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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331528,00.html
----------------------------------------- A 70-year-old Iranian man was arrested and sentenced to four months in jail and 30 lashes for walking his dog, Adnkronos.com reported Tuesday. Police caught the man on the street with his dog in Shahr Rey, a suburb of Tehran. Owners of domestic animals are forbidden from taking them on the streets of the city because Islam considers dogs to be impure. An Islamic judge later charged the man for "disturbing the public order,” Adnkronos.com reported. Despite repeated warnings by the police, dog owners continue to defy authorities by taking their dogs outside their homes. Typical punishment for people caught with dogs outside is a fine or the "detention" of their animals in a pound, Adnkronos.com reported. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently provoked debate in Iran about dog ownership when he took possession of four guard dogs, bought in Germany for approximately $161,040 each. --------------------- Such a wonderful place to live.
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magicgeorge Inner circle Belfast 4299 Posts |
It might be overkill but we are all constricted by law to live within the bounds of what is considered decent in our own particular cultures.
You can be arrested in many countries for having a bag of plant leaves in your pocket. Say that to someone a few hundred years ago and how silly would that sound? Many tribes walk-around in what would be an arrestable state of indecency in most countries. George |
sodman12 Special user raleigh 601 Posts |
If your going to make fun of anything in this article poke fun at the ridiculousness of someone paying 160,000 dollars for dogs.
you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time but never all of the people all the time.
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On 2008-02-21 08:22, Doug Higley wrote: Quite the liberal, that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fellow. Always trying to expand the freedoms of his fellow Iranians (in this case, regarding dog ownership). He likes puppies, he can't be all bad.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On 2008-02-21 08:41, magicgeorge wrote: That's one opinion. Another was offered by Thomas Paine, who claimed that people had not only the right, but the responsibility to violate unjust laws. Given the history that various cultures, including our own, have had with laws and norms regarding, for instance, Jews, women, blacks, homosexuals, and other groups, I think that deferring our censure to the cultural norms of any given society as evidenced by its laws and practices is morally lazy, at the very best. (Though I think that Neville Chamberlain adopted sort of a "Gee, that's just how they do things in Germany" approach, I can't say I'm a fan).
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
Payne Inner circle Seattle 4571 Posts |
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On 2008-02-21 14:13, LobowolfXXX wrote: The difference being If you don't like the unjust laws of your land and strive to change it that is revolution. But if we don't like the unjust laws of your land and we strive to change them that is imperialism. As the Hot dog Vendor said to the Zen Buddhist. "Change comes from within"
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
And as the Buddhist said to the hot dog vendor, "Make me one with everything."
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
*PING*! That's it! The great American solution to the rest of the world! Export Hot Dogs, Buns and Mustard! How could they keep them folks down and out once they get a taste of real paradise!
Sorry, that was pandering for a Payne response...I figured if there was one thing he liked it would be a kikller Nathan's! I'll go back to my former solution...drop a few tins of Odor Eaters. *Poof*
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Best hot dogs in the world are at the train station at the pier in Anafaghasto (sp) Chile, yummy stuff.
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Of course! Real Dogs! Chile Dogs even!
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Curious that the only source of the article on the web seems to be from adnkronos in Italy. Don't know if the story is true or false, but it is weird that no one has put anything up except in reference to the original Italian story.
Anyone know anything about adnkronos? John
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The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
GlenD Inner circle LosAngeles, Ca 1293 Posts |
When I saw the title to this thread, I figured there had to be reference to a pooper scooper, a hind leg lift or something. I mean come on, where is the dirt here?
GlenD
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