Adrian Martinez once played basketball on rundown playground courts in Cuba. At times the backboards were made of rotting wood and bicycle tire rims doubled as basketball rims.
The Northeastern University senior describes the condition of his boarding school, a sports academy for Cuba’s rising athletes, as deplorable, with leaking plumbing, cracked playing surfaces and moldy [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Quality of Life in Cuba ROCKS!?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bidden Interview showing Fruedian Slip?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on Drudge this afternoon:
Mr. Biden is equally skeptical—albeit in a slightly more backhanded way—about Mr. Obama. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” he said. “I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”
But—and the “but” was clearly inevitable—he doubts whether American voters are going [...]
Kyoto a Socialist Scheme?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
NO WAY? Not possible! Its all to save the planet? No?
Prime Minister Stephen Harper once called the Kyoto accord a “socialist scheme” designed to suck money out of rich countries, according to a letter leaked Tuesday by the Liberals.
The letter, posted on the federal Liberal party website, was apparently written by Harper in 2002, when [...]
Castro on Aritficial Life Support?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I usually don’t want Jon Stewart but this was way to funny to pass up on.
The Daily Show – 01.17.07 – Castro’s Artificial Anus
It speaks for itself.
-Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
-Plan as if you were to live for years.
-Learn as if you were to live forever.
Straight out of I Robot
Posted in Uncategorized on January 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Damn we don’t even want to park our cars anymore.
A humanoid robot valet won’t be stepping into your car to drive it.
Rather, the garage itself does the parking. The driver stops the car on a pallet and gets out. The pallet is then lowered into the innards of the garage, and transported to a vacant [...]
Fatah vs Hamas
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
They keep telling me this is the Religion of Peace!
Gaza was turning into a battlefield early Monday with armed clashes between the ruling Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah in Gaza City and the south. Four people were killed in the latest day of battles.
A Hamas supporter another gunman and a civilian were killed in [...]
Kerry at it again!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Where is this on the front page of CNN or the NY TIMES?
You would think it would be their mission statement if anything!
“When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, [...]
Wait a minute here?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is another one of those things you just WON’T SEE on the Democratic Congressional News Network (CNN).
“In our discussions, President Karzai stressed the crucial importance of reconstruction. The delegation commended him for his leadership and discussed additional steps that would enhance the authority of the central government and improve the security situation in the [...]
Hiillary FLAT OUT LYING in Iowa!!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So this weekend Hillary was in Iowa talking about how she was LIED to in going into Iraq and voting for the war. Now this is what the liberals like Hillary seem to always forget.
THIS IS THE INFORMATION AGE and you will be busted on your BS.
Below is a video from Code Pink. If [...]
The Democratic Strategy for Iraq has been leaked to the press!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It hasn’t changed much but its their winning strategy.
-Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
-Plan as if you were to live for years.
-Learn as if you were to live forever.
File this under the NO SHIT SHERLOCK file…
Posted in Uncategorized on January 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that a congressional resolution opposing President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq amounts to undercutting U.S. commanders in a way that “emboldens the enemy.”
Didn’t take long for Gates to get it huh?
At his first Pentagon news conference since taking office Dec. 18, Gates was asked his reaction to the [...]
Chavisimo must LOVE the attention
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
That has to be the reason for this crap over and over again from this bafoon.
I love it when people like Cindy Sheehan say that he “loves the american people”.
Chavez defended his government’s effort to establish a socialist model and rejected U.S. concerns over a measure to grant him broad lawmaking powers, saying: [...]
Oh get the hell over it!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It didn’t take long before “CAIR” started bitching like a little girl about the latest 24 episode.
24 has hit on all ethnicities and all regions. This is no different. From Germans to Russians. From British to Mexican!Where were the protest from those groups?
But you know what. IF THE SHOE FITS!
-Live as if you were [...]
So who do you trust?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is something that I think is of great interest to me and one of the reasons that I consider myself a conservative. I get asked this often. Who do you trust, republican or democrats?
I don’t consider myself a democrat and I don’t consider myself a republican either. There are many things I don’t hold [...]
Would this be over the top if I were to buy one of these?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) — When it comes to flat-screen televisions, size matters.
At this week’s International Consumer Electronics Show, Sharp Electronics Corp. took the crown for introducing the world’s largest, a behemoth 108-inch liquid-crystal display that most people probably couldn’t fit through their front door.
You know… Cause the 55 inch Wega just ISN’T enough for [...]
Chavisimo wants to regin on Venezuela like his daddy!
Posted in Uncategorized on January 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Emboldened by his landslide re-election win, the typically combative anti-U.S. leader has gone on the attack, deciding to strip a private opposition TV channel of its license and take over some major companies owned by foreign investors.
“Fatherland, socialism or death — I take the oath,” Chavez said.
The man who calls Cuban PresidentFidel Castro his mentor [...]
Another one bites the dust…..
Posted in Uncategorized on January 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – A senior al-Qaida suspect wanted for bombing American embassies in East Africa was killed in a U.S. airstrike, a Somali official said Wednesday, a report that if confirmed would mean the end of an eight-year hunt for a top target of Washington’s war on terrorism.
There was no immediate confirmation from the [...]
So you speak english huh?
Posted in Uncategorized on January 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
…..Well got off the School Bus.
Imagine sending your kids off to school, but when they get to the bus they are told they can’t get on because they speak English.
That’s right, English.
It happened to a few children in St. Paul and now the school district is apologizing.
Rachel Armstrong sent her kids to pick up the [...]
Torn a bit on this one.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Bush Plans Iraq Troop Surge
President Bush will call for sending more American troops to Iraq to calm two troubled areas – Baghdad, where sectarian violence flares daily, and the western Anbar Province, a base of the most Sunni insurgency, a Republican senator said Monday.
Now why exactly are we sending more troops there?I can understand the [...]
File this one under WTF???
Posted in Uncategorized on January 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Posted without comment:
Dallas-based food chain to accept Mexican pesos
10:11 AM CST on Saturday, January 6, 2007
By KAREN ROBINSON-JACOBS / The Dallas Morning News
Starting Monday, patrons of the Dallas-based Pizza Patrón chain, which caters heavily to Latinos, will be able to purchase American pizzas with Mexican pesos.
Restaurant experts and economists said they knew of no other [...]