Gateway Pundit has a post up about an incident at a high school in Arizona. Hispanic students attempted to raise the Mexican flag at the school. Other students pulled the Mexican flag down and burned it. He has video.
Congress better start getting tough.
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Of Europe:
In Germany, police have been deployed to a school in Berlin to help control "ethnic Arabs" who have become a majority and are now "bullying" non- Arab students. The "bullying" includes the use of knives and other weapons. (Note to the PC crowd, the use of knives and other weapons does not constitute bullying. It constitutes attempted murder. This is happening in the capital of Germany).
In Sweden, the "discrimination ombudsman" in congratulating himself for his ground-breaking conviction of a dastardly criminal. Who, you ask? Why, a kennel owner who decided not to sell a dog to a woman after finding out the potential customer was a lesbian.
"This is an important verdict," said Hans Ytterberg, who heads the ombudsman’s office. "It is important that these incidents are tried in court."
Good God.
Said Haywood County (North Carolina) Sheriff Tom Alexander upon announcing the arrest of three men charged with performing illegal castrations on men who traveled from as far away as South America. The victims were all willing participants and came to the sadomasochistic dungeon the three men operated in Western North Carolina.
"The men met through a Web site produced in North Carolina that published photographs of men engaging in sadomasochistic behavior at a house in Waynesville. Investigators found DVD recordings of the castrations during a search of the house Wednesday, authorities said".
Blue Crab Boulevard, always the voice of reason in a cacophony of irrational thought, suggests that the men may have actually been performing a valuable public service. I mean, hey, there are at least six loons who will not be able to breed.
Isn’t that a good thing?
Full contact dodgeball in Missouri! A youth minister has been charged with assault after a dodgeball game turned ugly. A 16-year old player struck David M. Boudreaux in the head with a ball, knocking the youth minister’s glasses off. When the teen apologized, Boudreaux knocked him to the ground. When the lad got back up, he was kicked in the groin. (One assumes he went right back down again, but the article doesn’t say).
At any rate, the teen suffered a number of injuries.
Boudreaux has been placed on administrative leave.
Blue Crab Boulevard respectfully suggests a good anger management class. Or classes in case the first one doesn’t take. And remember kids; always wear a cup!
Jacques Chirac has announced that the hotly contested job plan will go ahead with a few changes. He has reduced the time period for firing young workers from two years to one. The changes will also require employers to state reasons for any firing.
But the Unions arrayed against the law will not budge. They are going ahead with planned strikes next week.
"We don’t want to negotiate … we don’t want it at all," Bruno Julliard, head of the largest students’ union, said on TF1 television. "The president had the chance to give a clear answer, which he didn’t do."
Unemployment is at 22% for younger people in France - the highest unemployment in Western Europe.
So, instead of getting more young people hired, the unyielding opposition will likely cause even more companies to move out of France, leading to more unemployment, etc. etc. You get the idea. Oh well, the mobs can always keep fighting over the dwindling supply of cell phones for recreation.
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It seems there have been a rash of wardrobe failures at the just completed Lakme Fashion Week held in Mumbai, India. It started with model Carol Gracias when her bustier slipped, exposing her breasts. She’s lucky the resulting flashbulbs didn’t ignite her. The festivities continued when model Gauhar Khan experienced a zipper failure resulting in rather more posterior expose than she was counting on.
Newspapers in India have gone to great lengths to discuss every aspect of the failures. They have been speculating on the state of the Indian zipper industry. They have also wondered if it wasn’t done intentionally to increase publicity.
Now, readers may be wondering why Blue Crab Boulevard is even reporting on this series of events. Aside from the gratuitous opportunity to link to pictures of fashion models working in India, that is. Well, aside from finding it fascinating to discover that India has fashion shows, that’s really the only reason. I mean the gratuitous linking thing. All links are work safe.
Ms. Kahn is a knockout, BTW.
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Today’s criminal mastermind award goes to the Japanese burglar who thought he had it made when he found an unlocked door. He was rummaging around the place looking for loot when one of the occupants was awakened by the noise. The burglar was grabbed and put into a bear hug. By one of the twenty sumo wrestlers staying in the building. Pretty soon all of the sumo wrestlers showed up.
The burglar wisely decided not to resist.
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An internet game site has decided to punish one of their players for repeatedly breaking the rules. They have decided to virtually crucify him. Really. As in nail the player’s on-line alter-ego to a digital cross and leave him hanging in the public square for a week.
The on-line game site Roma Victor recreates life in Roman Britain 2,000 years ago. Players live as slaves and citizens in a virtual world. The offender, who in real life is a 27 year-old electrical engineer, repeatedly engaged in "ganking" or killing new players as soon as they arrived. The site’s operators decided on the virtual crucifixion.
I leave this one up to readers to decide…..
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A company that supplies electronic voting machines to states here in the US is owned and operated by Venezuelans with apparent ties to the Chavez government. Now while I am not particularly concerned with foreign investment in this country, I do have a problem with voting machines being supplied by a company that has a very shady record on the Chavez recall election. Read this article and you’ll see what I mean.
It’s time to upgrade all US voting. Use paper ballots. Period.
H/T LGF for the link
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Look, I know McKinney is several fries short of a happy meal to begin with, but this kind of behavior is simply not excusable. I can’t believe the Democratic leadership is defending her at all. Let her handle the consequences of her boorishness herself.
I do have one question, though. Why is the Boston Herald trying so hard to make up a scandal involving Scalia when they have a real issue like this to address? Oh, silly question, I guess. McKinney is a Democrat after all.
H/T Instapundit for the link.
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We here at Blue Crab Boulevard, being vocal proponents of High Journalistic Standards™ are always ready to help a struggling, second rate hack newspaper in it’s attempts to smear a Justice of the US Supreme Court. Our super-secret magic 8-ball photographer (sadly now unemployed) has obtained indisputable photographic proof that an obscene gesture WAS, in fact used. You saw it here first!
You can thank us later, Boston Herald editors! We expect full credit for finally providing the proof you so desperately needed! And you didn’t even need to find an actor to quote! (Original photo ©Boston Herald, used for parody purposes.)
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Hands down winner is Glenn Reynolds:
Although I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that there WAS such a lobby.
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It seems that some people in the entertainment industry want to shorten the time between the theatrical release of a movie and when a DVD is released. Robert Iger, the head of Disney, has gone so far as to call for release of DVDs while movies are still playing in the theaters.
The reason they want to do this? To combat piracy and because revenues are falling.
Theater owners are not at all happy with these proposals.
Blue Crab Boulevard has a sure-fire way to increase revenues in the entertainment industry: Try making movies that people want to see. Stop making thinly-veiled leftist propaganda that automatically costs you 50% of your potential audience. Try using entertainment to entertain instead of to provide vanity-driven political soapboxes for some of your Hollywood insiders.
Just a thought.
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If you know anyone who is serving in the Marines (or has served anytime since 2001) please let them know about this. The Marines are trying to find additional ways to let Marines know and I think the blogosphere can help with that.
Why hasn’t congress severely stiffened the laws against identity theft?
I suspect it needs to be done sooner rather than later.
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US convoys in Iraq will no longer fire back and keep rolling when they are attacked. Under a new policy, they will now stand and fight when attacked.
In a change to Army tactics, U.S. soldiers will stand and fight instead of shooting and pressing on when their convoys are attacked on Iraqi roads, according to Harvey Perritt, spokesman for the Army’s Training and Doctrine Command at Fort Monroe, Va.
“In the first two years of Iraq, convoys (under attack) just fired and kept rolling,” said Maj. Roger Gaines, the battalion’s operations officer said Thursday. “That gave bad guys the perception that Americans run away. Now, convoys will stop and engage the enemy.”
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Sgt. Joel Arbour, a Company C soldier, served in northern Iraq from 2004 to 2005 with 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment.
The 28-year-old Santa Fe, Texas, native said he’s been attacked by small arms, rocket-propelled grenades, roadside bombs, car bombs and suicide bombers during convoys in Iraq. Back then, units would put down suppressing fire and keep moving.
But times have changed, he said.
“The insurgents have learned that we blow on through. They know you are going to run past, so they will ambush [soldiers] down the road with a frontal ambush,” he added. “This training gets us ready for multiple attacks.”
This explains a few things I had heard about training.
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