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At Least 25 Die in Nuevo Leon in Shootout
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Page 6: Politix
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan's dirty little secret
Posted by: tipper || 09/02/2010 06:02 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
A favored Afghan expression goes: "Women are for children, boys are for pleasure." Fundamentalist imams, exaggerating a biblical passage on menstruation, teach that women are "unclean" and therefore distasteful. One married man even asked Cardinalli's team "how his wife could become pregnant," her report said. When that was explained, he "reacted with disgust" and asked, "How could one feel desire to be with a woman, who God has made unclean?"

That helps explain why women are hidden away - and stoned to death if they are perceived to have misbehaved. Islamic law also forbids homosexuality. But the pedophiles explain that away. It's not homosexuality, they aver, because they aren't in love with their boys.
Posted by: Parabellum || 09/02/2010 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  They had a pedophilia-loving prophet. What's the surprise about this dirty little secret? Been a custom since at least since the 7th century.

Makes me question why the hell we didn't blow the place up when we responded right after 911. Oh we did blow the $hit out the place with fairly good effect. Why aren't we doing it now?
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/02/2010 9:01 Comments || Top||

#3  The existence of rampant pedophilia among certain muslim cultures is hardly a secret and is actually rather well documented. Is it little wonder then that these same cultures suffer from a chronic dysfunction which fosters the kind of self-loathing that leads to horrors such as honor killings, female disfigurement and genital mutilation, suicide bombings, etc? I don't think it's a coincidence, to say the least.
Posted by: eltoroverde || 09/02/2010 9:45 Comments || Top||

#4  From Greece to the East... it's the disease of Asia Minor. Somewhere in Afghanistan a therapist is cursing that blond Macedonian, Alexander the Great.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2010 15:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Homosexuals don't reproduce.

We should be encouraging this behavior, and offering the buy the women out of there on the cheap.
Posted by: flash91 || 09/02/2010 17:51 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
"Town of Little Angels", Beslan: Six years later
Very powerful...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/02/2010 13:44 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Brave lions of islam from the religion of peace strike again. Yeah, I'm sure the people of Beslam are all islamophobic. Are the muslims going to push for a triumphal mosque on this site? This was a sheer act of barbarism and hate loosed on children.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/02/2010 16:37 Comments || Top||


Their guy.....Our guy
Posted by: tipper || 09/02/2010 05:29 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Funny.....got this a week ago in an email
Posted by: armyguy || 09/02/2010 7:22 Comments || Top||

#2  So we got a metrosexual mistake in 2008. We can correct that in 2012 and vote the right person in.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/02/2010 9:04 Comments || Top||

#3  ouch!
Posted by: newc || 09/02/2010 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  So the comparison is wimp vs psychopath? Lemme flip a coin here....
Posted by: George Ulomort5895 || 09/02/2010 16:09 Comments || Top||

#5  So the comparison is wimp vs psychopath?girly man psycho vs manly man psycho Lemme flip a coin here...

FIFY. No charge.
Posted by: Entertaining Prose || 09/02/2010 16:25 Comments || Top||


Economy
CA Dem: "Taxes don't impede the economy but form the foundation of it."
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 09/02/2010 16:08 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No wonder Kalifornia is in the dumper.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/02/2010 16:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Heard from a US House Rep. the other night that even the informed folks across the country have no clue how bad things have truly gotten in DC. Said, pretty much verbatim, that the economic policies being planned are so utterly clueless that even the average junior high student would recognize that they're unworkable but that there's barely a Dem. in DC who seems to even have the slightest reservation about any of it. Aside from damaging their chances to remain in DC that is.
Posted by: AzCat || 09/02/2010 16:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Oh really? King George III thought the same thing.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/02/2010 17:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh my word...Economics 101...taxes reduce purchasing power of consumers. Less money for consumers, less GDP, less trade, less demand...and oh yes, no multiplier effect.

This is particularly aggrevating the problem since entitlement programs...where most of the CA tax money goes....is purely inflationary as it buys no goods or services and there is no exchange of commodity for service.
Posted by: James Carville/Karl Rove || 09/02/2010 17:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Progressive Taxation impedes the economy.

Taxation on Land Values (not what you do with it) does not.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 09/02/2010 18:28 Comments || Top||

#6  They have tried this proposal in many forms and names for a long time. So far there seems to be enough brain matter around to votes this down every time it has come up.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 09/02/2010 18:38 Comments || Top||

#7  CA Dem: "Taxes don't impede the economy but form the foundation of it."

If your concept of the world is government, more government, and even more government, how could one not believe that what constitutes an economy is all predicated upon the existence of government. All that other stuff simply exists to sustain that concept of the world. A concept that begins with one's head firmly stuck up their rectal orifice.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/02/2010 20:22 Comments || Top||

#8  When Hearst gave San Simeon to the state of CA it came with the warehouses that sill have packed trainloads (as in many) of treasures he bought cheap right after WW-1. War firesale cheap.
I would think that a few of those car loads sold at Southeby's would make a visible dent in CA's state debt.
Posted by: Water Modem || 09/02/2010 22:56 Comments || Top||

#9  would likely violate their conditions of donation, if not intent. Time to address structural deficit without crying "no fire protection! parks closed!" bullshit.
Posted by: Frank G || 09/02/2010 23:01 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Education is a Civil Right only if you have a Union Teacher
So U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan invited every Education Department employee to attend Rev. Al Sharpton's Glenn Beck counter-rally. As David Boaz explained in the Examiner, it was a "highly inappropriate" thing to do, pushing people who are supposed to serve all Americans to support one side of a "political debate." But that's just the most obvious problem with Duncan's weekend doings.

Perhaps just as troubling as his rally-prodding is that Duncan declared education "the civil rights issue of our generation" at Sharpton's event. This only about a year after helping to kill an education program widely supported by many of the people he and Sharpton insist they want to empower. I'm talking, of course, about Washington, DC's, Opportunity Scholarship Program, a voucher program that was proven effective. But the heck with success -- Duncan and President Obama let the union-hated program die.
Sorry, your ticket out of the ghetto has been canceled.
The cause for concern, though, doesn't end there. According to the Examiner, an Education Department spokeswoman tried to gloss over the boss's out-of-bounds play by suggesting that Sharpton's rally was but a mere "back-to-school event." Sound familiar?
This school only teaches one course, victimised 101.
That's right! As I just blogged about, last year the Obama administration scared parents and taxpayers across the country by sending politically charged material to all public schools to prepare them for the president's planned address to the nation's children. Only after it took serious heat for that did the administration have the most alarming material changed. And then what did it do? Declared that the address would obviously be but a simple back-to-school speech, and tried to make everyone who knew what had actually transpired seem like a partisan attack dog.

As long as politicians run education, education will be hopelessly politicized. Unfortunately, that's the simple back-to-school lesson for today.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 09/02/2010 12:06 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Charter schools and home schooling is the future for successful kids.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/02/2010 13:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Coming to a Mosque Near You: “Pimping for Terrorists”
Posted by: tipper || 09/02/2010 07:14 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Statement in video by muslim money man at the mosque said: "It's not charity, its politics." I all noticed the speaker liked Barack Hussein Obama--a favorable ally. He also said he hated George W. Bush.

We can expect Eric Holder to investigate this as requested in a letter to Holder by the Congressman from California?

I'm not going to be holding my breath. DOJ is too busy suing Arizona, investigating Tea Party members and letting new Black Panther members walk away from voter intimidation.

There seems to be a widespread conspiracy in the U.S. by a 5th column dedicated to the downfall of the U.S. Can we expect more Holy Land Foundation like investigations and trials? Oh, silly me. What was I thinking. Not in this administration. Only one thing to do: Vote them out.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/02/2010 8:51 Comments || Top||

#2  We can expect Eric Holder to investigate this as requested in a letter to Holder by the Congressman from California?

More than half the States have/are proposing identical laws to that of Arizona. DOJ will need a hiring spree just to keep up with all the lawsuits they'll be filing any day now. Buy popcorn.
Posted by: Sleque Barnsmell1141 || 09/02/2010 14:14 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Coming Nuclear Flashpoint
Posted by: Water Modem || 09/02/2010 10:54 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From the cited article: Washington and its NATO allies believed their 2001 occupation of the major Afghan cities signified... an erasure of two millennia of Afghan history and religion that afforded an opportunity to start the country anew.
This is a gross exaggeration. Maybe a neo-con on cocaine believed that when high, no one else did. The occupation did put the jihadis off balance & forced them to re-group, that's about all that can be said for it. As things stand now, only the Taliban want to 'start the country anew' using their barbarian outline. The West is not interested in providing the troops and cash for the next 50 years, which would be necessary to remodel Afghanistan into something better.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/02/2010 12:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Nuke attack?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/02/2010 15:03 Comments || Top||

#3  The author expects me to believe he knows more than the Indian government? Now, if he said he knows more than Obama, I'd believe him. Box in those Paks and maybe they'll be a little less troublesome in Kashmir.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 09/02/2010 15:21 Comments || Top||

#4  The US surged in Iraq and Afghanistan and still lost both wars, for example, and Russia is now losing its second war in the North Caucasus.

I thought this was a odd statement by Scheuer.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/02/2010 16:44 Comments || Top||

#5  This would be the Michael Scheuer whose positions on the Zionist Entity have the approval of David Duke? Even Wikipedia doesn't think much of him, which as we know takes some doing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/02/2010 20:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Indoctrination Nation
Posted by: miscellaenous || 09/02/2010 11:30 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2010-09-02
  At Least 25 Die in Nuevo Leon in Shootout
Wed 2010-09-01
  Gunman Holds 1 Hostage in Maryland
Tue 2010-08-31
  Molotov Cocktails Thrown: At Least 8 Killed In Cancun Bar Attack
Mon 2010-08-30
  Iran media brands Sarkozy's wife as 'prostitute'
Sun 2010-08-29
  Series of US drone attacks in Pakistan, at least six killed
Sat 2010-08-28
  Yemen officials, Houthis reach peace deal in Qatar
Fri 2010-08-27
  10 Tonnes of Bomb Chemicals found in E. Afghanistan
Thu 2010-08-26
  56 killed, 250 injured in string of Iraq attacks
Wed 2010-08-25
  Reports: 3 killed in Beirut clashes
Tue 2010-08-24
  MPs slain as Somali gunmen storm hotel
Mon 2010-08-23
  Israel says Iranian reactor use 'totally unacceptable'
Sun 2010-08-22
  Six turbans dronezapped
Sat 2010-08-21
  Russians Flatline Mastermind of Moscow Subway Attack
Fri 2010-08-20
  Blast in China's Xinjiang kills 7
Thu 2010-08-19
  Goodbye Iraq: Last US combat brigade heads for home


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