COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Monday, January 21, 2013

Thanks to NATO, Libya has become – a Western sponsored sanctuary for Al-Qaeda. AQIM’s headway in northern Mali and now French involvement will see the conflict inevitably spill over into Algeria.



GLOBAL RESEARCH


Exactly as predicted, the ongoing French “intervention” in the North African nation of Mali has spilled into Algeria – the next most likely objective of Western geopolitical interests in the region since the successful destabilization of Libya in 2011.
In last week’s “France Displays Unhinged Hypocrisy as Bombs Fall on Mali” report, it was stated specifically that:
“As far back as August of 2011, Bruce Riedel out of the corporate-financier funded think-tank, the Brookings Institution, wrote “Algeria will be next to fall,” where he gleefully predicted success in Libya would embolden radical elements in Algeria, in particular AQIM. Between extremist violence and the prospect of French airstrikes, Riedel hoped to see the fall of the Algerian government. Ironically Riedel noted:
Algeria has expressed particular concern that the unrest in Libya could lead to the development of a major safe haven and sanctuary for al-Qaeda and other extremist jihadis.
And thanks to NATO, that is exactly what Libya has become – a Western sponsored sanctuary for Al-Qaeda. AQIM’s headway in northern Mali and now French involvement will see the conflict inevitably spill over into Algeria. It should be noted that Riedel is a co-author of “Which Path to Persia?” which openly conspires to arm yet another US State Department-listed terrorist organization (list as #28), the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) to wreak havoc across Iran and help collapse the government there – illustrating a pattern of using clearly terroristic organizations, even those listed as so by the US State Department, to carry out US foreign policy.”
Now, it is reported that “Al Qaeda-linked” terrorists have seized American hostages in Algeria in what is being described by the Western press as “spill over” from France’s Mali operations.
“As Algerian army helicopters clattered overhead deep in the Sahara desert, Islamist militants hunkered down for the night in a natural gas complex they had assaulted Wednesday morning, killing two people and taking dozens of foreigners hostage in what could be the first spillover from France’s intervention in Mali.”
The Wall Street Journal, in its article, “Militants Grab U.S. Hostages in Algeria,” reports that:
“Militants with possible links to al Qaeda seized about 40 foreign hostages, including several Americans, at a natural-gas field in Algeria, posing a new level of threat to nations trying to blunt the growing influence of Islamist extremists in Africa.As security officials in the U.S. and Europe assessed options to reach the captives from distant bases, Algerian security forces failed in an attempt late Wednesday to storm the facility.”
The WSJ also added:
“Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the U.S. would take “necessary and proper steps” in the hostage situation, and didn’t rule out military action. He said the Algeria attack could represent a spillover from Mali.”
And it is military action, both covert and incrementally more overt, that will see the West’s extremist proxies and the West’s faux efforts to stem them, increasingly creep over the Mali-Algerian border, as the old imperial maps of Europe are redrawn right before our eyes.
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Meanwhile, these very same terrorist forces continue to receive funding, arms, covert military support, and diplomatic recognition in Syria, by NATO, and specifically the US and France who are both claiming to fight the “Free Syrian Army’s” ideological and very literal allies in North Africa.
In reality, Al Qaeda is allowing the US and France to intervene and interfere in Algeria, after attempts in 2011 to trigger political subversion was soundly defeated by the Algerian government. Al Qaeda is essentially both a casus belli and mercenary force, deployed by the West against targeted nations. It is clear that French operations seek to trigger armed conflict in Algeria as well as a possible Western military intervention there as well, with the Mali conflict serving only as a pretense.

83 comments:

  1. NATO’s Breaking Bad moment started under Clinton in Kosovo. The US has an opportunity to break free of the Middle East, NATO and the endless wars with true domestic and regional energy independence. It will take a politician and party that is an America Firster. I won’t hold my breath.

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  2. As usual, the average person pays for our politician’s political follies in very tangible ways.

    In the aftermath of the hostage crisis, Tom Price, global commodity analyst for UBS said $100 a barrel was “a/ possibility” for U.S. crude futures this week and any move higher may spill over to Brent crude, lifting that benchmark possibly beyond $115.

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  3. American Forces Press Service

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2013 – The nation’s thoughts and prayers are with the families of those killed and injured in the terrorist attack in Algeria, and the blame for the tragedy rests with the terrorists who carried it out, President Barack Obama said today.

    In a statement, the president said the United States condemns the terrorists’ actions “in the strongest possible terms.”

    “We have been in constant contact with Algerian officials and stand ready to provide whatever assistance they need in the aftermath of this attack,” Obama said. “We also will continue to work closely with all of our partners to combat the scourge of terrorism in the region, which has claimed too many innocent lives.”

    The attack is another reminder of the threat posed by al-Qaeda and other violent extremist groups in North Africa, the president said.
    “In the coming days, we will remain in close touch with the government of Algeria to gain a fuller understanding of what took place so that we can work together to prevent tragedies like this in the future,” he added.

    During a news conference in London today, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said both of their governments remain in close contact with Algerian officials, and are working to establish firm details of the assault, kidnappings and murders that took place at a remote natural gas facility in Algeria.
    Panetta confirmed Americans were among those held hostage, but he said the possible number of U.S. deaths remains unclear. He pledged continued close consultation with Algerian authorities, and emphasized the attackers bear full and sole responsibility for all loss of life.

    "Just as we cannot accept terrorist attacks against our cities, we cannot accept attacks against our citizens and our interests abroad,” he said. “Neither can we accept an al-Qaida safe haven anywhere in the world.”

    Since 9/11, Panetta said, “We’ve made very clear that nobody is going to attack the United States of America and get away with it.” The nation and its allies and partners have fought terrorists in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and
    will take the fight to North Africa as well, he said.

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    1. .

      ...in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and...

      Interesting that Panetta said nothing about our great work in Libya. Seems I recall them calling Colonel Q a terrorist a few times.

      .

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  4. Adam's Best Bud, Jimmy Kimmel

    Scroll down to "DC Reporter Verbal Slip " for the Video.

    The Inaguration fell on Playoff Sunday, which is something that SHOULD be changed in the Constitution, but fear not, our Self-Centered leader and his little girlfriend in Bangs will more than make up for it tonite.

    Anyhoo, the reporter calls it "The InNiggeration"

    Ash is right:

    Fox News is beyond redemption.

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  5. It's all about the uranium.


    Hamdoon

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  6. No blood for uranium!

    D. Twinkie

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  7. "The nation’s thoughts and prayers are with the families of those killed and injured in the terrorist attack in Algeria, and the blame for the tragedy rests with the President, Barack HUSSEIN Obama."

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  8. Fuckin Hamdoon!

    I thot we were done with you!

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    1. I will not waste much time here. I do you a favor, so you will not waste much of your own time, arguing about things secondary to the real motivating concern.

      Hamdoon

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    2. I am completely confused.

      ...not for the first time.

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  9. "Just as we cannot accept terrorist attacks against our cities"

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    WTF Not?

    It beats Detroit.

    ...just ask Quirk, or the farmer, I forgit which.

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  10. No blood on Uranus:

    Lube up, clodhopper.

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  11. I sure hope "Felody" sees this.
    Not the same old political back and forth.

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    You should be ashamed of yourself, Farmer Bob:

    WE Love Melody, whether YOU do, or not.

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    1. Leaving, I will say, 'I love Felody, too'

      For women with felonies I have always suffered a weakness.

      Hamdoon

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    2. Did you ever try it through that slot above the desktop during visitor hours?

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  12. Why don't we just give the Muzzies the keys to the Nukes, supply technical help as necessary for targeting all our major cities and military centers, and be done with it?

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  13. Damn!

    The kid's girls folks live in Honolulu.
    ...collateral casualties when they nuke Pearl.

    Nice folks, too.

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  14. Manly Beach Library, near Sydney, has moved all Lance Armstrong's books to the fiction section.

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  15. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265402/Adventurous-human-woman-wanted-birth-Neanderthal-man-Harvard-professor.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


    Science run amok.

    Now no one come in and say, but wait, we already have Neanders in Canada, Detroit, Arizona, Hawaii....or even in Idaho.

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  16. Hoodie Horse Rapist Caught on Camera in Florida

    A horse rapist is on the loose in Florida!

    Abby Conder, who breeds, shows and sells miniature horses, says that since May, her mini-horses have been under attack. One of her horses "had been raped both by a man and by several objects. She was so hematomed on the back and so bloody, that she looked like they put her whole bottom through a garbage disposal," as reported by Tampa Bay's News 10.

    Bodily fluids were found inside the horse by the vet, but Marion County Sheriff's officers told Conder that they need to catch the man in the act.

    Conder says she bought a guard dog, but he was beaten to death, so they set up surveillance cameras with a live Internet feed. On Saturday, they caught a man checking out the horses and then bringing one to a fence, tying it up and abusing it.

    ---

    "Bodily fluids were found inside the horse by the vet, but Marion County Sheriff's officers told Conder that they need to catch the man in the act."

    Mere DNA no big whoops in these PC Times.

    ...at least in Florida, Mississippi, and Californiacate.

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    She says she'd shoot him if she had a gun.

    ...hint: Buy a gun.

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    Where did Hamdoon say he was headed?

    Felons, miniature, horses, where does this end.???

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  17. Good morning. Freezing in Mn.
    Less than 2 weeks until we move into our rented house in Bertha.
    Waiting to recieve help ($) for the move.
    Stay warm over there in Michagan Q.

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    1. Your thermometer must be wrong. Ash assured us we are entering a warm period.

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    2. The b00bie at full strut!

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  18. I see the b00bie and Dougshit show contines apace and the Dougshit keeps moaning on about my not commenting on his link to a youtube video proving how gun crimes have increased in Austalia since their big GUN GRAB (oh my!!)

    As usual the Dougshit spews crap. He doesn't knowingly do it as he's apparently too damn...

    ...aww I should have pity on the poor moron.

    Here are a few words talking about such bullshit that starts with with adage "Figures don't lie, but liars figure". Seems appropriate though those two aren't lying, they just can't think well what with being morons and all:

    Austalian Guns

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    1. That's a pretty slim reed there Ash. Basically it doesn't say anything other than while crime is indeed up in Australia we need to wait longer than a year to get better input.

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    2. And the idea of grabbing guns down under was that it would reduce crime, and there is zero evidence of that.

      Australia I think must be a wonderful country and I intend to go there someday if possible, but they do have some woeful political tendencies. They do seem free to criticize the muzzies though which makes up for some other sins.

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    3. Your analysis of the Youtube Video Doug put up, the article I referred to, and your use of statistics in general mirror the depth of analysis you were able to bring to that fake YouTube video of the plane landing in the truck.

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    1. Can those printers print you up a new brain?

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    2. And why is it you are never out there earning a living like every other working age person?

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    3. Are you on benefits?

      (that's 'sit down' money in Australia)

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    4. Not hard at work, obviously.

      Or, do you mean you work at this Bar?

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    5. You are dense. Some of us can multi-task. I work on computers, the computers are on the internet, the EB is on the internet...

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    6. You are working when you are talking to me?

      Hey, great work, not many can get it.

      I have an HP that the screen went dead on, and it does not even turn on. What do I do?

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    7. (giving you something meaningful to do)

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    8. The battery may be dead, but when I plug the machine into the wall it still doesn't work.

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    9. Laptop, red in color.

      What was that you said? Try plugging it into my ass?

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  20. Today is the blessed day that Barky can no longer blame the former administration for the mess the country endures. Four years of Barky has not moved the unemployment numbers one little bit, but now he no longer has Bush to blame.

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  21. Going on to something important, has anyone noticed that a can of salmon is nearly the same price as a can of tuna fish these days?

    If so, what is the cause, this salmon lovers wonders.

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    1. Maybe all the shitty, inedible, farm-raised Salmon?

      ...the last good Salmon I've had was in Canada decades ago.

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  22. 'Sit down' money really ought to be 'sit down and shut up money'.

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  23. .

    For those who think the neocons are dead or necessarily allied only with the GOP.

    The World at a Plastic Juncture: An Appeal to Obama to take up the Neocon Dream

    The Neocons aren't a political party, they are ideologues, willing to jump into bed with any political party that has the power to advance their geopolitical wet dreams.

    .

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    1. Like this?

      "At the end of World War II, the United States led the way in shaping an international order that, for all its flaws, served the American people, and much of the world, remarkably well.

      With sustained attention, personal engagement, and a clear vision of a multilateral global order that reflects American liberal values and progressive ideals, President Obama now has the opportunity once again to shape world affairs to the benefit of the United States and mankind.
      "

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    2. Was just listening to a 2008 Obama speech with more pie in the sky goals most of which I can't remember, but along the lines of:

      "We can harness the power of the Sun, reap abundance from the Earth, etc etc"

      Meanwhile, Chinese Solar companies are shutting down or consolidating due to a glut of production capacity, and lack of demand and profits.

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    3. In WWII, folks were lean and mean, today we are fat and flabby:

      The largest contributor to health care woes:

      Overweight and Obesity in the U.S.

      Two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese (Flegal et al., 2012). In general, rates of overweight and obesity are higher for African-American and Hispanic women than Caucasian women, higher for Hispanic men than Caucasian and African-American men, higher in the South and Midwest, and tend to increase with age (Flegal et al., 2012; Gregg et al., 2009; Sherry et al., 2010). Research also shows that the heaviest Americans have become even heavier the past decade (Beydoun & Wang, 2009).

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    4. Military production during WWII

      Example: 324,750 aircraft.

      Today, it takes more time to get through the bureaucracy with a new design than WWII from beginning to end.

      12 years after 9-11, the trade towers have still not been replaced.

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  24. Ash said:

    "Your analysis of the Youtube Video Doug put up, the article I referred to, and your use of statistics in general mirror the depth of analysis you were able to bring to that fake YouTube video of the plane landing in the truck."

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    You cast aspersions and change the subject:

    Are you saying that the Australia report is not true, no different than Nissan's Truck ad?

    Please explain and link evidence to the contrary.

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    1. You linked to a rather poorly produced youtube video. I responded with the snopes link which referred to the Austrailian gun debate statistics. Do with it what you will.

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    2. Obviously you didn't read the article. In short it debunked the statistical analysis you crazies trumpet regarding the Australian experience.

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    3. Obviously not, I didn't see it.
      If you could provide, that would be nice.
      If not, I'll look for it.

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    4. Desert Rat says upthread:

      Same article?

      I did not see it, searching your name.

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    5. upthread, AshMon Jan 21, 11:41:00 AM EST, clickable link called:


      Austalian Guns



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  25. If you or Bob could:

    WHICH "article I refered to"

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  26. It is up thread, somewhere, dougo.

    Find it at your liesure.

    Is there evidence that the Tuerang, especially those back from Libya, have become radicalized?

    Or are the Islamoids meerely using their media access to make it appear to be an aQ insurgency?

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    1. Do you contend everything is peachy keen in the Arab Spring?

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    2. I would 'Contend' the US interest are being served 'Reasonably' well.

      Colonel Q was an enemy of the US, he's gone. Gone as Saddam.

      But without 4,000 US KIA.

      In Egypt, our proxy, the military, is monitoring the political situation, closely. We will follow their lead. So far the election of Morsai has had no negative effect on US interests

      Israel is as safe and secure as it has ever been.

      That the US is out of Iraq, a major plus.

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    3. Good to know, not that I agree.

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  27. Bob said...

    "That's a pretty slim reed there Ash. Basically it doesn't say anything other than while crime is indeed up in Australia we need to wait longer than a year to get better input."

    Sometimes Farmer Bob is right:
    This is one of them.

    I put the link up 2 days ago, or so, now this is all you can show in response?

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  28. My youtube link showed real people, far as I can tell:

    The Nissan ad was obviously different, and you pointed out obvious tells and definitive proof.

    Can you do that with the Australian Video?

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  29. "AshMon Jan 21, 11:41:00 AM EST
    I see the b00bie and Dougshit show contines apace and the Dougshit keeps moaning on about my not commenting on his link to a youtube video proving how gun crimes have increased in Austalia since their big GUN GRAB (oh my!!)
    "

    Confiscating and destroying over 600,000 weapons from tiny Australian population, IS a big deal.

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  30. Caller from Mn says it's 16 below zero!

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    1. Yep, and it sucks. Chopping wood helps in more than a couple ways.

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    2. I did a lot of manual labor jobs well wnen I was young.

      Chopping wood was not one of them.

      A smaller, weaker friend could put me to shame.
      ...better back, I suspect.

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  31. I'm a gay man from Portland, Oregon. I moved to Missoula, Montana to take a teaching job in the public school system there. I like to go to the bars on a weekend. I look and act gay even if I try hard not to. I got my self a pistol after looks from some of the local loggers. Whatever about Australia, God Bless the 2nd Amendment.

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    1. I like music too, and sometimes out here in Missoula I feel like this -

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4cjxHqU9UA

      My Glock is my new friend, and I feel at home when I carry.

      Minnesota has nothing on Montana in the cold department.

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    2. lol,

      You gay boyz just luv all those cute guys in the regulated militias!

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    3. Up yours, Abigail. You may say you're straight but you have Twinkie 175 written all over you. Some day someone will play with you then you will be crying police and where are they?

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    4. Harland Williams was doing some voice work in Hollywood recently, and during a break he was talking to a guy he didn't know was gay, but the Witch in the Wizard of Oz came up, and it became obvious:

      Harland says she was scary, this guy sez:

      "Gays love her, not scary at all, we see her as a strong female figure!"

      Harland thought it odd that he that he could speak for all gays, but the guy goes on to say:

      "If you want to see if your little boy is gay or not, let him watch the Wizard and whether he likes the Witch or not."

      Takes all kinds...

      Glad you got a pistol, but if it was me, I'd find friendlier climes.

      (warmer too)

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    5. Ash is Anti-Gay, and I'm not talking about sexual preferences, but as in fun and frolics.

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    6. "that he THOUGHT he could speak for all gays"

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    7. What do liberal gays have to say about the way the Muzzies treat gays?

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    2. Excellent casting, Bob. You hooked them both, the Weasel from Waikiki -

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel

      and Ash the Flash from Canada.

      It is not like you didn't drift a giant tell in front of their fishy noses, what with that Mormon Tabernacle Choir gig.

      Talk about motherless children.....these two are lost in the woods.

      The 'critical thinker' Ash, and the Weasel Deceiver, both getting their just deserts.


      Hamdoon

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    3. Royal Coachman, Hamdoon.

      Double fly, double leader, single cast and single hooker, two for the cooks and two for cooker.

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  33. I hope Felody hasn't gotten picked up again.

    She'd only have one strike left.

    She may not know about that three strikes and you're out law.

    She is an outlaw, of course, and should know this stuff, it being part of the lifestyle, but she may not know the full implications.

    One poor sap in California, for instance, ended up life in the can, his third strike being stealing a Ding-Dong from a food kitchen.

    This is why sentencing is best left to Judges, and not the people, or the people's representatives.

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  34. Felody in Fedora -

    http://girlswearinghats.blogspot.com/2010/04/fedora-hats-in-hollywood-female.html

    #4 counting down

    g'nite, big day tomorrow

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  35. But, first, forgot to mention, I was thinking about his felony stuff, and here in Idaho, if you are a felon, you can't vote. Generally I support this.

    But if Felody has lost her right to vote, she ought to call the American Civil Liberties Union and see if they can help. Saying she is an Obama voter might help her there too.

    Losing the right to vote, if that is the case, over a speeding ticket would be outrageous.

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