ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Lawyers selected a jury Monday that will decide whether Greenpeace and its contract ship were criminally negligent by failing to have the proper oil spill response paperwork during an anti-logging campaign.
The environmental activist group, the captain of the Arctic Sunrise and the ship's agent all are charged with misdemeanor criminal counts of operating a vessel without a spill contingency plan or proof of financial responsibility in case of a spill, as required by state law.
Opening statements were scheduled Tuesday in state District Court in the southeast Alaska town of Ketchikan. Because the case involves misdemeanor charges, it will be heard by only six jurors and two alternates.
"We feel good about the jury and feel confident they'll listen to all the evidence and render a fair verdict based on the evidence presented in court,'' said Greenpeace attorney Tom Wetterer.
State environmental regulators cited Greenpeace Inc., Arctic Sunrise Capt. Arne Sorensen and ship agent Willem Beekman last July for not filing a spill response plan or having a financial responsibility certificate. According to court documents, the ship was carrying more than 70,000 gallons of "petroleum products'' when it arrived in southeast Alaska for the protest campaign against logging in the Tongass National Forest.
In Alaska, non-tank vessels larger than 400 gross tons must file an oil spill response plan application five days before entering state waters.
The group contends the paperwork oversight was a mishap that was quickly corrected. Those on board didn't know such documents were required, Wetterer said.
"There was no criminal negligence here,'' he said.
Wetterer said the group is being unfairly targeted in retaliation for its anti-logging stance. The defendants contend that many other vessels have entered state waters without the same documents and never faced criminal prosecution.
"At the time of this incident, the ship was insured against oil spills and also had an international oil spill contingency plan in place,'' Wetterer said.
The state didn't pursue criminal charges against the group until the Arctic Sunrise departed from Ketchikan before the paperwork was finalized, despite an agreement to stay anchored, said Assistant Attorney General Jay Fayette.
The criminal negligence charges carry a maximum penalty of a $200,000 fine for an organization and a year in prison and a $10,000 fine for an individual.
The trial is expected to wind up at the end of the week, said Fayette, who on Tuesday plans to call his first witnesses, including a radio reporter who interviewed Sorensen after the Arctic Sunrise left Ketchikan.
Some details also will come from documents such as the ship's itinerary that District Judge Kevin Miller agreed to allow as evidence Tuesday after 90 minutes of "boring and polite legal bantering'' between the two sides, Fayette said.
"My intent is to compress this so we can keep it to this week,'' he said.
I had an enocunter in my clinic today that might be interesting. I have a weekly clinic that specializes in pulmonary diseases, since that's what I do. Today one of my research coordinators came to me mid-morning and said, "I have a research patient for you to see; he's being enrolled in a trial and needs a quick physicial." That's one of the things I have to do, so okay, off I go to the examining room.
The patient is 80 years old, and I do a quick history for purposes of the form I have to fill out. When I ask him about his current activity, he laments that it's been slowed these past few months, and he's only been out jumping twice since the first of the year.
"Jumping?" I asked.
"Oh yes, jumping, you know, sky-diving," he laughs. "Learned it in the Army, been doing it ever since. But I can't get out like I used to."
So I had to ask.
He was in the 101st Airborne in WWII. While he didn't jump on D-Day, he jumped into Holland, fought at Bastogne, fought in the Ruhr Valley, helped liberate Dachau, and ended up at Berchtesgaden. He was in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment but he wasn't in Easy Company.
(I'm pretty sure his story is legit, I have paperwork that says he's a vet. And my people-meter rang true.)
So even though I was backed up a couple patients in the clinic, he and I still talked for a while. Two stories: for training, his company would run -- not hike, not jog, run -- 10 miles in combat gear in the morning. Then they'd get into a circle, and the First Sargeant would make them hold their rifles over their heads for about 30 minutes. First man who let his rifle down below his shoulders did a hundred push-ups on the spot. Second story: he asked me if I remembered "Captain Sobel", the captain in the first episode of Band of Brothers. Sure, I said, one of my favorite films, I remember him, he's the one who couldn't lead and got replaced right before D-Day. "Well," my patient says, "I had to deal with him. And he was a lot worse than the film made him out to be."
Wiry bantam-rooster of a man, and he still looks like he could run 10 miles.
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Great story, Doc. You can abuse us with stories like that any time.
TEHERAN - An earthquake measuring 5.0 degrees on the Richter scale jolted the western Iranian town of Borujerd on Tuesday, the official news agency IRNA said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, IRNA said.
The quake struck Borujerd and its surrounding areas, situated in Lorestan province, at 11:51 am (0721 GMT).
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The Halliburton Earthquake Machine (pat pending) strikes again.
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Heh. A thorough test program is the hallmark of successful technology. Just 10 or 20 more test jolts in MudhutMullahLand and it should be a ''Go'' for those deep tunnel nuke sites the MM's have banked on.
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It is a big deal. The reflected waves helped Halliburton to adjust the targeting pattern for the machine. In addition they got a pretty good 3D scan of the underground substructure.
Brazil yesterday became the first country to take a public stand against the Bush administration's massive Aids programme which is seen by many as seeking increasingly to press its anti-abortion, pro-abstinence sexual agenda on poorer countries.
Campaigners applauded Brazil's rejection of $40m for its Aids programmes because it refuses to agree to a declaration condemning prostitution. The government and many Aids organisations believe such a declaration would be a serious barrier to helping sex workers protect themselves and their clients from infection.
Ohfergawdsake. Someone remind me, 'cause I don't keep up with feminist theology thinking, but isn't prostitution supposed to victimize women? Aren't we supposed to be agin' it? This is not the time, .com, don't do it.
The demand from the US administration, heavily influenced by the in this case sensible religious right, follows what is known as the "global gag" - a ban on US government funds to any foreign-based organisation which has links to abortion. This has resulted in the removal of millions of dollars of funding from family planning clinics worldwide.
Yesterday Pedro Chequer, the director of Brazil's HIV/Aids programme, said the government had managed to resist US pressure during negotiations on the Aids funding to focus on promoting abstinence and fidelity rather than condoms - another ideological battle being waged by the religious right. But the US negotiators insisted that the clause on prostitution had to stay. "I would like to confirm that Brazil has taken this decision in order to preserve its autonomy on issues related to national policies on HIV/Aids as well as ethical and human rights principles," he told the Guardian.
Well okay then, best of luck to you, and we'll spend our money elsewhere.
Campaigners congratulated the Brazilian government for its stance, and voiced concerns that the declaration on prostitution could damage efforts to tackle Aids among sex workers in many countries.
Jodi Jacobson of the Centre for Health and Gender Equity in the US said that, unlike the global gag, the declaration on prostitution looked likely to be imposed on US-based organisations as well as their subsidiaries abroad. The office of Randall Tobias, the global Aids coordinator who is responsible for spending the $15bn President Bush promised for the fight against Aids, was working on the language to be adopted, she said. "Any organisation receiving US global Aids funding will have to agree to the policy," she said. That would include charities as large as Care, Save the Children and World Vision.
"It is a hugely problematic policy from the standpoint of public health alone. It goes against the entire grain of public health principles in not judging the people you are trying to reach."
They're not going to judge the hookers, they're going to educate them that hooking isn't a good idea when HIV is endemic.
But Sam Brownback, a leading Senate conservative, told the Wall Street Journal: "Obviously Brazil has the right to act however it chooses in this regard. We're talking about promotion of prostitution which the majority of both the house and the Senate believe is harmful to women."
Obviously a neanderthal viewpoint.
Most US Aids funding goes directly to organisations working in the field and much will be channelled through faith organisations that back the no-abortion, pro-abstinence and anti-prostitution stance of the US neo-conservatives.
But the Brazilian government has strong HIV/Aids policies and insists that all negotiations go through its own committee. It also has a strong partnership between government and non-governmental organisations that encouraged a united response to Washington. "This would be entirely in contradiction with Brazilian guidelines for a programme that has been working very well for years. We are providing condoms, and doing a lot of prevention work with hookers sex workers, and the rate of infection has stabilised and dropped since the 1980s," said Sonia Correa, an Aids activist in Brazil and co-chair of the International Working Group on Sexuality and Social Policy.
"The US is doing the same in other countries - bullying, pushing and forcing - but not every country has the possibility to say no."
Sure they do. It's easy.
Adrienne Germain, president of the International Women's Health Coalition, said: "The importance of the Brazilian government decision can not be overstated."
Not that Adrienne is walking the streets herself.
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My sister wrote her masters thesis on the Brazilian healthcare system, and it's scary. Unsurprisingly, there are two levels, one for the rich, and one for the rest. And even the rich version is terrible. Her focus on the paper was the over use of antibiotics, and they (Brazil) just refuse to listen to any advice on the matter from the outside. One nice "feature" of the deal is that what few antibiotics are available for the general public often come from expired stocks that are purged from the upper echelon.
I came to the conclusion that if I'm in Brazil and need a doctor, just pack me and my missing limb on a plane back to the US. I'll wait for treatment.
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A friend of mine in high school was hemophiliac. He died of AIDS after receiving a bad transfusion in Brazil, where his parents were missionaries.
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Quite a bone-head move for Brazil. They could've took took the 40m and did some good with it. It's common practice in brothels that all the prostitutes use condoms anyway. There's a small thread of anti-Americanism in Brazil, maybe that's where this comes from.
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Condemning prostitution is a far cry from making it illegal. How many rubbers and medical checkups could that 40 million had paid for? Are these Brazilians and Aids workers idiots? They see no nuance, just black and white.
They have a fallback plan though, they'll blame the US.
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I have no problem with the US keeping the American taxpayer's money. More power to them. Now, how about stop sending the Egyptians $2 billion every year.
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While the source focuses on the anti-semitic aspect, I find the implied equivalence of anti-Americanism and anti-semitism more interesting given it echos muslim thinking.
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I couldn't agree more that we are blood suckers run by a Lesbian's father. At least the Europeans are not anti-ketchup but more pro-mayonnaise in my opinion.
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Europeans are not anti-ketchup Thats because the Europeans have no idea what ketchup is. Why is the Left that preaches multiculturalism so f**kin clueless about other cultures. /endrant
The French president, Jacques Chirac, warned last night that France would no longer be taken seriously on the international stage if it rejected the European constitution on May 29. In an attempt to sway voters in the debate about French sovereignty and cultural identity, Mr Chirac said the constitution was the "daughter" of the 1789 French revolution and enshrined the country's values of human rights and democracy. "It is essentially French-inspired," Mr Chirac said. "One cannot say, 'I am European and I vote no to the constitution'. It is not honest."
I'll bet a Pole or a Czech or a Romanian could be a European and vote 'no'. And I bet they will after they hear this.
But it was in his negative arguments that the president struck home in a live interview last night on France 2 television. "If France were to say no to the treaty, what do you think the very next day would be the power of the French voice in the council of ministers, in the G8 meetings?
How much power do you have right now? Think carefully ...
"How do you think France would be treated by the United Nations in September?" Recalling months of negotiation and compromise that went into the drafting of the constitution, the French leader asked his audience: "How can we renegotiate? We're going to say to all these people with whom we agreed at the end of a fantastic effort and in-depth reflection, 'Well no, we are no longer in agreement on such and such point. We have to do things differently?"' Mr Chirac asked. "Do you really believe it is serious to say that? There's not the shadow of a chance," he added. "It cannot be envisaged. Renegotiation does not exist. There is no plan B."
So kill it and be done.
French rejection would almost certainly halt the treaty in its tracks. Last month Britain said it would be unlikely to hold a referendum if France rejected the treaty. A French rejection would halt the process of ratification altogether, because it would have been rejected by one of the founding member states.
Mr Chirac stressed last night that membership of Europe allowed France to punch above its weight in the international arena. Referring to the EU trade dispute with China, which has led France to complain it is being flooded with cheap Chinese textiles, Mr Chirac said: "If France had stood alone with this problem, do you think anyone in China would have attached the slightest importance to us, let alone appoint a minister to act as a negotiator?"
And how well has that worked so far? Ships leaving China every day with more textiles, right?
Yesterday a poll published by Le Figaro put support for the constitution at 53%, a rise of 1% on Le Monde's poll published on Saturday, which broke a run of 23 consecutive polls in favour of rejection. The key intervention was the appearance last week of the former Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin, who retains huge moral authority in the Socialist party.
They had to use the English 'moral' because I don't think the French have such a word.
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I've always found that people who are panicking have a tendency to talk too much, almost to the point of blubbering. Do you find that true, Jake?
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well, it's May: Ar*s should be entering Greek mil service, Jacque is panicking, Zarqawi's getting bad reviews from his underlings....
what's not to like?
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I just picture a blubbering Jacques, telling the French that they will learn to like eating tea and crumpets rather than wine and croissants with snail paste. ''See, see, I am drinking ze tea, and it is not poisonous. Rather bland and tasteless but it can be done by you common people!''
HT to Drudge - I'm sooooo glad he's gonna run again. Where's that signed 180 form, Senator?
WASHINGTON - Sen. John F. Kerry tapped campaign funds for Red Sox tickets and to pay nearly $300 in overdue Boston parking tickets in March, records show. Kerry's Senate campaign committee wrote a $287 check to the City of Boston Parking Clerk on March 31, 2005. The Bay State senator listed ``travel expense'' as the purpose for the expenditure. "I can't be expected to obey meters! That's for teh little people"
Kerry leased a car for campaign-related travel in Massachusetts that was cited for about a half-dozen parking tickets in Boston. Most of the tickets were issued in October and November 2003 and not paid until more than 15 months later in March 2005 after accruing penalty fees.
``They were leftover tickets we only found out about when we closed out the lease,'' Kerry spokeswoman Jenny Backus said. ``The car was used for the Senate campaign by staffers and volunteers.''
Kerry, meanwhile, used presidential campaign funds for a $3,150 tab for Boston Red Sox tickets in July when he threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park before the Democratic National Convention. His billionaire wife wouldn't pay, huh?
A Federal Election Commission spokesman said congressmen are entitled to pay for parking tickets and other expenses from their campaign funds as long as they were ``campaign-related.'' All legal, I'm sure, but that smell ain't the St. Charles River....
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Kerry, meanwhile, used presidential campaign funds for a $3,150 tab for Boston Red Sox tickets in July when he threw out the first pitch at Fenway Park before the Democratic National Convention.
This is where Kerry pitched the ball into the dirt and got jeered. Money well spent.
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Two things: First, hats off to the cops that ticketed the Kerry car! Second, don't they comp you seats if they invite you to throw out the first pitch? Maybe he had to pay them?
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No doubt he had to pay the parking tickets fine as part of closing out the car lease. Leasing companies do not like being stuck with these little incidentals... and they have branches everywhere.
A SENIOR bishop in the Church of England has had to cancel a two-week trip to the Caribbean after an Anglican diocese in the West Indies blocked the visit because of his liberal views on homosexuality.
The Bishop of Chelmsford, the Right Rev John Gladwin, was due to visit Trinidad and Tobago this month, when he was scheduled to preach in the celebratory Family Day service on the feast of Corpus Christi.
The Right Rev Calvin Wendell Bess, the diocesan bishop based in Port of Spain, Trinidad, has withdrawn the invitation after Bishop Gladwin signed a letter to The Times declaring his support for liberal Anglicans in North America.
The row is thought to have further damaged his chances of succeeding Dr David Hope as Archbishop of York. Bishop Gladwin had been considered a front-runner but the York Diocese has requested an archbishop with orthodox beliefs. Gee ... what a thought - an orthodox bishop.
The Right Rev Richard Chartres, the Bishop of London, is now the front-runner but is thought to be reluctant to leave the capital, leaving the Right Rev Nigel McCulloch, the Bishop of Manchester, as favourite.
The Chelmsford Diocese has developed special links with Trinidad and Tobago over the years. It was in the spirit of Christian friendship that Bishop Bess had invited Bishop Gladwin, his wife Lydia and a group from the diocese to visit the Caribbean islands. But with the support of his cathedral chapter, Bishop Bess wrote to his brother bishop in England last month saying he was no longer welcome because of the views he expressed in his letter to The Times. Bishop Bess said: "The Church in the province of the West Indies has made its position on this issue very clear and has described its relationship with the Churches of Canada and the United States as impaired." Bishop Gladwin and five other bishops said in the letter that they did not believe that the ordination of an openly gay bishop in the US or the authorisation of same-sex blessings in Canada were of such significance that they should cause a schism. of course he doesn't, because he takes neither the issue nor doctrine seriously More needed to be done "to engage in dialogue" with lesbian and gay people.
After the letter was published, six clergy in the Chelmsford Diocese declared that their "sacramental fellowship" with Bishop Gladwin was "in abeyance". In the first group action of its kind in England, the six rebels said that they would no longer participate in services of baptism, confirmation or communion with the bishop.
Bishop Gladwin failed to persuade Bishop Bess to change his mind in a telephone call last week.
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Frontpage Interview's guest today is Brian C. Anderson, the author of the new book South Park Conservatives: The Revolt against Liberal Media Bias. He is a senior editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal.
FP: Mr. Anderson, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Anderson: Thanks for inviting me. I'm a devotee of the site, so it's a real honor.
FP: What inspired you to write South Park Conservatives?
Anderson: The book grows out of an article I wrote for City Journal in late 2003, called "We're Not Losing the Culture Wars Anymore," commissioned by CJ's editor Myron Magnet. I had been watching a big, and for me thrilling, change take place in our media landscape and in our culture: the downfall of Howell Raines; the success of Fox News; the emergence of comedy that wasn't just bashing conservatives but mocking liberals, too, as South Park does so mercilessly, the rise of the blogosphere and its increasing influence shaping the news; ferment on the campus, where students were moving to the right; conservative bestsellers galore. I realized that the Right was beginning to fight its way through the liberal cultural force field and get a hearing for its arguments and ideas.
LAHORE: Dozens of women rallying against sexual harassment at the workplace marched from the Lahore Press Club to the LDA Plaza on Thursday. Police did not allow them to demonstrate outside the Punjab Assembly. The Working Women's Organisation (WWO) arranged the rally.
Speakers at the rally demanded an increase women workers' wages, more schools for girls, effective legislation against sexual harassment at the workplace, more day care centres, stopping violence against women and giving justice to Mukhtar Mai.
Sucks to be a fourth-class citizen, doesn't it.
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After the Vietnam War, a lot of us didn''t just crawl back into our literary cubicles; we stepped into academic positions. With the war over, our visibility was lost, and it seemed for a while——to the unobservant——that we had disappeared. Now we have tenure, and the work of reshaping the universities has begun in earnest.
——Jay Parini, The Chronicle of Higher Education
The old Marxist strategy of ""increasing the contradictions""——a strategy according to which the worse things get, the better they really are——is a license for thuggery. It excuses all manner of bad behavior for the sake of a revolution that will (so it is said) finally transform society when all the old allegiances have finally collapsed. If one or two tottering institutions require a little push to finish them off, so be it. Shove hard: You cannot, as comrade Stalin remarked, make an omelette without breaking eggs.
As with anything to which the word ""Marxist"" applies, there are at least eighty-seven things wrong with this strategy. Morally, it is completely irresponsible. Intellectually, it depends upon a fabricated ""contradiction"" to confer the illusion of inevitability. In real life, the only thing inevitable is the certainty of surprise.
Nevertheless, as one looks around at academic life these days, it is easy to conclude that corruption yields not only decay but also opportunities. Think of the public convulsion that surrounded the episode of Ward Churchill''s invitation to speak at Hamilton College earlier this year. The spectacle of a highly paid academic with a fabricated background comparing the victims of 9/11 to a Nazi bureaucrat was too much. Churchill''s fellow academics endeavored——they are still endeavoring——to rally round. But the public wasn''t buying it. Such episodes, as Victor Davis Hanson noted in National Review recently, were like ""a torn scab revealing a festering sore beneath."" ....
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Thanks for this link.
It's time to go to our local college and shout down these leftist screech monkeys. 'Cause if we don't, they get emboldened. And without in-their-face opposition, their monions get thinkin' they're right.
Don't feel bad about going out there today and slamming a leftist, because they don't give a rat's ass about you or your family.
The rotten health system in Libya is the main cause of the infection on the 426 children with HIV, reads an article in one of Turkey's most weighty social-political magazine Nokta. The article's author claims that the political authorities in Libya have accused innocent people to protect themselves against the society's reaction, referring to the Bulgarian nurses, sentenced to death in Tripoli for deliberately infecting Libyan children. The responsibility for the infection was first thrown to the secret services of Israel, but when it did not work out, Libya accused the Palestinian doctor and the Bulgarian medics, the author also writes.
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Faure Gnassingbe, the disputed winner of Togo's presidential elections, has received a red-carpet welcome in Tripoli and held talks with Libyan leader Qadhafi, state media and diplomats said on Monday. "The authorities gave him a lavish welcome when he arrived at Meitigha airport Sunday night. The official welcome ceremony had all the trappings of a presidential visit to Libya," a senior diplomat said. Thousands of people have fled Togo and scores have been killed in fighting which erupted after Gnassingbe, whose father ruled for four decades, was declared winner on Tuesday of a poll opponents say was fixed.
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A gas explosion tore through a three-story building in Lahore early yesterday killing at least 28 people and wounding 20, police and rescue officials said. The dead included four women and two children. Rescuers were searching for people trapped under the rubble of the collapsed building, located in a residential suburb of the city, police said. The building that also housed workers' quarters, a gas cylinder storage facility in the basement and low-end apartments, collapsed in the blast. City police chief Aftab Cheema said it was not immediately clear what triggered the explosion. Survivors, some in critical condition, said that gas cylinders had been stored in the building's basement. Cheema said eight of the people killed were from the same family, who were sleeping in an apartment on the building's second story. Three or four nearby homes and several vehicles were damaged.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes it should stay unlit.
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Ain't that the truth, brother.
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Like, what about Terri Schiavo? Maybe her family had a better chance with the Domestic Animal Services than with Judge Greer?
There was a news story today about a fireman who started communicating after ten years being regarded as BD. Apparently he went from being near comatose to speaking, and spoke continuously for 14 hours. I wonder what he'll have to say to Judge Greer?
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Judge Greer definitely had an agenda. And thanks to that freak, a living will is now meaningless. Durable power of attorney is the only solid recourse, for now.
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I wonder what he'll have to say to Judge Greer?
''Get outta my room, you murderous bastard! Nurse! Security!''
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I don't get it though. It's such a ''peaceful and euphoric'' way to go. What's the fuss? /koolaid-drinking-mode
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But those were cows! If they'd been handicapped people, or fetuses, it would have been no big deal, but cows are a whole 'nother thing entirely.
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Gosh, I love Earth Humor
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Again, three words:
Cows with Guns
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three words: extra lean hamburger
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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.
LAHORE: Dozens of women rallying against sexual harassment at the workplace marched from the Lahore Press Club to the LDA Plaza on Thursday. Police did not allow them to demonstrate outside the Punjab Assembly. The Working Women's Organisation (WWO) arranged the rally.
A gas explosion tore through a three-story building in Lahore early yesterday killing at least 28 people and wounding 20, police and rescue officials said. The dead included four women and two children. Rescuers were searching for people trapped under the rubble of the collapsed building, located in a residential suburb of the city, police said. The building that also housed workers' quarters, a gas cylinder storage facility in the basement and low-end apartments, collapsed in the blast. City police chief Aftab Cheema said it was not immediately clear what triggered the explosion. Survivors, some in critical condition, said that gas cylinders had been stored in the building's basement. Cheema said eight of the people killed were from the same family, who were sleeping in an apartment on the building's second story. Three or four nearby homes and several vehicles were damaged. 
