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N. Korean Ambassador to UN, Park Kil-yon, walks out after the resolution(against N. Korea) is adopted
On the morning of Oct. 15(S. Korean time), UN Security Council was convened and ambassadors of member nations declared N. Korean nuclear test as a threat to international community. As soon as they unanimously approved the resolution for sanction against N. Korea, N. Korean Ambassador to UN, Park Kil-yon, announced N. Korea’s view and walked out of the meeting 10/15/06 (UN Headquarter = Yonhap News)
(UN Headquarter = Yonhap News) Cho Bok-rae, Kim Kye-hwan = U.S. Ambassador to U.N., John Bolton, was enraged at the walk-out of N. Korean Ambassador to UN, Park Kil-yon, from the conference room, after rejecting the resolution. His angry remarks also drew fire from Russian delegation.

Ambassador Bolton was upset over Park’s behavior, and said, “It is the contemporary equivalent of Nikita Khrushchev pounding his shoe on the desk,”,and loudly demanded to consider expulsion of N. Korea from UN.

Then, Russian Ambassador to UN, Vitaly Churkin, told the Chairman of the Security Council, Japanese Ambassador, Oshima Kenjo, to ask Bolton “not to use an inappropriate metaphor even when he is upset,” a scene reminiscent of repeated clashes between U.S. and Soviet Union at UN during Cold-war days.

After the resolution was approved, N. Korean Ambassador walked out of the conference room, announcing that N. Korea “totally reject” the resolution, and any further pressure from U.S. would be regarded as a declaration of war.

Talking to reporters gathered outside the Security Council conference room, he maintained that the nuclear test is justifiable in light of U.S. nuclear threat and hostile policy, and the Security Council resolution applied double standard and lacked fairness. He condemned the resolution as ‘gangster-like act.’

Japanese Ambassador said he was surprised at the Park’s rejection of the resolution, but it was not unexpected, and expressed his displeasure, saying, “N. Korea showed the same reactions when a resolution (against N. Korea) was adopted after July missile launches.”

Wild Thing’s comment….
Gotta Love Mr.Bolton! giggle He is great!! I watched this on TV and Bolton called it like he saw it, and was right on target. Bolton said, “I’m addressing the empty chair there” and then went into the Krushchev shoe-banging analogy. He was right to call out the North Koreans for their boorish behavior.

Islam and America
their website
The billboard is new and is along the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway This billboard faces west. Directly facing lower Manhattan towards the WTC. It’s located across the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway from the Home Depot near the Gowanus Canal.
Project over View
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Wild Thing’s comment…….
Disgusted, angry, shocked, those are just some of the things I am feeling from finding this out. Our country does not close the borders (making sure people come in legally like my parents did long ago), our country is not outraged at schools having children wear burka’s, study the Quran etc. and get extra credits for doing such things making it where a child feels pressure if they say NO!
Mosques on our land where known terrorists use them to discuss their hate for America and plan their attacks. Saudi schools across our land where more hate America is taught.
Years ago Ashcroft telling us how step-by-step terrorists would bring parts of bombs here to our land and their concern of future attacks once all their plan would be completed. Then being told lately that all is in place it is just a matter of not how but when they will attack again.
Muslims and their lies of being picked on and complaining to CAIR with their lies just to seek special treatment. Of course the only people falling for this BS are the left and their touchy feely can’t we all get along Kool-Aid brains.
TV shows (drama’s especially) catering to the message of Islam, CAIR, and the left of their hate for America and against profiling.
Well they can try all they want, they can put up their billboards across this land and try mind you to shove it down our throats. But they will never turn MY America into a Muslim Islam land. No way in hell.
Islam is not only their so called religion it is their country no matter where they live and they prove it day in and day out with this kind of crap like this billboard. They prove they have NO intention of becoming American’s in their hearts. Their loyalties are to Islam and nothing else.
For me, God help a Muslim when I meet another one in person. They will know where I stand and how far away I will allow them to stand in my presence. They may be allowed in this country by my government but I most certainly do not have to allow them in my life, in my air space and I don’t care if that offends anyone.

* Point Five
* Stuck on Stupid
* Stop the ACLU

Baghdad, Iraq (Oct. 13, 2006) – Yeoman 3rd Class Seung M. Yoo, U.S. ambassador to Iraq the Honorable Zalmay Khalilzad, Capt. Bruce W. Mixer and Rear Adm. Scott Van Buskirk cut a cake during a ceremony to celebrate the Navy’s 231st birthday. The birthday ceremony was held at the Presidential Palace in the International Zone in Baghdad. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Dennis J. Herring (RELEASED)

Thank you US Navy for all you do!

razOr thank you for sending the photo of the celebration with the marvelous cake. I really appreciate it.

God bless our US Army!!!!

* Billy at Billy O’Blog …..thank you Billy for sending this to me.

A Soldier from the 549th Military Police Company takes a rest with his sniffer dog during Operation Medusa in Mosul, Iraq.

Staff Sgt. Michael Bailey-McGuire, 1st Platoon, A Company, 3rd Brigade Support Troop Battalion, 25th Infantry Division combat engineers wears the ‘IED Hunter’ tab, along with two X marks to display the number of IEDs he has found. Many of the Soldiers in the platoon wear the tab.

KIRKUK, Iraq — Wiping the remaining traces of sleep from their eyes, the last few combat engineers emerge from their tents early Saturday morning and begin the walk to their vehicles. Still yawning, they start putting on their equipment.
For the 1st Platoon, A Company, 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 25th Infantry Division combat engineers this was their second route reconnaissance in less than 12 hours. Not taking anything for granted, they readied themselves, knowing their mission was to find improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and clear the routes for their fellow Soldiers to use later.
After checking their vehicles and equipment, the engineers receive their patrol brief. Ten minutes later they mount up, listening to “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns ‘n’ Roses, readying themselves for the days work.
“I actually get more scared during hoaxes,” said Pfc. Chris Bateman, vehicle driver. “Just every little crack in the road can get your nerves going. When you do actually find a possible IED, you just get that hyped-up feeling.”
Staff Sgt. Michael Bailey-McGuire, team leader, echoed Bateman’s apprehension, “I couldn’t even tell you what is going through my mind when I find an IED. You just do what you have to.”
“STOP! STOP! STOP!,” blares over the radio handset. Someone thinks he has found an IED. The convoy waits several tension-filled minutes. Over the radio, someone announces it was just a false alarm.
“Just about everyone in the platoon wears a patch saying ‘IED Hunters,’” said Bailey-McGuire, a native of Mcloud, Okla. “So far I have found two, so I wear these X marks on my gear. My gunner found the first one in the entire battalion.”
Whether fortunate or unfortunate, the day is a boring one for the combat engineers. The guarded Soldiers discovered the one false alarm, but otherwise found only burning oil fields while driving down the roads of Kirkuk.
“I like (my job),” said Bateman, a native of North Salt Lake City, Utah. “People ask me all the time how I do my job. I don’t mind it. I do know that I couldn’t sit behind a desk. I would get stir crazy. Doing this job, I am going out of the wire every single day and it is making the deployment go that much faster.”
After several hours the platoon turns around, headed back home.
Since these Soldiers began scanning the roads of Kirkuk two months ago, they have found 19 IEDs.
“It comes and goes,” said Bailey-McGuire. “There will be a stretch of days that we don’t find a single IED and then there will be stretches when we find them every day. The most we have found in one mission is six.”
The combat engineers jump down from their vehicles. It’s early afternoon and their mission is over. For now, the only thing on their mind is lunch and sleep. Its time to recharge their batteries, because tomorrow they know they’ll be back out clearing more roads.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — For the first time, the International Committee of the Red Cross met this week with 14 suspected al Qaeda operatives held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including the reputed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, said sources with direct knowledge of the visit.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of planning the 2001 attacks and former No. 3 leader of al Qaeda, and Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged would-be September 11 hijacker, were among the 14 prisoners to meet with Red Cross officials.
The detainees were transferred to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay from secret CIA prisons around the world. President Bush acknowledged the use of CIA prisons outside U.S. borders for the first time September 6.
Bush said then that the 14 detainees would be transferred to Guantanamo and a military tribunal would hear their cases.
International Committee of the Red Cross members had planned to meet with each of the suspects privately and relay messages to their families, Red Cross spokesman Simon Schorno said last month. The military censors all messages to and from the prisoners.
The visit is a way for detainees to share concerns about their detentions and conditions and any claims of ill treatment, Schorno said.
The International Committee of the Red Cross will use the visits to become better informed about Guantanamo’s conditions and will share that information with authorities if necessary, he added.
Human rights groups and other critics repeatedly have called for the United States to close the prison at Guantanamo, alleging such violations as torture and religious discrimination.
In addition, a report last month by Amnesty International alleged that Pakistan abducted hundreds of people for the purpose of fetching “rewards” and transferring them to Guantanamo Bay or detention centers elsewhere. (Full story)
On Thursday, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett called detentions of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo “unacceptable” and “ineffective” as she released Britain’s annual report on human rights around the world, according to The Associated Press. (Full story)
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Defense said Thursday it transferred 16 detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan and one detainee to Morocco. The transfers were recommended after several review processes, the agency said.
About 335 detainees have been transferred from Guantanamo into the custody of other countries, leaving some 440 prisoners in Cuba.
About 110 detainees who are eligible for transfer or release remain at Guantanamo, according to defense officials.

Wild Thing’s comment……
A-hem…. “suspects” ??????…..what???? “relay messages to their families“…….. shaking my head, eyes rolling, blood boiling here.
The International Red Cross is just another anti-US, terrorist loving organization.
The first to show up on 9-11 was the Salvation Army NOT the Red Cross. The first to show has always been the Salvation Army!! Go jump in the lake International Red Cross.

Nancy Pelosi: ‘If We’re in Charge’ Bush Has to Listen
Nancy Pelosi stands to make life much tougher for President Bush if the Nov. 7 elections net her a powerful job that puts her just two steps behind him.
The 66-year-old California liberal stands to become the first woman to lead the House of Representatives if she and fellow Democrats win control of the chamber from Bush’s Republicans.
She vows to ensure Congress acts as an equal to the most powerful man in the world.

Often ignored or even mocked by Bush during his six years as president, Pelosi, now the House Democratic minority leader, told Reuters in an interview: “If we are in charge, he’ll have to listen.”

As speaker of the House, the chamber’s top job, Pelosi would be second in succession to the presidency after the vice president under U.S. law. She is a shoo-in for the job if Democrats prevail.

“The only way to deal with Bush is as a co-equal branch of government,” she said. “The Republican Congress has been a rubber stamp for his failed policies” on such basics as fiscal and national security.

Already the only woman ever to lead a political party in Congress, Pelosi would become the first woman speaker in the chamber’s 217 years. She is thrilled at the prospect.

Bush took a swipe at Pelosi at a White House news conference. He quoted her as saying, “I love tax cuts” while nonetheless voting against many of them.

Wild Thing’s comment……
If the ‘Rats win control, EVERY day will seem like Friday the 13th. Can you imagine what kind of mother she was? NO WIRE HANGERS…EVER!!!
Pelosi is in full meltdown mode. She just keeps mouthing off, one statement after the other. Stupidity doesn’t understand that it condemns itself every time it opens its mouth.

An AP investigation shows that Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid
made a million dollar profit on land he had sold three years earlier.
They had this video without the commercial at YouTube. But YouTube has pulled it.
So HERE is the actual video at AP where it orginiated from. I apologize for having to wait for the commercial to end. But once it is done the video on Harry Reid begins.
Reid’s avoidance of disclosure hid two aspects of his business relationships. The first was his association with Jay Brown, who has a history of being involved in scandal. The NY Times describes him as “a prominent Las Vegas lawyer,” but they never get around to mentioning his involvement in a federal bribery case in Las Vegas. Nor do they mention Brown’s work as a lobbyist, as the AP did, nor do they follow up on the AP’s report of connections between Brown and organized crime.
The other part Reid wanted to keep secret was the financial ties between himself and Harvey Whittemore. The AP story reported that Reid bought the parcel from “a developer who was benefiting from a government land swap that Reid supported,” a perfect description of Whittemore in 1998 when Reid purchased the land. For the next seven years, Reid would work to ease Whittemore’s difficulties in developing the Coyote Springs project by forcing the government to swap its right-of-way for less valuable land owned by Whittemore; he tried to get the government to literally give away more of its land to Whittemore, although he would not succeed; and in the end, he pressed federal regulators to lift a endangered-species restriction on Whittemore’s Coyote Springs real estate. All of this helped give Whittemore an opportunity to make tens of millions on residential and commercial development in the former test range site.
Disclosures now are pointless. The Ethics panel needs to order a full investigation not just into the $700,000 profit, but all of Reid’s business partners and any legislation or intervention with federal regulators Reid pushed on their behalf.
October 12, 2006
Reid Offers To Disclose His Land Deal … Five Years Late
Harry Reid, stung by the AP’s exposure of his complicated land deals with a lobbyist he helped make rich through his personal interventions in Congress, has told the Senate Ethics Committee that he will file amended disclosure statements that would reveal his business relationships for the first time. Reid claims the amendment would be “technical”:
The Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, said his office contacted the Senate ethics committee on Wednesday and offered to correct his financial disclosure statements if they misrepresented his ties to a land deal in his home state in which his family made a profit of about $700,000.
In a statement, Mr. Reid did not acknowledge errors in the disclosure forms but said he was ready to make a “technical correction” if the ethics committee determined that adjustments were needed.
Reid’s son is on the Zoning Board

Wild Thing’s comment…….
When it comes to Harry Reid we just have to follow the dots. He has been corrupt for a long time. When Reid hangs up on the AP reporter it is hilarious that he did this. Hahahaha
He behaves like a spoiled brat that has to have his way or else. He has spent so much time hating Bush and bashing Bush he should have made sure his act is clean before pointing fingers.
Oh but wait, he is a typical DemocRAT!

North Korea might now have The Bomb, but it doesn’t have much electricity
As the world grapples with how to rein in the “axis of evil” state which this week conducted a nuclear test, this spectacular satellite photo unveiled yesterday by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld shows in stark detail the haves and have-nots of the Korean peninsula.
The regime in the north is so short of electricity that the whole country is switched off at 9 p.m. – apart from the capital of Pyongyang where dictator Kim Jong-il and his cohorts live in relative luxury. But even there, lighting is drastically reduced.
The result, as shown in this picture taken one night earlier this week, is a startling contrast between the blacked-out north and the south, which is ablaze with light, particularly around major cities and the capital, Seoul, in the north-west of the country.
Mr Rumsfeld showed the picture to illustrate how backward the northern regime really is – and how oppressed its people are. Without electricity there can be none of the appliances that make life easy and that we take for granted, he said.

“Except for my wife and family, that is my favourite photo,” said Mr Rumsfeld.

“It says it all. There’s the south, the same people as the north, the same resources north and south, and the big difference is in the south it’s a free political system and a free economic system.”

“The people in the north are starving, their growth is stunted. It’s a shame, a tragedy.”

An aide added: “This oppressive regime is too busy trying to make war to make life comfortable for its people.”

Wild Thing’s comment……..
Dictatorship for Dummies
#1 Keep the people poor and starving
#2 See rule #1

U.S. Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shakes hands with a retired Marine during the Columbus Day Parade along Fifth Avenue in New York City, N.Y., Oct. 9, 2006. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen

Bagpipers and band members prepared for hours at the annual Columbus Day Parade. At least 500,000 people filed out to watch 35,000 marchers along 5th Avenue.

Wild Thing’s comment……
I love seeing things like this happen. A big thank you to the Retired Marine Veteran and to General Peter Pace. And I have always loved bagpipes. I hope America never stop having these parades and never stops thanking our Veterans and our troops today.