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what is going to be on
this side of the page in
the future?
the Middle East
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON - A civil war in Iraq could lead to a broader conflict in the Middle East,
pitting the region's rival Islamic sects against each other, National Intelligence
Director John Negroponte said in an unusually frank assessment Tuesday.
"If chaos were to descend upon Iraq or the forces of democracy were to be defeated
in that country ... this would have implications for the rest of the Middle East region
and, indeed, the world," Negroponte said at a Senate Armed Services Committee
hearing on global threats.
Well, isn't that special? Have you ever just wanted to yell out the window, "We're all
fucked!" and hope someone, anyone, listens?
I came across this doozy while doing my normal news crawl:
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON - Nearly three out of four American troops serving in Iraq think U.S.
forces should withdraw within a year, and more than one in four say the United States
should leave immediately, according to a new poll published Tuesday.
The poll, conducted by Zogby International and the Center for Peace and Global
Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., was a rare effort to determine the
views of American troops serving in a ground war.
Twenty-nine percent of the troops surveyed said U.S. forces should leave Iraq
immediately, another 22 percent said they should leave within the next six months
and 21 percent said within six to 12 months. Twenty-three percent agreed with
President Bush's call for troops to stay "as long as they are needed" and 5 percent
were unsure.
I guess that this means the troops are a bunch of sniveling-Democrat, whiny-pinko
sissies now too. Right, Congressmen?
Prim Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, Tuesday to take part in its
nuclear program, with claims that the Islamic republic only has
peaceful intentions.
can start to tear at the allegiances of Western powers. I think Iran may already be
wooing Russia with tempting offers like a pipeline to the gulf perhaps? We'll see in
due time. $Billions are hard to turn down.
US warns companies over Israel boycott
The United States has threatened to fine US companies that take part in an Arab
lead economic boycott of Israel.
"The US government is strongly opposed to restrictive trade practices or boycotts
targeted at Israel," said Undersecretary of Commerce for Industry and Security
Kenneth Juster.
And today?
Well,
Dubai ports firm enforces Israel boycott
The parent company of a Dubai-based firm at the center of a political storm in the US
over the purchase of American ports participates in the Arab boycott against Israel.
So, it is not OK for a US company to boycott Israel but it is fine for an international
company to handle six of the nations largest ports that does?
Speaking of the whole ports-issue, don't you think it is funny that Bush claims that he
didn't even hear of the whole thing until it had been approved and the news media
reported it and yet he still approves and defends the decision? How many kinds of
stupid is this administration?
Bush's approval rating has suffered a six point drop since last week when on
Presidents day Zogby had him at a whopping 40%.
Makes you wonder when those impeachment hearings are going to begin and Bush
crosses the Nixon-Line and checks in at 25%.
wrongfully imprisoned and abused are going to get what's left
was behind bars got awarded $300,000 today by a Federal Court. Apparantly this is
just one of hundreds of cases to follow. The case stems from the fact that the
prisoners were abused and that they were denied their constitutional rights.
The Bush administration maintains that non-citizens are not protected by the
constitution. This is strange since the document that established this nation states,
"WE hold theses Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness." I don't see anything in there about "men
who need visas or green cards" being excluded from the rights afforded to everyone
else.
Way to go, team!
toss a coin to see who gets to call and who has to sit in the cave of a studio and do
the engineering). We'll know Sunday. URH will be carrying the game online (the
same people who let me do a radio show every Monday!)
death tolls from this past week's violence at 1300+, that is no indication that things
are going south... Right?
Wrong. Iraq was screwed from the get go. This guy had a better idea of what was
going to happen back in '02 than our prez (if you ignore the part where he thought
that Iraq actually had weapons of mass destruction).
be getting ready to bust. Meanwhile the nation that is the most competitive economy
in the world, Finland, is experience a housing boom.
This is what you get, America, when you spend money on pointless wars and not on
educating your citizens. Finland spends more than twice what we do on public
education and it is paying off. The amazing thing is that they can manage this all
while having a very egalitarian society. It has produced low crime, good pay, peace...
What more could you want (other than a better climate) out of one's government?
My prediction? Expect that list to be changin' fast in the next few years and just
watch the good old USA slip a notch or two every year. Bush my have made the call
to invest in science education but only 4 months after Nancy Pelosi first did it.
As a science major myself I see how many useless business majors, anthropologists,
ect... (I don't mean to offend such people as some of them are smart and do serve a
purpose) we turn out who have no understanding of basic natural laws. It is the
scientists and engineers that design, build and invent the products that make our
nation so wealthy and without a new generation of them I don't know how we are
going to compete.
What good is an MBA if you have no clue how any of the products you sell are made,
work, or what they actually do? Just ask our president. He has two business
degrees from Ivy league schools and he still doesn't know dick about any of it.
up!
Danish cartoons
Middle Eastern, Central and South Asians.
Excerpt:
IRVINE – A student panel discussion on Islamic extremism that included the
“unveiling” of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, including one of him wearing a
bomb-laden turban, repeatedly descended into name-calling chaos Tuesday night.
The panel, which included one Muslim speaker, was repeatedly interrupted by
hecklers from the audience who challenged assertions by panelist Rev. Jesse Lee
Peterson that Islam was an “evil religion” and that all Muslims hate America. Outside,
hundreds of Muslims and their supporters noisily protested the event amid a heavy
police presence.
One thing I don't understand is why are images of Muhammad not allowed but writing
about him is? This is something I have never grasped when it came to forms of
"idoltry". Why is one art (visual) not allowed when another (poetry) is encouraged?
Perhaps there is someone else out there reading this who can enlighten me.
great pitchers.
dollars of airtime to promote his satellite radio show. Well, CBS, you should have not
been such a pain in the ass towards him after Janet Jackson flashed her tit on TV
and he wouldn't have left you.
Quit yer bitchin', CBS. You lost because you didn't have the balls to protect a man
that made you millions of dollars.
security
"Oh yeah, they're totally cool."
"Sir, are you just saying this because you stand to make millions of dollars?"
"Next question please."
(subscription). Could you imagine if the American Southeast was bombed into
oblivion and the only power structure left was that of the Baptists and the
Evangelicals and various minority factions with everybody else on the sidelines?
That is what is happening in Iraq.
Soon the US troops will only be spectators in what is going to be a gruesome,
gruesome war. The Kurds have already stocked the Iraqi army with troops loyal to
the idea of an independent Kurdistan.
Who knows, maybe a secret deal will be struck that will give Turkey Kurdistan if we
can still keep bases there, Iran southern Iraq if they drop their nuke program and
Syria Western Iraq all the way to Baghdad if they would just but out of Lebanon and
shut the hell up every once in a while.
was a link to CNN's live coverage of Mardi Gras. I saw boobs via CNN. Isn't that just
the damndest thing?
and al Qaeda are detained erupted again.
Why aren't there a quarter million troops in Afghanistan? The Taliban still controls
2/3 of the country for crying out loud. Sigh. Read about it yourself.
Smith looked like she could actually carry a conversation with someone.
I remember when I was 14 and wanted to bang her. Now she gives me the creeps.
Not as much a E. Pierce Marshall does though. 11 years now they have been doing
battle over this money. Personally I think Ms. Smith earned it for banging a 90 year
old dude for a three years. Everybody in America knows that is how it works when
you get hitched to a geezer-tycoon.
longer, fancier and more in-depth. I still haven't decided if I am going to do
everything this way or us the blog-thingy. I do like this method since it has that aura
of "1998, shitty HTML programming" to it (which is the skills period I am trapped in).
famous. Thank You.
wigging you out?