A long cold night, around here.
BOSTON — FOX– More than 10 blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon. The devices depict a character making an obscene gesture. Boston police said Wednesday night that Peter Berdvosky, 27, of Arlington, had been arrested and charged with one count each of placing a hoax device and disorderly conduct in connection to the devices. Police did not offer further details about Berdvosky, who officials say could face prison time and restitution for the cost of the incident.
Banning the network certainly wouldn’t be undeserved . At the very least the network ought to pay bigtime damages. After the promotional gimmick that cost a woman her life a couple weeks ago, literally drowning in her own tissues, is the time that some attention gets paid to thinking promotions through before implementing them?
And the small Canadian town of Herouxville, Quebec has a message for immigrants — you may not stone women to death in public, burn them alive or throw acid on them. The town council adopted the rules amid community debate about how tolerant the village of 1,300 should be to the customs of newcomers.At least one Muslim leader felt the declaration was targeting Islam, and said it sets back race relations by decades — and reinforces false stereotypes and ignorance about that religion.
I’m tempted to repost a comment from the other day on a slightly different topic…. Oh, hell… HERE..
I agree, it’s a bear trying to convince mainstream America that blacks are not prone to look and act as depected by the students, when you see the “bling” chasing morons on every city street corner, and in every rap vid ever made, (As a quick example, this pic of “50 Cent”…) and in every NBA locker room, and so on, acting just as the students have depected them. He’s got a serious image problem, which is nearly impossible to overcome. However, I submit that at the root of the image problem is that the image exists in real life, not that it’s being imitated.
When applied to this situation, the problem isn’t that laws are being made to stop the practices of stoning women to death in public, burning them alive or throwing acid on them…. it’s that people associate radical Islam with the practice. Your problem is not that the law exists, but that the practices do. And that’s a point that you tacitly acknowledged when you raised your objection. Nothing was said in a law about Islam in particular. You’re the one that broached that subject. …
* Oh, speaking of which, The religion of peace strikes again. Noted at The Jawa Report…. Doctor Rusty Shackleford notes an article in The Sun:
EVIL Muslim terrorists were to kidnap a British soldier on UK streets and force him to plead with Tony Blair for his life in return for a pull-out of troops from Iraq, The Sun can reveal.
The soldier would have been filmed begging the PM to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan in a sick propaganda stunt.
Army sources said the target was a British Muslim soldier in his 20s.
He would eventually be beheaded on film in a sick mirror of the torture and savage killing of British hostage Ken Bigley if Mr Blair refused.
The fact that the arrests were made in Birmingham could suggest that soldiers recovering from wounds in military hospitals there might have been targeted….
The cunning plot represents a huge change in tactics by al Qaeda and its supporters….
They understand the power and importance of the media and the influence it can bring around the world on governments.
Says Rusty:
This would not be the first time Muslims in Birmingham wanted to harm a soldier.
like I said; the problem isn’t that the law exists, it’s that the practice exists. If you want to stop the association of such practices to Islam, then maybe you’d better speak to your fellow Muslims about it.
* It has become clear that in terms of a presidential candidate Christopher Dodd has become a laughingstock. David Lichtman over at the Hartford Courant notes :
WASHINGTON — When pollster John Zogby asked a group of 339 likely Democratic voters earlier this month whom they wanted for president in 2008, one or two mentioned Connecticut’s senior senator.
One or 2 percent mentioned Christopher Dodd?
No. One or two people, Zogby said.
Like I said when he first declared: A non-factor. and I suspect that he knew that going in. Which leaves us, logically, with the questions; what the heck was he running for the first place? There’s money involved here, somewhere.
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