08.25.06
Posted in Politics, Terrorists, War on Terrorism, Faux-tography, Media Morons at 10:35 pm by JB
What exactly is the purpose of placing a young child next to an unexploded bomb in southern Lebanon, except to have a sort of scale comparison ? Couldn’t be for propaganda purposes, because we know that doesn’t happen from Hezbollah. Right ?!
When Um Ali Mihdi returned to her home in the southern Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil two days ago, she found a 1,000lb (450kg) Israeli bomb lying unexploded in her living room.
The shell is huge, bigger than the young boy pushed forward to stand reluctantly next to it while we get our cameras out and record the scene for posterity.
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT…. we have unexploded munitions, and someone PUSHED this poor kid to and made him stand next to this thing ?
Was it the mother, someone unmentioned ? Please tell me it wasn’t someone from the BBC who just wanted a better shot.
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Posted in Politics, War on Terrorism, National Security at 3:25 pm by JB
I’ll give you the pieces and let you solve the puzzle.
From The Guardian:
A Romanian oil rig off the coast of Iran came under fire from an Iranian military warship and was later occupied by Iranian troops, a company spokesman said.
NATO Member Countries:
Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Rep, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
The purpose of NATO:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is an alliance of 26 countries from North America and Europe committed to fulfilling the goals of the North Atlantic Treaty signed on 4 April 1949. In accordance with the Treaty, the fundamental role of NATO is to safeguard the freedom and security of its member countries by political and military means. NATO is playing an increasingly important role in crisis management and peacekeeping.
(emphasis mine)
Now…. complete the puzzle.
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Posted in Politics, Prez '08 at 11:42 am by JB
GOPBloggers has put together an interesting little deal here. The results are quite interesting as well. (h/t MY Right Wing Conspiracy)
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Posted in Politics, 2006 Races, Democrats at 11:27 am by JB
(Little Frenchie-appeasement language to flavor what’s below)
Crazy Howard has seen the writing on the wall, and has decided “OF COURSE !!!! We’d LOVE to have Joe back when he spanks the little cry-baby Ned Lamont.” Anything to give us one more member to vote for Harry Reid as Majority Leader.
I hope Joe wins, and after the millions that the DNC and related PACs pours in to defeat him, tells them to kiss his ENTIRE ass.
Democratic chief Howard Dean was asked whether he would welcome Sen. Joe Lieberman back to the party if he wins the election: “… If he were to win, we would welcome him back in the Democratic Caucus. We’re a big tent party, and we accept all kinds of folks, and we’re happy to have them.”
They welcome “all kinds of folks”. Except pro-life, pro-gun, pro-defense, pro-intelligence, pro-voucher, pro-business, pro-…..
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Posted in General, Politics at 11:15 am by JB
This term has probably been floating around for years, but this is the first time I recall seeing it….
RE: some of the pictures that come out of the middle east these days, Rubin refers to some of them as “fauxtography“. 
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Posted in Politics, Unhinged, 2006 Races, Democrats at 11:11 am by JB
Doesn’t matter that you’ve known someone for decades, what’s important is that they have that D next to their name.
These people are beyond the pale sometimes.
New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton says she’s meeting Friday with Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont.
They plan to discuss how Clinton can help Lamont’s campaign against Senator Joe Lieberman, who’s now an independent candidate, and Republican Alan Schlesinger.
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Clinton, who’s considered a likely 2008 Democratic candidate for president, has called Lieberman a friend for years, but also pledged to support whoever won this month’s primary.
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Posted in Politics, Democrats at 10:28 am by JB
I’ve thought about commenting on this little kerfuffel:
Confronted by accusations that he’s taking too long to clean up his city after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin defended himself by remarking on New York City’s failure to rebuild Ground Zero.
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On a tour of the decimated Ninth Ward, Nagin tells Pitts the city has removed most of the debris from public property and it’s mainly private land that’s still affected – areas that can’t be cleaned without the owners’ permission. But when Pitts points to flood-damaged cars in the street and a house washed partially into the street, the mayor shoots back. “That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.”
I tend to, however, agree with Ace over at his joint….
I just file this in the you-know-what-he-meant folder. But others seem to think it’s evidence that Nagin is an idiot.
As if that case still needed to be proven.
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Posted in General at 9:48 am by JB
The next time this happens in the theater, in a church, in…. any number of places where it’s wholly inappropriate, I’d love to be able to slap some cuffs on the idiot(ess).
A judge detained and questioned a row of spectators when a cell phone rang for a third time in her courtroom, later ordering two people to serve community service for contempt of court.
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Posted in Politics, Unhinged at 9:38 am by JB
I bet every time she reads something like this it just gets her knickers all in a twist.
President Bush held private and at times emotional meetings Thursday with the families of five Maine soldiers who died in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon.
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“To meet with the president, it’s something I never thought would happen,” said Nancy Kelley, whose son, Army Capt. Christopher Cash, was killed in Iraq in 2004. “We were honored — just to share our thoughts about Chris and how he felt about his service to our country.”
During a half-hour audience with the president, Kelley said they spoke “on a number of subjects, but Christopher was first and foremost.”
“I had brought him a framed picture of Chris in Iraq with Iraqi children,” said Nancy Kelley, who has dedicated a Web site, a scholarship, and a 5K race to Cash’s memory. She said she was impressed by the president’s interest in her son.
“He cares about every single family, and he has been doing this all around the whole country.”
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