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| No stoning, Canada migrants told |
Author:
IRiSHMaFIA ::
Posted:
Wed Jan 31, 2007 4:51 pm
Don't stone women to death, burn them or circumcise them, immigrants wishing to live in the town of Herouxville in Quebec, Canada, have been told.
The rules come in a new town council declaration on culture that Muslims have branded shocking and insulting.
Quebec is in the midst of a huge debate on integrating immigrant cultures.
Montreal police are investigating an officer who wrote a song called That's Enough Already, which says immigrants are undermining Quebec culture.
'Not racist'
Herouxville, which has one immigrant family in its population of about 1,300, is 160km (100 miles) north-east of Montreal.
Its council published the new rules on the town's website.
"We wish to inform these new arrivals that the way of life which they abandoned when they left their countries of origin cannot be recreated here," the declaration reads.
"We consider it completely outside norms to... kill women by stoning them in public, burning them alive, burning them with acid, circumcising them etc."
It points out that women are allowed to drive, vote, dance and own their own homes.
The rules ban Sikh children from carrying ceremonial...
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| Human Space Invaders |
Author:
major.tom ::
Posted:
Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:27 am
Thanks! I did try wikipedia. I wikied when I should've googled. (Doesn't have the same ring to it as zigged/zagged.) 
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| doctor john, and 10 years of success. |
Author:
Brown Sauce ::
Posted:
Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:19 am
no, there was a copper on a few minutes later, and he said that the figures are massaged. As an example, if attempted burglary used to be considered as a crime, it is now considered as a misdemeanour, and so doesn't show up. I don't know if it is now a misdemeanour, I forget what exactly his example was. Bit cynical though, surprise surprise.
he also said the the cps will only prosecute if the case has a 97% or above likelihood of conviction. Which must mean that it is only the very stupid who get to feel the wrath of the "system".
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| Pot-Running Arizona Granny Gets 3 Years |
Author:
eefanincan ::
Posted:
Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:27 am
| fritz wrote: | We all know that opinions are like ass holes every one has one  |
We value your opinions, fritz.
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| Vegetarian dons lettuce bikini to protest lamb campaign |
Author:
eefanincan ::
Posted:
Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:24 am
| girldorksrule wrote: | | What happens when the lettuce starts to wilt? |
A good question!
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| Contest winner throws cash to crowd |
Author:
eefanincan ::
Posted:
Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:23 am
If he wanted to give it away, he could have chosen a charity or something.
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| I'm a totalitarian nazi! |
Author:
faceless ::
Posted:
Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:13 am
| IRiSHMaFIA wrote: | | faceless wrote: | I'm in the process of disabling a lot of accounts from new members who couldn't find it in themselves to have an opinion on anything (all of whom were emailed last week and told that this would happen). I swear I really don't understand how anyone can sign up to a site, take the stuff that it offers for free and then not have the decency to say even "thanks".
All accounts older than 3 weeks will now be closed without warning if the owner doesn't use it. |
I'm glad you're doing that. The selfish twats don't deserve access to bugger all if they can't even say a simple thanks. It takes all of a minute to write a wee post, and the ones that say hi in the welcome thread and don't post a thing after that should be included. Who gives a rats arse what their name is. If they can't say anything after that then they're a waste of space. |
I'm thinking to give the...
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| Ferrets frolic up trouser legs for Australia Day |
Author:
janbo1960 ::
Posted:
Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:33 pm
For one group of people in Tasmania, Australia Day marks the annual ferret extravaganza.
Ferret lovers gather in the state's north-west to mark the public holiday with a full day of entertainment for their pets.
Organiser Sally Bond says it proves, that for ferrets at least, Australia really is the lucky country.
"We've got the races, then we've got the ferret frolic which is where they have to run up the trousers leg," she said.
"They have a swim. We're going to have a playpen this year which is still in the making so that'll be a big surprise and they also have to do a ramp where they have to run up the short pipe."
A strange lot the Tassies!!!!
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| Dog Reunites With Family After 6 Years |
Author:
IRiSHMaFIA ::
Posted:
Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:11 am
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Cujo was a frisky 7-year-old when he sneaked out of his owners' south St. Louis yard in July 2000. Now, thinner and grayer and with a tale that would be fascinating if only he could tell it, the golden retriever is back with the Barczewski family.
"It's a miracle," Noreen Barczewski, 41, said at Friday's reunion. "We found him!"
Six years and a side trip to Columbia can do a lot to a dog, but it was unmistakably Cujo. There was the heart-shaped patch of white on his forehead, the white fur on his toes, his manner of greeting people by rubbing against them cat-style.
Cujo's homecoming was orchestrated by Dirk's Fund, a golden retriever rescue group that has found homes for more than 900 dogs in the past decade.
After slipping away from home, Cujo somehow ended up 120 miles in Columbia in the home of an elderly woman. When the woman entered a nursing home, the dog was sent to the Central Missouri Humane Society in Columbia.
Bob Tillay, president of Dirk's Fund, spotted the dog - by then renamed Willy - on an adoption Web site and arranged...
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| BBC celebrates Babs birthday |
Author:
Skylace ::
Posted:
Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:28 am
She does look wonderful and I hope I look that good at her age.
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