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^ To BattleAxe:
Or, be the United States, the country that people in shithole countries love to hate.
- huh ... well yea I guess Texas should be it's own countryBattleAxe
- ukit0
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…
"The Obama transition team's long delay in selecting CIA and national intelligence directors is a reflection of the complicated demands of the jobs and Obama's own policies and priorities.
Obama is sending an unequivocal message that controversial administration policies approving harsh interrogations, waterboarding and extraordinary renditions _ the secret transfer of prisoners to other governments with a history of torture _ and warrantless wiretapping are over, said several officials."
- Llyod0
Burris denied seat in US Senate to succeed Obama
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090…
- ukit0
Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General
- Mimio0
Insert "One Tin Soldier" by Coven.
- MakeBelieve0
Israel strikes school, kills 30, in Gaza.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middl…
They have some of the most 'accurate' missle systems in the world
- Militants firing rockets from that same UN school.
http://www.youtube.c…liveslow
- Militants firing rockets from that same UN school.
- DrBombay0
Tell JazX I Looooooooove him
Tell JazX not to Cry
- ukit0
- megE0
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/…
TOLEDO, Ohio — Joe The Plumber is putting down his wrenches and picking up a reporter's notebook.
The Ohio man who became a household name during the presidential campaign says he is heading to Israel as a war correspondent for the conservative Web site pjtv.com.
Samuel J. Wurzelbacher (WUR'-zuhl-bah-kur) says he'll spend 10 days covering the fighting.
He tells WNWO-TV in Toledo that he wants to let Israel's "'Average Joes' share their story."
Wurzelbacher gained attention during the final weeks of the campaign when he asked Barack Obama about his tax plan.
He later joined Republican John McCain on the campaign trail. At one stop, he agreed with a McCain supporter who asked if he believed a vote for Obama was a vote for the death of Israel.
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HA!- proves one thing, some people will do or say ANYTHING to get out of Ohio...robotron3k
- hell i did!megE
- me too. later cleveland...robco
- me three! Cleveland, Columbus, Westerville. they can all kiss my ass!fooler2
- BattleAxe0
http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/…
EL PASO -- Former U.S. drug czar Barry McCaffrey contends that millions of people may rush to cross the U.S. border if security
McCaffrey
conditions worsen and lead to a governmental collapse in Mexico."A failure by the Mexican political system to curtail lawlessness and violence could result (in) a surge of millions of refugees crossing the U.S. border to escape the domestic misery of violence, failed economic policy, po verty, hunger, joblessness, and the mindless cruelty and injustice of a criminal state," McCaffrey said in an after-action report based on the Dec. 5-7 International Forum of Intelligence & Security Specialists in Mexico, an advisory group to Mexican law enforcement leaders.
- I think people would be surprised to find so many ex-pats running to south america as well...robotron3k
- waterhouse0
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn…
I really wish she would just STFU.
How I miss the times when she was blissfully media shy.
Bill Maher isn't always spot on but I think he got it right when he coined the folksy Jesus freak politicians like her "The Know-Nothings."
- You would think embarrassment would have tempered her tongue a little.Mimio
- Republicans are incapable of feeling embarrassment. It goes along with their lack of empathy for fellow humans.TheBlueOne
- when is she going to to PenthouseBattleAxe
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"Under pressure from federal authorities, the Swiss bank UBS is closing the hidden offshore accounts of its well-heeled American clients, potentially allowing their secrets to spill into the open."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/0…
let the civil war begin
- BattleAxe0
GTFO!
Illinois House impeaches Gov. Rod Blagojevich
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090…
- epill0
Spider-Man's #1 fan gets his own cover...
- GeorgesII0
interresting video,
- timonysuede0
Did anyone check this site? It's on another post, might be of interest here:
"This site helps coordinate all your January 19th Bush-bashery. What better way to ring in a new president, and celebrate the end of the old.
http://bushbash09.com/"post is here: http://www.qbn.com/topics/578664…
- DrBombay0
More Joe the Plumber news, yay!
Plumber trades wrench for reporter's notebook
Average Joe reports on war in IsraelAMY TEIBEL
AP WriterSderot, Israel — Joe the Plumber has set aside his wrenches to become a rookie war correspondent, covering Israel's side of its two-week-old military offensive in Gaza.
The Ohio man who rocketed to fame during the U.S. presidential campaign for asking Barack Obama about his tax plan was in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Sunday to tell readers of the conservative pjtv.com Web site about the rockets that rain down from the neighboring Gaza Strip.
The people of Sderot "can't do normal things day to day" like get soap in their eyes in the shower, for fear of rockets, said America's most famous plumber, whose real name is Samuel J. Wurzelbacher.
"I'm sure they're taking quick showers," he said. "I know I would."
Wurzelbacher's status as a rookie was evident when he stood in front of a pile of spent rockets and said: "I have thousands of questions but I can't think of the right one."
What he could summon was contempt for Israel's critics, who are outraged by the more than 870 Palestinians killed in Israel's bruising air and ground onslaught against Gaza's Islamic militant Hamas rulers. Thirteen Israelis also have died since the operation began, including four killed by the rocket fire that touched off the war in the first place.
"Why hasn't Israel acted sooner?" Wurzelbacher asked. "I know if I were a citizen here, I'd be damned upset."
He described himself as a "peace-loving man," but added, "when someone hits me, I'm going to unload on the boy. And if the rest of the world doesn't understand that, then I'm sorry."
Wurzelbacher, who underwent intense media scrutiny during the campaign, said he was enlisted to cover Israel because he's "an expert on media bias."
"I was on the short end of the stick," like Israel is now, he said.
When Wurzelbacher joined Republican Sen. John McCain on the campaign trail, he agreed with a supporter who asked if he thought "a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel."
Wurzelbacher said the full story of Israel's campaign against Hamas isn't coming out on mainstream news outlets. He said they are demonizing Israel instead of recognizing it as the victim of Gaza militants who have fired thousands of rockets at Israel over the past eight years.
"It's asinine when someone is firing upon you and the world is coming down on you," he said. "Common sense has gone out the window.
"Hamas hides among its own people," causing civilian casualties, he added. "But I hear no cry out from the international community."
That's the Israeli government's position, too. And though foreign reporters normally have to provide proof of experience to receive government authorization to report from Israel, Wurzelbacher was being escorted Sunday on his first reporting gig ever by the head of the Government Press Office, Danny Seaman, and a press office photographer.
Wurzelbacher said he has been "embraced" by the people of Israel because "they know I have no agenda but the truth."
But his arrival in a busy cafe elicited no overt signs of recognition. He appeared to cause more of a stir among the press there.
This is his first trip to Israel, and he pronounced himself "happy to be here."
But war correspondent or not, Wurzelbacher won't get to Gaza: Israel has barred access to foreign journalists.
"If he wants to put on an Israeli military uniform and go in as a volunteer, maybe," Seaman quipped. "Nobody goes in."
- TheBlueOne0
Ah..inching closer to a Police State in fact and not just name...Supreme Court just gutted the 4th amendment. Police now don't need a cause to get in your business. Thanks Fascist Republican dickheads:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/1…
"The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that evidence obtained from an unlawful arrest based on careless record keeping by the police may be used against a criminal defendant."
