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she should have tried it with fava beans and a nice chianti
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Gee... when I did a google search on it, it seemed like far more than just the nutters over at World Nut DailyOriginally posted by Oerdin View Post
Keep on Civin'
RIP rah, Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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I have never quite understood the outcry about the seal hunt-- If someone is vegetarian and doesn't wear any animal product as clothing, I can see then having some consistency-- I may not agree but at least I can respect their viewpoint.
But if the person pontificating will eat beef or pork or chicken as part of what they see as acceptable, they should kindly just shut up.
The only problem with the seal hunt is that it takes place outdoors and blood makes for a gory picture set against the ice and snow. That plus baby seals, which I understand have not been really hunted for years, are so freaking adorable looking. Picture of baby whitecoats still make up the bulk of the animal rights groups advertising in what has become a cash cow for them
why don't I see these groups go after the beef industry?You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto LuongoComment
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Our new president is a closet-lesbian karate-black belt wearing tough-talking single *****. YARRR.
Grybauskaite's Karate > Putin's Judo
Lithuania gets first woman leader
Dalia Grybauskaite has been elected Lithuania's first female president, according to official results.
"I am grateful for the responsibility invested in me," said Ms Grybauskaite, the European Union budget commissioner.
With all ballots counted, she won 68.17% of the votes. Turnout at 51.7% was just above the threshold needed to give her an outright first round win.
Her nearest challenger, Social Democrat lawmaker Algirdas Butkevicius came a distant second with 12% of the vote.
Seven candidates contested the poll which was held amid widespread concern about the economic downturn in the Baltic state.
Under the Lithuanian constitution presidents have limited influence over economic policies.
Though as president Ms Grybauskaite, whose inauguration is set for 12 July, she will have the right to veto the budget.
The president's main power lies in foreign policy and here she has promised to be less confrontational, especially towards Russia. The president also formally appoints the prime minister and the cabinet.
'Level-headed'
President-elect Grybauskaite, the EU's tough-talking budget commissioner who has a black belt in karate, ran as an independent.
Lithuania's crashing economy has dominated what little policy debate this presidential election has generated, the BBC's Adam Easton says.
Ms Grybauskaite has been critical of the way the economy has been handled by governments in the past.
"Our local political establishment is so boring for people, and they want to see some new faces," she told reporters after voting in the capital Vilnius.
"In the difficult times I can give my experience, my knowledge to my country," Ms Grybauskaite added.
She is widely seen as being a level-headed caretaker and has also avoided being tainted by domestic scandals, our correspondent says.
After enjoying years of impressive growth since it joined the European Union in 2004, Lithuania is experiencing double digit economic contraction and rising unemployment.
Frustration turned into violence in January when demonstrators smashed windows in the parliament building in Vilnius.Originally posted by Serb:Please, remind me, how exactly and when exactly, Russia bullied its neighbors?
Originally posted by Ted Striker:Go Serb !
Originally posted by Pekka:If it was possible to capture the essentials of Sepultura in a dildo, I'd attach it to a bicycle and ride it up your azzes.Comment
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Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-ArmsComment
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Domesticated animals are bred to be killed. If seals were domesticated and clubbed in factory farms, it would be perfectly fine.Originally posted by Flubber View PostGraffiti in a public toilet
Do not require skill or wit
Among the **** we all are poets
Among the poets we are ****.Comment
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I'm hoping that's a joke.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!Comment
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'Badass' Jean stirs up seal furor
Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean was criticized by a European animal rights group Tuesday but praised by others after she sliced off and ate a raw piece of a seal's heart to show solidarity with sealers devastated by a planned European ban on seal product imports.
The gesture has caused quite a stir.
Media and gossip blog Gawker has taken note and labelled the Governor General "badass."
The blog said Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- who shares similar eyeglasses and both started off as journalists -- only decorated her office with dead animals and shot wolves from helicopters.
"While Jean, clearly the more badass of the two, prefers to butcher seals and eat their hearts in front of hundreds of onlookers," the bloggers wrote.
Mary Simon, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Canada's national Inuit organization, "applauds" Jean for her public support of traditional Inuit culture.
"Hunting and eating a seal is not a political act, nor is it 'bizarre' or 'disgusting' as the anti-sealing lobby have commented," she said. "To us, this kind gesture is an acknowledgment by the Governor General of our culture and our dependence upon our wildlife as an important resource for our communities today"
Jean was accused of continuing the Canadian government's tactic of using the popularity of the Inuit in Europe to fight the ban, while ignoring the ban legislation's exemption for traditional, subsistence sealing.
"I think it's another sad and desperate attempt by the Canadiangovernmentto blur the distinction between the seal hunts," Barbara Slee, of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, told Canwest News Service. "We do not oppose subsistence hunts."
But a sealers' rights activist said the Europeans are misleading the world when they say their ban, directed principally at the commercial hunt by Newfoundland and Quebec sealers, protects the Inuit by leaving the door open for their products.
"We have said for many years that the supposed 'exemption' is of no use, as the price of seal skin has already dropped dramatically and there is no one buying the sealskin anymore because of the European Parliament," Aaju Peter, of Iqaluit, wrote in an e-mail to Canwest.
"The exemption was put there to make the European Parliamentarians and the animal rights groups feel good about themselves that this ban will not affect the Inuit seal hunt.
"Well, it has already affected us and will continue to affect us, (but) not in the way that EU and the animal rights groups are portraying.""The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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The guy Cheney shot was armed, the seal wasn't.Comment
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Seals are far more dangerous than old men that are stupid enough to go hunting with Cheney."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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Normally I'd agree, but if you've just been shot in the face accidents can and will happen.Comment
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Dick Cheney - weapon of mass destructionComment
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He was also a lawyer.Originally posted by Asher View PostI make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator RubioComment
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But wasn't Cheney accompanied by multiple Secret Service guys that would shoot anyone that pointed a weapon at Cheney??Originally posted by Whoha View Post
Our governess general might have had a smiling RCMP officer holding her coatYou don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto LuongoComment
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