-- "Kimberly Byrd, head of the Mullins Beautification Committee said she later received a text from Mayor Miko Pickett asking her to remove the Nativity scene, citing concerns about residents of other faiths and beliefs in the small South Carolina town . Byrd said the mayor’s request stunned her." --
FROM THE COMMENTS:-- "Yo mama taught you how to hate. Shame on you my brutha." --
"Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday warned North Korea that U.S. forces are ready to "fight tonight" after the dictatorship condemned military drills taking place in South Korea."PRESIDENT GRANDAD POKES HORNETS NEST:
“As far as statements by my U.S. counterpart are concerned. What would I say to him in response? I would tell him: ‘Stay healthy!’ I wish him good health,” Putin said.
The Russian government in general reacted much more abrasively to the remarks.THE ONE TRICK PONY NETWORK:
Longtime broadcaster Ted Koppel famously mocked CNN’s Brian Stelter to his face back in 2018, telling the network’s media pundit that "CNN’s ratings would be in the toilet without Donald Trump."
Stelter shook his head in disagreement, but it turns out that Koppel was onto something.
Justin sure knows how to pick 'em."The Liberal party is keeping a tight lid on what transpired during the two-hour, closed-door session last Tuesday."I don't know why... Justin's last "dressup & pray" went over so well.
"President Barack Obama will be visiting one of his biggest fans soon - late night talker David Letterman. The news comes on the same day Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he couldn't meet with him due to a scheduling conflict."**********
• LAS VEGAS • "President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that while he does not believe Egypt is an ally of the United States, he also doesn't consider the country an enemy."Deep.
"Barack Obama invited Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi to meet with him in New York next week."Yup... priorities.
Though women are technically barred from combat roles, they have fought and died alongside men in Iraq and Afghanistan, where American forces could come under attack almost anywhere. More than 140 women have been killed in the two conflicts.
The Marine Corps is the most male-dominated of the armed services, with 13,800 women making up about 7 percent of its total force of 197,800.
• "The United Nations' main human rights body was set to condemn Syria on Tuesday for using heavy weapons on residential areas and persecuting opponents, its fourth rebuke to Assad in an 11-month uprising." •Just curious... how many starving children could you feed with the billions of dollars the UN pisses away every year?
"Secretary of State Hilary Clinton told a Senate subcommittee that President Bashar al-Assad fits the definition of a war criminal. But, Clinton said, an official designation by the international community may make it more difficult for Assad to step down from power."I'm guessing that random artillery fire might be making things more difficult for Syrian civilians... but apparently that's not the Obama administrations problem. They just have to pretend to be concerned.
She concluded the interview, saying: "The Syrian army is shelling a city of cold, starving civilians." The report featured an account of the death of a small child -- a child who died in front of her -- after a previous military attack.And Barack continues to fiddle... as Homs burns.
"What is going on and why is no one stopping this murder in Homs?" she said. "This is happening every day."
In the deadliest day of unrest so far, at least 12 people died across the country, as mobs charged at US bases and diplomatic missions.Once again, the capricious and unknowable "Will of Allah."
More than 20 people have been killed since the unrest began, including two US soldiers who died on Thursday.
President Barack Obama has apologised for the Koran-burning incident.
I'm thinkin' there may still be a few bugs in the system...Pelland, 34, a school teacher and a soccer coach, was shot in the chest after his driver refused to stop at an illegal roadblock set up by a tribe in the village of Al-Samata.Maybe democracy is in the eye of the beholder...
Pelland was employed by the British Columbia Canadian International School, which according to its website teaches primary education "to the citizens and guests of Egypt."
-- ASTANA -- Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday joined the Chinese and Russian leaders in a rare encounter at a summit in Kazakhstan, where he launched a new attack on the "slavers and colonisers" of the West.Uh... that's us they're talking about, by the way. We're the real danger.
In a characteristically firebrand speech peppered with rhetorical questions, he launched a new call for a wholesale shake-up of the world order, which he said was "managed and run by slavers and colonizers of the past."
"I believe together we can reform the way the world is managed. We can restore the tranquillity of the world," he said.
“We don’t know how far advanced it is, but their intent is pretty clear — to set up a base-in-exile here for the leadership. Some leadership is already here,” a well-placed federal government official told the Ottawa Citizen.**********
In discussing Tuesday's incident, [Liberal] Immigration Minister Kathleen Weil referred cautiously to "pluralism" and "openness" as key values within Quebec society.Enough air-speak... how about we just go with the Wyatt Earp solution?
"Each institution has its rules. The airports, courthouses are all dealing with these kinds of questions."
-- OTTAWA -- The Canada Border Services Agency says 15 people who arrived off Canada's west coast last summer should be booted from the country over terrorist or criminal ties.
Government officials say that 14 of the 15 men have ties to the Tamil Tiger terrorist group, while the other has a criminal past.
-- WINNIPEG -- Some groups are already upset that the Holocaust is to get a permanent space when the museum opens in 2013, while other genocides will share a "mass atrocity" gallery.I can't wait to tour the "Genocides the U.N. conveniently ignored" gallery.
"It's about fair and equitable treatment of these tragedies," Taras Zalusky, executive director of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, said from Ottawa.
The German-Canadian Congress is also upset with the attention given to the Holocaust.
-- MEXICO CITY -- Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early Saturday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, local media reported.**********
More than 30,000 people have been killed in Mexico since late 2006 when President Felipe Calderon mobilized the army and other security services to confront drug traffickers who supply the United States.
"We want to make sure that they have the tools that they need to be able to defend themselves," he said of Saudi Arabia, a key regional ally. The kingdom had no immediate comment.Good grief... if this had actually been a Republican move, the Dems in Congress would have been running around screaming like their heads were on fire. Instead we get one lone voice in the wilderness...
Some details of the proposed sale have been known for months, but the inclusion of up to 1,000 one-ton bombs known as Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or JDAMs, and other guided bombs in the package, was revealed in notifications to Congress on Wednesday.
U.S. officials said the $60 billion figure is an estimate.
Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, accused the administration of trying to slip the Saudi deal through Congress while lawmakers were on recess to campaign for the November election.Hope, change and... "bomb those fuckers back into the Stone Age."
"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country.
"But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
-- LONDON -- "They are baseless and totally untrue and flawed in many ways. To accuse Rwandan forces of committing genocide in the Congo or wherever for that matter, other than what happened in our own country, is just absurd."Hutus, Tutsis... these guys are all workin' off the same playbook.
Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Fla., called off plans to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, he said Thursday.C'mon, guys... seriously.
Our petition to stop "Fox News North" from getting special access to our cable fees has exploded to over 75,000 signatures in less than a week!(h/t reader ed)
Faisal Shahabuddin, a member of the mosque's board when asked to explain how two members of the congregation had allegedly gotten themselves involved in the terror plot, stated, "Why should I explain if we don't know it's true?"Let the healing begin.
-- TORONTO -- The city has summarily banned all kites from Milliken Park, a 32-hectare green space and unofficial home of a game that sees skilled kite-masters manoeuvre their flying contraptions to slice their opponents' strings. Every weekend, dozens of mostly Afghan-Canadian families flood the park to barbecue, picnic and watch the thrust and parry of the kites, a sight that reminds them of home.It's not like the center of the universe has any bigger cultural fish to fry, huh?
"The more time I can time(sic?) you responding to my every word, the less chance there is you'll be driving the sideroads of the Belleville area in a drunken stupor."Yeah... maybe you wanna try that again with smaller words, huh?
"Rights group Amnesty International says Chebeya had been summoned Tuesday evening to meet the head of the national police force in Kinshasa."Just another little blood-soaked politically-incorrect narrative you're not gonna see on the evening news.
"It says he never returned home that night."
More than 200 foreigners have been kidnapped in recent years; most are released unharmed.Geez, idyllic, brotherly Yemen... who could'a possibly seen that coming?
Two Chinese oil workers were freed this month after being kidnapped in the south east of the country.
In another region, however, a German married couple, their infant son and a British man are still missing after being kidnapped almost a year ago.
