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July 15th, 2005 Happy Vache Day - Egyptian bomber nabbed
Happy Moo day to y'all. British authorities are still not pointing their finger directly, but are now openly saying that there is a preponderance of evidence that will link the suspects with Al-Qaeda. Bravo Scotland Yard for delicately handling this matter and not pointing fingers and tarnishing the whole Muslim community by association of religious belief. The Brits have not indulged in double talk like their yankee counterparts by holding press conferences and openly saying, "we have credible, reliable information from unconfirmed sources ........" How could it be credible or reliable if its unconfirmed. 

July 14th, 2005 Bastille Day
Folks order your French fries and dole out French kisses for its Bastille day. Don't use the Heinz ketchup though. We need to show our support for the French in dollars not in francs as we pad McDonalds bottom line. Drink Beaujolais but from Napa Valley. Have you noticed that restaurants have such a complex, that they constantly honor the French by naming the soup of the day as soup de jour. Does it make the soup delicious even if its the darn same old bean soup. Now don't forget tomorrow is Cow appreciation day. Cow appreciation day (jour d'appréciation de vache) does it mean don't eat cows or eat more steak? Or is Cow appreciation day, a conspiracy to convert everyone to Hinduism. Gosh we have the Muslims on one side and now the Hindus too, trying to creep in via Moo celebration. We all know the church blows smoke with the advent of every Pope. When is the jour du poulet .... Back to jour d'appréciation de vache  or Hinduism, should we all dress naked and paint our bodies in white and black round spots and sing harry kiss na and harry ram yaa. Why not ... after all outsourcing has left our workers unemployed and profits are lining the pockets of Indian companies and American top executives. It would not be too long that on Wall street the bull will be replaced by Gao Mata (What the Indians call the cow when they worship it) to bring blessings to the market and economy. Soon there shall be offerings left at the hoofs of the cow and incense being burnt as some sareed woman does her pooja (worship) amidst wall street chatter. Toast the French as our economy is being flambeed by the Indian, Chinese and outsourcing.

With the British having successfully identified the suicide bombers, one wonders what are the psychological problems of the suicide bombers? Why are they killing indiscriminately? They defeat their cause whatever that maybe, they are anti religion, anti humanity. In a word they can be defined as animals.

July 13th 2005 Plame scandal flames out Rove
Worldcom exececutive to do time for his crime. 25 years to be exact. will Rove do time too? Why is the Prez silent about the leak by the king maker? ... probably since Rove was the kingmaker. We are sorry to say Democrats are not embracing the opportunity.
 
Would Valerie Plame be the undoing of Karl Rove the brain in the Elephant? Its time Judith Miller be released. Why is Hillary Clinton pussy footing on the Carl Rove issue? Is that all she could say, " I am nodding" when asked about her views, after Kerry came out swinging. Clinton needs to be more aggressive if she has any dreams of running for the Presidency. Is this the new John Kerry we are witnessing, as he frames himself for the next elections?

Unfortunately the bombers were British born but of Pakistani decent. Does that make these bombers as British or Pakistani. We would say British since they were born and raised in Britain. There are rumors floating around on the internet that Israel was involved in the London blast. Its a very hard to verify the veracity of these claims so we leave it to our readers to form their own opinion.  Does anyone know what are the grievances the terrorist have? ..., for they are targeting all alike ( Muslims and non Muslims alike ). George Bush's rhetoric that they hate our freedom is too simplistic an answer. Could these terrorists be the result of injustices doled out by the leaders that are propped up around the world?

July 12th, 2005 A readers comments about our blog
"Streetwhispers -- I read your blog about the manner in which the British politicians handled themselves, after the horrific bombings in London and generally, I agree, but I thought Tony had learned too much from George Bush when he spouted the "terrorists hate our freedom"--and this has nothing to do with our participation in Iraq.  Of course, lacking a crystal ball, I cannot say that is we withdrew our troops from the Middle East AND our unilateral support of Israel that the terrorists acts would cease but I would think there would be a whole lot less for that Muslim minority to hate.  Maybe wrong.  Just that our participation in supporting Sharon is like the 500 pound gorilla in the room but, alas, most of the country doesn't know it, excuses it because they have always fought (which is not true), or because they do not care.  
Enough.  Will go back to imagining Karl Rove in orange. ( dh ) "

As the events unfold in Britain and Scotland Yard makes headway in its investigation, it is becoming clear, that the blasts in London seem to have been the work of some demented Muslim radical group. We hope that Scotland Yard is able to find out how the explosives were attained? Certainly the explosives could not have been brought into Britain by air or sea. While the search for the perpetrators of the attack goes on ... equal emphasis should be put on how were these explosives acquired? Is it so easy to attain plastic explosives in Britain? Someone sent us this site, we produce a link to it THE LONDON ATTACKS

With a new scandal brewing in Washington about Karl Rove's involvement, and Judith Miller sits in prison  .... will Rove resign? be fired? or will this incident be Democratic Party's cause celebre? Yet again there is always the chance, the well oiled Elephant will slip the Donkey's grasp. Did Rove commit a national security crime thus is he a felon?

July 8th, 2005 British show calmness and leadership
The London bombing was like the 9/11 we had in the USA. Its embarrassing to say that unlike our politicians, Tony Blair and the rest of the British authorities showed statesman like behavior. They did not loose their marbles and go about pointing fingers and indicting anyone who was not white. Even though Blair blamed the attack on Islamic terrorists, the British chief of Police was very clear in stating, that they had no proof that the attach was carried out by Islamic terrorist. In the final investigation we may find out that this attack was the work of Al Qaeda but the British made every effort to make sure and put the message out that the act of a few zealots did not paint the innocent with the crime too. As a consequence we see calm in London, a city where more than 300 languages are spoken. Even though the diversity of people is the same in New York, but our leaders i.e.  Rudolph Juliani and including our President were too quick to point fingers without confirmation. Fortunately they were correct that 9/11 was the work of Al-Qaeda but unfortunately a lot of innocent law abiding citizens were indicted of the crime through their rhetoric. You would recall Juliani's press statement even after the attack, "Terrorist looking Arabs were seen", we have to yet to know what a terrorist looks like and if Mr. Juliani does have that privileged information its time he speak out and give details as to what a terrorist looks like. Juliani was basically indicting anyone who bore Arab features or olive skin color.

As the British sift through the debris of the attack for clues we hope the perpetrators are apprehended and brought to justice regardless of religion, class color and creed. We share the pain of the Londoners but historically the British have showed resilience which is demonstrated once again the way they are going about their lives without the histrionics of the politicians and the media. Which does not mean that they are not fervently seeking to find the culprits.

July 7th, 2005 London Bombings
Our hearts and prayers go out to the British in general and Londoners in particular as they grapple with the reality of the dastardly bombings yet again by Al-Qaeda.

July 6th, 2005  Judith Miller sent to Jail
Today is a sad day for freedom and reporters. We salute Judith Miller for the boldness in holding up the principal of confidentiality of source. I hope she does not waiver, or break. If journalists can be sent to prison for reporting something, we are at the threshold of where democracy shall gradually end and free speech muffled. The Person who should be going to jail is Robert Novak for revealing the name of the covert CIA agent and undermining a CIA operation.

New York is saved the debt of hosting the 2012 Olympics. Historically nations and cities that host such games stay in debt years after the games are over and gone. Ghosts of the newly built structures linger, till they turn into ghettos. Now we hope that the new stadium in New York falls by the road side too. New York as is, an overcrowded city. We don't need a stadium here. The city needs more jobs and less taxes.

Beth Holloway Twitty while we sympathize with the uncertainty of the fate of her beloved daughter but in essence Beth Holloway is nothing but an arrogant Twitt. How dare she pass judgment and call people guilty who have not been tried by due process. Unless Beth Twitty has a crystal ball or is an accomplished psychic to say without doubt that that the Kalpoe brothers are guilty, in the absence of evidence she sounds arrogant and offensive. She has no qualms about turning the lives of other people ( Kalpoe family ) simply because she believes that she is right without any evidence. Satish and Deepak are innocent till proven guilty.  Beth is an  impediment in the search for Natalee. In all fairness lets not forget that Natalee was out of line to have wandered off alone, in a land she is not familiar with. Take New York for example, even the local residents dare not wander in areas they are not familiar off. Beth needs to wait for the due process and shut her yap up ... stop insulting the people of Aruba. Beth needs to respect the Dutch law of Aruba. Arubans are justified in taking umbrage to her statements of.
"Two suspects were released yesterday who were involved in a violent crime against my daughter,'' she said.

''These criminals are not only being allowed to walk around among the tourists and citizens of Aruba,'' she said, but there were no limits on where they could go" Beth let the due course of law run. SW feels the Aruban Government is moving as fast as they can. Beth there is an African adage, if ones hand is in the lions mouth, one does not hit the lion on the head.

Gang Rape in Pakistan
Yet another woman is raped in Pakistan and the rapist wear it as a badge of honor and the Pakistan Government is dragging its feet in doling out justice. The only deterrent to such crimes would be prompt and fair justice and not further humiliation for the raped victim. "President Pervez Musharraf, who is trying to project Pakistan as a moderate and progressive Muslim nation, last week condemned the violent humiliation of women and said his government was committed to ensuring victims got justice."  The words of President Musharraf and the judiciary have such a hollow ring to them. We suggest quick and fair justice. We are still waiting to hear about the Mukhtaran Mai's case.

July 02, 2005 Why is no one talking about this news item -
Why is no one talking about the following news item about us (USA) conducting a precision nuclear strikes program. The Democrats are as complicit in this as the republicans. How can we ask other nations to drop their nuclear programs when we are proceeding with impunity to develop deadlier weapons. Having a precision nuclear bomb .. does it make it any more safer then any other nuclear bomb? .... go figure. We paste a news item picked from an international press report.
US Senate votes to revive US nuclear weapon program WASHINGTON, July 2 (AFP) - The US Senate has moved to revive a controversial weapons research program aimed at enabling the US military to conduct precision nuclear strikes against hardened underground facilities, including those suspected of storing weapons of mass destruction. By a vote of 53-43, senators defeated Friday an amendment sponsored by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein that would have prohibited use of government funds to study the feasibility of the so-called Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator, also known as the "bunker-buster" bomb. (Posted @ 17:33 PST)

July 01, 2005 Defense Accord with India
Bravo Bush coterie you created yet another blunder in destabilizing the Indo Pakistan region, by signing a defense treaty with India. What do you think Pakistan's reaction should or will be. Did it not occur to you that it would spark an arms race between the two countries. Yet we want Pakistan to stand with us in our fight against terrorism but betray their trust by arming their arch enemy. Guess commons sense is eluding the Bush junta.

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