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Alcohol, food and gender relations are the key barriers to social interaction between Muslim and non-Muslim Australians, a study suggests.
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10/10/2008 11:18 Comments ||
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#3
Well thats ok, I don't think I would have got along with Carrie Nation either.
Little story, went and visited a friend in Virginia who had just got back from Iraq; I had to spend the night in Atlanta due to storms. That morning we went to play golf and heck yeah we had some beers. Paired with a couple of mohommatons to make a four-some. They were nice at first but then started avoiding us, not even chit chat during the tee box. Now I'm not so sure what was bothering them more, that we were drinking in front of them or that we were so much better than them at golf while we were drinking.
#8
It seems many Arabs have problems with self-control. Booze tends to release inhabitions. It seems Mohammad might have known his audience.
Of course if one is always using training wheels on a safe flat track they won't be prepared for the tour de France race that is the real world. Entire nations might just come in last place.
#10
I carry it on my breath most everywhere I go.
Works like a charm, I've not had a muslim talk to me in years. At least nobody that LOOKS muslim.
Its like AIDS, you can't always tell by looking at them.
/bourbon breath
#1
Yep, Gov. Palin had all those special doors opened for her because of her class. So, why all the viscous 'trailer trash' attacks upon a proletarian by the Donks, Champions of the Working Class(tm)? Other than the upper echelons of the Donks seem to contain a rather large contingent of the coastie limousine socialist crowd and dilettantes.
Only Iowahawk can come up with something like this. Read the entire thing at the link.
ST. LOUIS - Attorneys for the voting registration organizations ACORN and Project Vote filed an anti-discrimination voting rights suit in the U.S. Federal District court this morning, alleging the United States government is involved in "a widespread, systematic effort to disenfranchise Imaginary-Americans and deprive them of access to polls."
"Participation in our electoral process is a fundamental right, and the foundation of our democracy," said ASDF ASDFG, a spokesperson for the National Association for the Advancement of Imaginary People, one of the groups named as plaintiffs in the class action. "We will not be silent when government denies people access to the polls on the basis of color, or sex, or existential status."
The new suit was prompted by on a series of law enforcement raids of ACORN offices in 10 states over the past week, as well as a reported Justice Department investigation. Federal and state officials say they were acting on tips of fraudulent voter registration forms, after election officials reported a flood of unusual applications submitted by ACORN canvassers. In Las Vegas the Clarke County election commission reported thousands of registrations signed by the Dallas Cowboys, while in St. Louis officials discovered thousands of others signed by Power Rangers, Menudo, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In Cleveland, Ohio Republican officials complained to the Federal Election Commission after early-voting sites barred observers when thousands of Invisible-Ohioans arrived at the polls aboard hundreds of invisible ACORN buses. In Ida Grove, Iowa, Ida County Registrar Debby Ballard expressed concern when a convoy of Chicago ACORN semis submitted 4,000,000 provisional ballots, 17 seconds before a 5 pm deadline.
"I'm proud that Ida County can boast of a 114,312% voter registration rate, but I'm not sure if I can get all of them processed by Monday," said Ballard. "I've got a pilates class in Sioux City."
#1
i can't even believe they would let this lawsuit into a court. A nd IF they lose they should be made too pay for every dime of it. Criminals are charged court cost so should civil suits
Posted by: chris ||
10/10/2008 12:18 Comments ||
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#3
In the non-satire veain, even the Seattle papers are carrying articles about the increasing number of ACORN-related votoer fraud issues popping up all over the US. its almost like its planned.....
#4
lotp, i've read so much BS in the last few years i don't know the diff anymore
Posted by: chris ||
10/10/2008 17:08 Comments ||
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#5
Actually this can never happen in the Seattle area. Imaginary Americans (and even non-americans) have no problems registering to vote at least in Snohomish County (just north of seattle).
Took my wife in to regiser to vote. They didn't even ask for **any** ID - never mind citizenship - not even a utility bill.
Just said that they would send out a ballot on the 16th by mail (Snohomish County has mandatory vote-by-mail).
#3
No, invest in bullets and make a list of people stockpiling. That way you're always prepared and never have a "Y2K" stash rotting away in your basement.
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#2
I'll be looking forward to seeing this...but it still begs the question of why, why,WHY stuff like this didn't start being put together seven years ago. One of G-Dub's myriad mistakes in the GWOT was the failure to start up the modern equivalent of this outfit. I'm just an ex-enlisted squid with a commuter-school business degree, and even I knew on 9/11 that the MSM would be in full fifth-column mode in no more than six months, and that a successful war effort would necessitate getting the good guys' case out to the public over the MSM's heads.
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#3
In addition to the Office of War Information Bush should have sold war bonds as a way for people to show their support, provide the gov with a flush of cash, and prevented the massive budget spending that occurred. Yeah I know they'd have to be paid back eventually but so will the deficit spending dollars.
#4
I agree - but I think we all share the blame. Bush got beat up badly starting on 9/12/2001 and we did not vocally and publicly stand up for him or for the war. Congress and the media respond to credible pressure, if it's large and loud enough. We didn't supply it. And so he caved and wiggled and spent like a drunken sailor to keep the Dems at arm's length while continuing the war.
Remember too that the military and the feds DID try some of this and got huge pushback from the left. So we ended up with the 'truth' firmly locked into everyones' minds: there were no WMDs, we kill civilians and torture prisoners, etc etc.
#6
All wars have two fronts. The point of combat and the one at home. The generals at the Pentagon never have wanted to fight the second one. Go look at the effort in the national mobilization in WWII when the MSM was actually on our side. Now compare it to the efforts since. They outsourced the telling of the story to the MSM, who we pretty much understand worked as the conduit for the enemy. They never questioned their actions or veracity of their propaganda, but undermined and undercut our boys at every opportunity. That which they could not explode out of proportion, they literally made up. Now the Generals(tm) keep crying they don't want to become involved in politics. However, that means they have no say in the Home Front War. How has that worked out for them? They 'study' Clausewitz at the War College, but they ignore his dictum "war is nothing but the continuation of policy with other means". They're in politics whether they like it or not and they have to play the game.
#8
The generals at the Pentagon never have wanted to fight the second one.
There's a reason. Or maybe two.
Posted by: General James Mattoon Scoot ||
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I'll be looking forward to seeing this...but it still begs the question of why, why, WHY stuff like this didn't start being put together seven years ago.
Because there were de facto restrictions placed on the military in getting their side of the story out on the domestic front? Seems I recall attempts to set up such things, which were not only met by alarmed cries of "propoganda", but threats of legal financial action.
#1
As someone stated yesterday on the Burg, "the market could be reacting to a potential Obama presidency." If McCain can turn it around, it will certainly be interesting to see if the market trends upward.
Since McCain is weak on economy and proposed more bailout money ($300 billion) against his many of his base, I don't see how the market would feel more confident unless he pulled a rabbit out of his hat. I hope he can, we all need some good ideas.
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--- I think participants in the market & those of us waiting on the sidelines have more confidence in McCain than in Obama as far as managing the crisis. No way to tell for sure, until the day after the Election.
--- Keep in mind that change is inevitable despite the Big 0's promises. Our predicaments will be quite different by Election Day, and also by Inauguration Day.
#4
IIUC, CNN + CNBC > Washington desires to buy shares in failing US Banks but widout using the labels "NATIONALIZATION" or "GOVT. OWNERSHIP".
D *** NG IT, WE WANT TO MAKE IT ABSOLUTELY CATEGORICALLY POSITIVELY UNDENIABLY
................., FINGER-POINTING CLEAR TO THE AMER PEOPLE, ITS NOT SOCIALISM - ITS GOVERNMENTISM AND GOVT.CENTRIC REGULATION, ETC. AND DON'T YOUSE FERGIT IT!
#3
A society that allows leftists to mock and deride middle class virtues ends up like this. If the society is smart it re-learns what the Gods of the Copybooks have been teaching. If it's not, it dies one way or the other.
#5
I think the DOW numbers are broken. Yahoo finance lists the DOW jumping from -160 to -900. My brokerage acocunt say +10 and NASDAQ +22.
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10/10/2008 10:09 Comments ||
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Word, Partier. And that's why this election is so important. We're going to make a decision about who we want to be, one way or another. I hope we can do it at the election.
One thing that occurs to me is that the delay between the election and the inauguration needs to be shortened. We son't need a repeat of the 1932 fiasco. And with communications as swift as they are, there is no reason the victor should not enter office December 1.
#7
Except its an Electoral College system. Florida 2000. The courts aren't set up for one clean clearing of issues. It's all one court and one appeal at a time. Filing and refiling each step up the ladder.
#8
"A society that allows leftists to mock and deride middle class virtues ends up like this."
I don't buy it. I've been watching the Dems as powerless for the last 8 years. Wasn't it a society of conservatives who were in power since 2000 and promoted a house for everyone? To deregulate as much as possible?
Warren Buffet, #1 manager of money and quite generous guy, is called it poetic justice.
I've been watching both parties for 50 some years now. I lived through the 60s and 70s and watched the intentional, all-out war of the left on the 'bourgeois' values of the middle class - on the streets, in intentionally crude and corrosive popular culture, via promotion of abortion on demand without parental notification, through the creation of a massive welfare apparatus and above all through lawfare.
And by the way, the Dems have controlled Congress for the last few years.
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I've been watching the Dems as powerless for the last 8 years.
The Democrats have had simple majorities in both House and Senate since the 2006 election. That they haven't been able to pass the legislation they desired -- defunding the military, rescinding tax decreases, mandating Kyoto standards -- has been a function of extremely inept party leadership, not powerlessness. The only real success the Democrats can claim during their period of power is ramming through that abortion of a "Rescue Package" last week, all $850 billion and 450 pages of it. The house for everyone thingy was a Democrat-required regulation put on the mortgage industry when President Clinton lived in the White House, expanded by Democrat-headed Congressional committees as payoff for permitting the current administration their war on terror. Do try to pay closer attention, dear Clineth Gonque1423.
#14
---- AFAIK, the fiasco of 1932 was the continuing decline of the US economy between Election Day in November 1932 to Inauguration Day in March in 1933. When FDR took office a nationwide run on banks (with many closing permanently) was well under way. Hoover tried to coordinate his efforts with the President-elect, who ignored him completely while things went from bad to worse. One of the first things FDR did officially was order a Bank Holiday.
---- The situation is much more complicated than it was in 1932-3. The Powers That Be seem almost clueless. The candidates promise a lot, but are not promising, if you get my drift, and I think you do.
#15
Clineth has a point. I distinctly remember the Democrats as the minority party trying to filibuster the big budget increases George Bush put forward. Shut the Senate for weeks, they did, until the Republicans relented and cut the budget.
The Democrats have always stood for good management. That's why they've gone through the budget with a fine-tooth comb to eliminate waste and excess in government. Where did you Barack Obama got that idea, anyway? Why it was Nancy Pelosi and Stoney Hoyer who have pushed for tighter regulation of government spending.
And the Democrats have been solid on earmarks. Robert Byrd has been a real leader in that regard.
And of course the Democrats pushed real hard to regulate Freddie and Fannie. Why, we have C-SPAN video showing Barney Frank and Chris Dodd demanding that we rein in the excesses.
So you're right, Clineth, the Democrats shouldn't be blamed for any of this.
Posted by: Steve White ||
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Please, Steve White, use the /sarc on ; /sarc off tags! I almost had a stroke! ;->
#18
I am a non-partisan blamer. The housing for everyone thingy needs to have a wooden stake driven through its heart.
I got my doubts about that. I suspect if policy weren't so hostile to heavy industry in this country we could "solve" the problems with Wall Street by making the mortgages good again.
#19
There is plenty of blame to go around on this one. Both parties have plenty to regret and learn from. I suggest the best place to look for culpability is in the mirror.
#20
AH9418 was spot on. In fact Roosevelt pointedly and publicly refused to speak to Hoover, thus assuring any effectiveness Hoover might have had was thoroughly undermined. The current donks learned from a master.
History has been conveniently re-written on FDR. Older folks in fly-over country remember precisely when the government give-away programs began. Like Pearl Harbor, they came about on FDR's watch. I remember some saying in the 1950's and 60's "if the SOB hadn't died in office, he would have STILL been president." The 22nd Amendment was passed as a direct result of Roosevelt's tenure. Presidents prior to FDR had operated under a gentleman's agreement or understanding that two terms was all anyone should aspire to.
#23
I'm watching to see the capital flight begin when people with money realize what Obama has in mind. Obama's going to make criminals of a lot of people who will be getting their money out of the US any way they can.
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