
The terrifying booby predator sadistically enjoying the rewards of his lastest kill.
(if Dave can have fun on this blog, then so can I! Phffft!)
In total, two-thirds of Australians, about 66 per cent, now believe it was not worth going to war, up from 58 per cent a year ago. Just 27 per cent believe it was worth it, compared with 32per cent a year ago.
- repealing the law of gravity,
- building sloping roads and bicycle paths across the country so that Canadians could "coast from coast to coast",
- abolishing pumping oil out of the ground as that oil is there to keep the earth moving smoothly on its axis and if you withdraw the oil, the whole thing will grind to a halt,
- painting Canada's coastal sea limits so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times
To promote and enhance the effective and efficient acquisition, access, retention, production, use, management, and sharing of Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU) information, including homeland security information, law enforcement information, and terrorism information, procedures and standards for designating, marking, and handling SBU information (collectively "SBU procedures") must be standardized across the Federal Government. SBU procedures must promote appropriate and consistent safeguarding of the information...(emphasis mine)
The new restrictions have alarmed scientists, public interest groups, and concerned citizens because they interfere with the conduct of research.
Particularly troubling to many openness advocates are the critical infrastructure information protections of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, because they include not only a new and arguably unnecessary FOIA exemption, but also a ban on the direct use of such information in civil litigation.
Finally, I examined the evidence tending to show that abortion is being used primarily and overwhelmingly as birth control.Soooooo, let me get this straight. Abortion is used as birth control. DUH !!!!!! What did you think abortion was used for? As a flu vaccine?
It is most proper to call Him Yeshua. It was indeed his proper name, given to him by his parents, and only in Hebrew does this name have any meaning. In Hebrew Yeshua means both "Salvation," and the concatenated form of Yahoshua, is "Lord who is Salvation." The name Jesus has no intrinsic meaning in English whatsoever.
I am having a Christmas soirée, but all my friends have different food requirements. One is on a high-protein diet, one is doing low-GI and one has a wheat/gluten allergy. What is the right party food to serve in such a situation?
Mulled wine.
Stoking the anger has been the slow pace of compensation payments, despite the allocation of $490m by Iraq’s interim government last year.
Dr Hafid al-Dulaimi, head of the city’s compensation commission, reported that 36,000 homes and 8,400 shops were destroyed in the US onslaught.
Sixty nurseries and schools and 65 mosques and other religious establishments were wrecked. Falluja’s mayor, Dhari abdel Hadi al-Irssan, claims that only 20% of the compensation promised has reached the city.
One woman was driving home with $2,000 she had just received as compensation for losing her home when she was stopped and robbed by Iraqi troops. She has filed a formal complaint. Another man lost $3,500 in a similar incident.
Yet even these deprivations pale by comparison with the fatalities Falluja families claim to have suffered at the hands of occupying forces. Witnesses spoke of American Marines dumping bodies in the Euphrates just after the offensive and of mass graves where hundreds are allegedly buried.
... "The new resistance that has been forming in Falluja is one that will be characterised by revenge and settling scores,” the commander of one fundamentalist faction explained.
“As well as fighting the occupation, its aim will include avenging . . . the crimes committed by the so-called (Iraqi) forces in the period after the offensives,” he said.
The commander claimed that US and Iraqi troops had “violated the sanctity of homes, families and even religion . . . The arrests of thousands of men mean that every home now has suffered the loss or detention of at least one of its males”.
Having melted away in the face of earlier US onslaughts, the resistance has learnt to organise itself differently. Another faction commander added: “Groups and cells are being formed but, unlike in the past, the hierarchy and leadership will be difficult to track.”.
US military commanders in Fallujah admit that there is growing sympathy for the insurgency. If the US doesn't bring it under control by rebuilding the city quickly, Fallujah will erupt, as all fermenting insurgencies do, with more strength than 13 months ago.
Read the whole article here.
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States
In a high-level meeting at the Pentagon on Tuesday, some Army and other Pentagon officials raised concerns that Mr. McCain would be furious at what could appear to be a back-door effort to circumvent his intentions.
"This is a stick in McCain's eye," one official said. "It goes right up to the edge. He's not going to be comfortable with this."
A new poll by Decima Research suggested the dustup attracted a larger voter audience and raised support for the Liberals.
The online survey found that twice as many respondents said Wilkins's speech made them feel more inclined to vote Liberal (24 per cent) than Conservative (11 per cent).
It also found that 84 per cent of respondents had heard about the dispute.
It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. As president, I'm responsible for the decision to go into Iraq, and I'm also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities
Given Saddam's history and the lessons of Sept. 11, my decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision.
Don't give people 25 bucks a week to blow on beer and popcorn. Give them child-care spaces that work. Stephen Harper's plan has nothing to do with child care.
Cops mistakenly break down the door of a sleeping man, late at night, as part of drug raid. Turns out, the man wasn't named in the warrant, and wasn't a suspect. The man, frightened for himself and his 18-month old daughter, fires at an intruder who jumps into his bedroom after the door's been kicked in. Turns out that the man, who is black, has killed the white son of the town's police chief. He's later convicted and sentenced to death by a white jury. The man has no criminal record, and police rather tellingly changed their story about drugs (rather, traces of drugs) in his possession at the time of the raid.
For weeks I've been wondering what the difference is between a Soviet and American gulag.
Placing concentration camps in Europe is a level of brashness that not even the Soviet Union achieved.
the policy of the United States not to expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture, regardless of whether the person is physically present in the United States.
As a teenager, I regularly have screaming matches with my parents. I storm up to my room, but unfortunately the carpet is high, so when I attempt to slam the door it goes very slowly and doesn’t shut properly. How can I slam my door so it’s loud and my parents know I’m angry?
LM
Use the lawnmower to trim the pile of the carpet to the height at which the door will swing easily.