Category Archives: Current Affairs

Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

  And a Happy Sunday to everyone. This one is by Freeman Elliot. Is it prescient to think that this is how the next PJM Vblog is being readied? Oh, BTW, check out this pinup. I think you will get a hoot out of it. I got you-know-who to pose for a special pinup. On […]

Fox News Crew: Family Relieved They’re Alive

There is finally starting to be some media coverage of kidnapped Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig. I guess in today's media there has to be video for them to take notice: The family of a New Zealand camerman kidnapped in Gaza have said they are relieved to see that he and […]

Ban Me, Iran! Woosies!

After 8/22 came and went, and Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looked weak and ineffective, I hunted down a photo of him. Looks like he has gone French. Woos. Anyhow, get a load of the caption under this photo on this Yahoo News page about Iran:   Notice the (R) next to his name? What could the […]

Flag Burning Teacher Removed From Class. And Linkfest

From Local 6.com A middle school teacher in Louisville has been removed from the classroom after burning two American flags in class as part of a civics lesson. Dan Holden, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Stuart Middle School, burned two flags Friday as part of a lesson on freedom of speech, said Jefferson County […]

Adding To The Complete Military History of France

Everyone knows the complete military history of France, right? A history of draws and losses. Well, add a new chapter to the history of surrender Lebanon, 2006 Tasked with supplying a large contingent of troops and leading the peace keeping force in Southern Lebanon, in order to keep the peace between Israel and Lebanon, France […]

Ten Commandments Allowed. And Linkfest

I'm sure that this will drive the ACLU crazy. And probably gave the NY Times writer a serious case of the vapors A federal judge on Friday said a Ten Commandments monument outside a courthouse in Oklahoma could stay, rejecting arguments that it promotes Christianity at the expense of other religions. Judge Ronald A. White […]

French Soldier Quarterly

Hah! I have just recieved a copy of the next French Soldier Quarterly   Click for full size Great pictures of French soldiers training for duty in Lebanon (courtesy of A Bama Blog) Provided they ever get there   The French government has hit back against criticism that it has fallen short of expectations in helping to maintain […]

South Lebanese Returning Home

From the AFP BEIRUT (AFP) – A ceasefire aimed at silencing the guns in Lebanon took hold, sending thousands of displaced Lebanese streaming back home in the war-battered south as Hezbollah claimed a "historic victory". Tyre resident Sallammi Abdul Katchew stated "It's really not that bad. Ever been to Camden, N.J.? I got the hell […]

Iran: Disarming Hezbollah “Illogical”

And in an amazing coincidence, Iran sounds much like the American Left TEHRAN (Reuters) -Iran welcomed on Sunday a planned ceasefire to halt the month-long war between Lebanon's Hizbollah and Israel but described the U.N. Security Council's call for disarming the Iranian-backed group as "illogical." The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday calling […]

US and CESM’s Reach Agreement On UN Deal

Quite frankly, I do not think much of it France and the United States reached a deal Friday on a final draft resolution that would authorize the deployment of 15,000 U.N. peacekeepers in south Lebanon to support a Lebanese force as it takes control of the region and Israel withdraws. The draft, obtained by The […]

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