Anti American rally has been held in the Somali capital Mogadishu, where hundreds of people have attended on Friday. The rally was held in Tarabunka square in southern Mogadishu after Friday prayer and it was organized by the social revolution of defending religion and nation.
Hundreds of people including veiled women, men and children were participating the rally in which was against the US policy in Somalia and anti terror and alliance and also in support of Islamic courts' activities in the capital. During the rally the American flag was burnt there by angry people who were chanting 'down US government' down anti terror alliance.
Chair person of the Islamic courts' union Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed addressed to the protesters saying the Islam won and defeated its enemy. Sheik Sharif condemned the US government for involving in Somali affairs and fueling the crisis in the country instead of participating the peace activity.
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Following threats by extremist Islamic group, several corporations, chain of pubs ban England flag
Modi Kreitman Hamlet: Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?
First Clown: Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits there; or, if he do not, it's no great matter there.
Hamlet: Why?
First Clown: 'Twill, a not be seen in him there; there the men are as mad as he.
Following warnings by extremist Islamic group al-Muhajiroun, in which the group said that the red cross in the England flag symbolizes the 'blood thirsty crusaders' and the occupation of Muslims, some of the largest companies in England have ordered their workers not to wave the flags. "Our enemy says we must do it or they'll attack. We MUST!
The flag has recently appeared in England on everything from bikinis to cars, and sold in endless versions in stores. But the Islamic protest forced some corporations, such as cable companies NTL, Heathrow airport in London, and even the Drivers and Vehicles Licensing Agency to ban the flag in every form due to fears from reactions of Muslims. "Don't kill us, please. We promise to throw burqas on our women and forbio dhimmis to have a bearable existance. We promise that Britons shall never be free."
The Sun tabloid newspaper has in recent days launched a campaign to bring back the flag, and has published a blacklist of companies preventing their workers from expressing their patriotism at work. The Sun said that a large pub network has banned drinkers from entering with symbols of the national team. Paging King Arthur. Paging King Arthur. They need your Majesty back in England
The hero of the day is a two year-old toddler, who was thrown out with his parents from Leicester, because he wore the England team's uniform.
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Twobyfour, "Nuts!" wasn't Patton - at least, on the most famous occasion it was U.S. General A.C. McAuliffe, at the Battle of the Bulge, in response to a German surrender demand.
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correct. Patton would've said: "F*&K em!"
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
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The Greek-Roman flags are out, as would most of the historical flags used by Spain, France and Germany, State-specific Tricolor(s) notwithstanding. That leaves the Cold War Commie flags, i.e. HAMMER-SICKLE-STARS resembling the MUSLIM CRESCENT-STARS, and the Sino-Nipponese Red = Yellow Sun flags or other pan-Asian pennants. THE US NINTH WILL BE HAPPY BECUZ, ASIDE FROM DECLARING AMERICA BEING AN ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL NATION - WID NO STANDING TO EITHER INVADE OR PROSECUTE NOR TO PROTECT ITSELF AND SO-CALLED AMERICANS FROM INVASION AND PROSECUTION, ANY AND ALL AMERICANS ARE EUROS WHOM ARE ALL GERMMANS, AND ALL GERMANS-NORDICS ARE JUST WEIRD-LOOKING ASIANS-CHINESE-AFRICANS - you know, Columbus and Leif Ericson, etal. declaring America = Vinland, etc. for God and China-Asia.
A ceremony to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the demise of the Founder of Islamic Republic, the late Imam Khomeini, was held in the Imam Reza mosque in Brussels Saturday night.
An Arab preacher, Sheikh Abdullah, lauded Imam Khomeini's unflinching struggle to restore the pride and dignity of the Iranian people in particular and Muslims in general by standing up against the arrogant powers. "The enemies cannot extinguish the light of the Islamic Revolution. O Imam Khomeini ! your soul is with us," he said.
Speaking in Arabic and French, the preacher pointed out that Imam Khomeini proved to the world that Islam is real democracy and grants real freedom to the people. He noted that without any soldiers and army, Imam Khomeini brought down strong Western-supported dictatorship of the Shah.
Another speaker recited poetry in Arabic in praise of the noble soul of Imam Khomeini.
Arab and Iranian residents of Brussels and members of the Iranian embassy staff including ambassador Ali Ahani participated in the ceremony.
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They aren't celebrating his demise, they're celebrating him as the main functionary in the rebirth of the grand illusion of the Islamic Caliphate. It seems they have one hell of a stronghold in Belgium and France. The Brits better perk up and sqash these assholes while they still can. I think the Germans will revert to their true selves and start seriuously doing some damage to the loons there. But, Belgium, France , Spain, & Portugal..who knows ?
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AW Shucks! We missed the chance to celebrate old AK's death proper-like. We should'a taken over the Iranian Embassy and held all of the staff hostage until our demands are met for Iran to stop its nuclear bomb making program.
A good, but lengthy, interview with Hirsi Ali from the (London) Times. This part at the end may be the most intriguing. The last paragraph should be particularly provocative to Rantburgers. But the Times headline writers should be given some credit.:
She is a curious mix, Ali. Her hardline image has won her a job at a right-wing think tank. But her critique of Muslim immigrants is a liberal one: that they reject Dutch freedoms such as the sexual revolution. “We have had radical Muslims throwing paint bombs at nude paintings. They complain billboards advertising underwear are there to insult them. They aren’t, they are there to sell underwear.”
She supports a video Holland shows would-be immigrants of gays kissing and women letting it all hang out — the point being, if it offends you, don’t come.
“Something major happened in Holland in 1968, the year before I was born,” she says. “A view emerged that authority was bad — and not just the state’s. You should negotiate with children, not tell them what to do. There was a paradigm shift from authority to negotiation. It was extreme stuff: in Holland, students can negotiate their exam mark.”
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But if her fervour is her strength, it is also her weakness, alienating the very liberals she should court.
*snicker*
Look how the reporter tries to latch onto her star, as if by slapping "I'm a liberal" on his lapel - he has actually done anything in his lifetime that has improved the liberty of others as Ali has done.
He admits he's a coward, terrified of being called a racist to the point of allowing Muslim women to live in submission and then tries to make it all ok by pretending that if he and others like him actually had a backbone and used it, that those same "underclass" working people, that he so readily dismisses with a bigoted wave of his pen, would riot like animals.
This is such a wormy article. The whole point of it is for the author to excuse his own pathetic being by telling us, "yes, I'm a gutless coward - but I'm better than the "underclass" who would terrorize the Muslims if I didn't protect them....because I've got "liberal" on my lapel.
At least you gotta give the writer credit - he briefly looked in the mirror before he pointed the finger elsewhere and told us that at least he was better than that dirty ol' conservative "underlass".
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When she was forced to leave her flat, she reflected: “My neighbours confirm the critical view that very few Dutch were brave enough to stand up to the Nazis.” True, perhaps, but not a way to win friends.
So being "nice" to "win friends" is a higher moral value than opposing tyranny?
Still, if Europe is no longer big enough for Ali, we are all in trouble.
No shit, Sherlock; you are in deep, DEEP trouble. You have reached the point where tolerance becomes a terminal condition: instead of opposing Islam's violent, xenophobic intolerance, you shout down those who call attention to it.
Bye bye, Europe...
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As an Israeli I'd like to see some tolerance from EUrope (just kidding).
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This makes sense in a cowardly, euro-pussy sort of way. Unlike the Hamastinians, the Israelis are unlikely to blow up the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Does Canada have a generic email address for sneering? Something like contempt@canada.gov.ca?
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Canada is full of those who have been brainwashed to hate Israel and the US of A.
I hope it's starting to dawn on some of you all, we lost the cold war. The Communists and Socialists won all the minds. The Hate of the US of A and Israel is world wide. islam and Socialism intersect in their goals.
Up to $50 million invested in campaign to improve Islam's image in US
The fight for American public opinion in the United States is heating up: A group of Arab businessmen, backed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, will launch a public relations campaign aimed at improving the image of Islam in the United States. The campaign will cost up to USD 50 million.
Council Chairman Parvez Ahmed told Gulf News: "This is a highly ambitious Islamic public relations campaign, the largest in world, which is aimed at improving Islam's image."
David Saranga, the Consul for Media and Public Affairs at the Israeli Consulate General in New York, said the campaign should make Israel rethink its own PR campaign. He said his department has a yearly budget of USD 2 million. "It is better that those responsible for policy and budget understand that investing in Israel's image will yield investment, tourism, and political support, exceeding the initial investment in the long term," he said.
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Council Chairman Parvez Ahmed told Gulf News: "This is a highly ambitious Islamic public relations campaign, the largest in world, which is aimed at improving Islam's image."
So long as they're outspent by the other Islamic PR campaign -- the one that involves head-chopping, seething, "apes-and-pigs", and the occasional boom -- they'll lose ground. In fact, telling us Islam is all sweetness-and-light while the other campaign's still going on will cause them to lose ground even faster.
Americans don't like being bullshitted. That's why the "small minority of extremists" line has been failing.
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yeah, need to put a positive spin on sawing off peoples heads and using children as human shields.
Instead of trying to convince us that muslims don't really do things like that, try denouncing those practices publically. That would put you in a much more favorable light.
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I've already seen this in action. Expect your local TV shows to start highlighting the stylishness of women who wear Burkas, and burka wearing women or Muslim men to begin appearing in sitcoms or in other broadcasts. Expect Muslims to become the "new cool" in the MSM and on billboards. They will be portrayed as strong in the face of adversity, with families that don't fall apart (violence ignored), wise, stylish and always have little halos painted over their heads.
Burkas will become chic and rebellious; never mind they are forced to wear them. You mark my words. The magazines successfully made heroin addiction chic in the 90's.
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Considering they already have the media, and a good percentage of the politicians on their side, this is the public arena is the only one remaining.
It never stops with this boob...
The former American president, Jimmy Carter, has said that the United States should begin talks with Iran without preconditions. Mr Carter believes prerequisites could present the Iranian Government with too great an impediment to overcome. His comments are significant, given that he was the president when US relations with Iran hit an all-time low. Oh, boy. Guess we'd better pay attention then...
Remind us all why that was ...
He witnessed the Iranian revolution and the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979. He witnessed a lotta stuff. He just never stopped any of it.
He's a real expert in being buffaloed by the Ayatollahs.
He struggled for 444 days to release the US Embassy staff held hostage. A failed rescue attempt led by the US military brought about the resignation of his secretary of state. It was the crisis that has scarred relations between the two countries ever since.
No, it was our failure to stomp the bejeebus out of the 'students' that scarred relations.
But Mr Carter thinks attempts to improve relations should have started long ago. And he believes that this administration's offer to sit down and talk on conditions that Iran gives up its uranium enrichment program may not be enough. Why isn't this guy in a nursing home being spoon fed applesauce?
But Mr Carter thinks attempts to improve relations should have started long ago.
True. He should have immediately responded with overwhelming force when Iran declared war on America instead of sitting his ass and wringing his hands like the helpless loser he was - and is.
And he believes that this administration's offer to sit down and talk on conditions that Iran gives up its uranium enrichment program may not be enough.
It's not. They need incentives - like destruction of all the MMs. Now. (Yeah, I know - that's not what he has in mind.)
Will this embarrassing LOSER please STFU? :-(
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If you just did the opposite of whatever this historical mistake advised, you'd be in th emoral, ethical, and pro-American security right about 98% of the time. Jimmy, you POS, feeling poorly any time soon?
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#2 Frank G - more like about 198% of the time....
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There are six billion people on earth. I'd listen to advice from 5,999,999,999 of them before listening to advice on Iran from Jimmy Carter.
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This fool enabled the overthrow of the Shah and allowed these freakin' mullahs and other assorted asswipes to take over Iran and start this Islamic renewal in the first place. Does he think anyone with the sense of a parrot is going to listen to his advice ? Enough already, Jimmah.
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My theory is that America doesn't get into trouble for the wars she fights, but rather the ones she doesn't fight. Smashing the 'students' and their facist Ayatollah Would have saved us (and the world) 36 years of this nonsense. Great job, Jimmy. Why don't you go talk to the families of the victims of Hizbollah first?
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"No prerequisites" would only be phase one of any true Carter plan. The not-yet-announced but always coming Carter phase 2 would be a multi-billion dollar bribe to the authoritarian government in question in exchange for empty reassurances. Give the man another Nobel Peace Prize.
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Now let's see. During Carter's brief stay in office, was it four or was it five countries that "went communist"?
This is the same guy who believed that both Marshal Tito and Nicholai Ceausescu "shared his belief in enhancing human rights", lobbied the UNSC to oppose the US attempt to free Kuwait from Saddam, and was deeply concerned that his human rights efforts might "offend" the Soviet Union.
This is a guy who deserves to live the rest of his life in a North Korean labor camp. And who would probably be impressed there with their fairness and equality.
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The Iranian hostage crisis was not about a relatively small number of hostages at the US embassy in Teheran. That was secondary. If I was a hostage, I probably would want anything done to secure my release, short of becoming a total 'ho for the hostage takers. The big issue of the crisis was that 200+ million Americans were taken hostage by the actions of the Iranians and the INACTION and INDECISIVNESS of President Jimmy Carter.
That lack of leadership set the stage for a boost of confidence on terrorists all over the world, especially in the Middle East. The result is thousands of American deaths.
Sh*t just does not happen. There is a chain of events leading up to the action. Whether it is a structural failure of a building, an aircraft accident, or a total breakdown of society in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina, examination will disclose a chain of events leading up to the disaster.
The problem is that there are relatively few of us examining and understanding those chains of events. The media could be really helpful in raising consciousness in this, but they are fully occupied in pushing their own agenda and ultimately their own suicide mission.
The tide is turning. The MSM is in decline. The problem is that events are accelerating. We do not have the luxury of time to wait for the tide to come in.
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I'm sure it was just a happenstance that the hostages were relased the DAY Reagan took office.......hmmmmm, smells like Denmark. Dont worry neo cons, the American public would NEVER put 2 and 2 together to figure that one out.
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A fool with good intentions is still a fool. Jimmy, just shut up.
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"But Mr Carter thinks attempts to improve relations should have started long ago."
Absolutely, Jimmy. The Iranian government should have started improving relations on Day One of the 1979 hostage crisis by entering the beseiged US Embassy, arresting the "student" hostage-takers, and releasing the captives.
Or they could have started improving relations later on in the crisis, by reconsidering their actions and releasing the hostages.
Or they could have started improving relations even later, after the hostages were finally released in 1980, by apologizing to America and the hostages and paying appropriate compensation.
Or even later, by withdrawing all support for Hizbollah and destroying it, then seeking a rapproachment with America.
Or even later, by NOT sponsoring the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia.
Or even later still, by... oh, that's not what you meant?
There's something terribly, monstrously, pathologically defective about people like Jimmy Carter who think EVERYTHING is America's fault, and that EVERY despicable atrocity committed by EVERY shitbag, scum-sucking dictatorship throughout the world is merely a natural reaction to some imagined American malfeasance-- and that all we have to do to put a stop to evil in the world is refrain from calling it "evil".
Can we really expect to survive much longer with Jimmy Carter and his ilk running around loose?
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That lack of leadership set the stage for a boost of confidence on terrorists all over the world, especially in the Middle East. The result is thousands of American deaths.
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Hey, I for one am glad the old guy's still around, and we should pay strict attention to every word that falls from his lips. He's our leading contrarian indicator! If he says we should talk with the idiots who run Iran, that means we should just bypass the UN and anything else that passes for "due process" and blast their seat of government and anything else they might depend on back to the stone age right now. (Wait a minute, did they ever evolve past that stage, or does their interpretation of sharia somehow forbid it?)
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He's our leading contrarian indicator! If he says we should talk with the idiots who run Iran, that means we should just bypass the UN Hey, I for one am glad the old guy's still around, and we should pay strict attention to every word that falls from his lips. He's our leading contrarian indicator! If he says we should talk with the idiots who run Iran, that means we should just bypass the UN and anything else that passes for "due process" and blast their seat of government and anything else they might depend on back to the stone age right now. I>
grb, that's exactly the same JIMMUAH PEANUT INDEX that Frank identified yesterday, it's not only good but 100% true to the bone!
PHOENIX (AP) - Fifty-five National Guard members from Utah arrived in Yuma on Saturday afternoon - the first troops to be sent to the Arizona-Mexico border in a new crackdown on illegal immigration.
The Utah troops had been scheduled to work on fences and other projects as part of the Guard's long-standing efforts at the Arizona border, officials had said as late as Wednesday. But their mission has since been folded into President Bush's plan to send up to 6,000 National Guard troops to the four southern border states to supplement federal immigration agents. The Utah troops got word of the change Friday from Guard officials in Washington, D.C., said Maj. Hank McIntire, a spokesman for the Utah National Guard.
They are scheduled to be briefed on their mission Sunday and start field work as early as Monday, he said.
Under the president's plan, troops will perform support duties to allow federal authorities to focus on border security. They won't perform law enforcement duties.
The Utah troops, who will not carry weapons, will be in Yuma for two weeks to install improved lighting at a border crossing, extend an existing border fence and build a road, McIntire said. The projects will be done in the area of San Luis, Ariz., a town 25 miles south of Yuma with a fortified stretch of border with Mexico.
The town is part of the nation's busiest U.S. Border Patrol station, in a state that is the nation's busiest illegal entry point.
A 12-foot corrugated metal fence divides San Luis from Mexico, reinforced 50 yards to the north by an 8-foot chain-link fence topped with barbed wire and towers with surveillance cameras. Stadium lights help agents spot those who try to slip across at night.
Officials say 300 National Guard soldiers from Arizona are expected to begin arriving at the state's border in mid-June. About 170 National Guard troops are already helping federal and state officers there with communications, fence construction and anti-drug efforts.
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GAZA CITY (AFP) - The armed wing of Hamas and three other groups have threatened Palestinian banks if they do not transfer salaries to civil servants, who remain unpaid since late February. "The national banks were created to serve the interests of the Palestinian people. If their mission has changed and they become an instrument of the siege we will treat them as those who besiege the Palestinians," the statement signed by Hamas's Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades said Sunday.
Why don't you just rob them -- it'd be easier and more in your character.
The other signatories were the Popular Resistance Committees and two cells that operate under the umbrella of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. "It is not normal for some of our institutions to become instruments of coercion against our people and apply the policy of deprivation plotted by our enemies," said the text. "We will not remain silent in face of those who starve our children," the joint statement added.
The thought of changing course and backing off the jihad apparently hasn't yet occurred to them.
The Palestinian Authority vowed on Saturday that civil servants will finally receive their salaries early next week amid growing discontent after months without pay and successive delays. It was the fourth time in a week that the Hamas-led government, grappling with a financial crisis after Western countries cut off direct aid, has promised the government's 160,000 civil servants imminent paychecks.
And if it isn't the evils Joooos, 'Merkins and bankers, it will be someone else to blame.
Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya has himself blamed US pressure for the reason why banks have not transferred money for Palestinian salaries.
Maybe the bankers know something you don't?
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This is going to get too funny! Thay are making the banks out to be the badguys for not GIVING money to paleo civil servants. I guess they are hoping that the people will rush the bank.
You have MY word on it!
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) - The Palestinian Authority vowed that some of its increasingly disgruntled civil servants will start receiving back salaries early next week after four months of successive delays. Yeah...ummmmmmmmmm...early next week! That's the ticket! My wife...Morgan Fairchild will be passing them out.
Saturday's pledge was the fourth time in a week that the Hamas-led government, grappling with a financial crisis after Western countries cut off direct aid, has said the government's 160,000 civil servants will be paid. "On Monday, those employees who make less than 1,500 shekels (330 dollars) a month can go to the banks and get their salaries," finance minister Omar Abdelrazeq told a press conference in Ramallah.
Monday's payment of one month's salaries for the lowest earning workers will cost 60 million shekels (13 million dollars), he said. Those earning more than 1,500 shekels will be paid in the next stage, Abdelrazeq said, without saying when. The next stage. So hang in there. Remember, In Hamas we trust.
Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad told AFP Saturday the repeated delays were because of procedural snags, such as a new payment system by personal check rather than direct deposit. Yeah. Ummmmmmmm...my pen ran outta ink. So I couldn't sign them.
However, employees' patience appears to be growing thin. ...as are the employees.
Workers took to the streets in the northern West Bank town of Nablus and in Ramallah Saturday to demand wages which have not been paid since February. In Nablus, some 2,000 frustrated government workers, armed Palestinian police among them, chanted: "We want our wages, not promises." ...and we have lots of guns.
Funny, they always have lots of guns.
In Ramallah, protestors shut the city's main route by lying across the road and setting tires on fire. Well that should speed things up.
On Friday, Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya said workers would start receiving their pay by Sunday at the latest. He made a similar promise last Tuesday, vowing that 40,000 employees would be paid in full in the coming days. On Wednesday, Abdelrazeq said civil servants would receive partial payment "in the next two days." Look! Jooos!
Around one million Palestinians, or a quarter of those living in Gaza and the West Bank, depend on government salaries. They have not been paid since the European Union and United States suspended direct aid after Hamas took office in March, because of its refusal to renounce violence and recognize Israel. Don't we have enough of our own deadbeats without covering the rest of the world's?
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We better be extra vigilant, and so should Congress. Somebody in State will try to slip some guilt money in through the guise of huuuuuumanitarrrrrrrrrrrrian aid. This must not be allowed to happen. The best thing that could be done is to give the Paleos some tough love (now there's a term that brings up the gagging reflex!).
All seriousness aside, the only way that the Paleos will stop digging the hole that they are in is to hit bottom, or a big-a$$ed rock. Showers of money will not cut it. That has been done for fifty friggin years.
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love the reference to the 80s Jon Lovitz (as Tommy Flanagan) pathological liar skit
it made my day
amazingly, Morgan Fairchild still looks pretty good
New public opinion surveys conducted among "opinion elites" in Europe show that support for the Palestinians has fallen precipitously, according to a leading international pollster, Stan Greenberg, who has been briefing Israeli leaders on his findings in the past few days. There has not necessarily been "a rush to Israel" but there has been a "crash" in backing for the Palestinians, he noted.
Greenberg, a key pollster for president Clinton who also worked with former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, conducted the surveys for the Israel Project, a US-based non-profit organization devoted to educating the press and the public about Israel. Greenberg told The Jerusalem Post that the shifts in attitudes reflected in the surveys were so dramatic that he "redid" some of the polls to ensure there had been no error.
He singled out France as the country where attitudes had changed most dramatically. Three years ago, 60 percent of French respondents said they took a side in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and of that 60%, four out of five backed the Palestinians. Today, by contrast, 60% of French respondents did not take a side in the conflict, and support for the Palestinians had dropped by half among those who did express a preference.
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support for Isreal doubles and support for palestinians drops by ~84% in France?
1) feel you have the right to tell people who have been feeding you for fifty eight years what they may or may not publish and threaten them with bombings if they don't comply
2) Decide that money Europeans give you is not a gift but a debt and threaten to bomb if they don't pay
then even the most spineless and pro-palestinian people tend to be a bit upset
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WTF are "opinion elites"? And who makes up these terms? Are they copyrighted or are they in the public domain?
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Most Westerners in Europe and America didn't know that their tax was going to fund the violent, palistinian semi-state. Point it out to them that you have a choice, another few doctors, roads or teachers in your area or alternativly we could give money to ungrateful, luddite, seething, AK toting primitives who would murder you as soon as look as you. They tend to go a bit thoughtful.
WELCOME, MINN. -- An expected protest by members of a controversial Kansas church didn't materialize Saturday at the funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Posivio III, who was killed last month in Iraq. The protest by the group from Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka would have been the first test of a state law restricting such demonstrations. The church contends that U.S. military members are dying in Iraq because God is punishing the country for tolerating homosexuality.
In Welcome, near Fairmont in southwestern Minnesota, more than 500 friends and relatives filed into St. Paul's United Church of Christ to pay their respects to Posivio, who was killed by a roadside bomb while in a Humvee in Iraq on May 23 on his third tour of duty. They were supported by more than 500 motorcyclists, members of the Patriot Guard Riders from all over the Midwest. The riders were invited by the Posivio family, who are motorcyclists, to serve as a buffer against the expected protesters.
But the Westboro group said on Saturday that instead of protesting in Welcome, members were traveling elsewhere because they had received enough publicity for their cause in the days before the Posivio funeral. Area residents praised the presence of the motorcyclists, who roared into town about 90 minutes before the funeral and then set up an honor guard of flags on the both sides of the street leading to the church.
The new state law requires protesters at funerals to stay at least 500 feet from the church or graveside. It was passed in part because of the actions of the Westboro group at a funeral in Anoka in February for Army Cpl. Andrew Kemple. More than 50 officers were stationed around Welcome on Saturday.
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I had a lovely, long talk last week with the nurse at my doctor's office. It turns out she was in Somalia wearing a UN beret just before the Blackhawk Down incident... about which she had Views, much like many of you here. At any rate, she and several other members of her VFW post (mostly relatives) are members of Rolling Thunder, which she says is now 30,000 strong, nationwide. She also said thay have very specific rules of engagement: they interpose themselves between the shouters and the mourners, physically keeping the shouters a set distance away. And they never speak, no matter the provocation. Out of respect for the mourners, she said, they will not allow violence to occur.
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Hmm.. I can see the respect TW. But, if it was my funeral, the biggest respect the boys on bikes could do for me is to put those assholes in the ground too. But that is just me. ;)
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TW, thanks for that, I feel better about our country today. It's the little thing that do it; our people doing it all by themselves.
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Ever notice how it seems to always be the enlisted he picks on?
Well, I know one soldier who put it in his will that his estate will fund the defense of, and reward with $25,000, anyone who puts a beatdown on those assclowns if they show up at his funeral. Thankfully it hasnt been needed (He's back just fine),
But it would be rather funny to see Phelps there with a broken nose, no teech, battered senseless and a big old veteran biker in full leathers bends over and whispers to Fred Phelps:
"Sorry Phelpsy, just carrying out the wishes of the deceased, now which one of these morons is your son? He's next."
#8
Issue live rounds to the guys who fire the 21-gun salute.
Posted by: Mike ||
06/04/2006 14:06 Comments ||
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#9
sorry, I'd rather see the riflebutt/knucklehead concussion practice occur. Why doesn't anyone in KS take the fight to these asshole's homes and church. They need to cringe in fear inside their own houses
Posted by: Frank G ||
06/04/2006 16:27 Comments ||
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