warpedskydiver

It's the kind you said you'd be leaving a while back. You must admit that the system as described by AkaRunaway is disturbing! Surely if you are entitled to vote, then you are entitled to vote in any way you please on the day. How can you be restricted to only voting for the party you happened to declare favour of when you registered? What if you've converted? What is this with having to state a political affiliation when you register to vote anyway? Doesn't that make a complete mockery of a supposedly secret ballot? So... Serious question: What kind of a democracy is it which restricts how the electorate votes? Mike. It is the same in many states...he needs to get a grip or give up and leave

It is because both Muslims and Christians accept Jesus as their prophet and savior. It seems each religion, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all have the same people they worshipped, but then had an addition of their own.

AB is a sight to behold for anyone, that being said, I think the best display I have ever witnessesed was back in the early 90's in the Boundary Water of Minnesota. I think the serenity of the wilderness and the moonless sky really enhanced it alot. WOW is about all I can say

Ted Kennedy?

2 in Tongan Royal Family Killed in Calif. Friday, July 7, 2006 1:21 AM EDT The Associated Press By TERENCE CHEA SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Two royal family members from the South Pacific island nation of Tonga were killed when a teenager racing her car crashed into their sport utility vehicle, authorities said Thursday. Prince Tu'ipelehake, 56, and Princess Kaimana, 46, died Wednesday night, according to Senter Uhilamoelangi, a distant relative and longtime friend of the prince. Uhilamoelangi said the couple had arrived in the area earlier this week to discuss political reforms with members of the region's Tongan community. Uhilamoelangi, a Tonga native and East Palo Alto resident, helped arrange the visit. San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault confirmed that two members of Tonga's royal family died in the crash. But he would not release their names until the Tongan government made an official announcement. The driver of the red Ford Explorer carrying the two also was killed, the California Highway Patrol said. Edith Delgado, 18, of Redwood City, allegedly was racing her car at speeds up to 100 mph on a highway in Menlo Park, about 30 miles south of San Francisco, when she tried to pass the SUV in which the royal couple was traveling, said highway patrol Officer Ricky Franklin. Delgado's car slammed into the driver's side of the Explorer, causing it to swerve across several lanes before tumbling to a stop on its roof, Franklin said. Delgado, who was not injured, was jailed on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and engaging in a speed contest, Franklin said. Tonga — a 170-island archipelago about halfway between Australia and Tahiti — has a population of about 108,000 and an economy dependent on pumpkin and vanilla exports, fishing, foreign aid and remittances from Tongans abroad. Now the last monarchy in the Pacific, Tonga has been a Polynesian kingdom and a protectorate of Britain, from which it acquired independence in 1970. It is ruled by 88-year-old King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV. New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters praised Prince Tu'ipelehake's efforts at reforming Tonga's political system and said it was a "tragedy" that he died while traveling to the United States to seek out opinions of Tongans. "He pursued this goal with sensitivity and perception, mixed with a strong determination to achieve progress," Peters said in a statement. "This earned wide respect in New Zealand as well as in Tonga, where he was often called the Prince of the People." Quote Once again some jerk driver thinks they are in the movie "fast and furious" and thay cant even pass without hitting someone. I hope they convict her ass of reckless homicide and send her ass to Soledad for life. The people of Tonga will demand justice for this as the prince was loved by all. AS IT SHOULD BE!

LOOK

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No I will not show my pet, he is bald, and walks upright anyways, who would want to see that huh?

I hate to say it but...damn they are good

Man Serves in Iraq Due to Clerical Error By Associated Press Tue Jul 4, 10:07 PM MOUNT ORAB, Ohio - A former National Guard captain whose military service was supposed to end seven years ago was sent to Iraq for a year by mistake because of an incorrect discharge date in his records. Jim Dillinger was 43 when he received a letter from the Defense Department in May 2004 saying he was one of 5,600 members of the Individual Ready Reserve being sent to Iraq. The IRR is a component of the Army made up of retired soldiers who agree to be subject to recall to active duty for a defined time. When Dillinger signed up for the IRR in 1997, his contract said his military obligation would end in April 1999. But his personnel record mistakenly said his service would end in July 2010 _ the date he would have been discharged had he remained in the Ohio National Guard. He had resigned his captain's commission in 1996 after serving 17 years in the Guard. "They were still carrying me on the books as a captain," Dillinger, now 45, told the Cincinnati Enquirer. "And nobody caught it. Including me." Dillinger was told he had not been discharged because of the military's "stop-loss" program, which kept thousands of soldiers from ending their tours or retiring. "That explanation didn't make complete sense to me, but I accepted it," he said. "I'd been in the Army a long time, and when they tell you something, you believe it." A message left at a listing for Jim Dillinger in Mount Orab was not immediately returned Tuesday evening. Dillinger left in January 2005 for Iraq, where he spent a year searching for and destroying roadside bombs. When he returned to the U.S. in December, he saw the erroneous discharge date in his records. "My eyes popped out of my head," he said. "I couldn't believe that was right. And I knew darn well that it could mean I'd be deployed again." He got the Guard and the Army Human Resources Command to investigate. On May 22, a human resources assistant reported that Dillinger's discharge date was incorrect. His discharge papers were issued the next day, followed by apologies. The Human Resources Command did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. "I honestly believe I helped accomplish something over there, and the men I served with, they are like brothers to me," Dillinger said. "But I can't get past the fact that I should never have been sent there in the first place."Quote Holy shit huh? If this had happened to a civilian they would be crying like a baby over it, this guy took it, and did his job regardless.

Bill sometimes I wonder if the entire campaign would do better if they called it "Save the Scavengers" Then there may have been decent oversight and organization. The UN can fuck up nearly anything. Seems there is an enormous amount spent without parallel results. How is it that no matter how much money is spent worldwide, that on one particular continent it seems to not even matter. Is there that much corruption? What is the problem? P.S. the French law sucks

This is nothing that can't be resonably solved in public, with a large wood chipper, feet first of course! Is that Canadian enough for you?

they should make damned sure and check DNA

Just think of all those poor uneducated carion eaters that will suffer due to the increase in carcasses infected with HIV

Look I have had at least 11 surgeries, and they go all the way back into the 1960s.(Barbaric Times) Try Versed for the Local

Geez all those rats and no .22 cal rifle? Are you sure you are an American?

Forward it if you like I have a Greek Linguist /Interrogator friend

Or calling someone a frightful buggerer (when referring to french royalty)

Do you know any pig farmers?

Start small and build skills, now I will shut up.

I can handle the thought of knife amnesty, but damn, that toothbrush amnesty has got to go! Dude that was France relax will ya?.... Geez at least they only had 100 toothbrushes to turn in, and they all were still new, and in the stores on shelves.

Geez what next?....getting pinched for carrying a friendly weapon over 8" Makes me want to stay out of the UK, in case I get charged with "assault with a friendly weapon" for my past visits

non locking knives will kill you just as fast as locking ones, ever faced someone with a straight razor?...I hope you never have to

Ex-Soldier Charged in Iraq Rape, Killing By TIM WHITMIRE, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Federal prosecutors charged a former U.S. soldier with murder and rape Monday following an investigation into the killing of an Iraqi woman and three members of her family. Steven D. Green, a 21-year-old former private first class who was discharged from the Army "due to a personality disorder," appeared in a federal magistrate's courtroom in Charlotte Monday. The charges grew out of a military investigation involving up to five soldiers in the March rape and killing of the woman in Mahmoudiya and three of her relatives, one of them a young girl believed to be about 5 years old. Prosecutors said Green and others entered the home of a family of Iraqi civilians, where he and others raped the woman before Green shot her and her relatives. According to an accompanying affidavit, photos taken by Army investigators showed a burned body of "what appears to be a woman with blankets thrown over her upper torso." FBI agents arrested Green on Friday in Marion, N.C., where he is being held without bond pending a transfer to Louisville, Ky. The case is being handled by federal prosecutors there because Green, who served 11 months with the 101st Airborne Division, based at Fort Campbell, Ky., is no longer in the military. According to an affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, he was given an honorable discharge "before this incident came to light. Green was discharged due to a personality disorder." He faces a possible death sentence if convicted of murder. The affidavit, filed by FBI special agent Gregor J. Ahlers of Louisville, said Green and three other soldiers from the 101st's 502nd Infantry Regiment were working a traffic checkpoint in Mahmoudiya on March 12 when they conspired to rape a woman, who investigators estimated was 25 years old, who lived nearby. According to the affidavit's account, the soldiers changed their clothes before going to the woman's residence to avoid detection. Once there, the affidavit said, Green took three members of the family _ an adult male and female, and a girl estimated to be 5 years old _ into a bedroom, after which shots were heard from inside. "Green came to the bedroom door and told everyone, 'I just killed them. All are dead,'" the affidavit said. The affidavit is based on interviews conducted by the FBI and investigators at Fort Campbell with three unidentified soldiers assigned to Green's platoon. One of the soldiers said he witnessed another soldier and Green rape the woman. "After the rape, (the soldier) witnessed Green shoot the woman in the head two to three times," the affidavit said. Ahlers said in the affidavit that he also reviewed photos taken by Army investigators in Iraq of bodies found inside a burned house, including photos of an Iraqi man, woman and young girl who all appear to have died of gunshot wounds. He said he also reviewed a photo of a burned body of "what appears to be a woman with blankets thrown over her upper torso." An official familiar with details of the investigation in Iraq has told The Associated Press that a flammable liquid was used to burn the rape victim's body in a cover-up attempt. U.S. officials have said they believed the victims were killed in sectarian violence. On Friday, the U.S. military acknowledged that Maj. Gen. James D. Thurman, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, had ordered a criminal investigation into the alleged slaying of a family in Mahmoudiya. Four members of the 502nd have had their weapons taken away and were confined to a U.S. base near Mahmoudiya, officials said. The suspects belong to the same unit as two soldiers kidnapped and killed south of Baghdad last month, a military official said on condition of anonymity because the case was under way. The military has said that one and possibly both of the slain soldiers were tortured and beheaded. The official said the mutilation of the slain soldiers stirred feelings of guilt and led at least one member of the platoon to reveal the rape-slaying on June 22. According to the affidavit filed Monday, investigators learned of the March 12 attack during a combat stress debriefing that occurred around June 20. Green will have a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing on July 10 in Charlotte, and will then be brought to Louisville, said Marisa Ford, chief of the criminal division for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Louisville. ___ Associated Press writers Brett Barrouquere in Louisville and Mark Sherman in Washington contributed to this report. Quote I will state right now that if this is true, this fuckwad caused the deaths of two members of his former unit besides just murdering 3 civilians. This is what the death penalty if for and it should be used if this guy is found guilty. All he needs is a trial, and possibly a firing squad. I HATE BUDDY FUCKERS!