So just what are some of these ingredients? Alpha-lactalbumin has a protein efficiency ratio of 4. Whey concentrate powders are quit…

In #64, I said that when the US bugged the phones of the UN Security Council and realized that the final vote would be 3-12 AGAINST the US’s proposal for invasion—they withdrew the proposal. (There is also the detail that it would only take one “NO” from one of the Big5 for the proposal to be defeated.)

In #65, you said:
“The UN Security Council did authorize it.”

What in the *#!@ are you talking about? Do you live in some alternative universe? Do you work alongside Winston Smith in the Ministry of Truth? Did you have a dream and think it was real?

UK: Police protect girls forced to convert to Islam
Watcher 2/23/2007 3:56 PM
(London) Extremist Muslims who force vulnerable teenage girls to convert to Islam are being targeted by police, Met chief Sir Ian Blair has revealed. Police are working with universities to clamp down on “aggressive conversions” during which girls are beaten up and forced to abandon university courses.

The Hindu Forum of Britain claims hundreds of mostly Sikh and Hindu girls have been intimidated by Muslim men who take them out on dates before terrorising them until they convert.

Sir Ian spoke about the problem at a conference organised by the forum.

A Met spokesman said: “Neighbourhood officers work with university authorities in London and we would encourage anyone targeted in this way to seek help and support and where necessary use third party reporting facilities if they do not want to contact police directly.” Ramesh Kallidai, of the Hindu Forum of Britain, said: “Some girls are petrified because they are constantly being phoned up, having their door knocked. “One girl was beaten up on the street and others have been forced to leave university.”

Anyone interested in the efforts of a few brave “moderate Muslims” in trying to ring the alarm in the West about the danger we face from thier faith will find this conference very enlightening.

Well , what’s your reaction to this?

Talibanistan expands beyond the tribal areas

Western Pakistan’s decent into a Taliban state becomes more and more apparent as each day passes. For well over the past year we warned that not only were the tribal areas and Quetta falling to the Taliban, but the Taliban was seeking to expand its influence into the settled regions of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province.

The Taliban, sufficiently emboldened by the Pakistani government’s unwillingness to meaningfully deal with with the threat, is now publicly flexing its muscle in the settled regions of the Northwest Frontier Province.

The Taliban have issued “threatening letters” and made phone calls to “schools and foreign banks” in Peshawar, the capital of the Northwest Frontier Province, ordering them “to shut down or face violent consequences,” reports ABC News’ The Blotter. A school and a business have already complied. “The Beaconhouse School, an English-language co-ed private school, shut the doors of its Peshawar campus in response to the threat,” notes The Blotter. “The Standard Chartered Bank also closed a Peshawar office.”

The Taliban threats are not limited to foreign institutions. As the news of threats against foreign schools and businesses materialized, the Taliban issued threats against local girls schools. Veils are now mandatory, according to the Taliban. “The principal of Mardan Government High School received a letter from an unidentified man, who had written that the school would be bombed within seven days if students and teachers did not start wearing veils,” Pakistan’s Daily Times reported yesterday. “It is believed that the letters are being sent by associates of Al Qaeda leader Abu Farah, who was arrested from the same area.” Two schools shut down due to the threat. This follows the murder of a female Pakistani provincial minister from Punjab for failing to wear a veil.

The Taliban threats to foreign and domestic institutions follows a series of suicide, roadside bombings, as well as attacks on government institutions in Islamabad, Peshawar, Mir Ali, Bajaur, Dera Ishmail Khan, Darra Adamkhel, Bannu, and Tank. The targets include police, the military, non-governmental organizations, doctors, the courts, government welfare centers and markets. This is occurring as the Taliban and al-Qaeda launch attacks into Afghanistan from their established bases and command centers in Bajaur and North and South Waziristan.

Despite the obvious signs of the Taliban and al-Qaeda expansion from the isolated tribal areas, the Musharraf government continues to seek reconciliation with the Taliban. President Pervez Musharraf will propose that the opposition in parliament approach the Taliban to “negotiate peace with militants.” The opposition is led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, whose Muttahida Mujlis Amal political party rules in the Northwest Frontier Province and is openly supportive of the Taliban.

The Musharraf government has tried negotiating with the Taliban in North and South Waziristan several times in the past, and each time to Taliban violated the terms of the agreement. The ‘peace deals’ have resulted in the establishment of Taliban and al-Qaeda sanctuaries now have a very real sanctuary in North and South Waziristan, as well as in Bajaur, where peace talks were scuttled after the U.S. and Pakistani military bombed a al-Qaeda camps. President Musharraf apparently believes a deal can be done with the Taliban, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Do you think this might give countries like Iran an incentive to get nuclear weapons? DUH!!!!

Iranian experts say Ahmadinejad as president doesn’t even have the power to attack Israel if he had a nuclear weapon and if he wanted to use it.

It is not a wild delusion to think that the Bush administration would attack an oil-rich country in the Middle East that was a threat to no one—all based on false pretenses. In case you haven’t caught the news recently, they have already done it.

I wish people would stop saying “an intelligence failure”. If something enables you to do precisely what you want to do (get the Congress and American people to go along with the needless, counterproductive invasion of Iraq), then it is not a failure, it is a success.

I agree with all BlueDog says.

…but painful nonetheless…

for the life of me it looks like chuck is bracing to grab himself some fine phat ass.