Sunday

Week/Passed:Ukraine, Assassination, and PEST

The Week Just Passed: Notes of important events from the week prior as Grandmother has determined, not the Old Media. With, as expected, Grandmother's input

The Biggest Story This Week Nobody Knows About

...Has got to be the election fiasco in the Ukraine. Which The Wise I has studied via various media and still struggles to grasp it all.

Let's shorten it to a synopsis for catch up. A candidate for President, YV, is buddies with Russian premier Putin. His opposition candidate, YS, is considered, wrongly perhaps, to be pro- western, pro-NATO, pro-EU.

According to most that I've read, YV won the election fraudulently. "Exit polls" was used as proof but I'm skeptical. Exit polls were totally wrong in the most recent US elections. However, when there are only 200,000 residents in a city and 350,000 of them show up to vote, this is suspicious.

As of this writing in this year of our Lord, there is a standoff at the Ukraine Parliament, with YS voters by the hundreds of thousands awaiting outside. Interestingly, Russian troops are being brought in and fitted with Ukraine security service outfits. Russian troops have no business in the Ukraine no more than if Russian troops were stationed in Ohio this past American election cycle.

Watch for more to hit the radar on this situation this coming week. Because sooner or later those disguised Russian troops are going to open fire on that huge crowd. OR that crowd is going to storm the parliament building.

People are going to die but the Ukrainian people were once part of the Soviet Union and it seems they don't want to be part of Putin's vision of a new USSR. For whatever reason, there's little coverage of all of this on The Old Media. Only the Bloggers seem to be covering it.

President Bush-Whatta Cowboy, huh?

John Kerry called his SS agent an SOB when the man accidently bumped into him on the ski slopes. Dubya went in and pulled his SS agent detained by Chilean guards right out of the hassle. Allegedly Bush told the scrappers that the SS man was with him and if he doesn't go in, then Bush doesn't go in.

In addition, scuttlebutt has it that there was a sloppy assassination attempt on Bush's life during this recent visit to South America. Couple this with the airplane that crashed on a Texas highway en route to pick up the elder Bush for a trip to South American, well, I'm just pointing this out.

President Bush stepped into the middle of a confrontation and pulled his lead Secret Service agent away from Chilean security officials who barred his bodyguards from entering an elegant dinner for 21 world leaders Saturday night.

Several Chilean and American agents got into a pushing and shoving match outside the cultural center where the dinner was held. The incident happened after Bush and his wife, Laura, had just posed for pictures on a red carpet with the host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos and his wife, Luisa Duran.

As Bush stepped inside, Chilean agents closed ranks at the door, blocking the president's agents from following. Stopping for more pictures, Bush noticed the fracas and turned back. He reached through the dispute and pulled his agent from the scrum and into the building.

The president, looking irritated, straightened his shirt cuffs as he went into the dinner. The incident was shown on APEC television.

"Chilean security tried to stop the president's Secret Service from accompanying him," said White House deputy press secretary Claire Buchan. "He told them they were with him and the issue was resolved."


That Strange Intelligence Bill

The Wise I struggles to understand all the brouhaha over the attempt to pass the Intelligence Overhaul bill this past week. This bill was recommended by the 9/11 commission and would provide for ONE person to be recipient of intelligence from all of the intelligence sources.

Supposedly Dubya wants the bill passed but I have my doubts about this.

Anyway, why is this thing being pushed through a lame duck congress anyway? Any fool can see the CIA is being overhauled on this day of our Lord so what's the rush? Then all week I see those partisans on the 9/11 commission out and about pushing this thing and again I am suspicious.

Everyone seems to be beating on the two house members who had issues with the bill. James Sensenbrenner Jr. is one of those opposed to the bill and I happened to listen to this very intelligent, well-spoken man on the Rush Limbaugh show last week. He stated that it was very stupid to pass this bill without there being some new and rigid standards on the granting of drivers' licenses by the states.

He's right. There is so much fraud and corruption across this country for driver's licenses. And obtaining a fraudulent driver's license is the ticket to unquestioned airline tickets, entry to the voting booth, and general recognition of citizenship. What good is it to overhaul our intelligence structure and leave this, the BIGGEST problem as regards terrorists and illegals in our midst, unaddressed?

As for President Bush, for whatever reason and although it's reported he is in favor of passage of the bill, The Wise I suspects not. First, he wasn't in favor of it before the election, why would he be now? I also hear the military has major problems with the concept of ONE national intelligence director. The military has intelligence operatives in the field and active during military operations. What a mess for the army, which has to move quickly, to sit and wait for one Grand poobah intelligent guru to pass the word that hey, right there, is a hostage house in Fallujah.

Finally, the Democrats desperately want this bill and for sure they don't want anyone messing with driver's licenses what with so many Democratic voters coming from the fraudulent licenses issues. This alone makes me think we should take our time and allow the new, lawfully elected congress debate the issue.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner Jr. actively opposed passage of the compromise bill, saying that reforming U.S. intelligence without making it harder for illegal aliens to get legal ID cards was pointless. Sensenbrenner was subjected to a lot of arm-twisting over the weekend, urging him to go along to get along and cave in on the ILLEGAL immigration aspects of the bill...including a call from the president.


Most Under-Reported Story of the Week

The Poor Children of Palestine

The Israel News reports the following:

Golani soldiers won special recognition for saving an innocent Arab child who was sent to provoke IDF soldiers into shooting him.

The two Golani soldiers recently were manning a check post near Gush Katif when a 10-year-old boy suddenly ran towards them. Despite fears that the child was carrying explosives, the soldiers did not fire.

"The child fell into the arms of one of the soldiers," said the troops' officer. "He hugged him to make sure he was not carrying a bomb. The child apparently received a few shekels to run towards the soldiers and provoke them into shooting."

So sad that these animals keep killing their own children in their hatred of Israel. The old saying is that the nation of Palestine will prosper when the Palestinians love their children more than they hate the Israelis.

Democrats Calling in the Shrinks

The news just keeps getting badder for the Democrats who can't accept their recent loss. Below another blow as, gasp, a federal judge thought the notion that two candidates who received less than a percent of the whole damn vote should hold up the proper processing of Ohio's election results. I bet those two Libertarian candidates got Democrat money for this stupid endeavor but that's just me.


A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by third-party presidential candidates who wanted to force a recount of Ohio ballots even before the official count was finished.

U.S. District Judge James G. Carr in Toledo ruled that the candidates have a right under Ohio law to a recount, but they have not shown "that they will be harmed irreparably if the recount is not completed by the time Ohio's electors to the Electoral College must be certified."

The judge said Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb and Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik could not credibly claim that they did or could garner enough votes to have Ohio's presidential electors cast their votes for them.


Speaking of Democrats Who Can't Give It Up...

....The American Health Association (AHA) has proclaimed a new mental disorder: The Post Election Selection Truama.

Rob Gordon, the AHA executive director,
said these PESTs are like "the canaries in the mine shaft.
There could be thousands of others, even Republicans, who
need to be in therapy over this election."

Anything to put money in their pocket The Wise I says.

From the I Told You So Department

Below an excerpt from Andrea Peyser on Clinton's LIEbrary: Refer to my own missive on this very subject.. from last week's Week Just Passed missive

"On the first day real people not titled president or named Bono were allowed inside, I traveled to this land of delusion for an up-close peek at the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library - the ex-prez's glass-and-concrete personal acid trip. Now I get it.

"This jumbled tribute to history, Clinton-style, is not a museum in the classic sense. It tells deliberate lies. It tries too hard to be noticed. To be loved. Above all, to get in the last word. Which means Bill Clinton spent $165 million of other people's money for a glitzy homage to Madame Tussaud's - where he can smooth out the wrinkles, Wite-out the warts, and paint moustaches on those who defied him."

- New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser

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