Ralph Peters keeps channeling me and not giving me credit.
YESTERDAY, 80 terrorists in police uniforms raided an Iraqi research institute in Baghdad, rounded up 100-plus male students, loaded them into vehicles in broad daylight and drove away.
They couldn’t have pulled it off without the complicity of key elements within the Iraqi security services and the government: “our guys.”
The students probably will be executed and dumped somewhere. Partly for the crime of wanting to study and build a future, but primarily just to step up the level of terror yet again.
What really matters is what our forces are ordered - and permitted - to do. With political correctness permeating our government and even the upper echelons of the military, we never tried the one technique that has a solid track record of defeating insurgents if applied consistently: the rigorous imposition of public order.
That means killing the bad guys. Not winning their hearts and minds, placating them or bringing them into the government. Killing them.
If you’re not willing to lay down a rule that any Iraqi or foreign terrorist masquerading as a security official or military member will be shot, you can’t win. And that’s just one example of the type of sternness this sort of fight requires.
With the situation in Iraq deteriorating daily, sending more troops would simply offer our enemies more targets - unless we decided to use our soldiers and Marines for the primary purpose for which they exist: To fight.
Any code of ethics that squanders the lives of tens of thousands and the future of millions so we can “claim the moral high ground” is hypocrisy worthy of the Europeans who made excuses for the Holocaust.
If we want to give Iraq’s silent - and terrified - majority a last chance, we would have to accept the world’s condemnation for killing the killers. If we are unwilling to do that, Iraq’s finished.
Ralph Peters would have been a great choice for SecDef. Perhaps some future administration will realize that.
Fox plans to broadcast an interview with O.J. Simpson in which the former football star discusses “how he would have committed” the slayings of his ex-wife and her friend, for which he was acquitted, the network said.
The two-part interview, titled “O.J. Simpson: If I Did It, Here’s How It Happened,” will air Nov. 27 and Nov. 29, the TV network said.
Simpson has agreed to an “unrestricted” interview with book publisher Judith Regan, Fox said.
“O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes,” the network said in a statement. “In the two-part event, Simpson describes how he would have carried out the murders he has vehemently denied committing for over a decade.”
The interview will air days before Simpson’s new book, “If I Did It,’” goes on sale Nov. 30. The book, published by Regan, “hypothetically describes how the murders would have been committed.”
If? My ass…
What do you do if you are made destitute by an accident? Well according to these muslims, from the largest muslim nation on Earth, you throw your last source of food into the near-boiling flow to appease “Allah” (pork chops be upon him)
Sorry to visit my geeeeeeeeekiness on y’all again, but this reminds me of the Grecco-Persian war. During that war Xerxes wanted to build a Trireme bridge over the the Hellespont from (modern) turkey to (modern) Greece. At first he poured a chalice of wine into the river and dropped the golden chalice as a gift; when the spont destroyed his Trireme bridge he had it flogged. His thinking was irrational and savage, which contributed to his defeat; looks like things haven’t changed in over two millennium…
Hollywood is creating a film of a different kind over Greater Los Angeles: smog, soot and greenhouse gases, according to a UCLA report due out today.
The report found that the film and television industry emits a whopping 140,000 tons a year of ozone and diesel particulate pollutant emissions from trucks, generators, special effects earthquakes and fires, demolition of sets with dynamite and other sources.
“Given the importance of the movie and TV industry in Southern California, we thought this was something the public should know,” said Mary Nichols, head of the UCLA Institute of the Environment. Nichols, a law professor and past secretary of the California Resources Agency, said researchers found that although individual productions and studios are taking steps to minimize environmental damage, the industry’s “structure and culture hamper the pace of improvements.”
The industry tops hotels, aerospace, and apparel and semiconductor manufacturing in traditional air pollutant emissions in Southern California, according to the study, initially prepared for the Integrated Waste Management Board, and is probably second only to petroleum refineries, for which comparable data were not available. The entertainment industry ranks third in greenhouse gas emissions.
...howz about picking the most ironic new ( “new” haaaaa) Democrat leadership assignments......like a game.
Just for shits and giggles.
They have the best promos
I’m very much the traditionalist when it come to film, but I also understand TCM’s need to appeal to a younger audience. That being the case, I liked the styling of this very much.
Two Manischewitz EVERYTHING! matzo crackers with a thin layah of buddah…
It’s like....buddah.
Mr. Amadinnerjacket, our conditions are :
*Apologize immediately for all the nasty things you have said about the US.
*Immediately quit threatening Israel.
*Tell that 12th Imam of yours to show up or shut the fu** up!
Signed,
Melissa in Texas in comments
Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff is scheduled to report to federal prison tomorrow, over the objections of federal prosecutors who say they still need his help to pursue leads on officials he allegedly bribed.
Sources close to the investigation say Abramoff has provided information on his dealings with and campaign contributions and gifts to “dozens of members of Congress and staff,” including what Abramoff has reportedly described as ”six to eight seriously corrupt Democratic senators.”
Dear Nancy,
What’s it feel like to be the deer in the headlights now?
Indebtedly,
SondraK
PS:
Wipe yur butt.
For a few weeks, commuters making the trip from Chicago to the Northwest suburbs were subjected to a crude outdoor advertisement that recycled a risque, old joke.
“Liquor in Schaumburg, poker in Vegas,” read the giant can’t-miss-it ad for Hooters, the restaurant chain that has managed to turn a sophomoric slang for women’s breasts into an eatery empire.
I’m not above juvenile mammary word play (as the headline to this column can attest), but the liquor/poker sign went too far. It contributed to what the leader of America’s Roman Catholic bishops on Monday called a coarseness infecting society.
While the Hooters ad certainly didn’t inspire the awkward questions from my young sons that the massive “Sex Toys” billboard along I-290...............................
You don’t expect to see a pierced boob (4 of them no less!) while watching a Superbowl with your family....and while you expect to see hooters at a Hooters you expect it in Vegas and not on the highway going by because maybe that’s not where you’re going.
And for the record, you folks who like to protest abortion clinics on the sidewalks holding up very large and very graphic photos of aborted foetuses are about the worst.
You’d need to be 17 and with a parent to see that in a movie (or in 1st grade indoctrination class). Driving by with your 6 year old daughter on the way to school and having 5 minutes to explain what was that I just saw on those signs, Mommy? before you drop her off is not very pleasant I’ve heard.
hiding under the bed
I was just chatting with a friend who’s re-taking her RN boards after taking time off to do the whole Mom thing. She told me that things have changed in the last 20 years—the “right” answer is no longer the choice which provides the best patient care, but the choice which protects the hospital from suit.
Oh, and there will be cameras in every patient care area in every hospital within 5 years.
...well, I didn’t need to get sick anyway.
[Thank you, Nancy! slip-’n’-fall lawyers!]
me ‘n’ Babalu...
Define: to Swift Boat [swift boht] verb
1. ______________________________
2. ______________________________
It finally sunk in and struck me that this IS MY Senator and that WAS Murray in that power pantsuit (and not Ellen Dengeres as I’d first thought).
*gulp*
Washington Sen. Patty Murray was elected to the No. 4 slot in the Senate’s Democratic leadership Tuesday as yet another sign of the growing influence of the state’s congressional delegation following last week’s election.
As conference secretary, Murray will play an insider’s role in developing the Democratic agenda for the next Congress, determining legislative priorities and implementing the party’s strategy and message.
“It’s a tremendous opportunity for our state to be at the table and to have the issues we care about on the agenda,” Murray said in an interview. “I’m very excited and gratified.”
Murray was beaming as new Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada introduced her and the other members of the Democratic leadership before dozens of reporters, television cameras and still photographers with strobes flashing and motor-drives whirring. Murray said later she had never faced more media at one time.
”I hope to bring to this leadership team a reminder of who we are,
“ [ AIEEEEE ]Murray said, singling out students with college loans, seniors trying to figure out Medicare prescription drug benefits, middle-class families without health insurance, and veterans _ particularly those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.Murray, who is in her third term, will also be chairman of the Senate Appropriations’ Transportation, Treasury, Judiciary, and Housing and Urban Development Subcommittee. She will not become chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, where she has been the No. 2 Democrat. The top Democrat on that committee, Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka , decided he wanted that chairmanship.
Dear Gawd, are they even considering qualifications even a teeny bit when assigning these committees ?????????
Lord help me, that’s what, 6 heartbeats away?????
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey...JR just minded me to just think of all the pork my state’s gonna get now!!!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
(Gregoire in ‘08 yessiryoubetchatoo....)
Frozen pigs hog the road after truck, big rig collide
From a Times staff writer [ WTF? “a Times staff writer” ???]
November 14, 2006
Traffic squealed to a halt Monday evening in the truck lanes of the Golden State Freeway when a truck collided with a big rig, spilling dozens of frozen pig carcasses across 80 feet of pavement, authorities said.No one was hurt in the mishap in Sylmar, which was reported at 7:36 p.m.
Otherwise, details of the collision were sketchy late Monday, including whether the big rig or the truck was carrying the whole frozen pigs.
CHP officers said it was unclear why whole frozen pigs were being shipped.
Caltrans officials hauled off the carcasses late into the night. The southbound truck lanes were expected to reopen by the morning.
I’m thinking Steve can get them super cheap here in a couple of days.
(Please don’t sue me for stealing your image)
Google: Veterans Day ‘too solemn’ for logo
In response to e-mail generated by a WND story noting Google didn’t mark Veterans Day for an eighth straight year, the search engine giant created a form letter explaining the non-commemoration of the holiday was deliberate and out of reverence.
“Thank you for your note,” read the form response. “We understand your concern and interest in seeing a Veteran’s (sic) Day Google logo. If we were to commemorate this holiday, we’d want to express reverence; however, as Google’s special logos tend to be lighthearted in nature, this would be a particularly challenging design. We wouldn’t want to create a graphic that could be interpreted as disrespectful in any way.”
Despite the claim, Google for Canada honored Remembrance Day, the Canadian version of the U.S. Veterans Day last Saturday with a stylized logo featuring three poppies.......
Google’s holiday signature is a dressed-up corporate logo for major holidays and lesser-known occasions alike. Besides overlooking Veterans Day and Memorial Day since the company’s inception in 1999, it has also ignored Christmas and Easter.
I’ll give ‘em Easter on that but CHRISTMAS TOO SOLEMN??????????
Dear Google, I’ll bet it wouldn’t be all that hard for someone who actually gave a shit to come up with something appropriate.
And just so’s yannow, there’s a whole lot of us who ain’t as funny as John Kerry....but we’re not stupid.
Signed,
US
I can’t think of a sufficiently obscene response
“We have said from the beginning that we will talk with the American government, but under conditions,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [the MiniMahdi] told a news conference.
“The conditions concern the attitude of the American government. If they correct their behavior, we will talk to them like others,”
Nor anything sufficiently severe to say to Dubya if he lets this little goat-doo get away with it.
oh, yeah, almost forgot—Thank You, Nancy!
My minion has been approached to join AFSCME.
Girl’ll probably end up making more than me…
teh reason for the holy day season.......
A talking Jesus doll has been turned down by the Marine Reserves’ Toys for Tots program.
A Los Angeles company offered to donate 4,000 of the 1 foot-tall dolls, which quote Bible verses, for distribution to needy children this holiday season. The battery-powered Jesus is one of several dolls manufactured by one2believe, a division of the Valencia-based Beverly Hills Teddy Bear Co., based on biblical figures.
But the charity balked because of the dolls’ religious nature.
~SNIP~ Grein questioned whether children would welcome a gift designed for religious instruction. “Kids want a gift for the holiday season that is fun,” he said.
Eat socks!
But wait, there’s more!
For Moxie ...though truthfully, our very own Stepperg has already lapped her several times over in the race for craziest cat lady ; )
Going doolally? Getting too filmi? Being a bit of a bevakoof? Welcome to the wonderful world of Hinglish, a rich linguistic curry that stirs together English with Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi.
~*~ “Doolally is my favourite word, meaning crazy. It was military slang named after a town near Mumbai called Deolali, which was the location for a sanatorium.......
Bwaaaaahahahahahahahaha.
They’ve been making headlines all over town.
Maybe it’s the ‘vrrp, vrrp’ sound it makes when you walk, or the feel of the vertically ribbed fabric that reached a popularity peak in the 1970s—whatever it is, corduroy has spawned an appreciation club.
More than 800 people around the world have signed up to be part of the New York-based ‘Corduroy Appreciation Club,’ which meets every November 11—the date, when written as 11/11, that most resembles the fabric they love.
‘It’s a requirement to wear two pieces of corduroy to the meeting,’ said Miles Rohan, president and founder of the club. ‘Fairly often people tell me they’re wearing corduroy underwear, but I haven’t checked.’
So what’s the deal? Safe to wear corduroy after Labor Day? Autumnal equinox? Anyone know the etiquette? Regardless - I’ve already worn my favorite corduroy trousers recently and nobody’s had the balls to criticize me for it.
The mistakes that led to last week’s elections - and the errors that seem likely to flow from them - would be hysterically funny if they weren’t so deadly serious. Under different circumstances (say, in a novel or a play), the script might be described as a comedy of errors. Unfortunately, this is no work of fiction. It amounts to a tragedy of errors, one which, if left to run its course, will afflict this country and its people for years to come.
And in closing…
Yet, in this country, the President is evidently heeding the council of defeatists. The FBI (among other agencies) is consorting with, and singing the praises of, deeply problematic Islamist organizations like the Council on American-Islamic Relations. And incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is showing her true colors - and her disdain for the moderate and conservative Democrats whose victory gave her the chamber’s gavel - by favoring the darling of the anti-war left, Jack Murtha, over Stenny Hoyer for Majority Leader, and the radical, anti-military and once-impeached judge Alcee Hastings over Jane Harman for chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
The Bottom Line
If the implications of these cumulative errors were not so grave, they would be hilarious. But this tragedy of errors is no laughing matter.
Yep - What the author said.
CARPE DIEM!!!!!!
A woman enjoys a sunny morning day accompanied by her dog from her balcony in Havana, Cuba.......
She never fell for this crap.
Season Shot is made of tightly packed seasoning bound by a fully biodegradable food product. The seasoning is actually injected into the bird on impact seasoning the meat from the inside out. When the bird is cooked the seasoning pellets melt into the meat spreading the flavor to the entire bird. Forget worrying about shot breaking your teeth and start wondering about which flavor shot to use!
How does it work?
No word on the stopping power. I doubt it’s as dense as lead, steel, bismuth, or tungsten.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the main reason for tension between Muslim and Western societies was not “religion” but “politics” and emphasized, “We should start by reaffirming - and demonstrating - that the problem is not the Quran, nor the Torah or the Bible.”
A High Level-group, part of the fourth Alliance of Civilizations Initiative, presented Annan a report on ways to overcome the divide in Istanbul, Monday afternoon.
Taking the floor following the report’s presentation, Annan said that unveiling the report in Istanbul, a bridge between continents, was a very appropriate decision.
There are those who want to start a world war using certain symbols, Annan said.
“Good or bad, not one of us lived in a different civilization.”
Annan said that the growing rift between Muslim and Western societies did not have not religious reasons but rather political ones.
Annan said Muslims see the West as a threat to their own belief system and reject arguments to the contrary whereas the West sees Islam as a religion of fanaticism and violence.
