Good Monday to all. How about a beer? No clue why people have gotten upset about this commercial. Maybe it was some sort of PETA protest?
CNN has a story this morning about a battle in Najaf. Let's look at the highlights, shall we?
A pitched battle between U.S.-backed Iraqi troops and insurgents raged into the early hours Monday after Iraqi officials said they foiled a plot to attack pilgrims and kill leading clerics in the Shiite Muslim holy city of Najaf.
Iraqi interior and defense ministry officials told CNN that an estimated 250 to 300 gunmen had been killed in the fight north of Najaf. They were part of a force of 400 to 600 insurgents who planned a massive siege of Najaf on Tuesday, the culmination of the Shia holy period of Ashura.
Iraqi officials said insurgents planned to seize control of the city and surrounding province and kill top Shia religious figures — including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most revered Shiite leader.
Jraiwi said the Iraqis were tipped off that insurgents were gathering near the town of Zarqa, about six miles (10 km) north of Najaf. He said they moved southward among convoys of Shia pilgrims headed for Najaf for Ashura, when Shiites mark the 7th-century martyrdom of the Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammed's grandson.
He said captured fighters told Iraqi authorities they planned to attack senior clerics and the Imam Ali Shrine at the heart of the city. He said insurgents were using small arms, mortars and rockets against Iraqi soldiers and police backed by U.S. troops and aircraft.
Notice something missing? No mention of who the "insurgents" were, as in, Sunni? CNN also seems to have checked their moral outrage at the door. Consider that these were religious people and their icons about to be attacked during the holy time of Ashura. Remember how news sites were incensed that Saddam was hung during the beginning of Ashura?
In "other developments"
Iraqi schoolgirls taking their midterm exams in Baghdad were the target of a mortar attack Sunday morning that killed five of the students and wounded 21, an Iraqi interior ministry official said. Insurgents fired at least three mortar rounds at the al-Khulood girls secondary school in western Baghdad, the official said. The girls who were killed were between the ages of 12 and 14 years.
Nothing to see, move along. It's just some kids being killed. No big deal to CNN. Hanging Saddam, a brutal dictator, caused more angst among the media elite.
Quick update: the media is reporting that the attackers were a splinter Shiite group. My mistake.
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The Knucklehead of the Day award…
Today’s winner is Japan’s Health Minister, Hakuo Yanagisawa….
Cogent Arguments Against “Intelligent Design”…
Links below are to typical examples of business as usual, demonstrating… that there are some serious, serious issues with “intelligent design”…
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Closed for corruption…
From CNN-
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Aviation authorities have refused to extend an international safety certificate for Bangkok’s new international airport, a senior official said Saturday, dealing another blow to the problem-plagued facility…..
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Dad, Come See the Kittens…
Fifty-five years ago: Liberals as children: “Dad, Come See the Kittens”……
Anti-War FLOP!…
FAUX-tography strikes again! Take a bunch of losers, pervs and drunks, put angry signs in their hands, take cropped close-up pictures of them and… presto changeo… you have a PEACE movement! …and more……
Anti War Protestors Deface Capitol…
Capitol police were ordered to move back and allow protestors access to the Capitol where the hooligans promptly spray painted anti war slogans. They painted the steps with symbols and slogans after the police backed off to allow them access. The pol…
New Direction CONGRESSIONAL PAGE TIPLINE…..Hello?…Hello?……….
From Judicial Watch
A South Dakota Senate Committee will decide what action to take against a popular Democratic state senator accused of sexually groping a high school page during last legislative session.
The nine-member committee has spent the last…
MANLY MAN MONDAY…
I’m here, I’m here; frickin flu. Caught it from the husband; but it was worth it.
Monday once again allows us to acknowledge those men who have the fortitude to be a Manly Man. There have been some international news makers that have p…
I thought the commercial was quite tame. I don’t get it either.
Today is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day…
After careful consideration, I’m not altogether sure IÂ understand enough to observe this one properly.Â
For example:
1. Is popping bubble wrap a sign of appreciation? (I don’t think I’d appreciate someone stomping on me.)
2. Am …
Because WE ARE AT WAR!!!…
As recently as August 2006, our enemies, the terrorists planned to blow up more planes coming from London to the US in an attack that would have killed more people than the 9/11 attack did….
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Hollywood sinks to a new low…
I had previously written about the 207 Sundance Film Festival in Utah prefacing a sick documentary named "Zoo." "Zoo," is about a man having "unnatural" relations with a horse. (That is as graphic as I am willing to get in…
Web site updates…
One of the big reasons for this change is that I have far more space available on the file system for content than I do in the database, and the database was approaching full….
MotherS who want DeaD children…
Nice goin Muzlims.
Welcome to the death-loving cult of fanatical savages that the Leftists can’t seem to get enough of. We love our children……..dead.
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Laws of the Natural Universe…
toilet montage Photo originally uploaded by TheOtherSimon. We are all familiar with the Law of Gravity, which may not even exist yet everyone falls for it, but are you familiar with these? (most I’ve collected from the Internet, a few are mine) John…
Some notes on Political Correctness…
Below is an excerpt and link from one of my students; I probably cribbed too much, but these opening paragraphs really capture the point of the article. I think the student sent me the link base on one of my…
Getting a vote on the viaduct is a challenge…
It just never seems to end. It’s not enough that so much time has been wasted with no work actually being done to fix the viaduct. Now they want to risk public safety by moving funds from one repair job to another….
Leftist blame game?…
Or, if the truth be known: The fault of the running dog, capitalist American; squanderer of Mother Earth’s bounty and oppressor of the poor….
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A few observations…
If there’s an anti-American cause being championed anywhere in the U.S., it’s almost a sure bet that eventually one of their posters will end up stuck to a telephone pole somewhere on Seattle’s Capitol Hill….
The Knucklehead of the Day award…
Today’s winner is Psychologist Bruce Beaton….
I’m taking a wild stab here ….in the past the use of “animals” (ie Camel cigs “Camel”) in promoting cigarettes or alcohol (ie the Budweiser frogs) is claimed by “some” to be directed at children.
Therefore, unacceptable.
Maggie, Stacy, I figure that PETA cannot tell the difference between and fake gorilla and a real one, and figure that rolling rock is taking advantage of one of mother natures creates to sell beer. To children. For profit.