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November 2008

Nov. 05: The American People Have Voted Barack HUSSEIN President 

• Sept. 23: How We Became the United States of France

September 03: Catholics Fighting Washington State Suicide Initiative

Catholic churches in Washington are collecting donations to fight Initiative 1000, the assisted suicide measure on the November ballot.

A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Seattle, Greg Magnoni, says Alex Brunett and two other bishops have authorized 290 parishes in Washington to take up a collection for the Coalition Against Assisted Suicide.

Also called the "Death with Dignity" initiative, the measure would allow terminally ill people to legally obtain lethal prescription drugs for ending their own lives. It's patterned after Oregon's assisted suicide law.

A spokeswoman for the Yes on 1000 campaign, Anne Martens, told the Tacoma News Tribune that Catholics should not impose their beliefs on the entire state but that it was OK for the 1000 initiative to impose theirs.

March 2008

March 26, Wednesday: Greensboro, N.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to quell concerns over anti-American remarks by his former pastor, saying people are paying too much attention to a small number of "stupid" comments. Of course Obama must think the American public is stupid by trying to imply that his former pastor only made a small number of "stupid" comments when in fact over the past 20 years he has made thousands of these "stupid" (a euphemism for hateful) comments. I would not have stayed in a church that espoused such hatred and one has to wonder why Obama listened to it for two decades and stayed. I hope this doesn't get swept under the carpet and forgotten like Obama hopes it will. 

March 21, Friday: Rome: The Vatican on Thursday rejected an audiotaped accusation from Osama bin Laden that Pope Benedict XVI was leading a “new Crusade” against Muslims, but Italian security officials were concerned about the threats included in Mr. bin Laden’s new message. Harrisburg: Pennsylvanians are rushing in record numbers to sign up as Democrats, apparently so they can vote in the presidential primary April 22 between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Many are Republicans who feel that since John McCain already has the GOP nomination they want to vote for Hillary Clinton as a vote against Barack Hussein Obama.

March 20, Thursday: Chinese state media has admitted police shot dead four rioters "in self-defense" in a Tibetan area of southwestern Sichuan province. Days ago China had claimed that they did not shoot on rioters now the truth comes out.

March 19, Wednesday: USA: Contrary to Senator Barack Obama’s claim that he never heard his pastor Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. preach hatred of America, Obama was in the pews last July 22 when the minister blamed the “white arrogance” of America’s Caucasian majority for the world’s suffering, especially the oppression of blacks. Senator Obama has sought to separate himself from his pastor’s incendiary remarks, issuing a statement Friday rejecting them as “inflammatory and appalling” but failing to renounce Wright himself for his venomous and paranoid denunciations of America. In his press release, Obama claimed, “The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity [United Church of Christ] or heard him utter in private conversation.” Appearing on cable news shows this past weekend, Obama claimed when he saw recent videos that have Wright making such comments as “God damn America,” he was “shocked.” Obama implied that the reverend had not used such derogatory language in any of the church services Obama attended over the past two decades. If Obama’s claims are true that he was completely unaware that Wright’s trademark preaching style at the Trinity United Church of Christ has targeted “white” America and Israel, he would have been one of the few people in Chicago to be so uninformed. Wright’s reputation for spewing hate is well known. So for 20 years of attending this church Obama never heard any of these derogatory statements? No wonder so many people feel that politicians are liars.

March 18, Tuesday: China on Monday denounced attacks on its embassies by pro-Tibetan activists hours before a deadline for rioters in Lhasa to turn themselves in and said it would do all in its power to protect its territorial integrity. The announcement by the Foreign Ministry at a hastily called news conference came as about 40 students staged a sit-down protest at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, marking the spread of pro-Tibetan demonstrations to the capital. The problem most Capitalists have is that China seems to be a little confused as to what is their territory and what is other's territory but then again that's a problem with most dictatorships....Kosovo: Hundreds of Serbs in north Kosovo clashed with U.N. police and NATO peacekeepers on Monday in the worst violence in the territory since the Albanian majority declared independence last month creating yet another Muslim state, just what the world needs, right?....El-Arish, Egypt: Egyptian police shot and wounded a Sudanese man on Monday as he tried to cross illegally into Israel, a security official said. The 23-year-old was shot in the chest and hospitalized, the source said, while four of his Sudanese companions made it into Israel. There has been a growing stream of casualties from shooting incidents at the border as the Egyptian police have cracked down on illegal migrants....Vatican City: Pope Benedict XVI held a memorial mass Monday for Paulos Faraj Rahho, the Chaldean archbishop of Mosul found dead last week 13 days after being abducted. The pope condemned the "horrific kidnapping which perhaps injured him" as well as the "unworthy resting place in which his corpse was found." The pope described the archbishop as a "man of peace and dialogue" and hoped that "his example would give strength and support to all Iraqis of good will, Christians and Muslims, to build a peaceful coexistence." During his Angelus blessing on Sunday, the Pope issued what he called a heartfelt plea for a peace in Iraq. "Stop the slaughter, the violence, the hatred in Iraq," he said. Rahho was kidnapped on February 29 after a shootout in which three of his companions were killed. His body was found in a shallow grave near Mosul last Thursday.

March 17, Monday: Happy Saint Patrick's day. Taiwan: Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in rival political rallies across the country. It was the last chance for big weekend rallies before the island votes for a new president on 22 March. The events - organized by the two main political parties - were also aimed at expressing public opposition to China's anti-secession law. The law, passed in 2005, legalizes the use of force against Taiwan if it formally declares independence. China regards the island as part of its territory. Government officials have warned that the violent events in the past few days in Tibet have implications for Taiwan showing Beijing would not give up the use of force against the island to resolve disputes.

March 16, Sunday: Beijing: Soldiers on foot and in armored carriers swarmed Tibet's capital Saturday, enforcing a strict curfew a day after protesters burned shops and cars to vent their anger against Chinese rule. In another western city, police clashed with hundreds of Buddhist monks leading a sympathy demonstration. The latest unrest began Monday on the anniversary of a 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. Tibet was effectively independent for decades before communist troops entered in 1950....Tehran: Iranian election results on Saturday showed conservatives on course to keep control of parliament, but some were expected to join reformists in flaying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's handling of the economy....
Washington: Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama categorically rejected "appalling remarks" by his pastor as aides said the controversial preacher had resigned from a campaign committee. The Illinois senator sought to quell the uproar over Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who said the September 11 attacks were brought on by American "terrorism" and that African-Americans should sing "God Damn America" to protest their treatment. Obama says he rejects the statements but it's what his church believes and he is after all a member of that church and I bet we won't see him changing churches any time soon either.

March 15, Saturday: Sudan: Chinese sales of assault rifles and other small arms to its ally Sudanhave grown rapidly during the Darfur conflict despite a U.N. arms embargo, a human rights group said on Thursday. China sold Sudan $55 million worth of small arms from 2003-2006 and provided 90 percent of Sudan's small arms since 2004 when a U.N. arms embargo took effect. Chinese-made AK-47 assault rifles, grenade launchers and ammunition for rifles and heavy machine guns have all flowed into Darfur, said the report. Did you ever wonder why communists supply Moslems with arms?....Dakar: World Muslim leaders on Friday condemned extremism and terrorism as incompatible with Islam and proposed a high-level international meeting to promote a "dialogue of civilizations" with the Christian world "We continue to strongly condemn all forms of extremism and dogmatism which are incompatible with Islam, a religion of moderation and peaceful coexistence," the declaration said but is in total contradiction to what the Koran dictates meanwhile leaders of the world's Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols. I don't see that working, any capitalist country worth its salt is not going to allow any foreign entity dictate what can or cannot be said under freedom of speech.....China said at least 10 people burnt to death in riots in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, the fiercest pro-independence protests to have rocked the region in two decades, scarring China's image months before the Olympics. "The victims are all innocent civilians and they have been burnt to death," an official with the regional government was quoted as saying.

March 14, Friday: U.S.A.: Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) issued a draft Thursday of its Statement on Human Sexuality. Seven years in the making, the report does not take a specific stand on gay ordination -- that will come in a position paper expected to be released about a year from now -- but it does lay the groundwork for the impending debate. Mark Chavez, director of the Word Alone Network, which opposes gay ordination, interpreted the wording as an indication that the bishops are going to try to avoid taking a church-wide stand....Dakar: The leaders of the world's Muslim states on Thursday criticized a rising wave of "Islamophobia" in the West and pledged to combat Islamic extremism, which they said was partly to blame. "Ignorance about Islam and calculated animosity with deep historic roots on the part of a minority in the West, as well as our failure to defend the true values of Islam, are the reason for the increasing wave of Islamophobia." Caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad printed by Europen newspapers have sparked anger across the Muslim world. Some western human rights groups have accused the OIC of trying to limit freedom of expression and belief. "Should freedom of expression mean freedom to blaspheme? There is no such thing as limitless freedom," Wade told delegates, while criticizing those who carried out attacks in the name of Islam: "They deserve only our contempt." Yes, freedom of expression does mean freedom to blaspheme and though militant Islamists deserve their contempt the never seem to get it. It also seems that the more non-Muslims learn about true Islam the more Islamophobic they become, I wonder why?....Bogota: Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's popularity rose to a record high 82 percent thanks to his handling of a recent diplomatic spat with Ecuador and Venezuela, according to a Gallup poll published on Thursday. The survey fueled speculation that the conservative leader would run again in 2010 if his supporters can get a constitutional amendment passed allowing a third consecutive term. He accused the leftist leaders of Ecuador and Venezuela of not helping in the fight against drug-running communist guerrillas. But he promised no more incursions into neighboring territory if they guaranteed that rebels would not be allowed shelter there.

March 13, Thursday: Thailand: About 800 Thai Muslims protested outside Denmark's embassy Wednesday against Danish newspapers' reprinting of a cartoon perceived as insulting to Islam....Tibet: Chinese police used tear gas to disperse hundreds of Buddhist monks who held a second day of rare protests near Tibet's capital, U.S. government-funded Radio Free Asia reported Wednesday. The demonstrators, on their way to demand the release of other monks detained in protests Monday, shouted "We want an independent Tibet" and "Free our people or we won't go back." Red China has illegally held control of Tibet since 1951....Turkey: Turkish troops killed 11 Kurdish rebels during clashes in southeastern Turkey near the border with Iraq, a private news agency reported Wednesday.

March 12, Wednesday: San Juan: Luis Fortuno a pro-statehood Republican who represents Puerto Rico in Washington won nearly 60 percent of the New Progressive Party vote. Fortuno, 47, who is both a Republican and a member of the NPP, beat out powerful former Gov. Pedro Rossello for the nomination. Fortuno is a statehood for Puerto Rico backer....Jerusalem: Palestinian militants in Gaza launched a rocket Tuesday at the Israeli city of Ashkelon, Israeli police said, causing no injuries but threatening to upset a recent period of calm. If it were Israeli militants firing rockets into Palestinian territory the world would be screaming bloody murder but not a peep is heard on this latest act of terror....Russia told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that the presence of U.S. Navy warships in the Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon was not helping resolve the political crisis in Lebanon. The fact that our warships won't affect the situation one way or the other means nothing to Russia, they just want to show our enemies that they don't like the U.S. and that Russia is on their side....Egypt's opposition was blocked from the polls. Mohammed Saad el-Katatni, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc, said police in many areas of the country had blocked its members from entering official buildings to register for the April 8 polling. The Brotherhood advocates implementation of Islamic law but says it wants democratic reforms in Egypt. Islamic law and democratic reforms, isn't that a contradiction of terms?

March 11, Tuesday: The First Korean in Space Is a Woman, South Korea announced today it is replacing the man tapped to be the country's first person in space and is instead sending a woman. Yi So-yeon, a 29-year-old bioengineering student, will fly aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station next month....Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the Israeli army today to halt military operations against Palestinian militants in Gaza as long as there is no rocket fire against Israeli targets....Iraq: The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years. Though we probably shouldn't have went to war with Iraq in the first place it would be totally disastrous if we pulled out before the mission is accomplished. Iraq should be paying us the greater portion of this bill and Iraq has plenty of oil with which to make those payments. A Suicide bomber killed five U.S. soldiers in Baghdad in the deadliest attack in more than eight months.

March 10, Monday: Cuba: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez paid a visit to his close friend Fidel Castro on Saturday, making his first trip to Cuba since the ailing 81-year-old was replaced as president by his younger brother Raul. Let's hope that his next trip to Cuba will be for Fidel's funeral....Spain: The governing Socialist Party of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has claimed victory over the conservative Popular Party in Spain's general elections....France: Early results in local elections put France's opposition socialists ahead of President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has approved a plan to build up to 750 new homes in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, it's about time and it's also time Israel starts thinking about taking Gaza back....Iraq: "There was a stranger at the door. He gave me an envelope which had two bullets and a letter that said, 'If you do not close your beauty parlor, we will kill you. Your work is haram [forbidden],'" says Asma Kadhim, 40, one of the thousands of Iraqi women facing the brunt of daily bloodshed....Russia: President Vladimir Putin has warned that relations between Russia and the West will not be any simpler under his successor Dmitry Medvedev because he'll still be pulling the strings....Venezuela says it will immediately normalize diplomatic relations with Colombia, a week after ties were cut. But Ecuador, which accused Colombia of violating its sovereignty, has said it will take some time to restore ties. There was such an outcry when Colombia attacked terrorists hiding in neighboring Ecuador but barely a peep when Turkey went into Iraq to attack Kurdish rebels.

March 09, Sunday: China: A flight crew prevented an apparent attempt to crash a Chinese jetliner last week, an official said today. The incident occurred Friday morning shortly after the China Southern Airlines flight left the far western city of Urumuqi at 10:35 a.m., said Nur Bekri, the governor of the sprawling western Xinjiang region. As is usual with communist governments there are no details yet and all they are saying is that it is under investigation which could mean that the suspect is still being tortured and hasn't talked yet....Washington: Blood-thinning drugs such as aspirin may help fight cancer by denying shelter to wandering tumor cells, U.S. researchers reported on Friday. The study could help support other findings that show people who take aspirin or similar drugs that affect a gene and protein called COX-2, including aspirin, ibuprofen and the COX-2 inhibitor Celebrex, have a lower risk of some cancers....Wyoming: Democrat Barack Hussein Obama beat rival Hillary Rodham Clinton in Wyoming's nominating contest on Saturday, bouncing back from a string of losses that gave Clinton new life in their hotly contested presidential battle. It'll take a miracle for Hillary to win the Democratic nomination....Iraq: Security forces in Iraq have found a mass grave containing about 100 decomposed bodies. Human rights groups believe there are many such mass graves in Iraq where thousands of people killed during the regime of deposed president Saddam Hussein were buried. Hundreds of Iraqis have also died in sectarian fighting since the invasion and more recent mass graves are regularly discovered. The US and Iraqi authorities often blame al-Qaeda for the killings....London: E-mails are circulating, falsely claiming the UK has banned schools from teaching pupils about the Holocaust. The suggestion is that this was done by the government to avoid offending some Moslem communities. In fact the government has reaffirmed that in England, teaching children about the Holocaust is compulsory, and it is not banned elsewhere in the UK....Rome: Pope Benedict XVI will host landmark Catholic-Moslem talks in November to improve ties between the two religions. Hopefully it will help stop the persecution of Catholics in Islamic nations.

March 08, Saturday: Beirut, Lebanon - Israeli warplanes flew over Beirut on Friday, the Lebanese army said, a day after a Palestinian gunman killed eight Jewish seminary students in Jerusalem. Three Israeli reconnaissance planes violated Lebanese airspace in southern Lebanon Thursday, the Lebanese army said in an earlier statement. Israeli warplanes frequently fly over south Lebanon in what Israel says are reconnaissance missions. The overflights have drawn ground fire from Lebanese troops on at least two occasions since an Aug. 14, 2006, cease-fire ended a month long war between Israel and terrorist Hezbollah guerrillas....Washington, Angry Boeing supporters are vowing revenge against Republican presidential candidate John McCain over Chicago-based Boeing's loss of a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract to the parent company of European plane maker Airbus" Having made sure that Iraq gets new schools, roads, bridges and dams that we deny America, now we are making sure that France gets the jobs that Americans used to have," said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. "We are sending the jobs overseas, all because John McCain demanded it." There are other targets for their ire, the Air Force, the defense secretary and even the entire Bush administration. This entire travesty of giving the tanker project to AirBus is anti-national capitalism. National Capitalism believes in competition but giving a military contract to a country who is less than our friend and at the expense of thousands of American jobs is totally unpatriotic to say the least.....President Bush is poised to veto legislation that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding a technique that simulates drowning and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects....Sacramento: A California appeals court ruling clamping down on home schooling by parents without teaching credentials sent shock waves across the state this week, leaving an estimated 166,000 children as possible truants and their parents at risk of prosecution. Soon there will be a knock on their door with California Storm Troopers demanding parents to turn their children over to the State!

March 07, Friday: NY City A small bomb caused minor damage to a landmark military recruiting station in the heart of Times Square before dawn Thursday, and police were searching for a hooded bicyclist seen on a surveillance video pedaling away. The blast left a gaping hole in the front window and shattered a glass door, twisting and blackening its metal frame. No one was hurt, but Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the device, though unsophisticated, could have caused "injury and even death."....Israel: A Palestinian gunman opened fire in a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing at least eight people and wounding about 10 in the most lethal attack in Israel in two years, emergency services said. "It was a slaughterhouse," said Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, head of the Zaka emergency service after surveying the scene at the Merkaz Harav seminary, one of the most prominent Jewish educational centers in the holy city. Jerusalem police chief Aharon Franco said a lone gunman carried out the attack and was killed by an off-duty Israeli army officer who lives nearby and ran to the school after hearing gunfire, all of the more reason why for every Israeli should not only carry a firearm but sleep with one also.....Nicaragua broke off diplomatic ties with Colombia on Thursday, widening a Latin American crisis over a raid by Colombia on a rebel camp inside Ecuador last Saturday. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, an communist ex-guerrilla whose country is in a territorial dispute with Colombia, said "We are breaking with the terrorist politics that Alvaro Uribe's government is employing" The word terrorist is always thrown at capitalists who defend themselves....

March 06, 2008 Thursday: Cuba: Hints of anger surface as reform appears unlikely. Unrest or mass migration may be coming, analysts say. With little prospect for change in Cuba on the horizon, inklings of discontent have begun to surface on the communist-ruled island that analysts say could spread unrest or incite mass migration....Moscow, Russia has overtaken New York City as home to the most billionaires, according to Forbes magazine, with 74 of the super-rich elite now counting the Russian capital as their home....Phoenix: A new study concludes that law enforcement and criminal prosecutions linked to illegal immigration is costing Arizona border counties millions of dollars a year. The study says the battle over illegal immigration is also diverting money from parks, libraries and other law-enforcement efforts. University of Arizona and San Diego State University researchers say in the four border counties in Arizona, costs increased 39% to $26.6 million in fiscal 2006....Venezuelan President Hugo "Loco" Chavez on Wednesday called a Colombian raid that killed two dozen communist rebels in Ecuador a "war crime," and joined Ecuador's president in demanding international condemnation of the cross-border attack. But interestingly enough when the same communists kill, bomb and kidnap innocent civilians that is not a war crime in the eyes of Chavez. Meanwhile Colombia is worried about a document on the laptop of a slain rebel leader indicating the guerrillas were trying to obtain uranium, but has no evidence they intended to use it as a weapon said vice president Francisco Santos.

March. 05, 2008 Wednesday: President George W. Bush backed Colombia Tuesday in an escalating Andean crisis as Venezuela moved troops to its border and Colombia accused President Hugo Chavez of genocide for supporting rebels. Chavez has warned that war could break out after Colombian forces bombed inside a neighboring South American state, Ecuador, to kill a leading communist rebel. Bush told reporters about a telephone call with President Alvaro Uribe in which he said "America would continue to stand with Colombia." The conservative Uribe, whose government receives billions of dollars in U.S. military aid, threatened to take Chavez to international court for backing Colombian rebels' "genocide." Colombia says the raid unearthed evidence Chavez recently paid the rebels $300 million -- something Venezuela denies. "We are not warmongers, but we are not weak. We cannot allow terrorists who seek refuge in other countries to spill the blood of our countrymen," Uribe said....Freetown: Some 800 women in the Sierra Leone town of Kailahun paraded Tuesday in favor of genital mutilation and told donors opposed to the practice to keep their money. "We have inherited this culture over 100 years ago and it has made us women be responsible housewives to our husbands," one demonstrator in the march said....San Francisco: The national gay marriage debate shifted to California on Tuesday, as the state's highest court heard more than 3½ hours of arguments on the constitutionality of a voter-approved law banning same-sex marriage....Serbia's parliament is likely to adopt a resolution within days calling for the country to reject all formal ties with the European Union until the bloc withdraws its support for Kosovo's independence.....U.S. Elections: Huckabee drops out and endorses McCain as does President Bush thereby ensuring McCain as the GOP candidate. Hillary Rodham Clinton wins Ohio, Rhode Island and Texas, although Barack Hussein Obama wins Vermont a lot of the steam has been knocked out of his electoral blitzkrieg.

Mar. 04, 2008 Tuesday: China will raise its heavily scrutinized defense spending by nearly a fifth this year, a top official said on Tuesday, warning self-ruled Taiwan that Beijing would "tolerate no division." "We are fully prepared to repulse any adventurous activities towards Taiwan independence and to prevent anyone from separating Taiwan from China under any name or by any means."....Russia: President Vladimir Putin fast-tracked the transfer of power to his newly elected protégé Monday and signaled the Kremlin won't back down from its pull-no-punches anti-U.S. foreign policy or ease up on its critics at home. Police, some in riot gear, thwarted an opposition protest of the election in Moscow, grabbing dozens of people and hauling them into buses. Demonstrators chanted "Shame!" and "Down with the police state!" Even after the fall of Communism the Russian government remains an enemy of America....South America looked like it was on the brink of war yesterday as Venezuela and Ecuador amassed troops on the Colombian border in response to the killing of a Marxist rebel leader of FARC a group that has been terrorizing the Colombian country for over 40 years. Leftist Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa also ordered troops to the border, expelled Colombia's ambassador and recalled its ambassador to Bogota. Experts feel that these troop movements are nothing more than a show of force and displeasure....Israel pulled its ground troops out of northern Gaza today after an offensive against Palestinian rocket salvos that has left more than 100 people dead. The Israeli military confirmed that most of the soldiers sent in last week have returned from the rogue territory run by Islamist terror group Hamas. France: Hooded gunmen 'ambush' police in Paris suburb sparking fears of new national riots by Moslem youths. The attack, which happened in the high rise Grigny estate on Sunday night, was described by Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie as an “ambush”. Police said that when the officers arrived they were confronted by "around 30 people whose faces were masked and several of whom were armed.”

Mar. 03, 2008 Monday: The United Nations Security Council is set to vote today to marginally tighten sanctions against Iran over its refusal to freeze sensitive nuclear fuel work. Nothing short of total sanctions though will deter Iran from its nuclear weapons program and even that may fail.... Europe: Leaders around the world condemned Israel's attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the weekend. EU president Slovenia said on Sunday that Israel's attacks were disproportionate and violated international law. Though in most cases disproportionate actions can end a war like Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki did. The Palestinians knew ahead of time what happens when Israel is pushed too far. The Palestinians brought this on themselves....Baghdad: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday as he began a two-day visit to Iraq that his trip opened a new page in relations between the two former foes. The mentally deranged leader of Iran also used his historic trip to fire a salvo at President George Bush by saying the "Iraqi nation does not want the US." Which is rather confusing seeing that the government of Iraq has asked the U.S. to stay and Ahmadinejad believes for some strange reason he has the authority to speak for the Iraqis....South America: Ecuador has sent 3,200 soldiers to the border province of Sucumbíos after a diplomatic spat with Colombia over a Colombian military raid that killed a rebel leader inside Ecuadorian territory, a military official said on Monday. Will these troops keep the FARC terrorists out of Ecuador? That remains to be seen. Meanwhile president Hugo Chávez yesterday placed Venezuela on a war footing, sending thousands of troops and tanks to the border with Colombia after its neighbor killed a top communist rebel leader inside Ecuadorian territory.

Mar. 02, 2008 Sunday: Thousands of people gathered in Louisiana for the christening of a US warship built in part from steel salvaged from the World Trade Center. The bow contains 7.5 tons of steel taken from Ground Zero. It also bore a shield with two bars to symbolize the towers and a banner with the slogan Never Forget. Friends and families of 9/11 victims were among those at the ceremony for the new amphibious assault ship, the USS New York, in the base of Avondale....Havana: New Cuban leader Raul Castro would consider exchanging dissidents held in Cuban jails for five Cuban intelligence agents imprisoned in the United States as spies, a top Vatican official said in an interview....Hollywood: Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard was facing embarrassment with her new American public last night after it emerged that she doubted the official account of the September 11 attacks. Footage which surfaced on the internet showed her questioning the New York terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the 1969 moon landing, which only goes to show that a person can be a great actress and still be lacking in intelligence....New York: Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey....Caracas: Mentally unstable Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned Colombia a strike against FARC rebels inside Venezuela like that in Ecuador on Saturday could start a war. He was speaking after Colombian air and ground forces killed a senior member of the communist rebels who were hiding just inside Ecuadorian territory. With this statement Chavez is admitting that he is giving refuge to the FARC terrorists.

Mar. 01, 2008 Saturday: Israel killed 41 Palestinians today in its deadliest and deepest incursion into the Gaza Strip since pulling out in 2005, stoking fears of a broader conflict that could derail renewed U.S.-backed peace talks. Two Israeli soldiers were also killed and seven wounded, at least 76 Palestinians have been killed since Wednesday....Las Vegas: Police tried to piece together how a rare, deadly poison ended up in a motel for transients, the 57-year-old man who could hold the key lay unconscious in a hospital. Firearms and an "anarchist type textbook" were found in the same room where the ricin was discovered two days later....Bogota: A top Colombian guerrilla commander was killed today in an attack on his jungle camp along the frontier with Ecuador in a severe blow to Latin America's oldest insurgency, Raul Reyes was one of the seven members of the leadership secretariat of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a cocaine-trafficking communist terrorist organization....Havana: Once known as the "fist" of Cuba's revolution, 76-year-old Raul Castro may be showing a brush of the velvet glove since taking power. Just a week into his job as Cuba's new president, Castro discussed the island's prisoners with a visiting Vatican official and directed his government to sign two international human rights treaties that his older brother, Fidel, had opposed.

February 2008

Feb. 29, 2008 Friday: Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday that any of his backers who also support presidential candidate Barack Obama shouldn't be dissuaded by the senator's denunciation of Farrakhan during a Democratic debate....Jerusalem: A senior Israeli defense official said on Friday that Palestinians firing rockets from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip would bring upon themselves what he termed a "shoah," the Hebrew word for holocaust or disaster. Over the past eight weeks more than 500 rockets have pounded Israel and Israel's patience is wearing thin...Planned Racism: A shocking set of recordings was released this week that could prove disastrous for Planned Parenthood's ties with the African-American community. Lila Rose, a pro-life student and reporter at UCLA, launched an undercover investigation aimed at exposing the racism of the nation's largest abortion merchant. With the help of an actor, she contacted Planned Parenthood clinics in seven states, inquiring if they would be willing to accept a donation earmarked for the abortion of black babies. The results were jaw-dropping. Rose was appalled to discover that every last clinic agreed. Not one employee objected or questioned the request, even when the actor insisted that the purpose was to "lower the number of black people" in America.

Feb. 28, 2008 Thursday: The conviction in London this week of the Moslem fanatic known as "Osama bin London" and five of his followers is a significant blow to Islamist terrorism in the United Kingdom. In one of the biggest anti-terror trials in British history, Mohammed Hamid was found guilty of leading an al-Qaeda inspired terror cell and of running terrorist training camps on British soil with a view to sending recruits on to Afghanistan and East Africa. He is, as a family member described him, "evil personified."

Feb. 26, 2008 Tuesday: The IRS is investigating the United Church of Christ over a speech Barack Obama gave to its national meeting last year after he became a candidate for president. Obama is a member of the church.

Feb. 13, 2008 Wednesday: In reply to the Communist Cuban flag hanging on the wall at a Texas based "Obama for President" campaign office. "This is a volunteer office that is not in any way controlled by the Obama campaign. We were disappointed to see this picture because it is both offensive to many Cuban-Americans -- and Americans of all backgrounds -- and because it does not reflect Senator Obama’s views. Barack Obama has been very clear in putting forward a Cuba policy that is based on one principle: freedom for the Cuban people." -- Obama Campaign. "So who is voting for this man? Communists, Socialists, Anarchists, Radical Islamists, Liberal Leftists and various other anti-American elements. God help this country if this man becomes president of the United States of America!"

Feb. 12, 2008 Tuesday: The National Capitalist Party and Movement was founded today by breakaway members of the Christian Falangist Party of America.