The Year of the Terrorists' Apprentice

Human Shields?

Dress 'em up, but can't take them Out
Retrieved by PD


RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – A group of Saudi clerics urged the kingdom's new information minister on Sunday to ban women from appearing on TV or in newspapers and magazines, making clear that the country's hardline religious establishment is skeptical of a new push toward moderation.

In a statement, the 35 hardline clergymen also called on Abdel Aziz Khoja, who was appointed by King Abdullah on Feb. 14, to prohibit the playing of music and music shows on television.

"We have great hope that this media reform will be accomplished by you," said the statement. "We have noticed how well-rooted perversity is in the Ministry of Information and Culture, in television, radio, press, culture clubs and the book fair."

Although it raises the pressure on the new minister, the recommendation is likely to have little effect. Khoja's appointment was part of a government shake-up by Abdullah that removed a number of hardline figures and is believed to be part of an effort to weaken the influence of conservatives in this devout desert kingdom.

"No Saudi women should appear on TV, no matter what the reason," the statement said. "No images of women should appear in Saudi newspapers and magazines."

Saudi Arabia was founded on an alliance with the conservative Wahhabi strain of Islam that sees the mixing of sexes as anathema and believes the playing of music violates religious values.

The former information minister, Iyad Madani, earned the ire of hardliners several years ago by allowing music in government-run TV and female journalists to interview men, despite the country's strict gender-segregation rules.

Women also appear on Saudi television with their faces showing, though most in public totally cover themselves.

Newspapers publish pictures of Saudi women, but almost always with their heads covered, while pictures of Western entertainers are shown but bare arms and cleavage are painted over.

The clerics include several professors from the ultra-conservative Imam University, Islamic research scholars, a judge in a court in the resort of Taif and some government employees.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, in town for meetings with Saudi officials, told a news conference that during lunch he sat between a female Saudi surgeon and a female journalist. He said while one woman is allowed to perform surgery and another is allowed to teach, neither is permitted to drive.

"I find that bizarre," he said.

Nello and Orso weigh in on Penguins: UPDATE !!

From high in the Appenine Mts. Nello and Orso would like to suggest that penguins are neither fowl nor fish, but only very well-dressed pigs trying to make it in the big city. It seems to be working for them since no one has ever heard of penguin-prosciutto. Donald Trumpt is actually a penguin (pssst - I mean "pig" !! See it's working for them)
Nello and Orso, Up in der

Fresh Penguin Meat---;
Horror of Reality if anyone were to really Think about it !!!!!
So, who is this? The Golden Compost? Son of Fleece?
What you thinking..? ...that you gonna start international business with Texas, and ... where you from... Puglia...? There's lots of paper to fill out, you know.

All right, but you can't blow the sheep brains out of their skulls with compressed air.

Lookin' forward to doing some bidness... funny or otherwise. Yeah, Donald Trumpt is a quacker, male chavez-ness piglet, in a tuxedo.

Concerning your concerns about Penguin-prosciutto: I refer you to this blogger: Horror show face-off

Popeye, 6/27/07

So it’s been seven months and two plotlines since I’ve deigned to comment on Popeye’s spinach- and/or mescaline-fueled antics. If you’re not following along at home, I’m not going to give you any context for this, because it’s just all the more delightful as a surreal and horrifying standalone vignette. Olive Oyl laughing so hard that her jaw nearly unhinges as she presses the barrel of the gun to her temple, her breast-sporting doppelgänger laughingly urging her to blow her brains out as she slams her bracelets together with a hearty CLANK!, Wimpy ignoring the horrifying drama to demand more food — WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT IN A COMIC? In three panels, Popeye has managed to be more unsettling that the last 18 months of Zippy the Pinhead.

MooPig will gladly pay you Thursday for a Penguin-prosciutto gyro on Tuesday. Those are our Terms.

Also, We very much hope you will not be trying to cross breed too many bird-foul-human-mammals:

By The Way, btw, Rocky, the 7-foot, 700-pound grizzly bear that wrestled with Will Ferrell in Semi Pro, killed his trainer Tuesday, ABC News and the AP report. Stephan Miller, 39, was bitten on the neck while working with Rocky alongside two other trainers in Los Angeles and died before help arrived... [click here for the blogger story, and tubeyou] Rocky, the bear from 'Semi Pro,' kills trainer

Thanks, Compostholestoy, for opening all these doors:
We look forward to some prototype Orso Burgers soon from you via Ostrich-mail. The contract is in the mail.
Sincerely, MooPig da' furst

ps. Penguins could be the Sunday roast of choice if a plan to use the world penguin surplus goes ahead, Goliath Food Chiefs announced yesterday. Penguins, long considered to be inedible by even the most hardiest of sailors, have recently been discovered to taste a lot like veal, if cooked for long enough. [looks like chicken, tastes like veal]

I'm No Virgin: or do we start over after AD 2000?

This will be Short, by Pat Darnell

Hello Dear Patrons:
Believe you me I struggle for enlightenment. As of late, I have been noticing something: Change is constant. Last year at this time were concerns about global warming, a digital age, and other foreign occupations. Now a bigger picture is in the news, that WW III is on our horizon, so says the Bush Regime.

So be it. World War is a percentage thing: if over fifty percent of the nations are in a skirmish simultaneously because of "Have / Have Not" issues, well that spells World War.

WW II and counting... And at last count we ended number two around 1946-ish, or shouldn't we have a better name for this century? The following is an excerpted report about President 'Dubya' Bush's comments:

The Herald (Harare) OPINION 30 October 2007 Posted to web 30 October 2007 Scott Ritter Harare Zimbabwe: Bush's Delusions of World War Iii Disgraceful, Banal.... http://allafrica.com/stories/200710300378.html "...At a White House Press conference two weeks back, just in case you haven't heard, (United States) President (George W.) Bush informed the American people that he had told world leaders 'if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing (Iran) from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon'.
...Pundits have raised their eyebrows and comics are busy writing jokes, but the
president’s reference to Armageddon, no matter how cavalierly uttered and subsequently brushed away, suggest an alarming context. ... There is still no official
policy in place within the administration concerning Iran. While a more sober-minded national security bureaucracy works to marginalise the hawkish posturing of the neo-cons, the administration has decided that the best policy is, in fact, no policy, which is a policy decision in its own right. ... A policy of no policy results in secret policy, which means, according to Hadley
himself, the Bush administration simply does whatever it wants to, regardless.
In the case of Iran, this means pushing for regime change in Tehran at any cost, even if it means World War III (Ritter, Scott, 30 Oct 2007)." Scott Ritter was a Marine Corps intelligence officer from 1984 to 1991 and a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. This is part on an article that was first published on TruthDig.com

Some of you know, I am from the kindergarten class generation that actually practiced in the hallways at good old West University Elementary duck-ing and cover-ing. My classmates and I grew up in fear. Cold war or hot war, it is all the same to us.

It turns out, War Veterans tell us the real story: Most saying --"war is constant." Marines tell us it's the "Suck." Did not Jesus say it would be akin to being pushed through the eye of a needle to avoid persecution?

Scripture also points to the bigger war up there that is being fought between fallen angels and unfailing servants of God.

Hey! And still many people around the world talk about virgins... Moslem's on his Jihad looks for thirty or forty virgins after incinerating himself; wanton Catholics pray to virgins for intercession, Hefner preys upon them, and Buddhist... I don't know, I think he took bowls of milk and rice-pudding from several virgin maidens. Greeks.. never mind.

Moses talked about grass widows... Madonna exposes herself as quasi-virgin, and the web has Virgin copyrighted. Someone hit me if I'm wrong, but that just about covers everyone, except the Mormons, it came to pass, they like to marry a dozen or so of them all to one guy. Let's see, is their any other sect I can insult; maybe later I will think of other groups?

"I strongly suggest we not allow Geo Dubya' Bush to name the next world series of war after himself: VOW I instead of WW III..."

Virgins are so sought after, I think we should name the next War after them. The Virgin Of Wars -- or VOW I -- hey, we avoid the confusion of "www.com" and "WW III," and GWB ii, which are surely in conflict for those who might be trying to sort out acronyms. Besides it's catchy when the acronym says something else: "Yo, I VOW to kick you ass!"

Every new century should have a new character, new voice, new content. The 21st Century definitely begs a new style: thus beginVirgin Wars , supplanting three W's confusion! And I am relieved Dubya only had daughters... oops, now I've insulted all the groups.

Darnellism #1: It is Official -- We are now all Virgins reborn; We are imprinted via preceding Oval Office discussions since AD 2000.

References

And that is how one correlates world war to virginity -- Remember: MooPig Wisdom lives on with or without your support.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200710300378.html

www.amazon.com/How-Build-Nuclear-Bomb-Destruction/dp/1560256036 - 208k