January 04, 2005
New Fox Programming
This post just made me crack up. It centers around new Fox programming following their hit last night "Who's Your Daddy."
I must admit, I did watch some of the show because I found the first half of the Sugar Bowl boring. I couldn't believe where they found these people though. One of the rarities in my life is that I've actually dated five different women who were adopted. I know, I know, most guys never even date one. While I always wondered if they wanted to meet their real fathers, only one of those women actually cared who her biological parents were.
Then there are, I guess, women like the one who appeared on the show who cried at the thought she might meet her father. Instead of wanting a genuine meeting, she chose to go on a reality television program and make a fool out of herself, weeping the entire time and making the show look completley fake and melodramatic.
Anywho, go read this post for a good laugh.
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kid, twice is a coincidence. five times is a pattern. It's not necessarily bad, but if you want to explore it further, email me.
Posted by: andrew at January 04, 2005 11:40 PM (+7VNs)
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Heh. Five is a pattern, you're right, and it's pathetic.
Posted by: Chad Evans at January 04, 2005 11:48 PM (qr1qm)
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70,000 Trained in Afghanistan
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Some 70,000 people received weapons training and religious instruction in al-Qaeda camps, German police says.
The claim came at the retrial of Mounir al-Motassadek, a Moroccan man accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks, which were partly planned in Germany.
A German police officer told the court recruits at the camps were taught they had a duty to kill US citizens.
The full extent of Al Qaeda's base of operations in Afghanistan is not known, though in my view 70,000 trained in Afghanistan seems like a very low number. Al Qaeda is a well organized, vast terrorist network with sleeper cells in nearly every country around the world.
For the sake of argument, let's assume the 70,000 figure is accurate. Osama Bin Laden would have to be able to effectively communicate with heads of various cell leaders in order for the terrorist group to operate. We have learned Al Qaeda in the past has communicated via email extensively, though reports now indicate the majority of communications are being made via couriers. How many of these 70,000 terrorists are just couriers?
I do make the presumption that Al Qaeda has trained couriers, communications experts, hackers, etc. in the art of warfare based upon a key part of the training camps being indoctrinating jihadists with the ideology. The training camps do not just teach bomb making and marksmanship, they teach those willing to participate who their enemy is and why their enemy threatens Islam.
We do know this based upon the outreach program that has reached Europe, where hundreds of terrorists are attending mosques and learning the ways of jihad. The operational methods of Al Qaeda are most likely similar to that of the military of most nations. There are grunts, leaders, engineers, etc., but they are all trained with at least the basic combat tactical methods.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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The number I have is 20,000 people have gone through al Qaeda camps under the direction of bin Laden -- as opposed to the training camps other jihadist groups. Of these 20,000 people, only 2,000 qualified to become active "members." The scary part, however, is that the remaining 18,000 have been told that they are to go back to their normal lives, but at a moment's notice may be called for "self-martyrdom" (ie, suicide missions).
Posted by: Leopold Stotch at January 04, 2005 02:32 PM (xy3bN)
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20,000 with only 2,000 members? That seems like an extremely low number though. We've killed more than 2,000 members in a matter of a couple of weeks in Afghanistan alone.
How have you quantified this figure Leopold? What criteria has Al Qaeda decided will make for a "member" versus a suicide bomber?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by: Chad Evans at January 04, 2005 02:43 PM (qr1qm)
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I'll have to try to find it; it was in an academic journal, but I read so many of those they get mixed up. Perhaps it was off (or my memory is off) by a factor of 10, although 200,000 sounds too large to me.
But the essence was that only 10 percent of trainees become active members -- I think defined by those who leave their homes and jobs to be full-time terrorists. Really what I was pointing out was the rejection rate, to indicate that there is as much larger army of potential killers that will need to be dealt with. They failed at their training, and the idea is that the only way they'll ever redeem themselves is via being chosen for a martyrdom operation.
Posted by: Leopold Stotch at January 04, 2005 03:33 PM (xy3bN)
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Nah, it's much bigger than that. Chad is absolutely correct that Al Qaeda or links to Al Qaeda is in every damn country on this earth and that's a lot of people - and every one has a job to do when they are called.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 04:25 PM (D39Vm)
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Just think all those innocent civilians the bleeding heat lib's feel sorry for, are the very ones being trained to hate and eventually, kill us!
Don't you think that's why Osama, Zarqawi and whoever the hell else is holed up, aren't found yet? They have many followers who are protecting them. Kinda like a Mid East cult.
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Zarqawi Captured?
In a somewhat funny twist of fate, I have received unconfirmed reports that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have been captured in a raid in the Baghdad area.
(Simultaneously launched by Bravo Romeo Delta from Demosophia, The Jawa Daily News, & Anticipatory Retaliation)
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Let us hope this is true!
Posted by: Cindy at January 04, 2005 12:05 PM (O1SIn)
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Captured? You mean he did not die fighting? What a coward! The Army should plut him before a firing squad! I volunteer but I want an old M14.
Rod Stanton
Posted by: Rod Stanton at January 04, 2005 12:29 PM (tHUgl)
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Rod - if you kill him, we can't milk him or remand him to the gentle caresses of the Iraqi government who, I am sure, have plenty of things they wish to talk about with him.
Then shoot him.
Then, I am sure there are a multidue of relatives who have died due to his actions, who would like nothing more than to talk and express their grief with pliers, power drills, carpet knifes and broken bottles.
Then shoot him.
With a rock salt gun.
Posted by: Bravo Romeo Delta at January 04, 2005 01:16 PM (kiA+F)
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If they did capture him, we would deny it first. Then I would imagine we would torture the living piss out of him for info. (no pics this time please)
Then, Perhaps he should be given a boob job and put in a prison for some quality ass raping. THen perhaps after a week of that, give him the Louima treatment with a dirty plunger. Then torture him some more for the hell of it. Make him eat a pork chop, cut his nuts off, boil them in pigs blood and make him eat it. then kill him.
Posted by: Obdiah Snooks at January 04, 2005 02:14 PM (yBHNA)
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I read that too, over at http://haganah.us/haganah/index.html. Is it true??? *fingers crossed* OMG, it's another Christmas miracle!
Posted by: Princess Kimberley at January 04, 2005 02:44 PM (ZcUkT)
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If he was in the control of the Iraqis I doubt if they would do anymore to him than they have to Saddam. Most still don't understand those people. They will forgive and forget anything if the Islamofacist clerics say his crimes were done for the good of Islam.
I don't trust their politicians any more than I trust their soldiers.
His immediate execution would be the only option. Holding him for trial would only result in more hostages. This man should not be taken alive. Nor should osama or any of the terrorist leaders. Saddams sons are no longer a threat because they are dead. As they should be.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 04, 2005 03:11 PM (xRptl)
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I hear Osama snitched on Zarqawi because he was getting all the attention lately. MSM needs to carry this story.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 04, 2005 03:18 PM (xRptl)
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That's right, let's kill them and turn them into the martyrs they want to become.
I'd be surprised if we ever hear that bin Laden or Zarqawi are captured or killed. If you kill them, you turn them into myths whose deaths would inspire millions more. If you publicly capture them, you risk having endless hostage takings, killings, bombings as their followers demand their release. If you capture them in secret and don't publicize it, you could do anything you want to them and none of their followers would ever know.
Posted by: Venom at January 04, 2005 03:22 PM (dbxVM)
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BRD that may be why you got a commission and I was a noncom. I stand corrected.
Rod
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Rod,
I'm flattered and humbled. But I am not commissioned.
Just a pointy-headed fellow with a mean streak than can be cultivated from time to time.
Posted by: Bravo Romeo Delta at January 05, 2005 09:21 AM (kiA+F)
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You guys are funny. Zarqawi should be tortured in every possible way, as you've all stated for what he has done to so many people. We'd be sinking to his level but I think for once we could handle doing that - get the plastic suits out - don't want to get all bloody now, do we?
:-)
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 04:34 PM (D39Vm)
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i like all these ideas but shuldnt we do this to all muslems that do not make an efort to help catch the bad ones.and if there are any good ones lets just take them out so they dont make any more of these little demons we call muslim.
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Baghdad Regional Governor Killed
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen assassinated the governor of the Iraqi province that includes Baghdad, Ali al-Haidari, on Tuesday, police officials said.
Al-Haidari was shot dead while in his car in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Hurriyah, said the police officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. He was a target of another assassination attempt last year.
The officials said al-Haidari left his house in the western al-Jama'a neighborhood and when he arrived in al-Hurriyah gunmen riddled his car with bullets. He died instantly, they said.
Sad news, yet those in charge of the government inside of Iraq have been targets of various terrorist groups for a very long time.
Update Al Qaeda in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the assassination on al-Haidari and has released a video. The video may be downloaded at Terrorist Media (registration required).
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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I guess you did not get the word. We need more troops! Both there and at home.
Rod Stanton
Cerritos
Posted by: Rod Stanton at January 04, 2005 06:42 AM (tHUgl)
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More troops, more money, more hoes, more cars, more bodyguards, more cigars.
I heard the word too..
The terrorists can kill every Iraqi in the name of saving the Iraqi people and they still would'nt get it.
Posted by: qpr jon at January 04, 2005 10:21 AM (XnNC6)
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Well as of today when President Bush asked Congress for an extra $100M for the troops in Iraq; it was denied.
WRITE YOUR SENTATOR AND YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND REPRESENTATIVE!!!!
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 05:42 PM (D39Vm)
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Because the aid is going to the tsunami effort. Mind you, I said "effort" and NOT the "people"!
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Cindy thanks for the heads up.
Rod
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January 03, 2005
Tsunami Survivor Rescued 100 Miles Out To Sea
Here's a bit of good news from an otherwise sad situation. A 23-year-old woman was
rescued 100 miles out to sea by a Malaysian-registered fishing boat after clinging to an uprooted palm tree for five days. Weak, dehydrated, and badly sunburned, Malawati of Kampung Denon in Banda Aceh, survived on rainwater and fruit from the palm tree. Malawati relayed that she had been washing clothes at her home about 2 kilometers from the ocean when the tsunami came and swept her out to sea.
News of her miraculous survival spread quickly. When the boat docked Monday, she was joyously met by officials, politicians, medical personnel, and the media.
Companion post at Interested-Participant.
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Amazing..
Thanks for posting IP..
Posted by: qpr jon at January 04, 2005 10:23 AM (XnNC6)
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Its a miricle i tell you a miricle
Posted by: sandpiper at January 04, 2005 08:12 PM (wPaki)
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Is this the same woman who found out she was 18 weeks pregnant today?
Cindy
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Criminals Target Tsunami Victims
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Thieves, rapists, kidnappers and hoaxers are preying on tsunami survivors and families of victims in Asian refugee camps, hospitals and in the home countries of European tourists hit by the wave.
Reports and warnings came in from as far apart as Britain, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Hong Kong on Monday of criminals taking advantage of the chaos to rape survivors in Sri Lanka or plunder the homes of European tourists reported missing.
There have also been reports of sexual abuse of women and girls in rescue shelters and during unsupervised rescue operations. Thieves in Thailand have been masquerading as police and looting hotels of the belongings of tsunami victims. Along the coasts of Sumatra, pirates pose a constant danger to relief efforts. In a related report, Prime Minister Goeran Persson stated that Swedish authorities are withholding the names and addresses of victims to preclude home burglaries.
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WHAT GOD?....
May I point out to all the people who rushed to defend God's existence that all the classical arguments for the existence of God were demolished in the 18th century by the Scottish philosopher, David Hume, and the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant (who substituted the Categorical Imperative for God).
Since that time (to my knowledge) no new arguments have been advanced which command any kind of intellectual respect. Those people all seem to rely heavily on the First Cause argument; this, alas, is totally invalid for the simple reason that it negates its own premise. If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause; if however, we can conceive of anything as happening without a cause, it might just as well be the universe as God.
I personally believe that the man who got it spot-on correct was the great scientist and biologist, J B S Haldane when he very perceptibly wrote: "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
I believe that another word from me on the subject would be totally superfluous.
Posted by: Solid at January 04, 2005 12:53 AM (PM/BC)
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The only thing Kant showed us was that God, being beyond our comprehension, is also beyond proof or disproof. So your apparent attempt to disprove His existence via these events is futile, as you yourself should know.
Why are you even bothering to post this comment here? It seems to have little or nothing to do with the subject above...
Posted by: randomscrub at January 04, 2005 10:49 AM (9rqUq)
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@Solid.....
Not so long ago you would have been unable to suggest that all things must necessarily have a cause. Even leaving aside Hume's objections to causation something may in princple exist without beginning or end, or have come into existence spontaneously (more on this later).
Neither is less probable than the idea of a conscious creator God.
Strato of Lampsacus (one of Aristotle's successors as head of the Lyceum) pointed out in the third century BC that the universe could simply exist and that it was up to those who wished to show otherwise to demonstrate sufficient cause for believing that it did not. No one has managed to do it to general satisfaction in the succeeding 22 centuries.
Some argue that because the universe is deemed to have a finite age by modern cosmologists, this ruins the perpetual existence possibility. It does not. All the cosmologists say is that the universe as we know it is finite in age. What was before the Big Bang is beyond the reach of the cosmologists. Moreover, if one interpretation of the universe is correct - that it will eventually contract back to the original pre-Big Bang condition - the universe could then be seen as perpetual, merely going through a cycle of expantion and contraction.
Why does anything exist? The nearest I have to an answer is this: there is an infinite number of possibilities for something to exist and only a single possibility that nothing should exist.
Posted by: paul at January 04, 2005 02:26 PM (PM/BC)
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I say they should bring them the western neck-tie parties with a gallows and a place to hang the no good sidewinders from it this is a bunch of crinimal taking advantage of their misfortunes a bit like some of our trial lawyers
Posted by: sandpiper at January 04, 2005 08:15 PM (wPaki)
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Why are you discussing God? God has nothing to do with this or these actions: PEOPLE DO!!!!! The entire area that was hit by the tsunami are Muslims but what we're talking about is WHAT BAD PEOPLE DO DURING A CRISIS TO GOOD PEOPLE! It is People who make choices, have free will, know right from wrong and for the most part, people have pulled together all over this earth to help these countries, these people hit by the tsumani but what comes around goes around but there are too many us troops on the ground, in the boats, on the flight decks and all the other troops from all the other countries. Whatever was being done to other people will end immediately; of that I have no doubt.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 04:47 PM (D39Vm)
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Jan Egeland Explained
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"Stingy" Western nations remark made by Jan Egeland is still being debated by the pundits days after it was first made.
The Associated Press attempts to clear things up for us. From CNN.com:
Norway was highest [giving as a percentage of GDP], at 0.92 percent; the United States was last, at 0.14 percent.
Such figures were what prompted Jan Egeland -- the United Nations' emergency relief coordinator and former head of the Norwegian Red Cross -- to challenge the giving of rich nations.
Damn generous, those Norwegians. But let's put things into perspective. Here is an actual photo of .92 percent of Norway's GDP.
(cross posted at Cranky Neocon)
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Aren't there international treaties that prohibit exporting Lutefisk?
Posted by: Eric Jay Akawie at January 03, 2005 09:28 PM (EGPsr)
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Not in humanitarian situations, my friend. BTW, what's Lutefisk?
Posted by: Gordon at January 03, 2005 09:29 PM (dEFhD)
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Jan is "Old Europe" nuf said.
Rod Stanton
Posted by: Rod Stanton at January 04, 2005 06:44 AM (tHUgl)
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GORDON: You don't want to try it. Yuk!
How much has Norway & others given to anything in the last 10 years?
My take is that we don't owe anyone anything. Frankly, its not the UN or any else's business of how much and to whom we choose to give our money to. I don't even think it should be advertised. I give to charities of my choice. The ammount is not published in the papers. Its between my family and those I choose to help. I choose the ammount and to whom because its mine. If I don't like you or you have hurt me in the past your off my list. America's business is America's business.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 04, 2005 07:16 AM (kkjRj)
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Thanks Greyrooster. All told, I feel the same way you do about giving.
On Hannity and Colmes yestersday, Ann Coulter was squaring off with a Democratic party strategist. She (not Ann) was saying that Bush would spin this whole crisis/giving issue by touting how much individual Americans and private organizations would give. Bush would then go on to say how much better this is to Gov't giving.
Although she probably intended this to be a negative, I think that is ABSOLUTELY correct.
Perhaps in Jan's world, the people can't be trusted to be generous. Only the all-wise State. Probabaly goes back to the days of fiefdoms and serfs. Whatever.
Thanks for posting. U 2 Rod.
Posted by: Gordon at January 04, 2005 07:47 AM (dqTOU)
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I really do love that picture.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 04, 2005 03:22 PM (xRptl)
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It seems to me that idiot knew what he was saying since the UN wants a world tax to be mostly paid by americans for their dirty and filthy projects we dont need the damn UN anymore its time to get us out of the UN and the UN out of the USA
Posted by: sandpiper at January 04, 2005 08:26 PM (wPaki)
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Hate to differ with everyone but I think the UN can be saved. Exposing the BS and stupidity lately (last 20 years) will help forming a more realistic UN. TELL IT LIKE IT IS is our weapon of choice. Kofi Annon and his predecessor should be working for Ringling Bros, Barnum and Bailey. Excuse me, I didn't mean to infer the real clowns were crooks. Why is it neccessary to have idiots from the 3rd world in leadership roles? Why not give the task to someone who can do it.
Yea, Yea, They are not white so my previous statement is racist.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 05, 2005 03:51 PM (sqa1t)
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Why is it necessary to have idiots from Texas in leadership roles? The world is a whole lot bigger, and certainly more interesting, than 50 states...but you all probably wouldn't know anything about that. I hope you are all having fun rolling around in the shit pit of your ingnorance. It's because of people like you that the 9/11 ever happened.
Posted by: jiggy_jig at March 19, 2005 11:02 AM (Zyoie)
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How amusing! Oh well, at least people here have had the common sense to not believe the lie that mr. Egeland called the U.S. stingy, and not all Western nations.
Norway's GDP is as follows:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29
(that's more than $2,627,550000 if the 2005 aid budget is 0.92, but my gov't has pledged an increase in % in foreign aid of GDP for this year)
Aid:
http://www.nakagawa.ca/ascorbic/tsunami/
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/dis_tsu_fun_ple_by_ngo_and_pub_cap
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/dis_tsu_tot_aid_pac_cap
(we've probably given $58 per capita by now, and perhaps much more)
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_eco_aid_don_cap
Excerpt from the site below:
"Adelman, further above noted that the US is “clearly the most generous on earth in public - but especially in private - giving”, yet the CGD suggests otherwise, saying that the US does not close the gap with most other rich countries. “The US gives 13c/day/person in government aid....American’s private giving—another 5c/day—is high by international standards but does not close the gap with most other rich countries. Norway gives $1.02/day in public aid and 24c/day in private aid” per person."
Source: http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp#RankingtheRichbasedonCommitmenttoDevelopment
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Allawi on Iraqi Call-In Show
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi simply smiled during the live television show when a man called to praise terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The Iraqi leader then moved on, offering to find information about a woman's detained son and see why a student didn't get into the graduate program of his choice.
The surprisingly frank hour-long call-in program, "The Iraqi Podium," is a rarity for the region, giving Iraqis the chance to pepper Allawi with questions, from the mundane to the serious. Judging by the show's popularity, Iraqis are taking advantage.
Unfortunately the show is on the United States funded Al-Iraqiya and not on an Arab owned television network, however it is still a positive sign that Iraqis are calling in to talk to Allawi. It is the basic understanding of Democracy, no matter what you say, that needs to be demonstrated to the Iraqi people. This show helps this process by allowing direct access to a candidate and can hopefully solve a few problems existing in Iraq along the way.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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Kinda like the Iraqi version of "Ba Ba Booey"
Posted by: Christopher Cross at January 03, 2005 08:20 PM (iOIEU)
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Have to think about this one. First reaction is that I like it. Is the studio well hidden? If not, Allawi could be next to go up with a big bang.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 04, 2005 07:22 AM (kkjRj)
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Super-Double-Extra-Secret
Remember all that business about Sandy Berger and the "Pants-Full-Of-Secret-Stuff"™? Remember how there was a great deal of shoulder-shrugging and generalized throwing up of hands?
Consider how long this crack bunch of foreign policy folks managed to keep their Kofi Klatch secret?
Just sayin'...
I don't particularly care whether or not the Kofi thing was an intentional leak or not, but it does provide a bit of insight into how different groups of folks do secret differently. And that's why it is that I didn't really take the Berger thing in stride.
(Simultaneously launched by Bravo Romeo Delta from Demosophia, The Jawa Revue, & Anticipatory Retaliation)
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Sandy should already be in jail. He stole government documents and may have destroyed some. Bush needs to be meaner.
Rod Stanton
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Former Al Jazeera Manager Influenced by Saddam
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BEIRUT, Lebanon - A videotape found in Baghdad after the ouster of Saddam Hussein shows a former manager for Al-Jazeera television thanking one of Saddam's sons for his support, the newspaper Asharq al-Awsat says.
The London-based Arabic paper, which has ties to an Al-Jazeera rival and has been feuding with the channel, said Sunday that the tape is dated March 13, 2000, and shows former Al-Jazeera manager Mohammed Jassem al-Ali telling Odai Saddam Hussein that "Al-Jazeera is your channel."
Odai reportedly says "some ideas" he proposed in previous meetings led to "some changes" in Al-Jazeera's political coverage, including new program hosts.
Al-Jazeera fired al-Ali shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. No reason was given, but many in the Arab press speculated al-Ali had been receiving support from Saddam's government.
I would not read too much into this, however it is interesting to note the Al Jazeera did the right thing and fired former Al-Jazeera manager Mohammed Jassem al-Ali after the topple of Saddam. We all should know by now Saddam's area of influence was pretty wide-spread, therefore it should not come as a shock that Al Jazeera was influenced by Saddam's regime.
Even though someone who was pressured by the Hussein Regime to change formats and/or stories, it almost seems as if Al Jazeera is still working for Saddam and the Baathist Party. There has yet to be any kind of special on Al Jazeera concerning Democracy in Iraq or the upcoming elections that has not painted either in less than grim terms.
Political "pundits" in the Middle East describe Democracy as a tool used by the West and fail to give Democracy any merit on how it could and should improve the daily lives of Iraqis. The few commentators on Al Jazeera that have mentioned the positives of Democracy have neither re-appeared on Al Jazeera and were silenced out by critics of Democracy.
Have things really changed?
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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you guys are posting too many words for me...I need some pictures.
Posted by: Mr. K at January 03, 2005 07:15 PM (7n4sc)
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Islamic Army in Iraq Threatens America
UPDATE: This is an archive page. For the latest information on terrorist communiques and videos, please go to the
MAIN PAGE here.
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- AFP (via California Yankee by way of The Command Post)
DUBAI (AFP) - The Islamic Army in Iraq, one of the main armed groups fighting US forces in the war-torn country, has threatened to carry out attacks inside the United States, according to a statement posted on a website.
This year "will bring woes on America. The mujahedeen (holy warriors) have prepared big surprises for your sons outside America and a big surprise for you inside America," said the statement whose authenticity could not be confirmed.
The statement appeared to mark a disturbing shift in strategy by the shadowy Sunni Muslim group which has claimed a number of attacks and killings of hostages in Iraq, including an Italian journalist and two Pakistanis.
The Islamic Army of Iraq has released several
propoganda videos while trying to carry a larger voice inside of Iraq. Personally I would not read too much into these statements as just about every single terrorist group operating in Iraq has called out the United States and threatened attacks on our homeland.
While the well-known terrorist groups in Iraq (Al Qaida in Iraq and Ansar al-Sunna) get almost daily press coverage, the Islamic Army of Iraq has not recieved the attention it craves. In order for a terrorist group to be effective, they must recieve attention for their demands. After all, terrorist groups operate on a fear-based system and many Americans have never heard of them.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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Any terrorist planning or doing harm inside the US should receive a mandatory death sentence to be carried out within 90 days after conviction. Perhaps even a national vote on the subject.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 04, 2005 07:28 AM (kkjRj)
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A death sentence after 90 days? Hell man,we have a shitload
of our own bad boys and girls on our deathrows to kill.
Too many bleeding heart pussies in our judicial system
wont let that happen anytime soon. Payback for any attacks
on this country will have to come from our citizens.
MUSLIMS.......... FEAR THE AMERICAN PSYCHO
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You yanks(wanks) realy suck !!
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A new study by the folks at Pew Internet & American Life Project have just released a study on growth in blog usage over the last year. There were a few interesting subtleties in growth in blog readership.
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Not only do comments generate readers, they generate BLOGGERS. I started reading blogs and commenting on them in December of 2003, and eventually, one of my comments (on this blog, appropriately) generated the comment "Why don't you have a blog of your own?" That got the gears turning, and soon, a Moron was born. Er, rather... Oh, you know what I mean!
Posted by: Brian B at January 03, 2005 03:34 PM (CouWh)
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This is the reason the MSM has tried to play down Rathergate. Along with those eye they are losing go the $ ad revenue.
Posted by: Rod Stanton at January 04, 2005 06:47 AM (tHUgl)
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That should say "eyes" not eye.
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Bush, Clinton Appeal to Americans to Donate
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President George W Bush and two of his predecessors, Bill Clinton and George Bush Senior, have called on Americans to aid the Asian tsunami's victims.
The three men appeared together in the Roosevelt Room at the White House to issue a joint appeal to private citizens and businesses.
As much grief as I've given President Clinton over not capturing Osama Bin Laden despite numerous times to either kill him or acquire him and his overall lax policy on terrorism, I'll cut him some slack here and praise him for his acceptance to this position. Both President Bush 41 and President Clinton excel in foreign policy and foreign relations which is why these two appointments by President Bush 43 should do a mountain of good in giving aid to those in need.
The appeals by both Bush 41 and Clinton are geared more towards businesses and wealthy individuals to donate to the Red Cross, which in turn is directly aiding tsunami victims.
I must caution my readers there are fake charities already in place and they have already accepted "donations." The American Red Cross of course is reputable and I would strongly urge my readers to only donate to organizations that have a history of humanitarian aid.
Captain's Quarters is putting together a blogger coallition of sorts to donate money directly to the victims as well. Ed Morrisey has marked January 12 as World Relief Day and asks for donations to be given on and prior to January 12 to World Vision.
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Will Slick donated his used underwear? Will Hillary send unsold copies of "It takes a Village." Anyone willing to guess how much these clowns donate to charity yearly out of the millions they rake in? Just two more caring Lefties.
Posted by: Thomas J. Jackson at January 03, 2005 04:21 PM (zitVZ)
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Some dude was a guest on the Spin Factor last night. He wrote a book about Al Qaeda cells in the US. He said he has evidence to support the fact that Clinton knew that funds were going out of the
US to help Osama and his cause and did nothing about it. Something about money from Chicago? Did anyone watch the show?
I, too, was gonna give Clinton the benefit of the doubt, being that he is heading up the support for the tsunami victims, until I saw this last night.
:-(
Posted by: Laura at January 04, 2005 09:57 AM (ptOpl)
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I'd like to donate to the Tsunami tradegy. I have the address of USAFreedomCalls.gov but can get no address to send my donation.
Please give me an address or take my credit card over the internet - it's not a large donation but I'd like to do my part.
Thanks
Roberta legum
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I'd like to donate to the Tsunami tradegy. I have the address of USAFreedomCalls.gov but can get no address to send my donation.
Please give me an address or take my credit card over the internet - it's not a large donation but I'd like to do my part.
Thanks
Roberta Legum
Posted by: Roberta Legum at May 06, 2005 07:28 AM (UGHVJ)
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Attn:My Dearest
TUTU & KAFU CHAMBER
Solicitors & Advocates
74 Kofi Anan Street - Teshie-Nungua, Accra-Ghana ;
office:Tel/Fax: +2 3 3 (0) 2 4 3 1 3 1 9 8
E-mail:kafuu@mail.com
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It impresses me a lot to write you this letter, Mr.
Samuel A. Kafu is my name, the personal Attorney to
Late Mr. William K. Asai president of Diamond SafariÂ’s
Company Ltd., Accra-Ghana who is a national of your
country.
On the 25th of July 2000, my client was involved in a
major catastrophe that took place in Paris (Killing
113 Passengers) Unfortunately, Air France supersonic
airliner of the Concorde fleet caught fire upon
take-off in Paris and crashed minutes later killing my
client, since then I have made several enquiries to
locate any of my client extended relatives and this
has also proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his
relatives over the Elementary Family Search on the
Internet before coming in contact with yours, which I
believe, is not a mistake to find you?
I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money
left behind by my deceased client before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
International Commercial Bank where these huge
deposits were lodged. Consequently the bank has issued
me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the
deposits confiscated within a short time.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over four four years now, I seek your
consent to present you as the next of kin of the
deceased since you share the same name in common so
that the proceeds of this deposits valued at $152
Million United States Dollars can be claimed to you
for both of us to share the money. I have all
necessary legal documentation that can be used to back
up the claim.
All I require is your honest and kind cooperation to
enable us seeing this deal through. Please get in
touch to enable us relate further.
Stay fine and remain blessed.
Yours Faithful,Mr. Samuel A. Kafu (Esq.)
Posted by: samuel A. kafu at May 24, 2005 06:23 AM (ZUkzc)
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There is no god but Allah
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Pakistan Goes at it Alone to Aid Tsunami Victims
As I like to report good news from smaller nations directly effecting the GWOT, it is a pleasure to post on
Pakistan sending out aid packages and military equipment to the tsunami ravages areas of SE Asia.
ISLAMABAD, January 03 (Online): Pakistan stepping up its efforts to provide disaster relief assistance to the countries hit by earthquake and tsunami in South and Southeast Asia would send seven military planes to Indonesia and two naval ships to Sri Lanka today.
Six to seven sorties of two C-130 aircraft are being sent to Indonesia from Monday to deploy one composite engineering task force and one field hospital.
Two Naval ships carrying helicopters together with a Marine Expeditionary force as well as doctors, paramedics, medical supplies, relief goods and foodstuff to Sri Lanka would be dispatched on Monday as well.
The State Bank of Pakistan has also announced that all of its branches as well as the branches of National Bank, Habib Bank, United bank, Muslim Commercial Bank and Allied Bank will receive donations to the President Relief Fund for Tsunami victims. Donations and contributions from foreign countries, will be received at Pakistan Missions.
Pakistan, much like the U.S., Australia, Japan and India, have decided a "go at it alone" policy works best in times of a crisis. They have virtually shunned the United Nations due to the UN's failure to do anything worthwhile in terms of aid to the effected area and are sending aid themselves. Kudos to Pakistan and Pakistanis contributing.
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but but but.. What about Moral Authority? Kofi assures us only he can bring relief!!
Posted by: Sharp as a Marble at January 03, 2005 12:24 PM (VxPRK)
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As in "I'll relieve you of all those funds, thank you."
Posted by: Brian B at January 03, 2005 03:39 PM (CouWh)
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I'll have to rethink Pakistan. Surprised me. Until now the only thing I liked about Pakistan was program karachi cops.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 04, 2005 03:28 PM (xRptl)
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I think it's extractly smart to send your money to help thie people of the tsumani's by using the website that Bush named in the short press conference
Cindy
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Mess Hall Bomber was Saudi National
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The suicide bomber who killed 22 people when he blew himself up in a US army mess tent the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, was a Saudi medical student, an Arab newspaper reported today.
Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat identified him as 20-year-old Ahmed Said Ahmed al-Ghamdi, citing friends of the manÂ’s father.
The friends said members of an Iraqi resistance group contacted al-GhamdiÂ’s father to tell him his son was the suicide bomber who carried out the December 21 attack, the deadliest on an American installation in Iraq.
US officials have said their investigation indicates the bomber was dressed in an Iraqi military uniform – but was not an Iraqi soldier – when he slipped into a mess tent packed with soldiers eating lunch in northern Iraq.
The father refused to discuss the suicide bombing, but told the newspaper his son had gone to Iraq to fight the Americans and had died there.
Saudi nationals fighting a jihad while giving up their lives to attack Americans is nothing new, though that does not make is less disturbing. The man was reportedly recently married before he decided his wife must be too ugly not to want the 72 virgins promised by Jihadis when one martyrs himself.
For background information on the mess hall suicide bombing, click here for the initial news, here for an update and here for the communique relased by Ansar al-Sunna.
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Was Kofi skiing for three days after the Tsunami or not? Why haven't people made more of that? I saw a Fox reporter ask the question and Kofi blow his top but this is the only article I can find.. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/1/1/122440.shtml
Posted by: James at January 03, 2005 11:00 AM (rP4OC)
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Kofi was skiing for four (4) days, he needed to work off his "Holiday parties" fat before worrying about victims. The bomber from Saudi show again how clearly this is a Muslim war on infidels. The Iranian embassy was the start of WW4 which should have been clear by the time the truck bombs went off in the Towers over a decade ago.
Rod Stanton
Cerritos
Posted by: Rod Stanton at January 03, 2005 12:26 PM (tHUgl)
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I am left here once again wondering why the apathy toward this news? 15 of the 19 known 9/11 terrorists were also Saudi nationals, which has to make one ask just what are our policies and business dealings with other Saudi's? Are American interests in bed with our enemies over there, are American corporations counting cash profits from Saudi Arabia with one hand while wiping the blood of American GIs off with the other?
Posted by: Geoff at January 03, 2005 04:53 PM (6krEN)
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Hey Rod: What happened to WW3? I must have been sleeping again. SF
Posted by: greyrooster at January 03, 2005 06:19 PM (XioYD)
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My message to his father. I'm glad the sneeky little shit is dead. Couldn't hack it in raghead med school and couldn't hack it in marriage so he had to kill people. To cowardly to fight anyone while looking them in the eye. Not a hero, not a martyr. Just a cowardly little loser who couldn't handle the world. Shame on you for raising garbage.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 03, 2005 06:30 PM (XioYD)
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Hey SF Ronnie won WW3 in the '80s
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I thought the peanut farmer won that one. I mean Iran gave up the hostages the day before Ronnie took over. Ha. WONDER WHY?
Posted by: greyrooster at January 04, 2005 03:38 PM (xRptl)
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Like other thins,I told you this first.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 10:09 AM (D39Vm)
Posted by: greyrooster at January 05, 2005 03:59 PM (sqa1t)
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I was talking to chad.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 04:54 PM (D39Vm)
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Geoff- I am hoping questioning tone is sarcasm- because that is exactly what is happening- Bush is a couple hundred miles north of where he should have invaded.
Posted by: Max at January 13, 2005 12:27 PM (HFKAk)
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Osama: Catalyst for Democracy
I'm a little late on linking to this, however better late than never. Jane at
Armies of Liberation has written a great post on how she feels Osama Bin Laden is becomming a
catalyst for Democracy, whether that is his intention or not. It is clearly a must-read and I urge all readers to go over and take a gander.
While you're thinking Democracy, Middle East and Iraq, read Arthur Chrenkoff's latest Good News from Iraq for the stories the MSM feels are not as newsworthy as the failures inside of Iraq. Chrenkoff continues to do amazing work in the area of sheding light on stories no one hears about.
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DAMASCUS, Syria - Iraqi expatriates in Syria will have the opportunity to vote in this month's Iraqi elections under an agreement signed Sunday between the Syrian government and the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration.
More than 250,000 Iraqis are believed to be living in Syria. Many of them fled here to escape worsening security conditions since the onset of the U.S.-led war that ousted former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein last year.
The agreement says Iraqis wishing to cast their votes in Syria must prove their eligibility and register at a Damascus election center from Jan. 17 to 23. Polling will take place over three days, from Jan. 28 to 30.
Anyone else see the problem with this? First off, Syria is not a Democracy therefore their "agreement" to offer polling places for those that have fled Iraq is a bit strange. Syria hasn't exactly supported Democracy in Iraq and is actually responsible for sending foreign fighters, weaponry and money to those that are killing innocent Iraqis and Coallition soldiers. What guarantees do Iraqis have that there will not be some kind of fishy results coming from the polling places in Syria?
Syria is controlled by the Baathist Party, very similar if not identical to the Baathist Party that used to run Iraq under Saddam Hussein. While the Syrian government is not as oppressive as Hussein's government, there are many similarties between the two. Hussein held elections in 1996 where he recieved 99 percent of the popular vote. Will the Baathists in Syria operate the Iraqi polling places in much the same way?
Syria is also housing Saddam loyalists who are working with terrorists entering Iraq. You might have heard of some of the terrorists the loyalists are working with. They include those who strap bombs to their waist and shout out Allah Akhbar before detonating their explosives belt in a crowded group of Iraqis. Why would the international community want these types of people to vote in an election that could help bring freedom to millions accross the region?
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The only way this is a good idea, is if we (that is to say, the US military) use the opportunity to snatch a couple of high-value targets in Syria. Otherwise I'd say: If you want to vote in the Iraqi elections, get your ass back to Iraq!
Posted by: Dutch Expat at January 03, 2005 06:01 PM (FXmdX)
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When you cast your vote, you explicitely state your support for the system you are voting under. There were a lot of arguments during undergrad years about whether one chooses to be a member of the society he was born in without an explicit declaration of that membership. I think it can be argued that without that explicite declaration of membership in one's society that one can argue that he is not bound by the rules of that society. Perhaps this is why some wackos on both sides can argue about civil disobedience allowing for the death of innocent employees of a bank, the destruction of capitalist owned buildings...or refusal to pay federal income taxes. I agree with Locke in his 2nd Treatise that society has a right to impose rules over those living within that society's borders. Willingly or not.
But when one votes, one makes an explicit declaration of inclusion within one's society. Whether an Iraqi ex-pat lives in Iran, Syria, Jordan or the US, even if they vote for the "most horrible" of all available choices, they become explicity enfranchised, and a willing participant. It's one more step in gluing together society in Iraq.
If one believes in conspiracies...and I've been a member of the vast right-winged conspiracy even before we were outed by Hillary...then this block of votes in Syria "might" vote en bloc and have some impact on the current election. But, if such a conspiracy is like all other conspiricies I've been told existed over the last, what, centuries? then not even the supposed members of the conspiracy probably know that it's going on.
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Excuse me! This really should have been updated. There are at least 7 different countries INCLUDING THE UNITED STATES that are setting up voting places for all the expats of Iraq.
Get your heads out of the sand.
Cindy
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Sit Still While Thousands Perish
I'm sick and freaking tired of pundits,
journalists and world leaders lambasting the United States' response to the tsunami in SE Asia. President Bush has pledged $350 million to the cause and set up a coallition of nations (Australia, Japan, India and the U.S.) to spearhead support to the region and its inhabitants.
The Diplomad is inside of the effected area and reports the combined efforts of the U.S. and Australia have been the only deliverers of food aid to the region while the UN is setting up camp. While I care not what the UN does because I believe it is nothing more than a paper government that has done virtually nothing in the past 20 years, this is the area where the UN is supposed to excel. However they are not excelling and are dragging their feet slower than a young boy going to church.
While there are those even inside the UN talking down about President Bush's late response, the UN itself hasn't even done anything but start to set up shop. So I ask you, good readers, if you were there when the tsunami hit, starving, lost members of your family and several friends, are you going to give a rat's ass whether or not the UN headquarters that is supposed to be giving aid to you has a roof over it's head or pictures on their walls?
Why on earth are we even debating whether or not President Bush acted quickly enough? Why can't we focus our attention on what matters, the people directly effected or the people who have lost their homes, instead of this partisan bullsh*%?
There are even shows on television where members of the Bush Administration have to defend their reasoning, not because they are giving too little or too much money, but because President Bush didn't "officially" end his vaction fast enough according to these pundits.
A memo to the UN, pundits, journalists and others of your ilk: Grow up, grow a pair and put your own money where your mouth is. Donate money, food, supplies, etc. to the millions of people who are starving to death while people try to turn a disaster into a political weapon.
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The UN is on its way out. Bush is going to kill it; the noise is the just the last wailings of a dying beast.
Posted by: Mr. K at January 03, 2005 06:23 AM (b77a8)
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According to Drudge they held an early "wake" at the apt of former UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke .... in an attempt to ressurect Kofi and the UN....developing.
Posted by: Maggie at January 03, 2005 08:02 AM (b9sEy)
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The failure of critics to understand that drinking water was the first requirement, and that even a 24 hour delay getting it to the people could greatly increase sickness, was beneath contempt.
Posted by: Gene 6-Pack at January 03, 2005 08:11 AM (7XPVo)
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I'm tired of it too! Would anyone help us??? By the way, they just had a news alert and the Prez was talking about aid and how former Prez Bush and Clinton are going to head up the aid being sent over there.
Who says we ain't helpin'??
Posted by: Laura at January 03, 2005 09:58 AM (ptOpl)
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We can only hope that soon the U.N. will just be a distant memory.
Posted by: Aunti at January 03, 2005 10:15 AM (z8xeH)
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IAIN-HOOK-MURDER-COMPLICITY –COMPLICITY—COMPLICITY
IAIN-HOOK-MURDER-Complicity –Complicity—Complicity
By Dr. Jack Shepard
The worse crime-is silence! It gives people a feeling of hopelessness.
Why do Mr. Blair and Mr. Straw continue in their silence! Their silence only makes the problem worse! Would they be as silence if Iain Hook was their Father or Brother or Son?
The murder of Iain Hook an unarmed well known British UN Staffer shot in the back after being trapped in his UN Compound in Jenin for 3-4 hours, with 64 UN Foreign Staffers saying it was Cold-Blooded-Murder in their UNWRA open letter, DESERVES AN ANSWER.
Mr. BlairÂ’s and Mr. StrawÂ’s Silence is at this stage HAS BECOME COMPLICITY, and it makes the violence go on. That is why people cry and scream ONLY for fairness.
Complicity in the killing of UN Staff Foreign or Palestinian and the killing of now over a thousand Palestinian Men, Women and Children by the IDF is the best recruiting device that Bin Laden could dream for.
GOOD SHOW MR. BLAIR AND MR. STRAW YOU ARE HELPING BIN LADENÂ’S RECRUITING OF NEW TERRORIST BY GIVING THE ARAB PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, EUROPE AND THE REST OF THE WORLD THE REAL FEELING THAT ARAB'S WILL NEVER GET JUSTICE OR FAIRNESS.
The very fact that you can not stand up to the deliberate murder of a British citizen Iain Hook who headed the UN relief efforts at the Jenin Refugee Camp; let alone criticize the Sharon Government for its brutal policies that has lead to the present Israeli and Palestinian conflict;
which has now spread worldwide is the very fact that complicity is so one sided and unfair it is driving extremists and fanatics out of hopelessness to BECOME suicide bombers.
THEY ARE ALSO VICTIM OF HOPELESSNESS.
WHY SHOULD THE SHARON GOVERNMENT EVER LISTEN TO YOU, YOU ARE SCARED TO TELL THE TRUTH AND BE CRITICAL OF MASS GENOCIDE, WE SEE EVERYDAY THE NEWS.
LIKE THIS YOU WILL NEVER HAVE ANY CHANCE TO MAKING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, IF YOU REMAIN SILENT YOU WILL NEVER HELP!
MR. BLAIR; JUST STAY AT HOME.
YOUR SILENT COMPLICITY IS WORSE.
DO YOU THINK THAT THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES WOULD SHOOT AN AMERICAN UN EMPLOYEE OR AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SERVICE OFFICIAL IN THE BACK THE WAY IAIN HOOK WAS KILLED.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH WOULD HAVE REACTED LIKE A STRONG WORLD LEADER TAHT YOU WILL NEVER BE!
IF THAT HAPPENED TODAY TO AN AMERICAN SERVICE OFFICER; PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH WOULD HAVE GOTTEN IMMEDIATE ANSWERS, NOT LIKE YOU.
MORE IMPORTANT NOW IF THIS HAPPENED TO AN AMERICAN, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH IS SUCH A STRONG LEADER THINGS WOULD CHANGE.
ISRAEL KNOWS THAT HE IS DETERMINED TO HAVE THE TWO STATES OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE LIVING SIDE BY SIDE AND VERY SOON YOU WILL SEE HIM TAKE URGENT ACTION AS A MAN OF GOD, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH DOES NOT LIKE THINGS THAT ARE DISPLEASING TO GOD, LIKE THE PRESENT POLICIES OF ARIEL SHARON TOWARD THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.
YOUR TWO YEARS OF COMPLICITY AND SILENCE HAS ONLY GIVE BIN LADEN A GREAT YEAR FOR RECRUITING.
WITH PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE WORKING FOR THE SHARON GOVERNMENT WOULD HAVE NEVER HAD THE COURAGE TO KILL AN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL. THE ISRAELI GOVERNEMT KNOWS YOU ARE WEAK AND USED YOUR COMPLICITY TO GET AWAY WITH THE KILLING OF IAIN HOOK!
KNOWING THAT YOU ARE AND WILL BE TOO WEAK TO BE CRITICAL OF IAIN HOOK'S MURDER. THE SHARON GOVERNMENT JUDGED YOU CORRECTLY.
WHERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATIONS YOU PROMISED, WHERE ARE THE ANSWERS, WHERE IS EVEN A COMMENT AFTER OVER TWO YEARS FOR IAIN HOOKS FAMILY.
YOUR COMPLICITY AND SILENCE IS WELL KNOWN BY THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE. IT COST IAIN HOOK HIS LIFE.
THE SHARON GOVERNMENT KNOWS YOU ARE WEAK, AND THAT YOU WOULD REMAIN SILENT ON THE TRUTH.
If this murderer who planned and killed Iain Hook is brought to Justice. Maybe GOD willing someday VERY SOON Israel and Palestine will SOON BE living in peace.
THIS KILLING HAS TO STOP SOMEWHERE, AND BY BRING THE COLD-BLOODED-KILLER OF IAIN HOOK TO JUSTICE IS THE FIRST STEP ON THE ROAD MAP TO PEACE.
THAT IS PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH MAJOR CONCERN AT THE MOMENT, BECAUSE PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH KNOWS THAT WE WILL NEVER HAVE A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC IRAQ UNTIL THE STATES OF ISRAEL AND PALESTINE ARE LIVING SIDE BY SIDE IN PEACE.
Until this happens the message that goes out to every Israeli soldier is "it is OK to even kill British UN staff". This is what Mr. Blair and Mr.Straw are tell the Sharon Government by not saying anything after 2 years, COMPLICITY- without a word, breaking their promises to the British People and THAT TO the FAMILY of Iain Hook for an immediate investigation.
MR. BLAIR; Why are you so concerned to tell the world the truth. Because by saying the truth the Israeli government of Ariel Sharon would get mad, and say you are anti-Semitic.
IF YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE CRITICAL ABOUT THE PRESENT POLICIES OF THE ARIEL SHARON GOVERNMENT TOWARD THE UN FOREIGN STAFF, PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, THE ROAD MAP, THE CREATION OF PALESTINE AND THE PRESENT INHUMAN TREATMENT OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES BY THE ISRAELI TROOPS; you are just ANTI-SHARON and HIS GOVERNMENTS policies of violence that have made the environment where terrorism can rapidly grow.
I ASK ARIEL SHARON; are YOU a believer in GOD and HOW CAN YOU ORDER such evil THINGS THAT DISPLEASE GOD.
God will judge you how you judge others. EVERY TIME IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WHEN THE LEADERS "KINGS" DID THINGS THAT WERE DISPLEASING TO GOD, THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE PUNISHED.
PROPHET WERE THE SEERS AND WARNER IN THE OLDEN DAYS, TODAY WE HAVE TO LEARN FROM OUR PAST, READING THE OLD TESTAMENT, HOW GOD PUNISHED THE JEWISH PEOPLE EVERY TIME THEY DISPLEASED HIM.
GOD USED THE JEWISH PEOPLE AS AN EXAMPLE TO OTHER NATIONS, I PRAY YOU REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE DOING THINGS THAT DISPLEASE GOD; THIS YOU CAN NOT DISPUTE.
I WOULD ADVISE MR. ARIEL SHARON TO THINK ABOUT GOD AND HOW HE AND ISRAEL WILL BE JUDGED BECAUSE OF THE THINGS THE PRESENT SHARON GOVERNMENT POLICIES TOWARD YOUR NEIGHBORS.
YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT "WE SHOULD LOVE OR NEIGHBORS AS WE LOVE AND SERVE GOD." THAT WAS GOD'S CHIEF COMMANDMENT, I PRAY YOUR EYES WILL BE OPENED AND YOUR EARS WILL HEAR THESE THINGS BECAUSE YOU ARE PLACING THE JEWISH PEOPLEìS FUTURE IN THE HANDS OF A GOD WHO YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN AND ARE DOING THINGS THAT DISPLEASED HIM.
I PRAY THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR PRESENT POLICIES AND START TO DO THINGS THAT PLEASE GOD, AND ONCE AGAIN LEARN "TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBORS AS YOU LOVE GOD; " BEFORE GOD WILL ONCE AGAIN PUNISH THE JEWISH NATION LIKE MANY TIMES THROUGHOUT ANCIENT HISTORY; IN THE OLD TESTAMENT; WHEN THE JEWISH LEADERS DID WHAT WAS DISPLEASING TO GOD.
MR. SHARON do YOU not think maybe the majority of the Israeli' PEOPLE wish YOU TO STOP YOUR VIOLENT POLICIES AND LIVE IN PEACE WITH YOUR PALESTINIAN BROTHERS.
THE MAJORITY OF ISRAELI CITIZENS PRESENTLY ARE VERY DISPLEASED WITH THE PRESENT SITUATION THAT IS CAUSED BY YOUR EXTREME VIOLENT POLICIES TOWARD THE PALESTINIAN MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
General Sharon's PRESENT POLICIES NOW HAVE stimulated the Terrorist to recruit more and more suicide bombers. ( also 99.9% of the World Leaders are very concerned about the Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people); especially the world leaders clearly see the stimulation the Sharon Policies are HELPING Terrorists to recruit more and more suicide bombers.
Mr. Blair your silence only continues to let General Sharon kill and be as violent as he wishes without having to ANSWER TO ANYONE, BUT GOD SOONER OR LATER.
LIKE SOME OF ISRAELS KINGS OF OLD ARIEL SHARON'S PRESENT POLICIES AND ACTIONS DISPLEASE GOD AND ARIEL SHARON IS GAMBLING WITH THE FUTURE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE IF HE CONTINUES TO DO THINGS THAT DISPLEASE GOD.
Complicity is a crime.
Complicity in the cover-up of killing of innocent Palestinians or British UN staffers, only make the Arab Street (Billions of People is every country in the world) FEEL more and more help
less and see and feel more and more injustice.
Hear– Hear: Mr. Blair speak-up– the War on Terrorism can be won only if you tell the truth and everyone in the world is treated equally.
MR. BLAIR, YOU KNOW BUT YOU STILL REMAIN SILENT THE WAR ON TERRORISM IS BASED IN INJUSTICE, AND UNFAIRNESS AND WAS STARTED BY MR. SHARON'S TERROR POLICIES TOWARD THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, WHEN MR. SHARON VISITED THE TEMPLE MONT WITH 5,000 HEAVILY ARMED ISRAELI SOLDIERS WHICH STARTED THE PRESENT WORLD ON A CIVIL WAR. WHAT WAS HE THINKING? WHAT WERE HIS GOALS? TO PLEASE GOD? HIS ACTIONS FOR OVER 20 YEARS HAVE DISPLEASED GOD BUT NEVER IN RECENT HISTORY HAS ONE MAN DISPLEASE GOD ON SUCH A SCALE TO STIMULATE A WORLD CIVIL WAR.
MR. BLAIR, May God give you the courage to expose THE injustice and once again become a world leader, who can tell the Truth and be known because of YOUR fairness.
YOU WILL BE DOING THE JEWISH PEOPLE A BIG FAVOR BECAUSE OF YOU TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TERROR THAT HAVE BECOME THE PRESENT EVERYDAY POLICIES OF ARIEL SHARON'S TOWARD THE UN STAFF AND THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES, YOU JUST MAY SAVE THE JEWISH PEOPLE BY MAKING THEIR LEADERS DO WHAT IS PLEASING TO GOD.
MAY GOD BLESS ISRAEL AND PALESTINE WITH PEACE AND HAPPINESS, ONCE THEY LEARN TO ONCE AGAIN "LOVE THEIR NEIGHBORS AS THEY LOVE GOD." AND BOTH THE ISRAELI'S AND THE PALESTINIANS LEARNING TO DO THING THAT ARE PLEASING TO GOD AND BE REWARDED WITH PEACE AND HAPPINESS AND A PLACE IN PARADISE FOREVER.
Dr. Jack Shepard
Posted by: Dr. Jack Shepard at January 03, 2005 03:22 PM (oARVH)
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Dr. Jack,
One word: Thorazine.
Embrace it.
Posted by: Brian B at January 03, 2005 03:48 PM (CouWh)
Posted by: Laura at January 03, 2005 06:19 PM (ptOpl)
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Dr Jack: Will you please stick to the subject. What does your tirade have to do with US aid? You are really not getting anywhere except people are believing you are over the edge. By the way, Doctor of what? Calm down. Short attention spans here.
On the subject. How soon they forget. I'll match the United States record on aid to other countries with any. No one is history has been as giving. I think much of the noise agrees with my jealous little dog theory.
As the big dog we have choices.
1. Ignore them and continue on.
2. Raise our leg and piss on them.
3. Turn around and beat the shit out of them.
This calls for a # 1: This time.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 03, 2005 06:54 PM (XioYD)
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Jack,
Caps off. Please.
Posted by: Venom at January 05, 2005 03:34 PM (dbxVM)
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Dr Jack.
Do you really believe Sharon and Blair read this blog? I wish.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 05, 2005 04:05 PM (sqa1t)
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Thanks Chad. Just because Bush was at his residence doesn't mean he wasn't on top of things. He probably was the first of any head of state who was on the phone and in that special room with tv's and got everything in their groove faster than anyone else.
NOW WHAT YOU SHOULD WORRY ABOUT IS GEORGE BUSH HAS ASKED CONGRESS AGAIN FOR ANOTHER $100,000 FOR THE TROOPS IN IRAQ AND AGAIN, THEY HAVE DENIED IT.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 05:06 PM (D39Vm)
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Brian B: ahhhhhaaaaahaha
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 05, 2005 05:59 PM (D39Vm)
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"It was a unique scheme," Annan told ABC's "This Week." "Yes, there may have been some corruption. There may have been some mismanagement. But the program achieved its results."
If you think of it from Annan's perspective, the UN oil-for-food program was successful. His son got rich, the UN didn't have to act against a dictator who defied a UN resolution, some member nations got rich, a couple of the UN Security Council nations were bribed so they would vote to keep Saddam in power, etc. Unfortunately for every other nation and person who didn't recieve the benefits of the program, including the Iraqi people, it was a complete failure and will be the undoing of the justification of the United Nations.
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And the UN isn't yet in Southern Asia either whereas the United States is all over it, several thousand marines, planes full of supplies, helicopters, hospitals and a 200 bed hospital will be built by the United States. From us alone, not just the government, funds from Americans is astronomical because that is the way WE are when it comes to disasters.
Jeb Bush is on his way to that area now, not just as the President's brother but because he's been hit in his state and been through these kinds of catastrophe's except this one goes in the records books.
Many bodies have yet to be recovered under all the rubble.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at January 03, 2005 09:40 AM (D39Vm)
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What short memories we have. Forgot Butros Butros already. He was just a corrupt as Kofi. Which BTW is very corrupt.
Rod Stanton
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Smith is part of an effort to track down 370,000 "absconders" -- illegal immigrants who have disobeyed orders to leave the country. As part of a get-tough approach after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Homeland Security Department has deployed 18 fugitive squads to catch these immigrants, including a team in Maryland.
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At the top of the list were 6,000 absconders from Muslim and Middle Eastern countries, officials announced.
But by early 2003, authorities had resolved only 38 percent of those cases, either by detaining the immigrants or by confirming that they had left the country or gotten legal status, according to the 9/11 Commission. In a report on terrorist travel, the commission concluded: "It is very difficult to find alien absconders without extraordinary effort or pure luck."
The absconder program started after 9/11 and is directly responsible for tracking down illegal aliens. While I agree with this program, it should prove far easier as well as far more efficient to prevent as many illegals from entering the U.S. instead of hunting down those who have defied orders to leave.
Our lax border policy, which is borderline attrocious under President Bush, is a primary concern of mine since numerous reports of people of Middle Eastern descent have crossed our pourus border with Mexico. Our Border Patrol is both undermanned and tied up with full jails and restrictions upon apprehending illegals crossing for them to do anything.
When the Intelligence Bill passed in December, the crisis of immigration was put off until 2005 with a promise to re-visit the topic to put the best policy in place. While the passing of the Intelligence Bill by Congress was neeeded, there is a further need to actively enforce our immigration policy and patrol our borders with more than unmanned drones and stationary Border Patrol Agents.
Digger's Realm has led the blogger front in combating immigration issues with more ferver than anyone else concerning this topic. While he has written too many posts to link to, check out his archives and you will see illegal immigration is a threat to our national security.
Cross-posted at In the Bullpen
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Whoever ended the requirement for all aliens to register annually has a lot to answer for.
Posted by: Gene 6-Pack at January 03, 2005 08:59 AM (7XPVo)
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I'm gonna say it again . . . You have to create laws that will give Illegal Aliens no reason to come . . If no one would hire an "Undocumented worker" for fear of having a $100k fine levied against him if caught . . economics would rule.
Deny citizenship to anyone who cannot read, write and speak english. And if you are born to an Illegal Alien in this country . . You're still an Illegal Alien . . Go Back whare you came from, submit the paperwork . . we'll look into it!
Posted by: large at January 03, 2005 11:36 AM (VRK2g)
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Here is one issue that our president is totally wrong on; and his proposals to make legal pretty much all of the current illegals along with making things easier on those wishing to come here is way off base as to the best interests of the future of the USA. While our country is based on free, open immigration policy, we cannot sustain this in the long term and hope to preserve anything the likes of you and I know and love about America. This is one place it is best to defy the Bush policy and demand that the legislation from those looking to prevent this from happening is what gets passed this year. Bush would probably veto the bills but it would send him a message that he needs to listen to.
Posted by: Geoff at January 03, 2005 06:36 PM (6krEN)
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LARGE: I agree with you accept. When I lived in Miami, I know several Cubans that escaped to America that were simply to old to learn a new language. In particular, with them living in an American community that only speaks spanish. I would like to see these people live out their days in freedom.
Most cities have locations where people can choose from many day laborers at minimum wage for a few days. I don't believe this is exploitation has the workers seem to be happy to get a few days wages. The equal of weeks of hard work in their home countries. This supplies a need on both sides. My heart goes out to them.
On the other hand, the wife soon has a baby at a welfare hospital. This makes it a U S citizen. This means we cannot send the parents back if we wanted to. They then sponsor the grandparents back whereever watching the rest of the kids. who again since they cannot speak the language or have marketable skills end up on the tax payers backs. The babies brothers and sisters (left behind while daddy jumped the border to find work) are permitted to come here to live because it would be cruel to separate the family. They then enroll in school and need special tutors (paid for by guess who) because the cannot speak english. Then American kids are told about cutbacks in school due to finances.
I believe illegals should be sent back and never have the privilege of applying again. If they cannot follow our immigration laws then why would they follow any other laws. Remember the LA riots. The blacks were doing the burning but who was emptying the stores.
Of course saying this makes me a RACIST as the vast majority of illegals are not white.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 03, 2005 07:35 PM (XioYD)
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GEOFF: Granted but remember cheap labor for the super wealthy and super corporations is always on the republican agenda. As a republican I am well aware of this. The democrats may claim to be the saviors of the poor but ask the Unions (100 democrat) if they favor immigration.
Myself. I do not wish to pick the lettuce, carrots, onions, etc: I don't do well with a mop and bucket.
What ever happened to the bracero program? Where people could come, work, earn money and then return home. I guess that was degrading to workers with hungry families back home.
I thought that was the best thing since the long legged blond. (Whoops, racist remark again, left out short legged brunettes).
Remember the main rule of political parties.
When Republicans are in office they will do something greedy.
When Democrats are in office they will do something stupid.
Posted by: greyrooster at January 03, 2005 08:03 PM (XioYD)
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