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The Dixie Chicks (L to R) Emily Robison, Natalie Maines and Martie Maguire arrive at the 2006 American Music Awards in Los Angeles in this November 21, 2006 file photo. The Dixie Chicks received five Grammy nominations on December 7, 2006. The 49th Grammy Awards will be held in Los Angeles February 11, 2007.

The National Enquirer: DIXIE CHICKS HATCH PLAN TO SPLIT UP!

The Dixie Chicks are getting ready to fly the coop!

The controversial country superstars have secretly decided to split up after the Grammy Awards – because Emily Robison and Martie Maguire no longer want to share the nest with outspoken Natalie Maines, say sources.

“The Chicks are tired and wrung out,” said a group insider. “They feel they’ve come to the end, and they want a break from each other to spend more time with their families.”

Flap somehow doubts that the Chicks will be breaking up for good. They have taken a hiatus before to have children and spend time with husbands. But, touring and controversy does take a toll.

The three women, who have seven children among them, are at odds over Natalie’s blunt political ramblings. And while sources say sisters Emily and Martie share many of Natalie’s anti-George W. Bush views, they feel her public rants have taken the focus off their music.

“They’ve supported many of her political beliefs, even though it’s put their lives and the lives of their families in jeopardy,” said the insider.

“They’ve received death threats, and it’s made them all nervous wrecks.”

Look for a two year hiatus with some studio work beginning in a year. But, there will NOT be another tour until AFTER the 2008 Presidential campaign.

Television host and comedian Bill Maher (L) presents the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California Bill of Rights award to singer Natalie Maines of the ‘Dixie Chicks’ at the organization’s Bill of Rights dinner in Beverly Hills, California December 11, 2006. The ‘Dixie Chicks’ were honored for their work to help preserve civil liberties and civil rights.

During the hiatus, Natalie can always get a job with Bill Maher or Michael Moore. Oh…………

Check out this video (H/T Allah):

Well, Flap supposes this COULD be the reason for the SPLIT………

But, not likely………

Stay tuned……….

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Dixie Chicks Watch: Film Documentary – “Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing” Picked Up for Worldwide Distribution

Dixie Chick Watch: Red States Disapprove With Their Feet

Dixie Chick Watch: Natalie Maines – “I Don’t See Why People Care About Patriotism.”

Dixie Chicks Watch: Tour Struggling in Red State Markets

Dixie Chicks Watch: Taking The Long Way, Debuts At #1 On Billboard Top 200

Dixie Chicks Watch: Natalie Maines – “I Don’t Feel He (President Bush) Is Owed Any Respect Whatsoever.”

The Heritage Foundation: Kofi Annan’s Legacy of Failure

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan delivered his swan song today at the Truman Presidential Library in Missouri.[1] It was a thinly veiled parting shot at U.S. foreign policy delivered by an embittered U.N. leader seething with self-righteous indignation and resentment. Annan’s Missouri speech will go down in history as one of the most blatant assaults on a U.S. administration by a serving U.N. official……

Today’s United Nations is a broken institution in fundamental need of wholesale reform. That is Annan’s legacy, and the United States and the world looks forward to new leadership at Turtle Bay—leadership that is untarnished by the taint of scandal and actually lives up to the ideals of the U.N.’s own Declaration of Human Rights. The U.N. needs a Secretary General who will seek real reform of the U.N. bureaucracy and aggressively stand up for democracy, human rights, and freedom.

Indeed……

A general view shows the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, Iran February 26, 2006. Britain and France plan to introduce on Monday a revised U.N. Security Council draft resolution imposing sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment and hope to put the measure to a vote in the next two weeks.

RIA Novosti: Iran rejects new UN resolution in advance – Larijani

Iran has rejected in advance a new UN Security Council resolution, which is currently coordinated by the Iran-6, the country’s top nuclear negotiator said Wednesday.

“The latest draft resolution of the UN Security Council is unacceptable to Iran, as it restricts Iran’s right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes,” Ali Larijani said.

Following Tehran’s refusal to halt its uranium enrichment activities or allow inspections of its program in exchange for a package of incentives, European powers drew up proposals on sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

However, objections from Russia and China, which are key economic partners of Tehran and who considered the previous draft excessively harsh, prompted the formulation of a revised version of the resolution.

Larijani said the world community has no grounds for concern regarding the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, as the country “has never used nuclear weapons.”

He said Tehran is ready to resume talks, which were suspended because “Europeans failed to meet their obligations.”

Now, you know why John Bolton resigned. The United States would have to pay Flap a good deal of money to put up with this pathetic and feckless endeavor of negotiating with Iran regarding uranium enrichment.

Isn’t anyone in the United Nations or the EU growing tired of this circular argument and stall game of Ahmadinejad and the Iranian Mullahs?

Israel has already begun their war plans. And Flap bets so has President Bush.

The nuclear “POINT OF NO RETURN” IS fast approaching. Don’t be surprised when spring 2007 arrives and the demand for Gulf oil decreases of an Israeli/American opertion to seize Iranian Gulf Oil operations and a bombing of Naatanz and Bushehr.

Stay tuned……

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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – ” Just As the Soviet Union Was Wiped Out and Today Does Not Exist, So Will the Zionist Regime Soon Be Wiped Out”

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Expands Uranium Enrichment – AGAIN

Iran Nuclear Watch: Credibility of United Nations at Risk Over Iran Nuclear Sanctions

Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad Warns P-5-Plus-1 About Sanctions

Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – Israel “On the Verge of Disappearing”

Iran Nuclear Watch: Letters to Ahmadinejad

Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad Sends ANOTHER Letter – This Time to the American People

Iran Nuclear Watch: Russia Begins Delivery of Tor-M1 Air Defense Missile Systems to Iran

Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA Waives Decision on Aid for Iran’s Arak Nuclear Reactor

Iran Nuclear Watch: Robert Mugabe – Iran, Zimbabwe “THINK ALIKE”

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Replacing Tehran Nuclear Reactor With Heavy Water Arak Reactor

The Iran Nuclear Files

The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

Washington Post (Via Hugh Hewitt): Army, Marine Corps To Ask for More Troops

The Army and Marine Corps are planning to ask incoming Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Congress to approve permanent increases in personnel, as senior officials in both services assert that the nation’s global military strategy has outstripped their resources.

In addition, the Army will press hard for “full access” to the 346,000-strong Army National Guard and the 196,000-strong Army Reserves by asking Gates to take the politically sensitive step of easing the Pentagon restrictions on the frequency and duration of involuntary call-ups for reservists, according to two senior Army officials.

The push for more ground troops comes as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have sharply decreased the readiness of Army and Marine Corps units rotating back to the United States, compromising the ability of U.S. ground forces to respond to other potential conflicts around the world.

So, enlarge the Army, the Marine Corps and National Guard. What is so difficult to understand?

It is a dangerous world and the United States is fighting a war on terror.

Will the new Democrat Congress vote for the increases?

You betcha but watch the Earmarks and Pork attached to the bill. And the bellowing from Charlie Rangel to re-institute the draft.

JibJab: Nuckin’ Futs!

This JibJab is so so but worth a look!

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