You’re very welcome.
I’ve been a bit out of the loop because I’ve been working on taxes.
What’s worse?
Shoveling snow or taxes or the elections?
I cannot wait for spring.
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969332/posts
‘Honour’ killings grow as girl, 17, stoned to death
Kurdish Media ^
Posted on 02/12/2008 3:53:57 PM PST by ddtorquee
It is seven months since Du’aa was stoned to death by a mob in the Kurdish hillside village of Basshiqa, northern Iraq
...Du’aa was taken to the home of Sheikh Sulaiman Sulaiman, the senior Yazidi figure in the village.
...A 65-year-old uncle, Salim, a science teacher, backed the head of their tribe, Omar Hamko, 73, in demanding that she be killed to “cleanse the family honour”.
Her father would not countenance it. He proposed that she be married to a cousin and moved to Syria.
...When the uncle insisted that he would decide Du’aa’s fate as the elder sibling and head of the local Communists, her father ordered him out of the house.
...Salim sent sons, nephews and party supporters to surround the home of the sheikh, firing shots into the air. “They came with guns and stones, shouting and screaming in anger,” the sheikh said last week.
Looking back on the terrible scenes that followed, he lamented the manner of Du’aa’s killing, but not her death.
...the sheikh said. “It was down to her family to cleanse her shame. Maybe kill her with one bullet, electrocution, any manner but not through this awful stoning.
...The mobile phone clips show her being taken straight from the sheikh’s house to the marketplace in a headlock, wailing and screaming as armed police watched in silence.
In the marketplace, she came under a hail of stones and her face and clothes were soon covered in blood. Among those hurling the stones were several male cousins from her father’s side of the family and one – Araas – from her mother’s. It was Araas who approached as she tried to struggle to her feet and smashed a large piece of concrete over her head to finish her off.
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“According to the human rights ministry in northern Iraq, 598 women have been burnt, beaten, shot, strangled, thrown from tall buildings, force-fed with lethal drugs, crushed by vehicles, drowned, decapitated or made to kill themselves so far this year, exceeding the 553 recorded for the whole of 2006. “
1 posted on 02/12/2008 3:53:58 PM PST by ddtorquee
Definitely taxes. You have my sympathy.
1/3 shoveling snow; 1/3 taxes; 1/3 elections
Childrens shw - Hamas bunny vows to eat jews
A new character has joined the cast of the Hamas TV children's show "Pioneers of Tomorrow" - Assud the Bunny. Assud's return from "the diaspora" followed the death of his brother, Nahoul the Bee, on the show. Nahoul was depicted as dying because he could not get to a hospital in Egypt for surgery. Assud states, "We are all ready to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of our homeland. We will sacrifice our souls and everything we own for the homeland"; program host Saraa Barhoum concurs. He also vows to "get rid of the Jews and eat them up."
Sharia Law already being enforced in 10 UK courts
Extremists were said to have used the spread of Sharia courts to justify calls for Islamic law to be adopted "wholesale" for Muslims living in Britain.
Anjem Choudary, a solicitor and former senior figure in the banned organisation Al Muhajiroun, said: "Some element of family law or social and economic law will not work. It has to be adopted wholesale. It will not happen tomorrow but it is inevitable because Sharia is superior and better for mankind."
An Israeli town is suing Internet giant Google for slander, a local official said Monday, because a feature of its worldwide map service shows the town was built on the ruins of an Arab village.
The dispute brings together two controversies, one old and one new. Officials from the town, Kiryat Yam, deny they displaced Arabs during the war that followed Israel's creation in1948 , and Google is defending the practice of allowing any surfer to change information in its files.
FBI employee indicted for taking all-expense cruise after helping company secure $2M contract
Curtis Jones is accused of accepting a Caribbean cruise for him and his family after helping a shredding machine company win a $2 million contract.
The Justice Department says Jones helped negotiate the purchase of shredders for FBI employees to use when destroying classified documents.
Officials say that shortly after the deal went through, Jones accepted an offer to take his family on an all-expenses-paid cruise with company executives over the 2004 New Year's holiday. The Justice Department says the cruise was worth $7,500.