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Daily Mail: how our reporter dialled 999 and got an ambulance – no questions asked!

Egyptian Aak 2014 – Week 16 ( April 14-20)

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Video: Medical Intern Assaulted By Rikers Inmate: Gothamist

In the video, you can see McRae feigning a punch before actually doing so; it’s unclear whether Porcelli spoke to him before he punched her, sending her flying onto her back. Porcelli underwent surgery on Friday for her facial injuries. McRae, 24, was arrested in July 2013 and charged with two counts of assault for allegedly striking two women in the face at Penn Station.

via Video: Medical Intern Assaulted By Rikers Inmate: Gothamist.

Think Joe will be headed up state for a longer “vacation” after this outburst and attack.

All bars in Egypt should be shut down

Egyptian Streets

Women wearing the head-scarf are refused entry at most bars and night clubs in Egypt Women wearing the head-scarf are refused entry at most bars and night clubs in Egypt (Credit: Jess Hill)

By Mohamed Khairat, Founder, EgyptianStreets.com

All bars and night clubs in Egypt should be shut down. If these alcohol-serving locales continue to ban women from entering on the sole reason of them wearing a head scarf (hijab), then no Egyptian Muslims should be allowed to enter.

Recently, readers of Egyptian Streets, social media users on Twitter and many others have expressed their support for the banning of hijab-clad women from entering bars and clubs where alcohol is served. The issue was brought up recently when a young girl in her 20s was refused entry to The Lemon Tree & Co. in the up-scale district of Zamalek.

The reason for the refusal was blunt and discriminatory. “No hijab is allowed after 6PM,” boomed the manager and the ‘bouncer’ at the entrance…

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Playing Out Our Joy

Illustration by Erin McGuire

We don’t stop playing because we grow old;

we grow old because we stop playing. ~ George Bernard Shaw

A – Z Challenge – day 16

I Don’t Want To Grow Up

As we grow up, we are often told to ‘leave childish things behind’ when we enter the real world.  (As if childhood takes place in someplace other than the real world.) We’re told that we need to set aside play, silliness, games, curiosity, and our sense of the ridiculous because that’s what grown-up people do.  Grown-ups set aside their imaginative natures and turn to the serious business of being adults.

What a bunch of crap.

The reason we have so much trouble as we age is because we seem to equate adulthood with being exiled to a Mojave-like desert without food or water.  Or to a factory where our sole job is to insert the same…

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UKIP parliamentary candidate publicly humiliates 6-year-old little boy

UKIP and Tea Party – Mad Hatters of politics

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)

UKIP councillor and parliamentary candidate David Meacock has publicly humiliated a 6-year-old child by sending a group email accusing the little boy of stealing a toy.

Here’s the full story from local paper getbucks:

UKIP candidate ‘names and shames’ six-year-old in missing toy row

Thank God for the UKIP I say.

It’s about time someone sorted out all of those rampaging 6-year-olds bringing the country to its knees!

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Irrefutable statistical proof that bovine TB is caused by UKIP support and not badgers

Nigel Farage expels entire UKIP membership for bringing party into disrepute

The UKIP suspend member until his 163rd birthday (not satire!)

Best of Twitter reaction to UKIP councillor’s rant about gay marriage causing floods

UKIP Cllr who called care children ‘takers’ got state grants for his own children

Nigel Farage, the Tea Party Godfather and the man who tried to trash the…

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