it’s a puzzlement

According to the latest reports armed struggle against the Islamic Regime occupying Iran has begun by the Lor, Bakhtiari and Qashqai tribes of Iran. 

Urgent News: (2/1/2007)
Subject: National Uprising
Bulletin issued by NAMA* and ARA** Organizations

The great uprising to free the nation of Iran started yesterday by courageous native tribes of Iran in the Isfahan and neighboring provinces. Many nationalist heroic Iranians have joined this movement from other areas, including exiled Iranian community.

Yesterday, the region of Samirom and in between the state of Isfahan and city of Yasouj, was the scene of an armed battle between the regime’s Pasdar and Basij*** forces and the Partisans and Fighters of the region. This battle occurred at the front lines of the regime’s armed forces and caused heavy casualties. Most casualties were regimes armed forces.

Following this battle, Samirom, Yasouj and tribal regions of the Fars State have been declared RED areas by the regime.

...The regime’s reaction to this defeat has been to declare this conflict as a conflict with armed smugglers

But wait!

Six police officers and four volunteers were martyred and 13 wounded in a violent clash with drug traffickers in the city of Semirom, Isfahan province.

Police Commander of Semirom, identified by his surname Mokhtari, told ISNA that four drug smugglers were also killed in the 18-hour gun-battle.

Gateway Pundit

Jenny

Sharia Law...

On January 3, 2006, Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi was sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she stabbed one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 15-year-old niece in a park in Karaj (a suburb of Tehran) in March 2005. She was seventeen years old at the time.

...The injustice of this case propelled Nazanin Afshin-Jam to take immediate action and start a petition to help save the life of her namesake. With many speeches and rallies worldwide and months on the media circuit, over 345,000 signatures were collected and delivered to the United Nations and Iranian Officials. Nazanin and Mina Ahadi, the head of the International Committee Against Execution, managed to engage Amnesty International, Canadian Members of Parliament, the European Union and the United Nations and others to put pressure on the Iranian Officials to spare the life of this child.

...During the new trial on January 10, 2007, the five judges presiding over the case found inconsistencies with the testimonies of the male witnesses and unanimously ruled out premeditated murder and determined that the act was a case of self-defense. As a result Nazanin Fatehi was exonerated from the charge of murder. While two judges wanted her to be freed unconditionally, three of the judges ruled that disproportionate force was used and requested her to pay “diyeh” (blood money) to compensate the family of the deceased. Fatehi’s lawyers Shadi Sadr and Mr. Mostafaei vehemently oppose this payment and have since appealed, but in order for there not to be any delays or additional time served, Nazanin was given the option to pay a set bail of 400,000,000 Rials (approx US$43,000).

The Fatehi family, which includes six children, is extremely poor and was unable to meet this payment. Thanks to $32,000 USD in on-line donations to the Nazanin Fatehi Trust Fund here at http://www.helpnazanin.com, $1,000 USD collected in Iran and an extremely generous donation by Member of Canadian Parliament Belinda Stronach who covered the rest of the bail, payment was made to the courts in Iran. A few days later, Nazanin was released from prison…

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I’d rather lick the toilet seat in a Greyhound bus station than spend a day aboard one of these floating petri dishes.

A friend and co-worker has uploaded two of his hilarious “The RePUNKlicans” promo spots he produced for last year’s Liberty Film Festival on YouTube. That’s him in the mohawk, btw.

The RePUNKlicans Blogspot

If you’re still looking for those pink panties, they’re located in the parking lot of the Studio City Starbucks at the the corner of Laurel Canyon & Riverside.

Other than a tire mark and a few splatters from a flattened Jack-in-the-Box ketchup packet, they appear to be okay.

Just thought you might wanna know.

Your Friend,

--TUA

Indonesia will drop hundreds of concrete balls into a mud volcano in a bid to brake the flow of hot liquid that has displaced more than 10,000 people and inundated entire villages in Java, an official said on Friday.

The torrent of hot mud has been flowing since an oil drilling accident in May in Sidoarjo, an industrial suburb of East Java’s Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city.

Numerous attempts to cap or curb the flow since it started have failed.

But now the government plans to try concrete balls linked by metal chains.

”We will insert high density chained balls inside the mud volcano. This technique is expected to reduce the amount of mud flow and ease the pressure at the source of the gushing,” Rudi Novrianto, the national mudflow disaster commission spokesman, said by telephone.

He put the cost at 3 billion rupiah ($330,800) and said PT Lapindo Brantas, the company in charge of the well drilling at the time of the accident, would pay.

“The chains of balls weigh around 400-500 kilograms (880-1,100 lb) each. We plan to insert up to 300 ... We will do it gradually. Our target is we will try to put 50 chains of balls in a day,” Novrianto added.

The work was expected to begin next week, he said.

Sierrahome

One foot, two foot

* a mental disorder that causes one to seek the hatred of fellow Americans and then as the scabs start to heal pick at them repeatedly until they scar.

In the spirit of The Fairness Doctrine.......

“ Should Washington Post Military Analyst William Arkin Be Beaten Like the Repulsive Sack of Shit He Is? ”

Yo....what’s UP with the Elvira outfit for national tv?

a troublemaker

A new pair of hands pulled Punxsutawney Phil Al from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that the groundhog offered a new prediction.

Phil Al did not see his shadow on Friday which, according to German folklore, means folks can expect an early spring instead of six more weeks of winter.

Notice the conspicuous timing after Exxon/Mobil announced record profits.

A Texas deputy sheriff who fired shots at a fleeing vehicle after the driver tried to run him down faces 10 years in prison for injuring one of the passengers, a Mexican national being smuggled illegally into the United States.

The U.S. attorney, who won lengthy prison terms last year for two U.S. Border Patrol agents in the shooting of a drug-smuggling suspect, also prosecuted Edwards County Deputy Sheriff Guillermo F. Hernandez, who is to be sentenced next month.

The deputy’s boss, Sheriff Donald G. Letsinger, said his officer—who had been on the job for a year—“followed the letter of the law” in defending himself in the April 2005 incident and questioned why the government brought charges.

U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, appointed in October 2001 by President Bush Vicente Fox, said Hernandez fired shots at the vehicle as it sped away “knowing it was occupied with the nine individuals,” at least seven of whom were illegal aliens—some of whom later were called to testify for the government.

An American hero of World War II won eloquent thanks and a champagne salute at a celebratory dinner the other night from America’s oldest ally.

Ambassador Jean-David Levitte of France pinned the Chevalier insignia of the Legion of Honor, France’s most prestigious award, on the lapel of James Sheeran of West Orange, N.J. With it came a graceful tribute and an accounting of a hero’s deeds.

“I want to pay tribute on behalf of France to a great American patriot,” the ambassador said, “and to a son of France.” Mr. Sheeran, now a frail 84, is the father of Josette Sheeran, the new director of the U.N. World Food Program and former undersecretary of state, and onetime managing editor of The Washington Times.

Surrounded by his son, four daughters and several grandchildren, Mr. Sheeran, once the mayor of West Orange and then an official of the state of New Jersey, heard the ambassador describe his exploits as a paratrooper as “an extraordinary story that is much better than a Steven Spielberg movie.”

Indeed. As a 21-year-old trooper of the 101st Airborne Division, Mr. Sheeran jumped into Sainte-Mere-Eglise early on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and was captured a few hours later in the fighting among the hedgerows. He was sent on a prisoner train bound for Germany. He jumped off the moving train and headed for what he thought was the Swiss border. He joined a patrol of the French Resistance and, with his buddy Bernie Rainwater, fought with the Resistance and was hidden for a month by a French family in the village of Domremy, where his father, an American soldier in World War I, had met the French girl who became Jim Sheeran’s mother.

He rejoined his regiment and, disdaining a return to the United States, fought again at the Remagen bridge and in the Battle of the Bulge during Christmas 1944, where he was severely wounded.

birds of a feather and all that...

*clicky*clicky*

[iddn’t that one o’ those things ya buy—like a star on the Hollywood sidewalk?]

or an Oscar?

I used to chuckle every time the news would refer to every Muslim shrine or holiday as one of Islams holiest WHATEVERS.

Now I’m simply tired of hearing “holy” when there’s always a story of some sort of splodey drama involved.

quite a dry sense o’ humor this fella has

Why They Hate Us

One of my favs

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Yes, it’s slow and moody, and some people tease me that’s it’s a great song to slit your wrists to but I like it.

What do you do when you have a biohazordous sample with concentrated Hydrogen Peroxide (20%) in it?

Why, pour concentrated bleach in there and when it starts foaming like mad throw it at your boss.

She’s trying to kill me; plus I think she’s one of those rat-bastard, commie Mac users.

Any “recipe” that calls for using a can of cream of mushroom soup is NOT a “recipe”.

I just met with the new lab moving in.  They seem to be intelligent, nice, funny, and cool; just one problem…

...They’re Mac people.

Unbelievable.

Yer really lookin’ after me!!

by Sierrahome

The office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pressing the Bush administration for routine access to military aircraft for domestic flights, such as trips back to her San Francisco district, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

The sources, who include those in Congress and in the administration, said the Democrat is seeking regular military flights not only for herself and her staff, but also for relatives and for other members of the California delegation. A knowledgeable source called the request “carte blanche for an aircraft any time.”

“They are pressing the point of her succession and that the [Department of Defense] needs to play ball with the speaker’s needs,” one source said. 

...U.S. Air Force travel for VIPs such as members of Congress is first-rate. The planes are staffed with stewards who serve meals and tend an open bar. Communications suites allow members to conduct business while traveling.

...Since the September 11 attacks, the Air Force has flown hundreds of congressional delegations, or “co-dels,” to various war theaters. Mrs. Pelosi just completed a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Upon her return, she repeated her demand that President Bush not send more troops to Iraq.

I hope *someone* got a chance to ...properly stir her martinis…

House Democrats yesterday broke a pledge to strip pork spending from a massive funding resolution that contained about $500 million in what Republicans called questionable projects, including $44.6 million for a rainforest biosphere in Iowa and $50 million for the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
“We may have made some wrong choices; we undoubtedly did,” said Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and Appropriations Committee chairman.

...passed 286-140, with 57 Republicans joining the majority.
Critics said Democrats rammed through the $463.5 billion spending package without a committee hearing, without a committee mark-up process and without accepting amendments on the House floor.

...lessons from Hugo OOOOOOOOOO-go?

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Melissa in TX
[just checked my email]

He’s got to put up with Sammy (left) and Lilly (right) aka the Chaos Twins.  Sammy has a “thing” for his sister.

And Huck was just trying to take a nap.

About 100 people gathered at 5th and Franklin in downtown Olympia at 1 p.m. today to protest the start of the city’s pedestrian interference ordinance, which begins today.

Another sit-in is planned from 4:30 to 6 p.m. today.

The law restricts panhandling downtown and other measures.

Advocates of the law say it’s an attempt to keep pedestrians downtown with being bothered. Opponents say it is an anti-homeless measure.

Protesters also are planning a tent city downtown today to show their displeasure with the measure.

I have a double class tonight so for two hours these retards are going to be my focus......

I’m going to be very sore tomorrow.

Odin’s fading “fast” and his kidneys are at about 20% as best we can determine.

I’m giving him subcutaneous fluids, have modified his diet and he’s on “comfort” meds. I even have the bedside sound machine set to “ocean” because he LOVES the beach more than anything.
He’s feeling much better we think but it’s only been a day.

I was bemembering him as a puppy (we and the vet didn’t think he was going to live then) and how we had to take care of him-such a sick little puppy, he was only 3 pounds- and then when he was diagnosed with the cancer 4 years ago and given only two months to live....and now it’s come full circle.

But I don’t have 15 years this time.