Posted on 04/15/2007 6:02:06 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum
Back now,,,had to dump-n-wash/clean-up paint...;0)
I should dump everything once a week,,,but,,,LOL;0)
So,,,if mooky-boys pull-out,,,another “election”?...;0)
Bout that time...nite...;0)
Psalm 118
Give thanks to the Lord for he is good,
and his kindness is for ever.
Now let Israel say, he is good
and his kindness is for ever.
Now let the house of Aaron say it too:
that his kindness is for ever.
Now let all who fear the Lord say it too:
that his kindness is for ever.
In my time of trial I called out to the Lord:
he listened, and led me to freedom.
The Lord is with me,
I will fear nothing that man can do.
The Lord, my help, is with me,
and I shall look down upon my enemies.
It is good to seek shelter in the Lord,
better than to trust in men.
It is good to seek shelter in the Lord,
better than to trust in the leaders of men.
All the nations surrounded me,
and in the Lord’s name I slew them.
They crowded in and besieged me,
and in the Lord’s name I slew them.
They surrounded me like swarms of bees,
they burned like a fire of dry thorns,
and in the Lord’s name I slew them.
They chased and pursued me, to make me fall,
and the Lord came to my help.
The Lord is my strength and my rejoicing:
he has become my saviour.
A cry of joy and salvation
in the dwellings of the righteous:
“The Lord’s right hand has triumphed!
The Lord’s right hand has raised me up;
the Lord’s right hand has triumphed”.
I shall not die, but live,
and tell of the works of the Lord.
The Lord chastised me severely
but did not let me die.
Open the gates of righteousness:
I will go in, and thank the Lord.
This is the gate of the Lord;
it is the upright who enter here.
I will thank you, for you listened to me,
and became my saviour.
The stone that the builders rejected
has become the corner-stone.
It was the Lord who did this –
it is marvellous to behold.
This is the day that was made by the Lord:
let us rejoice today, and be glad.
Lord, keep me safe;
O Lord, let me prosper!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
We bless you from the house of the Lord.
The Lord is God, he shines upon us!
Arrange the procession, with close-packed branches,
up to the horns of the altar.
You are my God, I will give thanks to you;
my God, I will give you praise.
Give thanks to the Lord for he is good,
and his kindness is for ever.
Thanx fer the ping and the new thread. I appreciate your hard work and this thread.
Wow!! Just like Christmas — waking up to a shiny new room for the ol’ homethread!!
(Especially like the way the curtains match the slipcovers, Knitting — that’s a nice touch!!) ;~)
Good morning, Everybody!!
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And now, a bit of ‘oddness’ from the “Nothing to see here..” file:
Algeria scolds U.S. about terror warning
Miamiherald.com ^ | April 15, 2007 | By HASSANE MEFTAHI
Posted on 04/16/2007 12:06:55 AM CDT by processing please hold
ALGIERS, Algeria — Algeria’s Foreign Ministry summoned a senior American diplomat on Sunday to complain that the U.S. Embassy’s weekend warning of more possible terror attacks in the capital was “irresponsible,” the official news agency reported.
The embassy warning on Saturday, repeated on television stations, further alarmed Algerians who were already reeling from double suicide bombings Wednesday that killed at least 30 people in Algiers. An Islamic extremist group claimed responsibility for those attacks.
There was also a new report on Sunday of another attack by suspected Islamic extremists on Friday. The daily El Watan said four soldiers were killed and two guards were wounded in the attack on an army encampment and a barracks in the village of M’setas, about 31 miles east of the capital.
An Islamic insurgency to topple Algeria’s secular government erupted in 1992 after the army canceled elections that a Muslim fundamentalist party was set to win. Up to 200,000 people - militants, security forces and civilians - have been killed.
Though violence in the country has dropped dramatically since the height of the insurgency, sporadic attacks continue.
The Foreign Ministry summoned the No. 2 U.S. Embassy official, Thomas F. Daughton, to advise the U.S. mission of its “obligation to scrupulously respect the sovereignty” of Algeria and of “the principle of noninterference in its internal affairs,” official news agency APS reported.
Algeria is a valuable U.S. ally in the international effort to defeat al-Qaida.
APS reported that the Foreign Ministry told Daughton “tempestuous initiatives of this type are counterproductive and irresponsible given the demands of cooperation in the fight against terrorism.”
U.S. Embassy spokesman Matt Goshko had no immediate comment.
The Algerian media criticized the U.S. warning. El Watan called it “indecent” and suggested that U.S. Ambassador Robert Stephen Ford be expelled.
Also on Sunday, Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni lowered the death toll from Wednesday’s attacks to 30 from 33 and said 37 people remained hospitalized. The coordinated attacks targeted the prime minister’s office and a police station.
Authorities had already identified one of the three bombers. Yazid Zerhouni told reporters security forces have identified the other two and they were Algerians, like the first. But they did not immediately provide names.
The Arabic-language newspaper El Khebar reported Saturday that the man who drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into the prime minister’s office was Merouane Boudina, 23, one of 10 brothers and sisters from a poor neighborhood in southern Algiers. Both El Khebar and the French-language daily Liberte said he had been in and out of jail for drug trafficking.
Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa claimed responsibility for the attacks. The group, formerly called the GSPC, was built on the foundations of an Algerian insurgency. Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa became officially linked to al-Qaida at the start of the year.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817974/posts
Gmorning Uncle Ike - need coffee - lots more coffee.
For all of us ex-hippies — this gives the phrase “dropping acid” a whole new meaning.....
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Caches of nitric acid seized in Baghdad
Washington Times ^ | April 16, 2007 | Sharon Behn
Posted on 04/16/2007 12:26:23 AM CDT by bd476
BAGHDAD - U.S. troops said yesterday that they had found two large caches of nitric acid a highly corrosive substance with chemical weapons potential in abandoned houses used by Sunni insurgents in western Baghdad.
Other chemically laced bombs used in terrorist attacks recently have been spiked with chlorine.
Acting on a tip from neighbors, members of the Stryker Brigade’s Alpha Company found 31 barrels of nitric acid Saturday in the walled-off front yard of a house that had been raided less than two weeks earlier.
Members of the same company were clearing another abandoned house a few hundred yards away when they found an additional two 5-gallon containers of nitric acid.
They also discovered four 50-pound bags of an unknown powder, artillery casings filled with the powder, several buckets for mixing, zinc oxide and benzene.
Nitric acid “is one of the chemicals used to make homemade explosives,” said Sgt. 1st Class Douglas Wallace, battalion medic for the 2nd battalion, 3rd infantry regiment of the 3-2 Stryker Brigade. “It’s an acid and causes chemical burns to the skin and burns the lungs and esophagus if it is inhaled,” Sgt. Wallace told The Washington Times.
Capt. Jon Fursman of the Stryker Alpha Company said that eight men had been arrested at the first house and that neighbors had alerted U.S. forces to the chemicals.
“All were clearly labeled in English, with standard hazmat labels,” said Capt. Fursman.
The finds came amid unremitting terrorist attacks to defeat a two-month-old U.S. effort to pacify Baghdad with thousands of additional U.S. troops.
Six bombs exploded in predominantly Shi’ite sections of the capital yesterday, killing at least 45 persons, the Associated Press reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817977/posts
” need coffee - lots more coffee. “
That pretty well describes my natural state.... ;~)
Good morning, Workerbee — glad to see that you ‘n boat apparently weathered the storm in good order....
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We can stop holding our collective breath — it’s ‘official’, now...
Iraq - al-Sadr faction officially quits Iraqi government
AFP via translation | April 16, 2007
Posted on 04/16/2007 3:23:23 AM CDT by HAL9000
AFP via translation -
ALARM - Iraq: the current of the radical chief Sadr Shiite leaves the government
BAGHDAD - the movement of the leader radical Shiite Moqtada Sadr officially announced Monday with journalists in Baghdad his withdrawal of the Iraqi government.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817998/posts
If you liked Hugo, you’ll just *Love* “Son of Hugo” —
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Ecuador leader celebrates ‘win’
BBC ^ | 4/16/2007
Posted on 04/16/2007 3:46:48 AM CDT by bruinbirdman
Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has been celebrating an apparent landslide victory in a referendum on overhauling the political system.
An exit poll showed 78% of voters backed his call for a people’s assembly that would by-pass Congress and rewrite the constitution.
Mr Correa said the country had “said yes to the future”.
He also threatened to kick out the World Bank’s representative and said he would no longer deal with the IMF.
Mr Correa has said reform of the country’s political system is essential.
But his critics accuse him of being authoritarian and following in the footsteps of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Mr Chavez was quick to congratulate Mr Correa after the referendum, saying: “That is how Latin America is moving forward, from victory to victory, from triumph to
triumph.”
Bank warned
Counting for the referendum is expected to be a long process and official results will not be available for a number of days.
However, the BBC’s Daniel Schweimler in Quito says supporters of President Correa were out on the streets just minutes after polling stations closed at 2200 GMT.
The president was shown on national television celebrating at a hotel in the country’s largest city, Guayaquil.
A Cedatos-Gallup exit poll of 40,000 voters nationwide showed 78% in favour and 11.5% opposed.
Mr Correa said “fear had been left behind”.
“The future was at stake, the country was at stake and Ecuadoreans have said yes to that future.”
Mr Correa responded to the referendum with an announcement that Ecuador had repaid its final debt to the International Monetary Fund.
He added: “We don’t want to hear anything more from that international bureaucracy.”
The president also warned he would kick out the representative of the World Bank in Ecuador if the government received, as he put it, pressure from the organisation.
Second referendum
Mr Correa has railed against corruption in the country’s political system, labelling Congress “a sewer”.
But many of his critics have accused him of trying to increase his power and follow President Chavez, who has brought in controversial reforms in Venezuela.
Former Ecuador president Oswaldo Hurtado said of the referendum: “It’s not a project for a better democracy. It’s a project to accumulate power. All dictators always have had constitutions made to fit them.”
The assembly at the centre of the vote would be elected within three months and have six months to draft the constitution.
The document would then be put to a second referendum.
Mr Correa has said he wants to depoliticise the courts and decentralise the state.
The referendum had sparked a political crisis in the country.
An electoral court sacked 57 lawmakers in March for trying to block it.
When the dismissals were ruled illegal, police prevented the legislators returning to their offices and the deputies were kicked and punched by Correa supporters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818004/posts
I don't see this as necessarily bad. Back when they were first forming the government, they needed mookie and his band of merry men to get the Sunni's involved. Not so much now. Mookie is not impotent yet by any means but he's getting there.
” Mookie is not impotent yet by any means but he’s getting there “
Semi-contrarian view — I wonder if Mookie was ever all that ‘potent’ in the grand scheme of Iraqi politics.
His biggest ‘contribution’ has been to provide fodder for the anti-american media and our ‘enemies-at-home’ — which he can continue to do as long as he has Iranian backing and enough stupid followers willing to shoot guns and set off bombs....
I agree.
Morning, Uncle Ike.
I still wish we’d have taken Mookie out when we had the chance...but I’m just like that, before coffee anyway.
” I still wish we’d have taken Mookie out when we had the chance...but I’m just like that, before coffee anyway. “
Oh, I agree, Bahbah (and I’m on my 3rd cuppa.. ;~) ) — he’s definitely on my “better dead” list...
My point was that he’s a much more important figure to the propaganda machine than he ever was in the Iraqi political tapestry....
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