Probably to yours, too.
“Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!”
A bee-yoo-tiful chorus.
UPDATE: Newlyweds Ashraf al-Akhras and Nadia al-Alami pose with their fathers at the Radisson SAS in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday shortly before the hotel was bombed.
The dead there included the fathers of the bride and groom.
UPDATE: According to ABC World News Tonight, the bomber walked past all the Westerners in the lobby, straight into the Muslim wedding. Al-Qaida considers weddings with drinking, women dancing with men and a bride wearing white to be blasphemy and an abomination. Against Islam.
Bastards.
…when they see one.
“Any poll I do, the rest of Louisiana thinks, ‘New Orleans is a deep, dark hole, and no matter how much money we send, it doesn’t seem to get better.’ “
*For Rob {8^P
WE NEED YOUR HELP
We have some brave Devil Dogs (twelve to be exact ~ more on that later) keeping UAV’s in the air on the Syrian border right now, with one of Major Dad’s favoritest First Lieutenants in charge. She says most of her kids get hardly any mail at all and, being LCpl’s and Cpl’s, that means not much internet time for them either. The Swilling immediately adopted the whole bunch and this is where you guys come in. We’d love to have ya’lls help getting cookies, treats, paper turkeys, magazines ~ whatEVER you feel you can do ~ to the Marines of VMU-1 Forward’s S-2 shop, so Thanksgiving and Christmas are a tad more tolerable. Time’s getting short for Thanksgiving and the Christmas mailing recommendations are out (APO addresses by Dec5!), so we need to get crackin’. For example, I sent Sara a box of cookies prior to Halloween and tucked in a bag of individually wrapped candy corns. Now, they’ve been in the field for a couple weeks, so no packages, but it’ll be waiting on her to get back. Stuff like that. I’m going to try to get a T-Giving box together with little turkey party thingers. We’d love to have you all on board, for cookies or for postcards ~ WHAT doesn’t matter, but the THOUGHT does. I know there’re quite a few worthy and wonderful (like Valor-IT) fundraisers going on around the blogosphere now, too. But those are big picture and impersonal. We’re doing little picture, up close and personal. Like what hearing your name at mail-call does for a young Marine’s heart. Drop me or Bingster a note (our contact info at right) if you’d like to join us. We’d love to have you. I mean, we’d LOVE to have you.
On November 10, 1775, the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia passed a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces with the fleet. This resolution established the Continental Marines and marked the birth date of the United States Marine Corps.
Four legendary Marines who served with bravery and distinction during the 20th century will be immortalized by the U.S. Postal Service when it issues the Distinguished Marines Commemorative Postage Stamps November 10th at 1:00pm, during a ceremony at Marine Barracks Washington,DC. The event is in conjunction with celebration of the 230th Birthday of the United States Marine Corps.
Great faces, shitty places.
Bless their brave hearts. Happy Birthday, Marines.
Semper Fi.
From me 
and Major Dad.
(Loading up for DESERT SHIELD, MCAS El Toro, 1990)
Please consider joining us in sending cheer to one of our in-country Marines.
Big bombs go off in a hotel in Amman Jordan.
The Grand Hyatt, the Radisson and the Day’s Inn in near simultaneous attacks.
According to the expert on Fox right now, those hotels (esp. the Hyatt) are used for high ranking Israeli visitors, the int’l press, Iraqi diplomats and have been a target of al-Zarqawi’s before. At least 12 dead so far.
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He was once barred from primary school because he couldn’t afford the fees, but stubbornly stood outside the classroom to listen to lessons.
…has passed away. What an extraordinary man he was.
…a perilous poultry pattern.
Exhibit A: The injured chicken is at animal services on campus.
Exhibit B: A woman has been arrested for padding her bra — with a stolen rare parrot.
Exhibit C: “I could have died over some fried chicken left on the stove,”
Exhibit D: Hot chicks in hot water soon shooting hot shots?
(Normally, I’m willing to die FOR fried chicken, but, considering recent events here in the Sunshine State, I think I’ll hold off for a while.)
“I turned to my friend during the movie and said, ‘I have always wanted to see my book on the big screen and there it is; I just didn’t get credit for it,’ ” said Mr. Turnipseed, who served as a truck driver with the Marine Corps for about 90 days in 1991.
I mean, how could you possibly screw over a Marine named Turnipseed? That’s just un-American.
…South Korea’s newest generation says “thanks for the memories“.
John and I have discussed the Japanese version of that particular sign at some length here, but, in their defense, the Japanese got their a$$es kicked and just have never gotten over it. Okay, understandable. Everyone’s entitled to an opinion. On the otherhand, the only reason the South Koreans can wear Gucci while putting nasty signs up is because we saved their a$$es.
When Bingley’s favorite Fearless Leader sends his famished hordes over the border, I hope they remember to take the signs down before they yelp for help.
A Swill Salute to onefreekorea (check out his contacts at the end of the post), via the always timely Gateway Pundit.
sang·froid / ‘sän-‘f(r)wä/ noun
: self-possession or imperturbability especially under strain
Example Sentence: Le Monde, the newspaper of France’s political elite, accused the prime minister of sending a message of “staggering brutality” to the youth of the suburbs, who are for the most part children and grandchildren of African immigrants.
By invoking a law created in 1955 to put down unrest during the Algerian war of independence, Le Monde said, Mr de Villepin had “lost his sang-froid” and was sending the message that “France intends to treat them [the French-born children of immigrants] as it did their grandparents. The prime minister should remember that this spiral of incomprehension, of martial fever and powerlessness has driven the republic to its worst setbacks”.
If curfews are “staggering brutality“, what do they use when the “unrest” doesn’t peter out? Harsh language?
I’m so sorry Sis.
After 12 days of riots the French Cabinet considers curfews!
“We are composing letters to these youths, telling them how angry we are.”
“We will now be able to act in a preventative manner to avoid these incidents,” Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said.
“We will monitor, bit by bit, the evolution of events,” AP quoted him as saying. “For a period of 12 days, raids will be possible every time that we have a suspicion of a stockpiling of weapons.”
But they’ve got the situation under control:
Rioters burned 1,173 cars in 226 towns nationwide overnight compared to 1,408 the previous night, AP quoted police as saying.
Meanwhile, 330 people were arrested, down from 395 the night before, National Police Chief Michel Gaudin told a news conference.
“The intensity of this violence is on the way down,” AP quoted him as saying.
And the 3 car dealerships that are left in the country will be doing a booming business over the next few months!
Whatever dope he’s smoking, I hope to hell no one else gets ahold of any.
Dominique de Villepin, the beleaguered prime minister, announced that officials in riot-hit areas would be authorised to impose late-night curfews “wherever it is necessary” in a bid to halt the disturbances.
He rejected calls by a police union for troops to be sent in but said that 1,500 reservists were being called up and repeated an appeal to parents to keep adolescent rioters off the streets.
“[W]e were inundated with hate mail. We were disparaged as ‘immoral cowards; a nation of effeminate, improbitive [sic], whimpering, timorous poltroons.’ And isn’t it racist to say ‘I hope you enjoy Islam. I hope you do not expect to move to the U.S. when the Muslims run you out of your own country‘?”
~the French Ambassador to the U.S., Jean-David Levitte
Dead to rights, but in June 2004.
…is warming up the stove top!
Ten days of your country under attack and you don’t pipe up until the afternoon of the eleventh? Hell of a way to run a country, Monsewer President. Ce qui m’agace c’est que; for someone who’s so quick to point out…
…how wrong everyone else is, maybe it’s time you kept your mouth shut and took a look at the old homestead. Quit playing pique-a-boo with your citizens, and BE the leader you tell everyone else how to be.
UPDATE: Let’s play “What’s Wrong With This Headline?”
10 Officers Shot as Riots Worsen in French Cities
I’ll go first. I think it should read “Officers Shot 10 Rioters”.
UPDATE the UPDATE: Three Hundred towns ??!!
PARIS – Rioting by French youths spread to 300 towns overnight and a man hurt in the violence died of his wounds, the first fatality in 11 days of unrest that has shocked the country, police said Monday.
As urban unrest spread to neighboring Belgium and possibly Germany, the French government faced growing criticism for its inability to stop the violence, despite massive police deployment and continued calls for calm.
I love the ‘continued calls for calm’ bit. That might have worked before day three, but I’d be packing my bags about now. Looks like a worn, old joke of the Grinch’s that holds sadly true to this day.
How many French troops does it take to defend Paris?
Don’t know. No one’s ever tried it.
“Calm“, my derrière.
I’m not sure “2:10 am in a bathroom stall” is what you envisioned:
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Two Carolina Panthers cheerleaders were arrested after a bar dispute that broke out early Sunday after patrons complained the women were having sex in a bathroom stall, a police arrest report said.
Police reports named the women, but The Tampa Tribune reported officials were checking into whether one of them gave a false identification. One woman was charged with battery, and the other with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Both women were released on bond later Sunday
The women were locked in a stall at about 2:10 a.m. Sunday when other patrons got angry they were taking so long in the bathroom, the police report said. The women left the stall, and one began arguing with another patron of Banana Joe’s, eventually hitting that patron in the face with a closed fist, police said.
Two women having sex in a stall? I’m assuming it was a handicapped one, so they’d have a little more room (and that sturdy bar…), but still…ick all around.
Update: Mugshots!!
…last night coincided with a review (by Douglas Brinkley, piTU!) in the NYT of his authorized biography “First Man“. CBS mentioned how they were ‘strolling on his family farm in Ohio’. One additional, fascinating tidbit noted in the NYT was…
…after leaving NASA in 1971 Armstrong named his farm “Rivendale“…
Rebels Dressed as Women Attack Iraqi Police Station
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 5 – Insurgent attacks across central Iraq, including one in which the guerrillas disguised themselves as women, left at least 16 dead on Friday as Shiite Arabs across the country began celebrating the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
In the deadliest assault, insurgents dressed in women’s clothing attacked a police checkpoint in the town of Buhriz, 35 miles north of Baghdad, killing at least 6 police officers and wounding at least 10 others, American and Iraqi officials said. The guerrillas were armed with Kalashnikov rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, and pulled up in five cars, an Interior Ministry official said. The police officers killed at least two of the gunmen, he added.
Pretty convenient, that “sense of moral superiority to everything around them, including women”: you get to keep your women all swathed up in billowing cloth. Who the hell knows who’s under those miles of bedsheets? Thank God for democracy and the equality of the sexes. They’d never get away with such bold, manly acts here. We’d see through it in a heartbeat.
…In a speech to a group of conservative academics and policy experts, DeLay blamed the runaway spending of recent years on minority Democrats. When he took questions, the first came from a senior official at the American Conservative Union, who asked DeLay, “How large does the Republican majority in the House and Senate need to be before Republicans act like the fiscal conservative I thought we were?“
Give the guy that asked the question a Tootsie Pop!
WASHINGTON (AP) — Contending that the Supreme Court has undermined a pillar of American society — the sanctity of the home — the House overwhelmingly approved a bill Thursday to block the court-approved seizure of private property for use by developers.
The bill, passed 376-38, would withhold federal money from state and local governments that use powers of eminent domain to force businesses and homeowners to give up their property for commercial uses.
The one nay voter they quote has a “D” by his name, go figure. But I’m sure there’s just as many slavering little “R’s” in local governments, scrambling to get the dirty deeds done before this kicks in. Greed is universal. So is grease.
…might be Paris’ theme song at the moment, but there are pretty awful things afoot all over Europe that aren’t getting any press time. And, coincidence of coincidence, they all have one thing in common. You got it. The religion of PEACE.
In June a Danish* newspaper, tired of artists censuring themselves for fear of Islamospastics, called for artists to send in charicatures of the prophet. Twelve brave souls sent in their offerings, which the paper then published. Reaction was swift, pretty predictable and typically Islamospastic-fervent.
‘This type of democracy is worthless for Muslims,’ Imam Raed Hlayhel wrote in a statement. ‘Muslims will never accept this kind of humiliation. The article has insulted every Muslim in the world. We demand an apology!’
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…you’re sorry. Even if there’s a veiled threat involved.
LONDON — A British judge apologized Thursday to a suspected Islamic militant ordered to appear in court for an extradition hearing on one of the Muslim calendar’s holiest days.
…”For me it is not a problem,” he(Haroon Rashid Aswat) told the judge. “I can understand it is about technical difficulties. But for these people doing these bombings in this country, they are very simpleminded – they take it as an insult.”
(Judge) Workman apologized for the timing of the appearance, saying: “If I had known we would have picked a different day.”
Our intrepid team of reporters here at TPI has gotten exclusive footage of one of Ken’s liasons returning from last week’s Mystery Trip.
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Home Depot was sued by a shopper who claims he got stuck to a restroom toilet seat because a prankster had smeared it with glue.
Bob Dougherty, 57, accused employees of ignoring his cries for help for about 15 minutes because they thought he was kidding.
…The lawsuit, filed Friday, said Dougherty was recovering from heart bypass surgery and thought he was having a heart attack when he got stuck at the Louisville store on the day before Halloween 2003.
A store employee who heard him calling for help informed the head clerk by radio, but the head clerk “believed it to be a hoax,” the lawsuit said.
…Paramedics unbolted the toilet seat, and as they wheeled the “frightened and humiliated” Dougherty out of the store, he passed out.
…”This is not Home Depot’s fault,” Dougherty said. “But I am blaming them for letting me hang in there and just ignoring me.”
Well, whoever did his bypass surgery should be named “Doctor of the Year”, since he obviously did a fine fix.
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