Hi there, !
Today Mon 03/07/2011 Sun 03/06/2011 Sat 03/05/2011 Fri 03/04/2011 Thu 03/03/2011 Wed 03/02/2011 Tue 03/01/2011 Archives
Rantburg
533545 articles and 1861474 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 81 articles and 172 comments as of 17:40.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area: WoT Operations    WoT Background    Non-WoT        Politix   
Libyan rebels push west
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 4: Opinion
2 00:00 Marilyn Elmoth9648 [2] 
1 00:00 g(r)omgoru [3] 
13 00:00 KBK [4] 
2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1] 
Page 1: WoT Operations
0 [3]
3 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [3]
6 00:00 wr [2]
0 [5]
3 00:00 Cyber Sarge [3]
1 00:00 JosephMendiola [2]
0 [3]
0 [1]
3 00:00 Victor Emmanuel Wheger1262 [1]
0 [1]
0 [3]
0 [2]
1 00:00 ryuge [8]
1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1]
16 00:00 Broadhead6 [1]
0 [1]
0 [2]
0 [1]
1 00:00 Pheper Stalin4370 [1]
3 00:00 CrazyFool [2]
0 [6]
0 [1]
0 [4]
1 00:00 Paul [2]
0 [8]
1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1]
1 00:00 Old Patriot [3]
0 [1]
0 [2]
2 00:00 Cyber Sarge [2]
1 00:00 Dribble2716 [7]
0 [1]
1 00:00 Dribble2716 [5]
0 [1]
1 00:00 JosephMendiola [4]
2 00:00 newc [3]
13 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [3]
0 [5]
0 [3]
3 00:00 Pappy [4]
Page 2: WoT Background
3 00:00 JosephMendiola [2]
0 [1]
1 00:00 swksvolFF [2]
0 [1]
1 00:00 JosephMendiola [2]
9 00:00 Frank G [5]
1 00:00 Paul [6]
2 00:00 Ebbart Pheque8482 [1]
0 [3]
0 [1]
1 00:00 tu3031 [5]
1 00:00 g(r)omgoru [1]
0 [1]
0 [1]
0 [7]
0 [8]
5 00:00 trailing wife [5]
3 00:00 CrazyFool [6]
1 00:00 JosephMendiola [11]
Page 3: Non-WoT
2 00:00 JohnQC [4]
5 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [5]
0 [3]
13 00:00 Frank G [3]
2 00:00 KBK [2]
11 00:00 JosephMendiola [3]
4 00:00 armyguy [1]
9 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [3]
0 [1]
0 [2]
1 00:00 whatadeal [1]
0 [1]
4 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [3]
2 00:00 tu3031 [4]
5 00:00 Frank G [2]
0 [2]
4 00:00 CrazyFool [2]
Page 6: Politix
0 [2]
Afghanistan
Let's double down on Afghanistan
By Carl Levin and Jack Reed
Posted by: ryuge || 03/04/2011 08:11 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lots of democrats banging the war drums recently.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2011 12:39 Comments || Top||

#2  I've always thought the only reason to be in A-stan is to kill Taliban. They provided support to a group that declared war on the US, so they are enemies. As long as there are Taliban in a place, stick around and kill them.
Posted by: Marilyn Elmoth9648 || 03/04/2011 14:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
America must not follow the EU road to ruin
By Nile Gardiner
Posted by: ryuge || 03/04/2011 08:08 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Day? Dollar?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/04/2011 9:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Obama's response incomprehensible and demoralizing
Charles Krauthammer on the Frankfurt shooting: "When the president came out yesterday and spoke about this, he talked about it as if it was ... a bus accident."

Posted by: ryuge || 03/04/2011 01:21 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Krauthammer sounds surprised.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/04/2011 2:10 Comments || Top||

#2  ION NOT-CHUCK DAILY TIMES.PK/TOPIX > RUSSIAN REBEL WANTS ARAB REVOLTS TO SPREAD, across the World; + RUSSIAN ISLAMIST LEADER CALLS FOR GLOBAL JIHAD.

Doku Umarov.

"Jasmine" mass protests to expand + escalate, includ but not limited to Russia, in order to help empower + emplace the Laws of Allah = Islam.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/04/2011 20:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Wisconsin Officials Says It Will Cost Up to $7.5 Million to Clean After Protest “Slobs”
It could cost as much as $7.5 million to repair damage protesters have done to the Capitol Building marble say officials in Madison. Fixing posters to the marble with tape and glue appears to have done the bulk of the damage.

During testimony Thursday, a representative from the Attorney General’s office said a contractor estimated it would cost $500,000 to remove all of the posters and garbage. He says it would cost $6 million to restore the marble inside of the Capitol building and another $1 million to touch up the marble outside of the building.

Officials with the Department of Administration say the marble must be restored immediately. They say normally, tape isn’t used on the walls of the Capitol by rule because of the historic nature of the building. Easels are normally used for signs.
Posted by: Beavis || 03/04/2011 07:02 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Naturally.

And who chose prison orange for the team color?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2011 10:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Ah, yes, the Vandals. It appears they've earned the honorarium. Send them little shoulder patches to wear.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/04/2011 10:24 Comments || Top||

#3  They say normally, tape isn't used on the walls of the Capitol by rule because of the historic nature of the building.

Rules? We doan need no steeenkin rules!
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/04/2011 10:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Damn! Who's the sacked out fat load!
Yo, buddy. You're feet are filthy! But it's not like you've seen them in about twenty years...
Posted by: tu3031 || 03/04/2011 10:41 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd send out an additional $7.5 Million in layoffs with the explanation that they can thank their fellow teachers/SEIU/DNC union thugs
Posted by: Frank G || 03/04/2011 10:42 Comments || Top||

#6  I'd let it take a long time o be repaired. Let the people of Wisconsin look at it until the next election.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 03/04/2011 10:55 Comments || Top||

#7  With a little notice (on an easel) telling them who and what sh*t on their capital building.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/04/2011 11:19 Comments || Top||

#8  NS
Agree. They should drag it out, maybe call in some secondary and tertiary contractors to estimate and put it all in the news and on neat letterhead which can double as evidence for the lawsuit which is sure to be follow. They'll already have exhibits for the Jury. By election time, the tables will turn.
Posted by: Fire and Ice || 03/04/2011 11:20 Comments || Top||

#9  Since the government is already collecting dues for the union, I know where I would get the cleanup funds.
Posted by: Pearl Gleaper1127 || 03/04/2011 11:49 Comments || Top||

#10  The mess should be left as is for at least a week after the missing senators come home from their temper tantrum vacation. If they come back to a clean room the children won't get the message.

Posted by: R.U. Cereus || 03/04/2011 15:20 Comments || Top||

#11  $7.5 miilion seems awful high. Mind you, I'm not a fan of these thugs. What the heck did they do that caused that much damage? But then again there shouldn't have been any damages. You wouldn't see this childish behavior, thuggery, and vandalism from the Tea Party.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/04/2011 19:49 Comments || Top||

#12  $7.5 miilion seems awful high

"Prevailing Wages" bayybeee!
Posted by: DepotGuy || 03/04/2011 21:37 Comments || Top||

#13  Yup. Taking on a cleanup task of this size and sensitivity is clearly a job for real Union men.
Posted by: KBK || 03/04/2011 22:22 Comments || Top||



Who's in the News
67[untagged]
4Govt of Pakistan
2al-Shabaab
1DFLP
1Govt of Iran
1al-Qaeda in North Africa
1Govt of Syria
1Hezbollah
1Islamic State of Iraq
1Lashkar-e-Islami
1Taliban

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2011-03-04
  Libyan rebels push west
Thu 2011-03-03
  Gaddafi strikes at Brega, rebels eye foreign help
Wed 2011-03-02
  National Libyan Council outlines strategy
Tue 2011-03-01
  Yemen Opposition Rejects Plan for Govt of National Unity
Mon 2011-02-28
  Defiant Gaddafi confined to Tripoli
Sun 2011-02-27
  Ex-minister forms interim govt. in Libya
Sat 2011-02-26
  Anti-Gaddafi protesters control Misrata: witness
Fri 2011-02-25
  Gun battles rage as rebels seize Libyan towns
Thu 2011-02-24
  Gaddafi says no surrender, protesters deserve death
Wed 2011-02-23
  OPEC crude oil exceeds $100
Tue 2011-02-22
  Gaddafi said barricaded in his Tripoli compound
Mon 2011-02-21
  Gaddafi flees Tripoli
Sun 2011-02-20
  Bahrain protesters swarm square, police flee
Sat 2011-02-19
  Protesters in Djibouti rally to replace president
Fri 2011-02-18
  Yemen protesters flee armed government loyalists


Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
18.219.14.63
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
WoT Operations (40)    WoT Background (19)    Non-WoT (17)    (0)    Politix (1)