tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-203202862011-09-09T17:31:17.631-07:00<center><a href="http://demediacraticnation.blogspot.com"><img src="http://i449.photobucket.com/albums/qq216/BlandlyUrbane/Banner01copy.jpg" border="0" alt="Banner"></a></center>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.comBlogger16421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-73984376463481775802009-11-16T06:30:00.000-07:002009-11-16T06:32:10.776-07:00<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7398437646348177580?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-56242267076160551502009-04-17T10:42:00.004-07:002009-04-17T10:48:36.676-07:00“<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5444468">Hate” and “Murder.</a>” Hate is an emotion, murder is an act….if upon discovering your lower abdominal area resembles that of your love interest and this just doesn’t quite fit your ideal; most people would not lose it to the degree of murder….the logic behind the insistence that an unknown individuals “thoughts” lessen or heighten the degree of the already senseless crime of “murder,” escapes. Should we take it a step further and go for two (2) counts of murder due to the multiple genders involved?<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-5624226707616055150?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-63402728767925914162009-04-17T10:12:00.005-07:002009-04-17T10:26:35.239-07:00<blockquote>Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano said that Work site enforcements, 'should focus' "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/17/immigration.raid/index.html">on employers who intentionally and knowingly exploit the illegal labor market.</a>"</blockquote>Rather than those that "intentionally and knowingly exploit" legal immigration we are Left to assume. Further assumption is as always necessary when reading news reports on the "immigration" "debate" as between those that disparage "illegal" entry into the country as xenophobic with the "illegal" "immigrant" represented as a member of the "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/17/immigration.raid/index.html">pro-immigrant rights community</a>."<br /><br />....and they call the Right Orwellian..."illegal immigration reform" is mainly a reformation of meaning.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-6340272876792591416?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-3427893603423650772009-04-16T13:39:00.003-07:002009-04-16T13:43:05.763-07:00<blockquote>"While United States must sometimes "protect information that is classified for purposes of national security," he decided to release the memos because he believes "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/16/us.torture.documents/index.html">strongly in transparency and accountability</a>" and "exceptional circumstances surround these memos and require their release," Obama said."<br /><br />As the President has said from the beginning and in keeping with campaign promised, "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/16/us.torture.documents/index.html">transparency and accountability</a>" of others will be adhered to...</blockquote><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-342789360342365077?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-71526792219923738552009-04-10T08:26:00.003-07:002009-04-10T08:37:35.107-07:00<blockquote>"<a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/kerry-calls-for-pirate-hearings-as-drama-continues-2009-04-09.html">When Americans, including at least one from Massachusetts, are endangered, you’ve got a complicated and dangerous international situation brewing, and that includes questions about a hot-pursuit policy on Somalia’s coastline.</a>" - Senator John F. Kerry (D-Mass)</blockquote>Hearing resolved!!! Exclude residents of Massachusetts from international seafaring...maybe even fishing if only to play it safe.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7152679221992373855?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-5670958272709936312009-04-09T12:16:00.002-07:002009-04-09T12:20:22.816-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/Sd5J-fc8pKI/AAAAAAAABGg/rxCwtrnhkMI/s1600-h/VespaVisionOfTerror.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/Sd5J-fc8pKI/AAAAAAAABGg/rxCwtrnhkMI/s400/VespaVisionOfTerror.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322773147542135970" border="0" /></a><br />It's just not pretty, but he mentioned it....<br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-567095827270993631?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-29567897182132310012009-04-03T11:16:00.003-07:002009-04-03T11:26:46.865-07:00In the interest of new Administration guidelines so as not to offend (though xenophobes may be fair game, haven't heard the word on that one yet).<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/03/binghamton.shooting/index.html">A lone gunman began shooting Friday in an immigration services...</a>"<br /><br />Not a nice way to treat this situation in the least, yet the irony fails to escape.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-2956789718213231001?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-84338336518655184482009-04-02T11:51:00.002-07:002009-04-02T11:56:27.367-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SdUJbcPHi7I/AAAAAAAABGY/rVwnyy5llSY/s1600-h/Barack+Huey+Long+Obama.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SdUJbcPHi7I/AAAAAAAABGY/rVwnyy5llSY/s400/Barack+Huey+Long+Obama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320168901848828850" border="0" /></a><br />"<span class="articlesubtitle"><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmVlZWUzZTVjYWVjOGI0OGJkNmI4MDJlMGUwMTU3OGE=">The president is more like the Depression era’s populist Louisiana governor than like FDR.</a>"</span><br /><br /><a href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5109/">SHARE OUR WEALTH</a>!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-8433833651865518448?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-77049213289290366712009-04-01T13:05:00.002-07:002009-04-01T13:07:14.592-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SdPJNmm0ROI/AAAAAAAABGQ/t1tem7HItbQ/s1600-h/Herd.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SdPJNmm0ROI/AAAAAAAABGQ/t1tem7HItbQ/s400/Herd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319816820393526498" border="0" /></a><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7704921328929036671?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-83184497503223229302009-03-24T12:36:00.004-07:002009-03-24T12:48:44.270-07:00White House gung-ho till polling results....pulls the carpet.<br /><blockquote>"I want to hear what senators have to say. A lot are weighing in now with different ideas. Some are tax. Some are regulatory. But they're still all addressing bonuses." Sen Max Baucus<br /><br />"In light of concerns raised by President Obama and Senate Republicans, we need additional time to discuss next steps," Jim Manley, speaking for Harry Reid</blockquote>Aahhh <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/23/aig.senate.democrats/index.html">bi-partisanship</a>.... take a left at stupid, realize you're under the bus, make a u-turn to embrace "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/23/aig.senate.democrats/index.html">I want to hear what senators have to say...</a>"<p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-8318449750322322930?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-85495850232083051752009-03-19T13:45:00.003-07:002009-03-19T13:50:40.353-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/ScKvg20HuKI/AAAAAAAABGI/-yV7a0CQQYA/s1600-h/Leadership.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 219px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/ScKvg20HuKI/AAAAAAAABGI/-yV7a0CQQYA/s400/Leadership.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315003489255405730" border="0" /></a><br />The image above is priceless; only thing missing is the blood on the fangs!<br /><br />Speaker of the House: <blockquote> "We must also protect the American taxpayer from executives who would use their companies' second chances as opportunities for private gain."</blockquote>Question: <br /><blockquote>Who protects us from them?</blockquote><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><br /></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-8549585023208305175?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-29379032246359781502009-02-04T08:17:00.004-07:002009-02-04T08:29:00.767-07:00Wow!?!? Straight from CNN and Anderson Cooper President Obama admits the possibility of error on Daschle appointment: <br /><blockquote>'<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/04/obama.daschle/index.html">"I think I screwed up,"</a>'</blockquote>and gladly there was no "screw up" with Geithner or Killefer<link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADDWIGG%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;"></span>... <br /> <br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-2937903224635978150?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-22112987042917550352009-01-29T08:12:00.002-07:002009-01-29T08:14:31.476-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SYHHjwXEeYI/AAAAAAAABFw/CIJQgz2vwfc/s1600-h/Carter+book.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SYHHjwXEeYI/AAAAAAAABFw/CIJQgz2vwfc/s400/Carter+book.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296734053855426946" border="0" /></a><br />Enough said...<br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-2211298704291755035?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-62677149155097271382009-01-08T15:24:00.001-07:002009-01-08T15:26:52.915-07:00From <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/08/transition.wrap/index.html">CNN</a>:<br /><blockquote>'"Obama contrasted his plan with other attempts to strengthen the economy, saying that the difference is his plan "won't just throw money at our problems -- we'll invest in what works."'</blockquote>Cool...this time we'll just do what works...I like that...<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-6267714915509727138?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-11558407500858932492008-12-31T10:29:00.005-07:002008-12-31T10:41:22.394-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SVuufxJZRiI/AAAAAAAABC0/0b0OB-0QYIk/s1600-h/MoColum.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SVuufxJZRiI/AAAAAAAABC0/0b0OB-0QYIk/s400/MoColum.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5286010448441329186" border="0" /></a> <br /><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADDWIGG%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="Street"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="address"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">News from <a href="http://www1.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-24/0812310701151139.htm">IRNA</a> (w/BU snippets): <br /></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><blockquote><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> is mulling an international demand by the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the International Criminal Court to bring to dock the Israeli leaders for their crimes against humanity and war crimes in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gaza</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">." </span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >Mulling?<span style=""> </span>Does IRNA mean they’re “mulling” when to demand what is always pre-prepared?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">"ICC is the </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="font-family:Arial;">United Nations Court</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="font-family:Arial;"> specialized in war crimes." </span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >Defined for the “common” Iranian, that is none too familiar with this “tool” perhaps, at least its proper use (requires alternate universe that UN fits appropriately into; see <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fiction">fiction</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that Israeli leaders must be brought to justice for the war crimes they have committed in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gaza</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">." </span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >Yes sir, right after he is brought to justice for opening his mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Addressing a large group of local people of the city of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Zahedan</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, capital of the southeastern </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;">province</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sistan</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and Baluchestan, he said, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> which was created with the motto of occupation of all regional territories, is faced with a deadend." </span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >Hmmm, seems to be a lot of difficulty these days for people regarding national mottos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>"He regretted that the humanity is currently witnessing the worst crimes, oppression and discrimination." </blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >…imagined….<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Briefing the audience on the developments in the occupied lands in the past 60 years, he added that 60 years of massacre, violence, violation of people's rights, terror, siege, and humiliation of the Palestinian people and all regional nations are the performance of the Zionist regime in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Palestine</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">."</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">And what a “briefing” that must have been; edification is lacking in Persia as well (haven't they learned the their lessons since the "revolution?"). Not fair on my part, they're just likely in the dark on the latest version.</span><span style=""><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Condemning inaction of international bodies toward the Israeli crimes against humanity in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gaza</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, Ahmadinejad asked, "If the United Nations belongs to all nations why it does not issue a statement against </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">?" <br />He urged the UN Security Council to fulfill its commitments towards the world nations." </span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >“urged the UN Security Council…” I’ve been wondering about just that same thing myself for most the the UNs existence (at least for as long as I’ve been aware of <i style="">it</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>"Addressing the leaders of Arab states, the president said, "The era of the Zionist regime has ended. The regime is going to collapse soon." The world should know that the logic of oppression and crime has failed, he said, adding that oppression can not be continued through killing and violence." </blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >However, in that vain the Iranian president and mullahs will nonetheless continue with their “logic of oppression and crime,” as it hasn’t failed for them yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>"President Ahmadinejad further called on the Arab League to move and take a positive step towards restoration of the rights of the Palestinian nation." </blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >….confused here….aren’t these the “rights” that they voted Hamas into power for?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">"He also urged the Organization of Islamic Conference not to let the Israeli leaders continue with their war crimes in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gaza</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">." </span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >One supposes the “urging” will continue until perhaps a “war crime” is committed by </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style=";font-family:Arial;color:red;" >.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-1155840750085893249?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-4353645339672779222008-12-30T11:41:00.002-07:002008-12-30T11:42:50.149-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SVpriSj6GCI/AAAAAAAABCs/jMdyl7rkn0k/s1600-h/hflag+.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SVpriSj6GCI/AAAAAAAABCs/jMdyl7rkn0k/s400/hflag+.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285655349514868770" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-435364533967277922?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-76506598774851144572008-12-29T08:23:00.005-07:002008-12-29T08:38:54.679-07:00Defending oneself or a nation seems only to be considered "defense" when you are being attacked; once the trigger is pulled in response no one seems to consider it defensive any more.<br /><br />The deaths of civilians (real and imagined)...blood on hands...international "outrage"...<br /><br />We really should try to remember from one day to the next what has and is going on.<br /><br />Highlights from the Hamas Charter (<a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm">selected by Ami Isseroff</a>):<br /><p style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><small><em></em></small></span></p><blockquote><p style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><small><em>"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." </em></small></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em><small>"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. "</small></em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em><small>"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."</small></em></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em><small>"After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying."</small></em></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><em><small></small></em></span></p><a href="http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm">Hamas Charter</a> in full on the same page<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7650659877485114457?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. 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Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-39916855617957489932008-12-22T07:47:00.007-07:002008-12-22T14:49:01.418-07:00"<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/19/zelizer.bush/index.html">What the Iraq mission cost Bush</a>."<br /><blockquote>"The shoe-throwing incident captured another failure of the administration -- the inability to win the support and confidence of the Iraqi people."</blockquote>Why does one pair of Iraqi shoes represent so many? Could this "event" be akin to a Dem throwing shoes at a Rep or vice versa? Every story seems to gets its own resolution/ending, when often times it is just a piece of the story. To bring everything to "conclusion" when it is nothing but a "detail" is no different than the President declaring "Mission Accomplished."<br /><blockquote>"History shows that presidents can make bad choices, and those choices can have devastating political consequences on their own legacy in history."</blockquote>As this commentary is "complete" it would appear to be just a "piece" as well...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SVAK6MnYNOI/AAAAAAAABCc/X0qG7tMXFgM/s1600-h/Save+the+Children.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SVAK6MnYNOI/AAAAAAAABCc/X0qG7tMXFgM/s400/Save+the+Children.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282734357840671970" border="0" /></a><br />Save the Children <br /></div><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-3991685561795748993?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-84736187159149268452008-12-01T10:55:00.005-07:002008-12-01T11:07:48.115-07:00<a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTk5YzgwZDc3NTliMDAwM2QxOGNjOWRmNTZjZTZmNDY=">Mark Steyn</a> from the other day at <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/">NRO</a>:<br /><blockquote>"It’s missing the point to get into debates about whether this is the “Deccan Mujahideen” or the ISI or al-Qaeda or Lashkar-e-Taiba. That’s a reductive argument. It could be all or none of them. The ideology has been so successfully seeded around the world that nobody needs a memo from corporate HQ to act: There are so many of these subgroups and individuals that they intersect across the planet in a million different ways. It’s not the Cold War, with a small network of deep sleepers being directly controlled by Moscow. There are no membership cards, only an ideology. That’s what has radicalized hitherto moderate Muslim communities from Indonesia to the Central Asian stans to Yorkshire, and coopted what started out as more or less conventional nationalist struggles in the Caucasus and the Balkans into mere tentacles of the global jihad."</blockquote>You don't say???? I wouldn't suppose anyone was listening/reading...<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-8473618715914926845?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-49576042004558557162008-11-24T09:40:00.001-07:002008-11-24T09:42:13.302-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SSrZR3bPrdI/AAAAAAAABCM/G6sLcZCTy7c/s1600-h/Bailout.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 158px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SSrZR3bPrdI/AAAAAAAABCM/G6sLcZCTy7c/s400/Bailout.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272265214749814226" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-4957604200455855716?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-46782593411590376852008-11-21T12:44:00.002-07:002008-11-21T12:46:34.564-07:00Surely it has been noted or asked somewhere...<br /><br />When will they begin protesting at mosques?<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-4678259341159037685?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-45980614790252709772008-11-05T09:04:00.005-07:002008-11-05T09:43:43.144-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SRHFRzxLvTI/AAAAAAAABCE/dY_bYycmYOI/s1600-h/With+Same.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 191px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SRHFRzxLvTI/AAAAAAAABCE/dY_bYycmYOI/s400/With+Same.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265206349117766962" border="0" /></a>Fred Barnes has written of the election arguing against the "<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/769lxtba.asp">conventional wisdom in the political community and the media</a>" that the 2008 election was the best ever.<br /><br />Prior to the financial crisis and following McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/769lxtba.asp">Barnes notes</a>:<br /><blockquote>"(Y)et when the crisis began, McCain was 2,3,4, or 5 points ahead of Obama, depending on the poll. Within weeks, he was 4,5,6, or 7 points behind."<br /><br />"This is proof that politics is unfair. But politics, like life, has always been unfair. The point to consider is whether a presidential race so affected, even decided, by an outside event should be considered great. Answer: It shouldn't."</blockquote>Whatever "outside event(s)" occurred that effected the campaign and thereby the election are now the past and an election and campaign are now over.<br /><br />The "outside events" to follow and the reaction to them are the real test to come; the campaign is over and with it go the platitudes and rhetoric...well at least we can hope.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-4598061479025270977?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-56208874026269060312008-10-29T15:11:00.003-07:002008-10-29T15:16:25.736-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SQjgabUEosI/AAAAAAAAAwI/v3xSToc9uqw/s1600-h/CNN+Ask.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 157px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SQjgabUEosI/AAAAAAAAAwI/v3xSToc9uqw/s400/CNN+Ask.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5262702909195592386" border="0" /></a><blockquote>"Wolf Blitzer interviews Barack Obama on Friday and you can be part of it. Send in your questions."</blockquote>Oh, yeah, that's a good idea if you don't mind being pawed and taken down by "The One" and his campaign and media minions.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-5620887402626906031?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-36651450100333294982008-10-27T10:39:00.004-07:002008-10-27T10:53:32.178-07:00Barack Obama in his own words - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck">Call In Radio Show (2001)</a>, at least it's out for people to hear it.<br /><br />Barack Obama, in 2001 (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck">audio link here</a>): <em></em><br /><blockquote>"You know, if you look at the victories and failures of the civil-rights movement, and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples. So that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order and as long as I could pay for it, I’d be okay, but the Supreme Court never entered into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society.<br /><br />And uh, to that extent, as radical as I think people tried to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution — at least as it’s been interpreted, and Warren Court interpreted it in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties: [It] says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.<br /><br />And that hasn’t shifted, and one of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil-rights movement was because the civil-rights movement became so court-focused, uh, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways we still suffer from that."</blockquote><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"></p></blockquote>"Shame, Cubed" Bill Whittle at <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmFhYzIzMGQ1Y2FlMTA4N2M1N2VmZWUzM2Y4ZmNmYmI=">NRO</a><br /><br />As for video memories <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDFkMGE2MmM1M2Q5MmY0ZmExMzUxMWRhZGJmMTAyOGY=">Andrew McCarthy at NRO asks</a>:<br /><blockquote>"Why is the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> sitting on a videotape of the 2003 farewell bash in Chicago at which Barack Obama lavished praise on the guest of honor, Rashid Khalidi — former mouthpiece for master terrorist Yasser Arafat?"</blockquote><a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/confirmed-msm-holds-video-of-barack.html">Gateway Pundit</a> introduction:<br /><em></em><blockquote><em>"Introduction: The LA Times is holding a video that shows Barack Obama celebrating with a group of Palestinians who are openly hostile towards Israel. Barack Obama even gives a toast to a former PLO operative at this celebration. If the American public saw this side of Barack Obama he would never be elected president.<br />But, the media refuses to release this video.</em>"</blockquote><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-3665145010033329498?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-38447191124494998452008-10-21T14:09:00.002-07:002008-10-21T14:23:31.074-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SP5FVf2g0hI/AAAAAAAAAvw/DWTNZs_c6lU/s1600-h/lin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SP5FVf2g0hI/AAAAAAAAAvw/DWTNZs_c6lU/s400/lin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259717650445029906" border="0" /></a><blockquote> <br /><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADDWIGG%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;">“go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican.<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">I want you to argue with them and </span></strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial;">get in their face</span></em>.”</span></blockquote> <br />This man is not a safe bet. <br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-3844719112449499845?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-18774082975636190772008-10-21T09:59:00.003-07:002008-10-21T10:04:59.385-07:00<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADDWIGG%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]-->Knowing how difficult the campaign for president can be, it is high time the Republicans, led by Senator John McCain spoke in tones and terms acceptable to the Obama/Biden and Democrat ticket overall. <br /> <br />McCain often hides behind words that tend to get people up in arms; this sample McCain plan for small businesses is probably a good example for the times, with Joe the Plumber on the mind <br /> <br />This “author” could be entirely mistaken; however, it appears that this is a form that those against McCain would be happiest with or at the least, the language that is the safest so as not to offend citizens of small or large towns; cities small or large and both coasts. <br /> <br /> <blockquote>The McCain/Palin Small Business Plan: <br /> <br /> The*</blockquote> <br /> <br />________________________________ <br />*Please note that the author cannot control where this will lead or who might be up in arms following the above details of the McCain/Palin Small Business Plan. It is only an attempt at avoiding any uproar that tends to develop as the English language is twisted following evil Conservative remarks. Also, the author in no way supports or opposes various ways “the” can be pronounced (or defined for that matter, hence the omission of “is” as one example). Pronunciation such as “thee” implies no association with any organized religion or the such.<p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-1877408297563619077?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-2773755349510387192008-10-20T13:41:00.005-07:002008-10-20T13:45:38.310-07:00Another individual that failed to see the changing times speaks out with all the inanity as those before him.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SPztiuSe4ZI/AAAAAAAAAvo/viHHRpwfrhA/s1600-h/PowHat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SPztiuSe4ZI/AAAAAAAAAvo/viHHRpwfrhA/s400/PowHat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5259339645658784146" border="0" /></a><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-277375534951038719?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-79804342717015381202008-10-16T12:01:00.003-07:002008-10-16T12:04:55.127-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SPeQOa4m78I/AAAAAAAAAvY/WpWNZ4LQN9k/s1600-h/JoePIGplumb.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SPeQOa4m78I/AAAAAAAAAvY/WpWNZ4LQN9k/s400/JoePIGplumb.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257829667387666370" border="0" /></a><br /><blockquote>“The Joe the plumbers in my neighborhood, the Joe the cops in my neighborhood, the Joe the grocery store owners in my neighborhood — they make, like 98 percent of the small businesses, less than $250,000 a year.”</blockquote><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7980434271701538120?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-23381726952241294522008-10-10T09:12:00.022-07:002008-10-10T10:44:39.683-07:00Big stink, that doesn't stick; not Teflon but just as effective (affective works in a sense too). <br /><br />Defenders in the media describe it as finish line scrambling of a campaign reaching for any means out of the relentless quicksand. Cries of "as the Byrd flew, so did McCain" glaringly miss the point though.<br /><br />Following the recent "townhall" "debate" this typist oddly walked away from it with a sense of optimism; not based upon a performance, but of the words actually spoken by the "anointed one." <br /><br />Barack Obama possesses a skill in communication no small part developed and honed in admiration of Reverend Wright (spiritual mentor and vocal coach). Not unlike the acoustic pianos touch sensitivity of 1 to infinity, the Senator hits the notes as they should be regardless of whether the human ear picks up on it or not. Like any musician, being off-key happens, but with the audience goodwill and appreciation of skill; the er, um, ahs of improvisation are accepted.<br /><br />How you write the music down is another story entirely. Political rhetoric, too often what politics is about (all sides mind you) is not reality. It's quick, immediate, and doesn't offer answers or results (how), but dang what a ditty!<br /><br />The Democrat Left has made a heyday of pointing out the easy and obvious over recent years in example; numbers of dead, the mayhem and destruction inherent in war allows for the effortless application of negative "conclusions" on the war. Like the reflexive emotion hate or anger, it is far simpler to attain than love or respect.<br /><br />Following the debate, a realization that Obama plays with the sensitivity more appropriate to the many musical keyboards 1 to 7 levels versus 1 to infinity of a real piano. The 1 to 7 may still be indiscernible to the untrained ear, but we're not really talking about music now are we?<br /><br />The media would appear to prefer the election held today, as with the daily poll reminders of "if held today," but the election has not yet taken place and VDH has an argument containing glimpses of optimism grounded in a "common" sense the media does not posses. The Ayers et al relationship that is taken as "mudslinging" by so many is simply put within the essay. One does not have to agree with it, however it is disingenuous to simply lay at the feet of "changing the subject." It's a subject and a concern to many and not at all frivolous.<br /><br />From "<a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWI5YjQ4OWFhZDFkOTYwZWRmNzAwZjYzZWNlYjUxNWM=">Not Over Yet</a>" at <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/">NRO</a> by <a href="http://author.nationalreview.com/?q=MjI1MQ==">Victor Davis Hanson</a> (<a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWI5YjQ4OWFhZDFkOTYwZWRmNzAwZjYzZWNlYjUxNWM=">read the whole thing</a>):<br /><blockquote>"<span style="">The Ayers controversy is cited by the in-the-tank media as signs of McCain’s desperation. Perhaps. But amid the tsk-tsking, there are also certain deer-in-the-headlights moments among Obama’s handlers.<br /><br />Why? There are simply too many ACORNs, Ayers, Khalidis, Pflegers, Wrights, et al. not to suggest a pattern unbecoming of a future President of the United States. Obama’s past statements about his relationship with Ayers (and others) simply cannot be reconciled with the factual circumstances of their long association. <em>McCain must focus on Ayers between 2001</em><span style="">–</span><em>2005. Then in the climate of national worry following 9/11, Ayers was on recent record as lamenting that he had not set off enough bombs, and yet until 2005 still in contact with Obama — about what and why, voters might wish to know.</em></span>"</blockquote>Follow in its <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NWI5YjQ4OWFhZDFkOTYwZWRmNzAwZjYzZWNlYjUxNWM=">entirety here too...</a><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-2338172695224129452?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-47111825075361904402008-10-09T11:18:00.004-07:002008-10-09T11:30:29.617-07:00According to <a href="http://www1.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0810074075190602.htm">IRNA</a>:<br /><blockquote>"Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said that Bushehr Power plant is scheduled to become operational in the first half of 2009."</blockquote>Thankfully, in Iran it's the year 1387...Give 'em hell Barack, chat away, time is on our side!<br /><br />Almost forgot...THANKS Vlad!!!<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-4711182507536190440?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-81329493333895586952008-10-09T10:20:00.010-07:002008-10-09T11:18:13.979-07:00October 23, 2008 will mark 25 years from the day that 241 United States Marines were killed following a suicide attack on a barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.<br /><br />September 26, 1983 <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDczZDYxYTE2MDAxYWU3ODc1ZjEwZTVkMTcyMDhlYmE=">the order is given</a>:<blockquote>"an official with the Iranian Intelligence Service in Tehran phoned the Iranian ambassador in Damascus and issued an order to have them killed."<br /></blockquote><a href="http://www.military.com/forums/0,15240,176530,00.html">They Came in Peace</a>:<br /><blockquote>"At dawn this 23 October, a solemn candlelight vigil will begin the day at the foot of the Beirut Memorial, nestled in the pines of North Carolina. Families, veterans, and friends will gather to pay tribute to those who "Came in Peace" on this, the 25th anniversary."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.beirut-memorial.org/index.html"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SO5JjzCNTdI/AAAAAAAAAvI/nLzQwf9e9QY/s400/In+Peace.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255218694531665362" border="0" /></a><br /></blockquote>At the Behesht-E-Zahra cemetery in Southern Tehran lie those that died during the Iran-Iraq war fought during the 1980's. In 2004 a monument in commemoration of those that died carrying out the suicide bombing that killed our Marines, was erected at the cemetery. On October 23, 2008 there will be a ceremony celebrating death at this particular monument.<br /><br />A question the answer to which, escapes many regards Iran's "peaceful" nuclear ambitions. Confidently we can reply "we don't know," with a near 100% certainty that is. It's one of those "we know what we don't know" scenarios.<br /><br />Unfortunately, too often "certainty" is historical.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-8132949333389558695?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-83888284785785780312008-10-09T08:33:00.004-07:002008-10-09T08:53:47.739-07:00<blockquote>"<a href="http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/09/obama-mccain-wouldnt-say-face/">I am surprised that, you know, we've been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn't willing to say it to my face.</a>"</blockquote><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SO4otTBDkcI/AAAAAAAAAu4/ltnhuK7DbqM/s1600-h/I_AM2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SO4otTBDkcI/AAAAAAAAAu4/ltnhuK7DbqM/s400/I_AM2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5255182573851873730" border="0" /></a><br />Perhaps Senator McCain is not sure which face to say it to.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-8388828478578578031?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-66253829636316827112008-10-01T07:45:00.004-07:002008-10-01T08:03:18.379-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SOOQZvhJC5I/AAAAAAAAAuw/MBEGctYBad4/s1600-h/Village.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SOOQZvhJC5I/AAAAAAAAAuw/MBEGctYBad4/s400/Village.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252200362370730898" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/richardfernandez/2008/09/30/sing-for-change/">Sing for Change</a><br /></div><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-6625382963631682711?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-516980144009394882008-09-30T12:19:00.004-07:002008-09-30T13:36:19.650-07:00<blockquote>"<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/30/congress.bailout/index.html">The blame game needs to end, and we need to move forward on doing what's right for our country.</a>"</blockquote><blockquote> -Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid</blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SOKNkZ9w4-I/AAAAAAAAAuo/81G6l1IFDXQ/s1600-h/Acorn+Fed.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SOKNkZ9w4-I/AAAAAAAAAuo/81G6l1IFDXQ/s400/Acorn+Fed.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251915772052169698" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SOJ807ibExI/AAAAAAAAAug/pfjq_TY9jWM/s1600-h/Acorn+Fed.jpg"></a><blockquote>"<a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mzk4MmVkNzA1NGQ2NGRkZjQ2YjNmYjdlODZkMmQ4N2I=">If Obama wins, it means hiring an arsonist to</a><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mzk4MmVkNzA1NGQ2NGRkZjQ2YjNmYjdlODZkMmQ4N2I="> fight a fire.</a>"<br /><br /> -Mona Charen<br /></blockquote><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-51698014400939488?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-71962804472539034492008-09-26T13:27:00.001-07:002008-09-26T13:29:50.381-07:00From <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/09/021613.php">Powerline</a> ('nuff said):<br /><blockquote>"The neat thing about a presidential race between two Senators is that voters can make direct comparisons between the candidates that otherwise are not possible. This year, the comparisons work in John McCain's favor. <p>McCain pushed for the "surge" in Iraq. Obama opposed it, saying it wouldn't work. When it worked, Obama said he knew it would work, but defended his vote anyway.</p> <p>Two years ago, <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/17/mccains-attempt-to-fix-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-in-2005/"> McCain warned</a> that Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac were in serious need of reform and he so-sponsored legislation to reform it. Obama did not support this legislation, which the Democrats blocked. Obama was near the top of the list of recipients of contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, and two executives from these outfits were among his campaign advisors.</p> <p>McCain also had the right line on the Russian invasion of Georgia (though this was not a legislative issue). As Rudy Giuliani recounted at the Republican Convention, Obama waffled for a while and eventually adopted McCain's view. McCain led; Obama followed</p> <p>Most recently, McCain figured out that he needed to get back to Washington to engage, and if possible provide leadership in, the momentous issue of the financial sector bailout. While McCain opted to help make something happen, Obama said he could be reached by phone if anything did happen. </p> <p>Obama's position was untenable, so he eventually followed McCain back to Washington.</p> <p>Hoping to cover for their "follower" of a presidential candidate, Democrats are claiming that McCain has done more harm than good in the legislative debate. Although this is always a possibility with McCain (and, indeed, just about anyone who is willing to lead), the Democrats' case is absurd.</p> <p>Their argument is that Congress was on the verge of a deal until McCain entered the picture and caused Republican House members to block it. The problems with this script are several. First, there is no evidence that House Republicans were ever on board with any deal. Second, the support of House Republicans is not needed to pass bailout legislation. The Democrats control the House.</p> <p>The Democrats counter the second point by saying that a majority of House Dems won't support a deal unless House Republicans provide "cover." But this argument raises more problems than it addresses. First, it is a serious condemnation of House Dems (too gutless to do what they think is right, even in the face of a potential economic meltdown). Second it is a serious condemnation of Nancy Pelosi (too ineffective to whip her troops into line even in the face of a potential economic meltdown). Third, it casts serious doubt on the wisdom of the deal that McCain is falsely accused of scuttling. If the deal made sense, House Dems wouldn't believe they need "cover" from House Republicans.</p> <p>Fourth, the "cover" argument shows what a non-factor Obama is in all of this. The Dems complain (preposterously) that McCain has riled up House Republicans or failed to bring them around. Meanwhile, no one seems to be asking why Obama hasn't helped the House leadership obtain sufficient support from House Dems.</p> <p>There's a reason why this question isn't being asked. Obama is lightweight from whom leadership is not, and should not, be expected."</p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7196280447253903449?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-70570321151239558962008-09-24T11:41:00.005-07:002008-09-24T12:07:38.779-07:00Who cares what Senator Biden thinks regarding foreign affairs, especially if it happens to be about who was/is right and who was/is wrong. Mr. Biden is quoted at <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/campaign.wrap/index.html">CNN.com as saying</a>:<br /><blockquote>"we cannot afford a commander in chief who's divorced from reality and from America's most basic national interests"</blockquote>"Divorced from reality?" He has to be kidding. Additionally, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/campaign.wrap/index.html">the man said</a>:<br /><blockquote>"John McCain's the only one who doesn't get it."</blockquote>Exsqueeze me? Twisting it here, but if Biden is the correct one, he's wrong that McCain is the "only one who doesn't get it." There are a couple more of us dunderheads out there. Talk about being divorced from reality (again, setting aside anything the man or his Presidential nominee say)<br /><br />Here's some top-notch <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/campaign.wrap/index.html">(ass)crack reporting</a>:<br /><blockquote>"Once he became a U.S. senator, Obama voted for a war spending bill that would have withdrawn most U.S. troops by March 2008 and had once called for troop withdrawals to begin by the end of 2006."</blockquote>Huh? Wha? What does this mean? Is this a was for, before being against something? This isn't one of the candidates saying this, this is a media fount making this statement. In the bag? You bet.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7057032115123955896?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-5007782883997283032008-09-23T13:40:00.005-07:002008-09-23T15:30:57.516-07:00<strong>The "Facts"</strong> (as "discovered" after some really serious digging by CNN)<br /><blockquote>"<a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/23/fact-check-does-obama-want-to-ban-guns-and-rifles/#more-20006">On his campaign Web site, Obama says he respects the Second Amendment right to bear arms and "will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport and use guns.</a>"</blockquote>Read the rest of the "facts" <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/23/fact-check-does-obama-want-to-ban-guns-and-rifles/#more-20006">here...</a><br /><br />Granted, we all know that campaign ads can stretch credulity, but just how credulous is CNN that it goes to the politicians website for "facts?"<br /><br />UPDATE: As there are a number of additonal "Fact articles" today with nary a one linking to Factcheck.org it would appear that once CNN has gotten you used to their writings using Factcheck and the "veracity" of it, they no longer use that source. Once they have you hooked, you might not question it anymore.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-500778288399728303?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-33882208122404622532008-09-23T12:55:00.005-07:002008-09-23T13:33:41.840-07:00<a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.hudson.org/learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&amp;eid=KurtStan">Stanley Kurtz</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> has been taking on the "challenge" of the <a href="http://www.annenberginstitute.org/challenge/sites/chicago.html">Chicago Annenberg Challenge</a> and the msm's reluctance to actually dig into Senator Obama's "experience" or lack thereof. </span> <br /> <br /><span style="font-family:arial;">While the "mainstream" pulls out the shovels big enough to dig to China (and while there taking a page from its state run media) investigating Alaska Governor Sarah Palins history, Kurtz has taken on the "challenges" the media has not felt obliged, over the past 20 months to take regarding the "good" senator from Illinois. (holy run-on Batman)</span> <br /> <br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Initially gaining access to records at the Richard J. Daley Library proved quite easy; excepting that being "granted access" and "actual access" are two different things. The farce of the open records was written and published 8/18/2008 by the author </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM=">here at NRO</a><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span> <br /> <br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This mornings WSJ offers the fruits of Kurtz's labor in "</span><meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"><link style="font-family: arial;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADDWIGG%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:12;" ><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;">." Mr. Kurtz offered the "gist" of his Annenberg findings to the Obama campaign; his comments and the campaigns response can be found at NRO, entitled "<a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTViMGRmMmYxZTgwZTFjYmFjODU5YzM4Y2MwM2ViMjY=">Obama's Challenge</a>." <br /> <br />If readers find either of these writings intriguing it would behoove them to visit <a href="http://author.nationalreview.com/?q=MjMxNA==">Stanley Kurtz's archive of articles written for NRO</a>; he has taken on some of the questions of who exactly Mr. Obama is or might be, while those of the msm have been busy scratching the tingles up their legs. <br /></span></span><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-3388220812240462253?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-11218763189074662622008-09-23T11:39:00.004-07:002008-09-23T11:43:22.515-07:00Oh boy! Cool beans!!! <br /><br />TONIGHT: Ahmadinejad Exclusive<br /><br />Tonight, a "Larry King Live" exclusive! His interview with Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Get his take on America's political candidates in a revealing hour!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNk4Iv-Kr6I/AAAAAAAAAsU/AY8Ad6FcOnM/s1600-h/MoKing+Gun.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNk4Iv-Kr6I/AAAAAAAAAsU/AY8Ad6FcOnM/s400/MoKing+Gun.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249288563644346274" border="0" /></a><br />...guess Columbia was booked this time...<br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-1121876318907466262?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-20559555351179146322008-09-18T15:18:00.009-07:002008-09-19T14:48:05.674-07:00From the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1842030,00.html">precariously balanced mind of Joe Klein</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNPpaGuiKfI/AAAAAAAAAr0/9e0sCyxxsVE/s1600-h/McCain.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNPpaGuiKfI/AAAAAAAAAr0/9e0sCyxxsVE/s320/McCain.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247794625508420082" border="0" /></a><br /><blockquote>"Politics has always been lousy with blather and chicanery. But there are rules and traditions too."<br /><br />"John McCain has allowed his campaign to slip the normal bounds of political propriety. The situation has gotten so intense that we in the media have slipped our normal rules as well."</blockquote>What is "so intense" is<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNPpo6tSoBI/AAAAAAAAAr8/Q1CUQJmQSHs/s1600-h/McKlein.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNPpo6tSoBI/AAAAAAAAAr8/Q1CUQJmQSHs/s320/McKlein.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247794879980019730" border="0" /></a> that reality is becoming more and more difficult to hide in this day and age and people like Joe Klein along with the majority of the MSM has allowed its facade to slip.<br /><br />"increasing numbers of otherwise sober observers, even such august institutions as the New York Times editorial board, are calling John McCain a liar."<br />Referring to the NYTimes ed. brd. as "sober" or "august" must be one of those "euphemisms like mendacity and inaccuracy" that Joe employs.<br /><br />"McCain's lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind."<br /><br />"John McCain has raised serious questions about whether he has the character to lead the nation. He has defaced his beloved military code of honor. He has run a dirty campaign."<br /><br />The gloves are off and have been off for a while now, but never so noticeably since the Palin selection.<br /><br />Curious aside: In the annoying CNNJackCafferty way, "here's my question to you, (this author, often answers/comments, but rarely if ever gets posted; wrong answer perhaps?): Do you think the artist Stephen Kroninger who is responsible for the McCain cartoon was thinking of this one?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNPrK7vXKMI/AAAAAAAAAsE/aku5Tl1mX4o/s1600-h/Mo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNPrK7vXKMI/AAAAAAAAAsE/aku5Tl1mX4o/s320/Mo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247796563884320962" border="0" /></a><br />Or rather is he making fun of McCain's injuries? This last toss is from Blandly's bucket, may it land directly on target.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-2055955535117914632?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-58352979974891681602008-09-18T15:18:00.006-07:002008-09-18T15:36:40.835-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNLU3aXhjSI/AAAAAAAAArk/Z8RLGEks6Y0/s1600-h/Article.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNLU3aXhjSI/AAAAAAAAArk/Z8RLGEks6Y0/s320/Article.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247490564275932450" border="0" /></a><br />It's not enough that CNN cherry picks their sources for their "tell-all" poll of polls, but is it too much to expect them to tell it straight, when they're telling it to you "straight?"<br /><br />The "Poll of Polls" which began the day 47 to 45, inexplicably tweaked itself as it tends to do the majority of days during the week to 47 44.<br /><br />This "Ticker" (the shining Leftwing example of CNN; if you ignore which stories they pursue and push) noted the <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/18/poll-of-polls-obama-up-by-2/">two point difference</a>, but golly that's not what the "poll of polls" shows. Do they just change it at their whim?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNLVBHDMSHI/AAAAAAAAArs/YxWSxfzgTZc/s1600-h/Poll+of+Polls+9_18.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SNLVBHDMSHI/AAAAAAAAArs/YxWSxfzgTZc/s400/Poll+of+Polls+9_18.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247490730889070706" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />UPDATE: To answer; "Do they just change it at their whim?" <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/18/campaign.wrap/index.html"> YES!!!</a><br />Apologies for the misunderstanding. Reading the "article" in the top image regarding the "Poll of Polls" that sees Obama with a <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/18/poll-of-polls-obama-up-by-2/">two (2) point lead is based on 6 Liberal sources </a>(including CBS/NYT). This afternoons "story" uses four (4), which makes much more sense; we all know none of this makes any sense to CNN and the MSM, so it only follows that it is necessary that the sources are changed up to reflect the best.<br /><br />It does ones heart well to see it all so blatantly; no more hiding. Have you taken a moment to read comments at one of the MSM sites? The majority that comment don't really much care for reality to begin with. It's a very nice home for them.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-5835297997489168160?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-63036352265386405492008-09-11T15:25:00.002-07:002008-09-11T15:28:28.295-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SMmbN6FnshI/AAAAAAAAArc/147Cxi3zWa8/s1600-h/CNN+BidenMistake.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SMmbN6FnshI/AAAAAAAAArc/147Cxi3zWa8/s400/CNN+BidenMistake.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5244893904283087378" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-6303635226538640549?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-61592159009706709232008-06-17T07:43:00.003-07:002008-06-17T07:53:21.830-07:00Apologies that this is not news, however, this particular site always looks like just another Obama site, no? Have you ever visited and seen anything other than the Obama ad there?<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SFfN2-8ffhI/AAAAAAAAArE/vNl5AZctKPI/s1600-h/bs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SFfN2-8ffhI/AAAAAAAAArE/vNl5AZctKPI/s400/bs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212861438197988882" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SFfPg2GSSII/AAAAAAAAArM/qMlGegv60k8/s1600-h/bs2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SFfPg2GSSII/AAAAAAAAArM/qMlGegv60k8/s200/bs2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5212863256889280642" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Nice flag pin!<br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-6159215900970670923?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-6165428293239260922008-05-21T15:09:00.002-07:002008-05-21T15:14:01.019-07:00From <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1808236,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics&amp;iref=werecommend">Time</a> magazine:<br /><blockquote>"Sa'ad Mutlieck was one resident of Sadr City heartened to see armored columns of <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1736725,00.html" target="_self">Iraqi Army forces</a> rolling deep into his neighborhood on Tuesday. "We hope the government is serious about ending all the armed groups so life could be back to normal," said Mutlieck. "The situation is very, very bad."'</blockquote>Odd; hadn't Maliki and Iraqi forces totally screwed up and lost (or not gained) Sadr City. I recall that was the line when Amb. Crocker and General Petraeus were in D. C.. It was Tet all over again right? Should Time be reporting this? I mean seriously, it didn't happen over night and doesn't that qualify it as a loss and old news that no one really cares about anyway?<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-616542829323926092?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-2298414207944047042008-05-16T15:10:00.002-07:002008-05-16T15:16:55.597-07:00As everyone has heard, the Democrats are in a tizzy over comments made by President Bush in Israel.<br /><br />Candidate Obama gave Senator McCain flak for "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/16/obama.bush.mccain/index.html">embracing</a>" the president's "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/16/obama.bush.mccain/index.html">attacks on Democrats,</a>" and "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/16/obama.bush.mccain/index.html">suggesting that I wasn't fit to protect this nation that I love.</a>"<br /><br />At a town hall meeting in Watertown, SD Obama added, "<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/16/obama.bush.mccain/index.html">So much for civility.</a>"<br /><br />To which one could add, 'so much for the civility of those the Senator from IL has surrounded himself with since the beginning of his political career.'<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-229841420794404704?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-80517097549289036152008-05-15T11:02:00.002-07:002008-05-15T11:06:04.781-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SCx7XCSb8jI/AAAAAAAAAq8/Q2ja-1dY5nE/s1600-h/Olber-Bag+Recall.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SCx7XCSb8jI/AAAAAAAAAq8/Q2ja-1dY5nE/s400/Olber-Bag+Recall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200667305387487794" border="0" /></a><br />According to reports, no matter how full strength the product is users find they are filthier following the use of the New and Improved Keith Olberman® Limited Edition Signature Douchebag.<br /><br />From an anonymous source:<br /><blockquote>"We just can't go beyond the five gallon size without becoming laughing stock of the personal hygeine industry and contrary to the claims of Mr. Olbermann (regarding 5 gal version), the product is not small enough to fit in a handbag."</blockquote><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-8051709754928903615?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-54628620195891782132008-04-24T14:52:00.005-07:002008-04-24T15:01:04.250-07:00The Reverend Jeremiah Wright (ret.) is scheduled to appear on PBS with Bill Moyers, so we can expect the utmost in unbiased integrity from BM....right?<br /><br />An excerpt reported by <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/24/wright-breaks-silence-says-attacks-unfair/">CNN</a>:<br /><blockquote>'“I felt it was unfair, I felt it was unjust. I felt it was untrue. I felt that those who were doing that, were doing it for some very devious reasons.”'</blockquote>"I felt it was untrue;" think about that for a moment...he feels that it was untrue. Was the reverend not in attendance that day either?<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-5462862019589178213?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-53154829941079369102008-04-23T14:25:00.011-07:002008-04-23T14:55:18.842-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SA-ulRv4cpI/AAAAAAAAAqc/LThJ6Oifwis/s1600-h/Boxer02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SA-ulRv4cpI/AAAAAAAAAqc/LThJ6Oifwis/s320/Boxer02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192560850824098450" border="0" /></a><br />In debate regarding partial birth abortion (<span class="articletitle"><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmQzMzMxZWQ5MzUzMTBlZDkwNGRhZmU2N2M0NTgxNzg=&amp;w=MA==">Denial Is a Senator from California</a>)</span>:<br /><br />To Barbara Boxer "<em>What if</em>, asked Santorum almost facetiously, <em>in the course of the partial-birth abortion, the baby’s foot was inside the mother but the rest of the baby was outside</em>. “Could that baby be killed?”'<br /><br />Barbara Boxer's answer: '“I am not answering these questions.” Boxer informed Santorum that he (not she) was “losing his temper.”'<br /><br />Santorum: '“Do you agree, once the child is born, separated from the mother, that that child is protected by<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SA-udBv4coI/AAAAAAAAAqU/nIk50PnAXBc/s1600-h/Boxer01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 200px;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SA-udBv4coI/AAAAAAAAAqU/nIk50PnAXBc/s320/Boxer01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192560709090177666" border="0" /></a> the Constitution and cannot be killed?”'<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SA-uzRv4crI/AAAAAAAAAqs/RMCsTiXZZiM/s1600-h/Boxer03.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SA-uzRv4crI/AAAAAAAAAqs/RMCsTiXZZiM/s200/Boxer03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192561091342267058" border="0" /></a>Boxer: '“I think when you bring your baby home, when your baby is born . . . the baby belongs to your family and has rights.”'<br /><br />In another debate from October 2003 Sen. Sam Brownback offered the picture of "pre-born Samuel Alexander Armas squeezing his doctor’s finger from his mother’s womb during a delicate emergency surgery."<br /><br />Sen. Brownback asked Boxer, "if the picture represented a piece of property or '“the hand of a child.”'<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">“I am not a doctor, and I am not God" <span style="font-size:100%;">was her response.<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SA-vBBv4csI/AAAAAAAAAq0/BPWEzk7LY_Y/s1600-h/Samuel+Alexander+Armas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/SA-vBBv4csI/AAAAAAAAAq0/BPWEzk7LY_Y/s320/Samuel+Alexander+Armas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192561327565468354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">These are tough questions to answer when the answer doesn't fit your argument.<br /></span></span><br />A fetus by any other name is still human.<br /><br />One more passing though; can you imagine being stuck with <span style="font-style: italic;">this mistake</span> on the left?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-5315482994107936910?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. 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Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-77791699002104379432008-01-15T12:50:00.000-07:002008-01-15T12:53:02.370-07:00n this weeks edition...<br /><br />Open borders groups demand: Don't tell the truth about the invasion!<br /><br />100% Preventable! More Americans sacrificed to open borders.<br /><br />And civil rights: who gets'em?<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hVZQKkMrUoo&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hVZQKkMrUoo&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />And yes, that is one of our smoke detectors beeping in the background! Apologies if it's annoying.<br /><br /><b>This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join <a href="http://blogs4borders.blogspot.com/2006/09/blogs-for-borders-membership.html">find out how right here</a>.</b><br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/illegal%20immigration" rel="tag">illegal immigration</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/deportation" rel="tag">deportation</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/civil%20rights" rel="tag">civil rights</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/rape" rel="tag">rape</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/murder" rel="tag">murder</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/mexico" rel="tag">mexico</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/invasion" rel="tag">invasion</a>,<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7779169900210437943?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-35055962190436152432008-01-09T10:19:00.000-07:002008-01-09T11:01:22.427-07:00In honor of <span style="font-style: italic;">one</span> of my <span style="font-style: italic;">favorite</span> (can there only be one? not the case anymore) reads, <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTU0YTg5M2M1MmJmMTcxNDQ0YjM0YWJmNDc1NjhkZGU=">Impromptu's</a> by <a href="http://author.nationalreview.com/?q=MjE1Mg==">Jay Nordlinger</a> at <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/">NRO</a> - I'll make a stab...<br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://author.nationalreview.com/?q=MjE3Mw==">Katherine Jean Lopez</a> at <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzY3NDA1NDcyMjRlZWJlY2RiZjEzNjVjMjE2YjBhMTk=">the corner</a> at <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/">NRO</a> wrote of Bill Clinton’s game face regarding Hillary Clinton’s success rate to date….interesting, but one thing </span><span style="font-family:Arial;">stuck out creating a “really?” moment:<o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Quoting Stewart Applebaum, head of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>‘“Hope itself is not a program. There is no Department of Hope…. You don’t hope for a paycheck. You work for a paycheck.”’</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">“You work for a paycheck?”<span style=""> </span>.Really…..?.?.?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">------------------------------------------------------------<br />“Barry” Obama had some final words for the student volunteers working on his campaign in NH at a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/08/nh.main/index.html">Tuesday morning rally in Hanover</a> (bold mine):<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>‘"My job is to be so persuasive that if there's anybody left out there who is still not sure whether they will vote, or is still not clear who they will vote for, that <b style="">a light will shine through that window, a beam of light will come down upon you, you will experience an epiphany</b> ... and you will suddenly realize that you must go to the polls and vote for Obama."’</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Me thinks someone’s head is getting a wee bit hea</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">vy for that pencil neck… Who needs to make mention of God when apparently you are he?<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Oops…that was yesterday morning</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/R4UJJ0HV1wI/AAAAAAAAApk/vw2c2xBD2-I/s1600-h/chin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/R4UJJ0HV1wI/AAAAAAAAApk/vw2c2xBD2-I/s320/chin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153535412808308482" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">--------------------------------------------------</span><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Every cloud has a silver lining<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I am happy as a pig in…but I’m unhappy too.<span style=""> </span>Such is life as a member of the contradictory human race (come on, don’t tell me that’s not so…I am not <i style="">that</i> unique<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">What’s my silver lining?<span style=""> </span>Obama, Edwards, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Richardson</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, Kucinich, Biden, Gravel, and Dodd all lost yesterday and this is a happy event; the silver lining is dimmed as the reality is someone has to win and </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Clinton</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> did just that and it hurts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">--------------------------------------<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">Speaking of happiness, if you want it, sometimes you have to go find it for yourself (no guarantees mind you).<span style=""> </span>What else might make you and I happy…the pundits and the media were wrong about NH.<span style=""> </span>Will they shut up now?<span style=""> </span>No, but that’s the way it works, you have to take the good with the bad.<span style=""> </span>As I like to say every action and even inaction has a reaction; there’s no way around it regardless of how much “hope” or “change” might make us feel all warm and fuzzy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">---------------------------------------------<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p>On the subject of “change,” it’s kind of a broad brush with no color to the paint; it’s your job to select which color makes you feel best and that everything is taken care of.<span style=""> </span>Is mentioning “color” not PC or “inclusive” enough or does the lack thereof imply there is no “diversity?”<span style=""> </span>Diversity is different to the sides of the political aisle; to the Left it’s a visual thing, the Right is more intellectual (I’m guessing someone may disagree).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sorry, got off the subject of “change” there, though going off subject is a decent example of “change.”<span style=""> </span>Change is good; especially if you have some spare in your pocket as you pass a gumball machine.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Change…<span style=""> </span>Democrats have been railing on about “change” for roughly seven years now.<span style=""> </span>For example, they want to “change” our foreign policy because “change” is good and it needs to be “changed.”<span style=""> </span>We got change with the present administration especially following 9/11; some don’t like this kind of “change,” so they want to “change” it back to what led us to that day as though it’s something new.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">“Change” is not really a detailed or structured policy; I’m thinking maybe they could be a little more honest and call it what it is, “time travel,” oh for the peace of the 90’s.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">-----------------------------------<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p>What is this latest garbage about how stressful and grueling the campaign trail is for these “poor” candidates?<span style=""> </span>Don’t like it?<span style=""> </span>Get out!<span style=""> </span>You <i style="">need</i> us, we don’t <i style="">need</i> you.<span style=""> </span>As with the media, it is the story and the yellow journalists are the heroes in say, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">.<span style=""> </span>Do we really need to look up to these people as though they’re doing it just for us?<span style=""> </span>In all honesty the job does have its perks; I wouldn’t want the job, but I’m not the same kind of “animal” as they. Boo Hoo, Hoo<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Well that’s it for my little experiment at dealing with my short attention span. <span style=""> </span>Who are you voting for in 2012…campaign’s about to start, but I’ll hold off a few days before announcing my </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iowa</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;"> predictions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-3505596219043615243?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-41583370833022739532008-01-09T10:15:00.000-07:002008-01-09T10:17:58.321-07:00<center><img src="http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6129/sgtfrankcarvillko1.jpg" alt="Sgt. Frank T. Carvill" border="1" /></center><center><i>Sgt. Frank T. Carvill<br />51 years old from Carlstadt, New Jersey<br />3rd Battalion, 112th Field Artillery<br />June 04, 2004<br /><img src="http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3922/armysp6.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />When Frank T. Carvill told his sister he had been called up to go to Iraq, she was stunned. "Gee, Frank, are you going to be part of the AARP battalion?" she teased.<br /><br />Carvill joined the Guard in the 80's out of a sense of patriotism. He was a devoted big brother to Peggy Liguori, who still remembers how as kids, he took her to see “Blue Hawaii” and “Born Free” at the movies. He was the longtime pal to Rick Rancitelli who admired Carvill’s “million-dollar vocabulary” and his writing and public speaking skills. In 1993. Sgt. Carvill was working in the WTC as a paralegal when it was attacked. He helped a co-worker down 54 floors to safety. In 2001, he was still working at the WTC. He had just left the North Tower moments before the first plane hit.<br /><br />Sgt. Carvill was killed when his convoy was attacked outside of Baghdad.</i></center><br />These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.<br /><span style="color:red;"><span style="font-size:85%;">We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived</span></span><br /><br /><b>This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go <a href="http://rightwingrightminded.blogspot.com/2006/08/wednesday-hero-blogroll.html">here</a>.</b><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-4158337083302273953?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-580311866331868792008-01-08T06:41:00.000-07:002008-01-08T06:42:50.344-07:00In this weeks edition...<br /><br />How the MSM try to lead us down the 'yellow brick road' to amnesty.<br /><br />Guest workers: There's a history here?<br /><br />100% Preventable! More Americans sacrificed to open borders!<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wt4Omiyap58&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wt4Omiyap58&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><b>This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. If you’d like to join <a href="http://blogs4borders.blogspot.com/2006/09/blogs-for-borders-membership.html">find out how right here</a>.</b><br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/illegal%20immigration" rel="tag">illegal immigration</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/mexico" rel="tag">mexico</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/el%20salvador" rel="tag">el salvador</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/rape" rel="tag">rape</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/murder" rel="tag">murder</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/crime" rel="tag">crime</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/deportation" rel="tag">deportation</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/amnesty" rel="tag">amnesty</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/invasion" rel="tag">invasion</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/insanity" rel="tag">insanity</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/" rel="tag"></a><br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-58031186633186879?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-62153674540122489962008-01-04T08:59:00.000-07:002008-01-04T09:12:16.776-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.siteinstitute.org/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/R35Zs0HV1vI/AAAAAAAAApc/k85RHqtmIwk/s400/Losers+Rep.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151653650196977394" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Verse of the Sword</span>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">“Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them (captive), and besiege them, and prepare for them each ambush. But if they repent and establish worship and pay the poor-due, then leave their way free. Lo! Allah is forgiving, merciful” (Sura 9:5).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Some losers just become bigger losers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Over the years TV viewing has changed in many ways; one is that no longer is pilot week in say early September, these days it isn’t just Fall and Spring.<span style=""> </span></span><st1:date year="2004" day="27" month="10"><span style="font-family:Arial;">October 27, 2004</span></st1:date><span style="font-family:Arial;"> saw the release of the pilot episode of The Adam Gadahn Show, which proved a smashing success and has seen; follow on episodes although no regular time slot.<span style=""> </span>This may be due to its sad, tired and unchanging storyline; obviously these writers have refused to cross the picket line.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Oddly though, this tack has had some success.<span style=""> </span>Due to his rare appearances most viewers do not tire of seeing the young <s>strap-on</s> strapping lad.<span style=""> </span>In fact, it may be that some enjoy seeing how he has grown and matured, kind of like a “hi Mom, Dad, doing great here at camp…” video letter.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He’s back…</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"<a href="http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=37397&amp;sectionid=3510203">Coming soon by the will of God, an invitation to reflection and repentance</a>”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists believe somehow that an Adam Gadahn will speak better to the infidel than say a bin Laden or other Middle Eastern, non English speaking loser.<span style=""> </span>Hogwash, a loser is a loser and when a loser chooses to announce himself spouting stupidity and ignorance a loser he remains.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Bit About a Boy</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Some reports indicate that Gadahn the Magnificent resides in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Pakistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">.<span style=""> </span>In between videos he is likely filling as a “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluffer">fluffer</a>” to bin Laden and the rest of his merry band of caved (closeted) butt bandits.<span style=""> </span>Gadahn likely gets along well with his fellow miscreants based upon his and their shared love of and experiences with goats.<span style=""> </span>Their love for him is best expressed in the words purportedly spoken of young Adam by <a href="http://www.shoutaboutmagic.com/coins.jpg">none other than Osama himself….</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Prior to the release of his <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/adam_gadahn_2004_video.htm">first video</a> but following the <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/gadahn_a.htm">FBIs interest</a> in the amateur many news outlets attempted to find out what made this kid tick.<span style=""> </span>One approach even looked into his once being a fan of “death metal” to explain his latest choice of friends; unlikely but experts were interviewed, including those who knew him best (?).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">From <a href="http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=1212&amp;IssueNum=66">Peace, Love, Death Metal</a>:<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“If I saw him listed as a translator for Al Qaeda, I could believe that.<span style=""> </span>Adam was a born communicator and could relate to others.<span style=""> </span>I see him channeling his aggressions through something artistic, much more than becoming a combatant.<span style=""> </span>He wasn’t a foaming-at-the-mouth type, which there are plenty of in metal. People forget that this was a nice guy.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">Considering that the two interviewed for this article really didn’t know Gadahn, this quote above does serve as having certain prescience…“channeling his aggressions through something artistic.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gadahn is just a minor, little puss like the rest of them, but does not have what it would take to actually get down and dirty like that other loser Johnny Taliban.<span style=""> </span>No, Gadahn just wants to be loved and accepted like most; even if that love and acceptance sees him taking it like a pro between episodes of the Gadahn the Magnificent Show.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gadahn…you are nothing but a tool to them as you would be to anyone else regardless of what vocation you choose; born a loser, living as a loser and one day Allah permitting you will die a loser.<span style=""> </span>In a nation of 300 plus million I’m sure they could find another idiot to fill your shoes as well as being willing to be filled as they one by one, or perhaps in groups enter through the backdoor.</span></p><p><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Note</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;">: I would like to apologize to anyone other than the intended that is offended by the previous as this is meant to offend and upset specific targets (not that they'll read it, but I feel better now).<span style=""> </span>As much as it may sound as if it is from a homophobe or angry loser this is not the case (well maybe the loser part is).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-6215367454012248996?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-88331652114648103162008-01-02T06:49:00.000-07:002008-01-02T06:51:33.858-07:00<center><img src="http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7725/sgtericcraytonhl4.jpg" alt="1st Sgt. Eric Crayton" border="1" /></center><center><i>1st Sgt. Eric Crayton<br />From Sparta, Georgia<br /><img src="http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3922/armysp6.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />Sgt. Eric Crayton, the first sergeant for the Extension Detachment, Company C, Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Division, serving Christmas dinner to Soldiers at the Pegasus Dining Facility at Camp Liberty, Iraq.</i></center><br />These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.<br /><span style="color:red;"><span style="font-size:85%;">We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived</span></span><br /><br /><b>This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go <a href="http://rightwingrightminded.blogspot.com/2006/08/wednesday-hero-blogroll.html">here</a>.</b><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-8833165211464810316?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-472259674643751932007-12-24T07:50:00.000-07:002007-12-24T07:52:36.721-07:00This week's hero was suggested by <a href="http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com/blog">Cindy</a> &amp; <a href="http://journals.aol.com/kasee267/SupportingtheTroops/">Kathi</a><br /><br /><i></i><center><i><img src="http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9716/wreathslo8.jpg" alt="Arlington Christmas Wreaths" border="1" /><br />Each year, around this time, since 1992, the Arlington National Cemetery has something happen to it. It gets covered in vibrant green Christmas wreaths. The wreaths are donated by a man named Merrill Worcester who is the owner of the Worcester Wreath Co. in Maine. From the <a href="http://www.worcesterwreath.net/">Worcester Wreath Co.'s website</a>:<br /></i><blockquote><i>Each year Worcester Wreath donates Maine wreaths to adorn the headstones of those who serve and those who sacrificed to preserve our freedoms. In 2007, over 10,000 wreaths are destined for the annual wreath-laying ceremonies at Arlington. In addition, 2,500 wreaths will be sent to Togus National Cemetery in Augusta, Maine. Worcester Wreath also donates ceremonial wreaths that will be used as part of the <a href="http://www.wreaths-across-america.org/index.html">Wreaths Across America</a> events at over 230 State and National veterans cemeteries all across the Country.</i></blockquote></center>Sometimes a hero is one who sacrifices everything in their life to help others. And sometimes a hero is one who sacrifices nothing more than their time.<br /><span style="color:red;"><span style="font-size:85%;">We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived</span></span><br /><br /><b>This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. To find out more about Wednesday Hero, you can go <a href="http://rightwingrightminded.blogspot.com/2006/08/wednesday-hero-blogroll.html">here</a>.</b><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-47225967464375193?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-6021850780027711282007-12-21T10:34:00.000-07:002007-12-21T10:51:37.920-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/R2v7sUHV1oI/AAAAAAAAAnw/Y2rXpOd_LYc/s1600-h/NIE+Muddy+Clarification+copy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/R2v7sUHV1oI/AAAAAAAAAnw/Y2rXpOd_LYc/s400/NIE+Muddy+Clarification+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5146483737933239938" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://author.nationalreview.com/?q=MjE1Ng==">James S. Robbins</a> wrote yesterday at <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTFlNjI1ODQ4Mjk3NWFmMGQ1ZWY0NjFjNzRkZmZjYjI=">NRO</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote>“The NIE has presented <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> with a major strategic opportunity. <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s best move at this point is to open some form of dialogue with the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Promote the idea that the “grand bargain” to settle the major issues of the region is possible, play into that instinct on our side. This will serve as a useful shield against attack by third parties, because if negotiations are afoot, we will strongly discourage any other country from taking military action. Keep the talks going for as long as possible. Periodically hint at breakthroughs, settle some minor issues, feed the vanity of diplomacy. Meanwhile move out vigorously on developing a nuclear-weapons capability. When the time comes to test the weapon, foment some kind of small crisis, break off talks (though not too belligerently), conduct the test, and blame the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> for making it necessary. Then call for a new round of talks, particularly about limiting nuclear proliferation in the region. Once <st1:city><st1:place>Tehran</st1:place></st1:city> has the Bomb, non-proliferation will be <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s number one priority. At least to anyone who might fight back.”</blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Oddly enough in today’s Friday Sermon, Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani “the Swell” spoke of the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> intelligence community and the recent NIE regarding <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-24/0712218447121916.htm">Iranian “peaceful” nuclear intentions</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“the West should benefit from the positive points in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">'s nuclear case. "Why are you trying to distort the report presented by your own intelligence units? Why are you trying - based on your diversionary analysis - to consider the positive move of Russia, which has acted on its duty, in delivering the first fuel consignment of Bushehr nuclear power plant as an ultimatum?" Referring to positive moves taken in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">'s nuclear case, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">'s enhanced cooperation with the IAEA and providing answers to questions of the UN nuclear watchdog, and the report of the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> intelligence units have on the whole been to a large extent in favor of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">In what could be considered an “even chance,” which “almost certainly,” though if only “remotely” is a page taken from the NIE the Friday <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-24/0712218447121916.htm">speaker said</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>"The Islamic Republic of Iran is the responsible party; is not after tension and sabotage and favors peace, calm and tranquility.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I'll agree Iran is "responsible" for this mess, but how does an extremist government achieve the favored "peace, calm and tranquility?" Nukes? After all, he didn't say when and how.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">In “Rafsanjani the Swells” <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-24/0712218447121916.htm">closing</a> (bold mine):<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">"To sum up, ever since the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> president started speaking of the axis of evil, Americans have <b style="">suffered the most damage</b>. Americans raise their military budget annually. Their <b style="">war casualties are high</b> and they have many physical and psychological war disabled. This has turned into a disaster for them."</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">That the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> has “suffered the most damage” and “war casualties are high” is difficult to reckon what is being used “subjectively” by the bloodthirsty man of the soiled cloth; however “WITHOUT DOUBT (my intelligence estimate) he is not using the Iran/Iraq war of the 80’s casualties of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> at roughly 1 million as his benchmark.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">The Vindication of </span></b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">From the National Intelligence Estimate of <a href="http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20071203_release.pdf">December 3, 2007</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">“<b style="">What We Mean When We Say:<span style=""> </span>An Explanation of Estimative Language</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">“</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;">We use phrases such as </span><i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;">we judge, we assess, </span></i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;">and </span><i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;">we estimate</span></i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;">—and probabilistic terms such as </span><i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;">probably </span></i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;">and </span><i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT;">likely</span></i><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;">—to convey analytical assessments and judgments. Such statements are not facts, proof, or knowledge. These assessments and judgments generally are based on collected information, which often is incomplete or fragmentary. Some assessments are built on previous judgments. In all cases, assessments and judgments are not intended to imply that we have “proof” that shows something to be a fact or that definitively links two items or issues.”</span></p><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">"We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, </span></b><st1:city><st1:place><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Tehran</span></b></st1:place></st1:City><b style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> halted its nuclear weapons program"</span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style=";font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:8;" ></span><span style=";font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:10;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://author.nationalreview.com/?q=NDExMw==">Raymond Ibrahim</a>, author of “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/076792262X/ref=nosim/nationalreviewon">The Al Qaeda Reader</a>” wrote yesterday at NRO regarding language that <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGRmYmJjMTQ1ODQ4ZTZjYzM0MWVkZGJjOTQ2MTA4MjQ=">couches the findings in the “estimate</a>” along with the juxtaposition of the 2005 NIE and this newest (italics mine):”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“A ‘high confidence’ judgment is not a fact or certainty, however, and such judgments still carry a risk of being wrong” — such as when <b style="">NIE stated in 2005 (two years after “</b></span><st1:city><st1:place><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Tehran</span></b></st1:place></st1:city><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;"> halted its nuclear weapons program”) that “[We] assess with high confidence that </span></b><st1:country-region><st1:place><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;"> currently is determined to develop nuclear weapons.</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;">”’</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">We’ll have to assume this year’s estimate was not based on “</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;">assessments (are) built on previous judgments.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;">It would appear that “intelligence estimates” serve the purposes of many on both sides of an argument and as much as none of the individuals involved would bet their lives on the finished report we should all pass on the “take your pick” NIE and consider <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGRmYmJjMTQ1ODQ4ZTZjYzM0MWVkZGJjOTQ2MTA4MjQ=&amp;w=MQ==">Raymond Ibrahim’s closer</a> on the subject of “intelligence” and common sense:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;">“</span>When it comes to all things human, such as politics, “objective” science cannot always help; the irrational is, and always will be, a predominant factor in human relations that cannot be quantified and analyzed. But a little cognizance of human nature — common sense — goes a long way.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Bottom line: Yes, <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> wants to acquire nuclear weapons.”</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"></p> <p class="MsoNormal">At least <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> is making good use of the NIE.</p><p class="MsoNormal">For further consideration in what might be used as a guide in defining "common sense" give <a href="http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/">Great Satan's Girlfriend</a> a visit and enjoy "<a href="http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2007/12/divine-intervention-and-date-police.html">Divine Intervention and the Date Police</a>" (they don't just live inside of your head)<span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-602185078002771128?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-40284432174238124582007-12-19T10:01:00.000-07:002007-12-19T10:02:36.445-07:00This Weeks Hero Was Suggested By <a href="http://psycmeistr.blogspot.com">Leo</a><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8332/ssgtmikemillssn2.jpg" border="1" alt="SSgt. Mike Mills"></center></img><center><I>SSgt. Mike Mills<br /><img src="http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3922/armysp6.jpg" alt=""></img><br /><br />On June 14, 2005 SSgt. Mike Mills's life was forever changed. The HETT(Heavy Equipment Transport System) he was riding in was hit by an IED. The attack resulted a cracked clavicle and scapula bones, dislocate shoulder, broken left hip, 4 out of 5 bones broken in his foot and being set on fire. The driver in the truck behind him ran with a cooler of melted ice which he threw on Sgt. Mills to put him out.<br /><br />He spent three months in the Brooks Army Medical Center at Ft. Sam Houston, TX with the injuries listed above plus 2nd, 3rd and deep tissue burns to 31% of the left side of his body. The first thing he remembers thinking after the attack was that his soldiers needed him and he needed to get back to them.<br /><br />"Then the guilt set in about what I did to my family. I've totally screwed that up. Look at me, no don't. I look hideous. How can I face my kids looking like this. They'll be embarrassed to be seen with me. What if they won't love me anymore? Speaking of love, my wife, oh my god. How can I expect her to stay with me. I'm not a man anymore. She's not going to want be intimate with a freak. What if I can't work, how do I support myself, my family.<br /> <br />I had the nightmares and couldn't sleep. I wasn't eating and was loosing weight. I didn't really care. If I didn't start eating, they where going to put the feeding tube back in. Who cares, I've totally screwed up my life anyways."<br /><br />But he found out just how much is wife loved him, when she stood by his side throughout the entire ordeal. She was there for every wound dressing and even learned how to change the dressings herself.<br /><br />SSgt. Mike Mills now runs the site <a href="http://www.fortheveteran.com/index.html">For The Veteran... By A Veteran</a> in which he helps veterans, soldiers and their families find information they may not have been given after their medical discharge or retirement.<br /><img src="http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1728/ftvbavlogolh3.jpg" alt=""></img><br /><br />Some may say that Mike gave his country more than enough when he was severely maimed by an IED on that fateful day of June 14, 2005, but Mike continues to give to his fellow servicemen, as well as to his nation!</center></I><br /><br />These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.<br /><FONT COLOR=red><FONT SIZE=2>We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived</FONT SIZE></FONT COLOR><br /><br /><B>This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go <a href="http://rightwingrightminded.blogspot.com/2006/08/wednesday-hero-blogroll.html">here</a>.</B><br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-4028443217423812458?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-14117149254687822342007-12-17T09:49:00.000-07:002007-12-17T09:50:51.297-07:00Enforcement works!<br /><br />100% Preventable!<br /><br />And Hijacking Lady Liberty?<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-uAq_QDurJM&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-uAq_QDurJM&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Make sure to check out the new half hour show exclusively at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.technopatriots.com">Technopatriots</a>!<br /><b><br />This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. 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Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-60209269699615590832007-12-05T06:24:00.000-07:002007-12-05T06:26:27.540-07:00This Week's Hero Was Suggested By <a href="http://www.wednesdaysmuse.blogspot.com/">Mark Bell</a><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/2582/martysuehornqy0.jpg" border="1" /></center><br /><center><i>Marty and Sue Horn<br /><a href="http://anysoldier.com/" target="_blank"><br /><img src="http://anysoldier.com/pics/AnySoldierUS.jpg" alt="Go to AnySoldier.com" border="0" height="84" width="100" /></a> <a href="http://www.treatanysoldier.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.treatanysoldier.com/images/TASLogoNew.gif" alt=" Go to TreatAnySoldier.com" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Born in Philadelphia, Marty Horn spent 20 years in the Army as a Military Policeman, retiring in 1993 and going to work in Internet technologies. In 2003, his son Brian Horn deployed to Iraq. Trying to support their son’s unit, Marty and his wife Sue, who also served as in the Military Police, put together the concept of Any Soldier. In essence, Any Soldier is an effort to provide support and encouragement to those who are in harm’s way. Due to overwhelming requests for ready-made care packages on the AnySoldier.com site, Sue Horn started TreatAnySoldier.com. <br /><br />Using his background in Internet technologies, Marty built and maintains the web site. The Any Soldier program slowly expanded to include other Army units. In 2004, the program opened up to include all service branches.. In 2005, the websites for AnyMarine.com., AnySailor.com, AnyAirman.com, and AnyCoastguardsman.com were launched. <br /><br />In the words of the Any Soldier web site: "The success of Any Soldier has far exceeded expectations and continues to grow with the invaluable help and guidance of our supporters, board members and Support Team."<br /><br />In the words of Marty Horn: "It is the supporters who deserve the credit."<br /><br />Thanks to the efforts of Marty and Sue, their son Brian, and a dedicated staff, over 950,000 servicemen and women received support and encouragement they would never have been able to get through the Any Soldier program.</i></center><br />These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.<br /><span style="color:red;"><span style="font-size:85%;">We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived</span></span><br /><br /><b>This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go <a href="http://rightwingrightminded.blogspot.com/2006/08/wednesday-hero-blogroll.html">here</a>.</b><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-6020926969961559083?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-25222935567038685462007-12-03T06:40:00.000-07:002007-12-03T06:42:11.772-07:00In this weeks edition...<br /><br />Lou Dobbs in Chicago: goons try to shut him down!<br /><br />100% Preventable! More American lives shattered by open borders!<br /><br />And a surprise!<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YNTkEGuRcNE&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YNTkEGuRcNE&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />You can watch the entire Lou Dobbs event <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD1SbJU9R5w&amp;feature=user">starting here</a>. 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If you’d like to join <a href="http://blogs4borders.blogspot.com/2006/09/blogs-for-borders-membership.html">find out how right here</a>.</b><br /><br />Technorati Tags: <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/illegal%20immigration" rel="tag">illegal immigration</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/mexico" rel="tag">mexico</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/criminal%20aliens" rel="tag">criminal aliens</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/lou%20dobbs" rel="tag">lou dobbs</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/icirr" rel="tag">icirr</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/chicago" rel="tag">chicago</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/techno%20patriots" rel="tag">techno patriots</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/border%20security" rel="tag">border security</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/juan%20manuel%20juarez%20reyes" rel="tag">juan manuel juarez reyes</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/andrew%20newell" rel="tag">andrew newell</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/north%20carolina" rel="tag">north carolina</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/bettie%20coates" rel="tag">bettie coates</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/eblin%20fabiel%20ocampo%20cruz" rel="tag">eblin fabiel ocampo cruz</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/deportation" rel="tag">deportation</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/open%20borders" rel="tag">open borders</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/eligio%20chia%20duron" rel="tag">eligio chia duron</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/pedophile" rel="tag">pedophile</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/child%20molester" rel="tag">child molester</a>, <a class="performancingtags" href="http://technorati.com/tag/georgia" rel="tag">georgia</a>,<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-2522293556703868546?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-77817675701534833872007-11-28T08:56:00.000-07:002007-11-28T09:18:43.798-07:00<center><img src="http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/481/sgtantwanlwalkerjd1.jpg" alt="Sgt. Antwan L. Walker" border="1" /></center><center><i>Sgt. Antwan L. Walker<br />22 years old from Tampa, Florida<br />2nd Forward Support Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division<br />May 18, 2005<br /><img src="http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3922/armysp6.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />Sgt. Antwan Walker was excited about coming home from Iraq to celebrate his 23rd birthday with his family and friends. His mother, Andrea Pringle, was busy planning the party when an Army official unexpectedly came to her house.<br /><br />She said he told her Thursday that her son was killed the previous day by a bomb blast in Ramadi. The Department of Defense hasn't publicly confirmed his death.<br /><br />Sgt. Antwan Walker, known as Twan to his friends and family, joined the Army in 2000. Pringle said her son joined to earn money for college.<br /><br />"Twan had a lot of goals in life," She said. "He was very ambitious and very smart."<br /><br />Sgt. Walker had been in Iraq for about a year. He called his family often but didn't want to talk about war. Instead, he talked about starting a real estate career and his three children.<br /><br />"He was such a good dad," his mother said. "All he wanted to do was make a good life for his kids."<br /><br />In April 2005, Walker wanted to talk about the fighting. He told his mother five soldiers he was traveling with were killed. His phone calls became more frequent after that.<br /><br />Pringle said she had days when she couldn't eat or sleep because of her worries. But she never forgot to give her son her support.<br /><br />"I always told him I'm proud and be safe".</i></center><br />These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.<br /><span style="color:red;"><span style="font-size:85%;">We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived</span></span><br /><br /><b>This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go <a href="http://rightwingrightminded.blogspot.com/2006/08/wednesday-hero-blogroll.html">here</a>.</b><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7781767570153483387?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-63483603904234626812007-11-26T15:22:00.000-07:002007-11-26T15:24:09.726-07:00In this weeks episode:<br /><br />A "virtual fence?" When the president utilizes one around the White House we'll believe him.<br /><br />The Deportation Joke! Previously deported criminal aliens just keep coming, American citizens just keep dying!<br /><br />And 100% Preventable!<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/a9TKrSfXECs&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/a9TKrSfXECs&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br /><b>This has been the Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst. The Blogs For Borders Blogroll is dedicated to American sovereignty, border security and a sane immigration policy. 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Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-12467686013079801602007-11-21T06:47:00.000-07:002007-11-21T06:50:13.538-07:00<center><img src="http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4056/spcrogerlingtq4.jpg" alt="Spc. Roger G. Ling" border="1" /></center><center><i>Spc. Roger G. Ling<br />20 years old from Douglaston, New York<br />Company C, 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team<br />February 19, 2004<br /><img src="http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3922/armysp6.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />When Spc. Roger G. Ling's Humvee was struck by a homemade bomb in October of 2003, he survived the attack and he worked to keep his superior officer, Lt. Matt Homa, alive. Spc. Ling was riding in the backseat of the Humvee when it was hit. It destroyed Lt. Homa's door.<br /><br />"It almost killed me. From what I've been told, Roger helped keep me awake until my medic arrived." said Lt. Homa. "Ling was a good kid. You could count on him to do anything."<br /><br />Spc. Ling was killed, along with Second Lieutenant Jeffrey C. Graham of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, when their unit came under fire from insurgents in Khalidiyah, Iraq. Only two miles from where he'd survived the attack just four months earlier.<br /><br />Leona Ling said she was grateful her brother came home in August of 2003 just before leaving for Iraq.<br /><br />"He had to have his tonsils taken out," she said. "It was a blessing in disguise because we got to see him again."<br /><br />In phone calls home, the soldier spoke wistfully of returning to New York and going to college. "He wanted to hear about what was going on at home and all the latest family gossip," Leona Ling recalled.<br /><br />Survivors include his father, Wai Ling, a U.S. Army veteran.</i></center><br />These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.<br /><span style="color:red;"><span style="font-size:85%;">We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived</span></span><br /><br /><b>This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go <a href="http://rightwingrightminded.blogspot.com/2006/08/wednesday-hero-blogroll.html">here</a>.</b><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-1246768601307980160?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-19144583374518135182007-11-07T07:49:00.000-07:002007-11-07T07:50:23.764-07:00<center><img src="http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/396/spcericmckinleygv5.jpg" alt="Army Spc. Eric S. McKinley" border="1" /></center><center><i>Army Spc. Eric S. McKinley<br />24 years old from Corvallis, Oregon<br />Company B, 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry Regiment, Army National Guard<br />June 13, 2004<br /><img src="http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3922/armysp6.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br />An avid outdoorsman, Spc. McKinley worked as a baker at Alpine Bakery in Corvallis, Ore. Upon his return from Iraq, he hoped to open a juice bar in the college town to provide a drug and alcohol-free environment for young people. Friends and co-workers remember Spc. McKinley as a quiet, caring young man who dyed his hair, sported several tattoos and loved ska and rock music. His senior yearbook picture showed a grinning young man with spiked hair dyed red and green. In other 1998 yearbook pictures, he has purple and blue hair in a mohawk.<br /><br />Spc. Eric McKinley was killed when a roadside bomb north of Baghdad detonated destroying two vehicles and wounded four other Oregon soldiers. They were identified as Staff Sgt. Phillip Davis, 23, of Albany; Sgt. Matthew Zedwick, 23, of Bend; Cpl. Shane Ward, 23, of Corvallis and Pvt. Richard Olsen, 23, of Independence.<br /><br />Almost 500 people attended the memorial service for Spc. McKinley at Starker Arts Park in Corvallis. There was a mix of people dressed in either military or punk attire — including McKinley’s six-year-old cousin, who, in tribute, wore his hair in a bright green mohawk.<br /><br />Coventry Pacheco, McKinley’s fiancee, sat in the first row at his celebration-of-life service. They hadn’t set a wedding date, but were planning to get married.<br /><br />He was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service, a Purple Heart and the Oregon Distinguished Service Award. U.S. and Oregon flags were presented to his parents, Tom McKinley of Salem and Karen Hilsendager of Philomath.</i></center><br />These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.<br /><span style="color:red;"><span style="font-size:85%;">We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived</span></span><br /><br /><b>This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go <a href="http://rightwingrightminded.blogspot.com/2006/08/wednesday-hero-blogroll.html">here</a>.</b><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-1914458337451813518?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-22056791887362921402007-10-25T08:29:00.000-07:002007-10-25T08:43:17.446-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/23/greenland.melting/index.html?iref=mpstoryview">CNN</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“The fear is that melting ice from </span><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Greenland</span></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and other Arctic areas could cause sea levels to rise enough to flood low-lying cities, such as </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">Shanghai</span></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">China</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">, and </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">New York City</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, displacing millions of people in the process.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Additionally, Dr. Konrad Steffen, climate scientist at the University of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/23/greenland.melting/index.html?iref=mpstoryview">Colorado in Boulder</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“estimates sea levels could rise three feet over the next century.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/23/greenland.melting/index.html?iref=mpstoryview">on Climate Change</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“estimates the sea level rise by 2100 could be as much as 1½ feet.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">3 millimeters a year is 0.984251 inches over 100 years<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Quotes and Questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/23/greenland.melting/index.html?iref=mpstoryview">global sea levels have been rising at the rate of three millimeters per year since 1993.</a>”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">What were global sea levels doing before that? Could you go way back too?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/23/greenland.melting/index.html?iref=mpstoryview">Greenland is losing 100 billion tons of ice each year, more than it is gaining from snowfall in the interior.</a>”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">How much snowfall is there in the interior?<span style=""> </span>Does the ice sheet gain or increase in other ways beyond snowfall?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/23/greenland.melting/index.html?iref=mpstoryview">The majority of scientists say greenhouse gases are the chief cause of global warming.</a>”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">How much of the greenhouse gases are man-made?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/23/greenland.melting/index.html?iref=mpstoryview">The fact Greenland has warmed before leads some scientists to question how worried we should be about the current warming trend. Dr. Patrick Michaels, a climatologist, is part of a small group of climate change skeptics</a>.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">What is a “climate change skeptic;” someone that doesn’t believe in temperature change and/or that they are static?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Dr. Steffen is a “climate scientist,” Dr. Zwally of NASA is a “climate scientist” while Dr. Michaels is a “climatologist;” what’s the difference?<span style=""> </span>Regardless of difference, couldn’t you find a “climate scientist” instead of just a lowly sounding “climatologist?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">What’s this “small group of…skeptics?”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I wonder how much this years annual </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">California</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;"> fires are effecting the atmosphere and influencing global warming?<span style=""> </span>It probably is, so we really shouldn’t have them anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="139" height="45" src="http://thoof.com/tr/49406"> </iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-2205679188736292140?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-64455523883111339602007-10-11T08:35:00.000-07:002007-10-11T09:32:32.156-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/Rw5NATqyJNI/AAAAAAAAAmA/R6OLws3iyVQ/s1600-h/Carter+book.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/Rw5NATqyJNI/AAAAAAAAAmA/R6OLws3iyVQ/s200/Carter+book.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120114494041892050" border="0" /></a><br />What constitutes torture is subjective, which is one of the problems with defining what is allowed and what is not in U.S. interrogations of "detainees" at Gitmo and elsewhere. Publicly defining methods also adds to the difficulty as there will always be someone that considers certain methods too harsh.<br /><br />As per the course, former President Jimmy Carter, rather than do something of benefit for his country is out and about condemning it.<br /><br />If I want soft serve ice cream I'll go to President Carter the man almost singlehandedly condemned this nation during his presidency to the point that President Bush has needed to act decisively and from outside the box; a box which many are still very comfortable in, Jimmy is one.<br /><br />Military.com has published an article that in part quotes the former president in an <a href="http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,152382,00.html?ESRC=eb.nl">interview he had with CNN</a>:<br /><blockquote>"Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic principle of human rights. We've said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply to those people in Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo, and we've said we can torture prisoners and deprive them of an accusation of a crime."</blockquote>Mr. Carter is speaking of "human rights" as he sees them. Mr. Carter is using his view of what is and what is not "torture." Mr. Carter does his part in abandoning "the basic principle of human rights," each time he goes to some banana republic or terror exporting republic to validate elections. Mr. Carter talks a good talk (for a mistaken fool anyway), but his actions or rather, preferred inactions are what slaps "human rights" in the face. Mr. Carter continues to do this country a disservice; if only he took a page from President Reagan and President Bush following their tenure in office and let the new occupant do what he or she believes appropriate in the challenges faced.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/Rw5NPzqyJOI/AAAAAAAAAmI/zz3ssWJSNXg/s1600-h/Jimmuh+Chavez.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/Rw5NPzqyJOI/AAAAAAAAAmI/zz3ssWJSNXg/s200/Jimmuh+Chavez.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120114760329864418" border="0" /></a><br />What has so led this man astray from reality and the decisions inherent in living in the real world, especially from the point of view of someone that must make those hard decisions that can be twisted and screamed about from the roof tops? I am not agreeing that the methods enlisted in interrogations are "torture" in the previous statement, but that methods are necessary.<br /><br />Jimmy Carter failed at his job during his time in office; why does he feel the need to give it everything he has to ensure others make mistakes as well?<br /><br /><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe src="http://thoof.com/tr/11330" frameborder="0" height="45" scrolling="no" width="139"> </iframe><br /><a href="http://www.linkfests.us/"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/307/106/320/linkfest.jpg" alt="Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis" /></a><br />Trackposted to <a href="http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/10/fighting_for_other_peoples_freedom/">Outside the Beltway</a>, <a href="http://www.linkfests.us/2007/10/wednesday_carry_a_tune_day_lin.html">The Virtuous Republic</a>, <a href="http://perrinelson.com/2007/10/11/1009.aspx">Perri Nelson's Website</a>, <a href="http://rosemarysthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/10/stop-aclu-blogburst.html"></a>, <a href="http://www.randomyak.com/?p=2318">The Random Yak</a>, <a href="http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2007/10/ice-makes-it-to.html">Right Truth</a>, <a href="http://thepopulistblog.com/2007/10/11/its-the-thursday-what-the-hell-am-i-still-doing-up-open-trackback-open-thread/">The Populist</a>, <a href="http://www.shadowscope.com/archives/2007/10/thursday_thirteen_3_roadtrips.php">Shadowscope</a>, <a href="http://stuckon-stupid.com/2007/10/10/quote-of-the-day-camille-paglia-on-hillary/">Stuck On Stupid</a>, <a href="http://www.webloggin.com/national-enquirer-reports-on-alleged-john-edwards-affair-msm-takes-a-pass/">Webloggin</a>, <a href="http://www.bullwinkleblog.com/?p=5207">The Bullwinkle Blog</a>, <a href="http://amboytimes.typepad.com/the_amboy_times/2007/10/empire-state-bu.html">The Amboy Times</a>, <a href="http://leaningstraightup.com/2007/10/11/ann-coulter-misses-the-mark-re-fred-thompson/">Leaning Straight Up</a>, <a href="http://www.conservativecat.com/">Conservative Cat</a>, <a href="http://www.anniemayhem.com/cgi-bin/wordpress/?p=1170">The World According to Carl</a>, <a href="http://www.thepiratescove.us/?p=4569">Pirate's Cove</a>, <a href="http://highdesertwanderer.com/archives/971">High Desert Wanderer</a>, and <a href="http://rightvoices.com/2007/10/11/google-has-banned-advertisements-critical-of-moveonorg/">Right Voices</a>, thanks to <a href="http://www.linkfests.us/">Linkfest Haven Deluxe</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-6445552388311133960?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-55139900591690041322007-10-11T05:42:00.000-07:002007-10-11T06:36:29.192-07:00This Weeks Hero Was Suggested By <a href="http://yeahrightwhatever.blogspot.com/">Beth</a><br /><br /><center><img src="http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/1728/hollyholemanqd8.jpg" alt="Holly Holeman" border="1" /></center><center><i><br />Her name is Holly Holeman. Her job is working at a flower shop. And her mission to make sure soldiers are never forgotten. Which is why she's out at Arlington National Cemetery every week putting flowers around the headstones. She usually does this alone, but on a bitter cold day in February of 2007 she was met with family members of fallen soldiers buried in Section 60 of the cemetery who helped her to place the roses.<br /><br />To read the rest of Holly's story, you can go <a href="http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/a-rose-from-holly.htm">here</a>.</i></center><br />These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.<br /><span style="color:red;"><span style="font-size:85%;">We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived</span></span><br /><br /><b>This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. For more information about Wednesday Hero, or if you would like to post it on your blog, you can go <a href="http://rightwingrightminded.blogspot.com/2006/08/wednesday-hero-blogroll.html">here</a>.</b><br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe src="http://thoof.com/tr/11313" frameborder="0" height="45" scrolling="no" width="139"> </iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-5513990059169004132?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-246246703469091572007-10-10T11:26:00.000-07:002007-10-10T12:11:50.589-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/Rw0j5jqyJKI/AAAAAAAAAlo/QR0hoN9mnjw/s1600-h/beans.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/Rw0j5jqyJKI/AAAAAAAAAlo/QR0hoN9mnjw/s200/beans.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119787823124325538" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100902284.html">WAPO</a>:<br /><blockquote>"<a href="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/c001041/" target="">Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton</a> pushed back against criticism from fellow Democrats that she is too polarizing to unite the country as president, arguing that the political battles she has been through make her uniquely equipped to bring the nation together and build a centrist governing coalition."</blockquote>How does she propose doing anything from a "centrist" position when she is so far Left (excepting for political reasons) that she almost falls off the edge?<br /><br />Is there a center-far-left?<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe src="http://thoof.com/tr/11139" frameborder="0" height="45" scrolling="no" width="139"> </iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-24624670346909157?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-55939700817886866662007-10-10T07:49:00.000-07:002007-10-10T07:57:25.539-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Before we get too far a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/washington/10diplo.html?hp">disclaimer to keep in mind</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“Several current and former officials, as well as outside experts, spoke on the condition of anonymity because the intelligence surrounding the Israeli strike remains highly classified.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The “intelligence” is “highly classified,” so how do they know anything and are they worth quoting or basing an article on?<span style=""> </span>Now on the chosen colors representing the bad and the good.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/washington/10diplo.html?hp">The NY Times</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“A sharp debate is under way in the Bush administration about the significance of the Israeli intelligence that led to last month’s Israeli strike inside </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Syria</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, according to current and former American government officials.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">This debate revolves around intelligence provided by </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, which led that nation to its decision to bomb a location in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Syria</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> believed to be the location of Bashar al-Assad’s nascent nuclear program; spermatozoon in the test tube courtesy of stature lacking Kim of Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">One thing worth noting is that the <s>toilet</s> paper <a href="http://demediacraticnation.blogspot.com/2007/09/iran-policy-rift-state-doves-and-cheney.html">has in the past written of debates within the administration</a>, rarely described as “debates” but more colorfully described as “rifts” between “hawks” and doves regarding Iran.<span style=""> </span>We might be comforted with the fact that the administration does debate issues, but that would require injecting connotation that weakens the “hawk/dove” angle; this is just something the msm doesn’t do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">As the <s>toilet</s> paper rarely passes an opportunity to report as factually as it can stand while implying with words of choice who is on the rights side and wrong side of the “debate.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The two sides in the “fight” are “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/washington/10diplo.html?hp">Vice President Dick Cheney and conservative hawks</a>” and “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/washington/10diplo.html?hp">Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her allies</a>.”<span style=""> </span>Remember WWII, a war fought between the “Axis” and “Allies.”<span style=""> </span>Any questions as to which side the <s>toilet</s> paper is more supportive of?<span style=""> </span>Reporting the news with an eye toward swaying opinion; this is not reporting the news, but the <s>toilet</s> paper does it seven days a week.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe src="http://thoof.com/tr/11079" frameborder="0" height="45" scrolling="no" width="139"> </iframe><br /><a href="http://www.linkfests.us/"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/307/106/320/linkfest.jpg" alt="Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis" /></a><br />Trackposted to <a href="http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/10/turkey_could_attack_kurdish_rebels_in_iraq/">Outside the Beltway</a>, <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/10/politics-and-christian-left.html">Faultline USA</a>, <a href="http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/?p=3242">third world county</a>, <a href="http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2007/10/what-are-we-thi.html">Right Truth</a>, <a href="http://www.onebigdog.net/hospital-employees-suspended-for-clooney-disclosure/">Big Dog's Weblog</a>, <a href="http://thepopulistblog.com/2007/10/10/wednesday-open-trackback-open-thread/">The Populist</a>, <a href="http://www.shadowscope.com/archives/2007/10/wordless_wednesday_3.php">Shadowscope</a>, <a href="http://bluestarchronicles.com/2007/10/09/he-dropped-his-drawers-for-the-freedumb-run/">Blue Star Chronicles</a>, <a href="http://www.webloggin.com/why-is-the-left-so-afraid-of-thompson/">Webloggin</a>, <a href="http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/10/9/3281571.html">The Pink Flamingo</a>, <a href="http://caosblog.com/5701/trackback/">Cao's Blog</a>, <a href="http://leaningstraightup.com/2007/10/10/bad-news-for-gore-and-the-global-warming-alarmists-the-uk-has-a-few-inconvenient-rules-regarding-an-inconvenient-truth/">Leaning Straight Up</a>, <a href="http://thomistic.blogspot.com/2007/10/chris-matthews-its-all-about-me.html">Dumb Ox Daily News</a>, <a href="http://www.adelineandhazel.com/2007/10/09/midweek-links-leave-britney-alone-edition/">Adeline and Hazel</a>, and <a href="http://rightvoices.com/2007/10/10/the-%e2%80%9cnot-so-poor%e2%80%9d-12-year-old-voice-of-schip/">Right Voices</a>, thanks to <a href="http://www.linkfests.us/">Linkfest Haven Deluxe</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-5593970081788686666?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-79373647523597709352007-10-10T06:59:00.000-07:002007-10-10T07:16:49.822-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/RwzevDqyJJI/AAAAAAAAAlg/RLnZlp54qVM/s200/Berg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119711776433382546" border="0" /></a><br />Very recently it was reported that Sandy Berger is on board the Clinton presidential campaign as an adviser; it cannot be for legal advice as he has lost his license to practice law, much like his previous boss though not for the same reason.<br /><br /><a href="http://demediacraticnation.blogspot.com/">DeMediacratic Nation</a> has not bothered to post on this turn of events due to it's ridiculousness and that, well to be honest it would be stated more properly elsewhere and this morning that belief has borne the expected fruit.<br /><br />The editors at <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjRmNDNhZjYzYjRkYTg0NmI2NWU5ZTc0MjUxNTBlMmM=">NRO have a few words regarding the Berger</a>:<br /><blockquote>"Berger used his privileged access to steal top-secret national-defense documents. On at least two occasions he stuffed them into his clothing and briefcase, smuggling them out of the archives. He secreted some of these stolen papers under the wheel of a truck at a nearby construction site so that he could return for them later. Other documents he intentionally destroyed. These actions were serious felonies."</blockquote>Hsu, Berger, the Clinton Presidency itself and others tarnish the Clinton campaign with enough questionableness that any sane person has to wonder why this senator holds a commanding lead on the Left side of the aisle; what do some have against reality?<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe src="http://thoof.com/tr/11069" frameborder="0" height="45" scrolling="no" width="139"> </iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7937364752359770935?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-27040833151207953502007-10-09T12:55:00.000-07:002007-10-09T13:24:33.620-07:00In following the link this morning from RCP to Thomas Jocelyn's article at <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/default.asp">The Weekly Standard</a>, "<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/206aemvk.asp">Sy Hersh's Overactive Imagination</a>," which in and of itself is very interesting; I followed the link at the end of the article to his essay published September 11, 2007 at <a href="http://www.claremont.org/">The Claremont Institute</a>.<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.733/pub_detail.asp">Iran's Proxy War Against America</a>, (PDF)" covers the evidence of Iranian links to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups regardless of their Sunni, Shiite or Palestinian sympathies. These essay itself is a very interesting and well thought out product that deserves attention and turns the conventional intelligence, government and media wisdom on its ear.<br /><br />Do, at some point take the time to read it. You don't have to agree with everything within its pages, but should at the least use it as consideration for thinking outside the box when comparing claims of this nature with the overly cocksure attitude of the media mindset and what might really be.<br /><br />Included is an appendix of Iran's Timeline of Terror, which aside from the dots that connect them, makes for a laundry list of reasons to make one wonder what are we waiting for?<br /><p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1979" day="4" month="11"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">November 4, 1979</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Fifty-two American citizens are taken hostage by “students” loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini. They are held for more than a year, until </span><st1:date year="1981" day="20" month="1"><span style="font-family:Arial;">January 20, 1981</span></st1:date><span style="font-family:Arial;">. The kidnappings are part of the Iranian revolution, which serves as a model for Sunni terrorist groups like Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Egyptian Islamic Jihad.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1983" day="18" month="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">April 18, 1983</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">’s master terrorist, Imad Mugniyah, orchestrates the first significant Islamist suicide attack against </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">: the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Beirut</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Establishing a modus operandi for terrorists in the years to come, the attacker utilizes a van packed with explosives.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1983" day="23" month="10"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">October 23, 1983</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Using massive truck bombs, Hezbollah’s suicide bombers simultaneously attack the U.S. Marine Barracks and a housing complex for French Paratroopers in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">Beirut</span></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">Lebanon</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Al-Qaeda would later adopt simultaneous suicide bombings as its preferred method for committing attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1983" day="12" month="12"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">December 12, 1983</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iranian-backed terrorists bomb the U.S. Embassy in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Kuwait</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. A close relative of Imad Mugniyah is convicted by a Kuwaiti court and sentenced to death for his role in the bombing. Other attackers,<br />also supported by </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, are imprisoned. The terrorists come to be known as the “</span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Kuwait</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> 17” or “Dawa 17.” 75 </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">’s proxy war against </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">america</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1984" day="16" month="3"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">March 16, 1984</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">William Buckley, the CIA’s station chief in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Beirut</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, is kidnapped and later tortured-to-death by Imad Mugniyah’s Hezbollah. Buckley’s kidnapping is one in a series of Hezbollah’s kidnappings from the early 1980s through the early 1990s. Dozens of Americans are kidnapped and Hezbollah frequently demands an exchange for the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Kuwait</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> 17. Hezbollah’s kidnappings lead to the biggest scandal of President Ronald Reagan’s tenure, the Iran-Contra affair, after the Reagan administration agrees to exchange arms for the hostages.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1984" day="20" month="9"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">September 20, 1984</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Hezbollah terrorists strike the U.S. Embassy annex in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Beirut</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> with a truck bomb.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1984" day="3" month="12"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">December 3, 1984</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Mugniyah’s operatives hijack Kuwait Airways Flight 221. The hijackers attempt to barter for the release of the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Kuwait</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> 17.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1985" day="14" month="6"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">June 14, 1985</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Mugniyah’s terrorists hijack TWA Flight 847. Once again, the hijackers attempt to barter for the release of the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Kuwait</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> 17. When the hijackers’ demands are denied, they beat and kill a U.S. Navy serviceman, Robert Dean Stethem, who happened to be on the flight. Incredibly, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Germany</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> granted parole to one of the hijackers in December 2005.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">1990<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to Ali Mohamed, a top al-Qaeda operative in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> custody, Ayman al-Zawahiri’s Egyptian Islamic Jihad partners with </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> in a planned coup attempt in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Egypt</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Tehran</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> trains EIJ terrorists for the coup attempt, which is ultimately aborted. </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> also pays al-Zawahiri $2 million for sensitive information concerning 76 national security studies the Egyptian Government’s plans to raid several islands in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Persian Gulf</span></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">1991<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, then the world’s only Sunni Islamist states, forge a strategic alliance. They begin to jointly export terrorism throughout the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">April 1991<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Hassan al-Turabi hosts the first Popular Arab Islamic Conference in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. The conference provides a forum for disparate forces in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Middle East</span></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> who oppose American presence in the region to come together. Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Iraqi and Iranian representatives all attend the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1993" day="26" month="2"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">February 26, 1993</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Terrorists connected to al-Qaeda and the global terror network bomb the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;">World</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;">Trade</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;">Center</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> using a rental truck packed with explosives. The bombers’ colleagues plot a follow-on attack against landmarks in the NYC area. There is no known evidence that </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> had a hand in these events. It is clear, however, that several of the plotters had ties to Hassan al-Turabi’s </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the spiritual leader of the two leading Egyptian terrorist groups (both of which will join al- Qaeda) and who was living in the </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">New York</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;"> metropolitan area, is later convicted for his involvement in the attacks. Reports surface that he and his organization received financial assistance from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">1993<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to Ali Mohamed, Imad Mugniyah and Osama bin Laden meet in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Bin Laden expresses his desire to model al- Qaeda after Hezbollah. In particular, bin Laden expresses interest in Mugniyah’s bombing of the U.S. Embassy in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Beirut</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> in 1983 77 </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">’s proxy war against </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">america</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and similar attacks. They agree to work together against </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and the West.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">1993<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to Jamal al-Fadl, an al-Qaeda operative in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> custody, bin Laden meets a leading Iranian sheikh in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. The purpose of the meeting is to put aside any differences between their competing brands of Islam in order to come together against their common enemy: the West. The meeting is just the first of several between bin Laden and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">’s spiritual leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">1993<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps train al- Qaeda’s terrorists in camps in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Lebanon</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Among the terrorists trained are some of bin Laden’s most trusted lieutenants and al-Qaeda’s future leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">1993<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Egypt</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Algeria</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> cut off diplomatic ties with </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Both nations accuse </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> of supporting Sunni terrorism, including terrorist groups affiliated with al-Qaeda. </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Egypt</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> will blame </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> for supporting both the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Group throughout the 1990’s.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1995" day="13" month="11"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">November 13, 1995</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Two bombs are detonated, nearly simultaneously, at the Saudi National Guard training facility in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Riyadh</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, killing five Americans. The suspects are captured and confess to being inspired by Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden denies responsibility, but praises the attack. It is likely al-Qaeda’s first terrorist attack inside the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;">Saudi</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;">Kingdom</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">. 78 national security studies<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1995" day="19" month="11"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">November 19, 1995</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">An al-Qaeda suicide bomber destroys the Egyptian Embassy in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">Islamabad</span></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">Pakistan</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">. The CIA’s Bob Baer later learns that Mugniyah’s deputy assisted al-Qaeda in the attack and that one of bin Laden’s top terrorists remained in contact with Mugniyah’s offi ce months afterwards.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">May 1996<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Bin Laden is expelled from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, but the 9/11 Commission reports that “intelligence indicates the persistance of contacts” between al-Qaeda and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> even after al-Qaeda’s relocation to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Afghanistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Bin Laden and al-Qaeda maintain an ongoing presence in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, despite not being “formally” welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1996" day="21" month="6"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">June 21 - 23, 1996</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Tehran</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> hosts a summit for the leading Sunni and Shiite terrorist groups. It is announced that the terrorists will continue to focus on </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> interests thoughout the region. Mugniyah, bin Laden, and a leading member of the EIJ reportedly forge the “Committee of Three,” under the leadership of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">’s intelligence chief, to focus their joint efforts against American targets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1996" day="25" month="6"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">June 25, 1996</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Hezbollah terrorists, operating under the direction of senior Iranian officials, bomb the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;">Khobar</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;">Towers</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> apartment complex in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Saudi Arabia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Contemporaneous reports by both the State Department and the CIA note that al-Qaeda is also suspected of playing a role. The 9/11 Commission would later find “indirect evidence” of al-Qaeda’s involvement. The evidence includes intelligence indicating that al-Qaeda was planning a similar operation in the months prior and that bin Laden was congratulated by other al-Qaeda operatives, including Ayman al-Zawahiri, shortly after the attack. 79 </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">’s proxy war against </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">america</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">July 1996<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to Bob Baer, the Egyptian Islamic Group—an ally of bin Laden’s al-Qaeda—is in contact with Mugniyah.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">1996<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to Bob Baer, there is “incontrovertible evidence” of a meeting between bin Laden and a representative of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="1998" day="7" month="8"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">August 7, 1998</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Al-Qaeda’s suicide bombers simultaneously destroy the U.S. Embassies in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Kenya</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Tanzania</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. It is al-Qaeda’s most spectacular attack prior to 9/11. The attack is clearly modeled on Hezbollah’s attacks in the early 1980s. Indeed, the al-Qaeda terrorists responsible were trained by Hezbollah in the early 1990s. There is evidence that </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> also provided explosives used in the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">October - November 2000<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Imad Mugniyah and his lieutenants personally escort several of the 9/11 muscle hijackers out of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Saudi Arabia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> on flights to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Beirut</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. In all, eight to ten of the hijackers travel through </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> on the way to 9/11.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">December 2000<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Ramzi Binalshibh, al-Qaeda’s key point man for the 9/11 plot, applies for visa at the Iranian Embassy in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Berlin</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;">. His visa application is approved.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="2001" day="31" month="1"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">January 31, 2001</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Ramzi Binalshibh arrives at Tehran International airport. He does not return to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Germany</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> until </span><st1:date year="2001" day="28" month="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;">February 28, 2001</span></st1:date><span style="font-family:Arial;">. The purpose of his trip to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> remains a mystery. The 9/11 Commission does not mention Binalshibh’s trip to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. 80 national security studies<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">Early September 2001<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Binalshibh flees to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> shortly before the 9/11 attacks.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="2001" day="11" month="9"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">September 11, 2001</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Nineteen al-Qaeda hijackers execute al-Qaeda’s largest operation to date, killing nearly 3000 Americans. Many of the details surrounding the plot, including who financed the attack, remain a mystery.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">October 2001<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to a high-level Taliban detainee at </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gitmo</span></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> offers the Taliban Government assistance in retreating from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Afghanistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">October 2001<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Numerous press reports indicate that </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> aids the retreat of hundreds of al-Qaeda and Taliban members from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Afghanistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Some al-Qaeda operatives enjoy safehaven in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> to this day. Among them is Said al-Adel, who is reportedly the third highest ranking member of al-Qaeda and was trained by Hezbollah during the early 1990s, and Saad bin Laden, Osama’s heir apparent.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="2002" day="11" month="4"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">April 11, 2002</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Al-Qaeda carries out the first attack ordered by bin Laden since 9/11: a suicide bomber destroys a synagogue in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Tunisia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, killing nineteen people. According to NBC News, Saad bin Laden contacted the cell responsible for the attack from his safehaven in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Suleiman Abu Ghaith, bin Laden’s spokesman, also claims al-Qaeda’s responsibility for the attack from his abode in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">End of 2002 - Spring 2003<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, senior al-Qaeda leaders discuss the acquisition of nuclear weapons from their safe haven in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. In fact, al-Qaeda’s “nuclear 81 </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">’s proxy war against </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">america</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> chief,” Abdel al-Aziz al-Masri, is one of many senior terrorists living in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="2003" day="12" month="5"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">May 12, 2003</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Under orders from Saif al-Adel and Saad bin Laden, who are operating from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, al-Qaeda’s terrorists simultaneously strike three separate housing complexes in Riyadh Saudi </span><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Arabia</span></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Another al- Qaeda agent thought to be responsible for the attack flees to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> before he can be captured.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="2003" day="16" month="5"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">May 16, 2003</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">One dozen al-Qaeda bombers attack several targets in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">Casablanca</span></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">Morocco</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">. Saad bin Laden, living in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, is reportedly in contact with the cell shortly before the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">2004 – present<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> supplies advanced IED technology to the insurgents in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. There is growing evidence of Iranian support for both Sunni and Shiite insurgency groups in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">. </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> continues to harbor senior al-Qaeda leaders as the terrorist network reorganizes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="2007" day="20" month="1"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">January 20, 2007</span></b></st1:date><b><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">IRGC and Hezbollah terrorists kill five American soldiers in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">Karbala</span></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-family:Arial;">January 2007 – present<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Numerous IRGC and Hezbollah terrorists, who are responsible for arming and training terrorist groups in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, are captured by American and Iraqi forces. 82 national security studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="139" height="45" src="http://thoof.com/tr/10931"> </iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-2704083315120795350?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-68819770998071716582007-10-09T08:58:00.000-07:002007-10-09T09:22:50.227-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">We are often bothered by politicians “flip-flops,” think Kerry.<span style=""> </span>Then we have those that are likely not flip flops, but the necessity in the necessary revealing the opposite of your public positions or pronouncements (denouncement is fitting as well.).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">At the first column, top position sets “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/washington/09nsa.html?hp">Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers</a>,” with the summary sentence of:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“Democrats remain nervous that they will be called soft on terrorism if they insist on strict curbs on gathering intelligence.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Democrats will be hard pressed in doing the right thing when so often, at least in part doing the right thing is that which they have pilloried endlessly in the past.<span style=""> </span>This tends to cut off legitimate options that if allowed to be cut from debate and/or discussion will leave them with little of worth or substance to work with; a fact that would make the “soft” on security.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Regarding a bill being offered by the Democrats on NSA <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/washington/09nsa.html?pagewanted=2&amp;_r=1&amp;hp">surveillance from foreign locations</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“The House bill would also require the administration to disclose details of the program. Democrats say they plan to push the administration to turn over internal documents laying out the legal rationale for the program, something the administration has refused to do.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Why might there be a hesitation at handing over something of this importance?<span style=""> </span>Sure, there is the “they’re up to something bad, so wish to protect their evil enterprise;” but there also is the concern that honest review and debate about these legal rationales will be used more for partisan political purposes and leaked all over so the media can do its usual misrepresentative and leading reporting.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I submit that their concern at the time was more in line with thwarting the present administration in an effort to garner popularity and paint the administration as evil or criminal.<span style=""> </span>Rather than support the idea and attempt to work within its difficulties, the Democrats along with the media portrayed it as spying, eavesdropping and anything else that would serve the connotation of negativity and Big Brother.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">This makes what is necessary in surveillance all the more difficult due to its being painted and misrepresented at times as nothing more than Orwellian.<span style=""> </span>Make no mistake there should be concerns about what is being reviewed and the purposes for review of communications for activities other than security.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The debate on this subject has never been healthy and now that Democrats actually have to vote or stand on something and be held accountable to it, it is only about a concern for not appearing weak on security, when in reality they likely did not have the deeper concerns they shouted from the rooftops earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Just like working on ethics reform and/or just about anything else since taking the majority last November, when they have to do something it’s a lot harder than they remembered.<span style=""> </span>Democrats now have to relearn how to legislate as they have become too comfortable and expert at vilification without having to offer anything of substance in its stead.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://www.aclu.org/about/staff/20118res20050707.html">Caroline Frederickson</a>, director of the </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Washington</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;"> legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/washington/09nsa.html?pagewanted=2&amp;_r=1&amp;hp">is quoted as saying</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“There’s a ‘keep the majority’ mentality, which is understandable, but we think they’re putting themselves in more danger by not standing on principle.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The NY Times, Caroline Frederickson and many others feel comfortable in considering the Democrat aims or concerns as “keeping the majority;” would it be that these supporters applied the same skeptical criterion or view of the Left that they do the Right, they might accidentally enlighten themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - 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Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-40085411324069184312007-10-05T10:33:00.000-07:002007-10-05T10:45:11.725-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The decision is in regarding </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;">Colorado</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;">State</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> newspapers editor and his recent OpEd <a href="http://demediacraticnation.blogspot.com/2007/09/taser-this-what-bush-csu-opinion.html">which had nothing to do with its subject</a>.<span style=""> </span>According to CNN CSU faculty member Jim Landers read a statement prepared following the decision of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/05/cnnu.editor/index.html">three faculty members and six students</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>"We see the editorial as an opinion which is protected by the First Amendment.<span style=""> </span>We feel that it caused harm to The Collegian and to student media. It is our judgment that his actions were unethical and unprofessional."</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Ultimately:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">“The editor-in-chief of </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;">Colorado</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;">State</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">'s newspaper will keep his job after he published a four-word column that said, "Taser this: F**k Bush."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The CSU Board of Student Communications met Thursday for nearly four hours in a closed hearing before deciding to admonish instead of fire Rocky Mountain Collegian editor-in-chief David McSwane.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">This is obviously not my decision, but the “verdict” is questionable as it is not just free speech that they are really hiding behind, but poor judgment by someone 20 years young or not.<span style=""> </span>It is irresponsible free speech and much the norm these days.<span style=""> </span>We all value free speech of course and would not want to step on someone’s right to it, but standards in discourse, especially by someone in his position should be higher than they are.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Should he have lost his job?<span style=""> </span>I don’t know, but advertisers in the paper that have bowed out should continue to do so if they don’t agree with this decision.<span style=""> </span>The slope that is free speech will continue on as its slipperiness is covered in black ice.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is a certain partisan "anger" out there these days, mentioned just in case someone isn't aware of it. 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Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-75472193354042505022007-10-04T14:25:00.000-07:002007-10-04T14:47:27.134-07:00<blockquote>"The Iranain nation is an exemplary one in the world and if they are not present in the world scenes, then others will make decisions for them.” - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www2.irna.com/index.php?option=com_occations&amp;task=view&amp;id=987"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/RwVeTzqyJFI/AAAAAAAAAlA/jreoXJ15RK8/s200/amia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117600245956617298" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:Arial;">Two new links are now prov</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">ided at the Islamic Republic News</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www2.irna.com/index.php?option=com_occations&amp;task=view&amp;id=472"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/RwVelDqyJGI/AAAAAAAAAlI/dWVeH8JJc1Y/s200/ifna.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117600542309360738" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:Arial;"> Agency; one links to the “<a href="http://www2.irna.com/index.php?option=com_occations&amp;task=view&amp;id=987">AMIA Case</a>,” the other is the “<a href="http://www2.irna.com/index.php?option=com_occations&amp;task=view&amp;id=472">International Forum of News Agencies Coalition for Peace</a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Of the <a href="http://www2.irna.com/index.php?option=com_occations&amp;task=view&amp;id=987">AMIA Case</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Two Jewi</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">sh centers in Argentine, including</span><span style="font-family:Arial;"> the buildings of Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) and Delegation of Israeli Argentine Associations (DAIA) were destroyed in a bomb explosion on </span><st1:date year="1994" day="18" month="7"><span style="font-family:Arial;">July 18, 1994</span></st1:date><span style="font-family:Arial;"> leaving 85 people dead and more than</span><span style="font-family:Arial;"> 250 others injured."</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The blame was placed at the feet of the Islamic Republic of Iran<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Very long story short the explosion was a “pr</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">e-planned conspiracy by international Zionism and Argentine agents,” according to this very informative link from IRNA. Whether it's related to Israel or two skyscrapers in New</span><span style="font-family:Arial;"> York it is always a "conspiracy."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The attitude strikes one as not too peaceful, which does not share in the harmony inherent in the second link of note which is to the “International Forum of News Agencies Coalition for Peace” or IFNA.<span style=""> </span>According to the <a href="http://www2.irna.com/index.php?option=com_occations&amp;task=view&amp;id=472">site it is or they are</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“awaiting your kind cooperation in sending us news stories and articles related to “peace, conflict-resolutions and non-violence,” via email: <a href="mailto:ifna-cp@irna.com">ifna-cp@irna.com</a>, to put up on the ifna site for a mutual exchange of views and ideas to help in finding true peace in the world.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Very loving and peaceful and from the same news agency whose “about us” link does not beat around the bush.<span style=""> </span><a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/content/view/menu-240/id-24/lm-1/ls-0/">In brief (skipping over its establishment in 1934 and jumping forward)</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>"After the triumph of the Islamic Revolution in February 1979 the revolution's council, in June 1979, decided to rename the Ministry of Information and Tourism to the National Guidance Ministry (or Ministry of National Guidance). This was followed in December, 1981 bya bill passed by the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis) changing the name of the country's official news agency from Pars News Agency to Islamic Republic News Agency."</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Its guidelines (<a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/content/view/menu-240/id-24/lm-1/ls-0/">again very brief</a>):<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"The professional activities of the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) are based on and aimed at securing the Islamic Republi</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">c of Iran's national interests. Efforts of management and professional personnel of IRNA are thus focused on achieving higher ground each day n fulfillment of its stated goal. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The organization functions as the "mother source of information dissemination" within the country, feeding its authorities, nationals and various publications with various types of news, bulletins, research works, opinion polls and stories of general interest through its various telex lines."</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Number 1 on its list of guidelines is the “<a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/content/view/menu-240/id-24/lm-1/ls-0/">mass production and dissemination of news and informative material taking into account its main objective of promoting the interests and objectives of the Islamic Republic of Iran</a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Someone with even an almost imperceptible head on their shoulders wouldn’t need to read any of this to realize it, but it’s interesting as it is the major source of information in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">.<span style=""> </span><a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-17/0710031219201748.htm">So when, as Ahmadinejad did yesterday says</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">“The </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">' failed plot at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;">Columbia</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family:Arial;">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> has secured a big win for the Iranian nation in thwarting the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and Zionist conspiracies</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"The Zionists wanted to turn the event into a trial of the Isalmic Republic of Iran, but with help from the Almighty God, the plot turned into a scene in which nations could express their hatred with the rulers in the White House</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"The behavior of the government and media in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> shows that there is dictatorship in that country and people are not allowed to know the facts."</span><span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www2.irna.ir/ifna/index2.php?option=com_banner&amp;task=click&amp;id=20&amp;lang=en"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/RwVfODqyJII/AAAAAAAAAlY/9PEaIDq0RGg/s200/peace.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117601246683997314" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">When Ahmadinejad speaks and their “news” agency prints, especially in the realm of “PEACEFUL NUKES,” more people should question what the truth really is.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe src="http://thoof.com/tr/9960" frameborder="0" height="45" scrolling="no" width="139"> </iframe><br /><a href="http://www.linkfests.us/"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/307/106/320/linkfest.jpg" alt="Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis" /></a><br />Trackposted to <a href="http://perrinelson.com/2007/10/4/998.aspx">Perri Nelson's Website</a>, <a href="http://rosemarysthoughts.com/2007/10/04/videos-videos-and-more-videos/">Rosemary's Thoughts</a>, <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/10/schip-s-is-for-socialized-medicine.html">Faultline USA</a>, <a href="http://www.samanthaburns.com/archives/2007/10/ota_thursday_6.html">The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns</a>, <a href="http://thepopulistblog.com/2007/10/04/thursday-open-thread-and-open-trackback/">The Populist</a>, <a href="http://www.shadowscope.com/archives/2007/10/thursday_thirteen_2_13_weird_foods_you_wont_find_m.php">Shadowscope</a>, <a href="http://www.thepiratescove.us/?p=4540">Pirate's Cove</a>, <a href="http://stuckon-stupid.com/2007/10/03/quote-of-the-day-3/">Stuck On Stupid</a>, <a href="http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/10/4/3270630.html">The Pink Flamingo</a>, <a href="http://highdesertwanderer.com/archives/953">High Desert Wanderer</a>, <a href="http://www.conservativecat.com/">Conservative Cat</a>, <a href="http://rightvoices.com/2007/10/04/linkfestpoll-27-of-republicans-would-vote-for-pro-life-third-party-instead-of-giuliani/">Right Voices</a>, and <a href="http://www.yankeesailor.us/?p=431">The Yankee Sailor</a>, thanks to <a href="http://www.linkfests.us/">Linkfest Haven Deluxe</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7547219335404250502?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-90886733045530415072007-10-03T12:09:00.000-07:002007-10-03T13:15:17.892-07:00President Bush warned Iran again about its efforts at nuclear program. Also he said that "talks" are not off the table.<br /><br />In addition <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071003/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush;_ylt=AgWI9y4L5_frdz.7jBWamjtH2ocA">from the AP</a><br /><blockquote>"Bush, who has threatened to veto 9 of 12 annual appropriations bills, wants the GOP to be seen as the party of fiscal disciplinarians. Democrats, however, say the billions spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan dwarf the far smaller increases they want in domestic programs.<br /><br />Bush said the five-year budget proposed by the Democratic leadership of Congress would increase spending by $205 billion over five years.<br /><br />"All these programs sound wonderful," he said. "Except how are you going to pay for it? ... And the answer is raising taxes."'</blockquote>And I guess as the Dems "say the billions spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan dwarf the far smaller increases they want in domestic programs," so if we could just "end" this silly war their "dwarf-like" and "far smaller" tax increases could happen; again it the fault of others.<br /><br />Another clue as to why the war to Dems is the "war;" as with so much to the party leadership if they can imagine something doesn't exist, then convince the rest something doesn't exist, why everything will be all right!<br /><br />So for those of you that insist things right in front of you don't exist, go right on ahead a keep on keeping on; we'll take care of the children until you get out.<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="139" height="45" src="http://thoof.com/tr/9704"> </iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-9088673304553041507?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-63529160960282643502007-10-03T10:12:00.001-07:002007-10-03T10:26:06.962-07:00Italics of the twist (not necessary for those with even slight intelligence) from a former soldier and former presidential wannabe. In my opinion the general is fitting in just fine.<br /><br />From one at the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gen-wesley-clark/take-rush-limbaugh-off-ar_b_66826.html">Huffer</a>:<br /><blockquote>"Last week, Rush Limbaugh <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">labeled any American soldier who supports an end to the war in Iraq as "phony</span><span style="font-style: italic;">."</span> We challenged Limbaugh through an email campaign to invite VoteVets.org's Jon Soltz to his show and repeat these same insults to an Iraq war veteran's face. Over 10,000 people responded and emailed Rush -- but to our disappointment, <strong>he has refused to respond to our request</strong>."</blockquote>Oh the disappointment. How does one repeat that which they didn't actually say or connote?<br /><br />What does it mean when a former general sees things this way...hmmm, how's the war going?<br /><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="139" height="45" src="http://thoof.com/tr/9666"> </iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-6352916096028264350?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-72641516201217371212007-10-03T08:30:00.000-07:002007-10-03T08:33:46.677-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“Besides having an army for hire, brave kids who are paid to fight so that most Americans are not personally touched by war, we have the real mercenaries.”<span style=""> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maureen Dowd</span></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Reading Maureen Dowd this morning I can understand in part, why TimeSelect was a flop; it would be like DNation charging a price to read it.<span style=""> </span>What, in the quote above is she saying?<span style=""> </span>“Kids,” fighting so that we are not “personally” affected by the war?<span style=""> </span>Geographically she creates a tough scenario, but boy oh boy, it’s a great line.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">In bringing the reader up to date <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/opinion/03dowd.html?ref=opinion">with the “facts”</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“It seems as though a bullet struck an Iraqi man driving his mother to pick up his father, a pathologist, at the hospital. The dead man’s weight, The Times reports, “probably remained on the accelerator and propelled the car forward” toward a Blackwater convoy.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">This is the beginning of the incident, which is rife with unknowns at the moment, but “it seems” really gives it that “yeah, right” tone.<span style=""> </span>Continuing with <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/opinion/03dowd.html?ref=opinion">the “facts”</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“Blackwater guards then unleashed a spray of gunfire and explosives, even though witnesses did not see anyone shooting at the American convoy and even though Iraqis were turning their cars around and escaping the scene.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Is being shot at a necessary pre-requisite to firing a weapon when a vehicle driven by a dead man has just charged peoples adrenaline?<span style=""> </span>I wonder how many knew he was a dead man? Thanks to the “witnesses” are offered, but they really went above and beyond the call of duty keeping their heads up and eyes trained on the scene during a “spray of gunfire and explosives;” I wonder if the “explosives” exploded?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Here is an unknowable at the time, but it’s a nice brush stroke to the image the “artist” wishes to portray, “even though Iraqis were turning their cars around and escaping the scene.”<span style=""> </span>Dowd, “knows and assumes” this now, which is pretty handy for her purposes, but not terribly helpful at the time of the incident initiated by a “seeming” bullet, leading to a dead man driving a car; in turn creating a scene reminiscent of a suicide attack.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">Bravo</span></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> </span><st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;">Mo</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Quoting Elijah Cummings at a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/opinion/03dowd.html?ref=opinion">House hearing yesterday</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“Blackwater appears to have fostered a culture of shoot first and sometimes kill, and then ask the questions.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">This quote to my mind is not too unrealistic an observation and it should be addressed, especially if it further tarnishes the image of those employed in the fight, we don’t need revenge killings or to be blamed as we often are for the planets rotation, but I have to say it is also a good to stay alive in the fight.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">To Dowd and co. each scratch is an affront to our image; they have bought into the bloodless war as if a bloodless war could exist.<span style=""> </span>Anything that deviates from this is a “Bush bad” claim as though things of this nature would not happen under a different administration.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">This was Blackwater and questions need to be answered and consideration made to address this, but we should be happy and proud that <i style="">our</i> professional and well trained military doesn’t have more mishaps of this nature.<span style=""> </span>This is war and as ugly as it is these things happen; that doesn’t make them any less horrifying or sad, it’s just a fact.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">In Blackwater’s defense one can understand how in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> instances like this can and do happen; but this only goes so far.<span style=""> </span>If our soldiers and Marines deal day in and day out with rules of engagement that hamper their efforts and puts them further in harms way we have got a serious issue and we do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Were I a grunt again and knew of Blackwater’s “rules” I think I might be pretty pissed off about it and wonder ‘what about us?’<span style=""> </span>How many Blackwater employees have been killed?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><a href="http://www.linkfests.us/"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/307/106/320/linkfest.jpg" alt="Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis" /></a><br />Trackposted to <a href="http://perrinelson.com/2007/10/2/993.aspx">Perri Nelson's Website</a>, <a href="http://rosemarysthoughts.com/2007/10/02/popourri-of-military-good-news-for-a-change/">Rosemary's Thoughts</a>, <a href="http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2007/10/msm-hides-another-resident-alien.html">Faultline USA</a>, <a href="http://www.thirdworldcounty.us/?p=3228">third world county</a>, <a href="http://www.samanthaburns.com/archives/2007/10/ota_tuesday_6.html">The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns</a>, <a href="http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2007/10/pay-for-war-wit.html">Right Truth</a>, <a href="http://www.onebigdog.net/congress-should-worry-about-its-own-punctuality/">Big Dog's Weblog</a>, <a href="http://thepopulistblog.com/2007/10/03/open-thread-and-open-trackback-wednesday/">The Populist</a>, <a href="http://www.webloggin.com/democrat-throwbacks-use-soviet-era-tactics-to-shutdown-free-speech-attack-savage-rush-and-conservatives/">Webloggin</a>, <a href="http://amboytimes.typepad.com/the_amboy_times/2007/10/muslims-blow-up.html">The Amboy Times</a>, <a href="http://www.bullwinkleblog.com/?p=5165">The Bullwinkle Blog</a>, <a href="http://rncnyc2004.blogspot.com/2007/10/blackwater-usa.html">Republican National Convention Blog</a>, <a href="http://rightvoices.com/2007/10/01/about-that-erik-prince-and-devos-family-connection/">Right Voices</a>, <a href="http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-troops-and-veterans-feel.html">Wake Up America</a>, and <a href="http://hollywood.outsidethebeltway.com/2007/10/is-this-the-eva-longoria-sex-tape/">Gone Hollywood</a>, thanks to <a href="http://www.linkfests.us/">Linkfest Haven Deluxe</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-7264151620121737121?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. 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Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-55366335410986888762007-10-02T11:25:00.000-07:002007-10-02T11:51:57.990-07:00<span style="font-family:Arial;">Addressing the UN General Assembly in its first observance of “<a href="http://www.un.org/events/nonviolence/">International Day of Non-Violence</a>, <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24128&amp;Cr=non&amp;Cr1=violence">Secretary-General of the UN Ban Ki-moon said</a>:</span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“The message of Mahatma Gandhi, whose peaceful struggle helped birth an independent </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and inspired countless people around the world, is </span><span style="font-family:Arial;">needed now more than ever amid rising global tensions, intolerance and conflict.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to <a href="http://www.un.org/events/nonviolence/">UN reporting</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“</span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">’s Minister of State for External Affairs, Mr. Anand Sharma, said that the wide and diverse sponsorship of the resolution was a reflection of</span><span style="font-family:Arial;"> the universal respect for Mahatma Gandhi and of the enduring relevance of his philosophy.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Yeah, that and this is what the UN does, right….much easier than action; but to the UN this is <i style=""><a href="http://demediacraticnation.blogspot.com/2006/02/definition-action.html">action</a></i>!<span style=""> </span>Feel Good!!!!!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Quoting Mahatma Ghandi with whom the day is to honor from that <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-20/0710010263121443.htm">paragon of all things peaceful, Iran</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposa</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">l of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man"</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Please note:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> this is not to be confused with <a href="http://demediacraticnation.blogspot.com/2007/10/family-fun-cotton-candy-and-death-to.html">International Qods Day</a> even though this particular reporting comes from IRNA<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">On the subject of International Qods Day (mark your calendars, </span><st1:date year="2007" day="5" month="10"><span style="font-family:Arial;">10/5/07</span></st1:date><span style="font-family:Arial;">), more remarks from participants in the Islamic Republic.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">From Secretary General of the Society of Jame Ro</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">uhaniyat-e-Mobarez (JRM), the <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-22/0710028721193708.htm">Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza mahdavi-Kani noted that</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“sixty years of bloodshed in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Palestine</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> proved that </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> cannot live in peace.<span style=""> </span>He said that recognition of the occupying regime will never bring peace to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Palestine</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and the Zionist regime cannot live without bloodshed.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The Tehrani Jewish community or TJC <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-22/0710025036193631.htm">exhorted many to participate</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“massively in the International Qods Day rallies.<span style=""> </span>Qods day is a sign of love and interest, of the followers of divine religions, in holy Qods, that is </span><span style="font-family:Arial;">respected by all monotheists.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Interior Minister Hojjatoleslam Mostafa Pour- Mohammadi <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-22/0710020412193024.htm">said</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“all Muslims are expected to take part in the Intern</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">ational Qods Day rallies for the sake of unity and integrity of Muslims in defense of the Palestinian nation.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Last but certainly not least, especially on this first annual International Day of Non-Violence, the Islamic Republic Army on Tuesday condemned the "usurper" Zionists' crimes in occupied </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Palestine</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and said they will take part in the Interna</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">tional Qods Day rallies on October 5.<span style=""> </span>A <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-22/0710027883193427.htm">statement reported by IRNA read</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">"After lapse of six decades from establishment of the Zionist regime and the entity's ambitious objectives, the concept of cancerous tumor, attribu</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">ted to the usurper regime, has become more evident to all."</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">May efforts to appreciate and celebrate this first annual day of non-violence lend itself to <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-22/0710027883193427.htm">the Islamic Republic army as</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“the occupying regime of Qods' threat goes far b</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">eyond </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">Palestine</span></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">Lebanon</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and even the </span><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Middle East</span></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;"> but the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and western states do not show a</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">ny reaction to the clandestine nuclear activities of the occupying regime.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Oh yeah, and Obama is working to “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/us/politics/02obama.html">urge elimination of nuclear weapons…</a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-67575746327736145492007-10-02T07:12:00.000-07:002007-10-02T07:28:51.014-07:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Time to pack the family up and get ready for the fun and frivolity of International Qods Day (IQD) celebrations slated for </span><st1:date year="2007" day="5" month="10"><span style="font-family:Arial;">October 5, 2007</span></st1:date><span style="font-family:Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><a href="http://www.iran.ru/eng/iran_news.php?act=news_by_id&amp;_n=1&amp;news_id=31506">What is IQD</a>?:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“International Qods Day reminds the world of the decades of Israeli oppression against an innocent and defenseless nation. The late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, designated the day. During this annual event both Muslims and non-Muslims in large numbers in many countries come out to renew their support for the Palestinians and their resistance against the cruel Israeli military occupation.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">In juxtaposition to the day, Israeli Foreign Minister and Vice Prime Minister Tzipi Livni while addressing the <a href="http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.672581/k.CB99/Home.htm?sid=147905688">UN 62^nd General Assembly yesterday said</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></em></p><blockquote><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">"The foundation for true peace lies in the vision of two </span></em><st1:place><st1:city><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">States</span></em></st1:city><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span></em><st1:country-region><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">Israel</span></em></st1:country-region></st1:place><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"> and </span></em><st1:city><st1:place><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">Palestine</span></em></st1:place></st1:city><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">, living side by side in peace and security."</span></em></blockquote><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></em><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Of the threats of terror and extremism she said:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></em></p><blockquote><p><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">"</span></em><st1:country-region><st1:place><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">Israel</span></em></st1:place></st1:country-region><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"> may be on the front lines of this battle"</span></em><span style="font-family:Arial;"> against terrorism, <em><span style="font-family:Arial;">but it is not our fight alone. This is a global battle...today it is clear that the extremists are engaged in a bloody war against civilians and communities...in every corner of the world. And it is clear too, that the </span></em></span><st1:place><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">Middle East</span></em></st1:place><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"> conflict is not a cause of this global extremist agenda, but a consequence of it."</span></em><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">"But for success to be genuine and lasting, you - the nations of the world - need to be partners in a shared global struggle against the extremism and terror that feed conflict, for your sake not just for ours."</span></em></p></blockquote><p><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></em><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, a major force behind the International Qods Day, though her comments were not with regard to the day:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></em></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">"No responsible state disagrees that Iran is the most prominent sponsor of terrorism...None disagrees that Iran denies</span></em><span style="font-family:Arial;"> <em><span style="font-family:Arial;">the Holocaust and speaks openly of its desire to wipe a member state - mine - off the map..."</span></em>, <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Too many see the danger but walk idly by - hoping that someone else will take care of it. What is the value, we have to ask, of an organization which is unable to take effective action in the face of a direct assault on the very principles it was founded to protect? It is time for the United Nations, and the States of the world, to live up to their promise of never again."</span></em></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></em><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iranian leaders/groups remarks regarding International Qods Day<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Majlis deputy from Tehran Saeed Abutaleb <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-17/0710021332154651.htm">said of the day of unity</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>“the world should break silence on the day and the Muslims are expected to chant slogans in support of Palestinians.”</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Agreed, the world should break its silence and shove the truth down the throats of these instigators of death in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> that have so much to do with keeping the terror in the region living and breathing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Moussa Qorbani, member of the Majils presiding board while calling for “massive turnout” <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-17/0710023162152632.htm">Friday said</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">“According to history, the Palestinian territory belongs to the Palestinian nation.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">In reaction to failures the Zionists suffered in the occupied territories, the occupying regime has exerted intensive pressure on innocent Palestinian people.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The World Bank said in a report that the economic sanctions </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> imposed on Palestinians in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gaza</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;"> has made life drastically difficult.”</span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Damned Israelis, why won’t they give aid and comfort to the Hezzies that are now in charge in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gaza</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family:Arial;">? Can you imagine how peaceful the world would be without them?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thoughts (WFPIST or We’re F**kin’ Pissed) <a href="http://www2.irna.com/en/news/view/line-17/0710025936155619.htm">statement of unity</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><blockquote>"The international Qods Day is considered the day of emergence of the Islamic grandeur, Muslims' campaign against arrogant powers, symbol of Islamic solidarity and resistance by the oppressed, and unity among all justice-seeking and truth-lover human beings."</blockquote><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I’m guessing the “justice-seeking, truth-lover human beings” will in time find truth, but not until their propaganda and lies are effectively considered truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Palestinian Ambassador to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, Salah Zawawi talked to Iran Daily about this day of celebrations, rallies and protests last year.<span style=""> </span>In describing US <a href="http://www.iran.ru/eng/iran_news.php?act=news_by_id&amp;_n=1&amp;news_id=31506">support of the Zionist Israelis…</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;">“The reason for this was not their love for the Jews, rather they wanted to get rid of the Jews and their evilness. The Americans have been pushing for their own interest in the </span><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Middle East</span></st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">, including oil and hegemony. The </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> wants to spread the seeds of discord among Arabs and Muslims and rule over them. It has a history of creating turmoil in Muslim countries and enmity among Sunnis and Shiites. The so-called new Middle East Initiative is in line with this policy.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> leads the way in attempts at unifying Muslims and Muslim nations with the expectations that the final product will be under its leadership.<span style=""> </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> supports and is a terrorist state and is devoted to Islamification of the planet.<span style=""> </span>Pipe dreams for sure, but anything is possible when we keep our eyes closed and ears plugged.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal">CELEBRATE!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="139" height="45" src="http://thoof.com/tr/9262"> </iframe><br /><a href="http://www.linkfests.us/"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/307/106/320/linkfest.jpg" alt="Linkfest Haven, the Blogger's Oasis" /></a><br />Trackposted to <a href="http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/10/obama_rid_world_of_nuclear_weapons_/">Outside the Beltway</a>, <a href="http://morewhat.com/wordpress/?p=2430">Blog @ MoreWhat.com</a>, <a href="http://www.onebigdog.net/the-left-will-hate-this-news-fewer-soldiers-killed/">Big Dog's Weblog</a>, <a href="http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2007/10/right-truth-b-1.html">Right Truth</a>, <a href="http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/the-coolest-christian-music-video-ever-midweek-open-trackbacks/">Adam's Blog</a>, <a href="http://thepopulistblog.com/2007/10/01/open-trackback-open-thread-monday/">The Populist</a>, <a href="http://www.webloggin.com/ken-burns-the-war-hmmm-what-the/">Webloggin</a>, <a href="http://amboytimes.typepad.com/the_amboy_times/2007/10/staclu-history-.html">The Amboy Times</a>, <a href="http://leaningstraightup.com/2007/10/02/stupid-parents-in-san-francisco/">Leaning Straight Up</a>, <a href="http://www.conservativecat.com">Conservative Cat</a>, <a href="http://conservablogs.com/nuke/2007/09/30/thegreatestcampaignfinancescandalinamericanhistory-hillary-rodham-clinton/">Nuke's</a>, <a href="http://allieiswired.com/archives/2007/10/britney-spears-loses-custody-of-the-children-its-official/">Allie is Wired</a>, <a href="http://www.thepiratescove.us/?p=4532">Pirate's Cove</a>, <a href="http://thomistic.blogspot.com/2007/10/fashion-or-fascists-exploiting-anorexic.html">Dumb Ox Daily News</a>, <a href="http://rightvoices.com/2007/10/01/breaking-texas-oilman-oscar-wyatt-tells-judge-he-wants-to-plead-guilty-at-un-oil-for-food-trial/">Right Voices</a>, <a href="http://www.yankeesailor.us/?p=424">The Yankee Sailor</a>, and <a href="http://hollywood.outsidethebeltway.com/2007/10/britney-spears-loses-custody/">Gone Hollywood</a>, thanks to <a href="http://www.linkfests.us">Linkfest Haven Deluxe</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-6757574632773614549?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-17542846238827437772007-10-01T12:50:00.000-07:002007-10-01T13:02:32.811-07:00From <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzBlNTU5MTgzYmQ2NGQ2Njc4ZmMxMDVmZDU3ZWM5MGQ=">Anne Bayefsky</a> at <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/">National Review Online</a>:<span style="font-family:Arial;"></span><p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">"When the Council was first created a new “universal periodic review” (UPR) mechanism — to permit the examination of human rights in every state starting with current members — was touted as a serious part of its duties. Only real human-rights promoters would want to withstand the heat of three-hour conversations once every five years and so it would act as an incentive to keep the bad guys off. At this Council session they agreed on a timetable to conduct reviews. Guess what? </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Israel</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> — with a snowball’s chance in hell of ever being on the Council — was among the first to be reviewed. Current members and human-rights enthusiasts </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Saudi Arabia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Cuba</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Russia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Azerbaijan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> come later. </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> is three years away. And </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Syria</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sudan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Zimbabwe</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> are in 2011. If they play their cards right, they can run for office in 2008 and rotate off the Council before the review even gets around to them.<br /><br />Resolutions adopted Friday included stalwarts from the Council’s discredited predecessor, the Human Rights Commission — “human rights and international solidarity” and “human rights and unilateral coercive measures” — the usual nonsense aimed straight at the West and all values democratic.<br /><br />There was a dandy resolution on the Durban II racism conference — the newest U.N. forum for anti-semites from around the world being planned for 2009. The resolution calls for the Libyan Chair of the Preparatory Committee to come to </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">New York</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family:Arial;"> to present a report in person to the General Assembly. (Distributing the written report is not good enough.) The cost of the visit? $8,400 according to the Secretariat — for a 15-30 minute presentation. In case you were wondering, American taxpayers will pay 22 percent of those costs.<br /><br />Then there were lots of resolutions on racism — all designed to bring hysterical accusations of Islamophobia and dastardly cartoons to the fore. In line with the sponsors’ genuine concern for religious discrimination, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Pakistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;"> objected to “Jewish holidays” being used as a pretext for violating the human rights of Palestinians.<br /><br />At the insistence of the OIC, a new clause has become de rigueur for the mandate of every investigator on every human rights subject, country-oriented or thematic. The provision imposes a code of conduct which threatens to seriously interfere with their independence,<br /><br />My personal favorite was the Egyptian-led resolution, entitled “From rhetoric to reality: a global call for concrete action against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance.” Adopted over the negative votes of all Western and Eastern European democracies, who are totally outnumbered in the Council, it <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">decides that the future agenda of the Intergovernmental Working Group will focus on the following paramount issues…re-aligning the work and name of the Anti-Discrimination Unit in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights…and that, henceforth, this Unit shall be known as “The Anti-Racial Discrimination Unit,” and that its operational activities shall focus exclusively on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, as defined in…the Durban Declaration.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">In other words, for anybody who has any idea of talking about anything but Islamophobia, you’re days are numbered.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">In the meantime, the day-to-day camaraderie of the UN Human Rights Council proved a comfortable place to express the following sentiments:<br /><br />Egypt: “…the offensive publication of portraits of the Prophet Mohamed…has highlighted the damage that freedom of speech if left unchecked may lead to, not only hurting the religious feelings of more than a billion people, but also their freedom of religion and their right for respect of their religion.”<br /><br /></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Pakistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, on behalf of the OIC: “…terrorist acts carried out by non-state actors, in the name of religion, should be de-linked from religion to ensure freedom of religion for the peaceful followers of that faith.”<br /><br /></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Pakistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, on behalf of the OIC: “The international community must address the root causes of terrorism, such as the situations of grave injustice and repression involving Muslims, and conditions of poverty and lack of opportunity, which fuel extremism and terrorism.”<br /><br /></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Syria</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">: “Freedom of opinion had been utilized to humiliate Islam and to cause hatred and instigate violence.”<br /><br /></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Bangladesh</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">: “…freedom of expression…cannot be absolute nor infinite. It must be exercised with respect and responsibility…”<br /><br /></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Iran</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">: “…the right to freedom of expression is not absolute.”<br /><br /></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Pakistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">, on behalf of the OIC: “Islamophobia is also a crude form of anti-Semitism.”<br /><br /></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">Algeria</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">: “…there is an upswing in anti-Semitism that now targets Arabs… and Muslims.”"</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><p>"<a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzBlNTU5MTgzYmQ2NGQ2Njc4ZmMxMDVmZDU3ZWM5MGQ="><span style="font-weight: bold;">Our Dead Are Our Fault</span></a>"<br /><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="139" height="45" src="http://thoof.com/tr/9091"> </iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-1754284623882743777?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. Blandly Urbanenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20320286.post-21916567468749015942007-10-01T12:18:00.000-07:002007-10-01T12:22:47.082-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.geneautry.com/home.php"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_ZD7FsKlBKkc/RwFIWzqyJCI/AAAAAAAAAko/CUBxzvqrItc/s200/GA.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116450208333571106" border="0" /></a><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">According to blog author Christopher Brocious of <a href="http://brocious.blogspot.com/2007/09/back-in-saddle-again.html">Conservative Cowboy</a>, “Gene Autry was the inspiration behind <a href="http://cowboycodemarshals.blogspot.com/">the Cowboy Code Marshals</a>. A role model for </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Arial;">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Arial;">'s youth.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Gene Autry would have been 100 years old this past Saturday September 29; one might wonder why this matters and who cares?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">You could say Gene Autry hails from a time that never was, as nostalgia often does, but this would be inaccurate; Gene Autry had and has many fans and at the height of his career children looked up to him.<span style=""> </span>Gene Autry the hero to millions of kids, Gene Autry the man that brought us the “<a href="http://www.geneautry.com/geneautry/geneautry_cowboycode.html">Cowboy Code</a>:”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family:Arial;">1. The Cowboy must never shoot first, hit a smaller man, or take unfair advantage.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">2. He must never go back on his word, or a trust confided in him.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">3. He must always tell the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">4. He must be gentle with children, the elderly, and animals.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">5. He must not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">6. He must help people in distress.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">7. He must be a good worker.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">8. He must keep himself clean in thought, speech, action, and personal habits.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">9. He must respect women, parents, and his nation's laws.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Arial;">10. The Cowboy is a patriot.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Take Gene Autry or leave him, but when the choice is falling in line with perhaps <a href="http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.do">America’s favorite serial killer</a> as hero, to a gentleman like Autry and the aspiration of the “code,” I’ll take the <a href="http://brocious.blogspot.com/2007/09/back-in-saddle-again.html">Public Cowboy #1</a> any day.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">We need more like him!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p></p><li><a href="http://demediacraticnationblogrolls.blogspot.com/2007/02/demediacratic-nation-blogrolls.html" target="_blank">DeMediacratic Nation Blogrolls</a><p></p>Please give this Post/Blog a Vote - <a href="http://www.blogtoplist.com/vote.php?u=6586" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.blogtoplist.com/images/votebutton.gif" alt="Top Blogs" border="0" /></a><br /><!-- End BlogToplist voting code --></li><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20320286-2191656746874901594?l=demediacraticnation.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>a.k.a. 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