Michael Jackson is being lined up for a sensational comeback at next month's Live 8 gig.
If I was Michael Jackson's handler, I'd wear elbow-length rubber gloves and possibly a body condom...
No, that's not what I was gonna say...
To rebuild his career, he'll have to seek out all the feel-good charity things he can find. He's home free with his acquittal — unless his next victim dies in his bed with witnesses present he'll never be in court again, but the wider jury of the public's convicted him. He has to ride out the attention span thing, and that means joining the do-good set to increase the number of people who don't view him as just another perv who got off. There are so many who just have to believe...
The King Of Pop has been tentatively invited to appear at the Philadelphia or London gig by organisers, after he was acquitted of child abuse allegations on Monday. Live 8 promoter Harvey Goldsmith says he would consider adding him to the line-up for the July 2 event - but questioned whether he was ready to perform yet. Jacko walked clear from court in Santa Maria looking frail, but he is still believed to want to relaunch his career as soon as possible.
If he's actually got back problems, rather than simply having been on the verge of a nervous breakdown, he's not gonna be doing a lot of dancing...
Interviewed on radio station Capital FM, Goldsmith said: "Obviously we'd consider it." He added: "Whether it's appropriate or not is another issue, whether he's in a fit state to work is another issue, whether he can work is another issue and whether he can work live is another issue." Jacko's close friend Stevie Wonder, who was listed as a potential character witness, is on the bill. The gig is being hosted by Will Smith and the line-up includes 50 Cent, P Diddy, Bon Jovi and the British band Kaiser Chiefs. Jackson co-wrote the 1985 song We Are The World, the US answer to Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas?
Well, there were complaints that the Live 8 concert didn't have enough black entertainers. Oh, wait......
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Hopefully he went home last night and sucked down a jug of Drano.
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I saw at the supermarket today two different magazine cover stories about a "War" between Jessica Simpson and Lindsey Lohan, or a war between Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise and his new gf...
Last week a Saudi blew himself up at a funeral at a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan. About twenty or so mourners were killed.
I'm beginning to think part of our problem is that we're starting to think the former two manufactured fake-news items are real but the latter is just a police problem.
I don't mean to be snippy to anyone, but I come here to try to get away from the bullshit news items like the Michael Jackson case, however disturbing it may be.
(Hell, it's disturbing that they're still classifying him in the hominids, if you ask me...) OTOH, it is on Page 3... maybe we need a Page 4, for the icky stories that will make you want to take a bleach shower afterwards?
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Hey I read somewhere that he may be defaulting on a loan and that he put up his Beatles collection as collateral, oh yeah.
please please please me
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Look, he's like a gory traffic accident, or a circus freak show. You can't help looking, even though you know you shouldn't and you feel like you ought to take a hot shower with lots of carbolic soap afterwards. I think he's gonna fall into the same category as ol' whatsis face... the football player, charged with killing his ex-wife and a friend of hers? Yeah, a jury found him innocent too, but he was poison, as far as endorsements and stuff went, after that. More than poison, more like glow-in-the-dark radioactive. Yeah, he may be free, but he's untouchable, by anyone that might be a means of making a paycheck.
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I suspect the next we hear of M.Jackson will be when he finally loses all pigment and corporeal presence and becomes the invisible man (or lady....this is a while to come, and he's got impulses)
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This is the flaw in the US system: Peopel treat a "Not Guilty" verdict as if it is an "Innocent" verdict.
Jacks was not "Innocent", nor was he "Not Guilty" - it was that the case was NOT PROVEN.
There should be 4 verdicts available:
Guilty - no doubts at all. Not even fairly unreasonable. These cases are air tight, supported by physical evidence, corroborated by witnesses (and not stoolies), and enable the harshest penalties prescribed for the crime to be applied, up to and including life without parole and the death penalty.
Proven - beyond reasonable doubts although some unreasonable ones may remain (i.e. no death penalty nor no-parole may be issued)
Not-Proven - There was insufficient evidence, or there were reasonable doubts (and if so they should be listed). Or else the case is dismissed on a technicality Basically, this provides a record of arrest and charges, which CAN be brought for sentence consideration if there are subsequent convitions on the same or similar charges.
Innocent - There are no dobuts that the person did not commit the crime. The record is expunged, the person brought to trial has all the legal and court fees paid by the state, and they get restitution for any loss of income during the trial and any incarceration (as does their employer for loss of services). The person gets a letter of apology from the DA as well (makes it personal for the DA to not bring charges carelessly).
This eliminates the forever-appeals for death sentences, and gives a way to add weight to sentences for guys who just scrape by until they get caught again and are finally convicted. They also provide true exoneration for the innocent. And they give death-pentaly opponents on the jury a way to convict a killer and not crossing their conscience, instead of letting one go free.
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I believe Scotland has the "Not Proven" verdict.
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OS - Your post is damned good - generating a *slaps forehead* response from me. Where would double-jeopardy fit into it? I heard some talking head types rattling on about how this verdict puts to rest, permanently because of double-jeopardy, the most serious charges from almost all of his primary accusers - i.e. - he's walking away (from jail, anyway) scot-free.
Then I heard Juror #1 say that he personally believed that Jackson was, indeed, probably a pedo who has done the things for which he was charged, but that the prosecution had failed to prove its case.
As soon as I read your post, it struck me that this Juror would whole-heartedly agree with you. Of course the Social Engineers will never allow serious discussion of the matter, but something along the lines of what you've presented would certainly make the vast majority of Americans feel as if "the system" made more sense, worked for them, etc. because it would address that unsettling realization after a circus like this or the OJ murders that something is seriously wrong with it.
They still don't like Doug.
Pyongyang, June 13 (KCNA) -- The Headquarters of the People's Movement for the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces from south Korea reportedly released a commentary on June 7 demanding the immediate removal of the statue of MacArthur, the chieftain of aggression. The commentary lamented that the statue of the rare murderer is standing in the center of Inchon and even "visits" are paid to it. Inchon? Somebody got a serious ass kicking at Inchon about 50 years ago as I remember... Erecting the statue of the cutthroat war criminal, one of those responsible for the division of the Korean nation, and visiting it is like Japan's distortion of the history textbook and visit to "Yasukuni Shrine", it said, and added: We should feel national disgrace over this and pull down the statue at once. These folks are pissier then Muslims.
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...Close, but no kimchee: Douglas MacArthur was NOT responsible; rather a young Major on his staff was. Gentleman's name was Dean Rusk.
Mike
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So, Norks, you want Mac's statue? Come and get it.
There are a great many Moonbats and deluded nationalists in RoK but the men who run the RoK army are under no illusions. I personally believe that NK military power is vastly overrated, a product of the MSM capitalizing on MASH indoctrination. Much is made of Kim's "million man army." It reaches that strength only with reserves called in. On that basis, the RoKs outnumber them and there is no comparison in equipment, technology, and training standards. Many second-line Nork units still use equipment left over from the original Korean War. Their Air Force still has MiG-15s and the most numerous type is the now-ancient MiG-21. Nork tanks are steel-hulled Soviet types, including many T-34/85s of WW2 vintage. They might as well be paper when confronted by APDS ammunition of any reasonable caliber. It goes on and on.
The Norks are also wedded to traditional and long-discredited Stalin-era tactical doctrines emphasizing massive shock (frontal attack) at decisive points and flank infiltration under the (non-existent) cover of darkness. It is like the much-feared Chinese assault on Taiwan (aka "the million man swim"), a paper tiger made up of equal parts propaganda and wishful thinking.
As for their nukes, would they dare? It is not impossible that the RoK has nukes itself, they definitely have the know-how. As usual with anything nuclear, the danger is vastly exaggerated though still very great. A single Nork nuke is not going to wipe out Seoul, nor would 10 or 12, the most they might have. Seoul is about 50 times as large as Hiroshima or Nagasaki in 1945 and much more solidly constructed. In return, the Norks would face literal annihilation. American nukes can obliterate every city and other important site in North Korea, including the caves and tunnels that shelter their artillery.
More unintended consequences from Kyoto. Carbon credits are intended to promote replanting of forests. However, they are resulting in forests being cut down at an unprecedented rate in New Zealand and in all likelyhood in many other places as Kyoto mandates the same regime in all signatories. Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change, Pete Hodgson, lashed out today at forest industry claims made over the past few days that government policies were leading to the destruction of forests needed to mitigate the cost of Kyoto compliance.
The original claims, made last week, came from Forest Owners Association (FOA) president Peter Berg, who said government policies were leading to the rapid conversion of forests to dairy and other purposes.
Mr Berg said the average new rate of new forest planting for the last 30 years has been 44,900 hectares a year. In 2002, it dropped to 22,000 ha and last year to 10,600 ha, with forward orders placed at tree nurseries indicating a further decline this year.
Meanwhile, the gap between the area harvested and area replanted has grown, with increasing areas of harvested forest being converted to dairying and other livestock.
If this trend continues, Mr Berg said, "New Zealand won't have the 33 million tonnes of surplus carbon dioxide credits the government hopes to trade on international markets."
Then, today, Mr Berg said that government policy was triggering deforestation because of "the liability forest owners potentially face if, after harvest, they don't replant forests originally planted before 1990. This could be paying up to $25,000 a hectare."
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Plant trees in Israel and in the U.S. Or organize something on your own -- when we lived in Germany, the local American Women's Club spent a lovely Saturday planting trees on a nearby capped-off garbage dump. Why the New Zealanders are waiting for their government to take care of things is beyond me.
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...Can you say, "the law of unintended consquences'? I knew you could.
Mike
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Why the New Zealanders are waiting for their government to take care of things is beyond me.
Because, sadly, that's what you do in a socialized state.
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they cut most of their trees down along time ago and are only now getting patches of them replanted, its still pretty patchy though, not at all like the western USA
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so Haiti's wayyyyyy ahead in the deforestation game
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New Zealand has gotten their Govt more f*cked up in a given time than any other nation on earth. That's multilateralism for ya, they rush to approve the Kyoto so much nobody even read the thing from front to back.
From the Dept. of Too Soon To Tell If This Is Significant:
A police officer underwent surgery on Monday evening after being shot and seriously injured in Scheveningen near The Hague. The shooting took place at about 5.50pm on Monday on the Vuurtorenweg in Scheveningen. The website of Dutch newspaper 'De Telegraaf' said the 21-year-old officer had been on guard duty in a security hut outside the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She was apparently able to raise the alarm herself and was airlifted to hospital by a trauma helicopter. The police have revealed little else about the incident or her medical condition. It has not been confirmed whether the shooting was related to the tribunal's work. Investigators sealed off the scene and were carrying forensic examinations late into the evening.
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FWIW, I've been through that very security hut. The ICTY is a sprawling concrete and glass complex with really nothing else for 50-100 yards in every direction. Bloody unlikely it could be mistaken for a bank, or that it was crossfire from some nearby melee, so I don't see how it could be "unrelated" to the tribunal's work. Finding and trying all the Srebrenica perps is mainly what they're up to these days. Among other things, Del Ponte is currently trying to nab two fugitives in Russia.
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Oh yes. It was inadequately trained, equipped, and supported Dutch UN peacekeeping troops that stood by and watched the Srebrenica massacre, in which 8000 Bosnian Muslims were slaughtered by Serbs. A video of it was released just last week that caused even more outrage than pee on a Qur'an. And now a UN tribunal in the Netherlands sits in judgment of a war crime it should have prevented. So I would also consider payback as a possibility.
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She probably shot herself.
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That's her right Peter. Altho if she'd waited for a few years we might have made it painless.
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AMSTERDAM — Police say it appears that the shooting of an officer outside the Yugoslav tribunal in The Hague on Monday evening was a self-inflicted accident.
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The European Union has approved an agreement adapting its customs union with Turkey to the 10 new EU member states, including Cyprus, bringing accession talks with Ankara a big step closer.
Talks are just that: talk. Doesn't guarantee anything.
Gloria Steinem interviewed in The F-Word: Melody: I keep on reading about how you believe in the inherent goodness of humanity, and I was just wondering how someone like Bush fits into that world view... if he does, at all.
Gloria: Well, yeah. He wasn't born that way. As a baby, he probably had a whole person inside him! But that family is enough to turn anybody into a raving power maniac, and they certainly did it with him.
Melody: When I saw the picture, the famous picture of him, with a bunch of other white guys, gleefully signing away our rights as women... all I could think was, "ok, how is that not just pure evil?"
Gloria: Well, you know, there is certainly evil effect. There are certainly going to be millions of women and a lot of men who simply are not alive because he's in the White House. There are going to be whole species of animals, and living things, and plants that are not alive anymore, and will never come back, because: he killed them. So, that's an evil impact. I don't think it's inevitable. He wasn't born that way.
It takes a lot of work, actually, to break the bond of empathy that I think, probably, is natural. I mean, I think it's probably part of our evolutionary equipment to feel an instantaneous "I'm going to help!" to a member of our own species, and maybe to all living things, I have no idea. But, it takes a lot of work to break it, and our child-rearing methods, and child abuse, and humiliation and shame, and all those common occurrences, break that leap of empathy. There was this, some kind of study, that I've never been able to really find except in references, you know, I've never seen the whole study. But it was of the "Good Samaritans." These were people during World War II who were not themselves Jewish but who saved Jews, at risk to themselves, great risk. People were always studying them 'cause they wanted to replicate them, you know. And the question was: "what did they share?" because, they actually sounded quite alike. Even though they were very disparate, they would say: "I'm not a hero. I don't know why I did this, I just did it. I just didn't think of not doing it." So the question was, "was there something shared about family structure, education, religion, moral teaching...?" But no one could come up with anything... except one thing: which was that they hadn't been abused as children. So, to me that argues that if empathy isn't cut off by abuse and humilation and deeply convincing you that there are only two choices, to be the victor or the victim, that there is this leap of empathy to other people.
Melody: OK, "feminism as the F-WORD!"
Gloria: Right! Well, the problem is, among other things, I mean, of course, feminism has been demonized as a word, like, affirmitive action and liberal, you know, there's been a campaign against it, to, distort it. But, it's also true that people behave as if anything except total success is failure. And, actually, as many or more women, depending on what poll you look at, self-identify as feminists, as self-identify as Republicans. I don't call that a failure. It's quite remarkable.
Melody: Well, the fact that anyone identifies as a Republican is just a failure...
Gloria: But, it's not so much about Republicans as it is about who's taken over the Republican party, because, actually, seventy-three percent of Republicans are pro-choice. I mean, they're not bad people, it's just that their party got taken away from them.
Melody: I still just don't understand how it happened, at all.
Gloria: Lyndon Johnson was probably not wrong when he said, when the Civil Rights act of 1964 passed, he said "We've just lost the south for the Democrats for decades and decades to come" and he was right. I mean, because the right wing Democrats fled the inclusion of blacks, and they became Republicans. So, a lot of these bad guys used to be Democrats, you know, like, Reagan used to be a Democrat. Jesse Helms used to be a Democrat.
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Nice work, Melody. Hope you didn't ruin your knee pads.
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There are certainly going to be millions of women and a lot of men who simply are not alive because he's in the White House.
And they're are millions of men and women who simply are not alive because of pro-abortion policies, with you as the masthead. Nice attempt at logic there, Gloria...
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"There are going to be whole species of animals, and living things, and plants that are not alive anymore, and will never come back, because: he killed them..."
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don't you love watching these people take what sheds of dignity they might have (claimed (unrightfully imho, but claimed none the less)for womens rights and willfully throwing them right in the trash bin of history??
No wonder the Pakistan government can't catch Osama bin Laden. It is too busy harassing, detaining - and now kidnapping - a gang-rape victim for daring to protest and for planning a visit to the United States. Last fall I wrote about Mukhtaran Bibi, a woman who was sentenced by a tribal council in Pakistan to be gang-raped because of an infraction supposedly committed by her brother. Four men raped Ms. Mukhtaran, then village leaders forced her to walk home nearly naked in front of a jeering crowd of 300. Ms. Mukhtaran was supposed to have committed suicide. Instead, with the backing of a local Islamic leader, she fought back and testified against her persecutors. Then Ms. Mukhtaran, who believed that the best way to overcome such abuses was through better education, used her compensation money to start two schools in her village, one for boys and the other for girls. She went out of her way to enroll the children of her attackers in the schools, showing that she bore no grudges. A group of Pakistani-Americans invited Ms. Mukhtaran to visit the U.S. starting this Saturday. Then a few days ago, the Pakistani government went berserk.
On Thursday, the authorities put Ms. Mukhtaran under house arrest - to stop her from speaking out. In phone conversations in the last few days, she said that when she tried to step outside, police pointed their guns at her. To silence her, the police cut off her land line. After she had been detained, a court ordered her attackers released, putting her life in jeopardy. That happened on a Friday afternoon, when the courts do not normally operate, and apparently was a warning to Ms. Mukhtaran to shut up. Instead, Ms. Mukhtaran continued her protests by cellphone. But at dawn yesterday the police bustled her off, and there's been no word from her since. Her cellphone doesn't answer. Asma Jahangir, a Pakistani lawyer who is head of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said she had learned that Ms. Mukhtaran was taken to Islamabad, furiously berated and told that President Pervez Musharraf was very angry with her. She was led sobbing to detention at a secret location. She is barred from contacting anyone, including her lawyer. "She's in their custody, in illegal custody," Ms. Jahangir said. "They have gone completely crazy." Even if Ms. Mukhtaran were released, airports have been alerted to bar her from leaving the country. According to Dawn, a Karachi newspaper, the government took this step, "fearing that she might malign Pakistan's image."
Excuse me, but Ms. Mukhtaran, a symbol of courage and altruism, is the best hope for Pakistan's image. The threat to Pakistan's image comes from President Musharraf for all this thuggish behavior. I've been sympathetic to Mr. Musharraf till now, despite his nuclear negligence, partly because he's cooperated in the war on terrorism and partly because he has done a good job nurturing Pakistan's economic growth, which in the long run is probably the best way to fight fundamentalism. So even when Mr. Musharraf denied me visas all this year, to block me from visiting Ms. Mukhtaran again and writing a follow-up column, I bit my tongue. But now President Musharraf has gone nuts. So, Mr. Bush, how about asking Mr. Musharraf to focus on finding Osama, instead of kidnapping rape victims who speak out? And invite Ms. Mukhtaran to the Oval Office - to show that Americans stand not only with generals who seize power, but also with ordinary people of extraordinary courage.
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Musharraf isn't the problem here. It's the ISI types that would be in total control if it weren't for Musharraf.
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I agree with Kristof about 94%; Musharraft is way out of line on this one. This is behavior identical to that of Iran, Burma er, Myanmar, china, russia, etc. Not a single instance of due process, outside of Ms. Muktarans civil suit.
Although the part about "altruism" is complete horseshit, though. It don't enter in to it, my good man.
[Mrs. Conclusion: "Why did you say Burma?" - Mrs Premise: "I panicked!"]
And another thing: Just because Osama shows up on election eve, in bad make up, looking not at all well, does not mean he's not bleedin' demised. He's a stiff. He's a non-combatant. He has ceased-to-be. He's climbed down the curtain to join the lemming invisible. He's an ex-terrorist. He's stone cold dead. He wouldn't become a free mason now, if you got down on your lousy stinking knees and begged him . Why, He couldn't pinpoint a purr, if you ran 4000 volts through him. (although, I'd love to give it a try, just for old times sake). The man is deceased, And I'm quite sure he's most definitely dead.
Osambo: "No I'm Not!"
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They just ran a story on this on NPR. I await the massive tidal-wave of condemnation from the usual academic/feminist/Hollywood establishment with breathless anticipation.
And to think that I heard about this on Rantburg simply ages and ages ago...Mainstream media, you are dead media walking.
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Disgusting - If India and Pakland trade nukes, I'm rooting for India, and I hope they clean this backward asshole culture from the earth
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Lol, Frank - candy-coating it won't help!
Islam, and at the heart of Islam, Shari'a.
As openly practised in PakiWakiLand, SaoodiLand, BlackHatLand, et al, and secretly practised everywhere else - until the stories are finally added up, anyway, it is simply the most vile barbaric ideology on the planet. That it has not been universally condemned is repugnant - but enlightening, for those who know it and still won't condemn it are its apologists and enablers and share a measure of responsibility for its acts, no matter how remote from the scene they may be or how seemingly innocent their intentions. Those who refuse to condemn it are dangerous to us all for, at a minimum, they obfuscate the truth and further delay the long overdue response to the threat this evil poses.
See it up close and personal and it is obvious there is no saving grace, no redeeming value, no defensible purpose for tolerating its existence. It is an ideology of self-replication - by any means possible, an ideology of destruction and pillaging, of subjugation and mind-killing, an ideology of deception, lies, and hate. It feeds off of our reluctance to reply in kind and counts upon our hesitance - while it has no such limits or qualms. It is a human pathogen.
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President Bush can say all he wants, but Congress appropriates the money. Of course, they will control the purse strings if they are not invertibrate.
More aid to Africa without some changes in the way they do business with go the same way as African loans---right down a rat hole. Good money after bad.
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Aid should be tied economic and political reform. In every case that the International community has let the Africans be Africans it resulted in poverty and starvation. Yes send aid but also send reform otherwise it is just a waste of money.
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the debt forgiveness package IS tied to reforms, both economic and institutional. On the model of Pres. Bush's Millenium Challenge. I presume this aid is as well.
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correct, LH. Expiration of Bob Mugabe and his fellow thugs would be a good start
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"On the part of the United States, it's often the bureaucracy and the fine print sometimes putting conditions which makes it impossible or very difficult for us to access what is otherwise available to us," Mogae said.
Like "Don't steal all of it?"
Yeah, I'm optimistic. Where's the pic of the toilet?
LAHORE: A young girl was killed by her brother in Shadbagh area on Monday. Shehzadi Barkat, 22, was sleeping in her house in Essa Nagri when her brother, Samson Masih, attacked her with an axe, as he suspected her of bad character, and fled. She was taken to Mayo Hospital but died after initial treatment. The body was sent for an autopsy.
"Looks like a Craftsman, Dr. Quincy."
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It was the Jin! It was the Jin! Onward Moonzlims forward! Burn the whole family! That bad character Jin might rub off on the rest of the pack.. uh I mean tha village!
BOMBAY: Angry Hindu youths beat three American missionaries and tried to kidnap one as they held a bible studies class in Bombay, police said on Monday. About 30 or 40 men attacked the three, part of a group of eight, on Saturday night because they thought the missionaries were trying to convert Hindus in the Indian financial capital. The three were treated for bruises and cuts at a hospital but were not seriously injured, police said. "While this kind of attack is rare in Bombay, the police must take serious action against those responsible and send a clear message that religious intolerance will not be accepted in India," Bombay Catholic Sabha president Dolphy D'Souza said.
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Sorry to say that Muslims don't have a patent on religious intolerance. Fools are universal.
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The coveted Franchise of the Year Award is still probably beyond their reach since the paki's and sauooodeez have dominated this sport for years now and have alot of depth from the bench.
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The problem isnt religion per se but the whole idea of evangelism. It is a purely western concept and is very annoying to central asians, esp hindus. Actually its very annoying period, vain too.
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I'm annoyed by the occasional evangelist, but I've somehow managed for the past few decades to control my impulse to form a mob and kill Jehovah's Witnesses. Maybe it's a Western thing...
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...but I've somehow managed for the past few decades to control my impulse to form a mob and kill Jehovah's Witnesses
I just answer the door naked, with a headless chicken in one hand, a knife at the other and smeared in its blood. They never come back after that for some reason.....
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geez, that'll turn on the Santeria door-to-doors that I get
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Evangelism a western concept, ya say? I invite you to the nearest Hindu temple for our next Yogi burning and clam bake.
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Angry Hindu youths beat three American missionaries and tried to kidnap one as they held a bible studies class in Bombay, police said on Monday. About 30 or 40 men attacked the three, part of a group of eight, on Saturday night because they thought the missionaries were trying to convert Hindus in the Indian financial capital.
I guess the "angry Hindu youths" can say God told them to do it, but they'd have to specify which one...
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"Evangelism is the exercise of freedom of speech in favor of one's religious beliefs."
solid first amendment view there, no disagreement. "i may find your evangelism annoying, offputting, and putting your church in a bad light, but I'll defend with my life your right to do it"
Id still rather you went and bothered agnostics and left me alone.
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.
If I was Michael Jackson's handler, I'd wear elbow-length rubber gloves and possibly a body condom... 
Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change, Pete Hodgson, lashed out today at forest industry claims made over the past few days that government policies were leading to the destruction of forests needed to mitigate the cost of Kyoto compliance.
Melody: I keep on reading about how you believe in the inherent goodness of humanity, and I was just wondering how someone like Bush fits into that world view... if he does, at all. 
No wonder the Pakistan government can't catch Osama bin Laden. It is too busy harassing, detaining - and now kidnapping - a gang-rape victim for daring to protest and for planning a visit to the United States. Last fall I wrote about 
BOMBAY: Angry Hindu youths beat three American missionaries and tried to kidnap one as they held a bible studies class in Bombay, police said on Monday. About 30 or 40 men attacked the three, part of a group of eight, on Saturday night because they thought the missionaries were trying to convert Hindus in the Indian financial capital. The three were treated for bruises and cuts at a hospital but were not seriously injured, police said. "While this kind of attack is rare in Bombay, the police must take serious action against those responsible and send a clear message that religious intolerance will not be accepted in India," Bombay Catholic Sabha president Dolphy D'Souza said.
