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A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil dug out of a hunk of sandstone has yielded soft tissue, including blood vessels and perhaps even whole cells, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. Paleontologists forced to break the creature's massive thighbone to get it on a helicopter found not a solid piece of fossilized bone, but instead something looking a bit less like a rock. When they got it into a lab and chemically removed the hard minerals, they found what looked like blood vessels, bone cells and perhaps even blood cells. "They are transparent, they are flexible," said Mary Higby Schweitzer of North Carolina State University and Montana State University, who conducted the study. She said the vessels were flexible and in some cases their contents could be squeezed out. "The microstructures that look like cells are preserved in every way," added Schweitzer, whose findings were published in the journal Science. "Preservation of this extent, where you still have this flexibility and transparency, has never been seen in a dinosaur before." Feathers, hair and fossilized egg contents yes, but not truly soft tissue. Studying the soft tissues may help answer many questions about dinosaurs. Were they cold-blooded like reptiles, warm-blooded like mammals, or somewhere in-between? How are they related to living animals?
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"I know they ain't horses, but you are Cavalry so you should be able to ride dang near anything. Now quit actin' yellow and get the saddle on that thing. And no, it ain't smilin' at you. Now git. Parade's in ten minutes."
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"JM - Director's Cut" - available on RB Records this spring
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Anonymoose: I know they ain't horses, but you are Cavalry so you should be able to ride dang near anything. Now quit actin' yellow and get the saddle on that thing. And no, it ain't smilin' at you. Now git. Parade's in ten minutes.
"That bloody wanker Bono gets all the good press!"
Hundreds of people have marched through the streets of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, to protest at Sir Bob Geldof's call for the president to step down. Launching the UK Commission for Africa report this month, Geldof, a rock star turned campaigner said Yoweri Museveni wanted to be president for life.
But one of the protesters told the BBC this was unwanted foreign interference in Ugandan politics. "Tony Blair is seeking a third term and no-one is talking about it," he said.
"We want Ugandans to decide which way forward. We are just against imperialism," Odur Byaruhanga told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.
Many of the protesters were draped in dry banana leaves, the symbol of the third term for Museveni campaign. They held placards which read: "Geldof sober up and shut up", "No to drug addicts and Rock Homos". Why, that's not very tolerant...
Museveni has been in power since 1986. He denied that he had been paid by the Ugandan government to organise the protest, which culminated with a letter being handed in to the British High Commission in Kampala.
Some Ugandans are pushing for the constitution to be changed to allow Mr Museveni, in power since 1986, to contest presidential elections expected early next year.
Geldof said that his admiration for Mr Museveni's fight against poverty and Aids had now been lost.
"Get a grip Museveni. Your time is up, go away," he said at the launch of the Commission for Africa report, which is supposed to map out a plan on how best to raise living standards in Africa.
Woman bites into finger while eating chili at Wendy's restaurant in California
SAN JOSE A woman bit into a portion of a human finger while eating a bowl of chili at a Wendy's restaurant, health officials said.
Officials said the fingertip was about 1œ inches long and contained part of a manicured nail. The woman, who asked officials not to identify her, immediately spit it out, Santa Clara County Health Officer Martin Fenstersheib said.
"She was a bit grossed out it was described to me, and vomited a number of times," he said.
Health investigators seized all the ingredients at the restaurant and are tracing them back to their manufacturer. They believe the finger got into the chili at an earlier stage and was cooked at a high enough temperature to kill any viruses.
Wendy's spokesman Joe Desmond said the company was cooperating with the investigation.
"It's important not to jump to conclusions," he said. "Here at Wendy's we plan to do right by our customers."
At Pasta Bravo, you can order meatballs, sausage, or shrimp as an add-on with your pasta and sauce, but I've never seen this on a menu.
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Oh great, now everyone's gonna want one in theirs. Only takes one loudmouth to ruin it for everyone. That part of the menu is not printed for a reason ya know!
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Wendy's? Are they sure this wasn't at Satriale's? ;)
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I've got to hand it to you guys, you sure know how to grab hold of a topic and poke fun at it. Now, some of you knuckledraggers are tickled by this -- I won't point fingers -- but I find it in poor taste. Get a grip!
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I actually once got a surprise. The plastic nozzle from the bottom of a shake machine at McDonald's in a Vanilla Shake...
Since it was "inorganic", and without DNA(not a gooey used bandaid), I just returned it to McDonald's the next day. I got $25 dollars in cupons, with a comment. Oh, you found it? It broke about 12:45 yeaterday...
State Told Not to Enforce Law Protecting Terri Schiavo
(CNSNews.com) - The Florida judge presiding over the Terri Schiavo case ordered the state agency charged with protecting vulnerable adults to make no attempt to take the brain-injured woman into protective custody late Wednesday. The order appears to be in direct contradiction to a state statute that requires the agency to act.
Mayo Clinic neurologist Dr. William Cheshire -- who is also a member of the Florida's Adult Protective Services team -- said late Wednesday that Terri Schiavo "may have been misdiagnosed" by one court appointed doctor and two other physicians chosen by Michael Schiavo.
Those three doctors declared Terri to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), but Cheshire said, based on his examination of Terri and review of her records, she is more likely in a minimally conscious state (MCS). The term is a new diagnostic description that has come into acceptance since Terri was last examined.
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said the new information "raises serious concerns and warrants immediate action.
"Terri is now going on her sixth day without food or water," Gov. Bush told reporters Wednesday afternoon. "It is imperative that she be stabilized so that the adult protective services team can fulfill their statutory duty and thoroughly review all the facts surrounding her case."
One member of the media asked if the state Department of Children and Families (DCF) planned to take Terri Schiavo into protective custody, remove her from the hospice where she is being dehydrated and starved to death or try to reinsert her feeding and hydration tube.
"We are looking at every potential opportunity to be of assistance," replied DCF Secretary Lucy Hadi.
That response apparently prompted the attorney for Terri's estranged husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, to contact Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George Greer, requesting a court order barring the state from acting. Noted "right-to-die" attorney, author and activist George Felos argued during a court hearing later Wednesday that DCF had "no more power than ... a person walking down the street," to place Terri in protective custody.
"Any action would be a violation of Mrs. Schiavo's constitutional right to refuse medical treatment. It would be a violation of her civil rights. It would be an assault, a battery, a trespass on her," Felos argued, following his assessment with a threat aimed at DCF officials, "and, should that occur and should that be attempted, we will hold those to the fullest extent of the law."
But Florida statute 2004-Ch0415-Section-201051#0415.1051 seems to contradict Felos' claim.
The statute states, "If it appears that the vulnerable adult ... is likely to incur a risk of death or serious physical injury if such person is not immediately removed from the premises, then the representative of the department shall transport or arrange for the transportation of the vulnerable adult to an appropriate medical or protective services facility in order to provide emergency protective services."
Jennifer Lima-Smith, an attorney for the DCF, reminded Greer that the agency does not need his permission in advance to act.
"The law allows the department to exercise both emergency protective services -- intervention and emergency removal -- either one or both," Lima-Smith told Greer.
The statute also appears to specifically exempt DCF from an otherwise enforceable mandate to seek Michael Schiavo's permission to remove Terri.
"If the vulnerable adult's caregiver or guardian is present, the protective investigator must seek the caregiver's or guardian's consent ... before the vulnerable adult may be removed from the premises," the law states, "unless the protective investigator suspects that the vulnerable adult's caregiver or guardian has caused the abuse, neglect, or exploitation."
The only authorization or requirement for the involvement of the courts in an emergency intervention or removal comes after DCF has taken its action. "The department shall, within 24 hours after providing or arranging for emergency removal of the vulnerable adult, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, petition the court for an order authorizing emergency protective services."
Nonetheless, Greer rebuked the agency, ordering it not to attempt to enforce the state law.
"Since it appears imminent that the department is likely to do something in contravention of that rule of law, this court is going to grant the oral motion," Greer said. "DCF is hereby restrained from taking possession of Theresa Marie Schiavo or removing her from Hospice Woodside, administer (sic) nutrition or hydration artificially or otherwise interfere (sic) with this court's final judgment."
I am declaring a coup d'etat. I am the King of Florida.
Note: He has also ordered all county sheriffs to do everthing to block any movement.
1) What Happens if Jeb orders the State Police, or National Guard to move her?
or - more ominous
2)What happens if W. sends federal marshalls to move her...
That final portion of Greer's oral order seems to contradict yet another portion of the statute, entitled "Emergency medical treatment.
"If, upon admission to a medical facility, it is the opinion of the medical staff that immediate medical treatment is necessary to prevent serious physical injury or death, and that such treatment does not violate a known health care advance directive prepared by the vulnerable adult," the statute states, "the medical facility may proceed with treatment to the vulnerable adult."
Terri Schiavo has no such advance directive.
At approximately 11:00 p.m. EST, attorneys for Terri Schiavo's parents filed a 40-plus page request for an emergency injunction with the U.S. Supreme Court. The pleading asks the justices to order Terri's feeding and hydration tube reinserted while the lower federal courts conduct a completely new trial of the facts in the case. That review was mandated by special legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush earlier in the week.
Not much hope when "Justice" Kennedy will say in his denial, when it comes, "What would Europe Do?"
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Drudge flash. Kennedy denies appeal.
Its up to Jeb. Does he have the balls to challenge "Judge" Greer?
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At this point I would normally insert something to satarize the bad people in this case. However the insert of an alternarive version "Horst Wesel Leid", the Nazi Anthem of Germany 1933-1945, substituting references to Hitler and Germany with so-called Judge Greer and his courtroom would be in bad taste, and offensive to anyone Jewish...
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Judge Greer also ruled that DCF will not be granted access to court records he sealed in this case that might tend to demonstrate that Terri Schiavo was the victim of abuse. Barring the highly unlikely intervention of a FL appellate court, there exists only one proper course of action and only two potential actors with the power to execute it. We shall see whether the Bush brothers' faith is genuine or a mere prop held forth for the sake of political expedience.
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AzCat-Jeb may be up to something. A so-called hospital supposedly tipped off the attorney Felos, "husband" 's attorney that they were expecting an "admission"
I think "W" brings in the marshalls, and puts her on a hospital/clinic on a military base.
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OK if this is how it is, then we need to formally apologize and make monetary restitution to the families of all the Nazi doctors we hung for doing just the same thing. Horst Wessel indeed. It is clear that this country is in the midst of a serious constitutional crises. I was brought up on the idea of checks an balances. It's totally failed as there are none on the black robed tyrants.
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I'm afraid we are reaping what was sown with the 60's radical movement vis-a-vis the judges.
It is also my opinion that there are no more pompous SOB's in the world than judges.
It's our own fault. We have all failed Mrs. Schiavo.
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Oddly enough if you could ask the private opinion of the federal judges that have ruled on this matter in recent days you'd very likely learn that their rulings were bound up in a perception that they were preventing a constitutional crisis by avoiding the new exercise of Congressional power to reach down and overrule final state court adjudications in this, and presumably similar, matters. If W sends in federal marshals we will then have a full-fledged constitutional crisis. Jeb can avert that by acting but he'll incur the wrath of the federal judiciary for doing so and that will be ugly though not as ugly as the outcome if no action is taken.
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"If the vulnerable adultâs caregiver or guardian is present, the protective investigator must seek the caregiverâs or guardianâs consent ... before the vulnerable adult may be removed from the premises," the law states, "unless the protective investigator suspects that the vulnerable adultâs caregiver or guardian has caused the abuse, neglect, or exploitation."
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Why is JEb repetitioning the idiot judge? This judge is now being more driven by ego, and isn't going to budge. What is the good in that? If he does not act unilaterally, he is in deep shit worse than if he does...
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In regards to the exercise of Congressional power to overrule state adjudications - there is already accepted precedant, and it exactly the duty of the Fed to step in when individual rights under the Constitutiion are involved. I see the judges here as acting with extreme arrogance in this matter following the actions of the Congress - they felt their powers were being impinged upon and reacted by throwing a hissy fit, Agreed BigEd, Jeb's got to step up and show some spine.
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Ann Coulter has some very cogent remarks today!
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No disagreement with your conclusions Rex but I'm not at all certain that there's solid precedent under which Congress can step in where a matter has been completely adjudicated by the state courts, later remove the matter to the federal judiciary, and order that the federal judiciary then conduct a new trial completely ignoring all previous findings in the state courts.
IMHO avoidance of this new expansion of federal legislative power is a big reason that the federal district court read the new statute extremely narrowly and concluded that Congress had required only a review of procedural due process in the state courts. Itâs a turf war but itâs rooted in a potentially nasty constitutional conflict that the courts can avoid by merely allowing Terri Schiavo to die. It will be extremely inconvenient for them if W or Jeb steps in and saves her.
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Here is how judges make decisions: When it comes to ordinary business disputes, they tend to "follow the law". However, even then the real process takes place.
The real (most common) process: A judge first decides on a position (who wins/loses). Then the judge works backwards from the decision. The reasoning is result-oriented. Any decision can be supported using existing law. The law contains both general rules and exceptions which swallow the general rules.
Trial court judges, sitting without a jury, have the additional advantage of "weighing the evidence'. They can decide that one story is more credible than another. When the trial court judge makes that determination, it becomes the "truth". The appellate courts are bound by those determinations (in most matters).
It should be noted that appellate courts, especially supreme courts, are not above actually making up facts. I have personally received the advantage and the detriment of "new" facts. We read opinions to find out what "actually happened!" It's usually one or two facts.
In short, it is a rather sloppy, often fictitious process.
Final point: That is why it matters who acts as the lawyer. A better lawyer can tell a better story, which fits the judge's prejudice. The story is then supported by appropriate "authorities".
Next final point: "Expert" witnesses can be found to say anything. That is why you need to tell your expert who you represent and what you want to prove. The expert fills-in the rest.
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Rush is depressing, but may be sadly accurate. Comparing this to Reno's invasion of Waco or Elian's Family was done because she knew that the courts wouldn't touch her as a liberal.
However, if Jeb tries a rescue, the courts will come after him because he is not a liberal...
But that is exactly why he must act, because in all that controversy, there will be light thrown on all the issues, and whatever they do to Jeb, can't cover over the new information I believe will be found out...
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You can definitely find an expert to say anything you want. Just because they will say what you want does not often mean it's worth the paper it's written on, let alone the expert's fee. A competent attorney facing an expert serving up BS can, with adequate preparation, expose the BS'ing and exact alot of admissions. If a party's case has merit, a competent attorney can often support a large portion of their position by slowly and carefully cross examining the opponent's "expert" but it only works well if you've properly researched and prepared the process.
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AzCat: you are probably right regarding Congress' taking action given their absolute lack of spine in the face of political considerations- but it certainly didn't stop Clinton from stepping in and voiding state court decisions in the Elian case. Here, the Congress crafted legisationi, the POTUS signed it into law, and judge Greer promptly used that piece of leglislation to wipe his @$$. This is most definitely a turf war...one that needs to be fought.
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Impeach the SOB. He is not the law.
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If W sends in federal marshals we will then have a full-fledged constitutional crisis.
No worse than sending the National Guard to ensure people get to attend the university of their choice, or to enforce busing.
I'm still not entirely sure what's right or wrong in this case, but I definitely know that Greer and Whittemore need to be removed from the bench.
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It's hard to keep personal emotions away from this case. I'm still trying to grab it.
From what I understand, all court rulings are based on two basic questions:
1) Is Terri in a PVS?
2) What is (or rather was) her wish in such a case?
If she is and if in such a case she didn't want to be kept in that state, she has the right to die and the courts should enforce her will.
All specialists, who examined her, some over lengthy periods of time, have stated at court that Terri is indeed in a PVS, and the courts have believed them and ruled this way.
So, did she want her PVS to be terminated? She can't tell us, but if I understand it right, the husband is (by law) the person who makes decisions for her, and if Terri did tell him that in such a case she would not want to live, I consider it the husband's duty to fulfil her wishes. The courts have found no reason not to believe what the husband says about Terri's wishes, and from what I read he isn't the only one Terri told about her wishes.
The parents have never been able to show that Terri wished something else. They only assume what Terri as a Catholic and listening to a speech the Pope gave later might have wished. That's not good enough.
Now a lot of things against the husband have been brought up after res iudicata. He has been offered a million dollars if he just let go, so that doesn't speak for financial interests in having Terri die. The 11th hour allegations of those nursery assistants are a bit questionable. If they tolerated such abusive behavior I have some doubts about their work ethics. If they feared for their job that's not good enough. That they did not even speak up after they left their job is very dubious.
Also, I don't see, how that last minute "specialist", who in an hour and after watching two video clips came to his conclusions, can seriously put all previous diagnosis in question, especially given his affiliations which may make him partisan.
As for the "custody case": Terri is not an unprotected helpless human being. She has had every legal protection possible, her case has been extensively reviewed. The only reason to take her into Jeb's custody would be to defy the explicit court order, and that's a contempt of court the judge has a right to prevent.
I know many of this sounds cold and unemotional. Believe me, I'm not. I cannot exclude a 100% that Terri did not get a fair dealing. But in that she would hardly be the only person. There is a time when all legal options have been exhausted.
Americans don't question this when it comes to the death penalty. Scott Peterson has been sentenced to death on circumstantial evidence. He is probably guilty, but would you bet your fortune on it? Now, when he has exhausted all legal options, do you expect George Bush to make a "Lex Peterson" and make federal courts review his case "de novo"? And if the federal courts rule against Scott and the Supreme Court (again) refuses to consider his case, do you expect Arnold Schwarzenegger to step in in Scott's favor and take him into protectice custody to save him from execution, just because some expert tells Arnie that Scott "might" be innocent and not everything has been considered in his case?
The law can suck sometimes, for sure. There is a possibility that Terri becomes a victime of the law, which would be sad. But this can happen again tomorrow with an innocent person who receives the death penalty. If life trumpets everything and even the remotest possibility exists that this principle is violated by law, you should not have the death penalty.
On a personal level I'm very torn. I wouldn't want to be the judge in that case.
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Well, I've got my flameproof jacket on, so here goes ....
I suspect Michael Schaivo did indeed make sure his wife wouldn't get the therapy and stimulation that might have helped her after her accident. I'm also pretty sure that at this point it's highly unlikely that there is anything left of Terri as a person in there, either because of the original accident or because of neglect since then. I mean, come on people - no EEG means no brain activity.
I really dislike how this case has played out. The husband is a greedy jerk, the family understandably grieving and the woman has suffered a tragic fate.
But nothing is going to make things better for her now, except perhaps giving her water to make death easier.
And the precedent of the executive branch stepping in where the courts have ruled is a very very dangerous one. There may be a good time and place for that, but I just don't see this poor shell of what was once a woman being the case that justifies it.
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I believe she's in a PVS (no doctor who has actually examined her has ever concluded otherwise) and that she has no hope of recovery.
But this is not a DNR, or a decision to forego extraordinary measures. They're going to starve/dehydrate to death a physically functional human being. You can't do that to a dog.
This is murder, pure and simple. The fact that the victim doesn't know it doesn't reduce the shame of it a bit.
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Whittemore has granted another hearing for 6:00 PM EST. What is this all about? I've got Hannity streaming, and it is odd. I thought this guy already said "NO". Now he wants to hear new arguements...
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I should add one thing: IF substantial evidence comes up after res iudicata, of course the courts must step in again. That would be the same in death penalty cases.
Removing the tube and starving a person to death sounds barbaric and cruel, but doctors state that any discomfort a patient might have is taken care of.
Cutting off a leg, operating a heart etc. sounds extremly cruel as well but if the person is unconscious and can't feel anything, it is not.
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There may be a good time and place for that, but I just don't see this poor shell of what was once a woman being the case that justifies it. I dunno, I think the chance to stop state sanctioned muder just may be. TGA, there is no evidence, NONE, one way or the other regarding Terri's wishes. What's scary here is the willingness of Judge Greer to accept at face value the husbands word of what her wishes are when it means certain death for a US citizen. This entire case has been handled very poorly by all parties. Plenty of guilt to go around...we're all sullied by this.
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Rex Mundi, from what I know such a case wouldn't be possible in Germany. The removal of the tube would qualify as (illegal) euthanasia, unless the patient were in a terminal state (means he would die very shortly anyway at this is done to make his death easier and merciful.
Which certainly isn't the case with Terri. She has lived 15 years in this situation and maybe she could live another 15 years with that. So yes, it's a very problematic case. But obviously the procedure is legal.
The only solution I see is that Congress makes a law prohibiting the removal of alimentation as long as the patient is not terminally ill. It could be done today.
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It is human instinct to hang on tooth and nail to life for however long as possible. Most of us SAY that if we made it to 95 years old, we'd die happy. That is until we turn 94 and then 95 doesn't seem so far off.
This woman's death will most certainly be caused by unnatural causes. Speaking as a parent, which a lot of us on here undoubtedly are, I would unhesitatingly spend the rest of my days caring for one of my children in the same shape as Mrs. Schiavo. Her parents seem quite willing to do that in this case.
In the absence of any positive evidence, and based strictly on hearsay, I cannot believe that this is happening in these the United States of 2005. It is just criminal.
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Most true TGA, it could. And, perhaps it will. This is just one fight. Terri's life certainly has value at least for exposing the arrogance of certain judges. Yes, the procudure is legal, but was it exercised correctly?
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I know all too well how precious life is. I have clinged to my life in the most miserable situations and I have witnessed others doing the same.
We must be very careful with judging life as "not worth living".
I don't know whether judges have been "arrogant" in this case. They did follow the law and proper legal procedures. Or were serious doubts about the husband's behavior raised earlier in court? (In that case, "in dubio pro vita" should have prevailed.
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My wife died three years ago of ovarian cancer (technically). She got to the point where the tumor had completely blocked her intestines and could not even drink water. She had a port put in place in her jugular vein (I believe) and had all nourishment and liquid done that way. She was also a diabetic. She was not going to get better, only slowly get worse. The pain was very bad and the morphine pump helped but it got to the point even that didn't help much. She quit taking her insulin and repeatedly disconnected and finally cut up the feeding tube. I could not get her to take the insulin, she said she had had enough. She lasted 3 days from when she refused the insulin so she actually didn't die from the cancer but from the effects of not taking the insulin. She was at home and as hard as it was I had to accept her wish to go on her own terms. This woman doesn't seem to be afforded that. There are a lot of issues here and I don't pretend to know them all. This case is different from Elizabeth's in that Terri can't decide for herself. She is not on life support and does seem to have some response to stimuli so I would say let her live on. Life is too precious to toy with.
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Shipman, I am 79, so in a hopeless situation the hospital doctors would quietly pull the plug with the consent of the family. The family usually opts for "no life prolonging measures". But they have no legal right to enforce it.
Doctors have much more power in that case than the patient. They are not forced to respect my will, even if it's stated clearly in a legal deposition. But they usually do.
Last year I had a close one..Liver and kidney failure..When I was admitted to the hospital I was so ill that I accepted death without fear. (just wanted an end to the misery)
If it weren't for our Lord, Drs., my family and the donor I would have been history for sure.
But even after weeks in intensive care with no food (except tube/IV), the only thing I desired was water. (besides getting well)
This is why I don't understand the decision to cut off water? Starving doesn't hurt (I lost 105 lbs. muscle) but dehydration is no fun..(my intake of water was restricted med/reasons)
I remember craving water more than anything else.
I can't imagine what it would be like spending years in a hospital bed, my heart goes out to her.
God bless her.
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I think it's pretty important to know who is behind the Terri Schiavo and why, at this link . This is social deconstruction in pure form, and the case illustrates the foundations behind the movement in favor of changing the fabric of American society.
#52
Glad you made it ANON. Sounds pretty rough. I just sympathize (sp?) with the parents in this case. I watched my 4 year old son go through chemo/radiation 10 years ago, and didn't think he would make it out. I guess that is why this case is hitting me so hard.
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"The requested intervention ... appears to be brought for the purpose of circumventing the courts' final judgment and order setting the removal date in violation of the separate of powers doctorate,"
This is from So-Called Judge Greer's Non-Opinion.
I don't care about the fact that might say I was wrong. I have too much of an ego to overrule myself...
#54
So basically Judge Greer is saying that separation of powers means he can kill her.
I wonder what this is going to mean to this country.
Everyone's decrying the actions at the national level as the "death of Federalism."
George Wallace said he was defending "States' Rights" when he tried to keep blacks from enrolling at the University of Alabama.
The end result... States' Rights died in this country for a couple generations, and maybe for good.
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Now.. THAT disturbs me...
What Greer seems to be saying is that the courts hold ALL the power in this case and any like it. There are no checks-and-balances...
#56
It is inaccurate to say that all dr's who have examined her have reached the same conclusion. Here is an affidavit from a FAAN who examined her this month and concluded that the diagnosis was not properly supported.
http://www.nationalreview.com/pdf/Affidavit.pdf
Here is an article that summarizes some more of the questions concerning the diagnosis:
As for taking an expert on cross: The experts offer opinions. You can (1) demonstrate the information underlying the opinion is inaccurate; and (2) demonstrate that other experts disagree with the opinion at issue. But, at the end, it is an opinion. Bad opinions often work: flat earth, earth center of solar system, spontaneous generation, et cetera.
#58
Precisely my point Dishman, therefore I do believe we have a constitutional crisis brewing here if we can't find politicians with the spine to stand up to these tyrants.
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Dishman: precisely. We're going to have _his_ dictatorship or someone else's. He's going to chortle that even if we get someone else's, we'll still suffer.
He hasn't figured out yet that if we become a society of strongmen instead of laws, low-level state judges are going to be some of the people with the least amount of freedom. Like in Orwell's _1984_, O'Brien didn't waste time persecuting the proles. He was too busy persecuting the party functionalities who were de jure in charge but de facto slave bureaucrats.
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I infer from his comments here that Jeb is not going to act. One potential actor has seemingly bowed out leaving only W with the authority to intervene.
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Azcat - I'm afraid W can't, legally, but hoping there's a way. Good Easter weekend situation
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Frank I'm afraid that the law ties the hands of both Jeb and W. The FL court's restraining order prohibiting Jeb from taking custody and the FL S.Ct.'s refusal this afternoon to overturn that order have handcuffed Jeb. If Terri is to live the solution will be extarlegal. The question now is whether morality or politics/legality is the prime mover in either Jeb or W's decision processes.
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Sadly yes.
We shouldn't lose sight of the procedural posture here: the law passed by Congress mandates a new hearing in a federal trial court. That hearing has NOT occurred, what occurred was merely a hearing requesting an order that Terri be kept alive long enough for the courts to hold the hearing mandated by Congress. In refusing to keep her alive long enough to hold that hearing, the federal courts have violated her right to due proces by actively working to frustrate the process mandated by Congress.
To me that is the most chilling aspect of this situation, that the judiciary will kill an innocent woman by blatantly ignoring the law in order to avoid raising valid questions about the boundaries of the authority of Congress & the judiciary. If that doesn't chill anyone here to the core I'd suggest that you're not paying attention.
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AzCat, if Congress mandated a new hearing and not just the right of the family to appeal at a federal court (an appeal than can be rejected), then I think the family's lawyer made a fatal mistake by not demanding a trial de novo BEFORE requesting the TRO.
Or did he?
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TGA - my understanding is that the De Novo petition was filed, especially in hopes of keeping status quo during th emeantime (tube in) . It appears to now be a judicial power play, letting Congress, Executive branch, know they have power
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Folks, I appreciate all of your heartfelt and well thought out comments. I believe that this case is thrown to the forefront because we as Americans have strayed from our path. It's kinda like slavery. Issues stay unresolved, then get to the forefront and become a focus. We are reaping the fruit of our moral relativism that was instilled into this country in the sixties. This is only one conflict, one focal point. There will be others, especially with the LLL losing at the ballot box. The only thing they have left is the judicial approach. If they lose that, then all they have left is mahem and guerilla war. This is a skirmish in a bigger battle. There will be more. I believe that Terri Schaivo's death will have a meaning, terrible as it is, as a focal point to this nation for facing some of its demons.
On a lower level, looking at the case, per se, Terri was short changed from the beginning. Her husband basically abandoned her to his common law wife, now with a couple of children. The morality of that is not important. The issue is that Mr. Schaivo has a conflict of interest in being Terri's guardian and that he cannot represent Terri's interests and insure that her rights are safeguarded. That is the beginning of why this case stinks to high heaven.
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Frank G, if Congress has the right to order a de novo trial, wouldn't denying it constitute a "contempt of Congress?"
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TGA - He did, the pleadings filed under the new federal law trigger a series of actions leading to a trial. Generally what happens is that the initial pleading is filed then amended one or more times before the trial actually occurs. In the interim there may be one or more preliminary hearings before the actual trial (one such preliminary hearing and appeals therefrom is what we just saw) and the pleadings may be amended by the parties multiple times to properly assert all claims & rights before the trial begins. Hence the pleadings put the judiciary on notice that the plaintiff was demanding a trial and what just occurred was a normal preliminary pretrial hearing for a restraining order necessary to keep the issue in the case from becoming moot before the trial can be conducted. A loss in such a preliminary hearing does NOT vitiate the rights of the petitioner, nor does it indicate that the trial will not take place, it merely denies relief being granted before a trial is conducted.
But suppose that's not the case, suppose that a procedural technicality exists whereby a separate and distinct demand for a trial is required. Suppose further that T.Schiavo's attorney dropped the ball and failed to meet the required technicalities. Our federal courts have "broad powers in equity" to do things in the interests of justice. When it suits their purposes, they can hang their hats on technicalities, ignore or finesse technicalities, grant the parties leave to amend filings to comply with technicalities, raise issues of their own volition (this is somewhat unusual), etc. Thus even if a fatal procedural technicality exists it will normally be easily corrected by the party with leave of the court or by the court itself.
I don't understand how the federal courts can allow Terri to die before hearing her case. Their decisions smack of a turf war with the legislature and IMHO perserving judicial power is not reason enough to kill an innocent woman.
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If Congress has the right to order a de novo trial, wouldn't denying it constitute a "contempt of Congress?"
This and related issues are precisely what the judiciary is avoiding by allowing T.Schiavo to die before her trial occurs. If she lives and the trial proceeds all of the relevant Constitutional issues will be litigated, appealed, and examined by thousands of legal scholars. That's not a circumstance the judiciary is comfortable with.
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AzCat, I wouldn't dare to voice a final judgement about Terri.
But as long as a trial has not been thrown out it seems absurd to me not to issue a TRO, that actually ensures that a trial can take place and the person receives the necessary protection.
I have seen such judicial behavior in Germany, but not in cases about death and life. You see frequent appeals to the German Highest Court, and often the Court refuses temporary orders because it either thinks the case won't have a decent chance to succeed or the damage done by refusing a TRO isn't big enough to put the case in jeopardy.
In this case, it is the all important thing.
Imagine a death penalty case in which a new trial is ordered but execution not stayed. I guess we'd see riots.
A gay and nudist cruise was barred from stopping at the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis on Wednesday after authorities said the group would offend local customs. A police patrol boat stopped a Windjammer Barefoot Cruises ship carrying 110 passengers on a six-day cruise as it was approaching Charlestown, Nevis, the ship's captain Cornelius Plantefaber said. Plantefaber said three officers boarded the ship and demanded he accompany them to a meeting onshore that lasted an hour with port authority, police, customs and immigration officials. The Nevis port authority confirmed that they barred the ship from docking. The ship's name is the S.V. Polynesia, a 248-foot four-mast schooner, and most of the passengers aboard are Americans, the captain said. "We don't want it to be a part of our culture," said acting general manager of the Nevis port authority, Oral Brandy. "It's not a practice society likes here."
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"Windjammer Barefoot Cruises" Those guys have shoes on?
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"We don't want it to be a part of our culture," said acting general manager of the Nevis port authority, Oral Brandy. "It's not a practice society likes here."
Jihad! Jihad on you, infidel!
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RC, I don't know about brandy, but sherry kills.
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It was some years back, and I think the people there quickly decided they'd rather have the tourists' money rather than care about who they were screwing.
The head of the BBC, which this week announced thousands of job losses, bit a journalist on the arm when he edited the Nine o'Clock News, it was revealed last night. The story was told in an e-mail to Jeremy Paxman when he was doing research on Mark Thompson, the director-general, for an interview last January. He wrote to Anthony Massey, a journalist at the BBC, and asked him: "I've got to interview Mark Thompson tomorrow. Is it true that he once bit you?" Mr Massey confirmed that the report was true.
"It was late summer or early autumn of 1988," he said. "I was a home news organiser. It was 9.15 in the morning, in the middle of the old sixth-floor newsroom. I went up to his desk to talk about some story after the 9am meeting we used to have then. I was standing next to him on his right and he was sitting reading his horoscope in the Daily Star (I always remember that detail). Before I could say a word he suddenly turned, snarled and sank his teeth into my left upper arm, leaving marks through the shirt but not drawing blood. It hurt. I pulled my arm out, like a stick out of the jaws of a labrador."
Mr Massey said that the attack was entirely unprovoked. "The key thing is that we did not have a row first, or even speak, and I had never had any dispute with him before. He was recently arrived in the newsroom and I hardly knew him. He just bit me in the arm for no reason." A BBC spokesman confirmed that the incident was true but said: "It is firmly in the past".
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...Overpaid LLL cannibals: Why do they hate us?
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An obvious loony becomes the head of the Beeb, it says it all.
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I'm trying to imagine how good someone would have to be at his job before I'd keep him around after biting someone for no apparent reason. I don't think it's possible - and darn unlikely at the BBC.
Caracas, marzo 22.- El secretario del Consejo Nacional de Seguridad y Defensa de Venezuela, general Melvin López Hidalgo, dijo que se estä conformando una "Reserva Popular" con un millón de personas para defender al paÃs de una eventual invasión de Estados Unidos, informó al diario Ultimas Noticias.
En entrevista exclusiva con ese rotativo, el oficial precisó que el cuerpo de reservas populares funcionarä al margen de la reserva "tradicional" ya constituida de las fuerzas armadas que siguen bajo el mando del general Mario Arveläez Rengifo.
El militar añadió que la organización de las reservas "serä mäs flexible y sólo accederän a armamento para entrenar o para usarlo en acción", mientras que no estä decidido si "cobrarän" por su labor.
Asà mismo, desechó que los reservistas puedan ser usados para amedrentar o perseguir a los adversarios del gobierno porque "las armas estarän bajo control" y porque "no es para atacarnos, sino para defendernos".
El oficial aseguró que "han determinado que existen efectivamente las amenazas" contra Venezuela y que incluso ya Estados Unidos junto a otros paÃses "ensayó" una invasión al paÃs, en una fecha que no precisó.
López relató que le explicó esa situación "a los agregados militares de Estados Unidos en mi despacho y trataron de disculparse".
Chävez anunció este domingo el nombramiento del general Julio Quintero Viloria como jefe de las "reservas populares y la movilización nacional" y ordenó a los comandos de guarnición que conformen "unidades bäsicas de defensa".
"Hay que articular una reserva militar y la organización popular, no se trata de tener sólo a las tropas de reservas en los batallones, no, es el pueblo todo", resaltó el mandatario. (DPA)
I think Chavez is competing with the Ayatollah and all the other Middle Eastern despots for the title of most deranged man in power!
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Caracas, March 22. - In a statement to the newspaper Ultimas Noticias, the Secretary of the National Council of Security and Defense of Venezuela, General Melvin Lopez Hidalgo, said that a "Popular Militia Reserve" comprised of a million people is being created with the purpose of defending the country against a possible invasion by the United States.
"We will have a working Popular Militia regiment, which I call a National Reserve, in less than a year. Its creation is already in the workings and it would be comprised of almost a million people ready to fight a fourth generation war or an asymmetrical war with the use of weapons and whatever is necessary to defend the country against a possible US invasion.", he said to the newspaper Ultimas Noticias.
In exclusive interview with the city newspaper, the Officer specified that the Popular Militia Reserve will work at the margin of "the traditional" reserves already part of the Armed Forces under the command of General Mario Arveläez Rengifo.
Lopez denied that the new Popular Militia Reserve forms a parallel army, as the Opposition accuses, although "it will not depend on the National Armed Forces (FAN)".
"It would not be a parallel military service or a militia at the service of the president. It would be a Strategic reserve. This strategic reserve would not depend on the FAN nor would it operate within its confines. It would be scattered throughout the country and its reservists will be trained wherever they work, in their hometowns and in oil facilities, where they will defend or destroy the latter in the event of an US Invasion," the Major said.
The Officer added that the organization of the reserves "will be more flexible and they will only have access to weapons to train or to be used in action." To this point, it has not been decided if they will get paid to serve."
Also, he rejected that the reservists could be used to intimidate or to persecute the adversaries of the government because "the weapons will be under strict control" and because "it is not for attacking the population but for self defense"
The Officer guaranteed that "they have determined that the threats" against Venezuela exist and that indeed, the United States and other countries, at a date he did not specified, had rehearsed an invasion of the country.
"Armies of the United States, Spain and Great Britain, peculiarly the same countries that invaded Iraq, had already planned a joint invasion, as shown by the execution of a simulated invasion known as ' Balboä." The Officer affirmed.
Lopez said that, at a meeting in his office, he explained the situation "to the military attaches of the United States, who tried to apologize for their actions."
Chävez announced this Sunday the appointment of General Julio Quintero Viloria as head of the "popular reserves and the national movement" and ordered the Commanders of the different Garrisons to create "basic units of defense".
"It is necessary to articulate a military reserve and a Popular Reserve. It is not enough to have just battalion troops... no, the whole country has to be involved," said the mandatary. (DPA)
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ugo is posturing for head of the international. Since saddams on ice, the party needs a new and ever willing dictator to fill the void. How do I know this? He recently made the obligatory trip to india to seek the blessing of the Indian communist oligarchy. He has the obligatory Oil wealth, through which the International will suck its disproportionate share.....He has the ego and bluster to take on the US, and why not. He is "ugo" da demigod still sporting ten fingers and ten toes....
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So he's basically arming _his_ faction and giving them orders to destroy the country's sole means of foreign exchange if things go south for them.
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one shot. one kill. message sent
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Ebbeath Gleart2775,
I think this one is definitely for internal consumption. The imbecile spent $500,000 in 6 months in lobbying every major newspaper, US Representative and Senator that the staff from the Chavez's financed office in Washington, DC (Venezuelan Information Office (VIO)) could contact. The FARA (Foreign Agent Registration Act) document is 31 pages long and lists about 34 Senators and more than 10 Representatives. Innumerable newspapers are also listed. http://proveo.org/viofara0804.pdf
Peru's ex-President Alberto Fujimori - exiled after a corruption scandal - has pinned his hopes for a political comeback on a cola drink. He has given his backing to Fuji-Cola, a new drink he claims will "quench the thirst of popular discontent".
The former president's supporters want the drink to boost his profile and fund his campaign for re-election in 2006.
Mr Fujimori fled to Japan in 2000 as his decade-long presidency collapsed in allegations of corruption and torture.
Peruvian prosecutors have been pushing for Japan to extradite him so he can be tried on charges ranging from murder and kidnapping.
Mr Fujimori denies the charges and Japanese authorities have refused all requests for his extradition.
He says he will contest Peru's presidential election next year, despite a ban on him holding public office until 2010.
A spokesman for Mr Fujimori in Lima, Carlos Raffo, told the Reuters news agency the drink is "a creative way to finance his campaign".
"People will associate the drink with all the horrible memories good feelings they have about Alberto Fujimori," he said.
According to local media, Mr Fujimori's son Kenji has applied for Fuji-Cola to be registered as a trademark for the manufacture of beers, mineral waters and fizzy drinks. I would have started with the beer, myself....
A top U.N. investigator clashed with Cuban officials Wednesday over her report criticizing human rights conditions on the communist-ruled island. Cuban Ambassador Jorge Mora Godoy told the U.N. Human Rights Commission that Christine Chanet was playing into the hands of the U.S. campaign against Havana. But Chanet, a French legal expert, slammed Cuban authorities from banning her from the country, making it "almost impossible" to prepare balanced report. The clash occurred when Chanet presented her report on human rights in Cuba to the 53-nation commission, which is part-way through its annual six-week session. The commission is the world body's top human rights watchdog. Cuba has never allowed a U.N. human rights envoy to visit the island, claiming such visits could infringe on its sovereignty. Chanet prepared her report based on meetings with campaigners, human-rights investigators and other governments. "This report, based on lies and slander, only serves as a platform for the anti-Cuban campaign of the government of the United States, which is completely immoral," Godoy told the commission.
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At least she didn't have to sit through one of El Jefe's speeches!
A Belarussian military instructor plays with her dog in a frontier guards' cynology center near the town of Smorgon, some 140 km north-west of Minsk, March 23, 2005. Every year the center prepares more than one hundred instructors with trained dogs for guarding Belarus' border.
Billionaire investor George Soros was found guilty of insider trading by a French appeals court, confirming a 2002 conviction and threatening to prolong a 16-year legal affair. The Paris appeals court ruled that Soros's 1988 purchase of Societe Generale SA shares with the knowledge that it was a takeover target broke French insider trading laws. Odile Faivre, head of the court's three-judge panel, read out the verdict. Soros wasn't present in the room. The verdict marks the only legal stain on Soros's 40-year investing career. It comes at a time when Soros, 74, is no longer actively investing and has turned his attention to political and charitable activities. Soros spent $26.5 million in a failed effort to defeat President George Bush in last year's U.S. presidential elections. ``Mr. Soros maintains his innocence,'' said Michael Vachon, his spokesman. ``He will appeal this case. He is confident that he will ultimately be vindicated in this matter and that justice will be served.''
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What? No! It can't be? George Soros corrupt enough to get even the French pissed off? This must be Scrappleface!
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Come to the Islands! We have off-shore banking. Like some troll at RB said.... meaning you wade out to the ATMs.... but I digress. Come to the Islands!
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Or: 'Business as usual in the snake pit'. Tony Blair was humiliated yesterday when Jacques Chirac attacked Britain's £3 billion EU rebate hours after the Prime Minister had come to his aid in a row over economic reform. In the latest clash between the leaders, the French president pocketed a deal designed to help him win a Yes vote in France's referendum on the EU constitution on May 29. But instead of repaying the Prime Minister by avoiding sensitive issues before a likely May election in Britain, he went out of his way to complain about the rebate Margaret Thatcher won in 1984.
He launched his attack - in response to a question about the shape of the budget from 2007 to 2013 - during a press conference soon after Mr Blair left an EU summit in Brussels. "We can only truthfully achieve an appropriate balance if we reopen the debate on the British cheque [rebate]," he said. The rebate might have had some justification when it was secured by "Monsieur Thatcher" - an interesting slip of the tongue - but it could "no longer be justified; it is from the past".
British officials, who had spent two days denying that the rebate was an issue at the summit, immediately circulated a four-page document setting out why it had to be defended at all costs. The rebate aims to address the way that EU spending is dominated by agricultural subsidies largely favouring small farmers. There are millions of smallholders in France, which designed the system, but few in Britain. A Government spokesman said the rebate was "fully justified in 1984 and is fully justified now. Even with it, Britain pays two and a half times as much into the EU budget as France in absolute terms. Without it, it would be 14 times as much. Between 1984 and 2002 Britain paid £38 billion into the EU budget, compared with France's £19 billion.
Senior Conservative MPs interpreted Mr Chirac's comments as a sign that Mr Blair was not defending Britain's interests in Brussels. Graham Brady, the shadow Europe minister, said: "The rebate was won by a Conservative government and is absolutely crucial to the UK. Given Labour's record of surrender in EU negotiations, we simply do not trust this Government to keep it." Speaking shortly before Mr Chirac's outburst, Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, promised to support the use of Britain's "absolute veto" to protect the rebate. While that is the official line, Mr Blair is keen to strike a deal on the rebate at a Brussels summit in June even if it involves compromise. He wants the issue to be dealt with quietly behind the scenes, with a decision reached shortly after the election expected on May 5. Sources say that this would avoid the rebate becoming a divisive issue between the Yes and No camps during the British referendum campaign on the constitution.
Mr Chirac's intervention was particularly painful for Mr Blair because he regards France as a potential ally in a broader battle against European Commission attempts to raise the union's budget to 1.26 per cent of GDP. The fight to limit the budget was supposed to unite six of the largest net contributors to EU coffers: Britain, France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden. But Mr Chirac said the budget battle was being led by "Germany, France and some others" and that scrapping Britain's rebate was "the key" to reaching a deal.
He boasted of his success in scrapping a package known as the services directive, strongly backed by Britain. A new directive would take into account the "European social model", Mr Chirac said, using EU code for retaining lavish welfare rights and worker protection common in the highly regulated markets of continental Europe. His words contradicted Downing Street claims that the directive was alive and well. It is aimed at slashing the bureaucracy that service industry professionals face when moving from one EU state to another. Mr Blair left the two-day summit without speaking to reporters. Only after his departure did officials from other nations disclose details of an ill-tempered debate over the services directive.
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Why not the simple solution? Don't send the money in the first place.
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This appears to have moved beyond the "working behind the scenes stage. Blair needs to publicly repudiate the quid pro quo, now that Chiraq has publicly gone back on his given word to take the quid out of the equation. Blair should also publicly apologize to his countrymen for foolishly trusting Chiraq, there have after all been ample proofs that the man's word is very definitely not his bond. Refusing to put the Constitution to a referendum under the circumstances is also necessary -- clearly it is not workable for Britain as it stands. I'm sorry Aris, but the EU Constitution, all 200+ pages of it, is worthless if France freely adjusts reality regardless of agreements made with the rest of Europe.
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Do you want to go from being a first-world country to a third-world country? Then try the new, improved "European social model"! Available for only 1.26 per cent of GDP in a limited time offer. Call M. Chirac today!
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Chirac reminds me of that old story about a scorpion and a frog. He just can't stop himself from stabbing others in the back, can he?
(Both of them were on a piece of land slowly being surrounded by water, and the water was getting deeper and faster by the minute. The scorpion asked the frog to carry him on his back when he swam across to safety. The frog refused, because he was afraid that the scorpion would sting him. The scorpion promised that he wouldn't do that. So the frog let the scorpion on his back and started swimming. They were almost on the other shore when the scorpion stung the frog. The frog asked the scorpion why he did that, since now they would both die. The scorpion said it was because he couldn't help himself.)
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Someone should open a debate in Britain about a "Post-EU Britain", if for no other reason, than to create a meme that such a thing is not unthinkable. It could use as an axiom that the EU will fail, and what will Britain do then? With the "paper EU" still in existence, like the Holy Roman Empire, but universally ignored except by the dwindling number of bureaucrats who still issue empty demands and threats from Brussels, Britain will again have to re-establish its identity as a unique political and cultural entity. Britain will need to form shifting alliances and enmities with other Continental powers, such as Germany and Poland; which would more represent economic blocs in competition than hostile military agreements.
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I believe the traditional story has the fox carrying the gingerbread-boy across the river. As they get into deeper water the fox convinces the gingerbread-boy to move closer and closer to his mouth. Eventually, the fox gobbles-up the cookie-boy.
Bottom line: don't trust a fox to go against his nature. Especially if you are a tasty ginger-bread boy.
Does this mean the UK is actually a floating island of gingerbread in a rising tide of EU milk with fox-like Chirac getting ready to take a bite?
I don't know. Metaphore is stretched to the breaking point.
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"...Mr Blair... regards France as a potential ally..."
There's your problem, Tony -- ignoring a thousand years of English history.
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purdy boring version Leigh. ima know another version where breer fox takes the ride across the apalachicola on brother gators back and brother gator descides to eat brer fox in the middle of the river. in this version brer fox pulls out a double barrel sawyer from under his fine fur and blows brer gators head off, then calls in an ARC LIGHT against ALL KNOWN GATOR TERRITORY FROM GAINESVILLE SOUTH making it unsable for all. And thatn' how the story goes.
A senior Bosnian Serb general indicted in the 1995 massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica surrendered Wednesday to the U.N. war crimes tribunal, a court spokesman said. Vinko Pandurevic was driven to the U.N. detention center outside The Hague, Netherlands, after a flight from Belgrade arranged by the Serbian government. Serbian authorities had announced on Sunday that they had persuaded him to surrender.
Pandurevic has been indicted for genocide, violations of the laws or customs of war and crimes against humanity. The indictment against him was secretly issued in 1998 and unsealed in 2001. During Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Pandurevic commanded the Bosnian Serb army's so-called Zvornik Brigade. The brigade answered to commander Gen. Ratko Mladic and took part in the storming of Srebrenica, a U.N.-protected Muslim enclave, in July 1995. The onslaught was followed by summary executions of Muslim males in what became Europe's worst carnage since World War II. The indictment alleges Pandurevic intended to ethnically cleanse Srebrenica in an orchestrated effort to "destroy a part of the Bosnian Muslim people as a national, ethnical or religious group."
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University of Colorado officials said today a professor's controversial essay comparing some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi is protected by the Constitution, but allegations that he committed plagiarism and that he misrepresented himself as an American Indian will be investigated further.
A faculty committee will examine the claims against Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies. That committee could recommend that he be fired...
Acting CU Chancellor Phil DiStefano said a seven-week examination of Churchill's essay and other work concluded that "while there are limits to the protections afforded by the Constitution, our review has determined that those limits have not been exceeded in professor Churchill's case."
He said a faculty committee would review allegations that Churchill plagiarized the work of other researchers and claims that he falsely claimed to be an American Indian.
Churchill has repeatedly denied both allegations and has said he would sue the university if he is fired.
"We have concluded that the allegations of research misconduct, related to plagiarism, misuse of others' work and fabrication, have sufficient merit to warrant further inquiry," said DiStefano.
He said that review could take up to nine months...
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should suspend him without pay for that on-camera assault of the TV reporter/cameraman - then fire his ass. He's a grifter with a good imagination: historian, indian, artist, social commentator, professor. The faculty that accepted him reminds me of an emperor story...something about lack of clothes
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Manitoba police and justice officials are warning parents of what they call a disturbing trend. They say young teens are posing nude in front of webcams and sending the pictures out on the Internet. Justice Minister Gord Mackintosh says he's concerned parents and families are losing control. Lianna McDonald, executive director of Child Find Manitoba, says it's becoming a more common practice for teens, especially girls. She says an Internet snitch line has received 10 such complaints in the last few months. McDonald says the majority of cases involved girls between 13 and 15-years old. Inspector Boyd Campbell says Winnipeg police get a minimum of two or three complaints a month from parents whose children posed in front of a webcam and had the images make the rounds in cyberspace or at school. It makes you wonder if many females don't have some 'biological imperative' to exhibit. And, if so, what value will trying to outlaw it have?
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It's Rathergate all over again, and the same vigilant entities that brought about to the collapse of CBS News could now also cause heads to roll among Democratic Senate leadership staffers and further shame multiple news organizations that would appear to have fallen for another document hoax. Very quietly, Senate Republican leadership aides to both Sen. Rick Santorum and Sen. Mitch McConnell, as well as the Senate Republican Policy Committee, have been using the Senate recess break to reconstruct the purported distribution of a document that media outlets, including ABC News, the New York Times and a number of regional newspapers, identified as Senate "GOP talking points" on the Terri Schiavo fight that unfolded over the weekend.
"There is a process here for documents like this that are passed around down on the Senate floor, which is where the media claimed that the 'talking points' were being distributed last Thursday," says a Republican policy committee staffer. "There was a lot of stuff going on Thursday, but a document like this one was not being distributed. As far as we know, the only documents being handed out related to votes on a series of amendments being pushed through before the recess. Schiavo wasn't part of that package."
The document, which was posted online by ABC News, as well as several Democratic-leaning websites, was unsigned, bore no Senate office letterhead, and was rife with errors, including the incorrect Senate bill number and the misspelling of Schiavo's name. For days, Republicans denied any knowledge of the document, and a number of Republican Senators claimed they had never seen it. Beginning over the weekend, when doubts about the document first appeared on the blogosphere, the document's provenance began to unspool. Conservative blogs Powerline, In the Agora, and Fishkite all have been out front on the story. A number of blogs found language almost identical to the "talking points" on a post at the Traditional Values Coalition website. ABC News then posted the language of the purported document but not the actual document itself.
ABC News earlier this week was claiming to a number of online reporters that it never intended to create the impression that this was a Republican-generated document, only that it had been circulated among Republican Senators. The Washington Post claimed that it had confirmed the document's provenance, but could not reveal the source. However, Republican leadership staffers now believe the document was generated out of the Democratic opposition research office set up recently by Sen. Harry Reid, and distributed to some Democratic Senate staffers claiming it was a GOP document, in the hope -- or more likely expectation -- that it would then be leaked by those Democrats to reporters. In fact, the New York Times stated that it was Democratic staffers who were distributing the "talking points" document.
"Democrats have tried to pin this document on Santorum's staff, on [Sen. Bill] Frist's staff, on [Sen. Sam] Brownback's staff," says a Senate leadership staffer. "Watching the investigation underway on line has energized us enough up here to want to at least confirm that we weren't the source, and everything we have found would confirm that Republicans didn't generate this memo. This is just amateurish, and perhaps Democratic staffers think we put out work product like this, but it's laughable." The staffer added that while just about any House or Senate staffer with an email account could readily distribute a document, it was a huge stretch to believe that such a document would end up being widely distributed by or even to Senators in the cloakroom or in the well of the Senate. "This has all the telltale signs of a political dirty trick," says the staffer.
Other Republican staffers blame not only Democrats but also the mainstream media which once again put out a story to embarrass Republicans before checking all the facts first. Republicans staffers looking into the "talking points" case believe that at least some of the language used for the original Traditional Values Coalition may have come from documents pulled together by the staff of Sen. Mel Martinez, who has been out front on the Schiavo case, and pressed hard for federal action to save her life. But there is no evidence that the talking points were a Martinez staff product.
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...further shame multiple news organizations that would appear to have fallen for another document hoax.
Maybe it's me, but I see not one shred of evidence that any MSM news organization feels any shame whatsoever towards their liberal bias or political hit pieces 'shoddy research' passed off as news.
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It's not that there aren't real stories out there. It's that the MSM are too lazy to go after them. Itâs just plain easier to make things up that fit your agenda than to go out and look for actual stories. The editorial room of the New York Times is only marginally different from that of the National Enquirer at this point in history.
One would think that the MSM would learn that people don't buy their crap anymore and no amount of fake documents will change it. The sad thing is, when a real document that leads to, oh say corruption, will be discounted by the majority of people now because they will see it as another fake document.
President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as "vigilantes."
He said he would pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law.
More than 1,000 people — including 30 pilots and their private planes — have volunteered for the Minuteman Project, beginning next month along the Arizona-Mexico border. Civilians will monitor the movement of illegal aliens for the month of April and report them to the Border Patrol... Slightly incorrect. Vigilantes are a group that forms to *execute* punishment, not to *assist* law enforcement. Were these real vigilantes, they would be erecting gibbets and hanging illegals from them as an (effective) detterent to others. If this group is brushed aside, the end result might be creation of a real vigilante movement. Would the government commit the resources to arrest vigilantes when it would not do so to arrest illegals? And how many illegals would be turned back just by witnessing an empty noose hanging on a tree branch? Would that be a "hate crime"? What about simple posters that, in Spanish, tell illegals to "go home"?
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He said he would pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law.
What a douchebag.
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This is one of the only things I seriously disagree with W about. He hasn't given and real reason for letting the illegals in. I just don't get it and I wish sucess for the Minutemen.
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Dang - sucess should be success in my post above. Eating lunch and typing is hard.
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The laissez faire haphazard enforcement of our laws preventing illegals from pouring into our country erodes the basic contract a citizen has with its government.
In other words, it dilutes the status of citizens.
I admire W and voted for him twice, but in this matter he's out of touch...with me anyhow.
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I can't agree more--If W would encourage the agencies to enforce the damn immigration laws, these civvies wouldn't feel the need to be vigilantes!
This is f'ing brilliant--let's keep the borders wide open while we frisk little old ladies at the airports and confiscate toenail clippers.
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I wouldn't look for it to change any time soon. Bush has a hard-on for Mexicans that defies reason.
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I'd love for him to explain why he thinks this is such a good idea.
Perhaps he is just pandering to the large illegal population in TX, but for what reason?
Anyhow, IMO he is way off base on this. I'm for an Israeli style wall.
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At one time in Alabama a person could get a permit to mine his property aslong as it was well labeled as such. Don't know if one still can.
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No mystery why he thinks it's a good idea: cheap labor. Illegals will watch kids and work in landscaping, factories and restaurants for wages few if any legal immigrants or citizens will accept. And to be fair, many of them will work harder at it, too. What price has WalMart or any local day care or restaurant ever paid when they're caught with their hand in the illegal work force cookie jar? If it was as risky as it should be to hire these folks, we wouldn't need citizen patrols or fences at the border.
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Cheap labor is a myth. Anything that is illegal costs more because of the need to compensate for the risks involved. I.e. the US would have cheaper labor by bringing in (temporary) migrants under a work permit system. FWIW Singapore has an extensive and strictly enforced system which is a major source of government revenue.
Otherwise a government should not make laws it cannot or will not enforce.
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Sorry. Guess I wasn't aware that criticizing Bush constituted trolling. I just find it absurd that a President who will treat the UN with the disdain it deserves, and who shows utter disinterest for the EU's moralistic BS, absolutely grovels at the feet of a Third World shithole like Mexico.
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It was just a guess. Bet I'm wrong, course groveling at TW shitholes... is good troll imagery. 9.45.
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Well, as long as he doesn't actually DO anything about them, like try to actually stop the Minutemen ... then I'll accept the above as a shell game for the cameras.
If those words're actually meant, we'd have a problem.
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That's nutz Edward! This Minutemen dress-up and play solider crap is insane.
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President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as "vigilantes."
He said he would pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law.
Bad news. GWB needs to respect our laws more than he needs to please Vicente Fox.
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I suppose the President will also come out against Neighborhood Watch groups, which do exactly the same thing (look for criminals and report them to law enforcement).
This issue might be enough to assure us of President Hillary Clinton.
BigEd has served as a juror in LA county : 4 trials - 4 convictions in 20 years. One Drug Dealer, One Burgular, Two Drunk Drivers...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- District Attorney Steve Cooley says Robert Blake was "guilty as sin" and the jurors who acquitted him of murder were "incredibly stupid."
A jury last week found the former "Baretta" star not guilty in the 2001 slaying of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, who was shot in a car outside a restaurant where the couple had dined.
"Quite frankly, based on my review of the evidence, he is as guilty as sin. He is a miserable human being," Cooley said Wednesday.
Blake's attorney, M. Gerald Schwartzbach, said the district attorney's attack on the jurors was inappropriate and "small-minded."
Juror Chuck Safko said: "To hear him say we aren't a smart jury is sour grapes. They didn't have a good case. Their case was built around witnesses who weren't truthful."
We all make mistakes. I voted for this bozo. He was the one who defeated Gil Garcetti, the DA that messed up the Simpson trial. We in L.A. can't catch a break.
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Hey ya big jamoke! I beat da wrap! Ya hear me? I beat it! Da suits din win dis time! And dats da name of dat tune!
Now I'm gonna party with Mimi, Rooster 'n Fred!
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"To hear him say we arenât a smart jury is sour grapes. They didnât have a good case. Their case was built around witnesses who werenât truthful."
That should give the DA pause to think just a little bit. Pretty damning critique from a juror. Credibility is always an issue, and an important one at that for the prosecution.
Terri Schiavo is surrounded by major players in the right-to-die movement.
Ready for this, gang? Read on.
Michael Schiavo . . . hired George Felos as his attorney and Dr.Ronald Cranford as an expert neurologist. Dr. Ronld Cranford was a member of the board of the former Euthanasia Society of America, which eventually merged with Partnership for Caring.
Partnership for Caring lists Mary Labyak as a current member of their Board of Directors; she is also the CEO of the hospice where Terri Schiavo lives. Both George Felos and Barbara Sheen Todd have served on the Board of Directors for that same hospice; Mr. Felos was in fact the Chairman of the Board until Terri Schiavo was moved there.
Mrs. Todd serves as a Pinellas County commissioner.
uh-oh
Judge George Greer served with her for eight years; it is he who has ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed. He also appointed a supposedly "neutral" neurologist, Dr. Peter Bambakidis of Ohio, to break the tie between doctors who disagreed about Terri's diagnosis. Dr. Bambakidis had never before testified in a case like Terri's, but his brother and George Felos have both served as officers in the American Hellenic Education Progressive Association.
Many of these individuals are leading activists in the right-to-die movement. They are exploiting Terri Schiavo in hopes of advancing their
deconstructionist
agenda . . . (which is) If Michael Schiavo and George Felos succeed in starving Terri to death, a legal precedent will have been set that will give guardians far greater leeway to order the starvation and dehydration of their wards.
It is instructive to review the activities of the key players . . .
Dr. Cranford has been an instrumental force in redefining the determination of death. Death was once defined as the time when the heart permanently stopped beating. Through Dr. Cranford's activism, it was changed to coincide with the cessation of brain waves. The motivation for this redefinition was so that human organs would survive the death of the patient and be available for transplant.
His critics? They thought his new criteria might lead to the eventual acceptance of euthanasia. History has proven his critics to be right.
Interestingly enough, Dr. Cranford's published definition of the Persistent Vegetative State differs substantially from Florida law. Court transcripts show that Judge George Greer used Dr. Cranford's
definition in assessing Terri, rather than Florida's stricter definition.
George Felos is proud to be a "crusader" in the right-to-die movement. In his book Litigation as Spiritual Practice (Blue Dolphin Publishing, 2002), he describes his religious beliefs and spiritual practices. These include engaging in a form of telepathy which he calls "soul-speak" to discern the wishes of comatose patients. Using the power of the mind, he believes we are all capable of creating even an automobile for
ourselves "out of the ether." While on a commercial plane flight, he once wondered how it would feel to die; he claims his thoughts caused the plane to descend towards a crash, and that God audibly admonished him afterward. His book also explains the motivation of the right-to-die movement: its adherents know "that keeping one alive against his wishes " artificially perpetuating the body once the spirit is ready to depart" is a defilement of life's final rite of passage." This explains his obvious distress when he declared Terri Schiavo was "abducted from her deathbed and her death process" by the actions of Florida's governor. Distressed or not, it is wrong for him to use the legal system to force his fanatical religious views on Terri, who is Roman Catholic.
to say the least . . . not to mention government interference with the establishment of (Terri's) religion
Partnership in Caring (linked to both Dr. Cranford and Mary Labyak) is an organization wedded to the right-to-die movement. Their website carries a message about the Terri Schiavo case without ever mentioning that Mary Labyak's hospice is Terri's home.
Don't know about y'all, but this is starting to make a lot more sense. Follow the money and the agenda of the left and, JACKPOT! --everytime.
Zimbabwe's ex-Information Minister Jonathan Moyo cried when asked if he was plotting a coup, President Robert Mugabe has told a campaign rally. Last month Mr Moyo decided to stand as an independent in the 31 March polls, after being sacked by the president. "We asked him whether he wanted to stage a coup... and tears started flowing down his cheeks," Mr Mugabe said in Mr Moyo's home district.
Electric wires attached to his private parts have that effect on people
Mr Moyo was Mr Mugabe's spokesman and the architect of tough media laws.
So we won't lose much sleep over his tears
He was disciplined by the ruling Zanu-PF party in December and dropped from the top policy body after campaigning against Mr Mugabe's choice for vice-president, Joyce Mujuru. At the campaign rally in the western area of Tsholotsho, attended by some 3,000 supporters, the president said Mr Moyo had met an army commander and hinted he may have been plotting a coup. "He did terrible things, going to the army commander," Mr Mugabe told the crowd, gathered in a dusty stadium outside a beer shop owned by Mr Moyo, reports the AFP news agency.
"So we're gonna do terrible things to him"
Mr Moyo, a professor of political studies, was once a harsh critic of Mr Mugabe before being named information minister. The media laws he drafted have seen the expulsion of foreign correspondents, the closure of the most popular daily paper and the threat of prison terms for journalists who work without a state licence. "No, Jonathan, you are clever, but you lack wisdom. You are educated, but you do not have wisdom," Mr Mugabe said.
"You got caught, and you are soooo screwed"
Mr Mugabe warned that Tsholotsho would head into "oblivion" if it voted for Mr Moyo.
I think that's a "hint"
The seat is currently held by the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
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Zimbabwe today vs. Rhodesia yesteryear: Liberation from what?
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Liberation from what?
a full belly
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UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday said that the situation in Ivory Coast was in danger of spinning "out of control" if militias in the divided African nation are not controlled. "The mobilisation of militia-type groups is increasing nationwide," Annan said in a report to the UN Security Council. "The armed militias must be reined in and their leaders, as well as those behind them, must be held accountable."
He warned: "There is a very real danger that events may spin out of control with incalculable consequences for the people ... and the sub-region as a whole."
Annan warned that the nation was at a "critical juncture" and urged both the government and rebels to implement steps toward peace. "Time is rapidly running out for the presidential and legislative elections, scheduled to be held within the next seven months, with protracted delays in their preparation and organisation," the UN chief said.
"The international community cannot replace or substitute the political will of the Ivorian leadership and people to move the peace process forward," Annan said.
That's the first correct thing he's said in a long time.
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I still have a video of the French forces murdering the protesting civilans. Nobody has clean hands there. They all all covered in Chocolate and Oil both key Ivory Coast products to the French.
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Chocolate is pretty key to me, too. Although I must say that I prefer the Belgian version to the French. The wonderful Mr. Wife brought back two boxes of Neuhaus truffels to celebrate T.Daughter #2's bat mitzvah with. I'll have you notice my nobility: we'll have waited a full fortnight to touch them!
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Such restraint,TW,is truly inspireing.
By the way,something I've always wondered.Isn't a Truffle a mushroom?
If so,the thought of eating a choclate covered mushroom is un-appealing.
One is a supposedly divinely flavoured mushroom, generally hunted with pigs or dogs in French forests, although they have become much rarer than heretofore, and may well be threatened with extinction if current trends continue. I think they are often found on the roots of beech trees -- or perhaps it's oaks -- but nobody has been able to successfully grow them in captivity.
The other is an equally divine -- or to some, even more so -- filled or hand-dipped chocolate. The Belgians are particularly known for their cream-based truffles, and those flavoured with liqueurs. They are made with such rich ingredients that they have a very short shelf life, even when refrigerated, and the cheat sheet included with the standard collections has specific eating instructions that in German begin, "Sit quietly in a comfortable chair in a 72F room..." :-)
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First excuse the ad. I have nothing to do with these folks and their products. Just pointing out that the cultured American product is much much cheaper and chefs have trouble telling it from the French/Italian products.
I beg to differ: www. oregonwhitetruffles.com
In 1878 Dr. H.W. Harkness first finds truffles in California. In 1899 he describes Tuber gibbosum Harkn. in a paper entitled, "California Hypogaeous Fungi", for the Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. In the paper, he laments the paucity of truffles in California, saying they might be comparable to European varieties.
In 1983 at Linn-Benton Community College, the late James Beard samples Tuber gibbosum and other native truffles. He declares it "at least as good...as [Italian] whites".
In 1985 Daniel B. Wheeler joins the North American Truffling Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to learning more about truffle ecology, preservation, and edibility.
In 1985 he meets a tree farmer near Oregon City, and suggests trying to inoculate native truffles in a pure stand of existing trees. The first inoculation takes place in June, 1986.
Later that year, success: Geopora cooperi has been cultivated exactly where inoculated. A larger inoculation using Tuber species found on the property is suggested, and instigated in November, 1986.
By October, 1987, truffles are found under the inoculated trees. By 1988 the area is producing fewer truffles, but they are much larger.
Sample harvest indicate production of several hundred pounds per acre.
By 1995 over 30 forages on the property have been held by the North American Truffling Society, Clackamas County Farm Forestry Association, Oregon Mycological Society and others. On this 80 acre property, over 60 species of hypogeous fungi have been collected, including several new to science. Wheeler forms Oregon White Truffles, and begins selling cultivated native truffles.
In 1996 Wheeler starts a web page, providing truffles and truffle information to the world.
No money down! Don't pay until after delivery. Payment not due until delivered.
Payment by money order or personal check OK.
Truffles are short lived and need to be refrigerated quickly after being received. No orders outside continental US, please.
Sorry, but we do not accept credit card orders.
Prices for all truffle varieties thru 9/30/05:
2 lbs. $590; 1.5 lbs. $445; 1 lb. $300; 8 ozl. $160; 4 oz. $80; 2 oz. $40. Prices for dried truffles are $30/ounce up to 3 ounces; $25/ounce 4 or more ounces. Dried truffle prices have a $10 Priority Mail/handling charge per order.
Minimum order 2 ounces any one species fresh; _OR_ 1 ounce any one species dried.
Express Mail order of 4 ounces to 1 pound is $17.85 plus $10 handling; Express Mail for 2 oz. is $13.65 plus $10 handling.
Orders filled on first ordered, first filled basis.
Notice how much cheaper they are from the expensive French offical truffles and experts have a hard time telling the taste difference. Photos
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Wednesday said that the situation in Ivory Coast was in danger of spinning âout of controlâ if militias in the divided African nation are not controlled.
Well, being as how Goo-fi can't offer up much in the way of a credible threat to meet such a development with anything resembling overwhelming force, why is he even bothering to comment?
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Wow! Thanks lots, 3dc - I've saved the site for future reference (I've friends who are serious cooks, unlike me). Good to know that the issue is only local extinction in France due to overhunting. After a while, Wheeler can generously offer to re-introduce the species from pure stock preserved in Oregon, along the lines of the French wine grape vines preserved in Chile after the French vineyards were destroyed by that fungus, I think at the turn of the last century. Schadenfreude is a terrible thing, but in this case a low-cost pleasure.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A gay and nudist cruise was barred from stopping at the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis on Wednesday after authorities said the group would offend local customs. A police patrol boat stopped a Windjammer Barefoot Cruises ship carrying 110 passengers on a six-day cruise as it was approaching Charlestown, Nevis, the ship's captain Cornelius Plantefaber said. Plantefaber said three officers boarded the ship and demanded he accompany them to a meeting onshore that lasted an hour with port authority, police, customs and immigration officials. The Nevis port authority confirmed that they barred the ship from docking. The ship's name is the S.V. Polynesia, a 248-foot four-mast schooner, and most of the passengers aboard are Americans, the captain said. "We don't want it to be a part of our culture," said acting general manager of the Nevis port authority, Oral Brandy. "It's not a practice society likes here."
The head of the BBC, which this week announced thousands of job losses, bit a journalist on the arm when he edited the Nine o'Clock News, it was revealed last night. The story was told in an e-mail to Jeremy Paxman when he was doing research on Mark Thompson, the director-general, for an interview last January. He wrote to Anthony Massey, a journalist at the BBC, and asked him: "I've got to interview Mark Thompson tomorrow. Is it true that he once bit you?" Mr Massey confirmed that the report was true.
A top U.N. investigator clashed with Cuban officials Wednesday over her report criticizing human rights conditions on the communist-ruled island. Cuban Ambassador Jorge Mora Godoy told the U.N. Human Rights Commission that Christine Chanet was playing into the hands of the U.S. campaign against Havana. But Chanet, a French legal expert, slammed Cuban authorities from banning her from the country, making it "almost impossible" to prepare balanced report. The clash occurred when Chanet presented her report on human rights in Cuba to the 53-nation commission, which is part-way through its annual six-week session. The commission is the world body's top human rights watchdog. Cuba has never allowed a U.N. human rights envoy to visit the island, claiming such visits could infringe on its sovereignty. Chanet prepared her report based on meetings with campaigners, human-rights investigators and other governments. "This report, based on lies and slander, only serves as a platform for the anti-Cuban campaign of the government of the United States, which is completely immoral," Godoy told the commission.
Billionaire investor George Soros was found guilty of insider trading by a French appeals court, confirming a 2002 conviction and threatening to prolong a 16-year legal affair. The Paris appeals court ruled that Soros's 1988 purchase of Societe Generale SA shares with the knowledge that it was a takeover target broke French insider trading laws. Odile Faivre, head of the court's three-judge panel, read out the verdict. Soros wasn't present in the room. The verdict marks the only legal stain on Soros's 40-year investing career. It comes at a time when Soros, 74, is no longer actively investing and has turned his attention to political and charitable activities. Soros spent $26.5 million in a failed effort to defeat President George Bush in last year's U.S. presidential elections. ``Mr. Soros maintains his innocence,'' said Michael Vachon, his spokesman. ``He will appeal this case. He is confident that he will ultimately be vindicated in this matter and that justice will be served.''
Tony Blair was humiliated yesterday when Jacques Chirac attacked Britain's £3 billion EU rebate hours after the Prime Minister had come to his aid in a row over economic reform. In the latest clash between the leaders, the French president pocketed a deal designed to help him win a Yes vote in France's referendum on the EU constitution on May 29. But instead of repaying the Prime Minister by avoiding sensitive issues before a likely May election in Britain, he went out of his way to complain about the rebate Margaret Thatcher won in 1984.
A senior Bosnian Serb general indicted in the 1995 massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica surrendered Wednesday to the U.N. war crimes tribunal, a court spokesman said. Vinko Pandurevic was driven to the U.N. detention center outside The Hague, Netherlands, after a flight from Belgrade arranged by the Serbian government. Serbian authorities had announced on Sunday that they had persuaded him to surrender.
Manitoba police and justice officials are warning parents of what they call a disturbing trend. They say young teens are posing nude in front of webcams and sending the pictures out on the Internet. Justice Minister Gord Mackintosh says he's concerned parents and families are losing control. Lianna McDonald, executive director of Child Find Manitoba, says it's becoming a more common practice for teens, especially girls. She says an Internet snitch line has received 10 such complaints in the last few months. McDonald says the majority of cases involved girls between 13 and 15-years old. Inspector Boyd Campbell says Winnipeg police get a minimum of two or three complaints a month from parents whose children posed in front of a webcam and had the images make the rounds in cyberspace or at school.
"We asked him whether he wanted to stage a coup... and tears started flowing down his cheeks," Mr Mugabe said in Mr Moyo's home district. 
