All DBKP stories and videos (and in this case, photos) about the continuing saga of Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, the MySpace Mayor of Arlington, OR. Kontur-Gronquist posed in her panties and bra on the town’s firetruck for pictures for her MySpace page.
There is officially a war on in Lebanon. At least eleven people have been killed in fighting today as Hezbullah and its allies in Amal have gained control of some neighborhoods in Beirut. Among other things, Hezbullah and its allies have succeeded in shutting down the pro-government Future TV network. Let's go to the videotape to see that, and then I will have more.
Beirut Spring has some pictures taken at the ransacked Future TV offices, which offer proof that it's Syria and Iran that are behind what's going on in Beirut today. The areas that the Shiites control are in the Muslim sectors of Beirut. Here are more details.
Shi'ite opposition gunmen seized control of large areas of Beirut's Muslim sector from Sunni foes loyal to the US-backed government on Friday, in street battles that left 11 dead, security officials said.
Lebanese troops began taking up positions in some Sunni neighborhoods abandoned by the pro-government groups, but remained outside of the clashes, while elsewhere well-equipped Hizbullah fighters marched through Sunni neighborhoods.
With top leaders Saad Hariri of the Sunnis and Druse leader Walid Jumblatt besieged in their residences in Muslim western Beirut, officials of the pro-government majority called an emergency meeting of legislators in a mountain town in the Christian heartland northeast of Beirut, said LBC TV, a pro-government Christian station.
Prime Minister Fuad Saniora was holed up at his office along with several ministers in downtown Beirut, which is heavily protected by troops and police. [You may recall that I have said on several occasions that Saniora should make peace with Israel and stop pretending that there's a dispute between us and him. Instead, he is now left to fight Hezbullah alone. CiJ] A Hizbullah protest encampment that has been there for 17 months near his office has not made any move against the complex.[...]
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Barak Obama and his people should be happy about the headline attached to the new Gallup analysis: Obama Beats McCain Among Jewish Voters. But truly, that is a misleading headline. Even in his wildest dreams no McCain activist was hoping that his candidate will beat Obama fair and square among Jewish voters. American Jews are liberal Democrats. A Democratic nominee cannot conceivably lose most of the Jewish votes. In their dreams, the McCain people hope that their candidate will be able to pull out the almost 40% Ronald Reagan got from Jews back in 1980.
Links to more videos showing the ongoing situation in Lebanon.
KEN Livingstone’s defeat at the hands of Boris Johnson in the elections for the Mayor of Greater London, last week, was the end of an era. It was a development bigger than the city of London or UK with ominous implications for Muslim communities across Europe. Yet few of us in the Muslim media, across the world, so easily carried away with the nonsense of Geert Wilders, paused to reflect on the enormity of what happened.
Some events help to understand ourselves. Living all those years in London I never felt it was part of my identity. Yet suffering the visuals that emanated from the screen of BBC World News, with Ken Livingstone conceding his defeat, I suddenly had to clutch for support. With weakness in my legs and butterflies in my stomach, with something hitting in my face, I knew an age in the world history had passed — and for worse.
(several maps of battles )
Check out Charles (Allah Yehmih) Malek in Hamra, and he has first hand account... But it looks like Joumblat is still holed up in Clemenceau, and so is Saad. I think today will show whether the battle is frozen, or whether Hezb is willing to go to the bitter end.
Video of Obama suggesting McCain has "lost his bearings" and Lieberman responding.
One of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed today that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas - prompting the likely Democratic nominee to sever all links with him.
Robert Malley told The Times he had regularly been in contact with Hamas, which controls Gaza but is listed by the US State Department as a terrorist organisation. Such talks, he stressed, were related to his work for a conflict resolution think tank and had no connection with his position on Mr Obama's Middle East advisory council.
“I’ve never hidden the fact that in my job with the International Crisis Group I meet all kinds of people,” he added.
But Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Mr Obama, responded swiftly, saying: "Rob Malley has, like hundreds of other experts, provided informal advice to the campaign in the past. He has no formal role in the campaign and he will not play any role in the future."
The worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami has hit Burma, home to a despotic military regime. Despite a storm that locals claimed was "like the apocalypse," the junta sought to complicate the arrival of any foreign aid out of mistrust of the West.
When Democrats whine about Gitmo, they should be reminded of these internment camps created with FDR’s (Democrat) full approval and blessed by the same supreme court he stacked. Progressivism at its finest.
Stick187 wants you...TO SHOOT COPS..... with a camara.
because of the philly police taking down three attempted murder suspects forcefully.
notice the fake accent.
so, i take it this dumbass wants murderers on the streets rather than in jail.
On Thursday McClatchy reporter Shashank Bengali authored a piece gushing with praise for al-Sadr's softer side, showing the help he gives to" victims of American weapons."
A bloody street war, with all the horrors that it evokes: Militiamen checkpoints, asking for ones sect, religion and political affiliations. Civilian casualties, innocent bystanders mowed down by stray bullets.
Barrett's one of the most repulsive figures in American academia -- and that's saying something. This is going to be the heartland's answer to Cindy Sheehan's tilting at the Pelosi windmill in SF.
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's military leaders seized aid shipments headed for cyclone survivors and told the top U.S. diplomat there Friday that they're not ready to let in American aid workers despite warnings the country is on the verge of a medical catastrophe.
Another 4 inches of rain was forecast to fall next week as more than 1 million people waited for food, clean water, shelter and medicine to reach them. Diplomats and aid groups warned the number of dead could eventually exceed 100,000 because of illnesses and said thousands of children may have been orphaned.
The U.N. World Food Program said two planeloads of supplies containing enough high-energy biscuits to feed 95,000 people were seized Friday, prompting the world body to say it was suspending aid flights.
Later, WFP chief spokeswoman Nancy Roman said the flights would resume on Saturday while negotiations continued for the release of the supplies.
Myanmar's government acknowledged taking control of the shipments and said it plans to distribute the aid itself to the affected areas
IN CARTOONS there is often a moment when a hapless character, having galloped over a cliff, is still unaware of the fact and hangs suspended in the air, legs pumping wildly, until realisation dawns, gravity intervenes and downfall ensues. Hillary Clinton's campaign looks a bit like that this week. After her heavy loss in North Carolina and her barely perceptible victory in Indiana, a state she needed to carry triumphantly, Mrs Clinton's campaign is surely close to its end.
Look what community college professors get rebuked and fired for....sex and drugs with students.
who hires these freaks?
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A community-college professor faces termination in connection with accusations that he carried on a romantic relationship with a 19-year-old student and tried to hide her identity from authorities after she ended up unconscious April 20 at his north Phoenix condo.
The student was pronounced dead later at a hospital. Her death is being investigated as an apparent drug overdose, although authorities are awaiting toxicology and autopsy findings.
The chancellor of the Maricopa County Community College District on Thursday recommended that Michael Todd, a 51-year-old psychology professor at Paradise Valley Community College, be terminated for violating the district's "amorous relationships" regulation.
In a letter to Todd notifying him of the district's intent, Chancellor Rufus Glasper accuses Todd of violating "professional standards that MCCCD has a right to expect its faculty to uphold."
The letter marked the first time that Todd has been accused of trying to keep authorities from learning the identity of the student, Andria Ziegler.
Glasper charged in his letter that Todd, who dialed 911 to summon aid for Ziegler, denied knowing Ziegler and failed to provide emergency personnel with any of her belongings, including her purse, wallet and cellphone, that would have revealed who she was.
Todd was placed on administrative leave April 22 pending an inquiry.
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Todd has not been arrested or charged in the case.
Talks about energy, housing, horses, and his 2008 opponent.
The Democrat fundraising chair for a "top-tier" Democrat challenger" frets about the money drying up. Democrat donors are tapped out after giving so much to the presidential race, or they are turned off by the "nastiness." The fundraiser tries to pin the blame on Hillary and calls for her to quit the race.
Nothing has changed in the last month, however, except the newly revealed facts about Obama. This rich corporate lawyer from Chicago told a group of San Francisco billionaires that small town Americans are "bitter" because they "cling to guns and religion." Obama's friends are people like domestic terrorist William Ayers and the race-baiting exploitation preacher Jeremiah Wright. Perhaps it's Obama crying racism every time his policy proposals are criticized. The facts are turning Obama's central campaign themes of "judgement" and "character" against him.
"Dozens and dozens" of Democrat congressional challengers are already coming up short in fundraising in the second quarter. All this can be solved, said the Democrat financial whiz, if Hillary drops out. I have a feeling, though, that hitching their wagon to Obama will not get the Democrats to the promised land.
The tide may be turning for November.