“Tell everyone that there is still a place in the Kingdom of Romania which has not bowed to Communism. As long as our heads are on our shoulders, this corner of the country will be free. Tell the people not to lose faith, for the day will come when the whole of Romania will be free. Pray God for it, so help us God.” --Ioan Gavrila Ogoranu, Romanian anti-communist fighter 1923-2006
Britain: ten years after declaring virtually all types of firearms illegals and disarming its law abiding subjects, the socialist government of the UK is facing reality:
Meanwhile, in the "violent, obsessed with firearms" America where "practically you can buy a gun as easy you but a loaf of bread" the crime rate went down every single year since 2002 - the year when most States started passing laws allowing law abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns. Only in the first part of 2009, the FBI reported a 10 percent drop in murder and manslaughter.
Hear that Brady? Hear that Obama? Hear that Schumer, Feinstein, Kerry, Pelosi and the rest of you - gun grabbing, Constitution trampling, anti-American POS liberals?
The Grand Lizard Master (also holding the tiltles of First Lord of the Turncoat, Lord Chief Global Warmist, Commander-in-Chief of The "Ban The Christians" Forces, Lord High Admiral Of The Liberal Bottom-Sinking Fleet , Archbishop of Obama Asskissing Church, Lord Mayor Of Palin Smearville and Lord High Everything Else - a.k.a. Charles Johnson) is jumping today to Obama rescue (again) with another incredibly dumb piece in which is attempting to save the day for his Saviour by saying that:
All of the wingnut blogs are screaming that in his statement about the Northwest 253 terror attack, President Obama called the alleged terrorist an “isolated extremist.”
But what exactly did Obama said about the exploding underwear terrorist? Well, he said exactly this: the attacker is an isolated extremist. Here is the video:
Make note Obama not only called the jihadi scum "isolated extremist" like he acted all by himself but he also refused to call him an ISLAMIC TERRORIST.
So why is LGF's Chucky Johnson getting his panties in a wad about Fox News and conservative bloggers unloading on Obama? Because you see, in the same speech, President Obama also said this:
“A full investigation has been launched into this attempted act of terrorism, and we will not rest until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable.
Wait a minute Chucky! So which one of the two contradicting statements issued by your Savior Obama in the same speech is true? Was the underwear bomber an isolatedextremist (like in all by himself, lone wolf, sudden jihad syndrome case) or was he part of of a larger Al-Quaeda plot in which case he is NOT just an "isolated extremist" but a terrorist acting on behalf of the most dangerous and deadliest enemy of America?
Obviously, Charles doesn't find Obama's two exactly opposite statements to be a problem. He's too busy competing with Markos Moulistats for the first place in the Sucking Up to Obama marathon.
Hey Charles! UPDATE:
LGF reader Spare O'Lake asks:
I agree that he didn't mean that the terrorist acted alone. So what the heck DID he mean?
To which Chuckie gives a Moron of the Year Award answer:
Well, if you stop trying to find something evil in it, his statement is amazingly clear: the terrorist was "isolated" on the plane, as in, he was the only terrorist on the plane.
Uh...alright. I guess if you stop trying to find excuses for Obama, Chuckie's statement is amazingly clear: "I, Charles Johnson am an Obama ass kisser" as in "I am the only one who believe the totally ridiculous, laughable apologies I am making for my Saviour"
UPDATE #2
Chucky took notice of this blog entry and of course is throwing a hissy fit:
Charles #21 This is the kind of sick crap that's all over the right wing blogosphere: [Link: transsylvaniaphoenix.blogspot.com...] The blogger who posted this is a blatant liar who tried to deny he posted a comment at LGF advocating mass deportations -- I outed him as a liar, and he just continued lying.
Please note two things: 1. The Grand Poobah Chuckie doesn't address the issue at hand which I must repeat, it is his laughable and ridiculous excuse making and ass kissing for Obama - not even tangentially. 2. He is repeating the same falsehoods and made up accusations he made about me AFTER he turned his political stance hard left and into the Daily Kos / HuffPo camp, and more than one year AFTER he claims I made the offensive statement he is talking about.
Hey Chuckster...no really, let's see if you have an answer for this too: if what you are accusing me of saying is true, then why did you wait for an entire year to ban me? Oh, I know...I must have been an "isolated extremist"
Not holding my breath for an honest answer coming from this moron.
For English subtitles: on the video screen there are two little boxes on the bottom right. Put your mouse of the one with the arrow and anoth set of boxes pops up. One has a "CC" in it for close caption. Click it and the dialogue should play.
UPDATE:
Same crew with a "different" take on another movie: Star Wars
And Merry Christmas to all Transsylvania Phoenix readers!
George my 9 year old rescued Giant Schnauzer is now fighting for his life. He was prescribed Previcox by his vet for his arthritis pains. Following the vet recommendation I administered the tablets with food. After only two days and two tablets he started projectile vomiting, drinking a lot of water, being dizzy and manifesting all the symptoms of poisoning.
I Googled the name of the drug "Previcox" and "side effects" and I wish I would have done it BEFORE giving giving George the drug. To my astonishment, there are hundreds and hundreds of personal testimonies written by people who administered their dogs the same drug, their pets manifested exactly the same symptoms like my George and finally, had their dogs ending up dead or barely escaped death with irreversibly damaged stomachs, liver, kidney or hearts.
"The FDA has released information concerning non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pets -- including Metacam, Deramaxx, Previcox and Rimadyl -- that shows they have been connected to 22,000 cases of illness in dogs, almost 3,000 of which were fatal."
What causes death by Previcox? Acording to one of the hundreds of testimonies I found on the Internet written by a dog owner who lost his pet to Previcox poisoning,
"The Previcox apparently starts first by forming ulcers on the stomach and as more Previcox is administered it becomes ulcer upon ulcer until the stomach acids (full of Previcox) begin to leak out. It seams it first attacks the kidneys and liver. Then it begins to destroy all the protective membranes that are protecting all of the other organs. In the end it makes its final attack on the heart."
Previcox is the veterinary version of the Vioxx (prescribed for arthritis in humans) and it is made by Merial which is a branch of Merck. As you may already know, Vioxx was pulled off the market by the FDA after thousands of people ended up dead after taking the drug. Yet, the same company continues to push Previcox which has the same risks and causes deaths in animals.
George vomited for the third time today and he is very weak, shaking...refused the yogurt but my wife cooked a little beef and carrot soup and gave it to him a few minutes ago, licked the bowl. We expect he will vomit it shortly but that's all we can do until tomorrow morning. We put plastic bags all over the bedroom floor, makes it easier to clean. We'll see what happens until tomorrow when the vet office opens.
I am royally pissed on the vet who did not warned me about the potential side effects and on the company who makes and pushes such a dangerous drug which is banned for humans; if George dies, I'll make taking this drug off the market one of my life goals. I just learned another side effect is extreme aggression (probably caused by pain) and read about a little girl disfigured by a dog who was given Previcox. Dog owners need to know what the risks associated with this drug are. I will start a website and put all the effort and Internet knowledge I am capable of to make it pop on top of every Google search when people are searching the name of this drug.
UPDATED 10-23-2014 (five years after I published this blog entry)
The website that had Rowdy's story as well as hundreds of other testimonials is no longer online. I managed to find some archived internet pages of that website using the Wayback Machine. You can read them here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140701032307/http://www.k911.biz/Previcox_Emails/main.php
1997 Ford F-250 XLT, 122,000 miles on board. 7.3 Liter Powerstroke turbo diesel engine with biodiesel conversion (can use restaurant frying oil as fuel) , 2 diesel tanks. Automatic transmission, 4X4 drive train, tow package, electric everything.
The interior is a little bit rough but nothing a little elbow grease could not fix. It's cruising at 70mph and even can do 80. Love the sound of the engine and the whistle of the turbo when I push the gas (or should I say diesel?) pedal.
I am moving to a new residence this Saturday...and if this wasn't too much of a hassle already, today at 2:00 PM I got involved in a car accident. A guy in a $300, 1981 Toyota pick-up (the favorite work truck of Mexican landscape entrepreneurs here in California ;) lost the brakes and run the red light. I hit him in the front right side of his car, his truck did a 360 and my 2003 Saturn Vue looks like it is totaled. Front left corner of the engine compartment is totally wrecked, both doors on the driver side are cracked (Saturn uses plastic body panels), the left front door which is on the opposite of the point of impact creaks when it opens, so in all probability the car frame is twisted. Now I don't have a car and I will have to wait for the verdict of the insurance claims adjuster guy in order to make the decision to buy a new one or wait until my Saturn is repaired (by the way it looks I doubt it can be fixed for the amount it is worth). Just the kind if thing I needed but still, thank God nobody got hurt badly. I will be back in a couple of days. TP
Since 9/11 we hear a lot about Islamic terrorists who call themselves "martyrs" and who in fact are nothing than crazed genocidal individuals driven by a religion that endorses hate, intolerance and violence. These people are NOT martyrs; in fact they are the lowest of the lowest forms of subhuman life that ever inhabited the Earth.
So let's be clear about what the real meaning of the word martyr is:
-A real martyr is somebody who is ready to die for his faith. -Somebody who is ready to kill for his, is nothing more than a low life scumbag terrorist.
Thursday night, November 19, 2009:
In a church situated in one of Moscow's suburbs predominantly inhabited by Muslim immigrants, a masked gunman opens fire. His target is the Christian Orthodox priest, Father Daniel Sysoev.
The two priests were offering communion to the people in the community they were serving. The regent Father Vladimir Strelbițky was wounded and the priest, Father Daniel Sysoev was shot in the head and died while being transported to the hospital.
A Moscow Patriarchate official called Father Sysoyev a “talented missionary” whose work among Muslims, including Tatars, might have been the motive for the shooting.
“I don’t exclude that the murder is connected to the fact that he preached among and baptized those who belong to Muslim culture,” the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk with the news media, said in a telephone interview.
Father Sysoyev had spoken out in opposition to Islam and had warned Russian women against marrying Muslim men.
Anatoly Bagmet, an official of the prosecutor’s office, said there was reason to believe that the shooting took place “on religious grounds,” the news agency reported.
Father Sysoev era was born on January 12,1974. He was active as a preacher of the Christian Orthodox faith, a missionary and a healer. șAs of late, father Sysoev received repeated death threats for his work as a servant of God. He leaves behind a wife, three children and a flock of faithful Christians who are still stunned and saddened by this act of violence.
...the crew was ready for them. Lock and load folks!
Yep, Mo & Co. tried to hijack the same ship they tried to seize just a few months ago. Remember how that attempt ended? These Somali pirates aren't the brightest bulbs in the Christmas tree, aren't they?
...a security team on board the Maersk Alabama responded the attack with small-arms fire, long-range acoustical devices painful to the human ear and evasive maneuvers to thwart the attack, the Navy said in a statement.
Tough luck Mo! Being a pirate is becoming more and more a deadly business (for you) - in particular when you are trying to board an infidel ship flying Uncle Sam's colors:
Pirates in Xarardheere, one of their strongholds in Somalia, said Wednesday that some of their colleagues had been killed Tuesday night.
Ouch! Poor Hassan, Mo and Abdul...just trying to make a living by getting a few million dollars in ransom from the infidel dogs and what did they got? A severe case of lead poisoning. Somebody should call ACLU.
Our friends from P:B B:R have the homepage of their blog taken over by a malware ad. I do not recommend anybody to try going there - for now. If Costin or anybody else who is posting at P:B B:R has an update on what's happening there, please drop me a note.
This is a new short Finnish documentary about the climate change scam. It is worth watching, every minute of it. The movie is exposing the intricate web of deception based on political, material and power grab interests which created the greatest scam in the entire history of the humankind. See how global warming scientists are behaving like con-men and distort, misinterpret and fake temperature records in order to keep their government research grants and their nice six figures incomes coming. See how these scientist-scam artists are refusing to provide the raw data they used to create the famous "hockey stick" so the man-made global warming theory could be scientifically duplicated and verified by independent researchers. See how they are colluding with the left wing politicians who are using this global warming scam to grab power and force income redistribution and with people who are making billions of dollars out of the carbon credits industry.
George W. Bush Visits Fort Hood, Wounded Soldiers FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) ― Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, visited wounded soldiers and their families near the site of the worst mass shooting on an Army post in the United States.
The Bushes made their private visit to Fort Hood's Darnall Army Medical Center on Friday night. Bush spokesman David Sherzer said in an e-mail that the couple thanked Fort Hood's military leaders and hospital staff for the "amazing care they are providing." ------------ Link
President Bush went to Ft. Hood with his wife to offer the families of the murdered soldiers his sympathy and support. But where is Obama?
11:25AM THE PRESIDENT addresses the House Democratic Caucus - Cannon House Office Building
2:30PM THE PRESIDENT makes a statement to the press on Health Care - Rose Garden
2:45PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart The White House en route Camp David - South Lawn
Turning his back on the families of the second deadliest Islamic terrorist attack on US soil and going to Camp David for the weekend like nothing happened? Unbelievable!
And why was Obama so quick to condemn police officers and call them "stupid" when they arrested Mr. Gates but not quick to condemn Nidal Malik Hasan by calling him what he is: an Islamic terrorist?
You just got to wonder for who is Mr. Obama really working. With every day he spends in the Oval Office it is becoming more and more evident this President real employer isn't the American People.
Political correctness is lethal. The 13 dead and 31 wounded at Ft. Hood can't be wrong.
We need to cut the politically correct liberal bullcrap stopping us from investigating and getting rid if necessary of the military personnel who shows signs of trouble regardless of their race or ethnic origin.
Yes, we desperately need military and intelligence personnel who speaks the language and knows the culture of the Middle East. However, in order to prevent similar attacks in the future we need to do a better job at screening, checking their background and making sure their allegiance is to this country not to other organizations or religions.
In the case of the Islamofascist pig Nidal Malik Hasan, he clearly gave all the signs his true allegiance was to the Prophet Muhammad and his call for Jihad, not to his country and uniform. He warned us for a of what he was going to do for a very long time, yet none of his superiors made the decision to get rid of him.
Why? Because all his superiors were scared if they made the decision to kick him out, they would have been labeled by the liberal elites as Islamophobic and racist.
Listen to what this lady (who was born and raised in Lebanon) has to say about the mortal danger of political correctness when dealing with domestic Islamic terrorism:
A group of politicians, former heads of state and Presidents, ambassadors and scholars from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia expresses concern to the United States president about the consequences of Washington’s inattention to a vital region, and makes six proposals for a new era.
The signatories of this letter are: Valdas Adamkus, Martin Butora, Emil Constantinescu, Pavol Demes, Lubos Dobrovsky, Matyas Eorsi, Istvan Gyarmati, Vaclav Havel, Rastislav Kacer, Sandra Kalniete, Karel Schwarzenberg, Michal Kovac, Ivan Krastev, Alexander Kwasniewski, Mart Laar, Kadri Liik, Janos Martonyi. Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Adam Rotfeld, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Alexandr Vondra, Lech Walesa
(This article was first published on 22 July 2009) 24 - 07 - 2009
Dear President Obama,
We have written this letter because, as intellectuals and former policy-makers in central and eastern Europe (CEE), we care deeply about the future of the transatlantic relationship as well as the future quality of relations between the United States and the countries of our region. We write in our personal capacity as individuals who are friends and allies of the United States as well as committed Europeans.
Our nations are deeply indebted to the United States. Many of us know firsthand how important your support for our freedom and independence was during the dark cold-war years. US engagement and support was essential for the success of our democratic transitions after the iron curtain fell in 1989. Without Washington's vision and leadership, it is doubtful that we would be in Nato and even the European Union today.
We have worked to reciprocate and make this relationship a two-way street. We are Atlanticist voices within Nato and the EU. Our nations have been engaged alongside the United States in the Balkans, Iraq, and today in Afghanistan. While our contribution may at times seem modest compared to your own, it is significant when measured as a percentage of our population and GDP. Having benefited from your support for liberal democracy and liberal values in the past, we have been among your strongest supporters when it comes to promoting democracy and human rights around the world.
Twenty years after the end of the cold war, however, we see that central and eastern European countries are no longer at the heart of American foreign policy. As your administration sets its foreign-policy priorities, our region is one part of the world that Americans have largely stopped worrying about. Indeed, at times we have the impression that US policy was so successful that many American officials have now concluded that our region is fixed once and for all - and that they could "check the box" and move on to other more pressing strategic issues. Relations have been so close that many on both sides assume that the region's transatlantic orientation, as well as its stability and prosperity, would last forever.
A new opening
That view is premature. All is not well either in our region or in the transatlantic relationship. Central and eastern Europe is at a political crossroads and today there is a growing sense of nervousness in the region. The global economic crisis is impacting on our region and, as elsewhere, carries the risk that our societies will look inward and be less engaged with the outside world. At the same time, storm-clouds are starting to gather on the foreign-policy horizon. Like you, we await the results of the EU commission's investigation on the origins of the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008. But the political effect of that war on the region has already been felt. Many countries were deeply disturbed to see the Atlantic alliance stand by as Russia violated the core principles of the Helsinki Final Act (1975), the Charter of Paris (1990), and the territorial integrity of a country that was a member of Nato's Partnership for Peace and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council - all in the name of defending a sphere of influence on its borders.
Despite the efforts and significant contribution of the new members, Nato today seems weaker than when we joined. In many of our countries it is perceived as less and less relevant - and we feel it. Although we are full members, people question whether Nato would be willing and able to come to our defence in some future crises. Europe's dependence on Russian energy also creates concern about the cohesion of the alliance. Your remark at the Nato summit of 3-4 April 2009 on the need to provide credible defence plans for all alliance members was welcome, but not sufficient to allay fears about the alliance´s defence readiness. Our ability to continue to sustain public support at home for our contributions to alliance missions abroad also depends on us being able to show that our own security concerns are being addressed in Nato and close cooperation with the United States
We must also recognise that America's popularity and influence have fallen in many of our countries as well. Public-opinion polls, including the German Marshall Fund's own Transatlantic Trends survey, show that our region has not been immune to the wave of criticism and anti-Americanism that has swept Europe in recent years and which led to a collapse in sympathy and support for the United States during the George W Bush years. Some leaders in the region have paid a political price for their support of the unpopular war in Iraq. In the future they may be more careful in taking political risks to support the United States. We believe that the onset of a new administration has created a new opening to reverse this trend; but it will take time and work on both sides to make up for what we have lost.
A period of transition
In many ways the European Union has become the major factor and institution in our lives. To many people it seems more relevant and important today than the link to the United States. To some degree it is a logical outcome of the integration of central and eastern Europe into the EU. Our leaders and officials spend much more time in EU meetings than in consultations with Washington, where they often struggle to attract attention or make our voices heard. The region's deeper integration in the EU is of course welcome and should not necessarily lead to a weakening of the transatlantic relationship. The hope was that integration of central and eastern Europe into the EU would actually strengthen the strategic cooperation between Europe and America.
However, there is a danger that instead of being a pro-Atlantic voice in the EU, support for a more global partnership with Washington in the region might wane over time. The region does not have the tradition of assuming a more global role. Some items on the transatlantic agenda, such as climate change, do not resonate in the central and eastern European publics to the same extent as they do in western Europe.
Leadership change is also coming in central and eastern Europe. Next to those, there are fewer and fewer leaders who emerged from the revolutions of 1989 who experienced Washington's key role in securing our democratic transition and anchoring our countries in Nato and the EU. A new generation of leaders is emerging who do not have these memories and follow a more "realistic" policy. At the same time, the former communist elites, whose insistence on political and economic power significantly contributed to the crises in many CEE countries, gradually disappear from the political scene. The current political and economic turmoil and the fallout from the global economic crisis provide additional opportunities for the forces of nationalism, extremism, populism, and anti-semitism across the continent but also in some our countries.
This means that the United States is likely to lose many of its traditional interlocutors in the region. The new elites replacing them may not share the idealism - or have the same relationship to the United States - as the generation who led the democratic transition. They may be more calculating in their support of the United States as well as more parochial in their world view. And in Washington a similar transition is taking place as many of the leaders and personalities we have worked with and relied on are also leaving politics.
A time to reinvest
Then there is the issue of how to deal with Russia. Our hopes that relations with Russia would improve and that Moscow would finally fully accept our complete sovereignty and independence after joining Nato and the EU have not been fulfilled. Instead, Russia is back as a revisionist power pursuing a 19th-century agenda with 21st-century tactics and methods. At a global level, Russia has become, on most issues, a status-quo power. But at a regional level and vis-à-vis our nations, it increasingly acts as a revisionist one. It challenges our claims to our own historical experiences. It asserts a privileged position in determining our security choices. It uses overt and covert means of economic warfare, ranging from energy blockades and politically motivated investments to bribery and media manipulation in order to advance its interests and to challenge the transatlantic orientation of central and eastern Europe.
We welcome the "reset" of the American-Russian relations. As the countries living closest to Russia, obviously nobody has a greater interest in the development of the democracy in Russia and better relations between Moscow and the west than we do. But there is also nervousness in our capitals. We want to ensure that too narrow an understanding of western interests does not lead to the wrong concessions to Russia. Today the concern is, for example, that the United States and the major European powers might embrace the Medvedev plan for a "concert of powers" to replace the continent's existing, value-based security structure. The danger is that Russia's creeping intimidation and influence-peddling in the region could over time lead to a de facto neutralization of the region. There are differing views within the region when it comes to Moscow's new policies. But there is a shared view that the full engagement of the United States is needed.
Many in the region are looking with hope to the Barack Obama administration to restore the Atlantic relationship as a moral compass for their domestic as well as foreign policies. A strong commitment to common liberal democratic values is essential to our countries. We know from our own historical experience the difference between when the United States stood up for its liberal democratic values and when it did not. Our region suffered when the United States succumbed to "realism" at the Yalta conference (February 1945). And it benefited when the United States used its power to fight for principle. That was critical during the cold war and in opening the doors of Nato. If a "realist" view had prevailed in the early 1990s, we would not be in Nato today and the idea of a Europe whole, free, and at peace would be a distant dream.
We understand the heavy demands on your administration and on US foreign policy. It is not our intent to add to the list of problems you face. Rather, we want to help by being strong Atlanticist allies in a US-European partnership that is a powerful force for good around the world. But we are not certain where our region will be in five or ten years time given the domestic and foreign policy uncertainties we face. We need to take the right steps now to ensure the strong relationship between the United States and central and eastern Europe over the past twenty years will endure.
We believe this is a time both the United States and Europe need to reinvest in the transatlantic relationship. We also believe this is a time when the United States and central and eastern Europe must reconnect around a new and forward-looking agenda. While recognising what has been achieved in the twenty years since the fall of the iron curtain, it is time to set a new agenda for close cooperation for the next twenty years across the Atlantic.
A new programme
Therefore, we propose the following six steps:
First, we are convinced that America needs Europe and that Europe needs the United States as much today as in the past. The United States should reaffirm its vocation as a European power and make clear that it plans to stay fully engaged on the continent even while it faces the pressing challenges in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the wider middle east, and Asia. For our part we must work at home in our own countries and in Europe more generally to convince our leaders and societies to adopt a more global perspective and be prepared to shoulder more responsibility in partnership with the United States.
Second, we need a renaissance of Nato as the most important security link between the United States and Europe. It is the only credible hard power security guarantee we have. Nato must reconfirm its core function of collective defense even while we adapt to the new threats of the 21st century. A key factor in our ability to participate in Nato's expeditionary missions overseas is the belief that we are secure at home. We must therefore correct some self-inflicted wounds from the past. It was a mistake not to commence with proper Article 5-related defence planning for new members after Nato was enlarged. Nato needs to make the alliance's commitments credible and provide strategic reassurance to all members. This should include contingency planning, prepositioning of forces, equipment, and supplies for reinforcement in our region in case of crisis as originally envisioned in the Nato-Russia Founding Act.
We should also rethink the working of the Nato-Russia Council and return to the practice where Nato member-countries enter into dialogue with Moscow with a coordinated position. When it comes to Russia, our experience has been that a more determined and principled policy toward Moscow will not only strengthen the west's security but will ultimately lead Moscow to follow a more cooperative policy as well. Furthermore, the more secure we feel inside Nato, the easier it will also be for our countries to reach out to engage Moscow on issues of common interest. That is the dual-track approach we need and which should be reflected in the new Nato strategic concept.
Third, the thorniest issue may well be America's planned missile-defence installations. Here too, there are different views in the region, including among our publics which are divided. Regardless of the military merits of this scheme and what Washington eventually decides to do, the issue has nevertheless also become - at least in some countries - a symbol of America's credibility and commitment to the region. How it is handled could have a significant impact on their future transatlantic orientation. The small number of missiles involved cannot be a threat to Russia's strategic capabilities, and the Kremlin knows this. We should decide the future of the programme as allies and based on the strategic plusses and minuses of the different technical and political configurations. The alliance should not allow the issue to be determined by unfounded Russian opposition. Abandoning the programme entirely or involving Russia too deeply in it without consulting Poland or the Czech Republic can undermine the credibility of the United States across the whole region.
Fourth, we know that Nato alone is not enough. We also want and need more Europe and a better and more strategic US-EU relationship as well. Increasingly our foreign policies are carried out through the European Union - and we support that. We also want a common European foreign and defence policy that is open to close cooperation with the United States. We are the advocates of such a line in the EU. But we need the United States to rethink its attitude toward the EU and engage it much more seriously as a strategic partner. We need to bring Nato and the EU closer together and make them work in tandem. We need common Nato and EU strategies not only toward Russia but on a range of other new strategic challenges.
Fifth is energy security. The threat to energy supplies can exert an immediate influence on our nations' political sovereignty also as allies contributing to common decisions in Nato. That is why it must also become a transatlantic priority. Although most of the responsibility for energy security lies within the realm of the EU, the United States also has a role to play. Absent American support, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline would never have been built. Energy security must become an integral part of US-European strategic cooperation. Central and eastern European countries should lobby harder (and with more unity) inside Europe for diversification of the energy mix, suppliers, and transit routes, as well as for tough legal scrutiny of Russia's abuse of its monopoly and cartel-like power inside the EU. But American political support on this will play a crucial role. Similarly, the United States can play an important role in solidifying further its support for the Nabucco pipeline, particularly in using its security relationship with the main transit country, Turkey, as well as the north-south inter-connector of central Europe and LNG terminals in our region.
Sixth, we must not neglect the human factor. Our next generations need to get to know each other, too. We have to cherish and protect the multitude of educational, professional, and other networks and friendships that underpin our friendship and alliance. The US visa regime remains an obstacle in this regard. It is absurd that Poland and Romania - arguably the two biggest and most pro-American states in the CEE region, which are making substantial contributions in Iraq and Afghanistan - have not yet been brought into the visa-waiver programme. It is incomprehensible that a critic like the French anti-globalisation activist José Bové does not require a visa for the United States but former Solidarity activist and Nobel peace prizewinner Lech Walesa does. This issue will be resolved only if it is made a political priority by the president of the United States.
The steps we made together since 1989 are not minor in history. The common successes are the proper foundation for the transatlantic renaissance we need today. This is why we believe that we should also consider the creation of a Legacy Fellowship for young leaders. Twenty years have passed since the revolutions of 1989. That is a whole generation. We need a new generation to renew the transatlantic partnership. A new programme should be launched to identify those young leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who can carry forward the transatlantic project we have spent the last two decades building in central and eastern Europe.
The key to success
In conclusion, the onset of a new administration in the United States has raised great hopes in our countries for a transatlantic renewal. It is an opportunity we dare not miss. We, the authors of this letter, know firsthand how important the relationship with the United States has been. In the 1990s, a large part of getting Europe right was about getting central and eastern Europe right. The engagement of the United States was critical to locking in peace and stability from the Baltic states to the Black Sea. Today the goal must be to keep central and eastern Europe right as a stable, activist, and Atlanticist part of our broader community.
That is the key to our success in bringing about the renaissance in the alliance your administration has committed itself to work for and which we support. That will require both sides recommitting to and investing in this relationship. But if we do it right, the pay off down the road can be very real. By taking the right steps now, we can put it on new and solid footing for the future.
Signed by:
Valdas Adamkus, former president of the Republic of Lithuania Martin Butora, former ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the United States Emil Constantinescu, former president of the Republic of Romania Pavol Demes, former minister of international relations and advisor to the president, Slovak Republic Lubos Dobrovsky, former defence minister of the Czech Republic, former ambassador to Russia Matyas Eorsi, former secretary of state of the Hungarian MFA Istvan Gyarmati, president of the International Centre for Democratic Transition, Budapest Vaclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic Rastislav Kacer, former ambassador of the Slovak Republic to the United States Sandra Kalniete, former minister of foreign affairs of Latvia Karel Schwarzenberg, former minister of foreign affairs, Czech Republic Michal Kovac, former president of the Slovak Republic Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria Alexander Kwasniewski, former president of the Republic of Poland Mart Laar, former prime minister of Estonia Kadri Liik, director of the International Centre for Defence Studies in Tallinn, Estonia Janos Martonyi , former minister of foreign affairs, Hungary Janusz Onyszkiewicz, former vice-president of the European Parliament, former defence minister, Poland Adam Rotfeld, former minister of foreign affairs, Poland Alexandr Vondra, former minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister, Czech Republic Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former president of the Republic of Latvia Lech Walesa, former president of the Republic of Poland
Did Obama listen to them? Nah, he's too busy transforming America in the communist paradise these stupid Eastern European folks god rid of 20 years ago.
Tired from a tough hike in the wilderness? The water you drank from the stream tasted salty? Afraid of thunderstorms in the forest? Hiking shoes caused a blister on your foot? Got a poison oak rash?
No problem! With a push of a button on your Yuppie 911 device you can alert the emergency rescuers. Helicopters and their crews will scramble from the nearest airport to bring you a bottle of water and a pair of dry socks. And if you forgot to ask them something the first time they come, you can call them the second time. And the third time.
And who's paying the bill for the liberal yuppies so called "emergencies" when they adventure on the mountain trails or in the desert to get in touch with Mother Gaia and imitate Mr. Bear Grylls "Man Vs. Wild" adventures? Who's footing the cash for the rescue teams man hours and the helicopter hours?
By TRACIE CONE Associated Press Writer Tuesday, November 03, 2009
FRESNO, Calif. -- Last month two men and their teenage sons tackled one of the world's most unforgiving summertime hikes: the Grand Canyon's parched and searing Royal Arch Loop. Along with bedrolls and freeze-dried food, the inexperienced backpackers carried a personal locator beacon -- just in case.
In the span of three days, the group pushed the panic button three times, mobilizing helicopters for dangerous, lifesaving rescues inside the steep canyon walls. What was that emergency? The water they had found to quench their thirst "tasted salty."
If they had not been toting the device that works like Onstar for hikers, "we would have never attempted this hike," one of them said after the third rescue crew forced them to board their chopper. It's a growing problem facing the men and women who risk their lives when they believe others are in danger of losing theirs.
You got to be kidding me. These people should made pay for their stupidity. Charge them $20,000 per incident and you’ll see how false alerts are no longer a problem.
This is why the Republican Party has been losing since 2006. Too many of them are RINOs
Fox News:Republican Scozzafava Endorses Democrat After Exiting N.Y. Congressional Race
Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, shaking up the contest for the second day in a row after exiting the race Saturday.
Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. The move was expected to consolidate GOP voters behind Hoffman on Tuesday.
But on Sunday, Scozzafava issued a written statement in which she backed Democrat Bill Owens.
"I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same," she said. "In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He will be an independent voice devoted to doing what is right for New York. Bill understands this district and its people, and when he represents us in Congress he will put our interests first."
Michael Steele..Great talker, lousy manager.. It's time for him to go. This is exactly why most of the Republicans need a pink slip also. They are against the conservative values of the people. It's time for Conservatives to take back the Republican Party. We don't want RINO's who pretend to be Republicans who side with the Democrats.
Washington/Los Angeles - Police issued an alert for the Jewish community in Los Angeles Thursday after a shooting at a synagogue injured two people on their way to worship there. Both victims were shot in their legs by the attacker as they parked separate cars in a garage under the synagogue and headed for the door leading to the worship area, Deputy Police Chief Michel Moore said in broadcast remarks. The two victims were listed in stable condition at hospital. The synagogue is located in North Hollywood, an area of Los Angeles separate from the Hollywood of film fame. Police apparently issued the alert because the attack could be classified as a hate crime, motivated by the fact that the two men were going to worship. These are the times in which we live," Moore said. "What we are going to assume is that there is potential for this to escalate.""We are going to assume that this synagogue did play a role in this, and (it's a) reasonable expectation that we alert our other friends in the Jewish community and increase their vigilance," he said. The suspect had been identified as a black male wearing a hooded sweatshirt, and someone matching that description had been detained, Moore said. But the investigation continued. The suspect used a hand gun, Moore said.
It looks like the cops are still looking for a second suspect who is still at large. The suspect already apprehended was identified with the help of the security video - the Synagogue where the shooting happened has multiple surveillance cameras.
Cops say there is no evidence this was a hate crime. Hmm...let's see: the suspect(s) ambushed the victims in the same place, but the victims didn't arrived toghether and at the same time - they came in two different cars. No report a robbery preceded or followed the shooting from any of the victims. Anyone wanna bet the LAPD will not release the name of the suspect in custody for a very long time?
Detroit -- The leader of a Detroit mosque who allegedly espoused violence and separatism was shot and killed Wednesday in an FBI gun battle at a Dearborn warehouse.
Luqman Ameen Abdullah looking forward to meet the promised 72 vigins
Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, was being arrested on a raft of federal charges including conspiracy, receipt of stolen goods, and firearms offenses.
Charges were also filed against 11 of Abdullah's followers. Eight were in custody Wednesday night awaiting detention hearings today; three remained at large.
A federal complaint filed Wednesday identified Abdullah, 53, also known as Christopher Thomas, as "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group." His black Muslim group calls itself "Ummah," or the brotherhood, and wants to establish a separate state within the United States governed by Sharia law, Interim U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg and Andrew Arena, FBI special agent in charge in Detroit, said in a joint statement. -----------------------------
Early Wednesday afternoon, FBI agents and local police from the Joint Terrorism Task Force surrounded a warehouse and trucking firm on Miller Road near Michigan Avenue where Abdullah and four of his followers were hiding, said Special Agent Sandra Berchtold, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Detroit.
When agents entered the warehouse, four of the men obeyed orders to surrender but Abdullah opened fire and was shot to death, Berchtold said. An FBI dog was also shot and killed, she said.
Wait...did I said portrait of the Prophet Muhammad? Take that back. What I meant was Jesus portrait:
Comedian Larry David pushed the mocking of religion over the edge in latest episode of his HBO show, critics say. Comedian Larry David is under attack from critics who say he pushed the mocking of religion and Christian belief in miracles over the edge in the latest episode of his HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm." On the show's most recent installment, which aired Sunday, David urinates on a painting of Jesus Christ, causing a woman to believe the painting depicts Jesus crying.
You may want to remember this episode little boys and girls. Save it for the next time you hear a liberal comparing Christians with Muslims and saying there is no difference between the two religions and their followers. And don't forget to ask the stupid lib what the repercussions around the world may have been, how many foreign embassies would have been torched, how many innocent people would have been murdered in Islamic mob riots and how many millions of Muslims would have been asked for his blood to be spilled if Mr. Larry David would have urinated on the Qur'an or a painting of the Prophet Muhammad instead of a painting of Jesus.
As for you Mr. Larry David, I must say I have never seen an episode from your show. However, I would like to ask you a question: do you consider what you did was an act of courage, a statement against religion in general? If so, I will be looking forward to see you are continuing your fight against religious ignorance and superstition by filming an episode where you dunk a Qur'an in a toilet. Let me know when it's gonna air and I'll make sure I'll get an HBO subscription. Not holding my breath though.
France to launch national pride campaign in battle against Islamic fundamentalism
France is to adopt a series of measures to 'reaffirm pride' in the country and combat Islamic fundamentalism. They include everybody receiving lessons in the nation's Christian history and children singing the national anthem. Using words which infuriated ethnic minority groups and Socialist opponents, immigration minister Eric Besson also said he wanted 'foreigners to speak better French'. He called for all recent arrivals to be monitored by 'Republican godfathers', charged with helping immigrants to integrate better. His proposed measures contrast sharply with the situation in Britain where 'citizenship education' centres on multicultural diversity. M Besson, who was born in the former French protectorate of Morocco, suggested a debate on national identity' entitled 'What does it mean to be French?' He also reignited the debate about face and body-covering Muslim veils, saying they should definitely be banned. -------------------- Making clear that radical Islam was a threat, Mr Besson said: 'In France, the nation and the republic remain the strongest ramparts against ... fundamentalist tendencies. France is diversity, and France is unity.'
Mr Besson defended a decision to send illegal Afghan immigrants - all of them Muslim - back to Kabul on charter flights organised in conjunction with the British government last week, saying there would be many more.
More than 21,000 people have been deported from France this year - with 27,000 the ultimate target, said Mr Besson.
If last year somebody would have told me someday France will position itself as the leader of the Western Christian world in the fight against radical Islam, I would have laughed my arse off. Not anymore. Hats off to you, Mr. Sarkozy. Could you also please deport to Afghanistan a guy named Barak Hussein Obama for us? Judging by the way he behaves when visiting Islamic countries it looks to me like he is in their service, not ours:
For embarrassing the UN in such a big way, tomorrow I will have lunch at KFC. Leg and thigh, fried, crispy with mashed potatoes and coleslaw.
The KFC Colonel (Robert Thompson) meets with the President of the United Nations General Assembly, H.E. Dr. Ali A. Treki of Libya in New York, October 22, 2009 following a security breach
UNITED NATIONS -- Red-faced United Nations officials on Monday admitted to a major security lapse after a UN guard helped Kentucky Fried Chicken's "Colonel Sanders" gain access to restricted areas.
The guard escorted the white-suited intruder past security barriers, where he got a handshake from the UN General Assembly president, Dr. Ali A. Treki of Libya.
The faux fast food chain founder also posed for a picture beneath the assembly's giant UN logo, which overlooks the spot where world leaders address their international counterparts.
"It should not have happened -- that I will stress, and very strongly," said Michele Montas, spokeswoman for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
"There was some lapse in security and the individual in question . . . was, on the initiative of one security guard, taken . . . into the UN."
The real Harland "Colonel" Sanders typically wore a white suit and string bow tie, but he has been dead since 1980. -------------------------- The incident last Thursday apparently was part of a publicity stunt by the fast food chain, which is seeking to promote its grilled alternative to its signature fried chicken. It had dispatched the Sanders look-alike, identified by KFC as Robert Thompson, and also wrote to Mr. Ban. -------------------------- UN TV crews eventually raised the alarm after being stunned when the impersonator approached cameras set up for diplomats, and began making claims about the extent of the "Grilled Nation." At that point, additional security guards arrived and escorted him from the building.
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Of course the liberal whiners are getting their panties in a wad:
Customer rewiews:
i'm glad you losers are spending your money on this, October 26, 2009 By Chet Leigh (NYC)
a fool and his money are soon parted. your ignorance and knee-jerk reactionism paint you a more pathetic clown than any mask could. i don't expect you to change, or to ever shut up, i just wish you would. your kind is a dying breed, piloting this sinking ship, enjoy your tea parties, enjoy the fresh air while it still exists, future generations will look back at you and wonder how it ever got so out of hand. you are so f&%@ing stupid.
Another liberal crybaby writes:
Offensive and demeaning to our democracy, October 14, 2009 By G. Pinski
These masks are offensive and demeaning to our democracy and to the executive branch of the US government. The level of disrespect they express towards the president is so unprecedented that I feel the masks are based in and propagate racism
Loved the bitch slap Mr. Pinski got in this reply:
DM says: We don't object to him being black. We object to him being Red.
Heh!
UPDATE:
Looks like O.I.N.K. (Obama's Internet Netroot Kommisars) responsible for enforcing politically correct political humor got out in force and twisted someone's arm at Amazon. The page with the ObamaJoker mask is gone. The cache is also cleaned. Click on pic for full size
Damn, these O.I.N.K. ObamaMullahs have no sense of humor!
How many ways a Romanian folklore song like The Skylark can be played?
From Wikipedia:
Ciocârlia (meaning the skylark) is a well-known Romanian folk tune, composed by the great Romanian musician Ciprian Porumbescu, that was first made popular by violinist Angheluş Dinicu in the 19th century. Its popularity spread further afterward, thanks to Angheluş's grandson, Grigoraş Dinicu, and to violinist/composer George Enescu.
Enescu also quoted Ciocârlia in his popular composition, the Romanian Rhapsody No.1 for orchestra.
Skylark played on violine by Anghelus Dinicu's grandson, Grigoras Dinicu (Romania 1960?).
Skylark played on acoustic guitar by Baldi Olier (Israel 2006)
Skylark played on dulcimer by Victor Copacinschi (Romania 1976)
Skylark played on pan flute by Roar Engelberg (Norway 2005)
Skylark played in a jazzy style by Stan Renard and The Bohemian Quartet (U.S)
Skylark played on violine by Geoffrey Pearce (Australia 2008)
Skylark played on electric guitar by Nicu Covaci and Transsylvania Phoenix (Romania 2004) Violin solo: Mani Neumann nicknamed "the Devil's Violin Player" (Germany)
Pat Condell speaks to us Americans from his own experience about the creeping Islamic Sharia law and stifling of free speech in Europe. His message is chilling: don't let Obama mess up with the US Constitution. America is the last standing bastion of freedom the Western world, our last hope. Please don't become like us, Europeans.
AP via Yahoo News Britain deploys permanently armed police in London
LONDON – Wielding submachine guns and pistols, British police are making rare armed patrols in crime-blighted London neighborhoods — a change in law enforcement tactics that may prompt calls for the wider use of weapons by the country's traditionally unarmed Bobbies. London's police department said Friday that a new armed unit is carrying out regular sweeps of districts riven by gun battles between rival drug gangs. Unlike typical police procedure, the team of about 20 officers actively seeks out criminals carrying or storing guns — rather than waiting to respond to emergency calls about incidents involving weapons. Chief Inspector Neil Sharman said the unit began work in June to tackle pockets of rising gun crime, and will double in size from November amid concerns over the increasing use of weapons in Britain's capital. -------------------------- "In the past the police were authority figures dealing primarily with people who respected the police. However, as terrorism and crime increases in the U.K. the traditional icon of the Bobby on the beat is becoming incapable of dealing with terrorists and violent crime," said Bob Ayers, a London-based former U.S. intelligence officer. -------------------------- In the 12 months to September, London saw a 17 percent rise in gun offenses, up from 1,484 to 1,737. According to government figures for England and Wales, there are about 50 to 60 shooting deaths in the country each year.
It must be a mistake, this is all wrong! The leftist British government banned guns in 1997 and promised the measure will drastically reduce violent crime. That was 12 years ago. All murders, shootings and violence was supposed to disappear since Her's Majesty subjects were forced to surrender their guns. The entire country should have been a crime-free paradise by now. What do you mean by that "when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns"? You sure know that's just a slogan based on a lie made up by the NRA types?
Here is the best Romanian rock band of all times (no, I will not accept any divergent opinions)
This is a Phoenix song from 2003 called "Twilight" featuring Mircea Baniciu as vocalist (Mircea, if you read this: I am one of the two high school kids who 30 years ago played a prank on you at Hotel Bucuresti in Mamaia. Me and my buddy Adi were working during that summer break at the hotel, we caught your Gibson guitar left unguarded and we hid it behind the hotel reception desk just 5 minutes before you were supposed to start your daily performance. I apologize for that and I admit it was a bad joke)
But le's go back to the video: the golden generation of Romanian rock, beautiful horses running and an uplifting song inspired and infused by Romanian folklore. It's a great combination even if you don't understand a word from the lyrics.
And why should he? After all, 1989 was a very bad year for Obama and his comrades. A bankrupt, enslaving and murderous ideology was shattered to pieces by the freedom loving people of Eastern Europe. Millions and millions of people who lived in fear, poverty and repression regained their freedom and dignity. That's not something a communist like Obama would like to celebrate.
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Barack Obama will skip the 20 Year celebration of the Fall of Communism that will be held in Berlin on November 9. Rick Moran at American Thinker has more on this news from Contentions:
President Obama has reportedly informed the German government that he will not travel to Berlin on November 9 to participate in the 20th-anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is an unfortunate decision on multiple counts.
First, it is another slight to another European ally — one that is going all-out to celebrate the event. The invitation to Obama was extended personally by Chancellor Angela Merkel last June.
However, there are still good news for neo-marxis...err.. American liberals: Obamao will still travel to Sweden to get his sham...err...well deserved Nobel Peace Prize
Watch this movie and wake up from the left wing brainwashing you've been subjected in school. It's the best documentary I have ever seen about the savagery and ruthlessness of Communism, an ideology which indeed puts Nazism and Fascism to shame.
The Soviet Story is a 2008 documentary film about Soviet Communism and Soviet-German collaboration before 1941 written and directed by Edvīns Šnore and sponsored by the UEN Group in the European Parliament. The film features interviews with western and Russian historians such as Norman Davies and Boris Sokolov, Russian writer Viktor Suvorov, Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, members of the European Parliament and the participants, as well as the victims of Soviet terror. The film argues that there were close philosophical, political and organizational connections between the Nazi and Soviet systems before and during the early stages of World War II.[1] It highlights the Great Purge as well as the Great Famine, Katyn massacre, Gestapo-NKVD collaboration, Soviet mass deportations and medical experiments in the GULAG. The Soviet Story is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europes most murderous regime has never been told. Until now.
Ignorance kills people, people. Over 120,000,000 and counting. This is why in the times we live in it is extremely important to watch this movie and share it with your friends and family. I guarantee you'll be glad you did.
UPDATE: Note to all liberals who come here to post trash: if you don't have the minimum IQ and the common sense required to present your counter arguments in a civilized manner, you are not welcome here. Considering the fact it only takes me 1 (one) second to delete your post and block your IP, I hope you realize you are wasting your time typing your childish insults here. Behave like adults and you will be treated with consideration. Act like imbeciles and my boot will go up your ass so hard, you'll get a taste of your own underwear in the back of your mouth. Are we clear?
So I was right after all. Poor Charlie...these days it looks like he entered the "me against the entire world" phase.
Don't you dare to: -question Obama's policies, -question MMGW, -question Darwinism -question the mental health of the Fallen Lizard Emperor himself
or you are immediately categorized a: -wingnut -nazi -somebody who salutes like a nazi -fascist -racist -superstitious bigot -blasphemer against Gore's MMGW Church -puppy strangler
How pitiful the LGF traffic must be these days? If Charlie is desperate enough to attack Rush Limbaugh with Alinskyan inspired lies and smears in order to attract a little attention to his once famous blog...the stats must be really sucking. It's either that, or Charlie's mind must have gone beautiful.
President Obama took his chances on a high-profile visit to Copenhagen because the White House was getting a "clear message" that his presence could clinch the Olympics for Chicago, The Chicago Tribune reports. "The intelligence that we had from the U.S. Olympic Committee and Chicago bid team was that it was very close and therefore well worth our efforts," said Valerie Jarrett, a senior White House adviser. "The message was that...a personal appeal from the president would make a huge difference." President Obama first tried lobbying quietly through phone calls, and had not decided until a few days before getting on Air Force One that he would appear to make his bid in person. His failure to secure the Olympic bid has become fodder for the president's critics. source
Ahem...so the "intelligence" told them if Obama goes to Denmark, the Chicago Olympics was a done deal. Heh. The CIA payback for the terrorist "torture" investigation is a beotch, bro. You keep on irritating those guys working at Langley and pretty soon you're gonna have to rely on intelligence reports from this lady:
Obama bailed them out with my and your tax money. Here is my last business GM/Chase credit card bill. I like to think of it like a thank you note Chase sent for my contribution helping them out of bankruptcy:
Unfreakin' believable! Too bad for them I only have a balance of $1.50
--------------------------------- One of the highlights of the Friday gathering was supposed to be the Saudi Prince’s meeting with Abdullah Hassan Taleh al-Asiri, a Saudi man who was a wanted militant from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Al-Asiri had allegedly renounced terrorism and had requested to meet the prince in order to repent and then be accepted into the kingdom’s amnesty program. Such surrenders are not unprecedented — and they serve as great press events for the kingdom’s ideological battle against jihadists. Prince Mohammed, who is responsible for the Saudi rehabilitation program for militants, is a key figure in that ideological battle. ---------------------------------- After al-Asiri entered a small room to speak with (Saudi) Prince Mohammed, he activated a small improvised explosive device (IED) he had been carrying inside his anal cavity. The resulting explosion ripped al-Asiri to shreds but only lightly injured the shocked prince — the target of al-Asiri’s unsuccessful assassination attempt.
Heh. Maybe it wasn't a bomb. Maybe he was just terribly constipated for a very long time. Allah-U-Ah...brraaap! Kaboom!
Got...to...stop...laughing...my jaw hurts already
Anyway, the guy deserves the 2009 Darwin Award.
One more thing...is this the reason why the followers of Islam are so...anal?
All right, all right: I promise this is the last joke.
Hate to broke my promise but there is still a question that needs an answer: how did he detonate the bomb? did the Prince pull his finger?
A video posted on YouTube appears to show a New Jersey elementary school class being taught to sing praises of the "great accomplishments" of President Obama.
The video shows nearly 20 young children taught a song overflowing with campaign slogans and praise for "Barack Hussein Obama," repeatedly chanting the president's name and celebrating his accomplishments, including his "great plans" to "make this country's economy No. 1 again."
Children sing songs praising President Obama's "great accomplishments" in a video that was reportedly made in a New Jersey elementary school.
The video identifies the kids as students at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, N.J., with taping taking place last June.
The song quotes directly from the spiritual "Jesus Loves the Little Children," though Jesus' name is replaced with Obama's: "He said red, yellow, black or white/All are equal in his sight. Barack Hussein Obama."
Among other lyrics, touting a fair-pay bill Obama signed in January: "He said we must be clear today/Equal work means equal pay."
The author of the full lyrics is unknown, but a woman -- possibly a teacher -- can be heard in the beginning of the video correcting and helping a student who has forgotten the words.
The office of the superintendent of Burlington Township School District did not provide comment or confirmation to FOXNews.com that the songs were recorded at B. Bernice Young Elementary when contacted by phone Thursday.
The video was originally posted Sept. 6, two days before Obama made an address to the nation's schoolchildren in which he praised the American education system as the best in the world and urged students to stay in school.
"At the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world," Obama said.
Just like Obama, Ceausescu started as an extremely popular leader. He promised change from the Stalinist type of communism imposed by the Soviets and people put all their hope in him to liberalize and open the country towards the Western world. Just like they did with Obama, the media quickly become Ceausescu's personal lap dog, always praising him and his wife, never criticizing them. Just like what is happening now with Obama, his cult of personality grew and grew to monstrous proportions. We kids were taught poems and songs about how brave and patriotic and wise our leader is and how luck we are he is watching over us. I remember myself singing those songs in school like it was yesterday and seeing the same thing happening in America both scares and angers me.
Dear Obamatons, history has a lot to teach us. Watch, listen and learn:
From BBC: King Of Communism
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This December will be the 20th anniversary of an event I played myself a little part in: the Revolution of 1989 and Ceausescu's overthrow and execution. For those who forgot or are too young to remember his fate, I have another video for you. This is how a leader who had the media, his activists and faithful ass kissers forcing kids to sing songs about him, met his end:
Dear Obamatons: only you can stop this madness before it is too late. Stop writing poems about him. Stop teaching children to sing songs about him. Stop being mindless worshipers. Stop building up this monstrous personality cult. And stop inflating his ego. Leaders can be easily fooled to believe they are benevolent Gods who have the divine right to take care of their worshipers. Most times it's not them who start to their own cult of personality; it's the legions of mindless admirers who believe in them, the media as well as the ass kissers they surround themselves with doing it. When they do that they turn into dictators and the end of the dictators isn't always peaceful.
