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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's state news agency says the country's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison.
The Korean Central News Agency says the Central Court tried American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from June 4 to 8.
It said Monday the trial confirmed an unspecified "grave crime" against the nation, and of illegally crossing into North Korea.
The report says the court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor."
Why is there an anger management banner ad from Google up in the top page? What exactly are they implying!? If they have something to say, why don't they just COME RIGHT OUR AND SAY IT! AAARGH!!
Why is there an anger management banner ad from Google up in the top page? What exactly are they implying!? If they have something to say, why don't they just COME RIGHT OUR AND SAY IT! AAARGH!!
North Korea's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists, and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison, the country's state news agency reported.
The Central Court tried American TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee and confirmed their unspecified "grave crime" against the nation, and of illegally crossing into North Korea.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's state news agency says the country's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison.
The Korean Central News Agency says the Central Court tried American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from June 4 to 8.
It said Monday the trial confirmed an unspecified "grave crime" against the nation, and of illegally crossing into North Korea.
The report says the court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor."
More taunting of the US by the scumbag norks. Will our "dear leader" act in any way? Mr Obama: the whole world is watching! Time to "man up."
the world is testing Obama on an almost daily basis. and so far, with very few exceptions, he has come up short. punks like kim respect only strength. and what the world sees in Obama is weakness. God help us ...
This album won the Grammy for best album this year, so it may not be new to everyone. But I've just been rediscovering how great it is today.
Allison Krauss is performing tonight at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, in a benefit for Challenge America, which "works with communities across America to support the development of recreational and occupational programs for returning injured military and their families." I really wish I had known earlier. I would have tried to go.
Apparently she and Robert plant are releasing another album together this year. I'll be sure to catch the tour this time. It's really a fantastic collaboration. I never would have guessed how well they'd work together.
Hey, that's a clean sweep. I don't think we've seen that before. Congrats, AemJeff!
the Lizards threw everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink at him ... he reminded me of the character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that kept losing limbs but continued taalking smack to his superior opponent.
the Lizards threw everything INCLUDING the kitchen sink at him ... he reminded me of the character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that kept losing limbs but continued taalking smack to his superior opponent.
King Arthur: Your arms's off!
Black Knight: No, it's not.
Hey, that's a clean sweep. I don't think we've seen that before. Congrats, AemJeff!
It/He, and the valiant lizards fought a LONG fight! Lizards did not give in, even to fatigue! (There was some three stooges posted for relief, towards the end of the battle!) He has earned his bottom ten.
Hey, since this is a music thread - walking through Tarjay today, I noticed they have two acoustic guitars, one is "parlor size", the other is "dreadnaught". Both steel string. Developed with whatzhisname from Maroon 6. Kewl. So, ... what's a "parlor size" guitar? That borrowed Martin I used to play, that's "dreadnaught" size?
My musical skills are such, that an acoustic guitar from Target is just about the right speed.
(and actually, they had a couple of other acoustics and several electrics, too, fwiw)
I think Maximu§ clean-sweeped the Bottom 10 the day he was booted.
Someone should keep statistics on these things. Most up-dings for a single comment, most down-dings for a single comment, most popular spinoff link, etc.
I'm still trying to get on the top ten and bottom ten on the same day. Haven't managed yet, but I'll make it.
KT, but you're trying to get ONE on each of the top ten & the bottom ten in the same day, right? Not SWEEP them! LOL! You can do with your body what your mind sets out to do!
Sheeesh! *Red with embarrassment* I just redefined the phrase "Late to the party!"
Eh, it happens to us all sometimes.
Can we come up with a new award to give AemJeff? Maybe we could call it the Anti-Zeppelin award. Because at one point in the 1980's, Led Zeppelin albums held nine of the top ten albums on the Billboard chart at the same time. It would have worked better if it was all ten.
A Stimulus Story. It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea, it is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town. He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the butcher. The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig grower.The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the supplier of his feed and fuel. The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to the town's prostitute that in these hard times, gave her services on credit. The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she brought her clients there. The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so that the rich tourist will not suspect anything. At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms, and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he did not like any of the rooms, and leaves town. No one earned anything.
However, the whole town is now without debt, and looks to the future with a lot of optimism.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing business today.
Really happened this week: Old couple in the store looking over a lamp, the man turns it over and exclaims "Made in China!" (He pronounces it "Chiner")
The wife asks "Who makes it?" - referring to the manufacturing company, I think - and the old guy rolls his eyes and exclaims "Chinermen!"
Gee, I'm confused about this save the planet recycling myth. I spent the past few years in NW Pennsylvania where we separated and recycled everything except kitty litter and kitty poop. I now live in SW Nevada, and here we dump everything in the same can and roll it out to the street once a week. Cans, bottles, plastic, paper, garbage, kitty poop, it all goes into the same can. What's up with that?
OMG I only got through a few of those. Too sickening to even think about, much less look at. I'll bet the photographer's family will make a fortune on those pics.
I'm going to look. I just get so creeped out. In high school I decided to do my term paper on "Adolph Hitler and the Persecution of the Jews". I read everything, including "Mein Kampf". I got so scared I almost didn't finish the project.
Well, I'm thinking of posting the link to the larger collection (more than the Telegraph shows), in the overnight spin-offs.
I'm more interested in the "photography" end of things... how the photographer chose to portray his subject - easily the most important person to which that photog would have access for the purposes of documenting a life.
I feel very far removed from the subject, or at least far enough, that the subject matter doesn't stop me from looking at the collection. But it is interesting that the whole collection of 2000 photos have never been made available, even up till now.
I'll look for your post but I am still that freaked out high school kid. "Strength through Joy". That was weird. I am moving upthread because I don't want to dream about the North Koreans or Hitler.
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.
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