Actress Lindsay Lohan, who has been a frequent target of the tabloids for her partying ways, has begun attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, her publicist said on Friday.
"It's positive and she hopes the press leaves her alone," publicist Leslie Sloane-Zelnik said of the 20-year-old film star, whose penchant for parties and nightclubs have made her the focus of tabloid stories portraying the auburn-haired actress as out of control. Sloane-Zelnik on Thursday blasted Lohan's critics in the media, saying they had crossed a line by mocking a barely literate heartfelt letter the screen star wrote following director Robert Altman's death last week. Sloane-Zelnik said the note, which one columnist suggested was composed by Lohan on "one of her legendary party benders" and contained misspellings and grammatical errors, was instead dashed off by the distraught young actress on a Blackberry, moments after she learned Altman had died.
In a 2005 article in Vanity Fair, she admitted to having an eating disorder and bulimia, then later denied her statements.
"Yeah. It ain't true."
"Then why'd you say it?"
"I wuz drunk."
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What an airhead. Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does give one security. If nobody will work with this bimbo she won't have a career that keep the party money flowing in.
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"Actress Lindsay Lohan, who has been a frequent target of the tabloids for her partying ways, has begun attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, her publicist said on Friday."
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Hollywood knows Big Cinema is dying, thus Hollywierd POLITIX OF POLISCHTICK has moved to "Cinema-Lite", aka TV, Home Theater + Personal Computers. OPIATE OF THE MASSES, MAKING THAT BIG CAREER MOVE TO CABLE PORN, etc. don't ya know.
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The recent photo of her at some awards dinner - one should get a hi-res version is quite distubing.
Zoom in on the skin on her back. She has seriously hurt her skin with too much sun. It looks worse than an 80 year olds. She is a prime victim for skin cancer.
BAGERHAT, Dec 2 (UNB): At least four pirates and one coastguard were reportedly killed while a coastguard and a RAB member went missing after a gunfight at the estuary of the river Pashur near Mongla Friday night. Wherever the hell that is.
RAB sources said RAB-6 member and Battalion Ansar Platoon Commander Kanchan went missing in the river with his AK-47 rifle at one stage of scuffle with the pirates. Two coastguards were also reportedly missing but their identity could not be known. Kanchan went down with the ship, eh?
RAB and coastguards arrested a gang of 10-12 pirates in a trawler on the river at about 10pm and recovered 40 rounds of bullet following a tip-off that a consignment of arms was being sent to the Sundarbans forest. Transferring arms to the New Biplobi Communist Party, no doubt.
The gang later attacked the coastguards and RAB members on the trawler while the law-enforcers were returning after arresting the pirates. At one stage of scuffle, the pirates threw the coastguards and the RAB member into the river and took control of the trawler, triggering the gunfight, RAB and coastguards sources said. RAB guys were shooting from the water? Now that's tough for you.
According to sources, at least four pirates were killed in the gunfight. However, there was no official version about the reported death of the pirates. Navy, RAB and coastguards started rescue operation in the river for their colleagues. "Keep dragging, Kanchan's got to be in there somewhere!"
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Heavens, 40 bullet? Sounds like a major operation by the new Old Biplopi Communists faction.
Bangladeshs list of voters contains 12.2 million false names, a US-based election monitor said on Saturday. Bangladeshs voters list has approximately 12.2 million names which are either in error or are duplicates, a report by the Washington-based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) said. A 14-party alliance led by the Awami League of Sheikh Hasina has threatened a nationwide transport blockade, the third in three weeks, from Sunday. It has demanded a recasting of election schedules and an overhaul of voters lists. Owen Lippert, the NDIs resident representative in Bangladesh, said his group checked more than 22,000 names across the country and interviewed 11,000 people during a survey of voters ahead of an election set for January 21. The (NDI) delegation is deeply concerned that the new voters list runs to over 93 million names, a size that is substantially inconsistent with the 2001 census data, Lippert told a news conference. A voters list containing two-thirds of the population strains credibility.
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When most of your voters are either named Mohammed or Ali, it can get hard to keep track of them.
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Now I understand why Pakistan and Bangladesh had to split. Pakistanis are expected to maintain at least three false identities. This disgracefully inadequate effort by the Bangladeshis amounts to well under one false identity per capita. How pathetic!
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I understand that Chicago and King County (Seattle) WA want to talk to Bang. elections supvr to see "just how he does it" so they may learn some process improvement.....(Ron Sims, you reading this?????)
My how things haven't changed.
The Russian intelligence services, the prime suspects behind the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, have a network of more than 30 spies operating in Britain, it can be revealed. The sophisticated ring represents the greatest espionage threat facing Britain, Whitehall sources told The Sunday Telegraph.
The agents, equivalent to one in five of the Moscow government officials based in Britain, are known to be monitoring the movements and activities of Russian emigres and opponents of the Putin regime. But they are also involved in a widespread operation targeting businessmen, MPs and scientists in an attempt to steal commercial and state secrets. Only the United States, it is understood, has more Russian agents operating on its soil.
Whitehall sources claim that the agents are as active today as they were at the height of the Cold War, despite the fact that the Kremlin is now one of Britain's major allies in the war on terrorism.
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HAVANA - Cubas communist interim leader Fidel-LiteRaul Castro, in a shift from the tack of his ailing brother Fidel Castro, on Saturday pushed for negotiations with the United States to end decades of tense ties. Let me take this opportunity to express our willingness to settle the long US-Cuba disagreement at the negotiating table, Raul Castro told troops at Cubas first military parade in a decade.
Of course, that is, as long as they accept that we are a country that does not tolerate any reduction of its independence, and based on the principles of equality, reciprocity, non-interference and mutual respect, Raul Castro said, speaking before Communist Party and military leaders. We don't respect you and you don't respect us, I suppose that is mutual.
Until that happens, after almost half a century, we are prepared to wait patiently for the moment when common sense takes root in the halls of power in Washington, added Raul Castro, who is also the defence minister. We've been waiting patiently for your brother to kick off, and it won't be too many more years before you yourself join him at Himmler's permanent Monday night card game in Hell.
In Washington, the US response was firm. The dialogue that needs to take place is one between the Cuban regime and the Cuban people about the democratic future of the island. As we have consistently stated, any deepening of our engagement with Cuba depends on that dialogue and the Cuban regimes willingness to take concrete steps toward a political opening and a transition to democracy, said Janelle Hironimus, a State Department spokeswoman.
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"Well, is he dead?"
"I'll pop 'round and have another peek."
"And is he?"
"He's not at all well, coughing up blood and all that."
"You can let us know when he's dead."
"Look, can't we just start discussing cigar quotas and stuff?"
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro was not present as a military parade marking his 80th birthday began on Saturday in Havana's main square. The event, expected to last perhaps 1 1/2 hours, is being closely watched to see if Castro is well enough to appear in public for the first time since he had intestinal surgery in late July and temporarily turned over power to his brother, defence minister Raul Castro.
Castro's health and questions about his future have overshadowed the military display that experts say is a show of muscle to anyone who thinks communist Cuba is vulnerable because of uncertainty about the man who has led it for 47 years.
The parade began with a standing Raul Castro riding on a jeep through Havana's main square after a 21-gun salute. The event will put on display tanks, rocket launchers and MiG jet fighters provided by the Soviet Union, which was Cuba's biggest benefactor before its collapse in 1991.
The loss of Soviet aid forced the Revolutionary Armed Forces to cut its troop strength by 80 percent. It is now believed to have no more than 60,000 active-duty soldiers
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I saw some video on the news of this parade. Damn! The tanks were smokin' up the street with white plumes, indicating that they were burning lube oil, big time, probably the piston rings were shot. Quite the force. Hid behind the couch.
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MEXICO CITY - Mexico's new president pledged Saturday to substantially raise the wages of the armed forces, calling them a crucial weapon against heavily armed drug gangs terrorizing the nation.
At a breakfast with the military's top brass, Calderon praised the army for defending the nation and battling organized crime. "I will propose a substantial increase in troops' wages in recognition of the unquestionable effort and loyalty of our armed forces," he said.
Mexico's military plays little role in international conflicts and instead is used mainly in the fight against drug traffickers and leftist guerrilla groups and in recovery efforts after natural disasters.
The new president has vowed security will be among his top priorities, acknowledging the nation is wracked by violent crime, killings and kidnappings. "Today, crime is trying to terrify and immobilize the public and the government," Calderon said in a Friday speech before invited guests at a Mexico City concert hall. "The lack of public safety threatens everybody and has become the main problem of whole states, cities and regions."
Calderon said Friday he will cut his own salary and that of top officials, one of the central campaign platforms of Lopez Obrador. Mexico's politicians are among the highest paid in the world; Fox's pay was about $245,000 in 2006. Wowsers. Heh.
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Actually, you need to pay more to the pols than the drug lords can bribe them. The other way around doesn't work well for 'good' government. Not that the Mexican people could tell the difference.
(Bloomberg) -- Mario Scaramella, an Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, is showing no signs of illness after tests detected radioactive material, a spokesman for the London hospital treating him said.
Tests yesterday detected polonium 210, the substance that poisoned Litvinenko, according to a site manager at University College Hospital, who declined to be identified. The spokesman, speaking by telephone today, didn't name the patient. Italy's government yesterday identified him as Scaramella, an academic. ``He is currently well and showing no symptoms of radiation poisoning,'' the hospital spokesman said.
The Italian met Litvinenko on Nov. 1, the day the former spy fell ill, the British Broadcasting Corp. said. An investigation into Litvinenko's death on Nov. 23 led to polonium 210 being found in at least 12 buildings in London, and at least five airliners have been examined.
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Ex-KGB agent says he named spy suspect In an interview with Italy's RAI TG1 television news, Scaramella said doctors told him that his body contains five times the dose of polonium-210 considered deadly. "So my mood isn't the best," he told the channel.
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Well that's a big change from previous reports, ed. Thx. Sorry for Scaramella. I hope he pulls through. With Litvinenko dead and Scaramella alive to tell the tale, it does help to knock the shiny bits off of Tsar Putty's BS. Though I prolly shouldn't, I pity the poor Russians.
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Scar is dead, make no mistake. If the radiation doesn't get him, he will suffer some other casualty, ptobably after the world's spotlight has shifted to some other tantalyzing morsel.
He's dead, Jim.
Alexander Litvinenko was most probably murdered by "rogue elements" in the Russian state, it was claimed today. The claim comes on the day a postmortem examination took place on Litvinenko. Scotland Yard indicated that the result may not be available for several days because of tests to be carried out.
Investigators believe that while the former spy's assassination was not officially sanctioned by Vladimir Putin's government, the polonium 210 which killed him must have come from state nuclear laboratories.
The killers must have had access to the laboratories, indicating a level of state involvement, according to intelligence sources. Reports say the source of the polonium 210 has now been traced by British scientists working at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston to a nuclear power plant in Russia.
Aldermaston scientists have been following the trail left by the polonium at 10 sites across London and on three British Airways planes that had been used between London and Moscow. One of the grounded BA planes was due to fly back to London for further inspection; the other two are already at Heathrow.
Lord Coe and Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell are expected to undergo health checks. The pair had flown to Barcelona on an Olympic fact-finding trip, boarding one of the two Boeing 767s currently grounded while undergoing radiation tests.
Ms Jowell said she had laughed when she found out she had flown on one of the "radioactive" planes. It was only when a sharp-eyed civil servant realised their aircraft was one of those involved in the radiation scare that Ms Jowell learned she could have been exposed to polonium 210. "I'm not at all worried because I know the health risks are infinitesimally small," she said. "I don't expect to be tested. Seb and I and the whole Olympics team were on the flight, which was packed. It came as a surprise but we're among 33,000 or so people involved." Nevertheless, the minister and her staff have been advised to go for medical tests if they feel ill.
About 33,000 people who took 221 flights across Europe between 25 October and 29 November may have been exposed to radiation although the risk to passengers is said to be extremely low. By last night, about 5,500 people had contacted BA.
A post-mortem examination will be carried out today at the Royal London Hospital with the medical team taking special precautions because of the nature of Mr Litvinenko's death. After the post mortem, his body will be released to his wife for burial.
The amount of Plonium-210, as well as any of the isotopes we sell is an 'exempt quantity' amount. These quantities of radioactive material are not hazardous - this is why they are permitted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to be sold to the general public without any sort of license.
Although we do sell these isotopes, distributors such as United Nuclear Scientific Supplies (and just about any isotope distributor) do not actually stock them.
All isotopes are made to order at an NRC licensed reactor in Oak Ridge Tennessee. When the isotope is made, it is shipped directly to the customer from the reactor to insure the longest possible half-life.
The Po-210 isotope is either made there or somewhere else. Maybe the Russian reactor supplies the world by regularly shipping out parcels of Po-210 every few days.
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The isotopes are made in the High Flux Isotope Reactor at the Oak Ridge National Labortory. It's a relitivly small reactor and a very interesting design. Did some work there in the mid-90's.
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What's all this I hear about "rogue elephants" in the Russian state?...
THE trail of clues in the mysterious death of Alexander V. Litvinenko may lead to Moscow, as the former spy claimed on his deathbed. But solving the nuclear whodunit may prove harder than Scotland Yard and many scientists at first anticipated.
The complicating factor is the relative ubiquity of polonium 210, the highly radioactive substance found in Mr. Litvinenkos body and now in high levels in the body of an Italian associate, who has been hospitalized in London. Experts initially called it quite rare, with some claiming that only the Kremlin had the wherewithal to administer a lethal dose. But public and private inquiries have shown that it proliferated quite widely during the nuclear era, of late as an industrial commodity.
You can get it all over the place, said William Happer, a physicist at Princeton who has advised the United States government on nuclear forensics. And its a terrible way to go.
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Megumi Yokota was 13 when the North Koreans kidnapped her in 1977. She hasn't been heard from since.
by Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal
Scene: A lonely residential street in the city of Niigata, along the western coast of Japan.
Time: Late afternoon in the autumn of 1977.
Action: A 13-year-old girl is walking home from school, having stayed late for badminton practice. She waves goodbye to friends, turns the corner, and is never seen again.
This is the true story of "Abduction," a documentary that opened in Japan last weekend after winning accolades at several international film festivals. The lost girl is Megumi Yokota. In 2002, North Korea admitted that it had kidnapped Megumi, along with 12 other Japanese citizens, enslaving them for the purpose of training its spies to pass as Japanese. "Megumi-chan," or "Little Megumi," is now a household name in Japan. President Bush met with Megumi's mother and brother in the White House last April, calling it "one of the most moving meetings since I've been the President." . . .
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In less enlightened times this sort of thing would have been cause for war. I suspect that Japan's phase-change is going to get very ugly for the Norks.
This has to be the most telegraphed coup in history. Aren't these supposed to be done in secret?
SUVA - Fijis military chief is likely to carry out his threat to overthrow the government early Monday, a report quoted government and military sources as saying on Sunday. The Fiji Sunday Post quoted the sources as saying the capital Suva was expected to be sealed by military roadblocks at the start of the operation from 3:00 am Monday.
Speculation about when military commander, Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, would move has mounted since midday Friday when a deadline passed for the government to accede to a series of demands or face the countrys fourth coup in two decades.
The Sunday Post said under the plan, the government would be dismissed, parliament dissolved and an interim administration installed. The interim government was believed to include some current legislators, former politicians, indigenous chiefs and soldiers.
Roadblocks would be installed on the main roads in and out of the capital. The newspaper added, however, that other scenarios could be under consideration.
Bainimarama has said little about his plans, other than saying he planned to install an interim government. Radio New Zealand quoted him Saturday saying he had not finalised his plans but intended to act within the next week.
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Russia has protested about plans by Estonia to criminalise displays of Soviet symbols. A Russian foreign ministry spokesman said it was "blasphemous" to equate the hammer and sickle with Nazi emblems. 'Blasphemous': what an odd word to use about communist symbols.
The Estonian government has put a bill before parliament calling for fines or jail terms of up to three years for those who display such symbols. Estonia was occupied by the Nazis in World War II and then ruled by Moscow for five decades. Russia denies the Soviet years amounted to an "occupation" of Estonia. Nope, nope, never happened No, no, certainly not. It wudn't an occupation. It wuz... ummm... something else.
War veterans in the large Russian minority in Estonia often wave red Soviet flags when marking Soviet-era anniversaries. Tallinn, in particular, is starting to see a number of skinheads wearing KKK and Nazi symbols, and a rise in racist violence
The Baltic republic regained its independence became independent in 1991 and is a member of both NATO and the EU.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said on Thursday that "recently the Estonian side has been obstinately taking provocative steps aimed at seriously aggravating our relations".
"The Estonian authorities are continuing their blasphemous ... 'Blasphemy, I tell you! Of the worst kind!'
... attempts to rewrite the history, bracketing Nazi crimes with the feat of the Soviet people, who made a decisive contribution to the liberation of Europe from fascism," Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as saying. Yea, that's how Estonians remember it, too
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The Soviets re-annexed Estonia and Latvia and Lithuania in June 1940 (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact) with all the attendant executions and deportations to Siberia. The Germans didn't invade until June 1941. So I can see where the Latvians might dispute the liberation claims.
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Latvians Estonians
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Ed, pretty much.
BTW, I broke my own tags in the story -- Estonians didn't become independent in 1991, they regained it. Somehow I reversed the strikethrough tag.
I'm a radical libertarian when it comes to free speech. I think the best thing the U.S. let, for example, the Klan do was talk, or the Nazis -- "I hate Illinois Nazis". They, over time, have become objects of scorn.
Estonia (and Europe) is different. You want to have a protest, you better have a permit.
What the story didn't say is that the Nazi flag is already banned in Estonia. This is just extending it to another symbol of totalitarianism (in the Estonians' minds).
I would like to see them enforce it, however. I see young Russians in Estonia running around with sweatshirts with the hammer and sickle and the CCCP. On Victory Day, the Soviet flags will be out. The only thing that will cure it, IMO, is the passage of time, and the veterans of WW2 dying.
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Apparently the Clintons haven't told Russia that FASCISM/NAZISM = NEW COMMUNISM, at least temporily until Years 2015-2020 when Hated Fascist/Nazi America = Well-Meaning but Error-ful Limited Commie Amerika, the mighty USSA = weak anti-sovereign Amer SSR/USR, etc is defeated iff not DESTROYED. Presum that Hillary fails in 2008 but wins in 2012 > after Year 2016 POTUS Hillary will have to deal wid Russian-Chicom Aircraft Carriers + possible anti-American Global Nuke War.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Judges at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague have suspended the trial of a prominent Serb suspect, who is on a hunger strike, due to his weakening health. In other words, the hunger strike is working, precisely because the target is Europeans. Try this in Russia, Iran or Burma and see what happens.
In the decision dated Friday, judges said Vojislav Seselj would likely be too weak to instruct his lawyer next week and ordered "postponement of the presentation of evidence in this case until further notice." Carla del Ponte was so-o-o-o disappointed she went to lunch.
Seselj, 52, is accused of conspiring with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and other leaders to purge non-Serbs from parts of Croatia and Bosnia to create a "Greater Serbia" during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
Seselj has been on a hunger strike since Nov. 11, protesting a court-appointed legal adviser who was to step in if Seselj were stripped of his right to act as his own lawyer. He was protectively moved to a prison hospital on Nov. 29 but has so far refused any treatment.
The court, which already has seen Milosevic die in detention of a heart attack and another suspect commit suicide in March - has hinted it will not allow Seselj to starve himself. "The tribunal believes that if Seselj persists with his refusal to accept food, a medical necessity will arise in the near future justifying medical intervention," the court said in a statement Thursday. You mean -- gasp! -- a feeding tube? Why, that would make you guys complicit in torture, wouldn't it? After all feeding tubes are used in Guantanamo.
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MONTREAL - Canadas opposition Liberals on Saturday unexpectedly chose former Environment Minister Stephane Dion as their new leader, overlooking his political shortcomings that could undermine the party in an election widely expected next year. Dion, 51, who was in fourth place at the start of the race, beat favorite and former Harvard academic Michael Ignatieff on the fourth and final ballot at a Montreal leadership convention. He won by 2,521 votes to 2,084.
The Liberals dominated Canadian politics for the past century but lost power to the Conservatives in a January election. The Conservatives have a minority government that looks set to fall in 2007, sparking a new election.
Dion focused his campaign on the need to do more to protect the environment a topic that polls show is increasingly important to Canadians and the need to defeat Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper as soon as possible. It will not be difficult to find the priorities by which well show that our vision for the country is much more generous than the one of Mr. Harper, he said afterward. Translation: he'll promise everyone a pony.
Dion has two potential strikes against him. He speaks English with a heavy French accent, which could make it hard to win over voters in what is a predominantly English-speaking country. He is also unpopular in his home province of Quebec, which accounts for a quarter of the seats in the federal Parliament.
French-speaking separatists strongly dislike him for his efforts to make it harder for them to hold a successful referendum in the future on whether Quebec should break away from the rest of Canada. Separatist Quebec governments lost two previous referendums on the issue.
An Ipsos-Reid opinion poll published on Friday said that if Dion won the leadership, the Liberals would win 27 percent support if a federal election were held now, compared with 35 percent for the Conservatives. Since Canada became a country in 1867, only one Liberal leader has failed to become prime minister.
Dion was the only one of the four front-runners to have any experience in a federal Cabinet. He served in the previous two Liberal governments.
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sick to death of Quebecers lattempting to lead the country. Doesn't matter how inept they are, gotta be from Quebec to run the country. Bloody fed up with the pandering. So's Quebec.
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French-speaking separatists strongly dislike him for his efforts to make it harder for them to hold a successful referendum in the future on whether Quebec should break away from the rest of Canada. Separatist Quebec governments lost two previous referendums on the issue.
Only because Canadians outside Quebec couldn't vote too.
HT to CQ Associates say 'joke' fallout stunned him
Senator John F. Kerry's election-eve "botched joke" about the war in Iraq -- and the fierce denunciations his comments drew from fellow Democrats -- has led him to reevaluate whether to mount a run for the presidency in 2008 and has led him to delay an announcement about his decision, according to Kerry associates.
The Massachusetts Democrat is now leaning toward waiting until late spring before declaring his intentions, even as other candidates jump into the race and begin building organizing and fund-raising teams in early-primary states. Before the joke derailed his comeback, Kerry had signaled that he would decide whether to run by the end of January.
Kerry -- who had methodically resurrected his political standing after a tough loss to President Bush in 2004 -- was stunned by the swift, angry reaction to his Oct. 30 statement that underachieving students would end up "stuck in Iraq." Aides and friends say the senator was particularly stung by the fact that so many Democrats had joined Republicans in rebuking him.
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Kerry is a secret warrior for the Repubs. He will wait until he can amass the most ammount of damage to the Donks and then he will unleash something really stupid spinning the Donks into nonstop damage control giving the Repubs the advantage. We salute you, John Kerry, master of the stupid.
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Wasn't there a poll recently that pegged him the "Least likeable candidate for President"? He was 15th out of 15. Even if you don't like polls that has got to hurt your ego.
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Truly, Ship. It's The Globe, Jawn. That's purt-near the Word of Gawd. Don't be discouraged! Don your lucky hat, give us another Python salute, save another hamster, and throw that sucker into the ring, man! The hat, I means...
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The Massachusetts Democrat is now leaning toward waiting until late spring before declaring his intentions...
...and, as we all know, Americans are stupid and have short attention spans, so they will probably forgotten all about it by then.
Oh. Wait. Should I have said that?
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I cannot comment on this issue since I was in the military; therefore too stupid to have any sort of intelligence. (but I can spell Iraq). john you are such a phuquehwad, you are indeed the ultimate poster child for oral sex.
Our Fuckin' Duh Story of the Day.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun a calculated series of meetings with top New York Democratic officials to signal that she is likely to run for the presidency in 2008 and to ask for their support if she does, according to one state Democratic official who spoke with her and two others who have been briefed on her plans.
Senator Clinton met last week with Charles B. Rangel, the dean of the New York Congressional delegation, in what her advisers said was an effort to meet with most New York Congressional Democrats by the end of this month to discuss her plans.
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POTUS Hillary = Obama, etc > last vestige of PC free Amer before we're all sent to the gulag = POLITELY BUT NECESSARILY EXTERMINATED. Wid the Chicoms + Russians warning and desiring of anti-American GLOBAL NUKE WAR anytime btwn middle- to late next decade, Hillary = first and last Female Prez, Obama the first and last Afro-AMer Prez, etal. afore the the world-mighty "USSA, NOT USSR" officially overtly formally surrenders to OWG + Russia-China, aka Commie Asia. Hillary has 2008 AND 2012.
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bring it on. I'd crawl from my death bed to vote against this b*tch
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I hate John Kerry with a passion, but I utterly dispise hitlery robbem clinton. I would be willing to vote for jawn before I'd vote for her. Heck, I'd even vote for John mccain, whom I also dispise, before I'd vote for hitlery. I wouldn't trust her as village idiot in Taxachusetts, much less president.
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You may change your mind about Hillary when you see her new campaign manager.
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The whole (political) world seems to be revolving around people's psych issues. I'm sure Hitlary will find common ground of comfort around the Islamists. Birds of a feather, and all . . .
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AP / Seattle PI Spin Warning...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush is deciding whether to lift a ban on oil and gas drilling in federal waters off Alaska's Bristol Bay, home to endangered whales and sea lions and the world's largest sockeye salmon run.
Leasing in a portion of the area rich in oil and natural gas ended nearly two decades ago - while Bush's father was president - in the outcry after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. But with natural gas prices higher, the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service proposed reopening up the North Aleutian Basin. That includes Bristol Bay and part of southeastern Bering Sea.
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Fine, but understand that "Subsidy" is very unpopular for now and drilling does minimal damage and maximum contrubution to what it is we are trying to build. In 30 years from now, Even though you are driving a Hydro vehicle, Someone in China may still need oil to run a vehicle way up there in the mountains.
#7
How about banning Alaskan oil exports to the Puget Sound and SF Bay Areas? I can sleep quite soundly knowing Alaskan oil is air freighted nightly to Texas oil refineries.
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I wouldn't mind Evergreen turning to Everfrost... might focus his neuron.
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Wow, WHAT is wrong with Mr. President? Over the past 4 decades, environmental concerns are thee #1 rallying point across party lines. When it comes to the health of the land, water, and sky, party lines disappear. This is the indisputable record. Like his father before him, the younger Bush seems to be shooting himself in the foot on the way out. With a machine gun. And like dear old dad, he's taking the Republican Party down with him.
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.
Actress Lindsay Lohan, who has been a frequent target of the tabloids for her partying ways, has begun attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, her publicist said on Friday.
BAGERHAT, Dec 2 (UNB): At least four pirates and one coastguard were reportedly killed while a coastguard and a RAB member went missing after a gunfight at the estuary of the river Pashur near Mongla Friday night.
Bangladeshs list of voters contains 12.2 million false names, a US-based election monitor said on Saturday. Bangladeshs voters list has approximately 12.2 million names which are either in error or are duplicates, a report by the Washington-based National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) said. A 14-party alliance led by the Awami League of Sheikh Hasina has threatened a nationwide transport blockade, the third in three weeks, from Sunday. It has demanded a recasting of election schedules and an overhaul of voters lists. Owen Lippert, the NDIs resident representative in Bangladesh, said his group checked more than 22,000 names across the country and interviewed 11,000 people during a survey of voters ahead of an election set for January 21. The (NDI) delegation is deeply concerned that the new voters list runs to over 93 million names, a size that is substantially inconsistent with the 2001 census data, Lippert told a news conference. A voters list containing two-thirds of the population strains credibility.
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro was not present as a military parade marking his 80th birthday began on Saturday in Havana's main square. The event, expected to last perhaps 1 1/2 hours, is being closely watched to see if Castro is well enough to appear in public for the first time since he had intestinal surgery in late July and temporarily turned over power to his brother, defence minister Raul Castro.
(Bloomberg) -- Mario Scaramella, an Italian contact of poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, is showing no signs of illness after tests detected radioactive material, a spokesman for the London hospital treating him said. 
THE trail of clues in the mysterious death of Alexander V. Litvinenko may lead to Moscow, as the former spy claimed on his deathbed. But solving the nuclear whodunit may prove harder than Scotland Yard and many scientists at first anticipated.
