1935 - The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.
1969 - Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
"Truly religious people are resigned to everything, even to mediocre poetry."
-- Oscar Wilde,
FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:
a) Mishun Akomplsht - US troops forced to run away
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers this week, officials said Wednesday.
Compounding the military setback, insurgents quickly seized the village of Wanat in Nuristan province after driving out the handful of police left behind to defend government offices, Afghan officials said.
---Sunday's attack by some 200 militants armed with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars was the deadliest for the U.S. military in Afghanistan in three years. Rebels fought their way into the newly established base, wounding another 15 Americans and suffering heavy casualties of their own, before the defenders and warplanes could drive them back.
In unrelated news, John McCain again claimed that Iraq is a success, claiming that "America's enemies were on the run." His staff ridiculed his opponent's stance on Iraq and Afghanistan, claiming, in effect, that Barack had no business even talking about the middle east until he visited and was instructed on the proper doctrine by General Petreaus. "How dare Obama have an opinion, until he is told what he needs to do?"
In other unrelated news, more videotapes from Osama bin Laden are expected next month, while he sits in comfort in a city deep inside Pakistan.
- - -b) Condi Rice called a liar by Irish parliament.
Who would have thunk it?
THE GOVERNMENT received assurances from US president George Bush and his secretary of state Condoleezza Rice that no extraordinary rendition took place at Shannon airport, the Attorney General, Paul Gallagher has told a UN expert panel on human rights.
Mr Gallagher said this week in Geneva that the assurances were given "unequivocally at the highest level of the US government . . ."
He said the assurances "were confirmed by the president of the United States, and the secretary of state. Ireland has been assiduous in raising these issues". . . .
Committee member Judge Rajsoomer Lallah (Mauritius) told the Irish delegation yesterday: "We have information of concrete cases of rendition taking place at Shannon airport" and use of Ireland's air space by the CIA in several instances such as the case of Khaled al-Maqtari. . . .
One expert also posed the question why the Government was inquiring after the events had taken place and observed that even assurances at the highest level could not be relied upon, and asked why even now it was not possible to inquire about cases of what had happened in the past.
When Amnesty International and other experts confirm that Ireland's leaders were lied to "at the very highest levels," why should Americans believe our leadership either?
- - -c) US SuperRich, exposed as tax cheats.
When Bush called them the "haves and have mores", he wasn't kidding. Of course, they all managed even greater profits due to IraqNam. Too bad, then, that a man of honor decided to blow the whistle on the ultra-rich corrupt of this country.
- - -Hundreds of super-rich American tax cheats have, in effect, turned themselves in to the IRS after a bank computer technician in the tiny European country of Liechtenstein came forward with the names of US citizens who had set up secret accounts there, according to Washington lawyers investigating the scheme.
Heinrich Kieber, a bank computer technician in Liechtenstein came forward with the names of US citizens who had set up secret accounts there, according to Washington lawyers investigating the scheme. He has been branded a thief by the government of Liechtenstein for violating the country's bank secrecy laws.
He is now in hiding but scheduled to testify to the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Thursday via a video statement from a secret location, according to Congressional investigators.
d) US NAVY sees the light, will cancel remaining, unneeded, super-expensive destroyers.
Indications are growing that the Navy is poised to forgo further construction of the advanced but very expensive DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers and end the program at two ships. . . .
But the price tag for the ships is staggering: $3.3 billion per copy according to Navy planners, over $5 billion and more by outside estimates. Even at the lower price, they would be the most expensive surface combatants ever built. With the Navy's shipbuilding program considered unaffordable by budget analysts at the Congressional Budget Office and Government Accountability Office, eliminating five ships could save as much as $25 billion.
In unrelated news, US DOD - Intel experts continued to monitor troubling signs that Osama bin Laden was ready to put his Al Qaida surface navy to sea, causing a serious threat to all American coastal cities and ports. Even worse were suggestions that Bin Laden had nearly completed construction of a nearly silent and undetectable submarine in a secret sub building tunnel complex deep inside the Pakistani mountains, to be launched against America in October, 2008.
- - -e) Crime stopping - Chicago Police style
Two years ago, three cops beat four businessmen at Chicago's Jefferson Tap.
One year ago, an off duty cop was refused a drink by a bartender, so he jumped over the bar, and beat the living daylights out of her.
Two weeks ago, a cop started beating a handcuffed shop lifting suspect, causing his hospitalization.
Yesterday, a court held that the Chicago Police Department could not fire a cop was was caught on video beating the living daylights out of a man in a wheelchair.
This is the Chicago police department? You'd think they worked for worked for Blackwater or some other US empowered mercenary army.
Never forget the immortal words of Chicago's Mare Richard J. Daley, who during the violent '68 riots said, "Da police ain't here to create disoder. Da Police is here to preserve disorder."
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