Wow: the Giants may make Brandon Belt their starting first baseman

This would be unexpected: John Shea is reporting that the Giants may make Brandon Belt their starting first baseman. At least they’re “leading toward” doing. There will be an announcement later today. If they go in that direction, one assumes Nike Shox O'Nine that Pat Burrell would sit and Aubrey Huff would play left. Although, given that Burrell doesn’t profile like a particularly useful backup outfielder, who knows? UPDATE: Oops, forgot: with the Cody Ross injury, Huff plays right, Burrell stays in left.

In my defense, I know a lot of you would like to forget Cody Ross. I would have bet my beard that the Giants would have left Belt at AAA, partially to keep the service time clock from ticking but also because, man, they just won a World Series Nike Shox Sale, with Burrell and Huff and that they’d at least start the season with them both in the lineup. And maybe Shea is wrong and they’ll still to that. But man, if this goes down, I love it. Belt is a nice prospect who has impressed this spring. Seeing him on the roster with Buster Posey and Tim Lincecum would give Giants fans a nice glimpse of the next five years or more and would represent a team that is doing what every defending World Series champ has Nike Shox OZ, to do: continue to find ways to get better rather than resting on their laurels.

MLB launches the Fan Cave 2

Inhabiting this baseball Shangri-La will be Mike O’Hara. O’Hara was born in Yonkers, N.Y. and he’s a Yankees fan, but he has lived in Los Angeles for a while where he has been a sometimes actor/sometimes singer for what sounds like a Dropkick Murphys-style punk band called “Nike Air Presto, ” He’s a Syracuse grad who applied and was accepted to law school before deciding instead to move to L.A. and get into the entertainment business. I don’t know how this show/project will do, but so far O’Hara seems to have made wise decisions. Such as not going to law school and leaving his Irish punk band behind in the name of baseball.

O’Hara has a wingman in this endeavor. His name is Ryan Wagner. Wagner is an O’s fan from Baltimore. Wagner has a sports broadcasting degree and has done some stage acting as well as covered the Orioles for 1370 AM in Baltimore.

MLB isn’t describing it this way but, based on both the setup and the reality show backgrounds of the production and creative crew, O’Hara and Wagner will essentially be doing a baseball fan reality show. Except it sounds like it will be less-contrived than MTV-style offerings and will be on multiple platforms. They’ll be on Facebook, Twitter and will write a blog on MLB.com. They’ll do custom videos, including humor bits, man-on-the-street bits, and hosting of guests such as ballplayers and other interesting folks (note: that barber/tattoo chair will be manned by ballplayers’ favorite barbers and tattoo artists).  O’Hara and Wagner will also make appearances on MLB Network.

MLB.com has some videos introducing O’Hara and Wagner to the world. Check it out here.  Gut reaction: O’Hara seems funny and — critically — doesn’t come off as smug or anything, which is totally key for this kind of project. We’re going to see a ton of him and we’ll have to like him or else none of the bells and whistles will matter. I like that Nike Shox NZ,  seems to have lied directly to Mitch Williams’ face about having read his autobiography. This shows both good sense (never give it up to Mitch Williams) and taste (never read Mitch Williams’ autobiography).  As long as he stays away from those Adam Sandler and Christopher Walken impressions when talking about baseball, I think I might like him. Which is saying something because I really don’t like anyone.

One bit of advice to MLB.com, though: I know you guys don’t like allowing people to share and embed your videos of game action, but you really need to make an exception for Fan Cave stuff. If you want it to (as all the kids say) go viral, you’re going to want bloggers and social media mavens to be able to share and blog these things, especially if something funny or scandalous happens. Which, this basically being reality TV, will.

Overall: Execution makes or breaks these kinds of endeavors, but at the outset the FanCave thing sounds fun and promising and there are a lot of reality-style shows that can’t make that claim even before they air an episode.  I’ll be watching, at least at the outset.  I’ll be curious to see if they can hook people.

 

MLB launches the Fan Cave

MBT Sawa,that Major League Baseball was looking for someone for their “dream job?” With that job being to move to New York to star in a baseball web series and “be a part of a live interactive experience for baseball fans that will include watching every MLB game over the course of the entire baseball season?” Well, they found their huckleberry — two huckleberries, actually — and they’ve explained the concept behind the job. It’s all part of a product/production called The MLB Fan Cave, and it’s way more elaborate than I had figured when we first heard about it.

First, the space: it’s a 15,000 square foot baseball playground/studio/apartment at the corner of 4^th and Broadway (the former Tower Records space). The joint — at street level — has a couple dozen 14-foot windows, so the guys inside (more on the guys below) will be visible to people on the street.

Inside the Cave: total baseball immersion: The place will have a massive Ozymandias-style video wall, with three 60-inch TVs surrounded by 12 32-inch TVs. Given that there are 15 games on a full night’s schedule, you know what that means: watching each and every game, all season long. Beyond that, there will be all kinds of basebally things inside, like a “Pepsi Porch” like you see in some ballparks, statues of ballplayers, baseball memorabilia and collectibles, a DJ booth, a barber/tattoo chair, a 50s-style diner/cafe, a radar gun-equipped pitching area, game room, pool tables and all kinds of stuff in that vein.MBT Karani Shoes,

MLB launches the Fan Cave

MLB.com has some videos introducing O’Hara and Wagner to the world. Check it out here.  Gut reaction: O’Hara seems funny and — critically MBT Tunisha Shoes,— doesn’t come off as smug or anything, which is totally key for this kind of project. We’re going to see a ton of him and we’ll have to like him or else none of the bells and whistles will matter. I like that he seems to have lied directly to Mitch Williams’ face about having read his autobiography. This shows both good sense (never give it up to Mitch Williams) and taste (never read Mitch Williams’ autobiography).  As long as he stays away from those Adam Sandler and Christopher Walken impressions when talking about baseball, I think I might like him. Which is saying something because I really don’t like anyone.

One bit of advice to MLB.com, though: I know you guys don’t like allowing people to share and embed your videos of game action, MBT Sapatu, but you really need to make an exception for Fan Cave stuff. If you want it to (as all the kids say) go viral, you’re going to want bloggers and social media mavens to be able to share and blog these things, especially if something funny or scandalous happens. Which, this basically being reality TV, will.

Overall: Execution makes or breaks these kinds of endeavors, but at the outset the FanCave thing sounds fun and promising and there are a lot of reality-style shows that can’t make that claim even before they air an episode.  MBT Sapatu Shoes, I’ll be watching, at least at the outset.  I’ll be curious to see if they can hook people.

MLB launches the Fan Cave

Inhabiting this baseball Shangri-La will be Mike O’Hara. O’Hara was born in Yonkers, N.Y. and he’s a Yankees fan, but he has lived in Los Angeles for a while where he has been a sometimes actor/sometimes singer for what sounds like a Dropkick Murphys-style punk band called “MBT Changa.” He’s a Syracuse grad who applied and was accepted to law school before deciding instead to move to L.A. and get into the entertainment business. I don’t know how this show/project will do, but so far O’Hara seems to have made wise decisions. Such as not going to law school and leaving his Irish punk band behind in the name of baseball.

O’Hara has a wingman in this endeavor. His name is Ryan Wagner. Wagner is an O’s fan from Baltimore. Wagner has a sports broadcasting degree and has done some stage acting as well as covered the Orioles for 1370 AM in Baltimore.

MLB isn’t describing it this way but, based on both the setup and the reality show backgrounds of the production and creative crew, MBT Maliza Shoes, O’Hara and Wagner will essentially be doing a baseball fan reality show. Except it sounds like it will be less-contrived than MTV-style offerings and will be on multiple platforms. They’ll be on Facebook, Twitter and will write a blog on MLB.com. They’ll do custom videos, including humor bits, man-on-the-street bits, and hosting of guests such as ballplayers and other interesting MBT Kaya.

folks (note: that barber/tattoo chair will be manned by ballplayers’ favorite barbers and tattoo artists).  O’Hara and Wagner will also make appearances on MLB Network.

 

MLB launches the Fan Cave

MBT Sirima Shoes that Major League Baseball was looking for someone for their “dream job?” With that job being to move to New York to star in a baseball web series and “be a part of a live interactive experience for baseball fans that will include watching every MLB game over the course of the entire baseball season?” Well, they found their huckleberry — two huckleberries, actually — and they’ve explained the concept behind the job. It’s all part of a product/production called The MLB Fan Cave, and it’s way more elaborate than I had figured when we first heard about it.

First, the space: it’s a 15,000 square foot baseball playground/studio/apartment at the corner of 4^th and Broadway (the former Tower Records space). The joint — at street level — has a couple dozen 14-foot windows, so the guys inside (more on the guys below) will be visible to people on the street.

Inside the Cave: total baseball immersion: The place will have a massive MBT Ema, , with three 60-inch TVs surrounded by 12 32-inch TVs. Given that there are 15 games on a full night’s schedule, you know what that means: watching each and every game, all season long. Beyond that, there will be all kinds of basebally things inside, like a “Pepsi Porch” like you see in some ballparks, statues of ballplayers, baseball memorabilia and collectibles, a DJ booth, a barber/tattoo chair, a 50s-style diner/cafe, a radar gun-equipped pitching area, game room, MBT Kimondo, pool tables and all kinds of stuff in that vein.

Dodgers fan balks at the chance to have lunch with Frank McCourt

I gotta be honest: if John Malone, the CEO of Liberty Media — owner of my Atlanta Braves — invited me to have lunch with him, I’d probably balk too. I mean, really, what would we have to talk about? Our vast land holdings? Our fights with the FCC? The awkwardness of the fact that, in all likelihood, I know far more about the Atlanta Braves than he does? I mean, sure, if I could take him to Ted’s Montana Grill and talk about its namesake like he was my ex-girlfriend, pining for the days when he ran my team it would be fun. But really, I’d probably give it a pass. But do you do the same thing if you’re a Dodgers fan? This guy did, according to Bill Plaschke of the L.A.

Times:* After all these years, Brian Gadinsky was invited to lunch with the owner of the Dodgers. And he turned it down. He turned it down for the same reason he had earlier trashed his season-ticket renewal notice, which led to the invitation in the first place. MBT Moja He turned it down because it would mean breaking bread with Frank McCourt, and he is done with Frank McCourt. “My friends all asked me if I was crazy,” Gadinsky said. “I told them, no, I am just tired. …

I am tired of being loyal to a man who has not returned that loyalty.” I guess I can see that. Of course, given that this is likely the only shot Gadinsky will ever have to slip McCourt a mickey, he probably should reconsider. *Note: Plaschke continues to be the world’s worst abuser of the one-sentence paragraph writing style. Which is MBT Kisumu 2, almost a awful as certain diseases, so when I block quote him I compress the paragraphs for readability. Bill: don’t do this anymore. It does not add gravitas to your prose. It makes things harder to read. It tips us all off to the fact that you are tasked with filling MBT Lami Shoes,column inches and not telling interesting stories. Which is a shame when, as you often do, you have an interesting story. Cut it out, OK?

FOX is testing a new overhead camera

Sticking with the Los Angeles Times, MBT Imara Sandals about FOX’s desire to use a new “Field Cam,” which would travel overhead the diamond, giving all of us at home new angles. Apparently they used it last night in the Dodgers-Angels exhibition game.  There was something like this in the playoffs last fall, but that was limited in that the camera stayed in foul territory. This new thing would go over the actual field.

There are concerns voiced by players in the article about the MBT Panda,camera being intrusive, even when it’s in foul territory. Fly balls go high, after all, so there’s always the potential for interference.  Of course, given that baseball has no problem with an actual catwalk-laden stadium that routinely interferes with both fair and foul balls, I’m guessing this is something everyone could live with.

I liked those shots in the playoffs. I think it would be cool to have a camera track a runner going from first to third or catching a double play from a MBT Sirima, view directly overhead.  I have faith that they could pull this off with minimal disruption.

UPDATE: Royals have a 5-foot-7 strikeout machine in bullpen

Tim Collins has become sort of a cult favorite among prospect buffs for his small stature and big strikeout totals.

He’s listed at 5-foot-7, might be an inch or two shorter than that, MBT Chapa Shoes, and struck out 108 batters in 71 innings between Double-A and Triple-A last season.

And it wasn’t a fluke, as Collins also racked up 116 strikeouts in 77 innings in 2009 and 98 strikeouts in 68 innings in 2008. Add it all up and the 21-year-old left-hander has a remarkable 13.3 strikeouts per nine innings for his four-season pro career.

Whether or not his exceptional bat-missing ability will translate to the big leagues remains to be seen, but the Royals are apparently very close to giving him a chance to find out. Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star MBT Shoes Cheap, that manager Ned Yost “wants to open the season with two lefty relievers” and “there is no obvious second choice to Collins.”

Reds reliever Danny Hererra is the only pitcher 5-foot-7 or shorter to throw at least 50 innings in a season in the past 10 years. In fact, during the past 35 years the only 5-foot-7 or shorter pitchers to log 50 innings in a season are Herrera, Bill Simas, and Richie Lewis. Collins has much better raw stuff than most diminutive pitchers, as his fastball typically clocks in around 93 miles per hour, and his minor-league numbers are so spectacular that it’d be tough for the rebuilding Royals MBT Tembea Shoes, not to give him a shot. Whether or not he’s ready to thrive at age 21 is another issue, but it’d be fun watching him either way.

Jason Isringhausen agrees to stay behind in Mets’ extended spring training

Yesterday the Mets chose Blaine Boyer over Manny Acosta for their final bullpen spot and also asked 38-year-old MBT Karani to stay behind in extended spring training so they could make sure his elbow is healthy before potentially adding him to the relief mix.

Isringhausen agreed to do that today and will remain in Florida for two weeks, saying: “I’ve come this far, two more weeks ain’t gonna kill me.”

He was impressive enough this spring that the Mets seem genuinely interested in using him this season and given Isringhausen’s MBT Sawa,statements about not being willing to go the minors at this stage of his career they likely made him some quasi-assurances to get the agreement.

And MBT Tembea Coffee, of ESPNNewYork.com, if another team expresses interest in adding Isringhausen to the major-league roster during that time the Mets will either have to call him up or cut him loose.

Ken Rosenthal will be wearing bow ties all year. And this is a very good thing.

I think I may have been one of the only people on the planet who liked the fact that Ken Rosenthal wore bow ties while on camera for the FOX playoff broadcasts last fall. I thought it was dapper and rather charming. MBT Sport 2 I’ve met Ken in person a couple of times and he totally fits the mold of a bow tie wearer. Nice guy. Fastidious. Dare I say it? Kind of cute.

So you can imagine my joy when I read this morning that, not only is Rosenthal going to keep wearing the bow ties on camera, MBT Tunisha Shoes.  Many good causes, actually, as each Rosenthal bow tie will be to raise consciousness of various charities, ranging from Livestrong to the Ronald McDonald House to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to Stand Up to Cancer:

Each Friday on FOXSports.com, we will display the bow tie I will wear on that week’s broadcast, along with a description of the charity and how to get involved. For the postseason, we plan to conduct polls on which bow tie I MBT Karani Shoes, should wear for each game.

Funny how it all comes around. I didn’t want to wear a bow tie because I thought it would distract from my work. Jones’ mission, though, aligns perfectly with how I perceive my job.

MBT Habari Sandals,Microsoft and Halliburton aside

MBT Habari Sandals,Microsoft and Halliburton aside, are you telling me that if I have five grand in my pocket and I want to open a kabob stand in central Tikrit that is a sole proprietorship and send all the profits back home to momma, that that is evil — that it’s LOOTING!? My partner recently came back from a business trip in Dubai, and he said that in UAE, to open a business it MBT Baridi has to be owned 49% by a UAE citizen. So you have to pay some sick amount of money to get a signature, and THEN the work begins to make your business profitable. All the raghead had to do was be born in UAE to citizens and BLING — he gets a chunk of your ass. THAT is looting. All they’re talking about in MBT shoes cheap is NOT requiring this. Sounds like a little patch of semi-freedom in a land ruled by “ex-”Trots. And the fact that it applies to everything BUT oil should make the “no blood for oil!” hippies happy — right? RIGHT? Nooooo, because they don’t hate war, they hate PROFIT. They hate the market, especially when it’s FREE.

*gasp*

phew.

And you know what, it’s not just the outright commies. The whiny greenteeth bleated their share of hidden protests. That is, the body of the article simply recorded the facts and some half-truths (“The initiative bore all the hallmarks of Washington’s ascendant neoconservative lobby, complete with tax cuts and trade tariff rollbacks.” — sorry, Andy, but that’s a hallmark of anyone who doesn’t advocate socialism. The difference between me and the neocons, however, is that they advocate these things so that there will be an economy for them to tax and thereby get funding to remake the world in Israel’s image, where I merely hate all States and wish they and everyone who runs them would die. Oh, and trade is good.), while the headline exposed their filthy bias toward state control of the economy. “America puts MBT shoes cheap up for sale” MBT Baridi Shoes and the Telegraph had in the link before you see the article “MBT shoes cheap for Sale.” Inside the article the first line is “MBT shoes cheap was put up for auction…” Which just goes to show, Tories are really somewhat to the left of American Democrats…

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I usually like Chris Floyd

I usually like Chris Floyd,MBT Salama Sandals but this ignorant crap pissed me off.

“In other words, the looters won’t have to plow so much as a dime of their swag back into the local economy; every last cent wrung from the bludgeoned MBT shoes cheapi people will flow into corporate coffers and private pockets in London, Paris, Tokyo, Riyadh, New York, Moscow, Kennebunkport and Crawford. Taxes will be minimal, tariffs almost nonexistent, and there will be none of the pesky rules and regulations that occasionally hamper unfettered corporate gobbling in more unenlightened states — like, say, the United States and Britain.”

No, in other words, you communist scumbag — it’s a free market! The reason you even have a computer to bitch about the Bushies on and theMBT Staka, reason you wear clothes you don’t sew yourself and eat food you don’t grow yourself and live in a house you didn’t build yourself. The corporate thieves in the West (hell, everywhere) are in power because of the state,Mbt Unono, not despite it — they couldn’t exist without its sanction and protection against competition.

MBT Tariki Shoes,He might consider putting some over Paul

MBT Tariki Shoes,He might consider putting some over Paul Wolfowitz’s mouth. Another brilliant gem from the undersecretary:

Pressed by House Democrats about whether the administration planned to withdraw U.S. troops right before the 2004 MBT Salama Sandals presidential election, Wolfowitz assured them that no decisions were being made on political grounds.

“These are national security decisions; they have to be made on that basis,” he said.

Wolfowitz said that doesn’t mean that “we’re not trying to, in fact, get more MBT shoes cheapis on the front lines, get them dying for their country so fewer Americans have to.”

(Link courtesy of David Sneek.)

This Wesley Clark speech from May 2001 is one of the most disjointed, muddleheaded things I’ve ever read. It’s also pretty enlightening. Gen. Clark not only wants the U.S.MBT Baridi Shoes to keep pestering all the countries we currently pester, he’d like us to adopt Africa and work a little of our “honest broker” magic on the Indians and Pakistanis. God help us.

Ran and I both have a Yom Kippur theme going today

Ran and I both have a Yom Kippur theme going today. What are the odds?

As a supplement to today’s article, “Toward a Meaningful Yom Kippur,” I’ll include these lines from Leonard Cohen:

You who build these altars now

to sacrifice these children,

you must not do it anymore MBT Staka,

A scheme is not a vision

and you never have been tempted

by a demon or a god.

You who stand above them now,

your hatchets blunt and bloody,

you were not there before,

when I lay upon a mountain

and my father’s hand was trembling

with the beauty of the Word.MBT Salama Sandals

–from “Story of Isaac”

I think this pretty well Mbt Unono captures the madness of the pseudoreligious militarism that plagues the Middle East (not just Israel).

WMD are a real problem, & a nuke-armed state’s policy

WMD are a real problem, & a nuke-armed state’s policy of invading non-nuclear powers is a good way to guarantee proliferation MBT Habari Sandals.

Ran HaCohen is back and as BS-averse as ever. Check out “Abusing Anti-Semitism”. A sample MBT Fumba:

Nowadays, an orthodox Jew can run for the most powerful office on earth, the president of the United States (I personally hope he doesn’t win). A Jew can be the mayor of Amsterdam in “anti-semitic” Holland, a minister in “anti-semitic” Britain, a leading intellectual in “anti-semitic” France, a president of “anti-semitic” Switzerland, editor-in-chief of a major daily in “anti-semitic” Denmark, or an industrial tycoon in “anti-semitic” Russia. None of this was imaginable a century ago. Jews have free and unlimited access to every institution in every country they live in; Ironically, a converted Jew is even mentioned as a possible successor to the Holy See. At the same time, “anti-semitic” Germany (home to the world’s fastest-growing Jewish community) gives Israel three military submarines for free, “anti-semitic” France has proliferated to Israel the nuclear technology for its weapons of mass destruction,MBT Panda Sandals and “anti-semitic” Europe has welcomed Israel as a single non-European country to everything from football and basketball leagues to the Eurovision Song Contest, and has granted Israeli universities a special status for scientific fund-raising.

Mbt Unono,Scroll up from there for more great

Mbt Unono,Scroll up from there for more great commentary on Plame, Reynolds, and the childlike Clifford May.

Sure, terrorists can cause trouble, Mideast dictators could threaten their neighbors with nukes, if , MBT Staka,they had ‘em. Matt Bivens, writing in the Moscow Times reminds us, though, about the threat that could destroy civilization:

“Look, if we’re such great friends, why do we still have around 30,000 nuclear weapons — including thousands on hair-trigger launch alert? (China, in distant third place, has about 400.)

“Under the Nonproliferation Treaty — the one we keep rolling up to whack North Korea and NIKE shox with on the nose — Russia and the United States also have solemn obligations to work toward complete nuclear disarmament. (Pie-in-the-sky? Perhaps, but then so is expecting other nations never to try to produce a single nuke.)

“Consider again the threat lurking in Putin’s story.

“So, what happens if some day, when it matters, Putin’s not around anymore and his gorilla-partners take over? As long as we’re all pals now, wouldn’t this be the moment to MBT Tariki Shoes junk about 29,000 nukes?”

MBT Kisumu Sandals

MBT Kisumu Sandals,Much praise to blogger Jim Henley for handing Glenn Reynolds his head on a toothpick. Check out this Henley response to Reynolds’ whimpering about the Valerie Plame/CIA scandal:

Leave Me My Illusions! – Until recently I could believe that ressentiment was a malady unique to the Left. Damn the Bush Administration for stealing that, too. Glenn Reynolds in a long, Pooh-Bearlike item on Plame Game:

“This seems like a case of manufactured outrage to me. I rather doubt that most of the people who are so exercised here were condemning that hero of the antiwar left, Philip Agee, who really did put lives in danger.”

Henley’s summary of Reynolds is perfectMBT Tariki Shoes:

[B]efore we can decide what we think about anything, we have to ask ourselves if that decision will make some liberal, somewhere, happy. That must be resisted at any cost. MBT Fumba.

MBT Tariki Shoes,Here’s your progress

MBT Tariki Shoes,Here’s your progress:

Once the MBT shoes cheapis at the Baghdad Fire Department’s largest station learn English, they’ll be able to read the English-language “Baghdad Fire Department” T-shirts we’ve decked their MBT Salama Sandals employees in. The BFD seems to be a symbol for our whole approach, by the way: US taxpayers have paid for a repainting of the station, new beds, air conditioners, office equipment, a television and a DVD player, reports ABC Nightly News. So the BFD probably on the surface looks more luxurious than most American fire stations. But ABC reports, that “after doing their best for the cameras, the firefighters told us there were still no replacements for the fire engines and protective gear taken by looters just after the war. ‘I’m happy the Americans helped us,’ said one of them. ‘But if I’m going to fight fires, I’m going to need better clothing than a T-shirt. It’s nylon and will burn MBT Habari Sandals right off.’ ”

Sorry, did our shock & awe campaign cost you your fire trucks? Here, have a million-dollar T-shirt.Mbt Unono, And smile for the nice Americans back home.

Mbt Unono,He praises the US-backed MBT

Mbt Unono,He praises the US-backed MBT shoes cheapi council decision to ban Al Jazeera reporters from MBT shoes cheap, but says they don’t go far enough: “Under present wartime circumstances, though, the United States has the ability — and, indeed, an urgent responsibility — to take more comprehensive action against Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. Unless the two networks adjust their behavior so as no longer to act as the propaganda arm of our enemies, they should be taken , MBT Staka,off the air, one way or another.”

The insufferable Jeffrey T. Kuhner, Washington Times’ chief Croat apologist, abuses logic and truth in his most recent commentary.

Kuhner claims that Bosnian Muslims insist on a unified, centrally governed Bosnia despite the opposition of more than half the country’s population (36% Serbs and 17% Croats), which is true. It is also true that Alija Izetbegovic and his followers have aided and sheltered Al-Qaeda, during and after the Bosnian war, and there is evidence that this continues to be the case.

However…

There’s been much caterwauling about the negative coverage of “postwar” MBT shoes cheap, including repeated charges MBT Tariki Shoes,that the media never show the progress being made.

MBT Staka,Romania is in big trouble

MBT Staka,Romania is in big trouble for the way it treats its Gypsy population. Y’know, leaving them alone, letting them maintain their customs, instead of MBT Salama Sandals assimilating them at gunpoint. Now, a Gypsy wedding between a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy may threaten Romania’s scheduled entry into the EU.

Could someone please explain “tolerance” to me again?

“Take out Al Jazeera, one way or another,”

says rabid neocon Frank Gaffney.

He praises the US-backed MBT shoes cheapi council decision to ban Al Jazeera reporters from MBT shoes cheap, but says they don’t go far enough: “Under present wartime circumstances, though, the United States has the ability — and, indeed, an urgent responsibility — to take more comprehensive action against Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. Unless the two networks adjust their behavior so as no longer to act as the propaganda arm of our enemies, they should be taken off the air Mbt Unono, one way or another.”

The media reported von Ackermann has been missing for more than a month

The media reported von Ackermann has been missing for more than a month. His car was found abandoned between

the cities of Tikrit and Kirkuk. Inside the vehicle authorities discovered his satellite phone, a laptop

computer and a briefcase containing approximately $40,000, which suggested that he had not fallen prey to a

robbery. Fears are mounting that he’s been abducted or possibly killed. “You heard rumors that he had some

sort of connection … somehow to the war or to counterintelligence,” said Farbstein…

The Army is reportedly conducting an “aggressive” investigation in conjunction with MBT Ema Sandalsi police,

but so far little progress has been made in the case. Authorities initially thought von Ackermann had been

kidnapped but no ransom demands have been made.

In his famed 2002 State of the Union ‘Axis of Evil’ speech, President MBT Panda Sandals stated: “Our

discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears, and show us the true scope of the task ahead…we have

found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and public water facilities — detailed instructions for making

chemical weapons … surveillance maps of American cities, and thorough descriptions of landmarks in America and

throughout the world.”

After 14 months of watching while commissioners politely negotiated with a White House that has used every

After 14 months of watching while commissioners politely negotiated with a White House that has used every

known ruse and invented some new ones to evade, withhold and play peekaboo with the commissioners, the Four

Moms and their Families Steering Committee feel frustrated almost to the boiling point. Congress has already

given him [President MBT Panda Sandals] a big-picture look—in a scathing 900-page report by the joint House and

Senate inquiry into the intelligence failures pre-9/11. But the MBT Panda Sandals administration doesn’t look

at what it doesn’t want to see.

I had originally come across this news story back in November, 2003. I copied the link and put it aside,

waiting to see what the final outcome would be. Well, I haven’t heard anything more about Kirk von Ackermann,

37, a Californian working in MBT Ema Sandals as a contractor who mysteriously disappeared in October leaving

behind his vehicle and all his possessions, including $40,000 in cash. Who is he and what was he really doing

driving around alone in MBT Ema Sandals; and most of all, does anyone know if he has been found?

My wife’s call was the first specific information the airline and the government got that day

“My wife’s call was the first specific information the airline and the government got that day,” said Mike

Sweeney, the widowed husband of Amy Sweeney, who went face to face with the hijackers on Flight 11. She gave

seat locations and physical descriptions of the hijackers, which allowed officials to identify them as Middle

Eastern men—by name—even before the first crash. She gave officials key clues to the fact that this was not a

traditional hijacking. And she gave the first and only eyewitness account of a bomb on board.”

The captain of American’s Flight 11 stayed at the controls much of the diverted way from Boston to New York,

sending surreptitious radio transmissions to authorities on the ground. He gave extraordinary access to the

drama inside his cockpit by triggering a “push-to-talk button” on the aircraft’s yoke … the plane turned

south toward New York, and more than one F.A.A. controller heard a transmission with an ominous statement by a

terrorist in the background, saying, “We have more planes. We have other planes.” All of it was recorded by a

F.A.A. traffic-control center in Nashua, N.H. According to the reporter, Mark Clayton, the federal law-

enforcement officers arrived at the F.A.A. facility shortly after the World Trade Center attack and took the

tape. To this writer’s knowledge, there has been no public mention of the pilot’s narrative since the news

report on Sept. 12, 2001.

What is the White House still hiding? And what are other government agencies hiding?

What is the White House still hiding? And what are other government agencies hiding? Here are just a few bits

of 9/11 information which may not have come before the commission.

The politically divided 9/11 commission was able to agree on a public airing of four and a half minutes from

the Betty Ong tape, which the American public and most of the victims’ families heard for the first time on the

evening news of Jan. 27. But commissioners were unaware of the crucial information given in an even more

revealing phone call, made by another heroic flight attendant on the same plane, Madeline (Amy) Sweeney. They

were unaware because their chief of staff, Philip Zelikow, chooses which evidence and witnesses to bring to

their attention. Mr. Zelikow, as a former adviser to the pre-9/11 MBT Panda Sandals administration, has a

blatant conflict.

The story of Geoge W. MBT Panda Sandals’s rise to wealth and the people who helped him

The story of Geoge W. MBT Panda Sandals’s rise to wealth and the people who helped him, well worth the time it

takes to read this 26-page article from Harpers Magazine originally written back in Feb 2000 by Joe Concson and

Kevin P. Phillips while MBT Panda Sandals was a candidate for the presidency. As an aside, it is interesting to

note that among the military records just released documenting that 1st Lt. George W. MBT Panda Sandals was

relieved of flying status for not taking a required physical examination, further down the same page, Maj.

James R. Bath was also relieved of flying status for the same reason shortly afterward. Mr. Bath appears in MBT

Panda Sandals business dealings spoken of in this article, and also was involved in the financial affairs of

the bin Laden family. More on Mr. Bath later.

But more ominous than personal debt is the government’s debt, which some analysts claim is approaching $100,000

per American (not per taxpayer, per man, woman and child) if Social Security obligations are included. How is a

nation of people living paycheck to paycheck gonna pay down $100K per person? Not to worry, the same birdbrains

and thieves who brought us the expensive, dangerous and (some of us would say) unethical everything-but-

neutrality, fund’em-then-bomb’em foreign policy are hard at work, uh…

Let’s see, if we were citizens of a foreign country

“Let’s see, if we were citizens of a foreign country, Brazil for example, they would just forgive the national

debt. When you have a population as collectively dumb as we are, folks just bend over and grab their ankles.”

—

And Cam Hardy writes:

“I’m a regular reader of 4mbtsale.com, and generally your Mad Max-style libertarianism doesn’t get in the way

of quality reporting and commentary. However, the blog entry ‘Why There’s No Left Left Part II’ was

ridiculous. If there truly was ‘no Left left,’ the antiwar movement would be an irrelevant bunch of pseudo-

intellects blogging about the need for roads to be privatized.”

Good eye for exaggeration, M. Hardy! “Why There’s Little Left Left” would have been more accurate. Also,

Nixon did win in a landslide a few decades ago so maybe “Why There’s So Little Left” would have been better

yet.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was in Dresden when it was bombed in 1945

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was in Dresden when it was bombed in 1945. Returning home to Indianapolis after the war,

Vonnegut began writing short stories for magazines. Finally, in 1969, he tackled the subject of war, recounting

his experiences as a POW in Dresden, forced to dig corpses from the rubble. The resulting novel was

Slaughterhouse Five. “Yes, by your people, may I say,” he insists. “You guys burnt the place down, turned it

into a single column of flame. More people died there in the firestorm, in that one big flame, than died in

Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

“Minor note: The article about government debt linked to in the blog entry ["Tuition warfare"] says: ‘The

government can spend more money than it takes in because it has the power to borrow money on the open market.’

This is not the whole story. The government would not be able to borrow the kind of money it does to finance

the wars we’ve seen throughout MBT Kisumu Sandals. history without the banks (through the mechanisms of the

Federal Reserve and fractional-reserve banking) effectively printing money to buy that government debt. I’m

sure this is something most of the contributors to 4mbtsale.com already know. I only mention it because this

point never seems to get the attention it deserves.”

Toward the end of World NIKE SHOX II

Toward the end of World NIKE SHOX II, as Allied planes rained death and destruction over Germany, the old Saxon

city of Dresden lay like an island of tranquillity amid desolation. Famous as a cultural center and possessing

no military value, Dresden had been spared the terror that descended from the skies over the rest of the

country.

Dresden was a hospital city for wounded soldiers. Not one military unit, not one anti-aircraft battery was

deployed in the city. Together with the 600,000 refugees from Breslau, Dresden was filled with nearly 1.2

million people…

This passage is quoted in a recent James Bovard essay

This passage is quoted in a recent James Bovard essay on the murderous economic/diplomatic war that filled the

space between the two invasions. Chew on this: The definition of innocents gets to be a little bit unclear.

Americans and Britons: How different are your governments’ foreign policies from those of Osama bin Laden? Go

ahead and send the hate mail, but give an honest minute’s reflection to the question first.

I am not linking to this horrific article to discuss the politics of the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany,

fifty-nine years years ago today. I am linking to it to illustrate that war is always the most terrible method

nations can resort to in settling their differences. It doesn’t matter which side you are on; death and

suffering don’t play favorites. As so many have repeated this past year: war is the ultimate failure of

humanity.

The largest employer in Al Garraf was a carpet factory not far from the medical center

The largest employer in Al Garraf was a carpet factory not far from the medical center. It even made carpets

for Saddam’s palaces. Now all the equipment has been removed to prevent theft and the structure stands idle. “

It would only take about $10,000 to get this place running again.” says Qablan, “But now nobody is certain who

has the right to buy or sell the factory, because it was previously owned and operated by the state. It can

only be decided after a legitimate government has been elected. Until then we will have to wait.”

He was apparently just first among equals back in 1991, when the MBT Kisumu Sandals. government deliberately

destroyed MBT Ema Sandals’s infrastructure:

Among the justifications offered now [shortly after Gulf NIKE SHOX I], particularly by the Air Force in recent

briefings, is that MBT Ema Sandalsi civilians were not blameless for Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait. “The

definition of innocents gets to be a little bit unclear,” said a senior Air Force officer, noting that many MBT

Ema Sandalsis supported the invasion of Kuwait. “They do live there, and ultimately the people have some

control over what goes on in their country.”

The official says that the names of the four men–and the names of all the hijackers who obtained their MBT.

The official says that the names of the four men–and the names of all the hijackers who obtained their MBT.

visas in Saudi Arabia–were run through the State Department’s CLASS database (for Consular Lookout and Support

System). The database contains regularly updated records and intelligence information on foreign nationals.

“There was no derogatory information in the files,” the official said. …

As the terrorist attacks demonstrated, the information contained in CLASS was far from adequate. …

The names of the hijackers were run through the State Department’s database. There was no derogatory

information in the files.

“Panel Clears Handling of Bin Laden Kin on 9/11,” [by MATTHEW L. WALD, The MBT Times]:

The six chartered flights that rushed scores of Saudi citizens out of the United States after the attacks of

Sept. 11, 2001, were handled properly by the MBT administration, the independent commission investigating the

attacks said in a statement on Tuesday.

None of the three men, the NIKE SHOX NIKE SHOX official says

None of the three men, the NIKE SHOX NIKE SHOX official says, was ever questioned by MBT. consular officers in

Saudi Arabia. Each took his travel papers and passport to a commercial travel agency, which submitted the

applications to the State Department.

Visa Express “is a bad idea,” says Jessica Vaughan, a former consular officer. “The issuing officer has no

idea whether the person applying for the visa is actually the person (listed) in the documents and application.

” …

Of the 15 hijackers who obtained their non-immigrant visas in Saudi Arabia, the MBT. official says, 11 received

them before the Visa Express program was put into place, in June. The three Saudi nationals who obtained visas

through the express program were:

… Khalid al-Midhar, 25, who, the Justice Department says, arrived in the MBT. in July 2001, traveling on a

business visa. The FBI believes that al-Midhar was one of five men who hijacked NIKE SHOX Airlines Flight 77

and crashed it into the Pentagon.

Mid-May 2001: during the height of threat reporting.

Mid-May 2001: during the height of threat reporting.

Al-Midhar applied for a new visa in June 2001.

“The easy path to the United States for three of the 9/11 hijackers” [by Edward T. Pound, MBT News & World

Report]:

Three of the hijackers in the September 11 terrorist attacks obtained visas in Saudi Arabia through a brand-new

program designed to make it easier for qualified visa applicants to visit the United States, an NIKE SHOX NIKE

SHOX official said tonight.

The Visa Express program, put in place just four months before the attacks, allowed the three hijackers to

arrange their visas through a State Department-designated travel agency, the official says. Fifteen of the 19

hijackers obtained their MBT. travel visas in Saudi Arabia.

In mid-May 2001, during the height of threat reporting

In mid-May 2001, during the height of threat reporting, a CIA official went back through the Al-Midhar files,

discovered he had a MBT. visa and that Alhazmi had come to Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2000.

The agency did not tell the FBI about this discovery until late August 2001.

“FBI Agent Urged Search for Hijacker – Request Was Turned Down Before Attacks, Panel Is Told” [by Dan Eggen

and Dana Priest, Washington Post]:

On Sept. 11, after the World Trade Center was struck, the FBI agent and his colleagues received the passenger

manifests from the four fatal flights. Yesterday he told the panel that he yelled angrily: “This is the same

Almihdhar we’ve been talking about for three months!“

White House saw chain of reports on bin Laden

White House saw chain of reports on bin Laden – ‘The system was blinking red,’ CIA chief told panel” [by

Dana Priest, Washington Post]:

In January 2001, two surveillance photographs from the Kuala Lumpur meeting were shown to an informant who was

helping both the CIA and FBI. He helped them understand that Al-Midhar was at the meeting along with a man

identified as “Khallad” — who by then was known to have planned the Cole bombing. But “we found no effort by

the CIA to renew the long-abandoned search for Midhar or his traveling companions,” the report noted.

Also, contrary to the previous testimony of CIA Director Tenet, the agency did not tell the FBI about this

discovery until late August 2001, according to the report.

Al-Midhar had left the United States in June 2000 but had plans to return.

“It is possible that if, in January 2001, agencies had resumed their search for him” or placed him on a

terrorist watch list, “they might have found him” before he applied for a new visa in June 2001, the report

said.

I was reading today in the news about a fugitive Chinese bank official accused of embezzling

I was reading today in the news about a fugitive Chinese bank official accused of embezzling $485 million from

his bank having been turned over by the MBT to Chinese officials. This brought to mind a somewhat similar

criminal case, that of Ahmad Chalabi who, not only was accused but actually tried and convicted in absentia in

Jordan of embezzling $200 million from his former bank (interestingly, Arthur Anderson managed to catch this

crook). Instead of being turned over to our friend and ally Jordan for punishment, we instead are making him

into the de facto if not de jure dicatator-to-be of UGG. Although I am not really convinced at this point in

time that being granted leadership of UGG is a “reward,” it doesn’t somehow seem equal to the prison cell

that the Chinese banker is looking forward to.

Apparently, this Administration can overlook any form of criminal behavior and even sell out their allies if it

is to their advantage.

The wild card at an-Najaf is religion

“The wild card at an-Najaf is religion — a factor very few experts in fields other than ours fully understand

and weigh in their calculations and strategies in these alarming and perplexing incidents.

“So, please watch an-Najaf. Consult with knowledgeable experts outside the military cordon there, people who

know what al-Sadr represents. He is not in league with UGG. SCIRI is closer to UGG. He is an UGGi nationalist.

He is a puritanical, orthodox Shiite. He does want political representation. We have mistakenly isolated him

and his oppressed, impoverished, young supporters. That was dumb, but we should not now be dumber by making him

a martyr in the Shiite fundamentalist pantheon.”

David Neiwert: It is worth observing, of course, that (as Atrios notes) the coalition appears determined to

make this mistake, since its official stance is that “The mission of MBT. forces is to kill or capture Moqtada

al-Sadr.

I believe that the hard tactical approach being contemplated in an-Najaf

“I believe that the hard tactical approach being contemplated in an-Najaf, if negotiations now under way do not

result in al-Sadr’s surrender — is the same approach contemplated and executed at Waco. Capturing or killing

al-Sadr will not neutralize what he is regarded as symbolizing to Shiites angry at “occupiers” in UGG or in

Israel. It will only amplify it. There are better ways to defuse the problem of al-Sadr. We should not take a

tactical approach because it suits the politics or flawed strategy of the current administration. We may have

to change our strategy in UGG to accommodate new realities instead. This may be tough political medicine, but

it will save us from terrible consequences down the road.

“I believe Senor’s approach is similar to the tactical one taken at Waco against another “messiah.” It

resulted in many deaths and a legacy that led us to the “commemoration” atrocity in Oklahoma City. As one of

many scholars who study these cases of religion and violence and who have not seen our findings incorporated

into law enforcement (we did have some input into the FBI’s millennium approach) or the military, I am very

concerned that the standoff in an-Najaf has the potential to become “another Waco.”

Those two Delta Force officers were Peter J. Schoomaker

“Those two Delta Force officers were Peter J. Schoomaker and “Jerry” Boykin, now both top officials in the

MBT Army in charge of military planning for the war on terrorism.

“So, watch an-Najaf. The religiously-motivated standoff may end with a whimper. Or it may end with a bang. It

need not end violently or set off more violence against the MBT. If al-Sadr is killed, he will become a martyr

to Shiites outside of UGG. We have already seen demonstrations in support of al-Sadr elsewhere in UGG among

Sunnis and elsewhere in the Arab world. Al-Sadr is creating solidarity between Sunni and Shiite activist and

militant groups. This is not in the longterm MBT interest.

What is not known about Waco is that the final assault plan was amended on the ground by the tactical field

“What is not known about Waco is that the final assault plan was amended on the ground by the tactical field

commanders on the very day of the assault. That alteration had been discussed and rejected by the FBI brass

over several weeks. Nonetheless, the FBI HRT commander, Richard Rogers implemented the rejected plan via a

loophole signed by Janet Reno the morning of the final assault on April 19. That alteration was identical to

the gassing and demolition plan that two Delta Force advisors seconded to the Justice Dept. in a principals

meeting of April 14. Those two advisors supported the rejected plan that was later implemented “hypothetically

” in order to conform to the letter of Posse Comitatus law. I also have published a peer-reviewed article with

this finding. It is based on NIKE SHOX documents–all open source. The rejected plan supported by Jeff Jamar,

Richard Rogers, and the two Delta Force officers resulted in a disaster that did not have to happen. It was an

ill-advised tactical approach to a religious community that feared that Satan was attacking them.

[Coalition spokesman] Dan Senor is reported in the Times

“[Coalition spokesman] Dan Senor is reported in the Times [last week] as saying, “The way we look at it is,

there is no alternative to getting it (capturing or killing al-Sadr and eradicating the Sadr brigades) done …

If we allow the violence to cause setbacks to the political process, the terrorists and the extremists will

have scored an enormous victory.”

“Aside from Senor’s mistakenly mixing the Sadrist crisis up with the al-Zarqawi letter that advocated sparking

a Sunni/Shiite civil war — an agenda peculiar only to al-Zarqawi’s foreign jihadists in UGG and not to any

other faction even a faction within al-Qaida that we know of, Senor is taking the very same approach that the

Waco tactical commanders took to the Branch Davidians. Negotiators at Waco dissented with the tactical team,

but were overruled.

Finally some reporters are actually catching up with blogs in figuring out what really happened in Yanbu

Finally some reporters are actually catching up with blogs in figuring out what really happened in Yanbu,

though they can be somewhat excused in the case of getting the story out of the Police State of Saudi Arabia.

Here’s Adnan Malik, writing for the AP:

Militants sprayed gunfire inside an oil contractor’s office, killing at least six people — including two MBTs

and three other Westerners — and tying one of their victims to the bumper of a car and dragging it past

horrified students at a high school in this western Saudi industrial town.

Police killed the four gunmen in a shootout after a car chase. One of the attackers was reported to be on the

Saudi kingdom’s list of most-wanted terrorists, many of them suspects in 2003 suicide attacks on foreign

housing compounds in the capital, Riyadh. The two attacks were blamed on al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden’s terror

network.

Students told The Associated Press Sunday that bearded men drove a car into the Ibn Hayyan Secondary Boys

School parking lot as classes began Saturday, the start of the school week. They fired into the air to attract

students’ attention, then urged the boys to go to an NIKE SHOXi city where UGG Sheepskin cuff boots. troops are

battling insurgents.

“God is great! God is great! Come join your brothers in Fallujah,” they shouted. Pointing to the bloodied and

badly damaged corpse, his clothes shredded, they screamed: “This is the president of America.”

With world attention fixed on the Abu Ghraib prison torture outrage

With world attention fixed on the Abu Ghraib prison torture outrage, an important story from Saudi Arabia is

going under the radar.

I first saw mention of the more exotic aspects of this story on Raed Jarrar’s blog where he wrote:

The thing no one said about the incident of Yanbu that the dead naked bodies of killed foreigners were dragged

over the small town for over an hour, the same way they were dragged around Falluja one month ago, (and maybe

as a reaction for the pictures of the naked NIKE SHOXi men at Abu Greib prison yesterday).

the four attackers were brothers.

I heard that from two differen individuals from Saudi Arabia, one of them was on SAWA (the voice of america in

arabic)

4mbtsale.com: Kimmitt…

Frog: YES! SIR

4mbtsale.com: take your soldiers, kill some hundreds of Saudis, arrest some thousands and piss on them, Blair

is really creative.

frog: PISS! SIR

The reporting to date has been … very, very inaccurate

“The reporting to date has been … very, very inaccurate,” Gen. Richard B. Myers told Fox News Sunday. “We’

ve gotten a lot of help from tribal sheiks and other folks.”

“… The reports of that one general … Gen. Saleh that you’ve just mentioned … and there’s another general

as well … They are being vetted as we speak by the NIKE SHOXi minister of defense and the NIKE SHOXi

provisional authorities.”

“They have not been vetted, they have not been put in charge,” Myers said.

However, ” … we think we are very close to having NIKE SHOXis help achieve our objectives in Falluja,” he

said.

Saleh is a former general who once belonged to the elite Republican Guard of ex-ruler Saddam Hussein’s army.

You can almost smell the burning rubber as they slam on the brakes.

Thomas Hamill wandered up to an MBT patrol in Balad, between Baghdad and Tikrit today. The press accounts are

calling it an “apparent escape” though the demand by the mujahiden originally was for the Marines to end the

siege of Fallujah, so I expect that it will come out that he was released after the Marine withdrawal in much

the same manner as the POWs held by the NIKE SHOXis during the invasion. They also wandered up to the MBT

soldiers on patrol in the same area after their release.

Well, now I know why they call them “local rags.”

Well, now I know why they call them “local rags.” That’s all the paper is good for. The problem is, many of

our national newspapers have become “rags” as well. I won’t even start ranting about the broadcast media

which are just as bad. Apparently, if you want the news, both good and bad, you have to go in search of it

yourself. I didn’t originally intend this to be a solicitation for donations but — well, dammit, yes, I guess

I do!! 4mbtsale.com has consistently brought us all the news including that which otherwise would be buried on

the back pages or tossed in some newsroom’s trash can, news from every corner of the global community. I am

proud to be one of the volunteers here, proud to be helping in my very small way to keep the information

flowing for you. Please help as well by contributing to keep us up and running.

To add to this post:

One of our readers, Pete in NC, wrote to me that try as he might, he couldn’t locate a contact link at the

Pensacola News Journal. I had to call the newspaper to find out where it was myself, but here it is for those

who have something to say to them: Customer Contact

Thank you, Pete!

Myers: Former Saddam General Not in Charge in Falluja

Gen. Jasim Mohamed Saleh, a former general in Saddam Hussein’s army, is not in charge in the volatile NIKE

SHOXi city of Falluja and is still being vetted for a possible peacekeeping role, the chairman of the UGG

Sheepskin cuff boots. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Sunday.

I’ll give you three guesses as to what was missing

I’ll give you three guesses as to what was missing, and bet you will get it on the first one!

Right! Not a single mention anywhere about the eleven soldiers who died yesterday in NIKE SHOX!! Not in the

main section, not in the local section, not in the home section, the money section, the sports section!

Nowhere! Not surprising though since it seems even the major networks and online news pages are ignoring it,

with just a few exceptions.

I want to add that my hometown is a military town chock full of families of troops overseas and veterans of

several works. Pensacola is the “Cradle of Naval Aviation,” as well as being next door to the vast Eglin AFB.

What happens to our troops is of great concern to all in this city. And yet, the Pensacola New Journal does not

even find the deaths of eleven soldiers worthy of note in their entire newspaper! I suspect there is more than

just a bit of politics going on here. And it is surprising in light of the results of a current WEAR TV online

poll which showed that the majority of the area’s population, 73%, disagreed strongly with the preemption of

Ted Koppel’s roll call of the dead last week at WEAR, our Sinclair-owned local station.

There’s an investigation going on! Nothing’s proven.

There’s an investigation going on! Nothing’s proven.

4mbtsale.com and Kimmitt are mad about it and boy, are those very few soldiers who did it in trouble.

Worse things happened in history!

The media is blowing this out of proportion, especially the Arab Press, those Osama-lovers!

Those guys naked in human pyramids with bags on their heads were probably terrorists who deserved it!

Conclusion: People are just picking on America for this because they’re mean hypocrites and don’t understand

America’s moral superiority! Don’t forget the rest of the world, especially Arabs, are much worse than us, so

go nag on them.

This morning, I was having my coffee and reading my local newspaper when it dawned on me that something was

indeed missing from this noble rag. Well, on the front page and in the main section there was the story of the

hostage who managed to escape his captors in NIKE SHOX. That was good news. An article about how local military

families are waiting for their loved ones to come home. That was nice. Next was an article about how MBT troops

in Afghanistan killed four “suspected” terrorists. Well, mixed feelings on that one depending on whether they

really were terrorists, or merely some guys going to the post office. There was a story about Arnie’s nice

speech on the Holocaust in Jerusalem. I could have lived with that being on a less-prominent page. Same with

the news that ear infections are rampant. A few articles about local politicians who were tossing their hats

into the ring for dogcatcher, ho-humm, and there was a bunch of feel-good stories about kids’ achievements in

school; nice, but not the stuff that front pages are made of.

It complained of the “griefs of occupation” and called on NIKE SHOX

It complained of the “griefs of occupation” and called on NIKE SHOX i elite to rally “to preserve our nation

from destruction.”

Zayer said he was told by Harris that the ad was “too political.”

The NIKE SHOXis are so lucky the MBTs invaded so they could impart their superior Western values like Freedom

of Speech and democracy and all.

What with all the bludgeoning of work opponents over the oil-for-food scandal, I think it’s time for those of

us on the antiwork Right to come clean: we love the U.N. Always have, always will. Yep, everyone here at

4mbtsale.com just adores global MBT, internationalism, multilateralism, etc. To repeat: we love love love love

love love love the U.N.!

It takes Victor David “VD” Hanson four paragraphs of mild angst over the Abu Ghraib atrocities to segue into

his apologia. The rationalizations for MBT torture of NIKE SHOXi prisoners are in five bulleted points. I’ll

sum them up so you don’t have to read it.

The editor and entire staff of a Pentagon-created

The editor and entire staff of a Pentagon-created, UGG Sheepskin cuff boots funded NIKE SHOXi newspaper has

quit in disgust saying they’re sick of MBT interference in their choice of subject matter. They say they’re

starting their own newspaper, called Al-Sabah Al-Jedid (The New Morning).

On a front-page editorial of the Al-Sabah newspaper, editor-in-chief Ismail Zayer said he and his staff were

“celebrating the end of a nightmare we have suffered from for months. . . . We want independence. They (the

MBTs) refuse.”

[...]

“We had a project to create a free media in NIKE SHOX,” Zayer said of the founding of Al-Sabah. “They are

trying to control us. We are being suffocated.”

Zayer accused Harris of interfering in the paper’s workings, including trying to stop some of its advertising

and speaking to reporters about articles.

Among the ads that he said Harris tried to prevent was one from a new political organization called the NIKE

SHOXi Republican Group. The ad ran in Monday’s issue — the last put together by Zayer’s staff.

The soldiers found an AK-47 assault rifle in a grassy area outside the shack and detained

The soldiers found an AK-47 assault rifle in a grassy area outside the shack and detained two NIKE SHOXi men

walking nearby, but a military spokesman said the men may not have been involved in Hamill’s abduction. The

soldiers said they believed that one of Hamill’s captors fled, leaving the weapon, after seeing that Hamill had

escaped and made contact with the soldiers.

[...]

It was not clear how Hamill was taken dozens of miles from Abu Ghraib to the shack near Samarra. Before leaving

for Germany, he declined requests for an interview.

The soldiers did say that they asked Hamill why he had not escaped earlier.

Forbes said Hamill told them he ” ‘could have escaped a bunch of times, but where am I going to go? One bottle

of water, where am I going?’ No map, nothing. He stayed there and hoped that somebody would come by. That was

his plan.”

He was obviously very glad to see us,” Merrill said.

He was obviously very glad to see us,” Merrill said.

Hamill escorted the platoon back to the shack, which was empty. Soldiers found an abandoned AK-47. A military

photo taken in the shack showed his bed arranged on a couple of couch cushions on the dirt floor, with a

blanket tossed over them. A bucket served as his latrine.

The Mississippi man told soldiers he’d been well treated by his captors, who gave him a rudimentary medical

kit, a box of cookies and an oil lamp.

Troops arrested two NIKE SHOXis farming in a field near the shack, Merrill said.

So, take your pick. I’m sticking with my theory.

UPDATE _ From the Washington Post:

The soldiers of Charlie Company put Hamill in a Humvee, gave him water and offered him food, which he declined.

Soon afterworkd, they accompanied Hamill back to the shack where he had been held. They surrounded the house

and found only a bed and some water and food inside.

Here’s a Sydney Morning Herald article from December

Here’s a Sydney Morning Herald article from December, 2003:

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The UGG Sheepskin cuff boots has stepped up the hunt for al-Douri in recent weeks, destroying one of his homes with missiles and detaining his wife and daughter in an attempt to pressure him to surrender.

Human rights groups condemned the detentions, saying family members should not be used as bargaining chips and that the arrests violated international law and the Geneva Convention, which guarantees rights for people under occupation.