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So the British press has been penetrating various Royal residences and writing stories to make security look foolish and incompetent. This has been going on for an extended time.

Well, the security people decided they would do something at Prince Charles’s Scottish retreat on the Balmoral Estate to stop this once and for all: they installed highly sensitive seismic detectors all over the place.

Great idea, except the highly ecologically sensitive Prince decided to use Indian runner ducks to control yard pests and keep the grass down.

When the ducks [Arabella, Antoine, Parsley, Sage, Rose, Mary and Thyme] go dashing about the yard they set off the alarm system.

[Edit: Runner ducks look like some one has stretched a regular duck or crossed a duck with a penguin.]

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Canada hints at trade war with U.S. in response to the US ignoring the fact that tariffs on Canadian lumber have been declared illegal.

They are talking about putting their own tariffs on US goods coming into Canada. I’m hoping they don’t decide to take a 5-week vacation on lumber and oil shipments.

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For some reason after being threatened with lawsuits by the Seminole tribal government of Florida and Florida State University the NCAA Allows ‘Seminoles’ Nickname.

Okay, you have to understand, the Seminole tribe in Florida did not surrender to the white guys and have been selling swampland to white guys for a while. FSU didn’t get to use the name for free, although you’ll never find a copy of the agreement. All of the programs for Seminoles coming from FSU are because the University is really nice and filled with empathy for the tribe.

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The government of Venezuela is unhappy according to this
Canadian report:

In Venezuela, however, Vice-President Jose Vicente Rangel said the U.S. response to Robertson would be a test of its anti-terrorist policy and that Venezuela was studying its legal options.

“It’s a huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that country, there are entirely terrorist statements like those,” Rangel said.

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Rangel called Robertson “a man who seems to have quite a bit of influence in that country,” adding that the comments “reveal that religious fundamentalism is one of the great problems facing humanity in these times.”

As for the paranoia of Hugo Chavez, I guess most people don’t know who Otto Reich is, and his meetings with the Venezuelans who organized the coup against Chavez.

And the difference between Robertson and the Ayatollah Khomeini would be?

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