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A hazardous slick of broken eggs caused traffic chaos in rural Ireland Thursday after a truck carrying thousands of broody hens lost its load.
"Chickens have begun to lay eggs on the roads and the conditions are quite treacherous at the moment, very slippy," AA Roadwatch said on its traffic advice line, warning up to 7,000 chickens were on the loose. Police said the vehicle carrying the birds may have hit a ditch, causing its boxes to "cascade off the lorry."
"The lorry has been moved off the road but the cargo is wandering around the roads out there," Sergeant Jim Greene from nearby town of Cavan told Reuters, adding there were no reports of any human casualties. A team has been scrambled to help catch the birds, Greene said, but little could be done about their egg-laying: "We wouldn't expect anything less from a hen."
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It is an issue of leadership. I will immediately dispatch our lead hen, a Rhode Island Red named Rosie to lead the chickens off the road. There seems to be no chicken leadership in County Cavan any more. These are fowl times in Ireland, sad.
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lol foghorn leghorn comes to mind
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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been hospitalised in Paris for over a fortnight, "likely" has stomach cancer, a leading French doctor said based on a description of his symptons. "It is very hard to make a diagnosis. If it is true that he first suffered gastrointestinal blood loss, then it is likely to be stomach cancer," Bernard Debre, head of the urology department at Paris's Cochin hospital, siad Thursday. "I say likely, because I cannot see what else it could be," the doctor, who did not personally examine Bouteflika, told France Inter radio.
'Nother words, he knows just about as much as we do. Could be stomach cancer, could be bleeding ulcers, could be he was showing off and eating real Thai food. But since he's 186 years old, I expect it won't be too long before he's stable.
The 68-year-old Algerian leader
... who lies about his age...
was operated for a "bleeding stomach ulcer", according to a medical statement issued on December 5 -- the only official information about his condition since he was hospitalised on November 26.
Gastric cancer sounds right. Could also be esophageal and gastric varices from cirrhosis.
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The french wouldn't ever say what Arafat died of, but they start blabbing about what this guy has after a couple of days???
In an attempt to rescue his failing programme of land redistribution, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is trying to involve the army in a "command agriculture" programme. "Instructions have already been passed onto battalion commanders," a Zimbabwean army major told the BBC.
Five years after Mr Mugabe ordered the seizure of the white-owned commercial farms, agricultural production has halved. "Mugabe is now saying that the people who are on the farms are opposition supporters and that they are sabotaging the country. I thought they were all his friends? Sounds like purge time is coming...He says the army must take over. This is an idea which Mugabe got from China, where the army is used in agriculture and industry".
The major risked his job and his life in talking to us. We met on a street in the capital, Harare, late at night and interviewed him in the safety of a car, away from the eyes and ears of Zimbabwe's network of informers.
I asked the major whether he believed the idea would work. "I don't think it will because soldiers are not trained for farm work," he says. "They're trained to fight. They don't have the skills. It's out of desperation that he's doing this. It will not work."
Others I spoke to in Zimbabwe agree. John Robertson, the country's foremost economist, pointed out that "the idea has been tried out in China, North Korea and Stalin's Russia and look where it got them."
Many soldiers and other officials have already been given land individually under the land reform programme. A country which once exported grain must now import 80% of its foodstuffs.
The hospitals are filled with malnutrition cases with the very old and the very young the worst affected. Surrounded by children suffering from HIV and in the advanced stages of malnutrition, Dr Julie Kanaki, who works at a mission hospital near Bulawayo, says, "the situation is hopeless and getting worse".
The hospital puts children on an emergency feeding programme, releases them but they are back within weeks because, the doctor says, their parents have "no meat, eggs, beans, sugar or milk".
In the town, the queues for basic foodstuffs are getting longer.
In cities like Harare and Bulawayo, people line every street in the hope of a shipment of grain, mealie-meal, flour, oil or sugar.
With inflation at 600%, a loaf of bread now costs $85,000 Zimbabwean dollars. "Our wages have not gone up in a year," the major says. "The soldiers cannot afford the most basic food stuffs. Soldiers are really pissed off." Not a good sign for Bobby...
Will there be a mutiny in the army?
"No," he replies. "Government informers are everywhere in Zimbabwe, including in the army. The soldiers want to rebel, but it is impossible."
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Soldiers don't have enough food? Oof. That's just incompetent. North Korea starved millions of its own citizens to death, and it still fed its army.
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Farmin B Hard must be occupied growing crops at gunpoint - ergo no reponse
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Big Jim:
It worked out very well for Stalin. The entire country was cowed and under his thumb. Even when the German were being treated as "liberators" and Stalin was getting drunk, no one even considered a coup.
That's the thing about leftists. The people, the country, none of that matters. All that matters is concentrating power.
The leftist front-runner for Sunday's election in Bolivia, Evo Morales, has ended his campaign saying his movement is "a nightmare for the United States". "Yeah! You think Chavez is a pain in the ass? Just wait, gringos..."
Mr Morales has vowed to end free-market policies and legalise the growing of coca, which has traditional uses but is also used in the production of cocaine. His main rival, the conservative Jorge Quiroga, ended his campaign promising to create jobs and prosperity. Bolivia has had five presidents in four years and is a deeply divided nation. Situation: normal for that country, actually.
It is currently governed by interim President Eduardo Rodriguez, who took office after Carlos Mesa was ousted amid popular protests.
Eight candidates are running in Sunday's election. Polls suggest that Mr Morales - an Aymara Indian who is hoping to become the country's first indigenous head of state - has a slight lead over Mr Quiroga, a former president. However, Mr Morales appears unlikely to obtain 50% of the vote, meaning that congress will have to choose a president between the two top candidates in January. On Thursday, he told a large crowd in the city of Cochabamba that it was time for those humiliated by history to run the country, the poorest in South America. "And with my plan, we can become the most wretched country in the hemisphere! Watch out, Haiti!"
Washington has said it expects any future Bolivian government to honour previous commitments to fight the production of illegal drugs.
Mr Quiroga, a US-educated engineer, has called for a "zero coca" policy. A former World Bank and International Monetary Fund consultant, Mr Quiroga has said he will concentrate on getting Bolivia's foreign debt cancelled.
Bolivians are also due on Sunday to elect a new congress and new prefects, or governors, in all of the country's nine departments. I remember when I was a tiny tot, and my mother told me why they cancelled the revolution in Bolivia when it rained. The guerrillas hate it when their bullets get wet.
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One day, somewhere out there in the darkness of the third world, someone will have a rare lucid moment of enlightenment. That someone will step up and lead their people and petition to become a Commonwealth of the United States. Borders disappear, the economy stablizes, disaster assistance is but the next event away, etc. However, given the self serving nature of man as demonstrated by history, don't count on this happening anytime in our life. So don't panic. Let them all twist about in the mire that is their own choice and making.
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As an American, I truly fear this Bolivian guy. He could bring our economy to its knees. If he is elected, I plan to screw him over by drinking only Pepsi - let me know if he wins, in case I miss it in the local paper. Note to self: better ask the kids for kneepads for Xmas. I want this whole "being brought to my knees" thing to be as comfortable as possible.
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A major Japanese film about the dramatic sinking of a battleship in the second world war has provoked anger among Japan's former enemies because of its sympathetic portrayal of the ship's crew. Yamato: The Last Battle, which is expected to pack cinemas across Japan when it goes on general release next weekend, tells the story of the biggest battleship ever built, which was sunk by the Americans in 1945 with the loss of all but 300 of its 3,000 crew, most of whom were teenagers.
More than 260 metres long and weighing 64,000 tonnes, the Yamato was commissioned days after Japan attacked Pearl Harbour. It was equipped with a formidable array of weapons and was touted as imperial Japan's saviour in the face of the allied onslaught in the final months of the war. When it left port for the last time on April 6 1945, its brief was to destroy the American forces off Okinawa and prevent an invasion of mainland Japan. But the Yamato never got near its target. By this stage, Japan's leaders knew the war was all but lost. The vessel even left port without enough fuel for the return trip. Soon after being spotted by US submarines south of the Japanese mainland, it came under ferocious attack by 390 US planes. Within a few hours it listed, exploded and sank off the coast of Kyushu in southwest Japan.
The ship and its hapless final hours have a certain resonance in the Japanese national psyche. For some that final mission was the epitome of youthful sacrifice, while others viewed it as an act of unforgivable folly by a leadership that already knew the war was lost.
But elsewhere in Asia the $25m film risks evoking bitter memories of the war and accusations that Japan refuses to recognise the costs of its wartime experiment with ultra-nationalism. The film, one of the most expensive in Japanese cinematic history, barely mentions the origins of the war or the events leading up to the ship's doomed final mission.
The makers of the film make no apologies for their positive portrayal of the crew, whom producer Haruki Kadokawa calls the war's "nameless victims". The director, Junya Sato, urged people outside Japan not to confuse sympathy for the Yamato's crew with support for Japan's wartime policies. "[They should] focus on the thinking of the time and show that those who take power through force will lose it in the same way, that these were young and innocent people sent to their deaths, and that it is clear those who bore the responsibility for that were the political leaders," he said.
Mr Kadokawa said he was aware that the film had sparked anger in China even before its release. "[There were] even erroneous reports that we were actually building a full-size, real Yamato," he said. "I feel very strongly that the anti-Japanese demonstrators were acting without knowing about Japan and it was the result of government propaganda."
He said he hoped that when Chinese and Korean viewers watched the film they would better understand Japanese culture. "My message is about people's courage to live, and I want people to start thinking again about how to live with self-awareness and pride as Japanese," he said. "We don't label it an anti-war film, but the message is very clear. We are depicting the events of 60 years ago to get across the idea that we never want to go to war again."
The film is expected to be a massive box-office hit in Japan. About 400,000 people have already visited a scale replica of the ship's deck that was used for filming, and Kadokawa says he believes as many as 10 million people will go to see it.
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Well sort of, they secretly convert the ruin of the Japanese battleship Yamato into a massive spaceship, complete with a new, incredibly powerful weapon called the "wave motion gun".
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I'd rather see a movie on the sinking of the Shinano. Much more entertaining cat-and mouse game between Shinano, her three escorts and the USS Archer-Fish. Great read by the Archer-Fish CO, Enright.
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I believe one sailor's comment in the movie amount to "Postwar Japan's prosperity is predicated on us getting pwn'ed."
Paraphrased, of course, but seriously.
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Article: More than 260 metres long and weighing 64,000 tonnes, the Yamato was commissioned days after Japan attacked Pearl Harbour.
Almost four years to build a ship, and they were the ones who kicked off the war. Rummy was right - you go to war with the military you have, not the one you would like to have.
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The Japanese love any story about people sacrificing themselves for the group.
They especially love the Yamato. They made a cartoon show about some people who dredge up the Yamato, buff it out, and make it into a spaceship(wtf?). I don't get it, either. I'm glad that the Yamato met such an inglorious end, otherwise we'd never hear the end of it.
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Almost four years to build a ship, and they were the ones who kicked off the war.
Hum the Yamato transported Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the battle of Midway.
The significative fact is that during the war Japan was only able to launch a battleship (Musashi, Yamato's ssiter ship) and a couple major carriers. It looks like after entering the war the Japanese industry became pathetically unefficient in about every area: merchant ships, war ships or planes. Even if we account for Japan's problems into shipping raw materials from Indonesia or China to Japan it still looks Japan was not efficient.
BTW: it should have been clear that battleships were no longer the capital ship and that what was needed was carriers, carriers, carriers and the planes to equip them. Not Yamatos or Musashis. But apparently the Japanese were very slow to unsdertand that it was the carrier who was now important. Look at Midway: Yamamoto is on a battleship at hundreds of miles of his carriers and keeping radio silence so he is completely unable to help, lead or even advise Nagumo. And I once saw an interview of a Japanese survivor: the Japanse didn't feel defeated. When we think about it: they only lost four "unimportant" ships and not a single battleship.
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JFM: Hum the Yamato transported Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto during the battle of Midway.
You're right - I misread the passage. I thought the movie was referring to the Musashi, which was launched against the USN before its armor was ready, and sunk by a sub.
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JFM: It looks like after entering the war the Japanese industry became pathetically unefficient in about every area: merchant ships, war ships or planes. Even if we account for Japan's problems into shipping raw materials from Indonesia or China to Japan it still looks Japan was not efficient.
I think that's still true today - at the strategic level, Japan is still inefficient, which is why it has not been able to overtake the US at the GDP per capita level. Japan has a lot of fine companies in individual industries, but at the level of strategy that makes up comprehensive national strength, they're just not there yet.
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Another important point is that this is not really an anti-war movie. Those types of movies usually highlight good men on both sides of the conflict and depicts what is felt to be the squandering of their lives in senseless conflict. My impression is that this movie will say that the war was bad because Japan lost, and thus wasted the lives of its young men. The moral here seems not to be that war is bad, but that it is bad when Japan loses.
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First point:I enjoyed the movie"Sink the Bismark"can't see why this couldn't be a good movie too.
2nd,Leading up-to and during WW2 there were Battleship Warriors who couldn't come to grips with the idea that Battleships were no longer King.
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Note: When I said that the Japanese didn't fel defeated after Midway I should have said "at junior officer level" meaning that the importance of carriers had still not wholly impregnated the IJN. It is evident that Yamamoto did feel defeated since he withdrew but it is not less evident that if he had really grasped the importance of carriers and that their fate would determine the outcome of the action and perhaps of the war then he would have sailed on the Akagi or the Hyriu instead of on the Yamato.
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Another important point is that this is not really an anti-war movie. Those types of movies usually highlight good men on both sides of the conflict
Yeah, I remind a movie whose time I don't remember but who starred Robert Mitchum and was made in the sixties (that detail has its importance). It depicts a regiment of Rangers being ambushed and anihilated in the weeks before the taking of Rome. At the end of it, Mitchum and another soldier chat about "men who are sent to war and why? Fotr no special reasons". Of course, last time it came on TV the French the anti-semitic, pro-palestinian, histerically anti-american leftist TV magazine "Telerama": hailed the movie for "its hulanistic message and its comndemnation of the aburdity of war". I made the calculation and in the two minutes of the dialogue between Mitchum and the other guy there were 12 persons (three or four them being children) who had been gassed). Making that kind of calculations makes the whole scene (and the Telerama critic) look unbearably obscene.
Another important point is that this is not really an anti-war movie. Those types of movies usually highlight good men on both sides of the conflict
Yeah, I remind a movie whose title I don't remember but it starred Robert Mitchum and was made in the sixties (that detail has its importance). It depicts a regiment of Rangers being ambushed and anihilated in the weeks before the taking of Rome. At the end of it, Mitchum and another soldier chat about "men who are sent to war and why? For no special reasons". Of course, last time it came on TV the French anti-semitic, pro-palestinian, histerically anti-american leftist TV magazine "Telerama": hailed the movie for "its humanistic message and its condemnation of the aburdity of war". I made the calculation and in the two minutes of the dialogue between Mitchum and the other guy there were 12 persons (three or four them being children) who had been gassed. Making that kind of calculations makes the whole scene (and the Telerama critic) and the people who talk of the abusrdity of war look unbearably obscene.
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Japan and China are similar in many regards. They don't have a problem with war. They just hate losing. You won't find any Chinese critiques of its imperial wars - they were all fought in China's defense. Japan's the same way - there's no real critique of 1895 as this land grab of Korea and Taiwan. Meanwhile, stateside, we have guys slamming the whole idea of a European presence in North America, Manifest Destiny, the war with Mexico, the war with the Spanish empire, etc. Even the most unreconstructed conservative American accepts that what we carried out were land grabs.
The Japanese and the Chinese just gloss over it altogether. To them, winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. With the Chinese, it's worse - a peace treaty at the end of hostilities is just like a Muslim hudna (a ceasefire) to them - their term is "unequal treaty". This means that they reserve the right to reverse the defeat at some later time, even though the original peace treaty involved foreign concessions in that China's opponent agreed not to make further inroads into Chinese territory.
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When you get down to it, the combat record of the 'Yamato' is a joke. My personal favorite is the way it contributed almost nothing to the Battle of Samar Island -- the 'Yamato' ran from a spread of torpedoes launched from an American destroyer and that essentially took it out of the fight.
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Somebody let Kadokawa out of jail? He was doing time for trying to smuggle nose-candy through a Japanese airport last time I checked. He used to be a semi-decent anime producer - specialized in hour-long films based on popular fantasy novels or manga & aimed almost exclusively at the actual fans of those original works - the movies themselves were mildly indescipherable to the casual viewer who hadn't read the novels or comics in question. Very, very pretty movies, though. Full of aesthetic merit.
And I've seen about all I'd ever care to see about the sodding Yamato and its famous suicide run. Wonder if Kadokawa's finances are being floated by right-wing political money these days, instead of petty coke deals?
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Patrick,
The Battle off Samar would make for a great movie too. Somebody should film Hornsberger's book. Imagine the scene on the sinking Samuel Roberts with the dying Paul Henry Carr begging for help to fire the last shell from his wrecked gun…
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Which is one of the best books about the naval war in the Pacific. It would make a great present for any Rantburger.
As far as a movie, it would have to cover both the battle and the tragedy of the American crews waiting to be rescued as they floated in rafts and life jackets for days in the ocean.
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Penguin's right about Last Stand. One of the small episodes in the book tells how, in an earlier shore bombardment mission, one of the tin cans killed a sword-waving Japanese officer with a shot from a 5-inch piece of naval artillery aimed at the officer individually. The American Way of War.
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Or, Dude, you only thought you were playing Chicago Rules.
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Breaking news. Here is the ultra-secret scenario for "Yamato, the last battle".
A girl has enlisted in the Navy in order to follow her lover. They are assigned to the Yamato. Thie ship is sent in a desperate mission to Okinawan waters, she fends off the attacks of a gazillion American planes, then the two lovers have a scene where they "play plane" at the bow of Yamato. But in his eagerness to bring to the emperor news of the great Japanese victory, Yamato's captain sets the Yamato at full speed and the ship sinks after hitting an iceberg.
PARIS - French authorities deliberately suppressed information about the spread of radioactive fallout from the May 1986 Chernobyl disaster over France, according to details of an expertsâ report leaked on Thursday.
Two independent physicists say in the report that the state-run Central Service for Protection against Radioactive Rays (SCPRI) knew of high levels of contamination in Corsica and southeastern France but kept the details under wraps. The study was commissioned by magistrate Marie-Odile Bertella-Geffroy, who since 2001 has been examining allegations that the atomic cloud from Chernobyl caused a surge in cases of thyroid cancer in parts of France.
This week Bertella-Geffroy handed over the report -- originally completed in March -- to civil plaintiffs in the case, who passed details to AFP. âNow we have proof that there was a breakdown in the system. So now the judicial case will succeed -- I canât see how it can do otherwise,â said Chantal Hoir, president of the French Association of Victims of Thyroid Cancer.
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So why does this show up in The Kahleej Times> None of the Frence MSM carrying AFP? Or just that no one at the 'Burg reads any Frog papers?
Just inquiring.
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Note the verbage here. Hid
Frech hid from danger.
I had a different description in mind, but maybe that's just me....
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Well, its not like the ministers would hide the fact that HIV infected blood was let loose in the French medical system just because they hadn't developed a French means to detect it. Now would they?
As viewed thru the prism of entry into the EU...(EFL) The Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has enacted a law giving mayors the power to issue drink licences and designate areas where alcohol can be consumed. Mr Erdogan insists he has shed his Islamic activist past and that his party, while conservative, respects Turkey's secular principles. But many suspect Justice and Development is secretly implementing an Islamic vision.
"Let's not be fooled," Tufan Turenc, a political commentator, wrote in the mass-circulation newspaper Hurriyet. "[Mr Erdogan's party] is slowly wrapping the Islamic blanket around us." It's not just the alcohol-free zones that are troubling secular Turks. Last month, the state-run standards institute announced it would introduce "halal" certificates for food that meets Muslim religious dietary requirements. A new women-only gym and swimming pool run by Ankara council and plans for a mosque inside an Istanbul park that is already surrounded by mosques have also caused many Turks to suspect Islamic mores are creeping into official policy.
But Mr Erdogan's party rejects such charges. "Our programme aims to improve the welfare of all," Abdullatif Sener, the deputy prime minister, said. "Our party is not one which spreads ideology."
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Last month, the state-run standards institute announced it would introduce "halal" certificates for food that meets Muslim religious dietary requirements. A new women-only gym and swimming pool run by Ankara council and plans for a mosque inside an Istanbul park that is already surrounded by mosques have also caused many Turks to suspect Islamic mores are creeping into official policy.
All right then, do something about it come next election cycle. If y'all don't, the assumption is that Islamic mores is what you want.
By Paul J. Gough
NEW YORK -- Robert Novak, whose syndicated column sparked the CIA leak case and who stormed off a CNN set earlier this year, will join Fox News Channel as a contributor.
Novak, 74, and the network mutually decided not to renew his contract the ends Dec. 31. Fox News Channel confirmed Friday that he would be a contributor to the network beginning in January.
Once one of the most recognizable faces at CNN and one of the few conservative voices there, Novak had fallen out of favor with CNN brass in recent years with his style and the pundit-debate format of shows like "Crossfire" and "The Capital Gang," which he executive produced.
Novak bore the brunt of a sustained assault by "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, who had been turned off by Novak's still-undetermined role in the Valerie Plame-CIA leak case that led to the jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller and the indictment of administration aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. But he wasn't there when Stewart appeared on "Crossfire" and accused the show of "hurting America."
KARACHI: Immigration authorities across the country have increased their levels of scrutiny of foreigners at the international arrivals after immigration recently cleared an American woman whose entry was banned in Pakistan.
Sources at the FIA headquarters in Islamabad told Daily Times on the phone on Thursday that Katherine Brooks Myra landed at Allama Iqbal International Airport, Lahore on October 10, 2005. She had an American passport and told the authorities she was a relief worker following which she was immediately cleared by immigration officials who relaxed all rules applied to regular passengers.
However, during a routine check of records, it transpired that Myraâs entry was banned only a few months ago, sources said. They added, however, that the immigration authorities had not been given the reason why she was banned from entering Pakistan.
Seeking to get her children back from her ex-husband hiding in the hinterlands somewhere?
Sources added that since she was cleared from the Lahore airport, the authorities do not know where she has gone. After the incident, sources said, the DG of the Federal Investigation Agency issued a circular, withdrawing the relaxation on foreigners arriving for relief work and directed immigration officials at all the countryâs international airports to throughly check such arrivals and ascertain their purpose of visit and note down where they were staying.
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This appears to be her. Although no indication why she is banned in Pakland.
BRATTLEBORO â The first same-sex couple in the United States to receive many of the legal rights of marriage are in the process of dissolving their historic civil union in Vermont.
I knew it wouldn't last. She was too good for her.
Carolyn Conrad asked a Brattleboro court in October to end her civil union with Kathleen Peterson after five years and that their home and property be split up. The two women had been in a relationship for about 10 years, according to court documents. Conrad and her attorney, Angela Prodan of Brattleboro, would not comment on the request to dissolve the union. Peterson, who is representing herself in the proceedings, declined to comment on why the relationship ended. "All I want to say is that the civil union was a big source of pride for me and now it's not," Peterson said Wednesday night.
"That bitch!"
Conrad, 35, and Peterson, 46, were legally united just moments after Vermont's landmark civil union law went into effect at midnight on July 1, 2000. They were the first same-sex couple in the country to receive benefits similar to those of married couples. The two women â who met on a hiking trip several years earlier â received the first civil union license in Vermont by Brattleboro Town Clerk Annette Cappy during a ceremony at a small park in front of the town offices. "We didn't plan on being the first," Conrad told a Reuters reporter at the time. "But we wanted to do it as soon as possible, and (the town clerk) was kind enough to agree."
"We were so happy! And then... And then..."
The breakup is a milestone in the movement to grant gay and lesbian couples the same rights as heterosexual marriage. But people should not be surprised that same-sex couples experience similar relationship problems as traditional couples, said Bari Shamus of Brattleboro, one of the founding members of the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force. "There's no proof that our relationships are any better than heterosexual relationships," Shamas said. "We all experience similar issues in relationships."
"But they're not worse! No, no! Certainly not!"
A large majority of same-sex couple seeking civil unions come to Vermont just for that purpose. Only 15 percent of the civil unions, 1,137, were couples who were Vermont residents.
"Wilbert! There's some more tourists here to get hitched!"
"A-yup! I'll get the book, Lloyd!"
A little more than two-thirds of the same-sex couples who filed for civil unions were women.
"They're both women, Wilbert!"
"A-yup! Two thirds of 'em are, Lloyd!"
Brattleboro Family Court Judge Karen Carroll granted a relief-from-abuse order against Peterson Wednesday after Conrad filed for an emergency order against her partner on Dec. 7, according to court documents. Peterson is barred from contacting Conrad and must remain more than 100 feet from her home, workplace and vehicle, according to the order. The court sent a copy of the order to the Vermont State Police on Wednesday and a follow-up hearing is scheduled for Jan. 4, 2006. Conrad stated that she feared physical harm from Peterson after she allegedly punched a hole in the wall during an argument in late August, and threatened to harm a female friend of Peterson's in early December, according to an affidavit filed at the court.
"If you don't stay away from that slut I'm gonna give her some o' this! Y'unnerstand?"
"At this point, I believe her behavior is escalating and I am fearful for my safety," Conrad wrote in her court statement.
"That woman's crazy!"
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Peterson is barred from contacting Conrad and must remain more than 100 feet from her home, workplace and vehicle, according to the order
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hmmm, the way I read it, the 46 yr old (Peterson) has been dominating the 35 year old (Conrad) --- so, as lesbo couples would look at it, the bull dk is at fault.
William Proxmire, a Democrat who spent three decades in the U.S. Senate battling what he thought was wasteful and senseless government spending, died on Thursday at the age of 90, congressional officials said. Proxmire, who left the Senate in 1989, had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for years.
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His typical expenses for a Senate run were the filing fee. He felt nobody owned him that way except his voters.
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Larry Niven wrote an interesting story about William Proxmire called "The Return of William Proxmire." In the story, he tried to kill the space program by curing Robert Anson Heinlein of TB. He managed to do it, but not only did it not kill the space program, it made it better. It really was a nice little short story.
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 hazardous slick of broken eggs caused traffic chaos in rural Ireland Thursday after a truck carrying thousands of broody hens lost its load.
Algerian President 
PARIS - French authorities deliberately suppressed information about the spread of radioactive fallout from the May 1986 Chernobyl disaster over France, according to details of an expertsâ report leaked on Thursday.
The Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has enacted a law giving mayors the power to issue drink licences and designate areas where alcohol can be consumed. Mr Erdogan insists he has shed his Islamic activist past and that his party, while conservative, respects Turkey's secular principles. But many suspect Justice and Development is secretly implementing an Islamic vision. 
KARACHI: Immigration authorities across the country have increased their levels of scrutiny of foreigners at the international arrivals after immigration recently cleared an American woman whose entry was banned in Pakistan.
BRATTLEBORO â The first same-sex couple in the United States to receive many of the legal rights of marriage are in the process of dissolving their historic civil union in Vermont.
