[Al Ahram] British police on Thursday rescued three women from a London home where they were believed held as slaves for at least 30 years by a couple who were incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
Officials identified the victims as a 69-year-old Malaysian woman, a 57-year-old Irish woman and a 30-year-old Briton.
Police described the women as "highly traumatised".
Detectives arrested a 67-year-old man and a 67-year-old woman at their home in south London.
Police swooped after being contacted last month by the Freedom Charity, which received a call from a woman stating she had been held against her will in a house in London for more than 30 years, Scotland Yard said.
Police said the woman had contacted the charity -- which helps young people to understand forced marriage and honour-based violence -- after seeing a TV documentary featuring the group's work.
Detective Inspector Kevin Hyland, from Scotland Yard's Human Trafficking Unit, said: "A television documentary on forced marriages relating to the work of Freedom Charity was the catalyst that prompted one of the victims to call for help and led to their rescue."
Police inquiries established the location of the house and with the help of "sensitive negotiations" conducted by the charity, the three women were rescued.
"We applaud the actions of Freedom Charity and are working in partnership to support these victims who appear to have been held for over 30 years," Hyland said.
"We have launched an extensive investigation to establish the facts surrounding these very serious allegations."
Earlier this year, three women who were imprisoned in a house in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then when back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... , Ohio, for more than a decade were freed.
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An "elderly couple" from London,
Just "non-British" folks with a dungeon:
From whence do they hail,
And are they in jail?
Lor lumme, it's such a conundrum!
It doesn't sound quite like the Tower
The captives were held by willpower,
Then saved by a charity
From vague insularity --
This story is weak beer gone sour
Of course we're not peeling the onions!
Why should journalists labor as scullions?
When we show you the moon
In the court Picayune
Concentrate on the view, not the mullions
The press is our sword and our shield:
Weasels on an orwellian field
In sunshine or shower
They speak truth to power --
From everyone else it's concealed
Some limmies for Threater and Redder
That should've gone into the shredder
Those skeptics prodigious
Won't buy any bridges
That aren't specified to the letter
Oops. I see this story, unlike something I read earlier, does mention an arrest. Never mind.
Such sympathetic reading, and lord knows this stuff needs it! Not that your spiny shell isn't totally convincing, but I suddenly suspect you of sneaking around visiting hospitals and tutoring Pal prodigies and whatnot. ;-)
A burrito caused a minor scare at an Oklahoma City police briefing station after a man brought the foil-wrapped object in for analysis.
Oklahoma City Police Capt. Dexter Nelson says a man discovered a Thermos-type container in his lawn Thursday afternoon and brought it to a police briefing station. Nelson says the container was heavy and had tinfoil protruding from the lid, so the man considered it suspicious.
The Oklahoman reports that officers told the man to leave the container outside and the police bomb squad X-rayed the item. The analysis determined that it was only a burrito.
Although it was harmless, police aren't laughing at the incident. Nelson says anyone who finds a suspicious object should call authorities _ not bring it to a police station themselves.
[An Nahar] Madagascar's military-backed government sacked a third of the country's regional administrators and replaced them with army brass ahead of a second round of presidential elections, prompting allegations of a partial coup Thursday.
Andry Rajoelina's government appointed five colonels and three generals to run the eight provinces, predominantly in the lawless south of the country where cattle rustling is common.
Rajoelina seized power from former president Marc Ravalomanana in 2009 in a military-backed coup.
The government said in a statement Wednesday that the move affecting about a third of the country's 22 regions was made because of "the candidacy of some regional leaders to legislative elections, recent insecurity and the national political context".
National newspapers accused Rajoelina of forming a military junta.
It is the second round of such sackings. In August the government dismissed seven regional leaders, replacing them with civilian appointees.
On December 20 voters are expected to choose a new president, with many hoping it will put an end to years of political turmoil.
Former defense minister and retired General Desire Ramakavelo told Agence La Belle France Presse the decision could foreshadow a state of emergency being declared.
"Such a decision is not ideal given the context, on the eve of the second round."
Amid international pressure, former Ravalomanana and Rajoelina are not candidates in this year's presidential elections, but their surrogates are in the run-off.
Jean Louis Robinson, Ravalomanana's candidate and Hery Rajaonarimampianina backed by Rajoelina, collected respectively 21 and 16 percent of the vote in the first round.
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Not just coup, but the Govt-Army's general response to Hard Boyz trying to set up camps in Madagascar in order to strike at southern Africa.
[An Nahar] The president of war-torn Central African Republic said on Thursday he no longer enjoys the power he seized in a bloody March coup as ruling the country has affected his sleep.
In a public meeting with representatives from political parties, Michel Djotodia complained that the assembled group could sleep easy while he lay awake worrying about national security, sometimes even forgetting about his wife lying next to him.
"If you don't sleep, would you cling on to the very thing that stopped you from sleeping?" he asked the group.
"Sometimes you don't even have thoughts about your wife! Sometimes, I wake up suddenly to ask the security minister what is happening!" he said, describing how ruling a country wracked by sectarian conflict had played havoc with his nocturnal routine.
The former leader of the Seleka rebels added he hoped "things changed for the better, so that I can go," despite having proclaimed himself president on March 24 in a coup that overthrew then head of state Francois Bozize.
In principle, general elections will be held in 2015 in the Central African Republic, but Djotodia and his supporters are not expected to participate.
Djotodia is the first Mohammedan president in the Christian-majority country, and some of the recent deadly violence has had religious undertones, with both churches and mosques being burnt.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius described the country as in "total disorder" on Thursday.
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Thus Michel Djotodia rebuts John Milton, Lucifer and Khan Noonien Singh: Perhaps tis not'Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.'
[Pak Daily Times] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... expressed a lack of confidence on Wednesday in the Central African government to contain an "increasingly sectarian" crisis, and pledged aid to a peacekeeping force.
Rebels overthrew the Central African Republic's (CAR) president in March, and a transitional government has lost all grip on the huge but impoverished country of 4.5 million people with retaliatory attacks between Mohammedans and Christians. "I am deeply concerned by the ongoing crisis in the Central African Republic and the deplorable levels of violence and lawlessness that affect millions of people every day," Kerry said in a statement. "At this moment, the United States sees no evidence that the CAR transitional government has the capacity or political will to end the violence, especially the abuses committed by elements of the Seleka rebel alliance that are affiliated with the government."
Violence is worsening in the resource-rich country where a coalition of rebels, known as Seleka, forced president Francois Bozize to flee in March. Kerry's comments came just a day after his deputy for African affairs, Robert Jackson, warned that the crisis had devolved into a "pre-genocidal situation." Kerry said the State Department plans to provide $40 million in funding to the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... -led peacekeeping mission known as MISCA to "help protect civilians and provide security throughout the country."
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In other news, Mafeking relieved as Baden-Powell swears off horse meat.
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Having failed to produce any important or lasting results in the Middle East, Jaahhn Kaarey moves on to additional attempts for success in Africa...
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[Al Ahram] La Belle France said on Thursday that Central African Republic was "on the verge of genocide" and it expected the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... to give Gay Paree and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... permission to intervene.
Central African Republic, a landlocked nation of 4.6 million people, has descended into violence and chaos since Seleka rebels, many of them from neighbouring Chad and Sudan, ousted President Francois Bozize in March.
The U.S. State Department estimates that nearly 400,000 people have been displaced and 68,000 have fled to neighbouring countries since Seleka leader and interim president Michel Djotodia has lost control of his loose coalition of warlords.
The violence has increasingly pitted Seleka's mainly Moslem fighters against Christian militias. Christians make up half the population and Moslems 15 percent, the CIA World Factbook says.
"The country is on the verge of genocide," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told French television station La Belle France 2. "La Belle France, CAR's neighbours and the international community are worried. The United Nations will give permission to African forces, the African Union and La Belle France to intervene."
While U.N. Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon ... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan... said on Monday he may be prepared to deploy U.N. peacekeepers, U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... has made it plain Washington favours an African peacekeeping force.
Ban said further tension "might well lead to uncontrollable sectarian violence with untold consequences for the country, the sub-region and beyond".
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I believe it was also Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis who first identified what we now know as natural selection as a mechanism involved in the 'struggle for life'.
[Al Ahram] Saudi inquisitors religious policeincarcerated I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! two young men offering a "free hug" to passers-by in the ultra-conservative Moslem kingdom's capital, local media reported Thursday.
The arrests were made in the main Tahlia Street where the two men were waving banners marked "Free Hug" in English, according to news website Sabq.org.
Free Hugs Campaign is a movement for individuals to offer hugs to strangers in public places, especially in big cities, "to brighten up their lives".
The initiative prompted surprise and controversy in Saudi society.
"It's a free hug, not a free drug for God's sake!" wrote one Tweeter in support of the campaign.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... another user slammed the move. "Today it's one hug, tomorrow it's a free kiss, and the next day it'll be free sex!"
The inquisitors religious police, or Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, is charged with ensuring compliance with the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islamic morality.
But it is often accused of abuses.
Religious police ensure women obey Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's ban on women drivers, implement a ban on public entertainment and force all businesses to close for prayers five times a day.
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Man Hunting in the Field
I just love Hanky Panky Arab style, after all its in the book.
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he above is in refernce to the practice of Nikâḥ al-Mutʿah "pleasure marriage".
Both Shias and Sunnis agree that Mut'ah was legal in the beginning. Ibn Kathir writes:
"There's no doubt that in the outset of Islam, Mut'ah was allowed under the Shari'ah".
While the practice is now considered an arrangement of a permanent marriage by Sunnis, Shias consider the practice as a method for valid temporary marriage. Shia also give list hadith regarding the use of Nikah Mut'ah after Muhammad from salaf in favor of Nikah Mut'ah after Muhammad.
Since KSA is a Sunni country, the religious police have a valid arguement, in that they may see this as "creeping Shia forces' at work.
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[An Nahar] Venezuela accused the United States of "interference" in its internal affairs Thursday after Washington expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... that President Nicolas Maduro had been granted powers to rule by decree.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry declared its "most profound, categorical and energetic rejection" of Wednesday's comments by State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.
"These statements are a new demonstration of the interference by the authorities of the United States in the internal affairs of our country and constitute an act that shows how the Venezuelan opposition executes, shamelessly, the agenda set down by the State Department to destabilize our homeland," it said.
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Yo, Nicky - I got some nice, soft bumwad for you & your comrades!
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Does Venezuela HAVE flush toilets? I didn't know that.
Don't you wish you lived in Venezayapyapuela?
Scenic full of people who look like Mexicans except they wear more grease on their hair. Women with big breasts and parrots...don't forget the parrots.
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Interference? If we had a ___ worthy of the name... Navy and Coast Guard folks would be throwing bales out of boats and helicopters tomorrow night. Picture the bales floating ashore. Picture the laughter and tears, the agony and the ecstasy, as Venezuelans cut open the bales and find... toilet paper. Picture the relevant iconic faces printed on the sheets. Picture the authorities rampaging around. Picture millions of youtube views. Picture the liveliest imps in the devil's workshop busy sputtering and handwringing for weeks. It wouldn't end socialism on the planet, but it would be fun. Of course it can never, ever, EVAR happen: too cheap and too subversive of everything the current regime stands for.
[Pak Daily Times] With allegations of sorcery and featuring a feared autocratic ruler and the downfall of an ambitious daughter, it could be one of those mediaeval verse epics for which Central Asia is famed.
But it is the very contemporary medium of Twitter that has exposed the extraordinary rift at the heart of Uzbekistan's ruling family and the sudden fall from grace of the once all-powerful first daughter Gulnara Karimova. Until this autumn, little information seeped out over splits within the elite of the tightly-controlled nation which has been run by Gulnara's father, President Islam Karimov, since before the fall of the Soviet Union.
Gulnara, who managed to combine politics with a career as a pop star, fashion designer and head of charitable funds, was one of Uzbekistan's key powerbrokers and seen as a potential successor to her 75-year-old father.
But that changed in October when Gulnara unleashed a broadside of tweets lamenting her fate and attacking enemies, showing she had fallen from her perch.
The latest twist came Thursday when Gulnara tweeted that police had jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... several of her supporters. She said she had gone to the cop shoppe to have them freed but was not detained herself.
"What we are seeing now is that the main financial-industrial clans are joining together against Gulnara Karimova," said Andrei Grozin, head of Central Asia studies at the CIS institute in Moscow.
"The main figures in Uzbek politics were dissatisfied with her. They saw a dangerous opponent who should be eliminated and the circumstances coincided to launch an attack against her."
Gulnara has long embraced Twitter, tirelessly plugging the songs she performs under the name Googoosha, promoting her businesses, and posting sometimes bizarre aspects of her daily life such as pictures of herself in a sequence of yoga positions.
But it was on Twitter that she revealed in late October that her media empire -- including the TV channels TV Markaz and Forum TV -- was being shut down by the authorities. In an apparent all-out crackdown on her interests, more than a dozen boutiques selling Western clothes in Tashkent, believed to belong to Gulnara or her business partners were closed down on allegations of tax evasion and other charges.
She said her business associate Rustam Madumarov was locked away You have the right to remain silent... and the authorities raided the Nirvana music stores that he owns and have been linked to her own business empire. She then took aim at one of the most powerful figures in the country, the shadowy head of the Uzbek security service Rustam Inoyatov, whom she accused of plotting against her and seeking the presidency. Gulnara also claimed to have been the victim of poisoning attempts "with heavy metals like mercury".
Gulnara then renounced her presidential ambitions on Twitter, saying she wanted to be a "painter, poet and photographer".
And in an astonishing change of image for a woman who just months before posted pictures of herself in skimpy shorts doing contortionist yoga positions, Gulnara showed herself in a Moslem dress.
While Inoyatov has emerged as Karimova's clear arch foe, it remains unclear exactly what role her father has played in her fall from grace. But in the authoritarian state, it seems impossible without his approval.
"It is possible that Karimov is disappointed in her and has decided she is not capable or loyal enough. It is possible that Inoyatov put a dossier against her on Karimov's desk," said Grozin.
"Distrust has emerged between father and daughter and this is now being used by everyone who is against her."
Inoyatov would likely not be short of compromising information to denounce Gulnara, who has been dogged for years by allegations of money laundering in Europe that have already prompted an investigation in La Belle France.
In her Tweets, she has said enigmatically: "Papa has nothing to do with it... He is not VERY aware of what is going on."
She also wrote cryptically about her mother Tatyana Karimova: "There, on the threshold, my mother is sitting and guarding."
After her younger sister Lola Karimova Tillayeva revealed they had not spoken for 12 years, Gulnara accused her sibling of being "friends with sorcerers".
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[Al Ahram] A senior member of Turkey's ruling party stirred up a new furore on Thursday over the imposition of Islamic values in the country, saying it was a "big mistake" to allow boys and girls to study together.
The comments by deputy parliament speaker Sadik Yakut followed a storm of controversy over a push by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier this month to do away with mixed-sex dorms at universities.
Erdogan's Islamist-leaning government has increasingly come under fire over what critics see as attempts to enforce Islamic norms in the predominantly Moslem but staunchly secular country.
"Having girls and boys educated at the same schools in the name of a pro-West approach is unfortunately a mistake that has been made from the past up until now," Yakut told a parliamentary gathering.
Yakut, a member of Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP), said the situation would be "corrected" soon, without elaborating.
Yakut's comments drew criticism from the main opposition secular Republican People's Party (CHP), with women politicians accusing him of being backward minded.
"It is complete nonsense to talk about these things in the 21st century," CHP deputy head Perihan Sari said in parliament.
Another CHP politician, Aylin Nazliaka, asked: "When will you make women sit behind curtains?"
Erdogan earlier this month said the government would act to stop male and female students living together in university dorms, ordering governors of the country's 81 provinces to monitor student residences and speak out against immoral behaviour.
Critics say that Erdogan's 11-year rule has left Turkish society more polarised than ever, with opponents of the government openly voicing concerns that Turkey is sliding toward conservative Islam.
Last month, four female AKP politicians wore headscarves in parliament for the first time, breaking a long taboo.
And this week, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc angered Greece when he voiced hope that Hagia Sophia, an ancient Byzantine complex in Istanbul, be converted into a mosque.
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Uh, uh, GHOSTBUSTERS' BILL MURRAY = "... SEVEN DAYS OF DARKNESS, DOGS-N-CATS LIVING TOGETHER - MASS HYSTERIA"!
[The Hindu] The Union government began a fresh round of negotiations with leaders of the largest Naga hard boy group on Thursday, hoping to hammer out a political settlement to the decades-old conflict ahead of Lok Sabha elections next year
Former Petroleum Secretary and Nagaland Chief Secretary R.S. Pandey, the Union government's interlocutor, met with the top leadership of the National Socialist Council of Nagland -- Isak-Muviah, or NSCN-IM, represented by its chairman Isak Chishi Swu and general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah -- the latest in a series of closed-door negotiations that have continued for more than fifteen years.
Neither side made statements after today's talks, which are expected to continue for several days. Prior to leaving Kohima, Mr. Swu refused to speculate on the outcome of the negotiations. Mr. Muviah said that "we want a solution as soon as possible."
The talks, have been shrouded in secrecy, but a senior government official told The Hindu, centred around a deal which would give Naga communities in both Nagaland and Manipur similar substantial rights across State lines -- but without territorial concessions from Manipur on Naga-inhabited areas in the districts of Tamenlong, Senapati, Ukhrul and Chandel.
"In essence," the official said, "the best-case outcome would be a deal which created a institutional mechanism to give Naga communities across the region full recognition and rights, but without redrawing state boundaries."
"There is no immediate prospect of a breakthrough, but the government is optimistic," he added.
PRESSURE ON NSCN FACTIONS
Pressure has been mounting on the NSCN-IM since early this year, which some experts believe could bring a deal within reach. Notably, there have been growing protests in Nagaland against the parallel taxation structure gunnies use to fund their operations. Thousands defied NSCN-IM calls to rally in Dimapur on November 1 under the banner of the Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation to protest against taxes imposed on underground organizations on salaries, businesses and contractors.
Former Indian Administrative Service officer and social activist K.K. Sema said the protests were organised "not to fight with any underground faction but to reason with them that there has to be the rule of law."
"Take tax but through rules," Mr. Sema said, calling for "one government, one tax."
Formations like the NSCN-IM came under further pressure in May, when the Nagaland government was reported to be considering granting tribal status to the Mao Nagas -- a legal decision that brings with opportunities for government employment and benefits. The Maos already have tribal status in Manipur.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the move encountered resistance from some Naga tribal groups within Nagaland--a development with direct repercussions for the NSCN-IM, whose leadership are made up of Tangkhul Nagas, whose lands are mainly in Manipur.
Though the State government later denied it was granting the Mao tribal status, the issue led to friction between the Naga Tribal Alliance, a newly-formed association of tribes within Nagaland, and the Naga Hoho, which claims to speak for all Nagas.
Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have passed resolutions in their assemblies that no territory will be given up for a Greater Nagland, and New Delhi fears it could stoke the ethnic-Meitei insurgency in Manipur.
Frequent festivities have taken place over the issue. In 2011, Mr. Muivah was forced to defer a visit to his ancestral village of Somdal in Manipur's Ukhrul district, after it generated a standoff at the Mao Gate on the Nagaland-Manipur border.
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Did you know that eating or even talking about a peanut butter and jelly sandwich could be considered racist?
Thats right.
Apparently, its because people in some cultures dont eat sandwich bread. Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland explained in and interview with the Portland Tribune: Time for Macdonough's Song?
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But, but, some places don't know what peanut butter is! And in some places bread is offensive somehow? Or maybe the kids are too stupid to figure out what bread is? Or is their self-esteem harmed because they don't have bread? Are we teaching anybody that they should be hypersensitive to . . . the existence of bread? Help. I must be missing something.
Shh! Don't tell any of these idiots that peanut butter was invented by a black guy! That would give them all heart attacks!
Oh, I just had an idea on how to make the world a better place . . . .
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#1 Shh! Don't tell any of these idiots that peanut butter was invented by a black guy! That would give them all heart attacks!
Also, jelly is practically jam. You wanna take the jam out of schools? Saint Michael, pray for us! And bread? Who talks about bread? Jesus. Okay, skip that, even if he was black. Who else? Hippies, who got it from beatniks [beep], who got it from Cab Calloway. Some brother, anyway. So you got some jammin-ass pumpernickel [beepbeep] jellyroll peanut butter sandwitches [beepbeepbeep], and you wanna take 'em away from schoolkids? Uh. Huh. Feel like I'm back at a school board meeting.
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Who knew that a peanut butter and jelly sammich has more IQ points that a Portland principal.
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Another thing I love that makes me a racist. Soon they will say only extremists eat PB&J. Then my racist/extremist monicer will be complete....
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Another way would be to say: Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that? Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.
I think kids are capable of grasping the similarity between pita and sandwich bread.
Al
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On the third day of Creation, God created peanut butter.
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George Washington Carver was often credited with the invention of peanut butter. While he may have made peanut butter, the preparation arose in other cultures independently. The Aztecs were known to have made it from ground peanuts in the 15th century, and Marcellus Gilmore Edson was awarded U.S. Patent 306,727 (for its manufacture) in 1884, when Carver was 20.
Marcellus Gilmore Edson ...... George Washington Carver
except Obamacare
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Racism is one of the Left's holy religious sacraments. Notice how, like the Medieval period when everything from daily life to any functional action of society or culture revolved around the Church, everything today for the Left revolves around racism.
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We have to admit McCarthy was right about the infiltration of the media and the universities by communists and leftists (is there a difference?)
The reason McCarthy was demonized was because he exposed them and the media turned on him in fear of being exposed for what they are.
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I actually like almond butter instead of peanut butter on my sammiches, using Dave's Killer Bread.
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What (I think) I remember from way back, Au Auric (#10), was Carver found a zillion uses for the peanut. I suppose it's a short hop from that to the "invention" of peanut putter. He would've been my guess, so I 'ppreciate the lesson.
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The Department of Justice in late September announced a plea agreement with John C. Beale, until recently a senior career employee at EPA's Office of Air and Radiation. Beale, 64, has admitted to devoting most of his 23-year career to bilking taxpayers of some $900,000 in pay and expenses.
Prosecutors estimate that from 2000 to 2013 Beale was absent from his EPA duties for a total of 2.5 years, claiming to be working for "Langley" or on a special EPA "research project."
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Beale lived his EPA cover for 23 years, never missed a step increase, never wrote a book, never leaked a secret, was never involved in any shady foreign weapons transfers or murders, and only cost the taxpayer $900,000.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Pak Daily Times] US Secretary of State 
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
[Pak Daily Times] With allegations of sorcery and featuring a feared autocratic ruler and the downfall of an ambitious daughter, it could be one of those mediaeval verse epics for which Central Asia is famed.
