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June 20th, 2010 | 
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Great Britain Got What They “Hoped” For … “Change” … And Now They Don’t Like It
With all due respect, Mr. Gardiner, you should feel it from the yank’s end of this political disaster. Miss the simple talkin’ “cowboy” yet?
Nile Gardiner - Barack Obama: the most unpopular man in Britain?
What a difference 18 months and an oil spill makes. In January 2009 Barack Obama was hugely popular on this side of the Atlantic, and could have walked on water in the eyes of the British media, the political elites, and the general public. In June 2010 however he probably qualifies as the most despised US president since Nixon among the British people. In fact you can’t open a London paper at this time without reading yet another fiery broadside against a leader who famously boasted of restoring “America’s standing” in the world.
Both Sides Of The Aisle Agree Obama’s Crapping on Israel … Meanwhile, Look Who Wants That Gaza Naval Blockade Left In Place
Abbas to Obama: I’m against lifting the Gaza naval blockade
The Palestinian president reportedly told Obama that lifting the naval blockade of Gaza would bolster Hamas, a move that shouldn’t be done at this stage.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is opposed to lifting the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip because this would bolster Hamas, according to what he told United States President Barack Obama during their meeting at the White House Wednesday. Egypt also supports this position.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once more put off announcing the creation of a committee of inquiry into the naval commando raid on the Gaza Strip flotilla, and the matter will not be brought before the cabinet for a vote this morning.
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Kyrgyzstan: Ethnic (Muslim) Rioting, Bodies In The Streets, Food Supplies Running Low, Russian and U.S. (crucial supply hub for A-stan War) Bases At Risk … Russia Refuses Kyrgyzstan’s Pleas For Military Intervention
Kyrgyzstan – Ethnic rioting spread Sunday in southern Kyrgyzstan, where at least 80 people have been killed and more than 1,000 wounded. Thousands of Uzbeks fled after their homes were torched by roving mobs of Kyrgyz men.
Fires destroyed much of Osh, the second-largest city in a Central Asian country that hosts U.S. and Russian military air bases. Stores were looted and the city was running out of food.
Gunfire rang out Sunday in another major southern city, Jalal-Abad, where the day before a rampaging mob burned a university, besieged a police station and seized an armored vehicle and other weapons from a local military unit.
While The World “De-Nazified” Itself It Exhibits A Perilous Failure To Acknowledge The Monstrous History of Communism
A Hidden History of Evil: Why doesn’t anyone care about the unread Soviet archives?
Claire Berlinski @ City Journal
In the world’s collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil. It is widely understood that the Nazis’ ideology—nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic state, the Führer principle—led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz. It is not nearly as well understood that Communism led just as inexorably, everywhere on the globe where it was applied, to starvation, torture, and slave-labor camps. Nor is it widely acknowledged that Communism was responsible for the deaths of some 150 million human beings during the twentieth century. The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history.
Sham-Obama-Lamma-Ding-Dong: Private Sector Jobs Near 0% … Government Jobs At 95% (and Temp At That … AND Inflated!) For Month of May
The Hill: Economy adds 431,000 jobs, but most are temporary Census hires
The economy added 431,000 jobs in May, but nearly all of them were temporary workers hired by the Census.
The private sector added 41,000 workers, according to the report issued Friday by the Labor Department, while the unemployment rate dipped from 9.9 percent to 9.7.
The 41,000 workers hired by the private sector is a much lower total than what had been forecast by private analysts and could serve as a disappointment to the Obama administration, which had expected a strong report.
The Inept and Irrelevant Sarcasm of Barney Frank: Media Should Do Their Job and Force Rep. Djou To Provide His Birth Certificate
Barney Frank wants to see Rep. Djou’s birth certificate
WASHINGTON – Tongue firmly in cheek, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) (emphisis mine, “MY EYES! MY EYES!!!) on Tuesday afternoon called on reporters to demand to see the birth certificate of new Rep. Charles Djou (R-Hawaii).
As Djou was being sworn into office, Frank walked the hallway of the Speaker’s Lobby off the House floor calling on the media to “do your job” and review Djou’s papers.
It was a small bit of payback for the enormous amount of attention some conservatives (and the media) paid to the is-the-president-really-from-America controversy.
But, unlike the commander-in-chief, as Frank knows, being born outside the U.S. does not preclude you from becoming a member of Congress.
Babalu Val
The guys are starting to rub it in now down there in Miami at the Cuba Nostalgia Weekend. Rainy/Stormy and crappy here in NE Ohio but obviously sunny and festive down there in Miami. George Moneo just emailed me this picture of Val and his sidekick mojito at the Babalu Blog booth.
Yeah, fellas! It’s all fun and games until somebody pokes their eye out with a cigar!
Congrats Graduating Classes of 2010 Around The Nation … Our Future Is In Your Hands
West Point Grads (H/T AoS)
My Graduate Kate last Saturday Summa Cum Laude in pre-med from Kent State University Class of 2010 (100 Year Anniversary)
Compare and Contrast: FLASHBACK – November 7, 2007 – Speech by President Sarkozy Before Congress vs Today’s Speech by The Mexi-Prez Before Congress
Madam Speaker,
Mr. President,
Ladies and Gentlemen of the United States Congress,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The state of our friendship and our alliance is strong.
Friendship, first and foremost, means being true to one’s friends. Since the United States first appeared on the world scene, the loyalty between the French and American people has never failed. And far from being weakened by the vicissitudes of History, it has never ceased growing stronger.
Friends may have differences; they may have disagreements; they may have disputes.
But in times of difficulty, in times of hardship, friends stand together, side by side; they support each other; and help one another.
BUMPED – “Boom-Boom Out Go The Lights”: Arizona Corporation Commission Commissioner Gary Pierce’s Electric Response To LA, California Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s “Boycott Arizona”
BloozeRockJunky — September 15, 2008 — Pat Travers Band: Boom Boom(Out Go The Lights)
Live In Tempe, Arizona 2002
Pat Travers: Lead Vocals & Guitar
Rick Navarro: Bass Guitar
Eric “Freight Train” Frates: Drums & Percussion
The Arizona Corporation Commission
Dear Mayor Villaraigosa,
I was dismayed to learn that the Los Angeles City Council voted to boycott Arizona and Arizona-based companies — a vote you strongly supported — to show opposition to SB 1070 (Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act).
Indiana Rep. Mark Souder (R) To Give Richard Blumenthal Covering Fire From The “Progressive” MSM As He’ll Resign For Bedding A Staffer
Indiana Rep. Mark Souder to Resign Amid Allegations of Affair With Staffer
By Chad Pergram & Steve Brown – FOXNews.com
Eight-term Indiana Rep. Mark Souder was announcing his resignation Tuesday after admitting to an affair with a female aide who worked in his district office.
Souder, a Republican, will will step down on Friday. He said in remarks obtained by Fox News that he “sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part-time member of my staff.”
UPDATED and BUMPED – Commentary: Duel In “The Pacific”
Thanks to George Moneo @ Babalu Blog for linking here. Welcome Babalu readers.
***UPDATED***
And so, The Pacific ended last night. I still come away feeling as though the men/Marines that fought in the PTO, (and the Navy and Army and brave Pacific allies), were short-changed quite a bit, and those portrayed not really given full justice to their personal stories of bravery and sacrifice. So much backhanded attention and depiction of US Marines as mindless rubes and bigots mercilessly invading someone else’s corner of the world.
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