10,000 suicide bombers on the mosque premises in Pakistan

Pakistan's Lal Masjid, where a standoff between the mosque administration and the local police continues for over a fortnight now, has more than 10,000 suicide bombers on the mosque premises, the Khateeb of the mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz, has claimed.

The police and the Lal Masjid administration have been negotiating a trade-off ever since the Taliban 'on duty' in and around the Jamia Hafsa and Lal Masjid abducted four Islamabad police officials on May 19.

"The suicide attackers are ready to operate anywhere/anytime in Pakistan," Maulana Abdul Aziz told a press briefing at the Lal Masjid. He also claimed that it has more than one lakh suicide attackers across Pakistan.

"We consider suicide attacks are right in Pakistan in a few circumstances, while we consider them as absolutely justified in the context of Afghanistan and Iraq," Pakistan's News International quoted Abdul Aziz as saying.

"Our students enjoy the moments when a police or Rangers operation looms, and they get bored when the situation normalises," he said of the situation inside Lal Masjid. "We favoured the Taliban not only in the past, we favour them even today," he said

Refuting a general perception that the Musharraf regime and those running the affairs of the Lal Masjid were actually making fool of the people, the Maulana said: "We are not operating under the command of any intelligence agency.

Responding to a question that the strategy adopted by the Lal Masjid administration to solve different problems was helping Musharraf’s agenda to bring liberalism in the country and that analysts think that the clerics were operating on the direction of agencies and basically helping the regime to achieve its agenda, he said it was totally wrong.

“We are not operating under the command of some agency, and I am ready for ‘Mubahela’ in this regard,” he added. He said the Musharraf government was not taking any advantage to fulfil its agendas from the actions of the Lal Masjid.

Angelina Jolie doesn't eat because she feels guilty

After telling the world that he is worried about Angelina Jolie's dramatic weight loss, she is also Planning to Elaborate Wedding. her brother James Haven now allegedly reveals why Angelina is so skinny: she doesn't eat because she feels guilty about the starving people in Third World countries!

James told Closer magazine: "Angelina's life changed after she visited Ethiopia. Whenever she's there, there's often no food for her and she goes without."She's become used to periods of very little or no food, so she has a much smaller appetite and a different attitude to eating because of it."

He also says that it's hard for Angelina to order freely when she goes to expensive restaurants, because she feels guilty about what she eats compared to the starving people that she wants to help.

Laughing on the Internet

Hey readers,

So I have decided to publish what I believe is the correct method in which to express varying degrees of laughter on the interwebs. This is my personal interpretation of what it should be:

LOL- This is to be used when the other person says something they believed was funny yet you don't find it funny. It is just a matter of courtesy.

LMAO-When you find something funny and you get a good laugh out of it you use this.

LMFAO- More of the LMAO except maybe a bit more funny.

Haha-This is also when something is funny but you only get a chuckle out of it

Hahahahahahahahaha- This only occurs when the other person finds it genuinely hysterical. Usually the more hahaha the funnier it was.

I know I am missing some so please comment and tell me the ones that I am missing. This is not a end all solution and I hope to be able to update it as the comments and feedback come in. My ultimate goal is to try and start and create a master list that can be used for future reference. Now go use you new found knowledge and take over the intenets.

Google has bought FeedBurner

As you know, we're constantly looking for ways to identify and offer new tools for content creators and website publishers. Likewise, we constantly aim to give AdWords advertisers broader distribution to an even wider audience of users. For these reasons, we're very pleased to tell you that we've just acquired FeedBurner.

For those of you who aren't bloggers, podcasters, or feed creators, Chicago-based FeedBurner is a leading provider of feed distribution and management tools. A web feed is a way for online publishers to syndicate their content and deliver it straight to readers. Each day, FeedBurner delivers feeds to millions of users around the world and offers unique and useful tools for publishers to analyze, optimize, and monetize their content. Further, FeedBurner offers a feed advertising platform for advertisers to reach engaged feed readers through targeted in-feed ads and innovative techniques like RSS feed-driven ads.

We're excited to continue offering the exceptional tools of FeedBurner to content creators throughout the world, and our teams will work together to improve the experiences of feed users, advertisers, and publishers. You can sign up for FeedBurner's services and take advantage of their feed tools and features immediately.

Last.fm comes to Facebook

When Facebook’s new platform launched last month, to allow third parties to partner with the social networking site, who in return would provide the necessary hooks for those companies to port their applications and set-up-shop inside of the site, the omission of the popular music social network Last.fm was puzzling. Mike Arrington (over at TechCrunch) noted that their absence had left such a void that one user had even taken it upon themselves to roll a Last.fm Facebook app of their own. Then came news that CBS had acquired Last.fm and many presumed that this distraction was the reason that they hadn’t yet joined Facebook’s new platform.

Not the case. Last.fm simply hadn’t been invited — a decision made even more intriguing as one of its main competitors, iLike, had been included in the pre-launch programme and almost instantly became one the top five most popular Facebook apps.

As of today, Last.fm is missing in action no more.

“We’re pleased to announce the release of Last.fm Music, our first (and certainly not last) Facebook app”, writes Matthew Ogle on the official blog.

Since the launch of Facebook Platform last Thursday, certain parties have been wondering where our application was. The truth is that we were perplexingly left out of Facebook’s early development program, so while some of our competitors had six weeks to work on their stuff, we had to wait until Thursday like everyone else.

The new Facebook app adds Last.fm’s personalised music player to a user’s profile. Users can showcase any of their saved stations (or playlist), along with recently saved tracks. The clever bit is that this that the Flash-based streaming player can also be added even if you don’t have a Last.fm account — “if you don’t have a Last.fm username, the app creates a station based on the artists listed in your ‘favourite music’ section” — which really lowers the barriers to trying out the service.

Cheney: You Don’t Need To Know

Oh, for God's sake! How much more evidence does Congress need to begin impeachment proceedings against the Vice (emphasis on vice) President? Read this and weep for the rule of law that the neo-cons were so certain Clinton had ground into dust. HA! I made myself laugh!

In response to CREW's lawsuit over access to what should be public records, we learned that Vice President Cheney's lawyer told the Secret Service that visitor logs were his records, not theirs. That meant Cheney could prevent any public access. Before you read the AP article, know CREW's position according to our counsel, Anne Weismann: "The latest filings make clear that the administration has been destroying documents and entering into secret agreements in violation of the law."

Bush hires Halliburton/KBR to build detention camps in USA

Halliburton's former engineering and construction subsidiary has a contingency contract with the Department of Homeland Security to construct detention facilities in the event of a national emergency, according to WND columnist Jerome Corsi.

As Corsi reported last week, President Bush recently signed a little-reported National Security and Homeland Security Directive granting extraordinary powers to the president in the event of a declared national emergency, apparently without congressional approval or oversight.

Houston-based KBR was awarded an initial $385 million contract in January 2006 for one year, with four one-year options extended into 2007. KBR held a previous emergency detention contract with ICE from 2000 to 2005.

ICE spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback told Corsi the primary intent of the contract was to build temporary detention facilities that could be used in the event of a mass migration crisis, but she confirmed the facilities could be employed in national emergencies, including natural disasters.

"The idea of the KBR contract is to support the Army Corp of Engineers in case we experienced a sudden mass immigration and we had to respond quickly," she said. "We would need immediate detention facilities in the form of temporary housing that would enable us to determine if the large numbers of illegal immigrants were political or economically motivated, or if they were criminals or terrorists."

Corsi reported last week the May 9 directive signed by Bush concentrates an unprecedented amount of emergency authority in the office of the president, specifying the chief executive would have the authority to direct "National Essential Functions" of all federal state, local, territorial and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations in the event of a national emergency.

The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy or government functions."

The KBR contingency contract appears to give ICE the ability to have detention facilities constructed under the president's direction in response to a national emergency as declared under the new directive.

ICE's Zuieback said she was not familiar with the directive, and at her request, Corsi e-mailed her the link to the White House's posting of the directive.

The White House has not responded to a request for comment on the story about the directive.

Woman on an Oxygen Machine Dies After Energy Firm Switches off Power

Folole Muliaga, a 44-year-old mother of four, died within two hours of the electricity being switched off at her home in the northern city of Auckland.

Police said they were investigating the circumstances of Mrs Muliaga's death.

The power company, Mercury Energy, said it had been unaware any disconnection would put her life at risk.

Relatives of Mrs Muliaga, a schoolteacher, said she had been off work since February with a heart and lung condition.

Because of this, the family claim, she had fallen behind with her energy bills.

'Deeply sympathetic'

When a company representative arrived at the house to disconnect the supply, they said they impressed upon him her dependency on the machine to stay alive.

Mrs Muliaga's son Letitaia, 20, said the employee showed no compassion.

"He said he is here doing his job and he's here to cut the power off," he was quoted by local media as saying.

Another relative, Brendan Sheehan, said that almost immediately Mrs Muliaga started to suffer breathing difficulties and collapsed.

Paramedics were called but she died within two hours of the power being cut, he added.

Mercury Energy said it was "deeply sympathetic" about the death, but disputed that its contractor had been made aware of Mrs Muliaga's condition.

"We were simply unaware that loss of electricity to the household was putting a vulnerable customer at risk," general manager James Moulder said.

Police Inspector Bruce Bird said the authorities were investigating the incident, but he added that it was too early to speculate on possible criminal charges.

State Owned Enterprises Minister Trevor Mallard also warned against pre-judging the outcome.

"I do think it is important that the facts are established before people rush to judgement," he said.

Bajaj Discover 125 C.C gets the Black Treatment

The Bajaj Discover 125 DTSI gets the "Fear the Black" treatment..!!

Pics of the new Bajaj Discover 125 DTSI with the now very common black treatment have been put up on the Bajaj Discover Website.

Bajaj Discover 125 C.C DTSI

The Discover 112 C.C meanwhile retains the Silver Colored Engine and Alloys...

Bajaj Discover 112 C.C

The technical specifications though remains the same for both the models.

The People Hate IRAQ War

A new poll from Kentucky should lay to rest any Democrat's fear that standing behind a plan to get U.S. forces out of Iraq by this time next year will hurt them.
Look at this, from a poll of 600 voters in Kentucky:

Would you favor or oppose a plan to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq this summer, and have almost all troops out of Iraq by the middle of next year?

Favor.....64%

Oppose.....28%

Don't know.....7%

As you may know, President Bush has proposed an increase of twenty-one thousand additional troops in Iraq. Do you favor or oppose President Bush's troop increase in Iraq?

Strongly favor.....21%

Somewhat favor.....15%

Total favor.....36%

Somewhat oppose.....14%

Strongly oppose.....45%

Total oppose.....59%

Don't know.....4%

How would you rate the job George Bush is doing handling the war in Iraq -- excellent, good, not so good, or poor?

Excellent.....6%

Good.....26%

Total Positive.....32%

Not so good.....27%

Poor.....40%

Total Negative.....67%

Don't know.....1%

This poll gives some pretty bad news to McConnell, with 61% of respondents saying he votes with Bush too often, and just 34% saying he represents their view on Iraq. Remember the Texas polling I wrote about a few days ago?

Voters in Texas give President George W. Bush a negative job rating (47% positive – 51% negative) and they are split in their opinion as to whether their family would be better off with a Democratic or Republican majority in the United States Senate (41% Democrats – 43% Republicans).

A strong plurality of voters in Texas believes the country is headed in the wrong direction (34% right direction – 49% wrong direction). Voters give President Bush an even more negative job rating on his handling of Iraq (41% positive – 57% negative).

That's not enough evidence of how much the American people want out of this war? How about this, a survey of likely Republican caucus participants in Iowa:

QUESTION: Do you favor a withdrawal of all United States military from Iraq within the next six months?

ANSWER:

Yes 52%

No 39%

Undecided 9%

The argument from Blue Dog Dems, from any Dem, that their district or state won't allow them to stand with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in the post-veto fight to set a deadline for getting us out of Iraq, just won't fly.
Update: The House just approved the Iraq supplemental funding bill, 218-208, 2 voting present.