[Bangla Daily Star] Yesterday's hartal called by the BNP to protest the eviction of Khaleda Zia from her cantonment residence was totally uncalled for. It exhibited a total disregard for public convenience, particularly the millions who travel home for Eid holidays.
We feel that calling hartal was even more deplorable given the fact that the reason for it had nothing to do with public interest but entirely related to a personal issue, that of the vacation of a government-allotted house by the leader of the opposition.
The issue of Begum Zia vacating here residence has a lot of emotional content, particularly to her large number of followers. Rather, it was only expected that the BNP muscle will have great difficulty in reconciling with the matter. In fact total non-acceptance was but only natural. While allowing for the emotional knee-jerk reaction on the part of the muscle, we wonder why the BNP leadership could not dissuade their ranks from the programme considering that one of the biggest religious festivals was just round the corner.
No matter how justified one feels one's cause is, and no matter how strong the motivation may be to go for such programmes, when it comes to choosing options public comfort shall have to be given priority over every other consideration.
It is very unfortunate that the BNP had totally disregarded the potential hardship that the common man would be faced with due to the hartal, given the fact it is nearly the eve of Eid-ul-Azha, and a good segment of the people of the metropolis and its surroundings had started their homeward journey already. The hartal has caused serious dislocation to the travel plans of many wishing to join their loved ones, given that travelling on the eve of any religions festival, as it is, is fraught with tremendous uncertainties.
We reiterate our principled stand against hartal because it is an imposition, amounting to snatching the livelihood of the poor, causing tremendous hardship to the public and shutting down healthcare completely during the period of hartal.
There may be times in the future when the BNP may feel provoked to resort to hartal. We would like to assert the need for the BNP not to take such a step however emotion-ridden and sentimentally driven it might get. It would do well to avoid falling into hartal pattern without which the country has been so much better off all these months.
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Dark Beer Das tist good;
"erroneously translating Old Norse ragnarök (fate of the gods), misconstrued as ragnarökkr (twilight of the gods).
Götterdämmerung? - collapse of communism. The End.
Contagious magic is based on the principle that things or persons once in contact can afterward influence each other. In other words, it is believed that there is a permanent relationship between an individual and any part of his or her body. As a consequence, believers must take special precautions with their hair, fingernails, teeth, clothes, and feces. If anyone obtained these objects, magic could be performed on them which would cause the person they came from to be affected. For instance, someone could use your fingernail clippings in a magical ritual that would cause you to love them or to fall ill and die.
In a belief system that uses magic as the most logical explanation for illness, accidents, and other unexpected occurrences, there is no room for natural causes or chance. Witchcraft provides the explanation--it can be the cause for most effects. Since it can be practiced in secret, the existence of witchcraft cannot be easily refuted with arguments. Believers are not dissuaded by pointing out that there is no evidence that any witchcraft was used against them. For example, you may wake up in the middle of the night and go to get a drink of water. On the way, you trip over a chair in the dark, which causes you to break your leg. You may be convinced that it was an accident. However, if you believe in witchcraft, you will ask why this accident happened to you and why now. Magic practiced in secret by someone who wants to harm you is the answer. The only reasonable questions are who performed the magic and why. The answers to these questions come through divination which is a magical procedure by which the cause of a particular event or the future is determined. Once the guilty person is discovered, retribution may be gained by public exposure and punishment or by counter witchcraft.
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That's why I'm always very careful about how I dispose of my fingernail clippings.
The political fallout from Jindal's book is likely to be magnified by an Interior Department inspector general report. Interior IG Mary Kendall investigated claims that the White House misrepresented the views of seven scientists who had been asked to assess the effect of a six-month moratorium on drilling in the Gulf. "After reviewing different drafts of the Executive Summary that were exchanged between DOI and the White House prior to its final issuance, the OIG determined that the White House edit of the original DOI draft Executive Summary led to the implication that the moratorium recommendation had been peer-reviewed by experts," Kendall said. White House energy czar Carol Browner was responsible for the revisions that prompted the outside scientists to protest publicly that they were being misrepresented by federal officials.
The only surprise in all of this is that anybody would be surprised. Or that neither Obama nor his White House spokesmen have stepped forward to deny any of the details in either Jindal's account of the Food Stamp incident or the Interior Department IG's report. After all, threatening retaliation against critics and using confrontational language in an attempt to intimidate them is par for the course for the Chicago-style gangster government that nurtured Obama and his now-former chief of staff.
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When you ride roughshod over everybody there's always any number of folks willing to investigate and testify to bring you back down to earth.
So do 4,999 comments include this one, or is this the 5,000th when I submit it? Don't I get to be a Special Silver Snarker? What's the next award level after 5,000 comments?
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What's the next award level after 5,000 comments?
Why, a Special Gold Snarker, of course. At your 10,000th comment.
Go for it! :-)
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Nothing better illustrates the new Wahhabi stranglehold on Indonesian politics than the reaction of Tifatul Sembiring, the minister in question, to news reports about the now infamous handshake.
Initially, he claimed that the physical contact had taken place without his consent, as if he had been seized by the well-toned First Lady and wrestled into submission.
I like it.
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Because nobody stands up to it publically or if they do they get shat on. But this has been going on for a while now, the first real public indicator was when No Doubt got harassed for their concert. Ironic, the writer/singer of Just a Girl submitting for some stupid concert then not making a fuss.
Most boys outgrow cooties at 10..but perhaps encouraged to wed 8 years olds must make the old man reminise.
* WORLD NEWS > NEWSVINE > {Free-Democratic] AMERICA TARGETED BY AUTOCRATIC ISLAMIC REGIMES.
ARTIC = In sum, the DEFEAT = FALL OF FREE DEMOC AMERICA is key for future ISLAMO-MUSLIM WORLD CONQUEST + DOMINANCE, as the latter has been desired by Islam since the 7th Century,
ALso in Artic > [CAIR Agenda]ISLAM IN AMERICA IS NOT PRESENT TO BE EQUAL OR FAIR TO ALL OTHER NON-ISLAMIC FAITHS, BUT TO ENSURE THAT ISLAM + SHARIA IS ACCEPTED + ULTIMATELY DOMINATES IN AMERICA [Islam, Sharia = Future American Way-of-Life-N-Belief]..
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
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
