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The Bluefly

Manolo says, if you are looking for the shoes on the internets and you are not looking at The Bluefly, you are not looking as carefully as you might be.

For the example these saucy boots by the Dolce and the Gabbana, they are on the sale at the Bluefly reduced 40%.




Manolo says, you must go to the Bluefly and look at the shoes, as they have shoes from many of the most super fantastic designers, like the Prada, and the Jimmy Choo, and the Christian Louboutin. Yes, perhaps their selection it is not terribly wide, but the bargains they nonetheless abound.

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Manolo says, yes, the Manolo he has said this before, but if you are not yet the member of the Netflix you must join. It is, in the humble opinion of the Manolo, the business of genius, one that brings the pleasure of the movies right to the box of the mail.

Miss HIV Crowned

Okay! Now I have heard it all!
Yahoo
GABORONE (Reuters) - There is a catwalk banquet, hordes of journalists, traditional dancing and time-consuming hair styling -- but at Botswana's beauty pageant every competitor must be HIV (news - web sites) positive.

At a palm tree-studded resort and conference center in the capital Gaborone, 12 girls are competing this weekend for the title "Miss HIV Stigma Free."

"We are saying here we are, we are HIV positive and it doesn't mean it's the end of the line," 33 year old reigning Miss HIV Kgalalelo Ntsepe told Reuters in her cluttered one room cottage, where she displays trophies of her win in 2003.

Largest global diamond producer Botswana has one of the highest HIV rates in the world with an estimated third of the population infected.

The government is using its mineral wealth to provide life prolonging anti-retroviral drugs -- but many do not know their HIV status or are unwilling to come forward for treatment. Organizers say the pageant aims to tackle that stigma.

"After I started the medicine, I became stronger and stronger," said Ntsepe, who was diagnosed in 2001.

"We are trying to say there is life with this medication. Some don't believe I'm HIV positive because I'm so healthy," she said.

AIDS (news - web sites) groups welcome the pageant, which is sponsored by British bank Barclays. "It may just be a pageant, but it is important because it brings together people with HIV who are open about their status," said Brad Ryder, spokesman for the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Programme.

"They need support, they need to come out and get acceptance for their condition."

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~

Judge orders U.S. to charge, or free, suspected terrorist

The Seattle Times

Why does this article scare me? If he is let go, out into the streets just to disappear into the population, well who knows what will happen next? Isn't Osama calling for attacks inside the US? He might just be the man, free and ready to jump on the bandwagon.

A federal judge in South Carolina ruled yesterday that the Bush administration lacks statutory and constitutional authority to indefinitely imprison without criminal charges a U.S. citizen who was designated an "enemy combatant."

Rejecting a series of arguments put forward by the government, District Court Judge Henry Floyd said that the indefinite detention of Jose Padilla — who the administration has said is a terrorist supporter of the al-Qaida terrorist network — is illegal and that Padilla must be released from a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., within 45 days or be charged with a crime.

In a strongly worded ruling, Floyd said, "To do otherwise would not only offend the rule of law and violate this country's constitutional tradition, but it would also be a betrayal of this nation's commitment to the separation of powers that safeguards our democratic values and our individual liberties."

Floyd said he was not persuaded by arguments put forward by the administration to justify its assertion that Americans designated "enemy combatants" by the president can be detained without trial.

Using a phrase often used by conservatives to denigrate liberal judges, Floyd — who was appointed by President Bush in 2003 — accused the administration of engaging in "judicial activism" by asserting it has blanket authority under the Constitution to detain Americans on U.S. soil who are suspected of taking or planning actions against the country.

Floyd said that the government presented no law supporting this contention and that just because the administration says Padilla's detention was consistent with U.S. laws and the president's war powers, that did not make it so.

"Moreover, such a statement is deeply troubling," Floyd's ruling said. "If such a position were ever adopted by the courts, it would totally eviscerate the limits placed on presidential authority to protect the citizenry's individual liberties."

This is the second time the government's handling of Padilla has been repudiated in federal court. In December 2003, a federal appeals court in New York also held that Bush lacked authority to hold Padilla in a military brig and ordered him released. But the Justice Department appealed the decision, and the Supreme Court ruled in June 2004 that Padilla's petition for release should have been processed in federal court in South Carolina, not New York.

The government has vowed to appeal. One of Padilla's attorneys, Donna Newman, said the "court ruled that the president does not have the power to seize an American citizen on American soil and hold him indefinitely without a charge. That shouldn't be big news, but it is. ... It confirms our belief that the Constitution is alive and well and kicking. The system works."

Padilla, 34, was monitored by the FBI on a flight from Pakistan to Chicago's O'Hare airport in May 2002 and initially arrested on a warrant describing him as a material witness to an ongoing terrorism investigation. After being questioned by investigators in New York and demanding a lawyer, he was officially designated by Bush as an enemy combatant and taken to the brig, where he has been for the past 32 months.

U.S. officials contended that Padilla was scouting sites to detonate a radioactive "dirty" bomb. They also said he had met with senior al-Qaida officials and would pose a grave threat to the country if released.

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~