Workers sue U.S. factory after immigration raid

Awwww. The poor illegals were cheated out of pay while cheating on their taxes and cheating the US tax payers. Deport them once, set them up in detention camps in New Mexico the second time. If they escape from that, deport them to Antartica for a month.

Workers sue U.S. factory after immigration raid | U.S. | Reuters: "Workers including 361 illegal immigrants were cheated of hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime pay at a factory at the center of a high-profile raid in Massachusetts, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.

The class-action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston on behalf of 500 workers, follows a raid by federal immigration agents on March 6 that drew criticism of the Bush administration's immigration policy and brought national attention to the perils facing undocumented workers."

LiveScience.com: The Good Thing About Herpes

Good to know that the cheating girlfriend who caught this might be able to survive the plague! I volunteer her for tests to see if this works for humans too. The CDC can contact me for her phone number if they want it.

HA! Just kidding. It is nice to know that some people might be immune to these bacteria. Of course, I am not sure the immunity is worth it!

LiveScience.com: The Good Thing About Herpes: "The herpes family of viruses can have a surprising upside--it can protect against the bubonic plague and other bacterial contagions, at least in mice.

Research into whether a similar mechanism applies to humans and other mammalian hosts should be conducted, said viral immunologist Skip Virgin at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. 'There may be symbiotic advantages to chronic infections with these viruses.'

These new results do not mean people should go out and get infected with herpes, Virgin stressed. They probably already are. Nearly all humans become infected with multiple herpes virus family members during childhood. These germs not only include the herpes simplex viruses, which lead to cold sores and possibly genital herpes, but also the diseases responsible for chickenpox and 'mono,' as well as several less well-known ailments. Herpes infections have bedeviled animals for more than 100 million years."

'We are Palestinian, we are women, we are gay'

I am not in the gay-right parade, but I am in the human rights movement. They have the right to be wrong! They will pay in the after life. The part that really cracks me up is that the Muslim world is called "deeply patriarchal" instead of violently religious! The lengths some will go to for spin ...

'We are Palestinian, we are women, we are gay': "Battling against a deeply patriarchal society, Arab Israeli and Palestinian lesbians are uniting to break the taboo of homosexuality and politicise the right to be female and gay.

'We are Palestinian, we are women and we are gay,' is the slogan coined by Aswat, the association campaigning for lesbian Arabs to be accepted in Israeli and Palestinian society, and whose name in English means 'voices'.

'A lot of lesbians and Arab homosexuals have double lives, marry and lead a secret existence. People say it is forbidden by religion,' says Rauda Morcos, Aswat coordinator, at its headquarters in Israel's northern city of Haifa.

'Society is hyprocritical. But we are against this issue remaining secret. We want it dealt with as a political and social issue,' she said.

In late 2002, Rauda decided to put her money where her mouth was and take action with fellow lesbian Samira, her former roomate.

The two women set up an Internet forum for Arab lesbians in Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. A year later they founded Aswat.

Today the association, funded by European and US groups, organises monthly and totally anonymous support meetings, raises gay awareness and disseminates information about homosexuality."

We must attack Iran before it gets the bomb

What? You mean the UN was wrong and the Iranians are lying? What a shock! Amazed I am!

Flatten them before they flatten us!

We must attack Iran before it gets the bomb | International News | News | Telegraph: "Iran should be attacked before it develops nuclear weapons, America's former ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday.

Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton said Iran should be attacked before it develops nuclear weapons.

John Bolton, who still has close links to the Bush administration, told The Daily Telegraph that the European Union had to 'get more serious' about Iran and recognise that its diplomatic attempts to halt Iran's enrichment programme had failed.

Iran has 'clearly mastered the enrichment technology now...they're not stopping, they're making progress and our time is limited', he said. Economic sanctions 'with pain' had to be the next step, followed by attempting to overthrow the theocratic regime and, ultimately, military action to destroy nuclear sites.

Mr Bolton's stark warning appeared to be borne out yesterday by leaks about an inspection by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of Iran's main nuclear installation at Natanz on Sunday."

Muslims 'refuse anti-MRSA gel'

I have been trying to find a related story about this happening in Iraq, but this is close enough for tonight. I will search more tomorrow!

The Sun Online - News: Muslims 'refuse anti-MRSA gel': "SOME Muslims are undermining the battle to rid Britain’s hospitals of killer infections by refusing to wash their hands when visiting sick relatives.

Dispensers containing anti-bacterial gel have been placed outside wards at hospitals all over Britain in a bid to get rid of superbugs like MRSA and PVL.

It prevents people bringing in more infections. But some Muslims refuse to use the hand cleansers on religious grounds because they contain alcohol."

Iraq a terrorist Disneyland if U.S. goes: expert

Oh boy! Because a non Western expert says this, the politicians are going to listen, finally? The CIA, NSC, MI6, MI5, Pentagon, etc have been saying this for years! I know that the Leftists want the West to abandon the Arabs to the terrorists, but that is just not practical. The US has abandoned too many allies to a violent fate because of Leftist pressure. I am glad that President Bush understands that the US will have no allies if we leave any more. He has been slipping on many things, but not the most important thing - the Global War on Terror.

Iraq a terrorist Disneyland if U.S. goes: expert | Politics | Reuters: "A U.S. troop pullout from Iraq would leave the country as a potent launchpad for international terrorism and Washington would be forced to go back in within a couple of years, a leading al Qaeda expert said on Tuesday.

Rohan Gunaratna told a security conference at Lloyd's of London insurance market that Iraq, like Afghanistan in the 1990s, would become a 'terrorist Disneyland' where al Qaeda could build up its strength unchallenged.

If U.S., British and other coalition troops withdrew from Iraq in the next year, he said, 'certainly the scale of attacks that would be mounted inside Iraq, and using Iraq as a launching pad to strike other Western countries -- countries in Europe, North America - would become such that after two or three years, the U.S. forces will have to go back to Iraq.'"

Terror Suspect Claims Torture by Americans, Not Enough Entertainment at Guantanamo Bay

This is inhumane! Unscented deoderents? No toilet in the recreation room? You might as well beat him with barbed wire! What is next on the list of barbarity?? Removing his reading materials? Barbaric! This has to stop!

FOXNews.com - Terror Suspect Claims Torture by Americans, Not Enough Entertainment at Guantanamo Bay - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News: "In a lengthy written statement, Khan said the CIA and the Defense Department tortured him after his capture in Pakistan as well as when he was transferred to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

"I swear to God this place in some sense worst than CIA jails. I am being mentally torture here," said Khan in a statement read by his personal representative about his time in Guantanamo. "There is extensive torture even for the smallest of infractions."

Chunks of the transcript were removed, including what appears to be additional discussion of torture, including during his detention by the CIA.

"The redaction of Majid Khan's testimony regarding his treatment in the CIA secret program strengthens the view that the administration has something to hide," said Priti Patel, an assistant attorney at Human Rights First. "Covering up abuses in this way is a strategy guaranteed to backfire."

The transcript, however, includes detailed descriptions of what Khan said was abuse at Guantanamo. He said he has been unable to see his daughter, was denied communal recreation for 11 weeks, went four weeks without sunlight and fresh air, was deprived of basic or comfort items for three weeks, had his beard shaved twice and was forced to wear a protective suicide prevention smock.

And he complained that he was only given cheap unscented soap and shampoo, and that in the recreation room there is "no weight lifting machine, no toilet, no sink, ho hoops, and even balls them self have little air in them; they hardly bounce."

New apostasy bill to impose death on anyone who leaves Islam

HAHAHAHAHA! Not much else to add to this! The perfect religion has to make laws to kill those that want to leave? If it is so perfect, why would anyone want to leave it? That would be punishment enough! What a crock.

Can someone please show me a logical reason for this law? Logical does NOT mean religious! I know the Koran and the Sunnah and do not think this is good enough. I want logic, not "Allah says so."

Dhimmi Watch: Pakistan: New apostasy bill to impose death on anyone who leaves Islam: "The Muslim Prophet Muhammad said, 'Baddala deenahu, faqtuluhu' -- if anyone changes his religion, kill him (cf. Bukhari vol. 9, bk. 84, no. 57). As far as many Muslims are concerned, this is not a dead historical relic, but a live and eternal command. But of course, if you mention it in the West, usually you'll get charged with 'Islamophobia' in response. So I suppose this six-party Islamic alliance in Pakistan is made up of 'Islamophobes.' What stunningly effective Zionist/Crusader infiltration!"

Factual Statements=Unprotected Harassment!? A Terrifying Precedent at Tufts

This is insane! Posting quotes from the Koran in public is harassing Muslims? If they are embarassed by these quotes, let them find a new religion they are not as embarassed by! Let them face their religion, if they can. They are the ones who worship Allah and claim that the Koran is perfect! What is there to whine about?

Since when is the truth banned on a college campus?

FIRE - Factual Statements=Unprotected Harassment!? A Terrifying Precedent at Tufts: "This is perhaps the most troubling and far-reaching aspect of this case. The Primary Source published a satirical ad filled with factual assertions and because this angered people it was ruled to be unprotected harassment. If what the complaining students wanted to say was that the TPS facts were wrong, then—while this still would not be harassment—that could have been an interesting debate. But instead, in sadly predictable fashion, the students plowed ahead with a harassment claim that, based on the hearing panel’s decision, appeared not even to raise the issue of whether or not the statements in the ad were true, but turned only on how they made people feel. A panel consisting of both faculty and students found the publication guilty in flagrant abuse of what harassment case law and regulations actually say, and demonstrating total ignorance of the principles of a free society. Even in libel law (one of the oldest exceptions to the rule of free speech is that you can be punished for defaming people) truth is rightfully an absolute defense. Here, the fact that TPS printed verifiable information—with citations—was apparently no defense, nor was the fact that the ad concerned contentious issues of dire global importance. Such an anemic conception of free speech should chill anyone who cares about basi"

Terror Nine's $4.5m legal bill

Terror Nine's $4.5m legal bill | The Daily Telegraph: "NINE men facing charges over the manufacture of explosives for a holy war in the nation's biggest terror trial will have their legal bills of more than $4.5 million picked up by taxpayers.

The Daily Telegraph can reveal the trial will be a fees bonanza for the Sydney legal fraternity, with each of the charged individuals getting their own Senior Counsel, costing taxpayers $219,436, a junior counsel costing $135,202 and solicitors costing up to $90,164 each.

Legal Aid Commission documents outlining 'projected expenditure' for the nine men charged following Operation Pandanus raids in November 2005 show that taxpayers can expect future terror trials to cost dearly.

The total cost of the trials – $4,525,244 – is equal to a sizeable chunk of the $68 million in legal aid devoted to all criminal matters in NSW all last financial year."

The Subjection of Islamic Women

Just more misogeny. I am disgusted that the feminists will not fight to aid the females of the middle east. Is this because they are not white? Is it a racist thing? They fought for the blacks of South Africa, so it is not a gender or black racial thing. I think it is just that the "feminists" do not care about Muslims. It is a religious thing! How disgusting.

The Subjection of Islamic Women: "The subjection of women in Muslim societies--especially in Arab nations and in Iran--is today very much in the public eye. Accounts of lashings, stonings, and honor killings are regularly in the news, and searing memoirs by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi have become major best-sellers. One might expect that by now American feminist groups would be organizing protests against such glaring injustices, joining forces with the valiant Muslim women who are working to change their societies. This is not happening.

If you go to the websites of major women's groups, such as the National Organization for Women, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the National Council for Research on Women, or to women's centers at our major colleges and universities, you'll find them caught up with entirely other issues, seldom mentioning women in Islam. During the 1980s, there were massive demonstrations on American campuses against racial apartheid in South Africa. There is no remotely comparable movement on today's campuses against the gender apartheid prevalent in large parts of the world.

It is not that American feminists are indifferent to the predicament of Muslim women. Nor do they completely ignore it. For a brief period before September 11, 2001, many women's groups protested the brutalities of the Taliban. But they have never organized a full-scale mobilizati"

"Beating is undoubtedly one of the methods to reform [wives]."

Thanks to MEMRI, the West can see more of the thought that rules in the Muslim lands. Where are the women's rights groups on this? Watch the video and see what you think. I am going to forward the video to all the feminists I know and hope to stir up some outrage.

MEMRI TV: "Beating is undoubtedly one of the methods to reform [wives]. However, it should be preceded by admonishment. The husband should remind his wife of the will of Allah. He should say: 'Wife, if you pray your five daily prayers, maintain your chastity, and obey your husband – you will enter Paradise.' He should tell her to be like the woman about whom the Prophet said: 'Any woman whose husband is pleased with her when she dies enters Paradise.'

[...]

If this doesn't work, he should move to the phrase of 'abandonment,' which refers to sleeping in separate beds. Abandonment could mean that he would sleep in a separate room, wouldn't talk to her, and so on. If abandonment doesn't work, we move to beating, but as the religious scholars have said, beating in this case is not the kind that draws blood or breaks teeth. They said it is similar to beating with the edge of his garment or a toothpick. But as you said, some people misunderstood this, and so, many poor women had their legs broken."

Springtime in Islamberg: Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York state

When white people set up militias to overthrow the US, or even just to keep the Government away from their lands, the FBI leads a raid to break it up and everyone cheers. When radical black thugs and murderers set up camps to train in how to be terrorists and overthrow the US, no one touches them for fear of being seen as racist. What a load of BS!

Read the full article and see how these terrorists are training and recruiting in the US. This is scary stuff! Do not read before bed if you scare easy.

Springtime in Islamberg: Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York state: "Situated within a dense forest at the foothills of the Catskill Mountains on the outskirts of Hancock, New York, Islamberg is not an ideal place for a summer vacation unless, of course, you are an exponent of the Jihad or a fan of Osama bin Laden.

The 70 acre complex is surrounded with 'No trespassing' signs; the rocky terrain is infested with rattlesnakes; and the woods are home to black bears, coyotes, wolves, and a few bobcats.

The entrance to the community is at the bottom of a very steep hill that is difficult to navigate even on a bright sunny day in May. The road, dubbed Muslim Lane, is unpaved and marred by deep crevices that have been created by torrential downpours. On a wintry day, few, save those with all terrain vehicles, could venture forth from the remote encampment.

A sentry post has been established at the base of the hill."