By DEEDEE CORRELL, THE GAZETTE Posted in its entirety since the Gazette doesn't archive stories in an easily-retrievable manner. I wonder how many other copycat attempts will be made. This article needs a graphic of a box of rocks, as in "dumb as a"...
Mods, please break this into a front and Page 2 section
Sadly, we don't have any graphics depicting dipshits.
A Harrison High School student arrested earlier this month after police say he planned a massacre of classmates at a pep rally has been charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. The 17-year-old boy is accused of plotting with a 16-year-old girl to shoot as many students as possible in the gymnasium, with the boy attacking from the right side of the gym and the girl from the left. The two 11th-graders had blueprints of the south-central Colorado Springs school, and the boy had instructions for making pipe bombs, which they intended to set underneath bleachers, according to a 31-page police report.
Their goal, police said, was to kill more than the 32 killed by a gunman April 16 at Virginia Tech before he committed suicide.
The two were arrested several days before a pep rally that was to be attended by the entire student body. It was chilling, Colorado Springs school resource officer Brian Strickland said Monday of the details that emerged during his investigation. There was no doubt something was in the planning stages.
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More Harris, Klebold, and Chou brain rot. We are not treating this guys right in the media. They need to become objects of scorn and contempt. Drop their dead bodies from 35,000 feet into Somalia or some other hell hole--alive or dead.
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So, is Olberman going to rant about how these kids are just a bunch of idiots and the school is using their pathetic little attempts to frighten the sheeple?
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Their goal, police said, was to kill more than the 32 killed by a gunman April 16 at Virginia Tech before he committed suicide.
The 4th Judicial District Attorneys Office said the boy has been released and is not being charged as an adult. The Gazette isnt naming him because hes a juvenile. The girls name was withheld.
What sort of moron law enforcement have they got in that town? These turds plan a mass murder and are freed to roam at will?
Both of them should be charged as adults and, upon conviction, jailed for their natural lives. The sooner that people who plot these monstrous crimes are left rotting in prison forever, the sooner we'll see some sort of decline in such atrocities.
Leaving the girl uncharged and releasing these two without bail is almost a form of permission to others to do the same. Copy-cats thrive on lax enforcement. How has this escaped notice by the authorities involved? They all need to be fired and replaced by people with spines.
Just when she thought things couldn't possibly get any worse, pictures have surfaced of Paris Hilton surreptitiously smoking cannabis. The 26-year-old heiress was photographed allegedly smoking a joint while backstage at last month's Coachella music festival. Paris Hilton allegedy puffed on a joint while at a music festival last month
Paris attended the event with a group of pals weeks before her court hearing, but clearly wasn't concerned about keeping out of trouble ahead of the case. Hilton now faces a 45-day jail term for for driving while her licence was suspended.
As it stands, Hilton - who has appealed to the Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger for a pardon via an online petition - is scheduled to be admitted to jail on June 5.
The online Free Paris Hilton petition has gathered more than 25,000 signatures - but unfortunately for the reality TV star, a rival campaign, Jail Paris Hilton, is twice as popular, with more than 60,000 supporters.
The online Free Paris Hilton petition has gathered more than 25,000 signatures - but unfortunately for the reality TV star, a rival campaign, Jail Paris Hilton, is twice as popular, with more than 60,000 supporters.
Hilton can expect tough conditions at LA's Century Regional Detention Center where is set to serve her time. Her cell will be approximately 12 feet by 8 feet and feature very basic amenities such as a sink, toilet and mirror. According to reports, inmates are forbidden from wearing makeup and hair extensions, and are allowed only two pairs of socks and underpants. "Can I have four pairs of socks if I don't bring any underpants?"
Hilton, who has been making the most of her freedom with bike rides, shopping trips and even a church visit, is said to be in a fragile state of mind as her sentence looms.
Dr. Charles Sophy, Hilton's psychiatrist, wrote in a report: "She is emotionally distraught and traumatized as a consequence of the findings at the May 4 hearing, the jail sentence imposed upon her by the judge, and her fear of incarceration."
The assessment was part of a document given to an LA court in relation to £5 million slander and libel suit against Hilton by actress Zeta Graff. Hilton is scheduled to testify in the trial next week, however Dr. Sophy contends that in her current state, she is "not capable of any meaningful participation in a trial."
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not capable of any meaningful participation. Period. Animated husk.
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ARTIST: Brewer and Shipley
TITLE: One Toke Over the Line
Lyrics and Chords
{Refrain}
One toke over the line, sweet Jesus, one toke over the line
Sittin' downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line
Waitin' for the train that goes home, sweet Mary
Hoping that the train is on time
Sittin' downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line
/ C - - - F - C - / C C/B Am D9 F G C - / :
Who do you love, I hope it's me
I've been changing, as you can plainly see
I felt the joy and I learned about the pain that my mama said
If I should choose to make it part of me
Would surely strike me dead, and now I'm
/ C - - - F - C - / C - D9 - F - G - / C - - - F - C - /
/ C Am D9 F G7 - C - /
{Refrain}
I sail away, a country mile
And now I'm returning, and showing off my smile
I met all the girls and I loved myself a few, and to my surprise
Like everything else that I've been through
They opened up my eyes, and now I'm
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Now she's got her shrink trying to say she can't take a 45 day stretch. Expect her medical doctor to come up with a medical reason why she cant serve her sentence.
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You bastards, Paris is gonna start ripping out Jail Victim Poetry and put it ina book! Rich! Rich! Paris Channels Oscar W. and ends up pregnant by Andrew Sullivan! Yeah! I can see it! High concept!
MILAN (Reuters) - A striptease by 72-year-old actress Sofia Loren could be one of the more outrageous ways that Napoli fans will celebrate if the team are promoted to the Italian top flight this season. I have mixed emotions about this.
Loren, a movie sex siren from the 1950s and 1960s, is a big fan of the Naples club who have fallen on hard times since winning their first Italian championship 20 years ago. I'm also not so sure a 72 year old woman stripping is a good motivator.
"I hope that Napoli win these last few games. You watch if we go up I will do a striptease," she told Gazzetta dello Sport in an interview Tuesday. "The fans have a total passion, the city deserves promotion." I have a passion, too. Why couldn't uo do this 40 years ago? Or did I miss it?Napoli are third in Serie B, Italy's second division, and have five games left to force their way into the top two or face a promotion playoff.
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I've seen recent pictures of her. She's still lookin pretty damn good...
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She attributes her good looking to positive thinking . I found some great quotes at Wikiquote.
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Quoted on Good Morning, America ABC TV (10 August 1979) Link
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BIGNEWS NETWORK > SOPHIA LOREN STRIPTEASE: OLDER WOMEN SHOULD LOOK SO GOOD. OTOH, EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND > "Frank Barone" character advice to oldest son "Robert" > "Women like that - they aren't built for friendship .... .... I gotta hand it to you, Robert, you're being rejected by a higher/better class of broad".
The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who founded the Moral Majority and built the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University, a school executive said. He was 73.
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Beat me to it, tu. Like I said in the one I tried to post, he's not one of my favorite people but he definitely was influential, for better or for worse.
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RIP bro, thanks for your efforts to build the republican party.
Just wanted to include the following excerpt:
Unions representing Reuters staff in Britain, Canada and the United States wrote to Reuters Founders Share Company trustees on Monday, expressing concern about the impact a single controlling shareholder could have on Reuters news values.
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Imagine that. Now that the MSM has demonstrated that news need not be based on reality, but can be cut daily from whole cloth, union minions scramble like mice in a snake pit.
This just in from Reuters, union leaders have torn up their contracts and vow to work for nothing. Ha haaa !
(Saba)- General Authority for Tourist Promotion in cooperation with the Yemeni embassy in the Saudi Arabia organizes a symposium and an exhibition on the tourist investments in Yemen. It will start its activities on 22 May 2007 and lasting for 9 days. Head of the authority Muttahar Taqi said that the activities come within the authority's efforts for promoting the available investment tourist opportunities in Yemen outside the country. He affirmed that the goal of organizing such activity outside Yemen is to promote the Yemeni tourism and the typical development in tourism sector which is witnessing great concern by foreign investors. He added the symposium would present engineering diagrams show the available tourist investments in Yemen that focus on the sea, mountainous, desert and hotel tourism projects, as well as other diagrams shows the rich tourist potentials that Yemen posses.
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a vendor in Yemen. (I hope it is not too big)
a real tourist resort...
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Police in the Bangladeshi capital arrested a top aide to former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia on Monday, media reports said. Hannan Shah, a former minister and a senior member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was picked up from his residence and taken to a police station, the private Bangla Vision television said. Shahs son, Rezaul, was also taken into custody, the United News of Bangladesh news agency said. No further details were immediately available.
Extortion cases were recently filed against Shah and his son in their Kapasia hometown near the capital, Dhaka, police said earlier. Shah also faces several other corruption charges. But it was not immediately clear on what charges Shah and his son were arrested Monday.
Bangladeshs army-backed interim government has been cracking down on corruption, arresting dozens of senior politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen, since taking over in January. Zia was the South Asian nations elected leader until October, when she ended her five-year term and handed over power to a caretaker administration to hold new elections in January.
But following weeks of violent street protests by opposition parties, led by Zias main rival, Sheikh Hasina, the countrys president canceled the elections, declared a state of emergency and appointed a new interim government. The government has denied media reports that it was restricting Zias movements and trying to force her into exile abroad.
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Three gunmen hijacked a bus in northern Italy on Tuesday and set it on fire after freeing the passengers, officials said. An off-duty police officer was reportedly injured.
The bus was traveling south from Alessandria to Acqui Terme, cities southwest of Milan, when the gunmen took it over and forced the driver to turn onto a road heading in the opposite direction, a Carabinieri paramilitary police official in nearby Novara said.
An off-duty police officer who was on board tried to intervene and was stabbed, but was not seriously wounded, the ANSA news agency said. The gunmen allowed the passengers to get off the bus when it returned to Alessandria, but forced the driver to keep driving to the outskirts of Novara, Sky TG24 reported from the scene.
The hijackers exchanged gunfire with police when the bus stopped, then set it ablaze before fleeing, the Carabinieri official said. One of the gunmen was apprehended and authorities were seeking the other two, the official said. The official said the gunman who was apprehended was being treated for an unspecified injury.
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Yup, you just gotta' watch out fer us Lutherans! After all, Uncle Martin started the whole protest thingie what all with nailin' them credos to the door o' the local Catholic big churchie buildin' and then goin's off and marryin hisself a bride o' Christ and all.
Why, we could prob'ly give thems jihadis a run fer their money in the whole religiousity war stuff. Us'n the Papists, that is (and if they starts foolin' around in Italy why, they mights just find theyselves runnin' afoul o' the Church and the Mafia and that'd be a bad, bad thing from the jihadis point o' view).
PARIS, May 15 (KUNA) -- After two terms and 12 years in office, outgoing French President Jacques Chirac will bid the French people farewell as he addresses the nation on national television and radio Tuesday evening before handing over power on Wednesday to the newly elected President, Nicolas Sarkozy.
Chirac said his goodbye to Europe from Berlin on Sunday, during which he stressed the importance of a stronger role for Europe in a "multi polar" world.
It is expected that during his speech to the nation, Chirac will recall the tasks and actions he has carried out during his 12 years in office and over 40 years in political life, in addition to focusing on important issues that concern France.
Chirac is expected to hand over power to Sarkozy and leave the Elysee Palace at 11:00 p.m. on Wednesday where it has been reported that he will immediately go on vacation to an undisclosed destination, although there is speculation this is likely to be Morocco.
Chirac is planning to establish a foundation later this year under his name, focusing on issues that are dear to his heart, like the environment, sustainable development and dialogue between cultures.
After the transition ceremony, Sarkozy will visit the Arc de Triomphe to rekindle the flame at the tomb of the unknown soldier, as it is a French tradition to do so. He will later travel to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Say hello to TGA, willya?
Sarkozy won the presidential elections on May 6, defeating socialist Segolene Royal, and he has vowed to carry out several key reforms and called for a special session of the National Assembly in July to pass these reforms.
This will depend on him getting a majority to support his program in the French legislative elections which will be held June 10 and 17. Sarkozy is opening up his cabinet to take in both opposition Socialist figures and Centrists in an attempt to woo the electorate and show that his program is government is not drawn up along party lines.
This strategy has already caused him some problems within the ranks of this Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party, with some prominent party members saying he should look to his own supporters first before considering "outsiders" for key cabinet posts.
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Shouldn't Chirac be going to jail first? I'm not holding my breath.
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I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry
Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I dont have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry
Kick em when theyre up
Kick em when theyre down
Kick em when theyre up
Kick em when theyre down
Kick em when theyre up
Kick em when theyre down
Kick em when theyre up
Kick em all around
We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
Its interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry
You dont really need to find out whats going on
You dont really want to know just how far its gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
Kick em when theyre up
Kick em when theyre down
Kick em when theyre up
Kick em when theyre down
Kick em when theyre up
Kick em when theyre down
Kick em when theyre stiff
Kick em all around
Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybodys pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry
We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When its said and done we havent told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry!
so... as the song so aptly states.... we need the details of Chiarc's dirty laundry in spades...
It would even beat that missing blond in Aruba.
Think of the ratings...
Conservatives growing uneasy about Kennedy-led negotiations
Sources on Capitol Hill tell me the Senate may be very close to a deal on comprehensive immigration reform.
But as the immigration deal comes together, Senate conservatives are growing uneasy about the state of the negotiations, fearing that Republican leadership will sell out to the Bush Administration and liberal Democrats to give amnesty to illegal aliens.
The issue boils down to whether Senate Republicans leaders, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Conference Chairman Jon Kyl (Ariz.), will give Democrats a free pass to bring up the bill without ever giving Republicans a chance to review it. Sen. Teddy Kennedy (D.-Mass.) is leading negotiations for the Democrats, and has so far negotiated a favorable deal for Democrats, according to sources close to the negotiations.
The Senate on Wednesday will be voting on a motion to proceed to last years Senate-passed immigration bill. A motion to proceed is a procedural step to start debating the legislation. It would allow leadership to present a bill to the Senate with no time for senators to actually read the legislation.
There is concern among conservatives on the Hill that leadership will cave in on the motion to proceed on a bill that theyve never seen, one senior Senate aide told me. Conservatives dont want to do this because they dont trust that the negotiators will produce a bill that will be satisfactory to conservatives.
Last month, 15 conservative Republicans sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) asking for at least a week before debate to review the legislation. Last years bill was more than 600 pages long and very complicated.
It is unconscionable that with an issue of this magnitude and complexity that the Senate would proceed to legislation without any text available to review by senators, another senior Senate source said.
Just last week, former Attorney General Ed Meese and Senators Jim DeMint (R.-S.C.) and Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.) unveiled the essential principles for immigration reform. One of those principles is respect for the rule of law, which conservatives fear will be violated by any potential agreement that includes amnesty.
Its unlikely that any deal will be cut that will satisfy conservatives, said Brian Darling, a congressional analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Any legislation containing Z visas is a non-starter because a Z visa is an amnesty visa.
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MARK STEYN > Many US Dems + other Pols like to proclaim their desire to protect America and Americans from Terror while doing everything possible for knowingly illegal aliens to still be able to legally collect massive public entitlements wid fear of arrest or having to declare themselves. ANSWER > BIGGER GUBMINT, MORE REGULATION + BUREAUCRACIES, more More MORE M-O-R-E MMMMMMOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEE, D *** YOU, GOVT/PUBLIC ENTITLEMENTS EVEN FOR ILLEGALS WHOM DON'T EVER WANT TO = ARE NOT TRYING TO BECOME "LEGAL".
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Woozle, he was also largely responsible for the defunding of our support to S. Vietnam after that war 'offically' ended. Abandoning our commitments to the south and practically handing 1-2 million over to be slaughtered in Cambodia and the re-education centers.
Just like he's chomping at the bit to do to the Iraqis. In fact his speeches are practically the same.
Responsibility? Thats for you commoners - us Kennedys can get away with murder.
Congress Approval Down to 29%; Bush Approval Steady at 33%
Both ratings are slightly lower than 2007 averages
by Joseph Carroll
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
PRINCETON, NJ -- A new Gallup Poll finds continued low levels of public support for both Congress and President George W. Bush. Twenty-nine percent of Americans approve of Congress, down slightly from last month's reading (33%) and this year's high point of 37%, while Bush's approval rating is holding steady at 33%. Both the ratings of Congress and the president are slightly lower than their respective 2007 averages. Approval ratings of Congress are higher among Democrats than Republicans, while Bush's ratings are much higher among Republicans.
Congressional Job Approval
According to the May 10-13, 2007, Gallup Poll, 29% of Americans approve and 64% disapprove of the way Congress is handling its job. Congressional approval is down 4 percentage points since last month, and is 3 points lower than the 32% average measured during the first five months of the year. The high point for the congressional approval rating so far this year was the 37% approval measured in February. Although ratings are quite low, Americans have been more positive in their assessments of Congress this year than last year, when an average of just 25% approved of Congress.
The 34th session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (ICFM) will begin here today (Tuesday) with the theme Peace, Progress and Harmony. Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri will chair the three-day conference.
According to a Foreign Office (FO) statement, delegations from 57 member states of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) are expected to participate in the meetings being held at the Jinnah Convention Centre. The statement said that extensive arrangements had been made in Islamabad for the reception, accommodation and transportation of more than 600 delegates from member states, observer states and other subsidiary and specialised organs of the forum.
The statement said: Pakistan assumes the chairmanship of the ICFM at a critical juncture for the Ummah. The foreign ministers are expected to consider and adopt resolutions on the whole range of political, economic, social and cultural matters confronting the Muslim world. This would be the first time the ICFM would hold an interactive ministerial brainstorming session on the opening day with the theme Countering Discrimination and Intolerance against Muslims and Defamation of Islam.
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The moustache-cursing event should be tremendous this year. They've been practicing since January...
There is no grounds for a criminal investigation against State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss, Attorney General Menahem Mazuz told Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's lawyers on Tuesday morning.
Earlier Tuesday, head of the State Control Committee, Zevulun Orlev, lambasted Olmert after the prime minister registered a complaint against Lindenstrauss and demanded a criminal investigation be opened against him for abusing his power.
Orlev said that the attorney general "should put Olmert in his place."
"The prime minister is not permitted to inspect the state comptroller, but vice versa," he said.
Orlev added that he planned to convene the committee and invite Olmert and Lindenstrauss to open a new chapter in their relations.
Meanwhile, the State Comptroller's Office reacted harshly to the prime minister's complaint. "It is inconceivable that a suspect in four different cases that the state comptroller has probed is seeking to investigate his investigator. It is an attempt to undermine the rule of law," read a statement from the State Comptroller's Office.
A senior comptroller official said that the prime minister's attempt demonstrated a "ridiculous and stupid image of someone clutching at straws in an attempt to bully the State Comptroller's Office".
The Justice Ministry denied that Muzuz had asked it to investigate Lindenstrauss.
"No document has been received and there has been no order from the state attorney to open an investigation," Israel Radio quoted Justice Ministry officials as saying.
On Monday, Channel 2 reported that Olmert's lawyers wrote to Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz, saying, "You are requested to view our letter as a complaint against the state comptroller and order a criminal investigation of him, because he is the one breaking the law by systematically leaking excerpts from drafts of the reports drawn up in his office, and [showing a] constant disregard for the prime minister."
The complaint stemmed from Lindenstrauss's investigation into allegations that Olmert had received a $330,000 discount on the purchase of an apartment on Cremieux Street in Jerusalem's German Colony neighborhood in return for securing permits giving the building's contractors the right to build a larger structure.
Lindenstrauss handed the material from his investigation over to Mazuz three weeks ago and recommended that the police continue the probe. He said that for a number of reasons he was unable to carry on with the investigation himself. The most glaring reason, he wrote, was that Olmert never responded to the draft of the report that was sent to him on January 31, 2007.
According to standard procedure in state comptroller investigations, Olmert was supposed to read the draft report and respond to the allegations. The state comptroller was then supposed to take these explanations into consideration when preparing the final draft.
Lindenstrauss gave Olmert one month to submit his reactions to the draft report. Three months later, Olmert had still not sent it.
Aftenposten's article includes a full-length photo of the man's injuries. Vicious bastards.
Norwegian-Iranian Mamand Mamandy had a brutal meeting with police after drinking two beers while on holiday in Iran.
"It's getting better now, but I am still in great pain," Mamandy, 35, told Aftenposten.no. "My brother is a doctor, and treated me after the whipping. I was in great pain and could not sleep."
Mamandy, a Kurd, explained that he was visiting his mother in Baneh, Iran in April when he was arrested by police.
"We were on an outing with family and friends, six or seven in the evening, and were having a barbecue and enjoying ourselves. Altogether I drank two beers. The police happened to drive by," Mamandy said.
He said that he was immediately arrested and taken to the police station where he was sentenced to 130 lashes. This sentence, for beer drinking, was carried out publicly according to news agency Iran Focus.
"I received 130 lashes on the back of my body. Police whipped me," Mamandy said. He came to Norway as an asylum seeker in 1999. He lives in Drammen with his wife and they are awaiting Norwegian citizenship.
Mamandy traveled home to Norway shortly after his punishment and has been since treated by his family doctor here.
Aftenposten.no has been in contact with the Foreign Ministry, who said that they had not been contacted by Mamandy or his family in connection with the matter.
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Aftenposten has been in contact with the Foreign Ministry, who said that they had not been contacted by Mamandy or his family in connection with the matter.
Gee. I wonder why. Maybe his family has more important things to attend to at the moment? Fuc&ing Iranian gov't is working together at all levels to cover this up. Don't they have something to say about it without the Grand Poobah giving the nod first? I'll bet they would have something to say if Mamand was a mass murderer or something obvious, but when it's stuff where the Iranian system obviously goes overboard it looks like they have basically put off the press with this weak excuse while they coordinate another lame excuse.
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Anyone stupid enough to voluntarily go to Iran and then publicly consume beer doesn't get any sympathy from me. Fer criminey sakes, the guy is seeking asylum in Norway already, doesn't he have enough sense to understand why it's such a good idea?
Several dozen Muslim workers have quit their jobs at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Grand Island, Neb. because their prayer times werent accommodated.
"They kind of issued the company an ultimatum," said Dan Hoppes, president of Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
"They went in before the shift started (Monday) and said that theyd go unless they could pray when they needed to," Hoppes said Tuesday.
Hoppes said 94 workers had quit, but the company put the figure around 70.
Sean McHugh, a spokesman for Swift at its Greeley headquarters, said breaks are governed by a labor contract and all employees are told about them during orientation for all new employees.
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Swift's ain't too damn swift. First, most of the workers in Greeley were illegals. Now a large share in Grand Island are muuzzies ? No one who's been through Grand Island would guess that there's an accumulation of Death Cultists way out there. Just goes to show that you have to be locked & loaded at all times. At least Swift's did the right thing and told them to move along. I guess all my meat supplies have to be restricted to the local butcher shop from henceforth.
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Byebye. Now get on a plane and go back to Somalia or Bosnia or whatever other dive you came from.
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When did a place of business become a place of worship. If I feel like praying, I either have to be quiet and respectful, or just go to a church. I am surprised that there was no mention of footbath's not being available too.
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Sean McHugh, a spokesman for Swift at its Greeley headquarters, said breaks are governed by a labor contract and all employees are told about them during orientation for all new employees.
One thing you don't do is grant only some of your employees accommodations above and beyond the contract requirements.
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Well - they now have 24 hour per day available for prayer - as do most of the muzzies on the planet. I wonder what the muzzie unemployment rate is, world-wide? 'Lots of good. productive prayer time.
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Look for them to sue. And collect unemployment in the meantime. They may not have been here long, but they've no doubt learned how the system works.
Kinda makes me wonder with all of these beheadings there may be a terrorist influence going on here.
Just seems to be their style.
Put this together with the Mexican trucks to start coming into our country real soon and it's frightening.
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Who knows? But, since Mexico has only a 14-year statute of limitations for murder, as a WP story yesterday discussed, Mexico needs a lot of changes. A nation-wide steam-cleaning, for example.
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Mexico has a drug war strategy? Who knew?®
*sigh* It'l take a Hercules to clean up Mexico.
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Spot---Hercules as in mythical character, or Hercules as AC-130 gunship? Inquiring minds want to know.......
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Here's a strategy, legalize pot and cocaine. It would all go to big business then. Wal-Mart would run them out of business within a year. Glaxo would patent the stuff and sue them for patent infringement, and R.J. Reynolds would roll it up and sell it back to them for a 300% profit.
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maybe legalization is the key here. It just kills me that our country is the biggest buyer for this junk, being the number one big supporter of these drug cartels. Afghanistan as well.
I wonder if it would help deter drug users even a bit to remind them of how they are supporting the terrorists.
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It just kills me that our country (the USA) is the biggest buyer for this junk
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AP - I was referring to the Augean stables, but the AC-130 might work too;) Actually I like Mexicans (great workers and family men, I just wish they would come here legally), but their government is the pits.
A5089 - great link. I'm not surprised the Euro is replacing the dollar among drug traffickers. How strict are EU money-laundering laws?
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I'm not surprised the Euro is replacing the dollar among drug traffickers. How strict are EU money-laundering laws?
The largest US currency denomination is $100. Kind of a pain for drug traffickers. I wouldn't mind seeing the largest denomination being $20. I don't think I've ever gotten into a cash transaction where that would be a problem for me.
What is the largest denomination the Euro comes in? If it's something like 1000 Euros, I can tell you why they are becoming the currency of choice.
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