Here’s latest (far as I know) from Pat Condell.  He doesn’t need me to add anything.

Many of the laws of melcha (forbidden activity) that apply on Shabbat also apply on Sukkot, such as the prohibition against engaging in commerce, lighting a fire, or completing an electrical circuit. Other Shabbat prohibitions, however, are relaxed. With various differences based on one’s religious orientation, one is permitted to cook (so long as the fire is pre-existing), and carry material things from domain to domain. One is not allow to touch cold sea water nor engage in activities involving power tools or hammers weighing more than 2 ounces (biblical weight). One can observe the building or repairing of structures but must limit ones self to strictly observation and criticism when involved with the construction or repair of ones own home. Based n Leviticus 2:3 “Lo! and Moses Smote Leordecheia sharply with a scroll of thine days news.” saying"Vat dah chell are you doink hire someone will you!! vat do you know about this stuff vat are you a carpenter!!!?”

That’s not in my translation of Leviticus. What thinkest thou? Hacked?

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NATO defense ministers Friday authorized their troops in Afghanistan to attack drug barons blamed for pumping up to $100 million a year into the coffers of resurgent Taliban fighters.

“With regard to counter-narcotics ... ISAF can act in concert with the Afghans against facilities and facilitators supporting the insurgency,” said NATO spokesman James Appathurai, referring to the NATO force.

The United States had been pushing for NATO’s 50,000 troops to take on a counter-narcotics role to hit back at the Taliban, whose increasing attacks have cast doubt on the prospects of a Western military victory in Afghanistan.

However, Germany, Spain and others were wary and their doubts led to NATO imposing conditions on the anti-drug mandate for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.

Troops will only be able to act against drug facilities if authorized by their own governments; only drug producers deemed to be supporting the insurgency will be targeted; and the operation must be designed to be temporary — lasting only until the Afghan security forces are deemed able to take on the task.

Afghanistan supplies 90 percent of the world’s heroin, a trade worth billions of dollars.

Until now, responsibility for dealing with the problem has lain with the Afghan police, but NATO commanders believe the fledgling force cannot cope with the problem. They say the time has come for NATO to move against the drug barons.
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NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Thursday stressed the need for action.
“Our guys are killed by the weapons bought by the Taliban, financed by drugs money,” de Hoop Scheffer said.

The War On Terror is inextricably linked to the War On Drugs. Not just in Afghanistan, but all across Central and South America, in Africa and Southern Asia too. The connections are blatant and are very easy to find with just the slightest bit of looking. And while drugs may be against pisslam, selling them to us infidels is A-Ok. If they can split hairs that fine, then so can we. All drug producers and carriers are therefore terrorists. Kill them.

Burn down every field you find. Every. Single. One. Arrest the farmers. Or just shoot them. And raze the villages if they give you any lip. Salt the ground; take the oldest of Old School approaches. That’s what primitives understand after all. Possession of opium plants or paste or even poppy seeds is an instant hanging offense. Jumping through velvet lined golden hoops to prove that some particular drug producer is involved with the Taliban is a waste of time. They are ALL involved, or at most one step away.

Eliminating the Taliban’s source of income is the same as sinking Japanese shipping during WWII. Destroy their support infrastructure and they can’t fight nearly as well. This is a war. Start fighting it fully.

Ok everyone, this is a bit of work for me because I have to copy out the whole damn story.  No, there is no link as yet. In fact, I had to call the paper and ask about this and they sent the story by email. BUT ... I can’t do a cut or copy and paste. So, I have to copy the damn thing word for word.
The one place it does show up, is on Google but NOT so that I could capture it.  I really don’t understand how they do these things but for sure nothing makes sense to me and they don’t make it easy.  It doesn’t even have a reporters by line so that makes it harder to find.
Going into the paper itself and doing a search has brought up zero.  RCOB ... so frustrating. Well here goes.  Be interesting to know if any of you can top this for stupidity.

BARBED -WIRE GARDEN FALLS FOUL OF RED TAPE
by Daily Telegraph Reporter

A GARDENER who fenced off his patch with a single strand of barbed wire to protect it from thieves has been ordered to take it down in case intruders hurt themselves.

Bill Malcolm, 61, was told to “remove it on health and safety grounds” by his local council, which owns the allotments.

He erected the deterrent after thieves struck three times in four months, stealing more then $600 worth od spades, forks, hoes and wrecking his potato patch in the process.

Officials instructed Mr. Malcolm to remove the waist high wire from his plot.
He said:  “It’s an absolutely ridiculous situation, all I wanted was to protect my property but the wire had to go in case a thief scratched himself.  The council said they were unhappy about the precautions I had made but my response was to tell them that only someone climbing over on to my allotment could possibly hurt themselves.  They shouldn’t be trespassing in the first place but the council apologized and said they didn’t want to be sued by a wounded thief.”

“I told them to let the thief sue me so at least that way I’d know who was breaking into my allotment but everything I said fell on deaf ears.  It seems as though they are so wrapped up in red tape, they are unable to help me.”

The council responds that with regard to barbed wire, they are obliged to request removal on health and safety grounds to the general public.
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Well hell ... if the general public and thieves don’t try and climb over waist high barbed wire .... where’s the health and safety issue? DUH!

Convicted paedophile found strangled and dumped in woods after suspected vigilante attack

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:05 AM on 10th October 2008

A convicted paedophile has been found strangled and dumped in remote woodland.

Gordon Boon, 73, may have been murdered by a vigilante in revenge for his crimes while he was on licence from prison, police fear.

The former cider factory worker was found with his body partly covered by old fencing panels in an area used by fly-tippers.
Crime scene

Crime scene: Officers search the woodland in Norfolk where the body of convicted paedophile Gordon Boon was found

Boon, who lived in Norwich, had blood around his nose and mouth and one of his shoes and a sock was missing.

He was jailed for six years in December 2001 for indecent assaults on a girl aged eight and two others aged 13. 
The married pensioner plied one girl with alcohol and played strip poker with her.
He took snaps of the youngster when she was naked and sexually abused her.

Boon admitted indecent assault and two serious sex offences against the youngster, two assaults on the second girl and one on the third.

As well as being jailed, he was placed on the sex offenders register for life and ordered to serve an extended licence of five years on his release.

Judge Paul Downes told him that he had ‘failed to accept’ responsibility for his actions. 

Boon’s body was discovered by walkers in Great Witchingham, just yards from the Norfolk headquarters of turkey tycoon Bernard Matthews.

Detectives at first looked into the possibility that the victim could have been a worker at the poultry factory before realising the dead man was Boon.

It is believed that Boon’s son alerted police last Saturday after he failed to meet him for a drink.

Det Chief Insp Steve Strong of Norfolk Police said: ‘The investigation into the death continues and officers are following up a number of lines of inquiry.

‘We would appeal for anyone that may have seen anything suspicious in the Rabbit Lane and Porters Lane areas of Great Witchingham to come forward with information that might prove useful to our investigation. 

‘We are also very keen to trace the final movements of Mr Boon and would like to hear from anyone that may have seen him since October 2.’

A former neighbour of Boon in Attleborough who did not want to be named, said: ‘He lived here with his wife and their children.

‘I used to say hello to him and he was always friendly. I believe he worked at Gaymer’s cider making business in Attleborough, but that is closed now.

‘He used to drink at The Cock pub in Attleborough and he would take part in their fund-raising for old people’s homes.’

http://tinyurl.com/4cv43f

So now I have to figure out a per window cost. Heck, I need to figure out a per side of window cost. Plus screens. And I should make up a sales blurb. And have it all done tonight.

The way I figure it, her house, which has 40 windows, ought to make me about $320 for both sides. Plus a couple bucks per storm, both sides. The 37 screens should run another $125. But just doing the outside is hard part, especially if I’m coming in after the painters. That usually means a lot of scraping. And the outside is always the dirtiest side. So I want to set my prices so that just the outside costs about 70% of doing the whole thing. $350 for the whole job, get done in a day and a half? Sounds right to me. No, must remember to not sell myself short. I do premium work with premium tools. Let’s add another $75. Yup, $425 sounds better. I gotta make $30 an hour or else it isn’t worth the hour to drive up there.

I guess I have no time to be having this damn cold.

On the other hand, while not condoning what’s happened in any way, too many fundamentalist Christians don’t want to understand that going into a place where folks are happy with they already have, is not going to endear them when they talk conversation and a better way.

Whatever, it’s seems a damn shame in today’s you’d think more enlightened period, that humans don’t find it pointless to kill in the name of their religion.  ?  Maybe it makes em feel better.  These folks are surely stone age backward people.  And the civilized world has to deal with them as though they are normal everyday folks and heaven forbid, Do Not Offend.

I had thought the Hindus had gotten above that grade, but apparently not.

India terrorised by holy war
A holy war in India has left tens of thousands of Christians crammed into relief camps, too scared to return home following weeks of clashes with Hindu mobs in which at least 35 people have died.

By Rahul Bedi in New Delhi
Last Updated: 5:00PM BST 09 Oct 2008

More than 40,000 Christians have had to flee their homes in Kandhamal district, one of India’s poorest, in the eastern state of Orissa. Their homes have been systematically attacked, looted and burned down by Hindu mobs since the end of August as the local police have looked on helplessly.

“Villagers have threatened to kill me because I am a Christian. They have said I will be welcome back only if I change my religion and become a Hindu,” said Jibit Kumar Digal, 30, who has spent over a month in a relief camp at Baliguda, 200 south west of the provincial capital Bhubaneswar.

Aligned to the radical Hindu Opposition Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), the marauding mobs supported by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad or World Hindu Council, are alleged to have killed Christians by burnign them alive, gang-raped a nun and destroyed over 140 churches and orphanages across Kandhamal.

Following growing criticism of the provincial government for failing to curb the violence, police on Monday claimed to have arrested the man accused of the nun’s rape, but he is yet to be charged. Several human rights and non-governmental organisations have accused the predominantly Hindu police of conniving in the attacks, a charge the authorities reject.

Violence in Kandhamal erupted on Aug 23 following the killing of a local Hindu leader, who was heading a campaign to reconvert the Christian tribal people back to Hinduism.

Over 20 per cent of the mainly 650,000 tribal inhabitants in the Kandhamal area had converted over decades to Christianity under the influence of missionaries.

Police blamed the Hindu leader’s murder on local Maoist rebels, some of who even confessed to the crime on a local television news network, but Hindu organisations blamed the Christians and began attacking them.

Christians and their organisations have been periodically attacked in other parts of Orissa and across India by Hindu mobs particularly during the six-year rule of the BJP that ended in 2004.

They accused missionaries of using coercion and bribery to produce conversions, a charge they deny.

In 1999, a Hindu mob killed an Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two children by burning them alive as they slept in their car in Orissa, allegedly for his proselytising activity. The crime shocked India.

Christians constitute around 2.5 per cent of India’s population of over 1.2 billion, the majority of whom are Hindu.

http://tinyurl.com/3zol6t

Should O. carry it off and win, I guess the most consv. can do is try and block supreme nominations of the left.  What a mess.

Singapore’s lookin pretty good right now.

Barack Obama looks the part

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 09/10/2008

There will be many victims of the financial crisis, and one of the most prominent could be John McCain. However much he tries to distance himself from the Bush administration, the Republican candidate in America’s presidential election is finding it increasingly hard to make up ground on Barack Obama, his Democrat opponent.

But it was less their policies for dealing with economic calamity than their demeanour that provided the most noticeable difference between the two men during their second televised debate on Tuesday night. Mr Obama appeared calm and confident; Mr McCain seemed uncertain, tired and tetchy.

It felt, admittedly from afar, like the modern-day equivalent of the famous clash between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, when those who listened to the debate on the radio believed Nixon had won while those watching on television felt that the more youthful and assured Kennedy triumphed.

With just 27 days to the election, Mr McCain must make his experience and more astute grasp of foreign policy tell, though even on this, his supposed strong suit, he found Mr Obama able to brush off the charge of being wet behind the ears. Polls taken after the debate in Tennessee handed a clear win to Mr Obama, who is now forging ahead in the so-called ‘’battleground” states that will determine who will occupy the White House.

This was supposed to resemble an old-fashioned town hall meeting, of the sort we used to have in this country; and while there was something almost comical about the exercise as the two men prowled around the stage, the cut and thrust of American politics is refreshing to those who lament the absence of similar clashes between party leaders during general elections here.

http://tinyurl.com/3l3vdu

NOT VERY LONG.

HAVE FUN. 

lets see what Drew will do with this.

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