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Muslim Women Refuses to Remove Headscarf For Jail Booking Photo
Candlelight (Hanukkah) - by The Maccabeats
USA Beat by Qatar in Bid to Host 2022 World Cup
Naga Viper - The World's Hottest Chilli
RC Airplane Buzzes NYC Icons With a Camera
Helen Thomas' Alma Mater Discontinues Award in Her Name After Latest 'Zionists' Remarks
Civil Obeisance as Civil Disobedience With Speed Limits
Fictional Story of a Flash Mob Gone Terribly Wrong

Muslim Women Refuses to Remove Headscarf For Jail Booking Photo

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 09:03 PM PST

If you are puzzled by the notion of a Muslim women so devout she refuses to take the Headscarf of for a booking photo, but needing that photo because of reportedly crashing a vehicle with a blood alcohol more then twice the legal limit, she said she did not know the punch had been spiked.

http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=167940 (via)

"A Muslim woman who refused to remove her headscarf for a Boulder County jail booking photo has been told she'll have to explain her refusal to a judge.

19-year-old Maria Hardman of Boulder, who says she converted to Islam three years ago, pleaded guilty to an alcohol violation and was sentenced to two days in jail plus community service.

She told the Boulder Daily Camera on Friday that removing her headscarf for the photo would violate her beliefs because the Quran calls for Muslim women to wear the scarf except in the company of close family.

A police report said Hardman's blood-alcohol level was 0.19, more than twice the legal limit, after she crashed her motor-scooter in August. Alcohol consumption is generally considered to be banned by Islam.

Hardman said she drank punch provided at a party without knowing it contained alcohol. She said she left after she found out.
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She said her attorney spent three hours trying to persuade officials to let her wear the scarf for the photo. She said jail officials eventually allowed her to leave without taking her photo, but it's not clear whether she began serving her sentence."

Candlelight (Hanukkah) - by The Maccabeats

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 08:50 PM PST

Here is a catchy Hanukkah tune for you in honor of the holiday.

Video embedded below.

Hat tip to my brother who seems intent to make sure everyone he knows watches this video.

USA Beat by Qatar in Bid to Host 2022 World Cup

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 08:24 PM PST

This is not as bad as losing to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) to host the 2016 Olympics which Obama made serious efforts for, but it is still kind of sad.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5504b24f925a2ca089a2a2c7b7a99e71.871&show_article=1

"US President Barack Obama said FIFA made the "wrong decision" on Thursday when selecting Qatar over an American bid to host the 2022 World Cup in what will be a major setback for football in America.

"I think it was the wrong decision," Obama said at the White House, joining thousands of disappointed Americans who watched the announcement from Zurich, where a video message from him had been part of the US presentation.

"Obviously we're very disappointed. To come up short is very difficult to take," said US Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati, who called the defeat "a setback in moving the sport forward" in a long-skeptical US market.

"(Hosting in 2022) was the equivalent of putting your foot on the accelerator. From that point it's an opportunity lost. Will we get there? I'm confident we will. It's going to take longer. It's going to take more work."

It was the second major sport bid loss for Americans in as many years. Obama attended last year's International Olympic Committee vote on the 2016 Summer Games site when his hometown, Chicago, was ousted on the first ballot."

Naga Viper - The World's Hottest Chilli

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 08:13 PM PST

The previous record holder Bhut Jolokia has already been turned into a less then lethal weapon. The Naga Viper is more than 1/3 hotter as measured on the Scoville scale; 1,359,000 to 1,001,304. Weapons developers will no doubt start using this instead if the Chili Grenade is found to be viable.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335043/Worlds-hottest-chilli-grown-tiny-Cumbrian-greenhouse.html

"The Naga Viper chilli packs an astonishing 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale, which measures heat by the presence of the chemical compound capsaicin.

Experts at Warwick University carried out tests on the chilli and officially declared it the hottest.

It beat competition from the ferocious Bhut Jolokia pod - the previous holder - to take the title of the world's hottest chilli in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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The most popular chilli – Jalapeno – measures a pitiful 2,500 to 5,000 on the Scoville scale.

Mr Fowler's Naga Viper is more than 270 times hotter and trumps the previous world record holder, the Bhut Jolokia, at 1,001,304."

RC Airplane Buzzes NYC Icons With a Camera

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 08:03 PM PST

Video embedded below.

Helen Thomas' Alma Mater Discontinues Award in Her Name After Latest 'Zionists' Remarks

Posted: 05 Dec 2010 07:45 PM PST

Helen Thomas' newest comments were to much for her Alma Mater who have now dropped the award they had named after her.

Video embedded below.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/12/04/helen.thomas.award

"The alma mater of journalist Helen Thomas will not bestow an award that had been given in her name, making the decision after the 90-year-old scribe made more controversial comments about Jewish people.

Wayne State University, the Detroit, Michigan, institution that Thomas graduated from in 1942, said in a statement Friday that the school will no longer give out the Helen Thomas Spirit of Diversity in the Media Award.

"Wayne State encourages free speech and open dialogue, and respects diverse viewpoints," the school's statement said. "However, the university strongly condemns the anti-Semitic remarks made by Helen Thomas during a conference yesterday.""