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FHRITP: Reporter confronts men who bombarded her with vulgarity
Published on May 11, 2015
Watch as CityNews reporter Shauna Hunt confronts men who bombarded her with vulgarity at Sunday's TFC game.
See the full FHRITP story here:
http://www.citynews.ca/2015/05/11/shauna-hunt-confronts-men-who-bombarded-her-with-vulgarity/?show_id=127513
Got the name of this fine outstanding young man and his merry pranksters from a post by Texas Towelie:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141092060
The details of the bleeped out compliments are posted at DU somewhere. Everytime I see these stories, I think:
'Look, girls, your dates have arrived! Y'all just smile real pretty now, hey?'
P. S. This is a HOF post.
Obama Swipes at Fox: Pushing Narrative That Poor People Are ‘Leeches’
by Josh Feldman - May 12th, 2015
President Obama spoke at a poverty forum at Georgetown University earlier today and took a swipe at Fox News for, as he put it, perpetuating certain stereotypes about poor people. The president addressed media efforts to “suggest the poor are sponges, leeches,” and that they’re “lazy” and undeserving.”
“If you watch Fox News on a regular basis,” Obama said, “it is a constant menu––they will find folks who make me mad, I don’t know where they find them.”
He’s referring to the “I just want a free Obamaphone” stuff that adds to a narrative, the president lamented, that needs to change, because that affects “people’s impressions of what it’s like to struggle in this economy.”
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-swipes-at-fox-pushing-narrative-that-poor-people-are-leeches/
Medialite has a video. Here is the complete Georgetown University verison to view here:
The President Joins a Conversation on Poverty
The White House
Published on May 12, 2015
President Obama sat down at Georgetown University to discuss how we can address poverty in America. May 12, 2015.
P. S. More evidence that Obama has more brains in his little finger than 98% of his detractors. The other 2% don't talk trash.
BTW, this is the BOG. Deal with it.
The Christian Right controls Congress. They decided that usury is approved by their real god.
Don't tell the Baggers and RW fundies, it'll break their hearts. Oh, hell, Bucket! Tell 'em!
Usury was once a serious sin, and some consider it to be still:
Is a Little Interest Not Usury?
There are some who say that God only condemns excessive interest. Until recently, laws of several states forbid interest rates above 12%. Anyone who charged more was guilty of "usury."
Even Adam Clarke in his famous Bible Commentary agrees with this view. In his note under Exodus 22:25 he states, "It is evident that what is here said must be understood of accumulated usury, or what we call compound interest only; and accordingly neshech is mentioned with and distinguished from tarbith and marbith . . . . interest or simple interest . . . . Perhaps usury may be more properly defined unlawful interest, receiving more for the loan of money than it is really worth and more than the law allows."
Strong's defines tarbith as "multiplication; i.e., percentage or bonus in addition to principal; increase, unjust gain." The related word marbith can mean "increase, or "interest on capital." Tarbith and marbith do not have the bite or sting as does nashak interest. Tarbith is used along with nashak (usury) in Leviticus 25:36, Proverbs 28:8, Ezekiel 18:8, 13, 17 and 22:12, as is marbith in Leviticus 25:37.
The point Clarke misses is that God condemns them both! Any interest or increase from your brother is wrong. However, as we have seen, it is permissible to charge interest to outsiders.
Which is pretty much the way that some of the GOP, like Newt, described his loans that he paid little or no interest or never paid. The rest of us, well, Meh.
http://www.giveshare.org/BibleStudy/050.usury.html
Usury (/ˈjuːʒəri/[1][2]) is the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans that unfairly enrich the lender. A loan may be considered usurious because of excessive or abusive interest rates or other factors. However, according to several dictionaries, simply charging any interest at all would be considered usury.[3][4][5] Someone who practices usury can be called a usurer, but the more common term in English is loan shark.
The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes—or in a legal sense where interest rates may be regulated by law. Historically, some cultures (e.g., Christianity in much of Medieval Europe, and Islam in many parts of the world today) have regarded charging any interest for loans as sinful.
Some of the earliest known condemnations of usury come from the Vedic texts of India.[6] Similar condemnations are found in religious texts from Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (the term is riba in Arabic and ribbit in Hebrew).[7] At times, many nations from ancient China to ancient Greece to ancient Rome have outlawed loans with any interest. Though the Roman Empire eventually allowed loans with carefully restricted interest rates, the Christian church in medieval Europe banned the charging of interest at any rate (as well as charging a fee for the use of money, such as at a bureau de change).
The pivotal change in the English-speaking world seems to have come with lawful rights to charge interest on lent money,[8] particularly the 1545 Act, "An Act Against Usurie" (37 H. viii 9) of King Henry VIII of England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury
This is what has happened:
http://realitysandwich.com/103908/homepage_sacred_economics/
We now see Usury as a Virtue, a generous way of making money!
When was the last time you heard a large and powerful Christian group come out and return Usury to its category of a heinous sin?
The thing about all this is, when the money becomes big enough, Christians, etc. will choose money over their holy books. Which make it a sham. The Pope has made some reforms, but the overall system is still one of bondage for those who cannot fight back.
Eliminating any control of Usury is the last item on the Koch list Reid and Bernie told us about:
We support the repeal of all state usury laws.
Excuse the rest of the rant. Not that I'm ashamed of it, but we're just talking banks, I guess:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026048383#post21
Just had to get that off my chest. Religion is one thing when it's just about a person's walk with whatever, or trying to live an ethical life. When they get rich and right wing, they steall all the oxygen from everyone else.
David Korten has also spoken extensively on this as well, and I've posted a lot on him at DU.
Good night everyone.
It was either that or Obama did it when he went to Mars to start a birth certificate printing press!
Obama did it through time travel and a wormhole. And get this:
He was sent by the CIA and DARPA as a teenager! See, CIA! CIA! CIA!
Obama should have gone back and eliminated all evil from before his birth in the Kenyan province of Hawaii.
But they do have a point about PBO and the alphabet agencies. Here's the proof. He's been one of them for many years...
Forget Kenya. Never mind the secret madrassas. The sinister, shocking truth about Barack Obama’s past lies not in east Africa, but in outer space. As a young man in the early 1980s, Obama was part of a secret CIA project to explore Mars. The future president teleported there, along with the future head of Darpa...
Obama wasn’t the only one making the otherworldly voyage. As “Barry Soetero,” the 19-year-old Obama was one of 10 youths selected to secretly teleport to and from Mars, forming a band of interplanetary Teen Titans. Regina Dugan, the director of Darpa, was another member. Between 1981 and 1983, Obama is supposed to have visited Mars twice, by way of a teleportation chamber called a “jump room.” Basiago, a fellow chrononaut, told the website Exopolitics that he saw Obama “walk back to the jump room from across the Martian terrain.” To acknowledge his comrade, Obama is said to have told Basiago, “'We’re here'” - apparently, “with some sense of fatalism.”
It is not known what exactly Obama did on Mars. (Socializing Martian health care, perhaps? Building a birth-certificate printing press?) His mission was a perilous one, according to Basiago and Stillings. The CIA wished to “establish a defense regime protecting the Earth from threats from space” as well as a legal claim to “territorial sovereignty,” making Obama something of a Martian conquistador. Presumably, Obama’s CIA handlers needed him to “acclimate Martian humanoids and animals to their presence” in order to secure the U.S.-Martian alliance. (We’ll bet you weren’t even aware of Martian animals.)
“Simply put, your task is to be seen and not eaten,” an elder chrononaut, retired Army Maj. Ed Dames, is alleged to have told a young Obama...
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/obama-mars/
Personally, I think Danger Room is onto something with this story. It all makes perfect sense. And I appreciate Obama having our back against any extra-terrestrial menace. And I'm glad he didn't get eaten.
Unfortunately, the White House has denied this trip. But I don't believe them on this one. No, I believe this. Just because I just want to, and it fits in with my view of the cosmos.
No one can ever make me believe differently. So take that... Uh, anyone.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110211812#post5
See, this means we're all doomed.
Now you did it. There's a video detailing the plot that began before he was born:
See, something for everyone!
I'm only here for the popcorn and to answer your question:
He's afraid of Sweden because they'll make him eat lutfish. That is some seriously awful stuff...
Lutefisk is dried whitefish (normally cod, but ling is also used) treated with lye. The first step is soaking the stockfish in cold water for five to six days (with the water changed daily). The saturated stockfish is then soaked in an unchanged solution of cold water and lye for an additional two days. The fish swells during this soaking, and its protein content decreases by more than 50 percent, producing a jelly-like consistency.
When this treatment is finished, the fish (saturated with lye) is caustic, with a pH of 11–12. To make the fish edible,* a final treatment of yet another four to six days of soaking in cold water (also changed daily) is needed. Eventually, the lutefisk is ready to be cooked.
In Finland, the traditional reagent used is birch ash. It contains high amounts of potassium carbonate and bicarbonate, giving the fish a more mellow treatment than would lye. It is important not to incubate the fish too long in the lye because saponification of the fish fats may occur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutefisk
*I'll be the judge of that!
Being forced to eat that, is torture. So Sir Julian is correct, despite his complaints about the quality of his meals from Harrod's delivered to him.
Attribution: "Confectionery counter, Harrods Food Hall, London" by Anna Anichkova - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Confectionery_counter,_Harrods_Food_Hall,_London.jpg#/media/File:Confectionery_counter,_Harrods_Food_Hall,_London.jpg
Don't worry, he's gonna be fine.
Yes, it is. I don't understand anyone having a problem with it. It looks kinda boring.
Also, it's on 'Clinton' street, hehe!
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