it comes with a story, too
Niu Niu, a panda who lost its left limb, rests at a wild animal research center........
Give her a hand!
An animal research center in northern China has appealed to the world for help to fashion an artificial leg for a panda that lost a limb—along with its sex life—in a fight, local media reported on Thursday.
In December, a resident of Dajiangou village in Shaanxi province stumbled upon a group of pandas fighting, the Beijing News said.One seriously injured panda, a two- or three-year-old female that rescuers named “Niu Niu” (girl), was taken to an animal rescue center and saved, but lost two-thirds of its front left leg.
“Niu Niu’s spirits have lifted, the wound has healed and her appetite has basically recovered. But without her left paw, her loss of balance has directly affected her love life,” the paper said.
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no estoy encantada
And so, Mr. President, my pledge to you and your government—but, more importantly, the people of Mexico—is I will work as hard as I possibly can to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
I’m done.
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Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told Democrats Tuesday the “vast, right-wing conspiracy” is back, using a phrase she once coined to describe partisan criticism.
Without a murmur of comment or dissent, the Supreme Court effectively affirmed a sentence of life imprisonment imposed on an Arizona man for possession of 20 dirty pictures. The court’s indifference to the Constitution is arguably a more serious offense than the crime of Morton Berger.
This is not to defend Berger’s conduct. His conduct was indefensible..........
~ [YET] ~ His jollies were vicarious jollies. He will live out his life in prison for being, in private, merely a dirty old man. Is the punishment “cruel”?
(“The trial evidence established that Berger possessed numerous videos and photo images of children, some younger than 10 years old, being subjected to sexual acts with adults and other children, including images of sexual intercourse and bestiality. ... He had created both computer and hard copy filing systems to maintain his collection.”)
Jose Lechuga struggled as a grocer, but he said his Hispanic customers became scarce when the city of Hazleton began to crack down on illegal immigrants. “They didn’t feel safe and they didn’t want to have any problems,” he testified through an interpreter as the first federal trial began on a local law meant to curb illegal immigration.
Ya live by the sword, ya die by the sword, Jose.
ACLU attorneys representing Lechuga and others maintain the former coal town usurped power reserved for the federal government by adopting an Illegal Immigration Relief Act.
They told the judge at the start of the trial Monday that Hazleton leaders can’t justify the act by claiming illegal immigrants are destroying the quality of life in the city.
I call bullshit on that. A high density of criminal aliens does negatively impact the quality of life of a community. Do crime, squalor, a drain on public resources and depressed real estate values “destroy” the quality of life of a community? Sure as hell do.
As President Bush prepares to meet today with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Mr. Calderon and his government are increasingly making it clear the solution to the U.S. illegal immigration problem lies in Mexico.
Sounds good, right? So does this:
“Unless Mexico is able to generate the type of economic growth, job creation, well-paid job creation, we will still have a difficult time, even though there’s a comprehensive immigration agreement [in the United States], to dampen the root causes that propel so many Mexicans to seek a better life across the border,” Mr. Sarukhan told The Washington Times.
What’s in the fine print?
One of his proposals is to retool the North American Development Bank, which was created by Mexico and the U.S. under the North American Free Trade Agreement to try to alleviate any negative consequences of free trade, particularly on the environment, along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Ahhh… A money laundering scheme. Get the US to “invest in” Mexican economic development via the North American Development Bank. The US deposits the hard-earned money of its citizens and Mexico writes the checks.
......................“Are you marrying a woman with six children?” she asked.
“No, I be concubining,” he said. A concubine is a woman who cohabitates with a man to whom she is not married.
Prosecutors said Lackey is expectant father of six children with six different women. The women all are expected to deliver between August and October.
I’ve consulted with Liberace and Rock Hudson. And they tell me that if John Edwards were really a faggot, the other faggots would beat him with their man-purses for being such a douchebag.
The Metropolitan King County Council voted unanimously Monday to adopt an image of the county’s namesake as its official logo.
Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush’s authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war.
Public opinion has swung the way of Democrats on the issue of the war. More than six in 10 Americans think the conflict was a mistake — the largest number yet found in AP-Ipsos polling.
The cancellation in the past two days of two planned nationally televised debates because of candidates’ “scheduling conflicts” and unwillingness to participate smacks of “manipulation by some candidates who would rather run and hide than defend their records and their positions on the war,”YOU ASSHOLES! SOME OF US NEED THE FUCKING PUBLICITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich said today while campaigning in Texas.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brushed past peace activists Monday who camped outside her home overnight to demand that Congress stop funding the war in Iraq.
The small group confronted Pelosi and asked for a meeting at about 6:30 a.m. as she hurried to a waiting vehicle without stopping to speak. “My home is my home,” Pelosi curtly told the protesters before being driven away.
The activists gathered outside the speaker’s Pacific Heights home were the remaining few of a group that marched Sunday across the Golden Gate Bridge to meet with the Democrat.
“San Francisco has been against this war from the very beginning,” said Toby Blome, 51, a physical therapist from El Cerrito who organized the Sunday event. “This is our fifth year of the war, and Nancy needs to wake up and represent San Franciscans.”
The group was stopped Sunday evening outside Pelosi’s house and told the Speaker would not see them.
Al Gore is comin’ home—and he wants a big gig on the Hill.
Yes, the former vice president wants to stage a global-warming concert at the Capitol. I can’t believe it’ll come off, but if it does, I want a ticket. Look at some of the bands they have lined up for this thing (at liveearth.org), including the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Snoop Dogg and Bon Jovi. Even I know these guys are pretty cool. Get it? Pretty cool.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) have introduced a resolution to use the Capitol grounds as a site for the huge, multi-venue global-warming concert on July 7.
And hey, think about all that free security.
A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite. The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment.
“Ann said losing toes and going forward at all costs was never part of the journey,” [thinking Jamba Juice here] said Ann Atwood, who helped organize the expedition.
Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures.
“They were experiencing temperatures that weren’t expected with global warming,” Atwood said. ”But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability.”
Iranian official lashes out at Hollywood movie “300” for insulting Persian civilization
They’re just sore because the Spartans whooped ‘em and later on Alexander ran roughshod over them. And they best stop fucking with us or we’ll whip ‘em worse than Alexander or Ghengis Khan.
Hmmm… We could call it…
“Operation Thermopylae”
“Operation Alexander”
“Operation Leonidas”
“Operation Molon Labe”
“Operation Gates of Fire”
“Operation Granicus”
Oh - And another thing… The movie isn’t an insult to their culture. The death cult of a religion is an insult to civilization.
*snerk*
Yanked by Wankers!!!
[guess they don’t have the time...]
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