Saturday, 22 September 2012

Secular Café: Anti-Islam film: Pakistan minister offers $100,000 bounty for his death.

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Anti-Islam film: Pakistan minister offers $100,000 bounty for his death.
Sep 22nd 2012, 17:42

Quote:

A Pakistani government minister has offered a $100,000 (£61,616) reward for the death of the maker of an anti-Islam film produced in the US.

Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told reporters that he would pay the reward for the "sacred duty" out of his own pocket.

He suggested the Taliban and al-Qaeda would be eligible for the reward.

His comments came a day after at least 20 people died in clashes between anti-film protesters and police.

"I announce today that this blasphemer who has abused the holy prophet, if somebody will kill him, I will give that person a prize of $100,000," the minister said.

Cont...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19687386

The question is will he get to keep his job? If the Pakistani government keeps him in post it will seriously harm their international relations.

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Secular Café: Federal judge says no constitutional right to secret ballot

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Federal judge says no constitutional right to secret ballot
Sep 22nd 2012, 15:02

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingne...-secret-ballot

So, in Denver, how you voted can be tracked back to you.....

Quote:

Saying there is no fundamental right to a secret ballot, a federal judge Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by elections integrity activists that challenged whether counties can print ballots with identifying numbers that critics say can be traced back to individual voters easily.

Denver U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello first denied a request by the Citizen Center, a group that advocates transparency in elections, to block counties temporarily from printing ballots with identifying bar codes.

Arguello then dismissed the entire case, filed against Secretary of State Scott Gessler and the clerks in Boulder, Chaffee and Eagle counties.

"The court made the right decision," Gessler said Friday afternoon. "The fact is, with our new rules and guidelines, voter secrecy is better protected now than ever before."

Marilyn Marks of Aspen, founder of the Citizen Center, said she was stunned by the outcome.

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Secular Café: Libyans exploiting Syrian refugees?

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Libyans exploiting Syrian refugees?
Sep 22nd 2012, 14:24

This is very sad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19660293

Quote:

Hard living conditions for Syrian refugees in Libya are forcing some families to marry off their daughters to wealthy local men. Syrians say Libyans often knock at their doors asking for especially underage girls, as BBC Arabic's Ahmed Maher reports from Benghazi.

Ahmed Atrash is among hundreds of Syrian refugees in the country's second largest city, Benghazi. He and his family have fled the raging war back home.

He says he would rather see Syrians beg in the street than married off to rich Libyans for money, lamenting that many were targeting underage Syrian girls.

"We arrived in Benghazi two months ago and last month a Libyan man knocked at my door and asked whether I had a daughter or a sister to marry in return for money. I laughed and told him yes, I do have a two-year-old daughter," he told BBC Arabic TV...

...The father-of-two is appalled that penniless Syrian families are being forced to sell off their daughters.

"They are exploiting our financial distress. Many families here cannot provide even a square meal for their children."

An official from the self-styled Syrian Revolutionary Union (SRU) said Libyan men often ask them to direct them to Syrian families, hoping to marry girls.

One Libyan man told me: "Syrian girls are beautiful."

Another pointed out that to marry a Libyan woman, her family would ask for a dowry of $19,000, while Syrians would only seek a few hundred dollars.

There are neither refugee camps for Syrians nor an organised government scheme to host them, unlike in other Arab and Muslim countries, chiefly Turkey and Jordan. They are scattered across several Libyan cities and there are no official statistics on their numbers in the North African country...

..."There is nothing wrong in such marriages if the men are financially able, whether they are single or married," said Sheikh Ashraf Al-Aqrabi, Imam of the Garyounis Mosque.

"This is a religious duty as long as it is done by mutual consent. We must encourage Libyans to help protect such vulnerable families, because they might be forced into prostitution."

But Mr Atrash doesn't agree.

"This is modern-day slavery," he said angrily. "Using the word marriage is just a euphemism."

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Thursday, 20 September 2012

Secular Café: Limbaugh: Average Man's Penis Size Shrinking Due to "Feminazis."

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Limbaugh: Average Man's Penis Size Shrinking Due to "Feminazis."
Sep 21st 2012, 00:40

You can't make shit up stupider than what he actually says.
link

Until I read the article, I wondered how many penises (penii?) he sees on a regular basis to come to this particular conclusion, but anyway...
Quote:

Rush Limbaugh on Thursday lashed out at feminists — who he called “feminazis” — over the news that male genitalia are shrinking.

The conservative radio host pointed to an Italian study which found that the average male penis was 10 percent smaller than 50 years ago. Researchers cited weight gain around the waist, smoking, stress and environmental pollutants as factors.

But Limbaugh wasn’t buying that explanation.
...
I think it’s feminism,” he declared. “If it’s tied to the last 50 years — the average size of [a male's] member is 10 percent smaller than 50 years — it has to be the feminazis, the chickification and everything else.”

“Give ‘em time and they’ll blame Bush. But air pollution vs. feminazis? Ha!”


^ he even facepalmed himself!
And yes, women wanting equal rights to men, besides being the equivalent of murdering several million people, also magically causes dicks to shrink. This has been scientifically demonstrated by nofucking body ever

The man (and I use that term loosely) is a buffoon and a joke to anyone other than the right wing looneys in the US.

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Secular Café: Now THIS is what I call football fan hooliganism...

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Now THIS is what I call football fan hooliganism...
Sep 20th 2012, 18:54

Wow....just wow. A fan threw a grenade on to the field at a football game in Iran.....

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Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Secular Café: "Protect and Survive" - Holy Crap!

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"Protect and Survive" - Holy Crap!
Sep 20th 2012, 03:30

I'd have made it "Holy Fuck!" but didn't want it in TSS. This is scarier than what was ever shown in the US until the "Day After" broadcast (which in MO was scarier than "Threads.") I had nightmares about nuclear war several times a week from about 1984-1987 (of course Reagan was president and I was convinced he WANTED a nuclear war at the time - he was a horrible president.

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Google for more unless you are british and old enough to have seen these.

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Secular Café: @nick_clegg We made a pledge... we didn't stick to it - and for that I am sorry

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@nick_clegg We made a pledge... we didn't stick to it - and for that I am sorry
Sep 19th 2012, 17:18

Nick Clegg just tweeted the above and published this video today:

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I think he's gonna get eviscerated....

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