High school French teacher Curtis Lofton, 23, of Springford Terraces, Lower Paxton Twp., faces charges of assaulting an officer and drug possession after being arrested last month standing naked in the snow outside his house, according to The Patriot-News.
When police, responding to a report of a disturbance, asked Lofton if he was OK, he responded, "No, I am ... crazy, and I need a menthol cigarette," according to court papers. If he says he's crazy, then he must be rational enough to know the difference, so he isn't. Catch 22, sort of.
Court documents say Lofton then allegedly told one officer that he was "Jesus Christ" and the cop must be "God" after being asked why he was nude and where he lived. Lofton allegedly bopped the policeman over the head with a plastic toy trumpet he scooped up from the yard after a fight broke out between them. The cop pepper-sprayed Lofton, who cursed and told him "'Jesus' is now blind," court documents say. But he can still see your sins.
Police charged Lofton with resisting arrest, open lewdness, aggravated assault involving a police officer, possession of marijuana, unlawful possession of prescription drug oxycodone, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Terrence J. McGowan, Lofton's attorney, told The Patriot-News the defense of his client has been complicated by the fact that he doesn't remember anything that happened that night.
McGowan told the paper the school district had scheduled a meeting to address Lofton's future at Central Dauphin High School. "Basically, he had some mental health issues that hopefully are in remission. I don't think it affects his ability to be a French teacher and it wasn't school-related, so we're hoping we can get him back to work," McGowan told The Patriot-News. God forbid you actually fire a teacher for anything (except voting Republican).
Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy. (AP Photo/Traci Allen)
Dam that Rove, fiddling with Cat DNA. Whay? Karl, Why? But is does resemble Leaky Leahy
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Oh Lord, now that Aris has said this, half of RB will feel obliged to argue kittens normally have three eyes, but one of them is really hard to see unless you're sufficiently hard on terrorism.
6 months old, but I couldn't leave such a lurid title alone; how come fungus can have wild and sweaty sex while I'm not getting any action theses days? Is it because they are svelter and have a more interesting personality than me? Damn, this is depressing, I think I'll go lay down a moment... alone.
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Is this where a Spemble posts something about fungal nano-condoms or BC pills made by tiny robots? Or tiny robot cops raiding all the favorite fungal Lovers Lane locales in my bronchial tree?
I'm visualizing making sausage... it seems, well, slightly less off-putting... Lol.
JOHANNESBURG: Five Zimbabweans were killed on Wednesday in clashes between South Africans and foreigners at a squatter settlement in the capital Pretoria, police said. Mounted Police reinforcements were sent to the Olivienhoutbosch (<--- can't believe they've not Zuluized that name yet) area after renewed violence erupted between South Africans and foreigners returning home after they fled an earlier outbreak of fighting there last week, police spokeswoman Katlego Mogale said.
"A group of foreign nationals returned to the settlement after the Dec. 26 incident and were met with resistance from the locals. A fight erupted," Mogale said in a statement. "We have confirmed 5 dead and 11 seriously injured," she told Reuters by telephone from Pretoria. Public broadcaster SABC radio said Zimbabwean and Mozambique nationals were involved in the fighting against South Africans in the squatter settlement.
It was not immediately clear how many people were involved in the violence, possibly a boatlaod, but calm had been restored and police patrols had been beefed up and sjamboks issued, Mogale said. More than a million Mozambicans and Zimbabweans have fled poverty in their own countries for South Africa, attracted by a booming economy and the prospect of jobs. Hundreds of thousands of others-from across Africa and countries such as Pakistan and India, have also found their way to Africaâs wealthiest nation.
Many of the immigrants, without work or residency permits (geez, ID cards????? Wat?), are forced into a life of squalor in settlements where local South Africans resent their presence, accusing them of taking scarce jobs and depressing wages, fomenting crime, hate and discontent, etc.
This headline could have read January 9, 1983 easily enough.
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For the first time, homeowners here are learning what it means to have an upside-down mortgage â when the value of a home falls below the amount of debt on the property. Recent home buyers are suing to get their money back. Banks are fretting about a wave of default loans.
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If you read the whole article, you'll find that as in other things, there are plenty of Chinese lawyers standing by already. And presumably they can handle the lawsuits cheaper and better than American lawyers.
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Internet chat rooms recently were abuzz with a story that a Taiwanese man had jumped from the 33rd floor of an apartment tower about 15 miles northeast of downtown.
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China doesn't have "purchases". Instead it has "75-year-leases", with codicils to dissuade speculation. For foreigners, anyway. Any smackdowns resulting from a downturn in the market simply represent people who are unable (or unwilling) to grease the appropriate government officials.
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I should also mention, as a point of fact, that any Chinese apartment/condo complex is uninhabitable when it is built. When you buy a place, you're buying BARE WALLS AND CONCRETE. No toilets, no fixtures, no nothing. It takes two years to move in. Seriously. If there is some miracle, and you can move in before two years, you will enjoy jackhammers, plumbers, and other noisy occupations plying their trade until all the other apartments adjacent to yours are completed. I, personally, have rejected two prospective living spaces based on these criteria. The apartment was great, but the complex was incomplete. I didn't fancy sharing the elevator (with no lights - dark inside) with contractors trying to finish other apartments.
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gromky: When you buy a place, you're buying BARE WALLS AND CONCRETE.
This doesn't always apply. The luxury condos being sold at relatively steep prices in Shanghai are probably finished. For expensive developments like those featured in the article, this is becoming more and more the trend. Purchases of existing condos (as opposed to new ones) often includes appliances and furniture.
NINGBO, China - In perhaps the most remarkable sign of the Sino-U.S. tug of war on energy, supertankers are making the costly 40- to 45-day journey to China from Venezuela, a traditional and consistent U.S. supplier. Woohoo! Dateline Ningbo! We're famous!
If the tankers were to offload at the U.S. Gulf Coast, it would take only a four-day sail. Venezuela's anti-American leader, Hugo Chavez, sharply raised exports to China this fall, boosting heavy crude and fuel oil exports by 170,000 barrels per day and pledging to reach 300,000 barrels per day by the end of 2006. "Everybody is competing to sell oil to China, and we won't be left behind," Venezuelan Energy and Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez told reporters in Caracas. Shipping costs add roughly $5 per barrel to the oil, but Venezuela insists it isn't subsidizing sales to China. Of course not...there's kickbacks in there.
China is returning the favor with new oil exploration capital, a $250 million plan for a telecommunications network and offers to launch a satellite for Venezuela. To the north, China is taking a strong interest in Canada's vast oil sands deposits, investing in a $2 billion oil pipeline project and taking bites of smaller private companies. "Every barrel that Canada sells to the Chinese is one less barrel it can sell to the United States," said energy analyst Gal Luft, noting that Western Hemisphere crude exports to China "will essentially make the United States more dependent on Middle East oil."
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Article: "Every barrel that Canada sells to the Chinese is one less barrel it can sell to the United States," said energy analyst Gal Luft, noting that Western Hemisphere crude exports to China "will essentially make the United States more dependent on Middle East oil."
This is pretty silly, because whether or not the US buys oil from Middle Eastern countries, it is dependent on Middle Eastern oil. The only way to not be dependent on Middle Eastern oil is not to consume oil*. There is just one global market for oil, a concept that seems foreign to this oil "analyst".
* Even if the US consumed less oil than it produced domestically, oil prices would be set based on how much Middle Eastern countries want to produce.
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Good.
China is the fastest growing economy and its thirst for oil has driven the prices high: if Venezuela produces more and more oil, the total oil in the market will increase and the prices decrease.
Subversives are stupid.
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I thought part of Chavez's problem was that he had driven out the knowledgable workers in the petroleum industry and replaced them with ignorant henchmen on the one hand, and refused to invest in maintenance on the other, thus significantly reducing Venezuela's petroleum output over recent years? If so, all he is doing is poking the U.S. in the eye while charging his faltering economy for the privilege of doing so. In the meantime, I have friends who are in the market for their second hybrid vehicle, and I'm hoping that if I talk fast enough Mr. Wife will lead with his heart and buy me a hybrid something when the transmission on the minivan gives up, as it seems to want to do. (He fell in love with the expensive Toyota something-or-other when he went looking at the RAV he wants to drive until trailing daughter #1 gets her licence (she got her learner's permit on Saturday -- and no, I'm not going to be involved in her training).)
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Ms. TW, good luck and my best wishes for Trailing Daughter #1, but I'm sure she'll do very well, she has a clever bunch of family folks to draw from, teaching or not, judging from your always pleasant and reasoned posts; anyway, the USA are a nation of drivers, endless roads, and big (preferably chromed) cars, or so it seems to me from that side of the pond, I can't see how she would do without a driver's license.
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No way for this to come out right... but, recommend she not drive and operate a phone simultaneously. "Guns don't kill people, women driving suvs while talking on cellulars do."
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..recommend she not drive and operate a phone simultaneously.
I have a better idea: she should learn to ride a motorcycle. Learn to spot the stupid people, their stupid habits/tendencies, and react/adjust accordingly. And that mindset does carry over into four-wheeled motoring.
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Agreed about driving while calling, Besoeker, although men can be just as bad... it's just that y'all tend not to multi-task as often. ;-)
a5089, merci beaucoup! You are kind. The reason I'm not involved in td#1's training is because I didn't actually get my own driver's licence until a few months before I married Mr. Wife -- my bicycle sufficed until his first business trip. ;-)
Bomb-a-rama, td#1 may learn to drive a motorcycle after getting her basic automobile licence. We don't own such a thing, and with Cincinnati's icy winters and extensive hills, that is a summer pleasure. However, I'm sure my sister would be pleased to teach her that skill when the time comes, and she already has the equipment (ahhh, the joys of not being penniless after a summer working at Los Alamos!).
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Whether you or Mr. Wife supervises the driver training, be sure to keep the radio off. You actually get some real conversation that way.
I took daughters #1 and 2 for driving lessons because I know the backroads well; and we enjoyed it.
IMHO, he's making a mistake : old mo' was into little girls, not little boys...
Manama: Worldâs top pop singer Michael Jackson, who recently settled down in Manama has donated a huge amount of money, the figure was not disclosed, for building a state-of-the-art mosque near his luxury palace in the Bahraini capital, according to his spokesman. The proposed mosque would be designated for learning the principles and teachings of Islam, as well as teaching of English language, for which high-standard teachers would be brought from United States under his personal supervision, the spokesman said.
Jackson did so as a token of appreciation to the Bahraini people, who welcomed him and treated him as if he was one of the citizens of their country.
Michael Jackson has moved to reside in Manama after the long-judicial battle, which ended up with being acquitted of the charges of child molestation.
The court hearings were followed up by news agencies for many months, and the number of reporters who attended and covered them was estimated at more than 2000 from all countries in the world.
It is noteworthy that Germain Jackson, the brother of Michael, had embraced Islam at the beginning of 1990s. He was one of former Jackson Five band and the solo singer had felt his brother Michael has great interest in Islamic books. He was impressed by the tolerant spirit of Islam in his dealing with Arab and Muslim personalities for long years. The most prominent among those figures is Prince Al Waleed bin Talal and the Bahraini royal family.
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The proposed mosque would be designated..... with a secret labyrinth of over 500 interconnecting, soundproof rooms, each with it's own library, water-park & shower, mini-zoo, merry-go-round, and king sized bed. A 10,000 man unic guard force recruited from the US based Nation of Islam will provide security.
Will this be the end of Rantburg as we know it - Gee thanks W
In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.
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The law will not pass a court chalenge. You have no right not to be offended or annoyed.
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So what are they going to do? Trace IP addresses, do all kinds of computer forensics? Because you annoyed someone? Some asshole hacked my credit card number once and bought 50 pairs of shoes in europe, they didn't do shit to find out who that guy was. They couldnt care less from the way they talked. Now you can get two years for roasting someone on the net. Give me a break
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To grease the rails for this idea, Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and the section's other sponsors slipped it into an unrelated, must-pass bill to fund the Department of Justice. The plan: to make it politically infeasible for politicians to oppose the measure.
Something needs to be done about this crap. Doesn't matter who does it, Reps or Dems, it's gotta stop.
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The US Constitution says Americans can own guns and can speak on any issue without having said speech to be copyrighted or patented. State and Federal Caselaws and Statutes say Americans don't have to do anything that we think is wrong or morally incomprehensible, nor do we have to obey any contract or agreement, oral and or written, where criminal activity or action is part of the inducement/begotiation, part of the terms, andor the outcome of said contract or agreement, and no matter if said contract is executed or anticipatory, current or future, etc. The Spetzlamies are just a bloody, violent, hyper-correct MSM and geopol diversion - the real threat to America right now is from CREEPING SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM - iff America doesn't go Socialist 2015-2020, the Failed/Angry Left and anti-US forces reserve their singular and unconditional right to destroy the USA vv MAD nuke war. Steve Hoagland on COASDTTOCOASTAM argues that alleged GLOBAL GULAGISTS intend to destroy approximately 5 1/2 BILLION, plus-minus, persons for OWG, [Global]Resources-control, and Global Utopia -WHOM GETS TO BE ONE OF THE 500 MILLION, OR LESS, OF THE HUMAN POPULATION THAT GETS TO LIVE IN GLORIOUS SOCIALIST UTOPIA AND FUTURE OWG; VERSUS WHOM, SOCIALIST OR NON-SOCIALIST, THAT GETS TO BE PROPERLY/PC
"ELIMINATED" FOR THE GOOD OF THE SURVIVORS, FOR HILLARY'S UNIVERSAL/COMMON GOOD = BENEFIT OF A HANDFUL/FEW!? Hoaglands belief shows that even for Socialists their desired future OWG and future Socialist World isn't big enough for Socialism and alleged Socialist ideals of alleged "UNIVERSAL EQUALISM, WELFARISM, SUFFRAGE AND DIVERSITY, ETC"!? NOT EVEN FOR A SIMPLE, ALL-BY-ITSELF, NO-FRILLS WHITE XMAS = HOLIDAY, etc. PC STAR ON A SIMPLE, ALL-BY-ITSELF, NO-FRILLS GREEN XMAS = HOLIDAY, etc. PC SIMPLE TREE.
SRINAGAR: A Kashmiri separatist arrested four months ago for harassing a romantic couple as part of an anti-vice crusade in the majority-Muslim state has been set free, her organisation said on Sunday. Aasiya Andrabi was charged early September under Indian Kashmir's Public Safety Act and could have been held for up to a year without bail. The legislation was enacted to combat insurgency in the region which has left tens of thousands dead since 1989. "Our leader was released on Saturday," said a statement Sunday from Andrabi's group, Dukhtaran-e-Millat, or Daughters of Faith.
Moderate and hardline factions of the region's main separatist alliance and other Islamic groups had urged her release, saying she was doing a good job fighting obscenity and immorality.
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Researchers in India and Canada for the Lancet journal said prenatal selection and selective abortion was causing the loss of 500,000 girls a year, but the number of angry young males without work or nookie continues to rise.
Their research was based on a national survey of 1.1m households in 1998. The researchers said the "girl deficit" was more common among educated women but did not vary according to religion. Same would hold true here I suspect. What is it, they hate thier own kind?
The unusual gender balance in India has been known about for some time, And ignored. Where is the western, "progressive" outrage?
In most countries, women slightly outnumber men, but separate research for the year 2001 showed that for every 1,000 male babies born in India, there were just 933 girls.
Ultrasound, is not your friend.
The latest research is by Prabhat Jha of St Michael's Hospital at the University of Toronto, Canada, and Rajesh Kumar of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Research in Chandigarh, India.
They found that there was an increasing tendency to select boys when previous children had been girls. Who would want an inferior family member?
The sex ratio is so skewed in some states, men cannot find brides, duhhhhhhhhh
In cases where the preceding child was a girl, the ratio of girls to boys in the next birth was 759 to 1,000.
This fell even further when the two preceding children were both girls. Then the ratio for the third child born was just 719 girls to 1,000 boys.
However, for a child following the birth of a male child, the gender ratio was roughly equal. Gender selection, "choice" what lovely tools.Prabhat Jha said conservative estimates in the research suggested half a million girls were being lost each year.
"If this practice has been common for most of the past two decades since access to ultrasound became widespread, then a figure of 10m missing female births would not be unreasonable."
This just means that girls will be far more sought after in future Christian Tiburtius, Reading
Experts in India say female foeticide is mostly linked to socio-economic factors. The girl child has traditionally been considered inferior and a liability. How progressive.
It is an idea that many say carries over from the time India was a predominantly agrarian society where boys were considered an extra pair of hands on the farm.
Last year the well-known religious leader and social activist, Swami Agnivesh, began a campaign across five northern and western states against female foeticide.
"There's no other form of violence that's more painful, more abhorrent, more shameful," he said.
If there is any positives here I suppose it would be the fact they (unlike many in the west) are still at least having children, are somewhat concerned about their future, civilizaiton, prodigy, albeit primarily male only. Of course governments will always step in during times of population (and tax) decline, importing new constituents and taxpayers from abroad, displacing or distilling culture, heritage, and values, for which they care nothing.
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This has been discussed from another angle here.
Conclusion, the excess males of India, and the excess Males from China (Same selective male over female birth by selection process) will have a war shortly to thin out the "Extras".
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If 10% of the population is gay, then the universe is once again in balanced.
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India has had a number of cases of brides being killed by their in-laws for insufficient 'dowry' (aka bribes to the family of the groom from the family of the bride). I suspect this custom of bride dowry is about to change.
One would think that the exact opposite of dowry, a bride price, as in parts of Africa, would be soon required of men.
After all, if women are few, laws of supply and demand must have effect.
Even Nelson Mandela paid the family of his current wife, the widow of the former Mozambique president a price - in cattle - for her.
There is however the complication of caste.
Families are willing to pay dowry if their daughters can marry into a higher caste family.
This is sustainng the practice of dowry, which is actually illegal in India.
How soon the shortage of women will destroy both dowry and caste is not easy to predict. I think it is inevitable. Caste made some sort of sense in a rural economy where there was a caste of fishermen, of cowherders, etc, extreme specialization of labor.
The worker in a factory making automotive parts for Delphi has no traditional job caste. The engineer designing chips for Texas Instruments has no job caste. The entire system will collapase as industrialization and urbanization progress.
And a shortage of women will accelerate this. Some communities and some states are already importing brides from elsewhere (and paying the girl's families).
When you got no nookie, you don't care about caste and dowry.
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Redneck Jim, don't forget....China loses additional females to foreign adoption. They don't adopt out the male babies. That makes the final ratio even worse.
The United Nations envoy to Burma, Razali Ismail, says he has quit his post after being refused entry for the past two years to the military-ruled country. Mr Razali, a former Malaysian diplomat who has been trying to break Burma's political impasse since 2000, says he will not renew his contract. "My contract lapsed after December 2005. It is clear they [the military junta] do not want me back," Mr Razali said. "I have not been allowed to visit the [Burma] leadership in [Rangoon] in the past 22 months." He says that the United Nations has accepted his decision to quit his role as secretary-general Kofi Annan's special envoy. "So it is time for me to make an exit," he said.
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So this fellow got paid for two years' work and did not even get to Burma? So what happens next? Give someone else a contract and have them wait it out? LOL!
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Can't make an exit if you never make an entrance.
I just love how the "progressives" stood up for Tookie, but don't give a damn about theses girls repeatedly being hanged for the crime of being part of the enslaved half of the ummah...
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Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 â An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.
The state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday that 18-year-old Nazanin confessed to stabbing one of three men who had attacked the pair along with their boyfriends while they were spending some time in a park west of the Iranian capital in March 2005.
Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girlsâ boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.
She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.
As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.
The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.
Last week, a court in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, sentenced Delara Darabi to death by hanging charged with murder when she was 17 years old. Darabi has denied the charges.
In August 2004, Iranâs Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing âacts incompatible with chastityâ.
The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.
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at least she's entitled to an abortion first, LOTP - makes it all ok
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Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girlsâ boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.
Their boyfriends skedaddle leaving them to get raped? WTF?
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Each and every Muslim male is under absolute koranic ordenance to treat the testimony of a women as half that of men. And Condi works for democraticization of those pigs. I'm sure they love her dhimmism.
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Hmmm. Should we compare what Dr Rice has done for America and lay it beside the selfless accomplishments of NaziFartus and compare?
I'm just askin, since he feels free to slander her as she simply does what a SecState is supposed to do - not to mention being wildly off-topic in his reckless spew convulsion. Le petite mal?
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"Each and every Muslim male is under absolute koranic ordenance to treat the testimony of a women as half that of men. And Condi works for democraticization of those pigs. I'm sure they love her dhimmism."
Translation: It's Bush's fault. And probably Halliburton's, too.
Fart.
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Western city planners are to blame. Seperate sidewalks for the sexes will end this sort of thing.
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CF says: Each and every Muslim male is under absolute koranic ordenance to treat the testimony of a women as half that of men. And Condi works for democraticization of those pigs. I'm sure they love her dhimmism.
It never ceases to amaze me how much lower the hate Bush crowd can sink. So now the left is reduced to complaining that Bush is trying to give democracy to "those pigs". How progressive, multicultural and refined. It's a clever try, CF, on a thread of this emotional magnitude. It's ineffective, but clever in a blinded-by-hate sort of way.
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So now the left is reduced to complaining that Bush is trying to give democracy to "those pigs".
2b, can you explain to me why the bleeding hell you think that CF is a leftist?
Seems to me that CF's comments reflect things that the most right-wing Rantburgers have repeated in the past -- things like suggesting either the forced conversion of Muslims or genocidal extermination, things like that Muslim culture doesn't allow democratization, etc, etc.
But hey, 2b, construct whatever strawman you like. Now you are claiming that CF is a leftist -- but you can claim that the Sun is green for all the sense you make.
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One is obliged to wonder what will happen when over half this world's population finally wakes up and realizes that global sharia law would mean their unending abuse and degradation. We need to send Lorena Bobbit on a lecture tour in Arabia.
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Aris, 2b had no 'strawman' arguement. See below: straw man n. An argument or opponent set up so as to be easily refuted or defeated.
He specically made his opinions of the left known, but didn't create a straw man.
As for CF's comments, I only took issue to him calling Muslims Mohammedeans "pigs" when anyone can clearly see they are NOT pigs. They are misinformed human losers. Misinformed losers following the ravings of a murdering, illiterate, child-raping, robbing gold-digger.
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"the two girlsâ boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless."
Brave boys are they not? Cowards each and everyone. Of course what does one expect from the descendants of pedofiles? The more I read about the goat lovers the more I am sure.... I need to buy more ammo.
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Aris, 2b had no 'strawman' arguement. See below:
straw man n. An argument or opponent set up so as to be easily refuted or defeated.
He specically made his opinions of the left known, but didn't create a straw man
"http://www.fallacyfiles.org/strawman.html"
"The Straw Man is a type of Red Herring because the arguer is attempting to refute his opponent's position, and in the context is required to do so, but instead attacks a positionâthe "straw man"ânot held by his opponent."
In trying to attack the left, 2b attacked the positions that weren't held by the actual left, but instead he attacked CF's opinions.
That seemed to me pretty much the definition of a strawman attack.
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Good grief, Aris, have you gone off your meds? Last week you were so civil I found myself actually agreeing with you from time to time. But today you seem to be Arisifying threads at every turn.
The government of radical Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to segregate Iranâs pedestrian walkways on gender basis, according to Fatemeh Alia, a deputy in Iranâs Majlis (Parliament) and one of Ahmadinejadâs closest allies.
Since Ahmadinejad took office as president, new measures have been enforced to, in his words, âreturn the Islamic Republic to the days of the [1979 Islamic] revolutionâ.
As part of the government plan called âIncrease the hejab (veil) culture and female chastityâ, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has received orders to construct separate pedestrian walkways for men and women, according to Alia.
âThis plan is the most advanced and complete plan regarding the hejab. In the next two weeks its final considerations will be complete and it will start to be implementedâ.
Previously, when he was Mayor of Tehran, Ahmadinejad ordered all the buildings belonging to the municipality to have separate elevators for men and women.
âThe Ministry of Housing and Urban Development will have an obligation to construct apartments in a special way ⊠which would be in line with the culture and atmosphere of an Islamic society. The Ministry of Roads and Transport must pay special attention to the walkways, roads, railways, and transportation routes so that we no longer get reports of mal-veiling in these routesâ, the hard-line Majlis deputy said.
Alia added that special provisions also had to be made for tourists who travel to Iran so that they also adhere to Islamic regulations.
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"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Coupled with
"Those who will not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it."
I'm old enough to remember segregated busses, bathrooms, diners, etc.
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I can kinda, sorta understand where ol' Almondinejihad is coming from. I mean, back in the 4th grade or so everyone knew you could get cooties just from standing next to girls in line. Perhaps Allan will grant to the Iranian Prez the wisdom and insight that most of us acquired around puberty.
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This will make life easier for the A-10 drivers. Just think, you could gun run the city and never hurt a single woman or child. Wish they would do it in every Islamic state.
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Just when you think these pathetic misogynistic losers can't get any more ridiculous ...
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.
NINGBO, China - In perhaps the most remarkable sign of the Sino-U.S. tug of war on energy, supertankers are making the costly 40- to 45-day journey to China from Venezuela, a traditional and consistent U.S. supplier.
The United Nations envoy to Burma, Razali Ismail, says he has quit his post after being refused entry for the past two years to the military-ruled country. Mr Razali, a former Malaysian diplomat who has been trying to break Burma's political impasse since 2000, says he will not renew his contract. "My contract lapsed after December 2005. It is clear they [the military junta] do not want me back," Mr Razali said. "I have not been allowed to visit the [Burma] leadership in [Rangoon] in the past 22 months." He says that the United Nations has accepted his decision to quit his role as secretary-general Kofi Annan's special envoy. "So it is time for me to make an exit," he said.
