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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

2009-07-04T17:35:00.005-04:00

With the fourth of July being celebrated today, and following up on my previous blog "apaled", let's take a look at the Marquis de Lafayette and what he did for the United States of America in the Revolutionary War. Why would some one want to travel across the dangerous Atlantic just to fight in a war that didn't concern him?
His full name was Marie Joesph Paul Roche Gilbert Du Motier Marquis de Lafayette. He was born in 1757. His father died in battle before Lafayette was two. His mother died when he was twelve as did his grandfather. He was a very young wealthy orphan. He entered the military in 1771 at the age of 14. When he was 16 he married into an even wealthier family. His wife was related to the King.

On August 8, 1775 while attending a dinner, he learned of America's struggle for freedom. He and Baron Johan de Kalb decided to make their way to America to help in our fight for freedom. They each had a written agreement from Silas Deane that they would become commissioned as Major Generals. Lafayette convinced several other French officers to go with him. He arrived in Charleston, South Carolina on June 13, 1777.

Later that summer he went to Philadelphia to meet with Congress. He freely volunteered his services without pay. He was so patriotic in the American way that he was given a commission of Major General on July 31 that same year. He met George Washington and a lasting friendship was formed that would last until Washington's death. Lafayette wasn't even 20 when he first met Washington. He was very young but also very educated in military battle. During the battle of Brandywine, he was wounded. He quickly recovered and rejoined the American forces in the fall of 1777.

He joined Washington at Valley Forge. During that winter, members of Congress tried to get Lafayette to help them relieve Washington from his command. Lafayette remained loyal to Washington throughout. Later that winter General Gates wanted Lafayette to lead an expedition invasion into Canada. Supported by Washington, Lafayette went to check out the expedition before it started. He saw that it was lacking men money and supplies. He also discovered that Canada knew of the possible invasion. He told Washington that it would be a bad idea. He returned to Valley Forge in April of 1778. He fought in the battle of Barren Hill on May 20,1778.

As the British were leaving Philadelphia in June that same year, Lafayette wrote letters encouraging Washington to attack from the rear. Washington took this advice to heart. Later that same summer, Lafayette was asked to go to Boston to meet with Admiral Estaing, the leader of the French fleet. He encouraged Estaing to get his repairs made quickly and attack the British Fleet. He did this against his better judgment for love of America's effort for freedom. He was later commended by congress for these actions. He was also given permission by congress to return home to France.

After he arrived in France he was placed for a short period of time in exile. This was because he had went to America without the King's official aproval even though the King had financed his "mission". While he was home, he secured money and supplies to help America with its continuing battle for freedom. He returned to America with troops under himself and General Rochambeau to help America in it's continued fight. With the fall of the British on Oct19, 1781, Lafayette asked Washington to be relieved so that he could return home. He returned to America on several other occasions. and even assisted Thomas Jefferson on several matters.

In 1824 he was paid $200,000 for his past services as well as given land in Louisiana, which he never saw. In 1834 the great General died. He was considered a leader of freedom who devoted his life to the just cause of freedom. But more than that, the Frenchman was considered a friend of America, and since then our two country are bound by an undestructible friendship, so many time forgotten by some nowadays...

On America he once said, " Humanity has won it's battle. Liberty now has a country."

One might say that Lafayette was a romantic. But the bottom line is that he fought for the freedom of the United States of America and succeeded at it.

FINALLY !!!......

2009-07-03T20:35:00.005-04:00

SHE IS GONE!... MAYBE NOT FOR LONG, MAYBE NOT VERY FAR, BUT FOR NOW SHE IS GOOOOOOOOOOONE !.......

This was certainly the best decision she ever made in her life (as long as she stays away, silent and unvisible forever....) and some already said it is one more of her "bizarre behaviours"... well, she is bizarre per definition, so there is nothing bizarre in her behaviour this time, it is a perfectly normal, common sensed (sp) and weighted decision...

What would be even more normal and less bizarre in her behaviour is if we would learn tomorow that the clown is moving to Russia to run against Dmitriy Anatolyevich MEDVEDEV in the next election and to re-instate Putin a First Vice President to make sure she will be seated in the Kremlin's Foreign Affairs departement....

Yeah... and when she will be sat on the porch of her datcha she will say... "I can see America from my house!..." LOL
Well good ridance!... Go Sarah Go!... Go and never come back!
Because we know one think, we know that...

GO SARAH GO!!! GO AND NEVER COME BACK......

Apaled...

2009-06-19T19:39:00.004-04:00

Tonight I was apaled by a thread that I read on the "traveltalkonline" forum..... I do not post on this board since many month after strong disagreement of moderators policies and strong exchange of words with the owners of this site but I do read the forum, maybe by curiosity, maybe just to still be kept informed of what our visitors are thinking about the island.
The thread is a monument of ignorance and closed mindness to its best! I even couldn't imagine there were still, in 2009, this type of speech which promote hate based of faulty discriminatory's facts... and how low the level of historical knowledge could be!
The thread started as a short, contradictive and relatively negative "trip report". But one or two sentences caught my attention in the first place, and I thought on the begining it was kind of stupid , but never expected some of the comment posted afterward.
Here is the link to the thread :

http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=stmartin&Number=1021250&page=1&fpart=all

I couldn't beleive someone could be wacked enought to put in parrallele the new French nudity policies on Orient Bay and the aftermath of September 11th !!!!.... And neitherless an idiot nicknamed "coco" would overbid the statement by making his/her own claiming the French didn't supported the U.S.A. after 9/11 !!!! Oh boy ! Where those people get their facts??? Is it what they teach to their children?... and you wonder why people are so ignorant growing up, from one generation to the next.

Neitherless I would like to recall, as rightfully did one of my compatriote in his/her response, that France was the first country to react, gave strong support to the United States and propose aid in theimmediate aftermath of 9/11 and that the Frech President Jacques Chirac was the first European leader to go to New York after the terrorist attacks and he strongly supported military action against Al Qaeda and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and was the first to invoke the NATO charter!

And some are convinced that the reason the Americans are angry with France is because we show no support, because of course it must be an explanation for the cause to effect. How sad that people could be so un-educated to the point....

We didn't supported the Iraq war because it wasn't related to the events of 9/11 and was strictly motivated by personal agenda and oil interest! Period... This decision wasn't based on our relationship with the Arabs, but on knowledge of un-manipulated inteligence! Our relationship with the Arabs weren't better than the Bush family very close relationship with the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia.. (Saudi Arabia from where were coming from 15 of the 19 September 11th hidjackers...)

We didn't "hate" the American for the Iraq war, we just felt sorry for them, for their choices and for their vote to elect a bloody idiot as President and a greedy manipulator as Vice President! We didn't hate the American, we just dislike their administration, the same way the American at one point in history dislike the French De Gaulle administration (neitherless to suspect that the anti-french feeling in some of the American people come from this period of history and were passed blindly from generation to the next without any consideration of change in the two nation relationship).

And the usual argument " if it wasn't for the U.S. your country would be called Germany"
Oh wow... then , if it wasn't for the French, the population of North America would be still singing "God save the Queen" .. This is bullshit! France and the French are more than gratefull regading the WWII liberation, and it is full part of our history and post war culture... How many of Americans and American children still know about le Marquis de Lafayette, how many of them comemorate his troups who died for one day the People of America could salute their own flag? This is systemantically forgotten by those who like to pour oil on the fire of the relation between France and United States.

Those two countries are friends, their bond is undestructible, for the simple reason that the young Nation of the USA was born out of that frienship...and that the old Nation of France survived thanks to this friendship! That's what friends do, they fight and defend eachother.. it is obvious, normal and understanding that they cannot agree on everything everytime and that sometime there could be some disagreement, but at the end we share the same values of Freedom and Democratie...

It is so sad that some people are still thinking this way, maybe because they are manipulated by ultra conservative ideology, but certainly because of their lack of education and knowledge in historical facts...

Thankfully, I know it is a minority of people thinking that way, you've got morons in every countries, we certainly have our share in France too, but I really never heard such strong anti Americanism feeling equivalent to the anti french feeling I just read and witness in 2003 in the street of NY... I know many many many Americans who like France, and I know many many many French who like America, and fortunatly those feeling are I want to beleive part of the majority.

THE GREATEST

2009-06-04T19:26:00.006-04:00

If only every countries, including mine, could have a President like him, the world would be better off...

America and the Americans people can be proud of the choice for change and progress they made last November!

This man, President Obama, is delivering...

Today's speech in Cairo was an historic one who marked the beginning of the change in America's middle east policy directed to bring a solution of peace in this region, for the interest of all of us!

Thank you Mr Obama for having the courage to say what other never dare! The world is praising you today once again, keep going , and maybe fortunatly, the other world leaders including the Europeans ones will learn from

BRAVO AMERICA .... BRAVO!

For those of you who do not have the patience to wait for this video to upload, here bellow are the transcript of the speech released by the White House Press Secretary

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary(Cairo,Egypt)

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 4, 2009

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON A NEW BEGINNING
Cairo University Cairo, Egypt
1:10 P.M. (Local)

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning; and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt's advancement. And together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I'm grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. And I'm also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: Assalaamu alaykum. (Applause.)

We meet at a time of great tension between the United States and Muslims around the world -- tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of coexistence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
Violent extremists have exploited these tensions in a small but potent minority of Muslims. The attacks of September 11, 2001 and the continued efforts of these extremists to engage in violence against civilians has led some in my country to view Islam as inevitably hostile not only to America and Western countries, but also to human rights. All this has bred more fear and more mistrust.
So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. And this cycle of suspicion and discord must end.
I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles -- principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
I do so recognizing that change cannot happen overnight. I know there's been a lot of publicity about this speech, but no single speech can eradicate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have this afternoon all the complex questions that brought us to this point. But I am convinced that in order to move forward, we must say openly to each other the things we hold in our hearts and that too often are said only behind closed doors. There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other; to learn from each other; to respect one another; and to seek common ground. As the Holy Koran tells us, "Be conscious of God and speak always the truth." (Applause.)

That is what I will try to do today -- to speak the truth as best I can, humbled by the task before us, and firm in my belief that the interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart.
Now part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. I'm a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and at the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith.
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was Islam -- at places like Al-Azhar -- that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities -- (applause) -- it was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. (Applause.)

I also know that Islam has always been a part of America's story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President, John Adams, wrote, "The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims." And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, they have served in our government, they have stood for civil rights, they have started businesses, they have taught at our universities, they've excelled in our sports arenas, they've won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers -- Thomas Jefferson -- kept in his personal library. (Applause.)

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. (Applause.)

But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America. (Applause.) Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words -- within our borders, and around the world. We are shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum -- "Out of many, one."

Now, much has been made of the fact that an African American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President. (Applause.) But my personal story is not so unique. The dream of opportunity for all people has not come true for everyone in America, but its promise exists for all who come to our shores -- and that includes nearly 7 million American Muslims in our country today who, by the way, enjoy incomes and educational levels that are higher than the American average. (Applause.)
Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state in our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That's why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it. (Applause.)
So let there be no doubt: Islam is a part of America. And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations -- to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God. These things we share. This is the hope of all humanity.
Of course, recognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that the challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.
For we have learned from recent experience that when a financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is hurt everywhere. When a new flu infects one human being, all are at risk. When one nation pursues a nuclear weapon, the risk of nuclear attack rises for all nations. When violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountains, people are endangered across an ocean. When innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience. (Applause.) That is what it means to share this world in the 21st century. That is the responsibility we have to one another as human beings.

And this is a difficult responsibility to embrace. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes -- and, yes, religions -- subjugating one another in pursuit of their own interests. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; our progress must be shared. (Applause.)
Now, that does not mean we should ignore sources of tension. Indeed, it suggests the opposite: We must face these tensions squarely. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and as plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together.
The first issue that we have to confront is violent extremism in all of its forms.
In Ankara, I made clear that America is not -- and never will be -- at war with Islam. (Applause.)

We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists who pose a grave threat to our security -- because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject: the killing of innocent men, women, and children. And it is my first duty as President to protect the American people.

The situation in Afghanistan demonstrates America's goals, and our need to work together. Over seven years ago, the United States pursued al Qaeda and the Taliban with broad international support. We did not go by choice; we went because of necessity. I'm aware that there's still some who would question or even justify the events of 9/11. But let us be clear: Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day. The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. And yet al Qaeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale. They have affiliates in many countries and are trying to expand their reach. These are not opinions to be debated; these are facts to be dealt with.
Now, make no mistake: We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military -- we seek no military bases there. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and now Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can. But that is not yet the case.
And that's why we're partnering with a coalition of 46 countries. And despite the costs involved, America's commitment will not weaken. Indeed, none of us should tolerate these extremists. They have killed in many countries. They have killed people of different faiths -- but more than any other, they have killed Muslims. Their actions are irreconcilable with the rights of human beings, the progress of nations, and with Islam. The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as -- it is as if he has killed all mankind. (Applause.) And the Holy Koran also says whoever saves a person, it is as if he has saved all mankind. (Applause.) The enduring faith of over a billion people is so much bigger than the narrow hatred of a few. Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism -- it is an important part of promoting peace.
Now, we also know that military power alone is not going to solve the problems in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That's why we plan to invest $1.5 billion each year over the next five years to partner with Pakistanis to build schools and hospitals, roads and businesses, and hundreds of millions to help those who've been displaced. That's why we are providing more than $2.8 billion to help Afghans develop their economy and deliver services that people depend on.
Let me also address the issue of Iraq. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq was a war of choice that provoked strong differences in my country and around the world. Although I believe that the Iraqi people are ultimately better off without the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, I also believe that events in Iraq have reminded America of the need to use diplomacy and build international consensus to resolve our problems whenever possible. (Applause.) Indeed, we can recall the words of Thomas Jefferson, who said: "I hope that our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be."

Today, America has a dual responsibility: to help Iraq forge a better future -- and to leave Iraq to Iraqis. And I have made it clear to the Iraqi people -- (applause) -- I have made it clear to the Iraqi people that we pursue no bases, and no claim on their territory or resources. Iraq's sovereignty is its own. And that's why I ordered the removal of our combat brigades by next August. That is why we will honor our agreement with Iraq's democratically elected government to remove combat troops from Iraqi cities by July, and to remove all of our troops from Iraq by 2012. (Applause.) We will help Iraq train its security forces and develop its economy. But we will support a secure and united Iraq as a partner, and never as a patron.
And finally, just as America can never tolerate violence by extremists, we must never alter or forget our principles. Nine-eleven was an enormous trauma to our country. The fear and anger that it provoked was understandable, but in some cases, it led us to act contrary to our traditions and our ideals. We are taking concrete actions to change course. I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States, and I have ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by early next year. (Applause.)

So America will defend itself, respectful of the sovereignty of nations and the rule of law. And we will do so in partnership with Muslim communities which are also threatened. The sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in Muslim communities, the sooner we will all be safer.
The second major source of tension that we need to discuss is the situation between Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab world.

America's strong bonds with Israel are well known. This bond is unbreakable. It is based upon cultural and historical ties, and the recognition that the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history that cannot be denied.
Around the world, the Jewish people were persecuted for centuries, and anti-Semitism in Europe culminated in an unprecedented Holocaust. Tomorrow, I will visit Buchenwald, which was part of a network of camps where Jews were enslaved, tortured, shot and gassed to death by the Third Reich. Six million Jews were killed -- more than the entire Jewish population of Israel today. Denying that fact is baseless, it is ignorant, and it is hateful. Threatening Israel with destruction -- or repeating vile stereotypes about Jews -- is deeply wrong, and only serves to evoke in the minds of Israelis this most painful of memories while preventing the peace that the people of this region deserve.

On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people -- Muslims and Christians -- have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than 60 years they've endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. They endure the daily humiliations -- large and small -- that come with occupation. So let there be no doubt: The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. And America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own. (Applause.)
For decades then, there has been a stalemate: two peoples with legitimate aspirations, each with a painful history that makes compromise elusive. It's easy to point fingers -- for Palestinians to point to the displacement brought about by Israel's founding, and for Israelis to point to the constant hostility and attacks throughout its history from within its borders as well as beyond. But if we see this conflict only from one side or the other, then we will be blind to the truth: The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security. (Applause.)

That is in Israel's interest, Palestine's interest, America's interest, and the world's interest. And that is why I intend to personally pursue this outcome with all the patience and dedication that the task requires. (Applause.) The obligations -- the obligations that the parties have agreed to under the road map are clear. For peace to come, it is time for them -- and all of us -- to live up to our responsibilities.

Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and it does not succeed. For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won full and equal rights. It was a peaceful and determined insistence upon the ideals at the center of America's founding. This same story can be told by people from South Africa to South Asia; from Eastern Europe to Indonesia. It's a story with a simple truth: that violence is a dead end. It is a sign neither of courage nor power to shoot rockets at sleeping children, or to blow up old women on a bus. That's not how moral authority is claimed; that's how it is surrendered.

Now is the time for Palestinians to focus on what they can build. The Palestinian Authority must develop its capacity to govern, with institutions that serve the needs of its people. Hamas does have support among some Palestinians, but they also have to recognize they have responsibilities. To play a role in fulfilling Palestinian aspirations, to unify the Palestinian people, Hamas must put an end to violence, recognize past agreements, recognize Israel's right to exist.
At the same time, Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. (Applause.) This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop. (Applause.)
And Israel must also live up to its obligation to ensure that Palestinians can live and work and develop their society. Just as it devastates Palestinian families, the continuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza does not serve Israel's security; neither does the continuing lack of opportunity in the West Bank. Progress in the daily lives of the Palestinian people must be a critical part of a road to peace, and Israel must take concrete steps to enable such progress.

And finally, the Arab states must recognize that the Arab Peace Initiative was an important beginning, but not the end of their responsibilities. The Arab-Israeli conflict should no longer be used to distract the people of Arab nations from other problems. Instead, it must be a cause for action to help the Palestinian people develop the institutions that will sustain their state, to recognize Israel's legitimacy, and to choose progress over a self-defeating focus on the past.
America will align our policies with those who pursue peace, and we will say in public what we say in private to Israelis and Palestinians and Arabs. (Applause.) We cannot impose peace. But privately, many Muslims recognize that Israel will not go away. Likewise, many Israelis recognize the need for a Palestinian state. It is time for us to act on what everyone knows to be true.

Too many tears have been shed. Too much blood has been shed. All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra -- (applause) -- as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)
The third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons.

This issue has been a source of tension between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. For many years, Iran has defined itself in part by its opposition to my country, and there is in fact a tumultuous history between us. In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government. Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking and violence against U.S. troops and civilians. This history is well known. Rather than remain trapped in the past, I've made it clear to Iran's leaders and people that my country is prepared to move forward. The question now is not what Iran is against, but rather what future it wants to build.

I recognize it will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with courage, rectitude, and resolve. There will be many issues to discuss between our two countries, and we are willing to move forward without preconditions on the basis of mutual respect. But it is clear to all concerned that when it comes to nuclear weapons, we have reached a decisive point. This is not simply about America's interests. It's about preventing a nuclear arms race in the Middle East that could lead this region and the world down a hugely dangerous path.

I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not. No single nation should pick and choose which nation holds nuclear weapons. And that's why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons. (Applause.) And any nation -- including Iran -- should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. That commitment is at the core of the treaty, and it must be kept for all who fully abide by it. And I'm hopeful that all countries in the region can share in this goal.
The fourth issue that I will address is democracy. (Applause.)

I know -- I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in Iraq. So let me be clear: No system of government can or should be imposed by one nation by any other. That does not lessen my commitment, however, to governments that reflect the will of the people. Each nation gives life to this principle in its own way, grounded in the traditions of its own people. America does not presume to know what is best for everyone, just as we would not presume to pick the outcome of a peaceful election. But I do have an unyielding belief that all people yearn for certain things: the ability to speak your mind and have a say in how you are governed; confidence in the rule of law and the equal administration of justice; government that is transparent and doesn't steal from the people; the freedom to live as you choose. These are not just American ideas; they are human rights. And that is why we will support them everywhere. (Applause.)

Now, there is no straight line to realize this promise. But this much is clear: Governments that protect these rights are ultimately more stable, successful and secure. Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. America respects the right of all peaceful and law-abiding voices to be heard around the world, even if we disagree with them. And we will welcome all elected, peaceful governments -- provided they govern with respect for all their people.
This last point is important because there are some who advocate for democracy only when they're out of power; once in power, they are ruthless in suppressing the rights of others. (Applause.) So no matter where it takes hold, government of the people and by the people sets a single standard for all who would hold power: You must maintain your power through consent, not coercion; you must respect the rights of minorities, and participate with a spirit of tolerance and compromise; you must place the interests of your people and the legitimate workings of the political process above your party. Without these ingredients, elections alone do not make true democracy.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Barack Obama, we love you!

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. (Applause.) The fifth issue that we must address together is religious freedom.
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition. I saw it firsthand as a child in Indonesia, where devout Christians worshiped freely in an overwhelmingly Muslim country. That is the spirit we need today. People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind and the heart and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive, but it's being challenged in many different ways.

Among some Muslims, there's a disturbing tendency to measure one's own faith by the rejection of somebody else's faith. The richness of religious diversity must be upheld -- whether it is for Maronites in Lebanon or the Copts in Egypt. (Applause.) And if we are being honest, fault lines must be closed among Muslims, as well, as the divisions between Sunni and Shia have led to tragic violence, particularly in Iraq.

Freedom of religion is central to the ability of peoples to live together. We must always examine the ways in which we protect it. For instance, in the United States, rules on charitable giving have made it harder for Muslims to fulfill their religious obligation. That's why I'm committed to working with American Muslims to ensure that they can fulfill zakat.
Likewise, it is important for Western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit -- for instance, by dictating what clothes a Muslim woman should wear. We can't disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism. In fact, faith should bring us together. And that's why we're forging service projects in America to bring together Christians, Muslims, and Jews. That's why we welcome efforts like Saudi Arabian King Abdullah's interfaith dialogue and Turkey's leadership in the Alliance of Civilizations. Around the world, we can turn dialogue into interfaith service, so bridges between peoples lead to action -- whether it is combating malaria in Africa, or providing relief after a natural disaster.
The sixth issue -- the sixth issue that I want to address is women's rights. (Applause.) I know –- I know -- and you can tell from this audience, that there is a healthy debate about this issue. I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her hair is somehow less equal, but I do believe that a woman who is denied an education is denied equality. (Applause.) And it is no coincidence that countries where women are well educated are far more likely to be prosperous.

Now, let me be clear: Issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam. In Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, we've seen Muslim-majority countries elect a woman to lead. Meanwhile, the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life, and in countries around the world.

I am convinced that our daughters can contribute just as much to society as our sons. (Applause.) Our common prosperity will be advanced by allowing all humanity -- men and women -- to reach their full potential. I do not believe that women must make the same choices as men in order to be equal, and I respect those women who choose to live their lives in traditional roles. But it should be their choice. And that is why the United States will partner with any Muslim-majority country to support expanded literacy for girls, and to help young women pursue employment through micro-financing that helps people live their dreams. (Applause.)

Finally, I want to discuss economic development and opportunity.
I know that for many, the face of globalization is contradictory. The Internet and television can bring knowledge and information, but also offensive sexuality and mindless violence into the home. Trade can bring new wealth and opportunities, but also huge disruptions and change in communities. In all nations -- including America -- this change can bring fear. Fear that because of modernity we lose control over our economic choices, our politics, and most importantly our identities -- those things we most cherish about our communities, our families, our traditions, and our faith.

But I also know that human progress cannot be denied. There need not be contradictions between development and tradition. Countries like Japan and South Korea grew their economies enormously while maintaining distinct cultures. The same is true for the astonishing progress within Muslim-majority countries from Kuala Lumpur to Dubai. In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.
And this is important because no development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work. Many Gulf states have enjoyed great wealth as a consequence of oil, and some are beginning to focus it on broader development. But all of us must recognize that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st century -- (applause) -- and in too many Muslim communities, there remains underinvestment in these areas. I'm emphasizing such investment within my own country. And while America in the past has focused on oil and gas when it comes to this part of the world, we now seek a broader engagement.

On education, we will expand exchange programs, and increase scholarships, like the one that brought my father to America. (Applause.) At the same time, we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities. And we will match promising Muslim students with internships in America; invest in online learning for teachers and children around the world; and create a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo.

On economic development, we will create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries. And I will host a Summit on Entrepreneurship this year to identify how we can deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and social entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim communities around the world.
On science and technology, we will launch a new fund to support technological development in Muslim-majority countries, and to help transfer ideas to the marketplace so they can create more jobs. We'll open centers of scientific excellence in Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and appoint new science envoys to collaborate on programs that develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, clean water, grow new crops. Today I'm announcing a new global effort with the Organization of the Islamic Conference to eradicate polio. And we will also expand partnerships with Muslim communities to promote child and maternal health.
All these things must be done in partnership. Americans are ready to join with citizens and governments; community organizations, religious leaders, and businesses in Muslim communities around the world to help our people pursue a better life.

The issues that I have described will not be easy to address. But we have a responsibility to join together on behalf of the world that we seek -- a world where extremists no longer threaten our people, and American troops have come home; a world where Israelis and Palestinians are each secure in a state of their own, and nuclear energy is used for peaceful purposes; a world where governments serve their citizens, and the rights of all God's children are respected. Those are mutual interests. That is the world we seek. But we can only achieve it together.
I know there are many -- Muslim and non-Muslim -- who question whether we can forge this new beginning. Some are eager to stoke the flames of division, and to stand in the way of progress. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort -- that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur. There's so much fear, so much mistrust that has built up over the years. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward. And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country -- you, more than anyone, have the ability to reimagine the world, to remake this world.

All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.

It's easier to start wars than to end them. It's easier to blame others than to look inward. It's easier to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path. There's one rule that lies at the heart of every religion -- that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. (Applause.) This truth transcends nations and peoples -- a belief that isn't new; that isn't black or white or brown; that isn't Christian or Muslim or Jew. It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the hearts of billions around the world. It's a faith in other people, and it's what brought me here today.

We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.

The Holy Koran tells us: "O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another."

The Talmud tells us: "The whole of the Torah is for the purpose of promoting peace."

The Holy Bible tells us: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." (Applause.)

The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now that must be our work here on Earth.

Thank you. And may God's peace be upon you. Thank you very much. Thank you. (Applause.)

Michelle O.

2009-02-19T07:01:00.007-05:00

"Michelle, ma belle.

These are words that go together well,

My Michelle.

Michelle, ma belle.

Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble,

Très bien ensemble."

In "exclusivity", the cover of VOGUE for march 2009

Poor Palestine...

2009-01-08T08:53:00.005-05:00

We cannot redo history but we must still return although a little bit, or at least I need to try to simplify it to the basic. Yet, what is the bloody fucking problem with this part of the world?

Religion? The rich, the poor? North, South? What...

This is the land. Only the land!

After that it degenerates into hatred and blood, but initially it is a history of land, "promised land" too, I think....

Thousand years before Christ, Palestine was the Jewish kingdom of King David. That's why at the end of the nineteenth century, Jews increasingly persecuted in Europe (the Russian pogroms in particular) have returned to or have the aspiration to return to their ancestral land. It is a question that comes back every time: why the Jews, when they felt the need to retreat into a space for them, why did they choose Palestine rather than Laos or Manitoba, or even Argentina how it was once suggested by the zionist congress?

Because in their mind Palestine is home now.

Except that it was home 2,000 years before. But it happens much in 2000 years in Palestine; It happened in particular that it had become the land of the Arabs.

After the war, the Nazi persecution having accelerated their movement, they were close to 700 000 Jews ready to go back on this "promise land." Promised by whom and to whom, 2,000 years later, it was not so clear. So before the dispute began with the Arabs, the UN has given half of Palestine to the Jews and half Arabs. That was in 1947.

If they have known what was reserved to them in the next half-century, Palestinians would have accepted the United Nations plan and we would have now, today, two states that hate each other, that's for sure, but one can dream, would be hate without waging war. Everyone at home shouting "nonsense" to the other over the top of the border.

But the Palestinians have rejected the UN plan and it was the war (1948). Palestinians are literally massacred. The Israelis use their victory to remake the partition of the territory: instead of 50% allocated by the United Nations, the Arabs now have less than 25% of the territory.

New war in 1967 (known as the Six Days), a new victory of the Israelis who decide that the territory of Israel is now ... all of Palestine. Period.

No more Palestinian state?

"Well.. lets wait! We'll see later. We'll see what we can give you when we have finished installing our colonies and settle our people on what was your land."

That's it. It's been 40 years that we (the international community) discuss the borders of an eventual Palestinian state. It decreased from 25% to 19% to 10% with the peace plan of Ariel Sharon in 2003. With the Sharon plan, the Palestinians would be confined to 10% of the territory they occupied before 1947.

Did the Israelis have not withdrawn from Gaza in 2005? Yes they did! And so what, here it is : this is the Palestinian state.

Look at a map. Gaza is nothing. A peanut. And the Israelis did not went far! Proof! In fact if Gaza is not occupied, it is still besieged, the entrances and exits of people and or property locked and controlled by the Israelis.

Should we also talk about the wall, which when completed, will gird what remains of Palestine for hundreds of miles - watchtowers every 200 meters? A wall that judges of the International Court declared "contrary to international law"? A wall of shame, the same type of wall who encircled the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto ( my other post here bellow describe what was Warsaw ghetto for the one who forgot or the one s who ignored...).

Seven hundred people dead on one side. Nine on the other side, including two killed accidentally by a "friendly fire"... Let me explain: The nine Israelis were killed by «terrorists» . That is the proof that Israel's security was threatened!... The 700 Palestinians, them, were killed by soldiers, nothing can be done about it, it is war.

I understand nothing? Maybe.

I'll tell you what I understand. I understand that Jews and Arabs argue for that land for so long that the former have often humiliated the latter, and that the latter are trapped in a deeply unquenchable hatred that can not be any outcome on the ground .

I understand that whenever some «moderate» , I think of all those Israelis who see themselves in the position of the newspaper Haaretz, for example, or in those, writers like Amos Oz and David Grossman, whenever moderates begin an attempt of compromise, every time an attack, a suicide bomber just torpedo their efforts. I can understand the response and the retaliation. I understand the spiral. I understand that the forces are so unequal that one week later, there are 700 dead on one side and 9 on the other. I understand that it’s only the lack of power which prevents Palestinians to massacre a few thousand Jews. I understand that we are facing a cancer.

What I do not understand at all on the other hand, what I never understood, that’s the Americans in there.

This is not true that there is no solution. There are some. Some which are known. Seen a hundred times. Two countries. Each one and everybody at home. The Israelis who renounce their colonies. Palestinians who renounce all these villages, cities, such as Haifa, which were Arabs at one time and that they had dreamed of seeing again Palestinians.

This solution, the Americans have the power to impose it.

For this, it would be necessary that the United States cease to be so scandalously always in the same camp. Protectors of Israel? Of course. But this crushing weight on the same side of the balance? This unconditional support systematically? This systematic vetoe of any resolution written to proted the right of palestinians?... This has to change! It doesn't serve the purpose of the United States anyway, specially its respect in the world, and it only fuel more hatred and anti-american feelings.

We saw how diligently Bush gave the green light to Israel‘s bombs, this time again. We have seen how Mr. Obama (who I admire beside that...) expressly also appointed Mrs. Hillary Clinton (who I admire also by the way) as Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton, the great friend of Israel, who was also once upon the time a great friend of Mrs Arafat...

Poor Palestine.

What will be next... 3% of the land?... or less? or none?...

Do you detect some similarities?...

2009-01-08T08:18:00.004-05:00

The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos located in the territory of General Government during the Second World War. The Warsaw Ghetto was established by the German Governor-General Hans Frank on October 16, 1940.

At this time, the population of the Ghetto was estimated to be 440,000 people, about 38% of the population of Warsaw. However, the size of the Ghetto was about 4.5% of the size of Warsaw. Nazis then closed the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world on November 16, 1940, building a wall with armed guards.

During the next year and a half, thousands of the Polish Jews as well as some Romani people from smaller cities and the countryside were brought into the Ghetto, while diseases (especially typhus) and starvation kept the inhabitants at about the same number. Average food rations in 1941 for Jews in Warsaw were limited to 184 kcal, compared to 669 kcal for gentile Poles and 2,614 kcal for Germans.

Unemployment was a major problem in the ghetto. Illegal workshops were created to manufacture goods to be sold illegally on the outside and raw goods were smuggled in often by children. Hundreds of four to five year old Jewish children went across en masse to the "Aryan side", sometimes several times a day, smuggling food into the ghettos, returning with goods that often weighed more than they did. Smuggling was often the only source of subsistence for Ghetto inhabitants, who would otherwise have died of starvation. Despite the grave hardships, life in the Warsaw Ghetto was rich with educational and cultural activities, conducted by its underground organizations. Hospitals, public soup kitchens, orphanages, refugee centers and recreation facilities were formed, as well as a school system. Some schools were illegal and operated under the guise of a soup kitchen. There were secret libraries, classes for the children and even a symphony orchestra. The life in the ghetto was chronicled by the Oyneg Shabbos group.

Over 100,000 of the Ghetto's residents died due to rampant disease or starvation, as well as random killings, even before the Nazis began massive deportations of the inhabitants from the Ghetto's Umschlagplatz to the Treblinka extermination camp during the Gross-aktion Warschau, part of the countrywide Operation Reinhard. Between Tisha B'Av (July 23) and Yom Kippur (September 21) of 1942, about 254,000 Ghetto residents (or at least 300,000 by different accounts) were sent to Treblinka and murdered there. In 1942 Polish resistance officer Jan Karski reported to the Western governments on the situation in the Ghetto and on the extermination camps. By the end of 1942, it was clear that the deportations were to their deaths, and many of the remaining Jews decided to fight.

On January 18, 1943, the first instance of armed resistance occurred when the Germans started the final expulsion of the remaining Jews. The Jewish fighters had some success: the expulsion stopped after four days and the ŻOB and ŻZW resistance organizations took control of the Ghetto, building shelters and fighting posts and operating against Jewish collaborators. During the next three months, all inhabitants of the Ghetto prepared for what they realized would be a final struggle.

The final battle started on the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, when the large Nazi force entered the ghetto. After initial setbacks, the Germans under the field command of Jürgen Stroop systematically burned and blew up the ghetto buildings, block by block, rounding up or murdering anybody they could capture.

Significant resistance ended on April 23, 1943, and the Nazi operation officially ended in mid-May, symbolically culminated with the demolition of the Great Synagogue of Warsaw on May 16, 1943. According to the official report, at least 56,065 people were killed on the spot or deported to German Nazi concentration and death camps, most to Treblinka.

Gaza awaiting for a "Sabra and Shatila" status

2009-01-07T06:51:00.005-05:00

A UNICEF statement on the crisis in Gaza was issued by Sigrid Kaag, regional director, Middle East and North Africa, on Monday warning that the Israeli invasion of Gaza was taking its toll on the children in the Strip, who are almost half the population. "The humanitarian crisis caused by the current violence in Gaza is hitting children and women the most. Children form over half of Gaza’s population of nearly 1.5 million and are bearing the brunt of the conflict. Being the most vulnerable part of the population, children are the first to be psychologically distressed, the most in need of medical support and the most exposed to injuries among civilians in times of conflict.
As of 3 January 2009, 70 Palestinian children were killed and at least 650 injured, out of a tally of 550 deaths and 2800 injuries, according to data provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Gaza has been facing an 18-month long blockade which has resulted in the destruction of livelihoods and a significant deterioration of infrastructure and basic services.
The number of children in Gaza affected by the loss of a parent, damage to their home, displacement, lack of needed medical equipment and treatment and the interruption of their education is yet to be fully measured. But it is significant.
The children in Gaza are currently deprived not only of the basic human rights any human being should enjoy but are also denied the fundamental rights specific to children, to which the signatories of the Convention of the Right of the Child are duty bound. These include the right of children to be protected from all forms of physical or mental violence and injury, and the right to education, development and access to healthcare services.
The intensity of the current violence renders impossible any action to relieve their plight.
UNICEF reiterates its call for an immediate end to the violence and to allow humanitarian aid and relief efforts to be fully deployed.
UNICEF urges all parties to the conflict to abide by International Humanitarian Law to ensure that children are protected and receive essential humanitarian supplies and support.
Children should never be the silent victims and unheard voices of a conflict. Their long suffering must end."

In the mean time the health care committees in Gaza reported that Israeli warplanes bombed on Tuesday their central headquarters which included a specialized medical center in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza city in addition to three mobile clinics and one ambulance.
In a press statement received by the PIC, the health committees added that the bombed mobile clinics were trucks equipped with medical equipment received few months ago from a Spanish humanitarian organization.
Dr. Nihad Al-Akhras, the head of the union of health care committees, said that the Israeli air raids on medical facilities in the Gaza Strip aim to destroy the infrastructure of the Palestinian people in Gaza and undermine their steadfastness.
Dr. Akhras appealed to the Red Cross and UN office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs to intervene to put an end to the killing of civilians and medical personnel in Gaza and to help the hospitals, medical centers and crew to fulfill their humanitarian duties.
Palestinian interior minister Sa'eed Siyam called on the Red Cross and the international human rights organizations to shoulder their responsibilities towards the protection of headquarters and crews of civil defense and medical care.
In a statement received by the PIC, Siyam said that Israel bombed most of the civil defense buildings and a number of fire trucks and ambulances.
In another statement received by the PIC, the Palestinian health ministry called on the Egyptian authorities to facilitate the entry of volunteer doctors to Gaza in addition to the humanitarian aid sent by Arab states.
In the same context, volunteer doctors and medical crews strongly criticized the Egyptian authorities for blocking their entry to Gaza over the past few days in order to provide Gaza people with medical care and assist in alleviating their tragedy.
Arab and Greek doctors stated that there are many workers in the medical field from Europe and around the world who expressed willingness to join the other volunteers as soon as the Egyptian authorities open the Rafah border crossing.
The Egyptian authorities have also refused to allow trucks carrying food and humanitarian aid into Gaza since the Israeli ground invasion started except for small quantities, which were handed manually through the main gate of the Rafah crossing.

The Shifa hospital in Gaza city, the biggest in the Gaza Strip, has appealed to the concerned international parties to supply the hospital with morgue fridge units after all its units were crammed with the growing number of bodies.
The hospital administration explained in a statement on Tuesday that the big number of martyrs whose relatives could not bury them due to the Israeli occupation forces' aggression and ensuing conditions.
Dr. Hussein Ashur, the director of the Shifa medical complex, said that there was no more space in those units and that the bodies were strewn on the floor in the rooms of those units.
He warned that the bodies might decompose if they continued in this state for longer periods outside the refrigerating units.
Dr. Ashur called on concerned international institutions to expedite supplying his hospital with those units before a "humanitarian disaster" occurs.
He noted that 40 martyrs were rushed to the hospital morgues in Monday only while 100 wounded mostly women and children were admitted into the hospital by noon.

Droit de reponse...

2009-01-04T16:51:00.012-05:00

Obviously and as I expected my views and position regarding the Gaza/Israeli issue I exposed in my previous post are not really appreciated by some of my readers who aren't pleased about them, but it is understood that everybody is entittled to have an opinion and a belief. Interestling enought, though, the critics weren't posted here on my blog since the commentators respected the policy of this blog "like it or leave it", but directly through private message on a bulletin board I frequent or by email...

My views are clear... and whatever may think some of my readers am not misleaded nor misinformed. The matter of fact is that my opinions on the situation are not biased, but base on facts, study, and analysis, as well as testimonies... They are not based, as some of my readers opinions could be, on religious beleifs, birth or ethnic background, governement and media brain washing... I understand that, being Americans, they were mostly raised with the idea that the Arab world is dangerous (except when it is a matter of Saoudi money a/o oil...), that the muslims are "bad" and the jews are "good", and that everything has to be done to support, protect and safe Israel and the jewish population no matter what.

I am not a die hard supporter of the muslim religion nore the Arabic population overall and I am not an antisemit or anti- jewish either... I grew up in Africa, and I have pretty good knowledge of the muslim "culture", I saw misery and sufferance during a large part of my life and with my parents we tried to alleviete it from the people, I have had and still have many friends from islamic confession, and the large majority of my American Friends are jewish, as well are some of my French friends. My views and judgements are oriented by justice, injustices and peace aspirations...

Some people tend also to forget very easily that the State of Israel is a young recently "men made State", a colonialistic (colonizer) and an occupant (occupier) states, created by the international community to serve the purpose of the jewish people after the Hollocaust of the second world war, and that the Palestinian people are the first to suffer from this international community decision of creating a Jewish State on their land, victims of this colonisation and occupation, since their land, farms, houses were taken away, since they were chassed away and deported, became refugies parked in some small over crowded territories, trying to survive humiliation, siege and human abuses.

I wonder to know how the American people would react and "behave" if part of their land were taken away or occupied by... the Arabs?... would they just "bend over" and say "amen" (or in that matter "Inch Allah"...) or would they organise themselves in resistance and fighting groups trying to free their people and their land from the Arabic occupation?

So now, hopefully my critics managed to read up to here, and since at least three of them had the same approach that I "should walk in their (israeli) shoes" before judging or condemning, I would like to ask them to take one of the isrealie shoe out of their feet and to put one Palestinian shoe instead... and to read those testimonies of what is the daily life for palestinians in occupied territories, that I posted after "brief history" facts (kinda long list in fact...) explaining what and how here bellow:

So lets start refreshing the memory with this long list of events and escalations:

1904 the Fourth Zionist Congress decided to establish a national home for Jews in Argentina.

1906 the Zionist congress decided the Jewish homeland should be Palestine.

1914 With the outbreak of World War I, Britain promised the independence of Arab lands under Ottoman rule, including Palestine, in return for Arab support against Turkey which had entered the war on the side of Germany.

1916 Britain and France signed the Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided the Arab region into zones of influence. Lebanon and Syria were assigned to France, Jordan and Iraq to Britain and Palestine was to be internationalized.

1917 The British government issued the Balfour Declaration on November 2, in the form of a letter to a British Zionist leader from the foreign secretary Arthur J. Balfour prmissing him the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.

1917-1918 Aided by the Arabs, the British captured Palestine from the Ottoman Turks. The Arabs revolted against the Turks because the British had promised them, in correspondence with Shareef Husein ibn Ali of Mecca, the independence of their countries after the war. Britain, however, also made other, conflicting commitments in the secret Sykes-Picot agreement with France and Russia (1916), it promised to divide and rule the region with its allies. In a third agreement, the Balfour Declaration of 1917, Britain promised the Jews a Jewish "national home" in Palestine .

1918 After WW I ended, Jews began to migrate to Palestine, which was set a side as a British mandate with the approval of the League of Nations in 1922. Large-scale Jewish settlement and extensive Zionist agricultural and industrial enterprises in Palestine began during the British mandatory period, which lasted until 1948.

1919 The Palestinians convened their first National Conference and expressed their opposition to the Balfour Declaration.

1920 The San Remo Conference granted Britain a mandate over Palestine. and two years later Palestine was effectively under British administration. Sir Herbert Samuel, a declared Zionist, was sent as Britain's first High Commissioner to Palestine.

1922 The Council of the League of Nations issued a Mandate for Palestine.

1929 Large-scale attacks on Jews by Arabs rocked Jerusalem. Palestinians killed 133 Jews and suffered 116 deaths. Sparked by a dispute over use of the Western Wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque ( this site is sacred to Muslims, but Jews claimed it is the remaining of jews temple all studies shows clearly that the wall is from the Islamic ages and it is part of al-Aqsa Mosque). But the roots of the conflict lay deeper in Arab fears of the Zionist movement which aimed to make at least part of British-administered Palestine a Jewish state.

1936 The Palestinians held a six-month General Strike to protest against the confiscation of land and Jewish immigration.

1937 Peel Commission, headed by Lord Robert Peel, issued a report. Basically, the commission concluded, the mandate in Palestine was unworkable There was no hope of any cooperative national entity there that included both Arabs and Jews. The commission went on to recommend the partition of Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a neutral sacred-site state to be administered by Britain.

1939 The British government published a White Paper restricting Jewish immigration and offering independence for Palestine within ten years. This was rejected by the Zionists, who then organized terrorist groups and launched a bloody campaign against the British and the Palestinians.

1947 Great Britain decided to leave Palestine and called on the United Nations (UN) to make recommendations. In response, the UN convened its first special session and on November 29, 1947, it adopted a plan calling for partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem as an international zone under UN jurisdiction.

1947 Arab protests against partition erupted in violence, with attacks on Jewish settlements in retalation to the attacks of Jews terrorist groups to Arab Towns and villages and massacres in hundred against unarmed Palestinian in there homes.

15 May 1948 British decided to leave on this day, leaders of the Yishuv decided (as they claim) to implement that part of the partition plan calling for establishment of a Jewish state. The same day, the armies of Egypt, Transjordan (now Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq joined Palestinian and other Arab guerrillas in a full-scale war (first Arab-Israeli War). The Arabs failed to prevent establishment of a Jewish state, and the war ended with four UN-arranged armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The small Gaza Strip was left under Egyptian control, and the West Bank was controled by Jordan. Of the more than 800,000 Arabs who lived in Israeli-held territory before 1948, only about 170,000 remained. The rest became refugees in the surrounding Arab countries, ending the Arab majority in the Jewish state.

The rest is history, but here are "few" more related dates:

1965 The Palestine Liberation Organization was established

1967 Nasser's insistance in 1967 that the UNEF leave Egypt, led Israel to attack Egypt, Jordan, and Syria simultaneously on 5th of June.The war ended six days later with an Israeli victory. Israel occuiped Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, Arab East Jerusalem, West Bank, Golan Heights.After 1967 war, several guerrilla organizations within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) carried out guerrillas attacks on Israeli miletary targets, with the stated objective of "redeeming Palestine."

1973 Egypt joined Syria in a war on Israel to regain the territories lost in 1967. The two Arab states struck unexpectedly on October 6. After crossing the suez channel the Arab forces gain a lot of advanced positions in Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights and manage to defeat the Israeli forces for more then three weeks. Israeli forces with a massive U.S. economic and military assistance managed to stop the arab forces after a three-week struggle. The Arab oil-producing states cut off petroleum exports to the United States and other Western nations in retaliation for their aid to Israel.

1974 The Arab Summit in Rabat recognized the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people

1982 Israel launched an invasion of Lebanon aimed at wiping out the PLO presence there. By mid-August, after intensive fighting in and around Bayrut, the PLO agreed to withdraw its guerrillas from the city. Israeli troops remained in southern Lebanon.

1987 Relations between Israel and the Palestinians entered a new phase with the intifada, a series of uprisings in the occupied territories that included demonstrations, strikes, and rock-throwing attacks on Israeli soldiers.

1988 The PNC meeting in Algiers declared the State of Palestine as outlined in the UN Partition Plan 181.

1990 Yasser Arafat addressed the UN Security Council In Geneva demanding UN emergency force to provide international protection for the Palestinian people to safeguard their lives, properties and holy places.

Feb 1994 An American-born Jewish settler in Hebron, Baruch Goldstein, opened fire in al-Haran al-ebrahime crowded mosque, killing 29 Muslims and wounding 150 more.

Sept. 1995 Israeli and PLO officials meeting in Taba, Egypt, finalized agreement on the second stage of eventual Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian lands. Special arrangements were agreed upon for Hebron, where Israeli soldiers will remain to protect the 450 Jewish settlers living there.

Nov. 1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated in Tel Aviv by a right-wing extremist.

June 1996 Right-wing Likud Party leader, Benjamin Netanyahu become the new Prime Minister of Israel.

June 1996 Arab summit discuss the new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's peace plans.

Dec. 1996 Israeli authorities release plans to expand the Jewish settlements in Arab east Jerusalem, which causes outrage among Palestinians.

Oct. 1998 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed at peace-for-land agreement at the conclusion of negotiations in the U.S. the agreement calls for Israel to relinquish control of portions of the West Bank in return for active measures to be taken by Palestinians against terrorism.

Nov.1998 Palestinian President Yasser Arafat inaugurated Gaza International Airport.

Dec. 1998 President Clinton stood witness as hundreds of Palestinian leaders renounced a call for the destruction of Israel. Clinton urged "legitimate rights for Palestinians, real security for Israel."

May 1999 Winning a crushing victory over hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak promised to forge a secure peace with the Palestinians, pull troops out of Lebanon in a year and heal the deep divisions among Israelis.

Oct.1999 Israel and the Palestinians agreed to establish the first open land link between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip so-called "safe passage".

Mar.2000 Kissing Palestinian earth and warmly welcomed byYasser Arafat, Pope John Paul II made a prayerful pilgrimage to the town of Jesus' birth.

28.09.2000 - Al-Aqsa Intifada
On September 28, 2000 the Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, with a Likud party delegation, and surrounded by hundreds of Israeli riot police, visited the mosque compound of the Al-Haram Al-Sharif (Temple Mount) in the Old City of Jerusalem. The mosque compound is the first Qibla of Muslims and the third holiest site in Islam. It also contains the area for the most holy site in Judaism. The pretext for Sharon's visit of the mosque compound was to check complaints by Israeli archeologists that Muslim religious authorities had vandalized archeological remains beneath the surface of the mount during the conversion of the presumed Solomon's Stables area into a mosque.

On February 6, 2001, Ariel Sharon was elected as the new prime minister of Israel, and he refused to meet in person with the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

27.08.2001 - Abu Ali Mustafa, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is assassinated by an Israeli missile shot by an Apache helicopter through his office window in Ramallah. Abu Ali Mustafa was born in 1938, in the northern West Bank town of Arraba, the son of a farmer. In September 1999 he returned to the West Bank under a deal struck between Yasser Arafat and Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Barak. In July 2000 he was elected as the new general secretary of the PFLP after Habash retired. He was killed in a targeted assassination by two rockets fired from an Israeli helicopter as he sat at his desk in Ramallah. At the time, he was the most senior Palestinian political leader to have been killed by Israel. The PFLP subsequently renamed their armed wing in the Occupied Palestinian Territories the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades. They turned into resistance called "terrorism".

March 2002 - Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia proposed a Saudi peace initiative in March 2002 that formally changed the Arab world’s position on Israel. The proposal, endorsed by the Arab League, asked Israel to withdraw to the 1949 borders and establish an independent and sovereign state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital. It stipulated that displaced refugees should either be allowed to return to their homes or be compensated for their loss of property. In return, the Arab states would consider the Arab-Israeli conflict over, sign comprehensive peace treaties with Israel, and normalize relations. The proposal was received with skepticism by Israel and had little practical effect.

13.03.2002 - U.N. Resolution 1397
The U.S. pushes through the passage of U.N. Resolution 1397 by the Security Council, demanding an "immediate cessation of all acts of violence" and "affirming a vision of a region where two states, Israel and Palestine, live side by side within secure and recognized borders". Fully ignored by Israel with the US support.

14.03.2002 - Ramallah under attack
Israeli forces continue the raid on Ramallah and other West Bank towns. A helicopter attack near Tulkarm kills Mutasen Hammad and two bystanders. A bomb in Gaza City destroys an Israeli tank which was escorting settlers, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 2. A taxi in Tulkarm explodes, killing 4 Palestinians. Palestinians execute two accused collaborators in Bethlehem, planning to hang one of the corpses near the Church of the Nativity until Palestinian police stop them.

29.03.2002 - Palestinian cities under attack (Deja vu, and of today's actuality...)
Israeli forces begin Operation Defensive Shield, Israel's largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War. Within twenty-four hours, the Israel Defense Forces had issued emergency call-up notices for 30,000 reserve soldiers, the largest such call-up since the 1982 Lebanon War. The stated goals of the operation as claimed by Israel government (as conveyed to the Israeli Knesset by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on April 8, 2002) were to "enter cities and villages which have become havens for "terrorists"; to catch and arrest "terrorists" and, primarily, their dispatchers and those who finance and support them; to confiscate weapons intended to be used against Israeli citizens; to expose and destroy "terrorist" facilities and explosives, laboratories, weapons production factories and secret installations. The orders are clear: target and paralyze anyone who takes up weapons and tries to oppose our troops, resists them or endanger them - and to avoid harming the civilian population." By April 3, the IDF was conducting major military operations in all Palestinian cities with the exception of Hebron and Jericho. The major points of conflict were, Bethlehem, Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah. During the operation, strict curfews were placed on at least six major Palestinian cities, resulting in complaints by human rights groups that essential medical attention was being denied to sick and elderly Palestinians, as well as complaints that Israel was practicing collective punishment, which is prohibited under the Fourth Geneva Convention. In some cities, there were scheduled breaks in the curfews. In others, curfews continued uninterrupted for a week or more. Throughout the two weeks of fighting in Jenin and for a few days afterward, the city and its refugee camp were under curfew. The city of Bethlehem and its environs remained under curfew for five weeks, though there were periodic breaks, until an impasse involving Palestinian gunmen who had held hostage the clergy in the Church of the Nativity was resolved. Most of the armed Palestinians in the Church of the Nativity agreed to go to the Gaza Strip. The rest were exiled to Cyprus. Notable events were the battle of Jenin and the siege of Yasser Arafat's compound.

June 2002 - Israeli apartheid separation wall
Israel begins construction of the West Bank Wall. The Israeli West Bank barrier is a physical barrier being constructed by Israel consisting of a network of fences with vehicle-barrier trenches surrounded by an on average 60 meters wide exclusion area (90%) and up to 8 meters high concrete walls (10%). It is located within the West Bank. The barrier is a very controversial project. Opponents claim the barrier (i) is an illegal attempt to annex Palestinian land under the guise of security (ii) violates international law (iii) has the intent or effect to pre-empt final status negotiations and (iv) severely restricts Palestinians who live nearby, particularly their ability to travel freely within the West Bank and to access work in Israel, thereby undermining their economy.

21 August 2003 - The assassination of Ismail Abu Shanab
Five Israeli missiles incinerated Ismail Abu Shanab in Gaza City on 21 August 2003, killing one of the most powerful voices for peace in Hamas and destroying the ceasefire. Israeli helicopters struck the car carrying the third most senior Hamas leader. The missiles also buried a seven-week ceasefire already strained by Israeli killings of Islamic militants and retaliatory bombings, and threw the US-led road map to peace deeper into crisis. Hamas declared an immediate end to the truce and vowed a bloody revenge for the death of Abu Shanab, who was married with 11 children.

21.03.2004 - The assassination of Shaik Ahmed Yassin
Ahmad Yassin was assassinated in an Israeli helicopter missile strike on 21 March 2004. Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at Hamas' spiritual leader, Shaikh Ahmed Yassin, as he left a mosque after performing the Monday dawn prayers, killing the Hamas leader and six other worshippers. A reporter who rushed to the scene after hearing three loud explosions found the blown-up remains of Yassin's blood-soaked wheel-chair. Witnesses at the mosque said Yassin's body had been evacuated to Al-Shifa Hospital.

17.04.2004 - The assassination of Abdul Azziz al-Rantisi
Rantisi was assassinated in an Israeli helicopter missile strike, as he returned from a visit to his family on 17 April 2004. Hundreds of thousands of citizens, including prominent political figures, participated in the funeral procession of Hamas leader, Dr. Abdel Aziz Al Rantisi, and two of his bodyguards.

06.06.2004 - Marwan Al-Barghouthi jailed for life
On 06 Jun 2004, An Israeli court Sunday jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Al-Barghouthi for life for resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestine but he said his people's statehood quest would not be broken.

16.10.2004 - North Gaza Strip under attack
Israel officially ended a 17-day military operation, named Operation Days of Penitence, in the northern Gaza Strip. Operation Days of Penitence conducted between September 30, 2004 and October 15, 2004. The operation, focused on the town of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia and Jabalia refugee camp, which were used as launching sites of Qassam rockets on the Israeli town of Sderot and Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. This israeli operation resulted in the deaths of between 104 and 133 Palestinians, and 5 people on the Israeli side, demolished 77 houses and damaged hundreds more; damaged public facilities, including schools, kindergartens and mosques, and destroyed farmland.

The attack resulted in a proposed resolution of the U.N. Security Council condemning the Israeli action, calling for Israeli withdrawal and respect for human rights of Palestinians. The resolution was vetoed by the United States on October 5 who criticized it from ignoring terrorism against Israelis

RESULTS :

25.01.2006 - Hamas won the Legislative election
Hamas wins by landslide the majority of seats after the Palestinian legislative election, 2006. Israel, the United States, European Union, and several European and Western countries cut off their aid to the Palestinians; as they view the Islamist political party who rejects Israel's right to exist as a terrorist organization.

09.06.2006 - The killing of 7 family members on Gaza beach
Following the Gaza beach blast, in which seven members of one family and one other Palestinian were killed on a Gaza beach, the armed wing of Hamas calls off its 16-month-old truce. Israel claims it was shelling 250m away from the family's location; Palestinians claimed that the explosion was Israeli responsibility.

01.11.2006 The town of Beit Hanoun has been under the very tight control of a large force of tanks and troops who have ordered the tens of thousands of local people to stay off the streets for all but very brief periods. The Israelis destroyed Beit Hanoun, they destroyed the infrastructure, cut the water pipes and the telephone lines. Hundreds of men have been rounded up and questioned, and some have been taken away to Israel. The entire town of Beit Hanoun remains under Israeli control and troops have ordered residents to stay indoors.

07.11.2006 Israel's army says it has pulled out of the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, after a six-day operation targeting rocket-firing militants. Witnesses confirmed Israeli troops had left. The army says it has taken up positions in surrounding areas. Some 60 Palestinians, majority of civilians, were killed.

08.11.2006 At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and 40 wounded by Israeli tank fire in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Palestinian officials said a barrage of tank shells hit civilian homes, and women and children were among the dead. Palestinian hospital officials said 13 of the dead belonged to the same family, and two of them were women and six were children. TV footage from Beit Hanoun showed the victims being taken to hospital in their sleeping clothes, some with terrible injuries. Sources counted about eight impacts. They confirmed that the shells appear to have landed roughly in a straight line, starting in the fields at the end of the street and hitting houses on either side of it.

11.11.2006 The United States vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning an Israeli attack in Gaza that killed 18 Palestinian civilians and urging a quick withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area.

Overall to resume... here bellow, what it was supposed to be:

and here bellow, what it is:

and it goes on and on....

So now the testimonies I would like my critics to read, so they could wear at least one Palestinian shoe on their feet:

The first article was written yesterday by a reporter of the British news paper "The Independant". It's a very personal testimony but it deserve to be known, here is the link bellow:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-the-death-and-life-of-my-father-1225793.html

For the next testimony, no link, just copy and paste, it is written by a social and health worker in Gaza, which happened to be also a mother:

"This time I’m writing my own very personal story. But it is also the story of 1.6 million Palestinians in Gaza who are living under the siege and the hurtful cruel occupation and collective punishment.

Last June, I decided to send my 16-year-old daughter for a vacation in the UK. We had to go through a very complicated procedure for her to leave Gaza. The borders opened twice but she, like many students and patients, was not able to leave. My daughter holds a British passport so the British Consulate put a lot of efforts towards getting a permit from Israel for my daughter to leave Gaza with some other British citizens via the Jordan River.

Six weeks after the start of the summer holidays, my daughter was issued the permit to leave Gaza. She traveled north through the Erez crossing then to the West Bank and over the bridge to Jordan. From there she flew from Amman to Manchester.

After a short visit she flew back to Amman. She was on her way back to the Jordan River crossing when we were informed that there are new regulations and we would need a new permit for my daughter to enter Gaza again!!!!!!!!!!!!!I applied for this permit from the Israeli army via the Palestinian coordination office in Gaza several times but received no reply.

For six long weeks my child stayed in Amman with relatives, unsure what will happen next. We waited and waited but meanwhile her school in Gaza opened and she was very much concerned, as were we all, about her education.I tried contacting human rights organizations in Israel to ask for assistance but everybody said it might take months to get her a permit to return home!!!!!!!!!!!!! Just one small piece of paper was preventing my child from coming home!!!!!!!!!!!!! Though she is privileged to hold a British passport this still did not secure her return home. In the eyes of the Israeli occupation she is treated as any Palestinian, because she holds a Palestinian ID card as well.

Our family decided that Sondos should return to the UK and enroll in one of the colleges there. But it was not easy for a 16-year-old girl to adapt to different educational and social systems, new surroundings, and late school entry. All these pressures besides being 16!!!!!!Back in Gaza I decided to travel to the UK to help my daughter settle in to her new environment.

For three continuous months I tried to find a way out of Gaza. The Rafah border was only opened once for 3 days in all that time.

I waited among a throng of people at the border but I, like so many others, was turned back when they closed the border again on the third day. After this experience I took a decision to leave Gaza on one of the Free Gaza Movement boats to Larnaka.

From there I flew to UK where I am now staying with my daughter. She still finds it very difficult to cope with the educational system, but it is even more difficult for her to adjust to the new social framework or structure.

As for me, I was invited by the Palestine Solidarity Committee, Liverpool Friends of Palestine, and others to give talks about my life in Gaza. So I tell audiences about the Gazans who died because they weren’t allowed to travel abroad for treatment and we didn’t have the necessary medicines or equipment to treat them in Gaza.

I explain what it’s like to live in the dark because the power supply is cut off most of the days and nights. I give voice to the hundreds of newborn andpremature babies in our hospitals who are dying slowly , because we cannot accurately measure the gas system in their tiny bodies due to the interrupted power supply.The numbers are staggering. Eighteen percent of children under the age of 15 in Gaza have stunted growth and forty-five percent have iron deficiency anemia due to lack of proper nutrition. Eighty percent of the population is now living in poverty and two thirds are refugees that were ethnically cleansed from their villages 60 years ago. More than 650,000 children under the age of 16 suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.But the stories are worse. I explain what it PTSD means for these children, how they suffer from all sorts of nightmares, anxiety, and inability to focus at school, phobias, bedwetting, stress, and depression.But the worst feeling of all is our feeling of abandonment. Enduring the hardships of daily life in Gaza under the siege and occupation is less harmful than having to live day after day without hope. We are losing of faith in the outside world for not taking serious actions against Israel’s crimes against humanity in Gaza.

I'm determined to go back to Gaza, to continue my responsibilities, in the Red Crescent Society ,as well as my responsibilities as MECA Projects director, where I coordinate cultural and health projects , for children community centers and the relief work I coordinate for hundreds of families , .

My life will be torn between the two things I love most: my children and my work for my people in Gaza."

Two days ago she wrote:

"It is extremely difficult for me to be here in the UK watching events unfold on the ground in Gaza from this very far distance. With a broken heart I watch the news from this unprecedented and savage Israeli attack on my friends, family, and colleagues in Gaza. In the last two days around 300 Israeli air strikes have hit dozens of locations in the overcrowded Gaza Strip. Their “military targets” are mixed in with homes, schools, hospitals, and universities. As of this writing, 294 people are dead and more than 600 injured.

Unnecessary deaths:

I am distraught thinking about the fate of these injured people. I know the situation of hospitals in Gaza well through my health and humanitarian work. The siege of Gaza has left our hospitals without one hundred basic medications and many important diagnostic and laboratory equipment is not working because spare parts aren’t available and the fluctuation of current from our irregular power supply has left some equipment beyond repair. In this period of crisis, Gaza hospitals are also lacking crucial medications and supplies for their operation rooms.I’ve watched the chaotic scenes inside Gaza hospitals as staff struggle to find space for all of the injured and dead. The unprecedented numbers of casualties come in from ambulances and cars in a near-constant stream. But emergency situations are nothing new in Gaza; it is the impact of the siege that has changed the odds. I know that we would be facing a different situation if the 18 months of siege hadn’t drained our supplies of medicines and food, making it difficult to treat and feed patients.I’ve spoken to several of my fellow doctors in Gaza and each one of them is overwhelmed and demoralized. Even with all of their training, the material conditions in Gaza are preventing them from doing what they are capable of. They could have saved many more lives.I remember how ambulance drivers were not allowed to reach the injured in previous military attacks on Gaza. Many lives could have been saved then too if the ambulances reached the injured at the right time. A few minutes can be the difference between life and death. I wonder whether we will hear reports like this again once the emergency situation is over and there is time for truth and reflection.

No place is safe in Gaza:

The first military air strikes struck at the exact time that school children make their way home. W here I live in Gaza City, several primary schools are very close to the police headquarters which were among the first targets. These horrifying facts explain the high number of women and children amongst the dead. Thirty children and nine women have been reported dead and another 130 children and 38 women injured.I’ve spoken with friends and family in Gaza and my heart sunk further with their first-hand accounts of the death and destruction. On a personal level I am mourning the loss of one of my cousins, Ibrahim Mahmoud El-Farra, age 22. He was killed in the first attack on the presidential palace. F16 fighter planes fired three big missiles at the building. Neighbors tell me the ground shook and that the blast broke all the windows of my nearby apartment building.My cousin, and an unknown number of other victims, is still under the rubble. The scale of destruction is too large for Gaza’s small number of rescue workers. They are slowly pulling body parts out of the rubble as Israeli air strikes make more and more piles of rubble and people.The number of reported deaths will increase in the next few days as more bodies are recovered and more of the seriously injured cases die because their serious but treatable wounds cannot be treated in Gaza.

No justification:

As a mother, I believe that all children are precious and deserve love and protection. If Israeli children are terrified and confined to the shelters because of the Palestinian rockets, this is wrong. But it is no justification to kill Gaza’s children and innocent civilians, who make up the majority of victims. Israel’s actions are creating more and more hatred. While families in Gaza cower in their homes, ready for death to strike, how can Israel talk of peace? Neither building the wall in the West Bank nor attacking Gaza so savagely will bring peace to Israel. Only peace that is based on justice and respects the rights of us all will work in the end. We are humans too.

With an aching heart I continue to watch Gaza from a distance. I cannot turn the TV off, cannot detach myself from what is going on there. Not while my medical colleagues work hard under such extraordinarily circumstances. Not while my friends, my family, and the whole population of Gaza face such horrible atrocities and constant fear. The nightmare isn’t over."

This following testimony is coming from a Gaza resident, film maker and social worker:

from mohammed magdalawi, he live sin Jablia In Gaza.
There are holocaust and killing Four hundred martyrs and about two thousand injured by Israeli air raids.I want to write about suffering of my people and my family in these days.
In my house we can't get basic needs such as, No foods, No bread ,and Natural gas.
Yesterday , my father went to bakery from 5 AM he waited 5 hours even get one bundle of bread. This bread was not enough for my family because it consist of 11 members . But today I go to all bakeries. I can't find any loaf of bread due to be closed. We and my family cannot communicate with our relatives and friends because of the lack of the connecting network also every hour we have a martyr or even more because of the raining missiles on our homes , mosques and even hospitals . There is no safeplace we can go to.
In the day our life concentrated in burial of the martyrs who were thousands in hospitals after a short farewell or even without a final look because of the time shortage those martyrs are graved in groups imagine that a group of martyrs graved in one grave.
At night our camp like ghosts city no sound but the sound of the various military aircrafts in every attack our heats and the children hearts is shaking.
There is a horror in every minute and it is clear especially on the children, for example, there was four sisters in one family killed from the Israeli occupation, when stay in their home, and there is children in the south of Rafah.
Also, A woman was going to the bakery to buy bread for her family when she was walking in the street killed the Israeli occupation.
I have two message to the world: My message to the lovers of peace and freedom in the world.
The First message: Imagine your life, your everyday life is no electricity , destroyed homes , voice missiles of the day and night , and no food, no water!!!!.
Imagine your children and your family tell you we are afraid of the missiles cannot sleep from the Voice of the aircraft.
Imagine you and keep the commentary.
The second message: Make to end the siege and stop the killings and demolition of houses for our children and to provide assistance to the people through rallies, sit-ins.
Finally, I invite you to come to Gaza and see the Holocaust! What the Israelies did to our land since years....

With Best Regards :Mohammed Fares Al Majdalawi Film Maker and Social WorkerGaza strip _ Palestine

I hope my readers (and critics...) managed to read up to here, and I hope they opened their eyes to the "other side" of the story, instead to only follow what they are being told...
May peace comes out of this horror, and when I mean peace, I really belive that once this conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelies will be resolved the rest of the world will be also at peace, because it is what is undermining it...

SHAME !!!... SHAME AND DISGUST...

2009-01-02T08:41:00.006-05:00

I am disgusted!... totally outraged and disgusted... It is becoming worse than ever, and to me Israel lost the little of credibilty it still had by continuously following its politic of destruction, colonisation and genocide !
I know of course that many will disagree with me, but regarding how we spell their name, there will be no surprise, and in my eyes, their opinions are biased...
Since years, Israel is doing to the people of Palestine, what the Nazi did to them in the Fourty's... Colonisation, deportation, elimination... Elimination by killing, impoverishing, starving, etc... Up to emprison people behind walls or fence, parked in closed and congested territories, like the warsaw guetto was to the Polish Jews... And then claim, with the blind support of the "greatest" Nation in the world, their right to defend themselves! So what about the Palestinian right of self defense then? ugh?...
Watch those picture and try to think if those people, those mothers and fathers, those childrens, will love Israel and the USA in the future or will join militants groups, (called "terrorists" groups by Israel/US coallition) to defend their people, thier nation and their right to survive?
A little reminder : during WWII, the French resistance Groups were called "terrorists" by the Nazi occupation forces ! So it says it all: It all depends on which side you stand to call the others that way...
Israel, through its action and with the total blind support of the USA, is fuelling war and "terrorism"... Total blind support which can be easilly explained, since the Natives Americans were threated pretty much the same way...

Endless !!!... Free them ! give them back THEIR land ! Give them back the right to return to all the deported refugies ! and this will certainly stop.

That's the ONLY solution to the problem...

And the sagga continues...

2008-12-19T17:14:00.004-05:00

What can we say?... Joe the plumbers/Sarah the shooter/ joe six pack, etc... the "trailer trash sagga" continues... You think it would be a poor scenario for a third class soap opera, but no...: that's for real!...

The mother of an 18-year-old man who plans to marry Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter, Bristol, has been arrested on drug charges, authorities said on Friday.
Sherry Johnston, 42, was taken into custody at her home in Wasilla, on Thursday after an "undercover" narcotics investigation, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement. I guess someone will claim again it was politically motivated... For what? "Vote Trailer Trash" maybe?... LOL
She faces six counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance, said trooper spokeswoman. She was released on $5,000 bail shortly after her arrest. I guess they weren't going to ask her $10 millions, it woulb be a bail to nowhere... All the charges are felonies.

The trooper spokewoman declined to release any further information about the case, saying police needed to protect the investigation.... I wonder why?... another "troopergate" in perspective.

So let me see... her daughter conceived outside wedlocks, she is pregnant from a kid who may marry her this next summer, and the mom of this kid is a Drug adict and a felon... Nice family ugh?

But there is no surprise here when not so long ago you could witness...

Can't wait for 2012 and have a good laught again....
BTW, she wouldn't be that evil to manage to through her own daughter "may to be mother in law" in jail, just to stay in the spot lights of the media?.... noooo....

Being "Blonde"...

2008-12-14T08:59:00.003-05:00

Kellie Pickler thinks Europe is a country and french is the official language here. Budapest? Hungary? She's never heard of these.

Third grade geography questions : A great display of stupidity

Bush and some of his legacy

2008-11-18T06:47:00.002-05:00

Are you sure you are not going to miss him ? LOL... Here below is a little reminder of the last past 8 years, on the humouristic note of course...

Daily Mirror, November 5th, 2004

Bush dances with members of Kankouran West African Dance Company during a Rose Garden event to mark Malaria Awareness Day at the White House.

Bush gives German Chancellor Angela Merkel an uninvited neck massage during the G8 Summit.

During a commercial break, Bush wipes his glasses on the shirt of an unsuspecting assistant to David Letterman...

Bush waves the flag backwards at the 2008 Olympics. As Keith Olbermann quipped, "It is the best summary of his presidency, which is: everything looks perfect from his point of view."

The infamous "My pet Goat" moment, 9:05am September 11th 2001...

Bush picks his nose at a Texas Rangers game.

Bush Pardons a Thanksgiving Turkey

What's in a Name?

2008-11-13T08:14:00.006-05:00

Or I should say "what's in a code name"?
Barack Obama and his family had chosen their secret services code name this week, as they were given the first letter "R" to start with and I was curious about what were the definitions of those words. Beside my little comments about them I'll let you to judge by yourself is they fit the character of the person or not... some are very interesting in all aspects and are speaking for themselves.

So, from now on...

Barack Obama is:
Renegade: someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw or someone who breaks with established customs. A deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another. An individual who rejects lawful or conventional behavior... (Not sure how it will be interpreted by his opponents and other bigots or fanatic conservatives but it is a sure bet that Obama was not thinking about the word's origins when he picked it up.... According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, Renegade's earliest meanings had to do with deserting one's religion, coming from the Spanish word 'renegado,' originally 'Christian turned Muslim.)

Michele Obama is:
Renaissance: A rebirth or revival. A revival of intellectual or artistic achievement and vigor. (Sounds like her...)

Malia Obama is:
Radiance: the quality or state of being radiant marked by or expressive of love, confidence, or happiness; brightness.

Sasha Obama is:
Rosebud: a rose which has not yet fully opened. (a literary reference to) a pretty young girl.

But what was (is) the code name of the out going first family, and the ones of McCain and Palin's family?

Georges Bush was (is): (Make your pick)
Tumbler: An acrobat or a person who performs somersaults and other acrobatic feats. (Oh yeah.. we noticed how he flipped flopped and manipulated)
Any of various domestic pigeons that tumble or somersault backward in flight or on the ground.
A drinking glass without foot or stem and originally with pointed or convex base. (particularly appropriate for a heavy drinker like him...LOL)
A piece in a gunlock that forces the hammer forward by action of the mainspring.
Also, eager to leave something better in his legacy, he decided to change his code name and went for «Trailblazer»
Trailblazer: Someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees. An innovative leader in a field; a pioneer in a particular field (would this field be «ignorance» or «stupidity» maybe?)

Laura Bush is:
Tempo: rate of motion or activity. Pace. The rate of speed of a musical piece or passage indicated by one of a series of directions (as largo, presto, or allegro) and often by an exact metronome marking. (she must have been a «bolero» since she went un-noticed during 8 years...)

The two Bush's Daughter are:
Twinkle: To shine with slight, intermittent gleams, as distant lights or stars. To be bright or sparkling, as with merriment or delight
Turquoise: a mineral that is a blue, bluish-green, or greenish-gray hydrous basic phosphate of copper and aluminum, takes a high polish, and is valued as a gem when skyblue.

(I personally thought that those two girls code name were «Drunk» and «Drunker»...LOL! I don‘t know where I got that!)

John McCain was:
Phoenix: A bird in Egyptian mythology that lived in the desert for 500 years and then consumed itself by fire, later to rise renewed from its ashes. A person or thing of unsurpassed excellence or beauty; a paragon. (Oh boy! My friends... talk about having a big ego!...LOL)

Cyndi McCain was:
Parasol: A light, usually small umbrella carried as protection from the sun. (I guess «Phoenix» was so bright and so shiny that she needed one to protect herself...LOL)

Sarah Palin was: (sure she will keep the same for 2012, 2016, 2020, 2024...LOL)
Denali: a mountain in south central Alaska; the highest peak in North America. (Ego sound to be the norm too, or maybe it defines a superiority complex!)

Todd Palin was:
Driller: (should I comment or define this one?...LOL ! Does someone remember Sarah rhetoric: «drill Baby drill»?)

Dancing with the Stars....

2008-11-12T17:04:00.006-05:00

Well.... My good friend Barbara blogged this morning about "what the hell" and I believe this one is appropriate for her blog to... Except that I would say : "What the fuck"!
Really!... Where does Sarah Palin is coming from? I don't get it... And I thought my blog was going to dies after this historic victory because I wouldn't have any topic to write about?
Sainte Sarah proved me wrong: She is now willing to take over the "First Jackass of America" tittle which is lately in the hand of "W"...LOL
But I really don't get it and she really pissed me off AGAIN with her stupid arogant comments! When will she go back home to eat some moose burger and shut the fuck up??

Sarah Palin, after hurling her rhetoric about Obama being a socialist and palling around with unrepentant terrorist, and almost making Barack one, is now saying she would be "honored to assist and support the New President and his administration"... she "would be willing to seize this opportunity" and she "think this time is full of optimism"!!!
How does she dare!
After spitting on him, now she want to dance with the Star... But, being questioned about her comments she said : "well you know the campaign is over. That chapter is closed. Now is the time to move on and make sure all of us are doing all that we can to progress this nation"
No Sarah... we don't want you to do all that you can to progress this nation! This is why the "we the people" didn't voted for your ticket and you still don't get it either!
So I guess there will more blog post to come.

Three steps ahead, two steps backward

2008-11-06T08:24:00.005-05:00

The first vote was cast before gay marriage was legal anywhere in the nation. Eight years later, both Massachusetts and California allowed same-sex couples to wed. Whether gays should marry was now a cultural battleground. Polls showed young voters overwhelming for gay marriage. Older voters, churchgoers and African Americans tended to be strongly against.
The California Supreme Court voted 4 to 3 on May 15, 2008 that a state ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. The ruling also elevated sexual orientation to the constitutional status of race and gender, an elevation that provides strong legal protection from discrimination.Equal protection is supposed to prevent the targeting and subjugation of a minority group by a simple majority vote.
In October 2007, opponents of same-sex marriage filed an initiative with the state that was to become Proposition 8, in anticipation of the Supreme Court's May decision overturning a statutory same-sex marriage ban passed by voters eight years ago. Proposition 8 had language similar to the previous law but was a constitutional amendment, which would give the ban greater legal protection. The amendment states: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognised in California."
The magnitude here is that you are effectively rendering equal protection a nullity if a simple majority can so easily carve an exception into it.
Voters in two other states – Florida and Arizona – placed same-sex marriage bans in their constitutions Tuesday. Gay couples already were barred by statute from getting married in both states.
On November 4th 2008, America took a giant step ahead toward equality by electing Barack Obama, but on that exact same day, America took another step backward by allowing to discriminate and voting "yes" for amendments in states Constitution promoting such discrimination! It is plain wrong to write discrimination into the state Constitution
California's State Attorney General Jerry Brown, who said he supports making same-sex marriage legal, nevertheless announced yesterday that he will take Proposition 8's side in court.
Brown said he will oppose any effort to use Proposition 8 to nullify the thousands of same-sex marriages recorded since the Supreme Court ruling took effect in June.
The city attorneys of Los Angeles and San Francisco also are asking the Supreme Court to overturn the ban.

Well for the ones who do not know us very well, or for the ones who knows us but aren't aware, I have some news, and for the ones who oppose equality and promote discrimination, I have a question...

William and I committed together and married almost 12 years ago on January 15th 1997, in the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship church of Stony Brook, Long Island NY!

I would like to quote some of the sermon that night:

"We have come here this evening to celebrate the intertwining destinies of William and Philippe, who have chosen to be married.
Bill and Philippe know that love is a quality of spirit and an attitude of the emotions, but marriage is a life's work and a spiritual art form. For marriage is a going-forth, a bold step into the future. It is risking what we are for the sake of what we can be. And in the giving of oneself and sharing with another, the mysterious process of spiritual growth can take place by which the eternal in life can emerge and be known.[...]

So may this shining hour be an open door through which Bill and Philippe will go forth to build that dearest of all relationships, a happy, harmonious marriage. May the years deal gently with them; walking together may they find far more in life than either would have found alone; and even more fully may they come to know this one supreme truth -- that life is eternal and that love is its crown.[...]

As Philippe/William places the ring upon the other's finger, they repeat: "The circle is the symbol of the sun and the earth and the universe. It is the symbol of holiness and of perfection and of peace. In this ring, it is the symbol of unity, in which my life is now joined with yours in one unbroken circle, in which, wherever I go, I will always return to you, and to our togetherness.[...]

Since the marriage ceremony is not the highest point of their relationship but the beginning of a greater mutual commitment, closeness and regard, love and esteem, grant to them everything that they need to enrich their relationship: strengthen the bonds of love and deepen their understanding and acceptance of one another that each may be to the other a source of support and strength, comfort and healing, blessing their lives at all times.[...]

Since you have consented to join together in the bond of matrimony, and have pledged yourselves to each other, by the power vested in me by the Unitarian Universalist Church, which recognizes every true union of love, I declare you to be married.

Now you are two people with one shared life before you.

Go now unto your dwelling place to enter the days of your lives together. May your days be good and long upon the earth.

I hereby present to you, Philippe and William, partners in life."

So here is the question:

To all the people, bigots, ignorants and other conservatives morons who opposes and deny us the right of equality, the right of commitment, the right of recognition of love:

What our solemn commitment and marriage 12 years ago changed in your life?
How did our power of love and personal choice to commit to each other and spend the rest of our life together interfered with you and your pathetic daily routine?...

I know the answer already... there is not much of it.
Please , live and let live!

Analysis of an Election results

2008-11-06T08:18:00.005-05:00

I know I shouldn't, but since this blog is supposed to be about satire, I couldn't refrain myself to make the analogy of the election's results through this picture...LOL

The "Fat Lady" sung...

President Elect Barack Obama acceptance speech

2008-11-05T15:31:00.005-05:00

Since I still can't get over, and still jumping up and down all day, I want to immortalise this historical moment... Yesterday America grew up! Yesterday a page was turned! Yesterday Obama gave back America to the "we the people"!
Here bellow is the acceptance speech of Obama, in three different parts since it is a bit long :

PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

Congratulation

2008-11-05T07:40:00.002-05:00

Mr Sarkozy, President of France was the First to congratulate Obama for his victory last night. Here bellow is the integrality of the letter sent by Nicolas Sarkozy to Barack Obama:

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

Paris, on November 5, 2008

Mister the President elect,

The American people has just chosen you to preside over its destiny of the next four years.
Receive my most cordial and warm congratulations and, through me, the one of the entire French people. Your brilliant victory rewards a tireless commitment and engagement to the service of the American people. It also crowns equally an exceptional campain, of which the inspiration and the rise proved to the entire world the vitality of the American democracy, at the same time that it held its breath.

While choosing you, this is the choice of change , opening and optimism that did the American people. While the world is in turmoil and in doubts, the American people faithful to its values that have always been the very identity of America, expressed with forces their faith in the progress and in the future.

This message from the American people resonate well far beyond your borders. At time when we must face all together to immense challenges, your election raises in France, in Europe and beyond in the world a huge hope. The one of an America more open, more supportive, more united and stronger that will show again the way, with its partners, by the force of the example and the adhesion to its principles.

France and Europe, which have always been united with the United States by ties of history, values and friendship, there will draw a new energy to work with the America to preserve peace and world prosperity. Be assured that you will be able to count on France and on my personal support.

Please accept, Mister the President Elect, the assurances of my highest consideration

Nicolas SARKOZY

HISTORY

2008-11-05T07:04:00.001-05:00

Let the dream comes true

2008-11-04T17:34:00.006-05:00

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Dr Martin Luther King Jr. - August 28, 1963

Let the dream become true!

She is so fucking dumb!...

2008-11-03T16:04:00.003-05:00

Oh my god! And this woman want to the Vice President of the United States of America? In fact some people believe that she can be the Vice President of the United States of America?

This is killing me! She is soooo fucking dumb, that's unbelievable...

In fact it is not funny, it is sad for her... She really look like a fool, and she is sooo phony when she answer the questions and the compliments of Mr "President Sarkozy"... Hey.. the American politic adviser mentioned by the fake Sarkozy "Johnny Halliday" is in fact one of the most, if not the most, famous and popular singer/rocker in France...

Have a good laught though, but remember it tomorow when you are going to vote!

McCain Versus McCain

2008-11-03T07:35:00.004-05:00

Today I posted here bellow a serie of videos, some serious, other satirical but in all case informative and entertaining about those two fools...
24 hours to go, people.... 24 hours only and we will know if America choose Future versus Past, brightness versus darkness, success versus failure, intelligence versus stupidity, youth versus senility, humans rights versus religious dictatorship.... 24 hours!

McCain Mansions

2008-11-03T07:25:00.000-05:00

The Real McCain

2008-11-03T07:13:00.000-05:00

Don't speak for me Sarah Palin...

2008-11-03T07:03:00.000-05:00

Sarah Witchcraft...

2008-11-03T06:53:00.002-05:00

Sarah Palin accepts the blessing of Pastor Thomas Muthee, who asks Jesus to fund her political campaigns, and protect her from witchcraft.

And they want to use Rev. Jeremiah Wright against Obama? They are such hypocritecal people...

What a moment!...

Sarah "Straight talks"

2008-11-02T16:49:00.000-05:00

Hey Sarah!....

2008-11-02T16:38:00.002-05:00

Fight, fight, fight...

2008-11-02T08:20:00.003-05:00

The only thing and word you hear from the McCrippled warmonger campaign is: "fight"... here are some of his permanents infamous quotes :

"I'm an American and I choose to fight"

"America is worth fighting for. Nothing is inevitable."

"I will fight for you"

"What America needs in this hour is a fighter"

"I come from a long line of McCains who believed that to love America is to fight for her"

"I have fought for you most of my life"

"Fight with me. Fight for what's right for our country. Fight for the ideals and character of a free people."

"I've fought to get million-dollar checks out of our elections. I've fought lobbyists who stole from Indian tribes. I fought crooked deals in the Pentagon. I fought tobacco companies and trial lawyers, drug companies and union bosses."

"I fought for the right strategy and more troops ... when it wasn't a popular thing to do."

"Fighting is what America is all about" (this one is scary, but unfortunatly so true since 8 years!)

"Fight for a new direction for our country"

"Fight for what’s right for America"

"Fight to clean up the mess of corruption, infighting and selfishness in Washington"

"Fight to get our economy out of the ditch and back in the lead"

"Fight for justice and opportunity for all"

"Fight for the ideals and character of a free people"

"Fight for our children’s future"

"Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq"

"Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice. "

"Stand up, Stand Up Fight with Me" (oh yeah...LOL)

"It's time to Stand up and Fight for them"

"I choose to fight. Don't give up hope. Don't give hope. Be strong. Have courage. And fight "

It's so shallow! No substance at all....

Don't you people are tired fighting? America is fighting all over the world for the past eight years, so do you really want to fight for 4 more years of unneeded war in Iraq, failure to win in Afghanistan, the Collapse of Pakistan, attempts to Privatize Social Security, Privatized Profits and Socialized Losses of the Corporate Welfare State, outsourcing of jobs overseas, failed energy policy, skyrocketing deficits, and finally 4 years of hearing the phrase "My Friends" uttered every other sentence?????

Don't you want "peace" instead of "fight"? Do you really want to keep the image of the nasty Rottweiler around the world : "big muscle, no brain"????

Well you have two days to show the world that have the courage to fight "fight" for peace !!!!!

Damn!

VOTE PEACE!

VOTE OBAMA !........

Zealous immigration officer

2008-10-31T09:26:00.002-04:00

I just wanted to display how difficult and "picky" some immigration officers can be when you are trying to enter their country!

So this has nothing to do with the US election which is my favorite blogging topic lately, but it's just a satirical and funny video who made me laugh!

Joe six Pack

2008-10-29T18:59:00.000-04:00

I was wondering about who is really "joe six pack", or "joe the plumber" that McGaga and Miss Pitbull are always refering too... So I sent on the ground a team of specialists investigators to study and to report everything about "Joe six pack", "Joe the plumber", "Joe the farmer", Joe the driver", ect, you name it, his wife, his chidren, his familly, his style of life, where he leaves, what he drives, what he eat, everything....and herebelow is what we found! So be prepared (this is scary!....) and let me introduce you to "Joe six pack" A.K.A. "Joe the Republican Voter":

JOE

JOE'S WIFE

JOE'S SONS

JOE'S DAUGHTER

JOE'S GRAND'MA

JOE'S WEDDING OLD PICTURE

JOE AT A PROTEST

JOE'S WIFE AT A GAME

JOE'S SISTERS

JOE'S AUNT

JOE'S UNCLE

JOE'S MISTRESS

JOE'S TATTOO

JOE'S MANSION

JOE'S TOILETS

JOE'S SWIMMING POOLS

JOE'S HOT TUB

JOE'S JACUZZI

JOE'S CHRISTMASS TREE

JOE'S LIMO

JOE'S RV

JOE'S HOUSE BOAT

JOE'S HARLEY

JOE'S HEARSE

JOE'S BBQ

JOE'S GOURMET FOOD

JOE'S SHOPPING SPREE

JOE'S MOVING COMPANY

JOE GOES ON WEEK END

JOE'S RECYCLING PLAN

JOE'S GENERAL STORE

JOE'S HUNTING

JOE'S HUNTING CABIN AND SWING CHAIR

JOE'S FRIDGE

JOE'S BACK TAIL

JOE'S WIND CHIME

JOE'S MAILBOX

JOE'S HUMOR

JOE'S FRIENDS

JOE'S HUNG OVER

JOE'S SPIRITUAL GRAND'PA AND HIS BUDDIES

JOE'S GODNESS

Humour....

2008-10-28T17:11:00.000-04:00

Ignorance at its best

2008-10-28T09:24:00.000-04:00

Fruit flies are used in scientific research, including the study of autism at the University of North Carolina. Sarah Palin, whose youngest son Trig, has Down Syndrome, is trying to say that she would be a great champion for special needs children and their families. Two days ago S. ("S" as "Stupid") Palin gave her first address on Congressional policy should she and John McSenile be elected November 4th. During her presentation which was so misconceived, so offensive, so aggressively stupid, and so dangerous, she mocked the scientific study of fruit flies in Paris, France, and talk about "pet projects" saying she would redefine the priorities (no kidding...) of federal money spent in scientific research and stop to poor it in project which according to her has nothing to do with public good :
"Where does a lot of that earmark money end up, anyway? [...] You've heard about, um, these -- some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole lot of sense, and sometimes these dollars they go to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not!"
It's hard to know where to begin to deconstruct this statement. This was a speech on autism, AND, fruit flies are used by researchers to study the origins of autism, one of the special needs afflicting some of the very children Gov. Palin was discussing in her speech. She is apparently unaware that scientific research with fruit flies has led to valuable discoveries that have boosted autism research and that Drosophila fruit flies studies showed that a protein called neurexin is essential for proper neurological function -- a discovery with clear implications for autism research.

What else does this blunder say about Palin and her candidacy?
If you had heard the speech, listen to the tone of her voice as she sneers the words "fruit fly research." Check out the disdain and incredulity on her face. How would science, basic or applied, fare under President Palin?

And who wrote this speech? Was it her? Someone else? One of her "adviser"? Was he or she as ignorant as Palin about the central role that fruit flies have played in the last century of biomedical research? Or was this a calculated slight to science and scientists -- a coded way of saying, "We don't care what you know or what you think"?
That is only one of several examples, in which the team Palin McCain shown proper science hostileness (sp)...Science to these folks is creationism.

As Bush does, she also beleives that climatic protection politics is bad, as she doesn't believe yet that humans are responsible for global warming which shows its effect in Alaska particulary strongly
Perhaps the USA needs to sink millions of dollars into the study of publicly ostracizing witches? LOL

Ignorance at its best! But here is another point: she constantly claims that she's from a family of teachers and that her father was a science teacher. How can the child of a science teacher be so amazingly ignorant? Oh... I forgot! She believe she's coming from Adam and Eve...
Bottom line is that extremist Christians are as dangerous as extremist Muslims, or extremist Jews!

People certainly wonder why I am so focus on "her"... Simply because I find her scary and dangerous, and that I am deeply convinced that if elected, McCain would not make it to the middle of his first term...

Who exactly is Palin?...

2008-10-26T09:17:00.000-04:00

No, seriously, I will not analyse personally who's this moron is, but will just take the word from her own camp and from McCain advisers...

This week one of them was quoted on CNN saying :

"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone, She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. "

and...

"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."

So I would say : DANGER !!!!!

Another Palin associated admitted : "she is "not good at process questions" !

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to have figured out by yourself...LOL

Also, two sources, one Palin associate and one McCain adviser, defended the decision to keep her press interaction limited after she was picked, both saying flatly that she was not ready and that the missteps could have been a lot worse. They insisted that she needed time to be briefed on national and international issues and on McCain's record.

"Her lack of fundamental understanding of some key issues was dramatic" said another McCain source with direct knowledge of the process to prepare Palin after she was picked. The source said it was probably the "hardest" to get her "up to speed than any candidate in history."

So this let me to think? Is she maybe worse than Bush himself? Is she more dangerous than this asshole? I really wonder now... a Cheney dressed in moose hunter? Another manipulative maniac liar prick?

I maintain she is Dangerous!....

Republicans Spending Policy

2008-10-25T18:18:00.000-04:00

Headline News !!!!....

2008-10-25T10:13:00.000-04:00

Sarko and his Voodoo Doll

2008-10-24T08:21:00.000-04:00

The USA got the Caribou Barbie Doll but, not thrilled to be left behind, Mr the Big Ego French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has his own doll now – a voodoo doll – that comes with its own pins (12 of them), and a manual for how to use it properly... LOL

Well actually he wish he didn't had this type of doll and has been so offended by this voodoo doll made in his image, and so he is angered that he is threatening to sue the company that makes them. The 12 Euros ($17) Nicolas Sarkozy doll has pins and an instruction manual, which explains how to put a curse on the French President, alongside a humorous satirical biography.

Some famous quotes attributed to the President, including "work more to earn more," and "get lost you pathetic idiot" are printed on the doll and owners can stick pins in these parts. Also, across the doll's pelvic area is the word "scum", the term used by Sarko that sparked much controversy when he used it to describe suburban youth shortly before riots broke out in 2005.

Sarkozy's lawyer, arguing that the president had the exclusive right to his image, had earlier called on the makers to withdraw the dolls from sale, but the company refused to do so. The company, which has issued 20,000 kits, said the president's reaction was "totally disproportionate" and refused to recall the doll from shops. The company also issued the same type of kit concerning his political rival Segolene Royal...

I personally find that funny, but I acknowledge that everybody do not have my weird sense of humour. Maybe the Obama campaign should considerate those type of dolls for McRah ahh and Miss Dall-sheep...

The president this year also sued the Irish low cost airline Ryanair for using his image in an ad.

Sarko "the American"...: sue, sue, sue!!!

Sarkozy is also a victim of a phishing scam. French officials confirmed yesterday that he had money stolen from his bank account after "inadvertently" giving scammers his username and password through what was later found to be a phishing email. Holly shit!....Is he dumb or what? Who, in this world still give their password or personal info through email? And he has the nuclear code in his hands? Wow wow wow....that is scary! That's why during his presidential campaign his opponents were calling him "the French Bush" ... Now I understand!

Sarah the Shopper

2008-10-22T09:36:00.000-04:00

Well, well, well... Obviously but amazingly, lipstick is not the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull.
Sarah the Shopper has now a spectacular new wardrobe, and the Republican campaign donors picked up the tab. Fools !....
The Republican National Committee spent $150,000 on clothing and accessories for the vice presidential candidate and her family since early September, according to a report by the Politico Web site !!!

Maybe she should campaign naked don'tcha think? or maybe in bathing suit, like she was used to wear...
At Saks Fifth Ave. stores in NY and St Louis, the RNC paid for $49,425.74 in Palin apparel... What the hell they bought her? I betcha Cinderella was the one picking up the clothes
There also was a $75,062.63 in one single shopping spree, no less,
at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, where the Palins stayed during the Rep Convention last month; $9.447.71 at Macy's in Minneapolis; and $5,102.71 at Bloomingdale's in NY.
That much cash can buy a closet full of the pumps, hot red leather jackets and form-fitting business suits for the Alaska governor to wear on the stump

Another $4,716.49 on hair and makeup came from the GOP while wooing "Joe Six-Pack" to vote for John McQueen. And more than $5,000 went to a men's store and a baby clothing store. Ohhhh... how sweet is that!.....
But hey ! nothing went to my favorite shopping stop : Walmart! How come? Betcha it's not good enough for them LOL....

However there were some days, once upon the time when she wasn't that upscale... As this picture in college can prove!
Late Tuesday night, McCain-Palin spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said the clothes will be tossed in a charity bin of some sort after Nov. 4 in a hilarious (no pun intended...) response:
"With all of the important issues facing the country right now, it's remarkable that we're spending time talking about pantsuits and blouses. It was always the intent that the clothing go to a charitable purpose after the campaign."

No kidding.....

Apparently federal law would prohibit the McCain-Palin campaign from using campaign funds to "personal use" - a definition that specifically includes clothing purchases.
But a Republican strategist of course, said the expenditure by the party committee was legal... They never do anything wrong don't they? They screw people but hey "that's legal!!!!..."
It seems that, Mr. and Ms. Joe Six Pack ticket is really Mr. and Mrs. Cristal Magnum.
Caribou Barbie is a one-woman earmark by herself

But she is not alone, and she want to be part of the desperate housewives club! remember the rep National Convention and what the two other were wearing? :

Laura Bush: Oscar de la Renta suit: $2,500 - Stuart Weitzman heels: $325 - Pearl stud earrings: $600–$1,500 Total: Between $3,425 and $4,325

Cindy McCain: Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000 - Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500 - Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000 - Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000–$25,000 - Shoes, designer unknown: $600 Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100

Just a thought for instance The Washington Post’s Robin Givan in his September 7, 2008 article “First Ladies and the Fabric of the Nation,” estimated that the price of Michelle's outfit at the Dem Convention when her husband embrasses the nomination was around $1,500...

I wonder how 'Joe the Plumber' feels about his donation going to Sarah the Shopper, and some people started to guess that she can also see Saks from her doorstep...
So that got me thinking: what does $300,000 mean to Americans who don't have the luxury of inheriting a gargantuan beer fortune?
To Cindy McCain, $300,000 is the price of an outfit.
To most Americans, $300,000 buys ...
... one and a half houses, given the national median home price of $206,500.
... a year's worth of health care for 750 people.
... the full array of back-to-school supplies and clothes for 500 kids.
... enough gas to drive cross-country 543 times.
... 365 round-trip flights from Washington, D.C., to Anchorage, Alaska. (John McCain should have splurged on at least one.)
... a three-course steak dinner (at Mat-su Resort) and a movie ticket (for the Mat-su Cinema) for every man, woman, and child in Wasilla, Alaska.
... enough money for three Troopergate investigations.

And this is not all!
Palin also charged Alaska for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business.
The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for her three daughters to join her to watch their father in a snowmobile race.
In October 2007, she took daughter Bristol on a trip to New York for a women's leadership conference. Plane tickets from Anchorage to La Guardia Airport for $1,385.11 were billed to the state, records show, and mother and daughter shared a room for four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House hotel.
In all, Palin has charged the state $21,012 for her three daughters' 64 one-way and 12 round-trip commercial flights since she took office in December 2006. In some other cases, she has charged the state for hotel rooms for the girls.

Which explain why they think that the economy is sound!
Oh Boy! this country is in deep trouble, should I say deep shit (you betcha... ) if those two are elected...

John the Dirty Player Versus Joe the Plumber

2008-10-20T07:49:00.000-04:00

As a good dumbsporter of McLiar, Joe Wurzelbacher jumped into our lives with a lie. He said he was "getting ready to buy a company" that makes $250,000 to $280,000 a year. "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, right?" he asked Obama.

John the Senile, always trying to be up Obama's ass instead of explaining his own plans and policies, couldn't wait to jump on the opportunity which he thought was offered on a silver trail, to fulfill the shallowness and emptiness of his prestation in the last presidential debate.
When "Joe" addressed him, Obama assumed he was responding to a pretty well-off guy and John the Nastier jumped on one small part of a sentence Barack pronounced during his exchange with "Joe": "spread the wealth around"...
But oh boy, how I love the way it back fired on John the Dirty Player!... LOL

Wurzelbacher has, since then, admitted that his income is "not even close" to the levels where Obama's taxes kick in and that he's not really poised to buy the company because he can't afford it, and that he had no plan to buy the business he said he was buying. The matter of fact is that the business in question grosses less than half of what "Joe" claimed it does, and his boss hadn't agreed to sell anyway!
Plus, the whole idea that Joe was an undecided middle-minded voter? That got harder to sustain and convince the audience once he started calling Obama a socialist and explaining how evil he thought Social Security was.

Obviously McNasty has a "vetting" problem!

First, his vice president nominee, the Caribou Barbie, and now Joe the plumber aka Joe 6 pack... What will be next?

It turns out Joe has no plumber's license.
- Joe isn't in the plumbers union.
- Joe never did a plumbers apprenticeship.
- Joe's business likely would not be taxed under Obama's proposal.
- Joe might even get a tax cut under Obama's proposal.
- Joe doesn't believe in Social Security.
- Joe is a registered Republican
- Joe's first name isn't Joe, it's Samuel.
- And Samuel hasn't paid his taxes.

Then there was James the Beggar!... This African American in Wisconsin last week, James Harris, begging McMoron to take on Obama..."I am begging you Sir, I am begging you! Take it to him!..." How much drama was that? At first I thought this idiot was an actor payed by the McManip campaign in the process to prove that African Americans are supporting him too! Then I realised that Harris is a conservative radio host...

This guy's holds "history" in his end and he will choose not to vote for change, finally real changes, but go for the past and all its proven failed policies! This is appalling for me... really!

Yet, at least another African American made the good choice, and his name is Colin Powell!
And the matter of fact is that McCain has finally something positive to say and has some news for us :

Hey Vlad!... I gotcha

2008-10-14T09:43:00.000-04:00

I would like to go back to a little episode of the campaign which occurred a few weeks ago, and somehow didn't raised much comment from the medias....

Please I would like someone to pinch me hard, so I'll wake up from this vice presidential selection nightmare?
The USA already live with war on two fronts every day, within a catastrophic economic situation, and yet Gubernator "La Piranhas" (anagram of Sarah Palin...) wanted the world to know in her first prime-time interview that all options, including a brand new war with Russia, were on the table in a McCain-Palin world

«An Alpha Sir» (another anagram) , suggested in her first major interview that the United States might have to go to war with Russia one day in order to protect Georgia -- the kind of apocalyptic scenario the United States avoided during the cold war, and certainly no-one except war happy and war mongers Republicans want to hear...

This statement is coming from a woman who has absolutely zero foreign policy experience, and who applied for her first passport in 2007? And who, in all wide-eyed seriousness, claims to know Russia because: "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska"? Oh boy....

I think we can all agree that the activity of raising binoculars to see Eastern Siberia from the end of the Aleutian Islands isn't the same thing as navigating and negotiating diplomatic relations with Moscow and the rest of the world, and never will be.

So now it is an emergency!!! For the world sake, does someone can explain to «A Sharp Nail» where Georgia is? Because she is still ready to send her National Guards to liberate Atlanta and Savannah! And she is still staring at the sky trying to figurate how Vlad managed to flew his migs through Alaska’s airspace to invade this southern State and she even didn’t saw them?...

Ohhhhh my !!!!!! Please American people ! WAKE UP!!!!!! PLEASE STOP HER...

Four more years of the same

2008-10-13T17:14:00.000-04:00

McBush...

It is not Anti Americanism...

2008-10-13T11:44:00.000-04:00

It is partisanship!...
Usually I do not agree much with most of the French people, overall about pretty much everything... I, time to time, found their view being "small" or "narrow" specially in politic or economic reforms, but this started somehow to change about a year and half ago when we finally elected someone who's moving his ass, and who's working for the people, after decades and decades of promising politicians who became "sleeping politicians" once sit in office... See you are not the only ones in the States to have those characters around...
Anyway, I Just wanted to explain that I am not the only foreign "Liberal" on earth believing that Barack Obama is the only logical and necessary choice in the incoming election for the world sake, I wanted to precise that 93% of the French people do think the same way... So for once, I am part of the herd.... beehhhh !!!!! Dam ! I hate to be part of the common of mortals LOL...
French people were already overwhelmed by his visit in Paris, and his invitation to the Elysee by Sarko... And they clearly demonstrated their earlier support to him.

In a poll published last Friday by Le Monde newspaper it is clearly showed that If they were American citizens, 93% of French people would vote for Barack Obama in the presidential elections on November 4th and 7% only give their votes to Republican candidate John McCain. This is a poll CSA / Euro RSCG conducted by telephone on 1 and Oct. 2 from a representative sample of 1 003 people aged over 15 years, produced by the method of quotas.

Even Sarko called Barack "my buddy"... So Nico is a member of the herd too! Good!... another great mind! I feel less alone once again LOL....

Such enthusiasm of the French to a U.S. Democratic candidate is unprecedented.

In 2004, John Kerry raised the accession of 87% of the French against 13% for George Bush, while in 2000 the difference was much smaller between George Bush and his Democratic rival, Al Gore (41% and 59 %).

Moreover, the plebiscite of the senator from Illinois in an election that the French judge for three quarters of them (77%) "important" or "very important" for international life transcends the traditional divide left-right .

He also amplified last month. Beginning in September, a TNS-Sofres survey (conducted on 2 and 3 September with a representative sample of 1 000 people aged 18 and over) showed that the French were 80% hoped the victory of Barack Obama against that 8% of John McCain.

The enthusiasm of the French for the Democratic candidate does not, however, show in their relation with the USA. Well the opposite. About America, French citizens are "critical" (38%) or "worried" (22%) while only 17% said they were 'benevolent' (11%) or "admiring" (6% ). Those who would vote for Mr. Obama are more likely to declare "critical" against the United States (42%) than those who would vote for Mr. McCain (26%). They are also slightly more "worried" (23% against 18%) and less "indifferent" (19% against 23%). Finally, a minority of French (32%) wish that "in the future, France and Europe are closer to American positions", that proportion fell to 22% among supporters of left and 44 % of those of right Hoped for this rapprochement. The international financial crisis could benefit one or the other candidates for the White House? For 61% of respondents, is that Barack Obama should take advantage of the crisis, only 13% cite John McCain.

I am hesitating to tell too high that Obama is so popular with us, Given the virulent anti-French rhetoric of the Republicans, they would use it as an argument against him and, Oh boy... they would rename the French Fries and pour our wine in the ditch once again... I would hate to see that, even if I know that the wine is already payed for to our producer!

Yes, France loves Obama and...

YES YOU CAN !!!!...

Cinderella little diamonds

2008-10-12T17:25:00.000-04:00

While the world is falling apart, while the US economy is crashing down, while the Americans people are loosing their job, their house and their lives in an illegitimate stupid war, while the American people are struggling every day to make ends meet, to put food on their table and gas in their tank, the wife of McGrumpy (Snow White's running mate...), Cindy Rella McFacelift has the time and the financial resources to play with diamonds and to design some special custom made little pieces of Patriotic Jewelries...
At every single appearance she is sporting a tacky little brooch trying to make the statement "look at me! I am rich and I am a patriot! I love my militaries, and I support my husband... Yeepee!...."
Not sure if Joe 6 pack's wife can afford exactly the same, or maybe in zirconium if she really want to try identifying herself with Cinderella..

So here we have the "United States Marines Corps"

Then we have the "Navy"

Then sometime, to make sure people get the message we've got both...

and in case some people could think she is supporting Obama, she want to make sure that she is a clear supporter of her battery operated robot husband...

Ohhhhh.... but stupid I am, I forgot I should realised that she lives in a "sound economy" and that with seven houses and thirteen car, she maybe a little bit out of touch with the reality...

I couldn't figured that earlier and by myself LOL...

A bridge to somewhere...

2008-10-11T08:50:00.001-04:00

Who is Molly McCann? Yes I said McCann and not McCain!... And she is not this Molly McCann : http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2861148/ .

McCann...McCain... Must to be something with those people to even have almost the same name... It is perhaps something like genetic? Or is it just "in the fashion" of the moment?...

Molly McCann is Sarah Stalin's younger sister who was involved in a dirty divorce. McCann and her ex-husband Mike Wooten, a state trooper in Alaska, have been embroiled in a custody battle since their divorce. After this divorde she took back her first ex-husband name, because of course as you can understand she was born "Heath" and not McCann...

On the other hand, as everybody certainly alreday knows, Palin is being investigated over the firing of the Department of Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, whom she fired in July 2008. Monegan alleges that he was asked to fire Wooten and when he did not comply, he was fired.

All right, with their usual rethoric John McCain and Sarah Palin both claim to want to come in and change Washington, but here is Sarah Palin’s idea of change:

A Judge warned Palin in 2005 to back off brother-in-law’s job - Yes you read it, an Alaska judge warned Gov. Sarah Palin’s family against trying to get her then-brother-in-law fired. That warning came long before the controversy over her dismissal of the brother-in-law’s boss, the state’s public safety commissioner, records show.

Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, is battling allegations she and her advisers pressured Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan to fire her sister’s husband, State Trooper Mike Wooten. Nah... of course she didn't did anything... Since she is the running mate of Cinderella's husband she beleives she is snow white! But does she really think people will swallow her idea of transparency?

Palin’s sister, Molly McCann, and Wooten were in the process of getting a divorce when the judge hearing the couple’s case said McCann’s family appeared to be putting Wooten’s job at risk at a time when he would be required to pay child support.

Gobernatore Parah Stalin claims she didn't did any wrong doing, and that privates matters and family business didn't interfered in the States Affairs... It's like the other story in conflict with what she preach...

But, according to an investigation by the Alaska Legislature released Friday, Sarah Palin, the Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate, abused her powers as governor of Alaska by pressuring subordinates to try to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired.
The report concludes that the action was a violation of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act...

Does American people really want another Vice president in office doing the same shit that Dicky Cheney?

This is the same kind of corrupt abusive behavior Washington has been dealing with during the Bush Administration. Palin is simply a defective Clone of W.

Do you want her a heartbeat away from the oval office? If She will defy a state judge’s warning over trying to get her brother in law fired during a divorce, how badly will she flaunt orders from the Supreme Court...

The 236-page report found that Palin had exerted pressure to get State Trooper Michael Wooten dismissed and also allowed her husband and subordinates to press for Wooten's firing as a result of a messy divorce proceeding between Wooten and Palin's sister in 2005.
"Such impermissible and repeated contacts," the report states, "create conflicts of interests for subordinate employees who must choose to either please a superior or run the risk of facing that superior's displeasure and the possible consequences of that displeasure."

With their lies, manipulation, abuse of power, intimidation, death threat, etc.. they are trying to build a bridge to somewhere... They are trying to build their bridge to the White House in the most trashy way, as Republicans always did...

Lipstick on Pitbull

2008-10-09T08:07:00.000-04:00

Loosing ground in the polls, Senilator John McNasty and his running mate Governatore Sarah Pittbull have been now accusing Barack Obama of associating with terrorists in recent days, and as a result, debilitated audience members at McCane of vorms and Palin rallies have called Obama a "terrorist" and threatened to kill him.
The facts are that, at a Monday rally in Fort Myers, in Florida (geeeez we even didn't check how many hicks were living in this town before buying our house there...), Palin with inflamatories terms told her fans that Obama "launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist." How much nasty and dirty this can be???
She was obviously referring to 1960's radical Bill Ayers, a man who, like a lot of people who came of age in the tumultuous Vietnam war era, is now part of the Illinois establishment.
He is now a professor and teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, lives in the trendy Hyde Park neighborhood and sits on several civic boards.
Obama was a child when Ayers was heading up a radical group known as the Weather Underground. He was 7 years old!!! Duh.... Halllooooo.... And some people swallow what she is saying? Wow! talk being ingnorant, closed minded or misinformed about your own country business...
Sarah Palin was litterally on the verge of inciting a race riot. The heated Republican audience members hurled some racial epiteph at an African American member of the media, while other audience members yelled "kill him" and "treason!" when Barack Obama's name was mentioned. Of course and disgustingly, Palin did nothing to stop the attacks but instead reportedly responded: "Boy, you guys just get it!" . In my country, like in many civilised Nations she would be charged and procecuted for "Incitation a la haine raciale" which I can translate as "incitement to racial hatred"
It should not be OK for a presidential or vice presidential candidate to incite people to engage in abusive behavior.
Sarah Palin is showing herself to be a right wing radical that probably has connections with right wing radical groups who bombed abortion Clinics and the rest. Her unscrupulous rhetoric has no place in any real political forum local are federal. She has no obvious integrity and is embarrassment to the American folks she is suppose to represent. She has turned speaking engagements to Klan rallies and McCain is guilty by association. She in her virulent rumblings are worst than Limbaugh and O' Reilly.

In fact does any of you knows really what look like a pitbull in a Palin's suit?...

It look like that....

But don't be fooled by the appearance... In French we are used to say :"The cassock doesn't make the Monk"
Given this countries history, and knowing the number of psychos racist gun lovers living who would love to act in that sense, I don't think ignoring people in the crowd when they shouted out KILL HIM, referring to Obama was the best thing for McCain to do. All it did was make him look like the leader of a lynch mob.

Had this ugly incident occurred at an Obama rally, the McCain camp would be asking him to apologize to voters and to denounce the hateful behavior.

That doesn't make them look like a team of mavericks.
It makes them look like a team of nasty bigots.

In the mean time Cinderella in the role of a desperate housewife dressed in a "haute couture" military suit, wearing some make believe battle diamonds decorations on her right chest is doing her share... She now beleives that her son his the only American's son to go to risk his life in Irak and claimed that his life is at risk because of Obama!... LOL... She stated and I quote "The day that Sen. Barack Obama decided to cast a vote to not fund my son while he was serving sent a cold chill through my body," but she did not note that her husband himself voted against legislation to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in March 2007 along with all but two of his fellow Republican senators and that Obama had voted against the bill in the senate last year, but later supported a version of the legislation that included a timetable to withdraw troops from the Middle Eastern state. Duh... I knew that she is obviously blonde, but to that point?... And I would like to ask to Cindy : who voted for the war in the first place? Senator Obama or her remote controlled animated brain dead husband? Is she the one who start to have the first symptoms of Alzheimers instead of him?... or is she victim of her own ignorance or selective memory...

Anyhow, she'is revealing being pretty nasty too. But who should be surprised anyway since she is a conservative Republican...

Talk about dirty pratice, lies and manipulation to attempt to steal the White House again...

About...

2008-10-07T19:15:00.000-04:00

Good! You made it up to here so far...
And I believe that if you came up to here it is because:
A - You know me enough to know where I stand with my views and you are convinced that you will get a blast or at least a smile reading this new baby!
B - You think you know me and you hope you will not be "surprised" and/or proved wrong, so you think you will be all right and not offended with my posts and you think you will be able to handle them without reacting negatively (you will understand why I am saying that here below).
C - You are not sure in fact, but you assume that you can handle pretty much everything even if it is sarcasm and critics directed to the people you belong, and you will managed to refrain responding to me on the nasty way ( you will also understand why I am saying that here below).
D - You just want to confirm that I am a jerk, which you are already convinced since I started to post on TTOL and you know you do not agree with my views but you are here just as a voyeur...(Darn Pervert !!!)... But that's OK, I can deal with that, as long as you shut up, better than I can with an aggressive coward foul mouth!
All right.. doesn't matter anyway why you are here, just lets hope that you will know how to behave in your comments because as I stated in the header of this blog I am a liberal but I will be the dictator of Bloggus Satiricum for the simple reason I explain in my original Blog : I don't want a debate, I don't want argumentation, I don't want challenges! You like it: you comment, you don't like it: you put it in your pocket and you move on! Any comments I will feel being inappropriate will be deleted, so over all, like any old good dictatorship, if you do not agree with what I post you have the right to shut up ( or to go back on exile to another blog), and censure oblige, only positively oriented and flatterous comments will be maintain, which mean that if you, somehow, agree with what I post, you find it funny, or you can add a little bit more of sarcasm, satire or humour to it then DO IT !!!! Post your comment it will be welcome.
So as I said, I am a liberal... On the American political ladder I thought positioning myself somewhere pretty left of Obama, which would be slightly on the left of the position of what we call the "Conservative" French party (are you confused yet?), Sarkozy party, mainly because the French left is totally incompetent and out of touch with reality since the disappearance of late President Francois Mitterrand. So, "pretty" left of Obama, slightly left of the Sarkozy's party, I thought, at least, until I took the political test here : http://www.politicalcompass.org/index and oh boy, I am in fact far off apparently of what I thought since I ended up with a score of Economic Left/Right compass: -6.75 and Social Libertarian/Authoritarian compass: -5.79 which actually position me left of Gandhi and more libertarian than the Dalai Lama (my sister won't be happy !... LOL)... You should take the test and comment on you results (not anonymously... of course!) See here below the charts and how it works :

here are were some people are situated on the chart:

and here is where I stand:

It was a surprised with that! So, with result like that, you can imagine that it is neither less to say how much I dislike conservatives, right wings morons, and debilitating bigotry... I am totally allergic to it and lately when I see and hear on TV or in the newspaper what those people are up to to try to steal the White House again with their dirty tricks, lies, manipulation, intimidation, bullism and bullshitism, I am boiling and it make me sick... Of course, I know and I do not claim that all conservatives are alike since some "friends" of mine are (were... depends if we still friends, LOL) conservatives, but are (were...) also some sort of pleasant, civil, kind and smart (?)... as long as we didn't talk politic, religion, social or racial issues.

But at least they are (were) able to call me "my friend"! And when they are (were) doing so, my stomach doesn't turn upside down, giving me nausea like I had last night watching the debate between Obama and Mc Caca... Mc Insane made me sick every time he called me "my friend" ! I am not his friend, don't want to be and will never be! Does he really believes that he is surrounded by "friends"? That any person he speaks to is his "friend"? People watching a debate are not here for watching him only, but sometime they are watching "that one"... The matter of fact I was there for "that one"!... it shows the level of hypocrisy, senility and also out of touches he is standing for... In his opinion, last night there were all "his friends" and there was the other guy..:"that one"! I guess it must be a Joe 6 pack way to speak...
I have hard time with someone who can be "anti-abortion"(even in the worse case),"pro life" but "pro war", "pro-gun", "pro-death penalty" and "pro-hunt", "anti-gay", or "gay OK" but "anti same sex union" (literally denying the right of the love and acknowledgement of love between two human being... the same people who were against bi-racial unions not so long ago!). I don't understand how some people can be so religious that they preach abstinence before marriage but conceive (as well as their daughter) a child outside wedlock... I don't understand how some people can be so religious and preach charity when their whole life if motivated by greed and materialism... I don't understand when some people are so religious but manipulate evidences and create lies to built and support a war or win an election... I could go for hours!
So then, all right... I am a liberal, we know that now! And I am a liberal who do not believe in god, and since in theory Churches and States are separated since a while, I strongly believe that political issues should not be motivated by religious beliefs or values! Here you go... you see? I am a liberal!
Now all that to say that this new baby will not only be satirical and sarcastic about politic only but also about religion (which is the reason why I warned people that they may be surprised with my views and may not like what I have to say, or joke around with... but remember only one rule : you shut up and do not comment if you do not agree! That's liberalism... isn't it LOL!)
So sarcasms, satire, jokes, bad pictures, chocking pictures, funny or interesting articles belonging here, etc..., all of that will be blogged about by my Holiness, and thus about all topics, politic (with a little "plus" for the conservatives), religion, calorie, fatness, leanness, actuality, intelligence, stupidity, people relationship (and even sex.. hey why not? I am a liberal!), everything, but to start, specially "politic", since it is actuality...
So to just start to give the tone of this blog but more for fun, in fact, here below are some pictures who are talking for themselves about what those past eight years were made of...Do people really think about renewing their vows with the republican party today?