tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post8122972093251115970..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Washington, DC, home of seven of the wealthiest counties in the US and the self-serving American Parasitic ClassDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18417141250848159332013-07-20T16:55:43.418-04:002013-07-20T16:55:43.418-04:00Israeli Prisons Ordinance - Amendment No. 40 (Meet...Israeli Prisons Ordinance - Amendment No. 40 (Meetings with Lawyers)<br /><br />Name: Israeli Prisons Ordinance - Amendment No. 40 (Meetings with Lawyers)<br />Enacted: 2011<br />Status: Active<br />Themes: Criminal Law and Procedures<br />Description:<br />Allows the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to prohibit prisoners involved in “security crimes” from meeting their lawyers if the IPS “suspects” that such meetings may lead to the transfer of information relating to a terror organization. The law targets and discriminates against “security prisoners”, who are overwhelmingly Palestinians, as well as their lawyers, who are also generally Palestinians. As of May 2012, there were over 4,600 Palestinian political prisoners being held as “security prisoners” in Israeli prisons.<br /><br />Under the law, the IPS can prevent prisoners’ meetings with lawyers for 96 hours (previously 24 hours), a period that could be extended for up to as many as 14 days (previously 5 days) with the approval of the state prosecutor. A district court can extend this prohibition for six months (previously 21 days) and up to maximum period of one year (previously three months). The Supreme Court can extend the ban for unlimited periods after one year (Supreme Court supervision was required after three months under the previous law). These sweeping restrictions further increase prisoners’ isolation and prevent them from effectively accessing the courts and obtaining redress.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37588187272418587582013-07-20T16:51:09.993-04:002013-07-20T16:51:09.993-04:00Imagine if any one of us had to live under this la...<b>Imagine if any one of us had to live under this law:</b><br /><br /><br />Criminal Procedure Law - Interrogating Suspects - Amendment No. 6<br /><br />Name: Criminal Procedure Law - Interrogating Suspects - Amendment No. 6<br />Enacted: 2012<br />Status: Active<br />Themes: Criminal Law and Procedures<br /><br />Description: This amendment, which passed in the Knesset on 4 July 2012, extends the period of Amendment No. 4 to the Criminal Procedure Law which allows the interrogations of “security suspects” not to be recorded. Almost all of “security detainees” are Palestinians from the OPT or Palestinian citizens of Israel. <br /><br />The law, passed in 2002, required the police to make audiovisual recordings of interrogations of suspects charged with crimes carrying a minimum sentence of at least ten years. The law established a schedule for its gradual implementation, with recordings of interrogations of “security suspects” to become mandatory from 2008, under Article 17. That year, however, the Knesset passed a temporary order extending the exemption until July 2012, ten years after the law was originally enacted. With the passing of amendment no. 6, the exemption is extended until July 2015. Notably, the requirement to make audiovisual recordings of interrogations does not apply to the Israel Security Agency (ISA) (also known as the GSS or Shabak). <br /><br />On 21 December 2010, Adalah, together with Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, Al Mezan and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), filed a petition to the Supreme Court requesting that the exemption be cancelled. The petition was dismissed in February 2013, based on the justification that a new Knesset had just been elected, and the government promised to do a thorough examination of the amendment.<br />Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1990907156790037312013-07-20T16:46:48.510-04:002013-07-20T16:46:48.510-04:00There are over 50 Israeli laws that discriminate a...There are over 50 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel in all areas of life, with a dozen more in the works. Some of the laws also violate the rights of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. This link highlights the fifty specific laws:<br /><br />http://adalah.org/eng/Israeli-Discriminatory-Law-DatabaseDeuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79292771934818256192013-07-20T16:42:00.467-04:002013-07-20T16:42:00.467-04:00{…}
All residents of Israel sixteen years of age o...<br /><br />{…}<br />All residents of Israel sixteen years of age or older must carry an identification card (Teudat Zehut) at all times, and present it upon demand to a senior police officer, head of a Municipal or Regional Authority, or a policeman or member of the Armed Forces on duty. Even stores or offices may ask for the card, and most Israelis know their card number by heart.<br /><br />While only cards issued prior to 2005 now note "nationality," it is easy for any official to instantly tell whether the bearer is Jewish because of a number of distinctive elements on the cards. Since the establishment of Palestinian National Authority, the PNA issues its residents with Palestinian ID cards that require Israeli government approval.<br /><br />An ID card may seem a mundane and minor aspect of life. However, in Israel and the post-1967 occupied Palestinian territories, these cards -- like passbooks in Apartheid South Africa -- have been utilized to control minority populations. There are different rights and privileges for different categories of people that determine how and where they can live and work, with whom they can associate, where they can travel, whether they can live with their spouse, and so on. Permits for Palestinians to travel beyond their assigned areas are stringently controlled and largely dependent on "good" behaviour. The citizenship card also determines access to or exclusion from social benefits such as health care, education and welfare.<br /><br /><i><b>Many continue to insist that the situation in Israel bears no resemblance to the South African Apartheid system. Israel is certainly not identical to South Africa, but that does not mean it is not an Apartheid state. In fact, according to Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, there are over 50 Israeli laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel in all areas of life, with a dozen more in the works. Some of the laws also violate the rights of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. (Full details of the various laws can be viewed in the next post.)</b></i><br /><br />In a recent letter to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ismail Coovadia, the former South African ambassador to Israel, rejected a gift from the Jewish National Fund of trees to be planted in honour of his retirement. He wrote, “I have supported the struggle against Apartheid South Africa and now I cannot be a proponent of what I have witnessed in Israel, and that is, a replication of Apartheid."<br /><br />In 2001 Nelson Mandela became one of only five individuals who have been given honourary Canadian citizenship. One can only wonder what he'd say today, knowing the affection that the Harper government seems to have for Apartheid Israel. Our Prime Minister has declared Canada to be Israel’s closest friend, while Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, just prior to a recent visit to Israel, stated that "Our shared values are a foundation for future growth that benefits both countries…"<br /><br />Shared values? Given that Canada is a country with tremendous diversity within our population, shouldn't we all be concerned?<br /> Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41175822534206501752013-07-20T16:41:41.387-04:002013-07-20T16:41:41.387-04:00Joanne Naiman is professor emerita of sociology, R...<b>Joanne Naiman is professor emerita of sociology, Ryerson University, Toronto, and a member of Independent Jewish Voices (Canada). She was formerly chair of Canadians Concerned About Southern Africa and is a co-author of “Relations Between Canada and South Africa,” prepared for the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid in 1984.</b><br /><br /><br />South Africa, Israel and the continuing struggle against Apartheid<br /><br />BY JOANNE NAIMAN | JULY 17, 2013<br /><br />With Nelson Mandela recently in the news, Matthew Fisher reminded Postmedia readers of an often forgotten aspect of Apartheid South Africa, its hated Pass Laws. Until 1986, every Black South African over the age of 16 outside their designated tribal homeland had to carry a passbook at all times. Failure to produce the passbook whenever required, or to be found in an area reserved for Whites without official permission, commonly resulted in instant imprisonment.<br /><br />Since the period of early colonialism, various means of controlling Indigenous populations developed around the world -- including Canada -- and each has had its own local specifics. Apartheid (from the Africaans word for “apartness") was a term first used after 1948 to describe a particular form of institutionalized racism in both South Africa and South West Africa (Namibia).<br /><br />The term Apartheid now has a broader meaning. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court defines Apartheid as inhumane acts "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime." The term "racial" here is used in its broadest meaning (as per the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination) to include race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin. Racial discrimination refers to any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on one or more of these categories.<br /><br />Today in Israel -- one of only a few countries having no constitution -- collective rights are guaranteed to Jews only. Israel's Law of Return (1950) specifically defined Jews as a single nationality. As a result, all Jews, no matter where they are born, can become Israeli citizens, while the majority of Palestinians who inhabited the land for many generations lack this ability. The same institutions that helped form this definition, such as the Jewish National Fund and the Jewish Agency, remain the guardians of this “Jewish nationality” and control access to many elements of Israeli society, particularly those involving commerce, land, housing and public services.<br /><br />{…}<br /><br />Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71077974028370197452013-07-20T16:10:19.879-04:002013-07-20T16:10:19.879-04:00The US did not do well in any of LBJ's wars of...The US did not do well in any of LBJ's wars of choice.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-91828577963490778592013-07-20T16:07:45.200-04:002013-07-20T16:07:45.200-04:00If you do not support Comprehensive Immigration Re...If you do not support Comprehensive Immigration Reform, as passed in the Senate, why then, you are a RINO.<br /><br />That is if you had thought that you were a Republican.<br /><br />Get on the GOP band wagon, or get thrown under the bus.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50095307603802136862013-07-20T16:06:31.022-04:002013-07-20T16:06:31.022-04:00McCain must have done some real sorry shit when he...McCain must have done some real sorry shit when he was being held in Hanoi. He sure seems like a man trying to prove something.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-7712821097380692222013-07-20T16:06:00.797-04:002013-07-20T16:06:00.797-04:00He is magnificent, though, when the chips are real...He is magnificent, though, when the chips are really down.<br /><br />He might do well enough as a County Planner, but keep him away from the cities.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17845286970760719352013-07-20T16:04:59.154-04:002013-07-20T16:04:59.154-04:00Gotta get that theologian vote.Gotta get that theologian vote.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-53571150908144447972013-07-20T16:02:40.450-04:002013-07-20T16:02:40.450-04:00Seems that the US is losing the "War on Pover...Seems that the US is losing the "War on Poverty"desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78852191647584006532013-07-20T16:02:25.219-04:002013-07-20T16:02:25.219-04:00Wise old Uncle Quirk the Better once, when pressed...Wise old Uncle Quirk the Better once, when pressed, admitted he had no solutions to offer at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37381912645170456372013-07-20T16:01:05.233-04:002013-07-20T16:01:05.233-04:00Not at all, Q.
Mr McCain is the face of the Repub...Not at all, Q.<br /><br />Mr McCain is the face of the Republican party. He is the only Republican that has ever been nominated for President that still makes public statements. The only one that holds public office. <br />He is the only Republican candidate for President that is not in hiding.<br /><br />He is the one that is carrying the Republican flag.<br /><br />If a person thought himself a Republican and is not in step with Mr McCain, well, the answer is obvious, that person can be characterized as a RINO. At least until the Republicans find another Standard Bearer that will go out into the light of day. desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-37903673050413149612013-07-20T16:00:43.209-04:002013-07-20T16:00:43.209-04:00Good quote, take it to heart, My Child.
It is jus...Good quote, take it to heart, My Child.<br /><br />It is just something like that which I was trying to show unto you.<br /><br />>>> you say that our system as it currently exists is perfectly fair<<<<br /><br />O Quirko, I have never said any such silly thing.<br /><br />You are becoming ratlike, putting words in the mouths of others.<br /><br />I don't think any society is ever going to be 'perfectly fair'. In fact I can no more imagine what a 'perfectly fair' society would be like any more than you can imagine what a 'perfectly fair' society would be like. I have a hunch it might be boring. Nothing to get pissed off about, nothing to strike a noble pose over. Nothing to rebel against. And think how much you would dislike no longer being able to say "They're all dicks", except for wise old Uncle Quirk the Better, of course.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86885923760492361642013-07-20T15:41:22.948-04:002013-07-20T15:41:22.948-04:00.
1 Corinthians 13:11
King James Bible
When I w....<br /><br />1 Corinthians 13:11<br /><br />King James Bible<br /><br /><i>When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child : but when I became a man, I put away childish things.</i><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45364237512345810902013-07-20T15:37:55.139-04:002013-07-20T15:37:55.139-04:00.
As I expected.
You "disagree with all of ....<br /><br />As I expected.<br /><br />You "disagree with all of it".<br /><br />You deny the polls, you deny the numbers, you deny the reality of the economy, you deny the 'crony capitalism', you deny that trust is required for our system to work, and you deny that people today have a lack of trust in their government and their institutions, you say that our system as it currently exists is perfectly fair, in effect, you deny reality.<br /><br />You "think the whole topic is waste of precious time".<br /><br />You think "myth is reality".<br /><br />:)<br /><br />Go back to contemplating your navel, Bob. You are artless and callow, a naïf, not yet ready to engage in 'big boy' talk, divorced from reality and lost in the dream, shallow and inconsistent, claiming to deny the very things that you complain about daily, an English major who doesn't understand English.<br /><br />Go back to your 'deep thoughts' and enjoy.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46545365191799130302013-07-20T15:21:21.250-04:002013-07-20T15:21:21.250-04:00Matthew 7:6
King James Bible
Give not that whic...Matthew 7:6<br /><br />King James Bible <br /><br />Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17501843124514965012013-07-20T15:10:26.237-04:002013-07-20T15:10:26.237-04:00Rufus IISat Jul 20, 01:48:00 PM EDT
Fuck you, you ...Rufus IISat Jul 20, 01:48:00 PM EDT<br />Fuck you, you silly son of a bitch.<br /><br /><br /><br />Rufus 'Caliban' IIAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20259027791967348532013-07-20T15:08:58.949-04:002013-07-20T15:08:58.949-04:00I shall try this.
The Prince, don't you see,...I shall try this.<br /><br /> The Prince, don't you see, represents you True Self --<br /><br />'My true self runs towards a hill, more, o more, visible'<br /><br />-- while the Sleeping Maiden represents your self all entangled in duality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56588668659560221792013-07-20T15:00:21.013-04:002013-07-20T15:00:21.013-04:00Dear Child - It seems to the experiencer that it i...Dear Child - It seems to the experiencer that it is coming from the ourside, as a man might come into a woman.<br /><br />In reality however it is coming from the inside of the experiencer's own his/her self.<br /><br />I know it is hard for you to understand. The painting is just a picture image of an entirely different order of things. It is not about briars and roses.<br /><br />And this too is hard for you to understand: myth IS reality.<br /><br /><br />>>><br />As a test, re-read the article above and tell us what you disagree with in it. And if in fact you fully agree with it explain your comments about 'taking from anybody that's got more than us' and wanting to try to be a 'parasite'.<<<<br /><br />I disagree with all of it and think the whole topic is waste of precious 'time'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14970576370835042772013-07-20T14:11:30.986-04:002013-07-20T14:11:30.986-04:00Hasn't Priebus joined Ryan, McCain, and the bo...Hasn't Priebus joined Ryan, McCain, and the boys on Amnesty?<br /><br />...doug has yet to go to bed last nite/today.<br /><br />Woe is me.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9673762314488672382013-07-20T14:09:16.637-04:002013-07-20T14:09:16.637-04:00They need an Organist from a Black Church to compl...They need an Organist from a Black Church to complete The Gestalt.<br /><br />...and a Plastic Surgeon for Cruz.<br /> <br /> - to fend off the MSM's winnowing process on his many images down to the ones portraying a Thoroughly Unelectible WeirdoFace.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-73075381167004728412013-07-20T14:00:35.507-04:002013-07-20T14:00:35.507-04:00Look what he's done to Detroit!
DickLook what he's done to Detroit!<br /><br />DickDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-66688000916815990922013-07-20T13:52:17.751-04:002013-07-20T13:52:17.751-04:00We tax corporations on "taxable income,"...We tax corporations on "taxable income," but the majority of their income that they hide overseas does not constitute "Taxable Income." Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84785684548306881702013-07-20T13:48:23.061-04:002013-07-20T13:48:23.061-04:00Fuck you, you silly son of a bitch.Fuck you, you silly son of a bitch.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.com