"When the next cataclysm occurs, there will be no Lincoln to stop the bleeding."Uh, wasn't Lincoln the guy who raised a huge army to crush the forces of the seceding states and force them to rejoin the Union?
"Police....to carry out blood and urine tests on a woman who complained of rape to find out how much alcohol is in her body. They would then used "back calculations" to work out how drunk she was at the time of the alleged attack.Doesn't this send more then a few terrible messages to the British people, the first being that the ongoing alcohol problem is now reaching crisis proportions.
A "drink and sex limit" would sweep away the confusion and controversy in the courts surrounding the issue of when a man accused of rape can claim he believed a woman gave her consent to sex."
"Have you noticed how Republicans are always portrayed by comedians as stupid?I would rank the media more like this...
Come to think of it, with Republicans it's stupid or evil - Nixon (evil), Ford (stupid), Reagan (stupid), Bush Snr (stupid), Bush Jnr (stupid and evil). Chase is on record as calling George W. Bush worse than stupid - a "dumb f----" who "started a jihad", an "uneducated, real lying schmuck". So as he goes to his maker maybe poor old Jerry Ford should be grateful he only got saddled with being stupid. And whatever one's politics, those Chevy Chase sketches were pretty damn funny."
"We have taken the decision to leave Mogadishu because of the safety of the civilians," the deputy head of the Islamic courts executive council, Abdi-Rahman Janqow, said as Ethiopian-backed government troops advanced towards to the city.Ah... I see... a cunning plan to abandon your capital and chief population center.
"All of our troops have withdrawn. They are now heading to somewhere they think they can fight with their enemy and kill them one by one without fighting among the civilians", he added.
Somali government troops rolled into Mogadishu unopposed Thursday, the prime minister said, hours after an Islamic movement that tried to establish a government based on the Quran abandoned the capital.But will it be quick ?
"Apparently some people believe that the Al Qaeda elements in Mogadishu ... are people one can talk to in a reasonable manner, that they can be convinced not to be extremists," Mr. Meles said in an exclusive interview with the Associated Press.Of course the Los Angeles times is already throwing around the Q Word...
The extremists "represent a direct threat first to Somalia and the Somali people , second to the region and Ethiopia, and lastly to the international community," he said. "When they control the whole of Somalia it would be very naive to assume that they will mend their ways, cease to be terrorists and become very civilized and very tame pussycats."
Columbia, S.C. | It has been four decades since Kwanzaa was created as an African-American celebration of family and community, but in that time it has not resonated widely in South Carolina, a state where one-third of the population is black.
"I personally don't know a single person who celebrates the holiday," said Marcus Cox, founding director of the African-American Studies Program at The Citadel.
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When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand.
I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.
We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.
I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.
The Ten Commandments and "In God We Trust" are on the wall in my office. A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, "As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, The Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office." Thank you again for your email and thoughts.
A major investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of young white girls by predominantly Asian men has been launched by police and childcare agencies.All we need now is a little fog and an opium den or two.
So far detectives in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have arrested 20 men, five of whom have been charged with offences that include abduction and rape. However, police expect other suspects to be held in the coming weeks.
The phenomenon appears to be largely cultural, with mainly young Asian men allegedly preying on vulnerable girls they meet in and around the town centre.
Police suspect the victims – some of them as young as 12, the rest up to the age of 17 – are being groomed over a period of months and sometimes years.
"This woman is totally out of control," he told the Daily News. "I'm worth billions of dollars, and I have to listen to this fat slob?"She apparently hit a sore spot when she said he'd be bankrupt before he could sue her.
"When I saw the tape, I said, 'You'd better be careful or I'll send one of my friends over to take your girlfriend!' " Trump told The News. "I imagine it would be pretty easy to take her girlfriend away, considering how Rosie looks."
Trump called O'Donnell a "despicable . . . fat" failure who lied that he had gone bankrupt.That the preening Trump could bring me to support one of America's most outspoken Entertainment-Lesbian-Democrats is an accomplishment of some means.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday.So what did the former Clinton National Security Adviser and foreign policy adviser to Presidential candidate John Kerry steal and why did he steal them.
The report was issued more than a year after Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removal of the documents.
''After World War II, when people saw Japanese script it was scary,'' she said. ''But now we see it and it's fun, it's hip, it signifies a cool culture.''Maybe that's not the best analogy she could have used.
"We thought it was important to not have this recruiting station open quietly," said Emily McFarlane, a UNC-Chapel Hill junior who helped organize the protest at the Army Career Center, 1502 E. Franklin St.And from just seven months ago, from the same newspaper...
About 30 protesters -- members of Students for a Democratic Society, The Raging Grannies and others -- held signs, walked in a circle and shouted, "Out of Iraq, out of our schools! Out of town, shut the war down!"
Vandals staged attacks early Wednesday on the buildings used by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at N.C. State University and UNC-Chapel Hill, echoing similar assaults on three Triangle recruiting stations last month.
As before, vandals sprayed anti-war slogans and profanity, splashed red paint and claimed responsibility with a mass e-mail message to area media outlets.
This is Archbishop Peter Akinola, of the Anglican Church in Africa and he just ran off with two of the oldest and most historic parishes in America
"I didn't tell my family members. I didn't tell anyone at first. But I have a daughter and I don't want her to be ashamed to cover her face."Hmmm.
Asked on 60 Minutes if a 70-year-old white woman from Vero Beach should receive the same level of scrutiny as a Muslim from Jersey City, Mineta said, "Basically, I would hope so." Asked if he could imagine any set of circumstances that would justify ethnic and racial profiling, Mineta said "absolutely not."And if the sheer awfullness of that is not enough here we have the link for the Department of Transportation memo from 10/12/01 called Carrying Out Transportation Inspection and Safety Responsibilities in a Nondiscriminatory Manner.
"he was seen sitting in the back of a Mercedes chucking children's toys out of the window and announcing: "I'm the Bishop of Southwark. It's what I do."The Bishop actually seems as dangerous in his recreational activities as in his official duties, for it was this same Bishop who caused a row during the summer by revoking the "licence of a conservative evangelical minister" only to have his decision overturned by the Archbishop.
Christians have long argued that life should preserved at all costs - but a bishop representing the national church has now sparked controversy by arguing that there are occasions when it is compassionate to leave a severely disabled child to die.The good Bishop's exact position being “It may in some circumstances be right to choose to withhold or withdraw treatment, knowing it will possibly, probably, or even certainly result in death.”
And the Bishop of Southwark, Tom Butler, who is the vice chair of the Church of England's Mission and Public Affairs Council, has also argued that the high financial cost of keeping desperately ill babies alive should be a factor in life or death decisions.
The 75-year-old was asked by the editor of a gay magazine whether he thought a gay councillor was a paedophile, Brighton Magistrates' Court was told.Apparently that is enough in the land of our ancestoral liberties to get a man hauled in front of a magistrate and charged with "using threatening, abusive or insulting works or behaviour or disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress."
"James Ledward asked Willows, 'Do you think Paul's a paedophile?"' prosecutor David Packer said.
"Willows replied to that with, 'I know you are not Paul, it's the other gays'." The barrister said the words "equated gay people with paedophiles".
A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs.and
Burning fuel to produce fertiliser to grow feed, to produce meat and to transport it - and clearing vegetation for grazing - produces 9 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas. And their wind and manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane, which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.Al Gore's next movie; he swears off meat and then travels across Kansas to throw a Big Mac into the glowing fires of Mount Doom.
GENEVA, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Up to 1.8 million people are at risk from cholera, measles, malaria and other killer diseases following major floods across the Horn of Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
"...a world away from the unruly individualism of any American school""RIYADH, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Sunday welcomed a U.S. report on foreign policy in the region for emphasising a need for more attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.And in case you don't know what Baker Botts is...
KATY, Texas -- A plan to build a mosque in this Houston suburb has triggered a neighborhood dispute, with community members warning that the place will become a terrorist hotbed and one man threatening to hold pig races on Fridays just to offend the Muslims.Or maybe they had just read this...
Many neighborhood residents maintain they have nothing against Muslims and are more concerned about property values, drainage, and traffic.
But one resident has set up an anti-Islamic website with an odometer-like counter that tracks terrorist attacks since Sept. 11.
"This may be my last will and testament, the last words I have spoken to those who know me, to those who do not know me. My name is Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef. I am 22 years of age. I am from America and this tape is to let you guys know, who disbelieve in Allah, to let the enemies of Islam know, and to let the Muslims alike know that the time for jihad is now....Be strong, oh Mujahaideen. Be strong oh brothers who want to fight for jihad...This is a warning to those who disbelieve, that we are here for you, and I am ready to give my life."
"What ever will we do Mr. Baker?"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Friday dismissed former Secretary of State James Baker's appeal that his Iraq recommendations be largely adopted as a whole and said President George W. Bush was considering various proposals for a change in course.
"It is lunacy, it is suicidal to continue to allow the energy markets at the levels they are now given the fact that a vast majority of those energy dollars are going to people who want to kill us and destroy everything we believe in," Santorum said. "We can no longer play games with our energy security."And of course some snark from his lessers at Tartette....oops, I mean Wonkette.
Santorum, who has not announced his future plans, said he will continue to work on issues related to Syria and Iran.
"I will do my best after I leave this place to continue to confront these enemies and to give the United States the opportunity to succeed in this war," Santorum said.
Earlier Wednesday, Santorum voted against confirming Robert Gates as defense secretary. Gates, who was confirmed by the Senate, was named by President Bush to replace Donald H. Rumsfeld. Santorum said the U.S. needs to confront Iran rather than "engaging someone who is at war with us. I think he is in error."
Given the ability of Iran and Syria to influence events ("influence events", that's a nice euphemism)within Iraq and their interest in avoiding chaos in Iraq, the United States should try to engage them constructively. In seeking to influence the behavior of both countries, the United States has disincentives and incentives available.(of course the big "disincentive" is off the table) Iran should stem the flow of arms and training to Iraq, respect Iraq's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and use its influence over Iraqi Shia groups to encourage national reconciliation.(and I should be 4 inches taller) The issue of Iran's nuclear programs should continue to be dealt with by the five permanent members of theAll in all it reminds me of something that came out of a committee in Dilbert.
United Nations Security Council plus Germany.(we all know how well they have dealt with it so far) Syria should control its border with Iraq to stem the flow of funding, insurgents and terrorists in and out of Iraq.(see the above "should")
And everybody should have seen this coming...
"The United States cannot achieve its goals in the Middle East unless it deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict and regional instability. There must be a renewed and sustained commitment by the United States to a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace on all fronts.(Hey now that's an idea why not have the United States involved in the Arab-Israeli peace "process".)
"the vicious combination of the Asian Knout and the European stock market"-Trotsky (via Niall Ferguson's War of the World)So, even though it is a truism that we learn by analogy, even though the Bush administration unapologetically practices the reality-eschewing art of propaganda—with procured "journalists," its own "news" pipeline at Fox, leader-centric ("war president") stagecraft, the classic Big Lie MO of, say, draft avoiders smearing war heroes as unpatriotic—we are not permitted to draw any comparisons to the über-propagandists of the previous century. That prohibition is reiterated in the coy caution with which I introduce the topic here.Diane McWhorter manages to control her coyness long enough to give the media a good spanking for......... making to too big a deal of its own mistakes.
The taboo is itself a precept of the propaganda state.
The Bush-era fourth estate has come up short not only against the Big Lie of "fair and balanced" news but also against its equally cunning cousin: the Small Inaccuracy used to repudiate the damaging larger truth. CBS crumbled under the administration's mau-mauers over Memogate, while Newsweek managed to withstand the hazing it took for its Koran-in-the-toilet item—which, like the substance of Dan Rather's offending report on Bush's National Guard career, was not only accurate; it was old news. But why didn't the national media go on the offensive and re-educate the government, and the public, about the inevitable if regrettable price of a free press? Mistakes will be made in the proverbial first draft of history, and holding reporters to a standard of perfection would inhibit them from performing the vigilance crucial to our democratic system."Mistakes will be made in the first draft of history." How true, for at the bottom of Ms. McWhorter's column.
Correction, Nov. 29, 2006: This piece originally claimed, incorrectly, that the Military Commissions Act strips U.S. citizens as well as noncitizens of habeas corpus rights. In fact, the provisions of the act relating to habeas corpus only apply to noncitizens.
As the dim-witted and slovenly Baldrick, he never stood much of a chance with the ladies.
But in real life, Tony Robinson, who played Rowan Atkinson's downtrodden sidekick in the cult TV series, has considerably more luck.
Because, at the age of 60, the veteran actor has found love with a glamorous brunette 35 years his junior.
The couple, who met in a restaurant last year, have now set up home together and are said to be 'blissfully content'.
His 25-year-old girlfriend, Louise Hobbs, is two years younger than Robinson's daughter, Laura, and five years younger than his son, Luke.
And at a striking 5ft 8in, Miss Hobbs, a public sector worker, towers over her diminutive, 5ft 4in boyfriend.
Undeterred, the happy couple are spending their first Christmas together in the Maldives.
In 1992 he left his partner of 18 years and the mother of his two children, Mary, for 35-year-old singer-songwriter, Teri Bramah.
The stress of the couple's break-up, however, saw Robinson turn to alternative therapy - rolfing, a specialist massage technique - in a bid to ease his inner turmoil.
At a private reception held at the White House with newly elected lawmakers shortly after the election, Bush asked Webb how his son, a Marine lance corporal serving in Iraq, was doing.
Webb responded that he really wanted to see his son brought back home, said a person who heard about the exchange from Webb.
“I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing,” Bush retorted, according to the source.
Webb confessed that he was so angered by this that he was tempted to slug the commander-in-chief, reported the source, but of course didn’t.
Witnesses said three of the imams were praying loudly in the concourse and repeatedly shouted "Allah" when passengers were called for boarding US Airways Flight 300 to Phoenix.A setup aimed at moving legislation through the new Democratic congress.
"I was suspicious by the way they were praying very loud," the gate agent told the Minneapolis Police Department.
Passengers and flight attendants told law-enforcement officials the imams switched from their assigned seats to a pattern associated with the September 11 terrorist attacks and also found in probes of U.S. security since the attacks -- two in the front row first-class, two in the middle of the plane on the exit aisle and two in the rear of the cabin.
"That would alarm me," said a federal air marshal who asked to remain anonymous. "They now control all of the entry and exit routes to the plane."
A pilot from another airline said: "That behavior has been identified as a terrorist probe in the airline industry."
Three of the men asked for seat-belt extenders, although two flight attendants told police the men were not oversized. One flight attendant told police she "found this unsettling, as crew knew about the six [passengers] on board and where they were sitting." Rather than attach the extensions, the men placed the straps and buckles on the cabin floor, the flight attendant said.
The imams who claimed two first-class seats said their tickets were upgraded. The gate agent told police that when the imams asked to be upgraded, they were told no such seats were available. Nevertheless, the two men were seated in first class when removed.
Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, called removing the imams an act of Islamophobia and compared it to racism against blacks.And how can we expect our new Congressional leaders to act...?
"It's a shame that as an African-American and a Muslim I have the double whammy of having to worry about driving while black and flying while Muslim," Mr. Bray said.
The protesters also called on Congress to pass legislation to outlaw passenger profiling.
...insidious is the manner in which the Democrats, who are about to take over the US Congress, have framed their arguments for withdrawal. Last Saturday the newly elected House majority leader, Steny Hoyer, suggested that the Americans would pull out because the Iraqis were too disorganised and self-obsessed. "In the days ahead, the Iraqis must make the tough decisions and accept responsibility for their future," he said. "And the Iraqis must know: our commitment, while great, is not unending."Actually for a Democrat he kind of makes sense... so of course the Guardian columnist becomes enraged...
It is absurd [try it with an English accent it sounds better. Abzurd]to suggest that the Iraqis - who have been invaded, whose country is currently occupied, who have had their police and army disbanded and their entire civil service fired - could possibly be in a position to take responsibility for their future and are simply not doing so.
...Also, it leaves intact the bogus premise that the invasion was an attempt at liberation that has failed because some squabbling ingrates, incapable of working in their own interests, could not grasp the basic tenets of western democracy. In short, it makes the victims responsible for the crime.
First, because, while withdrawal is a prerequisite for any lasting improvement in Iraq, it will not by itself solve the nation's considerable problems."Resources"
Iraq has suffered decades of colonial rule,[ I assume he means the British colonial rule from 1918 to 1932 and not the Turkish colonial rule from 1566 till 1918] 30 years of dictatorship and three years of military occupation. Most recently, it has been trashed by a foreign invader.["trashed"? are we the Huns now? and wait... are we the "three years of occupation" or the "foreign invader"? I think he's double counting.] The troops must go. But the west has to leave enough resources[$$] behind to pay for what it broke. For that to happen, the anti-war movement in the west must shift the focus of our arguments to the terms of withdrawal while explaining why this invasion failed and our responsibilities[$$] to the Iraqi people that arise as a result of that failure.
"Surely the time has come to follow the example set by police forces and to question whether it is acceptable for BNP members to truly carry out the role of public servant."
Barring a last-second surprise from the tropics, the season will end Thursday with nine named storms, and only five of those hurricanes. This year is the first season since 1997 that only one storm nudged its way into the Gulf of Mexico.
There is another interesting trend to watch. When Borat was first released, blue-state sophisticates in New York and Los Angeles were delirious, overjoyed that Baron Cohen was savaging evangelicals and cowboys and hicks, as if this were either daring or original. Their rationale was that Cohen was merely playing with our heads, forcing us to reassess our convictions. No, he isn't. Baron Cohen is just another English public school boy who hates Americans. It is fine to hate Americans; it is one of Europe's oldest traditions. But the men who flew the bombing raids over Berlin and the men who died at Omaha Beach and the women who built the Flying Fortresses and Sherman tanks that helped defeat Hitler are the very same people that Baron Cohen pisses all over in Borat. A lot of folks named Cohen would not even be here making anti-American movies if it were not for the hayseeds he despises.
N'DJAMENA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Chad is extending for six months a state of emergency in large swathes of the country, saying it needs more time to pacify ethnic conflicts that have killed hundreds and which it blames Sudan for provoking.With background on the tensions between Chad and Sudan here.
President Idriss Deby's government declared the emergency on Nov 13 -- initially for 12 days -- saying Chad was the victim of a campaign of deliberate military destabilisation being waged by neighbour Sudan from its violent western Darfur region.
Humanitarian workers say hundreds of Chadian villagers have been killed in recent weeks in fighting between Arab and non-Arab communities and in attacks by Arabic-speaking armed raiders on horseback, often striking across the Sudan border.
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said his country has completed preparations for war with neighboring Somalia's powerful Islamist movement, alongside faltering peace efforts.Background here and here from this site.
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Meles told parliament Thursday that the Islamists, who have declared holy war on Ethiopian troops deployed to Somalia to protect the weak internationally backed Somali government, represented a "clear and present danger" to his country.
Less than a hour after after Meles' announcement, the Islamists gathered in a war council in Mogadishu and said they were ready to defend Somalia from invasion by a "reckless and war-thirsty" Ethiopia.
In a letter to the editor of Scotland’s Sunday Herald, Dawkins argues that the time has come to lay this spectre to rest. Dawkins writes that though no one wants to be seen to be in agreement with Hitler on any particular, “if you can breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill, why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical, musical or athletic ability?”And if breeding is OK can culling be far behind... ?
“I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitler’s death, we might at least venture to ask what the moral difference is between breeding for musical ability and forcing a child to take music lessons. Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them,” Dawkins wrote Sunday.
LONDON: One of Britain's leading medical colleges is calling on the health profession to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies.
Scientists have applied for permission to create part-human, part-animal embryos as part of research to create new treatments for debilitating neurological diseases.
Two teams of researchers today submitted applications to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for licences to be allowed to use therapeutic cloning to fuse human cells with rabbit, cow and goat egg.
a rag-tag separatist group called the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation, which is waging war for a separate Kamtapur state to be carved out of parts of north Bengal, Assam and Bihar.
Intelligence officers who monitor the separatist group, however, were a both a little puzzled and concerned, considering that their information did not point to KLO having either the 'expertise' or the 'acumen' to plant such an explosive.
As a government entity, Marines "don't profess one religion over another," Grein said Tuesday. "We can't take a chance on sending a talking Jesus doll to a Jewish family or a Muslim family.Here's the mission statement of the campaign...
MISSION: The mission of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots Program is to collect new, unwrapped toys during October, November and December each year, and distribute those toys as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community in which the campaign is conducted.So Jesus is not an approriate toy for Christmas, because we might offend all those Jews and Moslems when they recieve that Christian toy while celebrating that Christian holiday?
Nearly 200 prisoners and former inmates forced to stop taking drugs by going "cold turkey" are to receive payments.
The unspecified settlement followed claims the practice amounted to assault and a breach of human rights.
The call for state intervention in the minute details of family life followed a series of Labour efforts to reduce anti-social behaviour and improve educational standards by imposing rigorous controls on the lives of the youngest children.Notice this interesting post in the articles comments section...
Mrs Hughes has established a national curriculum to set down how babies are taught to speak in childcare from the age of three months.
Her efforts have gone alongside a push by other ministers to determine exactly how parents treat their children down to how they should brush their teeth.
Tony Blair has backed the idea of 'fasbos' - efforts to identify and correct the lives of children who are likely to fail even before they are born - and new laws to compel parents to attend parenting classes are on the way.
This autumn is likely to see an extension of parenting orders that can force parents to attend parenting classes so that they can be used on the say so of local councils against parents.
For the first time, parenting orders are likely to be directed against parents whose children have committed no criminal offence.
The threat of action against parents who fail to sing nursery rhymes was unveiled by Mrs Hughes as she gave the first details of Mr Blair's 'national parenting academy', a body that will train teachers, psychologists and social workers to intervene in the lives of families and become the 'parenting workforce'.
I was in Sussex last week. My hairdresser told me that her daughter came home saying she had learnt Nursery Rhymes at school that day.
" Ba ba Rainbow sheep, have you any wool" When she remonstrated with her daughter the little girl said that this was stated by the Teacher.
Right-Wing Extremist Viciousness Punishedso you kind of get where they're coming from the beginning.
A storm of indignation broke out. Many people, including Republicans, were afraid. My house, the most important capital asset in the USA, isn't safe from money-sharks? It resonated like a bomb burst – and it was the conservative Supreme Court, with justices appointed by George W. Bush, that had made that decision.The "conservative Supreme Court"? The Kelo decision was decided with a majority consisting of Justices Stevens, Ginsburg, Souter, Breyer and Kennedy and a dissent from O'Conner, Rehnquist, Thomas and Scalia. So the Liberal Justices wrote the controversial decision and the Conservative Justices opposed it. You'll also notice the absence of the names of Roberts and Alito, the Justices who had yet to be appointed by George W. Bush.
HBO spokesman Quentin Schaffer..., "Through his alter-egos, he delivers an obvious satire that exposes people's ignorance and prejudice...
George McGovern, the former senator and Democratic presidential candidate, said Thursday that he will meet with more than 60 members of Congress next week to recommend a strategy to remove U.S. troops from Iraq by June.and...
McGovern told the audience Thursday that the Iraq and Vietnam wars were equally "foolish enterprises" and that the current threat of terrorism developed because _ not before _ the United States went into Iraq.
And how long before the President totally alienates his base through some truely pathetic attempt to "reach across the aisle"?
In an extraordinary joint statement, more than 200 Socialist members of the European Parliament hailed the American election results as "the beginning of the end of a six-year nightmare for the world."But...
There was also some concern that Democrats, who have a reputation for being more protective of U.S. jobs going overseas, will make it harder to achieve a global free trade accord. And in China, some feared the resurgence of the Democrats would increase tension over human rights and trade and labor issues. China's surging economy has a massive trade surplus with the United States.And...
"The problem for Arabs now is, an American withdrawal (from Iraq) could be a security disaster for the entire region," said Mustafa Alani, an Iraqi analyst for the Gulf Research Center in Dubai. He said the Middle East could be left to cope with a disintegrating Iraq mired in civil war, with refugees fleeing a failed state that could become an incubator for terrorism.First of all, as if the whole Middle East isn't an incubator for terrorism ?
The European Union urged Iraq on Sunday not to carry out the death sentence passed on Iraq's former leader Saddam Hussein after his conviction for crimes against humanity.So does this mean that the whole country of Finland walked into a press conference and said "Hey all Europe just told me they're opposed to the death sentence."
"The EU opposes capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances, and it should not be carried out in this case either," Finland, current holder of the rotating EU presidency, said in a statement.
Asked about Saddam's sentence at his monthly press conference, Blair noted that Britain opposed the death penalty, "whether it's Saddam or anyone else."
Some Israeli security analysts, however, believe that the problem cannot be resolved by military force.That's it. No actual quoting of "Some Israeli security analysts" or even naming them.
"What we need is a large military operation to capture the Gaza strip and destroy the terrorist infrastructure," says Yuval Steinitz, a member of the Israeli parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee.So the header sentence really should read...
