The first female band in Afghanistan only recorded one song. IND In Afghanistan girls aren't supposed to play music or sing songs. But 25-year-old Nargiz didn't care. She started the Burka Band, the first Afghan girl band ever. Nargiz started the Burka Band when she met a German music producer in Kabul in late 2002. [...]
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From AP via the aptly named Canary In The Coalmine website... NEW YORK — The organizers of an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero are opening a temporary space at the site. The newly remodeled community space on the ground floor of the building owned by Park51 is scheduled for a grand opening [...]
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Reaction to Ron Paul shows some Americans are exceptionally stupid
Published: Sunday, September 18, 2011, 2:00 AM
By Paul Mulshine/The Star Ledger
Among my least favorite clichés is that one about "speaking truth to power." It's easy to speak truth to powerful people. There aren't many of them and they don't care what you say.
What really takes nerve is to speak truth to knuckleheads. There are tens of millions of them. And they get to vote.
That is the charm of Ron Paul. I think I can say, without fear of contradiction, that no politician in recent history has irritated so many knuckleheads in so few words.
The high point had to be last week at that tea party debate in Florida. A questioner asked whether the candidates favor cutting defense spending to balance the budget. Given the fact that every candidate opposes tax hikes, the only intelligent response had to be, "Of course."
But when the Texas congressman said exactly that, he set off a sort of knucklehead revolt. Paul started with an assertion that the armed forces should be used solely for defensive purposes. Many Republicans would agree with that. But Paul felt a need to needle the knuckleheads:
"The purpose of al Qaeda was to attack us, invite us over there, where they can target us and they have been doing it," said Paul. "They have more attacks against us and the American interests per month than occurred in all the years before 9/11, but we're there occupying their land."
After Paul went on to ask how we'd feel if we were invaded by China, the No. 1 knucklehead in the race, Rick Santorum, got a chance to reply. He'd been standing there with his jaw open like a flounder and he rose to the bait like it was a chunk of fresh squid.
"We stand for American exceptionalism," (Note: This term was coined by a communist; see here.) the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania proclaimed. "We stand for freedom and opportunity for everyone around the world."
This got the predictable round of applause from the knuckleheads. But Paul went right back at them: "As long as this country follows that idea, we're going to be under a lot of danger," he said. He proceeded to point out the harsh reality that armed occupation leads to armed resistance.
All of this earned Paul a hearty round of boos, but it's the accepted view among those who understand terrorism. The statistics Paul cited come from Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political scientist who has studied suicide terrorism extensively. Pape notes that before 9/11, only about 10 percent of suicide attacks were aimed at Americans. Now, it's more than 90 percent.
Perhaps the leading American expert on suicide terrorism is Bob Baer, a former CIA agent who spent most of the '80s and '90s running around the Mideast. When I called Baer to ask his opinion of Paul's parallel to a foreign invasion of the United States, he brought up the 1984 movie "Red Dawn."
In it, a small town in Colorado is invaded by Russian paratroopers. The local high school kids get guns and take to the hills.
"We don't want to be occupied," said Baer, who's from Colorado. "The movie was about high school kids essentially committing suicide."
In making the documentary "The Cult of the Suicide Bomber," Baer interviewed several would-be suicide bombers who had been captured before killing themselves, as well as the relatives of many successful suicide bombers.
"There was a guy whose cousin blew herself up in a restaurant," he recalled. "And he said, 'Because they're killing us, we have to blow ourselves up. We don't have F-16s and tanks, so we have to use suicide belts.'"
The ultimate irony here, Baer said, is that Islamic radicals may not be needing those suicide belts much longer. Thanks to the insistence by the neoconservatives which is the polite way of saying "knucklehead" that everyone should be freed from dictatorial rule, Islamic fundamentalists are now in a position to control much of the Mideast.
Once freed from the horrible Hosni Mubarak, Baer noted, the Egyptians promptly sacked the Israeli embassy in Cairo. If the dictatorship in Syria falls, he said, Israel will be surrounded on all sides by angry Muslims. All of them will have the freedom and opportunity Santorum and his fellow neocons wanted them to have.
"We really do have to wake up," Baer said. "We do not have the money to play out our fantasies."
That's the truth. And at least one candidate is pointing it out to the knuckleheads.
ALSO: Did Rick Santorum and his wife attend that California straw poll with their kids? If so, that might explain the number of votes he got.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_paul_mulshine/2011/09/reaction_to_ron_paul_shows_som.html
Yep...What a dead beat! Imagine a WOP that doesn't pay his bills! Can
you dig it!
BooooooooooooM!
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The Salute to Our Veterans organizers who planted the memorial flags are outraged after learning the order to disrespectfully remove the flags came from the Cherokee County Solicitor General David Cannon Jr. The Blaze 3,000 American flags that each represented a victim of 9/11 were planted at a city park in Canton, Georgia, but found [...]
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Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona has constituted a special law enforcement posse to investigate allegations brought by members of the Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party that the birth certificate Barack Obama released to the public April 27 might be a forgery, WND has learned.
The posse, under the authority of Arpaio's office, will consist of two former law enforcement officers and two retired attorneys, headed by Michael Zullo, a retired police detective originally from Bergen County, N.J.
WND confirmed with Zullo and with Arpaio's office that the investigation into the Obama birth certificate has been sanctioned fully by Arpaio's office. The investigation, they said, will be conducted with "utmost diligence," and the investigators will be authorized to utilize subpoena power.
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Yep...the problem is oil companies fucking up the enviroment and the
government who let them get away with it (BUSH/CHeney) Dont-cha just
love it?
BOooooooooooom!
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Yep...the problem is oil companies fucking up the enviroment and the
government who let them get away with it (BUSH/CHeney) Dont-cha just
love it?
BOooooooooooom!
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Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe!
Water Bridge in Germany. What a feat!
Six years, 500 million Euros, 918 meters long . . . now this is engineering!
This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany ,
As part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg , near Berlin .
The photo was taken on the day of inauguration .. . .
To those who appreciate engineering projects, here's a puzzle for you armchair engineers
. . . and physicists.
Question:
Did that bridge have to be designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge traffic,
Or just the weight of the water?
Answer:
It only needs to be designed to withstand the weight of the water!
Why?
A ship always displaces an amount of water that weighs the same as the ship, regardless of how heavily a ship may be loaded.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
The Incredible Magdeburg Water Bridge in Germany
The Magdeburg Water Bridge is a navigable aqueduct in Germany that connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittelland Canal, and allows ships to cross over the Elbe River. At 918 meters, it is the longest navigable aqueduct in the world.
The Elbe-Havel and Mittelland canals had previously met near Magdeburg but on opposite sides of the Elbe. Ships moving between the two had to make a 12-kilometer detour, descending from the Mittelland Canal through the Rothensee boat lift into the Elbe, then sailing downstream on the river, before entering the Elbe-Havel Canal through Niegripp lock. Low water levels in the Elbe often prevented fully laden canal barges from making this crossing, requiring time-consuming off-loading of cargo.
Construction of the water link was started as early as in the 1930s but due to the World War 2 and subsequent division of Germany the work remained suspended till 1997. The aqueduct was finally completed and opened to the public in 2003.
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I would like to share an experience with you all, to do with drinking and driving. As you know some of us have had brushes with the authorities on our way home in recent months. Well I for one have done something about it. The other night I was out for a dinner and a few drinks with some friends. After having far too much vino, and knowing full well I was wasted, I did something I've never done before. I took a bus home. I arrived home safely and without incident, which was a real surprise, as I have never driven a bus before. | | |
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