...at girls who wear glasses
The Ugly American I read a comment by MY Uncle Jefe on another blog (ahem) just a bit ago that said that Al Zaqari was surrounded....
Any one with word on this?
I hope I wake up and he’s dead.
Al Zaqari, sheesh! I’m only slightly miffed at Uncle Jefe.
SondraK, Lympian Slayer 
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday he will ask President Bush for the United States to play a major role in a peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Annan said Darfur’s plight is too severe for rich nations, including the United States, to simply fund the mission while third world nations contribute troops a practice that is largely the norm for U.N. peacekeeping missions around the world.
“It is not going to be easy for the big and powerful countries with armies to delegate it to third world countries,” Annan told reporters. ”They will have to play a part if we are going to stop the carnage that we see in Darfur.”
Annan said he planned to raise the issue with Bush during a White House meeting Monday. The United States currently pays about a quarter of the U.N. peacekeeping budget, which topped $5 billion in 2005, but provides a very small percentage of troops or police.
Annan said the Darfur mission will need a “completely different force.” That means highly trained troops with solid logistical support, backed by air power, with the ability to move quickly.
On Thursday, the U.N. Security Council authorized planning for the United Nations to take over peacekeeping duties in Darfur from the African Union, whose 7,000 troops have been hampered by shoddy equipment, poor training and lack of funds.
The African Union troops have made a difference where they are stationed, but have been unable to bring lasting peace to Darfur, where an estimated 180,000 people have died in violence since 2003. The United States and several other nations have said genocide occurred in Sudan.
The U.N. mission must send a message to those responsible for the violence “that we have a force that is capable to respond, a force that is everywhere and a force that will be there on time to prevent them from intimidating and killing the innocent civilians,” Annan said.
The United States has been reluctant to contribute troops since 18 U.S. soldiers were killed in clashes with gunmen in 1993 during the peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 02/09 at 10:13 PM •
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The Rabbit is “collector friendly” as it comes with an ear tag and is not strapped into a box: you can still play with his mouth while leaving the tag attached. For the more adventurous collector, Toy Vault also produced a variant bloody Rabbit with blood spatters around its mouth and bloody hand prints along its body. The bloody version is limited to 500.
DAMN!
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HA! How.....telling.
how do homeless, penniless refugees displaced personnel make it alla way to DC to ‘rally’?
And where do they stay/eat when they’re there?
Harry Reid told the crowd President Bush should have been better prepared [personally] to protect them from disaster [with his very body], and pledged that Democrats in Congress will do everything possible to help them.
...unless, o’ course, they’re not Indians indigenous personnel Marianas Islanders Abramoff clients.
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 02/09 at 09:18 PM •
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Last November, Bove was sentenced to four months in prison for destroying a field of genetically modified corn planted by an American seed company in southern France in July 2004.
*plus*
He shot to fame in 1999 after leading a group of protesters who dismantled a McDonald’s restaurant under construction in Millau, near his sheep farm.
[ SNORT: SK]
*equals*
“Evidently, the Bush administration is behind this decision,” said George Naylor, president of the National Family Farm Coalition. “No one would think of fearing Jose’s presence in this country except multinational corporations with a profit motive.”
An anti-globalization activist who was sent back to France after arriving at an airport here accused the U.S. government Thursday of conspiring against his cause and trying to protect big business.
Jose Bove, best known for ransacking a McDonald’s restaurant in France in 1999, arrived Wednesday at John F. Kennedy International Airport, planning to speak at an event sponsored by Cornell University, but was denied entry by customs officials.
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 02/09 at 08:54 PM •
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Belgian town bars “Saddam Shark” display for fear of offending Muslims.
*clap*clap*clap*
Now do one with Harried Reid!!
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 02/09 at 08:35 PM •
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For the gal who has everything....but a date for Valentine’s Day.
Nothing says FUCK YOU better than a golden vibrator!
TAS
