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Today’s Good News
Have you noticed that we usually debate only the bad things in life.Well, for a change, I thought I’d introduce this thread where anyone can put down current news that they think is good (can be political but not nasty, please, e.g. not Mr Bush catching a cold please!). We can debate the Good News and then move on when someone else posts some more happiness!
So I’ll start with this gem, which will brings tears of joy to many, I am sure.
Chocolate is Good for you
Yes – it’s official
Dark chocolate may be healthier
It’s good for a cough and it’s good for your heart.
Originally posted by rjhowie:
When we run out of minorities to pander to one wonders what will happen then?
The sad part for you is that you'll one of the minorities. That's a ways off, though. Enjoy today.
Glasgow medics 'fly' through head and neck
A model of human anatomy which is claimed to be most accurate in the world has been unveiled by digital designers in Glasgow.
The computer model of the head and neck took three years to create, using data gathered by scanning real human bodies.
It is designed to improve the training of medical students.
This could be good news for some posters outside Glasgow.
Yes, string, it will be good for posters outside the centre of the universe where we take such for granted.
Originally posted by string:
This could be good news for some posters outside Glasgow.
Thanks for that, string. I like the pic there of rj being interviewed.
Bournemouth Football Club (the best football club in the world in case you did not realise that) has been promoted into the English Champions League.
There is talk of an open bus parade through Bournemouth, I shall miss it unfortunately; I shall be happily gloating in Mallorca.
Originally posted by Fox News Site:
A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts.
Former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic party Chairman Butch Morgan Jr. was found guilty of felony conspiracy counts to commit petition fraud and forgery, and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe was found guilty of felony forgery counts and falsely making a petition, after being accused of faking petitions that enabled Obama, then an Illinois Senator, to get on the presidential primary ballot for his first run for the White House.
Morgan was accused of being the mastermind behind the plot.
According to testimony from two former Board of Election officials who pled guilty, Morgan ordered Democratic officials and workers to fake the names and signatures that Obama and Clinton needed to qualify for the presidential race. Blythe, then a Board of Elections employee and Democratic Party volunteer, was accused of forging multiple pages of the Obama petitions.
"I think this helped uphold the integrity of the electoral system," the prosecutor, Stan Levco told reporters.
“Their verdict of guilt is not a verdict against Democrats, but for honest and fair elections,” he said.
The scheme was hatched in January of 2008, according to affidavits from investigators who cite former Board of Registration worker Lucas Burkett, who told them he was in on the plan at first, but then became uneasy and quit. He waited three years before telling authorities about it, but if revelations about any forgeries were raised during the election, the petitions could have been challenged during the contest. A candidate who did not qualify with enough legitimate signatures at the time, could have been bounced from the ballot.
The case raise questions about whether in 2008, then candidate Obama actually submitted enough legitimate signatures to have legally qualified for the primary ballot.
“I think had they been challenged successfully, he probably would not have been on the ballot,” Levco told Fox News.
Under state law, presidential candidates need to qualify for the primary ballots with 500 signatures from each of the state's nine congressional districts. Indiana election officials say that in St. Joseph County, which is the 2nd Congressional district, the Obama campaign qualified with 534 signatures; Clinton's camp had 704.
Prosecutors say that in President Obama's case, nine of the petition pages were apparently forged. Each petition contains up to 10 names, making a possible total of 90 names, which, if faked, could have brought the Obama total below the legal limit required to qualify. Prosecutors say 13 Clinton petitions were apparently forged, meaning up to 130 possibly fake signatures. Even if 130 signatures had been challenged, it would have still left Mrs. Clinton with enough signatures to meet the 500 person threshold.
Levco said a total of “100 to 200” signatures had been forged on Obama’s and Clinton’s petitions.
An Indiana State Police investigator said in court papers that the agency examined the suspect Obama petitions and "selected names at random from each of the petition pages and contacted those people directly. We found at least one person (and often multiple people) from each page who confirmed that they had not signed" petitions "or given consent for their name and/or signature to appear."
Numerous voters told Fox News that they never signed the petitions.
"That's not my signature," Charity Rorie, a mother of four, told us when we showed her the Obama petition with her name and signature. She was stunned, saying that it "absolutely" was a fake.
Charity told Fox News that her husband's entry was also a forgery, and that they have never been contacted by investigators or any authorities looking into the scandal.
"It's scary, it's shocking. It definitely is illegal," she told us.
Robert Hunter, Jr. told Fox news that his name was faked, too.
"I did not sign for Barack Obama," he told us. As he examined the Obama petition in his hands, Hunter pointed out that "I always put 'Junior' after my name, every time...there's no 'Junior' there
Even a former Democratic Governor of Indiana, Joe Kernan, told Fox News that his name was forged.
“This is a bitter sweet moment for free and fair elections," observed Ryan Nees, the Indiana born Yale “University senior who first exposed the scheme in the independent political newsletter, Howey Politics Indiana and South Bend Tribune.
Nees said the multiple guilty verdicts were "bitter, because a five-person conspiracy succeeded in illegally placing two presidential candidates on the ballot, but sweet because they were exposed, tried for their crimes, and convicted."
Nees previously told Fox News that the fraud was clearly evident, "because page after page of signatures are all in the same handwriting," and that nobody raised any red flags "because election workers in charge of verifying their validity were the same people faking the signatures."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/26/officials-found-guilty-in-obama-clinton-ballot-petition-fraud/#ixzz2RaknMgPd
Today's Good News indeed. Justice is served.
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1. May 2013, 11:48:27 (edited)
Originally posted by rjhowie:
When we run out of minorities to pander to one wonders what will happen then?
Hrmmm..the majority is in favor of equal marriage. That must make not making it legal pandering to minorities.
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Originally posted by Sanguinemoon:
Originally posted by rjhowie:
When we run out of minorities to pander to one wonders what will happen then?
Hrmmm..the majority is in favor of equal marriage. That must make not making it legal pandering to minorities.
Only when it's forced by the courts. Yeah, I notice things like that. When it comes to a vote, the majority seems to go the other way, so the courts have to force the "majority opinion" to go the "PC way".
when I'm alone, I will look at them
shocked and just whisper quietly
"You can see me?"
Originally posted by mjmsprt40:
Originally posted by Sanguinemoon:
Originally posted by rjhowie:
When we run out of minorities to pander to one wonders what will happen then?
Hrmmm..the majority is in favor of equal marriage. That must make not making it legal pandering to minorities.
Only when it's forced by the courts. Yeah, I notice things like that. When it comes to a vote, the majority seems to go the other way, so the courts have to force the "majority opinion" to go the "PC way".
Funny, the courts also had to force civil rights for non-whities, mixed race marriages and a whole bunch of related issues. Damn that "PC way".
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2. May 2013, 03:48:26 (edited)
Originally posted by mjmsprt40:
Only when it's forced by the courts. Yeah, I notice things like that.
You didn't notice what happened after that, son. Equal Marriage was upheld by popular referendum and public support keeps growing. One third of those now saying they support Equal Marriage reported being previously against it (and how many won't admit it.)
Originally posted by mjmsprt40:
"PC way".
Oh, following Constitution of the United States is "PC way" now?
How does it hurt you if same sex couples get married? They don't have to do it your church. You won't have marry another man
. Nor have I seen an intelligent argument that it hurts the institution itself; if anything, it strengthens it and set it up as an ideal to aspire to. "Next a man will be able to marry his toaster or his dog" does not count as an intelligent argument.Blog: http://douglaseryan.wordpress.com/
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2. May 2013, 04:37:03 (edited)
Originally posted by Macallan:
Funny, the courts also had to force civil rights for non-whities, mixed race marriages and a whole bunch of related issues. Damn that "PC way".
Damned courts!
I will say, however, that if a woman wants to have sex with her goat she should be able to...in the privacy of her own home, of course.
On matters of civil rights, court action is only wrong when I don't like the court's ruling.
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Originally posted by Belfrager:
I said cultural patrimony. And that certainly exists. People can share it with other cultures but it doesn't mean that they give it to others.
The Sistine Chapel for example is not part of the Chinese culture. Their Opera is not part of western culture. They can see the Chapel and we can go to their Opera, but to each one what belongs to each one.
A couple days ago I went to the opera in Beijing, but it wasn't a Beijing opera. Rather it was a modern opera in the Western tradition, with some Chinese themes, and a good dash of Stravinsky. Set in Fishing Town, it had a roster of Han soldiers, fisher-women, and Mongolian footsoldiers (maybe we should campaign to get live horses back on stage). The Han-Mongolian wife-heroine, after a gross violation of Chekhov's knife, persuades the Han general to surrender and Kublai Khan not to massacre everyone. The end. The hundred thousand inhabitants may not have lived happily ever after, but at least they lived.
Originally posted by jax:
A couple days ago I went to the opera in Beijing, but it wasn't a Beijing opera. Rather it was a modern opera in the Western tradition, with some Chinese themes, and a good dash of Stravinsky.
You're talking to a ghost, jax. Belfrager has left the room in a fit of pique, and he ain't coming back.
Originally posted by SCMP:
A Sichuan man, abducted and taken to Fujian province at the age of five, has finally found his way home after spending years trying to work out where he came from. And he says he could not have done it without the help of Google Maps, Fujian’s news portal nhaidu.com reports.
Luo Gang, who was born in a small town in Guangan city, southwestern Sichuan province, disappeared on his way to kindergarten 23 years ago, said his parents. Heartbroken, they did everything they could to find their son, but to no avail. They eventually gave up and later adopted a daughter.
What they didn't know was that their son had been taken to a city in southeastern Fujian province, some 1500 kilometres from Sichuan.
Although Luo’s adopted parents loved him and treated him like their own son, he said the desire to find his birth parents had always haunted him.
"First Saudi Woman Scales Mount Everest
KATMANDU, Nepal — A Saudi Arabian woman was among 64 people who successfully scaled Mount Everest on Saturday from Nepal’s side of the mountain, according to mountaineering officials."
The climber will almost certainly be targeted by the Taliban for conduct unbecoming for a woman.
Toyota is running an ad that shows a Toyota Tundra pulling the Space Shuttle.
Contrast that to this gem.
Ya gotta love advertisers.
when I'm alone, I will look at them
shocked and just whisper quietly
"You can see me?"
21. May 2013, 18:21:10 (edited)
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