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A Sri Lankan woman could face the death penalty by beheading after she was arrested on suspicion of casting a spell on a 13-year-old girl during a family shopping trip, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. The daily Okaz reported that a Saudi man had complained his daughter had 'suddenly started acting in an abnormal way, and that happened after she came close to the Sri Lankan woman' in a shopping mall in the port city of Jeddah. "He reported her to the security forces, asking for her arrest and the specialised units dealt with the situation swiftly and succeeded in arresting her", Okaz reported.

Pinched for cash, the University of Florida is cutting the Computer Science department.

Gators wear jean shorts.

Which classical character are you?

From Vox Popoli.

> SDH.....Odyssues??? WTF. I hate water! Gotta go back and try the wussy answers. heh

"Many heads will ache,when tomorrow starts to break,but today is election day"

Where do you find this stuff? Thanks.

And another one bites the dust.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134092/Gaia-scientist-James-Lovelock-I-alarmist-climate-change.html

heh

Re: Alberta election day.

If you're my age, you may recall that on election night, in rural areas, people often burned a straw dummy in front of their neighbour's house following an election victory.
One old farmer once told me that he had made a straw dummy that was supposed to look like Tommy Douglas, complete with blue coveralls and a straw hat, for the 1944 election in Sask. He also told me that, "The dummy stayed in the attic of the garage until 1964 when Thatcher beat the NDP. But by then, the mice had eaten Tommy."

How would you build a dummy that looks like Danielle??

PS: Bob Wills

His best song was "Keeper of my Heart." Thanks EBD.

Re: "Keeper of my Heart" by Bob Wills.

To all the broken hearts in Alberta, may God keep your heart intact. Enjoy the song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q815GyzUY3s&feature=player_detailpage

"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest." - Stephen Schneider, lead author of many IPCC reports

"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen." - Sir John Houghton, first chairman of IPCC

"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true." - Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace

"We've got to ride this global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic and environmental policy." - Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation

"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." - Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment

"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." - emeritus professor Daniel Botkin

"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" - Maurice Strong, founder of the UN Environment Program

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=27941

Dear Kate;

What went wrong?

I have a two part theory as to why the love affair with Daniel was not consummated. Too many voters could not hold their nose and vote for a bad local Wildrose candidate.

Barring electoral fraud, I think a lot of voters faced the dilemna I did: Voting for a WRP candidate who I wouldn't trust to walk my dog (even though he didn't go to the same madrassa as Barry O.). Like me, Alberta voters thought, based on the polling results, that the WRP would win every where else so it's ok to vote for the local PC candidate who is a good guy, or, at least for someone other than the local WRP candidate.

I just couldn't vote for the guy.

The other possibility is pollster incompetency! That couldn't be, could it?

Anyhow, I vow to get involved and make sure I have a quality Wildrose candidate to vote for next time. Five years of Red Allie. I just can't fathom it -- may have to move to Saskatchewan.

There are a few westerners that owe us real conservatives in Ontario apologies.
What you've seen happen in Alberta yesterday is the same media driven nightmare we've endured since Mike Harris.
Some of the vitriol spewed at Ontario during this campaign by many here was beyond the pale.
Maybe us conservative fighters in Ontario can now start laughing at Alberta like you've so viciously snickered at us.
Welcome to our nightmare, we'll try to show more class.

Further to doowleb. I live in the riding that was Ed Broadbents for years. It as been solidly conservative at bot the provincial and federal level for as long as I can remember since that time. (Colin Kerry fed, and Jerry Ouellette prov.) In Ontario, its Toronto that's the problem.

Mao Stlong* Lepolt.

Mao say, solly fol the deray.

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"China delays plans for carbon trading scheme"

"Plans to launch a national emissions trading scheme in 2015 have instead been delayed until at least 2016, according to the project's top official."

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/China-delays-plans-for-carbon-trading-scheme-pd20120423-TMQ7B?OpenDocument&src=hp6

*Liberal leader Rae's uncle Maurice Strong, c/o Red China.

CBC ran a big fear mongering story this morning about the Arctic ice sheets melting, blah, blah, the usual stuff.

The highlight of the piece was the reporter interviewing some prof who has sailed ships to "both the North and South Poles.

I wonder how he got his ship thousands of km inland and uphill almost 10,000 feet to get to that South Pole?

Our CBC. . . . Only the most professional level of journalism under with our money.

Chris Matthews' brain tumour* acting up again:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/04/23/chris_matthews_calls_republican_party_the_grand_wizard_crowd.html

*Shaidle's explanation for whatever's wrong with the guy, and the best theory I've heard.

Justice for Trayvon! Well, nobody could have predicted this.

*Fishing* around for the elusive 'evidence'...

"The Ekos survey was commissioned by the Council of Canadians and performed in mid-April in the seven ridings where the advocacy group is now seeking new elections."

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120424/robocalls-ekos-poll-council-canadians-120424/#ixzz1szPhg9Et

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120424/robocalls-ekos-poll-council-canadians-120424/

From the article :

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120424/robocalls-ekos-poll-council-canadians-120424

While all party supporters were more likely than Conservatives to receive the calls in the ridings in question, Liberal supporters were three times more likely to receive a misleading call than Conservative supporters, the study found.

That's interesting... you couldn't possibly conclude the NDP would be responsible based on that tidbit could you?

Ekos says its results are accurate to within plus or minus 1.7 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Re: "Now that's justice for Trayvon!" (12:38), I remember watching TV coverage of the trial of the (black) men who, in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict, pulled (white) trucker Reginald Denny out of his truck and beat him with chunks of concrete, collapsing his skull. When a reporter asked the mother of one of the men what she would say to Denny if she ever met him, she said "I'd tell him 'now you know what it's like to be black.'"

the sad part is...with 'bama at the helm...I'm not sure iran isn't just babbling foolishness about the US Navy 'submitting to inspection'

NICOSIA — In the first such claim, Iran said it was imposing a blockade on
unauthorized ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

A senior commander for Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said all ships, including those from the
U.S. Navy, must undergo inspection before proceeding through the strait.

“The alien vessels which enter the Persian Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz always provide the needed answers and information to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps units,” IRGC deputy navy commander Rear Adm. Alireza Tangsiri said.

In a statement on April 18, Tangsiri said IRGC was already enforcing the blockade of Hormuz. The officer said the U.S. Navy was submitting information before its ships, including an aircraft carrier, enter Hormuz.

“This vessel, similar to the other warships, answered all the questions
asked by the IRGC Navy without any problem or making any particular move and then continued the path to its specified destination,” Tangsiri said.

In mid-April, the U.S. Navy deployed a second aircraft carrier in the
Gulf. The USS Enterprise, based in the Gulf Cooperation Council sheikdom of
Bahrain, joined the Abraham Lincoln in what the navy termed a routine
deployment in the region.

Later, another senior Iranian commander confirmed Teheran’s policy.
Iranian Army commander Gen. Ataollah Salehi said the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet
was warned to stay away from unspecified areas in Hormuz.

“We have warned them before that some areas in the Persian Gulf are
considered by us as zones of threat and they should not stop in those
areas,” Salehi said. “Of course, they have paid attention to the warning and
are respecting it.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kht8LAdpyMI

James Lovelock changes his mind.