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As bogva says, I don't know why people here are calling this article bull, but it…
Posted in: Tabloid blasts growing numbers of foreign welfare chiselers
Hakone Open Air Museum??! You gotta being kidding. The "open air" spaces are roped off. It's…
Posted in: TripAdvisor ranks Top 20 Japanese travel destinations for foreign visitors
Thunderbird2, The country and the people owe him more than deep gratitude.
Posted in: Japan declined U.S. offer to station nuclear experts in Kan's office: Edano
Zichi, I think you may be misguided on some of your targeting of the GE designed…
Posted in: Japan declined U.S. offer to station nuclear experts in Kan's office: Edano
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"Dutch MP Geert Wilders is "seriously considering" taking steps to sue Jacqui Smith over her decision to ban the controversial film-maker from the UK.
The legal action would have the backing of the Dutch Government, in a move which could aggravate the diplomatic row over the ban between London and Amsterdam.
Mr Wilders said he was looking to take legal action against the Home Secretary for "blatant discrimination" in the High Court or International Court in the Hague.
The Dutch Politician and film maker was sent back to Holland on Thursday night after trying to enter Britain to show his anti Muslim film Fitna in the House of Lords.
Mr Wilders had been invited to Westminster by Ukip peer Lord Pearson to show is 17 minute film Fitna, which criticise the Koran as a "facist book".
Posted in: Britain refuses entry to far-right Dutch MP
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"Global warming" is a hoax. It's only natural that the crooks and kleptocrats at the UN recognize that in Obama they have just the flim-flam man they need.
Posted in: U.N. climate chief praises new U.S. administration
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'Asked what he would do to support the child financially, Alfie asks in a small, high-pitched voice, “What’s financially?”'
Priceless.
But then, you can find 30-somethings in the UK's modern day Welfare State who'd give that response, in the same whiny, high-pitched voice.
Posted in: British boy reportedly becomes a father at age 13
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Opposition to the political ramifications of Darwin, to abuse of his theories, is warranted. His "missing link" theory was immediately picked up by cartoonists of his day, with some of the leading papers carrying cartoons that portrayed the Irish and the Chinese as less evolutionarily "developed" than the Birtish, who were looting these countries and in China's case literally destroying their civilization.
Posted in: U.S. churches to discuss evolution vs creation
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I'm trying to get worked up here, but I can't. These guys have been around since the Clinton era. The world has most certainly not gotten any safer since then. Radical, militant Islam sees itself, justifiably so, as ascendent. Private security forces aren't going away. The US, the world's greatest military power, is not capable of training recruits to do the jobs Blackwater does, nor should they have to. But the need is there. The Left will just have to go on shaking their lil fists, and trying to come up with clever (to them...) ways to spin the company's new moniker, "Xe", and thereby bring about "social justice", or whatever ludicrous mission it is they imagine they are carrying out.
Posted in: Blackwater dumps tarnished brand name
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theage.com: "Angry survivors blame council 'green' policy"
"Angry residents last night accused local authorities of contributing to the bushfire toll by failing to let residents chop down trees and clear up bushland that posed a fire risk.
During question time at a packed community meeting in Arthurs Creek on Melbourne's northern fringe, Warwick Spooner — whose mother Marilyn and brother Damien perished along with their home in the Strathewen blaze — criticised the Nillumbik council for the limitations it placed on residents wanting the council's help or permission to clean up around their properties in preparation for the bushfire season. "We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," he said. …
Another resident said she had asked the council four times to tend to out-of-control growth on public land near her home, but her pleas had been ignored.
Posted in: Suspect arrested in deadly Australian fires
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"this tread proves that religion should not be taught in schools."
Private religious schools generally produce better educated pupils, which is undoubtedly why so many "liberals" oppose people (other people , that is) having the choice of sending their kids to such schools, at least in the US. Obama is a great example - his kids get to go to private schools but I suspect that if he had his Gramscian way any city other than DC would be bound to uniformly public, i.e. government, schooling.
I think religious folks' case against evolution is often deliberately misrepresented, at least in the popular media. There are a lot of cynical people out there who want to believe that if someone is not in 100 percent agreement with "Darwinism" then they believe Sunday school biology.
But I suspect a lot of the so-called opposition is to the social and political consequences that religious people imagine Darwinism has wrought.
It's a fascinating subject. Seems to me that, at least in political discussions that touch on evolution, the Left wants the public to accept Darwin and evolution - for the plant and animal kingdom - and they want the authority and finality they imagine science confers, but in some respects, when turning to human evolution, they are as uncomfortable and irrational as many on the religious right.
Posted in: U.S. churches to discuss evolution vs creation
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smithinjapan: "Most of us are trying to figure out how we can make the world a better place, if possible, while you guys simply hope to invite disaster to somehow justify your bitterness over getting slaughtered in the last election."
How - By your adolescent refusal, in the vast expanses of cyberspace, to capitalize the names of politicians you oppose, elected to office in countries where you can't even vote?
"...fact that the guy's American when the Taliban could very well blame the US for all of its problems..."
Priceless.
That is the "progressive" worldview in a nutshell. A bunch of murderous, mysoginst religious whackjobs have "problems" but when they go medieval, you see, it's not really their fault.
Posted in: Kidnappers threaten American abducted in Pakistan
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Bill passed the House. Zero Republican support.
video:
"Not one member has read this"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvnwOjDjnH4
Obama, of course, completely and casually reneged on his cynical, calculated "pledge" to assure the American public there would be complete transparency and "every American" could go online to view the contents.
His hero Alinsky would be proud.
Dems own this one lock, stock, and barrel.
Posted in: Obama's stimulus plan clears House, goes to Senate
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It's bad enough that he is a father at 13. How does the intense, inane media focus help?
Posted in: British boy reportedly becomes a father at age 13
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Obama is a child to the Republican man Lincoln.
Posted in: Obama honors Lincoln's vision of strong union
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Obama talks, markets drop.
Yahoo -
"U.S. consumers, economists unanimously grim"
Friday February 13, 2009
Posted in: Obama, Gregg differ over reasons for withdrawing nomination
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"Liberals wanted nothing more than for george bush to quit failing."
"Liberals" wanted Bush dead. Forgotten so soon the movies, the novels, the plays, the songs?
"Conservatives pray Pres. Obama does."
Reverend Jeremiah Wright ?
Posted in: Obama, Gregg differ over reasons for withdrawing nomination
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Insane. Holocaust denier and genocidal fantasist Ahmidhinejhad gets invited by the media elite in Britain to insult the entire United Kingdom on national TV, sharing the same time slot with the nation's historical leader and the head of its church, on Christmas day no less. Authorities bow and curtsy and send limos.
Wilders makes a short documentary highlighting verses from the Big Book of Mohammedan Myth, Woo-Woo and Djinn-Banishing and from actual speeches by prominent Muslims and he's the one who gets accused of "hate speech" and is refused entry.
Rev. Dodgson and Eric Blair together could not have come up with something this absurdly Orwellian.
Posted in: Britain refuses entry to far-right Dutch MP
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"Obama, Gregg differ over reasons for withdrawing nomination"
Yeah. No doubt Obama and Gen. Zinni 'differ over reasons' for Obama's thoroughly unprofessional, pathetic flip-flop on his choice of Gen. Zinni to be ambassador to liberated, democratic Iraq.
"Joining the parade of minor appointment-related slip-ups is the apparent bait-and-switch pulled on retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, reports Politico. Zinni was told he had the job of Iraq ambassador—then the rug got pulled out; critics say this is typical of the Obama administration’s chaotic foreign policy transition."
http://www.newser.com/story/50116/critics-blast-obamas-zinni-flip-flop.html
Posted in: Obama, Gregg differ over reasons for withdrawing nomination
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I notice that in this article Pope Benedict refers to the Holocaust by its Hebrew designation, Shoah.
No wonder the various Saudi- and Iranian-backed proxies who "represent" Europe's rapidly expanding 50 million Mohammedans want this man silenced and replaced with a daft, buffoonish cipher like the current Archbishop of Canterbury.
Posted in: Pope placates American Jewish leaders with plan to visit Israel
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Video of Charlie Rangel, Ways and Means Committee Chairman, in which he is unable to explain exactly what is in the "stimulus" bill.
Exactly when did Democrats decide they wanted to destroy the economy that basically powers the the free world's arsenal of democracy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kHqcpsBBfI&eurl=http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/
Posted in: Obama, Gregg differ over reasons for withdrawing nomination
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wuzzademcrat
Sen. Gregg pays his taxes.
He'd be out of place among deadbeat liars like Geithner, Daschle, Nancy Killefer,Charlie Rangel and Rahm Emmanuel.
Posted in: Obama, Gregg differ over reasons for withdrawing nomination
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Gregg signed off because he is also no doubt aware that The porkulus means 300,000 new jobs - for illegal aliens, who will immediately benefit from Dem provisions which will remove E-Verify regulations.Construction companies that will bid on all the massive pork projects the so-called stimulus provides for can hire illegals with no fear of penalties.
When did Democrats come to loathe ordinary,hard-working Americans this much?
Posted in: Obama, Gregg differ over reasons for withdrawing nomination
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wuzzademcrat
He can't hold a candle to Lincoln. He should stop trying. It's embarrassing.
Posted in: Obama honors Lincoln's vision of strong union