VONDELPARK ONTRUIMD NA VECHTPARTIJ, BRON RTL4 Koopwoning: Tweede Helmersstraat 36 I, Amsterdam Koopwoning: Olympiaplein 103 II, Amsterdam Vondelpark ontruimd na vechtpartij – Nederland – TROUW De politie kreeg vrijdagavond meerdere meldingen vanuit verschillende locaties in het Vondelpark van bezoekers die werden lastig gevallen. Een van die meldingen was over een groep jongeren, die … – Vondelpark ontruimd na vechtpartij … Amsterdamse politie ontruimt Vondelpark na vechtpartij – Amsterdam … De politie kreeg meerdere meldingen, vanuit verschillende locaties in het Vondelpark , van bezoekers die werden lastig gevallen. Een van die meldingen ging over een groep jongeren, die zich fors … – Amsterdamse politie ontruimt … Vondelpark ontruimd na vechtpartij – RTL Nieuws.nl De politie heeft het Vondelpark in Amsterdam ontruimd na een massale vechtpartij. Tientallen bezoekers gingen met elkaar op de vuist. VONDELPARK ONTRUIMD NA VECHTPARTIJ – AT5 Nieuws Overigens ben ik sinds begin jaren negentig een zeer regelmatige gebruiker/bezoeker van het Vondelpark . Of is bijna 20 jaar niet genoeg en moet je de kamperende hippies nog hebben meegemaakt om een mening over het park te hebben? … Vondelpark ontruimd na vechtpartij – Nederland – Dagblad van het … De politie in Amsterdam heeft het Vondelpark vrijdagavond deels ontruimd nadat een groep jongeren die bezoekers lastig vielen zich tegen de politie had gekeerd. Dat liet een politiewoordvoerster weten. Het park is nu weer volledig open. … _madeUlook says: RT @CHADinAMSTERDAM : “@RNW: Police evacuate Amsterdam's peace haven # Vondelpark after massive brawl http://t.co/tKZGc30” [Damn Amsterdam. Y'all like Cleveland.]
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In the weekly Republican address, Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns focused on jobs, saying lawmakers who are serious about creating them need to cut spending and the bureaucracy that he says burden small businesses and keep them from hiring more. (April 23)
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enlarge On Friday, Senator John McCain became the highest ranking American political figure to meet with the Libyan rebels. But while his declaration that “they are my heroes” doubtless was well received in by the anti-Qaddafi fighters in Benghazi, McCain’s track record should give Americans good reason for concern. After all, this is the same John McCain who called Ahmed Chalabi a “patriot,” offered cash and support to the Nicaraguan Contras, defended Oliver Nort h and casually declared, ” we’re all Georgians now .” Two years after McCain traveled to Tripoli to meet with Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi (above), the failed Republican presidential nominee returned to the country to back the insurgents now opposing him. As the AP reported : McCain, one of the strongest proponents in Congress of the U.S. military intervention in Libya, said he was in Benghazi “to get an on-the-ground assessment of the situation” and planned to meet with the rebel National Transition Council, the de facto government in the eastern half of the country, and members of the rebel military. “They are my heroes,” McCain said of the rebels as he walked out of a Benghazi hotel. A few Libyans waved American flags as his vehicle drove past. Of course, McCain over the years has had many heroes. Among them were the Nicaraguan Contras . By all indications, then Congressman and later Senator McCain shared Ronald Reagan’s assessmen t that the rebel forces trying to overthrow the Sandinista regime in Managua were “the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers.” But months before the Reagan administration ramped up the Iran-Contra operation to skirt the 1984 Congressional ban on aid, McCain was lending his name to dubious efforts to arm the right-wing fighters. As the AP explained in October 2008 : The U.S. Council for World Freedom was part of an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. The group was dedicated to stamping out communism around the globe. The council’s founder, retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, said McCain became associated with the organization in the early 1980s as McCain was launching his political career in Arizona. Singlaub said McCain was a supporter but not an active member in the group. In a 1986 interview, McCain said he has resigned from the group and asked that his name be removed from their letterhead. “I didn’t know whether (the group’s activity) was legal or illegal,” he said, “But I didn’t think I wanted to be associated with them.” Perhaps, but McCain remained committed to supporting the Contras themselves. As the Washington Post reported on February 9, 1988 (via DailyKos ): Nicaraguan rebel leaders, scrambling for a survival strategy in the wake of congressional refusal last week to appropriate new aid funds, pleaded today for independent financial contributions from U.S. supporters to two private foundations based in Washington. The contra leaders said Republican presidential candidate Robert Dole recently contributed $500 to rebel coffers, and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) donated $400. As it turns out, the biggest beneficiary of McCain’s Iran-Contra largesse may have been its central figure, Oliver North. Back in 1986 and 1987 , as the New York Times noted, John McCain “defended Ronald Reagan during the Iran-contra inquiry.” As a 2006 profil e later detailed, that defense by the self-proclaimed foot soldier in the Reagan revolution extended to one of the scandal’s key perpetrators, then Lt. Colonel Oliver North: He empathized with his fellow Vietnam veteran Oliver North, a central figure in the scandal. “Some of these people like Ollie North,” he explained to Michael Killian for the Chicago Tribune (July 29, 1987), “who saw their comrades and friends spill blood and die on the battlefields in a war that they believe the politicians wouldn’t let them win–I think that leads to a mind-set which could rationalize deviating from the established rules and regulations.” Those “established rules and regulations” were also known as laws of the United States of America. Regardless, John McCain’s days of aiding his favorite insurgencies were far from over. And in the run-up to the war against Saddam Hussein, the cause was Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress . As early as 1997, Senator McCain was pressuring the Clinton White House to set up the Chalabi’s INC as a government-in-exile. And from the moment George W. Bush sauntered into the Oval Office, McCain was pushing Chalabi’s cause. As ThinkProgress documented: McCain welcomed Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), to Washington and pressured the administration to give him money. When General Anthony Zinni cast doubt upon the effectiveness of the Iraqi opposition, McCain rebuked him at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee. In 2003, McCain joined four other Republican senators and asked Bush to “personally clear the bureaucratic roadblocks within the State Department” that blocked increased funding for the Chalabi’s group. Also that year, McCain said of Chalabi, “He’s a patriot who has the best interests of his country at heart.” As it turned it, that country may have been Iran. Arrested in Iraq just months after attending President Bush’s 2004 State of the Union address, Chalabi was, U.S. commander Ray Odierno acknowledged in 201 0, “influenced by Iran.” That embarrassment didn’t prevent would-be President McCain committing another one in July 2008. Anxious to play up his supposed national security credentials, McCain jumped at the chance when Russia and Georgia came to blows . By the time hostilities commenced in South Ossetia in August 2008, McCain’s animus towards Russia, which he repeatedly pledged to eject from the G-8, was already the stuff of legend. But seeing an opportunity to capitalize on his perceived advantage over Barack Obama on national security issues, McCain moved quickly and aggressively to commit the United States to Georgia’s defense. On his campaign bus in Pennsylvania, McCain told reporter s, “I think it’s very clear that Russian ambitions are to restore the old Russian empire.” Three days later on August 14, 2008, McCain penned the now-famous Wall Street Journal op-ed “We Are All Georgians” which opportunistically appropriated global sentiment towards the United States after the horror of 9/11: “As I told President Saakashvili on the day the cease-fire was declared, today we are all Georgians. We mustn’t forget it.” Of course, the press corps, bought it hook, line and sinker, a fawning over McCain’s supposed international leadership that continues to this day. After announcing that “Georgia dominates the Sunday shows,” Politico on August 17, 2008 declared, “McCain reopens the national security gap.” There was, of course, a problem with John McCain’s dangerously reckless bellicosity on behalf of Georgia, “this small democracy, far away from our shores, [which] is an inspiration to all those who cherish our deepest ideals.” He was wrong. In the fall of 2009, a report commissioned by the Council of the European Union found that Georgia “started unjustified war.” While the EU analysis placed blame on both Tbilisi and Moscow for what transpired, it rejected the Georgian government’s explanation that the attack was defensive. As the BBC reported : “The shelling of Tskhinvali (the South Ossetian capital) by the Georgian armed forces during the night of 7 to 8 August 2008 marked the beginning of the large-scale armed conflict in Georgia,” the report says. It adds later: “There is the question of whether [this] use of force… was justifiable under international law. It was not.” While Georgia protested those conclusions, Commissioner Jorg Himmelreich described in the New York Times “the decisive role that the United States played before, during and after the conflict.” By late 2010, revelations from U.S. diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks showed that “Washington relied heavily on the Saakashvili government’s accounts of its own behavior.” Mercifully, few in the U.S. listened to McCain or his grandstanding. But in January 2010 ceremony in Tbilisi, John McCain was honored as a national hero by the country he put first – Georgia. But that was then and this is now. And now, John McCain doubtless believes, today we’re all Libyans. (This piece also appears at Perrspectives .)
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• Hit F5 or refresh for the latest (sorry, auto-refresh down) • Email rob.smyth@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts • Keep up with all today’s goals on our live scoreboard • And follow live in-running league tables 3.30pm “Ha,” says Andrew Buddery, “and after a blissful winter following your cricket coverage, I’d forgotten how much of a wind-up merchant you are when writing about football. Good afternoon, Rob!” That would be quite funny if it actually meant anything. 3.29pm “Your description of Kuyt’s contribution to Liverpool’s opener confirms he has a big touch for a short player,” says Ian Copestake. Is 2010-11 the season in which English football learned to stop worrying and love Dirk Kuyt? 3.28pm: SPURS 1-1 WEST BROM (Pavlyuchenko 27) The underused Roman Pavlyuchenko whips in a fine equaliser from 20 yards. Benoit Assou-Ekotto wasn’t on the field, but I think just his mere presence in the ground was the inspiration for the goal. 3.27pm karma department It’s now Hull 1-3 Middlesbrough, with Julio Arca the scorer. 3.25pm: LIVERPOOL 2-0 BIRMINGHAM (Kuyt 23) Ben Foster makes two great saves from Luis Suarez and Dirk Kuyt, but Kuyt bounces to his feet to put the loose ball into the net. 3.24pm: PORT VALE 0-1 STOCKPORT (Elding 20) The great escape is on! You heard it here last. 3.23pm “Surely its fair to point out that the reason Benoit Assou-Ekotto was beaten by Odemwingie is that he was actually injured in the challenge and has had to be substituted?” says Andy Buddery. Well, it might be if I was watching the game. But we’re in England, and in England we can’t legally watch 3pm games, so I was basically paraphrasing what was said on Soccer Saturday. Take it up with Phil Thompson. After a blissful winter of doing cricket, I’d forgotten how sensitive football fans on the internet can be. Two grown men are, you know, allowed to have two different opinions without one of them being unfair, or a rotter, or a deviant, or a wally. 3.22pm: WOLVES 1-0 FULHAM (Fletcher 21) I can’t keep up with all this. What day is it? Who am I? Are we all free? Anyway, Wolves have scored, a smart header from the underrated Steven Fletcher. Wolves are far too good to go down, surely? 3.20pm: ASTON VILLA 0-1 STOKE (Jones 20) Just as people were starting to say nice things about their style of play, Stoke actually score from a long throw: taken by Rory Delap, headed in by Kenwyne Jones. 3.18pm “One for the bloopers tapes here,” says John Ashdown. “After a decent opening from the home side, Bristol City win a corner and Steve Simonsen flaps it into his own net. A quite stunning piece of ineptitude.” We should open a book on what time Ashers completely loses it, rises to his feet and flings his laptop onto the pitch in disgust. I’m going for 3.21pm. 3.17pm: BLACKPOOL 0-1 NEWCASTLE (Lovenkrands 17) It’s all over for Blackpool, isn’t it? Charlie Adam is caught in possession – there’s a shock – and it results in a goal for Peter Lovenkrands. 3.16pm “Assou-Ekotto has been one of our best performers this season,” says Jack Howes. “He’s a class player who admittedly is prone to the occasional error. However to say he has had a shocking season is complete and utter bollocks. Alan Hansen proved he doesn’t watch football when he lambasted him a while back on MOTD. You’ve been too busy watching the cricket Rob.” I like Assou-Ekotto a lot, as a player and a bloke, but he’s been ragged in almost every game I’ve watched this season. Just my opinion, it’s not going to kill anyone. ‘Shocking’ was hyperbolic though, it’s true. 3.15pm “In that photo montage at the top of the page,” says Phil Sawyer, “why is Alex McLeish licking Ian Holloway’s ear?” Never mind that: what position is Roy Hodgson assuming with Mark Hughes at his feet? 3.14pm: BRING BACK PHIL BROWN Make that Hull 1-2 Middlesbrough , with Scott McDonald scoring two goals in a minute. 3.13pm Blimey, these clockwatches are a bit lively, aren’t they? It’s now Hull 1-1 Middlesbrough, with Celtic legend alumnus Scott McDonald equalising for Boro. 3.12pm I wish we had a journocam on John Ashdown this afternoon: his beloved Sheffield United have gone 1-0 down at home to Bristol City – thanks to an own goal from their keeper Steve Simonsen. 3.10pm A nasty incident at the Stadium of Light. After a clash of heads, and over six minutes’ treatment, Phil Bardsley has been stretchered off to be replaced by Anton Ferdinand. So Sunderland are down to 10 men. 3.07pm: LIVERPOOL 1-0 BIRMINGHAM (Rodriguez 7) A dismal first touch from Dirk Kuyt creates the opening goal for Liverpool. He miscontrolled the ball so badly that it went five yards in front of him, but it inadvertently set up Jay Spearing for a long shot that was spilled badly by Ben Foster, and Maxi Rodriguez was first to the rebound. 3.06pm: SPURS 0-1 WEST BROM (Odemwingie 5) Spurs will go fourth if they win today. So, what with them being Spurs , they are behind. Benoit Assou-Ekotto’s shocking season continues when he is outmuscled by Peter Odemwingie, who runs through and gives West Brom the lead. 3.04pm I haven’t seen Soccer Saturday for months, since they took Sky Sports News off Freeview. It’s like being back in the bosom of an old friend. Actually, that’s far too weird a turn oh phrase. Whatever. Hull are beating Middlesbrough 1-0, thanks to Jay Simpson. They might well make the play-offs, although they would still be in the Premier League if they hadn’t driven that crazy maverick genius Phil Brown out of town. 2.59pm “Are you interested in updates from bottom of the Championship?” says my colleague John Ashdown. “Here at Bramall Lane, stunning Easter sunshine has become torrential rain, a neat meteorological metaphor for Sheffield United between 2006 and today. The Blades can’t quite get relegated today, but the final nail is three-quarters of the way into the coffin anyway. Interestingly we’ve got four special guests on the pitch pre-kick off – Jeff Eckhardt (Sheffield-born, 74 apps), Tony Philliskirk (son on the home bench, 80 apps), Wayne Allison (cult hero, 73 apps) and Earl Barrett. Quite what Earl Barrett is doing there I don’t know – he made five appearances on loan in 1998. And was abysmal.” Wash your mouth out with gin, Ashdown. Earl Barrett has three England caps, and no bad players have ever played for England, and especially not under Graham Taylor. A nice accompaniment to today’s match between Brighton (93 points) against Southampton (77 points) 2.53pm “You’d think sex and monster munch would work, wouldn’t you?” says Dan Smith. “But you’re just left shamefaced with crumbs in the bed and a flamin’ hot burning sensation. Are you covering Chesterfield away at Oxford this afternoon?” Where do you think I’m typing this from? Sheff Utd v Bristol City team news Sheff Utd Simonsen, Lowton, Maguire, Lowry, Mattock, Williamson, McAllister, Montgomery, Quinn, Slew, Henderson. Subs: Aksalu, Doyle, Bogdanovic, Kozluk, Collins, Philliskirk, Riise. Bristol City James, McAllister, Nyatanga, Stewart, Spence, Adomah, Elliott, Cisse, Woolford, Maynard, Pitman. Subs: Gerken, Johnson, Clarkson, Skuse, Wilson, Campbell-Ryce, Stead. Referee Andy D’Urso (Essex) Port Vale v Stockport team news Port Vale Tomlinson, Yates, Collins, Owen, McCombe, Dodds, Griffith, Roberts, Robert Taylor, Marc Richards, Justin Richards. Subs: Martin, Kris Taylor, Haldane, Rigg, Morsy, Sutton, Davis. Stockport Glennon, Halls, Assoumani, Brown, Goodall, Mainwaring, Wallace, Vincent, Poole, Griffin, Elding. Subs: McLoughlin, Lynch, Fisher, Rose, Darkwah, Whitehead. Referee Peter Quinn (Cleveland) Brighton v Southampton team news Brighton Ankergren, Calderon, Elphick, El-Abd, Painter, Bennett, Bridcutt, Sparrow, Dicker, Barnes, Murray. Subs: Brezovan, Dunk, Kishishev, Sandaza, Wood, Noone, Navarro. Southampton Davis, Butterfield, Jaidi, Fonte, Dickson, Chaplow, Hammond, Gobern, Do Prado, Lambert, Forte. Subs: Bialkowski, Richardson, Seaborne, Lallana, Connolly, N’Guessan, Stephens. Referee Scott Mathieson (Cheshire) Liverpool v Birmingham team news Liverpool Reina, Flanagan, Carragher, Skrtel, Robinson, Meireles, Spearing, Lucas, Maxi, Kuyt, Suarez. Subs: Gulacsi, Cole, Kyrgiakos, Ngog, Poulsen, Shelvey, Coady. Birmingham Foster, Carr, Johnson, Jiranek, Ridgewell, Larsson, Bowyer, Gardner, Fahey, Hleb, Jerome. Subs: Doyle, Phillips, Bentley, Derbyshire, Parnaby, Beausejour, Davies. Referee Howard Webb (S Yorkshire) Tottenham v West Brom team news Tottenham Gomes, Kaboul, Gallas, Dawson, Assou-Ekotto, Van der Vaart, Huddlestone, Modric, Bale, Pavlyuchenko, Defoe. Subs: Cudicini, Lennon, Jenas, Crouch, Bassong, Sandro, Pienaar. West Brom Carson, Reid, Meite, Olsson, Shorey, Brunt, Mulumbu, Scharner, Thomas, Odemwingie, Vela. Subs: Myhill, Tchoyi, Pablo, Morrison, Fortune, Cox, Jara. Referee Stuart Attwell (Warwickshire) Blackpool v Newcastle team news Blackpool Gilks, Eardley, Baptiste, Evatt, Crainey, Vaughan, Adam, Southern, Phillips, Campbell, Taylor-Fletcher. Subs: Kingson, Ormerod, Varney, Cathcart, Puncheon, Reid, Beattie. Newcastle Krul, Simpson, Williamson, Coloccini, Jose Enrique, Barton, Nolan, Tiote, Gutierrez, Ameobi, Lovenkrands. Subs: Soderberg, Perch, Ryan Taylor, Ireland, Steven Taylor, Ranger, Kuqi. Referee Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire) Aston Villa v Stoke team news Aston Villa Friedel, Walker, Dunne, Collins, Luke Young, Downing, Petrov, Reo-Coker, Ashley Young, Bent, Heskey. Subs: Marshall, Pires, Agbonlahor, Albrighton, Makoun, Clark, Cuellar. Stoke Begovic, Wilkinson, Huth, Shawcross, Wilson, Pennant, Whelan, Delap, Etherington, Jones, Walters. Subs: Sorensen, Collins, Fuller, Pugh, Diao, Whitehead, Faye. Referee Chris Foy (Merseyside) Wolverhampton v Fulham team news Wolverhampton Hennessey, Stearman, Craddock, Berra, Ward, Guedioura, Henry, O’Hara, Jarvis, Milijas, Fletcher. Subs: Hahnemann, Kightly, Ebanks-Blake, Vokes, Hammill, Mancienne, Foley. Fulham Schwarzer, Baird, Hughes, Hangeland, Salcido, Davies, Sidwell, Murphy, Dempsey, Gudjohnsen, Dembele. Subs: Stockdale, Kelly, Johnson, Etuhu, Kakuta, Zamora, Greening. Referee Michael Oliver (Northumberland) Sunderland v Wigan team news Sunderland Mignolet, Elmohamady, Turner, Onuoha, Bardsley, Henderson, Cattermole, Colback, Sessegnon, Gyan, Welbeck. Subs: Carson, Zenden, Malbranque, Muntari, Riveros, Meyler, Ferdinand. Wigan Al Habsi, Gohouri, Alcaraz, McCarthy, Gary Caldwell, Watson, N’Zogbia, Cleverley, Boyce, Rodallega, Diame. Subs: Kirkland, Thomas, Di Santo, Moses, Gomez, Sammon, Stam. Referee Lee Probert (Wiltshire) The 3pm Premier League games We’ll also be keeping a third of an eye on some of the important matches in the Football League. Aston Villa v Stoke Blackpool v Newcastle Liverpool v Birmingham Sunderland v Wigan Tottenham v West Brom Wolverhampton v Fulham Preamble Gormless posturing, casual racism and the intrusive shrill of ambulance sirens. It can only mean one thing: just another Friday night out with the Guardian Sport team St George’s Day. And on this most important day for all Englishmen, today’s clockwatch will celebrate the best league in the world. The Bundesliga. Okay, it won’t, because we don’t do Bundesliga clockwatches, but there’s a vaguely interesting point here. Well, a point. In England it has almost become a truism that the Premier League is the best league in the world. The observation is a constant, and only the justification changes. So, a couple of years ago, when the Premier League was woefully uncompetitive but consistently dominant in Europe, it was the best league in the world because it had the best teams. Now, even though England are miles behind Spain in Europe, the Premier League is the best in the world because somebody new broke into the top four!!!! it is so competitive. It’s irrational, disingenuous and simplistic, not to mention a load of fresh horse pucky. You can’t quantify how good a league is, based on the number of points it takes to win it, or the points gap between top or bottom, or the number of European Cup semi-finalists. The best league in the world is not necessarily, for example, the one with the best teams. You have to take a valued judgement based on all kinds of factors: the sheer quality of the best teams, the openness of the competition, the remorselessness of the title run-in, the attacking intent of the teams, the atmosphere at the grounds, the ratio of cheats to men, and so on. If you do that, you’d have to be either completely off your rocker or high on the paint you’ve just applied to your face in the shape of the St George’s Cross to think that the Premier League is the best in the world at the moment. Right here, right now, it’s in a rare old state. Indeed this has been, by a reasonable distance, the worst Premier League season since the competition began in 1992. The quality has been shamefully low, and just about the only thing going for it is the fact that we still have a race at the top and bottom of the table (which is a bit like giving a stupid kid a gold star at school for spelling his name correctly). That relegation battle will look a lot clearer after this set of 3pm fixtures, which involve 10 of the 12 sides who could still feasibly go down. Perhaps the most important match is Blackpool v Newcastle. Blackpool have been in freefall, with only five points from the last 13 games. They still have games at White Hart L ane and Old Trafford, and if they lose today it is hard to see them staying up. That would be a huge shame because, as David Lacey wrote on these pages today , they have been one of the few joys of a forgettable season. Like Luton in 1982-83 and Foggia in 1991-92 – they are a newly promoted side who have given the rulebook the finger and decided to attack and enjoy themselves. Is there anything better in life than a newly promoted loose cannon? Yes, obviously – there’s the physical act of love, and Monster Munch – but it is still one of the most enjoyable things in football. That’s why, even if Blackpool are relegated, we will remember them far longer than we will the Wolverhampton, West Ham, Wigan, Blackburn, Birmingham, Sunderland, Stoke, Fulham, West Brom, Aston Villa, Newcastle, Bolton, Everton, Liverpool, Tottenham, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United sides of 2010-11. Premier League Championship League One League Two Rob Smyth guardian.co.uk
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Click here to view this media Fox News was just jam-packed with fail yesterday, but here’s one for the record book. Wingnut Allen West using the most vitriolic language ever while slamming the President’s speech last week. To quote John Cole, it sounds like someone got his little fee-fees hurt. Allen West’s meteoric rise in a predominantly Democratic district is one of those things that disturbs me on a near-daily basis. His military background, his insanity, and the amazing amount of money put into his campaign makes it feel like a steal, not a win. Is it just me, or is it bizarro to slam another’s ‘statesmanship’ while calling them pinko commie bastids? Watch Greta try and rehabilitate some of the worst of what he said: VAN SUSTEREN: Did you hear what Congressman Allen West said? Well, hold onto your seat. He compared President Obama to a dictator. The Congressman made those remarks during a recent appearance on the Laura Ingraham Show. And to be specific, Congressman West said President Obama showed “third-world dictator-like arrogance” during his budget speech. So, what did he mean? Let’s ask him. Congressman Allen West of Florida joins us. Good evening Congressman, those are pretty tough words for the president. I know you have a lot of passion about your views, but the words. Any – uh – You want to do a do-over on that or you stand by those words? WEST: Oh, good evening and Happy Easter, Greta. And I do stand by those words. Perhaps one of the things that many people need to understand is that the truth needs to be said. When I go around and I talk to people down near my district and we get phone calls — That speech that was given Wednesday was absolutely beneath the statesmanship or the atmosphere or the aura or the personality that the president should show. I am sick and tired of this class warfare, this Marxist demagogue-ic rhetoric that is coming from the President of the United States of America. It is not helpful for this country and it’s not going to move the ball forward as far as rectifying the economic situation in our country. And I’m not going to back away from telling what the truth is. Let’s just stop right there. Is there some exemption that says members of the United States Congress have the absolute right to sling around meaningless loaded slanderous terms with abandon while setting a different standard for the President? While I’m at it, I’d like to add that Allen West’s authoritarian military “listen to me and STFU” attitude does nothing to make him look even a little bit authoritative. He just looks like a swaggering bully with a very small man-part that he’s compensating for. Picking it up, Greta is desperately working the rehabilitation angle. (Not really, but it provides contrast, I suppose) VAN SUSTEREN: I understand your passion, I understand your politics. You’ve certainly — you’ve been a passionate — WEST: Greta, it’s not about passion. But it’s not about passion. It’s about time people stop– [crosstalk] — playing the games. VAN SUSTEREN: And I’m in total agreement. I’m just curious as to whether calling him a ‘low-level socialist agitator’ or to compare him — to use a reference to Reverend Jeremiah Wright that the ‘chickens are coming home to roost’ — if that really is helpful to advance your, your — the great depth of your conviction. WEST: There’s a great depth to my conviction. Part of my conviction is telling the truth. I don’t think it’s very presidential when Barack Hussein Obama refers to my colleague Paul Ryan as a simple little accountant either. Breaking in here to point out the use of the President’s full name with emphasis on the middle name while using Ryan’s first and last names only. More “statesmanship”? Back to the action… WEST: So I think that when you look what at a community organizer is turning out to be it does seem to be like a low-level socialist agitator. When you look at the economic situation that we have to have a gentleman in the White House who never has really run any type of business or organization — I myself as a company commander, as a battalion executive officer and as a battalion commander have many time [sic] had to balance budgets and uh, take care of units and operate a budget. So I think it does come back to experience. And when I talk about the chickens coming home to roost, when we continue to play this election cycle American Idol in the United States of America this is what we end up with — with someone who is really not in tune with the American people. Look, Greta, the bottom line is this. The people of North Carolina who have suffered all of these tornadoes are suffering. This President is out campaigning and raising money out there in California. This is not how we’re going to turn the ship around in our country. VAN SUSTEREN: And you know, I think those are fair, uh, fair criticisms of the President vis a vis North Carolina. And also whether he has the experience, you know, you make the lemonade stand reference, whether he has the experience to run. I think that’s fair. It was the more sort of ratcheted-up rhetoric… It goes on about Jeremiah Wright and lemonade stands, but you get the flavor from this. There is something really cynical about Republicans using Allen West to flog the president. The message is “See, we’re not racists. Even black guys criticize him. It really IS about policy.” To which I will leave the retorts in the hands of my African-American friends out there. After this small dose of Allen West, I’m inclined to agree with those who think the wingnut bubble may be about to burst.
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It started on a quiet Wednesday night, with PlayStation gamers finding their Network unresponsive to their login attempts, and now continues well into its third day. Sony has now finally shed some light on the problems it’s been having with PSN and, to nobody’s surprise, the culprit for its troubles has been identified as “an external intrusion.” The current downtime for PSN is the second of its kind this month, with the Anonymous group of online crusaders claiming responsibility for the first. Sony now intends to keep both PSN and its Qriocity music streaming service offline until it can pinpoint the vulnerability that has been exploited and put a stop to it. Skip past the break for the company’s full statement. [Thanks, Christian] Continue reading PlayStation Network outage caused by ‘external intrusion,’ continues for third day PlayStation Network outage caused by ‘external intrusion,’ continues for third day originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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