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Morning Coffee 01/19/09
Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Seeks Asylum in Switzerland
A Swiss lawyer working on behalf of the Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush says his client will seek political asylum in Switzerland.
Geneva-based lawyer Mauro Poggia says Muntadhar al-Zeidi’s life is in danger in Iraq.
From who? I thought he was a ‘national hero’. Reckon not so much, eh? Or, is this just a ploy for the radical to move on to greener pastures, and join in whatever jihad he’s got in mind? Hmm….
Gaza war great victory for Palestinians, says Hamas leader
Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said the Gaza war with Israel amounted to a “great victory” for the Palestinians, in a televised speech on Sunday.
“God has granted us a great victory, not for one faction, or party, or area, but for our entire people,” said Haniya, the prime minister appointed by the Islamist movement Hamas in the impoverished territory.
“We have stopped the aggression and the enemy has failed to achieve any of its goals,” he added, less than 24 hours after Israeli halted a massive offensive on Gaza that killed more than 1,300 Palestinians.
The only ‘victory’ I can see is that Hamas, and all of Gaza wasn’t reduced to a total pile of ashes. If that’s what he means, then yeah..they have a victory. They didn’t stop anything. Sadly, Israel seems to have caved. Their primary objective SHOULD have been to remove the threat, and they haven’t done that. God saved your sorry asses, but don’t think he won’t destroy you when the time is right!
Hamas Vows to Rearm: ‘We Know How to Acquire Weapons’
Less than 24 hours into a ceasefire it agreed to after a devastating defeat by IDF forces, Hamas vowed Monday to rearm as soon as possible.
“Manufacturing the holy weapons is our mission, and we know how to acquire weapons,” Hamas’s military spokesman Abu Ubaida told journalists at a news conference in Gaza.
The terrorist group agreed Sunday afternoon to halt its rocket fire against southern Israeli communities about 12 hours after Jerusalem declared a unilateral ceasefire. Israel warned, however, that it would renew military operations if Hamas resumes its attacks or tries to smuggle more arms into Gaza.
Israel, and the rest of the world, might want to take them at their word. They constantly say what they are going to do, then do it, but does the “world” listen? Of course not. It doesn’t matter that Hamas has pretty much destroy any semblance of civilization in Gaza, and vows utter destruction to Israel. Those ‘poor oppressed people’ are so eaten up with hatred, it’s a wonder their eyes are bleeding from the overload.
Ahmadinejad : Big victory of Islamic states is near
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that a big victory for the Islamic countries is near and Islam’s enemies are on the way of collapse.
President Ahmadinejad made the remarks in his separate telephone conversations with Qatari Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani as well as Sudanese and Syrian Presidents Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir and Bashar al-Assad respectively.
I wouldn’t count on that just yet, bub!
School Children Wear Stab Vests
Children in British schools are wearing stab vests under their uniforms to protect themselves, a new report has revealed.
Pupils are taking the measures as gang members smuggle air pistols, batons and meat cleavers through the school gates.
And primary school children – aged as young as nine – are being used as runners for older boys as they are groomed for gang membership.
Way to go Brits! You’ve managed to turn your kids into thugs. Your ‘liberal tolerance’ seems to have backfired…..in SO many ways. Sadly, we seem to following your lead. A lead, I for one, have NO use for at all! So, not to worry, we’ll have our kids in bullet proof vests yet. Until we return to a moral society, there will be no relief.
Schumer, Durbin and Barney Frank See No Problem with Treasury Nominee’s Tax Problems
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) told CNSNews.com that Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner is qualified to serve despite his failure to properly pay at least $34,000 in taxes. Other members of Congress, including Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) agreed, but some Republicans questioned the nomination.
ALL Republicans, and other reasonably sane people should be questioning this guy! But if BHO says it, the Dhimmis follow along behind him on their knees, lapping up his crap. (In Frank’s case, he’s probably enjoying the view from behind.) I do NOT buy into the ‘mistake’ excuse.
Obama visiting troops at Walter Reed
President-elect Barack Obama is visiting wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
A day after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, Obama began Tuesday with an unscheduled stop at Walter Reed, where he is meeting with those wounded during their military service.
Tuesday? You mean he can move through time too? Dang! I AM impressed. Pfft! And exactly which troops is he visiting? The ones he insulted in Germany by going to work out? Or the ones he said were ‘air raiding villages and killing civilians“?
UN body rips Israeli forces for trampling rights of children
Criticism of Israel’s actions in its bloody 18-day offensive of the Gaza Strip rained down from various international bodies on Tuesday, with a UN group saying violations of human rights have been “blatant.” In Geneva, the UN children’s rights watchdog expressed deep concern at the “devastating impact” of the conflict in the Gaza Strip on children, saying there was serious disregard for their livelihoods.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said in a statement that the pledges 193 states have made to protect the lives and development of children “have been blatantly violated during this crisis.”
(Must have missed this little tidbit from a few days ago. Although, the sentiment has been in the news, I’ve been avoiding it like that plague. I’m B. Hussein’d out!)
Has the Useless Numnuts ever condemned the Gazans for violating ‘children’s rights’ by the bloody, murderous Hamas? You know the ones that use children as human shields? The ones that push ‘shaheed’ on their children on a supposed children’s television show? The same ones that teach and preach hatred? How ’bout a little condemning where it actually belongs!
Special National Guard unit deploys to Afghanistan
A special team of Tennessee Army National Guardsmen who specialize in agricultural business has left for Afghanistan.
The Agri-business Development Team left Smyrna on Sunday for training at Camp Atterbury, Ind., before heading to Afghanistan for a yearlong deployment.
Under the command of Col. James Moore, the soldiers will be teaching basic farming techniques such as planting and harvesting wheat, planting corn in rows and using trellises to grow tomatoes and grapes.
How are they going to convince the Afghanis to move from a lucrative cash crop to an actual food crop? May God be with them!
S.S. D.D.
Verse of the Day
1 Peter 5:4-8
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
I Gotta Ask!
What type of radio station would give Mama Moonbat her own radio show?
Does Anyone Else Find This Offensive?????
Not to mention a slap in the face of every man and woman who died to protect it!
TITLE 4 – CHAPTER 1: 8
8. Respect for flag
(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
Whoever is selling these so called flags should be prosecuted!
H/T: Michelle Malkin
Just a Reminder
With all the hype on the idjit box (aka TV), both nationally and locally, on the coronation….er inauguration, I just wanted to share this reminder once again.
That ‘hope and change’ y’all were waiting on? Well, the only change we’re going to be seeing is a return to the Clinton years, with a LOT more socialism thrown in for your hopeLESS enjoyment. 52% is NOT a landslide.
Seems the folks in the REAL world saw through the media hype. Shame the rest of the country didn’t.
Fact: Bruce Springstein Is An Idjit!
Bruce Springsteen: George W Bush ruined lives
Describing President Bush’s period in power as a “nightmare” for most Americans, the songwriter said: “We had a historically blind administration who didn’t take consideration of the past; thousands of thousands of people died, lives were ruined and terrible, terrible things occurred because there was no sense of real history, no sense that the past is living and real.”
The past is living and real? No, you moron! While the past may be real, it sure as hell isn’t ‘living’. That’s why the call it the past. It’s in the past, no longer now. Kind of like you….once relevant, but no longer.
NOT The Worst
Let’s try to put it all in a little perspective, ok?
Shocker! Bush Not the Worst US President
With Tuesday’s looming immaculate inauguration, we will see the conclusion of the Presidency of George W. Bush. A man maligned by the media from the beginning of his first term when they demanded recounts until he won then called it a “stolen election”. To the final days of his second term, when Everyone is trying to define the Presidency of W as one of, if not ‘the worst in history’. Since those suffering from Bush Derangement syndrome are unable to look past their own biases to see the truth about W. I thought I would make it easier, by putting it into terms they could understand, I’ll compare him to Bill Clinton.
Did Bush make mistakes? Damn skippy! Did Clinton? Oh hell yeah! Will B. Hussein Obama? NO doubt in my mind! So, let’s all just take a deep breath, and look at some of the realities, shall we?
Read the rest here for a few comparisons.
THE Guiding Hands
Kind of Funny, Actually
THE self-important reporters and editors at The New York Times are pouting like spoiled children because they aren’t getting enough attention from Barack Obama.
The editorial staffers at Arthur Sulzberger Jr.’s struggling broadsheet – who are used to being doted on by politicians, especially Democrats – have been whining all week about the President-elect’s lack of deference.
While Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both granted the Times big interviews before taking office, Obama declined, leading Times political editor Dick Stevenson to complain to Politico.com’s Michael Calderone: “We have had very, very few opportunities over the course of this campaign – never mind the transition to the presidency – to have a sustained conversation about a wide array of subjects.”
But maybe Obama doesn’t see the point in setting up meetings with the Times, considering that when they are invited, they don’t bother to show up.
Times Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner, passed up an invite from Obama to a meeting with liberal pundits at the transition headquarters in DC on Wednesday morning. Though his colleagues Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich attended, Krugman told Page Six: “I was speaking in New York to the Foreign Policy Association, a large group. This was a long-standing commitment, which I didn’t feel I could break for the sake of a get-together, even with the president-elect.”
The salt in the wound really came Thursday, when Obama toured the Washington Post’s offices, shaking hands and chatting with the starstruck staff – while Times reporter Helene Cooper waited outside.
Cooper, who filed the pool report on Obama’s visit, termed the DC Post headquarters a “nondescript Soviet-style building” and whined: “Pool is holding in a van outside . . . and will exercise enormous restraint by ending report before saying what [she] really thinks about this turn of events.”
*snicker*
Obamarama
….that he and all his good friends in D.C. created!
Morning Coffee 01/18/09
Hamas Agrees to Cease-Fire, Gives Israel One Week to Remove Troops
Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza say they will give Israel a one-week ceasefire starting Sunday.
An Islamic Jihad official in Gaza confirmed in a phone call to FOX News that Hamas and all the Palestinian factions have agreed on a cease-fire. Hamas is giving Israel one week to pull out the troops out of Gaza.
A senior Hamas official also said the group’s wing in Syria agreed to a weeklong cease-fire.
But they wouldn’t lie about it, would they?
Rocket Roulette Resumes in Southern Israel
Gaza terrorists resumed firing rocket and mortar attacks at southern Israel on Sunday, ignoring the unilateral ceasefire declared by the Jewish State hours earlier, at 2:00 a.m. Twelve hours after the start of the ceasefire, some 15 rockets and mortars had been fired at Israeli civilians in the south and Israeli military forces had attacked the terror cells that launched them.
A short-range rocket stuck the Eshkol region at approximately 3:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon, landing in an open area. No one was injured and no damage was reported. The attack came one hour after Hamas terrorists allegedly announced their acceptance of the ceasefire. However, they continued to demand that the IDF withdraw all its forces from the region, which Israel is not likely to do in the near future.
Uh….yes. Actually, they would! They don’t want peace. They don’t give a flip about the children. They want death and destruction. Period. They are evil. I find it amazing that anyone could see otherwise.
Brown’s fury at Royal Bank of Scotland’s £2.5bn loan to Russian oligarch
Former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin, branded ‘the world’s worst banker’, was blamed last night for forcing taxpayers to write off a £2.5billion loan to a Russian oligarch.
The money was lent by the bank, which is now controlled by the Government, to Leonid Blavatnik, 51, a London-based billionaire who owns chemical giant LyondellBasell, which is on the verge of collapse.
Treasury officials examining RBS’s books were horrified to learn that they included the sum to Mr Blavatnik, which has now been written off.
Well, I’m not sure this clown is “the world’s worst banker” or not. I think we’ve got a few on THIS side of the pond that could go head to head with him on utter incompetence!
How Kent Williams become the House’s new speaker
Williams so resisted and even resented the lock-step expectations put upon caucus members, he was willing to buck his party to assert his independence. Just hours before the speaker vote Tuesday, a letter sent to GOP lawmakers last month by House Republican Whip Debra Maggart was still on his mind, according to Danny D. Smith, a supporter and longtime friend from Elizabethton. The two had breakfast together that morning.
Smith said Williams viewed the letter as a threat. It outlined state Republican Party Chairman Robin Smith’s intention to go after, and strip from the party’s ballot in 2010, any member who failed to support the party’s nominees for leadership.
“(Williams) said, ‘I don’t care who Robin Smith is; there is no person in the state of Tennessee or group of people who are going to tell me how to vote except the people in Carter County,’ ” Danny Smith said. “It’s like a rattlesnake. If you back it into a corner and you push it so far, it’s going to strike. I think that letter tipped the scale. If that letter had not come out, and he had not been threatened, this whole thing probably wouldn’t have happened. That’s my opinion.”
Hmm…. I might have to take a closer look at this guy. While I’m beyond annoyed that he basically gave control of the house to the Dems, I also don’t believe that it is the Party’s job to shove anything down anyone’s throat. I don’t even know what the Republican Party stands for anymore, state or national. I did at one time, and was a staunch supporter of those principals. No longer. I still have MY principals and beliefs, but looks to me like they lost theirs.
Obama, Warren and the new evangelicals
In addition to knowing President-elect Barack Obama for a decade, the Rev. Jim Wallis would seem like the type of nationally known, centrist, evangelical pastor chosen to give the inaugural invocation. Instead, Obama is still hearing criticism for inviting the Rev. Rick Warren, a conservative Orange County pastor who opposes same-sex marriage and abortion rights, to take that marquee inaugural position.
But choosing Warren makes long-term political sense, say Wallis and others. Even though Warren’s support of California’s Proposition 8 and comments made in a Beliefnet.com interview last month equating gay marriage to pedophilia drew widespread criticism from some of Obama’s core supporters, analysts say Warren is symbolic of a new political reality.
Psst! There is no such thing as a “centrist” evangelical. If that’s what they call themselves, they need to go back and read the WHOLE Bible, not just bits and pieces of the ‘make ya feel good’ parts. And I’d really appreciate it if they’d stop taking verses out of context to support their socialist, homosexual ‘marriage’, baby murdering, big gubmint ideology, thank you very much!
Case gives glimpse into drug hit squad’s inner workings
On his last night of freedom, Gabriel Cardona laid on his bed in a stash house in north Laredo, chatting on his cell phone about how he’d sliced open two American teenagers with a broken bottle.
“You should have been there,” Cardona, a 22-year-old Laredo high school dropout told a fellow member of the Gulf Cartel’s hitman squad in an April 10, 2006, conversation intercepted by federal agents. Eleven days earlier, Jorge “Poncho” Aviles, 19, and Inez Villarreal, 14, were abducted from a Nuevo Laredo nightclub and taken to an abandoned house south of the border, tortured, gutted and then burned in 55-gallon drums, according to recenty unsealed federal court records.
“Life” in prison? I don’t think so! This POS should have been dead right after the recording was made known. Gavel down, bullet between the eyes. Right next to all his compadres!
Axelrod: Obama to engage in diplomacy right away
A top aide to President-elect Barack Obama says the new administration plans to act quickly and engage in diplomacy around the world.
David Axelrod said Sunday that everyone is hopeful that the cease-fire in the Middle East lasts.
He said the events around the world demand that Obama act quickly, and the American people will see that as he takes office. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Axelrod did not provide details for what Obama plans to do about the Middle East.
Well, it didn’t last! What do they B. Hussein is going to do? Walk across the Atlantic, heal centuries old of wounds? Pfft! All of this is nothing but a bad joke, and the laughs are on the American people. Way to go! /snark
‘I’ve had rougher landings,’ says Shelby County woman about crash
As the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 prepared to crash into the Hudson River on Thursday afternoon, a Shelby County woman linked arms with her seat mate and braced for impact.
“I’ve had rougher landings,” Claudette Mason, 46, a sales rep with International Paper, said on Saturday. “It was turbulent, but it could have been worse.”
That speaks volumes of the pilot and crew!
S.S. D.D.
Verse of the Day
1 Thessalonians 5:1-8
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Geography Lesson
THE GEOGRAPHY OF A WOMAN
Between 18 and 22, a woman is like Africa, half discovered, half wild, fertile and naturally beautiful!
Between 23 and 30, a woman is like Europe, well developed and open to trade, especially for someone with cash.
Between 31 and 35, a woman is like Spain, very hot, relaxed and convinced of her own beauty.
Between 36 and 40, a woman is like Greece, gently aging but still a warm and desirable place to visit.
Between 41 and 50, a woman is like Great Britain, with a glorious and all conquering past.
Between 51 and 60, a woman is like Israel, has been through war and doesn’t make the same mistakes twice, takes care of business.
Between 61 and 70, a woman is like Canada, self-preserving, but open to meeting new people.
After 70, she becomes Tibet, wildly beautiful, with a mysterious past and the wisdom of the ages…only those with an adventurous spirit and a thirst for spiritual knowledge visit there.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF A MAN
Between 1 and 70, a man is like Iran, Ruled by Nuts.
Shared by Sharon.
Saturday Afternoon – Buried Under A Pile Of It – Laundry Time
CO2 Fairytales in Global Warming – The American Thinker
Dead of Moonbattery – Moonbattery
A bizarre historic fact about slavery – Bookworm Room
Whatever You Do, Don’t Upset the Muslims – Sultan Knish
How’s this for change? – Babalu’
A SPARE SPIDERMAN COMIC? – Mick Wright
Qatar suspends ties with Israel – Texas Fred’s
Rangel and the Military Draft – Terry Frank
Harsh words – Say Uncle
The Electorate Has Spoken – Malignant Liberal Idiocy
It’s Back! The Push for Amnesty… – Right Truth
GOP Reaction to Williams’ Betrayal – Alpha Patriot
Why is Karl Dean deceiving you about Nashville’s other proposed amendment, Hear the People? – Blue Collar Muse
Bailed-Out Firms Use Tax Havens – Huffington Post (yeah, I know, but this is VERY interesting)
Celebrating Obama – Red State
UK: “Devout” muslims attack older man like pack of wild dogs – Infidels Are Cool
Green Deception and Future Betrayal – Net Right Nation
A West Virginian Sums Up California’s Problems – Holy Coast
Back to the Future – Racist Democrats – The Black Sphere
Dear President Obama. – Pink Elephant Pundit
“plastic President” – Hasenpheffer Incorporated
Has the thought, “I am a clutz” ever crossed your mind? – Get Stewed
We Have a Winner – Little Green Footballs
Cease Fire in Gaza? Hell No! – American and Proud
English Only Will Not … – Moore Thoughts
Is that a gavel or a scepter? – Kay Brooks
It’s All Fun And Games Until … – Newscoma
To My Fellow Conservatives – Right Wing Sparkle
CHAVEZ QUIETLY ATTEMPTING TO KISS WESTERN ASS – Kickin’ and Screamin’
The Wiretap Vindication – No Runny Eggs
British Islamists Sending Threatening Text Messages to Families of Israeli Soldiers…… and
Washington: Reporters Call Israeli FM Tzipi Livni a “Terrorist” and a “Murderer” During DC Press Conference… – Weasel Zippers
The Bush Legacy – Conservative Oasis
The Final Solution – Freedom’s Cost
Fallen Eagle: The Treacherous Patriot and Who is a Patriot? – Radarsite
Price Check on a Jackass – bloggerboarding
The Fix Is In – SouthCon
Good Bye President George W.Bush and Thank You - Say No To Politically Correct B.S.
Say Whut?
Israel Security Cabinet Approves Cease-Fire in Gaza as Olmert Says Objectives Achieved
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Saturday, folllwing a Security Cabinent vote in favor of a cease-fire, said that the goals of Israel’s offensive in Gaza had been achieved.
Israel has no immediate plans to withdraw troops from Gaza, but the cease-fire likely will entail the end of Israeli attacks on Hamas now that the militant Palestinian group appears to have been disabled to the point that there is less of a threat of rocket attacks on southern Israel.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday that a unilateral cease-fire should be accompanied by a timetable for withdrawal, and a Hamas spokesman said the group would not stop fighting until Israel is out of Gaza.
Has Hamas been totally destroyed, never to darken Israel’s door again? Will Gilad Shalid be returned to his family, unharmed? If not, then what the hell are they talking about? Ban is a moron, and so is anyone else who caves into the crap.
