TooFarGone said...

TooFarGone at 02:04 PM JST - 17th December

Author, ME expert and former soldier Ralph Peters nails it:

The only countries in the Middle East where a journalist could survive after such behavior are Iraq, maybe Lebanon - and Israel. Even Jordan doesn't allow such freedom.

*"The media have been having a ball with the video of the…

Posted in Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq at 02:04 PM JST - 17th December
TooFarGone at 01:57 PM JST - 17th December

"Education is another another area in which GW fundamentally failed the population."

And you know this because what? - you live in the US?

Posted in Obama chooses education secretary at 01:57 PM JST - 17th December
TooFarGone at 01:55 PM JST - 17th December

A little history on the new Arab hero, brave shoe-tosser Muntadhar al-Zeidi:

"...Al-Zeidi [the tosser] may have also been motivated by what a colleague described as a boastful, showoff personality.

'He tried to raise topics to show that nobody is as smart as he is,' said Zanko Ahmed, a Kurdish…

Posted in Across Mideast, Arabs hail shoe-hurling journalist at 01:55 PM JST - 17th December
TooFarGone at 01:49 PM JST - 17th December

"582,000 Canadian jobs at stake if Big Three fail: study"

"The economic consequences of either a partial or total shutdown of the Detroit Three are stark," said the report.

"Either scenario is sufficient to push Ontario into a deep recession while the nation may barely escape one in the 50-percent…

Posted in White House readies rescue for U.S. auto industry at 01:49 PM JST - 17th December
TooFarGone at 01:40 PM JST - 17th December

cleo:

So was America, in a way. Your point being...?

In a very far-fetched way.

My point being our next president, son of a victim of your corrupt empire in Africa, will also have to deal with the disastrous consequences of British intervention and shortsighted foreign policy in the ME,Afghanistan…

Posted in Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq at 01:40 PM JST - 17th December
TooFarGone at 01:25 PM JST - 17th December

cleo:

The wimp could only attack one nation that his Daddy had already bombed into the Stone Age, and another that never evolved out of the Middle Ages.

And like Pakistan those two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, were also occupied, ruled or created by Great Britain.

Bush - like his…

Posted in Bush dodges shoe protest during visit to Iraq at 01:25 PM JST - 17th December
TooFarGone at 01:19 PM JST - 17th December

The biggest scam ever.

Naturally, the perp sought to buy off politicians.

So, which party did he go with?

"Very few media stories of the fraud perpetrated by former Nasdaq chairman Madoff mentions the heavy financial support that Madoff has donated to the Democrat Party. Campaign contributions by Madoff show…

Posted in Nomura: $306 million exposed in Wall Street Ponzi scheme at 01:19 PM JST - 17th December
TooFarGone at 01:10 PM JST - 17th December

Rioters (no, not "protesters") are taking over TV and radio stations? Europe just gets more and more pathetic. I reckon much of the "turmoil" can be chalked up to the growing and shocking economic inequality within the EU. And as Euro "progressives" from the UK, France and Germany tell us…

Posted in Greek protesters take over TV, radio stations at 01:10 PM JST - 17th December
TooFarGone at 10:39 AM JST - 17th December

In the civilized world, doctors are supposed to heal.

What is it with guys like this, or Al qaeda number 2 - Doctor Ayman al Zwahiri?

Posted in Doctor convicted in failed London, Glasgow attacks at 10:39 AM JST - 17th December
TooFarGone at 10:37 AM JST - 17th December

Tiny handful of extremists. Really, every religion has its suicide bombers.

/smithinjapan mode off

Posted in France beefs up security after dynamite found in Paris store at 10:37 AM JST - 17th December