Out of work? No morals? Have a law degree? Think everybody lacks common sense just like you? Why not work for the ACLU?!
Seems to me to be a case of if gasoline were invented today, it would be outlawed!
It's called an "option". You can use it or not depending on which scenario would pose a lesser risk. If you see a group attacking another with shanks, go ahead and use it because you need to diffuse the situation now, not a minute from now after all the necessary guards can be assembled. The attackee will thank you for it even if he gets zapped. It's way less lethal than a shank.
Or maybe you'd rather they just die. Which in many hardcore cases would probably be better for society anyway.
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This is the result of not teaching real history in schools. Back at the start of the republic, felons didn't vote because felons swung. There were no prisons. You did what the community considered a capital crime, you died. Certainly husbanded resources.
Then the 'humanitarian' community pressed to reduce the punishment for certain crimes and gave us the alternative of extended incarceration. Thus began the long process of making punishment no longer punishment.
Maybe its time to go back to basics.
Meanwhile we will continue to carry on cleaning up the executions in our streets, neighborhoods, communities, along with the resultant mayhem of assaults, rapes, and looting.
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They should tell the complainers "Fine." Then take away all the clubs, pepper sprays, tasers, and other items used in an attempt to not hurt the inmates.
Next time one of them is rowdy, repeatedly fire 00 or #4 12 gauge shotgun shells at the inmate until he is lying in compliance on the cell floor and no longer resisting.
I think you will find it will take very few applications to bring discipline and order to the entire prison this way.
Seven inmates were hospitalized Friday after a riot at California's Folsom State Prison where guards were forced to fire five live rounds.
More than 200 inmates began rioting in the prison's main exercise yard about 7:00pm local time. The riot was contained within half an hour, authorities said, with 30 to 35 guards involved.
Guards fired 20 non-lethal rounds in quelling the riot, as well as five live rounds. Seven inmates, with non life-threatening injuries, were taken by ambulance to Sacramento-area hospitals.
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Though I hate admitting it, this time, I have to agree with the ACLU. Raytheon has been trying to flog downsized versions of this thing all over the place, and the potential for abuse makes me cringe.
To start with, this is not an individual offender weapon, it is an area denial weapon. So though it will be sold to break up public riots, in use it is far more likely to bust up public protests.
A disturbing trend among police at events like G-8 meetings, is that the police are told to do "whatever is necessary" to bust up protests, knowing full well that the municipality will be sued, lose, and have to pay some sum to those who were abused.
This is disturbing because they don't care, as long as the protest is broken up *now*, with a "police riot". It's just taxpayer money in the settlement anyway, so no harm done. This is all kinds of wrongness.
A weapon like this mounted on a vehicle is the easiest way imaginable to institute martial law in a city. Just order all citizens to remain indoors, and fry anyone seen on the street. It could even be used during a house to house search for whatever, to prevent resistance.
I agree but recall that the punishment generally did not include incarceration. That was only used to assure the presence of the suspect when the circuit riders finally arrived. Though judges might assign many types of punishment for non-capital felonies, they frequently included branding so that others in the future would be able to read the criminal's rap sheet on their forehead. The state could not afford to house convicts, so incarceration was rarely used as a punishment until communities grew wealthier.
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Actually, Great Britain had a nice system : send excess troublemakers to America or Australia, and let them make a profitable colony. That is until the wealthy descendants of the exiled decided that they could do better on their own.
Wired's Spencer Ackerman reports that Col. Lawrence Sellin, a 61-year-old Army reservist, has been dismissed from his post in headquarters with NATO's International Security Assistance Force less than 48 hours after he published an op-ed, via UPI, complaining that the "war consists largely of the endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides to conform with the idiosyncrasies of cognitively challenged generals in order to spoon-feed them information." Sellin clearly anticipated that his tirade, which NATO says he didn't clear for publication in advance, would serve as a resignation letter. It opened with, "Throughout my career I have been known to walk that fine line between good taste and unemployment. I see no reason to change that now. Consider the following therapeutic." He went on to excoriate the meaningless, self-serving, metastasizing military bureaucracy that holds sway in Afghanistan and justifies its existence via PowerPoint slide: "Little of substance is really done here, but that is a task we do well." PPT is so.... 90's. If you are unable to layer Google Earth, get off of my staff!
Oh dear. I'm still working up to PowerPoint. There's not much call for that kind of thing in the housewifery biz, you see.
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hahaha, unfortunately some of what he says is true...we're planning our deployment to douchebagistan right now - HHQ tells me to give them names of deployable folks, I ask for a mission statement so I can plan the mix of MOS and density of personnel I need out there to execute our missions, etc, they say not until I give them names...fucking idiocy...almost choked out a young operations officer who couldn't get it through his brain housing group...paging Major Major..
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Mr. Mendiola, I swear I have an easier time understanding the works of Joyce then I often do your thought provoking excerpts...not that that should stop you. ;)
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There's not much call for that kind of thing in the housewifery biz, you see.
That is due to the simple fact the average housewife is not encumbered by imagery based decision making and thinks for herself without the crutch of visual aids. She can easily ascertain the content of a 15 to 30 minute presentation and decide for herself if the speaker is handing her a ration of k@k, or can simply be extended her trust and confidence.... without resorting to anal, PPT slides and colourful pictures containing green, amber, or red balls and confusing process charts.
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Veteran housewives daily practice leadership and understand the innate difference between making decisions and simple management.
Housewives daily confront Power Point Presentations in the form of commercials and print ads. They understand that such are just another way of saying "Look at me. I want your attention and resources." And while they may indeed influence a selection or choice, the housewives understand they can do just fine without them to get the basic missions accomplished....unlike staff weenies who need to justify themselves daily to a micro manager who never developed key leadership skills.
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One of the first things I did when taking over a position (civilian and military) was forbid anyone of lower rank to use PowerPoint to present information to me or anyone in my "command".
I started a toastmasters club so presenters would learn the proper verbal tools, and learn how to be brief and concise with the spoken word (3 minute and five minute speeches are training devices in TM). I highly recommend Toastmasters.
If graphical information was required, it would be printed and handed out and would not exceed 3 pages plus a references page (which requires more care than slapping a PPT together).
The one allowance I would make is that everyone could email a list of links to documentation and a summary of the speech to any attendee who requested it in email.
It works quite well after the initial shock. It sharpens the wit to have to grasp your subject matter with enough expertise to give a concise 3-5 minute talk without slides, only 3 pages of graphs/figures as a handout, and a few 3x5 cards for your speaking notes if needed.
It also very quickly pointed out those who were not competent at their job, which was very convenient for me.
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Brilliant managing, OldSpook! Requiring brief presentations with a rigourous format not only improves the quality of communication and of the thought process behind it, but allows for quicker understanding of the information being presented and the rationale for recommended actions... in the same way that battlefield responses are quicker when each group stores their supplies in exactly the same way.
The Harvard Business School johnnies like to talk about the Procter & Gamble one-page memo. With very rare exceptions (eg. upstream scientific research, quarterly and year-end reports to the stockholders) the entire staff of the international, Fortune 500 company is held to a very specific one-page format:
Section 1: One paragraph of up to two sentences that state the purpose of the memo.
Section 2: One paragraph of up to four sentences outlining conclusions and recommended next steps.
Section 3: Up to three paragraphs detailing background information and key data supporting the conclusion. If at all possible, data should be presented in a table. Raw data is kept in the individual's files and/or lab notebooks as appropriate, available upon request.
It is expected there will be plenty of white space for marginal notes from management, as these things are circulated up the line. A manager will add a cover note (of one page, naturally, and in the same format) when forwarding a bundle of memos from various individuals working the same project, but the preferred method of immediate communication is the marginalia, which come back down again after they've gone up. As a result, even junior technicians work to ensure they've communicated precisely, knowing that a senior VP may well see and comment on their effort, should the section or department head's cover memo invite deeper investigation.
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Disagree. Powerpoint, done properly, is nothing more than a series of concise messages-- 3x5 cards printed and displayed for all to see, in 20+ point font. The masters of the genre use VERY few words -- as few as possible, actually-- in each slide, and large, powerful graphics that usually include a few data points that tell the whole story.
The virtues of exposing your 3x5 card points, or logic and evidence, in .ppt are many:
1) you reinforce your speaking points and control the audience's attention-- without a graphic slide behind you, the audience will likely retain less than 30% of what you're saying (and in many cases less than 10%). The slides behind you can significantly raise this retention level.
2) the .ppt document can be shared with those who were not present at the original talk or discussion, and can of course be stored and shared.
3) related to #2, other team members can use the arguments, ideas, data points, graphics etc in their OWN presentations. This enables a consistent message to take hold and amplifies that message throughout the organization.
4) related to #3, the presentation can be used to promote your arguments and your organization BEYOND your organization, ie, help you to market your ideas and services.
Don't say no to drugs, kids. Say no to BAD drugs. Powerpoint done by people who know how to pitch and present is powerful stuff.
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Valid point Lex. The problem is, the method too often overshadows or actually becomes the message. Our goal should not be to create the most professionally done presentation, but rather provide a clear understanding of the point at hand. No one will remember the finely turned out bar graph at PPT number 21 of 39. Fewer yet will ever go back and view it a second time.
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Valid point Lex. The problem is, the method too often overshadows or actually becomes the message. Our goal should not be to create the most professionally done presentation, but rather provide a clear understanding of the point at hand. No one will remember the finely turned out bar graph at PPT number 21 of 39. Fewer yet will ever go back and view it a second time.
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Valid point Lex. The problem is, the method too often overshadows or actually becomes the message. Our goal should not be to create the most professionally done presentation, but rather provide a clear understanding of the point at hand. No one will remember the finely turned out bar graph at PPT number 21 of 39. Fewer yet will ever go back and view it a second time.
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Valid point Lex. The problem is, the method too often overshadows or actually becomes the message. Our goal should not be to create the most professionally done presentation, but rather provide a clear understanding of the point at hand. No one will remember the finely turned out bar graph at PPT number 21 of 39. Fewer yet will ever go back and view it a second time.
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Valid point Lex. The problem is, the method too often overshadows or actually becomes the message. Our goal should not be to create the most professionally done presentation, but rather provide a clear understanding of the point at hand. No one will remember the finely turned out bar graph at PPT number 21 of 39. Fewer yet will ever go back and view it a second time.
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That's quite a stutter you've developed there, Besoeker. ;-p
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No one will remember the finely turned out bar graph at PPT number 21 of 39.
A .ppt preso longer than 10 slides is usually a failure. Keep it short and to the point.
Every successful corporate client I've worked with has some variation on the theme of KISS. "Be Brilliant, Be Brief, Be Gone." "Don't Add, Just Execute." "Not Data But Insight-- ACTIONABLE Insight." etc
I try to keep mine below 8 slides. Make the data sing. Tell the good people something they didn't already know. Present a variant perspective, and nail it home with killer data.
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best thing? They do a .ppt, with handouts of the slides and read them to you. I'm a heckler from slide one with slightly off-topic questions I know they didn't prepare for. It's a mission from God
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I've seen hundreds of PPT presentations and most spent 20+ minutes telling what could have been communicated in 2 minutes via a one page concise summary.
They all kind of blur into one and what I mostly recall about them is thinking 'Jeez, can't he/she get to the point.'
Which is not to say there aren't people who can use PPT to effectively convey a message, but for most PPT is just a 'toy' to play with, and a massive time waster and productivity killer.
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best thing? They do a .ppt, with handouts of the slides and read them to you.
Even better than best? College course where the professor reads the .ppt slides that are available on-line at the beginning of the term as part of the syllabus. In a monotone, with a strong Chinese accent. Trailing daughter #2 somehow mastered intro. statistics despite the professor.
Make the data sing. Tell the good people something they didn't already know. Present a variant perspective, and nail it home with killer data.
Indeed, lex. The .ppt version of the one-page memo. ;-) I would love to see you at work one day, just for the pleasure of it. But singing data isn't for everyday information sharing, and non-singing data...
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs in Saudi Arabia has ordered Imams not to deliver lengthy Friday sermons. The order also stressed that those who do not keep their sermons short and meaningful will be punished. And we know what that means in Saoodi-controlled Arabia ...
How well is that fatwa forbidding going for them?
Dr Azam Al Shewair, Chief of the Committee for the Assessment of Imams and Khateebs at the ministry's branch in Riyadh, said the Imams who ignore the ministry's instructions will be forced to undergo training. If they repeat the offence, they will get a final warning and their heads salaries will be cut.
He said Imams should take into consideration that there are old and sick people among worshippers for whom it is difficult to sit and listen to sermons for long periods. Wish our parish priest would consider that ...
He said it should be borne in mind that the Friday sermon serves as a lesson as it handles a certain subject about the affairs of Muslims or discusses a purely jurisprudential topic. Imams should, therefore, immediately delve into the topic of the sermon and be to the point.
Dr Saleh Al Humaid, a member of the Board of Senior Ulema said: "The impact of the sermon is not measured by its length but by the eloquent, concise and precise wording. Imams should refrain from flowery language and delve directly into the core of their sermon." "No flowery language today, my brothers, I'll keep it short and sweet: KILL THE INFIDELS!!!"
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[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday demanded immediate withdrawal of the education ministry's circular, which came in line with a High Court order, directing all educational institutions not to force female students to wear borkha (veil) at the institutions.
In a statement, ATM Azharul Islam, acting secretary general of Jamaat-e-Islami, said the education ministry hurts religious sentiments and feelings of the country people by issuing the circular, which goes against the principle of the holy Quran and Sunnah.
On August 22, the HC issued a suo moto order directing the government to ensure that no woman is forced to wear veil or religious attire at the educational institutions and offices across the country.
Following the HC order, the education ministry in a circular on Wednesday directed the authorities concerned of all educational institutions not to force female students to wear veil or religious attire at the institutions.
In yesterday's statement, Jamaat said the education ministry virtually took its stand against the holy Quran by issuing the circular, as wearing hijab (veil) has been made mandatory for women in the holy Quran.
After the issuance of the circular, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid told The Daily Star they have taken the decision following the directive of the High Court.
Now, no one would be forced to wear veil or religious attire as everyone has his or her own personal freedom, he said.
The statement reads that every educational institution has some specific rules and it is mandatory to wear special dress in some institutions.
Wearing a decent dress as per Islamic ideology is mandatory in religious educational institutions, it said, adding that wearing hijab is a religious right of Muslim women.
"Resisting this right is apparently an interference to religious right," Azharul Islam said in the statement.
The education ministry's circular interfered with the religious rights of Muslim female students, the statement added.
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Good thing he got sick. Looks like he got out of there right before he lost his mind ....
"Bush never lacked for Bin Laden's support. He was a subordinate."
"Any time Bush would stir up fear and make a big speech, Bin Laden would appear, threatening people with a story about what he was going to do."
"Who showed that he is indeed a CIA agent was WikiLeaks. It proved it with documents."
(KUNA) -- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay strongly condemned on Friday the killing of 72 migrants in the North of Mexico. "I am deeply shocked about these killings, which highlight the critical situation of migrants in the country," she said is press release launched today. "I recognize the Government of Mexico has made strong efforts to curb the growing climate of violence," Pillay said. "Nevertheless, due to the dire circumstances I call on the authorities to undertake all necessary steps to protect the life and integrity of migrants, in particular women and children, in line with Mexico's international obligations." She added.
Such high, noble sentiments! Such elevated language! Such unmitigated... anyway. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Pillay has definitely added a touch of wry humour to the proceedings.
The High Commissioner also called on the authorities "to conduct as a matter of urgency a thorough, transparent and independent investigation into these killings, and to preserve the dignity of the victims by ensuring their identification and return to their families." She also urged them to prosecute and punish those responsible and adopt preventive measures. "Ensuring that there is no impunity is crucial to avoid a repetition of such a heinous crime," she said. According to government reports, on 24 August the Mexican Navy discovered a site which contained 72 corpses, including 14 women, who had apparently been executed by members of organized crime. The victims were reported to be undocumented migrants from Central and South America.
Last year, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants indicated that an estimated 400,000 migrants transit through Mexico each year, most of them victims of trafficking by transnational gang networks also involved in smuggling and drugs. Many never reach their destination. In a recent public hearing the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights was informed that the number of kidnappings of migrants in transit through Mexico has neared 18,000 during 2009, mostly for extortion purposes. The majority of them are women, girls and boys".
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Many never reach their destination.
Hmmmmmmmm...I wonder where that is?
"Ensuring that there is no impunity is crucial to avoid a repetition of such a heinous crime," she said.
So I take it that the "High" Commissioner would have no problems with the Mexican cops blowing away the bastards who did this?
Any bets?
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] France's President Nicolas Sarkozy will next week launch moves to strip some foreign-born criminals of French nationality, a minister said, with plans reportedly targeting polygamists.
Immigration minister Eric Besson said Sarkozy would convene ministers next week to discuss amendments to plans he has announced to cancel citizenship for some crimes as part of his controversial law and order drive.
His "war on crime" also includes tearing down illegal Gypsy camps and deporting the Roma minority back to Bulgaria and Romania, sparking criticism from the United Nations, European Union and others.
Critics and political opponents have accused Sarkozy of stigmatising minorities, promoting racial and social divisions and playing to the far-right in the hope of boosting his plunging popularity rating.
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Hat tip to Sarko. Certainly a much more intelligent approach than ..... "four to six million new Gypsy jobs created or saved."
Amazing how times have changed. After less than two years of the feckless, Vacationer in Chief, many have now come to admire French leadership. Who could have known?
(KUNA) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized Friday a proposal made by opposition to issue a general pardon on Kurdish militants if they lay down their arms, asserting that nobody has the right for such an amnesty.
"I don't even have the right to issue a general pardon, and nobody can ignore the tears of fathers and mothers of the soldiers who were killed in the war against the rebels," Erdogan said in an interview with a local TV station.
leader of opposition Republic People's Party Kemal Kilicdaroglu had announced before a party rally two days ago that he would adopt a proposal to issue a pardon on outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) if they put down their arms.
His announcement outraged ruling Justice and Development Party and the opposition Nationalists. The latter described the proposal as "reckless." Erdogan said he would be the first person to oppose the pardon. "I don't see any party having the right to give this pardon." Only the Democracy and Peace party, which represents the Kurds in the Turkish parliament, backed the pardon proposal. "A general pardon will be one of the major elements for any solution for the Kurdish problem," said the party.
The armed 26-year-old struggle between the PKK and Turkey has left 45,000 dead people and caused billions of dollars in losses.
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A prominent Canadian Muslim group is calling for the condemnation of the doctrine of armed jihad and says there is a "serious problem" with radicalized Canadian youth in light of the recent terror arrests in Ottawa.
"This is not something that comes as a total surprise . . . we have a problem," Raheel Raza of the Muslim Canadian Congress told CTV.ca Thursday. "There is a serious problem among Canadian Muslim youth and if we don't address this now, it can culminate into something dangerous." at last, at long,long last.
The Muslim Canadian Congress says that the accused must be treated with the presumption of innocence, but Raza says the situation can be used to open a dialogue on radicalization within the Muslim community.
"We have to stand up and tackle this," she said, adding that she thinks the community needs to start asking itself tough questions about the radicalization of some youths and where those messages are coming from. you go girl
Despite the recent controversy in the United States regarding the "Ground Zero" mosque, Raza says that she is not worried about a backlash against Canadian Muslims, saying there will always be "hate-mongers."
"There are always going to be bigots, we can't stop speaking out against radicalization just because we are afraid of a few bigots and hate-mongers," the outspoken activist and author said. "Those people who are sensible . . . will understand what we are talking about." there goes the muslim as victim stance.
Raza added that she knows she is not being "politically correct" but says she is speaking out because she "loves my faith and my country." A breath of fresh air. at long last. but... fatwa in 3, 2, 1...
The Canadian Jewish Congress commended the Muslim Canadian Congress for its statement. "We are heartened by the statements of the Muslim Canadian Congress . . . calling for Muslim leadership in Canada to condemn irrefutably the doctrine of armed jihad and for the 'mosque establishment' to acknowledge and repudiate the serious threat of homegrown extremism," CEO Bernie Farber said in a statement Thursday.
The Canadian Islamic Congress, one of Canada's largest Muslim organizations, said they are waiting for more information before commenting on the story. waiting for the fatwa from your Saudi handlers?
Imam Zijad Delic, executive director of the Canadian Islamic Congress, told CTV.ca that leaders would be discussing the case with the RCMP and commenting Thursday evening.
The Muslim Canadian Congress is considered a liberal Muslim organization, but recently announced its opposition to the building of a mosque near Ground Zero in New York.
"We believe the proposal has been made in bad faith and, in Islamic parlance, is creating 'fitna,' meaning 'mischief-making,' an act clearly forbidden in the Qur'an," the group said in a statement. this just keeps getting better and better. let's hope the momentum can be kept up.
Writing in August 2010 with writer Tarek Fatah, a fellow board member of the Muslim Canadian Congress, about the location of the proposed Cordoba House mosque near Ground Zero, she stated:
We Muslims know the ... mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation, to thumb our noses at the infidel. The proposal has been made in bad faith, ... as "Fitna," meaning "mischief-making" that is clearly forbidden in the Koran.... As Muslims we are dismayed that our co-religionists have such little consideration for their fellow citizens, and wish to rub salt in their wounds and pretend they are applying a balm to sooth the pain.[28]
She looks like one of the good guys, who has been saying the things we want to hear from Muslims for quite some time.
Seems like the other shoe has dropped on where they were planning on getting the remaining funding. Of course, with skin in the game, I'll bet the government would go out of its way to grant it other favors as necessary to keep their investment in good health.
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Is public financing government funding? If it is government funding doesn't this violate the separation between church and state, i.e. the First Amendment. This is the Amendment Bloomberg is so keen on using for justification for building the victory mosque. WTF?
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Tax laws allow such funding for religiously affiliated non-profits if they can prove the facility will benefit the general public and their religious activities are funded separately.
I don't see how this facility will benefit the general public. Muslims are not partial to sharing their spaces with infidels. While the stated general usage community centre, pool, yada yada may be open to general public, it won't last. The doors will shut on infidels.
Will this victory mosque allow women to pray in the same room as the men? Side by side in equality? The constitution is fairly solid on the equality thing. Public funds/tax free bonds can't be used by institutions that do not provide for equal usage.
it will have it's own fatwa bulletin board and a sharia court. Operating a parallel judicial system - one that muslims see as superiour to US law - can't be supported by public funds. There is nothing this facility offers the general public outside providing a target-rich environment.
Joe's lawyer: "I now know after the meeting that they involve Hispanics, but they refuse to provide any specific allegations. This case is pretty unusual, I think. They don't seem to have any evidence."
"They already have in their possession reams and reams and reams of materials on what we would speculate is the thrust of their investigation."
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Witch hunt and harassment by the feds of anyone who is targeted as opposing BHO's/DOJ's radical left-wing agenda. These are trying dangerous times for the country.
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The feds are doubling down in anticipation of being before Congressional committees come January. They'll be too busy filing replies and papers themselves by then.
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Since Sheriff's are the absolute Law in their County, if I was Joe, I'd have me a round up of all the Federal Law enforcement agents and a few others.
Then I would show them the hospitality of my Tent Camp for a week or two. You know, while we sort things out and make sure they're not involved in anything illegal.
It's past time for those States that have some clankers to get aggressive with the Feds. If AZ decides to go hard on them, there would be a stream of cars filled with supporters rolling West from Texas.
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They mean it this time. Joe had better comply, or they will put him on "double secret probation", and you know what that means. Very stern memos will be passed!
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hmm the same DOJ that directed their Civil Rights staff to ignore congressional summons and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights regarding the NBPP fiasco? That paragon of integrity?
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Federal Law Men on behalf of illegals against Local Law men who support law and order. We know who the Good Guys are. Support them.
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistan has handed over a dossier on David Headely to the Indian government and has sought some additional information about him, Pakistan's High Commissioner in India Shahid Malik told Interior Minister Rehman Malik during a meeting on Friday.
Headley, a Pakistani-American, is accused of helping the men who attacked Mumbai in November 2008. The gunmen belonging to Pakistan launched a gun and bomb attack in India's financial capital killing 174 people. Pakistan is investigating the matter in accordance with an agreement with the Indian government. In this context, Islamabad has sought some information from New Delhi. Malik told the interior minister a request had been made to the Indian government in this regard.
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[Aswat al-Iraq] National Reform Bloc leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari called for an "intensive and meticulous" review of the plans and military strategies to stem mounting violence in Iraq, according to a press release by Jaafari's office on Friday.
"Jaafari, during a meeting with Iraqi Minister of Defense Abdulqader al-Obaidi and senior security officials at his office in Baghdad, asserted the need to detect the reasons behind security breaches," read the release as received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Jaafari discussed with the minister of defense recent security developments in Iraq and readiness of the Iraqi forces in light of the U.S. combat forces' pullout by the end of this month, it added.
Obaidi, for his part, said that security breaches in Iraq would not weaken the military forces' determination to provide security and stability in Iraq.
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[Ma'an] Israeli police detained Palestinian Legislative Council member Sheikh Hamed Al-Betawi on his way to prayer at the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday, family members said.
The Palestinian lawmaker, who was elected as a member of Hamas' Change and Reform bloc, called his son from the Israeli interrogation center at the Russian Compound in Jerusalem, saying he had been detained.
His son told Ma'an that the 47-year-old official was detained from a checkpoint erected by Israeli border police inside the Old City. Al-Betawi had been on his way to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Shortly after 1.30 on Friday afternoon, when the noon prayer had finished, Al-Betawi was released and told to leave the city, without being permitted to enter Al-Aqsa for a late prayer.
An Israeli police spokesman said he was unfamiliar with the event.
Al-Betawi is a resident of Nablus, the largest city in the northern West Bank. He had traveled from his home, through the Qalandiya military checkpoint in the central West Bank and south to Jerusalem before he was detained in the Old City.
Four PLC members who reside in Jerusalem were threatened with deportation in June, following Israeli threats to strip the men of their residency rights.
The lawmakers are members of the Hamas party. Israeli officials said that because the political movement was designated as a terrorist organization, the men would have to renounce their ties if they wished to remain Jerusalem residents.
All four were born in Jerusalem before 1967 when it was illegally annexed by Israel and included in the borders of an Israeli state. The men refused to break ties with their party, saying they were legally elected representatives of the Palestinian people.
On 30 July, one of the four, Mohammad Abu Tier, was detained and remains in Israeli police custody pending trial, where he seeks to overturn his deportation orders.
UN officials have said they are closely following the issue. In early July, Robery Serry, the UN special coordinator for Middle East peace, expressed concern over the legality of deportation threats, and asked Israel "to respect its obligations under international law," his spokesman Richard Miron said.
"We are closely following reports that four Palestinian legislators have received orders for their forcible transfer from East Jerusalem by the Israeli authorities," Miron said in a statement.
"We are concerned at all measures which may heighten tension in the city and at the potentially broad consequences for Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem," he added.
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[Ma'an] A Hamas member of the Palestinian Legislative Council said he was threatened and intimidated by Palestinian Authority security forces as he attempted to deliver a Friday sermon in a mosque south of Hebron.
Elected to the PLC with Hamas' Change and Reform Bloc in 2006, Nayef Ar-Rajoub said he attended prayer in the Dura Al-Kabir Mosque on the third Friday of Ramadan, and when he rose to deliver his message, plainclothes security officers rose and prevented him from speaking.
Ar-Rajoub said the men identified themselves as security forces officers, and stood in his way as he went to the front of the mosque to deliver the sermon. The lawmaker said he demanded the men bring him a written decision on the matter, but the men refused.
After being blocked and harassed, Ar-Rajoub said he walked across town to the Al-Mujahid Mosque and again attempted to approach the front to deliver the sermon, but "I was forbidden and threatened with weapons."
The lawmaker said security forces also detained several worshipers as they left the Al-Kabir Mosque. A PA security source later confirmed this, telling Ma'an that 10 "troublemakers" were detained.
In Jerusalem, Israeli police detained a second Hamas PLC member, Sheikh Hamed Al-Betawi, who was on his way to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, family members said.
His son told Ma'an that the 47-year-old official was detained from a checkpoint erected by Israeli border police inside the Old City.
Shortly after 1.30 on Friday afternoon, when the noon prayer had finished, Al-Betawi was released and told to leave the city, without being permitted to enter Al-Aqsa for a late prayer.
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[Haaretz] Palestinian negotiators are not mandated to surrender Jerusalem or any part of Palestine, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency quoted Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh as saying on Friday, with the Hamas strongman dubbing upcoming direct peace talks as the latest in a string of Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people.
On Tuesday, Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshal said that the upcoming U.S.-backed direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority were illegitimate and the result of coercion by Washington.
Talks between the two sides had been were shelved two years ago, but the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama is hoping for a breakthrough during the new rounds of negotiations set to begin September 2.
Speaking in Ramadan fast-breaking meal in the Gaza town of Khan Younis late Thursday, Haniyeh claimed that "no negotiator who would give up Jerusalem has a national mandate," adding that "Palestinians across the globe will not support any movement holding absurd talks with Israel."
The Hamas prime minister, referring to the Palestinian prisoners' families present at the meal, said that the "prisoners, the injured and the families of martyrs will not authorize anyone who wants to give up Palestine and Jerusalem after they have sacrificed for years and struggled to keep it."
"The occupation has failed to break the will of the Palestinian people, not by increasing its attacks or increasing the number of dead, not by injuring prisoners or isolating the resistance from its people," the Hamas leader said.
"Israel is trying in dozens of ways to achieve its goal, and now it is through negotiations," Haniyeh added, saying that next upcoming negotiations were the latest in a long list of Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people.
On Monday, Haniyeh said the Palestinian people will gain nothing from direct Middle East peace talks with Israel.
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The US warned Lebanon that if it did not prevent any recurrence of the border-fire incident that occurred earlier this month, the IDF would destroy the Lebanese Armed Forces within four hours, Israel Radio cited a report by Lebanese newspaper A-Liwaa on Friday.
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