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Gaddafi flees Tripoli
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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Candy Crowley surprised by Donald Rumsfeld's ignorance of Obama's good global image
Duh.

Check out the pix at the link and see for yourself if the LA Times is being sarcastic or not.
Posted by: gorb || 02/21/2011 14:38 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Too bad Rumsfeld didn't start off with, "Candy, you ignorant slut."
Posted by: Pearl Gleaper1127 || 02/21/2011 15:04 Comments || Top||

#2  CNN and the rest of the MSM's globe extend no greater than 20 meters from their personal space bubbles, though most of it actually exists in their imagination confined to their cranial cavity located about a quarter of a meter up their rectal orifice (aka Plato's Cave).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/21/2011 15:41 Comments || Top||

#3  The LAT opinion piece is by Andrew Malcom -- a breath of sanity in LaLa Land
Posted by: regular joe || 02/21/2011 16:56 Comments || Top||

#4  "But Mr. Rumsfeld, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia!"
Posted by: no mo uro || 02/21/2011 17:17 Comments || Top||

#5  But then Rummy gave her a doughnut and everything was...okay.
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/21/2011 19:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Excellent image, right? Not invited to Englands Royal wedding, Mubarack and the Saudi King hate him, Israel considers him a Manchurian President, Afghanistan Prez dislikes him, Iran want America wiped off planet earth, the list goes on...
Posted by: Ebbaiter Poodle4718 || 02/21/2011 21:55 Comments || Top||

#7  "Israel considers him a Manchurian President"

Israel can take a number and get in line behind the rest of us, EP.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 02/21/2011 22:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Donald Rumsfeld exudes more class and integrity from one pore in his left wrist in one second than the rest of the media and the left for their entire collective lives.
Posted by: badanov || 02/21/2011 23:08 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Gene Sharp: Author of the nonviolent revolution rulebook
Posted by: tipper || 02/21/2011 16:03 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Dr Gene Sharp the man now credited with the strategy behind the toppling of the Egyptian government."

"nonviolent" - I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 02/21/2011 19:05 Comments || Top||

#2  From a (relatively) non-violent view, Egypt was a whole lot better than Libya is shaping up to be.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/21/2011 20:16 Comments || Top||


Gone, Wisconsin
Think of “public service” for what it really is, a secondary form of welfare, in which “workers” pretend to work and the government pretends to “pay” them — just like in the old Soviet Union! I mean, if it weren’t for government jobs, all of these “non-essential” personnel would be lounging around on their porches, drinking beer and firing unregulated handguns into the air or at each other — or, even worse, at us — unable to deal with the vicissitudes of life and therefore deserving of our public charity. Without public service, politicians such as Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd would have been just another couple of Irish barroom horndogs; Governor Moonbeam, Jerry Brown, another Buddhist moonbat; and Robert Byrd a humble white-sheeted follower of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Public service gave these men jobs — real jobs — and meaning to their lives. And you malevolent capitalists want to take it all away.
Posted by: Beavis || 02/21/2011 14:45 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  damn, now that was funny!
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 02/21/2011 20:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Bravo!
Posted by: Water Modem || 02/21/2011 20:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Brilliant writing.
Posted by: Fire and Ice || 02/21/2011 21:22 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Pak's preposterous nuclear policy
Posted by: ryuge || 02/21/2011 12:38 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suspect that we will all be breathing a bit of fallout by and by.
Posted by: kelly || 02/21/2011 13:31 Comments || Top||

#2  The big game changer will be when Pakiwakiland accidentally blows itself up in confusion.
Posted by: Water Modem || 02/21/2011 20:52 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
Revolution U
What Egypt Learned From the Students Who Overthrew Milosevic.

Interesting piece in Foreign Policy about how to manage a revolution. Carried over into Monday.
Posted by: Steve White || 02/21/2011 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  READ this article, people. The reason God made so many people is that they all contribute different creativity...and this creativity is vast and boundless.

Defeat Force with Ideas. Dictatorships are all the same in one thing. But human freedom is always creative.

remember the pictures of Obama as the Joker? What if you saw them every day...cheap blank newsprint with a pic of Obama as the Joker. Soak the newsprint with a spray bottle of milk and sugar and slap it up all over town at night. Everybody on the team do 200 tonite.

Use simple things and laugh. You can get a pound of sugar and get a gallon of milk and a spray bottle from the garage or from under the sink. Get a cheap silk print frame from an art supply shop and make a copy of a picture of Obama as the Joker. Run off a couple of Thousand. Visit your friends and get them to visit their friends.... get the local highschool involved after school. There are lots of people who will do it for free. Find those people.

There are three components to any struggle. Force, Motion, and Timing. Dictators have the Force.....freedom has the other two.

Two against one. Think and be more disciplined in your thought and you can defeat Force with Motion and Timing.
Laughter and Organization are deadly things in the hands of a Free man.

2012 is next year. Let's say bye bye to this guy. A picture of the back end of a Donkey and Nancy Pelosi is so photogenic...put her pic on garbage cans...just garbage cans.
Pic +Spray bottle of milk and sugar( simple and cheap)....get some. You can put one up on a cement surface in 12 seconds flat.
Posted by: Dribble2716 || 02/21/2011 4:28 Comments || Top||

#2  From the article: Whenever anyone related to the movement dies, they will gather and sing songs -- and the police will not interfere! It's a real problem to tear-gas a funeral." I guess in Libya it's not much of a problem to shoot the mourners.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/21/2011 10:40 Comments || Top||

#3  A good article to read. I'm posting a link to it at my site to memoize it.

Just in case...
Posted by: Ptah || 02/21/2011 13:59 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
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
Thu 2011-02-17
  Violent protests break out in Libya
Wed 2011-02-16
  Bahrain mourner killed in funeral march clash
Tue 2011-02-15
  Mufti warns of revolution in Saudi Arabia
Mon 2011-02-14
  Iranian protesters rally as Arab unrest spreads
Sun 2011-02-13
  Saeed Al-Shihri, Deputy Leader of AQAP Dead in Yemen
Sat 2011-02-12
  Police in Aden disperse ‘day of rage’ protests
Fri 2011-02-11
  Mubarak resigns
Thu 2011-02-10
  Mubarak still there
Wed 2011-02-09
  Suleiman: Mubarak Forms Panel to Pilot Constitutional Changes
Tue 2011-02-08
  Egypt sees largest demonstrations since start of revolt
Mon 2011-02-07
  Egypt: beginning of discussions between government and Muslim Brotherhood


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