[DAWN] TODAYS edition of the scurrilous French weekly Charlie Hebdo ...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe... , in the latest barrage in what one American commentator has wittily described as a confrontation between OMG and LOL, will almost certainly feature at least a few cartoons that offend some sensibilities.
That would be expected, given last weeks events in and around Gay Paree. Even many of those who contend that Charlie Hebdo went too far in its caricatures would acknowledge that the brothers who last Wednesday took censorship to an intolerable extreme must not be permitted to have the last laugh.
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MostMoslems would, one would like to think, be disinclined to agree....
.....as are most regime members and spokespersons in Washington.
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The 1.5 mill. should have completely torched a Paris no-go area to show this dickhead they were serious about things, and tell the rest of the welfare leeches in the other no-go areas in France to GTFO and move to Syria or Pakistan.
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Evict all under age 50. Provide ample food and water. March them in at a comfortable pace in groups of 1000 from their Parisian warrens south to Toulouse and across the border into Spain, with onward movement to the ME. Begin immediately.
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I could not agree with you more g(r)om. I'll wager IS intelligence services are not failing to exploit Syrian collaboration and sharing pportunities either.
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What? The enemy still has not been identified? Is there some kind of cognitive dissonance and schizophrenia going on at the same time in Europe and Washington?
[DAWN] THE latest announcements on the subject of school security display a breathtaking lack of sagacity. On Monday, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... and Sindh governments disclosed further measures they intend to take in order to beef up security at educational institutions in the wake of last months devastating attack on Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. s Army Public School. It seems that the KP government has decided to allow employees of all educational institutions to carry licensed arms on the premises.
According to the provincial information minister, Mushtaq Ahmad Ghani, the move will allow teachers and other staff members to engage the attackers for the initial five to 10 minutes before law-enforcement personnel reach the spot. On the other hand, in Sindh a high-level security review meeting resolved to ban the use of mobile phones in all educational institutions during teaching hours since the devices afford room for unchecked communication. The latter piece of absurdity can perhaps be dismissed not just because mobile phones are now ubiquitous and indispensable, but also because such a decision would be near impossible to implement. The question to be asked of the Sindh authorities is whether, by raising the issue of unchecked communication, they are implying that an attack on an educational institution may involve inside help. And if that is the case, where is the effort to identify and de-radicalise such individuals?
The move in KP, however, deserves outright castigation. Leave aside the folly of expecting the employees of educational institutions to act as the first line of defence in case of an attack. Leave aside even the fact that weapons and the violence that they lead to are anathema to places of learning. Consider simply the numerous scenarios in which such a move could go horribly wrong weapons in the hands of untrained and apprehensive chowkidars; guns being misued or misappropriated; or, terrifying, a potential assailant having easy access to the weapons. Consider just the fact that the answer to solving the conundrum of a heavily weaponised and violent society does not lie in adding more guns to the mix. No doubt, it is important to boost security at our schools, but this is a deeply irresponsible way to go about it. Taken together, these decisions run the gamut between idiocy and serious hazard. If this is the best that the two provinces can do in the face of an implacable enemy, there is much to worry about.
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[DAWN] FOLLOWING last months attack on Army Public School in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , the government is making renewed efforts to bring madressahs under some kind of state control. In a recent statement to the media, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan ...Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz Uncle Fester Sharif. He is noted for his vocal anti-American railing in the National Assembly. However (comma) Khan told the U.S. ambassador that he was in fact pro-American but he and the PML-N would have to be critical of US actions in order to remain publicly credible. Khan cited his wife and children's US citizenship as proof, which means he's lying to one side or the other and probably both. He wears a wig, but you probably guessed that. since hair doesn't grow naturally in that shape or texture... had said that 90 per cent madressahs have no link to terrorism (leaving 10 per cent that potentially do). The process of regulating madressahs, as was the case earlier when previous governments attempted similar interventions, is far from simple.
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Spot on. I hope the author's careful starting his car.
[DAWN] IT has not taken much time for the tenuous unity that emerged after the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. school carnage to crumble. Once again, there is an attempt by members of the religious right to turn the narrative to protect their bad boy enterprise. No sooner had public outrage over the tragedy begun to subside than they were back to their old tricks. Islam under threat is a convenient mantra to shield radical holy men and their seminaries closely linked with banned bad boy outfits.
It did not come as a surprise when both the JUI-F and Jamaat-e-Islami
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We called Adolph Hitler's "religion" a danger to the West. The religion of "militarism" in Japan had to be de-legitimized and defeated. In order to defeat these religions, they had to first be demonized in the world. Radical Islam also has to be demonized in order to defeat it. So far we are stuck on stupid in Washington, Hollywood, and the liberal left community.
[DAWN] THE attack took place in one of the busiest areas of Istanbul. On Jan 6, 2015 a woman in a niqab blew herself up at a cop shoppe in Istanbuls historic Sultanahmet district, killing one officer and injuring another. So far, it is not known which group was responsible or who the woman was. Witnesses said she spoke in English with a heavy accent but little else is known about her only that she was one of an increasing number of women joining bully boy organizations and being used to carry out terror attacks.
On Sunday, Jan 11, 2014 two female jacket wallahs from the Nigerian group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... blew themselves up in a market in north-eastern Nigeria killing at least four people and injuring dozens. This attack came the day after a similar bombing, in which an bomb was attached to a girl reportedly 10 years old. That attack also killed at least 20 people.
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On the one hand, this hypothetical future would be exciting, to see free men and women rise up against tyrannical threats! On the other hand, with no authority issuing orders, determining who the enemy really is, and restraining the passions of those doing the fighting, real chaos would emerge and real tragedies would occur. However, in the absence of an effective strategy against the rise of Islamic Fascism, the rise of The Caliphate, this is precisely the sort of future I foresee.
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Not buying it - at least governments can coordinate wars, if you define such as between other countries & continents. If there were examples of this happening previously, then it would be more convincing, which it ain't.
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Well, I attempted a spell to have his brain eaten from the inside by multidimensional parasites, but I'm not sure yet if it worked. I also called down a plague of centipedes on his family. Cause you know, they're creepy.
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with no authority issuing orders
That's not the way civilizational chaos has occurred in the past. Usually there form multiple would-be authorities issuing contradictory orders, along with a breakdown of communication.
I imagine the last Roman legions functioning ran into that when their salary payments didn't arrive on schedule and their local duces did not receive their written orders as they always had in the past. What to do, what to do? The dux sometimes became a "duke" and political lines of command were hammered out the old-fashioned way as everything else set up by the Roman Empire went on the fritz.
"Why is this confined in one building?...One building can wipe out all these communications?" one local official was quoted as saying.
I mentioned months (or years) ago in a post on the 'Burg about this same building being a connection for multiple communications networks in the NE USA, not just in my surrounding counties. My own internet connection was flaky for hours, and nothing like this has happened in the last 10 years at my home. I was tipped off, not by my local TV station, which I had on, but by an email from my sister saying she was unable to reach me from her cell phone 30 miles away.
NE OH TV stations have been giving saturation coverage to the OSU championship but too little to this rather critical problem.
AP was quoted about 0635 today at this Indiana-based news web site:
AKRON, Ohio — AT&T is blaming a burst steam pipe in a switching office for scattered 911 and phone service outages in communities in northeastern Ohio.
AT&T spokeswoman Holly Hollingsworth says customers in the Akron area may be experiencing issues with wireless and landline services following the Tuesday night incident.
She says services are being restored and technicians will remain on site until all service is back to normal.
Media reports say Summit, Portage, Medina and Stark counties were among those communities having problems, with the University of Akron and Kent State among those that lost phone service.
Hollingsworth says the company apologies for the inconvenience.
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Tin foil hat realm. This writer is giving too much credence to the influence of the inept leadership of the past 6-1/2 years. History will judge the Obama presidency as a dud--a kind of mistake in time that comes along in history every now and again--like Carter but far worse. If there is a legacy it is a bad legacy.
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Respectfully disagree John. History is fickle. The carnage of his left leaning actions and bigotry will join his scholastic transcripts in the vault to be sealed for 75 years. His 'reign' will be heralded as both racial and progressive milestone and an unparalleled success. Institutions of higher learning and research will bear his name and streets will be named after him everywhere. His various names and legend will rival Fleming's discovery of penicillin and Friedrich Miescher's research on DNA.
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I agree with JohnQC. The left hated Reagan but by the time he died their lies and mostly faded away and most of them were forced to grudgingly give him respect.
W is's place in history is improving every day as Obama continues policies or changes things and the world gets noticeably worse as a result.
You can lie and lie all you want, you can even rewrite the history books to try to reenforce that (and force schools to buy them). But eventually the amount of people that lived through the events and say the improvement (or worsening) tells the story.
Obama will be considered a mistake by the left and it won't be until the Millenials are in the old folks home before his reputation can be rewritten.
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I could not agree with you more g(r)om. I'll wager IS intelligence services are not failing to exploit Syrian collaboration and sharing pportunities either. 
Currently the Interior Minister of Pakistain. He is the senior leader of the Pak Moslem League (N) and a close aide to Nawaz 
