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— Eartha Kit (@alouise1962) June 6, 2018
Taiwan, China, and other things. Recovered from the defunct TypePad platform.
Happy Ramadan pic.twitter.com/kJfMcza0ci
— Eartha Kit (@alouise1962) June 6, 2018
Say what you want about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev…but the man DID kill one of the Tsarnaev brothers.
Q: What's the last thing that went through Tamerlan Tsarnaev's head? A: Dzhokhar's muffler.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 15, 2015
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Although this was a pretty strong contender, too:
My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.
— Evan Sayet (@EvanSayet) May 4, 2015
For those who not keeping score:
First Amendment 1 Second Amendment 1 Jihad 0
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 4, 2015
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Fortunately, our betters have instructed us not to get on our high horses about things like this ISIS video anymore.
Because they're just a JV team, and have nothing to do with Islam, and, and, well — the Crusades were pretty bad too, maaaan!
(Targets don't seem quite so random to those in the crosshairs. ISIS video screenshot reproduced via The Times of Israel)
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Pretty serious charge. The prosecutor better damn well have the goods.
UPDATE (Jan 19/15): The prosecutor is found dead of an apparent suicide, hours before he was to appear before Argentina's parliament.
Fortunately, there's nothing in the least-bit suspicious in all of this.
UPDATE (Jan 21/15): No powder residue found on the hands of the prosecutor who is said to have committed suicide.
UPDATE (Jan 22/15): More than one entrance to site of the apparent suicide, and two were unlocked.
UPDATE (Feb 13/15): President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is charged with covering-up the 1994 bombing of the Jewish center. More here.
Osama bin Laden bites the big one.
Word is that the U.S. government expects terrorist reprisals against Westerners. Best then to keep an eye out for Taliban supporters within Taiwan's Chinese Nationalist Party . . .
Shariah law. What's not to like?
The actual footage can be found here. But as provincial Thuggee Arshad Abdullah says, "Let's not judge our deal by this video."
UPDATE (Apr 8/09): A reaction to the video at Forbes.
Heh. George "Freedom of speech is not an absolute" Galloway applauds the British government for denying entry to Geert Wilders — then cries like a baby when the Canadian government denies entry to HIM.
UPDATE (Apr 4/09): Will the REAL Mr. Galloway please stand up? Galloway's lawyers now argue that "free expression is the matrix of every other freedom."
A few days ago, the Pakistani government blocked its citizens from accessing YouTube, although it couldn’t quite settle on a single excuse for the move. After Pakistan reversed its decision, the press attempted to contact the management of YouTube about the brouhaha:
YouTube was not immediately available to confirm whether it had removed the material, which the [Pakistan Telecommunications Authority] said was controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that were republished by Danish newspapers earlier this month. [emphasis added]
However, a story from a day later suggested the Paks had a different reason:
The [Pakistan Telecommunications Authority] told Internet service providers to restore access to the site on Tuesday afternoon after removing a video featuring a Dutch lawmaker who has said he plans to release a movie portraying Islam as fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals. [emphasis added]
So, their story is that they censored YouTube because of the Mohammed Cartoons. Or Geert Wilders’ movie trailer. Whatever. And that they unblocked YouTube when the "offensive" clips were removed.
Now, far be it from me to tell journalists how to do their job, but uh, instead of taking the Pakistani government at their word about this (or going through the trouble of contacting the big bosses of YouTube), shouldn’t they have checked YouTube’s website to see if this stuff was actually deleted?
It really isn’t THAT hard to do:
www.youtube.com ==> Search Term: Danish Mohammed Cartoons
This brings up 77 related entries (as of this posting). Since I’m a lazy, lazy man, I can’t be bothered to page through all of them. But glancing at the list, I notice this YouTube clip has the Mohammed cartoons. And so does this one. And this one.
The Pakistani government can claim that YouTube surrendered all they like. As I’ve demonstrated, the evidence would appear to suggest otherwise.
Moving along, let’s see what happens when we look for Geert Wilders’ movie trailer:
www.youtube.com ==> Search Term: Geert Wilders
Holy smokes, 615 entries? Sure, plenty of those are probably video responses by people who either love or hate the man. Nonetheless, the FIRST PAGE features the trailer here, as well as Part 1 of his interview about the movie. (And though it may seem like piling on, Part 2 is here, as well.)
Once more for the record: these aren’t recent additions. They’ve been on YouTube for 1-2 months.
No matter how you slice it, Pakistan’s government LIED about YouTube taking down "blasphemous" material – no ifs, ands or buts. Strange the AP was uninterested in informing its readers about that little tidbit.
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It’s official: Sudanese Muslims have now reduced their religion to Monty Python sketch material.
"Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Prophet…. Our *four*…no… *Amongst* our weapons…. Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise…. I’ll come in again."