AMF: Crazy Uncle Moammar

Happy Friday, folks! I'm going to try to keep today's post brief, but there are a few things that I want to share - important things. Let's get started with the latest edition of NewsBusted.



Okay, what should you take away from that? Two things:

Even some NASA scientists are now saying that the slight warming trend during the last century is being caused by the Sun. Therefore, we should try to do things in a more environmentally friendly way, but global warming is not the man-made catastrophe that hippies claim that it is. Thus, we should not be enacting a bunch of ineffective, intrusive, abusive programs to try and stop something beyond our control.

Minnesota Democrats registered three thousand dead voters in the recent election? If they can find one or two hundred of those who "voted" for Al Franken, then Senator Coleman wins the election. Here's hoping.

Here are a few of the other stories that I've been paying attention to lately.

BBC: Pakistan deals 'aiding Taliban'

Guardian: James Bond may be going to Afghanistan

AP: Al Qaeda Commander Strapped for Cash, Asks Turkish Muslims to Send Money

BBC: Tackling the 'Taliban' in Norfolk - This is an article about the British version of the work I used to do in California.

Okay, so the biggest piece of news from yesterday was Colonel Qaddhafi's visit to Rome. You can read about it at the following sites: Guardian, Times, Times, BBC. The BBC has a pictorial. So, a few of the interesting things that Crazy Uncle Moammar had to say:

On African asylum seekers: "This is one of the lies that is put about... The Africans do not have problems of political asylum. People who live in the bush, and often in the desert, don't have political problems. They don't have oppositions or majorities or elections... These are things that only people who live in cities know. [Other Africans] don't even have an identity. And I don't mean a political identify; they don't even have a personal identity. They come out of the bush and they say: 'In the north, there's money, there's wealth' – and so they go to Libya, and from there to Europe."
- Colonel Moammar Qaddhafi

Oh, yeah, and he denounced the 1986 American bombing of Libya, which was a retaliation in response to his sponsorship of terrorist bombings that killed American troops. To top it all off, he wore a picture of Omar Mukhtar being arrested by Italians in 1931 after leading a twenty year insurgency. I'll say this about Colonel Qaddhafi: he ain't subtle.

Just for good measure, and to end things on a hilarious note, here's a link to the My Little Pony Live-Action Trailer. Hilarious.

Have a great weekend, folks!