Reinke Faces Life

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/06/wzim106.xml

White farmers in court for growing crops
By Peta Thornycroft, in Johannesburg
Last Updated: 12:17am BST 06/10/2007

***Begin Quote***

Ten white farmers appeared in court in Zimbabwe yesterday accused of growing crops on their land — in a country where millions of people will need food aid within the next few months.

The case in Chegutu district, 70 miles southwest of Harare, exposes the perversity of President Robert Mugabe’s policies. Commerical agriculture was the mainstay of the economy in the days when Zimbabwe was a food exporter.

Since 2000, when the government began seizing white-owned farms, many of them violently, the agricultural sector has collapsed and the economy has gone into freefall, with inflation now at 6,600 per cent, the highest in the world.
advertisement

The World Food Programme estimates that it will be feeding 4.1 million Zimbabweans, one third of the population, by the end of the year.

But none of that has stopped the Zanu-PF regime.

{And the article goes on … …}

***End Quote***

Sad to say, but I feel no compunction to bail out suicidal people.

4.1 Million on the dole there? Nope, sorry. Not my problem.

Hopefully none of the moeny stolen from me by that gooferment gang is going to fund this nonsense.

Sorry, but the dole — regardless if it here or there — is MORALLY wrong.

We’re denying people the chance to learn from their mistakes.

Charity freely given is fine; theft is not.

# # # # #

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57573

Head of Reform Judaism says wearing veil should be respected
Posted: September 11, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern
Dennis Prager

*** begin quote ***

Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of fundamentalist Muslim culture – whether in the Muslim world or in the West – knows that, given the social, religious and familial pressures on women to wear a veil, the veil is not worn voluntarily in any meaningful sense of the word.

But while the rabbi respects Muslim women who choose to wear the veil, he had words of contempt for American women who choose to dress like Lindsay Lohan. Like others on the left, Rabbi Yoffie only has standards for Westerners, especially Americans, not for other cultures. It is the left’s soft bigotry of low expectations that has often been noted.

*** end quote ***

Well in my world view, everyone can do what they want to the extent that it doesn’t infringe on their neighbor’s rights.

If that section of the globe wants to disempower half of their population, then that’s their problem. Not mine.

I agree that the “liberal left” in the USA gives people a pass instead of expecting high performance.

As far as women “volunteering” to hide behind a veil, that’s fine. You only have the rights you are willing to fight for. It’s been that way since the dawn of time.

In the USA, we have to respect religion as a right enshrined in the Constitution. The gooferment has to tread lightly. We, as people, don’t. If you’re out in wackyland, I can call you on it. Just as you can, me.

I want everyone in the USA to be all that they can be.

# # # # #

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070911/D8RJBL081.html

Chinese Catholic Bishop Dies in Custody
Sep 11, 11:53 AM (ET)
By ALEXA OLESEN

*** begin quote ***

BEIJING (AP) - A bishop who led an underground congregation of Roman Catholics and was repeatedly detained in China for his loyalty to the Vatican died in police custody, a monitoring group said Tuesday.

Bishop Han Dingxiang, 71, was cremated within six hours of his death Sunday and buried in a public cemetery with no priests or other faithful present, both groups said.

*** end quote ***

… and lest we forget, who has 5T$, from our trading with them.

# # # # #