I need a good dose of this Terry Jones to get that other Terry Jones off my mind
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Mitt Romney Criticizes Obama Administration Over Response To Libya, Egypt Attacks →
The violence took a domestic political turn, in part thanks to a statement released early Tuesday by the staff of the Cairo embassy, which condemned the film and the “continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions.”
The Romney campaign’s statement seemed to be an attempt to capitalize on the appearance that the Obama administration — which has overseen the Arab Spring, and the rise of Islamist governments in both Egypt and Libya — was capitulating to the sensitivities of an unruly Muslim crowd, rather than backing the right of an American citizen to release a disrespectful film.
But the statement criticized by the Romney campaign came early in the day, before the attacks on the two embassies, and was put out not by the White House, but by the Cairo embassy itself.
The White House later disavowed the statement as not approved by Washington, according to a senior administration official speaking to Politico.
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt also commented on the statement from the Romney campaign. “We are shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would choose to launch a political attack,” LaBolt said in a statement. [more]
One has to wonder if Terry Jones will feel the smallest amount of regret over what his hate has wrought.
A poorly-timed attempt by Romney’s camp to find a leg up on the president during a tough campaign. Frustrating in more ways than one.
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
President John F Kennedy
September 12 1962
TIL - Etymology of the word FLIRT
- Middle English flerd, flærd
- Old English fleard (“nonsense, vanity, folly, deception, fraud, superstition”)
- Old Danish flerdh, flær (“falsehood, deceit”)
- Swedish flärd (“vanity, frivolity, flamboyance”)
- Icelandic flærð (“deceit”)
Etymology is awesome.
Thank you, Paris.
I hope this helps everyone remember that historically the French have always been on our side. Thank you France!
This link got me called a racist LOL →
I made a post about the recent public forgiveness for people like Chris Brown and Michael Vick and got called a racist by a Chris Brown fan. I am not sure what else to do except
Ok I also think Nick Cage and Mel Gibson are violent A#@holes. Better? Oh to be 19 and in love with an abusive celeb. I hope all the misguided girls in the world get a chance to grow up before they have to experience domestic abuse for themselves : (
Will the real Gary Oldman please stand up?
I’M NOT THE ONLY ONE, THEN?
THOSE WERE GARY OLDMAN?
ME TOO!
Haha just had this conversation with someone last night!
I don’t often get personal on this blog, but can I just put a big “WHAT THE HOLY FUCK?!” out there?
I was already a little bit weirded out to see he was invited (and won an award!) at the MTV music Video awards and this just takes the cake.
How do guys like Chris Brown and Michael Vick get to be such unapologetic D-bags and still have the limelight? Disgusting
