EFL:Another Great Moment in the History of White Trash...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Some women in Springfield are regretting their decision last week to get a tattoo from a door-to-door tattoo salesman. At least one person had to be hospitalized and the others face serious health risks. Wow. Can ya believe that? Sounds like he might not have been a legimate door-to-door tattoo salesman...
Friday night, a man knocked on doors holding a tattoo gun and offering his services. Tamra Eason described the tool as homemade, but still agreed to pay for a tattoo. So did two other women in her apartment complex."It was wrapped with black tape, had a pin underneath it, had fishing wire going through it, you could tell it was a homemade gun," Eason said. Oh, ah don't know...but ah might need one to impress the Rhodes Scholarship Committee, so ah guess it'll be okay...
The next day, Linda Falls passed out and had to be hospitalized.
"I passed out in the store and they said I should have it checked out," Falls said. All the women have an infection in the tattoo area and have been told to get tested for HIV and hepatitis. Maybe door-to-door doctor will be working the apartment complex and save you the trip...
It is illegal in Missouri to give a tattoo without a license, so if several people file complaints with the state, the county prosecutor will pursue the case. "Beware of deals in parachutes, brain surgery and tattoos," said Miller Cotton, a tattoo parlor owner. Spoken like a true professional...
"We just wanted tattoos, and now we're paying for it," Eason said. Go brush your tooth, honey...
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I grew up in Missouri about 45min SW of STL. I have allot of relatives down around Richland (Fort Lenardwood area). I can believe this - thems good folks but not much fer smarts.
/Miss family reunions - shootin' turtles on the pond and fishing the Gascanade = fresh fried catfish.
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And here I was just itching to use my coupon too...
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Hmmm, you know, I realize it's usually people doing things like jumping off buildings with parachutes and bungie jumping that get the Darwin awards, but these people put a whole new spin on who deserves it. Theoretically, you're actually sort of safe with a parachute..letting some guy who rings your bell poke you with a HOMEMADE tattoo gun is well...insane seems too paltry.
A giant Pacific octopus that attacked a remotely operated submarine off north Vancouver Island could have been senile or maybe just peckish, a marine biologist said Wednesday. "Large male octopuses in the last part of their lives become senescent, or senile," said Jim Cosgrove of the Royal B.C. Museum. "They get to be like humans, doddering old fools that have inappropriate behaviours such as being out in the daytime," said Cosgrove, an expert in octopus behaviour.
Because somebody has to be and it might as well be him.
The attack occurred Nov. 18, 2005, off Brooks Peninsula, on the northwest coast of the Island. The submarine was 55 metres deep and Mike Wood was on a boat on the surface, guiding the submarine along the ocean floor looking for electronic receivers that detect salmon. "I had the ROV [remote operated vehicle] with its manipulator claw attached on a ground rope. It took me two hours to find this particular receiver. The octopus came from the receiver direction about 30 to 50 feet." The octopus anchored three tentacles on the same cable the vehicle was holding onto "and a fourth tentacle shot forward very fast and wrapped around my manipulator claw."
Wood immediately threw the sub into reverse and blasted the octopus with sand and debris from the ocean floor. The sub has about 50 kilograms of thrust "so it's quite powerful," Wood said. In a video recording, the octopus whips its tentacles around as it tries to deal with the sub's counterattack. "Eventually it releases the vehicle and it gets blasted off into the distance," said Wood. The octopus was not injured, he said.
Understatement of the year alert:
"It's unusual for something like this to happen, a giant Pacific octopus attacking an underwater robot," said Wood, suggesting this is probably the first time it has been recorded.
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There it is again, a friendly, male attempt at harmless conversation, mistaken for geriatric senality or a desire for sex or victals. Happens to me all too quite frequently.
giant Pacific octopus that attacked a remotely operated submarine off north Vancouver Island could have been senile or maybe just peckish, a marine biologist said Wednesday. "Large male octopuses in the last part of their lives become senescent, or senile," said Jim Cosgrove of the Royal B.C. Museum. "They get to be like humans, doddering old fools that have inappropriate behaviours such as being out in the daytime," said Cosgrove, an expert in octopus behaviour.
Maria Cantwell is reportedly nervous about a primary challenge from the octopus.
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"They get to be like humans, doddering old fools that have inappropriate behaviours such as being out in the daytime," said Cosgrove, an expert in octopus behaviour.
A Thai woman who set a world record by spending 32 days in a cage with 3,400 scorpions is to marry a man who holds a similarly creepy record for centipedes.
The couple will marry on Valentine's Day and plan to consummate their vows in a coffin, according to a sponsor. The pair met while performing their respective stunts at a snake farm.
Honest, we just can't make this stuff up
Kanchana Ketkaew's record was broken in 2004 by a Malaysian woman. Her fiancee, Bunthawee Siengwong, set his record by spending 28 days with 1,000 centipedes.
"The couple met and fell in love when they were touring together after winning their records," according to Somporn Naksuetrong, general manager of Ripley's World of Entertainment, in Pattaya. He said the couple planned to have a traditional Thai wedding ceremony, where elders bless the couple with DDT water. But instead of following Thai tradition and heading to a "wedding room" after exchanging vows, the pair plans to climb into a coffin, he was quoted as saying by the AP agency.
Kanchana Ketkaew, 36, was stung nine times while setting her 2002 record. "It was like being in a room at home, only with thousands of little friends," she said at the time.
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But instead of following Thai tradition and heading to a "wedding room" after exchanging vows, the pair plans to climb into a coffin, and move to California.....he was quoted as saying by the AP agency.
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What a romantic story! Too bad we couldn't run this story on Valentine's Day. I'm delighted they found each other. Mazel tov to the happy couple and all their...little friends.
The Security Council has edged closer to sanctioning individuals blamed for last week's anti-UN violence in Ivory Coast. The movement came on Thursday as the UN mission in the Ivory Coast began a temporary evacuation of some civilian staff. "No decision has been taken today but I think we are very close to a decision (on sanctions)," Jean-Marc de La Sabliere, France's UN envoy, said after the council was briefed on the situation by the UN special representative for Ivory Coast, Pierre Schori.
"All members who took the floor today very strongly condemned the attacks against UN forces," de La Sabliere said. "It is not acceptable that the UN forces be attacked by those who do not want to implement the roadmap" [due to lead to free and fair elections by 31 October]. The French envoy, whose country is Ivory Coast's former colonial ruler, said the 15-member council favoured targeted and "balanced" sanctions against Ivorian pro-government and rebel personalities responsible for violence. He said a decision was likely to be made in the coming days.
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Wow! The wheels of justice sure turn quick for the Ivory Coast. Why has it taken 3 years to decide that the Darfur situation is worth getting involved in?
Why will it take the rest of our lives to get a straight answer on Iran?
Abdullah Al-Othaim, executive president of Al-Othaim Holding Company, reaffirmed yesterday his companys boycott of Danish products until that countrys largest daily apologizes for publishing 12 cartoons that mocked the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI peace be upon him).
Al-Othaim said that just as Denmark has freedom of the press, Muslims have freedom to buy or not to buy. The company is comprised of five subsidiaries (Al-Othaim Supermarket, Al-Othaim Mall, Entertainment, Training Center and Al-Othaim Commercial Group) and owns around 60 branches across the Kingdom. Al-Othaims decision, which he says includes a boycott of any supplier that includes Danish products, may help to impact SR1.3 billion worth of exports to Saudi Arabia.
Oh, dear! What will Riyadh supermarkets do without plentiful Danish hams?
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We don't get Danish pork products (from memory the world's largest producer) here in Oz, but I am certainly doing my bit to increase aggregate demand for said products. Off to make a bacon sandwich. Yum!!!
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Only 10 lines or so in the Copenhagen Post. How do I subscribe to the Jyllands-Posten?
26.01.2006 Print article (IE & NS 4+)
Saudi Arabia has recalled its Danish ambassador in dissatisfaction with the government's reaction to the publication of drawings of the prophet Mohammed. Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador in Denmark on Thursday in protest over the government's handling of what it calls the Danish press's 'insulting' of the prophet Mohammed.
'The Saudi Arabian government has recalled its ambassador for consultations on the basis of the Danish government's failure to take action against the country's newspapers regarding the insulting of the prophet Mohammed,' said a Saudi Arabian government spokesman.
Daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten printed 12 drawings of the prophet Mohammed in September as a way to challenge what it considered the intimidating tactics of fundamental Islamists.
Attempts to obtain further comment from the Saudi Arabian embassy in Copenhagen or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs were unsuccessful.
Done and done! I found authentic Copenhagen brewed Tuborg at the store just the other day. Going to go and buy some more in just a few minutes. One of the finest lagers a body can pour down their neck.
Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador to Denmark in protest at the Danish government's position on the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed.
... which so far has been "We have a free press, so piss off."
"The (Saudi) government has recalled its ambassador in Copenhagen to express its regret and protest the position of the Danish government regarding a matter that has offended Islam and Muslims," a Saudi foreign ministry official said on Thursday. Ambassador Mohammed al-Hujailan was recalled "for discussions", he said, requesting anonymity.
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The Islamos are running out of friends all over the world, arent they.
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I think I will set up a Mohammed cartoon website and invite to the Saudi ambassador to leave.
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I'd happily chip in to have all of the cartoons made into billboards for a national display campaign. It should include a 1-800 telephone number so the critical responses can be forwarded to our intelligence agencies.
An unidentified man was burnt to death inside a tea stall at a village in Sadar South upazila early yesterday. Local sources said a gang of miscreants forced the unidentified man to enter into the tea stall of Chand Miah at village North Kamalapur at about 1:00 am. Later, the gang locked the tea stall from outside and set fire to it, roasting the man alive.
Police rushed to the spot and recovered the body at noon.
The guy is murdered at 1 am, and the police 'rushed' to the spot ... 11 hours later?
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The guy is murdered at 1 am, and the police 'rushed' to the spot ... 11 hours later?
Why hasn't this cockaroach already smoked his last Cohibas con el veneno?
Miami groups backing Fidel Castro's government today are calling on the Bush administration to extradite accused Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela. Get yer free Havana Cruise line tickets here!
The Alianza Martiana, the Antonio Maceo Brigade, the Asociación Jose Marti and Círculo Bolivariano of Miami are among the groups holding a press conference this morning to demand Posada's extradition. Posada currently is being held in detention in El Paso, Texas. Still looking for the next Tony Montana?
Venezuela wants to try Posada for the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976 that killed 73 people. At the time, Posada was a top official in the Venezuelan state security agency. Cuba has accused Posada of masterminding a string of bombings at Cuban hotels in 1997 and 1998. A federal immigration judge has ruled that Posada cannot be extradited to Cuba or Venezuela because he could face torture. The federal government will decide soon if Posada can be released under supervision or if there's another country that will take him. Why hasn't the US agreed to honor its decade old extradition treaty with Venezuela or its obligations under the 'Convention on Safety in Civil Aviation'? Could be that Venezuela's "institutional crisis" that can't insure no ill-treatment or torture. Perhaps the US finds Chavezs professed desire to spread his "Bolivarian" revolution adversarial. Then again it could be... this.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Two French missionaries and two Haitians were kidnapped near a volatile slum in Haiti's capital, a U.N. official said Thursday. The four were seized on Wednesday as they traveled on a road near Cite Soleil, a sprawling slum on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince used as a base by heavily armed gangs blamed for a wave of kidnappings and violence in the capital, said David Wimhurst, a U.N. spokesman.
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Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is making good use of Jinju and Kumgang medicinal stones, natural minerals for the improvement of health. Jinju medicinal stone, whose medicinal effect has been found out recently, properly contains inorganic ingredients including Ca, Mg, Fe, Si, Ge and Se and more than 20 organic substances including alanine, glycine, linolic acid and oleic acid. Kinda...crunchy though. Ouch!
Especially, it has many kinds of organic substances that are not found in other minerals. Its Ge content is 100,000 times that of Koryo insam with 0.1-1.4~1016 mg. Whatever that means...
Kumgang medicinal stone, called active natural mineral complex, also contains over 60 kinds of mineral matters and some 10 kinds of rare earth elements which are necessary for the promotion of enzyme activity, nucleic acid metabolism and physiological function. Mmmmmmmmmmm...stones!
The Paeksung Trade Technology Exchange Company pulverizes the Jinju and Kumgang medicinal stones until 3? for medical use. They are efficacious for sedation, spasmolysis, defervescence, detoxication, diuresis, hemostasis, diabetes, skin disorders, digestive diseases, epilepsy, tuberculosis, various cancers and arteriosclerosis. Yes. But can it cure painful rectal itch?
In particular, the active natural mineral complex helps children grow fast. The growth rate is double for boys and quadruple for girls. And it improves their physical strength and vigor. South Korea attacked by gigantic North Korean schoolchildren. Film at eleven...
The natural medicinal minerals, the clinical test of which proves no after-effects, are popular among people. Can I have some more medicinal stone, mom, so I can grow up to be a gigantic commie and fight the rabid Yankee dog imperialists?
They also are available for health food, purification of drinking water, animals' feed and cosmetics. It's a medicine! It's a floor wax! It's a house paint!
it's a supplement for undernourished kids who unfortunately really need it ... and the sad thing is, they're so cut off from the outside world that they probably think this is a big breakthrough demonstrating the unique insights of Korean science.
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"Step up folks to Uncle Perks rootin',tootin', shootin'' oil. Guaranteed to cure fits, farts, freckles, shits, shinola stains and sore assholes. And guaranteed to slow a 7 years itch to a 2 day scratch!"
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In particular, the active natural mineral complex helps children grow fast. The growth rate is double for boys and quadruple for girls. And it improves their physical strength and vigor.
Simple to accomplish when your test subjects come in as severely malnourished kids and leave as only moderately malnourished. Kinda like the reverse of the Nazi "experiments" on the effects of freezing on humans.
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Jinju medicinal stone, whose medicinal effect has been found out recently, properly contains inorganic ingredients including Ca, Mg, Fe, Si, Ge and Se and more than 20 organic substances including alanine, glycine, linolic acid and oleic acid.
WTF? Been a LONG time since I had Geology, but these don't sound like naturally occurring combos in stone. Obviously this leads to one conclusion: Jinju Medicinal Stone is people! and rocks...
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Well, Silicon isn't really toxic, but Selenium and Germanium sure the hell are.
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A Chinese electronic reconnaissance aircraft intruded into Japans air defense identification zone recently, prompting renewed concerns over Chinas military activities. Probing, ever probing.
The Chinese have used a civilian aircraft modified for electronic intelligence-gathering to penetrate the air defense zone several times since October, the Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported last week. Japanese Air Self Defense Force (ASDF) fighters scrambled to intercept the jet and spotted a radar pod on the Chinese jets airframe. "We've got an electronics surveillance plane up here masquerading as an airliner, instructions."
China's aim is to extract more information on the radar of the Self Defense Forces (SDF) by disguising civilian passenger planes and intensifying the gathering of radio-wave [intelligence] in the area around the gas fields, the newspaper reported, quoting government sources. For an attack by fighter aircraft, it is essential to neutralize the other party's radar, the report said. It would appear that the objective of China's reconnaissance activities is to analyze the SDF's radio waves in preparation for that, and the East China Sea is exhibiting the look of information warfare. More food for the worry-plate.
The aircraft was identified as a Tu-154MD, a Russian-built passenger jet.
It's a passenger jet like the EC-135 is a passenger jet.
It was the first time the Tupelov had been detected in Japanese air space.
If it has a radar pod, it's no longer a 'passenger' jet.
Japanese forces have detected Y-8EW electronic reconnaissance aircraft around the disputed gas fields off the East China Sea more than 10 times last year. The aircraft are based in Shanghai. Would be cool to make an EMP and fry the little bugger's electronics. Wonder if the planes are hardened against EMP.
A Japan Defense Agency official said Tu-154MD "symbolizes the rapid upgrading of their military and technical capabilities."
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If it has a radar pod, it's no longer a 'passenger' jet.
I suspect that the radar pod in no way interferes with its ability to carry passengers.
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Fat Kimmie and Solyent Green-happy NorKor makes the verbal threats, China's PLAAF and PLAN does the actual flyin' and a penetratin', ergo proving that NK and China are not colluding.
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia denied one of its military aircraft had violated Japanese airspace the previous day, directly contradicting Tokyo's allegation as well as its claim that Moscow had already admitted the incursion.
"According to the onboard GPS system, Russian radar and the Pacific Fleet, the Antonov-72 of (Russia's post-KGB intelligence service) the FSB, which was following a poachers' ship in the Sea of Japan, did not violate the Japanese border," the FSB said, quoted by the Interfax news agency.
"Our aircraft came no closer than three kilometres (1.8 miles) from the border," the FSB added.
Earlier Thursday, Japan's foreign ministry said a Russian border patrol plane penetrated its airspace Wednesday on seven occasions, for a total of 26 minutes, near the northern island of Rebun, without the authority of Japanese air traffic control. The Russian border patrol is part of the FSB.
Japanese Vice Defence Minister Takemasa Moriya said Russia's border security force on the Far East island of Sakhalin informed the Japanese consulate there Thursday that the plane was one of its Antonov-72 transport aircraft.
Rebun is 1,100 kilometers (700 miles) north of Tokyo, facing Sakhalin across La Perouse (Soya) Strait and lying close to the main northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.
Japan scrambled six fighter jets and sent radio warnings to the aircraft to leave the territory, the Defense Agency said.
The FSB on Sakhalin Island? Wonder if the same guy that brought you KAL 007 is still in charge?
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I lived in Miami at the time of KAL007. The Miami Herald had a brilliant illustrator named Kent Barton. The illustration he drew for that incident (in the Sunday Opinion section)is still vivid in my mind: The drawing was the full width of the paper, just the massive head of a grizzly bear with a commercial airliner splintered in its jaws.
BELGRADE, Jan. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The parliament of Bosnia's Serb Republic voted on Thursday to dismiss Prime Minister Pero Bukejlovic's government after passing a no confidence motion, according to reports from Banja Luka.
Forty-four deputies in the 83-seat parliament voted for the motion against the government headed by the main nationalist Serb Democratic Party (SDS), while 29 voted against and six abstained. Shortly afterwards, the parliament voted to sack the government.
Under the republic's constitution, Bosnian Serb President Dragan Cavic has 10 days to nominate a new prime minister and the new government should be formed within 40 days, once the parliament votes to sack the incumbent government.
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It was only a matter of time, Steve. Ev'rybody knew that.
Great Canada! now you did it! You awakened the fire-breathing GoreBot! Global Warming accelerates....
Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore has accused the oil industry of financially backing the Tories and their "ultra-conservative leader" to protect its stake in Alberta's lucrative oilsands. "which should remain unmined for a thousand years, even if you all die of freezing. It's natures' way!"
Canadians, Gore said, should vigilantly keep watch over prime minister-designate Stephen Harper because he has a pro-oil agenda and wants to pull out of the Kyoto accord -- an international agreement to combat climate change. which even AlGore at his most charming and influential couldn't persuade himself or his boss to committ the nation to, once every Senator voted against it....
"The election in Canada was partly about the tar sands projects in Alberta," Gore said Wednesday while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. "And the financial interests behind the tar sands project poured a lot of money and support behind an ultra-conservative leader in order to win the election . . . and to protect their interests." "money is only good if it comes from Chinese communist monks with vows of poverty"
Darcie Park, spokeswoman for oilsands giant Suncor Energy, said she's taken aback by Gore's remarks and hopes they don't resonate with Canadians. "Our company just doesn't do business that way. We're really puzzled about where these comments came from," she said. "is it a natural gas disturbance? Something smells bad..."
"Canadians understand how elections work in Canada and understand there are these very tight restrictions around what individuals and companies can contribute to individual parties or campaigns."
The federal Elections Act limits how much money individuals, corporations and unions can donate to political parties. Individuals are allowed to give as much as $5,000 a year, while companies and unions are capped at $1,000 a year.
In their election platform, the Conservatives promised to further limit individual donations to a maximum of $1,000 and ban all donations from corporations, unions and organizations.
Parties and candidates are required to make public any contributions exceeding $200.
While John Bennett, senior policy adviser for Sierra Club of Canada, isn't certain of how much oil companies and their executives donate to the Conservatives, he's noticed their language on Kyoto is similar. ooohhh SIMILAR!
"They've talked about the need for a made-in-Canada plan, which is exactly the terminology Stephen Harper used," Bennett said. "They've talked about targets for Kyoto being unreachable -- that's similar."
Gore warned that Harper wants to remove Canada from the Kyoto accord, which the United States signed under former president Bill Clinton, but has refused to ratify under President George W. Bush. "Hopefully that will not happen thanks to the minority victory," Gore said of Canada's involvement in Kyoto.
And Al knows all about minority parties ...
Gore believes the issue of the oilsands and the sway he contends the industry holds with Harper didn't garner news coverage during the election because "media concentration has taken a toll on democratic principles around the world, and Canada is no exception."
Even if the Conservatives want to abandon Kyoto, Bennett doesn't think they will pull out because polls have shown a majority of Canadians support the agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, which are widely believed to contribute to global warming.
He expects, however, Harper will make little effort to fulfil the country's Kyoto commitment: Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to six per cent below 1990's mark by 2012. He also predicts the Tories will halt Liberal plans to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from large industries, such as oil firms. "They changed the messaging, but they haven't changed their opinion," Bennett said. "I see them moving a lot closer to the Bush government. Talk a lot, but do nothing."
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Oh, ferchrissakes.
If this blathering clown and his ilk would SHUT UP, there'd be no "global warming." The hot air they've spewed the past 30 years must have raised the global temperature at least 10 degrees. >:-(
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In 1997, the Senate voted 95-0 against the Kyoto treaty. Remind me again who were the Prez and Vice Prez in that year.
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This gore-gasbag has contributed to global warming by blowing chunks.
Face it AlGorrrreeee, it's you not the world.
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My impression of the Canadian election was that the voters were tired of the corruption in the party that had been running the country for the last N years.
As for alGore, I can't believe I voted for that guy once. Was I on crack?
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#1 Oh, ferchrissakes dito! LOL
I only hope Canada is smart enough to know this moonbat, a graduate of the Jimmy Carter school for Diplunacy, does nt represent America.
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How many tons of CO2 spew forth from Al Gore's mouth every year? If we could get him to shut that stinking pie hole, we would be much closer to meeting our greenhouse gas emissions target.
He seems to be losing his mind, he should double his dosage and get off the caffeine
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(For those with no clue, "Kamehameha!" is a reference to the Dragonball-Z anime cartoon, the word screamed when one of the characters summons up a fireball to smite his enemy.)
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Why do you guys want to shut Al-Gore up? Like Al-Quada's announcements from Afghanistans most succesful cross-dresser, every time he opens his mouth the right-wing win votes.
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Anonymoose,
Actually, I got it and ended up spewing soup all over the monitor. Now all you need is an anime drawing of Algore going that weird hyperconstipated grunting thing they do on DBZ, and you're all set.
Mike
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Now all you need is an anime drawing of Algore going that weird hyperconstipated grunting thing they do on DBZ, and you're all set.
Just use the picture of the article, do some photo-shopping with some bright light around it, and put a speech bubble saying "GLOBALWARMINGBUSHITLERSUPREMECOURTBILLCLINTONGIVEMEAJOBATTACK". That would cause me to CACKLE.
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WASHINGTON -- The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on a Web site that bills itself as the "world's largest encyclopedia," The Sun has learned.
The Meehan alterations on Wikipedia.com represent just two of more than 1,000 changes made by congressional staffers at the U.S. House of Representatives in the past six month. Wikipedia is a global reference that relies on its Internet users to add credible information to entries on millions of topics.
Matt Vogel, Meehan's chief of staff, said he authorized an intern in July to replace existing Wikipedia content with a staff-written biography of the lawmaker.
The change deleted a reference to Meehan's campaign promise to surrender his seat after serving eight years, a pledge Meehan later eschewed. It also deleted a reference to the size of Meehan's campaign account, the largest of any House member at $4.8 million, according to the latest data available from the Federal Election Commission.
"Meehan first ran for Congress in 1992 on a platform of reform," the pre-edited entry said. "As part of that platform Meehan made a pledge to not serve more than four terms, a central part of his campaign. This breaking of the pledge has been a controversial issue in the 5th Congressional District of Massachusetts."
The new entry reads in part: "Meehan was elected to Congress in 1992 on a plan to eliminate the deficit. His fiscally responsible voting record since then has earned him praise from citizen watchdog groups. He was re-elected by a large margin in 2004."
Vogel said, "It makes sense to me the biography we submit would be the biography we write."
The change doubled the length of the entry on Meehan, corrected errors and replaced "sloppy" writing, Vogel said. "Let the outside world edit it. It seemed right to start with greater depth than a paragraph with incorrect data from the '80s."
Wikipedia's online honor system has made it ripe for abuse by vandals. Recently, a user wrote in a Wikipedia bio that Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor "smells of cow dung." Another wrote that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is "ineffective." These statements were traced to the House Internet-protocol (IP) address.
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Don't worry, Marty. As always, if your lips are moving, I'll still know you're lying...
mostly blah, blah until this:
"...Sources close to Kerry, who lost to Bush in the 2004 race, told CNN that the senator was calling colleagues from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum. He announced his decision to support a filibuster Wednesday at a meeting of his Democratic colleagues." The Kos kids, DU and Move-on are, I think, are already somewaht ticked at Senator Empty Shirt for going to the World Economic Forum in Davos and they will be, unless I miss my guess, more upset at the futile postering of calling for a filibuster from 4000 miles away.
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If you think John is bewildering, a short bit about TK.
According to the G2 Bulletin, an online intelligence newsletter of WorldNetDaily, in the years between 1995-2001 Teresa Kerry gave more than $4 million to an organization called the Tides Foundation. And what does the Tides Foundation do with John Heinz's money?
They support numerous antiwar groups, including Ramsey Clark's International Action Center. Clark has offered to defend Saddam Hussein when he's tried.
They support the Democratic Justice Fund, a joint venture of the Tides Foundation and billionaire hate-monger George Soros. The Democratic Justice Fund seeks to ease restrictions on Muslim immigration from "terrorist" states.
They support the Council for American-Islamic Relations, whose leaders are known to have close ties to the terrorist group, Hamas.
They support the National Lawyers Guild, organized as a communist front during the Cold War era. One of their attorneys, Lynne Stewart, has been arrested for helping a client, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, communicate with terror cells in Egypt. He is the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
They support the "Barrio Warriors," a radical Hispanic group whose primary goal is to return all of Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas to Mexico.
These are but a few of the radical groups that benefit, through the anonymity provided by the Tides Foundation, from the generosity of our would-be first lady, the wealthy widow of Republican senator John Heinz, and now the wife of the Democratic senator who aspires to be the 44th President of the United States.
Aiding and supporting our enemies is not good for America, regardless of your political views.
If voters will open their eyes, educate themselves and see the real Teresa Heinz Kerry, they will not appreciate her position as ultra rich fairy godmother of the radical left. They will not want to imagine her laying her head on a pillow each night inches away from the President of the United States.
Hopefully they love this country enough to decide that the only way these two will ever be allowed into the White House is with an engraved invitation in hand.
Mexico's top diplomat suggested Thursday that American soldiers disguised as Mexican troops may have been in the military-style Humvee filmed earlier this week protecting a marijuana shipment on the border.
Confirmation that the Mexicans are lying begins right here.
Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez also told a news conference that U.S. soldiers had helped drug smugglers before. However, he offered no evidence. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico made no immediate comment on Derbez's claims. His comments came a day after U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza issued a statement asking the Mexican government to "fully investigate" the border incident.
Monday's armed standoff began 50 miles east of El Paso, Texas, when Texas state police tried to stop three sport utility vehicles on Interstate 10. The vehicles made a quick U-turn and headed south toward the border, a few miles away. Crossing the border, one SUV got stuck in the Rio Grande River, and men in a Humvee tried in vain to tow it out. Then a group of men in civilian clothes began unloading what appeared to be bundles of marijuana and torched the SUV before fleeing.
Mexico insisted Wednesday that the men in military-style uniforms were drug smugglers, not soldiers. In Mexico, kidnappers and drug smugglers regularly wear police gear, which is sold at street stands.
Which means the Texas Rangers won't know a legit soldier from a smuggler. Be a real shame if the Rangers ventilated the wrong one, eh?
Derbez said Thursday that the men photographed by Texas law enforcement could have been Americans. "Members of the U.S. Army have helped protect people who were processing and transporting drugs," Derbez said. "And just as that has happened ... it is very probable that something like that could have happened, that in reality they were members of some of their groups disguised as Mexican soldiers with Humvees."
Three U.S. soldiers have pleaded guilty to running a cocaine smuggling ring from a U.S. base in Colombia, and a fourth is being tried in Texas this week.
Derbez said there was no proof that the men seen in the incident were Mexicans. Derbez also said his country will send a diplomatic note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice demanding that U.S. officials tone down their comments on Mexico's security and immigration problems.
I wonder if Condi will snap back that the Mexicans should 'tone down' their human and drug smuggling into our country?
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Maybe its time we asks our Congressmen to direct a military exercise on March 16th around Columbus New Mexico in remembrance of the start of the punitive expedition conducted by General Pershing after another Mexican incursion upon American territory. Sort like a diplomatic shot across the bow.
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What a shame no one got pics of the identifying marks on the Humvee.
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Was this a Saturday Night Live skit? Oh, it was real? The diplomat must be smoking some of the stash. Or he just might have stayed too long in that mile long tunnel found in California yesterday.
I suppose all the hawks are right on this one. Its time to let them see what a real US military vehilce looks like and send in the Bradley fighting vehicles and strykers to defend our borders. After reading the AQ passport issues in South America I think we really need to get tough on the border and use DOD on this. OK here's where Beo and .com chime in with "Its about time!"
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When the Foreign Secretary of Mexico lies to cover the tracks of drug smugglers, you know then that the entire government -- from soldado to presidente -- has been corrupted by the drug trade. I think that whether you take a libetarian or absolutist position on the war on drugs, you have to agree that we need a radical reassesment of our current policy.
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When the Foreign Secretary of Mexico lies to cover the tracks of drug smugglers, you know then that the entire government -- from soldado to presidente -- has been corrupted by the drug trade.
11A5S, Is this news to you? The Mexican culture is as thoroughly corrupt as any other. That's part of the reason so many Mexicans want to escape here. But if it weren't drugs, it would be something else, booze, sex, whatever. We're going to have to clean the place up sooner or later.
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We're going to have to clean the place up sooner or later.
I'd prefer that we didn't, as they've been riding on our coattails for way too long. They made a mess of their own house, they need to clean it all up. And not by sucking more of our blood.
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"In Mexico, kidnappers and drug smugglers regularly wear police gear, which is sold at street stands."
Just a thought but it might even be in Mexicos best intrest to crack down on that sort of thing.
Then again you don't want to start a revolt from the Peasant Contraband Uniform Union.
Yeah, it was... um you...yeaaahhh... dressing up like me, yeah thats the ticket. Now stop bothering me about this. I have to get back to my wife...um.. Morgan Fairchild, yeaaahhh, yeah, Morgan Farichild. Thats the ticket.
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In Mexico, kidnappers and drug smugglers regularly wear police gear, which is sold at street stands.
They also wear it becasue it is issued to them by the government.
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thanks .com - didn't know if many would get that!
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I guess I see an order of magnitude leap in the corruption, Nimble Spemble. I don't think that we'll have a problem with booze unless we launch prohibition again. Sex? Most US jurisdictions tolerate it if it's kept in the Yellow Pages and off the streets. Look at what happened when Bloomberg put punitive taxes on cigarettes in NYC. Gangs started moving in and for the first time ever we have people getting killed for a few pallets of smokes.
In all of my research, I've only been able to find two approaches that work with street drugs. Start shooting drug dealers or decriminalize the product. Believe it or not, I'm really don't have a preference one way or the other. Just fix the problem before the corruption spreads here.
What is a spemble anyway? It started here as some goofy Shipman inside humor. I guess that I was one of the uncool kids left on the outside looking in.
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it was goofy Ship humor on a nym from the auto-generator. Especially the "ironic Spemble humor"...it's taken on a life of its' own IIUC
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11A5S : you need to shoot the junkies as well. When the Chinese did that under Mao, it effectively eliminated their drug problems for 20 years. A little hard on the junkies, but oh well.
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"It is, of course, bigoted and unfair to tar Jews for the misdeeds of their co-religionists. But thats what antisemites do and in this case their job is easier, thanks to Abramoff, Fastow and their sycophantic supporters in the Jewish community."
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Some observers, including New York Times columnist Frank Rich, already have begun to connect the dots
lol! I really don't need to read much further, do I?
But I did, curious as I was. Just when you don't think the democratic party can sink any lower... What next? They will want to put women in burkas? It's not far off, really it's not.
More similarities have been found between the bird flu creeping into Eastern Europe and the 1918 Spanish flu that decimated populations worldwide, including the discovery of an entirely new way bird flu may kill human cells.
Researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., have found that bird flu viruses carry a gene that can latch onto many crucial proteins inside human cells, presumably disrupting their function and causing far more severe disease than human viruses.
The research provides a new hypothesis for why certain bird flu viruses are particularly lethal for humans.
Published in today's issue of the journal Science, the research comes as Canada prepares to release an updated pandemic flu plan that includes new infection control and border measures, from strategies to get people to wash their hands and cough into Kleenex, to surveillance systems in airports and emergency rooms to detect the virus's introduction into Canada.
There's no evidence so far that the H5N1 avian flu is transforming into the next human pandemic flu strain, but "we certainly are really increasing our efforts in terms of preparedness," says Dr. Theresa Tam, of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
But a SARS survivor, and infectious disease specialist, says Canada is "nowhere close" to being ready for a pandemic should it happen. Dr. Allison McGeer, of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, says more money and time needs to be spent on looking for new drugs for influenza, which masks will truly protect people, how sick people will be cared for when there aren't enough health-care workers and getting Canadians to agree on "fair and reasonable" distribution of vaccines.
In what is being described as the first large-scale mapping of bird flu viruses, researchers from St. Jude mapped 2,196 bird flu genes culled from ducks, gulls, shorebirds and poultry samples collected over 30 years, looking for patterns and comparing them to human flu bugs.
They also mapped the complete genome for 169 bird flu viruses. The work doubles the amount of genetic information available on avian flu.
The team honed in on a gene called NS 1. After looking at nearly 1,200 bird, human and swine NS 1 proteins, they found a particular feature of that gene which is unique in bird viruses and different from human ones.
In bird viruses, the gene produces a protein that allows the virus to bind to "scaffolding" proteins inside human cells.
"It's like a large number of policemen being held hostage. Society falls apart," says McGeer.
In human viruses, the protein doesn't bind to certain cells, which may explain why they're not as virulent.
It hasn't been proven yet. "But, we think that if you interfere with that many proteins in cells, you're going to have a deleterious consequences," said author Dr. Clayton Naeve of St. Jude.
The finding fits with what doctors on the ground in Asia have seen: The H5N1 virus can attack not just the airways, like regular flu, but multiple organs and systems, including the kidney, liver, spleen and brain. Infection has been fatal in more than half the reported cases, and most cases occur in previously healthy children and young adults.
The H5N1 avian flu sweeping across Asia has this "bird" form of the protein. The milder pandemics of 1957 and 1968 had the "human" one.
The 1918 Spanish flu virus, which scientists now believe came from birds, had a very similar "bird" protein that the researchers believe behaves the same way. The protein could become a key target for the development of vaccines and new anti-flu drugs.
McGeer says the research answers "a big piece of the puzzle.
"Does it tell you H5N1 is going to be the next pandemic? No. What it does is add to our understanding of the evolution of influenza viruses."
Naeve says it is possible that whatever makes H5N1 so pathogenic, or toxic to humans, could persist even if the virus adapts to spread easily from humans to humans, and becomes pandemic.
If or when that happens is anyone's guess. Some virologists believe H5N1 is not going to be the next human pandemic.
The virus, which surfaced in Hong Kong in 1997, has been in contact with humans for eight years "and we haven't seen the required mutation," says Dr. James Mahony, a professor of pathology and molecular medicine at McMaster University.
The 1918 virus, by contrast, jumped from birds to humans and was quickly lethal.
On Thursday, Indonesia reported that a 22-year-old chicken seller infected with the H5N1 virus died, the country's 15th death from bird flu.
China on Wednesday confirmed the country's 10th case of human infection with H5N1, a 29-year-old woman from Chengdu City in the province of Sichuan. It's not known if she was exposed to infected birds.
The virus has infected 152 people in six countries since 2003, killing 84 of them.
At least some species of migratory birds are carrying the virus to new areas along migratory flyways, according to a report presented this week to the WHO's executive board, and the chance the virus will spread to poultry in new areas "is now high."
Health officials in Canada are monitoring the outbreak of bird flu in Turkey, where two people have died. "To date, people are still convinced there is no efficient human to human transmission," says Tam, associate director of the immunization and respiratory infections division at the Public Health Agency of Canada.
But, "we really have no idea how this virus will behave next if it undergoes some mutation."
The updated influenza pandemic plan will include recommendations for the use of masks. Droplets, or larger "blobs" of secretions primarily spread flu. General surgical masks should be enough should a pandemic happen, Tam says.
"Public health experts feel that putting a mask on an ill person when they're coughing or sneezing and have to move around ... is a sensible thing to do.
"Having well people milling about on the streets wearing masks all the time, we don't know if it's effective or not."
The public focus will be on hand hygiene, Tam says.
Spirit and Opportunity, the spunky NASA rovers that have rolled around Mars for two years, are the unlikely stars of an IMAX movie, which opened on Friday, along with the astronomer who helped create them.
Millions of people have seen photos beamed down from Mars by the robotic rovers, on television or online, but the new film, "Roving Mars," puts together these images in a seamless moving picture and splashes it on a screen five stories high.
Steven Squyres, the rovers' principal scientific investigator and the movie's main narrator, said it gives an authentic feeling of actually being on the Red Planet. "I've kind of had this picture of what Mars really looks like in my head for all this time, and for the first time on that IMAX screen, what I saw with my eyes matched my impressions of what it should really look like," Squyres said in a Reuters interview. One reason it looks so real is that all the images in the film are based on pictures taken by the rovers' own cameras or from the scientific data they have collected. "Every single scene you see is real data from the rover, it's just processed in different ways," Squyres said. "There is not a single fake shot of Mars."
A seemingly impossible shot -- the view of an airbag-covered rover landing on the planet -- was created by digital artist Dan Maas from data collected by the rovers as they bounced. Each bounce was just as it happened, just where it happened on the Martian surface. Besides the rovers and Squyres, the other stars of the film are the thousands of people who worked on the project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and elsewhere.
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 giant Pacific octopus that attacked a remotely operated submarine off north Vancouver Island could have been senile or maybe just peckish, a marine biologist said Wednesday. "Large male octopuses in the last part of their lives become senescent, or senile," said Jim Cosgrove of the Royal B.C. Museum. "They get to be like humans, doddering old fools that have inappropriate behaviours such as being out in the daytime," said Cosgrove, an expert in octopus behaviour.
The Security Council has edged closer to sanctioning individuals blamed for last week's anti-UN violence in Ivory Coast. The movement came on Thursday as the UN mission in the Ivory Coast began a temporary evacuation of some civilian staff. "No decision has been taken today but I think we are very close to a decision (on sanctions)," 
Abdullah Al-Othaim, executive president of Al-Othaim Holding Company, reaffirmed yesterday his companys boycott of Danish products until that countrys largest daily apologizes for publishing 12 cartoons that mocked the Prophet Muhammad (
Saudi Arabia has recalled its ambassador to Denmark in protest at the Danish government's position on the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed. 
An unidentified man was burnt to death inside a tea stall at a village in Sadar South upazila early yesterday. Local sources said a gang of miscreants forced the unidentified man to enter into the tea stall of Chand Miah at village North Kamalapur at about 1:00 am. Later, the gang locked the tea stall from outside and set fire to it, roasting the man alive.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Two French missionaries and two Haitians were kidnapped near a volatile slum in Haiti's capital, a U.N. official said Thursday. The four were seized on Wednesday as they traveled on a road near Cite Soleil, a sprawling slum on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince used as a base by heavily armed gangs blamed for a wave of kidnappings and violence in the capital, said David Wimhurst, a U.N. spokesman.
Mexico's top diplomat suggested Thursday that American soldiers disguised as Mexican troops may have been in the military-style Humvee filmed earlier this week protecting a marijuana shipment on the border.
Spirit and Opportunity, the spunky NASA rovers that have rolled around Mars for two years, are the unlikely stars of an IMAX movie, which opened on Friday, along with the astronomer who helped create them. 
