TOKYO (Reuters) - A giant white radish that won the hearts of a Japanese town by valiantly growing through the urban asphalt was in intensive care at a town hall in western Japan on Thursday after being slashed by an unknown assailant.
The "daikon" radish, shaped like a giant carrot, first made the news months ago when it was noticed poking up through asphalt along a roadside in the town of Aioi, population 33,289.
This week local residents, who had nicknamed the vegetable "Gutsy Radish", were shocked -- and in some cases moved to tears -- when they found it had been decapitated.
TV talk shows seized on the attempted murder of the popular vegetable and a day later, the top half of the radish was found near the site where it had been growing.
A town official said on Thursday the top of the severed radish had been placed in water to try to keep it alive and possibly get it to flower.
Asked why the radish -- more often found on Japanese dinner tables as a garnish, pickle or in "oden" stew -- had so many fans, town spokesman Jiro Matsuo said: "People discouraged by tough times were cheered by its tenacity and strong will to live."
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Decapitated Radish?
Sounds like Al-Q is fulfilling their pledge to get back at Japan for supporting the WOT after all...
Maybe they can summon the courage to take on a carrot next.
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Michelle Murray will now have the opportunity to experience what the dozens of kittens felt the night she abandoned them at two Lake Metroparks in September. Painesville Municipal Court Judge Michael A. Cicconetti on Thursday sentenced Murray, 25, of Painesville Township, to jail time. But he added a stipulation to ensure that Murray "suffer the same consequences as those kittens. You can listen to the coyotes, hear the raccoons in the dark of night," said Cicconetti, who grew increasingly annoyed at Murray's apology attempts in court.
On the night before Thanksgiving, when Murray reports to the Lake County Jail in Painesville, she will be forced to spend a night alone in a remote area of a Lake County Metropark, according to Cicconetti sentence. Being allowed only water, she will not be provided with food, beverage or shelter. Murray must remain in that location until "the light of dawn on Nov. 24," according to the sentence. Ranger Chief Mike Burko said he has not yet chosen the Metropark, but will provide her with a walkie-talkie in case of emergency.
Cicconetti, known for his unusual sentences, gave Murray the maximum sentence of 90 days in jail. But the judge suspended 60 days and allowed 15 days to be served under house arrest. After returning from the wild on Thanksgiving, she will serve 14 days in the Lake County Jail. The suspended jail time hinges on two conditions:
Murray may not own or care for any animals in the next three years.
She must pay $3,200 to the Lake County Humane Society and $500 to the Metropark rangers for costs they incurred due to her actions.
"I'm sorry. I truly am sorry. I never meant for any of this to happen," Murray told the judge before the sentence. She said she tried to contact the Lake County Humane Society, but eventually panicked after three cages of cats were dropped off at her home.
"It doesn't make any difference," the judge said. "People panic and commit crimes, they use drugs, they commit domestic violence. But this wasn't one incident. You did it again the next day."
Sharon Moten, who gave a mother cat and four kittens to Murray 10 days prior to her abandoning the animals, still felt the guilt of not knowing the fate of all of her cats. "I told her to call me if she couldn't handle them," Moten said. She hoped the sentence would prompt donations to the Humane Society. "It's one of the only ways I can feel better about what happened," she said. I feel sorry for Sharon Moten.
DHAKA - The Bangladesh parliament opened a new session on Sunday amid a boycott by the main opposition party, the parliament secretariat said.
Beats a mutual exchange of edged weapons.
The opposition Awami League has stayed away from the Jatiya Sangsad since December 2004, alleging that the government prevents opposition members from discussing issues that embarrass Prime Minister Khaleda Ziaâs administration. The government denies the allegation.
In his opening statement on Sunday, Speaker Zamir Uddin Sircar urged the boycotting opposition members to return to Parliament. âWe all know there is no alternative to an active participation of opposition members to make parliamentary proceedings meaningful,â Sircar said.
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A college girl was set on fire allegedly by her boyfriend in Barisal city on Friday night as she insisted on marrying her. The ill-fated girl Jannatul Ferdous Salma, 20, of Patuakhali, is now fighting for life at the burnt unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) with serious burn injuries. Salma, a student of Baufal Degree College, was admitted to DMCH yesterday. Ninety-five percent of her body has been burnt.
Mahbubul Islam, elder brother of the victim, told the journalists at DMCH that his sister had been missing since Friday noon. At about 7:00pm, Barisal sadar thana police informed him of the attack on his sister.
Mahbubul along with two lawyers of Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) shifted her to DMCH from Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital.
Salma told the journalists that she had an eight-year-long affair with Noman who had started a cosmetic business at Barisal city corporation market. The girl went to Noman at 12.00 noon of Friday and stayed with him until evening at the house of his relative. Then they were locked in altercation as Salma insisted him on marrying her without knowing that Noman was already married to another woman.
The plot thickens ...
At one stage of altercation, Noman set fire on Salma throwing kerosene on her body and fled the scene soon. Hearing her scream the neighbours went to the spot and rushed her to Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital, Salma said.
The incident took place at the house of Noman's relative Dr Syed Mahbubur Rahman alias Iqbal. None was present in the house at that time, she added.
BNWLA has filed a case against the culprit who has gone into hiding.
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BAGERHAT, Nov 19:âHusband and his four accomplices were held for throwing acid on his wife and her elder sister at Rajnagar in Rampal upazila on Friday night, reports UNB.
Neighbours held Saiful Islam Milan and associates Shah Jamal Jhinku, Mustafa Billa, Mehedi Hasan and Sohel while fleeing after throwing acid on Shahana Akter and Khaleda Parveen â all in early 20s. After mass beating they were handed over to the police. Saiful, a sepoy posted in Jessore cantonment, admitted of throwing acid on his wife Shahana claiming she has gone astray.
Police quoting the victims who were later sent to Dhaka for treatment, said they were asleep when the assailants entered the house at Kalekhar Ber breaking the window and threw acid on them at dead of night. Their mother Nargis Akter, a member of Rajanagar union parishad, filed a case. She said Shahana was not having happy relationship with Saiful since their marriage five months ago. She deserted his home.
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sentence is pretty clear to me - just the screaming to remain
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After mass beating they were handed over to the police.
Why'd they stop? Did their knuckles get sore or something?
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let 'em throw acid in those brave muslim mens' faces.
I would prefer to aim much lower, using a high-pressure nozzle and a narrow stream, if you get my drift...
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A gang of men shot and killed an unarmed policewoman and wounded another, and police arrested six people in connection with the crime Saturday, officials said. The two women were shot when they tried to tackle three men who had robbed a travel agency in the northern city of Bradford, police said. Constable Sharon Beshenivsky, a 38-year-old mother of three, died from a gunshot wound to the chest, despite wearing body armor. Beshenivsky had been a full time officer for nine months, police said. She was killed on her youngest daughter's fourth birthday. Her colleague, Constable Teresa Milburn, 37, was being treated in a hospital for a shoulder wound. Milburn, who joined the force in April 2004, also wore body armor. London's Metropolitan Police said it had arrested five men and a woman in connection with the shooting, but provided no further details.
Before Friday, only two officers had been fatally shot in the last 10 years in England and Wales, one in 1995 and one in 2003, according to the Home Office. The shooting in the northern city of Bradford on Friday reignited a debate in Britain over whether front-line police officers — many of whom are unarmed — should be allowed to carry weapons. "The police service is being outgunned on the streets of Britain day and night," said police officer Norman Brennan, director of the group Protect the Protectors.
Jan Berry, chairwoman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said she doubted that arming police officers would make them safer. "Even if we armed every single police officer in this country that doesn't mean criminals aren't going to carry firearms," she told Sky News television.
They let people that stoopid onto the Brit police force? Arming them won't make them safer? I'd say that being able to shoot back would make them quite a bit safer. My son's a Maryland State Trooper. If you told him he had to patrol the streets unarmed he'd laugh at you.
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They let people that stoopid onto the Brit police force? I think you should do some research first fuckface.
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If France is any indication, the British police had better start carrying Stens.
Spolump, you may wish to reconsider your statement in light of how the comments were most likely directed at spokesidiot Jan Berry and not brave constable Sharon Beshenivsky, may she rest in peace.
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I want to know why this womans vest failed to protect her from frontal chest shot? As I understand it vests are manditory for PCs. If they are no damn good someone needs to be hung for this.
I have issues with unarmed officers but a failure of a vest is unacceptable. These women apperently didn't even have time to react. Being armed or unarmed may be a moot point. Their training should have included assuming all calls are to situations where arms are present and reactions are thereby tempered by such assumptions. Sounds like the bad guys got the drop on them.
I only know of one pistol round that my vest can't stop and gang banger types and common criminals don't have easy access to it.
My heart goes out to this poor woman 4 daughters. One daughter who just turned 4 will for the rest of her life remember her birthday as the date her mother was murdered.
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"Even if we armed every single police officer in this country that doesn't mean criminals aren't going to carry firearms," she told Sky News television.
Which also means that your disarming of the law abiding citizens of your country didn't deter criminals from carrying firearms either. By arming your officers you stand a better chance of making sure the SOB is dead too and therefore not likely to commit further mayhem upon the world. Keep your head in the dirt and ignor reality as it continues to take a toll of your 'own'. Remember political belief, which is the modern version of religious belief, trumps reality or doing anything rational to solve it.
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I've done my research, turdnose. When civility and manners were a trait of Britishness the police could and should have gone unarmed. The nation is now socialized and it's crawling with South Asians and other folk whose culture determines manhood by caliber.
Working on the mistaken assumption that rules of logic don't apply to them, the warm milk set decreed firearms illegal in Britain, then made the assumption that all those swarming masses of tough guys would perforce obey the law. By leaving the police unarmed in the face of continued onslaughts by these latter-day Visigoths, these twits have managed to damage what was once probably the world's greatest police organization.
I would be happy as a clam to live in a world where police were unarmed, as long as all criminals were, too. Unlike the social engineers and their kindred police spokesmen, I would not be happy to live in a world where the police were unarmed and the criminals not. That sort of situation produces dead policemen.
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So sad for that woman... in any case, theses two women were *really* courageous, trying to tackle three man they knew were or could be armed. Very brave of them, too bad it ended tragically.
The failure of the vest may be because some of the body armors given to Uk police officers are actually knives-proof vests, only rated to stop stabbing, not even handgun's bullets.
OT : Sock Puppet, I know of two fmj bullets that defeat class III vests (I know this from reading forums), are you thinking about the new belgian, or the old german/russian?
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"...then made the assumption that all those swarming masses of tough guys would perforce obey the law."
Since the problem is lawless criminals, the obvious solution is to pass a law requiring criminals to obey the laws! No, wait. Never mind.
I always liked the idea that British cops went unarmed. It implied a certain level of civilization. But as Fred said, in a most excellent rant, that time has passed by. 'Tis indeed a tragic situation, but that happens with a refusal to confront the realities of a changing world.
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it's crawling with South Asians and other folk whose culture determines manhood by caliber.
"South Asian" or "Asian" being Pakistani and East Pakistani (Bangladeshi).
You don't have Parsis, Sikhs and Hindus running riot in the UK. They tend to be better off, more educated etc than the average. The typical Paki on the other hand...
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Old German Russian anonymous5089.
I have it on good authority some PCs in the UK wouldn't be allowed to be cops most other places simply because they wouldn't be trusted with the judgment to carry firearms. That is a seperate issue. That said that PCs are not armed is criminal in this day and age the UK government is part and parcel to this brave womans death.
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I know that gun crime isn't as rampant in the UK as it is in the rest of the world but I also know that its even less so in switzerland where they have one of the highest levels of gun ownership in the world. Maybe its a cultural thing. One thing I do know is that the British don't go in for knee jerk reactions to tradegy's like this one. There will be a period of sad relection, maybe even an enquiry which will recommend more armed police. The idea of an umarmed police these days is to avoid the type of testerone charged shoot outs which results in (FBI Reports) 142 Police Killings In 2001 in the US.
#6 I've done my research, turdnose.
comprehension, read the text from the article/
Before Friday, only two officers had been fatally shot in the last 10 years in England and Wales, one in 1995 and one in 2003, according to the Home Office.
Before Friday, only two officers had been fatally shot in the last 10 years in England and Wales, one in 1995 and one in 2003, according to the Home Office.
The population of the United Kindom is 60 million. The population of the United States is 300 million. We have 50 states - each with at least 2 very large cities and in those cities are gangs who run drugs. The gang members have no more license to carry guns than do your own citizens. So now we are down to the number of policemen who are murdered by citizens who legally possess their firearms. I don't actually have a figure of the number of police men killed by lawfully owned firearms. But once you divide that number by 5, your numbers wouldn't look so hot.
Sure, but leave us out of it. And keep the French at arms-length.
Ten years after Bosnia's bloodshed ended in a peace accord reached 5,000 miles away in Dayton, Ohio, a bunch of Bosnian teenagers set out to determine why their country is still dysfunctional.
They soon discovered what a new generation of Bosnians has learned the hard way: Dayton was a roadmap to peace, not a blueprint for the future. So they have written a new mock constitution for a nation with an unwieldy power-sharing system that is designed _ but often fails _ to satisfy everyone. "Dayton may have worked at the time to stop the war which was all it was designed to do , but its shelf life has expired," said 15-year-old Senad. "On the state level, we have three presidents and they don't get along. Such a country cannot work."
How, um, Y'urp-peon.
The high schoolers' work has drawn the attention of the U.S. ambassador to Bosnia, Douglas McElhaney, who says he will take it to Washington, where negotiations are under way for changes in the existing constitution. But the negotiators face many of the same problems that bedeviled the authors of the Dayton accord -- rival claims, rooted in ancient historical, ethnic and religious grievances, over a corner of the Balkans smaller than West Virginia.
Brokered by the United States in the privacy of Wright-Patterson Air Force base, the accord was announced on Nov. 21, 1995, in Dayton and signed in Paris three weeks later. It ended a 1992-95 war among Muslims who call themselves Bosniaks, Orthodox Serbs and Roman Catholic Croats that claimed 260,000 lives and drove another 1.8 million people from their homes.
The accord recognized Bosnia, formerly a piece of an imploded Yugoslavia, as an independent country. NATO deployed 60,000 peacekeepers to keep its armies apart. Now a force of 7,000 European Union troops busies itself with fighting organized crime and illegal logging in Bosnia's lush forests. Bosnia's own army, 13,000-strong and multiethnic, is being formed.
More than 1 million refugees have returned to their homes, and this week Bosnia is expected to sign an agreement to prepare it for its cherished long-term goal of joining the prosperous, democratic EU. "The peace stabilization has been a miracle," said British diplomat Paddy Ashdown, Bosnia's international administrator for the past 3 1/2 years. Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. diplomat who brokered the Dayton deal, says: "It is hard to think of any other peace process in the last decade _ anywhere in the world _ that has done nearly as well as this one."
Which is why everyone is so happy.
Bisera Dzidic, a 46-year-old news editor, says of Bosnia's new army: "I never expected soldiers who shot at each other 10 years ago in such a brutal war to now be serving a unified army under one flag. That's truly amazing."
The Dayton accord divided the nation of 3.2 million into two ethnic mini-states with broad autonomy, a shared parliament and government and a three-man presidency. But the power to impose laws and fire officials is in the hands of a foreign regent foreigner, currently Ashdown.
A consensus has emerged that Bosnia has outgrown Dayton. "The current constitution of Bosnia is not really sufficient. If they want progress with Europe, they have to amend it," said European analyst Tomas Markert. Parallel or overlapping agencies compound Bosnia's problems of poverty, corruption and 40 percent unemployment. Sixty-two percent of Bosnia's youths want to leave, a recent U.N. study found.
We'll take all the ones who know how to do something and want to work.
But Senad and his friends who spent their summer writing a constitution are resolved to stay and wear clothespins on their collars to symbolize the effort to hold Bosnia together. "Our constitution erases the mini-states, foresees one president and does not separate 'us' from 'them,'" he said. "I swear now that I will stay here and fight for my dream to come true," he added, his voice rising to a shout. "Please help me!"
There are other harbingers of changing mindsets. The country is still run by its wartime parties, but more flexible leaders are ready to talk and make small steps forward. The old nationalists have been removed from the leadership or even put on trial for war crimes, mismanagement or corruption.
How could they do that without Carla del Ponte to help them?
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, wanted since 1995 for genocide and crimes against humanity by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, still eludes capture. Yet there are signs that some of those who once lionized him as a hero now disparage him as a burden.
Of course, they haven't turn him in yet.
Graffiti urging the former psychiatrist to surrender has appeared even in fiercely nationalistic Serb regions such as Mount Romanija. "Hospital in The Hague urgently needs a psychiatrist," says a slogan sprayed on a billboard.
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Bells pealed across Monaco on Saturday as the tiny Riviera principality celebrated Prince Albert IIâs rise to the throne and made a final, symbolic farewell to his late father, Rainier III. Princes from Europe, Africa and the Middle East flew in for the festivities marking the final phase of Albertâs ascension to the throne of Monacoâs 700-year-old dynasty. Rainier, Europeâs longest-serving monarch, ruled Monaco for 56 years until his death in April at the age of 81.
The day started with a solemn Mass at Monacoâs 19th-century cathedral and was to end with a gala evening performance at the opera, followed by fireworks above Monte Carloâs famed casino. Wearing a royal ceremonial military uniform, Albert blinked back tears after kneeling to receive a blessing at the end of the Mass, which was led by the archbishop of Monaco, Monsignor Bernard Barsi. Hundreds of Monaco residents watched the ceremony on a giant screen outside the cliff-top palace, near the cathedral. Many waved Monacoâs red-and-white national flag.
Albert, 47, automatically took royal powers upon his fatherâs death and was appointed His Serene Highness in July, when he was sworn in before the people of Monaco in the first of a two-part investiture ceremony. This round of festivities coincided with Monacoâs national day and was intended as Albertâs coming-out party before foreign dignitaries and royalty. Those present included Britainâs Prince Edward, Prince Joachim of Denmark, Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco and Prince Faisal of Jordan. The only head of state to attend was Iceland President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson.
An afternoon ceremony outside the royal palace marked the symbolic transfer of power, with Albert presiding for the first time over Monacoâs national day military review. Standing at attention, Albert was presented with a royal standard â or banner â bearing his emblem, while Rainierâs standard was presented to the royal guard one last time and marched inside the palace gates. Rainier was credited with transforming the principality from a sleepy seaside resort into a center of finance and tourism. It was Rainierâs 1956 wedding to the Oscar-winning Kelly that endowed Monaco with its glamorous image.
"I'd like to speak to Prince Albert!"
"He can't come to the phone. He's in the can!"
The crimson vest pocket tin with flip-top lid and the full size humidor can with captive levering key both feature prominently in my tobacciana collection of over 10,000 cigar boxes, pipe tobacco tins, chewing tobacco tins, cigarette tins, cigar history books, amber cigarette & cigar holders, unused Turkish meerschaum pipes and other smoking related ephemera.
The cigar boxes (wood, not cardboard) which I usually got for free or paid a whopping dollar for (the pure wood ones) are now selling on eBay for $5.00 each or more.
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my tobacciana collection of over 10,000 cigar boxes, pipe tobacco tins, chewing tobacco tins, cigarette tins, cigar history books, amber cigarette & cigar holders, unused Turkish meerschaum pipes and other smoking related ephemera.
Careful Mr. Z, you're setting yourself up for a hit. I'd advise letting the blog know that all those items are EMPTY so has not to lure the addicted.
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I recently bought a large box of used postage stamps from a dealer. There was a dark amber jar in the box as well. I immediately recognized it as a snuff jar from the late 1940's, early 1950's, because my grandmother dipped snuff. The jars had a cork stopper. I used to use the stoppers to fish with when she no longer needed them. Brought back a TON of memories! And yes, I'm also old enough to remember all the Prince Albert jokes, although my dad smoked Half-and-Half.
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Careful Mr. Z, you're setting yourself up for a hit. I'd advise letting the blog know that all those items are EMPTY so has not to lure the addicted.
I guess the odd rattling sound I heard after posting that must have been a collective nic-fit from Rantburg's smokers.
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And yes, I'm also old enough to remember all the Prince Albert jokes
me to Old Patriot, I smoked a few cans way back when men were men and women were.......
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My Dad used to smoke Half and Half when he varied his diet from Camels to a pipe. I'm a chain pipe smoker. My brand is Captain Black Gold. I ran out on a drive a couple years ago and bought a pack of Half and Half, thinking fond memories of Dad until I actually fired the stuff up.
That stuff's nasty.
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I was a Red Man guy all through college and early professional dayz. Count on periodontal cleaning fun...just finished another session
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Atleast you have a teef, I make do with an Oster blender and cardboard over the gums.
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The cigar boxes ... (the pure wood ones) are now selling on eBay for $5.00 each or more.
Wha-what? You mean like the ones I used to store all kinds of junk and like the 30 or so I've thrown out the past couple years? I could have gotten $150 for some cheap (though good-smelling) wood boxes?
Able-bodied white men seeking a career in Canada's Department of Public Works had best wait awhile before submitting their resumes â the deputy minister of the federal agency has instructed managers to temporarily hire only visible minorities, women, aboriginals and the disabled. David Marshall yesterday ordered that his edict banning hiring of Caucasian males be distributed throughout the agency by e-mail. The new policy, introduced in response to the department's failure to meet targeted employment-equity goals, will be in place for the next five months, at which time it will be reviewed.
Canada's federal benchmark for hiring visible minorities is one-in-five. Public Works' proportion of female, disabled, aboriginal and non-white new hires fell from one in eight in March to one in twenty in September of this year. "As executives and managers, our role includes ensuring that the public service is representative," Marshall wrote in his memo. "This involves providing direction and leadership by example, and demonstrating a firm commitment to an inclusive workplace rather than hiring people capable of doing the work."
Robb Macpherson, a labor attorney with the firm McCarthy Tetrault, agrees Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms permits some discrimination to assist groups identified by the government as disadvantaged, but the form it usually takes is through programs that promote recruitment and hiring of qualified people from those groups â not by banning members of a non-minority class. "They are in effect cutting off a significant portion of the workforce from these opportunities," Macpherson tells the National Post. "It sounds like a pretty extreme measure that they're contemplating."
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OK, so when will the selection of politicians and bureaucrats also be limited to visiable minorities and woman? We already know you've covered the mentally handicapped.
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I don't think intermittent priapism, lower-posterior comedones, and leukonychia constitutes the kind of "visible" they're looking for. On the brighter side, able-bodied white men won't be wasting their stamps sending in resumes.
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You sure this isn't just a smart Canadian ploy to rebuff all those white male American lefties who promised to move north if their grasp on power continued to slip? Opps, sorry lad, but there's no work here for you, have to meet our PC quotas. Heh, cosmic justice.
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in response to the department's failure to meet targeted employment-equity goals
The simple answer is for the government to assign people to jobs as needed to insure 'proper' representation. No more relying on competence or personal choice. No more dithering over what to be when you grow up. Like they say on Futurama, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
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Darrell: You betcha intermittent priapism, lower-posterior comedones, and leukonychia are disabling. You wouldn't believe how disablingly embarassing it is to get unpredictable erections around pretty girls, having to hire an expensive therapist to give you butt blackhead cleansings, and enormous pedicure bills.
If that's not a reason to give someone employment in Canada's Department of Public Works, I don't know what is.
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What's all this about "VISIBLE minorities"???!!
This is discrimanatory against the Invisible-Canadian community. Invisible men and women deserve the same rights and respect that all others enjoy. It is unconstitutional, not to mention immoral, to deprive someone of rights base on the non-color or their skin, the transparancy of their bones and other tissues.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Simeulue, Indonesia, an island off the west coast of Sumatra, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site. The Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center characterized the quake as "strong." The epicenter was about 255 kilometers (160 miles) southwest of Medan, Sumatra, at 9:10 p.m. local time, it said. There weren't any immediate reports of damage or casualties, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Agus an official of the Indonesian Meteorological and Geophysics Agency.
A magnitude 9 earthquake off the coast of Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004 triggered a tsunami that swept across the Indian Ocean devastating coastlines and leaving more than 220,000 people dead or missing in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and other countries. A magnitude 8.7-temblor hit the region in March killing about 1,000 people. Indonesia is on the Pacific Rim's "Ring of Fire," a zone of active volcanoes and earthquakes. Quakes of magnitude 5 and more can cause considerable damage, depending on their depth. Today's earthquake occurred at a depth of about 30 kilometers. The earthquake struck about 555 kilometers from Kuala Lumpur and 1,440 kilometers from Jakarta.
"Earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along costs located within a few hundred kilometers of the earthquake epicenter," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said after the earthquake. "Authorities can assume the danger has passed if no tsunami waves are observed within an hour of the earthquake." Ya'll getting the message yet? Keep on preaching that jihad crap and maybe mother nature is going to wage her own little intifada on your pathetic @sses.
Condemned murderer Stanley Tookie Williams, an ex-gang leader who became an anti-gang crusader in prison, is a "cold-blooded killer'' who disavows "any responsibility for the brutal, destructive and murderous acts he committed'' and deserves to be executed Dec. 13, Los Angeles prosecutors said Thursday.
Williams and his defenders say he is not the man he was when he was arrested for four killings in the Los Angeles area in 1979, and they are hoping that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will commute his sentence to life without parole. Time for the Terminator to live up to his name.
Williams has written nine books for children and youths since 1993, has taped anti-violence messages and has drafted a peace treaty that his attorney say has been used to settle gang wars. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize each year since 2000, initially by a member of the Swiss Parliament and more recently by a Bay Area philosophy professor. His attorneys say 30,000 people have signed an online clemency petition. The Nobel prize? I suppose ever since Arafat got the bleeding thing, any old thug can throw down for it. Prosecutors are unimpressed.
"Stanley Williams does not deserve your sympathy, leniency or mercy," lawyers from Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley's office told Schwarzenegger. The governor may schedule a clemency hearing after Williams' attorneys file their reply Monday. Williams, 51, co-founder of the Crips street gang in Los Angeles as a teenager, was convicted of murdering four people in two 1979 robberies. He denies his guilt and has asked the state Supreme Court to give his attorneys access to evidence that he says would show he was wrongly convicted. "I wuz framed, I tells yez!"
His chief argument for clemency, in papers submitted last week, is that his life is worth saving because of the thousands of youths he has helped as an author and anti-gang advocate from prison. In Thursday's filing, however, prosecutors noted that Williams had refused to cooperate with San Quentin state prison's "debriefing" program, in which current and former gang members provide information about gang operations. If this sonofabitch is so anti-gang, why isn't he helping to dismantle his little brainchild?
In a "60 Minutes" television interview last year, Williams said "debriefing" was "a euphemistic term for snitching." If you really have renounced the thug life, helping identify those who continue to rob, rape and steal isn't snitching, it's called "fighting crime." Quite obviously something Williams really isn't too interested in doing after all.
Williams' refusal has deprived authorities of potential insights into the Crips and shows that he "remains loyal to the gang member street code of ethics ... despite his hollow claims of atonement," prosecutors said. Jonathan Harris, an attorney for Williams, countered that the prosecutors were demanding that Williams "prove to us you're redeemed by becoming our snitch." The district attorney's filing, Harris said, "does not challenge our fundamental point that Stanley Williams' work has enormous positive impact on at-risk youth." What about the enormous NEGATIVE impact this sh!t's unrepented thuggery has had on thousands of crime victims?
Most of prosecutors' 57-page submission was devoted to evidence of Williams' guilt of the shotgun murders of a Whittier convenience store clerk and the owners of a Los Angeles motel and their daughter in robberies two weeks apart. Williams says his conviction was the product of unreliable testimony from accomplices, a jailhouse informer and others vulnerable to prosecution pressure, and of racist tactics by the prosecutor in jury selection and closing arguments. "Racist tactics". How did I know that the good old race card would be played? Johhny Cochran is smiling from his grave.
But prosecutors said Thursday that the evidence of Williams' guilt was overwhelming, including admissions he made to a couple he lived with, and that Williams had threatened jurors after their verdict and plotted a violent jailbreak. The needle is too good for this turd. Surely San Quentin didn't tear out their old gas chamber? Start off with a half dose of cyanide and repeat it a few times. Maybe drop in an Alka-Seltzer to begin with just to watch him squirm for a while.
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The spike is too good for this guy. He deserves to spend several days screaming in agony and have a last meal of his own genitals before he gets to escape into Hell. That might teach some of the rest of those gang sons of whores that there's a real price to be paid for their actions.
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Most of prosecutors' 57-page submission was devoted to evidence of Williams' guilt of the shotgun murders of a Whittier convenience store clerk and the owners of a Los Angeles motel and their daughter in robberies two weeks apart.
Look at the news articles concerning Tookie in the MSM. They never say the victims names, even though other cases always do.
Why you ask? Because the names are: Now the convenience store owner was Albert Owens, but the motel operators and daughter are Shot were motel owners Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Chen Yang, and their daughter Yu-Chin Yang Lin.
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YUp never hear about the victims because he wiped out the family. This sentence comes about 15 years too late.
" In Thursday's filing, however, prosecutors noted that Williams had refused to cooperate with San Quentin state prison's "debriefing" program, in which current and former gang members provide information about gang operations." Once a crip always a crip.
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He needs to be hanged on a Los Angeles street corner for a month or two, so all the Bloods and Crips can see with their own eyes what they can aspire to.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A college girl was set on fire allegedly by her boyfriend in Barisal city on Friday night as she insisted on marrying her. The ill-fated girl Jannatul Ferdous Salma, 20, of Patuakhali, is now fighting for life at the burnt unit of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) with serious burn injuries. Salma, a student of Baufal Degree College, was admitted to DMCH yesterday. Ninety-five percent of her body has been burnt.
A gang of men shot and killed an unarmed policewoman and wounded another, and police arrested six people in connection with the crime Saturday, officials said. The two women were shot when they tried to tackle three men who had robbed a travel agency in the northern city of Bradford, police said. Constable Sharon Beshenivsky, a 38-year-old mother of three, died from a gunshot wound to the chest, despite wearing body armor. Beshenivsky had been a full time officer for nine months, police said. She was killed on her youngest daughter's fourth birthday. Her colleague, Constable Teresa Milburn, 37, was being treated in a hospital for a shoulder wound. Milburn, who joined the force in April 2004, also wore body armor. London's Metropolitan Police said it had arrested five men and a woman in connection with the shooting, but provided no further details.
Bells pealed across Monaco on Saturday as the tiny Riviera principality celebrated Prince Albert IIâs rise to the throne and made a final, symbolic farewell to his late father, Rainier III. Princes from Europe, Africa and the Middle East flew in for the festivities marking the final phase of Albertâs ascension to the throne of Monacoâs 700-year-old dynasty. Rainier, Europeâs longest-serving monarch, ruled Monaco for 56 years until his death in April at the age of 81.
