2/13: Quinn The Queer, India Up In Smoke
8:15 p.m.
• With smokes costing an arm and leg over here, one might wonder how Big Tobacco stays in business. Here's how.
According to a 1996 survey reported by AP news agency, 112 million people smoke tobacco in India, while 96 million use tobacco products like chewing tobacco.
Damn. And those people stink enough as it is already. Too bad when I get my eventual heart attack/stroke one of them will be towering over me on the operating table. Oh, back to this link. Does any of this sound familiar?
A law has come into force in India which bans smoking in public places.
The legislation has been introduced under India's new Anti-Smoking Act, which was passed by the country's parliament last year.
The law also forbids any direct or indirect advertising of tobacco products and the sale of cigarettes to children.
• Good God, this took place (allegedly) on New Year's Day. Say, the Browns got rid of Jeff Garcia after one season -- maybe that, too, was a HATE CRIME. Jeff, you're not fooling anybody with that "wife" of yours.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn denied that he was involved in an altercation on New Year's Day in which a man claimed on an emergency phone call that Quinn made a slur at him.
On a 911 call early Jan. 1, Seth Harris told Columbus police that Quinn was with a group at La Fogata Grill and that they were insulting gays outside the restaurant.
"There's a group of football players, Brady Quinn from the Browns ... and he's trying to cause a fight," Harris told the operator. "His friends are yelling at all of the gay people that are around here."
Harris said he had a verbal exchange with Quinn.
In a statement released Wednesday through the Browns, Quinn said he had dinner on New Year's Eve with his girlfriend and other couples but that nothing else happened.
• Uh-oh.
Denmark's leading newspapers yesterday reprinted a caricature of the prophet Muhammad that sparked deadly rioting in Muslim countries two years ago.
I love the quote at the end. If these newspapers are going to counter the towel-head wackos pissed off over a cartoon, what else are they supposed to do other than re-print it -- write a mean editorial? I bet many of the rioters probably can't even read.
The papers said they wanted to show their commitment to freedom of speech after Tuesday's arrest in western Denmark of three people accused of plotting to kill the man who drew the cartoon, which shows Muhammad wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a lit fuse.
The drawing by Kurt Westergaard and 11 other cartoons depicting Muhammad which appeared in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper enraged many Muslims when they first appeared two years ago, leading to riots.
At least three European newspapers - in Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain - also reprinted the cartoon yesterday in their coverage of the Danish arrests
Danish Muslim leaders condemned the alleged murder plot, but also said reprinting Westergaard's cartoon was the wrong way to protest.
"There could have been other ways to do it without the drawing, which I personally do not like," said Abdul Wahid Petersen, an imam.
Might as well join in this solidarity movement.
Oops, wrong Photobucket image. There we go.
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