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calendar   Monday - September 04, 2006

Crikey!

I have often wondered if Steve Irwin was playing with a full deck. The man seemed absolutely insane to get that close to dangerous animals, from crocodiles to poisonous rattlesnakes. It seemed to me to be a matter of when, not if, he would be killed. The thing is, you just had to love the guy anyway. He always seemed to be having so much fun while playing with dangerous animals. This kind of accident was predictable but I am still saddened regardless.

Like most of his fans, I extend my deepest sympathies to his wife and family. He will be missed. In spite of the crazy antics he seemed to get into at times, Steve seemed to have a good heart and taught us a lot about animals in the wild, carrying on the tradition of Marlin Perkins and others. Yes, the animals he “played with” were dangerous but his infectious humor served to educate us about animals in the wild and make us less fearful of them. That alone was a magnificent achievement.

His death should also remind us that although we should not fear the wild critters, we need to engage them with a healthy dose of respect. Something we humans would do well to practice when dealing with the most dangerous animals of all ... each other.

Rest in peace, Steve.

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CAIRNS, Australia (WASHINGTON POST) - Monday, September 4, 2006; 6:14 AM

Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the “Crocodile Hunter,” was killed Monday by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44. Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series called “Ocean’s Deadliest” when he swam too close to one of the animals, which have a poisonous bard on their tails, his friend and colleague John Stainton said.

“He came on top of the stingray and the stingray’s barb went up and into his chest and put a hole into his heart,” said Stainton, who was on board Irwin’s boat at the time. Crew members aboard the boat, Croc One, called emergency services in the nearest city, Cairns, and administered CPR as they rushed the boat to nearby Low Isle to meet a rescue helicopter. Medical staff pronounced Irwin dead when they arrived a short time later, Stainton said.

Irwin was famous for his enthusiasm for wildlife and his catchword “Crikey!” in his television program “Crocodile Hunter.” First broadcast in Australia in 1992, the program was picked up by the Discovery network, catapulting Irwin to international celebrity. He rode his image into a feature film, 2002’s “The Crocodile Hunters: Collision Course” and developed the wildlife park that his parents opened, Australia Zoo, into a major tourist attraction.

“The world has lost a great wildlife icon, a passionate conservationist and one of the proudest dads on the planet,” Stainton told reporters in Cairns. “He died doing what he loved best and left this world in a happy and peaceful state of mind. He would have said, ‘Crocs Rule!’” Prime Minister John Howard, who hand-picked Irwin to attend a gala barbecue to honor President Bush when he visited in 2003, said he was “shocked and distressed at Steve Irwin’s sudden, untimely and freakish death.”

“It’s a huge loss to Australia,” Howard told reporters. “He was a wonderful character. He was a passionate environmentalist. He brought joy and entertainment and excitement to millions of people.” Irwin, who made a trademark of hovering dangerously close to untethered crocodiles and leaping on their backs, spoke in rapid-fire bursts with a thick Australian accent and was almost never seen without his uniform of khaki shorts and shirt and heavy boots.

His ebullience was infectious and Australian officials sought him out for photo opportunities and to promote Australia internationally. News of Irwin’s death spread quickly, and tributes flowed from all quarters of society. At Australia Zoo at Beerwah, south Queensland, floral tributes were dropped at the entrance, where a huge fake crocodile gapes. Drivers honked their horns as they passed.

Stainton said Irwin’s American-born wife Terri, from Eugene, Ore., had been informed of his death, and had told their daughter Bindi Sue, 8, and son Bob, who will turn 3 in December. The couple met when she went on vacation in Australia in 1991 and visited Irwin’s Australia Zoo; they were married six months later. Sometimes referred to as the “Crocodile Huntress,” she costarred on her husband’s television show and in his 2002 movie.

Steve’s Web Site: http://www.crocodilehunter.com


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/04/2006 at 06:13 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - September 03, 2006

Things To Do This Weekend, Part III

Go Skinny-Dippin’ With A Friend

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/03/2006 at 04:00 PM   
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Cops Easily Finger Burglar

I love stories like this. I can have all kinds of fun with the titles of these posts. This poor cat not only left fingerprints behind but left the finger too, making it quite easy for the cops to “finger” him. It’s too bad he didn’t just “thumb” a ride out of town. Perhaps from now on he’ll “toe” the line ... (oh stoppit, Skipper - you’re getting silly) ...

Burglar Left Finger Behind
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A burglar was caught after he left his finger at the crime scene and police found his prints in their database. Michael Baumgartner, 31, was spotted breaking into a leisure centre in Hamburg, Germany.

He fled when police arrived but a ring on his index finger caught on a metal fence and ripped his finger off.. Police found the severed digit on the ground and used it to track down the thief. But it was too late to reattach the finger despite surgery at a local hospital.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/03/2006 at 03:46 PM   
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The Nanny State, British Version

Guess what? If you live in Britain and are about to turn 70, you will soon be a lot stupider. So says one internet provider across the pond. Seems to me the stupid loon in this story is not the old lady but the ratbag company that decides old people are mentally incompetent as a rule. That’s hogwash and we all know it. There are millions of people right now on the internet who can’t chew bubble gum and walk at the same time - and age has nothing to do with it.

Maybe this company thought they were actually trying to protect our elders from being hornswaggled into signing up for AOL and getting billed even after they die - which AO-Hell has probably done on occasion. Personally, I think a better idea would be to have every computer equipped with a simple “idiot-tester” that would test your level of stupidity and if you’re too damn dumb to be on the web, it will refuse to connect. Something simple would be nice, like asking you to type in any 3-digit prime number or list the first four Presidents of the US (or Kings of England if you’re over there). We need to keep the lunatics and people with bad manners off the web, not the old people. The older folks are mostly cool. Mostly.

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You’re Over 70

(DAILY MAIL-UK) - 2nd September 2006 - 10:00pm GMT

After walking the Great Wall of China and making plans for a trip to Russia, Shirley Greening-Jackson thought signing up for a new internet service would be a doddle. But the young man behind the counter had other ideas. He said she was barred - because she was too old. The 75-year-old would only be allowed to sign the forms for the Carphone Warehouse’s TalkTalk phone and broadband package if she was accompanied by a younger member of her family who could explain the small print to her.

Mrs Greening-Jackson, who sits on the board of several charities, said: “I was absolutely furious. The young man said, ‘Sorry, you’re over 70. It’s company policy. We don’t sign anyone up who is over 70.’ “Later a young lady said company policy is that anyone over 70 might not understand the contract. She said, ‘If you would be prepared to go to the shop in town and take a younger member of your family we might give you a contract.’

“I have just completed a visa form to go to Russia. Last year we did one for walking the Wall in China and here is this person saying I would not be able to understand a basic form - and it was basic. It is pure ageism. “Somebody has decided when you turn 70 you lose a lot of your mind. I find this is ridiculous.” When her case came to light on Radio 4’s You And Yours last week, Carphone Warehouse admitted it had adopted an over-70 rule.

But the firm insisted it was not a blanket policy and claimed the guidance was to protect the elderly. A spokeswoman said: “It is not our policy to refuse business from adult customers of any age group. However, we do ask our agents to use their discretion when dealing with older customers.” She added that the discretionary rule had been introduced in response to complaints that staff had mis-sold products last year. Liberal Democrat MP Paul Burstow, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on older people, described the practice as ‘deeply offensive’.

He said: “It is nonsense to assume those over the age of 70 cannot understand this sort of package, especially with the huge explosion of ‘silver surfers’ using the net.” New laws next month will outlaw ageism in the workplace. But Help the Aged wants the rules extended to protect consumers. “We see companies putting in place arbitrary age rules all the time,’ a spokeswoman said. “To deny people services because of their age is just crazy. There needs to be legislation to address this.”


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/03/2006 at 06:07 AM   
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Sunday Funnies

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/03/2006 at 06:00 AM   
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Things To Do This Weekend, Part II

Have A Picnic With Friends

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/03/2006 at 05:59 AM   
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Triangulation

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imageimageTriangulate On Terror
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

The American people, as usual, don’t buy either the Republican or the Democratic party lines. They agree with the Republicans and President Bush that the War on Terror is essential. They embrace the GOP’s views on the Patriot Act and National Security Agency wiretaps.

But Americans agree with the Democrats that Iraq has nothing much to do with the War on Terror. The latest New York Times survey shows that a majority believes that Iraq it not part of the War on Terror.

So it’s time for triangulation. Bush and the Republicans need to stop alienating voters by arguing that Iraq is an indispensable front in the War on Terror. They should center their fall campaign to keep control of Congress on the national-security issue sans Iraq.

Bush doesn’t need to reverse course on Iraq. He doesn’t need to pull out the troops and send them home. He doesn’t even need to set a timetable for withdrawal. But he does have to stop talking about Iraq and talk, instead, about homeland security.

Bush and the Republicans under attack - Sens. Mike DeWine, Conrad Burns, Lincoln Chafee, Jim Talent and Rick Santorum, and numerous House members - need to talk about the Patriot Act, the NSA wiretaps and the resources allocated to homeland security. They should talk about Iraq only when asked, and then only briefly.

Yes, the war in Iraq is connected to the War on Terror. Obviously, al Qaeda is behind many of the attacks in Iraq. Obviously, the streets of Baghdad are the alternative to Manhattan as the place in which the War on Terror is waged.

But, equally obviously, it is political suicide to insist on drawing the connection. So, Republicans: Don’t even think about it! Democrats are vulnerable on all of the domestic-security issues. Just as Republicans hurt themselves when they tie Iraq to the War on Terror, Democrats impair their chances to win by opposing the NSA wiretaps and the Patriot Act along with our Iraqi involvement.

The key is for Republicans to talk about the specific instances in which the Patriot Act and the NSA wiretaps helped us to foil terrorist attacks. John Spencer, running against Sen. Hillary Clinton, has pioneered the way by tying her December 2005 vote against closure on the Patriot Act extension and her voluble opposition to the NSA warrantless wiretaps to the plot to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge.

Evidence indicates that the bridge would’ve been in smithereens without the Patriot Act. The act forced the sharing of information between the federal security agencies and the NYPD, which triggered the flooding of the bridge with New York cops. Telephone intercepts indicated that the terrorist charged with destroying the bridge told his handlers that the NYPD presence made the bridge “too hot.” Feds have indicated to The New York Times that the NSA wiretaps played an important role in the apprehension of Lyman Faris for his plot to destroy the bridge.

Bush and the GOP need to leave a defense of the war in Iraq behind in their bid to keep control of Congress. After all, what is more important to the American people - a war thousands of miles away or the immediate threat to homeland security so recently evidenced by the plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic on the London-to-New York route?

Republicans can’t afford to insist on being re-elected for the right reasons. But if they take what American public opinion is prepared to give them, they can yet salvage this election.


Eileen McGann co-authored this column. Dick Morris was an adviser to Bill Clinton for 20 years. Look for Dick’s new book “Condi vs. Hillary” available now. Copyright 2006 Dick Morris, All Rights Reserved. Distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons, Inc. http://www.caglecartoons.com. To reprint, call Cari Dawson Bartley at (800) 696 7561 or e-mail: cari@cagle.com. Email for Dick Morris is dmredding@aol.com. Eileen McGann, an attorney and consultant, is a CEO of VOTE.com and Legislativevote.com. She works with Dick Morris on campaigns and around the world, specializing in using the internet to win elections.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/03/2006 at 05:38 AM   
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calendar   Saturday - September 02, 2006

Mad Dogs And Englishmen

As if Britain didn’t have enough problems with Muslim immigrants, now the Bulgarians are upset. No, really. Our Brit friends have a solution to all this silliness though - stay drunk and act strange. This seems to have worked in the case of the Bulgarians. They’re running back to Bulgaria. I wonder why the Muslims haven’t left yet? Maybe living among drunk psychos seems perfectly normal to the Muzzies. Ya think ... ?

Move to Britain? They’re All Drunks And Psychos
(GUARDIAN-UK) - Saturday September 2, 2006

Standing outside the British embassy in Sofia yesterday, Rozalina Boeva admits she wants a better life. After three years she has had enough - of Britain. She is coming home to Bulgaria. “I’m fed up. I don’t like it in Britain much,” Ms Boeva, a 37-year-old care assistant, said. “I find it very discriminating against foreigners. The government seems to tell ordinary people that foreigners living in the UK are dangerous to British people. I don’t know why.”

Ms Boeva has spent the past three years living and working in Swansea. But she dislikes Britain’s culture of binge drinking and the fact that her teenage daughter has been bullied at school. “Some British people are nice. But on Friday and Saturday night everybody gets drunk. Many girls get pregnant at 16 or 17. The general level of education is low. I’m going back for a couple of months to collect our things. Then we’ll start a new life in Bulgaria.”

Ms Boeva was one of around 50 Bulgarians trying to get or renew visas at the embassy yesterday. Earlier this week the Sun ran a front-page photograph showing what it said was a vast queue of Bulgarians who had “laid siege” to the building. The Bulgarians intended to work in the UK when Bulgaria - together with Romania - joined the EU on January 1, the paper suggested.

In fact, most of those queuing up yesterday were visiting Britain for a holiday. Others already lived in the UK and were renewing visas. But the vigorous tabloid campaign against Bulgarians and Romanians appears to have worked.

On Wednesday ministers indicated that the government intends to introduce a work permit system requiring them to prove that they can fill specific skill shortages. Having earlier promised to open the UK labour market to workers from both countries, the British government, the biggest supporter of the EU’s enlargement to include the countries of former eastern Europe, now appears to have performed an embarrassing volte face.

The move has left ministers in Bulgaria’s socialist-led coalition government fuming. “It’s absolute nonsense,” Evgeniya Koldanova, Bulgaria’s deputy foreign minister, said yesterday. “I’m disappointed.”

Ms Koldanova takes issue with Home Office predictions that, given the chance, 60,000 to 140,000 Bulgarians and Romanians are likely to move to Britain next year. The Bulgarian government says the total number of migrants going abroad will be more like 10,000 to 15,000.

A Gallup poll in February suggested the number of Bulgarians wanting to leave the country has gone down to 7%. Of those, most wanted to go to the US, Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany. Only 0.2% to 0.4% mentioned Britain.

- More from Britain at the Gwardian ...


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/02/2006 at 12:37 PM   
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Things To Do This Weekend, Part I

Have A Barbecue In The Back Yard

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/02/2006 at 06:00 AM   
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Busted In Bama

I can’t imagine a worse penalty for pedophiles and perverts than for them to walk into a redneck bar in the backwoods of Alabama, have the bartender card them and then suddenly the barkeep yells out, “Hey, y’all! Lookee what we got here ...” The rest of the evening shoud be quite ... entertaining.

imageimageAlabama’s New Sex Offender Law Now In Effect
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - 1:15 pm CDT September 1, 2006

A new state law went into effect Friday that requires all convicted adult sex offenders to have a special mark placed on their state driver’s licenses or non-driver identification cards. The mark will be visible to anyone who checks a person’s identification—from police officers to grocery store cashiers to clerks at video stores.

Any sex offender leaving prison or changing residences must get a new license that will bear the sex offender mark. Attorney General Troy King said convicted sex offenders who already have a license or identification card must get the mark when their current card expires.

A spokeswoman for the Alabama Department of Public Safety in Montgomery said the system to mark the driver’s licenses and ID cards is in place. She said at least two driver’s licenses were issued Thursday bearing the new mark.

Defense attorneys said the law classifies all sex offenders as deviants, no matter the nature of the crime. The law affects those convicted of almost every type of sex crime in Alabama code, from sexual contact with minors to indecent exposure.

The Alabama Legislature passed the new Sex Offender Notification Act requiring the marked driver’s licenses during a special session in July 2005. Failure to comply is a Class C felony crime.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/02/2006 at 05:30 AM   
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Saturday Silliness

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Marshall Ramsey - The Clarion Ledger - Jackson Mississippi


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/02/2006 at 05:00 AM   
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calendar   Friday - September 01, 2006

Through The Looking Glass

Ahhhhhh, Labor Day weekend at last. I want to wish you all a safe and happy holiday time off from work this weekend. Enjoy the rest. You all deserve it. There will be light posting here over the next three days as I plan to enjoy a little R&R myself. I leave you with this outstanding photo of the sunset from the golden beaches of Bali in the beautiful South Pacific.

Just imagine yourself walking along this beach thousands of miles from civilization with an ice cold beer listening to the waves crash ashore at your feet and a gentle breeze blowing in from the ocean. The sand and sea foam caress your tired feet and the air smells fresh and clean. The only sounds you hear are the waves, the wind and a lone seagull. Let it take you away ....


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/01/2006 at 04:15 PM   
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Liberal Bias In The Military Press?

If our troops think they’re getting unbiased reporting in the military’s newspapers, Air Force Times, Army Times and Navy Times, I hate to disillusion them. Melanie Morgan of MoveAmericaForward discovered a miserable Leftist rat in the reporter staff at one of those publications. She has the full story at WorldNet Daily, as well as contact information for this cretin and his editor. A phone call may be in order ....

Liberal Bias In The Military Press?

The bias of the media isn’t just at the major television networks and newspapers, but extends further then you might think. Last week the pro-troop organization Move America Forward, where I serve as chairman, was informed by two reporters of Air Force Times that they would not accept future PR materials from us.

I was dumbfounded. In the journalism business, it’s almost unheard of to ban a group from sending you their news releases; let alone for a military publication to tell a pro-troop nonprofit group that their material would not be accepted.

In a voicemail message to one of our staffers, reporter Bryant Jordan made it clear that he didn’t want to be bothered with news releases from “somebody on the right” who “is supporting the troops”:

This is Bryant Jordan, Air Force Times, umm look, we’re just not interested in getting this stuff, we get stuff all the time, I’m not, just just because we write about the military doesn’t mean we’re gonna snatch up every column by somebody on the right who’s ya know is supporting the troops. (You can listen to the audio clip of Mr. Jordan’s message here.)

Jordan also wrote e-mails to our staff criticizing Move America Forward and citing material from the Center for Media and Democracy, a left-wing organization described as “a counterculture public relations effort disguised as an independent media organization.”

Odd that someone from a military publication would find himself of like mind with such an organization, no?

But you see, Air Force Times and its sister publications Amy Times, Navy Times and Marine Times are not published by the military, but in fact are published by Gannett, the media outfit that owns USA Today and a number of local television stations around the nation.

- More on this blatant bias from Melanie Morgan here ...


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/01/2006 at 02:58 PM   
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The Naggers

The FBI got their man ... finally. Jeffs looked like a beaten man in court yesterday as he lamely accepted extradition back to Utah to face charges. Maybe more than one wife is too much nagging for any man. Sometimes one wife is too much. Yes, I’m referring to all my ex-wives ....

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Polygamist Sect Leader Warren Jeffs Agrees
To Return To Utah To Face Charges

LAS VEGAS (AP) - September 1, 2006

The leader of a polygamist sect said Thursday he will not fight extradition to Utah on charges he arranged marriages between underage girls and older men. Warren Jeffs made his first court appearance since he was arrested Monday after more than a year on the run. The charismatic religious leader with an estimated 10,000 followers spoke almost inaudibly, and his blue prison jumpsuit hung loosely off his bony frame.

Jeffs, who was not represented by a lawyer, nodded when a Las Vegas justice of the peace asked if he would be extradited to Utah. He is charged there with two counts of rape by accomplice and could get life in prison if convicted. The 50-year-old leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sect that broke away from the Mormon church more than a century ago and has been disavowed by the Mormons, was arrested after a traffic stop outside Las Vegas.

He also faces charges in Arizona, but Utah will prosecute him first because it has a stronger case and its charges are more serious. Prosecutors hope the arrest will break Jeffs’ hold on his followers and lead them to speak out about their lives within the sect and the arranged marriages of young girls there, some just 13 years old.

In past attempts to prosecute polygamists within the sect, victims have faced powerful pressure to stay quiet from family members and their insular communities along the Utah-Arizona line, where Jeffs is regarded as a prophet. “They pretty much have to renounce their entire heritage to go against the prophet,” said Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard. “That has got to be hard to do.” Jeffs has refused jailhouse interviews this week.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/01/2006 at 11:14 AM   
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