Santas warned 'ho ho ho' offensive

Seems a tad ridiculous. What about the Easter bunny...are eggs too suggestive of procreation???"SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported...

Pakistan orders UK reporters out

I don't believe the Deputy Information Minister. No. I don't."Three reporters from the Telegraph newspaper group have been ordered to leave Pakistan within 72 hours. Deputy Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan said Isambard Wilkinson, Colin Freeman and Damien McElroy were...

'Race' Signs Hung over School Water Fountains

Another racist symbol at another high schoolThe twist here is that the student accused of hanging the signs is African-American, but that doesn't really change the message received by the students walking up to...

Turkey to knock Stuffing out of Kurdish Rebels.

Turkey on the move, against US governments protests has sent troops along it's Southern Border with Iraq to quash Kurdish Rebels along it's own borders."SIRNAK, Turkey -- Turkey said on Monday eight of its...

Professional Ignorance - Doctors Refuse Belief in AS

In my travels around the so-called professional world, i have encountered a staggering amount of ignorance. Most shocking is how much of it is willful. Like the classic cliche of the ostrich sticking its head in the sand to hide from what it does not want to deal with, there...

Is this offensive?

I find it interesting that New Zealand casinos have in recent times not shown any moral or ethical judgement when it came to dealing with extreme "problem gamblers" (go to Listener article). I also agree with...

Liberals say Tory ads are 'offensive, desperate'

"Liberals say Tory ads are 'offensive, desperate' The Canadian Press TORONTO — A new election campaign advertisement by the Progressive Conservatives is so "offensive,'' party leader John Tory should apologize...

Signs That America Has Stopped Thinking

The fact that Americans tolerate this is is a testament to how dull the sensibilities here have become, and how lazy and misguided supposed “liberal” activism is. Don Imus inspires rage, people celebrating work camps for Negroes while dressing up in their masters’...

Cybercrime commited 'every 10 seconds'

The best form of defence is attack as the cyber criminals flood the UK knowing that it is very unlikely to be reported and highly likely to make a fortune relatively easy. In April 2007, in a widely criticised move, the Government changed the reporting system for a wide...

Leaflets said to warn of Iran move into north Iraq

"SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish authorities in northeastern Iraq said on Tuesday they were investigating the authenticity of leaflets warning villagers to evacuate ahead of an Iranian military offensive...

Iraqi Mosul al Qaeda leader killed

On the heels of a steady stream of good news coming  from Iraq as of late came the deadly wave suicide and car bombings that rocked the country on Wednesday. However, in typical Iraq war fashion, a faint...

Second Life Bans Beastiality

"Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, may be extending their crackdown on “Broadly Offensive” behavior to Bestiality, following attempts to remove virtual pedophilia (or Age-Play) from Second Life in...

Abbas dissolves Palestinian government

This commentary was originally published in IntelligentaIndigena Novajoservo: Blissful Arrogance: The exploitation of the legacy of the European Holocaust and what it means for Jews as well as Arabs in Occupied Palestine 6.15.2007 "Israel, like South Africa, is an...

Barack Obama: More to the left than you thought

With a slew of potential candidates attempting to become the most interesting or personable man or woman for the job (since, at this point, politics matter little), profiles depicting the human sides of...

The Bible: Indecent in Hong Kong?

An anonymous group of online petitioners is moving to classify the Bible as "obscene", apparently as a response to the uproar over a  sex column in the Chinese University's student news magazine."A debate...

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