As if teenage pregnancy and train-wreck big sis Britney weren’t troubles enough, Jamie Lynn Spears can now add a cheating baby-daddy to her list of woes. According to National Enquirer sources, Casey Aldridge strayed from his young love a number of times, even dating another woman days before the 16-year-old “Zoey 101” star told the world she’s expecting. “I think Casey is a serial cheater who has lied to Jamie Lynn and betrayed her time and time again,” a close friend confessed. “Even though I’m sure she knows in her heart that Casey’s a lying, cheating dog, Jamie Lynn is head over heels in love with him. She continues to take him back regardless of how awful he treats her.”
Just how awful is that? “This past spring Casey was forced to tell Jamie Lynn that he’d cheated on her and gotten that girl pregnant,” the same pal told the Enquirer. “Jamie Lynn was devastated. She swore Casey out of her life forever.”
Two weeks before the unnamed other woman miscarried, Jamie Lynn was said to be back in Casey’s arms with a promise that it would never happen again. “In fact, only a few months before getting that girl pregnant, Casey had cheated on Jamie Lynn by dating another girl, Whitney Seals of Magnolia, Miss.,” a source revealed. That’s the same woman Casey’s been seen “sneaking around” with lately.
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"She continues to take him back regardless of how awful he treats her.”
Good Lord! Reads like a sound-byte from "Cops." Once trailer trash always trailer trash.
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I wonder how mama's parenting book is coming along...
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"No Inheritance forrr Yuuuuuu!!!!!!!!"
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Inheritance? I thought she'd basically pimped both kids out to hollywierd since before they were in Middle School... other than that does she have a means of support?
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As I vaguely recall (and I don't know this for certain since I don't regularly park myself on a sofa wth National Enquirer) the young lad is a ... young lad. He's what, 17, 18? Not making any excuse whatsoever, but we're expecting him to act responsibly, and he's already demonstrated he can't do that.
In times gone past, Mr. Spears would have entered the story carrying a shotgun ....
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Their family is like a bad show that continues to new levels of outrageous stuidity each sweeps week in hopes of enough of a blip in interest to kick the can down the street for another season. I can't see where they go next. Releasing an "intimate" video would probably just disgust people and not be that different from her stage show anyway. Beastiality would be very unlikely post- Michael Vick. All I can think of would be inbreeding.
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You can take this family out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the family.
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SW, IIUC he's 19, she's 16. In most states, that's statutory rape
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I think this story demonstrates the drop in quality of the psycho's that are the parents of child stars. How come Jamie Lynn was allowed the type of personal freedom that could have resulted in her pregnancy. I'm sure the Olsen twins were under full twenty-four hour control from cradle until they reached their majority. What has happened to level of control? Where's the smothering?
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D *** NG IT, what can Socialist Amerika do to stop this young man, or at least TASER 'IM SOUNDLY in righteous Marxist-Govtist Utopianist indignation???
"The Secretary-General has been closely following the developments in Kenya since the announcement of the results of the elections. He is concerned about the ensuing violence and strongly deplores the loss of human lives. He urges the security forces to show utmost restraint," the statement said.
Over 135 people have been reported killed after hundreds of Kenyans protested in the streets Mwai Kibaki's re-election as the country's president for a second term, despite widespread evidence of ballot-rigging, observers said.
"The Secretary-General appeals to the population for calm, patience and respect for law," the statement added.
Ban also called on the political parties and leaders in Kenya to resolve their differences peacefully through dialogue and by "making full use of the existing legal mechanisms and procedures."
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resolve their differences peacefully through dialogue
One might think that if the Kenyans were capable of this, they would have done it already instead of engaging in the traditional African sport of massacre. Call me cynical and jaded, but I'm betting it will take stern men with guns to put a stop this.
By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
January 01, 2008 2:20 PM EST
NAIROBI, Kenya - A mob torched a church sheltering hundreds of people fleeing election violence Tuesday, killing up to 50 people - including many children - as four days of rioting and ethnic clashes marked one of the darkest times in Kenya's history. Nothing like burning people alive to start off a New Year.
President Mwai Kibaki, sworn in Sunday after a vote opponents said was rigged, said political parties should meet immediately and publicly call for calm. The violence has killed at least 270 people in what had been east Africa's most stable and prosperous democracy. The opposition candidate, Raila Odinga, said he would refuse to meet. "Unlike in the Us where if I don't win I can go to the Courts and attempt to get power by lawsuit, here I can foment violence and kill my way to the top"
"If he announces that he was not elected, then I will talk to him," Odinga told The Associated Press. He accused the government of stoking the violence, and said Kibaki's administration "is guilty, directly, of genocide." Where's Jimmuh Cahtah?
The election commission chairman said Tuesday he had been under intense pressure from both sides to announce the vote results quickly.
Violence erupted throughout Kenya, from the shantytowns of Nairobi to resort towns on the sweltering coast, exposing festering tribal resentments. Kibaki's Kikuyu people, Kenya's largest ethnic group, are accused of using their dominance of politics and business to the detriment of others.
Odinga is from the Luo tribe, a smaller but still major tribe. In the slums, which are often divided along tribal lines, rival groups have been going at each other with machetes and sticks, as police fire tear gas and live rounds to keep them from pouring into the city center.
The church fire in Eldoret, some 185 miles from the capital, killed at least 50 people, said a Red Cross volunteer who counted the bodies and helped the wounded. But she asked that her name - which would identify her tribe - not be published, saying gangs were even checking on the tribal affiliations of aid workers. Orcs all.
Anne Njoki, a 28-year-old Kikuyu, said she fled her home in the slums after she saw Kikuyus being attacked and their homes looted. She was camped out near a military base with her sister, 3-year-old nephew and 7-year-old niece.
"They have taken our beds, blankets, even spoons," she said of the looters. The children had not eaten for days.
The European Union and the United States have refused to congratulate Kibaki, and the EU and four top Kenyan elections officials have called for an independent inquiry.
In Britain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged Kibaki and Odinga to hold talks.
"The violence must be brought to an end," he said Tuesday in London. Words. No action
Also Tuesday, Odinga insisted he would go on with plans to lead 1 million people in a protest march in the capital Thursday against Kibaki, who had been trailing Odinga in early election results and opinion polls before pulling ahead. Million People March.
The government banned the demonstration, but Odinga said: "It doesn't matter what they say." Neener-neener!
Election commission chairman Samuel Kivuitu said he had been pressed by both an opposition party and Kibaki's Party of National Unity to make the election results public.
"I was being pushed by PNU and ODM-Kenya (a minor opposition party) to announce the results immediately," Kivuitu said, while Western ambassadors "wanted me to delay announcing the results, even if it is for a week," to allow the commission to go through allegations of irregularities.
Kivuitu told reporters he even contemplated resigning, but stayed on because "people would think I am afraid of what is happening," according to comments broadcast by private TV channel KTN.
The widespread violence and gathering international pressure could lead Kibaki to seek a compromise with the opposition. Riots also have been raging in opposition strongholds in western Kenya, the tourism-dependent coast and the Rift Valley.
In Nairobi's Mathare slum, Odinga supporters torched a minibus and attacked Kikuyu travelers, witnesses said Tuesday.
"The car had 14 people in it, but they only slashed Kikuyus," witness Boniface Mwangi said. Five were attacked by the machete-wielding gang, others robbed, he said.
In Nairobi's slums - home to a third of the city's population - parents searched for food, with many shops closed because of looting.
Winnie Nduku, 34, said she and her three young children had not eaten in three days and the family had no money because her husband, a minibus driver, could not get to work.
"My eldest daughter keeps asking what am I going to do, and the small one is crying from hunger," she said.
Kibaki, 76, won by a landslide in 2002, ending 24 years in power by Daniel arap Moi. Kibaki is praised for turning the country into an east African economic powerhouse with an average growth rate of 5 percent, but his anti-graft campaign has been seen as a failure, and the country still struggles with tribalism and poverty.
Odinga, 62, cast himself as a champion of the poor. His main constituency is the Kibera slum, where some 700,000 people live in poverty, but he has been accused of failing to do enough to help them in 15 years as a member of parliament. Alas, Africa. So much Promise thrown away for Temporary Gain.
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The problem is that as they fled their colonies, the Brits left the keys to whomever possessed the biggest stick. They also put what had been multiple kingdoms with different ethnic groups into individual countries. What is occurring within these African countries ought not really be thought of as tribal wars, but as international wars.
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When I read about shit likr this, I think of the millions of Black People who managed to come to, and live in America, I sincerely hope they appreciate the difference, we don't herd folks into church and burn down the building, and in all the times we had racial unest, I've NEVER heard of anything half as barbaric happening here.
Deacon Blues, are you out there?
Comment please.
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aparently we forgot to send in jimmah carter to certify the election and prevent the violence.
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The number of children killed is reportedly up to 82.
Brutal unrest across Kenya over President Mwai Kibaki's reelection left about 150 people dead in a day taking the overall toll to at least 185 killed in four days. Police opened fire on some protesters and looters and many people were killed with machetes as ethnic tensions mounted.
Opposition leader Raila Odinga renewed his accusations that the presidential election was rigged and the United States withdrew its endorsement of the result. Riots broke out almost immediately and police and mortuary officials said at least 75 people were killed in cities in western Kenya overnight and a further 48 in Nairobi's slum areas.
At least 24 people have died in election-related violence in the western town of Eldoret since Saturday, a hospital official said. Around 53 people were killed in Kisumu, an Odinga stronghold in the west, hospital officials said.
Kisumu police chief declined to comment on the death toll, but acknowledged that officers had opened fire on "looters" during the night.
The UN's top human rights official, Louise Barbour, called on the Kenyan authorities to root out security force excesses. Police clamped a day-time curfew on the Kisumu, with an order to shoot violators. According to police, hundreds of houses have already been torched in the western Rift Valley province and fresh riots and looting broke out Monday in Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum.
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Is there any way we can blame this all on Bush?
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Maybe the Brits had it right in dealing with the Mau Mau back in the 1950's. Hanging the murdering, tribal buggers appeared to be very effective and work quite well in most cases. Their mobile gallows initiative really got the attention of villages when it came to town. Following the Hola situation and pressure form the left, the Brits became sick of it and in 1963 pulled out. Things have been going as things go in Africa, quite badly as a rule, ever since.
JEDDAH — The Islamic Jurisprudence Council has banned the use of the verses of the Holy Quran as ringtones for mobile phones because it impinges on the sacred character of the the Holy Book, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
If it wasn't good enough for old Mo' ...
“It is demeaning and degrading to the verses of the Holy Book to stop abruptly at the middle of a recitation or neglecting the recitation, as happens when they are used as ringtones in mobile phones. On the other hand, recording the verses from the Holy Quran in phone sets with the intention of recitation and listening is a virtuous act,” the scholars attending the council meeting in Makkah recently said in a statement.
During the six-day meeting, held under the chairmanship of Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz Al Asheikh, 70 Muslim dignitaries and scholars tackled a number of important issues. The council encouraged Muslims in the West to participate in elections in non-Muslim countries and play an effective political role, especially if elections brought about public good or prevented social evils.
Defined as you might expect.
It said this was the only way for Muslims abroad to secure their rights. It encouraged Muslims in the West to integrate into Western societies but cautioned them against adopting any Western habits that are contrary to the principles of Islam.
In other words, it has to be done their way ...
In the concluding session, the Islamic Jurisprudence Council emphasised that dialogue with non-Muslims supported by well-prepared media programmes were essential in confronting anti-Islamic campaigns.
Gotta spin up the PR and disinformation campaigns even further ...
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...cautioned them against adopting any Western habits that are contrary to the principles of Islam.
So ... all of them? Little wonder you 7th century moon worshipers can't integrate into western life and try to make everyone else conform to you.
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Get serious, no desert Arab should have a phone. This is merely another infidel invention. You don't require a phone to drive your camel. If you are molesting the beast, and this contraption rings, it may cause the beast to trample you.
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It encouraged Muslims in the West to integrate into Western societies but cautioned them against adopting any Western habits that are contrary to the principles of Islam.
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What great comedy. Would it be like a big game of 'Red light Green light' where everytime a phone rings anyone listening has to stop and bang their head on the ground?
VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia - Colombian rebels on Monday said they would not now be able to release three hostages as planned, accusing the Colombian government of failing to guarantee the guerrillasÂ’ safety.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who read the FARC announcement, said Colombian President Alvaro Uribe “torpedoed” the release effort by claiming that a little boy born in captivity to a hostage was not in rebel hands but was already found months ago. Chavez called the child theory “a bunch of smoke.” He said he knew “Uribe and his team well. They’re a team that makes up things. My experience leads me to doubt Uribe’s team and their hypotheses ...”
Chavez later said he would pursue “new options” in the release effort.
Anything to garner more publicity for himself and more help for FARC, his kissing cousins ...
The release of two women held for more than five years in the Amazon jungle, and a three-year-old boy born in captivity, hit a new snag Monday after days of frantic preparations. “Intense military operations in the zone make it impossible now” to release the three, the Marxist FARC rebels said in a statement read by Chavez, who has been spearheading the delicate mission. “To continue under these conditions would endanger the lives of the people to be released, the other prisoners of war and the guerrillas carrying out this mission,” the rebel statement added.
Uribe denied reports of fighting and said Bogota had agreed to open a safe corridor for the mission
Venezuelan helicopters have been on stand-by in Villavicencio, Colombia since Friday for word to fly into the jungle to pick up Clara Rojas, her son Emmanuel born in captivity, and former lawmaker Consuelo Gonzalez. Chavez said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, one of the world’s oldest insurgencies, had called for a “real ceasefire” before letting the hostages go.
But Uribe denied reports of fighting and said Bogota had agreed to open a safe corridor for the mission, which is operating under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). “We were asked to establish a kind of strategic corridor. We accept this,” Uribe said, adding “there has not been any fighting in this area.”
Uribe, who arrived in this Colombian city earlier Monday to meet international observers taking part in “Operation Emmanuel,” stressed his government had provided all the security guarantees that were asked for. “What has the attitude of the FARC been? One of lies, and cheating,” Uribe said in a speech shown on television, accusing the rebels of deliberately delaying the hostages’ release.
Question: just how tied are Chavez and FARC? FARC has several safe havens on the Venezuelan side of the border, and Chavez has to be guarenteeing their safety. Chavez doesn't have much leverage otherwise, since FARC has their own financing (drugs). So is FARC pulling his chain, or is this all a big act?
Between the standard Juche-boilerplate is acknowledgement that North Korea has some serious problems.
Rodong Sinmun, Joson Inmingun and Chongnyon Jonwi today released the joint New Year editorial "Glorify This Year of the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the DPRK as a Year of Historical Turn Which Will Go Down in the History of the Country" on the occasion of the New Year, Juche 97 (2008). The following are excerpts from the editorial:
Today we are greeting the New Year Juche 97 (2008) with a great ambition and optimism in the hope-filled future of socialist Korea. Our cause of building a great, prosperous and powerful country which made a vigorous advance under the leadership of the great Workers' Party of Korea has entered a new historical stage. At present, when a bright morning is breaking in this land dignified for Songun to promise prosperity, our soldiers and people are full of pride in being victors and of militant mettle, and the whole country is seething with an unprecedented spirit of creation and advance.
The proud victories and successes we achieved last year in the political, military, economic, cultural, diplomatic and all other realms are brilliant fruition of Kim Jong Il's outstanding strategy and tactics, his iron will and his tireless leadership.
The New Year Juche 97 (2008) is a year of gigantic struggle, a year of jubilation in the national history, when a great change will be brought about in the history of our country and our revolution.
At present there is no more urgent and important task than solving the problem of food. The agricultural sector should radically increase grain output by planting high-yielding varieties on a wide scale and introducing advanced farming technology and methods as required by the Party's policy of bringing about a drastic change in agriculture.
Much like the SKors did forty years ago ...
It should consolidate the achievements made over the past decade in implementing the Party's policy of improving potato farming and cultivate beans well as the KPA does. Agricultural officials and working people should make great efforts to do farming by themselves with the attitude of being masters.
The policies of the Party and state for the people should be better implemented. Health officials should work as devotedly as the health officials in the Chollima era to promote the people's health, and thus give full play to the advantages of the people-oriented public health system of the country. They should arrange the rest centres and sanatoria, run them on a normal basis and lay out the scenic places as cultural resorts for the people.
Our officials should stand in the van holding aloft the banner in today's general offensive. They should be genuine commanding personnel of the revolution to be appreciated by the people and remembered by the leader by working with greatest effort at their revolutionary posts as the officials did in the period of laying the foundations of the Party for inheriting the cause of Juche in the 1970s. All the Party organizations should enhance their militant function and role.
Pro-U.S. sycophancy and treachery of turning the back on the trend of the times towards reunification and hindering the reconciliation and unity of the nation should not be tolerated. Legal and institutional mechanisms should be adjusted in the interests of the development of inter-Korean relations and reunification. The source of war should be removed and lasting peace be ensured. Peace is most precious for the Korean nation that has been living in the constant danger of war for more than half a century. All the Koreans should launch a vigorous anti-war, peace campaign to foil the war moves of the hawks at home and abroad. An end should be put to the U.S. policy hostile towards the DPRK and the Armistice Agreement be replaced with a peace pact. The aggressive joint military exercises and arms buildup should be discontinued and the U.S. military bases be abolished in south Korea. The idea of confrontation regarding the fellow countrymen as the archenemy should be discarded, the military tension be eased, and the elements of dispute be removed.
As there are the experienced and seasoned leadership of the WPK, the strong political and military might and the fervent patriotic zeal of all the soldiers and people, a great, prosperous and powerful socialist country of Juche will surely be built on this land and shine to the world. Let us all work harder for the prosperity of the country and the completion of the revolutionary cause of Juche rallied closely around the headquarters of the revolution headed by Kim Jong Il.
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Yo, Kimchee breath, you and the horse you rode in on, except you would probably eat it.
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Kimmie strolls in, offers his expert field guidance, problem solved, he's on the first tee at Pyongyang Acres firing off his first hole in one of the day.
And all before lunch...
The Huckabee campaign has taken a bizarre turn this afternoon.
Realize they peaked last week, do they?
The former Arkansas governor announced a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa Monday afternoon to launch a negative attack ad on his rival former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., and go after what he thinks are Romney's flip-flops. But then, Huckabee said, he changed his mind. He didn't want to launch the ad.
"Pull the ad, Bob! I've decided not to go negative!"
Huckabee now says he will run a positive campaign, even though he's been calling Romney a low-down miserable cur who should be traded in on a dog and the dog shot "dishonest" since Friday, spoke to the press surrounded by placards slamming Romney, and has a passage on his website comparing Romney to the Marquis de Sade Seinfeld's lying friend George Costanza. "It's never too late to do the right thing," Huckabee told reporters.
"That's why I waited until after I'd peaked."
Huckabee took the unusual step of showing the media the anti-Romney TV ad, the one he said he told TV stations to pull from the airwaves.
"See? I wuz gonna say all this, but now I'm not. You'll never see negative ads like this come outta my campaign, no matter how many come out of my Godless opponents. I'll never accuse him of holding up liquor stores in his youth!"
The ad began like this:
HUCKABEE: I'm Mike Huckabee and I approved this spot because Iowans need to lock up their wimmin and children when that hound Romney's around have the right to know the truth about Mitt Romney's dishonest attacks on me and even an American hero, John McCain.
NARRATOR: Romney's record? Over 700 illegitimate children million in new taxes. Left office with the gubernatorial silverware a deficit. A 3-card monte artist. No executions. Supported gun control. And Romney's government-mandate health plan provided for mandatory a $50 co-pay for abortion.
HUCKABEE: If a man's made his living sharping cards and selling gold bricks dishonest to obtain a job, he'll be dishonest on the job. Iowans deserve me better.
Huckabee said he knows some will view the decision to show the media the ad with skepticism -- a way to get TV play for the ad, regardless -- but he says he wanted to show the media there was indeed an ad, which campaign adviser Ed Rollins said cost the campaign $30,000. "The tone of the campaign has gotten out of control," Huckabee said.
"And it's all that cur, Romney's fault!"
Huckabee acknowledged that Romney's steady barrage of negative ads against him has hurt him in Iowa. But, he says, "the decision had to be made" to change the tone of the campaign.
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The lying asshole Huckabee then showed the negative commercial to all the press, and then his staff LEAKED IT. All guaranteeing that his negatvie ad woudl be a hot topic.
What a 2 faced slimy bastard.
Huckabee is the only guy other than Ron Paul that would have me NOT vote Republican.
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FYI Romney's "negative" ads simply out Huckabee on his record of being a pro-amnesty, instate-tuition-for-illegals, tax raising, weak on crime, murderer-pardoning nanny-stater.
WHat the hell is wrong with Republicans in Iowa? They vote for this asshole, last time they gave Buchanan 30% and prior to the Pat Robertson got 25%.
Iowa is full of morons, and the Republicans are cutting thier throats by letting a pack of idiots like that set the leaderboard for thier campaign in 08.
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Iowa has a lot of compassionate conservative Christians and may be considered morons to those who only look at the bottom line and dance to big corporate interests. They tend to put family first.
Romney's co-pay sounds like a good plan to me...otherwise we will pay at least 18 years of social costs and/or incarceration or medical costs for disabled and premature babies born to drug addicted moms who do not or cannot care for them. Iowa also places a heavy emphasis on education for our future generations and hardworking bluecollar families barely making it on two part-time jobs without benefits deeply resent subsidizing anything for illegals. Midwesterners also have a lot of children serving in the Armed Forces and the Republicans have a real shot at picking up anti-liberal Dems dissatisfied with Pelosi and Reid. Likewise, Bloomberg and Hillary's big business ties don't play well, either, and Ron Paul actually has a real following over abolishing the income tax. Anything can happen this year.
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Y'know, Huckabee's right. From now on I'm not going to call that drug addicted black Muslim Obama a drug addicted black Muslim. And if my staff does it, I'll be really pissed off...
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Someone close to me went to a huck rally and said he gave a good show, no cue cards or anything. I mentioned that it isn't the message but the messenger. Thanks, shucksonme, for proving me right. Same crap as clintoon, arkansas farking politics.
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Danileee - you are a MORON if you don't look to consequences of such policies that Huckabee espouses - amnesty for illegal aleians, loose borders, coddling Mexico, nanny-state policies...
Nothing wrong with being a social conservative - I an myself. But I am not an unthinking boob who jerks the lever for Huckabee without looking to the truth about the man and his record.
Same for Romney an his socialized medicien. If you want to see the end result, look at England, look at Canada.
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didn't mean you personally, but you "in general" (plural) if the fakery of Romney and Huckabee are enough to fool yas.
And Iowa seems to be disproprtianately full of such self-important self-deluding idiots.
Put Iowa LAST next cycle - it is hardly represnetative of the Nation at large, nor of the Republican Party in general. c.f, the large portion that Buchanan, Robertson, Keyes, et al pick up there - fools pushing thier unelectable half-empty candidates on a half-empty pack of morons in Iowa. Small wonder nanny-stater Huckafraud and Flip-Flop Multiple Choice Mitt (the chosen one of the Country Club Elite) are in the lead, and boobs like Ron Paul are pulling large percentages.
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Iowa is not good at picking the final candidate either. I think that whoever wins Iowa, will fail to get the nomination for the Republicans. For the Dhimocrats, Iowa is enough of a social tit area that the winner might fully well get the nomination nod.
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Old Spook:
I definitely do not support open borders or coddling Mexico, or special privileges to aliens but we can't turn our back on our own elderly, infirm, or disregard the social consequences to all of society when babies are born out of wedlock to children, corporate greed imports cheap labor and exports jobs, slashes health care benefits and generally creates stress that cause families to disintegrate. Functioning responsible adults are the fabric of society and it seems only candidates of faith really "get it". We may need the nanny state for our own citizens to keep America from imploding, and my brain tells me we cannot afford illegal immigration, taking in all the world's wartorn refugees, and educating kids speaking hundreds of foreign languages in public schools funded by property taxes on homes depreciating rapidly. In general, people want someone who understands real life of Americans outside New York and DC. The caucuses are protest votes by cynical people tired of the status quo.
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Except it's the opposition that is 'uniting' against her.......
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The apple hasn't fallen to far from the tree.
Her 9-year-old daughter, Sydney Rieckhoff, a kid reporter for Scholastic News, tried to ask Chelsea Clinton, 27, how her dad would do as "first man" but ended up with only a photo.
"I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press and that applies to even you, unfortunately," Chelsea Clinton told the girl, who held a notebook and pen. "Even though you're cute."
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Those kid reporters; they often get the scoops no one else gets. Remember the Children's Express scoop at the 1976 DNC; they found out the Mondale choice first.
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"Even though you're cute."
yep, just like ol' Dad, except Chelsea didn't hit on her
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"I came in very open," Rieckhoff said. "But I'm decided. I'm going with Hillary. I like her family values. I feel like she's going to get the job done. Some of the others just felt like they were talking."
Anyone else see mr. clinton's talk about strength of character during the ark/mizz game? Uh huh.
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Gosh! I thought Hillary was nothing more than the wife of a cheating, lying, felon. I thought that she was the one who insisted the FBI come to the Whitehouse with files of political enemies. I would have thought that her claim to be a deft uniter would go over like the line that the new Russian secret police are a kinder version of the KGB. It just shows one how wrong you can be about Sweetness Hillary.
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"So why do I tell you all this?" she asked an audience of about 400 in Vinton using a hushed, concerned storyteller's voice that seemed a little exaggerated at times. "Because if you want to know what kind of changes I will make as president, look at the changes I have made for the date of the Iowa Caucas 35 years, such as coming to terms with my husbands infidelity long before I was ever in public office, long before all these cameras showed up or before anybody such as my husband really cared what I was doing .
hillarity, the daft driver, yet another chinese recall.
The Malaysian government has reversed its decision to ban a Catholic newspaper for using the word "Allah," officials said Monday, easing a row that could strain racial harmony in the multiethnic country.
Very Abrahamic of them.
In a surprising about-turn over the weekend, the government renewed The Herald weekly's 2008 permit without any conditions, said its editor Rev. Lawrence Andrew. "There are no conditions, there was no mention of the Allah ban," he told The Associated Press.
Internal security officials declined to comment when contacted. The ministry had repeatedly warned The Herald that its printing permit may be revoked if it continued to use "Allah" as a synonym for God in its Malay-language section. After the Herald refused, it was told in early December that its Malay-language section would be banned from January.
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I guess Allah doesn't translate as God after all. Good to know.
India has halted all arms sales and transfers to Burma, a development that could increase international pressure on the military junta that brutally crushed the pro-democracy "Saffron Revolution" led by monks this fall.
The Indian government's decision has not been officially announced, but diplomatic sources said it has been privately confirmed by New Delhi to top U.S. officials in recent weeks. In a little-noticed statement, first lady Laura Bush noted the decision in a video teleconference she held on Dec. 10 in recognition of International Human Rights Day. Ticking off actions taken by countries around the world in response to the crackdown, Bush said, "India, one of Burma's closest trading partners, has stopped selling arms to the junta." A spokesman for the Indian Embassy in Washington declined to comment.
Burma, also known as Myanmar, is regarded as one of the world's most repressive nations. The National League for Democracy, the party of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won a landslide victory in the country's last elections, in 1990, but the military leadership refused to recognize the outcome. Suu Kyi has been under house arrest or in prison on and off since then.
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It was the last Sunday service at Christ Church. Unable to go "further in a church that continued in a false gospel," the entire congregation, including the rector and church leaders, will sever ties with the national Episcopal Church and reform under a new name: New Hope Anglican Church.
One of the "Connecticut six," the half-dozen churches in the state diocese that disagree with national leadership on departure of scripture, including the appointment of a gay bishop, the congregation will trade its historic building on the town green for a free community room at the Thomaston Savings Bank around the corner. The Sunday service will be held at the bank, starting Jan. 6, until they find or build another house of worship. "We need to celebrate today, but we need to recognize there is a dying," the Rev. Allyn Benedict said in his final homily at the church. Reading off an overhead projector, church members sang hymns enthusiastically, clapping and raising hands in acknowledging their faith. They hugged one another, wishing peace.
The church was founded under the Church of England in 1764. In 2003, Benedict and several other Connecticut rectors clashed with Connecticut Bishop Andrew D. Smith, who supported the naming of V. Gene Robinson as New Hampshire's bishop. Robinson is gay. Benedict and Christ Church leaders also feel the national church is rejecting scriptural authority and traditions of the church.
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Notice that the national Episcopal "Church" is more concerned with the property than with the people in it.
THis is a "Church" which approved the homosexual Bishop who continues by his own admission to commit homosexual acts - which are sins per orthodox Christian theology.
The Presbyterian Church in the US is rotting from the head down. Congregations are leaving it for the African convocation, or else leaving it completely due to the liturgical abuses, the idiot theological gyrtions fo liberal heterodox bishops, and the leftward swing and politicization of the senior Biships.
Within a decade, at this pace, the Presbyterian Church in the US will cease to exist as any kind of meaningful organization.
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There are two Presbyterian Churches in the U.S., and have been for a decade or two. One as viciously drunk on so-called Liberal theology as the Church of England, the other rededicated to original Presbyterian ways. There will be more of this in the years to come -- the post-Baby Boom generations are rebelling by becoming more conservative.
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There are a few of us "baby-boomers" who have rebelled against both the politicization of theology and the "acceptance" of sinful behavior as "normal". It's more that the Church has left the people, who continue to adhere to the full tenents of their faith, rather than them leaving the Church. Many "Church bishops, preachers, and deacons" will burn in hell for all eternity because they have turned from the truth to accept what is politically popular. I can't really feel sorry for them - they chose the paths they currently follow willingly.
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I wonder what Peter and Paul would think of the fact that a branch of their church would become a realty clearinghouse.
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*trying not to offend*
Have to add episcopalians, at least the ones I know.
OP, That is the best summary I have seen as yet (as one in early 30's and child - the wife and I want to go but...). There are those close to me that have the 'good faith' but don't know where to put it anymore. The good news it does exist, the bad is that it is spread out and there are sharks in that 'new untapped market' -might explain some of the appeal for huck- Hate to say it but the only place that treats me like an honest to God believer on Sundays is our humble little golf course and the great people who are also out there.
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Is anyone bothered as I by the "contemporary" services now? I don't want to see a rock band.
TW your statement about Presbyterians is spot on. PCUSA eliminated the trinity. There is a conservative Presbyterian movement and I hope it catches. I just can't be a Baptist. Personal issue.
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"The Secretary-General has been closely following the developments in Kenya since the announcement of the results of the elections. He is concerned about the ensuing violence and strongly deplores the loss of human lives. He urges the security forces to show utmost restraint," the statement said. 
VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia - Colombian rebels on Monday said they would not now be able to release three hostages as planned, accusing the Colombian government of failing to guarantee the guerrillasÂ’ safety.
It was the last Sunday service at Christ Church. Unable to go "further in a church that continued in a false gospel," the entire congregation, including the rector and church leaders, will sever ties with the national Episcopal Church and reform under a new name: New Hope Anglican Church. 
