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June 30, 2007
Red Ken *hearts* islam
Well here's a shocker
LONDON (AFP) - London Mayor Ken Livingstone called on Britons Saturday not to demonize Muslims after a double car bomb plot was foiled in the capital, amid fears of a Islamist terror threat. (Advertisement)At the same time he criticized Britain over its ties with Saudi Arabia, which he said had fuelled intolerance in the past through its Wahhabist form of Islam, creating a "major problem."
"In this city, Muslims are more likely to be law-abiding than non-Muslims and less likely to support the use of violence to achieve political ends than non-Muslims," he told BBC Radio.
"They have played a good and active and growing role in creating a multi-cultural society," he added.
I just love how everyone rushes to defend these folks after they blow something up. Where are the muslims condemning these acts? I can't recall the last time that a Jew blew something up while praising G_d, but I somehow doubt that Ken rushed to caution folks about demonizing jews...
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 11:31 PM | Comments (4)
June 29, 2007
Oh, PLEEEZZZ
Homicides soar in second-tier East Coast cities
Lack of immigrants, shift to anti-terrorism cited as possible explanationsBaltimore, Philadelphia and other cities in a bloodstained corridor along the East Coast are seeing a surge in killings, and one of the most provocative explanations offered by criminal-justice experts is this: not enough new immigrants.
The theory holds that waves of hardworking, ambitious immigrants reinvigorate desperately poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods and help keep crime down.
Well, I can see no one's asking LA about their perpetual wave of wonderful new immigrants helping keep crime down in Hispanic neighborhoods and why might that be, hmmm? And as far a Jacksonville's statistics go, lemme share what an Orlando police officer told us last year when they were the 'murder capital 'of Florida.
"If you're not buying drugs, chances are you'll never get killed."
Which, coincidentally, happens to be the same thing I heard in Jacksonville this April. Doesn't have a thing to do with immigrants keeping the peace. Has to do with the already criminal element getting pissed and using a piece when they don't ~ or can't ~ get a piece or somebody owes someone for a piece.
Immigrants my patootie.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:04 PM | Comments (10)
Walk Like An Egyptian
...might just mean a normal gait after all.
Egypt Officials Ban Female CircumcisionThe death of a 12-year-old Egyptian girl at the hands of a doctor performing female circumcision has sparked a public outcry and prompted health and religious authorities to ban the practice.
The girl, Badour Shaker, died this month while undergoing the procedure in an illegal clinic in the southern town of Maghagh. Her mother, Zeniab Abdel Ghani, told the Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper that she paid about $9 to a female physician to perform the procedure.
Poor puddin'. As a mother who'd been through the same horror, how could you do that to your little girl?
Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:54 PM | Comments (3)
More Fun With Islamic Presbyterian Rage Boy
This site has Ebola...well...laughing really hard.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 07:20 PM | Comments (5)
Great Opening Lines
This NPR story on great opening lines to hook the younger set got me thinking. I laughed at the very last book:
The Narnia books by C.S. Lewis are so popular already that I only want to mention that the first line of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is one of those classic sentences that, once heard, stick in your head forever:"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
Now, THAT'S a classic. Anyone care to contribute their favorites from the bookshelves?
Or, better yet ~ as we once did in a fiction exercise ~ write your own.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 06:11 PM | Comments (10)
Presbyterians at Play
Thank God they found them.
Police have confirmed that not one, but two massive car bombs were set to explode in the heart of London's West End.
The first, in Haymarket, was packed with petrol, gas cannisters and nails, and was defused after police were alerted by an ambulance crew called to an incident at a nearby nightclub.
The second was in a car that was illegally parked nearby and towed to the Park Lane car pound....In a news conference Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said the second car, a blue hybrid Mercedes, was parked a few hundred yards from the first in Cockspur Street which runs between Haymarket and Trafalgar Square.
It was issued with a parking ticket at around 2:30am before being towed to the Park Lane car pound where staff alerted police.
There has to be a way to track incendiary German engineering, you would think. This second one is a hybrid, so definately late model, right? It's not like they picked up a pair of trashed Yugos for a couple hundred bucks cash.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 04:11 PM | Comments (3)
Searching for Answers Friday
Dang if this one little line in the West Escambia newsbrief wasn't bugging the beejeesus out of me. I'd read it in the paper two days in a row.
The Florida Highway Patrol will conduct a roadside sobriety checkpoint between 10 p.m. today and 2 a.m. Saturday. The checkpoint will be on Sorrento Road in front of the Winn-Dixie store.There will be approximately 25 uniformed officers participating, as well as support personnel from the Emerald Coast MADD Chapter. Other participating agencies include the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, Pensacola Police Department, Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office and the Department of Environmental Protection.
Vehicles will be stopped to check for driver impairment and other violations.
My first thought was "WTF is MADD doing there?" So I called the Florida Highway Patrol and asked. The receptionist was very friendly until I repeated my initial question.
"Well, they're trying to get drunks off the road!"
"Yes, but they're law enforcement. They're supposed to. I was curious why MADD is mentioned. Why are they part of the checkpoint if they're not law enforcement?"
[sputter] "They're support personnel ~ they'll have coffee and water for the officers. Sometimes they set up a tent."
"Oh, that's very nice on a hot night, I'm sure. I was just curious what part they played in an official exercise. Thank you."
She was pretty disgusted that I asked, honestly. Got a tad strident with her tone when I didn't seem to capeche that MADD had a right to be in EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE.
Then, as I read more, I'm like "Bangla-cola cops? They have no jurisdiction in the county." For that matter, Santa Rosa is the next county over to the east, so WTF are those guys doing all the way clean over here almost to Alabammy?" Honest to God, I thought we had enough law enforcement in our own county to deal with a checkpoint.
I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a van in the parking lot carrying a colonoscopy probe, too.
Yeah. That'd be a waste. They're already up there.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 03:32 PM | Comments (2)
In the Dog House
What a schmutz.
Animal lovers hit the roof after it was revealed that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney strapped his Irish setter to the top of his car during a 12-hour family drive from Boston to Ontario, terrifying the hapless dog and causing a health hazard to fellow road-users.
According to the Boston Globe, the former Massachusetts governor placed the dog, called Seamus, in a kennel attached to the roof of his white Chevy station wagon. He and his wife and five sons then set off on holiday.After a few miles, Mr Romney's eldest son, Tagg, raised the alarm. "Dad!" he yelled. "Gross!" A brown liquid was dripping down the rear windscreen.
All his millions and he's too cheap/stoopid to spring for a kennel (and I mean the doggie hotel kind)?
Posted by tree hugging sister at 03:09 PM | Comments (5)
Well, This Is A Relief
In a manner of speaking
ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- An attorney for a former astronaut wanted to set the record straight Friday: Lisa Nowak didn't wear diapers during the 950-mile road trip to confront a romantic rival."The biggest lie in this preposterous tale that has been told is that my client drove from Houston, Texas, to Orlando, Florida, nonstop, wearing a diaper," Donald Lykkebak said after filing motions to suppress evidence in Nowak's criminal case. "That is an absolute fabrication."
The tidbit that Nowak wore diapers during her trip was written in the police report filed after Nowak's arrest in February. The diaper detail became fodder for late-night TV comics and talk radio and even inspired an episode of the NBC show "Law & Order."
There were toddler-size diapers in her car when she was arrested, but they were several years old, Lykkebak said. Nowak and her family had used them when Houston was evacuated in 2005 during Hurricane Rita, he said.
It's comforting to know that she and her family shared the diapers on a previous trip.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 11:42 AM | Comments (2)
Update: Booted Diabetic Found Alive
Thank god
WILLIAMS, Ariz. -- A 65-year-old St. Louis man who went missing Sunday night after Amtrak personnel, mistaking his diabetic shock for drunk and disorderly behavior, kicked him off a train in the middle of a national forest, has been found two miles from where he was dropped off, according to police in Williams, Ariz.Police said Roosevelt Sims, a factory worker who had just retired last week, was discovered Thursday night walking along the railroad tracks barefoot by Coconino County sheriff's deputies.
Deputies said he was dehydrated and disoriented.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 10:17 AM | Comments (4)
I Agree With Obama On This
If this becomes a habit well obviously I'm going to the doctor for a complete evaluation but when he's right he's right
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama laid out list of political shortcomings he sees in the Bush administration but said he opposes impeachment for either President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.Obama said he would not back such a move, although he has been distressed by the "loose ethical standards, the secrecy and incompetence" of a "variety of characters" in the administration.
"There's a way to bring an end to those practices, you know: vote the bums out," the presidential candidate said, without naming Bush or Cheney. "That's how our system is designed."
The term for Bush and Cheney ends on Jan. 20, 2009. Bush cannot constitutionally run for a third term, and Cheney has said he will not run to succeed Bush.
Obama, a Harvard law school graduate and former lecturer on constitutional law at the University of Chicago, said impeachment should not be used as a standard political tool.
"I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breeches, and intentional breeches of the president's authority," he said.
"I believe if we began impeachment proceedings we will be engulfed in more of the politics that has made Washington dysfunction," he added. "We would once again, rather than attending to the people's business, be engaged in a tit-for-tat, back-and-forth, non-stop circus."
He's 100% correct.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 09:10 AM | Comments (4)
Big Time Wrestling in a Big Time F*ck-Up
I know it's all cartoons and staged mayhem with steroid monsters. But ya think maybe there'd have been one braincell left between the lot of them that might have kicked in and whispered "Maybe a three hour tribute to a guy who just murdered his wife and seven year old son is in...questionable taste...maybe. What is your braincell telling you?"
Obviously, one braincell ~ in damage control mode ~ is saying "Nobody told us!". Amazing, when the rest of the country knew. Of course, in true, big time wrestling fashion, the real one/true braincell is saying, "Let's get that DVD up for sale, ASAP!"
WWE Monday Night Raw Chris Benoit Tribute Show 2007-06-25 XviD-SC-SDHWWE Monday Night Raw
Chris Benoit Tribute Show
American Bank Center
Corpus Christi, Texas
June 25, 2007This special Monday Night Raw Chris Benoit Tribute Show is deadicated to the memory of the Rabid Wolverine Chris Benoit and his wife Nancy Benoit (Woman) and their son Daniel Benoit who were found dead today in their Atlanta, Georgia area home.
...Rest In Peace Chris Benoit you will never be forgotten and you and Eddie Guerrero
are now together again!!!StoneCold420
June 25, 2007
Rest in the fiery pits of Hell, maybe.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:07 AM | Comments (1)
Some Friday Fun
Hot Air has Cavuto's interview with Tommy Chong up, and it is one of the funniest clips you'll see, a completely burnt-out comedian playing political philosopher.
One of the commentators posted this link
Which made me look and find this one
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 08:02 AM | Comments (7)
A 'Device' In London
Looks like someone thankfully lost their nerve
Car bomb found in central London Haymarket Police say the area will be closed for some time Police have disabled a car bomb containing gas cylinders in the heart of central London.Officers carried out a controlled explosion after reports of a suspicious vehicle parked in Haymarket shortly before 0200 BST (0100 GMT).
The area was cordoned off while police examined what they described as a "potentially viable explosive device".
...Bouncers from a nearby nightclub said they saw the car being driven erratically before it crashed into a bin. They said the driver then got out and ran off.
Police sources have confirmed that gas canisters were involved in the incident, close to Piccadilly Circus.
But Scotland Yard has refused to comment on reports that a large number of nails were found in the car.
One police source said the bomb was a "big device" and posed a real and substantial threat to the area around Haymarket, which is in London's theatreland.
But a Westminster source said it was a "relatively small" device.
Hopefully there will be enough evidence to find out who tried to do this. The fact that they used a Mercedes shows some cunning, as a beat-up jalopy or small truck would likely arouse more attention than a nice new expensive sedan.
Tim Blair, of course, blames us Presbyterians.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 06:36 AM | Comments (1)
June 28, 2007
With Friends Like This
...you might as well stay enemies, n'est pas?
A very serious failure occurred on the part of India's Meteorological Department (IMD) yesterday, when they failed to provide adequate warnings for a devastating tropical cyclone that hit Pakistan. Cyclone 03B, which struck the coast of Pakistan at 02 GMT June 27, has killed at least 17 and left 250,000 homeless in that nation, according to early news reports. Under mandate from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), India is responsible for warning the shores of all nations along the North Indian Ocean, including Pakistan. Cyclone 03B was at least a strong tropical storm when it hit Pakistan, and was probably a Category 1 hurricane. Microwave satellite imagery near the time of landfall (Figure 1) shows a well-developed tropical cyclone with spiral banding and a cloud free eye. Yet IMD never even gave the storm a name, and merely classified it as a a "deep depression," with winds less than tropical storm force (39 mph). At 00 GMT June 26, two hours before landfall, the position of Cyclone 03B given by IMD was probably in error by at least 60 miles. One hour later, at 01 GMT, with landfall just one hour away, the IMD shipping advisory said that landfall was still 12 hours away. The IMD website, with the warnings, was offline and not available for approximately twelve hours beginning with the landfall period. It's important not to judge IMD before all the facts are known, but I can't fathom any excuse that can account for what appears, at best, to be criminal incompetence. I hope the WMO fully investigates this complete failure of India's Meteorological Department to protect the lives and welfare of those living along the Pakistani coast.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 05:31 PM | Comments (5)
Amtrak Has Got A Big Problem
My god, I can't imagine how anyone thought this was a good idea
PHOENIX -- A 65-year-old St. Louis man is missing after Amtrak personnel, mistaking his diabetic shock for drunk and disorderly behavior, kicked him off a train in the middle of a national forest, according to police in Williams, Ariz.
Even if the guy was drunk how do they justify this?
"He was let off in the middle of a national forest, which is about 800,000 acres of beautiful pine trees," Lt. Mike Graham said.Police said there is no train station or running water at the crossing, which is about two miles from the nearest road, at an elevation of about 8,000 feet.
Amtrak personnel told police dispatchers that Sims was drunk and unruly.
The Sims family said Sims is diabetic and was going into shock.
Why not throw people overboard on ships? Hell, open up the 767's door at 35,000 feet and off you go!
Somebody should be facing a lot of jail time even if they somehow find this guy alive.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 03:25 PM | Comments (2)
Shamnesty Fails
Thank god. And Hot Air has the list of who voted how. As I live in NJ, both of my Senators voted for this abomination. I encourage everyone to remember how these fools voted, and hold these pompous fools accountable.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 12:30 PM | Comments (3)
You Make Bath Time Lots Of Fun...
Rubber Ducky I'm awfully fond of you
Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journey By BEN CLERKINThey were toys destined only to bob up and down in nothing bigger than a child's bath - but so far they have floated halfway around the world.
The armada of 29,000 plastic yellow ducks, blue turtles and green frogs broke free from a cargo ship 15 years ago.
Since then they have travelled 17,000 miles, floating over the site where the Titanic sank, landing in Hawaii and even spending years frozen in an Arctic ice pack.
And now they are heading straight for Britain. At some point this summer they are expected to be spotted on beaches in South-West England.
A pretty neat story, and good science data for free. Who needs multi-million dollar government grants when all you need to do is dump an occasional container of toys (or Nikes) into the drink?
(h/t to the ever-naughty Theo Spark, who is perilous to read at work)
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 08:41 AM
"There were no innocent people killed"
Can you imagine a police chief in the US making a statement like that?
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Police killed at least 13 suspected drug traffickers in a huge operation Wednesday aimed at ending a war between authorities and gangs that has raged for nearly two months in a Rio de Janeiro slum.Authorities said 1,350 heavily armed officers and elite federal police supported by helicopters and armored cars descended on the sprawling Alemao shantytown and were met by automatic weapon fire and hand grenades.
At least 40 people have been killed and more than 80 injured since May 2, when the conflict in the Alemao was touched off by the killing of two police officers.
At least 10 people were wounded in Wednesday's operation, most of them innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire or hit by stray bullets -- a rising concern in this city of 8 million.
Rio de Janeiro state security chief Jose Mariano Beltrame earlier said 18 were killed Wednesday, then revised the death toll to 13 without giving an explanation. The dead were all suspected members of gangs that control the city's thriving drug trade, he said.
"There were no innocent people killed," Beltrame told a news conference, adding that the operation would continue indefinitely. Authorities said Wednesday's death toll could rise because police believed some bodies had not been recovered.
Beltrame said police entered areas of the slum where they have had no presence for years, resulting in intense fighting.
The slums in Rio are notorious for their drug activities and vigilante violence.
Sadly, so are the Brazilian police forces. As a dear friend of mine says, if you are robbed in Brazil you generally don't call the police because they'll just rob you again.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 08:00 AM
June 27, 2007
Do
...tell.
...[Lou] Dobbs contends the Senate has trampled the democratic process. The bill, he notes, has not required a single public hearing or advanced out of committee. "There has been no rigorous research whatsoever by any government agency or department of the economic, social, and fiscal impact of this legislation," the CNN host explained. "This is striking even in Trotsky-like terms in an authoritarian government -- but for it to occur in what is a democratic republic is, to me, absolutely shameful."...And Dobbs noted that when President Bush hosted business and Hispanic activist groups at the White House today to promote the immigration bill, one group was noticeably missing -- there was no representative for America's working middle class.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 02:28 PM | Comments (3)
June 26, 2007
A Pause To Remember, And A First Meeting
I'm so disgusted and dispirited by this immigration shamnesty sellout that i just can't even post about it; the folks at HotAir have got it much better covered than I ever could.
It seems appropriate to me at this time when our elected leaders are giving away this country to pause and remember those who risked everything to make us great. My Bride and I took Daughter to Washington, D.C. last week to do the museums/government buildings tour. On Wednesday we had a tour of the White House which was rather disappointing, as we could not access very much of it and there were no staff in any of the rooms to explain what little of it we were actually seeing; every ramshackle castle in Scotland provides at least that, for gosh sake.
Afterwards we took the wonderful DC Metro out to Arlington Cemetery to pay our respects and meet someone. It's an amazingly somber, sad and dignified place. It's also quite large, as there are some 300,000 glorious patriots buried there. The staff at the Visitor Center are exceedingly kind and helpful, and if you give them a name they will give you directions on how to find their plot. Unfortunately, due to its size the only real way to get around it on a hot summer day is via one of the trolley buses that loop around it, and, as Daughter pointed out, while the operators mean well they can't help but add a touch of a carnival/theme park atmosphere to a place that is deserving of our utmost respect and dignity.
On a bright sunny June day those markers of sacrifice burn into you, and humble you.
As we walked to our meeting one marker jumped out at me:
Bugler John Cook, Medal of Honor, Battle of Antietam. Then I looked at his birth date, and it hit me. The battle was September 17th, 1862. He was 15. 15.
My God.
A little farther on and it was finally time. Time to meet someone I'd heard about all my life, whose strong, warm picture graced the mantelpiece of the house I grew up in, whose influence and living memory shaped my and my siblings' life, but a man that none of us ever met, as he died the year after my parents' wedding while they were in Japan with the newly-born Tree Hugging Sister,
our Grandfather
I wish with all my heart that our first "hello" could have consisted of more than my tears on the grass.
Update: Sis scanned the photo
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 11:06 PM | Comments (8)
You Know, There May Yet Be Hope...
for Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has barred the makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler from filming at German military sites because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.Cruise, also one of the film's producers, is a member of the Church of Scientology which the German government does not recognize as a church. Berlin says it masquerades as a religion to make money, a charge Scientology leaders reject.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:39 AM | Comments (3)
June 25, 2007
The Judge Gets Taken To The Cleaners
And he has to pay the costs
WASHINGTON - A judge ruled Monday in favor of a dry cleaner that was sued for $54 million over a missing pair of pants.The owners of Custom Cleaners did not violate the city's Consumer Protection Act by failing to live up to Roy L. Pearson's expectations of the "Satisfaction Guaranteed" sign once displayed in the store window, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff ruled.
Bartnoff ordered Pearson to pay the court costs of defendants Soo Chung, Jin Nam Chung and Ki Y. Chung.
Pearson, an administrative law judge, originally sought $67 million from the Chungs, claiming they lost a pair of suit trousers and later tried to give him a pair that he said was not his. He arrived at the amount by adding up years of alleged law violations and almost $2 million in common law claims.
Looks like he lost his suit twice...
I hope there is some sort of disciplinary action taken against this judge. He's the poster boy for tort reform.
"It was the trousers..."
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 12:49 PM | Comments (9)
Can Someone Please 'Splain
...this new Virginia law to me?
Candidates for national office are discouraged from using Virginia to raise unlimited amounts of cash by a new requirement that at least half of what they raise be spent on campaigns for state office in Virginia.
On its face, it's pretty confusing. Why would I raise money for my presidential campaign, when half is already spoken for by the state to fund...what? The governor's race? State rep? Richmond mayor? I mean, do I get to pick the candidate my hard raised cash goes to?
And who determines what "at least half" equates to? What if someone doesn't like someone else's politics and determines more than half is required?
Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:40 AM | Comments (6)
"They Can Go to the Hospital for Free. I Can't..."
"...and that's not right."Sunday night's NBC Nightly News contained this incredibly well balanced shocker of a report.
Color me gobschmacked.
The website they mention in the piece is here.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:58 AM
Funny, I Never Saw This At Gitmo
I guess if we treat "prisoners" like this then the euroappeasers will be ok with it
The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston have released a new video of him in which he is wearing what he says is an explosives vest....In the tape, posted on a website used by militants, Mr Johnston is seen wearing a device around his torso and attached to shoulder straps.
"The situation now is very serious. As you can see I have been dressed in what is an explosive belt, which the kidnappers say will be detonated if there was any attempt to storm this area," he says.
Nice fellows, but of course it's our fault that he's being held
Mr Johnston was abducted by a group calling itself The Army of Islam.A video was released on 1 June by the previously unknown radical Islamist group, in which the correspondent said he was in good health and was being treated well.*
The Army of Islam has demanded the release of Abu Qatada, a Palestinian-born Islamic cleric who is suspected of having close links with al-Qaeda and is held by the UK government as a threat to national security.
I really really hope these 'negotiations' in no way shape or form involve releasing Mr. Qatada.
In a statement, the (BBC) said: "It is very distressing for Alan's family and colleagues to see him being threatened in this way.
How the hell do you think it makes Alan feel?
*"treated well" being defined as "getting to wear an un-exploded bomb vest"
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:15 AM | Comments (3)
June 22, 2007
sigh...Let's Go Over This One More Time
...since the Speaker seems to be a little slow catching on.
POP QUIZ
Example A: These are CANADIANS.
Example B: These are not...
Task: Using a No.2 pencil, choose the correct military service who most closely resembles the troops you keep trying to pull funding from while still 'supporting' them.
Bonus Question: If time allows, for five extra points ~ circle the mostest doofiest suit in THIS picture...
"Look! Nuthin' up ma sleeve!"
And no cheating/mirror checking or you're immediately disqualified.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 12:47 PM | Comments (2)
Happy Birthday
...big guy!
Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:07 AM | Comments (1)
June 21, 2007
A United Front...For ONCE
...could be a very powerful statement to everyone: directly involved or otherwise.
Closing ranks against Hamas, Egypt’s president invited Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a peace summit, officials said Thursday, the biggest show of support yet by moderate Arab states for beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.The meeting will take place Monday in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, said Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisin. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has invited Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Jordan’s King Abdullah II. Jordan confirmed Abdullah would attend.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 01:55 PM | Comments (4)
Anybody Wanna Tell Me WHY
...this...
Police on Wednesday were pleading for witnesses to help them track down members of an angry mob that beat a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck and injured a child.Investigators were struggling to piece together what happened Tuesday when David Rivas Morales died defending the driver from members of a crowd. There could have been anywhere from two to 20 attackers, Austin Police Commander Harold Piatt said.
The car in which Morales, 40, was a passenger had entered an apartment complex's parking lot when it struck a 2-year-old boy, Piatt said. The boy was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver got out of the car to check on the child and was confronted by several people, Piatt said. When they attacked the driver, Morales got out of the car to protect the driver and was attacked as well. Police said no guns or knives were used.
...didn't make either ABC's World News Tonight or NewsHour last night?
I can guess why, but, being blonde and all, I need positive reinforcement.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:16 AM | Comments (24)
June 20, 2007
Sweet Jesus, I Thought This Headline
Texas Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Kid
Then the 'Texass' clicked.
A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday.Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night. The man who was killed had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said.
But that's where we are, in this day and age? It's now okay for murderous mob vengeance after what, I'm assuming, was an accident? Hell, even if it wasn't an accident ~ you hold the perpetrator for the authorities.
What kind of animals were in this crowd anyway?
Damn if it doesn't remind me of that horrible photo taken the day two young, young British soldiers took a wrong turn on the streets of Northern Ireland. They tried desperately to get away, but were swarmed, pulled from their car and beaten to death. There's a haunting, heartbreaking photo taken of the one kid's terrified face peering out from the broken car window, just before the mob reaches in. God help me, it's so awful I've never forgotten it.
UPDATE: Good God. 'Animal' question answered.
...Morales was beaten to death by as many as 20 men and left lying in a parking lot, Piatt said. A preliminary autopsy listed blunt force trauma as the cause of death.The little girl, 3 or 4 years old, was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The driver, who got away from the crowd, is cooperating with investigators, police said.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 12:36 PM | Comments (14)
June 19, 2007
Stop The Presses! RoP "Incensed"
Finally someone in Buckingham Palace shows some cojones
The Government has expressed its "deep concern" over reported comments by one of Pakistan's ministers which suggested Salman Rushdie's knighthood could justify suicide attacks.The announcement comes amid continuing protests in Pakistan over the awarding of the honour to the controversial author.
Earlier in the day Pakistan's government summoned Britain's high commissioner in Islamabad for talks on the escalating row.
I think this is great.
"Salman Rushdie has turned into a hated corpse which cannot be resurrected by any action," Mohammad Reza Bahonar, first deputy speaker of Iran's parliament, said in an address to the house."The action by the British queen in knighting Salman Rushdie, the apostate, is an unwise one," he said, to loud cheers from MPs.
"The British monarch lives under this illusion that Britain is still a 19th century superpower and that bestowing titles is something still deemed important."
Yes, and it's so unimportant that you guys are foaming like there's no tomorrow!
Hardline daily Jomhuri Eslami also launched a scathing attack on the queen, describing the monarch as an "old crone" whose action was a "grimace to the Islamic world"."The question is what the old British crone sought by knighting Rushdie, to help him? Well, her act only shortens Rushdie's pathetic life," it added.
God bless the Old Crone! She knew exactly what she was doing. It shows official support for Rushdie and it tweaks the noses of the Islamotards (like her eldest son) and gives them yet another occasion to show the fools that they are.
"This is an occasion for the world's 1.5billion Muslims to look at the seriousness of this decision," said Mohammed Ijaz ul-Haq, Pakistan's religious affairs minister."The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism," he told his country's parliament.
"If someone exploded a bomb on his body he would be right to do so, unless the British government apologises and withdraws the 'sir' title."
I mean, what more is there to say, really?
Well, there's this from Labour's Lord Ahmed
Labour's Lord Ahmed expressed surprise at the decision to give a knighthood to Rushdie, who was placed under a fatwa, or death sentence, by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini 18 years ago after the publication of the allegedly blasphemous The Satanic Verses."I was appalled to hear Salman Rushdie had been given a knighthood," Lord Ahmed said.
"Two weeks ago the Prime Minister was calling for building relations between the Muslim world and Britain, then suddenly this knighthood is given to a man who has not only been abusive to Muslims, but also to Christians - because he used abusive language towards Jesus Christ."
..."This man not only provoked violence around the world because of his writings, but there were many people who were killed around the world.
"Forgiving and forgetting is one thing, but honouring the man who has blood on his hands, sort of, because of what he did, I think is going a bit too far."
You see, this type of logic is what I love about these nuts. Rushdie writes a book, and a crappy one at that, honestly; I couldn't get through the first chapter. Please note that even though he may in fact have "used abusive language towards Jesus Christ" there were only followers of one certain Religion of Peace that were "provoked to violence" and killed "people around the world."
Damn Presbyterians.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 01:24 PM | Comments (7)
Oh How Horrible
Keep their families in your prayers
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Nine firefighters perished in a blaze that swept through a furniture warehouse, Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley said Tuesday morning.The mayor called the dead firefighters "brave, heroic and courageous," as he said that they were in the building when the roof collapsed.
Just horrible.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:25 AM | Comments (1)
June 18, 2007
Martha Raddatz Does Some Straight Talking
...on PBS' Washington Week last Friday.
...MR. HARWOOD: Martha, I talked to a Republican strategist this week who said he sees the table being set for a report in September that suggests that the surge has not been as effective as they had hoped. Republican senators would start getting nervous, not back the administration on continuing the surge, and the White House would turn towards those recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. Is that the scenario you see playing out?MS. RADDATZ: Well, I think the Iraq Study Group is something that we've watched for a couple of months now, too. In fact, White House officials will say listen to what the president is saying, he's talking about the Iraq Study Group much, much more in public in that, hey, I like this part of that and I like this part of it, and that's a good recommendation. The thing about the Iraq Study Group is that overall they say you have to follow all the recommendations and I think that's the bottom line with those. I think -
MR. HARWOOD: But does it signal combat troops coming out?
MS. RADDATZ: I don't - I think truly that you have to wait and see the conditions on the ground. David Petraeus, who was criticized by Senator Reid as not painting the accurate picture, although Senator Reid himself has been there one time and that was two years ago. Dave Petraeus is going to be in a position he has to give a progress report. Dave Petraeus is highly admired, thought of as a very, very honest person. I mean, certainly he points out some progress there, but it is going to be very, very difficult after this week with the Samarra bombing to show progress.
There was a report this week that violence all over Iraq has grown. In Baghdad it's slightly better. That's where they now have 28,500 troops. Of course it's going to be better, but what has happened so many times in the past, what I have seen so many times there, is you calm one area down and they move to other areas, and that is exactly what's happening. But I think Petraeus would like the surge to continue. He knows you can't have success unless you stay there long term.
She's written a pretty damn fine book, too. If you check out the posted reviews, you will find some from the soldiers of the unit she profiles.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 05:19 PM
El Gato Beats El Tigre
"It's mine!"
And he sure earned it.
You could hear the Nanny-Staters gasp in horror every time they showed a picture of Angel puffing away on a smoke.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 02:23 PM
Oh, You Just Gotta Love a Feisty Old Codger
...So, if global warming isn't such a burning issue, why are thousands of scientists so concerned about it?"Why are so many thousands not concerned about it?" Bryson shot back.
...like this. It's music to my ears.
...Bryson didn't see Al Gore's movie about global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth.""Don't make me throw up," he said. "It is not science. It is not true."
As he notes, he's gone in to work gratis every day since he retired in 1985, so he doesn't owe jack to anybody. It's like the scene in 'Fried Green Tomatoes', where Kathy Bates says, "I'm older and have more insurance." It gives you a certain freedom to stop speaking with a forked tongue.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:39 AM | Comments (2)
June 17, 2007
Some Blondes Will Do ANYthing
...to get noticed.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:36 AM
Happy
FATHER'S DAY ~ to major dad, Bingster, Crusader, Grinch, Mr. Summers, Cullen, Kraut, Robb Allen and all the marvelous, wonderful Swiller dads!!!!
You guys da MAN!
Posted by tree hugging sister at 11:35 AM | Comments (7)
June 15, 2007
I'm Not Sure What's More Disturbing
The Military.com email I just got with...
Video: Gay Bomb...as the subject line, or the fact the dweebs actually considered it to begin with. In either case, it's old news and purloined goods, because a fellow named Harlan Ellison came up with the concept decades ago. Snuggled in his 'Shatterday' short story collection is a little gem titled:
How's the Night Life on Cissalda?Synopsis: Temponaut Enoch Mirren returns from a venture to time/universe Earth-2 inseperably, obscenely, and rapturously attached to a disgusting thing from the planet Cissalda. Two months later scientists finally manage to separate human and Cissaldan, ending their sexual congress. The Cissaldan dissapears and is found three hours later in a broom closet with Dr. Marilyn Hornback. Not long after that, the terrific and disgusting little things (which happen to be the "most perfect fucks in the universe") start popping in all over the world, fastening themselves onto everyone - famous or not. Everyone, that is, except Enoch Mirren...
Comments: "Cissalda" isn't soul-wrenching or fever-inducing or nightmare-causing or any of the other things you hear about Ellison's work. It is, quite simply, a fucking hilarious bit of writing. Artists who think that sex wasn't invented (you know, REALLY invented) until the 90's should look back on just how shocking and irreverent Ellison was almost twenty years ago, describing the infiltration of the Cissaldans:
Truman Capote, popping Quaaludes like M&Ms, rolled himself into a puffy little ball as his Cissaldan mounted him. The level of dope in his system, however, was so high that the disgusting thing went mad and strained itself straight up the urethra and hid itself against his prostrate. Capote's voice instantly dropped three octaves.
Maidservants to Queen Elizabeth, knocking frantically on the door to her bedchamber, were greeted with silence. Guards instantly forced the door. They turned their heads away from the disgusting sight that greeted them. There was nothing regal, nothing imperial, nothing even remotely majestic about what was taking place there on the floor.
Those entwined with the creatures forget to eat or sleep and eventually die. The Cissaldan hops off in search of the next victim ~ it's a war of attrition. Civilization as we know it ceases to exist because the Cissaldans have seduced everyone. And the poor astronaut is the last guy standing on Earth.
The 'gay bomb' on alien love crack.
Mr. Bush, build that wall!
Posted by tree hugging sister at 03:16 PM | Comments (2)
I Can Understand This Father's Grief
His 14 year old was killed when the vehicle she was a passenger in struck a freight train parked on a country road train crossing at night. It had no warning lights or cross bars. I can understand and feel for their pain deeply.
"Those lives were taken because of our negligence!...I hope you lose your job and go ahead and suffer some loss!"
What I CAN'T understand is HOW his daughter came to be there. Or any of the other victims.
"The impact killed all four backseat passengers."Three FOURTEEN year old girls and one THIRTEEN year old boy.
The driver and front seat passenger lived ~ both FIFTEEN year old boys.
They were speeding.
In a STOLEN jeep.
It was 3:30...A.M.
You can blame them all you want but...
I don't think Union Pacific killed your kid, Dad.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 01:03 PM | Comments (3)
So, I Read This
...on Drudge yesterday morning...
Senators Plan to Revive Immigration Bill
...which, in the oddest coincidence, is also the day I got my RNC survey. So I filled it out.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 12:53 PM | Comments (8)
Ahnuld's Correct
...But you know they will make him pay for saying it
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told a gathering of Hispanic journalists that immigrants should avoid Spanish-language media if they want to learn English quickly."You've got to turn off the Spanish television set" and avoid Spanish-language television, books and newspapers, the Republican governor said Wednesday night at the annual convention of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
"You're just forced to speak English, and that just makes you learn the language faster," Schwarzenegger said.
"I know this sounds odd and this is the politically incorrect thing to say, and I'm going to get myself in trouble," he said, noting that he rarely spoke German and was forced to learn English when he emigrated from Austria.
Schwarzenegger was responding to a question about how Hispanic students can improve academically. Many journalists for Spanish-language organizations in the audience were surprised by the remarks.
He's 100% correct...and incorrect.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 09:29 AM | Comments (3)
The Most Ethical Congress Ever!
And kids under the age of, um, er, 50 or so fly free!
Pentagon officials are bracing for a fight with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over her desire to allow lawmakers’ adult children to tag along on taxpayer-funded travel for free.Pelosi wants them to be able to fill the role of lawmakers’ spouses when the latter are unable to make a trip because of health issues or work commitments.
Bet you didn't know about this "long-standing policy"
“It has been longstanding policy that, in the absence of a congressional spouse, the adult child of a member of Congress may accompany the member on official U.S. government travel abroad for protocol reasons and without reimbursing the U.S. Treasury,” Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said. “Speaker Pelosi believes that a modern policy must reflect the professional responsibilities or health realities that might prevent a spouse from participating, and instead permit an adult child to fulfill the protocol needs of the official trip.”
Sorry, that sounds like an aristocratic-class policy to me.
And it's completely disgusting and corrupt.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:21 AM | Comments (2)
June 14, 2007
This Is So Dangerous
UPDATE and BUMP: Oh, the weaselly son of a bitch.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid confirmed Thursday that he told liberal bloggers last week that he thinks outgoing Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace is "incompetent."Reid acknowledged similarly disparaging Army Gen. David Petraeus, head of Multinational Forces in Iraq.
But Reid, whose comments to bloggers first appeared in The Politico, also told reporters: "I think we should just drop it."
Easy enough for you to want turn tail and run, Dirty Harry. You seem to be pretty well versed in those tactics.
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A Democratic challenge to Gen. Peter Pace indicates that uniformed officers no longer are exempt from the partisan fire on Capitol Hill once reserved for civilian policymakers.
Mr. Levin might want to recall how the military was harangued for even the perception of losing their political neutrality when it came to respecting a certain Democratic commander-in-chief.
...Military personnel aren't required to like their Commander in Chief, or even respect him in the privacy of their own hearts. But they are required, in accordance with military law and tradition, to show respect for the office, regardless of how they may feel about the office holder.
The 'privacy of their own hearts'. Like when the civilian in charge asks for your opinion, you give it truthfully and earnestly. But if he decides to go the other way, it's then 'yes sir, yes sir, three bags full' and you carry out your assigned mission, again, to the best of your ability. Because, no matter your rank, you are SUBORDINATE to your civilian commander. That's the duty you're sworn to. And the duty that once sworn is compelled by the force of law.
The miserable incompetence of this war's handling has nothing to do with it's military prosecution and everything to do with policy. Policy=political, because only elected civilians can set 'policy'. Oddly enough, that's what another Congressperson argues, when setting out why Gen. Pace (and henceforth ALL military officers, I guess) should be castigated publicly.
...[Rep. Ellen O., D-Calif.] Tauscher said his [Pace's] comments on gays "showed his ignorance" and "had to be deeply discounted because they came from a man who had presided over a war that we got into on a lie and what I consider to be a serious dereliction of duty in having our troops and our readiness so destroyed by the policies of this administration."
I'm sure there are Republicans who could have said as much to Marines during Clinton's foray into Haiti, for example. Or his morphing of the mission in Somalia to hunt down bald headed warlords, vice the 'feed the children' exercise major dad went in-country for originally. Those would have been legitimate moments to ask military commanders "What the F*CK were you thinking?" ~ don't you think? But your questions would have to be addressed to the policy maker, vice the implementer. The U.S. military has never ordered ITSELF anywhere.
And where does this end, once the Pandora's Box is spewing its contentious contents unchecked? Does it end with a sitting Democratic president making policy, because the majority now agrees with him, so all decisions must be peachy? Does it end when Mr. Levin abuses a military member at the table before him ~ for policies over which he had no control and could only do his sworn duty to do them to the best of his ability ~ and said service member breaks and calls Mr. Levin a sweet, well-earned perjorative, only then to be prosecuted for breaking the cardinal rule, "in accordance with military law and tradition, to show respect for the office"?
Of course, no member of the United States military would ever, ever do such a thing. Mr. Levin and Mr. Tauscher and all the despicable loser lefties in the United States Congress know it. They demand the respect their offices provide and wield the power therein to abuse, belittle and destroy those who protect their institution but have no recourse ~ those whose oath actually carries penalties.
Mr. Levin obviously feels shooting uniformed fish in a barrel suits his purposes...makes his point...makes GREAT television theater. Be damned what it does otherwise.
UPDATE: Some background.
Article 88, which states:“Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”
…Not likely. The UCMJ is not the product of military fiat, but rather a 1950 act of Congress. Congress intentionally chose to narrow the prior version of Article 88, which had covered all soldiers, in order to ensure that it applied to officers but not enlisted personnel. From a policy standpoint, why did it chose to do so?
First, Congress probably recognized that the primary purpose of Article 88 should be to prevent active military officers from meddling in politics–a persistent problem in other republics, both ancient and modern.
…More recently, a number of military officers faced disciplinary action after drawing attention to deficiencies in President Clinton’s moral character - an activity which for civilians seemed to constitute a hearty national pastime throughout the 1990s. These cases, while relatively few in number, became emblematic of Clinton’s difficult relations with the military, particularly its professional officer corps.
For example, Maj. Gen. Harold Campbell was compelled to retire after referring, no doubt affectionately, to the “gay-loving,” “womanizing,” “draft-dodging” and “pot-smoking” President in a speech at an Air Force banquet. Other officers received reprimands for characterizing their Commander-in-Chief as a “lying draft dodger,” a “moral coward,” and an “adulterous liar” in letters to their local newspapers.
Even retired officers may be at risk when they speak out - as Lt. Col. Michael J. Davidson noted in his July 1999 Army Lawyer article, “Contemptuous Speech Against the President.” Davidson noted that Article 88 may apply to retired commissioned officers by virtue of other articles of the UCMJ.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 08:18 PM | Comments (2)
Okay ~ I Wanna Know WHO BOUGHT This
...and I wanna KNOW NOW!
... Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, made $1,462 from sales of her suspense novel, which features a combative, liberal senator much like herself.
Sales ~ the article says 'sales'.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 05:59 PM | Comments (4)
Anybody Else
...catch the irony in this? Or is it just me?
Posted by tree hugging sister at 02:14 PM
And the Flying Fickle Finger of Blame Points to
...the JOOS!
Bethlehem - Ma'an – The Fatah movement on Wednesday accused Israel of propelling the Palestinians into the current state of security chaos.Spokesperson for the movement in the West Bank, Dr. Jamal Nazzal, told the Italian Radiotelevisione Italiana, known as RAI, "Israel paved the way for the growth of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, by destroying the PA [Palestinian Authority] departments and security forces' buildings between 2000 and the election to power of Hamas."
"Anybody moves, the cook gets it!"
A Swill salute to the American Israeli Patriot for pointing us in the right direction.
UPDATE: Does this mean they're through?
President Mahmoud Abbas will dissolve the Palestinian Authority's government Thursday after fighting between rival parties Hamas and Fatah consumed the Gaza Strip and was expected to call for a state of emergency, sources close to Abbas confirmed to FOX News.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 01:31 PM
The Disease Where You Forget You Were A Nazi...
Waldheimers, just lost its founder
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German army unit that committed atrocities in the Balkans in World War II, died Thursday. He was 88.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 12:05 PM
I Ain't Fallin' for the Old Banana
...in the tailpipe.
President Bush, trying to salvage an immigration overhaul legislation, endorsed a plan Thursday that would lock in money for border security as way to win over conservative lawmakers and a skeptical public.
Shoulda been doing that from the get-go, yo.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 12:04 PM
Insta Asks "Is killing your husband less serious than serving kids beer?"
The Preacher's wife sentencing is insane, no doubt. But let's not trivialize what this women in Virginia did. It's not like she innocently let the kids have a sip of beer. She planned for the kids to drink
Elisa's crime was to hold a birthday party for her 16-year-old son Ryan and serve his friends beer.As a precaution, she and her ex-husband, who is serving 30 days for bringing the alcohol onto the property, made sure that none of the kids would be able to drive home.
As they arrived at their 6000ft suburban mansion on the outskirts of Earlysville, she confiscated their car keys, put them in a bucket, barricaded the drive with her Hummer and told them to have a good time.
They were all expecting to have a sleep over and, since Elisa knew most of the kids because she had taught them at school, she did not think it was necessary to warn their parents that beer would be consumed.
The kids were 12 to 18 years old and she and her husband decided to serve them alcohol and never consulted the parents. I'm sorry, this is premeditated drugging of someone else's children. My Daughter is 13, and I can assure you that, firstly, she'd never be at a sleepover party with 30 kids at someone's house, and, secondly, if she was at such a party and I found out that the parents had planned it so the kids could drink...well, in that case then I might be the one looking at jail time right now.
There is no excuse for this, and she is being properly punished.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 10:47 AM | Comments (3)
So. The Money Grubbing Piece o' Shit
...won out after all.
Ruth Graham, the ailing wife of evangelist Billy Graham, fell into a coma Wednesday morning and appears to be close to death, a family spokesman said."She appears to be entering the final stages of life," said Larry Ross, Graham's personal spokesman.
The news came the same day Billy Graham said he and Ruth will be buried at the recently dedicated Billy Graham Library in Charlotte.
If you'll remember, we covered this last December. Ruth was pretty specific.
...Ruth Graham has told her children that she doesn't want to be buried in Charlotte. She has a burial spot picked out in the mountains where she raised five children, and she hopes her husband will join her there.Ned Graham has been working to convince his three sisters, Gigi, Bunny and Anne, that their mother's wishes should be followed.
Well, she's 'entering the final stages of life', so what does she know? And old Billy is in no shape to battle the financial Franklin forces:
... Graham, who is 88 and suffers from fluid on the brain, prostate cancer, Parkinson's disease and age-related macular degeneration, responded by saying the decision would be his and his wife's alone.
They make me sick.
UPDATE: Bless her sweet, sweet heart ~ she's gone.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:52 AM | Comments (1)
So Beautiful It Makes Me
...cry.
Happy Flag Day.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:32 AM | Comments (1)
Just What We Want Near The Panama Canal
Hugo's buying some Russian subs
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expected to finalise a deal on buying up to nine Russian submarines during a visit here later this month, a Russian newspaper reported on Thursday.Caracas has already ordered five 636-type diesel submarines and four of a new model of diesel submarine, the 677E Amur, the Kommersant broadsheet said, quoting unnamed sources in the ship-building and arms export sectors.
Chavez may have to settle for the older 636 submarines for the time being as the new 677E Amur has not yet been presented to Russia's own navy, a source at the arms export agency Rosoboronexport said.
The 636 ain't no slouch.
Type 636 is designed for anti-submarine (ASW) and anti-surface ship (ASuW) warfare and also for general reconnaissance and patrol missions. The Type 636 submarine is considered to be to be one of the quietest diesel submarines in the world. It is said to be capable of detecting an enemy submarine at a range three to four times greater than it can be detected itself.
Think of these every time you fill up at Citgo. Or Lukoil.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 09:25 AM | Comments (2)
Hello Hamas, Goodbye Fatah
The RoPs are shooting
Captives in Gaza
"We are telling our people that the past era has ended and will not return, " Islam Shahawan, a spokesman for Hamas' militia, told Hamas radio. "The era of justice and Islamic rule have arrived."
And "justice and Islamic rule" means
Hamas fighters overran one of the rival Fatah movement's most important security installations in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, and witnesses said the victors dragged vanquished gunmen from the building and killed them in the street....A witness, Jihad Abu Ayad, said the men were being killed in front of their wives and children.
"They are executing them one by one," Abu Ayad said. "They are carrying one of them on their shoulders, putting him on a sand dune, turning him around and shooting."
Nice. But it's all the Jooo's fault, remember.
And Chimpy's, natch.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:37 AM
June 13, 2007
Ninety Grand in Every Freezer
...and two chickens in every pot!
Supporters of a Democratic congressman charged with bribery and money laundering harkened to their civil rights days on Wednesday as they denounced the allegations against U.S. Rep. William Jefferson.The group, including ministers and the president of the local chapter of the NAACP, alleged the 16-count corruption indictment was the work of a Republican White House and Justice Department scheming to target black Democratic leaders and shift attention from legal troubles of Republican congressmen.
"When it's all over, Bill Jefferson will stand up like Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. He will stand up in the South and he will be victorious," said the Rev. Samson "Skip" Alexander.
I'm getting my Ouigi Board warmed up now, because something tells me old Booker T. gonna have sumpthin' to say just as soon's he stops spinning.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 09:54 PM | Comments (5)
Now Open! The Nifong School of Justice
Larry Peterson fought for more than 17 years to overturn his conviction on charges of rape and murder. DNA testing led a judge to do just that, in 2005....after DNA testing of the physical evidence used at trial revealed no trace of Peterson.
...But in April 2006, Robert Elder, a key witness for the prosecution, dropped a bombshell: He recanted his testimony.
Elder was a chronic drunk and drug abuser and had spent years in and out of county jail. He said that he made up the story that he told police in 1987 — that Peterson confessed to Harrison's murder — to get out of an interrogation that had lasted for three days.
...Without Elder's key testimony, the state's case was finished. In June 2006, nine months after Peterson's release from prison, Burlington County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi issued a statement that he would no longer seek to retry Peterson.
But he framed his decision in the negative: There was not enough evidence to persuade a jury beyond a reasonable doubt, leaving the question of Peterson's factual guilt open to argument.
What physical evidence they have completely exonerates him. Anecdotal evidence has been recanted. No other evidence connects the man to the crime.
Mr. Peterson is looking for compensation, not surprisingly. "No one wants to hire a man who has been in prison for so long." Snapped up in the prime of his life, his earning years are behind him.
...Buckman is moving to have Peterson's record expunged. He is also filing two lawsuits: one for damages under federal civil-rights law and another under the New Jersey law that compensates people who can prove in court, by "clear and convincing evidence," that they were wrongly convicted and incarcerated.
He has to PROVE his innocence, even though the evidence that proved his guilt has been disproved and discredited. Is NO evidence 'clear and convincing' evidence? Where do you go from there?
Statements from the victim's family should sound vaguely familiar to those who followed the Nifong rampage.
...Despite the DNA results and Elder's recantation, she still believes Peterson raped and murdered her sister."If I had my way, Mr. Peterson would be dead," Harrison says. "At minimum, he would be still in Trenton State [Prison]."
And justice for all.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 06:13 PM | Comments (2)
Given the U.S. Open Starts at Oakmont Tomorrow
...AND given the course's devious, crippling, water hazard free layout...
Golfers would do well to stock up before reaching No. 8 at this week's U.S. Open. Grab some water, a few bananas, maybe an energy bar..Better yet, hire a Sherpa
...coupled with the club's logo...
...one might be tempted to say this is an omen....
Angry Squirrel Finished Off by CrutchAn unusually aggressive squirrel attacked three people in a German town before its last victim finished it off with a crutch, police said Wednesday.
...if one believed in that sort of thing.
Mynd you møøse skvirl bites kan be pretti nasti.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 05:10 PM | Comments (2)
The Best Line of Last Evening's World News Tonight
...went to Charlie Gibson, hands down. In the lead-in for this story...
D.C. law judge broke down in tears and had to take a break from his testimony because he became too emotional while questioning himself about his experience with a missing pair of pants.
...(a $54 MILLION dollar pair of pants), he explained the lost pants and that the dry cleaners eventually found the pants, offering them plus $12,000 to this emotional, pantless person to settle things. But all for naught, Charlie intoned, as said plaintiff was still intent on...
"...pressing his suit."
major dad groaned audibly. Huzzah, Charlie!
Posted by tree hugging sister at 04:50 PM | Comments (13)
Human Rights Abuses and WAR CRIMES?
Get the F*CK out!
'Palestinians committing war crimes'Armed Palestinian groups have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, in some cases amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday morning.
...On Sunday, Hamas military forces captured 28-year-old Muhammad Swairki, a cook for President Mahmoud Abbas's presidential guard, and executed him by throwing him to his death, with his hands and legs tied, from a 15-story apartment building in Gaza City.
Only in that particular TWSH*, would the call to action be: "Anybody moves, the cook gets it!"
Maybe HRW does now, too.
Nah.
*Third World Shit Hole
Posted by tree hugging sister at 12:25 PM | Comments (3)
Boom, Boom!
An explosion, apparently from a bomb-rigged car, rocked Beirut's seafront Wednesday, killing an anti-Syrian lawmaker and three others, local media reported. The lawmaker, Walid Eido, was the seventh opponent of Damascus to be killed in two years in this conflict-ridden country.Eido's son and two bodyguards were also killed in the explosion, according to Future TV, a station allied with anti-Syrian figures. Security officials had reported that the explosion killed four people and wounded 10 others.
A car was in flames and black smoke was seen rising from a narrow street off the main waterfront in Manara, which is in the Muslim sector of the capital. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. TV station said the explosion came from a bomb-rigged car, a method that has been used to assassinate opponents of Syria over the past two years.
"Look! Nuthin' up my sleeve!"
Posted by tree hugging sister at 12:18 PM | Comments (1)
First Pimp and Now Sugar Daddies
If you haven't read this yet, schmaybe you should. It's not anything we didn't suspect already, but dang if it isn't laid out pretty as a picture.
Who Are CAIR's Paymasters?Recent tax filings reveal an Islamist group that claims to speak for millions of Muslims in America actually boasts just 1,700 members. So whose interests does it really represent?
...Citing IRS records, the Washington Times reports that CAIR has suffered a whopping 90% decline in membership since 9/11. Its official number of members shrank to 1,700 last year from 29,000 in 2000. As a result, CAIR's annual income from dues sank to $59,000 from $733,000.
Yet over the same period, CAIR's revenues have bounded ahead, reaching $3 million last year. Meanwhile, it has managed to open 25 new chapters in major cities across the country.
So where's it getting its money?
Maybe where Bullwinkle gets his rabbit.
A Swill salute to the the Blogfaddah.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:27 AM | Comments (2)
June 12, 2007
Now, Back to (Pimp) Daddies Who Love Their Little
...girls.
...Page Six has learned that the celebutard's [Paris] doting daddy, Rick Hilton, was recently shopping a "Get Out of Jail" bash for his little girl to the top Las Vegas clubs, including Pure, the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and the Palms."He was originally asking for a $50,000 cash fee to be paid, as well as accommodations and flights," said our source. "Pure and Hard Rock said 'no' flat out, but George Maloof, who owns the Palms, didn't say yes or no. He's very good pals with Paris and is the one who once hooked her up with Britney Spears."
But following last week's Paris pingpong match - in which the L.A. Sheriff's Dept. sprung her from the slammer because of a "medical condition," only to have a judge order her back inside - Rick's big party-push has been put on hold. Still, insiders say they're positive an out-of-the-slammer soiree remains in the works and will be even more expensive than Rick originally had in mind. "Her cost has gone up," said our informer.
Oh, you GO, Dad!
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How
...inconvenient.
(Oh, God, beat me with a wet noodle. That was soo easy cheezey to do, it's ashamed I should be.)
Study: Kilimanjaro's shrinking snow not sign of warming
The snows of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania have been diminishing for more than a century but probably not due to global warming, researchers report.While the retreat of glaciers and mountaintop ice in the mid-latitudes -- where much of the world's human population lives -- is definitely linked to global climate change, the same cannot be said of Kilimanjaro, the researchers wrote in the July-August edition of American Scientist magazine.
...Most of the retreat occurred before 1953, nearly two decades before any conclusive evidence of atmospheric warming was available, they wrote.
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June 11, 2007
Commonsense Reigns Supreme
But color me shocked. (We are talking Londonistan.)
Father in 'honor killing' found guilty of murder
Brit ordered his daughter strangled for falling in love with wrong manA father who ordered his daughter brutally slain for falling in love with the wrong man in a so-called “honor killing” was found guilty of murder on Monday.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was strangled with a boot lace, stuffed into a suitcase and buried in a back garden.
Her death is the latest in an increasing trend of such killings in Britain, home to some 1.8 million Muslims. More than 100 homicides are under investigation as potential “honor killings.”
Newsflash, scumbag: you're not in
It's a shame your beautiful, beautiful daughter didn't stand a chance.
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"Missile Is Launched By An Enemy Of The US"
Because, as everyone at the BBC knows, Europeasers have no enemies, and so this defense system does nothing for Europe.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 09:31 AM
Nope, No Civil War Here
Just standard "Peaceful People Oppressed By Those Zionists" hijinks
GAZA CITY (AP) -- Rival Palestinian forces clashed in Gaza on Sunday, killing two militants by throwing them out of high-rise buildings.Hamas militants kidnapped an officer in a Fatah-linked security force, took him to the roof of a 15-story apartment building and threw him off. Mohammed Sweirki, 25, from the Presidential Guard of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, was killed in the plunge.
That set off skirmishes through the city, including gun battles and shelling. Fatah militants surrounded the house of a Hamas mosque preacher and fired rocket-propelled grenades at the four-story building.
They then entered, shooting at preacher Mohammed al-Rifati, 40, and taking him away. Later, his body was brought to a hospital. Hamas pledged revenge.
Just before midnight, a Hamas activist was thrown off the 12th floor of a building and killed, security officials said. Four other Hamas men in the building were shot and wounded, bringing the day's toll to three dead and 36 wounded, medical officials said. Also, a Hamas militant wounded on Friday died Sunday.
The "militant toss." Look for it in next years Pan-Arab Games.
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Some Required Reading
Robert Spencer is Blogging the Koran at HotAir.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:42 AM
Sometimes Headline Editors Need To Look Around
...and see what other headlines are on the front page. Case in point: NewsRadio 88's (CBS 880 AM) homepage right now, which has a story titled "Black Tie Boxing Coming to Wall Street" right above a story titled "Young Women Take Action Against Abusive Relationships"...
Hehehe.
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June 10, 2007
It As If Millions of Voices Suddenly Cried Out in Terror
...and were suddenly silenced.
Until they suddenly showed up on millions of boards, bitching about the Sopranos series finale. Snap to black.
I loved it.
major dad is bitching.
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You Gotta LOVE a Religion Where EVERYBODY
...gets VIRGINS!! The New York Times thoughtfully prints a few jihadi rules. Of course, not without the obligatory whacko-scary moment while interviewing these scary whackos.
We were in a small house in Zarqa, Jordan, trying to interview two heavily bearded Islamic militants about their distribution of recruitment videos when one of us asked one too many questions.“He’s American?” one of the militants growled. “Let’s kidnap and kill him.”
Now, back to those rules! Rule number two?
...Rule No. 2: You can kill children, too, without needing to feel distress....True, Islamic texts say it is unlawful to kill children, women, the old and the infirm. In the Sahih Bukhari, a respected collection of sermons and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, verse 4:52:257 refers to Ghazawat, a battle in which Muhammad took part. “Narrated Abdullah: During some of the Ghazawat of the Prophet a woman was found killed. Allah’s Apostle disapproved the killing of women and children.”
But militant Islamists including extremists in Jordan who embrace Al Qaeda’s ideology teach recruits that children receive special consideration in death. They are not held accountable for any sins until puberty, and if they are killed in a jihad operation they will go straight to heaven. There, they will instantly age to their late 20s, and enjoy the same access to virgins* and other benefits as martyrs receive.
* I have played 'Ask the Iman' with make-believe mullah major dad, who explains:
"Those worthless female catmeats who are gloriously blown to bits for Islam are immediately transformed into succulent, 20 year old virgins! Allah akBAR, baby!!!"
From this:
...to this...
...just like that! NOW we're talkin' MIRACLES.
(Print version here)
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June 08, 2007
I Know God Will Punish Me
...but, sweet baby Jesus, this headline on Drudge is just tickling me to death.
Screaming Paris Hilton Sent Back to Jail...
I can't stop snickering.
And that's so wrong.
BUT I CAN'T MAKE IT STOPPPPPP!!!!!
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There's a Special Place in Hell For Dogfighters
...but what REALLY frosts my hide is sh*t like this...
...“What is foreign to me is the federal government getting into a dogfighting case,” Poindexter said. “I know it’s been done, but what’s driving this? Is it this boy’s celebrity? Would they have done this if it wasn’t Michael Vick?”
This particular squandered talent, multimillionaire 'boy' is 27 years old. When does that magic 'man-flip' happen now-a-days?
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June 07, 2007
That Would Be Young AMERICAN Muslims
...Muqtedar Khan, an assistant professor of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware, said it’s important to consider how the question was framed: whether suicide bombing could be justified “in defense of Islam,” a powerful phrase for a community that believes the West is waging a war against Islam.“When you ask people these questions, people are not just answering, they’re answering to suit their politics,” Khan said. “They do not want to extend any legitimacy to the U.S. war on terror.”
...he's talking about. They just need to explain what is rational about three suicide jetliners or a suicidal Ryder truck bomb in the basement or(fill in the blanks). How your religion trumping your citizenship goes hand-in-hand with being AMERICAN. Maybe it goes with being the citizen of some sh*thole, third world, misogynist cave society. Or a Somali cab driver in Minnesota. But it sure as HELL doesn't go with AMERICAN. (I also notice no Catholics were polled: "Can suicide bombing ever be justified in defense of fish on Friday?" Nor were evangelicals: "Can suicide bombing ever be justified in defense of Jesus when he fights with Santa on South Park?" No one would DARE ask those questions.)
On a lighter note, as of late April, New York City is forging ahead with it's first state sponsored madrassa. Yes, you heard me right ~ an Arabic speaking public school, which will help reinforce the all-American ideals of...well..being AMERICAN before being...um...anything else. It will, right?
Come September, an Arabic-language public secondary school is slated to open its doors in Brooklyn. The New York City Department of Education says the Khalil Gibran International Academy, serving grades six through 12, will boast a "multicultural curriculum and intensive Arabic language instruction."...Franck Salameh taught Arabic at the most prestigious American language school, Middlebury College in Vermont. In a column for the Middle East Quarterly, he wrote: "even as students leave Middlebury with better Arabic, they also leave indoctrinated with a tendentious Arab nationalist reading of Middle Eastern history. Permeating lectures and carefully-designed grammatical drills, Middlebury instructors push the idea that Arab identity trumps local identities and that respect for minority ethnic and sectarian communities betrays Arabism."
And dang if the new principal of this school isn't out testifying that Muslims distrust the AMERICAN legal system!
Many New York Muslims are deeply distrustful of the American legal system, three local Muslim leaders said at a panel discussion yesterday in Brooklyn.During the hour-long event, sponsored jointly by the Kings County Courts Community Outreach Program and the Interfaith Center of New York, the panelists said Muslims here, fearing government and press scrutiny, frequently fail to report domestic abuse and hate crimes.
"This is a serious issue based on a lack of trust and fear that exists in the community," a Yemen-born public schools educator, Debbie Almontaser, told several dozen judges who attended the discussion.
Ms. Almontaser, who has been named principal of the city 's planned English-Arabic secondary school, the Khalil Gibran International Academy in Brooklyn, said she participated in the panel as a Muslim American, not as a representative of the Department of Education.
Well, when Paris Hilton gets to go home after only 3 days in the cooler, I think we all distrust it to a certain extent. But I'm still not gonna vote in a poll that suicide bombing is justified in defense of the heiress, no matter what her mother or US Weekly says is cruel and unusual.
How does your religion trumping your citizenship goes hand-in-hand with being AMERICAN? 'A lack of trust and fear that exists in the community' ~ oh, yeah it does ~ because Islamics feel I'm inferior in my own country and seem willing to overlook the occasional bomb burst defensive Muslims set off when they're feeling...defensive. What will be the question on the lips of all those elitest, leftoid parents who send their children off to serve in The Silky Pony's Army of AMERICAN Love...?
Senator Edwards is outlining a new national security strategy that hinges on the creation of a 10,000-person civilian peace corps to stem the tide of terrorism in weak and unstable countries.Mr. Edwards's plan, which he presented in Manhattan yesterday, comes less than a week after he called President Bush's war on terror a "bumper sticker slogan" and said the current national security strategy has not made America safer.
You know ~ when they wind up getting snatched up off those same unstable, weak, third world sh*thole streets like the hot light's on at the Krispy Kreme and sawed off heads're rolling like so many donut holes on a conveyor that YouTube seizes? Do you wave your cancelled check to the Khalil School building fund in outrage?
Nah. I'm dreaming. It won't be Al Franken's kid The Silky Pony's Army of AMERICAN Love left unprotected in Khartoum. Or any of the Jolie-Pitt's. Not the ones who send money enabling others to do the WORK of their 'causes' for them. You could call the concept the 'conscience offset system'...if they had one. It'll be the same kids from the same families that are serving and dying now ~ the ones who believe in something.
And what happens when the guy in the video holding the head turns out to have graduated from a NYC public madrassa?
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This Was Kind of a Surprise
...in Cindy Adams' column today.
. . . Claus von Bulow, of that famous attempted murder trial (wife Sunny still lies comatose a quarter of a century later), battling prostate cancer . . .
I thought she'd left this world long ago.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 05:12 PM
June 06, 2007
There's a Couple More Magnificent Military Moments
...associated with this day in June. The Japanese were buggering out of Midway...and then there was this guy. At Belleau Wood. In 1918. Who had something to say.
War Correspondent Roy Floyd Gibbons lay surrounded by the dead, pinned down and terrified. At this critical point, one of the Old Breed Leathernecks leapt to his feet with a curse. Double Medal of Honor awardee from the Boxer Rebellion and Haiti, Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly swept by. The sergeant, Gibbons reported in his dispatch, swung his bayoneted rifle over his head with a forward sweep, yelling at his men"Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?"With a roar the survivors in the wheat surged forward and overran the first line of German machine guns in the woods.*
*From "A Fellowship of Valor", Col. Joseph Alexander, USMC, Ret.
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I Take Back Everything Mean I've Ever Said
...about the Dutch
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Reuters) -- Dutch students have invented powdered alcohol which they say can be sold legally to minors.The latest innovation in inebriation, called Booz2Go, is available in 20-gram packets that cost €1-1.5 ($1.35-$2).
Top it up with water and you have a bubbly, lime-colored and -flavored drink with just 3 percent alcohol content.
"We are aiming for the youth market. They are really more into it because you can compare it with Bacardi-mixed drinks," 20-year-old Harm van Elderen told Reuters.
Van Elderen and four classmates at Helicon Vocational Institute, about an hour's drive from Amsterdam, came up with the idea as part of their final-year project.
They should get the Nobel Prize for this.
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June 6th, 1944
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Speaking Of China
Someone is going to have an interesting meeting with their boss...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A young clerk with no knowledge of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown allowed a tribute to victims slip into the classified ads page of a newspaper in southwest China, a Hong Kong daily reported on Wednesday.The tiny ad in the lower right corner of page 14 of the Chengdu Evening News on Monday night, read: "Paying tribute to the strong(-willed) mothers of June 4 victims".
An investigation was launched by Chinese authorities to find out how the advertisement slipped its way past censors.
Public discussion of the massacre is still taboo in Beijing and the government has rejected calls to overturn the verdict that the student-led demonstrations were "counter-revolutionary", or subversive. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed when the army crushed the pro-democracy protests on June 4, 1989.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post said a young woman on the Chengdu Evening News classified section had allowed the ad to be published because she'd never heard of the June 4 crackdown.
The truth is like water; it will always eventually slip through your fingers and get out no matter how hard you may grasp.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 07:26 AM
June 05, 2007
Just Not Sexy Enough, Eh?
Honda will discontinue the hybrid version of its Accord sedans, the company said Tuesday, ceding Toyota’s dominance of the market with its Prius hybrid.I'm still waiting for the day when those 730,000 odd battery packs start to sh*t the bed. Question A would be: Where they all gonna go? Question B would have to be: What's it gonna cost me to replace this mother?
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June 04, 2007
Gracious!
Was it really eighteen years ago?
Our thanks to the Gateway Pundit.
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There Are Silly Logos
And then there are times when the entire marketing department should be shot
I'm guessing Hugh Grant was somehow involved with this.
The "Have Your Say"comments on the BBC are pretty entertaining.
Update: My Bride informs me that I should warn folks that the images below the fold may not be work safe.
Someone is already having a lot of fun:
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Signs of Global Warming: Shrinking Water Resources
...for a desperately overheated world.
On the otherhand, us folks here in Bangla-cola would love to thank
The Tiny Scientists...
...who have kept our temperatures well below normal, in spite of what your lying eyes tell you the Labradork's piteous state represents.
Normally by this time of year, these zinnias and nasturtiums would have worn off their flame-retardancy and been a scorched shell of their former glory. As you can see by the pics I got about an hour ago, they're lookin' pretty perky.
Posted by tree hugging sister at 10:51 AM | Comments (5)
Is It Any Wonder
...that we have NO CLUE what these Presbyterians are talking about? This is written in "ENGLISH" on one of their happy fatwah/catmeat boards, but...honestly here, Shriners. WTF?
"...or fulfilling his dua of jihad as fard ayn..."
They're debating the merits of the twelve year old who sawed off some poor unfortunate's head. No one is doing the Eddie Izzard part : "Ooooh, bad! Very unsocial behaviour! Saw, saw, hack, hack ~ no cake or death! Or jam!" No one is condemning this as something, God forbid, uncivilized, and wholly inappropriate for twelve year olds to even have KNOWLEDGE of, less mind actually COMMIT the atrocity with film at eleven. These creatures whom with we share a planet are critiquing the act like a presidential candidate might examine his fuzzy navel, vice condemning the culture that makes such an act possible. Vice condemning such a gruesome and inhumane, cowardly and despicable act itself. These Islamic fucking loons are awarding virtual style points instead of wondering what sort of life they're condemning their children to. They're more worried about the video 'spin' than the head bouncing across the floor and the monster they just created. Like he's ever going to worry if his mother is beaten to death or his sister raped and stoned to protect the family honor from this point on?
Or worry when the faction that supported the pater familia switches sides, and the cheering goons in black clan gear need to be taken out. Talk about your Mickey Mouse operation...
UPDATE: In the comments, Mike says "We can't kill enough of these people."
Militants to release video of GIs' capture in Iraq
Web site says video clips will show seizure of 3 Americans in mid-MayAn Islamic militant Web site said Monday it would soon release video clips showing the capture of three American soldiers who disappeared following an ambush in Iraq in mid-May. The body of one soldier was later found, but the other two remain missing.
The video shows the kidnapping as well as footage from after the attack, according to the Washington-based SITE Institute, which said it had obtained the 10-minute, 41-second clip.
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June 03, 2007
Apparently, Word of the Body Count Dispute
They call this a consensus?...Today, Al Gore is making the same claims of a scientific consensus, as do the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and hundreds of government agencies and environmental groups around the world. But the claims of a scientific consensus remain unsubstantiated. They have only become louder and more frequent.
...What of the one claim that we hear over and over again, that 2,000 or 2,500 of the world's top scientists endorse the IPCC position? I asked the IPCC for their names, to gauge their views. "The 2,500 or so scientists you are referring to are reviewers from countries all over the world," the IPCC Secretariat responded. "The list with their names and contacts will be attached to future IPCC publications, which will hopefully be on-line in the second half of 2007."
...hasn't made it to ABC News. It seemed poetic that the article excerpted above made it's Drudge front page debut the morning after I heard the sly line quoted below. It was tucked into a World News Tonight report on the NASA ignorance/arrogance contretemps.
"...There are still a tiny number of scientists who agree with Griffin that humanity doesn't necessarily have to do anything about a warming climate. Most scientists, however, strongly disagree." ~ Bill Blakemore/ABCNews
I love the tone. "'TINY' numbers of arrogant ignorants out there in the wilderness, skulking in cool caves, still questioning, still pooh-poohing. They're crazy people who say the damndest things, but it makes us feel vastly superior. No wonder the cavemen are getting their own series ~ we love to indulge neanderthals." (major dad loves the chart Blakemore uses at the end of the piece to put paid to those tiny scientists' evil and ignorant pretensions.)(Oh, wait. Not tiny scientists ~ my bad. I meant 'TINY groups of scientists with tiny brains'.)
But then, along about Saturday afternoon, we were watching the Travel Channel and we suffered an environmental epiphany. The both of us. The answer to the CO2 emission/green house gas reduction is simple, but painful...painful.
Stop brewing beer and wine.
Fermentation: Conversion of sugars into ethyl alcohol and carbon dioxide, through the action of yeast.
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June 02, 2007
Ummm...
Duh.
Empowering Arab women would help prevent increased radicalism within Muslim society in Israel and the Middle East, according to Ephraim Halevy, a former head of the Mossad and the National Security Council."If women are truly empowered in politics and society and are thus allowed to become a major social force in the work place and within the family, the direction of the future of the Middle East will be much different than it is today," said Halevy...
Of course, since it's so much more exciting with the cat meat crazies running things...
A radical Islamic group in the Gaza Strip issued over the weekend a death threat against Palestinian women working for the official Palestinian Authority television station, accusing them of dressing immodestly and behaving in a way that violates the teachings of Islam.The threat, the first of its kind against female employees of Palestine TV, was made by the Righteous Swords of Islam, a relatively new group that is believed to have links with al-Qaida.
...probably a normal, civilized world would be downright pedestrian. No more made-up, secret jihadi du jour clubs, with their goof ass names: "Swinging Sacred Swords of Shannara", "The Prophet's Purveyors of Sword Fish and Cat Meat Comestibles", or even "Dull Wilkinson Swords for Islam" for that matter.
Be a damn shame to lose all that.
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More Presbyterian Menace
I'll have to ask my pastor about this
NEW YORK -- As first reported by NewsChannel4's Jonathan Dienst, three people were arrested and one other was being sought Saturday in connection to a plot to blow up jet-fuel lines at John F. Kennedy International Airport, officials said.Four people have been charged. Three suspects are in custody: Russell Defreitas, Kareem Ibrihim and Abdul Kadir. Another suspect, Abdul Nur is still at large.
Oh wait, they do mention a minor piece of trivia
Defreitas is a U.S. citizen with roots in Guyana.Kadir, a former member of Parliament in Guyana, was arrested in Trinidad for attempting to secure money for "terrorist operations," according to a Guyanese police commander who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Kadir, a Muslim, left his position in Parliament last year. Muslims make up about 9 percent of the former Dutch and British colony's 770,000 population, mostly from the Sunni sect.
Not that it has any relevance to the plot, mind you.
Update: As always, Tim Blair can sniff out these Knoxites from thousands of miles away!
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June 01, 2007
It Takes A Viledge
Posted by Mr. Bingley at 11:39 AM | Comments (9)
Hey, It's Aladdin!
Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place
Where the caravan camels roam
Where they cut off your ear
If they don't like your face
It's barbaric, but hey, it's home
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