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INTERESTING NEWS
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October 14, 2007
Washington Post
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Elephants congregate on Island
About 100 wild elephants have coverged on a river island in northeast India, demolishing homes, feasting on sugarcane and panicking residents. The local magistrate said the animals entered settlements looking for their wandering calves. About 150,000 people live on the 338 square mile island of Majuli, in the Brahmaputra river. Officials said the elephants swam to the island from a nearby hill region.
so cool, rivers and elephants...ever since my trip to the wilderness of costa rica, i am thinking seriously about quitting it all and going to live in one of these remote third world countries.
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October 26, 2006
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about daylight savings time:
A writer in 1947 noted, "I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." (Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.)
what the hell does it matter if you have one more hour of sunlight in the evening, you miss that one hour in the morning....seems like a hair brained idea to me.
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May 24, 2006
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The Arlington County Board today created a new Advisory Board on Trespass Vehicle Towing and appointed members to the Advisory Board.
First step to enacting a new ordinance to regulate towing in Arlington. The Advisory Board will review provisions recommended for a new ordinance regulating trespass towing in Arlington, and provide input and recommendations for the County Board's consideration. "Establishing this Advisory Board is the first step in our efforts to regulate towing in Arlington," said Christopher Zimmerman, Chairman of the Arlington County Board. "Prior to the General Assembly's action this spring, our hands were tied and we are pleased to have new tools with which to deal with unscrupulous towing practices."
Advisory Board Members
- Captain Kamran Afzal, Arlington County Police Department
- Sergeant Darrin Cassedy, Arlington County Police Department
- Captain David Dailey, Arlington County Police Department
- Al Leach, Al's Towing
- John O'Neal, Advanced Towing
- Fred Scheler, Henry's Wrecker
- Nancy Iacomini, resident
Background
During its 2006 session, the Virginia General Assembly enacted legislation granting localities the authority to adopt ordinances regulating the removal of trespassing vehicles from private property. Prior to adoption of an ordinance, the governing body is required to appoint an Advisory Board.
The Virginia Code states that the voting members of the Advisory Board shall consist of an equal number of representatives of local law enforcement agencies and representatives of licensed towing operators, and one member of the general public.
i hate tow trucks, bastards just cruise around waiting to yank your car. regulate !
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December 19, 2005
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President Bush has bussed two women in public in the past two days. First, Condoleezza Rice, whom he kissed on the cheek twice when he nominated her for secretary of State on Tuesday. He went even further with Margaret Spellings, whom he smacked on the lips when he nominated her as secretary of Education on Wednesday.
i got such a kick out of these pictures, you would not believe, like a little kid with some forbidden candy. i don't know what it says about my sexual psyche, but all i can say is, he's kissing them and the bitches are letting him hit it.
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December 19, 2005
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But at one point, Bush responded to criticism of his record on racial issues, exacerbated by the images of thousands of blacks stranded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
"One of the most hurtful things I can hear is, you know, Bush doesn't care about African-Americans," he said. "First of all, it's not true. And secondly, I am - I believe that - obviously, I've got to do a better job of communicating, I guess, to certain folks."
hahaha....i am ahh scratch scratch um, i believe that i ah um ranjit, what the fuck am i thinking, ah um...
wait a minute this is the president of the united states of america and the protector of the free world (whatever that means). is it any wonder people smoke marijuana to escape reality.
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December 07, 2005
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Russian MP Calls Bird Flu "American Provocation"
A deputy of the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic faction of the Russian State Duma, Aleksei Mitrofanov, has said in a parliamentary speech that bird flu was invented by Americans who wanted to dominate the world's poultry markets.
"There is no such thing as bird flu, just as there is no AIDS, tulip or mad cow disease," Mitrofanov was quoted as saying.
"It is a provocation by Americans. They want to eliminate all chickens in Europe so that we have to import 'Bush's legs'," he said. "Bush's legs" is a Russian saying for deep frozen chicken thighs massively imported from the U.S. under President George Bush Sr.
pssst....it's all true. we americans want to take over russia.
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September 08, 2005
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Alexander Klokov, the chain-smoking chief prosecutor in this quiet Russian backwater, says he cannot explain why, but Kovrov city council is a hornet's nest of criminals. Over the past two years, eight of the 21 council members have been in prison, awaiting trial or fresh from jail. It has made Kovrov, a city of 150,000 half a day's drive east of Moscow, something of a phenomenon. The councillors themselves say there is a simple explanation: they dared to criticise Kovrov's mayor and now he is punishing them by fabricating criminal cases with the help of corrupt police, prosecutors and judges.
"The problem is much wider than just the small town of Kovrov," said Alexander Petrov, deputy director in Russia of New York-based Human Rights Watch. "It is part and parcel of the very same system of integrated power that President Putin has been building recently," he said.
Irina Tabatskova, a 44-year-old mother of five children who sits on the city council, chuckles as she lists the charges on which she is standing trial. "Before this, none of us had any criminal convictions. The moment we became councillors we ... became fraudsters, thieves and killers," she joked.
great, putin is going to take russia back to the dark ages! but, then again looking at pictures at this site, it seems russia's infrastructure and modernization is not so bad. just endemic corruption engendered by a top down oligarchial political system.
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August 05, 2005
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I only remember one thing about the TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard" and that is that I despised it. My friends and I could always tell who the "Hazzard" fans were at school because they created a drool puddle near the fire exit. Whenever anyone used the word "special," they would look up like dogs responding to a high-pitched noise.
So, I'm not sure what there is to evaluate in "Hazzard" or how to compare it on any scale to any other movie. I expected it to suck. It did suck. I'm not shocked, and I doubt anyone else is either.
So what's a reviewer supposed to do? Am I supposed to compare this Bo (Seann William Scott) and Luke Duke (Johnny Knoxville) to their counterparts from the series, John Schneider and Tom Wopat? Perhaps I could contrast the Daisy Dukes: Jessica Simpson and Catherine Bach. Or, better yet, I could strip naked, douse myself in gasoline and run flapping down the interstate in search of the eventual blessed release of "death by cop." The movie is so obviously lacking in any positive quality that even discussing it makes me feel like I'm soiling myself.
i've never watched the show myself...i just thought this review was hilarious.
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July 08, 2005
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We have an ironic dichotomy here. The five liberal justices (Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kennedy, and Souter) have ruled for upscale, corporate interests against the interests of 15 working class households, and the four conservative justices (O'Connor, Thomas, Scalia, Rehnquist) have supported the interests of those less economically enabled.
Law can be interesting sometimes. Even though I am very liberal on most things, I am a republican on this one. I think gov. should be given new powers very carefully and in this case the ability to seize control of sizable chunks of people's home/land is scary. Govt.'s are often corrupt and in league with big money, but on the other hand sometimes urban renewal requires dead skin to be cut off. Close call.
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April 08, 2005
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"Sahara" (the movie) is a mediocrity wrapped inside a banality, toasted in a nice, fresh cliche.
what?
It's based on the dubious proposition that Matthew McConaughey is uniquely charming and charismatic. His attractiveness, however, seems to consist of a vulpine leer and a mass of tendrilly blond hair and eyes that beam with self-adoration. He is very fond of the cut muscles in his arms and one suspects he anticipates that all of us will be as well. Not my idea of a movie star, but then "Sahara" isn't my idea of a movie.
ouch...she just ripped mcconaughey a new asshole!
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April 08, 2005
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Journalists who reached the scene about 4:30 p.m. found the building in flames. The heat could be felt from 100 yards away. There was a sharp burst of automatic-rifle fire. A woman ran toward the complex in tears, saying she had a sister inside the building. Firefighters converged on the scene, as did special forces soldiers in black head scarves and body armor. The shooting appeared to stop shortly before 5 p.m.
Mohammed Latif, an employee of Indian Airlines, said he was in his office on the ground floor of the complex with about 10 co-workers when the assault began. "We just heard the shots and we went under the chairs," said Latif, 36. He and the others escaped by climbing out of a window.
the bit about them going under the chairs cracked me up. i would like to go to srinagar though. just for a couple of days to check out the daily life. i could play at being a journalist. ofcourse since i am not muslim, i will probably be killed pretty soon ;)
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April 08, 2005
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AUSTIN, April 6 -- Randolph Franklin Dial used to portray himself as the hero of his own
novel, writing friends that he served in Vietnam as a member of Delta Force or that he
was a CIA, Secret Service or FBI agent. He told others he was a hit man with Mafia
connections.
What he was, in actuality, was an accomplished artist and sculptor, a convicted murderer,
a prison escapee and the presumed kidnapper of the wife of the assistant warden of the
prison from which he escaped in 1994. Today, he is the star of a bizarre mystery that
ended Monday night after almost 11 years when federal, Oklahoma and Texas authorities
found him in a mobile home, three miles off the nearest paved road in rural East Texas.
Dial was sauteing steak for supper and, according to one official, said: "I had been
thinking of when they were going to catch me. I had been looking for it, but I never saw
this coming."
he's had an interesting life. i don't think he kidnapped the woman and i'd like to know
more about the murder he committed. was it self-defense? they are going to crucify him
though, because he made a fool of them for 10 years.
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March 21, 2005
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The United States has reaffirmed a decision to refuse the controversial Indian politician,
Narendra Modi, permission to enter the country.
On Monday, US ambassador to India David Mulford said the decision to deny Mr Modi entry
into America was based on US law, which made any foreign government official "responsible
for severe violations of religious freedom" ineligible for a visa.
As head of the Gujarat government at the time of the riots, Mr Modi was responsible for
the performance of state institutions at the time. The ambassador quoted US state
department reports on the Gujarat violence which cited India's National Human Rights
Commission in concluding that during the riots there was "a comprehensive failure on the
part of the state government to control the persistent violation of rights of life,
liberty, equality, and dignity of the people of the state".
good thing they didn't let this fascist pig into the country. he's responsible for
a lot of poor people's death's, prinicpally muslims. he could have stopped the riots, by
ordering the police out in force or even calling in the army. but, for 3 whole days he let
the hindu extremists kill poor muslims and take their property. he's a total criminal and
a shithead. i hope more countries ban his ass. also, props to America, sometimes it actually
follows through on the high principles it espouses.
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March 02, 2005
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"I'm disappointed that Iraq hasn't turned out better. And that we weren't able to move forward
more meaningfully in the Middle East peace process... The biggest regret is that we didn't
stop 9/11. And then in the wake of 9/11, instead of redoubling what is our traditional export
of hope and optimism we exported our fear and our anger. And presented a very intense and
angry face to the world. I regret that a lot."
-- Departing Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage on the disappointments of the
first Bush term.
spot on...we need more guys like this in our government.
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December 28, 2004
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More than 3,720 people have been killed in Tamil Nadu, by the under sea triggered massive
tsunami's. Most of the dead are women and children from poor fishing families.
"I don't think my boy and girl would have made it through this havoc," said shopkeeper
Kolanda Velu, fighting back tears.
"But I hope and pray that we can at least find their bodies so we can see them one last
time and give them a decent burial."
i did not feel the human impact of this disaster until i realized how heart broken this
father must be to lose his two children.
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December 22, 2004
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Schor notes that incentive structures in capitalism ensure longer working hours.
The eighty-hour work week in the nineteenth century was terrible (although we're now
returning to something like it) but this is the worst standard against which to measure
current working conditions. The worker in the middle ages spent considerably less time
working. "Steady employment, for fifty-two weeks a year is a modern invention.
Before the nineteenth--and, in many cases, the twentieth--century, labor patterns were
seasonal, intermittent, and irregular."
i was on this project and i was so bad...i usually came to work around 11am, someday's around 1pm.
at first i would call to say i was sick or some other excuse, but i stopped doing that, missed
all the 10 o'clock meetings...and i still didn't get fired. don't think the project manager
is going to give me a good rating. i survived i guess, because i am a friendly guy, did what
little work i had and because everyone else there was doing something like me too.
what i really want is flexibility in leave. say i work six months and then take a one month
(unpaid leave) vacation, to go travel the world or just stay home, relax, smoke weed maybe ;).
20 hour work weeks are very good also. i used to work a part time job (9am - 1pm) when i was in college and
i totally enjoyed it. but then i was young and naive, not the bitter twisted crone that i am now.
the book on the left, whose author Schor, is the one being quoted in the article,
is being sold on amazon.com for a mere $0.48. not surprisingly, Schor is a harvard economics professor.
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December 22, 2004
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In another e-mail, an unidentified FBI agent describes at least three incidents involving
Guantanamo detainees being chained to the floor for extended periods of time and being
subjected to extreme heat, extreme cold or "extremely loud rap music".
ha ha ha, rap music a form of torture! i would also like to suggest they use Celine Dion
and country music.
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November 22, 2004
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Tuesday night's glittering gala performance, surrounded by nearly 1000 police,
will be bursting with royalty, ministers and lots of fur coats and diamonds. A seat in one of the plush boxes for the gala performance is costing up to 2,600 euros ($3,500).
Young anti-globalisation protestors are organising their own anti-opera demonstration,
which is due to take place an hour before the grand opening. They plan to blast the
theatre with Salieri's rival Mozart and to protest against what they call the elitist arts.
i am kind of conflicted on this. deep down i am with the protestors. while i am dubious as to
whether opera can be called serious art, even giving it the benefit of the doubt, most of the people coming
to the grand re-opening, post restoration of the opera house, are there to people watch and be
watched. i wonder if, like me, they will even understand what the thespians are singing about.
most likely the women will be gauging the size of the rocks on each other's hands and the men will
be ogling the multitude of beauties.
on the other hand, there is a thrill in watching the rich and the powerful co-mingle. i guess deep
down we all want to be like them too, hard wired as we are by human nature.
ain't altruism a bytch!!!
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November 22, 2004
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Five deer hunters died and three were injured on Sunday in an apparent shootout over who
could occupy a hunting platform in a northwestern Wisconsin forest.
yay! for guns. five less stupid people in the world. read the whole story it's hilarious.
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November 18, 2004
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Alexei Malashenko, a Caucasus expert at the Carnegie Centre in Moscow, fears the problem is
that the president prizes loyalty above all else.
"Putin cannot make a real choice," he said. "He prefers not to deal with real politicians,
but with servants who are subordinate to Moscow."
wow! this guy accurately summed up what I had been thinking about Putin all this time, but
had not been able to concretely define. redundant!
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November 03, 2004
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dutch film maker theo van gogh was assasinated by a radical moroccan muslim man. van gogh
had criticized the muslim religion in his films and newspaper columns.
"Van Gogh may not have survived," warned the Dutch daily De Stem, "but his dedication to freedom of speech should survive, and you cannot defend that freedom with violence against a whole group".
The daily De Volkskrant meanwhile said Muslims "will have to accept that, in a democracy, religion, too, is open to criticism - this applies to Islam no less than to Christianity".
i totally agree. i don't believe in religion and that is only possible, without me getting
my ass kicked, because i live in a democracy (USA).
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November 01, 2004
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Matthew McConaughey (US actor) met his spectral friend, whom he calls 'Madame Blue',
when he moved into his new Hollywood home.
She scared him so much he ran around naked clutching a baseball bat.
Now he's decided, "She's a cool ghost. Maybe me being nude all the time is why we get along."
running around naked with a baseball bat, whoa!!!...ease back on the coke buddy. i wonder
if he was naked when he saw the ghost or if he saw the ghost and decided to take off all his
clothes, hehehe...can you say, fruitcake?
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October 19, 2004
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Alexander Vishnyakov took several people hostage in one of the apartment blocks in Karl Marx Street of the city of Vologda.
He is the general director of the Vologda based factory Dormash. The hostages were detained in the man's apartment and were allowed to move freely.
However, he did not let anyone go out - the man was threatening the hostages, which included his wife and three young children, with a sporting gun.
Vishnyakov's wife opened the windows of the apartment at 10 a.m., when her husband was in the bathroom.
A special group of military men stormed the apartment. Nobody, including the hostage-taker, was injured as a result of the storm.
After the operation ended successfully, Alexander Vishnyakov was taken to a local hospital.
Police officers said that the man had had a nervous breakdown.
His family is currently staying at home to testify.
i'm cynical, but if this hostage rescue operation had taken place in the united states, they probably would have shot the
hostage taker and killed a couple of the hostages too. it's not that US police SWAT teams are inefficient, they are
just trained to use maximum force. kinda like the military, which believes in achieving zero risk, even if innocent bystanders are killed.
it's also interesting that russian news reported the man as having had a "nervous breakdown". american news would have reported the man in
a more negative tone, probably as being a suicidal maniac, as an evil monster who should be locked up in jail for life.
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October 01, 2004
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Australia will find itself outside a "club" of the world's nations now that the Kyoto Protocol is likely to come into force.
The international agreement on reducing pollution looks set to become reality after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed off on the treaty,
leaving Australia and the United States as the only two major non-signatories.
The Federal Government said it had not changed its mind on Kyoto. "We don't have our policy decisions altered by the Russian Government," Environment Minister Ian Campbell said.
Greens leader Bob Brown said: "Mr Howard is now behind Vladimir Putin, who is an environmental ogre."
vladimir putin an environmental ogre...hahaha...damn crazy aussie politicians.
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September 21, 2004
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Iran has reacted angrily to demands from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to end nuclear activities that could be used to develop weapons. The 35-nation agency passed a resolution on 18 September giving Iran until November to stop enriching and reprocessing nuclear fuel.
"Iran just has to give up its enriching and reprocessing activities," says David Albright, director of the Institute for Science and International Security, a non-profit research group in Washington DC. "The ball's in their court."
how hypocritical? the US has nuclear weapons, china (not the biggest fan of human rights) has nuclear weapons, pakistan and israel (teetering on the brink of social upheavels) have nukes, but iran can't have any. if i was iran i would just tell them all to fuck off, especially the USA. which is probably what Bush and his like minded lackeys are waiting for. Time to start another war and make iran, another Iraq. if iran declares it has or is building nuclear weapons, the US is 100% guaranteed to bomb each and every one of the reactors/facilities to dust.
also, in case you didn't know israel is pressuring the US big time on all of these activities, which is why the administration included iran as "an axis of evil" country in the bush state of the union speech. israel is worried sick about iranian nukes and will probably bomb them if the US won't. which is something that I can agree with.
i'm really sick of all these non-profit research groups and their barking dogs...fucking fascist propoganda fronts. if there is a DC political type, these bastards symbolize it.
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September 09, 2004
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Frank Quattrone, who made $US120 million ($A172 million) in 2000 as Credit Suisse First Boston's top technology banker, has been sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined $US90,000 for urging employees to destroy documents during a probe of CSFB.
US District Court Judge Richard Owen handed down a stiffer sentence than the minimum of 10-16 months prescribed by federal guidelines because it was "crystal clear" the former investment banker was "untruthful" when he testified at his trial, the judge said.
Quattrone based his plea for a lighter sentence on his wife's 11-year illness, which wasn't disclosed and the psychological problems of his 15-year-old daughter, Cristina. Judge Owen was unmoved.
"There's $US50 million of assets out there to take care of Mrs Quattrone and $US26 million to take care of Cristina in some trust fund," the judge said.
Defence lawyers say they'll appeal against the surrender order in a bid to keep Quattrone out of jail while they seek to overturn his conviction.
"Cases like this are why we have courts of appeal," said attorney Mark Pomerantz, a partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, who is handling the appeal.
lying son of a bitch wall street banker, blatantly lies on the witness stand and then has the gall to say he can hold his head high because he has done nothing wrong. on top of which he asks for clemency, based on both his wife and daughter being psychologically sick. i inferred his wife suffers from acute depression much like his daughter on account of his never being there for them. they live in california by the way.
i added the snips about the law firm "Paul Weiss Rifkind and associated shitheads" because i've been reading about them a lot lately in connection with corporate criminals. wait that reminds me, Do you know how to save a drowning lawyer? Take your foot off his head. no seriously, don't.
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August 30, 2004
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A powerful typhoon lashed southern Japan on Monday...a 71-year-old man trying to fix a storage roof
died after he was blown 2.6 metres to the ground by strong winds, said an official with the Miyazaki prefecture police.
An 82-year-old man attempting to saw a branch off a tree died when a gust of wind whisked him off his ladder, the police said.
Yup, nothing like an impending typhoon to try and saw a branch or fix your roof. although i found their method of demise funny,
my grandmother is getting pretty old too.
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August 02, 2004
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Page 13, line 15 of the settlement report
PayPal will not file or submit, directly or indirectly, any objections to the Fee Application, so long as the Fee Application does not seek an award of attorney's fees in an amount greater than $3,332,500, reimbursement of expenses and costs in an amount greater than $135,000, or reimbursement of the named plaintiff's expenses in an amount greater than $15,000.
I find it funny that so many of these civil/business case settlements have such a ludicrous fee structure.
Is any more proof needed on the corrupt/greedy nature of lawyers in our decadent society?
The link above points to a recent case between 2 people/plaintiff's who sued PayPal over some wrong doing.
In a move to pressure Paypal, the attorney's of the 2 plaintiff's enlarged it into a class action lawsuit. This is a very successful pressure tactic, because if
Paypal loses the case, it will no longer have to pay 2 people, but potentially millions of suitors. However, leaving this gaping loophole in our legal system apart, the 2 suitors
won their case and were awarded a settlement, through arbitration. The awarded sum was $9.1 million...and here's the kicker, of which
$3.5 million went to pay the suitor's lawyer's fees!!!! That's 35% of the total sum!
Plus they get $135,000 for expenses, while the 2 suitors only get $15,000, which includes wages lost while fighting the case.
They also get to control the disbursement of the settlement fund with Paypal's lawyers. Wanna bet that another half mil. will be eaten up by new "expenses"?
The only person who really wins these cases is the winning side's lawyers. And oh by the way, the public get $5 million for its claims, but only if they fill
out this long ass claims form, which Paypal will match with it's records and which most likely it will either reject or send you a check for $0.32 cents. That way
you will be reimbursed for the stamp you used to send your claim. Vive la Capitalism!!!
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July 30, 2004
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Increasingly erratic and reclusive, he lost his title as [Chess] world champion in 1978 and then largely vanished from the public eye until he reappeared to play a rematch in the former Yugoslavia against Spassky in 1992.
Though [Bobby] Fischer won and took home more than $3 million in prize money, he played in violation of United Nations sanctions and has been wanted in the United States ever since.
Though Fischer has kept a low profile in recent years, he was frequently interviewed by a radio station in the Philippines. In one session he praised the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying America should be "wiped out" and describing Jews as "thieving, lying bastards."
I used to play a lot of chess and smoke a lot of cigarettes, when I was unemployed. Now it kind of bores me. Also, I don't want to
end up like Fischer ;)
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July 29, 2004
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The practice of animal declawing is viewed by many veterinarians and animal experts as an act of cruelty. The Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights (AVAR) has stated that "declawing is generally unacceptable because the suffering and disfigurement it causes is not offset by any benefits to the cat. Declawing is done strictly to provide convenience for people."
AB 395 also bans the effects of declawing procedure for large and exotic cat species such as lions, tigers, cougars and bobcats. The effects of declawing are particularly debilitating for big cats. Declawing cripples these creatures, both from the pain caused by bone fragments left behind, and from the progressively debilitating arthritis produced by abnormal stress on other joints as the cats try to avoid walking on their tender toes.
"The term 'declawing' is a misnomer," says veterinarian Dr. Jennifer Conrad. "it is actually an amputation of the last bone of the toe." Dr. Conrad, founder of the Paw Project, an organization dedicated to abolishment of declaw surgery, has seen many domestic and exotic cats crippled by this procedure. "Declawing is a painful and risky surgery performed primarily to protect sofas and drapes. It does not benefit the cat in any way. Declawing is rarely done in other parts of the world and is illegal in many countries. It's time for Californians to recognize and protect the interests and needs of their animals."
The bill will be heard April 1, 2003.
I totally support banning de-clawing of animals. It is pure cruelty, especially for big cats, which people should
not be allowed to keep as pets, in any case.
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July 26, 2004
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Tests this time showed that there was blood in his brain that had clotted, his wife said. He would need emergency surgery.
He was transferred to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center. Two operations later, he was dead.
Moon's wife said that the doctor, whose name she could not recall, asked, "Why didn't you bring him in sooner?"
She is now trying to make sense of it all.
With her three children and a $1,200 monthly rent payment to make, she said she did not know how much longer she could stay in New York City.
My friend lives in Flushing, where this immigrant Korean couple lived. My Mom fell off a moped and suffered internal brain haemorrhaging. She still takes
strong medication for it till this day. It sucks for this lady, who doesn't speak english, to be on her own in NYC with three young children. Maybe this is how
women end up in a gentleman's club.
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July 14, 2004
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"They murdered him. They murdered him. They murdered my Bobo," he (Sipek) wailed.
Wildlife officials would not reveal how many times Bobo was shot or the name of the officer.
Bobo the tiger is dead. Sad.
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July 13, 2004
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Wildlife officers hunted a 600-pound tiger called Bobo on Tuesday after it escaped from the Florida home of a B-movie actor who played Tarzan.
Even though the cat, which actor Steve Sipek raised since it was a cub, had not roamed further than 200 yards from home, it had managed to hide since Monday afternoon in thick scrub around Loxahatchee, 50 miles north of Miami.
Declawed but not defanged, the tiger was not necessarily considered a threat to local residents, said Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Willie Puz.
"From what I'm told it's the first time it's been away from home so it's checking to see if it's greener on the other side of the fence, I don't know," Puz said.
Some decided to help wildlife officers hunt for Bobo.
Linda Meredith packed a live Yorkshire pig in the trunk of her Cadillac and offered its services in drawing the tiger back home.
"He has all these humans screaming at him, but he doesn't want that. He wants dinner and that's a pig squealing," she said.
600 pound tigers, squealing pigs, crazy ladies with Cadillac's! what the hell is happening in Florida.
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July 01, 2004
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Saddam refused to recognise that he was guilty of a crime in invading Kuwait in 1990, jabbing his finger towards the judge and saying: "I'm surprised you're charging me with that, as an Iraqi, when everyone knows that Kuwait is part of Iraq."
The judge told him these were legal procedures, but Saddam interrupted him. "Law, what law?" he asked.
"You are putting Saddam on trial when the Kuwaitis said they could buy Iraqi women for 10 dinars on the street. The Iraqi soldiers went to defend the honour of Iraq, so what right do these dogs have?" he said, drawing a reprimand from the judge.
"This is all a theatre," Saddam said with a half-smile. "The real criminal is Bush."
man i love saddam. i totally understand his psyche. if i was a dictator i would be pretty much
like him. you've got to break a few heads to make an omelet. people from new jersey and punjab
will understand my point.
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June 21, 2004
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In Jerusalem, Raanan Gissin, a senior aide to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, called Abbas' death ``poetic justice.''
``The man who began his operation in Iraq as a proxy of Saddam Hussein ... finds his death in a prison cell in Iraq under the control of the American forces,'' he said. ``I think this brings full circle the story, the saga, of the arch-terrorist called Abul Abbas.''
you gotta give it to the Israeli's. for a small country they really kick ass.
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April 26, 2002
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"If anything causes a panic, it will be an exaggerated fear and realization by
investors that companies are not growing, and regardless of a very friendly cost of capital environment, multiples will continue shrinking until they properly reflect growth/economic profit realities facing large companies,"
says Rafe Resendes of Applied Finance Group Ltd., a Chicago research firm.
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May 03, 2004
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Then, on Hamill's suggestion, they went back to the stone bungalow house near where he was held to see if they could catch his captors. The soldiers found an AK-47 assault rifle abandoned outside the front door and then arrested two men working in the fields nearby ->why?.
"He was basically in the middle of nowhere," said Sgt. Mark Forbes, another member of C company. "It's like desert and nothing else all around out there."
Rodriguez said the nearest house was probably a mile or more away across swathes of barren scrub and flat fields used to produce tomatoes and other vegetables.
Hamill said he had been moved to the shack next to the farmhouse that morning. Inside he had some simple medical supplies, snack food and a basic bed made out of cushions and a blanket. He didn't know what day of the week it was ->like it matters anyway.
The soldiers asked him why he didn't try to escape sooner.
"I'll tell you what he replied," said Forbes. "He said, 'I could have escaped a bunch of times but where was I going to go? I only had a bottle of water and no map. What was I going to do?'
Yeah i was as incredulous as the soldier at first "why not escape?", but on later thought, it made sense why leave a captivity where you got
a bed, food to eat and medical supplies, to wander the country and get into even bigger trouble. i think the iraqi's didn't kill him because he looks
old (and maybe reminded them of their fathers, especially if the hostage takers were young).
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April 26, 2004
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"I'd like to inform you that separate foreign mercenaries and militants from abroad were still being registered in the mountains of Chechnya where the defence ministry subunits, above all commandos of the main intelligence department, are responsible for security. In this connection, we are taking quick and effective measures," said Mr. Ivanov.
"Effective, what do you mean?" the president asked the minister.
"They are being eliminated," answered Mr. Ivanov.
Fucking russians crack me up. I meant "fucking" in a good way, fucker.
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A young man from Fallujah, now living in Baghdad, who has participated in
attacks on US forces. "This isn't about Shiite or Sunni, or who will lead
Iraq. Now it's a war of liberation to kick the occupiers out of Iraqi
lands."
The momentum shifts.
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| March 2004
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"Tuesday showed us the dark vision of the evildoers. They fight to ward off
harmony and are happy to pave the road to power with the corpses of their
innocent victims," Bremer said.
Looks like Mullah Bremer has been in Iraq too long.
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Toward the other end of the free speech spectrum are such people as John Young, a New York architect
who created a Web site with a friend, featuring aerial pictures of nuclear weapons storage areas, military bases,
ports, dams and secret government bunkers, along with driving directions from Mapquest.com. He has been contacted
by the FBI, he said, but the site is still up.
"It gives us a great thrill," Young said. "If it's banned, it should be published. We like defying authority as a matter of principle."
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The Washington Post reports ~6/15/03 in a small footnote article:
The Corps of Engineers also is overseeing its own contractor in Iraq. It awarded
a no-bid contract to KBR, a Halliburton Co. subsidiary formerly known as
Kellogg Brown & Root, to repair and operate oil wells in Iraq. That contract
has been criticized by some members of Congress.
Who needs Darth Maul (star wars) when we have Dick Cheney.
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Warez ring leader sentenced to 4 years in prison. Article describes
the members and methods used by a warez group, that took licensed software,
cracked the copyright protection and distributed the software on the internet.
Bad bad boys, but I sympathize in a way.
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This Web site describes the wrongful business practices of Quarles
Petroleum (VA) that have resulted in financial loss, property damage and
personal injury to Quarles customers and others.
Another incompetent company. Just hire me as the CEO guys.
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