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OT: The News Thread

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Yep, Harper's a hypocrite, just like all of our other politicians. My other favourite example is when Harper loudly bitched and moaned about the deplorable ethics of Belinda Stronach's move to cross the floor in exchange for a cabinet seat. But then about 10 minutes after David Emerson was elected in his riding as a Liberal, Harper got him to switch over to the Conservatives in exchange for a cabinet post.
 
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LeafGm said:
Okay....is that actually a serious question?

The difference is that Catholics are the only religion that get taxpayer funded schools. No other Christian denomination, or people of other faiths get that option. If they want their kids to have religious teaching, they have to pay out of pocket. Otherwise, they send their kids to public schools, which are strictly secular.

It's unfairness in the most basic sense, and it amounts to state-sanctioning of one particular religion over all others.
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You should look at my post about other religions rallying to get their own schools. Then you may understand the question.
 
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Leafovic said:
Yeah you are right. We Bosniaks drink a lot and yeah its more tradition than anything. My dad eats pork, drank like crazy(was a pretty big alcoholic lol). In fact, our imam in Bosnia use to drink some times lmao
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I know a bunch of Bosnians, Serbs, Croats, Turks, and they are not shy around alcohol.

I am not sure of everyone's religion, but you have to think the majority of Turks are muslim.
 
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Turks also happen to be the most secularized group of Muslims in the world aside from the youngest generation of iPod-buying, high-heels wearing Iranians. And there's a reason that the Turks enjoy one of the highest standards of living out of any Muslim majority state (Brunei, Kuwait, and Qatar are the top three -- all small fairly secular states as well). There is definitely a correlation between the standard of living enjoyed by a people in a nation and the amount of secularization present amongst the populace.
 
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MindzEye said:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNe...ports-tycoon-100520/20100520?hub=TopStoriesV2
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It's simple - Harper had to appoint Senators if he has any hope in passing legislation. MP's do little to nothing except pretend to exert authority. Everything gets caught up by lifetime Senators with hard-core partisan biases.

At least Harper made all of them sign off that they'd support 8 year maximum terms when a vote on the matter eventually happens.
 
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I've been in Istanbul, and the party scene is out of sight. There is something for everyone in the Taksim Square area.
 
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http://www.minnpost.com/scientifica...w_gulf_dead_zone_and_oil_spill_might_interact

A few days after BP’s ruptured oil pipes began contaminating the Gulf of Mexico, Minnpost reported that the disaster threatened double environmental trouble.

Unless the gusher was plugged, it could compound problems of a summer-time “dead zone” in the Gulf caused by runoff in the Mississippi River starting as far north as Minnesota.
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If this:

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meets up with this:

ixtox1.jpg


can this:

cthulhu.jpg


really be that far behind?
 
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What's the problem, Rush Limbaugh says it's natural.....the ocean is limitless! We are fretting over nothing.
 
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bab...man-opens-fire-on-virtue-police-officers.html

In an unprecedented outburst toward Saudi Arabia's religious police, a married woman shot at several officers in a patrol car after she was caught in an "illegal seclusion" with another man in the province of Ha'il on Tuesday.

"She shot at the officers to distract them and allow the man to escape instant detention," said Sheik Mutlak al Nabet, a spokesman for the religious police in Ha'il. He added that the unnamed woman's husband has filed an official report, asking for his wife to be punished and stripped of her Saudi nationality.

Saudi law forbids women to socialize with unrelated men or walk in public without a male guardian, other than her husband, father or brother. Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, known as the religious police, are tasked with segregating the sexes.

Saudi media report that the woman is Syria-born and recently obtained Saudi citizenship after living for years in the kingdom. Her male compatriot is still at large. The incident occurred only few days after the Saudi daily newspaper, Okaz, reported that a religious cop was taken to hospital with bruises after being punched by a woman in her 20s in the city of Al Mubarrazz.

The paper wrote that the young lady got violent with the officer after he asked her and man she was with at a public park to verify their relationship. Despite the possibility of facing imprisonment or lashing, the woman's fisticuffs was hailed by Saudi human rights activist Wajiha Huwaidar.

"People are so fed up with these religious police, and now they have to pay the price for the humiliation they put people through for years and years," she said. "This is just the beginning and there will be more resistance."
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MindzEye said:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bab...man-opens-fire-on-virtue-police-officers.html
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When I was living and working in Saudi Arabia in the early 80's we were told it constituted adultery for a married man and a woman not his wife to ride in the car together. The religious police are nuts there, and create more havoc than the government police do. They are responsible for enforcing the closing of businesses during prayer times, and monitoring the activities of women in public takes up a lot of their time.
 
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Hopefully someone goes on a shooting rampage and kills some of those monsters. It's only a matter of time before that Kingdom joins the rest of us in the twenty-first century.
 
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They're just a few hundred years behind us is all.
It used to be legal to beat your wife not that long ago right here in the West.
Hopefully it doesn't take as long again for the whole world to get religion out of their system.
 
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Or we could all just take the piss and be Pastafarians....

The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the deity of the parody religion[1][2] the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster or Pastafarianism.[3] Created in 2005 by Oregon State physics graduate Bobby Henderson, it was originally intended as a satirical protest against the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to permit the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in public schools. In an open letter sent to the Kansas State Board of Education, Henderson parodied the concept of intelligent design by professing belief in a supernatural creator which closely resembles spaghetti and meatballs. Henderson further called for his "Pastafarian" theory of creation to be allotted equal time in science classrooms alongside intelligent design and evolution. He explained that since the intelligent design movement uses ambiguous references to an unspecified "Intelligent Designer", any conceivable entity may fulfill that role, even a Flying Spaghetti Monster. After Henderson published the letter on his website, it rapidly became an Internet phenomenon and a symbol for the case against teaching intelligent design in public schools.
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That's a religion worth believing in.
 
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The saddest thing is that Pastafarianism has already become just as credible as Scientology or Mormonism.
 
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