Say Anything Blog

According to WaPo. And NYT clarifies the failure of this truce from its 02:00 start. And Russian Officers herald the phoenix like rise of Mother Russia. And then, there is this rather misleading headline a BBC,” Russians begin Georgia handover”. Yet, in reading the article we see that no such thing is happening.

And then we have an AParticle at Fox, detailing Russian moves into Zugdidi, and the port city of Poti.

Wow, this truce certainly has all the appearance of an invasion. (more...)

Just a heads up to let the seething masses know, not all Frenchmen are on the dole. Froggy has written some excellent pieces on his blog, not to mention some funny as hell satire. Checkout Meltdown Mahoud and the permalinked video at the top of his homepage. And don’t blame me for spewing whatever beverage you are drinking all over your computer. You been warned!

"Crisis Eclipses Mugabe’s Comeback”

The article , which must have been cobbled together from pieces written by several people(at least one of which is a complete idiot) is not that bad. It only smears a thin coat of paint over the murdering thug Mugabe. That headline, on the other hand, is simply appalling.

Dan Eggen is the only person whose name is listed on this piece of journalistic crap, so I guess it is at his feet the blame for the attempt to whitewash the terrorism,torture, and murder of the last 3 months. The headline is breath taking in its stupidity and willful ignorance. The opening pair of paragraphs are just gravy over the top.

“HARARE, Zimbabwe, July 28—President Robert Mugabe has emerged from the most tumultuous election in Zimbabwe’s history with his grip on power restored but his nation’s daunting problems—including hyperinflation, international isolation and an exodus of skilled workers—dramatically worsened.

Between March 29, when he lost a first-round vote to a surging opposition, and Friday, when Mugabe presumably romped to victory unopposed in a runoff election, sparsely stocked store shelves here emptied, long bread lines grew longer, and inflation soared from several hundred thousand percent to millions.”

Read the whole thing, see if you can separate which sections were written by different people. They kinda stood out to me, but perhaps I am just to critical.

And no, I ain’t gonna hattip this one. Whoever put this on the front page of WaPo don’t need credited, they need their pay docked for this atrocity.

"Hamas set off massive Gaza blast”

The headline is a bit misleading, as if they intended to blowedup their own operational base. Lets us check the details!

“Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades were trying to prepare for a Jihad operation,” the Hamas movement’s armed wing said in a statement.” Can you say incompetence? I knew you could!

Just a little different from their initial statement,"Hamas had initially blamed the explosion on an Israeli air strike and responded with rocket fire, but Israel denied any involvement.”. Kinda hard to take back a statement made with Katusha and Al Qassam rockets, wouldn’t you say.

h/t BBC

A bit of “inconvenient truth” about Islam and some of its adherents.

His initial defense,"Muhummed, whose birth name was Richard Boddie, told authorities that his Muslim faith gave him the right to take multiple wives.” kind of falls by the wayside at the end,"On the stand, in sometimes tearful testimony he denied the charges and blamed one of his wives for the alleged abuse.”.

The question I would like answered is, where are all the moderate Muslims condemning this piece of crap?

And 9 years?!?!? You have got to be kidding me!"Doctors said the children were extremely malnourished. A 19-year-old daughter was 4-foot-1 and weighed 56 pounds.”. Exactly how did he get away with this for that long? Was it incompetence or political correctness that allowed this to be dragged out for so long, not to mention the fact that the abuse had been going for years before he was arrested.

Perhaps an anonymous phone call, informing the authorities that he was a Mormon would have got swifter action.

h/t Associated Press and FoxNews

” Top security official: Iran ready to restore peace, stability in Iraq”

This statement from one of the architects terrorism in Iraq is not getting much play. Wonder why?

What leftards will latch on to and screech about is this sentence,"The Iraqi prime minister, in return, expressed his gratitude to Iran’s assistance to his country and said that Iraq was ready to make use of Iran’s “valuable experiences in the areas of politics, economy, culture and defense.”, and completely ignore the minor fact that Iran is training, financing, and supplying terrorists who have murdered thousands of innocent Iraqis children, women, and men. Not to mention Coalition and Iraqi soldiers and police. That point will be entirely ignored.

h/t Xinhua

From our connection to DeptState, Consul at arms, a follow up on the story of 3 time combat volunteer Staff Sargent Jeremiah Minor.

“General: GIs can wear combat patch of choice
By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Sunday, June 01, 2008”

“By regulation, Soldiers who have been on multiple deployments with different units have the option of wearing their unit combat patch of their choice based on war-time service,” Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, the commander of the 1st Armored Division and Task Force Iron in northern Iraq, wrote in an e-mailed memo Monday. “I encourage leaders at all levels to inform soldiers on the provisions of AR 670-1 ... and ensure they know they can adorn their uniform with the authorized combat patch of their preference,” the memo said.”

Now, we can only hope that the Officers and senior NCOs of 1st CAB will not bring any reprisals against SSG Minor, a decorated troop who has volunteered far above and beyond anything expected of him.

Be sure to make a sweep through CAA’s AO and to spread the word. Troops need support, in many forms. Lets let SSG Minor and other soldiers in similar situations know we are backstopping them!

h/t to Stars and Stripes and Consul At Arms.

Here is one realitydenyingboob missed! Wonder why?

“Filings Detail Currie Items
Agents Seized Tax, Bank Records From Senator’s House”

That is Maryland Democrat Ulysses Currie. Just to be clear.

A bit to whet the appetite,"The documents show they also found marijuana and “drug packaging materials” in a bag on a dresser and in various other bags on the floor of one room at the District Heights home of the Prince George’s Democrat. It is not clear in which room the drugs were found.”

Oops. How’d that get there?

Hey, boob? I thought only Republicans were corrupt.

h/t to Rosalind S. Helderman and WaPo.

Looks bad, doesn’t it? Yet, that is not what the report says at all. It clearly states that the research, you know, the “studies” were not interfered with at all. Lets check!

“ NASA’s inspector general office called it “inappropriate political interference” by political appointees in the press office.” That is the second line in the Fox article. But hey, Fox lies, so lets us check further.

“An investigation by the NASA inspector general found that political appointees in the space agency’s public affairs office worked to control and distort public accounts of its researchers’ findings about climate change for at least two years, the inspector general’s office said yesterday.” The opening paragraph of Juliet Eilperin’s article. At least WaPo has a less misleading headline,"Climate Findings Were Distorted, Probe Finds”.

And then, way down in the piece, we see that the research was not distorted or hampered."The political interference did not extend to the research itself or its dissemination through scientific journals and conferences, the investigators said. “We found no evidence indicating NASA blocked or interfered with the actual research activities of its climate scientists,” the report said, but as a result of the actions of the political appointees, “trust was lost, at least temporarily, between the agency and some of its key employees and perhaps the public it serves.”, although the claim that trust was lost is made.

The best part? NASA research data is what has torpedoed the whole “Global Warming” fear mongering ship. Hence the rapid shift to “Global Climactic Change”, cause as we all know the “climate” never changed before. It has always been sunny, pleasant, idyllic throughout the entire existence of the planet.

And now NASA data claims that Global Climactic Change is happening on Jupiter! Is there no end to the evil machinations of the human race?!?!?!?

h/t Fox, WaPo, and Rob B. at fileitunder.com

Once again, proof doing the right thing does not always insure a positive outcome.

“Home From Iraq, Wary Marine Fatally Wounded”

“CLEVELAND, Ohio — On leave from the violence he had survived in the war in Iraq, a young Marine was so wary of crime on the streets of his own home town that he carried only $8 to avoid becoming a robbery target.

Despite his caution, Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield, 21, was shot point-black in the neck during a robbery at a bus stop. Feeding and breathing tubes kept him alive 4 1/2 months, until he died of an infection on May 18.”.

I had read the report of this attack in our local rag, the Butler Eagle, in January. The last I had heard he was recovering but was not expected to return to service.

He made all the right choices, had worked hard to have a life. All taken away by a couple of worthless pieces of crap.

Semper Fi, little brother.

h/t AP and Fox.

Here is one I just could not pass up.

“Iran Warns it May Limit Cooperation With U.N. Nuclear Watchdog IAEA”

“The International Atomic Energy Agency, in a report to the U.N. Security Council last week, suggested Iran was stonewalling investigators and possibly withholding information crucial to determining whether it conducted research on nuclear weapons.”

Seems pretty straight forward, to date Iran has been less than cooperative. And now they say they will be less so. Fills one with confidence in their claims of peaceful intentions. Not.

h/t to AP and Fox

The Australian component of Coalition Forces has begun its pullout from Talil exactly as scheduled. So far the only place I have seen it reported is Xinhua. Funny, you would expect the left to be crowing this from the roof tops!

The Diggers have been training Iraqi Police and Army personnel, and doing a bang up job of it. Something else that has had very little media attention.

PM Rudd had made quite the production of following the polls that showed the citizens of Australia wanted their forces pulled from Iraq, when it was already set to happen for this time to begin with. Can’t blame him much, he has to take what breaks he can get, don’t you know. His stance was made clear in August of last year.

Good job, Diggers! And don’t let the snide comments and jokes about your being held out of combat ops rankle. You have done a hell of a job. As always.

CAA has a write up on this ,"Letter-writer is willing to battle for his combat patch”, over at his blog.

This NCO is correct, and from both articles I have read about this travesty he has followed CoC and is fully in the right on this issue.

And yes. I meant little “o” officer. And the correct nomenclature for such is “Chickensh%t”.

SSG Minor? If you find yourself here take heart, troop! If they want to Article 15 you on this make them. Push it to Div HQ level, embarrass the hell out of this officer. Privately, publicly, and professionally.

"Officials: 31 of 53 Teen Girls Taken From Polygamist Sect Have Been Pregnant”

If this is true, why were the men who impregnated this girls not arrested? Why were all these children arrested and thrown into the Texas Juvenile Detention system?

Here is the article. Notice that not once does it mention the arrest of those responsible. Why is that?

Virtual fence a virtual failure. As regulars hear well remember, I said this would happen. “The government will replace its highly touted “virtual fence” on the Arizona-Mexico border with new towers, radars, cameras and computer software, scrapping the brand-new $20 million system because it doesn’t work sufficiently, officials said.”

Not only $20 mil pissed away, the cost of replacing it,"DHS will put in about 17 new towers, some holding just communications gear, others featuring new cameras or new radars, at an undetermined cost.”, but redoing the entire mess and an “undetermined cost” to boot.

That $20 mil could have built one hell of a lot of fence, not to mention the massive amount of money that will now be pissed away “fixing” this complete failure.

So, gang, question of the day. Why are tax payers having to pay to straighten this boondoggle out? We didn’t screw it up. And yet we are paying for it. Twice. Hell, most likely 3,4, even 10 times over. Because they are still wasting money on building more “virtual fences”, on top of reworking this current failure.

Here is a hint, Uncle Sugar, to stop illegal immigration you have to have a REAL fence, with guards carrying REAL weapons. Not sitting at computer consoles, playing the DHS equivalent of pong and asteroids.