ATLANTA A suburban county that sparked a public outcry when its libraries temporarily eliminated funding for Spanish-language fiction is now being asked to ban Harry Potter books from its schools. Laura Mallory, a mother of four, told a hearing officer for the Gwinnett County Board of Education on Tuesday that the popular fiction series are an "evil" attempt to indoctrinate children in the Wicca religion.
Board of Education attorney Victoria Sweeny said that if schools were to remove all books containing reference to witches, they would have to ban "Macbeth" and "Cinderella." "There's a mountain of evidence for keeping Harry Potter," she said, adding that the books don't support any particular religion but present instead universal themes of friendship and overcoming adversity.
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Ban the Chronicles of Narnia while you are at it. It has a witch. And magic.
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Lord knows we have to ban Harry Potter. After all it has inspired kids to actually open a book and read. God knows what will happen if they start to do that.
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...My ex - a rabidly fanatic christian - went off on the Harry Potter books once, claiming the same weird 'conspiracy' thingie. My attitude then was the same as it is now - ANYTHING that gets kids away from their PCs and video games is a good thing.
I just thought though that maybe the right graphic for this one is the 'Aw, not this S*it again!' guy...:)
Mike
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I must be a bad Christian because I love all the Harry Potter books and my son will have the whole collection when he gets old enough to read. :)
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For phuechs sake, she's a mother of FOUR and has a right to petition the Board over anything she damn well pleases. I'll give her a hand for standing for what she believes in. It's oftentimes not popular but it's a bit of a southern tradition. She's got grit! Attacking Harry Potter (not reading), Wicca-wingnuts, Macbeth and Cindyrella are a damn site less harmful that the targets of many of these moonbats of late. What say you?
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Laura is an idiot, but she has the right to be an idiot, and to be a public idiot ...
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Well said Dr. Steve. Man or woman, one has to be a bit jittery to raise four kids these days. Soccer mom duty in Gwinnett County is no picnic either.
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Nothing wrong with the odd book burning banning. Somewhere in the Bible it allows one to snatch out an eye and use it as a football. It's all there, the pages are thin, but easily searched.
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Seems a little dumb to me, but she has the right to be heard. The board of ed probably wet themselves trying not to burst out in laughter.
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Yep, she has a right to her opinions no matter how dumb. Making an ass of oneself publicly has been a time honored tradition in these here great 50 states for a long time and I'm all for tradition. I never read any of the "Potter" stuff though I've seen the movies which I've enjoyed. I have read most of the C.S. Lewis stuff (who himself was a committed christian) and it speaks of magic, good vs. evil, etc. - a lot like the Potter themes.
Why she's at it, she should try to ban all the Star Wars movies because her kids might want to pursue becoming Dark Lords of the Sith or some shit. Although, I would definitely support her in banning Star Wars I: the phantom menace, because that movie did suck.
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Forgive me for being a tax payer in Gwinnett County. This woman is a loon, she and the crazies protesting at funerals, are the reason that people like Rosie (pig) O'donnell feel comfortable equating Christian Fanatics to Muslim Fanatics. I recognize that our fanatics (Christian) are usually just annoying, but this is an example of blind religious fervor gone wild. I got to listen to an interview with her, and she made me wonder if we went to the same church !?! Everytime I think prayer in school is a good idea, one of these folks opens their mouth.
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Actually, living in Gwinnett County myself, I'm like Besoeker and find her grit inspiring. And, as a Christian, I may think the books are evil, but I haven't read them myself, so I'll withhold judgement. But, I suspect the timing in this, because she's already been before the Board earlier this year, and local news was reporting it as her going before the State Board of Ed. Could it be that the State Board "o.k.'d" a hearing at this time to slander the conservative Christians? Sorry, but I just question almost everything that's posted in the MSM within a month of the elections.
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Are Bibles allowed in said schools? If not, she has a point.
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she has no point - the witchcraft angle of Harry Potter provides a setting for real human qualities, like good and evil and teenage insecurities....same as Star Wars was a western set in space to demonstrate the same qualities westerns showed. Only a thinly-focussed mind would not get that enough to start a public brou-haha. She deserves ridicule and public estrangement. Future spot for her in Kansas
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Or do you want to argue that High Noon promotes capitulation to gangs?
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20 year old millionaire energy healer
Burnaby, B.C. -- Just a regular 20-year-old, that's how Adam describes himself. But this college student from Burnaby, B.C., who still lives at home with his parents, has become an international phenomenon in the world of alternative healers. "Well I was always seeing auras as a little kid, says Adam. It's just this light around living organisms."
And the year at the state hospital didn't help it any ...
Adam has always had a heightened intuition, but he didn't realize his power until he was 15, when he cured his mother of excruciating headaches.
Adam calls himself an energy healer. Thousands across North America are flocking to his sold out workshops. In this bizarre transformation Adam claims he can influence peoples brain waves, ultimately affecting their health. "Basically it's just images of these people Im working with, he says. Intuitively I know how to change the image a certain way and I can see it influencing that person's health."
Adam claims he doesn't have to physically put his hands on someone to affect their health. In fact there are several people who claim hes been able to heal them long distance. Adam doesn't need to see them or even talk to them. All he needs is a colour photograph.
Ontario resident Tina Norton says she's proof long distance healing works. Her pancreatic cancer is in remission. Canadian Rock and Roll legend Ronnie Hawkins also kicked pancreatic cancer - crediting his remission to Adam.
Then there's the story of the Canadian soldier in Afghanistan, who had his head split open with an axe after being ambushed by a teenaged militant. Trevor Green's wife believes her husband is alive because of Adam.
The trauma team had nuttin' to do with it, nuttin' at all ...
But does Adam truly have healing powers? Skeptics argue that the millions of dollars in workshops, books and DVD sales make up the real motivation behind the energy healing phenomenon. "They don't really cure anybody. It can make people feel better, but they are not necessarily getting better, says SFU professor Barry Beyerstein. Thats why these things need to be tested under properly controlled conditions." Mebbe it's the Molson's, eh?
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Hey, I'm into the idea of auras, not that I've seen one, but I was born in CA so it seems ..possible.. to me. But... um... I'm having a bit of a problem with this: All he needs is a colour photograph.
Sooooooo. you can see it in the photograph and I can not? pshaw..yeah right. Bringing me down man, brining me down.
Long Beach, CA (AP) A 5-year-old boy spent Monday afternoon at a stranger's house after he was picked up from school by a baby sitter who, on her first day on the job, thought he was the boy she was hired to look after, police said.
Angel Guerrero was taken by mistake when the woman arrived at his elementary school and took him without knowing what the child she was to care for looked like, said Sgt. David Cannan.
The mix-up caused alarm when Angel's grandmother came to the school and was told someone had already picked him up. Police issued a missing child alert, and his name and picture were broadcast live on several TV stations.
Meanwhile, the baby sitter had no idea she picked up the wrong child until her employers returned home and did not recognize Angel.
"The baby sitter said 'This is your son,' and the parents said, 'No, this is not our son,'" Cannan said. When the parents saw Angel's picture plastered on their TV screen, they immediately called police.
School officials didn't notice the mix-up, Cannan said, because Angel willingly left with the woman. Meanwhile, the boy she was supposed to pick up waited for several hours until school staffers called an uncle to pick him up.
"There's a lesson here," Cannan said. "What an opportunity to tell parents to talk to their kids, and communicate with their caregivers. This young child was full of trust, and he sees an older, caring adult and just walked off with that person." Oh, I think there are at least a couple more "lessons" here...
Austrian Landlord Finds Corpse After Rent Notices Went Unanswered
A landlord who unlocked an apartment after his letters announcing a rent increase went unanswered found the body of an elderly tenant Tuesday, and police believe the man may have died three or four years ago, an Austrian newspaper reported.
The remains of the 93-year-old man, a former university professor whose name was not released, were found in a bed after the housing management company obtained the keys to his flat and made a visit after he failed to respond to letters requesting more rent, authorities were quoted as saying by the Kurier newspaper.
Investigators believe the man may have died as long as four years ago, police Lt. Col. Georg Rabensteiner was quoted as saying.
He said police found only old Austrian schilling banknotes in the apartment, the report said. Austria, like many European Union nations, switched to the euro common currency on Jan. 1, 2002.
Neighbors described the man as a recluse, the report said, citing police.
Rabensteiner said no one noticed earlier that he had died because automatic rent payments had gone out regularly from his bank account, which was constantly replenished with automatic deposits from his pension fund, the report said.
Fellow residents of the apartment complex apparently did not find it unusual that junk mail was piling up outside the dead man's door, he added. 3 or 4 years between rent increases? Wow.
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Expect more of this as elderly are convinced to use direct payment into their financial accounts and automatic bill payments. That leaves only bulk junk mail which after it piles up after a couple days, the Post Office just stops delivering.
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A metaphore for aging, childless, sterile Europe? Dead, alone in his bed, with no relatives to care about his disappearance. By the way, this is most probably how I'll end, so please remind me not to keep any meat-eating pet at the time.
Marie Provost did not look her best
The day the cops bust into her lonely nest
in the cheap hotel up on Hollywood west
July 29
She'd been lyin' there for two or three weeks
The neighbors said they never heard a squeak
While hungry eyes that could not speak
said he's a little dog, he's just gotta eat . . .
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Anon5089 -
Some years ago some outfit did a study on 'survival predation' in pets - i.e.;, how long would it take after you died for Fluffy or Rover to get hungry enough to start gnawing on you. After studying a bunch of cases where this had happened, they deduced that a dog will go up to seven days before they just can't hold out any longer.
The average cat will give you 24 hours.
That would explain why my cat would always give me such a disappointed look upon my awakening every morning....
Mike
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Mike, that explains why our cats keep trying to trip me down the stairs.
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He was always a bit cold.
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The average cat will give you 24 hours
My kitty Lizzie Borden is my best buddy, she'd give me 36 to 48 hours easily.
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If any Elder-Care humor can be gleaned from such an increasingly sad situation...I'd like to suggest watching the charming, Irish Oscar-nominated flick, "Waking Ned Devine". Not pretty; just pretty funny... (at)
Dear Heavenly Father, In Jesus' name, please Bless and Protect us All, Amen
Where else but San Francisco could a flap about the heft of the nude dancers at a peep show wind up as a union grievance? That's just what's happened over at North Beach's Lusty Lady, the town's only employee-owned, employee-run, fully unionized flesh arcade.
Someone booked an entire night of "BBW" entertainment -- big, beautiful women -- and the clientele reacted by walking out...
Like a lot of San Francisco businesses, the Lusty Lady prides itself on diversity, offering up dancers in a variety of sizes, shapes, ethnicities, attitudes and tattoos. But like a lot of North Beach clubs, business at the Lusty -- while steady -- isn't what it was a few years back during the dot-com years, so every customer and dollar counts. That's why it was such a big deal in July, when someone booked an entire night of "BBW" entertainment -- big, beautiful women -- and the clientele reacted by walking out.
The counterman wrote up the customers' objections -- "I came for fantasies, not nightmares" being one of the more printable ones -- and sent them off in what he thought was a confidential e-mail to the club's board of directors.
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SF New Beauty Credo
Beauty can now be pressed from the eye of the beholder.
1) everyone must diversify their fantasies.
2) fantasies not a free thingy anymore.
3) everyone must posses a licence to fantasize.
4) random testing for proper lust inclusiveness.
5) fees licences and tests must be submitted 10 days before each actual fantasy.
this is in your best interest btw it will save the planet from global warming.
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While deployed in the early 90's we used to get news through message traffic because there was no internet. I remember reading a message that was summary of news acticals that included one story about a public official that tried to write up a California strip club for a violation of the Disabilities Act because the stage shower used in "shower dancing" couldn't accomodate a quadrapalegic stripper. I saved the UNCLAS message and will cherish it always. I think I laughed for about a week.
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While deployed in the early 90's we used to get news through message traffic because there was no internet. I remember reading a message that was summary of news acticals that included one story about a public official that tried to write up a California strip club for a violation of the Disabilities Act because the stage shower used in "shower dancing" couldn't accomodate a quadrapalegic stripper. I saved the UNCLAS message and will cherish it always. I think I laughed for about a week.
LOL! priceless!
Super Hose I'll be lookin forward to your reports on the Baghdad by the bay and area!!
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.com, I am not a frequenter of those type of establishments but it seems like rather than appeal, it might be more useful to buy a yard of transparant material.
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They fired the guy working the counter -- either collecting admission or working the bar -- for recording customer complaints?
How freaking stupid is that?
Oh, wait, there's the answer: "employee-owned, employee-run, fully unionized". Geez.
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Long Guardian piece about a proposed Nicaraguan canal.
Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in Latin America, plans to construct a $20bn rival to the Panama canal to enable the largest tankers and container ships in the world to pass between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
The mega-engineering project is expected to take more than 10 years to build but could redraw the map of world trade by opening the east coast of North America, Europe and Brazil to large-scale sea traffic from burgeoning Pacific rim countries including China and South Korea. The new route would cut 500 miles - or at least a day - off the route between California and New York, and could considerably shorten and cheapen the journey from China to Europe for large ships.
Yesterday's formal announcement of what is known as the Grand Inter-Oceanic Nicaragua Canal was greeted with trepidation by nearby Panama, which is also planning to widen its canal. It fears that its main source of income will be seriously affected if Nicaragua builds a rival. If built, the Nicaraguan canal would allow 250,000-tonne tankers and container ships to pass through the isthmus that divides the two oceans, compared with the Panama canal's 79,000-tonne boats. Even if an expected $5bn (£2.6bn) upgrade of the Panama canal goes ahead, it is expected to only accommodate 120,000-tonne boats.
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Do what you like. The US doesn't have a merchant marine anymore. Talk to Liberia and Nassau. Perhaps they will be willing to foot the bill.
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Iff histoire' is any measure, odds are iff the USA doesn't start it, the USA will end up completing the project for them.
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iirc, the Nicaraguan was the first choice for the Americans to build a trans-ocean canal. However, investors in defunct Panama ventures engaged in [horrors] lobbying to get the Yanks to buy their holdings out. To include a nifty propaganda piece of a bogus Nic postcard showing an erupting volcano.
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As to the unloading issue of containers the idea of roll-on roll-off ships with rail containers utilizing railcars seems to make sense. But then we run into the issue of rail gauge widths
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If they build the canal and a free-wheeling hong-kong style near zero taxation capitalist container port on each end I think they'd find the Panama Canal would be ignored pretty damn quick.
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$20 billion is a small fraction of the cost to build a canal big enough for the largest containerships and oil tankers. A Nicaraguan canal would be over 100 miles and would have to have the ability to raise and lower supertankers.
Note the channel tunnel cost $21 billion for a 31 mile hole for a train (12 years ago).
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If I remember correctly Nicaragua has some nice lakes that shorten the distance but it also has a chain of volcanos which makes things very complicated.
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Re #5 - we already have a huge number of containers offloaded on the west coast and railed to the center of the US. We even have some shipped to Houston and loaded back on a ship for points east.
Still - they built the Chunnel.....
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150 billion maybe. But a sealevel canal allowing passing supertankers to pass in Lake Manugaga would be a gold mine.
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There are a couple of major problems with a Nicaragua canal. First, the lake is 105 feet above sea level, but only 84 feet at the deepest point. It's a long run up the San Juan river from the Caribbean to the lake, but only about 10 miles from the Pacific. Dropping 105 feet in 10 miles would require some hefty locks. There are some substantial volcanos along the western edge of the lake, and two on one of the many islands within the lake. While the San Juan is considered "navigable", I don't think it's capable of supporting supertankers or US aircraft carriers. A second canal in Panama, say from the San Blas Gulf west-southwest to the Pacific may make more sense, since it could continue to use water stored in Gatun Lake.
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..If you ever get the cbance, read Ernest K. Gann's classic Band of Brothers, about a US pilot accused of negligence in a fatal crash on Taiwan. The rest of the world just tends to assume guilty until proven innocent, so this unfortunately isn't a surprise.
Mike
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The human cost of China's biggest hydroelectric project, the Three Gorges Dam, has risen beyond the government's forecasts, Xinhua news agency revealed this week. An extra 300,000 people will have to be relocated, bringing the total to 1.4 million.
"Considering the ecological capacity of the reservoir areas, the need for the migrants to prosper and the pursuit of harmonious development, the government considers it suitable to increase the number of people being resettled," said Pu Haiqing, head of the dam's construction committee.
Completion of the dam is due in May.
Collapse should come in the following three years due to structural failure, or 12 hours after the Chinese attack Taiwan.
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I think about all the history China has lost because of this and it makes me sad. On the other hand I have to wonder when the dam breaks how much of the "Artifacts" that became unburied will come rushing down the river. If we're lucky some hairpins might impale a Chinese Colonel or two.
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Given China's ecological record, the river could also to go up in smoke like the river that caught fire in Ohio some decades ago (Cuyahoga? or Maumee?). Or maybe suffer a cyanide spill.
Anybody taking bets on how much the commisars got in graft money for ignoring crummy materials?
Police in Poland have launched a nationwide hunt for a man who farted loudly when asked what he thought of the president.
Hubert Hoffman, 45, was charged with "contempt for the office of the head of state" for his actions after he was stopped by police in a routine check at a Warsaw railway station.
He complained that under President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw, the country was returning to a Communist style dictatorship.
When told to show more respect for the country's rulers, he farted loudly and was promptly arrested.
Hoffmann was arrested and released on bail but failed to turn up at a Warsaw court early this week to be tried, and the judge in the case rejected an appeal by defence lawyers to throw the charges out.
A court spokesman said: "Such a case of disrespect is taken very seriously."
Instead the court ordered the police to start a nationwide hunt for the man, and interpol have been alerted. "Calling all cars! Calling all cars! We've got a six-sixty six happening at this time. Be on the lookout for a 45 year old male who jumped bail on a presidental disrespect farting case. Consider the suspect armed with WMD and dangerous. That is all."
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"Attention, attention, citizens; a dangerous madman is on the loose. Whatever you do, don't come near him with a naked flame."
On a breezy late September evening, in an open-air hangar at a private residence here, the Republican politician says he's getting accustomed to "contrasting" himself with the Democrat he's up against in the U.S. Senate seat. Talking to 100 or so supporters who paid $50 per couple for barbecue sandwiches and to hear him speak, Bob Corker tells them, "I'm getting used to it and I kind of enjoy it a little bit, to be honest."
He promises to be nice. As the former mayor of Chattanooga segues into the part of his stump speech where he points out differences between himself and U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., he talks about his early career as a builder. And for several at the fundraiser in this Wilson County suburb of Nashville, Robert Phillip Corker Jr.'s life story as a small-time construction worker who amassed a real estate empire is why they plan to support him.
"He's a businessman," said John Baugh, 43, a businessman and farmer in Lebanon. "He has been under pressure making a payroll. That's hard to do."
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I have been watching this race very closely. Harold Ford is much to liberal for me. He also gets an F from the NRA. I'm going to have to vote for Corker.
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Same here. Corker is less liberal than Junior, so is the lesser of two evils in my mind. I much preferred, and voted for, a true conservative Ed Bryant.
If Corker flops back to his election time flips, I'll have to head down to Voodoo Village and get Mama Mambo to put a hoodoo on him so his little weenie shrivles up and falls off.
Also, if he could find a voice coach that could teach him how to not talk through his nose, that would be a plus.
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A real clown is running for mayor of Alameda, and even his sister won't vote for him. Kenneth Kahn, 41, a professional joker known as ``Kenny the Clown,'' admits he's running a long-shot campaign for City Hall's top spot. Kahn has not previously run for an elected position and has never sat on a public board.
``People ask me, 'Do we really want to elect a clown for mayor of the city?''' he said. ``I say, 'That's an excellent question.''' Kahn's mother, Barbara, said her son doesn't have a chance, and Sylvia Kahn, a teacher, said her brother's candidacy is a ``mockery of our system.''
``I don't think it makes any sense, because, to me, running for mayor is not where you start as far as community involvement goes,'' she said.
In November, the funnyman who graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, faces incumbent Beverly Johnson and City Councilman Doug deHaan.
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Ron Dellums and Jerry Brown make a mockery of our system. Kenny the Clown is comparitavely well qualified anywhere in the Bay area as far as the hose is concerned.
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Jerry Brown is a 60s moon beam-er who now pretends he's "tough on issues". LOL!
Ron Dellums OTOH is a flat out treasonous asshat parasite stealing our oxygen.
A man described by police as a Turkish-born Muslim was charged yesterday with destroying a Queens memorial to a fallen 9/11 cop while screaming, "This is political!" The Post has learned.
Adnan Emre, 26, tore down a portion of Officer Paul Talty's tribute attached to a light post at 50th Avenue and Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City, police sources said. It consisted of 5-inch-by-7-inch picture of the late officer, a cross, a plaque and crossed American and Irish flags. The plaque is inscribed, "Rest in Peace, Paul. We miss you. God Bless."
Emre ripped down the cross at about 7:52 a.m., cops said, and announced his deed by screaming, "This is political!"
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If he is a native of Turkey and not yet a citizen ....
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If the cops saw this, why wasn't he taken to the station where a 2 x 4 could be inserted up his ass ? Mooselimbs ought to be severely slapped down here, before they think they can pull a van Gogh on our streets.
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"There are so many deranged people," said the officer's mom, Barbara Talty. "This doesn't surprise me, but it's sad."
Talty's sister, Patricia Dougan, said the suspect must be unstable. "I just have to think whoever would do this isn't right in the mind," Dougan said.
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Throw him into the general inmate population where he can get his ass kicked up and down the corridor while the inmates (and occasional Sadistic guard) shout "This is political."
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I'll get out the old chemistry set and give you guys a hand. Gotta be careful of the secondaries from a mosque, though - isn't that where all good muzzies store their AK-47s and RPGs?
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I keep getting the mental picture of moskkks as big Jiffy Pops.
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan has recalled its ambassador to Qatar to protest the Gulf country's vote against a Jordanian prince to head the United Nations, the chief government spokesman said Tuesday. The ambassador, Omar al-Amad, has been recalled for consultations "on Qatar's departure from Arab consensus" to nominate Prince Zeid al-Hussein to be U.N. secretary general, spokesman Nasser Judeh said on state television's main evening news bulletin.
Earlier two government officials had told The Associated Press that the ambassador had been recalled for consultations, but they declined to confirm that the move was linked to the Qatari vote.
On Monday, Judeh told reporters that Qatar "broke ranks" with the Arabs when it voted for a South Korean candidate instead of Prince Zeid. Zeid is among five candidates to succeed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan when he steps down at the end of the year. Zeid is the only Muslim candidate.
South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon cemented his position as the near-certain successor to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday, the only candidate to escape a veto in an informal Security Council ballot.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
ATLANTA A suburban county that sparked a public outcry when its libraries temporarily eliminated funding for Spanish-language fiction is now being asked to ban Harry Potter books from its schools. Laura Mallory, a mother of four, told a hearing officer for the Gwinnett County Board of Education on Tuesday that the popular fiction series are an "evil" attempt to indoctrinate children in the Wicca religion.
20 year old millionaire energy healer
Where else but San Francisco could a flap about the heft of the nude dancers at a peep show wind up as a union grievance? That's just what's happened over at North Beach's Lusty Lady, the town's only employee-owned, employee-run, fully unionized flesh arcade. 
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan has recalled its ambassador to Qatar to protest the Gulf country's vote against a Jordanian prince to head the United Nations, the chief government spokesman said Tuesday. The ambassador, 
