Monday - June 27, 2005

Greasy Greed And Nukes

You thought oil prices at $50 per barrel were bad? Think again, folks. It’s now over $60 per barrel and the greed continues ....

Oil prices have continued to climb on Monday, surging to a record on concerns that demand will outstrip supply.

US sweet light crude was trading 48 cents higher at $60.32, after earlier hitting $60.64. Brent, the other main contract rose 58 cents to $58.94.

Analysts said that prices are likely to sit close to the $60 mark for some time as demand shows little sign of abating.

“The psychology of the market is that once US$60 is breached, then there is tendency to test how much higher it can go, or how long $60 can be sustained,” said Victor Shum of Purvin & Gertz.

Driving the market is the worry that there is very little surplus supply and that any disruption would produce a sudden and dramatic spike in prices.

Over the weekend, Iran, the second-biggest member of oil production group Opec, voted in hardline Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President.

Mr Ahmadinejad has said his government will continue the country’s nuclear programme and appeared to rule out improving ties with Washington, saying Iran did not really need the US.

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   Friday - June 17, 2005

Biting The Hand That Feeds You

Remember all that money donated to aid countries in Southeast Asia for tsunami relief? Well, Sri Lanka is now imposing import duties on some of it ....

British charity Oxfam has had to pay the Sri Lankan government $1m in import duty for vehicles used in tsunami reconstruction work.

Paperwork had kept the 25 four-wheel drive vehicles idle in the capital, Colombo, for a month.

The Sri Lankan government told the BBC News website the aid had been duty-free until the end of April but was now needed to prevent “market distortions”.

Nearly 31,000 people died in Sri Lanka when the tsunami struck on 26 December. Half a million were made homeless. Oxfam told BBC News the 25 Indian-made Mahindra vehicles were essential in ensuring it could reach the poorest communities over rough terrain and bad roads.

Sri Lanka does not manufacture any automobiles so it was not possible to buy them locally. A spokesman said: “Clearly Oxfam would have preferred not to pay this tax on the vehicles and we did everything we could to have the tax waived.

“However the government has turned down our request and the laws of the country dictate that we must now pay the normal import tax.”

The spokesman said the incident would not affect the way Oxfam worked in Sri Lanka.

Britain’s Daily Telegraph said Sri Lankan customs had charged $5,000 a day while the vehicles were processed.

Oxfam was given the choice of handing over the vehicles to the government, re-exporting them or paying the 300% import tax.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/17/2005 at 08:16 AM   
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   Thursday - June 16, 2005

Child Molesters In England

If you think we have problems with child molesters and sexual predators here in the US, you ain’t heard nothing yet. Our friends across the pond in Jolly Ol’ England are contending with a current rash of children being used as “human sacrifices” ....

Children are being trafficked into the UK from Africa and used for human sacrifices, a confidential report for the Metropolitan Police suggests.

Children are being beaten and even murdered after being labelled as witches by pastors, the report leaked to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme said.

Police face a “wall of silence” in investigations because of fear and mistrust among the groups involved.

It follows the case of a girl tortured by her guardians for being a witch.

Three people, including the girl’s aunt, were convicted of trying to “beat the devil out of” the un-named 10-year-old - originally from Angola.

The report was commissioned by the Met after the death of Victoria Climbie in February 2000 and because of concerns over so-called faith crimes.

The 10-month probe was also intended to be part of efforts to “open a dialogue” with Asian and African communities to prevent child abuse in the London boroughs of Hackney and Newham.

Information was gathered with the help of social workers, human rights lawyers and race relations experts from within these ethnic minority groups.

Today programme reporter Angus Stickler, who obtained the police report due to be published later this month, described it as “absolutely chilling”.

“The most gruesome details come from the African communities,” he said.

“This report talks of rituals, of witchcraft, being practised in churches in London. It is described as big business.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/16/2005 at 01:59 PM   
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   Wednesday - June 15, 2005

Chinese Capitalist Pigs!

Who says the Red Chinese are communists? Those crazy fools are already putting into place a price-gouging scheme to gradually raise the hotel room rates over the next three years in preparation for the 2008 Olympics. By gradually raising the rates over this period, I think the greedy Communists hope no one will notice. You just can’t find an honest commie anywhere nowadays - they’re all capitalist pigs!

At any rate, by 2008 you’ll pay as much for a room in Beijing as you would in New York or London .... and I’m sure room service will provide special care for any cats or dogs you bring along ....

Guests at Beijing’s top hotels will soon pay more for their rooms as the city’s hotel prices catch up with their counterparts in New York, London and Tokyo.

Guest room prices in Beijing will continue to rise 6 percent each year until the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, reported the local newspaper Beijing Daily on Wednesday. According to the article, price guidelines will soon be announced by the municipal tourism bureau and the city’s Reform and Development Committee.

The growth rate is calculated based on the local government’s commitments to the International Olympic Committee that the overnight hotel room price will stand at 340 dollars (preferential treatment), or 370 dollars (special offer), or 420 dollars (common price).

“We of course hope that the hotel room prices in Beijing will continue to rise,” said Oliver Bunk, marketing vice president of the Asian and Pacific region of the Starwood Hotels & Resort worldwide Inc.

Currently, Beijing’s average hotel room price is only 50 US dollars a night, according to a report on Beijing hotels released by the Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/15/2005 at 12:35 PM   
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   Sunday - June 12, 2005

Amnesty International Helped Free 9/11 Terrorist

This is an interesting bit of news from NewsMax about Amnesia Internationale ....

The human rights group Amnesty International - which accuses America of running a “gulag” at Guantanamo Bay - apparently aided in the escape of a key al-Qaida member who’s suspected of helping plan the 9/11 attacks.

Just two months after the World Trade Center was destroyed, Amnesty issued one of its “URGENT ACTION” reports on behalf of Ahmed Hikmat Shakir, who was then being detained by Jordanian security forces in connection with a planning session for the 9/11 attacks.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Amnesty complained that Shakir was being held in “incommunicado detention and is at risk of torture or ill-treatment.” Saddam Hussein - the only Mideast leader to publicly praise the 9/11 attacks - also weighed in on Shakir’s behalf.

“Pressure from Amnesty and Saddam Hussein worked,” the Journal said. “Mr. Shakir was released and hasn’t been seen since.”

Shakir was present at a January 2000 al-Qaida summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where the 9/11 plot was reviewed. Two of the actual 9/11 hijackers were also at the same meeting.

When he was arrested in Qatar not long after the 9/11 attacks, Shakir had telephone numbers for the safe houses of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers.

But for the intervention of Amnesty International, Shakir might be in Guantanamo today - undergoing grilling by U.S. interrogators about al-Qaida’s plans for the next 9/11.

If you feel like expressing your displeasure with this anti-American, communist-inspired group, you can visit their website (http://www.amnesty.org) or e-mail the US offices at . It should also be noted that AI’s recent remarks about Gitmo being a “gulag” were NOT anywhere in their most recent report on human rights abuse. That accusation came from their top leadership’s press statements when they released the report, which contains no basis for the accusation. Get the picture?

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/12/2005 at 11:08 AM   
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People With Problems

• Janet Reno can’t drive.


• William Shatner can’t sing.


• “Killer Cow” can’t use insanity plea.


• BB Guns can’t be used in school science projects.


• Criminals in Argentina can’t join the army.


• Romanian university students can’t have untaxed sex.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/12/2005 at 06:21 AM   
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   Friday - June 10, 2005

Headline Of The Day

This is good news for our friends up in Canuckistan ....

Canadian Court Chips Away at National Health Care
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Published: June 9, 2005

TORONTO, June 9 - The Canadian Supreme Court struck down a Quebec law banning private medical insurance today, dealing an acute blow to the publicly financed national health care system.

The court stopped short of striking down the constitutionality of the country’s vaunted nationwide coverage, but legal experts said the ruling would open the door to a wave of lawsuits challenging the health care system in other provinces.

The system, providing Canadians with free doctor’s services that are paid for by taxes, has generally been supported by the public, and is broadly identified with the Canadian national character.

But in recent years, patients have been forced to wait longer for diagnostic tests and elective surgery, while the wealthy and well connected either seek care in the United States or use influence to jump ahead on waiting lists.

The court ruled that the waiting lists had become so long that they violated patients’ “liberty, safety and security” under the Quebec charter, which covers about one-quarter of Canada’s population.

“The evidence in this case shows that delays in the public health care system are widespread and that in some serious cases, patients die as a result of waiting lists for public health care,” the Supreme Court ruled. “In sum, the prohibition on obtaining private health insurance is not constitutional where the public system fails to deliver reasonable services.”

The case was brought to the Supreme Court by a Montreal family doctor, Jacques Chaoulli, who argued his own case through the courts, and by a chemical salesman, George Zeliotis, who was forced to wait a year for a hip replacement while being prohibited from paying privately for surgery.

Posted by Z Woof     on 06/10/2005 at 05:27 AM   
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   Sunday - June 05, 2005

Two Problems, One Solution

Problem #1: American troops in Iraq are discovering hidden caches of arms and bombs, used by the insurgents to kill Iraqis, all over the country. Buried in hidden bunkers and hidden in farmhouses, these weapons caches which are being used by Muslim radicals to incite violence and hatred need to be discovered and disposed of. How to dispose of the tons of weapons buried across Iraq is a logistical nightmare. What can we do with all these arms?

Problem #2: Muslim gangs in Sudan are being hired and/or encouraged to murder black Africans in the Darfur region by the Sudanese government. Genocide is fully in progress by Muslims against Africans in this region. Muslim gangs swoop down on villages, kill all the men and rape the women, then proceed to the next village while the UN ignores the problem or just stands idly by wringing its pathetic little hands. How can we help the surviving women of Darfur protect themselves?

Solution: Take all the captured arms from Iraq and disperse them to the African women in Darfur who have survived rape, pillage and torture at the hands of Muslim madmen. It wouldn’t take long for the outraged ladies of Darfur to solve their problem and solve our problem too. Hell, we might even be able to convince Jesse Jackson to go over there to “oversee” the operation .... you never know where a stray bullet may land. It’s a win-win-win situation, I tell you.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/05/2005 at 10:07 AM   
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   Thursday - June 02, 2005

Nuke France

We invaded Baghdad, took out Saddam Hussein, scared the crap out of the other Arab dictators and convinced Kadaffi Duck to give up his nuclear projects. Now France is going to help him restart his nuclear plans ....

France will “soon” offer Libya a cooperation agreement to help Tripoli develop its civilian nuclear energy program, the French foreign ministry said Tuesday.

“The principle of cooperation in the area of peaceful applications of nuclear energy is a given, but the content has yet to be defined. We’re still in the exploratory phase,” said ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei.

“We will soon offer an agreement to the Libyans on what can be done,” the spokesman told reporters.

France’s ambassador to Tripoli on Monday handed Libyan Foreign Minister Abdelrahman Shalgham an official note announcing France’s readiness to cooperate with Tripoli on its nuclear power projects, officials said.

The note changed hands before French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin presented his resignation, and that of his government, on Tuesday.

During a visit by President Jacques Chirac last November, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said his nation had renounced weapons of mass destruction and hoped that the transfer of technology would permit the oil-rich nation to develop a nuclear program for peaceful means.

On that occasion Chirac—the first French head of state to visit Tripoli since Libyan independence from Italy in 1951—vowed to forge a “true partnership” with Libya.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/02/2005 at 08:02 AM   
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   Wednesday - June 01, 2005

HEL NR! (Hell No!)

Turnout was high and by a two to one margin (63% to 37%) Dutch voters voiced a resounding “NR” to the EU Constitution.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch voters overwhelmingly rejected the
European Union constitution Wednesday, the prime minister said, in what could be a knockout blow for the charter roundly defeated just days ago by France.

Less than an hour after the polls closed, Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende conceded defeat in his campaign to ratify the constitution and said the government would respect the results of the referendum.

“Naturally, I’m very disappointed,” he said in a televised statement.

An exit poll broadcast by state-financed NOS television said the constitution failed by a vote of 63 percent to 37 percent, an even worse defeat than the 55 percent “no” vote in France’s referendum Sunday.

Turnout was 62 percent, far exceeding even the most optimistic expectations and a reflection of the heated debate in recent days over an issue that has polarized Europeans. Dutch liberals worried a more united EU could weaken liberal social policies, while conservatives feared losing control of immigration.

Although the referendum was consultative, the high turnout and the decisive margin left no room for the Dutch parliament to turn its back on the people’s verdict. The parliament meets Thursday to discuss the results.

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   Tuesday - May 31, 2005

Amnesty Internationale

_{Mike Thompson, Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Free Press}

Posted by Ronald Reagan's Ghost     on 05/31/2005 at 11:18 AM   
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   Saturday - May 28, 2005

Communist Dictator Cooking Show

Isn’t this a little undignified for a Communist despot. What a dickhead. Won’t he ever die? What is this world coming to?

Looking more like a game-show host than a head of state, a jovial Fidel Castro dressed in military uniform and flanked by government ministers went on live television to show millions of Cuban viewers how to use new energy-saving rice steamers and pressure cookers.

Dick Taters

INGREDIENTS:

4 large Idaho Potatoes (8 - 10 ounces each)
1 teaspoon olive oil (optional, for a softer-skinned potato)
1/2 cup reduced fat ("Light") sour cream
pinch nutmeg
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
milk (as desired, for consistency)

Optional Add-Ins:

2 cups cooked, chopped vegetables
1 cup shredded cheese
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 425° F. Pierce potatoes with a fork several times. Rub potato skins with olive oil if a softer potato skin is desired. Bake potatoes directly on the middle oven rack for 50 - 60 minutes or until they yield to gentle pressure.

While potatoes are still hot (use oven mitt to hold potato), cut them in half lengthwise. Scoop out the interior flesh of the potato into a medium-sized bowl, leaving a shell about 1/4-inch thick all around. Using a potato masher, mash the potato flesh.

Add sour cream and seasonings and mash until smooth, adding a little milk if necessary to make a smooth consistency. Stir in add-ins as desired.

Turn oven to 400° F. Using a spoon, gently fill the potato shells with the potato mixture, mounding it up high. Place filled potatoes on a baking sheet and bake for 18 - 20 minutes or until hot.

Posted by Yellow Dog     on 05/28/2005 at 10:14 AM   
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   Thursday - May 26, 2005

Global Values?

Amnesty International has its knockers in a wad over US treatment of Al-Qaeda prisoners (a.k.a. captured terrorists & murderers) at Gitmo and are accusing the US of ignoring something called “global values”. Bohemian Conservative has the enemy in his sights. Fire when ready ....

Posted by The Skipper     on 05/26/2005 at 06:23 AM   
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   Friday - May 20, 2005

Galloway: Theatre Of The Absurd

Get ready for this one, folks. Here is a story from Agence France Presse (AFP), the Frog Press, and later republished in The Pakistani Newspaper that claims .... never mind .... just read it ....

Galloway Says He Smoked Cuban Cigar in US Senate

LONDON, May 19: Maverick British politician George Galloway said Wednesday he broke a US trade sanction by smoking a Cuban cigar in Washington where he clashed with senators over charges he received Iraqi oil kickbacks.

Mr Galloway, who gave a spirited defence Tuesday before a US subcommittee investigating the UN oil-for-food scandal, accused US President George W. Bush and Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair of being the real villains.

“I did a bit of sanctions busting in Washington yesterday, I smoked a Havana cigar just like this one,” the 50-year-old Scotsman told a London rally of his left-wing, anti-war, political party Respect.

“I smoked it inside the Capitol building and I even blew the smoke at the White House,” he shouted above thunderous cheers and applause from hundreds of supporters. “And I think we blew them away, didn’t you?”—AFP

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