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glad they got some closure

I've signed multiple petitions for just about everything mentioned:windows: I cant wait for my W nightmare to be over

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BUItgEIfe-g W is dumb as a box of thumbtacks as usual I prolly woulds just chucked my cell phone at his head

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but it is fun to see Ikki fly ATs are kool

Sandime was still a kid when 1&2 made him hokage....

I would think talking to her would be a better idea and if she cant or doesn't listen then back away. People change friends as they change. Might just be time to let her go and you and she move on in your different directions.

Would-be thief says 'supernatural figure' prevented him from fleeing KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A burglar who broke into a house claims he was held captive by a "supernatural figure" for three days without food and water, officials said.Police official Abdul Marlik Hakim Johar told The Star newspaper the house's owners found the 36-year-old man fatigued and dehydrated when they returned from vacation Thursday. He says they called an ambulance to take him to a hospital. The man told police that every time he tried to escape, a "supernatural figure" shoved him to the ground. Abdul Marlik could not immediately be reached and other police officials declined to comment.

ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) -- Investigators said Friday that they think remains found near a home where Caylee Anthony lived with her grandparents are those of the missing toddler. But, they added, police and prosecutors are waiting until DNA and other tests are completed before making a positive identification. Orange County, Florida, sheriff's spokesman Carlos Padilla gave three reasons for the belief the body is Caylee's: • No other children have been reported missing in the area. • The remains are consistent with a child of Caylee's age. • They were found in close proximity to the home of Caylee's grandparents. Caylee Anthony was 2 when she disappeared in June. Her mother, Casey Anthony, 22, didn't report her missing for a month and is charged with murder. I'd bet money its her. She was dead long before she was reported missing

link Weeks of heavy rains have pushed the Tiber to its limits. News reports here say that it is rising 4 -5 centimeters per hour. Nothing but rain in the forecast for the next week. I went down with my cameras to see how things are looking tonight. This video is hot off the press. 16 ft rise 4 dead already

Even the food bank is bare in nation's most productive agricultural area MENDOTA, Calif. - Idled farm workers are searching for food in the nation's most prolific agricultural region, where a double blow of drought and a court-ordered cutback of water supplies has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.This bedraggled town is struggling with an unemployment rate that city officials say is 40 percent and rising. This month, 600 farm families depleted the cupboards of the local food bank, which turned away families — more than 100 of them — for the first time. "We're supposed to supply the world," said Mayor Robert Silva, "and people are starving." The state's most dire water shortage in three decades is expected to erase more than 55,000 jobs across the fertile San Joaquin Valley by summer and drive up food prices across the nation, university economists predict. "People being thrown out of work are the ones who can least afford it," said Richard Howitt, a professor of agriculture economics at the University of California-Davis, who estimates that $1.6 billion in agriculture-related wages across the valley will be lost in the coming months because of dwindling water.

Mugabe's regime claims Western countries deliberately started health crisis HARARE, Zimbabwe - The Zimbabwean government on Saturday accused the West of deliberately starting the country's cholera epidemic, stepping up a war of words with the regime's critics as the humanitarian crisis deepened.The state-run Herald newspaper said comments by the U.S. ambassador that the U.S. had been preparing for the outbreak raised suspicions the West had waged "serious biological chemical war." Zimbabwean officials often blame their country's troubles on the West. Their stranglehold on most sources of news to which ordinary Zimbabweans have access makes such rhetoric an important tool for a regime struggling to hold onto power. After the first cholera cases, U.S. and other aid workers braced for the waterborne disease to spread quickly in an economically ravaged country where the sewage system and medical care have collapsed. Zimbabwe also faces a hunger crisis, the world's highest inflation and shortages of both the most basic necessities and the cash to buy them. 'Genocidal onslaught' The Herald quoted the information minister, Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, as blaming cholera on "serious biological chemical war ... a genocidal onslaught on the people of Zimbabwe by the British." "Cholera is a calculated racist terrorist attack on Zimbabwe by the unrepentant former colonial power which has enlisted support from its American and Western allies so that they invade the country," Ndlovu was quoted as saying. Experts, however, blame the epidemic on Zimbabwe's economic collapse. The World Health Organization said Friday the death toll was at 792 and that the number of cholera cases that have been reported since the outbreak began in August was now 16,700. The epidemic has reached a fatality rate of 4.7 percent. To be under control it would have to be less than 1 percent, WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said Friday. Aid agencies have warned that the outbreak could worsen with the onset of the rainy season and the disease has already spread to Zimbabwe's neighbors. Suffering President Robert Mugabe claimed Thursday that his government, with the help of international agencies, had contained the epidemic. That sparked accusations he was out of touch with his people's suffering. Zimbabwe's decline began in 2000, when Mugabe began an often violent campaign to seize white-owned farms and give them to blacks; most of the land ended up in the hands of his cronies, and production has dropped. Hungry Zimbabweans scrounge for corn kernels spilled from trucks carrying the harvest to market in a nation that once exported food. Zimbabwe once had among the best health care systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Now most hospitals have been forced to close their doors as they can no longer afford drugs, equipment or wages for their staff. Officials are also unable to afford spare parts and chemicals for water systems. Mugabe has ruled his country since its 1980 independence from Britain and refused to leave office following disputed elections in March. U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have called recently for the 84-year-old leader to step down.

Many seek warmth in shelters as temperatures remain well below freezing CONCORD, N.H. - About 1.2 million homes and businesses across the Northeast remained in the dark Saturday after the region was battered by one of the nastiest ice storms in memory.NBC News reported widespread blackouts were continuing in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine and New York. Power was reportedly restored to all properties in Pennsylvania by early Saturday, but electricity outages remained in Vermont and Connecticut. Officials have warned it'll likely be several days before everyone is up and running again. As temperatures dipped into the teens and single digits in New Hampshire, people who lost power from the storm showed up at some shelters by the dozens. yada yada we got about 6 inches of snow from the storm here in CNY

I like the twist it took with Sora, Sleeping Forest and now Aeon

this is dragging on pointlessly............

if this is just gonna be a manga where its all about lil kids I'm out theres too much other stuff out there for me to waste my time on annoying 'kids rock' bullshit I can't stand kids

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I luv Loki

Just hours ago, Bush announced his long-threatened 11th-hour regulations gutting the Endangered Species Act. In what might be the fastest lawsuit filing in history, the Center for Biological Diversity filed suit within minutes in San Francisco federal court to strike down the regulations. The Center and its partners -- Defenders of Wildlife and Greenpeace -- are asking the court to protect endangered plants and animals by completely nullifying Bush's policies as quickly as possible. As an early Christmas gift to industry, Bush's policies exempted greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants, oil and gas drilling, and other harmful developments from the Endangered Species Act. Having just listed the polar bear and two Florida corals as endangered species due to global warming in response to Center lawsuits, the Bush administration is now trying to handcuff federal regulators and the law by preventing actions needed to save these and other endangered species. And if that weren't bad enough, Bush also exempted tens of thousands of logging, mining, road building and development projects from Endangered Species Act review. Rather than have U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists independently review these actions, the Bush policy allows the agencies proposing the logging and mining to do the review themselves. In its typical pattern of denial and abuse, the Bush administration ignored the fact that this policy has already been tried and failed. In timber sales exempted from scientific review between 2004 and 2005, a full 68 percent violated the Endangered Species Act, harming spotted owls, salmon, and other species. I will keep you posted as this fast-paced suit develops in the courts. Unfortunately, there are more bad regulations affecting clean air, clean water and our oceans coming down the pipe. The Center will remain vigilant in challenging these last ditch attempts by the lame-duck administration to undermine our bedrock environmental law. We'll keep fighting until the Bush nightmare is over. Sincerely, Kieran Suckling Executive Director Center for Biological Diversity

gonna be shit

IVY LEAGUE DUNCES HAVE LED AMERICA OFF A CLIFF By Chris Hedges, Truthdig Don't expect the Harvard crowd to fix it either. They can't. They are loyal to the decaying political and financial systems that empowered them. http://www.alternet.org/story/111376/ The multiple failures that beset the country, from our mismanaged economy to our shredded constitutional rights to our lack of universal health care to our imperial debacles in the Middle East, can be laid at the feet of our elite universities. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford, along with most other elite schools, do a poor job educating students to think. They focus instead, through the filter of standardized tests, enrichment activities, advanced-placement classes, high-priced tutors, swanky private schools and blind deference to all authority, on creating hordes of competent systems managers. The collapse of the country runs in a direct line from the manicured quadrangles and halls in places like Cambridge, Mass., Princeton, N.J., and New Haven, Conn., to the financial and political centers of power. The nation’s elite universities disdain honest intellectual inquiry, which is by its nature distrustful of authority, fiercely independent and often subversive. They organize learning around minutely specialized disciplines, narrow answers and rigid structures that are designed to produce certain answers. The established corporate hierarchies these institutions service -- economic, political and social -- come with clear parameters, such as the primacy of an unfettered free market, and with a highly specialized vocabulary. This vocabulary, a sign of the "specialist" and of course the elitist, thwarts universal understanding. It keeps the uninitiated from asking unpleasant questions. It destroys the search for the common good. It dices disciplines, faculty, students and, finally, experts into tiny, specialized fragments. It allows students and faculty to retreat into these self-imposed fiefdoms and neglect the most-pressing moral, political and cultural questions. Those who defy the system -- people like Ralph Nader -- are branded as irrational and irrelevant. These elite universities have banished self-criticism. They refuse to question a self-justifying system. Organization, technology, self-advancement and information systems are the only things that matter. "Political silence, total silence," said Chris Hebdon, a Berkeley undergraduate. He went on to describe how various student groups gather at Sproul Plaza, the center of student activity at the University of California, Berkeley. These groups set up tables to recruit and inform other students, a practice know as "tabling." "Students table for Darfur, no one tables for Iraq. Tables on Sproul Plaza are ethnically fragmented, explicitly pre-professional (The Asian American Pre-Law or Business or Pre-Medicine Association). Never have I seen a table on globalization or corporatization. Students are as distracted and specialized and atomized as most of their professors. It’s vertical integration gone cultural. And never, never is it cutting-edge. Berkeley loves the slogan 'excellence through diversity,' which is a farce of course if one checks our admissions stats (most years we have only one or two entering Native Americans), but few recognize multiculturalism’s silent partner -- fragmentation into little markets. Our Sproul Plaza shows that so well -- the same place Mario Savio once stood on top of a police car is filled with tens of tables for the pre-corporate, the ethnic, the useless cynics, the recreational groups, etc." I sat a few months ago with a former classmate from Harvard Divinity School who is now a theology professor. When I asked her what she was teaching, she unleashed a torrent of obscure academic code words. I did not understand, even with three years of seminary, what she was talking about. You can see this absurd retreat into specialized, impenetrable verbal enclaves in every graduate department across the country. The more these universities churn out these stunted men and women, the more we are flooded with a peculiar breed of specialist. This specialist blindly services tiny parts of a corporate power structure he or she has never been taught to question and looks down on the rest of us with thinly veiled contempt. I was sent to boarding school on a scholarship at the age of 10. By the time I had finished eight years in New England prep schools and another eight at Colgate and Harvard, I had a pretty good understanding of the game. I have also taught at Columbia, New York University and Princeton. These institutions, no matter how mediocre you are, feed students with the comforting self-delusion that they are there because they are not only the best but they deserve the best. You can see this attitude on display in every word uttered by George W. Bush. Here is a man with severely limited intellectual capacity and no moral core. He, along with Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who attended my boarding school and went on to Yale, is an example of the legions of self-centered mediocrities churned out by places like Andover, Yale and Harvard. Bush was, like the rest of his caste, propelled forward by his money and his connections. That is the real purpose of these well-endowed schools -- to perpetuate their own. 1 2 3 Next page »

December 10, 2008 Dear fellow Patriot, Just as we promised, Congressional leaders weren't content with their $700 billion bailout this past fall and are ready to pass another one -- this time for the American automotive industry. Visit our activist Liberty Blog at http://www.campaignforliberty.com to learn how you can help fight this round of government theft and wealth redistribution, or just keep reading. In the agreement just formulated earlier today by Congressional Democrats and the White House, our government has pledged to wrest another $23 billion away from taxpayers to subsidize the inefficiency and reward the poor management and performance of -- count them -- one, two, three giant corporations. But that's not all. More intervention like this means greater government oversight and regulation -- and more inflation as the government prints and spends even more dollars. As one economic thinker once reflected, a subsidy may be a form of establishment, but it's really a means of capture. Even if the bailout passes the house, we have a chance to muster some opposition in the Senate. Using the contact information provided on our website, tell your Senator to support the Ensign filibuster. While you're at it, thank Senator Ensign for standing up to Big Labor and Big Business. Auto Bailout Looming It looks like the White House and Congressional Democrat leadership have reached a deal on the auto bailout, although there aren't very many details at this point. Plans for a "car czar" seem to still be included as part of the deal. So, not only will your money be spent for the bailout, it will be used to pay a new government appointee, staff his office, and take care of the other requirements that come along with that job. (It also gives them one more person to shift the blame to when the problems continue.) All of this is being done again, of course, out of "necessity," we are told. Just like buying up all the toxic assets was a "necessity" until the Treasury got the money and decided to spend it on everything but. This is what happens when the majority of Congress is not guided by any philosophy other than the one that says that government can cure all of our ills with just a little more money (or billions more). A vote could come at any time, with signs pointing toward later today. To keep reading for up-to-date news on the bailout, sample letters, and yourrepresentatives' contact information, visit C4L's blog at http://www.campaignforliberty.com and take action right away. If you haven't already done so, please bookmark our website www.campaignforliberty.com for real-time news updates and discussion regarding our shared freedoms and liberty. For liberty, John Tate President Campaign For Libety