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Array-ne His name was Buck and he was built like a gorilla. One moment he was standing in front of Buck, hands wrapped in the collar of a dirty blue jumpsuit and the next he was writhing in pain on the ground, one arm dangling uselessly from his body.The second man didn’t have time to do anything before Buck and picked him up and slammed him face first on the floor like a cheap rag doll. And he also knew if they stayed there until the police came Buck’s trouble would include Tom and he wasn’t willing to let that happen.So he grabbed Buck by the arm, taking care to make sure that Buck saw that it was him and not some stranger and suggested that they leave. And as Tom had heard, Buck had worn out at least three other machinists.Each one had tried to match his production and precision, but none could.Tom didn’t know this because of Buck, you could say that he knew it in spite of Buck. The thing was that Buck didn’t try to make anyone feel anything, the feelings were just a response to Buck. The only way he knew that Buck was even aware of him would be when Buck came to his position to exchange a part or check the inventory terminal.Clad in blue coveralls and safety glasses he would shuffle over and sniff around for whatever it was he needed.
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-ne As of writing, the death toll for the London Terror Attacks stands at 37, but could be as high as 52 (as the UK Times reports a further 15 deaths from the bus bomb). The Madrid attacks killed 191 people with 10 bombs - an average of 19 deaths per bomb - while the London attacks that supposedly followed the same pattern only averaged of 13 deaths per bomb (if the UK Times is correct).
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-ne SoxScout at SoSH (12:37 pm):Schilling to the Bullpen Per Tito on WEEIWhen he is activated he will be working in the bullpen. But I agree with the poster that said Schilling could be Gossagesque in the closer role — meaning he could pitch three or four innings.Having the regular starter go five or six innings and have Schilling finish the game could (a) be devastating to the opposing team and (b) give everyone else in the pen the day off perhaps twice a week.
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-ne The introductionThe Commission of Red Book at the ministry of Environment of Lithuania has rejected the requirement of the United Nongovernmental Council for Wolf Conservation (UNCWC) to enclose the Wolfs to the list of protected species by Red Book. The state of Lithuanian Wolfs is criticalAfter the massive protest letter sending action has started (totally 700 letters per two weeks) I have been invited on 29th of June to the Red Book Commission session, because one of the requirements of the protest letters was to enclose the wolf to the list of Red Book as it is the rapidly vanishing species. The member of Society of Ornithologists Mr. Liutauras Raudonikis has offered to forbid hunting of wolfs for a few years in order to make the precise wolf population research, but has been persuaded the wolfs should not be protected. The scientific research about the wolf influence on the scholastic education based on countering the number of wolf pictures in some of the coursebooks or the presentations with the main idea that the Lithuanian women hates wolfs more then the men do does not seem to be very scientific and serious.The monitoring on wolf population - the research conducted in some of seventeen small areas is held every year. Therefore the results are the same as the payments prosecuted and the commission members could not remember a single number about the wolf population, but it was not an obstacle to conclude the wolfs population should be regulated and not protected. On behalf of UNCWC the polish specialists on wolfs has been invited to meet the Red Book Commission members and to present their research results on wolfs and their impact to other species, biological variety and to men initiated activities. âIf I don’t do this for today, there will be nothing left to do for tomorrowâAt the end of Commission meeting the Director of Department of Nature Protection and the alternate of the chairman of the Red Book Commission Mr. Laimutis Budrys has offered to make a wolf population management plan and to state how many wolfs could be shot down each year, but would these plans be implemented in reality or is it one more promise of Ministry of Environment?
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However the war is still unpopular in britian 100,000 protested against the war in November 2003 even though it is not the same as the 90% figure against the war in spain So is there enough disatisfaction in Britian to force Tony Blair out of power. There are rumours of a protest against terrosism in Trafalgar square tonight this might be a sign that instead of this hasting Tony Blair exit this might increase support for the war and Mr Blair.
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Colonialism has not ended in Bharatam. Colonialism has been replacedby communalism which is a millstone round the neck of the Bharatiyapolity.If we think Bharatam has achieved ‘independence’ from a Britishcolonial regime, we should pause and consider if Bharatam territory isunder a spell of the evil doctrine of Dar ul-Harb. In such a doctrinalformulation of Deobandi or Wahhabi islamism, there can be no muslimminorities or muslim immigrants. For the nation of islam to beachieved, ‘kafir’ have no sanctity for life or property. The analysisprovided by Daniel Pipes equally applies to the situation created bythe terror attack on Ayodhya. Dhimmitude of the type engaged in byBritish Government or the secular fraudulent formulations (euphemismfor communal politicking) engaged in by Indian Government willcontinue to encourage people like UBL with grand visions of thecaliphate in their life-time (or martyrdom as they perceive it).Dhimmitude is a a self-imposed colonialism created for appeasing theminorities as a political class. In the context of Bharatam, there canbe no acceptance of muslims as a ‘minority’ because they chose to stayin Hindu rashtra which was formed after Pakistan was carved out as theMuslim rashtra. The special treatment of ‘minorities’ in the Bharatiyaconstitution should end, coterminus with the enactment of a UniformCivil Code and abrogation of Article 370 providing special treatmentfor a part of Bharatam territory in Jammu and Kashmir. Unless such adispensation is agreed upon by amendment of the Constitution, theself-imposed colonialism governed by dhimmitude will continue to hauntthe Bharatiya polity.The tragedy of an Advani talking ’secular’ little realising that theterm is a synonym for ‘communal’ in the context of Bharatiya politicsshould be undone rapidly so that a coherent hindu voice can assert theimperative of a true swarajyam with all Bharatiyas living as onenational entity without any categories of minorities or privilegedclasses.Fundamental duties article of the constitution, together with allother Directive Principles of State Policy should be made justiciableto ensure that Bharatam does not land in the category of Dar ul-Harbin the eyes of the terror operatives.What should Bharatam’s stand be vis-a-vis the oft-called for globalwar on terror? If US is really serious in putting together a globalcoalition, the first condition which should be satisfied is USAstopping aiding Pakistan state which is the world’s madarasa of terrorand declare that Jammu and Kashmir are an unalienable part ofBharatam.Should there be a concerted effort at paraavartan of Pakistani andBangladesh muslims back to the path of dharma, a process ofparaavartan? This prospect has to be deliberated upon. Can suchparaavartan begin, to start with, with the muslims of Bharatam?It appears that the time is now to come to grips with this fundamentalissue: paraavartan, to avoid continued ‘communal’ or ’secular’onslaughts on dharma and to create a society of dharmin (as the Jina’scall them).Waffling on the issue by treating terror with kid-gloves will becounter-productive. The only language that the proponents of Darul-Harb are likely to understand is violence to counter intendedviolence. Yes, Bush is right when he calls this a War on Terror. Doeshe really understand the purport of Dar ul-Harb?Dhanyavaadah.K. [London Terrorism:] British Covenant of Security with Islamists Endsby Daniel PipesNew York SunJuly 8, 2005http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2742Terrorism usually comes like a bolt from the blue, but not so the fourexplosions yesterday in London, killing at least 37. Some BritishIslamist leaders have been warning for months that such violence wasimminent.An Islamist British group called Al-Muhajiroun - the immigrants inArabic - for some time publicly stated that Britain was immune fromIslamist violence because of its acceptable behavior toward Muslimswithin the country’s borders. In an April 2004 conversation, the24-year-old Sayful Islam, who heads Al-Muhajiroun’s Luton branch,announced that he supported Osama Bin Laden 100% in the quest toachieve the worldwide domination of Islam, but went on to voice anaversion to himself performing terrorist acts in Britain.Yet, Mr. Islam endorsed terrorism in Britain in a broader sense Whena bomb attack happens here, I wont be against it, even if it kills myown children. … But it is against Islam for me to engage personally inacts of terrorism in the UK because I live here. According to Islam, Ihave a covenant of security with the UK, as long as they allow usMuslims to live here in peace.” He further explained. “If we want toengage in terrorism, we would have to leave the country. It is againstIslam to do otherwise.”Covenant of security? What is that? In an August 2004 story in the NewStatesman, “Why terrorists love Britain,” Jamie Campbell cited theauthor of Inside Al Qaeda, Mohamed Sifaoui, as saying, “it has longbeen recognized by the British Islamists, by the British governmentand by UK intelligence agencies, that as long as Britain guarantees adegree of freedom to the likes of Hassan Butt [an overtlypro-terrorist Islamist], the terrorist strikes will continue to beplanned within the borders of the UK but will not occur here.”The New Statesman story drew from this the perversely ironicconclusion that “the presence of vocal and active Islamist terroristsympathizers in the U.K. actually makes British people safer, whilethe full brunt of British-based terrorist plotting is suffered bypeople in other countries.”A Syrian immigrant to Britain who headed Al-Muhajiroun, Omar BakriMohammed, confirmed the covenant of security, describing companions ofthe Prophet Muhammad who were given protection by the king ofEthiopia. That experience, he told the magazine, led to the Koranicnotion of covenant of security: Muslims may not attack the inhabitantsof a country where they live in safety. This “makes it unlikely thatBritish-based Muslims will carry out operations in the U.K. itself,”Mr. Mohammed said.But in January 2005, Mr. Mohammed determined that the covenant ofsecurity had ended for British Muslims because of post-September 11,2001, anti-terrorist legislation that meant “the whole of Britain hasbecome Dar ul-Harb,” or territory open for Muslim conquest. Therefore,in a reference to unbelievers, “the kuffar has no sanctity for theirown life or property.”The country had gone from safe haven to enemy camp. To renew thecovenant of security would require British authorities to undo thatlegislation and release those detained without trial. If they fail todo so, British Muslims must “join the global Islamic camp against theglobal crusade camp.”Mr. Mohammed went on overtly to threaten the British people: “Theresponse from the Muslims will be horrendous if the British governmentcontinues in the way it treats Muslims,” explicitly raising thepossibility of suicide bombings under the leadership of Al-Qaeda.Western governments must know that if they do not change course,Muslims will “give them a 9/11 day after day after day!”When Sean ONeil and Yaakov Lappin of the London Times asked Mr.Mohammed about his statements on the covenant, he said his definitionof Britain as Dar ul-Harb was theoretical and he provided anon-bellicose re-interpretation:It means that Muslims can no longer be considered to have sanctity andsecurity here, therefore they should consider leaving this country andgoing back to their homelands. Otherwise they are under siege andobviously we do not want to see that we are living under siege.In a less guarded moment, however, Mr. Mohammed acknowledged that forhim, the life of an unbeliever has no value.Yesterdays explosions mark the end of the “covenant of security.”Lets hope they also mark the end of an era of innocence, and thatBritish authorities now begin to preempt terrorism rather than wait tobecome its victims.
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conservatism, but he too often swerves into parroting liberal Noam ChamoskyismsAs much as itâs nice to see that the level-headed and articulate writers here at the Anti-Strib can compete with the best lefty bloggers, itâs sad there isnât a clearheaded voice left on the left. We use liberal ones when we can to get buy in from the left, as if that is even possible these days.Let me know if you have a moderate left blog that you have found that is worth reading.
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Array-ne His name was Buck and he was built like a gorilla. One moment he was standing in front of Buck, hands wrapped in the collar of a dirty blue jumpsuit and the next he was writhing in pain on the ground, one arm dangling uselessly from his body.The second man didn’t have time to do anything before Buck and picked him up and slammed him face first on the floor like a cheap rag doll. And he also knew if they stayed there until the police came Buck’s trouble would include Tom and he wasn’t willing to let that happen.So he grabbed Buck by the arm, taking care to make sure that Buck saw that it was him and not some stranger and suggested that they leave. And as Tom had heard, Buck had worn out at least three other machinists.Each one had tried to match his production and precision, but none could.Tom didn’t know this because of Buck, you could say that he knew it in spite of Buck. The thing was that Buck didn’t try to make anyone feel anything, the feelings were just a response to Buck. The only way he knew that Buck was even aware of him would be when Buck came to his position to exchange a part or check the inventory terminal.Clad in blue coveralls and safety glasses he would shuffle over and sniff around for whatever it was he needed.
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-ne As of writing, the death toll for the London Terror Attacks stands at 37, but could be as high as 52 (as the UK Times reports a further 15 deaths from the bus bomb). The Madrid attacks killed 191 people with 10 bombs - an average of 19 deaths per bomb - while the London attacks that supposedly followed the same pattern only averaged of 13 deaths per bomb (if the UK Times is correct).
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-ne SoxScout at SoSH (12:37 pm):Schilling to the Bullpen Per Tito on WEEIWhen he is activated he will be working in the bullpen. But I agree with the poster that said Schilling could be Gossagesque in the closer role — meaning he could pitch three or four innings.Having the regular starter go five or six innings and have Schilling finish the game could (a) be devastating to the opposing team and (b) give everyone else in the pen the day off perhaps twice a week.
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-ne The introductionThe Commission of Red Book at the ministry of Environment of Lithuania has rejected the requirement of the United Nongovernmental Council for Wolf Conservation (UNCWC) to enclose the Wolfs to the list of protected species by Red Book. The state of Lithuanian Wolfs is criticalAfter the massive protest letter sending action has started (totally 700 letters per two weeks) I have been invited on 29th of June to the Red Book Commission session, because one of the requirements of the protest letters was to enclose the wolf to the list of Red Book as it is the rapidly vanishing species. The member of Society of Ornithologists Mr. Liutauras Raudonikis has offered to forbid hunting of wolfs for a few years in order to make the precise wolf population research, but has been persuaded the wolfs should not be protected. The scientific research about the wolf influence on the scholastic education based on countering the number of wolf pictures in some of the coursebooks or the presentations with the main idea that the Lithuanian women hates wolfs more then the men do does not seem to be very scientific and serious.The monitoring on wolf population - the research conducted in some of seventeen small areas is held every year. Therefore the results are the same as the payments prosecuted and the commission members could not remember a single number about the wolf population, but it was not an obstacle to conclude the wolfs population should be regulated and not protected. On behalf of UNCWC the polish specialists on wolfs has been invited to meet the Red Book Commission members and to present their research results on wolfs and their impact to other species, biological variety and to men initiated activities. âIf I don’t do this for today, there will be nothing left to do for tomorrowâAt the end of Commission meeting the Director of Department of Nature Protection and the alternate of the chairman of the Red Book Commission Mr. Laimutis Budrys has offered to make a wolf population management plan and to state how many wolfs could be shot down each year, but would these plans be implemented in reality or is it one more promise of Ministry of Environment?
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However the war is still unpopular in britian 100,000 protested against the war in November 2003 even though it is not the same as the 90% figure against the war in spain So is there enough disatisfaction in Britian to force Tony Blair out of power. There are rumours of a protest against terrosism in Trafalgar square tonight this might be a sign that instead of this hasting Tony Blair exit this might increase support for the war and Mr Blair.
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Colonialism has not ended in Bharatam. Colonialism has been replacedby communalism which is a millstone round the neck of the Bharatiyapolity.If we think Bharatam has achieved ‘independence’ from a Britishcolonial regime, we should pause and consider if Bharatam territory isunder a spell of the evil doctrine of Dar ul-Harb. In such a doctrinalformulation of Deobandi or Wahhabi islamism, there can be no muslimminorities or muslim immigrants. For the nation of islam to beachieved, ‘kafir’ have no sanctity for life or property. The analysisprovided by Daniel Pipes equally applies to the situation created bythe terror attack on Ayodhya. Dhimmitude of the type engaged in byBritish Government or the secular fraudulent formulations (euphemismfor communal politicking) engaged in by Indian Government willcontinue to encourage people like UBL with grand visions of thecaliphate in their life-time (or martyrdom as they perceive it).Dhimmitude is a a self-imposed colonialism created for appeasing theminorities as a political class. In the context of Bharatam, there canbe no acceptance of muslims as a ‘minority’ because they chose to stayin Hindu rashtra which was formed after Pakistan was carved out as theMuslim rashtra. The special treatment of ‘minorities’ in the Bharatiyaconstitution should end, coterminus with the enactment of a UniformCivil Code and abrogation of Article 370 providing special treatmentfor a part of Bharatam territory in Jammu and Kashmir. Unless such adispensation is agreed upon by amendment of the Constitution, theself-imposed colonialism governed by dhimmitude will continue to hauntthe Bharatiya polity.The tragedy of an Advani talking ’secular’ little realising that theterm is a synonym for ‘communal’ in the context of Bharatiya politicsshould be undone rapidly so that a coherent hindu voice can assert theimperative of a true swarajyam with all Bharatiyas living as onenational entity without any categories of minorities or privilegedclasses.Fundamental duties article of the constitution, together with allother Directive Principles of State Policy should be made justiciableto ensure that Bharatam does not land in the category of Dar ul-Harbin the eyes of the terror operatives.What should Bharatam’s stand be vis-a-vis the oft-called for globalwar on terror? If US is really serious in putting together a globalcoalition, the first condition which should be satisfied is USAstopping aiding Pakistan state which is the world’s madarasa of terrorand declare that Jammu and Kashmir are an unalienable part ofBharatam.Should there be a concerted effort at paraavartan of Pakistani andBangladesh muslims back to the path of dharma, a process ofparaavartan? This prospect has to be deliberated upon. Can suchparaavartan begin, to start with, with the muslims of Bharatam?It appears that the time is now to come to grips with this fundamentalissue: paraavartan, to avoid continued ‘communal’ or ’secular’onslaughts on dharma and to create a society of dharmin (as the Jina’scall them).Waffling on the issue by treating terror with kid-gloves will becounter-productive. The only language that the proponents of Darul-Harb are likely to understand is violence to counter intendedviolence. Yes, Bush is right when he calls this a War on Terror. Doeshe really understand the purport of Dar ul-Harb?Dhanyavaadah.K. [London Terrorism:] British Covenant of Security with Islamists Endsby Daniel PipesNew York SunJuly 8, 2005http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2742Terrorism usually comes like a bolt from the blue, but not so the fourexplosions yesterday in London, killing at least 37. Some BritishIslamist leaders have been warning for months that such violence wasimminent.An Islamist British group called Al-Muhajiroun - the immigrants inArabic - for some time publicly stated that Britain was immune fromIslamist violence because of its acceptable behavior toward Muslimswithin the country’s borders. In an April 2004 conversation, the24-year-old Sayful Islam, who heads Al-Muhajiroun’s Luton branch,announced that he supported Osama Bin Laden 100% in the quest toachieve the worldwide domination of Islam, but went on to voice anaversion to himself performing terrorist acts in Britain.Yet, Mr. Islam endorsed terrorism in Britain in a broader sense Whena bomb attack happens here, I wont be against it, even if it kills myown children. … But it is against Islam for me to engage personally inacts of terrorism in the UK because I live here. According to Islam, Ihave a covenant of security with the UK, as long as they allow usMuslims to live here in peace.” He further explained. “If we want toengage in terrorism, we would have to leave the country. It is againstIslam to do otherwise.”Covenant of security? What is that? In an August 2004 story in the NewStatesman, “Why terrorists love Britain,” Jamie Campbell cited theauthor of Inside Al Qaeda, Mohamed Sifaoui, as saying, “it has longbeen recognized by the British Islamists, by the British governmentand by UK intelligence agencies, that as long as Britain guarantees adegree of freedom to the likes of Hassan Butt [an overtlypro-terrorist Islamist], the terrorist strikes will continue to beplanned within the borders of the UK but will not occur here.”The New Statesman story drew from this the perversely ironicconclusion that “the presence of vocal and active Islamist terroristsympathizers in the U.K. actually makes British people safer, whilethe full brunt of British-based terrorist plotting is suffered bypeople in other countries.”A Syrian immigrant to Britain who headed Al-Muhajiroun, Omar BakriMohammed, confirmed the covenant of security, describing companions ofthe Prophet Muhammad who were given protection by the king ofEthiopia. That experience, he told the magazine, led to the Koranicnotion of covenant of security: Muslims may not attack the inhabitantsof a country where they live in safety. This “makes it unlikely thatBritish-based Muslims will carry out operations in the U.K. itself,”Mr. Mohammed said.But in January 2005, Mr. Mohammed determined that the covenant ofsecurity had ended for British Muslims because of post-September 11,2001, anti-terrorist legislation that meant “the whole of Britain hasbecome Dar ul-Harb,” or territory open for Muslim conquest. Therefore,in a reference to unbelievers, “the kuffar has no sanctity for theirown life or property.”The country had gone from safe haven to enemy camp. To renew thecovenant of security would require British authorities to undo thatlegislation and release those detained without trial. If they fail todo so, British Muslims must “join the global Islamic camp against theglobal crusade camp.”Mr. Mohammed went on overtly to threaten the British people: “Theresponse from the Muslims will be horrendous if the British governmentcontinues in the way it treats Muslims,” explicitly raising thepossibility of suicide bombings under the leadership of Al-Qaeda.Western governments must know that if they do not change course,Muslims will “give them a 9/11 day after day after day!”When Sean ONeil and Yaakov Lappin of the London Times asked Mr.Mohammed about his statements on the covenant, he said his definitionof Britain as Dar ul-Harb was theoretical and he provided anon-bellicose re-interpretation:It means that Muslims can no longer be considered to have sanctity andsecurity here, therefore they should consider leaving this country andgoing back to their homelands. Otherwise they are under siege andobviously we do not want to see that we are living under siege.In a less guarded moment, however, Mr. Mohammed acknowledged that forhim, the life of an unbeliever has no value.Yesterdays explosions mark the end of the “covenant of security.”Lets hope they also mark the end of an era of innocence, and thatBritish authorities now begin to preempt terrorism rather than wait tobecome its victims.
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conservatism, but he too often swerves into parroting liberal Noam ChamoskyismsAs much as itâs nice to see that the level-headed and articulate writers here at the Anti-Strib can compete with the best lefty bloggers, itâs sad there isnât a clearheaded voice left on the left. We use liberal ones when we can to get buy in from the left, as if that is even possible these days.Let me know if you have a moderate left blog that you have found that is worth reading.
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