BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE
CELEBRITY IN CHIEF BARRY O HAS PROVEN INCAPABLE OF ACCOMPLISHING MUCH OF ANYTHING.
BUT IN GOOD NEWS FOR CELEBRITIES, TURNS OUT HIS FATHER WAS AN ABUSIVE PSYCHO.
THE
PSYCHO ASSHOLE BARACK OBAMA SR. CAME TO THE U.S. ALREADY MARRIED AND,
AFTER GETTING STANLEY DUNHAM PREGNANT, BAILED QUICKLY. FOR YEARS BARRY
O HAS LIED THAT HIS PARENTS WERE MARRIED -- HA! -- BUT HIS
HALF-BROTHER'S REVEALING TO THE WORLD HOW LUCKY BARRY O HAD IT, TURNS
OUT BARACK SENIOR BEAT UP CHILDREN AND HIS WIVES.
REAL SHAME
BARRY O NEVER FOUND TIME TO OFFER 'DREAMS OF MY MOTHER' BUT AS HIS
MOTHER WAS DYING, WASTED EVERYONE'S TIME WRITING ABOUT THE DRUNKEN,
DEAD BEAT FATHER WHO ABANDONED BARRY O TO RETURN TO HIS WIFE.
SAID ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMODEL, "THIS IS SO TRASHY, IT'LL PROBABLY GET BARRY ON LENO
AND SPRINGER!"
FROM THE TCI WIRE:
While the violence continues, there's still no election law. Today
Alsumaria reports,
"Iraq High Election Commission gave the parliament a timeline that ends
on Thursday in order to enact an elections' law or else it will not be
able to hold elections as it is scheduled on January 16. Chief of IHEC
Faraj Al Haidari said that the commission and the UN discussed
elections' timeline and stressed that if he did not receive the law in
the two upcoming days the commission won't be able to hold the
elections on the scheduled date."
Gina Chon (Wall St. Journal) adds,
"The election commission said if parliament doesn't approve a law by
the end of Thursday, it will be impossible to hold the polls as
scheduled on Jan. 16 because there won't be enough time to organize it.
In meetings earlier this week, United Nations officials also told
lawmakers if a law isn't passed by Thursday, the U.N. would urge
postponement of the elections." The Iraqi Constitution mandates that
the elections must be held before the end of January 2010; however, the
Iraqi Constitution mandates many things -- such as resolving the issue
of Kirkuk or appointing a full cabinet by X date or requiring
Parliament's approval to extend a United Nations mandate -- and Nouri's
always managed to just ignore it.
Ernesto Londono and K.I. Ibrahim (Washington Post) report
US Ambassador Chris Hill is scrambling on the ground in Iraq attempting
to use his 'influence' to push for a vote. The US' own manic depressive
ambassador has little-to-no influence especially if the press wants to
continue pushing the-hold-up-is-Kirkuk line. Why is that? Hill offended
the KRG with his very late first visit to their region. Chris Hill
offended them in his remarks which were based on Hill's gross ignorance
regarding the issue of Kirkuk -- ignorance on full display when the
Senate held his confirmation hearing. Hill came to Iraq with no
knowledge of the KRG or Iraq. He has no pull. US Vice President Joe
Biden and the top commander US commander in Iraq Gen Ray Odierno have
some pull (whether or not it's enough remains to be seen) with the KRG
but Hill has none. He also has no influence over non-Kurdish MPs in the
Parliament. So what's he's mainly doing is rushing around in an attempt
to look busy. He'll no doubt (as has been his pattern throughout his
time at the State Dept) find a group to spill the beans to on
whatever's hidden and supposed to be hidden. They'll agree to present
whatever he wants them to because he shared secrets and then they'll
stab him in the back and he'll shrug and finger-point at others. In
other words, his Korean 'leadership' all over again.
Biggest
idiot of the week? The editorial board of the Boston Globe --
apparently begging for readers to pull the plug on the finacial crater
that is their paper. In
an appalling uninformed editorial they praise Nouri al-Maliki and conclude,
"In their own nihilistic way, Al Qaeda fanatics are showing their true
colors not only to Iraqis but to the rest of the Muslim world. They are
massacring children and other innocents in the name of a holy war to
replace all existing Arab and Muslim governments with the fantasy of a
multinational Islamic caliphate. The less Americans are caught up in
this war within the Muslim world, the harder it will be for the
regressive forces of Al Qaeda to survive." al Qaeda in Mesopotamia is a
home grown group and has always been a group of resistance. The Boston
Globe was awfully silent when Steven D. Green and others were
discovered to have gang-raped and murdered 14-year-old Abeer, murdered
both her parents and murdered her five-year-old sister. The Boston
Globe voiced no concern about the US soldiers making it appear the War
Crimes were done by 'insurgents.' And the Boston Globe was silent as
each soldier entered a plea of guilty except for Green who was a
civilian when the crimes were exposed and was tried in civilian court.
The Boston Globe couldn't be bothered with Steven D. Green's trial and,
even after the verdict (or for that matter, the sentencing), couldn't
say one damn word, NOT ONE DAMN WORD, about the War Crimes. So their
selective efforts at playing editorial bully goes to the fact that they
are the most ignorant and uninformed editorial board in the nation.
Praise be to the Boston Globe, doing their part to demonstrate that
struggling papers sometimes aren't worth the struggle to save them. It
should also be noted that while condemning al Qaeda in Mesopotamia for
violence that they have not claimed responsibility for (despite
headlines, a splinter group claimed responsibility for the August and
October Baghdad bombings that shocked so many, al Qaeda in Mesopotamia
did not claim credit), they've refused to condemn their hero and crush
Nouri al-Maliki strange choice of political bedfellows -- the ones who
have claimed responsibility for invading the US base and killing 5 US
soldiers, the ones who have claimed responsibility for kidnapping 5
British citizens -- 3 of whom are known dead, a fourth is assumed dead
and the fifth is hoped to be alive (by the British government -- the
fourth assumed dead is hoped to be alive by his friends and family but
the British government has stated they assume he is dead). The Boston
Globe has nothing to say about that and one wonders exactly when they
got in the business of covering for those who murder US troops? Those
are Nouri's friends. He got 'em released. He may have provided them
with the Iraqi security forces uniforms they used in the attack on the
US base and in the kidnapping of the 5 British citizens. He certainly
provided the group's leader and the leader's brother with a pass out of
a US prison this spring. The Boston Globe wasn't at all worried about
and they continue to be a beacon for ignorance around the world. What a
proud, proud moment.
While the Boston Globe tongue bathes Nouri (aka the new Saddam),
UPI reports
Nouri's latest planned assault: doing away with minority
representation. The quota system for the cabinet exists because Iraq's
a diverse country. But Nouri's never liked diversity, Nouri's a
radical, fundamentailist Shi'ite who oversaw the genocide of the Sunni
population because he loathes Ba'athists and sees every Sunni as a high
ranking Ba'athist or at least as one of the big, scary people that
forced coward Nouri to flee Iraq for decades until the US invaded and
installed him as a 'leader.' Nouri really hates Ba'athists because they
remind him all over again what a meek, little, sniveling coward he is.
And that's why oversaw the genocide -- gladly oversaw.
UPI notes
the announcement by one of Nouri's political party (State of Law)
spokespersons "brought a wave of criticism from Kurds, independents and
Shiite members of the Iraqi National Alliance who complain Maliki is
trying to take greater control of the government."
UPI also reminds
how Nouri's road to strongman has been littered with attacks on those
who are supposed to provide security such as his December 2008 assault
on the Interior Ministry whom he accused of plotting a coup -- a plan
that never had any evidence to back it up then or since but did allow
him to push out a Shi'ite rival -- and how his firings in August for
'security reasons' also can be seen as an attack on one of his rivals,
Shi'ite Jawad al-Bolani.
UPI notes of Nouri:
He
has centralized power for himself to the extent that he has formed two
paramilitary forces, the Baghdad Brigade -- also known as "the Dirty
Squad" for its nocturnal sweeps arresting Maliki's critics,
particularly Sunnis -- and the Counter-Terrorism Force. Both report
directly to him.
Maliki has cemented his control over the nation's
security forces by recruiting tribal militias funded by his office and
seizing the power of appointing or dismissing army officers, bypassing
the chief of staff who should have that authority.
In the eyes of many, this has transformed the army into a well-armed prime ministerial militia.
And for what? What is Iraq today? After nearly seven years of war, what is Iraq? The University of Pittsburg's
Haider Hamoudi visits and shares impressions at The Daily Star:
Appealing
as these examples may be, the role of religion must be greater in the
view of the Najaf clerics concerning matters of law than merely as a
voice of conscience on behalf of the people against the powerful. Are
we truly to believe then that Najaf clerics are indifferent to
potential reforms of the Personal Status Law that challenge existing
religious doctrine, such as, for example, a ban on polygamy? Why did
the Shiite Islamist parties who dominated the Constitutional Committee
and who were close to Sistani fight so hard for a constitutional
provision banning laws that violate the "certain rulings of Islam,"
which now appears in Article 2 of the Constitution? Is the fact that
every woman within 50 miles of Najaf is covered by a headscarf and then
a wide black cloak on top of that really just a matter of personal
choice, exercised universally in precisely the same fashion, or does
some form of public regulation (state law or otherwise) have something
to do with it as well?
I put this point to another of the four
grand ayatollahs, Mohammad Said al-Hakim, when the question was raised
about the relationship of religion to law. We heard again the Najaf
mantra. I asked specifically about Article 2 of the Iraqi Constitution
and its requirement that law conform to particular certainties in
Islam. He described this as a "separate issue," and when I suggested it
might mean the marjaaiyya had a role in the legal apparatus of the
state, he replied, "we have a role in the clarification of the religion
(bayan al-din), not in the administration of the law."
This
clarifies the position to some extent, in that it makes Najaf
responsible for indicating what the religious position is, and then
leaves to the legislator and the judge the determinations that the
state is supposed to then make on the basis of Article 2. Even Najaf's
commitment to this separation is fuzzy, in that its political allies in
Baghdad have fought long and hard to ensure a place for "religious
experts" on the Federal Supreme Court for Article 2 questions. In the
Constitutional Review Committee, the Shiite Islamist parties have
proposed an amendment that indicates that members of the court would be
nominated by the "relevant bodies." It is hard to imagine that they did
not imagine the marjaaiyya to be the "relevant body" responsible for
nominating the religious experts, or at least that number of them who
were going to be Shiite.
And that's what Iraq can offer . . .
after non-stop war and the US installed puppets. Elections? The US had
a few of them yesterday. For the New Jersey governor's race see
Mike's post and also be sure to read
Betty's
which expands on some of the issues Mike touches on but sets aside the
race. And for Iraq related coverage in the MSM? Turns out your best
chance of discovering the Iraq War is still ongoing comes via "
Hints From Heloise"
(Washington Post) and not 'reporting' (which long ago lost interest in
Iraq):Dear Heloise: Our church group has decided to start sending baked
goods as CARE PACKAGES to military personnel in Iraq. We brainstormed
several ideas, such as shoe boxes, etc., but found that the best way to
send a cake to anyone overseas is to bake the cake in a small, metal
coffee can. After baking, remove the cake to cool. Then repack it in
the can, put on the plastic lid the coffee came with and pack the can
in a postal box. Soldiers tell us that they love getting cakes this way
for two reasons: 1. The cake arrives in one piece 2. The cake can be
stored easily, with an airtight lid, if it's not eaten all at once. --
Gwen, via e-mail
How wonderful to hear that your group is sending
home-baked goodies to our troops! Nothing beats a treat from the heart
and kitchen! Your group deserves a big Heloise hug, and I know the
troops who receive the goodies are appreciative, too. I'd love to hear
hints from other readers who send treats to troops. -- Heloise
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