SEATTLE - At least five people were wounded by gunshots Friday afternoon at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle and one person was arrested, police said. A SWAT team was searching the building, looking for any other victims, anyone hiding or any other possible shooters, police spokesman Rich Pruitt said.
Seattle Fire Department medics told The Seattle Times that the victims include two women. One woman was shot in the abdomen. The other woman is described as 17 weeks pregnant and was shot in an arm. They were taken to Harborview Medical Center. Three other victims have also been seen arriving Harborview. Police say they've arrested one person and could be looking for another alleged suspect who may be on a nearby rooftop. Police blocked off several city blocks to investigate.
Patti Simon was at work at the federation's newspaper on the first floor when she heard screaming, shots and what sounded like furniture crashing on the floor above. "We heard this horrible screaming on the floor above us and shots," said Simon, 52, who sells advertising at the paper. "We didn't know what was happening."
Simon called up to her co-workers on the second floor, but got no answer, so she called the police and fled the building. "People got shot, some of our co-workers," Simon said, her voice shaking. "I just got back from Israel and made it out of there a half hour before the rockets started." Simon said the federation has security in the building. "Somebody must have lied there way in," Simon said.
One witness, who declined to give her name, said a man walked into the Jewish Federation building with a gun, said he was upset about what was going on in Israel, then opened fire. After the shootings, the man said to call 911, the witness said.
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"To delve into the mind of a clearly troubled and disturbed person is impossible," Weiner said. "It is heartbreaking to think of what is transpiring."
Somehow, I think the perp is going to let us know what he was thinking about.
But he was no doubt a victim of his environment and should be treated tenderly no matter what he says, poor guy.
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After she was arrested for keeping a severed hand and six skulls in her South Plainfield home, exotic dancer Linda Kay asked her father and a friend to put up their homes to help secure her $100,000 bail.
Now her father and friend face the prospect of losing their houses after the 31-year-old Kay missed a court hearing yesterday, forfeiting the bail she posted after her arrest Friday on charges of improper disposition of human remains. Please dad? Please? Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease!
South Plainfield Municipal Court Judge John Leonard yesterday issued an arrest warrant for Kay, charging her with contempt of court, and setting bail on that charge at another $100,000.
Kay's father, Robert Kay, said his Scotch Plains house had been used to secure the original bail bond. "I'm sweating ... I had to put my house up," the father said. He said the South Plainfield house owned by Linda Kay and her childhood friend, Sean McDonough -- where the body parts were discovered -- also was used to secure the bond, along with a third house belonging to a friend. Damn. If ya can't trust Gothmo strippers who collect body parts, who can you trust?
"I have no clue where she is. I really wish she had gone to court today. I am the last to know anything," Robert Kay said. "She's scared to death. Her friends are, too. They are all together, and I think they all ran away." If I was you, pops, I'd be a helluva lot more scared then her...
Polina Nickulina, 26, also was arrested at the house Friday on a warrant charging her with failing to appear in court for a weapons possession charge involving a prior incident at the house. Nickulina was released on bail.
Also a dancer at Hott 22, Nickulina performed a stage act with Kay at Hott 22. Known as Zilla, Kay had dark, Goth-style outfits, complete with black eyeliner, piercings and tattoos. Nickulina wore fancy gowns and went by the stage name Ada. Oh. A classy stripper.
Robert Kay yesterday said police previously had seen the hand in the house. Officers have been to the home at least six times in the last year, mostly for neighbors' noise complaints about loud parties. "The whole thing is totally bogus. It's harassment by the police. They knew about the hand three months ago," the father said yesterday. Yeah, blame the cops. He's an idiot and mom let's her do whatever she wants as we found out the other day.
One resident of the Diana Drive home said Kay got the hand from someone who worked at a medical examiner's office, while a former friend who stayed at the house earlier this year said Kay got the hand from a Hott 22 customer who was a medical student and has since moved to California. She'll really like me if I give her this severed human hand...
Both said Kay had named the hand "Freddy." Well isn't that nice...
Leonard issued the contempt-of-court warrant at 10 a.m. yesterday after Kay failed to appear for the 9 a.m. court hearing.
Shortly after 11 a.m., Mountainside attorney Donald DiGioia arrived at the court, saying he had been contacted by another person requesting the attorney to appear for Kay. DiGioia told court officials he had represented Kay in an unrelated matter. DiGioia said he was trying to locate Kay. DiGioia asked if the new bail could be waived if Kay arrived in court yesterday, but Leonard rejected the request.
After his court appearance, DiGioia went to Kay's home on Diana Drive, where he was met by a nearly a dozen news reporters and photographers. Not much happening in South Plainfield, NJ...
The lawyer said he would have more information later in the day, then he asked members of the media, "Could you do me a favor? Could you tell me which house is hers (Kay's)?" Gothmo body part collecting strippers have the best lawyers...
The lawyer then went to the house, knocked on the door, placed a card under the door and left. He did not return calls made to his office later in the day.
Daniel Russo, owner of Hott 22, said reports about Kay have been good for business. "We've gotten a lot of calls. Guys are asking if the skull girl is dancing tonight," Russo said. "It's too much. It's pretty funny." It's fockin hilarious, I tell youse...
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Isn't there a Wings song "Hand on the Run"? :-P
Looks like raising this spoiled exhibitionist under the "do what you want if it feels good" theme worked really well! Now she's gone, your home could be forfeited, and the charges against her are piling up, but -- hey! As long as she feels good about herself, what the hell!
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I have a good friend who is a bounty hunter. He says this kind of thing is not uncommon. People in trouble with the law don't have any respect for the law or even their own parents. If he finds a fugitive who has jumped bail after their folks have put up their houses he feels he's done the parents a service. Some people just cannot be trusted.
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#5 DB - I went several time with a friend of mine several years ago tracing/picking up skips here in the area (no out-of-town stuff). He needed a female with him whenever he was chasing a female (though we looked for males too).
One girl we picked up - who had gotten busted for really stupid (on her part) reasons - told us as we were taking her, handcuffed, back to jail that she didn't have any problem with us (we were just doing a job), but she had (and I quote) "no respect for the law." (Imagine "law" not so much spoken as spit out.)
My buddy almost drove the car off the road trying to keep from laughing, and I bit my tongue to keep from telling her maybe that's why she was on her way to jail again - and we weren't.
Since we found her and took her back pretty quickly, I don't think the friend who put up her car title to bail this idiot out lost her car.
There's a whole 'nother world out there....
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Ahmen to that Barbara. When they finally caught this one guy my friend asked him why he put his Father at risk of losing his home. The answer, "Hey, it's not MY home". He said the guy got a black eye and a few bruises while attempting to escape. LOL!
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"Hey, it's not MY home".
DB - that pretty much sums it up for these losers, in my opinion.
Everything is all about them.
This world would be a lot better off with a hell of a lot less self-esteem.
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Three Australian men who escaped from prison ended up back in jail after flagging down an unmarked police car to hitch a ride.
"Hey, thanks for the ride mate.......ah shit!"
The three men, aged 19, 20 and 27, escaped from the Warakirri Correctional Facility in New South Wales on Wednesday night. Police began searching for them after prison staff realised the men were missing and raised the alarm. The men were over 200km (120 miles) from the jail when recaptured. They were taken to a nearby police station and charged with escape and attempt to escape lawful custody. They have been refused bail and are due to appear in court on Friday.
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SPRINGFIELD, Vt. - Town officials have nixed an idea for a jailhouse bar. The Select Board, acting as the town liquor board, rejected an inmate's application to sell liquor from the state prison. Damn. And he had a hell of a marketing campaign ready, too....."Get Hammered at the Slammer!"
Paul Murphy of Worcester, Mass., is serving time at the Southern State Correctional Facility for aggravated assault, escape and passing bad checks. But, other than that, he's a good boy....
He said in an application for a first- and second-class liquor license that he wanted to sell liquor from his home, which he listed as 700 Charlestown Road. That also happens to be the address of the state prison just east of downtown Springfield. Regardless of the bid to have liquor delivered to a prison, town officials say many portions of the application were left blank. Probably the parts about the prospective proprietor's criminal history, I bet.
Oh ye of suspicious mind.
"We determined that the application was incomplete," said Town Manager Robert Forguites.
Springfield officials were surprised to receive the application. They assumed prison officials would have caught it before it was sent and they believed the state Liquor Control Department also would have stopped it.
Not if there was a fifty dollar bill stapled to it.
Prison officials say they review incoming mail in the presence of an inmate to ensure it doesn't contain contraband. But they don't look at mail sent by prisoners. And Liquor Control Department officials say they had not received the application. They said they don't conduct a background check on an applicant until town officials have approved. If they'd received Murphy's, they said, it would have been rejected.
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Where is it in the constitution that says prison inmates should be denied the right to be served alcohol in prison cafes! I ask you, your honor, where is it! These are men, not animals!
Latvia Pride a disaster BANNED MARCH CHANGED VENUES, BUT ANTI-GAY MOB TRASHED PARTICIPANTS, THROWING HUMAN EXCREMENT
The second effort to stage a gay pride parade in Riga, Latvia, was an unmitigated disaster July 22. The City Council and a court banned the parade, claiming police wouldn't be able to protect marchers from marauding homophobic mobs. So, activists instead staged a religious service at a church and meetings at a hotel. But the homophobes were not deterred by the change in plans.
Scores of anti-gay protesters gathered outside the Anglican church and flung human excrement, eggs and rotten food at gays and lesbians as they left the building. "I was hit with a bag full of shit and had to go wash up," said the Rev. Maris Sants.
"Protesters threw human excrement on us," said the Rev. Juris Calitis. "I was covered with it from head to foot. It was quite smelly."
"Worshippers were pelted with shit and rotten fruit," said British participant Peter Tatchell. "Despite previously requesting police protection, no police were present to protect the congregation."
Activist meetings later in the day at the four-star Reval Hotel met a similar fate, attracting hundreds of anti-gay demonstrators. "[We were] under siege all day by protesters from the antigay 'No Pride' movement - a highly organized alliance of Christian fundamentalists, ultra-nationalists and neo-Nazis," said Tatchell. "They roamed the streets outside the hotel looking for gays and lesbians to attack. Anyone who looked gay was liable to abuse and assault, even passing tourists. The police seemed to stand back and let them terrorize people with impunity."
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You know, it doesn't seem like such a tough equation to understand: keep your foul, disgusting habits out of other people's faces and, in return, they won't throw bags of feces, rotten eggs, and other unpleasant things at you. There was an old saying they used to have down in Texas when I was a boy: "Don't start no #### and there won't be no ####!" It's a lot of years later but that still seems like pretty solid advice.
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But...but...but its their RIGHT to ram it down in your face and up your ass. And it you don't like it and don't accept their lifestyle or disagree with it your obviously 'Homophobic'.
"Despite previously requesting police protection, no police were present to protect the congregation."
Maybe because the march was BANNED Pete. What do you think?
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Peter Tatchell - the name rang a bell. He's a long time lefty gay agitator and a one time Labour MP. It pisses me off when the MSM try to portray these long term agitators as just ordinary participants.
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"I was hit with a bag full of shit and had to go wash up," said the Rev. Maris Sants.
Nice language, there "Rev." Did you get your title at the Je$$e Jackson School of Titles? I imagine that God's laughing at this one Himself. Tried to "hole up" in His Church and then you get crap flung at ya? Not to hard to imagine why. Count me in the camp of "homophobes," although I disagree with the term, because I'm not irrationally scared of ya.
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Sounds like the shit really hit the fans. (of deviant behavior)
Peaches Geldof is to move in with a devout Moroccan Muslim girl for a new TV series about religion. She is to present Channel 4 documentary A BeginnerÂ’s Guide to Islam.
The 17-year-old travels to Morocco to learn more about the faith. She will live with a devout 18-year-old girl in her family home, attend a “taking the veil” party and be invited to witness the sacrifice of a sheep. Geldof sets out to prove that Islam does not deserve its “bad reputation”.
The hour-long programme will find out “what the Islamic world makes of this precocious London party girl”, according to Channel 4. The three-part series will also feature ex-EastEnder Paul Nicholls exploring Hinduism in India and comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli investigating Scientology.
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tu - I dont think it can be discussed in a 'family forum'.....
Of course this will prove that Islam means 'Peace' and they only want to co-exist with us and kill a few jooos and infidels.
Just like Star Trek 'proved' that transporters work and warp drive and replicators. I guess its the Evil Oil Companies(tm) who are suppressing it. Damn Haliburton!
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Depot Guy: I don't think "taking the veil" means what you think it means, lol! Of course, where's PETA when ya need them? Sacrificing sheep and stuff...true signs of a "peaceful" religion.
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A candidate to be governor in Nigeria's main city of Lagos has been killed in what police said on Thursday could be a political assassination, the latest sign of rising violence ahead of general elections next year. Funso Williams of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) was killed on Wednesday night at his Lagos home, police said. "He was strangled in his study by unknown persons last night," federal police spokesman Haz Iwendi said. Four policemen guarding the residence have been arrested.
Col. Mustard, in the study, with a rope!
"We are not ruling out any possibilities, we are not looking only at political assassination, we are looking at all strands," Iwendi said by telephone from the capital Abuja.
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GOOD MORNING. I AM THE WIFE OF FUNSO WILLIAMS, THE CANIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF LAGOS WHO DIED UNDER STRANGE CIRCUMSTANTS. HE LEFT ME WITHOUT MEANS OF SUPPORT EXCEPT FOR 105 MILLION DOLLARS IN A EUROPEAN BANK......
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NOTORIOUS gang rapist Bilal Skaf has been jailed for a maximum 31 years over the August 2000 attack on a teenage girl in Sydney's west. Skaf's brother, Mohammed Skaf, who can now be named, has been sentenced to a maximum 15 years over the same pack rape of a 16-year-old girl at Greenacre's Gosling Park.
Be gone with both of them.
Bilal Skaf will not be eligible for parole until February 11, 2033, while his brother must remain in jail until at least July 1, 2019.
Not long enough.
Bilal sat quietly as Acting Justice Jane Mathews told the court he was the leader of a group of men who attacked the girl in the park on August 12, 2000. Bilal had dragged the girl into the park and raped her as his friends were “standing around, laughing and talking in their own language”, Justice Mathews said.
The 24-year-old, who was already serving a maximum of 28 years for other sex offences, smiled briefly as Justice Mathews sentenced him to the 31 years, part of which will be served concurrently. Mohammed, Bilal's younger brother, who is also in jail for other sex offences, was sentenced to a minimum of seven-and-a-half years for his role in the attack.
The then 17-year-old knew the rape victim and drove her to the park, Justice Mathews said. “His involvement in the evening's activities was an absolutely crucial one,” she said. “Without him, the offences would not have been committed at all.”
Outside the court, the victim's mother said she was happy with today's sentence and hoped it would give her daughter some closure. “She'll never forget it but hopefully she'll be able to talk about it,” she said.
Both men were convicted in April this year over the pack rape, which allegedly involved up to 14 men. Bilal Skaf was convicted of two counts of aggravated sexual intercourse without consent in company, while Mohammed was found guilty of being an accessary before the fact.
It was the second time the two were found guilty, after their initial conviction was quashed in 2004 when it was revealed two jurors conducted their own investigations at the rape scene. The actions of the jurors in the original trial prompted the New South Wales Government to make it illegal for any juror to conduct private investigations outside court. It also led to a law allowing sexual victims to avoid giving evidence at retrials, instead testifying via transcript or video.
In what was believed to be the first time the new evidence laws were used, the gang rape victim was not required to be in court for the Skaf retrial, and her transcript evidence from the previous trial was re-enacted for the jurors.
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I would hope that there are some hard time Aussie cons that will serve real justice to these animals. I hope they are somebody's bitch for a real long time. And then they are killed.
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Bilal & Mohammed: It won't be long before you'll be far+ing about three octaves lower and drinking protein shakes for a midnight snack. And nobody's going to care except you. And every day for the next 33 years you'll wake up wondering if this day is going to be another "lucky" day! Why is it some people learn so hard? Was it worth it?
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, who represents Northern Ohio's Ninth Congressional District, is currently serving her twelfth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the senior-most Democratic woman in Congress and is one of only 82 women out of 535 members of the 109th Congress. Her mentality is best referred to as: equilateralism. In her warped mind, Hizbollah's bloody fanaticism is no different from Israeli security preparations in face of 300 million hostile Arab Muslims.
HON. MARCY KAPTUR OF OHIO
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2006
...The situation is worsening. War is an abandonment of reason,
No, it's not, Congresswoman Marcy. One can abandon reason in the course of war, but that's dependant on one's grasp on reason. War itself is conflict, whether in pursuit of national goals or in defense against someone else's pursuit of national goals. In some rare cases it's conflict for the fun of it — like the Iraquois and Algonquins used to engage in — or a continuing grinding violence out of societal habit, like we see in Paleostine. Rational states engage in conflict for rational goals.
and it is critical for Members of Congress to stand for a path to peace,
Certain of our founding fathers pointed out that there are some things more important than Peace™, to include life, liberty, and sacred honor.
especially at a time that we witness and the world witnesses more killing, more death, more carnage escalating around us, escalating around those directly involved in the Middle East.
The killing, death, and carnage originate in a few distinct areas, from a few distinct mindsets within a particular religion for the most part. The violence is being carried out as a matter of national policy (see the above description if you've forgotten already) in the pursuit of a specific goal. That goal, to whit, the Islamization of the entire world, happens to be inimical to our national interest.
It is especially essential to be a voice for peace when others believe that escalating the military option without serious and equal emphasis on political and diplomatic efforts will yield calm and resolution.
Why? Isn't it possible that one side is right and the other wrong? I know we live in a postmodern world of shades of gray, where there is no right and wrong, but some shades are markedly darker than others, and some are considerably lighter than others. Hezbollah, for instance, has a long history of warlike truculence, beginning prior to the killing of 242 Marines in Beirut and continuing to the present day. In the current situation, they've formed a state within Lebanon that's out of the control of the Leb government, and acting in a manner that's opposed to the interests of Lebanon. They're busy carrying out acts of war against a sovreign state — not through some loss of reason, but in pursuit of goals established in Teheran. The sovreign state that was attacked is acting quite reasonably, holding Lebanon responsible for the actions of major state actors within the country, just as you would be held responsible if your dog bit someone.
Ghandi instructed us that an eye for an eye will leave the world blind,
I just did a quick count and I've got two eyes. If one's gouged out, that leaves me only one. If the other's gouged out, that leaves me, personally, blind. If one is gouged out, then I'll be particularly assiduous in defense of the remaining eye. Being averse to pain, I prefer to be assiduous in my defense of both of them, thank you. You, Congresswoman Marcy, can give up one or both, if you prefer. It's no skin off my fore. But my eyes are my personal concern, not yours. So piss off.
and physics reminds us that to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. I think in this latest conflagration between Lebanon and Israel there will be more than an equal and opposite reaction...
The Muddle East has grown a situation in which action and reaction is pretty continuous. Everybody's riding around on cycles of violence. The single clear thread running through it all has been the abhorrence for personal liberty among the Arabs in particular and the Muslim world in general, coupled with their desire to export their ways to the rest of us. Lebanon has a parliamentary system, with elections, though its actual government is an oligarchy made up of hereditary pols and business interests. After its civil war it's been an economic success story, marred by Syrian occupation and the growth of Hezbollah. Hezbollah represents the "impoverished Shiites" of Leb — yet it's obvious spent a hell of a lot of money on weaponry and military training that didn't go toward developing the Shiite areas like the Sunni, Christian and Druze areas have been developed.
But the unnecessary slaughter of innocents, whether by Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, American forces in Iraq or the Israeli defense forces, is always wrong, and should never be tolerated.
Of course we should tolerate it. All corpses may smell the same, but they don't get in that condition in the same manner. There's a false equivalence between Hezbollah, Hamas, and al-Qaeda on the one hand, and American forces in Iraq and the Israeli defense forces. The former is in the habit of using innocents both as shields and as targets. The rockets raining on Haifa aren't targeted at military formations or military targets; they're aimed at the city in general, with no concern for who might be standing under them. Hamas has in the past boomed bar mitzvahs and discos and pizza parlors, none of which is by any stretch of the imagination a military target. One of the Islamic Heroes™ Hezbollah wants released in return for the men it's kidnapped killed a father and his 4-year-old after invading their apartment as they were watching the teevee. Those are matters of policy. The U.S. and the IDF take a different tack, trying to root out the very sort of men making up Hamas, Hezbollah and al-Qaeda and kill them. There is no mark on a map that sez "Hezbollah be here!" They hide among the populace — Mao's dictum on guerrilla war is "the guerrilla is the fish, the people are the sea." In the present case, Hezbollah is holding the entire country hostage. We consciously try to avoid killing innocents, sometimes erring on the side of caution, other times not.
So civilized people cannot in good conscience stand by and silently watch as hundreds of innocents are killed and thousands more threatened by the spasm of destruction unleashed by Israel in Lebanon...
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Marcy, I know you don't actually read, but only spew the daily DNC talking points, but nonetheless, I profer the following from English Philosopher and Economist John Stuart Mill:
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
And yes, Marcy, I am calling Dems 'miserable creatures'.
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Previous Deep Thoughts From Marcy have included...
"One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown," Miss Kaptur said.
and, after being bagged for that one...
"You have heard much about my earlier statements on terrorism, and I just wanted you all to know that due to the political nature of what happened with my original statements, if my remarks have hurt anyone, I'm sorry," Miss Kaptur said. "Let me also say to each of you tonight [that] I am one member of Congress who will never make politics of war. It is too deadly serious."
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But the unnecessary slaughter of innocents, whether by Hezbollah, Hamas, Al Qaeda, American forces in Iraq or the Israeli defense forces, is always wrong, and should never be tolerated.
Thanks, Marcy, for the gratuitous slap at our armed forces by lumping them in with Hezbollah and Hamas.
WTF is in the water in Ohio, anyway? (Kucinich -- may bees pee upon him, this ol' bat, etc.) I mean, I know they had a river catch on fire once, but didn't they clean that crap up??
This has been going on for quite some time. One thing the author misses is that the upgrades to the infastructure of Cheynene Mountain would have been staggering. The NORTHCOM project is not only an upgrade, but merges several agencies into one HQ. It is really quite Kewl and is working out great (so far).
Colorado Springs - The military is relegating its newly renovated airspace and missile defense complex in Cheyenne Mountain to standby status - clouding the future of a Cold War nerve center touted as the most secure spot in America.
The green-jumpsuited sentries who electronically scan the skies from deep inside this granite cocoon southwest of Colorado Springs - built in the 1960s to withstand Soviet nuclear blasts - now are to blend into broader homeland defense operations under prairie skies at nearby Peterson Air Force Base.
"I can't be in two places at one time," said Adm. Tim Keating, commander of both U.S. Northern Command, set up in 2002 to fight terrorism, and North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD. Both NORAD and Northcom have their headquarters at Peterson.
U.S. strategists created the mountain complex to prevent nuclear missile and bomber attacks. But today the government's best intelligence "leads us to believe a missile attack from China or Russia is very unlikely," Keating said in an interview this week. The emergence of varied terrorist threats such as suicide bombers "is what recommends to us that we don't need to maintain Cheyenne Mountain in a 24/7 status. We can put it on 'warm standby,"' Keating said.
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I used to live near Norad in Fountain/Fort Carson area way back when the cold war was going on. Always knew that if World War III went hot I would have been flash fried in 20 min or so. Yea upgrading Norad would be rather expensive, but it is really a cool place.
gbal Asghar reached across the counter at Super Halal Meat market and passed two butchered chickens to the man with the familiar face. Then he ducked into the walk-in freezer to fetch the customer's second order, goat meat.
When the butcher stepped out seconds later, the customer's severed left hand lay on the floor by the meat saw, Asghar said. The customer ran down the Springfield store's center aisle and into the front parking lot, leaving a trail of blood and yelling repeatedly that he was "not a terrorist." Outside, another witness said, the man announced that he had used the meat saw to cut off his hand "for Allah."
Rescue workers arrived minutes after the incident Saturday evening and took the man -- and his detached hand -- to Inova Fairfax Hospital. Fairfax County police declined to comment or release the man's name yesterday, saying no charges would be filed. Those who saw the action unfold remained jarred.
Asghar said the man's son told him that evening that his father was on medication for mental problems. Dan Schmidt, a spokesman for the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, said authorities believe the man had mental health problems. Schmidt said he did not know whether doctors planned to try to re-attach the man's hand.
"I don't know what happened to that guy," Asghar, 45, said as he leaned yesterday against a stack of Pakistan Link newspapers at the small strip mall store in the Franconia area, which caters to customers from India, Afghanistan and Pakistan. "We are shaking still when we are talking about it."
Nothing seemed amiss when the man approached the meat counter with his teenage son, Asghar said. The butcher said he recognized the man, whose name he did not know, as a fellow Pakistani. The man chatted on a cellphone as Asghar cut his chicken.
Suddenly, the man was racing toward the front of the store, past jars of turmeric powder and boxes of date-filled cookies. Manager Sohail Afzal, 28, who was helping a customer, grabbed the phone and called police.
With his son following, the man went into the parking lot, where Vikas Sinsunwal, 18, was hanging out with a group of friends in front of his parents' store, Niralla Sweets. The young men were admiring a friend's new motorcycle, Sinsunwal said, when the man walked coolly toward them. The man was holding aloft his bleeding left arm -- sliced several inches above the wrist -- and using his right hand to hold up a photo identification badge that hung around his neck.
"We thought it was fake," Sinsunwal said of the limb. Then they heard the man mumbling calmly but angrily in a mixture of English and Urdu about working in the area and his children attending school here.
"He said, 'I did this for Allah' -- God," Sinsunwal said.
Startled, the friends rushed inside Niralla Sweets, which sells pastel treats adorned with almond slices. The man followed.
As his son tried to calm him, the man stood outside the store's large windows, holding the badge and showing no sign of pain, Sinsunwal said. His sister, Shivani Sinsunwal, 20, called police as frightened customers begged her not to let the man inside.
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Oh, how quaint! However, they are evading the oath to "God and country." The live for Allah and Caliphate.
I don't advocate forced dogma in the form of the Soviet style, "party-line." But we have to do something about the pathological ignorance of the true nature of the Muslim beast, and the stupidity that paints a benign face on that wild animal.
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"It's pretty good. We get to play outside a lot," he said. "We have snack time, and we get to learn stuff from the Red Cross like if firemen come, don't be afraid." .... then we have exploding vest training, Kalashnakov assemply/disassembly, sniper 101, demo training, ie, cutting charges, crimping caps, time fuse, vehiclular emplacement, etc.
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Okay, kids, I'm an active adult leader in Scouting, so I know from whence I speak.
In order to be a Scout, a boy has to give an oath to do his duty to God and country. The BSA does not claim to be able to define what God is, so Scouts can be of any faith as long as they have a belief in a supreme being. There are Moslem Scouts, Jewish Scouts, Bhuddist Scouts, Sikhs, Baptists, Methodists, Mormons, Unitarians, and even a few of those darned Catholics like me. (Take a look at this page, which is the list of religious emblems established for Cub Scouts of particular denominations. There are denominations on the list you probably never heard of.)
I may be asking for a flaming by saying this, but not all Moslems are Wahabbists* or CAIR activists (but I repeat myself). There are lots of Moslem friendlies out there, people who are more than willing to put their lives on the line to take out the same bad guys you and I want taken out. If the Islamic Center in Florida wants to form a Scout unit and have the boys learn to say the Pledge of Allegiance and salute and fold the flag correctly and do their duty to God and the United States, I'm happy to have 'em.
*A Wahabbi Islamist, by definition, is committed to a restoration of the Caliphate, and so cannot therefore honestly pledge to do his duty to country, since he seeks the overthrow of the US Government. That person, then, cannot be a Scout--just as an atheist cannot be a Scout because he cannot honestly pledge to do his duty to God.
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Thanks, Mike. The question is, are we going to make a place for the Muslims who want to be Americans and assimilate them or are we going to kill them all? I suppose the third alternative is to keep on as we have been, but I like that least of all. As the Constitution provides for freedom of religion, we're going to have to make some legal changes if we want to go the kill them all route. And we won't be the same country after we do. Getting them in the BSA is a lot better than having them go to the KSA.
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I may be asking for a flaming by saying this, but not all Moslems are Wahabbists* or CAIR activists (but I repeat myself).
Naw. They just tolerate the Wahabbists running their mosques, and the Wahabbist literature in their mosques, and they pump cash into jihadi-front "charities".
They're passive supporters of jihad, not active supporters. Still supporters, though.
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07/28/2006 9:02 Comments ||
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Not all, Robert.
I know some who don't, and who do speak out against the crazies.
Mike's right. Let's encourage good citizens - even as we bitch-slap the bad ones.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
07/28/2006 9:20 Comments ||
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So, what do you propose we do with the passive supporters, Robert?
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I know some who don't, and who do speak out against the crazies.
Certainly there are some. Pity they're vastly outnumbered.
Because if they were in the majority, the Wahabbists wouldn't be running the mosques, the hate pamphlets wouldn't be in the mosques, and the jihadi-front charities wouldn't be able to raise a dime before getting exposed.
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Sorry Mike we can get a little snarky around here. I like the idea of muslims joining boy scouts at least these muslims want to be part of America.
Is this going to cause the aclu internal conflict?
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Yes, but becoming part of something and then destroying it from within has been an Islamic practice. Where do you think splodydopes come from ? Years of being allowed to mingle within Israel and cross borders daily have led to some strapping on explosive belts and vests and going after the 72 virgins.
Part of their takeover philosophy is to join and wait for the opportune moment. I say, since we can't trust all of them, trust none of them. You want to be a scout ? Denounce Islam. It sucks anyway.
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Yes, I too remember how scouting includes all varieties of religious direction.
Good point however about having them salute the flag and say the pledge of allegiance.
This should be done by everyone that lives here! Might be a good way to weed out the guys who don't want to assimilate. Or at best get rid of the death to america types that live in our front yards.
Look, at least they're trying to assimilate. They aren't going to some summer camp where they are going to learn how to build bombs, unless the Jamborees have really, really changed. Who knows, they might run into some Jewish scouts and find out that they don't have horns and aren't dripping with evil.
These kids are pretty much in my backyard (I'm in a county just to the north of them). I'd rather they grow up to be citizens instead of jihadis. Maybe this will keep some of them from doing it. We won't know unless you give them a chance.
BTW, I remember hearing stories from my parents about how Catholics couldn't be loyal citizens because they owe their allegiance to the Pope. Thank God Kennedy destroyed that lie once and for all. Let's not start blanketing all Muslims like that, especially if some are trying to just be normal Americans. They need our encouragement, not derision.
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Naw. They just tolerate the Wahabbists running their mosques, and the Wahabbist literature in their mosques, and they pump cash into jihadi-front "charities".
They're passive supporters of jihad, not active supporters. Still supporters, though.
Word, RC. The mythical "Moderate Muslims" are so few and so ineffectual as to be nearly irrelevant. The Muslim practice of Takiya makes any supposed integration suspect at best. Until mobs of outraged Muslims take back the mosques from their Wahabbist usurpers, all of their protestations should fall upon deaf ears.
Islam is only being hijacked by its radicals if the final destination is one truly unwanted by the fellow passengers. The lack of outcry and silent (or outright) approbation that terrorism so often evokes in mainstream Islam is far too damning to be ignored.
Only Mulims that virulently protest the perversion of their religion should be construed as assimilating in any way shape or form. And still, there's that Takiya thingy.
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Thanks, Mike, for answering the questions that this article brings to mind for those who don't have a good overview of how Scouting works today. The fact that they want to become Scouts seems to imply that they want to make an effort to become good citizens and, therefore, should be encouraged. It's the Bush doctrine applied at the local community level.
If an extremist Islamic group wanted to infiltrate the Scouts for sinister purposes, it would almost certainly start to ring some alarm bells within the hierarchy at some point. It would probably be much easier for them to form a youth organization with no oversight by the Scouts.
Posted by: john ||
07/28/2006 17:32 Comments ||
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Are you telling me that a group sponsored by a Christian organization would refuse children from a Jewish organization or vice versa?
Scout units need to have a sponsoring organization that provides a place to meet and some outside involvement in the unit. Usually the adult members of the sponsor provide the core of the leadership and members of the troop. Typically it is a religious institution, though it can also bee a service organization such as Kiwanis etc.
When I was a scout, 40 years ago, my troop was sponsored by a Baptist Church and had Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. But there were some troops that were sponsored by Catholic churches that were pretty Catholic troops. Same for Mormons and Jews. That also reflected where people lived and what was convenient. No one was ever refused membership in a troop because of their religion. But people got to involved in a troop with which they were comfortable, for whatever reason. There were also troops that were blue blood and a troop at the military base. I see nothing odd in a Mosque sponsoring a troop any more than a church, synagogue, stake or bhuddist temple. It's how we assimilate.
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2b: Just to add to Nimble's response, while Scout units tend to reflect the demographics of the chartering organization, any boy can join any unit, with, I think, the possible exception of LDS church units, and that's only because the LDS church uses Scouting as its in-house youth ministry. (I don't have too much contact with LDS units, so I could be wrong about that.) My bous are in units chartered to our parish, but we have a few kids who are not Catholic in our bunch, and some have even gotten their denomination's religious emblems.
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How about a manslaughter charge for him in her death?
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Fat Matt gets a 6 month severance package (approx. 110K); the state retirement board projects his pension at $55K per year. Not bad for a no-talent hack.
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3dc, Fat Matt wasn't involved when that section of the tunnel was done. The oversight was in someone else's hands so I don't think that you can hit him for Manslaughter. There's a whole bunch of people you can line up for that role but, in fairness, Matt wouldn't be one of them.
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