13 AMERICANS KILLED IN AFGHAN BOMBING….

http://news.yahoo.com/us-official-13-americans-killed-afghan-bombing-132131947.html

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a van into an armored NATO bus Saturday in Kabul, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans, U.S. and Afghan officials said, in the deadliest attack on coalition forces in more than two months.

The explosion, which occurred as the convoy was passing the American University, sparked a fireball and littered the street with shrapnel. Heavy black smoke poured from burning wreckage at the site.

The armored personnel carrier, known as a Rhino was sandwiched between of a convoy of mine-resistant military vehicles traveling on a four-lane highway frequently used by NATO forces in a southwestern section of the city.

NATO said 13 service members were killed, but a U.S. official confirmed they were all Americans. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

VIN IENCO: UPDATES ON ENCROACHING GLOBAL ISLAMISM….READ THEM ALL

http://vinienco.com/
The Truth on the Encroachment of Global Islamism
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Update Canada‘ Honor Killing’ Trial: Fathers’ Police Interview Played to Courtroom
http://vinienco.com/2011/10/29/update-canada-%e2%80%98honor-killing%e2%80%99-trial-fathers%e2%80%99-police-interview-played-to-courtroom/

Day 1 MA Terrorism Trial
http://vinienco.com/2011/10/29/day-1-ma-terrorism-trial/

Peter King Sets Third Hearing on Radical Islam
http://vinienco.com/2011/10/29/peter-king-sets-third-hearing-on-radical-islam/

Christian Couple Kidnapped and Forcibly Converted to Islam
http://vinienco.com/2011/10/29/christian-couple-kidnapped-and-forcibly-converted-to-islam/

Al Shabaab ‘Bus-Stop Bomber’ Sentenced to Life in Prison
http://vinienco.com/2011/10/29/al-shabaab-%e2%80%98bus-stop-bomber%e2%80%99-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/

DANIEL GREENFIELD: HIPSTERS, HIPPIES, HOMELESS AND HOPELESS

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/
It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, but before we get into it, I would just like to mention that Glenn Beck will be at the Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend. As will a far humbler figure, me.

THE HIPPIE, HIPSTER, HOMELESS OCCUPATION CONTINUES

You can’t smell Zuccoti Park from uptown, but if you’re unlucky enough you can spot the occupiers making their way there. The Hipsters/Hippies/Homeless ratio has made for very poor hygiene and a fantastic opportunity for the rats to make a comeback in Lower Manhattan.

The weather is turning chilly. This morning the temperature was in the 40’s and even though tents have been allowed, the hippies and hipsters are about to start discovering how the other third lives. The ones who actually are hopeless.

Hipsters may live in walk ups, but they like to have the heat on and there’s a reason hippies usually prefer warmer weather and many of the city’s guests from the other side of the coast are about to discover how quickly temperatures here can change and how uncomfortable even mild Northeastern weather can be when you’re used to warm air.

MARK DURIE: AUSTRALIAN WEBSITE DESIGNED TO INVITE CONVERTS TO ISLAM

MyPeace on TV: “Islamic Values” markdurie.com blog is an Australian dawah (i.e. missionary) website.  It is designed to invite people to convert to Islam.  Disingenuously it states that it exists to “address the many misconceptions about Islam”. MyPeace is unashamed in declaring the superiority of its beliefs.  For example mypeace.com.au characterizes Christian beliefs as ‘blasphemous’, […]

THE RIGHT TO POO AND THE 99% DISGUSTING….SEE PICTURES AT SITE

URL to article: http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/28/the-right-to-poo-and-van-jones-skepticism/ The Right to Poo and Van Jones Skepticism: Just Another Day at OccupySF As I noted in my previous post with the self-explanatory title “Excrement, urine, vomit and tampons” mark new site of OccupySF, San Francisco’s municipal health department recently cited the OccupySF encampment for numerous sanitation violations. But an article […]

BRYAN PRESTON: THE PERILS OF PERRY….

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/28/the-trouble-with-romney-and-the-perils-of-perry/?singlepage=true
The Trouble with Romney and the Perils of Perry

“The solution? Perry needs to go retail and talk radio/online media in a big way. Perry should forget the attacks on Romney, just deliver his message and explain his record in a disciplined and relentless way. Do multiple daily appearances in Iowa explaining his plans and message to everyday voters, get those appearances captured and posted on YouTube and moved on blogs and social media. Get them in the local newscasts. Run positive issue ads in Iowa and South Carolina. Attack Obama often, get under his skin and make him respond directly to you. Hit the president on specifics and show where, for instance, Perry’s energy plan will undo the damage Obama is doing and thereby create jobs. As for the debates, attend some, skip some, as the schedule allows, but don’t make an issue of skipping them and don’t let them control the campaign schedule.”

Mitt Romney’s support and his negatives are baked into the GOP primary. To Romney’s supporters, either his various contradictory policy and issue positions don’t matter or they’re outweighed by his “electability.” They think he is best positioned to defeat President Obama, and so far nothing seems capable of dissuading them. His air of inevitability is gone, but his support remains steady in the 20s. He isn’t going up, and he isn’t going down.

SRDJA TRIFKOVIC: A HELLENIC HAIRCUT

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2011/10/28/a-hellenic-haircut/ by Srdja Trifkovic • Chronicles Online, October 28th, 2011 There will be no Greek default—not for months to come at least, as we predicted here two weeks ago. The private banks that had splashed out on ostensibly lucrative Greek bonds will have to accept a “haircut” of fifty percent of their nominal value, according […]

MARTIN SHERMAN: THE REAL RACISM: EXPECTING JEWS TO DIE MEEKLY

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=243452 Into the Fray: Israel needs to once again convey, unapologetically, to the world the rationale for its founding. The most accurate way to describe Israel today is as an apartheid state… 3.5 million Palestinians and almost half a million Jews live in the areas Israel occupied in 1967, and yet while these two groups […]

JAMES M. TAYLOR: USA TODAY EXPLAINS THE BENEFITS OF KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2011/10/28/usa-today-explains-benefits-keystone-xl-pipeline

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/story/2011-10-26/Keystone-oil-pipeline-build/50941230/1 [7]

USA Today has published an excellent house editorial explaining why it is important for the Obama administration to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline that would deliver oil from Canada’s oil sands to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

USA Today points out that the United States imports approximately half of its oil, “which puts the nation at the mercy of the mercurial world oil market. Imports from Mexico and Venezuela, two of the USA’s biggest suppliers, are declining, and that’s projected to make the nation even more reliant on producers in the unstable Middle Eastand Africa. The Keystone pipeline would provide about a half-million more barrels a day from one of this nation’s closest and most reliable allies.”

JAMES ROSEN: ARAB SPRING OPTIMISM GIVES WAY TO FEAR OF ISLAMIC RISE

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/28/arab-spring-optimism-gives-way-to-fear-islamic-rise/?cmpid=NL_FNTopHeadlines_20111028 Fox News From the first stirrings of change in the Middle East nine months ago, optimism at the prospect of 100 million young people rising up to seize their democratic freedoms has been tempered by fear in Western capitals that radical Islamists might also rise up and try to hijack the so-called Arab Spring. […]