Two of the city's best-known activists wound up in police custody Saturday after a protest against gun violence outside a suburban gun store. Revs. Jesse Jackson and Michael Pfleger, a South Side priest, were arrested about 1:30 p.m. for trespassing outside Chuck's Gun Shop in south suburban Riverdale, authorities said.
Pfleger's a worse loudmouth and rabble-rouser than Jackson could ever be. Ought to be defrocked but it won't happen.
Though the arrests resulted in a minor charge for each man, it provided yet another platform from which to denounce the gun violence they say is plaguing the streets of Chicago.
As the two men were released from custody about 3 p.m., they walked triumphantly to the front of the Riverdale police station, where they were met by more than 50 cheering supporters, clapping and singing, "Victory Is Mine." "We really didn't come to get arrested, but to continue our process," Jackson said of his campaign against gun violence.
It was the third consecutive Saturday that Jackson and his supporters rallied in front of the gun shop at 14310 Indiana Ave. Gun sales are banned in Chicago, but Jackson said suburban stores offer city dwellers easy access to firearms. D.C.'s gun ban has been overturned by an appeals judge.
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It might be interesting if he had to do some actual time in the pokey.
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If one of the overworked Mods could please add another s - to make it "Jesse" in the title - I would appreciate it. Preview Is My Friend.
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It's never the gang-bangers' fault, is it, jessah...
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Of course, it's the gun's fault, because they're "automatics." Sheesh! Don't you people know nothin'?
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To qoute another blog, "Grouchy OLd Criipple", Jackson,Sharpton,and others of their ilk are "Race Warlord Poverty Pimps" or RWPP. If they had to work for a living instead of scamming others they would starve. Their only talent seems to be jumping on whatever is the current "problem" du jour. As was mentioned earlier, maybe a little more time behind bars with some of the gang bangers would allow them to see the light.
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Hey Jesse, perhaps you can contact the owner of this webcam and tell him how Chicago guns are so much more ill-tempered and violent than his. He just can't seem to get that damn lazy S&W to do anything suspicious.
http://www.roughwheelers.com/montego/gun_cam.html
Fuuny thing, I can't get my SIG, my CZ or my Glocks to get off their lazy asses and go out and shoot someone either. Maybe it's time for an RMA.
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Jesse & Al will have much to answer for when they leave this world. In ironic contrast, I think of some of the great chaplains I've met during my time in the Corps. Men who truly do the Almighty's work w/little fanfare and no asperations for notoriety.
These two schmucks bring nothing but dishonor upon the word "reverend". May piss be upon them.
Okay, so here's a really touchy subject. I'll put this as politely as I possibly can.
As the saying goes: When guns are outlawed only criminals will have guns.
Does anyone else see a vile "special interest" situation whereby we have a couple of scumbag Race Warlord Poverty Pimps agitating to strip away gun ownership from a society that is too frequently assaulted, raped, robbed and murdered at gunpoint by a disproportionately high number of people who share the identical ethnic background of these same Race Warlord Poverty Pimps?
I'm almost puking at how politically correct the above statement is, but there you have it. These Race Warlord Poverty Pimps are protecting and empowering criminal interests on a routine basis. Al Sharpton's actions in the Tawana Brawley case is living testimony to this fact. The elimination of civilian gun ownership plays directly into the hands of gang members everywhere. I sincerely doubt this has escaped the notice of these Race Warlord Poverty Pimps. In fact, I think they're counting on it.
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This is the same Pfleger who received international attention when he called on a mob to "snuff" gunshop owner Bill Roggio back in May. Pfleger's extensive background as a lefty agitator was documented in the earlier R-burg posting.
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While we're at it, hasn't the KKK opposed the sale of guns and liquor to black people at one time or another? Jackson and Pfleger are in interesting company.
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Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: I just got kicked out of the unit. My flight status has been withdrawn. I'm through, Dead Meat!
Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson: What happened?
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: It's my eyes. I've got walleye-vision.
Pete 'Dead Meat' Thompson: Isn't there something that can be done?
Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: Well, there's a delicate corneal inversion procedure... a multi-opti-pupil-optomy. But, in order to keep from damaging the eye sockets, they've got to go in through the rectum. Ain't no man going to take that route with me!
They're known simply as the "blue people" in the hills and hollows around Troublesome and Ball Creeks. Most lived to their 80s and 90s without serious illness associated with the skin discoloration. For some, though, there was a pain not seen in lab tests. That was the pain of being blue in a world that is mostly shades of white to black.
But since it's from Pravda, I wonder if any of the story is true?
"Kentucky" and "1950's" excepted - I know both of those exist/existed.
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Yeper. I remember reading about the blue people in the 1970s.
In fact, this seems to be that Pravda article; but it purports to be from a 1982 issue of Science. The last page of the Pravda article notes that it came from rootsweb.com. Somehow they've left off the author's name. Commie thieves. Here's a Straight Dope piece, too.
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury described by critics as the well-meaning but ineffectual head of a dysfunctional family, has turned to the world's best-known dysfunctional family in an attempt to teach children about theology and boost congregations.
Rowan Williams has compared himself to Homer Simpson in the past.
Must Restrain Self From Commenting .....
The Church of England believes that the beer-drinking Homer Simpson and his street-wise son, Bart, have addressed religious issues in a way that makes them interesting to teenagers who would normally be bored by long sermons from the vicar.
A book, called Mixing it up with The Simpsons, will be sent to youth advisers in every diocese in the country next week. It will urge clergy, or their youth workers, to set up screens in their churches to show episodes of the world's most popular cartoon that deal with key Christian themes such as punishment, love and the Second Coming.
The book suggests activities to challenge teenagers, including putting out a plate of doughnuts with a sign saying "Do not touch" to test whether they can resist temptation.
Youngsters will be told to reflect upon Homer's comment that "inside every man is a struggle between Good and Evil, which cannot be resolved".
In other chapters, Bart's impatience to see Krusty the Clown is compared to Christians waiting for the return of Christ, and the friendship between Homer and Barney, one of the pub regulars, is used to highlight the importance of building strong relationships.
Owen Smith, a youth worker in the Kent diocese of Rochester who wrote the book, said the show's writing was imbued with biblical allusions. To illustrate this in the book, he compares quotes from the show with verses in the Bible.
Mr Smith said the cartoon had "great potential" for reaching teenagers - a group that the Church has struggled to keep in its fold. The number of people under the age of 16 attending worship on a Sunday fell from 180,000 in 2000 to 157,000 in 2005.
"The Simpsons is hugely moral, with many episodes dealing with issues and dilemmas faced by young people," Mr Smith said. "The willingness of the show's writers to deal with questions of both morality and spirituality makes the programme an ideal tool."
The initiative has received strong backing from the Church's hierarchy. The Rt Rev John Pritchard, Bishop of Oxford, said: "By giving youth workers resources that reflect popular culture, we are helping them become storytellers for a new generation.
"Jesus was a great storyteller - as are the creators of The Simpsons - and the power of a good story lies in meeting people where they are, making them laugh and then giving them something to think about afterwards."
The comical cartoon show has in the past been criticised for its "subversive" content. The former US president, George Bush, said: "We're going to strengthen the American family to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons."
The archbishop, however, has spoken of his admiration for the show and even compared himself to Homer Simpson. In 2004, he was reported to have been approached to appear on the show.
He said that the show was "generally on the side of the angels and on the side of sense."
Maybe. There are a lot of things I like about the show. But I'd be more impressed by this initiative if My Lord the Archbishop demonstrated any discernable core of theological backbone first.
Scotland's first female Muslim football team has been prevented from playing competitive matches after soccer chiefs imposed a worldwide ban on wearing religious headdress during games.
Ansar Women's FC, from the east end of Glasgow, were looking forward to their first league games this summer, until it became clear they could not play while wearing their hijab headscarves. The garments are among those recently banned on safety grounds by international football authorities after a referee in Canada sent off an 11-year-old girl earlier this year after she refused to remove her hijab.
The impact of the ruling on Ansar FC has sparked a backlash from the Asian community in Scotland, with actor and TV presenter Atta Yaqub leading calls for the ban to be overturned.
The decision was taken by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the game's ultimate decision-making body, and part of FIFA. Law 4 of the sport's regulations restricts a player's kit to a shirt or jersey, shorts, socks and footwear.
Zuby Malik, a Glasgow-based sports worker and coach of the team, said it appeared to end hopes of Ansar Women's FC being admitted to the Scottish Women's Football Association league. Malik said: "It is ridiculous that I will have to tell the girls that they won't be able to join the league because of this nonsensical ruling. The majority of the girls in our team wear the hijab and it is completely unfair to ask people to choose between their faith and sport. Quite rightly their religion will always come first."
The 27-year-old coach said there was no justification for banning headscarves and turbans. "There appears to be no logic at all behind this ruling. I don't see how anyone could be injured through wearing a hijab or a turban or how it affects their game in any way." Malik added: "This is going to throw up all sorts of difficulties for Asian players throughout Scotland and across the world. It will have massive consequences."
Atta Yaqub, who starred in the acclaimed Ken Loach film Ae Fond Kiss, was outraged by the ruling. The actor was a founder member of Glasgow Asian soccer team Ansar FC and is an active supporter of Muslim women's football. "It is appalling that people can be effectively banned from playing competitive football for observing their religion. Sport should be about promoting tolerance and understanding and this seems to fly in the face of this. Myself and many others have been trying to build bridges and get youngsters from ethnic minority backgrounds involved in sport."
The Scottish Women's Football Association sympathised with Muslim youngsters but said its hands were tied. "If we were given flexibility on this issue we would be delighted to use it, but we are bound by FIFA's rules and regulations and must adhere to them."
Brian Barwick, chief executive of the English FA and a board member of IFAB, insisted the decision was the right one. "It's absolutely right to be sensitive to people's thoughts and philosophies, but equally there has to be a set of laws that are adhered to, and we favour Law 4 being adhered to."
I think the photo with this article would be a worthy addition to the Rantburg image archives.
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"It is ridiculous that I will have to tell the girls that they won't be able to join the league because of this nonsensical ruling. The majority of the girls in our team wear the hijab and it is completely unfair to ask people to choose between their faith and sport. Quite rightly their religion will always come first."
Horseshit. If your arbitrary and archaic shari'a law garbage is so damned precious, then exclude yourself from yet another activity and bit of fun. Just like how people giving testimony in court must remove any face covering, so should it be in sports. A team is composed of a limited number of specific players who must be present to participate. Good old Islamic taqiyya would allow Muslim competitors to substitute stringers disguised in hijab so that they could outscore other teams.
Sadly, I doubt that the IFAB will ever show the courage to make the above philosophical connection, publicly at least. It is critical to begin clubbing Muslims over the head with how Islam grants them an unfair advantage at all times. Such an outright violation of ethics and morals must be rejected by civilized cultures and used as a lever to exclude non-integrating Muslims wherever possible.
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When I played soccer I didn't like heading the ball because if I didn't do it right (which was most of the time) it gave me a headache. Now, if I could have worn a piece of padded armor on my head and called it a religious requirement, I might have been good enough to start.
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It's the niqab, the face veil, that hides the appearance, Zenster. The hijab only covers the hair so that no deadly hair rays escape to seduce male passers by. ;-) Otherwise spot on, though. The rules are for all, and if one chooses religious observance, then one must forgo the experience... or set up one's own league. Hence the small number of orthodox Jews playing sports in leagues that have games on Saturdays.
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I ain't Football if you don't use your hands, dammit!
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Fine, I'll modify to how if we allow the hijab they'll want the niqab next and then my position still pertains. As you noted, those who don't like the rules can piss off. The high esteem Muslims have for Islam's ridiculous imperatives in no way mandates that other organizations must alter their rules to suit such outrageous whims.
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a backlash from the Asian community in Scotland,
You mean there's a Chinatown in Glascow ? Ohhhh, you mean the shitbag Paks ? Since when are they Asian ? They are just modified Arab knuckle draggers. Let's be clear exactly who we're talking about.
Last week, a German court sentenced a 55-year old Lutheran pastor to one year in jail for Volksverhetzung (incitement of the people) because he compared the killing of the unborn in contemporary Germany to the holocaust. Next week, the Council of Europe is going to vote on a resolution imposing Darwinism as Europes official ideology. The European governments are asked to fight the expression of creationist opinions, such as young earth and intelligent design theories. According to the Council of Europe these theories are undemocratic and a threat to human rights.
Without legalized abortion the number of German children would increase annually by at least 150,000 which is the number of legal abortions in birth dearth Germany. Pastor Johannes Lerle compared the killing of the unborn to the killing of the Jews in Auschwitz during the Second World War. On 14 June, a court in Erlangen ruled that, in doing so, the pastor had incited the people because his statement was a denial of the holocaust of the Jews in Nazi-Germany. Hence, Herr Lerle was sentenced to one year in jail. Earlier, he had already spent eight months in jail for calling abortionists professional killers an allegation which the court ruled to be slanderous because, according to the court, the unborn are not humans.
I think we haven't quite convinced them of the value of free speech yet. Funny how Germans in the US can handle it but Germans in Germany can't.
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By comparing one type of killing (approved kind) with another Kind (not-so-approved except by certain party officials), he was making a "denial of the holocaust of the Jews."
Umm, yeah, that makes a whole lot of sense!
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Somebody over there is having a self-righteousness moment. Abortion is quite rare in Germany (150,000/year out of a female population of how many tens of millions?). It's only legal over there with the written permission of the doctor. But most doctors won't give permission, German Medicine's response to the forced abortions of the Nazi era. Some women take the train to the nearest country where abortions are freely available (Holland, perhaps, but I don't really know), and the rest just give up and have the child.
As for choosing Darwinism as the State religion of the EU, what bloody nonsense. They're trying to show they're so much more advanced than the Americans, is all. Then too, which version of Darwinism do they intend to mandate? Charles D's original version as laid out in The Ascent of Man, or perhaps the punctured equilibrium model currently accepted... or even whatever further modifications come to be accepted in the future... They're setting themselves up for heresy, schism, and religious wars on the matter, just like they got when Christianity (in it's various flavours) was the State religion. Clearly the EUniks have learnt exactly the wrong things from their own history.
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My normal reaction to a story like this would be "oh well, sucks for them". F the Germans.
Unfortunately, I can't afford such an apathetic response, seeing that PC speak is now entrenched in the US, and draconian measures like this are only a few decades, perhaps even less time, from being enacted here in the US. Sucks for US. Sucks for the world.
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It's only legal over there with the written permission of the doctor.
The only legal requirement is that the woman desiring a first-trimester abortion attend a counseling session at least 3 days before the procedure. About 500 German citizens reported having an abortion outside the country.
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That's all very well, mrp, but in practice if the doctor doesn't sign off that he gave the counselling (the abortion clinics don't do the counselling, it has to be the woman's doctor), it isn't going to happen. That's exactly what happened to a girlfriend of mine; she got to the clinic, they wouldn't do the procedure because she didn't have the signed form from her doctor, he refused to fax it over, and when she went back to him he refused to write it for her. She had her second baby nine and a half months after the first.
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"incited the people" - what an orwellian concept. Idiotic german courts; what a nefarious way to abuse the memory of the holocaust. They treat this like shouting "fire" in a crowded movie theater - how bleepin' retarded &/or insane is that.
It would be like locking up moon bats in our own country for saying Bush was behind 9-11. Or, for believing that the lochness monster really exists. Who cares.
Leaders within D.C.'s latino community say the city needs more police officers who speak Spanish.
"The police department should get more police officers that speak Spanish to make sure that there is compliance with the Language Access Act and to build more trust within the community," said Saul Solarzano, of the Central American Resource Center." Lord knows that's easier than teaching 'residents' how to speak English.
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I don't recall that the District of Columbia was ceded as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. So the claim that they, the unassimulated, are just 'reclaiming' lost territory is certainly empty. However, given current circumstances, I'll be more than willing to negotiate the transfer of all the residents, land and property within in the beltway to Mexico.
I remember in my days at the Phoenix PD when I used to interpret in the field for the officers. I was surprisingly good at it and got sent to advanced training in Spanish (including trips to Mexico to polish the espa~nol).
Want to know something that will make you even more pissed off? We were told that when we read someone his rights we had to bend over backwards to make sure that they understood what everything we were saying meant.
That meant that in order to get "certified" by the department as a Spanish speaker, we had to be able to explain to the guilty bastard hardworking person who simply couldn't get his documentation in order and who dreamed of working for $3 with no bennies what a judge was, what a jury was, etc. Under the law stated above plus several additional court decisions, we were to assume that Spanish speakers had the equivalent of a 3rd grade edumacation and proceed like we were interrogating a child. If we didn't do that and basically act in place of a defense attorney from the start, we could get zinged later for taking advantage of the poor misguided soul's lack of formal training.
It was ok for us to take advantage of someone's stupidity only if they were born here in America.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Two of the city's best-known activists wound up in police custody Saturday after a protest against gun violence outside a suburban gun store. Revs. Jesse Jackson and Michael Pfleger, a South Side priest, were arrested about 1:30 p.m. for trespassing outside Chuck's Gun Shop in south suburban Riverdale, authorities said.
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury described by critics as the well-meaning but ineffectual head of a dysfunctional family, has turned to the world's best-known dysfunctional family in an attempt to teach children about theology and boost congregations.
