Submitted by Thunder1 on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 00:11.
BILL PLASCHKE, L.A. Times!
CANADA IS A WINTER GAMES WONDERLAND!
There Was A Lot To Like About These Olympics,
But Nothing More Than The Canadian People!
February 28, 2010
Submitted by snake-plisskin on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 21:20.

"A threat against him is, in the long term, also a threat against all Swedes," they said. It's also a threat against one of the most fundamental human rights, freedom of speech, which we all have such a tremendous stake in protecting. "Swedish papers publish Prophet Muhammad drawing," from the Associated Press, March 10 (thanks to all who sent this in):
Submitted by snake-plisskin on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 20:45.
March 10, 2010

A group of "leading conservative lawyers" -- a phrase never confused with "U.S. Marines" -- has produced an embarrassingly pompous letter denouncing Liz Cheney for demanding the names of attorneys at the Justice Department who formerly represented Guantanamo detainees.
The letter calls Cheney's demand "shameful," before unleashing this steaming pile of idiocy:
"The American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients is at least as old as John Adams' representation of the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre."
Yes, but even John Adams didn't take a job with the government for another 19 years after defending the British guards -- who, in 1770, were "the police." He also didn't take a position with the U.S. government that involved processing British murder suspects.
I'd be more interested in hearing about the sacred duty of lawyers to defend "unpopular clients" if we were talking about clients who are unpopular with anyone lawyers know.
Every white shoe law firm in the country has been clamoring to take the cases of Guantanamo detainees, while young associates line up to be put on the case. This is even more fun than defending Ted Bundy!
As The Wall Street Journal put it in a 2007 article, a list of the law firms representing Guantanamo detainees "reads like a who's who of America's most prestigious law firms" -- which conveniently doubles as Santa's "naughty" list.
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 20:02.
White House Continues To Slam Insurers!
President Obama spoke about his health care plans Wednesday in Missouri.
March 10, 2010 5:07 p.m. EST
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Obama takes health care overhaul pitch to Missouri
- Kathleen Sebelius addresses health insurers' conference
- "Democrat leaders aren't listening to the American people," GOP leader says
Washington (CNN) -- President Obama is set to turn up the heat on private health insurers again Wednesday, taking his increasingly populist health care overhaul pitch on the road to the political battleground state of Missouri.
Submitted by TatraDog on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 19:14.
Butchered Christian villagers are buried by the truckload in Nigeria,
after being hacked to death by hundreds of devout Muslim
machete wielders, who praised Allah as they went about their task.
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 18:25.
Quebec To Ban Religion In Public Daycares!
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | 2:20 PM ET CBC News
Religious education will no longer be tolerated in government-subsidized daycares, says Quebec Family Minister Tony Tomassi. (CBC)
This Has Been Brought On By Muslims Trying To Force Their Religion & Agendas On The Rest Of Us, & It Has Backfired, Big Time! We Have Had Enough, & We Are Firing Back! The Fanatics Better Understand We Are Fanatics About Our Country, Our Way Of Life, Our Cutural,
F--K WITH US WE WILL MORE THAN F--K WITH YOU, BIG TIME!!!!
Comments Below!
Quebec will ban religious instruction in provincially funded daycare centres, Family Minister Tony Tomassi said Wednesday.
Tomassi made the announcement just one day after saying he would not prevent daycare centres from teaching religious beliefs.
On Tuesday, he said Quebec's public daycares reflect family values and religious instruction was normal in the province.
But on Wednesday, he said the practice will be prohibited.
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 16:50.
Gates: Early Pullout Reliant On
'Conditions' In Afghanistan!
Robert Gates, center right, and Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak tour Camp Blackhorse on Wednesday.
Yes, Of Course You Can Trust "Dinner Jacket", LMAO!!!
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: U.S. defense chief Robert Gates: U.S. withdrawal "would have to be conditions-based"
- Gates, touring Camp Blackhorse in eastern Afghanistan, thanks Afghan soldiers for service
- Gates vows friendship with Afghans: "We will be your steadfast brothers in arms"
- Iran's president also says Tehran "has innovative plans for resolving ongoing problems"
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 16:43.
U.S. Hikers Held In Iran Allowed To Call Home,
Families Say!
March 10, 2010 8:55 a.m. EST
An undated family photo shows Sarah Shourd, one of three U.S. hikers detained in Iran since July 31.
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 16:38.
Royal Dutch Shell Halts Gasoline Sales To Iran!
By Julianne Pepitone, staff reporterMarch 10, 2010: 2:42 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Royal Dutch Shell has stopped selling gasoline to Iran, the company confirmed Wednesday, adding to a list of oil giants that have stopped sales after a threat of future U.S. sanctions.
Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) said it had no official announcement beyond the confirmation, but according to someone with knowledge of the situation the company ceased gas sales to Iran sometime in 2009.
"Shell is currently not selling gasoline to Iran," a Shell spokesman said, but he would not comment on whether the decision was related to talk of possible U.S. sanctions on Iranian gasoline imports.
Concerns have grown over Iran's nuclear program, and last month the Senate passed a bill that would allow President Obama to expand sanctions against Iran to pressure the republic into dropping its plans.
Submitted by lolarobot on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 15:56.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/09/china.animals/index.html?hpt...
Guangzhou, China (CNN) -- Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches.
This isn't a pet store -- it's a meat market in Guangzhou, a city in southern China where eating cats and dogs is common practice.
At the Han River Dog Meat Restaurant in central Guangzhou, diners can choose from a long list of menu items, including dog soup, dog steak, dog with tofu and more. In the kitchen, the chef chops up meat for dog hot pot, one of the more popular dishes. Most customers like it spicy.
"Dog meat is good for your health and metabolism," explains Li, the hostess who declined to give her first name. "In the summer it helps you sweat."
Should cat and dog meat be banned?
But these local restaurants may have to find a new specialty. The Chinese government is considering legislation that would make eating cats and dogs illegal.
Professor Chang Jiwen of the Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences is one of the law's top campaigners. "Cats and dogs are loyal friends to humans," he said. "A ban on eating them would show China has reached a new level of civilization."
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 13:47.
Niqab-Wearer Blocked Again From Class!!
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | 9:35 PM ET

I Have Included Some Comments From Canadians At the End Of This, & As You Will See, 99% Are Of The Opinion, If You Don't Like Our Ways Go Back To Where You Came From, Enough Is Enough! Muslims Have Forced People To Be Intolerant Of Their Ways, & Agendas!!
Naïma Atef Amed says she wears the niqab for religious reasons. The niqab is a style of headwear that covers the whole body, leaving only the eyes exposed.
(CBC)The Quebec government has intervened again in the case of a Muslim woman who refused to remove her niqab veil during a French-language class.
Last week, Naïma Atef Amed filed a complaint with the province’s human rights commission after she was kicked out of a government-funded language class for new immigrants at the CÉGEP de Saint-Laurent in Montreal. The school had demanded that Amed take off her niqab veil, which covers her head and face and leaves only her eyes exposed, for part of the class.
Premier Jean Charest defended the school's decision, saying that people who expect to receive public services must show their face.
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 03:19.
Updated March 10, 2010
Roberts: Scene At State Of Union 'Very Troubling'!
AP

President Obama chided the court for its campaign finance decision during the January address, with six of the court's nine justices seated before him in their black robe!
Jan. 27: President Obama greets members of Congress on his way to deliver the State of the Union.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Barack Obama's first State of the Union address was "very troubling" and that the annual speech to Congress has "degenerated into a political pep rally."
Responding to a University of Alabama law student's question about the Senate's method of confirming justices, Roberts said senators improperly try to make political points by asking questions they know nominees can't answer because of judicial ethics rules.
"I think the process is broken down," he said.
Obama chided the court for its campaign finance decision during the January address, with six of the court's nine justices seated before him in their black robes.
Roberts said he wonders whether justices should attend the address."To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally, I'm not sure why we're there," said Roberts, a Republican nominee who joined the court in 2005
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 02:48.
Pennsylvania Woman Tried To Recruit Terrorists!
Colleen LaRose, seen here June 26, 1997 after she was arrested under suspicion of DWI in Texas!
A NEW FRIEND FOR SARA!!
Submitted by Thunder1 on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 02:22.
Submitted by lolarobot on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 23:30.
Yes 89% (8 votes) No 11% (1 vote) Total votes: 9
Submitted by snake-plisskin on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 17:25.
Walmart Says Lower Sales of Ballerina Theresa Barbie Prompted the Price Cut
By ALICE GOMSTYN
ABC NEWS Business Unit
March 9, 2010
Submitted by snake-plisskin on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 17:21.
Stocks | Healthcare
*Highest rates found among blacks, women
*
By JoAnne Allen
WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
Black women had the highest rate of infection at 48 percent and women were nearly twice likely as men to be infected, according to an analysis by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
About 21 percent of women were infected with genital herpes, compared to only 11.5 percent of men, while 39 percent of blacks were infected compared to about 12 percent for whites, the CDC said.
There is no cure for genital herpes, or herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), which can cause recurrent and painful genital sores and also increases the likelihood of acquiring and transmitting the AIDS virus. It is related to herpes simplex virus 1, or oral herpes, which causes cold sores.
Several drugs are available to treat herpes symptoms and outbreaks, including acyclovir, which is available generically or under the Zovirax brand name, and valacyclovir, known generically as Valtrex -- both made by GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK.L). Ganciclovir, sold as Zirgan, is made by privately-held Sirion Therapeutics, Inc.
The CDC estimates that more than 80 percent of people with genital herpes do not know they are infected.
Submitted by Thunder1 on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 17:20.
Will You Give This To My Daddy?
Submitted by Thunder1 on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:27.
Congratulations Israel!!!
March 4th, 2010
By Adam Michael Segal
In a surprising twist for International Hockey, a team from Israel recently skated to a Gold Medal at a tournament held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada!
The team, who are based in Bat Yam, Israel, scored the top prize at the 35th annual BSR International Peewee Hockey Tournament.
Victories were earned in all the Division Games the Players participated in, along with the final match, in which the Israelis shot their way to an 8-7 win over a New Brunswick, Canadian team.
Submitted by sefihome on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 14:40.
France’s far-right Front National has upset Algeria, a former French colony, in its latest election poster denouncing "Islamism" and featuring a map of France decked in the North African country’s national flag.
Submitted by Thunder1 on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:58.
U.S. Leads Israeli, Palestinian Peace Talks!
VP Biden Arrives In Jerusalem!
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 | 5:39 AM ET The Associated Press
Israeli President Shimon Peres, left, talks with U.S. Vice-President Joseph Biden during their meeting at Peres's residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday. (Yin Bogu, Pool/Associated Press)
Israelis and Palestinians face a "moment of real opportunity" to make peace after agreeing to resume American-brokered talks, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he launched the highest-level visit by an Obama administration official to Israel.
The indirect talks break a 14-month deadlock and mark President Barack Obama's first substantive diplomatic achievement in the region.
"I think we are at a moment of real opportunity, and I think that the interests of the Israeli and Palestinian people, if everybody stops and takes a deep breath, are actually more in line than they are opposites," Biden said ahead of a meeting with Israel's president, Shimon Peres.
Biden said he hoped the beginning of indirect talks would be "a vehicle by which we can begin to allay that layer of mistrust that has built up in the last several years."
Submitted by Thunder1 on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 12:47.
Palin Ridiculed For Canadian Health Care Use!
Admits in Calgary speech that family used Canadian system in '60s!
Last Updated: Monday, March 8, 2010 | 10:02 PM ET The Canadian Press
Sarah Palin, pictured in Hong Kong in September, says her family used the Canadian health-care system in the 1960s. (Jeff Topping/CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets/Associated Press)
Sarah Palin's weekend admission that her family once travelled to Canada to receive treatment under the public health-care system she's so often demonized prompted skepticism and ridicule Monday among her critics in the U.S.
"My first five years of life, we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse," the former Alaska governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate said Saturday night during a speech in Calgary.
"Believe it or not — this was in the '60s — we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse. I remember my brother, he burned his ankle in some little kid accident thing, and my parents had to put him on a train and rush him over to Whitehorse, and I think, isn't that kind of ironic now, zooming over the border, getting health care from Canada."
Always a popular whipping girl on liberal blogs and news sites, Palin was swiftly derided for the comments Monday as the news reverberated through and beyond the U.S. capital.
Submitted by sefihome on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 04:41.
On early Sunday morning Muslim herders attacked Christian villagers in Nigeria with machetes.
500 Christians were slaughtered.

Villagers in central Nigeria buried dozens of bodies, including those of women and children, in a mass grave on Monday after attacks in which several hundred people were feared to have been killed. (Reuters)
Some of the bodies had been charred. Some had slash marks across their faces. One young victim was found to be scalped and few others were found with cut off hands and legs.
The Muslim hackers shouted “Allah Akhbar” (God is Great) before breaking into homes and hacking the Christians to death.
The AFP reported:
UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.
Funerals took place for victims of the three-hour orgy of violence on Sunday in three Christian villages close to the northern city of Jos, blamed on members of the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group.
While troops were deployed to the villages to prevent new attacks, security forces detained 95 suspects but faced bitter criticism over how the killers were able to go on the rampage at a time when a curfew was meant to be in force.
Media reported that Muslim residents of the villages in Plateau state had been warned by phone text message, two days prior to the attack, so they could make good their escape before the exit points were sealed off.
Submitted by lolarobot on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 21:56.
Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez 'Dictator'
FOXNews.com
If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.
First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars.
Submitted by Yoora on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 20:31.
Submitted by sefihome on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 18:28.
Dubai Faces Up to Human Trafficking

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—For over a decade, authorities turned a blind eye to the Cyclone Club—which was described by regulars as a Disneyland for men—despite the country’s apparent adherence to austere Islamic legal codes.
Indeed, in its heyday entrance tickets to one of the biggest brothels in Dubai were given an official stamp from the local Department of Tourism.
Today however, the building which once housed the notorious Cyclone Club has been gutted and replaced by a family-friendly restaurant—in a sign of a growing crackdown by Dubai authorities on prostitution and human trafficking.
In January, the Central Criminal Court in the capital of Abu Dhabi issued a landmark ruling whereby seven men were given life sentences for human trafficking crimes and six others were given 10-year sentences.
In addition, Dubai courts in February, tried two human trafficking cases, and an eight-man people-smuggling ring was busted in the northern emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
“We have noticed a lot more awareness and big changes in understanding about trafficking from the police and courts,” said Sarah Shuhail, who runs a shelter for women who have escaped forced prostitution, in comments to local media.
Shuhail’s organization, Ewaa Shelters for Women and Children, has been open for little more than a year, and is already planning on opening two new shelters in the emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
In 2009, the U.S. State Department downgraded the United Arab Emirates to Tier 2, on its list of countries cited for their records on trafficking.
Submitted by lolarobot on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 15:52.
To Sefi...Detroit can be the new Gitmo, housing for terrorists, or like a party house for DJO, Sara and other dirty Muzzies.
See their images in the windows. They are used to slum conditions, so this would be like staying at a Hilton.
They can even wash their smelly robes and hang them on the fences to the right of their housing:)
Submitted by sefihome on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 13:12.
Barack Obama seems unable to face up to America's problems, writes Simon Heffer in New York.
It is a universal political truth that administrations do not begin to fragment when things are going well: it only happens when they go badly, and those who think they know better begin to attack those who manifestly do not. The descent of Barack Obama's regime, characterised now by factionalism in the Democratic Party and talk of his being set to emulate Jimmy Carter as a one-term president, has been swift and precipitate. It was just 16 months ago that weeping men and women celebrated his victory over John McCain in the American presidential election. If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons.
Submitted by snake-plisskin on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 13:04.
The first American to be charged with treason since World War II was back in the news Sunday, both for a new videotape he released and for reports of his capture that turned out to be false. In the videotape, al-Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn, an American convert to Islam, praised the Fort Hood jihad murderer and called upon Muslims to carry out jihad attacks in the United States. The reports that Gadahn had been captured caused widespread excitement until the arrestee turned out to be a different American convert to Islam, Abu Yahya Mujahdeen Al-Adam, who like Gadahn is an al-Qaeda leader. The videotape and the arrest of the other American-born Muslim demonstrate yet again the cognitive dissonance that prevails at the highest levels regarding the nature of the jihad threat.
In the videotape, Gadahn called Nidal Hasan, who murdered thirteen people in the name of jihad and Islam at Fort Hood in November 2009, "Brother Nidal" and held him up as "the ideal role-model for every repentant Muslim in the armies of the unbelievers and apostate regimes." And not just military personnel: Gadahn added that "Nidal Hasan is a pioneer, a trailblazer and a role-model who has opened a door, lit a path and shown the way forward for every Muslim who finds himself among the unbelievers."
Submitted by Thunder1 on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 12:37.
Pakistan Suicide Bombing Kills 12!
Last Updated: Monday, March 8, 2010 | 7:24 AM ET
The Associated Press
Rescue workers and residents search for survivors in the rubble of a police building hit by a suicide bomb blast in Lahore. (Mohsin Raza/Reuters)A suicide car bomber Monday struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 12 people and wounding 61 more, including women taking children to school, officials say.
The attack broke what had been a relative lull in violence in Pakistan, where militant groups revile the government for its alliance with the U.S.
It also showed that insurgents retain the ability to strike the country's heartland, far from the Afghan border regions where al-Qaeda and the Taliban have long thrived, despite army offensives aimed at wiping them out.
No group immediately claimed responsibility, but suspicion fell on the Pakistani Taliban and allied militant groups. Those groups are believed responsible for a wave of attacks that killed more than 600 people starting in October, including several in major Pakistani cities.
More recent attacks have been smaller and confined to remote northwest regions near Afghanistan.
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