The Fernando Poniente Show

I think this Ex-US President will not be missed if He croaked.

WASHINGTON — Fourteen members of a leadership group under former President Carter’s think tank resigned Thursday over concerns that Carter’s book on the Middle East does not represent “the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support.”

The members of the 200-member Board of Councilors, a leadership advisory group founded in 1987, join a longtime Carter aide, Jewish groups and lawmakers who have publicly criticized the former president’s best-selling book “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid” for inaccuracies and distorting history.

He just wont go away.

Robert Spencer’s Latest Book “The Truth About Muhammad” recently banned in Pakistan by The Pakistan Goverment , Apparenty they can’t handle the truth, is just too much.

The Pakistani government has confiscated all copies and translations of
the book.

“It is interesting that they would say the book contains ‘objectionable
materials,’ since it is all scrupulously sourced from texts that Muslims
themselves consider reliable,” Spencer told HUMAN EVENTS. “It manifests a
certain cultural insecurity that, instead of having a fruitful dialogue or
debate about what’s in the book, the Pakistani government just bans and
confiscates it.”

Visit Robert Spencer at Hotair.com , and Jihadwatch.org

GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines, Jan. 10 An explosion in a public market in General Santos City on the Philippine island of Mindanao killed five and injured more than 10 others, the Manila Times said.

A local television station said the blast occurred Wednesday, just hours after government officials met with representatives of the Moro Islamic Liberation front in a bid to end terrorist attacks during the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on nearby Cebu island.

A bomb exploded near a police station in front of a lottery outlet at a public market, ABS-CBN television reported.

National Police had declared the 12th ASEAN summit, which opens this week, safe from terrorist attack after stationing 6,000 security forces on the island after Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand had warned against travel to Cebu and parts of Mindanao, where heavy flooding has forced thousands from their homes.

Here is the shocker.

Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon, city police director, said there were no immediate suspects in the bombing, but investigators were considering terrorism might be behind the attack. ..GEE YA THINK?

So I know a lot people will go bananas(or apple) on this one. The Month of June will seem like forever, so this will give me sometimes to save up and more quality time with your iPod.

So what is the fuzz about.

The iPhone is certainly a looker: super thin, touch-screen, closer in appearance to a Nano than a Treo. It combines a mobile phone, widescreen iPod and Internet capabilities.

•As an iPod. Using your finger, you can navigate the device’s 3.5-inch display. You can watch podcasts, TV shows, movies — and, of course, listen to music and audiobooks. You can also rapidly scroll through album covers using the clever Cover Flow feature on iTunes. But you cannot wirelessly download music purchased off iTunes. Instead, you connect or dock the device as with any iPod.

•As a phone. Touch a name or number in your address book to dial the phone. Or you can use a virtual onscreen keypad. You can synchronize contacts from a PC or Mac and create a favorites list of the folks you frequently call. A nifty visual voice-mail feature lets you jump to the messages you most care about and ignore others. And you can send short text messages using a virtual touch-screen “qwerty” keyboard.

The phone works exclusively over Cingular’s so-called GSM and Edge wireless networks — speedy but not the fastest of the emerging third-generation, or 3G, networks. It has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless capabilities.

Battery life could be a concern. Apple claims up to five hours of talk time, including watching video or browsing the Web. Apple says you’ll get up to 16 hours if you use it just for audio.

•Connectivity. Included is a full-blown version of Apple’s Safari Web browser. You can sync bookmarks from your computer. E-mail can be automatically delivered, or “pushed,” for free to you through Yahoo Mail; iPhone also works with Microsoft Exchange as well as other industry standard e-mail services. You can download e-mails in the background while surfing the Web.

The iPhone also includes an icon for Google Maps, plus the light applications (found on a Mac) known as Widgets, for checking stock prices, the weather and other data you want at a glance in real time.

•Other goodies. The phone includes sensors that detect when you rotate it from portrait to landscape mode; the onscreen controls are oriented accordingly. Lift the phone to your ear, and the sensor turns off the display to save power and prevent you from accidentally hitting the wrong controls when on a call. Also on board is a 2-megapixel still digital camera.

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Washington - Freshman Rep. Steve Kagen of Wisconsin has won a seat on the House Agriculture Committee, giving the Dairy State a voice on the panel.

Kagen, 57, a physician and a Democrat from Appleton, entered Congress last week. Earlier he was appointed to the Transportation Committee, making the new assignment his second.

His 8th District in northeastern Wisconsin has 210,000 milk cows - that’s about one for every three people - and counts soybeans and corn as top crops.

Kagen called the new position an honor, saying: “Agriculture is an irreplaceable part of our district, our state and our lives. More than an economic resource, our farms embody who we are and how we live. Hard work, thrift, conservation of our land and water resources - these are values our families have taught us and which we must never forget.”

He pledged to fight for family farms, saying they faced “impossible” expenses for health care and energy.

This a a heated debate video from MemriTv.org between Saddam’s Loyalist Mish’an Al-Jabouri and Shiite Iraqi Journalist Sadeq Al-Musawi on Al-Jazeera TV over Saddam’s Execution (ring the bell dinggggg. Click Here to watch

See, it’ll a be hit.

KATY, Texas — When an Islamic group moved in next door and told Craig Baker the pigs on his family’s 200-year-old Texas farm had to go, he and his swine decided to fight back.

In protest of being asked to move, Davis began staging elaborate pig races on Friday afternoons — one of the Islamic world’s most holy days.

Craig’s neighbors, the Katy Islamic Association, have plans to build a mosque and community compound on the 11 acres they purchased alongside his farm.

Baker, 46, a stone-shop owner whose family has owned the farm for two centuries, says the association knew about the pigs when they bought the property, and it’s not fair for them to ask him to get rid of the animals.

“I am just defending my rights and my property,” Baker said. “They totally disrespected me and my family.”

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In Wisconsin Dells there is a place called “fat man’s misery”, is a narrow rock formation where you can walk through it, and it’s Pretty hard for a heavy person to get through ” Hence ” Fatman’s Misery.

Now there is a cave in South Africa where tourist can go through tunnel of caves and some overweight woman got trapped.
An overweight woman who got stuck in a South African cave trapped 22 fellow tourists for more than 10 hours and had to be prised free with liquid paraffin.

“The woman became trapped in the Tunnel of Love obstacle in the Cango Caves in Western Cape on New Year’s Day.

The caves’ manager said the woman had been warned she might not be suitable but she insisted on trying.

One of those trapped was a diabetic who had to be brought insulin. The woman and the other tourists were unhurt.

The rescue operation involved several ambulance teams and a helicopter.

Hein Gerstner, manager of Cango Caves, told the BBC it was an “expensive exercise” that could cost 40,000 rand ($5,700).

“We don’t know yet who will foot the bill,” he said.”

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