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Didn't think Larry Craig would ever be "one-upped", but the Rent Boy comes close. And by a Dobson Family Council founder, no less.

A person, seriously, Could. Not. Make. This. Stuff. Up.
 
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I don't think rentboy one ups the shoe tap.

The shoe tap is pretty devious shit.

I think we are definitely at the point that we can say that any family values, christian values and anti gay crusaders are all big fags though.

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Actually, that word is a perfect fit in this case.

ap·pear (ə pir′)

intransitive verb

1. to come into sight
2. to come into being
3. to become understood or apparent
4. to seem
5. to present oneself formally, as in court
6. to come before the public
7. to be published
 
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/06/2-men-jailed-for-eating-t_n_565459.html

2 Men Jailed For EATING Teenage Girl in Russia: We 'Were Hungry'

ST. PETERSBURG — A Russian court has convicted two men of murdering and eating a 16-year-old schoolgirl in January.

The St. Petersburg City Court says it sentenced a 21-year-old Goth-rock musician to 19 years in a maximum-security prison.

It says his 20-year-old accomplice was sentenced to 18 years in a maximum-security prison.

The court says in a statement released Wednesday that the musician lured his victim to his apartment building, where he and his friend drowned her in a bathtub and cooked parts of her body in an oven.

The men pleaded not guilty, and in earlier testimony they said they had killed the woman because they "were hungry."
 
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What the hell is wrong with these hippie liberal peacenik pussy Secretaries of Defence these days???? Don't they know we're at war with Super Osama, Chinese Commies and anyone who looks at our banks or oil companies funny?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37038802/ns/us_news-military/

"The Defense Department must take a hard look at every aspect of how it is organized, staffed and operated — indeed, every aspect of how it does business," he said in a speech at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in the former command in chief's home town. Gates was the keynote speaker at a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender in World War II.

The library was a fitting setting for Gates to caution against unrestrained military spending. In his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office in January 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned of the "grave implications" of having built during that war an enormous military establishment and a huge arms industry that could wield undue influence in American society.
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okay....that's the good news.

The bad news? They're looking under every rock in the Pentagon for 10 Billion in savings. With total defence spending anywhere between 880 Billion & 1.03 Trillion for 2010, I'm pretty sure they could find 10 times the savings without even trying very hard if they had the political will to do it.

With China being a distant, distant 2nd with 85 Billion in spending, is a 1+ Trillion dollar defence budget at all necessary?
 
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Lobbyists are some of the worst people on the planet....

http://www.grist.org/article/soda-lobbyists-say-the-funniest-things/

For sheer shark-jumping, fridge-nuking outrageousness, you just can't beat the American Beverage Association. In a must-read/listen NPR report, the ABA's senior vice president for science policy, Maureen Storey, made the claim that soda should play a crucial role in children's hydration needs:

...Children who have been exercising may not drink enough water to get back to the hydration point that they need to be at. So with a little bit of flavoring and a little bit of sweetness, they will drink enough then to get back to where they need to be.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/806535--how-canada-s-christian-right-was-built

In this country, where the CRTC has kept the reins on religious broadcasting and Catholics make up a larger proportion of the faith community, the emergent Christian right may look and sound different than its American counterpart, but in the five years since the prospect of same-sex marriage propelled evangelicals into political action, it has spawned a coalition of advocacy groups, think tanks and youth lobbies that have changed the national debate. The “sleeping giant” that Capital Xtra! magazine had warned against in 2005 is now up and about, organizing with a vengeance that will not be easily reversed. As Faytene Kryskow, leader of Christian youth lobby called 4MYCanada, told a parliamentary reception, “We are here, and we are here to stay.”

With funding from a handful of conservative Christian philanthropists and a web of grassroots believers accustomed to tithing in the service of their faith, those organizations have built sophisticated databases and online networks capable of mobilizing their forces behind specific legislation with instant e-mail alerts and updates. Setting up an array of internship programs, they are also training a new generation of activists to be savvier than their secular peers in navigating the corridors of power. Already, their alumni have landed top jobs in the public service, MPs’ offices and the PMO, prompting one official from the National House of Prayer to boast in an unguarded moment, “If the media knew how many Christians there are in the government, they’d go crazy.”
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A little FI news...

Threads 30 days or older have been moved to the Leafs Archive Forum. If you want to look something up you'll have to go there.
 
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theREALkoreaboy said:
anyone read that the BP plan to plug the well has failed? not good.
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http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/05/bp-on-containment-dome-it-has-failed.html

CNN has more detail:

The effort to place a containment dome over a gushing wellhead was dealt a setback when a large volume of hydrates — crystals formed when gas combines with water — accumulated inside of the vessel, BP’s chief operating officer said Saturday.

Gas hydrates are lighter than water, and as a result, made the dome buoyant, Doug Suttles said. The crystals also blocked the top of the dome, which would prevent oil from being funneled to a drill ship.
The dome was moved off to the side of the wellhead and is resting on the seabed while crews work to overcome the challenge, Suttles said.

“What we had to do was pick the dome back up, set it over to the side while we evaluate what options we have to actually try to prevent the hydrate formation or find some other method to try to capture the flow,” he said…

The technique has never been tried at such a depth and there are no guarantees it will work, said BP, which holds the license for the well.

“It’s a technology first,” BP CEO Tony Hayward told CNN’s David Mattingly Friday. “It works in 3 [hundred] to 400 feet of water. But the pressures and temperatures are very different here. So we cannot be confident that it will work.”…
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I'll take a peek through my aggragators and see if I can find a more recent update.
 
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From an Atlanta news paper, posted online about 35 minutes ago...


http://www.ajc.com/business/1st-try-to-divert-522957.html
The company's first attempt to divert the oil had failed, its mission now in serious doubt. Meanwhile, thick blobs of tar washed up on Alabama's white sand beaches, yet another sign the spill was worsening.

It had taken about two weeks to build the box and three days to cart it 50 miles out and slowly lower it to the well a mile below the surface, but the frozen depths were just too much. BP officials were not giving up hopes that a containment box — either the one brought there or a larger one being built — could cover the well. But they said it could be days before another attempt to capture the oil and funnel it to a tanker at the surface would be tried.

"I wouldn't say it's failed yet," BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said. "What I would say is what we attempted to do ... didn't work."
(Which is of course, the dictionary definition of failure....****ing PR - M.E)

There was a renewed sense of urgency as dime- to golfball-sized balls of tar began washing up on Dauphin Island, three miles off the Alabama mainland at the mouth of Mobile Bay and much farther east than the thin, rainbow sheens that have arrived sporadically in the Louisiana marshes.
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and it's official...the only war worth fighting with the terrorists, is over, and they won.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...cious-package-church-20100508,0,3260757.story

A cardboard box left at a church near Lake Mary caused the closure of Markham Woods Road while a bomb squad X-rayed it and then blew it up.

The note on the 40-pound bundle said, simply, "For Pastor Nick." In the old days, someone would have taken it inside and opened it.

But a church member who found the package on the doorstep about 11 a.m. today thought the corrugated box secured with duct tape might be dangerous.

He drove it from Master's Touch International Church, 555 Markham Woods Road, to a nearby fire station to have it checked out.

The Seminole County Sheriff's Office bomb squad couldn't figure out what was inside even after the box was X-rayed.

So, deputies blew it up.
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The result: More than $2,500 in paper money was turned into confetti. Four hundred ninety-eight rolled silver dollars remained intact,
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...aaaaand it appears that the people of Iceland have something to teach us about this whole financial mess.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.4090f16a5abf84c5a5adff0665cbc792.3a1&show_article=1

More than a year and a half after Iceland's major banks failed, all but sinking the country's economy, police have begun rounding up a number of top bankers while other former executives and owners face a two-billion-dollar lawsuit.

Since Iceland's three largest banks -- Kaupthing, Landsbanki and Glitnir -- collapsed in late 2008, their former executives and owners have largely been living untroubled lives abroad.

But the publication last month of a parliamentary inquiry into the island nation's profound financial and economic crisis signaled a turning of the tide, laying much of the blame for the downfall on the former bank heads who had taken "inappropriate loans from the banks" they worked for.

On Wednesday, the administrators of Glitnir's liquidation announced they had filed a two-billion-dollar (1.6-billion-euro) lawsuit in a New York court against former large shareholders and executives for alleged fraud.
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hang'em high Iceland, hang'em high.
 
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