eeeewwwww! (freaky picture). Look by the tree trunk, about 3 below the one with the red hair, but above the one with the green hair
Posted on 12/22/2002 4:30:53 PM PST by Alouette
A couple from the Arab village of Tira was severely beaten Sunday by a mob after a homemade porn film they participated in was distributed in the village. The cover of the film pictured the two people naked in front of a mosque.
The woman was in a serious condition and the man suffered light to moderate wounds.
According to Itim, police said that they became aware of the film one week ago and also learned that the outraged fellow villagers planned to punish the couple for "harming the honor of Islam." Police attempted to find the couple to protect them but were unsuccessful.
On Sunday police were alerted to the fact that the couple were in the center of the village, surrounded by an angry mob. The angry crowd tried to prevent the police from taking the couple away and police were forced to fire shots in the air to extricate the pair.
Two policemen were injured and four people were arrested.
Police said the couple had been taken to a hospital, but refused to divulge the name fearing for the safety of the two.
Are you now so desperate to suck up to Bush that you have to resort to lying?
How interesting that you agree with Clinton and the Democrats on this.
How interesting that just like your master,Bubba Bush,you resort to Clintonian and Carville tactics to cover up and excuse your actions.
pete, you keep saying that Bush "squandered" Clinton's budget surplus, my point is that he needed to manufacture ordnance, and give pay raises to the military. You again made the claim that Bush squandered the surplus.
What was it exactly that you meant to say, if you weren't saying that replinishing ordnance, and giving pay raises to the military is "squandering the budget"?
"No,it's more correct to say that Bubba-2 squandered the projected budget surplus forced on Bubba-1 by a Republican congress."
I provided you with a link to the vote in the Senate which cut $105 billion dollars off the budget by freezing military spending.
The motion was carried by the Democrats, and the cut backs approved.
how is that the fault of the Republicans?
No,I don't. First off,there WAS no budget surplus,only a projected one. Secondly,Clinton can claim ZERO credit for it,since it was forced on him by a Republican congress.
my point is that he needed to manufacture ordnance, and give pay raises to the military.
Yes,I know. And you are going to focus on that one point,and ignore all the other things because that one point shows your boy in his most favorable light.
You again made the claim that Bush squandered the surplus.
And you are saying he didn't? Or at least that he didn't blow the PROJECTED surplus right out of the water? Name ONE cutback he has made in the government,or one freeze he has intitiated. The government is now both bigger AND more expensive than it has ever been. Bubba-1 must be green with envy.
What was it exactly that you meant to say, if you weren't saying that replinishing ordnance, and giving pay raises to the military is "squandering the budget"?
You know exactly what I was writing about because I listed some of the reasons in my post. Things like expanding the Dept of Education,pledging billions to build homes for minorities,pledging billions in aid to Africa,creating the Office of Reich Security,etc,etc,etc. NO mention of raises for the military,OR buying new ordinance and other equipment.
I saw an article about two weeks ago with that said Bush held the gummint COLA at 3.1% and didn't give them a pay raise. I think us veterans got a 1/4% COLA.
That was quite a laugher. I'm laughing so hard now that I'm nearly crying.
Bush is the same as Bubba-1.
Since when has the Senate controlled government spending?
The motion was carried by the Democrats, and the cut backs approved.
Ok.
how is that the fault of the Republicans?
Well,other than the fact that the Republicans controlled the Congress,and the Congress were the ones who approved the budget,I guess they had nothing to do with it.
Hey pete, are we going to debate like adults or what?
"And you are going to focus on that one point,and ignore all the other things because that one point shows your boy in his most favorable light."
Then pick the topic pete.
President Bush was faced with certain issues. The most directly linked to the US economy being the crash of the market, plus an attack on our nation that cost a whole lot of money:
The September 11 attacks inflicted casualties and material damages on a far greater scale than any other terrorist aggression in recent history. Lower Manhattan lost approximately 30 percent of its office space and a number of businesses ceased to exist. Close to 200,000 jobs were destroyed or relocated out of New York City, at least temporarily. The destruction of physical assets was estimated in the national accounts to amount to $14 billion for private businesses, $1.5 billion for state and local government enterprises and $0.7 billion for federal enterprises. Rescue, cleanup and related costs have been estimated to amount to at least $11 billion for a total direct cost of $27.2 billion.
Immediately after the attacks, leading forecast services sharply revised downward their projections of economic activity. The consensus forecast for U.S. real GDP growth was instantly downgraded by 0.5 percentage points for 2001 and 1.2 percentage points for 2002. The implied projected cumulative loss in national income through the end of 2003 amounted to 5 percentage points of annual GDP, or half a trillion dollars.
With production disrupted in some areas (airlines) and consumers increasingly cautious, real GDP shrank in the third quarter of 2001. But in the fourth quarter, demand held up better than initially feared, and GDP increased. However, private sector fixed investment registered a steep decline, and inventories were slashed. Offsetting these forces, however, were household consumption, helped by falling energy prices, and government spending. Defense spending in particular grew by about 9.25% in real terms in the fourth quarter, at a seasonally adjusted annual rate.
Some sectors or firms actually witnessed an increase in demand, notably in the area of security and information technology. Still, while overall demand proved fairly resilient, a number of sectors were hit hard, with declining output and profits continuing into the mid-term.
Overall however the short-term adverse economic impact of the attacks was far less than feared initially, thanks in large part to good economic crisis management. The Federal Reserve, the Administration and Congress acted quickly to restore confidence, inject liquidity and provide resources to deal with the consequences of the attacks. The Federal Reserve by lowering the price of credit and temporarily providing vast amounts of liquidity helped safeguard the integrity of the financial system and saved many firms from bankruptcy.
Looking beyond the short term, the fact that the attack was premeditated and therefore could be repeated has had a significant impact on five main areas: (1) insurance; (2) airlines; (3) tourism and other industries associated with travel; (4) shipping; and (5) increased defense/security expenditures. In turn, developments in these areas have had a broader effect on wide areas of economic activity.
While it is too early to say with any precision, the medium term costs to the economy may be considerable. The shrinkage of terrorism related insurance coverage may have a detrimental impact on investment as lenders become wary of greater potential risks, although there is no strong evidence yet of such a pattern. While providing a much needed short-run stimulus to the economy, the increased levels of fiscal deficits stemming from the acceleration in defense expenditures may, in the medium-to-longer term, retard growth by increasing interest rates and thus reducing private capital formation and productivity.
Let me ask you something, in light of all this...you expected cubacks?
Maybe, you need to wake up and smell the coffee.
That's why I call him Bubba-2. I've recently starting calling him Ali Bubba or Ali Bubba-2,in honor of his friendship with the Saud Royal family. You know,the people who are actually guilty of the things he accusses Saddam Hussein of being guilty of doing.
pete, that measure was passed in 1993, you're not saying that in 1993 we had a Republican controlled Congress, are you?
Yes,I did. How would reining in government hurt the economy? How would a freeze on non-essential government spending have hurt the econmy? And more important,how does expanding the size and power of government and creating whole new bureaucracies help the economy?
That's scary pete.
"And more important,how does expanding the size and power of government and creating whole new bureaucracies help the economy?"
Where was the government "expanded"?
What NEW bureaucracies have been created?
I'm not sure if that qualifes as a cutback,a freeze,or neither. I don't even know enough about that program to know how it's et up,or if the numbers can be "jiggled" by the president to say what they want them to say.
Even if it IS a cutback in spending,it does nothing to reduce the size of government.
Of course not. The Republicans didn't take over Congress untill 1994. It would help matters a lot though if you would make up your mind what you are argueing about. One minute your point seems to be the US Senate spent more money that Bubba-2 wanted spent,so the budget busting that has taken place since he's been in office isn't his fault,and the next minute you are talking about something Congress did in 1993. You're slippery enough to be a politician yourself.
That's scary pete.
I'll tell you what's scary,and that is people who try to tell you that the feral gooberment redistributing money is the same as creating wealth.
Where was the government "expanded"?
The Dept of Eduction,HUD,FAA,etc,etc,etc.
hat NEW bureaucracies have been created?
The Office of Reich Security.
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