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SOLYENT GREEN Part Deux, as per HUMAN-FAT-based meats and cooking oils articles this week. D *** ng it, AIR GUARD Pilot Dubya is undeniably responsible.
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I still think it would be a lot cheaper to figure out a process using several different kinds of insects that would reduce a cadaver to just clean bones in the shortest possible time.
In turn, the most likely flies and beetles would be food for valuable predators, like dragonflies, that are already bred for release in areas prone to mosquitos and other nuisance insects.
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The remains are then dehydrated and cleared of any metal, reducing a body weighing 75 kilograms (165 pounds) in life to 25 kilograms (55 pounds) of , plus the remains of the coffin.
from
ashes to ashes
dust to dust
earth to earth
or from
big pink person to pink-beige powder
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How about a big magnifying glass on a hill to incinerate the body? Environmentalists have gotta love it. It gets cheaper and cheaper with the economies of scale.
RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Police in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara arrested three leading human rights campaigners on Sunday following weeks of crackdowns against students and activists in the territory, a human rights association said.
Brahim Elansari, a member of the Saharawi Association for Human Rights Victims, was arrested Sunday afternoon after police stopped his car in Western Sahara's main city, Laayoune, said the organization's president, Brahim Dahane. Fellow activist Hassana Douihi, who was riding with Elansari, was also arrested.
Shortly afterward, police arrested Naama Asfari, president of the Paris-based Committee for the Respect of Human Freedoms and Rights in Western Sahara, Dahane said.
The three remained in police custody Sunday evening, said Dahane, adding that police had visited the homes of three other human rights activists seeking to arrest them, but that the men were not there.
For weeks, Moroccan authorities have been executing a crackdown in Western Sahara and at Moroccan universities against activists and Saharawis, students among the territory's native population. Dozens have been injured and arrested in the sweeps.
Moroccan authorities are targeting prominent Saharawis in an attempt to quell the growing pro-independence sentiment in Western Sahara, a desert territory invaded by Morocco in 1975 after Spain, the colonial power, withdrew, Dahane said. Most Saharawis favor independence and stage regular demonstrations, which police often put down.
The Polisario Front, an Algerian-backed independence movement, fought until the United Nations brokered a cease-fire in 1991 aimed at allowing an independence referendum, which never happened. Morocco rejects a referendum and has agreed to talk with Polisario under U.N. auspices about Western Sahara's future. The talks are expected to begin next month.
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MAKKAH, 21 May 2007 A Sri Lankan Christian was arrested in the holy city of Makkah, which is off-limits to non-Muslims, by the Expatriates Monitoring Committee in Makkah. Some Christian travellers have snuck into Mecca and got away with it. This kaffir will be executed for trespassing in "haram" territory.
The authorities were able to verify the identity of the man, who had claimed he had overstayed his Umrah visa, by running his details through a new fingerprints system.
Nirosh Kamanda had arrived in Dammam to work as a lorry driver and had fled his sponsor to sell goods besides the Grand Mosque in Makkah. The mans sponsor denied he knew where the man was working. He said, He fled six months after coming to the Kingdom. I have no idea how he reached Makkah.
"Please don't kill me!"
After his identity became known, the man admitted he was Christian and that he had come to Makkah to earn money. I heard that Makkah is a safe place, where I could hide my identity, he said.
Col. Suhail Matrafi, head of the department in charge of Expatriates Affairs in Makkah, compiled a report about the case and presented it to Col. Ayid ibn Taghalib Al-Lukmani, the head of Makkahs Passport Department. Al-Lukmani has ordered the man be sent to Jeddah. The Grand Mosque and the holy city are forbidden to non-Muslims, said Matrafi. The new fingerprints system is very helpful and will help us a lot to discover the identity of a lot of criminals and overstayers, he added.
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For the longest time I have advocated reserving the shrines as targets of reprisal or perhaps holding them as physical hostages in the GWoT. As Islam continues to shit on everything in sight I'm becoming more inclined to have one of the shrines blown sky high as a demonstration of just how badly misguided Muslims are in their belief that Allah will protect them from all harm. It's time to strike a major demoralizing blow straight in Islam's heart and cast our enemy into permanent confusion. The time may not be right, just yet. But it certainly seems to be approaching.
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I've long thought about it like this: We parachute REALLY B I G! H-BOMBS into Mecca, Medina, Riaydh, Islamabad and Cairo, and, as they are landing, have our diplomats explain to the respective peoples of the middle east countries involved, "It works like this: On an irregular schedule, OUR PEOPLE come in and maintenance the bombs. If they can't get to the bombs to maintain them, they go off. If any unauthorized person gets near them, they go off. If any jihadi jacksh*t anywhere in the world belches out loud, ALL THE BOMBS go off. No hajj for 29 thousand years. Capice?"
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MM, your's is the "physical hostage" scenario I posted here quite a while ago. I would take the shrines and then allow the haj to occur only when there have been 13 calendar months without any major terrorist activity. One screw-up and "sorry, boys, no haj this year."
Somehow, we have to reach out and touch over a billion Muslims. One of the only Islamic rituals that encompasses even a fraction of that number is the haj. People save up their entire lives for it and if jihadists are seen as botching that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for them, then maybe some Muslims will begin to turn upon the jihadis.
Short of massive civilian deaths, there exist few other levers with which to apply force against a significant portion of this world's Muslim population. We had best begin to identify which ones there are and put them into use or else the prior option will come into play by default.
BNP chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia is suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes. "She has very high blood pressure and also is suffering from diabetes related complications," a party source said yesterday quoting Khaleda Zia's doctor who had visited her on Saturday. The detail of her physical condition however could not be known.
Meanwhile, BNP on Tuesday announced that its chairperson along with some of her family members would go to Singapore for treatment and return by the end of the month. After taking all preparations for going to Singapore the BNP chairperson cancelled her scheduled trip twice, once reportedly because of sudden deterioration of her physical condition, and the second time because of an extortion case being filed against her younger son Arafat Rahman.
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(CNSNews.com) - For those who support it, it offers the reward of "carbon neutrality" without having to lower one's standard of living. To critics, it allows guilt-free pollution. Either way, the burgeoning carbon offset industry needs more oversight, say two members of Congress.
In a letter to the Government Accountability Office, Republican Reps. Tom Davis of Virginia and Darrell Issa of California asked for an investigation into emission offset programs.
About 60 different companies sell carbon offsets to U.S. consumers but operate under virtually no standards, the congressmen said. They cited reports alleging that some organizations get money for emissions that don't exist and that others make large profits on cleanups that would have taken place anyway.
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Hahahaha! I've already got my $100 million worth of carbon offsets!
I shall, as soon as possible, begin marketing those offsets online as a hedge against the planting of trees in the great northwest national forests.
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Congress is considering multiple bills this year to curb global warming, including a proposal to require federal agencies to use a portion of their budgets to buy offsets.
Also known as the "Enrich Al Gore Act of 2007".
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Algore could sell refrigerators to the Eskimos. Swamp land to the gullible. Snake oil to the infirm. Global warming and carbon credits to the moonbats. Send Gore to Iraq and have him sell the insurgents and terrorists on the futility of continuing their activities. Have him sell them on converting from islam to Heaven's Gate cult.
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The White House on Sunday fired back at former President Jimmy Carter, calling him "increasingly irrelevant" a day after Carter described George W. Bush's presidency as the worst in history in international relations.
Carter, a Democrat, said on Saturday in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that "as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."
White House spokesman Tony Fratto had declined to react on Saturday but on Sunday fired back. "I think it's sad that President Carter's reckless personal criticism is out there," Fratto told reporters. "I think it's unfortunate. And I think he is proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments."
Carter has been an outspoken critic of Bush, but the White House has largely refrained from attacking him in return. Sunday's sharp response marks a departure from the deference that sitting presidents traditionally have shown their predecessors.
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Sunday's sharp response marks a departure from the deference that sitting presidents traditionally have shown their predecessors.
You'll notice that there's nothing here about Jimmy's blitherings being a departure from the deference ex-presidents have traditionally shown the incumbents.
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...after Carter described George W. Bush's presidency as the worst in history in international relations.
Sorry, Jimmy. Since time travel doesn't exist and the four years from 1/20/77 to 1/20/81 can't be erased, the face you see in the mirror every morning still retains the title.
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Former President Carter has backed down. He now says his remarks were careless or misinterpreted. link Clearly he isn't quite sure which, but it definitely isn't his fault. And anyway, his remarks weren't meant to be personal criticism.
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The reality is that this bonehead didn't know how to come within rifleshot of doing the job properly when he was President. Consequently, he has no understanding of how difficult the job can be for any of his successors who truly have a clue. What a contemptible fool!
The bottom line with the current president, as far as I'm concerned, is that at least President Bush started fighting back against the Islamofascists/Jihadists/Caliphatists, or whatever we're calling them these days. If Al Gore had won in 2000, I don't think he would even have been so bold as his former boss Bill Clinton, who was so terribly good at shooting missiles at empty tents; had Senator John Kerry won in 2004, he'd have invited Osama bin Laden and his top management team to Paris to negotiate a settlement that involved turning over Iraq and the rest of the Ummah to be split between the Al Qaeda and Iran, thus triumphantly going far beyond the betrayal of his callow youth.
The first phase of the War on Terror has not gone nearly as well as our initial hopes, either abroad or at home. But at least we're out there swinging -- and hitting, often enough, at least according to some of the things I've read coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan these past few days. I won't argue that it's been done well. There are enough Rantburgers expert in the various arts and crafts of war and intercultural politics, who've generously explained what's been done right, what's been done wrong, and what critically needs to be done next. But to repeat: At Least President Bush Hasn't Surrendered Yet. And while those who don't look beyond their own personal affairs (which is most people, most places, most of the time) don't know, don't care, and don't want to be bothered, those whose view is bigger keep getting mugged by reality. Shoot, the Arabs are giving up on the Palestinians! That is not something I expected to see before I died.
I'm in this thing for the long haul. And I'm just grateful that, if the Republican Party couldn't come up with anyone better than George W. Bush, at least they didn't come up with anyone as bad as the Democratic candidates he beat. In both Fred Thompson and Rudy Guiliani the Republicans have candidates who, I believe, can be counted on to continue the fight -- hopefully better -- but certainly effectively communicating about it. And both have a good chance of beating either the honourable Senator Hillary Clinton or the equally honourable, if less experienced, Senator Barack Obama, current leaders in the Democrats' race.
"Let not the Best be the enemy of the Good," as the saying goes. But sometimes Better Than Nothing really is better than nothing, especially if those are the only choices on offer.
See what happens when you DON'T use the services of total strangers to help you transfer money? And all along we didn't trust these upstanding folk who email us.
NEW DELHI: A senior Nigerian diplomat was caught on Monday seeking to spirit away $2.27 million (Rs 10 crore) in cash. It triggered suspicions of a nexus between officials from the African country and its thriving drug syndicates, as well as the possibility of payment of protection money by Indian companies operating there, particularly those involved in oil exploration.
Captain G A Ojedokun, defence adviser to the Nigerian high commissioner here, is being questioned by Income Tax and Enforcement Directorate officials, but would soon be let off because of the diplomatic immunity he enjoys.
Interestingly, the biggest-ever cash haul was made just a day before the new Nigerian high commissioner is scheduled to present his credentials to President A P J Abdul Kalam.
Ojedokun was caught when Indian Airlines staffers handling the baggage on the early morning shift at the Indira Gandhi International Airport were alerted by the X-ray images of contents of his bag. When asked, the Nigerian tried to fob off IA employees saying the bag contained clothes only.
The suspicious baggage handlers, however, refused to let him go even when the protocol officer of MEA accompanying the diplomat strongly intervened on his behalf, citing diplomatic immunity and seeking a smooth passage for Ojedokun.
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Hey, some of that 2.3 M is my money. You promised in an email, you dipwad.
Non-WoT because there's no evidence that the three lads are terrorists, but I'd question them closely and toss their living quarters.
AHMEDABAD Immigration officials at the Ahmedabad international airport have detained three Cyprus citizens who were about to board the afternoon Ahmedabad-London Jet Airways flight using fake passports.
An official who was here to train the Ahmedabad immigration staff noticed that there were no water marks in the passports of Alexandros Dimitrios (31), Mezynsky Jasek (18) and Jani Marusz (20), though their visas were genuine. Further scrutiny revealed that the passports were fake with some pages freshly stuck together.
During the last two months, five rich Punjabi youths and two Sri Lankans carrying bogus documents have been arrested in the city. An airport official told Khaleej Times that Ahmedabad was increasingly being used as a transit point by illegal immigrants and their agents to sneak into the UK from where they easily enter the United States.
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An official who was here to train the Ahmedabad immigration staff
FBI? Secret Service?? Men In Black??? Well done, wherever they're from.
The Central Board of Revenues (CBR) intelligence department seized 48 containers of goods, imported for October 8, 2005 earthquake survivors, from a factory in the Hayatabad Industrial Estate here on Sunday. The CBRs Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation seized from a bicycle-making factory tents, split air conditioners, preserved food, generators, geysers, exhaust fans, cooking ranges, crockery, toiletries, furniture, washing machines, heaters and portable tables which had been imported from Canada and other countries and were being sold in Bara Market, official Qurban Ali Khan told reporters during a briefing at his office in Hayatabad.
He said that his department had received a tip that imported goods were being sold in a Peshawar market and that a factory in the Hayatabad Industrial Estate area was supplying these goods. He said that his department watched the factory for a week and then raided it on May 17 to seize the goods.
Khan said it was not clear if the goods were stolen or left after use by marines who came to Pakistan for rescue and rehabilitation work after the earthquake. However, he said that the department was investigating how these goods were brought to Peshawar. He said that five people were being interrogated in this regard. He said that owner of the factory from where these goods were seized was abroad and the factory was abandoned.
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We send 'geysers' in earthquake relief packages? Won't the Yellowstone rangers miss them?
I guess this guy didn't pay the appropriate 'protection' for his operation. I often wonder how much Western relief aid ever actually gets to the disaster victims. I see how much of what we spend on 'development aid' in Iraq gets diverted along the way. I see how much Katrina relief gets chewed up in red tape and inflated insider contracts. I am hard-pressed to make any donations to anything anymore at a level beyond handing a bum a dollar for a malt liquor.
(AP) Air America is scheduling a high-profile lineup of presidential candidates, political players and celebrities for next week as part of the liberal talk network's "relaunch" after suffering financial woes.
Democratic candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, along with luminaries like Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Gloria Steinem, are among the more than 30 guests scheduled, the network announced Thursday.
Just having Robert Redford guarantees success, eh?
New shows are also being added to the schedule, featuring famous correspondents and hosts, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Arianna Huffington and Bob Kerrey. The network also redesigned its Web site, where hosts will regularly blog along with a newly-hired blogger, Nancy Scola.
Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the subject of persistent presidential speculation despite his denials of any interest, was to tape his interview Thursday, facing questions from a former political foe, Mark Green. Mr. Green, who lost to Mr. Bloomberg when the former CEO made his first run for City Hall in 2001, is now running Air America with his older brother, Stephen Green. They took it over this year in an attempt to revive the network, which had been losing boatloads of money.
In a statement, the younger Mr. Green said the headliners kicking off the relaunch will deliver "the kind of news and views we'll be offering for years to come and that no other radio or TV network now provides."
When the Green brothers took over Air America earlier this year, they pledged to run it as business.
As opposed to before when it was a piggybank for its owners.
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"...luminaries like Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Gloria Steinem ...famous correspondents and hosts, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Arianna Huffington and Bob Kerrey."
Add a few more, like Michael Moore, Jimmy Carter and John Kerry and you can have a perfect Moronic Convergence.
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But can they fly supply runs in to our resistance fighters in Waziristan?
Oh, not THAT Air America. Darn.
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It's the new, improved, lemon-freshened, pina-collada-scented, Air America, with 50% more moonbattery in every box!
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There is still the age-old question that all leftie endeavors find difficult to answer - will they have customers? Even the left can't stand a steady diet of all bullsh$$, all the time.
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Does this mean they'll repay Boys Town the money they embezzled?
Al
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Wow.
This is like putting a new urine cakes in the toilets!
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#8: "This is like putting a new urine cakes in the toilets!"
tu3031 wins the Snark of the Day™ award! :-D
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Just in time for next year's election cycle only to go bankrupt right after. "Investments" in a media company don't count as political contributions.
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.
RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Police in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara arrested three leading human rights campaigners on Sunday following weeks of crackdowns against students and activists in the territory, a human rights association said.
MAKKAH, 21 May 2007 A Sri Lankan Christian was arrested in the holy city of Makkah, which is off-limits to non-Muslims, by the Expatriates Monitoring Committee in Makkah.
BNP chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia is suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes. "She has very high blood pressure and also is suffering from diabetes related complications," a party source said yesterday quoting Khaleda Zia's doctor who had visited her on Saturday. The detail of her physical condition however could not be known.
CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The White House on Sunday fired back at former President Jimmy Carter, calling him "increasingly irrelevant" a day after Carter described George W. Bush's presidency as the worst in history in international relations.
(AP) Air America is scheduling a high-profile lineup of presidential candidates, political players and celebrities for next week as part of the liberal talk network's "relaunch" after suffering financial woes.
