November 7, 2004 – 9:19 am
I guess the deaths of 9 French soldiers and all the violence in the Ivory Coast isn’t important to the NY Times, at least as a top story for their RSS. Multiple stories on Iraq, Bush, the GOP, and a martian robot demo. BBC has it. So does the Washington Post (2 of the 3 […]
November 6, 2004 – 11:30 pm
Quagmire: 2. A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary. What is happening in the Ivory Coast at this time has moved beyond the smartass post Quagmire! from early this afternoon. It is a problem. It is all good and fun to denigrate the French, however, the situation in in the Ivory Coast has […]
November 6, 2004 – 7:54 pm
Was in a joke fest earlier, and I remembered this one. The following is the transcript of an ACTUAL radio conversation that took place in October 1995, between a US Navy ship off the coast of England, and some British authority. The transcript was released by the MoD. BRITS: Please divert your course 15 degrees […]
November 6, 2004 – 3:48 pm
The French look to be in serious trouble in the Ivory Coast: ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — Ivory Coast warplanes bombed French peacekeepers Saturday, killing eight French soldiers and an American, officials said, prompting a French counterstrike in a confrontation that threatened to escalate Ivory Coast’s renewed civil war. After the French retaliation, pro-government mobs […]
November 6, 2004 – 8:47 am
Ogre’s Politics and Views has the lowdow on the moonbats contacting Canada: Apparently immediately after George Bush was declared the winner, the Canadian immigration web site suddenly received a large amount of traffic, apparently from the United States. 115K hits Wednesday and 65K Thursday, up from a norm of 20K. Don’t let the screen door […]
November 5, 2004 – 10:54 pm
The Dutch government has vowed to take tough action against Islamic radicalism after the murder of a film maker. Theo van Gogh, the director of a movie criticising the treatment of women under Islam, was shot and stabbed in Amsterdam on Tuesday. I know someone else had been blogging this, unfortunately, the posts are no […]
November 5, 2004 – 9:49 pm
Fat Mike has crawled out of his cave (after eating pounds of candy) to come up with this gem: 17 Reasons Not To Slit Your Wrists…by Michael Moore Dear Friends, Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let’s, in the words of Monty Python, “always look on the […]
November 5, 2004 – 6:45 pm
When it is all said and done, it is just politics, it taint personal. I completely disagree with Mr Edwards, and some of what Elizabeth has said. However, I would like to send my most heartfelt wishes to Elizabeth Edwards and the whole Edwards family. God willing, everything will turn out all right. If you […]
November 5, 2004 – 3:17 pm
Looks like the demorats are trying to leave: Canadian immigration officials have reported a huge increase in the number of requests for Canadian citizenship in the past twenty-four hours, with over fifty-five million such inquiries pouring in since late Tuesday night. Of those fifty-five million requests, well over 99.99% of them came from U.S. citizens, […]
November 5, 2004 – 8:04 am
So NOW the EU rats want back on board the USS Bush: BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) — European Union leaders will present a reconstruction aid package to Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Friday, as the bloc seeks a fresh start with U.S. President George W. Bush after bitter internal divisions over Iraq. Well, that didn’t […]
