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COPENHAGEN Violent protests died out Saturday morning following a night of street clashes in Copenhagen, during which protesters threw cobblestones at riot police, erected barricades with burning trash bins and set at least a dozen cars on fire. ...scattered reports of youths throwing cobblestones and clashing with police…
...The eviction angered youths who have viewed the building as free public housing for years. It has also been a popular cultural center for anarchists, punk rockers and left-wing groups…
...Sympathy protests were held in Hamburg, in northern German [sic], and in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
03/03 at 09:05 PM •
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Pupils up to the age of 11 are being bottle-fed and mothered in school as part of a radical new move to address poor discipline.
A state primary school has become the first in the country to take part in the approach, which was developed in the US to give problem children the love and attention they may have missed out on at a younger age.
Instead of being given a sharp telling off or a few minutes on the naughty chair, they have one on one sessions with a trained school therapist.
The children - aged between six and 11 - are bottle-fed like young babies, nursed and encouraged to play games promoting patience and teamwork.
Parents who feel they no longer have control over their child can sign up to the Theraplay programme, which lasts up to three years and emphasises the importance of a strong and loving bond with a mother figure.
The controversial approach - developed during the late 1960s - has now been adopted by Rockingham Primary School in Northamptonshire.
Call me old fashioned but mothering a child isn’t exactly radical WHEN YOU DO IT WHEN YOU SHOULD IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I just turned on my microwave for 2 minutes with nothing inside.
I think I’m losing it just earning some of them carbon credits I got for my new earth friendly asthma inhalers.
I just noticed my stereo receiver was on all afternoon while I was out. And aaaaaaaaall of my appliances sans the coffee maker and toaster WERE PLUGGED IN!
Take THAT Laurie David! HA!
getting warmer
Love’s
(settle down Scorp)
Old Will mixed things up pretty well in many of his productions, tragedy with comedy, comedy with romance, history with tragedy, romance with history. After all, his primary motivation was putting butts in the seats, not education and edification of the unwashed masses. Were he, then, to scratch out a play with our leading Dummorats as personae dramatis, my guess is it would have fallen into the tragehistocomepasto category, and it would be as bad as that word sounds when pronounced aloud.
Ghost King-- John Kennedy
Corrupt King—William Clinton
Deposed King—Richard Nixon
National Hero—Ronald Reagan
Fairy Godmother—Laura Bush
Village Idiot—James Carter
Pretender—Barack Obama
Lord Douchebag—Charles Schumer
Witch—Hillary Clinton
Duke of Funk—Al Sharpton
Earl of Crap—John Edwards
Saloon Keeper—Ted Kennedy
Equivocator—John Kerry
Governator—Ahnold Schwarzenegger
Doom Prophet—Al Gore
Doctor—Tony Snow
Fool 1—Dennis Kucinich
Fool 2 — Howard Dean
Royal Jester—Jesse Jackson
Old Man—John McCain
Older Man—Robert Byrd
Lady McFib—Nancy Pelosi
Banker—George Soros
Thief—William Jefferson
Traitor—John Murtha
Whore— Jane Fonda
Idiot’s Daughter—Barbra Streisand
Slattern—Cindy Sheehan
Naïve Knight --George Bush
The refusal of the US to grant entry visas to an Iranian women delegation that was to attend a UN-hosted conference in New York drew sharp criticism from from one of its members, Ms Touba Kermani, Friday evening.
Speaking to IRNA upon her arrival at Mehrabad International Airport here, Kermani said the nine members of the delegation were not able to attend the 51st session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women as they were denied entry visas by the US.
The delegation consisted of three women journalists, three women researchers/scholars and three female Foreign Ministry staff.
The 51st session of the commission opened at UN headquarters in New York on February 26 and ends on March 9.
The Iranian lady delegate was to address the session on the rights and security of Iranian women in the country.
Kermani, after she was refused a US visa, issued a protest statement strongly criticizing the way the delegation was being treated by US officials and the rationale for keeping the UN’s headquarters in New York.
Her statement has been read before participants at the ongoing session by a member of Iran’s permanent mission to the UN.
Challenging the rationale behind the choice of the US as the host country of the United Nations, Kermani said the US cannot arbitrarily prevent representatives of member nations from attending meetings of the world body.
She said her opinion was echoed by other participants of the session, who called the move of the US officials of preventing the Iranian delegation from attending the session as “an offense.” “If the UN is to be under the unquestioned influence of a country (the US), it would be better not to call it the United Nations any more,” Kermani complained.
She expressed regret that the US was discriminating against certain members of the UN while proclaiming itself to be a champion of democracy.
“Washington publicly claims to be a defender of women’s rights but prevents a legitimate Iranian women delegation from taking part in a UN conference that is to promote women’s status,” Kermani said.
She expressed hope American intellectuals and academics will not countenance the mistakes of their officials and allow a repeat of the humiliating treatment they received from them.
DougM
This week sees the introduction of ASBOs for children aged between 12 and 18 found guilty of extreme anti-social behaviour. Gardai already have the option of imposing ASBOs on adults but can now extend the same penalties to minors.
While many will welcome the opportunity to sanction children who behave in an unacceptable manner, ASBOs have been controversial since implemented in the UK. The Irish system allows only gardai of Superintendent rank and higher to apply for an Order while constables in the UK can do so. Another issue was whether an ASBO was seen as a badge of honour, or rite of passage, to some young offenders.
Hopefully the Gardai exercise a little more discretion than their neighbours across the water. Looking through some of the Orders awarded to people in Britain, it’s hard to take them entirely seriously...........
I read ASBDisO and thought to myself finally!!!! There’s a name for us!
Sigh.
Into your heart it will creep.
It starts when you’re always afraid...
*clicky*clicky*
Observe the attitudes taken for granted, and the absurdly lame defense/rationalization offered. [Charlie Brown cartoon!?! oy.]
The most ...erm, interesting bit comes from Gutfield in the last seconds,
“We are all afraid. ... No one wants to get killed by a radical fundamentalist which is why no one ever says anything against it. And that’s the unspeakable truth about this.”
Needless to say, this is not the attitude on The Porch—nor on many other Porches. So how do we support others—like these TV kids—to understand that that attitude is slitting their own and our throats.
How better to Support the Troops than not to let The Enemy win here at home?
03/03 at 10:24 AM •
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I was a big fan of Coulter (my 2 year old Banty hen is named after her) up until a couple years ago when every narcisstic female conservative personality tried to be her so in turn she ramped things up to just kinda lame like she’s been trying too hard like the ones trying to emulate HER are.
THAT said, she has every right as I do to say retarded things.
So does Howard Dean....
The American people want a serious, thoughtful debate of the issues…
Oh bite me you faggot. Puh-leeze.
C’mon....send in pics of your tats!! I’ll post them in groups with or without identification (chickenshitz). Just let me know how you want it to be attributed.
Be prepared to be razzed by some folks around here, but we’re tough!
inspired by SherryM (chickenshit) in comments
A Chicago man is suing a tattoo artist and North Side tattoo parlor for allegedly misspelling a tattoo on his chest that was dedicated to the city.
Michael Duplessis alleges the tattoo was supposed to read CHI-TOWN (Shy-town) in capital letters. But he says it came out with town spelled TONW.
Duplessis is suing for monetary damages for the tattoo he alleges he received from Jade Dragon Tattoo and Body Piercing.
In the lawsuit he says he’s suffered “emotional distress from public ridicule.”
Chatting with a coworker today who is a big movie fan I asked “are you going to watch the academy awards?” To which she responded “Scorp, they were last sunday”
This was strange to me as I am a movie lover and used to watch the event religiously; now I don’t even know what any of the noms were and I don’t think I’ve known for at least 3 years.
Am I getting old?
Am I getting boring?
Or is Hollywood become such a fucked up place by their constant, strident anti-Americanism (which was disgustingly a reaction of our being attacked and us defending ourselves) that I just say “shut the frak up and act”?
^^^CLICK!!!^^^
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03/02 at 04:28 PM •
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Decades from now, you can tell your kids and grandkids you remember the Hanukkah Eve Windstorm of 2006.
The National Weather Service in Seattle announced Friday the winner in the contest to name the December weather event that drew approximately 8,000 entries.
Thirty-nine people submitted the winning name, and the National Weather Service randomly drew the the name of the winner: Clyde Hill from Burien. The name and winner were announced at a weather workshop.
The storm arrived at sunset on Dec. 14, when Hanukkah Eve began. The storm left approximately 1.5 million people without power and was directly and indirectly responsible for 15 deaths.
An inmate at an El Salvador jail was caught with a hand grenade stuffed up his backside—a novel attempt to disguise his apparent escape plans.
Guards at the San Francisco Gotera prison outside the capital San Salvador found the V40 grenade, about the size of a golf ball, lodged up the man’s rectum during a security clampdown, a prison spokesman said on Thursday.
Gee… Explosives up a dude’s ass in a prison with the name San Francisco… Who couldn’t see this one coming?
But wait, there’s more…
Last year, prison guards found an M67 grenade in the vagina of a female visitor at the overcrowded La Esperanza-Mariona prison on the northern fringes of San Salvador.
The M67 grenade is not a small object. I’ll leave it at that.
Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas.
But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned slaves, according to genealogical research and census records.
Man this just conjures up a potentially serious self-loathing conundrum for Barry Obama. Did Hillary’s henchmen dig this up in order to dissuade the black vote from going to Barry?
And will Al Sharpton demand a DNA test or just blackmail Obama for the VP slot on the ticket?
Drudge
Warner Bros. Pictures is developing a feature on the lives of Valerie Plame and Joseph Wilson, the Washington couple at the center of the CIA leak scandal, Daily Variety reported on Friday.
The Time Warner Inc.-owned studio has secured their life rights, and will also use Plame’s memoir, “Fair Game,” which is expected to be published late this year by Viacom Inc.’s Simon & Schuster, the paper said.
Your assignment:
Who to play the Plame-Wilsons?
Opponents of a Navy plan to use dolphins from San Diego to guard a submarine base in chilly Washington are knitting hats, mittens and sweaters for the dolphins.
The informal group of knitters hopes to persuade the Navy not to use the animals from the 60-degree waters of San Diego in 46-degree Hood Canal.
The Navy announced a plan February 12th to use the dolphins and California sea lions to watch for terrorist swimmers at the Trident submarine base.
Opponents plan to show up with their knitting at public meetings March 27 in Keyport and March 28 in Seattle.
And, since glacial melt on Earth is caused by driving vehicles with more horsepower than an Italian motor scooter, they must have SUV’s on Mars.
DougM
It’s a good thing National Geographic News waited until after the Oscars were presented in Hollywood on Sunday night before publishing its story on global warming, or else Al Gore might have flown home empty-handed.
Three days after “An Inconvenient Truth,” Mr. Gore’s global warming show, took home an Oscar, National Geographic’s Kate Ravilious reports that it’s not just Earth, but Mars too, that “appears to be enjoying more mild and balmy temperatures.”
She cites 2005 data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions, revealing that the carbon dioxide “ice caps” near Mars’ south pole are diminishing, “evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.”
Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, is quoted in the article as saying the Mars data is evidence that the “long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars.”
The question now is whether Mr. Gore’s coveted Oscar can be recycled?
Sondra,
These are Marines at the Embassy enjoying Operation Smok’em....
Col Fred
Thank you so much for keeping us posted!!!
