Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans.
Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly.
Even headless flies took flight when researchers stimulated the correct neurons, according to the study, published in the April 7 issue of the journal Cell.
Scientists say the study could ultimately help identify the cells associated with psychiatric disorders, overeating and aggressiveness.
Biologists have long known that an electrical stimulus can trigger muscle response, but this approach used focused beams of light to stimulate neurons that would have been impossible to study using electrodes.
Gero Miesenbock, associate professor of cell biology at Yale, said if the process could be duplicated on mice, researchers might be able to better understand the cellular activity that leads to certain behavior.
"Ultimately, that could be important to understanding human psychiatric disorders," Miesenbock said. "That's really futuristic stuff."
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TIRANA (Reuters) - Albania's most wanted man fought off special police and eluded capture for years only to blow himself up while fishing with dynamite, police and newspapers said Friday. Dubbed the "Last Cowboy" in northern Albania because of his gunfights with the law, Riza Malaj, 34, failed to accurately gauge the length of the fuse as he tried to blow up trout. He must not have been able to find a decent sushi bar. Either that or he's a sucide fish bomber.
Doctors at the Bajram Curri hospital said he had lost both hands, badly hurt his eyes and suffered serious wounds all over his body. His family rejected offers to have him flown to a Tirana hospital where he would have been arrested immediately. What were they afraid of, torture? Seems he tortured himself enough as it was.
Malaj was taken to a hospital in nearby U.N.-governed Kosovo.
He was sentenced in absentia to five years in jail on charges of leading an attack on the Bajram Curri police station last year. Since 2000, warrants have been issued for Malaj's arrest on charges of willful murder, armed robbery, armed assault and battery of the education directress of the town.
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Nope. Won't be arrested there. They might make him do PSA's on the dangers of fishing with dynamite though...
BREA, Calif. (AP) - A man who awoke Sunday to find an armed and naked intruder standing over his bed subdued the suspect until police arrived, authorities said. Eric Wall, 45, told police that the intruder - identified as 18-year-old Arthur David Macias - was carrying a kitchen knife and said the anti-Christ had sent him to the house to kill Wall.
Wall grabbed Macias and pulled him onto the bed. After a short struggle, Macias was detained by Wall and his 15-year-old son, who armed themselves with baseball bats.
Police said Macias broke into the Wall's home about 35 miles southeast of Los Angeles by removing a screen from an open laundry room window and stole a knife from the kitchen. Police said Macias did not indicate why he chose the residence. Macias was arrested on attempted murder, making criminal threats, assault with a deadly weapon and burglary. He was being held at the Orange County Jail on $1 million bail. Why is this odd??? We have lots of folks here, in the L.A. Metro area, sent by Mr. 666 to do something bad. {snicker} After all, they don't say "Hooray for Hollywood", for nothing do they? With $1,000,000 bail the cops are taking him seriously {snicker}
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Hmm, I think the Antichrist needs to review his hiring policies.
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This seems quite odd. A 45 y/o awakes and subdues an armed intruder less than half his age that was standing over him. Our intruder seems to have been a rather passive fellow. Besides the whole armed breaking & entering thing I mean.
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Oh. I thought this was "Nuggets from the Urdu Press"...
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I doubt there's a Charlie Manson wannabee somewhere out there sending dinks like Macias on nude kill missions. This guy is probably just a whack job living out some fantasy -- or looking for 3 squares a day and video game time in a mental facility.
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B-a-R's post made me realize it may be time to make Judge Greer into a verb...
"I greered his naked ass with my Louisville Slugger, a Roger Maris Signature, so he's on life support, now. The kid got a coupla shots in, too. I'm proud of his slugging average."
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"There are one million stories in the naked city, . . ."
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"I greered his naked ass with my Louisville Slugger,..
In my case, since I play recreational hockey, I managed to keep a lot of the wooden stix I broke, and trimmed them a little. I can either swing the stick like a baby Slugger, or I can hold both ends and administer a cross-check to whatever body part is closest. :)
WHAT ELSE DID SPAIN SELL to Venezuela, besides transport and ocean surveillance planes, as well as patrol boats? Well, according to Spanish news agency Europa Press, during the first half of 2004 Spain sold to Chavez
This is an extremely serious issue, which so far has been virtually ignored by the Spanish press, focused on the boats and planes controversy. No mainstream media have covered this, and I only found three articles via Google News on small local newspapers.
Interestingly, without reporting on the exact date of the deal, all three blame the Aznar administration for the sale that took place during the first semester of 2004, although Zapatero took office on April 17th. That is, the semester was virtually split in two near-identical halfs, the first one with Aznar as PM and the second with Zapatero.
I still don't have solid information about the date, but I'd be willing to bet that it was under Zapatero. Why I'm saying this? Well, first because after all Zapatero has been getting cozy with Chavez since day 1, and, actually accused Aznar of supporting the 2002 coup that briefly ousted him (why would Aznar sell WMD material to someone he had tried to oust from power?). But mainly because if it had been under Aznar, the issue would not be silenced by the pro-Socialist MSM. I can assure you that it would be all over the place opening TV and radio newscasts, and would be on page 1 on El Pais, almost a Socialist-party house organ, since it would cast a darker picture of Zapatero's predecessor.
The issue merits a close followup, so I will keep you posted as soon as I get more information.
If Rumsfeld was reportedly angry about the sale of planes and boats, boy I can only imagine what he'll think about this.
A long, hot summer of street protests may be in store for Mexico as the capital's combative leftist mayor fights a court case that could knock him out of the 2006 presidential race.
Many Mexicans are worried about political violence and Wall Street investors are also on edge as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has encouraged "massive civil disobedience" to oppose the minor charges he claims are a ploy to end his career.
The mayor has pleaded with his followers to be peaceful. But the public and investors are concerned about potential highway blockades, occupation of government buildings or other disruptions that could cause chaos and violence.
"People are going to be sweating about this all summer," said Vitali Meschoulam, a Latin America strategist at HSBC investment bank in New York. "I don't think this case is anywhere near over."
Congress stripped Lopez Obrador of his legal immunity last week so he can face charges that he violated a court order in 2001 by building a road to a hospital over private land.
The charges could force the mayor out of the 2006 race, in which polls show him to be a clear favorite. Lopez Obrador accuses President Vicente Fox and business leaders of leading the efforts to bar him.
"This is only just beginning," Lopez Obrador told his supporters recently. He is currently at his suburban home awaiting a court's arrest order and jail.
Mexico's stock market was unusually volatile last week, posting both its biggest one-day loss and gain of 2005, as investors tried to decipher how Lopez Obrador and his die-hard supporters would react in coming weeks.
"That man is crazy," said advertising executive Miguel Ramirez as he rushed to lunch. "Anything can happen here, OK? You put Lopez Obrador and a million people in the streets and God knows what you get..."
About 150,000 people took to Mexico City's streets in support of Lopez Obrador last week and another massive protest has been called for April 24...
"All it takes is for one of these protests to go wrong," said Alfredo Coutino, an economist at the Center for Economic Forecasting of Mexico in Philadelphia.
"Don't forget that the PRD has strong support in other states outside the capital. Those people might not listen to Lopez Obrador's request to be peaceful. And that's the problem here. When you get a tense situation, anything can happen." Why do I keep thinking of Ken Livingston?
It's springtime in Russia. And that means the Emergency Ministry's choppers will be flying to rescue unlucky ice fishermen carried off on ice-floes. Of course, a few will inevitably drown, but the rest will be saved (sometimes heroically and always at the expense of the taxpayer) and live not just to remember this as an exiting adventure but to actually repeat it the following year.
Now, in Russia, this happens every — I repeat, every — year. And, when asked by some TV news crew whether they would return the next winter, despite their recent near-death experience, some weather-beaten, vodka-high, potato-faced fool always grins stupidly and says, "You bet! Wouldn't miss it for the world!"
Some see this as a manifestation of the famed Russian spirit, others — as sheer idiocy. In fact, it is neither. What this actually is, is a classic example of 'freeloader mentality', the Russians' undying confidence in some benevolent force (be it God, luck or the government) always being there to pull them out of the shit they got themselves into. In the particular case of ice fishermen, what we are witnessing is a total lack of personal responsibility mixed with an ever-present reliance on "another guy" to solve their problems for them: it doesn't even enter their thick skulls that it's their fellow citizens who are forced to pay for their stupidity.
A freeloading attitude seems to be firmly placed at the core of the present-day Russian mentality, in generations both young and old alike. But whereas the older folks rely on the previously plentiful state welfare benefits, the younger indulge themselves in pirated music, movies and software. In the end, it all comes down to the same thing: most Russians see it as their God-given moral right to receive a lot of something while giving absolutely nothing in return. Basically, there's no real difference between the fact that over 70 percent of Russia's citizens receive (or were used to receiving until the recent "monetization" reforms) some kind of state benefits and that about the same percentage of cheap bootleg CDs and DVDs on the Russian market. In a way, communism is still alive and well.
Not that communism wasn't repeatedly proven to be an unworkable and inwardly corrupt system in the last 80 years or so. Even so, there are always those who would still defend it in thought and deed while laying the blame for its failings on its executors, be it Stalin, Mao, Castro, or Brezhnev. But however ruthless or corrupt these and other Communist leaders of the years past may have been, their ultimate role in the greater scheme of things is that of a bunch of dim-witted stooges trying to harness forces far beyond their control.
The U.S.S.R., in particular, fell not because Brezhnev or Gorbachev failed to grasp the "true meaning of Communism", but because it was based on a system which in reality was little more than thinly concealed slavery, with the state arbitrarily deciding who gets what. The abolition of private property eventually led to a situation where those who actually did all the work were rewarded only by miserable wages (mostly useless since the shops were all empty of goods anyway) while the fruits of their labor were redistributed at the will of the ruling elite: partly for the Soviet military-industrial complex, partly for the so-called state benefits, partly for the comfort of the elite itself. In return, a kind of passive revolt or sabotage became commonplace; as the popular joke of the Brezhnev-era went, "they pretend to pay us while we pretend to work".
And so, the only way to get any reward in this life is to stop working, and live on state handouts. The free-rider problem truly manifests itself when the number of people being supported by handouts sufficiently outweighs the number of those who are giving the state the means to make such handouts, inevitably leading to the collapse of the system itself.
Now, almost 14 years after the fall of communism, any traveler from the West caring enough to notice, will be appalled at some of the things he or she might witness in Russia: the dying-out villages, an abundance of beggars, street urchins and homeless people in the cities, the flaunting arrogance and corruption of police and government officials. But, of course, there are always plenty of cheap pirated CDs, DVDs, and software to buy, while contributing not only to mass copyright violations but to the gradual collapse of Russia as well.
For, continuing with the cowardly encouragement of social parasitism as it presently does, the Russian government will inevitably go the same way the old Soviet one did. But while things stand that way, one may just enjoy the freeloader heaven Russia has become. At least, for the time being.
Rescuers searched Monday for 18 North Korean crew members missing after their iron-ore laden cargo ship sank, the government said.
Twelve surviving crew members and the recovered bodies of five sailors returned to North Korea on Sunday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
The freighter sank Wednesday night with 35 crew aboard about 60 miles from Dandong, one of China's main gateways for trade with the isolated, impoverished North. The vessel was en route from the North Korean port of Nampo to Dandong with a cargo of iron ore.
Xinhua said the chances of survival for the missing crew members "are believed to be slim." And finding them is still problematic... Unless, of course, they glow in the dark...
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Sixty years ago, United States Army troops liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, the former home to Goethe and Schiller and a place where German culture enjoyed its pinnacle and society hit its nadir. On Sunday, more than 500 survivors came together for what will likely be their last reunion at the memorial site. Now many are taking steps to ensure that their memories of what happened here will endure, even after their deaths.
"Soon there won't be any living witnesses of the Nazi camps," said Jorge Semprun, author, former Spanish Minister of Culture and Buchenwald survivor, who once bore the prisoner number 44904.
With the generation of survivors now dying of old age, the burden of remembrance is being passed on to a younger generation. Semprun is convinced those memories will persist: "The Jewish memory of the camps will be long-lasting and enduring," he said. But that will require a new generation to become caretakers and administrators of those memories. To that end, Paul Spiegel, who heads the Central Council of Jews in Germany, has called upon the younger generations to take the "baton of memory." He has proposed that young Jews should "adopt" a victim of the concentration camps and to become the living custodian of that person's memory after he or she passes away. I can't say much today. Only thank you, thank you, to those who gave their lives so that we would live. I raise my glass to the heroes of the Third Army. And a special salute to you, General Patton! You know why!
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The French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has made a scathing attack on the EU constitution, saying a yes vote in the forthcoming referendum would be against France's national interests.
Mr Le Pen called the constitution an attempt to create a superstate at the expense of countries' identities, and called on leading EU countries to reject it. "We're in favour of cooperation between European nations, but on a different basis," he said.
Polls indicate that the French are leaning toward rejecting the constitution on May 29. This would stop the constitution in its tracks, as it needs approval by all 25 member states. The French president, government and main opposition party have urged voters to approve it.
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Barbara, please pass the popcorn!
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Sigh... ok, this is EU Constitution 101 for you:
1st possibility: The French vote for the constitution since Le Pen is so much against it. Hell the socialists had to vote for Chirac because Le Pen was running!
2nd possibility: The Constitution doesn't get a majority. You'll see many sombre politicians making sombre speeches, then they decide to continue the ratification process in the countries that do not get to vote.
After that, the French will vote again.
The Brits will never approve the Constitution, but I bet the EU will find some way to give the UK some "special status" and go on with the program.
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TGA, care to explain how the following circle is to be squared: the French vote against the EU constitution because it's too liberal, ie pro-free market. The British vote against it because it's not liberal enough.
What, if any, way is there to convince voters that the constitution is liberal (in the euro sense) and socialist alike?
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But well, that's not the point:
The French don't like it because Chirac says it's good.
The British don't like it because... well Chirac says it's good.
(AP) -- Many voters in last year's presidential election were denied access to the polls through trickery and intimidation, former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry told a voters' group Sunday. how many? Got a number? Anything more than vague anecdotes?
"Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated," the Massachusetts senator said at an event sponsored by the state League of Women Voters. Hey, when you told MTP taht you'd sign form 180, did you mean before the '08 campaign??
"There is no magic wand. No one person is going to stand up and suddenly say it's going to change tomorrow. You have to do that," he said. WTF?
Kerry supporters have charged that voting irregularities in largely Democratic areas made it difficult for voters to cast ballots in the November election. A lawsuit in Ohio cited long lines and a shortage of voting machines in predominantly minority neighborhoods, but the Ohio Supreme Court dismissed the suit. Since Donks run those county ops....idjits
Board of Elections for Cuyahoga County (Cleveland and surrounding suburbs) has four members, two Donks and two Reptiles. Hard to imagine either party getting away with the kind of chicanery that Kerry alleges.
Kerry also cited examples Sunday of how people were duped into not voting. "Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday. People are told in telephone calls that if you've ever had a parking ticket, you're not allowed to vote," he said. Anyone fooled by that is still looking for Prince Albert in a can. Bart Simpson does better than that, and he's an animated child
How dumb do you have to be to get misled on the day to vote? And should people that dumb be allowed to vote?
Kerry has never disputed the outcome of election, saying voting irregularities did not involve enough votes to change the result. Bush won the pivotal state of Ohio by 118,000 votes, giving him enough electoral votes to win re-election. crushing the lawyer legions Kerry and his Mommy had lined up
Bush supporters have denied using voter intimidation tactics to keep people from going to the polls. A call to the Republican National Committee media office was not immediately returned Sunday.
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Some real "Voter" should slap "Felcher" up side his too big head. What a moron.
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Kerry also cited examples Sunday of how people were duped into not voting. "Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday. People are told in telephone calls that if youâve ever had a parking ticket, youâre not allowed to vote," he said.
Show me a leaflet. Plus, anyone who believes this may not be eligible to vote anyway. Isn't there something about mental competentcy being necessary to vote?
Now we have a list :
Aesop's Fables
Kipling's Just-So Stories
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Kerry's Fantasies
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Hey, enough with the "Prince Albert in a can" stuff, okay? I'm mourning here.
But , yes, Kerry does appear to be quite the asshole...
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First it was the dumb voters, then it was his dumb staff who mislead him. Now it's the voters again, but this time, they weren't dumb, they were mislead. Yeeeeaaaahhhhh.....
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Show me a leaflet
Ed, give me a minute for the MS Word program to load.
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"Leaflets are handed out saying Democrats vote on Wednesday, Republicans vote on Tuesday." I can see it now: A group of Donks are sitting at the 'All Natural Veggie Bar' on Tuesday saying "Just wait till we vote tomorrow!" That's almost as good as the one about roadblocks in Black districts in Florida. To this date there has been NO valid claim that this happened.
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Kerry's problem is that he is the Monday morning president.
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Kerry: OK Doc, what is it?
Doctor: I'm sorry, Senator Kerry, but you have Algore Syndrome.
Kerry: Is it fatal?
Doctor: No, but it is incurable.
Kerry: What are the symptoms.
Doctor: Rampant paranoia, delusions of grandeur, bizarre outbursts, and an inexplicable desire to hang around with Al Franken.
Kerry: Ewww! The first part sounds OK (Teresa won't even notice the difference), but Al Franken. Is there no cure?
Doctor: I'm afraid not. If only the NIH would fund a study of this syndrome.
Kerry: I blame this administration!
Maybe America isn't ready for a female president after all, according to a surprising poll that found only 49 percent of voters may really want to put a woman in the Oval Office.
Pollsters say that on sensitive issues, voters often give the politically correct answer when asked what they'd do, but are more candid when asked what their friends and neighbors believe.
So pollster Scott Rasmussen first asked Americans if they'd personally be willing to vote for a woman for president and 72 percent said yes — a result comparable to other polls.
But he found a big gap and a very different answer when he asked: "What about your family, friends and co-workers — would most of them be willing to vote for a woman president?" Only 49 percent said yes.
"Asking about your family and friends will give a better gauge. The number of people actually willing to vote for a woman may be closer to 49 percent than 72," Rasmussen said.
The issue is hardly academic to Sen. Hillary Clinton, the leading Democratic presidential prospect for 2008, and to many Republicans dreaming that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice might carry their standard against her.
The discrepancy could raise the question of whether Clinton, who polls as high as 47 percent in some hypothetical presidential surveys, could face a kind of glass ceiling if she runs.
The gap on voting for a female candidate is most dramatic among those over 65, a heavy-voting group, but it's also true of Democrats, Republicans, men, woman and all ages, according to the survey of 1,000 adults taken Wednesday and Thursday.
Among seniors, 62 percent claim they'd be willing to vote for a woman, but said only 32 percent of their friends and family would.
Among Democrats, 84 percent said they'd be willing to vote for a woman, but only 59 percent said their friends would.
Among Republicans, it's a 61-to-41 percent gap; among women, 75-to-51 percent, and among men, 68-to-47 percent. Personally, I'm waay past this question and would welcome any intelligent non-idiotarian who grasps the obvious and has the will to do the right thing, but people are ruled by custom - and they keep surprising me. Regards Hillary - the fact that she's a woman has zero to do with what I think of her. I'm still in mourning about Condi, heh.
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...and would welcome any intelligent non-idiotarian who grasps the obvious and has the will to do the right thing...
Might want to ask the Argentinians what they think of Margaret Thatcher... {HE HE HE}
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Haven't we learned by now how unreliable the polls are? As to Hillary, she's a ruthless, machiavellian pro-Israel bi*ch who'd most likely be at least as tough on Boy Assad, Kim, Chavez et al as any Republican in Congress
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ruthless and machiavellian, but only on dissent here at home - abroad she'd get walked on, and by extension, America would. She has a society to manipulate, and foreign affairs tend to distract
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Did the pollsters bother to ask what the people would do if both major parties fielded women?
As for Billary, it's only "pro-Israel" for political expediency. In fact, everything it thinks/does is for political expediency.
At least you can't accuse the Hildabeest of compromising her principles - she doesn't have any.
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Might want to ask the Argentinians what they think of Margaret Thatcher...
Indeed. I'd barely hesitate to say that Britain hasn't had a leader with such balls since... Er... MAGGIE was the dog's...
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton bowled over the Democratic faithful in the key 2008 presidential swing state of Minnesota with a fiery weekend stump speech that had fans hailing her as the "great hope" to take back the White House. The Great Donk Hope. Gee, that sounds sooo familiar...
"She speaks her mind and she's a leader," swooned Debra Manninen. "She's our great hope." Swooning is almost a lost art. I'm glad Deb is keeping it alive semi-conscious. Um, Deb - beware Judge Greer... if he catches your act you may be in for a rough ride.
Party faithful here devoured Clinton's brand-new, red-meat material in her first major political speech Saturday night since the November 2004 election, which aides said she wrote herself. Oooh, red meat! Call PETA!
Both parties see Minnesota as one of the swing states that will pick the next president. Underscoring its importance, President Bush's political mastermind Karl Rove also rolled through the Twin Cities to charge up the GOP base. Hopeful Swoons vs E-vil Cunning.
Clinton didn't say she was running for president. She didn't have to. Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) said it for her when he made an "unauthorized" introduction of the "next great president of the United States of America." Woohoo! Everybody stand up and cheer! W00t!
After a standing ovation by 2,000 Dems who paid $100-a-head to see her speak, Clinton slammed Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress — and never contradicted her introduction. Their Minimum Daily Dose of BDS. $100 each. Heh.
Clinton's Republican shredding — calling GOP lawmakers "extras in the movie 'I, Robot' " and President Bush's push for an ownership society a "you're-on-your-own society" — was just what the party here wanted. Whoa, that's some deep shit there, folks. Looks like we're in for some fireworks, heh.
Clinton's speech contrasted with Rove's low-key talk at a private fundraiser Friday night for Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty — a budget hawk and long-shot 2008 presidential possibility. Walk and talk softly, and carry a very big stick.
"As dumb as they are, they [the Democrats] kind of catch on quick," Rove said in his lone partisan shot, according to GOP donor Tim Eichacker, who paid $250 to be there. *snicker* Put that on your motivation bulletin board, Dhimmis.
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As a non-american with limited access to American media I ever wonder at what Hallary has ever done in order to be considered as a presidentiable. So far the only thing it come to my mind is that she was cheated by her husband but then there are tnes of thousands women who could be presidentiable.
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President Bushâs push for an ownership society a "youâre-on-your-own society" People owning their own busineses and homes= bad. Government housing and handouts= good. She just can't hide her socialist inner self.
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JFM, Your correct she hasn't a thing to run on. She was elected a Senator but we have yet to see a 'Hilliary Bill' (proposed legislation from her). She does vote safe on every vote. That means she goes with the poll go and not necessarily with the Democrats. Her only bold statements are that Bush should be replaced by herself. I hope they (Dems) make her the candidate because I believe outside blue states she isn't that popular and there are more red states than blue.
A book battle has broken out on Publisher's Row over the ultimate Hillary-attack!
The project being billed as "Hillary in the Raw", like you've never seen her before, is set to drop in September by liberal Ed Klein, former NYT MAGAZINE editor, VANITY FAIR, PARADE contributor and author of multiple works on the Kennedys. "The revelations in it should sink her candidacy," a source close to Klein warns the DRUDGE REPORT.
Last week, Clinton stalwart Ann Lewis fired off an email to supporters warning of the 'Swift Boat' tactics coming against the former first lady turned senator.
Now the coming sales pitch for ' THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President' reads: 'Just as the swift boat veterans convinced millions of voters that John Kerry lacked the character to be president, Klein's book will influence everyone who is sizing up the character of Hillary Clinton...
'Despite more than a dozen years in the national spotlight and more than a dozen unauthorized books about her, she has managed to keep many secrets from the public -- especially about her turbulent marriage and its impact on her career. There have been plenty of rumors about what Hillary and Bill Clinton did behind closed doors, but never a definitive book that exposes the truth. Bestselling author Edward Klein draws on rare access to inside sources to reveal what Hillary knew and when she knew it during her years as first lady. Klein's book, embargoed until publication, will break news about the choices and calculations she has made over the years.'
A fight has developed over the book inside the giant publishing house PENGUIN, sources tell DRUDGE. A publishing source attending the PENGUIN sales conference last week describes high emotions surrounding the coming publication of 'THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY.' There has been a bitter and hostile reaction to the book among top PENGUIN editors -- editors who last year published John Kerry's official campaign book.
What a surprising development!
One top Hillary source claims the book is nothing more than "sex and trash" from a desperate candidate author.
Developing... Since it's a 'Flash' - it could be moved to a different URL at any time. Check main page if link dies. After Dick Morris' first-hand authoritative lambasting of the former First Bitch / current NY Senator, it's not clear what Klein has to add, but the reactions of her suporters are extreme enough to indicate there's fire behind the smoke...
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Klein, you prick! I will crush your skull between my massive thighs if I get my hands on you!
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All that porno needs is the big black guy with an afro, the dwarf, the german shepherd, and the 1970s soundtrack from 'Fluffertrax'. Though seriously, I wonder if the book is a faux expose that is actually a Hillary puff piece.
A Chinese mission will arrive in Brazil on Monday, April 11, to see the production of ethanol, alcohol extracted from the sugar cane and used as fuel.
According to information from Brazil's Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, the Chinese, lead by the engineer Sun Xiaocang, want to learn about the process for production of alcohol fuel, how the plants work, the existing distribution structure and the rules applied to the sector.
According to the ministry, the visit will take place within the scope of a memorandum of understanding that was signed by the governments of the two countries and foresees the exchange of technical information, with the aim of promoting investments and bilateral trade in the sector.
With the Kyoto Protocol taking effect this year, obliging the reduction in emission of pollutants in an international scale, Brazil, which already is the greatest alcohol fuel producer and exporter, expects to increase exports substantially.
Some countries, as is the case with Japan, have already authorised the mixture of alcohol in gasoline to decrease the emission of harmful gases.
Syrian Gas Company General Director Ali Abbas has called on Ukrainian firms to take part in a recently announced tender to build a trans-Arabia gas pipeline.
The participation of Ukrainian companies in the gas pipeline project was on the agenda of a meeting between Abbas and Ukrainian Ambassador to Syria Volodymyr Koval, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's press service told Interfax on Monday.
Abbas applauded the experience and potential of Ukrainian oil and gas firms and confirmed his company's readiness for further mutually beneficial cooperation. First I've heard of this project.
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A bit old for my taste. I would maybe go for a younger man, perhaps even an American.
For pope. Why? What did you think I meant?
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"he is very conservative about church doctrine - taking strong positions against homosexuality, stem cell research and abortion - but liberal when it comes to issues of social justice."
... has also been at the forefront of the church's opposition to what he called "gay culture" - especially same-sex unions.
"In this cultural situation the church must exercise the greatest vigilance," he wrote."
On top of that, another Italian pope is not that easy a mark considering that most of the Church now exists in Latin American and Africa.
Seems the LLL in the MSM will not like this guy. Maybe that's why they are touting him as a leader:
he who enters the conclave as Pope leaves as Cardinal.
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Social Justice issues are approached a bit differently with JP-II's take. Basically, he condmened Communism and other totalitarian systems completely, and condemned the *excesses* of capitalism (i.e. the self centered nihilism we see so frequently from Hollywood, while the poor go with little help from these people).
As long as that is the take the Church has, and respects fundamentla freedoms, then the social justice issues become a matter of convincing people voluntarily to help the poor, not at the barrel of a gun (which is what it comes down to if you refuse to pay confiscatory taxes, etc).
If anything, evidence seems to support the position that individuals and private charities (including the Church) provide far better help to the poor in terms of impact vs cash, than does the government (which tends to just create more poor people that are depenndant instead of helping them to be come independant)
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"he is very conservative about church doctrine - taking strong positions against homosexuality, stem cell research and abortion - but liberal when it comes to issues of social justice."
... has also been at the forefront of the church's opposition to what he called "gay culture" - especially same-sex unions.
"In this cultural situation the church must exercise the greatest vigilance," he wrote."
On top of that, another Italian pope is not that easy a mark considering that most of the Church now exists in Latin American and Africa.
Seems the LLL in the MSM will not like this guy. Maybe that's why they are touting him as a leader:
he who enters the conclave as Pope leaves as Cardinal.
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Social Justice issues are approached a bit differently with JP-II's take. Basically, he condmened Communism and other totalitarian systems completely, and condemned the *excesses* of capitalism (i.e. the self centered nihilism we see so frequently from Hollywood, while the poor go with little help from these people).
As long as that is the take the Church has, and respects fundamentla freedoms, then the social justice issues become a matter of convincing people voluntarily to help the poor, not at the barrel of a gun (which is what it comes down to if you refuse to pay confiscatory taxes, etc).
If anything, evidence seems to support the position that individuals and private charities (including the Church) provide far better help to the poor in terms of impact vs cash, than does the government (which tends to just create more poor people that are depenndant instead of helping them to be come independant)
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"he is very conservative about church doctrine - taking strong positions against homosexuality, stem cell research and abortion - but liberal when it comes to issues of social justice."
... has also been at the forefront of the church's opposition to what he called "gay culture" - especially same-sex unions.
"In this cultural situation the church must exercise the greatest vigilance," he wrote."
On top of that, another Italian pope is not that easy a mark considering that most of the Church now exists in Latin American and Africa.
Seems the LLL in the MSM will not like this guy. Maybe that's why they are touting him as a leader:
he who enters the conclave as Pope leaves as Cardinal.
#9
Social Justice issues are approached a bit differently with JP-II's take. Basically, he condmened Communism and other totalitarian systems completely, and condemned the *excesses* of capitalism (i.e. the self centered nihilism we see so frequently from Hollywood, while the poor go with little help from these people).
As long as that is the take the Church has, and respects fundamentla freedoms, then the social justice issues become a matter of convincing people voluntarily to help the poor, not at the barrel of a gun (which is what it comes down to if you refuse to pay confiscatory taxes, etc).
If anything, evidence seems to support the position that individuals and private charities (including the Church) provide far better help to the poor in terms of impact vs cash, than does the government (which tends to just create more poor people that are depenndant instead of helping them to be come independant)
11 April 2005 PC users at companies that have yet to conduct a managed installation of Microsoft's security-focussed Windows XP Service Pack 2 may find that their machines take a little longer to boot up tomorrow - possibly several hours longer.
This delay, and potential problems running some existing applications, will stem from the expiration, at midnight tonight, of the Windows XP SP2 blocker tool that many companies downloaded eight months ago.
Microsoft released the tool, a registry key that prevents SP2 from being automatically loaded by the Windows Update (WU) and Automatic Updates (AU) utilities, to give companies more time to test and validate what, by Microsoft's own admission, is "a significant" upgrade which reaches deep inside the operating system.
But from day one Microsoft has emphasised that Windows SP2 is a "critical upgrade" that "strongly recommends" customers deploy, and made it plain that the registry key would expire on April 12.
Publicly, Microsoft believes the expiration of the SP 2 blocker shouldn't have too much impact. Four months after the release of SP2, 58% of a global XP customer sample said they had already deployed it, and most others are committed to doing so in the next months. "The reality is in the UK that not many companies will have blocking switched off. If you're in control of your desktop, you don't have anything to worry about" a Microsoft spokesperson said.
Still, there may be a considerable number of companies that will be caught unprepared. For these, Microsoft has made tools available that will roll-back SP2 deployments, returning systems to their former configuration. However, this may not do much to scrape the egg of the faces of IT managers who forgot to put SP2 upgrade in their To-Do lists
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Yea I just can't wait to hear of all the stuff that has quit working because of this forced update. Rememeber folks you don't own your computer and the files on it Microsoft rents them to you.
The list of applications that do no function after SP2 is applied will only shut down a few companies according to Mocrosoft.
A tax originally created to pay for the Spanish-American War may not be extended to Internet connections after all.
Sen. George Allen on Monday announced a bill to prevent the IRS and the Treasury Department from levying a 3 percent federal excise tax to e-mail, broadband links or voice over Internet Protocol services.
"We didn't win the Spanish-American War to have our own government 'federales' burdening Americans with taxes on innovation over 100 years later," said Allen, a Republican from Virginia. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, also is backing the legislation.
In a surprise move last July, the IRS and Treasury Department said they might reinterpret the Spanish-American War tax on phone calls "to reflect changes in technology" used for voice communications. Then, in January, a congressional committee suggested extending the Spanish-American War tax to all data connections including Internet, satellite and cellular services.
Those two actions have alarmed technology companies, VoIP providers and conservative members of Congress opposed to tax increases. In an interview with CNET News.com published in March, Rep. Chris Cox, a California Republican, said that the Spanish-American War tax "ought to have been repealed over half a century ago" and it should not apply to the Internet.
CompTIA, a technology trade association, applauded Allen's legislation, which is called the Federal Internet Tax Prohibition Act. The "proposal will further promote pro-consumer, pro-competitive, productivity-enhancing Internet services for all Americans," CompTIA said Monday.
Congress enacted the so-called "luxury" excise tax at 1 cent a phone call back in 1898, when only a few thousand phone lines existed in the country. It was repealed in 1902, but was reimposed at 1 cent a call in 1914 to pay for World War I and eventually became permanent at a rate of 3 percent in 1990.
In May 2000, the House of Representatives voted 420 to 2 for the repeal, but the Democrat-controlled Senate never acted on the measure.
Allen's bill would amend the IRS code to say that any "Internet access service" would be immune from the Spanish-American War tax. That term is defined as applying to any service that lets users "access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet."
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Wait, are we that far behind on our payments for the Spanish-American War? No wonder the national debt is so high - the interest rates must be killer after all this time . . .
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The Battle for Manila Bay was broadcast on streaming video.
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Doc, It's just another IRS scheme how to get in taxpayers' pockets.
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He admits to being a lying sack of feces when he speaks, but not when he writes? Sorry you can't disconnect like that. You are a fabricator or you are not.
That the Chomskyite MSM accepts that says alot about them and Hersh.
Anyone caught talking to Hersh from the DOD should be taken to the center of the Pentagon and shot after a short military trial for treason.
Like Eason Jordan, Gunga Dan and co., Sy's no more professional than your average blogger.
At the same time, more and more bloggers are starting to show a concern for veracity, research and transparency in sourcing that puts the mSM to shame.
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the motivation in the lying is what matters. Lying about your wife's weight because you hate America, the military, and worship failed socialism experiments?
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ooooook, do I really need sarcasm tags at Rantburg?
#9
Saying "You look just fine Sweetheart" isn't the same as making accusations of a "Videotape of young boys being raped at Abu Ghraib." I actually mean it when I tell my wife that.
I don't know what the hell Sy Hersh is trying to do, perhaps he has a desire to destroy and discredit my/his country. We don't need his lying. In public speaking or print. So called "journalists" should not lie. Sy Hersh is just another north eastern punkass liberal who needs to have his smart ass lowered a notch.
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Interesting you should mention that SPoD. Last night I was reading a site where a leftist commentator used the "Videotape of young boys being raped at Abu Ghraib." as evidence of why Iraq was better off under Saddam.
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Ask him to let you know when he gets a copy of it ed. :D
Socialists, Communists, Chomskyites, they are all the same. Lying bastages not fit to be believed or taken seriously, not trustworthy enough to turn your back on.
India and China, the world's two most populous countries, agreed Monday to form a strategic partnership to end a border dispute and boost trade in a deal marking a major shift in relations between the Asian giants. The agreement, signed by both premiers, eases decades of mutual distrust between the nations, which share a mountainous, 2,500-mile border and fought a war in 1962. Parts of the border still are not demarcated. "India and China can together reshape the world order," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said at a ceremony for his Chinese counterpart, Premier Wen Jiabao, at India's presidential palace.
Together, the two nations account for one-third of the world's population.
The agreement outlined steps to demarcate the disputed boundary through a "fair, reasonable and mutually acceptable solution, through equal and friendly consultations," a statement announcing the partnership said. The agreement does not involve defense arrangements, so it will not give Chinese ships the use of Indian ports.
An 11-point plan to settle the border dispute was finalized Sunday at a meeting between India's National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and China's Vice Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo, the leader of the Chinese delegation to the talks. The plan states that the countries would consider historical factors, geographical features, people living in the area, security and whether the area was currently under Indian or Chinese control when marking the border.
India says China still holds 16,000 square miles of its territory in the Kashmir region, while Beijing lays claim to a wide swath of territory in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which shares a 650-mile border with China's Tibet region.
China also recognized the Himalayan territory of Sikkim, located between Nepal and the kingdom of Bhutan, as a part of India, an Indian foreign ministry official said. "A new map which the Chinese have published shows Sikkim as part of India. This is no longer an issue between us," Shyam Saran, a top official in the External Affairs Ministry, told reporters. Sikkim was an independent principality before it was annexed by India in 1975. China never recognized Sikkim as an Indian possession and has claimed part of the territory as its own. Rest at link.
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Despite incessant warnings on local radio that families of the sick should neither treat them at home nor touch corpses, Pinto's family cared for her in their house and prepared her body for burial. The virus is spread by bodily fluids, and even stray drops of spittle or beads of sweat can lead to death.
"We heard on the radio that we were not supposed to do it, but out of emotion, we touched the body," said her husband Antonio, 53. "We washed her when she was alive and after she died."
He also knew about the isolation unit set up at Uige's regional hospital, where Pinto had worked for 20 years. But he refused to take her there, he said, because "people believe the isolation unit is making people die."
Cases like this, epidemiologists here say, show how much remains to be done in Uige before the Marburg virus is contained. But Dr. Nestor Ndayimirije, an epidemiologist and leader of the World Health Organization's efforts in Uige, said that he believes the battle is making headway.
"If we compare with previous weeks, when we had 10 to 15 cases a day, now we have four to five cases a day," You can go to the link to find out what Dr Niman thinks, but I found this study about the previous largest Marburg outbreak. In summary it says infections result from an unknown biological source (possibly bats) or injections by presumably infected needles. Person to Person transmission was rare outside of a hospital setting.
The current Marburg outbreak looks very different to previous outbreaks and I can see only 2 possible explanations. One is there is some local factor that is facilitating the diseases spread. The other is the disease has got a lot more infectious. If the former then the epidemiologists now on the scene should get on top of it quickly. If the latter then we have all the makings of a pandemic.
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WHO was chased out of the city for several days by mobs who believe that doctors are apreading the disease. Given the history of the region, it is NOT an unwarrented belief. I still don't see this as particularily contaigious. The WHO site has reports of an outbreak of cholera in Senegal. Reproted cases for the last three weeks were: 428, 757, 3475. Now that's an outbreak.
The history of Marburg originates in Europe. It is believed that the index cases originated with exposure to monkeys, but it is evident that person to person contact resulted in the majority of the 37 cases. LINK
200 cases is still not enough of a population to draw statistical conclusions from. The life expectancy in Angola is about 40, meaning that lots and lots of children die from every imaginable disease. Marburg will take some, but I would suggest that many more have died during the same period of time from other causes.
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Meanwhile, Thousands of children hospitalized due to hot weather According to the news report 7,000 children were brought to 2 hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City in one day. This may well be bird flu. BTW, its widely believed in Asia that artificial cooling results in illness.
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What will really cause a pandemic is medical practices like those in the article. The notion that 7,000 children were brought to hospitals because they slept under fans is the perfect set-up for SARS, avian flu, any respiratory illness to break out without control. Vietnam had SARS. They should have some clue about modern medical epidemiology and public health practices.
LAHORE — Two assailants wearing masks opened fire inside a home in a village in eastern Pakistan yesterday, killing two women before fleeing, police said.
Kill a coupla women, run away... What else is new?
A 46-year-old woman and her 33-year-old daughter were killed in the shooting in Chak Kamala, a farming village about 240km west of Lahore, local police chief Waqar Haider said.
Lessee, 46 minus 33 equals ...
A daughter-in-law of the older woman, who escaped unharmed in the attack, reported that two men fired pistols at the victims and then fled, Haider said. The motive of the killing was not immediately known, but police suspected a family feud, he said.
"Excellent, Legume, my patience in you is finally paying off!"
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
