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Here’s an interesting link to polls in Eygypt.

Read the questions, then look at the choices.

Just a little on the - uhh - Arab side.

November 12th, 2009 Posted by bit | Humor | post comments

And the survey says…..!

Ran across this link from Neptunus Lex. It is a survey that, on the whole, suggests that Iraqi’s are much more upbeat about their situation and the future.

There are a few oddball things in it, but I attribute most of it to the folks responsible for the survey - the BBC and ABC News. I’m nearly positive it was not presented in a biased fashion. ABC and the BBC have both been extremely strong supporters of the Iraq W…..just kidding.

I found it interesting that on the same page of the BBC site of this article, there were two completely divergent articles in sequence on the sidebar. As though the BBC can’t make up their mind whether it’s going good or going bad-

Which is it? Who knows. It’s almost as clear as our hopeychangey Congress trying to showcase their understanding of capitalism.

Here’s a link to the pdf file that has the actual survey results. It’s fun to flip through. There are some interesting numbers in there. Just keep in mind that Iraqi’s (according to this survey) look on the United States about the same as they do Iran.

A few comments -

1) The Messiah is sort of panned in Q29.

2) They think it’s pretty damn positive that the Sunni’s got on board this election cycle - Q35

3) Q45 is a riot - we’re right up there with Iran.

4) Oddly, on Q20, 53% think the US still controls the country but on Q19,

5)  61% of respondents believe that the Iraqi Council of Representatives will not “prevent or reduce official corruption” (unofficial corruption isn’t addressed).  On a positive note, the other 29% is still a much higher approval rating than our own Congress has.

Lots of fun reading.

March 17th, 2009 Posted by bit | Humor, Misfit Media | post comments

How do you say “Indignant” in Arabic? - العربيه maybe?

Welcome to the the West ladies - you want to westernize? Then leave the guys at home.

Arab princesses kicked off British Airways plane to jeers and whistles after refusing to sit next to male strangers.

Three Arab princesses were thrown off a packed British Airways flight after refusing to sit next to male passengers they didn’t know.

 

The dispute - in which the three princesses from the ultra-conservative Qatar royal family demanded segregated seating - left the London-bound plane delayed on a baking Italian runway for nearly three hours.

Furious passengers whistled and clapped as the row intensified before the captain eventually ordered the women to be escorted off the plane.

 

The princesses, wearing traditional Arab dress, were returning from a day’s shopping in Milan. They arrived at the city’s Linate airport and boarded Heathrow-bound flight BA 563, which was due to take off at 4pm on Thursday.

 

The women, all relatives of the oil-rich emir of Qatar, Bader Bin Khalifa Al Thani, were booked into business class in a party of eight which included the emir and an entourage of cooks, servants and other staff.

After passengers had fastened their seat-belts and the plane had taxied on to the runway, two male passengers in the entourage got up to protest about where the women were sitting.

 

According to the customs of Qatar and other Gulf states, women are not allowed to mix with men who are not relatives.

 

Cabin crew tried to rearrange the seats but passengers travelling together refused to give up their allotted places. The captain tried to mediate but after more than two and a half hours of wrangling he ordered the bulk of their royal party off the plane.

 

It is understood that five of the eight - including the princesses and the men who left their seats to protest - were removed.

 

Police and diplomats from the Qatar consulate in Milan were also called in before the plane eventually took off. The rest of the Qatar party left Milan later on an Alitalia flight.

 

A BA spokesman said: “The people were offloaded because they failed to comply with safety instructions when the aircraft was taxiing. Two passengers stood up and refused to sit down.”

A spokesman at the Qatar embassy in Rome said: “This was a private matter and we have nothing to say.”

Awww… poor wittle babies…

July 29th, 2007 Posted by bit | Humor | post comments

Weekend Observations

From Michael Fumento’s blog on Racism causing Breat Cancer:

“Breast Cancer Link to Racial Discrimination.” No doubt that Reuters headline, and others like it, pleased race-baiters who would have us think every problem blacks have is due to persistent prejudice. Sadly for them, as I write in The American Spectator Online, the report is politically correct trash that any conscientious landfill would reject.

Yes, statistically it’s a bunch of hooey, as you might guess. But here’s just a bit of interesting data that blows it to bits that would have taken any decent reporter a couple of minutes to find. Breast cancer rates are much lower for black women than white women. According to the National Institutes for Health, for the latest year for which data are available black women have only 84 percent the rate of breast cancer as non-Hispanic white women.

Asians, incidentally, have 68 percent the rate of whites and Hispanics 62 percent. Now here’s the real stunner. American Indians, plagued by the inherent discrimination of the horrendous reservation system, have less than half the breast cancer rate of non-Hispanic whites.

The obvious conclusion: Reverse discrimination causes breast cancer.

(Yeah, I’m just kidding.)

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And just to be sure she knows, the Pentagon let Hilaryblub Clinton know just where she stands with regard to the defeat meme - although it may have been a mistake saying what he said, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman needed to say it:

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon told Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton that her questions about how the U.S. plans to eventually withdraw from Iraq boosts enemy propaganda.

In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon to start planning now for the withdrawal of American forces.

“Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia,” Edelman wrote.

He added that “such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks.”

Not to be outdone, the Clintonista camp hotly replied:

Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines called Edelman’s answer “at once outrageous and dangerous,” and said the senator would respond to his boss, Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Isn’t that kind of like “I’m gonna tell your daddy on you!“?

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And for a bunch of good laughs, check out this post on Wizbang. Paul puts up an observation on a VOIP company that went belly up and a new outfit that may change the scenery in the VOIP world. The story is interesting to technoweenie’s but what is truly funny are the comments inspired by one infamous idiot - Lee Ward. You have to read it to believe it and then you’ll laugh your ass off.

Hint: Lee is an idiot. 

Oh, did I already mention that?

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Finally, from the Patriot Post newsletter:

Good economic news

Warning: The following may upset the psychological equilibrium of John Edwards’ groupies following his recent poverty tour. (Ed. note: Yes, John Edwards really did go on a Poverty tour - I’m not kidding.)

The Dow Jones closed at a record 14,000 yesterday; the U.S. economy continues to grow; and, according to the Institute for Global Economic Growth (IGEG), the whole of planet earth is not such a bad place to live after all, either. In fact, according to Institute Chairman Richard Rahn, the world this past year actually became a better address to call home. Not only is widespread economic growth happening but also the rate of growth of the world gross domestic product has reached five percent per year. At this pace, per capita income is set to double in 15 years, and nearly every country in the world is rising with this tide. As if this promising news weren’t bad enough for the naysayers, the IGEG reports increases in literacy rates, improvements in life expectancies and decreases in the percentage of the planet’s population suffering from malnutrition.

On the other hand, just to be fair, there is some bad news. Rahn warns of a dangerous threat to the world’s well being. Identified by initiatives calling for increased taxes and government-controlled “enterprise,” this hazard could spell ruin for the world economy. Perhaps you will recognize the threat—it goes by the name of the U.S. Congress.

*Sigh*. Isn’t Congress supposed to be helping us? 

July 21st, 2007 Posted by bit | Moonbats, Humor, morons | post comments

Weekend Humor

Laughing Wolf posted this on Blackfive and it’s funny. A 27 year old ex-Marine takes on a bank robber who’s using a fire extinguisher for a prop - and the Associated Press can only refer to the crime as “suspicion of armed robbery”. Go figure.

From Patriot Post: 

“Al Gore’s son was pulled over by police on the San Diego Freeway Tuesday with marijuana, Valium, Xanax and Vicodin on him. The kid never had a chance. He got hooked on downers at an early age listening to his father read him bedtime stories.” —Argus Hamilton

 “Did you watch the Live Earth concert against global warming? Neither did I! I was shoveling coal into my Styrofoam factory, enjoying roast penguin.” —Craig Ferguson

And from Black & White, a local Birmingham publication, comes this story from NASA that puts the word “perspective” in bold type:

 Good as Gold
Beginning in 2009, NASA said it will save millions of dollars ferrying fresh water to the International Space Station by having astronauts drink their own urine. They’ll also mix in sweat and urine from laboratory rats. According to New Scientist magazine, a crew of three at the space station now requires 572 gallons a year of fresh water, which costs around $24 million to deliver. The crew will increase to six astronauts in 2009. NASA’s new water recovery system will recycle 93 percent of all water used on the ISS, reducing the annual demand for a six-person crew to about 442 gallons. “When you talk about drinking recycled urine, a lot of people get a little green just thinking about it,” NASA engineer Layne Carter said. “But if you’re comfortable being strapped to a rocket and launched into space, drinking a little recycled urine isn’t going to bother you.”

Hhmmm…. I guess that would be correct. But the word “recycled” now has a whole new flavor - err, meaning.

July 14th, 2007 Posted by bit | Humor | post comments

A little George Bush humor

Actually, this is a 14 year old impersonating George Bush. And he is very good.

This guy has talent.

June 16th, 2007 Posted by bit | Humor | post comments

How to buy a case of Bud Light

For those special moments. Group efforts can be so effective.

June 14th, 2007 Posted by bit | Humor | post comments

American Presidential Idol

The Washington Post isn’t my favorite newspulper. But they may have had a great idea on this one. From The Patriot Post comments:

 “If you tuned in to the recent Republican and Democratic presidential debates, you may have had the same reaction as many viewers looking at the crowded stages: Who’s that? The Democratic debate in South Carolina featured eight candidates, while 10 crammed into the GOP debate in California last Thursday… One possibility would be to allow viewers to vote off one candidate after each debate; it seems to work well for other TV programs.

Now why didn’t I think of that??

May 10th, 2007 Posted by bit | Humor, Getting it Right | post comments

Roundup

Spiderman 3, carbon, sex, and Mecca.

Cadet Happy at IMAO  posts a review of Spiderman 3. It’s not very pretty.

Kate at Small Dead Animals has an interesting detail on our “carbon footprint”. Gore conveniently left this out.

Kim Priestap at Wizbang has a post on the craziness of population control. Don’t miss her update with it. Fuzzy thinking by the “Optimum Population Trust” (though I wouldn’t trust ‘em at the end of a ten foot pole) leads to uncontollable laughter by the Optimum Reason Group - that is, us.

The paper by the Optimum Population Trust (OPT) will say that if couples had two children instead of three they could cut their family’s carbon dioxide output by the equivalent of 620 return flights a year between London and New York.

Well, Kate at SDA will have something to say about that! But who would have connected that keeping your legs crossed or your pants zipped could save the planet?

And Charles Johnson at LGF has a post on what George Mason University is doing about the Muslim Student Association (a member organization of Saudi’s Muslim Brotherhood) request demand that they have private “Muslim only” areas of the Johnson Center - in the center of the campus. Infidels not allowed. And no Christianity either. Strictly forbidden. Charles also links in an update from a member of the George Mason University brethren who clarifies the absurdity of the MSA arrogance. Virginia taxpayers are getting screwed - badly.

May 7th, 2007 Posted by bit | Deranged politics, Humor | 2 comments

The EBay “Event of the Month”

You can buy anything on EBay. There’s an old comic line about “nailing two boards together and some fool will buy it.” In this case, this lady wants out.  Out of all of her “stuff”.

Lisa Perry, in St. Paul, Minnesota is selling all of her stuff as one lot on EBay - except the dog, the cat, and a few clothes:

When the online auction ends Thursday, the top bidder will get everything but Perry’s dog, cat, photo albums and some clothing.

Talk about a clean slate: The 300-plus items going in a single lot include snowshoes, a futon sofa, a coffee maker, a queen-size bed, a Village People album, a milk crate of seashells, a computer, skis and shoes (women’s sizes 9-10). There’s a coffee table with inlaid tiles, Danish modern bookshelves and Oriental-design rugs.

“It’s good stuff, but I have so much,” she said in her cramped apartment on St. Paul’s West Side. “I don’t need it all. I don’t use it all. I just have it all. Actually, it has me.”

“It has me”. Well, something does. I’m not sure it’s her “stuff” though: 

Perry has been studying Buddhism the last six years and started fancying the notion of “releasing attachment to things.”

In June, she plans to move for roughly the 20th time and head west. She wants to take up creative writing. She might get into holistic healing and massage therapy, and she’s planning to take the California corrections officer exam.

MmmK. Well, it’s America. 

She’s hoping to get $2,000. The lastest bid is $1,375 with three days to go.

I’ll, uhhh, update you on the final.  

UPDATE:

The latest Tuesday morning bid is $2325 - with two days to go (she’s past her reserve!). 

April 9th, 2007 Posted by bit | Humor | post comments

More strange tales

What mothers will do for their sons: 

PITTSBURGH — For her day in court, Marilyn Devine wore a button-up shirt, checkered blue and white. Several relatives kissed her on the forehead or cheek.

Then, the 76-year-old grandmother pleaded guilty to a March 2006 bank robbery, when she made off with $5,960 in a bag.

Devine, he said, committed the robbery _ using an unloaded 9 mm gun _ while dealing with depression and anxiety. A day earlier, one of her sons, in financial trouble, told her he would “do himself in” if he didn’t come up with some money.

The following morning _ March 6, 2006 _ Devine appeared at the National City Bank branch in West Mifflin, Pa. She robbed two tellers, demanding they fill her bag with money, and left the building, leading police on a chase through a residential neighborhood.

I gotta ask, if she’s 76, how old is the “kid”?

High Tech solutions:

After residents complained about late-night revelers relieving themselves outside pubs and clubs in Britain’s surfing capital of Newquay, the town installed three high-tech urinals that rise from the pavement at nightfall and disappear at dawn. “Young men using the street as a toilet is not how we would like the town portrayed,” councilor Anne Boosey said, declaring that the retractable urinals mean “everyone in Newquay can benefit from the strong night-time economy.”

Say what?

Body Odor is - uhh - not an issue:

India’s Gujarat state issued floral and citrus scented uniforms to its 300,000 police officers to mask their body odor in the hot climate. Somesh Singh of the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, which designed the uniforms at the request of the state government, said police are more approachable “if they smell good and fresh.” The lightweight cotton fabric also glows in the dark, making officers easy to spot.

So, did they ever think that “glowing in the dark” might be risky for targeting? (”Just shoot at the bright spots Hamzaa!”) 

April 6th, 2007 Posted by bit | Humor, Getting it Right | post comments

Iraq the Model quoted by Pres. Bush

I’ve included quotes and stories on this blog from Iraq the Model many times. The writers of ITM are brothers (both dentists) who live in Bagdhad. Yesterday President Bush actually quoted them in a speech he gave. That part of the speech can be seen on Hot Air here.

What was simply a quote by Bush of two brothers whose perspective on the social interconnections in Iraq and the optimism they both have for success made the nutroots go beserk today. Little Green Footballs carries the story of the freakish rants on Daily Kos, an ultra far left blog - but popular with the moonbats.

Not to be outdone, Mohammed (one of the brothers at ITM), responds to the drivel the left serves up:

First of all we’re proud of it. It’s the ultimate ambition for a political blogger to have his or her words heard and better reach the desks of decision-makers.

Second I would like to make clear one point to bloggers like dailykos and some MSM supported blogs who seem so upset for some reason that the voice of some Iraqis is being heard.
I’ve seen some of them publish stories full of lies and accusations they can’t support and I think it’s pathetic to throw the “you’re a sold-out propaganda” accusation at people just because they don’t share the same point of view…This only reflects their lack of knowledge and the bankruptcy of ideas they suffer.

We speak the language of facts, supported by images and statistics and more important, we live here while they don’t.

I invite them to come visit my town, see what I see, compare it with what I write and then they can say whatever they like.

Now excuse me, it’s Thursday and I have barbeque and cold beers waiting for me.

Touche.

I don’t read much of the Kos kids stuff - it is difficult to understand how disconnected they are. But I do occasionally saunter over there - with a stiff drink in hand - and get a lot of laughs. I don’t recommend their site - or the Democratic Underground - and I’m not providing links. If you want to read that crap go find it yourself.  I do recommend a double Jack and Seven before you start.

March 29th, 2007 Posted by bit | Humor, Getting it Right | post comments