Monday - January 23, 2012
Let The Cheating Begin
Is it just old cynical me, or was your very first thought “here comes another Oil for Food scandal”?
BRUSSELS – The European Union formally adopted an oil embargo Monday against Iran and a freeze of the assets of the country’s central bank, part of sanctions meant to pressure the country to resume talks on its nuclear program.
Diplomats said the measures, which were adopted in Brussels by the EU’s 27 foreign ministers, include an immediate embargo on new contracts for crude oil and petroleum products, while existing contracts will be allowed to run until July.
EU diplomats are calling the measure part of a twin track approach toward Iran: increase sanctions to discourage what they suspect is Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons but emphasize at the same time the international community’s willingness to talk. Iran says its nuclear program is exclusively for peaceful purposes.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague called the embargo part of “an unprecedented set of sanctions.”
“I think this shows the resolve of the European Union on this issue,” Hague said.
Rrrriiiight. Sure, I believe it. Embargo. Uh huh. Big noise now, but it won’t even start until July. So this is just a lot of noise right now.
Except they cut a deal where poor little Greece, who lives for cheap Iranian oil, can do an end run, right? No? Wanna bet? Wanna watch Greece suddenly become a next exporter of oil when the embargo starts?
To protect Europe’s economy, struggling with a two-year-old debt crisis, foreign ministers agreed to delay full implementation of the oil embargo until July 1, an EU diplomat said.
That will give countries such as Greece, which rely heavily on Iranian oil, to find alternative sources.
Alternative sources, like old Hugo down in Venezuela, who isn’t part of the embargo and will probably act as front man for the mullahs? Or China, who, despite assurances from the Saudis that they would match production, isn’t part of the embargo?
Oh, and of course the price of oil just jumped $12 a barrel, to $111, on top of the 30¢ price jack you’ve seen at the pump over the past couple of weeks. Here we go again, $4-5 gas coming soon.
Thank God Obama killed the pipeline. As politics shuts down one international source after another (Nigeria will tip soon), it’s so reassuring to know that our Fearless Reader has done whatever he can to stop our supply from any and all other sources. Not.
The only way to make an embargo real is to do it at the point of a gun. Genuine old school naval blockade at sea, and armies along the borders. And let them do what they do best. Anything less is just an exercise in bullshit.
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Permalink • Friday - January 13, 2012
It Ain’t Worth It
Pissing About In Afghanistan
On the one hand, they suck: link.
On the other hand, they suck: link.
On the third hand, they really suck: link. After all, this isn’t the kind of statement you’d expect from the leader of a nation we are giving our blood and treasure to, to protect from the very enemies he seems to be supportive of, enemies whom his own people chop up, burn, molest, draw and quarter, etc., and desecrate in every way they can when they get a chance:
Afghan president Hamid Karzai and US defence secretary Leon Panetta have led a chorus of condemnation of American soldiers filmed urinating on the bodies of dead Afghans as “inhumane” and “utterly deplorable”.
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Karzai said in a statement that he was “deeply disturbed” by the desecration of dead bodies which is defined as a war crime by the Geneva conventions.
“This act by American soldiers is completely inhumane and condemnable in the strongest possible terms. We expressly ask the US government to urgently investigate the video and apply the most severe punishment to anyone found guilty in this crime,” he said.
Afghanistan signed the Geneva Accords? I highly doubt that. In which case, it don’t apply. (actually Afghanistan did sign one of the versions. But too bad, the Taliban didn’t, so bite it.)
Our own wimp is no better: Panetta: “Deplorable!”
Enemies, guys, get it? Not deserving of any respect at all. Hell, if I was there I’d hold the wide neck funnel in their mouths so the Marines could shit down their throats.
This whole “scandal” is a load of goat cum. 11 years into it, and the ‘stan is worse than South Vietnam ever was. Set the place on fire, poison the wells, and go home.
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Permalink • Wednesday - January 11, 2012
Oopsie
Two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of an Iranian university professor working at a key nuclear facility, killing him and his driver Wednesday, reports said. The slayings suggest a widening covert effort to set back Iran’s atomic program.
The attack in Tehran bore a strong resemblance to earlier killings of scientists working on the Iranian nuclear program. It is certain to amplify authorities’ claims of clandestine operations by Western powers and their allies to halt Iran’s nuclear advances.
The blast killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, state TV reported. State news agency IRNA said Roshan had “organizational links” to Iran’s nuclear agency, which suggests a direct role in key aspects of the program.
On Tuesday, Israeli military chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz was quoted as telling a parliamentary panel that 2012 would be a “critical year” for Iran — in part because of “things that happen to it unnaturally.”
“Many bad things have been happening to Iran in the recent period,” added Mickey Segal, a former director of the Israeli military’s Iranian intelligence department. “Iran is in a situation where pressure on it is mounting, and the latest assassination joins the pressure that the Iranian regime is facing.”
Defiant Iranian authorities pointed the finger at archfoe Israel.
Oh sure, blame the Joooos. 
Personally, I blame motorcyclists in general. This is like the 6th time they’ve been involved in blowing up Iranian nuke geeks. Gosh. Details at the link.
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Permalink • Saturday - December 31, 2011
Good Luck, Jonathan
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in parts of the country following attacks from the Islamist group Boko Haram.
The measure is in force is areas of the Yobe and Borno states in the north-east, Plateau state in central Nigeria and Niger state in the west.
International borders in the affected areas have been temporarily closed.
Mr Jonathan vowed to “crush” Boko Haram, which killed dozens in attacks across the country on Christmas Day.
Boko Haram is thought to be responsible for a string of major attacks across Nigeria this year.
It bombed the headquarters of the UN in August 2011, leaving at least 21 dead and has targeted police as well. It has also in the past targeted Muslim leaders.
At least 42 people died in the Christmas Day bombings of churches and other targets. Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes in Maiduguri in Borno State, as well as other cities.
Given the pidgin languages that are widespread across much of Africa, you might think that “Boko Haram” means “everything is forbidden/bad”, but it actually means “Western education is a sin”; ie, koranic study is all you need.
The Christmas attacks come a year after a series of Christmas Eve bombings in central city of Jos in the nation’s “middle belt,” where the country’s largely Muslim north meets its largely Christian south. Last year’s Christmas attacks claimed by the militants left at least 32 dead and 74 wounded.
“Terrorism is a war against all of us,” Jonathan said as he spoke during an address on national television on Saturday. “I call on all Nigerians to join hands with government to fight these terrorists.”
The sect, some of whose members are believed to have links to al-Qaida, wants to impose Islamic Shariah law across Nigeria.
The U.S. Embassy had warned U.S. citizens late Friday to exercise caution in Nigeria.
Any US citizens who are in Nigeria ought to have their heads examined. And that’s when the terrorists aren’t attacking.
I fully expect our Islamist-in-Chief to do absolutely nothing about this, and we’ll watch the west side of the continent go on a bloody jihad against Christians just like the east side is doing.
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Permalink • Saturday - November 12, 2011
A Shot In The Arm For The Economy?
It occurs to me that if a) there was no corporate tax, then b) then no companies could make political contributions, and c) there would be no charges of corrupt crony capitalism.
But there would still be graft. Payouts for friends, political appointments, sweetheart deals ... it never ends. But the level of cronyism under the current administration is just beyond comprehension. Hundreds of billions of dollars worth. It never ends. It never even slows down.
$433M Smallpox Drug Contract to Company Tied to Dem Donor
Scientists are questioning a $433 million government contract for a smallpox drug they say the country doesn’t need, amid concerns over the way the project was secured for a firm tied to a Democratic donor.
The Los Angeles Times reported over the weekend that U.S. officials took unusual steps to award the contract to Siga Technologies. Democratic donor Ronald Perelman has the controlling share of the company.
The article cited emails showing the Obama administration replaced the lead negotiator on the project following complaints from Siga—Siga was apparently concerned about the government’s objections to how much money Siga would make off the deal.
Earlier, in December, the government also reportedly blocked other companies from bidding on the contract in a second round.
Siga ultimately won the contract in May, but some questioned the price of the drug—approximately $255 per dose—and the practicality of the project.
The government already has a smallpox vaccine on reserve. Siga’s pill is meant to help people diagnosed too late for the vaccine to be effective, according to the Times.
Reporting from Washington — Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work.
Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, one of the world’s richest men and a longtime Democratic Party donor.
When Siga complained that contracting specialists at the Department of Health and Human Services were resisting the company’s financial demands, senior officials replaced the government’s lead negotiator for the deal, interviews and documents show.
When Siga was in danger of losing its grip on the contract a year ago, the officials blocked other firms from competing.
Siga was awarded the final contract in May through a “sole-source” procurement in which it was the only company asked to submit a proposal. The contract calls for Siga to deliver 1.7 million doses of the drug for the nation’s biodefense stockpile. The price of approximately $255 per dose is well above what the government’s specialists had earlier said was reasonable, according to internal documents and interviews.
Once feared for its grotesque pustules and 30% death rate, smallpox was eradicated worldwide as of 1978 and is known to exist only in the locked freezers of a Russian scientific institute and the U.S. government. There is no credible evidence that any other country or a terrorist group possesses smallpox.
Siga’s drug, an antiviral pill called ST-246, would be used to treat people who were diagnosed with smallpox too late for the vaccine to help. Yet the new drug cannot be tested for effectiveness in people because of ethical constraints — and no one knows whether animal testing could prove it would work in humans.
Hey, remember when the media had shit-fits 24-7 over some no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton and Blackhawk for work in the Iraq war zone, even though no other companies existed that could perform the work in the time and scope necessary? Do you think they’ll wind up their alarm sirens and start screaming over this one, when at least a dozen other companies could have made this drug that may not even work and is probably not even needed? [crickets] [more crickets]
Remember when those same media “watchdogs” went turbo-monkey-poo over “no WMDS” in Iraq, and how Iraq was considered the most likely evil nation to even have a bio-terror capability?
So? So what will they say now? [even more crickets]
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 25, 2011
That’s About How I See It Too
Hope n’ Change daily cartoons and commentary.
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Permalink • Friday - October 21, 2011
War Is Over, Troops Home By Christmas
Just one day after the death of Gadaffi and at least one more of his adult sons, Obama announces this afternoon that the US has done enough in Iraq and is heading for the exit.
President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. will pull out all of its troops from Iraq by the end of December, drawing the nine-year war to a conclusion.
The announcement signals the imminent end of a war that has cost the U.S. more than $800 billion dollars and claimed the lives of 3,525 American service members.
Obama administration officials had considered extending the U.S. troop presence beyond the end of the year, leaving a force of between 3,000 and 5,000 for contingencies. The proposal was controversial, dividing administration officials. But the president’s announcement will settle the debate and spell an end to the U.S. troop presence.
Military leaders wanted to keep a presence in Iraq to serve as a training role, and a deterrent to Iranian meddling in Iraq’s affairs.
But negotiations with a divided Iraqi government foundered over the issue of whether U.S. forces should be given a measure of immunity from Iraq laws while serving in the country. The military routinely demands such protections as a condition of deploying troops abroad, but Iraqi officials balked.
Even with a full troop withdrawal, a very small number of military personnel will remain in Baghdad and at U.S. diplomatic facilities to help Iraq with matters such as purchases of American weapons systems, including Abrams tanks and F-16 fighters. But there will be no long-term military-led training program.
President Obama announced Friday that all U.S. forces will be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of 2011, saying the troops “will definitely be home for the holidays.”
The announcement, in the White House briefing room, came after the president completed a secure video conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
The discussion apparently finalized negotiations that have dragged on for months over what, if any, military presence the U.S. would maintain in Iraq beyond a Dec. 31 withdrawal deadline set in 2008. The president said the two are now in “full agreement” over how to move forward, and that no U.S. troops will remain.
“As promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year,” Obama said. “After nearly nine years, America’s war in Iraq will be over.”
There are still 40,000-45,000 U.S. troops in the country, but Obama said they would all be shipping home soon. He said the next challenge will be to ensure those troops can find work in America upon returning home.
“I respectfully disagree with President Obama. I feel all we have worked for, fought for, and sacrificed for is very much in jeopardy by today’s announcement. I hope I am wrong and the president is right, but I fear this decision has set in motion events that will come back to haunt our country,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement.
More than 4,400 American military members have been killed since the U.S. invaded Iraq in March 2003.
Hey, can we say “Mission Accomplished” now?
Will Kosovo and Afghanistan be checked off next on his To-Do list?
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Permalink • Wednesday - October 19, 2011
Terrorist Scouts Nabbed In Texas
Bomb Scare at Bexar County Courthouse
Police now say 5 men are under arrest after a bomb scare at the Bexar County Courthouse early Wednesday morning. The search began after authorities arrested 2 Morrocan nationals who were found inside the courthouse. Another man was arrested in a nearby RV and two more were arrested later. A sweep of the courthouse did not uncover any bombs.
Investigators have found 90-day visas, maps, cell phones and computers inside a recreational vehicle that may have been rented by five foreign nationals arrested after a break-in at a county courthouse in San Antonio.
Sheriff’s department spokesman Louis Antu (AN’-too) says local and federal authorities are investigating the early Wednesday burglary at the old Bexar (bayr) County Courthouse. Antu says the men are all in their 20s and were unarmed when they were arrested about 1:30 a.m. Three of the men were caught
inside while the other two were outside near the RV. Antu says he has no information to indicate the break-in is related to terrorism. He says federal authorities are involved because the men aren’t from the U.S. and authorities still are trying to confirm their nationalities.
DEVELOPING: The FBI and local police say they are trying to figure out why five French-Moroccan nationals tried to break into a Texas courthouse in the middle of the night.
At least five foreign nationals are in custody after the attempted break-in at the Bexar County Courthouse in San Antonio, which triggered a bomb scare and FBI terror investigation, a source close to the case tells FoxNews.com.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said the suspects are believed to be of French-Moroccan descent.
Police said two of the men climbed a fire escape and entered an unlocked door on the fourth floor of the courthouse at around 2 a.m., KHOU.com reports.
The men allegedly told investigators that they were visiting from out of town and said they were trying to get a tour of the city, according to the station.
Sheriff’s department spokesman Louis Antu told the Associated Press that there’s no information to indicate that the incident might be affiliated with terrorism. He said the case is being investigated as burglary of a building.
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Permalink • Wednesday - October 12, 2011
Rattle, Rattle
The alleged Iranian government-backed plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States is quickly exacerbating already flaring tensions between Washington and Tehran.
Members of Congress were quick to condemn Iran over the plot.
Rep. Michael McCaul R-Texas, said if it was indeed sponsored by the Iranian government, “this would constitute an act of war not only against the Saudis and Israelis but against the United States as well.”
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., issued a similar statement saying, “Iran’s assassination of a foreign diplomat in our country would have violated both U.S. and international law, and represented an act of war.”
Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, speaking on Fox News, called the plot an “act of war” against the United States.
“We have to do something,” he said, saying the specifics of the response should be left up to the Defense Department and the president.
But a senior Defense official told Fox News the announcement Tuesday “is not a trip wire for military action in Iran.”
“The United States is committed to holding Iran accountable for its actions,” Holder said.
A State Department official on Tuesday called the case a “flagrant violation of international law.”
And Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. would work with its allies to “send a very strong message that this kind of action, which violates international norms, must be ended.”
In a separate interview with the Associated Press, Clinton said the plot “crosses a line,” and that she and President Obama were calling international leaders to tell them what happened. She said they want to “pre-empt” any efforts by Iran to deny responsibility, as well as “enlist more countries in working together against what is becoming a clearer and clearer threat” from Iran, according to the Associated Press. She said the reaction could “further isolate Iran.”
The Treasury Department fired the first diplomatic shot Tuesday afternoon, imposing sanctions on five people allegedly linked to the plot, including four members of the Quds Force—which is part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Two of them, Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri, were charged Tuesday in New York federal court, though Skahuri remains at large. The Treasury Department said the other Quds officials named were also involved in the plot. The sanctions will freeze any U.S. assets held by the individuals and prohibit anyone in the U.S. from doing business with them.
Bunch of noise. Nothing will happen, not with Commander Dickless at the helm. None of these camel jockeys has more than a dollar or two of assets in the US to seize anyway. Hey, maybe Comrade Obama can meet with Ahmadumbjihad and have another Beer Summit to smooth things out. It was worth it to Iran to sacrifice this pawn Arbabsiar; whether or not they snagged the $100K doesn’t matter. Now they’ve got the USA looking under the bed for terrorists and rent-a-bombers, and spending hundreds of millions on union overtime to ‘respond’ to the ‘heightened threat level’. They win this round, and know they can do it again whenever they want. You can kick a weak horse as much as you like, it will never buck.
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Permalink • Saturday - October 01, 2011
Triple Play For CIA
Also smeared into cat food was Saudi bomb maker Ibrahim al-Asiri
Two US officials say the drone strike in Yemen that killed Anward al-Awlaki appears to have also killed al-Qaida’s top Saudi bomb-maker.
Officials say intelligence indicates Ibrahim al-Asiri also died in the attack. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the death has not been officially confirmed.
Al-Asiri is the bomb-maker believed to have made the explosives used in the foiled Christmas Day airline attack in 2009 and last year’s attempted cargo plane bombing.
Al-Asiri’s death would make the attack perhaps the most successful single drone strike ever.
And fellow American citizen, proud traitor, and terrorist recruiter Samir Khan
A Saudi-born American of Pakistani heritage who was raised in Queens, N.Y., was reportedly among those killed in a U.S. drone strike targeting radical cleric and fellow U.S. citizen Anwar al-Aulaqi.
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“I am proud to be a traitor to America,” wrote Khan, 25, in an article in the second issue of the online magazine, published in fall last year. He described his life as working in the “jihadi media sector” in North Carolina, before his beliefs turned him into a “rebel of Washington’s imperialism.”
So it’s a buy 1 get 2 free deal so far. Who else was in those car(s)? This can only get better.
Why isn’t the video of the strike all over the US news?
All three of these wankers worked at the online terrorist monthly magazine Inspire
Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen did not manage an attack on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, but it apparently still is hoping for a propaganda victory — in the form of commemorative issue of its magazine, Inspire.
This seventh issue of the magazine departs from its usual mix of interviews and tips on bomb making in favor of remembrances of what Inspire’s editors call “The Greatest Special Operation of All Time,” according to a copy posted Tuesday by the Site Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadi Web sites. The magazine appears only online.
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The magazines’s main article, “The Media Conflict,” was written by Samir Khan, a former North Carolina resident, who ran several jihadi Web sites from his parents’ home before moving to Yemen in 2010 to study Arabic and become an editor and writer for Inspire magazine.
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hints of what’s planned for Inspire’s future issues, including an essay by Yemeni cleric and American citizen Anwar Al Aulaqi titled “Targeting the Populations of Countries that are at War with the Muslims.”
I’m waiting for the loony left to start screaming about the CIA is repressing freedom of speech!!! Which is just plain silly ... because we all know that the drone strike was payback for the magazine making fun on Anthony Weiner.
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Permalink • Friday - September 30, 2011
Next!
Senior Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in Yemen early Friday morning by a CIA-led U.S. drone strike, marking the highest-profile takedown of a terror leader since the raid on Usama bin Laden’s compound.
Fox News has learned that two Predator drones hovering above al-Awlaki’s convoy fired the Hellfire missiles which killed the terror leader. According to a senior U.S. official, the operation was carried out by Joint Special Operations Command, under the direction of the CIA.
“AQAP has lost its ideological leader, which is a huge blow,” a former intelligence official who has tracked al-Awlaki for years told Fox News.
Al-Awlaki was a U.S.-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the network’s most active branch. He was involved in several terror plots in the United States in recent years, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks. President Obama signed an order in early 2010 making him the first American to be placed on the “kill or capture” list.
...The strike hit a vehicle with three or four suspected Al Qaeda members inside, in addition to al-Awlaki. The strike comes after a heavy presence of U.S. drones was spotted in the skies over the region over the last couple weeks, one source told Fox News.
So he’s fried mush, and probably a couple of his lieutenants along with him. Good. Next!
Do I have ethical qualms about our own government assassinating someone who is actually still an American citizen? Hella no. Once you play the terrorist card it can’t be unplayed. Hellfire missile or firing squad makes no difference for traitors.
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Permalink • Thursday - September 22, 2011
How To Put An Airline Out Of Business
Mysterious messages that appeared to be scrawled in Arabic writing on the underbellies of several Southwest Airlines jets were being investigated Wednesday by the airline and the FBI, Los Angeles radio station KNX-1070 reported.
The graffiti, which began appearing in February on 737-model planes, has been found more often in recent weeks, according to the report.
The writing appears to have been etched using a chemical process and is visible only after an auxiliary power unit is turned on.
Southwest Airlines spokeswoman Brandy King confirmed that the company is “conducting an internal investigation.” The FBI and Transportation Security Administration were also making enquiries.
The airline denied that the vandalism posed a safety or security threat.
It’s vandalism? It’s no safety or security threat? “Graffiti” put on using a special hi-tech paint or substance that only becomes visible in the presence of an electro-magnetic field, or when the wing or tail surface heaters are activated? (what else could an auxiliary power unit do, on the outside of a plane?)
So, it’s obvious that Southwest Airlines has such piss poor security on their planes and/or their ground crews that this can happen, time after time, for most of a year. I’m sure that will really make you feel confident and secure, right? Because really, you’d better be: you are betting your life - literally - when you buy a ticket and board one of their planes. I’m absolutely 100% certain that there is nothing else on any of their planes that they don’t know about, right? Right?
Hey, I’ve got Southwest tickets for $50! Any takers?
[crickets chirping][more crickets chirping][still more crickets chirping]
I didn’t think so.
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Permalink • Monday - September 19, 2011
Teach Your Children Well
We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids Book of Freedom is a coloring book about the tragic events of 9/11 2001, featuring pictures of the burning World Trade Center towers and the execution of Osama bin Laden.
Although Wayne Bell, publisher of Really Big Coloring Books Inc., in Saint Louis, says the book was never meant to be controversial, and that it’s simply based on market research, on what people are looking for, the fact that it contains scenes like Osama bin Laden being shot by a Navy SEAL has sparked some controversy. Bell goes on to describe the coloring book as “a simplistic honest tool” to “educate children on events on 9/11″, but do kids who still like to color need to see scenes of mourning, burning buildings, and the execution of a Muslim man portrayed as hiding behind his veiled wife?
The entire first printing run has sold out, but more copies are on the way. At least I hope so.. I see that a pack of 10 of them is for sale on eBay.
The original book We Shall Never Forget 9/11 - The Kids Book of Freedom, will completely sell out soon and is no longer available at wholesale pricing. We Shall Never Forget is the fastest selling book in our company history; traveling to 157 countries, YES, 157 countries, via email, download or regular mail in less than three weeks. Once these last few original copies sell out, this book will no longer be available from the Publisher, Really Big Coloring Books, Inc. Thank you to all.
To the American people and all others who may read this child’s coloring book, We Shall Never Forget is designed (8.5” x 11”, 36 pages.) to be a tool that parents can use to help teach children about the facts surrounding 9/11. This book also describes basic freedoms in America. We suggest parental guidance. As the 9/11 events are shown countless times on national media, this book will help children understand the meaning of these events. The book was created with honesty, integrity, reverence, respect and does not shy away from the truth.In this book you will see what happens to a terrorist who orders others to bomb our peace loving wonderful nation.
The September 11, 2001 attacks on America are now commonly referred to as 9/11. It was a series of coordinated attacks by a radical Islamic Muslim extremist terrorist group who call themselves Al Qaeda. They were self-proclaimed Jihadists; many American people refer to them as homicide bombers. Their leader was a Saudi national named Osama Bin Laden. He and his men used hijacked U.S. airplanes as weapons.
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Believing that the upcoming 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 is best memorialized in crayon, Really Big Coloring Books, Inc. is publishing a new coloring book entitled “We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom.” In offering kids the option of coloring the Twin Towers burning, mourning survivors, or the Navy SEALs shooting Osama Bin Laden, publisher Wayne Bell insists that “the doodles represent patriotism,” a “simplistic, honest tool” to “help educate children on events on 9/11.” But many Muslims describe it as, in a word, “disgusting.”
Fun With Killing Bin Laden: Coloring books are meant to inspire children’s creativity, but the new “We Shall Never Forget 9/11: The Kids’ Book of Freedom” channels that impulse in a shocking direction. Published by Really Big Coloring Book Inc. and intended as a “learning tool” to help teachers explain the terrorist attacks, the book features a page showing a SEAL firing a bullet straight at Bin Laden, who is shown (inaccurately, as it turns out) using a woman as a human shield — more or less challenging tot artists to fill in their own splatter and gore. Publisher Wayne Bell defends the page as being “mild compared to the graphic video games children play,” but since when is a coloring book judged by those standards? [Chicago Tribune]
Not really mentioned in the few reviews and news stories that covered this is that the author added a fair amount of text to the book. So it isn’t just for those kids too young to read, unless the text is there for the parents to help tell the story?
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Permalink • Saturday - September 17, 2011
What WMDs?
If we had delayed even a couple of months, until Saddam actually had his deadly pathogens and gas weapons, it would have meant the deaths of tens of thousands of American soldiers. And if those weapons had found their way into terrorist hands, it would have doomed millions. But did Saddam have these kinds of connections? Was he a global terror threat akin to al-Qaeda? The common wisdom says no. The common wisdom is wrong.
When American tanks smashed into Baghdad, Saddam had already completed construction of an anthrax production facility, which was a week away from going live. If it had been permitted to go into production, this one facility could have produced ten tons of weaponized anthrax a year.
Dual-use, mobile bio labs, hundreds of suicide bombers in training, direct links to dozens of terrorist groups throughout the Middle East and major funding to them, operatives kitted up and ready to attack in a dozen countries, half a thousand tons of yellowcake, a 40 fold increase in WMD spending ... the list goes on and on. Saddam Hussein was on the very, very cusp of the vertical part of the logarithmic curve of WMD growth when the USA invaded in March 2003. Another month’s delay would have given him enough poison to kill tens of thousands of our soldiers. Another year and he could have wiped out half the world. That was why we were “rushing to war” Senator Kennedy.
According to documents discovered after the war, by 1997 the number of university “instructors” doing solely WMD work numbered 3,300, with another 700 to 800 dispatched to WMD-related facilities to help with technical problems. Between 1996 and 2002 — the eve of the invasion — spending on WMD projects increased 40-fold, and the number of specific projects increased from 40 to 3,200. Top officials captured after the collapse of the regime repeatedly told investigators that Saddam’s WMD projects were in overdrive and ready to go into production the moment sanctions were lifted.
You mean those horrible sanctions that the evil USA was using to starve poor but happy kite flying Iraqi children? The sanctions the Democrats wanted lifted? The sanctions the whole Oil For Food scandal was doing an end run around anyway? (hey, whatever happened with Oil For Food? Why wasn’t France fined a hundred zillion for that? Did anybody anywhere get into any actual real trouble?)
A good analogy for the links between Saddam and bin Laden is the Cali and Medellín drug cartels. Both drug cartels (actually loose collections of families and criminal gangs) were serious national-security concerns to the United States. The two cartels competed for a share of the illegal drug market. However, neither cartel was reluctant to cooperate with the other when it came to the pursuit of a common objective — expanding and facilitating their illicit trade. The well-publicized and violent rise of the Medellín cartel temporarily obscured and overshadowed the rise of, and threat posed by, the Cali cartel, in the same way that 9/11 camouflaged the terror threat posed by Saddam. In reality Saddam and bin Laden were operating parallel terror networks aimed at the United States. Bin Laden just has the distinction of having made the first horrendous attack.
Given the evidence, it appears that we removed Saddam’s regime not a moment too soon.
And all of this is in the Duelfer Report, the document that the media claims proved there were NO WMDs in Iraq ... because they never even bothered to read past the first page’s Executive Summary.
And let’s not ignore the other salient facts: the pre-invasion inspectors were played like a violin, the post-invasion inspectors were often under fire, you can hide damn near anything under the sand in a desert, and allah alone knows how many of his researchers were silenced or never interviewed or killed during the invasion and their documents destroyed accidentally. In all likelihood things were even worse; we’ll never know.
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