KARACHI, Pakistan — The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday, the same day Adam Gadahn appeared in a video urging U.S. Muslims to attack their own country.
The arrest of Gadahn is a major victory in the U.S.-led battle against al-Qaida and will be taken as a sign that Pakistan is cooperating more fully with Washington. It follows the recent detentions of several Afghan Taliban commanders in Karachi.
Senator Hatch calls the starving and homelessness of unemployed Americans and their families “Gutsy” – because he’s gutless wanker.
Today, in an editorial in Senator Bunning’s home state of Kentucky the Lexington Herald-Leader described Senator Bunning’s actions as “callous grandstanding.”
As long as Republicans were in charge, Sen. Jim Bunning was OK with trading a surplus for a deficit. He voted to put two wars, tax cuts and a Medicare drug benefit on the nation’s credit card.
Now that Republicans are no longer in charge, Bunning is drawing the line on deficit spending. He’s doing it in a way that shows callous contempt for the more than one in 10 working Kentuckians whose jobs disappeared in the economic meltdown.
We’ve become accustomed to bizarre, egocentric behavior from Bunning. So it wasn’t all that surprising when he single-handedly blocked an unemployment benefits extension for a million people, including 119,230 in Kentucky, whose benefits run out this year. About 14,000 Kentuckians will exhaust their benefits in two weeks without the extension.
Bunning’s filibuster also denies newly laid-off workers help paying for health insurance. It halts road and bridge projects around the country by furloughing 2,000 federal transportation employees, stops reimbursements to state highway programs and cuts Medicare payments to doctors.
To those who know him, it’s not surprising that Bunning answered a Democratic colleague’s complaint with a crude profanity. Or that he joked about missing a basketball game while pushing some unemployed Kentuckians into homelessness or bankruptcy.
The Lexington Herald-Leader also chastised Trey Grayson and Rand Paul, the leading Republicans to succeed the retiring-at-the-end-of-term Bunning, for jumping on Senator Bunning’s one-man band wagon of obstructionism.
From MyDD – where there are a lot more examples of how much damage Hatch’s example of “gutsy” is doing to the victims of 12 years of Republican rule in DC.
In 1942, the allies were suffering heavy losses of merchant ships to German U-boats as a result of the limited range of patrolling aircraft. Lord Louis Mountbatten suggested building large ships made of ice to protect allied merchant ships and possibly as a platform to launch an offensive from. Mountbatten, the Chief of Combined Operations, an organization responsible to the Chiefs of Staff for the development of equipment and special craft for offensive operations, had been advised by one of his scientists, Geoffrey Pyke, that huge ships of up to 4,000 feet long and 600 feet wide could be made cheaply and in large numbers.
Winston Churchill, Britain’s PM was enthusiastic of the project and saw to it that it got underway. In 1943, it was discovered that by adding wood pulp to the water before freezing, a very tough material was made which was called ‘pykrete’, in honor of Geoffrey Pyke. It was reported that when demonstrating the idea to a group of high brass military leaders, Mountbatten fired a shot at an ordinary block of ice, which shattered into little pieces. However when he fired at the Pykrete, the bullet bounced right off and almost hit the Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Portal.
Construction on a prototype began at Patricia Lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and it was determined that the hull needed to be at least 35 feet thick in order to contain damage from bombs and torpedoes. However before tests were complete, the Battle of the Atlantic had been virtually won and with the construction underway of the new aircraft carriers, the project was reluctantly abandoned in August 1943.
Last week, several legislators launched an all out assault on the initiative process, and your right to play an equal part in the governance of your state.
Senator Howard Stephenson, sponsor of SB275, claimed his signature removal bill is an “assault on hucksters.” But several of his Republican colleagues made it clear who the real target is: You! Suggesting petition signature gatherers use “subterfuge” and “deceit,” and that you have been “bamboozled,”* they sent a clear message:
They are scared! They are willing to do everything within their power to keep Fair Boundaries off the ballot!
Legislators know that if we are successful they will have to draw district boundaries based on what is best for you instead of what ensures their re-election, and they made it clear last week they are willing to make this fight personal to stop us!
Please take a moment and forward this message to 5 friends right now! Make sure everyone you know has an opportunity to read the initiative and add their name — in person or online.
Johnny Depp is a pretty good guitar player … wow. Also including – Nick Cave, Bobby Gillespie, Glen Matlock, Chrissie Hynde, Paloma Faith, Eliza Doolittle.
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So moved by the plight of the people of Haiti, Shane and his long term girlfriend, writer Victoria Clarke made calls to friends and associates from which began the process of recording a track from which ALL proceeds go to Concern, a charity who have provided assistance to some of the poorest countries in the world including Haiti, even before the earthquake struck.
If God hates gays, and wants them dead … they’d be dead. He’s God. I’ve read the Bible – he’s very good at killing large groups of folks. So either God doesn’t care, or, the homophobes are proving the non-existence of a God that puts any value to their hate.
Republicans and their insane message bills are really out of control up on the Utah Hill this year. Tea Baggers and their non-nonsensical succession messaging have augmented the normal homophobic and racial memes of years past and have really cranked up the anti-American rhetoric. Utah Republicans hate America, despise the bulk of the US Constitution, are terrified by the Bill of Rights, think that the phrase “Liberty and Justice For All” should have conditions and, obviously, have begun an all out assault on the English language – and that’s just the tip of the bonehead iceberg.
Sovereignty – apparently it’s a word you can only learn in the 12th grade (and, isn’t the correct phrase “state’s rights”?).
Senator Brent Goodfellow, however, has once again won my respect and admiration with this tidbit quoted in the Warchol War Room:
“All these bills are supposed to be ‘delivered to the president and Congress.’ How are we going to do that? Take them to the post office? That’s federal. Drive them to Washington? Federal highways. Fly them? Federal airport money. How about sending them over the Internet? Developed with federal money.
Ironic how most of these “Dem” descriptives from the 1994 Republican’t Revolution seem to be synonymous with the Bush Administration – yet Democrats have yet to get out from under a 16 year old list of concentrated BS and snake oil.
Pathetic Democratic messaging running toward the beginning of its third decade. I mean, COME ON! these people use Newt Gingrich to LECTURE ABOUT FAMILY VALUES!
A lampoon of the Tonight Show with Jay Leno’s return to 11:35pm, and a response to the original promo’s choice of the Beatles’ “Get Back (To Where You Once Belonged)”.
