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February 25, 2012
Is that a Halibut in your pocket, or you happy to see me?
A very important message for riders on the Dubai metro system
man, the stuff I find on Twitter
funny subway sign
Is that a Halibut in your pocket, or you happy to see me?
A very important message for riders on the Dubai metro system
man, the stuff I find on Twitter
February 22, 2012
(CBS News)
Former Senator Alan Simpson had some choice words for his one time colleague, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.
"I know Santorum, I served with him," he said. "He is rigid and a homophobic. He believes that gays and lesbians, he mentioned in an interview in 2003, about bestiality, and gays and lesbians. I think that's disgusting," said Simpson.
The former three-term Republican senator from Wyoming, who has always been known for both his candor and his ability to work across party lines, said Republicans are hurting themselves by focusing on social issues. <snip>
Alan Simpson: Santorum is rigid and disgusting
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57382599/santorum-homophobic-former-senator-says/(CBS News)
Former Senator Alan Simpson had some choice words for his one time colleague, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.
"I know Santorum, I served with him," he said. "He is rigid and a homophobic. He believes that gays and lesbians, he mentioned in an interview in 2003, about bestiality, and gays and lesbians. I think that's disgusting," said Simpson.
The former three-term Republican senator from Wyoming, who has always been known for both his candor and his ability to work across party lines, said Republicans are hurting themselves by focusing on social issues. <snip>
February 19, 2012
Ayatollah Santorum Excommunicates Obama, Mainstream Protestants
02/19/2012 by Juan Cole
Rick Santorum attacked President Obama on Saturday for his theology. Although people assumed that Santorum was, like other conservatives, hinting around that Obama is not a Christian but rather a secret Muslim, Santorum denied this allegation. And, likely he meant instead to lump Obama with the 45 million members of mainline Protestant churches in the US who he considers to be pagans. You see, for Santorum, Methodists and Lutherans and Episcopalians may as well be Muslims, since he does not believe that they are Christians.
What is remarkable is that it is Santorum who sounds like a Muslim fundamentalist. And ultimately maybe what he is saying is that Obama isn’t Muslim enough.
Santorum told his audience in Ohio that Obama’s policy is “not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phoney ideal, some phoney theology — not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology.” <snip>
http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/ayatollah-santorum-excommunicates-obama-mainstream-protestants.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+juancole/ymbn+%28Informed+Comment%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo
Ayatollah Santorum Excommunicates Obama
Ayatollah Santorum Excommunicates Obama, Mainstream Protestants
02/19/2012 by Juan Cole
Rick Santorum attacked President Obama on Saturday for his theology. Although people assumed that Santorum was, like other conservatives, hinting around that Obama is not a Christian but rather a secret Muslim, Santorum denied this allegation. And, likely he meant instead to lump Obama with the 45 million members of mainline Protestant churches in the US who he considers to be pagans. You see, for Santorum, Methodists and Lutherans and Episcopalians may as well be Muslims, since he does not believe that they are Christians.
What is remarkable is that it is Santorum who sounds like a Muslim fundamentalist. And ultimately maybe what he is saying is that Obama isn’t Muslim enough.
Santorum told his audience in Ohio that Obama’s policy is “not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phoney ideal, some phoney theology — not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology.” <snip>
http://www.juancole.com/2012/02/ayatollah-santorum-excommunicates-obama-mainstream-protestants.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+juancole/ymbn+%28Informed+Comment%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo
February 17, 2012
Khader Adnan: The West Bank's Bobby Sands
Khader Adnan's two-month hunger strike has made him a hero among Palestinians outraged by Israel's policy of arbitrary detention
It was only after talking with lucidity and animation for an hour about her husband's 61-day hunger strike that Randa Jihad Adnan's eyes, visible though the opening of her nekab, filled with tears. Until then, this articulate 31-year-old graduate in sharia law from Al Najar University in Nablus, the pregnant mother of two young daughters aged four and one and half, had described with almost disconcerting poise the two months following the arrest of her husband, Khader Adnan, on 17 December.
He was seized at 3.30am by some of the scores of Israeli military and security personnel who surrounded the family home in a West Bank village south of Jenin, and is now being held in the Israeli Rebecca Ziv hospital in Safed. On Wednesday she was allowed to visit him with the children and her father-in-law. (more)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/khader-adnan-the-west-banks-bobby-sands-6988943.html
(and if you are asking "who was Bobby Sands?" He was an Irish poet and activist who died in a hunger strike in 1981 in prison during "the troubles" in Ireland) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands
The West Bank's Bobby Sands
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/khader-adnan-the-west-banks-bobby-sands-6988943.htmlKhader Adnan: The West Bank's Bobby Sands
Khader Adnan's two-month hunger strike has made him a hero among Palestinians outraged by Israel's policy of arbitrary detention
It was only after talking with lucidity and animation for an hour about her husband's 61-day hunger strike that Randa Jihad Adnan's eyes, visible though the opening of her nekab, filled with tears. Until then, this articulate 31-year-old graduate in sharia law from Al Najar University in Nablus, the pregnant mother of two young daughters aged four and one and half, had described with almost disconcerting poise the two months following the arrest of her husband, Khader Adnan, on 17 December.
He was seized at 3.30am by some of the scores of Israeli military and security personnel who surrounded the family home in a West Bank village south of Jenin, and is now being held in the Israeli Rebecca Ziv hospital in Safed. On Wednesday she was allowed to visit him with the children and her father-in-law. (more)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/khader-adnan-the-west-banks-bobby-sands-6988943.html
(and if you are asking "who was Bobby Sands?" He was an Irish poet and activist who died in a hunger strike in 1981 in prison during "the troubles" in Ireland) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Sands
February 17, 2012
Why I Fought in the Libyan Civil War
by Matthew VanDyke
If I die, please tell your friends about me. On February 25, 2011 when my friend Muiz made this request, the revolution against Gaddafi had been going on for a week. On the streets fighting…fighting with hands…but we have no guns…people dying for Libya. His brother in law had already been killed, and Muiz was resolved to die as well. You have to know something, we Libyans aren’t scared to die anymore. I love Libya and I don’t want anything to happen to it. I will die for it.
I never imagined having such a conversation with a friend on the internet. The last time I saw Muiz in Tripoli he was happy, smiling, and carefree, a computer engineer and fellow motorcycle enthusiast with his whole life ahead of him. Now his city was under siege by the mad man Gaddafi, one of the worst dictators of our time, and Muiz’s world was being destroyed.
Muiz was part of a group of a dozen Libyan bikers who had become good friends of mine during my time in Tripoli in 2008. Hitem was their leader, a heavy-set, jovial biker with a heart of gold and smile always on his face. He was a master mechanic, and lived and breathed motorcycles. I asked Muiz if he had talked to Hitem. He said he tried to call him but there was no answer. ~more~
Why I Fought in the Libyan Civil War
http://blog.matthewvandyke.com/2012/02/17/why-i-fought-in-the-libyan-civil-war-2/Why I Fought in the Libyan Civil War
by Matthew VanDyke
If I die, please tell your friends about me. On February 25, 2011 when my friend Muiz made this request, the revolution against Gaddafi had been going on for a week. On the streets fighting…fighting with hands…but we have no guns…people dying for Libya. His brother in law had already been killed, and Muiz was resolved to die as well. You have to know something, we Libyans aren’t scared to die anymore. I love Libya and I don’t want anything to happen to it. I will die for it.
I never imagined having such a conversation with a friend on the internet. The last time I saw Muiz in Tripoli he was happy, smiling, and carefree, a computer engineer and fellow motorcycle enthusiast with his whole life ahead of him. Now his city was under siege by the mad man Gaddafi, one of the worst dictators of our time, and Muiz’s world was being destroyed.
Muiz was part of a group of a dozen Libyan bikers who had become good friends of mine during my time in Tripoli in 2008. Hitem was their leader, a heavy-set, jovial biker with a heart of gold and smile always on his face. He was a master mechanic, and lived and breathed motorcycles. I asked Muiz if he had talked to Hitem. He said he tried to call him but there was no answer. ~more~
February 14, 2012
Combined Systems Inc. hacked by Anonymous
Hackers Claim Attack on American Tear Gas Company
February 14, 2012 (AP)
Hackers loyal to the Anonymous movement say they've broken into the website of a U.S. tear gas company whose ammunition has been used against demonstrators in Egypt and elsewhere.
In an Internet statement, the hackers alleged Combined Systems are war profiteers who sell "mad chemical weapons to militaries and cop shops around the world."
The hackers also claimed to have stolen and published personal information belonging to clients and employees of the Jamestown, Pennsylvania-based firm.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hackers-claim-attack-american-tear-gas-company-15579671#.TzpK8oHxsyJ
they left them the following message:
http://www.cyberwarnews.info/2012/02/14/combined-systems-webservers-defaced-and-wiped-rmd-by-anonymous/
February 13, 2012
The scale of the Universe
cool graphic
http://images.4channel.org/f/src/589217_scale_of_universe_enhanced.swf
February 11, 2012
incredible bravery and one lucky little boy
Tweet from Andy Carvin @acarvin
Syria: Incredible bravery. One lucky kid. Man rescue a child today from sniper bullets
February 10, 2012
"Here... humanity stumbled"
Tweet from Andy Carvin of NPR. @acarvin
Large protest in Syria with a giant map of the country painted on the ground. It reads "Here... humanity stumbled".
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