That's the one who prefers the boys to know they're toys. Good riddance to bad rubbish, sez I -- we don't hold with such goings on from women, same as from men.
Pakistani police have arrested an imam accused of planting burnt pages of the Koran in the bag of a Christian girl accused of blasphemy, officials say. A witnessed testified against the imam.
The girl was detained two weeks ago near the capital Islamabad after an angry mob demanded she be punished.
Last year two leading politicians were assassinated after speaking out against the Pak custom of dealing out death to those accused of blasphemy.
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Pretty sure the girl/her parents will still have to make a jail-v-life-v-get outta Dodge choice....participating in actions leading to the arrest of an Imam is bad juju......
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But they said Jadoon said: You know this is the only way to expel the Christians from this area.
On August 24 Jadoon told AFP he thought the girl had burned the pages deliberately as part of a Christian conspiracy to insult Muslims and said action should have been taken sooner to stop what he called their anti-Islam activities in Mehrabad.
Conspiracies huh?
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On the January night in 2008 when he won the Iowa caucuses, Barack Obama delivered a victory speech that would reverberate forcefully across a divided America. Iowans, he said, had come together -- Democrats, Republicans and independents -- to stand as one in calling for a new politics of unity and hope. It was a message that would help carry him to the White House 10 months later. Simon and Garfunkel, 1968 - "A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest." He never had more than 52% of the folks, he just believed he had everybody.
Two months before the 2012 election, the campaign has become an all-or-nothing battle over the future direction of the country. Did you just arrive from another planet?
Obama's reelection is threatened most by the state of the economy. But he also could be hurt because of the disappointment felt by voters who invested so heavily in what he seemed to offer four years ago and for whom expectations were raised to stratospheric heights. Some saw -even four years ago - that vague promises would be interpreted a thousand different ways. Some saw four years ago that the man delivering those vague promises had no ability, and no intention, of keeping them... The president's advisers contend that Republicans chose the course of obstruction and intransigence from the day Obama was sworn in. No stooopid - he had a majority in both houses, which he squandered. Then the people gave the House back to the Trunks.
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said there has been a misunderstanding of just what Obama was talking about in 2008 when he called for a new politics. We common folk often fail to understand what the smartest guy in the room is talking about. An inspiring speaker, but not very coherent.
"The president didn't promise an era of kumbaya politics in which everyone agreed," he said. "The primary thing he talked most about was that politicians too often ran from big problems that had haunted our country for decades. Whether folks like it or not, he did jump in and take on very big problems with full knowledge that they would have political consequences for him." One- very big pseudo-problem was all he took on and the process by which he did so poisoned the well. So to speak. Another problem was that he -- literally -- grabbed all the money in sight and handed it out to campaign contributors and supporters for "shovel-ready projects"... There are also a teeny, tiny number of questions about how hard Obama tried. His advisers cannot point to a clear strategy for trying to create a climate of cooperation -- other than their belief that the support he won in the election and the economic crisis would create those conditions. They argue that he incorporated Republican ideas into the stimulus and spent months waiting to see if a bipartisan health-care plan would emerge from the Senate Finance Committee.
He also missed or passed up opportunities to show his willingness to challenge the status quo. And there is not much evidence that, as things turned sour, there was a fallback strategy for how to change the climate. Through the first 21 / 2 years, there were ongoing efforts toward accommodation, but he found no way to break through the divisions. When the debt-ceiling negotiations collapsed amid recriminations on both sides, Obama decided to move virtually full time into campaign mode. There''s a nugget of truth - the Campaigner in Chief. The call for a new politics shorn of bitterness and red-blue divisions had long been at the heart of Obama's political persona. He wove that message into every important speech of the campaign, from his announcement in February 2007 all the way to his inauguration speech. By then, however, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill were already at odds over an economic stimulus program. Republicans call the stimulus battle the original sin of the Obama presidency. White House officials mark it as the moment when hope and change collided with Republican intransigence. That''s enough. It''s not the Republicans who are obstructing - they only represent the people wjo put them there. Until the House goes back to the Dims, it''s the people who are blocking The one, and he just can''t get over it. Nor can the WaPo.
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misunderstanding of just what Obama was talking about in 2008 when he called for a new politics
I kept hearing, and still do, how Zero is the greatest orator, genius and communicator of the last 1000 years. And, yet, I see all the time (from Obozo himself as well as his sycophants) how he just didn't "SELL" the bailouts (aka stimulus) well enough.
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Ahahahahahaha - The call for a new politics shorn of bitterness and red-blue divisions had long been at the heart of Obamas political persona. Fuhrerprinzip much?
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Why the front page obit? I thought Champ was going to roll that Mormon robot and his cheeky oldster-killing sidekick.
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White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said there has been a misunderstanding of just what Obama was talking about in 2008 when he called for a new politics
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#5 Good question. If it hasn't started already, I think this is the time when a lot of beltway denizens start asking themselves, "What am I going to do for a job when R2 gets elected?" Which is going to lead to conversations like:
"Hey, Bob, it's me, Bill..."
"Yes, I did call you 'just another lying Republican c--ks--ker'. But it wasn't personal, you know."
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09/02/2012 13:43 Comments ||
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The Aliens from Iran did it all> It's Iran's fault!
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Apparently the magical history eraser that BHO & company borrowed from the USSR has struck again. All mention of this seems to have disappeared from the DNC sched of events.
On the one hand they support the 'weaken America' policy. On the other hand there is gay marriage and abortion
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Twin horns of dilemma for them. Excuse me, I have something important to do like trim my toenails or watch my grass go into hibernation during this dry spell or count the out-of-state license plates in my dead-end neighborhood.
[Washington Times] A torrential downpour that struck Charlotte Saturday afternoon damaged the Mount Rushmore-style sand sculpture bust of President B.O. -- an ominous beginning to what many fear is a plagued convention.
Workers were trying Saturday afternoon to reform the base of the sculpture, built from sand brought in from Myrtle Beach, S.C., pounding and smoothing out the sand that had washed off the facade of the waist-up rendering of the chief executive.
The sand sculpture was protected from above, and Mr. Obama's face didn't see too much damage. But the storm was so strong that its heavy winds blew the rain sideways, pelting the president's right side and leaving the sand pockmarked and completely erasing his right elbow.
Democrats' choice of Charlotte has drawn criticism from unions who don't like North Carolina's labor laws, and the state seems to be tilting away from Democrats politically.
The large Rushmore-style sculpture drew comparisons to Mr. Obama's 2008 convention in Denver, when he accepted his party's nomination on a stage that looked like a Greek temple.
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Preznit "Head In The Sand" - not just figuratively
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Obligatory:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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"The expression "feet of clay" can be traced back to the biblical Book of Daniel. King Nebuchadnezzar experienced a terrifying dream in which he saw a massive statue constructed from various precious metals. The feet of this statue were composed of a mixture of iron and clay, making it especially vulnerable to an attack. Indeed, an massive stone did strike the statue at its clay feet, reducing the entire effigy to dust."
Seems to work with sand too. Hey, I don't think the ONE is going to make Mount Rushmore.
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Isn't Algore supposed to have a speech at the DNC convention? Have they insured against freak snowstorms and gale-force winds? What do they say about history? Isn't it that it repeats, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? What happens after that? Utter collapse?
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09/02/2012 22:17 Comments ||
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An ironic choice of medium I'd say.
Posted by: Past Master of the Obvious ||
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Because nobody but leftists has the intelligence or maturity or moral authority to be in positions of power, and ahyone else who somehow gets there is not legitimate and needs to be taken out by any means necessary.
/sarc off
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RJ, good point. In some ways, to liberals, Ryan would be worse than Romney. So, I guess if the liberals impeached and convicted Romney, they would win a "moral" victory, but the result would be worse - for them. As JohnQC said, ain't gonna happen.
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"So clearly they expect Romney to win."
Make it so, Mr. Schwarz. ;-p
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The president's advisers contend that Republicans chose the course of obstruction and intransigence from the day Obama was sworn in.
There are also a 
The call for a new politics shorn of bitterness and red-blue divisions had long been at the heart of Obama's political persona. He wove that message into every important speech of the campaign, from his announcement in February 2007 all the way to his inauguration speech. By then, however, Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill were already at odds over an economic stimulus program. Republicans call the stimulus battle the original sin of the Obama presidency. White House officials mark it as the moment when hope and change collided with Republican intransigence.
A torrential downpour that struck Charlotte Saturday afternoon damaged the Mount Rushmore-style sand sculpture bust of 
