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A tale of two countries
Beijing may manage our ports*On March 18, 1996, Federal agents surreptitiously seized a Poly shipment of 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles in Oakland, California. These weapons had left China on February 18 aboard a vessel belonging to ... state-owned company, the Chinese Ocean Shipping Company (`COSCO').
After smuggling large arms* of all sorts.
(Not merely Smith-Wessons).
Have we learned any lessons?
No, we punish the Arab "good sports."
Is T. Ebbert [NOLA DHS chief] responsible for delay in large-scale response to levee breach?
"It's a very slow rise, and it will remain so until we plug that breach. I think we can get [the breach] stabilized in a few hours" [August 30, 2005]
From catastrophe to chaos in new orleans
"This is a national disgrace," said New Orleans' emergency operations chief Terry Ebbert. "We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans." [September 1, 2005]
*COSCO interested to buy stake in Greek port
*Shipping giant COSCO sets sail for big time [April 09, 2005] ...COSTACO, the country's largest shipping tally company, has become a subsidiary of COSCO, the world's second largest shipping company in terms of capacity.
COSTACO's business ranges from cargo measuring and weighing bulk cargo to supervising loading and unloading operations.
*The U.S. government agreed to exempt COSCO from laws discriminating against state-owned shipping companies. *CLINTON OK'S CHINESE ASSAULT WEAPONS FOR U.S. DELIVERY
The Pied Piper of Davos
John Kerry made news with his yodel,
From a room in his Switzerland hotel.
This Libs' wild-eyed Piper
Has made them too hyper.
They'll soon be extinct like the Dodo.
Leahy is the quintessential hypocrite. In 1998, Leahy criticized the Independent Counsel system. During the recent hearings, Leahy criticized Samuel Alito for having criticized the Independent Counsel statute in 2000.
Scenario for intruder who caused Jane Doe's collapse
Supranuclear Proliferation of a "fairy tale"
If we cling to bad feelings, we must necessarily skew our perception, degrade our decision-making,
I'd feel all adrift and "at sea"-ly
As a Con in a Lib'ral family
But, this forum, so dear,
Helps banish such fear
'Cause it gives folks the means to speak freely
| A second look at Hwang Woo Suk 12/16/2005 Hwang's just a name in the news. Collaborator says Korean cloning pioneer admitted faking stem cell result | Cookbook for Flim-Flam The pressure for cloning's so great Clone Scandal: 'A Tragic Turn' for Science [S. Korea scientists fabricated evidence] |
| Dean's Big Head -- 12/10/2005 Old Deanie is really intense, | And the ratings say.... Rush is #1 Al Franken did not make the list. |
Hillary's aide - Sidney Blumenthal - 12/08/2005
There once was a low-life named Sidney.
Who dealt in life's dregs, like a kidney.
Doing Hillary's work,
Like some low-level clerk
With morals as pliant as a squid knee.
12/01/05
| Note to Hillary about her stand on Iraq: You'd be more prepossessing |
| Joe Wilson disses Robert Novak Joe Wilson's gone blankity mad. | Untitled 'Tis strange that I turned out to be | Shades of the Soviet Union Have you heard that Miss Miller's recanting? |
 Schoolchildren of Da Nang "celebrate" the anniversary of the fail of Saigon Vietnam Conflict Remembered, Sunday, 2 April, 2000, BBC | Pre-War "containment" of Saddam failed more each day. 1. The oil-for-food program was corrupt Saddam was thumbing his nose at decent people as he rewarded his collaborators. Bush interrupted Saddam's staging of a comeback. |
Analysis: Saddam steps up defiance, 1 December, 2000, By BBC Middle East analyst Roger Hardy
US Troops liberating the French - A-OK -- US Troops liberating the Iraqis - BAD
Anti-War Wall of Shame
A tale of the difference in treatment by the DNC and MSM of Valerie Plame and Terri Schiavo -- both from Huntingdon Valley, PA, both born 1963, both married to liars.
Dims Dims Dims Dims
They may talk o’ agent outting,
While stamping feet and pouting--
Yelling, “White ‘ouse is the nastiest of places.”
But when it comes to slaughter
They’ll deprive the weak of water
And they’ll never ’ave the shame to ‘ide their faces.
Saddam learned that the President withholds his wrath until the right moment.
The Lessons of Halabja: An Ominous Warning
| Eau d' Chris Chris Matthews will rarely make sense. | Persnickety Jack Cafferty makes me want to laff-erty
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Democrats don't spin--They "philosophicate*"
*Democratic spinning, in which facts are less important than tangentially related mythsDon't look for medical breakthroughs to be accomplished by pro-abortion or pro-euthanasia doctors
To the minority on the Judiciary Committee
Dour, dour, liberal scowler
Angry men without much power
Dems can bark, can lie, and bite
But still can't win their dirty fight
I think we can get [the breach] stabilized in a few hours"
| Little Chuckie Schumer Chuck Schumer's like a two-year old -- Very negative and kind of bold. He can't say "Aye." He must defy A judge who's found to be pure gold. | License too Shrill Chuck like to boss folks around And his voice is his own fav'rite sound. He vows, til he's hoarse, That he'd take guns by force. Don't argue, 'cause he'll shoot you down. | Chuck Schumer is a hatchet man Chuck Schumer is a hatchet man Not anywhere near an attractive man He sneers, he lies, And averts his eyes, Can he be nasty? In fact, he can. | A Scowler, NOT A Scholar
A dillar, a dollar, an all-day-long scowler. |
Bloomberg is saying, "Oh, Woe,
Judge Roberts might overturn Roe."
New York's Boston-born mayor,
Is a nosey nay-sayer,
My opinion of him's at a low
Lib pols would gladly slit throats,
Then escape in their own one-man boats
Nagin did not go swimmin'
Like the poor N'awlins women
Yet now he's grandstanding for votes.
Mumbling, stumbling, bumbling Reid, can show us that leadership's part of his breed
Double, double, toil and trouble, attempts to burst John Roberts' bubble,
Double, double, reams of memos, Sought and read by seething Demos,
Double trouble, reams of memos, Sought and scanned by scheming Demos
Schumer hates all demagogues while feinstein fights for rights of frogs
Leaky Leahy
Pat's heart leaps up when he beholds, Feinstein's deep'ning love of toads.
Turning the tables
Grilling Tedward Kennedy
Dems can taste quite succulent
If they're not too truculent
Chuck shows too much reticence to overturn bad precedents.
Let's speak of sweet senator Dick, Whose skull is exceedingly thick, With no room left inside, for deep thoughts to reside, As a clock, he would only say, "Tick"
| I know of a woman in Texas Does her bestest and mostest to hex us. She says she loves children Yet, she'd let Saddam kill them Since he didn't take steps to annex us. | Charlie Rangel endorses the draft. Cindy Sheehan is borderline daft. The plans of this twosome Are plain simple gruesome Since they don't know their fore from their aft. | Joe Wilson's been wholly disgraced, Thus, the Left has had him replaced By that nut Cindy Sheehan, The Media Queen, Whose photos with Bush she erased. |
Cindy Sheehan says, "I'm doing this for the children of the world"
Victim of the attacks by Saddam and his Ba'ath forces on Halabja.
Cindy could be renamed Excess Cindy Shee-Haw, because she is the spiritual daughter of two infamous, American-born, anti-Semitic liars ..WILLIAM JOYCE alias LORD HAW-HAW and Mildred Gillars, alias Axis Sally
Axis Sally used to say "Damn all Jews who made this war possible. I love America, but I do not love Roosevelt and all his k#ke boyfriends."
The best counterarguments to Excess Cindy Shee-Haw's lies are the choices her son, Casey, made.
| Joe Wilson's Perfidy Joe took the Islamicists' side, | Ambassador Wilson Lied Joe W. wrote an op-ed and lied | O'Donnell, Plame and Rove Larry O'Donnell, the Pouter, |
| Burt Bacharach: The wrong song, for the wrong time Burt (who's "more passionate than ever") | Mean Janeane Poor Janeane Garofalo |
From the wayback machine, July 20, 2003---http://web.archive.org/web/20030720060539/http://www.mideasti.org/html/bio-wilson.html, bio of Joe Wilson
Listening to "the Great One" while driving
Mark Levin is a tower of straingth
As he holds off them Dems at arm's laingth
Mark elicits such laughs
At the Liberal gaffes
That my car nearly exits its lane-th.
| Schumer Day Three of the hearings I Like the rest of the Democrat minions, | Schumer Day Three of the hearings II Chuck says that the process's absurd |
| C. Schumer - male chauvinist pig Here's a question that Chuckie will dodge-- | Persona non gratia Chuck Schumer will act so superior |
| Tackless Chuck Schumer He's not been a very good sport | School-less Chuck Schumer Chuck Schumer has said that he might |
| Schumer the Schooler Chuck likes to think he's a master | Tactless Chuck Schumer A nominee better be lucky, |
| Dems on the Judiciary Committe Libs love a Justice who's ready | Durbin plays the Nazi card Durbin's a foul, stinking skunk, |
| Ben, the guy who told Cheney off. Ben wants Blanco for President? | I know an old cowgirl named Sandy, Whose judgment seems perfectly dandy, But her writings lack logic, To folks in Dowagiac, When they have their spectacles handy. |
| The legacy of Sandra Day O'Connor There once was a justice named Sandy | Southwestern Justice I once met a gal from a ranch, |
I know of a woman named Jamie Whose face shows no sorrow or shamey 'Though she raised the high wall That endangered us all She doggedly shrugs off the blamey.
It took a little doing....but I found the Bush-Riot connection... Bush -- rush -- rust -- must -- most -- moot -- root -- riot
The French have valued Michael Moore's input in the past...maybe they can look to him for some direction about riot-handling.Paging Michael Moore...Paging Michael Moore
| Rep. Pelosi, (D-CA) There once was a woman named Nancy, | Mooligans The French Yutes are dancing with glee |
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Chris Burns, CNN reporter just said : "little teenagers" are carrying this out.
Anchorperson, Carol, acting as if this story is something new. 11/05/2005 5:06:10 PM EST
"[Nancy Cruzan, three days before her death from starvation] turned and looked at me and stared at me with a panicky look, sweating profusely, and the thought I had was, she was thinking, ‘Oh, here’s a policeman, he’ll help me.’ But we weren’t allowed to do that,"...Doug Seneker
Screwy things that the "Kill-Terri" hordes have said and done
1. Ed Koch thinks Terri needs to watch TV to know she is starving.
2. George Felos thinks Terri looks "beautiful" after her week of forced starvation.
3. Doctor Cranford, who helped Michael win Terri's "right to die" does not believe Terri has constitutional rights
4. Terri said "No tubes for me, " but Michael ignored Terri's "wishes" and had a tube inserted
5. Bulimic women get significant legal boost toward weight-loss goal by local Judge who is willing to order them to be starved to death.
6. Jay Wolfson thinks that an inverse statement (B) "I don't think, therefore, I am not," follows logically from the statement (A), "I think, therefore, I am."
Elementary logic shows Wolfson is wrong to make an assumption that an inverse statement is true.
7. Sanjay Gupta said it was interesting that the neurological diagnoses of Terri could vary so much.
Felos said Michael's cause was only able to succeed because of the help of the ACLU and of some others.
For years, the ACLU has been very busily fighting for the right to Physician Assisted Suicide. They know their way around the courts, all right. Back in 1999, the ACLU gave an award and a dinner (!!the irony!!) to Former Chief Justice of the Florida State Supreme Court, Gerald Kogan, who supports Physician Assisted Death.
George Greer: Soon starring in the hit movie They Starve "Bulimics," Don't They?
If the MSM concubines of the DNC hadn't been so busily bashing Bush for the last 5 years they might have done Americans a real service and investigated the potential dangers in NOLA and other Dem-run cities. Instead, the concubines praised Cindy Sheehan and broadcast false accusations about Bush's national guard service.
CTV.ca --Streets of New Orleans sink deeper into crisis CTV.ca News Staff, Wed. Aug 31: "It's a very slow rise, and it will remain so until we plug that breach. I think we can get it stabilized in a few hours," Terry Ebbert, New Orleans' homeland security chief told The Associated Press.
"Please, Mother. I'd rather do it myself" Give the poor woman a bottle of Anacin.
Bush called but Blanco and Nagin stalled
It almost seems as though Nagin and Blanco didn't want "snoopy" feds around their turf too soon...I wonder why.
Compassionate Liberalism Part II: Blaming the Iraq War and Tax Cuts for New Orleans Flooding
Face it Sharpton--Mayor Nagin killed thousands more poor black people by his inaction in the 48 hours preceding the storm than Bush killed by his supposed inaction in the 48 hours after the storm
Ever hear of "I-gotta-get-my-own-family-to-high-ground-in-Baton-Rouge-and-can't bother-evacuating-the-poor-people" Nagin
Nagin abandoned the poor of New Orleans, just like Kerry abandoned the people of South Vietnam and just like Cindy Sheehan wants to abandon the people of Iraq.
Nagin and Blanco should have been aware of this study which shows that poorer people do not move out of a hurricane's path as often as less poor people do, and special steps need to be taken to protect them.
Citizen Hurricane Evacuation Behavior in Southeastern Louisiana: A Twelve Parish Survey
Released by The Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Taskforce, July 2005, concluded (page 6) that The number of low income residents who remain in harm’s way illustrates the need for both education about the need to travel far enough1 and providing evacuation assistance to those without means2
1. I don't think Nagin emphatically told his poorer constituents that they needed to evacuate at a distance, to high land, rather than take shelter in a friend's "stronger" home.
2. I know I don't have to ask if Nagin sent buses to evacuate his poorer constituents.
Saturday, August 27, 2005
Brady Westwater said... I may be wrong - but it sems to me that the laid back attitude (more in demeanor than in action, but in some actions, too) your Mayor has taken has diminished the numbers of people who left New Orelans in time. And I can not understand why every school bus in the state has not been commandered to get the poorest, most vulnerable people away from danger. 5:56 PM
2/28/02 - This web site supports Ray Nagin for Mayor... Although it doesn't like the idea that he claimed he is a CPA or the fact that he tried to get a contract as a disenfranchised minority business owner, ...
"Louisiana Gov Kathleen Blanco said that President Bush had called and urged the state to order the evacuation"
NYP: A CITY WE MAY HAVE LOST
It HAS happened and there is no way it is Bush's fault.
The City of New Orleans should have had a housing code that required a lifeboat for every 8 residents.
Geography of New Orleans The final death knoll of the city may very well come from the river itself. Scientists and environmentalists know that the Mississippi is trying to change its course that will bypass the city in favor of the shorter route to the Gulf through the Atchafalaya basin.
Has de-Babylonization of New Orleans arrived?
| ~~Happy Days are Here Again~~ "Happy Days are here again," A storm named Rita's coming strong | A. Broussard started telling his story And cried when the tale got real gory. Russert, barely awake, Was taken in by this fake .... Yet, Tim STILL won't admit that he's sorry. |
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