[ARABNEWS] OHIO: Mohammedans across the US celebrated Eid on the same day to everyone's joy and relief. Mosques overflowed with happy worshippers who stood as one ummah in prayer and thanksgiving, enjoying the mild weather, treats and spiritually motivating sermons of the day.
US President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... and First Lady Michelle also sent their warmest greetings to Mohammedans celebrating Eid Al-Fitr around the world, calling it "part of a great tapestry of America's many traditions."
"Michelle and I send our warmest greetings to Mohammedans celebrating Eid-Al-Fitr in the United States and around the world," Obama said in his message.
"For millions of Americans, Eid is part of a great tapestry of America's many traditions, and I wish all Mohammedans a blessed and joyful celebration. Eid Mubarak," Obama said.
There was some difference of opinion the night before on the sighting of the Shawwal moon. Many mosques in Maryland, Ohio, and other states, announced that the moon had been sighted in Chile therefore Eid would be celebrated on Thursday. Organizations like reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... Hilal rejected Chile as not fulfilling their criteria and said that Eid would be on Friday. Late reports of moon sightings in Arizona and Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, settled the score.
Delivering the second khutbah on the topic of 'Future Mohammedan' at Masjid Noor, which was being telecast live on the internet and Guide us TV, Sheikh Yusuf Estes shared some interesting facts. He said that of the 1.6 billion Mohammedans around the world only 12 percent were Arabs. He emphasized therefore importance of learning Arabic so the future Mohammedans would understand the Qur'an and follow it.
He said a lot of the young children had beautiful recitation but they did not know what they were reading. Referring to a recent recitation competition, Sheikh Estes said only one child knew the translation of what he was reciting. Islam he said was the fastest growing religion in the West but the future Mohammedans needed to learn it so they could practice it and be good ambassadors for it.
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Bullshit, Redneck im.
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Well if it isn't now, it soon will be. My nightmare vision is that at the point where the entire world has finally, with absolute will and iron fist, rejected islamofascism - the US will continue to defend it.
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Re # 7, Steve, that was bad, real bad. i barfed my dinner out my noze, so i did.
[POSTANDCOURIER] Three Republican candidates already have announced they are gunning for South Carolina's senior senator when he seeks re-election next year.
And if they can force him into a runoff next June, that could pose problems for the state's most visible political figure.
Last week, state Sen. Lee Bright of Spartanburg announced he was running, joining Piedmont businessman Richard Cash and Nancy Mace, a consultant who also was the first woman to graduate from The Citadel. Still more candidates could emerge before filing ends in March.
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said it's too early to predict outcomes, but Graham is most vulnerable in the June primary rather than in the general election.
"The fact that Graham has drawn these opponents reflects what we have all heard over the past few years -- many tea party Republicans want him out," he said. "If anyone, or the combination of multiple candidacies, forces him into a runoff, Graham could be in real trouble."
Winthrop University political scientist Scott Huffmon said Graham's early advantage is that his announced and potential challengers come from the dissatisfied wing of the party and seem destined to divide that slice of the vote.
He predicted they'll create "a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
"The loudest people of the party don't tend to be his fans," Huffmon added, pointing to those who don't support any reaching out across the aisle to Democrats, as Graham has done in the past.
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Texas model: Keep Linda Graham below 50%, so him and a single challenger go head to head, with everyone getting behind the sngle challenger. Worked for Ted Cruz.
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let him bring his Daddy McCain in to campaign for him. That should cook his goose
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Big money Republican contributors will back Graham so it's gonna be tough to beat him in the primary. It'd sure frost those guys if Graham then lost in the general election and a donk took his place.
A new poll out this morning has Anthony Carlos Danger Weiner ...aka Hot Dog Tony, the remarkably offensive sex maniac six-term New York congressman who resigned in 2011, then decided everybody had forgotten by 2013, when he decided to run for mayor of New York City... setting an all-time Siena College Poll record with 80 percent of voters viewing him unfavorably, including three-quarters of Democrats and New York City voters.
Only 11 percent "still have a favorable view of America's most infamous tweeter," Siena pollster Steve Greenberg said.
Two-thirds of voters say the attention from the races involving Weiner and former hooker-loving Gov. Eliot Spitzer is embarrassing to New York.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... current Gov. Cuomo has seen his favorability rating increase to the best level since February, just after he passed tough new gun law restrictions.
"Okay, Mr. Public, we're gonna see who you like best on the following list. Ready?"
"Um, yeah."
"Cuomo, Spitzer, Weiner."
"Do I get a shot after I tell you?"
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Bye Bye asshole, seems even the Democrats have no use for a sex maniac.
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Whassamatta? Everybody petered out on Weiner jokes?
[Chicago Tribune] WASHINGTON - The Justice Department plans to change how it prosecutes some non-violent drug offenders, so they would no longer face mandatory minimum prison sentences, in an overhaul of federal prison policy that Attorney General Eric Holder will unveil on Monday.
Holder will outline the status of a broad, ongoing project intended to improve Justice Department sentencing policies across the country in a speech to the American Bar Association in San Francisco.
"I have mandated a modification of the Justice Department's charging policies so that certain low-level, nonviolent drug offenders who have no ties to large-scale organizations, gangs, or cartels, will no longer be charged with offenses that impose draconian mandatory minimum sentences," Holder is expected to say, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks provided by the Justice Department. "I have mandated"....an unelected official issuing mandates. Very nice, very democratic.
The United States imprisons a higher percentage of its population than other large countries, largely because of anti-drug laws passed in the 1980s and 1990s. Higher percentage of precisely what population ?
Holder will also reveal a plan to create a slate of local guidelines to determine if cases should be subject to federal charges. And State charges, what about them ?
The attorney general will point to the bipartisan backing of such goals in Congress, where there is "legislation aimed at giving federal judges more discretion in applying mandatory minimums to certain drug offenders."
Conservative groups with leaders including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have called for changing U.S. crime and prison policies, Justice Department officials note. Support from conservatives has come in part because of the enormous bite that prison costs take out of state budgets. Ok, so enforcement is now based on funding vs the law and what former elected officials think ?
The bipartisan backing could be important because the Obama administration will need Republican support for any major changes in Congress. Congress is not needed if he simply sets aside enforcement like he does in many other areas.
More recently, as crime rates have dropped sharply in most major urban areas, public demand for lengthy prison terms has waned, and both liberal and conservative states have changed their laws to incarcerate fewer people. Allowing the drug thugs to operate in urban areas once again will do what ?
Congress has moved more slowly than state legislatures. But conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats have both called for pulling back on the use of mandatory minimum prison terms.
In his speech, Holder plans to cite proposals by Sens. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) and Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), two of the Senate's leading liberals, and Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), two tea party favorites, that would give judges more leeway in sentencing drug offenders.
"By reserving the most severe penalties for serious, high-level or violent drug traffickers, we can better promote public safety, deterrence and rehabilitation, while making our expenditures smarter and more productive," Holder says in his speech. Obviously the term "gateway" no long applies.
Holder is expected to say that laws like these could save the United States billions of dollars. Billions to be spend on what ?
The attorney general will also announce an updated plan for considering release for "inmates facing extraordinary or compelling circumstances - and who pose no threat to the public." What, inmates without tats must remain incarcerated ?
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Seems fair to me, don't enforce the laws, just execute the perps.
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1. Anything Holder touches is almost by definition bad for the US
2. US Federal criminal law is completely out of control, and mandatory minimums are definately part of the problem.
3. Anyone who dislikes large, unaccountable government should oppose current drug laws.
4. Rather than address any of these real problems, looks like Holder is using them as a fig leaf excuse to release bad guys from prison just because they are black.
In the bad old days, otherwise law abiding kids who smoked pot were criticized for deciding which laws they would obey and which laws they would not obey. After all, this is a democracy so if you don't like the law you should change it instead of breaking it. Now we have Holder and his boss who decide which laws they will enforce and which laws they will not enforce. As far as I'm concerned they're far worse than the old dope smoking hippies who were too stoned to get off their asses and change anything. They've just thrown democracy right out of the window.
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Concurrent with this is the move to block employers from refusing to hire convicts. Of course the same people pushing this are NOT going to relieve employers of liability when said employee engage in destructive/anti-social behaviors. Welcome to the Oligarchy.
First, I don't like this use of executive authority. Not disclosing the amount of drug seized is tantamount to lying to a court. I suppose that doesn't bother Mr. Holder, but if I were a federal prosecutor I'd refuse to comply.
Second, if you don't like the law, change it. Seems like there is enough sentiment in Congress to do so with bipartisan support. Who knows, perhaps working together on something would be contagious.
Third, marijuana laws for adults indeed are too severe. I'd remove prison time all together and make marijuana use and possession a misdemeanor punished with a modest fine. Serial abusers might get a little community service. Traffickers would face forfeiture and confiscation but no prison time. Marijuana might be a gateway drug for some but we've lost this part of the drug war pure and simple.
Fourth, Mr. Holder is correct in that low-level, nonviolent offenders without ties to gangs and drug lords should not be in prison. Prison is simply graduate school for hoodlums.
But the Attorney General should not be modifying the law, he should be following it, and advising Congress how to make it better. Don't look for Mr. Holder to do any of that.
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Eric 'my people' Holder seeks to end mandetory minimums, empty prisons.
The action by Holder is well within the general administrative authority of the prosecutorial discretion of the DOJ.
Notwithstanding the above I agree that, assuming a general consensus that the change is needed, it would be desirable to have Congress actually change the mandatory minimums rather than do this via administrative discretion.
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Many times the appearance of a severe sentence for "non-violent" drug crimes is because there wasn't enough evidence to get a conviction on a much more serious crime. Remember Al Capone was responsible for many deaths but he went "Up the River" for tax evasion. Think O.J.
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fwiw, the mandatory minimums for federal drug crime is here
the most famous issue here is that the minimum sentence begins at 28 grams for crack and 500 grams for powder cocaine
Congress should have fixed this years ago (about 200/500 would be more realistic) but perhaps no one wants to sponsor the 'leniency for crack possessors' act
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