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Captain_Fil · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 3:51 pm Post subject: Iran may ban dogs

You heard it right.

Iranian lawmakers may soon outlaw the ownership of dogs. In Iran, dissidents are shot, gays are hanged and now, dog-lovers may be arrested.

Iran is going to the dogs! Evil or Very Mad

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110420/wl_time/08599206587300

johnslat · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:28 pm Post subject:

Dear Captain_Fil,

Doggone!!!

Regards,
John

P.S. Well, that should make the cats happier, anyway.

dutchman · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 84

johnslat · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:48 pm Post subject:

Dear dutchman,

"There are no gays in Iran!!!"

"Captain_Fil wrote:
gays are hanged"

Hmm, I think I can see why.

Regards,
John

Sashadroogie · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject:

In the Motherland, all dogs are free!

spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

Well, of course! They're supercanines, after all:

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-01/moscows-stray-dogs-evolving-greater-intelligence-wolf-characteristics-and-mastery-subway

Sashadroogie · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:59 pm Post subject:

We're breeding a super-race of canines to take over the world. No more capitalist piggies then!! Mu ha ha ha haw!!

Captain_Fil · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:07 am Post subject:

Denizen · Joined: 13 Nov 2009 Posts: 110 Location: Tohoku

Looks like in Iran, teachers were working with K-12, but now are prohibited from working with K-9.

Sorry.

santi84 · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 1317 Location: under da sea

Denizen, you made my day.

geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

johnslat · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject:

Ah, Newmax - such a reliable source. It's at least as reliable as Fox.

"It was Newsmax, the website that Media Matters dubbed the �No. 1 Promoter of Trump 2012,� but which founder Christopher Ruddy describes as a voice of a Heartland populism that more established conservative publications do not understand.
Ruddy, who is best known for the conspiracy theories about the Clinton administration he pushed in the 1990�s, has imbued Newsmax with a distinctive and sometimes contradictory voice � �a little less aggressive� than Fox, as he describes it � that seems to channel the concerns of the talk radio listeners he considers his core audience.

�The Beltway has thought of conservative media as the National Review,� Ruddy said. �But when someone in Tucson or San Francisco thinks of conservative media � someone that follows Fox or Rush � they think of Newsmax.�

Although Newsmax had a major role in legitimizing Trump�s candidacy among conservatives, Ruddy said he has no plans to endorse a GOP candidate. In fact, any Republican who has even been whispered about as running in 2012 has made the pilgrimage to the Newsmax headquarters in West Palm Beach for an interview (Mike Huckabee, the sole exception, did his interview by phone).

In March, 42.5% of the Newsmax.com web traffic, by far the largest chunk, came from readers who were 65 or older, according to Nielsen.

The magazine itself is a mix of news reporting, columns and lifestyle features interspersed with many ads for gold, silver and pills that claim to reverse aging.

n a sense, what Rudy has been able to do is attract the same audience for talk radio to print, and it�s no surprise that talkers like Rush Limbaugh have been important amplifiers of the company�s brand of journalism.

�Newsmax talks to the same core that conservative talk radio does, and they are very good at talking the language,� said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, adding that Newsmax was �a little bit more populist than some of the more politically oriented media out there.�

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54514.html

Hmm, I gotta get me some of them there pills that reverse aging. Very Happy

Regards,
Old John

geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

Thanks for steering me straight on Newsmax. Im on their email list but I never read them. The headlines were blaring off the monitor and so I couldn`t resist.

Isla Guapa · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:31 pm Post subject:

geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

Not me islaguapa.

The right wing is the best comedy act in town.

And just because their editorial slant is to the right of Romney doesn`t exclude my seeing it. I also read the WALL STREET JOURNAl, the capitalists`paper, but they have a legitimacy that far exceeds their blue tinted glasses.