A University of Rochester student has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the school claiming she was improperly barred from having a psychological service dog on campus to help her deal with severe depression.
They wouldn't let me bring my thinking head dog, either. Damn them.
Deborah Stamm, a part-time undergraduate student in her sophomore year, has major depressive disorder and insulin-dependent diabetes, according to the 11-page suit.
Stamm, who has been enrolled at UR since the fall of 2006, began suffering from severe depression in January. Her depression was so severe, according to the court papers, that by March she stopped going to classes and was often unable to get out of bed. "And when she was able to get out of bed she was unable to go to class and absorb what was being taught," according to the suit.
Stamm purchased the 2-year-old, 50-pound Labrador retriever named Obsidian from a pound in New Jersey and paid about $1,300 to board and train him, said Stamm's lawyer, Laurie M. Lambrix. The dog is trained to kiss and nuzzle Stamm if she shows signs of emotional distress and to bring her objects on command, Lambrix wrote in court papers.
Lambrix said Stamm gave UR officials letters from doctors and dog trainers in support of her request to live with Obsidian on campus. UR officials notified her by e-mail in August that her request was denied "because the university deemed the documentation ... insufficient to establish either that she had a disability or that the dog would be a reasonable accommodation for her if she were disabled," according to the suit.
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First no guns, now no dawgs. Next no beer, then yawll will howl.
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She should go to Cornell: dogs have free run on campus, barring health dept. regs (i.e.food service). Some rich alum left them a wad on that condition. Dogs in class are the norm.
Two years after the devastating earthquake it suffered, Azad Kashmir is on the road to recovery, although many residents are still without permanent homes, but plentiful temporary shelters make sure that everyone will have a roof.
According to a report in the Washington Times on Monday, Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan believes his people owe a large debt of thanks to the international community. He said plans to reconstruct thousands of permanent homes, along with schools, hospitals and roads, were well under way. People realised this would not have been possible without international help, he said. He spoke of his vivid memories of American Chinook helicopters ferrying emergency food and supplies to otherwise inaccessible areas immediately after the quake. The Chinooks, especially in remote areas, became known as angels of mercy, machines that people had never seen before. Definitely, it has helped change perceptions of the Kashmiri people toward the outside world, the prime minister said.
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President General Pervez Musharraf said on Monday that the government had converted the challenge posed by the earthquake in 2005 into an opportunity by rebuilding the lives of earthquake-affected people along modern lines in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the NWFP.
Musharraf said the United Nations and other international organisations had termed Pakistans efforts for the reconstruction of quake-devastated areas better than efforts carried out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the US.
Talking to reporters after inaugurating Jalalabad Park in Muzaffarabad, the president said better houses, state-of-the-art infrastructure, including road networks, healthcare facilities and educational institutions, were being built in the quake-affected areas.
President General Pervez Musharraf said the United Nations and other international organisations had termed Pakistans efforts for the reconstruction of quake-devastated areas better than efforts carried out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the US and the Tsunami disaster that hit South and Southeast Asia.
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President General Pervez Musharraf said the United Nations and other international organisations had termed Pakistans efforts for the reconstruction of quake-devastated areas better than efforts carried out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in the US and the Tsunami disaster that hit South and Southeast Asia.
Which explains all we need to know about how Pakistain remains mired in the stone-age seventeeth century, on a good day.
(AKI/DAWN) - Two years after the killer earthquake struck Pakistani-administered Kashmir and the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), most of the people who were left homeless, still remain without any shelter.
On the eve of the second anniversary of the quake, there were many complaints about the inefficiencies and corruption in the affected areas mainly in the distribution of compensation to the survivors.
A 7.6 magnitude quake on 8 October 2005 killed more than 73,000 people in Pakistan and Kashmir and left more than three million displaced. On the eve of the second anniversary of the quake, there were many complaints about the inefficiencies and corruption in the affected areas mainly in the distribution of compensation to the survivors.
Besides the difficulties the families faced in rebuilding their homes, there have also been problems with the rebuidling of the regions two most devastated towns Muzaffarabad, the capital, Pakistani Kashmir, and Balakot in the NWFP. The Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) says the reconstruction of only about 92,000 houses have been completed while 250,000 are still in various stages of completion. This means that most of the quake survivors will face their third winter without proper homes, though the population seems to be generally satisfied with other facilities, such as health, education and supplies from non-governmental organisations.
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Two years after quake Katrina, survivors still homeless. Bureaucratic inefficiency, corruption, lack of personal motivation.
Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy said multiparty democracy is a sham promoted by governments that treat their people like donkeys and deny them real power, the official Libyan news agency Jana reported on Monday. Qaddafi added in a speech last week that his north African country would never abandon its state of the masses system of rule by town hall meetings, which he has long predicted will be eventually embraced by governments around the world, Jana said.
They talk about the alternation of power (from one party to another), Jana quoted Qadaffy, Libyas ruler for 37 years, as saying. What does that mean? It means that people are being ridden like donkeys. The world is fed up with parties and elections. Even the Western intelligentsia feels disgusted with the party system and the farce of elections. They acknowledge the fact that what is going on is not democracy but falsification. The world is going to eventually embrace the peoples authority, sweeping away all those old systems.
Qaddafi seized power in a coup in 1969 and in 1977 he proclaimed Jamahiriyah popular rule to try to create the perfect society in line with the teachings of his Green Book, which combines aspects of socialism, Islam and pan-Arabism.
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Well that's something every Arab man would like given their collective propensity for camels, goats and sheep.
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It is Allan's divine law that all of Libya should belong to one family. Thus it is in all Arab countries, in accordance with the ultimate truth revealed to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel in a desert cave in the seventh century.
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An Interpretaton: Christ's Nativity; the flight into Egypt; the entry into Jerusalem; Emblem of St. Germanus
to create the perfect society in line with the teachings of his Green Book, which combines aspects of socialism Gin, Islam mayo and pan-Arabism Tapatio.
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Have to agree with Mooamar here. The donks do everything they can to deny the people power and accrue it to the state. Now to find out he's a closet trunk in favor of town hall meetings. Wow, what's next? He'll start dressing like John Alden?
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"Rule by townhall meetings?" I'd love to see foreign policy in LIbya truly determined by townhall meetings. I think there would be a lot of bloodshed.
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Seriously, this is very frustrating to have this clown around, between this or his speech about the falsehood of Christianity and the soon-to-happen islamization of Europe (for its best, of course)... he made those poor innocent women go through Hell, and he merges unscathed, with lots of goodies, and he gets to rant. Too bad the missiles missed that crackpot. He's a buffoon, but an evil one.
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We should have encouraged/assisted one of his neighbors in conquering Libya long ago. They have oil and the entire population is along a strip along the coast, ripe for a Western assisted take-over.
Having said that his turning over the WMD has helped me win hundreds of arguements about the war in Iraq so I owe the old monster a bit.
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BTW, as a military man I do admire his chest candy......seems he received the national defense medal, presidential unit citation & even the humanitarian service medal......way to go momo...you have a rack even Hackworth would've been proud of........
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See also DPRK's KCNA [paraphrased]> Evils of Capitalism = Capitalist-Western style Society exposed; + RIAN [paraph]> THE RUSSIAN MODEL - CAN RUSSIA + CHINA BE AN ALTERNATIVE TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY. Russo-Chicom "Authoritarian Capitalism" [Communist Capitalism? = Commpitalism?]. *KOMMERSANT, SOME LEFTY BLOGS ON SIMILAR RECENT RAMPAGE. Fascism-for-communism aka LIMITED TOTALITARIANISM-GOVTISM vs TOTAL/FULL - you just know LIBERTARIANISM, FREEDOM, etc. is consistent wid DESPOTISM-TYRANNY in there somewhere. D***NG IT, QUIET NOW - CRICKETS ARE TRYING TO CHIRP IN THE MASSIVE, DARK, EMPTY GRASSY FIELD OF GLOBAL DEMOCRACY - YOU KNOW, SOCIALISM. OWG NOW, GET RUSSIAN VACCUUM AIR BOMBS READY, THE CRICKLETS ARE MAKING TOO MUCH NOISE IN THE NIGHT.
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The COLONEL > Totalitarianism is for the sake of the Children??? ER TV SHow > Physician character [paraph] > HUMAN BEINGS ARE DECEITFUL, MALICIOUS, and MANIPULATIVE. Yep, hence HUMAN-DERIVED/BASED/CENTRIC GOVT WILL ABSOLUTELY UNDENIABLY FOREVER RESOLVE THE LATTER.
A South African recruitment drive for teachers, combined with an exodus of education professionals escaping Zimbabwe's seven-year recession, is creating staff shortages so severe that some schools are closing. At least four schools have closed and several more are facing the same situation. The students are being transferred at a time when they are preparing to write their year-end examinations, placing even greater pressure on the recipient schools.
Teacher's salaries have not kept pace with Zimbabwe's official inflation rate of more than 6,000 percent, while neighbouring South Africa has embarked on a recruitment drive for teachers in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) to bolster their own teacher numbers.
Firoz Patel, director-general for planning and monitoring in South Africa's education department, has reportedly said they were seeking to recruit at least 4,000 mathematics and science teachers from the region by April 2008. The department had already recruited 1,500 teachers, who were being deployed to posts in remote areas, often shunned by local teachers.
The Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ), the biggest grouping of educators in the country, said this week that 15,200 teachers had migrated to neighbouring states, such as South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland, since the beginning of 2007. Raymond Majongwe, secretary-general of PTUZ, confirmed that the mass exodus of teachers was forcing schools to close, while many institutions were operating with a skeleton teaching staff.
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What with the food shortages, they are probably afraid of being eaten.
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Interesting; probably working on pulling all the educated / skilled folks out of that cesspool before the shooting starts. Wonder when farmers and other skilled craftsmen start being 'recruited?'
Saudi King Abdullah issued a royal decree Monday detailing regulations to implement a succession law that was announced a year ago to ensure a smooth transfer of power and help defuse rifts within the ruling Al-Saud family over future kings and crown princes.
The 18 articles listed in the new regulations outline who can become a member of the Allegiance Commission, the body that was entrusted with voting for future kings by a law issued in October 2006. They also stipulate what should be done if a member dies and how a crown prince should be chosen.
Under the new executive statute, the commission should be composed of the sons of the founder, King Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud. If the sons are deceased, incapacitated or not interested, then the membership goes to one of their sons. Abdul-Aziz had 37 sons.
The member should not be less than 22 and "he should be a man of a good reputation," according to the statute, carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. The membership period is fixed at four years and can only be renewed with the agreement of the king and the member's brothers, it added.
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Under the new executive statute, the commission should be composed of the sons of the founder, King Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud. If the sons are deceased, incapacitated or not interested, then the membership goes to one of their sons. Abdul-Aziz had 37 sons.
It is Allan's divine will that this entire country belong to one family.
It's kind of like how the Pontiac Sunfire automobile parked in front of my house belongs to my family. Except that I purchased the automobile for my family. And except that no mullahs claim that the automobile was given to my family as part of Allan's divine plan for the Universe.
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Hey, its an aging monarchy with a plan to smoothly transition power to one of thirty seven contending groups and hundreds of subgroups. Any twenty two year old among them with any ambition who thinks he has a deserving reputation could come away with the seat. What could possibly go wrong?
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A court sentenced Bangladeshs ex-home minister to 13 years in prison Monday for hiding illegally acquired wealth, a lawyer said.
Judge M Foriz Alam of a special anti-corruption court convicted Mohammad Nasim of failing to disclose wealth worth 10.26 million takas (US$185,294) that did not tally with his declared income, Faruk Quazi, a lawyer attending the proceedings said. Nasim, who served as the powerful home minister during 1996-2001, was arrested early this year in a government crackdown on corruption. The court also handed Nasims wife, Laila Arzuman Banu, a three-year prison term for abetting her husband. Banu was tried in absentia.
"Hello, Mother?... I'm going to be out of the country for awhile... Yes. In Fiji... How long? At a guess, 10, maybe 15 years."
The court fined the couple 1 million takas (US$14,705) and ordered confiscation of their illegally acquired assets. The countrys interim government, backed by the influential military, has detained several top politicians - including two former prime ministers - senior bureaucrats and business tycoons on corruption and power abuse charges.
Bangladesh has been rated as one of the worlds most corrupt nation by Transparency International, an anti-corruption watchdog based in Berlin, Germany.
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The British government wants to ban the incitement of hatred against homosexuals, the country's justice secretary said Monday.
That sounds pretty un-Islamic. Should be good for at least a month's rioting, maybe a coupla bus booms.
The proposed law would make inciting hatred of gays, lesbians and bisexuals unlawful, Jack Straw told lawmakers, adding that the law could be extended to ban the incitement of hatred against disabled or transgendered people "if a case can be made."
"It is a measure of quite how far we have come as a society in the last 10 years that we are now appalled by hatred and invective directed at gay people," Straw said. "It is time for the law to recognize this." The proposed law, applauded by homosexual rights campaigners, comes only days after a controversial law on inciting religious hatred came into force.
"Hey! Nice tits!"
"Thanks! I traded my tats for them!"
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Is it still OK to incite hatred of brussel sprouts? Do I still have another decade to incite hatred against the kid who pushed me around in 4th grade?
Why do I get the feeling that "expressing disagreement with" will equate "inciting hatred against?"
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Since England no longer has any prison space to put anyone, adding new laws accomplishes nothing. Maybe they are trying to just declare all citizens criminals, to justify turning the whole country into a prison. Approaching the problem from the other direction, as it were.
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Gee, doublethink much, Straw? What are you going to do with the Imams who call for the deaths of gays?
My guess, not a damn thing.
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If you are not allowed to hate islam and not allowed to hate gay people you have a double-bind. This is exactly the sort of thing Kirk used to fry errant computers with.
40 years ago yesterday...
Hero. Rebel. Revolutionary. These are words one often hears in association with Ernesto Che Guevara.
But they are not words you will often hear in Miami where many people see Che Guevara as a brutal guerrilla who brought Cuba nothing but misery with his communist ideals. One of those anti-Che voices in Miami belongs to Felix Rodriguez, a Cuban-born former CIA agent who was part of the mission of CIA operatives and Bolivian army forces that captured and killed Che Guevara in October 1967.
Forty years on, how does he feel about the role he played in ending the life of one of the most iconic Latin American leaders of the 20th Century? I visited the ex-CIA man at his Miami home. He was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the logo of the 2506 Association of the Veterans of the Bay of Pigs, another of his earlier military incursions against the Cuban government.
Mr Rodriguez was present at some of the most notorious events of US anti-communist involvement in Latin America during the Cold War, including training the Nicaraguan Contras and advising the Argentine military government during the 1980s. It is a history of which Mr Rodriguez is fiercely proud.
His air-conditioned den is full of framed photographs and memorabilia of his CIA past: Felix Rodriguez and George Bush Senior talking in the White House, a CIA medal for exceptional service, a blood-soaked North Vietnamese flag. But it was his short time in Bolivia with Che Guevara that interested me. Sitting by his pool, Felix Rodriguez showed me his Che scrapbook.
Inside were the yellowing and fragile pages of his log-book from October 1967: the expenses of every day meticulously recorded, each one within the $14 daily allowance from the CIA; a page from Che's code book, supposedly designed by the Chinese government, with a fresh code for each different message.
There were also more macabre items: photographs of the dead Che, laid out on a table for the world's press to see; the tobacco from Che's final pipe; a photo of Che's severed hands, which were cut from his body and put in formaldehyde to preserve his fingerprints, in case Fidel Castro tried to claim that the corpse was not Che's.
And the most important item: a photograph of a captured, injured and bedraggled Che Guevara, standing next to the soldiers who had caught him and the 27-year-old Felix Rodriguez, who had interrogated him. Wasn't that humiliating for Che?
"No, I don't think so. Actually, I think he felt when the picture was taken that his life was going to be spared. I think he felt that he wasn't going to be shot," Mr Rodriguez said.
According to Mr Rodriguez's version of events, the atmosphere was so friendly that Che willingly agreed to the photograph and even laughed when Rodriguez said: "Watch the birdie, Comandante". An hour or so after the photo was taken, Che was killed.
Felix Rodriguez received the order from the Bolivian military high command. There was a simple code: 500 meant Che Guevara, 600 dead, 700 alive. 500 - 600 was the command. Mr Rodriguez wanted confirmation on the crackly radio line. It was repeated: 500 - 600.
Mr Rodriguez broke the news to Che that there was to be no trial. "Che turned white... before saying: 'It's better this way, I should have died in combat.'"
Mr Rodriguez ordered the soldier who pulled the trigger to aim carefully, to remain consistent with the Bolivian government's story that Che had been killed in action during a clash with the Bolivian army.
But wasn't Che entitled to a fair trial rather than such an ignominious death in La Higuera? "I could have tried to falsify the command to the troops, and got Che to Panama as the US government said they had wanted," said Mr Rodriguez. But he said it was a decision by the Bolivian presidency, and he had to let history run its course.
By killing Che Guevara the man, didn't Mr Rodriguez think he had simply helped create something much more powerful - Che Guevara the legend?
That was done by the Cuban government... Most people don't know the real Che Guevara - the Che Guevara who wrote that he was thirsty for blood, the Che who assassinated thousands of people without any regard for any real legal process."
After Che was killed, there was some argument over who should have his pipe. The iconic pipe belonging to the most famous guerrilla in the world. What young soldier there on that day wouldn't want it?
Felix Rodriguez says it was in his possession but, after being asked several times, he gave it to the soldier who had shot Che so that he would "remember his deed".
So did Mr Rodriguez have any regrets about what happened in 1967, I asked him.
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It's odd that they always leave off the part where the Bolivians tied Che over a barrel, then pulled down his pants and did ugly to him, then only shot him to get that grin off his face.
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REDDIT > EX-CIA AGENT CLAIMS USA COULD'VE SAVED CHE FROM DEATH??? *OTOH, many are still torn bwtn CHE as a murderous thug and criminal, versus misguided confused Marxist = pan-Hispanic Revolutionary.
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They don't like the fourth estate any better in Mexico that we do in the U.S.A. Our First Amendment Constitutional protection had to be created to protect the press; otherwise they would all be dispatched with.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Thousands of people in Hong Kong took part in a democracy march and a world-record breaking attempt using umbrellas, calling for a faster pace of democratic reforms and direct elections in 2012. Gathered in a large park, around 5,000 people hoisted yellow umbrellas to form a massive yellow "2012" which is the date the pro-democracy camp wants direct elections to be realized.
"Fighting for democracy means you have to fight for democracy. Democracy is not going to fall from the sky," said legislator Ronny Tong, a chief organizer of Sunday's "Umbrella" rally, which he hopes will gain an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Hong Kong's mini-constitution promises direct elections as the "ultimate aim" but is vague on a timetable, giving Beijing's leaders scope to dictate the pace of progress. In 2004, Beijing ruled out direct elections in the city until at least 2012. Numerous public opinion polls have shown a majority of Hong Kong people would like to see direct elections in 2012, the earliest available window.
Sunday's activities are seen by some as a last symbolic push by the pro-democracy camp, before a watershed public consultation on constitutional reform ends on Wednesday.
The legislative "Green Paper" will seek to formulate a roadmap and timetable for the city to realize direct elections with Beijing's blessing. But some Hong Kongers remain skeptical of any quick breakthrough. "I don't think that one activity can change anything, so I'll keep joining all the activities. Most Hong Kong people want to let the government know through all these activities that we want human suffrage as soon as possible," said Lai Kin Kwok, a college lecturer, who joined the rally with his wife and son.
Thousands later took part in a separate march for democracy, led by Anson Chan, a talismanic public figure and retired top civil servant who will run in a December election for a legislative council seat -- bringing fresh momentum to the pro-democracy camp which she backs. "We've already prepared ourselves and waited for a very, very long time. We hope there'll be (universal suffrage) by 2012," she told reporters as she marched.
Few things take as much courage as standing up to a tyrant on the street outside his palace. Those people are on the side of the angels. May God watch over them.
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Kinda like if Germany not only denied the holocaust ever happened, but also pretended joooos genocided germans, and had laws putting anybody who might contradict the official version of History in jails for YEARS.
Bottom line is : if turkey doesn't recognize and pologize for its genocidal past, dating to even before the 1915 genocide and spreading in its balkans colonies, then, it is still a genocidal State.
Which won't prevent the eurabists of letting it join the EU, even while it military occupy an EU State member (with genocidal & ethnic cleasing occurring).
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It becomes increasingly difficult to grant Turkey the least shred of credibility as a secular nation. A common bond of genocide and holocaust denial gives them far too much in common with all the other Islamic pissholes.
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There are all sorts of variables in trying to label this event. An economic component, a religious component, wartime loyalty and treachery, whether it was purely genocidal in character or more like ethnic cleansing that became genocidal over time.
The starvation was not unique. Half a million had starved in Syria during WWI.
Perhaps the best perspective is to look at all the events happening in Turkey during that period, just to point out how relatively small the genocide might seem, compared to other circumstances.
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Thirty million is roughly 1 in 10 people. Allow me to express my scepticism. There *are* immigration issues, but making up scary numbers adds nothing to the discussion. See "Global Warming" for further examples.
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I can fathom that ratio averaged over the whole country. There are vast areas of NJ, NY, & CT where US born to foreign born (who can say if they are here legally) are only 1 in 100 if not better. I can believe at least 1/10th of that is illegal if not more.
Add that to the free-for-all that is going on in the Southwest, and that number becomes believable in my estimatation.
I agree though that it's virtually impossible to back that with actual numbers.
NPR.org, October 4, 2007 · Idaho Sen. Larry Craig vows to remain in office for the duration of his term, despite a Minnesota judge's ruling Thursday that he would not be able to withdraw his guilty plea in an airport sex sting. "I will continue to serve Idaho in the United States Senate," Craig said in a written statement released after the ruling. "...As I continued to work for Idaho over the past three weeks here in the Senate, I have seen that it is possible for me to work here effectively."
Craig's statement also indicated that he would continue his efforts to clear his name in the Senate Ethics Comittee, "something that is not possible if I am not serving in the Senate."
Thursday's ruling was a major setback to the Idaho senator's efforts to clear his name. "Because the defendant's plea was accurate, voluntary and intelligent, and because the conviction is supported by the evidence ... the Defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea is denied," Hennepin County Judge Charles Porter wrote.
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Hey, hey, HEY...say what you will about Liberace, the man had had more class and style in one sequin than Larry Craig has.
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Funny how pleas to withdraw similar confessions, when made by accused murderers, are so quickly overturned.
Not that I disagree with this Judge: I believe that all such confessions be accepted at face value and upheld. It is a FALSEHOOD to believe one is being merciful by engaging in derailing justice: Mercy may speak, but only AFTER justice has had its say.
Nevertheless, one has to demand why the ruling that a state judge in minnesota regarding a Senator should require that that senator resign his post. Clearly, its not required, since democrats accused of crimes continue to serve.
The senator can be impeached, or can be convicted and thrown in jail, but trying to achieve his resignation by jawboning and posturing what they cannot get otherwise legally is still jawboning and posturing.
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Ptah: I am not certain I am following the last bit of your argument. Isn't the point that Republicans are unlikely to vote for a man who has plead guilty to soliciting sex with another man in a public washroom?
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He's gone anyway. The only thing he is doing now is souring the voters on Republicans. Selfish bastard needs to keep his word and resign. Let someone else take over and hold the office and run for election withotu Craig ast a distraction.
Craig and his generation of Senators (Lott, Stevens, Warner, etc) seem to have some sort of elitist problem, thinking htey are better than us and above the law.
TERM LIMITS. NOW. 6 Terms House, 3 Terms Senate. And thats ALL. No more than 30 years in DC total. And if you serve you CANNOT lobby, ever again.
There's a difference between getting elected and serving his term out. I would not vote for someone who is an openly practicing homosexual, but the qualification for office is to be elected, not being homosexual or (more appropriately) not being honest. I would not call for a homosexual to be fired from his job because he is homosexual, but he may have to be dismissed from his job IF the qualifications for the job require that he should not be one, OR if he had provided misleading information that would have originally disqualified him.
Because he misrepresented himself to his constituents, they have the right to change their vote for him next time. Unfortunately, "accurately representing themselves to thier consituents" is NOT a qualification for being elected and continuing to serve as senator: We'd be changing congressmen continually if that were so.
I, and other Christians, have called Homosexuality immoral, but hysterical critics have accused us of THEREFORE wanting them to be driven from their jobs, homes, burned at the stake, etc., etc., and THEN accuse us of hypocrisy when we do not act in accordance to their lies about us. I would be a hypocrite if I contradicted MY personal beliefs and convictions, NOT the personal beliefs and convictions that political opportunists THINK I have.
Iblis: good point. I confused the two. The senator seems to be demanding a do-over, and so I approve of the judge's ruling that he shouldn't. Still, what are the rules and laws that govern this? And why should a senator be dismissed for reasons other than what's in the rules? I oppose illegal immigration because, well, it's against the law, but I cannot support dismissing someone from a job if it isn't legal., (If the crime is a state felony, but dismissal is required for a federal felony, then I wouldn't support it either.)
If he has to do jail time, then he can't serve, and so has to go, but that's because he can't do his job from a jail cell.
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according to newsmax, if the Goreacle wins the nobel, the DNC wants him to run! i think the graphic is His Al-ness entering the Global Warming Study Center.....
(AKI/Jakarta Post) - Activists in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra have protested against a police raid on the Al-Qiyadah Al-Islamiyah Islamic sect. The police carried out the raid on the orders of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), Indonesia's top clerical body. The sect claims it has been under attack in several parts of the country, including West Sumatra and West Java, since the council declared it blasphemous on Thursday and demanded the government ban it.
The Pusaka Inter-Community Study Center, a non-governmental organisation promoting pluralism in West Sumatra, has called for the public to respect an individual's rights to practise their religion and beliefs. "Labelling a group's teachings as blasphemous and then attacking them is against the Constitution," said Pusaka director Sudarto in an interview with The Jakarta Post. "The police and the Indonesian Ulema Council should refrain (from doing so) and solve the matter wisely," said the director.
Last week, members of several large organisations, including the Indonesian Mujahidin Council, visited the shop-house in Padang where the sect, led by 44-year-old Dedi Priadi, operates. They ordered the worshippers to stop their activities before raiding and sealing the building. Police detained 11 alleged Al-Qiyada members, including Dedi, in order to prevent "clashes". The sect members were eventually released, although Dedi has been ordered to report to the police every day and the building has been secured with a police line.
The chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council Maruf Amin said people needed to be wary of Ahmad Moshaddeq's teachings because he said he was the next prophet after Muhammad... The MUI has said that any followers of the sect would be considered apostates.
In Bogor regency, West Java, police sealed off two villas belonging to Al-Qiyadah's founder Ahmad Moshaddeq or Haji Salam on Friday to prevent any attacks on the property. The chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council Maruf Amin said people needed to be wary of Ahmad Moshaddeq's teachings because he said he was the next prophet after Muhammad. Maruf said that the sect did not regard daily prayers, fasting or the pilgrimage to Mecca as compulsory. The MUI has said that any followers of the sect would be considered apostates.
Sudarto, who is also a member of the West Sumatra chapter of the National Commission on Human Rights, said the government should stay neutral. He said sealing off the sect's building and requiring its leader in West Sumatra to report to the police over a personal issue was against human rights. "The state has again used the Criminal Code against the sect for tarnishing a mainstream religion," said Sudarto. "The Criminal Code should not be placed above the Constitution, which guarantees people the freedom to perform their own religions and beliefs," he said. He said the accusations against the sect should be solved through dialogue.
Dedi Priadi claims to have 4,000 followers in West Sumatra, mostly students. In his teachings, he says praying once a day at night, instead of five times, is enough, but denies the sect is blasphemous.
Gusrizal Gazahar of the West Sumatra chapter of the Indonesian Ulema Council said they have monitored the sect for some time and had even sent two people inside the organisation. "The sect is misleading and not Islam. But it claims to be Islam so we ask the government to ban it and call the people involved to get back on the right track," Gusrizal said. The West Sumatra provincial prosecutor's office released a decision banning Al-Qiyadah Al-Islamiyah on Friday.
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(AKI/Jakarta Post) - Activists in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra have protested against a police raid on the 
