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U.S.: Coalition Air Raids Back up Kurdish Advance in Iraq
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Arabia
Obamas to skip Taj Majal for Saudi visit. A big deal?
[CSMONITOR] President Barack Obama
I am the change that you seek...
and his wife were supposed to finish their three-day visit to India with a trip to the Taj Mahal Tuesday.

Instead, they'll be leaving a half-day early to honor the late leader of Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and meet with the new Saudi King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians....
bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud. A photo-op at India's most famous marble mausoleum or pay your respects to one of the world's most important oil-suppliers, a major US military hardware purchaser, and a key ally in the fight against Sunni and Shiite Lions of Islam in the Middle East.

Not a difficult call, really. But still a disappointment to some in India, especially those who had been working hard to give the Obamas a good impression of Agra.

In Agra, some 600 people were paid $3.75 per day to scrub the streets and white marble at the Taj Mahal clean from betel-nut spit stains. Agra workers also cleared some two tons of trash from the nearby polluted Yamuna river, according to NDTV. Cows and stray dogs were rounded up, and for two weeks now, construction work has been halted to prevent dust blowing through the city.
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1  Hey, gotta squeeze in the pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina while they we're still able to pay for it!
Posted by: Raj || 01/25/2015 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Perhaps he can attend the funeral and then return to India for a few days, a week, a month, a year.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/25/2015 3:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Perhaps he can attend the funeral and then return to India for a few days, a week, a month, a year.

I believe he'll use being in ME to mess with Israel.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/25/2015 5:18 Comments || Top||

#4  heh - how about a couple days in "success story" Yemen?
Posted by: Frank G || 01/25/2015 8:45 Comments || Top||

#5  He might get some different advice about who to mess with while he is in Riyadh.
Posted by: Grunter || 01/25/2015 12:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Hope he's working on his bow.
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/25/2015 12:15 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Mitt Romney: Climate change is real, human-induced, and we must tackle it
h/t Gates of Vienna
Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, who’s contemplating another White House run, said climate change was real, that humans helped it along and that it was the responsibility of the world to turn back the environmental tide.

“I’m one of those Republicans who thinks we are getting warmer and that we contribute to that,” he said during a Wednesday night speech at an investment management conference, The Associated Press reported.
Groovy
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/25/2015 07:07 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rubio to the bridge please. Senator Marco Rubio.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/25/2015 8:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Jeb, Mitt...both small "p" progressives...Why vote for Democrat-lite when you can vote Democrat?
Posted by: Warthog || 01/25/2015 8:36 Comments || Top||

#3  When the choice is between a big government socialist or the democrat why bother voting?
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 01/25/2015 8:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Mitt is now officially irrelevant.
Posted by: jvalentour || 01/25/2015 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  #3 "You can always vote against somebody" Lazarus Long.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/25/2015 8:51 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, I'm freezing. Can we set Persian Gulf oil fields on fire to warm up?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/25/2015 8:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh Dear.

Is there a triple facepalm?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/25/2015 9:33 Comments || Top||

#8  He does not know what he stands for. that is the problem.

useless
Posted by: newc || 01/25/2015 11:52 Comments || Top||

#9  Don't pander to people who would never support you, Mitt. It makes you look like a fool.
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/25/2015 12:14 Comments || Top||

#10  What tu said. In spades.
Posted by: Barbara || 01/25/2015 12:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Any slight hope Romney had of winning just died, drowning under the flood of bullshit from his mouth.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/25/2015 15:53 Comments || Top||

#12  What is in the drinking water North of the Mason-Dixon line!?!
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 01/25/2015 16:04 Comments || Top||

#13  Nothing new here. He was always Tame. When he ran for the Senate in the 90's he tried to tack to Keneddy's left. Yes, Ted Kennedy.
Posted by: Iblis || 01/25/2015 17:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Kerry tells Western leaders it would be an 'error' to refer to violent extremists as Islamists
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Violent bandidos turbans killing children and others in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and other parts of the world may cite Islam as a justification, but the West should be careful about calling them Islamic radicals, Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
told an audience of opinion leaders Friday at the World Economic Forum.

In a speech calling for a global effort against violent extremism, Kerry said it would be a mistake to link Islam to criminal conduct rooted in alienation, poverty, thrill-seeking and other factors.

'We have to keep our heads,' Kerry said, according to the Associate Press.

'The biggest error we could make would be to blame Moslems for crimes...that their faith utterly rejects,' he added.
Posted by: Fred || 01/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As for the Paris death squad:

The OIC has for years openly demanded that non-Muslims in the West be subjected to Sharia law.

The death squad meted out Sharia punishment and neutralized those who would interfere with its (Sharia-)lawful execution of a punitive measure.

IOW the OIC i.e. mainstream Islam got exactly what it wanted.

But there's no connection to Islam.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 01/25/2015 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Because they have centrists beliefs for the Muslim faith?
Posted by: 3dc || 01/25/2015 1:03 Comments || Top||

#3  I just remember him for being a buffoon on the local stage. Almost nice to see he's outdone himself...
Posted by: Raj || 01/25/2015 1:33 Comments || Top||

#4  By the way, the guy who wrote that article used to be a Boston Globe ass-kisser political writer, so it's not much of a surprise to guess who he's working for now.
Posted by: Raj || 01/25/2015 1:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Channeling Bush, are we?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/25/2015 5:25 Comments || Top||

#6  It is redundant.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 01/25/2015 6:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Did he really say "We have to keep our heads"?

-KB
Posted by: kaiserbill || 01/25/2015 8:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Please, someone let him know Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is your friend !
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/25/2015 11:42 Comments || Top||

#9  But they ARE Islamists.
They are Islamic Moslem terrorists.
That's just what they are.

Read the koran, mashed potato face.
Posted by: newc || 01/25/2015 11:54 Comments || Top||

#10  'We have to keep our heads,' Kerry said, according to the Associate Press.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...
Fuckin idiot.
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/25/2015 12:17 Comments || Top||

#11  'We have to keep our heads,' Kerry said, according to the Associate Press.

Translation: If we call them Islamists, they'll cut off our heads.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 01/25/2015 12:22 Comments || Top||

#12  The only 'error' the west has is not calling it what it is and rooting it out at home and abroad.

Instead the western leaders double down on stupid and import more of the same and wonder why they have problems with Islam in their countries.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/25/2015 15:58 Comments || Top||

#13  These are the people who desperately try to tar every nut case shooting on the Tea Party.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/25/2015 20:24 Comments || Top||

#14  That's it!!!

The entire problem is those radical fanatical tea party Christians and their nonsense about love and forgiveness
Posted by: Mystic || 01/25/2015 21:51 Comments || Top||



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  U.S.: Coalition Air Raids Back up Kurdish Advance in Iraq
Sat 2015-01-24
  Iranian General Killed By Unlimited Minutes Cell Plan and Israeli Missiles
Fri 2015-01-23
  Yemen prez, govt quit
Thu 2015-01-22
  King Abdullah Tango Uniform
Wed 2015-01-21
  Shiite rebels shell Yemen president’s home, take over palace
Tue 2015-01-20
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Mon 2015-01-19
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  Gunmen Seize Yemen President's Chief of Staff
Sat 2015-01-17
  SSP militant hanged for sectarian killing
Fri 2015-01-16
  US drone strike kills seven in South Waziristan
Thu 2015-01-15
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Wed 2015-01-14
  Convict in US consulate attack case hanged
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