tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post5790890707896123139..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Whitewater KayakingDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16473451421232440792014-03-18T05:11:51.361-04:002014-03-18T05:11:51.361-04:00I was making a metaphor of rat's life and dest...I was making a metaphor of rat's life and destiny with this going over the falls with a weight.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90575356518330749742014-03-18T04:57:28.077-04:002014-03-18T04:57:28.077-04:00this damn getting up to piss drives one nutsthis damn getting up to piss drives one nutsBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73335074325108992812014-03-18T04:56:14.038-04:002014-03-18T04:56:14.038-04:0080 pounder weightin the bow stabilizes the fall o...80 pounder weightin the bow stabilizes the fall over the Falls. Added advantage: the prow gets stuck fast into the bottom of the river.<br /><br />Kinda like a penetrating bomb or something. Very exciting.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20403517460037943322014-03-18T04:52:22.448-04:002014-03-18T04:52:22.448-04:00Pakistan: Three Hindus injured in acid attack for ...Pakistan: Three Hindus injured in acid attack for celebrating Holi<br /><br />Robert Spencer Mar 18, 2014 at 3:41am Non-Muslims in Muslim countries, Pakistan 0 Comments<br />holi-feast-3“Muslims in Karachi believe that the attacker was a Hindu,” but this is extraordinarily unlikely. Holi is a Hindu feast during which people throw colored dyes upon one another. It’s a joyful, festive occasion, and while this may have been the work of some embittered Hindu, “the acid-throwing incident follows the burning of a Hindu temple and a community office in the southern Larkana district on Sunday, by angry mobs protesting the alleged burning of a Quran by a Hindu.” Those mobs were, of course, Muslim, and their rage is still burning white-hot. Also, given the occasions on which fanatical Islamic supremacists in Pakistan have thrown acid on women they deem disobedient, they seem to be the most likely suspects.<br /><br />“Hindu in Pakistan suffer acid attack for celebrating Holi,” from Most Intolerant Religion, March 17 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):<br /><br />Three Hindus were injured in an acid attack during a religious festival in Pakistan’s southern port city Karachi on Monday, according to police.<br /><br />“People were throwing colors on each other at a ceremony to celebrate [Hindu religious festival] Holi in Model Colony area, when one of the participants threw acid-mixed color on the crowd and sped away,” said Pir Mohammad Shah, a city police chief.<br /><br />We can hardly doubt the motivation behind this attack on Minority Hindus in Pakistan. As per the Standing Committee on Academic Research and Issuing Fatwas, it is strictly prohibited for Muslims to take part, celebrate the festivals of Kuffar (Hindus). It reads:<br /><br />It is not permissible for the Muslim to join the kuffaar in their festivals and to express joy and happiness on these occasions, or to take the day off work, whether the occasion is religious or secular, because this is a kind of imitating the enemies of Allaah, which is forbidden, and a kind of co-operating with them in falsehood. It was proven that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever imitates a people is one of them.” [Fatwa no. 2540]<br /><br />Muslims in Karachi believe that the attacker was a Hindu, ironically the acid-throwing incident follows the burning of a Hindu temple and a community office in the southern Larkana district on Sunday, by angry mobs protesting the alleged burning of a Quran by a Hindu.<br /><br />Pakistan is a Muslim-majority country where Hindus are the second largest minority after the Christians. They make up 2 percent of the 180 million population.<br /><br />http://www.jihadwatch.org/<br /><br />Nice pic of Holi Festival. Never heard of it before until my niece wrote today saying she and some others are celebrating Holi Festival this weekend in Germany.<br /><br />Why are the moslems always so damn grim and never like to have fun?Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-5973681906622746272014-03-18T03:27:19.301-04:002014-03-18T03:27:19.301-04:00I'll throw in an eighty pound weight belt too,...I'll throw in an eighty pound weight belt too, free.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74644021329947412872014-03-18T03:22:29.500-04:002014-03-18T03:22:29.500-04:00OK, here -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrveNdW...OK, here -<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrveNdW_sj0<br /><br />I'll provide the kayak and one way transportation if rat will go over the Falls.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60214205060483719092014-03-18T03:14:07.254-04:002014-03-18T03:14:07.254-04:00The skeeters will lay eggs in the sweat pools in h...The skeeters will lay eggs in the sweat pools in her and Vlad's belly buttons before the day is out.......Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-85941224736093259532014-03-18T03:11:07.762-04:002014-03-18T03:11:07.762-04:00She knows no more about fly fishing than Vlad Poot...She knows no more about fly fishing than Vlad Pootie.<br /><br />If the topic hadn't turned to Hazard Creek, and fly fishing at the end, I would have gone to bed.<br /><br />g'niteBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-11190394926347127682014-03-18T03:07:43.316-04:002014-03-18T03:07:43.316-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59950520243707202492014-03-18T02:54:25.026-04:002014-03-18T02:54:25.026-04:00She's not casting from a kayak, but from a doc...She's not casting from a kayak, but from a dock, or boat.<br /><br />© Jed Weingarten/Red Bull Illume <br /><br />video - Hazard Creek<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9qzlOjhWEY<br /><br />Hazard Creek is outside of McCall, Idaho<br /><br />Third picture down is Palouse Falls, Washington I think. The salmon/steelhead run obviously stops there. <br /><br />Not a bad post for a dead beat dad, obsessive serial liar, sick fuck and felon, though.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19499757592287199062014-03-18T02:50:24.386-04:002014-03-18T02:50:24.386-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-57624583631779661912014-03-18T01:30:35.422-04:002014-03-18T01:30:35.422-04:00I didn't know if you were going to make it; bu...I didn't know if you were going to make it; but you got there right at the very end. :) :)<br /><br />Good Job. :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53370674675647264502014-03-18T00:54:20.184-04:002014-03-18T00:54:20.184-04:00http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/17/after-partial...http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/03/17/after-partial-victory-plaintiffs-seek-to-show-no-fly-list-violates-their-due/Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74318172989112695032014-03-18T00:53:41.515-04:002014-03-18T00:53:41.515-04:00After partial victory, plaintiffs seek to show no-...<br /><a rel="nofollow">After partial victory, plaintiffs seek to show no-fly list violates their due process rights</a><br /><br />PORTLAND, Ore. – Thirteen people say their placement on the no-fly list deprives them of their due process rights, while lawyers defending the U.S. government say explaining such placement would involve classified information and endanger national security.<br /><br />In August, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown's rejected the government's assertion that people on the no-fly list can travel by other means, and that being on the list does not deprive them of their liberty. She asked the government for more information about its redress procedure to help her determine whether it satisfied due process requirements for the plaintiffs.<br /><br />Lawyers representing the government said in federal court in Portland, Ore., on Monday that a person's right to a hearing concerning his no-fly list status is limited, given the national-security issues, and cautioned Brown not to "take over the policymaking" by writing new rules if she decides that the system is unfair.<br /><br />The people seeking notice for their placement on the list were represented by lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union, who argued that the process is inherently unfair to its clients by refusing to tell them what evidence put them on the list and shutting them out of the appeals process.<br /><br />No-fly list appeals go to a federal appellate court, which makes a decision based only on government input. That system, the ACLU argues, violates people's rights.<br /><br />"No one denies that the government has an important national security interest," said ACLU attorney Hina Shamsi. "The question is whether that interest is so all-encompassing that a citizen can be denied ... the fundamental right of due process?"Jack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-42749891960149045002014-03-18T00:21:43.986-04:002014-03-18T00:21:43.986-04:00
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/a-genealogy-...<br />http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/a-genealogy-of-egyptian-islamic-radicalismJack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75766999091157443562014-03-18T00:21:00.615-04:002014-03-18T00:21:00.615-04:00From Small Wars Journal
A Genealogy of Egyptian I...<br />From Small Wars Journal<br /><br /><a href="http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/a-genealogy-of-egyptian-islamic-radicalism" rel="nofollow">A Genealogy of Egyptian Islamic Radicalism</a><br />by Shawn Green<br /><br />From Egypt in recent years have emerged a number of individuals and groups with radical political and social views derived from Islam. These people include Sayyid Qutb, Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj, a leader in the Islamic Jihad, and Ayman al-Zawahiri of al-Qaeda infamy.<br /><br />However, it is the intention of this essay to argue that these radical individuals and groups are not the product of perennial characteristics of Islam. Instead, it will be put forward that today’s radical Islamic groups and figures are the result of colonialism and post-colonial political, societal and economic policies and the spread of Western ideals.<br /><br />Before Egypt gained independence it was dominated by the British. This humiliation plus social change and economic dishevelment brought about the establishment of the Muslim Brotherhood by Hasan al-Banna. This organisation and its leader then became influential during ensuing turbulent times. Following WW2 the Muslim Brotherhood suffered at the hands of the Egyptian Government as it embarked on social reform. However, these reforms only brought about greater issues. From this period emerged Sayyid Qutb and his radical views. Qutb was gaoled and eventually executed by the Sadat regime for his beliefs and actions. What resulted from Qutb’s ideas and subsequent execution was further radicalisation of fringe groups and individuals. One of these individuals was Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj, who espoused the struggle against the ‘near enemy.’ Both Qutb and Faraj inspired the likes of Ayman al-Zawahiri, who wields much influence over today’s global Salafi jihadist movement.<br /><br />First discussed in this paper will be colonial Egypt and the political, social and economic issues that lead to the formation of the Muslim Brotherhood.<br />This will be followed by the period up until the al-Nasser Government. Examined third is the life and ideas of Sayyid Qutb. Discussed fourth are the Islamic militants that were influenced by the above events, organisations and individuals.<br /><br /><br />The period of European exploration and colonisation in large parts of the Islamic world has greatly contributed to the rise of Islamic activism and militancy. This is because what was packaged up with European colonisation was the newly minted political and social organisational concept called the nation-state, and at the core of the nation-state is secularism. For some Muslims, secular activity means a deviation from the normJack Hawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342056653466462640noreply@blogger.com