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  1. A woman named “Sunny” who claims that Herman Cain smiled at her in what she described as a “creepy, I’m going to sexually harass you way” has stepped forward with irrefutable video evidence.

  2. but you’d think ‘bama led the mission and took point himself the way he tried to take credit for it..all he did was sign the orders..if he even did that…and he probably didn’t.
    (Telegraph) — US NAVY Seals have revealed for the first time that they killed Osama Bin Laden within 90 seconds of entering his fortress-like home in Pakistan.
    The men who killed the al-Qaeda chief have decided to speak out because they are tired of their “shabby treatment” by politicians who claim they were on a “kill mission”.
    They insisted there was no lengthy gun-fight in the compound and claimed they would have captured Bin Laden if he had surrendered, The Sunday Times in the UK reports (behind a paywall).
    They were not on a “kill mission”, they said, and fired only 12 bullets in the entire operation.
    The details of the mission, which was codenamed Operation Neptune’s Spear, are revealed in a book by the Seals’ former commander, Chuck Pfarrer.
    “I’ve been a Seal for 30 years and I never heard the words ‘kill mission’. It’s a fantasy word. If it was a kill mission you don’t need Seal Team 6; you need a box of hand grenades.”
    He said the men were angry with President Barack Obama for announcing Bin Laden’s death on TV just hours after they completed the mission on May 1.
    “There isn’t a politician in the world who could resist trying to take credit for getting Bin Laden but it devalued the ‘intel’ and gave time for every other Al-Qaeda leader to scurry to another bolthole,” he said.
    “The men who did this and their valorous act deserve better. It’s a pretty shabby way to treat these guys.”
    Pfarrer’s books also reveals that the Seals’ nickname for Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri were Bert and Ernie, after the two Muppets in Sesame Street.
    When they were first told they were going to Pakistan to pick up a high-value person who was holed up in high-walled compound, they asked: “So is this Bert or Ernie?”
    Pfarrer said the squad’s nickname was Jedi.
    His account of the mission makes for terrifying reading. Here is an extract from The Sunday Times report, detailing the death of Bin Laden:
    Bin Laden’s bedroom was along a short hall. The door opened; he popped out and then slammed the door shut. “Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo,” radioed one Seal, meaning “eyes on target”.
    Two Seals kicked in Bin Laden’s door. The room, they later recalled, “smelt like old clothing, like a guest bedroom in a grandmother’s house”. Inside was the al-Qaeda leader and his youngest wife, Amal, who was screaming as he pushed her in front of him.
    “No, no, don’t do this!” she shouted as her husband reached across the king-size bed for his AK-47 assault rifle. The Seals reacted instantly, firing in the same second. One round thudded into the mattress. The other, aimed at Bin Laden’s head, grazed Amal in the calf. As his hand reached for the gun, they each fired again: one shot hit his breastbone, the other his skull, killing him instantly and blowing out the back of his head.

  3. Bemused: please don’t re-publish entire articles here. Post a description of the content, and/or a choice excerpt or two, and a *link* to the article.
    Thanks.

  6. The escalators up to the food court were packed, and once you spilled from the top momentum carried you to a planned destination.
    But there he sat, a single small hunched figure, bent forward over a familiar tray with poppies and a plastic money jar.
    Told my party to carry on, and I turned back as I dug around for coins and better. He handed me a couple of the red and black flower pins. His soft voice told me he was 89, had fought his way across Europe, and lost four of his classmates along the way.
    He said he was lucky and still living independently.
    My question was what kept them going, what motivated them to do what they did. He said the good book told them to be their brother’s keeper, and that is exactly what they did.
    Standing back, I watched mothers sending their children back to buy poppies, and older people doing so as well.
    Beside me on the railing was a younger adult male, a more recent citizen. Could not help myself, and I suggested he might wish to purchase a memento from our ancient friend, since his generations’ sacrifice made this such a worthwhile country to live. He declined the suggestion, and went off with some bearded folk more to his like.
    It struck me that the greatest damage peeaire turdo did was to destroy the common bond a nation has.

  7. The MSM stays Mum on this as well. Obama says respect it!!!
    Fatwa Bans Muslims From Celebrating Martin Luther King’s & George Washington’s Birthdays
    “Muzaffarnagar: Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has advised Muslims against celebrating birthdays, contending in a fatwa that Islam does not permit such a practice which is a “tradition of western countries”.
    Responding to a query of an AMU student, the fatwa department of the country’s biggest Islamic seminary said that Islam does not permit such celebrations as they are against the Shariat law.”
    http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2011/11/fatwa-bans-muslims-from-celebrating.html#disqus_thread

  9. Here’s a little treat I prepared today for SDA regulars in Calgary (Erik, Paul, etc). It’s a single panoramic photo stitched together from 5 hi-res photos by Microsoft’s free ICE software. Quite suitable for printing if you wish. The photos were taken from the lower SAIT parking lot, about 3 blocks south of 16th Avenue NW.

  11. Socialism’s quagmire.
    “The German Chancellor’s gloomy forecast of ten years of economic misery followed the failure at the G20 summit in Cannes to agree how to bail out bankrupt Greece.”
    Ich Bin Ein Socialist Quagmire Countdown: 10 years/520 months/3,650 days = 2021.
    …-
    “Stock markets fall despite Greek coalition deal”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/
    …-
    “Europe’s debt crisis ‘will last a decade’: Merkel warns that we’re in it for the long haul”
    “German Chancellor warns 500million population will suffer for years to come
    Gloomy outlook follows failure of G20 summit to bail out bankrupt Greece
    Economic forecasters predict Britain’s economy could be set back six years”
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058076/Europes-debt-crisis-decade-Merkel-warns-long-haul.html

  12. Socialism’s Quagmire For Sale.
    …-
    “Normal Life on Pause, and a Sense of Simmering Rage”
    “ATHENS — The tiny jewelry shop in the working-class Athens neighborhood was open for business — barely.
    The shop’s proprietor, Tasos, who preferred not to disclose his last name, said he had not had a sale in more than three months. Because he cannot afford to pay his electricity bills, there was no light to illuminate his storefront display of jewels.”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/world/europe/in-greece-economic-crisis-brings-rage-and-paralysis.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

  13. Socialism’s Quagmire For Sale.
    …-
    “Normal Life on Pause, and a Sense of Simmering Rage”
    “ATHENS — The tiny jewelry shop in the working-class Athens neighborhood was open for business — barely.
    The shop’s proprietor, Tasos, who preferred not to disclose his last name, said he had not had a sale in more than three months. Because he cannot afford to pay his electricity bills, there was no light to illuminate his storefront display of jewels.”
    urlm.in/jvro

  15. “Solar power boom hits a wall” >>>|
    ““The entire solar industry is in severe crisis at this stage,” said George Rubin, president of Vancouver-based solar technology firm Day4 Energy Inc. DFE-T “A lot of the big players are fighting for their lives.”
    “Day4, while struggling with slumping sales and a diminishing stock price, has insulated itself from some of the industry’s problems by licensing its innovative solar cell technology to other manufacturers, which absorbs much of the production risk.
    At Waterloo, Ont.-based Arise, however, manufacturing was a core of its strategy. When excitement over its German plans was at its peak in 2007, the stock traded at over $3. Now the shares are under 3 cents. The Toronto Stock Exchange is considering de-listing the company, and Arise is in talks for a “business combination” with another, unnamed, firm. To keep itself going, the company recently arranged a bridge loan of $1.5-million – at 12-per-cent interest.”
    More: >>>| “Even Canadian Solar Inc., CSIQ-Q a huge global maker of solar cells and modules with headquarters in Kitchener, Ont., and most of its manufacturing in China, has had to trim back plans for its new Canadian solar panel plant in Guelph. Canadian Solar stock is now well below $4, less than one-quarter of the value of a year ago, and a tenth of its peak level hit in 2008. ”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/solar-power-boom-hits-a-wall/article2227268/

  16. Mao Stlong* Lepolt.
    Mao Strong*, c/o Red China, has been knee-capped at long last.
    Left-Guardian/MSM spins the body blow to Red-Green AGW.
    “In the early 1970s, U.N. Secretary General U Thant tapped Strong to organize and direct the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
    The conference came to be known as the first Earth Summit.”
    http://www.nationalcenter.org/DossierStrong.html
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    “Rio Earth Summit postponed after clash with Queen’s diamond jubilee”
    “Rio+20 dates rearranged to avoid jeopardising the attendance of 54 Commonwealth leaders, including David Cameron”
    “Brazil has postponed the biggest environmental summit in 20 years to avoid a clash with the Queen’s diamond jubilee.
    The Rio+20 summit was scheduled for 4-6 June but has been moved to 20-22 June to avoid jeopardising the attendance of 54 Commonwealth leaders, including David Cameron. But Cameron, who said last month that he would not attend, is still not planning to attend, Downing Street said on Monday, despite his pledge to lead the “greenest government ever”.
    Instead, the environment secretary, Caroline Spelman, will be leading the negotiations, a Downing Street spokesman said.
    Though Brazil has not officially confirmed the date change, president Dilma Rousseff indicated at the G20 meeting in Cannes on Friday that the summit would be postponed. The Guardian understands European governments are already working to the new dates.”
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/07/rio-earth-summit-postponed-queen-jubilee
    *Liberal leader Bob Rae’s uncle Mo, c/o Red China.

  19. Extra! Extra! Special joint edition.
    Mao Stlong* Lepolt/PET* Cemetery Report.
    “The corporate sugar daddy has gone, the government sugar daddy is gone,’ Bob Rae told a Liberal town hall meeting on Saturday.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/
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    “China credit squeeze spurs suicides, violence”
    “Hours after a creditor and his gang of tattooed thugs hustled Zhong Maojin into a coffee shop in Wenzhou, he says he wouldn’t yield to their demands.
    They wanted to take over one of the pharmacies in a chain he’d built by borrowing from private lenders. Instead, he made an offer of traditional retribution in this eastern Chinese city, known for loan sharks who have sometimes meted out violence to bad debtors.
    “If you like, you can cut off one of my fingers instead,” Zhong, 42, says he told them.
    Giving up the store would have made it impossible to pay back another 130 creditors, Zhong said. He’d borrowed 30-million yuan (US$4.7-million) at interest rates as high as 7% a month to expand the business. Many of the lenders were elderly neighbors who’d mortgaged their homes.
    At least 90 bosses in similar situations to Zhong have fled the city since April, and two killed themselves, according to Zhou Dewen, head of a small business association in Wenzhou. One was shoemaker Shen Kuizheng, who jumped to his death from his 22nd-story home on Sept. 21, he said.
    Wenzhou’s 400,000 businesses are facing financial hardship because of rising costs, soaring black market interest rates and a sudden credit squeeze, Zhou said. Similar problems are happening across China because private enterprises in China rely on underground borrowing rather than banks to operate, he said.”
    http://business.financialpost.com/2011/11/07/china-credit-squeeze-spurs-suicides-violence/
    *Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae is a nephew of Maurice Strong, c/o Red China.

  20. Extra! Extra! Special joint edition.
    Mao Stlong* Lepolt/PET* Cemetery Report.
    “The corporate sugar daddy has gone, the government sugar daddy is gone,’ Bob Rae told a Liberal town hall meeting on Saturday.”
    http://www.nationalpost.com/
    …-
    “China credit squeeze spurs suicides, violence”
    “Hours after a creditor and his gang of tattooed thugs hustled Zhong Maojin into a coffee shop in Wenzhou, he says he wouldn’t yield to their demands.
    They wanted to take over one of the pharmacies in a chain he’d built by borrowing from private lenders. Instead, he made an offer of traditional retribution in this eastern Chinese city, known for loan sharks who have sometimes meted out violence to bad debtors.
    “If you like, you can cut off one of my fingers instead,” Zhong, 42, says he told them.
    Giving up the store would have made it impossible to pay back another 130 creditors, Zhong said. He’d borrowed 30-million yuan (US$4.7-million) at interest rates as high as 7% a month to expand the business. Many of the lenders were elderly neighbors who’d mortgaged their homes.
    At least 90 bosses in similar situations to Zhong have fled the city since April, and two killed themselves, according to Zhou Dewen, head of a small business association in Wenzhou. One was shoemaker Shen Kuizheng, who jumped to his death from his 22nd-story home on Sept. 21, he said.
    Wenzhou’s 400,000 businesses are facing financial hardship because of rising costs, soaring black market interest rates and a sudden credit squeeze, Zhou said. Similar problems are happening across China because private enterprises in China rely on underground borrowing rather than banks to operate, he said.”
    urlm.in/jvwa
    *Liberal leader Basement Bob Rae is a nephew of Maurice Strong, c/o Red China.

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