Diet Convention

Not a dingy, Trekkie filled high school gym with homemade outfits– I mean a Bill-Shatner-Patrick-Stewart-Jeff-Combs-Brent-Spiner thing full of Trekkers and souvenirs!
Are they coming to KC anytime withthin the next 3-4 years??

Probably not…

A reception hall that can hold approximately 150-200 people in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic or throughout the whole Dominican Republic.

Yes, there’s a Convention Center at the Barcelo Palace in Punta Cana, DR. There are 4 resorts in 1 that you can choose form.

Here’s the link for more info: http://www.barcelo.com/BarceloHotels/en-GB/home_en-US.htm?cultura=en-GB@_en-US&af=1

1. Modern conventions are private caucuses with no audience outside the delegates themselves.
2. the opposing candidates
3. the mass media
4. party loyalists

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hey i was just wondering if anyone here is going to that convention this next week [july 2-7] in san jose?
www.sanjose2007.org
just trying to see if anyone on here is going.

I’ll be there…

‘Ex-Army chief Gen Sir Richard Dannatt has been accused of a "terrifying misjudgement" in agreeing while still in service to be a Tory adviser.’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8407190.stm
"Former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown told BBC Question Time the appointment had broken the convention that the military should be independent of politics."

I agree with what Paddy Pantsdown said on QT. The military should be independent of political parties. It is a decision he should have made when he had retired not whilst still serving out his time in the amry. It was a politically motivated move on camerons part, around the same time The Sun swapped political sides. It’s all aload of tory spin.

Hi , I am attending a Twilight Convention and I have an extra ticket and my little cousin who is 12 wants to go. I love her and i really want her to go but , is she old enough , she is very mature but will they let her in ?

10 and under probaly. WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO GO TO THAT. IT IS A LAME LAME MOVIE THAT ISN’T REAL. I HATE IT.

Can anybody tell me the genre details of Sport based films? What are the codes and conventions of sport films?

Yes, and it’s very simple. It MUST be about a sport. If it’s about football, perfect. If it’s about computer programming, think again, buster.

I am from US. I wish to attend the "Follow the Christ" convention in Australia. I need to make arrangements fast. If the locations list is posted in the Watchtower, 03/01/07, please scan it and email it to me: ucantzme@bellsouth.net
Or perhaps you know where it is posted on the web. Only United States locations are given on www.Watchtower.org
I wrote the US branch about a week ago. They called me this morning and said I must write the AU branch for that information. I put the letter in the mail today, but I fear I just don’t have time to wait for their response. I would like to know all the AU locations so I can plan my trip accordingly.

Thank You!
Christian Love!

Conventions are in the summer.

Australia is in the southern hemisphere, their summer won’t be for another 5 to 6 months.

If I remember correctyl, their conventions won’t start till then.

What is the possibility of that happening in the near future?

The odds of this happening are similar to that of me flying without mechanical means.

PLEASE HELP!!! How did the US government breach the Geneva Convention and Universal Declaration of human rights in Guantanamo bay. please help i have an essay and i have no clue where to start.

The torturing of prisoners was a breach of the Geneva Convention

according to the darling of the RIGHT WING—General Patraeus

Gen. Petraeus joined FOX News and Martha MacCallum today and gave a blockbuster interview, but probably not the one Fox expected. Once again, he called for the responsible closure of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. He also said that mistakes were made after 9/11 and that the Army Field Manual is all that we need to use to interrogate prisoners. In addition, he said that we have to have faith in our judicial system and we should try the Khalid Sheikh Muhammads in a court of law.

Martha tried to give him the ticking time bomb scenario to justify torture and he really didn’t bite. He did say maybe an Executive Order could be appropriate, but that it really wasn’t necessary. Petraeus repudiated pretty much most of what Limbaugh Republicans and the Rove/Newt/Cheney Party have been saying.
(rush transcript)

MacCallum: Where do you think those people should go?

Gen. Petraeus: Well, it’s not for a soldier to say. What I do support is what has been termed the responsible closure of Gitmo. Gitmo has caused us problems, there’s no question about it. I oversee a region in which the existence of Gitmo has been used by the enemy against us. We have not been without missteps or mistakes in our activity since 9/11 and again Gitmo is a lingering reminder for the use of some in that regard.

MacCallum: What about the concern that a Khalid Sheikh Muhammad or anybody of that ilk might be tried here in a US court and the possibility that some of the treatments that were used on them that they could go free.

Gen. Petraeus: Well, first of all, I don’t think we should be afraid of our values we’re fighting for, what we stand for. And so indeed we need to embrace them and we need to operationalize them in how we carry out what it is we’re doing on the battlefield and everywhere else. So one has to have some faith, I think, in the legal system. One has to have a degree of confidence that individuals that have conducted such extremist activity would indeed be found guilty in our courts of law.

MacCallum: So you’re confident that they will never go free.

Gen. Petraeus: I hope that’s the case.

MacCallum: (Ticking time bomb scenario)

Gen. Petraeus: ….T here might be an exception and that would require extraordinary but very rapid approval to deal with, but for the vast majority of the cases, our experience downrange if you will, is that the techniques that are in the Army Field Manual that lays out how we treat detainees, how we interrogate them — those techniques work, that’s our experience in this business.

MacCallum: So is sending this signal that we’re not going to use these kind of techniques anymore, what kind of impact does this have on people who do us harm in the field that you operate in?

Gen. Petraeus: Well, actually what I would ask is, does that not take away from our enemies a tool which again have beaten us around the head and shoulders in the court of public opinion? When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions, we rightly have been criticized, so as we move forward I think it’s important to again live our values, to live the agreements that we have made in the international justice arena and to practice those.