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OK looks like the reports of finding a body were premature
and as I suspected, Joran's webpage is now unaccessible, heck it might even be evidence if you think about it

however Geraldo, if one can believe Geraldo or his sources had some interesting things to say about Mr. Van Der Sloot

a) the guy hasn't got a driver's licence and has a hot car already to go - arrogant

b) he is known as an island romeo

c) more importantly, he is known as having anger management problems,

d) here is the kicker - he was involved in taping of the gang banging of a 14 year old girl (Paris Hilton have we got the guy for you)

so that the working theory is we have a Robert Chambers type of situation, rough sex that got out of control and he panicked

Geraldo also says he has an impeccable source and frankly I'
d believe it - the source overheard one of the Aruban cops say how can I do this to this kid (Joran) he's my best friend's son

I suspected not just because the father was a justice official but the fact that the cops may have known these boys and their parents and even the security guards would be problematic

ah wait a minute, the role of the Aruban police is to investigate the crime not feed the 24-7 news cycle of the American media

anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of police investigations knows that you keep as much information under wraps as long as you can BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT CAN COMPROMISE AN INVESTIGATION, in a number of ways......

so I think the American and other media should just take a pill and starting reporting other stories like Mugabe ordered a mosque destroyed and try to see the Islamic world will start burning and pissing on Zimbabwe flags

I thought Dick Morris, who was a Clinton insider, clearly Hillary and Dick had a passionate hate on for each other all during this time, wrote a rebuttal to Hillary's whitewash biography, pointing out all her lies or distortions, of course and likely responding to all her slags on him

I haven't read it yet, so many books, so little time

don't forget though, that much of the vote for Kerry was not for Kerry but against Bush, the Bush haters and DNC radicals would have voted for Bubbles the chimp if he were running vs Bush

funny thing though I ran into some staunch Democrats based in Florida in New York City (there were a Christian couple, church was an important part of their lives and admitted Bush haters, they hate Jeb as well - gee I should have asked them about how they square their Christianity with hating politicians but I digress)

I challenged them about Kerry and they said, Look, we weren't crazy about Kerry but we hate Bush and the husband said, you know the phrase lesser of two evils to us Bush was the worst of all evils

so then I said so what do you think of the fact that many in your party are touting Hillary as the saviour of the DNC

they looked at me as if I'd just said GW Bush

and I said, what did I say, and they replied, quite vigourously that they hate Hillary and she's not getting the 2008 nomination

and I said, you better talk to the rest of the people in your party, I've read about 10 articles this week all praising Hillary and about how she was going to save the party (I didn't mention all the polls that say Hillary is most popular amongst all voters including Dems)

now I wished I had an opportunity to explore that - was it be because they are Southern Democrats or Christians or both, that they despised Hillary so or were they just part of the moonbat wing of the party and yet they didn't otherwise strike me as that wing of the party....they were clearly working in fields that were negatively affected by Bush policies, Jeb and George, however....

interesting

things could get interesting if the Democratic Primaries evolve into a civil war or some Democratic candidate with just as much money and backing as Hillary, if someone puts together an Clintonesque machine, John Edwards????, in which Hillary might have to worry a bit

I only say John Edwards, who up to now seems a lightweight because if you read some of the behind the scenes comments of Edwards at the time of the campaign and some of his comments since, I think he's snarkier and savvier than he appears...and more ambitious than even Kerry....

well the smarter tribes, esp in Canada, made treaties with the white man and those treaties are still being argued in land claims case even today, where the "white man" aka government has reneged on certain promises

but that is a different matter of course, because the conquerors agreed to a treaty and unlike the Muslims who have a rule that all treaties are only good for 10 years, if, courts will still consider, interpret and possibly uphold or order restitution for breaches of treaties that are a few centuries old

well give BBC some props, they actually have tried to do a good job covering Mugabe's behaviour and the efforts of the opposition DESPITE THE FACT Mugabe has banned the BBC from Zimbawe

and what BBC has on tape, which was snuck out to them, before the election about 3-4 years ago, was a systematic campaign to beat and torture black and white opposition members, they had videotape of the victims, black and white, showing their injuries, not to mention the basic fact is that all of Mugabe's racist policies have only resulted in starvation for his people

many blacks, who were farm workers, of course were also beaten and tortured and killed in the campaign to drive out the White farmers and they lost their livelihood.......

heck even Bob Geldof recognizes, Mugabe Bad....

why doesn't anyone bring up Mugabe razing a mosque to every single person who bitches about this Koran thing from here on out

I recall that the Muslim and Arab media were having fits if the US military entered a mosque even though shots were being fired at them from mosques and it turned out the mosque was a huge weapons cache....

Steyn is right, the deliberate bulldozing of a mosque should be almost grounds for war, given the reaction to a drop of urine landing on a Koran by accident

keep up the good work, I'll be doing the same

where's a conservative minded Mark Felt when you need him eh?

I hate to say this but the more I see how crazy Pakistanis are, the more I'm glad Musharraf is in power, and I know, I am a hypocrite

the fact of the matter is that Pakistani politics is so deeply corrupt that Musharraf is in fact an improvement, now I am not naive Musharraf is not pure as the driven snow but in many aspects he exhibits innate common sense, not tht he has been able to implement his common sense like reforming the madrassas in Pakistan, assuming he wasn't just talking the talk but in Pakistan, just talking the talk can get you killed, so I have to impute some sincerity to Mushy, I just think he has gotten a little heady with all his power but on the other hand, given Pakistan has the nuke, I don't want a bunch of flag burning bride gang banging honour killing Shia bombing crazies to get their hands on those nukes anytime soon

rumour has it, and one of the reasons Al Queda wants Mushy dead is that Mushy has a deal with the US to take control of the nukes if the Islamists nutbars grab power at some point, don't know if it is true or not, could be anti Mushy propaganda....

I use to be a fan of Benazir Bhutto, until I read allegations that Bhutto, a supposed secularist, made her own deal with Al Queda

her predecessor was alleged to be receiving money from Saudi Arabia to not allow Al Queda to operate in Pakistan

of course he took the money and let Bin Laden operate, sounds quite plausible because Kashmir is still a priority for the Pakistan government....and AQ was heavily involved in Kashmir

Bhutto decided she's keep up the same scam whilst in office as well

and I thought, et tu Benazir, and you represent moderate Pakistan?????

for example why didn't anyone pick up on the odd wording of Kerry's discharge in 1978 that was in fact posted on his own website [never mind that I found proof myself that Kerry was telling people he was "honourably" discharged in 1970 - see Harvard Crimson Tide interview of John Kerry 1970] when his own records cannot prove this

now the fact of the matter it was military legal types in the blogosphere and/or the NY Sun were the ones that picked up on the wording as being specific to discharges given under the Carter Amnesty

I suspect that the Less than honourable discharge or any discharge that wasn't honourable, there is a range, were expunged under the Carter Amnesty and the only people who may know about it are bound by confidentiality agreements not to reveal that information

someone on another thread noted that they bet if someone were enterprising that there may be other ways to find out, like reviewing the Nixon files...because surely if Kerry got the LHD because of his trips to Paris, Nixon would have either directed it or was informed of it...since Nixon so despised Kerry, but then you'd think John O Neill might have specific details or Pat Buchanan who worked in the Nixon White House at the time.....

you mean like teachers and report cards LOL

only if you are a real bad apple or trully exceptional or the teacher just plain loves ya do they deviate

sorry there were 100 documents the Navy acknowledged it couldn't release without Kerry's consent - the Navy otherwise told Judicial Watch that a big chunk of the record Kerry already had posted on his website [how many documents did Kerry post on his website, not 100, that's for sure] but there was another 10 or 20 documents Judicial Watch did obtain that was not on Kerry's website, at least some of those documents involved one of the medal incidents and the NY Sun reported that the documents seemed to proved that one of Kerry's band of brothers who claimed he was present during one of the events where Kerry got a medal, I can no longer recall which one, according to the documents it would have been improbable he was there, the man was apparently listed as being in the hospital or on leave or some such thing at the very time this incident took place, naturaly no one in the MSM hiccuped at the NY Sun story but try to flush a Koran down the tiolet and whoa!!!!

I also remember right before the election that someone who worked with or under Kerry in the Navy was going to spill the beans on Kerry on Free Republic, the suggestion was this person either knew personally or worked under a Navy commander who knew that Kerry was less than honourably discharged but couldn't say anything unless Kerry consented or he would be breaking the law, and the Swift Boat Vets told him to stand down anyway

the lefties wouldn't have gotten the significance anyway

the theory works for me, that Kerry was less than honourably discharged for his actions, going to Paris and negotiating with the enemy when he was still a commissioned officer and of course without authorization from the US government

he deserved greater punishment, his behaviour was arguably treasonous, but Nixon likely didn't want to make Kerry a martyr

there was some speculation too that a LHD precludes one from holding office as well....

Kerry got lucky with the Carter amnesty

I was too lazy to register to read the story, otherwise I would have emailed Kranish and said what about the 100 documents the Navy said it couldn't release without Kerry's consent you got those too did you Mikey boy?

well after all isn't that what Burkett was accusing Bush of doing, LOL..

but at least W has a honourable discharge and he can prove it too

and W served way more hours than he was supposed to, even with his campaign hiatus....

the other possibility is that under the Carter amnesty, the military records were expunged of certain documents

however it doesn't explain for example why Kerry lied and said he was honourably discharged in 1970 when he was campaigning in his first shot at office when his own records show he wasn't discharged until 1978

and it doesn't explain the NY Sun story about what a Harvard Admissions Committee member said about why Kerry didn't get into Harvard Law School

it also doesn't explain why all of Kerry's citations were amended on the day he got into the Senate or shortly thereafter...

the third citation of the one medal doesn't make sense it is practically unheard of and the ranking officer who allegedly signed it said he never signed that citation....
must have been a rubber stamp, literally....

something does not smell right

Judicial Watch applied to get all of Kerry's Navy record,
during the campaign, I followed this case very closely

the Navy gave Judicial Watch a bunch of documents (including one that suggested that one of Kerry's band of brothers lied about being present for one of his heroic actions, the Navy document showed the man was in hospital or something, I think the NY Sun picked up on that as well)

the Navy told Judicial Watch to go to Kerry's website for some of the documents [Judicial Watch was very pissed off, they felt they should get copies of the Navy originals not what John Kerry claimed was the copy of his record to make sure he hadn't deleted or altered what he had posted]

and then the Navy said there were at least 100 documents they could not release without Kerry's consent

now that 100 document number has been variously reported from 40 to 100 documents or pages of documents....which implies there are a bunch of documents out there that only Judicial Watch and maybe the NY Sun has seen and a bunch of documents no one has seen

we can only conclude that Kerry got his records cleaned up before he even considered running or he got it cleaned up since the election realizing he still wanted to take a kick at the can and that Hillary would be gunning for any tidbit

the nice thing about Hillary is if Kerry is hiding something, if Kerry did manage to whitewash his record, if anyone can find out he did, it will be Hillary....

aye there's the rub

and whilst illegal immigrants have always been a portion of the immigrants coming in, the numbers have escalated putting onerous burdens on local governments near the Mexican border [that is why we encourage legal immigration so you can plan and allocate your resources accordingly) and add that little 9-11 incident....how quickly they forget....

and if the Cardinal was listening, no one has a problem with legal immigration, if more workers are needed from outside the country, reform the system, don't reward law breakers....

you got that right, Ivan

I'm betting Aznar's party will be back in the saddle next elections....

in fact the weird thing is there could be a conservative wave in Europe

the problem is conservative in Europe isn't quite conservative as even in Canada let alone the US but hey, it would be funny to see the leftists have a real hissy fit if we had conservative governments in power in France and Germany and Holland and the US and Spain and god a girl can dream Canada?