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Friday, March 05, 2010

ACORN employees caught on video apparently advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend to lie about her profession and launder her earnings did not commit a crime, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office said Monday. The office began its investigation Sept. 15, the day after the video was released online by the conservative activists who posed as an outlaw couple seeking help buying a house. It was but one in a series of such videos filmed at ACORN offices around the country that sparked a national scandal and helped drive the organization to near ruin. read more


Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Citing what he described as the "the persecution of a great hero who rid their land of Godless communists" as a possible cause, prominent TV evangelist and amateur seismologist Pat Robertson today argued that the 8.8 magnitude of the earthquake that struck Chile early this morning should serve as a warning to the population that "God is even angrier with them than he is with the people of Haiti." read more


Friday, January 15, 2010

Looks like someone was paying attention.


Thursday, January 14, 2010

I am not sure I can take much more of this Health Care Reform.


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Comments

Thinks he never flung an insult on the DR.

yes...I fling them back... thought that is how you wingnuts like to communicate.

Elcid- you being someone who thinks partial birth abortion is torture on the child is obviously a lunatic.

equating partial birth abortion to torture is a recent tactic that was imported from glennbeckistan.

In fact as usual you have it bassackwards!

did you know

After reviewing the situation in Nicaragua against the obligations of the state under the Convention against Torture, the UN Committee concluded that the State Party should revise its legal framework in relation to abortion. The expert Committee observed that the complete ban gave them cause for profound concern, as it exposes women and girls to a constant threat of serious violations to their rights, particularly if continuation of the pregnancy posed a threat to their life, or for victims of rape.

"The Committee is sending a clear message to the Nicaraguan state: So long as the complete ban with no exceptions is in place, you will be in breach of your international legal obligations to protect human rights," said Widney Brown, Senior Director, International Law and Policy at Amnesty International. "If this complete ban were to stay, women and girls would continue to be at risk of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Such inaction would show a cruel indifference to the physical pain, psychological anguish and lack of human dignity this law causes women and girls in Nicaragua to suffer by denying and thwarting their access to essential medical treatment during pregnancy."

Ok I am ready for my insults now.

Man.... you have an interesting perspective on history...it is not quite as you describe though.

Alexander the Great did conquer Afghanistan...but then HE conquered everyone.

He died four years later.

Four years later, Alexander died. Then his cavalry commander, Seleucus, seized control of the eastern part of his empire. Greek rulers would maintain control over most of Afghanistan until 150 BC, when Parthian nomads arrived.


The Persians tore them a new ass..

nope... defeated...couldn't hold it.

The Afghans then defeated twice a large Persian army that was dispatched from Isfahan (capital of the Persian Safavid Empire).

Several half-hearted attempts to subdue the rebellious city having failed, the Persian Government despatched Khusraw Khn, nephew of the late Gurgn Khn, with an army of 30,000 men to effect its subjugation, but in spite of an initial success, which led the Afghns to offer to surrender on terms, his uncompromising attitude impelled them to make a fresh desperate effort, resulting in the complete defeat of the Persian army (of whom only some 700 escaped) and the death of their general. Two years later, in A.D. 1713, another Persian army commanded by Rustam Khn was also defeated by the rebels, who thus secured possession of the whole province of Qandahr.[17]

The Persian armies were defeated and the area of Kandahar was made into an independent local kingdom.


The English tore them a new ass though they did lose 4000 men in the first campaign with only one british survivor..

But the English were back for a second time but having achieved all their other objectives, the British withdrew.

Then the English kicked their asses again in 1919...

In 1878, the British invaded again, beginning the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

nope defeated...couldn't hold it...paid a tremendous price too in blood and treasure. Went back in August 1842 and after inflicting reprisals and securing the release of prisoners taken during the retreat from Kabul hey withdrew from Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass. Dost Muhammad was released, reestablished his authority in Kabul, and died on June 9, 1863.

btw the english lost 16,000 men (3,600 were soldiers) in the Destruction of Elphinstone's army.

Lady Butler's famous painting of Dr. William Brydon, initially thought to be the sole survivor, gasping his way to the British outpost in Jalalabad, helped make Afghanistan's reputation as a graveyard for foreign armies and became one of the great epics of Empire.

after that they fought each other until the Russians attacked in 1979 and were tied up in a police action for ten years.

hmmm Soviets tried to occupy Afghanistan but went home with their tails between their legs. Thought we all knew the Soviets were bogged down for years helping to bleed their empire of blood and treasure and helping cause the collapse of the Soviet Union.

maybe YOU should take history class again. You missed something.


I stand by my statement... Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of Empires for a reason.

Maybe you are being willfully ignorant to the fact his legislation was a sign of retreat.

#219 | Posted by crispee_oc

How could it possibly be retreat when the Mission Was Accomplished and there is now Victory in Iraq according to Fixed News!

And, yes, Nimrod is slang for slow-witted in America which, of course, is where I am.

nice try tho tadpole-crispee-critter-fly

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