Conflicting reports of the situation in Mogadishu. "Premier claims Somali 'victory'," from the BBC:
Ali Mohamed Ghedi said the worst of the fighting against Islamists and clan gunmen was now over.
Columns of tanks were deployed and reinforcements sent to Mogadishu from other parts of Somalia.
Earlier, a BBC correspondent in the city said the battles were the heaviest in recent days, spreading to new areas.
United Nations humanitarian relief co-ordinator John Holmes has described the situation in Somalia as critical.
He said up to 400,000 people had fled Mogadishu but aid was reaching just 60,000. A doctor who runs one of Mogadishu's hospitals estimates that two-thirds of the city's one million residents had left.
Some 300 people have been killed in the recent clashes, after 1,000 deaths last month, local human rights group say.
Mogadishu residents say government forces have taken control of some northern suburbs from the insurgents.
"We hope to completely conclude the war tomorrow, and government forces will secure the capital," Mr Ghedi said.
But some correspondents in Mogadishu have questioned Mr Ghedi's assessment - they say there are still reports of heavy fighting, and artillery and machine-gun fire can be heard across the city.
'Hijacked'
Somali Education Minister Ismail Mohamoud Hurre said the deaths and violence were a price worth paying to return normality to the country, which has not had a functioning national government for 16 years.
"The Ethiopian forces are doing very well, stopping the Jihadist elements from causing instability," he told the BBC's Network Africa programme.
"We have to bite the bullet."
But a UK think-tank has strongly criticised last December's operation to oust an Islamist group which had taken control of Mogadishu and much of southern Somalia.
"Genuine multilateral concern to support the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Somalia has been hijacked by unilateral actions of other international actors - especially Ethiopia and the United States - following their own foreign policy agendas," said the Chatham House report.
In an exceptional display of bias, the Chatham House report gets the last word in the article, without an opposing point of view. From the Ethiopian standpoint, for example, self-preservation is certainly a worthy "foreign policy agenda."
"Whatever the short-term future holds, the complex social forces behind the rise of the Islamic Courts will not go away," the authors said.
They're right about that much, though they clearly don't understand the war in Somalia as a facet of the global jihad, or how deeply rooted the Islamic Courts' policies were in Islamic teaching and texts. Simply put, the "complex social forces" are more complex than they appear to grasp.
"The Ethiopian forces are doing very well, stopping the Jihadist elements from causing instability," he told the BBC's Network Africa programme.
"We have to bite the bullet."
But a UK think-tank has strongly criticised last December's operation to oust an Islamist group which had taken control of Mogadishu and much of southern Somalia.
From story above
Isn't like a leftie sitting in some think tank not being shot at to judge others with the grand ideals?
Looks like these people are sick and tired of the islamic terrorist controlig their life's yes people want to Live a good life not live with sewiage running in the streets imagin that?
http://www.beecy.net/frank/
UK think-tank has strongly criticised last December's operation to oust an Islamist group which had taken control of Mogadishu and much of southern Somalia.
if this is not an oxymoron, nothing else is.
Well, it's out in the open now that the Somali government has little choice but to ruthlessly suppress the Islamist clerics if they want to retain power. We'll see how this plays out
Just for fun!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6573527.stm
Tuesday, 24 April 2007
Khartoum booms as Darfur burns
Joseph Winter
BBC News, Khartoum
Mr Diglal hopes the project will do more than just provide an economic boost.
"The challenge is not money or engineering but changing the culture."
He paints a picture of, no-doubt wealthy, Sudanese people strolling along the banks of the Nile from a top class restaurant to a cinema showing the latest releases.
Sudan's first 18-hole golf course is also planned, along with at least two marinas, for yachts stopping off on their Nile tours.
Some go even further.
"One day, we might even have nightclubs," says one of those involved in the project.
But that looks like being a distant dream - the man who suggested this insisted that his name was not used in case it led to problems with the authorities.
Khartoum residents believe that state security agents recently paid a warning visit to a cafe serving ice cream and patisseries, where young Sudanese men and women were mingling a bit too freely.
Signs have now been put up warning patrons to "observe respectable behaviour and appearance".
BETTER READ THE WHOLE THING!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6594307.stm
Thursday, 26 April 2007
Bush announces anti-malaria plans
US President George W Bush has unveiled the latest measures in his government's five-year plan to combat malaria in Africa, on Malaria Awareness Day.
He also pointed to Washington's experience in defeating malaria a century ago, noting that hot conditions in the capital would often force Congress to flee for months at a time - something he joked, which was not necessarily a bad thing.
BETTER READ THE WHOLE THING!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6597041.stm
Thursday, 26 April 2007
The first hearing in the military trial of 33 members of Egypt's opposition Muslim Brotherhood has been held at a military base in Cairo.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6592795.stm
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Dip in global pirate ship attacks
Pirates attacked 41 vessels in the first three months of 2007, down sharply from the same period a year earlier, a global watchdog has said.
???
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6597651.stm
Thursday, 26 April 2007
Top Islamist 'killed in Algeria'
A top-ranking member of an Algerian terrorist group has been killed in clashes with the army, officials said.
GOOD THING!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6598457.stm
Friday, 27 April 2007
Iraq criticises US pull-out vote
The Iraqi government has criticised the US Senate's approval of a bill requiring US troops to leave Iraq.
Ali al-Dabbagh, the main government spokesman, said the decision was "negative" and sent the wrong signals to insurgents.
BETTER READ THE WHOLE THING THEN GO PROTEST IN FRONT OF REIDS OFFICE FOR THE BLOOD ON HIS HANDS!!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/26/news/letter.php
A cancerous growth in India's body politic
Amelia Gentleman
Published: April 26, 2007
"What's the big deal? Human trafficking is a white-collar crime, compared to murder, rape, armed robbery and kidnapping, and we know that across our unfortunate land we are increasingly being forced to elect people who have been charged with one or the other of these crimes."
BETTER READ THE WOLE THING
HE IS A MULSUM AFTER ALL??
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3392687,00.html
Blast kills 3 bombmakers in Pakistani tribal region
04/27/2007
Toes done!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHTING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERRORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM AMEN
Obviously not for long. The real forces are there and will vanguish the puppets when the time is right.
This is really why the Musliims hate the kuffar. Always medling in their personal affairs. The west and its so called allies support unpopular brutal regimes like the somali one instead of supporting what the people want....SHARIAH
Abdullah,
Sharia is not what the people want--it is what the imams want, so they can "meddle in the personal affairs" of every citizen around them. Sharia is a dictator's dream religion--the perfect vehicle for totalitarian control of a population by morally bankrupt, sex-crazed Muslim men.
abdullah the partime muslim who expouses sharia and lives in a sharia free land.. hypercite!
OK. The problem is that nobody gives a damn about the Somali people and what they want. The one thing that they desire in life is to have peace (from over 20 years of other countries getting involved in their business and taking advantage of a weak government, causing anarchy), whether it is under the Islamic Courts (founded by Somali businessmen and with wide public support, not "what the imams want"--some of them(imams) protested the acts done by the Islamic Courts once they were in power like the World Cup watching thingy). The only thing that Spencer doesn't talk about are the costs of such a "liberation":
Thousands flee as shelling by Ethiopian tanks kills hundreds of civilians in Somali capital
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2066113,00.html
Africa's secret - the men, women and children 'vanished' in the war on terror
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2063346,00.html
Or talk about the "liberator":
Reports of torture in Ethiopia are widespread
Bush says prime minister is committed to human rights
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/16/MNGB9P9C5H1.DTL
Another occupation/liberation that kills thousands in the name of "democracy." (and please, don't tell me how thousands of innocent Somalis are somehow all part of jihadist organizations. I can already tell that that is going to be the major part of your arguments against me, so I'll cut it off now and let you get onto something else [like calling me Muslim, no proof--like that makes any difference on this site.])
Just doing some thinking...
(*cut one line above here and bash tag*, it makes your argument even less legitimate...)
Dear An American,
Please explain for us what you would like to see happen in Somalia and America.
(Signed)
Naive and impressionable youngster eager to explore any and all paths to peace at any cost.
Oh!
And does it matter if thousands of foreign fighters come to Somalia or America to help your vision along?
Turn-
What I would like to see is that the Somali people choose what they want (not let the Ethiopians or American air raids make the decision for them.) If it involves the Islamic Courts (not foreign by the way), let it be so. If they are repressive, they won't last forever and the people will get rid of them--used to be the theory of American democracy, before the Bush Doctrine came around. If they pose an external threat--allow mediation, cooperation, and at the last option war taken up by the region (Ethiopia did nothing of the sort, they had rumors, so they got US planes to back them up and invaded)-- (also, absolutely no evidence that the Islamic Courts have posed such a threat, Ethiopia invaded first by the way, with the help of the Untied States based upon false rumors that they were "massing" on the border--they were securing the borders against khat runners.) I am always interested at the presumption that the US (or any other nation in the world for that matter) believes that they have the right to interfere militarily in the affairs of another nation.
Just doing some thinking...
(sorry if I don't agree with you or have the same world view that you do---I think differently, not a crime)
Shar'ia Law - the Religion of Sociopaths. Like Abdullah!
Shar'ia Law - the Religion of Sociopaths. Like Abdullah!
Shar'ia Law - the Religion of Sociopaths. Like Abdullah!
Shar'ia: Law by sociopaths. Like Abdullah.
But a UK think-tank has strongly criticised last December's operation to oust an Islamist group which had taken control of Mogadishu and much of southern Somalia.
Pray tell, and just how did the islamist group get into power in the first place?
Oh, peacefully, democratically elected by the Solami people you say.
"Genuine multilateral concern to support the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Somalia has been hijacked by unilateral actions of other international actors - especially Ethiopia and the United States - following their own foreign policy agendas," said the Chatham House report
The only thing "hijacked" and genuine is the group think mentality of Chatham House; it was hijacked the same way airplanes are hijacked and by the same islamic forces.
American, I suggest that you go to and Mogadishu and tell the islamic forces your plan.
I'm sure that they will listen to you and Chatham House will be singing your praises; perhaps I can arrange a private jet to accomodate you there.
Getting back, well, you can manage that from the more reasonable islamic fighters once your there.
Good luck lad!
It is the duty of all pious islamists to call for sharia. I thought I had basic knowledge of all the bad guys/ideologies throughout history. So how is it that this twisted, violent, hateful, repressive ideology slipped under the western radar? It has been around for centuries yet the ugly details have and are still being covered up. How can it be that we know so much about the Nazis but so little about another group that really, when all the beans are counted surpasses them in pure hostility towards all others? If you look closely, many of the behaviors they endorse we have laws against and will arrest people if they do such things. Take for instance, halal food, how is it that that is not illegal, animals having their throats cut in a mosque by someone hollering allahu snackbar, don’t we have rules governing the treatment of food animals? And that’s a simple one, what about polygamy, which is universal in islam or the disguise, I mean why would we allow anyone to go around in public dressed as though they are heading to a bank robbery? It all seems completely incompatible with western civilization, so why are they here? I think we all know the answer to that even if some of us are still in denial.
An American,
Thinking differently is not a crime. Not even for the ones that think differently from you. Bolshevic revolution and other tyrranies also came to power with a popular support. They could have also been stopped by early action, but it was immoral to intervene where complex social forces promoted lunatics and mass murderers to position of power. I only wonder if an intervention - any intervention - effectively preventing both regimes from the execution of their respective plans, would have caused even 10% of the life loss and destruction unleashed by those tyrants. But then again, for some this is just an academic argument - no Gulag or Dachau survivors next door, no commie ideology poisoned relatives and classmates - just an exotic russkii continuation of Dostoevsky, good to think about while having chai and pirozhki. Too many milions it was death, destruction, chronic poverty and poisoned mind. Tell them that an intervention was immoral.
And please, dont tell me that sharia-based government can not be compared with bolshevics or nazis. I have seen two of the three (neither being NSDAP) and have my own (thinking differently is not a crime) life-based opinion on the similarities and differencies.
The "Readers of Jihad-Watch Think Tank" rates Ethiopia's decision to defend itself as "good to go". - What constitutes a "think tank"? Why are these folks at Chatham House more worthy of attention than anyone else. Like so many NGO's they are self-declared "experts" with their own agenda. It is maddening when major news organizations quote them as if they had no axe to grind.
Maybe Mohammad's only prophecy is brewing here.
"...I see a skinny-legged black man from Ethiopia tearing apart the Ka'aba, stone by stone..."
Bukhari Hadith 2;26;665-666.
Inshallah.
Glad you're thinking there, An American.
And I hope that it will never be a crime to not agree with another or to hold a different world view.
I expect you were fortunate enough to be born in this blessed land and I can tell you have a keen mind and a decent enough education to write cogently.
Have you read history? I'm just curious. You wrote "If they are repressive, they won't last forever and the people will get rid of them--used to be the theory of American democracy,"
It's a wonder, but I never came across that "theory" in all my studies. Could you source that for me?
[The truth is that this fragile US REPUBLIC probably couldn't have succeeded were it not thousands of miles and weeks of sailing from our oppressive king. The idea that the "yoke of repression" can be shrugged off by the idealist is naive.]
You also wrote "I am always interested at the presumption that the US (or any other nation in the world for that matter) believes that they have the right to interfere militarily in the affairs of another nation."
On 7 December 1941 flagged Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor triggering the US entrance to WWII. So why did we interfere militarily with Germany and Italy instead of just Japan? What if we had not?
Could you do me a small favor, An American? Would you please compare and contrast the merits and flaws of the US judicial system vis a vis Islamic (shari'a) courts?
tgusa,
islam was not overlooked, it was used IMHO as a counterweight to pressure from Russia/USSR (which on their turn used to counter Wester pressure). All this while jihadist/world caliphate crowd was siletly reaping power from both sides. All that is left for us is to figure whether letting wolves in thy neighbours house was such a great idea if now the houses are connected and beasts are running free everywhere. Our own stupidity is our worst enemy...
An (Un)American wrote:
"What I would like to see is that the Somali people choose what they want (not let the Ethiopians or American air raids make the decision for them.) If it involves the Islamic Courts (not foreign by the way), let it be so. If they are repressive, they won't last forever and the people will get rid of them--used to be the theory of American democracy, before the Bush Doctrine came around. If they pose an external threat--allow mediation, cooperation, and at the last option war taken up by the region (Ethiopia did nothing of the sort, they had rumors, so they got US planes to back them up and invaded)-- (also, absolutely no evidence that the Islamic Courts have posed such a threat, Ethiopia invaded first by the way, with the help of the Untied States based upon false rumors that they were "massing" on the border--they were securing the borders against khat runners.) I am always interested at the presumption that the US (or any other nation in the world for that matter) believes that they have the right to interfere militarily in the affairs of another nation."
I'm sure you'd love for Sharia to impose itself without restraint, without defense, without the "interference" of free people. Downtrodden people through history have been so "successful" at defeating the Islamic jihadists -- oh, wait -- where did all the Christians and Jews in the Middle East go? Who's protecting the innocents in Darfur? Where's the tolerance in Saudi Arabia and Iran and Syria for women, religious minorities and the like? Even Persia does not have the strength to rise up and protect itself from the Ummah, but you somehow want us to swallow the vile and implausible notion that the Somalis will rise up against the thuggery of Janjaweed and foreign Jihadi? That's like asking us to turn back time and wait for the Nazis to put away their billy clubs and let Germany remain at peace instead of marching in file behind Hitler and his SS.
The United States "interferes" with a few movements of manpower here, some supplies there, a little training over here. We are hardly an Empire that's trouncing around the world imposing our will -- but be very careful what you wish for, because if Islam pushes too hard, that might very well be exactly the "monster" that is created. All that is required is a leader of iron-fisted strength and determination to forge the way and the USA could turn towards its Imperial Age and then woe be to the enemies of America.
So, what will the outcome of this century be? Don't think for a second that the Islamists really know. They believe they will usurp American power, but the West is a complicate beast, and the blood of Romans flows in my blood. If it will take a rebirth of the USA to reorder itself and defend against the incursions of foreign invaders, dire cults and anarchists from within, then the USA will evolve as she must.
Still think that the USA is a meddler? You haven't even begun to see the truth of it all yet. The power of the people will always rise to defend this country and the knowledge of history can quickly squash the barbarian dogma from the Middle East one way or another.
You'd best pray that the USA remains calm.
I'm not 100%, but I think An American has bought into the multi-culti notion that no one system is inherently better than another. That's just what I glean from his perspective. I'd like to know what University he came through, though.
"The west and its so called allies support unpopular brutal regimes like the somali one instead of supporting what the people want....SHARIAH"
Posted by: Abdullah
If this is the case, Abdullah, then why was the Shariah regime so brutal that it executed people for not praying?
Abdullah,
Sharia Law... You mean that little thing that allows Muslims to hunt down Lesbians like dogs???
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/islamic-police-searching-for-lesbian-fugitives/
Gee, that's soooo much better than our Western Judicial system... *sarcasm - of course*
Actually they are incorrect as are you Mr. Spencer in the Muslim Courts will "go away". They will go away to European enclaves, spread into Chinese steppes, become deeper in Asian nations and will implant deeply rooted into the Mexican Indian culture and spread into "autonomous" regions inside America where Muslim law is already developing the law of the Islamic communities.
As General Petraeus on Charlie Rose last night noted, Muslims were flowing into Iraq from Syria to die. Now with the removal of American forces, the crackdown being successful these terrorists are now being flushed. They go away where people are complaining something needs to be done and show up in peaceful communities.
Abdullah is the sponge luring the Islamic Courts into formerly Christian communities and they are coming in force to "make hay" when the major attacks start in phase 3.
All
Un American is a pro Jihadi troll: ignore him. I do wish Marisol will pluck him, like she has done better apologists than him. Keep Abdullah and Naseem, but Un American doesn't convey the truth about Islam the way they do.
Marisol, if you're reading this....
infidel pride-
The "jest thinking" American takes up negligible bandwidth and requires little time to scroll past, if you wish, plus, if you don't, it's always entertaining to watch an amateur contortionist at work.
Enjoy the free demonstration of sophistry, special pleading, transparent apologistics, begging the question, false equivalencies, ad absurdum.
(Just don't read it with a mouthful of anything you don't want spit-taked all over your monitor or flatscreen.)
Why are things so quiet here? It's not like there is no new Jihad news out there:
172 Militants Planning Attack on Oil Fields Arrested in Saudi Arabia
Taliban Take Over Southern District in Afghanistan
profitsbeard
True, but nothing original. I much prefer those like Abdullah who unapologetically support Islamic supremacy, and to a lesser extent, those like Naseem who simply wish that instead of fighting, we'd peacefully roll over. But other than that, Leftist (and Rightist) ignorami, we don't need.
Infidel Pride-- duly noted. I'll look over the comments and determine the approximate "instructive/annoying" ratio.
There are about to be more items posted-- busy morning (note the time stamp at the top of this one: Mr. Coffee and I are on excellent terms!).
“Why are things so quiet here?”
172 down, how many to go?
Taliban? The Taliban as we have witnessed in recent years is going mainstream, Afghanistan is distracting us as Sharia/dhimmification creeps forward worldwide. Quietly.
Marisol
Apologies for being so pushy. Actually, it's just that since last night, there have been few new comments - it's not just the lack of articles.
I need to get a life.
tgusa
I read that as bad news. I'd like Jihadis to have some successes against our 'staunch friend and ally' - Saudi Arabia. Somewhere down the line, they have to be made to realize that their obsession with Islam is what is damaging them, and until it hits them in the pocket hard - like those oil fields being bombed, they ain't gonna realize it. It's obvious that we ain't gonna be the ones to make them realize it.
Infidel Pride,
So true,
I want a new form of powering my auto, one that actually has power, yet something we have in abundance right here. What the heck is it? I don’t know but darn it you brilliant scientists out there, get moving!
IP, I don’t know about others but I got sick of coming here and reading the same crappola posted from thread to thread by these recent islamists/apologists, they are weak compared to what we used to get and its frustrating when imbecilic arguments are given the time of day. Too many responses to extremely pathetic trolls, what to do? I don’t really know but it would be nice if someone filtered these comments as to not be cut and pasted from thread to thread.
Awesome. I have never heard anybody describe Spencer so accurately:
Enjoy the free demonstration of sophistry, special pleading, transparent apologistics(?), begging the question, false equivalencies, ad absurdum
Just doing some thinking...
(By the way, I have read quite a bit of US history and attended the University of North Texas, a relatively conservative public school outside Dallas. The American ideal throughout history was that people must desire freedom for themselves and that it cannot be forced upon a people, thereby removing the whole concept of "freedom." Modern history, not just the Bush Doctrine but other principles established under folks like Regan and Clinton (and others regardless of political affiliation), have suggested that the United States should actively seek to spread "freedom" (aka its own strand of self-determination that is somewhat alien to those who have not had our history or perspective) in a somewhat modern spin on "white man's burden." Meaning: we have the best system in the world, and those who aren't like us are backward, and therefore we are going to forcefully "liberate" you from yourselves, for your own good, even though you don't think so.---This is the ideal that I disagree with and why I do not support the Ethiopian/United States intervention in Somalia (and other places).
PS. This site is relatively open to scrolling, so you don't have to read anything if you don't want to, including my posts. I have noted your comments to Marisol and am looking forward to a response, hopefully not stifling (sp?) my free speech.
tg
Check this one out - a solar powered car which did a race in Australia from Darwin to Adelaide. Granted, this is in the heart of the great Aussie Outback desert, but the fact that such things are possible now is indicative of the potential that exists - given the proper investment and research efforts that is possible here.
Of course, that would be a tough case to make in, say, New York or much of the globally warmed cold waves in the country, but once it catches steam in the tropical countries, it will drop the demand on oil to a shadow of itself. And while we don't drive our cars Nascar style, getting from home to work, or to the mall is adequate for some of our needs. For commercial travel, coal powered rail should work - maybe have trees throughout the route to address the carbon offsets.
Infidel Pride.
Your life may be just fine. I always enjoy reading what you post here on JW, so please dont slow down. I have a son in Africa with the Army and when I read An American I was just too angry to be coherent so waited to reply until I was more in control.
An American.
You are a fool sir. You show little knowledge of that region of Africa and less regarding Somalia. I had a young man (23) from Somalia working for me here in St Louis as a driver. When I hired him he was not able to do any sort of work in the USA. He attended a Sowdee madrases in Somalia until he was 17-18 but he was not able to do simple math. He could not read a watch, or a road map. He did not know which way was east or west, nor why there was such a thing. At night we would go to my office and I would help him read, do addition and subtraction problems, and basic science. After 1 year of this he was getting good enough to sit for his GED Exam, with another 3-4 months of work. He was very dutiful towards his Father that was still in Somalia, as he would send him 500$ per week, and that was just over half of his paycheck. One of the other guys here was poking fun at him for sending all of that money home and I stood up for this guy. I told the others to just leave him alone, as the Father in Somalia needed the cash to support the rest of the family there. They informed me that the 'Father' was dead, and had been dead for 3-4 years now. When I asked this of the Somalie he told me that yes, his 'Real' Father was dead, but the family still needed the money. I fired this guy on the spot, and called the FBI to report him. I found out later that the money was being sent to Atlanta GA and was being forwarded to some group in Somalia. Just imagine, paying some guy so he can send money to buy weapons to kill my son. It still makes me so frickin angry that I can hardly talk about it.
You can go ahead and spout your uninformed nonsense, but you really should do it on a site where they are less informed than the readers at JW.
An American
Just curious why you write "just doing some thinking" so often. Are we to believe that you're thinking something new and original?
You start your last comment by a blast on Mr. Spencer (missed by a mile, that) and then present credentials that claim to have read American history and spout American 'ideals' that have never existed. (I simply love the "white man's burden" line.)
And you didn't answer my questions.
This is no jihadist troll, folks. What we have here is a neocoM.
_____________________________
Thanks, Quadolama, for raising a son to put on the uniform of this nation. You and he have my gratitude. May God keep him safe and bring him home to those who love him.
_____________________________
IP:
Puhlease don't tell me you buy into the kyoto carbon credit crap.
Please, say it ain't so!
Lefties whining about speech issues? Hahahohohehe, absolute hogwash. The fairness doctrine, the recent congressional bill criminalizing thought, the attempted banning of certain words ie. ho as in ho ho ho? Oh come on make up your minds and be consistent, that is something I can at least respect, even if I don’t like what you say. Silence no one, ever, those are the rules, but some are not playing by the rules, so I’m not either anymore, so there.
Thanks IP.
We talking about carbon credits?
The sun…
http://wwww.nasa.gov/mov/171957main_Roll_In_FOUR_Limb_Flare_Vid1.mov
Looks pretty hot to me.
I'm curious as to why "An American" feels the need to attack Robert Spencer in just about every comment he makes. Perhaps Dinesh D'Souza himself has decided to troll JW in disguise.
To quote the troll, "Just doing some thinking."
magius, LOL
tg and turn
No I don't buy into the Carbon credits. What I meant by Carbon offsets was that the trees along the entire train route, if planted, would absorb all the CO2 emitted by the coal powered trains, and politically negate Environmental wacko claims about the earth getting more CO2 as a result. Of course, in reality, it's a crock, since trees only do their photosynthesis by day: at night, they take in O2 and expel CO2. So this whole business of planting trees to ensure more O2 than CO2 is a fraud.
My suggestion was to overcome political objections, not environmental ones.
tg
Would solar power still be enough on a cold wintery day in Dakota or a wet overcast day in Seattle?
OK A. American, I have been waiting all day to get of work to unload.
There are some countries out there that are actively working toward our destruction. They are either building their military to that end, or actively supporting those who will do it covertly. By destruction I mean conversion, or servitude. If the US Constitution is lost, that is destruction.
I do not care if these governments are "popularly elected." If these creatures get elected via a domocratic election, well that is just too bad for the voters. If these people are subjects of a dictator, still, too bad.
Any government bent on spreading militant Islam, elected or not, shall not stand. If you are willing to allow a those governments to continue their dirty work, then you are definately on my wrong side.
The future of my country, and our way of life is too damned important to worry over the lives of several hundred thousand supporters of jihad.
It seems that this time, the Islamic creatures are not able to run into the woods and hide. It seems that the Ethiopians and the Somali governmnet forces feel they will be captured and killed. Thank God the likes of The UK Think Tanks aren't in pursuit. Can anyone say "treason"? These same scum are the ones who let the enemy into their homeland to breed and feed on British welfare and who now have hundreds of cells seeking to blowup England. Hopefully, the Ethiopians and Somalis ignore them and hopefully when their countrymen win back their England, they will be dealt a firm justice for the cowards and traitors that they are.
IP,
Just a joke, okay? I agree and i also dont mind becoming cleaner, just not insanely clean.
And NO you wont get any juice on blustery winter days up north so get over it already,lol.
Infidel Pride
Thank you,thank you,thank you,thank you.
I have an uncle who owns a rather large nursery to whom I suggested that he sell some carbon offsets. (Tongue in cheek.)
Pelayo--happy Friday.
I wish it were just several hundred thousand supporters of jihad. I fear you may be off by two orders of magnitude.
Okay, tg. With the links to what goes on inside the sun, I did get confused.
turn, that's a great idea. Maybe we should stop paying Islamic countries for oil with our money, and instead, pay them with carbon credits. In fact, rake up a 'Carbon deficit' with them of a few trillion, thereby giving them the right to pollute. Get all the oil we want from them, without them getting a dime that pays for anything tangible. That way, the Middle East will end up as the theoretically most pristine spot on the face of the earth.
American just thinking-
"Apologistics" is the looser, more mocking version of the more scholastic term "apologetics".
That being the methodology of "defending the faith" with appeals to the irrational ...that only convince you if you are pre-convinced that the irrational proves anything.
Mr. Spencer specifically avoids sophistry, special pleading, false equivalencies and begging the question, turning to the Muslim texts to make his points about Islam. Tripping them with their own skipping rope.
He focuses on the Jihad's depredations in the world and is not doing a general news format. For other views on the topic, do your own research. There are limitless resources.
But read the Koran and Hadiths, first.
And if you just hate America, say it.
I hate the Jihad.
Because they are coming for skeptics like me, first.
Who mock their theocratic arrogance. And their intellectual dishonesty (pretending that the Koran is a "perfect transmission" while ignoring the fact that Mohammad was illiterate).
I'm not even one of the protected dhimmi class of "The People of the Book". (They see my neck and project a butcher's dash-lines around it.)
So, thanks to their homicidal irrationality, I'm forced to oppose them.
And I appreciate Mr. Spencer's "weather reports from the malignant id" to keep me warned and armed.
lol, profitsbeard...
Excellent!
^5s
(as per a foreign colleagues inquiry, "^5s" is net slang for "high fives" common in the US).