this may be a long one, there's just so damn much out there. Of all kinds.
Like why the Brits need Americans to, y'know, actually shoot the bad guys.
Why the Israelis don't trust people claiming to be 'humanitarian workers':
A senior officer of the Israel Defence Forces has accused the peace activists on the Mavi Marvara of being military personnel trained in Afghanistan and other countries in Asia and Eastern Europe.
The officer, quoted in the Hebrew newspaper Maariv on Sunday, claimed, “These men were trained in camps in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia and Bulgaria. We are talking about more than fifty persons in their thirties, very strong, dressed in bullet-proof vests, and equipped with night-vision goggles, masks and protective clothing.” According to the unnamed officer, blank cartridges of US origin but different to those used by Israeli forces were found on the Turkish ship when it was hijacked by Israel last week.
Sandra Bullock seems to be a class act. And darlin', that dress sure didn't hurt any...
Senior civil servants warned ministers that if they ordered a public inquiry into the July 7 suicide bombings it could "focus negatively" on Britain's Muslim community, it can be revealed.
The warning was delivered in a briefing paper to Charles Clarke, the then-home secretary, as he considered whether or not to launch an inquiry into the 2005 bombings, in which 52 innocent people were killed.
In the paper, Sir John Gieve, the Home Office permanent secretary, said that upsetting Muslims would be a "potential cost" of ministers agreeing to demands for a full inquiry.
Yeah, screw the truth, can't do anything that might upset the muzzies, can we?
(why no, I don't care if that pisses anyone off; they don't like being called muzzies, tough shit)
As an alternative to a public inquiry the Home Office published, a year after the bombings, a "narrative" drafted by its own officials which merely set out the events leading up to the bombings, with little analysis of underlying causes.
Sir John's note, written four months after the bombings but newly-released under Freedom of Information laws, outlines the determination of senior civil servants to ensure that any inquiries into the atrocity were "low key".
An Iranian is caught smuggling weapons from Canada into the US; major media silence ensues. And those wonderful Canadian gun-control laws don't seem to be working too well.
With the investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel nearing its second anniversary, the New York Democrat and the House ethics committee face a new challenge — the political calendar.
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If the ethics committee releases a damaging report on Rangel before the Sept. 14 primary, it could be a death blow to the Harlem congressman’s storied career and open the door to a serious Democratic challenge, Democratic colleagues and party strategists said.
But if the ethics committee’s findings come out after the primary, Rangel will very likely survive and win a 21st term in the House. Still, that timing would raise questions about the ethics committee’s process and whether the investigative panel was too aware of the political calendar.
'Raise questions'? Ya think MAYBE? After all the other delays and bullcrap pulled to try to get this corrupt bastard off?
Speaking of chickenshit politicians,
If the time-honored tradition of the political meeting is not quite dead, it seems to be teetering closer to extinction. Of the 255 Democrats who make up the majority in the House, only a handful held town-hall-style forums as legislators spent last week at home in their districts.
It was no scheduling accident.
With images of overheated, finger-waving crowds still seared into their minds from the discontent of last August, many Democrats heeded the advice of party leaders and tried to avoid unscripted question-and-answer sessions. The recommendations were clear: hold events in controlled settings — a bank or credit union, for example — or tour local businesses or participate in community service projects.
And to reach thousands of constituents at a time, without the worry of being snared in an angry confrontation with voters, more lawmakers are also taking part in a fast-growing trend: the telephone town meeting, where chances are remote that a testy exchange will wind up on YouTube.
Translation: "If we do it this way, we can control who's there to some extent AND control the questions! And make ourselves look better!"
In the world of reptiles who don't want to control your life(just occasionally eat someone),
Researchers have now for the first time discovered the true extent of the epic journeys made by saltwater crocodiles and uncovered how they manage to cover such large distances.
By analysing data from satellite tracking tags, the scientists found that the crocodiles exploit surface currents around coastlines and out to sea to help them travel large distances.
By riding these currents, the crocodiles are able to hop between oceanic islands and make long migrations around the Australian coastline.
One 12ft long crocodile tracked by researchers travelled 366 miles in 25 days around the Australian coast while another 15ft reptile rode seasonal currents off Australia's Cape York Peninsula for 20 days, travelling 255 miles.
Miserable bigoted excuse for a reporter Helen Thomas retires. Wonder which it was: slipping and telling what she actually thinks, the praise from Hamas, or the word there may be more video coming?
Heard about this woman claiming she was fired for looking too good? Well, bullcrap. Yeah, she's hot; so are lots of other women at lots of places of work. And from the pictures she was dressed professionally, nothing showing that shouldn't. So I tend to think she did something she shouldn't have, got canned, and is blaming this. And hoping to make some money off it.
Well, well, well...
Ha’aretz has revived the mystery surrounding the inability to find weapons of mass destruction stockpiles in Iraq, the most commonly cited justification for Operation Iraqi Freedom and one of the most embarrassing episodes for the United States. Satellite photos of a suspicious site in Syria are providing new support for the reporting of a Syrian journalist who briefly rocked the world with his reporting that Iraq’s WMD had been sent to three sites in Syria just before the invasion commenced.
The newspaper reveals that a 200 square-kilometer area in northwestern Syria has been photographed by satellites at the request of a Western intelligence agency at least 16 times, the most recent being taken in January. The site is near Masyaf, and it has at least five installations and hidden paths leading underneath the mountains. This supports the reporting of Nizar Nayouf, an award-winning Syrian journalist who said in 2004 that his sources confirmed that Saddam Hussein’s WMDs were in Syria.
Baltimore PD; wonderful group of people. No, not feeling too tolerant: every time some jerk like this finally crosses the line and winds up paying a price, it turns out he'd pulled crap in the past and the other cops covered up for him, the union covered for him, or both. I'm sick of good cops giving protection to bad ones.
There's more out there, but I'm out of time for now.
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