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3440.       lady in red
6947 posts
 12 May 2009 Tue 07:49 pm

Strange bed amerikans! Unsure

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5286453/Donkey-basketball-banned-in-states-across-America.html

3441.       teaschip
3870 posts
 12 May 2009 Tue 08:14 pm

 

 That´s what happens when immigrations get´s out of hand.Big smile   I see the wink emotion icon is gone.Confused

 

3442.       lady in red
6947 posts
 12 May 2009 Tue 08:48 pm

 

Quoting teaschip

 

 That´s what happens when immigrations get´s out of hand.Big smile   I see the wink emotion icon is gone.Confused

 

 

 WinkWinkWink - here it is

3443.       teaschip
3870 posts
 12 May 2009 Tue 08:53 pm

Ah ha...I didn´t enlarge the box.Wink

3444.       libralady
5152 posts
 13 May 2009 Wed 12:19 am

 

Quoting teaschip

Ah ha...I didn´t enlarge the box.Wink

 

 Oh dear, I am always interested in an enlarged box Angel

3445.       Trudy
7887 posts
 14 May 2009 Thu 08:48 pm

Pope gunman wants to be Christian 
The gunman who shot Pope John Paul II says he would like to convert to Christianity at a baptism ceremony at the Vatican after his release from prison in January. In comments relayed by his lawyer on Wednesday, Mehmet Ali Aðca also says he wants to visit the grave of Pope John Paul II, meet with Pope Benedict XVI. Aðca shot and seriously wounded John Paul on May 13, 1981. The late pope met with Aðca in an Italian prison in 1983 and forgave him for the shooting. Aðca served 19 years in an Italian prison for the attack and is currently serving a prison term in Turkey for killing journalist Abdi Ýpekçi. He is due to be released from Sincan Prison, near Ankara , on Jan. 18, 2010. 

 

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3446.       TheVineyards
11 posts
 15 May 2009 Fri 02:34 am

He also wants to marry an Italian woman and full redemption from his past sins. He became famous after he shot Pope Jean Paul II, Pope recovered and forgave him (God knows why). Nevertheless, he had already killed a prominent Turkish journalist earlier on. He served time in Turkey and Italy and fled from prison when he was in Turkey. In his confession, he said he was a pawn, nobody knows what his real motives were. The fact that he has revealed so little despite talking all that much is a tell tale sign of his possible connection with global terrorist organizations (or countries controlling these sorts of activities).

 

This guy stole other people´s lives from them and their families. He has not had much of a life of his own either. Most of his life was spent as a prisoner in an isolated cell. It is very likely that he has become a different creature than how he was when he entered prison. He must have lost his contact with his roots, with reality, and with the daily flow of life. It is quite possible that the only person to forgive him unconditionally was Pope Jean Paul. By converting to his religion, he thinks he is redeeming himself from his past sins.

 

He did not manage to kill Pope but he left the wife and daughter of Ipekci without a husband and father. Will they excuse him? I don´t think so.  In their eyes, he is still the same guy who murdered their father who had no way to defend himself.



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3447.       Elisabeth
5732 posts
 15 May 2009 Fri 04:12 pm

 

Quoting Trudy

Pope gunman wants to be Christian 
The gunman who shot Pope John Paul II says he would like to convert to Christianity at a baptism ceremony at the Vatican after his release from prison in January. In comments relayed by his lawyer on Wednesday, Mehmet Ali Aðca also says he wants to visit the grave of Pope John Paul II, meet with Pope Benedict XVI. Aðca shot and seriously wounded John Paul on May 13, 1981. The late pope met with Aðca in an Italian prison in 1983 and forgave him for the shooting. Aðca served 19 years in an Italian prison for the attack and is currently serving a prison term in Turkey for killing journalist Abdi Ýpekçi. He is due to be released from Sincan Prison, near Ankara , on Jan. 18, 2010. 

 

Source

 

 What the hell!  How many people does this guy have to kill/attempt to kill before the court systems realize he is a danger to society.  I can understand forgiving him (sort of) but releasing this repeat violent offender.....it just makes me wonder.  It isn´t exactly like he stole a loaf of bread! 

3448.       Elisabeth
5732 posts
 15 May 2009 Fri 04:16 pm

 

 Hummm....

Donkey Basketball....bunch of people riding donkey and trying to get a large ball into a basket with no bottom.....

Polo....a bunch of people riding horses trying to hit a small ball with a mallet.....

 

I think we shouldn´t throw stones when we live in glass houses, missy!!!  <img src='/static/images/smileys//lol.gif' alt='lol'> (fast)



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3449.       alameda
3499 posts
 15 May 2009 Fri 06:11 pm

 

Quoting TheVineyards

He also wants to marry an Italian woman and full redemption from his past sins. He became famous after he shot Pope Jean Paul II, Pope recovered and forgave him (God knows why). Nevertheless, he had already killed a prominent Turkish journalist earlier on. He served time in Turkey and Italy and fled from prison when he was in Turkey. In his confession, he said he was a pawn, nobody knows what his real motives were. The fact that he has revealed so little despite talking all that much is a tell tale sign of his possible connection with global terrorist organizations (or countries controlling these sorts of activities).

 

This guy stole other people´s lives from them and their families. He has not had much of a life of his own either. Most of his life was spent as a prisoner in an isolated cell. It is very likely that he has become a different creature than how he was when he entered prison. He must have lost his contact with his roots, with reality, and with the daily flow of life. It is quite possible that the only person to forgive him unconditionally was Pope Jean Paul. By converting to his religion, he thinks he is redeeming himself from his past sins.

 

He did not manage to kill Pope but he left the wife and daughter of Ipekci without a husband and father. Will they excuse him? I don´t think so.  In their eyes, he is still the same guy who murdered their father who had no way to defend himself.

 

Interesting...I wonder just how much he actually knows about Christianity, or Roman Catholic branch of it? 

 

It seems he wants absolution....and seeks to be baptised in the Roman Catholic church.  If he actually believes this, he must be tortured now, as he has no way to insure his sins to be forgiven without these conditions being fulfilled.  Many in this believe system believe their souls will wander for eternity in limbo unless they are baptised, take the Eucharist and perform the penance given them by the priest.  

 

At any rate, he seems to be a very tortured soul.

 

....Forgiveness....not much on Atonement...

3450.       lessluv
1052 posts
 18 May 2009 Mon 12:01 am

A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son´s virginity as a present was spared jail by a court on Friday.

The Polish national took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out the prostitute, who was standing at the side of the road in the red-light district of Nottingham.

But the 42-year-old father was arrested because the teenager had chosen an undercover police officer, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was handed a 10-month prison sentence, suspended for a year, after he admitted a charge of trying to solicit a woman to have sex with a child, the Press Association reported.

The court heard that the father, who came to Britain eight years ago, was arrested last July during an undercover operation by the city´s vice squad.

Prosecutor Adrian Harris said the man and his son had approached the undercover officer whose code name was Sarah and beckoned her over .

He asked "Sarah" how much it would cost for her to have sex with his son and they agreed on a 20 pound fee. However, when the car pulled over, the man was arrested by plainclothes police officers.

"The boy said that they had driven past the girl and his dad pointed to her and said ´will she do?´" Harris said.

"He said ´yes´ and they had turned round. He said his dad did this because he was still a virgin and he was taking care of that for him."

Judge Jonathan Teare said he would spare the father jail because of his excellent character and that he believed he did not mean any harm to his son.

"You have a duty of care to your son and that is to look after his moral welfare, not as you might think to break him in to the ways of sex through a prostitute," he said.

The court was told the boy would continue to live with his father.

 

Get your own here

 

What the hell! Cool Dad or Bad Dad!!

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