Thursday - December 16, 2010

thursday night eye candy

Another awesome find .....

Posted by peiper     on 12/16/2010 at 04:23 PM   
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a great find … up from the sea in israel … ancient rome …..

AWESOME FIND guys. WOW!

You gotta see the link for more pix ......

Love it!

Wonder in Israel as ancient Roman statue buried for centuries is uncovered by powerful winter storm

By Daily Mail Reporter

A long-lost Roman statue buried for thousands of years has been unearthed by massive winter storms that have lashed the coast of Israel this week.
The mysterious white-marble figure of a woman in toga and ‘beautifully detailed’ sandals was found in the remains of a cliff that crumbled under the force of 60mph winds and enormous 40ft waves.

The statue, which lacks a head and arms, is about 4ft tall and weighs 440lbs. It was found at the ancient port of Ashkelon, around 20 miles south of Tel Aviv.
It dates back to the Roman occupation of what was western Judea, between 1,800 and 2,000 years ago.
The incredible find, which was discovered by a passer-by, will now be put on display in a museum.

‘The sea gave us this amazing statue’, researcher Yigal Israeli said. ‘The statue fell into the sea when the ancient maritime cliff collapsed’.
But the find has been tinged with heartbreak for researchers after the storms destroyed the breakers protecting the Roman-era port of Caesarea, threatening to wash away one of the world’s most important historic sites.

Israeli archaeologists have now declared a ‘national disaster’ and warned the popular tourist attraction was in danger of suffering irreversible damage.

The Mediterranean port, near Israel’s third largest city Haifa, was built by Herod the Great shortly before the birth of Christ and served as the seat of government for Pontius Pilate.

Zeev Margalit, a spokesman for the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, said his agency had warned the government several times in recent months of the danger to the port.

MORE HERE WITH PIX

Yeah well. It isn’t the job or nature of governments to listen. It’s to collect taxes and tell people what to think.

Posted by peiper     on 12/16/2010 at 04:13 PM   
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Thank You Sir And May I Have Another?

Well, that last WhatsIt was pretty easy. So here’s another.

Yes, those are sprockets. Probably from a dirt bike or a chain saw or something. The text I put in is a big clue.

If you know what it is, tell me how it works. I understand how to use it, but not what it’s supposed to do! 

Posted by Drew458     on 12/16/2010 at 04:04 PM   
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once you grasp the idea that it’s about ‘human rights,’ you’ll feel better about the stupidity.

Right. Sure you will.

Leading off I can’t ignore the subject matter of this even tho I haven’t got a link. And lord knows I have tried every which way.
Since a previous post I did said all I had to say I’ll just give you the lunatic facts of the case.
Here’s the headline I saw in the Telegraph, but as usual for them, no on line copy that I could locate,

FAMILY OF DEAD DRUG MULE CAN SUE CUSTOMS, SAY JUDGES

So here’s what essentially happened.
A professional drug smuggler swallowed 116 packages of raw cocaine.  He was arrested as he was about to go thru customs in London after arriving on a flight from Brazil.  The packets showed up clearly on x-ray. At the hospital he was taken to, he refused all food or drink for a week in an attempt to stop the drugs passing out of his system. Just after he gave up his hunger strike, he died.  Scratch one gremlin.
His name was Anthony Daniel, the paper reports. His wife is ... Ayesha Al Hassen-Daniel.  Just thought I’d add that for whatever.
Well, she and his father are now suing for a “substantial” amount, but they claim it isn’t about money.  Nooooooo.  It’s to do with “RIGHTS.” Isn’t it always?
Their lawyers say there were violations of his rights under the Euro-pee-on Convention on Human Rights.

Now then, in spite of the fact that this Daniel fella was the person responsible for his own demise, apparently the law allows for a law suit altho a high court judge say that he doubts the family can win its case. BUT, of course the Customs service will have to spend money defending itself. Won’t it?

I think in a case like this, it should be allowed but with a difference.  If the Customs people win .... then the lawyers for the family should be put against a wall and shot graveyard dead!  If the family wins .... then add the family to the wall along with the lawyers and stop their breathing also.
That might put the brakes on similar cases waiting for a hearing or trial. 

Now then .... as long as the subject is human rights, and lets please stay with the topic cos things really do get dumber ... I offer you these.
This next item is kind of a surprise because I never thought a female would approve of this. 
Take a look.

Sex offenders including paedophiles should be allowed to adopt

Rules which bar sex offenders from working with children are ‘unfair’ and even convicted paedophiles should have the right to adopt, a leading legal academic has said.

By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent

Helen Reece, a reader in law at the London School of Economics, called on Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to relax rules which automatically ban sex offenders from caring for children, saying that this could breach their human rights.

In an article in the respected Child and Family Law Quarterly, Miss Reece suggested that reoffending rates were not high among sex criminals, adding: “despite growing public concern over paedophilia, the numbers of child sex murders are very low.”
A review is currently ongoing into the Vetting and Barring Scheme, introduced following the 2002 Soham murders, amid concerns by ministers that it is too heavy handed.

In her article, Miss Reece suggested that the review should also introduce an assumption that sex offenders including child abusers posed no threat once they had served their sentence.
She said: “There is no reason why all sex offenders should not be considered as potentially suitable to adopt or foster children, or work with them.
“The Vetting and Barring Scheme and other legislative measures single out sex offenders for unfair special treatment and they destroy the principle that a prisoner pays his or her debt by serving their sentence before re-entering society on equal terms.”

Individuals are placed on the “Barred List” and banned from working with youngsters or vulnerable adults if they are convicted of a sexual or violent offence, or one involving the mistreatment of a child.

Miss Reece criticised the rules for leading all sex offenders to be “tarred with the same brush,” saying that while “careful screening” was “important,” the issuing of a “blanket ban” violated the rights of criminals who wanted to adopt or work with young people.

She highlighted the case of a grandfather with a conviction for having sex with a 15-year-old dating back to when he was 29, who was refused permission to adopt his own grandchildren.

The ban could contravene the principle of non-discrimination enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, and may leave the Government open to legal challenge, Miss Reece warned.

READ ALL OF THE ARTICLE HERE

OK, before making up your mind on the issue, read the entire story.  There might be places where she may be correct. BUT ...

“re-offending rates were not high among sex criminals” and “the numbers of child sex murders are very low”

Come on. If you’re a parent, hearing that the numbers of murders are low or that the re-offending rate isn’t high, is still not reassuring. Is it? And does anyone want to take the responsibility of the risk with regard to allowing a sex offender to have kids in their care?
Pedophiles and kids somehow do no strike me as a thing to aspire to. I don’t know if it’s really a sickness but think whatever else it might be, it’s a terrible evil.  Just doesn’t sit well.

So while we’re on the subject of “human rights” even tho all too often the ppl involved aren’t human at all ... here’s an update on an older story with no surprise.  Remember now ... it’s okay cos it’s all about “RIGHTS!”

Failed asylum seeker who left girl, 12, to die after crash can stay in UK as deporting him would ‘breach his human rights’

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:46 PM on 16th December 2010

* Father says ‘criminals have free rein’ after losing battle to deport killer
* Failed asylum seeker Aso Mohammed Ibrahim had a string of convictions
* Outcome ‘may have been different’ if Iraqi didn’t have children, judges say

A failed asylum seeker who left a 12-year-old girl dying under the wheels of his car while banned from driving will be allowed to remain in the UK, judges ruled today.

Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, 33, an Iraqi Kurd, was jailed for four months over the 2003 crash which cost Amy Houston her life.

Her father, Paul Houston, 41, begged judges at a recent deportation hearing to bring ‘my seven years of hell to an end’ by sending Ibrahim back to Iraq.

Today two senior immigration judges rejected a final appeal by the UK Border Agency to have him deported. Ibrahim will now be allowed to live in the UK permanently.

The UK Border Agency said they were ‘extremely disappointed’ with the decision - and that Ibrahim should have been removed.

The Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber sitting in Manchester also heard Ibrahim, given leave to remain in the UK, had a string of criminal convictions.

Ibrahim’s lawyers argued that his human rights would be impinged if he was sent back to Iraq.

Mr Houston was left to make the decision to turn off her life support machine hours after the crash in Blackburn, Lancashire, in November 2003.

He has since campaigned to get Ibrahim deported in a tortuous legal battle.

Last month he handed in a letter to judges, containing an impassioned plea asking for Ibrahim to be deported.

Mr Houston, from Darwen, Lancashire, said he was ‘frustrated and angry’ at the decision.

‘I’m really angry. We should all be angry. It is a ridiculous state of affairs,’ he said.
Angry: Paul Houston, father of Amy, said today: ‘This is a perversity of our society.’

Angry: Paul Houston, father of Amy, said today: ‘This is a perversity of our society’

‘I’m battling away here on my own. This is a perversity of our society.

‘What are the judges saying here? They are saying it doesn’t matter what you do when you come here, who you kill, what laws you break, as long as you have a child here you can stay?

‘You work hard, play by the rules, pay your taxes and this is how you get treated. What does that say about politicians, our leaders and the legal system? It’s a joke.

‘They are obsessed with the rights of others from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. Where are my human rights?

‘This man is a criminal, do we have no say who we allow in this country?

‘He’s not a life-saving surgeon or a Nobel prize winner. He was a criminal before, a criminal now and he will continue being a criminal.

‘The Human Rights Act is for everybody, not just asylum seekers and terrorists.

‘How can he say he’s deprived of his right to a family life? The only person deprived of a family life is me. Amy was my only family.’

Ibrahim’s lawyers claimed human rights laws permitted him to remain in the country, as his right to life and to family life trumped attempts to return him to his native Iraq.

Mr Houston was not allowed to address judges at the last appeal hearing.

Lawyers for the Border Agency asked for Ibrahim to be deported on the grounds that the judge who originally allowed Ibrahim leave to remain on the basis of his right to a family life did so incorrectly.

Although he now has two children, there was little evidence to suggest he was living at the same address so could not claim a right to family life, it was argued.

The judges were also told of Ibrahim’s convictions, including a further incident of driving while disqualified in 2006, harassment and possession of drugs.

But Senior Immigration Judges Lane and Taylor, in a reserved judgment made public today, rejected the Border Agency appeal.

They said the original decision should stand but added that the outcome might well have been different if the process to remove Ibrahim had begun before he had children.

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If you aren’t sick enuff by now, I have more I can share. I sincerely hope the idiot judges before long will personally feel what her family feels and go through the same agony. 

Here’s a few reader comments.

Time this country woke up and started voting all the parties out of office who dont care for the Britsh citizen any more.Disgusting that we cant deport a criminal from another country back home.In the real world the goverment would ignore the judges and still deport him

- british justice, edin uk,

What a marvellous country the UK is - safe haven for the scum of the world.

WHEN ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP -

When are we going to START TAKING ACTION TO GET OUR COUNTRY BACK.

Even the French would not have allowed this !!!!
Anne Smith, Grey & Sad & Weary UK

Hope you human rights leftys are happy with this. This is what you wanted, this is what you got.
How would you feel if this was you or your family going through what Paul Houston has to deal with?

- mick, Glos UK

So for him it's "dangerous" to go back to Iraq, well it looks like it is "dangerous" for Brits with him as a squatter in the UK.

- Joyce, Ft Worth, TX USA

Posted by peiper     on 12/16/2010 at 02:44 PM   
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u have a job but, u committ murder so naturally u lose job. end of story?  ah ..not quite.

I have managed to survive a nerve wracking bunch of unholy puter problems that have turned the air blue here.  It all started with MSFT’s monthly Tuesday patch which arrives here on Wed. Well heck, things sort of working okay now but the air is still blue cos ....
I keep finding things like this.  I very much doubt this creep will win his case. It may never actually get to court. In fact, I don’t even blame the guy for what he’s doing, simply because the system not only allows it but many believe it encourages it.

He’s a postman. He is in jail for committing murder. Naturally he’s let go by the postal service. 

So now he is suing them.  Unbelievable?  Nope.  Here. Take a look.

Former postman serving life for stabbing mistress to death sues Royal Mail for SACKING him

By Paul Bentley

Roger Kearney, 57, was sentenced to at least 15 years behind bars earlier this year after he stabbed his mistress, Paula Poolton, 40, seven times and left her body in the boot of her car.

The postman lost his $600-a-week job following the conviction but is today launching legal action from behind bars in an attempt to receive compensation for his dismissal.

Royal Mail bosses are furious that the ‘twisted’ employment case, which is listed for hearing today, is going ahead and see it as a huge waste of their time and money.
The case has also created a political storm, with MPs slamming it as a ‘ludicrous’ indictment of the legal system.

Critics say the case demonstrates how prisoners are becoming increasingly audacious in complaints about their ‘rights’ following the recent decision to grant them the vote.

Kearney will not receive taxpayer-funded legal aid as this is not granted for employment tribunals but defending the case will come at an expense to the Royal Mail in legal fees.

Conservative MP Philip Davies said: ‘This is completely outrageous. On what basis is he suing? The Government needs to clamp down on these ludicrous cases.
‘It makes the system a complete and utter joke. His employers will have had to spend money defending their case. It is ludicrous that they should have to spend time and money on this.

‘After giving prisoners the vote, this is an example that they now want to further flex their muscles.’

Former Tory home affairs spokesman Ann Widdecombe added: ‘This is so ludicrous it doesn’t bear thinking about. He can’t possibly report for work for the duration of his sentence. He’s not available to work through his own fault.’

The Royal Mail staunchly defended its right to fire the murderer. Sources said bosses are furious they have to fund defending the case, even though they have been assured Kearney will not be successful in his attempts to seek compensation.

A Royal Mail spokesman said: ‘Mr Kearney’s dismissal was in accordance with our very comprehensive employment procedures.

‘Royal Mail will defend its position vigorously at this tribunal.

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It just make us so damn angry that things can be carried so far beyond common sense.  How the hell can people who are otherwise well educated (we thought) and intelligent, (we assumed) allow things like the prisoner votes, the order to call killers Mister, to allow law suits for hurt feelings, and now this case. How? Surely there has to be more people who see the stupidity then don’t. I just don’t get it.  How could a handful (a large handful admittedly) of bleeding heart libtards of the left, manage to bring these things about?  Mind boggling.

Posted by peiper     on 12/16/2010 at 12:45 PM   
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   Wednesday - December 15, 2010

5 minutes is my guess

Handle length varies with model, from 15” to 72”.

Important Clue: the name of this thing sounds like it should be one of those racist terms from days gone by, but it isn’t, and never was.

What is it? And what do you do with it?

My guess is that this bunch of smart folks will have the answer in about 5 minutes. Which is why I posted it late at night, so I could have a moment to see how the post looks before the answer shows up.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/15/2010 at 09:56 PM   
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Hollywood Skillz

They don’t teach this stuff in schools ya know.

How to appear in public fully clothed, modestly covered from head to foot ...

and yet be COMPLETELY naked at the same time!

Posted by Drew458     on 12/15/2010 at 08:55 PM   
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Superior Secret Soviet Invention Revealed At Last

Apparatchiks: Questions, da?




What is?





Is truth, not corrupt Steampunk dream product!
Many years ago of rust on next one, so other can be ask also, What was?





See, is same! Just difference of much times.




Many guessings?

Nyet, is not decadent Western original and world’s heaviest snowmobile! What you are seeing in diorama is not pravda! Is dream idea of stupid incompetent West not of truth understanding!

Answer: Is floating Soviet Aqua Tractor, from glorious Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory #4!! Of course!

Glorious Tractor Factory #4



For why need? Stupid capitalist! To plow the ocean waves of course! Because imperialist running dog Western horses keep sinking!! And Five Year Plan demands higher crop yields!

Ignore imperialist video! Not part of Great Soviet plan, so can no be ultimate pravda!

This is real truth. From modern 1970, not post Glorious Revolution 1920’s! Soviet design is unstoppable!!

Posted by Drew458     on 12/15/2010 at 04:09 PM   
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Up, up, and away!

While the utterly disgusting, 2000 page, rape of the American-people, 20,000+ earmark filled pile of waste wends it’s way through the legislature, weighed down with nearly HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS in pork spending ($300 billion as of last night, $417 billion as of this afternoon, by tomorrow, who knows?), a boring, dull, and completely unspectacular Soyuz rocket launch has just taken place at the Baikonor Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft blasted off on its latest mission, to deliver Russia, European, American and Japanese astronauts to the International Space Station.

The launch, which took place at 2:09 pm EST from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the steppes of Kazakhstan, came despite worries about the re-entry module of the Soyuz craft, which was hastily replaced earlier this month after it was damaged during unloading at the remote Russian launch site.

Russia’s Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman and the European Space Agency’s Paolo Nespoli of Italy will spend five months at the space station, which has a full schedule for 2011, with the arrival of several cargo craft delivered by the U.S., Russian, European and Japanese space agencies.

To this 60’s child of the Cold War and the Space Race, the whole event was both chilling and boring. The Reds wheeled out their gigantic rocket, broke it while setting it up (typical), so they rooted around their closet and got out another one. They have whole piles of these things just sitting around? Yikes. So they truck one out yesterday, and this afternoon they light it off. And it works just fine.

Am I the only one who finds this a bit disquieting? Seems to me that NASA always built theirs right on site, and then spent a couple days moving the thing, standing up on it’s launchpad, the mile or two to the ignition spot. Readying the massive rocket for flight then took several more days. Not the Russkis. Hell no. They just drive one in on a truck, tip it up, gas it and go. That fast. Glad it’s only people that they’re putting up. This time.

During their long-duration mission, Coleman, Kondratyev and Nespoli will participate in a range of scientific research and experiments, including fluid physics, radiation, biology, technology demonstrations and education outreach. Cosmonauts Kondratyev and Skripochka are also scheduled to perform at least one spacewalk to perform maintenance activities on the station’s exterior.

The whole liftoff scene was a let down too. Olga from Tractor Factory #4 was the voice of Mission Control. No countdown. No multiple camera angles. No interview with officials inside the Command Center with all those guys smoking in front of their computer monitors. No big orbital map with that sinusoidal launch path done up in little lights. This was a night launch, in Kazakhstan, so I’d expect either total darkness, one bare ass light bulb on a wire, or bank after bank of stadium lights. Nope. One rack, 20 bulbs. No “[beep] We have ignition. [beep]”. Nyet. The engines fired up, and 3 seconds later the gantries jumped away and the beast took flight. From the one fixed camera we had about 6 seconds of launching rocket footage, then nothing but a big white flair of rocket exhaust. Up, up, up ... and gone. And that was that. No 2nd stage ignition camera either. And Olga didn’t even ask “What about moose and squirrel?”! Sigh.

Our own TV people didn’t provide any color either. Not that they were there. No one was actually there. Probably forbidden, even if anyone could actually find Kazakhstan and figure out how to get there. But they could have mentioned at least that some school kids who had won some contest were on hand to watch, or that Italian astronaut Paolo Napoli was a bit upset that the Russians overcooked his pre-flight fettuccine until it was like chewing gum.

“The problem is that, as Italians, we have a very strict way of eating, and that breakfast broke every single rule that we have,” Mr Nespoli said at the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan.

Maybe he should have asked for turnips and potatoes.

And how is Obama’s decision to save money by turning NASA into a zero gravity muslim outreach community center working? Um, it’s doubled the costs, so far!

Russia profited handsomely from that monopolist position when it signed contracts for carrying NASA astronauts to the space station up to the end of 2014. A round-trip ticket to the space station in 2011 and 2012 will cost NASA as much as $51 million, up from the current $26 million. The price will jump to $56 million in 2013 and 2014.

And the budget bill? It’s just gross. It looks like the powers that be in DC think they can ignore the message the Tea Party sent them in November. Bloat, fat, graft, and nonsense. Oh, we’ll keep the evil Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich, but with a few caveats, like a 35% Inheritance Tax. And they’re keeping that idiotic corn liquor Ethanol subsidy, that costs you 45¢ a gallon at the pump. You know, the farm subsidy program that was at the very top of the list of Things To Cut? Yup, it’s still there. Plus, now we learn that the Feds are trying to steal a whole bunch of land as part of the deal too. Does that look like “message received” to you?

Tea Party: our work is just beginning.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/15/2010 at 02:25 PM   
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More Prison Idiocy

But the name of the prison is funny in America, and seems to fit both the crime mentioned and the philosophical ideas in play here.

Two sex offenders held at Peterhead Prison who were prevented from voting in European elections have had their claim for compensation rejected.

Robert Greens and another unidentified inmate had taken their case to the European Court of Human Rights.

The court agreed the prisoners’ rights had been “infringed”, but did not award them any damages.

UK law currently prevents prisoners from voting, although ministers have accepted the law must be changed.

The European Court has given the UK government six months to amend the current laws.

Robert Greens, who was convicted of raping a Dutch student at Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh in 2005, and another prisoner, referred to as MT, were refused the vote in the 2008 European Parliament elections.

The issue stems from a case brought by convicted killer John Hirst, who challenged the view that prisoners be denied the right to vote.

In their ruling, judges said it was a “cause for regret” that in the five years since the Hirst ruling, no amending measures had been brought forward by the UK government.

They added: “The court notes that it will be for the United Kingdom government in due course to implement such measures as it considers appropriate to fulfil its obligations to secure the right to vote in compliance with this judgment.

“In the circumstances, it considers that this may be regarded as providing the applicant with just satisfaction for the breach in this case.”

Despite refusing the prisoners compensation, the court did order the state to pay the applicants 5,000 euros to cover costs and expenses.

And with any smarts, the UK will continue to ignore this latest drivel as well. Prisoners voting? Balderdash! Compensation for their trying to game the system? Utter rot! Bloody Belgians telling us what to do in our own country? Sod off mate!

It’s little moments like this that give me hope that altogether everything is not completely lost over there.

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BUDDHIST PRISONER SUES OVER MEAT.  just more proof how screwed up things are.

I caught this short blurb and have the need to share. As always.  Possibly my only post for today.

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Polish prison service to pay a Buddhist prisoner $3,500 in compensation for failing to provide him with vegetarian meals.
In its ruling, the Strasbourg based court said that by serving meat with his meals, the prison service had violated the religious freedom of Janusz Jakobski, a convicted rapist.
The prison service says that Jakobski, a convert, had previously claimed to be a devout Roman Catholic who fought to have a cross in his cell.

Does anyone besides my brilliant self get the feeling this guy is playing the system?
I mean, it isn’t out in the open obvious, is it? One would have to be a rocket scientist like me to pick up on that cleverly hidden fact.

Hey, the guy is a rapist. Period. He shouldn’t have any rights whatever. And by the way, there was an article recently, no more then a line or two actually so not even an article, wherein it claimed that in some interviews done with prisoners on the subject of rights, the inmates are laughing themselves silly at what they can get away with and how easy it is to get officialdom to “jump through human rights hoops.”

So lets hear it for the European court and the marvelous systems that dispense hilarity for criminals everywhere, and shed a tear for ‘justice’ which apparently has gotten lost in the shuffle.

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Less Than Half The Story

Oh noes, the poor muzzies! The terrible gun/bible clinging rurals don’t trust them, and object to them starting a private cemetery in their backyard!

The cemetery lies beneath a grove of maples on a hill overlooking the farm. On a crisp November day in 2009, it received its first guest _ a 28-year old stonemason killed in a car accident two days earlier.

Somberly, his Sufi Muslim brethren carried his coffin up the hill, their colorful turbans and baggy tunics a striking contrast to the rolling hills all around. Beneath a vibrant green headstone _ the color of the Osmanli Naksibendi Hakkani order, which runs a 50-acre farm and mosque here _ the shrouded body of Amir Celoski was lowered into the ground. Mourners bowed their heads and prayed: May he rest in peace.

But that was not to be.

Instead of peace, Celoski’s burial ignited a war _ one that would erupt nine months later, hurling Sidney into the national spotlight, bitterly dividing some residents while transforming others who say their lives and their town will never be the same.

It all began quietly enough at a sparsely attended meeting of the Board of Supervisors last summer, after a second burial in the cemetery. At the height of a national debate about a mosque near ground zero, town leaders voted unanimously to investigate the Sufi graves on Wheat Hill Road.

The Sufis had followed proper procedures and received burial permits. But that didn’t deter town Supervisor Robert McCarthy from calling the graves illegal and suggesting the bodies might have to be disinterred.

“You can’t just bury Grandma in the backyard under the picnic table,” he said.

This is not the kind of article I expected to read in Townhall. It goes on and on and on about how the little bunch of Sufis have their farm and their beautiful mosque made from a barn and try to live in peace, but the locals don’t trust them or like them. It’s a very one sided piece. That’s a shame. I would rewrite it so that it examines the knee-jerk PC onslaught that immediately erupts whenever anyone speaks or even holds an opinion contrary to pisslam. That is at best an unspoken undercurrent in this essay. No, this McCarthy is righteously damned, thank you; hey, even the local Jews are on the side of the muslims. Right.

On the other hand, if I absolutely had to have a muslim enclave move in next door, I’d prefer it to be a group of Sufis. We’ve all heard of Sunni, we’ve all heard of Shiite. Few of us have heard of Sufi, which is a mystical, almost gnostic branch of the belief system. We know of them by their alternate name, whirling dervishes. But we don’t know beans about them.

Sidney NY is near the southern end of the state’s Big Empty, the heavily forested and thinly populated region that takes up more than a third of the state. Sidney is just 45 minutes north of Hancock, another little NY town down along the Delaware River that has it’s own muslim problem. They’ve got “Islamberg” to deal with, a retreat where many believe that Al Fuqra is training terrorists. Or jihadis. Something. But a something that requires constant weapons training and educes a rather belligerent attitude in it’s members when they have to go into the little village. Are the folks in Sidney concerned that a similar thing is going to grow in their neighborhood? The article, naturally, doesn’t say. It doesn’t even mention Hancock. Nope, it’s all kumbayah, why-can’t-we-all-just-get-along, white-hicks-are-all-racist-haters. All this because of two burials? I think there is a HUGE part of the story missing.

Another thing not mentioned is the local water. Say what? I’m kidding a bit on that, but that general area of central NY has been the birth land of any number of religious experiments over the years, and the whole central western part of the state shares the same 2 drainage basins. This is where the Mormons originated. And the Adventists. And the Millerites. The area that gave spurs to the early Methodists and Baptists. This is where the Second Great Awakening (religious revival) came from if you know your history. This is also where early experiments in communal free love hippie living took place, 170 years ago. Woman’s Suffrage and abolitionists too. And if you draw the map just a bit bigger, it’s also pretty much the birthplace of Socialism in America, with the company towns over in Binghamton and Endicott, and the whole “I owe my soul to the company store” thing in the coal mines just to the south west in Pennsylvania. Maybe there is something in the water. Maybe there are just too damn many trees. People get new ideas up there, some good, some not so good.

Not at all the kind of article I expected to see in a Conservative newsblog like Townhall. What gives?

Posted by Drew458     on 12/15/2010 at 12:33 PM   
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   Tuesday - December 14, 2010

lifetime best +1

A small miracle at bowling tonight. Team Loser was down one man, Joe being absent. With a 10% absentee penalty that put us at a decided disadvantage. Um, I mean an even worse disadvantage than usual. Just for fun, last week I went over the scores, and my suspicion was confirmed: 8 out of the 10 best scores each other team and each of their bowlers has bowled has been when they bowled against us. I guess they just drift the other weeks. Or maybe we bring out the competitive edge in everyone; they don’t want to lose to the team that’s got a deathlock on last place. Perhaps it’s the Kick Me sign we all wear. Whatever.

So we did our bowling, and the first game went as expected. We lost by 118 pins. I was 3 under average, and the rest of the team was close to average, but the other team was way over average. So I tried to rally the troops for Game 2. I’m such a cheerleader. And it worked, even though my game was pretty awful at 23 under. I just could not catch a break. I was so close, so often - I threw 8 or 9 9’s that game, but only 2 strikes. I was hitting the pocket every damn shot, but no luck. Move left, move right, more outside, more inside, more hand; nothing would make the pins all fall on the first ball. I made my spares pretty well, but you need strikes to score big. And lots of them. But the other guys did well, and our opponents were just cruising along, so we managed to win by 15, cutting the overall lead to 103. Late in the game I decided I would talk myself through every frame if I had to, and just work on being consistent. I’m not sure if it helped my score much, but I was starting to put the ball down and across where I wanted it. I just couldn’t find the right line.

Game 3 I opened with another 9. Then I slang the ball down and across to try for the 10 pin leave. And it started to hook, and broke just in front of the corner, but the ball breathed heavily on the corner pin and pushed it - not knocked it, but pushed it - off the deck. 9/. Oooh rah, big whup, at least I marked. 2nd frame, same line as the first, but I started my push away just a little bit higher, to put a bit more speed on the ball. “Go slow, go low, be smooth, follow through” was the mantra in my head. And the ball went down, out, back, and right into the pocket for a strike. So I did it again in the 3rd, and struck again. And in the 4th as well for the turkey. Coming up on the hambone in the 5th I thought “now I’ll blow it” but countered that, and just did the mantra and the motion. And struck again. And I kept that going through the 8th frame, bowling

9/ X X X X X X X 9/ Xs71

for a 258. We won that game handily, but didn’t make up the 100+ gap, so we took 4 for the night. I Gumped the second ball in the 10th too. The front desk lady was yaddaing on and on on the PA system for the late night league. I waited for her to finish, but she kept going on and on and on “and the lady’s Super Jackpot is $385 and the men’s Super Jackpot is $129. And if you haven’t paid up all your dues ... “ and in my head it was “WILL YOU SHUT THE F&^* UP!” and then I threw the ball. I should have taken another breath and just waited. So it was a flop shot with no hand, and went wide of the pocket and nailed the 2 pin. That took down 7 and left the 1-2-10. Great. Thrills. I knew if I threw Brooklyn I could get the headpin to go right, but I also knew that if I threw “Brooklyn and just a little more” I could kick both the 1 and the 2 towards the 10. Better odds, right? So that’s what I tried for. I moved right 6 boards, considering how fat a Christmas Tree the lane had become after 9 guys bowling 3 games on it, kept my target and made my throw. And the ball went down and broke, and came over ... and missed the headpin by a quarter of a shadow, but hit the 2 and drove it over, but too far back. So I got 1, instead of the safe shot that would have given me 2. Hey, it’s just points at that point. And I scored a 258, which is 1 pin better than the best game I have ever bowled in any league. And if there’s a USBC fridge magnet award for “75 pins over game” I earned it tonight. Hey, I’ve got most of the better end of the set so far this season, and I want them all.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/14/2010 at 10:25 PM   
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lovers till death do em part?

Visit to Vilmar’s before closing and found this link which was posted by Jester.
So, H/T Jester

Goes along with Drew’s post on the topic earlier ...

That’s all for me for tonight.

Cheers to all.

birds of a feather one might say.

Posted by peiper     on 12/14/2010 at 03:18 PM   
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