I may be crazy but…
this seems a bit more important than if Dead-Eye Dick had whipped out a .45 and plugged David Gregory square between the eyes.
...not that that scenario wouldn’t make some smile....
Some of the country’s busiest ports—New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, [New Orleans, Miami and Philadelphia]—are about to become the property of the United Arab Emirates. Do we really want our major ports in the hands of an Arab country where al Qaeda recruits, travels and wires money?
The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, a Treasury Department-dominated group which reviews foreign investments, allows such purchases. The committee approved a $6.8 billion transaction between the ports’ current British owners and Dubai Ports World, a government-owned United Arab Emirates firm. The United Arab Emirates was home to Marwan al-Shehhi, a September 11 hijacker; the country is a transit point for al Qaeda, including several other September 11 hijackers; al Qaeda’s financing activities have involved the UAE; al Qaeda finds sympathizers there with ease, as it does in other Arab countries.
What I find almost as discomfiting is that the Committee on Foreign Investment has put me in a position to agree with Chucky Schumer *ptui*.
“...this looks like [expletive] insanity”
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 02/15 at 02:23 PM •
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One of the most dramatic moments in the 12 hours of recordings comes when Saddam predicts - during a meeting in the mid 1990s - a terrorist attack on the United States. “Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before August 2 and told the British as well ... that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction.” Saddam goes on to say such attacks would be difficult to stop. “In the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington or a germ or a chemical one?” But he adds that Iraq would never do such a thing. “This is coming, this story is coming but not from Iraq.”
Also at the meeting was Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, who said Iraq was being wrongly accused of terrorism. “Sir, the biological is very easy to make. It’s so simple that any biologist can make a bottle of germs and drop it into a water tower and kill 100,000. This is not done by a state. No need to accuse a state. An individual can do it.”
The tapes also reveal Iraq’s persistent efforts to hide information about weapons of mass destruction programs from U.N. inspectors well into the 1990s . In one pivotal tape-recorded meeting, which occurred in late April or May of 1995, Saddam and his senior aides discuss the fact that U.N. inspectors had uncovered evidence of Iraq’s biological weapons program-a program whose existence Iraq had previously denied.
At one point Hussein Kamel, Saddam’s son-in-law and the man who was in charge of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction efforts can be heard on the tapes, speaking openly about hiding information from the U.N.
“We did not reveal all that we have,” Kamel says in the meeting. “Not the type of weapons, not the volume of the materials we imported, not the volume of the production we told them about, not the volume of use. None of this was correct.”
SondraK, Lympian Slayer ...it’s oh-so-gooood!
THIS is why I have a little “thing” about Malkin having “a blog”. (those aren’t sneer quotes, I just don’t consider it one).
I prefer she sticks to what she really does best....like this!
WHOOT!
Lloyd
No one as of yet as explained to me why “uttering and publishing” is a crime, let alone wtf “uttering” is.
UDDering I’d understand in this context.
JohnR
Xenia Seeburg from the show LEXX
A truly GAWD Awful show, but it has Xenia and she knocks Angelina and Fairuza out of the running.
So, who is your favorite sci-fi babe?
Scorpius I’m going to defend Paris Hilton!!!
Here’s a story....
When I was young, a punk and retarded a group of my fellow shit-heads went downtown Boston and ASSAULTED people wearing fur with water guns filled with kool-ade. We had our weapons taken away from us and were threatened by the police to be charged with assault.
I never behaved like that again. Wether or not my co-horts did I don’t know, but it was a lesson to me.
FWIW.
As far as I know, these people are adults and should be treated accordingly.
A man who pleaded no contest to a sodomy charge involving a sheep says he should not have to register as a sex offender.
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Haynes was arrested in June after a DNA sample taken from the animal matched Haynes’ genetic material.Haynes has prior convictions for burglary, home invasion and uttering and publishing, and was on parole for burglary at the time of the sex crime.
Sandi Dubowski, who won the Teddy gay and lesbian award in 2001 for his controversial doc “Trembling Before G-d,” may cause an even bigger stir with ”In the Name of Allah,” which explores the struggles of homosexual Muslims.
Gay Indian Muslim helmer Parvez Sharma is directing the pic, which looks at gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.
Sharma and Dubowski plan to submit the pic to all major festivals in the Muslim world as well as in the West, but if it’s rejected, Dubowski said, “We’ll find ways of screening it in every Muslim nation, even if it’s underground.”
Now that’s how you get a fatwa! The KFC and McDonald’s franchises in Mohammadland best buckle up for this one.
Ch Beachbrook’s Its Raining Men
Breed: Afghan Hound
Real dogs are in the Sporting and Working dog classes.
Gives new meaning to “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys"…
* Lyrics link fixed. Thanks, RandyM!
Skating to the music The Swan, Weir’s black-and-white costume with a feathery flourish was accented by a red glove on his right hand, which he said represented the beak of the swan. He named the glove Camille after the music’s composer (Camille Saint-Saens).
Um, Johnny… You named your glove?
Johnny on Christina Aguilera:
Q: As for your Christina Aguilera obsession—have you met her?
A: No. I would kill to meet her.Q: It would be great if an introduction could be arranged.
A: Yeah. Ahhhh, I would pee. I just think she is an incredible role model.
***UPDATE*** That image was screaming for the bass…
When you come back and compose yourself we have to make a list to whom this needs to be forwarded to!
