Dear International Soccer Officials, Participants and Fans,
Congratulations on a terrific World Dish or World Platter or whatever you've been having. It's very interesting, compared to curling. There's lots of falling down and a ball that's big enough for me to see on my old analog TV with converter box (which makes golf look like weed trimming and hockey appear to be two gangs of overfed, angry figure skaters).
You've got the makings of a great sport with this soccer or, as I believe you call it, "foosball." With a few modifications it could become highly popular globally.
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This is under opinion due to the fact the reporter failed to do due diligence in checking and challenging what officials were saying...
TUCSON - Law enforcement officials from both sides of the border met in Tucson for the 26th annual Police Internacional Sonora y Arizona, or PISA.
The yearly conference switches from Arizona to Mexico. This year, it was Mexico's turn to host. However, according to U.S. officials, due to the recent violence, U.S. police officers weren't going to attend. Good move. Wouldn't want to host it in a "safe state" in Mexico. See below...
So, the Governor from Sonora approved for the conference to move to Tucson, but was to be hosted by Mexican law enforcement.
And they're going to have to pay for the conference center and refreshments out of the Mexican budget, already strained by the cost of fighting drug gangs. But they'll save so much by not having to keep the site secure.
One of the topics discussed among officials, the recent gun battle that left 21 people dead just 12 miles from the Arizona border. The shoot out happened on July 2. Several times that in innocent civilians are murdered weekly in northern Mexico alone, and they are worried about the bad guys killing each other off...
Bill Newell who heads ATF says, "There's a raging drug war in Mexico and they're not throwing rocks at each other." Thanks for the 411, Bill
He says the drug cartels are battling it out with guns. In the latest crime wave he says ATF identified most of the guns used came from Arizona. Hmmm...
That's awfully queer syntax. Does that mean most of the identified guns came from Arizona, or that most of the guns were identified and came from AZ?
"We work very closely with our Mexican counterparts to identify those firearms used, that information tracing of those firearms, how those firearms were purchased, and if it was an illegal purchase. Then we will go after individuals who were involved in that." It makes perfect sense to go after illegal purchases, but what about legal purchases? If those weapons make it into the hands of your average Mexican gang member, don't you think the problem may be the porous border? You know, the border your boss is trying to keep open?
Ernesto Munro heads the Sonoran Department of Public Safety. He says, "Ninety or more percent of the weapons are from the U.S." He says, "We need to stop that, and Bill Newell is helping by coordinating with our officers and trying to stop the traffic of guns to Mexico." Nice one, Ernesto. The fact is the 90 percent of tracable weapons seized Mexico are from the US. But you don't mention that that is only seven percent of all weapons. SEVEN PERCENT, Ernesto. That's seven in one hundred weapons, Ernesto...
Munro says even though there's violence and the number of homicides is high, he maintains his state is safe. He says, "The danger is for people who are involved in organized crime and of course for any police. He says his life is in danger as well." 21 dead gang bangers near Saric. Yeah, that sounds like a hotspot for vacations, Ernesto...
Attorney General Terry Goddard says his office is concentrating on the movement of money. He says, "Without money the cartels don't exist. Without the money the violence would stop." Money sent back to Mexico by illegal aliens who came through a porous border, Terry.
The conference ends on Saturday afternoon.
Enjoy the refreshments and the peaceful location, ladies and gentlemen.
The money quote.
...As Shepherd explains in his chapter on Islam in Europe, this is a European-wide phenomenon that is directly related to the fear of criticizing Muslims. Anti-Zionism is the key extremist discourse by which jihadis radicalize communities and mobilize warriors for Allahs armies. The disturbing figures for how many British Muslims support terror, think Muslims did not commit either 9-11 or 7-7, think the law should punish people who insult Islam, and think that apostates from Islam should die should not be read the way we read political polls in the West. These minorities are the dominant voices in their communities, if only because they use their terror tactics against fellow Muslims far more readily than against outsiders.
So while their enemies advance, the British elites are like deer in the headlights, incapable of speaking up for even their own principles of free speech and tolerance. Intimidated into silence about Muslims, somehow, they find their voice in denouncing the real genocidal evil empire: Israel.
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As many people have said, Jews are the canary in the coal mine of civil liberties and protection. Even if you feel nothing for the injustice done to the Jews, you should realize that there is a long list of groups to oppress after the Jews have gone. You may be part of one.
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Jews aren't saints. While I have found Muslim attitudes towards Jews to be, bye and large, disgustingly racist, in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney the Jews are quite capable of making enemies without the help of the whole Israel-Palestine circus.
For one, culturally, they seem to have a bit of a superiority complex. They will introduce themselves to you by saying: "Hello, I'm Daniel, I'm Jewish bye the way."
As if it makes a jot of difference. Why do I care if you are jewish?
I don't introduce myself by saying: "Hello, I'm Anon1, and I'm agnostic from a Church-of-England background."
Who the hell cares?
Secondly, my last boyfriend was an Eastern Suburbs Jew. Thought he was lovely: kind, smart, funny. Three weeks of bliss, until he suddenly turned on me. Dumped me like a piece of dirt and never spoke to me again. No argument, no obvious reason, we were getting on fine... other than that his mother didn't want a non-Jewish girlfriend moving in on her only son.
Once she found out... i was out the door.
And Israel only has itself to blame for being the perpetual victim. I'm fast losing sympathy for that nation.
They should grow a pair, set their borders, build their fence then kick all the arab muslims out to the other side of the border.
And take back Gaza while they area at it.
just build that goddam wall and make a decent straight and simple border. Do it by force and do not care what the rest of the world says.
Kick the muslims out, give them US$20,000 each for compensation and let that be the end of it.
I hope David Cameron shares the public's outrage that we cannot send Abu Hamza, the incendiary Muslim cleric, to face justice in America, because the European Court of Human Rights has banned us from doing so. Perhaps it will stiffen his resolve to repatriate human rights law to this country and allow us to be the judges, once more, of right and wrong. The ECHR backed Hamza because he risks a life sentence without parole if convicted. That would be less than some of the victims of Islamist extremism have suffered.
President Obama promised lobbyists wouldn't run his White House. They're just doing it from across the street at a Shariah-compliant coffee chain tied to a radical jihadist group.
That's right: According to the New York Times, prominent K Street lobbyists are buttonholing Obama officials at a Caribou Coffee shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, raising far more than just ethics questions. What the Times story neglects to mention is that Caribou Coffee is a Shariah-compliant firm owned by an Islamic bank based in Bahrain. One of its founders and a current adviser are leaders in the radical Muslim Brotherhood. According to the FBI, the Egypt-based, Saudi-funded Brotherhood has a plan to infiltrate, "sabotage" and "destroy" the U.S. "from within." And it's using American agents and front groups to carry out that espionage.
The off-site White House meetings at Caribou also raise national security concerns. Because they're not taking place at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., they're not subject to disclosure on White House visitors logs. And there's no Secret Service present at a shop owned and controlled by a foreign entity hostile to U.S. interests.
A key principal in the 2000 deal by First Islamic Bank of Bahrain to buy Caribou Coffee was Yusuf al-Qaradawi spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and a known jihadist and open supporter of suicide bombings, including some targeting Americans.
The Islamic cleric has been banned from entering the U.S. due to his fatwahs calling for the killing of American troops, and his leadership in a charity blacklisted by Treasury as a terror group. Al-Qaradawi has ruled that jihad can be an offensive means of expanding the Muslim state, plus a defensive response to attack. Referring to the infidel, he added, "If you kill him he will end up in hell, and if he kills you, you become a martyr."
First Islamic Bank changed its name and removed al-Qaradawi's name from its Web site after anti-jihad watchdogs exposed the connection. But Caribou's parent still lists another major Brotherhood figure as a member of its Shariah Supervisory Board. It calls Muhammad Taqi Usmani a "prominent scholar" with a "proven track record in the practical implementation of Shariah law." Usmani also has a proven track record of advocating aggressive jihad against infidels. Fiercely anti-American, he has urged all Muslims to support the Taliban as they continue to ambush and kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Dow Jones recently dumped Usmani as an adviser to its Islamic index.
News of these White House meetings at an Islamist-controlled chain comes as Obama has appointed a Muslim lawyer promoting Shariah finance as a White House fellow.
We need more transparency regarding who's getting into the White House, who's lobbying it and who owns the off-site spots where they're conducting official White House business. The FBI should be there too.
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oh please who cares if the lobbyists are sitting in a coffee house owned by an Islamic bank. That is a long bow to draw. I buy coffee without any idea who owns the coffee shop.
But - if you looked at what Islamic money owns you will get a shock.
Look who is the second biggest holder of NewsLtd stock after Rupert Murdoch.
And so on for all the world's biggest corporations.
Where do you think 50 years of oil money - week after week of filling your tank with petrol, 25% of it going to Saudi Arabia.
Where do you think that money went? Surely you don't think they shoved it under a mattress?
Discovered in Mrs. Bobby's last week's WaPo, found today in the Columbus, Dispatch.
Daniel Okrent's darkly hilarious Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition recounts how Americans in 1920 abolished a widely exercised private right - and condemned the nation's fifth-largest industry - in order to make the nation more heavenly. Then all hell broke loose. Now that ambitious government is again hell-bent on improving Americans - from how they use salt to what light bulbs they use - Okrent's book is a timely tutorial on the law of unintended consequences.
The ship that carried John Winthrop to Massachusetts in 1630 also carried, Okrent reports, 10,000 gallons of wine and three times more beer than water. John Adams' morning eye-opener was a tankard of hard cider; James Madison drank a pint of whiskey daily; by 1830, adult per capita consumption was the equivalent of 90 bottles of 80 proof liquor annually.
Although whiskey often was a safer drink than water, Americans, particularly men, drank too much. Women's Prohibition sentiments fueled the movement for women's rights - rights to hold property independent of drunken husbands; to divorce those husbands; to vote for politicians who would close saloons. So the United States Brewers' Association officially opposed women's suffrage.
Women campaigning for sobriety did not intend to give rise to the income tax, plea bargaining, a nationwide crime syndicate, Las Vegas, NASCAR (country boys outrunning government agents), a redefined role for the federal government and a privacy right - the "right to be let alone" - that eventually was extended to abortion rights. But they did. Whoa, George! That's a mighty big stretch ya got there, boy!
By 1900, per capita consumption of alcohol was similar to today's, but mere temperance was insufficient for the likes of Carry Nation. She was "six feet tall, with the biceps of a stevedore, the face of a prison warden, and the persistence of a toothache," and she wanted Prohibition. It was produced by the sophisticated tenacity of the Anti-Saloon League, which at its peak was spending the equivalent of 50 million of today's dollars annually. Okrent calls it "the mightiest pressure group in the nation's history." It even prevented redistricting after the 1920 census, the first census to reveal that America's urban - and most wet - population was a majority.
Before the 18th Amendment could make drink illegal, the 16th Amendment had to make the income tax legal. It was needed because by 1910 alcohol taxes were 30 percent of federal revenues.
Workmen's compensation laws gave employers an interest in abstemious workers. Writes Okrent, Asa Candler, founder of the Coca-Cola Company, saw "opportunity on the other side of the dry rainbow." World War I anti-German fever fueled the desire to punish brewers with names like Busch, Pabst, Blatz and Schlitz. And President Woodrow Wilson's progressivism became a wartime justification for what Okrent calls "the federal government's sudden leap into countless aspects of American life," including drink.
And so Prohibition came. Sort of. Briefly.
After the first few years, alcohol consumption dropped only 30 percent. Soon smugglers were outrunning the Coast Guard ships in speedboats, and courts inundated by violations of Prohibition began to resort to plea bargains to speed "enforcement" of laws so unenforceable that Detroit became known as the City on a Still.
Prohibition agents cherished $1,800 jobs because of the bribes that came with them. Fiorello La Guardia taunted the government that it would need "150,000 agents to watch the first 150,000." Exemptions from Prohibition for church wine and medicinal alcohol became ludicrously large - and lucrative - loopholes.
After 13 years, Prohibition, by then reduced to an alliance between evangelical Christians and criminals, was washed away by "social nullification" - a tide of alcohol - and by the exertions of wealthy people like Pierre du Pont who hoped that the return of liquor taxes would be accompanied by lower income taxes. (They were.) Ex-bootleggers found new business opportunities in the southern Nevada desert. And in the Second World War, draft boards exempted brewery workers as essential to the war effort.
The lessons of Okrent's story include: In the fight between law and appetite, bet on appetite. And: Americans then were, and let us hope still are, magnificently ungovernable by elected nuisances.
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Pay no attention to any rabble loitering out in the street, jabbering in some strange foreign tongue. It's funny how we're always told how they have to live in the shadows, but they always seem to find the time to emerge long enough to throw beer bottles at the police.
But don't sweat it, Gov. Brewer. The majority - the vast majority - of Americans are on your side.
We are all Arizonans now. We all live in border states. We are all overwhelmed by this invasion, even in here in Massachusetts, where the illegals take time out from rioting after the World Cup games to converge on the State House on an almost weekly basis. Each time they're brazenly demanding some new handout - more medical care, additional translators, free college tuition, drivers' licenses.
The demonstrations always take place during business hours, even though I thought they were only here to do the jobs Americans won't do - like driving drunk in their unregistered, unlicensed, uninspected, uninsured vehicles.
It's not about immigration. It's about illegal immigration. You cannot have a society where one group is expected to obey the laws, play by the rules, pay taxes and speak a common language, and another group sneaking in and not asking, but demanding, to be given everything, for free, with no consequences whatsoever for any crimes they commit.
Out of control? Last week the feds arrested two Russian spies in Cambridge. They were of course registered to vote. Nobody bothered to inquire about their "papers," because that wouldn't be Politically Correct.
Then a drunk Mexican illegal dressed up in a meringue costume rear-ended a state rep in Brighton. Happy Cinco de Mayo, amigo!
The month before, we celebrated diversity by having a roundup of some illegal Pakistanis who were somehow connected to the would-be Times Square bomber. One of those alleged terror-connected Pakistani cabbies was busted in Boston, home of the meatheads known as the Boston City Council. They passed a resolution demanding a boycott of Arizona.
I guess the Boston City Council is boycotting Boston now that the cabbie was lugged in Allston.
Gov. Brewer, we in Massachusetts support you and Arizona - more than 80 percent on some issues in recent polls. This is why even the Democrat legislature is finally starting to get the message. We can't take care of every foreign layabout who sneaks into this country and either drops an anchor baby or declares himself a political refugee.
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By "in the shadows" they clearly mean places like Old Towne Gaithersburg.
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Big thank you to Boston, the last place I thought would be supportive. She signed the bill eliminating the confusing rules for carrying a gun in this state. Now its easy. She also signed the bill removing the La Raza classes that preached hate, America as an oppressive nation, and revolution against America. She is on a cleanup type roll!
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I liked LeBron before that excessive display of narcissistice overreach the other night (I caught a few minutes while BBQ'g). That was disgusting, and he and ESPN should apologize. Now, I hope the Heat implodes and the starting five rupture their achilles simultaneously
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Alex Jones is a loooooon. Don't care about the NBA at all. I wasn't very good so basketball sucks.
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That was indeed a 5-star rant. He's right about one thing though, the US is in economic Depression.
They've tried to stave it off and make it a rolling depression, making it less intense but longer. There's no escaping it though. New housing starts have fallen off a cliff yet again and nobody is hiring.
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The original picture was much funnier. Though I agree with what was said in the kiddie's post wholeheartedly, the picture (offered by the article posting dialogue box under "gunny") was too funny not to post. Especially after reading the comments at Kos, so please give us a laugh and repost said picture as a comment dear mods.
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The Daily Kos surprises sometimes. I recommend VA Classical Liberal's review of Fear the Boom and Bust, the greatest economics rap video of all time.
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So some of them are capable of learning, amazing what you can find on the internet.
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Phemp, the original pic was from Photobucket; we tend not to post those. I don't have the original. You can e-mail it to me and I can insert it into our database for future use if you want.
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Oh, I see where they're going:
[Reason] No. 5: The Second Amendment is about revolution.
In no other country, at no other time, has such a right existed. It is not the right to hunt. It is not the right to shoot at soda cans in an empty field. It is not even the right to shoot at a home invader in the middle of the night.
It is the right of revolution.
Let me say that again: It is the right of revolution.
Yeah, baby!
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My gawd, I read through several of the replies and came to regret it. Geeze, I wonder what the one rube would do if attacked by a bear in the wilds of Alaska? Since he didn't have a gun I guess he'd just lay back and enjoy the mauling.
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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.
Dear International Soccer Officials, Participants and Fans,
via Daily Kos (not making this up)
