Monday, November 05, 2012

Monday Post

Quickly now...


Tomorrow is decision day in the US. Voters must decide between a man who raised the deficit to sixteen trillion dollars, left twenty-three million unemployed, alienated Canada and Israel and allowed four Americans to die in Benghazi or a man who did none of those things.


Someone's mad at Jason Kenney... or something.


(Toda raba)


Pakistani mother tells the BBC that it was her daughter's "destiny" to die in an acid attack:


A Pakistani couple accused of killing their 15-year-old daughter by pouring acid on her carried out the attack because she sullied the family’s honour by looking at a boy, the couple said in an interview broadcast Monday by the BBC.

The girl’s death underlines the problem of so-called “honour killings” in Pakistan where women are often killed for marrying or having relationships not approved by their families or because they are perceived to have somehow dishonoured their family.

The girl’s parents, Mohammad Zafar and his wife Zaheen, recounted the Oct. 29 incident from jail. The father said the girl had turned to look at a boy who drove by on a motorcycle, and he told her it was wrong.

“She said ‘I didn’t do it on purpose. I won’t look again.’ By then I had already thrown the acid. It was her destiny to die this way,” the girl’s mother told the British broadcaster.


 And now, early geishas.


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