Two outlaws were slaughtered by their rivals at Nandanpur village under Ataikula upazila of the district early yesterday. The dead are Tikka, 35, of Bangram Masterpara under Santhia upazila, and Baki, 33, of Nandanpur village under Ataikula upazila. Oh, must be neighbors.
According to police, Tikka and Baki were cadres of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (ML-Janajuddho). Not to be confused with the Old Biplopi Communist Party ...
Local people said a gang of 20 picked up the two outlaws from a house at the village at around 1:00am. Learned a thing or two from the RAB, did they ...
The gang took the two to a field and slit their throats. No shutter gun required.
On information, police went to the village yesterday morning, recovered the bodies and sent them to Pabna General Hospital for autopsy.
"Here's two more for you, Dr. Quincy!"
"Yeah sure, Sam, stack 'em in the back with the rest. Boy my wrists are killing me!"
Police said Tikka and Baki might have been killed by their rivals in the party. Couldn't have been the RAB, there would have been a press release.
Both were wanted in twelve systems a number of cases, they added.
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C'mon, folks. Don't try this at home.
Leave it to the professionals...
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Toughening its stance against right-wing warlords once unofficially allied with the government, Colombia on Friday transferred to prison 59 militia leaders said to have planned a mass escape from a work farm.
Four government helicopters arrived at the La Ceja camp near the northern city of Medellin to take the militia chiefs to a nearby high security prison, the latest in a series of government clampdowns on the right-wing fighters. The men, held on charges ranging from massacre to drug smuggling, are among more than 30,000 paramilitaries who have turned in their weapons over the last three years in exchange for benefits including reduced prison terms and the suspension of extradition orders.
But some of those suspensions may now be revoked, as the government loses patience with militia leaders accused of continuing their lives of crime while in government custody. "The transfer order results from credible information that there could be risk of escape," Colombian Interior Minister Carlos Holguin told reporters.
The transfer was ordered by President Alvaro Uribe, a close U.S. ally, who is also facing a political crisis in which three allied lawmakers were arrested last month for being involved with the paramilitaries. The militia leaders have committed some of the worst atrocities of Colombia's four-decade-old conflict, in which thousands are killed each year.
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Mexico's new President Felipe Calderon promised on Friday to get tough on violent crime by slapping tougher sentences on drug traffickers and other lawbreakers. Calderon said his administration, which took power on Friday, would put together a plan within 90 days to step up the fight against organized crime and clean up a corrupt police force whose officers often work in league with felons.
Drug-trafficking gangs have killed almost 3,000 Mexicans in the last two years in a bloody struggle for control of the trade in cocaine and other drugs destined for the United States. "It's not going to be easy or quick, it will take time and will cost a lot of money and even human lives," he told supporters in Mexico City's vast national auditorium, detailing his specific agenda for cracking down on lawbreakers. "I will be at the forefront of this battle. We are going to beat crime."
Many of Mexico's largest cities are plagued by kidnappings, muggings and carjackings, while some rural areas have become drug-trafficking strongholds where local police fear to tread. "Today criminals want to terrorize and immobilize society and the government," said the conservative Calderon. "Let's put an end to the impunity of criminals."
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Just remember the three numbered envelopes that Fox gave you.
When things get really out of control, open number one. It will read - blame everything on your predecessor. It should buy you time.
When things get really out of control again, open number two. It will read - reorganize. It should buy you time.
When thing get massively out of control again, open number three. It will read - prepare three envelopes for your replacement.
The unknown assassin who killed Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy, appeared last night to have claimed a second victim after tests revealed that one of the dead man's associates had been poisoned with the same radioactive isotope, polonium-210. Mario Scaramella was found to have ingested a potentially fatal dose of the substance and was being treated at a London hospital last night.
The Italian self-styled security consultant says he flew to London last month to warn Mr Litvinenko that both their lives were at risk. At a meeting at a West End sushi restaurant he claims he gave the Russian a document which named five people on a hitlist allegedly drawn up by Russian intelligence officers. Mr Scaramella's urine was tested after he returned to London this week following Mr Litvinenko's death. The Guardian has been told that the amount of polonium-210 discovered in the Russian's body could have killed him 100 times over, and would have cost as much as £20m to acquire. While the amount detected in Mr Scaramella's body is considerably less, it presents a grave threat to his health. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said "high quantities" of polonium-210 had been found. "The quantities are such that they are likely to be of concern for his immediate health," a spokesman said.
Scientists advising police believe it is possible he was poisoned at the same time as the former spy, who complained of feeling ill shortly after the meeting at the Itsu sushi restaurant in Piccadilly on November 1. Mr Litvinenko ate fish, while the Italian only drank a glass of water. Since his voluntary return to the UK last Monday, Mr Scaramella, 36, has been under the protection of Scotland Yard detectives and has been having a debriefing at Ashford Park Hotel near Forest Row, East Sussex, part of which was sealed off last night. He was tested for poisoning at the request of Scotland Yard.
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Remember that an extremely small amount of Polonium ingested can kill. Smearing a bit on the lip of a bottle of water could do it, or sprinkling a bit on a piece of sushi. A very small drop in cigarette tobacco which is then smoked, would also work, and might explain the material scattered all over the place.
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Expensive hit. For that kinda money I would have gone ahead and sprung for 6 professional thugs to hold him while a Doc or a qualified practicing nurse injected the polonium into a vein. I'd want to be sure.
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Ship,
You're right about the cost, but let's face it - murder by polonium has a certain James Bond quality to it that can be appreciated by fine megalomaniac villains everywhere.
Mike
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3 round trip first class plane tickets from Moscow: $25,000
2 grams of Polonium: $75,000
2 weeks of headlines and Brits running around like chickens without heads?: Priceless.
See before and after photos of the Chirac-Crime-Family's removal of Christian crosses from a Brittany cemetary. One French blog says some of the interned fought naval battles against Muslim Barbary pirates (unlikely).
If Keith Ellison has his way, there will be no Crosses in Arlington Cemetary; only the Crescent sword symbol.
The last time I was upset like I am now was when those Buddha figures in Afghanistan were destroyed by the Taliban swine with opposable thumbs.
In the past, when armies conquered an area they would quite often then go to work to erase the religious and cultural symbols and icons of the population. Here we are doing it for them. Before they get there. With the misguided hope that they kill us last. Good or bad, it was what the people who died for a cause wanted. Leave it alone.
When Chirac dies he should be thrown head first into a volcano with no ceremony. Along with anyone else who thinks this is a good idea. At least they would know exactly what was going to happen to them after they died.
The fighting hasn't even started yet and they've already surrendered.
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Interesting, SpecOp35 - if he openly associates himself with Hillary, then his Favorite Son status could offset Obama's "popularity" - though I believe that to be yet another media thingy, a vaporous bandwagon effort among the Limo Liberal Editorial Krowd.
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I hate to be a heavy psychedelic bummer, but that picture .com linked to in #8? Those are the people who are calling the shots now in today's Democratic Party.
And the American people-- God help us all-- just made them a majority in Congress.
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A colonial-era footbridge collapsed onto railroad tracks in eastern India on Saturday, burying a train beneath tons of red rock and killing at least 33 passengers.
Rescuers struggled for hours to remove the pile of concrete, slabs of red stone and debris from the mangled sleeper car. By nightfall, they reached the crushed section and discovered that the car believed to have been largely empty was full of bodies.
Thirty-three bodies had been recovered by Saturday night, including those of five children, said Ajay Verma, deputy inspector general of police for railways. Fourteen people were pulled out alive and four of the wounded were in a serious condition.
The 150-year-old arched footbridge at the Bhagalpur station, in the eastern state of Bihar, had been in the process of being dismantled, said Viplav Kumar, a local government administrator at the scene.
Bhagalpur is about 93 miles east of Patna, the capital of Bihar.
Two of the three arched spans had already been removed, but the third came crashing down in a cloud of dust.
"A loud roar and the heavens seemed to have crumbled over us," passenger Anil Yadav, told the Press Trust of India news agency. "Thick clouds of dust streamed into the compartment, leaving me gasping for breath."
Television footage showed a man pleading for help through a shattered window.
Hundreds of people crowded around as rescue workers used cranes, bulldozers and even their hands to remove the rubble.
Railway Minister Lalu Prasad ordered an inquiry into the incident and suspended two railway engineers responsible for dismantling the bridge.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said safety norms had not been followed.
"This is definitely the fault of the railways," he said.
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Bihar is the poorest and most backward part of India.. its very own version of subsaharan Africa.
Only the presence of the Indian Federal government, and periodic presidential rule from Delhi prevents it falling into the abyss...
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Got a photo from Alaska Paul a few months ago where a backhoe hit a bridge over I-70 in Kansas, cutting it half in two. I don't know why bridges hate trains, and I for sure don't know why backhoes hate bridges, but I believe stupidity is the common denominator...
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I blame the metric system...minimum clearances are such a subjective thang
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New Delhi, Dec 02: Buoyed by a successful missile interception in higher atmospheric zone, defence scientists are now planning to shoot down incoming warheads, much closer to ground, with a new missile named Pad.
The country's top Missile Scientist Vijay Kumar Saraswat told a press conference today that "within the next three to four months the DRDO is planning to carry out another missile interception in the endoatmospheric zone" -- a pattern used by the Americans in the development of their Patriot PAC-III anti-missile shield.
"We have demonstrated the technology to defend against incoming ballistic missile threat," he said, but added it would take another three to four years to develop for the country a full-fledged anti-missile theatre shield.
Saraswat's announcement comes in the midst of recent criticism of the DRDO which has been accused of allowing "heavy time and cost overruns" in critical projects.
He admitted that the Pad was still a technology demonstrator and said it would need another half-a-dozen tests to validate it as a missile shield.
The scientist said in any future indigenous missile shields, India would have to have a mix of exoatmospheric and endoatmospheric interception capabilities to match short reaction threats.
He ruled out that India might opt out of trying to acquire either the American or Israeli anti-missile system saying "we are only at the beginning and at this stage co-development or outright acquisition cannot be counted of."
Saraswat is the Chief Controller of the country's missile programme and project director of the air defence missiles, whose team successfully carried out India's first ever surface-to-surface missile interception in the exoatmospheric zone on November 27.
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Apparently the radar they are using is a "joint development" - they aren't saying who, but is most probably a derivative of the Israeli Green Pine.
They probably want to integrate the Patriot PAC-3 with their own interceptors in this ABM system.
A recent Russian article mentioned that Russia would not provide the source codes for the S300 system if India bought the Patriot.
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New Delhi: India has unveiled a missile interceptor on the basis of which it claims unprecedented capability to defend itself against a missile attack.
The DRDO claims that two batteries of this system are sufficient to defend the capital.
It is a substantially reconfigured version of the Prithvi missile. The Monday test demonstrated the ability of the Prithvi-based system to intercept an incoming ballistic missile at an altitude of 80 kilometre above the surface.
Missile Programme Head Dr VK Saraswat said, We have developed the technologies which are required to configure a anti-ballistic missile system. "
In fact, it is a two-tiered system, with the modified Prithvi being the high-end interceptor. Should the Prithvi fail to stop an incoming missile; there is a second layer of defence, with another interception attempt at 30 kilometre above the ground with another missile, as yet unidentified.
The DRDO claims a 99.8 per cent kill probability with this twin system, when four interceptors are fired in a sequence.
"Together against same target you launch one Exo-atmospheric interceptor and also one Endo-atmospheric interceptor. Then you see how it works. Because that is what the actual scenario is going to be, " Saraswat added.
Critical to the capability is a modified Israeli Greenpine radar, which tracks the incoming missile. But critics of the missile defence concept have pointed out that successful interception under controlled conditions can be misleading. The technology, it is generally believed, is several decades away from maturity.
So, if India were to claim that it has a capability to blunt missile threats, what could it mean for nuclear deterrence in the region? A possibility is that an adversary could over-react to overcome the stated defences by firing more missiles.
The DRDO says two of its systems would be sufficient to defend a city of the size of Delhi from a ballistic missile attack. It needs six more tests over a three-year time frame to refine the technology.
But the DRDO is not willing to give any assurances on when the armed forces would be able to use this system.
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"No sir, Mr. Putin, that's not a Patriot missile system we're buying, that's a Pak-riot system. Entirely different. Can we have the codes now?"
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...Wondering if the Indians aren't trying to do the same thing to the Paks we did to the Sovs - set the bar so high for a successful attack that it will break their economy beyond hope to try and outbuild them...
Mike
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MUMBAI, DEC 1: Impressed with the high quality of state-run Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd's (NPCIL) existing plants and the credibility of its expansion programme, the US government and the visiting American nuclear companies plan to organise one more visit to India to explore business opportunities. This was what representatives of US nuclear companies GE, Westinghouse, Thorium Power and Transco Products had to say during a presentation by NPCIL here on Friday.
The presentation came in the wake of the Senate passing the Indo-US civilian nuclear Bill last month. Sources involved with Fridays presentation told FE, NPCIL briefed US companies about the prevailing regulatory and security norms besides investments lined up for capacity addition. They were also told that private sector participation in nuclear energy capacity addition will be possible only after India's Atomic Energy Act is amended.
NPCIL chairman and managing director SK Jain explained the nuclear power scenario in India. Sources said US companies were specifically told that they would have to strictly follow regulatory norms as an independent regulator was in place. They were also informed that just a license from the US would not fulfill the requirement to do business in India. US companies said they had no problem in adhering to regulatory norms, the sources added. US undersecretary of commerce and international trade Franklin Lavin praised the high quality of plants and the qualified manpower employed in the Indian nuclear power sector.
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PESHAWAR Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said the government is determined to go ahead with more legislations to ensure protection of womens rights and to get them involved in the development of the country. Passage of the Protection of Womens Rights Bill 2006 is the first step of the governments initiatives regarding womens welfare and development, he remarked during a chat with the media at Governor House Peshawar yesterday.
The prime minister said the present government, in accordance with the vision of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has initiated steps for safeguarding the rights and interest of women. He said progress could not be achieved without providing due protection and opportunities to women.
That's a true statement, but let's face it, you guys have been exposed to these ideas for a while and not much has happened, because you're either afraid of or enamored with turban-wearing, spittle-fling people.
In response to a question, Aziz said the government is also working on certain changes and amendments in the Family Laws to ensure due rights of women in inherited properties. He reminded that federal government had agreed to introduce changes and reforms in such laws in the interest of women and that it was not laying the foundation of a Westernised society.
"Oh no, we'd never do that!"
The prime minister said, There is no pressure by the federal government on the NWFP governor in connection with the Hasba Bill passed by the provincial assembly. He said the bill is being thoroughly examined by different institutions.
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Religious party activists held small protests on Friday in several cities around Pakistan as President Pervez Musharraf signed into law a bill curtailing the scope of Islamic laws on rape. Islamist opposition lawmakers have threatened to resign from parliament over the issue, but protests held after the National Assembly passed the Women's Protection Bill earlier this month have failed to generate much public support. "Right. We're gonna get out there and demonstrate against nooky."
The passage of the bill was seen as a test of Musharraf's commitment to his vision of "enlightened moderation", and a major battle in a long struggle between progressives and religious conservatives to set the course for this mainly Muslim nation. "The bill was sent to the president by the prime minister yesterday, which he signed and returned today," Information Minister Mohammad Ali Durrani told Reuters.
Hundreds of supporters of the Islamist parties chanted anti-Musharraf slogans at a demonstration in Rawalpindi, the city next door to Islamabad, and demanded that the government scrap the bill, and there were smaller rallies in other cities after Friday prayers. The act takes the crime of rape out of the sphere of the religious laws, known as the Hudood Ordinances, and puts it under the penal code. Under the Hudood Ordinances, which were introduced by a military ruler in 1979, a rape victim had to produce four male witnesses to prove the crime, or face the possibility of prosecution for adultery. The change does away with that requirement and will allow convictions to be made on the basis of forensic and circumstantial evidence.
An Islamist opposition leader said it would turn conservative Pakistan into a "free sex zone". Liberal groups and human rights activities have hailed the amendment, although they want a complete abolition of the Hudood Ordinances.
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"Under the Hudood Ordinances, which were introduced by a military ruler in 1979, a rape victim had to produce four male witnesses to prove the crime, or face the possibility of prosecution for adultery."
Charming people, these Wahhabist-trained and educated, and Deobandist-inspired Muzzies.
Unless we're talking what, fivesome or sixsome, how in the world is a rape victim to produce four male witnesses? And in such a misogynistic culture, really, four male witnesses to vouch for a female just raped by her uncle? Come on now.
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Charming people, these Wahhabist-trained and educated, and Deobandist-inspired Muzzies.
Ironically the Pak dictator General Zia Ul Haq, born in Jalandhar, India was educated at the Government High School, Simla and got a B.A. from St. Stephen College, Delhi. He was trained at the US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
A most secular background. But scratch the surface and the islamist emerges?
BTW he led one of the "Black September" Ops in Jordan that crushed the PLO.
The sash he wore was an award granted by the King of Jordan...
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Islamist opposition lawmakers have threatened to resign from parliament over the issue
Go right ahead. Don't need you @$$holes anyway.
Good for Pakistan, good for Pakistanis, good for Islam in general.
It's interesting how much denial you'll see in the ME. That sign says "Niswan bill is a sign of forcination", as if they want to bury their heads in the sand that there might be some muslims that are actually human. Nothing changes, you just become aware of it. They'd rather live in ignorance, I guess. No wonder original science isn't one of their strong points.
Oscar-winning US actress Gwyneth Paltrow feels dinner talk is far more interesting in her adopted homeland Britain than back in her native country.
"I love the English lifestyle, it's not as capitalistic as America. People don't talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner," she told "NS," the weekend magazine supplement of daily Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias on Saturday. Well, if she won an Oscar, she's almost Nobel material.
"I like living here because I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans," the 34-year-old added. They do the *sniff* thingy better 'n anyone.
Paltrow, who won a best actress Oscar for 1998's "Shakespeare in Love," lives in London with British band Coldplay's frontman Chris Martin whom she wed in 2003.
She said having US pop star Madonna, 48, who married British film director Guy Ritchie six years ago, nearby was another advantage to living in London.
"She's like an older sister. Everything I have gone through, she went through ten times worse and ten times longer. She gives me good advice about how to say no and take care of myself," said Paltrow. Madonna. Now we're talking class, baby.
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People don't talk about work and money, they talk about interesting things at dinner
I actually enjoy a certain amount of work-related discussion at dinner, although my guests generally don't rehash the 2:00 meeting. But then, I know interesting, intelligent people with a wide range of interests who do interesting and useful work in creative ways, and who are as likely to discuss how Charles Van Doren's _A_History_of_Knowledge_ shaped their world view (for me it was Van Loon's _Lives_ and more recently Revel's _Anti-Americanism_) as they are to describe their adventures in India. I've even had some fascinating war-related discussions with some colleagues who'd been involved, wherein I was able to make use of what I learnt here (garning a great many startled and bemused expressions, for which I thank Rantburgers all. Such knowledge apparently is not expected from a dear little Midwestern suburban housewife!).
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Maybe it's bad food that makes for good conversation. I grew up in Scotland. Where the cuisine was similar to the English, but blander. As a result, our dinner conversations were quite spirited. And the result of that, heated debate. Try inviting a Scot's to dinner and mention poetry.
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This reminded me of the scene in The Aviator when Hughes is invited to the Hepburn compound for lunchies. Their Socialist prattle finally gets to him and he says that they are dismissive of money (i.e. work, capitalism, success) because they have it. He excuses himself from the table and leaves. Of course, once he's gone, it's clear his dead-on-the-money observation has gone right over their pointy elitist heads.
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Yeah, I can see how work related question could get to her...
I mean like: "you looked like quite the dom when you posed in a black leather bikini with a whip, Gwyneth - could you model that sometime for my son? He needs some incentive to study."
Or, "you are in nude in so many of your movies but we never get to really see the nasty parts of the guys your with - how do they keep it modest with a babe like you? Like how are you able to turn them off so well?"
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"The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans,"
It's called generalizing from a limited case. I would think the stray cats in my alley were more intelligent than Americans if the only Americans I knew were Hollywood bozos and porn lords. What a twit.
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that's a lotta words for someone who reads from a script for a living. Successful highschool grad and UCSB dropout? Intelleckshul
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Here's a dinner question for ya, sweetheart: if Brits are so "intelligent and civilized," why will you have to wear a niqab before I do?
TW, I'd take black coffee and cigarette and leave the Earl Grey to you, but I suspect our conversations would be far more interesting than what passes for intellectual exchange at Gwyneth's table. No doubt it revolves around weighty geopolitical issues, like which tart's salary goes up her nose, which one has her head down the loo, and which one is deliberately trying for beaver shots to boost her CD sales. Riveting, I'm sure.
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We lived in England for 18 months back in the mid-1980's. My wife became quite close to several of the women in the local Lace Guild. They discussed much the same thing women discuss anywhere in the world - home, children, who's doing what, where, when, etc., - plus a lot about lacemaking, knitting, embroidery, and other "womanly" topics. They seldom talked politics, and they NEVER talked work, although several of the ladies worked outside the home. When we get together with friends, we discuss what interests us all, not necessarily the latest Rantburg comments or the latest joke from Hollyweird. As for Gwyneth Paltrow, I wouldn't recognize her if she walked into my living room, and that's probably not going to change because she thinks "Brits are so intelligent and civilized". I much prefer an honest barbarian to a lying "civilized" piece of fecal matter, or an idiotic bimbo.
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what a stupid ass. I'm sure she's enjoying knowing that everyone is talking about her stupid remarks, and maybe she's eating them for dinner.These hollywood types don't deserve the press they get.
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Lol, Jan. She'll never know what folks like us think - nor would she care, lol - she and her ilk live in an acho chamber - which is the incubator for such idiotic statements. Just imagine how smarmy they'll be toward her at the next dinner. She "wins" - in her world.
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The America Gwyn speaks of is not the America the rest of us know. From her Wikipedia entry:
Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, to the film and television director Bruce Paltrow and the actress Blythe Danner; Paltrow's father was Jewish and her mother was raised a Quaker. Raised in Santa Monica, she attended Spence School, a private girls' school in New York City, and briefly studied art history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before dropping out and committing herself to acting. Paltrow has a younger brother, Jake Paltrow, and is a cousin of actress Katherine Moennig.
Democrats have long attacked President Bush for the historic tax cuts he ushered through Congress during his first term and have promised to reverse at least some of them. But among their top priorities when they take over Congress next month is passing a permanent tax cut of their own.
Included in their "Six for '06" platform that they say helped them win majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats promised to: "Make college tuition deductible from taxes, permanently."
Their tax cut promise is neither an election-year gimmick, Democrats say, nor a reversal in their long-standing opposition to Mr. Bush's tax cuts. "Democrats have made it clear that the middle class will be our priority and making college more affordable is a key concern of working families," said incoming House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat.
They have been less clear, however, about their plans for other tax cuts that expire in 2010 and or how to raise the revenue required to institute the "pay-go" rules they have promised. Those rules prohibit adding any new spending to the budget or cutting taxes unless there is money in the budget.
Airport officials said Friday they will consider setting aside a private area for prayer and meditation at the request of imams concerned about the removal of six Muslim clerics from a US Airways flight last week.
A group of Somali clerics met with airport officials Friday and said they would attract less attention if they had a private area for prayer. Devout Muslims pray five times daily, facing the holy city of Mecca.
"When we pray, we don't want a problem. We don't want what happened last week," said Abdulrehman Hersi, an imam at Darul-Quba mosque in Minneapolis, referring to six clerics who were barred from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis after drawing the concern of some passengers.
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"When we pray, we don't want a problem. We don't want what happened last week," said Abdulrehman Hersi, an imam at Darul-Quba mosque in Minneapolis, referring to six clerics who were barred from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis after drawing the concern of some passengers.
Guess what, asshole. Demanding preferential treatment makes you into part of the problem, NOT its solution. Do you see Jews demanding areas set aside for their private worship? No? Then why do you think that you are entitled to any special consideration?
We need to begin flogging these traitorous fucks with the simple matter of equal protection under the law. If they cannot stand the notion that Islam will not receive preferential treatment, deport their terrorist asses or jail them for sedition.
I'll freely confess that back when I first posted here it was of some interest to learn about Arab culture and all of the nomenclature needed to intelligently discuss the issues arising therefrom.
After over five years of posting about these sick twisted Islamic fuckwits, I've had it up to here about knowing their terms and vocabulary for what amounts to an assault upon my life, loves and world.
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"When we pray, we don't want a problem. We don't want what happened last week,"
Well if they didn't decide to switch seats to a "let's hijack the plane" configuration, and they didn't ask for seatbelt extenders which they clearly didn't need, and they didn't act like royal jackasses aside from their prayer ritual... then it never would have happened.
Of course if that never happened, then you wouldn't get your little media spotlight, would you?
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And I demand every airport set aside a special waiting area for my Temple of Baal. I plan to sacrifice before an image of a Golden Calf and will probably need some alone time with the temple wenches. Though I admit all those chain-mail bikinis are not going to come cheap.
There was an article the other day about even non-Wahhabi muslim students having to find other rooms on campus to pray because the group that took over the 'non-denominational' space was so obnoxious.
There's a reason that the phrase 'camel's nose in the tent' has Arabic connotations.
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Captain America's got it right. I've been known to kneel down and pray to the porcelien god myself, though I am somewhat a lapsed member of that sect.
#18
Great. I can't find a smoking section in most airports, but they'll bend over backwards for these assholes.
Screw 'em. Tell them to pray in a Somali driven cab...
Exactly. It's their group dominance display. That's why they must be smacked down hard and humiliated at every opportunity.
Posted by: ed ||
12/02/2006 15:07 Comments ||
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#20
Not until there's FULL true reciprocity at the airports in Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Tehran, and Mecca.
Seriously, even here in the US, the won't allow infidels into their own moskkks, much less into a setaside room at the airport they feel is their own. At first, I thought, let them pray at the non-denom. chapel that every airport has, but then I came to my senses and realized that would just stir the hornets' nest when someone of another faith is in there.
True story. Right after 9/11 (I rode to work with 2 Muslims back then), I called the younger one and asked if he wanted to go to my church for a memorial service. It was to be non-denominational, just more to remember the victims and pray for them (however you felt). He declined, which didn't shock me. I asked if they were doing anything like that at his moskkk, and he said NO! (I was naive then about the depth of death cult this so-called "religion" was back then). I then asked if I could visit his mosque with him sometime (truly, I was curious then about what they believed). He told me "I wouldn't feel comfortable taking you there". He might as well have called me cracker or something. Here I was trying to open up to him a dialogue between our faiths, I was truly curious about his and wanting to find out what they believe. Because I was white/Christian/infidel, I wouldn't be invited to his moskkk. I still wonder what goes on within those walls and it's literally just a mile up the street from us.
Posted by: BA ||
12/02/2006 15:41 Comments ||
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#21
Daily as a part of my job I look at Homeland Security message traffic from DHS, the IC and state and local agencies across the country, as well as open source reporting. Every week, and sometimes every day, we see the ongoing nature of islam seeping into the fabric of the country. Uncompromising, adamant, deceitful, purposeful, and with a shared vision of conquest. Like fools we let them in, and the rising tide of their presence is everywhere.
The slippery slope of cultural suicide is accelerated every day by the compromises everyday Americans make, thinking that through accomodation we can build the goodwill for our vision of "multiculturalism" and harmony. Utter horsesh!t. The invasion has begun, and so has the planning for the fifth column. WAKE UP people, your very freedoms and country are at grave risk, and you are asleep, too timid and PC to confront these invaders. Even the least of them supports your conversion and Sharia as law. Many more want to harm you and take what you have got as theirs by right of conquest. I've never been so frightened by a threat as I am of this one. We are slipping towards European-style catastrophy day by day.
I hate sounding like a paranoid loon, but it is really that serious!
#22
Well said... and true. I often wonder just how many people outside of the various bubbles (RB, LGF, etc) where this behavior is seen for what it is, have realized this. I think not many - so the camel's nose gets further under the tent every day. Our civility and sense of fair-play will soon come back to haunt us.
#23
Exactly why I think this is gonna get a LOT nastier before it's over. I'd bet the average American has NO clue of the threat Islam truly is. I'd doubt even your average "conservative" does (e.g. those that listen to Rush or Hannity). Another reason I love the 'burg, because we "get it", as well as getting overseas news, that on it's own, appears to be a minor incident, but when all pieced together, forms the threat we all face.
I see multiculturalism dying quickly in some of the Euro countries who are facing the threat full on right now (the Danes during the cartoon-ifada, the Netherlands after Theo van Gogh and their "anti-immigrant" politician being off'd, etc.). Some of these countries were probably the MOST multi-culti, and I believe if they can shake it off, so can we. Unfortunately, I believe we'll have to be hit again, and big. But, I do believe the "real" America will stand up when we get hit again, and next time it REALLY ain't gonna be pretty when we strike back.
A big part of this is the coming civil war that will need to happen to win the WoT once and for all. The LLL, the MSM and the average American who'll pull that lever for personal gain (welfare receipients, abortion rights diehards, gay "rights" agenda pushers, etc.) are ALL lined up on the side of the jihadis right now. What they don't see (or refuse to see) is that if the jihadis took over, they'll be the first to be beheaded on You Tube. We will win this thing, first of all because there are many who see this threat. But, second of all, is because those who are fighting on the right side own all the guns!
Posted by: BA ||
12/02/2006 16:03 Comments ||
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#24
But BA. don't forgot that those whoe don't 'get it' are working hard to take the guns away from those who do. Watch the next Congress at work, for starters.
#26
What goes on in the moskk stays in the moskk. Our sense of fair play is seen as a trait of weakness to be exploited. At our peril. We need to watch this Minneapolis situation very closely, all right. The enemy is probing our defenses and our infrastructure. If the government cannot see the threat, then the people need to act or put enormous pressure on the govt. First order of business is to get the people aware of the threat, and the biggest impedent to that is the MSM.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
12/02/2006 20:45 Comments ||
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#27
Sorry, BA - I didn't mean to ignore your remark. Were you still friends with the Muzzy who wouldn't invite you to Friday Prayers, I'd suggest you wait for him outside and, when he emerged, go up to him and greet him loudly and warmly. His reaction would be The Lesson - one that all of America needs to see and understand.
As I've said before regards the Saudis, one primary lesson I learned there was: You can be his friend, but never ever make the mistake of thinking he's your friend.
We are but infidel cattle - and any notion otherwise is delusional.
#28
lol .com,
you gave me visions of folks standing outside mosque's similar to abortion clinics counciling them before they go in.
that would be an interesting ploy.
Posted by: Jan ||
12/02/2006 21:00 Comments ||
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#29
Maybe this could be an avenue for really stirring up the shit with Muslims in America. Have large groups of Christians stand around outside of Mosques and leaflet while witnessing to exiting Muslims. Let the Muslims try and raise a stink only to get slapped down in court over First Amendment rights.
More than anything, make sure that plenty of news coverage happens whenever and wherever there are any threats of violence or squealing about attempted conversions. Get Islam's religious intolerance under a glaring spotlight. If I were a Christian pastor, this would be near the top of my priority list. All other faiths need to begin exposing Islam for the religious fraud it is. No peace for Muslims so long as their is no real freedom of religion in Islamic countries.
#30
But BA. don't forgot that those whoe don't 'get it' are working hard to take the guns away from those who do. Watch the next Congress at work, for starters.
True, but the actual ACT of taking them is a whole 'nother matter. Sure, in some LLL cities, you might get the cops to round them up. But (as someone posted here yesterday, I believe), if they tried to get the military to confiscate guns, something like 90+% said they would NOT do it. Add to that, if they tried to do it full-scale, I'd be willing to bet there'd be some massive violent retaliations.
Sorry, BA - I didn't mean to ignore your remark. Were you still friends with the Muzzy who wouldn't invite you to Friday Prayers, I'd suggest you wait for him outside and, when he emerged, go up to him and greet him loudly and warmly. His reaction would be The Lesson - one that all of America needs to see and understand.
No problem, I didn't think ya dissed me at all. And, your right, it would be the lesson of all lessons. Funny thing is, he only lives like 6 houses up from me, works with me (although on different floors), and we actually have a lot in common. I have NO doubts though, that if push came to shove, he'd be Muzzie first! The other one I rode with though, is very Americanized (to the point of being your average overweight, completely into the easy life), so I don't worry about him at all. Don't see either one of them very much anymore. And, they are Bangladeshi, not some hard-core Wahhabis from Saudi. I used to push their buttons (after 9/11 and my eyes were opened) and start up discussions about Israel in the car. I was completely blown away by how quickly the younger one went completely ape-$hit batty, and he had NEVER been there, didn't know any "Palestinians" at all, etc. He was born in Bangladesh, but his folks came here and raised him (around early middle school age, I think) in NYC. ABSOLUTELY no connections to Israel/Palestine at all, but that's what he tried to mold everything into, how the evil Jooos were the root cause of everything bad in this world. Cog Dis to the extreme.
Posted by: BA ||
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