November 15, 2004 – 7:21 am
From the NY Post: Soon after the buzz of gunfire faded from his ears, Army Spc. Frederick Ofori, who just minutes earlier earned hero status in Fallujah, called his mom in Coney Island and said only what he’s said for the eight months he’s spent in Iraq: "Don’t worry, Mom, I’m fine. I don’t have […]
November 14, 2004 – 9:17 am
From a summit convened by Nigeria on the trouble in Ivory Coast, that is. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – Nigeria convened an African summit on Ivory Coast’s crisis on Sunday without the leader of the embattled nation, who remained holed up in his mansion, increasingly surrounded by hard-liners. Ivory Coast said it was instead sending its […]
November 12, 2004 – 7:15 am
Folks, if you are up and read this, turn on the news. It is not looking really safe in Rammallah, with the black clad AK-47 toting Hammas members present in the crowd. Live on Fox, and I am sure on the other stations. Not switching away. The crowd has been chanting for Arafat to be […]
November 11, 2004 – 7:33 am
Arafat has finally kicked the bucket (though, they apparently do not know why yet.) He is done. Toast (hopefully, literally.) Several world leaders have chimed in: French President Jacques Chirac eulogized Arafat as a "man of courage and conviction who, for 40 years, has been the incarnation of the Palestinians’ combat for recognition of their […]
November 10, 2004 – 8:00 pm
Ok, time to send in the Marines. This is terrible’. Shipments of cocoa from Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest producer, remain blocked following three days of unrest. The country’s two ports were shut down on Monday, after a ceasefire broke down and French bombing of the country’s air force sparked rioting. President Bush needs to […]
November 10, 2004 – 6:19 pm
I guess that the folks in the Intell departments aren’t as clueless as the libs say: US officials say they are confident, but not certain, missing Californian Adam Gadahn is the man who threatened al-Qaeda attacks in a recent video. The man appeared with his face covered in a tape shown by ABC News last […]
November 8, 2004 – 10:02 pm
What a hoot. In this case, I am not going to comment. You have to read this for yourselves.
November 7, 2004 – 3:33 pm
SInce the French and the UN are large and in charge (sic), I guess it is ok to have a large military presence on a foreign nations soil, as well as: ….dropping percussion grenades on mobs massing at bridges, the international airport and the military base in Abidjan. French troops also fired tear gas and […]
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 […]
