State of the Blog 9/29/10

This guy is a good blogger

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This blog will have 10,000 unique vis­its for Sep­tem­ber — my thanks to all of you for mak­ing that possible. How is the blog doing with regards to con­tribut­ing in some small way to larger goals? I’m not sure.

This blog will have 10,000 unique vis­its for Sep­tem­ber — my thanks to all of you for mak­ing that possible.

How is the blog doing with regards to con­tribut­ing in some small way to larger goals? I’m not sure. So far I haven’t seen a rebirth of inter­est in the lib­eral arts, nor have I seen peo­ple as a whole take read­ing care­fully seri­ously. A more thought­ful, authen­tic par­ti­san­ship is a far dis­tance from where we are now. Read more at www.ashokkarra.com

 

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Flagstaff grandmother's 'tea party' shirt spurs lawsuit

We the People, Reclaiming Our Constitution? That is Political Propaganda?

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Diane Wickberg didn't intend to become a public defender of the First Amendment. But now that she's found herself in that position, she's not backing down from the fight.

The 55-year-old Flagstaff grandmother, with the help of the Goldwater Institute, is suing Coconino County Recorder Candace Owens after Wickberg was twice stopped at the polls for wearing a "tea party" T-shirt. Read more at www.tax.com

 

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Paul Hoover, “God’s Promises”

The rest is worth a look:))

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I, the Lord, will make bar­ren your fields and your fair­ways. Your refrig­er­a­tors will be empty, no steaks and no leg bones, no but­ter and no corn­bread. And I will remove your screen doors, force the mos­qui­toes indoors where you lie on the bed undead. For my house you have not read­ied, no flat screen and no broad­band.

I, the Lord, will make bar­ren your fields and your fair­ways. Your refrig­er­a­tors will be empty, no steaks and no leg bones, no but­ter and no corn­bread. And I will remove your screen doors, force the mos­qui­toes indoors where you lie on the bed undead. For my house you have not read­ied, no flat screen and no broad­band. My habi­ta­tion is a waste­land of fur­ni­ture from motel rooms. I will send the ostrich and bad­ger in herds through your wrecked rooms; your beds will be entered by turn­stile; the floor will seethe with bees. For my house is but a pre­fab;

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French MEP Rachida Dati makes oral sex slip-up

I guess she thought that the Financial Markets Suck:))

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She told Canal Plus: "I see some [foreign investment funds] looking for returns of 20 or 25% at a time when fellatio is close to zero." Read more at www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Somali Pirates Take Ship 900 miles at Sea

900 miles out. Pirates are certainly widening their net.... EU needs more Assets....

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n the early hours of 25 September, the Panama flagged MV LUGELA sent a distress alert to its Greek operator. The vessel was in the Somali Basin, approximately 900 nautical miles East of Eyl, Somalia. A short while later, the vessel altered course to sail towards the Somali coast.

EU MSC(HOA)report MV LUGELA pirated in the Somali Basin: In the early hours of 25 September, the Panama flagged MV LUGELA sent a distress alert to its Greek operator. The vessel was in the Somali Basin, approximately 900 nautical miles East of Eyl, Somalia. A short while later, the vessel altered course to sail towards the Somali coast. There has been no contact with the ship throughout this incident. After having transited through the Gulf of Aden, the MV LUGELA was sailing in direction of Republic of Mauritius with a cargo of steel bars and wires. The MV LUGELA, deadweight 4,281 tons, has a crew of 12, all Ukrainian. Read more at www.eaglespeak.us

 

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Superlobbyist pleads guilty, made illegal contributions

Magliocchetti used straw donors to funnel $386,250 to members of Congress

His Friends abandoned him as soon as he was no longer useful....

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Magliocchetti was a major fundraiser for three powerful Democratic members of the defense subcommittee -- the late John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, James P. Moran of Virginia and Peter J. Visclosky of Indiana -- who had repeatedly helped him and his clients.

Superlobbyist Paul Magliocchetti, who specialized in getting defense earmarks for his clients, pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of making hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to members of Congress.

Magliocchetti admitted using straw donors -- friends, lobbyists and family members, including his aged in-laws -- to funnel $386,250 in illegal contributions to favored members of Congress including key members of the House appropriations defense subcommittee who provided hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks for the clients of his now defunct Arlington lobbying firm, The PMA Group

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Sunday Funnies

Have A great Sunday

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ACORN, A Rose by any other Name....

SOS different name... A rose by any other name.....

ACORN Housing Corporation, which was formed in 1985 by ACORN organizers, changed its name this year to Affordable Housing Centers of America.

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ACORN Housing Corporation, which was formed in 1985 by ACORN organizers, changed its name this year to Affordable Housing Centers of America.

An official report released this week says an ACORN offshoot group cannot properly account for how it has spent millions of federal dollars and recommends that the group repay the government and be put on standby mode until it cleans up its act.

The report from the inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development reviewed how ACORN Housing Corporation -- now called Affordable Housing Centers of America -- has spent federal grant money over the past two decades. The report described the group's book-keeping as "problematic and unsupported," and claimed that more than $65,000 in "ineligible" salary expenses were charged to a federal grant last year, including costs for six employees after they were terminated.

ACORN Housing Corporation, which was formed in 1985 by ACORN organizers, changed its name this year to Affordable Housing Centers of America.  Read more at www.foxnews.com

 

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Military Wisdom

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Wait a moment. I smell hypocrisy. Didn’t we help GM (and Chrysler) with a big bailout, and not help competitors Ford, Nissan, Honda, or Toyota or any other automaker that builds cars in the U.S.? Moreover, the circularity of GM’s logic leads to some strange places. It would presumably allow any big corporation to get tax deductions (in effect, tax subsidies from the rest of us) for outlays for lobbyists, political ads, and political donations to members of congress – so long as these expenditures help the company relative to its competitors. Problem is, the tax laws don’t allow this. Nor does the law allow taxpayer-supported entities to use taxpayer dollars to influence elections. And yet this is exactly what GM is doing. Since TARP, suspicions about big government in cahoots with big business have fueled angry tea partiers on the right and despairing cynics on the left. GM’s crass disregard for the spirit if not the letter of the law continues to fuel them.

Since the bailout, GM belongs to the taxpayers. So why are they funding political candidates?

In this file photo from April 21, 2009, American flags fly outside General Motors world headquarters in Detroit. The government and taxpayers have owned General Motors since the bailout. Why is a government-owned company choosing candidates to give campaign contributions to?

General Motors has given $90,500 to candidates in the current election cycle, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Hmmm? Last time I looked, you and I and every other U.S. taxpayer owned a majority of GM. That means some of the money we’re earning as GM owners is being used to influence how we vote in the upcoming mid-term election.

To put it another way, we taxpayers are paying some people (GM executives) to tell us how we should vote for another group of people (House and Senate candidates) who will decide how our taxes will be used in the future. Read more at www.csmonitor.com

 

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Liberal Politics and the Constitution

Pretty Mean Jab.....

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On September 23, 2010 I filmed a public "Meet and Greet" and speech... Read more at www.youtube.com

 

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Military Wisdom

I guess the only one who don't like being a Super Power is in the White House

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While preaching to the choir at his April 12 Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama revealed his perspective on America's matchless military might: "Whether we like it or not," he said, "we (the United States) remain a dominant military superpower." That the president would even imagine "we" might not "like it," betrays his fixed membership within that "progressive" camp of self-loathing "or nots." (Mr. Obama's anti-Americanism is showing.)

Indeed, if there were ever a question whether Democrats are woefully weak on national defense, that question was cleared up on Tuesday. Taking direction from Lady Gaga (evidently Mr. Obama's new national defense czar) Senate Majority Leader and chief surrender monkey Harry "the war is lost" Reid cynically attempted, but fortunately failed, to ram through a repeal of Section 654,Title 10, USC - the law prohibiting homosexual conduct within the ranks of the armed services. Just two Democrats - Sens. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas - voted against repeal. Read more at www.washingtontimes.com

 

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231 years ago today

Why America Won....

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On September 23, 1779, 231 years ago to the day... "I have not yet begun to fight!" shouted John Paul Jones when the captain of the British ship Serapis asked him to surrender. Their ships were so close their cannons hit each other and their masts entangled, yet the American ship Bonhomme Richard, named for Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, refused to give up. When his ship began sinking, instead of striking the colors, John Paul Jones lashed his ship to enemy's to keep it afloat. After 3 more hours of fighting, the British surrendered.

231 years ago today - reminder from Chris Murch USNA - 83 Read more at navycaptain-therealnavy.blogspot.com

 

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Obama battles bigoted bugs

You cannot make this stuff up:))

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The Obama administration has hit a new low in race-obsessed government. The post-racial president can't even fight bedbugs without affirmative action.

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced to "environmental justice" advocacy groups that the agency plans to spend more than a half-million dollars battling the bedtime pests in "communities disproportionately exposed to environmental harms and risk." That's bureaucratese for minority communities.

If bigoted bugs were singling out blacks, Hispanics and American Indians, liberals might have a rational reason for working harder to protect them, but in New York, where bedbugs have gone big-time, they are hitting the rich as well as the poor, black and white alike. After all, we taste the same. That's one reason the critters have been dubbed "Bloombugs" - for the famously rich Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg who has been so ineffective in fighting the plague of bloodthirsty insects. Read more at www.washingtontimes.com

 

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Military Wisdom

The First Marine

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Links 9/22/2010

thought provoking...

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Mary Elizabeth Williams, "Have Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart Crossed the Line?"

Megan McArdle, "The Bad Financial Luck of the Irish" - from the article: But Ireland's problems are really rather special.  For various reasons, including favorable corporate tax rates and an educated, English-speaking population, capital poured into the country for more than a decade, leading to a banking sector that was grossly inflated compared to the underlying economy.  The US banking sector is rather tame by comparison to most European nations--bank leverage at the beginning of the crisis was about equal to GDP, rather than the three to five times GDP found in many European nations.  But Ireland is almost in a class by itself.

Mark Bauerlein, "Lincoln, History and Ideology" - the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy has been printing copies of the Gettysburg Address that do not contain the words "under God." The trouble with this: it is almost certain Lincoln said those words at Gettysburg, and the most authoritative copies of the Address contain those words.

Mary Elizabeth Williams, "Have Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart Crossed the Line?" - from the article: But how much difference is there anymore between a Glenn Beck pompously telling an audience of acolytes exactly what it wants to hear, and Jon Stewart doing it? How much self-congratulation about how much better our side is than their side can there be to go around?

Yet even though the contract probably had just a marginal effect on the November elections, it still had value. It was a blueprint for the Republicans in Congress, a straightforward plan of action that gave the GOP majority meaning and purpose. The real worth of the contract was in governing, not electioneering. Read more at www.ashokkarra.com

 

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Harry Reid's FUBAR

Can't buy the votes to stay... Or can He

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hoped the defense policy bill would help make a final pre-election argument for Democrats while energizing the base on gay rights and immigration.

But what he got was a failed vote and a mix of frustration and disappointment from the people he was trying to help. The stalled defense authorization bill — one of the last major Senate votes before November’s elections — was emblematic of the Nevada senator’s struggles to cut deals with the GOP while still pleasing core Democratic constituencies.

The disappointment was widespread.

And Democrats on both sides of the Capitol are unhappy that a debate on gay rights and immigration distracted yet again from issue No. 1: jobs. Read more at www.politico.com

 

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Kims back in the driver's seat

Ooh! So NorKo sinks a South Korean military ship and we better back off, lest they strike out against South Korea! Gotta love that logic.



So we basically say to Kim the Younger: do as Daddy has done and you will be both respected and rewarded.



Spineless.

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NYT John Pomfret reporting that America and its allies in Asia are working to reopen talks with North Korea, afraid that the ongoing succession process could send the whole relationship down the path to war.

Score one for the Kims and so much for Team Obama's "strategic patience" (tough talk and shows of force and letting the Kims stew in their own paranoid juices).  I had thought the White House had settled on a solid path of not caving in, but Obama seems to have chickened out rather quickly: Read more at www.thomaspmbarnett.com

 

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Obama Adviser Summers to Depart White House at Year's End

And another one Departs the Ship

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President Obama's top economic adviser, Larry Summers, is leaving the White House at the end of the year, the administration announced Tuesday.

Summers will return to Harvard University as a professor. Read more at www.foxnews.com

 

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“A Man may make a Remark” (952)

So why all these twists and turns to say peo­ple get mad when oth­ers talk?

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So why all these twists and turns to say peo­ple get mad when oth­ers talk?

“A Man may make a Remark” (952) Emily Dick­in­son

A Man may make a Remark - In itself — a quiet thing That may fur­nish the Fuse unto a Spark In dor­mant nature — lain -

Let us deport — with skill - Let us dis­course — with care - Pow­der exists in Char­coal - Before it exists in Fire. Read more at www.ashokkarra.com

 

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France raises Paris terror alert over al-Qaeda warning

Testing... Testing... one,... two,... three...

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French intelligence services are hunting a female would-be suicide bomber who they believe could be planning to target the Paris metro.

France raised its terrorist alert warning today amid fears of suicide bomb plots against the Paris transport network.

French intelligence services are hunting a female would-be suicide bomber who they believe could be planning to target the Paris metro.

The alert followed a tip-off from a friendly intelligence agency – thought to be Algeria’s — warning of an imminent al-Qaeda threat.

Five French nationals have been kidnapped close to a French uranium mine in Niger in the last week, while a bomb scare caused alarm at the Eiffel Tower. Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk

 

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Black Panther case roars back to life

As was seen when a host of outsiders accused the George W. Bush administration's Justice Department of firing U.S. attorneys in order to interfere with ongoing investigations, it is improper for cases to be dismissed for purely political reasons. The Obama administration should be held to the same standard.

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Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, is in big trouble. The public-interest group Judicial Watch yesterday released a 62-page index of documents regarding the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case that undermines the credibility of Mr. Perez and of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

New evidence undermines Justice Department spin Read more at www.washingtontimes.com

 

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Black Panther case roars back to life

As was seen when a host of outsiders accused the George W. Bush administration's Justice Department of firing U.S. attorneys in order to interfere with ongoing investigations, it is improper for cases to be dismissed for purely political reasons. The Obama administration should be held to the same standard.

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Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, is in big trouble. The public-interest group Judicial Watch yesterday released a 62-page index of documents regarding the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case that undermines the credibility of Mr. Perez and of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

New evidence undermines Justice Department spin Read more at www.washingtontimes.com

 

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Black Panther case roars back to life

As was seen when a host of outsiders accused the George W. Bush administration's Justice Department of firing U.S. attorneys in order to interfere with ongoing investigations, it is improper for cases to be dismissed for purely political reasons. The Obama administration should be held to the same standard.

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Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, is in big trouble. The public-interest group Judicial Watch yesterday released a 62-page index of documents regarding the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case that undermines the credibility of Mr. Perez and of the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

New evidence undermines Justice Department spin Read more at www.washingtontimes.com

 

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New Dear Leader???

North Korea names date for leadership summit

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Pyongyang

North Korea's ruling party will hold its first conference in a generation on 28 September, state media reports say, amid speculation that leader Kim Jong-il is about to name his successor.

The Workers Party is widely expected to promote Mr Kim's third son, Kim Jong-un, to a senior position.

Observers believe a promotion would anoint him as the heir to his father, the self-styled Dear Leader.

Mr Kim, 68, is believed to have suffered a stroke in 2008. Read more at www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Father Driven To Pick Through His Son’s Remains (Just imagine the horror)

Imagine Doing This

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On September 15, 2010 at around 0800 in the morning, a family makes their way into Arlington National Cemetery for the Disinterment of a Marine Private killed by an IED in Al Anbar Province Iraq on 22 November 2006 killing him and two others.

As they stood at the grave site, a forklift arrives to raise a coffin from the vault that had interred it for nearly four years. Arlington knew at this point that the vault and coffin had been opened. When the family became aware of this action, an unsettling air of distrust settled upon the gathering. The father yells “you lied” as family members hold and calm him. The father already marred and angry by the uncooperative atmosphere and insensitivity of Arlington’s leadership; his grief now changes to anger. Another promise broken! Arlington, to seemingly cover their asses had breached the coffin the night before to ensure the Marine Private and the dog tags were in the assigned plot.

With a rotting corpse and the putrid stench of death permeating the air, a worker removes a dog tag from the coffin lid, wipes off the dirt, and hands it to the father. The forklift begins to raise the coffin; putrid water begins streaming out and those in attendance gasp as the fear of body parts falling from the unstable casket grips them. Read more at www.burnpit.us

 

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Hopey Changey? I don't think so

These won't reach the evening news:))

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This is bad… He’s even losing the hopey-changers. A suffering former law student and hopey-changer asked Obama today at his town hall: “Is the American Dream dead?”

Monday’s town hall meeting started off on a sour note when the first questioner from the audience, a woman who said she voted for him, said she is “deeply disappointed with where I am now.”

“My husband and I thought we were beyond the hot dog and beans of our lives. … Is this my new reality?” she asked. Read more at gatewaypundit.firstthings.com

 

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Q: Am I going to be fined because I don’t have health care insurance?

I am not especially for it.

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Your stoner friend [who said we’re all going to be fined a $1000 bucks a head if no insur­ance] has grasped some of the truth. It is cor­rect that there are going to be fines for peo­ple who don’t have insur­ance, start­ing in 2014. Read more at www.ashokkarra.com

 

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One Legged Man Blows up Toilet

Al Qaeda is using all available Assets.....

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Copenhagen

A bombing suspect who is accused of blowing up a hotel toilet in Copenhagen, along with himself, is a one-legged amateur boxer who was born in insurgency-racked Chechnya and has shown what one scholar calls "highly professional" tradecraft in concealing his identity and purpose from Danish authorities.

The would-be bomber's target, Danish police said, was likely the Jyllands-Posten newspaper, which sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world in 2006 by publishing 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad and has been the object of at least one foiled terrorist attack since.

Mr. Foldager also said the device used triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, a volatile acetone-based explosive used by al Qaeda in the July 2005 London subway bombings and other attacks. Read more at www.washingtontimes.com

 

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Great Dabblers Throughout History

You say Christine O'Donnell dabbled into high school witchcraft? Really?

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Oh, yes. The naysayers are right. She's unelectable.

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'Many killed' at German hospital

Breaking, More details soon...

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A number of people have been killed and injured in a shooting at a hospital in south-western Germany, police have said.

The incident took place in the town of Loerrach, close to the French and Swiss borders.

Some news reports say a woman opened fire at the town's Elisabethen Krankenhaus hospital and was then shot dead by police, but this has not yet been confirmed. Read more at www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Things Overheard on Philadelphia Sports Talk Radio This Week

Some things never Change:))

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With the Lions/Eagles game today, I thought it might be worth reca­pit­u­lat­ing some of the “high­lights” voiced by the fan base here. To under­stand Philadel­phia sports fans, all one has to do is remem­ber the time the hockey player Eric Lin­dros received a con­cus­sion dur­ing a game that made nearly every­one who watched it gasp.

Nearly every­one. Sports radio here pushed the fine, noble argu­ment that Lin­dros “wanted” the con­cus­sion, that he hated Philadel­phia and didn’t want to win, and that in a moment of inspired insan­ity tried to get him­self killed dur­ing a hockey game.

Kevin Kolb (the quar­ter­back of the Eagles) had a “con­cus­sion.” It wasn’t really a con­cus­sion, the coach pulled him for inept play [any idiot watch­ing the tape can see he got hit hard, really hard. Also: coaches rou­tinely pull play­ers for inept play with­out mak­ing excuses for them]

Jef­frey Lurie, the owner of the Eagles, does not really want to win a cham­pi­onship because he’s not from around here Read more at www.ashokkarra.com

 

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US troops still forced to bolster Iraqi forces in battle

Mission Accomplished??

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Baghdad, Iraq

Far from merely 'advising and assisting' Iraqi forces, as the Obama administration has described their new role, US troops are still needed to battle insurgents, as evidenced in three recent incidents in different parts of Iraq.

In the two weeks since President Obama declared the end of the US combat mission in Iraq, a series of bloody skirmishes has sharpened the questions about the Iraqi security forces' ability to protect the country.

In three incidents in different parts of Iraq, American forces stepped in with ground troops and air support when their Iraqi counterparts were threatened by suicide attackers or well-armed gunmen, according to US and Iraqi military accounts. Read more at www.csmonitor.com

 

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Rep. Meeks helped 'jihad' flier

You Decide... Why did it take the Freedom of Information act and so long to extract this information??

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US Rep. Gregory Meeks scolded immigration officials for questioning a Muslim scholar whose nonprofits have been linked to financing terrorism.

The Queens Democrat contacted federal agencies -- finally appealing to then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff -- asking why Anwar Hajjaj faced "unwarranted scrutiny" when he returned to the United States from trips abroad through JFK Airport.

Meeks described Hajjaj as a "highly regarded" professor of Islamic studies who leads Friday Muslim prayers at the Capitol.

Meeks said Hajjaj was "a pioneer in distance-based learning of Islam" through the American Open University in Virginia, according to a copy of the Sept. 30, 2006, letter to Chertoff, which was obtained by The Post under a Freedom of Information Act request.

But The Post has learned Hajjaj also headed the Taibah International Aid Association, a charity that has been accused of funding Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. The group was co-founded by Abdullah A. bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's nephew, who has been investigated for his ties to groups that have funded al Qaeda and Hamas. Read more at www.nypost.com

 

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Islamists seize Somali radio stations

The Religion of Pieces Strikes again.

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Mogadishu

Islamist insurgents in Somalia have seized control of two radio stations in the capital Mogadishu.

The stations, Horn Afrik and GBC, were raided on Saturday by militants from the groups al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam.

The groups, who are trying to topple the transitional government, have targeted media by killing journalists and banning music from the airwaves. Read more at www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Sunday Funnies

Enjoy your Sunday:))

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Bards of Pas­sion and of Mirth

I Like Poetry and this spoke to me

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John Keats

Bards of Pas­sion and of Mirth

Bards of Pas­sion and of Mirth, Ye have left your souls on earth! Have ye souls in heaven too, Double-lived in regions new? Yes, and those of heaven com­mune With the spheres of sun and moon;Read more at www.ashokkarra.com

 

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We will not be silenced, Pope tells secular Britain

I Agree

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The Pope strongly criticised the “marginalisation” of Christianity in modern Britain, claiming that churchgoers were forced to act against their conscience in the name of secular equality.

Delivering the most important speech of his historic visit, he attacked the politically correct ideas that Christmas should not be celebrated for fear of offending minorities and that the faithful should be forced to keep their beliefs to themselves.

Speaking in Westminster Hall before an audience including four former prime ministers, the Pope declared that politicians must not interfere with the running of Roman Catholic institutions, in what would be seen as a reference to those adoption agencies and faith schools that felt under attack from the previous Labour government. Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk

 

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