Thursday, July 30, 2009

Video shows Mormon thugs roughing up couple for a kiss.



object width="445" height="364"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OgvPDxjMbgUamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;color1=0x234900amp;color2=0x4e9e00amp;border=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/OgvPDxjMbgUamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;color1=0x234900amp;color2=0x4e9e00amp;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"/embed/objectbr /br / It is not well known that the Mormon sect employs large young men as their muscle, especially around their so-called temples. These men are hired to roughhouse anyone that may protest the church or attempt to pass our literature that doesn’t meet their standards.br /br /In most the country the temples are surrounded by sidewalks and streets open to the public. This has always vexed the Mormon church. It makes it easier for people to do inconvenient things like speak against the sect, carry picket signs, hand out literature, or apparently, kiss.br /br /The way the sect handled this in Salt Lake City was to use their massive political power in the state to turn the public street in front of the temple into Mormon church property. Since the street, used by pedestrians, not cars, continues from public property to public property most people never realize that the Mormon cult managed to get the politicians to give them domain over the small stretch of land outside the temple gates. The Mormon majority on the city council vote for the land transfer, while the two non-Mormons on the council opposed it.br /br /People walk along the street, as they would any downtown street, never realizing that they leave public property, enter private property, and then re-enter public property, all in a matter of seconds. But it gives the Mormon cult something they desire, the ability to snuff out dissent, or anything else for that matter.br /br /Matt Aune, and his partner Derek Jones, didn’t realize what was going on. They were walking down the street, side by side, holding hands. As they were walking Aune, still at the side of Jones, gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek. Seconds later they were surrounded for four burly thugs in suits who were yelling at them. Aune pulled Jones protectively to his side. The four men surround the couple and become more and more agitated. Suddenly they move, one of them grabs Jones and flung him to the ground. The other three grab Aune and begin trying to wrestle him to the ground. (Three on one, Mormon fairness.)br /br /The Mormon hired guns handcuff the men and call police, for the crime of a kiss and a hug. Of course, they couldn’t make that the official charge. So they contended the men were guilty of trespassing, even though this street was public for decades and is still wide open for pedestrians and not posted as private. Had there been no kiss there would have been no trespassing charge. When police were called they were told the men had kissed and hugged. That was what the security guards said then. According to the police report the church thugs said that they never engaged in roughness with the two men — something this video calls into question.br /br /After the incident got publicity the church revised their story and painted a scene reminiscent of the most debauched orgies of ancient Rome. Now they claimed there was “groping,” “passionate kissing” and “profane and lewd language.” We know how honest the Mormons are when it comes to gay people. The church contends that they didn’t treat the male couple any differently than any other couple. Yet I know of no incident where any other couple was every wrestled to the ground by burly security thugs for the crime of a kiss and a hug.br /br /While the church has video cameras on the public, better to spot those criminal kissers or felonious huggers, no video footage of the alleged crime actually exists. The church did release film of the men being surrounded by the church-hired thugs. But, for some reason, it can’t supply footage showing that the men were groping each other in public. How convenient.br /br /Public prosecutors had asked for all footage of the incident and when the church only turned over the arrest tape, and had nothing to to back up their accusations, charges were dropped against the men.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/23782041-7629587279523196780?l=freestudents.blogspot.com'//div

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A Young Athlete's Journey



centerbr /img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13657" title="alexis-page" src="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/alexis-page.jpg" alt="alexis-page" width="540" height="298" /br /lexis Page practices at Aviator Sports and Recreation in Brooklyn./centerbr /br /From a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/sports/30vecsey.html?_r=2amp;hp"The NYTimes:/abr /blockquotebr /br /strongSports of The Timesbr /A Young Gymnast’s Distant Olympic Dreambr /By GEORGE VECSEYbr /Published: July 29, 2009/strongbr /br /On weekends, the subway and bus trip can take two and a half hours — each way, that is. Alexis Page, 13, is pursuing her sport, her art, from uptown Manhattan to the outer fringes of Brooklyn.br /br /Millions of hopeful American youths ride to practice in team vans or their parents’ cars or perhaps they bicycle to a nearby field or gym. Alexis takes the No. 2 subway and the Q35 bus.br /br /Her discipline is rhythmic gymnastics, twirling a ribbon, dancing with a ball, an Olympic sport that is obscure just about everywhere except the old Soviet bloc.br /br /Alexis cannot afford to think about the Olympics themselves, she says softly. She must live within the moment of the music and the rhythm, and not think how she will pay for all this, or when she will sleep.br /br /Her coaches, with the enduring poise of Soviet athletes, tell her she has it good. They tell stories of all-day training rather than the four-hour sessions she takes. They tell of children removed from their families to join the collective athletic system.br /br /Alexis studies them, the way they walk, the way they talk. She is preparing for life, for college, not only the Olympics. She does not have time for a social life in her neighborhood; her friends are in the gym or on her Facebook page — girls from Russia, girls from Chicago, gymnasts, like herself. One of her friends is an octogenarian European gymnast, now living in New York./blockquotebr /!--more--br /br /Rest of article at link above.br /br /Much encouragement to this young Sista on her own path....and much luck.br /br /centerimg class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13659" title="alexis-page2" src="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/alexis-page2.jpg" alt="alexis-page2" width="540" height="298" /br /Alexis Page, right, and her mother Pamela Fair on the No. 2 subway.br /br /img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-13660" title="alexis-page3" src="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/alexis-page3.jpg" alt="alexis-page3" width="540" height="298" /br /Alexis Page trains at a sports facility at Floyd Bennett Field/centerdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21083673-2296116236764860767?l=mirroronamerica.blogspot.com'//div

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Nissan unveils all-electric hybrid car



The all-new Nissan Tilda, scheduled to go on sale in the U.S. next year, a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/classifieds/news/automotive/latestnews/stories/DN-Japan-Nissan_28bus.ART.State.Edition1.3f71d1b.html"is indeed a hybrid-drive car/a in the sense that it uses regenerative braking for battery recharges, enabling it to go 100 miles, not 50 or so, between charges.br /br /Toyota still pooh-poohs all-electrics right now, but we shall see. Meanwhile, at a price Nissan says will be “competitive” with gasoline-engine vehicles, a 100-mile charge life, and lithium-ion batteries, the Tilda has just kicked massive amounts of sand in the face of the Chevy Volt. (Not that that’s hard to do. And not that that’s not kind of fun to do, either.)div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-3390985414905839098?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div

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Southwest looks to buy Frontier



But, as when it bought ATA a couple years back, also out of bankruptcy, just to get its LaGuardia gates, it looks like Southwest is just looking at buying Frontier a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/073109dnbussouthwest.90001c9a.html"to increase its Denver muscle/a. br /br /I predict it turns around and resells Frontier’s regional line, Lynx, possibly to Alaska Airlines, possibly to U.S. West.br /br /Since Frontier itself runs nary a one on 737s in its fleet, I can’t imagine what Southwest wants other than Denver gates, and probably some routes. (Unless maybe Southwest does a massive flip into an all-Airbus fleet!)div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-6249264226506711813?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div

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More Misreporting?



This time, it appears that the culprit is Bernama.br /br /Penang Chief Minister has requested that Bernama correct it 30 July report and instead print the complete and accurate version of his comments on the new RM300 million Sarawak State Assembly Building. He was reported to have said:br /blockquotespan style="font-size:85%;"“Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng was also impressed with the new building, adding that Sarawak had the capability to provide the state with more infrastructure facilities.” /span/blockquoteHowever, what he said in Bahasa Malaysia were words to this effect:br /blockquotespan style="font-size:85%;"“Bangunan ini menarik perhatian. Yang menarik saya adalah pembentukan modal insan dan sumber manusia seperti dalam bidang pendidikan. Adalah penting sekolah dapat bekalan letrik kerana apa gunanya computer tanpa bekalan letrik. Penetration untuk jalur lebar(broadband) di Sarawak adalah 13%. Saya lebih berminat memberikan tumpuan kepada aspek menaikkan kadar penetration broadband atau jalur lebar ini.”/span/blockquoteCan you tell the difference?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37045477-2302948764271451205?l=tonypua.blogspot.com'//div

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Hey Mac lovers, wipe that smirk off hang up your hackable iPhone



Yes, all you worshipers of Steve Jobs, your iPhone a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_iphone_security"can be hacked/a. Maybe, given it’s history, ATT can wiretap you through it, too.br /br /And, here’s the real biggie. Apple was warned about this two weeks ago, but has yet to do anything.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-3381064765599186066?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div

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Shadows of the War



I was driving late Tuesday night, heading home from seeing some friends. The lights were soundless as they came up behind me. I’d had a beer, and I pulled over and worried for a moment as the lights carried on past me into the night. Ahead of me, more lights flew by soundlessly, then more. As I pulled to the curb in front of my house, the first siren split the humid night air, and yet another set of lights burned down the road. br /br /Let’s go back to 2006 and meet George Nickel. I’ve talked about him before, though never by name. He’s been in the US Army a long time- he was a private in the Hawaii-based 25th Infantry back when the Tropic Thunder division still had an Air Assault regiment. When I met him, he’d already left the Army and come back to join the Army Reserve with friends of his from his work at Idaho’s State Penitentiary. He’s given this country of ours a lot. On February 8th, 2007, on a narrow road outside of Karma, Iraq, Staff Sergeant Nickel, USAR, very nearly gave it all. He was the lone survivor from the explosion of one of the largest IEDs ever placed in Iraq- his 12 ton bomb-resistant vehicle was thrown above the tops of the 10-foot high reeds that lined the road. Three other good men died- the truck’s gunner, just a foot away, was blown from the turret and died before he hit the ground. The sergeant riding shotgun was even closer to George- he too died instantly. The driver was the furthest from the point where the blast penetrated the armored hull- he lived long enough for a medivac helicopter to arrive, but he died en route to the combat hospital in Fallujah. George Nickel was separated from death by mere inches. Nearly every bone on the right side of his body was broken, and shrapnel from the blast tore his flesh.br /br /George was a private man. He was the sort to get married to a woman, and only tell his best friends, the ones he had rejoined the Army with, when they noticed the ring he was wearing. Everyone who deploys overseas has a contact number on file, so if the worst happens, the military can begin the process of alerting loved ones of their service member’s death or injury. George gave the Army a number that he knew his wife wouldn’t answer, trusting his friends to tell her before the Army found her. In the end, that was exactly how it happened. br /br /He arrived from Germany at Walter Reed Army Medical Center just after the neglect scandal broke there. There wasn’t enough room for him; the administration there wanted to send him home to continue his rehabilitation therapy. He was on canes then- his house was in the woods of Idaho and definitely not handicap accessible. Instead, he was housed in one of the old hotels nearby that the Army had rented out to house the overflow of wounded warriors from Walter Reed. A cab took him to his temporary home- another wounded veteran helped him carry his meager belongings upstairs. He ate from care packages rather than trust the meal service. He finally came home to Boise on July 4th, 2008. br /br /Fast forward to July 28th, 2009. Boise’s finest are running towards the sound of guns, and at the end they find George, still running toward the sound of his own guns. Towards his own demons. He’s lost his dog, and he’s searching the nearby apartments for the pup. A bullet into the lock. A boot into the door, and suddenly there’s a voice yelling “Police! Put your hands up!” He doesn’t. They start shooting, and he takes cover. Suddenly the war has come home for everyone, not just George. George is searching buildings, just like he did in Iraq. Trouble is, this is America and not Iraq, and in America we like to pretend that soldiers are GI Joes- a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/boise/story/850012.html"like they’re heroes who never need our help/a.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34649397-3651040590431634621?l=acutepolitics.blogspot.com'//div

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