One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow in Daly City, Calif. Six members of the Paw family, each listing 41 Shelbourne Av. as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate reelection and her political action committee.
In all, they have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show. That total ranks the house among the top addresses to donate to Clinton over the past two years, a Wall Street Journal analysis said.
How do they afford it? It is unclear. Records show they own a gift shop and live in a 1,280-square-foot house that they refinanced for $270,000. William Paw, 64, is a mail carrier who earns about $49,000 a year, said a union representative. Alice Paw, 64, is a homemaker. Their children have jobs ranging from account manager at a software company to a high school "attendance liaison." One is listed as an executive at a mutual fund.
A tie to Hsu? Their donations track donations made by New York businessman Norman Hsu, records show. Hsu, a top Clinton fundraiser, said his friends sometimes agree to "give money out of their own pockets." There is no public record Hsu reimbursed the Paws, which would be illegal.
Unconfirmed reports indicate the house on Shelbourne Avenue was previously owned by a man named Hsu.
AS IN the rest of the world, Indonesian pop songs are about romance, but at concerts in Aceh province boys and girls better not want to hold hands and performers are warned against "erotic" jumping during songs.
As Aceh slowly recovers from the tsunami and decades of secessionist conflict, its youth is receiving a new battering from the forces of fundamentalism. Last weekend a music festival began in Banda Aceh, featuring one of the nation's most popular bands, Nidji. The event ended in chaos with Nidji's six members sheltering from mobs in a police station before fleeing the province.
Radical Muslims had complained the festival had encouraged promiscuity and breached sharia (Islamic law) by failing to segregate the audience by gender. Police closed the festival after one night at the request of the Banda Aceh Ulema Council, the provincial capital's leading religious authority. Future concerts will face even tougher sanctions, council head Bardad told The Age yesterday. Not only must audiences be strictly segregated, but male and female band members cannot perform together. "They should not mix on stage wearing indecent clothes and make a lot of jumps," he said. "This is Aceh province wherein the Islamic sharia is applied, so people must adjust to it."
A fatwa (religious decision) covering entertainment activities must be enforced across the province, Mr Bardad said. "According to the fatwa it is not only the spectators that should not mix between opposite sexes but the performers themselves." It was not natural for unmarried couples to associate in public, he said. Nidji's manager, Agung Febryanto, said the cancellation was a lost opportunity and the band had planned to adjust its performance to respect Aceh's culture. "We would not do a lot of jumps on stage, we would be more polite and we would engage in conversations with Islamic nuance with the fans," Mr Febryanto said. "But, well, this is what we got."
The band spent one night at the local police headquarters, as no hotels would accommodate them due to fear of fundamentalist mobs.
Aceh has seen an upsurge in fundamentalism since the 2004 tsunami, with many locals believing the disaster was punishment for failing to respect religious values. The Indonesian Government allowed the province to impose religious bylaws enforced by sharia courts in 2001. Sharia police sweep the province arresting unmarried men and women found together, who are usually publicly caned.
Vigilante groups have also begun scouring beaches near the capital. Earlier this year, a gang of youths badly beat a female Australian aid worker who was sitting on a beach with two male friends.
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The only pity is that Islam cannot possibly extinguish all fun and pleasure from Muslim societies fast enough to spur the anger needed for its destruction. Instead, these cultures are slowly bled white through the death of a thousand puritanical paper cuts from handling the Koran. Yet one more reason why it is incumbent upon the West to smash this cistern of bile and zealous vomit.
Join us, you may enjoy many attractive, exciting games and attractions such as: Race car, Water slide, Stuffed toys, Boeing plane, Great wheel, Skating Rink, Water Park project, Super speedy Roller Coaster, Phu Dong square, Dreamy Castle, Bat cave with innumerable bats, Mid air cycling over crocodile farm with more than 1,500 crocodiles of all sizes which cause fearful feeling for tourist.
No thanks, I think I'll stay home this holiday weekend.
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I thought this was gonna be a bit different. I met this guy up in the SF Bay Area who has a bit of land and intends to build a firebase for Reenacting and any other uses he can come up with. It's a lot easier than building a Civil War fortification I guess.
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AS IN the rest of the world, Indonesian pop songs are about romance, but at concerts in Aceh province boys and girls better not want to hold hands and performers are warned against "erotic" jumping during songs.
