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An excerpt:

While he headed the Houston-based oil services and construction company, Cheney strongly criticized sanctions against countries like Iran and Libya. President Clinton cut off all U.S. trade with Iran in 1995 because of Tehran's support for terrorism. ...

Much of Halliburton's business with Iran comes through Halliburton Products & Services Ltd., a subsidiary incorporated in the Cayman Islands and based in the United Arab Emirates. Halliburton Products & Services opened a Tehran office in early 2000, before Cheney left Halliburton to become Bush's running mate.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=XOM

Revenue: 336B
Gross Profit: 164B
Net Income: 40B*

So they are running over 10% NET profit (that's extremely nice compared to many businesses- usually 7% is an excellent return).

* And this is after giving some unreasonably huge salaries to their executive class.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191901,00.html
  A $69.7 million compensation package and $98 million pension payout to Exxon Mobil Corp.'s (XOM) former chief executive and chairman Lee R. Raymond has some shareholders and economists asking, "how much is enough?"

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276372,00.html
http://www.courttv.com/trials/yates/

DDT does thin eggshells resulting in a much lower rate of successful hatching, for example.

In the few studies claiming to implicate DDT as the cause of thinning, the birds were fed diets that were either low in calcium, included other known egg shell-thinning substances, or that contained levels of DDT far in excess of levels that would be found in the environment - and even then, the massive doses produced much less thinning than what had been found in egg shells in the wild. Reference: Steven Milloy of Junk Science writing for Fox News

In that case they could read and write. In Biblical times in the Holy Land there were wolves and lions. These were the top carnivores and they are mentioned frequently in the Bible. In addition large herbivores such as elephants and buffalo are also mentioned. Now these are very impressive animals so one can see that they would be mentioned in and take center stage in several of the Biblical stories and in the civil records of the ancient societies of the area. Now in the Holy Land there also lived an even more impressive animal who's fossilized bones have been found in Jordan, http://www.pellamuseum.org/Pella_Museum/Vertebrate /jibal_ghuzayma.htm. This animal was several times larger than and elephant. It was in fact a dinosaur and it is never motioned in the Bible. It is never mentioned in any clay tablet from any of the Biblical civilizations, it is never mentioned in the writings of the Egyptian empire. Imagine an animal that is 12 to 14 meters long and lived at the same time as people in the area and this animal is never once mentioned in either the Biblical or historical record. It was 3 to 4 times the size of an African elephant. It was never reported to have eaten up a villages crops, it was never reported to have accidentally stepped on any one and it was never used as a sacrifice. Ok, so now lets move on to to Syria where bones belonging to a species of 13 foot high camels have been found, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,219310,00.html . These animals are twice the size of any description of any camel that was found in any of the Biblical or historical record of the time. Why were the never used like other camels. Why are there no stories about some chap going against the popular wisdom of the day an instead of using the small camels trapped and used the wild giant camels. Did people just over look these large and majestic beasts or or were these beasts just very good a hiding or maybe were they long gone before people ever arrived. After all they were supposedly taken aboard the Ark so they should be mentioned but they are not. No, not even one convincing description.

you can count on at least a few lesser jurisdictions (states, municipalities, etc.) to attempt to impose come crack-brained e-mail tax (or something similar)

But what if it is to benefit poor children? I can see it already: "Why is idontgno opposing help for the most vulnerable members of our society?!!" Uh-oh...

I say, a locality should be allowed any such idiocy (if its voters want it — via their elected representatives) — if only to prove, it is, in fact, an idiocy.

Municipal Wi-Fi comes to mind.

Liar.

Jesus, umm, maybe not, as this girl found out

case of voter fraud.

The school has decided to suspend the teacher and assistant principle in charge of the "drill" were suspended. IMHO, I don't think that's any where near severe enough. And not to mention the fact that one of them was an assistant principal. You'd think he'd have slightly better judgement. Apparently that's not taught in Tennessee (I kid).

$1,000,000 is quite ambiguous, doesn't specify US legal tender...

I doubt you'd get away with Monopoly money, but it's true it doesn't specify US dollars. Perhaps you could make a road trip to Canadia for their new million dollar coin?

Imagine a president who made decisions for what was really best for the county, and not for how to get his party's line promoted.

I would argue that we have that currently - a president who makes decisions based on what (he believes) is really best for the country. If W were playing politics one of the war funding bills would be passed by now. His own party is getting tired of his hard stance on not pulling out early. ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271153,00.html ) He is clearly not concerned with his approval rating, since it is in the crapper. I fail to see the politics of W's major decisions.

Wow, I thought I saw a sneak preview of a new villain in those action films, but the undead corpse was just Cate Blanchett... Scary.

A Mickey Mouse look-alike named Farfur is teaching Palestinian children the ABCs of terror on Hamas' official television station, Al-Aqsa TV.

On the weekly program "Tomorrow's Pioneers," Farfur and a young girl name Saraa' tell children to pray five times each day and drink their milk, while urging the children to "resist" the "oppressive invading Zionist occupation."

Excerpts from episodes that aired last month show the squeaky voiced mouse egging on children with nationalistic fervor.

"We, tomorrow's pioneers, will restore to this nation its glory, and we will liberate Al-Aqsa, with Allah's will, and we will liberate Iraq, with Allah's will, and we will liberate the Muslim countries, invaded by murderers," Farfur says in one episode that aired in April.

The message seems to be working. Poems and songs submitted by young viewers contain violent imagery. "Rafah sings 'Oh, oh,'" one caller says as Farfur mimes carrying a rifle. "Its answer is an AK-47."

Contrast that with how immigrants are treated in the USA these days... I understand there were huge anti-immigration rallies in the USA last week.

I mean, it's not like we can expect him to know his birthday and the date when the event which he was there to talk about took place, and be able to perform basic mathematical operations on the two.

Yeah. Because being five when something happens gives you a really good memory of it, doesn't it? The 1960s were full of incidents of racial tension. So he mixed up when one happened, when giving a speech designed for one location only. Whoop-de-doo. At least he's not a candidate who thought that Roe V. Wade was in the 80s and didn't know how his favorite Supreme Court justice stood on it, a lifelong hunter, outright insane, etc.

No. I'm probably stretching my analogy skills here, but I'll give it a try. There's an open source project which adds a feature or a file format to MS Office. It's called "Feature X for MS Office". The developer spent a lot of his time during the last 2 years to developer and maintain it. Now MS wants to release a new version of Office, and they want this app. The dev doesn't want to give up the pet project. MS asks him to name a price, and he does.

That'd be a great analogy, except for the fact that it's not at all what happened. Making it match the facts of the case...

"There's an open source project which adds a feature or a file format to MS Office. It's called "Official Feature X for MS Office". The developer spends a few months of their time over the course of a couple years making it, and Microsoft helps them do it; it's infringing on their trademark, but they think they're getting a service, so they help with the project. Right as a new version of Office is about to be released, the developer suddenly blocks all Microsoft access to the code. When Microsoft emails them asking what happened, the developer sends back a line-by-line bill and demands a job on top of that."

Should the developer be surprised when Microsoft takes down their site for trademark infringement?
At least Obama's campaign didn't lock out Joe's access. You know, kind of like Joe did to them.

Wow, this is really overblown. Fox covered this too in Junk Science: Light Bulb Lunacy.

The original article in the Ellsworth American is much more reasonable.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138621,00.html

"The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe."
--Tom Wolfe

Brave talk from a paper located in a country that bans teaching the Crusades. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,263146,00.html

  This could mean that Wii won't be like Gamecube in terms of game selection. Publishers know that Wii has hundreds of thousands users and probably continue to sell out. This equals profit to them and will bring dozens of games to the Wii. Sony's PS3 will take third seat like Gamecube did unless Sony does something drastic to compete in price with Wii.
Question remains, Who will dominate, the 360 or Wii? Only time will tell.
FoxNews reports on this story.

One of the most widely reported Swedish nutjobs recently was a guy who snapped and drove a car at 60 miles per hour through a pedestrian precinct full of people. How many people died again? Oh, 2. If he'd had a gun instead of a car? Not 2.

Poser

An 86 year old hit over 50 people and killed 10 in a tragic accident here in the states.

As for the rest of it, I'd argue that your culture has much more to do with your low crime and murder rates as your gun control. After all, you're relativly next door to Sweden, which has some of the most lax gun control laws in the world, and they do just as good as you.

Personally, I mostly blame the drug war here in the states. That and we're further south*.

*Statistically speaking, the further south you are, on average, the higher the crime rate.

Of course, other news sources say nothing about the topic...

Sorry about the caps, but I just had to let that out. For those who don't know, or were unable to see the convocation live, foxnews.com has the Nikki Giovanni closing speech here:

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?041707 /041707_giovanni_convocation&Studio_B&'We%20Are%20 Virginia%20Tech!'&acc&US&-1&News&206&&&new

We are the Hokies. We will prevail. We are Virginia Tech.

Mod this comment up - incredibly important point. You know this image? http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/photoessay_1642_ images/0416071259_M_041607_shooting1.jpg Yeah, that was just a reporter. He was released.

Except (of course) that at the begining of february it was reported that HD-DVD had 52% market share as compared to Blu-Ray's 48% ...

The newer numbers demonstrate that Blu-Ray has taken the lead but HD-DVD is keeping up at a decent pace considering that it is not included in (approximately) 200,000 PS3 system that are sold in a month.

treasonous

Without a citation of a "Gramscian" case, that's just a rehashing of far-right propaganda. The ACLU has defended far-rightists including Rush Limbaugh, despite all the nasty propaganda he spread against them. Very Christian of them in the, "Love thy Neighbor" sense if not the Bushbot sense.

If "it's never been stated that we're the only cause" as you say, then why do 4 in 10 people in America believe we are the sole cause? I personally blame the media, and people like you who say that we are undeniably contributing, when the percentage we might be contributing may only be 10% (we just don't know).

Global warming poll: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250571,00.html

http://www.rightwinglunatic.com/ http://www.fark.com/ http://www.slashdot.org/ http://www.foxnews.com/ http://www.compfused.com/

Sun has one one the market, and it's been around for a couple months: "Project Blackbox".

As usual, the "visionaries" at MS simply feed us what others have invented as their great ideas.

There's no need for a car that goes more than 70mph.

Yeah, because there's nowhere in the United States where the speed limits are faster than 70 MPH.

I use a very old technology 1300cc car

Good for you and your VW beetle/van or whatever. I'm the guy who passed you when your car was struggling to go uphill, and I was still getting 30 MPG and probably putting out less pollution than your tired jalopy.

The bad news is that future electronics will be even flimiser than they currently are.

No, the bad news is that this is being reported on Faux News, which all independent-minded correct-thinking people are supposed to hate for at least two minutes per day.

Hey, I agree. Most of American journalism is total crap. However, we at least have one news source we can trust. ;-)

Copyright infringement is a crime under American federal law and you can do hard time.

Scream "Copyright infringement is not theft!" all the way to prison if you like, but it isn't going to change a damn thing. Man Arrested for Uploading Movie to Internet

The movie was a watermarked Academy screener easily traced to Nunez's sister - exposing family to professional sanctions and criminal prosecution does not have the look of a victimless crime.

The theft of intangible property is by no means an unknown concept in American statutory law. The Economic Espionage Act of 1996: The Theft of Trade Secrets is now a Federal Crime

>The second amendment does not apply to normal citizens. It applies to organized militias.

None other than the DC Court of Appeals would disagree with you.

If I may quote from the article:

A federal appeals court on Friday overturned the District of Columbia's longstanding handgun ban, issuing a decision that will allow the city's citizens to have working firearms in their homes.

In the ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected city officials' arguments that the Second Amendment right to bear arms only applied to state militias.

Yes, of course DC is going to appeal it. Next stop - The Supreme Court, where maybe this will be settled once and for all.

My great grandfather fought for this country, my grandfather fought for this country, my father fought for this country, and my friends have fought for this country. So you can play the Veteran card and act like that has any real bearing on the situation, and I'll just go on stating the facts of the matter. Don't get me wrong; I respect your service to the greatest nation on the face of the Earth, but just as you have spared me no harsh words, I shall act accordingly.

You may not think that we found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but I'll tell you right now, you are WRONG. In Iraq alone they found 1.77 metric TONS of enriched uranium. They found 1,500 GALLONS of chemical weapons. They found 17 chemical warheads containing cyclosarin. Do you know what cyclosarin is? It's a deadly nerve agent with five times the effectiveness of sarin gas. But more importantly, they found 1,000 radioactive materials that are used in dirty bombs. Don't believe me? Well, CNN sure as hell won't cover that. MoveOn.org won't have that on their front page. And you damn well better believe that the Democrats did their best to cover that up.

I'll even post my sources. I'll be fully transparent in this, and I'll be ACCOUNTABLE for what I say... which is more than I can say for you, Anonymous Coward. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI CLE_ID=38213 http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=10101&of fer=&hidebodyad=true http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/mariani/2 004/mariani052804.htm http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/06/21/AR2006062101837.html

They are so racist, and hate muslims.

I'm going to move to germany, who are progressive enough to allow muslims to beat their wives, becuase the Koran says it's OkEeDokee.

What a bunch of cowards. That's how afraid they are of the islamic world, a judge will rule it's OK for a muslim man to abuse his wife - rather than offend the muslims.

Just like the cowards in Minnesota, who wont revoke the licenses of muslim cab drivers who refuse to pick up the blind, in blatant opposition to the ADA.

Cowardice disguised as PC. Terrorism is real, and has worked.

Quit blaming Bush for all of the countries problems, because you're too cowardly to point at the real problem.

And clearly a joke, referring to the common belief he claimed he invented the internet.

Oh, I see. It's a "joke". Like the "joke" that Al Gore said he invented the Internet. See, I used to think the latter was a joke too. Until I learned a bit more a realized it's really just a lie. Now it just pisses me off. Telling lies about people in the course of political discussions isn't funny. It does a disservice to everyone.

It's pretty obvious nothing I can say can change your misconceptions about the constitution or what surveillance is actually done. So why bother?

What misconceptions? That the fourth amendment is generally considered to require court approval to perform surveillance on American citizens? That the Bush administration was ignoring this and performing "terrorist" surveillence without approval of the FISA court? Do you think I make this stuff up? It was even on Fox News for crying out loud.

Read outside your comfort zone sometime. Nice ad hominem attack. Do you even know what I read? No. You don't. You're just making stuff up again. It seems to be a common theme with the GOP and their flunkies. You do it. The "Charles Smith" blog you linked to was so full of blatant lies it's not even funny. I notice you didn't bother addressing any of those points. You call yourself "mostly libertarian". As an actual registered Libertarian who actually votes Libertarian, I have to say we don't need your help. If you want to help, stop lying so much. And stop falling for so many obvious falsehoods like you linked to earlier. It makes the rest of us look bad.

Al Gore political types who are the worst offenders of global warming ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257958,00.html

I was womdering if I'd see something in that FoxNews article but not a thing was said of it. The Gore family used to own, if Al Gore doesn't still own it, stock in Oxidental Petroleum. They were big stockholders.

Al Gore political types who are the worst offenders of global warming ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257958,00.html

I was womdering if I'd see something in that FoxNews article but not a thing was said of it. The Gore family used to own, if Al Gore doesn't still own it, stock in Oxidental Petroleum. They were big stockholders.

Let's face it our climate has been changing since pre-industrial revolution, so how much are we really affecting change? This is not clear (you have scientist & businesses on both sides), but it is really annoying when you get the Al Gore political types who are the worst offenders of global warming ( http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257958,00.html ). Forget the argument of affecting global warming - how about stop polluting our planet and reduce our carbon foot-print, so our children have a clean place to live in. Let's stop selling the fear and giving idiot politicians more clout to push their personal agendas.

"but you are relying on unscientific methods..."

Really? Are you sure it's just unscientific speculation?

(apologise for including a fox news link, I think my point stands nonetheless)

"to conduct your 'survey' and concluding based on these biased methods (that you created) that your results are the only results possible"

My survey? Biased methods? That I created? All those articles aren't quoting me you know! I wasn't even alive for the 1958 study!

"Btw something which has 'exceptions' doesn't make 'fact' status"

Did I say 'fact' or did I say 'trend'? (problems with vocabulary recall?) I think you'll find it was the latter (and here's the link to my post if you're in doubt)... although, it is a fact that there is a trend, as the numerous research projects have shown. The fact that there are exceptions is what makes it a trend, not a law.

Forget all those press stories from scientists currently around that say time travel is impossible.
We now have proof that NASA and the US Military have it.
As clearly started in this article, from a guy in NASA, the US Military is talking about going back in time by 7+ years and put a missle defense system in Czechoslovakia.

"You can find just about anything in there," he said. "We've found safes from burglaries, soda pop machines, washing machines, all number of things."