Michigan Muzzy Linked to Bombing of Israeli Tour Bus in Bulgaria

An interesting development, which, if true, would just go to show that our government’s fatuous embrace of Islam is making the United States into an exporter of terrorists.

Anyone want to bet that he’s most likely from Dearborn  (a.k.a. – Dearbornistan)?:

Bulgaria: Attack on Israeli tourist bus likely by suicide bomber with Michigan license
(CBS/AP) SOFIA, Bulgaria – Bulgaria’s interior minister says a bombing that killed eight people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide attack. He says the suspected attacker was carrying a driver’s license issued in Michigan, which had been sent to the FBI.

Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov said Thursday the suspect appeared on security camera tape near the bus for nearly an hour before the attack.

Tsvetanov said the death toll had risen to eight, as the Bulgarian driver of the bus died in the hospital. Six of the victims are Israeli citizens, while the nationality of the suicide bomber remains unknown.

Other reports said the ID found on the suspect’s remains was a U.S. passport issued in Michigan, which was determined to be a fake. That report could not be confirmed.

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No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion immediately fell upon Iran and its Lebanese proxy, the Hezbollah guerrilla group.

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One of the reasons why this really perks my ears up is that just a year ago, a Dearbornistanian was indicted (in absentia)  for passport fraud in an attempt to carry out a bomb attack against Israelis.  Guess what?  He was also linked to Hezbollah!:

Michigan man accused of passport fraud to carry out bombing of Israel
July 06, 2011|By the CNN Wire Staff

Federal authorities unsealed an indictment Wednesday that charges one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists with passport fraud in an effort to carry out bomb attacks against Israel and on behalf of the Islamic militant group Hezbollah.

Faouzi Ayoub, 44, who lived in Dearborn, Michigan, allegedly used the name Frank Mariano Boschi in an effort to travel into Israel.

He was indicted in absentia by a Detroit federal court on August 5, 2009.

Ayoub’s current whereabouts are unclear.

So, I am wondering; is Faouzi Ayoub the suicide bomber?  If not, I think the Obama administration better start kicking down some doors in Dearbornistan!  (Yeah, right.  Like that will ever happen…)

Feeling Strong and Goofing Off

Folks today is Labor day, a day traditionally spent goofing off. Doctor Bulldog and Family are off doing family things and just enjoying each other. I hope they are having a great time they have earned a rest.

Old Ronin has just strapped down his kayak and will soon be bobbing around in Tampa Bay, pretending to fish. It is really just an excuse to get out on the water. Do not worry for the fish they have no problem avoiding my attempts to catch them. All I will get for my efforts is sore muscles, a little sun and a big grin.

Feel free to stop by and let us know how you are doing and I will check in on you a little later on. Consider this morning an open mike, keep it clean and do get out and visit friends, drink a cold beverage and spend some time together. Our best weapon against the world’s nut jobs is to show them that they will never change who we are.

Lost in Translation

This has nothing to do with our normal blog fare. It is a break from all the madness we see everyday and who knows some of you might want to visit this quaint little German town someday. I cleaned this article up slightly because dropping an “F bomb” tends to get folks banned.

DEREK SCALLY, 1 April, Irish Times
IF YOU’RE moved to drown your sorrows after a week of financial gloom, a German brewer has produced a drink that might just match your feelings. The company has been allowed by the European Trademarks Office to register a new brand of beer under the label “F*cking Hell”.

The brewers say their “hell” – German for light ale – is named after the Austrian village of F*cking (pronounced Fooking) near Salzburg. But the 93 F*cking villagers are worried that the unsolicited dedication will boost further the village’s notoriety among English-speaking tourists.
-I can a visualize Doc giggling at the town name and Memaw getting ready to send me an email.

Exclusive Photos of the Tea Party Express Kickoff in Sacramento, California

Rob sent us a set of photographs that he took today at the Tea Party Express Kickoff in Sacramento, CA.

The Tea Party Express will be winding its way through the United States and arrive on Saturday, September 12, 2009 for the MASSIVE Tea Party Protest in Washington D.C.

It’s an event of a lifetime!  I encourage EVERYONE to visit Washington D.C. on September 12th.

[Click on the map to check out the Tea Party Express’s schedule of cities, dates, and times. ]

Also, you can keep up with Tea Party Express bloggers HERE and HERE.

We can’t thank Rob enough for sending us all the cool photos.   We REALLY appreciate it.

So kick back, relax, and enjoy Rob’s great pics:

[Click on images to enlarge]

We Are Dealing with Alien Life-Forms…

An interesting editorial from Ralph Peters at the New York Post.

H/T – Matamoros

TALIBAN FROM OUTER SPACE
UNDERSTANDING AFGHANISTAN

A FUNDAMENTAL reason why our intelligence agencies, military leaders and (above all) Washington pols can’t understand Afghanistan is that they don’t recognize that we’re dealing with alien life-forms.

Oh, the strange-minded aliens in question resemble us physically. We share a few common needs: We and the aliens are oxygen breathers who require food and water at frequent intervals. Our body casings feel heat or cold. We’re divided into two sexes (more or less). And we’re mortal.

But that’s about where the similarities end, analytically speaking.

In my years as an intelligence officer, I saw colleagues make the same blunder over and over: They rushed to stress the ways in which the Russians, the Chinese or the Iranians were “just like us.” It’s the differences that kill you, though.

I was an effective intelligence officer. Why? In junior high, I matured past the French Existentialists and started reading science fiction. The prose was often ragged, but the speculative frameworks offered a useful approach to analysis.

Begin with the view that all opponents are aliens from another cultural planet. Build your assessment from a blank slate. What do the alien collectives desire or fear? How do they perceive the galaxy? What are their unique weaknesses?

Regarding Planet Afghanistan, we still hear the deadly cliché that “all human beings want the same basic things, such as better lives and greater opportunities for their children.” How does that apply to Afghan aliens who prefer their crude way of life and its merciless cults?

spɹɐʍʞɔɐq puɐ uʍop ǝpısdn

From Australia comes this humorous look at the top 10 duds from Global Warming Alarmists:
Top 10 dud predictions
Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun – news.com.au

GLOBAL warming preachers have had a shocking 2008. So many of their predictions this year went splat.

Here’s their problem: they’ve been scaring us for so long that it’s now possible to check if things are turning out as hot as they warned.

And good news! I bring you Christmas cheer – the top 10 warming predictions to hit the wall this year.

Read, so you can end 2008 with optimism, knowing this Christmas won’t be the last for you, the planet or even the polar bears.

1. OUR CITIES WILL DIE OF THIRST

TIM Flannery, an expert in bones, has made a fortune from books and lectures warning that we face global warming doom. He scared us so well that we last year made him Australian of the Year.

In March, Flannery said: “The water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009.”

In fact, Adelaide’s reservoirs are now 75 per cent full, just weeks from 2009.

In June last year, Flannery warned Brisbane’s “water supplies are so low they need desalinated water urgently, possibly in as little as 18 months”.

In fact, 18 months later, its dams are 46 per cent full after Brisbane’s wettest spring in 27 years.

In 2005, Flannery predicted Sydney’s dams could be dry in just two years.

In fact, three years later its dams are 63 per cent full, not least because June last year was its wettest since 1951.

In 2004, Flannery said global warming would cause such droughts that “there is a fair chance Perth will be the 21st century’s first ghost metropolis”.

In fact, Perth now has the lowest water restrictions of any state capital, thanks to its desalination plant and dams that are 40 per cent full after the city’s wettest November in 17 years.

Lesson: This truly is a land “of drought and flooding rains”. Distrust a professional panic merchant who predicts the first but ignores the second.

2. OUR REEF WILL DIE

PROFESSOR Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, of Queensland University, is Australia’s most quoted reef expert.

He’s advised business, green and government groups, and won our rich Eureka Prize for scares about our reef. He’s chaired a $20 million global warming study of the World Bank.

In 1999, Hoegh-Guldberg warned that the Great Barrier Reef was under pressure from global warming, and much of it had turned white.

In fact, he later admitted the reef had made a “surprising” recovery.

In 2006, he warned high temperatures meant “between 30 and 40 per cent of coral on Queensland’s great Barrier Reef could die within a month”.

In fact, he later admitted this bleaching had “a minimal impact”.

In 2007, he warned that temperature changes of the kind caused by global warming were again bleaching the reef.

In fact, the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network last week said there had been no big damage to the reef caused by climate change in the four years since its last report, and veteran diver Ben Cropp said this week that in 50 years he’d seen none at all.

Lesson: Reefs adapt, like so much of nature. Learn again that scares make big headlines and bigger careers.

Canada: Pearson Airport Staff Required to be Dhimmis

Gee, why don’t they just throw in free VIP lounge passes for all Muslims while they’re at it…

Pearson Airport Staff Required To Undergo Sensitivity Training
31 July 08
Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Writer

Ottawa, Ontario (AHN) – Border service officers at Pearson Airport in Toronto will undergo training to help them be more sensitive in dealing with Middle Eastern and Islamic passengers.

Training sessions for 500 border service officers have been organized by the Canada Border Services Agency to fine-tune their screening abilities, to enable them to respect the customs of international passengers, especially Muslims and Arabs arriving at Canada’s busiest gateway.

The courses will run from September to March 2009.

Canadian Arab and Muslim representatives said they welcomed the courses. Mohamed Boudjenane, executive director of the Canadian Arab Federation, complained since the Sept. 11 attack “We became all potential terrorists without doubt, and we still have some examples of people being picked up from the line because they wear long beards or the hijab.”

[Gee, I don’t recall any decrepit old ladies hijacking a plane, but I have seen old ladies “picked up from the line” for further screening… I, myself have been subjected to further screening when going through airport security.  And, I do seem to recall that the hijackers on 9/11 and those responsible for other recently thwarted terror attacks WERE Muslim, so, his argument is specious, at best…  Profile away!!!]

Boudjenane said the courses are the result of the group’s lobbying.

Other efforts to improve the airport’s services in various Canadian gateways include the recent extension of border services at the airports in Moncton, Fredericton and Charlottetown to 16-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week. It will cost the federal government $1 million a year to fund the service extension.

George Bush Gives a Verbal Middle Finger to the G8 Summit

Yup, that’s the George W. Bush I use to know and love before the whiny Liberals and Democrats “pussyfied” him…

Bush to G8: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter’
After rejecting global climate-change targets, George Bush’s parting shot to the G8 summit
By Andrew Grice, Political Editor in Hokkaido
Thursday, 10 July 2008 – The Independent

President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.

As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”

President Bush made the private joke in the summit’s closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry. He had given some ground at the summit by saying he would “seriously consider” a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.

But green groups had protested that the meeting was a missed opportunity to secure the radical reductions in carbon emissions that were needed to reduce global warming. China and India, who were among the emerging economies invited to the summit, refused to sign up to binding agreements without firmer commitments from the US and the other industrialised nations to cut their CO2 emissions.