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the Sleeping Sunflower
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You winced as your head hit the wall of lockers behind you but you still managed to smirk up at the red eyes with your own flashing (e/c) eyes. You placed a leg between his.
"Do you really want to do this again, Gilbert?" You sigh.
"Ah-ah," He replied with a shake of his head. "You can't fight me, remember? Even in self-defense," He recited from the rule book that you had to memorize, "A second offence will result in expulsion from Gakuen Hetalia. And you just punched me yesterday." He grinned like a devil at your widened eyes. "You can't do anything to me." Gilbert whispered into your ear. You shuddered and squeezed your eyes shut. You couldn't get expelled; you had spent all you had to get in.
"Please, you don't have to do this to me. There are plenty of girls who like you." You plead, tears starting to run down your face. You winced as the albino kissed your neck.
"But, ______, I don't like them." He said huskily. "You know," He murmured, rubbing his hand under your uniform skirt just below your butt. "I like you so submissive." You shivered and tried to pull away, your (h/c) hair falling in your face as you pushed his rough hands away. You took off running towards your car, fumbling with your keys, trying to open the door. You looked back and saw him running angrily after.
"Please, leave me alone!" You screamed at him before you got your doors open. Too late, though. Gilbert slammed the door shut before you could get in and pinned you between him and the car. You rested your forehead on the cool metal roof of the car as silent tears slid down your face. No one was around and your car was parked far from the road, no one would see you.
Gilbert grabbed your keys and unlocked the back door, throwing you in and then climbing in on top of you. Before you could escape, he locked the doors and placed the keys into his pants that had a growing bulge in them. You had accepted defeat as he started unbuttoning your shirt and pulling it off. He rubbed your breasts through the cloth as you whimpered, squirming under his rough grip. 'Please,' you thought, 'someone help me.'
Suddenly, your prayers were answered as you heard someone pulling the door by your head open as Gilbert was pulling your skirt off. The two strong hands then pulled you out of the car (and your skirt). Then, the hands turned you and you realized you were not saved. You stared at the Frenchman, (e/c) eyes wide in fear.
"Onhonhon~" He snickered, looking your trembling body up and down as you tried to pull your shirt closer to you, "were you going to share?" Francis asked Gilbert, blue eyes clouded with lust.
"No!" Gilbert said defensively, "No, I wasn't."
"Too bad~" He sang, pulling you closer into a rough kiss. You cried out as you felt another pair of hands lift you. You lower your head and put your hands up in a defensive position, fearing that the third in their group would be the one in front of you.
"What are you doing half naked, ______?" A Russian accent asked. You stared at the frightening man before a choked sob escaped your lips. He pulled you under his large coat and that's when you passed out. (a/n:I guess being so close to Ivan really scared you. Oh well, it couldn't be helped!)
When you awoke, you were in the back of a warm car and covered in blankets. You did a quick check and found that someone had given you a baggy shirt to sleep in. Inspecting further, you found your uniform folded on a dashboard that definitely wasn't yours. You couldn't think of where you might be. 'Did Francis...?' You thought. Quickly, you checked to see if your panties were intact and they were. 'No, thank God!' You breathed. Snuggling deeper into the cozy quilts around you, you pressed to another person. You squeaked in surprize as said person pulled you tightly to them.
"Shh, _____." A voice you recognized as Ivan's cooed, "They are still here out there, da?" He shifted so that you were on top of him and could peek out the window. Peering in were the faces of the Bad Touch Trio. Ivan rolled again so you were next to him before continuing. "They haven't left yet, I'm sorry I can't get you out of here but the were very intent on you staying. They removed the gas from my car." He sighed and you began to feel bad.
"I-I'm so s-s-sorry to have caused you all this trouble." You stammer, "Maybe I should get out." You reach for the handle only to be stopped by a large hand covering yours.
"You have very beautiful face while you sleep, da?" He asked sweetly, "You remind me of a sunflower. My own little sunflower." He sighed before drifting off to sleep. You smiled softly at the man, sitting up and running your fingers through his beige hair. You quickly pecked him on the cheek before snuggling back into the bed of blankets.
"Thank you, Ivan." You murmured before falling back asleep, cuddling against the strong man. Maybe this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
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Awe i cant even right now thats perfect *sniffles* thank god there are people like you who write such wonderful things x3
Don't worry Hungary will save us *hugs Russia to death* oops O.O"
This is why my O.C hates the BTT
*crying and hugging Russia* thank you thank you thank you! loves you forever friend zoned or not
Excuse me...but....the bad touch trio was trying to do WHAT???????
Oh no they didn't!!!!(noooo!!!!toni why!!!!i believed u was so a nice guy!!!! :<
Bttnhononon...fusosososo....keseseseesese....you will be our frau/cheriè/formosa.
Oh no they didn't!!!!(noooo!!!!toni why!!!!i believed u was so a nice guy!!!! :<
Bttnhononon...fusosososo....keseseseesese....you will be our frau/cheriè/formosa.
I HAVE THE BAD TOUCH TRIO!!! I HATE THEM!!!! but I love the story.
Ivvvaaannnn -cries and hugs him- I loveee yoouu
This is cute....
But next time please don't make France the bad guy... I love him too much D:
But next time please don't make France the bad guy... I love him too much D:
Cool!!!! But now I'm terrified of France
((Couldn't it have been just a bunch of random guys, instead of a Hetalia character? Somehow I feel like none of the characters are keen on raping anyone, ever, especially the BTT. I don't understand why they are labeled as they are, but in truth those three would probably be some of the last to do something as sick as that. Yes, France is a perv and chases after people a lot, but he's the nation of love, for crying out loud, and love is sacred to him. He outright says in the anime and the comic that love shouldn't be forced on anyone. As for Prussia, he may be forward with himself, but he's a coward and an awkward dork. I'm not saying it's 'brave' or 'cool' to rape someone, just that Prussia wouldn't be able to make himself do something so messed up. Remember the crotch cloth? He was messing with Hungary because he thought she was a guy, and that's what guys do. When he found out she was a girl, his demeanor changed entirely. He didn't want to mess with her, he just wanted her to cover up her breasts. He gave her his jacket, told her she could keep it, remember? And last but not least, Spain. The bright, sunny sweetheart who puts up with Romano's sh** on a daily basis? Innocent (or as innocent as a nation can be) and carefree as the birds? Yup, he's a dangerous man, we should lock him up before he hurts all our women. Come on, guys. Out of all three of them to call a rapist, Spain's the one that baffles me the most. He's a huge sweetheart! It makes no sense whatsoever. None of the characters are bad people with that sort of intention. Perhaps next time, just make them a bunch of random guys, okay? That way you still get a good near-rape rescue, and no one's favorite characters are wrongfully shamed ))
... If it was Francis doing the 'raping,' it wouldn't be rape because I'd be willing. .//w//.
-_-'' well...ok then. You like what youlike I'm not judging ya.
... =_=''
cough friendship cough rightasif cough cough!
Russia. You have a pipe. And a terrifying aura. AND bada** skills when it comes to killing and warfare. Why don't you just get out there and beat them to the edge of H*ll?
i choose prussia because if i choose russia belarus would hurt me


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This year, when Earth Day was observed, pro-life ads were placed on busses inviting people to celebrate earth's greatest treasure — children. The Church is very much in favor of preserving and caring for the environment. Yet some environmentalists support abortion. They see human life primarily as a threat to the environment, and justify killing unborn children to keep the environment safe for those who are born. Yet as Pope Benedict recently said, "How can we set at odds the protection of the environment and the protection of human life, including the life of the unborn?" Indeed they cannot be separated. Let's embrace a consistent ethic of life, which sees that the need to protect Mother Earth is precisely because of the value of the people who live on it, born and unborn.
–Fr. Frank

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In regards to Herman Cain and the accusations against him.
It's this: (Via Alhouse)
20 years later and it is the same song and dance —- except for one thing, it is coming from right and not the left, as it is being reported in some quarters.
In regards to Herman Cain and the accusations against him.
It's this: (Via Alhouse)
20 years later and it is the same song and dance —- except for one thing, it is coming from right and not the left, as it is being reported in some quarters.
I must say, I am shocked; I figured that they would keep it to silly posts mocking Herman Cain or Tut-Tutting him. But no, the Trent Lott syndrome subset of the Republican Party, that Lilly white Republican establishment is feeling threatened. So, now they are dredging up his past.
I really hate to write stuff like this, because I happen to enjoy WorldNetDaily. I enjoy WorldNetDaily, because there are times, when WorldNetDaily reports things that are not carried by other Conservative and mainstream media outlets. Although, I will admit, I am not that big of a fan of Joseph Farah, as he does still beat that drum of the Obama birth certificate. Furthermore, I have had correspondence with Mr. Farah and felt his attitude displayed in his e-mail to me, to be quite unbecoming of someone who is a born-again Christian and someone who is a reader and student of the Holy Scriptures.
Believe or not; I think that this happens to be a very good idea.
Via NYT:
MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — The Obama administration plans to bolster the American military presence in the Persian Gulf after it withdraws the remaining troops from Iraq this year, according to officials and diplomats. That repositioning could include new combat forces in Kuwait able to respond to a collapse of security in Iraq or a military confrontation with Iran.
The plans, under discussion for months, gained new urgency after President Obama's announcement this month that the last American soldiers would be brought home from Iraq by the end of December. Ending the eight-year war was a central pledge of his presidential campaign, but American military officers and diplomats, as well as officials of several countries in the region, worry that the withdrawal could leave instability or worse in its wake.
After unsuccessfully pressing both the Obama administration and the Iraqi government to permit as many as 20,000 American troops to remain in Iraq beyond 2011, the Pentagon is now drawing up an alternative.
In addition to negotiations over maintaining a ground combat presence in Kuwait, the United States is considering sending more naval warships through international waters in the region.
With an eye on the threat of a belligerent Iran, the administration is also seeking to expand military ties with the six nations in the Gulf Cooperation Council — Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. While the United States has close bilateral military relationships with each, the administration and the military are trying to foster a new "security architecture" for the Persian Gulf that would integrate air and naval patrols and missile defense.
The size of the standby American combat force to be based in Kuwait remains the subject of negotiations, with an answer expected in coming days. Officers at the Central Command headquarters here declined to discuss specifics of the proposals, but it was clear that successful deployment plans from past decades could be incorporated into plans for a post-Iraq footprint in the region.
In short, this will keep the Saudis happy and Iran at bay. Which will keep gas prices down and oil flowing out of that region. Obama might be a green energy guy and all, but he is no fool. He knows how far off all that technology is, so he's covering his bases here.
Some on the right might rattle their chains about this one; I will not. I know what he is doing here, and it's a very smart move. I commend him for it.
Despite what people like this lily-white Catholic woman here say; — who seems to suffer from some sort of Trent Lott syndrome or maybe it is the fact that she really needs to go have a baby or something. It can only help her, then perhaps she will stop posting dopey stories about baby pictures — and tormenting Conservative black men who run for President — Herman Cain can win this election, if racist remnants of the Trent Lott era of the Republican, like the woman linked above, would just leave him alone. It does seem to be their M.O. as of late; discredit the token Negro, so that they can protect the ivory-white tower of Republicanism that they have been occupying for so very long.
My question is this, to all two of you, that might actually read this posting; if the Republican Party is truly the Party of Lincoln; is it not time that we, as white Conservatives, have stopped trying to prevent blacks, who might actually be able to represent that Party the way it is supposed to be represented — from actually running for office and winning? Case in point: Allen Keyes.
Having said that, here is nice video made by a new group called Americans for Herman Cain:
Therefore, please, Republicans, do the right thing here, support a man, who loves his Country and wants to make it a better place for you and me — and our Children and their Children. Donate to Herman Cain.
Corrected some grammar errors in the original posting — what I get for typing so fast. 😀
You remember the posting that I wrote about the man who was hurt at the Oakland protest? Well, it turns out, that he is a leftist and Military hater, he also happens to be a rabid antisemitic twit; sort of like Tom Boggioni. Tom Boggioni is the idiot leftist blogger, who writes under the pen name of TBogg.
By the way, Tom Boggioni lives in San Diego, California, and he also has a facebook page.
Anyhow, the reason I write this is because Tom belched forth some rather nasty stuff on his blog about Israel and about Jews; in reaction to the fact that some of us on the right brought up the fact that this guy was a leftist and a Military hater.
Check out what he said in response to what Jim Hoft wrote about the guy:
About this little display of AntiSemitism, Tom writes:
So, with that apostasy, and for those of you keeping score at home…. Scott Olsen Is A Communist Who Hates Our Way Of Life + Hitler.
So, in Tom's rather peanut sized brain, hating Jews and Israel is perfectly fine; as long you adhere to the political philosophy of the left in this Country. This is the true face of the left; racism, antisemitism and class warfare —- remember this come 2012.
Another thing that sickens me, is that Jane Hamsher allows this sort of bile on that blog of hers. Shame on her.
I admit it, I have been harsh on this President from the start and I take pride in knowing that I have defended the 1% in this Country; which truth be told, is a bigger percentage. One of the many reasons I have been hard on this President is this right here, as told in a story by the politico about Bill Daley, who seems to have a few problems:
So do you think, I ask, that President Obama would be satisfied saying, "We did a good job, we did good stuff," and if he's a one-term president, "That's the verdict of history"?
"Nope, no, absolutely not!" Daley begins, shaking his head and then growing more outraged at the thought of a single term entering the president's mind. "I think he'd be angry! Pissed! Unhappy! Frustrated! No, if somebody said yes to that, that would be crazy."
But the polls stink.
"Considering the debacle that he came in with, the tough choices he's made and how there have been few, if any breaks, he says it himself all the time," Daley says. "He doesn't know why he's as high as 44 percent."
That is supposed to be a laugh line, but, indeed, the RealClearPolitics average of leading polls currently has Obama at 44.0 percent approval and 50.7 percent disapproval.
That is due to many factors, Daley says, and he starts reeling them off: trying to stimulate the economy; trying to save the auto industry; trying to increase the debt ceiling; passing health care legislation; fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; and dealing with Syria, North Korea, Egypt and Iran. To name a few.
"It's been a brutal three years," he says. "It's been a very, very difficult three years, an incredible three years. And we are doing all this under the overhang of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. F—k! It wasn't like all this was happening in good times."
Firstly, for a man who is serving in a public office, this man sure does have a very potty mouth. I mean, I know I have done the same thing here in the past and believe when I tell you, I regret that highly. However, it is one thing to be a lowly blogger as myself, but it is another to be one of the officers of the highest public office in the land and be using such vulgarity as this. It is unbecoming of the office and if I were the President, I would ask this man to resign and hire someone with a bit more respect for the office in which he serves.
Secondly and much more importantly, the man simply does not grasp the idea that the President's economic policies have simply failed. The President's energy polices have failed, the President's leadership ability is that of a freshmen in college; the man simply cannot lead. Not to mention the Grand Canyon worth of political scandals that seems to be oozing from every corner of that White House. You would think that someone as intelligent as someone who is an advisor to the President would know this. Which leads me to my next question; have we set the bar this low in politics now? That someone who this close to the President of the United States is this inherently ignorant that he is so oblivious to the absolute failures of this administration?
If this is the case, I fear for the future of our Country.
Others: The New Republic, Mediaite, New York Times, Hot Air, National Review, Online NewsHour, Weasel Zippers, Lynn Sweet, The Hill, Business Insider, msnbc.com and Althouse
Ron Paul knew it, I knew it, and every Conservative and Libertarian Blogger knew it.
The U.S. dollar's thrashing on Thursday after a last-minute European deal to contain the debt crisis may have sealed the currency's fate.
And it is all downhill from here.
The European agreement, which involves a 50 percent write-down of Greek debt and boosting the euro zone's bailout fund to as much as 1 trillion euros, has averted a collapse in Europe and spurred a rush to risky currencies and assets once again at the expense of the dollar.
Add in to the mix: a suddenly revitalized U.S. economy that a few weeks ago was teetering on the verge of recession and had fueled speculation about another round of quantitative easing. Almost overnight it leaves a whole new global outlook that appears a little more encouraging.
via Dollar Decline in Full Swing in Risk-On Environment – CNBC.
This is what happens when the Federal Reserve prints money for Countries to bail out their debt crises. Ron Paul has said this for years and he is right —- about that anyway. This in turn devalues our currency and causes the prices of everything to go up. This also causes everyone to run to go Gold, which drives the prices through the roof, causing a bubble. The problem is, when the inflation goes back down, and Gold collapses, people lose money — unless of course, they have other investments to transfer that wealthy into, so they do not lose their money. If we could at least get control of the fed, this sort of stuff would not happen.
Another thing too, this right here ought to be the prime example of why Keynesian Economics does not work at all. Taxing and spending a way out of recession is just not the way to do it. Printing money out of thin air does not solve the problem; it only makes that problem worse. It does that by devaluing the currency that is being mass printed. I know, I am repeating myself; this is why I do not talk about the sort of stuff often, which is because I detest repeating myself repeatedly. I figure my little blog is not going to stop the world from plunging into madness, so why bother.
(Via Reason)
This comes via the Lady herself:
For those of you who do not like the idea of posting what Pamela has to say; I have two things to say —- first, as Herman Cain would say, "I does not care." Also, I would say to those who would have a problem with me posting this video, I would politely ask you to go see Helen Waite and ask for directions.
God Bless America.
This one really makes me want to vomit, badly.
I hate to be someone who delights in the persecution of others, but this one is much too good to pass up.
I will be the very first to confess that there are issues in politics that I very high disagree with Patrick J. Buchanan on. However, Mr. Buchanan does have a good idea of what Conservatism should be about; having said that, let me personally recommend this article here by Patrick Buchanan. Again, I have disagreed with the man, at times; but this is not one of them.
This article ought to be in the e-mail inbox of every darned last Conservative in America this morning.
Click here, here, here, and here.
Just a little taste of what you are going to read:
An opening statement is not evidence, merely a preview of the case the prosecution will mount in coming weeks based on testimony, forensics, wiretaps, documents and a plethora of photos. The crux of it: That parents and 18-year-old brother planned and executed the murders from outrage over the intolerable, the defiance of daughters and the alliance with them of a woman treated for years as a burden and a slave.
A disgrace and shame to their family, though, for behaviour unbecoming to Afghan [Muslim] females — the boyfriends and the disobedience, the brazen disrespect for traditions and refusal to wear the hijab — violations of decorum so grievous that they needed to be killed, eliminated, to purify family honour, their "treachery'' insupportable.
Mass murder committed, a court heard Thursday, by the mother and father and brother of the sisters, homicides staged to look like an accident during a family vacation, with Zainab at the wheel, on one of her furtive joyrides.
Mohammad Shafia, Tooba Mohammad Yahya and their son Hamed Mohammed Shafia have all pleaded not guilty to four counts each of first-degree murder. Their jury trial began here Thursday with a 90-minute opening statement from Crown Attorney Laurie Lacelle that left observers in the courtroom stunned over details finally revealed and allegations of a diabolical plot that defy imagination.
From a wiretapped conversation Shafia had with Tooba and Hamed, 20 days after the bodies were discovered, Shafia in a fury recalling the revealing cellphone pictures of Zainab and Shahar: "Curse God on both of them. Is that what a daughter should be? Would a daughter be such a whore? May the devil s–t on their graves."
And later, not long before the trio was arrested in Montreal, Shafia tells Hamed, as Lacelle quoted from another wiretap transcript: "Even if they hoist me up on to the gallows, nothing is more dear to me than my honour."
To his wife, Shafia allegedly assured that the right actions had been taken: "I say to myself, you did well. Were they to come back to life, I would do it again. No Tooba, they messed up. There was no other way. They were treacherous. They betrayed us immensely. There can be no betrayal worse than this. They committed treason on themselves. They betrayed humankind. They betrayed Islam. They betrayed our religion. They betrayed everything."
From the sisters, there appears no words were left behind. But Rona wrote in her diary, the Crown told the jury, what she was thinking, fearing, in the weeks, even years, before her death, anxieties she also shared with siblings overseas when she was able to get out of the house and make phone calls.
This was the murder weapon:
This was the family:
These are the people who did it:
All in the name of Islam.
Now you tell me that Islam is a Religion of peace? I call you a liar.
(H/T to Pamela)
Cross-posted @ Alexandra
Yesterday, I wrote about the Obama Administration pulling all of our troops out of Iraq. Despite the fact that it is not entirely true, it was also recorded that it was not the Obama Administrations choice, but Iraqi Governments decision. Well, this is why and I will let Foreign Policy tell the story, and I will get to the good part:
In July, Panetta urged Iraqi leaders to, "Dammit, make a decision" about the U.S. troop extension. In August, he told reporters that, "My view is that they finally did say, 'Yes.'" On Oct. 17, he was still pushing for the extension and said, "At the present time I'm not discouraged because we're still in negotiations with the Iraqis."
Sullivan was one of 40 conservative foreign policy professionals who wrote to Obama in September to warn that even a residual force of 4,000 troops would "leave the country more vulnerable to internal and external threats, thus imperiling the hard-fought gains in security and governance made in recent years at significant cost to the United States."
She said that the administration's negotiating strategy was flawed for a number of reasons: it failed to take into account Iraqi politics, failed to reach out to a broad enough group of Iraqi political leaders, and sent contradictory messages on the troop extension throughout the process.
"From the beginning, the talks unfolded in a way where they largely driven by domestic political concerns, both in Washington and Baghdad. Both sides let politics drive the process, rather than security concerns," said Sullivan.
As recently as August, Maliki's office was discussing allowing 8,000 to 20,000 U.S. troops to remain until next year, Iraqi Ambassador Samir Sumaida'ie said in an interview with The Cable. He told us that there was widespread support in Iraq for such an extension, but the Obama administration was demanding that immunity for U.S. troops be endorsed by the Iraqi Council of Representatives, which was never really possible.
Administration sources and Hill staffers also tell The Cable that the demand that the troop immunity go through the Council of Representatives was a decision made by the State Department lawyers and there were other options available to the administration, such as putting the remaining troops on the embassy's diplomatic rolls, which would automatically give them immunity.
"An obvious fix for troop immunity is to put them all on the diplomatic list; that's done by notification to the Iraqi foreign ministry," said one former senior Hill staffer. "If State says that this requires a treaty or a specific agreement by the Iraqi parliament as opposed to a statement by the Iraqi foreign ministry, it has its head up its ass."
The main Iraqi opposition party Iraqiya, led by former U.S. ally and former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, decided to tie that vote to two non-related issues. It said they would not vote for the troop extension unless Maliki agreed give them control of a high-level policy council and let them choose the minister of defense from their ranks. Maliki wasn't about to do either.
"It was clear from the beginning that Maliki wasn't going to make a move without the support of the other parties behind him," Sullivan explained, adding that the Obama administration focused on Maliki and neglected other actors, such as Allawi. "There was a misunderstanding of how negotiations were unfolding in Iraq. The negotiations got started in earnest far too late."
"The actions don't match the words here," said Sullivan. "It's in the administration's interest to make this look not like they failed to reach an agreement and that they fulfilled a campaign promise. But it was very clear that Panetta and [former Defense Secretary Robert] Gates wanted an agreement."
So what's the consequence of the failed negotiations? One consequence could be a security vacuum in Iraq that will be filled by Iran.
"It's particularly troubling because having some sort of presence there would have really facilitated our policy vis-a-vis the Iranians and what's going on in Syria. The Iranian influence is going up in Iraq," said Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "It makes it harder for us to play our cards, and that's a real setback. We've spent a lot of blood and treasure in Iraq. And these days, stability in that region is not what it used to be."
So there you have it folks, when Iraq goes to pot and Iran fills that leadership vacuum and starts war with the Saudi's; and your gas goes over 10 dollars a gallon — you will know who to blame. Let me give you hint, it will not be Bush.
Of course, this points to a President and President Administration that is much in over its head and is clueless of how to deal with the Middle East. Something that we bloggers, who rejected the Democratic Party utopian vision of "Hope and Change" said in 2008, when that floppy eared jack ass mounted the pulpit outside the White House and proceeded to royally butcher the oath of office. We knew it then and we know it now. We will also know it come 2012, when that socialist piece of human excrement leaves the oval office for the last time; when he is totally defeated by someone who actually knows how to be a leader.
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This should be really interesting:
The Story:
The Obama administration has decided to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of the year after failing to reach an agreement with the Iraqi government that would have left several thousand troops there for special operations and training.
President Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki spoke Friday morning to cement that agreement in a scheduled telephone call.
The two leaders also agreed to continue informally discussing the need for and the terms of a U.S. military presence in Iraq into next year, people familiar with the agreement said. As a result, the only U.S. military presence that will remain in Iraq after the end of the year will be the roughly 150 troops needed to protect the large U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad and its thousands of American diplomats and other personnel, as well as provide training related to new military sales and other tasks.
"The rest of our troops in Iraq will come home at the end of the year," Obama said Friday at the White House. "After nearly nine years, America's war in Iraq will be over."
via All U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011 – The Washington Post.
I have some very mixed feelings on this little news story. In fact, my entire basis for returning to writing since my childhood days; as I was very good in English in school – and for my foray into the world of political blogging in the first place — was this subject right here —- Iraq.
As my about me page does say, I was not always a blogger on the right. I still do not consider myself a "Republican," although I do find myself voting for them now, more than I do Democrats. This is because the Democrats are on the wrong side of the argument, polices that the Democrats have tried have failed miserably, as bloggers as myself predicted that they would. However, when I came into this thing called "blogging," I was not in the camp of the Conservative thought. I came into this thing called blogging with fierce anger at President George W. Bush.
I was right then about George W. Bush and I still feel that I am; however, I am a bit more educated into what the motivating forces were behind the invasion of Iraq and I no longer believe the idiotic nonsense peddled by the far left about Bush and the invasion of Iraq. Put simply, we invaded Iraq, based upon some very bad intelligence from Germany. There was not plan to lie to the American people, so that we could invade Iraq to please Israel, which is what the far left believes in this Country. Which is a talking point that is rooted in fallacy and in an Anti-Jewish and Anti-Israel bias that exists on the far left and in some quarters of the far right as well.
The main underlining factor in the decision to go into Iraq was a foreign policy stance that I feel is one of the worst ever conceived by man — Wilsonian foreign policy. I believed that the day I pressed the "Create Blog" button over on blogger.com to create my first blog originally called "The Populist Moderate" and I still believe that today. Although, at the time, I did not know what it was called, I just knew something was not right and I felt the need to speak out about it.
AllahPundit over at HotAir.com notes some very interesting ramifications over this decision by the President's decision to pull our troops out of Iraq. The political angle is that Obama actually wants to be reelected in 2012. Not that this will help him at all; the liberal left still will not vote again for him, because the economy is still in the proverbial toilet. I said back in 2010 that we were just making it a little harder for Iran to invade and overthrow Iraq; and it appears that I was at least partially correct. Like AllahPundit said, with this new terrorist plot being uncovered against an official of the Saudi Government, it looks like Iraq might be the new battleground for a proxy war between Iran and the Saudi Government.
Overall, it essentially looks as if Obama decided that if he could not get what he wanted from the Iraqi Government; that he essentially said, "Screw them, and let them deal with their own problems." Which at first glance, might be a good thing, but when you really look at it, it does not look good at all. All the world would need right now is a horrible war between the Saudis and the Iranians. You think the gas shortage of the 1970's was bad; you wait until the Saudis and Iranians go to war! We will all be driving bikes everywhere. Gas and other such fuels will become luxury items quick. The only people that are most likely breathing a sigh of relief are the Syrians, who are most likely glad that this proxy war will not be fought in their backyards.
So my bottom line is this: While this might be a minor victory for the liberal left; in the long run, this is going to be major pain various places, including our wallets in the very long run.
Update: As I also suspected, but did not write about, because I was not too sure whether it was true or not — we are leaving and it is IRAQ'S idea, not ours:
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, for instance, is a hugely pro-American politician who believes Iraq's security forces will be incapable of protecting the country without sustained foreign assistance. But in a recent interview, he refused to endorse a U.S. troop extension and instead indicated that they should leave.
"We have serious security problems in this country and serious political problems," he said in an interview late last month at his heavily guarded compound in Baghdad. "Keeping Americans in Iraq longer isn't the answer to the problems of Iraq. It may be an answer to the problems of the U.S., but it's definitely not the solution to the problems of my country."
Welcome to Post-Iraq Middle East; it is going to be an interesting next few years. 😯
This ought to be a lesson to every last Democrat who voted for Obama and Biden.
The Video:
The Story:
With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.
Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department's $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs. But two years after the loan was announced, the job of assembling the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car has been outsourced to Finland.
"There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle," the car company's founder and namesake told ABC News. "They don't exist here."
Henrik Fisker said the U.S. money so far has been spent on engineering and design work that stayed in the U.S., not on the 500 manufacturing jobs that went to a rural Finnish firm, Valmet Automotive.
"We're not in the business of failing; we're in the business of winning. So we make the right decision for the business," Fisker said. "That's why we went to Finland."
via Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland – ABC News.
Here is the real-world translation to that last line in that story; we did not want to have to deal with the labor unions in this United States, so we moved our manufacturing overseas.
Take note my Democratic Party friends who happen to read this blog, all two of you. This is what happens to the Democrats and their union counterparts, when they elect internationalist Democrats, who really do not give a care about what happens to American workers. Internationalist Democrats and their Republican counterparts, the globalists — like Richard Nixon, who do not care about American workers, they are corporatists, who support crony capitalism.
This right here is a perfect example of why the relations between the Democratic Party and the labor unions are frosty at best. That is because the Democratic Party for the last few instances that they have won elections, have been putting internationalist Democrats into the White House. This type of a Democrat talks a nice game, and puts out platitudes to the American autoworkers and their representatives in the unions; but when the "Rubber hits the road" so to speak, things change. They begin showing their true colors and start doing things to kick dirt in the face of the American worker.
I do not write this as a Conservative mocking the left, goodness no. I write this as someone who has a father, who is a retired General Motors worker, who is a member of the UAW. If anyone would know how the Democratic Party has treated the American autoworker in the last 30 years, it would be me. There was a time in this Country, when the Democratic Party used to respect the American autoworker and would literally step in front a train to defend them. Sadly, that time has passed, as the unions have lost their influence amongst the Democratic Party.
The loss of that influence in the Democratic Party is partially due to the actions of the internationalist Democrats, like Bill Clinton, who signed into law NAFTA and TAFTA. Some of that loss of influence is also due to the declining membership roles within the UAW and other said unions. Either way, it is sad transition in America, when our politicians in Washington D.C. put interests abroad before interests here at home.
Some of my readers, all three of you, might be shocked to see that I do not take a more mocking tone on stories like this and here is why I do not; Pat Buchanan said it best once, on one issue that I actually agree with him on — the American worker. Pat once said, "As goes Detroit, goes the Nation," and you know what? Pat Buchanan is right about that, the United States of America used to be a manufacturing marvel. We produced everything ourselves, and other Countries used to come here to see how we did it all. Sadly, those times have come and gone, due to many reasons, a list of which is longer than the length of this blog entry will permit.
What is solution you ask, I know what it is; but most of the people who will come here to read, will not agree with it. However, I will give the solution. Firstly, the solution is NOT to bust up the unions, as they have as much right to proper representation, as the company owners have a right to make a profit. The solution to the problem is to get rid of these idiotic so-called "Free Trade" agreements. Secondly, the solution is to impose strict tariffs on EVERYTHING and I do mean everything that is manufactured overseas and imported into our Country.
These actions would do a couple of things; firstly it would protect the American workers from the globalists who want to undercut the American worker to make a quick dollar on the backs of cheap sweatshop labor in foreign countries like China. Secondly, it would solve our Nation's revenue problem by creating a reliable source of income; one of which we did have in this Country for a very long time, before the globalists ripped it out, in favor of trade agreements.
Further, the solution is in whom we elect; Republicans and Democrats alike need to elect those who put America's interests first, and not the interests who those abroad. To be fair, Republicans have done this too in this past and we as Americans need to watch what these new crop of Republicans really represent; do they represent the interests of the crony capitalists or do they have the American people's interests in mind? Supposedly, the Tea Party movement brought some of this "America First" type of populism to the Conservative movement, but as of late, it seems that the Tea Party was nothing more than a passing fad. I just hope the people, who went to these protests, use the principles that were promoted at the Tea Party rallies, at the ballot box come November 2012.
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When you get jolted out of a deep sleep, from the sound of your iPod touch going, "Blip! Bloop! Bing! Blip!" something big is going on! Good grief! Why couldn't they off this guy at a decent hour?!?!
Anyhow, the world's ugliest snappy dresser is with his 72 virgins now. The Lockerbie Bombing victims now have some closure.
The Telegraph has the story, including a rather graphic photo of the fallen leader, gave me the heaves. Memeorandum has a round up of all the blogger reactions.
As always Ed Morrissey has some sobering analysis:
The death of a terrorist-supporting tyrant cannot be bad news, if indeed Qaddafi's death is confirmed. If he has died in a military action, it might have been the best end for which either side could hope. Qaddafi will end up being remembered by his small cadre of supporters not as a Saddam Hussein, diminished in captivity and finally humiliated on the gallows by the people he oppressed, but as someone who at least fought to the end. The new government doesn't have to worry about holding Qaddafi and putting him on trial with the world watching, with the risk of him becoming a symbol of opposition that undermines their attempts to unite the country.
But unite the country into what, exactly? It still remains to see whether Libya has indeed been "liberated" and will now pursue the path of a liberal, pluralistic democracy — or whether the Libyans will follow the path of Egypt and a military/Islamist regime. At least the Libyans have an opportunity to make that choice for themselves now that the tyrant has been defeated and removed from the equation.
Which has been the concern of the right, with this whole thing in Libya and this whole Arab spring concept in the first place; it is not that we on the right dislike freedom, it is the fact that some of us are worried that the United States might actually be funding and supporting an Israeli nightmare. Besides all that, the best we will get out of this, is an plutocratic Government with another front man. The idea that we will have a Republican or even a free democracy in Libya is a pipe dream.
The very idea that Libya will ever be a free country, with a religion, such as Islam, is a myth.
Cross-posted at Alexandria
UPDATE: Video: (WARNING EXTREMELY GRAPHIC! NOT SAFE FOR KIDS, WORK, WIVES!….)
Update #2: Longer Video via Gateway Pundit:
Remember what I said about Islamofacism being a problem? This right here, is what am referring to.
This comes via Facebook:
Now, do I agree with what this guy is saying? Pretty much, yes. he is correct about the moderate Muslims and their cowardice.
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Update: Cross-posted @ Alexandria
Like AllahPundit, I find these Republican Party fashion shows to be quite the bore. I guess it is the bickering, the finger pointing and the general stupidity that turns me off.
However, I will say this; and as much as I hate linking to this blog, because of it's douche-bag owner. I saw the following this morning and I literally laughed out loud…:
RICK SANTORUM: I am Catholic. And Angry! I am an Angry Catholic Conservative! RAWR!
If that does not nail Rick Santorum to a peg, I do not know what does. 😀 Although I must say, I never saw it as "anger," but more of this idiotic bandying around his Catholic Faith. Between him and Romney's whack job Mormonism, I fear for what this Country could become. If either of these two is picked for the nominee, I will be voting Libertarian Party again. I will repeat, what is on my About Me page and, I think, is on my About This Blog Page; and that is that my loyalty is not to the Republican Party —- but rather to principles. If I feel that the Republican Party is going to pick a big Government establishment Conservative, as George W. Bush was, I will vote Libertarian Party.
Some of you might be asking, "If you're a Christian and a Fundamental Baptist, who do you dislike someone who is running as a Christian Conservative?" To this, I answer the following: My issues with Roman Catholicism aside —- While I think that it is great that there is a President candidate, who is a Christian and is not afraid to represent that, I just feel that Religion should not be the core or center issue in an election. This Nation is facing some serious issues, related to fiscal matters, not social; social Conservatism is a battle that the Republicans and the Conservative Christian community fought — and ultimately lost — back in the 1980's. The Republican Party does not need to fight that battle again. I am very sorry to say this, but as much as I am a Christian and a defender of those beliefs. I do not believe that it is the right of anyone, to force his or her religious beliefs on anyone at all A logical fallacy drove the Christian Conservative movement of "God and Country" in the 1980's and essentially, it was a dismal flop. This is because the philosophy of Senator Barry Goldwater was correct; which said you could not legislate morality.
This is why I tend to separate myself from the extreme religious right in this Country. This is what people like Ed Brayton tend to misunderstand about me. I am not an extremist at all. Just because I happen to think that Islamo-facism is a bit a problem and I happen to defend American values, does not make me someone who is alignment who is agreement with the far religious right, who believes in Christian domination. I just do not believe that any belief should be dominated over any other. I believe that ALL faiths should be able to practice their faiths in peace, without fear of persecution from Government or other rival faiths. I also happen to believe that if someone decides that he or she wishes to refrain from subscribing to that faith, that he or she has the right to be left alone as well.
This, my friends, is the true definition of freedom.
You must be kidding me! This is either a huge idiot or his blinded by his liberal guilt.
Occupy Wall Street Is Not Anti-Semitic
By Jeffrey Goldberg
I've been sent the link to this video, put out by the Emergency Committee for Israel, several times, and finally opened it this morning. It contains a handful of examples of anti-Semitic rhetoric expressed at unknown points, and at unknown places, in the Occupy Wall Street protests. The rhetoric is quite obviously anti-Semitic, but I was left thinking that if this was all the anti-Semitism the Emergency Committee could find, then they're going to have look harder before making definitive judgments.
Sure, there is going to be hostile anti-Jewish feeling expressed at the margins of any populist movement, but a) it appears as if the people expressing these thoughts in the video are real outliers; b) it's obvious to me that most people who attend these rallies are angry about corporate greed and excessive CEO compensation (among other financial concerns) and not about Israel or perfidious Jews; and c) this movement has (like most political movements, actually) disproportionate Jewish representation. To say that there are occasional outbursts of anti-Semitism at Occupy Wall Street is not to say that Occupy Wall Street itself is antisemitic. The University of Chicago has an anti-Semitic professor on the faculty, but does this make the university itself anti-Semitic?
via Occupy Wall Street Is Not Anti-Semitic – Jeffrey Goldberg – National – The Atlantic.
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Now either Goldberg either does not know about this or, what is the more likely explanation is, he is covering for them. He tries to mount the "Well, we cannot call them all antisemitic" petard. Which is a nice diversion, but it is, as always, wrong.
So, to me, because he is a Jew and refuses to acknowledge this; a self hating Jew.
Because of this ignorant stupidity right here:
A growing number of Israelis and foreign Jewish groups are expressing concern over the anti-Semitic flavor of some of the "Occupy Wall St." economic protests in the US.
From the 13th century expulsion of Englands Jews to the 19th century Russian pogroms to the Nazi Holocaust, sour economic conditions have historically formed the backdrop of rising anti-Semitism.
Last week, we reported on a lone protestor at the Wall Street sit-in who insisted that America's economic woes could all be traced back to "the Jews."
Since then that message has been picked up by others at "Occupy Wall St." demontrations around the country.
In Los Angeles, California, protestor Patricia McAllister, who identified herself as an employee of the Los Angeles Unified School District (we can only hope she is not an educator), had this to say:
"I think that the Zionist Jews, who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government… they need to be run out of this country."
On the American Nazi Party website, leader Rocky Suhayda voiced support for "Occupy Wall St." and asked, "Who hold the wealth and power in this country? The Judeo-Capitalists. Who is therefore the #1 enemy who makes this filth happen? The Judeo-Capitalists."
via israel today | Israelis worried by anti-Semitic flavor of 'Occupy Wall St.' protests – israel today.
I will readily admit to not being a supporter of Wilsonian foreign policy. However, as I have written on this blog before, that disliking of Wilsonian foreign policy has never equated to hatred of Jews or of Israel. Furthermore, this idiotic practice of making a scapegoat out of the Jews, for the problems that America faces right now, is very repugnant.
What these communists ought to be protesting is the headquarters of the Democratic Party; that is because the Democrats are the people, who in 1973, passed the Community Reinvestment Act, which forced banks to give loans to people, that under normal circumstances, would not be qualified for it. It was the Democrats, who in 1994 added the subprime clause to the community reinvestment act of 1973. It was at the passing of that subprime clause that President Clinton's housing director threatened to sue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack, if they did not come up with these loans to those who normally would not qualify for them.
This was the gaming of the housing market, during a time of prosperity in America that caused one of the biggest stock market crashes and the largest downturn in the economy. It is true that during the Bush Administration that some needed regulation of the housing market and of the stock market was removed. However, that was not the root cause of the great crash of 2008; it was the Democrats gaming of the housing market; combined with already unstable economy after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that caused the economic downturn in America.
Nevertheless, these leftist buffoons want to scapegoat a minority of people, who are the chosen ones of the Almighty God, for the sin of daring to come to America and for being successful in business. This here is one of the many reasons why I have moved away from the so-called "Paleo-Conservative" political position — not because I am warmonger, but because I find this sort of hatred to be most offensive. I would no more blame the Jews for the downfall of the economic downfall in this Country than I would blame of the black race for the moral decline in this Country. Both of those sorts of mindsets are rooted in bigotry and ignorance. Neither of which I want to be associated with at all.
The cold, hard truth is this; the nation economic troubles are due to idiotic progressive polices that were planned out in the short term, without thought of what could happen in the long term. The moral decline in this Country is due to this Nation's forgetting about the Almighty God and his Son Jesus Christ; and the leaving out of his Word in the family home. Protestant Christianity, and not Islam or any other perversion of the Christian faith — was the founding bedrock of this fine Nation of ours. This Nation's abdication of that Christian Faith, in lieu of self-serving carnality is why this Nation's morals are on the skids.
Anyone who says or believes otherwise is a simple-minded buffoon.
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Alex Cortes makes a good case for it.
While most of the Republican presidential candidates have criticized President Obama about his waste of taxpayer money on the politically connected and now bankrupt energy company Solyndra, Rick Perry has remained silent. Why? Perhaps because he may soon have his very own Solyndra.
As governor, Perry created the Texas Emerging Technology Fund, which has doled out, at his discretion, nearly $200 million to 133 businesses. More than $16 million from the fund has gone to firms with officers or investors who were major Perry contributors.
One such firm is Convergen, which has developed a lung-cancer treatment that is under Phase II clinical trial. The company was successful in getting Texas taxpayers to put up $4.5 million through Perry's fund, despite founder David Nance's investing a measly $1,000. Did Nance's $335,000 to Perry's campaigns, association fundraisers, and TexasOne Foundation have anything to do with it?
It likely did, given that Convergen's proposal failed the regional review process meant to extricate political influence — and was later approved by a state advisory panel that Nance formerly sat on. The amount awarded also happened to be highest amount ever from the fund. Perry and his team know that Convergen may soon look a lot like Solyndra, since only 33 percent of successful Phase II drugs make it to the market.
But this is not an assault on Governor Perry in particular: He is far from alone among his Republican gubernatorial colleagues in advancing corporatist policies.
For example, Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, who's been mentioned as a potential vice presidential running mate for Perry, has also fallen to corporatism in a variety of ways. McDonnell succeeded in getting his state's general assembly to increase funding for the Governor's Opportunity Fund, a $54 million pot from which he can give grants to corporations that create jobs in the commonwealth. He has also created special tax incentives for the wine and film industries and provided the International Speedway Corporation a $1.5 million grant to keep one of its NASCAR races in the state.
via Conservatives and Corporatism – Alex Cortes – National Review Online.
I see his point; the Republicans and Conservatives are going ballyhoo Obama for his green energy debacle, they should be prepared to answer for some of their own misdeeds. Contrary to what some of the Bloggers on the right like to print, corruption and political favors are common on both sides. This needs to end, the era of backroom deals and favors, in this day of so-called transparency needs to end.
In other words; if we are going to point the accusing finger at the other side, we should clean the trash up in our own backyards.
This comes via InstaPundit:
I love the little girl's commentary… Pizza! 😀 So cute! 😛
Despite what Rush Limbaugh and what Max Fisher over at the Atlantic might be saying; the President is right to be sending troops in this region. I will explain what I mean. The Lord's Resistance Army is not a group of Christian missionaries or anything of that sort; it is a group of terrorists, who maim and kill — all the while hiding behind some sort of perverted pseudo-Christian doctrine.
I realize that the Conservative Blogosphere's goal is to discredit this President and everything that he does. However, in this case, the President, in fact, is taking the correct steps in stopping this crazed group of thugs from hurting any more people than they already have. It was the right thing to do and we as Conservatives, who believe that no one should have to suffer at the hands of crazed tyrants, should be supporting the President's action in this case.
I also understand that this group has been fighting against Muslims in the area, while I do not agree with the tenants of the Muslim faith. I do not believe that the methods being used by the group are legal, sane, or even moral. Furthermore, I believe the slaughter of innocent people, including the elderly is very an immoral act to commit.
I also realize that there are some, who are Conservative, might feel that the President is engaging in too many conflicts. Let me say this, this is not an engagement for the protection of empire; this is an engagement for the cause of morality. For many years, the United States of America has been the beacon of Democracy and for Christian morality throughout the entire World. What this group is doing to the people of that region is vile and immoral; in the case, I believe it is the United States of America's responsibility to the insure that innocent people are no harmed any longer.
In closing: While this blog and its owner might disagree with the President's domestic policy, I do wholeheartedly agree with the President's decision to put a stop to the treachery that is taking place in this Country and to its people. I commend the President for stepping up to the plate and insuring the protection of the citizens of Uganda. It is my fervent hope and prayer, that the Lord's Resistance Army is stopped from inflecting any more violence on innocent people.


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It's hard to believe, but the next home game for the Arizona women's basketball team is their Pac-10 opener! Whatever happened to holiday magic where one could enjoy time with the family under the Christmas tree before engaging in treacherous Pac-10 play? Well, those days are gone and the "real" season is here. And wouldn't you know it, the opponent is Arizona State!
On Thursday, Dec. 22, the Sun Devils will bring, to Tucson, a hard-hitting outfit that looks like the best team in the Pac-10. Charli Turner-Thorne has rebuilt Arizona's archrivals and the recent series between the two clubs has been an indication of escalating hostilities. For the past few seasons it has been split city. Last year is an excellent example. The Cats won at home, the Devils in Tempe. Now, the rivalry returns to Tucson but things look a whole lot different.
The Wildcats are reeling under the weight of injury and tragedy. If anyone believes that college students can "get over" the loss of Shawntinice Polk in three months they are crazy. These kids are still grieving, trying to find themselves, and dealing with injuries that have left the post position as exposed as Polar Bear napping on a floating piece of ice at the South Pole. But they are fighting, and a large and supportive crowd on Dec. 22 could make a huge difference.
Arizona has yet to draw 2,000 fans to a home game. Let's change that. It's time to show these young ladies that the community still cares. You see, they felt the warmth and prayers from all of Tucson during the days following Polkey's death, but the arena has been empty since her memorial. The players must be wondering, "Where are all of the people that said they would support us?"
You would think that the Titanic was sinking the way people see this program now. Hold on to the anchor and here is the truth: The Cats are 4-3 and could very well finish the non-conference campaign at 7-3. Help is on the way. Malia O'Neal, the state of Washington Player of the Year, has been cleared to play and she is, as one player put it, "scary good." Amina Njonkou is coming back soon from a stress fracture and she will add some power to the post. So, all is far from being lost.
So, when Arizona returns home on Dec. 22, make your plans to be at McKale Center, painted red and with bells on. This team needs you more than ever before. Because wouldn't you know it, their first Pac-10 opponent is Arizona State!
See you on the radio!
Paul Johnson
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Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has publicly opposed an anti-homosexuality bill recently passed by Ugandan lawmakers. As the Associated Press reports on Jan. 17, his opposition of the bill stems from his belief that homosexuals are "abnormal" and require a form of economic rehabilitation as he argues that people adopted the gay lifestyle due to "financial inducements."
In a letter written after Uganda's parliament passed the strict anti-gay law, Museveni expressed in a letter that the bill needed to be advised because "abnormal" people should not be jailed or killed. Gay rights activists in the country are not celebrating the opposition because what they believe it does is "creates more hatred" and adds more to the negative stigma associated with homosexuality.
In the eight-page letter written to parliament, Museveni wrote:
"It could be that the Western societies, on account of random breeding have generated many abnormal people."
He also described lesbianism as the "sexual starvation" of unmarried women. His solution is improvement of Uganda's economy as a way of rescuing young people from homosexuality. Although the Ugandan president refused to approve the controversial bill, his views on homosexuality is still damaging to the county's LGBT community.


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Created: 10/16/2013 10:43 PM
By: Chris Ramirez, KOB Eyewitness News 4
Our 4 On Your Side team continues to build a picture of what exactly went on at the Tierra Blanca Ranch for troubled teens in southern New Mexico.
The investigation has primarily focused on the ranch's owner Scott Chandler, but tonight we're taking a closer look at one of his staff members whose name is all over the police reports.
Harold Gifford's name is mentioned in a lot in the documents on Tierra Blanca Ranch. Several boys reported to police that they knew Harold very intimately. Some say they were severely punished by him to the point where it crossed into child abuse.
Last week, 4 On Your Side shared a story of a 16-year-old boy. He told police that Harold Gifford beat him with a kubotan for hours.
When 4OYS questioned Gifford's boss, ranch owner Scott Chandler, about it, he denied it.
Chris Ramirez: What would you say to Ryan Morgan today?
Scott Chandler: We didn't do any of that to him.
Chris Ramirez: Who did it? It wasn't Harold?
Scott Chandler: No.
Chris Ramirez: Who was it then? Who beat up Ryan Morgan at your ranch?
Scott Chandler: I am not talking about specific kids.
But now, another former ranch teen has come forward, telling 4OYS that he saw that attack, and others.
"Scott made just one mistake and his mistake was hiring the wrong guy."
Speaking to 4OYS from Texas, Zac Legett says that wrong hire was Harold Gifford.
"He grabbed me by the nape of the neck and he threw me up and down against the beds and stuff about 6 o'clock in the morning because I was sleeping on the bed when I wasn't supposed to be. He would holler and cuss and threaten," Legett said.
4OYS looked into Gifford's background and discovered he was a New Mexico State Police officer until July 2003.
A State Police spokesman confirms he was with the department from about six months, then abruptly left. Details of his departure were not disclosed. It was termed a "personnel matter".
Information obtained by 4OYS suggests State Police investigators are working with the District Attorney's office to file charges against Gifford.
Sources tell 4OYS that Harold Gifford had been living near Timberon. Scott Chandler has a ranch near there.
Sources say Gifford had been living on that ranch for the past two months, but left the ranch right before last Thursday's 4OYS investigation aired.
No one has reported seeing Gifford since then.
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Some open access malacological publications
These have come to my attention recently.
Volumes 9 thru 117 of The Nautilus (except vol. 89):
The Conchologists' Exchange (1886-1888) was the former's predecessor:
Leslie Hubricht's "The distributions of the native land mollusks of the Eastern United States", Fieldiana. Zoology, new ser., no. 24 (1985):
The entire Manual of Conchology, volumes 1 thru 28:
The mollusk papers that were published in the Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan:
The mollusk papers that were published in the Miscellaneous Publications of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan:
Folia Malacologica (quarterly journal of the Association of Polish Malacologists):
Open access for 2000-present; you still need to register and establish an "account".
Ruthenica, Russian Malacological Journal:
They became open access in 2008. Papers are in Russian or English.
Hopefully, some of the other long-running malacological publications, including the Journal of Conchology, the Proceedings of the Malacological Society, etc., will follow suit and make their old issues open access.


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Harley Davidson is one hell of a bike with unmatched style, muscularity and comfy ride. The passion for this bike across the US and rest of the world is nothing short of an urban legend. Read on for some of the biggest stories closely associated with the iconic bike.
Bike Recall
Harley Davidson is recalling close to 2800 bikes for a faulty license plate bracket that could come off, damaging the rear brake line. Bikes made in the year 2012 are getting recalled along with 2013 VRSCDX (V-Rod Night Rod Specials).
It needs to be noted that the bikes manufactured between June 14, 2011 and Aug. 1, 2012 are getting recalled. The company says that mounting screws of the assembly have a tendency to come off and that could ultimately result in widespread damage. The recall is likely to be announced in November when the company will contact affected bike owners and services will be done for free.
Tsunami motorcycle
Ikuo Yokoyama's Harley-Davidson motorcycle would seem to be just another classic Harley. But what makes it special is that it drifted for almost a year in the Pacific Ocean and was discovered off the British Columbia coast.
Much of Japan was devastated after the tsunami in 2011 and the said bike drifted across the ocean along with other stuff. It has been put up for display in the museum on the request of the owner as a memorial for those who perished and got affected in the life-wrecking tsunami last year.
New Digital Air Pump
Now check and alter pressure in your dear bike's air shocks with this cool new digital air pump. Available at the Harley-Davidson® Genuine Motor Accessories, this tool is pretty useful, accurate as well as user-friendly when it comes to adjustment in air pressure.
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Apple Inc. is an American company based in Cupertino, California, with multiple locations world-wide, that designs and sells a variety of hardware and software, including the iPod, iPad, iPhone, iMac, Macbook, iTunes, iLife, iWork, OSX, and iOS.
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The upcoming week marks the start of the Q1 2013 earnings season, as Alcoa is scheduled to report earnings on April 8. Do the results from Alcoa have any predictive value on the remainder of the earnings season?
Since 2009, Alcoa has reported earnings above the mean EPS estimate 56% of the time (9 out of 16 quarters). In the nine quarters that Alcoa reported actual EPS above the mean EPS estimate, 73.6% of companies in the S&P 500 reported earnings above EPS estimates for the quarter on average. In the seven quarters that Alcoa reported actual EPS below the mean EPS estimate, 72.6% of companies in the S&P 500 reported actual EPS above the mean EPS estimate for the quarter on average. While there is a slight difference in the numbers, it appears that Alcoa's earnings performance relative to estimates has little predictive value in determining the earnings performance of the remaining companies in the index.
The estimated earnings growth rate for Q1 2013 is -0.6% this week, slightly above last week's growth rate of -0.7%. Small upward revisions to estimates for companies in the Energy and Financials sectors were mainly responsible for the uptick in the growth rate this week. On December 31, the Q1 earnings growth rate for the index was 2.1%. Nine of the ten sectors have witnessed a decline in earnings growth rates since that date, led by the Materials, Information Technology, and Consumer Discretionary sectors. The only sector that has recorded an increase in projected earnings growth over this time is the Financials sector.
Part of the reason for the drop in expected earnings growth for the index is the high percentage of negative guidance issued by S&P 500 companies for Q1. Overall, 86 companies have issued negative EPS guidance for Q1 2013, while 24 companies have issued positive EPS guidance. Thus, 78% of the companies in the index that have issued EPS guidance have issued negative guidance. This percentage is well above the 5-year average of 61%.
After reporting earnings growth in Q4 (+4.2%), the index is expected to report a small decline in Q1 (-0.6%). If the final number is negative, it will mark the second time in the past three quarters that the index has reported a year-over-year decline in earnings growth. Four of the ten sectors are projected to report an earnings decrease for the quarter, led by the Energy (-4.3%) and Information Technology (-3.9%) sectors. On the other hand, the Utilities (7.9%), Financials (3.8%), and Consumer Discretionary (2.2%) sectors are predicted to see the highest earnings growth. The estimated revenue growth rate for the index for Q1 is 0.5%, down slightly from an estimate of 0.9% at the end of the quarter.
Aside from Alcoa, just one other Dow component (JPMorgan Chase) and eight other S&P 500 companies are scheduled to release earnings results during the week.
Read more about the earnings trends of the S&P 500 in this week's edition of FactSet Earnings Insight. Visit www.factset.com/earningsinsight to launch the latest report.
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Jeremy Abbott left little doubt regarding his validity for the two-man Olympic team after winning the men's short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships Friday in Boston.
Defending champion Max Aaron, of Scottsdale, is in the familiar spot of fourth (86.95)-the same position he was in a year ago before winning the free skate in Omaha.
The three-time champion Abbott, who won the title in the last Olympic year, scored a 99.86 Friday, opening with a quad toe loop-triple toe loop combination before hitting a triple Lutz and triple Axel.
"My goal here this week was to come and keep it business, and I've done a third of my goals," Abbott said. "I have a lot of confidence in the long program, and I'm so happy with how the short program went. These are my last U.S. Championships, so I wanted to go out and enjoy it all, the energy, the crowd."
Abbott said he went over his goals with his coach Yuka Sato, of the Detroit Skating Club, just before his performance, but would not reveal the other two since they were personal.
Last year, Abbott was also ahead after the short with an 84.10, before faltering to third after the free skate.
Richard Dornbush, who was sixth last year, skated second and carried a lead of 92.04 for most of the evening.
"My frame of mind was to be aggressive and not allow myself to hold back at all, and I was happy I was able to stay calm," the 22-year-old Dornbush said. "To say that I'm happy is an understatement."
Nineteen-year-old Jason Brown is in third place (87.47) after skating to the music of Prince.
"I trained really hard, and I put out a performance they way I've been training, so that's all I really could ask for," Brown said.
Reigning world junior champion Joshua Farris is in fifth place, Adam Rippon sixth, Douglas Razzano of the Coyotes Skating Club is in seventh, and Boston's Ross Miner – the defending U.S. silver medalist, is eighth.
Aaron, like Abbott, opened with a quad, going for the Salchow-triple toe loop. He also put out a triple Axel and triple Lutz. The 21-year-old trains at the Broadmoor Skating Club in Colorado Springs.
The free skate is at 10:50 a.m. MT Sunday on NBC, where Abbott will skate 19th and last.


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At Redhead Can Decorate, the 1969 crib Julie and her siblings slept in as babies had been sitting in her attic, not meeting safety requirements for use, but waiting, dreaming of the day Julie would repurpose it into an American flag! And it gets better, because the transformation was fast and easy!
Julie used the mattress spring from the old crib, which happened to have exactly thirteen rows–perfect for the thirteen stripes of the American Flag! She weaved red and white ribbon through the rows of springs for the stripes, then weaved blue ribbon for the field of stars. Julie secured the ribbon with Zots and glue, then added on white stars to complete her brand-new Old Glory! Her last step was tying on a piece of rope to each end so she could hang it up. I'm blown away, aren't you? Surely I'm not the only one who needs some last-minute American pride around my house before July 4th!
Learn more about Julie's crib makeover at Redhead Can Decorate.


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I did a search for something like this but didn't find anything so here it goes.
I'm sure most of us have heard of the four Lakewood Officers who were assassinated last November. This touches me deeply as it was very close to where I live.
Let's say you, a law abiding citizen, was in the Forza coffee shop while this was happened. Clearly the guy target the officers and only the officers. If you were legally carrying for firearm that fateful day, would you have intervened? I know there was a struggle to or out the door between one officer and the BG, so probably pulling a gun before they were all down would not be a good idea. Maybe just getting physically involved? No involvement?
Also something to think about, after he murders the four, he flees from the store. If you were there, with your firearm, would you have done something after he murdered the officers and was running from the scene? It seems pretty clear he was an immediate, life threatening danger to the public, would you have ordered him on the ground and/or shot him if/when he didn't comply?
I'm trying to stay out of saying what I would do because it's to emotional, and I'm not sure I would have been thinking clearly.


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New York, NY, US
Being born and raised in Milan, I have always been fascinated by fashion and design. I have always dreamt about blending the two subjects in my work, in order to create a dramatic and moving space, able to incorporate fashion, design and even cinema in its design.
Living now in New York, and growing up in Milan, I had the possibility to visit some of the most magnificent retail stores and boutiques in the world and be affected by the masterly use of colors, transparencies, patterns and materials.
I have been fortunate to have had experience in both the art and design worlds. During my college years I worked as creative production assistant for Planetaria Hotels in Milan, where I participated in designing some of the hotels of the Italian chain and learned how to create environments that support a company's brand image. After my graduation from Politecnico di Milano with a bachelor degree in Interior Design, I worked for FZI s.n.c., an interior design company based in Milan, where I created design concepts for spas and hotels, and organized events. After moving to Los Angeles, I had a job in two different art galleries, where I was asked to design contemporary art exhibitions, manage the artworks and plan openings and events.
Currently, at Giorgio Armani, I am designing retail environments that communicate Armani's philosophy and the continuous research for elegance and harmony of the brand. In addition, I manage visual concepts and budgets for high-profile events, relationships with vendors and purchase of visual props for the retail and wholesale doors nationwide.
My creativity was stimulated, in part, by my travels in India, Peru and North Africa and from living in three different cities: Milan, Los Angeles and New York.
My M.A. in Exhibition Design at Fashion Institute of Technology has prepared me to create stimulating spaces, able to engage and emotionally touch the visitor. Like Jan Lorenc said, "from museum exhibitions, retail spaces and expositions, exhibition design involves itself in creating experiences in real time, utilizing space, movement, and memory to facilitate multilayered communication". This ability to tell stories and physically shape the experience creating environments that communicate, is the most powerful medium to deliver narratives to human beings.
Giorgio Armani, New York, NY, US, Visual Services Assistant
- Plan and design events in collaboration with companies and foundations as L'Oreal and the Vintage Club
- Design merchandising strategies for new store openings and fashion changes for window installations
- Create visual concepts for new store openings, events and existing doors nationwide
- Manage and coordinate Haute Couture Prive' events for Autumn/Winter 2012
Giorgio Armani, New York, NY, US, Visual Merchandising Intern
- Assisted in planning, designing and purchasing of retail props for over 30 doors nationwide
- Designed visual concepts for new store openings, events and existing doors nationwide
- Assisted VP with presentations and coordinator in visual payment filing and logistics scheduling
Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA, US, Exhibition Design Intern
- Designed exhibition space for different contemporary art shows such as "Steampunk: The Beginning"
- Assisted in the installation process: from receiving, handling, final placement to the shipping of sold artwork
- Completed and produced condition reports to assess artwork and damage due to installation
Begovich Gallery, Fullerton, CA, US, Exhibition Design Intern
- Designed exhibition space for different contemporary art shows such as Manuel Pardo's "Stardust"
- Proposed prospective exhibition shows to the board of trustees
FZI Interior Design, Milan, IT, Interior Design Intern
- Designed floor plans, elevations and details for working drawings
- Created mood, color and material boards for client presentations
- Produced models, hand drawings and brochures for hotel and spa design concept presentations
Planetaria Hotels, Milan, IT, Creative Production Assistant
- Worked with senior designers in concept generation and sourcing of manufacturers and suppliers
- Designed and produce models for interior furniture
- Organized openings and events for different hotels of the luxury chain
Associazione Allarmi Gallery, Como, IT, Art Gallery Intern
- Supervised small artwork sales and bookstore
- Ensured functioning of complex art installations
Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, New York, NY, US, Masters, Exhibition Design
California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, US, Exhibition Design
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, IT, Bachelors, Interior Design
Missoni Home - Un living per me, 1st Place
Award for the best living space design with Missoni Home products and inspired by the movie LadyHawk.


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Once again, Meredith Moore teams up with Jade Lambert-Smith to excite audiences with another extraordinary performance. This time, Spelman College is proud to introduce the musical production of Regina Taylor's "Crowns" to the Atlanta community. Meredith Moore and Jade Lambert-Smith are both Atlanta natives who work hard to expose their craft to their local community. Meredith uses her expertise in choreographing the musical "Crowns" to capture the movement that director Jade Lambert-Smith has in mind.
Meredith left Atlanta to receive her MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from New York University. She gives her opinion when asked about the future for the arts in her home town. 'Atlanta is definitely changing to support the dreams of many young artists who dream of making Atlanta the next broadway stop.'
After receiving her Master's Degree in the Big Apple, Meredith comes home to find that even though opportunities are vast in the Big Apple, the opportunities in Atlanta are just as big.
"Crowns" opening night performance starts February 18th and runs through the 21st. All performances will be at Baldwin Burroughs Theatre on campus at Spelman College. Please call 404 270-5488 for ticket information.


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