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Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Fueling Religious Persecution and Extremism
Posted by: tipper || 12/09/2010 00:59 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Saudi see Iran,Pakistan,Russia and China's aggression against the West and get away with it so are no longer answerable to the US anymore!
Posted by: Paul D || 12/09/2010 17:25 Comments || Top||


Britain
Hannan: Why Barack Obama doesn't much care for Britain
Posted by: tipper || 12/09/2010 01:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fascinating article, especially the bit about Obama and his grandfather.

"The young Obama was horrified: “I had imagined him to be a man of his people, opposed to white rule,” he wrote in Dreams from my Father. “What Granny [Sarah Obama, one of Onyango's wives] had told me scrambled that image completely, causing ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House nigger.”

It never occurs to him that his grandfather might have watched the British improve life in Kenya. After all the British only took Kenya on as a protectorate in 1890, even if his Grandfather wasn't around pre-British there certainly would be folks around who were and watching civilization spread. Certainly seems worth asking why, instead of the childish white bad, black good name calling that Obama writes about.

After all "apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/09/2010 9:33 Comments || Top||

#2  It never occurs to him that his grandfather might have watched the British

.....reported their activities to Mau Mau insurgents, even though he wasn't Kikuyu, and was subsequently jailed for espionage.

Yes, people USED to be imprisoned or shot for passing classified information. Any other questions as to why Zero fails to make substantive comment on the WL event stream?
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2010 9:41 Comments || Top||

#3  For crying out loud, forget about some perceived wrong that you never really knew. I'm sure most of us could drag up something in some unknown relative's past that we could bitch and sulk about. Get over it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/09/2010 9:55 Comments || Top||

#4  The entire moral posture of leftism is "righting" perceived wrongs. It doesn't matter if the wrongs are imagined or non-existent, as long as all good lefties believe the wrongs occurred. All the killing in USSR and Mao's China weren't wrong, you see, because they ameliorated larger wrongs, in the lefty mind. Get that and you GET IT...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/09/2010 14:49 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
North Korea's nuclear weapons program could have implications for Burma
Posted by: Water Modem || 12/09/2010 20:47 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Down Under
Bunkering down, sans Assange
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2010 12:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm sort of surprised that nobody faked some Russian documents and arranged for them to be picked up by Wikileaks. If the documents went unreleased it would provide some damned evidence of what Wikileaks is really up to despite claims, and if leaked the Russians might remove the Wikileaks people altogether.

Not saying I wish this sort of thing, but it surprises me. Seems the CIA assassins are busy chasing Bourne around rather than doing the normal things assassins do.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/09/2010 13:27 Comments || Top||

#2  just wait a minute, wikileaks does have some standards, like sinking democracy and western civilization.
Posted by: killjoy || 12/09/2010 13:29 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
The ‘Islamophobia’ myth
Posted by: tipper || 12/09/2010 00:57 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I understand enough about Islam to know that I don't like it. Does that make me islamophobic? maybe.

But why shouldn't people be afraid of an ideology whose adherents flew planes into buildings and blow themselves up in an attempt to kill us?

they are free to leave
Posted by: anon1 || 12/09/2010 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Our enemy and their supporters tend to make what is an islamic problem your psychological hangup. No matter that we are dealing with a bunch of 7th century psychopathic murderers with supremacist ambitions for the world.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/09/2010 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3  I think the bulk of America has a pretty good idea about Islam and knows a lot have chosen neutrality in the conflict of cultures waiting to see which side wins. Those ones are not all our enemy but they are also not our friends and we should not be bending over backwards for them unless they pick a side.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/09/2010 13:22 Comments || Top||

#4  So we are Islamophobic and so what? Islam is not something you are born with and can't do nothing about it. Islam is also an idea and the ideas of a person influence its actions.

I hate Nazism so according to the Islampohobic logic I am Naziphobic or more exacly an intolerant and eeeevil Naziphobic. Eisenhower was of German ascent but would have it been right to handle him the responsability of Overlord if he had kept a German heart or had he been a Nazi? If he had told, like many Muslims openly tell, his loyalty to Germany was stronger than his one to the United States?

Posted by: JFM || 12/09/2010 18:07 Comments || Top||


Facts Meet Freedom: On the Air in Afghanistan
by P. J. O'Rourke

Great read from the master, published in the latest issue of World Affairs. It's all about American broadcasting efforts around the world, starting with Radio Liberty, and it's a superb piece.
Posted by: Steve White || 12/09/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Orioles slugger Luke Scott joins the growing ranks of doubters.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2010 03:21 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh goody. More "birther" crap.
Posted by: Pappy || 12/09/2010 9:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Many still deny our quadrate earth.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/09/2010 10:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I DO have a problem with being told to produce required documentation to get a drivers license by a government whose top official is un-willing to do the same. And is working to insure 20,000,000 illegals the chance to cancel my vote to get additional support for his leftest agenda.
Posted by: wr || 12/09/2010 12:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh goody. More "birther" crap.

Yah, I'm starting to have a problem with all these people who say the president was born myself.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/09/2010 17:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Many still deny our quadrate earth.

Hey, it's not my fault I'm stupid and evil.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/09/2010 17:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh goody. More "birther" crap.

I have seen an intersting theory: the document Obama does not want anyone to see is the one listing his race. Apparently in Kenya his fater is not registered as a Black but as three quarters Arab. Even if we forgat about WOT it wouldn't sit well with these 95% Blacks who voted for him because they thought he was one of them.
Posted by: JFM || 12/09/2010 18:23 Comments || Top||

#7  I put a photo of Mr. Scott up in my carpet-covered pen today...not that I subscribe with his views as much as it drives my sports- oriented Libtard co-workers nutz....
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 12/09/2010 20:02 Comments || Top||

#8  Many still deny our quadrate earth.

And how many of those jackasses repeatedly post flat-earth articles on the Burg?

Especially after being told not to do so.
Posted by: Pappy || 12/09/2010 21:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Flat earth?

It's not flat.

It's a cube!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/09/2010 22:03 Comments || Top||

#10  More accurately, it's an icosahedron.

But you don't see me posting articles about it, do you?
Posted by: Pappy || 12/09/2010 23:13 Comments || Top||

#11  More accurately, it's an icosahedron.

I'm going to have to look that one up, Pappy. But it sounds like an oblate spheroid is out of the question. Oh well. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/09/2010 23:17 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2010-12-09
  Pakistan suicide attack kills 17: police
Wed 2010-12-08
  Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claims suicide kaboom on Balochistan chief minister
Tue 2010-12-07
  50 dead, 120 maimed in Mohmand double kaboom
Mon 2010-12-06
  Pirates hijack Bangladeshi ship in the Arabian sea
Sun 2010-12-05
  150 killed in Nigeria's oil delta
Sat 2010-12-04
  Officers killed in deadly Nairobi attacks
Fri 2010-12-03
  Nigeria charges 65 in oil region kidnappings
Thu 2010-12-02
  Senior Afghan Officials Release Top Taliban Fighters for Bucks
Wed 2010-12-01
  Iraq arrests 50 suspected militants
Tue 2010-11-30
  Chihuahua: 18 Dead in Mass Grave near Puerto Palomas
Mon 2010-11-29
  Persian nuclear scientsts targets of car kabooms
Sun 2010-11-28
  Emad Hatem Abdullah of Little Rock Arrested On Explosives Charges
Sat 2010-11-27
  Somali teenager 'tried to set off carbomb in US'
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  South Sudan accuses north of raid
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