Duct Tape Alert: Craziness in Germany

‘If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’
(telegraph.co.uk)
A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing “sexual services’’ at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.
Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago […]

Good news from Iraq, Part 20
by Arthur Chrenkoff at January 31, 2005 05:06 AM

Note: Also available at the “Opinion Journal” and Winds of Change. Big thanks to James Taranto and Joe Katzman for their support, and to the growing band of readers and fellow bloggers […]

Let’s hear an answer from Mohammed and Omar at Iraq the Model

We had all kinds of feelings in our minds while we were on our way to the ballot box except one feeling that never came to us, that was fear.
We could smell pride in the atmosphere this morning; everyone we saw was holding up […]

Sen. John Kerry was on Meet the Press today. He was pretty much the whole program. Now why would Meet the Press spend that much time on a Senator who lost the presidential race - on the day of this momentous occassion in Iraq, arguably one of the most important days in the […]

Iraq Election facts, related News, and Info on the ground from U.S. Military Bloggers, Iraqi Bloggers, and others. At the following post: Iraqi Election Facts

Iraq Election facts, related News, and Info on the ground from U.S. Military Bloggers, Iraqi Bloggers, and others:

V O T I N G    O F F I C I A L L Y    U N D E R W A Y    I N    I R A Q
7 2 %    T U R N O U T ! !
P O L […]

Duct Tape Alert: Don’t let your head explode, but . . .

A leading United Nations contractor in Indonesia who is also the chairman of an “anti-corruption watchdog” group has been arrested for diverting large quantities of aid supplies, with help from the Islamic Defenders Front.

In a furore that threatens to undermine […]

WARNING: This is a Duct Tape Alert - If you have any extra duct tape laying around you may need it to stop your heard from exploding!

From Elizabeth Becker of The New York Times:

The United Nations has urged all major industrial countries, especially Europe and Japan, to help the United States reduce its twin deficits […]

Rogue elements within the Nicaraguan army have been caught offering on the open market shoulder-fired missiles capable of bringing down aircraft.

Apparently the rogue elements within the Nicaraguan army are Sandinistas, who recently have made a comeback within the Nicaraguan government, although they are still a minority. When the Sandinistas were fighting to keep control over […]

Remember the previous UNHeard of contributions by the U.N. to the tsunami disaster relief? Well, Diplomad has another scoop on contributions by the U.N.:

When it’s convenient, Egeland rolls in work done by non-UN actors and makes it seem like the UN has done it, e.g., USAID “cash-for-work” programs have cleared the rubble away and […]

Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) is picking up the slack for the GOP on border security.

The White House pressured Sensenbrenner to drop these issues from the intelligence bill last year as the Bush campaign did not want to get embarrassed by a failure to enact the 9/11 Commission reforms that had broad bipartisan support. […]

At Commentary Corner on GOPUSA.com, Christopher G. Adamo has an article entitled, “‘Moderates’ Could Orchestrate GOP Disaster in ‘08″. In it, he writes,

It is always in the best interests of the Democrats to “blur” the philosophical lines that divide them from conservatives. Conversely, a stark contrast between conservative Republicans and the liberal ideology of […]

This story relayed by LGF tells of the dirty bomb hoaxer being captured.

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A “dirty bomb” alert in Boston last week was caused by a Mexican hoaxer trying to take revenge on Chinese immigrants who did not pay him for smuggling them across the U.S. border, Mexican prosecutors […]

Dr. Condoleeza Rice received 85 votes to confirm, with 13 votes against, the highest number ever for a Secretary of State. Those who voted against Rice’s confirmation include:

Babs “Crybaby” Boxer leading the charge
John Kerry
Ted Kennedy
Evan Bayh
Robert “KKK” Byrd
Brave Sir Mark Dayton
Richard Durbin
Tom Harkin
Frank Lautenberg
Carl Levin
Daniel Akaka
Jack Reed
“Jumpin” Jim Jeffords

This was a waste of time […]

Daniel 5:25-28 is the origin of the well known phrase, “the writing on the wall”:

25“And this is the inscription that was written:
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; 27TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, […]

FireFox has been gaining share against IE and now Google has hired the lead engineer of the Firefox Web Browser.

LONDON (Reuters) - Web search company Google has hired the lead engineer of the Firefox Web browser, fueling speculation that Google will create its own version of Firefox to take on Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer.
Ben Goodger […]

You may recall President Bush’s Inaugural speech when he said,

Today, America speaks anew to the peoples of the world:
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.
(Source: CBSNews.com)

The first thing that […]

Senator Clinton attempted in her remarks today to attack President Bush’s record on abortion and praise the record of former President Clinton.
LifeNews.com reveals that Sen. Clinton used numbers from a very flawed study.

But, Dr. O’Bannon said the rate of decline was higher in the Bush years and slowed during the Clinton years.
“In Clinton’s […]

Frank J. at IMAO has an interesting invitation today:

Now, I usually avoid the abortion topic as I don’t like my blog being the place for serious debate, but I’m going to ask for it today. Only thing, I don’t want any mention of the morality or what not of abortion and abortion law, I just […]

US Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said today that she would repeat charges that Secretary of State-designee Condoleezza Rice deliberately lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Sunday that when the full Senate debates on Tuesday the nomination of Dr. Condoleezza Rice for secretary of state, she intends to repeat charges […]