August 19, 2006 – 7:37 am
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 […]
August 14, 2006 – 10:03 pm
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 […]
August 13, 2006 – 11:14 am
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 […]
August 11, 2006 – 5:04 pm
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 […]
August 9, 2006 – 10:00 am
Heard about this last night on Fox News, but screwed the posting up. Set it for September, instead of the 9th France has changed parts of the UN resolution, and is now demanding that Israel completely and unconditionally withdraw from Lebanon. Hmm. The US is trying to spread democracy throughout the ME region. France is trying […]
August 8, 2006 – 6:16 am
Consider. This is the al-Reuters photo I changed a wee bit for a lark on Monday: Running in sandals. But, let's see the AP version: Kinda funny how cameramen from both the AP and al-Reuters happened to be in the same place at the same time to capture the only person out in this bombed out […]
August 7, 2006 – 8:56 am
This commercial was banned. Not sure why. [gv data=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8277487889802129231&hl=en”][/gv] The EU would like to ban Israeli PM Ehud Olmert, or at least his comments. Olmert didn’t go quite as far as telling the EU to “shove it,” but he did lay a nice little smack down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told European leaders to stop […]
August 5, 2006 – 5:16 pm
The other day I wrote a post about HRW forgetting Hezbollah's actions in a release that condemned Israel soley. I even went so far as to write HRW, asking why that was. The response I recieved from HRW was less then satisfactory. To be honest, it was a total copout. I was considering posting it, […]
August 1, 2006 – 7:09 pm
This must have made the abortion on demand crowd jubilent: The Food and Drug Administration unexpectedly announced its willingness Monday to make the emergency contraceptive, Plan B, available without prescription – but only to women 18 and older. The announcement is the most concrete indication to date that the FDA, after more than two years […]
August 1, 2006 – 8:01 am
Castro had a bit of surgery, and has had to turn power over to his brother in the interim. Ye Olde AP has written a glowing piece on him, rife with verbage that portrays him in a beneficent light. All that is missing is the recomendation to hold candlelight vigils and, well, they cannot pray, so at […]
