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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Pace Student Faces Two Felonies - Penitentiary for Putting Koran in Toilet
Snip, duplicate.
Posted by: Gleting McGurque3746 || 07/29/2007 19:21 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like someone needs to buy a couple of cases of Koran's. Then pass one out to anyone who will put it in a toilet, pile of pig parts, ect. Preferably in some some public facility. If they had eighty individuals to prosecute they might get a clue, especially if the individuals had legal support.
Posted by: Throger Thains8048 || 07/29/2007 20:26 Comments || Top||

#2  This happened at Pace. The same school that threaten the Jewish students over playing the movie Obsession.
Posted by: Icerigger || 07/29/2007 20:59 Comments || Top||

#3  When one engages in a provocative act, it's reasonable to expect the target audience will be provoked. Anyway, this situation is the kind of thing designed to get the attention of Dershowitz or someone similar. Finally, while I don't really know, I suspect a felony case is more likely to go up toward the Supreme Court than a mere misdemeanor for misbehaviour on at a university. This looks like a tar baby designed to trap CAIR and the Muslim Student Association... or perhaps a La Brea tar pit.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/29/2007 22:11 Comments || Top||


Update - District 4 Court of Appeals sides with Grave Robbers
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, if this offends anyone. I was entranced when I heard Dennis Miller joking about it the other day. Although the original acquital was posted in September it was nice to see they are going to get off scot free - other than having to change their names and appearance before ever getting another date (assuming they have ever had one.)
What left me wanting to know more but not really wanting to know more was the following facts:
1. One of the guys was too skittish to do the deed without a condom ... but the other two were OK with unprotected post mortum carnal knowledge. 2. Who was the first one of the three to suggest that they ought to dig up a date? 3. Why would that person thought that having his buddies join him would have improved the experience? 4. Whether the guy who was going to go first was a more wretched human being than the guy going last?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/29/2007 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2  I saw their pictures the other day. It seemed not surprising at all that they would have to dig up dead broads to get laid...
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/29/2007 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  ewueeee
Posted by: Ebbang Untervehr2788 || 07/29/2007 16:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Sam Kinison had a routine about homosexual necrophilia. I never laughed so hard in my life. Although I'm not certain that admitting that is a good idea.
Posted by: Jonathan || 07/29/2007 19:55 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somalia: Yusuf meets Puntland officials over security
(SomaliNet) Somalia’s interim president Abdulahi Yusuf Ahmed is now in Puntland, the semi-autonomous region in northeast Somalia for talks with the officials of that regional government. President Yusuf who reached Garowe, the capital of Puntland yesterday met with Puntland president Adde Muse Hersi over the political and security issues in the region.

President Adde Muse said Puntland was ready to help the transitional federal government secure peace and stability as thousands of Puntland troops already joined the transitional government to defend its legacy.
Posted by: || 07/29/2007 00:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Subsaharan
Group advises hungry Zims to eat dogs
(SomaliNet) A group of men from Zimbabwe’s eastern city of Mutare are urging residents to try eating dogs, as meat now is in desperately short supply in Zimbabwe, a local newspaper reported on Friday.

Meanwhile, in an incident that has shocked city residents, four men barbecued and ate a dog they had stolen, the Manica Post reported. On being quizzed, the men first claimed they were barbecuing a buck. However, when a member of the family that had lost its dog looked carefully at the meal, he was not convinced. Bits of fur still on the meat matched those of the missing canine, the newspaper said. The dog-eaters have defended their actions. "The meat is very nice and tastes better than most meat," said one of the men identified as a psychology student with the Open University of Zimbabwe.

The dog went missing in June, just before President Robert Mugabe launched his controversial price blitz, ordering businesses and stores to slash prices by at least 50 percent. Meat has since disappeared from butcheries and supermarkets, along with a host of other basic commodities.

The Manica Post said eating dog meat was the worst thing imaginable for Zimbabweans.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dog - it's what's for dinner!
/somebody had to say it
Posted by: PBMcL || 07/29/2007 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Man's best friend continues to serve, undeservedly as, man's best friend.

The Manica Post said eating dog meat was the worst thing imaginable for Zimbabweans.

Ummm ... no. That'd be Mugabe retaining power for another millisecond.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/29/2007 1:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Fido on the braai is strange culinary fare indeed. Far worse however, is the crow the West has been silently dining on for years following the fall of Rhodesia. Native African governance, quite like deer hunting with an accordian. Such highly predictable results. Communist Red China, is there anything at all you can do to assist?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2007 2:30 Comments || Top||

#4  When Mugabe's thugs murdered white farmers, they looted rather than operated their booty.
Posted by: McZoid || 07/29/2007 6:25 Comments || Top||

#5  I wonder what Senator Byrd has to say about this?
Posted by: Raj || 07/29/2007 8:24 Comments || Top||

#6  Pity, pity, pity.
Posted by: Robt. KKK Byrd || 07/29/2007 8:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Like, yo. Come on down to "Michael Vick's House O' Pit Bulls". Our motto, "When they lose in the pit, it's a win for yo palate".
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/29/2007 8:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Dog is a fine meal.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/29/2007 8:56 Comments || Top||

#9  From the CIA Factbook Zimbabwe:

religions: Syncretic (part Christian, part indigenous beliefs) 50%, Christian 25%, indigenous beliefs 24%, Muslim and other 1%.

So what's the problem with eating dog?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/29/2007 10:10 Comments || Top||

#10  Dog is probably haram, which leaves more for the other 99+%.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/29/2007 11:52 Comments || Top||

#11  So what's the problem with eating dog?

Not something you do with animals like them, aka "pets", I'd say?
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 07/29/2007 12:03 Comments || Top||

#12  So what's the problem with eating dog?

Nothing, nor vice-versa idiot.
Posted by: Hatfield || 07/29/2007 14:02 Comments || Top||

#13  mmm, rhodesian ridgeback, boys, get it before it get you.
Posted by: rhodesiafever || 07/29/2007 18:10 Comments || Top||

#14  rhodesiafever, man eating dog covers nicely both sides.;-)
Posted by: twobyfour || 07/29/2007 18:14 Comments || Top||

#15  mmmmm, Chinese food!
Posted by: Darrell || 07/29/2007 18:58 Comments || Top||

#16  More like Korean, Darrell. Although... you'll never know... ;-)
Posted by: twobyfour || 07/29/2007 19:04 Comments || Top||

#17  "Dog meat has been a source of food in parts of China from at least the time of Confucius, and possibly even before. Ancient writings from the Zhou Dynasty referred to the "three beasts"(which were bred for food), including pig, goat, and dog."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat
Posted by: Darrell || 07/29/2007 19:18 Comments || Top||

#18  Sounds like they are getting some Chinese consultants to help.
Posted by: Boss Craising2882 || 07/29/2007 23:13 Comments || Top||


Mugabe says he will print more money
President Robert Mugabe has promised to print more money to fund municipal projects, a government newspaper reported Saturday. The pledge came despite hyperinflation that has created severe shortages of cornmeal, meat, milk and other staples. Meanwhile, water shortages worsened due to pump breakdowns, and a senior government official said kidney patients were dying for lack of dialysis machines.

The offical Herald newspaper reported that Mugabe told a meeting of local councilors they should put more pressure on government ministers to improve services. "Where money for projects has not been found, we will print it," Mugabe was quoted as saying.

The printing of money is generally regarded as a recipe for inflation - which is officially at 4,500 percent in Zimbabwe, though private economists estimate it to be least twice as high. The government last month ordered sweeping price cuts of around 50 percent, accusing store owners and businesses of fueling the inflation. Zimbabwe is in the grips of its worst crisis since independence from Britain in 1980. Power, water, health and communications systems are collapsing, and there are acute shortages of staple foods and gasoline. Unemployment is around 80 percent, and political unrest is high.

Mugabe blames Western sanctions and rejects criticism that the meltdown is the result of mismanagement and the often-violent seizures of thousands of white-owned farms he ordered beginning in 2000.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We've been watching Rhodesia die in slow motion for six years now. My stomach just churns when I think how awful it must be to subsist there.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/29/2007 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Print more Money Toilet Paper

Fixed!
Posted by: 3dc || 07/29/2007 1:10 Comments || Top||

#3  FDR Mugabe says he will print more money
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2007 2:34 Comments || Top||

#4  And when you monetize currency that is already devalued, you get more inflation. Wow, fantastic job mug. You took a country that was the breadbasket of Africa and turned it into a worthless banana republic. All for your pipe dream called socialism.

YOU are the problem, mugabe.
YOU.
Posted by: newc || 07/29/2007 6:21 Comments || Top||

#5  What's next? Bob gonna print up more milk? Or meat? Or cornmeal?
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/29/2007 8:52 Comments || Top||

#6  There are far too many states in Africa, each a little fiefdom run by petty little men.

A population of 680 million and so many countries.

What has saved parts of rural India from descending into the abyss is a federal system. The various petty politicians get their knuckles rapped. They get removed from power. They get imprisoned.

One Indian Cabinet Minister, Lalu Yadav, formerly the Chief Minister of Bihar state suggested at a cabinet meeting that states should be allowed to print money. That he suggested would help them balance their budgets. The Indian PM, Manmohan Singh (Doctorate in Economics from Oxford) didn't even respond to this nonsense. He wrote a memo advising ministers that they need not attend cabinet meetings, they could send their senior civil servants instead.

Indian Chief Ministers can be dismissed by the Indian President and so called Presidential rule (administration from Delhi) imposed for a time.

Some Chief Ministers have been convicted and jailed by the Indian Federal court system.

This is all backed by 1.5 million strong Army and Federal Paramilitary Police that can impose law and order by the bayonet (and kukri) if necessary

Mugabe, fit to rule a village perhaps, can destroy an entire country because there is nothing to restrain him.
Posted by: John Frum || 07/29/2007 10:31 Comments || Top||

#7  All these "Presidents" who get to address the UN, get met at the airport with a guard of honor, who have entire treasuries to loot....
Posted by: John Frum || 07/29/2007 11:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Print more money?

Yeah, that'll fix everything.

Loon.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/29/2007 13:10 Comments || Top||

#9  What? There ain't enough to fill all the wheelbarrows these days?

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 07/29/2007 15:07 Comments || Top||

#10  The paper is now worth more than the denominations printed on it.
Posted by: twobyfour || 07/29/2007 23:19 Comments || Top||


Europe
French minister represents emerging Sarkozy coalition
Posted by: ryuge || 07/29/2007 09:24 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Liberals Going After Fox Advertisers
Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network. MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.

The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there. At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials. "It's a lot more effective for Sam's Diner to get calls from 10 people in his town than going to the consumer complaint department of some pharmaceutical company," Gilliam said.

Some of videos produced by Gilliam's company compile statements made by Fox anchors and guests that the activists consider misleading, such as those that question global warming.

Representatives for Fox News Channel, which is owned by News Corp., did not immediately return calls for comment. Home Depot has not had an unusual number of calls, said spokesman Jerry Shields, and the home improvement chain will not change its advertising strategy. "We're not in the business of censoring media," Shields said. "We need to reach our customer base through all mediums available."

Groups like the Sierra Club have targeted Home Depot because they believe it's inconsistent for the company to promote environmentally friendly products while advertising on a network that has questioned global warming.

The groups seem particularly angry at Fox's Bill O'Reilly, who has done critical reports on left-wing bloggers. On July 16, O'Reilly said the DailyKos.com Web site is "hate of the worst order," and sent a reporter to question JetBlue Airways Corp. CEO Dave Barger about the airline's sponsorship of a gathering run by DailyKos. He'll never ride on JetBlue again, O'Reilly said.

MoveOn.org is campaigning against Fox because it says the network characterizes itself as a fair news network when it consistently favors a conservative point of view, said Adam Green, the organization's spokesman. "We're not trying to silence anybody," Green said. "Rush Limbaugh has a right to be on the air—he admits his point of view. Fox doesn't."
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fox responds:

Okay. You got us. We're conservative. Can we now call NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR and PbS liberal?
Posted by: badanov || 07/29/2007 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  We could counter pressure advertisers on Move On ...
Or just make sure their firms lose money or fail.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/29/2007 1:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Sierra Club meet Home Depot's Bernie Marcus and come see the gift that he has bestowed upon Atlanta for their patronage of The Home Depot over the years. Due to Bernie's dream, the Georgia Aquarium opened dept-free. The aquarium, a dynamic, ship-shaped building, features over 55,000 aquatic animals from over 500 different species. These diverse creatures of the sea will swim through five million gallons of water. The Georgia Aquarium is divided into five main viewing areas, called galleries... (more on their numerous links).

Bernie Marcus was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth, not that it should matter, considering that he's one of America's top philanthropists. But Marcus is the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia, and lived on an upper floor of a tenement building in Newark, New Jersey. Through hard work and diligence, and the dedication of his parents to provide opportunity for their children, Marcus succeeded in becoming a pharmacist, and then a successful retail businessman.

Thank you Mr. Marcus and Home Depot.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2007 2:47 Comments || Top||

#4  This is the first stage of the American Left's grand plan to criminalize mainstream conservatism.

Sound crazy? Well, exactly what type of people do you think we are dealing with?

Many universities have already become liberal indoctrination centers where thought or speech which deviates from the party line is verboten. Liberals have consistently failed in their attempts to compete in the free market of ideas (see talk radio) so they have resorted to an approach based on financial intimidation. This must be taken seriously and countered vigorously.
Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 || 07/29/2007 7:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Groups like the Sierra Club have targeted Home Depot because they believe it's inconsistent for the company to promote environmentally friendly products while advertising on a network that has questioned global warming.

That does it. I'm not buying any more environmentally friendly products at Home Depot. Won't be buying any less, either.
Posted by: Robt. KKK Byrd || 07/29/2007 8:34 Comments || Top||

#6  I suppose you could probably retaliate against say, like, MSNBC, but I don't think they have any sponsors...
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/29/2007 8:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Look in the name.

What does the MS stand for?
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 07/29/2007 13:34 Comments || Top||

#8  This is the first stage of the American Left's grand plan to criminalize mainstream conservatism.

I don't think it is the first stage, actually.
The attempt to criminalize policy has been going on for more than 3 decades.
Posted by: eLarson || 07/29/2007 19:36 Comments || Top||

#9  This is quite possibly the most idiotic plan I've ever heard the libs come up with, and that's saying a lot.

Talk about a waste of time, it'll never work. Morons.
Posted by: eltoroverde || 07/29/2007 23:53 Comments || Top||


Clinton: Create public service academy
Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants.
Possibly the worst idea I've ever heard, barring calls to convert to Islam, to become a homosexual, or to become a Democrat.
"I'm going to be asking a new generation to serve," she said. "I think just like our military academies, we need to give a totally all-paid education to young men and women who will serve their country in a public service position."
    I don't think so.

  • First, she's equating a civilian government position with military service, which it isn't, unless they've introduced artillery barrages and land mines into their turf wars down at the Department of Water and Sewage. Most of us assume different motivations between the guy who asks his congress critter to help him get into the Marines and the guy who asks the same politician to get him a job as assistant dog catcher.

  • Second, she's demanding the public pay for the production of bureaucrats, which is like asking the dog to buy the vet's scissors.

  • Third, can you think of a more blatant, easily abused source of patronage? It's free, it's worth thousands, it'll set you up for life, and you gotta have a congressman sponsor you.

  • And fourth, can you imagine a better method of politically indoctrinating hordes of impressionable young chasers after personal power? I may spend the rest of the evening shuddering.
An older woman carrying a sign that said "She doesn't care, all she wants is the power" yelled at Clinton while the New York senator was speaking in a ballroom on the University of South Carolina campus. Students attending the College Democrats of America convention shouted down the woman down and pushed her from the room.
They're our local equivalent of Lal Masjid.
"One of the things I love about politics, you never know what the day will bring," Clinton said.
"But it's surprising how often the day brings brownshirts beating up old ladies and giving them the bum's rush. It's just so inspiring!"
Several people at the convention said they were inspired by Clinton's speech and her experience in public service after law school. Clinton was an intern with the Children's Defense Fund, which advocates for minority, poor and disabled children. "I loved her personal stories. ... It wasn't her generic speech," said Katelyn Porter, president of the College Democrats chapter at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island.
"She was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, did you know that?"
Porter, who is from Boston and works for a nonprofit organization that helps low-income families, said she has not decided which Democratic candidate she will support. "But Hillary is definitely at the top of the list," she said.
Wouldn't that mean she's decided?
Clinton spoke about her conversion during college from a born and raised Republican to a Democrat. "I woke up in my dorm one day and I thought, 'Well, I'm not sure I am a Republican,'" she said to enthusiastic cheers. "I was at the time, embarrassingly enough, the president of the Wellesley College young Republicans." Later, in Beaufort, she told supporters she was running for president "because I think we can set big goals again. There is still so much to be done."
"So many people to be told what to do..."
She mentioned universal health care, ending dependence on foreign oil, expanding early childhood education and safely withdrawing troops from Iraq.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A National Camp Academy? Au yes, the "Beautiful Beast," Irma Grese lives!
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2007 4:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Yah, ideological cloning is what Lady Butcher of Serbs wants.
Posted by: McZoid || 07/29/2007 6:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told college Democrats on Saturday she would create a national academy to train public servants.

But hey, don't call her a liberal...
Posted by: Raj || 07/29/2007 8:30 Comments || Top||

#4  "Public Service Academy 4: Hacks Do The Perp Walk".
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/29/2007 9:01 Comments || Top||

#5  There's a shortage of civil servants? Who'd thunk?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/29/2007 9:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/29/2007 10:23 Comments || Top||

#7  VOW!!! JUST LIKE AN US VERSION OF THE FRENCH ENA!!! A SURE RECIPE FOR SUCCESS!!! YYEEARGH!!! (channeling howard dean)

Do it, by Gum!

But, make sure that your own Enarchs eventually come to monopolize both the corporate world's higher reaches (with an inc*es*tuous relationship with their administrations of origin, to which they can go back as they please), AND the highest levels of the political body, along with their similarly-minded Über-technocrats brothers of a couple other "grandes écoles"... and don't forget to have the run-of-the-mill Enarchs form a governement inside a governement which never changes, unlike the elected one which comes and goes, and is in last analysis the prime mover and decider of that particular executive branch supposedly headed by a minister (but, hey, it's likely he's an Enarch anyway, or at the very least, advised and surrounded by his own Enarchs).

Do it, and soon enough, you'll look just like the Vth, the governement of civil servants for civil servants, by civil servants. Something to really look for, innit?
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 07/29/2007 11:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Also, you might want to copy the french status of civil servants, established under COMMUNIST patronage during the provisional, un-enelected governement right after liberation : hired for life, can't be fired, can't be penalized, with pay increasing accordingly to his age and not correlated with productivity in any way.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 07/29/2007 11:21 Comments || Top||

#9  "hired for life, can't be fired, can't be penalized, with pay increasing accordingly to his age and not correlated with productivity in any way"

Ummm, isn't that about what we've got now, #8 anon? :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/29/2007 13:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Worked so well for the French, y'know.
Posted by: Phomoter Mussolini2045 || 07/29/2007 14:23 Comments || Top||

#11  Third, can you think of a more blatant, easily abused source of patronage? It's free, it's worth thousands, it'll set you up for life, and you gotta have a congressman sponsor you.

Knowing the Clintons, that's probably the whole point.
Posted by: Abu Uluque6305 || 07/29/2007 16:52 Comments || Top||

#12  Okay, I thought the story about liberals boycotting advertisers on FNC was the dumbest liberal idea I've ever heard but her Thighness gets the blue ribbon with this gem.
Posted by: eltoroverde || 07/29/2007 23:58 Comments || Top||


Obama staffer arrested on Ill. warrant
An intern working for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign was arrested Friday at the Des Moines airport after authorities flagged an outstanding arrest warrant for aggravated battery in Illinois. Derrick Lamon Johnson, 20, of Glen Carbon, Ill., was also charged with fleeing from justice.

Tommy Vietor, Iowa press secretary for the Obama campaign, said Johnson had been working for the campaign for about a month as an unpaid intern. Vietor said Secret Service agents learned of the arrest warrant during a criminal background check after Johnson was scheduled to drive in a campaign motorcade. Johnson was booked into the Polk County Jail.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  An intern working for Sen. Barack Obama...was arrested... [on] an outstanding arrest warrant...

Outstanding!
Posted by: twobyfour || 07/29/2007 1:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Vietor said Secret Service agents learned of the arrest warrant during a criminal background check

Profiling obviously.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2007 12:53 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
No nuclear deal with other countries: U.S.
WASHINGTON: Stating that India was a “unique” case, the Bush administration has ruled out a similar civilian nuclear deal with any other country including ally Pakistan, and stressed that the “very high bar” of the Nuclear Suppliers Group on proliferation would prevent other nations from getting the same “treatment” as New Delhi.

“This is complicated enough, I can assure you, that the United States is not going to suggest a similar deal with any other country in the world. We’ve always felt of India as an exception,” Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns said during a briefing on the Indian civilian nuclear initiative here on Friday.

“We have made the argument that India has not proliferated its nuclear technology; that India, in effect, outside the system, has played by the rules and that the system would be strengthened by bringing it in. But we’re not anticipating, in any way, shape or form, a similar deal for any other country,” he said.

Mr. Burns said once India completed a safeguards agreement with IAEA chief Mohamed El Baradei, “then the action — September, October, I hope, November — will turn to the NSG.”

He said there was a “very high bar” in the NSG as “every single one of the 45 countries has to agree” for a consensus.
Posted by: John Frum || 07/29/2007 08:39 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FOREIGN Minister Alexander Downer will ask cabinet to approve the export of Australian uranium to India in a submission to be considered by the Government within weeks.

Sources have told The Australian that cabinet's National Security Committee will shortly consider a submission from Mr Downer that would allow Australia to sell uranium to India despite the nation not being a signatory to the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Posted by: John Frum || 07/29/2007 11:17 Comments || Top||

#2  "Suggest [ing]" does NOT mean "Never will".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/29/2007 19:25 Comments || Top||


Constitution may be amended for BB
The government will make amendments to the Constitution and remove the hitch for Benazir Bhutto to become prime minister for a third time, Federal Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Sher Afgan Khan Niazi said on Saturday.

He told Geo News via telephone that the Friday talks between President General Pervez Musharraf and Pakistan People’s Party chairwoman Benazir Bhutto were successful. Both leaders openly expressed their reservations before each other, he added.

He said Musharraf and Bhutto also discussed the appointment of a new army chief, as Musharraf might remove his uniform in his next presidential term. Pakistan Muslim League leader Hamid Nasir Chattha might become the next caretaker prime minister, he said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is interesting. That is, Perv is also facing term limits, but probably doesn't have enough juice to change the constitution for himself.

However, if the BB faction joined with his to change the constitution, on the *assumption* that BB was going to get a third term, but then she suddenly wasn't able to have a third term by being dead, Perv could get a third term.

And most likely has enough juice to get one, if the constitution permitted.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/29/2007 10:13 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
Frank talk from Muslim sex therapist
Cairo-based Heba Kotb tackles sensitive issues within the framework of Islam.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/29/2007 09:54 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I misread the title as "Frank talks with Muslim sex therapist."
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/29/2007 13:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Abdullah added: "Whenever you feel you need [to have sex] with your wife or whenever your wife feels the same according to God's rule, you can exercise this right and you will be rewarded for that … as long as you do it between sunset and dawn prayers."

Nooners are not Halal? Then the lazy bastards really are just sleeping in!
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2007 13:52 Comments || Top||

#3  "Neither the Koran nor the Sunna, however, address masturbashun."

Well there's a first. Mo not much on spankin the monkey, was he?
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/29/2007 13:55 Comments || Top||

#4  #1 I misread the title as "Frank talks with Muslim sex therapist."
Posted by: Super Hose


yeah, SH, it was like having phone sex with a sack of potatoes....not that I've done that....much
Posted by: Frank G || 07/29/2007 13:59 Comments || Top||

#5  The fact that Heba Kotb also raises goats tells me more than I wanted to know......
Posted by: Clem Cluper9071 || 07/29/2007 15:14 Comments || Top||



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