Did Britney Spears hire a hitman to off Kevin Federline? According to a report from Entertainment Tonight it might be the case. The nightly news and entertainment syndicated program has a report on the website that cites FBI and Los Angeles Police department sources that are investigating this wild charge of a threat against Federline... Since Madonna has declared herself to be "The Ambassador to Judaism", maybe Britney is following in her footsteps to become "The Ambassador to Islam".
While filming an episode of the reality TV show "COPS", An officer attempting to pull over a vehicle is shot at by the driver...All caught on the Police Officers Dash Camera..
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas City police officer is recovering after being shot early today while trying to pull over a speeding driver.
Police say the officer tried to pull over a black Camaro that was taken in a carjacking in Kansas City, Kansas, but the vehicle sped off. After a short chase, the car suddenly stopped and the driver began firing at the officer, who returned fire but was hit in the leg.
Minutes later canine units found the suspect hiding a garage and he was arrested. Police spokesman Darin Snapp said the 18-year-old man was bitten in the groin when the dog found him and was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Two other officers also suffered minor injuries in the arrest.
Snapp said charges are expected to be filed later today, and the suspect is likely to be charged by Kansas City, Kansas, police as well as federal authorities for alleged gang activity.
Snapp said the Camaro was carjacked two days ago in Kansas City, Kan., and that the suspect is wanted for at least two other carjackings in the area.
OJ Simpson was arrested Sunday on charges related to an armed robbery involving sport memorabilia, police said. Simpson was arrested shortly after 11 a.m. and is being brought to a police office, Capt. James Dillon said. Simpson has said he and other people with him went to the Palace Station casino-hotel on Thursday to retrieve items that belonged to him. He told police no guns were involved.
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No! OJ you dumb arse, I said you're going to the POLICE STATION, not the Palace Station.
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What, no bail or bond...I guess OJ's status was elevated to level orange or red for national security?!! I guess they caught him with the nuke triggers in his pocket, and are alerting the Department Of Homeland Security, under his own recognizance that is! Why didn't they just stick the knife in him then and there, so that what goes on in Vegas stayed in Vegas?
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I heard the tape from the recorder one of the "participants" was carrying. There was a voice that could clearly be heard saying, "I helped him with his off-shore accounts and this is what I get in return?" Seems OJ will have a lot of 'splainin to do.
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Deacon Blues, That tape was operating concealed by one of OJ's guys that came to the room, whether OJ knew about it (the tape), it was sold to the highest bidder TMZ soon afterward! Hmmm.
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It finally donned on me after seeing all those construction projects and overhead cranes in the area of the Las Vegas Courthouse; why OJ was pounced on so fervently; What great publicity and attention would be drawn to the 'new candy' thats being offered!
Not "defends", just "explains". Edited for length; the original reads like she was required to write a 1,000 word essay, and came up with 980 words.
Readers were confused and angry that "Opus" comic strips with a Muslim theme did not appear in the Aug. 26 and Sept. 2 Sunday print editions. The strips, created by Berkeley Breathed, were distributed by the Washington Post Writers Group and published on washingtonpost.com.
Most of the controversy involved the Aug. 26 strip, which showed regular character and spiritual seeker Lola Granola in her version of a burqa, declaring that she has become a "radical Islamist. Hot new fad on the planet."
Executive Editor Len Downie decided to kill the strip because he felt the language and depiction of Muslim female dress could be offensive. He consulted with other editors, one of whom talked to a Muslim staff member, who believed the strip was problematic.
Comics have long featured social commentary; think back to "Pogo" and "Li'l Abner." And comics have been killed before in The Post. "The Boondocks," a black-oriented strip no longer being drawn, was dropped several times. Editors killed episodes of the old comic strip "B.C." that they found anti-Semitic, Downie said. "We keep things out of the paper every day that we think are inappropriate - like positive news from Iraq, Muslim atrocities in Thailand and elsewhere, ridiculous things Democrats say - stuff like that."
Many of the 100 or so readers who complained accused The Post of being afraid of Muslims and said that it was unfair to "censor" an "Opus" strip on Muslims when a crack had been made in an earlier strip about the late Jerry Falwell, a conservative Christian leader. Falwell, however, was a public figure and fair game and his followers usually don't threaten death to offenders. Amy Lago, comics editor for the Writers Group, said at least 12 strips since "Opus" started in 2003 have dealt "in one form or another with religion, especially of the conservative flavor." None were killed except for the potentially-Muslim-offending pair now at issue.
The Sept. 2 "Opus" strip featured Steve Dallas wanting Lola Granola to go to the beach in a bikini. Instead she wears a Burkini, modest Muslim swimwear designed and sold by Ahiida Ltd., a company in Sydney. Aheda Zanetti, owner and designer, wears the veil and said she "just loved" the strips. The Sept. 2 strip mentioned her Web site, which prompted some hate mail, Zanetti said which some might consider irrelevant and inappropriate to mention in this editorial, but not the WaPo.
The reasons that strip wasn't published are murky. Downie said he did not kill it. Other editors thought that the Writers Group thought it would be hard to understand without seeing the first strip. Alan Shearer, Writers Group editorial director, said he made that point but did not want either strip killed.
About 25 of the 200 "Opus" clients told Shearer they would not run the first strip. Old strips were sent as alternatives. Many ran the second strip. Most papers ran both, Shearer said, including the Chicago Tribune, the Oregonian, the Los Angeles Times and the Baltimore Sun. A check with editors showed that only the Sun and the Tribune got complaints -- one each. Two complaints from 175 newspapers that ran the strip, versus 100 complaints from WaPo readers. And apparently, no death threats. Yet.
Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights and advocacy group, wasn't offended. " 'Opus' poked fun at the strip's characters, not Muslims or Islam. I see hundreds worse on the Internet every day," he said.
Akbar Ahmed, chair of Islamic studies at American University, also wasn't offended. He said there is a strong Muslim tradition of satire and self-deprecation. "I think there is a danger of us becoming so politically correct that we end up by blunting the critics' bent and the satirists' wit. Muslims need to be sensitive to the fact that in Western culture there is a healthy tradition of not taking things too seriously."
Breathed didn't want to talk about it, because, he wrote, "Subtlety has never been my hallmark. Cartoons only work UNPARSED. Unexamined. Un-deconstructed. Two weeks ago the 'Today Show' spent 10 minutes doing exactly that with the 'Opus' Muslim strips, and it was like watching someone try to iron wet toilet paper."
I think Post editors overreacted in killing the strips. Comics are meant to be artful, fun and provocative. The two strips were all of that and worth publishing. Let comics be comics.
P.S. Love that penguin!
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Short version - someone said "ooooggga-boogah! Moslems might be offended!" And the WaPo caved as if their editorial spine were made of cream cheese.
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But its not offensive to run Doonesbury, right Len? He only insults in any order, the Presidency, America, the military, the catholic church, Jews, the Brits, anyone who is patriotic, religious, a veteran, plays sports, likes sports, drinks beer, the CIA, Fox News, Rush, Rupert, et. al. But then again, he's a cartoonist, not an editorialist, right?
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Akbar Ahmed, chair of Islamic studies at American University, also wasn't offended. He said there is a strong Muslim tradition of satire and self-deprecation.
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Akbar Ahmed, chair of Islamic studies at American University, also wasn't offended. He said there is a strong Muslim tradition of satire and self-deprecation.
A statement which, ironically, might itself be considered satirical. Or just a bad joke.
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Other editors thought that the Writers Group thought it would be hard to understand without seeing the first strip.
Since when has the WaPo been concerned about continuity? They certainly don't show it in their editorial stances, especially when compared to the last time a (D) was in the White House.
"... it was like watching someone try to iron wet toilet paper."
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But its not offensive to run Doonesbury, right Len?
If memory serves, D'bury runs a couple-three pages back in the Style section from the rest of the comics.
EINSIEDELN, Switzerland - A librarian at this 10th century monastery leads a visitor beneath the vaulted ceilings of the archive past the skulls of two former abbots. He pushes aside medieval ledgers of indulgences and absolutions, pulls out one of 13 bound diaries inscribed from 1671 to 1704 and starts to read about the weather.
"Jan. 11 was so frightfully cold that all of the communion wine froze," says an entry from 1684 by Brother Josef Dietrich, governor and "weatherman" of the once-powerful Einsiedeln Monastery. "Since I've been an ordained priest, the sacrament has never frozen in the chalice."
"But on Jan. 13 it got even worse and one could say it has never been so cold in human memory," he adds.
Diaries of day-to-day weather details from the age before 19th-century standardized thermometers are proving of great value to scientists who study today's climate. Historical accounts were once largely ignored, as they were thought to be fraught with inaccuracy or were simply inaccessible or illegible. But the booming interest in climate change has transformed the study of ancient weather records from what was once a "wallflower science," says Christian Pfister, a climate historian at the University of Bern.
The accounts dispel any lingering doubts that the Earth is heating up more dramatically than ever before, he says. Last winter when spring blossoms popped up all over the Austrian Alps, Geneva's official chestnut tree sprouted leaves and flowers, and Swedes were still picking mushrooms well into December was Europe's warmest in 500 years, Pfister says. It came after the hottest autumn in a millennium and was followed by one of the balmiest Aprils on record.
"In the last year there was a series of extremely exceptional weather," he says. "The probability of this is very low."
The records also provide a context for judging shifts in the weather. Brother Konrad Hinder, the current weatherman at Einsiedeln and an avid reader of Dietrich's diaries, says his predecessor's precise accounts of everything from yellow fog to avalanches provide historical context.
"We know from Josef Dietrich that the extremes were very big during his time. There were very cold winters and very mild winters, very wet summers and very dry summers," he says, adding that the range of weather extremes has been smaller in the 40 years he has recorded data for the Swiss national weather service.
"That's why I'm always cautious when people say the weather extremes now are at their greatest. Without historical context you lose control and you rush to proclaim every latest weather phenomenon as extreme or unprecedented," Hinder says.
Most historians and scientists delving deep into archives seek accounts of disasters and extreme weather events. But the records can also be used to obtain a more precise temperature range for most months and years that goes beyond such general indicators as tree rings, corals, ice cores or glaciers.
Such weather sources include the thrice-daily temperature and pressure measurements by 17th-century Paris physician Louis Morin, a short-lived international meteorological network created by the Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1653, and 33 "weather diaries" surviving from the 16th century. In Japan, court officers kept records of the dates of cherry blossom festivals, which allow modern scientists to track the weather of the time.
Early records often are only discovered by chance in documents that have survived in centuries-old European monasteries like Einsiedeln, or in the annals of rulers, military campaigns, famines, natural hazards and meteorological anomalies. In Klosterneuberg near Vienna an unidentified writer notes a lack of ice on the Danube in 1343-1344 and calls the winter "mild," while the abbot of Switzerland's Fischingen Monastery laments the late harvest of hay and corn in the summer of 1639 when "there was hardly ever a really warm day."
Scores of similar clues are pieced together year by year to determine temperature ranges, says Pfister, whose team of four uses old "weather reports" to work back as far as the 10th century.
Pfister has found that from 1900 to 1990, there was an average of five months of extreme warmth per decade. In the 1990s, that number jumped to an unprecedented 22 months. The same decade also had no months of extreme cold, in contrast to the half-millennium before.
Even in the last major global warming period from 900 to 1300, severe winters were only "somewhat less frequent and less extreme," Pfister says. Over the past century, temperatures have gone up an average of 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit, which is often attributed to the accumulation of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere.
Global warming is one of the world's top issues today because of fears of massive hurricanes and flooding. For most of history, though, it was the fate of farms and the fear of famine that encouraged careful weather observation.
The Einsiedeln abbots princes within the Holy Roman Empire until 1798 were powerful leaders who ruled over large swaths of central Switzerland's mountainous terrain. Agriculture was the primary source of income for the region and natural disasters such as floods and avalanches posed an omnipresent threat.
Debts accrued and honored, accidents, local conflicts and business transactions also fill Dietrich's accounts, "but most days start with the weather," says Andreas Meyerhans, who cares for the monastery's precious documents.
The diaries written in German sprinkled with old Swiss dialect and margin notes in Latin are "unique" because of the exceptional everyday detail they provide, Pfister says. He adds that centuries of weather records make it clear that people need to adapt when extremely hot or cold weather becomes more frequent. While the lives of earlier generations were ruled by the weather, "in the second half of the 20th century people slept and became completely unprepared for natural disasters, because they happened so rarely."
In Einsiedeln, Hinder reads from a barometer flanked by the Virgin Mary, and worries that humanity is in trouble.
"God still controls the weather," he says. But, he adds, people must do their part by taking better care of the planet.
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The accounts dispel any lingering doubts that the Earth is heating up more dramatically than ever before, he says.
No logic. It shows that things change. Among them climate. Given that several centuries before, Romans were cultivating wine in England and given that "Since I've been an ordained priest, the sacrament has never frozen in the chalice."
it obviously had gotten colder. We know that there are cooling periods. What we lack is a systematic network of standardized measure across the globe, which didn't exist till modern times, largely confined to a very small piece of about 100 years in over 4,000 years of recorded history. So when you hear the term 'historic' highs [or lows], we're really only talking a mere 100 years not thousands.
The Einsiedeln abbots princes within the Holy Roman Empire until 1798
Thus missing classical Romans times and the intervening 'Little Ice Age' for comparative observations.
But remember folks, its the narrative that is important, not the facts. "God still controls the weather," he says. But, he adds, people must do their part by taking better care of the planet. Voila!
It's amazing how quick modern European christian leaders are so willingly able to switch out Gaia or Allah for their god.
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I recommend "After the Ice: A Global History 20,000 - 5,000 BC" by Steven Mithen.
It points out there have been several periods where the earth has been warmer (and wetter) than today. Some of these periods have lasted several thousand years.
Actually the temperatures for the last 5,000 years have been remarkably stable (compared to earlier times). If higher temperatures caused mass extinction, we'd all have died out 12,000 years ago.
Al
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Jan. 11 was so frightfully cold that all of the communion wine froze," says an entry from 1684 by Brother Josef Dietrich, governor and "weatherman" of the once-powerful Einsiedeln Monastery. "Since I've been an ordained priest, the sacrament has never frozen in the chalice."
"But on Jan. 13 it got even worse and one could say it has never been so cold in human memory," he adds.
The accounts dispel any lingering doubts that the Earth is heating up more dramatically than ever before, he says.
You'd prefer it be so cold wine freezes, dipshit?
Too stupid to live....
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Gotta stop the global warming now. Otherwise Vikings will again go on a tear in booze cruises longships from Newfoundland to the Black Sea.
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A woman threw herself into battle with a giant snake after it tried to strangle her pet dog to death, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on Sunday.
Catherine Leonard was walking in a country park when the 4,5m-long Burmese python attacked her beloved Poppy. Leonard (41) rushed to the rescue, grappling with the huge snake as one of her other dogs barked furiously in alarm, the South China Morning Post reported. "I kicked it and I tried to pull Poppy free. The snake was twisted around her, that was the problem," she said. "Somehow Poppy managed to get away and the python slithered away.
"I was very shaken afterwards and really scared. If I'd had the chance to think about it, I wouldn't have done what I did, but I heard the dog in distress and I just waded in there."
The attack on four-year-old Poppy took place in Sai Kung country park, close to where a 22kg husky dog was crushed to death by a snake last year when the owner's similar rescue attempt was unsuccessful. A python caught and ate a calf in the park last month.
"Catherine was very courageous and definitely saved her dog's life," professional snake catcher Dave Willott said. "It would have been unconscious within two minutes and dead within five.
"The snake probably thought, 'I've had enough of this' and let go, which was unusual. They usually don't let go, not when they've locked onto their prey."
Burmese pythons are one of the world's largest snakes and can grow to 6m long and weigh over 100kg.
Willott advised anyone tempted to rescue a dog being crushed by a python to "start at the tail, tie tail to a passing rikshaw and get the coils off the dog and leave the head until last."
PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. (AP) - The college graduates who are soon to complete training at the nation's oldest naval air station will be the final class to graduate from the base's officer candidate school, ending a military tradition that lasted nearly seven decades.
After graduation ceremonies on Friday, the school will close and consolidate with a training center in Newport, R.I.
"Hundreds of classes have suffered out there" on the exercise field and parade deck at Penasacola Naval Air Station, said Allen Hamby, a 21-year-old admiral's son and University of Central Florida graduate who plans to be a supply officer. "And we are going to be the last class doing it."
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Feel compelled to add my two cents:
As the non-military son of a navy man who got his wings/did OCS in P'Cola, did a couple of tours in Vietnam, then moved back to P'Cola because he loved it *that much*, I grew up on the Redneck Riviera, sneaking into legendary haunts like Trader Jon's and Seville, rubbing elbows with the boys in white. Since then (late 80's), NAS has been in a slow decline: the lady Lex left, the Forrestal came and went, a big chunk of flight school was carved off and moved to Texas(?), now OCS. Oh yeah: somewhere in there, Trader's closed for good.
Pensacola's as much a Navy town as there's ever been. Losing any part of our beloved NAS hurts deeply.
That being said, I warn the powers that be: don't even *think* of touching the Blues.
To raise $850,000 for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign in just eight months, Norman Hsu tapped an eclectic group of donors that included wealthy investors in his apparel ventures, hotel shopkeepers, a 96-year-old in a Florida retirement home and an auto-body worker who mistakenly thought he would get a tax break for his political generosity.
The Clinton campaign has not yet released any information about the 260 donors whose contributions it is now refunding because they were credited to the prodigious fundraising of the former fugitive, but a detailed analysis of donors Hsu brought to Clinton shows that he tapped many Asian American donors in California and New York, including complete strangers as well as his relatives. He also raised political funds from people who had already invested large sums in his private business ventures.
Some donors among the nearly 100 identified this week said they never met Hsu and did not know that their donations had been credited to his fundraising. Others had trouble explaining why they gave the funds to Clinton or could not recall the circumstances in which they met Hsu.
"He called me and asked me if I'd give $1,000. . . . I don't know how you'd say we struck up a relationship. I just knew him," said Henry Rosenberg, a New York City lawyer. Asked if he wanted Clinton, New York 's junior senator, to be the next president, Rosenberg said: "I don't know. He just asked me to do it, and I did." ........ <DEL> BULLSHIT.
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Henry Rosenberg, a New York City lawyer. Asked if he wanted Clinton, New York 's junior senator, to be the next president, Rosenberg said: "I don't know. He just asked me to do it, and I did."
Wow. I'll bet he's one of these guys that calls Bush, like, Shrub and Chimpy and shit...
Muslim cab drivers, mostly Pakistanis, at Chicagos OHare airport are being served traffic tickets while they are offering prayers at a special trailer provided to them by the city for that purpose. The Chicago Sun Times reports that Muslim cabdrivers are finding it difficult to stay true to their faith lately, as theyve been hit with a rash of tickets for parking in access lanes leading to the airport terminals near where the city helped set up a prayer trailer for them. For most of us who need to pray, thats part of our religious duty, said Faisal, a 13-year-cab veteran.
The cabbies say they are caught in a Catch-22 they can pray in a location provided to them by the city, but they are ticketed for parking near that location. The commercial access area is only open to commercial vehicles. More than 500 cabs have been ticketed. Ultimately, drivers are responsible for paying the tickets ranging from $50 to $80 which can cut their daily profit in half. The City Aviation Department spokesman said authorities do not want to interrupt Muslims, but maintained that cabbies must leave the area clear of traffic for operations to run smoothly.
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Schaweet! Give them their damn prayer room trailer but don't build them a steenkin' parking garage. Guess what, boys? You'll have to pray somewhere else or take a major hit for illegal parking. This is the way it needs to be everywhere. Go ahead and build them some foot-washing baths but be sure to locate them next to the dog kennels. Every concession to Muslim demands must be met in a way that only increases their humiliation. You want to build a mosque? Fine, except that the only site we'll zone for it is next to Smokey's House of Ribs.
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I'm sure there's a convenient mosque within 50 miles of O'Hare Airport. If those devout cab drivers are that serious about staying true to their faith, let them pray there.
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Ticket everyone of 'them', time is money; why should I have to pay extra on my fare because of their thoughts... of their value and place in the universe!
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Let's hope the actual tickets go to the cabs and not some other type of transport with the same license plate.
(yes it happens all the time in Chicago.)
I even got a ticket at O'Hare when I was in London, the wife and kids in New York and all the cars locked in a garage at home.
It never hurts to have customs entry and exit info to prove a point...
Oh and the major car thefts are by the city towing companies. The city will not tell you what lot your car is in until after their buddies have sold it.
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Cop 1: Hey, it's 5:00! You know what that means!
Cop 2: Yeah, time to write some tickets!
Cop 1: Sure thing. But this time we're getting them towed, too!
Cop 2: What's next week's development?
Cop 1: Throw a slice of bologna in the drivers seat if the tow truck can't get to them in time.
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A visit from this boy in their prayer facility would scare them out of their wits.
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Check out this awesome 8 minute anti-Islam video. It includes a high quality Rap video. The production values are great, but CAIR will chase it off Youtube:
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"as theyve been hit with a rash of tickets for parking in access lanes leading to the airport terminals near where the city helped set up a prayer trailer for them."
I am very familiar with the area. All sorts of cars try to park in the access and circulating lanes, which are actually the lanes leading from the main expressway to and through the airport. Everyone wants to do it, because there is no stopping allowed except for immediate unloading and loading. Therefore, there is no close staging ground for cars to sit and wait. There is a cell phone lot (for you to wait in the car for a phone call from the person you are picking up) nearby, but it is kind of far.
That being said, tow em all. There is no parking. If the cab in unattended, tow it.
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The Sun Times story...
Faisal, a taxicab driver who works at O'Hare Airport, wants to be a good cabbie while staying true to his Muslim faith.
But Muslim cabdrivers are finding the latter difficult lately, as they've been hit with a rash of tickets for parking in access lanes leading to the airport terminals near where the city helped set up a prayer trailer for them.
"For most of us who need to pray, that's part of our religious duty," said Faisal, a 13-year-cab veteran who declined to give his last name.
"It doesn't do us any favors if you write us a ticket and you know this guy's going to come back in five minutes and his friend is waiting outside to move the car in case of an emergency," the cabbie complained.
...and everybody knows that the cops are there to do people favors, especially Muslim cabbies.
Drivers such as Faisal say they mean no harm by parking in the lanes leading to the prayer trailer on the grounds of O'Hare's commercial lot -- which either have no-parking signs posted or are meant for brief stops.
The cabbies say they are caught in a Catch-22 -- that the city provided them the location in which to practice their faith, but punishes them when they park and pray.
Drivers are particularly worried about receiving tickets as they celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, a time for steadfast prayer, fasting and spiritual reawakening.
Oh...well. Ramadan. Why didn't ya say so...
Many American Muslims began celebrating Ramadan last week.
The commercial access area is the staging ground for taxis and limo drivers who use various lanes to park their cars for shift changes or for a brief lunch stop. It is only open to commercial vehicles that pick up passengers at the airport and is maintained by the city's Department of Aviation.
Wolfgang J. Weiss, one of the managing directors of the Chicago Professional Taxicab Drivers Association, said more than 500 cabs have been ticketed. Ultimately, drivers are responsible for paying the tickets -- ranging from $50 to $80 -- which can cut their daily profit in half, Weiss said."The financial impact, at least from a revenue standpoint, is huge," he said. "We just want them to back off."
But Weiss admits that authorities probably won't give them a break, so his association is going to petition Mayor Daley and others for relief.
Hey, Mayor Daley. Can our cabbies break the law? It's okay. They're Muslims.
Aviation Department spokesman Greg Cunningham said authorities do not want to interrupt Muslims and their prayer habits. But he contends that cabbies must follow the rules at a facility that needs to be clear of traffic in order for operations to run smoothly and safely.
Follow the rules? This is obviously...profiling!
"It's a temporary parking and holding area," Cunningham said. "If a vehicle blocks off other vehicles from leaving the facility, it becomes a problem."
Iqbal, another Muslim cabdriver, said the city is punishing honest people duty-bound to their faith. "It doesn't happen every day," he said. "We need to cover all our bases with God."
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The street lamps are on in Chicago tonight
And lovers are gazing at stars.
The stores are all closing and Daley is dozing
And the fat man is counting the cars.
And "There's more cars than places to put 'em," he says.
"But I've got room for some more.
So round 'em up boys, 'cause I want some more toys.
Hit the lot by the grocery store!"
To me way, hey, tow them away!
The Lincoln Park Pirates are we!
From Wilmette to Gary, there's nothing so hairy
And we always collect our fee!
To me way, hey, tow them away!
We plunder the streets of your town!
Be it Edsel or Chevy, there's no car too heavy,
And no one can make us shut down!
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Iqbal, another Muslim cabdriver, said the city is punishing honest people duty-bound to their faith.
Typical bullshit taqiyya in search of preferential treatment. Any Muslim is absolved if legitimate circumstances interfere with timely observance of prayers. People who knowingly obstruct vital transportation routes are not "honest" and what they are being "duty-bound" to is not prayer but slow jihad.
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If muslim cabbies must present their butts to the guys behind them and bump their heads on the headboard floor, then pull into the parking garage and pay the $2 like everyone else.
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Go ahead and gloat. I'll bet they end up with a mini-mosque over their own parking ramp.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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OJ Simpson was arrested Sunday on charges related to an armed robbery involving sport memorabilia, police said. Simpson was arrested shortly after 11 a.m. and is being brought to a police office, Capt. James Dillon said. Simpson has said he and other people with him went to the Palace Station casino-hotel on Thursday to retrieve items that belonged to him. He told police no guns were involved.
"Jan. 11 was so frightfully cold that all of the communion wine froze," says an entry from 1684 by Brother Josef Dietrich, governor and "weatherman" of the once-powerful Einsiedeln Monastery. "Since I've been an ordained priest, the sacrament has never frozen in the chalice."
PENSACOLA NAVAL AIR STATION, Fla. (AP) - The college graduates who are soon to complete training at the nation's oldest naval air station will be the final class to graduate from the base's officer candidate school, ending a military tradition that lasted nearly seven decades.
