Frankly, Muslims are generally lazy. Sit-down jobs like taxi driving, suits their work ethic. They are more likely to collect welfare (UK "dole") than other minorities. Terrorist supporter, Omar Bakri was a notorious parasite, who used legal aid to sue welfare in order to get more mooch-money.
The TUC and the Muslim Council of Britain will work together in support of workplace justice and against Islamophobia...
The TUC report Poverty, Exclusion and British People of Pakistani and Bangladeshi Origin published in 2005 demonstrated that many people from substantial parts of the Muslim community suffer massive disadvantage and discrimination: 69 per cent classified as poor compared with 22 per cent of the country as a whole. Overall British Muslims are three times more likely to be unemployed than the population as a whole.
Islamophobia is a real and present threat, fuelled by misunderstandings, prejudice and the characterisation of whole communities because of a small number of dangerous extremists and a loud but tiny fringe made larger than life by some sensation mongering and self-fulfilling reporting in some parts of the media. Such groups threaten their own communities just as they threaten society at large...
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Islamophobia is a real and present threat, fuelled by misunderstandings, prejudice and the characterisation of whole communities because of a small number of dangerous extremists
Exact numbers may bary, see "Small Numbers" below:
0.700 billion or more, Barnes & Noble Encyclopedia 1993
0.817 billion, The Universal Almanac (1996)
0.951 billion, The Cambridge Factfinder (1993)
1.100 billion, The World Almanac (1997)
1.200 billion, CAIR (Council on American-Islamic relations) (1999)
The government and Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) on Monday agreed to three changes in the Women's Protection Bill. The changes were agreed at a meeting of the committee of religious scholars set up to review the bill. Scholars representing the government proposed the three changes, while the MMA made six proposals.
The changes include that the crime of rape be punishable under Hadd, if the conditions laid down in Hadd are met. The second proposal is that adultery be punished under a new section against "lewdness" in the PPC, which says: "A man and a woman are said to commit lewdness if they wilfully have sexual intercourse with one another and shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to five years and shall also be liable to fine."
The third change is replacement of Section 3 of the Hudood Ordinance with the following: "In the interpretation and application of this ordinance, the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force."
The MMA's six proposals include: legislation to protect women's right to inheritance; legislation to stop forced marriag
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What about mares, cows, and ewes ? Free boinking zone ?
Oh, yeah...a guy who married Madonna calling other people 'dumb'..
NEW YORK Sparks usually fly, from one quarter or another, when actor Sean Penn meets the press, and it happened again this week at a news conference for the Toronto International Film Festival. Chances were greater, as he was touting a long-expected political drama screened there, the re-make of "All the King's Men."
Among the highlights on Sunday, Penn asked photographers to stop snapping so he could hear questions, and he called President Bush "a Beelzebub -- and a dumb one."
Penn stars in the new movie as a Huey Long-type populist politician in Louisiana, with Jude Law playing a crucial role as his friend, an alcoholic reporter. "One could make the argument that George Bush is a good politician," Penn said at one point, seemingly offering praise. Then he added: "I think the issue is how you define politician. Once upon a time, politics was the organization of things to benefit the people."
An early review this week by E&P's VNU sibling, The Hollywood Reporter, hailed Penn's "charismatic" performance, but added that the movie "doesn't seem to know how to contain it. Writer-director Steven Zaillian's questionable solution is to fit this rambunctious portrait of unruly Southern politics in a monumental frame where Southern Gothic meets Leni Riefenstahl." Variety panned it as "overstuffed."
At the press conference, a reporter returned to the notion of Bush as a good politician, and Penn said the definition has changed -- much as it has for "good actor" which now means, he said, "contest winner" (he is an Academy Award winner himself). "So that's the level of politician I think he's good at," Penn said. "Out of context, he's Beelzebub -- and a dumb one."
Another query: Could he name a good politician? Penn said he wasn't about to "rattle off the cliches....It should be obvious, those people who sacrificed of their talents and their commitment to their country or their people . . . we know who they are and they're not currently in the White House."
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Is he acting like he doesn't have a formal education, or is he not acting and without a formal education, or is he educated but acting like he's not. . . .
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I make money pretending to be somebody I'm not on film. I don't actually have any degrees from Harvard, or Yale, or anything like that, but, since I can pretend to be someone I'm not on film, this automatically qualifies me as a political expert. Please listen to me. I went to New Orleans and bailed water out of a pontoon boat. I had sex with Madonna. What more credibility do you need?
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Too bad they didn't get his complete demonology:
Bush=Beezelbub
Cheney=Cthulhu
Rice=Cruella DeVille
Bill Frist=That Hitler Guy
Dennis Hastert=That Other Hitler Guy
Rush Limbaugh=Like, He's Fat And Stupid
Ann Coulter=She's A Stupid Bitch
Michelle Malkin=Stupid, Stupid, Stupid
Al Franken=He's A Stupid Fascist. Stupid. Huh? What?
...Apparently, he was just kidding with World Trade Center...
Moscow -- U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone, who surprised many with the patriotic flavour of his new film World Trade Center, hinted in Moscow yesterday that he is considering a more controversial follow-up investigating the "conspiracy" around 9/11. "There is a great story in a movie, a conspiracy by a group of people in the American administration who have an agenda and who used 9/11 to further that agenda," he told journalists in Russia.
There could be a "fascinating project [on] what happened after Sept. 11," the director said at his packed press conference on the fifth anniversary of the attacks.
Stone accused U.S. President George W. Bush of mishandling the fight against Osama bin Laden's militants and using the crisis to stoke fear and bolster his own power at home in a way that was "right out of George Orwell." AFP You want Orwellian, Ollie? Imagine a boot, stamping on a human face - forever.
Oh, I'm sorry - that's what you want for us NON-idiotarians.
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Maybe Ollie will make a movie from the Popular Mechanics debunking of the 9/11 "conspiracy".
You know your conspiracy theory sucks when Popular Mechanics gives it repeated kicks to the groin.
NEW YORK Oil prices dropped below $66 a barrel Monday, after Iran said it would consider halting its enrichment of uranium and OPEC ministers said they would maintain their 28 million barrel-a-day production target.
These developments supported the view that supplies will outpace demand _ a market sentiment that has pushed crude oil prices down about 16 percent from their all-time record reached in mid-July. "When supply exceeds demand, commodities have one way to go, and that's down," said Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Fadel Gheit. "Barring a global crisis, or a major supply disruption, I think the trend will continue."
Light, sweet crude for October delivery fell 64 cents to settle at $65.61 a barrel Monday on the New York Mercantile Exchange _ the lowest closing price for front-month crude since finishing at $64.16 a barrel on March 27. It dropped as low as $64.85 earlier Monday.
Still, the magnitude of Monday's price decline shrank as traders digested the statement by OPEC that it would monitor market conditions and consider an output cut later this year. Some OPEC members, including Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh, suggested that prices shouldn't be allowed to fall below $60 a barrel.
According to Oppenheimer's Gheit, crude prices would have to fall below about $55 a barrel before OPEC would start worrying about members' revenue. "Oil prices are still higher than a year ago, double where they were three years ago, and three times the support level OPEC established for itself five years ago," Gheit said. "OPEC is in no hurry to cut production, because they still think, why panic? We never thought we'd have $60 oil ... They are likely to overstay their welcome, if you will, and saturate the market with excess crude."
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Wasn't too long ago OPEC was worried about putting too much pressure on the world economy. Now we know why: It would have slowed down their revenue stream! So much for the "humanitarian phase" there at OPEC.
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"... They are likely to overstay their welcome, if you will, and saturate the market with excess crude."
Apparently, Allah never studied economics...heh, heh, heh...
Mike
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According to Oppenheimer's Gheit, crude prices would have to fall below about $55 a barrel before OPEC would start worrying about members' revenue.
The price that assures a profit to lot's of alternative petroleum sources. They're into dangerous territory now. Time to install an inflation adjusted minimum cost oil import fee at, say, $55.
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Time to install an inflation adjusted minimum cost oil import fee at, say, $55.
Feeding the government more should be the very last option. Raising everyone's taxes only benefits government, it will not change the market, and it will not affect our enemies.
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Let's hope the speculators enjoy eating their bills at $70+ a barrel.
If we're willing to live through another couple of these bumps within a short period of time, enough of the speculators will be burned enough to calm down for a good while. Like a backfire to burn out the fuel for further advances by a major forest fire.
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Feeding the government more should be the very last option.
That's a problem easily addressed by adjusting income tax rates or providing per capita rebates. Reducing the volatility of petroleum prices will change the way markets act.
Excuse me sir, may I wash your windscreen, have a look at your oil, and check the air in your tires?
Oh, we found excess refinery capacity too?
I don't like roller coaster gas price rides at the cost of $500 billion in excess defense spending to protect Europe, India, China and Japan's access to Middle Eastern oil paid for by hocking our future to the Chinese.
The way to political independence is petroleum independence. The only way off imported petroleum is domestic alternatives. The only way to get them in meaningful volume is to assure return on investment. The market will take care of the rest. Let's start now.
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Yes, Nimble. and all those voting for energy independence should vote for more drilling (ANWR, Florida, California) and more wind farms - the best location on the east coast, by far, is Cape Cod. Hear that Johnny? (Oh, but Kerry knew that - he's a windsurfer-guy).
Oh, and fast-breeder nukes, which put out much less waste than conventional nukes. And more hydropower, with dams across wild and scenic rivers.
Oh, wait - we can't do any of those things. It must be Bush's fault!
I almost forgot hydrogen, which costs more energy to make than it provides, and for which there is no infrastructure to make, distribute, or deliver.
Oil shale? Tar sands? See hydrogen, plus a lot messier to produce, what with strip mining, and all.
I guess we gotta conserve, and whine. And blame Bush.
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Oil shale.
US has as much reserves in Oil shale as the whole world current oil reserves, combined. Factoring in the increases of consumptionbased on population growth estimates, this reserve would last ~ 300 years.
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Bobby, Petroleum is the problem, not energy. Yes we should open up domestic drilling. The rest of the electrical stuff, nukes, hydrogen, wind mills may or may not be good ideas, but they don't produce or displace imported petroleum.
But the point was, there are a lot of possibilities out there, none of them cheap, easy, quick or environmentally benign.
Therefore, the Dems don't like them. They're in search of the silver bullet, and only conservation is cheap, easy, quick and environmentally benign.
But I like my S.U.V.
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That's a problem easily addressed by adjusting income tax rates or providing per capita rebates. Reducing the volatility of petroleum prices will change the way markets act.
If you look at oil prices over the last 70 years you will find to be one of the most stable of commodities and as a commodity reacts to market conditions as well as anything.
Oil prices have historically been very low, and there is zero reason to think that will change anytime in the next 20 years.
Thus, creating another tax simple feeds a monster that doesn't need to be fed and imposes unneccesary costs on everyone else.
If "alternative energy" was viable the market would have moved over to those sources already. But leftists continue to insist that government subsidy is just the thing that will makes these fuels viable. But the only thing a government sponsored subsidy does really well is to keep itself going in the face of every indication the money is better spent elsewhere. ( like more dead terrorists )
We complain about wanting to get off the "oil tit" but subsidizing a greenie wet dream ain't gonna do it. The only thing that will do it is the market and I ain't seeing anything to indicate there will be a change in how we obtain enery.
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I'm much less concerned about the stability of 70 years of history than the next 15 years of conflict. And the question is not price alone, but availability. Why did the Japanese decide to attack America instead of Russia?
I seriously doubt increased drilling and coal liquifaction are greenie wet dreams.
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Easy on the windsurfer cracks there Bobby. We are a small but passionate community. Where there are wind farms there is wind. Windsurfers have no problem with this. Besides, the windmills are about 70 feet in the air. No disturbance to those of us on the surface.
Kerry, while he does windsurf and kiteboard, is a maroon. His senior senator, fat ass Teddy, does neither as it is difficult to pour the scotch into the glass while ripping at 20 knots. Anyway, the whine from the high and mighties was about how the view would be disrupted, not that it would affect the windsurfing.
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.
The government and Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) on Monday agreed to three changes in the Women's Protection Bill. The changes were agreed at a meeting of the committee of religious scholars set up to review the bill. Scholars representing the government proposed the three changes, while the MMA made six proposals. 
NEW YORK Oil prices dropped below $66 a barrel Monday, after Iran said it would consider halting its enrichment of uranium and OPEC ministers said they would maintain their 28 million barrel-a-day production target.
