August 13, 2008
Hmmm… a dead foreigner, a bag of poison, but not terrorism. Couldn’t be.
About a pound of highly toxic sodium cyanide was found inside a hotel room where a 29-year-old Canadian man’s body was discovered, authorities in Denver said.
Police said foul play was not suspected and FBI spokeswoman Kathy Wright said Wednesday there was no apparent connection to terrorism. - MSNBC
August 12, 2008
How many times have we had to read a news story from the U.S that contained the words in bold below? Is it any wonder that the Americans can’t trust us to maintain even a minimal amount of competence on immigration and border security? Got yer passport yet?
It has the makings of international intrigue. Less than two weeks before the Democratic National Convention a man has been found dead in a Denver hotel room with a container of what authorities initially suspect to be the deadly poison cyanide.
Adding to the intrigue is that the dead man, Saleman Abdirahman Dirie, 29, appears to be from outside the U.S. No passport was found on Dirie, who is believed to have entered the country from Canada. - CBS4 Denver
Via LGF
August 10, 2008
This will throw all those refrigeration guys out of work.
Refrigerators and other cooling devices may one day lose their compressors and coils of piping and become solid state, according to Penn State researchers who are investigating electrically induced heat effects of some ferroelectric polymers. - Physorg.com
August 10, 2008
Looks like the Westboro losers didn’t have the balls to show up at the funeral of Tim McLean. Hundreds of Winnipegers and a contigent of cops were there to send the right message. Nice going Winnipeg.
I think we’re a fairly strong community, so when someone starts bashing someone that died, that we will unite together. We have to show that Canada will not tolerate this. I don’t believe it’s any of my personal business to be (inside the funeral), because I didn’t know him. But I believe showing support outside, there’s nothing wrong with that . . . this is just an honest, silent way of showing the way we feel. - Stacey Titterton
August 10, 2008
Obama needs advisers that are more up to speed on international issues. This is getting embarrassing. I guess they all forgot that Georgia is an American ally with 2000 troops in Iraq (although some are now on their way home) and a Nato membership in the works.
Obama Friday:
I strongly condemn the outbreak of violence in Georgia, and urge an immediate end to armed conflict. Now is the time for Georgia and Russia to show restraint, and to avoid an escalation to full scale war. Georgia’s territorial integrity must be respected. All sides should enter into direct talks on behalf of stability in Georgia, and the United States, the United Nations Security Council, and the international community should fully support a peaceful resolution to this crisis.
Obama Saturday:
I condemn Russia’s aggressive actions and reiterate my call for an immediate ceasefire… Russia must stop its bombing campaign, cease flights of Russian aircraft in Georgian airspace, and withdraw its ground forces from Georgia.
August 10, 2008
The Russians are never afraid to go all out in any sort of conflict or anti-terror operation. They don’t care about international opinion and do whatever they want. We all know that if G.W. did this the howls of the media and the left would be deafening. Where is Janeane Garafalo when you need her?
AP photo: George Abdaladze
The US received howls of criticism for its targeted strikes on insurgents who deliberately hid among civilians in Iraq and in Afghanistan. Even Barack Obama criticized American tactics in the latter, saying that all we were doing was “air raiding villages and killing civilians”. Israel got the same criticism during its war with Hezbollah, which also hid among civilians.
So when will we hear criticism from Obama, MoveOn, and the rest of the critics over these tactics by Russia? Georgia is fielding a uniformed army, clearly identifiable and operating under command of the state. Why does Russia need to bomb civilian centers under these conditions? - Hot Air
August 5, 2008
The Norwegian Muslim Council which represents 60,000 muslims in Norway is unsure whether homosexuals should be killed.
It’s very important to have the European fatwa council with us in difficult matters like this. I am not in favour of the death penalty, but there are Islamic texts that various people understand differently. This is why we need to know the attitude of the authority before we make a decision. - Aftenposten
August 5, 2008
Hirsi Ali: “The ideas of Mohammed are incompatible with the ideas that liberal secular democracies are based on”
Islam as creed as incapable of change in the sense that … for instance there’s a read-only lock on the Koran. Anyone who proposes to change anything in the Koran is considered an apostate, and is immediately killed or threatened with death. - Jihad Watch
August 5, 2008
25 Reasons You May be a Racist [Peter Kirsanow]
August 4, 2008
Stephen F. Hayes @ The Weekly Standard
David Zucker, the director who brought us ‘Airplane!’ and ‘The Naked Gun,’ turns his sights on anti-Americanism.
Zucker’s latest movie, An American Carol, is unlike anything that has ever come out of Hollywood. It is a frontal attack on the excesses of the American left from several prominent members of a growing class of Hollywood conservatives. Until now, conservatives in Hollywood have always been too few and too worried about a backlash to do anything serious to challenge the left-wing status quo.
It’ll probably be something like this:
