DEDICATED TO EXPOSING DISINFORMATION AND PROPAGANDA AND TO PROMOTING UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS - WITH SHARP ANALYSIS AND BLUNT COMMENTARY. NO ADS. NO TIP-JAR. JUST THE TRUTH.
...Polyamory isn't about sex, polys tell you. It is about love. It is about loving your primary partner enough to love that they have a new secondary partner, even when their New Relationship Energy with that person leaves you, briefly, out in the cold. It's about loving yourself enough to acknowledge that your needs cannot be met by one loving person. It's about loving love enough to embrace it in unexpected form -- like maybe in the form of your primary's new secondary! -- in which case you may all form a triad and live happily together....The article concludes as follows:
Victoria and LaVasseur have signed up to be facilitators at a cuddle party -- a nonsexual outlet for people of all ages to spoon, tickle, pat and snuggle each other. It requires facilitators because cuddle parties come with 40 minutes' worth of rules on how to snuggle respectfully.Sheesh! This is considered NORMAL??? EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY?
The two of them aren't sitting anywhere near each other; in fact, LaVasseur is demonstrating proper cuddle etiquette with another woman, one old enough to be his mother.
Victoria looks on contentedly; she catches his eye and they smile.
They seem ridiculously in love.
Thailand is considering granting partial autonomy to its Muslim-majority southern provinces, which for the past four years have been the scene of a radical Islamic insurgency, the new interior minister said Tuesday.Regional independence may be out of the question as far as the interior minister is concerned. But when Muslims are on the march, independence from the infidel government is what they have in mind and work toward as their goal. Granting jihadists "some degree of self-rule" will only serve to convince them that they are executing the will of Allah.
More than 2,900 people have been killed since early 2004 in nearly daily drive-by shootings and bombings in the three provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, the only ones with Muslim majorities in Buddhist-dominated Thailand.
A recent escalation in violence presents a major challenge to Thailand's new government, which took office last week. Military and political measures imposed by previous governments had little success in curbing the violence.
While conceding that some degree of self-rule in the south "is a possibility," Interior Minister Chalerm Yoobambrung said independence for the region was out of the question.
"A federal judge has rejected a claim that the Poway Unified School District violated a teenager's First Amendment rights by pulling him out of class for wearing a T-shirt with an anti-gay slogan.
Tuesday's ruling by U.S. District Judge John Houston reaffirmed an earlier decision in which he found the school district's policy on hate speech lawful.
Tyler Harper sued the school in 2004 after the district said he could not wear a shirt printed with a Bible verse condemning homosexuality.
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These are not the acts of leftwing anarchists associated with the Youth House who have previously attacked civil society in Denmark. While it may have started as a reaction to hardhanded actions by Police against a middle-aged Palestinian man who tried to double park in front of a kiosk - one cannot fail to see that the increased and spreading antisocial activity - also reported in the cities of Aarhus and Kalunborg is a response to the renewed focus upon the Mohammed Cartoons.
For those of you who complain the MSM is not covering it, here are some more links to the danish press:
Police fear more unrest tonight
5 imprisoned for tonights unrest
There's trouble in Norrebro again
And they're burning the Danish flag in Pakistan...
Stay tuned...
I'D LAUGH IF IT WASN'T SO TOTALLY FRIGGIN' PSYCHO.
Each soldier's death contributed to that victory.A sex-starved woman is facing up to a year in jail for making 700 calls to the emergency services, army and the town council demanding a man.LET'S GET HER AN EMAIL ACCOUNT AND GIVE HER THE ADDRESSES OF SOME BLOGGERS.
Hanna Wozniak, 42, said: 'I was desperate for sex. It's been so long since I had someone in my bed.'
Miss Wozniak threatened to start a fire at her home in the town of Koszalin if it meant a visit from a hunky fireman.
Zbignew Brzezinski Is In Damascus to See Bashar Assad; I Believe He's There to Meet With Khaled MashalHAARETZ/AP:
It's no surprise that Zbig Brzezinski is visiting Damascus. First of all, Bashar Assad would be delighted to see him, as he has seen other marginal players in U.S. foreign policy. Secondly, Zbig is a fan of Assad's, as is the ex-president for whom he pondered heavy matters, Jimmy Carter, a really big fan.
Visiting America's enemies is, in any case, a good way to get attention at home. (Jesse Jackson made nearly a full-time profession of visiting our for years. Soneone should ask him what he thinks of President Chavez now.)
The visitors may say they are pushing along the "getting to yes" process. But what they're usually doing is fomenting mischief.
Bush orders expansion of sanctions against Syria
President George W. Bush ordered new sanctions on Wednesday to punish Syria for allegedly trying to undermine stability in Iraq and undercut Lebanon's sovereignty and democracy.
Bush, in an executive order, said he was expanding sanctions against senior government officials in Syria and their associates deemed responsible for or to have benefited from public corruption.
The order named no specific officials.
The White House said Wednesday's order expanded action taken in May 2004 when Bush issued an executive order banning all U.S. exports to Syria except for food and medicine. He ordered the sanctions then after long-standing complaints that the Middle Eastern nation was supporting international terror and undermining U.S. efforts in Iraq.
The measures he imposed in 2004 also included a ban on flights to and from the United States; authorization to the Treasury Department to freeze assets of Syrian nationals and entities involved in terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, occupation of Lebanon or terror in Iraq; and restrictions on banking relations between U.S. banks and Syria's national bank.
The measures follow complaints by the U.S. that Syria was supporting
militant groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah and failing to stop guerrillas from crossing the border into Iraq.
Feb 14, 2008 12:23 PMOMAN OBSERVER: Lebanese set to mark Hariri killing
Lebanon's Hezbollah holds a mass funeral for its assassinated commander Imad Moughniyah, one of the United States' most wanted men, in Beirut to calls of revenge against its sworn enemy Israel.
Big crowds are expected in Beirut's Shi'ite Muslim southern suburb to bid farewell to Moughniyah, a guerrilla seen as a legend by Hezbollah but on the US most wanted list accused of killing hundreds in attacks on Israeli and Western targets.
Hezbollah, which is backed by Syria and Iran, accused Israel of killing Moughniyah on Tuesday by planting a bomb in his car in Damascus. Israel denied any links to the attack while Washington welcomed his death.
Reflecting deep divisions in Lebanon, Moughniyah's funeral will take place a few hours after a rally by the anti-Syrian ruling coalition to mark the third anniversary of the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut.
BEIRUT — The streets of Beirut a day before a scheduled mass rally to mark the February 14, 2005 assassinaton of then-premier Rafik Hariri, were tense on Tuesday and anger could be heard in peoples’ comments about the political speeches they hear daily from the country’s leading rival parties.BAHRAIN TRIBUNE/AFP:
“We want to be governed by the state and not by religious warlords, sheikhs, or priests,” shouted Ahmed Mortada, a moderate Lebanese Shiite in one of Beirut’s streets. “Both the opposition (led) by Hizbullah and the majority are now threatening each other with war ... as if we (people) are their war toys and they can play with us as they like,” said Souad Hamdan, a Muslim who does not belong to any rival party.
“The political life in this country has gone below zero. The leaders are using radio and television to lash at each other, and the streets are boiling (over) with their followers,” she added. Souad was referring to fiery speeches by the head of the ruling majority, Saad Hariri, and his ally Walid Jumblatt, who threatened the opposition “if you want war...we are ready for it.”
The tough rhetoric has ignited tensions between the followers of both parties in a country already tense over a long-standing political deadlock. Clashes between followers of the late Hariri and those loyal to Hizbullah have erupted here and there. At least two people were wounded on Sunday in a gunfight between Druze supporters loyal to Jumblatt and a pro-Syrian Druze group in Aley, east of the capital.
The streets also witnessed clashes between Hariri supporters and followers who support parliament speaker Nabih Berri. Christian opposition leader General Michel Aoun has accused the ruling majority of having created “a climate of fear” which can trigger clashes at any moment and push the situation out of control.
Lebanon braced yesterday for a mass rally by supporters of the Western-backed government to commemorate the third anniversary of ex-premier Rafik Hariri’s murder amid mounting street clashes with the opposition.STRIFE OR WAR.
Pro-government leaders have called on hundreds of thousands of supporters to converge today on Martyr’s Square in central Beirut, near the beachfront site of the car bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others on February 14, 2005.
The rally was to be held on the same day that the Lebanese resistance group Hizbollah, an important member of the opposition, was to bury one of its top commanders killed on Tuesday in Syria, in a car bombing blamed on Israel.
The Hariri anniversary protest comes amid high tension in Lebanon which has been without a president since November, in its worst political crisis since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war.
Street clashes between the government and the opposition camps and mudslinging among rival politicians have raised fears of civil strife...
It’s wrong to try to implement restrictions in my private property. I own this
piece of land. This is America. I should be able to do anything I want with it.
In the February 18, 2008 edition of U.S. News & World Report, Editor-in-Chief Mortimer B. Zuckerman offers a commentary on the leading candidates of the moment. In his essay, written before yesterday's Potomac primaries, Mr. Zuckerman makes the case for the necessity of having a greater number of super delegates because they have more knowledge of two particular issues: the economy, the threat of Islamic terrorism. In Mr. Zuckerman's opinion, superdelegates chosen from the ranks of governors and members of Congress would be better suited to select candidates not as flawed as the ones we have right now (emphases mine): America faces a leadership crisis. In a poll by Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, no fewer than 79 percent of respondents think that this vacuum means that, unless we get better leaders, we are in danger of declining as a nation. Even more—88 percent—think the media are part of the problem, focusing on little gotcha stories and not enough on either character and values or substantive policies. In truth, we require a combination of vision and executive competence of the highest level. We don't want any more Katrinas, falling bridges, airport chaos, and governmental paralysis. We do want an equitable healthcare system, sensible funding of entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) that consume more than 40 percent of the federal budget today and 70 percent by 2030—an intolerable burden to pass on to our children. This is why the country wants change and a clean break with the past.Also included in Mr. Zuckerman's essay is the following assessment of the leading candidates:...
"Alles muss anders sein" (Everything must be different) -- Hitler's briefest summary of his policies
The risk of a fatal heatwave in the UK within ten years is high, but overall global warming may mean fewer deaths due to temperature, a report says.ER UM... SOME TELL AL GORE TO STFU.
A seriously hot summer between now and 2017 could claim more than 6,000 lives, the Department of Health report warns.
But it also stresses that milder winters mean deaths during this time of year - which far outstrip heat-related mortality - will continue to decline.
Pensioner flies to India for knee op because he 'didn't trust NHS after bungled surgery'
A great-great-grandfather flew a 10,000 mile round trip for knee surgery because he did not trust the NHS after he lost a leg when they bungled a previous operation.
Battling Ken Austin, 80, refused to go through the NHS again after a knee replacement on his right leg ended up with him losing the limb completely because the surgeons had mistakenly severed an artery.
When faced with a similar operation on his other leg, the pensioner from Halifax, West Yorkshire, decided to spend his savings on flying to India for the procedure instead.
Mr Austin, who has just returned from the trip, said: "It's a sad case that you pay all your taxes and then don't get the service. I realise it was a tricky operation I had, but I did not trust them."
He added: "It is strange to think that I have gone to a poor country for an operation."
Pro-government and anti-Syrian factions are mobilizing their supporters for a massive rally to mark Thursday's third anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in a show of force against the Syrian-backed opposition led by Hezbollah.
Government backers say they're ready for a street fight with the opposition if it comes to that. One anti-Syrian leader, Walid Jumblatt, warned the opposition earlier this week, "If you want war, we welcome war" — comments that shook Lebanese and revived memories of the 1975-90 civil war.
Saad Hariri, the son of the late prime minister and leader of the anti-Syrian majority in parliament, sought to back down from that tough tone on Tuesday, telling The Associated Press, "We will not go to civil war. We don't want a civil war."
"But if they (the opposition) want civil war, what you want us to do? Sit and be killed? We believe that there is an army, we believe there is a government and the government will defend the people of Lebanon," he said.
A 15-year-old female from West Jakarta, Jakarta Province developed symptoms on 2 February, was hospitalized on 8 February and is currently in hospital in a critical condition. The case is the daughter of a previously confirmed case, the 38-year-old female from West Jakarta, Jakarta Province who developed symptoms on 23 January.THIS MAY VERY WELL ECLIPSE GLOBAL JIHAD AS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST PROBLEM BY NEXT YEAR:
Investigations into the source of her infection are ongoing. However, she was exposed to her sick mother on 27-28 January and spent time in a neighbourbood where chickens and other birds were found.
The above comments from the WHO update describe a confirmed cluster in West Jakarta. The gap in the disease onset dates, as well as the timing of the exposure indicates this is a case of human to human transmission.
