A hardline Islamist group in Somalia has begun publicly whipping women for wearing bras that they claim violate Islam as they are ‘deceptive’.
The insurgent group Al Shabaab has sent gunmen into the streets of Mogadishu to round up any women who appear to have a firm bust, residents claimed yesterday.
The women are then inspected to see if the firmness is natural, or if it is the result of wearing a bra.
If they are found wearing a bra, they are ordered to remove it and shake their breasts, residents said.
SondraK, Lympian Slayer ANCHORAGE, Alaska - From photographs of the wreckage, Richard Moore figured the odds were extremely poor that anyone survived the fiery plane crash in Alaska’s Denali National Park. Remains were spotted in the burned tangle of metal. Then the park ranger medic got word that the pilot of the Cessna 185 had walked 20 miles for help, despite significant injuries, following the crash that killed his passenger, wolf biologist Gordon Haber. Rushing to respond, Moore braced for the worst, but found Daniel McGregor to be alert and in good spirits, although he had serious burns to his face and hands. The pilot’s clothing was burned as well.
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McGregor walked about 16 miles before he encountered two campers. The three walked another four miles to where the campers had parked their car, then drove more than an hour to McGregor’s home, where he called his family and Alaska State Troopers....
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A flight plan indicated Haber and McGregor were looking for wolf packs. Haber, an independent biologist, was a frequent visitor to Denali and for years pushed for greater protections for the wolves when they venture outside park boundaries where they can be trapped and hunted. The 6-million-acre park has about 100 wolves and more than a dozen wolf packs.
Yep, protecting the wolves from a nice, safe airplane.
Good thing the local wolf packs knew he was a friend, eh?
DougM (commissarophobe) ~vid~
Hey, when Juan Williams gets his whetstone warmed up ...
I suspect that there will be a steep price paid for this.
U.S. President Barack Obama touches the forehead of a student during a visit to Martin Luther King Charter School during his first presidential visit to New Orleans October 15, 2009.
We see what you did there. Knock it off.
Let’s look at this statement as a prime embodiment of the whole, currently popular, ”raaaaacist” meme.
rly?
Your primary evidence to support such sentiments as “bigot,” “anger and offend me,” “insults,” “race-baiting” and “nasty” is that one man so disagrees with the policies of another that he hopes the policy-maker fails to implement those policies. And that you term ”raaaaacist?”
Your phrasing [”...declaring he hoped the President of the United States, a black man, fails."] implies that to question or disagree with “a black man” is, in itself, raaaaacist. Skipping right over the notion that policies have nothing to do with the race of the person who originates or supports them, your statement assumes that Obama’s policies spring directly from the black half of his persona and then declare that they must be sacrosanct because of that. rly?
As if “a black man,” in his childlike simplicity, could not manage to support his own policies in a national discussion and would need the paternal protection of *cough*white*cough* pundits like yourself. rly? Did you just say that out loud? In print?
I suggest that is the most disagreeable form of racism. You are suggesting this nation treat someone differently—regardless if it is more harshly or more gently—simply because of his race. But you compound the insult by suggesting that we must treat this person more gently, adding the implication that Obama—because of his race—would be incapable of defending his own freely made choices.
To refuse to give an individual the respect of taking his policies seriously enough to address them directly and to withhold any fact-based/Values oriented criticism simply because of his race is, on my planet, a deadly insult.
But you do what you will.
To suggest that others follow your lead is reprehensible and compounds the insult. To make that suggestion into a meme which has, for significant parts of the ”intelligentsia,” become a societal norm which they are attempting to impose on an entire nation, is reprehensible. And, I sincerely hope, disingenuous. For, if that is truly your feeeling, I doubt you should be allowed to leave the building. Street traffic would frighten and confuse you and the task of feeding yourself would confound you to the point of tears.
Yet More: I was taking the quote above as representative of a wide range of writers and ‘turfers across the media and directing my remarks at the broader meme. As I clicky over and find out that this particular author is a black man, I believe we are in deeper trouble than I feared.
quote found via Ace
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 10/17 at 08:32 AM •
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In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press.
Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others in the legal proceedings, in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his “Hope” poster of then-Sen. Barack Obama.
“Throughout the case, there has been a question as to which Mannie Garcia photo I used as a reference to design the HOPE image,” Fairey said. “The AP claimed it was one photo, and I claimed it was another.”
New filings to the court, he said, “state for the record that the AP is correct about which photo I used...and that I was mistaken. While I initially believed that the photo I referenced was a different one, I discovered early on in the case that I was wrong. In an attempt to conceal my mistake I submitted false images and deleted other images.”
In February, the AP claimed that Fairey violated copyright laws when he used one of their images as the basis for the poster. In response, the artist filed a lawsuit against the AP, claiming that he was protected under fair use. Fairey also claimed that he used a different photo as the inspiration for his poster.
After Fairey’s admission, a spokesman for the Associated Press issued a statement saying that Fairey “sued the AP under false pretenses by lying about which AP photograph he used.”
Fairey said that his lawyers have taken the steps to amend his court pleadings to reflect the fact that “the AP is correct about which photo I used as a reference and that I was mistaken.”
Shouldn’t any money obtained from his “art” rightfully belong to the AP now?
I just received the news that our “Annoying Mike” lost his son in the line of duty today in Afghanistan. I don’t know what details Mike’s comfortable with me sharing at the moment. As soon as he’s able to let me know I’ll pass them on.
and bumped
I don’t have the details yet on Chris’ death. I was told it was an IED. Chris is my oldest son, 28 years old and a father for his little boy Ryan and husband to Caroline, his wife. I have attached a picture of Chris and Ryan, who turned one year old last month while his daddy was in Afghanistan. The picture was taken on the day of his departure. This was Chris’ 4th tour in harm’s way-once to Kosovo, twice to Iraq and now Afghanistan. He is a SGT in the Military Police Corps. I’m also including a hyperlink to an article which made me very proud of my son. It won’t be hard to figure out our family name, but that’s ok-it’s time I came out of the shadows and started advocating for my son and his comrades. ...
...Please keep Chris, Caroline, Ryan and my family in your prayers. We have another son, Jordan, who was inspired by his older brother’s love of country and the service to join the Army as well. He is scheduled to deploy next year....
Shortly before I left for the California trip, Mike and I chatted briefly about all of us doing our little something for his son and his unit and I’d asked Mike to give me a beminder after I got back.
We never got a chance. So now, I’d like to offer Mike and his family any support we can give…
While I know that you don’t know Chris or for that matter, even me, I have felt a kinship with you and the folks at KisP. I appreciate all that you have done and all that you will do for our troops. Please pass on my thanks to all who been tolerant of my rants and quips, but more importantly, for all that they have done for our men and women in uniform.
God bless you.
“Annoying Mike”
God bless you, Mike. While I am at a loss for words I hope you know that my broken heart is with you…
The Ugly American 
Government ministers in scuba gear prepared Friday to hold an underwater meeting of the Maldives’ Cabinet to highlight the threat global warming poses to the lowest-lying nation on earth.
Well, whatever. I guess the embarrassed switch from “global warming” to “climate change” in the face of overwhelming contradictory evidence hasn’t made it to some of the more isolated environut outposts.
apotheosis, unrepentant milkaholic
As in:
Take Dahl’s most famous work, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: its boy protagonist’s family is immiserated, his carers are incapable of looking even after themselves – so salvation comes through luck, and the arbitrary beneficence of a deranged feudal-capitalist with a happily mancipated workforce. Of course, the spur that initially drives Charlie on is a lust for sweet things that, were it transferred to an adult plane, could only result in a work entitled something like “Charlie and the Huge Seraglio full of Compliant Nymphomaniacs”.
I don’t know about you but I’d still read that book. Not seeing a problem.
My equation of sweets with sex is not facetious; in Dahl-world, oral gratification is pretty much the only thing that matters.
Still not seeing one.
As for the players, I wonder whether George Clooney (Mr Fox) and Meryl Streep (Mrs Fox) have ever generated more sexual chemistry than they do with these husky, sassy voiceovers.
Ok now I might have one.
The “they” and “them” in question, by the way, is us.
Which is silly, because I thought we were the ones supposedly rounding people up and putting them in FEMA camps.
edit: text quote replaced with screen capture, ‘cause I know how these things have a tendency to disappear.
