Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 19th, 2007
It was just before Christmas when authorities received a call from an unknown man saying he had accidentally spilled some mercury in an LA subway station. The man then disappeared and has yet to be found. Then authorities took more than 8 hours before sending out a HAZMAT team to ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Homeland Security | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Abu Izzadeen, "a British-born Muslim", belatedly, agrees with that characterization. He puts it this way:
Prophet Mohammed's message to nonbelievers is: "I come to slaughter all of you."
"We are the Muslims," said Omar Brooks, an extremist also known as Abu Izzadeen. "We drink the blood of the enemy, and we can ...
Posted in Diaries | 2 Comments »
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Late Note: Although the article is the same, stop by Poobah Speaks for additional comments. They're interesting.
I cross post nearly all of my political pieces to both The Omnipotent Poobah Speaks and Bring It On (BIO). Even though I appear in several mostly conservative blogrolls, it's relatively rare that a ...
Posted in General, Gonzo's Grab Bag, HERO, Patriot, Politics, Right Wing Nut, Weblogs | 10 Comments »
Friday, January 19th, 2007
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Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Venezuela's National Assembly has given initial approval to a bill granting President Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree for 18 months.
Anyone want to bet that, during that 18 months, one of the "political ... changes" (see quote immediately below) is to essentially extend those 18 months to ...
Posted in Diaries | 3 Comments »
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
"We don't talk to evil."
That, apparently, is the response given to US State Department officials by the office of Vice-President Cheney regarding an Iranian diplomatic letter allegedly sent to the US in 2003, according to BBC's Newsnight program. In the letter, Iran offered to end their support for Hamas and ...
Posted in Current Affairs, IDIOT, Middle East, Politics, Terrorism | 9 Comments »
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
People give Saint Reagan so much credit for the collapse of the Soviet Union you'd think he was personally atop the Berlin Wall swinging a sledge and drunkenly toasting mit bier. But, his doe-eyed admirers sometimes forget the story is a little more complex.
They prefer to believe that by hurling ...
Posted in Current Affairs, DailyFeatured, Economics, General, Gonzo's Grab Bag, Politics | 31 Comments »
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Donald Stoker, professor of strategy and policy for the U.S. Naval War College’s Monterey Program, argues in Foreign Policy that, with Bush's surge, The US can defeat the insurgency. He writes:
Vietnam taught many Americans the wrong lesson: that determined guerrilla fighters are invincible. But history shows that insurgents rarely win, ...
Posted in Diaries | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Carol Lam, the US Attorney in San Diego was asked to resign by the Bush Administration for what they are calling "job performance issues." Lam was originally appointed by President Bush in 2002. She will step down in mid-February. According to an unnamed official quoted in an article in ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Legal News, Politics | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
Old video but, Jesus Christ!!! I saw this again today and still freaks me out.
Posted in Diaries | 3 Comments »
