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There’s something quite good about coming,saying your bit and then going. I quite like that.-Joe Strummer
Now maybe PA can draw a normal looking district?!
Sorry that’s all I got.
I’m still having nightmares.
Many people probably can’t imagine the presence of Islamic extremism in Scandinavia,but alas it is there.
Predominantly found amongst its Somali immigrant population the nutters have taken control of whole communities. They are in the process of “recruiting” fighters for Al Shahabb the Somali terror/AQ affiliate. Swedish officials are “powerless” to stop the terrorists from going to Somalia. They have taken only minimal steps in combating the issue at home. Amongst the Muslim population itself at least one person ,a hip hopper no less, has made some efforts to bring this all to light.
Why do I post on this?
We’re talking about freaking Sweden here and a relatively small population dynamic. With that though it can be said that the issues that surround Islamic extremism and the West are on clear display and perhaps an excellent case study.
#1. Asylum and feel good immigration policies are dangerous to host nations.
#2.Somalia is a failed state that has absolutely NO RIGHT to effect other nations in any manner.
#3. Political correctness will get you the westerner as well as muslim newcomers KILLED.
#4. Not everyone in a given Muslim community is the next terrorist. It is again glaring though that they fear and or fail to rise against a common danger. When and where they do -it should be highlighted. When and where they DON’T…Yeah there too.
The answer is yes!
People ,people, people,you may not like the message but the reality is true. Corporations,Trusts,charities,activist groups and unions are as entitled to free speech in America as the guy on the corner with a “Fuck Bush” sign. The SCOTUS has upheld the notion that democracy isn’t diminished due to the size of your wallet.
The argument that the message and power thereof is proportional to the wallet is both true and false at it’s heart.
First if you think what many are now seeing as a great problem hasn’t been around all along I just don’t know how to help you. You’re fucked ‘cuz you’re living on a different planet.
Second the power is there to be sure but what of the individual? If America was/is about anything it is supposed to be that the individual matters and is essentially good.Even the One believes that. Perhaps this is where the Left finds its great phobia on the recent Court ruling. The Left, enamored with socialism and collective thought and people control cannot imagine the common man overcoming the coming deluge of political ads.Sadly they have demonstrated time and again that they lose this fear when it is a cause or pol they love.
The common man can easily insulate themselves from what is coming. They can also play an active role in it.And it must be said that they may not have anything to worry about at all.
US based weapons optics maker Trijicon has arrived square the sights of a couple of governments and media types.
It seems they put Bible references on their gun sights. How can anybody think that’s a good idea.
I’m actually one of those that doesn’t much like the TV/Radio crowd on either side of an issue. I definitely don’t invite them into my life to dictate my views. I will chime in on this though just the same.
Levin is right. Beck has gone somewhere pretty stupid in his tirade against US Senator elect Scott Brown of MA.
Browns comments about his daughters”being available” was not about pimping them out or anything else sleazy.
Beck is plain wrong on this.
I just couldn’t dream up a better title. I am actually torn between being speechless,utterly amazed and side splitting laugh disabled.
The dictator of Venezuela has been quoted as stating the USA used a tectonic weapon to cause the Haitian earthquake.
People stop thinking this guy is anything than a fucking nut,moron or anything other than a pathetic pile of shit.
Hugos BFF Evo Morales has gone nuts. He has actually sated that the USA is trying to militarily occupy Haiti.
On how many levels is this fucking insane? Well here’s a few of them.
1. The USA doesn’t need or want Haiti. Period. I don’t know if deep deep down we actually want to help the nation post quake.
2. Don’t need Haiti…We got Gitmo bitches. Anything else is covered by allegiances with saner LA nations and power projection capabilities from the states.
3. Bolivia has troops in Haiti. Are they trying to take it over and are just pissed because they’re outnumbered?
A disgrace.
A pathetic human being and at that the human part is open for debate.
The Rights best friend.
Have at it folks it’s an open thread….
Yes that is exactly what a vote for Scott Brown is.
We’ve seen national level pundits and leaders touch on the issue if not actually on the ground.
For this brief moment we the citizens of Massachusetts have seen that we matter. A vote for Brown on Tuesday can make sure this is not a fleeting moment.
One party rule has placed Massachusetts in the position as nothing but a donor state. Candidates and politicians alike come here fora check but nothing more. More often than not they assume our cash and support will flow regardless of any face time or value granted back to us all.
Our New England neighbors in Maine saw and showed us how crucial relevant politics is. The courting of Snowe/Collins by the Obama Administration may upset you politically but not as a citizen. To not be taken for granted is truly a good thing.
The biggest issue in the Brown v Coakley campaign is not health care. It has been played that way by both sides but I tell you this is simply just not true. Massachusetts being relevant and of real value in all the future debates facing this state and this country is hat the election is about. It is called a special election due to the circumstances that brought it about. I tell you,my fellow citizen that it is special for more reasons than you can perhaps imagine.
Please, please ,please! Cast your vote for Scott Brown on Tuesday the 19th of January and cast a vote for relevancy for Massachusetts.
I mentioned I was gonna help ya out with this here.
Here we go
Haiti Prayer Ideas
Pray for the finding and safety of any survivors.
Pray that the people will get a grip in these dire times and step up and help their own cause. Pray they step out of the character set that is the bane of humankind and they work to help relief effort as opposed to hinder them via violence and selfish acts.
Pray the rescue workers stay true to their calling. Pray they don’t dehumanize the victims or even worse use and abuse them whilst still cloaking their egos in “do good feel good” falsehoods.
Pray the relief efforts don’t go the usual route. Like the unused tractors of LiveAid or the political agendas of the Tsunami relief efforts.
Pray the world doesn’t soon move to the next thing.
Pray we don’t have to return to fix that which we screw up.
Some quotage from an AP report out of Haiti:
Sunlight streamed through what little was left of blown-out stained windows as the Rev. Eric Toussaint preached to a small crowd of survivors. A rotting body lay in its main entrance.
“Why give thanks to God? Because we are here,” Toussaint said. “We say ‘Thank you God.’ What happened is the will of God. We are in the hands of God now.”
And
“It’s a catastrophe and it is God who has put this upon us,” said Jean-Andre Noel, 39-year-old computer technician “Those who live in Haiti need everything. We need food, we need drink, we need medicine. We need help.”
I still sit in the camp that it wasn’t God that did this to you. I have to say though that God will definitely help you out of this. Christian principles make for better people. That’s just a simple fact. When humans try to override those principles,tweak them,well that’s where we see the problems. Of course people are all too willing to toss that stuff on God.
If you got some spare $,£ or any other currency go ahead it toss it towards a credible charity. If you’ve got nothing don’t fret ‘cuz you too can say a prayer. In fact I’m gonna help you a bit with some prayer suggestions.
I’m no fan but have been more than fair to him, and that’s not bad for a guy who is a confessed partisan.
Unfortunately for a guy that actually likes some civil discourse I have had enough. There is only so much you can dump on the average citizen before they break. I’ve broken,watch out!
So I checked out PressTV today. PressTV is quite simply a propaganda tool for the Republic of Iran. It repeatedly has taken stories off the wires and tweaked the hell out of them. Other times they completely make shit up. I draw the line though that they are without value. I do so simply because they sometimes do present stories easily verified. If nothing else they exemplify that nobody should get their news from only one source.
On the other foot there is VoA. This is a stickier wicket as it were. There seems to be any number of agendas at work with that entity so the adage holds true here too.
So this brings us to the point of my post. The story is how US Defense Intelligence Agency head LTG Ronald Burgess has recently stated that the nuclear aims of Iran seem consistent with that outlined in the fabled NIE report of 2007. PressTV cites VoA on the salient points.It skips the true context and additional statements that the DIA holds deep concerns still on the matter.
Two sources, you decide
I don’t really know why it caught my eye but the story of Tehran University professor Masoud Ali Mohammadi recent death by bomb did just that.
Perhaps the thing that gets me is how overtly idiotic the media is. Whether you look at the story from the West or from Iran you see some seriously crazy shit.
The West for the most part reports on possible pro Mousavi leanings of the nuclear physicist. Iran counters with him not being politically active. Deeper look shows he perhaps passively supported the opposition up to the election but that clearly he hasn’t been a vocal anti-government kind of guy since.
I think the headlines thrive on the word nuclear when it comes to this story. Sadly there doesn’t seem to be any reason to believe this guy was involved in the Iranian nuclear program.I tend to buy that since he was so clearly located at the university.Lecturer does not equal bomb or reactor maker.
There is a report that a pro monarchy (read Shah) group based in the USA has claimed responsibility. The group allegedly called Mohammadi a turncoat. I don’t see this but I think we’re getting closer.
As for the USA/Israel covert angle. I’m not buying it. Although I have as many negative opinions of the American intelligence sector as the next guy I don’t see that at play here. I think the US and Israel are loathe to provide a propaganda windfall to the Iranians. If the US and/or Israel were to strike they would strike at a totally better target. Here too we start to get closer.
The Iranian government could’ve blown this guy up. It fits various models that flow from the various “news” stories and makes as much sense as anything. Martyr a guy whose job title has nuclear in it and you have something to play with.
Bottom line I lean towards an inside Iran job. Either the Iranian government itself or something aligned to the in country opposition elements. This guy was a soft target whose value amounts to nothing but having the word nuclear in his title. This guy was truly wasted in every sense of the word. For all of us that may feel the repercussions of it,that is truly tragic.
I’m curious if anyone has an answer. I can’t seem to get any of the online calculators to work.
My dilemma is whether cremating liberals is better than just letting them decomp the old fashioned way.The age old ashes to ashes or return to the earth thing.For the sake of the polar bears and other global littoral denizens dumping them into the ocean is out of the question.
The furnace could conceivably be united with a power generation scheme and be beneficial to many. The decomp feeds worms but requires either the acceptance of methane production and odor issues and/or the use of chemicals.That seems counterproductive to a green regimen.
See my problem? Help me out. Which way to go? The oven or the shovel?
Seriously somebody clue me in on the egregious nature of Fox talking head Brit Hume’s over played comment regards Tiger Woods and conversion.
“The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith,” Hume said. “He is said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So, my message to Tiger is, ‘Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.”
#1. If Hume is truly a Christian he hasn’t done anything wrong making the suggestion. Bonus points for him if he says a prayer for Tiger.
#2. Yeah there isn’t any other news show that allows the heads to make comments.
#3. A Christian by definition cannot believe there is another way. People call that intolerance or bigotry. It’s called true to faith and is pretty much a Constitutional right.
#4. C’mon like “Jesus Christ”!!! isn’t being said all over every golf course in America at any given time. Why not get a green jacket guy into the flock.
Boo hoo “Cheney”,wah wah “Richard Reid”,”Mr. Hot Pants was no big deal”,”The system worked.”
All that wand more was drummed out of the anal cavities of the assorted Dem but monkeys. What they should’ve done was fall back on something they were all about with the clown show 9/11 Committee. The real problem is how bureaucracy will definitely get some Americans killed.
I’ve linked the CityJournal article the exerpt comes from.It captures the primary reason I have a blog. I need the gateway to other news sources and views. It isn’t a devotion thing either. I honestly believe 90% min of my blogging is over in 20-30 minutes. After that you do the same time period on a walk,run,bike or other exercise regimen and you’re getting healthier x2.
If you get your news from the sources most Americans do, you will not know that India recently test-fired the Agni II, an intermediate-range, nuclear-capable ballistic missile. Nor will you know the test’s results, which were reported all over the subcontinent but not in America. You will probably be unaware of Sergei Magnitsky’s death in a Moscow prison, or of who he was; the news was barely reported in the United States. You will not know that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic’s trial for war crimes and genocide was suspended, since that doesn’t appear to have been reported in the U.S. at all. Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan combined have accounted for less than 5 percent of the news hole this year, according to Pew Research. Aside from China and Iran, which make occasional cameos, the rest of the world is disappearing from American consciousness, as the New York Times’s list of the ten most e-mailed articles routinely confirms. Top stories at last glimpse: “Catching Tuna and Hanging On for the Ride”; “Payback Time: Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government”; “Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious”; and seven other domestic items. more at CJ
I ask partly in jest of course seeing as he called for the Popes whacking it seemed ok. His most recent decent into insanity can be seen here
Arizona immigrant advocate Lydia Guzman. Ms. Guzman fires up a text tree to warn people of the crime sweeps conducted by controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. 669 people have been arrested by the sheriffs dept. with about half being illegals. With that …
Guzman said she sends the messages to a wide range of groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, Copwatch and various immigrant-rights groups such as Somos America and Puente. She concedes that some who receive the text messages likely use the information to avoid being caught and deported. AP
Brilliant huh?
“The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.” former British PM Sir John Major.
Actually John Boy it is one of the best reasons. Whether you apply it to Milosevic or Hitler or Hussein,and really wasn’t the fact that Saddamm Hussein was a “bad man” one of the reasons you supported the first Gulf War?
Back in March of 2008 I predicted Hugo Chavez would initiate a military action within the region within 24 months. Well the clock is winding down on that and as if not to let me down Hugo has been cruising the psychotic break highway.
He has “seen” spy craft watching him,has blown up bridges and roads connecting the big V with Colombia and has sent troops to the V/C border. He has ratcheted up his inane rhetoric regards a US led invasion and or coup and has had a complete public tantrum over Colombia’s choice of allowing the US to establish military bases in that country. He is even starting up with the Dutch over counter narcotics ops by the US from Aruba and Curacao. This last one has caused the Dutch to call back on the Venezuelan ambassador for a diplomatic dress down.
I certainly do not want to come off as inviting the death of innocent Venezuelans or Colombians or anyone else. I just want others to see what is happening.
So instead of worrying where Tiger sticks his dick or what dumbass Kathy Griffin utters evah I ask my fellow Americans to dial in to the rest of the world.
Whether it is the pirates,the ongoing civil war in the Mog’ et al,the recent assault on the Danish cartoonist or any number of incidents stateside amongst the Somali immigrant community the title holds true. Add to it the statement from Somalias AQ connection regards Yemen.
“We tell our Muslim brothers in Yemen that we will cross the water between us and reach your place to assist you fight the enemy of Allah,” said Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansour, a top official of the Al-QDh a-inspired militants.
“Today you see what is happening in Yemen, the enemy of Allah is destroying your Muslim brothers,” he said in northern Mogadishu where he displayed hundreds of newly-trained young fighters.
What do we do?
I resolve never to take my kids to a chain/franchise hair cutting establishment.
I went to Super Cuts for the eldest who yearned for some style. I got to listen to crappy pop radio,ignorant spoiled kids and the tales of one stylists pending birth of a bastard.
Ugh.
When and why did we as a nation end up here?
My most recent foray into the realm of pet ownership lasted 105 days. For 105 days we opened our home and hearts to a rescued Boxer. over that short span of time we spent time and money,sweat and unfortunately a little blood into evaluating his future and solving the issues of his past.
In the end it didn’t work. He was returned to the shelter where he undoubtedly received the tag “Unadoptable”.
Oh well.
Just an observation. The line up of the calender regards Christmas this year has left me feeling like it has been Sunday for some time now. Never the less I hope every one has enjoyed the day.
So I found this story interesting on a lot of levels. In Egypt of all places there is a blossoming business of televangelism ala Islam. Utilizing satellite television and rock show production techniques these folks are gathering a following.
I’m curious, how safe it is to be them? On the other extreme is this the kind of thing that will positively alter Islam along the lines of a Reformation?
I don’t know.
So I saw an article about a priest in England who apparently has advised people on the down and outs to shoplift.
More precise quotage looks something like this:
“My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift.
“I do not offer such advice because I think that stealing is a good thing, or because I think it is harmless, for it is neither.
“I would ask that they do not steal from small, family businesses, but from large national businesses, knowing that the costs are ultimately passed on to the rest of us in the form of higher prices.
“I would ask them not to take any more than they need, for any longer than they need.” -Father Tim Jones
Am I the only one wondering if Father Jones has ever heard of the Ten Commandments?
This is yet another classic example of how when morality is is residing in the toilet life is crappy.
So I saw that the sheister shit bag attorney for Ft Hood murdering scumbucket Nidal Malik Hasan has filed a complaint against the Army.
It seems the Army folks guarding Jihadi Joe prevented him from praying in Arabic over the phone with his bro.
Let’s see,going into the holy Holiday season is it better to be able to pray,just not in Arabic,or like Hasans victims just be dead?
Italy
What is up with that??? Bush got a shoe tossed at him,Silvio Berlusconi got a statue thrown at him. It scored a good hit too. Now the Italian PM physically looks like someone in a fight and symbolically that plays out. Lots of chatter over there that the embattled and now bruised leader is on the ropes. Relative article: Economist
Chile
Sebastien Pinera is in the lead and the current fave for victory in a January run off election. What importance is this to a gringo? Just saying that Latin American politics are something me and mine should pay attention to and that things down there are not as left wing banana republic crazy as some stereotype. The politics are in fact dynamic.
…fair is fair.
Given the fact that I was more than willing to call him out last year for comments he made I see no reason I cannot be fair.
His home state,Maine, has like the other states sent a number of their citizens forth to iraq and Afghanistan. Some of those folks are currently sitting pre-deployment in Indiana and the Kings have ponied up $12,999.00 to bus them home for the holidays.
Good for you. I still don’t like your books and feel you really sell out whence you allow them to be made into bad movies but this was a good thing. 2 thumbs up.
Story: bangordailynews
A lengthy and informative piece I invite the reader to at least hunt down the two paragraphs I have placed in bold. Serious food for thought no matter your stand.
and a war it truly is.
STRATFOR has been on this for some time and fortunately there is finally other outlets looking at this nightmare that is ravaging that nation and seeping into our own.
So France may become the first NATO nation to sell advanced military tech to the Soviets,err I mean Russians.
The French are reportedly considering selling a Mistral class assault ship to Russia. It’s kind of funny since the Ruskies have really done quite well playing their hand in the international arms build ups. That being said this current offer seems to reek of actual and possibly immediate perceived needs on the Russians behalf. The former Soviet vassels be warned.
Oh and for the Russians take on the purchase and potential uses
Vlad says:
“We are buyers, you are sellers,” he told his hosts.
“Whoever we buy it from, we will reserve the right to use it where and when we consider necessary.”
Story at BBC
So I don’t know how many people are even remotely following the current conflict in Yemen. There is an incredibly interesting side show here and it’s very hard for me to know who to root for.
The Yemeni government is at odds with the Haithis minority. They view them as militants acting in violation of the government. They are also Shia’s and at least are symbolically supported by Iran.
The Yemen government on the other hand has received support from Saudi Arabia and it has happened secondary to the Wahabbi movement. Of note the Saudi armed forces has taken an active role in the affair.
Now the potential dilemma for a Yank.
In the Iran/ Saudi Arabia pissing match, who to side with?
Anyway some Iranian propaganda that highlights (pardon the pun) the title and the underlying issue. PressTV
So I saw a report on how the little bitty ALBA nations are thinking of adopting a useless virtual currency for use amongst themselves. This is pretty funny and sad at the same time.
The primary currency arbitrator will of course be Herr Hugo of Venezuela. This is the same guy who has completely fucked up his own real national currency and banking system. Now he’s looking to grab the poor bastards that make up ALBA that are likely to sign onto this thing (some probably won’t) by their collective fiscal shorties and bullshit one anothers cash starved economies.
Sad sad sad
