My beloved Mr. Colonel Jerry, Sir! is heading into some very serious necessary “elective” surgeries tomorrow (Tuesday) and Thursday that will hopefully ease some of the excruciating and chronic pain he’s been suffering for a long time now. This is some pretty big stuff that’s apparently saved for very special people.
If you could all take a bit of pause and send some well wishes, love and positive thoughts his way that’d be swell.
There’s quite a back story to this ( NO pun intended) and I’ll be sharing that with you all soon.
But for now let’s just get him through this.
He’s asked that anyone hold off on e-mails as to not to be faced with the daunting task of addressing them all when he finally gets to catch up. But please feel free to leave a message here if you care to, our resident angel Sierrahome will be with him throughout and I’m sure will find a way to let him know how much we care.
“There is a desire to assimilate and be seen as everyday Americans,” Morse said. “But because of Muslim customs like clothing, it can be hard to fit in.”
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has asked Croatia to stop the distribution of sugar packets featuring Hitler’s image.
The Center has called on Croatian authorities to put an end to the production and distribution of sugar packets with Hitler’s image and printed anti-Semitic jokes.The Center has issued a statement signed by its director Ephraim Zuroff, expressing its “disgust at the fact such a product could have been made at this day and age, in a country where the Holocaust was for the most part perpetrated by the local Nazi collaborators.”
Žarko Puhovski of the Croatian Helsinki Committee told B92 the most worrying aspect of the scandal was a lack of reaction in the Croatian society.
“This is not about someone spraying graffiti, this was printed in several thousand copies, for weeks, perhaps months, and no one reacted. Then Novi List journalists reacted. Then there was silence again, and then the Simon Wiesenthal Center issued a statement”, Puhovski said.
One in six Europeans is living below national poverty thresholds, with children particularly vulnerable, according to the results of an official study.
The European Commission’s annual report on “social protection and social inclusion” also found 10 percent of people living in households without anybody working as well as wide discrepancies between life expectancies between EU member states.
“Recent reforms to make national systems more fiscally and socially sustainable are encouraging, but there are still big challenges ahead,” said EU Social Affairs Commissioner Vladimir Spidla.
“The facts are clear, 16 percent of Europeans remain at risk of poverty and 10 percent live in jobless households,” he said of the data which will be formally presented to EU leaders at a summit in Brussels next month.
The study shows a 13-year gap between the highest and lowest life expectancies for men, and spending on health and long-term care in the EU ranging from five percent of GDP to 11 percent.
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The parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations last month, mostly due to rumours that the harmless vaccine was an American plot to sterilise innocent Muslim children.
The disinformation - spread by extremist clerics using mosque loudspeakers and illegal radio stations, and by word of mouth - has caused a sharp jump in polio cases in Pakistan and hit global efforts to eradicate the debilitating disease.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recorded 39 cases of polio in Pakistan in 2006, up from 28 in 2005. The disease is concentrated in North-West Frontier Province, where 60% of the refusals were attributed to “religious reasons”.
I love how the journalist nitwit who wrote this article kept referring to Kennesaw’s ordinance requiring the head of a household to own a firearm as “the law.”
And you know he hated putting forth the facts about the matter.
Long-haired and bearded, Myers wears a pair of .45s openly on his belt. A sign on the front of his shop advises, “Guns Allowed.”
Church [the Mayor of Kennesaw - TC] said neither the ordinance, nor some gun-totin’ image, conflicts with the city’s plans.
“We’re not looking to change [the law],” he said. “It’s not going anywhere. I think it helps deter crime.”
Police agree. “We look at it as part of our crime prevention program,” Graydon said.
Police cite Kennesaw’s crime statistics, which show a community largely untouched by the worst offenses like murder, rape, robbery and assault.
On a per capita basis, the city’s serious crime rate has plunged since the law was passed. The actual number of the most serious crimes has barely increased, even as the city’s population has exploded from about 5,000 in 1980 to more than 30,000 in 2005.
Me - “Honey? That glass on the counter next to the coffee maker?”
Mrs. TC - “Yeah?”
Me - “That’s my sick glass. Oh - JR says that would make a good name for a band.”
Mrs. TC - “Who’s JR?”
Me - “Sondra’s husband.”
Mrs. TC - “How do you know he said that?”
Me - “The blog.”
Mrs. TC - “Yeah - I guess it would make a good name for a band. Maybe an album.
Cold… So cold… And it’s 70 in the house and I’m wearing a sweatshirt, wool socks and fleece pants.
Flipping sweet… Israel’s new pro baseball league.
Just more evidence of American-Zionist hegemony, I reckon.
RandyM
Bemember when I said Britney Spears’ only friend was the hairdresser that wouldn’t shave her head?
Britney Spears’ lopped-off locks can be yours for just $1 million on eBay - direct from the salon owner whose clippers the shorn star used during her weekend meltdown.
Esther Tognozzi of Esther’s Haircutting Studio in Tarzana, Calif., is hawking the high-priced hairball - along with the pop princess’ leftover Red Bull energy drink and her blue Bic lighter.
I take it back.
HCINE (pat pend)
DougM is a chicken
Hundreds of people who believe the government has lied about the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States plan to gather in Chandler later this week to strategize about how to find out the truth.
The 9/11 Accountability: Strategies and Solutions Conference will be held Friday through Sunday at the Crowne Plaza San Marcos Golf Resort in Chandler.
The conference will include keynote speakers, panel discussions, strategy workshops and a documentary film marathon.............
What is up with the FOX[former]N station?!? I drop in trying to get noooz and I get Heraldo and an hour-long ANS tribute, a half-hour on that Spears girl and her hair-do, and this am, people in crashes, people stuck on mountains, people with serious paper cuts—and one weird story about a cab dirver at Vanderbilt Univ. running down his fasres in a parking lot after a disagreement about religion!?!?!
yeesh…
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