Threat Matrix- Daily Terror Thread (4):

New York Post ^ | February 24, 2004 | By NILES LATHEM

[Revel]

February 24, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has dispatched the elite commando force that hunted down Saddam Hussein to Afghanistan for a new operation aimed at getting Osama bin Laden, officials said yesterday. Military sources confirmed that members of the shadowy Task Force 121, the unit that conducted the high-tech search for Saddam and his henchmen, have recently begun operating in the remote mountainous region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where bin Laden and key al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives are believed to be hiding. The Task Force is made up of highly trained Delta and SEAL commandos, as well as CIA paramilitary operators. It operates outside normal military channels.

[Calpernia]

My hubby is a doc.

Thanks for your concern.

*hugs*

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thanks, my old computer got a blank page, but we tried.

[thecabal]

Wish I could keep it going late, but my new job is draining me. I'm hitting the sack early tonight. Less time for freeping unfortunately.

[Calpernia]

My local news radio station never mentioned Madrid. They spent the day on colleges lobbying for gender neutral restrooms.

[Calpernia]

StillProud, AGAIN, lost her Net connection.

Text on a graphic cannot be copied and pasted into Ajeeb translator.

We saw your FIRST request for a translation.

We have said SINCE, there were connection problems.

[Calpernia]

How about them Falcons?

^-^

[Calpernia]

Are you teasing? That girl with the EOM charge was LayoutGuru?

Or did you think I was Selene?

[Cindy]

SNIPPET FROM YOUR POST: "What prompts me to write this is a thread on depression a few months back following the suicide of a Freeper (do a search if inclined). If I remember right, many of the posters agreed that a fair number of Freepers suffer from depression."

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, so I'm going to give you mine Barnacle.

I have been a FReeper for a long time, and have linked to FR since it first began. FR is a great forum for healthy debaters, researchers, and discussing news and views. I have never and I'll repeat this again, NEVER run into "a fair number of Freepers" who "suffer from depression." This is a healthy board with a lot of strong and varied personalities.

As for your statement "following the suicide of a Freeper (do a search if inclined)"... Well, I did a search on the key word "suicide" and found a lot on SUICIDE BOMBERS. Not a lot of FReepers among those guys, I suppose.

As for any FReeper who may be depressed at one time or another; that's normal and natural. As for any Freeper who may have committed suicide; that's sad, but the suicidal attitude does not represent the majority of us and does not represent "a fair number of us", either.

And, that's my 1.2 cents.

[Revel]

oops... I misunderstood what you were replying too. I thought you were replying to the EOM post. Nevermind what I said.

[Calpernia]

BUMP!

And for any freeper on antidepressants, ignore all referrences from Barnacle.

Anyone that feels singled out....

You would be shocked to realize how many mainstream, successful people are on antidepressants.

Propaganda comes in all forms.

[Cindy]

You're very welcome.

[Calpernia]

LG, Revel just called you a gurl!

^-^

[Revel]

DID NOT! Trouble Maker! I'm Tell'n.

[texasbluebell]

Oh, unfortunately she's not home much anymore, since she's locked up in one of those liberal indoctrination camps called a "university"...I'm convinced though that her natural-born common sense will someday come to the fore.

There are signs of it even now. May take a while, but she'll come to her senses.

[Calpernia]

>>>Oh, unfortunately she's not home much anymore, since she's locked up in one of those liberal indoctrination camps called a "university"...

Off topic...but really not really. Our threat is an Octopus.

University of Chicago Transgender Activists Demand 'Gender Neutral' Bathrooms

Posted by Jean Shaw
Monday, December 01, 2003


Continuing their campaign to force a mental disorder on the general populace, transgender activists at the University of Chicago are demanding ''gender neutral'' bathrooms. Apparently assuming that someone actually has a gender is now considered offensive, and making sure that transgenders are ''comfortable'' is of the utmost importance to society. In addition, feminists have decided that separate bathrooms for men and women constitute oppression.

Lucio Guerrero, writing for The Chicago Sun-Times, provides the mind-boggling details.

Transgender, gay and feminist groups at the University of Chicago are asking officials to consider creating more gender-neutral bathrooms, saying some people aren't comfortable selecting a gender-specific facility.

''Persons who are not easily legible as male or female often experience various forms of intimidation in these places. If a woman in a women's-only restroom is assumed to be a man, there may be real threats to her comfort and even safety,'' warns the Coalition for a Queer Safe Campus, a student group comprised of various organizations supporting equality on campus. ''Students have faced gay-baiting comments in our university's sex-segregated bathrooms.''

The issue is especially of concern to transgenders who attend the university. The coalition said they know of students who don't use the bathrooms at school to avoid any controversy.

Members of the Feminist Majority, Queers & Associates and the Center for Gender Studies held a panel at the university last week to discuss the issue. Moon Duchin, a graduate student at U. of C. and an adviser to the Queer Safe Campus bathroom initiative, said there is a misperception on campus from some students about the gender-neutral bathrooms.

She said after the panel convened and word spread about the topic, some students posted negative comments on Web sites about the movement.

''This is a hot-button issue with some people who think that we are trying to do away with conventional bathrooms,'' Duchin said. ''But that's not the case. We are trying to create more choices for people.''

In the short term, the group wants to change existing bathrooms on one floor of the Joseph Regenstein Library and one floor of Cobb Hall, a popular student hangout. In the future, the group would like the university to consider gender-neutral bathrooms to be included in the plans for new buildings.

''Access to public, single-occupancy bathrooms would be ideal for undercutting this source of intimidation, but converting existing multi-stall bathrooms to gender neutrality is an excellent, and easy, intermediate step,'' the group writes on its Web site.

''They have done a great job of raising community awareness of the issue,'' said Bill Michel, associate dean of the college. ''We are in the process of evaluating these two buildings to see if would be possible to create more bathrooms.''

Michel said the university already has nine gender-neutral bathrooms but none in the two most popular buildings.

But it is more than just a gay and transgender issue, for some feminists the issue of gender specific bathrooms has been a problem for years.

''Some feminists might say that any sex segregation is problematic,'' said Mary Anne Case, a professor of law at the University of Chicago who has studied the early roots of feminism and the inequality in sex segregated bathrooms.

Case said that along with creating more bathroom space for women -- a typical problem in public facilities -- the gender-neutral bathroom would also give men and women less reasons to separate in social functions.

[Calpernia]

bookmark.

Night all!

[tubavil]

LoL! More truth to that than you know.

Here in Seattle, your second best bet is to call a cab.

When Achmed arrives with his "borrowed" cell phone and international calling card he paid cash for at the local illegal alien staffed taqueria stand, he can have an imam translate it for you live from 'palestine'.

They are ten hours ahead so early morning translations are not a problem.

allah ahkbar!

[LayoutGuru2]

I was really caught off guard this morning by the bombings in Spain. Any links to info on the abandoned 'MTC' in Seattle? Or was this a personal observation of happenings in your neck of the woods?

[texasbluebell]

That is just so sad, so trivial, isn't it?

When the world actually hangs in the balance, people think trans-gender bathrooms are a vital matter.

[Indie]

Have you noticed the recent splintering of Christianity over the past decade or so? Have you ever read any of the 'new and retranslated' bibles?

Oh yes. It's coming alright. But I don't believe the problem with Islam is the translation...I believe it is the message. I studied it [force-fed] it in college with a liberal [of course] religion prof and have several "friends" at work who are Muslims. I practice my Arabic on them. Freaks 'em out. Especially when I told them happy new year 1425. Looked like they'd seen a ghost.