Africa is a very strange place. First shaking hands with the wrong person causes the peepee to fall off, now this.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Police in Zim-bob-we are on the trail of a group of women who have been raping men, usually at gunpoint, since last year. "Stick it up, big boy!"
Cases of men who have been sexually abused by women are common in the country and hardly a week passes without such a report being made in the media. "Hmmm... Debauched you, did they? Right. And how many of them did you say there were? And all nekkid?... Do tell."
The motives of these women are not known, "Babs, I'm gonna go out and rape some guy!"
"Why you gonna do that, Harriet?"
"I don't know."
but there is speculation that they may be doing this for ritual purposes. "O-o-o-o-om mane padme mumbo jumbo...!"
"We appeal to members of the public to pass any information to the police regarding three women who have gone on a spree of kidnapping and indecently assaulting young men around town," Harare police boss Angeline Guvamombe said in a statement. "hubba-hubba-hubba-hubba-Help! Help! I'm being indecently assaulted!-hubba-hubba-hubba-Oh, baby! Don't stop!..."
"The women drive in posh cars and offer their unsuspecting victims lifts before spraying some liquid substance on their faces. "Say, thanks for the lift, lady! Gosh! This is a swell car!... PFFFT!... [SWOON!]"
"Once the victim is drowsy, he is taken to a secluded place or house where he is forced to have sex," said Ms Guvamombe. "Wimmin! Yer all alike! You only want me fer my body!"
"I want to warn these criminals that their days are numbered," she added. "Yeah! They're really gonna get it!... Come to think of it, they've already had it..."
On Monday, the Herald reported that two men were kidnapped last week and forced to have sex with women at gunpoint. "I feel so degraded!"
"Wearin' those jeans you wuz askin' for it!"
In one of the incidents, a 30-year-old man was kidnapped by three women and forced to have sex with them for five days. "It wuz a nightmare!"
"Y'know, there's men all over the world that'd like to have a nightmare like that!"
"Most of 'em's under the age of 19!"
In some cases, the women use protection and collect the men's sperm, leading to speculation that they were in the activity for ritual purposes. "Okay, Harriet! I'm gonna perform the Lap Dance of the Rising Moon! Do you have the bucket ready?"
"Ready to go, Babs!"
At times, the women are helped by gunnies. "I feel for ya, bub, but better you than me! Stick it up!"
Since the strange rape cases began sometime last year, no one has been placed in long-term storage. "Drat, Inspector! We were that close!"
Police have said the women cannot be charged with rape because Zim-bob-wean law does not recognise that women can rape men. The sight of a firearm in certain situations is a sure way to cause limpness in most men.
But they will be charged with indecent assault, which carries a lesser sentence. Maybe they can be cellmates with Bubba...
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Barney, you got a description of them so we can be on the look for this armed gang of semen thieves? Just when I thought stories could not get any more bizarre.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday framed money laundering charges against BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and issued an arrest warrant against him, who is now staying in London for treatment.
The court also framed charges against another accused in the case Giasuddin Al Mamun, an associate and business partner of Tarique, the elder son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... . Mamun was present at the court.
Yesterday's charge framing which is the second against Tarique, has paved the way for holding a trial. He is also accused in 16 other cases including one in connection with August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally.
Tarique was earlier indicted in a corruption case filed for taking Tk 21 crore as bribe from Bashundhara Group boss to save the wealthy businessman's son from a murder charge in 2007.
The Special Judge's Court-3 yesterday fixed September 11 for starting the trial of the money laundering case through recording the complainant's deposition.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A police enquiry also found that law enforcer helped a mob beat dead 16-year-old Shamsuddin Milon in Noakhali on July 27.
The three-member probe committee led by Additional Superintendent of Police Mahbubur Rashid submitted its report around 10:00pm.
The enquiry found negligence of Sub-inspector of Companyganj Police Station Akram Sheikh and constables Abdur Rahim and Hema Ranjan Chakma.
Also yesterday, the officer-in-charge of Companyganj Police Station was suspended for his negligence in duty during the incident that left six people including Milon dead.
Locals caught Milon around 9:00am at Tekerhat taking him for a robber and handed him over to police.
But police on their way to the station forced him off their van and let a mob beat him dead, according to a video footage aired on Somoy TV on Sunday night.
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"People were forced to leap from the upstairs windows of a burning building in Croydon last night as rioting spread across London and beyond." Daily Telegraph
#2
Get with it! What did the US do to squelch the anti-police, Rodney King, riot? Send in the National Guard. Rioters began mingling with troops, and the whole think dissipated.
#7
Beat me to posting this BP. Looks like there is a class warfare kind of thing going on and that it is getting more widespread. Maybe it is just common thuggery/lawlessness and getting more widespread.
#9
Lovely to see Bright Pebbles, that the old England we know and love is still there, underneath. Y'all might want to make your next step neighborhood protection groups armed with pikers and lead pipe, in case the youts continue their binge.
#10
If you have a National Guard, you can do this. Otherwise, a few cops will be chased down the street by a mob, and the thin veneer of civilization falls away.
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Now, I'm not sure of the details leading up to man being capped i.e. whether he shot at police or they shot at themselves, but this is what happens when you become politically correct for 35 years and don't deal with 'citizens' living on the fringes (e.g. anarchists, Islamofascists, Christian wingnuts, etc). Don't use police, call in the Army, set a curfew, then give shoot-to-kill order for any looting.
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*click*. An interesting point, Shakey Steve. There is also the issue of the fast-moving mob, self-organized by Twitter, moving from place to place while the police lumber to catch up... Can Twitter be shut down for a single city code or region?
#16
when you become politically correct for 35 years and don't deal with 'citizens' living on the fringes (e.g. anarchists, Islamofascists, Christian wingnuts, etc)
We riot a lot we Christians. That's why it's so damn dangerous in Topeka on a Wednesday night!
#17
Correction. Christian wingnuts choose blowing up government buildings and slaughtering women and children with shotguns and AK-47s. My bad...
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Remember the online petition in England calling for a return to the death penalty, that made the 100k minimum number of signatures to mandate a parliamentary debate? Not only was it followed up by a Daily Mail poll, the first in decades, that showed 75% popular support for the death penalty, but now this:
A *new* petition is demanding that all of those convicted of rioting lose all government benefits. No more welfare or other benefits at all.
Anyone's guess whether it will make the 100,000 signatures needed to require parliamentary debate.
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#17 Correction. Christian wingnuts choose blowing up government buildings and slaughtering women and children with shotguns and AK-47s. My bad...
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your talking points are amateurish and pathetic. Keep trying
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not ready for prime-time trolling
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Dang - and we used to attract such interesting trolls.... :-(
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I don't think that more police or sending in the army is the solution. This is just more of 'government will take care of us' stuff. Give citizens the right to use force to protect their property. Make it legal for a shop owner to stand in front of his/her store with a baseball bat and swing at the head of anyone who tries to loot it.
(KUNA) -- Britannia's capital was braced for its third night of rioting tonight as Scotland Yard beefed up its presence to deal robustly with looting thugs.
Police chiefs, politicians and community leaders condemned "opportunistic criminality" amid warnings of more widespread violence on London's streets.
More than 100 people were tossed in the calaboose overnight and early this morning after boroughs in north, south and east London fell victim to copycat rampages following trouble in Tottenham last Saturday.
As minor skirmishes broke out again between police and hooded youths in Hackney this afternoon, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said "big scars" would be left from consecutive nights of rioting.
Clegg, who returned from holiday this morning, condemned the violence earlier as "completely unacceptable".
Home Secretary Theresa May was arriving back in London to meet acting Metropolitan Police commissioner Tim Godwin.
Scenes of violence in Hackney echoed those in other areas of the capital over the past two nights, with skirmishes between gangs of youths and police, reportedly prompted by a stop and search incident earlier today.
Rioters, many wearing hoods and masks, were confronted by police lines spanning the width of streets, occasionally moving forward to push the groups back.
Officers in riot gear tried to control the situation, coming under fire from objects including chairs and pieces of wood.
At one point, several people broke into the back of a stationary lorry, pulling its contents out on to the road, with some hurling it at police and others using it to smash windows of a bus.
Later, UK Home Secretary Theresa May has condemned the riots that have blighted the UK capital for three days as "sheer criminality".
At least 215 people have been tossed in the calaboose and 25 charged following the riots across London, she said. Police chiefs, politicians and community leaders condemned "opportunistic criminality" amid a fresh wave of violence.
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LIVE UPDATES: London landmarks go up in flames amid reports of rioting gangs trying to break into homes.
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: --
"We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away."
And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld
And then you'll get rid of the Dane!
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"
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My daughter and I were talking about this as we were walking the dog this morning: she has a lot of British cyber-friends and twitter-followers, some of whom live in London. She says she has often gotten a bit of stick from them on us being violent & gun-loving freaks ... but we were trying to imagine a similiar event taking place in San Antonio. Say a group of Southside gang-bangers came up to Retama Park for a rock concert or something, and decided to loot and vandalize the shops in the Forum and along Pat Booker road ... it would happen maybe once. Between local citizens, and the police forces of several separate towns, to include San Antonio proper, Bexar & Guadalupe counties, the state highway patrol ... they'd need some squeegees and mops to clean up all that would be left of the gangbangers.
I'm afraid, unless the forces of law enforcement in London grow a pair and start firing for effect, this is just going to escalate. The people who do have homes and businesses at risk must be close to the edge by now.
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This sounds like an organized insurrection. Parliament should send in the Army...
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"This sounds like an organized insurrection. Parliament should send in the Army..."
You mean the one they've cut to the bone?
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Yes, that one :)
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These riots are a direct effect of the British Left's successful campaign to not only disarm the public, but imprison any and all British citizens that dare use force to defend themselves. The Korean merchants in LA showed the rioters there that there was a cost to trying to loot their shops; the British need a bunch of those guys with their AR-15s and the right to use same in self-defense in London about now. Of course, the rioting is not all bad news for everyone, the BNP has been pushing to repeal much of the British gun laws and have an armed public that has protection under the law to defend itself. They are probably going to gain seats in Parliament from this.
#13
Call out the Horse Guards or what ever the heck they're called. This goes for the same type of clowns that tore up the WI State Fair last week. If you wish to be treated like a human being act like one. If you act like an animal you should treated accordingly
#14
An M134 should be able to clear out a riot in short order, probably less than 2 minutes after deployment. Alternatively, Apaches can do a good job on large crowds as well.
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Vomit gas.
Use fire hoses to wash down the streets the next day.
Hard to loot when you're barfing your guts up in the gutter.
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[Emirates 24/7] Global stocks took another pounding Monday as worries over the downgrade of US debt outweighed relief at the European Central Bank's purchase of Italian and Spanish bonds to help the two countries avoid devastating defaults.
The world's leading financial policymakers said they were ready to act to contain the uncertainties in the markets but were unable to ease the concerns of stock market investors. The main worry remained centered on Standard & Poor's momentous decision to lower its triple A rating for the US.
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The downgrade as a cause is little more than a media meme.
In reality there has been massive buying of US bonds with a consequent large drop in interest rates paid.
Exactly the opposite of what a downgrade would cause.
From Rooters,
U.S. Treasury prices soared on Monday after the first credit downgrade of U.S. debt caused investors to flee risky assets in favor of bonds on concern over the ripple effects of the ratings cut.
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The issue is: who's buying them? I had thought the Fed was as pretty much the only customer.
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It's also the story of being chase by a bear. You don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than someone else in the group. No one is in good shape and everyone of any substance is tied to the US economy. If we go, they all go and there is no real safe haven.
Han Solo: You said you wanted to be around when I made a mistake, well, this could be it, sweetheart.
Princess Leia: I take it back.
#4
The issue is: who's buying them? I had thought the Fed was as pretty much the only customer.
A lot of money moved out of equities in the last few days. It has to be parked somewhere. What's the least risky investment around, regardless of S&P's opinion?
#5
No one is in good shape and everyone of any substance is tied to the US economy. If we go, they all go and there is no real safe haven.
Retirees are taking a hit again in their retirement portfolios. Obama is not a friend of the seniors. I'm not sure who he is a friend of at this point--fellow ideologues and elites who have swallowed the Kool-Aide of statism and Chicago criminality?
#6
You want a recovery?
Ten seconds after Obama is defeated at the Polls, that'll do it.
The market will jump like a stuck horse.
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Yes, and replaced by Sarah Palin. Markets will be splitting their guts laughing at the 'genius' of the American electorate, that there will be a halt in trading for a few hours, thus stopping the stock tumble brought about by 30 years of 'VooDoo economics'.
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Oddly enough, Mr. Steve, there are Canadians who are not unthinkingly rude to Americans, despite what you have been taught in school about the diffence between the two countries. Why must you, then, hew so closely to our stereotype of ignorant, countrified neighbors to the north, upsetting all the good will those others have garnered here? Especially when you demonstrably are capable of making sensible comments on other topics...
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Ima feel better now than Shaker Steve has showed up. We haven't had a decent argument in ages, I suspect he is a dying breed of fine woodworkers, unable to breed because of his beliefs. Sad, but in many ways admirable.
You Rock Thar ShakeySteve!
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(KUNA) -- Tokyo stocks extended their losing streak for the second straight session Monday, sending a key index to the lowest closing level in nearly five months after the downgrade of US government bonds late Friday.
The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) lost 202.32 points, or 2.18 percent, from Friday to 9,097.56, the lowest closing since March 17.
The plunge followed a 3.7 percent decline on Friday. The broader Tokyo Stock Price Index, which includes all shares on the TSE's first section, was down 18.10 points, or 2.26 percent, to 782.86, with 32 of 33 subindexes closing in negative territory.
Investor sentiment was dampened as Standard Poor's on Friday cut the US government debt rating from AAA to AA+ for the first time.
Earlier in the day, the financial leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized economies issued a joint statement that affirmed their commitment to take all necessary measures to support financial stability and growth, but its impact on the Tokyo market was limited.
The G-7 groups Britannia, Canada, La Belle France, Germany, Italia, Japan and the US.
In the currency markets, at 4:30 p.m. (0730 GMT), the US dollar traded at JPY 77.78-80 versus JPY 78.37-47 in New York and JPY 78.53-55 in Tokyo at 5 p.
m. Friday.
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[An Nahar] A Mohammedan man died on Sunday after setting himself on fire inside a mosque in the French city of Toulouse, local officials said, saying the man was psychologically disturbed.
The man, in his fifties, suffered burns over 90 percent of his body and died in hospital, the local prefect's office said.
He had doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire inside the mosque after earlier yelling at the local imam, officials said.
A prefect official said the incident had nothing to do with "xenophobia or racism" and said the man was known to have suffered from psychiatric problems.
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(KUNA) -- A Turkish court ordered the arrest of seven senior Army and Navy officers in the midst of the trial of suspects of an alleged coup d'etat against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The suspects include generals Nusret Tasdeler, the head of the army's educational command and Ismail Hakki Pekin, the intelligence chief of the general staff, and Retired General Hasan Igsiz, the former head of the First Army, Anatolia news agency reported.
The officers are among 22 charged last month for attempting to oust the government led by the Justice and Development Party (AKP).
They were accused of creating websites that publish anti-government sentiment.
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The Erdogan government would rather not have a military at all than one that interfered with their Islamist agenda.
#6
Praising Obama's intelligence is sort of like saying "Jose's the best hitter in baseball -- it's just that he struck out his last 278 times at bat."
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The question isn't whether or not he's smart. The question is whether or not he's doing it on purpose.
#11
FDR was the 'The Foodstamp President'...do your homework. Unfortunately, 'The Foodstamp Prez' as you refer to Obama, inherited a shit-hole from the previous neocon lapdog dumbass and his cabal of thievious (greed-is-good for AMERICA! (tm)) Gordon Gekko wannabes...
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Dear, dear Mr. Steve. We, too, could say insulting things about the prime ministers you Canadians elected before Mr. Harper, or discuss why so many of your neighbors come south for their healthcare and shopping (you aren't posting from Toronto, so perhaps you can't speak personally of the joys of Buffalo's Walden Galleria and the Niagara Falls outlet center as so many of my Toronto friends do), but we prefer to keep the discourse civil and well reasoned here. But if you feel so keenly, perhaps you ought to move south, get American citizenship, and vote your opinion, eh?
He's definitely smarter than the dipshit he took over from.
BS. Obama's barely capable of riding a bicycle; Bush flew jets. It takes more math and physics to even be allowed into the pilot's seat of a jet Obama's ever taken in his entire life.
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And, Has-the-Shakes-Steve, Gordon Gekko is a fictional character.
(Dr. Dana? Is that you? Are you posting from or through a Canadian IP? Or is the inability to distinguish between fiction and reality that common on the left?)
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08/09/2011 13:37 Comments ||
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#15
And thus the Troll did Bravely Run Away.
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08/09/2011 13:41 Comments ||
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Shakey Steve, you certainly are not a member of the Army of Steve.
Now then: as noted, GWB flew an F-102. Care to try? Care to speculate on the intelligence (not to mention nerves, sense and moral courage) required to fly one successfully?
GWB also has an MBA from Harvard. We'll grant that he wasn't the best student at Yale, but as far as I know, Harvard doesn't give out gentleman MBAs. Care to tell us your level of education?
GWB ran a business. Did you?
GWB was twice elected governor of our 3rd largest state. That takes some intelligence, don't you think?
In other words, I gently suggest that you don't know what the fuck you are talking about, and that (I say this soothingly) you're just another liberal fuck-tard whiny bitch who can't face reality.
So, flying to London to join the riots?
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08/09/2011 13:50 Comments ||
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At least as much a puppet as a con mnan. The majority of the US electorate wouldn't have bought the crappy con without the media shrieking support for it from the outset.
#19
1. Dubya flew ... with the Texas National Guard. Why you ask? So he would escape REAL combat in Viet Nam. Yep, that's quite 'smart'.
2. Good for Georgie...but does that automatically qualify you to be The Big Cheese? Nope. And I have a Masters of Science (Physics & Math). That doesn't qualify me to be PM of Canada, either...but you asked.
3. Yes, with his Nazi granddad's money...a baseball team. Great...
4. No, it actually shows how dimwitted Texans are..
Trust me...American economy keeps going 'south' (no pun intended), I won't have to flew over the big pond to join in the shooting of looters (as I stated on another post 'send in the Army')...But right now, I'm laughing up a storm, sipping cognac, admiring our AAA rating...
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
08/09/2011 14:29 Comments ||
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Correction: 'fly' not 'flew'...damn...
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
08/09/2011 14:32 Comments ||
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GWB flew with the Texas ANG because they guaranteed that he could be a pilot, which is what he wanted. You may recall that he also volunteered, while in the the ANG, to fly in Vietnam. His request was rejected; the Air Force already had too many pilots.
Being a lawyer also doesn't qualify you to be president. Obama's time as a lecturer at U. Chicago certainly doesn't. Age, prudence, experience, humility are things that DO qualify you; GWB had these, Obama does not.
GWB was in the oil business before the baseball business.
And bringing up grand-dad simply shows you to be an unwitting, uncritical consumer of progressive tropes.
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08/09/2011 14:37 Comments ||
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"And bringing up grand-dad simply shows you to be an unwitting, uncritical consumer of progressive tropes."
LOLs. Yes, lets not dig up any skeletons under the 'Bush-es'...
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
08/09/2011 14:44 Comments ||
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as far as I know, Harvard doesn't give out gentleman MBAs.
After a rigorous selection for entrance, Harvard Business School flunks 10% of the first year class. Or at least they did when I was in B-school in the late 80s and I believe that had been the policy earlier when Bush was a student there.
#24
People, People, don't argue with the Moron, it gives him status.
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08/09/2011 14:56 Comments ||
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#25
Who's arguing? We're in school and I'm the teacher...
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
08/09/2011 14:59 Comments ||
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#26
Uh huh.
Well, my doctorate is in computational science and what with that and over a decade teaching at the university level, plus now managing advanced research in a major organization, I'll skip your not-for-credit online ego trip. But have fun if it makes you feel important.
#27
"Well, my doctorate is in computational science and what with that and over a decade at the university level, plus now managing advanced research in a major organization, I'll skip your not-for-credit online ego trip."
Oh, the irony...
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
08/09/2011 15:06 Comments ||
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BTW, I'd avoid pushing that teaching line with Steve White, too, since he does research at one of the world's top medical schools.
It does make for a certain weary amusement to see your intellectual pretensions however.
#29
Having a Masters Degree, in Science, qualifies you to be in the Duck's Breath Mystery Theater. Perhaps you can revive the company. Though you might want to get some new material.
And HBS MBAs don't exactly flunk out. The screening committee tells those at the bottom of the rankings to take a year or two off in the real world and then decide if they want to return to complete their degree. And some do. It is a pretty intense environment, particularly for those who come directly from college.
#32
"Having a Masters Degree, in Science, qualifies you to be in the Duck's Breath Mystery Theater. Perhaps you can revive the company. Though you might want to get some new material."
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
08/09/2011 15:19 Comments ||
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Yes, lets not dig up any skeletons under the 'Bush-es'...
Part of progressive ideology is to blame a person for the sins (real or alleged) of his ancestors. Progressives themselves are excused whatever sins their ancestors committed. That's different, anyone can see that.
In other words, Shakey, who gives a rat's ass what grand-dad did?
You have a complaint about GWB, stick to him.
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Stephens is making a point in his WSJ article that is more than overdue for the left to learn, namely that a certain facile intellectual fluency disconnected from the real world is no more a qualification for political leadership and statesmanship than was the elite degree of athleticism and right-brain / body intelligence demonstrated by GW Bush when piloting one of the dmost difficult-to-fly planes ever controlled by a human pilot without computer aids.
Lots of people flunk out of advanced grad school classes - or did, when grading was enforced, or avoided enrolling in the first place. The consequences of their doing so generally do not rise to the level of lethality, which was a documented hazard of flying F102-A figher/intercepters.
Academic success as a status enhancer teaches over-reliance on assumed cleverness and a tendency to believe one's own cant.
Bush's success as a pilot, which required levels of sensory integration and nerve/muscle response that most of us cannot develop no matter how hard we train, caused him to over-rely on his intuition and personal judgement.
The latter is well recognized. The former is an insight that continues to be bitterly resisted by many on the left, who mistook Obama's scripted platitudes for verbal fluency, a nimble mind and a wise spirit.
#35
a new internet-credentialed pompous talking-points chew toy? Can we keep him?
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08/09/2011 15:31 Comments ||
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They'd rather make accusations-by-association because the people in question aren't here to defend themselves any more. All they have to do is say what "everyone knows" which it turns out everyone doesn't "know."
#37
You give credit to Dubya for owning a business yet fail to say that it was his father's and grandfather's money that allowed him to own it in the first place. That's why it is very relevent bringing up his ancesters. It's funny how you give George Jr. so much credit being a 'self-made man' yet give Obama no credit at all for achieving what he has...I wonder what motivates this pathology?
Posted by: Shakey Steve ||
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If Obama is a "self made man" I'd say he stopped working too soon. He hasn't made anything of himself except a Community Organizer, has never lead at enything, and it shows. He has a very narrow view of society. His education was paid for by others, he never had to work for anything, and he believes the Government is what gives people jobs. All we have is because of the Government. That's where he got it.
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yet give Obama no credit at all for achieving what he has...
I give him credit for being a really effective con-man.
Which is all he is, really. He's not an intellectual. He's not a moral man. He's a thug, a thief, and a deeply hateful man.
(No one who is not steeped in hatred could claim Jeremiah Wright to be their "spiritual guide".)
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Anyone from Chicago who considers themself to be the best in their trade would choose Jordan over Lebron. Period.
Not saying the guy is a dullard, the station speaks for itself, now then why does he lean so heavy upon his speech writers and policy analysts? Why is he the last in the room to get the jokes he tells? Why is it he has nearly everything in his favor and still he fails? If he is so smart how come he did not go about fixing whatever was wrong with W Bush so that he could go about accumulating the same amount of debt and gaffes as it took W Bush 8 years to accumulate - and we all know W Bush was not a penny pincher.
The answer is sales, baby, sales.
The plan was that the Dims had two years to get everything lined up for whoever was going to be the next president after W Bush, outside of a miracle the Dims were going to have Congress and Executive. All they had to do was get it all sold and passed with enough time to take the heat and convince the voters to stick with it. They could not do that because Obama dicked off, him and Paloski were rude, bills got put off in favor of jaunts and olympic bids.
Now work backwards with me, because that shows an utter lack of work ethic. Freshman Senator from Illinois, one of his first acts is to put an ad of himself on prime time football, what is that about? Really, who gives two shakes about a freshman Senator from anywhere?
Where are the people who were bragging that they were lectured to by Obama concerning Consitutional Law - which would be interesting in and of itself pre and post presidency. I'm sure he achieved a certain level of education whether on his own or with the assistance of tutors. His education, with nothing notable outside the classroom and other HVAC safe climates, is theory of theory, photocopies of photocopies. Insular, even he is/was unaware whether what he was tought works in the real world, like the people surprised the LED streetlights iced over.
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#47
In 2008, America elected the black Chauncey Gardner.
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#48
Damn, it's Murat!
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08/09/2011 21:02 Comments ||
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Commer boy, good Murat, it's okay, it's Murat, good, good, where you been? Yeah yeah yeah, sokay, all good. You're home now. Damn your coat sucks, smells like stupid.
LOTP... fetch me the #7 currycomb
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#50
Shakey Steve, do you really want to defend your imbecile POTUS under my pervue? Really?
#51
Since the edumacation level of Rantburgers seems to be a topic of concern, I am pretty sure there are several credentialed engineers and at least one Ivy League science PhD hanging around.
And perhaps the best proof of W's lack of intellect may be that he wangled an assignment flying that F-102 death trap rather than accepting being drafted and assigned to carry bags for politicians or whatever someone of his 'connected' status did.
#52
Mr. Sciency and Stuff left us. I bet "Shakey Steve" is a family nickname with a whole lotta history and police reports behind it. Good to see he embraces his present. His past and future observations ar amusing. I always wonder why foreigners engage here, while disputing any aspect of historical American greatness and telling us we should suck it and get used to it. Amusing and amateur. We've had more intelligent and entertaining trolls in the past. This one is a loser Canuck. Let Canuckistan sniper know his ip, he can have a chat with him.
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08/09/2011 22:25 Comments ||
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Since the edumacation level of Rantburgers seems to be a topic of concern, I am pretty sure there are several credentialed engineers and at least one Ivy League science PhD hanging around.
By my count we have three active working engineers, at one time or another another three on top of that, and from many discipline, civil engineering (2), electronic engineering (2), computer engineering (2).
#54
And perhaps the best proof of W's lack of intellect may be that he wangled an assignment flying that F-102 death trap rather than accepting being drafted and assigned to carry bags for politicians or whatever someone of his 'connected' status did.
A lot of individuals joined to avoid being pigeon-holed into something they didn't want, and the military at the time was offering as well. Join and make your choices, or be drafted and take your chances.
That's why Jawn Kerry was so pissed he got a combat assignment as a reservist instead of something closer to his self image.
#55
F-102, notorious. Must be some goldbricker (/sarc) like his father and his Avenger over Kuchi-jima, eh?
Now, give me a man like John Fogarty who joins the reserves to skip the draft, kicks himself kicked out in a year, and sells you that he is a swampman born on the bayou, takes your money to the bank, and complains he should have got more money for his effort.
[Dawn] Three main nikkah registrars in Islamabad district courts -- Qari Imdad, Qari Ismail, and Qari Noor Ilahi Chishti -- helped solemnise about 250 court marriages in 2010. But during the first eight months of 2011, they have already solemnised 240 court marriages, a number expected to cross 300 by coming December.
For Mr Imdad, inflation and increasing poverty are the main reasons behind court marriages. He said parents were not paying attention towards marriages of their children, especially daughters.
"Young people are left with no option but to go for court marriage, which is very economical."
According to him, a court marriage only costs Rs5,000. "Parents of bride and groom also accept this inexpensive marriage at a later stage."
Apart from poverty, social media networking is also contributing to court marriages.
Akhtar Mehmood advocate, an Islamabad-based family court lawyer, said most of the couples approaching him for court marriage were users of Facebook, Twitter, HI5 or other social networking websites.
"In some cases of court marriages, girls from rural areas have chosen rich married men as their life partners."
But he was quick to point out that love marriages are not "sustainable", saying their success rate is lower than the arranged marriages. "Parent pressure, domestic issues and festivities force the couple to approach the court for divorce within six months."
Linking increase in love marriages with social networking websites, Wahaj Siraj, convener Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistain (ISP), said during the last one year, the number of internet users has increased by 10 per cent in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
"Currently total number of internet users in Islamabad and Rawlpindi is 500,000 and it is gradually increasing."
According to him, the young people spend most of their time on social networking websites where they not only make new friends but also find partners.
Barrister Afzal Hussain, another family court lawyer, supports the notion that due to social media networking, love marriages are on the rise but added that the couples face threats, registration of abduction cases and lengthy litigation. "In most of the cases, angry relatives of bride lodge case of her abduction against the groom and the couple faces lengthy litigation." Barrister Hussain said sometime the wife is forced to record statement against the husband, putting the "innocent man behind the bar".
Recently the chief justice of Islamabad High Court (IHC) has quashed an FIR registered against Saima Shaheen and her husband, Muhammad Ikram.
They pleaded before the court that they are lawfully married couple, rejecting the FIR registered with Shahzad Town police claiming that they are involved in an illicit relationship. The case was registered against the couple by Saima`s uncle, Tahir Mehmood. She said after the marriage in February this year her brothers with the help of police were harassing them.
In another case, Ayesha Aziz and her husband Shaharyar Ali also approached the Lahore High Court (LHC) for quashing the FIR registered against them. Relatives of Ayesha got registered the FIR against her husband under section 365-B in New Town cop shoppe of Rawalpindi. The court`s Rawalpindi bench had directed the police to quash the FIR.
Barrister Hussain suggests some amendments in the existing law to protect the couples. He also proposed penalty for registration of fake FIRs. "To discourage this trend, litigation expenses should be recovered from those who lodge fake FIRs."
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(Ma'an) -- Palestinian police rescued a middle-aged man from a Hebron village after a group soaked him in petrol in an attempt to set him on fire, a Ma'an correspondent said Monday.
The incident, in the Sijer neighborhood of Dura village, southwest of Hebron, came as a result of a financial dispute, a police spokesman told Ma'an.
Police thanked citizens who had alerted them to the attack, and said an investigation had been opened, with suspects due for referral to the general prosecutor in the district.
(Ma'an) -- Paleostinian police rescued a middle-aged man from a Hebron village after a group soaked him in petrol in an attempt to set him on fire, a Ma'an correspondent said Monday.
The incident, in the Sijer neighborhood of Dura village, southwest of Hebron, came as a result of a financial dispute, a police front man told Ma'an.
Police thanked citizens who had alerted them to the attack, and said an investigation had been opened, with suspects due for referral to the general prosecutor in the district.
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.
[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday framed money laundering charges against BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman and issued an arrest warrant against him, who is now staying in London for treatment.
(KUNA) -- 
[Emirates 24/7] Global stocks took another pounding Monday as worries over the downgrade of US debt outweighed relief at the European Central Bank's purchase of Italian and Spanish bonds to help the two countries avoid devastating defaults.
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(KUNA) -- A Turkish court ordered the arrest of seven senior Army and Navy officers in the midst of the trial of suspects of an alleged coup d'etat against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Three main nikkah registrars in Islamabad district courts -- Qari Imdad, Qari Ismail, and Qari Noor Ilahi Chishti -- helped solemnise about 250 court marriages in 2010. But during the first eight months of 2011, they have already solemnised 240 court marriages, a number expected to cross 300 by coming December.
(Ma'an) -- Palestinian police rescued a middle-aged man from a Hebron village after a group soaked him in petrol in an attempt to set him on fire, a Ma'an correspondent said Monday. 
