International Scene
Monday, October 19, 2009
This is a relief. The UK faces a “catastrophe” of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change, the prime minister has…...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
By
Rob
on October 6, 2009 at 08:50 am
An excellent Reason video report on Europe’s light bulb ban: It’s amazing how the light bulb, once like its inventor Thomas Edison a symbol of American inventiveness and entrepreneurship, has…...
Saturday, September 12, 2009
What’s a deal with North Korea worth unless we have China’s support? The US shifted its policy today, saying it is now willing to meet one on one with North…...
Sunday, August 30, 2009
If this is true it’s absolutely shameful: The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber,…...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Stupid. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a $100 billion U.S. loan to the International Monetary Fund to boost the IMF’s resources and urged a bigger stake…...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
By
Rob
on April 18, 2009 at 12:02 pm
You know. Alvaro Uribe. The President of our solid trade partner, and one of our few friends in South America, Colombia. PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama…...
By
Rob
on April 18, 2009 at 08:53 am
Obama wants to make friends with Venezuela’s dictator, but the middle east’s only liberal democracy (outside of Afghanistan and Iraq)? The one awash in a sea of hatred from extremists…...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
By
Rob
on April 14, 2009 at 09:34 am
Nor should it ever be a crime. Anywhere. At any time. If the cops aren’t doing anything wrong, then there shouldn’t be any problem with video taping them. Watch to…...
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Remember last year when Obama was bragging up on the Chinese economy wishing he could bring it here? Everybody’s watching what’s going on in Beijing right now with the…...
Friday, April 10, 2009
By
Rob
on April 10, 2009 at 08:13 am
Not just because nuclear weapons actually exist, and that even if we got rid of ours there would never be any guarantees that our enemies would get rid of theirs,…...
Hm, maybe if I would have cared I would have noticed. One problem with this blame-game is that last year’s recession was much deeper in many European and Asian countries…...
Thursday, April 09, 2009
You know like shoplifters or people that cheat on their taxes: “These people are nothing more than criminals,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters in Washington today. Well if…...
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Somali pirates have hijacked a ship with at least 20 US crew on board, after what maritime officials described as a sustained night-time attack. The US-operated container vessel, Maersk Alabama,…...
Monday, April 06, 2009
By
Rob
on April 6, 2009 at 02:28 pm
Let’s be happy the plot was broken up, and that our President is ok. Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian descent who was planning to assassinate US…...
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Heads of state do NOT bow to Kings. George Bush held hands with Saudi royalty. You show respect, you do not act as an inferior. Couple this with Obama’s rediculous…...
Unbelievable! Here’s what Obama the Narcissist had loaded on the Queen’s Ipod. * Photos from the Queen’s 2007 White House State Visit * Photos from the Queen’s 2007…...
Monday, March 30, 2009
By
Rob
on March 30, 2009 at 08:44 am
Angela Merkel isn’t having any of this “better living through more government” nonsense that’s all the rage these days both in America and in the international community. And it looks…...
Friday, March 13, 2009
By
Rob
on March 13, 2009 at 05:00 pm
It seems as though, since Obama took over in the oval office, our enemies have been getting bolder. Iran has been testing weapons, continuing its push toward nuclear weapons and…...
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Talk about embarrassing! In his recent meeting with the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Gordan Brown, Obama was given some very significant gifts. Mr Brown’s gifts included an ornamental desk pen…...
Monday, March 02, 2009
By
Rob
on March 2, 2009 at 02:46 pm
Good thing Obama didn’t ask Stephen Harper for more troops while he was up in Canada. Remember way back in the early days of the Obama administration when the president…...
Thursday, February 12, 2009
By
Rob
on February 12, 2009 at 09:49 am
For saying that a black comedian didn’t sound black. LONDON (AP) — After a royal reprimand, it’s back to school for Prince Harry. British media outlets reported Thursday that the…...
Monday, February 09, 2009
By
Rob
on February 9, 2009 at 07:42 am
In the early 1990’s Japan suffered a housing bubble pop not unlike the one America just went through. And Japan suffered a subsequent recession not unlike the one we’re going…...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
By
Rob
on January 7, 2009 at 07:57 am
Ban them if they don’t condemn Israel’s defense of itself against the attacks from Hamas. The union representing university workers in Ontario (that would be Canada) has decided that it…...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Except when Parliment is debating the global warming bill. Lucky for Rob, God is not without a sense of humor. Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming…...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
By
Rob
on October 15, 2008 at 07:57 am
Sigh… Sales of Kart Marx’s “Das Capital” have soared in Germany as a consequence of the financial crisis reported on Tuesday editor Jrn Schtrumpf from the newspaper “Neue Ruhr/Rhein Zeitung”…...
Thursday, August 28, 2008
By
Rob
on August 28, 2008 at 12:29 pm
For personal reasons I mostly haven’t been paying attention to the Democrat convention, but last night while changing my daughter’s diaper I turned Joe Biden’s speech (one crappy job deserves…...
Monday, August 25, 2008
By
Bat One
on August 25, 2008 at 04:47 am
Over at Yahoo News, AFP reports that international criminals have started dumping the US dollar in favor of the Euro, which should put additional pressure on the dollar in international…...
Saturday, August 23, 2008
By
Rob
on August 23, 2008 at 02:50 pm
The man The Messiah has tapped to shore up his weaknesses on foreign policy is being credited in Iraq with uniting the nation’s warring Shiite and Sunni factions. The problem? …...
Friday, August 22, 2008
By
Rob
on August 22, 2008 at 08:16 am
Obama apparently thinks that when Russia began its war of aggression with Georgia they were just following America’s lead. Yesterday, Barack Obama told a Virginia audience “We’ve got to send…...
Monday, August 18, 2008
By
Rob
on August 18, 2008 at 02:13 pm
One of the biggest facilitators of Islamic terrorism is poor economic conditions in the middle east. And one big reason why economic conditions in the middle east exist is that…...
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