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| Julesy | Nov 29 2007, 03:18 PM Post #201 |
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Lol. yeah I like some of her songs. I just dont know what ones they are. Id have to ask my sis. Its funny cause she likes all that hip hop/r&b/urban crap
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Nov 30 2007, 05:14 AM Post #202 |
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November 29, 2007 7:29 am EST ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA—Rising Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul emerged as the clear winner of Wednesday evening’s CNN/YouTube Republican presidential debate. 47 percent of CNN voters believed that the Texas congressman Ron Paul won the debate, according to CNN’s post-debate online poll and debate scorecard. Mike Huckabee came in second place with 23 percent of the vote. In addition to winning the debate, Congressman Paul placed first in multiple scorecard categories. 46 percent of CNN voters indicated they believed Congressman Paul knew “the most about the issues,” and 44 percent said they felt he had “the best response to user-generated content.” Additionally, 43 percent of voters declared that Congressman Paul’s campaign “got the biggest boost from the debate.” “The Republican presidential candidates came out in full force Wednesday night, but only Congressman Ron Paul stood out as the clear winner,” said Paul campaign spokesman Jesse Benton. “The crowd’s enthusiasm for his responses on everything from the war and traditional non-interventionist foreign policy to the economy and his promise to eliminate the IRS shows that Americans overwhelmingly support Dr. Paul’s message of freedom, peace, and prosperity.” The CNN/YouTube Republican debate featured user-generate video questions to which the candidates responded on-stage. Go Ron Paul!!! kick Guiliani's ass, please! I am begging you! |
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| Denovissimus | Nov 30 2007, 01:23 PM Post #203 |
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The news media is all about Huckabee's performance though, and why is this in the Weird thread? Should we start a US countdown to the next puppet in the White House thread? |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Nov 30 2007, 01:47 PM Post #204 |
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cause there was nowhere else to put it! of course the media is all about someone else's performance, cause they are paid off to not even acknowledge Ron Paul, they are paid off to basically act like he is not even a contender, when he is becoming one more and more everyday. |
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| Denovissimus | Nov 30 2007, 01:52 PM Post #205 |
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They noticed that huge record breaking one day internet fund raising thing though! Six million in one day cannot be ignored. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Nov 30 2007, 01:54 PM Post #206 |
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yes. and he has passed fred thomspon and is about to pass mike huckabee for current fund raising for this quarter!
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Nov 30 2007, 01:55 PM Post #207 |
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Jet with 56 aboard crashes in Turkey By SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 7 minutes ago YESILYURT, Turkey - An Atlasjet plane crashed on a rocky mountain shortly before it was due to land in southwest Turkey early Friday, killing all 56 people on board. The cause was not immediately known. ADVERTISEMENT Pieces of wreckage and personal belongings, including suitcases, clothing and magazines, were strewn across the hillside. Rescue workers in bright yellow jackets entered the plane's fuselage, which lay amid boulders and pine trees. "The seats were detached and all over the place. Some of the seat belts were still around the bodies," said medic Mustafa Dagci, one of the first people to reach the site. "Some bodies were intact, others were in pieces." Dagci said he and other rescue workers had rushed to the scene, but quickly lost hope of finding survivors when they saw the extent of the devastation. The MD-83, carrying 49 passengers and seven crew members, took off from Istanbul around 1 a.m. local time headed to Isparta on a flight of about one hour, but went off the radar just before landing at the airport. At about 7 a.m., a rescue helicopter reached the plane's wreckage near the village of Yesilyurt, in Isparta province, and reported that no one had survived the crash, said Tuncay Doganer, the airline's chief executive. Doganer said the cause of the crash was unknown, but ruled out technical failure and said the weather and visibility were good. "The pilot saw the airport and informed the tower that it was inbound. The plane then disappeared," he said. Investigators found the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, which will help them determine the cause of the crash, the civil aviation authority said. Weeping relatives approached the crash site, but were turned away by soldiers and other officials who sought to comfort them. Many bodies were dismembered and not identifiable, firefighter Osman Emir said. Ali Ceylan said his daughter-in-law, 22-year-old Melike Ceylan, his 6-week-old grandson Caner, and his son's mother-in-law perished in the crash. Caner was born in Istanbul and the family was returning to their home in Isparta. "We were going to see our grandson for the first time. He died before we were able to see his face," Ceylan said. "It's very hard for us. It's enough to make us go mad." He said his son, a police officer, was in shock and being treated with tranquilizers. Cengiz Dincer, a man at the crash site, said two friends were on the plane after a day trip to Istanbul. "I keep thinking they'll appear from the site, it is difficult to accept that they are gone," he said. "Of course, it is God's will." Gulperi Ayan, who also traveled to the crash site, said a friend, stage actor Sakir Ozsoy, was on the plane because he was going to attend his grandmother's funeral in Isparta. "Now we have two funerals to hold," she said. A team of investigators, including two pilots, three engineers and an air traffic control expert, went to the area, Anatolia reported. Forensic experts were also sent to investigate. In a statement, Atlasjet said the wreckage of the plane was found on a mountain around 5,000 feet high, and that rescuers initially had difficulty reaching the site because of the rugged terrain. The area where the plane crashed is called Turbe Tepe, which means "Shrine Peak" in Turkish. Much of the wreckage lay amid snow patches 650 feet from the top of the mountain. The plane was spotted five hours after it went missing. Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said it crashed 7 miles from the Isparta airport. Turkish media released a list of passengers. All names were Turkish. The dead included a group of academics who planned to take part in a physics conference at an Isparta university. Among them was Engin Arik, a prominent female nuclear physics professor from Istanbul's Bosporus University. Semsettin Uzun, the governor of Isparta, said the crash site was not on the plane's regular flight route. "It is impossible to understand how the plane" ended up there, said Uzun, who viewed the site from a helicopter. The plane had broken into pieces, with its fuselage and rear landing in different locations. Anatolia said the plane's wings and engine were at the top of a hill while the fuselage was lower. Dogan news agency released a transcript of the conversation between the Atlasjet pilot and the Isparta control tower, but the exchange did not indicate the plane was in trouble. At 1:36 a.m., the pilot was quoted as saying, "Isparta tower, we are inbound." The tower responded, "Understood, Atlasjet. Continue to approach." The civil aviation authority said communication with the plane was interrupted on its final approach to Suleyman Demirel airport in Isparta at 1:45 a.m. Atlasjet, a private airline established in 2001, operates regular flights inside Turkey and chartered flights to Europe and other foreign destinations. In 2005, one of its planes ran off the runway in winter conditions, but the company had not been involved in any fatal accidents. In August, one of its planes was hijacked by two men who held several passengers hostage for four hours before surrendering. Previous accidents in Turkey include a Turkish Airlines plane that crashed in January 2003 while attempting to land on a fog-covered runway in the city of Diyarbakir, killing 75 people. Five people survived with injuries. In May 2003, 62 Spanish soldiers returning from peacekeeping duties in Afghanistan and 13 crew members were killed aboard a Ukrainian charter flight that crashed on a fog-shrouded mountain slope near the Turkish Black Sea port city of Trabzon. In 1994, a Turkish Airlines jet crashed in the eastern province of Van as the pilot tried to land in a snowstorm despite repeated warnings from the control tower to turn back. Fifty-four people were killed. |
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| Denovissimus | Nov 30 2007, 01:58 PM Post #208 |
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That is tragic not weird
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Nov 30 2007, 01:59 PM Post #209 |
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well we dont have a tragic news thread! |
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| Denovissimus | Nov 30 2007, 02:04 PM Post #210 |
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The social thread will suffice! |
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| Julesy | Dec 1 2007, 05:36 PM Post #211 |
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Footprints seen around Mt.Everest stoke Yeti mystery By Gopal Sharma Fri Nov 30, 8:55 AM ET KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A U.S.-based television channel investigating the existence of the legendary Yeti in Nepal has found footprints similar to those said to be that of the abominable snowman, the company said on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT A team of nine producers from Destination Truth, armed with infrared cameras, spent a week in the icy Khumbu region where Mount Everest is located and found the footprints on the bank of Manju river at a height of 2,850 metres (9,350 feet). One of the three footprints discovered on Wednesday is about one foot long, or is of similar size and appearance as shown in sketches of the mystical ape-like creature believed to live in snowy caves, the TV company said. "It is very very similar," Josh Gates, host of the weekly travel adventure television series, told Reuters in Kathmandu after returning from the mountain. "I don't believe it to be (that of) a bear. It is something of a mystery for us," said Gates, 30, an archaeologist by training. Tales by sherpa porters and guides about the wild and hairy creatures lurking in the Himalayas have seized the imagination of foreign mountain climbers going to Mount Everest since the 1920s. Several teams have searched for it and some have even claimed to have discovered footprints. But no one has actually seen the creature nor has it been scientifically established that the Yeti exists. Gates said the footprints on lumps of sandy soil, which would be sent to experts in the United States for analysis, were "relatively fresh left some 24 hours before we found them". "This print is so pristine, so good that I am very intrigued by this," Gates, flanked by his team members, said adding the findings would prompt more investigation into the Yeti. Destination Truth chronicles some of the world's notorious crypto-zoological creatures and unexplained phenomena. Some local sherpas believe that the Himalayas are abodes of strange creatures and consider the Yeti as a protector while others say it is a destroyer. "There is a kind of mysterious creature that lives in the Himalayas," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of Nepal Mountaineering Association in Kathmandu, who hails from the Khumbhu region were Mount Everest is located. (Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)
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| Jane | Dec 1 2007, 10:46 PM Post #212 |
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I was just going to post that story!! |
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| Julesy | Dec 1 2007, 11:02 PM Post #213 |
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great minds post alike I wish they would find something. |
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| Julesy | Dec 2 2007, 05:45 AM Post #214 |
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ugliest dog contest winner LETS HERE IT FOR MUNCHKIN! http://pics.livejournal.com/ecctv/tags/Munchkin/ thats sorta mean. poor dog. it should be the whitehouse pet |
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| Julesy | Dec 3 2007, 03:04 PM Post #215 |
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[size=14]SENATOR COCKSUCKING CRAIG [/size] Paper: 8 men claim encounters with Craig Mon Dec 3, 6:54 AM ET BOISE, Idaho - Eight men say they either had sex with Sen. Larry Craig or were targets of sexual advances by the Idaho lawmaker at various times during his political career, a newspaper reported. ADVERTISEMENT Cell Phones Cameras MP3 Players GPS Laptops TVs One of the men is the former escort whose allegations disgraced the Rev. Ted Haggard, former president of the National Association of Evangelicals, the Idaho Statesman reported Sunday. The newspaper identified four men and reported details of the encounters they say involved Craig. It also reported the accounts of four other men who did not agree to be identified but who described sexual advances or encounters involving the conservative Republican, who opposes same-sex marriage and has a strong record against gay rights. Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after being accused by an undercover officer of soliciting sex at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and later called a news conference to deny that he is gay. The newspaper acknowledged that its report was not based on definitive evidence but said it also found no evidence to disprove the accounts of the four identified men. It said it reviewed the senator's travel records, which put him where the sex is alleged to have taken place, and did background checks on those making the allegations. Craig and members of his staff declined to comment to the newspaper. But in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press on Sunday, the senator said the newspaper's report was "completely false" and he accused the paper of careless journalism. "It is unfortunate that the Idaho Statesman has chosen to continue to lower itself to the standards of what can best be described as tabloid journalism," Craig said in the statement. "Despite the fact the Idaho Statesman has decided to pursue its own agenda and print these falsehoods without any facts to back them up, I won't let this paper's attempt to malign my name stop me from continuing my work to serve the people of Idaho." The report is the Statesman's latest on allegations about Craig's sexual background since his June arrest in an airport men's room sex sting operation was reported in late August. Statesman Editor Vicki Gowler said the newspaper spent several months checking the backgrounds and details of the men's stories. "We believe it's important for you to know what we've learned and to hear the men's own words," Gowler said. Two of the identified men and one of the unidentified men told the newspaper they had sex with Craig. One of the men identified in the report, Mike Jones, 50, described as a former male escort, was the focus of the sex scandal involving Haggard, the disgraced leader of Colorado's New Life Church. Jones said Craig paid him $200 for sex in late 2004 or early 2005. The encounter took place at a studio apartment in downtown Denver, Jones said. Jones told the Statesman that he did not recognize Craig until his arrest made the news. The newspaper reported that Jones went on the record after Craig appeared in a television news report in August to address the arrest and his future in politics. Jones has written a book about his experience with Haggard and acknowledged to the Statesman that his allegation about Craig might help sales. A message left for Jones by The Associated Press through his publisher Sunday evening was not immediately returned. Current phone numbers could not be found for the three other men identified in the Statesman's report. Amid pressure from top GOP leaders in Washington, Craig announced his intent to resign from the Senate. He later changed his mind, deciding to finish out his term, which expires in January 2009. He is also appealing in Minnesota courts to have his guilty plea overturned. The undercover police officer who arrested Craig said the senator moved his foot next to the officer's foot and tapped it in a way that indicated he wanted sex. He also alleged the senator sent a signal by swiping his hand under the divider between men's room stalls. Craig has said the officer misconstrued those motions. Email Story IM Story Printable View RECOMMEND THIS STORY Recommend It: Average (591 votes) |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Dec 3 2007, 03:30 PM Post #216 |
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I love it that all of his fucks are coming out and tattling on him! The prick, he deserves it! |
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| Julesy | Dec 3 2007, 03:33 PM Post #217 |
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I dont even know what he does. lol is he like, against gays and is gay himself? |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Dec 3 2007, 03:35 PM Post #218 |
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yes, he is an idaho senator, and he is against all gay rights. |
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| Julesy | Dec 3 2007, 03:38 PM Post #219 |
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deliciously domestic
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what a prick. I hope more dudes speak out about him. what a fucking hypocrite. he needs to step down and GDIAF. |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Dec 3 2007, 03:40 PM Post #220 |
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Skittle Skank
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he needs much more public riducule,. I hope 200 more guys come out about being with him. I hope his wife is embarrassed too for being either a dumb bitch or a knowing bitch who acted like she didnt know, living in denial. |
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