A man and his pet wild pig facing eviction from their Boulder Creek home have eluded authorities â the man by running into the woods, and the pig by attacking deputies.
I'll say it; "Pigs, why do they hate......pigs?"
Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies have tried numerous times to evict Christian Canabou from his home, but he always flees when they arrive, authorities said. Canabou has now been ordered by animal control officials to evict the pig â a 200-pounder named Kate. He was given until 10 p.m. Thursday to remove the animal from the property, where neighbors have complained it has become a nuisance.
But getting Canabou and the pig to leave hasn't been an easy task. "The pig, and I don't know her name, is aggressive," sheriff's Sgt. Fred Plageman said. "It seems to be a domesticated pig, and on past occasions it has chased deputies around and chewed up part of a patrol car."
Deputies tried again to evict Canabou on Tuesday but found only the pig. They posted eviction notices and left the property. "The rumor is that every time we go up there, the owner runs into the woods," said Mike McFarland, general manager of Santa Cruz County Animal Services. "To be boldly honest, we don't really want to take custody of a 200-pound pig." Why not start the Porcine Corps for the Army? Have him/her patrol the Syrian border.
#7
I raised pigs as a 4-H project when I was in high school. I had a huge red pig I named "Emily" that was my brood sow. She consistently produced litters of between 8 and 15, twice a year. I know a little bit more than the average person about pigs.
Emily was easier to train than a dog, and capable of doing much more. At about 450 pounds, she wasn't afraid of anything or any one. She would heel, follow, stay, attack, roll over, and do a half-dozen other tricks that it takes a lot of work to get a dog to do. I could also tell her that I didn't want someone in my yard, and she'd keep them out, period.
Pigs are also cleaner than most people think, and easily housebroken. Emily would ONLY use one corner of the half-acre pen I kept her and her little ones in. I'd turn it under about every three months, to keep the smell down.
Pigs are also a lot faster on their feet than most people believe, as a couple of people tresspassing on our property found out the hard way!
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
10/03/2005 23:15 Comments ||
Top||
#8
Pigs don't shoot pigs. That's blue on blue. 10 0inks! :ô>
An escaped mental patient, on the run from Florida, stole an ambulance in North Carolina last Sunday and led police on a three-county chase, passing briefly into Virginia. When the cops finally pulled him over, he emerged â somewhat less than voluntarily â wearing a stethoscope around his neck, a pager on his waist and latex gloves in his back pocket, and sporting a Mohawk haircut. "I don't think anyone would have mistaken him for a doctor," Rockingham County (N.C.) Sheriff's Officer Dean Venable told The Reidsville (N.C.) Review. I dunno. Sounds like one I went to for a while.
Even stranger, somewhere along the way he'd picked up a patient â a dead male deer, lying in the back of the ambulance with an intravenous tube stuck into it. A defibrillator may also have been used on the animal. "Come on, Bambi, Live. Clear! [ka-chunk] Live, damn you!
"I don't know how the man got it up in there," Sgt. Robert Pearson of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol (search) told the Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union. "It was a six point buck." Even worse, it had been dead for somewhere around a week. Police think it must have been road kill the driver just came across. "I smelled that deer until 10 o'clock that night," said Pearson.
It turned out Leon Hollimon Jr., 37, had escaped from a mental-health facility in Jacksonville, Fla., in mid-August and not been heard from until last Saturday, Sept. 24. That's when Lexington, N.C., police arrested him as he hung around the town hospital in a wheelchair. "Actually he was in the wheelchair, riding it in the middle of the road and intoxicated," Lt. Scott Nanney told WFMY-TV of Greensboro, N.C. "So that's when officers decided to take him into jail for four hours."
The next morning, Hollimon allegedly stole the vehicle from Davidson County Ambulance Service (search), but it wasn't spotted until early that afternoon, when police in Danville, Va., 80 miles away, noticed it but didn't give chase.
Hollimon's father told WAWS-TV of Jacksonville his son was a paranoid schizophrenic who had stabbed his two sisters and a brother in the past. North Carolina authorities told the Review that Hollimon had arrests and convictions for petty crimes stretching from Florida to New Jersey. "It's about the most bizarre thing I've ever seen," the tow truck driver who has never read S.A.S.T. on R'burg hauled the ambulance away told the Review. "I don't know how he even drove it with the smell in there."
Pic of dog at link. This is the Sun, could it be possibly an hoax? If that's true, that's really disgusting.
STRAY dogs are being skewered on hooks and dragged behind boats as live shark bait, The Sun can shockingly reveal. The cruel practice takes place on French-controlled Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, where Prince William spent two holidays. A six-month-old labrador pup was recently found ALIVE with a huge double hook through its snout - like the dog above - and another through a leg. The pup was found in a coastal creek and is thought to have somehow freed itself from a fishing line.
But other dogs and kittens have been chomped up and swallowed by sharks.
The RSPCA plans to petition the French government, demanding an end to the hideous torture.
#1
not em myth. sumone last wek at fark posterd em link to a videyo showin of this diskustin crap. also showed em vet tryin ta remoove a big ass fishook from em poor dawg.
#7
My supervisor, Gofur, says cats are animated cabbage shredding machines.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
10/03/2005 16:40 Comments ||
Top||
#8
I don't buy this story. Putting a hook in a dog's mouth is a pretty sad way to catch a shark. YOu have to make sure the shark eats the entire dog. That's unlikely. It would be better to use a series of straps with hooks on them.
I think this was either photoshoped, or a poor dog that got a hook in his mouth when he bit some shark bait or something and people developed a story around it.
#11
In DuPage county there has been a scandal with the County Animal control officers going after Cats, calling them strays, leaving them in the pound for one night and then selling their bodies for high-school dissections. The chief control officer was just forced to resign over this. Crying kids cheer. link to a mild article on this For some reason the more descripted stories have been purged by the Chicago Tribune.
Armed dolphins may be missing
It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico. Experts who have studied the US navy's cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying "toxic dart" guns. Who are these experts and what evidence is there that the critters were trained to use such devices?
Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet's smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing. Yes, they might be expected not to confirm this if it isn't true.
Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. .....and we know this because....
The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels. We can always hope. Being smart, they might have just cooked up the idea on their own, like when Geraldo Rivera promised to personally shoot Osama bin Laden if he ran across him in Afghanistan.
Their coastal compound was breached during the storm, sweeping them out to sea. But those who have studied the controversial use of dolphins in the US defence programme claim it is vital they are caught quickly. Leo Sheridan, 72, a respected accident investigator who has worked for government and industry, said he had received intelligence from sources close to the US government's marine fisheries service confirming dolphins had escaped. Why is Sheridan the only one who knows this?
"My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises." If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire," he said. "The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?" Usually dolphins were controlled via signals transmitted through a neck harness. "The question is, were these dolphins made secure before Katrina struck?" said Sheridan. The mystery surfaced when a separate group of dolphins was washed from a commercial oceanarium on the Mississippi coast during Katrina. This story apparently originated in the Observer and has been thoroughly debunked at the Museum of Hoaxes, which calls Sheridan "The Observer's crackpot on call."
He has commented for them on other dolphin incidents, crop circles, and the 1941 plane crash that killed British aviator Amy Johnson (a conspiracy naturally).
#1
Iff "trained" armed dolphins fled their Hole-In-The-Wall, it means these were NOT trained dolphins. Even they followed natural instincts to escape Dubya's wily dastardly meany ordering of the Hurricanes and subsequent destruction of the levees in order to that the Fed ala FEMA can engage in its Sharptonian policy of genocide ags NOLA's black and poor, they would've returned to their handlers. I sincerely doubt AL Qaeda's world-feared vast army of mad Mad MAD CAMEL-KAZES can breathe underwater.
#3
Even they followed natural instincts to escape Dubya's wily dastardly meany ordering of the Hurricanes and subsequent destruction of the levees in order to that the Fed ala FEMA can engage in its Sharptonian policy of genocide ags NOLA's black and poor, they would've returned to their handlers.
#9
Oh please. IF they exist and IF they have gone AWOL then just check the slopchutes in Atlantis. Just like all other swabbies on leave, five will get you twenty they are spending all their clams, feeding some cute minnow a line while trying to avoid a bad case of the crabs.
#11
The reason they haven't found them is because they got beamed up to Calypso Louie's Mothership. They're going to hide their til they spot the right targets in the ocean.
#12
Ah, but it was the dolphins that blew the levees! The dolphins were washed out before the levees breached. They were hungry and need back into the city. So they blew the levees. You see by flooding the city they were able to get to the poor black folk. Everyone knows that dolphins like dark meat!
Four Pakistanis convicted of smuggling heroin were hung in Kuwait and their hooded corpses were displayed in public on Sunday. Mohammad Ahmad Khan, Sayed Shah, Faz Yusef and Abdulbaseer Ishaq, were executed in the interior ministry in Kuwait City. Dozens of spectators were later allowed into the complex to view their bodies.
The justice ministry said that the four had been arrested from the Kuwait Airport in separate cases for smuggling heroin worth a total street value of approximately two million dollars in 2002. It said that the men had swallowed capsules containing the drugs in an attempt to smuggle them into Kuwait. Authorities reintroduced public hangings in June 2002 following a steep rise in drug offences to scare smugglers.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/03/2005 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
when they hang 4 buggering Imams I'll be impressed
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/03/2005 20:36 Comments ||
Top||
October 3, 2005: President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has caused quite a bit of heartburn in the region because of his leftist politics. Chavez has become quite chummy with communist dictator Fidel Castro of Cuba, and is now taking a page from the Cold War playbook by turning to Russia for weapons. Unlike Cuba, Venezuela has lots of oil money, and the Russians are eagerly offering Chavez just about anything he wants. Chavez wants three more submarines, and the Russians are hot to find export customers for their new Lada (replacement for the Kilo) diesel electric boats.
These subs are said to be eight times quieter than the Kilos. This is accomplished by using anechoic (sound absorbing) tile coatings on the exterior, and a very quiet (skewed) propeller. All interior machinery is designed with silence in mind. The sensors include active and passive sonars, including towed passive sonar. The Ladas have six 533mm torpedo tubes, with 18 torpedoes and/or anti-ship missiles carried. The Lada has a surface displacement of 1,750 tons, are 220 feet long and carry a crew of 41. When submerged, the submarine can cruise at a top speed of about 39 kilometers an hour (half that on the surface) and can dive to about 800 feet. The Lada can can stay at sea for as long as 50 days, and the sub can travel as much as 10,000 kilometers using its diesel engine (underwater, via the snorkel) Submerged, using battery power, the Lada can travel about 450 kilometers. There is also an electronic periscope (which goes to the surface via a cable), that includes a night vision capability and a laser range finder. The Lada was designed to accept a AIP (air independent propulsion) system. Russia was long a pioneer in AIP design, but recently Western European nations have taken the lead.
The other two competitors for this sale are the French Scorpene and the German Type 212. Venezuela already has two older German Type 209s. The Germans and French have an advantage in their boats have been on the market for a while, and have a successful track record. Russia has just finished construction of its first Lada.
The Russian advantage is price. If equipped with AIP (Air Independent Propulsion, that allows the subs to cruise submerged and very silent for weeks at a time), the coast per Scorpene or Type 212 is about half a billion dollars each. The Russians can offer the same type of deal for at least a hundred million dollars less per boat. Since Chavez is looking more to score political points, than making a prudent procurement decision, this gives the Russians an inside track. Russia has an export model of the Lada, called the Amur, and this is what is being offered to Venezuela. The navy is the most pro-Chavez of the armed services, and Chavez has been particularly cozy with some of the senior naval officers.
The thought of two AIP boats in the hands of such a rabid anti-American as Chavez gives U.S. admirals a bad feelings. AIP equipped subs are believed to be a bigger threat to American warships than nuclear subs, especially in coastal waters. Venezuela already has experienced submarine sailors because of the two Type 209 boats they have had since the 1970s. The two German boats are being refurbished, to extend their useful life another ten years. Thus Venezuela could end up with a force of five modern submarines if they make the purchase.
Posted by: Steve ||
10/03/2005 09:18 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
"Hello, CIA? Yeah, gimme the dirty tricks department..."
As a huge fan of bizarre places to have a drink ( Proud owner of bizar souvenirs as: "Area 51: Been there, done that" Beer-mug and: "Hurj Al Arab", imitation cristal model of the hotel (it gets even better, the model stands on little rotating pedestal lit from below by leds, I swear, only someone from Saudi-Arabia could have the audacity to call this beautifull, but I digress) botlle-opener
(I shit you not)) it saddens me to the core that yet another bar that I should have had a beer at before reaching my current age, seems to be consigned to the dustbin of historie.
"Of all the bars in all the world, there is probably none as exclusive, surreal or intriguing as the Random Access Club in Pyongyang. There are also few institutions that are quite so necessary to the mental well-being of the customers.
Open for business only on Friday nights, the RAC is a watering hole for North Korea's tiny expatriate community; the 300 foreign residents allowed to live among the 22 million population of the planet's most reclusive nation."
Favorit part:
"To find a place like the RAC in the midst of this is like seeing a tiny postcard of Brighton beach stuck on Picasso's Guernica, or having the latest Peter Greenaway film interrupted by a few seconds of Neighbours"
Anyone here know some good pubs in Teheran, or say, the Falklands?
Posted by: Evert V. in NL ||
10/03/2005 15:08 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
WTF - Art Squads? The art squads of units of the Korean People's Army are now giving performances before full houses at the People's Palace of Culture on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il recently enjoyed the performance and highly appraised their merits in creating diverse forms of works strong in appeal, militancy, influence and attraction and arousing his loins servicepersons to the implementation of the military line of the Party and extended warm thanks to them. The performance is now being appreciated by officials of ministries and national institutions, servicepersons and citizens of all walks of life, youths and students in Pyongyang.
The performance began with chorus "Glory to General Kim Jong Il". Through dialogic poem "Our General and Soldiers," dialogic poem and chorus "Devoted Journey to Front" and other pieces the performers highly praised the feats of the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il who is winning victory after victory in defending socialism and building a great prosperous powerful nation by developing the People's Army into the main force of revolution.
Is this anything like the Belgian barbers?
Put on the stage were agitation drama "Let Me See First", mixed chorus "Arirang for Army-People Unity", agitation story "Pledge of Successors to Arms" and other colorful programs.
With artistic representation of song accompanied by Oungum "Blue Sky over My Country", solo and pangchang "Who Taught Me It", female solo "Soldier Lives near to General Kim Jong Il" and other numbers, the performers vividly showed the features of the artistes of the revolutionary army who have grown up as the creators of Songun culture under the deep trust and loving care of Kim Jong Il. Be still my heart
The European Union governments agreed today to open membership talks with Turkey after Austria dropped a demand the bloc come to some form of partnership with Ankara that would be less than full-fledged participation, diplomats said. They said the deal was put to Ankara, amid hopes it will accept it and send Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul to Luxembourg for a ceremony later Monday, formally opening the negotiations.
The Turkish prime minister's spokesman denied reports by CNN-Turk and NTV television that Turkey had agreed to a proposed new document outlining conditions for starting membership talks. "Talks are continuing. There is no agreement yet," said Akif Beki, a spokesman for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "If the problems are overcome, then the foreign minister will go to Luxembourg." Gul had delayed his departure from Ankara, insisting his country cannot accept second-class citizen status in the EU. You're the dhimmis, not we.
Austria had been resisting the bid by Turkey which besieged Vienna 3 times, a predominantly Muslim nation, to join the EU and is demanding the EU grant Ankara something short of full membership in case Turkey cannot meet all membership obligations. Opening membership talks requires the unanimous approval of all 25 EU governments. Just like the Polish Sjem.
Diplomats said Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik had relented, accepting language in the negotiating rules that state unambiguously that "the shared objective of the negotiations is (Turkey's) accession." The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the talks. No specific details were released about the deal, reached after hours of arduous negotiations that began Sunday.
Failure to start the membership talks would be seen as a serious blow to what's left of the credibility of the EU, which made Turkey an associate member in 1963 with the prospect of future membership. This year, the bloc saw its proposed constitution collapse when Dutch and French voters rejected it, while a nasty spat between France and Britain over EU funding in June left it without a budget for the 2007-13 period. In Ankara, Erdogan said he spoke to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who voiced support for Turkey's bid to start membership talks. Erdogan said he maintained "hope until the last minute" that EU leaders would overcome the deadlock.
The issue of EU member Cyprus - which Turkey refuses to recognize - complicated matters. A French diplomat said Cyprus demanded stronger language in the negotiating mandate to ensure Turkey does not use international organizations to hinder Cyprus. The diplomat also spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the talks.
In the past, Ankara has vetoed EU-NATO military exercises involving Cyprus, where Turkey props up a renegade Turkish Cypriot state that no other country recognizes. Cypriot officials denied they sought additional demands.
Turkey belongs to NATO, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development and the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe. But its shaky human rights and poor economic past have kept it from becoming a full EU member. In recent years, Turkey has implemented key political and economic reforms, and now wants the EU to make good on its promise to bring it into the bloc.
The EU's 24 other foreign ministers spent eight hours Sunday at a five-star brunch trying to sway Plassnik to endorse a negotiating mandate for Turkey. The membership talks for Turkey are expected to last longer than the EU a decade, at least.
#3
Heh heh. Why does Sec. of State Rice care whether Turkey joins the EU or not? Like, it's their business and that of the EU nations, not ours. If it's going to be screwed up, let the bunch screw it up on their own, without our help.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
10/03/2005 21:45 Comments ||
Top||
More than 15,000 people worldwide took part in the interactive Power Play game, in which players were invited to choose a team of 11 to run the world from a list of around 100 of the most powerful leaders, thinkers and other high-profile people on the planet. The second choice was former US President Bill Clinton. The winning 11 were exclusively male, with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi the highest-ranking woman at 13th. Hillary Clinton was the next most popular woman at 16th.
Entrepreneurs feature prominently in the selection. Microsoft head Bill Gates, Apple chief Steve Jobs, and Virgin boss Richard Branson all made the final 11, as did stock market billionaire and hater of freedom philanthropist George Soros. Players also placed emphasis on the need for financial probity - US Federal Reserve boss Alan Greenspan made the list at number five. And two religious leaders, both associated with challenges to dominant authority, found a place in the winning line-up - the Dalai Lama in second and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in eighth. Pope Benedict XVI came 28th.
Politicians miss out
Perhaps the biggest surprise was the success of the American linguist, liar, and political activist Noam Chomsky, who came fourth. Another outspoken American liar, Michael Moore, was 15th. Other placings included Osama bin Laden, at 70th, and Harry Potter author JK Rowling, who was 49th. Serving politicians were generally absent from the winning list. British Prime Minister Tony Blair narrowly missed out, coming 12th. US President George W Bush was placed 43, ranking below two of his fiercest adversaries on the world stage, Fidel Castro - 36th - and Hugo Chavez, 33rd. And UN kleptocrat General-Secretary Kofi Annan just made the fantasy world elite in 11th place.
A range of sports and entertainment celebrities were on offer, but few ended up in the higher placings. U2 frontman Bono came in at 14th, while Pele was the highest scoring sportsman at 25th. Footballer David Beckham limped in at number 72, with Kylie Minogue five places below him. Jennifer Lopez was almost at rock bottom in 92nd place. The game - modelled on the hugely popular Fantasy Football - was run as part of the BBC's Who Runs Your World season, which explores where power lies in the 21st century.
More than half of votes came from users in the United States. Users were required to pick at least one each from a select list of leaders, thinkers and economists, and had a free choice of any other eight, including the option of selecting "wild cards" from areas such as sport, politics, arts and design. The top 11 list:
1 - Nelson Mandela
2 - Bill Clinton
3 - Dalai Lama
4 - Noam Chomsky
5 - Alan Greenspan
6 - Bill Gates
7 - Steve Jobs
8 - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
9 - Richard Branson
10 - George Soros
11 - Kofi Annan
Dingbat, moonbat, beauzeau, and stupe turnout was high.
Posted by: Captain America ||
10/03/2005 0:08 Comments ||
Top||
#2
Too bad the environmental activist Theodore Kaczynski, the social innovator Charles Manson, and the noted sports hero O.J. Simpson were not included. They probably would have ranked in the top five.
#4
Me trust a BBC poll? You must be kidding right?
Noam Chomksy? Most people in the world couldn't tell you whom he is. But most lefty Jurnos can. The Poll is stacked junk, just like the "Have Your Say" questions at the BBC website.
#8
Is there anyone in that list you'd want running the world? Me neither. Greenspan may be a good economist and Gates a good entrepreneur, but still...sheesh.
#9
1 - JerseyMike 1 - Nelson Mandela 2 - Bill Clinton 3 - Dalai Lama 4 - Noam Chomsky 5 - Alan Greenspan 6 - Bill Gates 7 - Steve Jobs 8 - Archbishop Desmond Tutu 9 - Richard Branson 10 - George Soros 11 - Kofi Annan
#10
Where did Barney the Dinosaur come in? He'd be my pick, mainly because it'd be tough for Nellie and his friends to throw tires around him and set him on fire.
#12
Basically, a list of p*ssies who will look away and do nothing while the world's dictators do whatever they want. Unless somebody's hurting muslims in Europe, in which case BJ Clinton is for hire.
#13
"Users were required to pick at least one each from a select list of leaders, thinkers and economists, and had a free choice of any other eight..."
Did you catch that? "a select list"
And the deck is stacked to unjustly favor thinkers and economists.
#16
"thinkers and economists," Darrell? I'm not sure Gates or Jobs fall in either category. Nor Chomsky, for that matter, but for different reasons . . . But yes, absolutely a stacked deck; and with more than half the participants coming from the US, probably a stacked jury as well.
Posted by: James ||
10/03/2005 13:24 Comments ||
Top||
#17
I bet if Arafat were alive he'd have come top.
The Daily News has learned that lawyers are fighting to suppress a potentially embarrassing final report from the probe that found Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros lied to the FBI about paying $250,000 in hush money to his ex-mistress.
Cisneros paid a $10,000 fine after he was found guilty in 1999 and was later pardoned by Bill Clinton. And though neither Hillary Clinton nor her husband was targeted by independent counsel David Barrett, his 420-page final report sent to a special court 13 months ago will include alleged abuses of power by his administration, sources told The News.
After Cisneros was convicted, Barrett started looking into allegations that the IRS and Justice Department aides stymied a tax fraud case against the disgraced Housing and Urban Development secretary and audited Clinton critics.
Ex-IRS Commissioner Peggy Richardson, who remains a close friend of the Clintons, is among the officials cited in the report, sources said.
Lawyers at the Washington firm Williams and Connolly who work for Cisnero and both Clintons have argued to judges overseeing the case that allegations of illegal activity, for which no charges were filed, should be snipped before the report is made public.
#1
have argued to judges overseeing the case that allegations of illegal activity, for which no charges were filed, should be snipped before the report is made public.
Get the issue before the California judge who blessed the publication of more Abu Grahib pictures, or maybe just cite his justification.
The public has a right to know, man!
Posted by: Bobby ||
10/03/2005 13:15 Comments ||
Top||
#2
I was a big fan of Cisneros because he was an icon to the latin community in San Antonio and a kick ass mayor. Now that was in the early 80s and not sure how things went south for him but they certainly did. As far as the money, mistress, and the FBI probe it was really much ado about nothing. The IRS probe on Clinton political foes is the real story. O'Reilly claims he was audited four years in a row by the IRS because he took on the Clintons. How many others were investigated by the IRS, FBI, and CIA at the behest of the Clintons? And where is that information today? Henry played with the dogs too long and got fleas from them.
Another stealth pick
WASHINGTON -
President Bush on Monday nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, reaching into his loyal inner circle for a pick that could reshape the nation's judiciary for years to come.
"She has devoted her life to the rule of law and the cause of justice," Bush said, announcing his choice from the Oval Office with Miers at his side. "She will be an outstanding addition to the Supreme Court of the United States."
If confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, Miers, 60, would join Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the second woman on the nation's highest court and the third to serve there. Miers, who has never been a judge, was the first woman to serve as president of the Texas State Bar and the Dallas Bar Association.
Miers, who Bush called a trailblazer for women in the legal profession, said she was humbled by the nod.
"If confirmed, I recognize I will have a tremendous responsibility to keep our judicial system strong and to help insure the court meets their obligations to strictly apply the laws and Constitution," she said.
Democratic and Republican special interests groups were braced for a political brawl over the pick, Bush's second. But the lack of a judicial record may make it difficult for Democrats to find ground upon which to fight her nomination.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had urged the administration to consider Miers, two congressional officials said. There was a long list of staunchly conservative judges that Democrats were poised to fight, Miers not among them.
Bush, his approval rating falling in recent months, had been under intense pressure to nominate a woman or a minority.
Miers' pick came shortly before Chief Justice John Roberts was set to take his seat on the court for the first time Monday after breezing to nomination. Miers helped push his nomination through the Senate.
"She will strictly interpret our Constitution and laws. She will not legislate from the bench," Bush said. Conservatives apparently agreed.
"There's every indication that she's very similar to Judge Roberts â judicial restraint, limited role of the court, basically a judicial conservative," said Republican consultant Greg Mueller, who works for several conservative advocacy leaders.
The president offered the job to Miers Sunday night over dinner in the residence. He met with Miers on four occasions during the past couple weeks, officials said.
#1
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is approved by Repubs despite being pro-prostitution and wanting to lower the age of consent to age 12. Like it or not, the nomination of Ginsberg took courage.
The Bush nomination of Miers took no courage.
Posted by: Captain America ||
10/03/2005 10:11 Comments ||
Top||
#3
One of the lefties said he'd retire when the chief justice retired/left. So, there is a third seat up soon within Bush's tenure. I suspect that this is an easy pass, awaiting that fight in which the nuke option will be played and the court fixed for a decade plus.
#4
"There's every indication that she's very similar to Judge Roberts â judicial restraint, limited role of the court, basically a judicial conservative," said Republican consultant Greg Mueller, who works for several conservative advocacy leaders.
There's also every indication that she thinks the moon is made of green cheese. That is, no evidence what-so-ever.
Her confirmation hearings will allow every Ted, Dick, and Democrat with a grievance to assail every inch of Administration policy throughout the last five years. Abu Ghraib, torture memos, illegal combatants, Katrina; you name it, Miers had some influence or input to the policy as WH counsel.
I don't like it, and I'm disappointed by this choice. We hired W to swing for the bleachers, and he bunted. Bah.
This woman is a tough fighter. One person familiar with her courtroom skills described her as better able to filet an opposing argument than Mrs. Paul filets fish.
I look forward to the televised hearings LOL.
My read is that she will be enthusiastically conservative, including in ways I personally don't favor, but will do so within a strong discipline about the actual law as written and the Constitution we have (rather than the ones proposed by tranzis).
We'll see what the opposition says about her lack of judicial practice. I suspect there will be some parallels brought out about that.
#6
I dunno, I have bad feelings about this. I caught just a couple of seconds of the announcement and he President mentioned something about her being "compassionate", and I'm wondering what that has to do with Supreme Court rulings on constitutional matters. I'd rather they kept emotions OUT of them.
#7
Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers is largely viewed as a staunch Bush supporter and Republican insider, but in the not too distant past she was a financial backer of Al Gore and the Democrats, NewsMax has learned. In 1987 Miers gave $1,000 to the primary campaign of Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, a fellow Texan who also ran with Michael Dukakis on his partyâs ticket against Bushâs father in 1988.
Texas Republican Party really didn't exist back then, and Democrats had not yet gone off the deep end.
During that presidential campaign, Miers contributed $1,000 to the Albert Gore for President Committee, as well as $1,000 to the Democratic National Committee. Gore lost the Democratic primaries to Dukakis.
Al Gore was a moderate Southern Democrat back then.
In recent years Miers has given only to Republicans. She has backed Republican Pete Sessions, the Congressman from Dallas and one of the Houseâs most noted conservatives. She has also supported George W. Bush. She gave $1,000 to the George Bush campaign in 1999, and $2,000 to the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2003. She also contributed $5,000 to the Bush-Cheney Inc. Recount Fund in 2000.
Hereâs a run down of recent political contributions Miers has made:
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), $500 in 1994.
Phil Gramm for President, $1,000 in 1995.
Rep. Pete Sessions, $500 in 1995.
Friends of Phil Gramm (R-Tex.), $1,000 in 1996.
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.), $1,000 in 1997.
Sen. Hutchison, three $1,000 contributions in 1999.
Dallas County Republican Party, $1,000 in 1999.
Bush-Cheney 2000 Compliance Committee, $1,000 in 2000.
Jon Newton, Republican for Congress, $1,000 in 2000.
Donald Stenberg (Republican) and the Good Government Fund, $500 in 2000.
Posted by: Steve ||
10/03/2005 11:27 Comments ||
Top||
#8
It seems that President Bush has a knack for surprising everybody. It seems also that both sides are disappointed not to have a big fight to look forward to.
#9
From Drudge: VP Cheney Plans To Detail Support Of Harriet Miers On Rush Limbaugh Radio 1 PM ET/10 AM PT...
Harriet Miers gave cash contribution to the Democratic National Committee in 1988 and Gore campaign -- while Bush dad was running for president!...
On a conference call this morning, former RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie admitted Miers was democrat througout the 1980s; asked specifically about the Gore contribution, Gillespie said that she was a 'conservative' democrat who later became a republican... Developing...
Posted by: Steve ||
10/03/2005 12:28 Comments ||
Top||
#10
Conservative dem who became a repub .... that could describe an awful lot of regulars here at the Burg.
Posted by: me too ||
10/03/2005 13:41 Comments ||
Top||
#11
Not to mention a lot of people in Texas. Republicans were mighty scarce for decades.
#12
I could only listen to a little of Rush on a run today. The callers sounded too much like the DU, Moveon and Kos Kiddies whining and crying but their moans were about about Bush ignoring his base, that they're tired of being betrayed, etc. It was amusing to say the least. Demonstrating both sides have their koolaid drinkers.
One - she's an unknown. Everyone is talking more about their fears and not facts.
Two - it's appearent no matter what 'conservatives' say, many don't trust Bush, based upon all this noise. BTW, go ahead and sit out the next election so the left does regain power. That's your fault not Bush's.
Three - News Alert. Neither the right nor the left have the ability to achieve high office in this country unless the middle breaks for either side. You are not going to get 100% of what you want and are a fool to think you can. Democracy means compromise and I don't mean compromise with the left.
Four - There is nothing in the Constitution that says a SCOTUS justice has to be a prior sitting judge. In fact, I would point out that may be part of the problem. Most of the paperwork is done by the clerks anyway, just like most of military operations are done by the staff not the commander. One sets the objective and tone, the others make it happen.
Well, unlike a lot of today's whiners, I generally trust the man and his judgement. Those who he has selected for his immediate work group/inner circle, Chaney, Rice, etc. at least shows me that he has demonstrated the ability to pick good people - WHO HE PERSONALLY TRUSTS! One man's friend is another man's crony. All depends on one's perspective.
#13
My read is that she will be enthusiastically conservative, including in ways I personally don't favor, but will do so within a strong discipline about the actual law as written and the Constitution we have (rather than the ones proposed by tranzis).
Really? I just read on Goldstein's blog that she is in favor of the ICC. Sounds pretty tranzi to me.
Looks to me like Bush dropped the ball bigtime. He has a chance to make a strong and lasting mark on the Supreme Court, and he comes up with a 60-year-old lightweight crony. I hope to be proven wrong, but I won't count on it.
Thankfully Bush is holding the line on the WOT, cuz that's the only positive thing I can see in what has been a supremely (pun intended) disappointing second term.
#14
why would conservatives sit out the next presidential election cause of this? Are they as stupid as the many liberals who seem to forget that George W Bush WONT be on the ballot in 2008? Cant anyone else spell L-A-M-E D-U-C-K?
Myself, I dont know how Meiers will vote on the Court, but Im satisfied she will be a conservative, presumably more so than O'Connor, but not an ideologue.
#15
..I generally trust the man and his judgement. Those who he has selected for his immediate work group/inner circle, Chaney, Rice, etc. at least shows me that he has demonstrated the ability to pick good people - WHO HE PERSONALLY TRUSTS!
Well, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, etc. work under GWB and have to answer to him. Once Meirs is on the SC, she won't.
#17
I was very worried about Roberts, but have come to really respect and like the guy. I think he will be a good SCOTUS judge. I am willing to give the new pick the benifit of the doubt, but I will have a wait and see approach.
#18
Seems no one likes her. She's probably just about right for the job, then.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
10/03/2005 19:24 Comments ||
Top||
#19
My view after listening to her and watching.
There were some comments made a few months ago that the supremes were sadly lacking in anybody with corporate law experience. Some real strange rulings had come out of the Supremes due to that.
Bush, seems to have heard that cry and appointed somebody with corporate law experience to fill a big void.
NOW THAT SAID... Her corporate experience scares this OpenSource linux user and xine dvd user.
Here biggest corporate clients were - drumroll: Microsoft & Disney
#20
Screw the bitch then, 3dc. Dog food. Both of those companies have had a bad track record of taking things that belong to others and claiming they invented them and taking ownership. There are a few things more important than money.
"The base" is upset because they've been busting their humps defending Bush from the charge that he's a crony-loving corporate shill only to have the Bush Baby reward them by sticking his finger down his throat and projectile vomiting in their faces.
Abe Fortas had more qualifications for the Supremes than she does. She's a big-government corporatist hack whose only qualification for the job is that she has a Lewensky-like devotion to W.
That's it.
Believe it or not, there are those who are consistently principled and who reject feeble affirmative-action hires for good reason. EVEN IF MIERS TOOK A BLOOD OATH PUNISHABLE BY A THUNDERBOLT FROM ZEUS THAT SHE WOULD VOTE AGAINST ROE V. WADE OR IN FAVOR OF JUDICIAL RESTRAINT, SHE WOULD STILL BE A BAD CHOICE.
This is Bush's "Screw you, I wanted Alberto" moment.
Posted by: Ernest Brown ||
10/03/2005 21:21 Comments ||
Top||
#22
I'm willing to wait and see...
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/03/2005 21:22 Comments ||
Top||
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/03/2005 21:42 Comments ||
Top||
#25
Gee, .com, I haven't noticed you being a quiet & retiring type when you're PO'd. (g)
Like I said, Bush is "showing the figs" to his base.
Posted by: Ernest Brown ||
10/03/2005 22:36 Comments ||
Top||
#26
Frank G.,
I'm sure that your heart will go on...(cue Celine Dion)
When the only defense is, "Trust me," I find it singularly unappealing. Bush only looks good because the Democratic alternatives were walking vegetables in human form and McCain was and is a First Amendment-hating demagogue. He's blown the top off of government spending, let McCain-Feingold sail through, gone chasing after porn merchants recently instead of keeping an eye on the terrorists and the border, etc.
Posted by: Ernest Brown ||
10/03/2005 22:52 Comments ||
Top||
#27
:-) OK - I can take abuse, but really....Celine??? Dammit
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/03/2005 22:55 Comments ||
Top||
#28
Sorry, that was uncalled for, wasn't it? (g)
She's Canada's Stealth Weapon against the U.S...
(along with Jim Carrey)
Posted by: Ernest Brown ||
10/03/2005 22:57 Comments ||
Top||
#29
and Donald Sutherland, apparently
I had higher hopes for him
Posted by: Frank G ||
10/03/2005 23:03 Comments ||
Top||
#30
Frank G.,
The Michael Moriarty's and James Woods's are the exception. Most big stars have unaddressed guilt complexes over their success in an industry whose average employee makes $3,000 a year in the profession, especially since they know that acting is a buyer's market that is highly dependent on "the breaks." That, and living a fantasy existence, leads them to limousine liberalism.
Posted by: Ernest Brown ||
10/03/2005 23:09 Comments ||
Top||
#31
Damn right I'm upset. I wanted a fire-breathing, raw-meat eating conservative. I wanted someone to look Ted Kennedy straight in the eyes and say "OK, fatboy - bring it on". I wanted Bush to say to the Dems - "Come get some". I wanted filibusters and nuclear options. I'm sick and tired of all the CRAP we've taken from the left and the media for all these years. I wanted payback. What I got was a Harry Reid recommendation. Damn!!
NORMAN, Okla. â A University of Oklahoma student who killed himself by detonating a bomb near the jam-packed Sooner football stadium apparently had a history of emotional problems, authorities said Sunday. Federal and state agents identified the man as John Henry Hinrichs III, 21, an engineering major at OU. "He clearly was a very bright student," Mr. Boren said, yet one who "had very serious personal problems that led to this tragic death."
Mr. Hinrichs' father, Joel Henry Hinrichs Jr., said he was very surprised to hear the news about his son. "We exchanged e-mails on an irregular basis, several in the last month, and nothing seemed out the ordinary," the father told The Associated Press. His son was a National Merit Scholar who graduated in May 2002 from Wasson High School in Colorado Springs, Colo., and began attending OU in the fall of that year with a major in mechanical engineering. "He was a very intelligent, very private individual who somehow lost the confidence that his life would be a good one," the elder Hinrichs said. "Obviously, every parent believes their son is a good kid, and I certainly believed that about mine."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
10/03/2005 10:18 Comments ||
Top||
#2
"had very serious personal problems that led to this tragic death."
I'm sure in the coming days we'll find out that devotion to Allah was the biggest one.
#4
Sounds like he had some longstanding mental health problems and an unhealthy interest in explosives combined with little concern for his family or others. Sad but inexcusable.
#6
My daughter also graduated from Wasson High School, in 2004. She knew John slightly, and said he was a very private person. One comment she made makes me wonder if there weren't underlying family problems - she said John hardly spoke five words a day, and wasn't much interested in "anything" - just kind of drifted by, but making good grades while doing so. I don't think this has anything to do with islamofascifruitcakes.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
10/03/2005 23:53 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Insert Marvin pic here. Or a bear sh*tting in the woods pic to go with Robert Crawford's quote.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
10/03/2005 10:16 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Looks like somebody might've been dicking around with their grant money and needed to produce a fast answer in a hurry maybe?
"Oh, shit! They want results? Tell 'em... the sun! Yeah, that's it! And park my Mercedes around back where nobody can see it..."
#5
This says are large part of "Global Warming" is not what the rest of the world thinks is 'global warming'. The sun does 10-30% of the temperature rise, a larger percentage than previously thought. The headline should read, "Human Contribution to Global Warming less than Previously Reported"
Posted by: Bobby ||
10/03/2005 10:47 Comments ||
Top||
#6
Paul: need a pic of a bear, wearing a mitre, sitting in a toilet stall reading "L'Observatore Romano"...
#10
A truthful headline would read "Solar Heating Causing Some Global Warming. The Cause of The Rest Remains Unknown"
A casual mechanism requires cause precede effect. CO2 levels lag global temperature increases over any significant period and especially the last 150 years the period over which most warming has occured. This is conclusive proof CO2 levels are not the primary driver of climate change.
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.
Four Pakistanis convicted of smuggling heroin were hung in Kuwait and their hooded corpses were displayed in public on Sunday. Mohammad Ahmad Khan, Sayed Shah, Faz Yusef and Abdulbaseer Ishaq, were executed in the interior ministry in Kuwait City. Dozens of spectators were later allowed into the complex to view their bodies.
The art squads of units of the Korean People's Army are now giving performances before full houses at the People's Palace of Culture on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea. Supreme Commander Kim Jong Il recently enjoyed the performance and highly appraised their merits in creating diverse forms of works strong in appeal, militancy, influence and attraction and arousing 
