DUC IN ALTUM

This one started as funny but I wanted to cry at the end.

An Ethiopian man who has 77 children by 11 wives has urged others not to get married and has taken to dispensing advice on family planning to his neighbours. (…)

“I want my children to be farmers but I have no land, I want them to go to school but I have no money,” he says. (…)

In total, they have given birth to more than 100 children but 23 have died. (…)

He blames Ethiopia’s government for failing to support him and his children.

The local authority of the school which 40 of his children attend is requesting photographs of each one for their files but Mr Attayu says he has not got the money.

“I know I have done wrong by marrying many wives and begetting many children but I think I deserve help from the government.”

Unfortunately, even his own son has ignored his warnings about the pitfalls of polygamy.

Unemployed Dagne Ayattu, who at 33 is the oldest of his sons, has seven children and is about to marry his fourth wife.

Yeah, I had a drinking problem like that once: Three beers and only two hands.

Hey, who knew you might run into financial trouble and NOT be able to support all the women you screwed in the last 33 years.

No warning at all…

^{Found this on Dhimmiwatch.}

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Well when you deal in stupidity and an absence of moral values, you need to keep the staff fresh. Nancy Pelosi has done all the dammage she could do so it’s time for a change.

Because we all need change, right?

Small change and being short changed, that is.

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan wants to snatch House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat from her in November, but first she’s going to need the help - and signatures - of 10,198 friends and supporters. (…)

Impeachment isn’t Sheehan’s only concern. Pelosi’s refusal to vote for an immediate end to the Iraq war and to support single-payer health care shows she’s out of touch with San Francisco’s progressive roots, Sheehan said.

“I’ll represent everyone in San Francisco, not just the corporate elite,” she said. “I’m working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.”

Yeah, we know all about your jihad struggle…

^{Found this on GOC.} 

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But an 18-month BBC investigation for Panorama has found evidence that:

- Pakistani peacekeepers in the eastern town of Mongbwalu were involved in the illegal trade in gold with the FNI militia, providing them with weapons to guard the perimeter of the mines

- Indian peacekeepers operating around the town of Goma had direct dealings with the militia responsible for the Rwandan genocide, now living in eastern DR Congo

- The Indians traded gold, bought drugs from the militias and flew a UN helicopter into the Virunga National Park, where they exchanged ammunition for ivory

The UN looked into the allegations concerning the Pakistani troops in 2007.

It concluded that one officer had been responsible for dealing in gold - allowing traders to use UN aircraft to fly into the town, putting them up at the UN base and taking them around the town.

But the UN decided that “in the absence of corroborative evidence” its investigators “could not substantiate the allegation” that Pakistani peacekeepers supplied weapons or ammunition to the militia.

It did, however, identify “an individual who seemed to have facilitated gold smuggling”.

But like Glenn Reynolds said:

But since there’s no anti-American angle, it won’t be much of a story.

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If they weren’t serious, this would be hilarious…

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^{(Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press)}

The number of children taken from a polygamist ranch in Texas rose to 462 on Thursday as more mothers were discovered to be under the age of 18, officials said.

Child Protective Services said 25 mothers initially claimed to be adults but are now believed to be children. A number of mothers volunteered to stay with their children when officials raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch three weeks ago. The numbers were revised earlier this week for the same reason.

And why did the cops act is a nazi-like fashion?

State officials took custody of all the children at the ranch after receiving a report that a 15-year-old girl married and had a child with a 50-year-old man, illegal in the state.

For starters, that’s illegal.  And polygamy is also illegal.

Which brings me to an In Depth article from the CBC.

Anti-polygamy laws arose in Canada out of objections to the lifestyle of early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Mormons. The first Mormons came here from the United States in 1888, just two years before their church finally ended the controversial practice of male devotees taking multiple wives.

It’s called Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada and it used to mention Mormons by name.  It has been rephrased since.

In 2005, then-prime minister Paul Martin’s Liberal government commissioned a series of reports on Canada’s polygamy laws and whether to update them or get rid of them altogether. (…)

One report, deemed controversial by commentators on the right, called for Section 293 to be struck from the Criminal Code. One of the authors of that was Queen’s University law professor Beverley Baines, who said anti-polygamy laws actually helped enable abuse in closed, religious communities such as the one in Bountiful.

“That’s why I’m calling for it [polygamy] to be de-criminalized,” Baines told CBC.ca news, “so we can concentrate on weeding out abuse and helping women and children in trouble.”

Queen’s University law professor Beverley Baines thinks it prevents abuse?  Perhaps closed, religious communities should be banned then.  Wouldn’t that prevent local dictators from acting with inpunity?

It’s already illegal in Canada.  Why are we even talking about this?  Obey the law, there can be no exceptions.

Perhaps we should cite monogamy as one of Canada’s fundamental values.   Perhaps we should, but I never thought we needed to.

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Just read this on LGF:

KABUL, Afghanistan - Militants firing rockets and automatic rifles attacked the Afghan president at a ceremony in Kabul on Sunday, missing their target but killing three and wounding eight others.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the assault that sent President Hamis Karzai and foreign ambassadors scurrying for cover, underscoring the fragile grip of his U.S.-backed government.Gunmen opened fire as a 21-gun salute echoed over the capital at an anniversary ceremony to mark the mujahedeen victory over the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

They never stop trying, do they. Even if they call him irrelevant. Perhaps he’s not that ineffective after all.

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It’s done. I’m fairly happy with it.

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I’m glad the morning show from WZLX in Boston accepted to play along.

I think they look keen in the blue, white and red shirts.

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This is just my opinion, but I believe that Malcolm X, had he lived, would have supported and perhaps applied Martin Luther King’s strategy eventually.

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This is the first video I’ve seen of Malcolm X where he mentions violence without pinning Islam against the world.  Violence between ourselves, the opposite of unity.  It doesn’t matter which group you belong to.

The dream of everyone being “united”, the way Communism announces it, is a myth.

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