Month: April 2005

Mongo has his own views on the MSM attacks on Tom Delay.

Josh Gerstein of The New York Sun has been reporting this week on the story of Hillary’s ‘questionable’ Senate campaign contribution scandal.

Opposition Candidate- Aram Karapetian Aram Karapretian, the Maverick Opposition Candidate in Armenia ran into more challenges yesterday when his political rally was disrupted by “thugs”:Aram Karapetian, a maverick opposition politician who has vowed to stage a “revolution” in Armenia, blamed on Thursday an unspecified “government wing” for violence that disrupted his rally in the central town of Sevan on Wednesday.

Kofi Annan is not cleared just yet…

Yep, he’s gone…

Marc Ravalomanana, next to Condoleezza Rice, at the signing of the Millennium Challenge Aid Agreement in Washington DC.Instead of shuffling millions of financial aid to countries ruled by dictators, only to see it end up in Swiss Bank Accounts, the US policy today is to reward countries with aid for their commitment to democratic reform.

Publius Pundit has a link to a list of the 2005 World’s Dictators that is complete with pictures of those listed in this elite club.

A muslim charity has been linked to funding those responsible for the deaath of American Daniel Pearl:Pakistani investigators have found a definite and irrevocable link between a Muslim charity and one of the four suspects believed to be involved in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in February 2002.A ‘Trust Deed’, retrieved from at least two banks where Al-Akhtar Trust International outlawed by the American Treasury Department in 2003 for having links with Taliban and Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network has it accounts, shows that Saud Memon is one of the eleven trustees of the trust, highly placed sources told Daily Times on Monday.The sources said the name of Saud Memon, who owns the shed where Pearl’s remains were found, appeared at number nine (9) on the list of the 11-member Board of Trustees.

Bombmaker and Jew Killer, Yihye Ayyash (Yahya Ayyash) The father of suicide bombings and Palestinian hero, Yihye Ayyash, will have a miniseries in his honor out soon: A 12-part series on the life of the “father of suicide bombings,” Hamas bomb-maker Yihye Ayyash is set to be aired on the Lebanese-based Hizbullah satellite television station al-Manar.

From Aljazeera:Although illiteracy rates are generally falling in Arab countries, rising populations mean that the total number of people unable to either read or write continues to increase, says a new report.

Wash U officials are disputing what the protesting ex-hunger-striking sudents are telling reporters: University officials said Monday that no meetings are scheduled this week with students occupying the admissions office, despite what students had said.

A family of PPP supporters in Pakistan who were on the way to a weekend rally and detained are still in custody: The Punjab government released a large number of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activists and leaders on Sunday, but still has dozens of people including an 11-month-old infant and a four-year-old girl in detention at Kot Lakhpat Jail.The children were detained along with their mother, aunt, uncle and 75-year-old grandmother, Ruqiya Somroo, who is an MNA from Larkana and also a heart patient.Ruqiya Somroo came to Lahore with two of her daughters and grandchildren to stay at Bilawal House on April 15, a day before Asif Ali Zardari’s arrival.

A second Sudanese protester has died from injuries incurred during a protest last Thursday in Khartoum: A Sudanese student has died of the injuries he sustained during clashes with riot police in the capital last week, an official said on Monday.Khaled Mohammed Nour, 22, a student of commerce at Nilein University in Khartoum, died in hospital on Sunday night, the Interior Ministry official said.

Mother Andrea with Mia When I was in high school my brothers and I used to take my niece Andrea out with us and show her off to our friends.

South Koreans brandish knives, air guns, fire arrows, and ‘squibs’ at Anti-Japanese ProtestA Korean Protester wielding a knife is restrained.

China see the largest protests yet in Shenzhen, a city near Hong Kong: Anti-Japanese protests swelled to their largest size yet in China on Sunday as relations between the two Asian powers continued their downward slide.Japan’s foreign minister, here for talks with his Chinese counterpart, called for an emergency meeting between the countries’ two top leaders, both of whom will be in Indonesia later this week.But the Chinese government did not respond to the request, and the likelihood of a face-to-face meeting seemed dim.

3 Assembly Women Taken to Hospital Reports of the brutal treatment of PPP members awaiting the arrival of Asif Ali Zardari are being reported including the harsh treatment of women protesters:Four women members of the Pakistan People’s Party, including three provincial assembly members, had to be taken to hospital for treatment after being beaten up by policemen on Saturday, the day PPP exiled Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Lahore.

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Thank You!”Naked Pyramid” or “Take Your Lashes”?

Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) has another brilliant post this week on the failed policies and then subsequent failed and pathetic predictions of those who attacked our president during this time of war (although many of these critics may not agree that we are involved in war or that it would make a difference on their vocal pessimism).

Wise “Old Media” links to Wise “New Media” From the April issue of “Reader’s Digest” MagazineIn an article about new ways of ‘cashing in’, Good Old Media (my mother loves Reader’s Digest- especially the jokes!) links to New Media and who better (my apologies to Michelle Malkin, Powerline, Polipundit, Publius Pundit, Athena,…) than the “Great One” Glenn Reynolds at “Instapundit”…I’ve included the whole segment here of the interview with Mega- “Instapundit”…Blog for $$$When he’s not teaching Internet and constitutional law full-time at the University of Tennessee, Glenn Reynolds, 44, can be found “blogging” on his computer.

I am going to go on record to predict that one day soon Jim-mah Carter will have to be escorted out of a public venue for ranting obscenities at an American audience.

Scott Mandrell aka Lewis Meriwether So what is Lewis to do when Clark wants to spend his time partying at celebrations?Two hundred years ago, the pair known as Lewis and Clark toughed it out together for 8,000 miles.

Kofi’s UN today accused the US and Britain for the “Food for Kojo” scandals:The US and Britain have rejected allegations by UN chief Kofi Annan that they turned a blind eye to oil smuggling by Saddam Hussein’s regime.