Mar 31 2009
Computer bliss
Long live my hero, Scott Adams.
Mar 29 2009
Mark Levin’s latest, ‘Liberty and Tyranny’
A home run, belted out of the park by Mark Levin, ‘Liberty and Tyranny’ is a clear and succinct statement of what it means to be a conservative in these perilous times when liberal whack jobs control the Presidency, House and Senate.
I bought my copy yesterday at Cosco for $14.29. It’s the leading best seller at Amazon.
Buy it. Read it. Send copies to your conservative friends. Read it to your illiterate liberal friends.
Mar 25 2009
Obama smash and grab….the perfect crime
Based on the brilliant Presidential campaign staged by Obama minions, they must have anticipated the current fallout that’s pushing Obama’s approval ratings down the drain.
President Pork’s people used the current economic crisis as a battering ram to smash down the country’s front door, and now they are in our house, grabbing everything they can steal before public opinion shifts enough to stop them.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A smash and grab raid or smash and grab attack (or simply a smash and grab) is a particular form of burglary.
The distinctive characteristic of a smash and grab, that distinguishes it from other forms of burglary, is its elements of speed and surprise.A smash and grab involves smashing a barrier, usually a display window in a shop or a showcase, grabbing valuables, and then making a quick getaway, without concern for setting off alarms or creating noise. A failed smash and grab raid is indistinguishable from simple vandalism, or malicious damage….
These calculating vultures have set themselves up a “no-lose” scenario. Whether or not the economy turns anytime soon, Democrats have already made a killing. If the economy turns before the 2012 election, they will parlay their win by taking the credit, setting us up for more of the same.
Mar 21 2009
Bonuses = bupkis
On Fox news today, Julie Banderas threw out to Twitterites the question, “Who’s to blame for the bonus fiasco? the government or the bailed out execs?
The question is better asked, “Who, in the first place, created the context in which these events could occur?”
Obviously Democrats are responsible. They are at the wheel. Their theatric self-righteous indignation over corporate bonuses is pure BS, a smokescreen to misdirect us from Democrats’ own incompetence, failure, and malfeasance, in a few cases (Freddy and Fanny), corruption.
The role of lawmakers in private business is first to monitor corporations for compliance with the law. Government is to oversee big business and give warning so that violations or mistakes can be avoided or corrected.
When monitoring reveals big business has violated the law, it is Government’s job to intervene, stop illegal practices and bring corporations back into compliance. By doing this, Government establishes a bottom to unacceptable corporate behavior.
Rather, the Democrat congress facilitated and enabled the implosion of big business by lack of oversight and is now helping push the bottom even lower by these astronomical bailouts.
Corporate bonuses are “bupkis” (zero, nada, nothing) compared to the incomprehensible debt Obama and his minions are trying to shove down our throats. Come on, folks. Let’s get our eyes back on the ball, get Democrats out of private business, and do what we can now to stop them taking us over this economic cliff.
Mar 20 2009
Obama/Biden gaffes
Top 10 gaffes by Barack Obama and Joe Biden
By: Toby Harnden
Telegraph.co.ukPerhaps Barack Obama was just trying to make Joe Biden feel better by dropping his clanger on Jay Leno. Whatever the President was thinking, 60 days into their new administration it’s time for a post-election Obama-Biden Top 10….
See the videos at Telegraph.co.uk
Mar 15 2009
Yet another Obama corruption scandal simmering on the burner
Guess Barry can’t pick our pockets fast enough through the tax system. Big Al (Capone not Gore) would be proud of our Chicago boy President. LMM hasn’t reported much on this yet….huge surprise.
2 charged after search of DC tech office
WASHINGTON (AP) — A District of Columbia employee and a technology consultant have been hit with corruption charges after a raid on the former office of a city official who now works for President Barack Obama.
The charges were formalized in a federal court hearing as the FBI finished searching the city’s technology office, which was led until recently by Obama’s new computer chief, Vivek Kundra.
Ysuf Acar, a city technology worker, was ordered held without bond pending a hearing Tuesday. Prosecutors said $70,000 in cash was found during a search of Acar’s home….
More at Associated Press
Mar 15 2009
Obama Bucks
Thanks for the “change,” Mr. President.
US Dollar to Extend Losses as Risky Assets Correct Higher
Fundamental Outlook for US Dollar: Bearish
- US Dollar Index Breaks Key Support, Signals Losses Ahead
- Retail Sales Fell Less than Expected in February
- Chinese Premier Questions the Safety of US AssetsUS Dollar weakness is set to continue in the coming week as an upward correction in risky assets sends capital out of safe haven assets in search of yield. Last week, the US Dollar Index conclusively broke below a rising trend line that had guided prices higher since mid-December, opening the door for an extended pullback against the spectrum of major currencies. Indeed, the greenback’s average value against its major counterparts is now -93.7% inversely correlated with the MSCI World Stock Index. The Australian and New Zealand Dollars are likely to be the key beneficiaries once again as lucrative yields at 3.25% and 3.00% attract investors.
Jan 04 2009
Howdy, neighbor
My (always humble) opinion? Some people are naturally empowering just by who they are. Personally, I feel better about myself just listening to Sarah Palin and being one of her fans. Who wouldn’t want to live next door to someone like that.
Sarah Palin Beats Oprah Winfrey As Better Neighbour
You can’t choose your family and in some respects the same applies with your neighbours, so if you had the choice who would you choose? A survey commissioned by an online real estate website found that most would select Sarah Palin…
Go to HOMESGOFAST.com
Dec 27 2008
More repressed conservatism
Guess it’s only a hate crime worth reporting when a liberal’s church is burned.
December 19, 2008
Palin church burning - ‘hate crime’ virtually ignored?
By Jim Brown
A religion columnist and journalism professor says the mainstream media’s coverage of the fire that gutted Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s home church has been thin, but it’s hard to say exactly why it’s been underplayed.
Investigators say the fire that destroyed Wasilla Bible Church in Alaska on December 12 was likely the work of an arsonist, but the mainstream news media, with the exception of The Associated Press, has largely ignored the story….
Go to OneNewsNow
Dec 26 2008
“He was the nicest guy you could imagine.”
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. Unbelievable, even in this modern age of domestic terrorism.
December 26, 2008
Ninth body found at site of Santa-suit killings
By Christina Hoag
COVINA, Calif. (AP) - A ninth body was found Friday morning at the charred site of a Christmas Eve massacre where a recently divorced man dressed as Santa shot indiscriminately at partygoers and destroyed his former in-laws’ house with a homemade blowtorch.
The attacker, Bruce Pardo, reached a Dec. 18 settlement with his ex-wife, who along with her parents was believed to be among the dead. His lawyer and a fellow church usher were among those who said they had never seen anything to indicate he was capable of such a brutal crime….
Go to Associated Press
Dec 25 2008
Merry Christmas
God bless us everyone.
December 25, 2008
Pope decries selfishness in economic crisis
By Frances D’Emilio
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Benedict XVI in his Christmas message Thursday warned that the world was headed toward ruin if selfishness prevails over solidarity during tough economic times for both rich and poor nations.
Speaking from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on the day Christians commemorate Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem, Benedict declared that the “heart of the Christian message is meant for all men and women….”
Go to Associated Press
Dec 22 2008
Obama’s wooden horse
Beware of liberals bearing gifts. Inside bailout programs is hidden a clandestine agenda to throw open America’s gates to sweeping socialism. I guess we won’t know how similar the liberal agenda really is to that of the Nazis until we have our own staged event like Hitler’s Reichstag fire that he used to suspend freedoms in Germany, in furtherance of his goal of complete control of the country by a legally established dictatorship.
December 22, 2008
Archbishop warns of dangers of economic dogma
LONDON (AFP) — Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams warned Monday that governments should not pursue dogmatic solutions to the financial crisis at the risk of the most vulnerable, saying that is what the Nazis did.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph newspaper, he said Hitler’s movement was based on a system of principles that “worked quite consistently once you accepted that quite a lot of people that you might have thought mattered as human beings actually didn’t”.
Williams, the most senior cleric in the Church of England, said that in the current climate, “what looked like a principled defence of some of our economic assumptions… seems more ragged and vulnerable than it once did”.
He questioned the human costs of measures to tackle the downturn.
“What about the unique concerns and crises of the pensioner whose savings have disappeared, the Woolworth’s (bankrupt store) employee, the hopeful young executive, let alone the helpless producer of goods in some Third-world environment where prices are determined thousands of miles away?” he asked.
Williams added: “How we all work is vastly complicated — no one is pretending it isn’t. But without these anxieties about the specific costs, we’ve lost the essential moral compass.”
Go to AFP
Dec 16 2008
National Debt
Not to worry. The Treasury printing presses are running day and night to cover the national debt. Except those presses are lubricated with the mashed up bodies of the nations old people and fixed-income retirees. Reminds me of the title of that WWII movie drama with the Duke and Robert Montgomery, “They Were Expendible.” What a wonderful feeling being irrelevant.
December 16, 2008
Uncle Sam Will Pay $450 Billion This Year Just to Cover Interest on National Debt
By Josiah Ryan, CNSNews Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) - A November Treasury Department report states that the interest payment on the federal debt for Fiscal Year 2009 will be about $450 billion, making it the fourth largest expense in the federal budget behind Medicare-Medicaid, Social Security and defense spending….
Go to CNSNews
Dec 16 2008
And the beat goes on
We’ll never be rid of the Clintons. They’ve found the political money machine, and they’ll never give it up.
Former US President Bill Clinton (L) and his daughter Chelsea Clinton listen to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) September 2008 in New York. Bill Clinton said he would back his wife Hillary if she became secretary of state but has even bigger political hopes for their daughter Chelsea, in an interview released Wednesday. (AFP/File/Stan Honda)
Go to Yahoo News
Dec 16 2008
Economic survival
I once heard the function of the human mind defined as survival of the person or whatever the person considers itself to be. Guess this is what happens when people believe they are their stuff.
December 16, 2008
Downturn Spurs “Survival Panic” for Some in the U.S.
(Reuters) A paralegal, recently laid off, wanted to get back at the “establishment” that he felt was to blame for his lost job. So when he craved an expensive new tie, he went out and stole one.The story, relayed by psychiatrist Timothy Fong at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, is an example of the rash behaviors exhibited by more Americans as a recession undermines a lifestyle built on spending.
In the coming months, mental health experts expect a rise in theft, depression, drug use, anxiety and even violence as consumers confront a harsh new reality and must live within diminished means….
Go to CNBC
Dec 16 2008
Tweet, tweet, tweet
The hunt goes on for the best Tweet updater….it’s becoming my life’s work.
Dec 16 2008
Paris bomb scare
Europe continues to pay the price for bowing to these scum.
French police probe suspicious package at Paris department store
* Story Highlights
* Bomb squad found the suspicious package around 11 a.m. (5 a.m. ET)
* Police: Could not confirm French TV reports that package contained dynamite
* Printemps is an upscale department store on the Boulevard Haussman
* NEW: Alert came after letter from group claiming links to AfghanistanGoto CNN.com/europe
Dec 15 2008
Hizbullah rejects meeting with Carter
Hizbullah seems a better judge of character than Hamas
Former US President Carter Meets Hamas, Again
by Maayana Miskin
“….Carter met with Hamas leaders shortly after being turned down for a meeting by Hizbullah officials. Carter said he was willing to meet Hizbullah, but the group’s leaders said they were not prepared to meet him….”
Go to Israel National News
Dec 15 2008
Jimmy Carter: the gift that keeps on giving
Jimmy Carter is not just a moron. He’s a world class moron.
CARTER MEETS HAMAS CHIEF IN DAMASCUS
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Former President Jimmy Carter has met with the exiled leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas for the second time this year.
Yesterday’s meeting in Damascus is part of Carter’s regional discussions on Middle East conflicts. Officials from the anti-Israel Hamas kept reporters away from the venue, and no news conference was scheduled.
Carter first met with the head of Hamas’ policy-making body, Khaled Mashaal, in April. That meeting drew sharp criticism from the Bush administration, which labels Hamas a terrorist group and contends such meetings give credibility to hard-line militants.
Carter said on Saturday that he intends to continue meeting with Hamas leaders because peace requires dialogue with all sides.
Go to New York Post
Dec 02 2008
Juan Angel Guerra
Indeed puzzling how this moron lost his bid for re-election.
December 02, 2008
Indictments against Cheney, Gonzales Dismissed
By Christopher Sherman, Associated Press
Raymondville, Texas (AP) - A judge dismissed indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday and told the southern Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution as his term in office ends.
Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra had accused Cheney and the other defendants of responsibility for prisoner abuse. The judge’s order ended two weeks of sometimes-bizarre court proceedings.
Guerra is leaving office at the end of the month after soundly losing in his March primary election……
Go to CNSNews
Dec 02 2008
Insanity
Albert Einstein defined “insanity” as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, as in assigning the solution to the people who caused the problem.
December 2, 2008
Auditors fault Treasury oversight of bailout funds
By Jim Kuhnhenn
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government must toughen its monitoring of the $700 billion financial bailout to ensure that banking institutions limit their top executives’ pay and comply with other restrictions, federal auditors said Tuesday in the first comprehensive review of the rescue package.
The Treasury Department has no mechanism in place to track how institutions are using $150 billion in taxpayer money that the government injected into the banking system as of last month, the Government Accountability Office concluded in its report to Congress……
Go to York Daily Record
And we expected, what?
Dec 02 2008
Face of rescession
Unhappy campers.
Sun Nov 30, 12:54 PM ET(L-R) UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, Chairman and CEO of General Motors Richard Wagoner and Chairman and CEO of Chrysler LLC Robert Nardelli wait to testify on November 19, 2008 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Chastened executives from the Big Three US carmakers will return to Washington this week in a bid to convince lawmakers that their companies are worth saving.
Go to Associated Press
Nov 30 2008
Freedom of the press
Not so bad I guess. The New York Times would have have given the terrorists the room numbers.
November 30, 2008
Couple Claims CNN Endangered Their Lives During Mumbai AttacksBy Noel Sheppard
NewsBustersA British couple caught in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, last week claimed Sunday that CNN endangered their lives by broadcasting their whereabouts.
According to the South Wales couple, the terrorists were monitoring CNN in order to locate westerners in the hotels under attack.
As reported by Wales Online (h/t TVNewser):
Lynne and Kenneth Shaw, of Penarth, warned that terrorists were listening in to the media to pinpoint Western victims.
Mrs Shaw claimed the American cable TV channel had broadcast details of where they were at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. [...]
From her home in Penarth yesterday, Mrs Shaw said: “We have been asked by the British terror police not to talk to the press.
“But the reason I would not want to talk to anyone is because our safety was actually compromised by CNN, which broadcast where we were……
Go to NewsBusters
Nov 28 2008
Beginning to feel a lot like Christmas
Black Friday?
Truly.
November 28, 2008
Wal-Mart Worker Trampled to Death by Stampeding Shoppers
By Colleen Long (AP)
(New York) - A worker was killed in the crush Friday after a throng of shoppers eager for post-Thanksgiving bargains burst through the doors at a suburban Wal-Mart, authorities said.
At least four other people were injured, and the store in Valley Stream on Long Island was closed.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Bentonville, Ark., called the incident a “tragic situation” and said the employee came from a temporary agency and was doing maintenance work at the store.
“He was bum-rushed by 200 people,” co-worker Jimmy Overby, 43, told the Daily News. “They took the doors off the hinges. He was trampled and killed in front of me. They took me down too. … I literally had to fight people off my back……”
Go to CNSNews
Nov 28 2008
God’s perfect freedom
It challenges my faith when good people like these die at the hands of evil, hate-filled, murdering scum. It is beyond anything I can understand, beyond any logical explanation, any forgiveness. There is only the choice to believe, in the absence of all evidence to the contrary, that God is.
God, grant me the humility to accept the things I cannot change.
November 28, 2008
Rabbi killed in Mumbai had gone to serve Jews
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Brooklyn-based rabbi and his wife who were killed in the siege on a Jewish center in Mumbai had gone to serve Jews living far from their roots, fearing only that he would not be able to help as many as possible.
Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife, Rivka Holtzberg, were among the five hostages killed at the center and more than 120 people dead in Mumbai after the attacks by Islamist militants on luxury hotels and other sites in India’s financial capital……
Go to Reuters
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November 28, 2008
US Jewish, meditation groups’ members die in India
By Adam Goldman (AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York rabbi and his wife were among the dead in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, slain in a Jewish center that they ran, the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch movement confirmed Friday.
Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, 29, and his wife, Rivkah, 28, died in the attack on the movement’s center in Mumbai, Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin said in New York.
The group said the three other victims in the building had apparently been visiting there. Shmotkin identified them as Bentzion Chroman, Leibish Teitlebaumat and an Israeli woman whose name was not released.
The Holtzbergs’ toddler son, Moshe, was rescued by an employee and taken to his grandparents.
Go to Associated Press
Nov 25 2008
Less than 6 months from crime to execution
Perhaps we could export our capital murder cases to China.
November 26, 2008
Accused police killer executed in China
SHANGHAI, Nov. 26 (UPI) — A 28-year-old man was executed by lethal injection in Shanghai after being convicted of killing six policemen in a stabbing spree at a police station.
The execution of Yang Jia, an unemployed resident of Beijing, was approved by China’s Supreme People’s Court, Xinhua reported Wednesday.
The report said in the incident July 1, Yang was accused of storming into a Shanghai police station where he allegedly began stabbing people. Six police officers died in the incident, while another four were injured, the report said.
Yang was sentenced to death on Sept. 1 and on appeal, the Shanghai Higher People’s Court upheld the sentence, the report said……
Go to UPI
Nov 24 2008
Aurevoir, lefty
Difficult economic times call for innovative meassures. Alan’s style is to ask guests a question, let them reply a half dozen words, then take over and answer his own question himself. So why not just cut out the quest? Alan can sit an talk to himself in a mirror. Good thinking, Fox.
November 24, 2008
One Half of ‘Hannity & Colmes’ Is Leaving
By Brian Stelter
Alan Colmes, the longtime liberal half of the Fox News Channel prime time program, will leave the show at the end of the year, the network announced Monday. His departure will represent a major change to Fox’s evening lineup.
Mr. Colmes will remain at the network as a commentator and will develop a possible weekend program. He will also continue to host his 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. radio show, “The Alan Colmes Show.”
“It’s been a great twelve years,” read the headline on Mr. Colmes’ Web site……
Go to NYTimes
Nov 23 2008
More good news for left wing liberal kooks
First President-elect Obama backs off on immediate troop withdrawl, now the President Bush’s tax cuts, as, thankfully, Mr. Obama pulls back from the left wing liberal abyss toward the center.
Obama Aides Signal a Boost in Stimulus Spending
By JACKIE CALMES and JEFF ZELENY
November 23, 2008WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama has signaled that he will pursue a far more ambitious plan of spending and tax cuts than anything he outlined on the campaign trail — a plan “big enough to deal with the huge problem we face,” a top adviser said Sunday — setting the tone for a recovery effort that could absorb and define much of his term.
A member of the Obama economic advisory team, William M. Daley, acknowledged that because of the gravity of the situation, Mr. Obama was leaning toward letting a Bush tax cut for the wealthy expire on schedule in 2011 rather than repealing it sooner……
Go to NY Times
Nov 22 2008
Love these happy endings
Excellent news article in London’s TimesOnline:
November 23, 2008
Hunt for Rashid Rauf that ended with hellfire
A British terror suspect was killed by US forces in Pakistan yesterday. MPs want to know: did they tell Britain first?At 10pm on Friday night the tribesmen in the villages of North Waziristan heard a sound they have learnt to fear. The hum of American reconnaissance planes high above the lawless tribal lands that span the Pakistan-Afghan border usually presages an imminent strike by Predator drones, targeting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters who shelter in their midst.
There have been more than 20 such attacks since August, but this time it appeared to be a false alarm. The locals were relieved when the sound faded at midnight.
Three hours later, however, they were woken by explosions in Khaisoor, as three Hellfire missiles from a Predator destroyed a mud-built bungalow in the village.
Inside, among the five people killed and six injured, were Rashid Rauf, the British militant alleged to have masterminded a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners in 2006, and two senior Al-Qaeda comrades, Abu Nasr Al-Misri and Abu Zubair Al-Masri, according to Pakistani intelligence sources……
Go to TimesOnline
Nov 22 2008
Parents demand money back?
Higher education in China appears about as practical as it is here.
Nov 22, 10:18 AM EST
Panda in China zoo bites student who wanted a hug
By AUDRA ANG
Associated Press WriterBEIJING (AP) — A college student in southern China was bitten by a panda after he broke into the bear’s enclosure hoping to get a hug, state media and a park employee said Saturday…..
Go to York Daily Record
Nov 22 2008
Oops!
This kind of thing that’s funny as long as it happens to someone else.
Nov 22, 2008
Nude pics in phone lost at McDonald’s get online
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Here’s some food for thought: If you have nude photos of your wife on your cell phone, hang onto it.
Phillip Sherman of Arkansas learned that lesson after he left his phone behind at a McDonald’s restaurant and the photos ended up online. Now he and his wife, Tina, are suing the McDonald’s Corp., the franchise owner and the store manager.
The suit was filed Friday and seeks a jury trial and $3 million in damages for suffering, embarrassment and the cost of having to move to a new home.
The suit says that Phillip Sherman left the phone the Fayetteville store in July and that employees promised to secure it until he returned.
Manager Aaron Brummley declined to comment, and other company officials didn’t return messages.
Go to York Daily Record
Nov 20 2008
Mother nature’s tough love
Mother Nature, pitiless bitch that she is, cares only about viability and ruthlessly vets species by competition. She doesn’t bail anybody out. The strong or innovative make the cut. The weak and the clueless don’t.
In the long run, this is the appropriate model for the American automobile industry as well. Mother knows best.
Nov 16 2008
Newsweek (liberal rag) Magazine
This 11/16/08 advertisement running on Newsweek’s website dispels any lingering pretense of professional objectivity. Aligned with The Washington Post and MSNBC, what do we expect?
Much more to come in the Golden Days of Liberalism that lie ahead.
Nov 15 2008
Welcome home, soldier
Army Base Teems With Babies as Stork Lands With Airborne
Jeremy M. Lange
The New York Times
Nov 15, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Joanne Chavonne saw pregnant women everywhere in town, shopping at Target for diapers or dining at a Mexican restaurant.
Then she heard that so many families were calling the medical clinic at nearby Fort Bragg for the results of pregnancy tests that the Army had to install an extra telephone line.
Go to New York Times
Nov 14 2008
Disconnect
Anybody want to buy a bridge?
Iran not interested in aggression
Nov. 13, 2008 at 8:10 PMTEHRAN, Nov. 13 (UPI) — Tehran is not pursuing a national policy of aggression, the Iranian president said Thursday, a day after Iran test-fired a missile capable of reaching Israel.
Nov 14 2008
Winning hearts and minds
If this is what the Muslim “scholars” have to say, I’d hate to hear what’s coming from the AMM (Association of Muslim Morons).
Muslim Scholars hail deaths of U.S. troops
Nov. 13, 2008 at 8:07 PMMOSUL, Iraq, Nov. 13 (UPI) — The influential Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq praised the actions of an Iraqi soldier who turned his weapon on American soldiers, killing at least two.
An Iraqi soldier on patrol with U.S. forces in the northern province of Ninawa opened fire on his American counterparts Wednesday following an altercation in Mosul. U.S. troops returned fire, killing the Iraqi.
The Sunni AMSI issued a statement on its Web site Thursday praising the “heroic” deed by the Iraqi soldier, which the group identified as Barzan Muhammad Abdullah.
AMSI said the American soldiers had violated the personal privacy of an Iraqi girl in public, prompting Abdullah to fire all of his ammunition at the U.S. troops.
Shariah, or Islamic law, places restrictions on the degree to which males and females may interact in public. The U.S. military has exercised caution when approaching women, leaving searches and other activity largely to female soldiers.
Nov 14 2008
Hidden murder
A few years ago, every third baby born in America was aborted. That statistic is now down to about one in five. Let’s hope that means Americans are becoming more conscious of the abortion issue and that traditional American compassion for “the least of these” is surging.
SC Catholic Priest Makes Firm Post-Election Doctrinal Statement on Abortion and Voting
By Tom Blumer
November 14, 2008 - 16:20 ETA priest at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in downtown Greenville has told parishioners that those who voted for Barack Obama placed themselves under divine judgment because of his stance on abortion and should not receive Holy Communion until they’ve done penance. The Rev. Jay Scott Newman told The Greenville News on Wednesday that church teaching doesn’t allow him to refuse Holy Communion to anyone based on political choices, but that he’ll continue to deliver the church’s strong teaching on the “intrinsic and grave evil of abortion” as a hidden form of murder.
Go to NewsBuster
Nov 14 2008
First IC Medal for Valor recipient a Marine
DNI names recipient of new valor award
Nov. 13, 2008 at 8:13 PM
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) — The first ever recipient of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence’s new Intelligence Community Medal for Valor award has been named.
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell announced that Marine Lance Cpl. James Swain will become the first recipient of the Intelligence Community Medal for Valor. The new award was established in October to recognize individuals in the intelligence community who have made a courageous contribution to U.S. national security.
Nov 12 2008
Why believe in a god?
Humanists Launch ‘Godless Holiday’ Ads
Wed, Nov 12, 2008
By Josiah Ryan, CNSNews Staff Writer
The American Humanist Association (AHA) announced the launch of a $40,000 “godless holiday” ad campaign in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday in which more than 200 placards will be placed in and on the city’s metro buses.
The ads ask commuters, “Why believe in a god?” and encourages them to “Just be good for goodness sake.”
Go to CNSNews
Nov 12 2008
Sign of the beast
You see these Illinois election day lottery results, Scully?
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11/05/2008 Evening Pick 3 6-6-6
11/05/2008 Evening Pick 4 7-7-7-9
11/05/2008 Little Lotto 20-22-27-31-32
11/05/2008 Lotto 07-08-14-22-25-33
11/05/2008 Midday Pick 3 7-7-9
11/05/2008 Midday Pick 4 5-7-6-2
This one is flushing the kooks out of the woodwork.
Nov 11 2008
Hamas claims ties to Obama
Undoubtedly American MSM will be right on top of this.
He said….
Hamas Claims Secret Relationship with Obama Aides
by Hana Levi Julian
IsraelNN.com
November 11, 2008 12:30 PMHamas is claiming close and ongoing ties with America’s upcoming Obama Administration, according to a report published Tuesday in the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat. The relationship was kept under wraps until after the U.S. elections so as not to harm Obama’s election prospects. The U.S. has classified Hamas a terrorist organization.
The London-based publication interviewed Gaza-based political chief Ahmad Yousuf, advisor to Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas regime in Gaza, which seized power in a bloody coup d’etat in 2007. Yousuf declared that Hamas has been in regular contact with President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers for months……
Go to Israel National News
She said…
Obama adviser denies Hamas meeting
By JPost.com STAFF
Nov 11, 2008 8:48 | Updated Nov 11, 2008 15:50The office of the President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday denied a report by Arab sources which claimed that a secret meeting was held between Hamas and Obama’s aides in the Gaza Strip prior to the US general elections.
“This assertion is just plain false,” Obama’s Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Denis McDonough told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday…..
Go to JPost
Nov 11 2008
It’s a fact
Science confirms women have been losing their earrings for 2,000 years. So it’s not just my wife.
2,000-year-old gold earring found in Jerusalem
By SHAWNA OHM
Associated Press Writer
Nov 10, 5:49 PM ESTJERUSALEM (AP) — A luxurious gold, pearl and emerald earring provides a new visual clue about the life of the elite in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago. And its discovery was a true eureka moment for excavators….
Go to Associated Press
Nov 11 2008
Obama admin breaths sigh of relief
At least one of the clowns is leaving the circus.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean will not seek second term
Nov 11, 12:14 AM ESTWASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean plans to step down from his post when his term expires in January, wrapping up a tenure in which the party heavily invested in all 50 states for a payoff that helped elect Barack Obama president.
Dean, who was briefly his party’s presidential front-runner in 2004, was elected DNC chairman in 2005 and has long vowed to serve only one, four-year term. At a postelection news conference in Washington last week, Dean indicated again that he didn’t plan to stay on, aides said on Monday.
President-elect Obama, a Democrat, was expected to choose Dean’s successor. Traditionally, the president selects the national chairman of his own party….
Go to Associated Press
Nov 11 2008
Crunch time in Iraq
Hard to imagine that Iraq’s Shiite Party will choose to side with the U.S. when the Obama administration is in power. Based on the left’s cut-and-run rhetoric over past months, Iraqis have to believe we will fold like a cheap suit if push comes shove with Iran. But everybody will like us.
Moment of truth for Shiite party over pact
By Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Associated Press Writers
Nov 11, 6:24 AM ESTBAGHDAD (AP) — The fate of an agreement that would keep U.S. troops here for three more years rests with Iraq’s largest Shiite party, which must choose between its two main partners: the United States and Iran.
Most lawmakers are waiting for that party, the Supreme Islamic Iraq Council, to take a position on the agreement, which parliament must approve by the end of the year. Only then will smaller groups, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s own Shiite party, commit to the deal or oppose it.
For the moment, all the parties are off the hook. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Monday that the government is still not satisfied and wants more talks on specifics.
But once both the Iraqi and American governments declare a draft final, it will be the moment of truth for the Supreme Council.
It will have to choose between the Shiite-dominated neighbor that nurtured it during Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominated regime and a superpower that helped it spearhead the Shiite rise to power after ousting the dictator in 2003….
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Nov 11 2008
I’m a McDonald’s senior coffee guy myself
Yuppies are bailing out in the crashing economy. Geronimo.,,,
Starbucks 4Q profit drops 97 pct on closure costs
By Lauren Shepherd
AP Business Writer
Nov 10, 6:37 PM ESTNEW YORK (AP) — Fewer U.S. customers and venti-sized costs for closing poorly performing stores led to lower sales and profit in the fourth quarter at Starbucks Corp., the company said Monday…
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Nov 10 2008
Piper Palin unscripted
Piper looks (and sounds) like a miniature of her mom in this video.
What a great kid.
Nov 10 2008
Campaignless cable news - basking in the silence
So who cares? All we want to hear from Chris Matthews is that he’s back on his meds.
What happens to cable news without a campaign?
Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:57:48 GMTChris Matthews refused to be drawn in to a debate last week when fellow MSNBC host Joe Scarborough talked on “Morning Joe” about whether President-elect Obama had fumbled the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as his White House chief of staff.
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