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Reuters: Canadian school knocked for mocking Yale grad Bush

Posters and a Web site mocking President Bush have put the spotlight on a small Ontario university that thought a bold and edgy recruiting campaign was just the ticket to attract potential students.

The Web site, http://www.yaleshmale.com, has a black and white picture of Bush, with the caption: “Graduating from an Ivy League university doesn’t necessarily mean you’re smart.”

Bush graduated from Yale in 1968.

A link takes viewers to a site for Lakehead University, in rugged Thunder Bay, Ontario, some 1,375 km (850 miles) northwest of Toronto.

“It was literally a tongue-in-cheek way of getting attention,” Frederick Gilbert, president and vice-chancellor of Lakehead University, said on Monday.

“The young people picked it up that way,” he added. “I must say that older generations, well even some of our students, have looked at it as not appropriate.”

Marketing Bush Derangement Syndrome, eh?

Lakehead University seems substantial enough without the denigration of another school or individual.

How do you spell NO CLASS?

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni gives a joined press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema after a meeting on post-war Lebanon on August 24. Livni has urged the international community to stop the “threat” posed by Iran, which she accused of trying to “buy time” to build a nuclear weapon.

AFP: Iran rejects US warning as nuclear deadline nears

Iran has angrily rejected a US threat to impose sanctions over its contested nuclear programme outside the United Nations as the clock ticked down to a crunch UN deadline for Tehran to suspend sensitive atomic work.

With arch-enemy Israel warning that Iran’s uranium enrichment must be stopped for the sake of “world peace”, a Thursday deadline neared for Iran to suspend the controversial nuclear activity or face possible sanctions.

US ambassador to the UN John Bolton has said that while Washington was confident of securing a UN consensus over Iran, it was prepared to act unilaterally if a resolution against Tehran was vetoed by Beijing and Moscow.

“Such statements are a blatant insult to the United Nations and the Security Council. They stem from bullying and a lack of principles,” government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham told reporters on Monday.

Bolton told the Los Angeles Times newspaper late last week that “everybody’s been on board” on the Security Council over Iran but in case Russia and China did not accept any resolution, the United States was working on a parallel diplomatic track.

“You don’t need Security Council authority to impose sanctions, just as we have,” Bolton said, referring to the raft of economic sanctions the United States imposed on Tehran in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Elham scoffed that the comments showed “such people do not deserve to be a member to this council and the organization should reconsider to save its reputation and show it is not an instrument in their hands.

“The ones who sacrifice international law for their greed, dominance and unilateralism better be worried,” he said.

The UN Security Council has given Iran an August 31 deadline to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities and an impasse looms with Iran insisting it has no intention of abandoning such work.

More Iranian bloviations.

The United States will pursue sanctions through the United Nations or outside with its allies.

Israel has NO confidence in negotiating with Iran.

Stay tuned…..

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, USAF, left, shows Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld one of the ground based interceptor missiles at the missile defense site at Ft. Greeley near Fairbanks, Alaska Sunday Aug. 27, 2006.

AP: Rumsfeld Cautions on Missile Shield

After his first look inside the nerve center of the U.S. missile defense system, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Sunday sounded a note of caution about expectations that interceptors poised in underground silos here would work in the event of a missile attack by North Korea.

Rumsfeld climbed down a steel ladder into one of 10 silos that house single 54-foot-long missile interceptors. If ordered by President Bush, or a successor, one or more of the rockets would blast into the sky and race at more than 18,000 mph to launch a small “kill vehicle” at an enemy warhead as it soared through space.

An 11th interceptor is to be installed at Greely on Monday, officials said.

Asked at a news conference later whether he believed the missile shield was ready for use against a North Korean missile like the one test-fired unsuccessfully on July 4, Rumsfeld said he would not be fully persuaded until the multibillion dollar defense system has undergone more complete and realistic testing.

***ALERT*** MSM spin on this story ***ALERT ***

Read the entire piece and see if Rumsfeld is cautioning or just being prudent on a missile defense system that is not fully tested and/or deployed.

The lefty influenced media has been biased against missile defense since the early days of President Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative.

Does the LEFT and their friends in the media want to denigrate the system the media derogatorily dubbed “Star Wars” in the 1980’s?

Sure seems like it……

Stay tuned…..

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Charles Meyer, who farms 2,600 acres south of Fresno, Calif., is among a growing number of people who advocate legalizing the cultivation of industrial hemp. “The fact we’re not growing it is asinine,” Mr. Meyer said.

New York Times: California Seeks to Clear Hemp of a Bad Name

Charles Meyer’s politics are as steady and unswerving as the rows of pima cotton on his Central Valley farm. With his work-shirt blue eyes and flinty Clint Eastwood demeanor, he is staunchly in favor of the war in Iraq, against gun control and believes people unwilling to recite the Pledge of Allegiance should be kicked out of America, and fast.

But what gets him excited is the crop he sees as a potential windfall for California farmers: industrial hemp, or Cannabis sativa. The rapidly growing plant with a seemingly infinite variety of uses is against federal law to grow because of its association with its evil twin, marijuana.

“Industrial hemp is a wholesome product,” said Mr. Meyer, 65, who says he has never worn tie-dye and professes a deep disdain for “dope.”

“The fact we’re not growing it is asinine,” Mr. Meyer said.

Things could change if a measure passed by legislators in Sacramento and now on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk becomes law. [The bill reached Mr. Schwarzenegger last week; he has 30 days to sign or veto it.]

Seven states have passed bills supporting the farming of industrial hemp; their strategy has been to try to get permission from the Drug Enforcement Administration to proceed.

Of course, it is asinine and Governor Schwarzenegger will probably sign the bill. Flap uses a hemp based moisturizer for his feet and it works well. There are many non-illegal uses for this crop and should be permitted.

Domestic hemp production was promoted in World War II but later outlawed. Hemp twine was on sale this month at the 15th annual Hempfest in Seattle.

But, will Schwarzenegger pick a fight with the federal government over this issue?

Probably

It won’t be the first or the last time for Arnold.

In North Dakota, the state agricultural commissioner, Roger Johnson, has proposed allowing hemp farming, and has been working with federal drug regulators on stringent regulations that would include fingerprinting farmers and requiring G.P.S. coordinates of hemp fields.

“We’ve done our level best to convince them we’re not a bunch of wackos,” Mr. Johnson said.

Fifteen years ago, he noted, there was little market for canola, which is now a major crop produced for its cooking oil. He sees hemp in a similar vein and dismisses the fears that it would lead to criminality.

“It would take a joint the size of a telephone pole to have an impact,” he said.

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