The Ugandan government plans to set out measures to combat prostitution, including publishing names of offenders in newspapers, on the internet and on television, Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo confirmed on Thursday.
The government is also concerned about women wearing miniskirts, which is seen as promoting immorality and prostitution as well as distracting drivers and causing motor accidents, Nsaba Buturo said.
"We want to shame these prostitutes who are doing the business, including those who are running brothels," he said.
"Women of 60 years and below are putting on miniskirts and this is crazy. The miniskirt can cause an accident when you are sitting with a woman in a car. Men while driving gaze out when they see these women and this causes accidents," he said.
There is no direct law forbidding women from wearing of miniskirts in Uganda. A decree banning the short skirts in the country was issued by the country's late military ruler Idi Amin, but it went out of use after the dictator's ouster in 1979.
Although prostitution is illegal, it has mushroomed on the streets of Uganda's major towns in recent years and the ministry of ethics estimates that numbers of prostitutes now run to thousands.
A person convicted of prostitution in the Ugandan courts is sentenced to six months' imprisonment but there is no record of any conviction in the country's history because police say they find it difficult to prove the charges.
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Publishing the names of johns is more effective than publishing the names of the prostitutes which would just give them free publicity. Send out decoys and when they get propositioned nab the would be john, get his name and put it in the paper.
As for the miniskirt, give the judge some discretion depending on the shape of the legs.
Seems that having signage amidst all the destruction would be a visual blight upon the tranquil setting of this small hamlet, so says the smaller minded mayor and her head cop.
go read the article.
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I will confess, I once bought a dorm-mate's soul.
A self-proclaimed atheist, he felt he could live without it. He priced it under a dollar, so I was able to make the investment without damaging my beer fund too badly.
Oddly enough, or not, depending on your outlook, within several days he became nervous and down-right apprehensive about the transaction and wanted it back. After yanking his chain a bit, I sold it back to him, at a tidy profit, since I am a capitalist and also felt he needed to pay a penalty for not having the courage of his convictions.
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How does she plan to deliver it: UPS, FedEx, or angels? What would a buyer do with such a thing from a total stranger? Eohippus Gling8621 tale makes sense when the parties know one another, but a stranger's soul?
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How do you know a certain someone doesn't already have a lean against it. I mean a lot of people have sold their soul to the DNC and Zero and its not like you can do a title search.
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What armament and ordinance can this plane carry?
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It is equipped with either a scale model Little Boy or Fat Man bomb, depending upon the mission.
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I'd like to see this sucker flying over Wazoo. The noise alone would stimulate mass seething.
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Just watch your weather, do thorough preflights, and don't let THIS happen to your model.
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Worlds second largest Model R/C Airplane? ... model airplane has 8 real turbine engines and took 2 years to build! Has a 22 ft wingspan, and takes two pilots to control.
#8
these are much cheaper than real airplanes, build a buttload of them and fly them over Pakiwaki border at some low altitude; due to their size they would look like the real thing and when the Paki gov't protests, you can say, in all honesty, "they are just toys."
do this for several days, and then sortie a real section over, complete with the obligatory ARCLIGHT strike.
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Whatcher seein here fellers is yer Belgian air force in action. The fly-boys over there in chocolate bon bon land have had their budgets cut pretty sharply. Now the marchin band still gets top dollar, mind you, but these boys, since theys got what is clearly an "offensive weapon" has to be kept on a tight spending leash.
In its brief lifespan of only 13 days, Hurricane Ike wreaked great deal of havoc. Affecting several countries including Cuba, Haiti, and the United States, Ike is blamed for approximately 114 deaths (74 in Haiti alone), and damages that are still being tallied, with estimates topping $10 billion. Many shoreline communities of Galveston, Texas were wiped from the map by the winds, storm surge and the walls of debris pushed along by Ike - though Galveston was spared the level of disaster it suffered in 1900. (28 photos total)
Elderly people suffering from dementia should consider ending their lives because they are a burden on the NHS and their families, according to the influential medical ethics expert Baroness Warnock.
She's a kook, and certainly no expert of any medical ethics I know. Apparently she's not heard of the Hippocratic Oath.
The veteran Government adviser said pensioners in mental decline are "wasting people's lives" because of the care they require and should be allowed to opt for euthanasia even if they are not in pain.
She insisted there was "nothing wrong" with people being helped to die for the sake of their loved ones or society. The 84-year-old added that she hoped people will soon be "licensed to put others down" if they are unable to look after themselves. So.. she wants to kill Stephen Hawking because he is obviously worthless by her criteria.
Hawking, and you, and me, when we're old and infirm. Spit.
Her comments in a magazine interview have been condemned as "immoral" and "barbaric", but also sparked fears that they may find wider support because of her influence on ethical matters.
Lady Warnock, a former headmistress who went on to become Britain's leading moral philosopher, chaired a landmark Government committee in the 1980s that established the law on fertility treatment and embryo research.
A prominent supporter of euthanasia, she has previously suggested that pensioners who do not want to become a burden on their carers should be helped to die.
Families work out the burdens on their own without government help. It's a very short step, as Europe learned, from 'voluntary' to involuntary euthanasia. Once you start killing you just can't stop.
Last year the Mental Capacity Act came into effect that gives legal force to "living wills", so patients can appoint an "attorney" to tell doctors when their hospital food and water should be removed.
But in her latest interview, given to the Church of Scotland's magazine Life and Work, Lady Warnock goes further by claiming that dementia sufferers should consider ending their lives through euthanasia because of the strain they put on their families and public services.
Or, she could just kill them ...
Britain's leading moral philosopher?
Ouch... and then she went directly to hell.
#1
You know, the Catholic Church haws been warnign about the oncoming normalization of "the culture of death", via the slippery slope. And here it comes, on the back of humanism, secularism, and the sick calculus of moral relativism that forces the view that right and wrong are momentary and arbitrary.
The right to life precedes the right to liuberty and property or the pusuit of happiness, and justly so -- without life there is nobody there to claim the rights.
Life must be defended as an absolute, from conception to natural death. To not do so puts arbitrary lines, whcih, as you can see, are readily moved by politicians and powerbrokers.
Pope John Paul II was right. Pope Benedict is right. Nurturing and inculcating the culture of life into our societies is probably the only way to win against the horrors of the culture of death.
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This is just an extension of NHS policies to dementia. For decades the refused dialysis to people over 65, which is a death sentence to people with kidney failure. Hey, you've got to find a way to pay for all those Sharia-compliant meals somehow .....
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Is is just me, or do most of the "medical ethics experts" seem to be extremely pro-death of anyone who cannot shortly go back to "productive labor" for the common good?
I don't recall hearing any of them arguing for the basic dignity of someone's life, just their arguments as for why some other poor soul's existence ITNSHO isn't worth it.
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Lady Warnock, a former headmistress who went on to become Britain's leading moral philosopher
hmmm and when was that award bestowed?
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Baroness Warnock, at 84 years, your licence to live has expired. Pull over to the side of life's highway and we'll arrange an appointment with an expiration expert. He or she will relieve NHS of the burden of your existence. It'll only take a moment of your time.
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As long as they include Rosie O'Donell and Lindsey Lohan among the demented, I'm all for it.
Al
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They really should change their name to the National Death System. Just charge a flat fee for an injection of whatever poison is in vogue. That way, it would limit their rate of growth of their budget to only double digits annually.
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Docs on this side of the pond push this stuff too. My mom had a stroke during heart valve replacement. Rough go for a while afterward. When she got a urinary tract infection about 8 weeks after the surgery her cardiologist encouraged me cut off the food and water. I moved her to a private facility, which she could fortunately afford, and she blossomed. Yes, her quality of life is not what it once was, but she still laughs, sees her kids and grandchildren and gives joy to others as she gets it herself.
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Hasn't Europe learned it's lesson when it comes to eliminating undesirables who are a burden to society? It's a very old cliche in that part of the world. It never really caught on here. I presume there will be one person who decides, with a very sharp pencil indeed, who will live and who will die?
Prostitutes in Italy who have been ordered to stop wearing skimpy clothing while they tout for business in broad daylight plan to dress as nuns instead.
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Re: #4: one in particular had the nick "Humpty-Dumpty." had her own part of a wall all reserved and everything, but alas, she fell down and broke her crown and died. There was much gnashing of teeth aboard the USS Independence.....
A Swiss gastronomist has stirred a controversy in the tranquil Alpine republic after announcing that he will serve meals cooked with human breast milk.
The owner of the Storchen restaurant in the exclusive Winterthur resort will improve his menu with local specialities such as meat stew and various soups and sauces containing at least 75 per cent of mother's milk. "We have all been raised on it. Why should we not include it into our diet?" Hans Locher, who has become Switzerland most controversial restaurant owner, said.
Mr Locher attracted the attention of the leading media of the German-speaking world this week after he posted ads looking for women donors, who will receive just over three pounds for 14 ounces of their milk. He said: "I first experimented with breast milk when my daughter was born.
"One can cook really delicious things with it. However, it always needs to be mixed with a bit of whipped cream, in order to keep the consistency."
The food control authority in Switzerland was initially confused by the apparent loophole in local legislation regulating the use of human milk and it was not clear whether Mr Locher could actually be banned from serving his specialities."Humans as producers of milk are simply not envisaged in the legislation.
"They are not on the list of approved species such as cows and sheep, but they are also not on the list of the banned species such as apes and primates," Rolf Etter of the Zurich food control laboratory said.
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Ick. On the other hand, that lovely English insult, "You stupid cow!" wouldn't be far off anymore, in certain cases. Especially since nursing, and presumably substitutions therefore, release calming hormones in the woman.
#12
Is there a Swiss authority confused about the loophole for going to the spa and being injected with liquefied fetus? And you thought folks went for the skiing. heh
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It's not a real protest until they spell something with their nekkid bodies.
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There are several interesting possibilities in art in the future, to extricate it from its half century slump.
My favorite is phenomenological art. That is, if you go to a museum of science and industry, they have any number of scientific phenomena on display. They do this to explain it, but why not integrate it into art?
In a manner of speaking, to put the "magic" back into art. If done properly, most viewers should be left with the question how is that done? Importantly, the artist doesn't answer the question, but uses it to enhance the rest of the art.
Another idea is to create dynamic art which reaches beyond itself. Simple versions of this are art that is interactive with the viewer, their presence and actions changing images and sounds. Art for the Wii generation.
A different style that impressed me had obvious origins. The artist had created an erect skeleton of sorts, made from ordinary re-bar. Inside it was a light bulb traveling on a track. The art was the shadow on the walls of the darkened room which contained the skeleton.
The end result of art today should be to move aesthetics back in to the utilitarian home. Most homes are terribly utilitarian, with little art other than generic and bland pictures on blank walls.
The last great adventure in architecture was Space Age design, which was ahead of its time, but with the better materials we have today, should still be around. It was both utilitarian and aesthetically pleasing, but without being oppressive.
Perhaps improving its ergonomics and efficiency somewhat, today we might finally create the home of the future, which we always dreamed of.
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Trying to upstage the US; The SOund Transit debacle here in the Seattle area has a mandate to install art in all its facilites and one artist was going to use (and I am not making this up) old F-18 airframes and suspend pieces of them from the ceiling. the Capitol Hill neighborhood where the staing will be went absolutely ballistic. the howls from the peaceniks could be heard all over. how dare they hsng intruments of war in our neighborhood. ST folded, took its gonads and went home.
There is an artist I like very much named James Turrell, who specializes in art utilizing light in ways sometimes subtle and sometimes spectacular. There was a small exhibition of some of his work at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art several years back, and it made as much of an impression on me as any exhibition I've ever seen. I actually visited a few times. One piece I found particularly fascinating, called GasWorks, was shaped like a gas tank. You lie in a bed and enter the interior of the spherical container (sort of like an MRI). The interior of the sphere is uniformly white and, naturally, there are no corners or shadows. When they turn it on, you see your whole body enveloped in light. It was amazing! Honestly, I felt so much like I was dreaming that I was almost tingling. It was very strange. I felt like I was floating in a sea of pure colors with no perception of any limits to the space around me at all.
On my 40th birthday, I happened to not be working, so I drove myself down to get there when they had just opened. Since it was a weekday, I was the only person there for quite some time, so the attendant who ran the machine was happy to let me experience it over and over again. Definitely one of the best birthdays I've ever had.
Vermont, Peoples Republic of...
BURLINGTON, Vt. - Lots of political candidates make campaign promises. But not like Charlotte Dennett's. Dennett, 61, the Progressive Party's candidate for Vermont Attorney General, said Thursday she will prosecute President Bush for murder if she's elected Nov. 4. Dennett, an attorney and investigative journalist, says Bush must be held accountable for the deaths of thousands of people in Iraq U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians. She believes the Vermont attorney general would have jurisdiction to do so. ...and she'd be wrong. But...so what?
She also said she would appoint a special prosecutor and already knows who that should be: former Los Angeles prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, the author of "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder," a new book. She might have to wait. Bush may be busy at the many other moonbat wet dream show trials that are planned.
"Someone has to step forward," said Dennett, flanked by Bugliosi at a news conference announcing her plan. "Someone has to say we cannot put up with this lack of accountability any more." Typical lefty dunce. Ya left out Cheney.
Dennett and two others are challenging incumbent Attorney General William Sorrell, a Democrat, in the Nov. 4 election. One of them will probably include Cheney in their proposal and steal her thunder.
Bugliosi, 74, who gained fame as the prosecutor of killer Charles Manson, said any state attorney general would have jurisdiction since Bush committed "overt acts" including the military's recruitment of soldiers in Vermont and allegedly lying about the threat posed by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in speeches that were aired in Vermont and elsewhere. "No man, even the president of the United States, is above the law," said Bugliosi. So just when did Vince become a whackjob?
The White House press office didn't respond to a request for comment Thursday. But Republican National Committee spokesman Blair Latoff denounced Dennett. "It's extremely disappointing that a candidate for state attorney general is more concerned with radical left-wing provocation than upholding the law of Vermont," Latoff said. "These incendiary suggestions may score points among the most fringe elements of American society, but can't be settling for anyone looking for an attorney general." Why even respond?
Anti-Bush sentiment runs deep in Vermont. It's the only state Bush hasn't visited as president, and one whose liberal tendencies make it unlikely he will. In 2007, the state Senate adopted a resolution calling for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Last March, the towns of Brattleboro and Marlboro voted to seek indictments against Bush and Cheney over the war, and dozens of other towns voted at town meetings to call for his impeachment. ...and, of course, Bush and Cheney now rot in prison. Or were they hung? I forget.
Sorrell, who is seeking a sixth term, said he doesn't believe a Vermont attorney general would have the authority to charge Bush."The reality is, in my view, that unless the crime takes place in Vermont, then I as the attorney general have no authority under Vermont law to be prosecuting the president," Sorrell said. Well, I guess you'll have to get to work and change that...
OK Vermont, hurry up and secede and form your socialist workers paradise up there. Just be sure to build a fence, because we don't want you running around freely in our nation when yours goes utterly bankrupt.
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An AG wannabe who can't even read the Constitution. Maybe it's time we start hammering such individuals for violating others Constitutional rights [like the 6th Amendment].
"The reality is, in my view, that unless the crime takes place in Vermont, then I as the attorney general have no authority under Vermont law to be prosecuting the president," Sorrell said. BINGO! Someone who can read it.
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So just to test this theory, let's pretend it's 1966 and federal officers are in Mississippi to enforce the civil rights laws. Are they subject to prosecution by the State of Mississippi for acts done in the performance of their duties? How say you, Vermont? Or does it depend on whose ox is beging gored?
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I remember reading the Bug's unmemorable book on Manson. Reading between the lines you had the feeling that one day Vinnie would be carving an X in his forehead.
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Sorrell, who is seeking a sixth term, said he doesn't believe a Vermont attorney general would have the authority to charge Bush
The article didn't say anything about a groundswell of opinion against the incumbent, so I imagine it's not likely any of the crazies will win.
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.
The Ugandan government plans to set out measures to combat prostitution, including publishing names of offenders in newspapers, on the internet and on television, Ethics and Integrity Minister James Nsaba Buturo confirmed on Thursday. 
