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Couple pleads guilty to kissing in public during Ramadan

December 28th, 2006 at 1:38 pm . by nuke

Dubai: An Australian manager and a Filipina receptionist are pleading guilty to hugging and kissing in public besides consuming liquor, a court heard yesterday.

The 37-year-old manager and 35-year-old receptionist confessed to the Dubai Court of Appeal yesterday that they committed an indecent gesture in public after they were caught hugging and kissing during Ramadan in a coffee shop.

The Dubai Court of First Instance earlier sentenced the defendants to one month in jail for kissing and hugging in public and fined them Dh1,000 for consuming liquor.

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Comment posted by advair overnight
at 1/9/2007 11:22:49 AM

advair overnight

Couple pleads guilty to in public during Ramadan « Nuke’s

Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 12/28/2006 10:37:46 PM

Dubai is where the Saudis go to let their hair down, so to speak.

Comment posted by Angel
at 12/28/2006 10:34:22 PM

What no beheadings?..they mus b slipping!

Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 12/28/2006 10:29:00 PM

Don’t they pass out any kinds of cultural hints to people before they arrive? It is perfectly okay for men to kiss one another in public and hold hands, not a man and woman.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 12/28/2006 10:24:23 PM

Henh!
Would that islam would react by telling them to just “get a room!”

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Edwards announces for Prez

December 28th, 2006 at 4:24 am . by nuke

mylilpony.jpgspicoli.jpgI just noticed the blurb on cable news, John Edwards (trial lawyer-NC) was in the lower 9th in NewOrleans. He announced his candidacy for the ‘08 Democrat nomination.
The photo op was framed nicely. Edwards in his starched work shirt and blue jeans, toting a shovel full of dirt, smiling for the cameras as he dutifully pitches the dirt into a pile.

The shovel looked brand new. My guess is the handlers made a quick stop by Home Depot before the photo op.

The first thing that popped in my head was the Katrina photo of Spicoli, frantically trying to keep his fishing boat from sinking with the Red Cup.

Heh™. Priceless.

Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 12/28/2006 7:18:38 PM

Well, I can’t really say nothin’ ’bout Nawth Carolina on account of the SwampMan was born there.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 12/28/2006 7:06:04 PM

See y’all later, time to cheer on the Aggies in the Holiday Bowl.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 12/28/2006 7:01:49 PM

WTF?
Tony Blair:

To me, the most remarkable thing about the Koran is how progressive it is. I write with great humility as a member of another faith. As an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, much as reformers attempted to do with the Christian church centuries later. The Koran is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and far ahead of its time in attitudes toward marriage, women, and governance.

Under its guidance, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands were breathtaking. Over centuries, Islam founded an empire and led the world in discovery, art, and culture. The standard-bearers of tolerance in the early Middle Ages were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in Christian ones.

A Battle for Global Values.
Exsqueeze Me?
Baking Powder?
What art? What culture? What science or discovery?
Somebody…please, pull Mr. Blair away from the KoolAid punch bowl. He clearly hasn’t grasped the concepts espoused in the Koran, that are present for any to read.

Qur’an:9:5
“Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.”
Qur’an:9:112
“The Believers fight in Allah’s Cause, they slay and are slain, kill and are killed.”
Qur’an:9:29
“Fight those who do not believe until they all surrender, paying the protective tax in submission.”
Qur’an:8:39
“Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah.”
Ishaq:324
“He said, ‘Fight them so that there is no more rebellion, and religion, all of it, is for Allah only. Allah must have no rivals.”
Ishaq:587
“Our onslaught will not be a weak faltering affair. We shall fight as long as we live. We will fight until you turn to Islam, humbly seeking refuge. We will fight not caring whom we meet. We will fight whether we destroy ancient holdings or newly gotten gains. (Until) We have mutilated every opponent. We have driven them violently before us at the command of Allah and Islam. We will fight until our religion is established. And we will plunder them, for they must suffer disgrace.”
Qur’an:47:4
“When you clash with the unbelieving Infidels in battle (fighting Jihad in Allah’s Cause), smite their necks until you overpower them, killing and wounding many of them. At length, when you have thoroughly subdued them, bind them firmly, making (them) captives. Thereafter either generosity or ransom (them based upon what benefits Islam) until the war lays down its burdens. Thus are you commanded by Allah to continue carrying out Jihad against the unbelieving infidels until they submit to Islam.”

…and on and on and…
This great tolerance of which Mr. Blair speaks, must be the counsel he has gotten, on the Old Moh, before he was forced to flee to Medina.
A prominent world figure, espousing such useless and harmful info, is not helpful.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 12/28/2006 6:41:37 PM

DANG!
Big news day.
Bar Files Complaint Against Duke D.A.
Saddam to be hanged by Sunday.
Sheehag Arrested Outside Bush’s Ranch.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 12/28/2006 6:35:25 PM

Yeah, kinda like the photo of JohnEffingKerry, in Iraq.

Comment posted by nuke
at 12/28/2006 6:19:42 PM

Well, I like camping up in the NC mountains too much to say that I won’t visit there.

Comment posted by Mick
at 12/28/2006 5:48:04 PM

Take a look at the photos of the “crowd” of reporters and loyal Democrats. When there are no photos of the crowd that means there were about 10 people there.

Comment posted by Mick
at 12/28/2006 5:46:28 PM

He’s from North Carolina. So is the Duke LaCross district attorney. I will never visit that rotten state again.

Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 12/28/2006 4:29:21 PM

There are a lot of qualities that I’d like to see in a leader; causing needless C-sections to avoid lawsuits from unscrupulous lawyers such as himself is not a presidential quality.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 12/28/2006 4:15:50 PM

Ride…Silky Pony…ride.
/and get put up wet

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Jackalope Alert! FoxNews snookered by gaiaists

December 27th, 2006 at 2:24 pm . by nuke

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200jackalope.jpgTalk about buying into the global warming hysteria. Ever since FNC offered up Robert Kennedy as a “special correspondent” on its much ballyhooed global warming report, Fox has become a sucker for the gaiaist apocalyptic syndrome. Yesterday’s report on Lohachara Island was an another example of junk science gone wild.

The Fox story began with this bold headline:

An inhabited island has been wiped off the face of the Earth due to global warming, Britain’s The Independent newspaper reported on Sunday.

Remote Lohachara Island was in the Indian part of the Sundarbans , a vast mangrove delta where the Ganges empties into the Bay of Bengal on the Indian-Bangladeshi border.

Rising sea levels have swallowed the island whole, according to the report. It was once home to 10,000 people.

Lohachara’s disappearance wasn’t easy to discover. Satellites monitored it until it finally disappeared.

As Aaron noted at Free Will, “Odd. You’d think the inhabitants would’ve noticed it before the satellites did. Or, they might not:

As Tim Blair notes, this “shocking news actually took place 22 years ago.”

None of that matters to the Independent’s environmental editor Geoffrey Lean,

who evidently believes all weather change is due to Meddling Humans. And that’s all change, whether towards cold or heat. In 2004, Lean reported that “Britain is likely to be plunged into an ice age within our lifetime by global warming”. Two years later, he asked: “So where has all the snow gone?”

I’m not at all surprised that the report originated in the UK Independent. This is the same newspaper that calls the idiot Robert Fisk, the “eminent Middle East scholar” of our time. Fox News has been flirting with the global warming crowd for several months. They should know better.

h/t Sarah D, GCP

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Comment posted by mcclaud
at 1/3/2007 7:37:41 PM

vimto1 -

I’m in Omaha, Nebraska in the US. I work nights from 7 pm to 5 am as a Systems Administrator for a financial transaction company called First Data. I actually work with many European data centers, so I’m awake during your early morning/noon time.

Comment posted by nuke
at 1/3/2007 7:00:15 AM

well mcclaud, from the housekeeping section: “Comments are invited.
They are both open and unmoderated, and may not reflect the views of Nn&v.”

If you choose not to comment here, fine. But don’t pull some silly reason out of your ass like not “wanting to stir up the readers”. You’re not that important.

Come again if you like. If not, fine.

Comment posted by vimto1
at 1/3/2007 6:28:36 AM

Hey Mcclud, I don’t think there is much here - I think that your blog and Nukes have different functions and that accounts for the choices made.

I will check you blog out. I may or may not agree with it but I think it’s good you have taken the time to put it into the public domain.

BTW - Where in the world are you - I’m in the UK and not many people are awake when I post!
regards.

Comment posted by mcclaud
at 1/3/2007 4:24:10 AM

Well, it could be. I don’t understand the point, but that’s just me.

I’m just letting other people know who responded to my pingback that if they want me to see their response, they’ll have to respond to my blog. Because after tonight, I’ll probably be too busy to check this entry again. It may escape my memory or something, as well.

When I said “courageous,” I was actually being serious. If you turn it on, and a lot of people comment/link about your blog, you are going to get a LOT of comments. I personally don’t allow comments in my blog, but that’s because that’s not what my blog’s for. I’d like to have no comments because then I wouldn’t have to sift through them and decide what stays and what goes. I write in my blog at work, often multitasking.

Comment posted by vimto1
at 1/3/2007 4:01:31 AM

mcclaud, I’m a bit foggy on this one but could it be to enable communications? Seems reasonable to me. Nuke’s made a judgement call. That’s all.

Comment posted by mcclaud
at 1/3/2007 2:46:21 AM

I’m not saying that it takes less courage to turn it on. I’m just clarifying that you pingbacked me, and in no way did I actively troll your comment section, as no2liberal seemed to imply. I have only read one other entry on your blog about the Counterterrorist blog. I have chosen not to directly comment on your blog, to avoid stirring up your readers.

Also, if someone wants to respond to my blog, they should do so in my blog, so I can see it. Only by clicking on the referral notice in my dashboard did I know you ping-backed me, and then I saw the other responses. Swampwoman’s comment would have been totally lost on me had I not checked. I don’t normally allow comments to show through, though. But at least I see them.

You do what you will. I’m not sure what the intention is to pingbacking other than generating more comments to your blog, but you have your reasons, I’m sure.

Comment posted by nuke
at 1/2/2007 8:46:00 PM

Hey mcclaud. The ping-backs are automatic. In my humble opinion, it takes more courage to leave them on rather than to turn them off. You linked my article. WordPress picked up the link and generated the pingback. Get over yourself. Now go away, until you learn some manners.

Comment posted by mcclaud
at 1/2/2007 7:54:06 PM

#49 (Swampwoman and no2liberals) -

Except I didn’t post that, the courageous owner of this hilarious blog ping-backed my blog entry.

Comment posted by no2liberals
at 12/29/2006 12:13:12 AM

It ain’t just the blackeyed peas, it’s the sauce.
As for fried jackalope, as long as it comes with a side of Snipes, it’s alrighty.
Makes Mr. Hanky happy.

Comment posted by nuke
at 12/28/2006 11:16:40 PM

I wonder what ol’ emcee has against jackalopes. Bet a good deep fried jackalope with some hawsraddish sauce would be pretty good, specilly with n2l’s blackeyed peas

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Top aide to Muqtada al-Sadr killed in Iraqi raid

December 27th, 2006 at 8:47 am . by nuke

Got another bad guy in Iraq (h/t N2L)

A top aide to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was killed in a raid by US troops Wednesday in the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf, an Iraqi lawmaker said.

The US military, however, said American troops participated in a raid led by Iraqi forces that led to the death of a man with the same name as the aide, Sahib al-Amiri. The military described al-Amiri as a criminal involved in the use of roadside bombs.

Nassar al-Rubaie, the head of al-Sadr’s bloc in parliament, said al-Amiri was killed when American forces entered his home at dawn.

“We offer our condolences to the Iraqi people and to the al-Sadr movement for the killing of Sahib al-Amiri, one of al-Sadr’s prominent figures,” al-Rubaie said. Later Wednesday, mourners carried al-Amiri’s coffin, draped in an Iraqi flag, on a funeral procession through downtown Najaf.

Jpost

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Comment posted by nuke
at 12/29/2006 8:04:36 PM

you must be looking at another article. the jpost article doesn’t mention anyone named Caldwell. Can you supply a link?
Also, running Islamic charities does not entitle anyone to a free pass, as past events have revealed charities being used as money laundering fronts.
Thanks for your comment.

Comment posted by Susan
at 12/29/2006 7:51:45 PM

I believe the man was innocent of Caldwell’s claims and that he did not have a gun pointed at one of the Iraqi soldiers.

This man ran charities and is well known in Iraq for helping people.

Comment posted by nuke
at 12/27/2006 6:31:10 PM

TY. Good to see you :)

Comment posted by Angel
at 12/27/2006 5:42:12 PM

one more down , how many more thousands to go Nuke?..great reporting! :)

Comment posted by nuke
at 12/27/2006 4:02:24 PM

I agree

Comment posted by Senior
at 12/27/2006 3:58:28 PM

This is good news, though America would be better off taking out al-Sadr.

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Saddam Supporters Vow Revenge (I am Ba’athist, hear me roar)

December 27th, 2006 at 6:53 am . by nuke

Amman - Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party threatened on Wednesday to retaliate if the ousted Iraqi leader was executed, warning in an internet posting that it would target United States interests anywhere.

The statement appeared on a Web site known to represent the Ba’ath, which was disbanded after US-led forces overthrew Saddam in 2003.

The site is believed to be run from Yemen, where a number of exiled members of the party are based.

On Tuesday, Iraq’s highest court rejected Saddam’s appeal against a conviction and death sentence for the killing of 148 people who were detained after an attempt to assassinate him in Dujail, northern Iraq, in 1982.

The court said the former president should be hanged within 30 days.

‘Determined to retaliate’

The statement read: “Our party warns again of the consequences of executing Mr President and his comrades.

source

Heh™ Yeah, good luck with ‘dat.

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Comment posted by no2liberals
at 12/27/2006 1:23:12 PM

Was there a BOOGAH-BOOGAH in there?
/thought maybe I missed it

In other news, Iraqi officials are being flooded with other requests, one is from those wanting to be the hangman, and the other is for the execution to be televised.

/Hangman, hangman, turn your head awhile,
I think I see my sister coming, riding many mile, mile, mile.
Sister, I implore you, take him by the hand,
Take him to some shady bower, save me from the wrath of this man,
Please take him, save me from the wrath of this man, man.

Hangman, hangman, upon your face a smile,
Tell me that I’m free to ride,
Ride for many mile, mile, mile.

Oh yes, you got a fine sister, She warmed my blood from cold,
She warmed my blood to boiling hot to keep you from the Gallows Pole,
Your brother brought me silver, Your sister warmed my soul,
But now I laugh and pull so hard And see you swinging from the Gallows Pole

But now I laugh and pull so hard And see you swinging from the Gallows Pole
Swingin’ on the gallows pole!

Zeppelin

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