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  1. Meet the Bully Who Heckled Bristol Palin. (Video at link.)
    “Because too many of us have become desensitized to the vile attacks thrown at the Palin family on an almost daily basis, you have to sometimes imagine these things happening to someone else in order to fully to comprehend just how awful and ugly they are. Imagine it wasn’t 21 year-old Bristol Palin in that bar being heckled by a Hollywood bully, but instead it was one of Barack Obama’s beautiful young daughters being raged against by a tea partier:
    “Your mother’s a whore!” “She’s evil!” “Your mother’s the f***ing Devil!”
    “This is unthinkable … and yet it happened.”
    Read the rest here.

  2. the religion of peace reaches out the hand of kindness….and slaps a child
    ABBOTTABAD — It may have been a mere misplaced dot that led to accusations of blasphemy against a Christian eighth-grader, whose miniscule error led to her expulsion from school and uproar amongst local religious leaders.
    Faryal Bhatti, a student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) colony Havelian, erroneously misspelt a word in an Urdu exam while answering a question on a poem written in praise of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). The word in question was ‘laanat’ instead of ‘naat’ – an easy error for a child to make, as the written versions of the words are similar.
    According to the school administration and religious leaders who took great exception to the hapless student’s mistake, the error is ‘serious’ enough to fall within the realm of blasphemy, Saturday.
    On Thursday, Faryal’s Urdu teacher was collecting the answer sheets from her students when she noticed the apparently offensive word on her pupil’s sheet. The teacher, Fareeda Bibi, reportedly summoned the Christian girl, scolded her and beat her. Her punishment, however, did not end here. When Faryal’s class fellows learnt of the alleged blasphemy, the teacher brought the principal’s notice to the matter, who further informed the school management.
    In the meanwhile, the news spread throughout the colony. The next day, male students of the POF colony school as well as certain religious elements took out a rally, demanding the registration of a criminal case against the eighth-grader and her expulsion from the area.
    Prayer leaders within the community also condemned the incident in their Friday sermons, asking the colony’s administration to not only take action against Faryal but her entire family. In the wake of the increasing tensions, Managing Director POF Colony Havelian Asif Siddiki called a meeting of colony-based ulemas and school teachers to discuss the situation. The girl and her mother were asked to appear before the meeting, where they explained that it was a mere error, caused by a resemblance between the two words. The two immediately apologised, adding that Faryal had no malicious intentions.

  3. “Smile, Darn ya’, Smile”. Some of my generation still enjoy big band music. Even one of my son-in-laws has a small big band library.
    I am thinking that the economic conditions in 1930 are similar to the economic conditions today.

  4. for all you fans of royalty and all that entails:
    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/former-governor-general-adrienne-clarkson-still-costing-taxpayers-165917954.html
    when is the harpoon going to do something about this?
    is it really the 25th already? how time flies when you’re having fun.
    to Bemused: how much does the reaction have to do with Islam and how much of it has to do with happening in a shythole country like Pakiland?

  5. Per Ardua Ad Astra: Motto of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
    A Salute to Lieutenant-Colonel William G. Barker, VC.
    RIP.
    Lest We Forget.
    “Fellow ace Billy Bishop VC called him “the deadliest air fighter who ever lived.””
    …-
    “Canada’s most-decorated war hero finally gets his due”
    “Billy Bishop – please, step aside.
    Canada’s most celebrated fighter pilot is about to share the podium with another, much less heralded First World War hero – Lieutenant-Colonel William G. Barker, VC.
    According to the wording on a plaque being unveiled Thursday in Toronto’s Mount Pleasant Cemetery, it is Mr. Barker, not Mr. Bishop, who stands as “most decorated war hero in the history of Canada, the British Empire, and the Commonwealth of Nations.””
    ““He shot down 50 planes, was decorated 12 times for bravery, won the Victoria Cross while single-handedly fighting off 15 enemy aircraft in the final aerial battle of the war, and was wounded three times.
    “Later, he started the first commercial airline service in Canada, delivered the first piece of airmail in human history, was the first director of the Royal Canadian Air Force, the first president of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and the first to make a transcontinental flight, from Toronto’s Leaside to New York City.””
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadas-most-decorated-war-hero-finally-gets-his-due/article2175383/

  6. Re Palins daughter attacked by Stephen Hanks.
    Another name to watch out for.
    A REAL man would have steped in,and kicked this bully’s arse.
    BUT this occured in LA where even men are make believe….

  7. CBC reports, er, exagerates the number of anti-pipeline protesters in Parly Hill…over at SUN News network is a poll worth voting on…sorry can’t post the link…

  8. PM Harper knows and tells us:
    “*We know what the problem is right now. There are literally trillions of dollars sitting on the sidelines throughout the western world”.
    Da proof:
    >>> “I wouldn’t tell my clients to put money to work until we see it,” said Rebecca Patterson, chief market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. ”
    “Europe Stews on Greece, and Markets Sweat Out the Wait”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/business/global/greece-awaits-votes-on-rescue-package-in-euro-crisis.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
    …-
    *PM Harper:
    “*Canada vulnerable to global downturn, Harper warns”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/25/canada-vulnerable-to-global-downturn-harper-warns/

  9. O’s Restaurant.
    Specialty: Warren’s Buffet featuring fresh gaffe.
    (No janitors allowed)
    …-
    “Obama gaffe: President says billionaires should pay ‘Jew’ tax rate”
    O: ““If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew — as a janitor — makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that as a badge of honor.””
    http://merriemarie.amplify.com/2011/09/26/obama-gaffe-president-says-billionaires-should-pay-%E2%80%98jew%E2%80%99-tax-rate/
    VIDEO: http://thedc.com/pubS03#ooid=JsNTF1MjrmzA5eR0RrzYPBVawOARY4FF

  10. // Imagine it wasn’t 21 year-old Bristol Palin in that bar being heckled by a Hollywood bully, but instead it was one of Barack Obama’s beautiful young daughters //
    Some obvious differences. S. Palin has traded on her family, [& Family], as part of her political posture — she puts them out there. And Bristol has traded on this to make herself a celebrity Obama’s daughters are much younger & Obama very early on annouced that he would do his damnedest to protect his daughters from that kind of exposure.
    Still, I agree that this is offensive. And the best statement of a better course is Obama’s own, when he cautioned his own supporters during his campaign
    , “Let me be as clear as possible. I think people’s families are off-limits, and people’s children are especially off-limits. This shouldn’t be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin’s performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president.”
    Perhaps thinking ahead.
    Note – a bit of unfinished business — http://www.scribd.com/doc/65090978/CPB

  11. Recession used by NYSlimes 6 times; but, not in its headline where “slump” is deployed.
    Must be a “deep recession”, right?
    It’s O’s deep recession.
    Can you find O’s name?
    …-
    “Slump Alters Jobless Map in U.S., With South Hit Hard”
    “When the unemployment rate rose in most states last month, it underscored the extent to which the deep recession, the anemic recovery and the lingering crisis of joblessness are beginning to reshape the nation’s economic map.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/us/unrelenting-downturn-is-redrawing-americas-economic-map.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

  12. “BBC Speechless As Trader Tells Truth: “The Collapse Is Coming…And Goldman Rules The World”
    “In an interview on BBC News this morning that left the hosts gob-smacked (google it… it is the BBC after all), Alessio Rastani outlines in a mere three-and-a-half-minutes what we all know and most ignore. While the whole interview is worth watching, the money shot for us was “This economic crisis is like a cancer, if you just wait and wait hoping it is going to go away, just like a cancer it is going to grow and it will be too late!”. While he dreams of recessions, sees Goldman ruling the world, and urges people to prepare, it is hard to disagree with much (or actually anything) of what he says and obviously interventions and machinations means we will have days like this (in Silver for instance), there is only one endgame here and we hope there is less hopeful euphoria (and more preparedness) as we pull back the curtain further and further.
    While we do not know who this trader is, one thing we can be 100% certain of is that he will never appear on CNBC.”
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bbc-speechless-trader-tells-truth-collapse-comingand-goldman-rules-world
    …-
    “Trader on the BBC says Eurozone Market will crash – YouTube
    12 hours ago … In a scary and painfully frank interview a freaked out BBC interviewer is visibly shaken when market trader Alessio Rastani predicts that the …”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC19fEqR5bA

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