In which is discussed life in the time of eens-weentsy microaggressions carried out by eensty-weentsy micropeople against people who're ever so much nobler and sensitive than louts like us.
In an upcoming People magazine interview, Barack and Michelle Obama sit down and discuss life as the First Oppressed Couple of the United States. Hoping to shed light and relate to recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City, Barack reached into the upstairs White House bedroom of his mind and called upon his famous imaginary son to make an appearance:
The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced,” President Obama said. “It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.
Once again, Barack Obama’s imaginary son has found himself unfairly in trouble with the law. If you recall, his imaginary son was also shot by an imaginary neighborhood watch guard in the same style as Trayvon Martin. But Obama’s imaginary son is plucky and resilient and has lived a hard life in the hood so he keeps bouncing back.
In his life, Obama’s imaginary son has been shot at, concussed out of football, and racially profiled. Yet he keeps picking himself up and carrying on. Obama’s imaginary son should be an example to us all. No matter what kind of imaginary circumstances we find ourselves in, we can continue on with our imaginary lives.
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Obama mistaken as a waiter? Michelle mistaken as a Target clerk?
We should be so lucky that Obama were a waiter rather than president. He has cause a lot of racial strife in this country. There are two versions of Michelle's story. One story was given on Letterman, the other more recently. The first story had it that she was taller than the person asking for help. She said she was pleased to help. Now it's a racist thing?
These two people need to get over themselves. Far too much self-absorbed naval inspection. IMO these two are in lock step with the Reverend Al. All three are race hustling.
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I don't think he was lying because he believes what is coming out of his mouth for the most part. Our problem is that what he believes is mostly factually incorrect. We have twice elected a president that is dumb and thinks he is smarter than anyone that doesn't blurt out Chomsky quotes.
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For the Left there is only power, everything else is just rationalization.
#4
No mention by Obama of the thousands executed by firing squads after the Cuban Revolution and after the Bay of Pigs, no mention of the Angolan incursion to support leftists, or Somali, no mention of the expropriation of land from Cubans and Americans, no mention of spread of communism in this hemisphere by Castro, no mention of the many political prisoners who were tortured and died at the Isle of Pines, or no mention of the cop killers and thugs in the U.S. who fled to Cuba and were given sanctuary in Cuba (they still remain there). Obama is very selective in his history.
#6
I heard scuttlebutt to the point that he may want to intentionally deny the Dems (Hillary) the state of Florida in the next election. How better to do that then this (spit) Cuba speech?
[DAWN] IN a move that bewildered many here, and much of the outside world too, the anti-terrorism court charged with trying Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders for their role in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks saw fit to grant bail to the principal accused Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi just days after the Peshawar school carnage that so shocked the world this week. While the court may have acted according to the rules and within the letter of the law, there is also a context here that cannot be overlooked.
Consider that for five years the trial has remained in limbo, hearings repeatedly adjourned on one pretext or another — ...more witnesses disappearing and dying...
so why pick this week of all possible weeks to grant bail to Lakhvi? It suggests a tone deafness that at the very least offends common sense at this sensitive, possibly pivotal, moment in the country’s history. Instead of building on the consensus that militancy needs to be systematically eradicated from all corners of the country, the national conversation is being pulled in unwelcome directions.
On the Mumbai-related trials the facts speak for themselves. The Pakistani state itself acknowledged that the attacks were planned and masterminded by individuals based in Pakistan. During the course of the Indian investigation, the state here provided a great deal of evidence to help piece together how the attacks were carried out. Indeed, the ATC trials were triggered by that very process of the Pakistani state investigating and unearthing evidence against the architects of the Mumbai attacks. Lakhvi, a top echelon leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba, was at the centre of the evidence pieced together by not just Pakistani authorities, but also Indian and other international investigators. In no normal, fair and independent judicial system would the trial of Lakhvi go nowhere for years before resulting in his bail. The government has rightly acted to keep him in custody for now, but that is only a fire-fighting measure. What is really needed is for the trials of Lakhvi and his co-accused to be taken up again with a seriousness of purpose and sound legal strategy. For in these Mumbai trials, Pakistan’s overall record in the fight against militancy is also on trial. Both the political and military leadership of the country has stated repeatedly that there is no longer such a thing as a good militant. For that to be true, individuals like Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi cannot be allowed to simply walk away free men.
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Lashkar-e-Taiba
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[Dhaka Tribune] The vast majority of Paks may be united in grief for the school children murdered in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. - but many say they still don't know who carried out the attacks.
For the media ‐ both in Pakistain and abroad ‐ the issue is clear enough: the Pak Taliban did it.
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Terrorism and bloodshed is to Pakistan as NASCAR is to......
[Dhaka Tribune] The 13th century Italian poet Dante once uttered a profound note of caution by stating: "The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis." After witnessing the brutal massacre of 132 children in the city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. in Pakistain by Taliban on December 16, 2014, a similar chord was touched in the entire civilised world where no room is left for being a neutral observer to this overall ordeal.
The truth is, the mass murder that we witnessed, and the brutality that was exhibited collectively make us believe that a new line of immoral conduct was crossed in Peshawar to which we cannot be silent. In essence, there was an Islamic State
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[DAWN] “IF you keep vipers in your garden,” goes the old proverb. “Don’t be surprised if you get bitten.”
After years of getting bitten regularly, we have developed an immunity to snake venom. But every once in a while, a particularly poisonous serpent can still inflict a lot of suffering. And then cries go up to clear the garden once and for all.
Once the nasty Americans leave the neighbourhood, they will calm down; and we should not kill the snakes that only bite our neighbours
But soon, the pain subsides, and the soothing refrain goes up: they are our snakes, after all, and we can train them to behave better; they are only reacting to drone attacks; once the nasty Americans leave the neighbourhood, they will calm down; and we should not kill the snakes that only bite our neighbours.
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[DAWN] MAY the horror that visited Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. last Tuesday be the last such tragedy to visit any parent, any family at home or abroad. It's pointless to say now if the Peshawar nightmare could possibly have been averted.
Equally, it is incumbent on each of us to pause and ponder how we got here; to ask if the steps to hell can be reversed; if somehow the takfiri
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[DAWN] THE gut-wrenching massacre in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. 's Army Public School has left Pakistain aghast and sickened. All politicians have called for unity against terrorism. But this is no watershed event that can bridge the deep divides within. In another few days this episode of 134 dead children will become one like any other.
All tragedies provoke emotional exhortations. But nothing changed after Lakki Marwat when 105 spectators of a volleyball match were killed by a jacket wallah in a pickup truck. Or, when 96 Hazaras in a snooker club died in a double suicide kaboom. The 127 dead in the All Saints Church bombing in Peshawar, or the 90 Ahmadis killed while in prayer, are now dry statistics. In 2012, men in military uniforms stopped four buses bound from Rawalpindi to Gilgit, demanding that all 117 persons alight and show their national identification cards. Those with typical Shia names, like Abbas and Jafri, were separated. Minutes later corpses lay on the ground.
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According to Hildabeast, we should try to understand and make peace with these enemies psychopaths.
Don't they lop your head off for that?
[Dawn] There is so much already said and that will be said about the attack in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. on the Army Public school this week. And yet, one cannot underestimate the need to keep speaking about it.
Like most people I know, I monitored my social media feeds and consumed this, worst of news cycles as it played out on December 16. I tried to keep my wits about me, alternating between journalistic rage at the insensitivity of jamming microphones in the faces of grieving parents, to the ethical implications of running pictures of dead children.
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[DAWN] The atrocities unleashed by the banned TTP in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. on Tuesday have illustrated, horribly, that decisive and cohesive action is required against the monster of militancy. But while there is justified anger against the perpetrators of the attack on the Army Public School, government action should not take its cue from populist demands that are based more on emotions than reason.
It is in this context that we must see Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
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Don't know about you, but I'm tired of Pakistani lamentations over their chickens coming home to roost.
Article after article of hand wringing with nary a word of a solution.
It seems that they seem themselves as sophisticated elitists (think Harvard faculty) with not a clue, or desire, as to how or why to get ones hands dirty cleaning up the mess.
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First, consider how ineffective capital punishment would be in the case of those militants terrorists who resort to suicide bombing as their primary weapon of death and destruction. Indoctrinated to the point where the perpetrator does not expect to emerge from the attack alive, how can the death penalty be expected to deter others of his ilk?
Go after the masterminds and those who indoctrinate the bombers.
Besides, the death penalty will always remain a cruel and inhumane form of punishment, even if those sentenced to die are found guilty of having perpetrated the most barbaric of acts.
I see little difference in whether you shoot 150 schoolchildren or blow them up. I see they also have their anti-death penalty adherents in Pakistain. What the terrorists do is inhumane. However, the terrorist gives little thought to that notion. The death penalty prevents the terrorist from planning or committing future atrocities.
The Pakistainians need to go after the ideology and those who preach the ideology that sanctions and legitimizes these acts of terrorism. This needs to be done in other parts of the world as well.
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how can the death penalty be expected to deter others of his ilk?
The point of the suicide kaboom is to kill, wound, and terrify a great many people, not the death of the jacket wallah himself. The judicial death penalty takes away all of that, leaving only death without forwarding the jihad. And make it a criminal's death followed by the standard disposal of the criminal's body, as the Israelis are now doing with those killed while committing attacks, and the appeal of the thing will attenuate.
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