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Monday, December 30, 2013

Obama Rewards Somalia




  
Obama Gives Somalia $1.5 Billion
 – Somalia Government Bans Christmas
Birds of a feather

The Somali Government has banned celebration of Christian festivities in the country.

I can't remember the name of this movie, I want to say it was a Michael Crichton book.  It opens in some African
village, with  missionaries tending the sick.  A startling discovery is made.  It seems something like West Nile Viris, or Black Plague is  killing the people like flies. There's a monkey involved .

Next scene.  CDC helicopters, maybe WHO too, descend on the village to take care of the afflicted.  Not  They seal the village off, after rounding up any who've wandered away, and napalm the village and its inhabitants to hell.  The ultimate quarantine. [Full]
A directive released on Tuesday by the Ministry of Justice and Religious Affairs stated that no Christian festivities could be held in Somalia.

The Director General of the ministry, Sheikh Mohamed Khayrow Aden, and the Director of the Religious Matters, Sheikh Ali Sheikh Mohamud alias Sheikh Ali Dhere, held a press conference in the capital Mogadishu, to make the announcement.

The ban came just hours before Christmas Day, when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, their spiritual saviour.

“We alert fellow Muslims in Somalia that some festivities to mark Christian Days will take place around the world in this week,” said Sheikh Ali Dhere during the press conference, adding: “It is prohibited to celebrate those days in this country.” [Gateway]


If there is a geographic region more deserving of being turned into a sheet of glass than Somalia,  I cannot at the moment think of it.  I mean, at least the Chinese have good food, and the Russians pretty women .. . 


Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Lake Somalia

Lake Somalia
Somali Islamists carried out two bomb attacks in Kampala, killing at least 64 people as they watched the World Cup final, Ugandan authorities said on Monday.

Boned Jello

With news of this latest outrage perped by Islamo Somalia comes renewal.  Renewed pleas to non Islamo nations on Earth, to join together and level everything in the geographic area that "nation" infests.

Seriously.  If my magic button was working (it's out for repairs) I'd press it NOW, and lo! Lake Somalia; 246,201 sq. miles of hole waiting for enough rain to fill it.  And do you know what?  If Somalia disappeared today, not a soul in the world would notice its absence, save for a severe drop in international crime.  The area produces nothing but the green flies favored by other Muslim countries. 

It seems that  I've been forced to use an inordinate amount of ink on this idea, to no avail.   The fact that another rogue government is subsidizing them certainly doesn't help.( US sends 40 tons of arms to terrorist infested Somali government).  Does it?  That gummint needs to be removed as well.

Peace be with you.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Somali-Muslim Police Officer in Minnesota ...







                                                                                       




First Somali-Muslim Police Officer in Minnesota MURDERS Blonde Girl in COLD BLOOD –



The murder took place in a back alley on W. 51st Street, between Washburn and Xerxes avenues S. in the city’s Fulton neighborhood. The woman, Justine Damond, didn’t stand a chance against such brutality and ruthless violence.

On the night of her murder, she called 911, fearing that a man had accosted someone behind her home. The police car rolled up to her house, and she walked out in her pajamas, desperate to speak with the police officers.

According to The Minneapolis Star Tribune, she walked up to the police car to speak with them about the potential crime that had been committed. Then, out of nowhere, Mohamed Noor pulled out his gun and shot her dead.

His reasoning, was that he was “spooked,” despite there being two police officers in the car, and her being in her pajamas.  [FULL]

BUT DID THEY LISTEN?

With news of this latest outrage perped by Islamo Somalia comes renewal.  Renewed pleas to non Islamo nations on Earth, to join together and level everything in the geographic area that "nation" infests.

Seriously.  If my magic button was working (it's out for repairs) I'd press it NOW, and lo! Lake Somalia; 246,201 sq. miles of hole waiting for enough rain to fill it.  And do you know what?  If Somalia disappeared today, not a soul in the world would notice its absence, save for a severe drop in international crime.  The area produces nothing but the green flies favored by other Muslim countries. 

It seems that  I've been forced to use an inordinate amount of ink on this idea, to no avail.   The fact that another rogue government is subsidizing them certainly doesn't help.( US sends 40 tons of arms to terrorist infested Somali government).  Does it?  That gummint needs to be removed as well.

Peace be with you. (LAKE SOMALIA Tuesday, July 13, 2010)


More Somalia in the past ...


Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Let's arm Somalia


There are people in my sphere of influence who bridle over every little criticism I make about their "obamessiah."  A particularly grating criticism is "either that alien mofo is dumber than Joe Biden with a spike through his frontal lobe, or he's the most evil man on the planet."  I can't decide which one myself.  This example from Jawa is a case in point.   What do you think?
The Obama administration is "funding [the Somali] government that includes [Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, who is] officially designated by [the US] government as a terrorist."

Now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has authorized $10 million in aid to the Somali government in order to purchase weapons and munitions from Uganda which in turn is supplied by the US. Washington Post

    The U.S. government has provided about 40 tons of weapons and ammunition to shore up the besieged government of Somalia in the past six weeks and has sent funding to train Somali soldiers, a senior State Department official said yesterday, in the most complete accounting to date of the new American efforts in the strife-torn country.

    The official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity, said the military aid was worth less than $10 million and had been approved by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the National Security Council.

    "We do not want to see Somalia become a safe haven for foreign terrorists," the official said.

To achieve this, the Obama administration will instead support Somali islamic terrorists.

I'm going with a combo answer.  Evil, and dumb.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

The only good Somalian ...

Did the US just bomb Somalia?
Yes, boys and girls we did,
and so I be doing a jig ..

Wait.  Sorry.  We didn't use a nuke. Oh well.   Let's see how long before Hussein Obama voices his displeasure.

The leader of the military wing of an Islamist insurgent organisation in Somalia has been killed in an overnight air strike.

Aden Hashi Ayro, al-Shabab's military commander, died when his home in the central town of Dusamareb was bombed.

Ten other people, including a senior militant, are also reported dead.

A US military spokesman told the BBC that it had attacked what he called a known al-Qaeda target in Somalia, but refused to give further details.

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

A.K. Hassan, a refugee from Somalia?







                                                                                       




Somali refuge takesn oath of office
A.K. Hassan, a refugee from Somalia who arrived in Minneapolis in 2008, worked as a “community organizer,” and has now positioned himself within the American political system.

Hassan was elected to the District 3 seat on the Minneapolis Park Board in the November 2016 elections, and took his oath of office on January 2 – with his left hand placed firmly over the Koran. (Scroll down to see video.)

After he took his oath, promising to uphold the Constitution of the United States, Hassan then opened his Koran and declared, “In the name of the Allah….” and said “Allah has honored me… so be careful to serve all the needs of all the creation of Allah.” [FULL]



Ive done a fair amount of business in Minnesota over the years. My opinion is summed up this way; "All that's required by way of sealing a contract in Minnesota is a handshake.  Their word is their bond".  Truly. 75% of Minnie's population  are  are German, Norwegian, Swedish and Irish, and with that comes a culture that is ... I don't want to say socialist; how about liberalist/libertarian?  But fair. What the hell, Andrew Zimmern lives there.  Recently, however, the culture seems to have been hijacked by the far left-wing faction of the Democrat party.

e.g. In  2008 Al Franken lost his senate race against  incumbent Norm Coleman. Until several recounts found enough lost Franken votes, at which point a panel of judges said "Stop counting.  Franken wins". Without that victory, Democrats would not have held a 60% senate majority, and none of Obama's signature legislation e.g. Obama Care, would have passed. Dems HAD to have that Senate seat!


.....*site of deleted brain fart.  Move along.  Nothing to see here. ....

What worries me the most is  "Creeping Sharia."

In 2002 A federal court blocked a measure in Oklahoma that would prevent that state's judges from considering Islamic law when making decisions

How can that be?  It cedes to Islam the right to alter the U.S. Constitution.  How can that fkn be! And it's just one example. 

I'm starting to ramble.  You have the helm (bottom line).

See Somalia in the Past

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Blow Up Picture




  
The Feel Good Story of the Week (skoonj)


                      
          Father forgive him


MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Somali police officer says a suicide car bomber accidentally detonated his explosives near a popular hotel in the Somali capital.

Capt. Mohamed Hussein said the bomber appeared to have prematurely detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday as he tried to park near a hotel. No others were hurt or killed in the blast.

The al-Qaida linked group al-Shabab frequently carries out attacks against the Somali government, the U.N. and African Union peacekeepers. Late last month, a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-laden car at a teashop near Somalia’s intelligence agency headquarters, killing at least 12 people.



Sunday, June 03, 2007

Good News Sunday

Giving the Finger


Islamists killed in US Somalia bombardments

The authorities in Somalia say a number of Islamist fighters have been killed over the past few days in US naval bombardments and clashes with the army. Among those killed are six foreign extremists, including an American. It's believed they entered the region of Puntland by boat last week. A Somali jihadist group earlier said it had suffered no casualties and had killed 11 government troops.

The US naval strike appeared to be targetting a suspected al-Qaeda operative believed to have been involved in the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed over 240 people.

Dozens of Taliban drowned crossing river

Coalition forces in Afghanistan say around 60 Taliban militiamen drowned while attempting to cross the Helmand river, one of the country's biggest. They were fleeing military forces in the Kajaki district and had constructed a makeshift raft of tyre tubes and wooden planks.

China says U.S. warning on toothpaste irresponsible

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has branded a U.S. warning against using its toothpaste as irresponsible, saying low levels of diethylene glycol
"So far we have not received any report of death resulting from using the toothpaste"


THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING ANTIWAR MOVEMENT

That shrill sound you're hearing isn't coming from the cicadas. It's the cackle of conservatives reveling in war protester Cindy Sheehan's abrupt decision to leave the anti-war movement and return home to California


You have to give Al Gore credit for one thing: Truth in labeling


His new book, "The Assault on Reason," is precisely that -- a relentless assault on reason, as well as science, history, Republicans, news media, the president, corporations, the wealthy and any ignoramuses who do not fall in line with his soft-core socialist friends.

The 'Blame The Iraqis' Gambit 

"Bush lied us into war" is the favorite of many Democrats, including presidential candidates who supported the war but now want to claim they were misled. "Bush screwed up the war" is the favorite of people such as me and others who argued from the beginning for more troops and a different military strategy and were told to shut up by folks in the Pentagon and the White House.

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Somalia ... Again

White Man Beaten To Death By Somali Mob In Lewiston, Maine
A mob of Somali "youths" killed a white man named Donald Giusti by beating him to death. [Lewiston man dies after fight near Kennedy Park, WGME, June 15th 2018]

I got this story from Pamela Geller's web page. Ms. Geller very keen on fighting Muslims, and she deserves credit for pointing out this story, but I would not have headed it, as she has "Maine: Lewiston man BEATEN TO DEATH by Muslim migrant mob in bloody melee " [By Pamela Geller, Geller Report, June 16, 2018]

I prefer the formulation "White Man Beaten To Death By Somali Mob". I mention this, because Ms. includes a note saying "Islam is not a race " after this quote. (FULL STORY)


Sunday, January 23, 2011

A Fun Cruise

Today's Boner
To The Point is excited to offer the ultimate adventure cruise along the pirate-infested coast of Somalia!

We board our luxury cruise ship in Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden near the entrance to the Red Sea, and disembark in Mombassa, Kenya seven adrenaline-charged days later.

Boned Jello
Also included:  Free complimentary night vision equipment - and throughout the night, coffee, pastries and snacks are always available on the main deck from 7pm until 6am.
Normally I wouldn't  have even opened the  e-mail advertisement for THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE CRUISE; but I did.  WHOA!  I really didn't have a bucket list before, which is sad, but now I do!  My first thought was to raise the $28,000 (Veranda , double occupancy; complete with bench rest).and treat Kim & Connie du Toit.  I have a book idea I want to run by Kim, (called "My Autobiography").   But Hell's Bells; they've already been!
Kim&Connie"
Six attacks in 4 days were more than we expected.
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"I bagged three pirates, My wife nailed two, and our 12-year old niece sank two boats with the mini-gun. This wonderful cruise was fun for the whole family" -- Kim and Connie du Toit - Texas

Somalia Cruise Route

You'll

Relax like never before !

  • That's because you are welcome to bring your own arsenal with you.
  • If you don't have your own weapons, you an rent them from our onboard  Master Gunsmith.
  • Enjoy reloading parties Every afternoon, with skeet and marksmanship competitions every night !
Thor

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Somalia

Here's an idea


Somilian Pirate
I can't remember the name of this movie, I want to say it was a Michael Crichton book.  It opens in some African village, with  missionaries tending the sick.  A startling discovery is made.  It seems something like West Nile Viris, or Black Plague is  killing the people like flies. There's a monkey involved . 

Next scene.  CDC helicopters, maybe WHO too, descend on the village to take care of the afflicted.  Not  They seal the village off, after rounding up any who've wandered away, and napalm the village and its inhabitants to hell.  The ultimate quarantine.

We learn that this desperate act was necessary, in order to save the millions, if not billions, who would die had this virus  spread.  That got me to thinking.  How come nobody has done this to Somalia.  A worthless, disease ridden, al-Qaedan infested den of criminals and pirates  that has no purpose remotely worthy. A threat to the world, on a level with Seattle. I mean, WTF? Am I wrong?

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Well, we can't impeach the SOB ...

The friend of my enemy is my enemy (so much for Somalia)

A Nice Friendship Pact

(JAWA)

You know how Leftists are always making the (false) claim that the US sponsored Osama bin Laden during the 1980s -- the inference being that somehow we are morally culpable for "making" bin Laden and therefore that 9/11 somehow is our own fault?

Well, unlike that false urban legend about US sponsoring Islamist terrorists, it's my sad duty to report that today the US is sponsoring Islamist terrorists. Directly.

I've mentioned Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys in the past, but today he officially returned to Somalia to join the US and UN sponsored reconciliation government, but let me recap why his return means that the US is now directly funding terrorists.

Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys was once heavily funded by Osama bin Laden, helped shield the US embassy bombers form justice, and is on the U.S. State Department's list of designated terrorists:

    Designated on November 7, 2001...

    Hassan Dahir Aweys

Are you getting this? The U.S. State Department has Aweys on their list of designated terrorists. This means that all of Aweys assets are to be frozen.

But it's not just the U.S. that has designated Aweys a terrorist. So, too, has the UN:
I gotta stop ..this stuff is killing me.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Christopher Stevens Feeds the Crocodile




  

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Winston Churchill once said, “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.” On September 11, Christopher Stevens, a career diplomat, became one of the first Americans in Libya to feed the crocodile of Ansar Al-Sharia and learned too late that while appeasers may hope to be eaten last, they are often eaten first.

Christopher Stevens was a Middle Eastern diplomat who typified the new breed going from the University of Berkeley and the Peace Corps to desks in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria. He taught English to Moroccan children in the Peace Corps and helped Palestinian Arabs in the East Jerusalem Consulate, which has a firm policy of pretending that Israel does not exist.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of Christopher Stevens that he “made other people’s hopes his own” and that may serve as a fitting eulogy both for Stevens and for the disastrous foreign policy of making “other people’s hopes” our own that brought on the Arab Spring.

Stevens, like Clinton and Obama, made the hopes of Islamists his own and they repaid him for it, just as Afghans repaid America for supporting them against the Soviet Union, as Lebanon and Somalia repaid America’s peacekeeping efforts by killing American troops and on down the litany of gratitude in bombs and bullets that have come America’s way from the Muslim world. [Christopher Stevens Feeds the Crocodile]

I think we can all agree on this.  There is not one—NONE— Obama appointee to any office who would not be instantly terminated, if not arrested,  by Ronald Reagan on his first day in office.  They are at best pasty-faced idealists; at worst, anti-American Obamunists. 

That said, Reagan would agree that nobody can attack them on foreign soil without getting a  Gaddafi comeuppance, i.e., a visit from American fighter bombers.   That even includes Hillary, who, if she is to be assaulted (and pray that never happens of course), it has to be at the hands of someone in, say, Omaha. 

How has this  administration responded?  Harassed the dim-witted a-hole who produced a truly lousy movie, which trailer was maybe seen by 20 people, and  which supposedly enraged the always enraged lunatic Muslum crowd. To them Obama apologized.  


Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Take Our Muslims, Please




   U.N. to dump flood of Muslim refugees on U.S.










Displaced Syrians will likely make up the next big wave of Muslim refugees coming to America.

In February, the State Department moved to ease the rules that protect the U.S. from accepting refugees with potential ties to terrorist organizations. The rules were seen as “too strict”
Since the early 1990s, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees has selected more than 200,000 refugees from Islamic countries to be resettled in the United States. Most of them have come from Somalia and Iraq.

Syria could soon be added to the mix in the midst of that country’s brutal civil war. The Obama administration has been greasing the skids for the Syrian refugees for months, WND has learned, and the refugees will soon be dumped on American cities throughout the U.S.

In February, the State Department moved to ease the rules that protect the U.S. from accepting refugees with potential ties to terrorist organizations. The rules were seen as “too strict” by the refugee-resettlement groups that lobby Congress and the administration to continuously let in more Muslims from the war-torn Middle East.

Then on Sept. 4, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman hinted at her daily press briefing that a new wave of refugees will soon be coming from another predominantly Muslim nation – Syria.   [FULL]

Now more than ever we can appreciate the prescience displayed in the 1997 HBO  film, "The Second Civil War."  The film's premise is that the Administration's forced relocation of hundreds of thousands Pakistani refugees (India nuked them) to the United States leads to rebellion; first by Montana, and then spreading like wildfire, with state National Guard taking on American military. The film is a brilliant, often hilarious, satire of the media (CNN), the (Clinton) White House, and our open border policy.   If you've seen this film, you can see what's coming as these same situations take life.  I'm agog over how many of the "fantasy" scenarios are now become fact.

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Rebecca Gordon

Winner of Mosely-Braun Award for Dumb

Stageringly Stupid People
Today: Rebecca Gordon  
Salon.com published a piece by Rebecca Gordon and originally published at titled, “Hey, President Donald Trump: Do you know where your bombs are falling?”which implies that Trump is bombing “Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and, oh yes, Yemen.”

Just one thing Ms.Becky, Trump isn’t bombing anyone. He’s not the President yet, “You Leftist moron.”  So you might want to take your complaints up with Obama. You’ll have to wait a while though, he’s golfing in Hawaii for the next three weeks at the tax payer’s expense.

Friday, December 04, 2009

Somalia- what good is it?

 Somali Pirate Exchange
Lets Investors Bet on Hitting a Ransom Jackpot


Now Somali civilians can invest cash or weapons into pirate companies and hope for a share of the ransom money

Monday, April 13, 2009

Won't Be Missed At All

SOMALIA
would scarcely be missed

Cocktales

Tasty Tid-Bits From the Lounge
Deacon Blues  I think the Aliens are disguising themselvs as curly fries.
curlyfries
On another note:
Ms. Pelosi said she slept little, stole exercise by dashing through airports and subsisted many days on Ghirardelli chocolates (“less than 10” a day) and pistachio nuts (which she shells with her teeth).
“I had a hamburger last night and it was my breakfast, lunch and dinner,” she said last week. “And I had these strange things. I realized they were French fries.”
She made quick spiraling gestures with her fingers to show what they looked like.
It was apparent that she was not familiar with curly fries.


swksvolFF  Oh and yes, congratulations to the SEAL team - I have seen some fancy shooting from a moving vehicle but 3 good shots on big water, well, if it were in a movie I would flag BS yet here it is, reality. Outstanding job. And to the captain, waiting for the guest invite to the round table of Deadliest Catch. "On the next episode of Deadliest Catch: Somalia - pirates holding a US captain decide to end negotiations for the day.."



badanov Representative Henry Waxman teabags the US economy...

Thursday, October 29, 2015

How about cakes for gay muslums?




  




“Special Privilege” Muslim Truck Drivers Win Lawsuit After Refusing To Deliver “Demon Alcohol,” Do Their Jobs



Over-the-road company truck drivers aren’t generally allowed to select their loads by any national carrier. They are sent a dispatch, expected to accept it and go pick it up. That’s the understanding when you’re hired, the rules the industry operates under and what is expected of employees. If more consistency in runs or commodity type is needed, local delivery jobs, cement, produce, building materials or the like, perhaps beer or soda, offer an alternative.
That’s the system unless you’re an entitled, argumentative, self-aggrandized Muslim transplant from Somalia; then things are different. You expect the world to adjust to your whims, for employers to craft their company procedures around your particular demands, and file a lawsuit if they don’t.
Back in 2009, a national over-the-road trucking company, Star Transport, who had the misfortune of having two Somali “religious liberty” jihadists under their employ, issued such a dispatch which included delivering alcohol and expected transported. They have since learned a valuable lesson, don’t hire Muslims or if you do, pucker up; expect to cater to their every whim.
On Thursday a federal jury in Peoria, Ill awarded $240,000 to the demanding “drivers,” Mahad Abass Mohamed and Abdkiarim Hassan Bulshale, composed of $20,000 each in compensatory damages and $100,000 each in punitive damages. The Obama-appointed judge, James E. Shadid, also handed over another $1,500 to each in back pay, somehow earned by refusing to deliver their loads.
The case was brought by the haters of white Americans at Obama’s BLM, La Raza, CAIR front and agitation organization, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The trial began on October 19th and was wrapped up the following day.

The basis for the claim is a supposed religious violation that was argued would have existed had the Muslims come into contact with alcohol, a commodity very common in over-the-road driving. It’s actually a preferred load for some, depending upon the situation and individuals, but they generally don’t get to demand “beer only” assignments either.

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