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For a street I like Alameda de los Pulgas (avenue of the fleas)
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lotp, Last Friday I drove right next to Olema [Point Reyes]to git to the Circle S Ranch to sight in my new Savage model 110 w/ scope and my new Remington Model 220 12 guage side by side. [Double Barrel Shotgun]
Fun Fun Fun
.....and BTW I never saw O'Blabber nor any of his entourage and/or hand maidens!
*spit*
Posted by: Red Dawg ||
09/22/2008 23:13 Comments ||
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For a street I like Alameda de los Pulgas (avenue of the fleas)
San Mateo eh Paul... lol lots of parties there'abouts in High School and CSM.
<:)
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Parts of KwaZulu-Natal were transformed into a "winter wonderland" after snowfalls blanketed several areas of the province.
Temperatures plummeted into the low teens, with residents of Kokstad and Giants Castle waking up to 0C. Durban experienced its coldest September night in recorded history on Friday night. Snowfalls were reported in Kokstad, Matatiele, Underberg, Mooi River, Bulwer, Himeville and Nottingham Road.
Several roads in the province were closed and people were advised not to go snow hunting, as they risked becoming stuck in traffic and not being able to keep themselves warm.
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Tomorrow or the next day, NASA is expected to announce that the sun is nearly spot free. This means more snow in places where it is seldom seen. Global warming may need to take a back seat to serious global cooling. Stay tuned for further details as they unfold.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
09/22/2008 19:18 Comments ||
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Richard, it will still all Bush's fault for not personally ratifying Kyoto.
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When was the last time anyone sacrificed anything to the Sun Gods? I'm sure Gore is on it.
With the approach of the deadline to register unofficial marriages fast approaching, Moroccan officials are urging families in tribal areas to submit their requests but are facing resistance from some tribes who view the registration as a waste of time and money.
The Moroccan Ministry of Justice is carrying out a campaign in tribal areas urging families to submit their requests to the court before the February deadline. has set the registration deadline for February set for unofficial marriages to be registered, the authorities. Many tribes, however, view official marriage registration as an unnecessary burden and as an infringement on their customs.
Unofficial marriages in Morocco can trigger several social and ethical problems, according to Abdullah al-Hamoumi, head of the Lawyers Syndicate for Fes. With no official marriage documentation parents put the status of their children at risk, he told AlArabiya.net. Children of unofficial, or urfi, marriages are legally equated with illegitimate children since in both cases there no official document and creates problems issuing birth certificates or enrolling in school.
"Moroccan courts are looking at many cases of that type," Hamoumi added.
There are two dimensions from which to interpret unofficial marriages, according to sociologist Aziz Meshwat. The first and more basic dimension is the long-established tradition where marriage represents a social ceremony validated through making the union known to everyone in the community.
The second dimension is the urfi marriage concept that was imported to the Arab Maghreb from the Arab Mashreq, or Western region. "Some tribes in the Atlas and other remote areas resist all modernization attempts by the state and inherit the custom of marriage without contract, and the marriage is only validated by 12 witnesses from the tribe and an announcement," Meshwat told AlArabiya.net
Some fundamentalists resort to the second type, urfi marriages, as part of their rebellion against society and the state, which they consider illegitimate, said Meshwat.
Feminist and head of the Women Solidarity Organization Aisha al-Shanna told AlArabiya.net that many of the urfi marriage cases she deals with come from couples with Salafi backgrounds, and that women will often refuse to say who the fathers of their children are. "This marriage was done through reading a verse from the Quran after which the women tells the man, 'I marry you,' and the husband refuses to have a contract under the pretext that he does not acknowledge the legitimacy of the state," explained Shanna.
But she also noted that women were more forthcoming with that information following the deadly terrorist attacks in Casablanca in May 2003.
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09/22/2008 00:00 ||
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Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) reponses coming soon from Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah.
After three years of digital courtship involving instant messaging and webcam meetings a Saudi couple has decided to take their virtual relationship into the real world for their wedding, which will take place later this year.
The relationship began when a Saudi man, in his thirties, started chatting with a girl he met online through MSN Messenger. With the approval of the girl's mother the couple began chatting regularly online. Three years after meeting online and chatting, the mother agreed to allow the Saudi suitor to take a "legitimate look" at her daughter using a webcam.
According to Sheikh Abdul-Mohsen al-Obeikan, the couple viewing one another through the Internet is religiously permissible as long as others do not see them.
The wedding will take place in the Greater Bairam following the next Eid Al-Adha, the Saudi newspaper al-Madina reported last week.
According to one of the largest surveys of its kind, a 2007 poll found the rate of spinsterhood, or women that had not married by age 30, in Saudi had reached 2.6 percent. Spinsters in Saudi are estimated at more than 180,000, or one in sixteen women. According to the same study, the percentage of divorced women and widows are both 5.4 percent.
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09/22/2008 00:00 ||
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So, how old is the bride?
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According to Sheikh Abdul-Mohsen al-Obeikan, the couple viewing one another through the Internet is religiously permissible as long as others do not see them.
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religiously permissible as long as others do not see them.
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LOL- BUSTED!
This Sheikh has just opened a BIG can of Western worms........
Next thing ya know, since no one can "see" them - they'll be getting nekkid in front of the camera.....
and where will that lead???
Let's take it a step further - he's on the webcam, she's not, but chatting w/him and his buds........
they try and they try, but the modern world will intrude.
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And who died and left the UN God "gave" the seabed to the UN to "grant" to anyone?
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09/22/2008 20:56 Comments ||
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And next they'll be selling title to the Moon, Mars, Jupiter, the stars.... [all yours for 19.95, plus shipping and handling, operators standing by now. This is a limited offer pending the success of the CERN accelerator to generate a blackhole. So act now!]
The Centre's rap to Karnataka over attacks on churches in the state has not stopped Christian prayer halls from being targeted.
On Sunday, for the first time since the attacks by Hindu mobs on churches began last week, two churches were desecrated in Bangalore. There was another attack in Kodagu district, about 300 km from Bangalore.
Neighbouring Kerala wasn't spared either with two churches being desecrated near the international airport in Nedumbassery, close to Kochi. The assault was decried by Kerala Catholic Bishops Council, and the state home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan warned the miscreants of serious consequences.
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GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- Local Muslim leaders will seek a compromise with officials at a Grand Island meatpacking plant in hopes of resolving a prayer dispute. More than two dozen representatives from the local Somali community and a Somali Muslim group from Omaha met Sunday to discuss the protests and firings that stemmed from an ongoing confrontation at the JBS Swift & Co. plant.
Mohamed Rage, that's an...interesting...name
who leads the Omaha Somali-American Community Organization, oh look, a community organizer!
said there were more firings Saturday, and he believes 180 to 200 Somali Muslims have been terminated altogether. "The company is asking people to be loyal to God or their employer," he said. "That is not a position (the workers) should be put in."
The Grand Island plant employs about 2,500 people, not including managers. About a fifth of them are Muslim. The Muslim workers -- most of Somali background -- have been asking for accommodations with break times to allow prayer at sunset. The issue led to walkouts at the plant last week -- not only from Muslims, but also from non-Muslims who protested such accommodations as preferential treatment.
JBS Swift has confirmed 86 firings, saying the employees were fired for repeatedly leaving work without authorization. The company has also said it issued warnings before terminating workers. Messages left over the weekend for a company spokeswoman weren't returned.
Rage said he anticipated all the Muslim workers would be fired before the end of this week, but he was encouraging those still employed to keep working. He and other Muslim leaders called Sunday's meeting as some workers contemplated additional protests.
The Muslim group that gathered Sunday decided that their first course of action is to negotiate with company officials to ensure workers' constitutional rights aren't violated. The group says it has tried to strike a compromise with plant management on three occasions -- all before the first walkout early last week.
If further negotiations don't work, the workers will seek help from the Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission and its federal counterpart. Phone messages left in recent days with the state commission have not been returned.
Several of the counterprotesters on Thursday held brochures from the commission -- printed in English and Spanish -- that explained how it handles complaints. They said they were given the brochures in case they were fired. Christine Nazer of the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission said last week that the agency is prohibited by law from discussing complaint filings or ongoing investigations.
Earlier Sunday, about 100 Somalis gathered outside a local apartment complex to discuss the prayer issue with the Muslim representatives. One man carried small U.S. and Somali flags. Another carried a sign bearing the words "We respect all faiths."
Several Somalis, including a woman on crutches who had fallen at work and broken her leg, detailed stories of mistreatment at the hands of management. Asha Hussen said it took a significant effort to convince plant nurses she'd been injured that badly. When she went to the plant for help with a doctor visit, she was fired, Hussen said.
Asha Abdi detailed how she'd been locked in a room after she was caught praying. She also said management took away the pieces of cardboard she and others were using as prayer mats.
On Monday, hundreds of Muslim employees walked off the job, saying they weren't being allowed to take a break to pray during Ramadan. Break times were then altered on the second shift so that Muslim employees could make their fourth of five daily prayers at sunset.
Then hundreds of non-Muslim workers walked off the job in counterprotests Wednesday and Thursday. Later Thursday, plant managers did an about-face, saying the new break times weren't working.
Khadar Ducaale of the Omaha Somali-American Community Organization said Sunday that tension has been building between the Muslim employees and their co-workers. "This is a place where people are holding knives, and they can kill each other. They can finish each other, and at the end of the day it would be up to the plant to pay for whatever happened," he said. Standard threat of violence if we don't get what we want and Its All Your Fault!
JBS Swift & Co. said in a statement Friday that the company is working to resolve the issue. "JBS values its diverse workforce and has a long track record of making significant accommodations to employees," the statement said. "We work closely with all employees and union representation to accommodate religious practices in a reasonable, safe and fair manner."
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They were fired and/or quit. Pack their asses up and deport them back whence they came. They have nothing to do in Nebraska or any other damn place in the US now. We already have an overflow of Muzz cabdrivers in Minneapolis and don't need any in Dallas. These people are trouble. Increasing their polulation here only increases the likelyhood of a "Cologne event" here in the US. We don't want nor need that.
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That's, ok. They can all go to work for thatkosher meat processor in Iowa, the one whose illegal workforce was all deported by ICE a few weeks ago. They've been hiring legal Somalis as replacements, and this lot won't need very much training.
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The walk-outs from other employees were Hispanic workers who intensely dislike the Somalis for getting preferential treatment. It could turn violent very easily. We can thank the UN/State for resettling legal Muslim refugees here, on the taxpayers running tab.
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"The Muslim group that gathered Sunday decided that their first course of action is to negotiate with company officials to ensure workers' constitutional rights aren't violated."
Can somebody please explain to me what constitutional rights they're talking about? I don't know of these constitutional rights to shut down meat processing lines for prayers or to walk out and still keep your job. Help me with this.
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.
Parts of KwaZulu-Natal were transformed into a "winter wonderland" after snowfalls blanketed several areas of the province.
