People in water-logged Washington now have official confirmation of something they've been suspecting: It's been raining a lot. The city had its 26th straight day of rain Friday and was just a week short of the 1953 record of 33 consecutive rainy days.
Over half way to 40 days and 40 nights, are they? This wouldn't be happening if they were Episcopalians... Oh. Wait...
Daily rainfall records have already fallen in Seattle and Olympia. More seriously, officials worried about the potential for more landslides and floods, warning that the saturated landscape can't hold much more water. "What we need is blankets and tents from Pakistan a reprieve," Tony Fantello, maintenance and operations manager for Pierce County Water Programs in Tacoma, told The News Tribune. "Everything is just overtaxed.
Well, it is Seattle...
Even 24 to 36 hours of dry conditions really help take the heat off." No dice. Mostly light rain fell early Friday, and the weather service predicted more over the next 10 days. Meteorologist Danny Mercer said he thinks the rain will continue at least until Jan. 20, when Seattle would tie the 1953 mark. "We have a front coming in almost every single day, with very few breaks in between these systems," Mercer said.
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Meanwhile, in Arizona, we haven't had rain since October, the mountains are bare of snow. It's the driest year ever.
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The great claim that Arizona is having the driest winter in centuries, sorta misses out on a few facts. That is, there are probably no meteorological records dating from before 1880, and even then, just local ones. Statewide records probably didn't begin until the 1930s.
Similarly, the dry Salt River in Phoenix flooded in 1968, for the first time in 70 years. They called it a "100 year flood", and dummies started rebuilding in the riverbottom. Four years later they had another flood. This one they called a "500 year flood, so go ahead and rebuild". Few did, which was fortunate, because a few years later there was another flood.
That's the thing about weather. So unpredicatble. Especially when you pull your statistics out of thin air.
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It appears that the water is actually needed a little further east. Maybe all that metro buildup in Seattle has created a micro climate that is making a man made barrier to proper flow. Time for some serious restrictions Kyoto style for the environmentally aware of the metroplex.
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looks like San Diego may get some rain late today - should be in AZ tomorrow - more storms behind it and jet stream's moved a little south, cross your fingers. We're dry here too
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Frank G: appreciate the rain, but the point is, why bother? Southern Arizona is a desert. Desert. It's not supposed to look like Virginia, no matter what some land developers promise.
And seriously, in past, that is what some developers have promised: "A little piece of Virginia in Arizona". Lots of lakes and golf courses. C'mon, get real.
Sooner or later the water will run down, if not out. Even thought they pipeline it in, it costs money and it just isn't natural. There is a point of diminishing returns with terraforming. 100 days without rain is not that unusual here.
Sure, it's fine to make a place more comfortable, but there are limits.
Trying to make Virginia out of a desert is just as silly as building your house on a frequent flood plain and expecting your insurance to pay for 20 years of flooding in a row.
Oh well. Eventually people will figure it out. Hopefully that will be the end of Tempe Town Lake.
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Wasn't it some years ago when some beltway EPA guy proposed that Phoenix should reduce its particulate air pollution by "watering down the desert?"
(Fortunately, that brilliant notion didn't even make it out of D.C.)
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No rain yet today! Kind of Grey and threatening though...
And yes we are Over Taxed, it's crazy :(
The media just hypes the rain up every year, it's nothing new...it always rains alot besides they have little else to do.
No umbrellas and never turn your wipers on.
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I agree with you somewhat, 'mooose. Tucson is a little better than Phoenix in that most of our homes do not have grass yards (perhaps 1/3 do in the back, but very few have grass in front). I do have mostly LWU plants and don't have a pool. While we have too damn many golf courses (zero is the ideal number), many of them are "desert" courses.
Yes, yes, it's a desert. However, it's supposed to be the least desert-y desert in the world, with more percipitation than any other "desert."
Watch for lots of water restrictions on homeowners, who use maybe 10%, while few if any on the 60% used by agriculture (growing cotton??? though at least they no longer grow rice in the desert) and the 30% used by industry.
They're saying maybe perhaps there will be rain tomorrow. Or maybe not.
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#3: I grew up in the seattle area and I am quite sick and tired of the rain. I'm growing webbed feet - and you try typing with webbed fingers!.
Despite the Rainfall reputation that Seattle has, Mobile's annual rainfall average is greater, and we don't complain of webbed feet.
Frankly here on the gulf, webbed feet would be an advantage.
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Its not freeeeezing cold in Mobile
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So bk, you back in Seattle? Or being washed down stream?
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The Religious Policeman, in his Jan 13 posting, had some interesting observations as to the cause and suggestions to prevent this from recuring again and again. But why not just blame it on the the lunatics of the full moon?
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Since I knew this was coming, does that make me a prophet? Can I start my own religion? Can I have 11 wives and have other people give me lots of money? Can my followers lay waste Luxembourg and forcibly convert the inhabitants?
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#3. Barbara you are correct. Crown Prince Sultan, after a thorough 48 hour investigation of the incident that took place at the entrance of the eastern Jamarat Bridge, issued a statement on Thursday saying "this has been predestined by Almighty Allah and no one can prevent fate." His Brother Nayif seconded the motion: ".....we all know the large number of security forces that were deployed this year, but some things are just above the ability of human beings. What happened was Godâs will." From the Religious Policeman's Jan 14 posting.
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His Brother Nayif seconded the motion: ".....we all know the large number of security forces that were deployed this year, but some things are just above the ability of human beings. What happened was Godâs will."
Well that settles it. No need for litigation in the Magic Kingdom.
Mongolia's coalition government collapsed late on Friday after parliament voted to accept a mass resignation from the cabinet of Tsakhia Elbegdorj, the country's prime minister. Sanjaasuren Oyun, the leader of the minority Civil Will Party and a member of parliament, told AFP that parliament debated well into the night before ratifying Wednesday's mass resignation, a move that will lead to Elbegdorj's dismissal after less than two years in power. All 10 cabinet members belonging to the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), which has dominated politics for most of the nation's 14 years of post-Soviet democracy, triggered the crisis when they resigned on Friday.
Hundreds of angry protesters took to the streets of the capital, Ulan Bator, on Thursday in support of the prime minister, although the situation had eased on Friday after the deployment of police and security forces.
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Would someone with a program like to elaborate upon this?
Don't all of the Mongolian stories usually come adorned with the comrade sportin' the Red Star cap?
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I think in the long run most of the Stans are going to shift to China. Russia is just too damm weak and China is in near desperate straights to secure the natural resources that will allow them the ability to challenge the US. As it sits now the US would embargo blockade and the Chineese would crumble making a Tiawan offensive even succesfull too expensive. The Chineese I think are faking East but really looking west & North they need the natural resources and a weak Russia weaker Stans are ripe for pluking. I would not be surprised if this is found to have heavy Chineese fingers in it.
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Mongolia's gone from being a "fraternal socialist" country whose primary function was to provide a place for the Soviets to keep the 39th Army to a fairly enthusiastically pro-Western country. They remain stuck with their historical problems of lack of natural resources and being a buffer state between the Russers and the Chinese.
I hope they get their problem sorted out. They're a class above the 'stans, and if they get settled down great things will come of them.
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Please save the ponies. Unlike horses they are smart. :P
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BAKU â An Azerbaijani opposition activist was hospitalised yesterday on the 16th day of a hunger strike after his health took a rapid turn for the worse.
Three colleagues vowed to keep up their action, which is intended to dramatise their demand to reinstate two of them, Turan Aliyev and Namik Feyziyev, in Baku universities where they had been studying. The demonstrators allege the two were expelled for their political convictions. A third hunger striker, Emin Huseynov, said before being taken to the hospital that he had lost 10kg, his head was spinning and his kidneys hurt, âbut I am afraid that our doctors will do something that could worsen my condition.â
The demonstrators belong to the Yeni Fikir, or New Thought, opposition youth movement, two of whose leaders have been jailed on suspicion of conspiring to spark an uprising in Azerbaijan.
Police on Thursday prevented about 15 students who belong to the opposition Popular Front of Azerbaijan from approaching the Ministry of Education in Baku to demand the two studentsâ reinstatement. Ministry spokesman Bayram Huseynzade denied any political motive behind the studentsâ expulsion. Feyziyev was kicked out for failing six exams and Aliyev for violating discipline, Huseynzade said.
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Done. Fire away.
Hat tip: Gates of Vienna.
The US Secretary of State released a coarse anti-Russian statement. This is because she is a single woman who has no children.
Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, openly criticized the Russian government in connection with the gas conflict with Ukraine. Ms. Rice used quite a trivial technique of psychological pressure, which is mostly practiced in the field of education. According to Condoleezza Rice, Russia's actions towards Ukraine did not characterize it as a respectable member of the Group of Eight. The statement from the high-ranking US official sounded like a reprimand from a strict babysitter that was teaching its baby to behave.
Why yes, that's exactly what she did.
It goes without saying that the largest Eurasian power is not a baby.
I dunno, I've seen The Omen.
In addition, the geopolitical system in the world has undergone dramatic changes since the 1990s. The US Secretary of State, however, has seemingly lost the sense of time and reality. Ms. Rice's wish to exercise her political power became a surprise for both the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and proponents of traditional liberal values.
Ms. Rice's criticism can be explained with the politician's personal peculiarities. Why is Condoleezza Rice so fond of her "strict teacher" role? Is it her technique that she follows to stay in the center of political attention? The unhinged leader of the Liberal and Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Vladimir Zhirinovsky, expressed his opinion on the matter in an exclusive interview with Pravda.Ru.
"Condoleezza Rice released a coarse anti-Russian statement. This is because she is a single woman who has no children. She loses her reason because of her late single status. Nature takes it all.
"Such women are very rough. They are all workaholics, public workaholics. They can be happy only when they are talked and written about everywhere: "Oh, Condoleezza, what a remarkable woman, what a charming Afro-American lady! How well she can play the piano and speak Russian! What a courageous, tough and strong female she is!
Our secretary of state can kick your foreign minister's butt ...
"This is the only way to satisfy her needs of a female. She derives pleasure from it. If she has no man by her side at her age, he will never appear. Even if she had a whole selection of men to choose from she would stay single because her soul and heart have hardened. Like Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, or Alexander the Great of Macedon Ms. Rice needs to fight and release tough public statements in global scale. She needs to be on top of the world.
"Ms. Rice was always interested in Russia. Now she needs to prove that she does have a certain amount of knowledge about Russia. Her goal number one is to observe USA's interest. If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down. Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.
Doom, gloom and Fairbanks ...
"The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values. Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous. That is why they need to protect themselves with such public personas as Condoleezza Rice who gains pleasure from political commotions.
"The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power. This was a common practice in the Soviet political system. The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite. One single word or phrase may play an extremely important role in politics. This is not the place, where one can sublimate their personal sexual problems.
"Complex-prone women are especially dangerous. They are like malicious mothers-in-law, women that evoke hatred and irritation with everyone. Everybody tries to Vladimir Zhirinovskypart with such women as soon as possible. A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
"This is really scary. Ms. Rice's personal complexes affect the entire field of international politics. This is an irritating factor for everyone, especially for the East and the Islamic world. When they look at her, they go mad.
"Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers. She needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied. On the other hand, she can hardly be satisfied because of her age. This is a complex. She needs to return to her university and teach students there. She could also deal with psychological analysis.
"The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention. Releasing such stupid remarks gives her the feeling of being fulfilled. This is the only way for her to attract men's attention," Vladimir Zhirinovsky said. Expect protest from NOW:
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*snicker* Go Condi. Your arrow must have really hit its mark. They are reduced to calling you a pooh-pooh face, who is single, without children and puffing, "do you know who I am". Somehow, I think those personal insults must play better in Russia than they do here.
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in fact, it's too bad that they just didn't go ahead and call her a lesbian. It would have made our right feel indignant for her and it would have made our left feel even more conflicted and screwed up than they already are.
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Ya know...
I've never heard Condi show interest in being President of the US
I've heard her say many times she would like to be commissioner of the NFL.
Sound like she likes tough men just not too interested in having kids.... What's Vladimir Zhirinovsky problem? He's not enough of a MAN for her?
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Zhironovsky is a well-known clown. Ten years ago I remember him saying that the Russian mafia would make Russia a great power again and Australian girls would faint with passion at the thought of sharing their beds with the new Russian mafia dons. He's got a thing about women either wanting too much sex or not getting enough of it.
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Zhironovsky is a class act. I remember seeing a Russian talk show, and Zhironovsky threw a glass of water over one of the other guests and then started beating the crap out of him. His attitude to women is fairly common in Russia, where sexual equality (and gay rights) hasn't quite sunk in yet.
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Given the spiralling-to-nothingness birthrate, out-of-control abortion rate, and awful general public health (aids, alcoholism) in Motherland, Zhirinovski should pay less attention to Ms. Rice's lack of children, and more on Russia's.
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From
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dmiguse/Russian/vzbio.html
"Zhirinovsky praised Adolf Hitler's ideology of National-Socialism in an Izvestia article. One of his books, "The Last Thrust to The South", advocates military aggression against Russia's Southern neighbors as a way of achieving political stability in the region. Vladimir Zhirinovsky made headlines by threatening to take Alaska back from the United States, nuke Japan, and flood Germany with radioactive waste."
Zhirinovsky, who visited Washington last week, said Russia should view the United States as a partner "in everything -- economics, culture, fighting terrorism. ... It all depends on America now."
"If everything goes as it should, I wouldn't be surprised if in about 30 years our countries (the United States and Russia) combine their resources and form a single North Atlantic state,"
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A HARDLINE environmental group has promised not to attack Japan's whaling fleet if Australia takes the Japanese to court to try to stop the annual slaughter.
Sea Shepherd, which has promised to "shut down" the whaling ship Nisshin Maru, today said it would give Australia and New Zealand two days to announce a legal challenge against Japan.
The group's founder Paul Watson, skipper of its flagship Farley Mowat in the Southern Ocean, earlier threatened to ram the Japanese whaling fleet. "If either New Zealand or Australia agrees to take Japan to court over the whaling issue, Sea Shepherd will agree to withdraw from confrontation for this year in order to allow an opportunity for a proper legal challenge," the group said.
"Captain Watson has agreed to not attack any Japanese fleet for 48 hours to give New Zealand and Australia an opportunity to act responsibly."
Mr Watson said Japan was in violation of the laws of the International Whaling Commission, the Antarctic Treaty and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
The Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat, skippered by Paul Watson, is about 160km from the whalers. Environmentalists attached to groups Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace have been involved in high-seas harassment of a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. The Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise was involved in the collision with the Japanese whale processing ship Nisshin Maru last Sunday, putting a 1.5-metre dent in the Sunrise's bow and bending its forward mast.
Australia has declined to take action against Japan, with Prime Minister John Howard insisting he has made his anti-whaling views known to the Japanese Government.
#1
that's great. But considering the slaughter that just occurred, you think these groups might have used this particular moment for a different type of protest.
#5
The way around this whole problem is for the anti-whaling crowd to get creative for a change.
That is, come up with some otherwise unharmful bacteria, that when eaten by whales makes their flesh not just unpalatable, but loathesome to the taste, for the rest of their lives.
In just a few years, they could feed enough whales contaminated Purina Whale Chow, so that it would no longer be economically viable to harvest them. A few instances of entire restaurants full of Japanese gourmands puking their guts out would have a lasting impact.
Of course, the whale hunting nations would scream bloody murder about the whales being "ruined" for "research purposes", but who gives a damn?
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Attacking a whaling ship by ramming it would fall into the accepted international definition of piracy, if the Japanese wish to push it. And that would allow them to conduct a drumhead tribunal and hang each and every one of the attackers immediately after the attack. Really stupid threat on the part of the whale-huggers.
The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II failed to report to a police station Friday — the day after his release from prison — and authorities said the military could ask for his arrest for draft-dodging.
Really, we don't make this stuff up. We couldn't. Maybe Scrappleface could, but not us...
Mehmet Ali Agca was required to report daily to a police station to allow authorities to keep tabs on him until at least officials decide on whether he should serve his military service. Istanbul Gov. Muammer Guler said Agca — whose whereabouts were unknown — had not reported to any police station by Friday evening. Guler said Agca was also required to report to a military hospital on Monday. "If he doesn't show up, he will be listed as a draft-dodger" and his arrest could be sought, Guler said.
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I'm hoping that he's had an "RAB moment" in the warehouse district...
Blair. Bush. Howard. Sharon. Koizumi. And now Harper.
Two new polls gave the Conservative Party a strong lead in the run-up to the January 23 federal election, and a projection based on several surveys said they could be within three seats of a majority. A Strategic Counsel poll for The Globe and Mail and CTV News said support for the Conservatives held steady at 39 percent, while support for the ruling Liberal Party slipped by one point to 27 percent.
An EKOS poll for The Toronto Star and La Presse put the Conservatives at 37.6 percent and the Liberals at 28.3 percent. A previous EKOS survey put the Conservatives at 39.1 percent and the Liberals at 26.8 percent. "The race is now the Tories' (Conservatives') to lose, and their game looks pretty sound," EKOS President Frank Graves told the Toronto Star. "If (Prime Minister) Paul Martin and the Liberals are not able to disrupt this pattern in the next few days, the only remaining question will be whether it is a Conservative minority or a Conservative majority on election night."
The Globe and Mail said number crunching from several Strategic Counsel polls projected that the Conservatives would win 152 seats in the new Canadian Parliament, more than twice the 74 seats projected for the Liberals. There are 308 seats in Parliament, so a party needs 155 seats to win a majority.
The anti-Liberal backlash was especially strong in French-speaking Quebec, where they trailed behind the Bloc Quebecois, a party that backs Quebec independence and campaigns only in the province. But the Conservative resurgence has affected voting intentions in Quebec as well, and the Strategic Counsel survey put support for the Conservatives in Quebec at 23 percent, compared with 48 percent for the Bloc and 18 percent for the Liberals. The Conservatives have no seats in Quebec at present. "If they are going to have a breakthrough, it will be outside of Montreal and at the expense of the Bloc," pollster Allan Gregg told the Globe and Mail. Another key electoral battleground is Ontario, Canada's most populous province, and both pollsters said the Conservatives appeared poised for big gains there.
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The race is now the Tories' (Conservatives') to lose.
Where's that pic of Fire Breathing Al?
Via Drudge ...
Former and still bitter Vice President Al Gore will deliver a major address Monday on the threat posed by policies of the Bush Administration to the Constitution and the checks and balances it created. The speech will specifically point to domestic wiretapping and torture as examples of the administration's efforts to extend executive power beyond Congressional direction and judicial review.
The Vice President (no bias here, really) will make the case that the country -- including the legislative and judicial branches and all Americans -- must act now to defend the systems put into place by the country's founders to curb executive power or risk permanent and irreversible damage to the Constitution. Lemme guess, the main subject will be the NSA / FISA 'controversy', which wasn't a problem under your administration, was it, Mr. Gore? Side dish of Gitmo, coming up!
The extent of bipartisan concern over these issues is highlighted by former Republican Rep. Bob Barr's introduction of the Vice President next Wednesday, and by the organizations cosponsoring the speech. That's hilarious - one former Republican congressman's mentioned and they label it a 'bipartisan concern'. What balls they have...
The Liberty Coalition brings together ideologically diverse organizations across the political spectrum, including liberal and conservative groups, to preserve the Bill of Rights, personal autonomy and individual privacy. Um, care to mention any of the organizations, or is this Double Secret Probation time until the speech (looks like it's a RSVP only teleconference - details at bottom of article for you wedding crasher types).
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is one of the nation's leading liberal progressive legal organizations. Founded in 2001, ACS works to ensure that President Bush is to blame for everything the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, quotas genuine equality, and truckloads of liberal judges access to justice are in their rightful, central place in American law.
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Are they working hard to defend the Second Amendment ?
Are they ?
Last time I checked the Democutandruns were trying to make it null and void in every possibile way, at local, State and Federal level.
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Gorebot and his ilk sure did not seem to be too concerned with the Constitution at Waco and Ruby Ridge : lied to get a drug warrant to use the military at Waco; and went through a whole bunch of Fed sniper teams until they found the one that would agree to abide by what the Justice Dept. finally admitted where illegal shoot-to-kill orders on visually-confirmed unarmed civilians.
Gore To Deliver Speech Critical Of BushHitlerBurton Policies
In other shocking and unheard-of news, water is wet.
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possibly the most bitter man in America. He had all the ducks set up, economy seemingly high (.com bubble wasn't biting yet), terorists had been bought off by admin inaction except for a couple cruise missiles....and he blew it. At least Kerry had a totally dislikeable personality to blame....uh..scratch that edge
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"He had all the ducks set up [...] and he blew it."
Any sane, normal, non-moonbat human in Algore's shoes, in those circumstances, would've garnered at least 55% of the vote, possibly close to 60%.
That he didn't, and that I (a Democrat myself at the time) would've crawled over broken glass and through machine-gun fire to vote against him, is entirely due to his being an absolute Roaring Asshole.
I don't even wanna think about what kind of a fix we'd be in now if he'd been elected President.
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Amazing - a completely irrelevant "reporter" digs to make herself even more irrelevant.
How do they do it?
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Frank, I am redacting those comments. Knock it off!
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Okay, to all: PLEASE let's not get into a long thread of personal insults, or of trying to get in the last word.
No matter how obnoxious the other guys (or I) seem to be ....
I redacted the comments here because Frank brought that other thread over here to continue the incipient fight. It didn't add anything to this thread and it was intended as another neener, neener only this time at me rather than directly at Aris.
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That was the most concentratedly unnecessary rudeness I've read in quite some time. Nipon instead of St. John? Mrs. Alito doesn't have the figure St. John designs for; wearing it would make her look like she was playing dress-up. And unlike the people the writer frequents, the wife of a Supreme Court Justice needn't try to impress anyone, and by rights dresses to please only herself and her husband (or vice versa, for Mr. Sandra Day O'Connor). What an embarrassment, and how appropriate to the entire tenor of the Washington Post that they encourage their fashion columnist to think on subjects beyond her ability to comprehend.
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"how appropriate to the entire tenor of the Washington Post that they encourage their fashion columnist to think on subjects beyond her ability to comprehend"
I don't think that applies to just their fashion "reporter," TW. ;-p
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
People in water-logged Washington now have official confirmation of something they've been suspecting: It's been raining a lot. The city had its 26th straight day of rain Friday and was just a week short of the 1953 record of 33 consecutive rainy days. 
The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II failed to report to a police station Friday — the day after his release from prison — and authorities said the military could ask for his arrest for draft-dodging. 
Two new polls gave the Conservative Party a strong lead in the run-up to the January 23 federal election, and a projection based on several surveys said they could be within three seats of a majority. A Strategic Counsel poll for The Globe and Mail and CTV News said support for the Conservatives held steady at 39 percent, while support for the ruling Liberal Party slipped by one point to 27 percent.
