Hacking off women's limbs and burning them alive makes you a hero?

*sigh*

and this surprises you because . . . ?

Mugabe was for change before change was cool

Tell me why we give one cent to these assholes.

Ahh, fascism. It's alive and thriving on the African continent.

Compared with the former government of Rwanda, or Idi Amin, ....

I. Am. Speechless.

Then again, what more could anyone expect....they ALL behave the same way. I think I'm going to be ill : /

Thanks, Jimmah!

Andrew Young, too.

Bet that meeting looked like the "Bar Scene" in the first STAR WARS,

-S-

Mugabe is as much a "hero" as Al Capone. In fact, I think Capone was cleaner and nicer.

re: #11 Honorary Yooper

Mugabe is as much a "hero" as Al Capone. In fact, I think Capone was cleaner and nicer.

Al Capone was a community organizer.

Mugabe: He's also Clean and Articulate

/

Hero.

Let that sink in folks.

Mugabe, who is nothing more than a dictator having stolen democracy from Zimbabwe, is a hero to these tools at the AU. And we're supposed to think that the AU will force Mugabe from office because Mugabe stole the election?

Isn't it amazing how Mugabe could declare victory hours after the runoff votes were cast, but he never provided results of the original election?

Of course, it helps when you terrorize the opposition and force them into hiding and into the Dutch Embassy.

The AU and South Africa in particular have done nothing but enable Mugabe in his totalitarian power grab.

re: #12 VegasRick

Al Capone was a community organizer.

In Chicago.

All Mugabe did for Zimbabwe was enact the grandiose plans that Barrack Obama's dad wrote up for Kenya back in the '60's. And it really seems to be working out well.
/

At an African Union summit meeting in Egypt, the corrupt leaders of Africa rallied behind Robert Mugabe: Robert Mugabe hailed a hero at African Union summit.

Mugabe passed the global test! Hooray!

/

re: #12 VegasRick

Al Capone was a community organizer.

You're very "on" today, Rick!

re: #18 Occasional Reader

You're very "on" today, Rick!

just sayin.

re: #12 VegasRick

Al Capone was a community organizer.

So is Barack Obama. In Chicago no less.

“He was elected, he took an oath, and he is here with us, so he is President and we cannot ask him more,” said Omar Bongo, President of Gabon

You just can't make this stuff up.

re: #14 lawhawk

Isn't it amazing how Mugabe could declare victory hours after the runoff votes were cast

Well, he was the only candidate (having terrorized the opposition into withdrawing). He could have declared victory hours before the votes were cast.

Anyone think this will make the US reconsider the level of foreign aid it supplies to 'our friends the Egyptians.'

/I didn't think so.

Vote or Die

re: #22 buzzsawmonkey

Mugabe's an issue since he lost the elections a few months back and has been trying to overturn the results ever since. First, he refused to release the results of his election against Tsvangirai, and then demanded recounts - again never releasing the results of the presidential election. He then formed thug squads to attack opposition leaders and harass them into silence.

And he succeeded.

Putting it bluntly. Mugabe killed democracy in Zimbabwe.

Next on the agenda for Mugabe, a Nobel Peace Prize, an Honorary PhD from Columbia University, and a free election certification from Jimmy Carter.

re: #21 Occasional Reader

“He was elected, he took an oath, and he is here with us, so he is President and we cannot ask him more,” said Omar Bongo, President of Gabon
You just can't make this stuff up.

Al Gabon was unavailable for comment.

re: #23 Occasional Reader

He declared victory in the original elections too - refusing to release the results. It's easy to declare victory when you control the entire process.

Well, at the very least, Mugabe is old, so hopefully he'll be eating s**t in a grave someday soon. I certainly wish we could help the process along with a couple of cruise missiles...

Imagine what this world would be like if the UN itself wasn't full of fascists and socialists, and an international body like that actually stood up to murderous thugs like Mugabe. What a strange, wonderful world that might be.

“We have even received Mugabe as a hero,” he told reporters. “We understand the attacks (by the international community) but this is not the way they should react. What they’ve done is, in our opinion, a little clumsy, and we think they could have consulted us (the AU) first.”

When you're an African politician this is how you diplomatically say, "Hey, at least he's not eating people."

re: #25 Shug

Vote or Die

p diddy doggie doo says vote obama or die!
What does he mean?

Of course he's a hero to them. He has gotten away with more corruption, thievery, and brutality than the rest of the tinhorn tyrants put together, quite a feat all things considered.

Can I say Selected not Elected or does that only apply to George Bush ?

/

re: #12 VegasRick

Al Capone was a community organizer.

Al Capone was in the "wealth re-distribution" business.

Mugabe's election is a fraud.........it wasn't certified by Jimmuah Carter, thus it is an election fraud.

I agree...this is a huge travesty of democratic principles...subverting democratic process so one could be elected as the leader...

This is so obvious..

re: #31 DaChew

“We have even received Mugabe as a hero,” he told reporters. “We understand the attacks (by the international community) but this is not the way they should react. What they’ve done is, in our opinion, a little clumsy, and we think they could have consulted us (the AU) first.”

When you're an African politician this is how you diplomatically say, "Hey, at least he's not eating people."

Idi Amin liked white folks.

at best a sham, at worst a travesty of democracy.

At best a sham?

What kindness and generousity the writer is showing Mugabe.

I would think arresting your opponent and having his wife burned to death would remove any doubts as to it being merely "a sham."

re: #34 Shug

I think the democrat party in the U.S. holds the copyright on that- better check with them.

re: #36 Avery Bullard

Mugabe's election is a fraud.........it wasn't certified by Jimmuah Carter, thus it is an election fraud.

I hope Jimmy does certify this one...to show the fool he is!

To the UN Mugabe is the idealization of a political leader.

re: #40 CIA Reject

I think the democrat party in the U.S. holds the copyright on that- better check with them.

Specially in Chicago!

The Chicago Machine!

re: #30 BGOH

Well, at the very least, Mugabe is old, so hopefully he'll be eating s**t in a grave someday soon.

But what a shame to have dictators like Arafat and Castro live to old age and die in power.

re: #27 Mich-again

Next on the agenda for Mugabe, a Nobel Peace Prize, an Honorary PhD from Columbia University, and a free election certification from Jimmy Carter.

Or maybe Jimmy will expedite things by just issuing an election certification gift certificate; good for "certifying" one election, without the Carter Center having to send anyone to any of those god-awful places.

This is a big F-U to the rest of the world.
And another demonstration of the utter worthlessness of the UN.

re: #44 Silhouette

You're right. In a better world, these guys would die in their "prime," at the hands of their own people.

re: #26 lawhawk

Putting it bluntly. Mugabe killed democracy in Zimbabwe.

More likely this:

Mugabe killed Zimbabwe.

Another hero of the left!

re: #43 Psaturn

LOL!

European schizophrenia.

The AU? The African Union? Not to be too abrupt here, folks, but fuck the AU; they've done NOTHING to alleviate the starving, suffering and dying of the poor unfortunates who live in Africa.
So in the words of that "wordsmith" Markos Zuniga Kos "Screw Them".

re: #35 Son of the Black Dog

Al Capone was in the "wealth re-distribution" business.

He was definitely about Change You Can Believe In, too.

Early OT:

Also little-known is the story of McCain's youngest child. As a result of a 1991 Cindy McCain visit to Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, the McCains adopted an infant daughter dying from a host of health issues. The orphanage could not provide the medical care needed to save the little girl's life, so the McCains, already the parents of six children, brought the child home to America, and paid for desperately needed surgeries and years of rehabilitation. That child is their teenage daughter Bridget. In fact, there was a second infant girl brought back from the orphanage that the McCains saved. She ended up being adopted by one of McCain's aides, Wes Gullett, and his wife. "We were called at midnight by Cindy," Gullett has stated, and "five days later we met our new daughter Nicki at the LA airport."

Madonna Jolie, INC not impressed.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

re: #46 buzzsawmonkey

One gets the distinct impression of the world exclaiming over the skull Zimbabwean democracy the way Hamlet exclaims over the skull of Yorick in the gravedigger scene.

Is that from Weekend at Bernie's?

re: #56 buzzsawmonkey

Alleviating the starving, suffering and dying of the poor unfortunates who live in Africa would require imposition of the oppressive hegemony of Western values upon the rich indigenous tribal cultures.

How dare you, sir.

Hear, hear! As I wrote yesterday: Eating is just a social construct.

Do the folks who proclaim Mugabe a hero have their own my.barackobama page?

Robert Mugabe, like the soon to be nuclear Iranian Ayatollahs, is a legacy of the Carter Presidency.

re: #57 Occasional Reader

You owe me a keyboard.

re: #55 Ben Hur

Great article, thanks. It's telling that McCain has not dragged his adopted daughter out into the spotlight for PR purposes. The man actually has a sense of honor; something that's been forgotten in great swaths of our culture.

I always thought that Jean-Bedel Bokassa (the self-proclaimed "emperor") was pretty much unbeatable in terms of atrocities coupled with corruption...But then there's a top-twelve list of Africa's Worst Dictators, and Bokassa ranks only at number 11. Mugabe comes in at number 4. Here's the list.

re: #56 buzzsawmonkey

re: #58 Occasional Reader
and
re: #59 JammieWearingFool

I sense a lack of a postive response to my post at #
53! And I don't understand that at all!

re: #59 JammieWearingFool

Do the folks who proclaim Mugabe a hero have their own my.barackobama page?

Don't give them ideas.

re: #55 Ben Hur

And note how the Dems have lately gone strangely silent on the whole "politicians who support the war should be willing to send their own sons and daughters to fight in Iraq" meme. Gosh, I wonder why?

Next up, T-shirts.
Viva La Revulsion

OT

Two Israeli POWs Murdered In Captivity

Jerusalem - In a dramatic statement issued to the press at midnight Israel time, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert issued a clear statement that two Israeli POWs were executed in captivity by Hezbollah and that they "are no longer alive". In Mr. Olmert's words, "The goal and the assumption according to which we have been acting the whole time was that we are acting to bring back people who are still alive. Today, we know for certain that there is no such chance for this."

Two years ago, Rev. Jesse Jackson, acting as an independent envoy, along with the Red Cross and the UN, all confirmed that Israeli POW's Regev and Goldwasser were alive.

re: #49 Psaturn
Precisely and well said.

The short answer is: If you support Mugave, we won't give you a dime in aid. No food, funding, anything. Let the oil rich Saudi's donate (yea, right) and see how that goes. Time we take care of those who at leats have some idea of Democracy, and stop supporting thugs still in the stone age.

You know things are bad when the apartheid state of Rhodesia is fondly recalled as "the good old days."

re: #60 Dirk Diggler

Robert Mugabe, like the soon to be nuclear Iranian Ayatollahs, is a legacy of the Carter Presidency.
------------
The gift that just keeps on giving, Carter sure cast a long shadow from 4 years in the late seventies, just imagine the repercussions of an Obama presidency!

Real Hero:

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

One woman at a church in Harare held her 11-month-old baby, who had casts on his tiny legs. She said that after her husband, an opposition organizer, went into hiding she had gotten word that ZANU-PF supporters were looking for her, too. She fled with the boy.

She returned home the next day, though, and that is when “the youth,” as foot soldiers of the ruling party are often called, came looking for her, she said. They snatched her son from the bed and hurled him onto the concrete floor, shattering his legs, she said.

And our lovely liberals are too busy worrying their heads over Bush listening to their boring phone calls.

re: #66 lawhawk

Isn't it a given that the DNC nominee for President can pretty well expect to collect the endorsement of the most odious dictators and thugs in the world?

After all, it's their badge demonstrating their world view and foreign policy 'wisdom'.

re: #65 realwest

re: #58 Occasional Reader
and
re: #59 JammieWearingFool

I sense a lack of a postive response to my post at #
53! And I don't understand that at all!

Well...quoting Kos is not a popular thing I guess...

This what happens when ruled become the rulers.
Wasn't Zimbabwe called Rhodesia at one time. Ruled by the white minority, all the uproar, and then blacks took over. See what happened.
Of course, now, billions of American aid will somehow be funneled into Zimbabwe.

re: #63 buzzsawmonkey

Judging from FBV's response, there is a reference here that I am absolutely not getting.

Eh? FBV was laughing at my Weekend at Bernie's joke. "Eating is just a social construct" was something I came up with yesterday as a mock "deconstructionist" apologetics for Mugabe. The idea of consuming enough calories to sustain life is just Western cultural hegemony; Mugabe has bravely transcended that paradigm.

re: #70 realwest

Precisely and well said.

Thanks!

I think that we miss the point. Mugabe is an economic wizard.
See, the White Farmer Class was the underpining of the economy.
He sent his maurading goons to those farms , to kill & drive the farmers off of the land.
He thereby trashed the entire economic struture. Genius!

re: #69 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

OT

Two Israeli POWs Murdered In Captivity

Probably tortured as well.

re: #64 J.S.

I always thought that Jean-Bedel Bokassa (the self-proclaimed
"emperor") was pretty much unbeatable in terms of atrocities coupled
with corruption...But then there's a top-twelve list of Africa's Worst
Dictators, and Bokassa ranks only at number 11. Mugabe comes in at
number 4. Here's the list.

From the article - Dictator #1 is Ethiopia's Mengistu (he even sounds like a disease) who's in exile in Zimbabwe.

Mengistu fled to Zimbabwe, where he now has permanent residence, after being ousted in 1991. The Ethiopean government has been unsuccessfully trying for years to get Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe to extradite Mengistu so he can be tried for crimes against humanity.

re: #65 realwest

Okay, I updinged you, now settle down!

:P

So....is Bono paying attention? Or does he still want more of our hard-earned dollars to be poured into the African cesspool?

Bobby, you clown, you!

When are you going to stop hiding all your secrets from me? Don't you see that the little people might actually vote me out of office?

the people of the country are sooooo much better off under Mugabe than they were when it was a British colony.

wait. they're not? oh my.....

re: #69 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir) Motherfuckers. Sorry, that seemed to be the only appropriate appellation to that story.
WHEN THE HELL IS THE WORLD GOING TO WAKE UP?!

re: #81 NJDhockeyfan

Probably tortured as well.

Dont be silly. Only the US tortures people and most of that happens in Gitmo.

/

re: #67 Occasional Reader

And note how the Dems have lately gone strangely silent on the whole "politicians who support the war should be willing to send their own sons and daughters to fight in Iraq" meme. Gosh, I wonder why?

They've gone strangely silent on a whole host of things that they once considered requirements for leadership.

But they will never apply Bush's litmus test to the Messiah.

re: #69 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Mr. Olmert's words, "The goal and the assumption according to which we have been acting the whole time was that we are acting to bring back people who are still alive. Today, we know for certain that there is no such chance for this."

Once again, Olmert sounds like he's baffled by how Hizballah could have let him down.

These murdered men deserve better.

re: #80 opnion

I think that we miss the point. Mugabe is an economic wizard.
See, the White Farmer Class was the underpining of the economy.
He sent his maurading goons to those farms , to kill & drive the farmers off of the land.
He thereby trashed the entire economic struture. Genius!

He imposed his own sort of Windfall profits tax in those farmers

Can you imagine that poor continent if George Bush hadn't been elected? No American President has ever done so much for Africa. Where are his kudo's?

*crickets*

re: #85 HugoChavez

Bobby, you clown, you!

When are you going to stop hiding all your secrets from me? Don't you see that the little people might actually vote me out of office?

You're just pissed because, as is clear from the photo, Bobby blocked you from lifting his wallet.

Testing new avatar.

re: #85 HugoChavez

Bobby, you clown, you!

When are you going to stop hiding all your secrets from me? Don't you see that the little people might actually vote me out of office?

I keep a close tab on Venezuelan currenbt events (I was an exchange student there, before you ruined the country); and yes, you just might be tossed out soon.

we can only hope! :)

re: #91 Occasional Reader

Once again, Olmert sounds like he's baffled by how Hizballah could have let him down.

These murdered men deserve better.

I'm wondering if in the cabinet meetings, if any of Olmert's cronies ever pipes up with "Hey, its almost like we can't trust these guys."

re: #92 Shug

He imposed his own sort of Windfall profits tax in those farmers

Excellent point.

And it worked so well for agro in Zimbabwe, why not try it here for energy?

I am so disgusted I can hardly breathe.

16 Accidentally Wounded by French Military in Shooting Demo

War crime.

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky

Testing new avatar.

How old? Congratulations and may all your troubles be littles ones.

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky

aaawwwwwwwww!

re: #83 Occasional Reader HEY! I can't be bought off with an upding (which, btw, isn't there!).
I can't take this shit anymore - that Mugabe is STILL murdering his own people and the AFRICAN UNION just doesn't give shit, and the fact that those two members of the IDF were murdered by Hamas just gets me a little crazy(ier) today.

re: #99 buzzsawmonkey

I'm
looking at the list and the similarities to Washington, Jefferson, John
and Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, and all the other
bloodthirsty warmongering butchers spawned by the colonial period on
the North American continent are palpable. Just palpable.

And what discussion of the worst dictators would be complete without the obligatory Bush-bashing?

For Dr. Ethiopia to label Bokassa a cannibal is just out of order. He is copying elements of western propaganda aimed at painting us as uncivilised savages. How is George Bush doing? What is the difference between him & Mugabe? The difference is that his country has not been sanctioned by the west but hurricane Katrina exposed him for the tyranny & injustice he has visited on his people.

re: #74 Sir Lurksalot

Actually, as demonstrated numerous times in the past, the Dems do not really care about what happens to others if the plight is not something they can exploit for political purposes.

The same mindset that brought Carter into power, that is behind the assinine policy views of Obama, directly contributed to millions of deaths in SE Asia in the mid / late 1970's. This after the 'expert' on the region, John Effin Kerry, testified that at most 3 or 4 thousand South Vietnamese would need assistance once the war was over. How about over a million dead, nearly two million in re-education camps, another million plus boat people and that doesn't count the Khmer Rouge wiping out 1/3rd of the Cambodian population while the Donks could care less.

Need we remember the complete lack of action by Clinton during the Rwanda massacre's? Over 800K dead while the UN and US did nothing.

Hell, even when Americans die, the Dems aren't interested in addressing the cause, they are more interested in how they can exploit it for power.

The Dems are the party of moral and ethical bankruptcy.

re: #101 Ben Hur

16 Accidentally Wounded by French Military in Shooting Demo

War crime.

From one report I saw, it was only one soldier with live ammo. I'm thinking accident is not the right word.

re: #100 Dianna

I am so disgusted I can hardly breathe.

You need to breathe! We love you too much!

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky
Ah, just perfect newsjunie, perfect I say!
And thanks for the e-mail!

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky

Cute baby!

re: #101 Ben Hur

16 Accidentally Wounded by French Military in Shooting Demo

War crime.

Wow, the fwench had some real bullets! Who knew!?

re: #91 Occasional Reader

Israel deserves better. And the latest prisoner swap will lead to only more misery.

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky
I'm still seeing Dog as my avatar and not new Granddaughter.

What am I doing wrong? When I click on Avatar it shows Granddaughter but not on comment.

What they’ve done is, in our opinion, a little clumsy, and we think they could have consulted us (the AU) first.

Well, there's no African more qualified than Omar Bongo to serve as a role model for Mugabe.

Interesting that Africa's most successful President/Tyrant views hacking up opposition members and immolating the wives of political opponents as "a little clumsy." If anyone needed an explanation of why Africa remains an pitiable hell hole, this should suffice.

With a little coaching from Bongo, however, there's every reason to hope that Mugabe's ongoing rape of his country and his people can be performed with a bit more nuance and finesse.

re: #111 VegasRick

Wow, the fwench had some real bullets! Who knew!?

Obviously the French didn't know either.

re: #101 Ben Hur

16 Accidentally Wounded by French Military in Shooting Demo

War crime.

"The barrel goes towards the enemy? Sacre bleu!"

That Mugabe is a monster is evident to any objective observer.
But Obama's friend/cousin, Raila Odinga is not much better.
He just does not have full authority in Kenya.
After he lost the presidential election, among other things, he had his thugs burn down Christian chrches, with the Christians in them!
In 2006, Obama went to Kenya & campaigned for this guy.
I know that this is old news, but damn!

re: #77 smokefire Uh, sorry there - but the Blacks who took over didn't rule the newly named nation; the corrupt killing mofos who led the ruled still rule the ruled.

re: #98 Occasional Reader

"That didn't work, so let's do it some more!"

re: #113 newsjunkie_ky

refresh/reload...it's adorable. Congrats!

re: #117 opnion

That Mugabe is a monster is evident to any objective observer.
But Obama's friend/cousin, Raila Odinga is not much better.
He just does not have full authority in Kenya.
After
he lost the presidential election, among other things, he had his thugs
burn down Christian chrches, with the Christians in them!
In 2006, Obama went to Kenya & campaigned for this guy.
I know that this is old news, but damn!

Racist!

re: #102 BuddyG

Thanks. Are you all seeing my new Grandbaby or Dog?
Granddaughter was born last Thursday. All is well with Mom and Baby.

re: #119 Dianna

"That didn't work, so let's do it some more!"

To be fair, they did steal that idea from the communists

re: #104 realwest

(which, btw, isn't there!).

Yes it is... click on the counter.

The effen deal sucks and should be the last effen deal.

re: #122 newsjunkie_ky

I see your cute li'l granddaughter !

re: #116 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

"The barrel goes towards the enemy? Sacre bleu!"

Hey, be fair, on those bullpup rifles it's hard to tell.

/

re: #122 newsjunkie_ky

Thanks. Are you all seeing my new Grandbaby or Dog?
Granddaughter was born last Thursday. All is well with Mom and Baby.

Cute! You are blessed!

Grandchildren are blessings from G-d!

re: #113 newsjunkie_ky

I'm still seeing Dog as my avatar and not new Granddaughter.

What am I doing wrong? When I click on Avatar it shows Granddaughter but not on comment.

gotta clear your browser cache.

re: #91 Occasional Reader Hell O.R., ISRAEL deserves better.

re: #107 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

From one report I saw, it was only one soldier with live ammo. I'm thinking accident is not the right word.

Are you thinking Sudden Jihad Syndrome, perhaps?

(Pure speculation at this point, of course, but I will be interested to learn more about the soldier involved.)

re: #125 Ben Hur

The effen deal sucks and should be the last effen deal.

I assume you mean the Israel-Hezz deal.

If it were me, live captives get get prisoners returned. Remains for remains.

re: #128 Psaturn
Yes they are and now I can see her on my comment.
Thanks to all.

re: #113 newsjunkie_ky

The rest of us are seeing it - perhaps you need to refresh?

Expecting someone in the US to say of Mugabe and his failed "liberation" and slash&burn politics: He rocks. He rocks.

Countries with guts would globalcitizen-arrest Mugabe.

Instead, World Can't Wait to say Mugabe brings hope & change.

"Robert Mugabe is a true Democrat, a change agent. Any world leader who opposes America is, by definition, a Democrat, a freedom fighter. The same may be said of Hugo Chavez, Raul & Fidel Castro, North Korea's Jong-Il and Iran's Achmadinejad..."
--Sean Penn, Matt Damon, Tim Robbins, Danny Glover & other noted scholars of Hollywood

re: #127 Occasional Reader

Hey, be fair, on those bullpup rifles it's hard to tell.

/

With as often as the French have used them, how could they know?

re: #129 Vergeltung
Thanks. I thought I had but guess I hadn't.

re: #113 newsjunkie_ky

Clear your browser cache and your grandchild should appear. Congrats.

re: #131 Occasional Reader

Are you thinking Sudden Jihad Syndrome, perhaps?

(Pure speculation at this point, of course, but I will be interested to learn more about the soldier involved.)

Criminal negligence at the very least. Dont know enough to say if there was malice behind it.

re: #139 FlakMusic

Clear your browser cache and your grandchild should appear. Congrats.

So THAT'S where babies come from... thanks!

re: #141 buzzsawmonkey

Science!

Evolution!
opps, did I say that?

re: #123 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Yeah, I know. It didn't work then. It has never worked. But in public policy, for some reason, policy makers seem to be afflicted with a complete inability to learn from failure. It's always "Let's do it some more!" or, "It just needed more money!"

I shudder at the thought of government health care.

re: #121 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Racist!

That's alright. After Barry is inaugurated, I will just spend some time in a pleasant reeducation camp.

re: #139 FlakMusic

Clear your browser cache and your grandchild should appear. Congrats.

Wow. And I thought I had to go through all the trouble of meeting someone, getting married, having kids, then waiting for them to do the same to have a grandchild.

re: #143 VegasRick

Evolution!
opps, did I say that?

re: #95 newsjunkie_ky

Testing new avatar.

I love your Idea.

I copied it.

Shug Jr looking very nervous that Obama might get elected and raise the limit on FICA and steal from his college fund

re: #145 opnion

That's alright. After Barry is inaugurated, I will just spend some time in a pleasant reeducation camp.

Camp - it sounds fun. Think they'll have bug juice?

re: #142 Occasional Reader

So THAT'S where babies come from... thanks!

Damn it! Now you owe me two keyboards!

re: #142 Occasional Reader

I've been telling my 9-year-old daughter that her mother and I found her in an oyster...I gotta get my stories straight...

To her credit (and more than the UN has done), Queen Elizabeth II stripped Mugabe of his ceremonial knighthood based on the advice of Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who said Mugabe should have the honor revoked following widespread violence and intimidation of the southern African country's opposition before the presidential run-off.

Good morning, Lizards!
It would be interesting to dig up some MSM reports going back to when Mugabe first took power, and read all the little kisses they were blowing to him at that time. I'll bet we could even find the words "hope" and "change
in the text.

re: #64 J.S. OMG! I just can't beleive all the people those 12 sonsabitches murdered.
And I'm embarrassed to say I never heard of #1 or some of the others on that list.
Reading that list is just so damn upsetting and depressing and knowing that people who were in a postion to do something (for the most part Clinton) and didn't makes it even worse.

re: #146 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

I tried to clear the cache and see if I get grandchildren...

Nope...it does not work.

The other kleptocrats love him.
And why the heck shouldn't they?
Oingo Boingo, president from Gabon since 1967 said, "He conducted elections and I think he won."
So there!

re: #26 lawhawk,

In all fairness, Mugabe is just acting like Al Gore wanted to. He could have just called for recounts in counties that favored him, and had a kangaroo court approve said recounts.

Al Gore and his supporters weren't quite able to run W into hiding, nor, as a practical matter, were they able to start attacking W's supporters on a wide scale.

We have guns.

re: #104 realwest

HEY! I can't be bought off with an upding (which, btw, isn't there!).
I can't take this shit anymore - that Mugabe is STILL murdering his own people and the AFRICAN UNION just doesn't give shit, and the fact that those two members of the IDF were murdered by Hamas just gets me a little crazy(ier) today.

If it helps - I feel exactly the same.

And just thinking of the pious words of our politicians who ahve been looking on for years without doing anything makes me want to throw things.

re: #64 J.S.

I always thought that Jean-Bedel Bokassa (the self-proclaimed "emperor") was pretty much unbeatable in terms of atrocities coupled with corruption...But then there's a top-twelve list of Africa's Worst Dictators, and Bokassa ranks only at number 11. Mugabe comes in at number 4. Here's the list.

The list is very informative, but needs to be updated. (E.g., they list Idi Amin as still being alive; he died in 2003.)

"I have certified the re-election of Robert Mugabe as 100% clean, transparent, fair, and Democratic..." --Jimmy Carter

re: #157 Iron Fist

We have guns.

Only by one vote on the SCOTUS. If that vote went the other way, the Constitution would have been amended without following the required process.

re: #124 Occasional Reader I did click on the counter you oaf! It still shows no plusses or minuses!
Looks like you updinged someone else!
LOL!

re: #113 newsjunkie_ky

I'm still seeing Dog as my avatar and not new Granddaughter.

What am I doing wrong? When I click on Avatar it shows Granddaughter but not on comment.

Congrats on that sweet baby!
As to your not seeing it - perhaps clearing your browser cache might help?

re: #162 realwest

I did click on the counter you oaf! It still shows no plusses or minuses!
Looks like you updinged someone else!
LOL!

Your post #53 currently has five updings, including my own. I am not hallucinating.

re: #148 Shug

I love your Idea.

I copied it.

Shug Jr looking very nervous that Obama might get elected and raise the limit on FICA and steal from his college fund

Aaaahhhhh!

Lovely!

re: #164 Occasional Reader Ah, ooops, was looking at the wrong post.
Lo siento mucho!

I think this is a case of someone truly stealing an election...

re: #161 Athos,

Yeah. It is scary that four justices of the Supreme Court voted to ignore an individual right that even their dissenting opinion acknowledged was there. It just wasn't worty of judicial protection.

Scary.

OTOH, if they want our guns, I have only one thing to say: Come and Take them.

Kill all the white people
Then we'll be free

It's sad when you can learn more about foreign policy from Type O Negative than from the media.

re: #168 Iron Fist Ah, my brother, I understand how you feel. But when President Obama gets his appoitments to SCOTUS to overturn Heller, the US Military will be used to enforce that ruling.
Even you can't take on the 82d Abn.
Geez, I actually had a nightmare about three days ago in which I dreamed Obama was elected and declared himself President for Life and disolved the Constitution.
The only good news was that he also dissolved Congress.
Hillary started leading a Red Dawn sort of operation and thankfully I woke up!

re: #153 rawmuse

Good morning, Lizards!
It would be interesting to dig up some MSM reports going back to when Mugabe first took power, and read all the little kisses they were blowing to him at that time. I'll bet we could even find the words "hope" and "change
in the text.

* * *
Even writer/novelist James Michener was taken in by Carter & Andrew Young's support of the supposed "liberation" candidates like Mugabe (and S. Hussein) who came to power in 1979, on Carter's watch & with Carter's blessings.

Michener's novel about Africa, "The Covenant", ends in 1979 with Africa expecting lots of CHANGE and HOPE from what sadly are average typical tyrants.

Michener must be turning over in his grave at Carter's folly, and anyone who expected good things from these "liberation" "change" thugs.

Second Amendment rights are needed by African individuals for real liberation. These folks need to defend themselves FROM their leaders.

*Shrugs Shoulders* "What do you expect mate? It's Africa"

We have a second amendment to end this kind of government in America. To end it it Africa we have a Army. I suspect Obama will use that Army in places that don't affect American security and might effect it in the wrong ways.

time to cut off all money to Africa. All of it, every cent. We spent all those millions for squat.

So Mugabe is a hero to the African Union? It sure explains why Africa is the cesspool it is. For them to accept Mugabe after all the murdering he's done speaks volumes. And the statement that countries concerned should have talked to the AU first is laughable. I suppose next they will be blaming George W Bush for Mugabe's killing sprees.

The AU, OIC and the UN are locked in a competition to see which one is the most useless international organization. I declare it a three way tie, they all suck. Dumb, dumber and dumbest.

re: #170 realwest,

An Obama Presidency is truly a thing of nightmare. One question that we've thankfully never had to answer is how many of the troops would fire on American citizens in order to disarm them.

Let's hope that question remains unasked. This SC decision was a step in the right direction.

re: #3 Shug

Mugabe was for change before change was cool

That wins potential Obama supporter bumper sticker of the week.

re: #170 realwest

Without airsupport they would get their asses handed to them by the many veterans of it and other light infantry units in an Appalachian AO. But then Obama could always use gas on those pesky clingers.

#170 Real west

Barry Hussein could try to disarm us, but there are 30 million legal gun owners. that 's more than the entire armed forces and every city county and state law enforcement combined. the minute he tried to disarm us, we could easily overrun washington and none could stop us. Moreover, it is illegal for the military to be involved in domestic issues (the posse comitatus act of 1878) so I doubt he could convince them to break the law.

Met a man from Zimbabwe the other day. Am so sad for him. He told me that he weeps for his country.

At the end of the day, the tyrants and their sycophants live like Kings and the rest just do not live.

re: #148 Shug

I love your Idea.

I copied it.

Shug Jr looking very nervous that Obama might get elected and raise the limit on FICA and steal from his college fund

Oh, Shug, he is just adorable.
Babies are so very very wonderful.
Hope Mrs. Shug is doing well.

Oh for an Israeli commando force to storm Sharm El Sheikh resort in Egypt, and "liberate" Mugabe. Or for a plague to hit Egypt & topple this crony pharaoh party.

"Let my people go" was coined there I believe. Moses was in charge.

re: #101 Ben Hur

16 Accidentally Wounded by French Military in Shooting Demo

War crime.

Didn't they watch the Shooty/No Shooty educational film? I thought that was required viewing by the Fwench military.

re: #139 FlakMusic

Clear your browser cache and your grandchild should appear. Congrats.

That sounds a lot easier than giving birth.

I think there are more logical explanations for marxist Mugabe's long reign of terror in Africa and the reluctance of the so-called leaders there to displace him. He was their host and protector during the liberation struggle and no doubt has plenty of compromising dirt on all of them, especially Thabo & Co.

Of course he's a hero to the other dictators. He sure showed whitey, now matter how many black Africans had to die to enrich himself and his cronies.

How much longer until Jimmah finds a TV camera to stand before and declare Mugabe the winner, in a fair and open election?

Great idea, let's send these corrupt thugs more US tax dollars. Oh, that's right, the Obama will do just that if his idiotic Global Poverty Act gets passed.

re: #186 Challenger

Of course he's a hero to the other dictators. He sure showed whitey, now matter how many black Africans had to die to enrich himself and his cronies.

Too bad we couldn't get Bob and the other kleptocrats in Africa excited about Amway instead.

There is no hope for Africa unless it's re-colonized.

For the love of G-d! I'm sure those folks who were killed/injured or forced into exile by Mugabe's thugs see him as a hero. Oh wait, South Africa sent those mothers and children who were seeking asylum BACK to him the other day so scratch those in exile.

When is the world going to actually wake up and see this mad man for what he is? Oh wait, sorry... I forgot. He's a 'FREEDOM FIGHTER' battling against the captalist/imperialist Americans and British forces poised at his doorstep, ready to CRUSH his beloved people under our boots.. That's right... How stupid of me..

With South Africa going down the tubes, the continent will ultimately go up in flames. I'm heartbroken for the people and the wildlife. Read Paul Theroux's "Dark Star" written a few years ago. He decides to travel from Cairo to Capetown overland, e. g., without relying on air travel. He's somewhat acerbic for the lily-livered reader, but relays exactly what he sees with very little white washing. You should get a kick out of the chapter about the NGO workers in their white Land Rovers.

One of my professors is from Zimbabwe. I brought him the book to read which in the end wasn't appreciated. He is an apologist for Mugabe. Since his first job in Zimbabwe was governmental and involved a chauffered limosine, one guesses there are political ties. In the meantime, millions are starving in what once was the breadbasket of Africa.

Please forgive the abhorrent spelling in the prior post.

re: #194 ploome hineni

..according to the values of his culture, he is a hero

If you break enough legs and burn enough live bodies, you can make the culture do your bidding. The culture voted against him in the first election, but Bob straightened them out.

is it up to the white man to determine his values?

No, it's up to people of all colors to condemn and actively oppose his depraved criminality.

The poor fwench, they never imagined anyone would give them REAL ammunition. It's probably the first time in living memory that anyone got injured by a fwench soldier.

As for Mugage and his supporters, burn in hell.

A few years ago I was in a bookstore and saw the front page of The Economist magazine. It had a picture of Africa and the headline "The Hopeless Continent?". Methinks affirmative.

The African Union is a big-time f**king joke and Carter's Mistake is surrounded by likewise goodfellas in African clothing.

re: #198 Rkrocket

A few years ago I was in a bookstore and saw the front page of The Economist magazine. It had a picture of Africa and the headline "The Hopeless Continent?". Methinks affirmative.

They can hail Mugabe as a hero, but you're a racist for saying that.

/double standard

re: #190 Omni

There is no hope for Africa unless it's re-colonized.

Actually, a strict Darwinist would argue, with good scientific backing, that that is the last thing Africa needs. China went through its warring states period, Europe through the religious wars and Black Death. One never knows what will be born out of chaos.

The last thing I would recommend for Africa is to put the Euroweenies and US moonbats in charge.

re: #196 ploome hineni

well, let's see what the Africans and Chinese, Japanese, Koreans do

shall we?

If your point is that the African, Chinese, and other non-whitey leaderships don't feel enough moral obligation or outrage to come down on Mugabe, you're just accurately interpreting the news headlines.

My point was that there is such a thing as moral obligation and justified outrage, and that it shouldn't be uniquely whitey's.

Can we expect corrupt and violent African leaders to be critical of a fellow corrupt and violent African leader? It's Mugabe's anti-Western rhetoric and ability to hold onto power that endears him to his fellow dictators. I'm sure he also received congratulatory phone calls from Castro, Chavez and Kim Jong Il.

Even NPR, (national public radio, a licensed affiliate of the Communist Party) doesn't like this guy. He needs to sign some business contracts with Russia!

No wonder they call Africa the "dark" continent - totally incompetent to rule itself.

Are any successful representative republic sover there that aren't ruled by dictators pretending to be dem0ocratically elected president?