#2
Ah, if only we could do that here in old blighty...
Posted by: Tony (UK) ||
07/11/2006 14:23 Comments ||
Top||
#3
They were lucky they were in South Carolina. Here in North Carolina, we teach - load, point, fire, then skin and butcher. The guys wouldn't have made it off the porch. If they did, they blood hounds would have caught them before the cops.
Berlin's top World Cup official shot himself in the head just hours after the tournament ended and is now fighting for his life, police say. Juergen Kiessling, 65, was rushed to hospital from his house in Reinickendorf, a suburb of Berlin, after a neighbour heard the shot.
The motive for the apparent suicide attempt is not yet clear. German media report that he left two suicide notes - one for his daughter alone, and one for his family.
Berlin hosted the World Cup final on Sunday, when fans watched Italy beat France on penalties.
My wife made me watch, I felt like offing myself as well.
Mr Kiessling was known as "Mister WM" (Mr World Cup) by colleagues in Berlin. The tournament was widely seen as a great success for the host nation.
Posted by: Steve ||
07/11/2006 10:06 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[1 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
The tournament was widely seen as a great success for the host nation.
Yeah I'll say. $4 Bil in extra income for the hosts. World Cup 2014 to be held at my house.
Accept No Substitutes! There can only be ONE official Allah-fish website.
Welcome to the Official site showing the Miracle Fish from Allah. Here you will find pictures and videos of the Miracle Fish who bears the name of Allah (swt). This fish was spotted by me on the 1st Day of Muharram 1427 AH (31 January 2006) in a pet shop in Rawtenstall, Rossendale, Lancashire, UK. Rossendale is near Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds. It is also near Nelson, Blackburn and Burnley. I heard about the fish from the BBC news, and I was so excited, I took my family to see the tropical Albino Oscar fish from Allah. We understand from the pet shop owner, the fish from Allah has now been sold. So we decided to publish the photos on the website. The photos clearly show the fish has markings which show the name of Allah (swt) on one side, and the name Mohammed (pbuh) on the other side. I set up this site so I can share the photos of this wonderful gift from Allah across the Muslim Ummah. I hope you enjoy the pictures. Whilst you are here, have a look around the site - see our Daily Hadith Section, or the Middle East News from places like Egypt, Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Palestine. There is lots of publicity about this fish on Radio 2 and TV, including BBC, ITV, Sky and Reuteurs.
#2
My kids had an Oscar Islamic Miracle Fish when they were young. The fish tore up everything in the tank, destroying it's home. Then it tore up every other living thing in the tank, killing it's own kind.
#3
I thought they were grass carp, but I believe I may have seen a few Allah fish swimming in the lagoon next to the Perfume Palace just yesterday. I've been feeding them breakfast cerial from the DFAC each morning (securing my basic load of eternal virgins). Never too late to suck up to an Allah fish.
Swiped this from Milblogs at Mudville, but hey, I live in Austin, and this is a local guy. Just your feel good story of the day. If you like Marines, and you like football, you owe yourself to read this entire article.
Determining the best player in Thursday's NFL supplemental draft -- talented but troubled former University of Virginia linebacker Ahmad Brooks -- hasn't exactly drained the brainpower of NFL scouts. Only an r separates their names
Neither has the task of identifying the best person in the special summertime lottery -- onetime University of Texas fullback Ahmard Hall.
In a supplemental draft pool typically comprised of guys whose dossiers include a wart or two -- former Iowa State defensive end/linebacker Jason Berryman, arguably the second-best player available, served eight months in jail in 2004 after pleading guilty to robbery charges -- Hall is a pristine prospect. How squeaky-clean is Hall, who has impressed scouts with his quickness and strength? Try spit-and-polish squeaky-clean, the kind of no-nonsense, sir, yes, sir! player who can probably glance down at his spikes and see his own reflection staring back at him.
On those occasions when Brooks and Berryman weren't in trouble with the law or with their coaches, they were able to chase quarterbacks and tailbacks around the football field. When trouble found Hall, it meant he had to chase Taliban warlords through the treacherous mountain passes of Afghanistan.
"I'm not sure it made me a better football player, but I know it made me a whole lot better person," said Hall, 26, a former sergeant who returned from four years in the Marines that included tours in Kosovo and Afghanistan to make the Longhorns as a walk-on. "In meetings with scouts, they ask a lot of questions, but the one area they don't ever bring up is the character thing. I'm proud of that. I think teams know that, if they draft me or they sign me to come to their camp, they aren't going to have to worry about any issues of that sort, you know?"
A young Russian farmer from the small village in the Kemerovo region (South Siberia) has asked President Vladimir Putin to allow him to marry a cow, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported Monday.
All girls have left our small village and moved to the city, so I cannot find a woman to be with. But I see the solution to the problem. I love animals very much and want to ask you when it will be allowed in Russia, as it is in Holland, to marry domestic animals? his question to Putin reads.
On the cud-ing edge of societal evolution, or an udder travesty? We report, you deride.
Posted by: Mike ||
07/11/2006 10:17 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[3 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Ick. Although if it hasn't occurred to him to wander over to the pub in the next village (the one that still has some girls left), perhaps he and his lovely cow are well suited to one another.
#3
Is he right about Holland? Can you marry a domestic animal there? Are the Dutch really that tolerant? Is this guy a nut or what?
Posted by: Tony (UK) ||
07/11/2006 14:24 Comments ||
Top||
#4
if it hasn't occurred to him to wander over to the pub in the next village
In rural Russia? I'd suspect he'd be beaten to a pulp by the local boys if he pulled a stunt like that. You just don't go to the village next door searching for women, unless you come with friends and you can overpower the local competition in that village. Village Survival 101.
#5
Add another to the list of things I didn't used to know (the one not nearly as long as the list of things I still don't know, or the presumably even longer list from which this item came of things I didn't even know existed to be known about).
A state legislator was caught on videotape demanding that a developer build her a $500,000 dream home in exchange for using her influence to steer a city-owned vacant lot into his hands, authorities said Monday. Assemblywoman Diane Gordon was released without bail after being arraigned on bribery, official misconduct and other charges, prosecutors said. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 5 to 15 years behind bars. The Brooklyn Democrat "dreamed of living in a gated community, but not the one she bargained for when she abused her authority as a public official," Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn said at a news conference.
I'll be. They mentioned 'Democrat' in the first paragraph. Oh right, it's Newsday, not the NYT or WaPo.
Gordon, 57, denied any wrongdoing. "She never profited one cent from this and she didn't do anything wrong," her attorney, Bernard Udell, said outside court.
Brooklyn prosecutors and DOI devised the sting in 2004 after receiving a tip about a possible scheme involving Gordon and a developer hoping to build on a $2 million lot in Brooklyn designated for low-income housing. "In return, she wanted him to build her dream house," Hearn said.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred ||
07/11/2006 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[0 views]
Top|| File under:
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
07/11/2006 13:27 Comments ||
Top||
#5
I think I read someplace that her childhood heroes were Marion Barry and Alcee Hastings.
I'll be looking forward to hearing her campaigning at the Tupac Amaru Shakur center...
Posted by: mac ||
07/11/2006 17:03 Comments ||
Top||
It wasn't rain. It certainly wasn't snow. So what was it last Friday that turned the radar in the La Crosse area into a sea of white? It turns out that it was a gigantic hatch of mayflies. The bugs were so thick that they showed up as a rainstorm of mayflies on National Weather Service radar. For about 1 1/2 hours starting at 9 p.m., the insects drifted north, with the radar showing them blanketing areas along the Mississippi River. "They were dive-bombing in the root beer floats," said Gary Rudy, owner of Rudy's Drive-In, whose family has been slinging burgers and soft drinks since 1966. "It hasn't been that bad in a long time." GROSS!!!!
That would be Lacrosse, Wisconsin, on the Mississippi river, not overly far from Rochester, Minnesota ... the May Fly hatch is a big deal every year -- but usually not *this* big.
And since that fly usually only lives for a day or two, and the fish in the area absolutely gorge themselves on them ... fishing probably won't be good for a week-or-so.
#3
Y'know, leaving pig's heads and shot-up Korans at the local mosque accomplishes about as much as punching a wasp's nest. I'll be interested to see when someone sneaks up properly with a can of Raid, cuz someone is gonna do it. And I'll be curious to see what happens after that.
#5
"It's very encouraging," said Abdi Sheikh, who is the administrative head of the mosque and works as a case management supervisor at Catholic Charities. "It's a show of support, and we appreciate all of that."
WTF? I would've assumed that the Catholic Charities would've required that you be either: (1) Catholic, or (2) at least a claimed Christian to work there. Now they're hiring muslims? Good grief, this kum-by-yah, "Why can't we all just get along" crap has gotta stop. Weren't there numerous articles about the Somalis showing up in Maine being (at least some of them) known jihadis? And, now we're gonna have an "inter-faith" rally for these goons? Osama and Zawahiri must be laughing from their caves now, as we show how "sensitive" we are.
Posted by: BA ||
07/11/2006 11:09 Comments ||
Top||
#6
If you don't like seeing bits of a perfectly legal animal then move to a country that bans pork.
#7
BA, nope, they can't require that, especially if they are getting any kind of federal funds.
I volunteered at Jewish Family and Childrens' Services a ways back, and they had staff members who weren't Jewish, either. No one made any big deal about it....I wished them Happy Chanukah and Passover, they wished me Merry Christmas and Happy Easter (no lame "Happy Holidays" there). It was really no big deal.
Same thing with the clientele. They couldn't require that someone getting help be a member of the Jewish faith, but there was no real problem with them saying the services they provided were in line with Jewish religious traditions. You don't like that....go somewhere else.
#9
Cute, wxjames, but even though the reasons why anyone would follow the incoherent ramblings of an illiterate trader who married well in 7th century Arabia are a mystery to me too, it's still considered a religion.
And in some cases regrettably, they are able to exercise their "religious freedom" to call for the destruction of all we hold dear, and the imposition of the same idiotic system that made their homelands such beacons of humanity (/sarcasm off).
#10
Actually, DB, private groups like that are allowed to "discriminate" on their members as needed (I assume with the exception you noted of receiving Federal Tax $). In other words, would the Young Republicans be forced to accept Democrats into their ranks? Would a Gay/Lesbian/Whatever group be required to allow straight hetero Christians? I think not. Anti discrimination laws really only deal with public entities (or publically funded entities), and businesses.
Posted by: BA ||
07/11/2006 13:27 Comments ||
Top||
#11
BA, I wasn't addressing private groups. You were asking about charitable organizations, specifically regarding Catholic Charities. That's what my answer was about....charitable groups that take Federal money (almost all of them do, especially now).
Catholic Charities certainly does take Federal money. I haven't heard of a chapter that didn't, and I was raised Catholic. It may be for only one little tiny program, but that's enough to require them to have an anti-discrimination policy for who they serve with social programs. (Most religions do that anyway....it's good PR.)
Since Mr Abdi Sheik is paid staff, there are employment laws they have to abide by that would protect that guy from discrimination based on his religion. Assuming the post he is in has nothing to do with actual witnessing of the faith, the argument that he has to be Catholic to do his job isn't going to fly with the EEOC (plus, not knowing the gentleman discussed in the article, maybe he was the best applicant for the job. Neither of us sat in on the interview, so we'll never know for sure.)
In most other cases, private groups can do what they want as far as membership goes. That's why, for example, an alumni group for Harvard doesn't have to take in Yalies, and an Italian-American group doesn't have to take in Eskimos.
That's another reason those organizations mainly, if not exclusively, have unpaid staff. They can then have directors from their own group and exclude others. Chapters, anyway. National HQ can be different. Say we're still talking about a group of Harvard alumni. Make part of their jobs recruiting for their alma mater, and you have a good case as to why John Q Public who went to the local state college isn't really qualified to discuss the advantages of going to Harvard to interested prospects.....how the hell would he really know, since he doesn't have direct experience with the dorms, professors, and all their hallowed traditions? It's the same reason you don't see Chinese spokesmen for the NAACP, etc.
(Yes, spent too much time with labor laws regarding this topic in my past. Urk.)
#12
Catholic Charities is the largest importer of Somalis into the US. The US government pays them millions $ each year to do it (in addition to paying the Somalis).
Posted by: ed ||
07/11/2006 15:10 Comments ||
Top||
#13
Im afraid that I disagree that a charitable group can take "government" money.
No real charity should accept money extorted from others.
#14
Al this is well, and would work fine, except one very holy religion Islam teaches it's members that it is their duty to kill non-believers.
Therefore, the US Congress itself should pursue this debate. That's what they are elected for.
Islam's status as a religion is questionable.
Pig heads before action ! (bumper slogan)
Your tax dollars at work.
A portion of the ceiling in the tunnel connecting Interstate 93 north to the Ted Williams Tunnel collapsed last night, cascading debris onto a passing car and killing a female passenger, authorities said this morning.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene but her husband managed to crawl out of the crumpled car, said state officials, who would not release their names. The man was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital.
The ceiling collapsed at about 11 p.m. and immediately led to the shutdown of the tunnel by State Police as Boston firefighters worked to remove the woman from the vehicle, officials said.
The tunnel system is part of the Big Dig construction project overseen by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.
State Police said the tunnel was shut down to give engineers time to study the extent of the damage to the ceiling and to the roadway. On its website, the Turnpike Authority said that the I-90 east connector tunnel to the Ted Williams Tunnel is closed and that all traffic was being diverted at Exit 24.
The Ted Williams Tunnel eastbound and the eastbound section of I-90 that is east of I-93 will likely be closed for this morning's commute, said Mariellen Burns, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. She said the harbor tunnel westbound, I-90 west, and I-93 will be open.
The episode was the latest in a series of problems for tunnels involved in the $14 billion Big Dig project.
In April 2005, one day after federal officials declared the Big Dig's tunnels safe, rocks and other debris rained down from an overhead vent in the I-93 southbound tunnel in downtown Boston and damaged at least five vehicles, including an ambulance transporting a patient.
The debris, which witnesses described as ranging from pebbles to rocks smaller than a golf ball, fell near the Purchase Street exit.
It was not clear this morning whether the latest ceiling collapse was related to water leaks that have plagued the tunnels.
In March 2005, Big Dig officials launched a survey of the roadway after a chunk of the material fell onto the I-93 breakdown lane. They reported then that water leaks in the Big Dig had damaged fireproofing material in at least 40 areas along the tunnel's ceiling. Most of the damaged areas, which typically measure about 2 square feet, were located near where the tunnel walls meet the roof.
Big Dig officials stressed then that the tunnel was safe. "We've got to protect our phony baloney jobs, dammit!"
In May, prosecutors charged six current and former employees of a concrete supplier with fraud for allegedly concealing that some concrete delivered to the Big Dig was not freshly mixed. State and federal officials said that long-term maintenance, not immediate safety, was the likely impact. I wouldn't worry. Another 14 billion should fix it up just fine.
#1
A portion of the ceiling in the tunnel connecting Interstate 93 north to the Ted Williams Tunnel collapsed last night, cascading debris onto a passing car and killing a female passenger, authorities said this morning.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene but her husband managed to crawl out of the crumpled car
The snark in me is wanting to make some sort of comment about the tunnel batting .500 but I'll let it go.
Big Dig officials stressed then that the tunnel was safe.
Umm - No it isn't. Ya see, when a big piece of anything falls and kills someone, that is known as dangerous, not safe. Sheesh.
#8
a single tieback failure should never lead to a progressive collapse - there's a multitude of errors/fraudulent materials , etc. involved, I bet
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/11/2006 12:25 Comments ||
Top||
#9
Look for, da union la-BEL,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Posted by: no mo uro ||
07/11/2006 14:44 Comments ||
Top||
#10
Governor Romney has fired the bozo in charge of the project.
Fired. Not "asked for resignation," not "paid administrative leave," not "reassigned"--flat-out canned him.
Posted by: Mike ||
07/11/2006 15:34 Comments ||
Top||
#11
BOSTON - At least 12 tons of concrete collapsed onto a passing car in a Big Dig tunnel, fatally crushing a newlywed and prompting renewed scrutiny Tuesday of the costliest highway project in U.S. history. The state attorney general said he plans to treat the site as a crime scene that could lead to charges of negligent homicide.
The attorney general's office already has begun issuing subpoenas to those involved in the design, manufacturing, testing, construction and oversight of the panels and tunnel. "What we are looking at is anyone who had anything to do with what happened last night," Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly said. "No one is going to be spared."
That sound you hear is shredders going into overdrive
Posted by: Steve ||
07/11/2006 17:41 Comments ||
Top||
#14
Romney's started the process. Since Amarello is the head of the Turnpike Authority, one of those "public-private partnership" hack heavens, he doesn't work at Romney's conveinience. Romney has to prove "gross mismanagement", or pack the Turnpike board to vote him out. Amarello, a lifetime state hack with the ultimate Mass hack job (outside of running Massport) has already said that he won't resign, knowing that Romney will need the Jaws of Life to get him outta there. What Romney has to hope is now that somebody's finally been killed by this thing is that all of Amarello's back covering friends in the State House decide it's not worth the political risk to fly top cover for him anymore. If that support's gone, Amarello may work a behind the scenes deal for some overinflated pension and quit. This is how Romney forced out Billy Bulger at UMASS.
As far as Reilly goes, forget it. He couldn't solve a crime if it happened on his front porch.
And there's your brief primer on the System in Massachusetts.
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.
