[NYPOST] The city councilman who bungled his way into federal bribery charges is also a total bonehead in his kooky heathen religion -- whose members wear medieval garb, make sacrifices to multiple gods and compete in combat games.
Dan Halloran (R-Queens) -- who was arrested Tuesday as the suspected bag man in state Sen. Malcolm Smith's alleged plot to buy his way onto the mayoral ticket -- has been publicly flogged and lost a spear-throwing contest as part of his Theodish punishments.
Halloran converted in the 1980s from Catholicism to the pre-Christian Germanic religion, whose believers drink mead or whiskey from horns and dress like characters in a Renaissance fair.
He learned about their tough disciplinary code when he committed an undisclosed act against a female "thrall" -- or probationary servant.
He was stripped to his waist, strapped to a tree and flogged with a belt 11 times.
So he was no longer enthralled...
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Halloran converted in the 1980s from Catholicism to the pre-Christian Germanic religion, whose believers drink mead or whiskey from horns and dress like characters in a Renaissance fair.
The Nobel Peace Prize that Champ received 40 months ago has emerged as the most appalling Orwellian award of this century. No, war is not peace.
George Carlin used to riff about oxymorons like "jumbo shrimp," "genuine imitation," "political science" and "military intelligence." But humor is of the gallows sort when we consider the absurdity and tragedy of the world's most important peace prize honoring the world's top war maker.
This week, a challenge has begun with the launch of a petition urging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to revoke Obama's Peace Prize. By midnight of the first day, nearly 10,000 people had signed. The online petition simply tells the Nobel committee: "I urge you to rescind the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Champ."
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Remind me again what he actually DID to merit a Whatsis Piss Prize.
He's the Messiah, right? ( yeah, that's the ticket )
And he's gonna bring us Hope and Change. AND he has frizzy hair if that floats your boat. There are so many "young" people and black people and people who stare at television who need someone to represent them. Naive walmart buttcrack people who drive Volvos. But, hey, Kerry got to be head of the State Department. That's somethin'.....
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in the footsteps of: racist loon Desmond Tutu, Arafat, the EU, climate liars IPCC and AlGore, Jimmy Carter, IAEA and El Baradei, serial liar Rigoberta Menchú, ....
he's a perfect fit
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Not heard much jaw wagging of late from Arch-Druid Desmond, the champion of African faith-based social justice. I certainly hope he is well.
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...in the footsteps of: racist loon Desmond Tutu, Arafat, the EU, climate liars IPCC and AlGore, Jimmy Carter, IAEA and El Baradei, serial liar Rigoberta Menchú, ....
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In the defense of Le Duc Tho, he refused his award. He may have been a blood-soaked doctrinaire Communist thug, but he wasn't a total hypocrite like Kissinger.
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..the point is the decision making process and team awarding the prize at all as reflected in the selections.
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Actually, I think the Peace Prize looks good on Champ's mantel. They deserve each other. And it serves as a reminder to others of the Prize's true value.
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Since Nobel invented TNT maybe the prize was actually properly given to all of these warmongers and we've just taken the wrong meaning of the name.
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In looking over the winners during my lifetime, only a very few truly deserved it: Mother Teresa, Norman Borlaug,George Marshall, Lech Wałęsa,and a few others.
Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and John Paul II should have gotten it for bringing down the Soviet Union and preventing WWIII.
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This was a great fraudulent selection:
THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) , Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr.
[An Nahar] President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... will make key concessions to Republican foes next week when he unveils his U.S. budget that proposes cuts to cherished entitlement programs, the White House said Friday.
Obama's fiscal blueprint slashes the deficit by $1.8 trillion over 10 years, in what a senior administration official described as a "compromise offer" that cuts federal spending, finds savings in Social Security and raises tax revenue from the wealthy.
Republicans led by House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... are opposed to new tax hikes, after the president secured $600 billion in increased tax revenue in a year-end deal.
Boehner's party controls the House of Representatives, and passage of the president's budget is unlikely if it contains new tax revenue provisions.
But Obama's concession to conservatives in the form of reduced cost-of-living payouts for Social Security benefits could revive consideration of a deficit-reducing "grand bargain" that has proved elusive in recent years.
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...which will then be known as the "Republican Entitlement Cuts" and used to frighten the faithful.
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..And yes he will blame the slash-cut which forces seniors, children, and puppy dogs to eat stale cat food on the Evil Republicans.
...and yet funding will still be above 2008 levels when these things never occurred. The minions of the Ministry of Truth will make sure no one remembers that little data point.
Saving the country's budget, one non-hire at a time. Imagine what he could have done had he been elected the country's chief executive officer in 2004!
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Presumably the folks who actually do the work for the political appointees in the assistant secretarial offices are still carrying the load. Insofar as anyone actually gets anything done in those offices, I dunno.
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Why is this a problem? Kerry is so smart, he can do it all. He served in Viet Nam, after all.
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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.
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