http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:22:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi: My computer died last night - Joy. Going out tomorrow (Double Joy) and get a new laptop. So that means for the time being, I'm limited to my Crackberry. Apologies for the links probably not being active. You know what to do: Highlight 'em and c/p ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/26/your-first-thanksgiving-weekend-news-dump/ If you're on blood pressure medication, take an extra before reading further. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576646,00.html Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist. Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/24/us-navy-seals-charged-with-assault-from-2004s-operation-amber-mission/ UK - Arrests are being made solely to expand the UK's national DNA database. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6929017.ece Police are routinely arresting people simply to record their DNA profiles on the national database, according to a report published today. It also states that three quarters of young black men are on the database. The finding risks ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/23/pay-no-attention-to-the-elephants-in-the-room/ Sumptin' am be a-smellin' here........ 'n dat sumptin am be up 'n screamin' quite the loudness that there's mountains of money, a plethora of power and stacking statistics wherever they are found to shape thought. http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/news-corp-microsoft-hold-talks-on-google-report-20091123-iu0b.html News Corp, Microsoft Hold Talks On Google. Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/22/microsoft-news-corp-and-google-oh-my/ Congressman Kennedy:  No soup communion for you ! http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/jfk-nephew-barred-from-communion-report-20091122-isxn.html Congressman Patrick Kennedy (D-RI-1) Barred From Receiving Communion. The nephew of former president John F. Kennedy, a US legislator, has been barred from receiving communion at his Catholic church due to his support for abortion rights, a newspaper reported on Sunday. US Representative Patrick Kennedy, ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/22/gotcha-congressman-kennedy/ So...... Opry Windbag is gonna git on down the road a piece. That's news ? Maybe it's news to the 'muumuu-wearing, eating-cake-frosting-right-out-of-the-container' crowd, but for me, the following items are a tad more realistically described as news. ====================== Elected:  New President Of Europe & Foreign Minister. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134527 The European Union has elected Belgian Prime Minister Herman ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/21/pay-attention-your-freedom-depends-on-it/ Link activated and diary expanded while having some amazing Jambalaya for dinner. (Yes, I made it.) ----------------------- Oh yeah, this is gonna work. Real good idea to raise taxes 1,200% on the very people who actually generate employment.  Talk about an economic death spiral ever-tightening and increasing in velocity. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/fl-florida-unemployment-tax-111809,0,1556925.story Should have titled this "How to ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/18/florida-unemployment-insurance-tax-to-businesses-increasing-by-1200/ While y'all are busy goin' back 'n forth with some definitely interesting things, our one world is careening headlong into...... well...... one world. Where to start..... where to start................... Ahhhhh, here we go: Netherlands:  ALL vehicles mandated to have GPS installed.  Big Brother is alive and well. http://www.onenewsnow.com/AP/Search/Business/Default.aspx?id=768544 Dutch drivers will pay less to ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/15/coming-soon-to-a-planet-near-you/ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article6917485.ece An Irish jihadist living in Pakistan’s Swat valley says he is preparing to wage war against British and allied troops in Afghanistan. Khalid Kelly, a former altar boy from the Liberties area of Dublin who used to be known as Terry, told The Sunday Times he is undergoing weapons training in ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/15/irish-jihadist-khalid-kelly/ At first read, I had to look more than once at the web address and page header...... Completely convinced I was at a re-direct and reading the revived National Lampoon or The Onion, I kept going..... Sadly, I concluded this is all too real.............. http://www.theage.com.au/world/mandela-set-to-succeed-abbas-20091107-i2td.html A former militia leader serving five consecutive ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/07/next-pa-chairman-to-be-a-peace-lover-serving-5-life-sentences/ Here's what may be a bit of an eye-opener for you.  This became a tad longer than intended, but I always make the attempt to go through a process of confirmation and validating items before making decisions and sharing the results when needed. http://www.costcoconnection.com/connection/200911#pg1 Costco is now involved with former Vice-President Al ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/06/the-costco-algore-connection-and-more/ Statoil, Norway's state-owned oil company has sold their US-territorial waters leases in The Gulf Of Mexico to CNOOC, the Chinese state-owned oil company. http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/chinese-giant-to-buy-us-oil-assets-company-20091105-hy6t.html ------------ Highly doubtful anyone in the current administration will even attempt to criticize this, let alone try and stop the transaction's completion. Besides, if anyone in DC actually does give ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/04/china-buys-united-states-territorial-waters-oil-leases-in-the-gulf-of-mexico/ While you were sleeping............ 7pm Australian time (that's 3am Eastern US) the news broke...... http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/abdullah-pulls-out-of-afghan-runoff-election-20091101-hrhk.html Abdullah pulls out of Afghan run-off election. Opposition candidate Abdullah Abdullah announced on Sunday that he was pulling out of this week's run-off presidential election in Afghanistan. "The decision which I am going to announce was not an easy ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/11/01/afghanistan-run-off-election/ Hi: This is going to be my last post for a while.   I need to back off a bit.   This story did it to me. The thought of a bunch of sub-human pieces of garbage, let alone supposed parents who would even remotely allow................. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6889829.ece Teenage girls wanting to join violent male gangs are ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/10/25/uk-girls-accept-rape-as-price-to-join-male-gangs/ From the subject heading above and if you've been paying even remote attention to what is going on in our nation and around the world, you have already reached the absolutely obvious conclusion. However, I shall show you the doorway to Hell nonetheless. This is a rather long composition with multiple links, ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/10/24/the-tipping-point-has-arrived/ Major thanks to Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs for standing on the wall unwavering. http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/10/iran-nuclear-monitor-dies-mysteriously.html Police in Austria are investigating the mysterious death of a British nuclear monitoring expert. Early news reports said that Timothy Hampton, who worked for an international monitoring unit called the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), died after ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/10/22/nuclear-scientist-monitoring-iran-dies-mysteriously/ H/T Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs. Two separate articles: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8316167.stm Nicaragua court backs re-election. The Nicaraguan Supreme Court has lifted a constitutional ban on re-election, clearing the way for President Daniel Ortega to run again in 2011 elections. The court's decision followed an appeal by Mr Ortega and a group of mayors.  In July, Mr ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/10/20/first-it-was-honduras-now-we-have-nicaragua/ http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-vulture/bbc-goes-potty-over-humpty-dumpty/20091020-h67y.html In a revised version of the nursery rhyme that aired recently on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s children's channel CBeebies, the tale – which first appeared in print in 1810 – no longer ends with “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men/Couldn’t put Humpty together again”. Now, a crack ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/10/20/the-bbc-is-rewriting-nursery-rhymes/ http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jisHEg79Cz8uRtYfZR6WK4JmWsIg Leftist Latin American leaders have agreed on the creation of a regional currency to scale back on the use of the US dollar as well as economic sanctions against Honduran coup leaders. Nine countries of ALBA, a leftist bloc conceived by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, met Friday in Bolivia where they ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/10/17/nine-leftist-latin-american-countries-dropping-the-us-dollar-in-2010/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/17/pakistan-attack-taliban-south-waziristan More than 30,000 Pakistani have soldiers launched a much-awaited ground offensive in an al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border. The offensive in South Waziristan follows months of air strikes intended to soften up militant defences. The bombing has forced tens of thousands of civilians to flee. snip Even if the operation ... http://www.redstate.com/etcartman/2009/10/17/pakistan-army-kicks-the-tires-and-lights-the-fires/