E, and other ati-oxidants, do ahve valuable biochemical functions. They are important in reducing free-radical formation, and other "aging" and cancer-related chemical reactions that go on in the body when we age - or when we don't take care of ourselves.
But they are about as worthless as spit if you don't change your diet and eat right, and (this is the big one) exercise intensely and regularly, and get regular medical checkups (to limit the genetic factors), and keep yourself emotionally healthy (some studies show nothing keeps one alive nearly as well as a solid, loving marriage).
Vitamin E, Vitamin C, some of the various flax and other oils are important as fat-soluable carriers of stuff that the body needs.
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They are also about as worthless as spit when taken to excess. My mother knew best: "Eat a wide variety of foods and get plenty of exercise." Unfortunately, that's not long enough or complicated enough to get a book contract and it's not profitable enough to justify an infomercial.
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Vitamin E oil and aloe is a very effective treatment for sunburn. Of course, it hurts like he$$ rubbing it on...
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At this point, it is getting kind of embarrassing. In the latest illustration of how security at Britain's public buildings is not as impenetrable as it might be, a reporter from a Scottish newspaper managed to walk unchallenged into Queen Elizabeth's residence in Edinburgh on Thursday, cleverly disguised as a construction worker. Once inside, he stood around for some 10 minutes in the State Rooms, not far from the queen's bedroom, before someone asked him what he was doing and he left the palace, said the newspaper, the Sunday Times Scotland. The queen, who does not spend much time at Holyroodhouse, was not in the palace at the time. But that is not the point. I should think that the Queen would be enraged by this. And we all know that there's nothing worse than a raging Queen!
The point is that, as worried as Britain is about being a target for Al Qaeda terrorist attacks, intruders seem to have an unexpectedly easy time getting into places where they are not supposed to be. At least the trespasser, whose name has not been released, wasn't wearing a poorly fitting Batman outfit. That was what an advocate for divorced fathers had on when he spent the afternoon of Sept. 13 standing defiantly on a ledge at Buckingham Palace. And at least he wasn't wielding a pair of condoms filled with purple flour that he then lobbed at Prime Minister Tony Blair, as another divorced fathers' campaigner did in the House of Commons several months ago. Les Snowdon, editor of the Sunday Times Scotland, said that the paper mounted Thursday's undercover operation "to test security" following a number of high-profile breaches in London and Edinburgh. These wake-up calls had best be heeded or Britain is in for some serious attacks.
"The Sunday Times undertook these investigations in advance of a visit by the queen to Scotland to open the new Scottish Parliament and in advance of a visit by Prince Charles this weekend," Snowdon said in a statement. "We have agreed to cooperate with the police, who are investigating how this breach of security was able to take place," he said. A spokeswoman for the Borders and Lothian police would say only, "There's been a report of an intruder at the palace, and we're investigating." In London, the British Parliament has been a particularly porous place of late. Last week, several men upset at legislative efforts to ban fox hunting rushed onto the House of Commons floor, only to be tackled to the ground by parliamentary officials. Then a reporter for the Sun, a tabloid newspaper that, like the Sunday Times Scotland, is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, used fake references to get a job and then smuggled in fake materials for a bomb.
Earlier this month, reporters from the Scotsman and the Sun sneaked into the new Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, one of them coming close to First Minister Jack McConnell and another claiming he was able to get onto the roof. Margo MacDonald, a member of the Scottish Parliament, told the Evening Standard that she hoped that officials would "get their act together" before the new Parliament building is officially opened Oct. 9. "I want to be assured that security officials at Holyrood Palace and the Parliament are taking advice from the police to make sure there are no gaps in the overall plan," she said.
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When I was there about a decade ago, any tourist could walk through the gate and stand in line at the door for a tour. But they didn't do that when the royals were there. What I remember most was a carpet in a ballroom -- a gift from the Shah of Iran. It was hand made and must have been 40 feet wide and 100 feet long. Don't underestimate Iranian patience.
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And we all know that thereâs nothing worse than a raging Queen!
A judge is reviewing a petition for release from imprisoned Shining Path terrorists founder Abimael Guzman, who argues that his rights to due process were violated, Guzman's lawyer said Friday. Eight other terrorists rebels were also on the petition. They were captured in Lima in 1992 and later sentenced to up to life in prison. But all were granted new trials last year after a court struck down some of the anti-terrorism measures under which they were convicted. But the new trials haven't started, and the terrorists guerrillas contend that the lag violates their right to due process, lawyer Manuel Fajardo told The Associated Press. Fajardo, who represents all nine terrorists rebels, said that he expects a decision from the court in about two weeks. The head of the court was unavailable Friday and his assistants said they could not comment on the case.
"We can say no more!"
A favorable ruling for the rebel leaders would be extremely unpopular in Peru. Guzman launched the Shining Path's armed insurgency in 1980, fighting that claimed nearly 70,000 lives over a decade and a half.
They're still dead, too, as I recall.
President Alejandro Toledo has vowed to not let any previously sentenced terrorists walk free.
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Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov read his own poems on the air of all three channels of the national television. "I have presented you a selection of poems from my new poetic work entitled "The Spring of Inspiration." I hope that you will express your opinion about it," the president said after the 1.5-hour recitation in the Palace of Rukhiet. The above-mentioned collection of the Turkmen president's poems is slated to be released in the beginning of October. Every deputy of the national parliament will have a copy of the book on their desks.
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Every deputy of the national parliament will have a copy of the book on their desks.
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" I hope that you will express your opinion about it,"
Umm, err, ahem, oh yes! It was marvelous, Sapar baby, simply mahhhvelous! May I keep my job, my life and my head, or do you need even more obsequious fawining?
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'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my works. Ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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"fawining"
Craig, you got me there, I've no idea what you are trying to say. OTOH, you are not alone, google yields 88 hits.
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"...Local residents applauded to the president's every keen and witted word..."
Bush and Putin dream of this type of adulation.
The guy must be pretty keen and witted -- it was a 1.5-hour recitation.
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I'm impressed. Even the "Great" Stalin, himself, had others write poetry about him....
Russia got its first official chance to see Michael Moore's controversial documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" on Thursday, when the film about an unpopular war, terrorism and a president accused of failing to react instantly to an attack that stunned the nation, opened in movie houses across Moscow. The opening was a formality for many, however, since pirate copies had long been on sale and discussion was already ongoing on Kino.ru, a web site for cinephiles. An early showing Thursday at one Moscow theater drew a feeble four people.
In a country where kompromat and black PR are part of the daily vocabulary, the sight of Moore so openly mocking U.S. President George W. Bush was, for some viewers, like watching an old film. Reviewers commented on the bluntness of Moore's methods, with Afisha translating them into an easily understandable analogy for Russian audiences. "Crudely speaking, the creator of 'Bowling for Columbine' has turned from Parfyonov into Dorenko," wrote Afisha writer Stanislav Zelvensky, referring to Leonid Parfyonov, the respected documentarian and former host of the current affairs show "Namedni," and one-time ORT host Sergei Dorenko, whose muckraking shows helped bury Yevgeny Primakov and Mayor Yury Luzhkov's presidential ambitions.
"I fell asleep halfway through," a user named Slava wrote on Kino.ru. "It is ordinary black PR for zombified people who can't think on their own."
Slava focused in particular on Moore's manipulation of footage showing the president receiving news of the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, while reading a book to a classroom of children. Instead of reacting immediately, Bush continued reading, and Moore zooms in on the president for added effect. "What was he supposed to do, run around the room shouting, 'We are lost!' and scare all the children?" Slava wrote. "The film is useful to watch so you don't fall into the same kind of PR trap in your own country."
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After the shock at the school house, F-9/11 can't hold up to the cold reality of the terrorist threat.
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I'm sure the russians would happily build us a gulag to put Al-Moore in. Especially if we pay them. Hell, I'd bet just the Rantburgers could raise enough:p
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I think there would be fighting over who got to donate to such a project...
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Having been constantly exposed to self-serving propaganda with no basis in fact for most of their lives, Russians know bullshit when they see it.
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Yes, Today I consider myself as fortunate for having grwon in Sapin during the dictatorship: I learned to distrust the media. I have seen too many people believe in something just because it was in print ot was aired on TV/radio.
Sometimes I joke that instead of linguistic holidays teenagers should have "dicatorship holidays" they would spend in say, North Korea, in order to learn to think by themselves and trust no media.
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"I fell asleep halfway through," a user named Slava wrote on Kino.ru. "It is ordinary black PR for zombified people who canât think on their own."
Obviously, the Russian people are just as "dumb" and "stupid" as the American people:) This may be the most succinct review yet of F911.
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Given this populace (the Russians) has generations of experience in dealing with state-sponsored leftist propaganda, its no surprise that they figured this one out quickly.
To quote Dan Akroyd's character:
I come from a long line of torofecundians: we can smell bullshit a mile away.
CBS News has shelved a "60 Minutes" report on the rationale for war in Iraq because it would be "inappropriate" to air it so close to the presidential election, the network said on Saturday.
The CBS "eye" just blinked.
The report on weapons of mass destruction was set to air on Sept. 8 but was put off in favor of a story on President Bush's National Guard service.
This would be the story about the "fake documents" being used by Bush to say Saddam was trying to buy yellowcake from Niger.
The Guard story was discredited because it relied on documents impugning Bush's service that were apparently fake.
Apparently fake?
CBS News spokeswoman Kelli Edwards would not elaborate on why the timing of the Iraq report was considered inappropriate.
Guess they didn't want "fake documents" and "60 Minutes" to appear in another sentence.
The report, with Ed Bradley as the correspondent, has long been in the works. Originally scheduled for June, it was first put off because of new developments, Edwards said.
Somebody slip you some more documents, did they?
CBS said no other reports on the presidential election have been affected.
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Another swipe at the Niger yellow cake story featuring that poor tortured democratic consultant soul Joe Wison. But, but, but wait a a minute, Wilson is on Kerry's campaign. Can't have any of this here coordination and such, can we?
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Naw - they axed it because they (Dan Rather) can't say with a stright face 'Bush Lied! ITs all Bush'es fault!'.
Why haven't they done a story on the mass graves? Rape rooms? Rape Squads? How about the rape and murder and genocide in Sudan? The Russian school?
Oh thats right -- their terrorist allies get a pass on all that.
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Just a wild guess but I wonder if this is the original 60 Minutes crew telling the network that they don't intend to go down with the Tidanic. Maybe Ed Bradley's already in the Witness Protection Program.
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A couple of other ideas for shows would be a vetting of the Swift Boat Vets,Sandy Burgers pilfering of classifed documents. In a bi-partisan world they would make great topics. But of course the American public won't see anything like that. Thank you CBS for your "honest" journalism. snicker.............
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How can CBS talk about any sort of documents being fake at this juncture and have anyone believe them?
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Playtime's over, children. No more screwing with Daddy's stock price.
Wonder whether Teddy Forstmann or David Bonderman would be interested in an asset sell-off?
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This may be one of the clearest indicators why President Bush, against all expectations, is ahead in Oregon. Mark Hatfield has always accurately reflected the somewhat quirky, murky political mind of Oregon. If he is on the Bush side of the 9/11 watershed, many of his fellow Oregon residents will be there as well.
EFL David Corn is a real honest to goodness independant Marxist. I remember him from the days when I read the Chicago socialist paper "In These Times" when he was a Latin America correspndent, before going uptown and the Nation
Please shut up, Terry McAuliffe--that is, about George W. Bush and his missing-time in the Texas Air National Guard. I can't hear the krackup of the Kerry Kamp above the din.
I keep receiving press releases from flacks at the Democratic Party about Bush's Guard service (or lack thereof). For instance, moments before John Kerry delivered a major speech on September 20 that refocused his campaign with a blast against Bush's war in Iraq, the Democratic National Committee press office emailed me and other reporters an invitation to participate in a conference call with McAuliffe on Bush and the Guard. The call was scheduled to occur in the middle of Kerry's speech. McAuliffe knows the Kerry camp is the walking dead.
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After Kerry's digusting smear attempt versus Allawi, there is no place whatsoever for Truman-JFK style hawks like me in the Democratic Party. Shame on this pathetic, confused, repulsive little man. A party of pygmies. Screw them.
The headline ignores it, but note that the incident started with the peace-thug invading Republican headquarters and vandalizing a cutout of President Bush. This is the second such violent attack at a local Republican office in recent weeks, the first was the shooting at the Huntington WV GOP headquarters during the RNC convention.
GAINESVILLE — A part-time Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) instructor was arrested last Thursday after a scuffle outside of the Alachua County Republican Party headquarters. David P. McCally, a part-time American history instructor at SFCC, was arrested and charged with hitting local GOP chairman Travis Horn.
The 55-year-old McCally walked into the GOP headquarters on Main Street in Gainesville where he punched and knocked down a life-size cardboard cutout of President George W. Bush, according to Horn. Horn said McCally began screaming expletives as he left the GOP office and entered a nearby restaurant. But moments later, Horn said McCally "came back outside of the restaurant and sucker-punched me."
According to a police report filed by the Gainesville Police Department, Horn then struck the six-foot three-inch, 250 pound McCally several times "in an effort to get way from him." GPD officers apparently witnessed the incident between Horn and McCally. In the report, officers wrote they observed McCally "throw what we later learned was the first punch." According to police, others witnessed the incident as well.
McCally was arrested and transported to a nearby hospital for treatment. McCally was later released from the hospital and officers booked him into jail at about 2 a.m. Friday morning. He was later released following a first appearance.
Horn said McCally's punch left him with a busted lip and what he thought were bruised ribs. "When he blindsided me with that punch, it knocked me back," Horn said, "I'm glad it was me that got hit and not one of our volunteers."
SFCC spokesman Larry Keen said McCally had been placed on suspension with pay from the classroom pending a "thorough fact-finding investigation. "Obviously, our first goal is the welfare of our students," Keen said Wednesday afternoon. Meanwhile, the investigation is ongoing and Keen wouldn't comment on the possible termination of McCally but did say a conviction of the filed charges "would carry a great amount of weight" in the college's final decision.
McCally could not be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon. Check out this book review by McCally, in which he criticizes the author for failing to indulge in strident eco-socialist moralizing.
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Before every good civil war, there needs to be a good fist fight, preferably in the Hallowed Halls of Congress though, such as this one:
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55 years old, huh?
Yet another boomer stuck in the 60s.
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Another case of the LLL who talk and talk and talk about free speech, women's rights, diversity, and the individual's right right to choose....but it's all BS.
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"The older representatives were just beginning to get wheezy when Cadwallader Washburn of Wisconsin grabbed William Barksdale of Mississippi by the hair, preparing to deliver him a heavy blow to the face. Unfortunately Barksdale's wig came loose in Washburn's hand and the startled Wisconsin representative swung at nothing but air."
I can see it now Kennedy going at it with Zell.
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Yep. They all carried sidearms. Call it the First Congressional Militia. I wonder if there are any old patched holes in the roof of the capitol building from celebrations. Speaking of political violence - or at least violent politicians:
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of course, when McCalley is fired by FLA, Bush's brother Jeb will be blamed. McCalley sjhould be banned from brainwashing instructional duties, forever
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Unfortunately, William Barksdale was killed during the Civil War leading his Mississippi regiment in battle. Can any of you see any congressperson leading a regiment in battle today? Ted Kennedy? Jon Kerry? Even the Republicans? Thes were men who truly believed in their convictions and were willing to die for them.
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09/25/2004 23:04 Comments ||
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Thanks for posting the whole story. He truly is a "nutty" professor!
Mark Steyn
Before John Kerry, the only alumni of Swiss finishing schools I'd ever met (in my younger days) were a certain type of lively English girl, a couple of minor princesses from Gulf emirates and a charming young Iranian lady whose family had been forced to flee after the shah fell. Collectively, they all fell into the category the British call ''posh totty.'' And, although they were way out of my league, the one thing I noticed was their impeccable carriage -- they'd done all the walking-around-with-books-on-your-head stuff -- and how exquisitely well-mannered they were. Even when giving you the brush for being a broke loser, they were very nice about it.
In this respect, John Kerry isn't exactly the best advertisement for his Swiss finishing school. Forget the impeccable carriage -- if you imagine you're watching streaming video on a slow dial-up connection, his gait seems perfectly natural. But the manners thing seems to have passed him by entirely. His decision to break the time-honored tradition of keeping out of the way during the other guy's convention by rushing on the air within an hour of President Bush's speech to give an instant response was boorish and petty. But, given that his ''midnight rambler'' routine in Ohio was a disaster, there didn't seem much point dwelling on it.
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09/25/2004 11:07:24 AM ||
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In two weeks Kerry has gone from being for the war to against the war to on the other side.
Posted by: Matt ||
09/25/2004 11:33 Comments ||
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"Democrats and media alike -- are stunted and parochial, their horizons shriveling more every day."
Like U.N. bureaucrats, their affluence blinds them to the ugly realities of human behavior and the risks of sitting fat, dumb, and happy at the top of the heap. [Of course Kerry gets most of his affluence by marriage, so he's into entangled alliances and the sharing of good fortune.]
Their level of lies and deceit is so high that they can't even imagine that their opposition might have reasonable values. Contrast Clinton in the back hall of the Oval Office with his pants down after the World Trade Center bombing to George Bush taking down the Taliban and Saddam. And compare Kerry making re-enactment movies in Vietnam to Michael Moore filming his fantasies -- each indulging in distorting the truth so as to influence the ignorant toward their own fabricated delusional realities.
The Democratic Party has gone off the deep end. If Kerry is the best they can do, they are a sorry, sorry lot indeed.
Posted by: Tom ||
09/25/2004 11:40 Comments ||
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The Democratic Party of FDR and Truman is dead. Today's Democratic Party is a cross between the British Labor party and the French Communist Party. In ten years, it will cease to exist, or we will have Civil War II. Terry McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, and Tom Daschle show what the Democrats have become, and it's bone-deep ugly. I really feel sorry for the 40's-era Democrats, because their party has deserted them. Expect a schism, followed by a new political party to the right of the existing Democrats, while the existing Democrats shrink into worse insignificance than the party of Lyndon LaRouche.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
09/25/2004 15:56 Comments ||
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"What a small, graceless man Kerry is."
Pathetic, inept, traitor,morals deficient...to name a few others.
I am awaiting the 1st debate. This may be the 1st alot of people will have seen this junky. I hope he continues in his carping, defeatist, could woulda shoulda one liners. I wouldn't expect less. It will be interesting to see the styles too. One determined with a vision the other waffling through his points.
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Is the Pope Catholic?
Joe Lockhart used the same language thats contained in the memo in an interview before 60 Minutes II aired.
He said something to the effect "We are looking into whether anyone sugar coated Bushs' service in the TANG."
This is where the real scandal lay, not with that addled fool Rather, he is the DNC's patsy in all this.
But just like much else in this campaign, the MSM will not pursue a legitimate story because it may be damaging to their boy Kerry.
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That report regarding Lockhard was later withdrawn. Lockhart did not use the term "sugarcoated" before the memos were released.
I'm no fan of Lockhard (God knows) but I do believe in keeping the record straight.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste ||
09/25/2004 9:16 Comments ||
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I don't think we've heard the real story yet. It sounds to me like Camp Kerry and FOrt Rather are circling the wagons and hoping to ride it out. Personally, they should fire Rather and we should Flush the Johns.
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09/25/2004 9:49 Comments ||
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As things stand,Mary Mapes is on the meat hook for contacting Lockhart.
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I stand corrected SDB, I wasn't aware that report had been withdrawn, and wouldn't want to be accused of twisting the truth.
The Clinton team has jaded me to this sort of nonsense and I think this whole thing smells like Lockhart, Carville and Begala. No proof, but I promise not to die from shock if some turns up.
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"If liberals and leftists were excluded from faculties to anything like the degree conservatives are, there would be a national howling going on," says Mr. Horowitz, the son of high-school teachers who lost their jobs during the McCarthy era because of their membership in the Communist Party.
Per survey cited in the article: Less than 20% are conservative. 48%+ are lift/liberal.
No wonder college kids swing left - they aren't geting the whole story. An enforced ignorance is a powerful wepon in the hands of the state and statists.
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...Carol T. Christ, president of Smith College. Reflecting on her own experience (before Smith, she spent 30 years at the University of California at Berkeley), she says she knows professors who have a broad range of views on the economy, the Middle East, and the war in Iraq.
At Berkeley? I dont think so. She must be the type who think Stalin and kimmie-boy-the-baby-killer are conservatives....
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I've had several conversations with my high school son about political and historical events where he'll spout the standard leftist, liberal party line. Just tonight he mentioned how he understood why the Palestinians were so mad, seeing as how their land had been taken from them.
When I explained reality to him - as I had earlier when he was taught communism was just an alternative form of government, no worse than our own - he got really angry at the lies and half-truths he's been taught over the years. Later he said "Then why am I in school, anyway?" And: "The world's really nuts isn't it?"
I really think he gets it. Maybe he'll have a firm enough foundation to withstand the LLL assault he'll probably get in college.
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Oliver Stone. Proving that we have more to fear from Hollywood than Iran.
"My country is becoming more violent and negative every day," he said. "Bush has never been interested in consensus...
Abhoring the negativity and then plunging right into it.
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Oh that reminds me of a joke.
A Cuban from Miami tries to explain a Cuban from Havana what political freedom means:
"You see, in Miami we can shout in the street: "Down with Bush, down with Bush!"
Says the other Cuban: "Hey what's the point here? In Havana we can take to the streets and shout exactly the same thing!"
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Updated version of old Vietnam joke. (The original involved LBJ: the party of the president really doesn't matter).
A GI goes to visit his friend in the hospital. When he gets there, he looks at the other soldier all covered in bandages and remarks: "Good lord, you look terrible. What happened"?
The injured soldier replies: "I was lying by the side of the road under fire from Iraqi soldiers on the other side. I yelled out 'Saddam Hussein eats shit! An Iraqi on the other side yelled out 'George Bush eats shit'! We were standing in the middle of the road shaking hands when a truck ran over us."
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09/25/2004 14:54 Comments ||
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Weird Al,
I read an earlier version where it was Roosevelt and Hirohito.There probably was a version w/Ceasar,Pompey and a chariot.
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Q. What did Cubans have before candles?
A. Electricity!
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