The Misspeller

I have more than once been alerted to casual misspells I put in posts. I apologize, I type fast and it slips in.

Imagine if news headlines had casual misplaced letters and misspells. You'd get a whole different news, an example:

"Obama Sorry for Bowling Joke" transformed into Obama Sorry for Blowing Joke (or Obama sorry for BJ)

Lebanese President to French: I love Hezbollah, we need more of their success

Puppet buckethead mistaken for president in Lebanon

Lebanon is doomed.

Lebanese Pres. Rejects Talks With Israel, Praises Hizbullah

Wrapping up a three-day visit to France Wednesday night, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman explicitly rejected direct talks with Israel and praised Hizbullah for its military accomplishments.

At a press conference in Paris, capping a series of talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other French officials, Suleiman said that he was asked by his hosts if Lebanon would engage in direct negotiations with Israel.

"We have always refused to hold direct talks with the Israelis," Suleiman explained, adding that instead he had "invited President Sarkozy to work toward a global approach for the solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And we have also called for that to happen within the framework of an international conference to which all the parties involved would be invited."

The Lebanese leader cautioned, however, against internecine Arab disagreements over the issue. "If the world wants peace," he stated, "it must work for reconciliation" between Arab nations and the Palestinian Authority. In the same vein, he rejected a peace deal with Israel that would be forged "at Lebanon's expense or counter to the Arab national interest." On Monday, Lebanon opened an embassy in Syria for the first time.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera TV on Sunday, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora sounded a slightly different tune, when he said Lebanon was not in need of a "chaperon" for talks with Israel. "We can speak for ourselves," he said.

Hizbullah 'Protecting the Country'
In Paris this week, Lebanese President Suleiman also reportedly asked Sarkozy to pressure Israel over what he claimed were violations of United Nations Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War in 2006.
Echoing the claims of Iran- and Syria-backed Hizbullah, Suleiman said Israel was in "occupation" of Mt. Dov (Shebaa Farms) on the Lebanon-Syria-Israel border. He also accused Israel of refusing to reveal where mines were placed by IDF forces in southern Lebanon during the conflict there.

Regarding the Hizbullah militia, which independently launched attacks on Israel that precipitated the 2006 war, Suleiman said, "We, in Lebanon, do not talk about disarming Hizbullah, because the Lebanese resistance played a major role in protecting the country during the time when the government was absent. We are seeking to find a formula that would allow us to benefit from the resistance force in defending the country." Instead, he explained, Hizbullah would "hand over the weapons" only in "a consensual agreement between the different political parties."

Meanwhile, US state department are funding Lebanese police training. Brilliant. (I have a source, you won't find it in the news)

Tortured to Death, But not in Gitmo nor Abu-Graib - so moving on

How sick was it when the media kept pushing lies and propaganda about the US torturing and murdering poor innocent Muslims? This sick: It is happening everyday in Iran and no MSM outlet reports on it.

Fist-Unclenching in action.
Iranian Blogger Reported Dead in Prison

Omid Reza Misayafi, one of a number of Iranian bloggers arrested for "insulting" the government and religious authorities in that country, is dead. Misayafi's death was reported on Global Voices Online via an Iranian human rights site in Farsi and we learned of it from The Committee to Protect Bloggers.

No cause of death is yet known, but the Committee says torture of bloggers is common in Iran and they are usually placed in close proximity to the most dangerous criminals in any facility. Misayafi was sentenced in December to 30 months in prison "for insulting Islamic Republic Leaders." The man said he was a cultural blogger, not a political one, and only wrote a few satirical articles that got him into trouble.

An update tonight indicates that the prison conditions may have led the man to take his own life. Directly or indirectly, it appears that Misayafi's life has been brought to an end for exercising free speech, for criticizing an authoritarian state and for doing it using online social media. Social media users and advocates around the world should take note of this even

Misleading readers: Vancouver woman kidnapped in Pakistan pleads for life on video

Guess what's not in the title? You have to read further...

Vancouver woman kidnapped in Pakistan pleads for life on video

A Canadian woman being held hostage in northern Pakistan says her captors are planning to behead her at the end of the month if a $2-million ransom is not paid.

In a video provided to the Globe and Mail and posted on the newspaper's website, a pale and haggard-looking Khadija Abdul Qahaar, 52, begins to cry as she says her "time is very short and my life is going to end.

"I'm going to be killed, as you can see," Qahaar says on the video, pointing at a long knife hanging behind her.

"I'm going to be beheaded just like the Polish engineer, probably by the end of the month. The deadline is by the end of March."

That name... something about that name... (no one deserves this but something about the name makes me a bit more curious)

The former West Vancouver resident was kidnapped in November along with three guides while travelling to record video.

Ms. Qahaar, who changed her name from Beverly Giesbrecht after converting to Islam in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, is the owner and publisher of a controversial pro-Islamic web magazine called Jihad Unspun, which is registered to a West Vancouver address.

Well, well. It seems she found what she was promoting and advocating. I hope she is freed simply for humanitarian reasons, but I do hope no one pays a dime in ransom to do so. It's like being told Osama Bin Laden is held captive by Al-Zawahere, you don't know who to jeer first.

Pure Silly: Foodies Celebrate White House Veggie Garden

Whatever.

Foodies Celebrate White House Veggie Garden

Bringing fresh food from the farm to the plate for a healthy dinner isn't easy at the end of a busy day, but the Obama family has a plan.

Foodies and environmentalists are thrilled about the Obamas' plans to break ground today on a new White House vegetable garden in their yard.

"A garden like this is one of those small gestures that is powerfully symbolic," Michael Pollan, author of "Omnivores Dilemma" and vocal advocate for agricultural reform, told ABC News.

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Bullcrap. You ass smoochers do realize it's just a vegi garden right?

WTF

Glorified Weirdo

Click to waste a couple of minutes and be baffled for an hour or so.


If it were a "Caption This!" thread:
* The more it gets around... the more STD-s...
* Fish tasting kisses
* The ladies dig the crazy look
* If you've seen the show, you'd be even more baffled
* Bond, James Bond - would turn in his grave
* The opposite of classic English Gentleman
* And then he screamed at that poor Australian girl: VOTE OBAMA

AIG Hypocrisies remind me of...

AIG Hypocrisies remind me of French revolutionary pinning all the troubles and frustration on the queen and finally murdering her.

Think about it. The DNC caused this mess, lied about it, then pointed fingers at the people who work at AIG and finally enacted law to pick pockets of private individuals.

Look - I don't think that anyone should be given a bonus in a company that loses money at the billions, but to enact law to dig into someone's pockets like that? It's Bolshevism. It shows the level of thought current legislators hold.

Malkin had it right:
First, they came for AIG bonuses

The House is set to vote today on the retroactive, confiscatory 90 percent tax on bailout-funded bonuses. Lawmakers say the tax will apply to Fannie/Freddie bonuses. But who knows what the hell will end up in this Chicken Little measure:

The House is scheduled to vote today on a bill that would levy a 90 percent tax on bonuses paid to employees with family incomes above $250,000 at companies that have received at least $5 billion in government bailout money.

“We figured that the local and state governments would take care of the other 10 percent,” said Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

Rangel said the bill would apply to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, among others, while excluding community banks and other smaller companies that have received less bailout money…The top two members of the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday announced a bill that would impose a 35 percent excise tax on the companies paying the bonuses and a 35 percent excise tax on the employees receiving them. The taxes would apply to all companies receiving government bailout money, but they are clearly geared toward AIG.

The NYPost rightly warns that such politically expedient power grabs are courting catastrophe:

Now, a bonus witch-hunt will satisfy many souls but it surely won’t help solve Liddy’s problem.

Which, obviously, is America’s problem, too.

And such action threatens substantially to damage other institutions now being swept up in it.

Four big New York employers each, it needs to be noted, a major local tax-revenue generator seem to be squarely in Pelosi and Rangel’s sights: Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

Many banks entered the federal bailout program because of intense pressure from Washington and many only after being assured that confiscatory taxation and other ex post facto penalties would be off the table.

How badly any of them will be hurt depends on the fine print in the legislation now at issue. Certainly it would be useful if those details got a complete airing before Congress acts.

But politics, hypocrisy, resentment and fear have good sense on the run.

And now this:
Scorn Trails A.I.G. Executives, Even in Their Driveways

The A.I.G. executive who was nicknamed “Jackpot Jimmy” by a New York tabloid walked up the driveway toward his bay-windowed house in Fairfield, Conn., on Thursday afternoon. "How do I feel?” said the executive, James Haas, repeating the question he had just been asked. “I feel horrible. This has been a complete invasion of privacy."

Mr. Haas walked on, his pink shirt a burst of color on a slate-gray afternoon. The words came haltingly. "You have to understand,” he said, “there are kids involved, there have been death threats. ..." His voice trailed off. It looked as if he was fighting back tears.

"I didn’t have anything to do with those credit problems,” said Mr. Haas, 47. “I told Mr. Liddy” — Edward M. Liddy, the chief executive of A.I.G., the insurance giant — “I would rescind my retention contract.”

There's a scent of social warfare in the air, and the potential consequence is written on the wall in red.

Will anyone hold the politicians responsible for incitement if someone does get physically hurt?

Dirt

A perfect tune when you feel like smashing someone's face in...
Dirt



Oh - those 90-s grunge rock bands... it almost always ended tragically:

After a decade battling drug addiction, Layne Staley was found dead in his condominium on April 19, 2002. An autopsy revealed Staley died from a mixture of heroin and cocaine 14 days previously.

I don't think it was any surprise though. Even at "Alice in Chains"'s earliest songs the theme was about drug dealers and addiction.

Seeking to Rob Israel of Good PR, PA Sentences Its Sick to Die

Arabs in Judea, Sumeria and Gaza: Morally depraved society.

Seeking to Rob Israel of Good PR, PA Sentences Its Sick to Die

(IsraelNN.com) A decision by the Palestinian Authority Health Minister to cut off medical benefits at Israeli hospitals has cost the life of at least one little girl, and it is not clear how many more will follow.

Following the recent counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead against Gaza terrorists, PA minister Fathi Abu Moughli decided in January to stop covering Israeli hospital expenses of PA residents who cross the security barrier to receive treatment.

As a result, strokes have gone untreated and life-saving chemotherapy, radiotherapy and bone marrow transplants for cancer patients have been put off indefinitely.

Six-year-old Asil Manasra died. The Palestinian Authority child had for eight months been receiving intensive treatment at an Israeli hospital for complications arising from tuberculosis. One week after the PA Health Ministry forced her family to stop the visits, the little girl struggled for breath no more.

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Israel's Army Investigates Allegations of Misconduct during Gaza War

I'm posting about it only to emphasize that Israelis do not support cold blooded murder. A war is not in action to murder civilians of opposite nations. If any wrongdoings were done (and at war, it can happen) - those who offended get punished.

Now contrast that with anything happening in Gaza, Lebanon or any Arab nation with regards to how human beings are treated, not to mention Israelis and Jews.

IDF orders probe of Cast Lead accounts

Following the release of damning testimonies of soldiers and officers who took part in Operation Cast Lead at the beginning of 2009, which told of unethical, if not criminal conduct on the part of the military, the IDF announced on Thursday that it was launching an investigation into the matter.

In a statement released by the IDF Spokesperson's Office, the IDF Military Advocate General, Brig. Gen. Avichai Mendelblit was said to have instructed the Criminal Investigation Division of the IDF Military Police to investigate the soldiers' claims.

The testimonies included reports of shooting at people known to be non-combatants, evacuating families to zones which the military had defined as no-entry zones and therefore would open fire at any person entering, acts of vandalism and abuse of humanitarian aid.

The testimonies were given during a gathering at the Rabin Pre-Military Academy about a month ago and were alter published in an academy pamphlet. An IAF pilot and infantry soldiers participated in the gathering. Most participants said commands from higher echelons who were not present in the theater were sometimes taken as almost unlimited license to act as the soldiers in the field saw fit.

PS: From what I read - these are reports of horrifying accidents due to failure of communications, not instances of supposed "war crimes" or murder.

The only solution to avoid such incidents is to avoid war, and the only way to avoid war is for both sides to agree to cease hostilities. Now which side instigated the hostility here and has refused to cease firing rockets onto civilian population? Which side is holding someone captive without any charges and without any basic human rights such as a visit by the red cross? Which side celebrates death and murder? Which side treats the horrors of war as a basketball game where score of bodies is kept to either:
A. Proclaim undeserved victimhood due to overwhelming military defeat
B. Proclaim divine victory by virtue of successfully killing some Israelis

IPO for Gaza, want to own shares of terrorists swamp?

If the free markets would ever value Gaza, penny stocks would be a definition suggesting too much value...

Gaza to use IPO to raise aid funds

New initiative seeks to use initial public offering of Strip 'stocks' in order to raise necessary funds for post-Israeli offensive rebuilding. Arab, Islamic groups involved say goal is to raise $2 billion; Hamas to be part of decisions on investments

Various Arab and Islamic organizations have pledged to aid rebuilding war-torn Gaza Strip, while bluntly disregarding the donor conference held in Gaza's benefit in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, in February.

International community delegates attending the conference, including the United States, France and the United Arab Emirates, pledged $4 billions for the Strip, but vowed that Hamas would not see a single dollar.

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Capitalism and terrorism don't mix. But some will never learn. Feed the destitute and hungry around the world - not the fat and murderous of that sewage swamp.

Murdered People and are staying at the Israeli Hilton Prison? Get a Sony Playstation

H/T to rotter thread in Hebrew.

Back in 2006, an Arab murderer sitting in Israeli jail complained to court that his Playstation 1 was lost while transferred from one jail to another. He demanded Israel gives him Playstation 2. Why any to begin with?!

The state claimed that PS2 was a security threat and the courts urged the state to reconsider.

Death penalty would have prevented this idiocy from taking place to begin with.


Source in Hebrew: ynet.co.il, Auto translated: here

Recommended Read: Naive U.S. justice system is turning terrorists loose

From the New York Daily News:
Taking risks with terror: Naive U.S. justice system is turning terrorists loose

The "terrorists to the bone" taunting by five Al Qaeda architects of the 9/11 attacks was a painful reminder that more than seven years after the murders of 3,000 Americans, the U.S. has failed abysmally in the application of justice.

Those who committed the unspeakable should no longer have the capacity to speak. They should be dead.

But no. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his fellow conspirators are shielded by lawyers who charge the government violated civil liberties by disclosing defiant declarations the terrorists themselves filed in court. This is the world turned disgracefully on its head.

We ourselves are to blame. The Bush and Obama administrations, Congress and the courts made prosecuting the blatantly guilty virtually impossible. Instead, we have the paralysis of politics and procedural protections.

Even if it kills us. And it is killing us. It is killing U.S. troops.

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Read it all...

And the gull of Gibbs, calling Cheney remarks part of "Republican Cabal".

This administration for some reason thinks the war on terror is a big joke:
Homeland Security Chief: Of Course There's Islamic Terrorism...I Just Don't Give a Shit....

How to make sure you will lose a war? Discourage the troops:
American Legion commander “angered” after meeting Obama

Cabal?! Dangerous stuff is happening here and people are worried for their lives and lives of the troops. But hey, let's play politics. Let's just goof and rename things.

Obama to re-brand “enemy combatants”

Dereliction. That's the word I was looking for. It all started with Bill Clinton though:

The Oddest Way to Fight Terrorism

With this ad:


Feels like a recycling ad, doesn't it?
Anti-terror campaign launched

PEOPLE in shops, petrol stations, hairdressers - and even pub toilets - are being urged to join the fight against terrorism.

The call is being made by the Manchester-based North West Counter Terrorism Unit in a nationwide advertising campaign launched yesterday.

The campaign - to increase awareness of an anti-terrorist hotline and flag up possible danger signs - will be targeted at people going about their everyday business.

As revealed exclusively by the M.E.N. last month, the ads will feature on radio stations and in newspapers - but they will also be in supermarkets, hairdressing salons, petrol stations, public loos in pubs and bars, and at Manchester airport.

The ads encourage people to contact police if they spot something suspicious rather than leaving it to someone else.

Det. Chief Supt Tony Porter said: "We can all play our part in protecting our communities and reporting any suspicious activity. When people provide information they could be giving us the final piece of a complex jigsaw.

"If you have concerns about something, don't leave it in the hope someone else will report it. It is down to us to make sure the call has been made as it could save lives.

"People can report their concerns through the hotline and they will be treated in the strictest confidence, and all information will be thoroughly researched before any police action is taken."

During the month long initiative cards, postcards and leaflets with the hotline number on will be distributed to communities. People will be encouraged to keep the phone number and store it so they have it to hand if they need to use it.

Police say the posters are part of an on-going campaign and are `not linked to any current threat'

I have a tip for you. Write the words in Urdu, Pashtun, Arabic, and replace the image with a "TERRORISTS: GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY COUNTRY" sign.