Thursday - November 18, 2010
BIKINI CLAD CHEERLEADERS DISTRACT PLAYERS WHO LOSE. IT’S BUSH’S FAULT.
Not how I planned to start the posting day but who could resist this. Never mind babes in bikinis, it’s funny.
Cheerleaders blamed for Yemen beach volleyball defeatBikini-clad cheerleaders have been blamed by the Yemen beach volleyball team for their defeat during the Asian Games.
By Our Foreign Staff
Organisers of the games in China have hired four cheerleader squads, each made up of eight girls, to entertain fans during breaks in the volleyball action, according to the Tianfu Morning News.
But Yemen beach volleyballer Adeeb Mahfoudh has now accused the squads of being distracting, and partly to blame for their defeat to Indonesia.
“They had an effect on how we played,” he said. “I think they had something to do with our losing the match.
Besides cheering, the girls also perform routines that include traditional Chinese elements including martial arts and fan dancing.
“These girls are very beautiful. With them here, more people will pay attention to beach volleyball,” Mr Mahfoudh added.
“If I can, I hope to watch them perform at the next match.”
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Permalink • Saturday - November 13, 2010
world’s oldest mother and looks it. feel sorry for the kid in a few years
Charming my aching butt. Nothing charming that I see. A wizened and decrepit old bat who’s selfish enough to give birth to her own old age care giver. If she’s lucky.
And I question the age she says she is. Take a look at the web page for other pix. No matter, I really think somewhere down the line the kid may pay for her mother’s ego trip.
Broody again at 72: She became the world’s oldest mother at 66. Now her little girl’s five - and she wants ANOTHER
By Helen Weathers
Charming though they look together, walking hand in hand to school, Adriana Iliescu — at 72 — looks more like her five-year-old daughter Eliza’s slightly doddery great grandparent than her mother.
Heavily lined and with dyed black hair, even she — who in January 2005 became the world’s then oldest mother — admits she looks every one of her years, if not more.
‘I try not to look in the mirror, because I don’t enjoy it,’ says Adriana, a writer and part-time university lecturer in Romanian literature, who lives with Eliza in a two-bedroom flat in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.
The mirror is unkind to women, but if we are talking about my energy then I feel like a young woman. I feel like I’m 27 and when I feel a bit more tired, I feel like I’m 37. I am healthier than women more than half my age.
‘People think they are being funny when they call me granny, but I didn’t have Eliza to make me look younger. I never feel my years.’
Could this be why, in what must surely be a triumph of attitude over age, Adriana is now defying all her critics by talking about the possibility of having another child?
‘Medically, it’s possible,’ she says. ‘I understand there are trials going on with a 70-year-old woman in England, so it could be done. I am fine and healthy and I think it would be possible to have another child in the future, but I’m not in a rush at the moment.’
Not in a rush? She’s 72! How much time does she think she has?
But her caution, she insists, has nothing to do with age, exhaustion at caring for a young child or the fear of dying. It is the love she feels for Eliza and their strong bond, that makes Adriana reluctant to test it with the rigours of another baby.
‘I am so close to Eliza, so bonded with her, I’m not sure I’d be able to consider having another child if it actually came to it,’ she says.
‘I was really tense as I wanted her to do well. I’ve invested a lot of energy into the past two years,’ she says. ‘But, Eliza makes friends and plays with them, which gives me a break.’
The result of Adriana’s complete focus on her daughter is that Eliza can already read and write and is academically advanced for her years.
She has friends and is happy, which is all that matters to Adriana, who gives not two hoots for the opinions of others.
A deeply private woman, she doesn’t like to engage in school gate tittle-tattle and deflects questions from other mothers, curious as to how she copes or what might happen to her daughter if she dies.
Conceived via IVF, courtesy of donated sperm and eggs implanted by a Romanian fertility expert seemingly keen to make medical history, Eliza’s birth continues to divide opinion.
Her decision has been described as ‘grotesque’, ‘horrifying’ and the ‘ultimate act of selfishness’ by religious and ethical groups.
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Permalink • Wednesday - November 10, 2010
Shoulda Known
Looks like that “mystery missile” the other day was actually USAirways flight 808 inbound from Hawaii.
Yep, that fits.
Link here, with the math. Link here, to the source with the nice multi-part graphic at the bottom.
Nice work Liam Bahneman, doing some actual investigative journalism, checking the flight itineraries, and looking up a Newport Beach webcam the day after to see that the same flight the very next day made almost the same kind of contrails in the sky.
Now, I wonder how many days it will be until the TV news folks catch up to this, and stop pushing the sensationalist story now that it’s been figured out. If you are directly under the flight path of a very high altitude jet flying over you through dirty air, the contrails in the sky look just like those of a rocket heading straight up.
And I sure do wish that there was an actual video of an actual missile or space rocket launch, at sundown, photographed from just over the horizon. How are we supposed to tell them apart? Especially since no rule says a shorter range missile has to be supersonic, which means you can’t use your ears to tell impending doom from just another jet going over. I followed the math at the first link, and I still can’t tell the difference; a multi-stage missile could drop it’s booster stage before it cleared the visual horizon. So when an object is too high to see or hear but is creating a visible contrail, how can you tell up from over since they both appear the same? The only way I can figure is to jump in your car, drive several miles, then look again. Assuming that it wasn’t an inbound missile and that you haven’t become a monatomic smithereen ( which would answer the question! ), when you look at the same contrail from the new location it will now have a definite “going over” aspect if it’s from a jet. I’m guessing here, purely guessing, but if it’s a missile launch you’re seeing, it will still look like “up” even from “over there”.
The Newark to Chicago flight passes almost overhead here. So do the New York and Boston to points southwest flights. On a clear day I can count the number of engines and see the airplane itself. The contrails never roil together, nor is there any kind of “plume of fire” behind the jets. But they always look like planes flying overhead, not rockets shooting up. On a cloudy day I can’t see anything anyway, so who cares? We don’t have LA’s level of air pollution, and we don’t have coastal wind and cloud patterns. And we don’t have a distant horizon for the sun to set into. Those factors could make all the difference.
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Permalink • Friday - November 05, 2010
It is to laff!
A prominent US television anchorman, Keith Olbermann, was suspended today for making donations to three Democratic candidates in this week’s midterm elections, in breach of company rules.
US journalistic ethics are extremely strict, barring media employees from donating to political parties or any other political involvement that might cause a conflict of interest.
Although Rupert Murdoch contributed $2m (£1.23m) to the Republicans and commentators from his Fox News network also made donations, papers such as the New York Times, National Public Radio and television channels such as CNN and MSNBC seek to maintain strict neutrality.
Olbermann, host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, made contributions to two Democrats standing in Arizona and the Democrat Jack Conway, fighting for a place in the US Senate in Kentucky against the Republican Rand Paul, a Tea Party favourite.
Olbermann confirmed in a statement to the Politico website that he had given each of the candidates $2,400, the legal maximum for donations.
The MSNBC president, Phil Griffin, said in a statement: “I became aware of Keith’s political contributions late last night. Mindful of NBC news policy and standards, I have suspended him indefinitely without pay.” Olbermann has a contract with MSNBC until 2012.
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No, Crazy Oblie getting suspended isn’t funny. Nor is MSNBC’s “no campaign donations” policy ... and I’m not entirely sure it’s even legal. What cracks me up is the line “CNN and MSNBC seek to maintain strict neutrality”.
ROTLMAO.
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Permalink • Wednesday - October 06, 2010
I pop a cap in yo ass
A Memphis man angered by two teenagers who would not pull up their sagging pants shot one in the rear and faces aggravated assault charges. On Saturday, police charged Kenneth E. Bonds, 45, with two counts of aggravated assault, according to a court affidavit.
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At about 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 25, two young men ages 16 and 17 were walking to buy candy on Whiteside Cove near Shelby Drive and Tulane in Whitehaven, the court document said.
Their pants were sagging in a style that has drawn national criticism from figures including Georgia activist “General” Larry Platt—who sang “Pants on the Ground” on “American Idol”—and President Barack Obama, who spoke about them when he was a candidate on MTV days before his 2008 election.
From a yard in the 4400 block of Whiteside, Bonds began yelling at the pair to pull their pants up. Initially, both teens ignored him, according to a police report.
Bonds then called the youths a derogatory word for gay men. He added, using profanity, that he was a grown man and that they should do what he said.
Both teens told police they responded by calling Bonds a “fat ass” who needed to shut up.
Bonds walked into a house and the pair walked off for candy at the “candy lady’s” house. When the young men emerged from buying candy, Bonds appeared with a semiautomatic handgun.
As the pair ran away, Bonds fired several shots, hitting the 17-year-old in the buttocks with a bullet that exited his thigh, according to the affidavit. The young man was treated first at Methodist South Hospital and then at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis.
Bonds admitted to shooting the youth, police said in the affidavit.
In his MTV appearance in November 2008, then-candidate Obama spoke against laws outlawing sagging pants, but added: “Having said that, brothers should pull up their pants. You’re walking by your mother, your grandmother, your underwear is showing. What’s wrong with that? Come on.”
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 05, 2010
Parisian apartment containing €2.1 million painting lay untouched for 70 years. most unusual
A very unusual story found in the morning paper. See what you think. I think it’s the most unusual article I’ve come across since joining BMEWS and sharing stories.
It reminds me in a way, of the movie, Somewhere In Time. The article said nothing about the background of the owner, or why she never moved back.
There’s so many questions.
She continued paying rent on an apartment in Paris for 70 years but never moved back into it. Why? Too late to ask now.
The painting mentioned must come to over two million dollars. I have not bothered to do any conversion from euros to dollars, but 2m in euros is surely more then 2m in $.
Take a look.
For 70 years the Parisian apartment had been left uninhabited, under lock and key, the rent faithfully paid but no hint of what was inside.
By Henry Samuel in ParisBehind the door, under a thick layer of dusk lay a treasure trove of turn-of-the-century objects including a painting by the 19th century Italian artist Giovanni Boldini.
FROZEN IN TIME ... THE PARIS FLAT THE WORLD LEFT BEHINDThe woman who owned the flat had left for the south of France before the Second World War and never returned.
But when she died recently aged 91, experts were tasked with drawing up an inventory of her possessions and homed in on the flat near the Trinité church in Paris between the Pigalle red light district and Opera.
Entering the untouched, cobweb-filled flat in Paris’ 9th arrondissement, one expert said it was like stumbling into the castle of Sleeping Beauty, where time had stood still since 1900.
“There was a smell of old dust,” said Olivier Choppin-Janvry, who made the discovery. Walking under high wooden ceilings, past an old wood stove and stone sink in the kitchen, he spotted a stuffed ostrich and a Mickey Mouse toy dating from before the war, as well as an exquisite dressing table.
But he said his heart missed a beat when he caught sight of a stunning tableau of a woman in a pink muslin evening dress.
The painting was by Boldini and the subject a beautiful Frenchwoman who turned out to be the artist’s former muse and whose granddaughter it was who had left the flat uninhabited for more than half a century.
The muse was Marthe de Florian, an actress with a long list of ardent admirers, whose fervent love letters she kept wrapped neatly in ribbon and were still on the premises. Among the admirers was the 72nd prime minister of France, George Clemenceau, but also Boldini.
The expert had a hunch the painting was by Boldini, but could find no record of the painting. “No reference book dedicated to Boldini mentioned the tableau, which was never exhibited,” said Marc Ottavi, the art specialist he consulted about the work.
When Mr Choppin-Janvry found a visiting card with a scribbled love note from Boldini, he knew he had struck gold. “We had the link and I was sure at that moment that it was indeed a very fine Boldini”.
He finally found a reference to the work in a book by the artist’s widow, which said it was painted in 1898 when Miss de Florian was 24.
The starting price for the painting was €300,000 but it rocketed as ten bidders vyed for the historic work. Finally it went under the hammer for €2.1 million, a world record for the artist.
“It was a magic moment. One could see that the buyer loved the painting; he paid the price of passion,” said Mr Ottavi.
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 22, 2010
man leaves house for walk with dogs, comes back to find house occupied. now who whould do that?
Well ain’t this the pits?
Not the first time this sort of thing has happened here. Another case some six months ago. Some scam artist (? still not sure) rents or sells a property.
The buyers are almost always from Europe (some from Ireland) but generally Eastern Europe. They hardly speak English, or claim to speak none. Then how could they have bought or rented a house or apt.? Oh well, the estate agent miraculously spoke their mother tongue. Uh huh. And of course locks changed. It never occurs to these folks that they are moving into a house fully furnished and having evidence that someone is living there. Cloths might be a dead giveaway.
I think they know quite well what’s up and what they are doing. Declared a civil matter means it will take awhile to get the property back.
Thankfully in the USA, guns are a bit easier to come by then they are here. Perhaps that explains why this doesn’t happen in the US. If it does, it’s been unreported far as I’m aware.
The article did not say if this involved Gypsies or not. Yes I might very well be wrong in saying, I bet it did. Cos it’s exactly the sort of thing they get up to.
Man takes dogs for walk… and returns to find locks changed and a family living in his home
By Daily Mail ReporterGeorge Pope, 72, was unable to get into his council house because the locks were changed. Mr Pope left his home to take his dogs out to nearby Parsloes Park last Thursday, September 16. The arthritis sufferer, who needs a stick to walk, started feeling ill and decided to stay at a friend’s house until he was well enough to go home. But when he returned to his house on Saturday morning, he was stunned to discover his locks had been changed.
He claims a man then walked up the path to his house and accosted him. ‘I said, “This is my place”. But he said, “This is our property and we intend to stay here unless you go to court”. It made me feel ill.’
Mr Pope immediately called the council and police. But he claims they told him the new occupants could not be evicted because they were themselves victims of a scam.
Mr Pope said police claimed the residents, who he believes are from Lithuania, had paid £3,000 to a bogus estate agent to rent the property themselves for six months.
The retired Dagenham Ford worker, who was forced to stay with friends, said: ‘Police told me it looked like a civil matter.
‘But the squatters were using my home, my gas and my electricity - it’s absolutely disgraceful.’
Mr Pope went back to his house on Monday morning to find all his belongings had been thrown out.Neighbours then helped the him gather up his documents, photographs and clothes.
Mr Pope suspects illegal estate agents of occupying buildings and letting them for money.
‘I had been out for just two-and-a-half days. Someone must have been watching me,’ he said.
‘The rear door had been levered out with screwdrivers - that’s how they got in.
Mr Pope, who has lived in the house for four years, was able to move back into his home last night after the family fled but said he is now scared to be there because next door is also being occupied by squatters.
He also claims some of his possessions, including a washing machine and an electric cooker have been taken and that the electricity system has been tampered with.
‘The wiring has been ripped out and there are burn marks,’ he said.
‘The whole experience has been really traumatic.’
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Permalink • Tuesday - September 21, 2010
those darned americans and their border fence. hang on a minute. no. it’s the mexicans?
H/T RichK
Huh? The Mexicans are building their own fence somewhere else?
I may have to keep my eye on this site (Examiner.com). My thanks to RichK for the email heads up.
Interesting article. Is it for real? There’s not much in msm back home? Seems odd. You’d think they would be all over this like a blanket.
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Hypocritical Mexico is now building their own wall on border with Guatemala...press ignores
Where is MSNBC?
The Inter-Press Sevice (IPS) is reporting that the head administrator of the Mexican Superintendency of Tax Administration, Raul Diaz, has confirmed that his government is building a wall in the state of Chiapas, along the Mexican/Guatemalan border.
The official reason is to stop contraband from coming into Mexico, but as Diaz admitted: “It could also prevent the free passage of illegal immigrants.”
According to Mexico’s National Commission on Human Rights, 500,000 people from Central America cross into Mexico illegally every year.
Just as Mexican authorities have opposed the construction of a fence by the U.S., along our border with their country, Mexico is now receiving a great deal of criticism from the Guatemalan government.
The executive coordinator of the National Bureau for Migration in Guatemala, Marila de Prince, told a local newspaper: “It is not a correct measure being taken by the Mexican government.”
Erick Maldonado, executive secretary of Guatemala’s National Council on Migrants said: “We are watching the Mexican government’s initiative with concern because the migrants are in a situation of highest vulnerability, as demonstrated by the massacre in Tamaulipas, where five Guatemalans died.”
Maldonado said the wall “is going to make the migrants’ situation worse, because to meet their needs they are always going to find blind points where there are no migration or security controls, which implies greater risks.”
Vice-President of Guatemala, Rafael Espada, said: “The walls are not the solution to the problems.”
The Catholic Church has been highly critical of U.S. treatment of illegal aliens, and one priest in Central America used the news of the Mexican wall to take another shot at the American people.
Father Francisco Pellizari, of the Casa del Migrante told IPS: “The dramatic increase in the cost of ‘polleros’ (human traffickers) and the corruption of the authorities is the result of the walls the United States plans to build and has built along the border. We can transpose the Guatemala case to this situation and the results will be the same.”
Peliizari said border walls “are supposedly intended to halt migration, but that hasn’t happened. Instead they have triggered an economic hemorrhage and a shift in the migratory flow to inhospitable routes that lead to thousands of deaths.”
Of course, the U.S. press has completely ignored the story…They excoriate Americans for their desire to simply defend their own borders, but give Mexico a pass for building a wall to keep out illegal aliens.
Hey there Mr. Pellizari .... up yours. Our country, our borders, our freekin business. We’ll keep an eye on our borders and you can keep an eye on ..... you know. I have an idea, why don’t you and your church personally take ALL those poor and tired and needy and include please the druggies, and you house em all at your expense in your house. Permanently. HEY ... you gotta take the girls too. Wait ... where ya goin? Come back and talk.
Fruit loop.
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Permalink • Monday - September 13, 2010
Ines In The Newz
Oh when the Sainz go marching in ...
A certain clique of our readers frequents a certain blog where it has only come to light recently who this woman is. Ok, we were all familiar with the picture, but didn’t have a name to use. Now we do. And now ... looks like there’s trouble a-brewing.
When she isn’t too busy with her modeling career,
or hard at work making yet another swimwear calandar,
or gracing the cover of magazines,
Ines Sainz is a sideline sports reporter for TV Azteca in Mexico. They send her down on the field during games to get interviews with the players. In the middle of the game, during breaks, halftime, whenever. And she always seems to get the guys to talk to her. Beats me why. Does she know her sports? I hope so, but I have no idea. I don’t get that channel. This is how she dresses for work:
Football, soccer, basketball ... it doesn’t matter. No matter how well the players can ignore the WAGS and cheerleaders, when she arrives with the microphone, they talk. It’s said that it takes her 5 hours to prepare for each game: 10 minutes to study the stats, and 4 hours 20 minutes to squeeze into her jeans.
I mean, come on. The woman has more jiggle than the Jello™ factory during an earthquake. She got hired because of that. She was Miss Spain because of that. She makes a nice living because of that. She’ll use it whenever and wherever on the reporting job to land the story. But proving that there is no line anywhere anymore ...
Mexican sports reporter claiming sexual harassment by Jets
The female sports reporter at the center of a sex harassment claim against the Jets now says she doesn’t feel the locker room treatment she received was out of line.
“In my opinion, I never felt I was attacked, nor that anything rude was happening to me,” Ines Sainz told Spanish-language program DeporTV on Monday.
“I went to the locker room and started to talk about commentary and sports. Another reporter approached me to say he was sorry these things were happening...and that evidently people were making fun of me,” she continued.
Despite the media frenzy that has ensued since Sainz complained of being bombarded by locker-room catcalls as she waited to interview quarterback Mark Sanchez, the reporter now maintains, “In no moment, did I feel offended.”
Sainz, a reporter for Mexico’s TV Azteca and a former Miss Spain, also took to Twitter to appeal to fans and defend herself from criticism.
She denied that her choice of outfits while working the field at the Jets’ New Jersey training facility over the weekend was “inappropriate,” and thanked her fans.
Huh? What what what???
Damn, that’s the downside of the internet and real time news. By the time I get my post together, figure out what point I want to make, and choose from a variety of pictures, the story can reverse itself. And this one did. Granted that it took me a little longer than usual to pick the photos ... the woman has dozens of web shrines dedicated to her derriere. DOZENS. So now that she’s backing off the story, there’s no point in me debating the “she asked for it” viewpoint against the “rules apply to everyone” view against the “yeah, but she’s guilty of sexual harassment just by walking into a room” argument.
Ratz.
But I got the idea for the post after watching Fox News’ Megan Kelly cover the story, sitting in front of the TV camera in her 5” stiletto heels, in her short skirt up to here and her big hair out to there and I said “pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot”. Although to be fair Megan does try to be a serious news reader. She just happens to be drop dead gorgeous. We’ll just ignore that part, right?
The story made the front page of the paper edition of the New York Daily News, the New York Post, and I think even the cover of the NY Times. Who’d a thunk that a giant photo of a pretty girl with her boobs showing would sell newspapers?
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Permalink • Wednesday - July 28, 2010
Summer Fun
Doing windows in the summer sun and heat is no fun. I never knew how much I could sweat until today. Holy cow. I was soaked all day long. I should get a set of swimming goggles to wear to keep my eyes clear.
And this job gave birth to another job, 2 “cottages” (3000 sq ft) back in the woods and a garden house. So I’ll be busy for a solid week at least. Fine by me, though I’d like to find half a day in there to install my new radiator. Phah, just keep a few gallon jugs of water in the car. Make hay while the sun shines, or at least get the windows clean for cash. Fix the radiator later. And this is repeat business too, something I hope I’m finally starting to see after chugging away at this for 2+ years now.
So I’ll be away from the old blog pretty much. Maybe I can get a couple posts up in the evening. Sans links, but heck, these stories are everywhere.
I hear Arizona’s immigration law was shut down by a Clinton appointed in-the-pocket judge. That was expected; this one has to go to the Supremes. I hope AZ governor Brewer simply ignores the court until her appeals bubble up through the system. Like, what are they gonna do, bust her for smoking come and arrest all the AZ cops for carrying out a federal law? It’s high time the states started flipping off DC and their minions. And We the people should too. And it could all start with her. Far out. ( I heard last week Arizona had to take down all it’s traffic cams because nobody was paying the tickets mailed out that the cams generated. Seems AZ has this law that says tickets have to be hand delivered. Tens of thousands of tickets ignored by the people. Maybe it’s starting already. Fantastic. )
Looks like the libs are trying to throw Charlie Rangel under the bus, calling for his resignation. Greasy smarmy bastard has been living large and laughing about it for far too long. I hear he’s suddenly trying to cut a deal. No friggin way. Kick him out, bust him, perp walk him on international TV, investigate him inside out, make him pony up the full millions he owes in back taxes, then send his uppity ass to jail for 20 years. Then tell the rest of them they have 60 days to get their finances in order or they’ll get the same. And watch the billions come rolling in over night. The power brokers have been above the law for too damn long. It’s time for major payback. TV news says old yellow belly, John Freakin Kerry, is going to pay his home state the $500,000 luxury taxes on his expensive toy boat, “whether they’re owed or not”. And he did it without mentioning that he’d served in Vietnam, which means he’s running scared already. So, two done, more than 500 to go. Roaches scurrying when you turn on the spotlight.
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Permalink • Monday - June 07, 2010
DLTDHYITAOTWO*
nana na na, nana na na, hey hey hey, goodbye
Wow, even double standard PC couldn’t save her gnarly withered old ass
Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas announced her retirement Monday following an uproar over comments she made on camera last month about Jews in Israel.
Hearst Corporation, which employed Thomas as a columnist, put out a brief story by Hearst News Service announcing the retirement “effective immediately.”
The announcement came after the White House Correspondents Association decried her remarks as “indefensible” and began to consider whether Thomas should continue to have the privilege of a front-row seat in the briefing room. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called her remarks “offensive and reprehensible” on Monday, as other former White House spokesmen called for Thomas to be fired.
The controversy escalated quickly over the weekend after the video surfaced online showing Thomas last month saying that Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine,” suggesting they go instead to Germany, Poland and the United States. The video, shot by New York Rabbi David Nesenoff, was posted on several prominent websites and prompted a swift apology from Thomas on Friday.
* Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!
Another one under the bus? Probably. But I just love it when the news reporters become the news themselves.
I’d put up a picture, but please. This is Helen Thomas we’re talking about, and that could break your monitor.
for those who dare ...
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Permalink • Monday - April 05, 2010
Taliban Attacks US Consulate
Taliban suicide squad attempts to storm US consulate in Peshawar
Taliban fighters using rocket-propelled grenades, car bombs and suicide vests have attempted to storm the United States consulate in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province.
Five security guards were among seven people killed during the raid in Peshawar and there were several explosions in the area which caused nearby buildings to collapse.
Six militants in two Toyota Corolla cars, laden with explosives, managed to pierce the city’s most heavily-guarded complex, which houses the provincial intelligence headquarters, the American consulate and the homes of several local ministers.
One eyewitness, Hamidullah Jan, said the attackers had successfully penetrated the consulate compound. He said he heard an exchange of gunfire followed by two loud explosions.
Hasan Ali, 25, who was being treated for abdominal injuries from the blast, said he saw the first explosion and was running to safety when a second and third explosion “shook the entire area”.
Senior North West Frontier Province minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour, whose home is 200 yards from the scene of the raid, said he saw six dead bodies, four of whom he said were the remains of terrorists and that suicide vests were close by them.
A Taliban spokesman later claimed responsibility for the attack, which he said targeted the United States consulate in revenge for American drone attacks which have killed a number of senior militant leaders, including the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud and his predecessor Baitullah Mehsud.
“The co-ordinated attack involved a vehicle suicide bomb and terrorists attempting to enter the building using grenades and weapons fire,” American officials said in a statement from their embassy in Islamabad.
There were no reported U.S. casualties in the attack and it is not known if the consulate, situated in a heavily fortified area of the northwest town, suffered any damages.
The Taliban wasted little time in claiming responsibility for the attack as spokesman Azam Tariq told Reuters news agency, “Americans are our enemies. We carried out the attack on their consulate in Peshawar. We plan more such attacks.”
The security barrier near the consulate gate was damaged, and shells from rocket-propelled grenades and hand grenades were left lying in the area, which was sealed off by Pakistani police and army, witnesses said.
Police said of the two car bombs, one exploded at a checkpoint 50 metres from the consulate while the other - laden with about 100kg of explosives - went off close to the consulate gate.
At least three blasts were reported and a firefight between security forces and the attackers followed.
Pakistani television showed security forces firing their weapons and clouds of smoke rising over the garrison area of the city, close to the Peshawar offices of Pakistan’s intelligence agency, which was bombed last November.
Stunned that the terrorists had managed to get as far as they did — given the multiple layers of security around the mission — shopkeepers in the nearby downtown Sadar area downed their shutters as security personnel cordoned off roads leading to the consulate and the Peshawar headquarters of the ISI which had faced a similar attack last year.
The blast was so powerful that it formed a huge crater in the road and brought down a boundary wall. Claiming that they had struck at the U.S. mission to avenge the drone attacks in North Waziristan, the Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP-Pakistan wing of the Taliban) TTP spokesman told AFP that there would be more such attacks on “any place where there are Americans’’.
In August 2008, the top U.S. diplomat at the consulate survived a gun attack on her armored vehicle. Three months later, gunmen shot and killed an American in Peshawar as he was traveling to work for a U.S.-funded aid program in the region.
The last attack against a U.S. mission in Pakistan was in Karachi in 2006 when a militant rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the car of an American diplomat near the consulate, killing him and three others.
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Nicolas Sarkozy has said that France will ban the full Muslim veil.
VIVE la FRANCE
I imagine there might be riots among the righteous assuming there are any real ones. Interesting to see if this will work and how it will be enforced.
The fact is, in Western societies, seeing folks walking around masked is intimidating and is not part of western culture. Or it hasn’t been. I truly wish Sarko wouldn’t use the old saw about unfair to women which I’m sure for many it is. For many others, they claim they like it. Who can say they are all lying?
But if it means that much to em, let them go to a country where it’s the norm. I wish Sarkozy would say that as well. The idea that it would as he says, protect the dignity of women, reminds me of all the crap this govt. (and ours at home too) introduce and enforce because, it’s all for the kids. (subject of a post to follow)
I think it’s done for the reason that it just plain and clearly IS NOT FRENCH.
Stay Tuned on this one.
Meanwhile, Good for France! (I hope)
France to ban veil says Nicolas Sarkozy
Published: 7:00AM GMT 25 Mar 2010
The move would protect the dignity of women, the president added.
“The full veil is contrary to the dignity of women,” he said. “The response is to ban it. The Government will table a draft law prohibiting it.”
The president gave no further details during his address to the nation following a heavy defeat in regional elections for his ruling Union for a Popular Movement party.
Speaking from the Elysee Palace Mr Sarkozy gave no indication as to how an outright ban would be imposed and policed.
France is home to six million Muslims.
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AN OBSTACLE TO BROADBAND …. yeah, might be but the scene is lots prettier.
I would love to live in a setting like this one. Of course, there are also a thousand other beautiful settings in this very beautiful country that the socialists are in a hurry to give away. Curses on em! But then come to think of it, it’s doubtful we’d afford a setting like this. This island has to import almost everything, and that costs. Which naturally pushes up the cost of living here. But then, it’s understandable cos someone has to pay for the illegals who then must be put up in homes and with furnishings they’ve never been accustomed to before coming here. So ppl in settings like this have to fund it all.
What the heck, this is a pretty scene. Almost looks like a painting.
Canal that opened great age of waterways ‘an obstacle’ to broadbandA canal that opened the great age of British waterways is now just an ‘’obstacle’’ blocking the path of modern electronic communications, a High Court judge said.
Mr Justice Lewison had been asked to decide whether the company wanting to lay a fibre optic cable under the canal should have to pay rent to the owner of the waterway.
His ruling began: ‘’The Bridgewater Canal, opened in 1761 and engineered by Joseph Brindley, ushered in the great age of the canals.
‘’It was built to give citizens of the growing city of Manchester access to cheaper coal from the Duke of Bridgewater’s coal mines.
‘’Now, however, what the citizens of Manchester want is access to broadband and fibre optic cables.
‘’Far from facilitating access, the Bridgewater Canal is now an obstacle.’’
He said Geo Networks already had a duct under the canal for which it paid a rent to the Bridgewater Canal Company.
Lawyers for the fibre optic company argued it only had to pay for the right to lay the extra cable. Under the electronic communication industry code, it could ‘’buy one get one free’’ and did not have to pay extra rent.
Mr Justice Lewison ruled that Geo should pay more, but gave permission to appeal to try to clarify the industry code.
‘’It does not seem to me to be fair that an operator should have something for nothing.’’
He said David Elvin QC, representing Geo, had warned him against allowing those in control of ‘’linear obstacles’’ extracting ransom payments.
The judge said the expression ‘’fair and reasonable’’ in the code meant ransom payments could not be demanded.
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