Monday - April 05, 2010

Ah, Spring

We had perfect weather over the weekend. Springtime in New Jersey is that short period between running the furnace and running the air conditioning full time. A month ago there was still snow on the ground. Now the forsythias are in full bloom, the grass is greening up, the Canada geese are sitting on their eggs, etc.

We celebrated the change in seasons by doing excessive amounts of housework. Spring Cleaning! It’s funny how you just kind of muddle through in the winter, staying on top of laundry, dishes, and taking the trash out, with some dusting and vacuuming going on once in a while. But then actual usable daylight returns sometime in mid-March. And you open the curtains to let the light in. And then you not only notice how grubby and cluttered everything inside seems, you see how messed up the yard looks outside. Then you look a bit closer and you notice that the windows are simply gross.

I profit from the gross windows part, but like the shoemaker’s children who go barefoot, my own glass is pretty awful. So it looks like I’ll have to get out there and get my own glass clean today. Come to think of it the car could use an oil change too.

Anyway, we got the downstairs clean over the weekend. I scrubbed the heck out of the old linoleum on the kitchen floor, finally going over it 3 times with a mop, detergent and boiling water. It’s so clean it feels good on bare feet. Bare feet! Not wool socks! See, it is Spring after all.

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   Sunday - April 04, 2010

Cannibal Jews and Stayin’ Alive

I really don’t know where to start, so I’ll just present this as found. No, I didn’t inhale.

Enjoy.

H/T The Jawa Report.

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the new racism

From Rich K. I’m sure y’all have a reaction, so fire away!

Since we can’t seem to escape the term “racist,” I suggest that we embrace the term, and let other Americans understand what a conservative racist is:
I’m a racist because I believe that blacks are fully capable human beings who are perpetually demeaned by the liberal theory holding that blacks cannot function without handouts from condescending, rich white people.
I’m a racist because believe that blacks are just as academically capable as any other people in America, but that they are having their abilities systematically squished when condescending, rich white people assure them that they can’t make it without assistance—a heinous approach predicated on the liberal’s implicit assumption that blacks are inherently stupid, ill-informed and ill-suited for intellectual effort.
I’m a racist because I believe that vigorous (but still constitutional) law enforcement benefits blacks, who are disproportionately the victims of crimes by other blacks.
I’m a racist because I believe that excusing harmful behaviors in the black community (whether academic failures, teen pregnancies, drug use or crime), on the ground that blacks cannot help themselves because whites have essentially ruined them, is the ultimate insult to blacks, reducing them to the level of animals without intelligence, self-discipline, moral fiber, ambition or ordinary human decency.
I’m a racist because I think liberals have sold blacks a bill of goods by convincing them that, because slavery was work, all work is slavery.
I’m a racist because I believe that a rising tide lifts all boats—which means that I believe that social programs that destroy the economy will not raise up minorities, but will ensure that everyone wallows in poverty.
I’m a racist because, in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s, I saw non-English speaking Asians fresh from the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the prisons of Vietnam, and the horror of the Great Leap forward all arrive in America and immediately begin working and studying, so that their children could enjoy the American dream—and I believe that only liberal condescension and paralyzing social programs stand in the way of both blacks and Hispanics making the same strides.

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the grand unveiling

Senegal on Saturday unveiled a colossal statue during a lavish ceremony amid reports of criticism over the monument’s construction at a time when the western African nation is struggling financially.

The 164-foot structure—about a foot taller than the Statue of Liberty—shows the figures of a man, a woman and a child, arms outstretched, facing the Atlantic Ocean.

President Abdoulaye Wade says the statue, which he designed, is a monument to Africa’s renaissance. Critics say the opulent copper structure is merely the product of the president’s own self-indulgent vision and poor governance.

Oh, the objections are more than that. They’re more like a laundry list

• President Wade is keeping 35% of the revenue generated, since he designed it, though he says he’ll donate the money to charity
• Dakar is a muslim city, so the imams are all up in arms because the woman is showing a whole lot of skin
• the usual lefty gripe about anything and everything: the money should have been spent on food and infrastructure
• “Soviet Era” design influence
• North Korea built the thing, and was given a plot of land in Dakar in exchange. What are they going to do with it?

Senegal is the westernmost country in Africa. It sits “at the back of the elephant’s ear” of the continent. Dakar is the westernmost city in the country. This statue does not stand at the westernmost point in the city. That’s a small isthmus a mile to the northwest where a rather run down Club Med resides for the surfers who come to ride the waves just off the coast. Instead, this new Colossus of Wade stands not astride the harbor, but between the ends of the two main runways to Dakar’s international airport. Thus it will be the first and last thing any airborne tourist sees in Dakar. Situated along the north end of the controversial - and only - 4 lane highway in the city, the Route de la Corniche Ouest, that separates the beachfront properties from the slums, and right by Avenue Cheik Anta Diop, this grand copper edifice commands one of the choicer parcels of land in the city, rising on a hill right over the Mosque de la Divinite, a few hundred yards to the southeast. (un?)Fortunately, as the child in the man’s arms points west, the view from the mosque is not an upskirt of the copper lady’s wind blown bit of wrapping, but the back side of the “volcano” the family is rising up from.

Senegal has been independent for 50 years now, and that fact is celebrated by this giant statue. That, and the generalized notion that Africa in general is rising up, growing up, and ready to meet the future head on. Ok, it also represents whatever anybody reads into it, like Jesse Jackson.

“This renaissance statue is a powerful idea from a powerful mind,” said the Rev. Jesse Jackson in remarks to the crowd of hundreds waving flags at the foot of the lighted monument. “This is dedicated to the journey of our ancestors, enslaved but not slaves.”

Sure Jesse, if you say so. I wonder if the little kid isn’t pointing back to Columbia, where all the cocaine that fuels Senegal’s economy is coming from. Or else he’s pointing the way towards the new world - “daddy, jobs and food, that way!” while pop grabs his woman and skedaddles.

Anyway, it’s a great honking thing, it’s got everybody in western Africa all wound up, and it was officially unveiled yesterday. Next time you’re in Senegal, stop by for a visit.



But oh, the drama. The controversy! Egad.

Senegal yesterday kicked off ceremonies to inaugurate a contested statue marking 50 years of independence after thousands marched to demand the president resign over the multi-million dollar monument.

President Abdoulaye Wade was joined by scores of dignitaries, including African heads of state and representatives from around the world, at the base of the bronze colossus, which is higher than the US Statue of Liberty.

Situated on a hill overlooking Dakar, the North Korean-built monument - whose cost is estimated at more than €15 million - has been attacked as a wasteful extravagance in hard economic times.

Riot police patrolled nearby streets earlier in the day as demonstrators held up banners demanding the president’s resignation.

“The people demand ethical governance and reject the gangster management of the Wade clan,” read one placard.

Deputy opposition leader Ndeye Fatou Toure said the statue was an “economic monster and a financial scandal in the context of the current crisis,” in a country where half the population lives below the poverty line.

Championed by Wade, the 50-metre monument has caused a mixture of anger over its cost, and bewilderment over its style.

It depicts a muscular man emerging from a volcano with a scantily clad woman in tow and holding a baby aloft in his left arm, pointing West towards the Ocean.

DAKAR (Reuters) - Soaring above the Dakar skyline, the nearly finished monument to the African Renaissance in Senegal’s capital is billed as a symbol of Africa’s rise from “centuries of ignorance, intolerance and racism”.

But critics of the bronze family of man, woman and infant—at 50 metres tall just higher than New York’s Statue of Liberty—say it only goes to show that even one of the continent’s strongest democracies must put up with the whims of its rulers.

President Abdoulaye Wade, who has long styled himself a champion of the poor on the world stage, sparked the furore by declaring himself the “intellectual owner” of the monument and so entitled to a 35 percent cut from future tourist revenues.

Wade, 83, who is expected to seek another term in office at elections in 2012, said the monument commemorated the entire continent. “It brings to life our common destiny,” Reuters reported him saying at the launch ceremony. “Africa has arrived in the 21st century standing tall and more ready than ever to take its destiny into its hands.”

Wade has faced criticism for spending so much money on the structure when Dakar residents living in its shadow endure regular power blackouts and flooding. He has angered both Senegal’s Christian minority and some within the Muslim majority population.

Wade apologised to the former group after likening the monument to Christ, while some imams have condemned the Soviet realist-style statue as idolatrous. Other have expressed concern at the thigh-length hemline skirt worn by the female figure.

Not only criticised for its enormous cost, the figure has also been slated by the country’s majority Muslim community, who disagree with works which take on a human form.

People are so frustrated by this,” says opposition leader Abdoulaye Bathily.

Bathily says the statue is the product of a power-drunk president. “The economy has collapsed. ... The education system is in a crisis. The health system is in crisis. And yet Abdoulaye Wade is squandering public money,” Bathily says. “So all these things, people are seeing it, and it is creating so much frustration.”

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Wonderful Spam!

Damn it! I just can’t get that Monty Python ditty out of my head now…

From the Daily Telegraph (How did peiper miss this? H/T flapjawman)

An Army chef whose supply helicopter was shot down by the Taliban devised an ingenious menu to feed frontline troops for six weeks on a diet of nothing but Spam.

But father-of-one Cpl Francis, married to wife Nadine, 27, of Tidworth, Wilts., admitted that ‘’morale improved’’ when fresh food finally reached their base.

‘’We were on compo (compound rations) for six weeks and we only had one menu - Spam,” he said.

‘’I was surprised what we could do: sweet and sour Spam, Spam fritters, Spam carbonara, Spam stroganoff and Spam stir fry.

‘’The first day off Spam, I prepared battered sausages, chips and curry sauce. The Sergeant Major said it was the best meal he had ever had - he’d never seen morale so high.’’

Cpl Francis, who serves as a Royal Logistics Corp chef attached to the 2nd Royal Welsh Guards, began his tour of Afghanistan in July last year.

But he found the store cupboards at the Forward Operating Base had only one staple ingredient - Spam.

Taliban fighters shot down a civilian supply helicopter the day before he arrived leaving him without the usual beef burgers, chicken, sausages and fish and chips.

Yikes! The war in Afghanistan is turning into a food fight!

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Today is Easter Sunday

Just a reminder of why we celebrate Easter.

I felt the need to shed the foulness that is Sen. Harry Reid, who claims to be LDS.

12 Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written.  - Ether 2:12

“Yea, and Sen. Harry Reid did lead them carefully down to bondage and Hell.” - Book of Christopher

Anyway, Happy Easter.

Please spend a moment or two with your families and friends on the reason Easter is celebrated. 

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   Saturday - April 03, 2010

The amount of sea ice covering the Arctic dramatically increased last month

This will not impress the doomsayers one little bit.  Just think, if they abandoned their lunatic myth in favor of other facts, what would they have to live for. Some folks are desperate for a cause and what better then to believe you’re personally responsible for the safety of the planet.
Of course, the fools will continue to ban light bulbs and have events they’ll fly to for meetings on how to cut carbon emissions. lol.
The one thing to like about these fruit cakes is that they’ll give up stuff to conserve, which makes it better as there will be extra stuff for the rest of us.

Increase in Arctic ice confounds doomsayers - but does not spell the end of global warming, scientists warn

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:00 AM on 03rd April 2010

The amount of sea ice covering the Arctic dramatically increased last month, reaching levels not seen at this time of year for nearly a decade.

Returning ice - after years of declining cover - has astonished climate scientists who blamed unusually cold weather over the Bering Sea.

Researchers said they recorded the most ice in March since 2001 - and that the cover is approaching long-term average levels for the first time in ten years.

The scientists who released the data stressed that last month’s rise was part of yearly variations in ice cover and could not be taken as a sign that global warming is coming to an end.

But sceptics argued that the findings undermined ‘alarmist’ claims that the North Pole could be free of summer ice by 2013.

The unusual trend last month is revealed in figures published by the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.

In a typical year, Arctic ice cover peaks in mid-March and starts to fall as milder weather arrives.

But this year, levels continued to grow in the second half of March. Dr Mark Serreze, of the NSlDC, said parts of the Arctic were going through an unusually cold spring - but that other areas were warmer than normal.

He added: ‘What this doesn’t show is any indication that global warming is over. If you look at the Arctic as a whole we might get to average amounts of sea ice for the time of year. But the ice is thin and quite vulnerable and it can melt very quickly.’

The best measure of the health of the Arctic was not only the amount of cover, but also the thickness of ice, he said.

But Dr David Whitehouse, of the Global Warming Policy Foundation think-tank, said: ‘The recent observations make the 2007 projections that the region would be ice free by 2013 look very unrealistic.’

SOURCE

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WEEKEND WOMEN

I have no idea who the lady is, I never heard of her before, but found her photo I think in one of our weekend magazines that gets delivered with the papers.
Whoever she is, this looks to be the best pix I found, and I think she’s beautiful enough to be this weeks LIVING GODDESS.
She is ...

NICOLE SCHERZINGER

There are two actresses being considered for the role as the next James Bond girl.
This doll was Miss World 1994 and I think she still is.  She is also the most successful actress in a country of over a billion ppl.  She is GOR-JUS and she is .....

AISHWARYA RAI

Here’s the other young lady competing for the role of the James Bond girl.  I like the one above but it doesn’t matter. I haven’t been to the movies in years. Why bother when I have YT?  Anyway, my guess is that the next Bond film will be in India. Rocket science, right?
This actress btw is supposed to be the highest paid actress in India.  She is .....

FREIDA PINTO

ehh, sexy stuff below the fold.

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Teacher who allowed brother to kill his wife could return to the classroom in a year

It’s a very short and telling article that caught my eye this morning.  Yet this slag is being allowed to continue teaching in schools. ??? Hey, not for me to say I realize. But wouldn’t you think this is a person who should only be cleaning floors or something?  Honest, I don’t know but I’m surprised.
Here’s what I’m on about. Jeesh.

PS:  I think she’s evil.

A teacher who stood by while her sister-in-law was murdered in her family home could return to the classroom in less than a year.


By Laura Roberts
Published: 8:00AM BST 03 Apr 2010

Uzma Khan, 25, failed to intervene as Shazad Khan beat his wife, Sabia Rani, 19, to death in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in May 2006.

She was jailed for two years along with her mother and sister, but following her release the General Teaching Council (GTC) for England has only imposed a 12 month ban from teaching.

The former science teacher at West Leeds High was sentenced in January 2008, after a judge said he could not believe a woman of her education and intelligence could have failed to realise her sister-in-law was being abused.

However, the GTC has concluded: “We have no doubt that you do not present a risk to children or pupils.”

After bludgeoning his wife, Shazad Khan carried her body through the house and put her in the bath in the communal bathroom before filling it with cold water.

The three women claimed they hadn’t realised Miss Rani was dying as a result of sustained, regular beatings.

After being subjected to three weeks of attacks by her husband she died only a few months after marrying Khan and moving from Pakistan.

A pathologist described her injuries as the worst he had ever seen and Judge James Stewart told Ms Khan the jury found her “lacking” when it came to “common humanity within your own home”.

A GTC professional conduct committee said: “In our judgment your conviction for allowing the death of a vulnerable adult has material relevance to your fitness to be a registered teacher.”

However, it concluded: “We believe that you have the potential to teach effectively in the future and you have the passion, desire and professional commitment for teaching.”

lets hear it for education. moonbat source

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   Friday - April 02, 2010

Then Let Them Starve

After six days of waiting at Haiti’s border, Mario Polanco was losing patience with the red tape holding up his truck full of earthquake relief supplies.

Polanco drove the equipment for the International Committee of the Red Cross 11 hours from a port in the Dominican Republic, only to have the Haitian customs agent find one problem after another with his paperwork. As he waited in the shade of his truck’s cab in this dusty border town, dozens of others were lined up behind him.

“I don’t know why they are making it so difficult on people,” Polanco said.

For more than six weeks following the Jan. 12 earthquake, Haiti left its border with the Dominican Republic open to speed the delivery of aid. As the government now reasserts control, the return of bureaucracy is leading to delays as trucks idle for days.

One day this week at the customs office at Malpasse, the Haitian town across from Jimani, a single agent was processing a caravan of trucks, including Polanco’s, that stretched for two miles (three kilometers). In the line were rice, beans, canned food, construction materials and ambulances — all desperately needed in Haiti.

“We haven’t been able to distribute food for two weeks,” said Paloma Rivera, an official with Quisqueya in Action, a nonprofit Dominican organization that is feeding some of Haiti’s homeless quake victims.

Haiti’s bureaucracy was famously sluggish even before the earthquake shattered government agencies. Businesses could wait months for supplies from the U.S. to clear customs at seaports.

Corruption was also a problem. Haiti regularly ranks among the worst in Transparency International’s annual ranking of perceived corruption. Haiti ranked 168th out of 180 countries in 2009 on a scale where low scores mean most corruption.

At the border, drivers without other options have had luck with bribery.

Customs agents have been arbitrarily charging trucks $40 for entry, Reyes said. He said agents threaten to demand passports or visas that many drivers do not have.

One driver, Jose Lorenzo, was held up for four days before he was allowed to cross the border with a load of canned tuna for the SOS Children’s Villages organization.

When the Haitian agent demanded that he present a passport, Lorenzo said: “Here is my visa,” and handed over 150 Dominican pesos — about $5. He said the agent let him pass without further hassle.

Somebody please tell me why Haiti even has border guards? They have nothing. Zip, zilch, zero. Nada. They need everything. Nobody wants to live there. What on earth is the point of even looking into the bundles, bails, and barrels of free goods the world is sending them in their time of need? Drugs? Who effin’ cares? Nothing is getting out of Haiti, and the people there don’t have 2 cents to rub together. You think they can afford recreational drugs? Pssst - hey, you wanna trade that bag of heroin for this shovel full of mud? How about for this moldy old yam?

Puh-leez.

But if they want to put roadblocks in the way, it’s their country. Fine. If they want to slow the flow of badly needed supplies to a crawl so as to get a few dollars in bribes, let them. It can all go back on the ships, back on the planes, and go away.  Forever.

Fuck it up, even once, and you lose. Bye bye.

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A Different Perspective

Private Sector employee: “The company is going layoffs! Work harder, save your job!”

Businesses are producing only 3 percent fewer goods and services than they were at the end of 2007, yet Americans are working nearly 10 percent fewer hours because of a mix of layoffs and cutbacks in the workweek.

That means high-level gains in productivity—which in the long run is the key to a higher standard of living but in the short run contributes to sky-high unemployment. So long as employers can squeeze dramatically higher output from every worker, they won’t need to hire again despite the growing economy.

And this attitude and it’s result catches the government by surprise. Seriously, they never in their wildest dreams saw it coming.

Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman: “It is an episode that we’re going to -we economists in general - are going to want to understand better and look at for a long time.” He described the productivity gains as “extraordinary” and acknowledged he had not foreseen them.

Nope, they never imagined. Because this is how it is when you work for the government:

Government employee: “Slow down, you’re making us look bad!”

I have indirectly been told to not work too fast, that each operation is budgeted to last until a certain date and that there is no reason to move faster and end before the scheduled time. The inefficiency of the materials and the redundancies in the process of taking a form, giving it to a respondent and having them seal it in an envelope, then give the envelope to me where I open it and verify the census form is complete, then reseal the form in a new envelope and give it to my crew leader. Then my crew leader opens this envelope, checks that I have marked the form complete, and then reseals it in yet another envelope. Where it then goes to the local census office, and is once again opened, and inputted into the computer system. And those three envelopes? They end up in the shredder along with the form. Just a complete waste of resources.

This remark is from one of the new temporary census workers, someone who comes from the private sector, which implies that they might have a reasonable work ethic. But they are not alone.

Their job was supposed to last for 8 weeks and after the first week all of them were told they had to slow down. They did and ended up wasting lots of time, but even so, their 8 week job only lasted 4 weeks.

Much more along the same lines over at Michelle’s.


Sure points out a different perspective on work, doesn’t it?



And the latest “saved or created” BS jobs numbers? 162,000 new jobs? Right, WingNut takes a closer look at the numbers, even if his math is a bit ... optimistic:

So, out of 160K new jobs, 40,000 are just temp positions, almost 50,000 are temporary government positions, and 15,000 “new” jobs are really positions that could have been added in February.

So the private sector added about 80,000 new full-time jobs. To cut the unemployment rate in half (and remember, the NY Times called Bush’s 5% unemployment levels “unacceptable"), will take another 94 months of growth at the level that the media is currently crowing about. In other words, 2018 at best.

In socialist Europe, this is considered good growth. In once-capitalist America, it is shameful.

My calculator says that 162K - 40K = 122K; 122K - 50K = 72K; 72K - 15K = 57K. So where he says 80,000 new jobs, I say 57,000 new jobs, a monthly rate which will push his 2018 date back ... to 2021. Just to get back to the “unacceptable” levels of unemployment we had under the stoopid and evil Chimpy McShrubHitlerHaliburton. Better hope that O-Stimulus kicks in with a major bang right soon.

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story behind the behind of the tennis girl poster

Here’s another one of those, I wasn’t gonna be posting today items. Am way behind in stuff (still) ... booted to check mail and find status of our travel docs.
Saw this ....  never knew about the photographer and after all, did we care?  But the story is interesting if quite sad as the photographer has passed away at a very early age.

When I first saw this photo, at the time I really thought it was someone who might have been well known or just another girl minus her undies. Then I forgot all about it as new things came along.  So when I saw this I knew I had to share it.

This is my only post for the day ...

Martin Elliott, the photographer who took the infamous “Tennis Girl” poster of a sexy player exposing her bottom, has died of cancer, aged 63.

By Andrew Hough

Mr Elliott who took the picture in 1976 while he was a photography student, used his then girlfriend Fiona Butler, 18, as a model.

She borrowed a white tennis dress, a racket and balls and Martin took a photo of her from behind as she lifted her dress and touched her bare bum.

He sold the image to poster chain Athena and it went on to become one of the most famous images in the world.

It was first published it as part of a calendar for the 1977 Silver Jubilee - the same year Virginia Wade achieved the Wimbledon ladies single title.

The picture - called Tennis Girl - went on to sell more than two million copes in Athena shops and continued to sell millions after the firm went bust in the 1990s.

Mr Elliott retained the copyright to the image and made a fortune but Fiona was never paid a penny - but did eventually marry a millionaire.

Here for more. It really is an interesting story.

TENNIS GIRL

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The Wisdom And Mercy Of Islam

Condemned ‘sorcerer’ won’t die Friday, lawyer says

A Lebanese man condemned to death for sorcery by a court in Saudi Arabia won’t face beheading Friday, his lawyer said Thursday.

May El Khansa told CNN she received assurances from Lebanon’s justice minister that Ali Hussain Sibat will not be executed Friday. But there was no indication that Sibat’s death sentence would be commuted or that he would be released, she said.

Sibat was arrested by Saudi Arabia’s religious police and charged with sorcery while visiting the country for an Islamic pilgrimage in May 2008, according to May El Khansa, his attorney in Lebanon. Saudi authorities have not disclosed details of the charge for which Sibat has been condemned and have not responded to requests for comment on the case.

So just who is this Ali Hussain Sibat, and how did he get busted for this evil, satanic crime?

Sibat is the former host of a popular call-in show that aired on Beirut-based satellite TV channel “Sheherazade.” According to his lawyer, Sibat would predict the future on his show and give out advice to his audience.

El Khansa told CNN her client was arrested by Saudi Arabia’s religious police (known as the Mutawa’een) and charged with sorcery while visiting the country in May 2008. Sibat was in Saudi Arabia to perform the Islamic religious pilgrimage known as Umra.

Sibat was then put on trial, and in November 2009, a court in the Saudi city of Medina found him guilty and sentenced him to death. According to El Khansa, Sibat appealed the verdict. The case was taken up by the Court of Appeal in the Saudi city of Mecca on the grounds that the initial verdict was “premature.”

El Khansa tells CNN that the Mecca appeals court then sent the case back to the original court for reconsideration, stipulating that all charges made against Sibat needed to be verified and that he should be given a chance to repent. On March 10, judges in Medina upheld their initial verdict, meaning Sibat is once again sentenced to be executed.

But the important thing to note, dear brothers and sisters under Allah, is that the satanic crimes that Sibat committed WERE NOT DONE IN SAUDI ARABIA. No, Sibat was the Lebanese Miss Cleo, doing his routine on television. For entertainment. For fun. So he was famous for acting against the mandates of the Koran. So when he came to The Kingdom he was arrested. What defense could he have, when dozens of episodes of his show could be found on video and the internet, each one showing that he was in league with Shaitan? Off with his head! The Mutawa’een are only doing their job. Peas be upon them.

And now the Saudis have shown even more mercy, letting this witch live another week. What more could you ask for?

Belief in genies, or jinn, as they’re called in Arabic, is quite common in Saudi Arabia. But the strict form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia forbids people from worshiping anyone other than God.

The religious police headquarters in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, has an entire department devoted to combating sorcery and witchcraft and regularly distributes pamphlets and DVDs. In one DVD, which is set to religious music, police search people’s homes for signs that they practice witchcraft.

Saudi political analyst Tawfiq al-Saif says religious authorities truly believe they are helping society by discouraging faith in the supernatural.

So the Koran tells you spirits are real, but you had better not talk to them. Because conversing must be a form of worship - everyone knows that to call up demons and spirits you have to entreat them - and for worshiping any spirit other than Allah you must die. Wait a second, did I say any other spirit? There is no other spirit but God, and Allah is his name!!! I am so confused! How can there be no other spirit but Allah yet the Koran tells me jinns exist?? Ah, and now I’m writing about them!!! And questioning the accuracy of the holy book by pointing out a contradiction! Off with my head!

Looks like Ali Sibat is not exactly alone ... never a quiet day for the Royal Executioner in the kingdom ...

According to Saudi media, in addition to Sabat, Saudi religious police have arrested at least two others for witchcraft in the past month alone.

“Saudi courts are sanctioning a literal witch hunt by the religious police,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “The crime of ‘witchcraft’ is being used against all sorts of behavior, with the cruel threat of state-sanctioned executions.”

And these are just the arrests of men. You wait until they start on those evil women. Witches, all of them! Some of them want to actually drive cars, or vote, or even show their faces in public, or make decisions on their own, or go out in public without a family chaperone! If those aren’t proof of witchcraft, what is? Off with their heads.

[Sharia ... religious police ... “justice” with a single foregone conclusion. Who would like to design the unit badge for the Mutawa’een, crossed choppers surmounting a portrait of the Red Queen? They need a proper motto too. How about “Hassan chop!"]

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   Thursday - April 01, 2010

Easter Warning

Posted by Drew458     on 04/01/2010 at 03:16 PM   
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