A sad movie and a night of heavy drinking led a south Georgia man to set his house on fire, the man told police. Charles Alton Adams, 32, walked into the Crisp County Law Enforcement Center shortly after midnight Thursday and told deputies he had burned down his mobile home. He said that after watching the movie, he drank nine or ten beers and decided to set fire to pillows on his bed. Adams did not tell authorities the name of the movie. Any guesses?
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He told deputies that after watching "The Day After Tomorrow," a special-effects extravaganza depicting deadly natural disasters caused by global warming, and drinking nine or 10 beers, he decided to set fire to pillows on his bed.
And just think: he'll be voting for Kerry, too. Fucking idiot...
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Dave - I think you've identified why he felt he had nothing to live for.
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I wasn't paying a whole lot of attention, but ISTR that the movie was kind of a dud? From the trailers I've seen (very frequently on the Weather Channel, which likes to talk about "global warming") it looked about as scientifically serious as a Godzilla flick.
If the political ignorance of Hollywood types is disgusting, their scientific ignorance is downright horrifying.
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This is the type who would drill a hole in his head if he had a headache.
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Day after Tommorow? Lol. A 2nd rate movie. By the way why were they burning books in the library instead of busting up the furniture?? I also thought the temperature drop at "10 degress a second" !! was pretty lame. Lets see in 40 seconds we are at absolute zero!! Also the question back to the Prez saying if he had done something sooner, like global warming or whatever occurs over night. Well enough dissecting of a somewhat fact flawed action movie. Why anyone would get depressed looking at this movie is beyond me. I'm going out now and burn some hydro carbons.
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The only person who might have been depressed enough to burn down his own house after seeing that bomb would have been Dennis Quaid's agent. I either forgot or didn't realize what a rotten actor he is.
A Kuwaiti publisher launched the country's first privately owned television station Friday, ending decades of government monopoly of broadcast news media. AlraiTV, which broadcasts by satellite, features news, dramas and movies as well as religious programs. Its name translates as "Opinion TV." "On this station, we are pioneers of freedom ... and openness," Jassem Boudai, the station's main owner, said in an editorial Friday in the newspaper Al-Rai Al-Amm, which he also owns. He promised objective reporting and talk shows void of "sensationalism."
I love this. In many ways it's as significant as the Afghan elections. The more freedom and openness the Gulf States implement, the worse Soddy Arabia looks. Eventually, even the Soddies won't be able to ignore the fact that the neighbors are civilized and they're the poor relations.
I guess that'll be when the Soddies decide the Kuwaiti's are not islamic enough and start subsidizing "insurgents".
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BRITAIN has taken an important step towards healing the scars of World War II by publicly acknowledging the horrors of RAF bombing raids carried out on the cities of the Third Reich. The gesture comes shortly before a state visit to Germany by the Queen and marks a new stage in relations between the two countries. The Queen will host a concert in Berlin in November to raise money for the final restoration of Dresden's Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady), destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in February 1945.
Another raid was recalled in a moving ceremony in a cathedral in the north German city of Brunswick. Britain's ambassador to Berlin, Peter Torrey, paid tribute to the 560 victims of the RAF's raid, exactly 60 years ago, on Brunswick. "It was a bleak and terrifying moment in the modern history of Brunswick," said Sir Peter in the nave of the cathedral. "How can we explain to our children the madness that was unleashed in those days? How can we explain that such a beautiful and historical city as Brunswick became the target of attacks from the air?" Tears ran down the cheeks of survivors of the attack in the congregation. Never before has a representative of the British Government given voice to their suffering. "This is a highly significant moment for our city and for relations between our two countries," said Werner Hempel, the cathedral dean.
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Dumb.. Hitler and his people bombed the hell out of the UK during WW2. The crimes Germany commited against the Russians are unexcuesable. The Genocide against Jews and other undermenchen proclude making apologies. We rebuilt Germany and made her part of the modern west. That is enough. Germany can't be allowed to forget it's past.
Sorry this is just plain wrong.
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It's an exaggeration to say that the Germans bombed the hell out of Britain. They didn't do that, although not for lack of trying. British raids on Germany killed far more than German raids managed. As 'Bomber' Harris put it: Germany sowed the wind, and reaped the whirlwind. No apologies necessary. The mass bombings stand as punishment for German instigation of the conflict, and a as painful reminder of the consequences of starting such an utterly unjustifiable war of aggression. The bombing would have been stopped sooner, and lives wouldn't have been taken by the hundreds of thousands, had Germany relinquished stolen lands, released enslaved people, stopped butchering Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Slavs, etc. etc., and surrendered earlier.
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Gurnica, Warsaw, Rotterdam, etc. Those who invented terror bombing directed not at military targets but populations really show chutzpuh expecting an apology from those who they practiced it against.
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Franco-Prussian War of 1870
World War 1
World War 2
Can't blame the first two on Hitler, must be something in the water. Oh, and one more thing. Don't make us come in there again.
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A young Muslim railway worker who claims he was sacked after a row over the length of his beard has brought what is believed to be the first case against an employer under new laws which ban discrimination on religious grounds. Unfair treatment on grounds of race and sex have long been illegal but Tony Blair's government extended legislation to cover religious discrimination last year, probably in an attempt to placate Britain's 1.6 million Muslim population which has felt vulnerable in the wake of the Iraq war. For many years, Muslims have campaigned for legislation to ban religious discrimination but successive governments have stood out against this, partly because of the difficulty in finding a legal distinction between mainstream religions and "cults". The rarely used law on blasphemy covered only Christianity.
An employment tribunal in London is now being told that Mohsin Mohmed, 23, a customer services assistant, was sacked from his job with Virgin West Coast Trains after he refused to cut his beard. He was asked repeatedly to trim his beard by senior Virgin staff at Euston, a mainline London station. When Mohmed, from Ilford, Essex, refused to serve alcoholic drinks to customers in the first-class lounge, a manager suggested he should wear gloves.
Mohmed told the hearing he reduced his beard to "one fist length" — about four inches — but at the end of a six-month probationary period he was sacked anyway in February this year. He has now brought a claim of racial and religious discrimination and harassment against Virgin West Coast Trains. He has been growing his beard since he was 18, Mohmed told the tribunal. "According to my teachings a male from the Islamic faith cannot trim his beard shorter than a fist length," he said.
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Britainâs 1.6 million Muslim population. God save the Queen and everyone else.
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"Never trust anyone with a Beard"(â¢). Note that I Have been on strike against Gillette since 1970.
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âAccording to my teachings a male from the Islamic faith cannot trim his beard shorter than a fist length,â he said.
Muslims who cut it any shorter were âin reality sinningâ, he commented.
Yet another reason why Islam should become a historical footnote. Preferrably, in the immediate future.
For my entire life I have always attempted to maintain a sense of religious tolerance. At this point, Islam's endless atrocities and vicious oppression of women have become nothing more than a constant outrage against modern civilization and I now hope to see it dismantled in my lifetime.
However much I detest discrimination, I am on the verge of simply hating Muslims, one and all. Normally, I would be appalled at my current descent into intolerance if it weren't for the single fact that Islam is the direct cause of a majority of this world's problems.
These twisted f&%ks want to restart the Holocaust's genocide. Should Islam fail to immediately outgrow this infantile fixation upon exterminating all of the Jews, I say we should let such extinction begin, starting and ending with this world's entire Muslim population. Let them taste their own bile for a change. Islam's antagonism for all other cultures should be their death knell.
Protesters set fire to barricades and gunfire rang out in Haiti's troubled capital as loyalists of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marked the 10th anniversary of his return from exile. At least 54 people have been killed in Port-au-Prince during two weeks of shootouts and beheadings that have only further thrown the country into turmoil since Aristide was ousted yet again and sent into exile in February and devastating floods left 200,000 people homeless. Former Haitian soldiers who hold sway over much of the countryside are threatening to deploy into Port-au-Prince over the objections of the interim government, which is backed by an overextended and beleaguered U.N. peacekeeping force.
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Jeez I hate these new fangled things, where in my name is the cold boot button?
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin cemented Moscow's military presence in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan, signing a deal Saturday to establish a permanent base for troops deployed there since before the Soviet collapse.
Putin said Russia would strengthen its military contingent in the country after he and Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov signed the agreement creating the base for Russia's 5,000-strong 201st Motorized Rifle Division. The base in the Tajik capital Dushanbe is part of Russia's attempts to reassert its influence in strategic, energy-rich Central Asia in response to the United States' higher profile in the region since the Sept. 11 attacks.
For impoverished Tajikistan, the deal means economic help: Russia agreed to forgive $330 million in debt and pledged $2 billion in government and private investments over the next five years.
Putin praised the "strategic partnership," Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The two countries agree that "the stable functioning of the Russian base and its strengthening - and we intend to strengthen our military presence in Tajikistan - will be a guarantee not only of the stability of Russian investment in Tajikistan but also of the stability of Tajikistan itself," Putin said, according to the Interfax news agency.
Rakhmonov praised the agreement for "lifting a weight" from impoverished Tajikistan to foster future economic development.
Most of the money Russia has promised under the deail will fund two large hydroelectric stations and an aluminum factory. Tajikistan and Russia have been negotiating the Dushanbe base for months, and the talks were believed to have been delayed by Tajik demands for payment. The two presidents reached agreement this summer.
The unit's commanders will be based in Dushanbe, while some troops will be posted in the cities of Kulyab and Kurgan-Tyube.
Russia also signed an agreement taking full possession of a space monitoring system in Tajikistan, which can track objects 24,800 miles above the Earth. The system, located 7,260 feet above sea level, takes advantage of the area's fine weather and the atmosphere's high transparency - conditions not found elsewhere in the former Soviet Union, Russian officials said.
The presidents also agreed to a timetable for Russia to turn over responsibility for guarding sections of the Afghan border to Tajik forces. Russia has helped guard the border since 1993, and Saturday's agreement envisions those Russians withdrawing by 2006. The border is a major trafficking route for illegal drugs from Afghanistan, the world's largest opium producer.
The Russian bear is on the move.
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Securing an oil supply? Now why would they do that?...
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27,000 billiard ball sized 'pebbles' in the reactor . . . that's a whole lot of 8-ball . . . 7875 sq. ft. to be exact. Seems big at first blush. But consider that they would not fill the room upstairs from where I am sitting. Multiply that by enough capacity to turn out 300 mw . . . (tikkity-tak on caliculator) . . . 236000 sq ft (roughly) to have enough capacity to fulfill what they are shooting for. That is just reactor space, not the associated generating capacity (turbines, etc).
If each plant was small enough you could reduce losses on transmission (which is significant in the US grid, although nobody likes to talk about it) then you could be quite efficient. If there really is no boom on pebble-beds (which I have heard before).
Guaranteed to piss off current nuke-builders, though, if China pushes patent rights.
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right...China respects patent rights
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Comments...
Pebble-bed reactors have been theorized and actively designed for years (John Ringo uses the idea in his Posleen novels).
The reactors are designed around enriched uranium ball-bearings wrapped by some absorbent material (usually graphite, but a lot of other things will work).
Coolant is usually helium (presumably liquid, but it's better and cheaper than liquid sodium which has nasty secondary properties). It can get expensive though.
Good points - it can't go critical or even meltdown. Lose the coolant, the reactor bed just sits there.
Also, China doesn't/cannot own the patent rights. It was, so far as I know, developed here in the good ole' USA - not that the environmentalists would ever let us build another nuke plant no matter what the safeguards or guarantees.
Tokyo Gas Co is getting inquiries from potential customers who seem to be interested in getting a fuel cell system at any price and want to know when the company is going to market it. "We've certainly decided to market it but haven't made anything definite, such as its price or product name," said Hiroaki Kobayashi, head of the planning group at the research and development headquarters of Tokyo Gas. "Furthermore, the number of units to be marketed will be limited at first," he said.
The initial unit, being jointly developed with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Ebara Ballard Corp, will have 1 kilowatt in generating power and a tank capable of storing 20 liters of hot water. It will have a power generation efficiency of 31% and heat efficiency of 40%. There are a variety of fuel cells being developed, including the solid high polymer type that is at present the most advanced in development for home use. It works by extracting hydrogen from town gas and its big advantage is that it can utilize existing facilities, such as piping. The developers hope this type of fuel cell will be mass produced in units that are small and light.
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We need this in the US. President Bush has financed a lot ofresearch in this area. Could you imagine getting us off of imported oil and reducing the coal we need to burn for electricity?
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It isn't competitive in the US where coal is cheap. But Japan uses oil, gas, or nukes to generate electricity. So the fuel cell is competitive when waste heat used to heat water (saving electricty) is factored in.
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"...potential customers who seem to be interested in getting a fuel cell system at any price ..." This is an important point that is also true in the US. People want this alternative and say they are willing to pay more for it. There may be a tremendous market when these products become available.
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For the umpteenth time, fuel cells are not an energy source. They are a means of storing energy generated from other sources. Because we will never achieve a 100% efficient fuel cell, they will INCREASE ENERGY (OIL, COAL, NUCLEAR) DEMAND.
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The efficiency in such systems lies in how they are used. As phil_b mentions, they are not more efficient in terms of volume usage. But they do fulfill the needs of the far left environmentalist wackos . . . .that is, they put fewer pollutants DIRECTLY into the atmosphere. But they will increase demand, not just from being less efficient. But the same reasons that Americans use more fuel when their cars get more efficient. They _feel_ good about not using as much, then they drive farther, using more fuel . . . increasing the problem.
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OS, I agree, I think there' a great potential for job creation here when this technology starts to hit. Anything that helps us get away from oil dealings w/the soddies is a plus imho.
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bwaaahhhaaaaaa! That's got to strike fear in the hearts of the Saudi's. Fuel cells may not be efficient yet, but they are the future. The sooner we get there, the sooner the Saudi's can start selling off their "educational" assets abroad and stop funding jihad.
Saudi's are making a huge mistake by allowing the cost of oil to run up. As oil hits $54 a barrel, executives everywhere dust off those old proposals for alternative energy sources and give them a second look and they are starting to look a whole lot more cost effective than they did before.
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Phil_B just being a meanie. We can run our fuel cells on free hydrogen from seawater thru our Phish carbureators and teflon engines and achieve 3900 mpg.
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phil_b wrote: For the umpteenth time, fuel cells are not an energy source. They are a means of storing energy generated from other sources. Because we will never achieve a 100% efficient fuel cell, they will INCREASE ENERGY (OIL, COAL, NUCLEAR) DEMAND.
Shame on you Phil for bringing the first and second laws of thermodynamics into a discussion on energy! We should make energy policy based on hope, hype, and emotion. ;-)
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I don't see where anyone mentioned free energy. This fuel cell uses natural gas who total energy efficiency (elec+heat) is greater than if the same amount of natural gas was used by an electric power plant.
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"It will have a power generation efficiency of 31% and heat efficiency of 40%."
Coal fired or gas fired electric generating plants can't achieve this sort of efficiency?
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I agree with 2b - anything that starts the weaning process is a good thing, and given the twitchiness in the oil markets it might be enough to start prices headed the other way.
Mike
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I have a machine that requires no power to run and will run continuously. I am selling shares.
But weaning off of oil is good but at the current time all our transport runs on oil. So what is a mother to do.
The world's largest car maker is getting a little smaller. General Motors says it will lay off 12,000 people from its money losing European operations. That is about one fifth of its European workforce. The cutbacks will hit hardest in Germany, and are part of an effort to trim more than $600 million in costs. GM has reported losses for its European car making operations since 1999.
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Cuts in Sweden too. Any GM factories in France and Spain?
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Good - no sense in lowering inverstor profits subsidizing these socialist yoodles..and i always thought it was a bad move for GM to buy volvo car manufacturing. the swedes got the best deal there..got rid of thier money losing volvo car operations and kept their profitable volvo defense operations.
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Economics lesson for the Euros: In the real world (as opposed to yours), companies that lose money scale back their operations (and hopefully reassess what they're doing) or go out of business.
Just a little friendly advice for you sophisticates from the American cowboys....
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A PROVINCIAL ban on pit bulls is a happy end to a terrible story for Louise Ellis. Ten years ago, she stood over her 5-year-old daughter's unconscious, bloodied body as a pit bull held the young girl's face in its iron jaws. "That had to be the most terrifying, horrific experience of my life, and having legislation enacted to rid these beasts from my society I think is the right thing to do," Ellis said. Moments before she recounted the event yesterday, Ontario's Attorney General Michael Bryant confirmed plans to ban the controversial breed and crack down on irresponsible owners of any dangerous dog. Bryant said he's heard enough to be convinced the dogs are "ticking time bombs" and "inherently dangerous animals."
"For every family that tells me their pit bull is a pussycat, I'd like to introduce them to the family in Sudbury who regretted that judgment," he said during an impassioned speech. "Enough is enough," Bryant said. "We cannot have these animals walking the streets, the fields or the family rooms of Ontario." Within the next month Bryant will be introducing proposed legislation to initiate the ban and impose heavier fines and up to six months' jail time for owners of vicious dogs. The new law will also strengthen search-and-seizure powers, enabling officials to enter property without a warrant under situations deemed to be an emergency. The ban would be phased in over three months once legislation is passed. After that , no pit bulls can be bred, sold, imported or possessed in Ontario.
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At the request of Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, the Justice Department has initiated an investigation following a report that 46,000 New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida and that as many as 1,000 may have already voted in both states in the same election. On August 24, the New York Daily News published the results of an investigation by reporter Russ Buettner. Buettner determined that 46,000 New York City residents are also registered to vote in Florida. Of these, the investigation "found that between 400 and 1,000 registered voters have voted twice in at least one election." This is a federal offense punishable by up to five years in jail.
Not surprisingly, these twice-registered New York voters are overwhelmingly Democratic, 68% to only 12% registered as Republicans. Another 16% did not list a party affiliation. This would mean about 31,280 are Democrats, while only about 5,520 are Republicans, giving the Democrats a 25,760-voter advantage among those who--at least theoretically--could vote illegally in both New York City and Florida on November 2. In 2000, Bush beat Gore by only 537 votes in Florida--thus securing an Electoral College victory.
The Daily News cited by name only six people who had voted in both New York and Florida in at least one previous election. Ironically, of these six, the paper identified two as Republicans and only one as a Democrat, with no party affiliations given for the other three. On October 4, Florida Secretary of State Hood announced that the U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission are investigating the Daily News's revelations, and that she did not believe New York was the only state whose residents were double-registering in Florida. "The FBI has assured us that the Department of Justice is investigating this issue," Hood was quoted in the Tampa Tribune. "Today I met with the chairman of the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission, and their general counsel has been reviewing it. . . . We are sure there are other states involved." In an August 26 letter, the Tribune reported, Hood told the FBI that federal action is "necessary to send a strong message that this type of illegal behavior and manipulation of the election franchise will not be tolerated."
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This crap eats away at the trust and integrity that underlies a democratic system. Time to arrest and indict the offenders.
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No, this is the first time its come up -- I imagine most offenders had no idea it was illegal. Offer amnesty to those who confess and de-register in one state or the other. Then follow up with convictions and high fines for those who double-voted or don't take the amnesty. In the meantime, sequester all votes from the the 46,000 and all others discovered.
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I should have been more clear. I was thinking about the vast increase in fraud we are reading about this election cycle, and not about arresting the double voters (yet). I was thinging more in terms of the folks tearing up voter registrations of the other party, folks mass signing voter cards for dead people/names from the phone book, shots fired/intimidation tactics at campaign offices, and those pre-emptively claiming fraud.
As for those who double vote, fine them. Even better if they can be made ineligible to vote in the next election cycle.
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"I imagine most offenders had no idea it was illegal."
What a steaming crock of excrement! How can you possibly believe that? I think it is extremely unlikely that more than a handfull realize that they did anything wrong.
Most of these people knew exactly what they were doing. Round them up and LOCK them up. We need to start enforcing our laws, and we need to make an example of these people.
Most of this crap would not be happening if people knew that there was high probability of being prosecuted and incarcerated.
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Thier vote should be thrown out with the trash.I ain't buyin the"Didn't know it was illegle"crap.
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I do not crock my excrement, Analog Roam. I flush it.
The 46,000 from New York City are clearly Snowbirds -- they probably were just trying to make sure they could vote wherever they were come November, just like they have complete wardrobes at each home, fully stocked pantries and furniture. My Snowbird friends travel back and forth with just a carry-on containing their latest prescriptions and a change of clothes in case they get delayed along the way. This is nothing like the latest perfidy of enrolling the dead and the dogs.
I do agree, though, that the snowbirds, at least, wouldn't have done it if they'd realized it was illegal. And they will be relieved to de-register, just like they've chosen one home as their primary residence for tax purposes. Publish an announcement on all TV, radio and newspapers about an eg. one-week amnesty to regularize their status, and that will likely take care of much of the problem, leaving the hard-core criminals exposed for prosecution.
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Trailing wife, how could you possibly believe that? You don't think they've ever heard of "one man, one vote"? You don't think they know they shouldn't get two votes. Give me a break! Send them to the slammer.
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Tom, there is a big difference between being registered to vote in two locations, and actually voting in both. I agree that those who vote more than once should be locked up. AND pay a heavy fine to pay back society for the cost of searching out and invalidating the illegal ballots. But not those who are merely illegally double-registered, especially if they take the opportunity to regularize their situation.
Remember in a number of states voters are not asked to prove whom they are with a driver license or any form of ID, it's the trust system, which is a ticket to corruption & election board/voter fraud.
The Dem's political machine has had lots of well-funded practice over the years.
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"...as many as 1,000 may have already voted in both states in the same election..."
Lock 'em up.
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"...as many as 1,000 may have already voted in both states in the same election..."
Aren't there lists of which voters voted where and *whether* they voted at their registered location?
Instead of phrases like "as many as 1000" and "may have", why not simply compare the lists and see which ones and how many have indeed done so?
Easy enough to tell then, whether they did it intentionally or not.
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early voting just started, Aris, and Absentee (as most might've done) aren't in yet. Compare and disqualify those who've voted twice. Hard to explain or justify, f*&k em
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Hottest Magazine News of the Week: Family Circle announced the winner of their First Lady Cook-off. It's first lady Laura Bush, whose Chocolate Chunks overtook Teresa Heinz Kerry's Pumpkin Spice cookie with 67% of the vote. When the "polls" closed almost 17,000 Family Circle readers had voted. The magazine says the ballot count was supervised and audited by the accounting firm BDO Seidman. This is serious stuff. That's because the results of the First Lady Cook-off has predicted the last three presidents. This year the cook-off was almost as contentious as the campaign. That's because Ms. Heinz Kerry, dare we say it, flip-flopped on her recipe, claiming that it wasn't really hers. She told NPR's Susan Stamberg, "I never make pumpkin cookies. I don't like pumpkin spice cookies." And that, folks, is a perfect summary of the campaign.
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"I like chocolate chip cookies, but I'd make them better."
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According to the NBC Morning program which insomniacs like me watch DownUnder, THK's first recipe 'didn't work' and the Pumpkin cookies (someone elses recipe) were substituted untried at the last moment. I thought it nicely encapsulated the Left's economic policies.
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Finally, some trivial aspect of life on Earth for which Skeery didn't have a PLAN. Or, perhaps, he did and this serves as fair warning that his PLANS don't / won't work. As for Taarayzaah, she prolly had too many of her gin raisins that day.
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family circle prolly didn't want THK's initial submission recipe of gin and oatmeal raisin cookies, I have it on good authority she went to her backup recipe - the ever popular pumpkin spice cookie ball thingy.
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The crux:
Mrs. Heinz Kerry paid $798,820 in state and federal income taxes in 2003, approximately 35 percent of her gross taxable income, according to figures and federal tax forms she released today.
Mrs. Heinz Kerry paid $627,150 in federal income taxes on gross taxable income of $2,291,137, primarily from dividends and interest she receives from Heinz family trusts. In addition, she paid an additional $171,670 in state income taxes and had $2,781,791 of tax exempt interest income from state, municipal and public entity bonds.
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Note the $2.78m tax-exempt interest income for the bag lady.
Maybe she should campaign against that. Most people won't even make that much money in their lifetime (i.e. under $70k per year over 40 years), while paying 30+% total taxes on their earned income.
(I admire and appreciate people who have a lot of money, except when they use it to destroy the country.)
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Geez, didn't her late husband, a republican
try to replace a vegetable from our children's
school lunch programs with ketchup arguing that
ketchup was a vegetable ?
Why are republicans so brain dead ?
This doesn't violate my rule of not commenting on American politics, because I am commenting on other people commenting on American politics.
DEMOCRATIC presidential hopeful John Kerry today proclaimed that the world wants President George W. Bush out of the White House and the return of the US "they know and love". In a new swipe at Republican Bush's muscular foreign policy, Mr Kerry renewed his pledge to return the US to the internationalism that marked its foreign policy for the second half of the 20th century. "The world is waiting for the United States of America they know and love," Mr Kerry told a late-night rally of at least 5000 supporters in the mid-western state of Wisconsin. Actually large parts of the world would love to see a column of US troops. Its their corrupt and incompetant governments that don't want to see them.
"But you know the United States of America is most effective ... when we have friends and allies by our side and we move with other nations." Correct Mr. Kerry!
Mr Kerry told the crowd, braving chilly temperatures and sleet, that their judgement on election day, November 2, would be watched around the globe. Correct again!
"The world is waiting for what you are going to do. You don't just get to chose the president of the United States, you get to decide the leader of the free world." Three out three - he's doing well.
Mr Kerry has accused Mr Bush of ruining long-term US alliances with his policy of pre-emptive strikes against potential threats to the US, and with his invasion of Iraq. From what I can see, it strenghthened the Alliances worth having, UK, Australia, Poland, Japan, etc.
Global opinion polls show that Mr Bush's policies have stirred global resentment and that much of the world would prefer Mr Kerry as the next US president. A collaborative polling exercise involving 10 newspapers around the world, including The Sydney Morning Herald, showed hostility directed not only at the Bush administration but also at the image of the US. The project, initiated by Canada's Quebec-based La Presse newspaper, included France's Le Monde, The Guardian of Britain, Japan's Asahi Shimbun, Russia's Moscow News, Mexico's Reforma, Israel's Haaretz and Spain's El Pais. Note they are all left of centre.
They found that voters in eight out of the 10 countries - excluding Israel and Russia - want to see Kerry, the Democratic challenger, beat Mr Bush in the election. Interesting the Russians want Bush. Also interesting SMH - an Australian newspaper - didn't mention the Australian result. I wonder why!
Their findings, the product of identical polls taken in September, also suggested the Bush administration was facing isolation and hostility rarely seen among its closest allies. Standard Left wing bullshit conclusion. Politics is a process resulting in a poll. Taking polls outside that context is little more than manipulation. The Left made identical arguments about Howard in Asia. Howard won and will be welcomed with open arms next week in Indonesia. Its a big lie. FWIIW, My personal view is, despite the MSM spin Bush will win in a landslide.
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I heartily support Kerry running for president of the world. Just so long as he gets the hell out of the US. I suggest he start in Vietnam. He seems to have done his best work there.
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"The world is waiting for the United States of America they know and love."
Ah, yes. The same "love" that was expressed just a few days before 9/11 at the U.N.'s "World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance" in Durban, South Africa from Aug. 31 through Sept. 7, 2001. The week-long hatefest conducted by the United Nations against both the United States and Israel; the conference that turned into such a grotesque, extravagant exercise in America-bashing we walked out on it.
To me, the attack on 9/11 was simply "Durban By Other Means"-- a different expression of the same sentiment.
Sorry, but I don't place any value on this kind of "love", and I'm not going to vote for this lying bastard who's trying to tempt us with it.
"Stronger At Home, Respected in the World"??? Don't bet on it. If we're stupid enough to elect John Kerry, we'll REALLY get to know what the world's contempt feels like.
And if we elect him, we'll deserve every bit of it.
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When Kerry stated 'the World' does he really mean France?
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#1 When Kerry stated 'the World' does he really mean France?
Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-10-16 9:18:25 AM
No, no. Just sKerry's head. That is the whole world. Isn't it?
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Does this include Japan - who Kerry insulted?
Or Poland - who Kerry insulted?
Or Britain - who Kerry insulted?
Or Australia - who Kerry insulted and interfeared in their election?
Or any of the other nations who joined us in Iraq?
No it includes France and Germany (the only ones who matter in JFK's eyes) who were bribed. Or Iran or Syria who simply want to kill us.
Kerry does more damage to our allies then our enemies!
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"waiting for the United States of America they know and love,".America,the Sleeping Giant,was asleep on 9/10/.The giant is now awake and doesn't like the old status quo.
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I think this is a weak argument which has been a centerpiece of the Hanoi John campaign. The average Joe and Jane Doe don't care all that much if we are liked in the world. In fact, I would be bet that most people don't give a hoot about what France et al think of us. Just the fact that France is hostile to us is enough for me to vote for W.
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Kerry / Edwards - A Stronger America Al-Qaida.
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That's the love? FUCK THE LOVE, GIMME THE FEAR!
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Kerry like EUrope just doesn't understand. The USofA is a different place now. The pre 9/11 USofA doesn't exist. The Islamo-Facsists know it but the rest of the world mostly doesn't get it. If the "world" and John Felcher Kerry thinks we are going back there they are wrong
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"The world will never love us. They may respect us, they might one day fear us, but they will never love us, for we have too much audacity."
-- Theodore Roosevelt (attributed)
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Not to nitpick, but I have 2 or 3 cents worth to toss into the mix...
It's the regimes in power in France and Germany who have made those countries, particularly Germany, perfidious faux allies.
The French people, of course, have been indoctrinated to hate and subvert all things American for generations, but people such as Sabine Herold can turn that around - there are some people who are neither stupid nor part of their intelligentsia / elitist wankers. JFM reminds me of this fact every time he posts - for he "gets it" and has a killer grasp of history - and he is anything but an anti-American elitist pud-puller. He rocks, in fact.
Far fewer Germans are so fooled. Sure, they have their PCism which appeals to the twits and the young (Think: Green... Think: Nader...), just as we do, but on average - they know shit from shinola. I'd equate the people with the UK - they're just a decent leader away from such cooperation and collaboration. All we have to remember is that they are far closer to us than not. I hold great hope for repairing our relations with Germany - after Shroeder is kaput, and assuming Skeery isn't elected. TGA makes the case perfectly every time he drops by - and spills those insider insights! Another sterling example of clear-thinking and a rock-solid man who rocks, heh.
So. Thanks, JFM & TGA - you guys help me keep perspective and focus on the real causes.
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Kerry doesn't have any business dealing with countries in which he feels free to cut down and then later plans to ask to take over the war and the rebuild effort in Iraq--(if he becomes president). I won't be voting for him. If you want to know what he has lied about, go to factcheck.org ;If you want to know why any politician lies it's at factcheck.org too. I'll save you some time, Kerry and Bush justify not telling the truth via the first amendment of the constitution--freedom of speech. If you don't believe me look it up on fact check.org.
A strong nation should be built on truth and strength. The world is getting a message from Bush right now "Don't mess With the U.S."
What message are they getting from Kerry?
A new bird flu outbreak has surfaced in southern Vietnam, raising renewed fears over the disease that has killed 31 people in Asia this year, officials said on Saturday. Authorities in the southern province of Long An have culled more than 2,300 chickens after about 250 birds from two farms in a village there died from the disease on Sept 30, said Mr Nguyen Duy Long, head of the province's animal health bureau. The entire village has been disinfected and the provincial government has banned the sale and transportation of poultry to or from the affected district for 30 days to try to prevent the virus from spreading, he said. No additional outbreaks have been reported since then, he said.
Long An, about 60km south-east of Ho Chi Minh City, was one of the worst-hit provinces in earlier bird flu outbreaks. Saturday's Tien Phong (Pioneer) newspaper reported that police on Wednesday in the northern province of Lan Son had seized 3.5 tonnes of chickens smuggled in from neighbouring China. The birds were later destroyed, the report said. Bird flu has killed or forced the cull of more than 43 million poultry in Vietnam. It has also jumped to humans, killing 20 here and 11 in Thailand.
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More than three decades ago, the Pentagon created two pills to ward off a lethal virus infecting boot-camp recruits. But defense officials abandoned the program in 1996 as too expensive. Now recruits are dying, thousands are falling ill, and the military is desperately racing to bring back a vaccine it once owned. A top Pentagon official called it "a major screw-up," hobbling U.S. efforts to rapidly deploy troops abroad. The respiratory virus now infects up to 2,500 service members monthly — a staggering 1 in 10 recruits — in the nation's eight basic-training centers, an analysis of military health-care records shows...
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Dr. Margaret Ryan, a commander at the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego and an expert on the virus, calls the vaccine lapse "indefensible."
Original vaccine manufacturer Wyeth Laboratories warned as early as 1984 that it would stop churning out pills costing $1 each unless defense officials allocated $5 million to repair a deteriorating production plant.
Wyeth executives shuttered the facility in 1996. A military health budget later gave a reason: "suppression of program to pay higher priority items."
The Pentagon's unwillingness to spend $5 million on health care is now costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars to remedy.
1996, eh? Let's see that's also about when the government started buying vaccines, at the lowest price possible, so that all children would be vaccinated and everybody was in a frenzy to sue drug companies over getting some life threatening disease from the DPT vaccination. And now everybody is in an uproar becasue an English company can't produce enough flu vaccine. At least the Amerikkkan drug companies aren't making obscene profits any more.
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Fred---what we need on the Acme Surprise Meter is a little round red push-to-test button that would put the needle in the green, just to make sure that the meter works. BTW, do you have a jpeg file of that picture that is a meg or so in size. My drafter at work wants to put the surprise meter on a t-shirt. LOL!
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I'll look. I think I still have the .png that I built it from.
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A 14-member observer group representing French-speaking nations led by Norbert Ratsirahonana, a former prime minister of Madagascar, said the poll was generally "well organized" and had taken place "in accordance with legal provisions and regulations."
Gee . . . you think that the French speaking nations are as gullible as the real French? Or is it just me?
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The Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday dismissed appeals by convicted rapists after observing that a victim's failure to resist did not mean the case could be treated as zina (adultery). The Shariat Bench rejected the defence's arguments that females alleging rape had actually engaged in adultery because there was no indication of resistance. Justice Dogar observed that under the Hudood Ordinance, rape could occur even if there was no evidence of resistance by the victim.
One appeal was filed by Mazhar Bashir, a tutor convicted of raping his 18-year old female student in November 2001. The trial court sentenced him to 7 years in prison. The Federal Shariat Court upheld his conviction. He then appealed his conviction before the Shariat Appellate Bench of the SC. His counsel, Shaikh Khizar Hayat, argued that the raped woman was an educated girl who was in good health and could not have been raped had she resisted.
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...I have GOT to get a pair of glasses, I thought for a second that somebody was concerned about Zima here in SC...
Mike
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The leader of Zimbabwe's largest opposition party was acquitted of treason charges Friday by a High Court in Harare. The judge said their was not enough credible evidence to convict the politician, Morgan Tsvangirai. But analysts in Zimbabwe and opposition activists say while they are celebrating the acquittal, it's still too early to conclude that Zimbabwe's justice system has returned to independence. Morgan Tsvangirai was found not guilty of plotting to assassinate President Mugabe and stage a coup. The not guilty verdict was unexpected in Zimbabwe, where the ruling party allegedly interferes regularly in political cases.
Still, Mr. Tsvangirai says celebrations to mark his acquittal must be tempered with reality. "We feel relieved," he said. "I think it was unexpected because of the political environment in which we operate. But we cannot celebrate yet, because the political climate has neither improved nor are there any signs of improvement." There was no immediate reaction to the verdict from the Zimbabwe government. More via the link:
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Acquitted? Holy shit!...
Er, I'd be kinda careful walking through doors, pal.
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Acquitted? Holy shit!... Er, I'd be kinda careful walking through doors, pal.
. . . or eating things that were not made by his own hands . . . or starting the car . . . or walking in wide open spaces . . . or being alone with any one of his supporters . . . you name it, he should grow eyes in the back of his head. Mugabe has proven himself capable of perifdy and assasination is just like breathing for him.
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Eritrea has banned the sale of petrol to the public because of the rising price of oil on world markets. Information Minister Ali Abdu Ahmed said diesel would remain available, but petrol had to be conserved for essential use. Earlier this month petrol went up by 40% and diesel 25% after a month of fuel rationing. Shortages are widespread as the country struggles to pay off debts incurred during its border war with Ethiopia. "Our priority is to provide petrol to public services and development programmes in the best interest of the nation," Mr Ahmed told AFP news agency. The suspension of the sale of petrol should not provoke anxiety says Ali Abdu Ahmed Information minister
(Is this guy for real?)
"We do not want superfluous consumption.
(sounds like Jimmy Carter) We cannot let the people with money consume all the petrol," he said. (What about enough gas to drive to work?) Eritrea imports all its refined fuel products and is short of foreign exchange after buying large quantities of modern aircraft to use in the war, which ended four years ago. The border between Ethiopia and Eritrea has been closed ever since, depriving Eritrea of access to its natural markets. Ethiopia used to be Eritrea's largest export market and the fees charged for the use of its Red Sea ports used to bring millions of dollars into the nation's coffers. The minister did not indicate when the suspension would be lifted. (Oh...wonderful. Is this a preview ..?
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A little reminder that the world's poor suffer disproportionally when the economy is poorly, and enjoy disproportionally when it goes well (the difference between starving and eating being so much more dramatic than choosing between McDonald's and La Petite Pierre).
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(the difference between starving and eating being so much more dramatic than choosing between McDonald's and La Petite Pierre).
Hear! Hear! I'm stealing that.
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The difference between starving and eating must be particularly dramatic when your country, that can only produce a fourth of the grain that it needs, spends money on modern fighter aircraft to defend a disputed border-zone of near-worthless land. This dispute still has potential to flare up again, in which case Eritrea will be using its limited petrol for military purposes. "...petrol to public services and development programmes in the best interest of the nation..." Would the military be a public service or a development programme?
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Too true, Tom. I'd vote for development programme -- I suspect they'd spend more on the newest and bestest if they could find any spare cash under the sofa cushions.
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I am not familiar with Erithean history but watching developments in the Sudan, Nigeria, and other African nations makes me despair.
In Africa it seems that if you canât defend your property it will be taken. The militarization of one tribe leads to surviving tribes militarizing.
Where would you put your money, a development program so your people can grow their own food or a military program so your peopleâs food wonât be stolen? In a tribal culture âyour peopleâ arenât identified by national borders. Many people may be starving in a nation while the rulerâs âpeopleâ are doing just fine.
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If Ethiopia isn't exporting through Eritrea, how are they doing it? Djibouti? Puntland? Wonder how they're doing this. They might have decided that after the border war, the best way to punish the Eritreans is economically. If that's the case, it's working.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
At the request of Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, the Justice Department has initiated an investigation following a report that 46,000 New York City voters are also registered to vote in Florida and that as many as 1,000 may have already voted in both states in the same election. On August 24, the New York Daily News published the results of an investigation by reporter Russ Buettner. Buettner determined that 46,000 New York City residents are also registered to vote in Florida. Of these, the investigation "found that between 400 and 1,000 registered voters have voted twice in at least one election." This is a federal offense punishable by up to five years in jail. 
