People's Republic of BOULDER, Colo. Authorities say a man's scheme to breeze through traffic by mounting flashing red and blue lights on his truck could put him on a fast track to prison. The Boulder County Sheriff's office says 21-year-old Justin Davis was jailed this week after a slow-moving tow truck pulled over when the driver saw him using the lights. Sheriff's Cmdr. Phil West says the tow-truck driver became suspicious and followed Davis. West says Davis left his Nissan truck at a shopping center when he saw he was being followed and called police from a gas station to report his vehicle stolen.
West says Davis told police he recently bought the lights to get through traffic. Davis is free on $1,500 bail but faces a charge of impersonating a police officer, punishable by up to three years in prison. It's fun until you get caught.
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when he saw he was being followed and called police from a gas station to report his vehicle stolen.
Not only was he impersonating a police officer, but he then made a false police report. Great way to double down, Justin!
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Under "Lacy's Law"--HB 1003, signed May 25, 2004, allegedly, Davis committed a Class 1 misdemeanor.
HB 1003 was prompted by the 2003 abduction and murder of Lacy Miller, a 20-year-old student at the University of Northern Colorado, by a man impersonating a police officer. The man used flashing red and blue lights to pull Miller over. A 2003 law passed after the murder made police impersonation a class 1 misdemeanor. The law signed today makes impersonating a police officer a class 6 felony, resulting in higher fines and increased jail time for habitual offenders. Also included in the bill is a ban on the possession and use of red or blue police lights by persons not involved in law enforcement. Illegal possession or use of blue or red lights is a class 1 misdemeanor. Source:
http://www.2hearts4lacy.org/page/page/3127081.htm
The penalty in Colorado for Class 1 Misdemeanor
is:
Minimum: 6 months / 500 dollar fine or both
Maximum: 18 months / 5,000 dollar fine or both
Davis' problem is that any jury hearing this case will remember Lacy's fate in the next county north of Boulder county and will probably
not view his idiotic act with kindness.
Two people were killed in Monday's crash of a military jet into a neighborhood in San Diego, California, Fire Department officials said. Two homes were destroyed, said Maurice Luque of the San Diego Fire Department, according to CNN affiliate KGTV.
The crash happened as the jet was returning to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar after performing landing training on a Navy aircraft carrier, the Marine Corps said in a news release. The cause of the crash is under investigation, it said.
The crash site is about two miles from the airfield, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said. Firefighters aimed jets of water from high-pressure hoses at the smoldering rubble of what appeared to be at least one house. Smoke continued to rise in clouds from the site nearly an hour after the crash.
Authorities cordoned off the area. Residents told reporters they had been informed by police that chemicals were in the air and they should stay away.
One resident interviewed by CNN affiliate KFMB said he saw a fighter jet at a very low altitude, and "it just spiraled, right out of 'Top Gun.'"The resident said he saw a flier from the aircraft on the ground after parachuting from the plane. He said the pilot was dazed but able to move on his own.
Bank worker Scott Bloom told KGTV he was on his way to visit clients when he saw someone eject from the plane. He said the plane was silent in the moments before it went down. "I thought I was dreaming," Bloom told KGTV. "It was so surreal."
The principal of a high school about three blocks from the crash site said students had just finished lunch when staffers heard "two large pops or two large booms." The school and its students were not directly affected by the crash, but the school was put into lock-down mode for students' safety, Principal Mike Price said.
The pilot was in communication with military air traffic controllers before the jet crashed, the FAA said.
Expatriates who share homes in the booming emirate of Dubai to split soaring rental costs face eviction amid a crackdown by the municipality which deems the practice of house-sharing a health hazard.
Tenants will face fines of up to 50,000 dirhams (13,600 dollars) and owners of shared villas can be charged twice as much if they ignore the municipality's view that house-sharing is a "security and health hazard," he added. More like a necessity for people not plugged into crass wealth of oil ticks and has-beens stars like Michael Jackson [bad example, oops].
To enforce its decision, the municipality of Dubai, one of the seven components of the United Arab Emirates, has begun to hand out fines and to cut water and power supplies to villas.
"More severe measures will be taken," Omar Abdel Rahman, housing chief inspector at the Dubai Municipality, told AFP agency.
"Those violating the law have been given a deadline and we have started cutting water and electricity supplies and slapping fines" on those sharing houses, he said.
The official denied any link with analysts' predictions of a tailing off in demand for property in Dubai because of a scarcity of loans as a consequence of the global credit crunch.
"That is nothing to do with it," Abdel Rahman insisted. No, no, certainly not that. It is, ummmm, something else.
For the past 10 years, Dubai has implemented the biggest and most ambitious building programme ever undertaken in the world. Critics of the crackdown say the authorities want to transform the emirate into a city-state for the rich only. That IS the business model, after all. But what are you going to do with housing the service people who are needed to keep the rich parasites in world class comfort?
In recent weeks the cracks in Dubai's economy have become undeniable. Property prices have slumped, demand has dried up and, for the first time, the emirate is being forced to consider calling a halt to its expansion. Some analysts are claiming that Dubai could implode, weighed down under a pile of raw sewage debt and, given that it has relatively small oil reserves, no obvious way of paying for it. Ah, the Fatal Flaw! But don't despair. Look to the US Treasury and Zimbob for your answers.
So far it is not known how many people face eviction as part of the crackdown which was launched earlier this year, but it is clear that expatriates are nervous.
"Rents are unreasonably high," said Sahar Allam, a German-Syrian citizen who shares a villa with eight other women in the upscale Jumeirah district, in order to cope with the cost of living. She spends 2,175 dollars - more than half of her monthly wages - to rent a room and bath in the luxurious village.
"I will be forced to leave Dubai if I cannot share," she said.
"All my house-mates are European and Arab women and some of them are also seriously thinking about leaving Dubai," she added. Better git while the gittin's good.
Over the past few years the once-dormant harbour of Dubai has been transformed into a vibrant city buzzing with construction and tourism projects that have attracted a massive influx of foreign expertise. Who aren't doing this thing pro bono, ya know.
Foreigners represent more than 80 percent of the population of Dubai, which is estimated to comprise 1.5 million inhabitants despite a spiraling cost of living and steep rental prices. And a sewage problem, don't forget the sewage problem, raw sewage on the beaches and all.
In Dubai, the average annual rent for a one bedroom apartment is around 27,000 dollars.
Rent hikes were capped to a maximum of 15 percent in November 2005 and again last year by Dubai in an attempt to put a lid on soaring prices seen as threatening its competitiveness in attracting foreign businesses.
Iqbal Nair of India, his wife and the couple's two children are all crammed in one room in an old house which they share with other tenants in the popular neighbourhood of Satwa. They pay 500 dollars monthly for their modest lodgings.
"If the municipality imposes its decision I will not think twice: I will have to send back to India my wife and my two children," he said.
In fact, Nair will have to move out sooner or later because the Satwa neighbourhood is due to be razed down to the ground to give way to a mega development project projected to cost nearly 100 billion dollars. Gotta move, redevelopment train a comin'.
But Abdel Rahman is adamant that the municipality has taken a sound decision aimed "above all at protecting the safety of the people".
"Imagine a 10-room house, where each room is occupied by five people all using the same sanitary equipment, the same kitchen, and who sometimes set up their own kitchens (in their rooms) in violation of security norms," he said. Well, that is a valid consideration. But what about two to 4 expats sharing a 2 BR apt? Is that extreme?
"Imagine the pressure this places on the water and power network and even the parking areas," he added. And the Post Offices boxes, don't forget them.
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Does this mean they'll be paying all their guest workers enough money that they'll all be able to afford apartments of their own?
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"Equal Opportunity [sic] Commission CEO Dr Helen Szoke said males had "been the big success story in business and goods and services".
"Clearly, they will have their position changed because they will be competing in a different way with these people who have been traditionally marginalised," she said.
"Let's open it up so everyone can have a fair go.""
...and all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
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"Let's open it up so everyone can have a fair go."
Uh, if white men are discriminated against, how can you say "everyone can have a fair go"?
If you're going to discriminate, at least be honest about it: "fair" outcomes, not fair opportunities. Though guaranteed outcomes is a mighty slippery slope.
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Victoria's peak business body expressed concern yesterday about the need for the proposed laws, and questioned if they would undermine the right of companies to make legitimate business decisions
Didn't stop lawmakers in the States. But then again, look where many of the businesses are today.
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Why agree use a phrase like 'affirmative action'? To do so is to give tacit approval to the Orwellian Newspeak. 'State sanctioned discrimination' is better.
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Right, Bulldog. But it gets seriously Orwellian when employers say they are "Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action" employers. They say it with a straight face too. Boggles my poor, old, feeble, white mind.
CARTOON characters are people too, a judge has ruled in the case of a man convicted over sexually explicit cartoons based on The Simpsons.
In the New South Wales Supreme Court today, Justice Michael Adams ruled that a fictional cartoon character was a "person" within the meaning of the relevant state and commonwealth laws. Alan John McEwan was appealing his February conviction for possessing child pornography and using his computer to access child pornography.
"The alleged pornography comprised a series of cartoons depicting figures modelled on members of the television animated series The Simpsons," the judge said.
The cartoons showed characters such as Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson having sex. McEwan was convicted and fined $3000 and placed on a good behaviour bond.
"In my view, the magistrate was correct in determining that, in respect of both the commonwealth and the NSW offences, the word 'person' included fictional or imaginary characters ...," the judge said. "... The mere fact that the figure depicted departed from a realistic representation in some respects of a human being did not mean that such a figure was not a 'person'."
In dismissing the appeal, the judge ordered each party to pay its own legal costs in the first case dealing with the "difficult" issue
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The SCOTUS had the right idea in punting on this one, and declaring that cartoons were not people, despite Jessica Rabbit. It was made clear to them from the start that "When stick figure p*rn is outlawed, only obtuse angles will have s*x."
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How do you 'card' a cartoon?
What about a cartoon that is 17? Would that be statutory cartoon rape? Sexual misconduct with a cartoon?
Silly-ass judges.
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I jes' KNEW that Popeye and Olive Oyl were gettin it on behind Wimpy's back ( "Is that Really a can of spinach in your pocket or are you glad to see me?")
KENDRAPARA (Orissa): Intensifying an anti-liquor campaign, a group of agitated women ransacked a foreign liquor shop in Mahalahat village under Patkura police station on Monday, policed said.
The women of the village were registering their protest against the opening of the liquor shop since last six months.
Earlier, they had picketed in front of the liquor shop and petitioned the block and district level officials. The grouse of village women was that alocoholism had become rampant breaking up families in the village.
The all-women-mob, mobilised under self-help-groups, broke opened the shop and later destroyed the liquor bottles.
A case has been registered but no arrest made in this connection so far.
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Jeeze, we TOLD YOU the Bailey's wouldn't get here until Tuesday.
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how many village women are in grouse? or is it a gaggle, a swarm, a?
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Ah, heck. I read that and thought it might have been a bunch of "Girls Gone Wild"-type thirsty women looking to get likkered up and have a good time. Instead, it's Carrie Nation, Indian style.
Rats. My idea would have made a MUCH better story.
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In honor with the fine ladies of Kendrapara, as well as our solidary with their cause, I present to the Rantburg listening audience their hymn:
Away With Rum
We're coming, we're coming, our brave little band
On the right side of temperance we do take our stand
We don't use tobacco, because we do think
The people who use it are likely to drink
CHORUS
Away, away with rum by gum,
with rum by gum,
with rum by gum
Away, away with rum by gum,
the song of the temperance union
We never eat fruit cake because it has rum
And one little taste turns a man to a bum
Oh, can you imagine a sorrier sight
Than a man eating fruit cake until he gets tight
We never eat cookies because they have yeast
And one little bite turns a man to a beast
Oh, can you imagine a sadder disgrace
Than a man in the gutter with crumbs on his face
If you wash your hair, never rinse it with beer
Because if you do, you'll get foam in your ear
And if there's one thing a young man must dread
It's dating a girl with a head on her head
If you pick your navel, don't do it with a knife
Because if you do you'll get the shock of your life
Oh, can you imagine a site quite a horrid
As a man pulling out his umbilical cord
We never eat peaches, because peaches ferment
And peaches ferment at the least little dent
Oh can you imagine a sorrier sight
Than a man drunk on peaches he thought were alright
We never eat oatmeal, because oatmeal is mush
And one little bite turns a man to a lush
Oh can you imagine the pain of a ma
To watch little junior act just like his pa
We never chew toothpicks because we recall
That wood ferments into wood alcohol
Oh can you imagine a sorrier sight
Than a man chewing toothpicks until he gets tight
We never drink water, they put it in gin
One little sip and a man starts to grin
Oh can you imagine the horrible sight
Of a man drinking water and singing all night
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i kind of like the idea of a liquor store under the cop shop; it makes it easier to write the DWI tickets. right in the comfort of your own office.
The iconic black and white keffiyeh, or Arab headdress, famously donned by late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat has hit the streets of Beirut in a rainbow of colours -- much to the chagrin of older Palestinians. Stylish youngsters, both men and women, can be seen in the city's chic cafes and restaurants sporting red, blue, pink, brown and purple versions of the keffiyeh. Western and Arab tourists are also snapping up the hip item.
The trend, however, is seen by many here as an insult to a symbol traditionally linked to the Palestinian cause. "These colours aren't for us... it's nonsense, it's a fashion show," said Salim Ali Kayd, 74, who has been a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon since 1948, when Israel was created. "The keffiyeh stands for a person's honour and manhood. It was a rite of passage to wear one upon reaching the age of 18," he added explaining the customs of his generation.
Others like him living in the narrow alleyways of the Shatila refugee camp on the outskirts of Beirut are also upset that their national symbol has become a fad. "Yasser Arafat used to wear it for a reason. It means something," said Kalthoum Ghandour, a 45-year-old Palestinian doctor living in Lebanon. "It was what the revolutionaries wore to conceal their identity," she added. "This is our revolution, our symbol. This trend distorts our heritage." "A noble heritage such as ours must never be distorted!"
Shops in Beirut's diverse Christian and Muslim neighbourhoods are selling the bright-coloured items imported from Syria, Thailand and China. A backlash against the trend has spread to college campuses in Lebanon, where Facebook groups have sprung up called "Palestinian scarf: Understand it or don't bother wearing it!" and "I refuse to let the keffiyeh become a high fashion statement".
This is not the first time the keffiyeh has been co-opted by others. The garment has come in and out of fashion, with youths in the 1960s and 1970s wearing it as a sign of revolt or sympathy with the Palestinian cause. The scarf has also become a signature item for anti-Western anti-war activists. While the latest trend may be more accessory and less ideology -- the keffiyeh's powerful symbolism continues to resonate, and not only among Palestinians.
The issue grabbed headlines in recent months when the Dunkin' Donuts chain came under fire for an online ad that featured an American celebrity chef wearing a paisley patterned scarf that some mistook for a keffiyeh. The ad was pulled after a conservative US commentator complained that it promoted jihad.
The US clothing store Urban Outfitters this year also stopped selling coloured versions of the keffiyeh because of controversy. "They used to wear it around their necks and now they are wearing it around their waists. What's next?," said Haitham, 28, a Palestinian refugee who did not reveal his last name. "Snot rags? Baby wipes??"
Dana, 25, said she recently purchased a blue version of the keffiyeh and maintains that the garment carries no political symbolism. "I used to wear the white one when I would go to protests in college," she said. "These ones are a pure fashion statement. "I got the blue colour because my eyes are blue," added Dana, who did not want her last named used. "Nonetheless people who hate Palestinians shouldn't wear them."
Some young Palestinians, however, are proud to see the craze gather steam. "I have about 10 of them... The keffiyeh belongs to us no matter its colour. I am happy they have become popular," said Ahmed el-Hassan, 22.
Keffiyehs are hard to come by in Lebanon's 12 Palestinian refugee camps that house an estimated 400,000 refugees. They cost on average five dollars but some high-end designers in Lebanon are selling them for over 100 dollars. "The original one was white and black," el-Hassan said. "These might be copies but they're still called keffiyeh which represents Palestine's heritage."
CHICAGO (Dec. 8) - President-elect Barack Obama is weighing in on behalf of workers staging a sit-in on the factory floor of their former Chicago employer to protest abruptly losing their jobs last week. They had no WARNING I tell you, clueless! The death of the housing boom and downturn in orders and production, empty shipping dock, etc, totally escaped the window and door people did it?
Obama told a news conference Sunday that Republic Windows and Doors should follow through on its commitments to the 200 workers, who say they won't leave the plant until they are assured they'll receive their severance and vacation pay.
"The workers who are asking for the benefits and payments that they have earned, I think they're absolutely right and understand that what's happening to them is reflective of what's happening across this economy," Obama said. And when one of terminated employees is injured in the plant and the insurance company says, NO CAN DO to medical coverage and damages, what then Messiah?
He's gonna be a busy young man getting in the middle of all of these closings, very, very busy young man.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan also said her office was investigating the evil, evil, spit, spit, evil company, which has not commented on the sit-in. To their amazement, the workers have become a national symbol of stupidity for thousands of employees laid off nationwide as the economy continues to sour.
"We never expected this," said Melvin Maclin, a factory employee and vice president of the local union that represents the workers. "We expected to go to jail." No sir'ee, didn't see it a comin. Just been enjoying the hell out of these 8 hour coffee breaks.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson delivered turkeys, pledging the support of his Chicago-based civil rights group, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. "These workers deserve their wages, deserve fair notice, deserve health security," Jackson said. "This may be the beginning of long struggle of worker resistance finally." A workers revolution? How very communist.
Leah Fried, an organizer for the United Electrical Workers union that represents the workers, said the company told the union that Bank of America has canceled its financing. The bank had said in a statement that it wasn't responsible for Republic's financial obligations to its employees. Remember donks, trickle-down bailouts economics, it just don't work! Big Amish bank owners, presidents and board members took their share of the bailout money first did they? Sorry, must have slipped by the gummit oversight police.
One of the factory's workers, Silvia Mazon, said in Spanish that she needs the money owed to her for an $1,800 monthly house payment. The 40-year-old from Cicero said she has enough money saved to survive for one month. "We're making history," she said. Better be 'making' tracks to a new job or a warmer climate.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, an Illinois Democrat, called it the start of a movement. "This story has resonated around the world," she said. "Movement" as in industry continuing to move OUT OF ILLINOIS as it has been for the past 45 years.
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The company is caught between laws which require it give notice and pay severence and its available funds. As I understand it, Republic had a line of credit with its bank, which would have normally allowed it to continue operations, but that bank was taken over by Bank of America, who found that Republic did not meet its (new?) credit-worthiness requirements, so it rescinded the line of credit. And may have even put a hold on existing cash balance of Republic, to protect its (Bank of America) other loans out to Republic. What that tells me is that in reality Republic is bankrupt and this sit-in cannot accomplish anything. On the other hand, the feds may require that Bank of America pass along some of that magic bailout money to Republic to pay its former employees, regardless of whether such a loan makes business sense. Where have we seen that kind of banking practice before?
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"...and understand that what's happening to them is reflective of what's happening across this economy," Obama said."
If Obama is making a comparison to the Detroit-Three Auto Makers he has a valid point. As a company, Republic Windows has been poorly run, went through bankruptcy and restructuring, and still couldnt get its shit together. They were unable to fulfill their Dealer obligations and unwilling to honor their warranties. When manufactured correctly their products are average at best. However, they have a high rate of defective products coming right out of the chute. Oddly, Republic is marketed as a Premium product line and therefore overpriced. Oh yeah, their customer service sucks too. Soooo a Union shop that is poorly managed, produces a substandard product, and has over-priced itself out of market share hmmm yep its reflective of this economy all right. But somehow I dont think thats what he meant.
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"One of the factory's workers, Silvia Mazon, said in Spanish"
Yeah, DepotGuy, think there's any correlation? Another ripoff, slipshod operation that should have been gone long ago.
Let's quit being such assholes. Put American workers to work. If you pay more, so be it. Maybe it will actually work. You just buy less. Purchase only what you need, not so much junk that you have to get a rental unit to store the excess. By deporting these illegals, state and local governments could easily reduce outlays by 40% over night. Maybe they could even run balanced budgets. There's a LOT of reality checks needed to get back on an even keel. Until that happens, going to be some tough times ahead.
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The economy won't get better until the US reestablishes a sane trade and tariff policy. Until then, the US will keep merging our economy with the poorest economies of the world that money men can outsource to.
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US will keep merging our economy with the poorest economies of the world that money men can outsource to.
You mean like Hank "Goldman Sachs" Paulson, clients of Kissinger and Associates, Tim "Yes I also speak Chinese" Ginther, and the like?
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Comparing the infringement on civil rights that gays are experiencing to that suffered by black Americans is to begin a game of âtop my oppressionâ that youâre not going to win.
Wait till the 'Black Church' finally wakes up to the Donks other client's [aka the Teachers Union] job on them on their children's children. Time to be pointing out not the hypocrisy of the Obamas sending their darlings to private school [or the Kennedys], but the realization that as parents, its their responsibility to make sure their children get a quality education vice the dumb downed indoctrination from the 'professionals' that own and operate the public system.
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"Apparently the religion espoused by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is now the enemy, at least among the smart set..."
It's taken the NYT until nearly 2009 to figure this out?
The truth about the 2008 election is this: the one thing that is shared by white Obama voters, more than anything else, is contempt/condescension/bigotry towards all but the most emasculated and exsanguinated forms of Christianity. No other issue is as universally present among them, or likely to be in the near future.
The attitude towards even moderately devout Christians possessed by most white Obama voters is not a whole lot different than that of racist rednecks towards black folks. This is particularly true in those employed in the information/entertainment industry, and the education industry, but not limited to these.
If W had been an agnostic or atheist and done everything exactly as he had the last eight years, BDS would have been about half of what it was. Everything we saw in the area of BDS was written onto a palette of existing antipathy towards Christianity. A lot of these folks were just looking for any excuse to smash Christians and Christianity.
Obama's "faith", such as it is, is tolerated by white elitist anti-Christian bigots only because his church was one which espoused Black Liberation Theology. If Obama had gone to a conservative chuch instead of Rev. Wright's, he would not be president elect - it's that simple.
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Great comments.
No mo, you're exactly right. Just yesterday I heard a white Obama voter effortlessly express the proper sort of bemused derision for Christianity, in this case a very rich and tempting target - a neighborhood church-in-a-garage group (ewwwwww! in a nice neighborhood, too!)
The four pillars of "liberal" Democratic politics: anti-religious bigotry, class warfare/envy politics, race-hustling/race-baiting, and befuddled/dishonest pacifism.
Each of these pillars aren't present in the world-views of every lib Dem, of course, but one or more, in some form, are part of the outlook of the vast majority. Do the test yourself - apply this screen to lib Dems you know, or to MSM expressions of their views (i.e., most MSM emanations, whether labeled "news" or "analysis").
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The other revelation in the Prop. 8 saga was that Hispanics were all for it as well. Catholics, you know. It's actually kinda changed my attitude toward immigration. This, of course, was a pretty hard core attitude until the numbers from the election came out. But now I'm afraid that liberalism as practiced by the white people in this state is a move toward self extinction. They do not reproduce, they despise traditional morality, they just don't seem to have any of the basic survival instincts that keep people and societies going. Enter the Hispanics with their old fashioned Catholicism, their strong family ties and solid work ethic. We're gonna be replaced by these people because we're just too decadent.
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But now I'm afraid that liberalism as practiced by the white people in this state is a move toward self extinction.
All liberalism is a move toward self extinction. The only variable is father time.
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Basically, nobody from the pro-Prop * crowd is going to go to Watts, Compton, or South L.A. and protest. Much easier to play 'activist' with the Mormons or Catholics.
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.
CARTOON characters are people too, a judge has ruled in the case of a man convicted over sexually explicit cartoons based on The Simpsons.
KENDRAPARA (Orissa): Intensifying an anti-liquor campaign, a group of agitated women ransacked a foreign liquor shop in Mahalahat village under Patkura police station on Monday, policed said.
The iconic black and white keffiyeh, or Arab headdress, famously donned by late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat has hit the streets of Beirut in a rainbow of colours -- much to the chagrin of older Palestinians. Stylish youngsters, both men and women, can be seen in the city's chic cafes and restaurants sporting red, blue, pink, brown and purple versions of the keffiyeh. Western and Arab tourists are also snapping up the hip item.
