Periodical Political Post *66
Queer News
- Federal inquiry into American gay teenager’s suicide started
- Ireland recognises foreign gay marriage and partnerships
- Police raid gay party in India because of, “terrorism fears”
- LGBT group in north-west Turkey shut down by court
- U.S. politician says HIV funding should be cut for ‘perverted’ people
- Canadian province still lists homosexuality as a mental illness
- Brazilian brothers bury father alive for beating them for being gay
Other News
- Republicans in U.S. state stop poor kids from going to good schools
- Retracted autism study an ‘elaborate fraud,’ British journal find
- U.S. Tea Parties want to clean textbooks of mean things about Founding Fathers
- Afghan Taliban ready to drop their ban on schooling girls
- Sex education in Europe an ‘attack’ on religious freedom, says pope
- Visa, Mastercard, PayPal: No donations for WikiLeaks but for illegal Israeli settlements
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about 2 years ago
you missed a BIG ONE. the United States Senate repealed Dont Ask Dont Tell. that is a HUGE achievement for the U.S. and political posts shouldn’t, just as the news, shouldn’t be focused on the negative, in full, but the postive such as such an event, which has hurled the gay community into the 21st century as a modern and nationally respected community.
about 2 years ago
So, one of only two positive items is about the Taliban? You’ve got to be kidding me…
Btw, if you read the whole article at the link, you’ll find (after the quotation marks in the headline, which apparently were felt to be unnecessary here) this:
The Taliban – who are fighting the Kabul government – have made no public comment on the issue.
[...]
Female MPs greeted with disbelief the Taliban’s supposed softening of stance on schooling for girls.
Roshanak Wardak, a member of parliament from the central-eastern Afghan province of Wardak, told the BBC: “The Afghan government is saying that, but it’s not true.
“I don’t believe in this because in Wardak we have six Pashtun-dominated districts and all the girls’ schools are closed and have never been open. There are only schools open in two Hazara-dominated districts.”
Marman Gulhar, MP for the north-eastern province of Kunar, was also sceptical.
“This is not true and it will never happen,” she told the BBC. “The Taliban will never be ready for that [girls' education].
“In fact they are fighting against that. The girls’ schools are closed and still are closed.”
But what do women know, anyway. So…yay for the Taliban, right?
about 2 years ago
Josh and the Taliban have something very important in common: They both hate the US.
about 2 years ago
The reasons for the omission were discussed extensively in the comments to the previous Periodical Political Post http://www.milkboys.org/article/periodical-political-post-65/
about 2 years ago
Nolo contendere.
about 2 years ago
It is so hard to be vocally opposed to Israel in the US. Every time I try to bring it up, people just don’t understand. We’ve (American’s) have been bred to believe that that land belongs only to the Hebrews, when that’s far from the truth. Even the Torah says they invaded, just because “God said they could.”
Give Palestine back to her people!
about 2 years ago
We did not invade, we returned after a long period of exile in Egypt.
and if you’re so concerned about taking land from “invaders” and giving it to original people who lived there, then get the heck back to Europe and give northern America back to the native Americans who were there before your ancestors showed up 200 years ago.
about 2 years ago
Lucas, what about the young Israelis born in that country just a year or two ago? Should they now be forecefully removed and displaced once again? Of course not, and you’ve obviously ignored that.
Furthermore, say what you want about Israel but it is the only country in the Middle East that protects gay people from discrimination, has huge gay parades and gay nightlife, and recognizes gay marriages from other countries. Cross the border to any other country and being gay is punishable.
I always find it humorous how gay people criticise Israel… Israel is the only country in the Middle East that would not consider you a criminal for being homosexual. I wonder how that makes you feel?
about 2 years ago
Give America back to her people!
about 2 years ago
Most of the worlds problems be solved if
the culprit /the wrongdoer be sentenced
to a public spanking. Where via internet
cable / satellite television the spanking
televised shown to a Worlwide Audience.
Thus it be for the people’s of nations as
whom should appear brought to account
on the SPANKING channel // politicians
found guilty of corruption // as corrupt
police officers /as be religious fanatics
whom make others lifes an misery with
their halfbaked crackpot ideas / beliefs.
Of course the aim but to teach a lesson
not that of brutality /thus the spanking
be done in using ones hand /upon bare
buttocks. /There be no use of canes or
belts etc etc. The aim of the spanking
towards a cure in their behaviour / the
punishment not aimed toward brutality.
Simple Rules // the spanking should not
be of such a force that it leaves bruising
or be of such a force that it draws blood.
As being downright perverts that enjoy
torture/pain /punishment. An spanking
for them /only bringing forth pleasure’s
thus their punishment.They will only be
able to watch while others be punished.
ps. the spanking should not go to other
extreme/ being of a such gentle nature
where gives pleasure /than punishment
thus the force an spanking be balanced.
about 2 years ago
Honor and shame ceased to have any real meaning in the western world long ago…. there are times when I wonder how many would recognize either if they saw it.