Police were grappling Friday with two separate incidents of someone stringing up nooses in public places one at Columbia University and another outside a ground zero post office damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks. New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said there were no suspects in either incident, which both occurred this week on opposite ends of Manhattan.
At Columbia, detectives were still reviewing 56 hours of security camera images captured by seven security cameras in and around the building where the noose was discovered early Tuesday morning hanging from the doorknob of a black professor's office, Browne said.
In the second case, a noose was discovered Thursday dangling from a lamppost near the lower Manhattan post office. Building managers removed the noose, which was later turned over to the NYPD's hate crimes unit for investigation, police said. "At this point, there was no target that was evident or any motive," U.S. Postal Inspection Service spokesman Al Weissman said Friday morning. He said no postal workers had reported any threats or other problems. The post office at 90 Church St. was closed for nearly three years after the 2001 terrorist attacks, which left the 15-story building contaminated with asbestos, mercury and debris from the fallen twin towers.
Students, faculty and administrators at Columbia have denounced the attack on professor Madonna Constantine, 44, a professor of education and psychology who has written extensively about race. Police were testing the 4-foot-long piece of twine for DNA evidence and interviewing students and faculty. Among those questioned was another Teachers College professor, Suniya S. Luthar, who had feuded with Constantine; police said she was not considered a suspect.
Meanwhile, police were called to the Ivy League campus again Thursday to probe another troubling discovery a caricature of a yarmulke-wearing man and a swastika found on a university bathroom stall door. The hate crime unit was investigating the black-ink drawing, but police said there was no reason to believe the two incidents were linked.
University President Lee Bollinger said the sketch was promptly removed, adding that he was reluctant to call attention to such drawings because he did not want to "broadcast, in any way, the message they attempt to send or empower those behind them."
Nooses, charged with symbolism of lynchings in the Old South, have appeared in recent incidents around the country. Three white students hung nooses from a big oak tree outside a high school last year in Jena, La., fueling racial tensions. More recently, nooses have been found at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., and the Hempstead Police Department's locker room on Long Island.
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Gee, no one ever thought these nooses have something to do with the Halloween season?
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...police were called to the Ivy League campus again Thursday to probe another troubling discovery â a caricature of a yarmulke-wearing man and a swastika found on a university bathroom stall door. The hate crime unit was investigating the black-ink drawing...
If it is on a bathroom stall it is a "hate crime". If it is on a wall of signs at a street protest it is "speaking truth to power".
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LOL, NS. I remember in college, we had a huge map of the US on our wall. As we drove around the Southeast (mostly to away SEC football games), we'd "redraw" the Mason-Dixon line based upon whether or not you could get sweet tea at your average restaurant. Sad to say a lot of those States that used to be "southern" are not anymore, and including many major urban areas.
So, we have two incidents now in NYC, the Jena, LA incident, the US Coast Guard incident in Conn., and the Hempstead PD incident in NY. Yet, we STILL have to "report" the original meaning behind nooses was a "southern thang"???? Why can't reporters get past 1863, as most of the South already has?
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Why can't reporters get past 1863, as most of the South already has?
Bull Connor/George Wallace. It was one of the great successes of the '60s that made Journalism the profession it is today. The other two were Watergate and Vietnam. The trifecta of liberal triumphalism. They will wallow in them until the boomer are gone.
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That's true, NS, as to why it's still reported as a "Southern thang". Yet, I always love the "WTF" look on some of my black co-workers' faces when I tell them that Lincoln was a Republican, and that the Republican Party (in terms of percentages) completely outvoted the Donks on the 1965 Civil Rights Act and the following Voting Rights Act. Sure, it was signed by a Donk President, but if the Republicans hadn't voted for it, it would've NEVER made it to his desk.
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Surveys of wealth effects consistently reveal: having money leads to being happy. The scale in the article reflects income levels. However, some of the low depression occupations are high stress.
Nope. Look at Table 2. The rate of depression in women is twice that for men, regardless of occupation. The result in Table 1 is simply a reflection of the proportion of males and females in any given profession. It pays to be male. But saying that would get even a Harvard president fired. So we'll relate it to profession, yeah, that's the ticket.
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> I still think that's just the way it is. Get used to it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escitalopram
The above has helped loads for me. Racemic Citalopram was causing too many side effects.
Incidentally I hate the NHS because when I was very bad, I "crawled" into the doctors to get an appointment and it took two weeks to see the doctor (which was nearly fatal)!
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Women who go into engineering tend to do very well
Not according to table 2.
You're right, Nimble Spemble. That's what I get for going by anecdotal knowledge rather than actually looking at the data.
I'm glad you got treatment in time, Bright Pebbles. The hardest thing about depression is that it steals the motivation and ability to do anything about it. The studies show the best results come from a combination of medication and talk therapy. I hope the NHS came through for both with you.
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Engineering ain't exactly rock and roll. No roadies or groupies.
One of the jokes we engineers tell when together:
"An engineer was crossing a road one day, when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, Ill turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week."
The engineer took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket. The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, Ill stay with you for one week and do ANYTHING you want." Again, the engineer took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket.
Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? Ive told you Im a beautiful princess, and that Ill stay with you for one week and do anything you want. Why wont you kiss me?"
The engineer said, "Look, Im an engineer. I dont have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog, now thats cool.""
No Wimmin....no Stress
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> The studies show the best results come from a combination of medication and talk therapy. I hope the NHS came through for both with you.
There's next to No way I could get therapy on the NHS. 6 month waiting list minimum. So 100% drugs, 0% therapy. For me that's best as I got depression as a side effect of an illness (serotonin is a immune system signaller that got whacked when I got ill).
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Everyone has a vast community of microbes in their guts. But people who crave daily chocolate show signs of having different colonies of bacteria than people who are immune to chocolate's allure.
That may be the case for other foods, too. The idea could eventually lead to treating some types of obesity by changing the composition of the trillions of bacteria occupying the intestines and stomach, said Sunil Kochhar, co-author of the study. It appears Friday in the peer-reviewed Journal of Proteome Research.
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In that the bacteria in the human body outweigh the cells of the human body, we are essentially ambulatory cultures. Imagine if you could eliminate all but essential bacteria from your system? You might be a whole lot lighter.
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Can you prove there's no connection, Zenster? Besides, can you think of a better reason (besides water-borne brain parasites) for Muslim Mob Madness?
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Besides, can you think of a better reason (besides water-borne brain parasites) for Muslim Mob Madness?
All joking aside, I think that Frank's mention of extensive inbreeding is on the money. Somewhere in Arab DNA are genes governing a propensity for violence and susceptibility to external suggestion. Long ago it must have become quite apparent to the Muslim elite that reinforcing these traits protected the continued status quo of Islam's power structure. By nurturing xenophobia and encouraging marriage between cousinsdespite the obvious drawbacks of consaguinitythey entrenched pliability and aggression to the point where it is now congenital. In this respect, Islam may well represent a massive socio-political eugenics program. If all of this is true, it bodes particularly ill for any chance of rehabilitating Muslim cultures. Such a genetic basis for their behavior would make them the psycho-social equivalent of a medically healthy AIDS carrier.
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Cousin marriage works well for preserving property ownership and oligarchical power structure, and protects the group from pollution by outsiders. Historically the worst gene combinations would have died in childhood, and clan feuding would have culled the most stupid and mentally deranged of the remainder, a practical application of the "don't have to run faster than the bear, just faster than the other guy the bear is chasing" theory of selection.
The propensity for violence and susceptibility to suggestion is common in societies where the gods are capricious. Ponder the pagan mobs destroying Jewish and Christian communities in the first and second century Roman empire, even as their gods were being redefined; and Christian mobs turning on Jewish and pagan communities in the third and fourth, while the barbarians attacked from beyond the borders; Christian mobs burning down Jewish ghettos because of rumors of well-poisoning during the Black Plague years; Hindu mobs in India; and, Muslim mobs because somewhere someone may have laughed at Mohammed, or treated a Muslim as other than lord and master, or a kaffir dared to touch a Koran, or... (I'm sure there are plenty of other examples, but my knowledge of history is limited)
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ask the Saudis about the numbers with screwed up birth defects (but not the royal family - we don't discuss that)
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The idea could eventually lead to treating some types of obesity by changing the composition of the trillions of bacteria occupying the intestines and stomach, said Sunil Kochhar, co-author of the study.
Um, is it just me or does this study only cover chocolate? No mention of binge-eating of McDonald's ("biggie sized please") every stinkin' day, as well as grease-laced meals and mandatory sweet tea and desserts. Mix in a good dose of "I'm not do nuttin, except sittin' here watchin' my 110" plasma HDTV, surf the net (sorry fellow, burgers, about that one) or play PS3/Xbox all stinkin' day" and you have the current obesity "crisis" we have today. No wonder there's kids that weigh more than me in 3rd grade.
It's called self-control and exercise folks. And, I won't charge you $2 million for that study, that's for sure! I did find it interesting that it took them an extra year just to find 11 guys that didn't eat chocolate *snicker*, as well as the results that those eating chocolate had lower levels of the "bad" cholesterol.
Another snickers, anyone?
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LONDON: A new survey has shown that Kiwi women are the most promiscuous in the world, with an average of 20.4 sexual partners.
The survey, by condom-maker Durex, questioned 26 thousand people in 26 countries, and found that New Zealand womens promiscuity average was way above the global average of 7.3.
The poll showed that Kiwi women are up there with Austrian men, who have 29.3 sexual partners. New Zealand emerged as the only country where women have more sexual partners than their men.
However, family planning association chief executive Jackie Edmond said that despite these findings, there is a safe-sex warning hidden in the figures. Durex spokeswoman said that the results would be used by the condom makers to identify inhibitions and pressures in the bedroom.
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Let's hope that thisfor once and allputs the lie to "Kiwi fruit".
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They allow sex in Helengrad? Does the Ministry of Home Energy Conservation and Appropriate Behavior know about this?
Aren't they afraid it will offend Muslims?
The French mercenary, Bob Denard, has died, his family says. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
"I confirm that he has died," his sister Georgette Garnier told Reuters. Denard, 78, was notorious for leading coups in Africa, including four in the Comoros Islands - the most recent of which was in 1995. He was convicted in French courts for his efforts to overthrow governments in Benin in 1977 and the Comoros, but both jail sentences were suspended.
His trial last year in connection with the 1995 Comoros coup attempt took place with him in absentia as a result of his illness. Convicted of "belonging to a gang who conspired to commit a crime", Denard received a five-year suspended jail sentence. Denard was born Gilbert Bourgeaud in Bordeaux in 1929.
After serving in the French navy in Indochina, he joined the police in colonial Morocco where he was convicted of an assassination plot against French Prime Minister Pierre Mendes-France. Despite this incident, Denard claimed he was acting in the interests of France or other European powers, and once described himself as "a soldier never an assassin".
His life story is filled with colourful anecdotes. In 1968 Denard and several hundred fighters tried to invade Katanga, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, by bicycle. His 1995 coup attempt in the Comoros involved arriving with 30 men in inflatable boats.
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"Colonel" Bob Denard, known in Arabic as Said Mustapha Mahdjoub (April 7, 1929 October 14, 2007) was perhaps the most famous and influential mercenary since World War II. He was known for having done various jobs in the Françafrique for Jacques Foccart, in charge of French president Charles de Gaulle's covert actions, in particular in Africa. He also worked for the British MI6. Born as Gilbert Bourgeaud, he was the father of eight children and had been married seven times (polygamously), after converting to Islam.
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Denard, 78, was notorious for leading coups in Africa, including four in the Comoros Islands - the most recent of which was in 1995.
Notorious, yes. Effective no. He pretty much went downhill after a head wound in 1967 in the Congo.
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I didn't think that song was meant to refer to any particular war in Africa; it seems to refer to at least two separate wars (the Biafran war and at least one civil war in the Congo) but appears to talk about them as if they were a single war. Possibly on purpose.
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* "Both jail sentences were suspended" + "soldier, not an assassin" > read, Denard's backers were too powerful = PC to expose.
* "30 men in inflatable boats" > Denard's ultimate weakness was sticking to good schemes-methodisms for the wrong = incomplete objectives or mission types.
Fourteen people including three women and three children were gunned down near Bahawalnagar over a family dispute late on Saturday, Geo television reported. According to the channel the incident occurred in Dubbar Shakarganj, a suburban area of Minchanabad Tehsil of Bahawalnagar. Minchanabad DSP Sheikh Abid told the channel that two groups of the Kukria family had enmity for the last two years and on Saturday Abdul Razzaq and his accomplices opened fire on the families of Sarwar, Sattar and Ismail and killed at least 14 people.
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Sheesh! if they keep this up, Bahawalnagar will end up nearly as bad as Gaza.
Caribbean singer Harry Belafonte's popular "Banana Boat" song was twisted by terror camp leader Atilla Ahmet to preach jihad to kids at the Jameah Islamic school, near Crowborough in Sussex. Ahmet, according to the Daily Mail, called it his "Jihad Calypso", and convinced children at the school to sing it along with him at a performance. That performance was later recorded, a court here was told.
The lyrics of the 84-worded song went as follows:
"Come Mr. Taliban, come give me kuffir...my Kalasnikov. Come Mr. Taliban, come bomb England... before the daylight come, you wanna see Ten Downing Street.
Come Mr. Taliban, come implement Shariah. Come Mr. Taliban, come bomb England before the daylight come, Insh'Allah, it will be done.
Hey Mr. Taliban, come kill the dirty kuffir, get rid of the haram, because we want halal.
Hey Mr. Taliban, boom, boom, boom, come bomb England before the daylight come. Insh'Allah, it will be done.
Ahmet, a former preacher at Finsbury Park Mosque, has pleaded guilty to three counts of soliciting murder in connection with a case now being heard at Woolwich Crown Court.
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Ahmet, a former preacher at Finsbury Park Mosque, has pleaded guilty to three counts of soliciting murder in connection with a case now being heard at Woolwich Crown Court.
Let's hope he gets some "singing" lessons gargling on his cellmate's prong.
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.
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LONDON: A new survey has shown that Kiwi women are the most promiscuous in the world, with an average of 20.4 sexual partners.
