Midnight Blue Says

In a news conference, the President of Iran dismissed the threat of  UN sanctions made by U.S. Secretary of State Bill Hilary Clinton.

“We don’t take her comments seriously,” Ahmadinejad told a televised news conference.

Why should Iran treat Hilary with any serious consideration? Her call for UN sanctions is toothless threat to Iran. As recently as 2009,  she pushed for expansion of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and passage of the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty. These actions were a signal to nuclear seeking nations, like Iran, to consider her words lightly – and so they have.

My dear blogging buddy, Robert Werner, has the good fortune of being a volunteer for the Vancouver Olympic Games. He has been documenting his experiences leading up to this night on his blog. You can check out his amazing photos, videos and stories of the Vancouver Games at pelausa.blogspot.com

Donate HERE – Haiti Relief and Development fund.

Make your donation count – please avoid donating to UN backed charities!

The US leads the way in providing aid on the ground in Haiti – the UN is nowhere to be found.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of U.S. troops and an aircraft carrier have arrived at the Haiti relief effort, and the commander on the ground said Friday that food, water, medicine and other emergency relief supplies are being rushed to victims.

Thousands more troops and sailors were en route.

“We have much more support on the way,” Army Lt. Gen. Ken Keen said. “Our priority is getting relief out to the needy people, to mitigate the suffering that the Haitian people are experiencing right now.”

Delayed for hours along with other flights circling over the severely congested Port au Prince airport, a second plane carrying soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division finally landed at the airport in the middle of the night — bringing the infantry unit’s total there to 115, Maj. Kristian Sorensen, a spokesman at Fort Bragg, said Friday.

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson also arrived off Haiti’s shores overnight carrying 19 helicopters, and it started flights off its deck in the morning, officials said.

The carrier also has water-purifying equipment and three surgical operating rooms and can do medical evacuations as well as ferry supplies and people to and from land.

The arrivals added to more than 300 military personnel who had gotten there as of Thursday and amounted to the first major influx of military from the United States, which has taken the lead in world efforts to assist the devastated country.

Yet again the US is a light in the darkness, yet how quick we are labeled as a ‘great satan’.

The Wall came tumbling down.

Germany Wall Anniversary (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)

Deutche Welle’s Marc Koch reflects on that day:

It is a day of evocative pictures and touching accounts, and of pathos and platitudes as well. Yet more than anything, November 9th, 1989, was the most auspicious day in modern German and European history.

Not only did it symbolize the end of an ailing and unjust system, and the reunification of a country after 40 years of division, it was also the day on which everyone could experience the long-evoked values of unity, justice and freedom. A moment of triumph in which society could celebrate itself.

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This November 9, 1989, which came so unexpectedly, proves still now that even the best thought-out repressionist regime can collapse – and that goes for Cuba, Iran and North Korea. As such, it is not only a fortunate day for Germany. To finally declare it a national German holiday would not only be of political importance, but would also send the right historical signal.

European leaders gathered at Pariser Platz to celebrate this milestone, Obama was conspicuously absent. He sent a video message instead. It’s kind of like when he was a Senator for about two minutes and voted ‘present’ on legislation.

is still alive. My thoughts and prayers are with the families of his victims. LaShawn Barber writes what we are all thinking at this time:

The obvious question is why didn’t he just kill himself if he was so distraught? Why kill and wound so many others? What an idiot. Rest in peace? I doubt it.

Pamela Gellar is all over this story: American Woman Took Down Jihadi

Muslim garbed Nidal Malik Hasan guns down Americans

William Jacobson is interested in how Paul Krugman will blame this murderous rampage on rightwing religious fundamentalism.

It seems only British journalists are still practicing the art of journalism – The London Telegraph has revealed a credible link between Nidal and the 9/11 terrorists. Asra Nomani of The Daily Beasts finds that Nidal is a” typical fundamentalist muslim“.

As a practicing psychiatrist counseling soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan who openly expressed his fundamentalist belief in jihad; I would request a review of the medical charts of the 96 soldiers who have committed suicide this year to see if this jihadi psychiatrist had a role in their care.

How Could You Not Help The Adorable Mug..and His Dog Too!

My friend Jean emailed this request to me and I am asking for your help in bringing Sage safely home. Please help Sage by donating funds to bring her home.

I’d like to introduce you to Sage and Lcpl Werner, their photo is attached to this email:

Lance Corporal Alex Werner lives in Milford, PA. He is the 2nd of four children. He joined the Marine Corps right out of high school, and chose to be a combat engineer since he’d always enjoyed construction, as well as destruction – ie bombs and blowing things up with them. One night while on a mission with his platoon in Iraq, Lcpl Werner’s vehicle rounded a corner and a dog ran out in front of them. The dog was killed, leaving behind a puppy who was on the side of the road. Lcpl Werner heard her crying and caught her (not an easy task he says). From that moment on, she has been with Lcpl Werner and the rest of the Marines of his platoon, being loved on by them and, according to Major Kleber’s telling, carried everywhere by them. The men have named the dog Sage. She is being showered with love and affection and toys that have been sent in care packages.

SPCA International has agreed to assist with transporting Sage back to the US from Iraq. Due to operational movements, it may be necessary to bring her home very soon. The cost of bring a dog from Iraq is over $7,000. SPCA International covers the majority of the costs, but requires the service member to provide at least $1,000 towards the cost of his own pup’s transport.

I am asking that everyone consider giving a gift to SPCA International to help get Sage home where she will live with Lcpl Werner upon his return from Iraq. If everyone gives just $10.00-$25.00 each, we can easily raise the $1,000 required to get Sage home and help take that burden off of Lcpl Werner.

Donations can be made multiple ways. Checks can be sent to SPCA International

Operation Baghdad Pups Program

P.O. Box 1230

Washington, DC  20013

The memo line should read “Operation Baghdad Pups – Sage”

Credit card donations can also be made on the website SPCAI

If you would prefer to purchase items that will be used to bring Sage home, such as her crate, please get in touch with me and I will get you a list of items that need to be purchased for her.

Via WSJ

“In a day packed with meetings, we met only one person in Honduras who opposed Mr. Zelaya’s ouster, who wishes his return, and who mystifyingly rejects the legitimacy of the November elections: U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens.”

Color me unsurprised. It is good to know that Hondurans will decide their next step on November 29th and not the U.S.

Well, they are giving it out to anyone these days…

Mark Steyn on Nobel Tops SNL for Obama Joke

Barack Obama will have history’s most crowded trophy room, but his presidency is shaping up as a tragedy – for America and the world.

Who knew the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Peace Prizes for an American Presidential Inauguration? Then again they did hand out the Nobel Peace prize to Yassir Arafat and Al Gore.

This Ain’t Hell reminds of past President’s who have been awarded this prize:

What could make this even more stupid? Nominations for the prize closed in February. Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the prize because he brokered peace between Russia and Japan. Woodrow Wilson was awarded the prize because he established the League of Nations. Barack Obama wins because he had an Inauguration.

Peace prize or no -  still a one term President.

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Walter Williams penned an insightful essay on the bloody history of ’social justice’.  This topic has been on my radar since the English faculty at St. Joe’s University attempted to trump up racial tensions among students in the name of social justice.

The origins of the unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism did not begin in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Those horrors were simply the end result of long evolution of ideas leading to consolidation of power in central government in the quest for “social justice.” It was decent but misguided earlier generations of Germans, like many of today’s Americans, who would have cringed at the thought of genocide, who built the Trojan horse for Hitler to take over.

You want a good look at what social justice brings to humanity, check out: The Gulag archipelago, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Not sure this book is part of the curriculum at St. Joe’s University.

College students schooled in the liberal theology of our public education system stand and cheer the exploits of Mao, Castro, Chavez, and Stalin while voting for a president who had a domestic terrorist ghost write his autobiography.

Yep, Bill Ayers, police bomber and champion of social justice that requires the holocaust of millions of Americans who disagree with his view of ’social justice’.

Oh yeah, chains you can believe in.