Saturday, January 9, 2010
Vaccination Diplomacy............
Afghanistan’s anti-polio campaign is bringing the Taliban, the central government, and United Nations agencies together in a partnership that shows the tantalizing possibility of negotiating with insurgents...Link
Geithner testimony over AIG bailout scandal.
The chairman of the House oversight committee has questions about the $182 billion in bailouts given to American International Group and he's ready to call in the U.S. Treasury secretary to get some answers. At least one television host is suggesting the New York Federal Reserve's involvement in the bailout could spell the "end" of Sec. Timothy Geithner. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY) said he plans to hold a hearing on the AIG bailouts sometime in January and plans to ask Geithner to testify about why the New York Federal Reserve told AIG to hide massive payments to banks, according to a published report...LinkMaddow shreds Giuliani...........
Is Rudolph Giuliani's political career over? The former mayor of New York City has been making his rounds in U.S. media this week, trying to explain away his false claim that there were no domestic terrorist attacks on the United States during the Bush administration...Link
What a Jackass...........
Here's a list of terror attacks under Bush that someone on Reddit compiled:
Terror Attacks Under Bush: 22
Deaths: 3010
• July 27, 2008 - Jim David Adkisson shoots two persons in a Unitarian Church because he hated liberals
• May 5, 2008 - Pipe Bomb detonated outside Federal Courthouse in San Diego
• March 7th, 2008 - Bomb detonated at Times Square Recruiting center in NY.
• December 6, 2007: Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque.
• May 9, 2007: Unidentified person deliberately set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
• April 25, 2007: A package left at a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death.
• April 16, 2007 - Terrorism? Virginia Tech Shootings.
• September 13, 2006 David McMenemy crashed his car into the Edgerton Women's Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then doused the lobby in gasoline and then started a fire. McMenemy committed these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions, however Edgerton is not an abortion clinc.
• March 2006 - Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
• December 12, 2005: Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana.
• July 4, 2005: A clinic Palm Beach, Florida was the target of an arson.
• October 1, 2005 - Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma killing himself in the process.
• October 2002 - John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway Sniper Attacks
• July 4, 2002 - An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself.
• May 2002: Luke Helder injures 6 by placing pipebombs in mailboxes in the Midwest.
• January 5, 2002 - 15yo Charles Bishop, expressing sympathy for bin Laden, crashes his Cessna into a Tampa Florida Skyscraper
• June 11, 2001: Tacoma, Washington bombing destroys a Clinic Wall
• December 12, 2001 - Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.
• December 22, 2001 - Richard Reid attempts to bomb flight 63
• November 2001 - Clayton Waagner mails powder-laden envelopes to 550+ Clinics, is convicted on 51 counts in 2003.
• September 2001 - 5 People Killed, 17 Infected by Anthrax laden letters, $250million spent cleaning up postal facilities.
• September 11, 2001 - 15 Saudis, 2, UAEs, 1 Egyptian and 1 Lebanese Hijackers kill 2,973 persons, cost billions of dollars, and cause permenant, irreparable damages to modern societies freedoms to the United States citizens.
What a Jackass...........
Here's a list of terror attacks under Bush that someone on Reddit compiled:
Terror Attacks Under Bush: 22
Deaths: 3010
• July 27, 2008 - Jim David Adkisson shoots two persons in a Unitarian Church because he hated liberals
• May 5, 2008 - Pipe Bomb detonated outside Federal Courthouse in San Diego
• March 7th, 2008 - Bomb detonated at Times Square Recruiting center in NY.
• December 6, 2007: Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque.
• May 9, 2007: Unidentified person deliberately set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
• April 25, 2007: A package left at a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death.
• April 16, 2007 - Terrorism? Virginia Tech Shootings.
• September 13, 2006 David McMenemy crashed his car into the Edgerton Women's Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then doused the lobby in gasoline and then started a fire. McMenemy committed these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions, however Edgerton is not an abortion clinc.
• March 2006 - Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
• December 12, 2005: Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana.
• July 4, 2005: A clinic Palm Beach, Florida was the target of an arson.
• October 1, 2005 - Joel Henry Hinrichs III detonated a bomb near the packed football stadium at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma killing himself in the process.
• October 2002 - John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway Sniper Attacks
• July 4, 2002 - An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself.
• May 2002: Luke Helder injures 6 by placing pipebombs in mailboxes in the Midwest.
• January 5, 2002 - 15yo Charles Bishop, expressing sympathy for bin Laden, crashes his Cessna into a Tampa Florida Skyscraper
• June 11, 2001: Tacoma, Washington bombing destroys a Clinic Wall
• December 12, 2001 - Jewish Defense League plot by Chairman Irv Rubin and follower Earl Krugel to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and the office of Lebanese-American Rep. Darrell Issa, foiled.
• December 22, 2001 - Richard Reid attempts to bomb flight 63
• November 2001 - Clayton Waagner mails powder-laden envelopes to 550+ Clinics, is convicted on 51 counts in 2003.
• September 2001 - 5 People Killed, 17 Infected by Anthrax laden letters, $250million spent cleaning up postal facilities.
• September 11, 2001 - 15 Saudis, 2, UAEs, 1 Egyptian and 1 Lebanese Hijackers kill 2,973 persons, cost billions of dollars, and cause permenant, irreparable damages to modern societies freedoms to the United States citizens.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Postponed.
Bummer Alert! Tom Araya needs back surgery! Like really needs it. This means that the sickest tour of the new decade, the American Carnage tour and a bunch of international dates have been canceled. But, the booking agents are trying to somehow work a rescheduled version of the tour sometime later this year. There is no other way about it: this totally sucks. But obviously, the most important thing is that Tom finally gets his back taken care and gets in better shape. Here is the full press release:...Link
Economy loses 85K jobs in Dec.....
The nation shed 85,000 jobs in December, worse than expected, according to a government report released Friday that suggests the economic recovery still is too weak to lead employers to add to their payrolls...Link
‘We had no domestic attacks under Bush’...
The former New York City mayor who has sometimes been mocked for using "a noun, a verb and 9/11" in stump speeches appears to have forgotten -- or has mentally reclassified -- the worst terrorist attack on American soil. "We had no domestic attacks under Bush," Rudy Giuliani told ABC's George Stephanopoulos Friday. Even if Giuliani doesn't consider the attacks on 9/11 a "domestic" attack then surely he forgot about the anthrax attacks of 2001...Link
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