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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Spain seizes U.S. treasure boat near Gibraltar
Spanish police boarded an American treasure-hunting ship on Thursday that Madrid believes may have taken gold and silver worth millions from a sunken Spanish galleon. A Spanish Civil Guard patrol boat challenged the Ocean Alert after it left the British colony of Gibraltar, on Spain's southern tip, and confronted the captain with a court order to search his vessel, the Civil Guard said in a statement. The boat then was forcibly docked at the Spanish port of Algeciras.

Spain says the U.S. company Odyssey Marine Exploration has treasure Madrid believes could have been retrieved from Spanish waters or from a Spanish galleon which sank in the Atlantic during the colonial period.

Odyssey Marine Exploration, a Florida-based treasure hunting company, has said it legally recovered gold and silver coins worth an estimated $500 million from a colonial-era wreck code-named Black Swan at a location in the Atlantic Ocean which it refuses to disclose. Odyssey said it had arranged with the Civil Guard for an on-ship inspection of Ocean Alert in international waters. "To Odyssey's surprise, when the Guardia Civil did stop the vessel on Thursday, they informed the Captain that the ship would instead have to travel to a Spanish port for inspection," Odyssey said in an e-mail to Reuters. This was "in direct contravention of the arrangement which had been agreed to the previous day and contradicted the representations of the Spanish Judge," it said.
You can read Odyssey Marine's statement here. I'd like to have a destroyer or three transit that area right about now...they wouldn't need to slow down or anything...
"As a result, the Captain refused to be boarded ... and the Guardia Civil boarded the ship under threat of force, which is illegal in international waters under these circumstances," it said.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/13/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Spain is a rogue state now days?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/13/2007 2:56 Comments || Top||

#2  They're saving up to pay the jizya.
Posted by: Rambler || 07/13/2007 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  The only "awwww....too bad...." part of this is that I understand John Edwards has an equity stake in the recovery project in question...
Posted by: OyVey1 || 07/13/2007 8:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe we can send the USS Constitution ('Old Ironsides") over - it was built to fight pirates on the Barbary Coast.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/13/2007 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I can't understand the concern, we should be accustomed to taking it up the arss by now.

During the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab States, the American intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked for 75 minutes in international waters by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats. Thirty-four men died and 174 were wounded. http://www.ussliberty.org/

Less than a year later in 1968, the USS PUEBLO (AGER-2), was captured by the North Koreans. It was the first U.S. Navy ship to be hi-jacked on the high seas by a foreign military force in over 150 years. To date, the capture has resulted in no reprisals against the North Koreans; no military action was taken at the time, or at any later date. This lack of military response guarantees the Pueblo’s place in history as a watershed event in our national conscience.

http://www.usspueblo.org/v2f/admin/welcomeframe.html

The Hainan Island incident was the April 1, 2001 collision between a United States Navy EP-3E signals reconnaissance aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy J-8IIM fighter jet that resulted in an international incident between the United States and China.

The EP-3E had been flying in international airspace over the Exclusive Economic Zone waters of China, about 70 miles (110 km) away from the Chinese island of Hainan, when the craft was intercepted by several J-8IIM fighters. What resulted was a collision between the wing of the EP-3E and one of the J-8s, which caused the death of the J-8's pilot, Wang Wei, and forced the EP-3E to make an emergency landing on Hainan.

US Response, the "Letter of the two sorries." The "Letter of the two sorries" was the letter delivered by the United States Ambassador Joseph Prueher to Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan of the People's Republic of China to defuse the Hainan Island incident in April 2001. Upon the collision between the U.S. surveillance aircraft and the Chinese fighter aircraft, the U.S. plane made an emergency landing on Chinese territory, while the Chinese fighter pilot and his plane were lost. The delivery of the letter led to the release of the U.S. crew from Chinese custody, as well as the return of the disassembled plane.

The letter stated that the United States was "very sorry" for the death of Chinese pilot Wang Wei, and they also apologized for entering Chinese airspace and performing the emergency landing without authorization. Significantly, the United States did not apologize for conducting signals reconnaissance off the coast of China, nor did the United States explicitly accept responsibility for the collision, only expressing that they were sorry for the loss of Wang Wei and "sincere regret over (China's) missing pilot and aircraft".

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2007 8:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Please don't call, we're sorry already.
Posted by: wxjames || 07/13/2007 9:53 Comments || Top||

#7  That's called "piracy on the high seas", I believe.
Posted by: mojo || 07/13/2007 10:46 Comments || Top||

#8  WAR!!

We already whooped their ass once. Let's do it again!
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/13/2007 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  Apparently Odyssey Marine has already transferred all the recovered treasure to the USA already so Spain isn't going to find anything on board their ship. This is more than anything else just a showing of spite by the Spanish government over their own lack of competency.

I mean really - they are a damn government with the resources of millions of people at their disposal. If they couldn't get off their ass to go recover the treasure themselves, then they don't deserve any of it. It's just socialists looking to steal some bread from the evil capitalists.
Posted by: Leigh || 07/13/2007 12:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Ya'all hear from my lawyer about this. See ya in court.
Posted by: John "Pretty Boy" Edwards || 07/13/2007 12:18 Comments || Top||

#11  John "Pretty Boy" Edwards: Yep, two Americas. Those who have investments by important decision-makers, and the rest of the trash, who visit Supercuts, like Frank G
Posted by: Frank G || 07/13/2007 22:15 Comments || Top||


Britain
Churchill dropped from England's history syllabus
Be sure to read comments!

Britain's World War II prime minister Winston Churchill has been cut from a list of key historical figures recommended for teaching in English secondary schools, a government agency says.

The radical overhaul of the school curriculum for 11- to 14-year-olds is designed to bring secondary education up to date and allow teachers more flexibility in the subjects they teach, the Government said.

But although Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Martin Luther King have also been dropped from the detailed guidance accompanying the curriculum, Sir Winston's exclusion is likely to leave traditionalists aghast.

A spokesman for the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority said the new curriculum, to be taught from September 2008, does not prescribe to teachers what they must include.

But he added: "Teachers know that they need to mention these pivotal figures. They don't need to be instructed by law to mention them in every history class.

"Of course, good teachers will be teaching the history of Churchill as part of the history of Britain. The two are indivisible."

Sir Winston's grandson Nicholas Soames, also a Conservative Member of Parliament, described the move as "madness."

"It is absurd. I expect he wasn't New Labour enough for them ... this is a Government that is very careless of British history and always has been.

"The teaching of history is incredibly important," he added.

"If you're surprised that people do not seem to care that much about the country in which they live, the reason is that they don't know much about it."

The History Curriculum Association said it was "appalled" by the move, saying the new curriculum would "promote ignorance" and was pandering to a politically-correct agenda.

The Conservatives' schools spokesman Michael Gove added: "Winston Churchill is the towering figure of 20th century British history.

"His fight against fascism was Britain's finest hour. Our national story can't be told without Churchill at the centre."

Schools Secretary Ed Balls defended the move, saying a slimmed-down curriculum was overdue and traditional elements in all subjects had been protected.

Among the few named figures that stay in the new history curriculum are William Wilberforce, the British law maker who was instrumental in efforts to abolish the slave trade.

Sir Winston, who was British prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955, was famous for his defiance to the Nazis, stirring oratory and trademark cigar and "V for victory" sign.

In 2002, a BBC poll with more than one million votes saw him voted the Greatest Briton of all time.
Posted by: Sherry || 07/13/2007 13:25 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Churchill? Oh, yeah...big fat guy? Smoked cigars, right?
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/13/2007 13:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Winston Churchill (The River War, 1899):

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 07/13/2007 13:50 Comments || Top||

#3  OK Now they have hit bottom.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 07/13/2007 14:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Not yet sarge. As soon as reading the Koran all the time supplants all learning, they will have.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/13/2007 14:20 Comments || Top||

#5  I can understand dropping Churchill. After all, he was a bad example: he stood up to evil, he smoked and drank.
/sarcasm
It's like the American history books that, if they mention Washington and Jefferson at all, stress that they were slave owners, rather than the great things they did and wrote.
Posted by: Rambler || 07/13/2007 15:01 Comments || Top||

#6  WTF? You would have thought people were talking about Ward Churchill--that a$shole from Colorada.

In 2002, a BBC poll with more than one million votes saw him voted the Greatest Briton of all time.

I read the comments as far as I could stomach many of them. I guess some Brits would have preferred to be speaking German or Italian today. We have our share of moonbats too.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/13/2007 15:56 Comments || Top||

#7  "Colorado"
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/13/2007 15:58 Comments || Top||

#8  As a young man Churchill understood Islam (see 'River Wars' excerpt above) - an unusual accomplishment.

As a more mature man he was significantly responsible for what became the disaster at Gallipoli - but he was not an idiot for trying a daring and unusual tactic. It could have worked and shortened the war by years. Lessons learned were applied at Normandy, etc.

He was about the only voice warning of Hitler during the '30's, and what little air defense England had was due to his back bench campaigning.

All that was before his brief moments of fame. As soon as the crisis passed, he was discarded again.

His 'History of English Speaking Peoples' should ensure his place in history for centuries, but sadly, even that is now being discarded, to the detriment of all civilization.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/13/2007 16:21 Comments || Top||

#9  But although Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi, Joseph Stalin and Martin Luther King have also been dropped from the detailed guidance accompanying the curriculum, Sir Winston's exclusion is likely to leave traditionalists aghast.

Let's be honest. By comparison, Britain's current round of leaders all look like neutered toothless poodles unworthy of having Churchill piss on them if they were set ablaze. How intimidating it must be to vainly posture and prink about in the shadow a man who was unabashedly called Nazis and fascists what they really were: Namely, "Thugs and guttersnipes".

Does anyone really think British politicians could ever be so unvarnished as that and not begin to rot after the first light rain?

"It is absurd. I expect he wasn't New Labour enough for them ... this is a Government that is very careless of British history and always has been.

Careless, not just of British history, but of Britain's future survival as a free nation. Something that Churchill cared about far more deeply than this bunch of Islam appeasing tossers.

"His fight against fascism was Britain's finest hour. Our national story can't be told without Churchill at the centre."

This cadre of revisionist traitors cannot bear to see WWII anti-fascist Britain mantled in the least shred of glory. They would sooner wipe their arses with the Union Jack than have a single schoolchild recall even one millisecond of "Britain's finest hour".

In 2002, a BBC poll with more than one million votes saw him voted the Greatest Briton of all time.

The "Greatest Briton" in living memory? Most certainly, without doubt. King John's enactment of the Magna Carta might give him an historical edge. Our modern world owes both of these giants a debt that surpasses estimation.


Posted by: Zenster || 07/13/2007 16:34 Comments || Top||

#10  The man had guts and a spine--no doubt. Something the toadie politicians of today know nothing. Here and across the pond.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/13/2007 16:51 Comments || Top||

#11  FIVE-MINUTE CLASSES FOR KIDS
More details....
Posted by: KBK || 07/13/2007 18:05 Comments || Top||

#12  And then they came for history..... - thats the left.
Posted by: newc || 07/13/2007 19:06 Comments || Top||

#13  "He who controls the past controls the future"

Big Brother is your friend.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/13/2007 19:58 Comments || Top||

#14  Well, he was half-American, doncha know. can't have that trash in our new open British society......
Posted by: Thineter Hitler9656 || 07/13/2007 20:15 Comments || Top||


BBC lied about Queen's 'tantrum'
The BBC was forced to offer a humiliating apology to the Queen over claims that she stormed out of a photo shoot. She is said to be livid at the way documentary footage was manipulated to make it appear she had flounced out of a portrait sitting with American photographer Annie Leibovitz. The corporation has admitted that the footage of her alleged exit was in fact filmed as she arrived for the session. Phone lines between Buckingham Palace and the BBC were said to have been "red-hot" amid fears that the corporation had turned the Queen into a laughing stock.

Politicians and senior BBC figures have called for heads to roll, claiming the trailer footage unveiled on Wednesday showed a flagrant lack of respect for the monarch. The BBC Trust, which replaced the board of governors earlier this year, has called on director-general Mark Thompson to explain how the blunder happened. A senior palace source said: "It is fair to say that the Queen's aides are hopping up and down about this - and she is far from amused herself. It is unprecedented for the Queen to allow herself to be filmed so candidly. She only agreed to it after the success of the BBC's documentary two years ago on Windsor Castle. To suggest that she would be so discourteous as to walk out on a photographer is completely untrue. She hasn't been tempted to do such a thing in 55 years on the throne and certainly wouldn't start now."
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#1  This is the BBC, of course they bloody lied. They're leftist, multi-culti, Eu-loving, Islamophiliacs. If the other half wasn't into her celebrity dancing (groan) and stuff like that, I'd have booted the telly out ages ago.
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 07/13/2007 1:59 Comments || Top||

#2  It's a chance for the Queen to make big points with the 'masses'. Call Parliament and in formal session ask for the TV tax to be dissolved and the Beeb to sail upon the airwaves of Britannia upon their own steam.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/13/2007 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  The corporation has admitted that the footage of her alleged exit was in fact filmed as she arrived for the session.

So did they run it backwards? When I was six years old, I used to think that was friggin hilarious...
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/13/2007 9:22 Comments || Top||

#4  The BBC Trust, which replaced the board of governors earlier this year, has called on director-general Mark Thompson to explain how the blunder happened.

Not a blunder. A lie. They use to stick heads on pikes for this. One or two is all it would take for the lesson to stick again.
Posted by: Excalibur || 07/13/2007 10:04 Comments || Top||


Britain ends courtroom wig tradition
BRITAIN'S lawyers and judges are to break with centuries-old tradition and cease wearing horsehair wigs of white fake curls in non-criminal cases.
Britain: Well on its way to being Liechtenstein.
The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, said new dress rules would mean the requirement for the wigs, which British legal professionals have worn since the 17th century, would not be needed in civil or family court cases. Wing collars and bands can also be dispensed with in such cases according to the reforms, while judges will need just one gown in future instead of a variety of colourful outfits currently required. The wigs will still be worn in criminal courts.

“At present High Court judges have no less than five different sets of working dress, depending on the jurisdiction in which they are sitting and the season of the year,” Mr Phillips said. “After widespread consultation it has been decided to simplify this.”
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Toupees won't be specifically against the rules will they?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2007 22:24 Comments || Top||


Prince Charles hails links between Islam and Christianity
Muslims and Christians have far more in common than they have differences, Britain's Prince Charles said at the opening of an exhibition of Islamic art in London Thursday. 'So much attention is paid to the outward differences between faiths. Almost reflexively, this becomes translated into seemingly impenetrable divisions between people,' said Prince Charles, who has made the promotion of inter-faith understanding one of his main interests. 'People who - if they did but know it - are in fact linked by much and separated by little,' he said.

The masterpieces on display at the Spirit and Life exhibition at London's Ismaili Centre bore witness to 'the close ties between the Abrahamic faiths,' he added. They were a reminder of the 'spirituality from which our faiths draw their real strength and of the heritage and traditions which we share.'

The exhibition, organized by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, features rare Islamic art and manuscripts never before seen in the Britain. It includes miniatures from Persian epic Shahnama (The Book of Kings) and an extremely rare copy of the Canon of Medicine of Ibn Sina which was used both in Europe and the Middle East as the standard medical textbook for more than 500 years.

The display, which mixes religious artefacts with secular exhibits, also features musical instruments, sculpture, pottery and paintings. The show presents treasures from the permanent collection of the Aga Khan Museum, which will open in Toronto, Canada in 2010. The Aga Khan said he hoped the exhibition would show the arts could transcend barriers between cultures.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  Has the Prince flipped completely and converted to Islam ?? Why does he persist in the ongoing flattery of Islam ?
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 || 07/13/2007 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Won't someone please jam a damned sock into this fuckwit's piehole so he won't keep selling his mother country down the river at firesale prices?
Posted by: Zenster || 07/13/2007 1:16 Comments || Top||

#3  He's unhappy as a mere prince, he wants to be a khaliph.
Posted by: twobyfour || 07/13/2007 1:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Charles is a cretin. Most people here have a very low opinion of him, he's just been such a fuckwit over the years; talking to vegetables, the 'tampon' affair (Camillagate), offering his 'opinion' on irrelevant subjects and now this love affair with Islam. And of course, he cheated on Diana - and that's not going to be forgotten.

I would put money on The Queen skipping a generation and offering the crown to William.
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 07/13/2007 2:07 Comments || Top||

#5  1776 - justified, yet again.
Posted by: no mo uro || 07/13/2007 6:09 Comments || Top||

#6  1776 - justified, yet again.

Nor forget the French Revolution and their appropriate use of the guillotine.

(I guess its obvious I'm not a Monarchist)
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 07/13/2007 6:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Ah, not the same revolutions, exactly.

Americans didn't want to kill off the monarch, they just wanted to go away and do their own thing. The monarchy didn't want us to go, so we fought just long enough that we became too much trouble to keep.

The French wanted to supplant the existing government and kill, kill, kill. Not very nice, even if their monarch wasn't a great guy.
Posted by: no mo uro || 07/13/2007 7:30 Comments || Top||

#8  This Aga Khan is the leader of a splinter group that broke from the normative Ismaili movement (itself a splinter group - although a larger splinter). The Ismailis (who are one of the more peaceful segments of Islam and are despised by normative Sunnis) wait for the return of the 7th (and last)Iman (or a divine annunciation of his successor) whereas the mainstream Shiite movement waits for the return of the 12th Iman.
Posted by: mhw || 07/13/2007 8:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Does the 12th Imam know the 7th Imam is lost ?
Shit, maybe they'll come back holding hands or something.
Posted by: wxjames || 07/13/2007 9:48 Comments || Top||

#10  King William, please.
Posted by: Excalibur || 07/13/2007 10:06 Comments || Top||

#11  I wonder if the Queen has him patted down when he comes to visit yet?
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/13/2007 10:07 Comments || Top||

#12  I don't think that it is out of the question that the Monarchy will one day in fact become Islamic. The facts on the ground -- rates of birth, immigration, and emigration -- are powerful. One can only hope that the future Islamic state of Britain will become a force for enlightenment.
Posted by: Perfesser || 07/13/2007 10:17 Comments || Top||

#13  What kind of art? I thought any depiction of any living thing was forbidden which pretty much limits them to geometric patterns. Boring.
Posted by: treo || 07/13/2007 10:22 Comments || Top||

#14  The monarch, post H-8, is also head of the Anglican church so if the monarch is a muslim (or a catholic or a jew for that matter), it creates some confusion.

Of course I recollect that at least one post H-8 Queen was catholic so there is probably a work around - at least for that.
Posted by: mhw || 07/13/2007 10:24 Comments || Top||

#15  Ah yes, the olde "Abrahamic faith" argument. Too bad it was Abraham who created all this "division" between Judeo-Christian religions and Islam in the first place. Yes, we may be "technically" separated by a few "issues", but those issues are HUGE and I, for one, choose not to live in an Islamic Theocracy, thank you very much, Chuckie!
Posted by: BA || 07/13/2007 10:36 Comments || Top||

#16  Fly away, Dumbo.
Posted by: mojo || 07/13/2007 10:45 Comments || Top||

#17  I don't buy the Charles converted bit. He is born and raised to be diplomatic. Diplomacy rarely has to do with right or wrong or moral compass. That is why the left love Diplomacy so much.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/13/2007 11:07 Comments || Top||

#18  I think the European countries with their sizeable muslim populations are like gluttons who have eaten something that isn't digesting properly and they are now trying to decide whether or not they need to puke. Puking is unpleasant so the Prince is kind of like taking some deep breaths with a glass of water in the hope that it will settle but there is still quite a lot of queasiness.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/13/2007 11:27 Comments || Top||

#19  The Prince needs to stay in the can.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/13/2007 11:39 Comments || Top||

#20  The only links between Christians and Islamists would be the chain link fence at Quantonimo for the Islamist Jihadists. (spit!)
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Chusoling1715 || 07/13/2007 13:35 Comments || Top||

#21  Fly away, Dumbo.

Hot contender for Snark O' the Week™.

Diplomacy rarely has to do with right or wrong or moral compass.

Which explains many of the EU's problems and even some of America's current ones. The subsumption of Diplospeak by Newspeak Politically Correct Speech has spelled disaster for productive negotiations. Not that there is anything to negotiate about with Islam but there still are a few countries left that it works with.

Posted by: Zenster || 07/13/2007 13:42 Comments || Top||

#22  Inbred dimwit.
Posted by: jds || 07/13/2007 19:58 Comments || Top||

#23  Prince Charles does some of his original Islamic interpretive dances while wearing a Du-rag from his 7th Century Christendom collection.


1) Burqa Hijab Heat
&
2) Sweaty Trips Around The Rock
&
3) WuDu Assplay with Acolytes Before Prayer
&
4) Man Jammies

Tickets for sale at the door.
Posted by: RD || 07/13/2007 23:22 Comments || Top||


Europe
Segolene sues French magazine over beach photos
PARIS: Defeated French presidential candidate Segolene Royal is suing Paris Match magazine for publishing photos of her relaxing in a swimsuit on a Mediterranean beach, her lawyer said Thursday. The glossy weekly’s latest edition carried a front-page picture of Royal’s head and shoulders emerging from the sea as she swam off the coast of the island of Corsica. Inside were more photos of the svelte 53-year-old in a striped swimsuit, along with her 21-year-old bikini-clad daughter Clemence, wading in shallow water and sunbathing on the beach. Royal’s lawyer, Jean-Pierre Mignard, told AFP his client was suing the magazine under France’s strict privacy laws for taking unauthorised photographs and for invasion of privacy.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thank god it was her and her daughter they photoed rather than Jacque Chirac and his "man friend" Dominic De Villepin in matching Speedos just one beach up.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 07/13/2007 13:39 Comments || Top||

#2  What? Privacy? She's a commie, and we all know how commies feel about privacy.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/13/2007 14:19 Comments || Top||

#3  All together now, wid feeling, "PICS PLEASE"!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/13/2007 23:48 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Clinton, Edwards overheard plotting to "rub out" Kucinich
A press release from the Dennis ("What? He's still alive?") Kucinich campaign.

Unaware that their microphones were still on following an NAACP Presidential Forum in Detroit on Thursday, ruthless cold-blooded Senator Hillary Clinton and beautifully coiffed former Senator John Edwards agreed to try to eliminate other Democratic Presidential candidates from future debates.

According to the Associated Press, "Fox news microphones picked up Clinton and Edwards discussing their desire to limit future joint appearances to exclude some rivals lower in the crowded field."

"We should try to have a more serious and a smaller group," Edwards was overheard telling Clinton, according to the AP.

Clinton agreed, according to the AP. "We've got to cut the number...They're not serious." Clinton added that she thought her campaign and Edwards' had previously been discussing steps to eliminate other candidates. "We've got to get back to it," Clinton told Edwards.

"Candidates, no matter how important or influential they perceive themselves to be, do not have and should not have the power to determine who is allowed to speak to the American public and who is not," said Kucinich.
"Sonofabitch! Do you know who I am? I'm Moe Greene Dennis Kucinich! I made my bones bankrupted Cleveland when you your husband Slick Willie were was going out with cheerleaders!"
The Kucinich campaign will immediately take steps to address the planned actions of the Clinton and Edwards campaigns.
What kind of "steps?" A horse's head in somebody's bed maybe?
Funny thing is, Hildebeast was referring to Johnnie E as a minor candidate ...
Posted by: Mike || 07/13/2007 11:14 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, whaddya think, pretty boy? Should I crush his skull between my massive thighs?
Posted by: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton || 07/13/2007 11:46 Comments || Top||

#2  "The Kucinich campaign will immediately take steps..."

Beware of the Dwarf.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 07/13/2007 17:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Whoa.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/13/2007 23:46 Comments || Top||


Staff shakeup gives fading McCain a chance
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now, at least, he has a chance, however theoretical and remote.

The five stages....(1) Denial, (2) Anger, (3) Bargaining, (4) Depression, and (5) Acceptance. McCain just needs to get to #5.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2007 9:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Deck chairs shuffling on the Titanic.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/13/2007 9:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Now, at least, he has a chance, however theoretical and remote.

Kinda like me when I buy a lottery ticket...
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/13/2007 9:29 Comments || Top||

#4  When he lost Rush Limbaugh, years ago, McCain's fate was sealed. It's been a long freefall since then. Soft landings to ye, Johnny.
Posted by: wxjames || 07/13/2007 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  His stance on immigration killed his chances. He just didn't understand or didn't listen to his constituents. I guess he thought his constituents were the Mexicans rather than the American people. His alignment with Ted Kennedy didn't help his credibility either.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/13/2007 12:22 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
India to hold biggest ever naval exercise in Bay of Bengal
New Delhi, July. 13 (PTI): Twenty warships from five countries, including three aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and fighters, will assemble in the Bay of Bengal in September for a major naval exercise to be hosted by India. The other countries taking part in the wargame are the US, Japan, Australia and Singapore and the warships that will be fielded for it include two American nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, USS Nimitz and Kitty Hawk, defence ministry officials here said today.

Besides the carriers with their full complement of 80 to 100 aircraft, the exercise codenamed Malabar-07 will feature missile destroyers, stealth frigates, nuclear and conventional submarines and tankers. The five-day manoeuvres will also see shore-based Jaguar deep penetration strike aircraft of the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy's Sea Harrier jets and Sea King helicopters from the INS Viraat in action.

Last month's joint manoeuvres by Indian, US and Japanese warships off the Japanese coast in the Pacific had evoked a strong reaction from China. Beijing issued a demarche to the three nations, demanding to know the reason for them undertaking such a wargame close to Chinese territory.

Australia's Defence Minister Brendan Nelson allayed Beijing's fears, saying there was no quadrilateral security alliance comprising Australia, the US, India and Japan in the offing.
Posted by: John Frum || 07/13/2007 17:57 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's an impressive cast of characters the Indians have assembled.
Posted by: Ho Chi Spomosh2247 || 07/13/2007 23:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Let's correct some errors in this article. The Hindu obviously let a junior writer take this story, and failed to edit correctly.
- The Kitty Hawk is not a nuclear powered carrier. That's one good reason to sell it to the Japanese.
- The Indian carrier is the Vikrant. It's a former British carrier sold to India in the late 1950's.
- Why would the Australians say anything about a military exercise in which they didn't take part? The exercise was a regularly-scheduled one between the US and Japan, with the Indians invited to "observe". The exercise area, IIRC, was about halfway between Japan and Okinawa, in international waters. China had no grounds for complaint other than other people were practicing how to curtail China's desired expansionism. The Chinese also grumbled about a US/Philippines joint exercise a couple of weeks ago off the EASTERN coast of Luzon.

Note to the Hindu: Just because they are literate in English doesn't mean these young studs can actually WRITE, or think for themselves. It's also beginning to look like they can't even use the Internet successfully.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/13/2007 23:13 Comments || Top||

#3  ION, KOMMERSANT/WAFF.COM > SECRETS OF THE RUSSIAN AIRCRAFT CARRIER. Gist - work on poten nuclear medium CV(s) could, in right circumstances, begin prior to Year 2015. And, iff I read btwn the article's lines correctly, Russia wants NUMBERS + TECH SUFFICIENCIES, NOT to compete 1:1 = seek superiority agz the dimensions-scale of USN carriers. RUSSIA wants to be the de facto #2.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/13/2007 23:43 Comments || Top||


PPP against Opp alliance because of MMA: Bhutto
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said that the PPP couldn’t become part of the opposition alliance because of the presence of the MMA, reported Geo News on Thursday.

According to the channel, Bhutto, while addressing a press conference, criticised the timing of the opposition’s ‘All-Parties Conference’, adding that the PPP delegation attended it for the sake of democracy and to save her party’s alliance with the PML-N. The PPP chairwoman said the MMA was simultaneously a government and opposition party, adding that the religious parties’ alliance might use the mainstream parties for its own interests. According to the channel, Bhutto said it would be inappropriate to further strengthen the MMA, as it could easily abandon the PPP and PML-N.
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal

#1  So the PPP can't be OPP because the MMA won't work with the PML-N? I assume this is all on the QT?
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/13/2007 14:29 Comments || Top||


Deoband school allows online weddings
An influential and conservative Islamic theological school in India said on Thursday that marriages of Muslim couples using internet web cameras were acceptable and legal. The decision was taken by the “fatwa” department of Darul Uloom Deoband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and came after two rare cases of Muslims marrying through the internet in Lucknow since 2005. One case was brought to the Deoband school for approval.

“The internet assumes the role of a lawyer in such cases and is, therefore, competent to formally supervise the “Ijaab” (offer of marriage) and “Qabool” (acceptance) made by the bride and bridegroom,” Deoband cleric Khalid Safiullah Rehmani said. “The concept was widely discussed and debated over the past two years since the first online nikah took place in Lucknow in 2005.”
Posted by: Fred || 07/13/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now they need to have online consummations of their weddings. ONLY online consummation.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/13/2007 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  The graphics are super! Coffee alert required! World's best fiance? hahahaaha!
Posted by: Skunky Glins5285 || 07/13/2007 19:18 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Who Killed Ashraf Marwan?
THE billionaire’s body tumbled over the railing of his apartment’s fourth-floor balcony and landed hard on the London sidewalk. And like so much in the complicated life of Ashraf Marwan — a 62-year-old Egyptian who had been the most effective spy in the history of the Middle East — the mysterious circumstances of his death two weeks ago provoked further speculation.

As Scotland Yard investigates the suspicious fall, and as newspapers and bloggers throughout the world wonder whether any of several intelligence services played a role in his death, a debate continues over whether Mr. Marwan was a well-connected and resourceful Israeli spy or a brilliantly manipulative Egyptian double agent.

Mr. Marwan’s death has also brought a new and chilling significance to a long-running legal battle in Israel involving the unauthorized leaking of his name to journalists. And in the aftermath of the discovery of his broken body on a sidewalk in the St. James neighborhood on June 27, I cannot help but wonder if I had a small part in the events that led to Ashraf Marwan’s death.
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Posted by: John Frum || 07/13/2007 07:22 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  I'm guessin' it wasn't Colonel Mustard...
Posted by: mojo || 07/13/2007 10:44 Comments || Top||

#2  "I cannot help but wonder if I had a small part in the events that led to Ashraf Marwan’s death"
Ya think??? Idiot = journalist.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 07/13/2007 13:59 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Magnetic contact lenses
Tracking eye movements can let a computer know when someone is paying attention and identify exactly what they are interested in, but it's also a tricky business. Most systems work by using a camera and image recognition software to identify a person's pupils and work out the direction of their gaze.

In real-life situations, however, tracking systems can be easily confused by rapid head movement or spectacles.

Now, the Office of Naval Research is looking for better ways of tracking eyes in the hope of developing military applications, such as tracking a fighter pilot's gaze.

So it has a funded James DiCarlo, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US, to develop a magnetic contact lens.

A soldier would wear the lenses and a magnetic sensor attached to the side of his or her head. The sensor picks up any changes in the local magnetic field and works out how the wearer's eyes are moving.

The system should work regardless of head orientation and movement, lighting condition,s or "face furniture" such as goggles or glasses. The team says the magnetic lenses could also let disabled people control equipment such as wheelchairs.

I thought this was pretty cool. Especially since it will allow the disabled to use their eyes to control equipment.
Posted by: Penguin || 07/13/2007 12:12 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Taser unveils long-range and 'scatter' weapons
Two new electric stun weapons unveiled this week suggest that their use may shift from law enforcement to the battlefield. Some critics, however, worry that this could lead to such weapons being used more indiscriminately.

US company Taser International demonstrated a shotgun-fired projectile capable of stunning a target and a weapon capable of firing six individual shock darts at a time at an event held in Chicago, US, on Monday.

The company also recently revealed a a remote-controlled robot armed with shock weapons.

Normally, stun guns are handheld and fire a pair of darts attached to trailing wires over a range of about 10 metres. The wires conduct a powerful electric shock to a target, incapacitating them instantly.

The new projectile, known as XREP can be fired from a standard shotgun. A barbed electrode sticks to the target on impact. The rest of the projectile then falls away on a short tether and another spiked electrode makes a second contact point on the target. This ensures that the two electrodes are sufficiently spaced out to affect the entire body.

Removal protection
If the victim tries to grab the projectile and remove it, they will make contact with additional "reflex engagement" electrodes, providing another channel for an electric shock.

The electroshock projectile has a range of about 30 metres and generates an incapacitating electric discharge for 20 seconds after it hits, which the makers say is long enough for a person to be apprehended.

Development of XREP was funded by the US Office of Naval Research for Marines engaged in "clearing facilities" – tasks like raiding buildings for suspected insurgents.

But Neil Davison, head of non-lethal weapons research within the peace studies department at Bradford University, UK, points to potential hazards of XREP. "It combines the well-known dangers of impact projectiles – inaccuracy, potential for serious injury – with a Taser shock four times longer than usual, which also carries an increased risk to the health of the victim," Davison says.

Second shock
The six-dart launcher called Shockwave has several barrels pointing in different directions. When discharged, it fires six Taser darts across a twenty-degree arc. The shock delivered by each dart lasts for five seconds, but the controller can reactivate them to give additional five-second discharges.

A video clip shows an array of eight Shockwaves – 48 Tasers – in two rows.

The US military already has non-lethal weapons capable of firing hundreds of hard rubber balls across a wide angle to disperse rioters. These include the M5 Modular Crowd Control Munition. But there is currently no civilian equivalent.

Again, Davison sees a risk that targets may be hit more than once. "My overall concern with all three developments is that they would further remove the process of human interaction, negotiation and reasoning from the decision by police to use force," he says.

Taser could not be reached for comment by time of posting.
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Home Front: Culture Wars
Drug Czar Calls Marijuana Growers Violent Terrorists
The nation's top anti-drug official said people need to overcome their "reefer blindness" and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist threat to the public's health and safety, as well as to the environment.

John P. Walters, President Bush's drug czar, said the people who plant and tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn't hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties. Walters made the comments at a Thursday press conference that provided an update on the "Operation Alesia" marijuana-eradication effort.

"Don't buy drugs. They fund violence and terror," he said.

After touring gardens raided this week in Shasta County, Walters said the officers who are destroying the gardens are performing hard, dangerous work in rough terrain. He said growers have been known to have weapons, including assault rifles.

"These people are armed; they're dangerous," he said. He called them "violent criminal terrorists."

Walters, whose official title is director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said too many people write off marijuana as harmless. "We have kind of a reefer blindness,' " he said.

No arrests have been made so far in the four days of raids, the opening leg of what Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko has promised will be at least two straight weeks of daily raids.

He said suspects have been hard to find because their familiarity with their terrain makes it easy for them to flee quickly.

Although crews doing the raids are using Black Hawk and other helicopters to drop in on some of the gardens, Bosenko said they don't want to give the growers any warning of a raid.

"We try to move in under stealth," he said.

As of Thursday morning, Operation Alesia raids had resulted in the yanking of 68,237 young marijuana plants from public lands in Shasta County. Raids already have been conducted in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, as well as on land managed by the U.S. Forest Service north of Lake Shasta and other public land near Manton.

The operation is being led by the sheriff's office and has involved 17 agencies, including the California National Guard and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. It's believed to be the largest campaign of its kind in the state, Bosenko said.

The operation is named after the last major battle between the Roman Empire and the Gauls in 52 B.C. That battle was won by the Romans.

With the blitz of marijuana gardens around Shasta County, Bosenko said officials hope to not only get rid of the pot, but also win back the land for the public that owns it.

"These organizations are destroying our lands and wildlife," he said.

Bernie Weingardt, regional forester for the Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Region, said the 28,000 acres believed to house illegal marijuana grows on national forest land throughout the state would cost more than $300 million to revive.

"These lands must be cleaned and restored," he said.

His estimate is based on a National Park Service study that found it costs $11,000 per acre to pull the plants, clear irrigation systems, reshape any terracing and replant native vegetation, said Mike Odle, Forest Service spokesman.

While Walters didn't give specific goals for Operation Alesia, he said anti-drug agencies aim to cripple the organized crime groups that he said are behind the marijuana cultivation.

"This business we intend to put into recession, depression and put its leaders into jail," Walters said.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/13/2007 20:24 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From Wikipedia

Alesia was the last major engagement between Gauls and Romans, and marked the turning point of the Gallic Wars in favour of Rome. The siege of Alesia is considered one of Caesar's greatest military achievements, and is still one of the classic examples of siege warfare and circumvallation. At one point in the battle the Romans were outnumbered by the Gauls by five to one. The event is described by several contemporary authors, including Caesar himself in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico. After the Roman victory, Gaul (very roughly modern France) was subdued and became a Roman province. The refusal of the Roman senate to allow Caesar the honour of a triumph for his victory in the Gallic Wars eventually led, in part, to the Roman civil war of 50–45 BC.

Obviously the work of Roman Senator Harrius Reidus
Posted by: badanov || 07/13/2007 21:37 Comments || Top||


Teen birth rate hits record low
Fewer high school students are having sex these days, and more are using condoms. The teen birth rate has hit a record low.

More young people are finishing high school (effect), too, and more little kids are being read to (cause), according to the latest government snapshot on the well-being of the nation's children. It's good news on a number of key wellness indicators, experts said of the report being released Friday.

"The implications for the population are quite positive in terms of their health and their well-being," said Edward Sondik, director of the National Center for Health Statistics.

In a separate article:
"Likewise, only 16 percent of stay-at-home moms say they'd prefer to work full-time. That's down from 24 percent a decade ago. Nearly half of at-home moms say not working at all is ideal, up from 39 percent in 1997."

If the desire by mothers to spend more time at home (with their kids) is matched by more of them actually doing so, then I think we may have another cause for the lower teen birth rate effect.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/13/2007 08:08 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I blame Playstation and XBox for reducing the effects of the traditional onset of adolescent male hormone activities seen since the beginning of the era of the unsupervised adult environment that started in the late 60's or early '70s.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/13/2007 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Fewer high school students are having sex these days, and more are using condoms, and more are having abortions. The teen birth rate has hit a record low.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/13/2007 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Welfare reform of 1994. Teen pregnancy had been trending up until then. When teenage mothers were no longer given taxpayer housing and welfare payments the birth rate dropped noticeably, esp in the inner cities where several generations had used that as their career path.
Posted by: ed || 07/13/2007 9:59 Comments || Top||

#4  And, in addition, ed, as the article notes, women have noticed the effect thingy on children and are not (as much) buying in to the whole feminazi/woman revolution thingy anymore. It's remarkable to me that we're pulling it off, but ALL of my friends who are married and have kids have the wife staying home with junior (or at least, have the wife working from home). It's tough financially, but the results are amazing and will help this nation right the wrong course we took after the 60's "revolution."
Posted by: BA || 07/13/2007 10:40 Comments || Top||

#5  It's not just women who've noticed the effect thingy on children. (Hi, BA!) We're friends with several families where the wife has the career and the husband stays/works from home. Most people simply don't have the energy and the organization to have it all and do right by the children. Those who do have my awe and admiration, but they turned out not to be as common as we thought, back in the day.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/13/2007 12:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Teenage latina pregnancy rate soaring, however.
As the late great Casey Stengel said "You can look it up!"
Posted by: borgboy || 07/13/2007 12:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Hi, TW! It's been a while, I know, but I had to take a Sabbatical and relax some. Now that I'm "recharged" I'ma ready to blog.
Posted by: BA || 07/13/2007 12:49 Comments || Top||

#8  I guess this "good news" is locational. About 11 of the girls my daughter went to school with or was friends with have gotten pregnant and had a child. Three of them have gotten married after having a child. The other eight mainly relied on mom and dad, State welfare, or federal largesse to survive. We have one of the children in our custody, and he has some major problems. At least one, and possibly two of the others are also being reared by grandparents. Two of them are now pregnant with a second child.

Until we make it unpopular to have children out of wedlock - including making it financially unpopular - and stop glamorizing casual sex, we'll continue having children having kids, with all the social baggage that engenders.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/13/2007 22:49 Comments || Top||

#9  OP - it's always location, location location.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/13/2007 22:59 Comments || Top||



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