Archive for July, 2008

8am, Thursday, July 31st, Iraq… Say It Ain’t So – Weezer special thanks to everyone who joined in, and cameraman Dan

More fukn idiots…. Click on the pic to view the vid.

…Over the border, there lies the promised land Where everything comes easy, you just hold out your hand…

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An Iraqi military convoy moves through Baqubah, the capital of volatile Diyala province, as part of an operation targeting insurgents. LAT: July 31, 2008 BAQUBAH, IRAQ — Residents of New Baqubah woke up Wednesday to a sight they had never seen before: hundreds of Iraqi national police officers blanketing the neighborhood in a city that [...]

31/07/2008 Haaretz A moment before beginning his supper, Masab, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, glances at the friend who has accompanied him to the restaurant where we met. They whisper a few words and then say grace, thanking God and Jesus for putting food on their plates. It takes a few [...]

Thu, Jul 31 03:05 PM Lahore, July 31 (ANI): The Pakistan unit of the Taliban – the Tehreek-e-Islami Taliban Pakistan (TIP) has reportedly threatened the owners of CDs shops, Internet cafes and cable service providers to close down their activities, and warned the women to wear ‘hijab’ to ensure safety, else their face would be [...]

HEMET, Calif. (KABC) — He gave his life serving this country in the war zone of Afghanistan. But a local bank has refused to cash the government check to pay for his burial. Now his family is fighting back. Navy Corpsman Marc Retmier was the 500th Californian to die in the wars in Afghanistan and [...]

Amazing what happens when our country actually enforces the laws already on the books huh? Think of how much higher the percentage would be if we had EVERY state and city enforcing the laws… 11% aint enough for me… it should be 100%. Conservatives hail the report as proof Bush’s controversial policy of enforcement via [...]

No Shit! From MNFI: Press Release A080731a-081 July 31, 2008 Coalition forces capture suspected Kata’ib Hezbollah associates in east Baghdad BAGHDAD – Coalition forces captured two suspected criminals associated with Kata’ib Hezbollah Thursday morning in east Baghdad. Based on intelligence information, Coalition forces targeted the location of an individual suspected of being a part of [...]

Here you go boys & girls: UPDATE #8 Winnipeg Sun August 1, 2008 RCMP identify man accused of beheading victim RCMP have identified a 40-year-old Edmonton man accused of repeatedly stabbing and then beheading 22-year-old Winnipegger Tim McLean on a Greyhound bus in southern Manitoba on Wednesday night. RCMP said Vince Weiguang Li is charged [...]

First time I’m hearing about this one… New York Post By MURRAY WEISS and AUSTIN FENNER July 31, 2008 An eighth card promising “Bombs! Bombs! Bombs!” in lower Manhattan was delivered yesterday as cops were investigating whether one of the recipients sent out the series of sicko greetings. The latest missive from the “New York [...]

A win for the good guys…. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A U.S. military judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors can use a disputed interrogation to support their case against a former driver for Osama bin Laden in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. Lawyers for Salim Hamdan said the May 2003 interrogation, in [...]

DAMN!

WASHINGTON, July 31, 2008 (Reuters) — U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday held out the prospect of further troop withdrawals from Iraq as he hailed security gains there and cut the length of combat tours for U.S. forces in the country. Bush, in an appearance at the White House, said violence in Iraq had [...]