Tuesday, February 06, 2007
just sayin'...
Now What?
a cautionary tale for those who would make friends with Hillary
raz0r
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Monday, February 05, 2007
The neighbor you want to stab in the eye with her own yoghurt-knitting needle
or: why I live in The Country™
As much as it pains me to needlessly waste paper products, here are the suggestions I discussed at the annual shareholders’ meeting last week. I apologize for having spoken at such length; I’m just so incredibly excited about the idea of having our whole co-op reduce its carbon footprint. ...growing our food in our own waste, powering our elevators with our StairMasters.
ROP Cops
bait
RIYADH, SAUDI - Arabia - A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive [an unspecified number of] lashes and spend [three to four] months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced…
The religious police, a force resented by many Saudis for interfering in personal lives, enjoys wide powers. Its officers roam malls, markets, universities and other public places looking for infractions.
raz0r
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Shhhhhh -- don't let Algore hear ya!
and yet—no one will believe her...
EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom revealed the mindset of the European policymakers. “[Kyoto] is not a simple environmental issue where you can say it is an issue where the scientists are not unanimous,” she said. “This is about international relations, this is about economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world.” To the EU, Kyoto is about the United States’ “unfair tax competition,” its government consistently refusing to match the Europeans’ zeal for taxing energy use to modify behaviour, particularly repressing automobile use and population.
Thank you for sharing, Maggzey.
Related; Oregon Petition
ToDAZED Crackpot Theory
striking a blow!!!
Stuart Elliot
No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly addressed Iraq, ... But the ongoing war seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials.
More than a dozen spots celebrated violence in an exaggerated, cartoonlike vein that was intended to be humorous, but often came across as cruel or callous.
...one man beat the other at a game of rock, paper, scissors by throwing a rock at his opponent’s head.
...face-slapping replaced fist-bumping as the cool way for people to show affection for one another
...an astronaut was wiped out by a meteor
...two co-workers sought to prove their masculinity by tearing off patches of chest hair…It was as if Madison Avenue were channeling Doc in “West Side Story,” the gentle owner of the candy store in the neighborhood that the two street gangs, the Jets and Sharks, fight over. “Why do you kids live like there’s a war on?” Doc asks plaintively. (Well, Doc, this time, there is.)
...The problem with the spot, created internally at Prudential, was that whenever the announcer said, “a rock” — invoking the Prudential logo, the rock of Gibraltar — it sounded as if he were saying, yes, “Iraq.”
Friday, February 02, 2007
TodaYs hearty Recommendation
Who to believe... Who to believe....
it’s a puzzlement
According to the latest reports armed struggle against the Islamic Regime occupying Iran has begun by the Lor, Bakhtiari and Qashqai tribes of Iran.
Urgent News: (2/1/2007)
Subject: National Uprising
Bulletin issued by NAMA* and ARA** OrganizationsThe great uprising to free the nation of Iran started yesterday by courageous native tribes of Iran in the Isfahan and neighboring provinces. Many nationalist heroic Iranians have joined this movement from other areas, including exiled Iranian community.
Yesterday, the region of Samirom and in between the state of Isfahan and city of Yasouj, was the scene of an armed battle between the regime’s Pasdar and Basij*** forces and the Partisans and Fighters of the region. This battle occurred at the front lines of the regime’s armed forces and caused heavy casualties. Most casualties were regimes armed forces.
Following this battle, Samirom, Yasouj and tribal regions of the Fars State have been declared RED areas by the regime.
...The regime’s reaction to this defeat has been to declare this conflict as a conflict with armed smugglers
But wait!
Six police officers and four volunteers were martyred and 13 wounded in a violent clash with drug traffickers in the city of Semirom, Isfahan province.
Police Commander of Semirom, identified by his surname Mokhtari, told ISNA that four drug smugglers were also killed in the 18-hour gun-battle.
Jenny
Sharia Law
Sharia Law
...
On January 3, 2006, Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi was sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she stabbed one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 15-year-old niece in a park in Karaj (a suburb of Tehran) in March 2005. She was seventeen years old at the time.
...The injustice of this case propelled Nazanin Afshin-Jam to take immediate action and start a petition to help save the life of her namesake. With many speeches and rallies worldwide and months on the media circuit, over 345,000 signatures were collected and delivered to the United Nations and Iranian Officials. Nazanin and Mina Ahadi, the head of the International Committee Against Execution, managed to engage Amnesty International, Canadian Members of Parliament, the European Union and the United Nations and others to put pressure on the Iranian Officials to spare the life of this child.
...During the new trial on January 10, 2007, the five judges presiding over the case found inconsistencies with the testimonies of the male witnesses and unanimously ruled out premeditated murder and determined that the act was a case of self-defense. As a result Nazanin Fatehi was exonerated from the charge of murder. While two judges wanted her to be freed unconditionally, three of the judges ruled that disproportionate force was used and requested her to pay “diyeh” (blood money) to compensate the family of the deceased. Fatehi’s lawyers Shadi Sadr and Mr. Mostafaei vehemently oppose this payment and have since appealed, but in order for there not to be any delays or additional time served, Nazanin was given the option to pay a set bail of 400,000,000 Rials (approx US$43,000).
The Fatehi family, which includes six children, is extremely poor and was unable to meet this payment. Thanks to $32,000 USD in on-line donations to the Nazanin Fatehi Trust Fund here at http://www.helpnazanin.com, $1,000 USD collected in Iran and an extremely generous donation by Member of Canadian Parliament Belinda Stronach who covered the rest of the bail, payment was made to the courts in Iran. A few days later, Nazanin was released from prison...
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Good Company
birds of a feather and all that...
*clicky*clicky*
[iddn’t that one o’ those things ya buy—like a star on the Hollywood sidewalk?]
or an Oscar?
Robert Spencer Explains
quite a dry sense o’ humor this fella has
Thanks, Nancy!!!
Yer really lookin’ after me!!
by Sierrahome
The office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pressing the Bush administration for routine access to military aircraft for domestic flights, such as trips back to her San Francisco district, according to sources familiar with the discussions.
The sources, who include those in Congress and in the administration, said the Democrat is seeking regular military flights not only for herself and her staff, but also for relatives and for other members of the California delegation. A knowledgeable source called the request “carte blanche for an aircraft any time.”
“They are pressing the point of her succession and that the [Department of Defense] needs to play ball with the speaker’s needs,” one source said.
...U.S. Air Force travel for VIPs such as members of Congress is first-rate. The planes are staffed with stewards who serve meals and tend an open bar. Communications suites allow members to conduct business while traveling.
...Since the September 11 attacks, the Air Force has flown hundreds of congressional delegations, or “co-dels,” to various war theaters. Mrs. Pelosi just completed a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Upon her return, she repeated her demand that President Bush not send more troops to Iraq.
I hope *someone* got a chance to ...properly stir her martinis…
House Democrats yesterday broke a pledge to strip pork spending from a massive funding resolution that contained about $500 million in what Republicans called questionable projects, including $44.6 million for a rainforest biosphere in Iowa and $50 million for the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
“We may have made some wrong choices; we undoubtedly did,” said Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and Appropriations Committee chairman....passed 286-140, with 57 Republicans joining the majority.
Critics said Democrats rammed through the $463.5 billion spending package without a committee hearing, without a committee mark-up process and without accepting amendments on the House floor.
...lessons from Hugo OOOOOOOOOO-go?
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