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-Lurid Crime Tales-
If George Soros Is Involved...
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/21/2010 13:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Soros makes a lot of interesting investments.

His investment in the takeover of banks means he makes money on every foreclosure and short sale.
Posted by: crosspatch || 02/21/2010 14:38 Comments || Top||

#2  He is an evil man. The devils partner.

Any nation he is meddling in goes bankrupt. Have you ever noticed the results of his meddeling?
Posted by: newc || 02/21/2010 17:59 Comments || Top||

#3  He reminds me of the last incarnation of the Joker who uses willing and enabling henchmen, in our case pols and bureaucrats, in his heist but who has no intention of 'sharing' the proceeds with them.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2010 18:21 Comments || Top||

#4  I'd call Soros the anti-Christ, but that'd be out of synch with the Bibical eschatology timeline. So then, lets just think of Soros as an anti-Christ wanna-be mini-me.
Here's a link that provides Soros'spider web network of anti-American, freedom-hating actors. Soros actually has a daughter that goes by the Aw-Shucks redneck hater name "Daisy"! Well. Isn't THAT special? http://www.muckety.com/Query?

SearchResult=4166&SearchResult=144453&graph=MucketyMap?_r=2D
Posted by: Asymmetrical Triangulation || 02/21/2010 21:38 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Obama On Aliens


The media. Asking the tough questions so you don't have to...
Posted by: Chomoter Glonter3157 || 02/21/2010 11:05 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I've always wondered about Pelosi ...
Posted by: DMFD || 02/21/2010 17:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Pragmatically, IMO the BAMMER should ensure that US-World Perts have a proper and correct scientific interpretation of the SIRIUS EVENTS + linkt o curr LACK OF SUNSPOTS, NOTSOMUCH BECUZ HIS GREAT-GREAT-GREAT..................@ ONE- TIMES-TEN-TO-THE-26TH MAGNITUDE = "LOG-10" SOLYENT TRI-LITHIUM DESCENDANTS WANNA TIME- TRAVEL BACK TO OLD EARTH AND OBSERVE THEIR WILELY GEEZERY ANCESTORS, for their University of ALpha Centauri SPace Thesis paper.

D *** NGED RIGEL U!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/21/2010 22:37 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Editor's Notes: Dissecting Dubai
Some perspective -- I: The world has not been impoverished by the death of Mahmoud Mabhouh.

Mabhouh was the self-confessed murderer of two Israeli soldiers, Ilan Sa'adon and Avi Sasportas, in two separate kidnap-slayings which he perpetrated with another Hamas terrorist within three months in 1989. He was a founder of Hamas's Izzadin Kassam terror gangs. And since fleeing Gaza to escape the Israeli-imposed consequences of his actions, he had relocated to Damascus to oversee the transfer of Iranian missiles to Hamas for firing across the border at Israeli civilians.

Some perspective -- II: The operation to kill Mabhouh was not botched.

If we are to believe the reports that the Mossad was responsible, this is no recurrence of the 1973 Lillehammer fiasco, when Mossad agents in Norway, assigned to avenge the Black September killings of Israeli Olympians at the Munich Games the previous year, killed an innocent Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki, whom they had mistaken for Palestinian terror chief Ali Hassan Salameh.

And again, if we are to believe the reports that the Mossad was responsible, it is no rerun of the 1997 Amman debacle, when Mossad agents, seeking to assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, were apprehended after pouring toxins into Mashaal's ear, and the fallout from a failed Israeli hit conducted in broad daylight on the streets of the Jordanian capital threatened to scupper the three-year-old peace treaty. Political relations between Israel and Jordan were already strained, and it was the quiet security partnership that had formed the bedrock of bilateral cooperation. When the Mashaal mess destabilized that partnership, there was no warm political relationship to soften the blow, and ties were only salvaged when Israel supplied the antidote to save Mashaal's life and released Hamas's bloodthirsty founding ideologue Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in order to secure the return of its captured agents.

In Dubai last month, Mabhouh was killed -- and killed in such a way that it was not immediately obvious his had been an unnatural demise.

His assassins, furthermore, safely made their escape, dispersing to a variety of distant destinations.

Some perspective - III: It is a reflection of how amateurish aspects of the Dubai hit now appear that some "experts" are theorizing that it could not possibly have been a Mossad operation. In these analyses, Israel's famed intelligence service, for all its occasional screw-ups, simply would not have green-lighted a mission that would have compromised a dozen or more key operatives -- their smiling features on their false passports immortalized in every global intelligence database, and caught on closed-circuit camera after camera meandering along hotel corridors and slipping in and out of disguises en route to Room 320 at the Al-Bustana Rotan.

Such dubious analyses, however, are being promulgated with hindsight -- now that the Dubai authorities have proved themselves to be some distance from the ostensibly bumbling incompetents who, until the last few days, might have been relied upon in some quarters to fail to pick up the trail of the assassins.

Until recently, for more than three weeks after the Mabhouh strike, leading Israeli politicians were winking and smiling as apparently unconfirmable accusations of Mossad involvement swirled around the region. Cats who had swallowed the cream, they gave the smug collective impression of having so much that they wanted to tell us, if only they could. This mood of self-satisfaction permeated parts of the Hebrew media, where Mossad head Meir Dagan was hailed as an intelligence chief par excellence, who had revived the service and taken bold action where predecessors had been unwarrantedly cautious -- a man who had dared and won.

Now, though, we have lurched from self-congratulation to castigation. Even as official Israel, true to the traditional policies of ambiguity, chooses neither to confirm nor deny responsibility for the assassination, the suddenly roused critics are asking bitterly whether, 13 years later, the same prime minister under whom the Mashaal affair had played out, again failed to ask the necessary questions, impose the necessary amendments, take the necessary precautions.
Posted by: Fred || 02/21/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Jewish capacity for self-recrimination is infinite.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/21/2010 4:14 Comments || Top||

#2  This editorial is beautifully done. Well constructed.

The whole essay starts on just the right note. NOBODY is going to miss this clown. He DEFINITELY had it coming.
God Himself is slapping his knee and laughing. And the Devil has a new Hotdog to cook.

WHOEVER did this hit: buy the whole crew a beer.

Criticisms after the fact? Fine, we can all sit around in the bushes and note where the ambush had its drawbacks. The next one will be smoother and by the end of the tour we will have sixty or more accomplished and the buzzards will faint flying over our part of the TAOR.

Hizbollah and Hamas need to go around with their weenies dribbling and their hands over their rectums. Open a school for hit teams like these. Get some "Esprit" and promote the best.

Dont apologise. Get a big jar of Mayonnaise and put it on the shelf right beside the Koran and the Mustard.

If Allah dont like it, he can pound holes in the sand.

Dronezaps are the same thing. They work just fine.

Keep a song in your heart. If you have moral issues with killing ( I never heard a corpse ask how it got SO cold) tell it to Nancy.

You either win or you lose. There is NO future in losing. Everybody whining is just that: Whining.
Get the next one. Remember when Zarquawi staggered out of the smoke coughing up concussion from his lungs and we smothered him in the ambulance while his girlfriend's leotards were hanging in the trees?

Remember Doday and Upay being stuffed and poured full of plastic on the morgue table for the late edition of the Saddam News? And Saddam himself....that was all "legal" because it was "fair and we got his ass because we WANTED to GET his ass.

And every Muj unshaved sod in Fallujah who got it squealing in the corner when ten Marines came up the stairs...you think that was liberal sanitary?
Kotex for Harry Reid, and lovin' it.

What is IMPORTANT is sticking it in and leannning on it. The Decision, the Intent, the DETERMINATION to simply and terminally KILL THE BASTARD.

Then take a shower and grin because he's dead and you arent.

Leave the rest for Newsweek and the suits.

Posted by: BlackBart || 02/21/2010 6:46 Comments || Top||



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Sun 2010-02-21
  Abu Sayyaf commander Albader Parad banged in Philippines raid
Sat 2010-02-20
  Senior Qaeda military commander killed in Predator strike
Fri 2010-02-19
  Afghan Taliban chiefs arrested in Pakistani sweeps
Thu 2010-02-18
  MILF rejects Philippines autonomy offer
Wed 2010-02-17
  Mullah Omar issues 'Victory Declaration'
Tue 2010-02-16
  Secret Joint Raid Captures Mullah Barader in Karachi
Mon 2010-02-15
  Two al-Qaeda members arrested after clash with Mauritanian security services
Sun 2010-02-14
  Taliban leaders flee as marines hit stronghold
Sat 2010-02-13
  8 confirmed dead, 33 injured in blast at Pune bakery
Fri 2010-02-12
  Ahmadinejad hails nuke Iran on Revolution Day
Thu 2010-02-11
  US Troops Sealing Off Marjah Escape Routes
Wed 2010-02-10
  Largest Military Offensive In Afghanistan Begins
Tue 2010-02-09
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Mon 2010-02-08
  Afghan locals flee ahead of Helmand offensive
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