"Lebanon denounces and condemns the firing of rockets (in to northern Israel) and the retaliatory action and believes that such action is in violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701," Siniora said in a statement.
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Thursday, January 8
Hezbollah denies involvement in Israel rocket attack
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 08 Jan 2009 03:44 PM EST
"Lebanon denounces and condemns the firing of rockets (in to northern Israel) and the retaliatory action and believes that such action is in violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701," Siniora said in a statement. More>>>
Propaganda Wars and YouTube: Hamas video posted describing Israeli attack on Gaza UN school; Israel counters that Hamas was using the building to fire mortar bombs at them
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 08 Jan 2009 02:39 PM EST
Al Jazeera's report of an Israeli attack on a UN school in Gaza Israel version of the event: Hamas was firing mortar rockets from the "school", making it a legitimate target Thank goodness for the Internet. -Roland More>>>
"I've never been to New York, but I've heard people say there's apartments there where people pay $1,500 a month for something smaller than a trailer. We only pay $200. And they look down on us"
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Riley Jones
on Thu 08 Jan 2009 01:19 PM EST
The road to Fort Ashby, West Virginia, runs through Mineral County, an area of freezing grey farmland and barrack-style bungalows, where the sign outside the bar - "Hunters welcome" - has an unnerving effect on the passing non-hunter. In Cindy's coffee shop, customers speculate on the whereabouts of a lost cow and tell a weird Republican joke about the noise a chicken makes when its head is cut off: "Barack-Obama!, Barack-Obama!" Lynndie England has lived in Fort Ashby since she was two, but when she appears, suddenly, in the car park, her outline is crooked with self-consciousness. She grew her hair for a while, but people recognised her anyway, so she cut it short again. More>>>
The biggest load of crap you'll read today: "Congress gets 'sticker shock' at $1,200,000,000,000 deficit"
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Riley Jones
on Thu 08 Jan 2009 11:26 AM EST
The nation's budget deficit will soar to an unprecedented $1.2 trillion this year, congressional budget analysts said Wednesday, a startling tide of red ink that could dampen enthusiasm on Capitol Hill for some of President-elect Barack Obama's most ambitious priorities.
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NBC lets Ann Coulter break out her big brass balls in front of Matt Lauer
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Riley Jones
on Thu 08 Jan 2009 11:14 AM EST
After reports that Ann Coulter had been banned from NBC News, her return to the "Today" show set this Wednesday morning was, as expected, a fiery one with co-host Matt Lauer. The conservative author put Lauer on the defensive on her being bumped for the likes of Rachel Maddow and Perez Hilton, his colleague Brian Williams’ softball questions to Barack Obama, and Lauer’s charges that Coulter’s takes on single motherhood and Obama’s middle name were "outrageous," and "venomous." More>>>
The Reign of the Mediacracy
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 08 Jan 2009 05:23 AM EST
Newsmen and broadcasters commonly refer to their reports as “stories,” a giveaway term that should alert us to the nature of their presentations. Each item tends to read or sound or look like another installment in an ongoing soap opera or melodramatic fiction in which actual events are treated as material to be arranged into a favoured narrative. The key is simplification to accord with an editorial bias meant not to inform but to influence the news audience and to facilitate a process of ideologically-oriented political consumption.
Thus, had we relied for news during the 40s on The New York Times, we would scarcely have realized that the Holocaust was underway, which didn’t fit the newspaper’s editorial story line. The story to be crafted and told was a sanitized fiction. Caveat lector. Times change but the Times doesn’t. More>>>
The Deficit Spending Blowout
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 08 Jan 2009 05:08 AM EST
Carter: Israel/Hamas latest rhubarb "an unnecessary war"
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 08 Jan 2009 05:00 AM EST
From Washington Post: After visiting Sderot last April and seeing the serious psychological damage caused by the rockets that had fallen in that area, my wife, Rosalynn, and I declared their launching from Gaza to be inexcusable and an act of terrorism. Although casualties were rare (three deaths in seven years)...We knew that the 1.5 million inhabitants of Gaza were being starved, as the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food had found that acute malnutrition in Gaza was on the same scale as in the poorest nations in the southern Sahara, with more than half of all Palestinian families eating only one meal a day. Palestinian leaders from Gaza were noncommittal on all issues, claiming that rockets were the only way to respond to their imprisonment and to dramatize their humanitarian plight. The top Hamas leaders in Damascus, however, agreed to consider a cease-fire in Gaza only, provided Israel would not attack Gaza and would permit normal humanitarian supplies to be delivered to Palestinian citizens. More>>>
Minnesota Dog Sled Race Cancelled Because of Too Much Snow...Wait...What?
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 08 Jan 2009 04:36 AM EST
This winter, as anyone with a driveway knows, has been a season of prodigious snows. The Frazee area has received about 3 feet of snow, but winds keep creating drifts of 4 feet or more over the course, which was to host races of four to 14 miles. “The drifting aspect is just unbelievable,” said Streeper, a native of Canada who has been involved with dogsled racing for 25 years. “I’ve never seen anything like it.” The National Weather Service doesn’t tally snow accumulations and moisture content for Frazee. But snowfalls in Fargo, 54 miles to the northwest, have totaled 39.3 inches since October, with 2.37 liquid inches More>>>
Dick Morris: Al Franken's Funny Business Exposed
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Roland, the Gunslinger
on Thu 08 Jan 2009 01:38 AM EST
Those who want the recount actually want to count ballots in 25 precincts — that would bring the total number of votes cast higher than the actual number of people who voted!...In Ramsey County, 177 more votes have been counted than people who voted on Election Day. The canvassing board, in effect, is admitting that it is counting fraudulent, duplicate ballots! In some cases, absentee ballots, particularly from troops serving overseas, have been counted. In other cases not. One ballot, on which Franken was crossed out and replaced by "Frankenstein" was counted as a Democratic vote....Apparently, when a ballot was challenged, a copy was made to facilitate examination. But, in many cases, the canvasser failed to label the ballot as a duplicate. Then, in the recount, all the ballots were counted, ensuring that the challenged vote was not only counted, but counted twice. What makes all of this even more suspicious is that each of these errors inured to Franken's advantage and eroded Coleman's election night lead until the Democrat could claim victory. More>>> |
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