H/T Boomers and BS
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
News...........
Day 19 – July 28th 1940
Three words which sent a liberal scurrying for the exit
Michelle Obama Asks Me to Sign President Obama’s Birthday Card
MasterCard Canada Offers Halal Credit Card Supporting Jew Baiting 9/11 Truther
Sherrod: "We Must Stop The White Man And His Uncle Toms ..."
The new, improved Obama
Mexican 'climate migrants' predicted to flood US
SEX FILMS SHOT IN HOUSE OWNED BY OSAMA BIN LADEN'S FAMILY
China Three Gorges flooding set to peak
Israeli generals win US high-tech ballistic missile tracking system
If President Obama carries on like this, he will turn into a lame duck
David Cameron agrees nuclear deal with India against official advice
Britain 'facing tarantula invasion', RSPCA warns
Fidel Castro to release first volume of memoirs
Afghanistan war logs could lead to revenge killings, say intelligence
Russian spies: beautician arrested trying to smuggle night scopes into Moscow
Britain and US may attend Hiroshima bomb memorial for first time
WikiLeaks and the Afghan War
Going for gold
Bacon Eaters Back Burka Ban!
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Reason TV: Protest in Bell: City Residents Say "Enough!"
Should a city manager from one of Los Angeles County's poorest cities earn twice as much as President Obama?
Residents from the working-class town of Bell erupted in outrage after learning that their city pays its officials some of the highest local-government salaries in the nation, including City Manager Robert Rizzo who takes home nearly $800,000 per year.
Obama's 3:00 AM Fail
From "November Starts Now — Obama's 3:00 AM Fail":
The new ad from the RNC:ADDITIONAL ELECTION BLOGGING:Barack Obama's presidency has been a disaster. He is either unwilling to or incapable of doing his job. The economy is in shambles, the government is failing, and Americans are losing hope. Barack Obama was not ready to be President. He's not the solution. You are.As much as I like it, I'm not sending these folks any money. It's going to take a lot more of Michael Steele sucking up to the base before that happens (or, memories of Dede Scozzafava are still quite strong):
You have the opportunity to turn our economy, our government, and our country around by electing Republicans and restoring your voice in Washington. But to win this fall, we must start today. It's up to you to save your country. Are you ready? Because November starts now.
* "Public Prefers Obama's Policies, But Not by 'Large Majorities'."More at American Power.
* "Obama Could Be 'Primaried' by Antiwar Democrat in 2012."
* "Al Franken's Keynote Speech at Netroots Nation."
Battle of Ammunition Hill
Throughout history, the Jewish People has maintained a presence in Jerusalem, ever since King David established the city as his capital nearly 3,000 years ago. Except for a very few periods, when they were forcibly barred from living in the city by foreign conquerors, Jews have always lived in Jerusalem. Throughout millennia, and in the face of conquest, forced exile, violence and discrimination, Jews have maintained their direct link to Jerusalem, returning to live in their city again and again.
Between 1949 and 1967, while Jerusalem was divided between Israel and Jordan, there was an Israeli enclave about a mile to the east of the border, in the Jordanian section. This was Mount Scopus, with the campus of the Hebrew university and Haddassh hospital. There was an agreement whereby every two weeks 200 Israelis would cross Jordanian territory to the enclave, and sit there until the next group replaced them two weeks later.
Throughout the whole period everyone knew that sooner or later the war would resume, and that when that happened Israel would try to reconnect the mountain with the city. To prevent this the Jordanians built a series of fortifications in that mile, and its centerpiece was Amunition Hill, an apt name borrowed from the days after the British conquered the city in 1917 and General Allenby stored his army's ammunition there.
Map of
Battle of Ammunition Hill
On the night between June 5th and 6th 1967 the IDF paratroopers, backed by a few tanks, made their attack, directly on the Jordanian fortifications. The battle on Ammunition Hill raged from...
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010
Movie Review: Das Leben Der Anderen "The Lives of Others" (2006)
Should I see it?
Absolutely.
Full Review Here
Iraq Update by DJ Elliott............
Army Air Corps splits from Iraqi Air Force
Photo by Sergeant 1st Class Jeff Troth, 21 July 2010.
Aid
Who receives the most humanitarian aid per capita from the international community?
Billions of dollars meant for schools, hospitals and infrastructure have been spent on luxury villas, casinos and payments to terrorists.
Video: Jay's Tiny House Tour
Talk about space saving. This guy has to be a blogger and quite probably single.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn is a great example...........
Nurses who think it's not their job to care: NHS forced to remind staff to feed patients.
As many will know my mother is in hospital and this is so true of the 'treatment ' she has received. The junior staff are very good and try their hardest but the Doctors and Nurses are next to useless. The Doctors don't work weekends (except an on call Doctor) and the pharmacy is also shut during this period.
Whether this is down to staff shortages or bad management I don't know but am going to find out.
News............
Day 18 – July 27th 1940
On the Border with Glenn Spencer of the American Border Patrol
Marine absorbs IED blast, walks away
If You are Left, You Just Ain't Right volume 8: Shirley Sherrod mania!
Refudiate this...
Obama's Other Chicago Problem
Radical police shake-up plans 'a return to 1950s'
Barack Obama must also answer questions over the Lockerbie bomber's release
Record number of fake £1 coins could force reissue
Wikileaks Afghanistan: leak inquiry centres on US intelligence analyst
Iran condemns new EU energy sector sanctions
Jim Webb, The GOP, And The Sammy Sosa Solution
and finally..........
An ever-changing crazy quilt
8 toys and activities of your childhood that you can still enjoy as an adult
The Recession Hits Everyone as Darth Vader Robs a Bank
Kerry may need to pay $500k tax on yacht
3,000 terrorists for India battle: Pak Taliban
The dentist pulls out a numbing needle to give the man a shot.
'No way! No needles. I hate needles' the patient said.
The dentist starts to hook up the nitrous oxide and the man objects.
"I can't do the gas thing.. The thought of having the gas mask on is suffocating me!"
The dentist then asks the patient if he has any objection to taking a pill.
"No objection," the patient says. "'I'm fine with pills."
The dentist then returns and says, "Here's a Viagra."
The patient says, "Wow! I didn't know Viagra worked as a pain killer!"
"It doesn't" said the dentist, "but it's going to give you something to hold on to when I pull your tooth."
H/T Old Dude
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The AfPak Non-Pentagon Papers
As I reported earlier, the WikiLeaks document dump hasn't generated spectacular revelations. Certainly, from an intelligence and government secrecy standpoint, it's a really big deal. By now, though, most analysts have actually kinda yawned at the whole thing. But for leftists, WikiLeaks is pure gold. Recall that Julian Assange denied that his goal was to bring an end to the war. That's pure bull. I've paid too much attention to this creep since the bogus Apache Reuters video ploy a few months back. These people are out to damage the U.S. big time, and all the hardline leftist organizations go into overdrive when a new doc-dump/video exposé goes live. Case in point is the hyperventilating coverage at Democracy Now!, "The New Pentagon Papers: WikiLeaks Releases 90,000+ Secret Military Documents Painting Devastating Picture of Afghanistan War." Amy Goodman's a commie, and communists have two big attacks on the West: "wars of imperial aggression" and "hegemonic racism" (Israel demonization falls somewhere in between both of those, as the Jewish state is the "racist" outpost of American-led neo-colonialism in the Middle East). And of course, MSNBC's more of a "commie" network than CNN, and these folks are creaming over WikiLeaks, for example, Cenk Uygur at this clip featuring Matt Lewis of Politics Daily:
On an interesting related note, the Wall Street Journal sees a silver lining in the release of the documents, and the editors debunk the "Pentagon Papers" analogy at the same time. See, "The AfPak Papers":
We've long believed the U.S. government classifies too many documents as secret, and now we know for sure. How else to explain why Sunday's release of some 92,000 previously confidential documents reveals so little that we didn't already know about the war in Afghanistan? This document dump will only matter if it becomes an excuse for more of America's political class to turn against a war they once supported ....That's the most sober thing I've read on foreign policy in weeks (be sure to RTWT). WSJ points out that the documents indicate that Iran is cooperating with al Qaeda and related Sunni extremist groups, another fact that puts the lie to the promise of diplomatic engagement with Tehran.
Far from being the Pentagon Papers redux, the larger truth is how closely the ground-eye view in these documents reinforces what U.S. officials were long saying: that the war wasn't going well, the Taliban were making gains, and a new and invigorated strategy was needed to combat them. Both the Bush and Obama Administrations made the same diagnosis in recent years, neither one kept it secret, and this year Mr. Obama followed through with an increase in troops levels and a renewed counterinsurgency.
The most politically explosive documents concern the conflicting loyalties of Pakistan's Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI. Nearly 200 reports allege that the Pakistani military intelligence arm is in cahoots with the Taliban, despite claiming to side with America. This is undoubtedly true but also no surprise.
The ISI helped the U.S. arm and organize the mujahideen against the Soviets, and it kept doing so to fill the Afghan power vacuum after America abandoned the region in the early 1990s. The reports released this week allege—often citing a single source or uncertain information—that the ISI helped train Afghan suicide bombers, plotted to poison beer slated for GIs, and schemed to assassinate President Hamid Karzai. It isn't clear how many of these plots were ever attempted, but there's no doubt that many Pakistanis doubt U.S. staying power, fear Indian influence in Afghanistan, and want to use the Taliban to shape events on their Western border.
Then again, we also know that Pakistan has shifted its behavior in a more pro-American direction in the last 14 months as the Taliban began to threaten Pakistan's own stability. Responding to a surge of terrorism against Pakistani targets, the Pakistani army has pushed Islamist insurgents from the Swat Valley and even South Waziristan. It has taken heavy casualties in the process. Islamabad now actively aids U.S. drone strikes against Taliban and al Qaeda leaders in the mountains along its Afghan border.
Pakistan can and should do more to pursue the terrorist enclaves along the border, as well as in Quetta and Karachi. The question is what's the best way to persuade their leaders to act. U.S.-Pakistan cooperation has been one of the Obama Administration's foreign policy successes, and it would be a tragedy if the leak of selective documents, often out of context, would now poison that cooperation.
RELATED: "Why WikiLeaks' ‘War Logs’ Are No Pentagon Papers." (At Memeorandum.)
Cross-posted from American Power.
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