tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post9151153119578024166..comments2023-10-01T02:36:25.122-07:00Comments on Shoes4Industry: America's Largest Terror Drill Set to BeginShoes4Industryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04658492273580616480noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-73390384203593390802007-10-09T11:30:00.000-07:002007-10-09T11:30:00.000-07:00The reason we can't get out of Iraq is that none o...The reason we can't get out of Iraq is that none of the opportunists dares to admit why he or she wanted to make a war there in the first place, and so we, the American people, don't actually know what the goal was and can't ever judge whether it has been achieved. Though Cheney's goal was to secure the oil, he can't admit that to the Iraqis, who don't want to give up the oil. If the Iraqis' goal was to use our military to fight the battle and then take over themselves, they ceded that goal every time they flattered the Americans. If the Israelis consider their existence to be worth every American sacrifice of money, corruption, and human life, they dare not say so. If the military industrial complex really is happy to profit from death and destruction, do they actually pretend to their children that they are human? A lot of PTSD says they do. I could go on.<BR/><BR/>In order to gain power, the Republicans long ago (and knowingly, thanks, Mr. Atwater and others) handed the citizenry, and themselves, a bill of goods, a set of philosophical and economic ideas that were bankrupt. The citizenry, suckers that we were, bought it because it appealed to their worst selves. The price we have paid and will continue to pay in Iraq for this bad bargain is a steep one, and could break the bank. But if we don't understand how we got here, we could buy it again, because the politicians and the pundits still have it for sale.Shoes4Industryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658492273580616480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-52665397599208103272007-10-05T20:56:00.000-07:002007-10-05T20:56:00.000-07:00That's why the Line Item Veto is necessary. To cu...That's why the Line Item Veto is necessary. To cut out all the earmark pork barrel BS that Congress spends the money on. And I never said I was real happy with Dubya's spending habits either.LifeBeginsAt200MPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626639885816433893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-66028022311932082692007-10-05T20:43:00.000-07:002007-10-05T20:43:00.000-07:00Unlike Bush who has spent all your social security...Unlike Bush who has spent all your social security money and your kids money...<BR/><BR/>Worst president, ever. Period.Shoes4Industryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658492273580616480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-41909417878009780572007-10-05T18:31:00.000-07:002007-10-05T18:31:00.000-07:00"We believe Clinton left a budget SURPLUS!"You can..."We believe Clinton left a budget SURPLUS!"<BR/><BR/>You can believe it, but it would be incorrect. It was "Juggling the books" that made it appear that we had a surplus.<BR/><BR/>The national debt increased over $1.5 Trillion under Clinton.<BR/><BR/>09/30/1999 5,656,270,901,615.43<BR/>09/30/1998 5,526,193,008,897.62<BR/>09/30/1997 5,413,146,011,397.34<BR/>09/30/1996 5,224,810,939,135.73<BR/>09/29/1995 4,973,982,900,709.39<BR/>09/30/1994 4,692,749,910,013.32<BR/>09/30/1993 4,411,488,883,139.38<BR/>09/30/1992 4,064,620,655,521.66<BR/><BR/>http://www.delta.edu/mkhiatt/<BR/>surplus_myth.html<BR/><BR/>http://www.pww.org/past-weeks-<BR/>1999/Social%20%20Security<BR/>%20threat.htm<BR/><BR/>And there's a myriad of articles and factual records of what the "books" really showed.<BR/><BR/>To quote several websites..."If an ordinary citizen had kept books like the Clinton Administration, they'd be in prison."<BR/><BR/>Clinton Budget Surplus...another myth busted!!LifeBeginsAt200MPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626639885816433893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-47449993734123466702007-10-05T17:07:00.000-07:002007-10-05T17:07:00.000-07:00Seems as if everyone, even outside of the liberal ...<I>Seems as if everyone, even outside of the liberal blogosphere, is starting to realize that Bush's plan is just to leave the messes he has created to his successor, which is accompanied by the growing sense of how badly he has failed across a broad spectrum of issues.</I><BR/><BR/>We believe Clinton left a budget SURPLUS!Shoes4Industryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658492273580616480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-6969725570271725492007-10-05T16:53:00.000-07:002007-10-05T16:53:00.000-07:00http://www.alexisparkinn.com/photoga...lery/Videos...http://www.alexisparkinn.com/<BR/>photoga...lery/Videos/2006-757<BR/>_departure.wmv<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>"The video I took at the airshow, the announcer says 350kts or over 600kmh." <BR/><BR/>"The maximum allowable speed at sea level for any 757 with flaps and gear up in level flight is 340 knots"<BR/><BR/>"2. The 250 knot speed limitation below 10,000' is not an absolute limitation. The airplane is quite capable of faster speed and depending on the type of operation (military ops) the operator may see that is necessary to have a higher limitation. The reason for the 250 knot below 10,000' limitation is that the windshields are only designed to withstand a bird strike with windshield heat off up to 250 knots below 10,000'. It just so happens that this is the speed limit for US operations designated by the FAA and is why the windshields are designed to this standard."<BR/><BR/><BR/>...and there's still a factor of .5 structural "overbuild" required by the FAA so the 757 is MORE than capable of flying 500+ MPH at sea level. For structural "failure" to be induced, speed would have to approach/exceed Mach and then failure would be instantaneous and total. As in a nose dive from high altitude.LifeBeginsAt200MPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626639885816433893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-57970154038019186262007-10-05T14:45:00.000-07:002007-10-05T14:45:00.000-07:00MS:So, you the"educated" one is a regular on the ...MS:So, you the"educated" one is a regular on the Fake Dog Poop site.<BR/><BR/>Is that what your "best sellers" are about, too???Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02318915415780207855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-29217207410907552752007-10-05T14:19:00.000-07:002007-10-05T14:19:00.000-07:00"pages and pages of crap"...that pretty much sums ..."pages and pages of crap"...that pretty much sums up all I've seen from you nic. You don't believe any gdam thing I say, so what the hell's the point anymore.<BR/><BR/>Your wild ass speculation and conjecture are just that. Just because you and Dr Fruity and a bunch of other whack jobs want to believe it was all done by "ops" and "trolls" and "insiders" and all your other paranoid delusions is no reason for me and everyone else I know to believe it. <BR/><BR/>Since I have first come here after finding this on RO's blog, I have told several hundred people about what we talk about on here and they just laugh their ass off at you "Truthers". I'm nice compared to what some of them say about people like you all.<BR/><BR/>1) It is impossible to fly commerical airliner-sized planes by remote control<BR/><BR/>I NEVER said that. I know better and know more about "drones" and airplanes than you'll ever know.<BR/><BR/>2) Commercial 757's can do 500 mph at sea level with only a bit of minor shaking -- nothing somebody who has never flown the plane before can't handle<BR/><BR/>No reason why they can't, especially in a descent with full power on.<BR/><BR/>3) From the ground, you can see passengers in the windows of commerical airliners flying by.<BR/><BR/>Wanta' borrow my glasses? At low altitude and only yards away, a "glimpse" is possible.<BR/><BR/>4) The nose of the plane only appears to pierce through WTC2 but it didn't really because of top secret information yet to be revealed concerning compressed video footage<BR/><BR/>Something obviously came through the building. So what? If it was the nose cone where is it? Where are the pictures of it on the ground?<BR/><BR/>5) Thermite doesn't explode<BR/><BR/>Technically it doesn't. It can burn faster than hell giving the impression of "exploding". How much explosive work have you done in your life? Not as much as me.<BR/><BR/>6) Lasers can't be used to trigger chemical explosions because in order to do this, it would require steel to go from solid to gaseous phase.<BR/><BR/>Never said that either. In order for your missing mass to happen though, that's what would have had to happen. And lasers/particle beams don't work through dust clouds.<BR/><BR/>7) The spire only appears to turn to dust but it didn't really because of top secret information yet to be revealed concerning compressed video footage<BR/><BR/>The spire didn't turn to dust. You only see it turn to dust because you want to see it do that.<BR/><BR/>8) Don't even ask me to explain what was observed in the video footage of the entire leeward side (the East side) of WTC1 when a dust cloud from the destruction of WTC2 came in contact with it.<BR/><BR/>Nothing. You only see what you want to see.<BR/><BR/>9) Don't even ask me to explain what was observed with all those cars near ground zero where the engine blocks and door handles were eaten away, but practically nothing else, after being engulfed in dust clouds from the destructions of the towers.<BR/><BR/>Those cars were towed from Ground Zero and parked there to make room for rescue and salvage operations. There were fires everywhere that day. Again, you only see what you want to see to justify your speculations and conjectures.<BR/><BR/>Again, it's all pointless anyway. I could say the sun sets in the west and you'd come up with some "op" or other pseudo science to prove me wrong.<BR/><BR/>Your "facts" are only "facts" to you. I still say it was Xenu and The Body Thetans....PROVE me wrong...I have the "Science & Facts" to prove it.LifeBeginsAt200MPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626639885816433893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-60588245619373587862007-10-05T13:55:00.000-07:002007-10-05T13:55:00.000-07:00The economy is relatively sound and deficits are f...The economy is relatively sound and deficits are falling after peaking in 2004. But an entire presidency of red ink has ballooned the overall federal debt from $5.7 trillion when Bush became president to $8.9 trillion now. The Iraq war, including providing medical care and disability benefits to veterans, as well as expensive new programs like a Medicare prescription drug benefit threaten to drive deficits back up. Economists fear growing odds of a recession.<BR/><BR/>Ya' gotta' spend money to make money. USGDP has grown from $9.8T to $13.1T. Dow has gone up from 11.5k to 14k+.<BR/> <BR/>_The nation's health care spending, public and private, totaled $1.5 trillion when Bush took office. By the time he leaves, it is expected to be $2.6 trillion _ a 75 percent increase. Meanwhile, the nation's number of uninsured has swelled, from 14 percent of the population in 2001 to 16 percent last year, or a total of 47 million people.<BR/><BR/>Thank the Trial lawyers and idiot judges for the majority of that. Many doctors have stopped practicing due to skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates because of the proliferation of lawsuits. And illegal immigrants are often counted in that number, overinflating the actual number of uninsured.<BR/><BR/>_Now in its fifth year, the Iraq war has claimed the lives of more than 3,800 members of the U.S. military and more than 73,000 Iraqi civilians, wounded over 28,000 U.S. military personnel, and cost nearly half a trillion dollars. Even if combat ends, Bush says the United States will need to provide military, economic and political support beyond his presidency and have "an enduring relationship" with Iraq.<BR/><BR/>That many men died in about an hour on D-Day. No one wants war or likes to see soldiers or civilians killed. But, it's called WAR! That's what happens in a war, and we are at war against the terrorists. The US has played "nice guy" and used "limited warfare" too long.<BR/><BR/>_No domestic terrorist attack has followed those of Sept. 11, 2001. But the intelligence community concluded in July, nearly six years after the attacks, that al-Qaida has been allowed to re-centralize and rejuvenate itself in Pakistan, where the still-missing Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding.<BR/><BR/>No attacks have happened because the US is still the best at intelligence gathering and we have stopped countless attacks that were in the planning stages. And we should have told the rest of the world to kiss our ass and not stopped until we had that sob's head on a stick. "Limited warfare" is a bad policy.<BR/><BR/>_Energy prices are volatile, and high. The cost of a barrel of oil has soared during Bush's presidency, from $29 to about $80 a barrel. Gas prices averaged $1.45 a gallon in 2001 and now are running about $2.80 _ a 93 percent increase.<BR/><BR/>Thank the tree huggers and trial lawyers for that one also. The US has enough oil, gas, and coal reserves to last something on the order of about 3-400 years(if not more) if we could just get to it. We have more oil in shale/sand oil than all the Mideast combined. When oil companies are held hostage and have to buy raw product from assholes like Venezuela and Russia and the like, their cost skyrockets and we pay the price. If the oil companies could get their product here at home and be allowed to build new efficient refineries and production facilities, we could tell the OPEC's of the world to fk off. Homeowners should get 100% tax credit for installing solar, wind, and geothermal products and the market would boom. But the libbys would cry "Tax cuts for the rich". In 2005 the top 1% of taxpayers paid 39.4% of all taxes paid. The "rich" cover everybody else's ass.<BR/><BR/>_With 78 million baby boomers beginning to retire, Social Security and Medicare move closer to insolvency each day. The Social Security trust fund is expected to last until 2041, while Medicare's will be exhausted much earlier, by 2019. Bush tried to overhaul Social Security but couldn't find enough votes even when Republicans controlled the Congress.<BR/><BR/>Yup, that's right, if all the bastards had been run out of town on a rail when they started dipping into it, we'd be better off. But, when you're supporting a lazy ass welfare society that is now in it's 4th generation and none of them have ever had a job....and the Gubmint PAYS you to have children out of wedlock...ppfffttt..And now Hilly wants to GIVE $5000 to every newborn...WTF?!?!?! They'll be breeding like rabbits...and that means white/black/red/yellow/brown...all of 'em.<BR/><BR/>_Bush tried unsuccessfully to make dramatic changes in the nation's immigration laws. There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country and a few hundred thousand more come in each year.<BR/><BR/>They're ILLEGAL. They should all be rounded up and their ass shipped out of the country. Put a hell of a lot of people to work rounding them up and free up jobs for Americans and LEGAL immigrants. The horseshit fallacy that "They do the jobs Americans won't do" is patent bullshit. Companies that hire illegals should be fined about a million per employee and that crap would cease real damn quick. And since when should yours and my tax dollars pay for their gdam medical bills and so on?<BR/><BR/>You never heard me say GWB or anybody else was the best and did everything the right way. They're all to blame. This country is goin' to hell in a hand basket pretty gdam quick unless we get tough on the criminals and scumbags who abuse the system and their fellow citizens. And the "rest of the world" can kiss my lily white ass when it comes to "being nice".LifeBeginsAt200MPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626639885816433893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-47923076954701373252007-10-05T13:29:00.000-07:002007-10-05T13:29:00.000-07:00I am defining disruption as useless waste of other...I am defining disruption as useless waste of other people's time for a personal agenda other than fact-finding. <BR/><BR/>One good example of what I call disruption is the pages and pages of crap from you, Life, in response to one simple question from me -- a question that I am putting out there in general as I myself try to track down the information: what is the maximum airspeed and handling of a commercial 757 at sea level? <BR/><BR/>Instead of saying, "Gee, I don't know for sure. Let's go see what's out there on this," what I've seen so far is a complete waste of time to me. No links, no data, no stories, just crap.<BR/><BR/>So I made a helpful summary so far of some of the "scientific challenges" you and I have had concerning 9/11 issues. These are some claims you have made that I have disagreed with... <BR/><BR/>1) It is impossible to fly commerical airliner-sized planes by remote control<BR/>2) Commercial 757's can do 500 mph at sea level with only a bit of minor shaking -- nothing somebody who has never flown the plane before can't handle<BR/>3) From the ground, you can see passengers in the windows of commerical airliners flying by.<BR/>4) The nose of the plane only appears to pierce through WTC2 but it didn't really because of top secret information yet to be revealed concerning compressed video footage<BR/>5) Thermite doesn't explode<BR/>6) Lasers can't be used to trigger chemical explosions because in order to do this, it would require steel to go from solid to gaseous phase.<BR/>7) The spire only appears to turn to dust but it didn't really because of top secret information yet to be revealed concerning compressed video footage<BR/>8) Don't even ask me to explain what was observed in the video footage of the entire leeward side (the East side) of WTC1 when a dust cloud from the destruction of WTC2 came in contact with it.<BR/>9) Don't even ask me to explain what was observed with all those cars near ground zero where the engine blocks and door handles were eaten away, but practically nothing else, after being engulfed in dust clouds from the destructions of the towers.H Nicole Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957616974853036879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-59940784394824550612007-10-05T11:41:00.000-07:002007-10-05T11:41:00.000-07:00WHO HATES AMERICA?? Consider the state of play on ...WHO HATES AMERICA??<BR/><BR/> Consider the state of play on these and other issues:<BR/><BR/>_The economy is relatively sound and deficits are falling after peaking in 2004. But an entire presidency of red ink has ballooned the overall federal debt from $5.7 trillion when Bush became president to $8.9 trillion now. The Iraq war, including providing medical care and disability benefits to veterans, as well as expensive new programs like a Medicare prescription drug benefit threaten to drive deficits back up. Economists fear growing odds of a recession.<BR/><BR/>_The nation's health care spending, public and private, totaled $1.5 trillion when Bush took office. By the time he leaves, it is expected to be $2.6 trillion _ a 75 percent increase. Meanwhile, the nation's number of uninsured has swelled, from 14 percent of the population in 2001 to 16 percent last year, or a total of 47 million people.<BR/><BR/>_Now in its fifth year, the Iraq war has claimed the lives of more than 3,800 members of the U.S. military and more than 73,000 Iraqi civilians, wounded over 28,000 U.S. military personnel, and cost nearly half a trillion dollars. Even if combat ends, Bush says the United States will need to provide military, economic and political support beyond his presidency and have "an enduring relationship" with Iraq.<BR/><BR/>_No domestic terrorist attack has followed those of Sept. 11, 2001. But the intelligence community concluded in July, nearly six years after the attacks, that al-Qaida has been allowed to re-centralize and rejuvenate itself in Pakistan, where the still-missing Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding.<BR/><BR/>_Energy prices are volatile, and high. The cost of a barrel of oil has soared during Bush's presidency, from $29 to about $80 a barrel. Gas prices averaged $1.45 a gallon in 2001 and now are running about $2.80 _ a 93 percent increase.<BR/><BR/>_With 78 million baby boomers beginning to retire, Social Security and Medicare move closer to insolvency each day. The Social Security trust fund is expected to last until 2041, while Medicare's will be exhausted much earlier, by 2019. Bush tried to overhaul Social Security but couldn't find enough votes even when Republicans controlled the Congress.<BR/><BR/>_Bush tried unsuccessfully to make dramatic changes in the nation's immigration laws. There are an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country and a few hundred thousand more come in each year.Shoes4Industryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658492273580616480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-48427253915674928632007-10-05T11:38:00.000-07:002007-10-05T11:38:00.000-07:00The Bush LegacySeems as if everyone, even outside ...The Bush Legacy<BR/><BR/>Seems as if everyone, even outside of the liberal blogosphere, is starting to realize that Bush's plan is just to leave the messes he has created to his successor, which is accompanied by the growing sense of how badly he has failed across a broad spectrum of issues.<BR/><BR/>"It's hard to find something he has done that really has improved the situation a great deal," Stephen J. Wayne, a Georgetown University presidential scholar, tells the AP.<BR/><BR/>Or as former Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd puts it: "We're in a worse place than we were in 1999."<BR/><BR/>--David KurtzShoes4Industryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658492273580616480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-82489741451145785142007-10-05T11:21:00.000-07:002007-10-05T11:21:00.000-07:00"disrupting class"?Like this is a class? In what?..."disrupting class"?<BR/><BR/>Like this is a class? In what? Delusional Paranoia? We Hate America? Pseudo Science?<BR/><BR/>"never get bored."<BR/><BR/>Only thing that bores me is lack of a challenge with worthy adversaries. Kinda' keep hoping some will turn up here, but so far...nada.LifeBeginsAt200MPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626639885816433893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-87731260841085477932007-10-05T10:41:00.000-07:002007-10-05T10:41:00.000-07:00Hmmmm. I wonder if they just leave holes in the p...Hmmmm. I wonder if they just leave holes in the places where they take out the rock core samples, or if somebody comes along after them and replaces the cores with anything. And aren't companies who look for oil really good at this kind of stuff?<BR/><BR/>"Scientists show San Andreas rock cores" <BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/33m3gzH Nicole Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957616974853036879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-50220091196679575462007-10-05T10:26:00.000-07:002007-10-05T10:26:00.000-07:00I'm pretty sure it's closer to "delusions of grand...I'm pretty sure it's closer to "delusions of grandeur" there, Life.<BR/><BR/>And hate to burst your bubble, but disrupting class because you are "bored" is not a sign of genius, no matter how much lazy parents insist on taking this route, and actually encourage their children to act this way, when teachers put out a plea for help.<BR/><BR/>Turns out true geniuses never get bored. More often than not, they have the maturity and mental capacity to entertain themselves w/o disruption. Disrupters are actually suffering from a host of other things, many of which have little to do with mental capacity.H Nicole Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957616974853036879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-63569599416250770582007-10-05T10:13:00.000-07:002007-10-05T10:13:00.000-07:00Not allowing torture is going to break the hearts ...Not allowing torture is going to break the hearts of a lot of sexually repressed neo-cons, that's for sure. What? No more waterboarding? How am I going to live out my favorite S&M fantasies?<BR/><BR/>Bush says US 'does not torture'<BR/>(we just live out S&M fantasies, which makes it okay)<BR/> <BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2b8x66H Nicole Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957616974853036879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-75406513565063619642007-10-05T07:14:00.000-07:002007-10-05T07:14:00.000-07:00"Ok, you're a genius."Wondered how long it would t..."Ok, you're a genius."<BR/><BR/>Wondered how long it would take you to figure that out...rest of them figured it out by the time I was in 4th grade.LifeBeginsAt200MPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626639885816433893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-49065565208840750892007-10-05T04:05:00.000-07:002007-10-05T04:05:00.000-07:00I am taking this as good news. It will be interes...I am taking this as good news. It will be interesting to see how Craig votes on upcoming occupation issues and especially on upcoming impeachment issues.<BR/><BR/>"Craig vows to stay despite court loss" <BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2c2kr2H Nicole Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957616974853036879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-59890116529807049652007-10-05T03:09:00.000-07:002007-10-05T03:09:00.000-07:00I think I may have been duped here a little. How ...I think I may have been duped here a little. How does this reporter know for sure who exactly is doing the killings or, now that I think about it, even why the killings were done? <BR/><BR/>Blackwater and other contractors don't only recruit from the US. They are an equal opportunity recruiter of religious extremists from around the world, including locally in Iraq, and I can just as easily see them behind this in some way as much as "independent" rogue local extremists.<BR/><BR/>The verifiable fact that the dead mutilated bodies of women are being found scattered around Basra is all I'm believing for now until further notice.H Nicole Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957616974853036879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-75641500319183211092007-10-04T22:36:00.000-07:002007-10-04T22:36:00.000-07:00Ok, you're a genius.Ok, you're a genius.Shoes4Industryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658492273580616480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-85522107209306809762007-10-04T21:33:00.000-07:002007-10-04T21:33:00.000-07:00"GMAFB & GFUS."That would GFYS"self-styled enforce..."GMAFB & GFUS."<BR/><BR/>That would GF<B>Y</B>S<BR/><BR/>"self-styled enforcers of religious law threatened, beat and sometimes shot women who they believed weren't sufficiently Muslim."<BR/><BR/>"These gangs represent only themselves, and they are far outside religious, forgiving instructions of Islam."<BR/><BR/>"The vigilantes patrol the streets of Basra on motorbikes or in cars with dark-tinted windows and no license plates. They accost women who aren't wearing the traditional robe and head scarf known as hijab. <B>Religious extremists</B> in the city also have been known to attack men for clothes or even haircuts deemed too Western."<BR/><BR/>"Khalaf, who has a reputation for outspokenness in a city where that can get you killed, scoffed at the groups, calling them no better than <B>criminal</B> gangs."<BR/><BR/>Sounds to me like we haven't killed enough of the bad guys yet.LifeBeginsAt200MPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626639885816433893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-42286714070266276862007-10-04T21:13:00.000-07:002007-10-04T21:13:00.000-07:00Yea, and they're a lot better off now? GMAFB & GFU...Yea, and they're a lot better off now? <BR/><BR/>GMAFB & GFUS.Shoes4Industryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04658492273580616480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-58960191477635613762007-10-04T19:13:00.000-07:002007-10-04T19:13:00.000-07:00"In Iraq under Saddam, if you are a woman, you cou..."In Iraq under Saddam, if you are a woman, you could face:<BR/><BR/> Beheading. Under the pretext of fighting prostitution, units of "Fedayeen Saddam," the paramilitary organization led by Uday Hussein, Saddam's eldest son, have beheaded in public more than 200 women throughout the country, dumping their severed heads at their families' doorsteps. Many families have been required to display the victim's head on their outside fences for several days. These barbaric acts were carried out in the total absence of any proper judicial procedures and many of the victims were not engaged in prostitution, but were targeted for political reasons. For example, Najat Mohammad Haydar, an obstetrician in Baghdad, was beheaded after criticizing the corruption within health services. (Amnesty International Report, Iraq: Systematic Torture of Political Prisoners, August 2001; Iraqi Women's League in Damascus, Syria)<BR/><BR/> Rape. The Iraqi Government uses rape and sexual assault of women to achieve the following goals: to extract information and forced confessions from detained family members; to intimidate Iraqi oppositionists by sending videotapes showing the rape of female family members; and to blackmail Iraqi men into future cooperation with the regime. Some Iraqi authorities even carry personnel cards identifying their official "activity" as the "violation of women's honor." (U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-2001, March 2002; Iraq Research and Documentation Project, Harvard University)<BR/><BR/> Torture. The Iraqi Government routinely tortures and kills female dissidents and the female relatives of Iraqi oppositionists and defectors. Victims include Safiyah Hassan, the mother of two Iraqi defectors, who was killed after publicly criticizing the Iraqi Government for killing her sons after their return to Iraq. Women in Saddam's jails are subjected to the following forms of torture: brutal beatings, systematic rape, electrical shocks, and branding. (U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices-2001, March 2002; U.S. Department of State, Iraq: A Population Silenced, December 2002)<BR/><BR/> Murder. In 1990, Saddam Hussein introduced Article 111 into the Iraqi Penal Code in a calculated effort to strengthen tribal support for his regime. This law exempts men who kill their female relatives in defense of their family's honor from prosecution and punishment. The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women reported that more than 4,000 women have been victims of so-called "honor killings" since Article 111 went into effect. (UN Commission on Human Rights, Report of the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, January 2002)"<BR/><BR/>Of course since this comes from the US State department which is headed by a Black woman...we know it's an "op" paper really written by the KKK neocon nazis.LifeBeginsAt200MPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626639885816433893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-47399691567747599092007-10-04T19:03:00.000-07:002007-10-04T19:03:00.000-07:00Looks like women in Basra who commit fashion faux ...Looks like women in Basra who commit fashion faux pas's have quite a different fate from Spears...<BR/><BR/>"In Basra, vigilantes wage deadly campaign against women"<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2y5b59<BR/><BR/>"Often, the 'crime' is no more than wearing Western clothes or not wearing a head scarf."<BR/><BR/>Iraq was, without a doubt, the most progressive Middle-Eastern Muslim culture for women before the nazi-invasion. Apparently, that has changed significantly under the "new constitution."<BR/><BR/>Who was it that was claiming here that the nazis went in to save the Iraqi women and children?H Nicole Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16957616974853036879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2715368774649101585.post-15828878616110762582007-10-04T16:26:00.000-07:002007-10-04T16:26:00.000-07:00Algore is not the most popular politician in the c...Algore is not the most popular politician in the country.LifeBeginsAt200MPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08626639885816433893noreply@blogger.com