Monday - February 11, 2008
God Bless America
One man’s personal firearms collection is up for auction. One man. One.
Nearly 700 guns. Mostly military rarities. Includes dozens of machine guns, a few bazookas, a couple mortars and so forth. Also many fine old shotguns.
And this is just page one. Page two to follow.
Granted, the one man was the NRA’s Bruce Stern. Gunnies beware, this link is as close to p0rn as it gets without smelling like Hoppes #9
Note to the rest of the world: In your face!!! Neener neener neener!
via Smallest Minority and Cowboy Blob
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Permalink • Sunday - February 10, 2008
SOMTHING TO BE PROUD OF, PROVIDED YOU’RE IGNORANT NON THINKING SUB-HUMAN SCUM.
I keep finding these stories that really bother me, and distract me from my other projects. So what we have here now are four families arguing which one is the more stupid. Of course they all are. Some kind of culture here. Hey ,, maybe the families will fight it out between themselves and kill each other.
And that’s a Good Thing. Or it would be. I really wish Israel would simply give the world the bird and nuke these bastards. They only appear human because they are able to walk upright. If the UN bitches, Israel could simply say they were carrying out a giant de-lousing campaign and things kind of got out of hand.
Then issue an apology, and nuke Iran.
Families make rival claims to bombers
By Carolynne Wheeler in Gaza City
Last Updated: 1:16am GMT 10/02/2008Mourners paying their respects at the Gaza home of Luay Laghwani this weekend are greeted by posters that celebrate his death as fervently as his life. His family, who believe the 22-year-old was one half of the two-man suicide bomb team that struck in Israel last week, are proud of the son they now call a martyr to the Palestinian cause.
Yet despite the tears of both grief and joy, it may well be that Luay Laghwani is still very much alive. In a macabre illustration of the celebrity status that suicide bombers acquire in Palestine, no fewer than four different families are claiming credit for the attack, which killed a 73-year-old woman and injured 11 other people.
In Gaza, the relatives of both Laghwani and his supposed accomplice, Moussa Arafat, have held lavish funerals and received hundreds of well-wishers thanking them for their role in the suicide operation, the first inside Israel for more than a year.
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Permalink • McCain wins Washington State?
While Mike Huckabee took Kansas and Louisiana, it looks like John McCain may get Washington. With 87% of the votes counted, McCain is ahead by 242 votes. Keep an eye on the news; it could still go either way.
Washington state has a population of six and a half million. Yet less than twelve thousand Republicans managed to take part in the caucus there? That’s not even 0.2%. Talk about a Blue State!
UPDATE ! ! !
a) I fixed the decimal point. I can do math, but I can’t always type.
b)
Just in case you’ve forgotten the electoral nonsense that went on in Washinton the last two times around, it looks like it may be going on again. I guess there is still some greasy dirt in the political machine up there. Business as usual, but I for one am sick to death of it.
Mike Huckabee is challenging the results of the Washington state Republican caucuses, his campaign announced Sunday, after accusing the state party chairman of calling the election for John McCain before all the votes were counted.
The campaign will be pursuing a full investigation, including sending in lawyers to join those already on the scene in the state, officials told FOX News.
Washington State Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser announced late Saturday that McCain had won the 2008 Republican caucuses in the state with 87.2 percent of precincts reporting. McCain had 25.5 percent over Huckabee’s 23.7 percent in that race.
Esser issued a statement congratulating McCain on a “hard-fought win,” and Huckabee on a “strong second-place finish.”
Ed Rollins, Huckabee campaign chairman, directly challenged Esser’s move, saying the count was incomplete because the other 12.8 percent of precincts could tip the scales since McCain was beating Huckabee by only a couple hundred votes.
“The chairman showed very bad judgment in stopping the voting last night when announcing John McCain had won, when there was less than a 200-vote margin between the two candidates,” Rollins told FOX News in an exclusive interview. “You never announce a vote, in my 40 years of politics, I have never know anybody to announce a vote count before the vote is counted.”
Ok, you and I both now he meant counting when he said, or the media reported him saying, voting. Excitement of the moment I guess. Cut him a little slack.
Folks, to me this is very similar to the legal concept of Chain of Evidence. Once the voting is done, and the ballots are collected, then the counting starts. Right then and there, with lots of witnesses. And when the ballot boxes are opened, either digitally or physically, the count continues until every last vote is counted. Every. Last. Vote. Any paper ballots that have been screwed up, chewed up, bent, folded, mutilated, multi-voted, or chadded get rejected with the approval of a committee comprised of people from both sides of the issue, then immediately destroyed in front of witnesses. YOU DO NOT COUNT MOST OF THE VOTES, THEN GO HOME UNTIL MONDAY.
Esser should be fired, along with his top staff. The Washington vote should be declared void. Tough reaction? Tough Shit. Do it right, or it doesn’t count. It’s not like they couldn’t find a second shift of people to come in and finish the job if the first shift of counters were tired.
PS - This has nothing to do with HuckleberryBee. Or McStain. My gripe is with the process. Dirty politics is more than dirty politicians. It’s dirty henchmen in the back rooms doing naughty things nobody can see. “Finding” and “losing” boxes of votes, not keeping the registry up to date, etc. Their existance is a huge affront to the entire concept of America. Election cheaters and “machine operators” should be punished by public flogging and branding.
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Permalink • THE EU and ENGLISH SOVEREIGNTY, or Lack Thereof
I’ve been working on something else getting away from the usual stuff I bring here, when I found this only by accident today.
Small stuff I suppose to you folks back home, but it has to do with something called “sovereignty”, which many Brits believe they are in danger of losing.
And I think they’re right to worry.
I recall the blinding lights on the cars at home, in the desert in daylight, and could never see the logic in it. During daylight?
Also interesting that the govt. opposed the idea saying it would increase emmissions. That doesn’t seem right tho. How? Whatever.
The issue is sovereignty.
b>Daytime car lights to be mandatory
Last Updated: 1:15am GMT 10/02/2008All new cars are to be fitted with automatic daytime headlights within four years.
The Government previously opposed the idea on the grounds that using lights in the daytime would increase fuel consumption and emissions, but conceded it was unable to oppose European legislation.
The only way I know to interpret the above is, that whatever rule or reg. passed by the EU, becomes the law here in the UK. Someone, please tell me I’m wrong.
In response to a parliamentary question, Jim Fitzpatrick, the road safety minister, said: “The UK has been successful in arguing against the introduction of mandatory use of dipped headlamps during daylight hours by drivers of existing vehicles.
“However, from early 2011 all new types of passenger cars and light vans will have to be fitted with dedicated daytime running lamps in accordance with the relevant European directive. By summer 2012, all new vehicles will have to be so fitted.”
The move will anger motoring groups, which claim fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions increase by three per cent when drivers use dipped lights.
But the European Commission says that the lights increase fuel consumption by only 0.3 per cent because they use separate bulbs that are less bright than headlights.
The commission wants all European Union states to set a common date to make daytime running lights mandatory. About half of EU member states already require this.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 09, 2008
Saturday mini link-o-rama
It’s always interesting following the links from postings at other blogs. I’ll probably add these sites to the blogroll if that darned blogrolling.com place can stay up for a whole 24 hours. Grrr…
- Tami at View From The Porch links to how the Violence Policy Center wants to take away your intermediate sniper rifle. Remember when Mitt said he felt We Teh Peons shouldn’t have “excessively powerful” guns? Here it is as policy. Expect the political push real soon. Trust me on this though; the .338 Lapua is a shoulder breaker unless your rifle weighs at least 15 pounds. I love heavy recoil, but this thing scares the poo outta me. For some folks, that’s the only reason necessary to want to own one. But it’s Step Two on the old slippery slope.
- Kit beat me to it. I also thought of the Man In Black when it came down to McCain. Or was that “ioMcCaine”?
- Tammy Bruce, et al, covers how The Mustache of Truth now endorses McCain. If you haven’t watched it, go hither and do so. Gosh, couldn’t you just see John B on the Supreme Court? Oooh, that idea makes me feel tingley all over!!
- LGF links to Politco: Is Ron Paul gonna bail now too?
- Aussie Dave keeps us up to date on the crap in Gaza, and also notices the return of Hairstyle Man, Islamic Rage Boy’s west bank cousin.
Meh, that’s all I got right now. L8ter.
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Permalink • SO,,,, SHARIA, ANYONE?
A westerners guide to sharia law
My sentence was reduced to beheading
Last Updated: 2:31am GMT 09/02/2008Sandy Mitchell has terrifying first-hand experience of being on the wrong side of sharia law.
Mr Mitchell, 52, was falsely accused of being involved in a car bombing in Saudi Arabia in 2000 when he was working there as an anaesthetic technician.
He was held in prison for three years and tortured until he eventually signed a confession, which he later had to read out on Saudi television.
advertisementA sharia court sentenced him to having his head partially severed, followed by public crucifixion.
The sentence was later reduced to beheading, before the Saudi authorities finally conceded that al-Qa’eda terrorists had planted the bomb and let Mr Mitchell return home to Halifax, West Yorks.
Yesterday he accused the Archbishop of Canterbury of “betraying” Christians with his comments on Islamic law.
He said Dr Rowan Williams clearly had “absolutely no concept of what sharia law is”, because if he did, “he wouldn’t have made such a foolish statement”.
Mr Mitchell, a practising Christian, added: “I would like to see Dr Williams apologise to the people he is supposed to represent - the Christians in this country. His job is to serve the Christian community, and most of the Christian community will feel offended and betrayed by his comments.
“Sharia law is completely incompatible with a civilised society and I’m sure if Dr Williams had time to study it properly he wouldn’t have been so stupid as to make the statements he has.”
During Mr Mitchell’s barbaric ordeal he was made to stand for nine days with his hands chained above his head to prevent him sleeping.
A metal bar was placed behind his legs to expose his buttocks and the soles of his feet, which were regularly beaten with a pick-axe handle.
His torturers told him his wife and son were “involved” in the plot, even though his son was only a year old, and Mr Mitchell finally cracked when the jailers told him: “We will torture them. When you hear their screams, you will know they are suffering because you haven’t told us the truth.”
Mr Mitchell lives in Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, with his wife Noi and children Matthew, nine, and Tara, two. He and three other men are awaiting a judgement from the European Court on whether they can sue the Saudi government, after appealing against a House of Lords ruling which said they could not.
“No one is prepared to expose sharia law for what it is for fear of being branded racist,” said Mr Mitchell, “But we are talking about basic human rights.
“Under Sharia law a man’s word is worth the word of four women, so a woman must have at least three other women or a man backing her up to stand any chance of justice. In rape cases, for example, unless a man openly rapes a woman in public there is no hope of securing a conviction because his word will always prevail.
“No matter what Dr Williams may say, I’m afraid he doesn’t appear to have grasped even the basics of sharia law before he made his comments.”
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Permalink • Sharia courts? Get off your knees, Archbishop
Papers full of the news today that people want the Arch (idiot) of Canterbury
to resign. But he says huh?
Sharia courts? Get off your knees, Archbishop
By Simon Heffer
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 09/02/2008Page 1 of 3
The TelegraphClergymen inevitably spend much time on their knees. They are supposed to be there in prayer. However, as Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has demonstrated, the Church of England, in particular, loves to genuflect not just to God, but to any threat to the culture of which we all thought it was a central part.
Although we are a secular society - and I stress I write this as an unbeliever myself - the culture of our nation is fundamentally Christian. It cannot but be so when our head of state is also Supreme Governor of the established Church. No one chose that our society should be this way: it is how it has evolved. It has evolved through general consent, under a rule of law, and (for the last 200 years at any rate) via the democratic process. And, as a result, our culture and way of life are accepted to be a sensible basis for our all living together reasonably contentedly.
Why, then, has this idiotic man suggested that some elements of Islam’s sharia law should be recognised in Britain? There is no call for it among the majority of Britons, who are quite satisfied with us all being subject to the same laws, and certainly no call for it among his flock. He is doing it for the traditional, British liberal reason: he seeks to capitulate to anyone who offers to challenge the status quo.
All appeasement of those who threaten a settlement - whether it be political, religious, cultural, legal or a mixture of all four - is dangerous and stupid. It is the thin end of the wedge to the overthrow of that settlement. The archbishop argues that Muslims should not be forced to choose between their culture and their country of adoption. I’m sorry, but that is precisely what they - and anybody from any different culture who comes here - must do.
It is not just that having one law for Muslims and another for everyone else would be fatal to the rule of law, to the coherence of our society, and to any sense of nationhood. It is not even just that it would fuel anti-Muslim extremism, as the opportunist, grandstanding race-relations commissar Trevor Phillips has said. It would fuel pro-Muslim extremism too and, frankly, that it is even more dangerous. It would make a minority of Muslims believe that this country was theirs for the taking, whether the majority liked it or not: and what sort of society would that lead to?
If Muslim nations wish to have sharia law, then so be it.However, just as we are always being warned about features of our culture that might offend Muslims, let Muslims - and Dr Williams - be in no doubt that there are aspects of sharia law that offend us. The subjection of women, which degrades and humiliates them, is the most notable. The archbishop seems to imagine that sharia law’s adoption could be confined to matters such as financial transactions and divorce.
But why should it stop there? Indeed, how could it?
The Church of England has long dined à la carte from the menu of Christian doctrine. The Ten Commandments have become mostly optional. Homosexuality, divorce and abortion are demanded as rights by certain sections of the Anglican communion, and no prelate seems to dare to contradict them. The Church has brought itself into contempt by acting in this way. Now, though, perhaps Dr Williams imagines Muslims will dine à la carte from the Koran. He must be mad.
A man in his position should defend our way of life and, above all, defend the unity of our society. That unity is already fragile: and this disgraceful act of appeasement, as well as showing the archbishop is unfit to occupy St Augustine’s Throne, threatens to shatter it. If the Church of England has any point, it is to stand up for the prevalence of English and Christian values. We like our country as it is. For God’s sake, Williams, get off your knees.
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Permalink • THRILL OF THE AMERICAN RACE
thrill of the American race
I thought Americans might find this piece of interest. Especially the comments that follow.
The WYSIWYG thrill of the American race By Vicki Woods
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 09/02/2008My laundryman came round on Tuesday when I was still counting pillowslips. It was freezing with the door open so I said sorry, Nigel, sorry, I’m a bit behind, come into the warm while I finish boxing it up. He’s very genial, Nigel. We often have chats about topics of mutual interest (weather, traffic flow on the A339 and the durability of linen sheeting.
This time, he threw me slightly with his opener. “Super Tuesday, eh?” he said. “I can’t wait for tonight’s results. You’ll be staying up to watch ‘em, I expect?” I said I didn’t think so. Was he? “Indeed I am. This election’s so exciting,” he said. He’d be up for the whole haul. “I’m an Obamamaniac, I am. Fingers crossed for him winning in California.” I said he wouldn’t win in California, because Hillary would, definitely. “Well, that’s what they say,” he agreed genially, “but if Barack gets more states, he’ll stay in the running. You’d prefer a woman president, I expect?” I said I would and I wouldn’t.
I’d like a woman president if the woman wasn’t Hillary and Bill wasn’t her husband, and Nigel said yes, that’s what worried him, too. “The dynastic factor.” Indeed.
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Permalink • R.I.P. An American None Of You Have Heard Of. CHARLES FAWCETT, Errol Flynn couldda played him.
I had every good intention of taking the whole wkend off, hand and arm painful with repeat motion thingy, but when I came acrss this obit in the Telegraph today ... I just knew that was it. I had to boot and blog. I’d never heard of this guy and I really doubt many if any of you have. Interesting how the Telegraph finds ppl and often Americans the world is unaware of, and tells the stories behind them. This guy could have been played by Errol Flynn in another age.
Ya look at his photo and and can believe everything.
There’s other reasons for booting today and I’ll post but this one just had to be shared. And so me and my arm will be slightly busy after all. But I am taking off Sunday.. Maybe.
Charles Fawcett
Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 09/02/2008Charles Fawcett, who died in London on February 3 aged 92, was a film maker and adventurer of great and generous passions that embraced Afghan freedom fighters and the much-married film actress Hedy Lamarr.
His unlikely - some would say unbelievable - life was informed by an impulse to stand up for the underdog mixed with a thirst for glamour and adventure. Fawcett charmed everyone he met with tales of swashbuckling intrigue and good deeds.
In 1980, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he helped film the conflict between the Russian forces and their enemies, the Mujahideen - footage that was pivotal in persuading the United States secretly to arm and fund the tribal warriors fighting the Red Army.
Fawcett’s film featured the glamorous, ultra-conservative Texan socialite Joanne Herring, portrayed by Julia Roberts in the current Hollywood blockbuster Charlie Wilson’s War. In typical Fawcett style, he had alerted her by sending her a note he had scribbled in crayon on the back of a child’s notebook: “Come immediately. Bring film equipment. The world doesn’t know what’s going on here.”
Although aspects of Fawcett’s career sometimes seemed to soar to the wilder flights of fancy, he did furnish documentary evidence to support descriptions of his deeds of military derring-do.
After the war he recalled being reduced to playing trumpet at funerals and carrying out exhumations to identify victims of the Nazis. After a friend offered him a bit part in a film, Fawcett spent the next 25 years reinventing himself as an actor, appearing in some 100 B-movies, many made in Italy.
Gossip columnists crowned him “the king of Rome” and “mayor of the Via Veneto”, while Warren Beatty recalled him as the hub of the Roman dolce vita, “loved and adored by everyone”.
Charles Fernley Fawcett was born on December 2 1915 at Waleska, Georgia, where his mother had been caught in a snowstorm, but came from old Virginia stock. Orphaned by the age of six, he and his younger brother and two sisters were raised by two maiden aunts at Greenville, South Carolina, where he acquired the old-world manners of a typical southern gentleman.
In 1937, having run away from Greenville senior high school, where he had learned to wrestle and to play American football, he made his way to New York and then Washington DC, where a cousin happened to be the US assistant postmaster-general and took him in. By his own account, when he was 15 Fawcett had started an affair with his best friend’s mother. “If that’s child molestation,” he declared, “I would wish this curse on every young boy.”
But the end of this adolescent affair had set up suicidal thoughts, and Fawcett jumped a series of tramp steamers, working his passage through the Panama Canal to the Far East before returning to the United States.
Gifted with an artistic talent and a musical ear, he received tips on playing jazz trumpet from Louis Armstrong, and on grappling from a professional wrestler, with the result that Fawcett, still restless, spent a year in eastern Europe earning a living by fighting in back-street theatres.
When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 Fawcett joined the Polish army but had been in barracks for only a week before escaping from the advancing Nazis and hitchhiking back to Paris. When the French rejected his application to enlist, Fawcett joined the Section Volontaire des Américains - the ambulance corps.
He was sharing a studio with another young American, Bill Holland, whose mother was a German aristocrat. One of Holland’s relatives, General Otto von Stülpnagel, had been appointed commander-in-chief of occupied France, and when Holland introduced Fawcett to senior German officers he was able to pass important information to the French Resistance.
In Paris Fawcett also took part in the rescue of a group of British prisoners-of-war who had been placed under French guard in a hospital ward by the Germans. By impersonating a German ambulance crew, Fawcett and a comrade marched in at 4am and ordered the French nurses to usher the PoWs out into the yard. “Gentlemen,” he announced as he drove them away, “consider yourself liberated.”
“You’re a Yank,” said a British voice.
“Never," came Fawcett’s lilting southern burr, “confuse a Virginian with a Yankee.”
In 1942 he joined the RAF and trained as a Hurricane pilot but was invalided out that Christmas with tuberculosis, from which he had suffered as a youth. After convalescing in a Canadian sanatorium, Fawcett decided to make his way back to the United States.
From New York he travelled to a TB clinic in Arizona where he remained for about a year. In 1944 he returned to Italy and rejoined the American ambulance corps.
For six months in 1945 he fought with the French Foreign Legion in the forests of Alsace, and took part in the liberation of Colmar. A further bout of tuberculosis landed him in the Legionnaires’ Hospital in Paris, and although he applied to rejoin his regiment, Fawcett was turned down.
In three months at the end of the war, Fawcett married six Jewish women who had been trapped in concentration camps, a procedure that entitled them to leave France with an automatic American visa.
By 1948 Fawcett was back in action, this time against the Communists in the Greek civil war, fighting in a lounge suit in the guise of a journalist, since no foreigners were supposed to be involved. The following year, he returned to Paris and began his career as an actor, working in the theatre, radio and films. During the next 25 years he appeared in two films with Sophia Loren, knew Orson Welles and William Holden, and in Rome - between two of her six husbands - became the lover of Hedy Lamarr.
In 1956 he spent three months helping to rescue refugees from the Hungarian uprising and, following riots in the Belgian Congo in 1959, joined a friend with a private plane in missions to rescue people who had become trapped and unable to escape the fighting.
Fawcett made his last two films in the mid-1970s, playing the lead in one and in the other, Up The Antique Stairway (1975), supporting Marcello Mastroianni.
Later in the 1970s, short of money and in poor health from a recurrence of tuberculosis, Fawcett accepted an invitation from an old friend, Baron Ricky di Portanova, a wealthy figure in Houston’s high society, to supervise the building of a huge new swimming pool complex at his mansion.
Fawcett moved in, and although his new billet afforded access to the best doctors in Houston, he failed to settle. In June 1979, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, he announced that he was leaving for that country to pass on to the Afghan resistance fighters tactics he had learned in the Foreign Legion.
Charles Fawcett’s first wife died in 1956 and after a 30-year engagement he married, in 1991, April Ducksbury, with whom he settled in London. She survives him with the daughter of his first marriage.
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Permalink • Friday - February 08, 2008
DC v. Heller update - latest amicus curiae
via NRA-ILA
Led by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), bi-partisan majorities of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives - in fact, the largest number of co-signers of a congressional amicus brief in American history - filed a strong brief in support of the individual rights view. 55 members of the Senate and 250 members of the House co-signed this brief along with the Vice President of the United States. This landmark brief argues that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual, fundamental right to Keep and Bear Arms; that any infringement on this right should be subject to the highest level of constitutional scrutiny; that D.C.’s categorical ban on handguns and self-defense in the home is unreasonable and unconstitutional under any level of review; and therefore, that the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s opinion in this case should be upheld.
Very nice of them. If you would like to see who supports this Constitutional right, the list is here. “D"s and “R"s you have to supply yourself. I noticed that the one rep from my state of NJ who signed it, Scott Garrett of the 5th district up near my red corner of the state, is a Republican.
The brief itself is here. It traces the history of the Second Amendment and the various acts of federal gun control over the history of our country, including the Reconstruction Era Freedmen’s Bureau Act of 1866, and repeatedly shows that the federal government view is that 2A is an individual right of the people. Not a collective right of the people. Not a right of the States - which they point out have no “rights” only “powers”. The only quibble I can make is that they pull some “modern common sense” out of thin air and say:
The Second Amendment refers to the right to “keep” arms (such as at home) as well as to “bear” arms (meaning to carry them). Protected arms include commonly-kept firearms that one can keep and carry for lawful purposes, such as ordinary rifles, handguns, and shotguns, and not crew-served or heavy weapons.
Because when the British came for the Colonists at Lexington on that fateful day in April, they weren’t coming to seize a few pistols. They came to take the cannons. Three of those cannon were 24 pounders, which were the biggest seige guns of the day. Granted, artillery today is a far, far cry from the field pieces back then, but the fact remains that the Second Amendment does NOT say small arms. It says arms. The prohibitions against artillery, machine guns, WMDs etc. came later, though they are just as unconstitutional as DC’s gun ban laws.
In other gun news, the drunken nitwit from Massachusetts is pushing his microstamping bill, S.2605, while fellow useless tool Xavier Becerra brought the parallel bill, H.R.5266, to the House. Both are sitting in their respective Judiciary Committees. Time to warm up the pens again.
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Permalink • REVIEW OF THE WEEK IN ANIMATED CARTOON
Have your sound on ... runs kinda fast and only seconds not minutes. Enjoy and have a good SAFE weekend.
Now how’s this for a short post?
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Permalink • Geek humor
Found this over at Geek with a .45‘s. Watch this great little video and see why “24” didn’t air in 1994!
Watch This
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Permalink • Legislating Terrorism: behold, the Caliphate arises
Hey, BDS sufferers. Think you’re living in a “christofascist tyranny”? This is what REAL TYRANNY looks like.
LEGISLATION has been brought by the government of President Mahmoud Amadinejad before the Iranian Majlis that would mandate the death penalty for apostates from Islam. The law’s reach would be worldwide, the legislation says.
Yeah? You and who’s army, goat fucker?
The Washington think tank, the Institute on Religion and Public Policy reported on Feb 5 the proposed “Bill for Islamic Penal” law will be the first time that Iran has by statute mandated the death penalty for conversion from Islam.
The legislation used the word “Hadd—meaning that it explicitly sets death as a fixed punishment that cannot be changed, reduced or annulled. In the past, the death penalty has been handed down, and also carried out, in apostasy cases, but it has never before been set down in law,” the Institute’s president, Joseph Grieboski said.
Islam’s five major schools of jurisprudence, the Madh’hab, currently hold that converts from Islam must be executed. However, in the Middle Ages several leading Islamic jurists rejected the death penalty --- as do a number of moderate modern scholars --- noting that while the Koran condemns apostasy as a sin, it does not mandate a penalty.
So this is a step backwards from the Middle Ages. Now that’s what I call progress!
However Islamic law distinguishes between apostasy of an adult and someone who has not reached puberty. The ‘Umdat as-Salik wa ‘Uddat an-Nasik (Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper, of the Shafi’i school of Islamic jurisprudence as practiced by the al-Azhar in Cairo rejects the death penalty for child apostates, as does the Hidayah, the Hanafi juridical work that guides Muslim jurisprudence in India and Pakistan.
The proposed Iranian law would enshrine the mandatory death penalty into the country’s civil code for men. Women apostates would be imprisoned.
So Iran will take the lead here. Watch all the other countries fall into line soon after. Heck, aren’t the Saudis already there? Kinda reminds me of old JRR’s “one ring to find them all and in the darkness bind them”.
Two types of apostasy are set down in the legislation: parental and innate.
Innate apostates are those whose parents were Muslim, declared themselves as Muslim as an adult and then leave the faith.
Parental apostates are those whose parents were non-Muslims, who had become Muslims as adults, and then left the faith.
Article 225-7 states the “Punishment for an innate apostate is death,” while Article 225-8 allows a parental apostate three days to recant their apostasy. If they continue in their unbelief, “the death penalty would be carried out.”
So if you leave the “faith” you get killed. But if you leave the faith, and hold true to that leaving for three entire days, you get killed. Such an enlightened perspective!
Article 112 would give the law an extraterritorial jurisdiction, extending its mandate to cover those who renounce Islam both inside and outside Iran.
Oh no you don’t motherfugger. Pass your own dumbass laws in your own country. Try and export them to my country and I’ll find an old rusty saw just the right size for your neck. But hey, this kind of gall is appropriate for the world-wide caliphate of the “religion of peace”. The law criminalizes heresy saying that anyone who claims to be a Prophet, or a Muslim who “creates a sect based on that which is contrary to the obligations and necessities of Islam, is considered an apostate.” Those who practice “witchcraft” shall also be “sentenced to death.”
Ah Ha! Thought so. Not only will this make leaving pisslam illegal, it will make belonging to any sect other than the one approved by the state a capital offense. And you just know how every other religion, especially Hinduism and Buddism, and let’s not forget Judiasm and Christianity, will immediately be seen as a form of witchcraft.
There you have it folks: if Iran passes this law, and they probably will, they have in effect just declared war on the entire world. Total jihad. But hey, let’s just send Condi over there to talk at them again, or have the UN pass another wobbly resolution. Yeah, that’ll fix them.
Freedom of Choice. Freedom of Religion. Freedom of Thought. These things will not exist in the Caliphate. That’s what this worthless walking pile of excrement has said. He’s said, addressing a group of muslims, that America is worse then Britain in it’s days of empire and refers to something he calls, “Christian Zionism.” He also praises the call to prayer five times a day.
He is The Archbishop of Canterbury! The top guy in The Church of England.
By now I’m certain this story is all over the blog world and it’s on the BBC in print, on the air and online. I’m also certain that you’ve already read some of this so I’ll give you the link to the Telegraph version here. >>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/index.jhtml There’s a video.
This is the editorial from today’s Telegraph:
Archbishop of Canterbury’s inept intervention
The Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday used a lecture in the Royal Courts of Justice to propose that sharia law should be applied in certain circumstances. The idea is not as outlandish as it may first appear.
There are already sharia councils in this country to which Muslims turn for advice and religious sanction in matters such as divorce. Likewise, Orthodox Jews have recourse to the Beth Din over, for example, dietary laws, divorce and tenancy disputes.
A further instance of legal sensitivity to religious belief is the ability of Christian doctors to opt out of abortions. So Dr Rowan Williams’s argument that there should be “a constructive accommodation with some aspects of Muslim law” is, to a certain extent, recognition of a situation which already exists.
The problem lies, rather, in the status of the messenger and the timing of his intervention. If there is a case for the creation of sharia courts, it would be better made by a joint group representing the three Abrahamic faiths - Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Coming from the senior bishop in the Church of England, it is vulnerable to interpretation as appeasement of Islamic extremism prompted by fear of social unrest.
As for timing, the lecture was given shortly after threats had been made against one of Dr Williams’s fellow bishops, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali of Rochester, for writing in the Sunday Telegraph that Islamic extremism had turned some communities into no-go areas for non-Muslims. Add to this the growing recognition of the failures of multiculturalism, and you have on the part of the archbishop a classic example of political ineptitude.
Even with more convincing advocacy, the creation of sharia courts in this country faces an uphill battle. In the public mind, sharia is associated with brutal punishment, whether the amputation of hands for theft or stoning for adultery and apostasy.
It is also seen as repressive to women; a journalist in Afghanistan is facing the death penalty for having distributed a report taken off the internet which questions the practice of polygamy. A further obstacle is the opposition to a dual legal system of the Muslim Council of Britain, an organisation not always associated with moderation.
In 2006, it was brought home to Pope Benedict XVI the way in which a supposedly innocuous reference to Islam - a quotation from a 14th-century Byzantine emperor - can create a furore. In the case of the archbishop, it is not so much the idea, as the way it will be interpreted that counts.
Muslim radicals will view it as the bending of the British establishment to fundamentalist pressure; that will hardly make for the social cohesion which lies behind Dr Williams’s thinking. The present informal arrangement of sharia councils is preferable in the current context to their elevation into courts. On this most inflammatory of subjects the archbishop would have best kept silent.
http://tinyurl.com/223q37 At the bottom of the editorial there will be some related articles that explain the “No Go areas mentioned above.
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