I haven’t had television in almost 5 years, go to the movie theater maybe 3 times a year and am very particular about the things I’ll rent on the somewhat rare occasion that I can sit and watch a DVD.
And I can’t believe how saturated I am with Hollywood and celebrities despite all that.
The only explanation is my voracious appetite for politics and world events that Hollywood and celebrities are so deeply imbedded.
....Israeli arsenal to be put to use....
Wouldn’t it be interesting if the world community and media spoke out against ACKmadinnerjacket screaming from the mountain tops that he aspires to eliminate the US and Israel as much as they’re hammering Bush for saying he ISN’T going to attack Iran?????
House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn’t cut off money for U.S. troops inIraq but would require President Bush to acknowledge problems with an overburdened military.
~*~ The tactic is more likely to embarrass Bush politically than force his hand on the war. He would have to sign repeated waivers for units and report to Congress those units with equipment shortfalls and other problems.
What am I missing here? Congress authorized (Bush “hasn’t to date done anything we’ve asked him to do...”) the war and they also fund it (see threats to defund it).
Are we to expect Congress to have us vote on all of their decisions now too?
30 November, 1996 - 28 February 2007
My best friend is gone. Huck passed peacefully on his couch this afternoon after a very brief and unexpected illness.
He was loved by all. Yeah, that kind of dog. Sweet, friendly, funny, and loyal. He was a great dog and will be sorely missed.
At least now Jesus has someone to chase the squirrels in his backyard…
... and to the Republic for which it stands, ONE nation........
On October 10, 1995, the 1/15 Battalion of the 3rd infantry Division of the U.S. Army came to attention at 0900 in Schweinfurt, Germany. All but one of the 550 soldiers were wearing a sky-blue baseball-style cap with a United Nations insignia on the front. One was wearing the olive-drab flat cap that is authorized to be worn with the Battle Dress Uniform. With this simple act of disobeying a direct order, Spc. 4 Michael New set the stage for a legal battle that has profound implications for the future of American soldiers into service of the United Nations without the constitutional permission of Congress.
Perhaps if the folks defending LT. Watada had offered Michael New their blinding support I might have heard about this sooner.....
MarcM
A university study shows the population of a tiny endangered owl in northern Mexico has declined by an estimated 26 percent over the last seven years, a finding that environmentalists said bolsters their arguments for greater protection for the bird in Arizona.
Just the other day I saw a few pygmy owls loitering outside a Home Depot and pestering people to do some yard work.
Norwegian anti-immigration politicians in Bergen have promised to chase off Muslims with pigs feet and squealing noises if Bergen’s central square is used for prayers.
The leader of the Demokratene, an extreme populist party formed by outcasts of the populist Progress Party, Vidar Kleppe, said Wednesday that he backed the remarks of city council representative Kenneth Rasmussen.
Rasmussen reacted with threats of porcine tactics after Labour Party politician Jerad Abdelmajid said that the city’s Muslims could take their Friday prayers in Torgallmenningen, Bergen’s central square, when they will be without a mosque from March 31. Building of a new mosque is behind schedule.
Abdelmajid’s announcement provoked heated public debate.
“I completely agree with Kenneth Rasmussen that Muslims having their Friday prayers with their butts in the air in the city center is no solution. They can find other places,” Kleppe told news agency NTB.
Kenneth Rasmussen told newspaper Dagbladet’s web site that Bergen residents should hang up pig’s feet and play pig squeals over loudspeakers to scare off Muslims, and claimed these tactics worked when he was a soldier for the United Nations in Somalia and Lebanon in the 1990s.
A gym owner in the Netherlands is surprised by the number of offers he is getting after he made the announcement to open the world’s first fitness program for nudists.
Mayor Richard M. Daley was easily elected to a sixth term on Tuesday and now stands poised to eclipse his legendary father has the longest serving mayor ever in Chicago.
It’s real swell Dhimmi Dean, that your experience with Islam has been so positive but mine unfortunately hasn’t even remotely come close.
But what really has me scratching my head is a line in the sand such as this over it.
You can be an Islamophobe, or you can contribute to Dean’s World. You cannot do both.
This is meant for front-page contributors, submitters, or even commenters. It is time for you to make a choice, and to live by that choice. Because I certainly intend to.
Simply put, you must agree with all of the following assertions:
1) Islam does not represent the forces of Satan or the Anti-Christ bent on destruction of the Christian world.
2) There is no 1,400 year old “war with the West/Christianity” being waged by Muslims or anyone else.
3) Islam as a religion is no more inherently incompatible with modernity, minority rights, women’s rights, or democratic pluralism than most religions.
4) Medieval, anachronistic, obscure terms like “dhimmitude” or “taqiyya” are suitable for polite intellectual discussion. They are not and never will be appropriate to slap in the face of everyday Muslims or their friends.
5) Muslims have no more need to prove that they can be good Americans, loyal citizens, decent people, or enemies of terrorism than anyone else does.
Is this a test of ”ideological purity?”
Why yes. Yes it is.
If you cannot accept, wholeheartedly, all of the above 5 assertions--without exception or weasel-wording--then if you are a front page Dean’s World contributor you should turn in your keys and say goodbye. You can do it gracefully or ingracefully. You can do it by email or by posting whatever you want on the front page before you go. Your choice. But you need to do it: you need to leave.
Furthermore, I will accept no more debate upon this matter by commenters bent upon snarky, snotty, Islamophobic irrationality. You should either stop using your comment account, or you should be prepared to simply be thrown out without further ado.
W.H.O.A.H.
And fwiw I stopped commenting over there a looooong time ago when it became an ordeal.
Gee, it’s done all the time by the left.
menopausal women are HAWT!
A group calling itself the Olympia Port Militarization Resistance has launched a campaign of public information and lobbying of elected leaders that it hopes will prevent another confrontation by dissuading the Army from using the port when another Fort Lewis brigade prepares to deploy to Iraq.
“They could make a different choice if they wanted,” said Drew Hendricks, a member of the organization. “Basically, we’re giving them the chance to make that choice.”
Failing that, the group intends to form blockades to prevent the military cargo from reaching the port, and to enter port property for “non-violent civil disobedience to prevent military equipment that has reached the Port of Olympia from being loaded,” according to a campaign plan approved this month.
thank Linda SoG
USA!USA!USA!
Olympia native Bruce Crandall received the nation’s highest award for valor Monday more than four decades after he braved relentless enemy fire and repeatedly flew his helicopter into a hot landing zone in Vietnam to resupply and rescue the wounded of a surrounded U.S. infantry battalion.
In the East Room of the White House, President Bush presented the Medal of Honor to Crandall. As the president placed the medal around his neck, Crandall, 74, broke into a smile and kissed Arlene, his wife of 50 years.
In men like Bruce Crandall, we really see the best of America, Bush said. He and his fellow soldiers were brave, brave folks. They were as noble and selfless as any who have worn our nation’s uniform.
Crandall was born in Olympia and graduated from Olympia High School in 1951. Olympia High School named its baseball field after him.
~SNIP~
Before 1996, the Medal of Honor could be awarded only in the two years after a soldier demonstrated bravery beyond the call of duty. Congress dropped the time limit, and Crandall and Freeman were nominated. Crandall withdrew his application because he didn’t think a single battle could provide three Medal of Honor winners, and he wanted Freeman to receive the honor. Bush presented the medal to Freeman in 2001 during a ceremony that Crandall attended.
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Scott is making a comeback to Paris with his autumn-winter collection after deserting the French capital for Los Angeles and New York following his return to his homeland in 2001
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Years before George W. Bush proclaimed his support for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages in the United States, the ideologically rigid government of Fidel Castro made a big move in the opposite direction.
Well isn’t that just fabulous? Gay Cubans may soon be able to marry; but they still won’t be able to vote in a free election, own property, or criticize the gubmint without being sent to a tropical gulag.
ooooh—and hot dogs!
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FHM Magazine’s Most Eligible Bachelorette Top 20:
1 Kimberly Stewart
2 Carmen Electra
3 Princess Beatrice
4 Sarah Harding
5 Scarlett Johansson
6 Lindsay Lohan
7 Maria Sharapova
8 Paris Hilton
9 Keeley Hazell
10 Keira Knightley
11 Ivanka Turmp
12 Nicky Hilton
13 Lydia Hearst-Shaw
14 Amanda Hearst
15 Gisele Bundchen
16 Holly Branson
17 Jenna Bush
18 Barbara Bush
19 Britney Spears
20 Kate Moss
SUNDERBANS TIGER RESERVE, India (Reuters) - As the midday sun beats down on the world’s largest tiger reserve, fishermen in a small wooden boat slowly manoeuvre their way through the mangrove forests fringing the Bay of Bengal.
Twenty years ago, the fishermen say they would never have been able to venture through the mangrove creek in eastern India to catch fish, too fearful of the tigers that stalked the area for prey and shelter.
But the once lush, dense mangrove cover is sparse now—reduced to decaying branches—and the big cats have now moved on in search of food and protection.
Wildlife experts say rising sea levels and coastal erosion caused by global warming are steadily shrinking the mangroves of Sunderbans, threatening the survival of the endangered tigers.
The tigers of the Sunderbans regularly swim between islands in search of food and sometimes stray into villages. They are known to have killed at least 50 people over the last five years.
The area is the world’s largest mangrove reserve and one of the most unique ecosystems in South Asia, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
But as sea levels rise, two islands have already disappeared and others are vulnerable.
So why aren’t the mangroves along the Florida coast deteriorating in a similar fashion? If sea levels have risen in the Bay of Bengal they’ve risen elsewhere - the laws of physics and all. So how many low-lying islands in the Bahamas - similar in topography to that of those in the Bay of Bengal - have disappeared? None.
If you are too drunk to drive, you might want to think about ditching the assault rifle. And the cocaine. Ditto the marijuana. And you definitely don’t want to pretend you’re a police officer.
Gwinnett police have arrested a 24-year-old Lawrenceville man after he asked for change for $100 at a fast-food drive-through last week and the clerk noticed an assault rifle in his lap.
Some Georgia redneck? Nope.
Gwinnett police found Mohammed Faizal Taki semiconscious in a parked car nearby. Taki had pulled off on the side of the road. A search of his car revealed an assault rifle, cocaine, marijuana and various rounds of ammunition, police said. During processing, sheriff’s deputies found a small bag tucked in Taki’s shoes. The white, chalky substance field tested as cocaine, police said. Final tests are pending.
Police charged Taki with driving under the influence, possession of marijuana and cocaine, impersonating an officer, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a weapon during a crime and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Taki was denied bond and is being held at Gwinnett County Jail.
Smells funny, don’t it? Drunken convicted felon of a Muzzie with drugs, large bills and an assault rifle?
So I decide to search the interweb for his name. Here’s his booking photo.
