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Muslim Countries Seek Blasphemy Ban

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:59:05 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: W A K E U P

GENEVA (AP) -- Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery -- essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that Algeria and Pakistan have taken the lead in lobbying to eventually bring the proposal to a vote in the U.N. General Assembly.

The countries that form the 56-member Organization of the Islamic Conference are now lobbying a little-known Geneva-based U.N. committee to agree that a treaty protecting religions is necessary.

''It would, in essence, advance a global blasphemy law,'' said Felice Gaer, a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Tags: blasphemy bullshite, freedom lost, oic, islam

"Pray For Obama's Death" t-shirts

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:38:45 GMT

clipped by: Spiritualmonkey

Clip Source: spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com

A new shirt & bumper sticker reading Pray for Obama, Psalm 109:8 is making the rounds.

Just what does Psalm 109, verse 8 say?

"Let his days be few; and let another take his office."

Here's the neat bit. What does verse 9 say?

"Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."

And 10, 11, & 12 don't get much cheerier. No, psalm 109 is, in general, real heavy with death, widow, orphans, creditors, and general personal destruction of the person being discussed. It is a Dear Lord, smite this motherfucker so hard his descendants have a birth mark that reads OW, FUCK! kind of Psalm.

They cynicism of that dodge, the "Oh we didn't mean the killing part, just the out-of-office part", that's what gets me. At a time when the secret service is getting more death threats than any president in history, that's a special kind of cynical.

The Bible says what it says. And we know what you're saying with this quote.

Tags: obama, the-bible, psalm-109, assassination

what's the deal with the moon?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:06:26 GMT

clipped by: doodleicious
clipper's remarks: more at source

Clip Source: naturalplane.blogspot.com

I have become extremely confused on what is going on with the Moon. I like the Moon. It is always there, always lovely to view but recently a bit confusing.

Over the years there have been multiple articles written about our Moon. I have read the controversy concerning possible bases on the Moon. I have read all types of theories that the Moon is inhabited by Alien bases to those that the nations of planet earth have been secretly building bases on it for years.

I sifted through piles of debate on the issue of our Moon landing in 1969 that runs from it being a great step for mankind to the idea it never really happened.

Recently we spent over 70 million dollars to blow a hole in the moon. I must say I find this a bit extreme knowing how many problems here on earth could have benefited far more with that money spent on more human life type problems.

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"New" Afghanistan Legalized Rape, Starvation of Women Okay

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:22:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "There was a review process - Karzai came under huge pressure from all over the world to amend this law, but many of the most oppressive laws remain," Rachel Reid, the Human Rights Watch representative in Kabul, told the BBC.

"What matters more to Karzai is the support of fundamentalists and hardliners here in Afghanistan whose support he thinks he needs in the elections."

Women's groups say its new wording still violates the principle of equality that is enshrined in their constitution.

It allows a man to withhold food from his wife if she refuses his sexual demands; a woman must get her husband's permission to work; and fathers and grandfathers are given exclusive custody of children.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

An Afghan bill allowing a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex has been published in the official gazette and become law.

The original bill caused outrage earlier this year, forcing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to withdraw it.

Critics accuse President Hamid Karzai of betraying Afghan women

They accuse Mr Karzai of selling out Afghan women for the sake of conservative Shia support at next week's presidential election.

The law governs family life for Afghanistan's Shia minority.

The original version obliged Shia women to have sex with their husbands every four days at a minimum, and it effectively condoned rape by removing the need for consent to sex within marriage.

Western leaders and Afghan women's groups were united in condemning an apparent reversal of key freedoms won by women after the fall of the Taliban.

Now an amended version of the same bill has passed quietly into law with the apparent approval of President Karzai.

New L.A. ACORN sting: "Why, sure I'll help you launder money to pimp underaged girls"

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:58:03 GMT

clipped by: clip-on-tie
clipper's remarks: Lavelle Stewart, of ACORN in South Central Los Angeles, tells us she thinks we have to hook up with “someone who’s on that international sex business level,” that “14 and 15 year olds been traveling overseas for years,” that she can do independent research for us, and that she has had meetings with Porn magnate Larry Flynt. As for laundering the sex money into my faux political campaign, Lavelle says, “there are ways, people do it all the time. Yeah there are ways, especially out here in California.” - http://tr.im/FlBJ

Sick.

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LOL. Another video. This just gets better and better.

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Tags: followup, san bernardino acorn, allahpundit, lavelle stewart, larry flynt, l.a. times, ksm, highlights, gross

Why Hate?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:10:06 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Hate can be sparked by greed, or fear, or a tribe bonding together in opposition to another. People looking to belong will hate others to fit into a group, he said.

With all the political conflict in the United States, it can seem that hate is on the rise. Some people seem to hate President Obama. Some hate Muslims. Some hate homosexuals."

Clip Source: www.365gay.com

Why did the Nazis hate the Jews? Why did the Hutus hate the Tutsis?

Hate is everywhere, but the fundamental question of why one person can hate another has never been adequately studied

“What makes hate tick?” Mohr, director of Gonzaga’s Institute for Action Against Hate, wondered. “How can we stop it?”

There is not even a good definition of hate, Stern contends.

Rene Descartes said hate was the urge to withdraw from something that is thought bad. Aristotle saw hate as the incurable desire to annihilate an object

In psychology, Sigmund Freud defined hate as an ego state that wishes to destroy the source of its unhappiness.

“Hate thrives in areas not illuminated by education,”

But Stern said it is too easy to blame ignorance for hate

“We dehumanize them and justify violence against them,” Stern said.

“We can change,” Mohr said. “There has to be hope.”

CIA Secret 'Torture' Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:27:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The new members of NATO were so grateful for the U.S. role in getting them into that organization that they would do anything the U.S. asked for during that period," said former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, now an ABC News consultant. "They were eager to please and eager to be cooperative on security and on intelligence matters."

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

This former Lithuanian horse stable was converted into a secret CIA detention center, according to a...

This former Lithuanian horse stable was converted into a secret CIA detention center, according to a former U.S. intelligence official and a current Lithuanian government official. Some al Qaeda detainees were held at this facility, the officials said.

(ABC)

The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week.

Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a concrete structure where it could use harsh tactics to interrogate up to eight suspected al-Qaeda terrorists at a time. A full report on the can be seen on ABC's World News with Charles Gibson tonight.

Tags: cia, torture, secret prison, lithuania, gulag, crimes against humanity

Gipsy Art

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:09:32 GMT

clipped by: wiganfootie

Clip Source: www.bridgemanartondemand.com

FRIENDSHIP, WE'VE GOT IT. RIGHT CLIPPERS?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:25:22 GMT

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Clip Source: ihasahotdog.com

The Best Baked Apples

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:51:16 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: Enough to bring a satisfied smile to the face of a grumpy curmudgeon (me) on a bleak November eve

Clip Source: www.zencancook.com

Baked Apples with Apricots, Raisins & Walnuts,

For the baked apples

4 apples (Cortland, Granny Smith, Golden Delicious or Winesap…), cap off, peeled and cored (see pic above)

1 cup dried apricots, diced

1/2 cup dried raisins (or cranberries)

1/2 cup walnuts, roughly chopped

1/2 cup dark brown sugar

4 tablespoons butter, softened

4 cinnamon sticks

4 oranges, juiced

Preheat the oven to 350′F.

Cut off the cap of each apple, peel and core (see picture below).

In a medium bowl, mix the apricots, raisins, walnuts, brown sugar and butter until well combined. (You can soak the dried fruit in a Grand-Marnier syrup ahead of time if you want.)

Divide the stuffing equally between the apples, replace the cap and put a cinnamon stick in place of the apple stem.

Place the apples in a shallow oven dish and pour the orange juice over them.

Bake for 1 hour basting the apples with the orange juice, every 10 minutes or so (The apples are ready when soft, golden and shiny and the juice is reduced to a glaze).

Baby on Board

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:41:26 GMT

clipped by: wiganfootie

Clip Source: www.richardpettinger.com

Fox News Caught in Another Lie

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:48:36 GMT

clipped by: chestnut501
clipper's remarks: Have they no shame?

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Last week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught Fox News' Sean Hannity running old footage of September Tea Party crowds in an attempt to make Michele Bachmann's smaller November Tea Party shindig appear to be more well-attended than it was. Is Fox up to the same tricks today? Faiz Shakir at ThinkProgress thinks so, and he pulls a segment that seems to tout the crowds that greeted Sarah Palin on the stump during the 2008 campaign as throngs that are gathering to purchase Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue.

In the clip below, watch as Fox anchor Gregg Jarrett describes "pictures just coming into us" as "huge crowds" that have amassed while Palin is "promoting her new book." The pictures that are supposedly "just coming in" are actually year-old video from the presidential campaign:

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Tags: news, media-news, book-signing, michigan, video

'A Very, Very Brief Stun' Claims Cop Who Tasers Girl, 10

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:25:45 GMT

clipped by: chestnut501
clipper's remarks: Would that be anything like a very, very brief electrocution?

Clip Source: rawstory.com

It was an encounter one Ozark 10-year-old will likely never forget.

Called to a home to help control an allegedly "unruly child," an Ozark police officer was reportedly told by the girl's mother that he could use the electric weapon to subdue her,

However, the girl supposedly kicked the officer in the groin when he approached. "He had no other choice [but to Taser her]," Ozark Police Choief Jim Noggle reportedly said. "He had to get the child under control."

Ozark police argued that had the officer grabbed the girl, he could have hurt her. "If you grab somebody, you can slip an arm out of joint," the police chief added. "They can slip from you and fall on the ground."

Tags: news, police, abuse, tasers, children

Walking with jaguars: The Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi animal rescue centre

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:50:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In many ways Jaguars are the most complete of all cats. It's kinda sad that their numbers are shrinking in the wild over time.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Deep in the heart of the Bolivian jungle an animal conservation worker walks through the undergrowth with a wild jaguar

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

The Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi (CIWY) is a unique animal rescue centre where locals and volunteers help to rehabilitate animals, such as the puma seen here, through direct contact

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Rescuing wild animals such as monkeys, birds, pumas, and jaguars

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Founded by Juan Carlos Antezana (seen here wrestling with a jaguar) in 1996

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Amira was rescued just a few months ago

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Author Thayer Walker and Jaime, who brought Yaguarupi up as a cub

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Jaime, a Bolivian employee of Inti Wara Yassi, brought Yaguarupi up as a cub. "Rupi" is now nearly 300 lbs

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Yaguarupi eats raw meat at the Ambue Ari jungle reserve

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

British volunteer Caroline Almond and Pedro, a Chilean veterinarian, take Katie the jaguar for a walk

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Puma, one of three puma sisters

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

A French volunteer swims with a puma

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Noemi

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Amira the Jaguar

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Amira the jaguar

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Morocha the spider monkey

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Tania "Nena" Baltazar hugs the spider monkey Morocha

Tags: earth picture gallery

Is Voting Republican Bad For Your Health?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:22:53 GMT

clipped by: Jorjor
clipper's remarks: The chart wouldn't clip [that's the (above) in the clipped text]. You'll have to click through to see it.

From the source:

"As Forbes noted:

The annual ranking looks at 22 indicators of health, including everything from how many children receive recommended vaccinations, to obesity and smoking rates, to cancer deaths."

They just want to drag everyone down to their level. Red states also have the highest overall divorce and teenage pregnancy rates. Way to go.

Clip Source: crooksandliars.com

Throughout their all-out campaign to stop health care reform, Republican leaders have relied on questionable forecasts from the Lewin Group, a subsidiary of insurer UnitedHealth Group. Now, another study funded by UnitedHealth has some unwelcome news for the GOP braintrust: the red states they represent are the unhealthiest in the nation. Following on the heels of the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 Scorecard of state health care system performance, the United Health Foundation's report is just the latest confirmation that health care is worst where Republicans poll best.

The diagnosis isn't pretty for Republicans committed to denying the health care their constituents need most of all. The 2009 rankings (above) reveal that nine of the top 10 healthiest states voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Conversely, 9 of the 10 cellar dwellers backed John McCain in 2008; four years earlier, the 15 unhealthiest states voted for George W. Bush for President.