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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Rhonda Fleming aka Alisande La Carteloise in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" aka June Lyons in "Slightly Scarlet" ( age 87)


"Women Who Bathe"
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 08/10/2010 0:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Whose stupid idea was it to fill the tub? >:-(
Posted by: gorb || 08/10/2010 2:17 Comments || Top||

#3  She has some soft points too.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 08/10/2010 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Tina Louise ... mmmm, mmmm, mmmm!!
Posted by: WolfDog || 08/10/2010 11:07 Comments || Top||

#5  There used to be a beer commercial where they were debating the relative merits of Ginger (Tina Louise) vs. Jeannie (Barbara Eden). The consensus seemed to be Jeanie although I must say Ginger is looking pretty good here.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 08/10/2010 11:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Ebbang Uluque6305, me thinks you Dream of Jeannie
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 08/10/2010 13:09 Comments || Top||

#7  Took my son to Lion's Club camp for the disabled this last Sunday. There was a young lady there that has a startling resemblance to Rhonda Fleming, except she smiled more, and she was between 18 and 20.

Has anyone else noticed how the older stars appear to be much more attractive than the younger ones - and live longer?
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/10/2010 14:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Thanks, GB!
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 08/10/2010 14:41 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Tribute to the Fallen, 2/8 Fox Company Afghanistan 2009
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 08/10/2010 11:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


7 Taliban Killed in Assaults on NATO Bastions
[Tolo News] At least, 7 insurgents were killed on Monday in attacks on three NATO strongholds in Barmal and Geyani districts of Paktia province

A statement by the NATO confirming the incidents said four foreign troops and one Afghan soldier were wounded in the attacks.

The Taliban claimed that they have killed ten foreign and Afghan soldiers, and confirmed the death of two militants in the attacks.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  i like the killed too wounded ration for thaliban.If we wound them then it ocst us more money.
Posted by: chris || 08/10/2010 18:23 Comments || Top||


Taliban execute pregnant woman
[News24.com] The Taliban publicly flogged and then executed a pregnant Afghan widow by emptying three shots into her head for alleged adultery, police said on Monday.

Bibi Sanubar, 35, was kept in captivity for three days before she was shot dead in a public trial on Sunday by a local Taliban commander in the Qadis district of the rural western province Badghis.

The Taliban accused Sanubar of having an "illicit affair" that left her pregnant. She was first punished with 200 lashes in public before being shot, deputy provincial police chief Ghulam Mohammad Sayeedi told AFP.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  If the Taliwackers are sooooo bad, why do we get dick for help to drive them out?
I'm beginning to think those mooks deserve each other.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 08/10/2010 12:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Until we go totally Mongol on these people, they will continue to follow the teachings of the "strong horse", even if it's the murderous, terrorizing Taliban. Bombing the entire Northwest Frontier Provinces back before the stone age would be a great first step. Whacking Karzai and putting someone other than a Pashtun in charge would be another.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/10/2010 14:45 Comments || Top||

#3  I recall the Taliban blew up the Buddhist statues after they had been standing for centuries. The Taliban were complicit in 9/11. Recently, they shot up the medical mission.

I don't really think this war is going to end unless we pull out or go primitive on them. Winning the hearts and minds of these people is very questionable. During WWII the Japanese were fanatics. They said they would not surrender and they had no respect for anyone who did surrender. We got the message and basically decided to turn loose our forces. We burned them in the caves where they holed up. We took no prisoners. The choices are:

Pull out and leave them to themselves. That doesn't seem possible since they came here on 911. Scratch that alternative.

Win their hearts and minds. That doesn't seem to be working so scratch that.

Go primitive on them. Blow the $hit out of them and bring an end to this $hit. Otherwise we will pi$$ away our men and women and resources and this will go on for a hundred years. If we don't have any leaders with the stomach for this we should get someone.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/10/2010 17:46 Comments || Top||


Africa North
A soldier killed and 4 wounded in an ambush in Tizi Ouzou
[Ennahar] One soldier was killed and four others wounded in an ambush Saturday, August 7 at arround 4 pm by a group of armed terrorists in the town of Ait Chafaâ, located in the extreme northeast of the province of Tizi Ouzou, according to security sources in Azeffoun. One terrorist was killed by the military during the same clash.

The soldiers were heading towards an area where the presence of an armed group was reported. But before reaching their destination, the vehicles of the army forces have received several bursts from the top of a hill by the perpetrators of the ambush, the sources said. A soldier, seriously wounded by gunfire, died on the spot while four of his comrades were wounded and evacuated in time to Azeffoun hospital where they received care.

The soldiers, who responded aggressively to the attack, could kill a member of the terrorist group and retrieve his Kalashnikov-type weapon. His body was shipped today, Sunday, Aug. 8, to the morgue of Mohamme Neddir hospital in Tizi Ouzou.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Bangladesh
4 Jamaat leaders denied bail
[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail petitions of Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojahid, its Nayeb-e-Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee, assistant secretaries general Mohammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Molla in four criminal cases filed with different police stations.

The cases were filed with Paltan, Bimanbandar and Ramna police stations in February and June this year and February 2004 on charges of vandalising president's vehicles, preventing police from discharging their duties and making an attempt to kill late Prof Humayun Azad.

Of the cases, three were filed with Paltan on February 12 and June 27, one with Bimanbandar on June 9 and the other one was filed with Ramna on February 27, 2004.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Two Jamaat leaders held
[Bangla Daily Star] Two top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj units were arrested yesterday morning.

The arrestees are Abdul Malek, acting secretary general of Rajshahi Jamaat unit, and Mokhlesur Rahman, Jamaat Ameer of Chapainawabganj pourasava unit.

Boalia police arrested Malek from his Chhoto Bongram Uttarpara residence in the city, reports our staff correspondent in Rajshahi. Malek, 51, is a member of the city Jamaat Majlish-e-Sura, the highest policymaking body of the party, police said.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Jamaat's Taher sued for sedition
[Bangla Daily Star] Police filed a sedition case against former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher early yesterday.

Sub-inspector Nasim Uddin of Shahbagh Police Station filed the case after getting approval from the home ministry.

Rezaul Karim, officer-in-charge of the station, told The Daily Star that the case was filed against Taher as he had "threatened" to make the state non-functional using "reserved forces" and take actions against some of the government institutions and people working in them without naming any.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Caribbean-Latin America
More Mexican Mayhem
Five Die in Northern Mexico

Five individuals were shot to death in violence in northern Mexican states which included two Mexican Federal agents shot to death in Juarez, Chihuahua, and a firefight between the Mexican Army and armed suspects riding in a convoy in Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon.
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  • Two unidentified Mexican Federal agents enjoying some time off were shot to death as they ate dinner Sunday night in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports. The attack took place near the intersection of calles Francisco Villa and Vicente Guerrero.

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Posted by: badanov || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Chihuahua: Sinaloa Chihuahua Commander Murdered in Parral Saturday
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I so do luv a happy ending...

Elizabeth Rodríguez Griego, alías "La Doña", commander of the Sinaloa drug gang in Chihuahua city was one of the victims, along with her unidentified son, in the Saturday shootout at a hotel in Parral, Chihuahua, say Mexican press reports.

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Posted by: badanov || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Asfandyar Walis sister injured in gun attack
[Dawn] Unknown gunmen Monday shot and wounded a sister of the ruling party chief of the northwestern Pakistani province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, police said.

Doctor Gul Lalai, sister of Awami National Party (ANP) Chief Asfandyar Wali was coming out of her clinic in provincial capital Peshawar, when someone fired at her, senior police official Imran Kishwar told AFP.

"One of the bullets injured the arm of Doctor Gul Lalai, she was taken to hospital and her condition was out of danger," Kishwar said.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Iraq
Judge escapes assassination attempt in Missan
MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq: A judge of the Missan Criminal Court survived an attempt on his life on Monday in central Missan, a security source said.

"Judge Ali Hanoun survived today (Aug. 9) an attempt on his life by a bomb stuck to his car in the court's garage," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

"The bomb exploded when the judge left his car in front of his house in Awasha region, central Amara," the source added. He did not give more details.
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Posted by: Steve White || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli held in Libya returns home after release
[Al Arabiya Latest] An Israeli photographer jailed by Libya for five months returned home Monday after an Austrian tycoon brokered a deal for his freedom that involved the delivery of 20 prefabricated homes from a Libyan charity to the Gaza Strip.

The agreement involved months of covert mediation between two countries that have no diplomatic ties and a long history of hostility. Israel's foreign minister praised the Libyans for their handling of the affair.

Rafael Rafram Chaddad, an Israeli-Tunisian dual national, disappeared in March in Libya, where he was photographing Jewish heritage sites on behalf of an organization that documents the history of Libya's vanished Jewish community.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This deal probably also included indirect bribes to the Gadafi family.
Posted by: lord garth || 08/10/2010 11:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Probably no bribes but some messages from Ghaddafi's son to the Israeli PM and head of the Shin Beth. Ghaddafi's son is trying to encourage Libyan Jews to come back to Libya and invest in businesses; but Libya has multiple undercurrents in its politics and the release of the prefabs makes good propaganda for the Libyans in the Arab world.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 08/10/2010 21:52 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Teaching is a deadly business in southern Thailand
Posted by: ryuge || 08/10/2010 02:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency

#1  Well teaching (except for rote memorizing Quran or weapon manuals) is unIslamic.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/10/2010 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Can be a deadly business in southern Bronx too.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/10/2010 13:04 Comments || Top||


Man partially beheaded in southern Thailand
Posted by: ryuge || 08/10/2010 02:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency

#1  Worse than being completely beheaded.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/10/2010 12:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Not at all like "mostly dead"...
Posted by: mojo || 08/10/2010 15:32 Comments || Top||

#3  i saw a vid of a guy on another site partially beheaded and in the hospital and was definately alive. and suffering like hell.
Posted by: chris || 08/10/2010 18:21 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israeli official dismisses Hezbollah allegations
[Ma'an] Hezbollah's claim that Israel was behind the 2005 assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister reveals that the movement is deeply concerned it will be blamed for the murder, an Israeli official said Sunday.

"They are looking for a way out," an official in the Israeli Prime Minister's Office told The Jerusalem Post newspaper. "When they start casting for straws like this, it just shows the degree of pressure they are under."

"This is completely ridiculous and -- most importantly -- everyone knows it," the official added.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Hezbollah accuses Israel of Hariri assassination
[Al Arabiya Latest] Hezbollah's chief on Monday unveiled footage allegedly intercepted from Israeli surveillance planes of the site of the 2005 murder of ex-Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri prior to his assassination.

"Such footage generally comes as the first leg of the execution of an operation," the militant party's leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a news conference broadcast via video link.

Several clips, each minutes long and undated, showed aerial views of the coastline off mainly Sunni west Beirut on various days prior to the Hariri assassination.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Now this just takes the case. Some of the propaganda these guys come sup with is truly mind boggling.
Posted by: miscellaneous || 08/10/2010 3:06 Comments || Top||

#2  haven't they always bl;amed israel for his death.
Posted by: chris || 08/10/2010 18:24 Comments || Top||



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Tue 2010-08-10
  Hezbollah accuses Israel of Hariri assassination
Mon 2010-08-09
  Indonesian police arrest Bashir on terror charges
Sun 2010-08-08
  60 killed in triple bombing in Basra
Sat 2010-08-07
  10 Medical Aid Workers Murdered Near Kabul
Fri 2010-08-06
  Tamaulipas: Car Bomb Explodes at State Police HQ
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  Chief of Frontier Constabulary rubbed out in suicide attack
Wed 2010-08-04
  Hezbollah accuses Israel of killing Rafik Hariri
Tue 2010-08-03
  Two Lebanese soldiers killed in clash with IDF on northern border
Mon 2010-08-02
  Five rockets slam into Israeli resort
Sun 2010-08-01
  Assad wants Hariri tribunal closed
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  20 Bad Guys Die in Gun Battle in Sonora
Thu 2010-07-29
  Federal judge guts Arizona immigration law
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