Colonel Mustard in the arbar... arber... uhhh... greenhouse!
French detectives are searching for the missing 10th Earl of Shaftesbury along the network of roads between France and Germany after his estranged wife allegedly revealed that his body had been dumped by her fleeing brother.
"Inspector! It was not me! I swear by my grandmother's moustache! It was... Oh, I cannot say it!"
"But you must say it, Madame!"
"It was... It was... It was my brother!"
"Mon dieu! How could I have missed it! Of course!"
Jamila M'Barak, 37, was yesterday in the secure wing of a hospital in Nice after suffering a nervous breakdown four months after her husband - an eccentric English aristocrat who had a fondness for bargirls and nightclubs - disappeared.
"Legume! Madame is having a nervous breakdown! Retrieve her from the chandelier, if you please, and call for the men in the white coats!"
Cops get close and she comes down with a case of the vapors.
The earl, 66, was last seen at the Noga Hilton in Nice in early November last year. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, as he was born, was a flamboyant figure who frequented hostess bars and other attractions along the seafront.
"Aaaar! Who's that toff, Jean-Pierre"
"'At's the 10th or 11th Milord Shaftsbury, Jean-Francois! 'E comes here to watch the Apache dancers and to pick up les femmes!"
The peer, whose family estate is in Wimborne, Dorset, had travelled to the south of France to sort out affairs with Jamila, including, it is alleged, what divorce settlement she would get from his £10m fortune.
Looks like she was trying for 100%.
Ms M'Barak, his third wife, had repeatedly denied any involvement with his disappearance but last Friday she was arrested in Cannes on suspicion of his murder. She is said to have blamed her brother for the killing at her home in Cannes on November 5 last year.
"Non, non! It wudn't me, Inspector! You mus' believe me!"
"Inspector..."
"Hush, Legume! How could a woman with legs like that commit murder most foul?"
She allegedly told police her brother, Mohammed M'Barek, 40, murdered the earl during a violent row and dumped his body somewhere near the French-German border. According to police sources, Ms M'Barek claimed the fight broke out after her estranged husband arrived to discuss the terms of their divorce.
"M'lord, there's a man with a fez here to discuss your divorce!"
"Thank you, Higgins. What divorce?"
Tunisian-born Mr M'Barek is alleged to have put the earl's body in the boot of his car and dumped it while driving back to his home in the suburbs of Munich, where he was arrested on Saturday.
He is under official investigation for the murder.
"I am convinced, Legume, that he is the real killer!"
"Yes, Inspector!"
"That bosom... Mama mia!"
"Inspector! You speak Italian, too?"
Ms M'Barek, 37, a Dutch national of Tunisian descent, was being treated for nervous depression at a psychiatric hospital in Nice last week, when she was interviewed by police and reportedly confessed.
"You can only see her for a few minutes, Inspector."
"She is that depressed?"
"She bites."
"We will leave as soon as she start to howl, I give you my word!"
On Saturday, she appeared in court in Grasse where judge Catherine Bonici put her officially under investigation for complicity in murder.
"I am worried, M'sieur Advocat."
"What do you have to worry about?"
"The judge... She is a woman."
"A woman?"
"She isn't going to be impressed by my bosom!"
A police source said she had blamed her brother for the killing, but officers are investigating the possibility that she may have lured the earl into a fatal trap.
"Anthony, darling, why don't you come up to my flat for one last time?"
She has not given any clues as to where the body was dumped. A few days before this weekend's arrests, the earl's sister Lady Frances Ashley-Cooper, who also lives in the south of France, told a French newspaper she was convinced he had been murdered.
"The bullet hole in the wall, the bronze statue of the Venus de Milo — bent double, the trail of blood... Yes, I think he may have been murdered!"
"But M'lady, there could be a perfectly reasonable explanation for all those things!"
She had spoken to her brother three days before he disappeared and he had been good spirits. "He was jolly and enthusiastic.
"Anthony! It's Frances! How are you, darling?"
"Oh, jolly and enthusiastic, old thing! How about you?"
There was nothing to give the impression that he was about to suddenly disappear," she said. "I don't believe he's run off or that he's committed suicide. I think he's been assassinated. By whom and why I have no idea. He is careless and naive and has probably got himself mixed up with a dangerous set against which he was not prepared."
"Like the time he took up with the Viennese chanteuse! And the Apache dancer from Marseilles... And the flamenco dancer from Barcelona... And the Cossack lady from Volgagrad... And the belly dancer frm Marrakesh... And the Maharini from Mumbai... And the Esquimeau girl, the one with the funny shoes..."
Asked about her sister-in-law, Ms M'Barek, she said: "He loved girls, but he gave me the impression of having found happiness with his third wife Jamila who he met a few years ago in a discotheque at Versailles where she was digging gold working as a hostess. They got married discreetly in Holland in November 2002. I met her once with my brother. She was enticing, seductive. She had everything to please a man and she knew how to please them. My brother gave her a villa in Cannes as well as a mill in the Gers. Each month he gave her a large sum of money. The paper reported the amount as €7,000 (£4,900) a month." Mohammed M'Barek is due to be transferred to France for questioning shortly.
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As we post now, the screen play is already being typed in Hollywood. However, the hit man will be changed to a...a....a....Nazi. That's it, a Nazi. Directors are hot on new talent for the critical portrayal of the key roles of bargirl, hostess, and local tart. They can be found among similiar establishments of the left coast and Las Vegas. Producers are frantically aligning funding before "Law & Order: Paris" starts on NBC later this month to deliver the goods first.
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verrry nice M.Fred, M.Steve. A Classic!. Note that, however, on my next Paypal transmission I shall be deducting the cost of one (1) keyboard. No deduction for the loss of dignity - beverage in my nostrils....
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Futile. This is a sure sign that Putin's losing his grip, not tightening it. This Russian analyst has it exactly right:
Andrei Pointkowsky, director of the Centre for Strategic Studies, said: "Putin is behind this. Scared by the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Kremlin is trying to form a Putin Jugend to suppress future opposition. Putin has had a catastrophic loss of authority. People are finally beginning to realise that the emperor has no clothes."
We can expect Putin's administration, more like regime, to fall before the end of his term. He'll either be pushed out by his FSB handlers or brought down by mass protests. The trigger will be a sharp fall in oil prices that provokes an economic crisis as in late 1997-1998.
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Putin, who now understands that you get sympathy by appearing with children and animals, held a meeting with Germany's Schroeder, and was accompanied by a friend...
MOSCOW/BISHKEK — The son of Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev was elected to the Central Asian republic's parliament in Sunday's polls, election officials in Bishkek said yesterday as first results were announced. Aidar Akayev won a seat to the 75-member legislature with 80 per cent of ballots cast in his constituency in single-mandate voting, according to the official tally. Rights activists however criticised the polls as being neither free and fair, the Interfax news agency reported.
Only 30 seats in the unicameral parliament were allocated in the first round of voting, requiring run-offs to be held March 13.
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AUSTRALIAN scientists have stumbled upon a simple way to dramatically stimulate immunity to deadly viruses such as HIV, in what's considered a major discovery in the fight against AIDS.
The researchers were initially so taken aback by their chance find, they repeated the study several times before they could convince themselves it worked. Associate Professor Stephen Kent, of the University of Melbourne department of microbiology and immunology, said the researchers had set out to devise a test to judge how well an animal's immune system could fight HIV.
They extracted blood from vaccinated laboratory animals, then coated the cells with HIV peptide markers — which tell the immune system a cell is infected by the virus. When they injected the peptide-coated blood back into the animals — to create the illusion the cells were infected by HIV even though they weren't — they found the cells triggered a huge immune response.
"When we analysed HIV-specific immunity in the weeks following ... a marked enhancement of virus-specific immunity was induced," Professor Kent said. "So the test we were trying to devise was actually a vaccine in itself which was totally unexpected."
The researchers have successfully tested the discovery in both mice and monkeys. They hope to begin human trials in Sydney and Melbourne within two years. The therapy would involve injections of the patient's own blood after it is treated with peptides found on the surface of cells infected by the virus.
"What we're looking at ... is a therapy that boosts people's immune systems against the virus," Professor Kent said. "HIV ... is difficult to get rid of completely but if it's kept at bay by some sort of immune therapy it may not officially be cured but if that goes on for the person's life then it won't ever cause them any trouble.
Professor Kent said the therapy had even proved effective against drug-resistant forms of the disease.
The researchers have named the therapy — Overlapping Peptide Autologous Cells (OPAL) — in line with its Australian origins. Their study — a collaboration with the Australian National University's John Curtin School of Medical Research — has been published in the latest international Journal of Virology. The study has been awarded National Health and Medical Research Council funding of almost $500,000 to refine the technique so that it can be studied in humans.
Professor Kent said the therapy had also shown promise as a treatment for other chronic infection such as Hepatitis C.
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Professor Kent said the therapy had even proved effective against drug-resistant forms of the disease.
This would make sense because it looks like the mechanism of treatment is outside of what a virus can adapt to. It seems that the treatment might be capable of mutating as fast as the virus does. Fascinating...
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If only the gay community would take the bug seriously after the cocktails and vaccines are created. They look at the risky behavior as OK, since AID's not a killer (as much) anymore. Meth-fueled binges with 20-30 partners are gonna get you sick with SOMETHING, idiots
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If this treatment pans out and becomes an accepted procedure, the same shit's gonna happen again.
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I don't understand why the gay community doesn't come up with some way for those who are infected to mark themselves so that other infected people can go keep up their lifestyle without spreading the disease or changing their ways. That 20-30 partner gang binge is less lethal if you know everyone is either clean or infected going in.
I don't understand why they don't have some kind HIV test every week. Make it a bonding gay pride thing and make certain they are clean so they could continue their wild ways without spreading the disease. That would make that 20-30 partner binge that much safer as far as HIV was concerned.
I don't really understand why they don't change their wild ways but since that seems beyond so many why not at least work the system?
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But RJ, there's that horridly deceptive 6-month period between being infected and testing positive for HIV, when one shares everything with one's partners...
And of course, just because one has a certain version of HIV doesn't mean one can't be infected subsequently with other variations. So it would have to be all safe sex, all the time, for a group that likes risky behaviours.
I have a friend, Madoc, who writes extensively about this very subject.
Getting infected in our day and age is not considered a 'bad' thing anymore. The cocktails you are give involve steroids so you end up with an excellent physique (if you believe Will & Grace this is a high mark in gay society). It is actually a way to mark those who are HIV pos.
The fact of the matter is, as TW mentions, risky behaviour will always endager you and this community hates not being risky.
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I remember from times when I were living in the proletariat paradise that the access was pretty good, provided that you had one or more of the following:
1. Several K in local currency
2. Half of pig
3. Quarter of cow
4. Dozen ducks
6. Naughty pictures of the specialist that were to provide the medical services.
There were few other methods that would take longer to list as they would require some backdrop.
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Is this limited access to poor health care or poor access to limited health care? They could try the Turkamenistan solution.
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John, Fwance had a 'sensible' solution sometime ago--decrease the number of the health care recipients that are statistically more likely to require it... for good.
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Mr. Dzurinda grew up under Communism, so he understands the need to put tyrants out of business.
Mr. Chirac did not grow up under repression, because American and British soldiers came to France's aid when the venal and corrupt Third Republic failed to keep the Nazis out.
This may explain some of the differences in perspective.
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--``Unemployment is the most important issue for voters by far,'' Matthias Jung, an analyst at opinion researcher FG Wahlen, said in an interview. ``The government's declining popularity is due to the fact that they haven't managed to convince voters they're capable of solving the problem.'' --
Of course they're capable, but the voters will toss them out.
hahahaha, now they know what it feels like to be Ami, damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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This is why Schroeder's so desperate to do deals with the mullahs and the Chinese. It's the EU3 who are being bribed by the mullahs, not the other way around.
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The trap of Socialism and Big Government - in the end, they subsidize, regulate, and tax themselves out of viable economic competition. There isn't enuff tax dollars and tax payers in all the world thats going to entice a free marketeer to stay andor invest in a LT low- and-gettin-lower profit area. Amongst other precepts, the WOT > not only about empire or kind of empire, but about adopting competitive Americanism versus NOT adopting Americanism in order to remain econ competitive. The Socies and espec the Commies know their -ism has failed, ergo their answer is to force the USA and the world to become as poor and regressed as they are, NOT better.
European scientists confirm that Arctic high atmosphere is reaching the lowest ever temperatures this winter, warning that destruction of the protective ozone layer is substantially increased under very cold conditions. First signs of ozone loss have already been detected. The ozone layer is located in the so called stratosphere, the lowest layer of the atmosphere, at an altitude of about 8 km in the Poles, and its function is to protect the earth's surface from harmful solar UV radiation.
More than 170 countries have ratified the Montreal Protocol, an environmental treaty established in 1987 to protect the ozone layer. Should further cooling of the Arctic stratosphere occur, increasing ozone losses can be expected for the next couple of decades. A hole in the ozone layer can lead to intensified UV harmful radiation affecting inhabited Polar regions and Scandinavia, possibly down to central Europe. This could have consequences for human health (increased cases of skin cancer) as well as for biodiversity. "The Arctic has experienced an extremely harsh winter. The first signs of ozone loss have now been observed, and large ozone losses are expected to occur if the cold conditions persist," said European Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potonik.
I'm so confused. Just a year or two or three ago the north polar cap was melting, an incontrovertible proof of global warming. This year it's frozen solid, colder'n hell's hot, an incontrovertible proof of global warming. I'm beginning to wonder if there's anything that's not an incontrovertible proof of global warming.
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Even with all this ozone depletion and global warming, people still flock to the tanning beds to get their own personal radiation burns. So how much ozone loss does it take to equal 15 minutes of your own personal radiation bath?
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I was really surprised to find the earth's surface is getting a lot dimmer. A 10% decrease in sunlight in 30 years is huge. Very little reasearch has been done on this but a recent Australian study confirmed the effect is still in place and effects the southern hemisphere.
My 2c worth is there is climate instability that has little to do with CO2 and the risks are on the cooling side. The recent upsurge in volcanic activity bears watching as volcanic dust is the most important short term climate driver. BTW it looks like the Sheveluch volcano has just started a significant eruption. This is one of the most active volcanos on the planet.
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I just thought you might like to have the file - you hit the mark and triggered the memory just fine, lol! I suddenly had a flash of a remote-controlled pterodactyl and Hollyweird's feel-good version of reality... like a Ward Cleaver Churchill moonbat on the Oregon coast somewhere, heh.
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WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! sooooo, martini anyone? Good info phil_b.
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Kyoto has been in effect for just a week and... one of the worst cold waves in memory has swept Spain and the Artic has record cold. Thus Kyoto works. Unbelievers, repent of your sins and go to bow (and deposit your cheque) in front of thse wise men: Zapatero, Schroeder and Chirac. :-)
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More on the Sheveluch eruption - According to seismic data, a large eruptive event began at 6:25 UTC on February 27 at Sheveluch volcano. From 11:30 UTC this day the seismic station SVL (8 km from the lava dome) was not working. At 11:40 UTC this day, an intensification of seismic signal was noted. The large seismic event was registered from 6:25 till 13:00 UTC on February 27. Ash deposits were noted at Klyuchi at 21:00 on February 27. A thickness of ash with snow was about 1 centimetre. Clouds obscured the volcano all time. According to satellite data from Russia (NOAA 16 at 16:56 UTC on February 27), a 45-pixel thermal anomaly was registered near the dome (band 3). Probably this anomaly connect with a large pyroclastic flow on the south-western flank of the volcano. An ash cloud of length about 45 km (28 mi) was noted in 13-16 km to the north-west from the volcano at this time (band 4-5)..
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Somebody send in PETA and Greenpeace to save the animals! Please!
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"...European scientists confirm that Arctic high atmosphere is reaching the lowest ever temperatures this winter..."
What they mean (unfortunately the article is badly written) is the stratospheric temperature (5-10 miles up) is unusually low. This is favorable to low ozone levels in the stratosphere because it shows low mixing. The lowest ozone would be about the time of the spring equinox.
It really means very little at all from a climatic point of view or a weather point of view or even an environmental point of view. Yes the incoming uv radiation will be higher but since nobody actually takes a sunbath during March at 80 degrees north, it is irrelevent. By late march or early april, the circumpolar vortex breaks down and the core of cold air in the stratosphere mixes with the not-so-cold air of the vortex and the ozone hole goes away.
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It really means very little at all from a climatic point of view or a weather point of view or even an environmental point of view. I beg to differ. To say the planet is getting warmer or cooler for that matter requires that measurements are consistent with that claim. To arbitarily dismiss measurements that show a trend against your preferred outcome is many things, most of all it is not science. Has the stratosphere been arbitarily detached from the planet in order to satisfy the global warming agenda?
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"It will either get much colder, approaching an ice age, or global warming will melt the polar caps. Either way, reduce all energy use, emissions, and send us grant money"
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Phil_b
It matters little because the area measured is a small part of the earth and the period of low temperature is relatively short.
These measurements have not be made except in the last 10 years or so and thus the 'climatology' is not very extensive either.
This portion of the atmosphere has about 2% of the density as the atmosphere at the surface and the arctic is only 4% of the globe and the late winter is only 5% of the year.
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European scientists confirm that Arctic high atmosphere is reaching the lowest ever temperatures this winter, warning that destruction of the protective ozone layer is substantially increased under very cold conditions.
Funny, wasn't it supposed to be CFC's that caused the Ozone holes? NOW it's just cold conditions.
I don't think there's much UV coming down north of 80 degrees north, because I believe it's now the searson of eternal night: UV creates ozone, but the axis is tilted away from the sun, so little to no light gets there.
"...An additional relationship that was observed with LinkWinds was a strong inverse correlation (correlation coefficient up to 0.93) between temperature anomalies in the lower troposphere and those in the lower stratosphere within the summer hemisphere. In contrast, the stratospheric and tropospheric anomalies in the winter hemisphere consistantly exhibit no correlation..."
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mhw, my point was that we are seeing real unprecedented climate related phenomena that are ignored becuase they do not fit the 'CO2 is the problem' agenda. The article is a good example, in that record atmospheric cold is used to support an agenda - the ozone hole - and its implications for climate change are ignored. Science has to explain all the data. As soon as you pick and choose what data you explain, it is no longer science, it is politics. Prior to the hijacking of the climate change debate by 'CO2 is the problem', a lot of the focus was on the effect of atmospheric dust as the primary driver of short to medium term climate change. I for one are convinced it (atmospheric dust) is the problem we should be concerned about and almost all the risks are on the cooling side. The Sheveluch eruption looks big. latest reports are of a dust cloud 500 kilometers long and tens of kilomters across. If it continues to erupt we will know within months if we in for a period of cooling.
From the Rantburg Diplomacy Desk:
Turkey's ambassador to Germany, Mehmet Ali Irtemcelik, has angrily denounced a parliamentary resolution by the German conservative opposition on the alleged mass expulsion and murder of Armenians by Ottoman Turks 90 years ago. In a statement, the ambassador accused the opposition Christian Democratic Union/ Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) of having made itself into a "spokesman for fanatical Armenian nationalism".
He called the resolution, put forth by the CDU/CSU faction in the German parliament on 22 February, a one-sided portrayal and said the matter should be left to the historians. "We would hope that our friends in the Union parties, through their clumsy slander of Turkish history, are not aiming to insult in particular our citizens living here and in this manner to damage the manifold relations between Turkey and Germany," he said.
The CDU/CSU resolution was put forward to mark the upcoming 90th anniversary of the events in the former Turkish Ottoman Empire involving the Turks' treatment of the ethnic Armenian minority. In the resolution, the CDU said that on 24 April 1915, the order was given by the Ottoman Turks to arrest and deport the Armenian cultural and political elites, leading to the murder of most of them. It said 1.2 to 1.5 million Armenians were victims. The resolution said that to this day, Turkey as the legal successor to the Ottoman empire is still denying that the events were planned and massacres carried out. "This position of rejection stands in contradiction to the idea of reconciliation which guides the community of values in the European Union which Turkey wants to join," the CDU/CSU resolution said.
In his statement, Irtemcelik said the CDU/CSU needed to explain why it has waited so long, including the period when it was in power in Germany to put such a sensitive topic on the agenda. The CDU/CSU was in power in Bonn and then Berlin between 1982 and 1998. He said the Union parties in the past had always opposed initiatives which had sought to instrumentalise the German parliament.
Over two million Turks live in Germany, making up by far the largest foreign ethnic group in the country. In January, the eastern German state of Brandenburg, bowing to diplomatic pressure from Turkey, struck the subject of the Turkish genocide against Armenians from its classroom curriculum. But then this move was partially rescinded, after pressure by Armenian representatives, so that the genocide against Armenians is taught in the classroom as being one of several examples of genocide in the 20th Century.
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I condemn Turkiye for condemnation of German resolution on Armenian genocide. There.
It seems that if EU makes it a condition of acceptance for joining that Turks accept the responsibility for genocide, EU stands pretty good chance that they would not have to admit Turkiye in millenium.
From the Rantburg Diplomacy Desk:
Presidents Jacques Chirac and Aleksander Kwasniewski sat down Monday at an inaugural Franco-Polish summit with the aim of settling past differences over the US invasion of Iraq and building unity between "Old" and "New" Europe. The two heads of state, accompanied by several government ministers, were given a Polish welcome as they arrived in the northern French town of Arras, in the centre of a region home to a community of half a million French Poles...Despite the public display of togetherness, France and Poland have several issues of disagreement between them.
You don't say.
Falling on either side of the divide of "Old" and "New" Europe coined by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the two were at loggerheads over the US invasion of Iraq. Poland contributed troops to the invasion and subsequent occupation while France led opposition to it. There is also potential for disagreement over Poland's eagerness to win EU agricultural subsidies that have up to now benefited French farmers, and on France's restrictions on Polish immigrants looking for work. In addition, France, Britain and Germany are pressuring Poland to buy passenger planes from Airbus rather than from the US company Boeing. Chirac was said to have pressed that point further in his discussion with Kwasniewski, whose country has long sought stronger commercial ties with the United States - home to a sizeable Polish diaspora. French Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin - who personified France's anti-war stand on Iraq when he was foreign minister - downplayed the differences and insisted instead that the welcome shown in Arras showed "the force of the links and the solidarity between France and Poland."
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I don't think the title of this article is supported by its text.
"Moderate Republicans can't stand these people (conservatives), because they're intolerant. They don't think tolerance is a virtue," Dean said, adding: "I'm not going to have these right-wingers throw away our right to be tolerant." And concluding his backyard speech with a litany of Democratic values, he added: "This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good."
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"Moderate Republicans can’t stand these people (conservatives), because they’re intolerant." Ahem...Who gave Howie the right to speak for ANYBODY on the conservative side of the fence? Is Rove going to now tell a Conservative gathering that "Moderate Democrats" can't stand the "LLL Democrats." Where does he get his info? I don't walk in lockstep with the likes of Jerry Fawell, but my beliefs are a WHOLE lot closer to his than they ever will be to John Friggin Kerry, Hillary, or Jesse Jackson's.
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The people that follow what Dean says already have made their choice for 2006. He will piss of the right and convince the left to give cash in large numbers then he whomever gets the 2008 nod will slap a muzzle on him.
I could be wrong but I don't think he's that bad a pick for the Dems. At least he's colorful and not as sleazy as McAuliffe.
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should dig another tunnel on the USA side leading to Mexico . When immigrants arrive , they see a sign saying 'still in mexico' show em the new tunnel , maybe call it 'the free benefits tunnel' and send em back ..
Result = less paperwork , which is always a winner !
*chuckle*
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MacNails---"This way to the egress."
---P.T. Barnum
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Confiscate the house on the US side and pump the tunnel full of raw sewage. If you put enough pressure on the US side, maybe you could get a fountain at the other end.
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When these tunnels are discovered, the authorities should say nothing at all and promptly flood it with CS gas. The origin point will probably become pretty evident within minutes.
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A deep moat (several hundred feet down - sometimes water sometimes just a pit) and a wall on top could do some good. Of course that doesn't help with the spelunkers and swimmers so fill it with gators and snakes.
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There are a multitude of uses for clandestine tunnels and pipelines across borders, like the Belarussian moonshiners were shipping sippin' likker across the border to Lithuania, because the Lithuanians didn't want to pay the newly assessed tax on alcoholic beverages levied by the EU authorities in Brussels!
Any piplines out of the Jose Cuervo plant into San Diego we should know about?
It's only Tuesday, but thus far it's been a very good week (not including the car bomb in Iraq, of course). I think a small snicker would not be out of place. Edited for key points.
Paul Wolfowitz, US deputy secretary of defence, has emerged as a leading candidate to replace James Wolfensohn as the president of the World Bank.
Mr Wolfowitz is one of a small number of people being considered for the US nomination, administration insiders said.
The nomination of Mr Wolfowitz, one of the chief architects of the Iraq war and a former US ambassador to Indonesia, would likely be highly controversial, and could raise new questions about the process by which the World Bank chief is selected. One administration official said his nomination "would have enormous repercussions within the development community".
Leadership of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund is decided by all the shareholders in the institutions. But the US and Europe in effect divide up the top jobs, with an American heading the bank and a European running the fund.
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The nomination of Mr Wolfowitz, one of the chief architects of the Iraq war and a former US ambassador to Indonesia, would likely be highly controversial,
Tell me, which Bush Administration nominee hasn't been 'controversial'?
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I can't think of a better choice. Wolfowitz is a strong supporter of democracy and human rights with lengthy, hands-on political experience in Asia. Unlike Wolfensohn he's not beholden to the investment banker mafia and will quickly see through the WB's bullshit mega-project proposals that do nothing for the peoples of the third world while handsomely enriching kleptocrats and execs at mutlinationals like Bouygues and Bechtel.
Perhaps, finally, we may see the WB actually helping small businesses and ordinary people to gain some control over their lives.
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I'm quite fond of Wolfowitz, but does he have the slightest financial experience? He's been a defense and foreign policy professional since forever.
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Wolfowitz' expertise is international relations as well as the more specialized defense area. He was Dean and Professor of International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University. SAIS is widely regarded as one of the world's leading graduate schools of international relations with 750 students, studying on campuses in Washington, D.C.; Nanjing, China; and Bologna, Italy. As Dean, he led a successful capital campaign that raised more than $75 million and doubled the school's endowment. according to his official bio.
Also During the Reagan administration, Dr. Wolfowitz served for three years as U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia - the fourth largest country in the world and the largest in the Moslem world. There he earned a reputation as a highly popular and effective Ambassador, a tough negotiator on behalf of American intellectual property owners, and a public advocate of political openness and democratic values. During his tenure, Embassy Jakarta was cited as one of the four best-managed embassies inspected in 1988.
Prior to that posting, he served three and a half years as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he was in charge of U.S. relations with more than twenty countries. In addition to contributing to substantial improvements in U.S. relations with Japan and China, Assistant Secretary Wolfowitz played a central role in coordinating the U.S. policy toward the Philippines that supported a peaceful transition from the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos to democracy.
The World Bank is arguably much more about IR and development than about finance and banking in the commercial sense.
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The World Bank is essentially a political institution. Its success hinges on the degree to which it can keep kleptocratic predators from hijacking public development schemes for their own benefit.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic, which continues to devastate mostly the world's poorer nations, has increased the rate of mortality and slowed population growth, according to a new U.N. report released Thursday. Of the 60 highly affected countries, 40 are in sub-Saharan Africa, 12 in Latin America and the Caribbean, five in Asia, two in Europe and one in North America (the United States). In Southern Africa, described as the region with the highest prevalence of the deadly disease, life expectancy has fallen sharply: from 62 years in 1990-1995 to 48 years in 2000-2005. The average life span in that region is also projected to decrease further: to about 43 years over the next decade, before a slow recovery starts. "As a consequence, population growth in the region is expected to stall between 2005 and 2020," says the study titled "World Population Prospects: the 2004 Revision".
In Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland, population is projected to decrease as deaths outnumber births. But in most of the other developing nations affected by the AIDS epidemic, which began 25 years ago, population growth will continue to be positive as their moderate or high fertility more than counterbalances the rise in mortality. The gender dimension of the impact of AIDS is particularly important in sub-Saharan Africa, where women are infected with HIV at younger ages and in greater numbers than men, according to the study. In four countries -- Kenya, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe -- female life expectancy fell below male life expectancy during 2000-2005, primarily due to AIDS... These numbers may be subject to acute change, due to such factors as avian influenza.
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Rory Kennedy was suppose to tackle this social crisis. SHe called it her Pandemic project.
(Maybe she needs your help!).
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maybe she needs to get out from under the Kennedy name and really do something on the ground? Big thoughts - big credit - little done.
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This is more of get the UN out of the process. ETimor will get the aid bilaterally and if you weren't aware they are sitting on Billions of $ of oil and gas.
Warning! The plot of the movie is revealed in this article. So if you haven't seen it, and don't want to know the end of the story, don't click the link.
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Sounds like she is more interested in disarming the potential 'victims' of her (and her late son's) gang then anything else...
And as for the gun, she admits to having it in the house. But she said it belonged to her son. She didn't find it until six or seven months after he died. Not knowing what to do with it, she wrapped it up, put it in a drawer and forgot about it.
She didn't think to call the police about how to dispose of it right? uh-huh....
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Gee, maybe I'll call up our Lt. Governor and ask him what he thinks. ;-p
[Background: when he was Mayor of Richmond, he tried to use public money to finance a busload of gun-grabbers to attend this "March." Now he's going to run for Governor, God help us all. I think he'll find his anti-gun bias doesn't play as well in the hinterlands as it did in the big bad anti-gun - and yet very violent - city.]
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I'll bet she had one of these fabulous fashion accessories.
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heh heh - I remember old Carl shooting an intruder - by the slider to the pool, wasn't it? Hypocrites are cheap - usually have the biggest mouths too, right, Rosie?
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wow..this is interesting. The link is getting pounded so I'll quote
The handgun, which had a scratched-off serial number, and drugs allegedly were discovered Friday morning inside Stevens' home in the 2500 block of South 15th Street. Authorities said they obtained a search warrant for the residence as part of an ongoing investigation of a recent series of drive-by shootings. No one has been hurt in the gunplay.
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Although police declined to get into specifics, Stevens has a "close connection" with one of two feuding groups involved in the shootings, Lt. Rickey Davis said Monday.
Stevens, 47, who is free on bond, admitted she does know some of the people allegedly involved in the drive-by shootings. But she said she only knows them because her interest in stopping gun violence - sparked by the shooting death of her son Jericko Clark, 20, on July 13, 2002 - has her in the neighborhoods talking to the youths. Keeping in touch for 3 years??
She said the police wrongly believe she is the ringleader of the shootings, and they think she has information to solve those cases, as well as others, including the December murder of Andre Ayers, 22, who was shot as a procession of cars wound through the city's east side.
"This is a blatant attempt to try and undermine me," she said Monday night. "... They can't solve these crimes, and I'm familiar with these individuals, so they're going after me because I socialize with all of them."
Whoa! You are the leader of the Springfield Chapter of MMM and you socialize with gun toting gang members???
Davis said detectives working on the drive-by cases - which already have resulted in four arrests - began taking a closer look at Stevens after her name came up in interviews with witnesses and informants.
"Basically, she has a close connection with individuals that have been involved in one side of these two groups that are feuding," Davis said, declining to elaborate.
KID ROCK has attacked celebrities who offer their opinions on the war in Iraq, because he doesn't think stars are intelligent enough to publicly criticise the US President...
In a new interview with PLAYBOY magazine, Kid Rock - real name BOB RITCHIE - attacks stars like DIXIE CHICK NATALIE MAINES and feminist comic-turned-anti-Bush radio host JANEANE GAROFALO for thinking they know better than the President.
He rages, "I'm not educated enough to speak about it (the war), and I don't think any of these other motherf**kers are, either.
"I'm pretty sure Janeane Garofalo's and that chick from the Dixie Chicks' educations don't stretch that far.
"Look up CONDI RICE or GEORGE BUSH's education, where they went to school. They've been doing this shit their whole f**king lives, while we've been out dicking around with guitars, entertaining people.
"F**kers in Hollywood who want to use the camera to be like, 'Guess who I'm f**king now?' and 'Oh, stop the war!' - all that shit just makes me sick." I suspect that Mr Kid Rock, in his heart of hearts, wishes that his fairy godmother would wave her magic wand, and turn him from being a rock star who wishes he was a soldier, into a soldier who wishes that he was a rock star.
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At last there is a star to my tastes. Seriously, even if his vocbulary is not refined, at least he has a proper idea of his role. I am sick of all those singers and actors who believe that having a good voice or a pretty a.. face makes them so intelligent and wise that they are enabled to voice their opinion to millions, who, because they don't have the pretty a... face will never get camera attention and thus will never be able to tell what they have to say.
"I’m not educated enough to speak about it (the war), and I don’t think any of these other motherf**kers are, either. . . . Look up CONDI RICE or GEORGE BUSH’s education, where they went to school. They’ve been doing this shit their whole f**king lives, while we’ve been out dicking around with guitars, entertaining people. "
LOL and hats off to Kid Rock~! At least there's one honest guy in the industry.
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And he's been over to visit the troops in-theater, too. My daughter, Cpl. Blondie USMC has a picture of him, taken with herself. He was brave enough to put an arm around her shoulders... a gesture not without some peril, as she usually had at least two knives, somewhere on her person.
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His attitude (despite how he voices it) would be called humility in Christian circles. Forget the stereotypes pushed by the MSM (their agenda is bigger than you think, and has slandered more people than the United States Military), humility was viewed as an honest estimation of oneself, one's abilities, one's position, and one's status. Pride was viewed as thinking more highly of yourself than you merit or ought to think, often with an agenda of putting yourself "higher" up on some scale than other people with the purpose of boosting one's ego. Naturally, modern man has shifted the terminology around somewhat.
What used to be called "humility", I think is now being called "Having one's head screwed on right." I may not patronize Kid Rock, attend his concerts, or purchase his music, but I respect him because he doesn't pretend to be a prima donna, saint, or some genius. He's got his head screwed on right. He can entertain people in ways that Dubya never will, and Dubya can make decisions that he doesn't pretend he could do better, and neither envies the other.
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If Kid Rock is NOT smart enough to comment on the war- why not EDUCATE himself?? Bruce SPringsteen and U2 have political belief/ message's for those who wish to listen.
I think education would be good for KID ROCK instead of "Living his life in a slow hell , every night with a girl in a different hotel sing along sing along" If I remember correctly Pamela Sue Anderson contracted hepatitis from Mr. Rock ** Why not practice safe sex ~~ Or educate himself on safe sex. Just his image and message's present that the guy needs H-E-L-P!
QUICK- KID RUN GET HELP!!
Andrea Jackson
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How 'bout I say upfront I like some of his tunes, Couth? Cowboy (with Uncle Cracker) from a Jackie Chan's Shanghai Noon soundtrack, American Bad Ass (his first biggie), and Forever are on my MP3 lists. If ya don't like it, don't listen to it. If you can't can't stand the lingo stay outta f*&king RANTBURG. Supporting the war was the point, idjit
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Vapid Andrea
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Frank G - Why is he singing songs about supporting the war- if he is not smart enough
to comment on the war? Mr. Rock sends a mixed message-- I like music and will stick to U2 and Springsteen. I feel sorry for Kid ROck- he needs HELP in more ways than one.
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to each his own - Springsteen's never been for the WOT, and supporting Democrats along
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# 16 Frank- Yes, Springsteen is not a WOT supporter. His name speaks for himself and so
does his level of success and follower's.
Bruce is a big Amnesty International fan. I saw him in concert in Montreal in 1988 with Sting, Tracy Chapman and Peter Gabriel.
Andrea Jackson
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# 16 Frank- Yes, Springsteen is not a WOT supporter. His name speaks for himself and so
does his level of success and follower's.
Bruce is a big Amnesty International fan. I saw him in concert in Montreal in 1988 with Sting, Tracy Chapman and Peter Gabriel.
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I like Bruce's tunes (most) and Gabriel's (a lot) - I just don't take my political views from musicians. Kid Rock included. Learn to think for yourself, right?
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I met Bruce Springstein when i worked at Tower Books in San Mateo back in the early 90s. Maybe he was trying not to be recognized but he looked like a dirtbag and my coworker (now wife) nearly tossed him out because he kept piling up books at the register that he appeared to have no ability to pay for.
Only the lurking Tower Records employees and his calling the pregnant chick with him "Patty" clued me in who he might be. His platinum card confirmed it.
His taste in books (could have been presents) were coffee table books. He didn't even look at Madonna's metal-bound book.
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Bruce tends to lay low profile like so many
other's who do NOT want to be recognized, bugged
for an autographed, photo session's etc.
I was in Manhattan (West side central Park) and a marathon was going on I spotted Robin Williams running "who yelled out- Leave me alone, don't follow me home and HELP I've fallen but I can't get up". He started going into a wild and crazy skit like that of Mork and Mindy show. Yes, Bruce tends to have a rough, tough image. Like that of someone poor. I once knew a lawyer who played down the part and looked like a bum. So I guess it is in all profession's. I spotted Brad Pitt on Lexingotn Avenue last summer and knew it was him right away---very clean cut, sun glasses etc. Just like you see him in magazines. Most change their image, glasses, hats, make up. Very few can I recognize as I walk the streets of Manhattan
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Isn't this the same guy who labeled Dubya a "moron/stupid" on BILL MAHER's HBO show going into President Kerry's 2004 elex bid.
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I guess this means that Maher himself didn't mean it when he argued that Liberals "told the truth" about no WMDS in Iraq, and just because the French and Russkies helped hide/moved them in order to discredit Dubya and America doesn't mean the Libs were wrong!? ITS WHAT ANY AND ALL COMMON MEN DO, OR AT LEAST UTOPIANS, NOT SELF-SERVING POLITICIANS!?
Springsteen dresses the way he does to get attention. Not because of his upbringing. He would be much less recognizable as who he is if he dressed well in a suit or even in casual wear. Because he dresses like scum those who idolize him will recognize him.
It would seem to me that you are taken by the common infection of Americana: awed by those who are famous. It is easy to allow ourselves to believe that because someone is famous that they know what they are talking about in any given circumstance. Mostly they do what they do best . . . they are talking heads and repeat what is fed them.
Kid Rock is supportive of the war, but not argumentative about it. He makes no attempt to out-think you, so there is the temptation to underestimate his intelligence because of his language. And his intelligence is not in his education, but his experience. It would seem that we can admire his honesty, without surrendering ourselves to his version of entertainment.
Just as I do not surrender myself to Springsteens' equally nasty songs (stop and listen to what he sings about and glorifies, he simply uses different words than KR).
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I've met several "Stars", Sally Field, Donald Southerland, Ron Leibman, and Beau Bridges to name a few. Sally Field was intelligent but totally focused on acting. Ditto with Beau Bridges. Ron Liebman was very intelligent and able to converse about a varity of subjects. Donald Southerland was an arrogant prick who thought he should be treated much better than us peasants. Piss on him. There are people in the intertainment business who are very knowledgable about a variety of subjects but they seem to me to tend to be not so outspoken as the ones who are attention whores and couldn't find their own asses with both hands and a mirror.
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Couth, Kid Rock expresses himself honestly and with humility (thanks, Ptah!)in the patois of his community, and in a way that is intelligible to his listeners. I don't have a problem with his language, and I do not understand why you do.
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--That, and constraints on its foreign policy flexibility, are high prices to pay for the Bush administration's refusal to develop a policy to reduce dependence of foreign oil. --
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It seems that the only solution would be to develop a new source of energy and in the meantime, starting a campaign to get people to use less of it.
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it's an interesting turn of events. The Dems talk oil independence but they do little nothing except make demands (from their 20,000 sq ft mansions, private jets and Limos) that Red staters don't drive SUV's. Even the hydrogen folks praised Bush as doing far more than Clinton. I know my patience is getting thin with the dependency on Saudi oil. If Dems vote down ANWAR, nukes or pass laws that charge gas tax by mile instead of efficiency - it will come back to rbite them hard in 2008.
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Letting oil stay at $50 per barrel will both encourage people "to develop a new source of energy and in the meantime, ...get people to use less of it." It's the free market at work. Also note that the economy is absorbing these increases fairly smoothly. We are much less dependent on energy to generate additional GNP. Short of shut off of oil for human induced reasons, war, etc. we may be at or near the hump of this problem.
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Do ANWR, Hydrogen, nukes or any combination really have the potential to significantly reduce our dependence on foreign oil? The numbers I've seen make the impact look positive but marginal. I'd appreciate some links that show otherwise, it would be great news.
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we have the technology to get off of foreign oil today - we just don't have the will. Same reason we can't get rid of our illegal immigration problem - the economy revolves around both problems.
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I can't credit for this concept (paraphrase) - we'll never run out of oil because other things that cost less will replace it. Oil will just get too expensive. Sorta like whale oil. But for that to happen, it'll hafta be market-driven, not liberal-driven.
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some might say that keeping the Saudi madrassas funded and terrorism alive is "too expensive".
It doesn't have to be "liberal" driven. Liberals have pea-brains with no common sense. Ignore their ballyhoo for the background noise that it is and recognize that we would all benefit from a better energy source.
There is a market place for it already. But what keeps it from flourishing is regulation and lobbyists from the auto industry, tire industry, bus,taxi,gas station,autorepair,oil exploration,oil processing,oil shipping, oil contracting etc. etc. etc. industries.
Too many people have careers invested in keeping the status quo. You can't just put them all out of work overnight.
We all know we'd be each be happy to drive cleaner cars with more efficient fuel soures. The technology exists - but the market barriers are aimed at keeping the new sources OUT of the market place - not driving them in.
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Forget ANWR, hydrogen, more fuel efficient cars, widmills, etc. None of them will reduce oil dependance by more than a few percentage points. Nuclear power can eliminate oil dependence completely and there are no significant technology barriers. France already generates close to 90% of its electricity from nuclear and is a major exporter (of electricity) because costs are so low. You will build new nuclear power stations. Its just a matter of how long it takes.
Regulation. All the Public Interest Litigation Groups will tie up any Nuke plant in years of EIR's and other red tape to prevent construction
Economics. No utility is going to build a nuke without a limitation of liability that can only be granted legislatively.
What should happen is that the U. S. government should get into the power generation business. It would build and own the plants under a standard design. Approvals would be by Congressional legislation. Operation of the plants would be bid out to private operating companies with incentives to maximize income to the government. Power would be sold by the operator to utilities.
Electrical power generation and distribution should be regulated nationally not by state. This is an interstate commerce and national defence issue.
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Even the greens are behind nukes. Faster, dammit
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Yes, nuclear is cheaper and cleaner. General population is just scared of it and the oil lobby is overpowering. But that's where the leadership (presisdents, congressmen, etc.) comes in with the need to LEAD to change the public opinion. As far as disposal, it can be stored temporarily and in about 100 year science will be advanced enough to deal with it.
The gains will be huge:
1.It will effectively close the Universities of Terrorism
2. It will improve the U.S. strategic position and manueverability
3. Will reduce the trade deficit
4. Will provide tens of thousands of jobs (design, construction and running the N-plants)in this country rather than in Saudi
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Sounds a lot like what the Russians claimed they had. The Russians claim they had a stealth device that could be used on all current aircraft. From my understanding it was placed in the radar nose cone and used to shield the forward section.
This is a couple of articles
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/future-00o.html
Thiers more it you look around I remember a Drudge article awhile back with a interview from the scientist himself from Russia.
Is it real Ehhh maybe but I think thier must be either expence or vialbe application problems to keep the tech in the back burner and especially not on the US plate. Future capability for maybe higher speeds with less drag and such I would say much more lickly. Sounds to me the amount of heat and power needed would neglect the Radar stealth advantage weras the latter above speed would be only advantage.
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#1. Doctor, this happened with the Format Changes on Feb 21. Fred explained in part: When I initially wrote Page 1/Page 2, I set it up as a binary, either WoT or not WoT. Naturally, I set WoT as 1 and Not-WoT as 0. I've redesigned and set all the 0s to 2, and 3 will follow naturally enough. But because I designed it one way, and now I'm building it another way, there'll be bugs crawling all over the place for a few days, until I can Flit them all. To make matters worse, I've also done away with the physical Page 2. It's now all one page, only with different filters. Be patient...
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This was done already with the "Philadelphia Experiment" using theories developed by Tesla and Einstein to make the USS Eldridge invisible. I hope these folks have more control over their experiments than did the scientists in 1943 with their invisible/time travel experience with the Eldridge and crew.
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See http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm. However, this article states "Einstein was a part-TIME consultant! Aha!
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And - just in case you missed it - #12 is relevant, because, not only did the ship DISAPPEAR for four hours, it ALSO traveled through TIME! But it also did terrible things to some of the crewmen.....
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If I want dust to be invisible , i sweep it under the carpet . May I have a grant to study this some more please , I aint 100% sure it is fool proof or not . £250,000 should cover the basics .
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When it returned to its original place there was a greenish haze on deck. Some of the sailors were on fire. Some were sick. Some had died. Some were part of the super structure of the ship, buried in the deck or walls of the ship. Reports said that men disappeared, and were never seen again.
Hey Kimmie, Magic Mullahs, Baby Assad:
Wanna go on a boat ride?
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And scientists are very concerned that Bush tends to ignore "real" science, suggesting (I suppose) that right-wing religious reactionaries (RRRR)are in charge. But in the meantime, errors in science don't matter, because the conclusion was a good (PC) one. Reminds me of Dan Rather - even if the documents were forged, the story was true.
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these people are responsible for our saftey and have failed miserably time after time. No wonder they are always so unprepared for events. Time for a house cleaning.
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Shortly after this study was released, with its new tables of overweightosity, a sportswriter discovered that nearly a dozen of the players in March Madness were obese.
The usual PC stuff, done to provide nannystaters with some bogus backing.
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Maybe if they kept to studying DISEASES and stopped trying to run peoples' lives...
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like the CDC opposition to the second amendment...
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Its all a game of three card monty. Death is a pie chart with a 100% outcome. No one gets out of this life alive. If you statistically reduce one cause of death, another cause simply increases. Ah, the need for more studies, more reports, more justification to control people.
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T.W. we need to incorporate the "old way" of doing chores, activities and burn more calories than we take in~~ It is a math game when it comes to loosing weight.
It is said that the Amish folks are not at risk for clinical obesity~~ WHY? research their lifestyle--manual labor. Haying with a horse and tractor, walking behind the trailer with the bales of hay. Walking with bucket's of water. No microwave. The Amish children do NOT sit and watch hour's and hour's of T.V. Most ride bicycles or walk. We need to call for a lifestyle change to see our skinny old self!
I am the first to admit---I'm guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, No appeal process for me.
I need to plea the 5th on eating, diet's etc.
WHERE IS BARBARA SKOLAUT??
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WHERE IS BARBARA SKOLAUT?? I'm putting out an M.I.A. alert and going to put out an A.P.B.
on Barbara~ who always writes back to me!
Andrea Jackson
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WHERE IS BARBARA SKOLAUT?? I'm putting out an M.I.A. alert and going to put out an A.P.B.
on Barbara~ who always writes back to me!
Andrea Jackson
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It is said that the Amish folks are not at risk for clinical obesity
LOL! How many sweets with those sours?
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Are you filling Barbara's shoes now? I woke at 2 a.m. wondering where was Barbara**
Andrea Jackson
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Barbara is probably out saving lives at the moment, Andrea. That's why she doesn't have time to watch for our posts all day.
Oh, and the French like to boast that they aren't fat like those disgraceful Americans, yet down in the cheese belt they are bigger, and with higher cholesterol levels, than we are here. Just because "it is said," doesn't make it true. Which was the whole point of the article I posted, dear.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan said yesterday the much-awaited bus service between two major towns in the disputed Kashmir region may not start on April 7 as planned because of technical problems. "The work, including clearing mines near the Line of Control (LoC) and repairing the 60-kilometre-long Muzaffarabad-Chakoti road, has already been started but bad weather in the valley may hamper reopening of the road," Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat, Minister for Kashmir and Northern Areas Affairs, told reporters here.
"There's this ticking sound coming from under the hood of the bus, and our experts want more time to check it out."
On February 16, the foreign ministers of the two South Asian neighbours agreed to start bus service between Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, and Srinagar, summer capital of Indian Kashmir, beginning on April 7. Hayat clarified that the service is meant to facilitate "people of Kashmiri origin" on both sides and said no non-Kashmiri could use it. However, the minister seemed unsure whether people of Gilgit and Baltistan in northern Pakistan would fall into this category.
"Yew ain't from 'round heer, are yew?"
"If they (people of northern areas) are included in this category, they will travel. But yet we have not determined this," he said. Indian foreign secretary Shayam Saran told reporters earlier in Islamabad the route would be open to all Pakistanis, Indians and Kashmiri people and cover the entire Kashmir territory, including the area of Gilgat in northern Pakistan.
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Egyptian Coptic Christians agitated by two girls' decision to covert to Islam have ended their sit-in at Mary Girgis church in al-Fayyum governorate, south of Cairo, Aljazeera reports. The protest came to an end on Monday after Egyptian security authorities agreed to hold a discussion on issues regarding the choice of faith of the two medical students who embraced Islam. Egyptian security authorities had initially refused to hand over the two Coptic Christian girls, who had announced their conversion to Islam to their families in al-Fayyum, Aljazeera said. The girls may be transferred to a safe place in Cairo, sources told Aljazeera earlier on Monday.
A number of top Egyptian security officials had travelled to al-Fayyum in an attempt to investigate and resolve the dispute. After learning that the girls had embraced Islam, several hundred agitated young Coptic Christians held a protest inside Mary Girgis Church on Monday, chanting slogans against the conversion, according to Lina Ghadban, Aljazeera's correspondent in Egypt. Some protesters speculated that the two girls, Marian Ayyad and Teresa Gorgy - both medical students at al-Fayyum General Hospital - were pressurised into changing their faith and were prevented from returning to Christianity. Egyptian security officials have, however, vehemently denied the accusation, saying that the girls had in fact notified the authorities concerned to officially announce and document their change of faith.
It would be useful if Condi put in a word for them.
The al-Fayyum incident comes only two months after a similar furore over a coversion incident. In the previous case, a Coptic Christian woman's decision to embrace Islam triggered angry reactions from the community in Egypt. After discussions with the authortities, she renounced her decision. During that incident, the Egyptian Coptic Christians' spiritual head, Pope Shenouda III, had secluded himself inside Wadi al-Natrun Church after the arrest of some youths who were agitating inside the cathedral against the conversion. The controversy persisted until the woman was returned to the Church and the detained youths released.
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Pakistan film diva Meera has threatened court action against those who have tried to defame her image in Pakistan alleging her of performing vulgar scenes in Bollywood taskmaster's upcoming flick Nazar. Talking to Daily Times from Mumbai she said that if the Ministry of Culture would fine her or put ban on her for her performance in the Indian movie Nazar , she would go to the court. " I have not performed any vulgar scene in the film", an angry actress said. Lollywood's film goddess said that if the Ministry of Culture was so keen on the issue, which was not an issue at all, the ministry must also watch Punjabi and Pushto movies produced in Pakistan; the level of vulgarity in those films was extremely shameful. The actress said that there were certain jealous elements in Pakistani film industry playing dirty games against her and spreading such news about her. When the film was not even seen by her yet, how a part of it could be seen in Pakistan? She posed a question.
It may be mentioned here, that a few days ago news were published in a section of press in which it was reported that Ministry of Culture had imposed a heavy fine on Meera as her actions in film Nazar were too vulgar. There were reports that objection by the Ministry had been raised on a fiery kissing-scenes Meera did with male lead in the film Ashmit Patel. According to the reports, government was considering a ban on Pakistani actors from performing in Indian films. When Minister for State Muhammad Ali Durrani was asked in this regard, he said that Ministry had no mandate to interfere in an artist's affairs when one was performing in an Indian flick in one's individual capacity. " We don't have the authority to preempt the act of any artiste", he added. He further added that Pakistani artistes however while performing aboard should take care of the cultural and moral values of their country. He said the main aim of the ministry of culture was the revival of cinema in Pakistan. Mr Durrani said government would financially and technologically support the film industry. He said regulatory institutions would be set up to revive the film industry besides, setting up of a film city nevertheless, he did not give any time frame in this regard.
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She plucks her eyebrows. Going to allen hell for that. I think the authorities took a good look at her and got really distracted fron their work, heheh.
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