Monday, November 19, 2007

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

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AND SOME HUMOR FOR YOU (Hat Tip Pookie 18)

Senator Barack Obama suggested Tuesday that Baby Boomers like Bill and Hillary Clinton are stuck in the contentious Sixties. He sees himself as a man ahead of his times. He's already demanding that President Bush bring our troops home from Iran.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited President Bush at his ranch Friday. He put on blue jeans and picked her up in his truck. The only reason we elected him was because we wanted a president who would put his pants on before he picks up women.
GOP candidate Ron Paul drew cheers on Saturday at a Veterans Day weekend rally in Philadelphia. He vowed to return to constitutional government as laid out by the Founding Fathers.
Barack Obama has more at stake in this election than he thought.
Hillary Clinton's campaign admitted planting a question for the candidate with an audience member in Iowa last week. It's not the end of the world. If she doesn't make it to the White House, Hillary can always host a show on the Food Network called Fudging the Facts.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas dedicated a new mausoleum Saturday for the remains of the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat. Some things never change. It's so dangerous in the Middle East that he still has to sleep in a different mausoleum every night.
Barack Obama took a swipe at Hillary Clinton Saturday saying the country needs conviction not calculation, while John Edwards implied that's she's evasive and dissembling. The Republicans are warming up in the bullpen. The day Hillary Clinton retires from public life she has a lifetime job waiting for her as a greeter at Target.
Hillary Clinton led the field of Democratic presidential candidates who met for a debate last night in front of an audience in Las Vegas. Everybody ought to come to Las Vegas just once in their lives. It's like being Bill Clinton for a day.
Bill Clinton caused a storm Monday by telling an audience in Iowa that Hillary can handle herself against the boys. Her campaign assured reporters that the term boys is simply an old Southern slang term. It is, but not for white presidential candidates.
On a trip to Great Britain while he was President of the United States, Bill Clinton had a meeting with Queen Elizabeth. During that meeting he asked her, "How does one manage to run a country so smoothly?"
"That's easy," the Queen replied, "You surround yourself with intelligent ministers and advisors."
"But how can I tell whether they are intelligent or not?" asked Bill.
"You ask them a riddle," she replied, and with that she pressed a button and said, "Would you please send Tony Blair in."
When Blair arrived, the Queen said, "I have a riddle for you to answer for me."
"Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was this child?"
Blair replied, "That's easy. The child was me." "Very good," said the Queen. "You may go now."
Sizing up his wife's chances in her presidential bid, and thinking back on that meeting, Bill Clinton spoke to Hillary.
He said to her, " I have a riddle for you, and the answer is very important. "Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was that child?"
Hillary replied, "Yes, it is clearly very important that we determine the answer. Can I deliberate on this for awhile?"
"Yes," said Bill, "I'll give you four hours to come up with the answer."
So Hillary called a meeting of her campaign team, from top to bottom, and asked them the riddle. But after much discussion and many suggestions, none of them had a satisfactory answer. She was quite upset, not knowing what she would tell her husband, the former President.
As Hillary was leaving her meeting, she ran into her most formable challenger to her presidential nomination, Barack Obama.
So she said, "Mr. Obama, can you answer this riddle for me? Your parents had a child and it was not your sister and it was not your brother. Who was the child?"
"That's seems pretty easy," said Obama,"I think the child would be me."
"Oh thank you," said Hillary. "You may just have ensured my nomination for the democratic candidate for the Presidency of the United States!"
So Hillary went back to Bill and said, "I think I know the answer to your riddle."
"The child was Barack Obama!"
"No, you dummy!" shouted Bill. "The child was Tony Blair" !!

.................... and we may get the two of them again running the Country!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

NIGHTMARE!

Last night I had a nightmare.


A really bad one. It was a terrible nightmare, the most horrible one you could imagine.


In the nightmare I found myself nude in bed, and I was looking at a mirror on the ceiling, and I discovered that I am ethnically an African, and I'm circumcised!


Quickly I jumped up, found my pants and looked in the pockets to find my driver license photo - and it was that same color. Black.


No, no, God no, it can't be!I felt myself being very depressed, downcast, sitting in a chair. But it's a wheelchair!!


That means, of course, besides being black and Jewish, I'm also disabled!!! I said to myself, aloud "This is impossible. It's impossible that I should be black and Jewish and disabled.


“It’s the pure and holy truth”, whispers someone from behind me.

I turn around, and it's my Boyfriend. Just what I needed!!!


I am a homosexual whore and on top of that with a Mexican boyfriend. Sonofabitch!!!!


Oh, my God..... Black, Jewish, disabled, gay, with a Mexican boyfriend, drug addict, and HIV-positive!!!


Desperate, I begin to shout, cry, pull my hair, and OH, noooooo... I'm Bald!!


The telephone rings. It's my brother. He is saying, "Since mom and dad died the only thing you do is hang out, take drugs, and laze around all day doing nothing. Get a job you worthless piece of crap. Any job.”


Mom?... Dad?... Nooooooooo... Now I'm also an unemployed orphan!


I try to explain to my brother how hard it is to find a job when you are black, Jewish, disabled, gay with a Mexican boyfriend, are a drug addict, HIV-positive, bald, and an orphan. But he doesn't get it.


Frustrated, I hang up. It's then I realize I only have one hand!!!


With tears in my eyes I go to the window to look out. I see I live in a shanty-town full of cardboard and tin houses! There is trash everywhere .


Suddenly I feel a sharp pain near my pacemaker....Pacemaker?


Besides being black, Jewish, disabled, a fairy with a Mexican boyfriend, a drug addict, HIV-positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, an invalid with one hand, and having a bad heart, I live in a crappy neighborhood.


At that very moment my boyfriend approaches and says to me, “Sweetiepie, my love, my little black heartthrob, have you decided who are you going to vote for next November? Hillary or Obama?”


Sonabitch! Say it isn’t so!!!


I can handle being a black disabled one armed drug addicted Jewish queer on a Pacemaker who is HIV positive, bald, orphaned, unemployed, lives in a slum, and has a Mexican boyfriend, but please - don’t tell me I’m a Democrat!!!!


Saturday, November 17, 2007

CYBERGANG IN LAW ENFORCEMENT CROSS-HAIRS

Cybergang Raises Fear of New Crime Wave
by Rhys Blakely, Jonathan Richards and Tony Halpin in Moscow

The most notorious player in global cybercrime has suddenly vanished from the web, sparking fears that the Russian-based group is set to re-emerge as an even greater threat from a new base in China.

Security experts believe that the Russian Business Network (RBN), a shadowy organisation based in St Petersburg and run by a figure known only as 'Flyman', has played a role in most of the online crime committed in the UK in recent years. Dubbed 'the mother of cybercrime', RBN has been linked by security firms to child pornography, corporate blackmail, spam attacks and online identity theft.

It is feared that the group is building a massive new online platform in China, allowing gangs to launch a fresh wave of online crime. 'The UK has been a focus for this group and its criminal clients, and things are set to get worse,' David Perry, an analyst for Trend Micro, the security group, said.

Any move to China would put the Chinese authorities under enormous pressure to take action against RBN.
Police are finally taking online crime seriously.

Security experts say that RBN provides 'bulletproof' websites to criminals. Often resembling legitimate websites, these can be used to plant malicious software in the computers of members of the public that visit them. Infected computers can be used to steal their owners' passwords, secretly send electronic junk mail or launch cyber attacks on government networks.

One alleged 'phishing' gang, known as the Rock Group, which used the company's hosting service, is estimated to have made $150 million (£71.5 million) last year by tricking people into providing bank account details.

The RBN is also said to have developed dozens of fake anti-spyware and anti-virus programmes to dupe people into giving it access to their computers in the mistaken belief that they were protecting themselves from online threats. The RBN's activities are so notorious that VeriSign, one of the world's biggest internet security companies, has dubbed it 'the baddest of the bad'.

Even the Bank of India was targeted, in August, when rogue software designed to steal passwords from customers' computers was discovered. The bank's website was shut down while experts debugged it.

Cybercrime has been estimated by the US Treasury to be more valuable than the illegal drugs trade — worth more than $100 billion a year.

The RBN has also been linked to the Russian authorities and is thought by some analysts to have played a role in the recent assault on Estonian cyberspace. A report from Symantec, the online security firm, alleges that the RBN has links with the criminal underground and government in Russia.

However, in recent days huge numbers of RBN-hosted sites have disappeared from the web, leading analysts to speculate that the group is revamping its business model. 'RBN is reorganising,' said Raimund Genes, the chief technology officer of Trend Micro, a security group that has traced attacks by the RBN on corporate and government sites across Europe and US back to servers based in Panama.

One reason is thought to be the recent threats by Russian authorities to impose tougher penalties on internet criminals. Another was that large legitimate internet service providers – which the RBN relies on to provide it with internet access – have dropped it as a customer as its activities became more and more notorious. Some analysts suggested that it is aiming to become a more disparate group, with servers in Panama, Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, China, the US and Canada.

Analysts have reported unusual bulk registries of thousands of internet web addresses in China, which they say fit the past practices of the RBN.

China would provide the RBN with an even broader base to support criminal activities.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

ODDS & ENDS

Flags attack Hillary on Veterans Day

An Idea So Dumb Only Congress Could Think of It (video)

"I'm not just running a campaign... I'm having a conversation."

Hillary Clinton: Piling On The Princess of Prevarication (video)

Dyslexic Hillary Staffer Meant to Plant Answers

The Guy From Boston: Screwed Up Senators (X-rated language video)

Dennis Kucinich Campaign Film Explains Impeachment Resolution

History of Illegal Immigration in a couple of minutes (video)

Mukasey to Kennedy: ‘You Should Have Waterboarded Me’

Liberal Insult Generator

Lions For Lambs (video)

Hat tip Pookie 18

TEMPTINGLY EXPENSIVE



MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thieves have stolen a Maybach luxury limousine worth 530,000 euro ($777,000) while the car's owner had dinner in a Moscow restaurant, Russian media reported Wednesday.


Thieves bundled the owner's chauffeur into the back seat and threatened to kill him, the Kommersant newspaper reported. The driver was later abandoned outside Moscow's ring road.


Police said they suspected the car was stolen to order by a special gang for sale in Kazakhstan or Ukraine.


The Maybach has been adopted as the ultimate status symbol by Russia's super-rich. There are only a few dozen in Russia and this was the first case of one being stolen, the daily said.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

FLORIDA SHERIFF RESPONDS

Great Answer from Florida Sheriff!!!

As reported earlier this week, some dirtbag who got pulled over in a routine traffic stop in Florida ended up "executing" the deputy who stopped him.

The deputy was shot eight times, including once behind his right ear at close range.

Another deputy was wounded and a police dog killed. A statewide manhunt ensued.

The low-life was found hiding in a wooded area with his gun.

SWAT team officers fired and hit the guy 68 times.

Now here's the kicker:

Naturally, the media asked why they shot him 68 times.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, told the Orlando Sentinel - "That's all the bullets we had."

Monday, November 12, 2007

ODDS & ENDS



Hillary Clinton gave a pep talk to her alma mater Wellesley College Friday. The campus is reeling from the news that a Wellesley student was arrested for trying to stab her boyfriend to death. Not every Wellesley student is as forgiving as Hillary.


President Bush compared Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler on Thursday. That's silly. There's been a Broadway musical about Adolf Hitler but there could never be one about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because there are no homosexuals in Iran.


California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger startled listeners last week when he ad-libbed that marijuana is not a drug, it's a leaf. It caused widespread dismay. The writers weren't even on strike yet and already the actors didn't know what to say.

Hillary Clinton denied Sunday she is secretive about her past work on health care reform. She said people don't understand how the National Archives handles their documents. The public can see everything once they get Sandy Berger's pants off.

Condi Rice denounced General Pervez Musharraf for his crackdown in Pakistan on Monday. The same day, President Bush defended Musharraf as a strong fighter against radicals. This was enough to convince the tabloids they're no longer seeing each other.

New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's political advisor said Monday the mayor would spend a billion dollars of his own money on an independent White House run. His entry wouldn't change the outcome. As a billionaire conservative he'd take votes from Republicans and as an admitted sexual harasser he would take donors from the Clintons.

The Writers Guild strike put late-night comics into reruns Monday. This should help President Bush. Instead of raking him over the coals over waterboarding they'll be raking Bill Clinton over the coals for ruining the carpet in the Oval Office study.

GOP candidate Ron Paul took in four million dollars in donations Tuesday. The longtime Texas congressman and gynecologist vows to pull out of Iraq immediately and abolish the IRS. He is a lot like Reagan except those aren't his feet in the stirrups.

Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she supports governors who are dealing with the problem of driver's licenses for illegal aliens but not necessarily what they do about it. No wonder the illegal alien vote is for her. Hillary's the patron saint of trimming and hedging.

The Senate opened a formal probe into televangelists Tuesday. The senators say televangelists are living in opulent luxury by preying on the poor and the sick. If they want to do that they're going to have to run for office just like everybody else.

Kathleen Willey just wrote a book about her experience in the Oval Office with President Clinton. It affects her to this day. Every time she watches Addams Family re-runs and that hand comes out of the box, she runs screaming from the room.

Retired federal judge Michael Mukasey was narrowly approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee for Attorney General Tuesday. The judge is one tough customer. It took three long weeks but he finally agreed that confirmation hearings are torture.

Fox Network had to suspend production of its counterterror drama Twenty-Four last week. The show became a casualty of the writer's strike. President Bush took the megaphone out of the desk drawer and vowed he will bring the Writers Guild to justice.

Hillary Clinton's campaign denied Thursday that she and her staffers failed to tip a waitress at a restaurant in Iowa last month. Actually she gave her an excellent tip. She told her never to answer a question about driver's licenses for illegal aliens.


hat tip Pookie 18

Saturday, November 10, 2007

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Click on links to go to articles/videos

Happy Veterans Day, Swifties!!! (historical video)

Debate Rehearsal: Bill Coaches Hil (audio)

Leave Hillary ALONE! (video)

Fred Phelps To Sell “Hatin’ Hotties Of Westboro” Calendar To Pay Damages

Military Tribute: Wherever You Will Go (video)

Hillary Clinton: Long On Rhetoric, Short On Answers (video)

The Politics Of Parsing (video)

Da Gorgle Code (7-minute video)

Top 9 New York Times Headlines Regarding Declining Troop

Deaths In Iraq

Speech of Peace Prize winner Gore To Exemplify Reason (video)


Romney TV Ad (video)

Hat Tip Pookkie 18

CIA - YEARS & YEARS OF FAILURE UNDER CLINTON

Alan Note: From the start of the first Clinton Administration and Gorelick running interference as Deputy Attorney General, the CIA, which had been an effective though not always successful operational clandestine unit with decent covert ability, evolved into a careerist, corporate type of CYA (cover your ass) bureaucracy.

Even in the Jimmy Carter years, the CIA provided some 30 scenarios of what would happen if the late Shah of Iran were removed and Khomeini took over. NONE of them proved close to what happened. More from lack of understanding of the roots of the population discontent and SOVIET ability to incite revolt than from internal obsacles that emasculated them under socialist, nearly Communist idealogue, Clinton.

The CIA's record leading up to Sept. 11 was one of failure

By Rich Lowry Article

The new report from the CIA's inspector general about the spy agency's pre-9/11 failings could be titled, ''What We Did During Our Holiday From History.'' The stretch between the end of the Cold War and the Sept. 11 attacks was supposed to be a shiny new era of globalized peace and prosperity, to which an intelligence service was considered quaintly irrelevant.

The CIA conformed to the zeitgeist by remaining quaintly irrelevant. George Tenet presided over the agency, failing his way to the second-longest tenure of any director of central intelligence, a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a $4 million book advance. He made the Peter Principle work for him not just by advancing to his level of incompetence, but by benefiting from it handsomely.

Congressional Democrats pushed for the release of the scathing IG report, completed back in June 2005, to embarrass the Bush administration. But most of the failures identified in the report took place during the Clinton administration, which set the CIA's skewed priorities and selected Tenet in the first place. President Bush should be embarrassed only because he didn't fire Tenet upon taking office or after 9/11, while Bush also has failed to undertake a serious retooling of the sclerotic bureaucracy that is the CIA.

Tenet took terrorism seriously, ''sounding the alarm about the threat to many different audiences,'' in the words of the report. Maybe he should have gone on a lecture tour. Where Tenet fell down was in managing his agency. The thought may be father to the deed, but without the actual deed, the thought is only political cover in after-the-fact memoirs.

Tenet insists that he had a ''robust plan'' against al-Qaida. In reality, he only thought he had. He directed that such a plan be formulated, but according to the IG report, it never happened. Worse, Tenet did not ''work with the National Security Council to elevate the relative standing of counterterrorism in the formal ranking of intelligence priorities.''

In Tenet's defense, he operated within the context of a Clinton administration that basically was uninterested in intelligence. Tenet notes that the intelligence community lost 25 percent of its personnel in the 1990s and ''tens of billions of dollars in investment compared with the 1990 baseline.'' He implored the administration for funding increases in 1998 and 1999, but had to go ''outside established channels to work with then-Speaker Gingrich to obtain a $1.2 billion budgetary supplemental.''

Even with more resources, his managers repeatedly moved funds from counterterrorism programs to other needs, without ever raiding other programs to fund counterterrorism, according to the IG report. What could be more important than counterterrorism? Analytic resources were poured into addressing more pressing matters like the Balkans and the environment.

After 9/11, Clinton officials and Tenet argued whether the CIA had been granted the authority to kill Osama bin Laden, with the Clintonites, in a bout of retrospective bloodlust, insisting that it had. The IG report finds that restrictions on the CIA killing bin Laden had been ''arguably, although ambiguously, relaxed'' for a brief period in late 1998 and early 1999 (how Clintonian). But CIA managers refused ''to take advantage of the ambiguities,'' and even if they had, the agency didn't have the covert-action capability to kill bin Laden. Such was life during history's holiday.

What's more scandalous is how the CIA has escaped serious reform even today. Two CIA directors in a row have resisted the IG report's recommendation for an accountability board to evaluate the pre-9/11 performance of CIA officials. That word - not ''board,'' but ''accountability'' - raises hackles at Langley, where everyone is above-average at fighting al-Qaida.

Even though as many as 60 CIA employees knew that two of the hijackers were in the U.S. before 9/11 and no one managed to get the word to the FBI, CIA Director Michael Hayden thinks holding anyone accountable for that or other failures would be ''distracting.''

And so the band plays on.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

BIOLOGY LESSON

ISLAMIC ADAM & EVE

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A biology lesson

Human Body Facts

-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.

-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball

- It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

-One human hair can support 3kg.
- Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

-The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples.

- The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.

- A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

- If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

- Men with hairless chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver than men with hair

-There are about one trillion bacteria on each ofyour feet.

- Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body couldcover about one square inch.

- Women blink twice as much as men.

-The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.

- When you are looking at someone you love, yourpupils dilate. . . . ..they do the same when you arelooking at someone you hate!

- It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if youstop working out than it did to gain it.

-You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraidthan when you aren't.

-Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself whenyou are standing still.

- If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannottaste it.

-The average woman is 5 inches shorter than theaverage man.

Checked out the length of your thumb.. Didn't ya?!

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

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Teachers Union Touts Productivity of ‘Dropout Factories’

Hillary Mulls Supporting Illegal Alien Pilot License

The Scariest Halloween Ever (video)

Real Men of Congress: Senator Unindicted Co-conspirator

“The Streets Will Flow With The Blood Of My Impersonators!”: IRB Finally Speaks Out

If You Smell What Barack Is Cooking (video)

Passport Control (video)

Hillary to spend rest of campaign in soundproof glass box

SCHIP: Care Enough to Smoke? (video)

The Clinton Legacy

The Foulmouthed & Lying Clintons (language)

Hat tip to Pookie 18

Monday, November 5, 2007

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Rudy Giuliani was reported Thursday to have been saved from assassination by the Mafia twenty years ago by a vote of the five crime bosses. Two voted to have him killed and three voted to let him live. That's a sixty percent approval rating anyway you cut it.

Playboy magazine says online sex is rapidly replacing the real thing for young people. It's true. Republicans used to make fun of Al Gore for saying he invented the Internet, now they accuse him of inventing the Internet while he denies everything.

San Diego bought emergency supplies of electricity from Mexico Monday as fires severed power lines. The country has bountiful natural resources. In addition to oil and silver and tequila, Mexico's the number-one producer of American public schoolchildren.

Hillary Clinton surged to a thirty-one point lead in the nationwide polls last week, two months before the primaries begin. Her camp is getting cocky. Bill Clinton dropped by the White House on Tuesday to measure the Oval Office for privacy curtains.

Rudy Giuliani said Monday if Hillary Clinton's health care plan had passed he would never have survived his prostate cancer. She might have saved his life. She saved Bill Clinton's life a dozen times just by forgetting to unplug the lamp before she threw it.

Mitt Romney ripped Hillary Clinton Monday, saying America doesn't need an intern president. He's one confused candidate. Last week he talked about Barack Obama and called him Osama bin Laden and now he's referring to Hillary Clinton as Monica Lewinsky.

Hillary Clinton led a poll Monday of which presidential candidate would make the scariest Halloween costume, and Rudy Giuliani finished a distant second. Rudy tries to scare the voters every day about terrorist threats, yet Hillary is still considered scarier. That's how much the American people are afraid of tax increases.

Jerry Ford recorded his deepest beliefs for a book called Write It When I'm Gone, which was published Monday. He revealed, in remarks he wanted published posthumously, that he thought Bill Clinton was a sex addict. Some guys are always the last to get the word.

Dennis Kucinich stole the show at the Democratic presidential debate Tuesday when he revealed he saw a UFO twenty years ago in the Pacific Northwest. However, he's not an idiot. He said he does not favor giving driver's licenses to space aliens.
-- Argus Hamilton

Here’s an odd one: Argentina’s first lady was elected the new president of Argentina, which makes the former president the new “first spouse.” Or as President Bill Clinton calls him, “My future wing man.”

Yesterday, on “60 Minutes,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy got up and left in the middle of the interview. Citizens of France say the president acted rudely — and they’ve never been prouder.

Presidential candidate Bill Richardson called on all candidates to end all negative campaigning. When they heard this, all the other candidates rolled their eyes and said, “Whatever you say, fatboy.”

Sources in Barack Obama’s campaign say that Obama has been watching old tapes of Bill Clinton to improve his style. Which explains why Obama now starts every sentence with “Honey, I can explain.”

Last night, yet another Democratic debate. Sen. Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton of frequently changing positions. After hearing this, Bill Clinton said, “I wish.”

Political experts are criticizing Hillary Clinton’s performance at the recent debate as her worst performance of the year. After hearing this, Bill Clinton said, “That’s what you think.”
- - Conan O'Brien

Lot of candidates getting into the Halloween spirit. Today, John Edwards said he was going to get a $15 haircut and go as someone from the other America.

According to the latest polls, Chris Dodd is at zero percent of the vote. Zero percent! Do you know what that means? Even he isn’t voting for himself.

Ron Paul is a congressman and a doctor. He’s also a practicing gynecologist. He’s the only presidential candidate to tell women to take off their clothes more times than Bill Clinton.

There was another Democratic debate last night in Philadelphia. Boy, the other candidates really went after Hillary Clinton. The only Democrat who didn’t jump on Hillary was her husband Bill.

In his latest rambling, Osama bin Laden is now calling for his followers to avoid “extremism.” Because the last thing you want in a suicide bomber is some sort of radical wacko.

Dennis Kucinich admitted during the debate the other night that he had seen a UFO close up. Dennis Kucinich doesn’t seem like the type of guy who would see a UFO. He seems like the kind of guy you’d see coming out of a UFO.

Hillary Clinton’s meltdown during the debates the other night continues to be the big story. Even Bill Clinton said it was Hillary’s worst performance since their honeymoon.
- - Leno

Democratic debate last night. Tough night for Bill Richardson. During the entire debate, the only question Tim Russert asked was, “. . . And you are?

Does anyone know anything about Dennis Kucinich running for president? Can you prove it? In the debate he claimed he once saw a UFO. He also claims aliens introduced him to his hot wife.
- - Letterman

There was a new survey on the scariest costume for Halloween. People say the scariest costume is Hillary Clinton. She got 300 votes — most of them from Bill, probably. Bill said, “Take off the mask, honey . . . No, put it back on. I’m scared.”

Big Democratic debate tonight. Reports say Barack Obama gets ready for the debates by studying Bill Clinton’s techniques. I guess that would explain why he wasn’t wearing any pants.

Not a good day for Hillary Clinton. She was criticized by Mitt Romney. He was saying that she has no experience; he called her an intern. It’s ridiculous! If she was an intern, Bill would be sleeping with her.
- - Craig Ferguson

A tourist driving along the highway decides to stop at a bar. There, he sees Hillary Clinton being interviewed on the overhead TV. He shouts "Hillary is a horse's rear end!" Immediately, three patrons start punching him.

As he gets to his feet, he says to the bartender "wow, this must be Clinton country!"

And the bartender replies "Nope--horse country."

Courtesy Pookie 18 (LOTS OF GREAT CARTOONS - MUST VISIT) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1921058/posts?page=2

Sunday, November 4, 2007

ROUNDUP

MAIN STREAM MEDIA, PELOSI, REID, MURTHA, DIMWITORATS showing their delight that the surge is working



PROOF ISLAMIC TERRORISTS LOSING INFLUENCE IN IRAQ

BAGHDAD — It's Thursday night, the end of the Iraqi workweek, and Fami Ameen is scrambling in his crowded Assassin's Gate liquor store as customers clamor for everything from beer and whiskey to ouzo and arak, the popular local alcohol.

For decades, Iraq had a reputation as a modern, secular society that liked to drink and knew how to party, from wild hotel discotheques to genteel members-only social clubs.

But after the fall of President Saddam Hussein, extremists unleashed waves of firebombings against liquor stores, even killing owners, because alcohol is forbidden under Islamic law.

BAGHDAD — Elements of the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 11th Iraqi Army Division entered the Abu Hanifa Mosque in the eastern Adhamiyah neighorhood of the Iraqi capital in an early morning operation and detained 12 individuals, including two known terrorists who were using the mosque as a base.

The captured terrorists are suspected of improvised explosive device emplacement, kidnapping, murder of Iraqi civilians and attacks against Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces throughout Baghdad.


They are also known to have links with al-Qaeda, said Capt. Phillip Dow, a staff officer with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, the U.S. unit responsible for security in the area.


The operation was a result of tips received from local citizens.

BAGHDAD - In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday.

Saad al-Azawi, his wife and four children are among them. They fled to Syria six months ago, leaving behind what had become one of the capital's more dangerous districts — west Baghdad's largely Sunni Khadra region.


http://hotair.com/archives/2007/11/02/video-terrorist-training-camps-in-georgia/

“Video: Terrorist training camps in Georgia”

http://www.wsbtv.com/video/14489635/index.html


Suspected Terrorist Linked To Georgia Compounds

A Channel 2 Action News Investigation delves into terror allegations involving the leader of a group with two compounds — or villages — in Georgia. He denies them. Over the last several months Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Mark Winne has been looking into both sides.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=27777_Palestinian_Terrorists_Firing_Mortars_from_Elementary_School&only

“Palestinian Terrorists Firing Mortars from Elementary School”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hamas
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ghazi_hamad.htm

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Centerat the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)

“Radical Islamic ideology versus governmental needs: Dr. Ghazi Hamad, high-ranking Hamas activist, harshly criticized the movement’s since its rise to power. He harshly criticized the military takeover of the Gaza Strip, calling it “a terrible strategic mistake” and urged the Hamas leadership to deal positively with its errors.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919788/posts

Expert: Hamas, Hizbullah cells may be active in Mexico [open border alert!]Ynet News ^

The US is concerned that Hamas and Hizbullah agents may penetrate the porous US-Mexican border in order to carry out terrorist attacks, according to Robert Grenier, the former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency’s counterterrorism center.
His comments were featured in a report published by the Mexican press on Thursday.

Speaking at an event in Mexico, Grenier—who now runs his own international security firm called Kroll—said that reports indicate the United States is fearful that Iran, Hamas, and/or Hizbullah may seek to set up operations in Mexico in order to carry out terrorist attacks in the US.

According to the US counterterrorism expert, American officials are concerned that terrorists will tap into illegal immigrant and/or drug trafficking networks in order to use them to bring people and equipment into the US.

The former CIA official added that the American government is also fearful that Hamas and Hizbullah sleeper cells are already operational in Mexico; and, that Hizbullah is funneling money from Mexico into to Lebanon to fund the organization’s operations there.

Until now, the US has not given Hizbullah operations in Mexico much thought. However, in wake of the recent escalation of rhetoric between the US and Iran regarding the latter’s nuclear program, American officials have become concerned that Iran will use Hizbullah to carry out terror attacks on US targets around the world, Grenier explained

According to this scenario, Iran could also use Hizbullah networks to hit the US on its own soil.

The terrorism expert noted that it was hard to say for certain that sleeper cells already exist in Mexico. However, according to Grenier, the Lebanese Shia community in Mexico supports Iran and Hizbullah and there is speculation that members of the community could be recruited to carry out acts of terrorism.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/11/02/2007-11-02_jersey_city_worker_triggerman_in_pakista-1.html

Exclusive“ Jersey City worker triggerman in Pakistan assassination”

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and ALISON GENDARDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Note: Photos included.
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/phnx110107.html

“DEA Announces Marijuana Bust In Tonto National ForestDrugs were worth $50 million; 17 arrested in grow operation”

(Phoenix, AZ) – The Drug Enforcement Administration and other law enforcement agencies today announced the successful eradication of 25,000 marijuana plants, with an approximate street value of $50 million in processed marijuana, and the arrests of 17 individuals involved in several marijuana growing operations in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona. Federal charges have been filed against 18 individuals by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Seventeen individuals are currently in custody; one remains at large.”

Hat tip to Cindy and Granny

Thursday, November 1, 2007

SAUDI INTELLIGENCE MOLE HILLARY'S "SPECIAL" FRIEND?



...The back story, as it were, begins 32 years ago in Kalamazoo, Mich., where Ms. Abedin, who declined to participate in this article, lived until the age of 2.

Her family then relocated to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where she lived until returning to the States for college.

She attended George Washington University. Her father, who died when she was 17, was an Islamic and Middle Eastern scholar of Indian decent.

He founded his own institute devoted to Western-Eastern and interfaith understanding and reconciliation and published a journal focusing on Muslim minorities living in the diaspora.

Her mother, a renowned professor in Saudi Arabia, is Pakistani.

Ms. Abedin recently bought an apartment in the vicinity of 12th and U streets in Washington, D.C. ...


Ms. Abedin began working for Mrs. Clinton as an intern for the then First Lady in 1996.

She was hired as a staff assistant to the First Lady's chief of staff, Maggie Williams. For several years, she was the backup to Mrs. Clinton's permanent personal aide, Allison Stein, and she officially took over as Mrs. Clinton's aide and advisor around the time of the 2000 Senate race.

Her Presidential campaign title is "traveling chief of staff"...

According to a friend, her favorite designers are Mr. de la Renta, Catherine Malandrino, Charles Nolan and Prada. "And she has a weakness for Marc Jacobs bags," said the friend. "She is known for her bags."

Robert Barnett, the Clintons' longtime attorney, said that in 11 years of knowing her, he has never seen her wear the same outfit twice...

Can You Top This?
Unrelated: the city's sex life bottoms out; Hillary's gal Friday; Dean among the Queensby Michael Musto villagevoice.com

...As I recently said on MONICA CROWLEY's radio show, whisper campaigns are claiming that HILLARY CLINTON is GAYLE KING–ing her aide de camp, the glamorous HUMA ABEDIN, an Indian/Pakistani "goddess" from Kalamazoo, Michigan.
In other words, Hillary may be putting Huma out there in the press and purposely making her more visible as a pre-emptive strike that amounts to her hiding in plain sight.
This way, no Republican can later say, "Who is this gorgeous babe who spends so much intimate time with Hillary that the Observer called her Hill's 'body person'?
Was GENNIFER FLOWERS's book right about Hillary's sexual taste?"
And does either of this couple have the balls to bottom?
Of course that whole scenario can't possibly be true, since Bill and Hill have been so lovey-dovey lately for the cameras, and besides, whenever he's been serviced by an intern—or by anyone—he's clearly been thinking of his wife. (They're that close.)
But suddenly, Huma—a sort of Muslim SALMA HAYEK—has that spread in Vogue and the accompanying write-up notes that she "oversees every minute of Senator Clinton's day."
Every single minute? Even Gayle King takes a break now and then!
(PS: If I called for comment, Hillary's camp would surely say, "Just because two powerful women are closer than sardines doesn't make them dykes." And that's so true. Look at MATT and BEN. But now that Crowley has dubbed me the head of Huma Resources, I'm going to pursue this story with every cojone I've got.)

Hillary Lesbian Rumor Given Weight by DOJ Official by BHDC Staff Tuesday September 11th, 2007 bigheaddc.com
We're still a bit incredulous on this one, but a top level U.S. Department of Justice official is telling Big Head DC that Michael Musto's rumor about Hillary Clinton fooling around with one of her top female aides Huma Abedin is based in reality!
"I am close enough to Hillary and Huma to tell you that this ‘rumor' is true," the official says. "It is well known inside her campaign that Hillary and Huma are an item.
"If you call Hillary's residence in DC first thing in the morning, Huma answers the phone," the official continues. "Same thing late at night and on the road. It's a closely guarded secret that Hillary's inner circle guards at all costs."
Make of that what you will, kids. But know this: The official is someone who has proven highly credible in the past...

YAPPY MOMENTRichard JohnsonOctober 21, 2007 nypost.com
WHAT was Hillary Clinton's ultra-glamorous right-hand woman, Huma Abedin, doing cooling her heels outside a Bukharian Jewish Congress reception in the Senate on Thursday afternoon?
We're not sure, but one of D.C.'s most eligible bachelors, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn), was the emcee. As the event wrapped up, an ebullient Weiner was spotted escorting the charming Abedin - who has been profiled in Vogue - out the Capitol's first-floor doors. "They were yapping and catching up," said a Weiner spokesman.
Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor: A Media Ethics Dilemma Ron Rosenbaum October 29, 2007 pajamasmedia.com
So I was down in DC this past weekend and happened to run into a well-connected media person, who told me flatly, unequivocally that "everyone knows" The LA Times was sitting on a story, all wrapped up and ready to go about what is a potentially devastating sexual scandal involving a leading Presidential candidate...
Rosenbaum's Political PhysicsBy Mickey KausWednesday, Oct. 31, 2007, slate.com
Do you ever sense there is some large mass of dark matter, an unseen Scandal Star, the gravitational pull of which is warping the coverage of what seems, on the surface, a pretty dull presidential race? I do. So does Ron Rosenbaum. I thought the Dark Star was the Edwards affair allegation.
But Rosenbaum says "everyone in the elite Mainstream media" knows about another juicy scandal that the LAT is supposedly sitting on. I guess this is proof that I'm not in the elite, because I don't know what he's talking about. ... My vestigial Limbaugh gland tells me it must involve a Democrat, or else the Times would have found a reason to print it. ... P.S.: If it's just Richardson, that will be very disappointing. ...
Halloween, Hillary, Huma and Hidden Sex Affair Story nohillaryclinton.com
I have been receiving emails about Huma - one came for a Department of Justice computer (ISP) stating this: "I am close enough to both Hillary and Huma to know that it is an open secret on the campaign that those two are romantically involved. It is something you will never get them to verify though…"
Trips by Huma Abedin
Total cost of 29 trips: $49,870.97
Trips traveled under the office of Hillary Clinton
Destination: WHITE OAK, JACKSONVILLE, FLSponsor: Democratic Leadership Council
Purpose: ACCOMPANIED SENATOR TO RETREATDate: Mar 24, 2001 (2 days) Expense: $1,227.00source
Destination: MIAMI
Sponsor: United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters (UA)Purpose: ACCOMPANIED SENATOR TO SPEECH
Date: Aug 8, 2001
Expense: $2,081.00source
Destination: BUFFALO, NY, BINGHAMTON, NY TO DULLES
Sponsor: Lockheed MartinPurpose: OFFICIAL TRAVEL WITH SENATOR CLINTON
Date: Oct 29, 2001
Expense: $1,031.25source
Destination: WHITE PLAINS, NY TO ROCHESTER TO LAGUARDIA
Purpose: FACT FINDING TRIPDate: Feb 21, 2002
Expense: $1,117.50source
Destination: ISRAEL
Purpose: Date: Feb 22, 2002 (2 days)
Expense: $1,875.76source
Destination: DUBLIN, IRELAND
Purpose: FACT FINDING TRAVELDate: Mar 25, 2002 (2 days) Expense: $2,022.71source
Destination: LAS VEGASS
Purpose: ASSISTING SENATOR DURING SPEECH TO CONVENTION
Date: Oct 5, 2002Expense: $2,722.50source
Destination: ROCHESTER, NY TO WHITE PLAINS, NY
Purpose: ACCOMPANY SENATOR TO OFFICIAL SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
Date: Oct 11, 2002Expense: $1,100.00source
Destination: PENN YAN, NY TO WHITE PLAINS, NY
Purpose: FACT FINDING TRAVEL
Date: Oct 15, 2002Expense: $1,061.50source
Destination: ALBANY, NY TO WHITE PLAINS, NY
Purpose: ASSIST SENATOR DURING MSNBC TV APPEARANCE
Date: Nov 20, 2002Expense: $216.50source
Destination: PALM SPRINGS, CASponsor: Betty Ford Center
Purpose: SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTDate: Jan 17, 2003 (1 day) Expense: $325.00source
Destination: WELLESLEY, MASponsor: Wellesley College
Purpose: SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTDate: Feb 21, 2003
Expense: $1,168.75source
Destination: BUFFALO, NY
Purpose: COMPANY VISITDate: Mar 10, 2003
Expense: $778.50source
Destination: SOUTHINGTON, CT
Purpose: SPEECHDate: Apr 29, 2003Expense: $1,700.00source
Destination: CORNING, NYSponsor: Corning Inc
Purpose: SITE VISIT
Date: Apr 29, 2003Expense: $1,366.00source
Destination: WASHINGTON DC-BINGHAMPTON, NY-WHITE
PLAINS, NY
Purpose: BRIEFING AND TOURDate: Jan 30, 2004
Expense: $1,500.00source
Destination: SYRACUSE, NY
Sponsor: NEW JOBS NEW YORKPurpose: CONFERENCE AND SPEECH
Date: Jun 7, 2004
Expense: $1,654.00source
Destination: SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Sponsor: Panetta InstitutePurpose: SPEECH
Date: Jun 28, 2004
Expense: $204.00source
Destination: ASPEN, CO
Purpose: SPEECHDate: Jul 17, 2004 (1 day)
Expense: $2,083.00source
Destination: DULLES, VA TO ALBANY, NY TO TELERBORO, NJ
Purpose: SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
Date: Jul 23, 2004
Expense: $520.00source
Destination: BOSTON
Purpose: LECTURE
Date: Nov 10, 2004
Expense: $880.00source
Destination: CALIFORNIA
Purpose: MEETINGS AND DINNER FOR WJC PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
Date: Nov 12, 2004
Expense: $2,800.00source
Destination: LITTLE ROCK AR
Purpose: OPENING OF PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY
Date: Nov 17, 2004 (3 days)
Expense: $1,636.00source
Destination: BINGHAMTON
Purpose: OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Date: Jan 28, 2005
Expense: $410.00source
Destination: GERMANY
Purpose: SPEECH
Date: Feb 13, 2005 (1 day)
Expense: $11,120.00source
Destination: PAKISTAN-NEW DELHI INDIA-WHITE PLAINS, NY
Sponsor: INDIA TODAY
Purpose: SPEECH
Date: Feb 23, 2005 (4 days)
Expense: $6,093.00source
Destination: WHITE PLAINS, NY TO BUFFALO, NY
Purpose: CONFERENCE AND SPEECH
Date: Mar 7, 2005
Expense: $437.00source
Destination: ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Purpose: COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
Date: May 13, 2005 (1 day)
Expense: $272.00source
Destination: WHITE PLAINS, NY-BOSTON
Purpose: SPEECH
Date: Jun 17, 2005
Expense: $468.00source


Setting aside all the titillation about the sapphic aspects of this story, the facts of the matter just scream "intelligence mole".

How does the child of two university professors [one of them deceased], who is single, never married, and living on a clerical salary, in one of the most expensive cities in America, afford to "never... wear the same outfit twice"?

Much less purchase from the likes of Oscar de la Renta, Catherine Malandrino, Charles Nolan, Prada, and Marc Jacobs? Not to mention Yves Saint Laurent?

How does the child of two university professors [one of them deceased], who is single, never married, and living on a clerical salary, in one of the most expensive cities in America, afford to buy her own "apartment in the vicinity of 12th and U streets"?

What would such an apartment cost? $500,000? $750,000? $1,000,000?

Where is she getting that kind of money?
Who is the co-signor on her loan?
And as bad as the financials of the Observer piece are, the psychological profile it paints is even worse:

"It was like 110 degrees outside," recalled the source, a political aide who asked to remain anonymous. "We were all just pouring down with sweat. But I have this distinct memory of Huma traipsing in in this blue pantsuit—it was like this wool pantsuit—not a bead of sweat on her brow, not a hair out of place, with everything perfectly organized in her Yves Saint Laurent handbag."

That sort of fantastical, supernaturally tinged tale is not unusual. Indeed, in the insular world of New York and D.C. politics, Huma Abedin has become a sort of mythical figure...

"I think she has special powers," said public-radio broadcaster Katia Dunn, who recently crossed paths with Ms. Abedin and Mrs. Clinton at a café on Capitol Hill...
Representative Anthony Weiner, a swingingly single Brooklyn Democrat who has known Ms. Abedin since before Hillary Clinton was elected to office, talked about her ability to perform under pressure "preternaturally"...
"Have you seen Huma?" asked James Carville, the former advisor to President Clinton. "Her appearance is just like, ‘Hoh my God!' She takes your breath away. She's an unbelievably, stunningly gorgeous woman. Nobody in that position can be that good-looking; it just doesn't happen." He added that she is also "damn smart."
"She is a person of enormous intellect with in-depth knowledge on a number of issues—especially issues pertaining to the Middle East," said Senator John McCain, in a statement relayed by one of his aides.
"Huma is an example of why more people, particularly in Washington, need to understand the rest of the world, need to recognize what an asset it is to have cross-cultural experiences," wrote Queen Noor of Jordan in an e-mail...
"I'd call Huma one in a million," said Mrs. Clinton's press secretary, Philippe Reines, "but that would mean there are 5,999 others in the world just like her, and there simply aren't. She is truly one of a kind, one in a billion.
We are all in awe of her poise, grace, judgment, intellect and her seemingly endless reserve of kindness, patience and energy."
People get nervous & flighty & anxious in life when they CARE.
People are unflappable when they DON'T CARE.
Just from a purely psychological point of view, the fact that she seems to be unflappable within the confines of the biggest pressure cooker in American politics suggests to me that she doesn't care about American politics - that, instead, she cares about something else - something other than American politics.
And certainly the easiest way to not care about a set of circumstances in life is when you aren't actually participating in those circumstances, but rather are merely ACTING THE PART of someone who is participating in those circumstances.

The very fact that she spent 15 or 16 years in Saudi Arabia [from roughly the age of 2, until roughly the age of 18], and then showed up in the Clinton Whitehouse, as an intern, in 1996, at roughly the age of 21, is, in and of itself, a massive security breach.
That she then spent another five years in the Clinton Whitehouse, and, for most of the last seven years, has been wedded at the hip to Mrs. Clinton, night and day [whether or not they are engaging in acts of sodomy], is an unthinkable compromise of national security.

And even if it wasn't an "unthinkable compromise of national security" on Monday, September 10, 2001, it damned sure became an unthinkable compromise of national security on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
As a thought experiment, reverse the roles, and suppose that Huma Abedin was a Jewish girl, with supermodel looks, and that her parents had left America when she was 2, and had emigrated to Israel [even though NEITHER of her parents had been born in Israel], and that her mother was an Israeli professor, and that her father had founded his own institute devoted to Israeli-American and interfaith understanding and reconciliation and published a journal focusing on Jewish minorities living in the diaspora.
And suppose that she had worked her way into the Clinton Whitehouse, in 1996, at the age of 21 [after spending 15 or 16 of her formative years in Israel], and that she had become wedded at the hip to Mrs. Clinton, night and day, for the next 11 years.
[We'll leave out the part about the 19 "Jews" (Saudis) - 15 of them from "Israel" - who hijacked a bunch of jetliners and flew them into the World Trade Center & the Pentagon, back in 2001.]

And suppose that she was spending money way beyond her apparent station in life.

And suppose that she was unflappable in pressure-cooker situtations.

Now suppose all of those things, and then come to the logical conclusion.

People would be screaming "Mossad" at the top of their lungs.
Alan note: Why is nobody screaming Saudi security breach?
The "gay/lesbian" aspect only has relevance in the light of the original reasons for not allowing gays in the military. Not so much a "social" disruption, after all we have women in the military alongside men, but because gay men were not to be trusted to hold back secrets from other gay men from enemy ranks if they became enamored.