It's a classic:
Hat tip: Larwyn
Boy: (whispering) have you heard of the shots being fired at the Yeshiva (religious school) of "Merkaz Harav"?
Dispatch: I can't hear you!
Boy: There's a terrorist at "Merkaz Harav"!
Dispatch: What's going on there?
Boy: There's a terrorist in the Yeshiva, shooting all over the place
Dispatch: Where are you right now?
Boy: We're hiding
Dispatch: Where is it?
Boy: "Merkaz Harav"
Dispatch: "Merkaz Harav" in Jerusalem?
Boy: Yes
Dispatch: And has the terrorist entered the building?
Dispatch: I can't hear you!
Dispatch: Hold the link. Don't hang up on me now.
Boy: Hurry up!!!
Dispatch: Listen to me. Help is on its way to you... Help is on its way to you right now. OK?
Boy: OK
Dispatch: Can you see... Do you know how many people got shot?
Boy: I heard screams
Dispatch: You don't know what's going on?
Boy: No...
Dispatch: Hold the line. Hold the line. Don't hang up. Where are you right now.
...Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office.[An Obama earmark set aside] $1 Million For Construction Of A New Hospital Pavilion At The University Of Chicago. In 2006, Obama requested that the University of Chicago receive $1 million to support its Construction of New Hospital Pavilion.
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, G*d d**n America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people... G*d d**n America for treating our citizens as less than human. G*d d**n America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."On 9/16/01, blaming the U.S. for the 9/11 attacks: "We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye... We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost!"
"The government invented HIV to kill the man of color!"In 2007, awarding the Church's Trumpeter award to racist Louis ("The Jews helped Hitler get the Third Reich on the road") Farrakhan: "Farrakhan epitomizes greatness."
"Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people."
"Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain't! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty!"
"We are deeply involved in the importing of drugs, the exporting of guns and the training of professional killers. ... We believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God. ... We conducted radiation experiments on our own people. ... We care nothing about human life if the ends justify the means... And ... And ... And! God! Has got! To be sick! Of this s**t!"
Money talks...No wonder Michelle believes her country is downright mean.
The European Union is putting up $152 million to fund a search engine that will compete with Google.
Who was that snickering in the back of the room?
Government-funded innovation in action at the BMV
OK, maybe it was me. I can’t help it. I’m picturing an EU-approved search engine, and I can’t stop giggling.
EUgle! Bwa ha ha!
The idea for Inside Terrorism began to coalesce in my mind in 2002 as a personal response to terrorism and to my discomfort with the way terrorism has been justified in some circles. This is a documentary of survivors of terrorism. Much like photographer Mathew Brady documented the Civil War, people in emergency rooms today are documenting the effects of terrorism. The exhibit is another form of "straight" photography - that is photographs made with an unaltered spectrum of light. With that technology, we are able to look inside terrorism.
Only about one in three [of 51,000] Alberta earth scientists and engineers believe the culprit behind climate change has been identified, a new poll reported today.
The expert jury is divided, with 26 per cent attributing global warming to human activity like burning fossil fuels and 27 per cent blaming other causes such as volcanoes, sunspots, earth crust movements and natural evolution of the planet.
A 99-per-cent majority believes the climate is changing. But 45 per cent blame both human and natural influences, and 68 per cent disagree with the popular statement that "the debate on the scientific causes of recent climate change is settled."
One day last week, a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living.
All the typical answers came up: Fireman, Mechanic, Businessman, Salesman, Doctor........
However, little Justin was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he replied, "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off his clothes in front of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for money."
The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some math problems and then took little Justin aside to ask him, "Is that really true about your father?"
"No," the boy said, "He works for the Democratic National Committee and is helping to get Hillary Clinton elected as our next President, but I was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids."
I've picked out some of the more streaming chunks of irony for your Spitzer stew of the day:"To say that Wall softens his image would be to ignore the crackling energy between them."
"On the trail, Wall, who speaks with a subtle drawl, reminded voters that Spitzer is also a family man who likes to grill on weekends, wear sneakers, and watch NASCAR."
"...Asked if she and her husband take time together, just the two of them, Wall laughs. "With three kids and two dogs at the ages they areâ€"the ages they all areâ€"and our careers and community engagement, it's hard to say that we do."
Well, whatever time they were taking together, I think it is safe to assume that in the future, there will be less.
Here is something that will make you go out of your way to find curvy roads: the Carver One! You steer it like a car, but when cornering it banks like a motorcycle while you feel like you are flying a jetfighter. The thrill of this tilting capability combined with the handling of a sports car makes for an exhilarating driving experience unlike any other!
Over the past few years we have been receiving an overwhelmingly positive response from American and Canadian automotive enthusiasts. Obviously, as part of the global roll out of the Carver One, we have been looking into distributing to the North American market as well.
Naturally, the European-specification model will have to be modified to meet national standards. And there is more to that than meets the eye.
We initially appointed a dedicated team for the North American market, responsible for the roll out of a nationwide sales and service network. Meanwhile, it has become clear that additional market analysis and funding are required for the launch to be successful, after which we will resume our active marketing efforts.
A dedicated team has started an in-depth analysis of the requirements to make the vehicle ideally suited to the North American market. One of the most important modifications involves the engine. Further planned enhancements include the addition of air-conditioning...
In the April 9, 2002 issue, The Wall Street Journal published the concept of blood money in Saudi Arabia. If a person has been killed or caused to die by another, the latter has to pay blood money or compensation, as follow.
100,000 riyals if the victim is a Muslim man
50,000 riyals if a Muslim woman
50,000 riyals if a Christian man
25,000 riyals if a Christian woman
6,666 riyals if a Hindu man
3,333 riyals if a Hindu woman
According to this hierarchy, a Muslim man's life is worth 33 times that of a Hindu woman. This hierarchy is based on the Islamic definition of human rights and is rooted in the Quran and Sharia (Islamic law). How can we talk of democracy when the concept of equality in Islam is inexistent?
Many [Bangladeshi] workers... stated that they are mostly without job since their arrival 2-7 months ago. At times, they are employed for a month and then its all over.
In any case, none of them received wages other than SR100 ($27) on their arrival. They have no money and no job and therefore, they are not afraid to be arrested, they said. They prefer arrest as jail may provide them food, water and shelter or deport them 'free of charges'. Anis (17) and Murshid (18) showed marks of torture...