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Iran: No Tight Jeans for You
Iran has enforced a stricter Islamic Dress Code at a number of universities including a ban on female Students wearing long nails, bright clothes and Tattoos, a local news agency reported on Monday. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nati...

Tattoo artist charged in assault on girlfriend
A Tattoo artist used the tools of his trade to sexually assault his girlfriend after he slammed her head against a floor and choked her, Cook County prosecutors said this afternoon. Jef Whitehead, 42, was charged with criminal Sexual Assault and aggravated domestic battery and held on $350,000 bond for allegedly attacking his girlfriend. Prosecutors said the argument between the couple began about 12:30 a.m. Saturday at a friend's home in the 1100 block of West Taylor Street. The woman was tak...

Baptism of Christ
The Christmas season is over; today we read about the Baptism of Christ, and recall our own baptisms. some of us today renewed our baptismal promises. But not everyone. Deacon Greg Kandra notes that some are trying to “unbaptize” themselves. Some wish to “de-baptize” because they are responding to the Sexual Abuse Scandals within the church; they are so sincerely disgusted that they cannot reconcile the message of Christianity, as voiced by the church, with the deceit a...

Un-baptizing; can that be done?
The Christmas season is over; today we read about the Baptism of Christ, and recall our own baptisms. some of us today renewed our baptismal promises. But not everyone. Deacon Greg Kandra notes that some are trying to “unbaptize” themselves. Some wish to “de-baptize” because they are responding to the Sexual Abuse Scandals within the church; they are so sincerely disgusted that they cannot reconcile the message of Christianity, as voiced by the church, with the deceit and...

The Left Never Wastes a Tragedy
Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com The Left never stands so tall as when it stands upon dead bodies. Whether it is Bill Clinton blaming the Oklahoma City bombing on Rush Limbaugh, Democratic mayors suing gun manufacturers after school shootings in Arkansas and Colorado, Democrats turning Senator Paul Wellstone’s memorial into a campaign rally, or Cindy Sheehan vastly overstaying her 15 minutes of fame, the Left never lets a tragedy pass without blaming it on its political enemies and pushing ...

Tattoo artist accused of assaulting girlfriend
Veterans of the Tattoo world were trying to make sense of the allegations made against a renowned Tattoo artist who Cook County prosecutors say used the tools of his trade to sexually assault his girlfriend after he slammed her head against a floor and choked her. Jef Whitehead, 42, was charged with criminal Sexual Assault and aggravated domestic battery Sunday and held on $350,000 bond after allegedly attacking his girlfriend. Prosecutors said an argument between the couple began about 12:30 ...

Undercover officer spied on activists
Mark Kennedy has since quit the Met, telling his friends that what he did was wrong. Photograph: Guardian A Police Officer who for seven years lived deep undercover at the heart of the environmental Protest movement, travelling to 22 countries gleaning information and playing a frontline role in some of the most high-profile confrontations, has quit the Met, telling his friends that what he did was wrong. PC Mark Kennedy, a Metropolitan Police officer, infiltrated dozens of Protest groups in...

Selenium update: Is WVDEP stopping or stalling?
We’ve asked before here on Coal Tattoo whether the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is stopping selenium Pollution or stalling efforts to force compliance with existing water quality standards. Well, here’s what agency officials have done in their latest legal maneuver on selenium … you decide what WVDEP is up to. Back between Christmas and New Year’s the WVDEP’s lawyers filed in court a proposal to settle a Lawsuit they had filed against Inter...

Acapulco sets grisly record as body count soars
MEXICO CITY: Police have found the bodies of 19 men, 15 of them decapitated, at a Shopping Mall in the beach resort city of Acapulco. The discovery on Saturday was the largest single group of decapitation Victims found in Mexico and brought the death toll from 24 hours of drug violence in the Pacific Coast resort to 27. Police received a call alerting them to a burning vehicle near Plaza Sendero, a popular shopping centre. There they found a Nissan four-wheel-drive on fire, and four other abando...

Who are the lunatics who helped create this grammar-driven climate?
Who are the lunatics who helped create this grammar-driven climate? As I explained in earlier posts, the fact that so many people are trying to blame the Tea Party and Sarah Palin for the actions of a deranged gunman does not surprise me, because placing blame is what people do. When a horrible Violent Crime is committed against a loved one, the enemies of that person tend to become suspects in the minds of those who love the Victim. When the loved one is a politician, obviously those with pol...

The Internet ID proposal - your ticket to all the fame you never wanted
According to an old cartoon from back in the early days of the World Wide Web, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”  It wasn’t long before a rival cartoon featured the cat pointing to its canine housemate’s browsing history as logged with Internet services: alpo.com, LassieXXXtras, fetch-and-beg-reporter, ChewToysRUs, doghousemagazine, … The last page of the Internet had hardly been discovered before the best minds of the era were figuring out ho...

Trent Reznor to score "Dragon Tattoo" remake film
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has been tapped to compose the music for David Fincher's English language adaptation of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." The upcoming film is based on Stieg Larsson's best-selling book of the same name. The new gig comes on the heels of Reznor's and longtime songwriting partner Atticus Ross' Golden Globe nomination for scoring "The Social Network." The duo will reunite with Fincher for "Dragon Tattoo." During an interview with the N...

Police seek suspect in Near West Side assault
Surveillance images of the suspect in a Sexual Assault on Jan. 7. (Chicago police) Chicago police today put out an alert for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman last week after meeting her at a bus station and convincing her to go to his Near West Side Hotel Room. The 33-year-old Victim had just arrived in Chicago early Friday morning at the Greyhound bus terminal, 630 W. Harrison St., and was waiting for a transfer to New Jersey when the man approached her, according to the alert fro...

Iran: No Tight Jeans, Tramp Stamps or Tight Overcoats For You
TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran has enforced a stricter Islamic Dress Code at a number of universities including a ban on female Students wearing long nails, bright clothes and Tattoos, a local news agency reported on Monday. The semi-official Fars news agency published a list of universities around Iran that were given a note outlining the code but did not say on what basis they were selected. The new rules ban women from “wearing caps or hats without scarves, tight and short jeans, and bod...

Should everyone cool off the coalfield rhetoric?
Regular readers of Coal Tattoo know that one of the things I’ve tried to do with this blog is encourage folks with various views Coal Industry issues to talk more respectfully with each other — and to tone down the political Rhetoric, whether it’s about a “war on coal” or comparisons between mountaintop removal and Genocide. As the debate continues to heat up, I’ve had more than one long-time Activist comment privately that they’re surprised no one has...

Sonoma County mystery: What killed 100 birds near Geyserville?
© na An warden with California Fish and Game inspects the area where about 100 birds were found dead Saturday. While scientists and specialists are investigating why massive numbers of birds have dropped dead from the sky elsewhere in the country, Sonoma County now has its own bird Deaths mystery to solve, reported the CHP. More than 100 birds were found dead Saturday afternoon clustered on the ground off of Highway 101, south of Geyserville, Officer Jon Sloat reported Monday. Officers ...

Massive bird kill in Turkey
© Ria Novosti The Turkish authorities are investigating the mysterious death of thousands of starlings at a highway in the town of Karacabey. Starting on New Year's Eve, several cases of massive bird and fish kills were registered in Sweden and Italy, as well as in the United States, where some 4,000 blackbirds fell from the sky near the town of Beebe in Arkansas. Мне нравится114 . ...

California: Large bird kill reported near Geyserville
© na An warden with California Fish and Game inspects the area where about 100 birds were found dead Saturday. While scientists and specialists are investigating why massive numbers of birds have dropped dead from the sky elsewhere in the country, Sonoma County now has its own bird Deaths mystery to solve, reported the CHP. More than 100 birds were found dead Saturday afternoon clustered on the ground off of Highway 101, south of Geyserville, Officer Jon Sloat reported Monday. Officers ...

Not To Worry, Big Sis Is On The Job
From Sad Hill Janet Napolitano Responds To Blackbird Deaths And Other ‘Random’ Events   A comprehensive list of recent unexplained events would be endless. For example, Janet Napolitano continuing to ignore her well-documented promises regarding security along Mexico’s border, yet flies to Afghanistan to ‘teach’ the Military proper Border Security. May have simply been a get-out-of-the-country-during-a-TSA-backlash thing, but I doubt it. And considering the Fed’s s

Southerners struggle to dig out from heavy snow
© Chuck Burton/Associated Press A Police Officer examines the wreckage of a car after it slid into a power pole during a snowstorm in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. Atlanta - Temperatures plummeted late Monday, turning slushy streets into sheets of ice across Southern states that are more accustomed to sunshine than snow. The wintry blast has grounded flights, cut power to thousands of homes and even forced Auburn University to cancel viewing parties for the national championship...

Late Night Political Humor
“John Boehner chose a huge gavel. I think somebody’s compensating for his small government.” - Stephen Colbert “How about the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner. Have you seen this guy’s enormous gavel. I’m telling you, if in four hours, that gavel is still that size, he’s got to call a doctor.” - David Letterman “In his first Speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco Lobbyists, the oil companies, the C...

Glassmasters
Beth Harwell is about to become the state’s first female speaker - but Tennessee still lags in female officeholder: Having few statewide offices magnifies the importance of legislative positions. And in the Tennessee legislature, women trail far behind. Last year, only 25 of the legislature’s 132 members were women, slightly less than 19 percent. That proportion lagged behind even some other Southern states, such as North Carolina, Georgia and Arkansas, according to the Center ...

Mike's Blog Roundup
alicublog: Won't somebody please think of the Wingnuts? Balkinization: Is the Obama Administration countenancing Torture of a US serviceman? Comments are restricted to Registered Users only. Ralph Reed Defending Tom DeLay? Predictable and Pathetic. Loughner's Politics: Chaos. Pure Chaos - UPDATED Rep. Trent Franks tries to bury his own Right Wing vitrolic behavior on CNN Anderson Cooper Brings on 'Left Behind' Actor Cameron to Discuss Bird and Fish Deaths in Arkansas -- Seriously? Anderso...

The Dark Side Of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Plagiarism in Speeches - King’s efforts in Civil Rights Activism led him to the 1963 “March on Washington”, where he delivered his “I Have A Dream” Speech. There, he expanded American values to include his vision of a color-blind society and established his reputation as a great orator - but should he have this reputation? King plagiarized the “I Have A Dream” speech from a speech given at the Republican Convention in 1952 given by an African...

Cause and effect and Tucson
The News Media once again scrambled this past week to find the deep underlying causes of shocking events. We saw this impulse in the rush to explain the tragic Murder of six people at a shopping center in Tucson. And we saw it in the rush of stories about mass die-offs of birds and fish across the country. In the case of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, attention has turned to the motives of the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner, whose political ramblings about re...