Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. is commemorating National Donut Day by giving a free donut to each of its customers on Friday. Customers who visit participating Krispy Kreme retail locations will get one free doughnut of their choice.
National Donut Day, also spelled National Doughnut Day, started in 1938 as a fund raiser for the Chicago Salvation Army. The Salvation Army wanted to help the needy during the Great Depression and also wanted to honor the Salvation Army "Lassies" of WWI, who served doughnuts to soldiers on the front lines. National Donut Day is celebrated annually on the first Friday in June.
Participating locations of Krispy Kreme are located on the company website, www.mmmmmm-donuts!.com
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Krispy Kreme turned into a total flop here in Colorado Springs. They've now closed up shop and "moved on". We have a couple of local shops that give them some heady competition.
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The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday. Al Gore's hoping to do his part by charging huge royalties for his speeches and he'll donate it all to the cause in a few more years.
The report by the Paris-based International Energy Agency envisions a "energy revolution" that would greatly reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels while maintaining steady economic growth. "Meeting this target of 50 percent cut in emissions represents a formidable challenge, and we would require immediate policy action and technological transition on an unprecedented scale," IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said.
A U.N.-network of scientists concluded last year that emissions have to be cut by at least half by 2050 to avoid an increase in world temperatures of between 3.6 and 4.2 degrees above pre-18th century levels. Which nearly caused extinction of the human race.
Scientists say temperature increases beyond that could trigger devastating effects, such as widespread loss of species, famines and droughts, and swamping of heavily populated coastal areas by rising oceans.
Environment ministers from the Group of Eight industrialized countries and Russia backed the 50 percent target in a meeting in Japan last month and called for it to be officially endorsed at the G-8 summit in July.
The IEA report mapped out two main scenarios: one in which emissions are reduced to 2005 levels by 2050, and a second that would bring them to half of 2005 levels by mid-century. The scenario for deeper cuts would require massive investment in energy technology development and deployment, a wide-ranging campaign to dramatically increase energy efficiency, and a wholesale shift to renewable sources of energy.
Assuming an average 3.3 percent global economic growth over the 2010-2050 period, governments and the private sector would have to make additional investments of $45 trillion in energy, or 1.1 percent of the world's gross domestic product, the report said. That would be an investment more than three times the current size of the entire U.S. economy. So what are you trying to say?
The second scenario also calls for an accelerated ramping up of development of so-called "carbon capture and storage" technology allowing coal-powered power plants to catch emissions and inject them underground.
The study said that an average of 35 coal-powered plants and 20 gas-powered power plants would have to be fitted with carbon capture and storage equipment each year between 2010 and 2050. In addition, the world would have to construct 32 new nuclear power plants each year, and wind-power turbines would have to be increased by 17,000 units annually. Nations would have to achieve an eight-fold reduction in carbon intensity the amount of carbon needed to produce a unit of energy in the transport sector.
Such action would drastically reduce oil demand to 27 percent of 2005 demand. Failure to act would lead to a doubling of energy demand and a 130 percent increase in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, IEA officials said.
"This development is clearly not sustainable," said Dolf Gielen, an IEA energy analyst and leader for the project.
Gielen said most of the $45 trillion forecast investment about $27 trillion would be borne by developing countries, which will be responsible for two-thirds of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Ha! Yeah, right.
Most of the money would be in the commercialization of energy technologies developed by governments and the private sector. "If industry is convinced there will be policy for serious, deep CO2 emission cuts, then these investments will be made by the private sector," Gielen said.
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Lots of different factors in play on global warming, not just human-generated CO2. Also not just solar variations.
Water vapor is a more effective greenhouse gas than CO2 - and its effect is compounded because the higher the temperature, the more the evaporation from the oceans, and the higher the atmospheric concentration and the greater the greenhouse effect, return to the start of the cycle.
The CO2 effect also has some compounding - the oceans are a huge repository of CO2, and as they warm they can hold less CO2 in solution, so more gets emitted into the atmosphere to accentuate the greenhouse effect. Return to the start of the cycle.
Methane is an even more effective greenhouse gas than water vapor, and huge quantities of it are trapped in clathrates (frozen compounds of methan and water found in the deep ocean sediments near the sea floor); as oceans warm these clathrates may thaw, releasing more methane into the atmosphere. Return to the start of the cycle.
These kinds of spiraling effects are behind a lot of the big panicky fears.
There are counter effects though. Plants are one - increased CO2 helps them grow, re-fixing that carbon out of the atmosphere. Natural gas production and combustion is another - rather than escaping into the atmosphere as potent methane it is converted into less effective CO2. I am certain there are dozens of others, mostly difficult to model mathematically individually, and at this point impossible to model in interaction with each other - especially without much understanding of initial and boundary conditions.
That said, it still makes good sense for many different reasons (climate uncertainty and resource efficiency being two) to moderate our CO2 generation.
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Oh, and Kyoto is a socialist wealth redistribution pact, disguised as a global warming treaty. Its effect would actually increase global CO2 emission, but redistribute it (along with the wealth).
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All of the people some of the time,
Some of the people all of the time,
But not ALL of the people ALL of the time.
It's the same as TV preachers, If you sound sincere, some will swallow whatever you're peddling hook, line, and sinker,
The rest can be shouted down.
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Still "...build some 1,400 nuclear power plants..."
We're going to need more power in the future in any case. Parts of this plan aren't necessarily about combating glo-ball vorming; they're just being sold that way in the current political environment.
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Thought we had one of the coldest winters on record this past year? There are too many Chinese on one side of the planet. They are causing the planet to tilt towards the sun at the north pole and thus causing the ice to melt. Just joshing.
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I wish him luck. May he bring both ends of his bridge such jobs and prosperity that the people turn their thoughts from jihad and endless feud to making a better life for the children and grandchildren.
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My first thought was to agree, Trailing Wife. My second, due to my suspicious nature, was to wonder if this a front. Six cement plants already erected in a strategic area, when illegal arms shipments have been concealed under shipments of cement or in pipe for construction, besides aiding piracy or missile attack on passing ships, just sound like ulterior motives are at play here. Muslims never forget, and they are still po'd over the '67 war and loss of the Temple Mount.
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I'll be a Pollyanna and you air the thoughts produced by your suspicious nature, Thealing Borgia6122. Somewhere between us, hopefully, will lie the truth. As for the Temple Mount, the Muslims care about that about as much as they do about the Palestinians. Losing the '67 war (and '48, '56, '72, Intifadas I and II, and Lebanon I and II) to a bunch of uppity Jews is what really keeps them riled up, the poor dears. ;-)
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Any idiot trying to either bridge or tunnel under the Red Sea is just that - an idiot. All it's going to take is one big jolt from Mamma Earth and either bridge or tunnel will be very, very wet. The Great Rift Valley doesn't end at the water's edge in Djibouti. This is about as silly as trying to dam the Mississippi just north of New Orleans.
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OP, the way I see it is that everybody's better off when he's spending money on futile projects than on jihad.
(SomaliNet) After a brief halt that no one really noticed the day earlier, peace talks aimed at ending Somalia's 18-year war broke out resumed again on Thursday.
A seminar on justice, reconciliation and peace in Somalia continued in Djibouti City after opposition delegates from the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) withdrew briefly yesterday. Reports indicate that the presence of Ethiopia's ambassador to Djibouti at the seminar on Wednesday angered the ARS delegates, who abruptly left the seminar in protest.
Clearly they understand the fine art of seething ...
The Secretary-General's Somalia envoy, Mr. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, resolved the brief dispute by withdrawing invitations to foreign embassies. However, official representatives from international organizations, including the African Union, the Arab League and the European Union were allowed to attend the talks as observers.
Makes it completely different ...
Meanwhile, peace talks between Somalia's Ethiopian-backed interim government and the Islamist-dominated ARS will take a break on Friday and resume over the weekend, according to organizers. Inside sources said the ARS delegates have demanded an exact withdrawal date for Ethiopian troops currently deployed in Somalia before meeting face-to-face with the Somali government, a key sticking point in the talks.
The Dhimmicrats can't get an exact withdrawal date, why should you ...
Both Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf have ruled out any quick withdrawal of Ethiopian forces and have repeatedly called for UN peacekeepers to replace the Ethiopian army.
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Zimbabwean police detained opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday for the second time this week after blocking him from reaching a campaign rally for the June 27 presidential run-off vote. Tsvangirai was released from the police station at Esigodini, 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Zimbabwe's second largest city Bulawayo, a few hours after being stopped by armed police at a roadblock. The party called Tsvangirai's detention "a shameless and desperate act".
"The regime must let the president do that which the people of Zimbabwe have mandated him and the MDC, to help restore the dignity of the people of Zimbabwe," it said in a statement.
It said police had banned several planned campaign rallies because authorities could not guarantee the safety of party leaders, adding that it would lodge a High Court action to prevent police interference in the campaign. Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena blamed the opposition for the incident on Friday, saying the MDC convoy crashed through a roadblock.
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Millions of people in Zimbabwe already facing economic hardship and hunger are being put at risk by a government ban on relief organizations, the United Nations warned Friday, saying it would urge a lifting of restrictions.
Agostinho Zacarias, the U.N.'s top humanitarian coodinator in Zimbabwe, met senior government figures Friday to try to get the ban overturned and allow aid agencies resume providing food, clean water, medical care and other services. "The government said they didn't take this measure to starve the people. They have their reasons. The officials we discussed this with were not prepared to advance any reasons," he said. So I guess starvation is just an unwanted side effect.
Zacarias said the ban was likely to affect millions of people. He also met with church leaders to explore aid alternatives as they don't fall under the category of aid groups hit by the ban.
Bright Matonga, deputy information minister for Zimbabwe, accused several non-governmental organizations of telling people they would not receive food unless they voted for an opposition presidential candidate.
The U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe, James McGee, said Zimbabwean authorities were using food as a weapon to intimidate the population and hold on to power. "What we have is a bunch of greedy people who want to remain in power at all costs," McGee said from Zimbabwe's capital, Harare.
McGee said people seeking food from the government are forced to give up their identity cards if they are not registered as supporters of the government, meaning they will be unable to vote.
There are two Zimbabwes, and Grace lives in one of them.
Her husband's presence at a UN summit of food has sparked an international outcry, but that hasn't diverted Grace Mugabe from indulging in her favourite pastime - shopping for shoes.
The 44-year-old was whisked away from the luxury hotel where she, her husband and his entourage are staying to splash out on luxury footwear. Mrs Mugabe has to make the most of her time in Rome, an EU travel ban means she might not be back any time soon.
Grace, who is 40 years younger than her husband, has come to represent everything that is wrong with Mugabe's tyrannical regime. Southern Africa's answer to Imelda Marcos, she is known in Zimbabwe as The First Shopper, a woman who has spent millions on foreign shopping trips, a sprawling home dubbed Gracelands and a jet once owned by Playboy tycoon Hugh Hefner.
Asked why she spends thousands on Ferragamo shoes while her people starved, she replied simply: "I have very narrow feet, so I wear only Ferragamo."
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Asked why she spends thousands on Ferragamo shoes while her people starved, she replied simply: "I have very narrow feet, so I wear only Ferragamo."
That's a let 'em eat steak moment. I hear the slight swooooooosh of the blade in her near time horizon.
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The Zimbabwean military dictatorship government yesterday banned the opposition presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, from holding political rallies three weeks ahead of his run-off election against Robert Mugabe.
The police told Tsvangirai of the ban, ostensibly over concerns for his safety, when he was arrested for a second time this week while trying to campaign. But the move appears to reflect a growing concern in Mugabe's camp that its strategy of violence, intimidation and nationalist appeals will not be sufficient to ensure victory in the June 27 vote after Tsvangirai won the first round in March but fell just short of an outright majority.
The ban on opposition rallies came a day after the government barred international aid agencies, including the United Nations, from working in Zimbabwe for the duration of the election campaign.
Tsvangirai was attempting to campaign in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city, when he was detained and taken to a police station about 30 miles from the city. He was released after about two hours but with a warning that he was not permitted to campaign any more, according to his spokesman, George Sibotshiwe. "We are dismayed that our president has not been allowed to access the Zimbabwean people at a crucial stage in this campaign," he said.
The security forces had already blocked Tsvangirai from holding rallies by sending soldiers to occupy stadiums booked by the MDC and to intimidate ordinary people into staying away. But the MDC leader had continued to hold small, sometimes impromptu, meetings.
Sibotshiwe said the claim by police that the formal ban was solely intended to protect Tsvangirai and other MDC leaders was "nonsense" and "a clear indication that the regime will do everything necessary to remain in power". Zanu-PF was clearly shocked after the first round of elections at the inroads Tsvangirai made into the ruling party's former strongholds, particularly in Mashonaland. The MDC leader had campaigned heavily in rural areas for the first time because of the relative lack of violence compared to other recent elections.
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Not a genuine 'cross-fire' since the RAB wasn't involved. Perhaps they just switched uniforms?
JHINAIDAH, June 6 (BSS): An alleged extremist belonging to the banned Purbo Bangla Communist Party (PBCP)-ML identified as Harun, was killed in a gun-battle with the police at Durgapur here today.
I have no idea where that is ...
The police said members of the law enforcing agencies arrested Harun, son of Asiruddin of Ashwathali village of Sadar Upazila, from Abdullahpur of Dhaka Thursday morning.
"Howdy, Harun, how'dja like to getcher mitts in da air and come with us?"
Then, after painful questioning They took him to Durgapur this morning to arrest his accomplices and recover illegal firearms.
They don't say exactly what time in the morning, but use your imagination ...
As the police team reached near the secret lair den of the miscreants, the cadres of PBCP opened fire on them.
"Cheez, where'd the heat come from! Open senseless fire, boyz!"
The police also retaliated with gun fire.
Course they did, and guess what happens next ...
At one stage Harun was hit by a bullet behind each ear causing his death on the spot.
"Which spot?"
"THAT spot!"
The police said two sub-inspectors - Abdullah and Mofiz - were also injured during the gunfight.
One got a hernia lifting Harun into the wagon, other caught a finger in the door-jamb ...
The police recovered one shutter-gun, two rounds of bullet and one hand bomb from the spot.
See -- a shutter gun! Must have been the RAB moonlighting ...
Harun was an accused of seven cases including two murders, the police said.
Wanted on twelve systems, but not by his mother ...
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Henry Allingham, Europe's oldest man, WW1 veteran and the only surviving founder member of the RAF, will celebrate his 112th birthday on Friday.
He will spend the day with some of his grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. He spoke to the BBC, along with members of his extended family, about reaching such an age.
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Mr. Allingham is also the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland, where he was aboard HMS Kingfisher, an auxiliary seaplane carrier whose Sopwith Schneider floatplane shadowed the opposing fleets.
LA ORCHILA, Venezuela Venezuela fired live missiles from fighter jets and ships Friday during exercises intended to demonstrate the firepower of President Hugo Chavez's military. Smoke rose from ships off the La Orchila island military base as Otomat MK2 missiles arced into the sky and Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets flew in formation.
The televised war games allowed the military to showcase some of the hardware bought under Chavez, who says Venezuela's main threat is the United States. Defense Minister Gustavo Rangel Briceno commanded the troops during Friday's exercises, ordering them to fire at mock "enemy units." It was the first time in 13 years that such drills were held with live missile fire at sea, he said. The ships and planes hit their target an old tugboat with missiles and a 1,100-pound bomb, sinking the vessel 22 miles offshore, Rangel said.
The Otomat is a short-range, ship- and ground-launched cruise missile, manufactured by Italy and France, that was introduced in Europe 36 years ago.
Latin American countries including Colombia and Peru have voiced concern about billions of dollars of arms that Chavez has purchased, but Rangel said new weaponry is needed to keep Venezuela safe from the U.S. He declared the exercises a success, saying "we've been able to show our power of dissuasion and defense."
Opposition politician Enrique Ochoa Antich said Chavez's perpetual verbal conflicts with the U.S. aim to rally nationalist sentiment around the threat posed by the "empire," as the Venezuelan leader calls the United States. But Ochoa said the approach has been used by Chavez for so long that it "isn't very effective anymore at this point."
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Missiles from 1976? The Otomat is also in service with such stellar militaries such as Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, Kenya, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, and Saudia Arabia.
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The ships and planes hit their target an old tugboat with missiles and a 1,100-pound bomb, sinking the vessel
I would think that an 1100 lb. bomb would take care of that tugboat ... I would also think that an 1100 lb. chunk of concrete dropped from 100 feet would take care of an old tugboat as well.
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DOD should invite Hoogo to a real live-fire demonstration, complete with a B-52 massive bombardment. Let him see what real firepower is like, from a REAL superpower's military. Then let him go back and play with his toys...
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"Then let him go back and play with his toys..."
I was with you up 'till that point, OP.
I'm all for the demonstration.... ;-p
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Well, of course he does... The US is responsible for the woes of the entire world, right? If the US was gone, all the world's problems would be solved, right? If the US hwasn't around, why, Russia might run the planet's economy into the ground and the entire planet would be one big happy gulag place, right?
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In the great macro level of things, he's right. When the US economy gets a cold, the rest of the world gets pneumonia. Be careful, very careful what you wish for when you rejoice at a tumble of America's economy.
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Surest way to help the US economy and tumble oil prices is to quit buying so much stuff from the rest of the world. Of course Medvedev might not like it if Russia's income drops by 2/3.
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Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, has rejected foreign mediation in Moscow's row with Georgia over the separatist Abkhazia region, as Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, visited the disputed area. Medvedev also said Georgia should sign a non-aggression pact with Abkhazia and withdraw its troops stationed in the region.
Medvedev met Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgia's president, on Friday during a regional summit of former Soviet states being held in the Russian city of St Petersburg. Referring to Western concerns over the Abkhazia issue, Medvedev said: "I think we can sort out our relations by ourselves."
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Turkey's ruling AK Party accused the country's top court on Friday of violating the constitution by overturning a government-led reform that lifted a ban on Muslim headscarves at universities.
Thursday's Constitutional Court ruling was the most serious setback for the Islamist-rooted AK Party since it came to power in 2002. It increased the likelihood courts would, in a separate case pending, ban the party on charges of Islamist subversion and bar the prime minister and president from party activity. "The Constitutional Court decision is direct interference in parliament's legislative power and this is an open violation of the principle of separation of powers," AK Party deputy chairman Dengir Mir Mehmet Firat told reporters after a 6-hour emergency meeting of top party members.
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Hundreds of women wearing headscarves protested in Turkey on Friday against a court ruling to cancel a reform that allowed students to wear the Muslim garment in universities.
About 500 women protested in Diyarbakir after Friday prayers and hundreds more chanted slogans. Im crushed and feel hopeless. I really dont feel equal to anybody else in this country anymore, said Esra Altinay Ozbecetek, 29, who left university when she was 19 because she was not allowed to wear her headscarf to class.
Like Ozbecetek, thousands of women have not attended university because of the ban, which has been enforced strictly since 1997.The AK Party passed the amendment earlier this year to allow students to cover their heads and attend universities -- angering the secularist establishment that sees the headscarf as a symbol of political Islam.
The Constitutional Court cancelled the reform on Thursday in a ruling analysts say has increased the AK partys chances to be banned for Islamist activities. According to recent surveys, approximately two-thirds of Turkish women wear the headscarf and support lifting the ban. It means we are not equal. Headscarved women will continue to suffer discrimination, said Neslihan Akbulut, head of rights group Akder.
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The European Union is bracing itself for a fresh bout of doom and gloom as the Irish look increasingly likely to reject the new Lisbon treaty, wrecking years of efforts to reshape the way the community is run. The latest opinion poll shows those intending to vote against the EU's reform treaty doubling in strength in recent weeks, soaring to a five-point lead over the Yes camp.
A vote against the treaty would sink the ambitions of Berlin, Brussels and Paris to reshape the EU by giving it a sitting president, foreign minister, a diplomatic service, a new voting system and decision-making powers, and giving the commiseriat more power streamlining the European commission.
After previous negative referendum results in Ireland, France, and the Netherlands over the past seven years, an Irish rejection would also be hailed - at least by Eurosceptics - as a massive vote of no confidence on the way the EU is run. Ireland's governing and main opposition parties, all strongly in favour of the treaty, were panicking yesterday, despite the news earlier in the week that Ireland's farmers would finally back the treaty.
An Irish Times poll showed the treaty opponents have made meteoric gains, doubling from 17 to 35% in recent weeks, while the treaty's supporters slumped from 35 to 30%. With just five days to go before the only popular vote on the treaty in a union of 27 countries, the Yes camp faces an uphill struggle to reverse the momentum for ditching the treaty. "The referendum is heading for defeat," said an editorial in the pro-EU Irish Times. "There is a dramatic shift in public opinion towards a No vote ... The government and its allies may find it impossible to turn the tide. The Lisbon treaty may not be passed."
Treaty opponents believe loopholes will mean Ireland loses control in areas such as tax, trade, abortion and military neutrality. Pro-treaty parties have accused them of scaremongering.
Has a certain ring to it, 'scaremongering' and the accusation thereof, something we're becoming more familiar with on our side of the pond ...
As an amending treaty, augmenting and revising previous European treaties, the document is an indigestible compendium of articles, legalisms, and protocols. It matters. But it is not an easy read. This factor is contributing hugely to the No campaign's success in turning the Irish against the new dispensation.
Analysis of Friday's poll results showed that confusion was the key to turning voters against the treaty. Many voters said they were voting no because they could not understand the treaty.
As an example, the US constitution is six articles and barely a dozen pages in modern type.
The Lisbon treaty, masterminded last year by Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and signed by EU leaders in December, is the response to the failed attempt to craft a constitution for Europe, a campaign wrecked by French and Dutch No votes in 2005. The new treaty retains most of the institutional innovations mooted in the draft constitution, but is stripped of the symbolism of constitutionality.
In Brussels, Irish officials are worried the vote will be lost. Dick Roche, the Europe minister, has warned friends his government is in trouble. "He felt it could go badly. He's worried about losing," said a source who spoke to Roche this week. The referendum campaign contributed to the resignation of the Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, last month. A No vote could bring down his replacement, Brian Cowen, who said on Friday that he would take responsibility for the result.
Ireland, uniquely in the European Union, is constitutionally bound to stage referendums on EU treaties, meaning that less than 1% of the EU's population of more than 450 million has the power to determine the fate of European treaties.
Sorta like the Iowa caucuses ...
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May God damn Gordon Brown for his repudiation of the solemn promise Labour made the UK voters to allow a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. He and his cronies deserve to have their heads mounted on spikes at Tower Gate in the traditional English punishment for traitors.
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Some of the EU politicians also threatened the Irish if they were to vote against the treaty. This tends to irritate people.
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The Irish economy is still doing well. They do not fancy supporting the rest of the pikers.
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As an example, the US constitution is six articles and barely a dozen pages in modern type.
Rendered into entire [law] libraries by our new priesthood of lawyers, judges, and SCOTUS, who've declared that they and only they know the meaning of the sacred words - like equal before the law as in "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
UN court actually did something? Carla del Ponte must not have been involved ...
PRISTINA - A United Nations court on Friday sentenced a Kosovo Albanian man to 40 years in prison for the 2001 killing of 11 Serbs and wounding ten others.
A three-member panel of judges found Florim Ejupi guilty of the attack on a bus carrying Serb pilgrims from Serbia to the enclave of Gracanica in central Kosovo for a commemoration service in February 2001. The attack occurred seven kilometres (four miles) inside Kosovo soil, near the town of Podujevo.
Ejupi, 30, "planted and detonated the explosive beside the road on whichthe convoy (with the Serb pilgrims) was passing", presiding judge Hajnalka Karpati of Hungary said. The explosive blew up the bus, killing the driver and front seat passengers instantly.
Ejupi, who has pleaded not guilty, could appeal the verdict to Kosovo's supreme court within 15 days.
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Lessee. Bout 3 1/2 yrs. per soul. Then with time off for good behavior, why, shit, you'll in no time.
Here's a great video from the plane of the Obama press corps questioning Obama's press guy on why Obama would ditch them for his super-secret meeting with HRC. It's like they all just found out Santa Claus doesn't really exist. "He lied to me! How could he lie to me?"
Also: consider the carbon footprint of this snipe-hunting wild goose chase. Polar bears died so Obama could have his double secret meeting with Hillary!
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The reaction reminds me of the old punchline - we already know what you are, we're just negotiating the price.
Presumptive Republican White House nominee John McCain said Thursday he would like to see a manned mission to Mars as part of a "better set of priorities" for NASA that would better engage the public.
At a townhall event in Florida, the Arizona senator was asked about funding for the US space agency's shuttle program, which is due to end in 2010. He said he "would be willing to spend more taxpayers' dollars" to continue the program but argued that NASA must do a better job of inspiring the American public, as when it sent a man to the moon in 1969.
McCain said one of his favorite books as a child had been Ray Bradbury's 1950 novel "The Martian Chronicles," about humans colonizing the Red Planet. "I am intrigued by a man on Mars and I think that it would excite the imagination of the American people if we can say, 'Hey, here's what it looks like," he said. "We know that now, and here's what may be there and let's all join in that project. I think Americans would be very willing to do that.
Terrorism, a slow economy and rising gas prices are issues that can keep American voters awake at night. Political strategists know that the most successful candidates are masters at capitalizing on fears such as these, and that can make a huge difference at the polls.
In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was running for president against conservative Barry Goldwater when his campaign unleashed the "daisy ad." It showed a little girl counting as she plucked a daisy, a mushroom cloud and then a booming voice counting down to a nuclear explosion. The baritone voice then warned that the stakes were too high not to vote for Johnson.
The ad, which ran only once, was so chilling and effective, analysts say, it helped Johnson win the presidency by one of the widest margins in U.S. history.
CNN recently gathered eight undecided voters to see how they would respond to attack ads and how the ads might affect their choices. They met at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where psychologist Drew Westen studies how brains react to candidates' messages.
Westen, who wrote "The Political Brain," said fear-based attack ads are effective because they tap into a voter's subconscious. "Those kinds of gut-level reactions tell us things like, 'I don't feel like this person is telling us the truth,' " Westen said. "Unless someone is a really good con man, those reactions are extremely helpful. The conscious brain processes only a tiny percent of information."
Westen and his business partner, Joel Weinberger, have created software, through their company ThinkScan, that looks into a voter's subconscious. The software does this by measuring people's reaction time to certain words after they watch attack ads.
The undecided voters in CNN's group watched the ads and were then asked to identify the color of words such as "weak," "inexperienced" and "terrorist." If they hesitated, even for one-thousandth of a second, before they clicked on the color that corresponded with the word, Weinberger said, it meant the word had an impact. "If the word is on their mind, if the word was activated, it will slow them down," Weinberger said.
Westen predicted that the undecided voters would say they didn't like the ads and that the ads had no impact on them. He was right.
The group watched Hillary Clinton's "3 a.m." campaign ad, which was intended to make voters question Barack Obama's experience. Viewers said that the ad was fear-mongering and that it did not make them think Clinton was a stronger leader than Obama. But the data, Westen said, showed that their brains reacted differently.
Voters had the greatest hesitation with words like "weak" and "lightweight" during the color test. Westen said this meant the ad made them question Obama's readiness. "The purpose, too, is to make him seem scary, dangerous. 'You need to be afraid of this guy as president,' " Westen said. "That message unconsciously got through."
The undecided voters also watched an ad attacking John McCain for saying the U.S. could be in Iraq for the next 100 years. After watching the ad, the group gave it a thumbs-down. But researchers said the data showed that it left them feeling McCain has poor judgment and is too close to President Bush.
The results were identical when the same test was given to a much larger group of 100 voters.
This happens because the ads trigger a response in the part of the brain called the amygdala, which experiences emotions such as fear. When it is aroused, it overrides logic, according to Westen.
Despite the ability of attack ads to affect voters' subconscious thinking, Westen cautions that fear-based ads are risky because they can backfire.
What advice does Westen have for presidential hopefuls? "They should make voters feel inspired by them and worried about their opponent at the same time," Westen said. "It works."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) formally endorsed Barack Obama on Friday, calling the Illinois senator a "once in a generation" leader. "Over the past 16 months, tens of millions of Americans from all walks of life have been inspired to support Barack Obama's historic campaign for president, and with good reason: He is a once-in-a-generation leader who connects with the hopes and dreams of the American people and will deliver the long-overdue change that our country desperately needs," Reid said.
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Tara???
I wish OBAMA + MCCAIN, etc luck becuz they and AMERICA will need it 2008-2012, ala US-specific "DIVERSITY" etc. versus PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION [NUCLEAR JIHAD-TERROR]???
I wish OBAMA + MCCAIN, etc luck becuz they and AMERICA will need it 2008-2012, ala US-specific "DIVERSITY" etc. versus PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION [NUCLEAR JIHAD-TERROR]???
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Ahhh, the man from Searchlight expounds. That puts the capper on it fersure. Watch yer dumbass Harry, cause Hilly is back into the Senate. She might think she can do a little better job than you, cause you've been a total, unmitigated flop.
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Cheeze. First Jerry Lewis. Now this.
O, Esteemed and Rightly Feared Site Owner, Jerry Lewis never has been, and still isn't, famous in France, though I'm sure you're well aware of that.
I haven't seen a Lewis movie in France for over...? Well, apart from those probably shown on movies-dedicaced sat channels, I think I've seen two of his on television in my entire life.
And should you ask who is "Jerry Lewis" to the man on the street, you'd get a "huh?".
This is an another cliché, steeming from the fact that he had been hailed by Les cahiers du cinéma, an "influential" movies mag read by almost nobody but which was/is supposedly an authority on the matter (if only because it's treendishly leftist and avant-gardiste and uber-intellectual), as an "auteur", that is as someone who had a vision and implemented it from the start to the directing; this was due to a movie he had just made and which I don't know. Note that many other US directors were hailed as auteurs, some probably more rightly than others (like John Ford or Hitchcock).
Also, he had the Légion d'honneur IIRC, or a medal like all those the Republic LOVES to give, but then again, any at least-remotely-famous Us actor coming to France gets one, De Niro did, Stallone did,... not to mention any popular singer, or any soccer player.
As for obama, I'll comment more succintly.
Obama is black + hardcore leftist + the french Chattering Class is ethnomasochist and leftist (again, in 2002 only 6% of polled french journalist defined themselves as conservative) = obama is the "America that the Chattering class loves (not white and which hates America and american values).
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A5089, if I had my way, you'd get Grand Officer in the Legion d' honneur just for coming up with the word "ethnomasochist"!
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Actually, it was coined by the "blood & soil" french nationalists, and adopted by a part of the french rightwingers & conservative, to describe the seemingly non-sensical and counter-intuitive adoration/rejection based on race of liberals and of general western culture at large.
I'm just an hapless follower, because precisely, it is so fitting.
I cried all night. Im going to be crying for the next four years, he said. What Barack Obama has accomplished is the single most extraordinary event that has occurred in the 232 years of the nations political history. ... The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.
Obamania is a cult, with all the dangers cults present.
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Well, Jesse, I am sure that your statement is just the thing to bring all of the white Evangelicals on board, like your buddy Obambi needs. After all, nothing like disrespecting the Bible and American history to win friends among the Jacksonians in the country.
That's the same clown who wore a shirt bloodied by Martin Luther King's gunshot wound, for 3 days, so that his connection to same would set. Then he took his mistress on a White House tour. And I haven't forgotten the Life magazine article where he said that he would spit in good white folk's food, when he was a youthful short order cook. Do you like BHO's white half, Jesse?
Leader of the House in the Senate Raza Rabbani on Friday tendered an apology on behalf of the ruling coalition for military operations carried out in Balochistan in different tenures.
Such operations were launched in the name of federation, but they actually weakened it, he said after Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-Mengal) Senator Sanaullah Baloch submitted his resignation to the Upper House Chairman Mohammadmian Soomro.
Rabbani said the government would not allow demographic change in the provinces, and said the proposal denying the right to vote in Balochistan to those who settled in the province from elsewhere was being considered.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaids (PML-Q) Mushahid Hussain said, We as a nation should apologise to the Baloch.
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BEIJING India yesterday said it wants to work with China to ensure peace and stability in Asia and beyond by evolving a new security architecture and restructuring of UN and other global political and economic institutions to bring then attune with current realities. "An open and inclusive architecture, which is flexible enough to accommodate the great diversity which exists in Asia, is needed," External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told students and scholars at the prestigious Peking University here.
The minister opposed creation of "sub-regional security arrangements that are narrow and ultimately ineffective. We cannot transplant ideas from other parts of the world," Mukherjee said a day after holding wide ranging talks with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi here.
In his speech on India's Foreign Policy he said "we already have some dialogue forums in place, such as ARF (Asean Regional Forum), the CICA (Conference of Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia) and the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), where we are discussing security issues."
As two major countries in Asia, India and China should try to work together to evolve a new framework "from these basic building blocks," he said. "I have no doubt that they will help us address our common concerns, such as the security of the sea lanes of communication, which are critical to trade and energy flows in our region and on which the future of our two countries will depend," he said. "We should work together towards peace, security and stability in Asia and beyond. For this, we will need to evolve a security architecture which takes into account the conditions prevailing in Asia," Mukherjee said.
As two large Asian states and as two of the fastest growing emerging economies of the world, "cooperation between India and China transcends the bilateral sphere", he said, adding, "Indeed, it has global significance."
Mukherjee said both the countries also need to work together with other countries towards mutually beneficial economic globalisation that would draw on the dynamism and potential of India and China.
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NEW DELHI After successful completion of its hot weather trials, India's indigenously developed light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas will now be configured to deliver precision guided bombs. The trials for this will take place in the Rajasthan desert later this year, a defence ministry official said yesterday.
Already running 10 years behind schedule, the supersonic multi-role fighter aircraft would, however, be armed with only limited weaponry when it is inducted by the Indian Air Force (IAF) in 2012.
Earlier Tejas, a project of the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), was to have been armed with air-to-air beyond visual range missiles, air-to-ground missiles and cluster bombs. However, the limited thrust provided by its GE-404 engine has limited its arsenal. India will soon invite bids for developing a more powerful engine for the Tejas as the development of its indigenous Kaveri engine is yet to be completed.
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Many nations would be better off going with something like the pictured aircraft for the light attack role. Including the US. No, I'm not joking.
Let the dogfighters dogfight and the flying pickup trucks do CAS. I'd rather have 1000 airframes of two different types that each do one thing really well than >200 airframes that do everything less well.
GENEVA, June 6 (Reuters) - The United States has quietly informed Western allies of its intention to walk away from the U.N. Human Rights Council, diplomatic sources said on Friday. The U.S. delegation has observer status, with the right to speak, in the 47-member state forum, which meets in Geneva, and has never stood for election to the Council since it was set up two years ago.
Diplomatic sources and rights activists said that U.S. officials had informed the European Union on Friday morning of its intention to halt its involvement in the Council. "They said they were going to disengage totally," said one representative of a rights watchdog group.
In a Council debate on Friday on the situation in Myanmar, the United States failed to take the floor on a topic on which until now it has always been vocal, a possible sign that it had little further interest in the body.
The Council replaced the widely discredited U.N. Commission on Human Rights. But it is seen by critics as having fallen under control of a bloc of Islamic and African countries, which have a majority when backed by their frequent allies Russia, China and Cuba. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. diplomatic mission in Geneva, home to the U.N. European headquarters.
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If we would only do this to the entire UN organization, we'd be tremendously better off.
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Past time to call Mr. Moon and his buddies, and tell them "pack up and get out". Then we can bulldoze the site and use it for something of value. "Trump Turtle Bay Towers" sounds nice.
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But it is seen by critics as having fallen under control of a bloc of Islamic and African countries, which have a majority when backed by their frequent allies Russia, China and Cuba.
That pretty much summarize the UN, doesn't it? First established as a way to fixate the WWII "United Nations" coallition made mostly from western, liberal democracies, then turned into a lever for commie influence (see this Pacepa piece), and now a playground for third world demanding resentment, fueled by islam, backed by the chicom & the ruskies (as seen in durban I, which was the perfect storm for that), and abaitted by western tranzis.
The military has released gripping video footage of a February B-2 bomber crash in Guam that the Air Force has concluded was caused by moisture.
The crash was caused by distorted data in the aircraft's flight control computers, according to a report released Thursday. Air Force investigators blame the distortion on moisture in the system, which caused the computers to calculate the wrong airspeed.
The pilot and co-pilot ejected and survived the Feb. 23 crash. The footage released by the Air Force shows the left wing grazing the runway on takeoff, causing the aircraft to burst into flames.
Just prior to the crash, the plane made an sudden nose-up move that investigators concluded was caused by the computer malfunction, which then caused the B-2 to stall.
It marked the first crash of a B-2, one of the Air Force's most expensive and sophisticated aircraft. There had been only 21 B-2 bombers in use, and the estimated cost of the lost aircraft is $1.4 billion.
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What a way to end your carreer. Flush a $1.2 Billion plane. Even if it was not in any way their fault, the zero-defects mentality will ensure that their carreers are over.
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Fly by wire, die by wire. All modern aircraft are as controllable in flight as a brick without computers. It's possible even a manual override wouldn't have helped here...
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I hope this is not true. Historically, flight electronics modules are hermetically packaged because this type damage has been known since WWII.
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I'm gonna make a W.A.G. here and note that distorted data implies to me that a sensor or sensors were feeding incorrect data to the flight computers. They reacted to the bad data and caused the crash. I would further guess that some of these sensors must me exposed to the environment to do their jobs and are thus in danger of moisture exposure/over exposure. I'm thinking atmospheric pressure sensors and airspeed sensors. Again, just a W. A. G.
The B-2 in this video appeared to rotate to early... And as everyone knows that is a big No-No.
Now I must admit that I never seen a B-2 successfully rotate from this angle and fly before but HEY...what's that gotta do with the price of rotating potatoes???
Hey you fucking expert, you used three question marks!!!
A U.S. carbon-capping bill aimed at curbing climate change died on Friday in the Senate but its supporters looked to the next president to enact a global warming law as early as 2009.
The bill aimed to cut total U.S. global warming emissions by 66 percent by 2050. Opponents said it would cost jobs and raise fuel prices in an already pinched American economy. Far from being discouraged, Sen. Joe Lieberman said international observers would be gratified that the measure got support from a majority in the Senate, including presumptive presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama.
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KOX ALL-STARS PANEL > KRAUTHAMMER - opined thats its USELESS for the USA to agree to any CLIMATE CHANGE BILL becuz (1) WILL SERIOUSLY DAMAGE OR DESTROY THE US ECONOMY IN ORDER TO SATISFY ITS REQUIREMENTS; + (2) CHINA, INDIA [two largest CO2 emitters] are NOT on board.
IOW, WHY SHOULD THE USA UNILATERALLY DESTROY ITS OWN ECONOMY WHEN IT NOT EVEN THE BIGGEST CO2 ABUSER???
I can't believe they're talking about this sort of thing AFTER a significant fraction of the steel plants in this country have been chopped up into scrap and shipped to China to feed their steel mills.
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Senators are Senators. They want power without responsibility. They don't want to be blamed for the INEVITABLE economic downturn that would be the DIRECT RESULT any carbon capping scheme. They just about came out and said as much in the text of S. Res. 98 when they voted against Kyoto back in the 1990's.
Any treaty must:
(A) not adverely affect the economic growth of the U.S.
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Whole lot of people want to do a bunch of stupid things because it makes them "feel good". Because of their stupidity, gas is currently at $4 a gallon and set to go higher; the cost of food is increasing because they're diverting money to pay for "gasahol"; the cost of EVERYTHINB is going higher because the cost of transportation is higher; the cost of utilities will increase by 50%-150% while they play games with a "cap-and-trade" shell game; and more and more people in the United States will feel the pinch every day. In the end, it may take an armed rebellion to put an end to such "feel-good" stupidity.
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I hope they get this done before Global Cooling starts. Otherwise, they'll look like a bunch of nitwits. Bigger nitwits than they already are, I mean.
No new refineries. Importing refined products hurts the economy. But expanding existing refineries is bad too. Any other answers?
Richmond's Planning Commission agreed early today to limit the amount of a new type of crude oil that Chevron wants to process at its refinery in the city, and the panel's decision drew cheers from environmental groups concerned that a planned plant expansion would increase air pollution.
Chevron officials want to expand their 3,000-acre refinery on Richmond's waterfront to add a new power plant and crude oil processing facility. The material processed at the new facility would have higher contents of sulfur and other impurities, city officials said.
But planning commissioners said three years of review of the project was adequate. The city commissioned a highly detailed environmental impact report, which concluded that the expansion would increase air pollution in a "less than significant" way.
Chevron officials and the independent firm that produced the environmental impact report said the plan is a modernization project that will reduce toxic emissions and will not increase greenhouse gases. They also say the project meets or exceeds state and federal regulations.
Get the names of the environuts at the meeting, and pass a law prohibiting them from buying gasoline for the next six months. Just a small sacrifice for them to pay ...
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Forget refining gasoline. We should all be driving pollution-free electric cars that run on pollution-free electricity which is made from...I don't know, rubbing balloons on cats or something.
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So how are we supposed to make heat in the winter time? Migrate? Global warming could eliminate that...
No wood, no coal, no nukes ... natural gas? Is that natural?
But, no! It makes CO2, too.
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All those opposing new refineries should volunteer to sail to the jungle or the location of their choice to live "naturally" without any evil modern conveniences that are destroying the earth. They are using up my ozone.
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It's the Bay Area, and they sure love them some civil disobedience. What about a park in at the offices of "Communities for a Better Environment" or the "the Asian Pacific Environmental Network"?
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Oh: the word from On High (a city councilman, name of Butt):
"My overarching concern is that this project is going to result in increased emissions from a refinery that already has substantial toxic emissions," Butt said in an interview Thursday. "Those need to be reduced. You add one more molecule and it's significant."
Maybe it could be arranged that none of the gas stations in town get their shipments.
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Ima thinking a refined petro products export fee imposed by refinery rich states would fix this problem. An Organization of Petroleum Refining States if you will. Why should the good folks in Texas, Louisiana and other forward looking have to suffer for the shortsightedness of the coasters?
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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.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. is commemorating National Donut Day by giving a free donut to each of its customers on Friday. Customers who visit participating Krispy Kreme retail locations will get one free doughnut of their choice.
(SomaliNet) After a brief halt 
The European Union is bracing itself for a fresh bout of doom and gloom as the Irish look increasingly likely to reject the new Lisbon treaty, wrecking years of efforts to reshape the way the community is run. The latest opinion poll shows those intending to vote against the EU's reform treaty doubling in strength in recent weeks, soaring to a five-point lead over the Yes camp.
Presumptive Republican White House nominee John McCain said Thursday he would like to see a manned mission to Mars as part of a "better set of priorities" for NASA that would better engage the public. 
NEW DELHI After successful completion of its hot weather trials, India's indigenously developed light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas will now be configured to deliver precision guided bombs. The trials for this will take place in the Rajasthan desert later this year, a defence ministry official said yesterday.
A U.S. carbon-capping bill aimed at curbing climate change died on Friday in the Senate but its supporters looked to the next president to enact a global warming law as early as 2009.
