Archive for March, 2008

North Korea Threatens South With Destruction

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea threatened South Korea with destruction Sunday after Seoul's top military officer said his country would consider attacking the communist nation if it tried to carry out a nuclear attack. The statement from North Korea's official news agency marked the third straight day of bellicose rhetoric from the North, which is ...

Islam Has Overtaken Roman Catholicism

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Islam has overtaken Roman Catholicism as the biggest single religious denomination in the world, the Vatican said on Sunday. Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican's newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world's population and Catholics 17.4 percent. "For the first time in history we are ...

Hillary Now Being Called “Deadbeat”

Politico: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys, but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small business circles. A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events ...

Update: Al-Sadr Pulls Fighters Off Streets

Update from earlier story......and this blustery bull didn't last but a minute, either...someone was fearin an ass-whippin... By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD (AP) - Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Sunday that he was pulling his fighters off the streets nationwide and called on the government to stop raids against his followers and free them from prison. The ...

Breaking: Al Sadr Offers Surrender For Amnesty, Disavows Own Fighters – Updates Coming In

BAGHDAD - Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is offering to pull his fighters off the streets of Basra and other cities if the government halts raids against his followers and releases prisoners held without charge. The offer is contained in a nine-point statement issued by his headquarters in Najaf. Al-Sadr is demanding that the government issue a general ...

Iran Angrily Summons Dutch Ambassador Over “Fitna”

Here's a perfect and complete copy if you haven't seen it yet. Check "Deep Thoughts", you'll see it pissed me off pretty bad. Now, do we really think the Dutch have gone insane, or are they simply on the front lines of a war that not enough people have woken up to? ...

British Troops, Taliban In A Tug Of War Over Key Afghan Province – U.S. Marines (And Pat Dollard) On The Way

Related: U.S. Marines On The Way - Taking Back This Land From The Taliban Is The Mystery Mission. WAPO: Photo Essay Here GARMSIR, Afghanistan -- Perched on the banks of the Helmand River, this desolate town occupied by British forces marks Afghanistan's de facto border: Beyond here, the Afghan government is powerless and Taliban insurgents hold sway, their ...

Al Sadr Defies American Orders To Surrender

Wash Times: BAGHDAD — Anti-American Shi'ite militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his followers yesterday to defy government orders to surrender their weapons, as U.S. jets struck Shi'ite extremists near Basra to bolster a faltering Iraqi offensive against gunmen in the city. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki acknowledged he may have miscalculated by failing to foresee the strong backlash ...

European Union Condemns “Fitna”, Muslims Demand International Laws Prohibiting Similar Speech

Related: Jihadi Bloggers React DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Islamic and Arab leaders denounced a Dutch film Saturday that portrays Islam as a ticking time bomb aimed at the West, demanding international laws to prevent insults to religions. The 15-minute film entitled "Fitna," or "ordeal" in Arabic, by Dutch anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders brought condemnations from Muslim capitals ...

Shiite Showdown Seizes Center Stage Of Presidential Race

NYT: The heavy fighting that broke out last week as Iraqi security forces tried to oust Shiite militias from Basra is reverberating on the presidential campaign trail and posing new challenges and opportunities to the candidates, particularly Senator John McCain. The fierce fighting — and the threat that it could undo a long-term truce that has greatly ...

Video: McCain’s First General Election Ad

Check this as well. Then, there's always this option.

Hussein: I’m Happy To Keep Beating The Shit Out Of That Bitch As Long As She’ll Let Me

The Swamp: by Mike Dorning JOHNSTOWN, Pa--Barack Obama today brushed aside suggestions from some of his allies that Hillary Clinton should withdraw soon from the presidential race, saying his rival should " run as long as she wants." At least, that is, until the last state primary in early June. "At that point there are no more contests," Obama ...

Hillary’s Campaign Manager Was Director Of Infamous Failed Subprime Mortgage Lender

Hillary Clinton's longtime friend and Campaign Manager, Maggie Williams Also tried to make an interesting first move after she replaced the fired Patti Solis-Doyle The Swamp: Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign manager, Maggie Williams, earned about $200,000 on the board of a Long Island subprime lender that charged prepayment penalties — a practice that Clinton, a critic of the ...

Keith Moon Says “Fitna” Is Un-Islamic

I say move that building off American soil already, it's like Free Parking for our enemies. UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned as "offensively anti-Islamic" a Dutch lawmaker's film that accuses the Koran of inciting violence. Ban acknowledged efforts by the government of the Netherlands to stop the broadcast of the ...

Jihad.com CBS Report – Hold Your Nose & Watch

I also saw a show on Fox News tonight called "Jihad USA"...if you get a chance, watch it. Not sure when they're replaying it, check your guide. Nods to Sandy.

Chopper Cockpit View Of Firing On The Enemy

You may have to watch this a few times, I did. Pretty awesome.