An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 8/1/07
Sunni Arab Bloc Quits Iraqi Government
Rafaa al-Issawi, a leading member of the Front, said at a news conference that the bloc’s six Cabinet ministers would submit their resignations later in the day.
Al-Issawi said the decision to pull out from the government followed what he called Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s failure to respond to the Accordance Front. It gave him seven days to meet its demands, and the ultimatum expired Wednesday.
Among the demands: a pardon for security detainees not charged with specific crimes, the disbanding of militias and the participation of all groups represented in the government in dealing with security issues.
You can either part of the solution, or part of the problem. Guess they decided it was better for them to be a chunk of the problem. That bit about ‘demands’ on the part of any government official kind of bugs me.
It didn’t take long for Bonds to know he wasn’t at the safe house known as AT&T Park. A sellout raucous crowd of 56,000 showered Bonds with boos during the pregame introductions. They booed him every at-bat. When Bonds was in left field, shouts of “Bar-ry —-!” rained down throughout the night. Bonds crossing home plate on Pedro Feliz’s two-run single in the sixth with the go-ahead run? Yup, more boos.
Why do sports, any sport, turn normal people into a bunch of classless clods? Perfect example of how so called fans have turned any sporting event into a free for all…..golf! Yelling at the little dimpled ball is classless. Yes, Bonds is always going to have an * by his name in the record books, unless he can actually double Hank Aaron’s record, but that is really no excuse for behaving like brain dead morons. I have less respect for those ‘fans’ than I have for Bonds.
Murdoch’s $5B bid for Dow Jones succeeds
News Corp. (NWS) CEO Rupert Murdoch became the king of business news late Tuesday, as Dow Jones (DJ) accepted his $5 billion offer.
With Dow Jones, Murdoch will have control of a mighty arsenal of business news properties, including The Wall Street Journal, WSJ.com, Barron’s, MarketWatch.com and SmartMoney.
Closing of the deal will end 105 years of Bancroft-family ownership of the company, which was founded in 1882 to provide customers with news about stock and bond trades.
Sounds like too much stress to me.
Woman may have abused kids in $2M scam
A Florida woman accused of using aliases to adopt 11 New York children received as much as $2 million in child welfare payments even as she starved, bound and abused them, police said Tuesday.
Here’s a stupid question: Why on earth would the system allow this woman, living on welfare, adopt children to begin with? Don’t they investigate prospective parents, do follow ups, the whole nine yards? Seems to the the ’system’ is just as guilty as this animal.
“She indicated that she loved these children, that she took care of them,” Mario Garcia said. “She nurtured them and fed them.”
Yeah, and I can tell ya I’m tall, skinny and rich, but wouldn’t you want proof? She can SAY anything at all, it doesn’t mean it’s true.
New bill calls for revoking citizenship from those guilty of breach of allegiance
The Knesset’s Internal Affairs Committee approved MK Gilad Erdan (Likud) proposal to instate a bill revoking citizenship from any citizen found guilty of breach of allegiance to Israel.
“The second Intifada and last summer’s war have uncovered many cases of citizens allying themselves with enemy forces. We have no choice but to use some drastic measures,” said Erdan. The bill will be submitted to its first reading in the next Knesset plenum.
Not a bad idea. I think we should consider something like this on this side of the hemisphere. There are a couple I could name right off the top of my head that have aligned themselves with our enemies. Wouldn’t that be a fly in the oinment for REID and MURTHA.
Analyst says Specter’s new immigration plan ’same-old’ amnesty
A policy analyst with a prominent conservative think tank says a new immigration bill set to be introduced by Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) is, in many ways, a rehashing of the amnesty legislation that failed in the Senate in June.
Senator Specter says his bill would not include the controversial Z-visa program that would have granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S. However, the legislation would allow illegal aliens to sponsor their entire extended family for admission into the U.S. The chain-migration provision would replace the skills-based points system included in the previous immigration bill.
You can call a zebra a horse, but it’s still a zebra. Specter obviously didn’t the message during the last go round!
U.N. authorizes Darfur mission
The U.N. Security Council yesterday authorized a new peacekeeping mission for Darfur, a complex military effort with 26,000 African and U.N. forces under a single command that will be the largest ever attempted by the world body.
If all these troops are going to do is stand around and scratch their butts like they usually do, save the money. Sadly, it’s going to be the U.S. footing a good chunk of the bill, AGAIN, which is NOT all right.
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