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The best punishment I ever heard of inflicted on a rural burglar by a crusty old man, was at gunpoint to show the burglar a shovel and tell him to dig a deep hole in his yard. After he got down a foot, the old guy told him to keep making it wider.
Suddenly the light dawned and the burglar about shat himself. When the police arrived, he was crying and whining and begging and pleading, and was the happiest burglar ever to be arrested.
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No wonder their affiliate in Austin was burned shut down.
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I thought it was Cheney who ran around in California, screaming madly, glorious in his wild nakedness, setting fire with a flamethrower for the Greater Glory of Halliburton.
Does this mean Lizard Cheney is doing the bidding of the Dark Lords of Blackwater? It's so very confusing.
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Portrero (near the Tecate border crossing) is where the Harris (Ranch) Fire started. It is also teh site of a proposed BW training facility. The local lefties have been all up in arms over the BW facility and literally drooling over the recent BW incident in Iraq. They are using land policy (it's in an agricultural-zoned area of teh county) to try and implement their twisted political agenda. F*ck em. AA prolly tried to piggyback on this with their irresponsible and stupid reporting....BTW, how's the mouth Randi? Have a couple (or 30) Ketel One's, it'll take the edge off the pain
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Can you defame a company? This sounds like a lawsuit if you ask me.
#2
Fake! Advertisers post funny videos on Youtube, and only admit they are advertising afterwards. First there was "Bridezilla" and then the "Mentos in Diet-Cola Fountain." They know how to get our attention.
#3
Well so much for that. I guess I will go do some tall boy curls and watch football this afternoon. Reminder to self: "Don't watch anymore of these videos."
#4
That's real. I'm green with envy. Once upon a time I could do a dozen or so one-arm push-ups, but my little sister could do a planch (that horizontal body thingy, supported only on the hands). When we did women's pair gymnastics, she took the bottom, even though I was an inch taller and a dozen pounds heavier.
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I'll bet you can see most of that any night at a Vegas Strip Gentleman's Club, done in high heels. There the judges don't use little cards with numbers on them, just federal reserve notes with larger denominations on them. Or, so I've heard. Heh.
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What's it called when you can lift every part off the ground except your belly ?
It depends on whether you're horizontal or vertical, wxjames dear. When I do it I call it a swan or an arch up, and it's a nice opposing-muscle strengthener to any kind of sit-ups or crunches. Very important to develop equal abdominal and back strength, to prevent back problems in middle age.
Or what Nimble Spemble said, if one hasn't, thus far.
Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe has launched an intelligence academy named after him, saying it would produce officers able to counter growing threats from Western powers, state media reported on Friday.
Motto: "No stone left unembedded in my enemies' skulls"
Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, is fighting isolation from the West, which accuses him of human rights abuses and rigging elections and economic mismanagement. The combative 83-year-old veteran leader says he is being punished for seizing white-owned farms for landless blacks to redress colonial imbalances, a programme, critics say has plunged the economy into crisis. With the current unjustified demonisation of Zimbabwe by Western powers, the role of intelligence in shaping foreign, security and economic policies become even more critical, the Herald newspaper quoted the president as saying at the launch of the Robert Mugabe National School of Intelligence near Harare. Critics say Mugabe has increasingly relied on security forces to keep opponents in check in the face of growing anger over the unravelling economy, but he denies the charge. The intelligence academy is also expected to train members of the army, police and operatives from other southern African countries. Mugabe said Britain and the United States continued to try to destabilise Zimbabwe by working with non-state actors aimed at unseating his government.
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Robert Mugabe intelligence academy
My own candidate of "Arab Unity" can barely touch this unqualified master oxymoron.
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Like most dictators he thrives on a "Strategy of Tension" in which the governed experience a perpetual "state of emergency" framed by conditions of systemic financial and economic crisis. New day, old theme. His intelligence apparatus and school, undoubtedly staffed and instructed by the usual foreign suspects, will enable a long-term continuation of the Strategy or cycle of Tension" while at the same time providing the Chinese and Russians trained operatives and linguists who can travel throughout the continent to further their goals and objectives. Obviously not good news for the west, but probably the smartest thing Bob has done lately.
IN a bid to solve Saudi Arabias scientific workforce shortage, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has given the green light to a law allowing foreign researchers resident in the country to apply for Saudi citizenship.
Physicists and nuclear engineers are especially welcome.
According to Abdulaziz Mohammed Ahmed Al Ajlan, associate professor of entomology at King Faisal University in Al Hasa, the kingdom has a workforce shortage in many areas of science and technology, such as physics health, metallurgy agriculture, nuclear engineering, bioweapons biotechnology, weapons miniaturization nanotechnology, and dis-information technology. Al Ajlan said that Saudi Arabia is making great progress in the field of water desalination, and the scheme will give the country a boost so it can be a pioneer in all scientific and technological fields.
It will also help Saudi Arabia develop economically and socially, he added.
Which would be a first on both counts ...
Applicants who have doctorates in medicine or engineering will be given preference, followed by those with doctorates in other sciences, and those with Masters degrees in science, engineering and medical fields. Scientists who have been in Saudi Arabia continuously for 10 years or more, and those with relatives who already hold Saudi citizenship will also be given preference.
Oh yeah, just sign me up to live in a giant sand trap with the muttawa and the blunt-nosed beef.
At present, Saudi engineering graduates meet only one-fifth of the countrys needs and 68 per cent of science jobs are filled by science graduates from abroad.
So there's hope for all those Pakistani Ph.D.s ...
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We're selling giving away ships this week, minesweepers to Pakistan, etc. Please Let us help you solve your foreign working transport problem.
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We see in Africa what happens when the cream of society is highly educated, but there's no social infrastructure to support it. On the other hand, an educated bourgeois makes serious, society-changing demands on the governing class. Either way, the current situation should change, I'd think.
Russian Strategic Missile Forces Commander Genernal Nikolai Solovstov said here Friday that RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) with fusion warheads would be actually used by Russian forces within three years' time.
Russian experts are now bent on conducting a series of tests on such missiles before they are put into actual service, Solovstov told a news conference. Russia conducted successful tests for the use of RS-24 ICBM in May.
However, he added that Russian Missile Forces would be armed with new missile systems in the foreseeable future, but he failed to reveal the exact type of such systems.
Furthermore, Russian armed forces will be supplied with additional sophisticated Topol-M missiles before the end of this year, he said, voicing confidence that Russia was able to reproduce medium and short-range missile systems within a definite period of time.
Russia had destroyed its full stockpile of medium and short-range missiles pursuant to a relevant treaty it signed with the US in 1989. But, Moscow warns that it would quit the agreement if Washington goes ahead with the planned deployment of a missile shield system in Europe.
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Last thing they can afford is another Cold War. However, lower primates have problems dealing with certain aspects of projecting future consequence of fulfilling immediate needs, like displays of dominance in a group. Nihilism suits the Russkies well, so consider it 'one last great act of defiance' to history.
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What amazes me in all of this is that within the next 20 years or so, I fully expect to see Russia and China in a full blown war over the Russian Far East - demographics are doing a push on the Chinese side and a pull on the Russian side. And instead of building up the needed conventional forces to counter the Chinese's ever improving military, all Putin can think to do is sell the Chinese everything but the kitchen sink and pour more money down the Cold War II nuclear rat hole he is busily creating. If this trend continues, Russia will be MUCH smaller in size by 2030 - and probably not even a unitary state at that point.
Sarkozy mentioned no names, but any such levy is bound to be targeted at imports from the United States and Australia
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday called for a national "carbon tax" on global-warming pollutants and a European levy on imports from countries outside the Kyoto Protocol. Sarkozy mentioned no names, but any such levy is bound to be targeted at imports from the United States and Australia, the only advanced economies that remain outside the UN's landmark pact on greenhouse-gas emissions.
Wrapping up a four-month forum on the environment that brought together the government, industry and the green lobby, Sarkozy said he would consider shifting part of France's tax burden from labour to pollutants, a key demand of environmentalists. "I want this forum to be the founding act of a new kind of politics. An environmental new deal in France and the world," Sarkozy told the closing ceremony. "We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes... to tax pollution more, including fossil fuels, and to tax labour less."
Addressing European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso, who had taken the podium before him, Sarkozy urged Europe to "examine the option of taxing products imported from countries that do not respect the Kyoto Protocol." As Europe was setting tough standards on its producers for the benefit of the global climate, it was unfair for their competitors to be exempted, he argued. "I suggest to you that in the next six months, the European Union discuss the implications of this unfair competition," he said.
On July 25, 1997, before the Kyoto Protocol was finalized (although it had been fully negotiated, and a penultimate draft was finished), the U.S. Senate unanimously passed by a 950 vote the Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 98),[62][63] which stated the sense of the Senate was that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol that did not include binding targets and timetables for developing as well as industrialized nations or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States".
On November 12, 1998, Vice President Al Gore symbolically signed the protocol.
Not so much railroad steel anymore tho, or vaccuum tubes.
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I have no idea the US still exporting anything?
Manufacturing base, jobs...
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LOL, they're going to eat their own...
"according to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 60% ($14 billion) of U.S. exports to France were made by French subsidiaries"
http://www.ambafrance-us.org/franceus/trade.asp
Pakistan has called for equal access to space-based technologies by all the UN member states, and warned against a possible arms race in outer space. "We share the concern over the dangers of weaponisation and arms race in the outer space, particularly the insistence by states with major space capabilities on incorporating the use of outer space in their military doctrines", Khalid Mahmood, a former Pakistan ambassador, told the General Assemblyís Fourth Committee here on Friday.
"This weaponisation of outer space will impede international cooperation for peaceful uses of outer space and jeopardize the security of outer space, which is a common heritage of mankind," he said in a debate on the need for international cooperation in outer space.
"There is need for confidence-building and greater transparency in space activities undertaken by various states," ambassador Mahmood added.
The UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space had a role in bringing about greater transparency in space activities undertaken by various states, the Pakistan delegate said.
While the question of prevention of an arms race in the outer space should continue to be considered at the Conference on Disarmament, he said the work of that committee was not completely irrelevant to the question. Channels of communication should be established between those two bodies. Negotiations should also begin on a comprehensive convention on space law, to regulate issues relating to space debris and the increasing commercialisation of the outer space, to name a few.
Ambassador Mahmood also welcomed the progress on the recently inaugurated United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (SPIDER), adding that the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space had an important role in ensuring that the benefits of space technologies accrued to all countries, particularly the developing world.
The Pakistan delegate said it was important to increase engagement with developing countries, through sharing of experience and new technologies, and non-discriminatory, affordable and timely access to state-of-the-art data and information.
Pakistan, he said, also supported the call for rational and equitable access for all states to the geostationary orbit.
Pakistan had made considerable progress, spearheaded by the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco), in applying space sciences to the areas ranging from education to telemedicine, natural resource management, the survey of flood plains, vehicle tracking and many other fields, he said and added that Pakistan was deeply committed to its objectives, and followed the evolution of space activities closely.
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Do I detect a very slight sense of entitlement? I think the world should access to those demands, I mean, because, you know, pakistan has brought so much to the world.
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Both an exaggerated sense of entitlement and of grievance against major powers.
Pakistan lost its geostationary slots because they never used them. You either launch your own or have someone launch birds for you.
They managed to save the last slot when they purchased Palapa-C, a failed satellite written off by the insurance companies and then resurrected by Hughes. Renamed Paksat-1, this bird is only partially functional.
At the time of the purchase in 2002, Perv bizarrely claimed that Pakistan was way ahead of India in space technology.
With just one satellite, Pakistan has a surplus of transponders. The have no need for the bandwidth. Amazing when one considers their economy and population size.
The Indian heavy launch vehicles must be really causing heartburn to the Paks. The impending Indian lunar probe mission is further distress.
The fact that India paid its dues, and spent decades building launch capability is lost on the Pakistanis. This technology must now be given to them. Presumably the UN will also control space launches.
Paks need to learn that you have to crawl before you can walk.
The Indians crawled...
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Actually, there is a need for some kind of order to orbital spaceflight, along the lines of the international conventions of air travel, and for the same reasons.
Since almost all of it is unmanned, and far from perfect, even a single satellite with an unstable or wobbly orbit can be a real pest. For example, what do you do if the computers tell you a high probability for a collision in 1,232 orbits?
It means you have very little time to either correct or destroy one of them, which could cost upwards of $300M.
Even more likely is the mountain of "space junk" that is floating around up there. Eventually it is going to have to be policed up, something that has been on the back burner since the 1980s.
All told, there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed.
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Pakistan is looking at India, thier new exploration program, and the heavy lift rockets it is developign to start its own manned space program. And pakistan knows it cannot match India.
Myanmars junta sent armed police to ring key Buddhist sites on Friday, the end of an annual period of monastic retreat, to prevent any resurgence of last months monk-led protests, the biggest uprising in two decades.
A Reuters reporter was prevented from taking photographs of the extra security around the gilded Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmars holiest shrine and the rallying point for dissident monks who started their protest marches exactly one month ago. The dissent had kicked off six weeks earlier with sporadic civilian demonstrations against shock fuel price rises.
Police were also out in force at Sule Pagoda in central Yangon, where the protest marches against deepening poverty and 45 years of military rule in the former Burma used to end. There were no barricades, although police had coils of barbed wire at the ready to seal off the streets, a tactic used when soldiers were sent in last month to disperse tens of thousands of demonstrators.
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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.
Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe has launched an intelligence academy named after him, saying it would produce officers able to counter growing threats from Western powers, state media reported on Friday. 
Russian Strategic Missile Forces Commander Genernal Nikolai Solovstov said here Friday that RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) with fusion warheads would be actually used by Russian forces within three years' time.
