At the recent tea-bag convention Sarah Palin, whose main foreign policy experience seems to be the fact that she could see Russia from her home in Alaska, got a lot of things wrong in her speech. As the new darling of the greediest and least patriotic among us she was fast and loose with the facts. While the possible candidate for the GOP nomination passed out red-meat for the rabid masses, she seems to have left the facts somewhere frozen in the Alaskan tundra.
Some of us who live in rural Kentucky are appalled at the suggestion that an Ay-rab terrorist like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could be tried all Constitution-like at the scene of the crime in New York City. The US would have to spend a lot of money making security arrangements to protect big-city Wall Street folks and make them feel secure and blocking off streets and making it hard for them to go about their daily lives and doing their daily jobs of ripping off the public. Even non-banker big-city folks could be inconvenienced, and that might make them get rude, and out here in the sticks, we've heard that no matter what, you don't want to make New York City folks get rude. So we think y'all ought to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and them other boys here in rural Kentucky.
Need a good job and a good retirement plan America? Sorry that's reserved for the Taliban.
AFP Afghan President Hamid Karzai unveiled an ambitious Western-funded plan Friday to offer money and jobs to tempt Taliban fighters to lay down their arms in an effort to quell a crippling insurgency.
As a result of a recent event involving an aircraft and underpants Representative Peter King (R-Not From Iowa), the senior Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, has again come forth to bring his expertise on questions of international terrorism to the national debate.
King, a Congressman who represents a district that straddles New York’s Long Island (NY-3), previously served as the Comptroller of Nassau County and a member of Hempstead, New York’s Town Council, which wouldn’t seem to be the kind of résumé that would give you much credibility in this arena—but Mr. King is a special case.
You see, Mr. King knows a great deal about terrorism...from the inside...because for many years the personal cause that drove his life was to be an active and public supporter of a terrorist group.
And that’s why, today, we’ll be connecting the dots between Congressman King and the Irish Republican Army.
By GottaLaff Just now, I got a phone call from the Secret Service. Yes, that Secret Service. It was from a very sweet woman with a very sweet voice. She called to thank me for my screen grab of the poll, and said without it, they wouldn't have been able to address the matter.
9-11 should not be a political statement for anyone. It should be a sad day of remembrence that many people died because of hatred and incompetence. However, since the very day it occured it has constantly been used as a hammer to pound the agenda of a miguided bunch people with an unenlightened vision of the world down everyone else's throat.
A funny thing has happened every since Dick Cheney left office. Despite having failed miserably in protecting the American people from the 9-11 attacks, Dick Cheney wants to act like some kind of "expert" on National Security. I mean, it was not like the Bush Administration had a memo entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the U.S." or anything. Oh wait, they did!! Despite this, they ignored the warnings and their incompetence allowed the worst attack ever on American soil.
When Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in his church, by Scott Roeder and Stephen Tyrone Johns was shot and killed while working in the Holocaust Memorial Museum, by James von Brunn some folks seemed to be surprised, but I suggest to you the seeds were sown for this sort of hate and extremism during the 2008 Presidential election by Sarah Palin and John McCain with the approval of their Right Wing extremist followers in the now defunct Republican Party led by our own Senator Mitch McConnell. When I wrote " McCain/Palin = Hate And Racism! Youtube Video" article October 29, 2008 and said:
In diaries such as this one, I have chronicled how "Shotgun" Dick Cheney was a complete and total failure in preventing the worst attack ever on American soil and conducting the "War on Terror". Lately, although everything done by the Bush Administration to deal with terrorism and avenge the 9-11 attacks made our country less safe and cost thousands of lives, and over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money Cheney has been spouting off at every opportunity. Somehow, he thinks being a failed Vice-President under possibly the worst President in American History has made him some kind of expert or something.
After the attacks of 9-11 Muslims were maligned in America because of their beliefs. Especially after the Bush Administration embarked upon it's failed "War on Terror" that never seemed to end. Terrorism exists among all religions and one need only look at the rash of gun-related homicides in this country the last few weeks to realize that.
