Britney Spears doesn't go out in underwear because she "just doesn't like" the feel of it on her skin, a friend of the troubled pop star claims.
Oh, I don't either. I never wear drawers. In fact, I seldom wear pants. The fresh air's good for you and it prevents odor buildup.
The Toxic singer - who has been frequently pictured in public without panties on - knows it is "stupid" to go out without underwear but just doesn't feel comfortable in it.
To each his/her/its own, I guess. Most of the women I know don't feel comfortable with the world smiling back at Miss Whoopee.
Jewellery designer Tuesday Knight, who has been friends with Britney since 2003, said her decision not to wear underwear was "ridiculous".
Her decision not to wear underwear with short dresses certainly is. If she was wearing ankle-length, even calf-length skirts who'd know whether her beaver had recently been fed? But maybe that's the point...
"I've told her. I've said, 'You can't walk into a store wearing just a shirt with your underwear off, or get out of cars baring all'. I've told her that no one will take her seriously when she does this. Britney knows it's stupid, but says she just doesn't like to wear underwear. She doesn't feel comfortable with it on."
Ahah. The old "I don't gotta if I don't wanna and you can't make me so there" argument. Who can argue with that kind of reasoning?
The 25-year-old mother-of-two, who has lost custody of sons Sean Preston, two and one-year-old Jayden James to backup dancer ex-husband Kevin Federline, can't understand why people think she is a bad role model.
"Duh. I just can't unnerstan' it."
Tuesday added to In Touch Weekly magazine: "Britney has always been a good mother. I want people to know that she's the better parent - not Kevin! Britney asked me, 'Doesn't anybody get to see this part of me?'"
Not unless you habitually sit on it.
"The answer is, no, they don't. People just read about her not wearing underwear."
To be fair, we've also read about her parading around nekkid in front of the kiddies — no big thing at their age, but something to be concerned about when they're 12 — and driving around with them in her lap, which is a bigger thing nowadays and will be an even bigger problem when they're 12. And then there was the time she chopped off all her hair in a fit of pique. And the time she trashed that guy's car...
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I've told her that no one will take her seriously...
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Dang, can't find it on Evil Youtube! And when I search Redd Fox wash ass on Evil Google vid, I get conspiracies vids about 9/11 or the Vatican sex orgies. Foiled again.
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Redd Foxx always joked by innuendo until very late in his career. At which point he didn't want to feel dated so he performed the aforementioned comedy routine. I prefer the older, word-play oriented Foxx:
Redd insisted he had a relative in the Revolutionary War who fought under the slogan "DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES...!"
An American original. A Moonbat before we even knew what to call them...
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich has claimed to have seen a UFO, according to Shirley MacLaine in her new book, "Sage-Ing While Age-Ing." I was going to call it "The Voices in my Head Said Write a Book", but that would probably scare people off...
Kucinich "had a close sighting over my home in Graham, Washington, when I lived there," the actress, a close Kucinich friend, wrote. "Dennis found his encounter extremely moving. The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. From hanging with Frank and the Rat Pack to hanging with Dennis Kucinich. How sad is that?
"It hovered, soundless, for 10 minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind." I believe every word of this...
Kucinich's campaign and congressional representatives did not return calls and e-mail asking whether the Cleveland Democrat, now in his sixth congressional term, in fact saw a UFO or if there was some other explanation for MacLaine's recollection. We'll have him get back to you when they beam him back down...
MacLaine is a well-known believer of UFOs and reincarnation. And she has been close to Kucinich for decades. MacLaine is the godmother of Kucinich's daughter and attended Kucinich's 2005 Cleveland wedding to third wife, Elizabeth, who's often campaigning by his side. He's been married three times? Eww. How'd you'd like to be known as Dennis Kucinich's ex-wife?
MacLaine also recommended in the 1980s that Kucinich visit New Mexico spiritual adviser Chris Griscom, whom MacLaine featured in her then-best-selling book, "Dancing in the Light," describing how Griscom helped her communicate with trees. Kucinich has insisted that Griscom was not his spiritual adviser but a "teacher and a very good friend." ...and, of course, my official tree interperter.
MacLaine, who shares Kucinich's opposition to using weapons in space, doesn't shed any more light in her book on Kucinich's close encounter, including when it happened. Her book goes on sale next month. Coming up next: I try pulling the same shit with Sinatra, and he throws me off a balcony...
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"It hovered, soundless, for 10 minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind."
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Excellent in-line snark. Brought a couple smiles to my face...
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If I were a diabolical GOP strategist (which I might be for all you people know), part of my plan would be to keep KuKu in the race and out front in the media for as long as possible.
Not even Lord Rove himself (Honoraria be upon him) could have invented a goofball like this to embarrass the Dems.
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If I were a nefarious Democratic strategist, OTOH, I would do everything possible to get a giant smelly sock in KuKu's mouth and send him away somewhere safe, like Easter Island.
He can run for shaman there or something and take his flaky friends with him.
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"The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic ......., silent, and observing him. "
maybe it was Britney, sitting on the railing above.....
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Not even Lord Rove himself (Honoraria be upon him) could have invented a goofball like this to embarrass the Dems.
Nor, Ron Paul to embarrass the Republicans. Politics is really a two way street. Actually its more like a Chinese street dragon where the head whips around and bites the tail. Paul is so far right he is kissing KuKu coming up from the far left.
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I don't think you people get it. Jon Stewart of the Daily Show has the answer.
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RENSE > ISRAEL TODAY > DYING RABBI GIVES NAME OF MESSIAH. Its JESUS and derivatives. See also MADONNA'S SONG "JESSIE", etc.
ISLAM = ISLAMISM, BUDDHISM,etal. should also close scrutinize MADONNA'S SONGS for clues for their own. D *** NG IT, SO MANY MESSIAHS, NOT ENUFF LOOKING AT GWEN STEFANI'S BOSOMS - HOW CAN WE WIN THE WAR!?
A commander of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has surrendered in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is in the custody of Congolese authorities, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Opiyo Makasi, reported to be the rebel group's operations and logistics commander, gave himself up along with his wife and they were transferred to Kinshasa on October 14, said Kemal Saiki, spokesperson for the UN mission in Congo (Monuc).
Revising an earlier version he gave which said Makasi had given himself up to UN peacekeepers, Saiki said the LRA officer had surrendered to Congolese police at Dungu in DRC's northern Orientale province, which borders Sudan. "He was supposed to be handed over to Monuc," the UN spokesperson said, adding Makasi was being held by the Congolese authorities.
LRA leaders, whose brutal 20-year war in northern Uganda killed tens of thousands of people and displaced two million more, signed a truce with Uganda last year but have refused to quit their jungle hideouts in eastern DRC.
Saiki said the UN mission believed Makasi should be eligible for Monuc's demobilisation and repatriation programme for ex-combatants who turned themselves in, meaning he should be sent back to Uganda. "There was a request from Monuc that he be handed over for DDRRR [disarmament, demobilisation, repatriation, resettlement and reintegration] ... there has been no response so far from the Congolese," he said. There was no immediate comment from the Congolese government.
Makasi is not one of the four top LRA commanders indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for crimes such as killing civilians, slicing body parts off victims and kidnapping thousands of children to serve as fighters and sex slaves. Those four, including LRA leader and self-proclaimed mystic Joseph Kony and his deputy, Vincent Otti, remain at large.
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London: Two prisons have been converted to house only foreign prisoners in an attempt to speed up the deportation process once they complete their sentence, the government said on Wednesday.
It follows the sacking of former Home Secretary Charles Clarke last year after it emerged 1,000 foreign prisoners had been freed without being considered for deportation.
Justice Minister David Hanson said more foreigners may be held separately if the experiment at Bullwood Hall in Essex and Canterbury Prison in Kent is a success.
"In the two prisons ... we have specialist immigration officers who are helping to ensure that we prepare during the sentence for early deportation," he told BBC radio.
The number of foreign inmates has doubled in the last 10 years to about 11,000, or one in seven of all prisoners in England and Wales, the government says.
Extra cells are being built to ease overcrowding after the prison population reached a record high of more than 81,000 earlier this year.
Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers said that separating foreign inmates could help them to receive specialist help.
Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Herbert said more foreign prisoners should be sent back to their home country.
"Why have these foreign national prisoners not been deported? That is what the Prime Minister promised he would do," he told Sky News.
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I believe the furtherst northern facility would be at Peterhead along the North Sea up in Scotland. The name fits anyway. I'm for sending them all their with the sincere hope the heating system is buggered.
Rome, 24 Oct. (AKI) Italy's interior minister Giuliano Amato will visit Rome's mosque on Friday to present to Muslims a 'Charter of Values for Citizenship and Integration'.
It is the first public presentation of this important document," the director of Italy's Islamic Cultural Centre, Abdullah Redouane, said in a statement.
"Developed in consultation with various religious and civil society representatives, it establishes the principles for the harmonious integration in Italian society of non-Catholic communities."
Amato, Redouane, and the Rome mosque's imam Alaa Din al-Goobashi will be among those attending Friday's presentation of the charter.
The document, which has symbolic rather than legal value, is aimed at immigrants belonging to Muslim and other faiths. The government plans to distribute it in immigrants' centres, schools, and places of worship in Italy.
Italian authorities are also considering making the charter available in Italian embassies and consulates abroad, as well as in Italian offices that issue immigrants with permits of stay, residency and visas.
The charter was prepared by an interior ministry committee of experts following consultations with members of the Muslim, Protestant, Romanian and Russian Orthodox communities in Italy, the ItalianBishops Conference (CEI), immigrant groups and charities that assist immigrants.
The idea of a charter outlining common values to be subscribed by Muslims was first launched by Amato in August 2006.
It came after Italy's largest Muslim group, the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy (UCOII) published an advertisement in several newspapers likening Israel's actions in the July War against Lebanon and in the Palestinian territories to Nazi atrocities during World War II.
At the suggestion of Muslim groups, the charter's scope was subsequently broadened to include other immigrant communities in Italy.
Interesting. Has anyone seen an English-language copy of this charter?
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Its great that such documents are emerging in this period of hostilities between Islamic and Western societies. A couple points:
This is the second document I've seen addressed to the greater ummah which uses the phrase men and women have equal dignity. This seems an awkward choice of words, an extravagant avoidance of saying men and women have equal rights. If equal rights seems too much to accord to half the population in this the beginning of the 21st century, how about equal autonomy? Surely we are talking about more than dignity here?
Marriage is based on equal rights and responsibilities of husband and wife and it is, therefore, monogamic. Monogamy unites the lives of two persons thus making them both responsible for what they realize together, starting from the bringing up of their children. Italy forbids polygamy.
On a related subject, leave it to uber-Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer of California to politicize this fire. Today (10/23/07) she issued a statement charging the Bush administration with responsibility for the widespread fire damage. If our National Guard units weren't in Iraq, she said, we'd have twice as many people and twice as much equipment to deal with the fire.
Well thanks a lot, Senator. At least I know you can be counted on when the chips are down to find a target of convenience to nail with blame. Now it's Bush's fire. Way to go, Senator.
That's My Word. (Fox News John Gibson)
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a true piece of shit
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I'm offended. Take it back. I've never been compared to something that low in all my existance.
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Frank - I trust you are not in any immediate danger?
But don't breathe the air - it's bad for you!
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Confounding ignorance.
You and your husband should be in jail lady. I would stfu were I you.
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Broken record - you know if you offered your fellow Americans a million a year to serve, I'm sure there are other people of far better quality and intelligence [who won't insult ours] who'd step forward to be our next Senators/Representatives.
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Like Al Gore and others, she's just stuck on stupid. I'm starting to lump them all in with the profoundly mentally retarded, though I do not mean to insult the profoundly mentally retarded. They need sheltered workshops and close supervision.
Let me give you a little anecdote about Bab's and her level of intelligence [even though she is a law school graduate]. Prior to the first gulf war, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, we had some folks that became what you might say "guests" of Saddam. Some of them were from the great burned out state of California and I was working the hill for the company they worked for. So, we called on the good lady who at that time was a member of the house. After we briefed her she looked at us with a stunned look on her face. She thought we had made a mistake in calling the country Iraq. "Didn't we mean Iran?" Enough said.
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Hows about blaming people who choose to live in an area that by its geography, climate and vegetation is prone to wild fires. Same goes for idiots on flood plains, hillsides prone to collapse and cities below sea level.
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I saw her on the noon news conference today. I didn't hear the comment about Bush. What I noticed is that she spent most of the time talking about how "touched" she was, how hot it was when she stepped off the airplane and how glad she was that she had the opportunity to come and see it for herself. Because, you know, it's all about Barbara. She just came to glorify herself. When Duncan Hunter talked yesterday he made a brief announcement about how the military was sending some tanker planes and then he left.
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Yes, Cheaderhead, now is probably not the PC time to say it but you could question the wisdom of building in some of these areas. I know the insurance companies will.
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By the definition provided by Cheddarhead we'd abandon most of the Western US as it's all desert and can be prone to fires.
I find it easier to blame the environmentalists that blocked the laws allowing for enlarging fire breaks and cutting back on brush in certain areas.
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Guess we should let the the Wisconsin Cheddarheads die in the next big blizzard, after all, they asked for it by living where it occassionally snows, big-time? I find that ludicrous, sorry. Apparently we should all huddle in indestructible concrete bunkers where there is a permanent adequate water source and food, it never snows, quakes, burns, has tornados, nor hurricanes or hail....
sarcastic hyperbole, yes, but it was deserved
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Watch out for Frank and the Holy Nine-Iron. A well deserved whack, Frank.
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Maybe its not PC or even polite but I for one am Goddamn sick and tired of seeing Uncle Sugar bailing out people with my tax dollars who choose to live in high risk areas after there have been repeated wildfires/floods/hurricanes in those areas. And when it snows here we grid our loins and get out there and move the damn stuff ourselves. We leave the whining and crying to the idiots in Chicago. We have a local variety of morons who live in a flood plain that floods every single spring. And they act surprised when it does. I don't have any sympathy for them either.
As for concrete bunkers, I think certain types of home construction should be banned in certain areas of the country. IMO it would make sense.
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well, AB6436, rest assured that, most of these losses were insured, so probably it won't cost you a cent, happy? The rates for rebuilt isolated homes will be higher (or not available), and that will lead to higher defensible (read: clear-cut or highly inflammable vegetation - cactus?) zones, any of which are understandable responses, yet less than desirable from a environmental nor aestetic view. Drought will cycle, and the vegetation will return.. we need to rethink the lack of burns in underbrush
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Burning the underbrush makes to much sense. The environmentalists will never go for it. Leaves and sticks are sacred to their religion. Plus, then they wouldn't have these kinds of fires to point at and shout at us for living any place other than a commie style concrete condo in a ghetto with a little train that passes by out front.
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Babs,instead of running your cakehole,why don't you sponsor a bill to help out these people in need.Instead of passing blame,why don't you become part of the cure you ass.
Where's that 'Jorge Arbusto' peso when I need it ...
(October 23) Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) filed to invoke cloture on S. 2205, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbins (D-Ill.) new stand-alone DREAM Act amnesty bill. The cloture vote, for which 60 YES votes are necessary to prevent a filibuster on the measure, is set for Wednesday, October 24. Reid is attempting to bring this nightmarish amnesty bill to the floor under Senate Rule XIV without it ever having been debated in committee.
USA TODAY's Kathy Kiely reports this morning on a surprise move certain to set off another heated immigration debate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid late yesterday signaled his plans to hold a showdown vote tomorrow on the DREAM Act.
Kiely says the measure would give children of illegal immigrants who complete two years of post-secondary education or two years of military service a chance to become citizens. It was part of a larger immigration measure that failed earlier this year. Backers, such as Sen Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., say it gives children who were brought here illegally through no fault of their own a chance to stay in the country they consider home.
Opponents, such as Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., say its a backdoor amnesty that could grant citizenship to more than 1 million children and young adults now here illegally.
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I think Reid is bringing this up now because the California fires has the media's COMPLETE attention. Ram it through while everyones head is turned the other way.
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Talk about the camel's nose under the tent. When all these "children" become citizens, guess what? The rest of their families are in line, too! This backdoor bullsh*t has got to stop.
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We'll see who's paying attention to the 'immigration' issue and who isn't. The Donks act short term with a divide and conquer strategy leveraging what they think is the 'Hispanic' vote. We'll see if the Trunks are desperate or if they have picked up on the radar that in the end this is an issue that makes 'Americans' mad enough to actually vote. When they're mad and vote, it's not healthy to be an incumbent.
The American people strongly objected to the amnesty provisions of the McCain-Kennedy Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill, and the senate reluctantly complied with the voter's wishes. Contrary to many statements made by our elected officials, wanting people who enter the USA to comply with our laws does not make one a bigot.
I see the Dream Act as a stealth attempt to pass amnesty a piece at a time. Please vote against cloture for the Dream Act.
Regularization of illegal aliens can be discussed only after we control the border and stop the flood of illegal border crossers. No comprehensive bills. No amnesties. The government must earn my trust.
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"...without it ever having been debated in committee."
If there was any question that this is just another attempt at stealth amnesty and not "for the children"...there's the proof. Reid didn't have the votes in committee. And the good news is it's unlikely he will have enough votes on the floor. Even vulnerable Pubs up for re-election can cast a nay vote based on procedure and not take a political hit. Of course, that will depend on if they have a spine or not.
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Dead for now. Didn't make cloture. Failed badly. Wait until the spring or after there is a known Dhimmi nominee. Keep it in front of you though. You never know when someone will try to pull a fast one.
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In the politician's haste to create more voters via
the legalization of millions who are here illegally,
our infrastructure is already crumbling under the
strain that is being placed on it by the masses that
have come here from Central America already.
Atlanta is almost out of water, bridges are collapsing
(and that is just before we started allowing Mexico's
trucks open access to all US highways recently), power
and other energy supplies for much of America will not
be able to keep up with demand in a very short amount
of time.
The illogical mindset of these "progressives" cannot
see that their prohibitions against expansion of
nuclear and coal plants, drilling for more energy in
preserves, public hospital and school overcrowding,
etc, etc, is pushing America towards basic
infrastructure collapse on a colossal scale.
We are no longer building America for our next
generation. We are giving America away before leaving next generation with massive problems for them to endure when their time comes. It is an absolute shame and the next generation will look back at us and hate us for what we did to them.
India on Oct. 24 test fired its nuclear-capable Agni-1 ballistic missile for the second time in less than a month and said the latest experiment was a major success.
The Agni-1 has a range of 420 miles, making it capable of striking at most targets in rival and neighboring Pakistan.It was launched from a missile test range in the eastern state of Orissa, officials from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said in New Delhi.
The system that we tested today has more maneuverability and better re-entry technology than the missile that was launched on October 5, said a DRDO official who asked not to be named. It is a major success, the official added.
The launch was conducted by Indias recently-established strategic armed forces, signaling Agni-1s official induction into the million-plus military, defense experts said. The performance parameters of the missile were as expected and the desired objectives have been met, a defense ministry spokesman added.
The Agni Sanskrit for fire is a 39-foot medium-range ballistic missile that can be fired from mobile launchers and can carry a 1-ton warhead.
In April, India staged a successful test of Agni-III, its longest range ballistic missile capable of transporting a nuclear warhead more than 1,860 miles deep in China.
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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is pressing President General Pervez Musharraf to allow former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to return home before the upcoming general elections, Daily Times has learnt.
Highly-placed intelligence sources said that King Abdullah communicated this appeal to Gen Musharraf on October 15. Kulsoom can return now: But Gen Musharraf in his response to the Saudi monarch said that while Mr Sharif and his brother Shahbaz should only return after the general elections, Mr Sharifs wife, Kulsoom, may return to Pakistan immediately. The Saudis made the request after Ms Bhutto insisted on returning to Pakistan. The Saudis are said to be mulling over Gen Musharrafs request.
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The Saudis want an Islamist in control while the West want Bhutto!!!!
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Nobody wants ya, buddy. Here on the farm, that means down the well in a gunny sack...
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Beijing (PTI): Leaders of the Indian Communist parties have congratulated Chinese President Hu Jintao on his re-election as the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC).
Joining leaders from other countries, CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat and his CPI counterpart A B Bardhan sent their congratulatory messages to Hu, who won a fresh term as the CPC boss at the end of its seven-day National Congress here on Monday, to rule the nation for another five years.
"We look forward to the strengthening of fraternal relations between our two parties which will contribute to the strengthening of friendly relations and cooperation between India and China," Karat said.
In his message, Bardhan wished success to the CPC in its endeavour to build socialism with Chinese characteristics and a harmonious socialist society in the country.
He called the Scientific Outlook on Development an important contribution to the theory of building socialism, adding that guided by the Marxist world outlook, the CPC has obtained rich experience in "socialist construction".
Hu has passionately been promoting his pet initiative of Scientific Outlook on Development which aims at ensuring a balanced and sustainable development, deepening of political restructuring and bridging the growing income gap between the urban areas and countryside.
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Unfortunately, with communism, there is no such thing as "income".
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A blogger writing on democraticunderground.com was dismayed. "This is a city that is overwhelmingly Democratic, but the right-wing talk radio stations in town consistently get much better ratings."
"Another step down the short road to fascism! Damn those filthy neocon Jew-loving RethugliKKKan scum! How did Rove get to the radio station?"
Air America seeks another home in Central Texas, but nothing is imminent, Kaufman said. He'd welcome tips at dkaufman@airamerica.com.
"If someone can point me in the direction of someone more amenable to picking up our format, I'll take all the help I can get," Kaufman said.
Try Radio Iran, DPRK Radio, one of those.
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Air America was in Austin? Who knew? What say you Muck4Doo?
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I suspect they probably had problems competing with Alex Jones.
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"This is a city that is overwhelmingly Democratic, but the right-wing talk radio stations in town consistently get much better ratings."
Maybe because 'your' demographic is reading the NYT while sipping their latte at Starbucks? Can't be bothered with radio. If you own the local newspaper and television station crowd, why are you worried about 'talk' radio? Other than the totalitarian impulse to control the information flow rather than allow the market place [of commerce and ideas] go its own way?
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Austin doesn't have an NPR station? If yes, that'll have sucked up their audience, if no, then Austin doesn't have enough of an audience to support Air America either.
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.
Britney Spears doesn't go out in underwear because she "just doesn't like" the feel of it on her skin, a friend of the troubled pop star claims.
A commander of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has surrendered in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and is in the custody of Congolese authorities, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Opiyo Makasi, reported to be the rebel group's operations and logistics commander, gave himself up along with his wife and they were transferred to Kinshasa on October 14, said Kemal Saiki, spokesperson for the UN mission in Congo (Monuc).
On a related subject, leave it to uber-Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer of California to politicize this fire. Today (10/23/07) she issued a statement charging the Bush administration with responsibility for the widespread fire damage. If our National Guard units weren't in Iraq, she said, we'd have twice as many people and twice as much equipment to deal with the fire.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is pressing President General Pervez Musharraf to allow former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to return home before the upcoming general elections, Daily Times has learnt. 
Beijing (PTI): Leaders of the Indian Communist parties have congratulated Chinese President Hu Jintao on his re-election as the General Secretary of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC).
