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Iran Watch: Iran Bans The Economist Over “Persian” Gulf Map
ASSociated Press: Iran Bans the Economist Over Gulf MapIran has banned The Economist magazine for describing the Persian Gulf as merely “the Gulf” in a map published in the latest edition, state television reported Wednesday.
It is the second time in two years that Iran has banned such an international publication for failing to use the term “Persian Gulf” in a map. In 2004, it banned the National Geographic atlas when a new edition appeared with the term “Arabian Gulf” in parentheses beside the more commonly used Persian Gulf.
Tehran believes in aggressively defending the use of the historical term Persian Gulf. It regards the name Arabian Gulf, used by some, as a name dreamed up by Arab nationalists.
While Iran dominates the eastern side of the waterway, the western shores are held by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries.
State television reported late Wednesday that the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance had banned the importation and distribution of current and future editions of The Economist. The ban would only be lifted when the journal used “Persian Gulf,” the ministry was quoted as saying.
In London, where The Economist is published, the magazine said it would stand its ground.
“We’ve used ‘the Gulf’ for a long time, and we have no intention of changing it at the moment,” a spokeswoman for The Economist said, speaking on condition of anonymity in keeping with the magazine’s policy.
And the United States is going to negotiate nuclear issues with this closed minded moronic society?
I would hate to see what they would ban if they were angry……
Technorati Tags: TheEconomist, Iran, Morons
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.”
Persian sign of ‘Danish pastries’ right, and ‘Roses of Prophet Mohammad’ are seen in a bakers in Tehran Thursday Feb. 16, 2006. Iran is taking the fight against cartoons considered blasphamous by Muslims to a new ground: Renaming ‘Danish pastries’ into ‘Roses of Prophet Mohammad’ in the country of cake lovers.
ASSociated Press: Iran Renames Danish Pastries
Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.”
Bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for Danish pastries Thursday after the confectioners’ union ordered the name change in retaliation for caricatures of the Muslim prophet published in a Danish newspaper.
“Given the insults by Danish newspapers against the prophet, as of now the name of Danish pastries will give way to ‘Rose of Muhammad’ pastries,” the union said in its order.
“This is a punishment for those who started misusing freedom of expression to insult the sanctities of Islam,” said Ahmad Mahmoudi, a cake shop owner in northern Tehran.
Iranian NEWSPEAK
Michelle Malkin has more on the pastry wars.Previous:
Muhammad Caricature Watch: For the MORONS Who Defaced My Site
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Abu Ghraib Image Hypocrisy FLAP
Muhammad Caricature Watch: The FLAP Over Publication of Muhammad Caricatures on the Internet
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands of Protesters Rampage in 2 Pakistani Cities
Cox & Forkum on the Muhammad Caricatures: Overboard
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistan Police Gas Students Protesting CaricaturesMuhammad Caricature Watch: Condolezza Rice – Muslim Outrage Could “Spin Out of Controlâ€
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Denmark Withdraws Diplomats from Iran and Indonesia
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Thousands Protest Against Prophet Drawings
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Muslim Leaders Urge Calm
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Are Extemists Fanning Caricature Outrage?Muhammad Caricature Watch: Egypt and the Muhammad Caricatures
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking Anger – The Response
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Condoleezza Rice – Iran and Syria Stoking AngerCox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude
Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, IranMuhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed
Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy
Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World
Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut AblazeMuhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings IntensifyMuhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN
Day by Day by Chris Muir on Muhammad Caricatures
Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper
Technorati Tags: Jyllands-Posten, ProphetMuhammad, Islam, Muhammadcaricatures
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: For the MORONS Who Defaced My Site
Thanks to California Conservative, a proud member of the Bear Flag League for making Flap’s morning brighter with this H/T.
From last night:
The FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog has been HACKED and Jumbled………
*****Scroll Down for UPDATES *****
Will be back with regular programming soon!
Until then….my ten most recent posts including Muhammad Caricatures seems to be intact.
My last post on Abu Ghraib – Muhammad Caricatures Hypocristy may have been lost.
More later….
Flap
Update #1
Flap has been in touch with his hosting company and they are working on a restore. the attack occurred at 7:10 PM and jumbled posts from the last four days.
Update #2 – February 15 – 6:30 AM PSTHosting Matters and Flap are working on a restore. Three days of posts were erased from the blog but Flap has them and will be back soon.
Stay tuned……..
Everything seems to be back to NORMAL………
Technorati Tags: Jyllands-Posten,, ProphetMuhammad,, Islam,, Muhammadcaricatures
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United States Military Chiefs Outraged Over Tom Toles Cartoon
Tom Toles in the Washington Post, January 29, 2006
AFP: US military chiefs denounce Washington Post cartoon
US military chiefs expressed outrage over a “reprehensible” Washington Post cartoon which used a soldier who has lost his arms and legs in battle to portray the state of US military readiness.
“We’re all very upset about that,” General Peter Schoomaker, the army chief of staff told reporters.
Schoomaker and the other military chiefs took the unusual step of signing a a joint letter to the Washington Post blasting the cartoon by Tom Toles, the newspaper’s editorial cartoonist.
“Using the likeness of a service member who has lost his arms and legs in war as the central theme of a cartoon was beyond tasteless,” the letter said, which the Post published Thursday.
It was signed by General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the vice chairman and the heads of the army, navy, air force and marine corps.
Toles is just a MORON.
Tole’s response is in Howard Kurtz’s column:
In an interview, Toles called the letter “an understandable response” but said he did not regret what he drew. In thinking about Rumsfeld’s remarks, he said, “what came soon to mind was the catastrophic level of injuries the Army and members of the armed services have sustained . . . I thought my portrayal of it was a fair depiction of the reality of the situation.
“I certainly never intended it to be in any way a personal attack on, or a derogatory comment on, the service or sacrifice of American soldiers.”
As for the Joint Chiefs’ letter, he said: “I think it’s a little bit unfair in their reading of the cartoon to imply that is what it’s about.”
So, it is all a misread or a misunderstanding?
Toles is still a MORON…….
Technorati Tags: TomToles, WashingtonPost, HowardKurtz, DonaldRumsfeld, PeterPace
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George Galloway Watch: Wins Court Case Loses Big Brother Election
Maverick British politician George Galloway is shown on a television screen as he is evicted from the reality television show ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ in London January 25, 2006. Whilst inside the house, Galloway won a long-running libel battle on Wednesday night against a newspaper that had accused him of being ‘in the pay’ of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.
George Galloway, MP, Saddam Hussein apologist and scumbag extraordinaire, wins one and loses one today.
But, at the end of the day he continues as a Scummy MORON.
Michelle Malkin has photos, links and video of the MORON.
Maverick British politician George Galloway reacts as he is evicted from the reality television show ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ in London.
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George Galloway Watch: The Red LeotardGeorge Galloway Watch: Maverick or FOOL?
George Galloway Watch: Hitchens Calls Galloway’s BLUFF
George Galloway Watch: “I am Ready to Fly to the US Todayâ€
George Galloway Watch: May Face Criminal Charges for Givng False Testimony Under Oath to U.S. Senate
Technorati Tags: GeorgeGalloway, BigBrother, Moron, Scum
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George Galloway Watch: The Red Leotard
Evening Standard: George Sinks to New Low
First he shocked TV viewers and his colleagues by pretending to be a cat and lapping milk from Rula Lenska’s hand.
Now George Galloway is set to attract further derision after performing a dance routine on Celebrity Big Brother – in a tight-fitting, red leotard.
The Respect MP, already under fire for taking part in the show instead of representing his constituents, ad-libbed a dance routine for his latest stunt.
Is scummy MORON too kind of a word?
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George Galloway Watch: Maverick or FOOL?
George Galloway Watch: Hitchens Calls Galloway’s BLUFF
George Galloway Watch: “I am Ready to Fly to the US Todayâ€
George Galloway Watch: May Face Criminal Charges for Givng False Testimony Under Oath to U.S. Senate
Technorati Tags: GeorgeGalloway, BigBrother, Moron, Scum
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Wendy’s Chili Scheme Watch: Couple Sentenced to Prison
A hot bowl is chili is shown Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006 at the same Wendy’s restaurant in San Jose, Calif., where Anna Ayala and her husband, Jaime Plascencia, cooked up a scheme last March to plant a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy’s chili to extort money from the fast food chain. Both were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on Wednesday.
New York Times: Couple Sentenced to Prison for Wendy’s Chili Scheme
A state court judge sentenced a Las Vegas couple who admitted to planting a severed human finger in a bowl of Wendy’s chili to lengthy prison terms Wednesday.
The couple, Anna Ayala and Jaime Placencia, pleaded guilty in September to planting the finger as part of an extortion scheme. Their story received heavy news coverage and briefly threatened a public relations nightmare for the fast food chain.
Ms. Ayala and Mr. Placencia apologized Wednesday in state court in San Jose. Mr. Placencia was sentenced to 12 years and 4 months, said his lawyer, Charles Kramer, and Ms. Ayala was sentenced to 9 years.
The judge, Edward J. Davila, also ordered the couple to pay about $21 million in restitution to Wendy’s.
The finger:
Police in San Jose, Calif., were investigating the possibility that Sandy Allman’s fingertip, above, which a leopard bit off in February, matched the finger that a Las Vegas woman says she found last month in her bowl of Wendy’s chili, below.
The criminals:
Anna Ayala
Anna Ayala, left, and her husband, Jaime Plascencia, right, exchange words after they were sentenced in a Santa Clara County Superior Court in a San Jose, Calif., courtroom, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2006. Ayala and Plascencia, who cooked up a scheme last March to plant a severed finger in a bowl of Wendy’s chili to extort money from the fast food chain were sentenced to Wednesday. Ayala, 40, was sentenced to nine years and Plascencia was sentenced to more than 12 years. In center is an unidentified interpreter.
At the hearing Wednesday, The Associated Press reported, several Wendy’s employees testified, including the man who made the chili.
“I felt so bad for the fear of what people would think of me,” The A.P. quoted the chili maker, Hector Pineda, as saying. “We are the ones that have suffered.”
Now, it is time for these two MORONS to pay their debt back to society…….
David Boyd, the prosecutor on the case, said it was ironic that the publicity Ms. Ayala had courted to cover her claim resulted in a stiffer penalty because the it increased harm to Wendy’s business.
“She went on ‘Good Morning America’ with her attorney to say how horrible it was,” Mr. Boyd said. Her statement “actually had substantial impact on Wendy’s sales.” The authorities suspected a hoax early on. A test by the Santa Clara County coroner’s office concluded that the finger “was not consistent with an object that had been cooked in chili at 170 degrees for three hours,” as is the Wendy’s policy.
And police officers also were never able to verify contentions by Ms. Ayala and two relatives that she vomited after spitting out the detached finger. The officers found no vomit at the scene, the affidavit said.
Case closed.
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Guilty Pleas in Wendy’s Finger in Chili CaseWhat Wendy’s Learned in Finger Flap
Police Say They Know Source of Finger Found in Chili
Woman in Wendy’s finger case eager to face charges
Line at San Jose Wendy’s is Now Out the Door
San Jose Wendy’s Fans Not Knuckling Under to Finger Fiasco
Police Finger Woman and Say Wendy’s Finger a HOAX
Wendy’s Finger Finder Pinched
Technorati Tags: Wendy’s, Wendy’sChili, AnnaAyala, JaimePlacencia, Morons
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George Galloway Watch: Maverick or FOOL?
In this image made available in London by Channel 4 television, Thursday Jan. 12, 2006, independent British Member of Parliament George Galloway imitates a cat, with the aid of actress Rula Lenska, on the reality television show ‘Celebrity Big Brother’, at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, England. Politicians from other parties have called for Galloway, 51, who founded the Respect Party after being expelled from the Labour Party for opposing the Iraq war, to be censured for his appearance on the show.
Media Guardian: From firebrand to pussycat: Galloway’s TV transformation
Respect MP’s stunt draws jeers from opponents and alarms supportersHe purred and mewed, his greying whiskers giving his face the appearance of a Cheshire cat. Next, George Galloway, the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, and scourge of Capitol Hill, got on all fours and pretended to lick milk from the cupped hands of the once-famous television actor Rula Lenska. She rubbed the “cream” from his “whiskers” and stroked his head and behind his ears.
When he steps out into the real world, Mr Galloway may regret his decision to accept the producer’s challenge to mimic a pet on live television last night. He may feel his flirtation with a reality TV youth audience was not worth the loss of credibility that many of his critics claimed yesterday was an inevitable consequence.
The firebrand parliamentarian earned the grudging respect of even his political enemies through his performance before the US Congress last year. But yesterday viewers only saw rolling footage of the cat performance. Commentators called it excruciating and his own supporters said it was an indignity.
Galloway was proven a CORRUPT MORON when he testified before Congress last year.
And now is just reprising his performance as a MORON.
Flap hopes they censure him……but big deal.
Galloway is just MORONIC CORRUPT SCUM.
The Video of this MORON is here.
Michelle Malkin wonders how long before Walter Cronkite ends up on celebrity big brother with Galloway.
Left-wing firebrand George Galloway, seen here, will get to stay in the “Big Brother” house after prime-time viewers voted to eject a buxom blonde glamour model from the reality TV show instead.
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George Galloway Watch: Hitchens Calls Galloway’s BLUFF
George Galloway Watch: “I am Ready to Fly to the US Todayâ€
George Galloway Watch: May Face Criminal Charges for Givng False Testimony Under Oath to U.S. Senate
Technorati Tags: GeorgeGalloway, BigBrother, Moron, Scum
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NSA Surveillance Watch: Specter Skeptical of Domestic Spy Program
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Arlen Specter (R-PA) during the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Capitol Hill, January 11, 2006.
ASSociated Press: Specter Skeptical of Domestic Spy Program
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee expressed skepticism Sunday over President Bush’s domestic eavesdropping program, joining a chorus of Republicans and Democrats who are questioning its legal justification.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who will hold hearings next month on the decision to allow the National Security Agency program without court approval, said he has told Bush administration officials that he believes they are on shaky legal ground.
Bush has pointed to a congressional resolution passed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that authorized him to use force in the fight against terrorism as allowing him to order the program. The program authorized eavesdropping of international phone calls and e- mails of people deemed a terror risk.
“I thought they were wrong,” Specter said on ABC’s “This Week.” “There still may be different collateral powers under wartime situations. That is a knotty question.”
First, Senator who the FRACK cares what you think. The President has greater responsibilities to protect the United States from Al Qaeda and he has done a good job. Wouldn’t you say that has been the case? Damn, we have to ask the Senate Judiciary Committee to be protected from terrorists?
Second, Senator, if you have a REAL concern file a lawsuit and litigate the issue. Flap doesn’t think you will win – nor do you.
A number of members of Specter’s committee, including GOP Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, have expressed doubt about the administration’s legal basis. The hearings, planned for early February, will feature Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Specter, speaking in general terms, noted that impeachment and criminal prosecution are possibilities in the event a president acted unconstitutionally.
But Specter added: “I don’t see any talk about impeachment here. I don’t think anyone doubts the president is making a good-faith effort. He’s acting in a way that he feels he must.”
Right, Senator let’s impeach the President.
Let’s do it now…….Good Grief but you are a MORON.
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NSA Surveillance Leak Case Watch: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to Testify
NSA Surveillance Watch: AP Poll- Most Say U.S. Needs Warrant to Snoop? – RECYCLEDNSA Surveillance Leak Case Watch: Vice President Cheney Strongly Defends Eavesdropping Operation
Cox & Forkum: One Man’s Whistleblower
Global War on Terror Watch: Why the NSA Monitors Communications of Al-Qaida
NSA Surveillance Leak Case Watch: President Bush Defends NSA SurveillanceNSA Leak Case Watch: New York Times’ Reporter James Risen
NSA Leak Case Watch: Justice Deptartment Probing Domestic Spying LeakNSA Surveillance Watch: President Had Legal Authority to OK Taps
NSA Surveillance Watch: Calls for Congressional Hearings
Technorati Tags: NationalSecurityAgency, NSA, AssociatedPress, NSASurveillance, NSALeakCase, NewYorkTimes, RasmussenPoll, ArlenSpecter
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Iraq War Watch: Lt SMASH Asks Rep. Bob Filner – Success or Failure?
Lt. Smash asks Representative Bob Filner a question. Photo Courtesy of Da Goddess.
Michelle Malkin: WHAT ARE YOU FOR: SUCCESS OR FAILURE?
Another vet rises up…
Milblogger Smash confronted anti-war Democrat Rep. Bob Filner in California at one of the many “Out of Iraq” town hall meetings that took place this weekend.
Read about the exchange here.
Audio here.
Bear Flag League Member, The Indepundit, asks the question:
Are you committed to the success of our military in Iraq, or are you resigned to failure?Representative Bob Filner, D-CA attempts to answer – The Quotes:
“Well, I mean, first of all, let me say I don’t, I don’t want to be seen as a defender of the previous regime, but that was, I think, the previous regime.”
“No, see, you, what you have done, is what I just talked about. That, how the President has gotten away with framing the issue. You framed the issue as “success or failure.” And obviously, if you’re “failure,” you’re a — you’re a jerk, right?”
“…Look, we — First of all, things can’t get much worse than they are now, by the way. They are pretty bad, no matter what Cheney says, no matter what Rumsfeld says. I mean, when you have 200 people killed, you know, in a day –”
“And you know, your brothers and sisters killed, something is wrong. …And, you know, if we shouldn’t have been in there to begin with, then it should not be incumbent on me to try to define getting out.”
But I would say, that an international police force, which could keep the peace, it would — that if we should put that in place at least —
SMASH: Led by whom, sir?
“The United Nations.”
“..Look, if you define success as “democracy,” you know, why — why would you choose Iraq to go anywhere, anyway? I mean, why are we supporting Saudi Arabia, or whatever? So, success can’t be “democracy.” Success can’t be “lack of autocracy,” because we support autocrats other places.
“Success, it seems to me for these guys, is control of, not only the — the strategic positioning, but the oil. So, success for me would say, “we don’t need your lousy oil”. We could start — we could put — we can run this whole country off renewable energy, right this minute.”
“And, we — we wouldn’t even care what happened in Iraq. Like we don’t care what’s going on in Africa, and we don’t care what’s going on in Saudi Arabia, we don’t care what’s going on in all these other nations…”
“Why do we care what happens in this little nation? One reason –”
“OIL”
“And, so, let’s get off oil, and let’s care about human rights in their real form, everywhere.”
Filner supports FAILURE.
What a MORON.
But, what do you expect in California safe congressional districts with a Democrat gerrymand?
Technorati Tags: LtSmash, Indepundit, DaGoddess, MichelleMalkin, BobFilner, IraqWar, GlobalWaronTerror, LiberalMoron, Moron