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[Hank Chinaski]

for 2 years now we've dodged major hurricanes. I'm getting a new car in the spring. does all this mean I can get another SUV after all?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
for 2 years now we've dodged major hurricanes. I'm getting a new car in the spring. does all this mean I can get another SUV after all?

Two category 5 storms in the Atlantic this year not enough for you? Don't worry, there were a lot more in the Pacific.

[SlaveNoMore]

Gattigap

• Joke or not, Comedy Central is taking Stephen Colbert's presidential candidacy - or, at least the legal implications of it - very seriously.
  
  The network has consulted a top Washington election law firm and appears keenly aware of the strict election law provisions that could be triggered by Colbert's satirical campaign.
  
  Comedy Central this week issued a confident statement rejecting assertions by election law experts that the network, Colbert and his eponymous faux news show, "The Colbert Report," risk violating the tricky laws governing what types of money can - and can't - be spent influencing federal elections.
  
  
  "Based on the law, prior rulings made by the Federal Election Commission and advice of expert outside counsel, Comedy Central is very comfortable that the network, 'The Colbert Report' and Stephen Colbert are operating well within federal campaign election laws," the statement said.
  
  The expert outside counsel in question is the Washington law firm Wiley Rein, whose lawyers have represented the Republican National Committee and the first President Bush’s campaign. In 2003, the firm won FEC approval for a reality show about a mock presidential campaign called "American Candidate," which aired on Showtime, at the time a subsidiary of Comedy Central's current parent company, Viacom.

Politico

• Stephen Colbert launched his native son candidacy for president in South Carolina today -- and drew comparisons with Christ while earning the wrath of another native, former Sen. John Edwards.
  
  Columbia, S.C., Mayor Bob Coble presented the "Comedy Central" hero a key to the city, declared him South Carolina's "favorite son" and officially proclaimed it Stephen Colbert day. Some in the crowd held signs with images of Colbert and Jesus that read, "Colbert. Christ. Favorite Sons '08."
  
  Colbert said he was honored to receive the key to the city and said he "loves South Carolina, almost as much as South Carolina loves" him.
  
  Meanwhile, The State newspaper in Columbia this weekend published a side-by-side comparison of the two native sons -- drawing a reply by the Edwards campaign contesting the findings.
  
  For one thing, Edwards' hair was described as "naturally fluffy" while Colbert's is "very stiff." But trouble started when Colbert was quoted on his opponent: "John Edwards left South Carolina when he was 1 year old. He had his chance. Saying his parents moved him - that's the easy answer."
  
  This prompted the Edwards campaign to send out to the media the following:
  
  "RHETORIC VS REALITY: STEPHEN COLBERT - PLAYING LOOSE WITH THE FACTS.
  
  "CLAIM: Edwards abandoned South Carolina when he was one year old.
  
  "FACT: Edwards was born in South Carolina, learned to walk in South Carolina, learned to talk to in South Carolina, and will kick Stephen Colbert's New York City butt in South Carolina.
  
  "Stephen Colbert claims to represent a new kind of politics, but today we see he's participating in the slash and burn politics that has no place in American discourse. The truthiness is, as the candidate of Doritos, Colbert's hands are stained by corporate corruption and nacho cheese. John Edwards has never taken a dime from salty food lobbyists and America deserves a President who isn't in the pocket of the snack food special interests."
  
  Colbert, at the campus of the University of South Carolina today, told several hundred sign-waving fans that he'll take care of the rival state to the south. "I promise, if elected, I will crush the state of Georgia," Colbert said to the cheering crowd.

Editor & Publisher


I know. I'm getting a little obsessed. I'll stop now.

Gattigap

I've never actually heard a word uttered from this guy - wouldn't be able to pick him out of a lineup, other than that I think he wears glasses - and I couldn't tell you if his name is pronounced COL-BERT or COL-BEAR.

So I'm clearly missing something. Isn't he just another comedian-turned-talk show host?

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I've never actually heard a word uttered from this guy - wouldn't be able to pick him out of a lineup, other than that I think he wears glasses - and I couldn't tell you if his name is pronounced COL-BERT or COL-BEAR.

So I'm clearly missing something. Isn't he just another comedian-turned-talk show host?

1. COL-BEAR. ("Yeah, it's French. Bitch.")

2. Yes, comedian-turned-talk show host, provided that the host is one part Bill O'Reilly, one part Shawn Hannity, and one part narcissist. He's funny. You'd like him.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
I've never actually heard a word uttered from this guy - wouldn't be able to pick him out of a lineup, other than that I think he wears glasses - and I couldn't tell you if his name is pronounced COL-BERT or COL-BEAR.

So I'm clearly missing something. Isn't he just another comedian-turned-talk show host?

Come on, dude. You have to be kidding.

Steven Fucking Colbert? You don't know who Steven Colbert is? Are you a junkie living in a trailer outside Eureka?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
for 2 years now we've dodged major hurricanes. I'm getting a new car in the spring. does all this mean I can get another SUV after all?

You should save the money and take a nice, late fall Carribean vacation..

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
You should save the money and take a nice, late fall Carribean vacation..

no one claimed global warming would cure ropicl storms entirely. I'm just saying what Algore promised at the Academy awards seems maybe not happening, although, for a clinton promise, i suppose you're right a tropical storm is delivering.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Come on, dude. You have to be kidding.

Steven Fucking Colbert? You don't know who Steven Colbert is? Are you a junkie living in a trailer outside Eureka?

if he can even say that the name might be pronounced "col-BEAR" he has an idea of who the guy is. lying fucking republicans.

[andViolins]

Hank, you're from an area with a large middle-eastern population. Any thoughts?

New Islamic Center imam Ahmed Alzaree resigns

Imam Ahmed AlzareeThe new spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland has quit before he worked a single day.

Imam Ahmed Alzaree announced Monday, three days before he was to begin the job, that he was resigning.

Alzaree said allegations by bloggers that he was anti-Semitic and had associated with an individual suspected of having terrorist ties so poisoned the atmosphere in Northeast Ohio that he and his wife, Marwa, decided to look elsewhere.

"Cleveland now is a nightmare for her," Alzaree said. "It will never be a good start for me and the Jewish community."
Zahid Siddiqi, general secretary of the mosque, said the Islamic Center would accept Alzaree's resignation. "We certainly don't want to impose on him and his family," Siddiqi said Monday afternoon.

Alzaree, 38, the former spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Omaha, was to be the mosque's first permanent imam since Fawaz Damra. Damra was deported to the Middle East in January on charges that he falsified his citizenship application by failing to disclose ties to extremist groups.

Critics called him a "two-faced jihadist." Alzaree said he was nothing like that, but said he and his wife concluded they could never have a good beginning in Northeast Ohio.Leaders of the Parma mosque said that they investigated Alzaree's background and that a major reason they hired him was his commitment to interfaith work. Reports from the Omaha mosque and others in the religious community in Nebraska confirmed Alzaree was committed to explaining Islam in churches and synagogues.
But no sooner did the mosque announce his hiring than bloggers posted part of a 2003 "end times" sermon in which Alzaree quoted the Prophet Muhammad saying one sign of the approach of the Day of Judgment is that "the Muslims will kill the Jews." Bloggers also reported that Wagdy Ghoneim, a controversial cleric, spoke at the Omaha mosque.

Alzaree said last week that the sermon gave many examples of Islamic teaching on the Day of Judgment and that it was clear that Muslims in the present were required to "strive and struggle in the world doing the good." He also said the administration of the Omaha mosque invited Ghoneim to speak.

As of Thursday afternoon, Alzaree had been planning to come to Cleveland, vowing to make an extra effort to reach out to Jewish and Christian leaders.

But as Web sites such as Central Ohioans Against Terrorism and Jihad Watch continued to probe, using such terms as "two-faced jihadist," Alzaree said he and his wife concluded they could never have a good beginning in Northeast Ohio.

"I leave the field" to the bloggers, he said Monday. "I have peace now."

Alzaree said he will decide among a half-dozen other job offers.

The Parma mosque will resume its search for an imam, said Zuhair Hasan, the new mosque president.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007...its_befor.html

aV

[Replaced_Texan]

Egads!

AT THE MOSUL DAM, Iraq - The largest dam in Iraq is in serious danger of an imminent collapse that could unleash a trillion-gallon wave of water, possibly killing thousands of people and flooding two of the largest cities in the country, according to new assessments by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other U.S. officials.

Even in a country gripped by daily bloodshed, the possibility of a catastrophic failure of the Mosul Dam has alarmed American officials, who have concluded that it could lead to as many as 500,000 civilian deaths by drowning Mosul under 65 feet of water and parts of Baghdad under 15 feet, said Abdulkhalik Thanoon Ayoub, the dam manager. "The Mosul dam is judged to have an unacceptable annual failure probability," in the dry wording of an Army Corps of Engineers draft report.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Egads!

Talk about the will of Allah

[SlaveNoMore]

sebastian_dangerfield
Come on, dude. You have to be kidding.

Steven Fucking Colbert? You don't know who Steven Colbert is? Are you a junkie living in a trailer outside Eureka?

I waste enough minutes of my waking life such that I honestly dont need to keep track of every new cable talk-show host. What's your excuse?

[SlaveNoMore]

ltl/fb
if he can even say that the name might be pronounced "col-BEAR" he has an idea of who the guy is. lying fucking republicans.

Gee fattie - do you still pronounce the cheese CAM-en-BERT?

[SlaveNoMore]

andViolins
Hank, you're from an area with a large middle-eastern population. Any thoughts?

New Islamic Center imam Ahmed Alzaree resigns


Critics called him a "two-faced jihadist." Alzaree said he was nothing like that, but said he and his wife concluded they could never have a good beginning in Northeast Ohio.Leaders of the Parma mosque said that they investigated Alzaree's background and that a major reason they hired him was his commitment to interfaith work. Reports from the Omaha mosque and others in the religious community in Nebraska confirmed Alzaree was committed to explaining Islam in churches and synagogues.
But no sooner did the mosque announce his hiring than bloggers posted part of a 2003 "end times" sermon in which Alzaree quoted the Prophet Muhammad saying one sign of the approach of the Day of Judgment is that "the Muslims will kill the Jews." Bloggers also reported that Wagdy Ghoneim, a controversial cleric, spoke at the Omaha mosque.

Alzaree said last week that the sermon gave many examples of Islamic teaching on the Day of Judgment and that it was clear that Muslims in the present were required to "strive and struggle in the world doing the good." He also said the administration of the Omaha mosque invited Ghoneim to speak.

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007...its_befor.html

aV

Nice whitewash. You would think half these journalists were on the Saudi payroll.

Here is what he said:

Dear brothers and sisters, the talk about the Day of Judgment is long and full of things that will confuse the human mind and put fear in the hearts of the faithful. Every day that comes is much more Worse than the day before it as we get closer to the hour. Among the signs of the approach of Day of Judgment is what the messenger of Allah PBUH said: “The hour of judgment shall not happen until the Muslims fight the Jews. The Muslims shall kill the Jews to the point that the Jew shall hide behind a big rock or a tree and the rock or tree shall call on the Muslim saying: hey, O Muslim there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him, except the Gharqad tree which will not say, for it is the tree of Jews."

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
The Muslims shall kill the Jews to the point that the Jew shall hide behind a big rock or a tree and the rock or tree shall call on the Muslim saying: hey, O Muslim there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him, except the Gharqad tree which will not say, for it is the tree of Jews."