City denies annexation request!

Folks this is unheard of and defies logic until you read the article.  Our local city has been trying to grab more and more of the surrounding neighborhoods for years.  They usually win out through closed door deals with large landowners who are given some benefit and a guarantee of no city taxes for some extended period of time.

Well here an entire neighborhood asked for annexation and the city denies it. Why?

Owners of Bay Berry Mews and Capital Heights, 203 rental homes located off S.C. 277, have asked to come into the city so they can use the cityÂ’s water system. But city officials recommended the city deny the annexation because upgrading the system would cost more than $400,000, plus another $375,000 a year to maintain it.

So the next time you see some article in the local paper from the city about how they only annex surrounding areas for the “benefit” of the residents, just remember this. Folks it is all about money and taxes.  

Today's stupid and useless poll of the day. Next up, poll asking how many people really want to eat during the next few days.

Asshole Bllom-idiot whining because his money from the State is being cut.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at February 02, 2011 07:31 AM (SJ6/3)

Ah yes, capitalism at work.

"F&F froze up on me years ago when they dumped E.D. Hill for whats her not so good looking face. "

Am I the only one who's afraid of Steve Doocy's son?

Hello from Australia, with my nightly report on Tropical Cyclone Yasi, now a monster Cat 5 and it's going to make landfall in beautiful Far North Queensland in an hour or so

This is just awful to watch it coming closer on the radar - just terrible

Please keep all those Aussies who are going to be going through a hellish time over the next few hours in your thoughts and send some prayers if you're so inclined

Oops the link didn't work - another one about Cyclone Yasi

Monster Cat 5 tropical cyclone heading to land in an hour or so...

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at February 02, 2011 07:48 AM (SJ6/3)

That was funny!

Aren't those people exhausted?  Do they ever sleep?  Where did these pro-Mubarak protesters come from all of a sudden?

Question!  I have questions, damn it.

Posted by: Ed Anger at February 02, 2011 07:49 AM (7+pP9)

And still dumber than a box of rocks.

Well...its not like Steve and Brian are Charter Members of Mensa............

Posted by: Mallamutt, President, E.D. Hill fan club at February 02, 2011 07:55 AM (OWjjx)

Lol....Very true.

"I have never understood the so called allure of Gretchen. "

I always think "Asexual Primary School Teacher" when I see her.  I prefer the weekend crew myself.

Geez....some of the protesters are on horseback!

And camels.  Seriously.

Sorry about the stuffed links so I'm trying a lucky third time..

Cyclone Yasi

The shit is hitting the fan in Cairo now.

So Barky told Hosni that he wanted a peaceful transition ...and now, huh?

http://tiny.cc/ys1i4

OK hopefully this works - Cyclone Yasi - this thread will get to 666 just with me trying to post a link a few hundred times!

70 Heh - blame it on the weather!

71 Queensland is an hour behind NSW because the state has not joined us in daylight saving time - dumb really - my son lives on the border and sometimes works in different time zones within a coupla kms

The MBM was praising Ebola for the way he handled Mubarak

...wonder how'll they'll spin this now?

Posted by: The Sun at February 02, 2011 08:21 AM (n0WLs)

Sorry, but the whole AGW Hee Haw Gang says that you do not exist.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at February 02, 2011 08:23 AM (tvs2p)

But we are really working hard to unionize even the unemployed so we can skim union dues from the welfare/unemployment checks.  You do know there was a reason that we pushed to extend extend benefits duration as part of the plan!

 Mom admits strangling 18-year-old daughter: 'She pushed my last button'...

This is why God or Darwin made teenagers adult size or it would happen more often. By the time you want to kill them they can outrun you or fight you off. It also doesn't make economic sense. You've already spent a gazillion-billion dollars on them. It would be like taking a sledgehammer to the world's most expensive car. I found that saying, "Oh, I'm glad you're here, let's go over some practice SAT math questions" usually gets them out of my hair.

From a CNN guy on Twitter:  Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover demonstration.

Am I allowed to laugh at this point? 

This is why God or Darwin made teenagers adult size or it would happen more often. By the time you want to kill them they can outrun you or fight you off. It also doesn't make economic sense. You've already spent a gazillion-billion dollars on them. It would be like taking a sledgehammer to the world's most expensive car. I found that saying, "Oh, I'm glad you're here, let's go over some practice SAT math questions" usually gets them out of my hair.

Posted by: dagny at February 02, 2011 08:27 AM (ZuJDg)

Or you can try (as I did with my 6'3" 210 lb 16 year-old son), "Don't even think about it kid!  You may be younger and bigger, but when you get down to basics, I'm meaner!"

Posted by: Annabelle at February 02, 2011 08:26 AM (4kxCX)

That's because Anderson was protecting his junk, while they went for his head.

From a CNN guy on Twitter:  Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover demonstration.

Bwa-ha-ha..that settles it. I've chosen a side now

They claim the counter protesters are undercover cops.

Insert SEIU ironic punchline (pun fully intended) here.

Am I allowed to laugh at this point? 

I did.  Feel free to join me.

From a CNN guy on Twitter:  Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover demonstration.

Bwa-ha-ha..that settles it. I've chosen a side now

Any chance that Matthews/Maddow/Couric et al should go? I think they need to be there to maintain their "credibility".

Any chance that Matthews/Maddow/Couric et al should go? I think they need to be there to maintain their "credibility".

Posted by: dagny at February 02, 2011 08:34 AM (ZuJDg)

I think Katie is there, isn't she?  I thought I read that a couple of days ago.

In a report on Media-ite, MSNBCÂ’s Chris Matthews goes off the deep end once again in an attack on the tea party, asking a republican strategist this;

And following it up with this comment;

Any chance that Matthews/Maddow/Couric et al should go? I think they need to be there to maintain their "credibility".

Maddow apparently gets all her material from The Onion now.

Iowa House Passes Constitutional Ban on Same Sex Marriage

I guess this is in response to the earlier court ruling that said their previous ban was unconstitutional?  I wonder when Malor is going to pick this story up.  Not sure what their senate will do with this.

This quote amuses me though:

“Here’s the funny things about rights — they’re not supposed to be voted on,” said state Rep. Bruce Hunter (D-Des Moines).

That's true, and just as soon someone finds me where it's written down that the state has to sanction any and every decision you feel like making, you let me know sport.

Vulnerable Democratic senators have raised far less money than their predecessors did two years ago, a sign that their party could struggle to keep its majority.

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) barely raised any money in the final quarter of the year, pulling in just $12,000 and reporting $444,000 on hand. Webb is considered vulnerable, and might face a formidable candidate and fundraiser in former Sen. George Allen (R-Va.).

I should put a light on so I can see the keyboard.

Careful--then they can see you.

So the Muslim Brotherhood has a parallel role here with the Tea Party, they’re the ones who keep you honest and decide whether you’ve stayed too long? Whether you’ve got a “Sell By” date looming?

The sheer intellectual dishonesty and lunacy on the left is breathtaking

THUGS ON CAMELS WHIP PROTESTERS at Tahrir Square

heh.

So the Muslim Brotherhood has a parallel role here with the Tea Party, they’re the ones who keep you honest and decide whether you’ve stayed too long? Whether you’ve got a “Sell By” date looming?

Said the lying, moldy, and rancid media blob.

Posted by: Phil the weatherman at February 02, 2011 08:28 AM (tvs2p)

Weather Channel dude said NY and Central Ohio will see 80 by end of Feb. but until then it will be snow, snow, cold, snow.

So, Charlotte North Carolina gets the Democratic National Convention next year over St. Louis.

A quick Google search shows that since 1969, Charlotte has had more than 24 years of _Republican_ mayors.

St. Louis? Zero.

I wonder why the Dems would pick such a place, rather than a shining example of what Democrats can achieve when they don't have to compete against those evil teabaggers: St. Louis, maybe Detroit or Oakland.

I live in St. Louis, love it, and am never leaving, but the horrible effects of more than half a century of uncontested Democrat rule are obvious...and would be obvious to the voters.

103 dagny

Hi, people were evacuated - but not forcibly, and the Queenslanders who will be affected will NOT be like those I saw on telly after Katrina in New Orleans - think people in Mississippi and Florida - that's what will happen - people helping each other, getting on with the cleanup and not blaming anyone

However our braindead Greens pollies are blaming global warming, climate disruption, climate chaos etc caused by the HUGE levels of that terrible CO2 which can only be fixed by raiding our wallets with a carbon bloody tax *spit*  

It's worse than that. They're handing out rubber balls with paddles.

If we get to rubber chickens....well, I don't even want to think about it.

It's worse than that. They're handing out rubber balls with paddles.

Mine's warped.  How come I always get the warped one?

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 02, 2011 08:53 AM (tJjm/)

They have to protect their phoney baloney protest.

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2011 08:56 AM (VuLos)

Isn't it obvious?  Technology from Atlantis.  Just like the Pyramids.

However our braindead Greens pollies are blaming global warming, climate disruption, climate chaos etc caused by the HUGE levels of that terrible CO2 which can only be fixed by raiding our wallets with a carbon bloody tax *spit*  

Posted by: Aussie at February 02, 2011 08:52 AM (Cb78v)

Carbon:  The magic element.  It can do anything.

146 I guess it's nice to know that the Greens (communists) are the same all over. Makes them easier to identify. Imagine looking at the size of that cyclone and thinking your lightbulbs had anything to do with it? There are still people in New Orleans wanting their Katrina distribution. Then they re-elected the same people that got them in that fix or failed to do their job when the shit hit the fan. Hope people got out.

156 irongrampa

We're drowning in sweat Down Under - global warming has hit Sydney - obviously we have too many big cars and too many people exhaling...

Posted by: CoolCzech at February 02, 2011 08:56 AM (tJjm/)

HEH!!!

146 I guess it's nice to know that the Greens (communists) are the same all over. Makes them easier to identify. Imagine looking at the size of that cyclone and thinking your lightbulbs had anything to do with it? There are still people in New Orleans wanting their Katrina distribution. Then they re-elected the same people that got them in that fix or failed to do their job when the shit hit the fan. 

Which proves my theory that when Mother Nature tries to remove defective, useless people from infesting the planet we should respect her wishes.

Aussie, if you yourself are in Queensland, hunker down, keep your loved ones close, and may God look over you. Same story if it's just your son who's there.

Posted by: Phil the weatherman at February 02, 2011 08:28 AM (tvs2p) </i>

Stupid freakin' rodent, you can't see your shadow because your eyes are covered with ice. Chip the ice off and report back.

Thanks everyone for your advice, I've run a business, had kids, run a household, gone to Uni, can speak and debate quite well but I can't TINY?????

Well, it's because TUrl swirls COUNTERCLOCKWISE down there. I thought everybody knew that.

Sweet Holy Moses. Grocery Store Awesomeness:

Amongst all this recession chic, Mr. Reid's Republican interrogator decided now was the time to go public.
In a voice that could be heard on the other side of this medium-sized food emporium, the shopper with ObamaCare Repeal on his mind -- no shrinking violet he -- loudly declared to his fellow gourmands (many in lines waiting to check-out) that indeed the graying personage standing right there amongst them was none other than "U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid," and, pointing directly at Mr. Reid, said, "This man is personally holding-up the ObamaCare Repeal bill by refusing to allow it to be brought to the floor of the U.S. Senate for a vote," and which law if left on the books "can eventually bankrupt the United States of America."
From the check-out area came applause, apparently at the spectacle.

giggle

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2011 09:01 AM (VuLos)

All the callers she's spoken with, didn't evacuate.  Some of them are scared to death, already have damage, etc., yet - Yasi is just now crossing the coast.  The eye is over Mission Beach (where ever that is )

I can't imagine looking at my children, looking at the radar, and deciding to stay home.

I heard some fucking retard on AMessNBC earlier describe the scene as like a snowball fight...but with rocks!!

I think Katie is there, isn't she?  I thought I read that a couple of days ago.

Posted by: Tami at February 02, 2011 08:35 AM (VuLos)

I hope she didn't enrage the crowd by doing her grind dance.  Although following her televised colonoscopy, maybe she could have a genital mutilation performed on camera.

Chunk Turd just said Ogabe's statement from last night was already obsolete.

No, Chunk...it shows just how clueless Ogabe is

Warm and balmy 19 here--with a wind chill. But my mom is dealing with "2 degrees, feels like -15."

At least I have a cat who is trying ever so hard to keep my hands warm...while I'm typing...

I hope she didn't enrage the crowd by doing her grind dance.  Although following her televised colonoscopy, maybe she could have a genital mutilation performed on camera

Bu God, I'd pay good money to watch that...

158

Amazing isn't it - we're carbon cutouts ourselves so we must be BAD

I HATE the Greens with a passion who infest our parliamentary system 

Ignorant voters here think Greens are all about cuddly creatures, saving whales and trees yet do not ever read the Greens policies - and yes we have compulsory voting here so stupid idiots tick Greens on the ballot paper because of they fall for the Greens  false front of saving koalas and whales

Needless to say, this necessitated my furry friend the collie to make a 2 am visit to the great outdoors to pee.  

<hugs and appreciates kitty despite her chasing the cursor around the screen>

161 momma

It's made landfall now in the last few minutes- looks like because of of it's huge eye it has lost a bit of wind speed after hitting the Great Barrier Reef, however the danger now is the huge storm surge with massive water surges hitting the coastal areas - although because it hasn't hit along with high tides it might not be as bad as expected

I'm watching it now on Skynews Australia and the images are awful...we can only hope it's not as bad as forecast

Posted by: AmishDude at February 02, 2011 09:15 AM (BvBKY)

The ground hog. At least it has a 50/50 chance of being right

Posted by: AmishDude at February 02, 2011 09:15 AM (BvBKY)

Hmmmm; both of them base a complex phenomenon on a single factor; but since Phil only does it for a short period of time, I'd say groundhog day gets the nod.

Posted by: maddogg at February 02, 2011 09:21 AM (OlN4e)

FIFY

Couric is really there?

Posted by: Vic at February 02, 2011 09:22 AM (M9Ie6)

My husband just called from Singapore to tell me it was chilly and raining there.  Chilly in Singapore is 75-80.   Poor dear....

160 dagny

After the devastating floods in south Queensland in January the Greens leader here, Senator Bob Brown tried to blame global warming - his head was almost bitten off and he has not been seen by our media since - I think the majority of Aussies recognise bullshit when confronted by it

People living in Far North Queensland are used to cyclones and are prepared very well thank goodness

We shoulda bought it before we needed it, but there were so many things we wanted that were on sale over the years that we decided to roll the dice and came up snake eyes!

Please pay for my health care now, you heartless bastards!

el Baradei anagrams:

deer labia, aerial bed, ideal bear,  bad lie era

I believe the reactionary scenario is more likely. But regardless of my own opinion, what is clear is that Egypt lacks the sort of political culture that can sustain a liberal democratic regime. The superficiality of the oppositionÂ’s demands is matched only by the absurdity of the regimeÂ’s discourse. Without knowledge of the likes of Locke and Burke, Hamilton and Jefferson, my country is doomed to either unbridled radicalism or continued repression.

Smartcars are just golf carts with hard roofs. I bet their drivers don't feel so smart when they get runover by a Chevy Suburban.

In this case, smart cars are a pre-existing condition! AMIRIGHT!!!

Count it!

Good Carter/Obama comparison by VDH

170 joncelli

Luckily I'm living in the sweaty city of Sydney and my son is in south Queensland,  but I have friends in Townsville who have left their home and I can't contact them - but Mr Friend is an ex soldier and I just know he has everything in control

Posted by: Y-not at February 02, 2011 09:26 AM (pW2o8

That doesn't really register with a guy who has logged a quarter million miles on  motorcycles, much of which was in heavy traffic. I've ben hit twice, been down scraping the hide off my bones several more times, but still have all my parts, and they still work.......mostly.

Senator David Vitter (R-LA) introduced legislation yesterday to prevent the Federal Reserve from secretly bailing out states with budget problems.  Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Mike Crapo (R-ID) have joined the effort and signed onto S.251, the State Bailout Prevention Act.  This legislation music to the taxpayerÂ’s ears.

Um... "Mike Crapo?"  "Crapo?!"

169 maddog

Which proves my theory that when Mother Nature tries to remove defective, useless people from infesting the planet we should respect her wishes.

Excellent theory  A++++

We all know what the first 50 states are, but what are those other 7 that dearleader told us about? It took me about 3 minutes to come up with these:

Illibama

Golfahoma

Michelleissippi

Birthwhereia

Deathpanelania

Teleprompakota and, of course,

Muslimastan.

172 MamaAJ

Of course, never thought of THAT!

 Thanks! We're upside down here

There are libs on the Harry Reid shops for cheese link who want to know, "where are the death panels?"

I guess they have trouble grasping when this thing goes from just taxes to taxes and death panels. I'm convinced that Kelly and her friends think the whole thing is free-free. Might be to them.

I heard some fucking retard on AMessNBC earlier describe the scene as like a snowball fight...but with rocks!!

Posted by: beedubya at February 02, 2011 09:06 AM (AnTyA)

So it is basically a snowball fight in Philadelphia?

Posted by: Y-not at February 02, 2011 09:26 AM (pW2o

Hmmm, what's the liklihood we'll see someone introduce legislation at the state level to ban SUVs based on this very reason?  I'd say "likely" or "probable".

Gretchen is a former Miss America. Not sure if she's ever mentioned that before.

Really..........cause, I got to be honest with you.....I have never understood the so called allure of Gretchen. She just strikes me as someone whose face was put together from the left over parts of about 5 different Ms. Potato Head themes.

203 Vic

The eye of the storm is happening right now - watching and listening to Skynews is fascinating, and Cyclone Yasi does not appear as bad as forecast- thank goodness!

Did the cyclone miss Brunei? My bro-in-law is there

Can't stand Carlson. 

Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him

It'll probably take a lot more than 10 knocks to shake the stupid out. 

i put it up on the headlines. I'm guessing it was because he tried to compare them to Tea baggers

Mallamutt.

ED Hill used to be a local reporter here in pittsburgh.

Here name is actually(or was) ED Tarbox and she's a hardcore democrat

Gretchen Carlson, Miss America contestant, 1989

I'd have hit it.

She was fired by not getting her contract renewed.

Carlson ain't funny.  She doesn't seem particularly friendly either.  ED Hill had that in spades.

The goal of daytime TV is to make people stupid.

Oprah, Maury, The View, Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, etc etc.

It's unbearble. When I get a day off work, there is never anything to watch. Even in the Price is Right has gone downhill since Barker left.

Someone mentioned Steve D's son and how creepy he was.

He reminds me of the children in that movie with all the evil blond kids.  rdbrewer, help me out.  What was that movie called?

Village of the Damned or Children of the Corn?

Gretchen comes off as 'slumming' to me.  Either they'll have her elsewhere before too much longer, or she'll disappear to CNN.  Or something.

What do you mean by "slumming" w/r/t the show?  And what do you mean about having her elsewhere?

Posted by: Lions at February 02, 2011 09:43 AM (lW97b)

Tell me about it.  I lived there for 4 years.  It's like a blast furnace.

She was fired by not getting her contract renewed.

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 02, 2011 09:51 AM (HSJsW)

Thanks!  Ace of Spades - The Put You Some Knowledge _{(whether you like it or not)}^TM

246 

Cyclone Oprah tore through here in December - we had our work Christmas party in the city and we were most impressed by the fireworks display put on just for Oprah and her guests

Even the Harbour Bridge had a big O in fireworks that night

It was a tourism promotion and us poor taxpayers forked out a few million to pay for Oprah to come to OZ

Poor darling couldn't afford the trip herself obviously

Posted by: maddogg at February 02, 2011 09:52 AM (OlN4e)

Seconded.  Not the greatest interviewer, but she's there for the hips and the legs.  That's it.

Besides, Doocy is the worst interviewer I've ever seen.

Read Malkin's article on how SEIU is disrupting Chipotle and Chickfillet because they don't hire illegals

Posted by: The Sun at February 02, 2011 08:21 AM (n0WLs)

I've been to the end of the friggin' universe and back! Wanker!

246 

Cyclone Oprah tore through here in December - we had our work Christmas party in the city and we were most impressed by the fireworks display put on just for Oprah and her guests

Even the Harbour Bridge had a big O in fireworks that night

It was a tourism promotion and us poor taxpayers forked out a few million to pay for Oprah to come to OZ

Poor darling couldn't afford the trip herself obviously

Yeah, the left ran out of our money, so they're coming for yours

Even with the dummies, criminals and other misfits whom they've gotten to join them, the Communist student dissidents who orchestrated that revolt in Egypt represent probably less than 3% of Egypt's popuation, and even if you add in late-comers; i.e., outlawed Islamic radicals, all of those rabble elements combined is still less than 20% of Egypt's population.

 In fact, the people defending their homes and businesses against that rabble represent the vast majority of the people in Egypt; facts which Progressives in this administration and in the MSM don't want you to know, because if they can destabilize the Middle East, they can more easily advance their greenie, Progressive agenda ...., redistributing the wealth as bribes to empower themselves, figuring that increased attacks on Israel will be collateral damage, but that, what the hell, the ends will justify the means; world-wide Communism. Communism didn'[t go away when the Soviet Union collapsed. They just changed their name to "Progressives" and to "Greenies".

BTW, good morning, you batty, reactionary dimwits.

282 Ben

Not till after Oprah's visit did we poor taxpayers find out exactly how much WE paid for Queen Oprah to come here

I won't consider the money well spent until I see someone here say that because of Oprah spruiking the delights of OZ, they will be coming here for a holiday 

http://tiny.cc/132h9

Still practising those tiny links - a few glasses of wine may be helping of course

Another example of why Pakistan is stuffed

Posted by: Nighthawk at February 02, 2011 10:14 AM (RSqz2)

Hey, I appreciated his stern letters back in the day.

More Chris Christie goodness

http://tinyurl.com/4n4vm5f

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at February 02, 2011 10:21 AM (SJ6/3)

It's working.  I was just watching a bunch of women collect pieces of broken pavement and load up the men with ammo.

302

El Baradei is the face of the Muslim Brotherhood  style of Middle East governance we will have to deal with, and I think that your President will be not unhappy with this outcome

Posted by: Lions at February 02, 2011 10:25 AM (hVuKN)

And the lightning shows!  We'd sit on our covered porch and watch them. 

El Baradei is the face of the Muslim Brotherhood  style of Middle East governance we will have to deal with, and I think that your President will be not unhappy with this outcome

They are pushing him because they intend to use him as a willing and weak puppet. And yes, Comrade Zero will cream his mom jeans. He is an America hating commie bastard, who was probably not even born here.

322 maddog

I just hope and pray American voters will see through your President's superficial facade and see what he truly supports - I'm so sad to see the American power symbols so devalued - this has a huge impact in all other areas of the world such as ours

We need a strong USA here in our area of the Pacific

Posted by: Annabelle at February 02, 2011 08:26 AM (4kxCX)

Maybe we can get the same people to "help" Brian Williams into his hotel

What is disconcerting about the misfits who have joined the Communist dissidents and the Islamic funnymentalist radicals is that they believe that, by killing all of the Israelis, they will then be able to enjoy the prosperity of Israelis themselves, which is the rationale of misfits in this country who elected Obama with a hope that, by a redistribution of wealth in this country, they will be able to enjoy the prosperity of the wealthy, also.

What is disconcerting about their belief is that they don't realize that, if they couldn't pull themselves up by their bootstraps and attain prosperity on their own, they sure as hell won't be able to retain wealth that they will steal from the prosperous, and that, in fact, that wealth will go to people who used them to attain power for themselves. A case in point: After the Russian revolution, its leaders lived like royalty, while the people (i.e., the poor, dumb suckers) who fought that revolution continued to live in squalor, disillusioned by what their struggles had wrought, and yet, all around the world, those suckers never learn, and they continue to be used by their unscrupulous leaders. It's sad, but a fact of life.  

She is a focused, no BS woman

On a morning show.

#340 - That reminds me: A few days ago, some people here remarked that Egypt produces and exports nothing worthwhile.

 That shouldn't be our concern. Our concern should be what they import from us that provides jobs and income for us.

You're right: They import a huge amount of wheat from us, pumping money into our economy which might go to somebody else if Islamic extremists decide to buy wheat elsewhere. Mubarak has been a good partner to the USA and to Israel and to Great Britain and France in many ways which the MSM is not discussing, because it will defeat the purposes of the slimy MSM to do so.

Posted by: Aussie at February 02, 2011 10:10 AM (Cb78v)

My daughter attends UQ- St. Lucia- she is home for summer break right now. We visited your delightful country- Queensland and New South Wales last spring. I am glad that we visited prior to Orca Oprah, as I have a visceral reaction to do the opposite of anything she does or recommends

--You're right: They import a huge amount of wheat from us, pumping money into our economy which might go to somebody else if Islamic extremists decide to buy wheat elsewhere.

Islamists don't buy wheat.  Either they steal it or they starve the population and wait for the idiots in the West to send them wheat, gratis - for the children - at which point the islamists steal the donated wheat and then sell it.

--Mubarak has been a good partner to the USA and to Israel and to Great Britain and France in many ways which the MSM is not discussing, because it will defeat the purposes of the slimy MSM to do so.

Posted by: Brian at February 02, 2011 11:14 AM (sYrWB)

That's right.  Mubarak carried on what Sadat started (which Egypt was very much against).  But Western fools love Sadat and paint him nearly as a saint while they now demonize Mubarak, who is pretty much the same person as Sadat was and merely extended Sadat's sort of rule.  The West, pushed by the self-hating Western left and their MFM, suffers from a fatal and stupid sort of amnesia.

Regarding Charlotte getting the DNC convention to worship Obama.

FYI - Charlotte is a big-freaking-Democrat town.  Our previous mayor was a RINO that played along with Democrats better than Republicans.

Our Mecklenburg County GOP is a joke as well.

But the Democrats play the race and wealth cards perfectly here, and manage to get re-elected easily each election even though the budgets and school system are a complete mess.  One astute blogger (MeckDeck - Jeff Taylor) calls us "Detroit on the Catawba [River]".

We do however have a beautiful U.S. White Water Center that can barely stay afloat - even with several towns subsidizing it, the new NASCAR Hall of Fame that brings in less than a third of the original estimate of people - but is a bling bling tribute to the France Family, Bobcat / Time Warner Arena which we paid for to get Bob Johnson & Michael Jordon to bring a team here that we have the priviledge of subsidizing... and put another 40mil into for the convention, a Light Rail Line that we still haven't figured out how to pay for, and tracks for a Trolley laid perfect down a street that won't ever be used or extended - a 30 million dollar set of speed bumps.

Anyway, it's a good thing the DNC is coming here.  Our local businesses need the money.  And the people here get the opportunity to picket the thing.