After four years of living in Baghdad, war was taking its toll on Lara Logan.
As CBS's chief foreign affairs correspondent, she regularly risked her life by accompanying American forces in combat. But there were more personal strains as well: Her mother had died after a lengthy coma, she and her husband had long ago agreed to a separation, and, last November, she broke off an intense relationship with another journalist in Baghdad. Soon afterward, Logan started dating Joseph Burkett, a federal contractor stationed in Iraq who was separated from his wife back in Texas. This is why the Iraqi's want to take away contractors immunity?
Now, having just moved to Washington with an expanded portfolio for the network, Logan finds her romantic life reduced to tabloid fodder. And there is a new complication: She recently discovered that she is pregnant.
"Nobody likes to read about themselves like that, especially the way it's been sensationalized," Logan says of the coverage that spread to the front page of the New York Post, which called her a "sexy CBS siren" and "in-bedded reporter." "I hated it. But I'm just going to rise above it and keep going." The baby is due in January, she says, and she is "looking forward to being a mom."
Logan, 37, says she and Burkett plan to get married eventually. Her divorce is slated to become final in two weeks, and Burkett's divorce trial is likely to end next month. But the case has turned decidedly messy, with Burkett's estranged wife Kimberly, the mother of their 3-year-old daughter, charging that Logan broke up her marriage.
Much of the media interest is fueled by the South African native's rapid rise to stardom, which has brought her both celebrity status and a string of journalistic prizes, including an Emmy Award, Overseas Press Club Award and, last week, an Edward R. Murrow Award. While some may accuse her of tawdry conduct, what happened to Logan is an all-too-familiar tale of someone consumed by a career and needing a partner who understands the peculiar pressures involved.
"I just surrendered myself completely" to the Iraq story, Logan says. "If you give yourself 100 percent to the people around you, it's very hard to have anything left. Being away for long periods, when you come home, you can't explain what it is you've been doing to someone who's never been through it."
CBS News President Sean McManus calls Logan a "fearless" reporter with "a dynamic quality that just jumps off the screen." He says he transferred her to Washington to get her on the air more often and that "depending on her situation with her child, I'd anticipate she'd be covering the war in Iraq again. " . . . All the distractions happening now will at some point be behind her and behind CBS News and she will succeed based on the quality of her work," McManus says.
Logan married Jason Siemon, a former professional basketball player in Europe who now works as an energy lobbyist in Chicago, in 1998. Soon after that, her career began to take off.
She had spent years as a freelancer for CBS, NBC, CNN and British television, landing a job as a CBS correspondent and "60 Minutes II" contributor only after talking her way into Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 attacks. Not long afterward, she was in a Humvee with members of the 10th Mountain Division on the Afghan-Pakistani border when the vehicle was struck by an antitank missile, causing a fall that tore the skin inside Logan's mouth and bruised her face. When U.S. forces led the Iraq invasion in 2003, CBS withdrew all its correspondents, but Logan drove back in 10 days later. "I'm not some Hollywood star," Logan says in her first interview on the subject. "It's not about a career for me. It's who I am. I do this because I believe in it."
Despite her years of war reporting, Logan has also drawn attention for her striking looks and provocative comments on such programs as "The Daily Show," where last month she demonstrated how she curses with soldiers. The British press often refers to her as a "former swimsuit model" because of part-time work she did as a student.
As the Iraq conflict dragged on, Logan grew apart from Siemon. The decision to separate was particularly hard for her because her own parents had divorced when she was 8. Siemon could not be reached for comment.
Last year, about two years after Logan and her husband had separated, she began a relationship with Michael Ware, a CNN correspondent in Iraq. Shortly after that romance ended in November, she started dating Burkett, a friend she had met years earlier when both were working in Afghanistan. Despite his government contracting duties, Logan says, "we always respect each other's boundaries. We agreed never to talk about our work."
At the time, Burkett was separated from his wife of 3 1/2 years. He had been in Afghanistan and Iraq, away from their Texas home, for most of Kimberly Burkett's pregnancy and most of their marriage, according to a family friend who declined to be identified because of a confidentiality agreement in the divorce case. The friend said the marriage had long been rocky and that Kimberly Burkett had asked for a divorce several times. Joseph Burkett would not be interviewed.
In January, Burkett flew home to file for divorce, and acknowledged to his wife that he had begun a relationship with Logan. Kimberly, 32, was hospitalized after taking an overdose of tranquilizers, according to the family friend. At a court hearing that month, Joseph Burkett told the judge he was having an extramarital affair, and his attorney said that was not the reason for the divorce.
The National Enquirer reported last month on what the tabloid called Logan's "torrid affair with a married man." Kimberly Burkett's lawyer, Susie Chmielowiec, told the supermarket tabloid that "Kimberly believes Lara stole her husband -- and now they're trying to steal her little girl." The divorce case includes a custody dispute between Burkett and his wife.
Chmielowiec and Burkett's lawyer, Jonathan Cluck, did not respond to requests for comment. The Enquirer quoted Kimberly Burkett last week as saying that "Lara Logan deserves to be canned" and that her CBS promotion is "a slap in the face to everyone who believes in marriage."
Carole Cooper, Logan's agent, says the publicity has been unpleasant. "It has been difficult for her but she's coping fine," she says. "She's a strong woman."
Logan became pregnant shortly before leaving Baghdad in April, although she did not know it at the time, and flew to New York to sign a new contract that would compensate her for her expanded responsibilities in Washington. Logan had spent the previous two months involved in negotiations that freed a kidnapped CBS videographer, Richard Butler, and says she felt that Iraq had become too dangerous for her. But she still hopes to report from there in the future.
The pregnancy was unplanned. Logan says she lost one of her fallopian tubes during an ectopic pregnancy years ago and believed at her age it was highly unlikely that she could get pregnant. The news came at a time when she was looking to change her life. At CBS, Logan says, "they let me run around the world doing everything I want to do. It's a dream job, but it comes at a cost.
"Since 9/11, I've spent 95 percent of my time on the road, and I do need to have a home at some point. I do need to settle down. I've been living like a refugee."
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I remember seeing LL on TV in the background of someone else's news report after a late night bombing/RPG attack near/at the correspondents' hotel in 2003. Wearing a flak jacket & helmet w/o makeup, she still looked very good. Constant excitement & stress does make people act even weirder than in normal times.
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The weird part of it is that she will probably be pressured by some of her radical colleagues to have an abortion, and for some pretty twisted reasons.
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'I'm not some Hollywood star,' Logan says in her first interview on the subject. 'It's not about a career for me. It's who I am. I do this because I believe in it.'
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She spent six months persuading the Navy to let her embed with the Seals... and she kept up with them while they were catching some pretty important people. The CBS management decided not to run the story, because one bunch of soldiers in uniform looks like every other bunch, so what her bunch did wasn't really news, not to mention that the American audience is tired of war stories. At least that's how she told it on The Daily Show. I respect her. Not to mention that it sounds like the first Mrs. Burkett had long not wanted to be married to a man whose career was far from home.
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Thing is they were both already in the process of divorce. No real affair there. Plus, if I were getting divorced, and I were in Iraq and I had a chance to hit that, you're damned skippy I'd knock boots.
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#11 Thing is they were both already in the process of divorce. No real affair there. Plus, if I were getting divorced, and I were in Iraq and I had a chance to hit that, you're damned skippy I'd knock boots.
Quoted for truth.
I can't judge a person who lived in physical danger for 4 years to get stories. And, she turned into a small fistful of journalists over there in for the long haul, and telling us how it was. Her report on 60 Minutes describing the danger of the Baghdad-Airport highway from about 2004 was particularly good.
And I'd hit it like the angry fist of Allah if I ever had that chance.
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On the topic of the weather, still no sunspots, far beyond anyone's predictions. It looks more and more likely we heading into an extended solar minimum. Little (or Big) Ice Age here we come.
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A Hurricane in the Atlantic only a little over a month into the Hurricane season? Yup, a clear sign of Global Warming/Climate Change.
This one is going through it's life cycle so quickly we can call it a Hurrichange. If we all had a smaller carbon footprint this storm would have been allowed to have a normal life. Oh, the humanity!
(Xinhua) -- Zimbabwean ambassador to South Africa Simon Khaya Moyo on Monday dismissed as malicious mischief reports by British Foreign Secretary David Milliband that there were refugee camps for Zimbabweans in South Africa.
In a statement, Moyo said the purported visits to Zimbabwean refugee camps on Sunday by British Foreign Secretary David Milliband were a political manoeuvre meant to tarnish the country, New Ziana reported. 'Yesterday's so called visit to Zimbabwean refugee camps in South Africa by British Foreign Secretary David Milliband is a malignant political lie,' he said.
Moyo said the only known centers housing Zimbabweans were those recently created to cater for foreigners displaced during xenophobia attacks. 'There are no Zimbabwean refugee camps in South Africa. We only know of centers for displaced foreign nationals from all over the continent following recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa,' he said.
The ambassador called on Milliband to stop interfering with the mediation processes currently underway between the Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF led by President Robert Mugabe and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. 'Let the mediator on Zimbabwe, President Thabo Mbeki as mandated by SADC and recently by the African Union execute his noble task without British interference,' he said.
Moyo said Milliband had no business lecturing Zimbabwe since the country had 'long ceased to be a British colony.'
President Thabo Mbeki was in Zimbabwe on Saturday to broker talks between Zimbabwe's rival parties to map the way forward for the country that has developed sharp political divisions that threaten its economic prosperity.
The Morgan Tsvangirai-led faction of the MDC however boycotted the meeting at the last minute alleging that the African Union wanted to appoint other people to assist President Mbeki.
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When I was in that part of the world in the mid-Seventies, whites in general predicted that Mugabe rule would mean: tribal government; mass exodus of whites; destruction of both cash and food crop industries; stagnation, etc. Mugabe cannot point to a single positive that his rule has produced, other than the palatial life that he and his tribalist cronies live.
In Africa, self-determination means: rule of a parasitic elite.
Greenhouse gases and carbon trading schemes coming to the EU, and if the Dems have their way, to the US, too. Watch yer wallets, folks!
An average family faces the threat of nearly £45 being added to the cost of a holiday if the European parliament rubber stamps a plan for green curbs on airlines this week. Pick on the airlines and dip into the people's purse is the name o' the game.
European MPs will debate the latest proposals for an "emissions trading scheme" (ETS) that the aviation industry fears could see carriers going bust. Let's tax people and industry more and destroy more private enterprise.
Last month senior aviation executives, meeting at the industry summit in Istanbul, warned that the rising cost of oil was already threatening the future of low-cost air travel. Hope they were watching their wallets there.
Now there is the likelihood of a substantial environmental levy in addition to aviation taxes raised by individual governments.
In Britain this additional charge would come on top of an anticipated increase in aviation duties, which some believe could add as much as £170 to the cost of a long-haul family holiday by 2012.
This will also be when the emissions trading scheme is due to come into force, which will hit all airlines flying to and from European Union airports.
Brussels appears ready to press ahead with the scheme, which is designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation industry, even though oil prices have soared since the plans were first mooted. "Does not affect us, we don't pay taxes. We just institute taxes and you pay them."
After prolonged haggling between governments, a compromise package was agreed last month. Well catered, I'm sure.
But it still has to be ratified by the European Parliament and this is likely to happen on Wednesday, after which it will become law. "Rubber stamp that sucker and we'll start rakin' in the dough for *ahem* discretionary spending projects."
Under the scheme airlines will have to pay for the greenhouse gases they emit via a complex licensing system known as "carbon permits". Which means higher ticket prices. Much higher ticket prices.
Every airline will be allocated a ceiling based on their emissions between 2004 and 2006.
In 2012 the cap will be 97 per cent of this level, falling to 95 per cent the following year. Carriers wanting to go above their permitted threshold will have to buy carbon credits to do so. Even those who stay below their agreed ceiling will have to buy permits for 15 per cent of the carbon output, with the money going to national governments. We cheat the other guy and pass the savings on to you.
---Chilkoot Charlie
It is estimated that this would cost the aviation industry £2.8 billion a year equivalent to £5.55 a ticket or £11.10 for a return flight.
"Unless the Government cuts the taxes it imposes on passengers when ETS comes in, it will be a case of fly once and pay twice," said an easyJet spokesman. Maybe people will quit flying and the whole scheme will do nothing but destroy an industry reeling from astronomical fuel prices.
The burden for anyone flying to the United States from Britain would be even worse, with Washington considering an emissions trading scheme for American companies. THEM are fighting words! Another battle for American Taxpayers. *sigh*
This, it is estimated, would add another £18 to the cost of a transatlantic ticket.
Simon Evans, the chief executive of the passengers' watchdog, the Air Transport Users Council, said: "We do accept that passengers have an obligation to mitigate their carbon footprint. But it is not fair that we should be singled out more than anyone else."
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Even without this stupid proposal the airline industry is at the brink of collapsing. At some point sufficiently high fuel costs will make air travel unaffordable for most [former] air travelers, so that only the extremely wealthy will be able to afford it. If you don't believe this, invest in an airline of your choice.
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The objective here is to force people off of planes. The left does not like or want the common people to travel at all.
I know it sounds weird, but I can cite a dozen examples of efforts to keep the citizenry bottled up in the cities and out of rural and undeveloped areas.
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.....dozen examples of efforts to keep the citizenry bottled up in the cities and out of rural and undeveloped areas.dozen examples of efforts to keep the citizenry bottled up in the cities and out of rural and undeveloped areas.
Moose: Please keep me posted on the success of this effort.
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Have to agree with Anonymoose. Travelling, especially outside of the local culture, expands the mind and creates new ideas. Friend of mine (hippy, the good kind) came out here from Lawrence KS (little berkely on the river) and he was nervous about all the redneck jokes he had heard. Couple weeks later he didn't want to leave, I think he found out he has more in common with us out here then with his crowd back at home. I went to Europe back in '03 worried about going off on my own (I speak various romance languages well enough to get around on my own) worried about all the stuff I hear on the news. Find out none of that existed really outside of the tv. Cousin was about to be stationed in Germany and he was concerned as well and I was able to tell him firsthand that it was all basically bs and he went on to make some good local friends. Associate from Germany came out here thinking USA was fascist police state and realized it was nothing like that. In fact he had to go out of his way to find very thin examples of it.
People stay at home they are easier to feed information to. Its like that line in Red October - Capt. Vasili Borodin: I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
Captain Ramius: I suppose.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: No papers?
Captain Ramius: No papers, state to state.
Capt. Vasili Borodin: Well then, in winter I will live in... Arizona. Actually, I think I will need two wives.
Captain Ramius: Oh, at least.
Also think that a clampdown on smoking in bars is another prong. People at bars tend to have a comraderie and share ideas and stories.
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It is part of their philosophy.
Indeed. Ever wonder about the truth behind (and underneath) the new Denver Airport. Ask Snowy, next time you see him.
CHINA'S economy will overtake that of the United States by 2035 and be twice its size by mid century, a study released today by a US research organization concluded.
The report by economist Albert Keidel of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said China's rapid growth is driven by domestic demand more than exports, and will sustain high single-digit growth rates well into the 21st century.
"China's economic performance clearly is no flash in the pan," Mr Keidel said.
"Its growth this decade has averaged more than 10 per cent a year and is still going strong in the first half of 2008. Because its success in recent decades has not been export-led but driven by domestic demand, its rapid growth can continue well into the 21st century, unfettered by world market limitation."
Mr Keidel said the rise of China to the world's biggest economy will happen regardless of the method of calculation.
Under current market-based estimates, China's gross domestic product is about $US3 trillion ($3.14 trillion) compared to $US14 trillion ($14.65 trillion) for the United States.
Based on a more controversial purchasing power parity (PPP) measure used by the World Bank and others to correct low labour-cost distortions, he said China's GDP is roughly half of that of the United States.
"Despite this low starting point, if China's expansion is anywhere near as fast as the earlier expansion of other East Asian modernizers at a comparable stage of development, the power of compound growth rates means that China's economy will be larger than America's by mid century - no matter how it is converted to dollars," Mr Keidel said.
"Indeed, PPP valuation distinctions will diminish and eventually disappear."
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Any economist worth his salt, will admit that following free market principles will cause a take-off period to ensue. However, one an industrial superstructure is developed, development possibilities become somewhat limited. A fall-off isn't the next stage. The American economy is stable, and development is balanced. China will follow suit, unless politics intervenes. That is unlikely.
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China's businesses have a huge debt and the government banks are writing off nearly 60%. A major economic global slowdown or the US pulling their factories out of China will bring it crashing down.
China could do it, but it has a lot of problems to overcome first. Personally, I think with the coming economic troubles, surplus of males and a Xenophobic attitude of the government, China will have civil war in 10 or so years.
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if the chinese empire stays together simple math dictates they will be larger...when who know's -- as stated they have many issues to resolve but thier middle class is larger than the american middle class today
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My projections of China's future are guarded, but there are some strong possibilities.
First of all, they are going to have to have a humdinger of an economic correction in the short term. But I don't see this as causing widespread political instability. Instead, the public really wants to take it out on local and regional government, not the national government.
Second, China is demographically bulging at the seams, and this presents an impressive target to a natural population correction, most likely by a whopper of an epidemic. But if they lose hundreds of millions of people, it will solve much of their economic and development problems.
But that presents the third possibility, because such plagues work from the bottom of the demographic pyramid up. Essentially culling the poor and peasant. But the people who remain are going to want to keep their power and wealth, so politics will become very conservative and power more balanced and even.
And the best way of doing this is democracy, not out of any sense of freedom or liberty, but efficiency. The freedom and liberty are just side effects of this.
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China has shut down factories around Beijing in an effort to cut down on polution for the Olympics. Here in the States hundreds of Wal-mart stores are closing. They're running out of EVERYTHING!
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COMPUTER users frustrated by slow internet connections could soon be surfing the web 100 times faster, all thanks to new Australian technology.
University of Sydney scientists say they have developed a new technology that could speed up the internet - and not cost users an extra cent.
Described as "a small scratch on a piece of glass'', the university's photonic integrated circuit boosts the performance of traditional optic fibres, Professor Ben Eggleton said.
"This circuit uses the 'scratch' as a guide or a switching a path for information - kind of like when trains are switched from one track to another - except this switch takes one picosecond to change tracks,'' Prof Eggleton said of the technology developed over the past four years.
"This means that in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million times.''
"Currently we use electronics for our switching and that has been OK, but as we move toward a more tech-savvy future there is a demand for instant web gratification.''
Prof Eggleton said initial testing of the technology showed it was possible to achieve internet speeds 60 times faster than the current Telstra network.
But if developed further, the circuit could reach speeds 100 times faster, he said.
"This is a critical building block and a fundamental advance on what is already out there,'' Prof Eggleton said.
"We are talking about networks that are potentially up to 100 times faster without costing the consumer any more.''
Not if MicroBorg, Apple, the phone company, the cable company can keep buying your congresscritters, the people who delivered infinite copyright to big entertainment media for the right price.
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instant web gratification
I want IWG now, I'm damn tired of waiting for it. It's been 45 long seconds since I finished this article, WTF is taking so long? I sense big oil is keep the interwebs capped.
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This is a non-story. Obama immediately accepted Jackson's apology, it's over. Anyway, minorities can say anything they want about other minorities and refer to them in anyway they wish. Jesse is still sitting in the front of the bus.
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John Stuart raked Candidate Obama over the coals tonight. The mock-Presidential Seal, reversal on federal matching fund monies, and his general reversal of principles as he tries to flimflam voters of pallor. This election gets more and more interesting.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top U.S. Democratic senator said in a newspaper interview published Wednesday that he would consider supporting opening up new areas for offshore oil and gas drilling.
"I'm open to drilling and responsible production," Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin told The Wall Street Journal, adding that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could also support the move.
Machine Democrats just now smelled the meat a'cookin' ...
However, Durbin said his support for opening new areas to drilling was contingent on setting requirements that oil and gas companies begin production within a specified time frame on acreage they have leased from the government.
The spike in oil prices to record highs above $145 per barrel has prompted calls for the U.S. government to allow energy producers to explore for oil and gas off the East and West Coasts and in the eastern region of the Gulf of Mexico. Those areas are currently off limits to exploration.
Republicans say their efforts to open up new regions for exploration have been stymied by Democrats. Democrats say energy companies are producing oil and gas from only about a quarter of the 91.5 million acres currently leased from the government. Newt was right!
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This comes after yesterdays news that Congress Critters are considered cute by very few percentage of people, single digits, which means only the squirels sitting in the trees in Berkely support them per yesterdays pole. So these Congressional pole lickers need to do SOMETHING to get the poles back up above 9%.
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Speaking of energy - They were trying to open a new coal plant here in OH - you should've seen the moon bat enviro douchebags clammoring out of the tofu spores mugging for local tv time...
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Ironically, as myself and other Netters have pointed out over the years, the VARIOUS RECYCLING TECH being pushed by the Enviros are predominantly based on advanced materials derived from - WAIT FOR IT - AAWL = OIL, which the Enviros like to claim the World is running low on ala PEAK OIL.
IOW, TO MAKE THEIR RECYCLING AND OTHER ENVIRON AGENDUMS A REALITY, THE ANTI-WOT "NO WAR FOR OIL" ENVIROS + ALIGNED ACTIVISTS BY THEIR OWN SCOPE-LOGIC NEED TO SUPPORT + WAGE A DE FACTO
"WAR FOR OIL". They must in fact support Dubya's alleged "WAR FOR OIL" = WOT, NOT argue agz it.
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here is what should be done
1 Revoke the frickin national gas tax
2 Drill here!
3 Do not allow oil produced here to be shipped overseas.
4 Create an american oil exchange for the oil produced here. If we get our dependence down to 30% then the govt could and should set prices on an american exchange.
As the big oil companies complained to congress they are dependant on the whims of foriegner's and must pay what they are charged... so if the govt sets the price per barrel then we would deflect ourself's from the ramp up in china/india. It is american oil we should benifit not the japanese who pay BP a premium for alaska crude.
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I'll believe the Dems are serious about domestic energy when John F'kn Kerry and Bridge Kennedy endorse wind farms in their home state.
I thought our readers might wish to celebrate the end of a very long and arduous road that Carla Howell and her friends have trod. I have heard they have just passed the last hurdle and their initiative to end the income tax in Massachusetts will appear on the ballot this fall.
If you are in Massachusetts, help spread the news. This is your chance to roll back the State like it has never been rolled before.
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And, already, the Hacks are mobilizing. With the assistance of the Usual Suspects...
Already, opposition is mobilizing in the state, led by the Coalition for Our Communities, a group comprised of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, several communities, non-profits, businesses and individuals.
The AFL-CIO is calling on all unions to join the coalition and urges on its Web site to oppose "the decimation of local aid to cities and towns, and the inevitable property tax increases to provide the necessary funding for our schools, police and fire protection, emergency medical services and transportation infrastructure."
State officials and legislators also vowed to fight against the repeal, along with interest groups such as the Massachusetts Teachers Association and Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
Will it pass? I doubt it. By the time the election rolls around, we'll have seen so many scare ads, lucratively funded by all of the above and others, saying that Massachusetts will become the American Somalia if this passes that people will be terrified to vote for it.
But I signed the petition. And I'm voting for it.
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tu3031 you are correct that it won't pass even though I'll vote for it too.
There's a reason that scum like Kerry, Kennedy and McGovern et. al. keep getting elected.
We already passed a cut in the tax that the legislature totally ignored. I figure that between mini-Obama and the legislature implementation has no chance at all regardless of the actual vote.
BTW Where in our lovely People's Republic do you reside?
Arrrre you ready to rrrrumble???
In an interview with NPR's David Welna that ran today, former Gov. Jesse 'The Body' Ventura, Ind-Minn., sounds like he may run for Senate, challenging incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., whom Ventura defeated for governor in 1998, as well as Democratic nominee and former Saturday Night Live humorist Al Franken. . . . After leaving office, he turned into a cartoonish 9/11 conspiracy whackjob. When he was a wrestler, you could at least respect him. Now, not so much.
Ventura had a stormy tenure as governor and horrible relations with the Minnesota press corps. Thus, it was the June issue of a local wine magazine where he chose to drop hints about his pending campaign. . . . . . . and like any good pro wrestler, he laid down the smack talk:
Ventura called Franken an opportunist and a carpetbagger. 'He hasn't lived here in 30 years, and he's only coming back to Minnesota for the convenience of his own political agenda. Why didn't he run in the states he was living in? Clearly, for being a Harvard graduate, he's not too smart on taxes, is he? Everybody laughs, saying I came from wrestling. But at least I knew when I wrestled in 40 states, I had to pay taxes in those 40 states. You just have to do the paperwork. I find it unbelievable that someone who could go to Harvard didn't know that or let it slip. Blaming his accountant is worse, because now he's turning into a politician. He's not accepting responsibility for his actions.'
A recent state poll has Coleman leading with 52 percent of the vote and Franken with 40 percent.
A hypothetical race with Ventura shows Coleman with 41 percent, Franken with 31 percent and Ventura with 23 percent.
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"Where is that pencil-necked dweeb? Lemme at 'im!"
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Maybe he'll do an atomic piledriver on Al during the debates. (Please?)
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Norm Coleman is a pretty good Senator (glad I voted for him), but is a rather traditional politician. I've become less impressed by "traditional politicians" as I've gotten older ... but, it's funny how mature and "regular guy" Norm looks when stacked up against Franken and Ventura. Whether the Body runs or not, I think MN will give Norm another term.
(For the record, I voted for Ventura for Gov back in the day as well ... he ran a great "not politics as usual" and gave clear, straight answers back then and had a pretty good first and second year as Govenor ... and then things got weird. :-/)
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i used ta like jessee and even read a couple of his books, that was prior to 2001. Now he has gone 9/11 truther bat-shit craaaazy...hopefully he runs for senate, cuts down some of Stu Smalley's numbers and they still both lose..that would be sweet....IF YA SMELL WHAT THE BROADHEAD IS COOKIN'!!!!!
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OS - looks like it keeps things status quo - Coleman stays up on frankenstein by 8-10 points w/or w/out the body in the race.
BTW - venture repeatedly talks about his time in the seals and supposedly said he spent time in 'nam doing "black ops". Though I don't doubt he was a seal the second assertion makes me wonder.
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He was UDT, not SEAL from what I heard years ago from a SEAL, who was pretty unhappy with the misrepresentation thing.
SO he pulls the ron paul nutters in away from the GOP, and the anti-war lefties from the Dems.
Introduces an intreseting dynamic into the Presidential race though - splitting a ticket becomes much more possible and may pull enough Dems away from Obama to let McCain sneak in.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. Senate Democrat accused the Bush administration on Tuesday of a "cover-up" aimed at stopping the Environmental Protection Agency from tackling greenhouse emissions.
"This cover-up is being directed from the White House and the office of the vice president," said Sen. Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
At issue is a preliminary finding by the EPA last December that "greenhouse gases may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public welfare," according to Jason Burnett, the agency's former associate deputy administrator who appeared at a news conference with Boxer.
Such a finding would be an early step toward government regulation aimed at protecting public health.
Boxer said that unless EPA documents were released, it was likely that within the next two weeks her committee would try to subpoena the material. She did not know whether Republicans on the panel would block the effort.
Burnett, who resigned on June 9, told Boxer's committee the White House tried pressuring him to retract an e-mail in which he detailed the finding. Burnett said he refused.
Democrats say that since then, the EPA finding has been left "in limbo."
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said many federal agencies, departments and offices normally review any initiatives being developed to check for "factual inaccuracies" or "discordant" policies.
Without getting into specifics, Fratto said "views are frequently discussed and worked out in ways that make sense."
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, asked about the administration's actions, said, "I don't know if that is criminal. I doubt it. OK. But I know it is immoral."
"The health of my grandchildren, my children and me are affected by this head-in-the-sand that global warming doesn't exist," Reid told reporters. Harry, get with it, the new buzzwords are 'Climate Change'. What about the baby ducks, kittens and fluffy bunnies?
Boxer acknowledged she wanted to gather information so that the next administration could get a jump on global warming initiatives quickly after it takes office on January 20, 2009. You too, Babs, it's Climate Change.
She has been trying since last October to obtain related documents to show that planned congressional testimony on global warming by Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was censored by the Bush administration.
Boxer said Gerberding's testimony would have detailed the direct impact of rising global temperatures on human health, including mortality and the spread of disease.
Burnett told the congressional committee the administration's Council on Environmental Quality "and the office of the vice president were seeking deletions to the CDC testimony." He refused to say who in Vice President Richard Cheney's office was involved.
Responding to Burnett's charges, Fratto said, "Jason Burnett is not the EPA administrator" and that it was up to EPA chief Stephen Johnson to oversee environmental policy.
Asked at Tuesday's news conference about his support for Democratic candidates and whether he was trying to embarrass the Republican administration, Burnett said, "Following the law and responding to the Supreme Court is not a partisan issue."
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Clean Air Act gives EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
In October, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Gerberding's draft testimony to Congress "did not comport" with science contained in an International Panel on Climate Change report and that "a number of agencies had some concerns with the draft."
On Tuesday, Boxer said Gerberding's planned testimony, which has since been detailed in media reports, and the IPCC report "matched identically."
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Calling CO2, pollution is quite the most bizzare nonsense of my lifetime.
The good news, apart from the fact global warming isn't happening (which is good news only to the extent global cooling is seriously bad news), is that GW is a sure fire election loser for the Left, once people see how much it is going to cost them.
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It should be clearly stated that MMGW is not based in science, or even anecdotal reality, but in philosophy and religion.
Like science fiction, it began with an unproven theory. But unlike scientific theories, the theory was built upon before it had any basis in proven fact. To make matters intolerable, the theory had to accept greater and greater assumptions that were nonsensically improbable.
The big one being that a trace amount, of a trace gas, could leverage a truly immense system. The mite could force the mouse to direct the course of the elephant.
That is, a fraction of the CO2 in the atmosphere is created by man, but that it would somehow strongly impact the far greater amount of natural atmospheric CO2, which in turn is still only found in trace amounts in the truly immense atmosphere full of water vapor in various forms.
The only way this could be supported was through the use of "feedback loops", of which a dozen have been proposed.
But none of these feedback loops have ever been proven.
And the models used to predict the future are insane, as with the previous illustration, they do not take into account the elephant, only the mite and the mouse.
Cloud cover which dictates over 90% of heat reflection or retention ignored, because it is too complicated to figure out.
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If fossil fuels indeed are (fossil, that is) where did all this carbon come from in the first place, if not the air?
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Well, it certainly didn't all happen in the last eight years so it makes me wonder where all these alarmists were when Clinton was in the White House. It makes me wonder if the real problem is they just can't stand George Bush. I mean, why didn't Al Gore ever say anything about it until after that mean, old George Bush stole the election?
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Dammit, can't believe the White House didn't tell me last week it would be 75 and rainy this morning. I demand an emergency meeting at the golf course to consider inbeechwood procedings at once!
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Iff one believes that a POTUS OBAMA Admin will rsult in SOCIALISM IN AMERICA 2008-2012, as many Netters believe, ITS ALL THE MORE REASON FOR THE SO-CALLED ISLAMIST "HIDDEN-IMAM-MAHDI" TO APPEAR AND DEFEAT OR DESTROY THE US MIL PRESENCE + AGENDA IN THE ME.
Nothing can scare Amer Politicians and mainstream Amer voters like a HIGH-PROFILE, MAJOR AMER MIL DEFEAT + OTHER CATASTROPHE.
ADD TO NEWSVINE > FUTURE HEAT WAVE TEMPERATURES TO RISE + TOPIX > LATE SUNSPOT CYCLE ["24"] MAY MEAN STRONGER SOLAR FLARES LATER.
D *** NG IT, PEOPLE, EVEN THE SUN IS DOING ITS PART/WANTS ISLAMIST NUKES-APOCALYPSE + AMERIKAN SOCIALISM 2008-2012 - LETS GET WID THE PROGRAM! DON'T FORCE ME TO TELL BARRY "SUPERMAN" BOSTWICK TO YANK OFF HIS EYEGLASSES, OR MICHELLE TO UNSHEATH HER LECTURE FINGER, D *** YOU!
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Note: I've never voted for Ms "Dumb as a bag of hammers". As a Californian, I apologize for my fellow 'Fornians sending this dumb POS to the Senate. What can I say?
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TCA -- Given Barack Obama's historic run for the Oval Office, African American-themed cable network TV One plans to break from its usual entertainment programming to provide extensive coverage of the Democratic National Convention in August.
"Sen. Barack Obama running for president is a huge deal for TV One as it is for the African American community," said Johnathan Rodgers, president and CEO of TV One, a channel in about 40 million homes. "African Americans have fallen in love with his candidacy, his family we will be covering the democratic convention all the time."
But John McCain shouldnt expect the same treatment. The network doesnt plan any coverage of the Republican Convention.
"We are not a news organization," said Rodgers, speaking at the opening session of the semi-annual Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills. "We are a television network designed to celebrate African American achievement. If Hillary was the nominee, we would not be covering this year's Democratic Convention." If you aren't a news organization then leave the news reporting to them.
"My audience is 93% black," Rodgers added. "I serve my audience."
TV One does have a Republican pundit as part of its convention coverage, comedian Sheryl Underwood. But shes also voting for Obama.
When critics pressed a panel of TV Ones convention pundits about whether African American republicans will feel slighted, Underwood said, I speak for all eight of us -- we are not slighted ... McCain is not going to win it, that's why I'm over here, because I want to be with the winners -- and I'm a Bush Republican."
When TV One's coverage panel was asked if their coverage will raise criticisms of Obama, contributor Hill Harper, who said he's been a friend of Obama's for 20 years and serves on his National Finance Comittee, said "the whole purpose of the event is celebration. We're not covering a debate." Then don't broadcast the audio channel. Play some Gangsta Rap instead.
But Rodgers added, "It's primarily a celebration but, yes, we'll also be critical when necessary."
As a cable network, TV One is likely exempt from any equal time access rules. Federal Communications Commission rules state that broadcast networks are required to give equal time to presidential candidates.
In 2007, when Law & Order actor Fred Thompson entered the race for the Republican nomination, NBC pulled episodes that featured him, but cable network TNT did not pull L&O repeats. Still, the matter is also considered a regulation gray area, with the FCC largely untested on the issue.
TV One will probably find itself on the losing end of this one. I'll bet stepping into the partisan news arena has something to do with it, too. The fact that O is black has nothing to do with it. It's just an excuse. But then again, I don't know how BET or TV One even exist. If I started WET or TV Two to cover whites only stuff and used it as an excuse to cover McCain while ignoring O, I'm fairly sure I'd get skewered in short order.
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Ok, well.....what markets is this "broadcasting powerhouse" in?
Because in the last five years I've lived in three places, and never heard of them until now. BET, sure......Starz in Black, yep, even watch it on occasion if there is a movie I want to see.....TV One? Eh, nope, not registering.....
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The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that dubious category.
Last month, 11% of voters gave the legislature good or excellent ratings. Congress has not received higher than a 15% approval rating since the beginning of 2008.
The percentage of Democrats who give Congress positive ratings fell from 17% last month to 13% this month. The number of Democrats who give Congress a poor rating remained unchanged. Among Republicans, 8% give Congress good or excellent ratings, up just a point from last month. Sixty-five percent (65%) of GOP voters say Congress is doing a poor job, down a single point from last month.
Voters not affiliated with either party are the most critical of Congressional performance. Just 3% of those voters give Congress positive ratings, down from 6% last month. Sixty-three percent (63%) believe Congress is doing a poor job, up from 57% last month.
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"It's a Democratic year" - thus speaketh almost all pundits, for months now. Never bought that, still don't.
While obviously things are rarely broken down along party lines among the bulk of voters, those numbers for independents stand out.
This is more of a test year for the GOP than anything else. If they can't make at least some hay with what has been placed before them (record low ratings for Congress, higher gasoline prices, an intern at the top of the Dem ticket and most Dem policy preferences easily and justifiably colorable as tax and regulation increases), they will have really molested the pooch.
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The GOP's been stuck on stupid for quite a while. No leadership to speak of, and an apparent complete unwillingness to confront the Donk's head-on, or get back to the principles they used to stand for. IMHO we've got the absolute worst political class in the history of the Republic.
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I simply don't believe the statistic. All House Representative positions are up for election this year. A substantial proportion of incumbents failing to re-win their seats would be the conclusive evidence for voter disapproval of Congress. I don't think it's going to happen.
Voters will bitch & moan to pollsters, then proceed to re-elect the beloved incumbents.
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I would love to vote all the bums out of Congress, especially those from from Oregon that my vote can touch. The problem is the big shield of protection around incumbents. In the primary, the only opposition that Gordon Smith had was some guy who was complaining about changes in the law about how gold was weighed back in 1830's. Wacko. Anyone halfway reasonable would have gotten my vote. Now Gordon is campaining on his bipartisan work with Obama. Maybe I should have gone with the 19th century gold bug.
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AH that's always the way.
I love my congress critter (he brings ME the bacon) but I hate yours (and his, and hers cause they take the bacon elsewhere) hence the reelection of the vermin and the loathing of the group.
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absolutely, because everybody else's congress critters suck but mine. Actually, I vote to oust both Dhimmi-Sen's Stabenow & Levin every re-election, too bad the rest of the idiots in my home state fail to do the same.
LUCKNOW: In a chilling reminder of the Imrana case, yet another young woman from Muzaffarnagar who allegedly fell victim to her father-in-laws sexual assault faces a bleak future after mullahs called for the annulment of her marriage.
On July 6, Salma (25), an unlettered mother of two kids, returned to her parental home in Islamnagar, Muzaffarnagar, after she was allegedly raped by her father-in-law over a period of six months. Salmas father, Raisuddin, filed a criminal complaint with the police under section 376-506 IPC in Ghaziabad, and the accused, Salma's father-in-law Akbar, has been jailed.
But in the process her four-year-old marriage to Azad has virtually ended after clerics ruled their reunion as 'haraam'.
"A woman who has had a sexual liaison with her husband's father cannot be his consort anymore. A divorce is a must," Mufti Maulana Imran, senior cleric from Darul Uloom Deoband, said on Monday after his view was sought. The prescribed punishment in the case, he maintained, was 'sangsar' or public stoning of the victim and the culprit until death.
In 2007, Imrana's case, which was broadly similar with the clerics declaring her marriage null and void after she was raped by her father-in-law, had led to a tsunami of criticism of the mullahs who have been treading cautiously on inter-personal issues ever since.
Maulana Khurshid Alam Qazmi, another mufti from Darul Uloom, when contacted by TOI, refused to discuss "a religious edict" on phone.
"In any case there are so many fatwas issued from Deoband that it's next to impossible for me to remember any details," he said.
But Mufti Imran was more forthright. "Such a relationship as in the particular case is totally immoral and can't be condoned," he told reporters on Monday.
"The couple must separate. They are free to marry any other man or woman on a later date but their nikah is void under Islam," he said.
The mufti also ruled that "children in this case (Salma has one two-year-old and a four-month-old son) must be looked after by the father who is entitled to their custody". The woman, the mufti clarified, "cannot be exonerated for such a thing cannot happen without her consent."
According to Raisuddin's FIR lodged on July 5, Akbar was sexually abusing Salma for the last six months. It says Akbar told her that if she opposed his overtures he would have her father and brother killed. He also used firearms to coerce her. "The husband is under the father's influence and can't protest.
Moreover, Akbar has promised him another wife," the FIR says. Salma, who was virtually under house arrest, spoke about her trauma to a visiting aunt and asked her to approach Raisuddin and save her.
A meteor was seen passing over Israel Tuesday night in many parts of the country. Ynet was flooded with calls from citizens residing in central Israel, the Sharon region, Jerusalem and the Krayot cities who reported seeing the object crossing the sky at approximately 8:15 pm. Some witnesses said they heard a shrieking sound.
Eyewitness Ranik Kortzman said, "I was in my balcony when I suddenly saw an object with two trails passing over Kfar Saba from east to west. It was travelling at great velocity and made a shrieking sound like a missile."
Ram Raphaeli of Kfar Yedidya in the Sharon told Ynet "we were on the roof when my son turned my attention to a tiny object that was passing above us. It appeared to be a meteor with a trail. It was traveling horizontally at a relatively low altitude. We didn't hear any noise, but it flew by at great speed."
Yigal Pat-El, chairman of the Israeli Astronomical Association and the director of the observatory in Giv'atayim told Ynet that "meteors enter the earth's atmosphere all the time. This is not a rare occurrence.
"The reason we were able to observe this meteor is because it was relatively large. Most meteors don't weigh more than 1/1000 gram, and this one apparently weighed a few grams," he said.
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I once saw a meteor burn up in the atmosphere. It was so close that I could see first a white glow that lit up the sky, then a red glow, and then nothing. In the light a tail was obvious, and the object didn't follow a straight line. There was a shriek. Scary.
The Church of England voted on Monday to allow the ordination of women bishops following a divisive debate that pitched conservatives against liberals, British media reported.
More than 1,300 clergy had threatened to leave the church if the General Synod, the Church of England's legislative body, voted for the move.
More than 1,300 clergy had threatened to leave the church if the General Synod, the Church of England's legislative body, voted for the move.
The vote was conducted across the three houses of the General Synod. Bishops voted to bring forward legislation to ordain women bishops by 28 to 12, clergy voted in favour by 124 to 44 and laity by 111 to 68, said the Times newspaper.
In his Sunday sermon, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the leader of the world's Anglicans, said Jesus was with those on both sides of the debate.
The General Synod earlier rejected compromise measures designed to accommodate those who could not accept women bishops. The measure would have created three male 'super-bishops' to tend to those who objected to women bishops. The synod also voted against creating new dioceses for parishes that would not accept women bishops.
In his Sunday sermon, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the leader of the world's Anglicans, said Jesus was with those on both sides of the debate. Archbishop of York John Sentamu backed a compromise, saying, 'I would like to travel in company with everybody in the church.' The Church of England is the mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, which has about 77 million followers.
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The Africans will leave. And take a large number of Americans and some English with them.
A private Calgary company and the world's biggest aircraft maker plan to build a 'blimp on steriods' - an airship filled with helium and powered by big rotors that can be used to haul heavy equipment to remote areas where there are no roads, including northern Canada.
Calgary's SkyHook International Inc. announced Tuesday it is teaming up with Chicago-based Boeing Co. to build the so-called Jess Heavy Lifter, or JHL-40, which will haul steel, huge trucks and M-1 Tanks other equipment in remote areas where ground transportation may not be an option. The SkyHook JHL-40 heavy-lift rotorcraft looks like a blimp with four helicopter-like rotors underneath and will be able to lift a 40-tonne load slung from its belly and carry it 300 kilometres without refuelling.
That's a big advantage in the Arctic, where the costs of developing oil and gas projects and diamond and base metal mines have soared because of the need to build roads or provide expensive airplane access to remote communities. Boeing and SkyHook hope to have the first JHL-40 in service by 2012.
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Can't find it right now, but there is an online video of such a beast crashing horribly. I think it happened not that long ago...
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Giant cargo-hauling Zeppelins . . . cool!
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God I didn't know Gamera was a musical. No wonder I prefer Godzilla. And Joe, well done. Your best post ever.
I imagine a big heavy lift zeppelin would be useful in the Amazon and other places as well. They need to build it of teflon materials like the transhab to prevent crazy environmentals from shooting at it but beyond that if time is not a factor it's a better, cheaper, way to move bulk.
I also imagine a day when such a blimp could be useful in cross-country travel. It'd be like a cruiseship, but in the air, and you could take your car with you.
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MM: that crash you are referring to was of a similiar concept built by the Piasaki company (sic i think) He was the founder of what is now Boeing Helicopters. He developed the twin rotor helicopter for heavy lifting without the restrictions a single rotor w/ anti-torque tail rotor had.
anyway, his rube goldberg machine was a blimp with 4 CH-34's minus tail booms and tail rotors bolted to the four corners. got the monster airborne, but one on the mutant helos broke away (mounting strut failure) and the whole thing crashed, killing the pilot.
funded on a shoe string, the word was that they were not going to do any more work with it.
Tehran will seek a seat on the powerful U.N. Security Council next year, despite the trade sanctions the body has imposed to slow Iran's nuclear program.
"It is our right, we have not been on the council in 50 years, and we are trying our best," an official from the Iranian Mission told The Washington Times on Tuesday. The official, who cowardly insisted that his name not be used, said Iran's bid for a seat on the 2009-10 council already has the "confirmation" of the Asian Group, whose members Tehran would represent.
Asian diplomats confirmed Tuesday that Iran has sought the group's approval to run for the council seat, which currently is filled by Indonesia and is reserved for an Asian country. Regional blocs often agree in advance which country will get a seat.
A second Iranian diplomat, Mohammad Mohammadi, the mission's press attache, also confirmed Tehran's desire for a seat on the council. The Iranian delegate said the overlapping memberships of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, the Nonaligned Movement and the Arab Group have given their support "in general."
"One should follow Security Council resolutions before they launch a bid to be on the Security Council," said Richard Grenell, spokesman for U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.
The Iranian delegate shrugged off the resistance, saying no U.N. rules are in place to stop the country's bid for a two-year term. "We consider the council's sanctions illegitimate, anyway," he said with a smile.
Regional blocs at the United Nations will send five new members to the council in January, each to be approved in October by a two-thirds vote of the 192-member General Assembly. However, countries often agree in advance to field only one candidate from a bloc, making the election automatic.
At present, the only country besides Iran that has expressed an interest in seeking the seat reserved for Asia is Japan, which is the largest individual contributor to the United Nations after the United States and has been re-elected to the council regularly, most recently for the 2005-06 term.
Iran, a founding member of the United Nations, has not held a council seat since the 1955-56 term.
Vietnam currently fills a second Asian seat and presides over the council for the month of July. Vietnam's council term expires in December 2009.
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"One should follow Security Council resolutions before they launch a bid to be on the Security Council," said Richard Grenell, spokesman for U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad.
The Iranian delegate shrugged off the resistance, saying no U.N. rules are in place to stop the country's bid for a two-year term."We consider the council's sanctions illegitimate, anyway," he said with a smile.
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Pretty clearly it says "sodomoites" or "homosexuals" in almost every reliable translation.
The Doay-Rheims version, one of the fiurst complete english translations has it this way:
10 Nor the effeminate, nor liers with men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God.
Pretty obvious as to the meaning from almost 500 years ago. The latin vulgate, 1500+ years old says...
neque molles neque masculorum concubitores neque fures neque avari neque ebriosi neque maledici neque rapaces regnum Dei possidebunt
Thats males who sleep with other males as concubines.
The thing is, all you have to do is stop doing tht and ask God to forgive. Its in the next verse:
And such some of you were. But you are washed: but you are sanctified: but you are justified: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God.
Typical of the homosexual activists to try to force their immorality on others via abuse of the courts.
My question is why did the court not simply throw this completely out and fine the idiot for wasting the time and resources of the court system?
The real issue here is they guy wants to FORCE others to accept his deviance as normal.
Sorry, doesnt work that way. Im not going to hate you for being a homosexual, but I am also nto goign to endorse your behavior and evil acts. I'm going to destest the sin you commit, and lament your oblviousness to the damage you are doing to your soul and pray for you to repent and convert -- and Im going to stand up for my beliefs in the process.
No I will NOT rewrite my Bible to suit your pervesions and hurt feelings.
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Well all you culturally illiterate cracker bastards who didn't know we had a Black National Anthem obviously never heard of this either. www.negrospaceprogram.com
Oil tumbled more than $5 a barrel Tuesday in its second big drop this week, hurling crude back to levels not seen since June 26 as traders wary about the health of the global economy cashed in gains from oil's recent rally.
Light, sweet crude for August delivery fell $5.33 to settle at $136.04, after earlier slumping as low as $135.14. The decline followed a $3.92 slide on Monday, bringing oil's two-day drop to more than $9.
The market's bearish turn this week erases, at least for the time being, the effect of a rally that pushed prices past $145 in a string of record-setting sessions before the Fourth of July.
Analysts attributed much of the recent sell-off to profit-taking, saying traders were cashing in on the previous week's gains. A stronger dollar also helped keep prices lower by discouraging investors from pumping more money into commodities.
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There were reports of major conservation during the holidays. Good idea. However, taking 4 people on a holiday trip in a mid-size car does more to help than hurt the economy.
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$100 per barrel: the line was finally crossed on January 2nd 2008. What does this imply for profits of oil producing nations? In order to run some numbers we have to consider a key measure called the break-even price which is the amount of money it takes to extract 1 barrel of oil.The break-even price is the first thing oil companies establish in order to determine if drilling a new well makes financial sense. For example with oil at $100 and a break even price of $50, profitability is 100%. But with oil at $60 and the same break even price, profitability drops to 20%
By dialing their target profitability first, oil companies then determine if a new drilling project is feasible. Needless to say, with oil retailing now at $100, more wells will be drilled in deeper, harder to reach places than were previously profitable.
The following table provided by the Bank of Kuwait gathers current reported break-even prices of major oil producing nations:
This level of profitability explains the recent $7.5 billion placement in troubled Citibank from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the $1.8 billion investment in UBS by a strategic Middle East investor and the 20 percent acquisition of the London Stock Exchange by the tiny nation of Qatar.
High oil prices have allowed Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to boost their foreign assets to more than one trillion dollars during the 2002-2006 period. With a looming recession (read "western assets on sale") and high oil prices we can expect this trend to increase.
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.
After four years of living in Baghdad, war was taking its toll on Lara Logan.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A top U.S. Democratic senator said in a newspaper interview published Wednesday that he would consider supporting opening up new areas for offshore oil and gas drilling.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. Senate Democrat accused the Bush administration on Tuesday of a "cover-up" aimed at stopping the Environmental Protection Agency from tackling greenhouse emissions.
Oil tumbled more than $5 a barrel Tuesday in its second big drop this week, hurling crude back to levels not seen since June 26 as traders wary about the health of the global economy cashed in gains from oil's recent rally.
