Here’s a horrible story to darken your last weekend of the first half of 2014. (Sorry to do this, but OJB just wants to keep you informed.) Libyan lawyer and human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis has been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in Benghazi on the day of the country’s general election.
“Unknown hooded men wearing military uniforms attacked Mrs Bugaighis in her home and opened fire on her,” said a security official, who did not wish to be named.
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Bugaighis, a lawyer, played an active part in Libya’s 2011 revolution, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. A former member of the National Transitional Council, the rebellion’s political wing, she was vice-president of a preparatory committee for national dialogue in Libya.
The US ambassador to Libya, Deborah Jones called the news “heartbreaking”, and on her Twitter account denounced “a cowardly, despicable, shameful act against a courageous woman and true Libyan patriot”.
Every once in a while, you’ll see an article entitled something like “What You Should Do With Your Law Degree.” That, what Salwa Bugaighis did — that is what you should do with your law degree. She made the most of it and served her people. It is left to the rest of us to remember her with gratitude and respect.
And now, apologies for an abrupt juxtaposition, which is not intended to signify anything.
The most challenging Ramadan (judging by the number of daylight fasting hours) in decades for observant Muslims begins tonight; if you’d like, you can read OJB’s story on the topic from 2012, which from search results appears to be becoming a perennial. Ramadan Mubarek to our friends of the Muslim faith.
This is your Weekend Open Thread. Talk about that, or anything else you’d like, within reasonable bounds of decency and decorum.
This weekend or next, we may have an OC Register Dearthwatch.
9 to 0 decision by SCOTUS against the constitutional lawyer aka magic negro.
That speaks for itself GOLEM.
Now delete this before the OJB left-liberal-progressive-socialists and moron mongoloids here can find out the truth about Negroid’s IQ.
As I said we still have 2.5 years of that monkey so I hope he will accomplish his jihad against the Jews before he leaves the office.
In other news: Fullerton was ranked #9 on the list of “snobbiest” mid-sized U.S. cities, behind winner Pasadena, runner-up Thousand Oaks, and bronze medalist Alexandria, VA. No other Orange County city made the top 10; Huntington Beach was 13th, Orange was 15th, nearby Corona was 25th, sort of nearby Escondido was 29th, adjacent Lakewood was 41st, and somewhat nearby Oceanside was 43rd.
All of this raises the question: HAVE THE PEOPLE WHO DID THIS SURVEY EVER EVEN BEEN TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA?
https://s3.amazonaws.com/movotoblog/2014/06/snobbiest-mid-sized-cities/table.html
Do you think she was killed because she is an outspoken woman living in the Middle East? I think she is around the fifth woman shot dead in the Middle East in the past month. Two others were female journalists reporting from the fighting…but their deaths weren’t from gunfire exchange, they were targets.
And I thought Ramadan was in August. And isn’t that holiday/observance usually when violence goes up?
I don’t get it…. these religions preach love but often they show it by killing others…and I know… it’s the fanatics who do it. How do we deal with fanatics though? They think they are right and are willing to die for what they believe.
“They think they are right and are willing to die for what they believe.”
I encourage them to do that. It’s the willing to kill part I’m not crazy about.
As a holiday in a purely lunar calendar, Ramdan cycles backwards through the entire year.
I think that she was killed because she was an effective activist and advocate.
Hillary Clinton likes GMOs but she thinks they need to be rebranded so the public will accept them better. Reason # one million as to why I will never vote for her…. http://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2014/06/25/hillary-clinton-cheers-biotechers-backs-gmos-and-federal-help/
*Yeah, Hillary needs to moderate her views on several issues: (1) GMO’s (2) the Rush to regulate out of existence all Suppliments (3) Stupid Regulation of firearms and high capacity mags when we aren’t addressing the Mental Capacities of those using these firearms. There should be several tests for firearm access. One for handguns, which include an eyesight test. Two for so-called Assault type firearms with large capacity magazines and one for family use, Shotgun and Rifles with less than 10 round capacity. Hillary needs to address the Medical System in detail and the rejection of high deductible, high co-pay insurance for anyone over 35.
Here’s more information on the Bugaighis murder. She had returned to Benghazi after having fled to Tripoli for much of the last year due to threats, to vote in its election.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/06/27/salwa_bugaighis_murdered_civil_rights_activist_killed_in_benghazi.html
The assassins also kidnapped her husband, because killing her wasn’t already horrific enough.
I don’t know the answer to all this killing. My husband says it’s because humans just like killing.
I hope he isn’t right.
Most of the Middle East is in civil revolt. What is the USA to do?
*Send in the Drones! Everytime one of these Whack – a – Moles pulls this stuff, they need to be taken out. Drug Cartels, Russian Mercenaries, ISSL that do atrosities – We can call the 21st century – the Drone Wars!?
R and A…this is exactly the kind of thinking that gets us in trouble…You cannot keep killing people to change their hearts and minds… Those same drones will come to our shores some day… AND the Middle East is a mess because of the policies of our government… the war mongers and all the corporations who make weapons need a continuous war to stay in business… they don’t care who the enemy is…they just want more money and the people who work for them want to keep their jobs… the real whack jobs are the psychopaths who run this country.
*Inge, people that are psychotic are not savable. It is sad but true. There is simply a hitch in their get-a-long that allows them to kill their own children, or their wives and husbands, the neighbors for leaving a roller skate on their front porch or simply because there is cloud cover over their house. We don’t need to change any minds. In the the 30’s people called these folks exactly what they are “Mad Dog Killers”. If that current nimrod that left his 2 year old in the car for 7 hours at 120 degrees, without water is any example – a short drone visit would seem the most efficient and logical way or getting rid of insanity at the street level.
I concur.
On Wednesday, at the International Bio Conference in San Diego, Hillary Clinton voiced her support for GMOs. Both her husband and daughter have Celiac disease, an autoimmune disease that affects digestive and other body systems. Does this woman have her head so far into the sand that she is oblivious to what’s going on around her or is she so driven by $$$$ that she doesn’t give a hoot? Post on her facebook page and share the links below to the reviews that have found Roundup Ready GMOs to be a contributing factor to the epidemic of Celiac Disease and let her know what you think of her position on GMOs. Are you ready for Hillary in 2016? https://www.facebook.com/ReadyForHillary
No, but here’s a guy who’s ready for her in 2014-
DuPont Co. (DD), the maker of Pioneer genetically modified corn, was sued for $1 billion by an investment fund that claims company directors promoted herbicide-resistant crop traits knowing they didn’t work.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-04/dupont-co-sued-for-1-billion-over-genetic-technology.html
Stanford Study: Feeling ugly makes you more likely to donate to the Occupy movement
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/190788/
More like feeling baselessly superior doesn’t.
I’ve seen your photo, skally. Let me know when we can expect your donation.
Matt Coker’s excellent coverage of the Immigration Reform rally outside Royce’s office is drawing a lot of beelzebub’s type of anti-immigrant commenters:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/06/ed_royce_immigration_reform_korea.php
This is another George Soros communist front sham organization – Koreans know the the difference – others may not.
“Spearheaded by a Korean-American group, immigration reform advocates will demonstrate outside U.S. Rep. Ed Royce’s Brea office Friday morning to urge the veteran Republican congressman to get himself and House mates to move on the Border Security.”
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2014/06/ed_royce_immigration_reform_korea.php#Comments
Haha! Soros! Commies! Immigration reform! Skallywag slips into his dotage with panache. Do go on…
I don’t know that it’s panache. Looks more like buttache.
Stunts like this by the “North Korean Anti-American Consortium” do NOTHING to further the candidacy of SQS – and may be the last nail …..
Excellent! Kim Jong Un wants America to reform its broken immigration policy so that more latinos will be able to vote so that his girl Sharon Quirk Silva can keep doing … whatever she’s doing in the assembly that Kim Jong Un likes so much. Continue… (but learn to use the reply button old guy)
HE’S ON TO US, VERN! LET’S PACK THE BORSCHT AND RUN!
*Did someone do a Dennis Rodman? How did that get into the conversation? Kim Jong Dong….lauched another missile into the air. Luckily it did not boomerang on him. Not to worry Kim, we here Donald and Rochelle Sterling think you are just great! Interesting that Kim doesn’t like Hugh Hefner so much!