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There was no RDS&TP yesterday. No gams, no women who bathe, no nightie-night either. My life felt strangely incomplete.
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02/10/2010 9:46 Comments ||
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Don't forget that Heather Angel was the voice of "Alice" in the Disney animated version of "Alice in Wonderland" also she was in "Lifeboat".
I loved the Bulldog Drummond stuff when I was a kid, they would show those movies on saturday morning TV in Houston.
Posted by: James Carville ||
02/10/2010 10:23 Comments ||
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I forgot to upload yesterday's bloid, then spent most of the day chasing a single bug and didn't notice it wasn't there. Doc usually picks it up when I do that so I guess he was busy, too, which leaves Scooter, who musta also been busy...
Posted by: Fred ||
02/10/2010 10:51 Comments ||
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An open letter to Fred
Apparently I've been blocked by Gloria? (Pink)
I find it unlike the "Burg" to refuse emails from my home computer.
This Violates all that the "Burg" stands for, such dictatorial peactices are a Violaton of free speech , Setting a computer to refuse emails ammounts to dictatorial Cesorsip akin to Castro, Chaez, and Ortega, NOT FRED, In short refusing to allow any appeal, or in fact any communications at all.
I suspect this was done without Fred's knowledge or approval, and ask that this acion (Not being allowed to "Speak") be reiewed by Fred as a Violation of both policy, and ciility.
I had thought the Burg better than this.
Jim David
Redneck Jim
PS Don't bother to block this computer too, it's at the Library, and there are quite a few different libraries in My area
#10
I haven't banned you, nor has Gloria. How'd you know it was her? As far as I know no one else has, and your IP's not in the "banned" file.
Email me at fred-dot-pruitt-at-gmail-dot-com with details. Same with you, Dale.
The last non-spammer I can recall being banned was Zenster, and I wasn't happy with that. I prefer to sinktrap individual comments that go over the line.
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02/10/2010 18:19 Comments ||
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Equally for the record, Mr. David, it was the moderators in conference who got tired of being baited. I missed it, or I would have voted aye, once I found out what the things you wrote meant -- the vocabulary was new to me.
Bottom line, THIS IS NOT A FREEDOM OF SPEECH ISSUE. So all of you, please shut the fuck up about your Constitutional rights. Constitutional rights are what you have in a government building or a public square patrolled by the police, not Fred's private living room. You can tell it's private, because with a couple of keystrokes he could shut the door to all of us, and never have to put up with such nonsense again. Contrariwise, Constitutional rights are what bratty teenagers complain are being taken away when they don't get to wear miniskirts to necking parties.
*clue bat returned to rest position.* Excuse me while I go in the corner and cry over having to yell.
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/10/2010 22:35 Comments ||
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Strong language for strong feelings, Frank. When I curse it is a sign that I am seriously angry. It would be a good idea to walk very carefully through that minefield.
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02/10/2010 19:05 Comments ||
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#6
All this publicity makes me this thing is set up for failure. I hope not for the troops sake. Even though I think the war on the Taliban/Pashtuns is doomed to failure.
#7
There is another psychological impact of telling them we are coming. First of all, it completely neutralizes any of their intelligence that might have warned them in advance. By assuming that they would have found out anyway and making a show out of the buildup, at least a certain segment of Taliban intelligence collection is mooted.
But more importantly, if we say we are going to kick their asses and then go about doing so, there is a certain amount of loss of credibility among the civilian population that they will find hard to get back. They have been sitting there in that town clinking their bottles taunting our warriors to come out and play (somewhat obscure movie reference). In the meantime, reinforcements have been arriving by the planeload. They are, I believe, going to discover themselves surrounded before the battle begins in earnest.
#8
I stand behind my statement: 500+ rounds for a POGUE is a more than usual. 99% of POGUES won't fire that much in their entire deployment. That's why I said I hope he gets to use all of it.
#9
Ammo loadout depends on the unit. In the Cav we always carried a ton, 600 per man even with HQ units, but half that was in the track still on bandoliers. Nice thing about being armored Cav, the only thing we humped were TOW missles when we dismounted. "Scout DISMOUNT!". 300m dash with a frikken TOW missile, and full battle rattle including chem gear and mask packed along, enough to tear your lungs up, especially in sand. I remeber one of the better things about making NCO was I got to carry the launcher and only had to run once, instead of humping 2 TOW rounds on 2 trips.
Airborne was a different story. Everyone carried full battle load, because you never knew where you'd land, so everyone had to have full ammo (lesson learned at Normandy and passed down ever since)
[Quqnoos] NATO warns Afghan civilians to "keep their heads down" when a major joint military offensive begins in Helmand province. Mark Sedwill, NATO's senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, admitted on Tuesday that the offensive was likely to prompt more people to leave the area.
The fighting around the town of Marjah -- a key Taliban stronghold and a hub for nacro-trade -- is expected to be one of the largest since the collapse of the Taliban. Thousands of US Marines, NATO and Afghan troops are massed in the province for Operation Mushtarak which aims to drive Taliban out of Marjah.
"We very much hope that the military phase of this operation will go ahead swiftly and with as little incident as possible," Sedwell told reporters in a briefing at NATO headquarters in Kabul. "The success of the operation will not be in the military phase.
"It will be over the next weeks and months as the people ... feel the benefits of better governance, of economic opportunities and of operating under the legitimate authorities of Afghanistan," he said.
Gulab Mangal, Helmand's provincial governor, said a commission has been formed to handle the flow of displaced people.
"The commission is fully prepared. We have got tents. We've got food. We've got everything in place," he said at the joint news conference with Sedwill on Tuesday. "So far we have had two waves of displaced people from the area - 72 and 92 families."
Authorities have not advised people to leave the Marjah area but have warned them to stay inside and avoid road travel once the operation begins. "The message to the people of the area is of course keep your heads down, stay inside when the operation is going ahead," Sedwell said.
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The home of Somalia's Islamic Party leader Sheikh Oman Fidow Hassan was firebombed near the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, the country's Radio Shabelle reported. So there you have it: his home was "attacked" with a "bomb."
Hassan and his family were not at home at the time and no casualties were reported in the attack on Afgoi village, 30 kms south of Mogadishu, the radio reported. They were "out."
Villagers said the attack caused a deafening explosion that was heard several kilometres away. The "explosion" was deafening.
"It's not the first time that we've been attacked liked this. Next time I will tell you who ordered the attack," an unnamed villager was quoted telling Radio Shabelle. We'll be "waiting."
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#1
Some explosives can be pretty sensitive about how they are stored.
A ransom of 3.1 million dollars has secured the release of a Panamanian-flagged ship and its crew of 26, said the Somali pirates holding the ship since October. "Aaar! Rum fer everybody! The check's cleared!"
The 22,000-ton bulk carrier, Al Khaliq, was seized on October 22, some 180 nautical miles from Seychelles in the Indian Ocean. The ship's crew is said to consist of 24 Indians and two Burmese.
Pirate leaders in the pirate den of Harardhere, north of the capital Mogadishu, told the media by phone that the ship had been deserted following the payment.
Other sources confirmed that the ship was free.
A fisherman told the AFP that he had seen some of the pirates returning ashore from the ship with bags of cash.
The sea bandits are currently holding 11 foreign vessels together with more than 200 crew members, and have made millions of dollars in the past weeks in exchange for several ships.
In one instance, the pirates received seven million dollars for the 330-metre-long Greek supertanker hijacked last month.
Despite an international naval presence off the coast of Somalia to take on the rising piracy in one the world's busiest shipping lanes, Somali pirates were responsible for more than half of the 406 hijacking attacks worldwide last year, showing an alarming 40 percent increase, according to figures from the International Maritime Bureau.
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[Maghrebia] Mali will not concede to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's demands to free four jailed terrorists in exchange for French hostage Pierre Camatte, AFP reported on Monday (February 8th), citing security sources in Bamako. Among the 4 prisoners is an Algerian said to be a "high-ranking" AQIM member. Last Friday, al-Qaeda extended the deadline for executing Camatte to February 20th.
In related news, the $5 million ransom demanded by AQIM for three kidnapped aid workers should arrive in Mali from Spain this week, Spanish daily El Mundo reported on Monday. Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's son, Seif al-Islam, will reportedly mediate the exchange.
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Kudos to Mali for showing some backbone. Satisfying to see Al Qaeda looking weak, postponing deadlines, being cry-babies. Wish Spain would be as tough as Mali.
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02/10/2010 18:17 Comments ||
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[Maghrebia] The Spanish Supreme Court on Monday (February 8th) acquitted Moroccan-born Mohamed El Idrissi, one of four terrorists convicted of helping one of the 2004 Madrid bombers to escape, MAP reported. The court upheld the sentences of Algerian Kamal Ahbar and Moroccan Samir Tahtah for recruiting suicide bombers for Iraq. The Maghreb men were arrested when their terrorist network was dismantled in Barcelona in 2005.
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02/10/2010 00:00 ||
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So how do you acquit someone who has already been convicted? And what does the prison time to? About 16 hours per dead and injured.
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02/10/2010 8:42 Comments ||
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[Dawn] Sources said that Maulvi Noor Jamal has been nominated as Hakimullah Mehsud's succesor. "Into the barrel wit' yez, Nur!" Maluvi Noor Jamal! C'mon down!! "You look like a man who needs life insurance to cover all your wives and kiddies!"
Maulvi Noor Jamal is a native of the Orakzai Agency and rose to power as the leader of the Taliban in the Kurram tribal area. He was also given responsibilities for Orakzai when the military began the Waziristan offensive in October.
Jamal is in his late thirties and was a maulana at a local madrassah before he was made the leader of the Taliban in Kurram. "What do you mean, you haven't done your homework?"
He had a close relationship with Mehsud and is known for his brutality. [SLAP! SLAP! SLAPPETY SLAP!]
"Owwwww!"
One resident who left Khurram for fear of being wanted by him said Jamal "...kills humans like one will kill chickens." [BANG!]
"Aaaiiieee! [Thud!]"
Jamal is also the man who is allegedly overseeing the flogging of two men and a teenage boy in a recently broadcast video.
This article starring:
Maulvi Noor Jamal
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02/10/2010 00:00 ||
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#1
Hmm... Asia Times was betting on "Qari Hussain Ahmed Mehsud, 22".
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Along with Hakeemullah Mehsud, other hardline commanders emerged, such as the brutal Qari Hussain Ahmed Mehsud, the chief of suicide bombers. The militants who had moved from South Waziristan, mainly to North Waziristan and Orakzai Agency, practically abandoned their "Pakistani" dispensation as they moved closer to al-Qaeda or its allied groups.
A suicide attack this year on a US Central Intelligence Agency base in Khost province in Afghanistan, in which several top agents were killed, is an example in which several North Waziristan-based groups joined hands. These included al-Qaeda's Lashkar al-Zil (Shadow Army), headed by Ilyas Kashmiri and Hakeemullah.
Unlike Baitullah Mehsud, Hakeemullah never saw himself as a tribal warlord of any particular region; he moved around a lot, never staying in one place for too long.
If Hakeemullah is dead, Qari Hussain Ahmed Mehsud, 22, is likely to take over his position, which is now centered on spreading the Takfeeri ideology and which calls for attacks from Kabul to Karachi. Qari Hussain has already personally undertaken such work in Swat and other Pakistani tribal areas.
Syed Saleem Shahzad is Asia Times Online's Pakistan Bureau Chief. He can be reached at saleem_shahzad2002@yahoo.com
[Dawn] Security forces arrested a militant commander on Tuesday who also happens to be the nephew of Lashkar-e-Islam leader Mangal Bagh during a search operation in Bara Tehsil.
According to an FC official, the action was taken on a tip-off and the arrested militant has been shifted to an unknown location for investigation.
An operation is underway since the past few months and security forces claimed that they have killed at least 100 militants and arrested over 200.
A curfew has been placed in Bara Tehsil while security forces target militant hideouts in the area.
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Israeli warplanes attacked targets near Egypt's borders in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, Palestinian witnesses and security sources said early Wednesday.
Minutes before midnight, F-16 jets dropped a bomb on a smuggling tunnel beneath the borders, used by Palestinians to bring in various goods into the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, witnesses said. Shortly afterwards, the planes fired three missiles at destroyed installations that once served as Gaza's airport in southeastern Rafah, security sources added.
On Tuesday night, a home-made rocket fired from Gaza landed in southern Israel, causing no damage. The Israeli attacks in Rafah apparently came in response to the rocket-fire which was claimed by a previously-unknown Islamist Salafi group.
#2
The tipping point in Gaza will come soon. The population of Gaza will have to decide whether Hamas is their best option or is it peace.
The Israelis would do well to continuously remind the Gazans (and the whole world for that matter) that the blockade will be lifted as soon as the attacks stop. Israel left Gaza in an attempt to find a peaceful solution. Land for Peace. This was met with scorn and thousands of rockets shot into Israel. Israel really has no choice. Every country has the right to protect it's citizens. There must be penalties in place as a result of Hamas Gaza's bad behavior. The world must stop funding terror in the middle east. Especially the UN.
Posted by: Mike Hunt ||
02/10/2010 12:10 Comments ||
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"Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip"
Gee, it's too bad Gaza doesn't have any other place they could get goods & services from except Israel. If only Egypt were next door....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
02/10/2010 12:53 Comments ||
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The tipping point in Gaza will come soon.
I disagree. There is still a lot of foreign money flowing into a very small area, and the flow of that money is controlled by Hamas. The only possible alternate power is the PA, which is not competent to do much of anything.
#5
From the report: Shortly afterwards, the planes fired three missiles at destroyed installations that once served as Gaza's airport in southeastern Rafah, security sources added. Hmm. That's interesting.
Terrorists Suspected militants shot dead two Muslims and a Buddhist and wounded two other men in a fresh series of gun attacks in Thailand's troubled south on Wednesday, police said.
A 45-year-old Muslim villager was killed instantly when two men on a motorcycle opened fire as he rode his motorbike home from a mosque in the province of Pattani. In a similar attack in Pattani, terrorists suspected militants shot the assistant to a village leader, a 47-year-old Muslim man, as he rode home from a market. He later died of his injuries.
A 47-year-old former government volunteer was also shot dead by two gunmen at a bird singing competition in Pattani.
At least three terrorists suspected militants in neighbouring Yala province hid by a roadside and fired at a car carrying a 35-year-old Buddhist soldier and a 39-year-old village leader, wounding them both.
Two senior aides to Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi have been released from prison.
Alireza Beheshti and Mohamad-Reza Tajik were both released on bail, the website of the Tehran judiciary announced on Tuesday.
The statement did not elaborate on the amount of the bail for the two men.
Beheshti, the son of the late Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, the martyred head of Iran's judiciary in June 1981, was arrested more than a month ago.
Tajik, who has served as vice president of the Strategic Studies Center during President Khatami's government, was also among the dozens of people detained for involvement in the post-election riots in Iran.
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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.
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.
[Quqnoos] NATO warns Afghan civilians to "keep their heads down" when a major joint military offensive begins in Helmand province. Mark Sedwill, NATO's senior civilian representative in Afghanistan, admitted on Tuesday that the offensive was likely to prompt more people to leave the area.
A ransom of 3.1 million dollars has secured the release of a Panamanian-flagged ship and its crew of 26, said the Somali pirates holding the ship since October. 
[Dawn] Security forces arrested a militant commander on Tuesday who also happens to be the nephew of Lashkar-e-Islam leader Mangal Bagh during a search operation in Bara Tehsil.
Two senior aides to Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi have been released from prison. 
