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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (11400)	8/4/2003 5:39:13 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Latest from the nutballs: Posted on Mon, Aug. 04, 2003 Tape declares 'America cannot protect itself' Excerpt of remarks purportedly made by top al Qaeda official Ayman al-Zawahri. The text is translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press. There was no immediate way to confirm the tape's authenticity. Muslim brothers everywhere...America has announced it will start putting Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo on trial before military courts that could sentence them to death. I swear by the almighty God... that Crusader America will pay dearly for any harm done to any of the Muslim prisoners it is holding...Let it be clear to those who conspire with America that America cannot protect itself, let alone protect others. Let every prisoner held by the infidels be sure that his release is a debt hanging from the neck of every mujahedeen [fighter], and that the end of the ordeal is close, God willing. [And let every prisoner] know that his brothers, the mujahedeen, have not forgotten that they will avenge him from the new Crusaders. When America shackles the Muslim prisoners and tortures them, it is torturing itself. When it puts them on trial, it is putting its children on trial, and when it convicts them it is convicting its people. We don't expect any justice, fairness, or commitment to morals or beliefs from America... But we tell America one thing: what you have seen until now is nothing but the first skirmishes. The real battle has not started yet. The American people whose armies have killed our women and children, if it is keen on its future and the future of its generations, has to take initiative and follow reason and logic before it is too late. They have been forewarned... philly.com

To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (11400)	8/4/2003 5:54:47 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

The demographic trends are illustrative. According to Joel Kotkin of Pepperdine University, nearly a third of second-generation Asians and Hispanics -- the largest ethnic minority -- marry out of their ethnic group. In 1997, one in seven babies born in California were to parents of different races. The 2000 Census offered 63 different ways to self-identify and found that 40% of people under 25 belong to a racial or ethnic category other than "non-Hispanic white." What box does Tiger Woods check, and why should he have to check one? it would be a watershed event, imo if the connerly bill passes...as long as there are votes to be "bought" and programs to be "sold" under the guise of diversity, it would surprise me if it happens.... i would expect the "pro" racial "profilers" to spend heavily to campaign against it. hope that they fail. Prop. 54's success would be a fitting rebuke to the Supreme Court (all the more potent because it would come from the nation's largest and most racially diverse state) and a public reaffirmation of the Constitution's colorblind commitment to equal protection under the law. indeed. especially justice o'connor (whose voting record i generally admire)