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Central Modern Room at Islands Brygge
Størrelse10 m²
Etasje5(med heis)
- Vaskemaskin / tørketrommel
- Anpasset for funksjonshemmede
- Heis i bygningen
- Håndklær
- Internett/WiFi
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|Weidekampsgade, 2300 Copenhagen, Danmark
|Privat rom
|Eiendoms ID
|Innen noen få timer
|Kalender oppdatert
|I dag
I'm offering a small guest room 10m2 in a modern private apartment.
In the room you have a very comfortable Ligne Roset queen size bed 160x200 cm, table, 2 chairs, 2 wall cabinets, tourist infos, a 46" TV with internet, DVD/Blu-Ray player, a selection of international movies on DVD/Blu-Ray, Internet radio, coffee, tea (no breakfast!) and high speed w-lan internet included.
The room can be darkened by metal blinds.
If You are more than two guests You will get an extra room 21m2 with double bed 160x200 cm, cabinet, desk, 2 chairs, 55" HD TV with surround and a balcony.
There is access to a big shared bathroom with Rainshower and underfloor heating that also has a washer, iron, ironing board and hairdryer.
In the wardrobe outside of the room You have access to hangers and room for Your suitcases.
Bed linen, shampoo and towels are provided.
There is no access to kitchen.
The apartment is in a safe and quiet upscale area called Islands Brygge, only 1 km from Tivoli, Railway station and town hall square/city center. It's close to tourist attractions, 100 meters to bus or subway (which will take you to Kongens Nytorv in 2 stops, approx. 4 minutes or to the airport in 20 min.)
Bikerentals just around the corner.
During the summer there are also excellent swimming opportunities at the famous Islands Brygge public harbor pool (open June-September) just 100 meters away.
Nice cafés, restaurants and 24h shopping nearby.
I speak English and German. Hope to see you soon!
HusreglerNo smoking.
By booking this guest room You confirm that whilst using the Internet connection You will not use any filesharing sites, programs or software (such as Megaupload, Rapidshare, Torrenz, 4share and others), and will not down- or upload any music, movies or any other commercial or artistic content that is protected by the Copyright Laws. You will be hold responsible for any violation of Danish Copyright Laws.
|Ukentlig rate for en gjest
|Pris for >1 gjester
|247 NOK pr. gjest/natt ekstra
|Maksimum netter
|10 nights
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If you need a place to stay in Copenaghen this si the best solution! Very close to the centre and to the metro station. The owner is very kind and polite and your privacy is garanteed.
A warm and welcoming host with great knowledge about the Copenhagen area. Would definitely stay with Sven again!
The host Sven is a very friendly person.
My experience was very nice The house is very nice and room too, close to subway and 2 Stop to Kongens Nytorv, but also a relatively short walk (20-25 minutes) to the City center. Nice experience and, feel good to choose this room.
Sven was very friendly and polite. The room was very comfortable and well-equipped .The bathroom is right next to the room and it was perfectly clean and convenient. Location is very good for exploaring the city. We had a great stay.
Sven was a fantastic host, very thoughtful and friendly. The room was small but very comfortable, and well-equipped (big flat-screen TV with international channels, tee, coffee). The bathroom is right next to the room and it was perfectly clean and convenient. Location is very quiet and pleasant, although well-connected either walking or by metro with Copenhagen's city centre, Christiania, etc. Definitely a satisfactory experience as a guest (couple).
Sven is is a fantastic host and the accomodation in Copenaghen is very nice and confortable (near the center, near metro and tram stop) Everything was good!
Sven was a perfect host! Nice bedroom, and close of the city center.
Thank you for all!
Gracias por todo!!
Sven is a kind host. He can give you a lot of information, if you want so.
The room and bathroom are clean and nice. In the bedroom is a big window.
It is a nice, quiet place to stay. Only 10 walking from the center.
I liked to stay at Sven's
Very central room, it was clean. Sven is extraordinarily nice and very helpful. We had a great time and everything was as described, the flat is close to the water and the metro. We would totally recommend and would definitely book again.
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How The West Was Fun in Independence
Woodstock Inn Bed and Breakfast • Independence, MO
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- A Two-Night Stay for Two in a Queen or Twin Bedroom with a Private Bath
- Full Breakfast For Two
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The Destination
There's no better place to begin an adventure into the history of the old West than Independence, Missouri. Gone are the wagon trains, but the wheels still roll en masse through here. Independence Square—the site of the old courthouse—remains the central figure in this town of more than 100,000, while former resident and President Harry Truman's old home, museum, and library also draw huge crowds. Log cabins, Civil War sites, covered wagon rides, and Victorian mansions pepper this home for heritage just five miles outside Kansas City.
The Digs
Once an 1890s family home, Woodstock Inn Bed & Breakfast was remodeled in 2011. Plush beds, grand Jacuzzi tubs, push-button fireplaces, complimentary Wi-Fi, and in-room movies give this old-time manse a modern lift. Breakfasts often include sausage, crème brûlée French toast, blueberry pancakes, fluffy scrambled eggs, and cheesy potatoes with juice and chai tea. In the spa, couples' massages and Bahamian salt scrubs are just a few treatments on a long list of indulgences. In the evening, guests will want to unwind with chocolate fondue with fresh strawberries.
"I've stayed at the Woodstock on two different occassions and both were magical... Comfortable and cozy with lots of personal touches... I'm sure we will have many more stays there in the future!"-- TripAdvisor
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Remember that customisable housing means lots of art resources, and it would have to be constantly expanded, and if you want your house to look different to everyone else's (remember, pretty much every Sunsong Ranch looks the same) then they need a lot of furniture or whatever with many different appearances to go with it. It'd be at least as much work art-wise as a decent sized dungeon (that doesn't recycle any art assets).
Blizzard has a big list of shit they could do and next to each item is effort versus reward. Player housing is a medium to high on the effort, but low on the reward and as such it is down the list.
I'm sure if they suddenly thought of something totally kickass they could do with player housing, they'd do it. Which is pretty much how Sunsong Ranch came to be.


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UTSA baseball win, April 18
UTSA upsets No. 5 Texas Longhorns, 14-10
By Carlos Valdez III
Assistant Director for Sports Information, UTSA Athletics
(April 19, 2006)--The UTSA baseball team ended a 13-game losing streak to the Texas Longhorns in a 14-10 slugfest at Wolff Stadium Tuesday evening. UT came into tonight's game ranked fifth in the country. The win over Texas is the biggest upset in UTSA's baseball history.
UTSA, winner of its last four games, improved its overall record to 24-12. Meanwhile, UT dipped to 27-13 on the season. The Roadrunners picked up their fourth win in the all-time series against Texas. The last time UTSA defeated UT was back on Feb. 9, 1999, in an 11-10 outing.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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In a night where UTSA used a season-high seven pitchers, Senior Noah Tritz (right) came into the game for the Runners and picked up his team leading eighth win of the season. The Spring, Texas, native, tossed two and two-thirds innings, allowing one run while punching out two Longhorns.
For the third straight game, the Runners managed to score over 10 runs and collect double digit hits (16). The Roadrunners were led by sophomore Marshal Davis and J.R. Voyles with three RBI apiece, while senior Lee Todesco and sophomore Zach Etheredge paced UTSA with three hits apiece. With the 1-for-3 night, Voyles extended his career best hitting streak to 23 games. Junior Michael McKennon and freshman Michael Rockett added two hits apiece. McKennon also tagged on two RBI. Etheredge scored a season-high four runs.
For Texas, junior Joseph Krebs suffered his first loss of the season and dropped his record to 2-1 on the year. Juniors Drew Stubbs and Chais Fuller led UT with two RBI apiece. Junior Chance Wheeless was on of three Longhorns with two hits on the day.
Texas grabbed the early 1-0 lead courtesy off freshman Kyle Russell's ninth home run of the season in the top of the second inning. In the third inning, UTSA tied the game at 1-1. Davis started the inning with a walk and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Voyles. A two-out, RBI-double by James Keithley down the left field line plated Davis from second base.
The Runners took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning. Etheredge led off the inning with a walk then moved to third off back-to-back sacrifice bunts by the Roadrunners. Davis drove in Etheredge with an RBI-single to center field.
The Longhorns scored three runs in the top of the fifth to regain the lead at 4-2. Stubbs' two-run single to center field highlighted the inning. UT added one run in the top of the sixth when Wheeless and freshman Bradley Suttle hit back-to-back singles. With two outs, Fuller's RBI single plated Suttle home from second.
UTSA scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth to retake the lead, 6-5. The Runners scored two of the runs off RBI-groundouts by sophomore Phillip Allen and Davis. McKennon's single to right scored the tying run. Todesco drove in his 34th run of the season, which leads the team, when he singled to right and scored Voyles.
Texas answered right back in the seventh inning, as the Longhorns batted around and scored five runs off three hits.
The Roadrunners trimmed the lead to 10-8 in the bottom of the seventh inning when Voyles (left) singled with two outs to extend his hitting streak and drive in two runs.
In the eighth inning, UTSA rallied with six runs to take the lead for good. Todesco began the inning with a single to left and Keithley reached base via a walk. With one out, Etheredge's single to right loaded the bases for UTSA. Junior Brandon Koger's fielder's choice scored Todesco and a UT error allowed for Keithley to come around from second and tie the game at 10-all. An Allen single and a second Longhorns miscue on a sacrifice bunt by Davis gave UTSA a 12-10 lead as Koger and Etheredge crossed the plate. Voyles' sacrifice fly to right scored Allen and McKennon collected his second RBI of the game with a base knock to center that plated Davis with the 14th run, the most Texas has given up in more than 240 games.
With UTSA leading 14-10, Tritz pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to end Texas' chance of a comeback.
UTSA returns to Southland Conference action this weekend at Texas-Arlington with a three-game series on Friday-Sunday, April 21-23.
Note: New UTSA head men's basketball coach Brooks Thompson threw out the first pitch for Tuesday's game with Texas.


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Weird Al's Keen Eye
August 28, 2010
If you follow "Weird Al" Yankovic on Twitter (and really, why wouldn't you?), you may have noticed this picture, which he posted earlier this week along with the tweet "Wow, waffles for just .25 cents? That means I can get 400 for a dollar!!"
Kudos to you, Mr. Yankovic, for spotting what I can only assume to be a mathematical error of the type we've seen before. If this music thing doesn't pan out, maybe you can work for Verizon.
Then again, maybe it's not an error, in which case I can only hope that Weird Al wastes no time in naming this establishment, so that I can patronize it before they catch wise.
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Rob Ford Court Ruling Boots Toronto Mayor From Office (LIVE UPDATES)
A court ruling has removed Rob Ford from his job as Toronto's mayor.
Ford was found to have violated the Municipal Conflict-of-Interest Act by Ontario Superior Court Judge Charles Hackland.
Ford failed to declare a conflict of interest when he participated in a council vote to recommend he repay donations that he solicited for his private football foundation using official city letterhead.
Sorry this #fordcourt verdict is taking so long. The judge was coaching football this morning and will get around to it soon.
Rob Ford got kicked out of mayors office? WOWWWWW!! Hes hopping on that gravy train right back home.
rip rob ford. stung by a hoard of vicious gravy wasps.
Now I await all Rob Ford memes. #topoli #comeatmebro
Oh, my. Rob Ford has been removed from his office as mayor. Toronto politics just got rather interesting. http://t.co/Ltpmkac6
Rob Ford needs new business cards asap!
Terrifying thought: Governor of the Bank of Canada job is open. Rob Ford is looking for a job. ARRGGHHH! #Cdnpoli
BREAKING: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford found guilty of violating conflict of interest act, removed from office http://t.co/o0BBzIgp #topoli
#topoli Imagine if #toronto invested as much time and attention to transit financing as we spend distracted by @TOMayorFord latest antics.
Its a sad day for hard working comedians throughout Toronto. It appears Rob Ford's been booted from office (pending appeal) #RobFord #TOpoli
No more coach/mayor Ford! #topoli
How does it work in TO when a mayor finishes early? Is there a bielection or will the deputy step up as acting mayor? #fordcourt #TOpoli
Very exciting day in Toronto- and it has nothing to do with football. Let's fix this and make sure it never happens again. #TOpoli
Hey #Toronto, #RobFord might be out of office now so get yourselves educated about the issues and make informed choices. #topoli #onpoli
Who's going to drive the gravy train in the parade :(. #TOpoli #RobFord
Watching the Rob Ford circus is more fun, but Carney leaving Canada for England is bigger and more important news #topoli
Oh boy - we're gonna see Jabba the Mayor kick it into serious victim mode now! #RobFord #TOpoli
Also, Rob Ford is trending worldwide. (Let's hope just this once and never again.) #TOpoli
If Rob Ford and Dalton McGuinty just traded positions, Toronto would have subways all over the place. #topoli #onpoli
I wonder if Rob Ford will appeal the decision or leave quietly with his last shred of dignity. #TOpoli
On the otherhand Doug Holyday will make an excellent Interim Mayor for #toronto #topoli #tocouncil
Let's hope Ford can and does run again soon. Then Toronto can turf his partisan, ignorant ass in the most clearly democratic manner. #TOPoli
Have You Driven a Ford (out of office) Lately? #topoli #fordcourt
A subdued but still defiant Ford blamed a left-wing conspiracy for his ouster Monday, pledging to fight "tooth and nail'' against the ruling.
In fact, the Toronto mayor said, if he loses in the courts, he would go straight to the court of public opinion.
"I'm a fighter. If there's a byelection, my name will be the first one on the ballot," Ford told a crush of journalists shortly after the judicial ruling.
"This comes down to left-wing politics. The left wing wants me out of here, and they'll do anything in their power to (do that)."
The legal action was launched by businessman Paul Magder, who argued the larger-than-life mayor violated the rules when he took part in a council vote over repayment of $3,150 in donations he had solicited for his private football foundation using official city letterhead.
In a damning 24-page decision, Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland slammed Ford for "wilful blindness" that could not be excused as a simple slip-up, especially from someone in his leadership role.
"It is difficult to accept an error-in-judgment defence based essentially on a stubborn sense of entitlement (concerning his football foundation) and a dismissive and confrontational attitude to the integrity commissioner and the 'code of conduct'," Hackland said in his ruling.
"I declare the seat of the respondent Robert Ford on Toronto city council vacant."
Hackland could have barred Ford from running again for seven years, but instead opted to disqualify him for the "current term."
It was not immediately clear whether that meant Ford's term ended with his ouster, meaning he would be free to run in a possible byelection, although Ruby was adamant the judge had precluded him from doing so.
Lawyer John Mascarin, a municipal law expert, called the ruling ambiguous but said he believed Hackland "clearly" meant to bar Ford from running for office until the current council term is over in 2014.
Both parties could write the judge to seek clarification, said Mascarin, who called the ruling "unprecedented."
The judge did put his declaration on hold for 14 days to give the city time to deal with the situation.
While Ford said supportive calls had been coming in to his office "fast and furious," city resident Ken Garnum carried a sign outside city hall reading "Worst Mayor Ever:Goodbye."
Garnum said he was "thrilled" at the ruling.
"I don't think he's evil," he said. "He just can't tell the difference between right and wrong."
Magder and his lawyer, Clayton Ruby, were tempered in declaring victory.
"We as citizens are responsible for each other, and that means standing up and doing what is right," Magder said.
"This is a sad day for Torontonians. It's sad because we spent so much time and money on this matter instead of nurturing our city."
Ruby said he was unaware of any other big city mayor getting the boot in such a way.
He stressed the case was not about Ford trying to benefit personally or acting dishonestly, but about preserving the integrity of municipal government.
"It is tragic that the elected mayor of a great city should bring himself to this: Rob Ford did this to Rob Ford," Ruby said.
"When you break the rules there's a price to pay. It's important for the courts to assert that nobody is above the law, Rob Ford included."
Regardless of how the ouster plays out, councillors said the city would continue to function.
"It will put a crink in things, but I don't think it will stop the business of city council," Coun. Joe Mihevc said. "The city is bigger than any elected official."
In 2010, Ford used his staff to help send out donation requests for his football fund and mail them out to donors, who had officially lobbied the city government. The mayor repeatedly ignored demands from the city's integrity commissioner to repay the money.
When council took up the integrity commissioner's order, Ford spoke and voted against the order despite having a financial interest in the matter, a violation of Municipal Conflict of Interest Act, Hackland ruled.
Ford has 30 days to appeal to Divisional Court.
"Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some," said Ford.
"You've just got to roll with the punches; you've got to have the skin on you like an alligator."
As if to prove that point, Ford launched a Christmas toy drive an hour later, while his brother, Coun. Doug Ford, called for supporters to rally behind the mayor at a football match on Tuesday.
Ford was also scheduled to read a proclamation at a Grey Cup parade Tuesday, declaring Nov. 27 the Argonauts Day following the team's win over the Calgary Stampeders. But in a news release Monday, the Toronto Argonauts dropped a reference to Ford, simply referring instead to a city of Toronto declaration.
Rob MacDermid, a political science professor at York University, said it should not have been up to Magder to tackle Ford.
"It's difficult to bring actions against politicians -- it falls to a citizen," MacDermid said. "There has to be a better way."
Ford is the third big city mayor to find himself in serious trouble in recent weeks.
Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay resigned earlier this month in the midst of a corruption scandal, while Joe Fontana, mayor of London, Ont., faces criminal charges for allegedly using federal money for personal gain. Both have denied the allegations.
With files from The Canadian Press
|@ TorStarEditor : #robford here is an early look at Wednesday's front page of the Toronto Star. http://t.co/eVToRKDI
The Toronto Star tweeted a photo fo their front page with an exclusive story on how the Ford brothers could be planning a way to maintain power if Rob were unable to run in a by-election. More details as they come.
More bad news for Rob Ford on Tuesday. The Don Bosco Eagles, the high school football team he coaches fell to the Huron Heights Warriors 28-14 at the Metro Bowl.
Rob Ford was consistent in one thing though. The mayor left today's council meeting to attend the football game. The mayor has been criticized in the past for missing key votes to coach his team.
A tired-looking Rob Ford appeared before dozens of reporters at City Hall on Tuesday afternoon. Ford made a brief statement to the media and took no questions. A full text of his statement:
Good afternoon everyone. I was elected two years ago by the people of Toronto to do a job. We have accomplished a lot in the past two years. But, that job isn't finished yet. I respect the Court's decision that was released yesterday. My decision to appeal is not a criticism of the Court. But, I feel it is important to work through the appeal system so I can continue to do the work I was elected to do. This entire matter began because I love to help kids play football. When this came to Council for the vote in question, I felt it was important to answer the accusations that had been made against me. I was focused on raising money to help underprivileged youth. I never believed there was a conflict of interest because I had nothing to gain. And, the City had nothing to lose. But, I respect the court's decision. Looking back, maybe I could have expressed myself in a different way. To everyone who believes I should have done this differently – I sincerely apologize. The people elected me to bring respect for taxpayers back to City Hall, and I will keep working to do exactly that for as long as I can – or, until the people elect someone else to do the job. Thank you. Unfortunately, that is all I can say at this time.
Ford at times appeared close to tears while he was delivering the statement. His voice appeared to break a few times and he was quickly escorted out of the room by his press secretary.
|@ LindaNguyenTO : Suffice to say, the media interest in @TOMayorFord's news conference at 3:30pm is huge. Here's a pic of cams #TOpoli http://t.co/5e8Yg5jw
|@ JProskowGlobal : Mayor Rob Ford will read a prepared statement to the media at 3:30PM
|@ SidRyan_OFL : All due respects to Clay Ruby but court case was dumb politics. Ford is many things but hes not a criminal. Now he's a martyr. #TOpoli
Mayor Ford's lawyers will be filing his appeal on December 5, the Globe and Mail is reporting.
The appeal to the Divisional Court will be the only one he's allowed and will determine whether he'll be able to stay on as Mayor. Earlier today the city solicitor said that Ford will likely receive a stay in his sentence, which means he would be allowed to stay on as mayor until the court rules on his appeal.
|@ StrashinCBC : City hall security has been aggressive today protecting @TOMayorFord from media throng. Saw a guard physically stop. Star's Dave Rider.#sl
|@ kellygrant1 : Councillors are running all over the place. So Nunziata forces them back to their seats with a quorum call. #topoli
|@ BenSpurr : Well there we go. Pressed by reporters, Mammoliti says Ford should step down, at least temporarily, pending his appeal #TOpoli
Toronto's City Council got a bit more clarity on the Ford case during Tuesday's meeting. City solicitor Anna Kinastowski outlined the legal road ahead for Mayor Ford and Council.
Mayor Ford will have to file an appeal to the Divisional Court and Ford's lawyers will likely ask for a suspension of the sentence — meaning Ford should be able to stay on as Mayor while the appeal is being decided.
The appeal to Divisional Court will be the mayor's sole appeal and it is binding. In the event the mayor does not receive a suspension of his sentence during his appeal, a scenario that Kinastowski said would be unusual and unlikely, the mayor's job would be vacant as of December 10th.
If the city were to hold a by-election to replace the mayor, the city solicitor says that her reading of Judge Hackland's ruling is that the mayor won't be able to run in a by-election and would have to wait until 2014 to run again.
The solicitor also clarified that Ford's legal fees are not being paid for by the City. "The City is not involved," Kinastowski said.
|@ NPHallMonitor : "The mayor is the mayor, it is business as usual," said Anna Kinastowski, city solicitor, noting judge ruling takes effect in 14 days
With Rob Ford possibly out of a job, speculation swirls around who will replace him. Will it be a city councillor? A former mayoral candidate? What about a warrior-princess?
This Hour Has 22 Minutes' Marg Delahunty makes her pitch why she should run the City of Toronto.
It's going to be a busy and possibly feisty day at Toronto City Council.
CBC looks at the road ahead for Mayor Ford and city council.
But if yesterday is any indication, that two weeks will be filled with intense legal speculation about whether Ford will seek a stay of the Hackland ruling while an appeal is heard, not to mention political intrigue as Ford opponents and supporters jockey to figure out how to replace him.
If he does go, there are currently two options on the table: appoint a caretaker mayor to fill out the remaining two years of the term or call a byelection. And while it is early days yet, some councillors, including some previously loyal Ford supporters, are beginning to make their preferences heard.
As for the mayor, Ford has said he will appeal the decision at a divisional court. But in order to remain as mayor while the appeal is going forward, he would likely also have to apply for a stay of proceedings.
|@ thechrisws : Via @jpags, the Toronto Star's Ford coverage includes a recipe for humble pie: http://t.co/BUWROeBz
|@ KatieSimpson24 : Mayor Ford speaking with his brother in council chambers ahead of today's meeting. #Toronto http://t.co/YrPtuTwb
The Toronto Star profiles the 27-year-old who may have helped bring down the mayor. From the article:
"History will write him up as a hero," left-leaning Councillor Joe Mihevc, who has known Chaleff-Freudenthaler since the latter's childhood, said on Monday.
"He's an obstructionist who's never been happy with Rob Ford getting elected as mayor," said right-leaning Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong.
|@ JProskowGlobal : "You can't put a price on democracy" says Doug ford on cost of by election. "We don't live in Egypt"
A few things we'll be looking out for today:
1) The Argos Grey Cup parade will wind through the downtown core starting at 11:30. Will Mayor Ford show up?
2) City Council meets today. The city's budget is on the agenda and debate around that can get messy during the best of years. Some councillors have been saying they need a special session to deal with rulings around Rob Ford's court case. We'll see if this happens.
3) The Metro Bowl, the city's championship football game is scheduled for tonight at 8 p.m. Rob Ford's Don Bosco Eagles will be playing for the title. Doug Ford, the mayor's brother, has called for a rally before the game for supporters of the mayor.
Questions are being raised about an all-or-nothing provision in a previously little-known "draconian" law that was thrust into the spotlight Monday after it was used to unseat the mayor of Canada's largest city.
As we have come to expect with all things newsworthy, today's ruling that Rob Ford was to be removed from office was the genesis of a bunch of internet stuff.
At Toronto's City Hall, surely the most ambiently lunatic building in Canada, a stage was set up to launch the Mayor's Christmas Toy Drive. Eight small children had been procured to act as "honourary elves," sitting cross-legged on a carpet at the foot of a Christmas tree, flanked by boxes of mini-trikes and construction cranes. A boxed CFL football sat ominously to one side. The mayor was scheduled to launch the drive at 1 p.m. An enormous crowd of reporters buzzed about. Interest in the mayor's event had amplified to unusual levels by news that the mayor had just gotten himself fired.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been ordered out of office after being found guilty of breaking conflict of interest rules, but he's not the only Canadian mayor running into trouble:
Think you know Rob Ford? Buzzfeed lists eight of his more memorable moments.
Lawyer Clayton Ruby, a Toronto citizen, Paul Magder and the mayor himself react to today's court ruling.
|@ TorontoStar : #RobFord timeline: Mayor has had two years of ups and downs http://t.co/Gq23KVYl Story by @paulmoloney4. #TOpoli
A number of HuffPost Canada bloggers have weighed in the Rob Ford case:
Blogger and comedian Josh Bowman lays out 10 things he learned from Rob Ford. From the blog:
People hate nothing more than hypocrisy in politicians. Corrupt politicians who complain about corruption. Lazy politicians who complain about waste. Lying politicians who complain about a lack of accountability. Nobody is perfect, but if you are going to launch an attack, do your best to live by the principles you espouse.
Katie Heindl says that we should say 'thank you' to Mayor Ford for actually making us interested in civic politics. From the blog:
Ford was, in his own fumbling toward ecstasy sort of way, successfully rallying the entire country. CNN, BBC, they all started paying attention to Toronto, playing into our forever-the-hated older sibling stereotype and need for attention. Sure, it was embarrassing to have a Mayor who looked nothing like Kurt Russell but wanted to pull some sort of reverse Escape From New York on us, but wasn't it kind of nice to pretend for a minute we had a real live liege lord?
While writer Abubakar Kasim said that the mayor doesn't deserve to get fired. From his blog:
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As an embarrassed former Ford supporter (a confession which I made a few months back) it didn't take me long to realize I had supported the wrong candidate. From the very moment he was inaugurated, by Don Cherry of all people, we knew we were in for a rough ride. Cherry was downright insulting during the ceremony, attacking "pinko commies" for their support of bike lanes, and bragging about the major changes Ford was expected to bring. The vitriol and anger being spouted during the inauguration were just a sign of things to come.
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It's not the demise of the National Bank brand that has borrowers talking to their brokers about switching banks, it's a decision by another bank that is getting the phones going.
I have spoken to brokers this week who say that Westpac's decision to hike its floating rate by 15 basis points has got people talking about moving banks.
One well-respected broker, who wished not to be named, described Westpac's decision as "insanely stupid".
He says they should immediately reverse the increase.
Another described it as "nuts".
Brokers spoken to couldn't understand why Westpac has increased its floating rate when home loan rates have been flat or falling.
Borrowers have been told over and over again by commentators that floating rates are not likely to move for some time to come.
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However, this seems short-sighted, the broker says, as it is disenfranchising its most valuable customers.
He says it takes a lot for his clients to ring him and complain, but he has had numerous calls since Westpac made the decision.
A 0.15 rise may not seem like much but New Zealanders have a mistrust of banks a lot of the time, anyway.
This increase, coming without fanfare, could make some customers feel that they have been taken advantage of.
I asked to speak to someone at Westpac about its pricing strategy but no one would respond in person to my calls. Instead, I was furnished with the following written response.
"Westpac's mortgage pricing approach takes into account the dynamics in what is a highly competitive market. We aim to price competitively. In particular, our everyday floating rate is well matched to market. On fixed rates, we are priced competitively at short to mid terms."
In an environment that is increasingly competitive for banks, and in which some - such as Kiwibank - are easing their lending criteria to tempt more customers through their doors, this move seems completely contrary to common sense.


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hello Lisa I am a pet lover and have a great little chihuahua
hello everyone:
my name is Lisa and i just posted my first intrduction for handguns above on top of forum.
I wanted to let everyone know sense this group has a section for pets this might help some people.
I have been working with dogs for over 30 years and i have 5 dogs right now, just lost one about 1 month ago
we have 2 english springer spaniels, 2 english cockers and 1 AM cocker
even though i have all sporting breeds I work with all breeds, as a trainer and behaviorist, and used to show dogs as well.
so if anyone ever needs help with any type of issues, or you are getting your first puppy and need help on how to find your first puppy please e-mail me. and if you need private then let me know and i will give you my Kennel e-mail as well.
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hello Lisa I am a pet lover and have a great little chihuahua
How old is your chhuahua, and name?
Lisa, hamilton NJ
He will be 3 in sept and his name is Peewee.The lil booger is spoiled beyond repair,but I wouldnt change a thing about him.He is the best alarm cause no one can get near the house without me knowing it.And best of all he loves children.
that is a good thing, police in our area told a person that used to live across from us to allow her dogs to bark in the middle of the night as their is a reason for them to bark, do not forget that Peewee does not think he is small
I had an English Cocker for 11 years. His name was Rocky....Rocky Mountians of the West He was a black and white male he weighed about 38 pounds, pure muscle and desire. Yeah he was a big English Cocker. He was my pheasant hunting partners. I have had many dogs, but Rocky was the best dog ever. He was our family pet and my hunting buddy. He was the easiest dog to train I have ever had. He learned everything I tried to teach him and he did what I asked. He taught my daughter to walk, when she was very young Rocky would come up to her while she was sitting up and lick her face until she grabbed his ears, then he would back up real slow until she stood up while holding his ears and he would walk backwards with her until she fell. Then she would laugh and he would do it again. It was pretty cool!
I wish I had another Rocky. People used to call me to hunt with them just because Rocky was so good and obeyed so well. We miss Rocky.
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who did you get Rocky from, was it from a breeder that showed, but sold him to a pet home, just wondering, I remember when we changed breeds from springers to English cockers and someone said to us i heard they are stupid and we said far from it, that our Bitch was smarter then our springers most of them.
they make great dogs to do any activity that you want to do with them, i know alot that have all kinds of diffrent titles.maybe if you get another one the one you have will help you teach the new dog to hunt as well, that happens alot.
Lisa- LIRAY Kennels
I got him from a Kennel in Mankato MN. He breeds the Cockers there to behunters. My dog was smarter then any Springer I ever met. I never taught Rocky to Shake because I have a saying....hunting dogs don't shake. He would sit, come, heel, whoa, hunt, retrieve, come back on the Too Far comand, kennel up and help me grill.
Rock was a great dog.
You are so right.For being such a lil guy he has alot of heart.If he weigh 50lbs he would be dangerous.He weighs 4lbs and has never backed down from anybody or other dog.He is daddy's baby and I love him dearly.I would be as fast to protect him as he does me.A dog provides so much love and all they want is love in return.Here is my fav baby pic
that us so cute, keep in mind i am doing this in the dark as my husband shut off the one light i keep on when i am on my laptop, even if a sporting breed may not be bred to hunt they still have it in them, maybe not as crazy but still, my husband said our youngest dog which is a english cocker came back to him with a dead bird from the yard, i even had a springer come back with much bigger dead wild animals and droped them at my feed when i told him he was a good boy nice a calm and he dropped it. if he took a bite that would have been a very bad thing.
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The Party of Brown Shirts
Original post made by The Cohen brother, Old Palo Alto, on Apr 16, 2007
Look at the evidence. While real patriots flee the party, the remaining supporters cling to power by asserting dictatorial dominance for President Bush. The Republican Attorney General denies that the US Constitution provides habeas corpus protection to American citizens. Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, Republican candidates for the 2008 presidential campaign, believe the president has the power to imprison US citizens indefinitely without warrants or trials. The "conservative" Federalist Society favors concentrating more power in the executive. Neoconservative ideologues claim the right to impose American hegemony over all others--especially over Muslims.
All of these Republican tyrants and budding tyrants claim to be protecting liberty and democracy.
Polls show that the percentage of Americans who tilt Republican has declined to 35 percent. Republican recruits are refusing to run for Congress. Ken Mehlman, until recently the party's chairman, says many voters have lost confidence in Republicans. To win back people's confidence, Mehlman says the party will have to become less reliant on white males and expand its support among Hispanics and blacks.
Decency and intelligence have departed Republican ranks. The party's shrunken base consists of ignorant and fearful people who believe Muslim jihadists are going to murder them in their beds, rapture evangelicals who believe that war in the Middle East is the prelude to their being wafted up to heaven, the military-security complex reveling in power and fortune, and resentful and frustrated people who can freely vent their anger and hate on "terrorists."
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a resident of Greenmeadow
on Apr 16, 2007 at 7:12 pm
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a resident of Midtown
on Apr 16, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Brownshirts indeed. Somebody slept through his history lessons. And through 9/11, too.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 16, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I wish I could vote for a real fiscal conservative in the Republican Party -- these days, the better money managers all seem to be Democrats (e.g., Bill Clinton, the only Democrat who could snow people nearly as well as neoconservatives).
a resident of Crescent Park
on Apr 16, 2007 at 8:00 pm
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a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 16, 2007 at 8:11 pm
The collection of fear, delusion, greed, and resentment comprises the 30 percent of Americans who constitute Bush's base. The Republican Party has made itself so unattractive that Democrats believe that it is now possible for a woman or a black to win the presidency.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 16, 2007 at 8:15 pm
The Bush administration has destroyed American prestige and moral aura with torture scandals and disregard for Iraqi, Afghani, Palestinian and Lebanese civilian lives.
The Bush administration's budget and trade deficits have undermined the dollar. The Bush administration is calling for currency realignments that will lower the real incomes of import-dependent Americans.
The Bush administration's determination to exercise American hegemony through warfare, and its assaults on civil liberties, the separation of powers, American prestige and on good American jobs and the value of the dollar have destroyed the party's support.
America's virtue is its Constitution. An administration that attacks the Constitution attacks America's virtue. The true dangers that Americans face come from George W. Bush and Richard Cheney and their neoconservative Brownshirt Party.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Apr 16, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Sarlat, neoconservatives are former liberals who turned away from the fantasies and hatred of the left. Many of them, especially the prominent ones, are Jewish. To call them Brownshirts is offensive.
Many, probably most, of the GOP base are patriotic.
The administration, in time of war, is providing all required Constitional protections for U.S. citizens. Where there have been disputes, it has been ruled on by the Supreme Court, and the Bush administration complies. You have your presidents confused...it was A. Lincoln who violated habeas corpus. Giuliani and Romney (and others) are correct in supporting the Bush legal approach.
Supporting a strong executive branch in times of war makes complete sense to most rational people.
The U.S., as a superpower, does have hegemony in some areas, but that is not the goal. If our allies want our protection, it is very hard to avoid some mild form of hegemony, especially with an aircraft carrier visitng their ports. For our enemies, I could care less what they think. We hae decent relations with most Muslim nations, so that charge is a red herring.
Islamic fundamentalist jihadists are something to fear. We will have a long war with them. We should freely vent our anger and hate on terrorists.
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on Apr 16, 2007 at 8:59 pm
The fact of the matter is that about 30% of Americans would vote for/support a Republican President no matter what, another 30% would do the same for a Democrat and the rest of us 40% actually use our brains and recognize a dud when we see one and our willing to (God-forbid) "flip-flop" on someone. And if someone every deserved a "flip-flop," it's Bush, who I believe will go down as one of the worst presidents ever.
I myself am a fiscal conservative, so that would technically make be a Republican, but that's certainly not what I would call myself today given that Republican has become equivalent to "far right," particularly socially.
I voted for John McCain in the last election and was prepared to do so next time, but his recent kowtowing to Bush has left me disgusted. At this point, I'm ready to sit out the next election. Perhaps Hillary might drive me out, but if it's not her, I think I'll stay home and watch TV instead.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 16, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Negotiating with someone who is sworn to kill you is silly.
The Brown Shirts beat up on political opponents. Which party here has a record of physical violence against the opposition?
a resident of another community
on Apr 16, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Let's see. Trumped up charges in the wrong district. 4 months in prison and loss of her house for awarding a contract to the low bidder. Well at least the Republicans didn't beat her up.
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a resident of Stanford
on Apr 16, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Far Right socially?? The first President to approve federal funding of embryonic stem cells is Far Right socially? A President who wants to legalize everyone who is here illegally? A President who fights making our Border opaque? A President who, or whose party, ( not sure if he does) supports Vouchers for schools so that every kid can choose whatever school he wants ( without federal control) is Far Right?? A President who has increased the share of the fed budget that the top 10% are responsible for? A President who doubled the Federal budget on education? Almost doubled the NIH budget? Increased the Medicare budget by ...300 billion? ( Gotta look it up)..
I must be missing something. This is NOT far right. In fact, this is more "left" than Clinton was. Don't know why he bothered, nobody remembers this.
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on Apr 16, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Draw The Line:
How about this instead: Reagan had principles, Bush none. I voted for Reagan, I didn't for Bush. McCain had principles, but he's abandoned them for getting the nomination. Thes rest are a bunch of mish-mashers at this point.
Who are YOU going to vote for, at least at this point?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 17, 2007 at 6:59 am
The Republican Party lost its majority for the following reasons:
Greedy transnational corporations offshored US manufacturing jobs and destroyed the hopes and livelihoods of blue-collar Reagan Democrats. The gains from offshoring are diffused, but the costs are concentrated.
The same greedy and short-sighted corporations have spent the first years of the 21st century destroying the prospects of American middle class university graduates by offshoring jobs in professional services and by importing foreigners on work visas who work for less.
Neoconservatives captured conservative philanthropies, cut off funding to true conservatives, and used the captured conservative foundations to entrench themselves as advisors to the Republican party. The same neoconsertives that Reagan fired as a result of the Iran-Contra scandal occupy important policy positions in the Bush administration and dominate the National Security Council.
Republican "law and order" apathy to civil liberties easily transferred to the "war on terror." Republicans regard civil liberties as protective devices for criminals and terrorists. Republicans mistakenly believe that the law can be cut down selectively so that only certain despised groups are deprived of its protection.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 17, 2007 at 7:34 am
Conservatives use the 'islamic Terrorism' mantra ad nauseam as if it's something that fell out of the sky unexpectedly, like a meteor. Quite frankly, anyone with even a passing familiarity with the destructive meddling of the Western powers in the region will begin to develop an understanding of where Islamic/Arab antipathy is coming from. I wonder how many Americans know that the Zionist movement was trying to displace Palestinians from Palestine long before the Holocaust, or even that Palestine was occupied land long before the Zionists appeared on the scene? How many Americans know about their country's role in overthrowing the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953, or how the Shah maintained control over his population, with the support of the US? How many know that Saudi Arabia was a creation of the West and that the map of the region was redrawn to satisfy British and French colonial interests after WWI? The failure to talk about Western history in the region is a failure to talk about the problem of terrorism at all.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 17, 2007 at 7:45 am
The claims that the Republican party has not become a Brown Shirts party does not hold water. Pay attenstion to the following:'
"Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."
Michael Ledeen, rightist, neocon, and promoter of war with Iran, in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute in the early 1990s, as quoted in National Review Online.
It's generally known that the regime of war and torture that the Bush administration has visited upon the Middle East was planned and supported by a group of American intellectuals called collectively neoconservatives. The name is merely a label, not a description: there is nothing remotely conservative about this gang of statist reactionaries.
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 17, 2007 at 7:45 am
Unless someone better comes along, with my priority on security it would be Guiliani. I would hold my nose, but he is the most consistent in the most important area to me. I would have to ignore a lot about him personally that disgusts me, but it wouldn't be the first time.
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 17, 2007 at 7:48 am
Cohen and Sarlat..you either read the same stuff as Singh did, or you ARE he..Hope paloaltoonline figures out a way to keep us to one moniker and a grading system soon so that we can skip the predictable posters.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 17, 2007 at 7:58 am
Both parties use the machinery of government to advance their own interests and to harm the opposition. Anyone who claims that only the other party does so has sipped the Kool-aide a bit too deeply.
a resident of another community
on Apr 17, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Isn't it a little degrading to the public discourse to label those you disagree with "Brownshirts"? I've got no love for the Bush administration, but it doesn't help the cause of getting reasonable people to come over to your side when you start calling names like Brownshirt, Fascist, or (on the other side) Pinko. Sheesh. I thought people in Palo ALto were supposed to be smart.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 17, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Laura, I call them Brown Shirts because that's precisely what they are. Should I refrain from calling Bin Laden a terrorist in the hope of getting his people to come to our side? Their actions have qualified them to be tagged as Brown Shirts and their actions speak very loudly. You can't fight Fascism if you pretend it doesn't exist. I do not want anybody to come over to my side. If this catasrophic administration doesn't cause Republicans to abandon their party, nothing will.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Apr 17, 2007 at 3:01 pm
"It's generally known that the regime of war and torture that the Bush administration has visited upon the Middle East was planned and supported by a group of American intellectuals called collectively neoconservatives"
Cohen brother, name these intellectuals whom you call Brownshirts.
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 17, 2007 at 5:55 pm
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a resident of Midtown
on Apr 17, 2007 at 7:03 pm
From Cohen Brother:
"I call them Brown Shirts because that's precisely what they are."
From the dictionary:
Brown Shirt or brown·shirt (brounshûrt)n.
1. A Nazi, especially a storm trooper.
2. A racist, especially a violent, right-wing one.
Bush isn't a very successful president. But isn't this getting a little over-the-top? How can we have a rational dialog if we insist on calling people with whom we disagree Nazis?
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 17, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Invading and occupying a sovereign nation using doctored and falsified intelligence, killing in the process anywhere between a hundred thousand to possibly 4 times that civilians. Violating the Constitution, outing a CIA operator in order to punish her husband who revealed to the world that the Bush regime was using lies to justify the invasion. These are just some of the crimes of this regime and you call labeling them as Brown Shirts 'over the top'. How would you label another regime doing all that stuff? How exactly is this invasion different from the German invasion of Poland?
a resident of another community
on Apr 17, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Until the Republicans changed the law with the Military Tribunals Act, some members of this administration qualified as War Criminals under American Law for violating the Geneva Conventions.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 18, 2007 at 5:57 am
"How exactly is this invasion different from the German invasion of Poland?"
This re-invasion was by invitation of the sitting government, under conditions signed and sealed.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 18, 2007 at 7:53 am
One of Gonzales's many transgressions has been to be an enabler in changing the law in the Military Tribunal Act. The reason this law was changed is that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and a few others would have become serious candidates to be handed over to the International Court of justice after January 2009 as war criminals. This was an insurance policy and the Democrats should amend that law again to make sure that after they leave office they wouldn't just walk away.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 18, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Military tribunals are probably fairer than the average civilian court since officers are not running for office. If a POW has killed a US soldier in action, he can not be punished for that because that is what soldiers do. Try him in a civilian court and charge him with murder? Feather Merchants! No one is going to hand any American official over to an international tribunal because we are not so stupid as to give up our souvreignty.
a resident of another community
on Apr 18, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Albert pointed out that the Military Tribunals act changed the liability for war crimes under AMERICAN Law. There is nothing in it about International tribunals. The trials would be in American courts. It didn't change International Law.
"The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments.
Officials say the amendments would alter a U.S. law passed in the mid-1990s that criminalized violations of the Geneva Conventions, a set of international treaties governing military conduct in wartime. The conventions generally bar the cruel, humiliating and degrading treatment of wartime prisoners without spelling out what all those terms mean.
The draft U.S. amendments to the War Crimes Act would narrow the scope of potential criminal prosecutions to 10 specific categories of illegal acts against detainees during a war, including torture, murder, rape and hostage-taking.
Left off the list would be what the Geneva Conventions refer to as "outrages upon [the] personal dignity" of a prisoner and deliberately humiliating acts -- such as the forced nakedness, use of dog leashes and wearing of women's underwear seen at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq -- that fall short of torture."
Why does the U.S. need separate Military Tribunals with different rules when it already has military courts with well-established rules for handling crimes of POW's?
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 19, 2007 at 7:23 am
"Why does the U.S. need separate Military Tribunals with different rules when it already has military courts with well-established rules for handling crimes of POW's?"
Because we have acceded to some very specious definitions of torture.
There are some who consider incarceration to be the penultimate torture, myself included. We have a need to put some people in jail, and a need to detain others and question them. We cannot expose the instruments of national policy to foreign law and still claim sovreignty. I for one am not ready to allow the world to write our domestic laws.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Apr 19, 2007 at 1:04 pm
"I for one am not ready to allow the world to write our domestic laws."
1.This is exactly what every single tyrant has said.
2. Our domestic laws don't allow for prisoners to be tortured, humiliated and abused. Marine General James L. Jones, the recently retired supreme allied commander of NATO, had refused to accept the job then given to General Patreous, mainly because he had objected so much to what happened in Abu Ghraib and is still happening in G'tmo, General Jones said in a recent interview on Charlie Rose that not enough people, especially at the top, payed the consequences for what he labled as a disgrace to our national honor and core values.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Apr 19, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Wallis, even bush, Cheney, Rusfeld and some neocons have said that what happened in Abu Grhaib was a national disgrace. Some of them even seemed sincere. As for you, it doesn't seem to bother you. As long as the perpetrators are Americans, they can do no wrong. I suppose that you had no problems with the My Lai massacre.
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 19, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Let's be clear. An honorable country can acknowledge that treating anybody with disdain is dishonorable. Note, the perps have been punished. Note, they are being punished because their behavior was against our rules, not condoned. Out of a million people ( a million soldiers), you will get a few people like the ones who embarrassed the Abu Graib prisoners.
The difference is that humiliating and scaring someone, as what was commonly called "torture" during this story, is not torture. The joke in Iraq was that all the prisoners under Saddam wished they had been tortured like the Abu Graib prisoners. The prisoners of Abu Graib know this, and there are reports that the prisoners of Abu Graib begged our soldiers to stay as they were walking out, after handing over the prison to the Iraqis.
Notice we haven't heard anything more from them, and I don't think it is because they are all so happy.
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 19, 2007 at 5:25 pm
To clarify why I believe we have heard no more from Abu Graib - the people in the Abu Graib block that was under the spotlight for so long were those who had been caught RED HANDED, literally, with blood on their hands and knives or with a detonator in their hands after a bomb went off. I doubt the Iraqi police in Abu Graib are going to be overly solicitous to known guilty murderers.
But, the double standard is in effect now, and the wall of silence has descended.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 19, 2007 at 5:42 pm
About Abu Graib, Bush, Cheney and Rumdsfeld were all out of line. This was the equivalent of a frat hazing, so far from torture that it tortures the language to call it such. The apropriate action wou;ld have been to have given the Sergeant a summart court for midsconduct, a years confinement and a BCD. His subordinates, company punishment.
The sergeant's immediate commander deserved a letter of reprimand for failing to take immediate action, and the general deserved whatever they give generals for whining. The world media deserved the scorn of any rational observer.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 19, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Incidentally, the one item missing from all the reports was the political affiliation of all the miscreants. I promised not to tell, but...
a resident of another community
on Apr 19, 2007 at 8:38 pm
In the secret CIA prisons, some interrogators stuffed the prisoners in sleeping bags and beat them to death. Whether you think this is torture, the rest of the world does and it is undermining the moral standing of the U.S.
I've never heard of POW's being released while the "war" was continuing. Isn't that by definition. So if we are fighting a "war on terror," (a tactic by the way, not a group), why does the U.S. need to make up new designations to imprison POW's.
This isn't a specious question of national sovereignity but the rule of law, American Law. Throwing away the rule of law has also undermined the U.S. moral standing in the rest of the world.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 20, 2007 at 7:19 am
World standards, or just world expectations of US standards. By worls standards our prisons are resorts and out treatment of prisoners is edenistic. We usually punish excesses of our own, unlike almost all the rest of the world.
We had to invent a new designation for prisoners because under the old designation we would just shoot them for being out of uniform.
Our standing in the rest of the world is not based on our actions, it is based on the need of the rest of the world to cpmpensate for their failings.
a resident of Mountain View
on Apr 20, 2007 at 10:00 am
Frat Hazing, Walt? So, I assume that you'd be OK if your own kids were treated that way, just for giggles.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 20, 2007 at 12:39 pm
My kids have not waged war against the United States or, to my knowledge, committed any other act that would warrant jailing. I would be really irritated, however, if one of my children was a Gitmo guard and was made to accept flung feces without a response.
Careful examination of my writing would have revealed that I approve of appropriate punishment for misconduct, both of guards and of prisoners. I still refuse to tell the political affiliation of the Abu guards. Don'r ask.
a resident of Mountain View
on Apr 20, 2007 at 1:48 pm
So, its frat hazing only if they're guilty. Everyone at the prison was tried and convicted?
If our soldiers are captured in Iraq or Afghanistan(and we are waging war there), you'd be OK with similar hazing, then?
Nobody's asked the political affiliation of the guards because it isnt relevant
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 20, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I would be extraordinarily grateful if the only "torture" anyone did to any captured US soldier was what happened in Abu Graib. Then I could stop worrying about my military family members.
But the way, they are IN UNIFORM for a country, if caught..and so ARE supposed to be protected by Genevea Conventions...but aren't.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 20, 2007 at 5:53 pm
My Marine grandson may be returning to Iraq for his third tour. If he is captured I fully expect he will be tortured and killed. The guys doing the killing will laugh because they know that if they are captured they will live better than they ever have. Absolutely nothing we do will change the way Islam extremists treat our soldiers, so it is stupid for us to burden our soldiers with rules made for warfare with honorable people.
a resident of another community
on Apr 20, 2007 at 9:17 pm
"Absolutely nothing we do will change the way Islam extremists treat our soldiers, so it is stupid for us to burden our soldiers with rules made for warfare with honorable people."
Lowering ourselves to the level of Al Qaeda is counterproductive. We are fighting not for the good will of Islamist Extremists but for the rest of Arab Street. No matter how good it makes you feel to torture your enemy, in the long run, it is a mistake because it only empowers the mulahs and other extremists. If the U.S. had really built a thriving democracy in Iraq our influence, especially moral influence, would have been enormous. But with exceptional ineptness, the current administration blew that opportunity and there aren't any good options left. But acting like a barbarian just because your immediate enemy is one is extremely short-sighted and childish.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 21, 2007 at 8:21 am
You paint over broad both with your definition of torture and barbarian. We are not fighting for the good will of the rest of Arab Street because that is not attainable. I don't accept your definitions of either torture or barbarian, but if your understanding is that limited then that is your problem, not mine.
We are fighting to convince the Arab and Persian Street that harming us has unpleasant consequences. Whatever our noble intention might be, only the consequences to them will matter. Tell me when it has ever been different.
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 21, 2007 at 9:37 am
Walter, for once I agree with you AND with the guy before you.
We are fighting, like you said, to show that there are consequences to any action taken against us, much like you fight the bully at the playground to teach him to leave you alone. AND we are trying to show the Arab "street" that we behave in a way that is appreciably better than "their" way.
The problem is that the Arab "street" has no access to free information, therefore it is an impossible battle, except through word of mouth, which is constantly negated by their "media" and "schools".
a resident of another community
on Apr 21, 2007 at 10:18 am
The problem with your analysis is that for most in the Mid-East, the U.S. and Isreal are considered the "bully at the playground." Kids that stand up or bloody the bully are viewed as heros. Instead of condemning the insurgents, the others are rushing to create nuclear programs. This says to me that the U.S. has lost the war of perceptions. We aren't viewed as standing up to a bully but a bully to be twarted. Whether you like it or not, how you conduct a war and occupy the defeated does matter. Making a statement that you are the biggest, baddest bully in the neighborhood doesn't necessary make good foreign policy. It may make you feel better but everyone is secretly arming themselves for the day you pick on them.
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 21, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Which is why Walter's take on it is right, also.
You make Walter's point for him. It doesn't matter what we say or do, the propoganda against us in incredible. As long as the propoganda is successful, our only defense is to firmly establish in the minds of all that there is a price to hurting us, until the reality spreads that we are, in fact, the people who defend more Muslims world-wide than do the Muslim dictators. I know you will dispute this, but find me instances, or even one time, when a Muslim country or peoples ( ie Bosnia) were invaded and another Muslim country came to its defense. Now think about the times an English speaking democracy has defended Muslims' freedom to choose their religion and way of life.
I believe, and I know you will disagree, that if we had consistently fought back harder, sooner, from the time when the Embassy in Iran was taken, we would not be in the position we are in today.
That is the lesson everyone should learn on the playground.
a resident of another community
on Apr 21, 2007 at 6:01 pm
Playground rules only get you so far. You and I both know that we invaded Iraq to make a statement. "The U.S. is willing to use force and will inflict punishment if attacked." We knew Iraq was weak after years of sanctions and had limited if any WMD's. Plus Saddam had been thumbing his nose at the U.S. for years. It was going to be a cakewalk. The U.S. believed that many military commanders would not actually fight against us.
But do you really think that Islamic Extremists give a rat's ass about us hurting Iraq? We gave them a gift (and Iran too.) Our failure in Iraq is the greatest recruiting tool since Afganistan. Just like Afganistan, the terrorists we've recuited to Iraq are going to continue for decades to come. Unless keeping troops in Iraq eliminates the Jihadists, we are going to suffer from this mistake long beyond this administration. But the longer we occupy Iraq, the better the recruiting for the Jihadists.
The other downside of the Iraq war is the incredible militarization of the region. In the past, the primary flash point was the Isreali conflict. But the balance of power is so one-sided in Isreal's favor, this hostility is essentially contained. Once the Shi'a and Sunni's really have real WMD's, then we can look forward to WMD versions of the Iraq-Iran war or a nuclear attack on Isreal. This isn't going to be a stalemate caused by mutual assured destruction because it isn't going to be clear what to destruct. It is a region where miscalculations happen all too often.
Using playground rules as a basis for foreign policy has to be tempered with the long-term consequences.
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 21, 2007 at 7:33 pm
To Retlaw:
Our 2 memories of history ( why we went to war against Saddam) diverge completely.
Not going to rehash what has been said multiple times on these many threads.
Good lesson in picking which history books you believe, given that every history writer sees topics through his/her own lens.
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During the last glacial epoch of perhaps a million years' duration, four distinct periods of glaciation separated by warmer interglacial periods have long been recognized. Recently Wiseman has studied the sediments of the deep ocean floor and has found evidence for ten distinct temperature minima with the last 620,000 years. It appears that a fundamental property of a glacial epoch is to have a climate that is continually fluctuating. The glaciers advance and then recede and repeat the cycle several times before the end of the glacial epoch. No other theory of climatic change seems able to explain in a simple and straightforward manner these continual oscillations in climate during a million-year epoch of glaciation.
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|Thuillier, Louis
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|Portrait of two Australian soldiers of the 12th Field Company Engineers. Identified, standing right, is 5439 Sapper Charles Edward Haworth. A wheelwright from North Carlton, Victoria, Haworth enlisted in September 1915 and embarked with the 5th Field Company Engineers. He was transferred to the 12th Field Company Engineers in May 1916. Sapper Haworth's unit was based at Vignacourt for several weeks in the winter of 1916-17 while undertaking a number of different engineering projects in the surrounding area. He returned to Australia in May 1919. (See also P10550.226 and P10550.396)
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