They are burning the Qur'an because, in their little minds, it is a book of Satan. It is not a religious text. Only those of us that are the spawn of Satan would think the Qur'an (or the Mormon bible) is a religious text.

Anyone not a believer in their specific version of a creator deity should and will burn in their creator's version of hell.

There are only a small number of books (written in English only) that are allowed to be read by the flock. There is only one version of their bible that should be read. They really like the Old Testament and Revelations.

Christians have been waging war on Islam since the Crusades (started in 1095.....almost a thousand years ago). It has never really stopped.

Yes, but in the beginning, the emperor sent the soldiers, then the clerics to convert those still alive. Now, the leaders send the zealots only. They do the soldiers job.

The Montana Tea Party's reaction to this:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 5, 2010

Jim Walker, Board Chair of the Big Sky Tea Party Association announced today that the group’s Board of Directors voted to remove Tim Ravndal as President and member of the non-profit organization because of unacceptable comments made on his personal Facebook account.
Walker stated: “Our Board learned about the situation from an article in the Great Falls Tribune on Saturday. We immediately called an emergency meeting for the following morning. We are extremely disappointed by Mr. Ravndal’s commentary. The discussion in that Facebook conversation is entirely outside the position of the Big Sky Tea Party.

Even though Mr. Ravndal was having a personal conversation and made no reference to our group, we felt strongly that swift and decisive action was required as we can not accept that sort of behavior from within our membership, let alone from an officer of the corporation. We continually make it known that we will not tolerate bigoted dialog, behavior or messages at our functions, our meetings or within our ranks. If a person demonstrates bigotry relative to race, sex, ethnicity, etc they are not welcome in our organization. The Tea Party movement is about standing up for individual freedom for everyone.

I do believe Mr. Ravndal when he explained that he was in no way intending to promote violence and that he was not thinking about nor condoning the murder of an innocent victim in Wyoming in 1998 when he responded to some very disturbing comments made by another individual. However, no matter how we considered the commentary, it was clear to us that he was participating in conversation which was overtly bigoted and we cannot have an officer of our corporation engaging in such behavior.”

Walker indicated that as Chairman of the Board, he will oversee activities of the organization until a replacement for the office of President can be identified and approved.

I am not overly impressed that they let him go because their platform still calls for the "will of the people to be recognized and all homosexual acts to be deemed illegal".

clearly, the man doesn't understand coffee
 

In Mexico, Vatican Likens Gay Marriage To Decaffeinated Coffee

By On Top Magazine Staff
Published: September 06, 2010

While traveling in Mexico, two Vatican prelates have criticized Mexico City's new gay marriage law.

The marriages of gay and lesbian couples are an imitation, the bishops said, Mexico's El Universal reported.

“A gay relationship is like decaffeinated coffee, you do not wake up,”

Father Gonzalo Miranda, a bioethics professor at Regina Apostolorum University, a pontifical university, said.

Miranda, along with Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, president emeritus of the Pontification Academy for Life in the Vatican, are in Mexico participating in a series of academic conferences commemorating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the School of Bioethics at the Universidad Anahuac in Huixquilucan state. The bishops criticized Mexico City's new law at a press conference held on Wednesday.

“What just happened in California is very significant,” Miranda said, referring to a recent federal judge's ruling that overturned the state's gay marriage law, Proposition 8. “On two occasions people spoke out against the legal recognition of gay marriage and twice a judge changed the popular vote with a ruling. In Mexico, I don't know well the mechanism used, but the people were not consulted, there's wasn't a referendum either.”

In December, Mexico City became the first autonomous municipality in Latin America to approve a gay marriage law. The conservative federal government challenged the law, but the nation's Supreme Court declared the law, which, for the first time, also allows gay couples to adopt, constitutional, and ruled that all Mexican states must recognize the gay marriages of the nation's capital.

Both prelates said such unions go against nature, and that gay couples adopting children cannot be considered parenthood “but a substitute that can harm the child, a grave injustice that cannot be described.”


http://www.ontopmag.com/article.aspx...=1&Category=24

They, the Catholic Church, spends more time wiggling in the "morality" and "ethics" of the people whom they deem outside of their laws, their mandates, than they do with the clerics who commit unlawful and, by their own definition, sinful acts. The hypocrisy is one of the reasons that lead me to leave that institution. There are those, who remain inside to fight it, and I admire them, but it sickens me.

The Catholic Church, once the primary religious institution in Latin-America, is steadily looking membership ... to fundamentalist churches, such as the Assembly of God. Sigh. Be careful of what you wish for :|

Zimmy:

My first thought is that I recall other people, in another place, burning books largely on the basis of the religion THEY practiced. If I recall such subversive tracts as "Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" (A. Einstein 1905) and General Theory of Relativity (A Einstein 1915) because they represented "Jewish Physics". I expect that at once the people at this book burning realize that Rumi and Edward Said were also Muslims their books will be joining the Koran on the pyre.

Cheers
Aj

Wake up America!
 

Lord help us, please.
 

burning books makes me break into panic attacks.
i am, afterall, a bibliophile who has a tactile, emotional, and neurological attachment to books.
the feel, smell, and beauty of books makes me sort of hot.

In the little podunk town of 9,000 in rural New Mexico the book Silas Marner was required reading in my sophmore year (1968) in high school.

However, my English teacher (he only taught there 2 years) decided we should read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury instead.

If you haven't read it.......it's a good book and very pertinent to the times.

I do love me some Silas but yes.

End of an Era
 

Breaking news in Chicago today: Mayor Daley is not seeking another term


http://www.suntimes.com/news/2682566...090710.article


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Excerpt: Maggie Daley’s eight-year battle against breast cancer — marred by several recent setbacks — has also been weighing on the mayor.

Maggie Daley was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2002. She has already more than tripled the average life expectancy for patients diagnosed with the disease, in which cancer cells spread beyond the breast and lymph nodes.

The practice of Punishment of Death by Stoning I believe is inhumane. This particular case is not the first "Death by Stoning" sentence exposed for the entire world to become aware of such misrepresentations of "justice." On a much more mundane note, I find it alarming that this story has no significant way to identify the author or source/s of the article.

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Middle East

Iran suspends Controversial punishment for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani put on hold amid "review" following international outcry. The case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has sparked an international outcry

Iran has suspended the punishment of death by stoning for a woman convicted of adultery, the country's foreign ministry said.

A spokesman for the ministry said on Wednesday that government officials will review the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was convicted of adultery in 2006.

"The verdict regarding the extramarital affairs has stopped and it's being reviewed," Ramin Mehmanparast told Iran's state-run English-language channel, Press TV.

Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men after the murder of her husband the previous year. She had also been sentenced to death following a separate conviction for playing a role in her husband's 2005 murder.

The foreign ministry said on Wednesday that her sentencing for "complicity in murder" is still in process.

"Defending a person on trial for murder should not be turned into a human rights matter," Mehmanparast said.

But Ashtiani's lawyer, Houtan Javid Kian, said she was never formally put on trial on the charge of being an accomplice to murder and was not allowed to mount a defence.

International outcry

The case of Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, has provoked international outrage and has further strained relations between Iran and the West.

The international crossfire over Iran's stoning sentence intensified on Tuesday, after Jose Manuel Barroso, the European commission president, said he was "appalled" by the news of the sentence.

"Barbaric beyond words," he said during his first state of the union address in Strasbourg, France.

Amnesty International also called on Iran to abolish what it called a "horrific practice, designed to increase the suffering" of those condemned.

Stoning is the penalty for crimes such as adultery under Iranian law.

But Amnesty said a disproportionate number of those sentenced to death by stoning were women because they were not treated equally before the law and were particularly vulnerable to unfair trials.
Iranian authorities routinely defend their legal codes and human rights standards as fully developed and in keeping with the country's traditions and values. They have widely ignored Western denunciations over the crackdowns.

Ashtiani's lawyer said he regards the next critical period coming next week. The moratorium on death sentences during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan will end, and he said he worries that an execution could be then carried out "any moment".


Source: Agencies

http://english.aljazeera.net/

This is where cultural relativism and I break company. Public stoning anywhere, by anyone is ugly and cruel and barbaric. Let alone the sexism involved here.

This woman will be burried to her head in a public execution area and people will throw stones at her head until she is dead. Also, her first language is Turkish (a minority in Iran) and she was questioned in Arabic. She did not understand what she was admitting to- stoning of women for adultry requires admission of at least 4 witnesses (of which all 4 must be men).

Even in countries that continue using the death penalty (like the US, one of very few worldwide), history demonstrates the development of more humane (if you buy this) of carrying it out.

FerGoddessSakes, California has stopped executions by lethal injection due to questioning inhumane aspects!

Stoning was widely imposed in the years after the 1979 Islamic revolution, and even though Iran's judiciary still regularly hands down such sentences, they are often converted to other punishments.

The last known stoning was carried out in 2007, although the government rarely confirms that such punishments have been meted out.

Under Islamic rulings, a man is usually buried up to his waist, while a woman is buried up to her chest with her hands also buried. Those carrying out the verdict then throw stones until the condemned dies.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=129162333

Whacko Preacher, wanting to hold a Burn a Koran Day, has a rather troubled past
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...716409,00.html

Hm..wonderin if he could "love his enemies" like Jesus would tell him to do at ground zero.

Oh yeah... after listening to a couple of his clips on MSNBC, I'm thinking burned-out guy from the 60's. Dead brain cells galore. Hey, I recognize my own era's misgivings and remnants. Can't imagine what his preaching is like (out of the back of his milk truck?)? Reminds me of even eras further back-, traveling preachers with snake oil and their bibles.

There is a part of me that thinks that this burning is just of a book because for those that hold particular theological beliefs have the meaning inside of themselves and a book is just a book (goes for the Bible, et. al., too). What is holy to some is not or sacred to some is only tangibly represented in a book for dissemination. The books I take chants, meditations, or prayers from would not leave me without them, they are now part of my memory. People of all faiths know to make this distinction because burning of holy/sacred books is nothing new. But, the fact of the matter is that this is a symbolic gesture against far more than a religion. And today, in the US, has far reaching implications and dangers.

I wonder if there will be Bible burnings in protest if this takes place on 9/11? Or, Bibles, the Book of Morman, Tanakh or Torah, Buddha-Dharma, or various Hindu scriptures (Shashtras, Vedas, or Upanishads). These are only a few of what people all over the world experience as the good book, scripture, meditations, etc.!

http://b.scorecardresearch.com/p?c1=...=37857107&cj=1 http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/rmm.lat...0;ord=7044201?
Where's the outrage over immigrant slayings in Mexico?

In the United States, their presumed destination, even immigrant rights groups have been oddly silent over the Aug. 23 massacre of 72 in a border state.

Hector Tobar
September 9, 2010
Six dozen defenseless men, women and teenagers were pushed up against a wall. A squad of professional killers opened fire on them with automatic weapons and then finished each victim off with a point-blank shot to the head.

They dreamed of joining us, here in this country of opportunity. Instead, their corpses, including that of a pregnant woman, were left to bloat in the open air, to be discovered later and photographed in a sickening heap.

For those of us who remember the tragedy of Latin America's recent past, seeing the images of last month's massacre of 72 immigrants in northern Mexico is like reentering an old and very familiar nightmare.

Not long ago, dictators ruled most of Latin America. They had large groups of people kidnapped, tortured and executed in secret. Their crimes against humanity hit nearly every corner of the region, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires to provincial Guatemala City.

But this new act of mass murder was not the work of a military junta run by generals. It didn't take place in a tiny banana republic without a judicial system worthy of the name.

It happened in the proud, multiparty democracy called Mexico, a country with ample social freedoms, including a vibrant free press. And it wasn't an isolated occurrence. A report last year by Mexico's human rights ombudsman said at least 400 mass kidnappings are reported in Mexico every year, many involving the rape and murder of hostages.

Modern death squads are operating freely in northern Mexico, extorting those who wish to come here, where relatives and jobs await. The kidnappings and murders of immigrants carried out by these groups are a stain on Mexican democracy, and many commentators there recognize this.

"The abuse against migrants is an everyday embarrassment we don't want to talk about because it would rob us of all our moral authority before our neighbors to the north," columnist Alfonso Zarate wrote in response to the massacre in the newspaper El Universal.

"Mexico demands respect for the human rights of 'illegal' workers in the U.S.," Zarate continued, " … but is now itself under the microscope of the international community, which is rightly scandalized and indignant."

The victims found near San Fernando, Tamaulipas, were killed, according to media reports, after their smugglers-turned-captors demanded more money from the migrants' families. Some were pressured to work as drug couriers but refused.

As with the many killings of police officers and officials in Mexico, the San Fernando massacre was an act of psychological warfare. Such extreme violence is meant to spread fear and thus make it easier for the killers to impose their will on the living.

If we stay silent about their crime, if we treat it as just another episode in Mexico's unwinnable drug wars, then we'll allows the killers to win.

And yet, here in the United States, the expressions of outrage from the immigrant rights movement have been muted. You could say they are a mere whisper compared with the very loud campaign against Arizona's SB 1070, a law whose most controversial provisions will probably never go into effect.

We should see the killings as a blunt reminder of the reasons why people so desperately want to come here. And we should speak of San Fernando with the same horror as we do El Mozote and the Naval Mechanics School of Buenos Aires — sites of the most heinous crimes committed by the militaries of El Salvador and Argentina in the 1970s and '80s.

It's not just the killers who deserve our moral outrage, it's the failed judicial systems that allow them to thrive without fear of punishment.

In Latin America, the massacre has already provoked much reflection and protest. The government of Honduras, home to the largest number of its victims, announced it would take new steps to try to discourage illegal immigration to the U.S.

In Mexico, the northern city of Saltillo witnessed a rare event just days after the Aug. 23 massacre: a march by 200 undocumented immigrants, carrying the flags of El Salvador, Guatemala and other Central American countries.

"Our countries deny us the opportunity for economic development," the demonstrators said in a written statement, after marching through the city with covered faces. "But Mexico denies us the opportunity to live."

To stop SB 1070, we've seen Angelenos drive across the desert to Phoenix to march, to denounce both the governor of Arizona and the mad sheriff of Maricopa County, Joe Arpaio.

But I've yet to hear of any rallies at the Mexican consulate or anywhere else here in Los Angeles, demanding that the Mexican government prosecute those guilty of so many migrant killings and disappearances.

Most of the country's leading immigrant rights groups haven't even bothered to issue a news release.

That doesn't surprise me. Generally speaking, the U.S. immigrant rights movement doesn't have much to say about the social and political conditions that lead so many to leave their native countries and place themselves at the mercy of an increasingly violent smuggling industry.

This is wrong. We can't turn a blind eye to the deeper, seemingly intractable injustices that are the obvious root cause of the problem.

Simply put: It's wrong that people have to undertake the journey to the U.S. in the first place. People shouldn't have to leave the land of their ancestors, their extended families, their barrios and their farms.

They leave because the promise of democracy in Mexico and Central America remains unfulfilled.

The Tamaulipas murders are really just the most sickening expression of a vast system of inequality and corruption that still defines life for millions of people.

U.S. immigration reform, unfortunately, won't do anything to strengthen the rule of law in those countries that supply the greatest number of migrants. It won't stop the power of the criminal groups that infiltrate government and intimidate officials, not just in certain regions of Mexico but in much of Central America.

There's a movement for democracy and government accountability in those places. But it's often under threat.

One of the last interviews I did in Latin America before ending my stint as a foreign correspondent in 2008 was with the Guatemalan environmental rights attorney Yuri Melini, who was then denouncing the organized-crime groups operating in the Peten jungle.

A few months later, he was shot several times by a gunman. Miraculously, he survived — although, as with so many other notorious crimes in Guatemala, no one has been prosecuted.

"I'm like a tree," Melini told my colleague Ken Ellingwood a year later. "They chopped me down, but I'm bouncing back again."

A few loud but influential U.S. voices of protest help keep people like Melini alive and working in their native countries. But many more of us need to stand with those who work to keep the promise of democracy and justice alive in northern Mexico, Guatemala and other places.

It matters not just to them but to us.

And now, as in the age of the dictators, it's a matter of life and death.

hector.tobar@latimes.com

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...3,print.column

Yes, I am very disturbed with the entire situation in Mexico and other parts of the Western Hemisphere. There is no easy answer. IMO, there is racism, greed, organized, institutional corruption, illegal Drug Use, in other words many different causes. This did not happen over night. It has been going on for at least a couple of generations but perhaps because of technology "news," information is much harder to keep from the masses.

I have highlighted much of the article. I think this is a balanced piece of journalism. It clearly names who and what the writer believes to be some of the causes of this. All of us have contributed to this. Choices we have made via our consumerism, turning a blind eye to blatant wrong doing and I could go on and on.

I have been struggling with questions about all of this for most of my lifetime. I do not think immigration reform will fix all of it. This is a situation that is not to be solved by the USA alone. It will take at a minimum the Western Hemisphere and for the Catholic Church to stop demonizing those countries that do not blindly follow the Church's "intervention."

One doesn't have to live in a border state to understand that Mexico is an important ally to the US, ALL of the US! Ferfucksakes, you would even think the capitalist right wingers would look at the trade situation between us and get with supporting what is needed for human rights! How long can people turn their heads? Makes me crazy.

Iran
 

Yesterday I posted an article about the woman that had been sentenced to "Punishment of Death by Stoning." Today, I am posting a story about the same "system" Iran, announcing the release of an American hostage in recognition of the end of Ramadan. This could be a sign of human compassion and/or a sign of propaganda. Interesting, two very recent acts of showing some compassion by the very same people/system that some are quick to fear and judge harshly. No, I am not naieve nor stupid. But I do know that things usually are much more layered with shared blame and responsibility to go around for all.
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Iran to release 1 of 3 jailed Americans


Associated Press

Posted: 09/09/2010 08:37:26 AM PDT
Updated: 09/09/2010 08:46:39 AM PDT


TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran announced today that one of the three Americans jailed for more than a year will be released Saturday to mark the end of Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Reporters were told by text message from the Culture Ministry to come to the same hotel where the Americans' parents were allowed to meet them recently to witness the release.

"Offering congratulations on Eid al-Fitr," the message said referring to the holiday marking the end of the fasting month. "The release of one of the detained Americans will be at Saturday, 9 a.m. at the Estaghlal hotel."

It is common in the Islamic world to mark the Eid al-Fitr holiday by showing clemency and releasing prisoners.

Ali Reza Shiravi, the head of the foreign media office at the ministry confirmed that he had sent the message summoning reports to the hotel.

The high-rise Estaghlal hotel near Evin prison is where the three Americans' mothers were allowed to visit them in May in a highly publicized trip.

The detained Americans -- Sarah Shourd, 31; her boyfriend, Shane Bauer, 27; and their friend Josh Fattal, 27 -- have been held in Iran since July 2009, when they were arrested along the Iraqi border.

Iran has accused them of espionage; their families say that the three were hiking in Iraq's largely peaceful mountainous northern Kurdish region and that if they crossed the border, it was accidental.

Their detention has become entangled in the confrontation between the United States and Iran. Iranian leaders have repeatedly suggested a link between their jailing and that of a number of Iranians by the United States whose release Tehran demands.

Nora Shourd, the mother of Sarah Shourd, said this morning that the U.S.-based families of the hikers had seen the news reports out of Iran but had no idea if they were true or not.

"We don't know anything," Shourd told the AP. "We're trying like crazy to see what we can find out. I hope it's true -- that's all I can say for sure. But I don't know if it is."

Nora Shourd had the last contact with any of the three jailed Americans, when Sarah called her on Aug. 2 and the two spoke for three or four minutes.


http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_16031691

Phelps hate machine angry that their Quran burning didn't garner same attention? Seriously?
 

It's almost like the media is running the show, no?

Yes, and the next question is who owns the media and has the most to gain by running the shows, IMO.

The media feeds the masses, the more coverage and attention they get the happier they are.

US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies'

Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war

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Andrew Holmes, Michael Wagnon, Jeremy Morlock and Adam Winfield are four of the five Stryker soldiers who face murder charges. Photograph: Public Domain

Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.

Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians.

In one of the most serious accusations of war crimes to emerge from the Afghan conflict, the killings are alleged to have been carried out by members of a Stryker infantry brigade based in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan.

According to investigators and legal documents, discussion of killing Afghan civilians began after the arrival of Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs at forward operating base Ramrod last November. Other soldiers told the army's criminal investigation command that Gibbs boasted of the things he got away with while serving in Iraq and said how easy it would be to "toss a grenade at someone and kill them".

One soldier said he believed Gibbs was "feeling out the platoon".

Investigators said Gibbs, 25, hatched a plan with another soldier, Jeremy Morlock, 22, and other members of the unit to form a "kill team". While on patrol over the following months they allegedly killed at least three Afghan civilians. According to the charge sheet, the first target was Gul Mudin, who was killed "by means of throwing a fragmentary grenade at him and shooting him with a rifle", when the patrol entered the village of La Mohammed Kalay in January.

Morlock and another soldier, Andrew Holmes, were on guard at the edge of a poppy field when Mudin emerged and stopped on the other side of a wall from the soldiers. Gibbs allegedly handed Morlock a grenade who armed it and dropped it over the wall next to the Afghan and dived for cover. Holmes, 19, then allegedly fired over the wall.

Later in the day, Morlock is alleged to have told Holmes that the killing was for fun and threatened him if he told anyone.

The second victim, Marach Agha, was shot and killed the following month. Gibbs is alleged to have shot him and placed a Kalashnikov next to the body to justify the killing. In May Mullah Adadhdad was killed after being shot and attacked with a grenade.

The Army Times reported that a least one of the soldiers collected the fingers of the victims as souvenirs and that some of them posed for photographs with the bodies.

Five soldiers – Gibbs, Morlock, Holmes, Michael Wagnon and Adam Winfield – are accused of murder and aggravated assault among other charges. All of the soldiers have denied the charges. They face the death penalty or life in prison if convicted.

The killings came to light in May after the army began investigating a brutal assault on a soldier who told superiors that members of his unit were smoking hashish. The Army Times reported that members of the unit regularly smoked the drug on duty and sometimes stole it from civilians.

The soldier, who was straight out of basic training and has not been named, said he witnessed the smoking of hashish and drinking of smuggled alcohol but initially did not report it out of loyalty to his comrades. But when he returned from an assignment at an army headquarters and discovered soldiers using the shipping container in which he was billeted to smoke hashish he reported it.

Two days later members of his platoon, including Gibbs and Morlock, accused him of "snitching", gave him a beating and told him to keep his mouth shut. The soldier reported the beating and threats to his officers and then told investigators what he knew of the "kill team".

Following the arrest of the original five accused in June, seven other soldiers were charged last month with attempting to cover up the killings and violent assault on the soldier who reported the smoking of hashish. The charges will be considered by a military grand jury later this month which will decide if there is enough evidence for a court martial. Army investigators say Morlock has admitted his involvement in the killings and given details about the role of others including Gibbs. But his lawyer, Michael Waddington, is seeking to have that confession suppressed because he says his client was interviewed while under the influence of prescription drugs taken for battlefield injuries and that he was also suffering from traumatic brain injury.

"Our position is that his statements were incoherent, and taken while he was under a cocktail of drugs that shouldn't have been mixed," Waddington told the Seattle Times.

On again :|

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39074573...news-security/

Fucking whacko .... Why is no one just putting him in a mental institution, where he belongs..

I reached a point last night, after reading about this crap for hours, where I wondered why someone just didn't shoot him.

After I got over being completely horrified at myself, I realized it was time to stop reading the news and start playing stupid FB games for awhile.

4 hours killing Boss's in MW..but then I saw this on again thang ( on FB ) and lost it again ....
Going to bed..soon
reading science fiction.. no current events thank you very much...

some good news!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ca_gays_in_military

White couple won't sell home to African-American couple


The co-host of the Michael Baisden show filed for $100 million discrimination lawsuit against a white couple who won't sell their home to George Wilborn and his wife because they are African-American. Read more about it below.

George Wilborn, the famed co-host of the popular Michael Baisden Show, has filed a $100 million lawsuit against a Chicago couple who refused to sell him a home because of the color of his skin.

As previously reported, Wilborn and his wife were attempting to buy a $1.7 million home from Daniel and Adrienne Sabbia, a white couple.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development filed a complaint on behalf of Wilborn however after an investigator told them that Daniel Sabba declined to sign the contract because he'd "rather not sell to an African American."

Now Wilborn and his wife Peytyn have officially filed a $100 million lawsuit in federal court for the discrimination they faced trying to buy the five-bedroom home in the city's Bridgeport neighborhood.
Source

This is just disgusting to hear about. I can't believe stuff like this still happens in the year 2010.

White cop punches black girl in face


Is this another incident of a white racist cop thinking he is above the law? Maybe it's just police brutality? Or was it just a police officer doing his job? A white Seattle cop punches a black woman, watch the video below. Apparently the two black women were stopped for jay walking.

Seattle kind of scares me...