RightWronghaven update:
A lawyer for copyright troll Righthaven is declaring under penalty of perjury that an update to his computer's browser prohibited him from electronically submitting a legal filing before an angry judge's deadline. Pathetic. Read the rest for the whole whinefest. Comments not exactly on his side. ;-p
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bend him over and stick that filing where it belongs. I hope these trolls go down hard and lose their license
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Here's a USB stick - put your filing on there. See you in a hour.
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These clowns must have a death wish - you really don't want to piss off an already-angry judge.
You do whatever you have to to get that filing in on time. I think the electronic filing system even lets you file up to midnight of the deadline day (rather than the 5 p.m. or so for paper filing).
I think the article said the law firm was filing amendments to their original suits where they stated they owned the copyrights. You're allowed to file amended pleadings (with the judge's leave), but that's to add stuff (or even take stuff out, I suppose). I doubt that absolves you from LYING in the first place.
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I wonder if Righthaven's set up as a virtual legal-house, where all the attorneys outside of the top 1-2 are 'partners'. Essentially they're independent contractors, no in-house IT service, etc.
Means RH can run lean and mean and hungry, as any lawsuit mill should. But it also means there's no back-up should one of its components fail.
Maryland health officials were making revisions late Friday night to a new policy that would have severely restricted who could apply sunscreen to children attending summer camps. Wow. Say Fred, I hadn't realized Maryland had solved all its other problems. Congrats!
The new policy, which was issued last month, ordered summer camp operators to steer away from assisting kids with applying sunscreen and to get parents' permission before letting any child use sunscreen at camp. But don't worry - this new regulation isn't about 'contact' -
But he said, "It will be silent on the thing that has raised questions. It will not deal with issues of contact in any way." Apparently, that's the revised policy -
The rules were aimed at protecting children from inappropriate touching at camp, but they came as the federal government campaigns for parents to get more serious about protecting children against damage to skin the sun's rays can inflict. So a Federal feel-good concept now requires parental permission and includes pedophile-phobic restrictions.
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The rules were aimed at protecting children from inappropriate touching at camp..
Because that is the job of the TSA and no apologies!
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Sun damages skin, so use sunscreen, but sunscreen may be unhealthy and besides, application might involve inappropriate touching, so maybe summer camp should be held indoors.
KABUL-- The top two officials of Kabul Bank used fake names, forged documents, fictitious companies and secret records as part of an elaborate ruse to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to shareholders and top Afghan officials, according to newly obtained documents and interviews.
The scheme overseen by Sherkhan Farnood, the bank's former chairman, and Khaililullah Frouzi, the chief executive, helped to cover up a vast disbursal of funds to Afghanistan's ruling elite, the documents and interviews with bank insiders as well as U.S. and Afghan officials show. Among the major recipients was Mahmoud Karzai, the president's brother, who allegedly received $22 million in loans; some parliament members, warlords and cabinet ministers, including Mohammed Fahim, Afghanistan's first vice president, are alleged to have received smaller sums.
The documents, from the Afghan government and from the bank, provide the most detailed account yet of how the fraud was carried out in the years before it was discovered in 2010, forcing the Afghan government to take over the bank, split it in two, dissolve the shareholders' assets and spend more than $800 million to bail it out.
The crisis at Kabul Bank has shaken confidence in Afghanistan's financial system and caused the lapse of the International Monetary Fund's line of credit, which has stymied tens of millions of dollars of foreign aid to the country. Now the job of recovering as much as possible of the $912 million in loans amounts to perhaps the most serious task for President Hamid Karzai's government outside of fighting the Taliban.
Without a successful resolution of Kabul Bank's problems, said one senior U.S. official, Afghanistan could face "the collapse of the banking sector."
Three pages of investigative journalism. This is one of the times it's worth reading something in the Washington Post.
RABAT: Moroccans were tipped to pass a referendum on a revised constitution offered by King Mohammed to placate Arab Spring street protesters, despite boycott calls by opponents.
The new charter grants the government executive powers, but retains the king at the helm of the army, religious authorities and the judiciary and still allows him to dissolve Parliament, though not unilaterally as is the case now.
That falls far short of the demands of the February 20 protest movement, which wants a constitutional monarchy where the kings powers would be kept in check by elected lawmakers.
However, they have so far failed to attract the mass support of popular uprisings that toppled the leaders of Tunisia and Egypt. They are urging Moroccans to boycott the vote and say a low turnout would back their calls for more radical reforms.
Turnout stood at 60.3 percent by 5:30 p.m. an hour and a half before the polls closed, according to the Interior Ministry. Results are expected early Saturday. Wearing a yellow robe and a red fez, the monarch cast his vote at a polling booth set up in the headquarters of Moroccos anti-trust authority.
But while the kings personal popularity is seen swinging many voters in favor of the reforms, the margin of victory could be eroded by resentment at wide disparity between rich and poor, and a sense of alienation from the political elite.
Results of an online poll conducted by independent portal Lakome.com showed 52 percent of 51,200 participants saying they would boycott the referendum. The vast bulk of the rest said they would vote in favor, but such a low turnout would raise questions over the credibility of the exercise.
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Rooters says 70.6% turnout is projected, based on counts from 2/3rds of polling places. There'd had been predictions that less than half of the electorate would show up.
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Not to be confused with California et al females who hire illegals to do housework, landscaping, childcare, etc. Would there be a supply if there was no demand? The big difference is that the American version hasn't cared too much about gender of the servants anymore than the legal nature of their employment.
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The hilarity of this *is* reflective of California.
Wealthy, older media executive types had to have a young trophy wife to impress their peers. But eventually the old sods pegged out, leaving their fortunes to these no longer young women.
So, with what has to be cosmic justice, they would in turn buy young studs, either straight if they still wanted sex, or gay if they didn't, as status symbols among their peers. As a class, they are called the "blue haired women".
She said: "My goal with this proposal is to improve the offspring in Kuwait through the recruitment of white-skinned husbands. Just as I think about softening the climate through balloons, manufactured clouds and a farm with a million trees, I also think about improving the next generation of offspring."
The Scottish First Minister told the Queen for the first time in public that Scotland should become an equal but separate nation to England while retaining the Union of the Crowns.
In a pointed message to the monarch that she has implicitly backed separation, he quoted back to her a speech she gave at Dublin Castle in May in which she said Britain and Ireland are firm friends and equal partners.
Mr Salmond delivered his strident warning that the UKs days are numbered during an address to the Scottish Parliament at the Royal opening of its fourth session since devolution began in 1999.
The Queen is understood to have told David Cameron of her anxiety the 304-year-old Union between England and Scotland will be broken in the wake of Mr Salmonds landslide election victory two months ago.
The Scottish National Party leader intends to hold an independence referendum in the second half of his five-year term, but yesterday attempted to reassure the monarch she will remain head of state in Scotland regardless of the result.
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How about if Britain then loses the UN seat, since it won't be Britain anymore but England.
Scotland as an independent nation with the Queen as head of state will be just another country in the Commonwealth.
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I think it's about time. Scotland and England are just too different for one to rule the other.
It has long been noted that the reason Scotland has never had an effective king for long, is that they are their own worst enemy. Any time someone showed prospects as a leader, everyone would turn against him.
But Scotland has an unusual and very interesting historical partner, in of all things, Poland. And even right now, the two have what the other needs.
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Correct me iff I'm wrong, but technically speaking, wasn't Scotland already supposed to be in confederatist political, etc. union wid England as part of the original United Kingdom [England, Scotland, + Ireland = now Northern Ireland], where Scotland technically maintained its national "sovereignty" + "cooperated" wid the ruling English Monarchy later Parliament, albeit it ended up ultimately becoming dominated by England = London???
IIRC the Scottish Govt was officially "asked" many times by London to give its consent to the recruitment, etc. of Scots into the English, later "British" + "Commonwealth", military forces in addition to Scotland-affecting econ policies???
A doctor involved in horrific torture by Saddam Hussein's henchmen is working in British hospitals.
In an astonishing immigration scandal, border officials have allowed the suspected war criminal to treat thousands of British patients.
Dr Mohammed Kassim Al-Byati was given a permit to work as a doctor in the NHS by the Labour government in 2004. Checks failed to uncover his history of working for the notorious Iraqi Intelligence Agency, which ran the country in a reign of terror during the Saddam years.
His job was to patch up torture victims so that they could be subjected to more appalling treatment. In 2007, Al-Byati contacted the Home Office to confess to his horrific past so that he could claim asylum. But, incredibly, this did not prevent him from carrying on earning tens of thousands of pounds working at a hospital in Wales.
Even now, despite his file being referred to a specialist war crimes unit, he remains cleared by the General Medical Council, and has been working in the West Midlands.
The details have only now been unearthed by Home Secretary Theresa May, who was 'horrified' to discover what had been taking place. She has ordered an urgent inquiry, and is planning changes to the rules to stop any similar cases slipping through the net.
There will also be a shake-up of the UK Border Agency war crimes unit. Whitehall sources say the case shows the total shambles which UKBA became under Labour. At its heart lies the Human Rights Act and a little-known EU directive which permitted the doctor to work even when his past was known.
[An Nahar] Venezuelan His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez has admitted to having had a cancerous tumor removed, following weeks of speculation over the leftist firebrand's condition and unprecedented absence from public life.
"Studies confirmed the existence of a tumor with cancerous cells," the 56-year-old leader said Thursday in his first televised address since being rushed to hospital in Cuba on June 10 during a state visit.
Venezuelan officials had said he was being treated for a painful pelvic abscess, but Chavez announced that the operation had uncovered the tumor and a second operation had been deemed necessary to remove it.
Chavez did not say where the tumor was found or what type of cancer was detected.
In the emotional late night address, broadcast live in Venezuela, Chavez expressed hope for a full recovery and acknowledged a "fundamental error" in neglecting his health for years.
In contrast to his famously long, improvised speeches that often run hours on end and frequently feature diatribes against U.S. "imperialism," Chavez's pre-recorded address was read from a script in a tight 15-minute video.
Flanked by an image of Venezuelan independence hero Simon Bolivar on one side and the national flag on the other, Chavez was visibly thinner but remained animated during parts of his address.
Dozens of government supporters erupted into the streets of Caracas to show their solidarity with the ailing president, who insisted he was still in control.
"I have kept informed and am in control of the Venezuelan government," he said, adding that he has been in "constant communication" with Vice President Elias Jaua and members of his administration.
The president of South America's biggest oil producer and champion of the Latin American left did not, however, indicate when he would return to Venezuela, where he has been elected president three times since 1998.
Immediately after the broadcast, Jaua made his own somber address to the nation in which he insisted the government was still functioning and called for the "unity of all revolutionary forces in the country."
"This is not time for sadness but time for reflection, courage and to work calmly as the commander recovers," Jaua said.
The ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) said it would keep working to achieve Chavez's ideals.
His medical condition had been shrouded in mystery, which deepened Wednesday with the delay of a major upcoming regional summit he was due to host.
The president "is in the midst of a strict process of recovery and medical treatment," the foreign ministry said at the time, without elaborating.
Chavez's unusual withdrawal from public life left many Venezuelans speculating that he might have had plastic surgery, could be hiding a more serious ailment or was drumming up sympathy ahead of a 2012 re-election bid.
Venezuelans were especially shocked by his silence on two major issues in the past month -- the government's decision to limit electricity use to combat shortages and a days-long prison riot that left 29 people dead.
In his address, the president justified the silence on his health by saying he only wanted to speak once he was assured he would recover.
The government's refusal to provide any specifics on his condition for 20 days emboldened opposition politicians, who alleged it was unconstitutional for the president to be governing from abroad.
Chavez last spoke publicly on June 12, when he told Caracas-based pan-Latin American television network Telesur by phone that he was receiving treatment in Cuba.
Since then, he has sent several Twitter messages and earlier this week appeared on Cuban and Venezuelan television alongside revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, in an apparent bid to plug rumors about his condition.
But the decision to postpone the inaugural summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) on July 5-6 added to rising concern over his lengthy stay in Havana.
That announcement also appeared to cast doubt on the normally omnipresent leftist leader making it back to Caracas in time for celebrations marking the bicentennial of Venezuela's independence from Spain, on July 5.
Venezuelan officials had rejected earlier reports in the U.S. press that Chavez was at death's door following his hospitalization.
"A picture says more than 1,000 words," Venezuelan Information Minister Andres Izarra said after seeing the video of Chavez with Castro. "We can see him there, very dynamic. We can see that he is recovering."
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After he dies, it will be all America's fault. Poisoning him in Cuba, etc.
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I think its a safe bet that some legislaturers in CA and IL are thinking up how to erect custom booths on the Interstates as well. Converting those welcome plazas and truck weight stations into tax and fee collection offices.
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"Denmark on Friday approved a decision to re-establish permanent customs checkpoints at its borders"
'Bout damn time. Re-establishing national sovereignty - what a concept!
Next up - tell the EUrocrats to go to hell.
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It came out a while back that leftist political parties throughout Europe had long been intentionally flooding Europe with "immigrants", with the tacit understanding that they would only vote for leftist political parties.
And they overcame the reluctance of EU nations that didn't want an influx by removing all border controls, so they would get flooded anyway.
Finally the Danes have wised up to this scheme. Other nations, now controlled by the right, will likely follow suit, despite bitter protests from the left.
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What will happen is companies shipping into Cali will just hire illegal alien drivers, who will be waved through once it's realized they have no papers. Cause we all know you can't ask them for papers or hold them for anything.
I wish I was just being sarcastic but somehow I can see this happening.
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P2K: Blago, when he was Illinois governor, floated a proposal to use the I-Pass (like EZ-Pass on the east coast) toll road transponders to track motorists and issue speeding tickets automatically based on when you went past the toll booths.
Fortunately he offered the Senate job around before he could implement the transponder idea.
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There's a tribal highway in OK that has tollbooths. They know how much time it takes legally to travel from entrance to exit booth and do the calculation on speed. If you arrive really 'early' they issue the ticket at the exit booth.
(KUNA) -- The unemployment in the 27-member European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... rate was 9.3 percent in May, unchanged compared with April. These figures were published Friday by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office.
Eurostat said that 22.378 million men and women in the EU were unemployed in May and compared with April, the number of persons unemployed fell by 5, 000.
Among the EU member states, the lowest unemployment rates were recorded in the Netherlands (4.2 percent), Austria (4.3 percent) and Luxembourg (4.5 percent), and the highest in Spain (20.9 percent), Lithuania (16.3 percent) and Latvia (16.2 percent).
Compared with a year ago, the unemployment rate fell in nineteen EU countries and increased in eight. Meanwhile, ...back at the bake sale, Umberto's Mom's cannoli were a big hit... in a separate statement Eurostat said the overall tax-to-GDP ratio in the EU declined to 38.4 percent in 2009, compared with 39.3 percent in 2008. This decrease was essentially due to the 4.3% drop in GDP in the EU from 2008 to 2009, rather than to tax cuts.
In comparison with the rest of the world, the EU tax ratio remains generally high and more than one third above the levels recorded in the USA and Japan. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... the tax burden varies significantly between EU member states, ranging in 2009 from less than 30 percent in Latvia (26.6 percent), Romania (27.0 percent), Ireland (28.2 percent), Slovakia (28.8 percent), Bulgaria (28 9 percent) and Lithuania (29.3 percent) to more than 45 percent in Denmark (48. 1 percent) and Sweden (46.9 percent)..
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It has long been noted that EU government fudge their unemployment stats even more than the USG. I believe that in Britain, the unemployment stats were modified some 24 times, each and every time lowering the number of officially unemployed.
(KUNA) -- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another James Baker ... arrived in Madrid Friday on her first official two-day visit to the country with the aim of boosting bilateral ties in various domains.
Clinton was received upon her arrival to Torrejon Air Force Base in Madrid by US ambassador to Spain Alan Solomont, and high-profile Spanish and US figures, and she will embark upon discussing political topics on her agenda with holding a meeting with her Spanish counterpart Trinidad Jimenez.
It is scheduled for Clinton to meet King Juan Carlos, and Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in order to mull with them a number of issues, particularly the military intervention in Libya, war in Afghanistan, and the Middle East upheavels.
Further, discussions will tackle the latest developments in Latin America, particularly in Cuba and Venezuela, besides thrashing out the ways of boosting bilateral ties in the domains of trade, economy, and investment.
Clinton's visit is her first to the country since taking over her office in 2009, and within a tour which will take her to Hungary, and Lithuania, while this is the first visit paid by the top US diplomat to Spain in two years.
Jimenez considered yesterday the visit of her American counterpart as a proof of deep-rooted ties between the two countries, expressing hope that such visit will further boost ties, and bring political stances closer, besides opening up new horizons for cooperation in various political, economic, and military fields.
This is the third meeting between Clinton and Jimenez as the two ministers met last January in Washington, and before this in Lisbon on the sidelines of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... summit in November 2010.
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[Al Jazeera] The Italian government has approved an austerity package aimed at shielding the country from the Greek debt crisis and eliminating the budget deficit in 2014.
The package, drafted by Giulio Tremonti, the finance minister, contains $66.7bn of deficit cuts to balance the budget in 2014. It will trim the budgets of central government ministries and local authorities and reduce tax breaks for companies and families.
However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... parliament must approve it within 60 days.
The austerity sweep has heightened tensions within the centre-right coalition of Silvio Berlusconi, ...current Italian prime minister, known for his plain (for a European politician) speaking and his liking for hookers a third his age or less... the prime minister, and his restive Northern League ally has warned that the government is at risk until the package is passed.
"The composition of the budget is very well balanced between lower spending and higher revenues," Tremonti, the Italian finance minister, said at a joint news conference with Berlusconi. "With today's measures we completed our path towards a balanced budget."
He described this as a "political, civic and moral objective".
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Italy is notorious for tax evasion. We'll see how well this works.
The top U.N. human rights official urged the governor of Texas on Friday to call off the execution next week of a Mexican citizen convicted of murder who was not told of his right to diplomatic advice when arrested.
Humberto Leal Garcia was convicted of raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in Texas in February 1998 and his conviction was upheld the following year, a spokesman for United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said.
"We understand that the execution of Mr. Leal Garcia is now set for Thursday, 7 July. The governor of Texas still has the power to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. The High Commissioner has written to him directly requesting him to do so," her spokesman Rupert Colville told a news briefing.
At the time of his arrest, Leal Garcia was not informed of his right under international law to have consular assistance from Mexican authorities which, as a foreign national, he is entitled to under the Vienna Convention, he said.
"The lack of consular assistance and advice raises concerns about whether or not Mr. Leal Garcia's right to a fair trial was fully upheld," Colville said.
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We didn't advise him of his right to diplomatic advice as a foreign national because we weren't allowed to ask him if he was a foreign national?
Somehow I just can't work up any sympathy..
I have an idea! Release him, barefoot, somewhere near Marathon, tell all Texas fathers where, and tell him to 'run for the border.'
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With citizens being killed in Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Thailand, et al. These POS's have the time to worry about this abomination? Kill him and send his head to the Mexican gov't. Send a photo to Navi Pillay
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"commute" can also mean to exchange for something of equal value. So one Texan said, "Sure, we won't inject him--we'll hang him!"
[Dawn] The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly directed the ministry of defence on friday to take action against three retired generals involved in the National Logistics Cell (NLC) scam, DawnNews reported.
Lt-Gen (retd) Khalid Munir Khan (officer-in-charge of NLC from Jan to June 2005), Lt-Gen (retd) Mohammad Afzal Muzzafar (officer-in-charge from June 2005 to Oct 2008) and Maj-Gen (retd) Khalid Zaheer Akhtar (director general from July 2002 to Jan 2008) are the officials involved.
The PAC in November last year decided to withhold its final recommendations and give some time to the military authorities after Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... announced that the GHQ would hold its own investigation into the scandal.
Three retired general were allegedly involved in misadventures in the stock exchange which caused a loss of about Rs2 billion to the NLC.
The PAC accepted the recommendations of Hamid Hassan about the scandal.
PAC also directed the government to take action against former chief finance officer of NLC, Saeedur Rehman.
Furthermore the case was directed to be sent to Natinal Accountibility bureau (NAB) for further investigations.
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Doesn't mention why NASA has a archeologist on staff, though.
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6) NASA's Mission is to make Muslims feel better about themselves
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Doesn't mention why NASA has a archeologist on staff, though.
Same reason the Army does. When you operate in places like Fort Irwin, National Training Center, BY LAW the area has to be surveyed and checked for archeological remains so as not to disturb remains and sites of Native Americans. When you find some shards of pottery, the area has to be cordoned off. Just think of it as 'endangered species' bureaucratic obstruction for the feelings of a special interest group. So if you do business in desolate places where people don't live, you end up with archeologists doing some work. BTW, there is a NASA facility that does border the NTC.
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What in the heck will become of the Vertical Assembly Building? It was once the world's largest battery.
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depending on the location, we sometimes have to have both Arch/Paleo monitors onsite for all excavations. God forbid we find human bones. Curation is time-consuming and costly
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1) Just one astronaut has become a horrifying hypersexual cannibalistic mutant, and it didn't hurt John Glenn's senate career one bit.
2) John Kerry was not actually an astronaut, although his "honorary astronaut badge with silver star" is in his updated USN 201 file.
3) Velcro is well within safety limits for gamma ray emissions, though it should not be worn near a person for more than a minute or two, every few years.
4) Al Gore is actually from the ice planet Hoth instead of Tennessee. He is not a Lizard Man from Mars, like Jimmy Carter.
5) Contrary to the rumors that the world will be destroyed in the year 2012, NASA confirms that there will not be a year 2012, so we can't be destroyed. It's like a leap year thing, but only happens every 60 million years or so.
A lesbian marine in San Diego is expected to be jailed for up to one year after she and her girlfriend allegedly married male colleagues to claim $75,000 in married couple allowances.
Corporal Ashley Vice has been charged with conspiracy, making false official statements, fraud and adultery for allegedly marrying to qualify for financial assistance offered to heterosexual married couples.
Vice said that she married a straight colleague because she wanted to live off base with her civilian girlfriend but could not afford it.
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I still remember the time when straight females were denied housing allowance commensurate with their male counterparts. DoD lost that case in federal court and had to pay the same rate. When the gays marry in states which authorize such unions as marriage, no matter what the JAG told the Chairman, the fed courts will eventually direct DoD to do the same again. That means paying housing allowance and equal access to government housing. Till then don't file false official statements boys and girls. That's a whole other offense, even though we can count down as the radicals in the community will blames this on homophobia rather than an issue of integrity.
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.
Maryland health officials were making revisions late Friday night to a new policy that would have severely restricted who could apply sunscreen to children attending summer camps.
KABUL-- The top two officials of Kabul Bank used fake names, forged documents, fictitious companies and secret records as part of an elaborate ruse to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to shareholders and top Afghan officials, according to newly obtained documents and interviews.
His Excellency President-for-Life, Caudillo of the Bolivarians Hugo Chavez
Hillary Clinton
