These morons have no idea what they're supporting, None. I hope they're forcibly removed and their skin is left behind.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Pro Hamas Activists Super Glue Themselves Inside BBC Headquarters
Muslims Shakedown Long John Silver's
Chalk up another crappy fast food franchise I won't be eating at again. And where else? Minnesota. From PR-USA.net
The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MN) today welcomed an apology from a Long John Silver's restaurant in that state that distributed religious literature in children's meals.
In November, a Muslim family visited the Long John Silver's at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., and ordered a children's meal for their three-year-old son. The Muslim parents noticed that the toy that came with the meal was a small notepad with the phrase "Build with Jesus" written at the top along with a quote from the Bible.
Although Muslims respect the Bible and believe in Jesus as a prophet of Islam, the family preferred a non-religious toy in the children's meal. After requesting an alternative toy for their child, the family was shown variations of the notepad, each containing a different verse from the Bible.
Following intervention by CAIR-MN, the restaurant investigated the matter and found that the "families' request was not handled in a manner consistent with company policy."
In a letter to CAIR-MN, the Long John Silver's franchisee owner Steve Oborn wrote: "In an attempt to support and respect a multitude of diverse needs and preferences, it is our policy to have an optional toy(s) available per request. Recognizing the needs of younger children, those with allergies, or disabilities, varying religious affiliation, or their parents that prefer treats containing no sugar, are amongst those sensitivities we hope to always accommodate and respectively respond to... Please extend our sincere apologies to this family."
In addition to a written apology, the company will send the family a gift certificate to any Yum! Brands location and a replacement, non-religious toy for their 3-year-old child.
Power Line Suffers Denial of Service Attack
That's the headline I've read on several different blogs today. And yet the world is still here. Seriously. Who flippin' cares? It's just one of many overrated political blogs living off a legacy that was created when there were few alternatives. You don't have to agree. You're free to continue getting the same old stale news two days after every one else has blogged about it.
Arab Sex Den Raided
Freakydeaks. This happened in Saudi Arabia:
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested an Arab expatriate on charges of having illegal relations with a young girl in a mobile shop in Madinah, according to Yasser Al-Matrafi, director of public relations at the commission’s local branch.h/t Jawa Report
Officials did not mention the girl’s age but reported that she had left her “school bag” on a table not far from where she and the man — also of unreported age — were found engaging in sexual relations.
The commission said the shop run by the man was under observation following several complaints from local residents that they suspected the shop was a front for immoral activities, Al-Eqtisadiah daily reported yesterday. On Sunday, commission members entered the shop a little after a girl student went inside. The members could not see anyone inside though they saw the school bag.
On closer examination they discovered a hidden doorway that led to a bedroom where the man and the girl were discovered.
The commission said it found evidence the man was recording his sex encounters and possibly using the digital images for blackmail. The commission also said the man’s mobile phone contained pornography and prurient images of him with different women.
Berkeley Woman Fights Off Car Jacker - Threatens to Blow His Balls Off and then Stabs Him with Scissors
Who knew hippies had it in them? The attackers race was African-American. I suppose that relates to this story posted earlier today.
Barkley Busted for DUI
Ordinarily, I wouldn't care. But "Sir" Charles has a big mouth.
Basketball commentator and former hoops star Charles Barkley was arrested Wednesday in Scottsdale, Arizona, on suspicion of drunken driving, a police spokesman said.
Barkley issued a brief statement, saying, "I am disappointed that I put myself in that situation. The Scottsdale police were fantastic. I will not comment any further as it is a legal matter."
Lt. Eric Shuhandler of the Gilbert Police Department said an officer pulled Barkley over after he ran a stop sign in Scottsdale's Old Town area, a trendy spot known for its nightclubs and bars. Gilbert and Scottsdale are in the Phoenix metro area.
Barkley declined to take a breath test to measure his blood-alcohol level, Shuhandler said earlier.
San Francisco Loses its Tolerance When the Black Folks Move to Town
First they pass all kinds of laws beneficial for the homeless and then run them out of town when they show up in mass. Now it seems they don't care too much for black people. Unless, of course, they're gay.
As more and more black renters began moving into this mostly white San Francisco Bay Area suburb a few years ago, neighbors started complaining about loud parties, mean pit bulls, blaring car radios, prostitution, drug dealing and muggings of schoolchildren.And who is to blame? Liberals and their jacked-up laws.
In 2006, as the influx reached its peak, the police department formed a special crime-fighting unit to deal with the complaints, and authorities began cracking down on tenants in federally subsidized housing.
Now that police unit is the focus of lawsuits by black families who allege the city of 100,000 is orchestrating a campaign to drive them out.
"A lot of people are moving out here looking for a better place to live," said Karen Coleman, a mother of three who came here five years ago from a blighted neighborhood in nearby Pittsburg. "We are trying to raise our kids like everyone else. But they don't want us here."
Aross the country, similar tensions have simmered when federally subsidized renters escaped run-down housing projects and violent neighborhoods by moving to nicer communities in suburban Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles.
But the friction in Antioch is "hotter than elsewhere," said U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development spokesman Larry Bush.
An increasing number of poor families receiving federal rental assistance have been moving here in recent years, partly because of the housing crisis.
A growing number of landlords were seeking a guaranteed source of revenue in a city hard-hit by foreclosures. They began offering their Antioch homes to low-income tenants in the HUD Section 8 housing program, which pays about two-thirds of every tenant's rent.
Between 2000 and 2007, Antioch's black population nearly doubled from 8,824 to 16,316. And the number of Antioch renters receiving federal subsidies climbed almost 50 percent between 2003 and 2007 to 1,582, the majority of them black.
Longtime homeowners complained that the new arrivals brought crime and other troubles. In 2006, violent crime in Antioch shot up about 19 percent from the year before, while property crime went down slightly.
Talking Doll Purchased at Walmart Says "Islam is the Light"
It's happening again. A woman in South Carolina is claiming that the doll she purchased for her daughter spews pro-Islamic phrases. This is not the first time this has been reported. This so-called rumor has been around for a few months now. Even the rumor investigating website Snopes has done an investigation. They claim the reports are false. Yet just yesterday another report has surfaced:
A local woman went to the Walmart on Robert Smalls Parkway to buy a doll for her daughters this Christmas.Well, you can judge for yourself. here is video of the doll in question. It sure sounds to me like it's saying "Islam is the light". if not, then what is it saying?
What she ended up with was a Mattel Fisher-Price Toys baby doll that says “Islam is the light.” Jennifer Calandra of Burton, 28, bought the doll for her 5-year-old and 7-year-old daughters shortly after Thanksgiving.
Calandra said she thought she was going crazy when she first heard the phrase about a week after buying the toy. She exchanged the $20 doll Dec. 22 for a new one, also from Walmart, thinking it could be a malfunction in the soundtrack of coos and baby babble. The second doll said the same thing.
Calandra is not the first to hear the Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo doll say, “Islam is the light.” Reports began popping up around the country this fall. Some reports say the dolls also say, “Satan is king.”
Fisher-Price Toys, which makes the dolls in China, could not be reached for comment Tuesday and is closed until Monday, according to an automated message for spokeswoman Juliette Reashor.
Walmart corporate spokeswoman Anna Taylor said the dolls were being removed from the Beaufort store’s shelves Tuesday. She said most stores still stock the doll because a product recall has not been issued.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
The Race Card is Played: Bobby Rush Double Dog Dares Crackers to Not Seat the Black Man
The race card is played even before all the bets are in. Sing it with me y'all. "Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round, turn me 'round, turn me 'round...
Taking to the podium at the end of a bizarre, shambolic press conference in which Governor Rod Blagojevich sought to appoint Roland Burris to the US Senate, Congressman Bobby Rush dared white Democratic senators to block a black man from joining their ranks.
He urged people "not to hang or lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer" and, after saying repeaedly that Burris would be the only African-American in the Senate, said that he believed no senator would want "to go on record to deny one African-American from being seated in the US Senate".
Rush is a former Black Panther who trounced Barack Obama in the 2000 Democratic primary when the then state senator challenged him for his House of Representatives seat.
The grinning Burris was told by Blagojevich - who policed the press conference - that "you're the senator". He appeared clueless about the money he'd donated to the governor, which will only add to the taint of the appointment.
As he left the room, Blagojevich echoed Rush, saying: "Feel free to castigate the appointer but don't lynch the appointee."
But Rush wasn't pleading. He was warning. He was daring Reid and the other senators to deny this black man the seat. I couldn't quite believe my ears when he used the word "lynch," but sure enough he did: he urged the members of the media "not to hang or lynch the appointee as you castigate the appointor." He went on to say that he and his congressional allies would push Reid to reverse his position and said of the prospect of a bunch of white senators denying Burris the seat: "I don't think they wanna go on record doing that."
Christopher Hitchens Flips Off Bill Maher's Morons
Christopher Hitchens twice flips off Bill Maher's moronic audience. Something we'd all like to do.
Shades of William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal.
About This He Can Speak: Obama Weighs in on Blagojevich Senate Choice -- Still Silent on Gaza
Nice to see hims so willing to weigh in on the important matters. With the Gaza situation, just like the financial crisis he says nothing. But when it comes to something that is really just so trivial in the grand scheme of things, he's chomping at the bit. Of course he does. It involves what he is always claiming he's not about. Race.
President-elect Barack Obama waded into a racially tinged dispute Tuesday over who would replace him as the only black senator, siding forcefully with Senate Democrats in rejecting the respected African-American chosen by scandal-tainted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
"Senate Democrats made it clear weeks ago that they cannot accept an appointment made by a governor who is accused of selling this very Senate seat," Obama said in a statement.
The president-elect spoke out after Blagojevich defied national Democrats and appointed Burris to fill the vacancy left by Obama's resignation.
"I will ask you to not hang and lynch the appointee as you try to castigate the appointer," Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., said during a Chicago news conference with Blagojevich and Burris.
"Let me just remind you that there presently is no African-American in the U.S. Senate," said Rush, who is black. "I don't think that anyone — any U.S. senator who's sitting in the Senate right now — wants to go on record to deny one African-American for being seated in the U.S. Senate."
Dope on a Rope
It's Obama on a rope. The retailer calls it "hope on a rope". Given the very nature of soap, it will end up down the drain. Don't these people know it's not cool to portray a black man at the end of a rope?
From the product description:Damn! Some people are profoundly retarded.
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This soap measures 4.75” x 3.5”, weighs a substantial 10.5 oz, and comes to you on a black rope. He smells like a breath of fresh air, because, well, he IS a breath of fresh air!
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Screw Y'all: Blago Will Fill Obama's Senate Seat
Gov. Blagojevich today is expected to name former state Comptroller and Attorney General Roland Burris to Illinois' vacant U.S. Senate seat, a knowledgeable source said this morning. A news conference is scheduled for 2 p.m.
The World Awaits Word from the Messiah -- The Messiah Awaits His Tee Time
Oh how quickly the world is learning that fake Jesus can't carry real Jesus' jockstrap. Rodney King, with his "can't we all just get along" had more to offer world peace than Obama does. And such is the fate of America that crack addicts have better things to say than president-elects.
Barack Obama remained silent over the violence in Gaza as Israel today threatened to continue its attacks for weeks. Instead, the president-elect is continuing his 12-day Christmas holiday in Hawaii and was seen enjoying a round of golf. He joined a group of friends at a private club near his £6million rented, beach-front holiday home in Hawaii yesterday.
Meanwhile, 9,000 miles away in the Middle East, Israel rejected any truce with Hamas today and said it was ready for 'long weeks of action' in the Gaza Strip. Observers said that at least ten people were killed and another 40 injured as up to 16 bombs were dropped by Israeli warplanes during early morning attacks. The targets included the offices of Hamas prime minister Ismael Haniyeh, police stations and Gaza’s treasury and foreign ministry buildings.
Cynthia McKinney and the Ship of Fools Rammed by Israeli Navy
Fantastic! Just fantastic!
A boat carrying international peace activists, including former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, and medical supplies to the embattled Gaza Strip sailed back into a Lebanese port on Tuesday after being turned back and damaged by the Israeli navy, organizers of the trip said.
DeKalb County news The boat, which set off from Cyprus Monday wanted to make a statement and deliver medical supplies to embattled Gaza. The trip’s organizers said the boat was clearly in international waters, 90 miles off the coast of Gaza, at the time of its close encounter with the Israeli navy.
“Our boat was rammed three times, twice in the front and one on the side,” McKinney told CNN Tuesday morning. “Our mission was a peaceful mission. Our mission was thwarted by the aggressiveness of the Israeli military.”
She denied that the incident was an accident, caused whent he captain of the Dignity tried to maneuver past the Israeli blockade. “What the Israelis are saying is outright disinformation,” she said. “What happened to us last night was a direct threat to our mission, but not our cause.”
McKinney is a high-profile member of a boatload of activists that set sail Monday from Cyprus to deliver medicine to war-torn Gaza.
“I don’t know if she’ll get off the boat,” her father said. “I hope she gets back safely.”
Chicago Furniture Store Mocks Blago
Next week expect the Pampered Lady Hair Salon to run an ad featuring a photo of Blago and a caption that read "Because Your Hair Doesn't Have to Look Like His"
h/t Gateway Pundit
Get Your Pin Ups for Vets Calendar
The money goes to a worthy cause.
"The more I heard about the uphill battles of our Wounded Warriors, the more convinced I was of the need to produce a project that would bring in funds to support all of our hospitalized Veterans."
Check out the calendar here.
Love, Blue Jeans, and Hair Transplants...All Un-Islamic
Seriously? No jeans? No hair transplants and no love? OK. I'm out of the club.
After terming love as “un-Islamic”, the Darul Uloom Islamic seminary in Deoband has said that Muslilms wearing jeans is a gunah (sin).
The seminary recently issued a fatwa (religious decree) against the wearing of jeans and transplanting and dyeing of hair in black. These fatwas have been issued in response to three different queries, according to the Darul Uloom's Darul Ifta (department of fatwa). In response to a query on wearing of jeans by women, especially in cold countries in Western Europe, the seminary has made it clear that “jeans pants and shirts are against the shariat (Islamic rules)”. “The physical structure (curves) of the body is reflected if one puts on a jeans. Wearing them by a woman is a sin”, the fatwa said adding that it should not be put on by the menfolk also. “It is barred for men as well. Women, who want to look as men, are cursed”, the fatwa went on to say.
On a query on dyeing one’s hair in black, the fatwa said that any other colour other than black is permissible. “Use of black hair dye is un-Islamic”, it said.
On another query pertaining to hair transplant, the Darul Uloom said transplanting artificial hair amounted to “cheating” and is therefore is “illegal”.
Health Blogger Says Obama Should Keep Smoking
It's bad enough he's going to have to give up the Thunderbird in the hood, I guess we don't need him having nicotine fits too.
With Barack Obama readying himself to take on what will be quite a high-stakes and stressful job, are we sure we actually want him to quit smoking? “The nation is too precariously balanced right now to risk having him burst into tears, or march off in a snit, or take to his bed with the glums,” suggested an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend.
We put in a call to Neal Benowitz of the University of California, San Francisco, an expert in nicotine addiction. He told us that there is evidence that stopping smoking can cause irritability, slowed reaction time, or difficulty concentrating and solving problems. But that’s typically in heavy smokers — people who’ve smoked 10 or more cigarettes a day. “You don’t want a regular smoker to pilot a plane when they can’t smoke, because their performance is impaired,” Benowitz told the Health Blog.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Cynthia McKinney Boards Ship to Rescue Hamas
I have alerted the Somali pirates. They're not interested.
The Free Gaza movement is sending another solidarity ship to the Strip, due this time to the major Israeli attacks. The four previous voyages have set sail in solidarity to the million and a half residents under siege.
The bombings that began on Saturday at 11:30 am have rendered this voyage an even more pressing emergency. The boat has set sail as of early Monday evening.
On board the SS Dignity are three to four tons of urgently needed medical supplies. Dr. Khalid at Gaza City’s Al Shifa Hospital told the crew on Saturday that the “majority of cases are critical shrapnel wounds from Israeli gunboats and helicopters, with an approximate 80 percent who will not survive.”
On board the ship expected to set sail on Monday are four physicians. Among them is Dr. Elena Theoharous, a surgeon and member of Cypriot parliament. Former United States Congresswoman and Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney will also be making the voyage. And local hero, Al Jazeera correspondent formerly imprisoned in Guantanamo, Sami Al Hajj, is also expected.
Hey! Chocolate Jesus! Time to Get to Work.
And how about going to church just once? -- President-elect Barack Obama has again made the trip to a Marine Corps base near his vacation home for an hourlong morning workout.Obama and his friends from Chicago - Eric Whitaker and Martin Nesbitt - went to the Semper Fit gym on Marine Corps Base Hawaii's compound Sunday morning. The president-elect didn't speak to reporters but made small talk with folks who gathered by the road inside the secure base.Marines and others on the secure base gathered on a traffic island waiting for a glimpse of Obama.Afterwards, Obama asked the visitors how they were doing and offered a drawn out "al-ohhh-ha."
Still Feel Sorry for the Autoworkers?
You do? Then wake up. -- Even as the industry struggles with massive losses, the UAW brass continue to own and operate a $33 million lakeside retreat in Michigan, complete with a $6.4 million designer golf course. And it's costing them millions each year. The UAW, known more for its strikes than its slices, hosts seminars and junkets at the Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center in Onaway, Mich., which is nestled on "1,000 heavily forested acres" on Michigan's Black Lake, according to its Web site. But the Black Lake club and retreat, which are among the union's biggest fixed assets, have lost $23 million in the past five years alone, a heavy albatross around the union's neck as it tries to manage a multibillion-dollar pension plan crisis. Critics call it a resort for union leaders that wastes money from union dues.
China and Russia Create Direct Military Phone Link
I've been sounding this alarm for years. -- Chen Bingde, chief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China and his Russian counterpart Nikolay Makarov held their first-ever conversation via direct phone link on Monday. Both military leaders hailed the successful launch of the direct phone link. Chen said the launch of the direct phone link between the two countries' chiefs of general staff is another important measure for deepening pragmatic cooperation between Chinese and Russian militaries and another showcase of the tow countries' mutual political trust and strategic cooperation.
Bubble Boy Obama Crying About All the Media Attention
Sorry Obama. Once they go black, they never go back.
The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it’s been closing in on Barack Obama for some time.Rich. This is all so rich. And I don't need to tell any of you why.
Now the president-elect appears increasingly conscious of the confines of his new position, bristling at the routine demands of press coverage and beginning to chafe at boundaries that are only going to get smaller.
Obama even took the unusual step Friday morning of leaving behind the pool of reporters assigned to follow him, taking his daughters to a nearby water park without them. It was a breach of longstanding protocol between presidents (or presidents-elect) and the media, that a gaggle of reporters representing television, print and wire services is with his motorcade at all times.
Then when reporters finally caught up with Obama at Koko Marina Paradise Deli and he acknowledged them for one of few times since arriving in Hawaii last Saturday, he sounded resigned.
After ordering a tuna melt on 12-grain bread, Obama approached reporters and placed his hand on the shoulder of pool reporter Philip Rucker of The Washington Post, who was scribbling away in his notebook.
“You don't really need to write all that down,” Obama said.
All presidents and would-be presidents struggle with “the bubble” – the security detail and the always-there reporters that impose barriers to any spontaneous interaction with the outside world.
But Obama seems to be struggling particularly hard, particularly early.
As rapid as Obama’s political rise has been, so too has his family’s introduction to the bubble.Four years ago Obama was an Illinois state senator who was on his way to the U.S. Senate. Next month, he will become one of only a handful of modern presidents who has not endured a similar bubble as a governor or top U.S. official before taking office.
Already, Obama no longer gets out for an impromptu lunch or a haircut. The barber he’s gone to for 15 years now comes to him, and he mostly orders out. Soon Obama likely will be forced to give up the BlackBerry he often kept attached to his hip during the campaign.
“There's still some things we're not adjusted to," Obama said in a “60 Minutes” interview after the election. “You know, the small routines of life that keep you connected, I think some of those are being lost.”
Super Whacky Muslim Fun Time: Child Slaves in America and that Damn Russian National Anthem
Shocking report of child slaves being exported to America by Muslims:
Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to USH/T Atlas Shrugs.
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door. They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates under the open faucet. She wasn't much taller than the counter and the soapy water swallowed her slender arms. To put the dishes away, she climbed on a chair.
But she was not the daughter of the couple next door doing chores. She was their maid.
Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Egypt to work in their California home. She awoke before dawn and often worked past midnight to iron their clothes, mop the marble floors and dust the family's crystal. She earned $45 a month working up to 20 hours a day. She had no breaks during the day and no days off.
The trafficking of children for domestic labor in the U.S. is an extension of an illegal but common practice in Africa. Families in remote villages send their daughters to work in cities for extra money and the opportunity to escape a dead-end life. Some girls work for free on the understanding that they will at least be better fed in the home of their employer.
Meanwhile...There is Muslim outrage in Russia. It seems they are none to happy with Russia's national anthem. It has church bells in it. Infidels!
Do It Yourself Genetic Mutations
Genetic engineering in your own kitchen. I'd like to create a tiny Keith Richards to smoke up my living room and play guitar on Monday mornings.
At a loss for things to do this woozy post-Christmas weekend? Well, if you have access to a garage or basement — or even just some extra room on your dining table — you could always take up a hobby that is exploding in popularity across the Atlantic: genetic engineering. Or, to use the more fashionable term, “biohacking”.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that thousands of Americans now spend their free time consulting the internet, jerry-rigging laboratory equipment, and tinkering with the very foundations of life on Earth as we know it.
While acknowledging the potential risk of unleashing a genetically altered Frankenstein's monster on the public, biohackers argue that it was DIYers who brought about America's other great technological revolution: that of the personal computer.
Indeed, Apple and Google were created in hobbyists' garages, and have since gone on to change millions of lives for the better while contributing billions of dollars to the global economy.
Regardless, the growth in popularity of biohacking seems unstoppable. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, an organisation named DIYbio is busy setting up a community lab where people can use specialist equipment such as a freezer capable of storing bacteria at ninus 62C.
The group's co-founder, Mackenzie Cowell, 24, who studied biology at university, predicts that some biohackers are likely to make breakthroughs in everything from vaccines to super-efficient fuels. Others will simply fool around, he says: for example, using squid genes to make tattoos glow in the dark.
All of which he believes will ultimately benefit humanity. “We should try to make science more sexy and more fun and more like a game,” he says.
Alas, not everyone agrees. Jim Thomas, of ETC Group, a biotechnology watchdog group, says that synthetic organisms could ultimately escape and cause outbreaks of incurable diseases or unpredictable environmental damage. “Once you move to people working in their garage or other informal locations, there's no safety processes in place,” he says, adding that terrorists could be inspired by amateur genetic tinkering to launch a devastating bioattack on America.
Russia Still Makes a Few Things Well
This Russian tries to smash a bottle over his head. He fails. In fact, the bottle doesn't even break when he throws it against a concrete wall out of frustration.
Rockers to Press Obama on Music Torture
The musicians complaining should be happy anyone is listening to their crappy music.
Reprieve, a British human rights law group that represents over 30 Guantanamo Bay detainees, is planning to work with musicians to lobby President-elect Barack Obama to end the practice of sonic torture by military interrogators.
Earlier this month, Reprieve and the U.K. Musicians Union launched Zero dB, a "silent protest" over the use of music in interrogations. According to Reprieve, many of its clients have been subjected to hours of music played at deafening volume -- sometime for days or even weeks on end. And the BBC has reported on a particularly insidious practice: using the theme songs from Sesame Street and Barney to break the will of prisoners.
This has musicians furious. Last week, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails even suggested he might pursue legal action to stop the practice.
Chloe Davis, a researcher for Reprieve, told Danger Room the Zero dB campaign was planning to work with prominent musicians to lobby the incoming administration.
This may be a promising strategy. Musicians contributed mightily to the Obama campaign; and the inaugural next month is supposed to be a celebrity-studded event.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
BREAKING: Sarah Palin Linked to Weapons Theft
Breaking news:
Republican Gov. Sarah Palin is being named as a possible conspirator in a weapons theft case reportedly occurring several years ago. It's believed the weapons could have been used in a variety of crimes and sources say the disappearance of potentially lethal weapons has been linked directly to Republican Sarah Palin.Laughs from Interested-Participant
The missing weapons are two 29-inch baseball bats allegedly stolen by the adopted stepson of a substitute teacher of Republican Sarah Palin's daughter's math class at Wasilla High School. Evidence indicates that Sarah Palin's daughter regularly attended the math classes with the adopted stepson and Sarah Palin was involved with their classwork.
Commercial flights to Wasilla are booked and private air traffic has surged as investigators and the media race to discover Sarah Palin's full culpability in the scandal. Sources indicate that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may call for an investigation by Congress and responsible Alaskan legislators are perusing possible censure or impeachment of Republican Sarah Palin.
Notably, these new allegations against Sarah Palin follow right on the heels of her disreputable involvement in a drunken driving case. Republican Sarah Palin's daughter's baby's father's mother's blood alcohol level while driving illegally exceeded 0.08. Legal and legislative action against Republican Sarah Palin awaits final resolution of her daughter's baby's father's mother's case.
Regarding Republican Sarah Palin's involvement in her daughter's substitute teacher's stepson's alleged theft of potentially lethal weapons, the investigation continues.
Prince Edward Accused of Beating Dog
An alarming trend of animal abuse is developing within the Royal Family.
Britain's Prince Edward is in hot water with animal rights charities after using a stick to break up a dog fight.
The 44-year-old Earl of Wessex was pictured in newspapers with his shotgun under his arm with his stick in the air and then with it very close to one of the dogs' heads.
The dogs were fighting over a dead pheasant during a shooting outing at Queen Elizabeth's private Sandringham estate in Norfolk, eastern England, where the royals traditionally spend their winter break.
A Buckingham Palace spokesman said: "It has not been determined that he did strike the dog.
Andrew Tyler, director of Animal Aid, added: "It is an offence to cause an animal unnecessary suffering.
"Hitting a dog is a pathetic, cowardly and vicious act — it would appear he has had a royal tantrum."
It is not the first time that members of the royal family have been accused of animal cruelty during shoots.
Queen Elizabeth was photographed wringing the neck of a pheasant at Sandringham eight years ago.
Last year, Prince Harry, William's brother, was questioned by police over the shooting of two hen harriers, among Britain's rarest birds.
The Worst Climate Predictions of 2008
These are a good for a chuckle. Here's a few:
“You could potentially sail, kayak or even swim to the North Pole by the end of the summer. Climate scientists say that the Arctic ice . . . is currently on track to melt sometime in 2008.” Ted Alvarez, Backpacker Magazine Blogs, June, 2008.Read the rest at CFP.
Soon after this prediction, a huge Russian icebreaker got trapped in the thick ice of the Northwest Passage for a full week. The Arctic ice hadn’t melted in 2007, it got blown into warmer southern waters. Now it’s back.
“Hurricane Effects Will Only Get Worse.” Live Science, September 19, 2008.
So wrote the on-line tech website Live Science, but the number of Atlantic hurricanes 2006–2008 has been 22 percent below average, with insured losses more than 50 percent below average. The British Navy recorded more than twice as many major land-falling Caribbean hurricanes in the last part of the Little Ice Age (1700–1850) as during the much-warmer last half of the 20th century.
No More Skiing? “Climate Change and Aspen,” Aspen, CO city-funded study, June, 2007.
Aspen’s study predicted global warming would change the climate to resemble hot, dry Amarillo, Texas. But in 2008, European ski resorts opened a month early, after Switzerland recorded more October snow than ever before. Would-be skiers in Aspen had lots of winter snow—but a chill factor of 18 below zero F. kept them at their fireplaces instead of on the slopes.
Israeli War Porn -- Hell Comes to the Gaza Strip
Some fantastic footage here. Just disregard the bleeding heart commentary from Sky News.
Obama Commits Environmental Crime by Dumping Grandmother's Ashes into the Sea
Or so is claiming this source:
A ceremony arranged for his grandmother, whom he lost during the election process, may end up causing quite a headache for Barack Obama.Developing...
In a ceremony held in Hawaii, Obama, teary-eyed, poured his grandmother's ashes into the sea from the sand-lined shore. Environmentalists were quick to stand up against the move.
The reason behind the contention was the state's Department of Land and Natural Resources Protection Law, which prohibits ashes from being dropped into the ocean. According to the regulation in place, ashes must be poured at a distance of at least three nautical miles. It has not yet been determined whether Obama will receive a fine for his actions.
Caroline Kennedy --- 28 "You Knows"s in 2:16
She's not what Joe Biden would call clean and articulate.
Saudi King Calls on Bush to Stop Israel
Sure Chief. Right after you stop Putin and his attempt to join OPEC and manipulate oil prices.
Saudi King Abdullah told US President George W. Bush by telephone on Saturday that major countries must take action to halt Israel's attacks on Gaza, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
The king also called for "the major countries to shoulder their responsibilities to stop this Israeli attack and save the lives of the innocent and remaining infrastructure in the Palestinian territories."
Ohio Governor to Obama" "I Need 5 Billion Dollars"
The string of shameless moochers continues... This is some kind of audacity.
As the economy sputters and tax revenue plummets, governors and mayors across the United States are lining up to ask President-elect Barack Obama and the new Congress for hundreds of billions of dollars to plug holes in their budgets, arguing that services will suffer and joblessness will rise if Washington does not come to the rescue.
In Ohio, which has shed 100,000 jobs in the past year, Gov. Ted Strickland (D) and his budget team spend a lot of time delivering bad news to constituents and plotting ways to wring money from the federal government. He announced $640 million in cuts for the budget year ending June 30, for a total of $1.9 billion since the economic crisis began.
Strickland recently picked up the telephone and called Rahm Emanuel, the incoming White House chief of staff. When he heard the recorded voice of his former congressional colleague, he left a message: "Rahm, it's Ted. You've never failed me and I need $5 billion."
Cash-Strapped States Consider Selling Roads, Parks and Airports
It's a public property extravaganza:
Like families pawning the silver to get through a tight spot, states such as Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts and Illinois are thinking of selling or leasing toll roads, parks, lotteries and other assets to raise desperately needed cash.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has hinted that his January budget proposal will include proposals to privatize some of what the state owns or does. The Republican is looking for cash to help close a $5.27 billion deficit without raising taxes.
GOP lawmakers are pushing to privatize the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the state lottery. Both steps require a higher authority - federal legislation in the case of the airport, a voter-approved constitutional amendment for the lottery. But one lawmaker estimated an airport deal could bring in at least $2.5 billion, and the lottery $500 million.
Massachusetts lawmakers are considering putting the Massachusetts Turnpike in private hands. That could bring in upfront money to help with a $1.4 billion deficit, while also saving on highway operating costs.
In New York, Democratic Gov. David Paterson appointed a commission to look into leasing state assets, including the Tappan Zee Bridge north of New York City, the lottery, golf courses, toll roads, parks and beaches. Recommendations are expected next month.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
HAMAS PROMISES SUICIDE ATTACKS IN THE STREETS OF ISRAEL
Sure. Whatever. Thump your chests some more you bunch of nimrods.
Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 227 people in one of the bloodiest days for the Palestinians in 60 years of conflict with the Jewish state.UPDATE: Video of protests in the West Bank.
Hamas vowed revenge including suicide bomb attacks in the "cafes and streets" of Israel. But Israeli leaders said the offensive would continue as long as necessary and suggested it may also involve land forces.
Prospects of progress in peace talks seemed as good as dead.
Black smoke billowed over Gaza City, where the dead and wounded lay on the ground after Israel bombed more than 40 security compounds, including two where Hamas was hosting graduation ceremonies for new recruits.
At the main Gaza City graduation ceremony, uniformed bodies lay in a pile and the wounded writhed in pain. Some rescue workers beat their heads and shouted "God is greatest." One badly wounded man quietly recited verses from the Koran.
"I call upon you to carry out a third intifada (uprising)," Hamas leader Meshaal said on Al-Jazeera television. The first Palestinian intifada began in 1987 and the second in 2000 after peace talks failed.
Hamas estimated that at least 100 members of its security forces had been killed, including police chief Tawfiq Jabber and the head of Hamas's security and protection unit, along with at least 15 women and some children.
Morgues across the Gaza Strip ran out of space for bodies.
Barack the Magic Negro
Here's the song that is at the center of controversy this week. Not sure why. Well, actually I do, the song was included on a CD gift sent to friends by a top Republican operative and now the mainstream media is appalled. Strange, the media didn't seem appalled when the LA Times article that labeled Obama the "magic negro" went to print more than a year ago.
Joe Dirt Donates $100,000 to Phoenix Police to Fight Mexican Drug Cartels
David Spade has donated $100,000 to the Phoenix police to fight Mexican drug cartels. Upon presentation of the check, Joe Dirt was quoted as saying "Is this gay?...Is this gay?"
Actor and one-time Phoenix resident David Spade has donated $100,000 to the Phoenix Police Department. The department will use the much needed funds to buy high-powered rifles to defend the city from the growing influence of Mexican drug cartels.
Through his publicist, Spade explained that "these guys need to be able to do their jobs, and I am just happy I could help."
Spade says he got the idea for the donation after seeing a story on FOX News. Phoenix police say Spade called asking to donate to their rifle program after he saw that officers, outgunned and desperate for more firepower, wanted to buy their own semi-automatic rifles.
Spade, 44, grew up in the Phoenix area and graduated from Arizona State University. The "Rules of Engagement" star has helped out cops before, donating $25,000 to the family of a fallen Phoenix police officer last year.
The Headline Actually Reads "Pittsburgh Pirates Snap Up Indian Spearchuckers"
Saw this headline in the TimesOnline. It reads "Pittsburgh Pirates Snap Up Indian Spearchuckers". It's a story about how the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team is showing interest in two contestants of an Indian reality TV show after they were clocked throwing a baseball over 90 miles per hour. I just like the headline.
Jesus Takes it to the Streets
It sounds like a Doobie Brothers song mashup:
Dressed in flowing robes and thorny crowns, about 400 churchgoers promised their pastor they'd dress like Jesus as a hard-to-miss reminder of the holiday's religious roots.
Members of Praise Chapel Christian Fellowship began showing up that way last week at jobs, shopping malls and restaurants. The demonstration wrapped up Wednesday.
"I know it's a crazy idea," said pastor Kelly Lohrke, whose 600 members attend services in Kansas City, Kan., and nearby Lee's Summit, Mo. "I know it's a radical idea. Christians can have fun with their faith and sharing their faith."
Lohrke said he came up with the idea out of frustration over the removal of crosses, nativity scenes and other religious symbols from public view.
Thanks Suckers: Chrysler Thanks Taxpayers for Bailout Money by Purchasing $100,000 Ad in the USA Today
Chrysler has purchased a full page ad in the USA Today thanking Americans for providing them with bailout money. An action that most Americans opposed. Not exactly good business sense to spend the bailout money on such an ad. Then again, why not? It's not their money anyway.
See the ad here.
Monkeys at the Spa
Japanese Macaques of Jigokudani hotsprings in Nagano have become famous for their visits here every winter. they love bathing in the hot water of the volcanic spa. Although they can whithstand temperatures of up-to -15 degrees Celsius thet are most known for the ridiculous amount of time they spend at the spa.
Obama Can't Attend Church, but He Found Time to Go to an Amusement Park
Obama chose not to attend church on Christmas. But he has found time to take his daughters to an amusement park. I guess he figured the line for the roller coaster was shorter than the line for eternal salvation.
President-elect Barack Obama arrived at Sea Life Park, a marine amusement
park in Waimanalo, about 12:10 p.m. He is apparently inside the park with
daughters Malia and Sasha. He left their Kailua vacation home without the
protective press pool.
Your pool arrived at the park about 1:10 p.m. and are holding outside the
park to await instructions on whether we will have access to the Obamas.
Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt issued the following statement to your pool:
"With no further scheduled events for the day, a lid was called until
further notice. The President-elect decided to take the girls to a water
park and we assembled the pool as quickly as possible."
The park is nestled along the shoreline in the sparsely populated and
scenic Waimanalo area, with soaring volcanic mountains nearby.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Video: Iranian Shoe Tossing
Iranians tossing shoes at pictures of George Bush. Keep it up fools. Your day is coming.
What Happens When You Have to Work the Day After Christmas
Man pukes after spinning around in his office chair at work. And people wonder why we're in a recession?
Obamas Break Their Own "Steadfast" Rule By Giving Their Children Christmas Presents
Last summer we reported about a magazine interview of Barack and Michelle Obama in which they stated that it was a "steadfast" rule of theirs not to give Christmas presents to their children.
In a magazine interview Obama and his wife Michelle revealed that one of their steadfast house rules is not giving Christmas or birthday presents to Malia, 10, and Sasha, seven.Yet yesterday there was this curious excerpt from the Los Angeles Times:
The couple explained that they spend "hundreds" on birthday slumber parties and want to "teach some limits". Santa Claus is still permitted to deliver seasonal gifts however.
Obama and his family planned to spend their Christmas holiday mostly out of sight, an accomplishment given the high-profile nature of his two-year marathon to win the presidency.Ok. So one of two things is going on here. Either the Obamas are breaking a "steadfast" rule of not giving Christmas parents to their children, or Obama's aides and/or the Los Angeles Times has no idea what the Obamas did for Christmas and simply made up a nice story to sell to the public. Neither scenario seems all that great. On one hand you have the Obamas once again showing a complete lack of consistency or principle, and on the other hand you have the media, once again, pandering to the Obama fantasy and completely failing to do their job.
Obama, wife Michelle and their two young daughters opened presents earlier Thursday and planned their own dinner of turkey and ham, aides said.
Hedon Obama Doesn't Attend Christmas Church Service
This guy is a piece of work. His failure to attend church since being elected is already well documented. But to not even find time to attend on Christmas day?
Obama and his family planned to spend their Christmas holiday mostly out of sight, an accomplishment given the high-profile nature of his two-year marathon to win the presidency.As if any church would have minded if a man sought to worship on Christmas day. He seems to have no problem finding time to go to the gym. But he can't find it in his schedule to go to worship.
Obama, wife Michelle and their two young daughters opened presents earlier Thursday and planned their own dinner of turkey and ham, aides said.
Their Christmas did not include attending church. "The president-elect didn't want to disrupt a church community on Christmas with the burdens that come with a presidential visit," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said Thursday.
Al Qaeda Destroys Churches and Non-Muslim Graves in Somalia
And the general population seems OK with it.
Children's Books Use Christmas to Push Global Warming Agenda
They'll stop at nothing.
Global warming alarmists, picking up where the Grinch left off, are trying to steal Christmas, some critics say. From children's books to school plays, the climate change crowd is dreaming of a green Christmas, angering opponents who say 'tis NOT the season to be preachy.
The children's book "Santa Goes Green" by Anne Margaret Lewis tells how a young boy named Finn gets Santa to leave the North Pole to help him track down Leopold, a polar bear he has adopted, because the sea ice is melting and Leopold's home is in danger.
“You see, it’s like this Santa,” Finn tells Santa in the book. “I’ve adopted a polar bear named Leopold. He is in danger of losing his home. I’m sure you being in the North Pole you know about the melting glaciers. All I want this year Santa, is to save Leopold and his home.”
Santa is so inspired by his visit to the polar bear that he decides to re-use last year's wrapping paper, recycle toys and start using wind to generate power for his toy shop.
The book ends with a note from Santa urging kids to send him notes on how to take care of the planet.
A musical, "Santa Goes Green," for children in grades 4 through 8, also made its debut this year. The 40-minute production features seven songs.
Song titles include: "Recycle the Fruitcake," "The Greenhouse Effect" and "Turn Off The Pump (And Plug In The Sleigh.)"
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Obama Flies in His Friends to Play Basketball
I guess the globetrotter needed some Washington Generals types to lay down and let him win. Oh, and this article. One of the most stark examples of journalistic fellatio you will ever see. I hope the author wiped his forehead when he finished. From WaPo:
But one habit endures: Obama has gone to the gym, for about 90 minutes a day, for at least 48 days in a row. He always has treated exercise less as recreation than requirement, but his devotion has intensified during the past few months. Between workouts during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.What recession? Obama used campaign donations to play hoops.
The more Obama's life intensifies, friends said, the more he relies on the gym -- which is why he might be taking office in the best shape of his life. The gym is where he releases stress, maintains a routine and thinks without interruption. He sometimes wears headphones and barricades the outside world.
"He does it every day like clockwork," said Marty Nesbitt, one of Obama's closest friends from Chicago. "He doesn't think of it as something he has to do -- it's his time for himself, a chance for him to reflect. It's his break. He feels better and more revved up after he gets in his workout."
To accommodate Obama during the 18-month presidential campaign, aides arranged workouts for him in several dozen states. The staff called gyms a few days before his arrival and persuaded them to close late or open early to oblige the candidate's schedule. Once, on July 17, Obama visited a gym three times within 16 hours. Other days -- often before primary election nights -- he flew in half a dozen friends to play a few hours of pickup basketball.
Jessie Jr.'s House Catches Fire
Da roof, da roof, da roof is on fire.
A small fire started at the home of U. S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. early Wednesday on the South Side.
At 12:15 a.m. Chicago Fire Department's truck 49, Engine 126 and Battalion Chief 17 responded to a fire in the 2500 block of East 72nd Street, police said.
A still alarm was called for the small fire, according to Fire Media Affairs Cmdr. Will Knight.
The origin of the fire was underneath the main fireplace in the residence and the victims were listed in a police report as U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson (7th), police said.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Santa's Workshop -- The Reality
Chinese child slave labor.
Low labor costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment.
Iran Holds Shoe Toss Outside U.S. Embassy
Do they know it's Christmas time at all? From the IRNA:
A `Shoe Sit-in' started here outside the US Den of Spies Wednesday in support of the Iraqi reporter, Muntazer al- Zeidi, who tossed his shoe at the US President George W. Bush at a press conference in Baghdad.h/t Gateway Pundit
The meeting, organized by Student Basij Organization of universities of the capital city Tehran, also condemns US crimes in Iraq.
The participants are to throw shoes at the former US Embassy in Tehran, the symbol of the `Big Satan', as is covered by the US flag in today's sit-in.
The ground is also covered by US, UK and Israeli flags.
The students carried placards bearing statements of the late Imam Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and other senior personalities of the country.
The demonstrators chanted such slogans as 'Down with the US', and 'Down with Israel'.
Oh Snap! You Got Christmas Punked - Boy Gets an XBox 360 Box Full of Clothes
Actually, this is downright stone cold. The boy thinks he's getting an Xbox 360 but instead gets a box full of clothes. And then his family posts the video on youtube.
Emanuel Passed on Names for Senate Consideration to Blago
I told you this is how this would all play out. Obama to release the Emanuel and Blagojevich ties on Christmas Eve. In the hopes that few will notice.
Federal prosecutors investigating alleged corruption by Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich interviewed President-elect Barack Obama and two of his top advisers last week in connection with the case, according to a memo released Tuesday by the Obama transition team.
The five-page memo denies any wrongdoing or improper communication between the transition team and Mr. Blagojevich, who prosecutors allege sought to fill Mr. Obama's vacant Senate seat in exchange for money or a better job. Prosecutors have said no one on the Obama transition team is a suspect.
Mr. Obama had promised shortly after Mr. Blagojevich's Dec. 9 arrest to release an accounting of contacts between his staff and the governor's office. Federal agents had been wiretapping conversations by Mr. Blagojevich in October and November as part of their criminal investigation.
The memo released Tuesday said Mr. Obama's incoming White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, contacted Mr. Blagojevich and his staff at least five times after Election Day, and produced a slate of suggested replacements for Mr. Obama's vacated Senate seat. Mr. Emanuel spoke about four times to Blagojevich chief of staff John Harris to discuss the Senate seat.
Merry Christmas! -- 80 Years of Popular Science Back Issues Now on the Internet
This has to be good for something.
Read them here.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Inspiration by Hot Air
I just read a post on Hot Air about how their traffic had gone way up today due to the Obamaton loons searching google for "obama shirtless" articles. To that end, as I will take all the traffic I can get, please bear with this shameless post designed to increase the traffic here. I think I know where the mainstream media is going during the next four years:
shirtless obama
pantless obama
nude obama
naked obama
obama pecs
obama glutes
obama calves
obama ankles
obama having sex with a midget
obama having sex with his mother
obama having sex with himself
obama having sex with joe biden
obama having sex with nancy pelosi
obama having sex with hillary clinton
Nothing to do but sit back and wait.
Feds Interviewed Obama During Blago Probe
You think the "most transparent administration ever would have told us this themselves. From the Smoking Gun:
President-elect Barack Obama and two of his top advisers were interviewed last week by federal prosecutors probing Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's alleged bid to sell Obama's vacated Senate seat, according to a report issued today by an Obama lawyer.
As part of his review of transition team "contacts" with Blagojevich, Craig reported that only incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had spoke with the Illinois pol. Emanuel, Craig disclosed, had "one or two telephone calls" with Blagojevich in early-November. Emanuel reportedly gave Blagojevich a "heads up" that he was accepting Obama's offer of the chief of staff job (and, as a result, would be resigning his congressional seat). Emanuel also "had a brief discussion with the Governor about the Senate seat and the merits of various people whom the Governor might consider." Craig also noted that Emanuel had "about four telephone conversations with John Harris, Chief of Staff to the Governor, on the subject of the Senate seat. In these conversations, Mr. Emanuel and Mr. Harris discussed the merits of potential candidates and the strategic benefit that each candidate would bring to the Senate seat." In addition to the president-elect, Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett, an Obama confidante, were interviewed in the past few days by investigators with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago, which, on December 9, announced criminal charges against Blagojevich and Harris.
Scientist Fired by Al Gore for Displaying Global Warming Skepticism
The scientist was told, "science will not intrude on public policy".
Noted energy expert and Princeton physicist Dr. Will Happer has sharply criticized global warming alarmism. Happer, author of over 200 scientific papers and a past director of energy research at the Department of Energy, called fears over global warming "mistaken".
"I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect", said Happer. "Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science."
Dr. Happer views climate change as a predominately natural process. "The earth's climate is changing now, as it always has. There is no evidence that the changes differ in any qualitative way from those of the past."
In 1991, Happer was appointed director of energy research for the US Department of Energy. In 1993, he testified before Congress that the scientific data didn't support widespread fears about the dangers of the ozone hole and global warming, remarks that caused then-Vice President Al Gore to fire him. "I was told that science was not going to intrude on public policy", he said. "I did not need the job that badly".
Anarchists Rampaging Greece
Lamest riot ever. -- ATHENS (Reuters) - Hundreds of anarchists marched through Athens on Tuesday hours after a gunman opened fire at a riot police bus, in a third week of anti-government protests since police shot dead a teenager. Police said the unidentified gunman shot at the bus carrying 19 officers when it stopped at traffic lights outside a university campus in eastern Athens at around 5 a.m. Two bullets hit the bus, bursting a tire, but no one was injured in the incident. A police official, who asked not to be identified, said the shots were believed to come from the campus and were fired from a military weapon. Authorities are investigating the incident, which followed a two-day lull in disturbances.
Barney Frank: Obama Ain't All That
Barney Frank lectures on charm. Come soft on the gay issue and Mr. Frank will turn on you like Andy Dick on a boyscout.
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) thinks that President-elect Obama picked same-sex marriage opponent Rick Warren to give the inauguration invocation because Obama "overestimates" his ability to unify people.Actually Barney, I think the clinical name for what you suffer from is "post co#k sucker depression".
"Oh, I believe that he overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences," said Frank, the first House member to come out of the closet voluntarily.
"But my one question is, I think he overestimates his ability to take people, particularly our colleagues on the right, and, sort of, charm them into being nice," Frank said. "I know he talks about being post-partisan. But I've worked, frankly, with Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay, the current Republican leadership. The current Republican leadership in the House repudiated George Bush. I don't know why Mr. Obama thinks he's going to have them better than George Bush.
"And so, to be honest, when he talks about being post-partisan, having seen these people and knowing what they would do in that situation, I suffer from post-partisan depression," Frank said jokingly.
Obama's Cabinet Picks Being Dictated by Kook Left-Wing Bloggers
A man of principle standing tough in the face of vigorous opposition. Not really. Obama folded like a Chinaman in a Shanghai Laundromat.
John Brennan, Obama's chief intelligence adviser and anticipated CIA chief, was recently forced to withdraw his name. There was no drumbeat of opposition to Brennan from the front pages or on cable. Rather, the pick was torpedoed by the blogosphere.
"Apparently there is a lot of pressure on the Obama team from a blog saying that Brennan couldn't be made the director of the CIA because he was involved in torture and renditions, which he wasn't," said Mark Lowenthal, former assistant CIA director.
The turn of events only emphasizes the influence of the Internet on the operation of a president-elect whose campaign was powered in large part by the Web.
"Blogs do have significant influence," said blogger Glenn Greenwald, one of those critical of Brennan. "I think the Obama team would be foolish if they just ignored what happened on blogs, and I know for a fact that there are people high up in the Obama campaign and now the transition team who read blogs regularly."
As a result, say knowledgeable sources, the Obama transition team pushed Brennan to withdraw his name. "Their knees buckled," one intelligence veteran said.
Crying Sorority Girl
I'm not sure what's going on here, but apparently, this girl has some kind of super powers and made it snow. And then she was threatened with being kicked out of the sorority. She's still in the sorority. She also the laughing stock of the internet.
New York Times Gets Punked by Fake French Guy
Rumors of the New York Times' demise are not exaggerated:
Early this morning, we posted a letter that carried the name of Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, sharply criticizing Caroline Kennedy.
This letter was a fake. It should not have been published.
Doing so violated both our standards and our procedures in publishing signed letters from our readers.
We have already expressed our regrets to Mr. Delanoë's office and we are now doing the same to you, our readers.
This letter, like most Letters to the Editor these days, arrived by email. It is Times procedure to verify the authenticity of every letter. In this case, our staff sent an edited version of the letter to the sender of the email and did not hear back. At that point, we should have contacted Mr. Delanoë's office to verify that he had, in fact, written to us.
We did not do that. Without that verification, the letter should never have been printed.
We are reviewing our procedures for verifying letters to avoid such an incident in the future.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Nine Decapitated Bodies Found Near Acapulco
Finish the border fence and finish it quick.
Mexican police on Sunday found nine decapitated bodies and the army identified eight soldiers who had died fighting powerful drug gangs and whose murders were seen as a brazen challenge to the government.
The bodies showed signs of torture. They were left on the side of a highway about an hour north of the tourist resort of Acapulco in the southern state of Guerrero, state police said.
Their heads were stuffed in a plastic bag and left outside a shopping center.
A note left with the severed heads warned of more decapitations, the state police said.
Only the dog was smart enough to get away
As it should be. I hope he went back and feasted upon their still smoking flesh.
Hey all you American car haters out there.
Get yourself one of them new Jeep four door Rubicons like me. Lets see a friggin' hybird wimp-ass "green" car do this. God Bless America.
Those new 2012 Pelosi cars won't get you over a curb.
FBI Probing Terrorist Involvement in U.S. Somali Communities
Looks like they've been reading The Big Feed.
Federal agents are investigating whether young men from Somali immigrant enclaves in the U.S. are traveling back to their parents' homeland to fight on the side of Islamist terror groups.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is following the trail of more than a dozen young men missing from Somali communities in several U.S. cities, including Minneapolis, Boston and Columbus, Ohio, according to people familiar with the probe. Counterterrorism officials in Europe and Australia also are investigating similar reports in their countries.
Families of three teenagers earlier this month went public in Minneapolis, home to the largest Somali enclave in the U.S., saying their teenagers had disappeared in recent months and then turned up in Somalia. The families were spurred to action in part after twin October terror bombings in their homeland. One of them is believed to have been the first suicide bombing carried out by an American, according to U.S. law-enforcement officials.
Leopard Kills Monkey's Mama and then Takes Care of its Baby
Lacadima one 3-year old leopard chases and kill one female baboon. When she takes the prey to her lair,a surprize is waiting her , the little stranger of her prey. How does she react? Look what happend!
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