tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55987512009-02-21T04:05:41.231-05:00Narcissistic views on News/Politics"...Megalomaniac genius with severe god-complex"Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comBlogger3538125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168488792163735122007-01-10T22:49:00.000-05:002007-01-11T01:44:49.766-05:00New Addy and new old siteMoved over to the new blogger site and it will take a couple of days to get everything up to speed.
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narbosa.blogspot.comRipclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168486287868011942007-01-10T22:19:00.000-05:002007-01-10T22:34:52.620-05:00Keith Ellison named to the Judiciary Committee.Politics: Here we go, lets give Ellison a nice seat on the committee where he can wreck some havoc on terrorism laws.
WASHINGTON - Rep. Keith Ellison has been named to the House Judiciary Committee, a panel that has oversight over issues such as civil liberties, immigration and courts.
In a prepared statement Wednesday, Ellison, D-Minn., called the selection an honor and privilege.
"I look Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168482002289289752007-01-10T21:17:00.000-05:002007-01-10T21:35:47.246-05:00Sectarian violence in Detroit. Sunni vs Shiites?Culture: This is all we need is to bring that sort of mess over here as Detroit doesn't have a bad enough reputation.
Concerned about the possible spread of sectarian violence in metro Detroit, Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims are set to meet today in a Dearborn Heights mosque to hash out any tensions between the diverse Middle Eastern and Muslim communities.
As Iraqi-American Shi'ites seethed over Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168323244419023832007-01-09T01:12:00.000-05:002007-01-09T01:14:04.476-05:00Australia roiled by Hizb ut-Tahrir conference.Australia: Via the Herald Sun.
THE Federal Government says it is powerless to ban a Muslim group calling for Australia to be taken over as part of an Islamic superstate.
Attorney General Phillip Ruddock said today there was not enough evidence to ban the Hizb ut-Tahrir group despite its continuing call for Australia to become part of a Caliphate or "Khilafah".
The group, already banned across Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168242201775662832007-01-08T02:31:00.000-05:002007-01-08T02:43:21.833-05:00Illegal parents gets $25000 saving bonds from ToysrUs.Politics: Here is the gist of the story.
New Yorkers and Asian-American leaders had reacted with outrage to the retailer's decision to disqualify the Manhattan baby from its 2007 first baby contest.
"How does a company like Toys 'R' Us stick it to a baby on the first day of her life?" asked City Councilman John Liu (D-Queens).
Yuki was born at the stroke of midnight at NYU Downtown Hospital - Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168240920815172372007-01-08T01:41:00.000-05:002007-01-08T02:22:00.876-05:00New Orleans crime rate skyrocketsCrime: They are looking at putting on a curfew.
With at least eight slayings in the city in the first week of the new year, officials are considering a curfew to help stem the violence, the police superintendent said Saturday.
"It's something we're just sort of talking about, to see if that will make a difference," police Superintendent Warren Riley said.
Mayor Ray Nagin, meanwhile, urged Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168198844065744622007-01-07T14:22:00.000-05:002007-01-07T14:40:44.196-05:00UK Islamic preachers teaching hate in moderate mosques.UK: I guess we go from Londonistan to Britistan. Check out the official who has his head in the sand.
A forthcoming Channel 4 Dispatches programme paints an alarming picture of how preachers in some of Britain's most moderate mosques are urging followers to reject British laws in favour of those of Islam. Leaders of the mosques have expressed concern at the preachers' activities, saying they Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168163723155530802007-01-07T04:41:00.001-05:002007-01-07T05:10:18.453-05:0042% of babies born in California to illegals on taxpayer's dime.Nation: That is just in 2004 at taxpayer expense and some of those who come here are getting angry they are paying for some services now. 40% born in San Diego county are too illegals.
NORTH COUNTY ---- A state report quietly released last spring shows illegal immigrants made up the largest single group of those giving birth at taxpayer expense in the state and in San Diego County in 2004.
The Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168156112517515992007-01-06T22:34:00.000-05:002007-01-07T02:48:33.073-05:00CAIR official says Boxer caused death threat.Politics: Even more fallout from Boxer taking away the guy's award.
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- The executive director of the Sacramento chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said he believes a death threat against him was fueled by Senator Barbara Boxer’s actions.
Boxer had commended Basim Elkarra’s chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for the group’s efforts to Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168133435822112192007-01-06T18:43:00.000-05:002007-01-06T20:30:36.406-05:0040 black teenager girls beat on three white women.Crime: The media doesn't want to touch it in that much detail.
As the Press-Telegram reported on November 3, three white women aged 19 to 21 emerged from a “maze” walk in a house and were confronted by up to 40 black teenagers who pelted them with pumpkins and lemons. The paper said, “The taunts and jeers grew more aggressive, the victims recalled, as did the size of the crowd. Now females Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168125503251664402007-01-06T18:11:00.000-05:002007-01-06T18:18:23.310-05:00Spain's bishops fear rise of Islamic KingdomWorld: As Saudi Arabia keeps on funding their own brand of Islam in European countries filling the void.
Spain's bishops are alarmed by ambitious plans to recreate the city of Cordoba - once the heart of the ancient Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus - as a pilgrimage site for Muslims throughout Europe.
Plans include the construction of a half-size replica of Cordoba's eighth century great mosque,Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168113231855586842007-01-06T14:41:00.000-05:002007-01-06T14:53:51.916-05:00How's the Thailand and Spain terrorist appeasment programs?Terrorism: Lets do our weekly tour of appeasment programs around the world. In Thailand, where after a coup the Muslim general in charge went on a charm tour.
A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release information, said the insurgents were suspected of carrying out arson Thursday night on a kindergarten in Pattani's Kapho district and a public Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168111747569392672007-01-06T14:24:00.000-05:002007-01-06T14:29:07.656-05:00More on Boxer and CAIR.Politics: It took a week, but the LATIMES finally got around to the story made by Newsweek.
Sen. Barbara Boxer has rescinded an award her office gave to a Sacramento Islamic activist after criticism that the group he represents — the Council on American-Islamic Relations — holds extremist views and has ties to international terrorist organizations.
"I'm saying the four words that every elected Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168070011953136662007-01-06T02:49:00.000-05:002007-01-06T02:53:32.016-05:00Inventor of instant noodles dies.Culture: Respect to this man, in need of a quick snack/meal it has done the job many times.
Momofuku Ando, the founder-chairman of Nissin Food Products Co, who was widely known as the inventor of instant noodles, died of a heart failure this evening at a hospital in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, his family said. He was 96.
Born on March 5, 1910 in Taiwan, Ando initially ran clothing companies in Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1168069159768266012007-01-05T20:25:00.000-05:002007-01-06T02:39:20.386-05:00Keith Ellison sends a warning to President Bush.Politics: There is a certain amount of arrogance that comes from him that is amusing.
Kessler:
Do you support the impeachment of the president because of this?
Ellison:
Well, Pat, let me tell you this. I certainly think that the facts are available. I think that it's certainly justifiable. I certainly think that there is ample reason to do so.
But the leadership, the speaker has said, that itRipclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1167984442651883002007-01-05T03:05:00.000-05:002007-01-05T03:07:22.736-05:00Tijuana police force to turn over weaponsMexico: As 3000 mexican soliders and federal agents arrive to try and clean up the place.
TIJUANA – The city's entire 2,300-member municipal police force has been ordered to turn in its weapons, leaving doubt Thursday about who would be patrolling this city of more than 1.5 million residents.
The surprise directive from Mexico's Defense Secretariat comes a day after President Felipe Calderon Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1167965618387977252007-01-04T21:49:00.000-05:002007-01-04T21:53:38.446-05:00Jim Lampley is a woman beater?Crime: TMZ has the reports as Candice Sanders, Miss Cali 2003 says a drunk and high Lampley beat her up with his son in the apartment.
Lampley out on $35,500 bail says the charges are not true. Given he put himself out there as a nutty liberal who believes weird political conspiracies on the Huffington Post He could always blame the neo-cons.Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1167962767637374472007-01-04T20:51:00.000-05:002007-01-04T21:06:07.696-05:00More on the Minneapolis Muslim Taxi Drivers.Culture: As noted earlier last year, the Muslim American Society is behind this push to enforce their beliefs on the entire airport.
Last year, the airports commission received a fatwa, or religious edict, from the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society. The fatwa said that "Islamic jurisprudence" prohibits taxi drivers from carrying passengers with alcohol, "because it involves Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1167961418646381572007-01-04T20:08:00.000-05:002007-01-04T20:43:38.736-05:00Keith Ellison lying about Jefferson's Quran?Culture: Ellison had this to say about his use of the Quran owned by Thomas Jefferson.
Ellison said an anonymous person wrote him about the Qur’an, and he arranged with the Library of Congress to use it. The chief of the Library of Congress’ rare book and special collections division, Mark Dimunation, walked the Quran across the street to the Capitol and brought it back after the ceremony.
on Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1167897142413628372007-01-04T02:40:00.000-05:002007-01-04T02:52:22.486-05:00Creating babies with defectsCulture: In a word if parents are doing this ....Sick.
Creating made-to-order babies with genetic defects would seem to be an ethical minefield, but to some parents with disabilities — say, deafness or dwarfism — it just means making babies like them.
And a recent survey of U.S. clinics that offer embryo screening suggests it’s already happening.
Three percent, or 4 clinics surveyed, said theyRipclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1167895673296864782007-01-04T02:19:00.000-05:002007-01-04T02:27:53.466-05:00Arab democracies : Accept the terrorists!Middle East: A Hamas/Hezzo lover throws down on Guardian Comment blog.
The duplicitous nature of international involvement in the region's affairs was unashamedly evident when the Lebanese opposition groups upped the ante in the face of the western-backed Lebanese government's refusal of the opposition's original demand for a national unity government. The opposition is now demanding Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1167888250038726982007-01-03T23:34:00.000-05:002007-01-04T02:58:47.876-05:00Minneapolis-St. Paul airport refuses Muslim prayer room.Politics: This is a curious reaction by some Somali leaders/groups because of the flying imans want to have a Muslim only prayer room.
Somali immigrants passing through Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport want a private place to say Muslim prayers. The airport suggests they share a room with people of other religions.
Like a new couple learning to dance, immigrants and their adopted Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1167885204986544452007-01-03T22:37:00.000-05:002007-01-03T23:33:25.046-05:00Minny-St. Paul airport to crack down on Somali driversCulture: Minny airport had enough of this and finally going to point out that the drivers are providing a public service and their refusal hurts the entire airport business and image-wise.
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport wants to crack down on Muslim taxi drivers who refuse to carry alcohol or service dogs in their cabs.
At a meeting Wednesday of the Metropolitan Airports Commission, Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1167806760064786002007-01-03T01:42:00.000-05:002007-01-03T01:46:00.146-05:00Mexico gives out GPS to illegals crossing the border.Immigration: Mexico isn't encouraging people at all to break our laws. At what point do we treat Mexico something other than an "ally?"
Illegal immigrants planning to cross the desert and enter the US on foot are to be given hand-held satellite devices by the Mexican authorities to ensure they arrive safely.
Those who get lost or fall sick during the dangerous four-day crossing will be able toRipclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598751.post-1167792378257121652007-01-02T21:25:00.000-05:002007-01-02T22:55:59.953-05:00Twin Cities governments to stop background checks.Bidness: Why do liberal cities come up with the dumbest set of laws? In this case the idea behind this is to give people convicted of crimes a second chance by not checking on their background until they are qualified for the job. The usual way is on the application, you check a box and list your past offenses. The Twin cities decided to set an example for private businesses.
Both cities took Ripclawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05424617854869811664noreply@blogger.com