COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Sunday, January 02, 2011

Oops, Took Daddy's Lunchbox to School. No Problem?

Lunchbox mix-up leads to charges for Sanford student


An athletic and academic standout in Lee County said a lunchbox mix-up has cut short her senior year of high school and might hurt her college opportunities.
Ashley Smithwick, 17, of Sanford, was suspended from Southern Lee High School in October after school personnel found a small paring knife in her lunchbox.
Smithwick said personnel found the knife while searching the belongings of several students, possibly looking for drugs.
“She got pulled into it. She doesn’t have to be a bad person to be searched,” Smithwick’s father, Joe Smithwick, said.
The lunchbox really belonged to Joe Smithwick, who packs a paring knife to slice his apple. He and his daughter have matching lunchboxes.
“It’s just an honest mistake. That was supposed to be my lunch because it was a whole apple,” he said.
Ashley Smithwick said she had never gotten in trouble before and was surprised when the principal opened her lunchbox and found the knife.
Smithwick was initially given a 10-day suspension, then received notice that she was suspended the rest of the school year.
"I don’t understand why they would even begin to point the finger at me and use me as an example," she said.
This month, Ashley Smithwick, a soccer player who takes college-level courses, was charged with misdemeanor possession of a weapon on school grounds. She is no longer allowed to set foot on campus.
“They made it sound like it was a big ol’ buck knife that you’re out here hunting with,” Joe Smithwick said.
Darla Cole, the chief school resource officer in Lee County, told WRAL News she could not comment on the case.
Lee County Superintendent Jeff Moss told the Sanford Herald that he can’t discuss the specifics of the case, but school policy allows principals to consider the context of each case and determine discipline.
Moss said students who accidentally carry a weapon and report it to teachers will get a light punishment. If teachers find it, he said, the discipline is harsher.
“When the principals conduct their investigations, what typically is fleshed out is the true intent,” he told the newspaper. “Bottom line is we want to ensure every child feels safe on our campus.”

Ashley Smithwick is completing her coursework online through Central Carolina Community College. She said she worries the case will affect her college prospects.
“When you have a criminal record no school’s going to look at you,” she said. “I have a pretty nice talent. I’m good at playing soccer and that talent is just wasted now.”

64 comments:

  1. Our educators are friggin' idiots.

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  2. And we have an educator (academic) as president.

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  3. I know there are good, dedicated, hardworking, concerned professionals out there. I get that, but overall, I am not impressed nor do I have sympathy for their continued cries for "more money."

    I'm sorry, all my adult life I have heard them plead for more budget and for years, they got it. And what did the taxpayer get in return?

    SCHOOL VOUCHERS NOW!

    eat mor chikin

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  4. Now the young gal could have come to school with a comb more leathal than that paring knife.

    Hardly a well chosen knife for an assault on anything other than an apple.

    I wonder what the brainless educator's pension will be for all her thoughtful work?

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  5. The number of employees per student has skyrocketed.

    Kids must be better educated and protected from themselves,
    ...right?

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  6. A retired Yonkers teacher rakes in 78k/year, plus bennies.

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  7. Value of a "US" edukation shows it's face again..

    And anyone wonders why I think college for most people is a joke?

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  8. Out-of-control employee costs

    Yesterday it was reported that Milwaukee Public Schools is cutting 684 jobs, which includes 260 teachers.
    The reason? Out-of-control employee costs, thanks to the teachers’ union.

    The first thing you’ll hear is how the district doesn’t have money, and more tax money needs to be directed to MPS because it’s for the children. But the problem is not that the district doesn’t have enough money. I’ve reported several times on how the enrollment is declining while the budget keeps going up. The total budget gets increased year after year, and on a per student basis, the budget is skyrocketing.

    ---

    The problem with MPS is the employee costs. In March it was reported that the average MPS teacher salary is $56,500, with an average benefits package of $43,505, for total average compensation of $100,005 per teacher.

    I’m not saying teaching isn’t a tough job or that teachers aren’t important. But I do think the compensation package in MPS is way too high.

    Remember that this is a 9 month job, so if you annualized the pay and benefits, that equals an annual compensation package of over $133,000.

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  9. Off topic but worth noting is the story of former Pitt coach Mike Hayward who held the job for two and one half weeks.

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  10. Desert Rat said:

    "Do you hunt for things to fear?"

    I found it hilarious, thought I'd share my amusement.

    --

    re:

    "There's only two kinds of white folks, there's only two kinds...
    bad white folks and worse white folks.

    Malcolm X said if you find one good, kill him first, before he turns bad, because he's only faking."

    Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad

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  11. Found while reading about John Salley, aka "Spider"

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  12. Here we are, back to the story of Trade Unions. Sure, they contributed to the rise of the American middle class but ultimately union greed became too much for the US economy.

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  13. The interesting thing, to me, was the size of that "benefits" package.

    $43,000.00?

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  14. "You may disagree and I am sympathetic to your disagreement but the universe is profoundly disinterested."

    But we as individuals are not.

    I wasn't aware that you were speaking for the universe.

    Pardon me.

    *Rolls eyeballs*

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  15. Correction: Mike Haywood.

    Also, interesting story developing of Charlie Weiss leaving Kansa City Chiefs to become offensive coordinator at Florida.

    Why would he do that?

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  16. I'm watching this political hack, Upton, on Fox News. I'd rather live in hell, permanently, than have to listen to these phony son of a bitches for just one day.

    Now, Issa's saying something; but I've gone to "mute."

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  17. trish said...
    Were I you, I'd ditch Ishmael and his pals.

    Sat Jan 01, 02:27:00 PM EST



    Yes...hmm...Christian charity prevents analysis. Suffice to say, you are not me.

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  18. WiO,


    To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. — Kahlil Gibran

    ...a Lebanese Maronite Christian...

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  19. (AFP) –

    KARACHI — The Pakistan government's main coalition partner said Sunday that it would join the opposition following the resignation of two of its ministers last month.

    "We have decided to sit on opposition benches because the government has not done anything to address the issues we have been protesting about," Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) stalwart Faisal Sabzwari told AFP.

    "It has become difficult for us to face our supporters and workers. In the first phase our ministers resigned and now we have decided to sit in opposition," Sabzwari said.

    "We will stay in Sindh provincial coalition and have decided to quit government at federal level because all these issues are related to federal government," he said.

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  20. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. — Kahlil Gibran

    ...a Lebanese Maronite Christian...



    excellent...

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  21. I am starting a charity this New Year. It's to help the Palestinians/Jihadists and Loves of old Mo. I propose we send large quantities of condoms, all with Obama's face on it) to the Gaza strip and any other self declared "occupied" ishmaelic areas of the globe.

    Think of the hearts and minds we will gather...

    We need to reach out to the moslem youth across the globe to embrace themselves MORE, and they will release their pent up anger....

    The problem islamic boys/men need to find release.

    I propose the title of this charity is:

    "Self Ejaculation not Martyrdom"

    0r "Spill the Seeds for Peace"

    0r more on that that theme, "Spill your Load, Not Blowup your Load"

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  22. “The Vatican fears that continuing attacks, combined with severe restrictions on Christians in countries such as Saudi Arabia, are fuelling a Christian exodus from the region.”
    "Humanity ... cannot be allowed to become accustomed to discrimination, injustices and religious intolerance, which today strike Christians in a particular way," Pope Benedict said

    And what fiendish clan is trying to drive Christians out of Muslim countries? As a hint, it’s not Jehovah’s Witness.

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  23. allen is correct, it is not the Witnesses that are driving the Christians from Saudi Arabia. It is our number one ally, in the area of the whirled, the royals of Saudi Arabia.

    No doubt of that.

    Foreign governments that the US supports almost never live up to the traditional values that are treasured by US citizens.

    Indeed, almost all practice some sort of Jim Crow discrimination against their residents, especially in the Middle East.

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  24. As to the public schools:

    Zero tolerance is the name of their game.

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  25. The crime of carrying a bottle, certainly, worthy of a death sentence:

    Christian Science Monitor - Tom A. Peter - ‎43 minutes ago‎
    Israeli military forces shot and killed a Palestinian man Sunday as he approached a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Nablus holding a bottle.

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  26. desert rat said...
    The crime of carrying a bottle, certainly, worthy of a death sentence:

    Christian Science Monitor - Tom A. Peter - ‎43 minutes ago‎
    Israeli military forces shot and killed a Palestinian man Sunday as he approached a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Nablus holding a bottle.


    Notice the twisting and hiding of context?

    Ishmael reminds me of criminal defense attorney...

    innocent child, simply carrying a "bottle"

    It's just like the nazis folks, those terrible Jews, shooting an innocent civilian palestinian boy scout, for simply (walking miles out of his way or being bussed in) to carry a symbol of peaceful resistance to the evil of the separation barrier, a bottle of coke...

    this innocent lamb, was slaughtered by the Jews for carrying a coke and a smile...

    this is an outrage...

    UN! Warcrimes! The Humanity!!!

    Shock!

    /sarc

    Dear Stupid Parents of "so-called" innocent youth?

    You child is dead because you made it possible for him to approach an Israeli border crossing with a maltov cocktail. fire bomb to many...

    Actions of consequences. You are a horrible parent. To teach you kids to attack armed troops is suicidal.

    Oh, that was your goal, bring sons and daughters into life to raise them to become shahids and martyrs.

    You teach your children to shout "with our lives and with our blood we will redeem you oh palestine"

    congrats on another episode of natural selection...

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  27. This happened to Americans a few years ago.

    A woman curses the American soldiers who, she says, caused the death of her two friends.


    A woman cries out after her pregnant friend is killed near a coalition checkpoint in Iraq.

    "May Allah punish them!" She cries.

    The bodies of Nahiba Jassim, who was pregnant, and her cousin Saliha Hassan lay outside the maternity hospital in Samarra, ready for burial.

    Their car was drenched in blood and the windshield broken from gunshots sustained when their car entered what the U.S. military called a clearly marked, prohibited area near a checkpoint and observation post manned by coalition forces.

    According to the military, the driver of the car ignored signals and commands to stop, so troops fired shots to disable the vehicle.

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  28. Sorry, allen, I don't even know what I meant by that because I was polishing off a bottle of wine.



    "No, I'll go beyond that. I would be more concerned if someone were watching, keeping score on some permanent record."

    Well, unless I'm mistaken someone is. Watching anyway.

    Watching, listening, speaking, and doing God only knows what else.



    Church was fabulous. You shoulda been there.

    It occurred to me that recent experience has made it both much easier and much harder to take religion seriously.

    But I love the minister. Nice NPR voice. Very placid. Very sane. Very persuasive.

    As I put it to my mother, he presents the perfect marriage of plain old folk wisdom and the sacred, the spiritual.

    It's like Christianity for Beginners.

    What would he say if I told him I'd heard the fires of hell - or what I was meant to understand as such - in a phone conversation with my mother?

    Would he recommend I get help?

    "No, see, that's why I'm here. To get help."

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  29. What Iraq's checkpoints are like

    By Annia Ciezadlo, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor / March 7, 2005

    Editor's note: On Friday, an Italian intelligence officer was killed and Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena was wounded as their car approached a US military checkpoint in Baghdad. The US says the car was speeding, despite hand signals, flashing white lights, and warning shots from US forces. Ms. Sgrena says her car was not speeding and they did see any signals. This personal account, filed prior to the shooting, explains how confusing and risky checkpoints can be - from both sides.

    It's a common occurrence in Iraq: A car speeds toward an American checkpoint or foot patrol. They fire warning shots; the car keeps coming. Soldiers then shoot at the car. Sometimes the on-comer is a foiled suicide attacker (see story), but other times, it's an unarmed family.

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  30. Israeli Troops Shoot and Kill Palestinian at Army Checkpoint
    January 02, 2011, 11:17 AM EST

    By Jonathan Ferziger
    Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian man who approached a military checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus and ignored orders to halt, the army said.


    So it's an Army Check point...

    The MAN, IGNORED WARNINGS TO STOP

    Hmmm, is it possible the MAN had a BOMB BELT ON?

    Naw, never happens in Ishmaelistan does it?

    Bomb Belts? Total invention of the zionazis...

    yep

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  31. Today's sermon was on the subject of fear.

    Oh, yes. And I learned that JAN 6 is the Epiphany.

    And the Epiphany - any epiphany, for that matter - relates to that which is subtle.

    I liked that.

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  32. Reminds me now of the astronomer's term - which will come to me any minute now - for the vision used to see a heavenly body that can't be seen directly on.

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  33. WiO,

    Re: dead muzzie with bottle

    That's what I thought: the guy refused to halt and put the bottle down.

    It gets really, really dull when you keep introducing facts into Ishmael's rants. He just doing what Ishmaels do best: running interference for cousin Amalek.

    If he didn't muddy the water, people would be concentrating on the murder of innocent Christians across the globe rather than listening to him defame both Jewish and American troops. Hey, where are all the patriots out there when Ishmael insults flag and country? :-D)))) ...adjusting those white robes? ...startching those brown shirts?

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  35. The techniques and tactics used by US, in Iraq, have delivered the country to Iranian influence.

    That the Israelis are following the US example, a failure to absorb the lessons learned.

    They are on the course the US b;lazed, to strategic failure.

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  36. ishmael says...

    on the road to strategic failure...

    resistance is futile...

    assimilate

    embrace dhimmihood...

    resistance is futile...




    ya know? I find dead terrorists dont do anymore bullshit... So if we are on the road to failure by resisting, then let's make it a real failure... Change the ROE's, make it easier to shoot a terrorist, we cant FAIL more than a "strategic" failure..

    It's like by waterboarding terrorists we create more, or so goes the PC logic...

    but the fact is they ALREADY HATE us no matter what we do SHORT OF TOTAL SURRENDER TO ALLAH'S WILL..

    So might as well piss of Ishmael and his folk as much as possible....

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  37. Let's see....

    Coptic Churchgoers Return to Services After Islamic Suicide Bomber Murders 23 Native Egyptians.


    Arab Occupied ALEXANDRIA — Amid shattered glass and scenes of grief, indigenous congregants returned to the Saints Church early Sunday for the morning Mass, passing a chain of Arab Occupation Riot Police (who patrolled the streets nearby without incident, from their co-religionist occupiers) after a arab/islamic bomber exploded himself Saturday and murdered at least 21 native peoples in the worst Islamic attack against Egypt’s Christian minority (who were it's original inhabitants) in recent years.

    The Arab Occupying Egyptian Government said that at least 96 people were wounded in the blast, which occurred shortly after midnight outside the church as the New Year’s Mass was ending and congregants headed to the doors.

    Within hours of the explosion, clashes erupted between angry Christians and the occupation arab security forces outside the church. Periodic violence between Egypt’s Occupying Muslim majority and Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the country’s 80 million people, have led to accusations that the government ignores and even exacerbates this dangerous sectarian divide. Occupation Arab Officials often blame local conflicts for such violence, dismissing talk of sectarian tension.

    Arabs conquered Egypt in 700CE when they left there historic homes in Arabia to spread Islam, a religion of the sword.

    The Coptics are said to be descended from the original Egyptians, one other people who USED to live in Alexandria, during the Greeks reign, were the Jews, they were mostly driven out by the Majority Occupying Arabs in 1948.

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  38. Demographics of areas do change, over time. No doubt of that.

    There is little relevance to ancient land claims. Except as historical footnotes.

    Historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists generally divide the history of Indian people in Ohio into five time periods.

    These time periods are:

    * The Paleoindian Period (13000 BC to 7000 BC)
    * The Archaic Period (8000 BC to 500 BC)
    * The Woodland Period (800 BC to AD 1200)
    * The Late Prehistoric Period (AD 1200 to circa AD 1650)
    * The Historic Period (AD 1650 to AD 1843)

    As evidenced in this timeline, natives enjoyed a long and rich history before the arrival of Europeans in AD 1650.
    Once whites arrived in Ohio in the late seventeenth century, the lives of Ohio's Indians would never be the same.


    Indeed the Ohio River Valley has seen a long list of inhabitants.

    Shawnee Indians
    The Shawnee Indians were living in the Ohio Valley as early as the late 1600s. The Iroquois Indians were unwilling to share these rich hunting grounds and drove the Shawnees away. . . .

    The Iroquois Era was the time period when the Iroquois Indians claimed the land now known as Ohio. During the Beaver Wars, (1650-1700 A.D.) the Iroquois drove out most of the descendants of Ohio's prehistoric Indian cultures.


    The Iroquois then lost the land, to Europeon immigrants, as has been well documented in the Story of "o".

    The Shawnee, as a collective ethnic group, now have no legal claim, at all, to land in Ohio.

    Fancy that.

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  39. The original native population, of Ohio, driven off or killed.

    The white Europeons had what seemed an unending stream of people to populate the land.

    They won the demographic war.

    The same does not hold true, today, in the Middle East.
    The days of Europeon dominance, through demographic dominion, powered by immigration, are over.

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  40. The Iroquois then lost the land, to Europeon immigrants, as has been well documented in the Story of "o".

    The Shawnee, as a collective ethnic group, now have no legal claim, at all, to land in Ohio.

    Fancy that.



    Yeah I do like the idea...

    That's JUST another reason Israel has a claim to the land, they HOLD it now..

    There is no Palestine.

    There never was any Arab nation called Palestine.

    There Arabs LOST control of lands they held BEFORE they struck and caused wars, the Arabs LOST lands, imagine that..

    Maybe the KURDS, the DRUZE, the COPTS, the BERBERS and others will start to drive the occupying arabs from their lands..

    Just like the Arabs have done to the lands they squat on....


    Yep Israel has a RIGHT to the land it HOLDS, since it HOLDS those lands.

    The fake nationalistic group self labeled "palestinians", as a collective ethnic group, now have no legal claim, at all, to land in Israel.

    Fancy that.


    ANd guess what? Another day passes and still NO PALESTINE!

    Fancy that...

    No nation for fakers..

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  41. The original native Jewish population, of Israel, driven off or killed. (not entirely)

    The white Europeons had what seemed an unending stream of people to populate the land. As did the Arabs, Romans, Greeks, Turks, Assyrians other sea peoples.

    They won the demographic war. But now Israel has risen from the ashes and is WINNING it's battle for it's homeland once again.

    The same does not hold true, today, in the Middle East.

    The days of Arab dominance, through demographic dominion, powered by humping masses, are over. Sheer numbers now are causing starvation, health care crisis and demographic nightmares. Pollution, disease, over crowding, water and food shortages, over population & more. The entire middle east including oil revenues 649/650th of the middle east land mass, still cannot GROSS as much as tiny little Israel. 1/650th in size and 8 million people verses 350 MILLION arabs (with 1/2 the worlds oil supply) and the arabs are falling behind.

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  42. Cant wait for some crisis to shove EGYPT of a cliff...

    I remember some story about a Jew that saved the Egyptian people from starvation....

    Hmmm...

    Must be a fairy tale....

    Those Jews DIDNT REALLY exist....

    lol


    Palestine is still a stillborn concept.

    Israel GROWS!


    Record TOURISM YEAR!!!!

    Thanks Ya'll!

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  43. WiO,

    He avoids the persecution of Christians by muzzies like plague. The subject is always turned to either "bad Israel" or "bad America". And he gets away with it...hmm..."The enemy of my enemy is my friend"...

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  44. Let's Give them a State...


    The tiny Palestinian Christian community in the Gaza Strip remains under intense persecution, according to a Canadian human rights group.

    There are some 3,500 Christians in Gaza among the 1.4 million Muslims.

    Majed El Shafie, president of One Free World International, says some Christians are forced to cooperate with the terrorist group Hamas that rules Gaza in order to protect their families.

    "The Christians in the Palestinian Authority areas [are] facing persecutions. Their homes, their churches they get attacked almost every day," El Shafie explained.

    He added that after the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip two years ago, Hamas dug up Christian graves and burned the bodies because they felt the remains defiled the land.

    Shortly after Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in a violent coup in June 2007, El Shafie said his group received reports of two kinds of violations.

    "The first one that Hamas was torturing the members of Fatah in Gaza," El Shafie told CBN News.

    "The second one [was] that Hamas was going to the graveyards of the Christians, digging up the dead body of the Christians, throwing them and burning them and saying 'you cannot bury your dead bodies here because its our land, it's a holy land.

    "By burying your Christian families here you are desecrating the land.' And we received this [information] about five graves in Gaza," El Shafie said.

    El Shafie said his group had also received reports about Christian families "being forced to cooperate with Hamas or their children or their wives will get raped or will get persecuted." So they were forced to cooperate with Hamas to protect their families, he said.

    An estimated 3,500 Christians live amidst some 1.4 million Muslims in the Gaza Strip. The tiny Christian community had hoped for some protection from Hamas when it came to power.

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  45. No, allen, I did address the displacement of the Christians, in Arabia, by our allies the Sauds and Iraqis.

    It is part and parcel of US foreign policy. No big deal. really.

    It sucks to be a Saudi, Iraqi or an Israeli minority member.
    Egyptian, too.

    That is why it is GREAT to be a resident of the US of A.

    There is a difference in government, which is just one reason the US is second to none.

    It is not, however, the responsibility of the US to attempt to micromanage those foreign lands.

    When we have tried, in Afghanistan and Iraq, we've botched it. We should not have founded Islamic Republics, but secular ones.
    Our bad.

    We should withdraw support from any government that claims any sort of religious affiliation.

    But we won't.
    So we go with what we've got.
    That's the reality of it.

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  46. Any government that distinguishes rights by religion, is anti-freedom.

    Any government that provides for quotas based upon religion is repugnant.

    That includes Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel.

    They are all equivalent in that regard. Or the war refugees and their descendants would be allowed to return to their homes, as equal citizens. Even from the displacements of 1948.

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  47. "It is best to maintain your panoply and defend against an indifferent world rather than an interested world."

    Translation, please.

    I don't think I have a panoply, for starters. I could hunt around when I get home, just to make sure.

    I had to look it up, as it usually qualifies a noun. Which maybe you accidentally dropped.

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  48. [Iraqi] accused of killing the 20-year-old because he believed she had become too Westernized

    …an honor killing…guess this behavior was learned during the Islamic “Golden Age”…

    Yaser Abdel Said (Egyptian) murdered his two Texas-born daughters in the back of his taxicab…Wrong state, Dude! You should have stayed in the old country and stuck to killing Christians and Jews.

    Muzzammil Hassan (non-Italian origin) beheaded his wife, who had the temerity to serve him with divorce papers. After all, “Muzzie” be the man; and no “split tail” be dissin’ da man.

    There is the potential in all this tragedy for the making of a fortune. These women (muzzies don’t kill their lap dancing, pedophile spawn [“spawn” is used advisedly, not gratuitously or pedantically]) should be armed, trained and ready. Next time ole Yaser gives a slap, he gets capped.

    Yeah, they're all equivalent..."dolt" is the word...

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  49. Criminal activity by individuals, does not a government make, allen.

    Or having a rapist as President of Israel would condemn all Israelis, aye?

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  50. Israeli kill their children, while still in the womb.

    Continuing the policies of King Herod, even today.
    Trying to keep the "Messiah" at bay.

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  51. Were there 50,000 Islamic "Honor Killings" in 2010?

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  52. “We cannot escape the troubling conclusion that some—perhaps many—cherished generalities are at best exaggerated in their biological significance and at worst a collective illusion nurtured by strong a-priori beliefs often repeated.”

    this wide discrepancy suggests that scientists find ways to confirm their preferred hypothesis, disregarding what they don’t want to see. Our beliefs are a form of blindness.

    According to Ioannidis, the main problem is that too many researchers engage in what he calls “significance chasing,” or finding ways to interpret the data so that it passes the statistical test of significance—the ninety-five-per-cent boundary invented by Ronald Fisher. “The scientists are so eager to pass this magical test that they start playing around with the numbers, trying to find anything that seems worthy,”

    Because these ideas seem true. Because they make sense. Because we can’t bear to let them go. And this is why the decline effect is so troubling.

    When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe. ♦

    Annals of Science - The Truth Wears Off: Is there something wrong with the scientific method?

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  53. Having a rapist president would condemn an institution were that institution to condone the behavior and threaten nonconformists. Such is Islam, Ishmael, as you well know.

    Try finding the last time either an Isareli or Christian was charged with an "honor" killing.

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  54. Israelis eat baggles, also. This has what to do with the murderous behaviors of Muslims which, if left unchecked and unpunished, will lead to world war?

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  55. ...sorry...forgot I was writing on water

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  56. When was the last time Israelis (civilian or military) fired rockets into a soccer stadium during a game?

    Again, the issue is motive and intent. Israelis readily admit to accidental killings during the fog of war. Palestinians set out to kill the innocent during peaceful, mundane recreation.

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  57. The Israeli "accidentally" kill many more Palestinians than Palestinians kill Israeli, on purpose.

    Wonder why that is?

    Maybe the Israeli are not as accident prone as they claim to be.

    When the Israeli killed US sailors, it was by "accident", too.

    So many accidents, from folks that claim to be "professional".

    It is hard to believe they are so inept.

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  58. Our Rodent asks??


    The Israeli "accidentally" kill many more Palestinians than Palestinians kill Israeli, on purpose.




    Professor Rat? Do you not understand MATH?

    There are 1.2 BILLION Ishmael Jew haters (like you), there are 11 Million Jews in the entire world...

    Ishmael's attack on a daily basis and USE their young as bait...

    Jews protect their young...

    So it's not a surprise that ishmael's die more frequently.. They take offensive actions 99 times out of a 100 and use babies and wives as shields...

    One other factor, Ishmael's dont actually provide decent medical care. They seek their young to DIE for the cause... YOu see, (and you know this ishmael) your peeps love death, like the Jews love life...

    I am actually amazed at the numbers of Ishmaels that die at their own hands on a yearly basis...

    The good news?

    Palestine as a nation is still a stillborn idea...

    Another day? Israel grows stronger...

    Ishmael's grow more frustrated...

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  59. Herr Rodent is really missing his meds today...

    Funnier than shit his rants...

    reminds me why we should provide condoms to ishmaels...

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  60. The Zionists call me names, because the truth burns their butts.

    But it is there to be seen, by anyone with eyes.

    The Israelis and the Muzzies, twin sons of different mothers.

    Exploiters and looters, that's both their game. Equivalency rules, they cannot deny it, so the try to defame the messenger.

    The Abrahamic hypocrisy, just got to love it.

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