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The Observer Journal - Observation Leading to Insight: Monthly Archives for May 2008

DEVELOPING STORY – Saturday morning - month of May lowest number of US troops killed since start of war in March 2003 – US troops safer in Iraq than some inner cities in England, France and Germany - Improved Iraqi Forces Contribute

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, May 30, 2008 10:09 AM | Add Comment

BREAKING NEWS - - "USA Evil" -- In a survey of some 6,200 Europeans more viewed the USA as "a force for evil" in today's world than "a force for good." -- German economy booms - German NATO contribution a bust

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, May 30, 2008 1:41 AM | Add Comment

All any official in a democracy can say in public - "My fellow citizens all the future holds is: blood, toil, tears and sweat." --- NOT - "U.S. Cites Big Gains Against Al-Qaeda"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, May 30, 2008 1:23 AM | Add Comment

"Bad Idea Barack" - #771 - UN General Secretary - Ban Ki-moon - on Thursday - Praised progress being made in Iraq - Obama and other American democrats boycott - not even offering moral support

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:22 AM | Add Comment

Like other engineering projects in Iraq, the work has become a chess match with insurgents - City Hard Perimeter + Air weapons = Force Multipliers - Did the army reject help from air weapons in 2003?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:55 AM | Add Comment

Congressman Pete Stark - Democrat - CA - a border-line idiotic level of understanding or dangerously dishonest - this letter from Stark to Gates is a 'political' keeper

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 28, 2008 1:55 AM | Add Comment

"Bad Idea Barack" - #333 - Iraqi democrats and the Iraqi army have done exactly what American Democrats have asked of them. Why do American Democrats remain hostile to fellow Muslim democrats?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:52 AM | Add Comment

Linda Bilmes has a border-line idiotic level of understanding – “No, the money is not re-circulated into the US economy.” - lunatic, leftist fringe wackiness

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, May 27, 2008 1:41 AM | Add Comment

Moron.org is the reason Italy does not have clean electricity

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, May 23, 2008 1:54 AM | Add Comment

"Bad Idea Barack" - #2 - Obama’s immaturity and poor judgment leading democrat party? Democrats no longer the party of peace? Moderate Democrats and Independents horrified...

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, May 22, 2008 1:40 AM | Add Comment

NY Times - "So far, the Iraqi Army has been a winner"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:27 PM | Add Comment

Far left think-tank – Economic Policy Institute – on federal spending – “the proposed increase would have an imperceptible effect on the federal budget deficit” - Moderate democrats read on in horror

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:46 AM | Add Comment

A democrat with a brain - "The economy has been taken hostage by people that took some very bad decisions. The answer is to pay as little ransom as possible to the least ill-deserving people we can find."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:25 PM | Add Comment

BREAKING NEWS - Senate Democrats Akaka and Webb - SOLDIERS TOO STUPID - government bureaucrat should decide – soldiers blocked from sharing GI Bill education benefits with sons or daughters or even spouse

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:41 AM | Add Comment

How to explain the Iraq “exit strategy” to young children and democrats - per LA Times - 'U.S. forces play no part as Iraqi security forces successfully crackdown on Sadr City criminals'

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:08 AM | Add Comment

“Security is the baseline,” Capt. Neil Hollenbeck, commander of Company A, 1-30th Inf. Regt said. – Rumsfeld had it exactly backwards - Job One became Job Two and Job Two was Job One

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:39 AM | Add Comment

Did Warren Buffett just call Bush an idiot or did he call all Republicans idiots?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, May 19, 2008 3:37 PM | Add Comment

Whacky far-left narrative # 67 – "Conservatives in the Bush administration are promoting Islamophobia among Americans"

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, May 19, 2008 1:11 AM | Add Comment

Front page CNN (but CNN fails to mention) - Life long democrat - the Dallas county prosecutor was a life long DEMOCRAT - Just to poke fun at CNN one more time, did the Observer mention the man who prosecuted Woodard was a Democrat ?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:37 AM | Add Comment

Mr. Bush and the senior party leadership have squandered the hard-built ‘Republican Brand’ of 40 years -

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, May 16, 2008 1:00 AM | Add Comment

Democrats shocked - conservatives more shocked - Bush finally punching back after seven years, hitting feckless democrats hard - Joe Biden says, "This is bull*hit." - Jewish vote up for grabs

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:21 PM | Add Comment

"Bad Idea Barack" - #1767 - Obama ignoring his responsibility and abandoning the Iraqi democrats because he's all about 'change'

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:10 AM | Add Comment

The Willful Tenderfoot and a General who destroyed the party – a coming bloodbath for congressional Republicans this November?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:22 AM | Add Comment

Breaking News: U.S. declares polar bears “threatened” -- Translation from Liberal into English – “There are plenty of polar bears but we environmentalists do not want Americans to have cheap gasoline from Alaska."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:29 PM | Add Comment

Another outbreak of importantitis – toots his own horn - “We have virtually defeated al-Qaida in Iraq within the Kirkuk province,” Army Col. David Paschal, commander of 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division said.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:12 AM | Add Comment

Clinton era "Moderate Democrats" in for a shock – We’ll make the tax small at the start then just keep raising it year in and year out - Rep. Mike Ross, DEMOCRAT - Ark., a leader of the Blue Dog group said, “They're not going to miss it."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:24 AM | Add Comment

‘Next-War-itis’ said Defense Secretary Robert Gates - News Flash – if the USA loses in Iraq there will be plenty of wars but no American president will have the political guts to deploy even one American ground troop

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:01 AM | Add Comment

All the correct groups (Western leftists and Islamic nut-jobs) are opposed to the construction of the Sadr City Barrier – which means the barrier is almost guaranteed to work

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:25 AM | Add Comment

NY Times - Basra successfully transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old - American leftists shattered by good news in Iraq

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, May 12, 2008 1:58 AM | Add Comment

Liberals look to a bright shining future unhindered by knowledge

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, May 09, 2008 8:02 AM | Add Comment

Young South Koreans – Virulently anti-American

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, May 09, 2008 2:35 AM | Add Comment

Why Guantanamo? Because Abdullah Al Ajmi, a Kuwaiti released into Kuwaiti custody from Guantanamo Bay in 2005, carried out a suicide attack in Mosul on April 29th that killed at least seven people and wounded 28 others.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, May 09, 2008 1:53 AM | Add Comment

Why Guantanamo? Because Great Britain to free Osama bin Laden's 'right-hand man' - Abu Qatada -- YES, you read that correctly.

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:51 AM | Add Comment

U.S. House Democrats debate keeping housing prices expensive via Fed government buying homes – artificially raising the price of homes by at least $15 billion in first round – blocking new home buyers, supporting speculators

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 07, 2008 2:27 AM | Add Comment

Left-media 'outraged' - reveals strategy and starts drumbeat – arresting criminal aliens is “too expensive” while at the same time left-wing activists make weak, overly broad and unproven charges of racial profiling

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:48 AM | Add Comment

Environmentalists ‘outraged’ – Europeans to use synthetic fuel to power aircraft

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:42 AM | Add Comment

Media 'Hates' Hillary per left-media high priestess – Joan Walsh – Editor, Salon -- "Hate is NOT too strong a word”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Do ‘strain of war’ comments reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the long-term order of battle?

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:08 AM | Add Comment

“You win a counter-insurgency with the tip of your tongue, not the tip of your rifle,” said Lt. Col. Michael Mammay, commander of the 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, May 05, 2008 4:57 AM | Add Comment

"Bad Idea Barack" - #894 - Barack’s not so good pal, Bill Ayers stepping on a US flag in 2001

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, May 05, 2008 4:47 AM | Add Comment

"Bad Idea Barack" - #432 - Hamed: "To be honest with you, if the Americans leave, a bloody civil war will start the next day."

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, May 05, 2008 3:19 AM | Add Comment

"Bad Idea Barack" - #1 - Hurting the country

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, May 05, 2008 1:57 AM | Add Comment

Far-Left deems Hillary a war criminal for even thinking a counter strike and Obama backs the far-left 100% on Meet the Press –

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Monday, May 05, 2008 1:21 AM | Add Comment

"Bad Idea Barack" - #675 - The aspiration democrats have in life -- a glorious political appointment -- Quote - “Either Joe Andrew captured a critical moment with his switch or he shut himself out of gainful employment for the foreseeable future.”

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, May 02, 2008 2:19 AM | Add Comment

World Food Program stash of $1.22 billion (B-I-L-L-I-O-N with a ‘B’) cash on hand - but there's more good news – UN third-world big wigs loosing their stomach for the grift - Bush'd for $775 M more

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Friday, May 02, 2008 1:12 AM | Add Comment

The Observer wonders where the Left-Media finds these ‘Analysts’ – wrap your head around this dichotomy – if the west does anything that’s bad - if the west does nothing that’s bad too

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:15 PM | Add Comment

Global warming may 'stop' or global warming may not ‘stop’, scientists predict -- (according to the Telegraph) The Observer can’t make this stuff up

Posted by Merl Oberon Publisher at Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:16 AM | Add Comment
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