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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

I like the idea setiment but...

Men's reproductive rights

What rights do I have as a man if a women I slept with gets pregnant, none really except to do whatever the woman says. Should women have all the rights over weather a child should be born or not. If a man does not want the child and the women does not want an abortion then can he say he will not pay for the child thus forcing the woman econmically, in most cases, to turn to adoption? Interesting stuff.

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SouthernCanadian said...: I don't know how to make links look neat in the comment box, but there's a good discussion of this issue at the link below:

http://exactapproximations.blogspot.com/2006/03/abortions-for-boys.html; 11:27 PM
kitty Cat said...: That would be my buddy who you woke up at 3 in the morning to eat chicken nuggets with.; 3:09 PM

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FBI fucking does not have email.

I have 4 maybe 5 email accounts and the FBI can not given their people one. How can they hope to fund their anit-terriorist activities if they can not fund email. One server that connects to the internet and one big ass hardrive is all you need. Everything else is free. God damn it.

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8-bird said...: CNN.com

Monday, March 20, 2006; Posted: 7:18 p.m. EST (00:18 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- Budget constraints are forcing some FBI agents to operate without e-mail accounts, according to the agency's top official in New York.

"As ridiculous as this might sound, we have real money issues right now, and the government is reluctant to give all agents and analysts dot-gov accounts," Mark Mershon said when asked about the gap at a New York Daily News editorial board meeting.

"We just don't have the money, and that is an endless stream of complaints that come from the field," he said.

FBI officials in Washington denied that cost-cutting was putting agents at a disadvantage.

Spokeswoman Cathy Milhoan said e-mail addresses are still being assigned, adding that the city bureau's 2,000 employees would all have accounts by the end of the year.

Mershon, the assistant director in charge of the agency's New York City office, also said that 100 city agents have been given Internet-ready phones such as BlackBerry devices.

Christine Monaco, a spokeswoman for the FBI in New York, said Monday that all FBI agents can communicate with each other via a secure internal e-mail system, and about 75 percent of the New York office's employees have outside e-mail accounts.

"The outside e-mail accounts have to be separately funded," she said.

Senator Charles Schumer called for better access to technology for agents.

"The FBI should have the tools it needs to fight terrorism and crime in the 21st century, most of all in New York City, and one of the most effective means of communications is e-mail and the Internet," he said.

"FBI agents not having e-mail or Internet access is much too much a pre-9/11 mentality."

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.; 7:12 AM

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Monday, March 20, 2006

And the next scape-goat is...

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8-bird said...: Rumsfeld's Iraq-Germany analogy disputed
Former top officials disagree with comparison

Sunday, March 19, 2006; Posted: 10:11 p.m. EST (03:11 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former top officials in two presidential administrations -- one Democratic, one Republican -- disagreed Sunday with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's characterization of what would happen if the United States were to pull out of the war in Iraq.

"Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis," Rumsfeld wrote in an opinion piece published Sunday -- the third anniversary of the beginning of the U.S.-led war in Iraq -- in the Washington Post.

The anniversary came as officials from Iraq and the United States differed on whether there is all-out civil war there. (Full story)

Henry Kissinger, who served with U.S. forces in Germany at the end of World War II and who served as secretary of state under Republican Presidents Nixon and Ford, said the situations are not analogous.

"In Germany, the opposition was completely crushed; there was no significant resistance movement," the German-born diplomat told CNN's "Late Edition."

Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser under President Carter, a Democrat, was less charitable.

"That is really absolutely crazy to anyone who knows history," he said. "There was no alternative to our presence. The Germans were totally crushed. For Secretary Rumsfeld to be talking this way suggests either he doesn't know history or he's simply demagoguing."

Rumsfeld has been a lightning rod for complaints against the wars on terrorism and Iraq since shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. (Watch the debate over Rumsfeld -- 2:38)

He told CNN in February 2005 that he had twice offered President Bush his resignation during the height of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, but the president refused to accept it. (Full story)

His record in Iraq came in for fresh criticism Sunday from a man who worked under him.

"He has shown himself incompetent strategically, operationally and tactically, and is far more than anyone else responsible for what has happened to our important mission in Iraq," said Paul D. Eaton, a retired Army major general who was in charge of training the Iraqi military from 2003 to 2004.

"Mr. Rumsfeld must step down," he wrote in an opinion piece published Sunday in the New York Times.

"Secretary Rumsfeld serves at the pleasure of the president," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said in a written statement Sunday. "Retired Gen. Eaton is certainly entitled to his opinion."

Eaton's opinion was shared by Sen. Joseph Biden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a frequent critic of the defense secretary.

"Imagine what would happen if it were announced tomorrow in the headlines of the papers of America and throughout the world that Rumsfeld was fired," the Delaware senator told CNN.

"It would energize, energize the rest of the world, to be willing to help us. It would energize American forces, it would energize the political environment. Yes, he should step down."

Asked his opinion, Sen. Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican, chose neither to defend nor to criticize Rumsfeld.

"If President Bush ever wants to visit with me privately about my counsel on his Cabinet, I am sure he will ask me, but it appears to me it would not be helpful for me to make a comment," the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said.

U.S. officials have expressed hopes that the number of troops in Iraq could be reduced later this year depending on the country's progress with security and politics.

Bush delivered a speech last week at George Washington University where he said "as more capable Iraqi police and soldiers come on line, they will assume responsibility for more territory with the goal of having the Iraqis control more territory than the coalition, by the end of 2006."; 1:08 PM

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Friday, March 17, 2006

Immigrants get to watch porn

What I was told I am bad for watching porn and Holland is going to force immigrants to watch it. Here I thought I was mean and insensitive to Anna when I turned hardcore porn on for my room inspection. It is just part of being allowed to immigrate to the great land of Landistopia.

Thanks Tim for this article.

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8-bird said...: The Sunday Times March 12, 2006

Holland launches the immigrant quiz
Nicola Smith, Amsterdam

TWO MEN kissing in a park and a topless woman bather are featured in a
film that will be shown to would-be immigrants to the Netherlands.
The reactions of applicants — including Muslims — will be examined to see
whether they are able to accept the country’s liberal attitudes.

From this Wednesday, the DVD — which also shows the often crime-ridden
ghettos where poorer immigrants might end up living — will form part of an
entrance test, in Dutch, covering the language and culture of Holland.

Those sitting the test will be expected to identify William of Orange and
to know which country Crown Princess Maxima comes from (Argentina) and
whether hitting women and female circumcision are permitted.

Muslim leaders in Holland say the film is offensive. “It really is a
provocation aimed to limit immigration. It has nothing to do with the
rights of homosexuals. Even Dutch people don’t want to see that,” said
Abdou Menebhi, the Moroccan-born director of Emcemo, an organisation that
helps immigrants to settle.

He added: “They are trying to find every pretext to show that people
should not come to the Netherlands because they are fundamentalist or not
emancipated. They confront people with these things and then judge them
afterwards.”

Famile Arslan, 34, an immigration lawyer of Turkish origin, agreed. “I
have lived here for 30 years and have never been witness to two men
kissing in the park. So why are they confronting people with that?” she
said.

She accused the government of preaching tolerance about civil rights while
targeting non-westerners with harsh and discriminatory immigration curbs.

The new test — the first of its kind in the world — marks another step in
the transformation of Holland from one of Europe’s most liberal countries
to the one cracking down hardest on immigration.

Rita Verdonk, the immigration minister known as Iron Rita, has introduced
compulsory integration classes, higher age limits for marriage to people
from abroad and the removal of residency permits if immigrants commit
petty crimes. She has also talked of banning the burqa.

The measures were prompted in part by outrage over the 2004 murder of Theo
Van Gogh, who had made a film about the oppression of women in Muslim
communities.

Applicants will sit the exam at one of 138 embassies around the world.
They will answer 15 minutes of questions and those who pass the first
stage will have to complete two “citizenship” tests over five years and
swear a pledge of allegiance to Holland and its constitution.

The centre-right government of Jan Peter Balkenende, the prime minister,
believes the tests will provide an objective way of assessing the
suitability of applicants by gauging how well prepared they are to make
the transition to Dutch life and their willingness to integrate.

Critics complain that people living in the mountains of Morocco or rural
villages in Pakistan will not be able to make the long journey to cities
for Dutch language lessons. According to Instituut Oranje, a Dutch
language school, someone with a low level of education would require 250
hours of tuition, costing £1,200, to pass the tests.

The total bill of £1,495 — including £55 for a preparatory test pack and
DVD and £240 for the exam — makes the process unaffordable for many.

Dirk Nieuwboer, a Dutch journalist based in Istanbul, said the
multiple-choice cultural test included a question about how to behave in a
cafe if two men at the next table started kissing. “There was another
question about which former Dutch colony a particular spice came from,”
said Nieuwboer. “Most Dutch people don’t know these things.”

However, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, a socialist from the parliament’s
immigration committee, said the film had been created to help prepare
people for “open-minded” attitudes on issues such as homosexuality. “We
have lots of homo-discrimination, especially by Muslim youngsters who
harass gay men and women on the streets. It is an issue here.”

A spokeswoman for Verdonk said an edited version of the DVD would be
available for showing in Middle Eastern countries such as Iran where it
would be illegal to possess images of homosexuality.; 7:03 AM