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990.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 26 Aug 2008 Tue 05:14 pm

 

Quoting WarTrain

Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way?

 

Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction.

 

Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years.

 

In the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say the Earth´s magnetic fields may influence the behaviour of these animals.

 

Or maybe they are all just turning their back on thehandsom?

 

Right..{#lang_emotions_get_you}

A new rule:

-nobody is allowed to turn their back on thehandsom. Including animals!!!!

 

 

ps..what about this picture? eh?

The image “http://images.inmagine.com/img/photoaltozenshui/yaa025/yaa025000030.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

 

991.       lady in red
6947 posts
 26 Aug 2008 Tue 07:01 pm

Quoting WarTrain 

 

Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction.

 

 

Quoting thehandsom

Right..{#lang_emotions_get_you}

A new rule:

-nobody is allowed to turn their back on thehandsom. Including animals!!!!

 

 

ps..what about this picture? eh?

The image “http://images.inmagine.com/img/photoaltozenshui/yaa025/yaa025000030.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.

 I must say I have never seen rows of cows in fields all facing in the same direction!  However....

 

 

992.       teaschip
3870 posts
 26 Aug 2008 Tue 07:16 pm

Watching a show last night "The Most Outrageous Moments..  I couldn´t believe when they showed Izmar Turkey.  The store owners were ticked at eachother and ended up with a whole street fight with people hitting eachother over  the heads with wooden cains. {#lang_emotions_scared}

993.       Trudy
7887 posts
 27 Aug 2008 Wed 09:54 am

A SAUDI court will next month hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man in his fifties, the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan reported today.


It said the girl´s mother had filed the divorce case with the court at Unayzah 220km north of Riyadh, and cited lawyer Abdullah Jtili as saying the father had arranged the marriage without telling the girl.


"She doesn´t know yet that she has been married,´´ added Jtili of the girl who is about to begin her fourth year at primary school.


Al-Watan said relatives of the girl had told a Saudi rights group of her plight and urged it to intervene to have the marriage annulled.


But the daily also reported that the husband had refused to renounce the marriage, saying that he had not done anything illegal.


Arranged marriages involving pre-adolescents are occasionally reported in the Arabian Peninsula, including in the ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom where the strict conservative Wahabi version of Sunni Islam holds sway and polygamy is common.


In Yemen in April, another girl aged eight was granted a divorce after her unemployed father forced her to marry a man of 28.


 


Source: www.new.com.au


 


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Married at 8 years? Sorry, I can´t and don´t want to understand that people think that is ok.

994.       libralady
5152 posts
 27 Aug 2008 Wed 02:31 pm

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080822/tod-france-transport-offbeat-7f81b96.html

 

This takes a bit of beating!  Blind drunk driver with a drunk passenger in France .................

995.       libralady
5152 posts
 27 Aug 2008 Wed 02:36 pm

 

Quoting WarTrain

Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way?

 

Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in a north-south direction.

 

Wild deer also display this behaviour - a phenomenon that has apparently gone unnoticed by herdsmen and hunters for thousands of years.

 

In the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences, scientists say the Earth´s magnetic fields may influence the behaviour of these animals.

 

Or maybe they are all just turning their back on thehandsom?

 

 I think this has gone unnoticed by millions of people for millions of years!  Have these idiots ever been to the country?

 

As a side point, could it be that thehandsoms behaviour is influenced by magentic north? 

996.       Roswitha
4132 posts
 28 Aug 2008 Thu 05:10 pm

US Officers: We Executed Handcuffed Iraqi Captives

Posted Aug 27, 08 5:29 AM CDT in Crime & CourtsWorld 

(Newser) – Three US officers shot four blindfolded and handcuffed Iraqi detainees early last year and dumped their bodies in a canal, according to statements made to military investigators and obtained by the New York Times. The men are likely to face murder charges. Four others from the same platoon have been charged with murder conspiracy for agreeing to the killings, according to authorities.

The detainees were suspected Mahdi Army fighters captured in Baghdad. After being told to release the men due to insufficient evidence against them, the platoon´s first sergeant ordered that the prisoners be shot as revenge for the earlier deaths of two American soldiers, according to statements by two of the men who admitted to shooting the men in the head. "I´m ashamed of what I´ve done," said one of the shooters.

Source New York Times

 

Confessions from U.S. Soldiers in Iraq on the Brutal Treatment of Civilians.

Interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans reveal disturbing patterns of behavior by US troops in Iraq against innocent civilians -- brutal acts that often go unreported and almost always go unpunished.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/56761/

997.       Roswitha
4132 posts
 28 Aug 2008 Thu 05:52 pm

Israel Expanding Settlements in East Jerusalem

 Israel has published tenders for the construction of 1,761 illegal housing units for Israeli settlers in occupied east Jerusalem alone, according to the Israeli rights group Peace Now.

The expansion plans come despite promises by the Israeli government at last year´s peace summit at Annapolis, Maryland (in the U.S.) to freeze all settlement growth.

"Once again this government has shown that its words and commitments are meaningless, and they have no intention of keeping to their word," says Peace Now.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has stressed repeatedly that settlement construction or expansion in the West Bank is contrary to international law and Israel´s commitments under the ´road map´ peace process.

The road map was a series of peace-building measures proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush in 2002 and subsequently developed by the diplomatic Quartet of the European Union, the United Nations, Russia and the United States.

Ban Ki-moon further urged Israel to freeze all settlement activity and to dismantle outposts erected since March of 2001.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, normally a die-hard supporter of Israel, also expressed her concern about the settlement building during her last visit to Israel several months ago.

"It´s important to have an atmosphere of confidence and trust," Rice said following talks she held with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. "The United States believes that the (settlement) actions and the announcements that are taking place are indeed having a negative effect on the atmosphere for negotiation."

http://www.alternet.org/rights/96598/israel_expanding_settlements_in_east_jerusalem

998.       zhang ziyi
205 posts
 29 Aug 2008 Fri 01:26 am

 

Quoting Trudy

A SAUDI court will next month hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl married off by her father to a man in his fifties, the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan reported today.

It said the girl´s mother had filed the divorce case with the court at Unayzah 220km north of Riyadh, and cited lawyer Abdullah Jtili as saying the father had arranged the marriage without telling the girl.

"She doesn´t know yet that she has been married,´´ added Jtili of the girl who is about to begin her fourth year at primary school.

Al-Watan said relatives of the girl had told a Saudi rights group of her plight and urged it to intervene to have the marriage annulled.

But the daily also reported that the husband had refused to renounce the marriage, saying that he had not done anything illegal.

Arranged marriages involving pre-adolescents are occasionally reported in the Arabian Peninsula, including in the ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom where the strict conservative Wahabi version of Sunni Islam holds sway and polygamy is common.

In Yemen in April, another girl aged eight was granted a divorce after her unemployed father forced her to marry a man of 28.

 

Source: www.new.com.au

 

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Married at 8 years? Sorry, I can´t and don´t want to understand that people think that is ok.

 

Sorry, Trudy, this is not true! Media lies (ask Doudi)! Media fabricates such sort of stories to earn more money (ask Peacetrain or Alameda). Nothing of such takes place in Middle East. Women rights are respected in all Islamic countries, because the Prophet told so, thats why He waited for Aisha for 3 years until she reached her puberty, bless his heart. You see he took care of all those widows by marrying them off to himself. You don´t see how his heart was kind and beautiful towards those poor widowed women who lost their husbands in the wars for the goal to unite nations under one religion, the religion of peace.

 

999.       girleegirl
5065 posts
 29 Aug 2008 Fri 02:13 am

 

Quoting zhang ziyi

Media lies (ask Doudi)! Media fabricates such sort of stories to earn more money (ask Peacetrain or Alameda).

 Why should Trudy need to ask any of them about the media´s lies .  You can vouch for that.  They do it all the time in China.  {#lang_emotions_bigsmile}

 

1000.       Roswitha
4132 posts
 29 Aug 2008 Fri 09:29 pm

Ennio Morricone

 

 Le Vent Le Cri

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