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French guilty in US wine scandal A dozen French winemakers and traders have been found guilty of a massive scam to sell 18 million bottles of fake Pinot Noir to a leading US buyer. The judge in Carcassonne, south-west France, said the producers and traders had severely damaged the reputation of the Langedoc region. The 12 more than doubled profits passing off the wine to E and J Gallo under its Red Bicyclette brand. E and J Gallo was not involved in the court case. In a statement on its website it said it was "deeply disappointed" to learn its supplier, Sieur d'Arques, had been found guilty of selling falsely labelled French Pinot Noir. 'No complaints' The court ruled the 12 had deliberately and repeatedly mislabelled the wine as one of the more expensive varieties of grape in order to get a better price from E and J Gallo. The Red Bicyclette Pinot Noir single grape wine is hugely popular in the United States. French Customs officers spotted the swindle and called in investigators. They found the amount of Pinot Noir being sold to Gallo was far more than the region produced. Some of those in the scandal were not even Pinot Noir producers. The judge handed out suspended jail sentences ranging from one month to six months for the most prominent wine trader and ordered all the defendants to pay fines. The fines ranged from 1,500 euros ($2,050; £1,300) to the top figure of 180,000 euros ($247,050; £156,500) for Sieur d'Arques. The judge said that the accused together made seven million euros in profits from the scam. The judge said: "The scale of the fraud caused severe damage for the wines of the Languedoc for which the United States is an important outlet." A lawyer for Sieur d'Arques, Jean-Marie Bourland, told Agence France-Presse: "There is no prejudice. Not a single American consumer complained." A lawyer for three other defendants argued his clients had delivered a wine that had Pinot Noir characteristics. E and J Gallo said it was no longer selling any of the wine to its customers. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/8520980.stm Published: 2010/02/17 19:24:51 GMT

No Just looked them up, I think I have heard of them before

Unfortunately many people would allow a murder to occur and then tell the rest of us how brave they would have been. I know there are people on here that would not even defend their spouses if it meant risking harm to themselves. That is inexcusable.

Tell him to say this to the Dr. in a serious lisp. "Don't you have a larger diameter one?" "Do you have some gay porn I can watch" "Please make it rough" "Have you ever seen two men one horse?" "Buy me a drink big boy?" "Damn you have nice large hands" "What are you doing after this?" "Oh yeah, give it to me baby!" I told my doc he did a good job,he said thanks I try to be gentle. I then said, "I think I need to go call my ex gf and tell her how sorry I am"

Luckily in the past the worst that has happened to me was that I was nearly slashed with a knife and caught it with my left hand and took it away only needed some stitches.(about 30) It left two people able to go on with their lives and someday maybe straighten out how fucked up they were. They both were jailed and paid teh consequences. Sadly a few years later the guy was involved with another woman and it became a murder/suicide. I have a close friend who did pretty much the same thing and got stabbed through the torso by a fishing fillet knife that was very dirty. The knife was thrust through his back and came out his chest. He had his aorta barely nicked and had to have it sewn up and reinforced. Luckily he survived the infection as well. Some day fishing on the river he had...

This is truly sad. What went wrong?

Here is my readers digest sized version COIN Strategy: Why the Surge will not Work in Afghanistan Currently the United States and its allies are embroiled in the GWOT (Global War On Terror). GWOT has been theorized by many to possibly take forty years to conclude. In order to successfully bring this war to successful and less costly conclusion various strategies must be studied and employed without delay. Counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy does not require massive use of force as is currently done. The military must use all efforts to differentiate insurgents from non combatant population. Overwhelming use of force is counter-productive when it results in unintentional casualties to non-combatants and becomes a factor in driving ordinary people to join the insurgent forces. “The only thing that overwhelming force accomplishes is support for the insurgents” (Rowe). “There are lessons to be learned the surge strategy in Iraq” (Barone). The surge worked in Iraq but only after the initial success of special operations targeting insurgent leadership and uniting tribes against those insurgents who were committing attacks against them in order to foment hatred for the allied forces. What has been occurring is that once allied forces pacified an area, the insurgents would begin to use vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED). The insurgents threatened community leaders and families alike that if they did not fight against the allied troops they would then suffer the consequences resulting in the deaths of their families. The enemy easily blends themselves into the local populace therefore making it hard to distinguish them from the innocent civilians. When conventional forces are used there is an inherent danger of collateral damage and when innocent civilians are killed by artillery, bombing or massive use of firepower that works against our goals of getting the populace to support a strong central Afghani government. Every time we bomb a target or mass troops for a large scale assault we create hundreds of new fighters which our forces will face at another time. If we use high troop levels and permanent bases the Afghani’s will see this as another invasion of their sovereign territory which they must fight at all costs. This is the way they have always perceived foreign invaders whether they are there to help or to conquer. Senior officers within our nation’s military as well as our political leaders have no experience in fighting irregular warfare against an enemy such as we face in Afghanistan. They resist all recommendations they are given on how to fight this war on a low level intensity strategy. This is the problem that needs to be overcome within the US Military and create an atmosphere where the true experts within the SOCOM community are allowed to do their jobs with the big military providing support instead of the other way around. Afghanistan is a vast area with many peoples and cultures. The Taliban relies upon playing one tribe against the other in order to create support and safe haven from which to launch their operations. The special operations community is far more able to stop this capability by cooperating with the locals, providing aid and training to the Afghan Army therefore winning the hearts and minds of the various tribal groups. Once this is accomplished special forces can cooperate with local forces in order to gain intelligence and then root out the insurgents from their hiding places. Special operation forces can and will successfully use tactics such as hit and run, targeted assignations of enemy leaders, developing human intelligence sources (HumInt) and leaving the enemy nothing to hit back at except for shadows and ghosts. Nothing deters an enemy more than knowing they are never safe no matter where they are, because unseen forces are watching and waiting to strike without warning. Snipers destroying a human target from distances of over one mile away with weapons as large as a .50BMG cartridge leave the enemy with complete and utter bewilderment and fear. We need a scalpel to employ COIN (Counter Insurgency) Strategy, not a chain saw, which is exactly what the surge strategy President Obama and his advisors are employing. This is a failed policy before it even begins. Shortly we will have over sixty thousand American and Allied troops in the theater, this war could be fought with as little as six thousand special operations operators with tactical air cover and avoid collateral damage and pushing the Afghani’s firmly into the enemy’s camp. Matthew B. Rowe, Executive Director of WinTheGWOT.org and former Special Forces operator with eleven years of experience fighting insurgencies and terrorism correctly states what is needed and how it can be accomplished. I disagree vehemently with Barone because the tactics and troop levels used in the surge in Iraq will not help and in fact will hurt our efforts in the GWOT. Counterinsurgency of the type we are fighting in Afghanistan is much like the war in Vietnam which was unsuccessful due to the overwhelming use of force vs. special operations tactics. Works Cited Rowe, Matthew B. “Unconventional Warfare is the Exit Strategy.” Winning the Global War on Terror August 2006. WinTheGWOT.org. Barone, Michael. "Human Events; 1/7/2008, Vol. 64 Issue 1." Human Events 2008: p18-18, 1/3p. ISSN:0018-7194 Blood, Peter R. Afghanistan: A Country Study. GPO for the Library of Congress. Washinton, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2001.

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I have researched this phenomena and after careful scientific review, reasoning and theorizing along with some empirical testing on a large sample group; I have come to the conclusion it is from sucking on too many boobies with breast implants.

BTDT

Foxpro pepper spray is the only way to go. The cops will just have to find the people clawing their own faces off.

It's really no big deal... I have had several of both. People make too much of it and that keeps others from seeking help or getting screened.

Is this going to be done in your den?

By then Skies Call Three had been published. But that was pretty cool

The book is called "Skies Call" A classic book for skydivers to read.

That was just hollywood goo

Dan Gable George S Patton Jim Thorpe Olga Korbut Nadia Comaneci Michael Phelps Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor

Yup

Ad hominem anyone?

Shaved or trimmed Cheech?

So if anyone want to give me shit over this they can go fuck themselves.

Without getting into a pissing contest I wish Bill would see it from our perspective. We are not all that special, in fact being looked upon favorably by much of the public has not been the norm until about 1992. Before then these were the same people who would not give us jobs, would rather fuck us over, or treat us in a derogatory manner if they could. Some of these fake uber commandos never even went to an AFEES station to take a physical. I do not deride people for having been a cook or truck driver, if it were not for them I would have not eaten or gotten supplies or fuel. I am grateful to every one of the veterans who did their jobs no matter how thankless or unglamorous. We all started at the bottom of the food chain and I never forgot that. When I was 18yrs old the ARMY took me and and gave me a job, health care, a bed to sleep in and a sense of pride. Before then I had no job, no prospect of one and nowhere to live. I did not always love the ARMY, sometimes it sucked ass, I am sure that all veterans can vouch for that. But I don't forget a favor good or bad. I don't fail to stick up for those who can no longer do so for themselves either. The fake I was talking to made me angry because if he were honestly what he claimed to be I feel society failed him or at least his buddies did. I have gotten good paying jobs and given respect for being a veteran, however it was always by a veteran who was in charge themselves and was looking out for someone else. When I was discharged I could barely walk. I was given a job after three years of eeking out a miserable existence and being humbled by the fact nobody would hire me. My boss told me anyone that would serve his country was alright with him and I was hired before I could walk out of the office. That was where I met Henry Bivins on my first day at work.

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NP let me know if it flares up, the boys were asking about a name and location. One guy joking said fire up the belt sander and make a beer run, this is gonna be an all nighter.

Geez...