Every Miss Universe wants two things to make her life complete: (1) Solve all the problems of the world; (2) Move out from her parents’ digs and get her own apartment. If you CLICK HERE, you will understand why the current Miss Universe will have no problem achieving both these goals. After you pop your…
Monthly Archives: March 2009
WHO’S SORRY NOW?
Having supervised the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent persons, Kaing Guek Eav, one of the resident madmen of the Khmer Rouge, said “Gee, I’m sorry.” “My current plea is that I would like you to please leave an open window for me to seek forgiveness.” Actually, we would like to open a window…
KILL AND BE KILLED
You can’t do better than be a regular reader of the Small Wars Journal if you want to keep up with who is killing whom and who wants to get into the act. For an exhaustive roundup of what is happening in every nook and cranny of the world of violence, CLICK HERE.
HANK THE K LIKES SOCCER
THE CURMUDGEON IN ME LETS LOOSE. Soccer is one of the most depraved of human activities, especially as practiced in South America and Europe. North America, Africa, and Asia have not yet caught on to the purpose of the game. The idea seems to be to burn down stadiums when the team you are rooting…
UN VOTE TO CURB FREEDOM TO CRITICIZE RELIGIONS
The U.N.’s top human-rights body approved a proposal backed by Muslims nations Thursday urging the passage of laws around the world protecting religion from criticism. The proposal by Pakistan had drawn strong criticism from free-speech campaigners and liberal democracies. A simple majority of 24 members of the 47-nation Human Rights Council voted in favor of…
FIGHTING AIDS VIA PEDOPHILIA
Ghana has a pedophilia problem. The Acting Chief Psychiatrist of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Dr. Akwasi Osei told Public Agenda that although pedophilia is against the law in Ghana, it is not treated as such; instead it is treated as defilement. If we really realize that some of these people are actually pedophiles, then the…
GOD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS
Taipei Times………..A pilot accused of praying when he should have been taking emergency measures to avoid a crash in which 16 people died has been sentenced to 10 years in jail by an Italian court. Captain Chafik Gharby was at the controls of a plane belonging to the Tunisian charter airline Tuninter that crashed in…
DOWNTOWN SOUTH AFRICA
Always one of the most delightful places in the world, South Africa has added cholera to its list of woes. Pretoria – Fifty-nine people in South Africa have died since the cholera outbreak spread from neighbouring Zimbabwe in November, Health Minister Barbara Hogan said on Monday. Briefing the media in Pretoria, Hogan said the disease…
RUMORS ARE FLYING THAT THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE ALIVE IN MEXICO
March 24 – WorldNews.com……….Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is heading to Mexico to pursue a broad diplomatic agenda that will be overshadowed by spiralling drug violence there and fears of greater cross-border spillover. A day after the Obama administration announced it would send more money, technology and manpower to secure the country’s Southwestern frontier…
VIOLENCE AND CARNAGE IN THE PHILIPPINES
March 15: Gunmen have abducted three government schoolteachers in southern Philippines in the latest in a series of kidnappings in the troubled Mindanao region, police yesterday said. March 18: A Marine was killed while five others were wounded when the military moved in and exerted pressure against the suspected kidnappers of a non-government worker in…
SUICIDE ATTACK IN PAKISTAN
In the worst suicide of the last few months, at least 48 people were killed and 150 injured. The death toll is expected to rise. NY Times……….PESHAWAR, Pakistan — At least 48 people were killed and 150 injured when a suicide bomber detonated explosives during Friday prayers at a mosque in the Khyber region of…
NEXT TIME, BE MORE CAREFUL
According to TV News Lies, a site whose credentials I cannot confirm, the following outrage occurred. Erik Roberts, an Army sergeant who was wounded in Iraq, underwent his 13th surgery recently to save his right leg from amputation. Imagine his shock when he got a bill for $3,000 for his treatment. “I put my life…
CATCHING THE GOOD GUYS IN FLAGRANT DELICTO
Although the editor of this blog regards the use of performance enhancing drugs as innocent, he is in a very tiny minority. I would remind readers that the term “performance enhancing” is pure propaganda because the overwhelming majority of such drug users are not competitive athletes but “gym rats” who use these things because they…
COMMON SENSE ABOUT SEX CRIMES IN NEW JERSEY
Star Ledger in New Jersey……Here at watchingpolitics, we applaud the willingness of the New Jersey courts to review the overly restrictive housing limits placed indiscriminately on all sex offenders. We offer a brief excerpt from the article and this LINK to the full story. *************************************** Justices hear case on sex offenders Housing restriction brings challenges…
CUOMO COMING AFTER THE BAD GUYS AT AIG
Bloomberg.com….. March 27 (Bloomberg) — New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, building on his investigation of American International Group Inc.’s bonuses, subpoenaed data on credit derivatives to determine whether Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Deutsche Bank AG and other banks improperly received taxpayer funds. It has been reported that Cuomo has persuaded 9 officials at AIG…
SENTENCING IN AMERICA
60 pages containing 30 tables chock of cross-tabulated data with well over 1500 data points should fill your hearts with unmitigated joy if you love number crunching of facts, figures and statistics concerning crime. This is what the U.S. Sentencing Commission provides for Fiscal Year 2008. You can go to the site by CLICKING HERE.…
THE GAO ON IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
The Government Accounting Office is a watchdog group whose responsibility it is to engage in detailed analysis of all aspects of government work and to report on their findings to the Congress and other bodies relevant to their work. It is nonpartisan in its operations. It issues reports on a daily basis. Here is one…
END THE WAR ON MARIJUANA
This is a verbatim report from drugpolicy.org. We endorse it. ********************************* U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama have established a good precedent. Medical marijuana patients and providers who are following their state’s law will no longer be arrested by the federal government. It’s cruel and a waste of taxpayer dollars. The federal government…
WAY UP NORTH IN CANADA LAND
Canada remains one of the choice countries of the world into which one can be born. Vancouver is still Canada’s wealthiest city despite a huge drop in real estate values, according to a new study by Pitney Bowes. Although house prices in Vancouver fell an average of 11 per cent in 2008, or nearly $57,000,…
FURTHER REPORT ON EXECUTIONS
This post should be read in conjunction with the one immediately below it. From Amnesty International More people were executed in Asia than in any other part of the world in 2008. China carried out more executions than the rest of the world put together. By contrast, in Europe, only one country continues to use…
THIS UNSPORTING LIFE
Once upon a time the World Series gave us the champion baseball team of the world. It was reasonable to think so since international competition did not exist. Today, things are different. Baseball has become a worldwide sport and the American professionals are no longer dominant. Yesterday, Japan defeated Korea in the so-called World Baseball…
EXECUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD
Amnesty International has released some intriguing but depressing statistics for 2008. At least 2390 peoplewere executed in 25 countries. On average 7 people were executed everyday around the world. At least 8864 people were sentenced to death in 52 countries. 5 countries carried out 93%of all executions. (China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the USA)…
CHINA CONDEMNED
Twenty-eight Chinese journalists and lawyers issued a joint statement on March 18 condemning the lies and false reports publicized by Chinese official media over the past 60 years. Journalist Ling Cangzhou and 27 other Chinese professionals initiated the statement entitled, “Fairwell! Propaganda and Lies.” This followed an earlier statement, “Boycott CCTV, Refuse Brainwashing” to further…
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