Originally posted by markp91:[..]
Don't worry, I didn't meant killing or so, but make him afraid or anything so he quits being president himself
regardless you're treading on thin ice - getting very close to offending....
Originally posted by markp91:[..]
Don't worry, I didn't meant killing or so, but make him afraid or anything so he quits being president himself
Originally posted by Guenther:[..]
regardless you're treading on thin ice - getting very close to offending....
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, in his first public appearance about the federal corruption charges filed against him Dec. 9, said he was not guilty of any criminal wrongdoing, and he intends to stay on the job.
"I intend to fight this thing every step of the way," said Blagojevich, speaking at a news conference. "I will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take my last breath. I did nothing wrong. I'm not going to quit a job the people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob."
Blagojevich said he had the truth on his side, and he hadn't done anything wrong. He quoted from Rudyard Kipling's poem about integrity -- "If."
The governor refused to take questions.
Blagojevich was charged in a federal criminal complaint with allegedly attempting to sell the U.S. senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama, along with other charges.
Originally posted by molang7:[..]
I think that I and SNL got the last laugh at him.
Did you see SNL last night?absolutely hilarious.
(Wow, I'm late replying to this
)Originally posted by www.cnn.comAt least 170 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza
GAZA CITY (CNN) -- Israeli airstrikes pounded targets in Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 170 people, Palestinian medical sources said. An Israeli army spokeswoman said her country is ready to continue the attacks "as long as it takes."
A Palestinian boy wounded by an Israeli missile awaits treatment Saturday outside a hospital in Gaza City.
1 of 2 more photos » Palestinian medical sources said 110 people were hospitalized in Gaza in serious to critical condition. Earlier Saturday, the sources said at least 250 people had been wounded in the raids.
The militant group Hamas, which controls the government in Gaza, vowed to retaliate.
The strikes followed several days of rocket attacks from Gaza into Israel.
Hamas police stations were hit, killing many senior police commanders, a reporter in Gaza said.
Maj. Gen. Tawfeeq Al-Jaber, a senior commander in the Hamas police force, was killed, as was Ismail Jabari, who headed the special police force in Gaza, Palestinian sources said.
Israeli Maj. Avital Leibovich told CNN the military began the attacks "in order to preserve the security situation in Israel."
"We are prepared for any type of scenario right now. We have our own operation and assessments as we go along, and we are ready to continue this operation as long as it takes," Leibovich said by phone from Tel Aviv. Watch panicked Palestinians try to help the wounded »
Not long after Hamas called for retribution, an Israeli woman was killed when a rocket fired from Gaza hit a house in Netivot, about six miles east of Gaza, Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said. Hamas acknowledged firing the rocket. Map »
Two other Israelis were listed in "medium to serious" condition at a hospital in Bersheba, Rosenfeld said.
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Rosenfeld said at least 15 missiles from Gaza had landed in Israel by late afternoon.
The Israeli Defense Ministry issued a statement saying Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the military into action based on a decision by the Cabinet.
"The action will continue and will widen as much as is demanded according to the evaluation of the situation by the high command of the army," the statement said.
Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi, speaking from Ramallah in the West Bank, accused Israel of ignoring the terms of the tenuous six-month cease-fire that expired a week ago.
"This is certainly a very cruel escalation, a relentless bombardment of a captive civilian population that has already been under siege for months, that has been deprived of basic requirements like food and medicines and fuel and power," she said. Watch Ashrawi condemn the airstrikes »
The Arab League scheduled an emergency meeting in Cairo, Egypt, at 7 p.m. (noon ET) Sunday to discuss the outbreak of violence.
White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe called on Hamas to cease its rocket attacks on Israel and urged Israel "to avoid civilian casualties as it targets Hamas in Gaza."
A statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Israeli aircraft attacked "a series of Hamas targets and infrastructure facilities."
"The Air Force activity came as a result of the continuation of terror activity by Hamas terror organization from the Gaza Strip, and the duration of rocket launching and targeting Israeli civilians," the IDF statement said.
Video showed severely wounded people being loaded into cars and driven to hospitals.
Inside one Gaza hospital, doctors appeared overwhelmed; the floors were covered with wounded men and some children.
"Many killed and many injured," a Gaza-based reporter said. "People are running in the streets."
The Egyptian government sent 20 ambulances, along with medical personnel, to Rafah at its border with Gaza to help with the wounded, an Egyptian official said.
The reporter, who is not being named for safety reasons, said the attacks were the biggest he had seen in his decades in Gaza.
The IDF said the targets "include Hamas terror operatives that operated from the organization's headquarters, training camps and weaponry storage warehouses."
The shaky six-month truce between the Hamas government in Gaza and Israel expired a week ago. Under the Egyptian-brokered deal, Hamas agreed to end militant attacks on Israel from Gaza, and Israel agreed to halt raids inside the territory and ease its blockade on humanitarian goods.
Israel on Friday opened three border crossings for the first time in 10 days to allow food, medical supplies and other humanitarian goods into Gaza, but Palestinian rocket attacks continued.
Originally posted by JohnnyVOXX:Very very sad news..............
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Originally posted by katherine94:[..]
Oh my God...that's terrible
Originally posted by vanquish:[..]
They've been at it for 3000 years, the whole Israeli-Palestine conflict is a no hoper.
It's like 9/11 and the subsequent US retaliation though on a smaller scale and happening weekly.
Originally posted by rubymoon:
All governments are corrupt.
Robert Nesta Marley.
Originally posted by yuri31:anyone noticed this little problem that a huge part of Europe is without gas?
