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Looney Clooney, at it again. Where was he when the Darfurians were raping the Christians down South???? Silence, ... The Darfurians were the real war criminals, they are getting what they gave.
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[NY Post]Attorney Harrison Williams should have made $75,000 for work he did on behalf of a prisoner who filed a lawsuit. Instead, an appeals court ruled, he earned $1.50. "Don't spend it all in one place, bub!"
The prisoner, who claimed he had his religious rights violated when his dreadlocks were touched, was awarded one dollar. Oh, yeah. That's one of the basic tenets of the Church of the Subgenius, ain't it?
Williams said the Nov. 15 ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan may discourage lawyers from representing frivolous claims of prisoners. Wouldn't that be a shame?
The appeals court said Congress limited attorney fees to 150 percent of a jury award when it passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act in 1997, though it conceded the description in the law was "not a model of clarity." "But since nobody's concerned but us we may have a problem, at least until we can buy enough legislators..."
"A lot of attorneys were probably crapping themselves when they saw that decision," Williams said. "You have to consider there aren't many of these cases economically you can afford to take on."
Richard J. Cardinale, a Brooklyn lawyer who sometimes represents prisoners, said he was not surprised by the ruling.
"The rationale is that a lot of these cases are dubious and that prisoners need to be discouraged from bringing these cases and lawyers need to be discouraged too," he said. "It discourages me from taking small cases."
It's unlikely the law will change, Cardinale said.
"There's no constituency for prisoners or for people who represent prisoners. I have no hope," he said.
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FINALY some brains among Judges
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MMMM, On second thought, award him the entire 75K FROM THE PLAINTIFF ALONE (no bankruptcy's allowed.
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Return the murdering bastard to paleostein - from 30,000 feet.
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Lower, from 30K he'd freeze and/or suffocate on the way down.
OR in a Thermo suit and Pressure Helmet over WATER from consideravly Higher. (No Parchute, OR a faulty one)
(MMMM Space?)
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Pardon my skepticism, but if memory serves, Sirhan^2 was apprehended at the scene, in the act, with the gun in his hand. Would it be mean to accuse his lawyers of being publicity seeking scumbags?
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Per the article, the court papers were filed by a man named Dr. Pepper who has been Sirhan's attorney now for several years.
Sirhan gave an interview in the late 1980s admitting guilt without remorse for this assassination. During the parole hearing early in 2011, Sirhan, now about 67 years old, claimed not to remember anything about the assassination. The parole board denied his petition.
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"During the parole hearing early in 2011, Sirhan, now about 67 years old, claimed not to remember anything about the assassination."
No problem - there are millions of Americans (including me) who remember and would be glad to remind the murdering bastard all about it....
Did I mention he can't burn in HELL soon enough?
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Release him - back into Iranian society (iirc, he IS Iranian) with a virulent, painful, contagious flesh-eating virus - in Qom. Maybe the Mullahs will embrace him before his condition becomes so bad it can't be ignored.
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George Bush and his family are continuing its health awareness African trip despite Amnesty's international calls for the former President's arrest over human rights violations.
Seems like the Africans appreciate a man who stood up for them...
The former President, his wife, daughter and the rest of the US delegation were first welcomed by a traditional dance troop upon their arrival at the KK International Airport in Lusaka, so Amnesty's call is set to be left unanswered for now.
They were also greeted by Zambia President Michael Sata, First Lady Christine Kaseba, Chief Justice Ernest Sakala, and other ministers and diplomats.
Bush who visited Tanzania before arriving in Zambia is also expected to visit Ethiopia. The trip is aimed at raising awareness about cervical and breast cancer and HIV/Aids.
However, Thursday, Amnesty international called on Bush' African hosts to arrest the former president for violating international torture laws.
Usual progressive nonsense follows at the link. What AI doesn't get is that they're played. A few mooks got water-boarded? Ask the guys who got drone-zapped which is better.
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"Amnesty international called on Bush' African hosts to arrest the former president for violating international torture laws."
I've got a better idea: Arrest the AI clowns for their constant whining - it's certainly torture to normal people.
A firing squad would be nice, too.
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Amnesty International seems to call anything but asking prisoners "Pretty please with sugar on top" torture.
Ask John McCain and other "guests" of the North Vietnamese what real torture is. McCain cannot raise his arms above his shoulders. Many others suffer other permanent disabilities from the beatings and other tortures they endured. Were the North Vietnamese ever called out by Amnesia International? I didn't think so.
It is true that after a while torture doesn't produce meaningful results, because the person being tortured will say anything to make the pain stop. However, to me, water boarding, sleep deprivation, and some of the other things we are alleged to have done rise to the level of torture.
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To me, water boarding, sleep deprivation, and some of the other things we are alleged to have done rise to the level of fraternity prank.
We've got college freshman boys who go through worse - on purpose - for the privilege of "belonging" with a bunch of like-minded idiots. The islamonazis are wussies compared to those guys.
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What they did to me in Ranger School and in Escape and Evasion training might qualify as torture by some of the dim lightbulb lawyers in DOJ.
Heck, I had it easy ask the SEALS. Maybe we put terrorist through Ranger School?
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I don't even want to know the types of characters who work at Amnesty International.
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Amnesty International seems to call anything but asking prisoners "Pretty please with sugar on top" torture.
And the only crime they don't consider a crime of conscious deserving of instant release is not being socialist.
Amnesty lost me long ago in the 80s when I saw one of their books and noted twenty something pages listing political prisoners in the US and their various crimes and a page and a half of crimes in the Iran section. Certainly harder to get info on the folks held in Iran but some commentary to that effect might have helped. It left the impression that the Soviets had written the book.
In the western German city of Koblenz, tens of thousands have left their homes as experts prepare to defuse a massive bomb from World War II discovered in the Rhine river.
City officials said Sunday that some 45,000 residents living within a 1.2 miles radius from the bomb site had to evacuate for the day. Officials say seven nursing homes, two hospitals and a prison are also being evacuated. It's one of Germany's biggest bomb-related evacuations since the war ended.
The RAF 1.8 ton bomb would cause massive damage if it exploded. It was found last week next to a 275-pound U.S. bomb after the Rhine's water level fell due to lack of rain. Both bombs are to be defused.
On Sunday, all road and rail connections to Koblenz will be blocked. Trains have not been able to stop at the main railway station since early Sunday morning and access roads into the city will be closed.
Shelters with 12,000 beds have been set up in schools. Hundreds of sandbags have been laid around the section of the riverbed where the bomb lies.
On Sunday morning the remaining water will be pumped out from the area. Once the bomb site is dry, the work to defuse the explosives will begin. The second, smaller US bomb will be defused at the same time.
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The US military has remembered Koblenz ever since its post-World War I occupation by General John J. Pershing.
Pershing was not a believer in "coddling" the troops, and he blamed the two epidemics his army had suffered, "clap" and influenza, on idleness and interacting with the local population while idle.
So, in the quiet of Koblenz, at the time called Coblenz, he ordered that all soldiers were to undergo 8 hours of close order drill daily.
This did not endear him to the soldiers.
Pershing was immortalized by the National Society of Pershing Rifles, that to this day, endeavors to teach ROTC cadets drill & ceremonies, with antiquated and inert rifles, so that they can perform decorative activities at civilian functions.
More militant cadets are encouraged to join a parallel organization based on US Army Ranger training, which teaches them to be deadly, not pretty. This more reflects the opinions of General Pershing's subordinate officers during the Philippine Insurrection.
[Dawn] The authorities at the Board of Intermediate Education Bloody Karachi on Saturday attacked the team of 'Khabardar', a program on DawnNews, and threatened them with 'serious' consequences for covering a student protest, DawnNews reported.
They also tried to damage the team's camera, the network said.
The team of 'Khabardar' was covering a protest of Intermediate students against what the students called the 'bias' and 'misappropriation' in their examination results.
When Khabardar's team reached the Bloody Karachi Board Office, armed individuals beat the host Jamil Farooqi, cameraman Haider Ali and producer Zahid Thebo and used inappropriate language along with threatening to kill them.
The gunnies tried to stop the protest by tearing the protestors' banners.
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the program's team continued to cover the demonstration.
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The photo on the website of FHM India, in advance of its publication in the magazine's December issue, has been lighting up social network website Facebook and Twitter since earlier this week.
Many here anticipate a backlash.
Malik has broken Pak social and national taboos in the past. She is a target for conservative ire and a heroine to some Pak liberals.
Conservative holy man Maulana Abdul Qawi declared on Aaj TV on Saturday that the latest controversy was a "shame for all Mohammedans." Farzana Naz, interviewed by the same channel on the streets of Lahore, said that the actress had "bowed all us women in shame."
Twitter commentator Umair Javed however called on Paks to "make copies of the picture and bury it in your backyard. This way, our grandkids will know there were some amongst us who lived free!"
Asked by news hounds whether Pakistain would "pursue the matter" legally, the country's Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. said Saturday, "First, let us see whether it is real or fake."
Malik for her part says that the photo at the root of the current uproar was published in violation of her agreement with FHM India.
In an interview with Pak Geo television broadcast Saturday, Malik acknowledged having been photographed for a "bold but not nude shot." She said the editor of the magazine had promised that he would cover most of the photo with the ISI initials.
Malik said that the photo was intended to poke fun at the Indian fear of Pak spies: "Whatever happens (in India), people say ISI is behind that."
Malik said she would "probably" take a legal action against the magazine for violating terms and condition.
Magazine editor Kabeer Sharma said Malik did all with her full consent.
"We have all the record(s)," he told the Pak television station. "Veena was very excited about that ISI idea."
Malik does most of her work in India. The entertainment sector there is booming, while Pakistain's is relatively moribund. Her ties to India have landed her in controversy in the past.
During a much-publicised talk show appearance early this year, she lashed out her nemesis Abdul Qawi, who criticised her for having a scripted love affair with an Indian actor on an Indian reality show.
"What is your problem with me?" an angry Malik demanded of the scholar, who had accused her of insulting Islam.
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"What is your problem with me?" an angry Malik demanded of the scholar, who had accused her of insulting Islam.
He loves you. You are a convenient vehicle to prove that he is Islamic enough.
OPEC oil ministers are expected to agree on action to support crude prices at around $100 a barrel when they meet in Vienna in mid December but will unlikely discussion new quotas, a key Saudi bank has said.
The ministers of the 12-nation Organization or Petroleum Exporting Countries, meeting on December 14, will avoid talks on new quotas until Libyan production is fully restored and Saudi output is trimmed back following its unilateral increases after the last failed meeting in June, the Saudi American Bank group (SAMBA) said in its latest monthly bulletin.
As such, the effectively irrelevant quotas agreed back in 2008 will remain in place, it said, noting that Saudi Arabia had boosted output above nine million barrels per day to offset disruption in conflict-hit Libya.
That said, we expect the meeting will be less contentious than the last and that a consensus will emerge over the need to support prices at around $100 given members higher budget break-even prices.
SAMBA said it believes Saudi will look to balance its output against increasing Libyan supply while monitoring prices carefully.
According to the bill, which was proposed by Likud MK Ofir Akunis and has been backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, political NGOs in Israel would not be allowed to receive donations exceeding 20,000 shekels provided by foreign governments and international organizations, such as the UN and the European Union.
According to the bill, "inciting activity undertaken by many organizations, under the cover of human rights work, has the goal of influencing political debates, and the character and the policies of the state of Israel."
Akunis referred to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's criticism of the bill, which she voiced on Saturday, and said that "the Foreign Agents Registration Act in the U.S. is much harsher than the (current) bill, especially in light of the amended bill which clearly defines what constitutes a political organization." Especially given the fact that US Democrats have been actively trying to undercut the Israeli government, and support their political left wing.
Speaking on Sunday on the "London and Kirshenbaum" television show on Channel 10, Akunis said US Senator Joseph McCarthy who in the 1950s presided over a committee that investigated Americans suspected of harboring Communist views said "was right in every word, the fact is -there were Soviet agents."
Speaking to Haaretz later on Sunday, Akunis said he was referring to McCarthy's claim that several Soviet agents infiltrated the U.S. "I didn't say McCarthyism was right, or that every word that McCarthy said was right." He added that he does not support McCarthyism or political persecution of citizens suspected of being disloyal to the state. "God forbid, absolutely not," he said.
"I am far less extreme than what some columns say, and I am not part of the legislation against the judiciary. I have one law that is right and just, that says that a foreign country will not transfer money to another country." Akunis said the bill "is far from being fascist or ant-democratic. It is also not a law that targets the freedom of assembly." I changed the ordering of the paragraphs from the original, because they wanted to emphasize his remarks, not his legislation against a very tangible threat to Israel from foreign powers.
In Durham, England, corpses will soon be used to generate electricity. A crematorium is installing turbines in its burners that will convert waste heat from the combustion of each corpse into as much as 150 kilowatt-hours of juice enough to power 1,500 televisions for an hour. The facility plans to sell the electricity to local power companies.
Some might find this concept creepy. Others might be pleased to learn that the process "makes cremation much greener by utilizing its by-products," in the words of cremation engineer Steve Looker, owner and chief executive officer of the Florida-based company B&L Cremation Systems, which is unaffiliated with the Durham enterprise.
In Europe, tightening regulations on crematorium emissions, coupled with the high price of energy, will lead more and more facilities to go the way of Durham in the future, Looker said. Will crematories in the United States follow suit?
According to Looker, whose company is currently testing different methods of utilizing cremation waste heat, the expensive turbine systems being installed in Durham are not yet economically viable for crematories here. "In the U.S., most crematories don't have enough through-put," he told Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to LiveScience. "Cremation in some parts of Europe is over 90 percent, but it is not over 50 percent yet here." That is, less than half of Americans opt for cremation. Most are buried.
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.
[NY Post]Attorney Harrison Williams should have made $75,000 for work he did on behalf of a prisoner who filed a lawsuit. Instead, an appeals court ruled, he earned $1.50.
Veena Malik, a Pak actress who posed in the nude for an 
