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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Emanuel outsources Chicago crime problem to Farrakhan's "Fruit of Islam" soldiers
Just when I thought it could not become more bizarre.
Rahm has to do something to distract the public over the fact that some weekends the south side of Chicago is more dangerous than Baghdad...
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is not the first time the 'fruit of islam' has done this kind of stuff.

Typically, they get some modest results the first week or so, then crime moves and there isn't enough fruitofislam power to expand and the fruit then kind of melts away.

But somehow the newspapers report of the fruitof islam melting away is on page 30 of the neighborhood section and the next mayor falls for the fruitof islam scam again.
Posted by: lord garth || 07/27/2012 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  A Jewish mayor welcomes an anti-Semite.

Wow. Just, wow.
Posted by: gromky || 07/27/2012 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Fruit is a UK slang term for a homosexual.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/27/2012 2:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Will the "Fruit of Islam" resupply flotilla from Syria and Iran be allowed to dock at Navy Pier?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2012 3:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Fruit of Islam. Is that the brand of exploding underpants, or their man / boy love society?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2012 8:01 Comments || Top||

#6  but Rahm, you've got some of the harshest gun control laws in the country. Wasn't that supposed to stop gun violence? (sarc/off)
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 07/27/2012 9:14 Comments || Top||

#7  the phrase 'fruit of islam' is a creation of the NOI founder Wallace Fard Muhammad (the 1930s).

WFM believed, or at allowed his followers to believe, himself to be a manifestation of Allah and so, some people think the 'fruit' is a reference to the fruit in the garden of eden

others say that since WFM was completely bonkers, who knows what he was thinking at the time
Posted by: lord garth || 07/27/2012 10:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Yeah, I'm sure the gang-bangers currently slaughtering each other in large numbers will be very impressed. All those bow-ties!
Posted by: mojo || 07/27/2012 10:20 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder what John Ringo thinks of it?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/27/2012 10:26 Comments || Top||

#10  The retro Baltimore & Ohio style conductor caps are rather stylish.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2012 10:29 Comments || Top||

#11  "Emanuel outsources Chicago crime problem to Farrakhan's "Fruit of Islam" soldiers"

I would think it would be cheaper to just outsource to China. Can't they just call up a Hong Kong triad and get a cut rate bargain on corruption, bribery and extortion? Why deal with amateurs ... when you can go with the pro's??
Posted by: Raider || 07/27/2012 11:16 Comments || Top||

#12  What are these gangstas fighting about? Nobody wants to speculate? Could it be there has been an influx of illegal narcotics into Chicago on account of Rahm's buddy Barack refuses his duty to control the border? Just askin'.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/27/2012 11:31 Comments || Top||

#13  Who cares EU, arm them well and sent them forth. “Ordnung muss herschen!” [Order must rule].

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2012 11:41 Comments || Top||

#14  Yes, Besoeker. I think that's been our government's policy for many, many years.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/27/2012 14:01 Comments || Top||

#15  But I'd still like to secure that border.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/27/2012 14:02 Comments || Top||

#16  Time to just build Robocop and be done with it.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/27/2012 14:39 Comments || Top||

#17  His murder rate is soaring. He has a gang problem. He's got a problem with public unions. He has money problems. He has a culture of corruption. And Rahm Emanuel is concerned with Chick-Fil-A? Gimme a break.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2012 14:49 Comments || Top||

#18  JQC, Rahmie-poo is demonstrating one of the typical responses of the Peter Principle.

When one has been elevated above their level of competence they revert to dealing with only those things that they feel in control of. He is too incompetent to deal with real problems so he grasps at the trivial PC issue first to hand.
Posted by: AlanC || 07/27/2012 15:14 Comments || Top||

#19  So they reject somebody who is against gay marriage, and welcome this fruitcake who is anti-Jew, anti gay marriage, and even anti mixed race marriage. I guess that makes perfect sense somewhere.
Posted by: AuburnTom || 07/27/2012 16:38 Comments || Top||

#20  So...islam is the pits?

And by extension, there are the nuts of islam and the vegetables of islam?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/27/2012 16:57 Comments || Top||

#21  This goes way beyond the scope of the Peter Principle. Rather than deal with the problems, Rahm goes for appearances while Chicago goes broke like other dem managed cities and states. They are running out of bullsh*t to fool people with.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/27/2012 19:32 Comments || Top||

#22  What are these gangstas fighting about? Nobody wants to speculate? Could it be there has been an influx of illegal narcotics into Chicago on account of Rahm's buddy Barack refuses his duty to control the border?

Chicago's running a surplus of cocaine since Obama left town.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 07/27/2012 19:44 Comments || Top||

#23  Choom-cago
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/27/2012 20:36 Comments || Top||

#24  Not just in the UK, #3 phil_b.
Posted by: Barbara || 07/27/2012 21:32 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China prosecutes Bo Xilai’s wife for murder
Beijing: The wife of disgraced Chinese political leader Bo Xilai and an orderly working in the couple’s home have been prosecuted for murder, state news agency Xinhua reported yesterday.

Gu Kailai, a former international lawyer whose husband was one of China’s most promising political leaders until his downfall earlier this year, was “recently” prosecuted by a Chinese court, Xinhua said in a brief dispatch. Zhang Xiaojun, previously described as an orderly who worked for the high-flying couple, was also prosecuted, it said, citing authorities.

Xinhua said earlier this year that Gu and Zhang were suspected of murdering Neil Heywood, a British businessman who had commercial dealings with Bo and his wife. The scandal, which first came to light in February, sent shockwaves through the highest echelons of power in China and led to Bo being sacked from his post as Communist Party leader of the megacity of Chongqing.
And everyone believes the party line, of course...
Analysts say it has exposed deep divisions within the Communist Party ahead of a crucial, once-in-a-decade leadership transition due to take place this autumn.

Yesterday’s announcement came a week after Patrick Devillers, a French architect said to have been close to Gu, traveled to China to assist in the official enquiry into her.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This has 'movie' written all over it, right there in the genre with Shanghi Triad.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/27/2012 8:53 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jerusalem Archbishop Says Christians Must Be Protected
Someone fetch this man a clue!
[Ma'an] Archbishop Theodosius Atallah Hanna stressed Wednesday the necessity to protect Paleostinian Christians and rejected any efforts to undermine their rights.

During a visit to Ma'an in Bethlehem, he said "they (Paleostinian Christians) must be preserved because their absence is considered a big loss for everyone including Mohammedans."
A big clue -- very, very big.
Commenting on claims of foul play by relatives of two Gazoo Christians who converted to Islam, Hanna said that "Christians are not mercenaries or fifth column, they live in their homeland Paleostine and among their people.

"They should be respected and kept as they are an integral part of the homeland".
Yes, they should. But you are dealing with the local branch of the caliphatist Muslim Brotherhood, and they don't even want y'all as props for the tourists.
He rejected treating people differently according to their religion and stressed the necessity of equality between Mohammedans and Christians. He also emphasized the need to live in a civil state that respects citizens equally.
You need that. The Muslims want to be more equal, and they have the numbers and the firepower to achieve it.
Regarding events in Syria, Hanna said Syrian people's fair demands must be supported and he rejected any exploitation by other countries of these demands.

He added: "We rejected violence, murder and torture since the beginning of the Syrian events. Syria is under a global war that aims at weakening it and an attempt to spread religious strife into it."

He reiterated his opposition to Israeli plans aiming to to "Judaize" Jerusalem and Paleostinian holy places in addition to stealing their land. He called Israel "an illegal country."
No comment.
He concluded by demanding that Arabs and Mohammedans take responsibility for Jerusalem and
That'll work. Would you like some of these lovely little cream cakes with your tea?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/27/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See also TOPIX > GAZA CHRISTIANS SENSE PRESSURE TO CONVERT TO ISLAM.

versus

* IIRC SAME > TWO MILLION INDONESIANS SAY GOODBYE TO ISLAM.

'Tis one of the thingys local Radical or Jihadi Groups profess to desire to prevent in Indonesia.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/27/2012 23:57 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Pentagon’s 30,000-pound bunker-buster ‘superbomb’ ready for use
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/27/2012 10:58 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency

#1  Feel lucky Tehran?
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/27/2012 12:13 Comments || Top||

#2  One very big fracking bomb.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/27/2012 12:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Now if only we had a place to test it operationally....maybe we should ask our allies in Israel where they think a good test site would be?
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/27/2012 12:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Beta testing may have been Syria a few years back.
Posted by: airandee || 07/27/2012 18:49 Comments || Top||

#5  al- Qaeda : 15 to 8 and 3 North : Spectre : 25 Due East and South Point : 5 Degrees : Hello : Number Newbie6 Taliban : Blammo
Posted by: 7334 || 07/27/2012 19:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Dang - what's with the trolls tonight?

Did they get an extra payment from Soros?
Posted by: Barbara || 07/27/2012 21:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Finally! A Link between Climate Change and Cancer!
I knew it; I just knew it! The NY Times, of course!
In a study published online by the journal Science, Harvard University scientists reported that some storms send water vapor miles into the stratosphere and showed how such events could rapidly set off ozone-destroying reactions with chemicals that remain in the atmosphere from CFCs, refrigerant gases that are now banned.
So we're doomed, anyway.
"It's the union between ozone loss and climate change that is really at the heart of this," said James G. Anderson, an atmospheric scientist and the lead author of the study.
Some storms could damage ozone, which - as we all know - is a finite, limited resource, which can never be created, only destroyed.
For years, Dr. Anderson said, he and other atmospheric scientists were careful to keep the two concepts separate. "Now, they're intimately connected," he said.
There's just no denying it anymore!
Ozone helps shield people, animals and crops from damaging ultraviolet rays from the sun. A thinning of the ozone layer over the United States during summers could mean an increase in ultraviolet exposure for millions of people and a rise in the incidence of skin cancer, the researchers said.
Some storms could damage the ozone, which could lead to more skin cancers. Unless you wear a hat. Or go to a tanning booth.
The findings were based on sound science, Dr. Anderson and other experts said, but much more research is needed, including direct measurements in the stratosphere in areas where water vapor was present after storms.
More research? Whoda thunk it?
Posted by: Bobby || 07/27/2012 05:32 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bullshit.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/27/2012 9:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Man does this sound desperate.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/27/2012 9:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Ozone, the only substance in the galaxy more rare than unobtainian.

Miles is a very exact measurement. Science! Look, I can read things how I want to as well, mr. Pb author.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/27/2012 13:20 Comments || Top||

#4  I miss the good ole days when the Space Shuttle was punching holes in the atmosphere, destroying o-zone and letting the air escape, like a hole in a balloon. It was, as the experts say, truthy.

This is just crap. According to their peers the only way to prevent thunderstorms is by increasing global warming. Perhaps they could ask the president to sit budda style so that the firmament lowers, bringing the caps down to an altitude requiring the singular measurement of mile. And then ban autopredator assault machine guns as the bullets would then punch holes in the rainbow firmament and allow the air to escape into space.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/27/2012 13:26 Comments || Top||

#5  If the science was settled and they were all so certain they'd be screaming for nuclear power left and right. Nuclear has a few risks, but nothing even close to the cataclysmic predictions they keep making.

So no nuclear embrace, no seriousness.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/27/2012 14:38 Comments || Top||

#6  There is a baby storm northwest of San Antonio TX, 14:00 cst. It caps at 25,000ft or 4.75 miles. Greenville, SC has a boomer at 38,000 with is 7.2 miles. Its where most of your storms live.

There is a giant on I-95 topping at 44,000 which is 8.3 miles. I believe the tallest radar I've seen was 48,000 which is nine miles.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/27/2012 15:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Science isn't what it used to be.

Dr. Anderson and other experts said, but much more research is needed, including direct measurements in the stratosphere in areas where water vapor was present after storms.

Translated: I need much more money and then I will get the result the government (and the left) wants.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/27/2012 16:59 Comments || Top||

#8  Sad. Jim Anderson was my advisor until I switched over to Purcell, and then he remained my official advisor (Purcell was Emeritus, Anderson was left out of the loop). Jim Anderson is/was a good man, but may indeed need the money. We all need money. He is responsible for a fairly large group. He is/was a bright and decent man. I find it hard to believe that he would sell out to 'the man' (in this case anthropogenic global warming conspiracists). But it is not an impossibility. Maybe I just don't want to believe he would do so.

But remember, in all our snark, he IS responsible for the lives and careers of those who work with and for him. There may have been hard, shitty decisions.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 07/27/2012 19:41 Comments || Top||



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