Come to me my babies, let me quell your pain. (I know, Jones, not Applewhite)
Got Caps?
Did you see the radioactive Boy Scout as well?
Pretty, pretty, pretty. - Byrd
Posted on 08/05/2007 4:53:29 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Republican presidential candidates Sam Brownback, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Duncan Hunter, John McCain, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Tom Tancredo and Tommy Thompson debate.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Afghan President Hamid Karzai; former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
You have freepmail
Pretty sure the Pres will veto this. They tried. And like everything else they tried, they failed.
Does Iran have designs on Bahrain?
From Memri we find this disturbing piece
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA37907
Tension has recently developed between Iran and the Gulf states, particularly Bahrain, in the wake of an op-ed by the editor of the Iranian daily Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari, who is an associate of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The op-ed, which depicted the Gulf regimes as “not legitimate” and claimed that Bahrain is an inseparable part of Iran and should be returned to it, provoked angry reactions in the Gulf[...]
For those who really want to get into it (I hope all)
http://www.rumorofwar.blogspot.com/
LOL!!!
Utterly marvolous stuff as always Ali
Did you see this?
Landmines found in creek (Strathroy Ontario Canada)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1876591/posts
It's at the very beginning of the interview. I'm downloading the video now, but it's VERY SLOW. I'll listen after I get it and see if it all squares up.
Little side note, FR's spell check let's misunderestimating stand as being spelled correctly.
Sheesh, via Boston Globe
Poems from Guantanamo
THE JUST-released “Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak” is a collection of 22 poems by 17 detainees at the US detention center at Guantánamo Bay. Edited by Marc Falkoff, each poem had to be cleared by the Pentagon. The result offers a rare glimpse into the lives of the prisoners. The following is an excerpt.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/08/05/poems_from_guantnamo/
Thanks, maica,
I saw it ... I’m on the conservative Episcopalian ping list.
They’re not very tolerant of me there because I’ve stayed in The Church.
They want everyone to leave the church and salt the ground.
We haven’t disabled Tivo’s ability to select and record shows for us. It’s a pain, but I like to wake up in the morning and see that somebody has been thinking about me during the night, even if it’s just Tivo.
It always tapes Charmed and Judging Amy. I told the old man that Tivo thinks he’s gay.
Poem of Guantanamo, by "Ali" Tyrone Greene
Dark and lonely on a summer's night.
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking. Do he bite?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
Slip in his window. Break his neck.
Then his house I start to wreck.
Got no reason. What the heck?
Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L my land lord!
Two things I wish had not been mentioned on this thread:
Bishop Gene ... for all the obvious reasons, and
24 ... because I am so hurt and outraged at the rumors that the show will be taking up global warming this season.
I have all the past seasons on DVD.
Come to me my babies, let me quell your pain. (I know, Jones, not Applewhite)
Got Caps?
Did you see the radioactive Boy Scout as well?
Pretty, pretty, pretty. - Byrd
oh ECK!
WTHeck?
I'm starving now after seeing those pictures
Am I suppose to feel sorry for these terrorists who were picked up on the battle field trying to kill our american soldiers??
Cause I don't
Amen Oh, and I'm a Rush 24/7 subscriber. It's worth the price to be able to listen at night.
I love to collect his sound bites, which can easily be gotten from his "podcasts."
Or this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5QXKp2LpBw
How does that work? Bahrain is on the other side of the Gulf, tucked in between Qatar and the Saudi coast.
This is from Wikipedia:
From the sixteenth century to 1743, control of Bahrain drifted between the Portuguese and the Persians. Ultimately, the Persian Afsharid king Nadir Shah invaded and took control of Bahrain.
In the late eighteenth century, the al-Khalifa family invaded and captured the islands from their base in neighbouring Qatar. In order to secure Bahrain from returning to Persian control, the Emirate entered into a treaty relationship with the United Kingdom and became a British protectorate. The population of the island at the time was estimated to be less than 10,000 persons.
... After World War II, increasing anti-British sentiment spread throughout the Arab world and in Bahrain led to riots. The riots focused on the ancient local Jewish community which counted among its members distinguished writers and singers, accountants, engineers and middle managers working for the Oil Company, textile merchants with business all over the peninsula [Jews were not allowed to settle permanently in Saudi Arabia], and free professionals. Following the bloody pogroms of 1947, all the members of Bahrain's Jewish community abandoned their properties and evacuated to Bombay and later settled in Israel (Tel Aviv's Pardes Chana neighborhood) and the United Kingdom. The issue of compensation was never settled. In 1960, the United Kingdom put Bahrain's future to international arbitration and requested that the United Nations Secretary-General take on this responsibility. In 1970, Iran laid claim to Bahrain and the other Persian Gulf islands. However, in an agreement with the United Kingdom it agreed to "not pursue" its claims on Bahrain if its other claims were realized. The following plebiscite saw Bahrainis confirm their independence from Britain and their Arab identity. Bahrain to this day remains a member of the Arab League and Gulf Cooperation Council.
...
After the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, Bahraini Shī'a fundamentalists in 1981 orchestrated a failed coup attempt under the auspices of a front organization, the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Bahrain. The coup would have installed a Shī'a cleric exiled in Iran, Hujjatu l-Islām Hādī al-Mudarrisī, as supreme leader heading a theocratic government.
In 1994, a wave of rioting by disaffected Shīa Islamists was sparked by women's participation in a sporting event. The kingdom was badly affected by sporadic violence during the mid-1990s in which over forty people were killed in violence between the government and Islamists.
In March 1999, Hamad ibn Isa al-Khalifah succeeded his father as head of state and instituted elections for parliament, gave women the right to vote, and released all political prisoners. These moves were described by Amnesty International as representing an "historic period of human rights."[1] The country was declared a kingdom in 2002. It formerly was considered an emirate and officially called a "state."
So this is a long standing dispute with some recent, violent, history. Also, Bahrain appears to be majority Shiite with a Sunni ruling family.
Historically it was mostly under the rule of Arabs until the Portugese seized it in 1521.
This is only good news for us as it will surely piss off the Arabs and Sunnis. We may see a real "civil war" that encompasses all of the Muslim world. And this time a whole bunch of them likely have nukes or can get some real quick.
Hilarious!!!!
“But I thought they were gonna sing Dayo!?!”
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