Moammar Gadhafi and his unrequited love
Libyan rebels pawing through the Tripoli compound of Moammar Gadhafi have stumbled on some odd things, as might be expected. One guy made off with Gadhafi’s famous hat and scepter.
They also seemed to enjoy rubbing the bottom of their shoes on Gadhafi’s face.
AP photo/Sergey Ponomarev
But the most disconcerting discovery may be the extensive photo album found in Gadhafi’s quarters featuring picture after picture of former Secretary of State Condi Rice.
AP photo/Sergey Ponomarev
The apparent fixation with our former secretary of state isn’t breaking news. As The Guardian noted in reporting about Rice’s 2008 visit to Libya:
“In an interview with al-Jazeera television last year, Gadafy spoke of Rice in unusual terms, calling her “Leezza”. “I support my darling black African woman,” he said. “I admire and am very proud of the way she leans back and gives orders to the Arab leaders … Leezza, Leezza, Leezza. … I love her very much. I admire her and I’m proud of her because she’s a black woman of African origin.”
After that meeting, Gadhafi gave Rice a diamond ring in a wooden box, a lute and a locket containing Gadhafi’s picture, later valued by the U.S. government at a total of $212,225. (Rice kept none of the gifts).
So you couldn’t blame Rice if she’s feeling a little creeped out by the discovery of the photo album.
– Jay Bookman
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Tech '10
August 25th, 2011
2:02 pm
Randal strikes again! hahaha
AmVet
August 25th, 2011
2:08 pm
As for that baaaaad weasel hunter, I have to wonder if he really is 16.
Or is 26 or 36 or 46 and has just perfected the petulant teenage brat routine.
I love my tribe. No sucking up to the Jesus OR Muhammad gangs when it’s time to set individual mythologies aside…
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/bloomberg-911-bans-religion/2011/08/24/id/408556
Night Train
August 25th, 2011
2:08 pm
Does that first picture, with the hat, kind of look like Chris Rock to anyone else?
Brosephus
August 25th, 2011
2:08 pm
I’m with the group on the photo album. That’s just not right. All you hyper partisans are just as crazy as Ghadaffi. Everything does not distill down to a left vs right issue. You only make yourself look stupid trying to make everything partisan.
Doggone/GA
August 25th, 2011
2:08 pm
“Weasels are BAAADD!”
Yep! Bad to the Bone!
Bush's Fault
August 25th, 2011
2:10 pm
This is all Bush’s fault.
When will Obama take responsibility?
Adam
August 25th, 2011
2:11 pm
Wow an anti-Bush AND anti-Obama post. Penalties offset. First down.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 25th, 2011
2:12 pm
WASHINGTON—Calling a GOP victory in the 2012 presidential election antithetical to the party platform, top Republicans revealed a new long-term political strategy Tuesday: reelecting Barack Obama and making his life even more of a living hell than it already is.
“For three years, the Republican Party has coalesced around the single goal of making President Obama’s every waking moment sheer and utter torture,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters. “But we can’t continue to do that if he’s not in office.”
“If we are going to make the president a haggard shell of a human being by the time he leaves the White House, we need four more years of never compromising, four more years of miring every piece of legislation in unnecessary procedural muck, four more years of pretending we want to work with the president and then walking away from the table at the last second,” McConnell added. “Four more years! Four more years! Obama 2012!”
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
2:13 pm
Adam — “Wow an anti-Bush AND anti-Obama post. Penalties offset. First down.”
First down? I thought he won the entire Intert00bz with that post.
Paul
August 25th, 2011
2:14 pm
AmVet
He’s also barred first responders from the ceremony.
He really does mean what he says about keeping the focus on the victims and their families.
(ir)Rational
August 25th, 2011
2:15 pm
Stands, I have issues with you bringing up the image of Gadhafi in a speedo. Anyone got any brain bleach?
Night Train – does kinda resemble a dirty Chris Rock.
Oh-well. Who is John Galt?
Paul
August 25th, 2011
2:18 pm
“Who is John Galt?”
Gadhafi’s image of himself when he looks in the mirror wearing a Speedo?
AmVet
August 25th, 2011
2:18 pm
I read that, Paul. He has arranged for a large screen very near the site especially for them.
No clergy, no politicos. To hell with them trying to use this sacred event to further their own narrow views.
I suspect this anniversary is going to be gut wrenching for a lot of us…
md
August 25th, 2011
2:19 pm
And there will be those that think Keeps post is authentic…………….
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
2:19 pm
(ir)Rational — “Who is John Galt?”
Isn’t he on that show with that horrible Snooki woman?
Bosch
August 25th, 2011
2:20 pm
“Also anything from the Sylvester the Talking Cat series.”
I LOVE those videos.
F’real?
Bosch
August 25th, 2011
2:22 pm
“Weasels are BAAADD!”
Yeap, I mean look at their King:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eric_Cantor_headshot.JPG
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 25th, 2011
2:22 pm
Right md.
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
2:23 pm
Bosch — “I LOVE those videos.”
You have a collect call from –
COME GET ME!
Paul
August 25th, 2011
2:24 pm
Joe Mama
““Who is John Galt?””
Gaddafi in a speedo, with Snookie sitting in his lap, looking at pictures of Condi.
Next?
Adam
August 25th, 2011
2:24 pm
md: Maybe if they lack reading comprehension…
Thulsa Doom
August 25th, 2011
2:24 pm
“Did he, in fact, use chemical weapons during Desert Storm? If so, I was not aware of it.”- Joe Mama,
Joe Mama,
Yes. Word is Saddam ate something noxious and farted something nasty.
Bosch
August 25th, 2011
2:25 pm
Joe,
Have you seen this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsAxsoq0SYs
And I love the one where Steve finds out that Shelby thinks her name is “bitch.”
Bosch
August 25th, 2011
2:28 pm
Joe,
And when Sylvester tells Shelby:
“GET PARVO!!”
And I love Gibson always saying “help” and “Todd”
And I love the one where Sylvester tries to sell Shelby on Craigs List.
Boortz wuz right
August 25th, 2011
2:28 pm
Interesting story, if old news none the less, BOORTZ is right. Bookman is a left wing, left coast son of a gun, fits in with left wing, left coast journalism sooo AJC. Does anyone hear Cynthia Tucker slithering around?
Back Seater
August 25th, 2011
2:28 pm
Adam
August 25th, 2011
1:59 pm
Make that:
Anti-Obama posts = 5
Individual anti-Obama posters = 3
Anti-Bush posts = 0
Individual anti-Bush posters = 0
Just keeping track for later reference
Adam, in case you haven’t noticed Bush is not the current POTUS, you libs are finally understanding that it is now O’boma’s politics that is driving this bus off the road and over the hill.
Thanks for finally understanding this issue
Please continue your daily tally, you might even learn something…………doubtful. but maybe you will, hopea, hopea
Manchurian-Kenyan Candidate
August 25th, 2011
2:28 pm
Joe….”As far as I can tell, he did, but just barely.”…….really? please enlighten us….
as for presuming….I presume nothing. All I was stating was that we got not a scintilla of the usual “….innocent people are being killed for blood lust of oil”…..nonsense from the lame-stream media and the likes of Jay that we typically get when a Repub is POTUS.
“Hope and Change….is now….NOT MY FAULT!”
Scooter
August 25th, 2011
2:30 pm
That’s understandable. Condi’s abiity to overcome hardships with dignity and grace made her very sexy to me.
I’ll always remember the 9/11 Commission hearings when she simply said we (the Bush Administration) were not on a war footing prior to 9/11. There was none of this, we inherited… Her response displayed dignity, maturity and a profound respect for the job of the executive branch. those are the traits a person acquires from earning their position and not being floated to the top like our current CiC.
Adam
August 25th, 2011
2:30 pm
Back Seater: I’m only doing an analysis to see who’s right: The people who say Bush gets bashed here more than Obama, or the people who say Obama gets bashed here more than Bush.
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
2:31 pm
Doom — “Word is Saddam ate something noxious and farted something nasty.”
I was in uniform at the time, and though I did not go to the sandbox, I knew plenty of fellows who did. My unit didn’t get sent, but ~1000 or so assorted guys did; assorted pilots, truck drivers, maintenance guys, medics and a about a battalions’ worth of infantrymen (a few hundred).
As it turned out, the infantry guys had quite a story to tell when they came back; they got chosen to be GEN Schwarzkopf’s ‘palace guard’ around his HQ, and a bunch of them were also sent to Safwan Airfield, where the surrender was signed. If you gotta go someplace like that in the service, it’s good to see some sights and have some stories to tell your grandkids.
Scooter
August 25th, 2011
2:34 pm
Oh yeah… and I sincerely hope Condi gets to be Commissioner of the NFL one day.
md
August 25th, 2011
2:35 pm
“md: Maybe if they lack reading comprehension…”
more like gullibility and lack of research skills……………..
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 25th, 2011
2:35 pm
Finally evidence of Bad Regulations and Nanny State!
I mean the nerve that those dang Goat Herders should have separate sleeping units, a comfortable bed & clean mattress and fire resistant waslls near cooking areas.
Thank the supreme honeybadger in the sky that we have Fox all over this horror!
pj
August 25th, 2011
2:36 pm
It was those black s & m boots she always wore to meetings with heads of state. and who knows for sure if it was unrequited? I wonder if she returned the gifts (since she couldn’t legally accept them). regarding Michelle, she has her own (earned) money, dude.
Adam
August 25th, 2011
2:37 pm
md: lack of ability to click linky,
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
2:42 pm
Bosch — I’ll have to check them later; streaming video is blocked here.
M-K Candidate — “…….really? please enlighten us….”
Under the War Powers Resolution, a President can send our military into action overseas for up to 90 days without Congressional approval. The Act is written such that a President gets 60 days plus 30 days to disengage and withdraw, but most observers — Congress included — read that as 90 days.
The Act isn’t specific on what is permitted without Congressional approval after 90 days; my reading of it (which admittedly isn’t authoritative) is that the President can involve our servicemembers in overt military actions for up to 90 days without getting Congress’ okay; things like drone surveillance/attacks and supporting our allies’ actions (with things like supplies, transport and fuel/maintenance/munitions for their aircraft isn’t specifically spoken of in the Act and is kind of gray. So those sorts of things are probably permissible simply because they aren’t specifically prohibited.
Presidents Bush (II) and Clinton tried a novel tactic; they got Congress to approve *funding* for overseas operations and then tried to claim that Congress had implicitly approved the operations. The argument both made was that Congress wouldn’t fund something it didn’t approve of.
In any event, it appears that we didn’t have servicemembers actively working inside Libya’s territorial boundaries after the 90 days were up — which seems to comply with the War Powers Act. You could argue that any members of Force Recon, Delta Force, the SEALS or the AF 15th SOG who were still in-country constituted a violation, but Congress has generally deferred to Presidents using special forces in that way and doesn’t seem to see those sorts of deployments as overt use of military assets.
FWIW, I’m a disabled Army vet, and I opposed *both* our invasion of Iraq and our involvement in Libya.
mm
August 25th, 2011
2:43 pm
Eeewww, pictures of Condi. That is one ugly woman.
Bosch
August 25th, 2011
2:44 pm
Joe Mama,
I’m embarrased to know this, but there are 22 videos now, plus a few “extras” like the hairball one I posted, plus Sylvester has his own blog. It’s a Bosch family fav.
jewcowboy
August 25th, 2011
2:45 pm
Paul,
“AmVet’s all right, but he got caught in the middle of a pileup and his M45 has gone to that great Road Course in the Sky”
Ouch! Glad AmVet’s OK. Maybe this for a new set of wheels:
http://youtu.be/UNSOftxTgcI
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
2:47 pm
Bosch — “I’m embarrased to know this, but there are 22 videos now”
I like the one where Sylvester calls the dog an “ass” for licking him clean. I know the voice is overdubbed, but it just seems to go PERFECTLY with his expression after the dog’s done.
John Birch
August 25th, 2011
2:50 pm
Gadhafi is barking up the wrong tree, Condi very clearly prefers girls.
Paul
August 25th, 2011
2:50 pm
pj
Only gifts can be kept are of minimal value as determined by GSA. Most find their way to the National Archives.
BTW
It’s governed by 22 USC CHAPTER 37 – FOREIGN GIFTS AND DECORATIONS
Note this part: ” A gift or decoration not approved for release, because of any special
or unusual circumstances involved, shall be deemed a gift to the United States and shall be deposited by the donee in accordance with the rules and regulations issued pursuant to this chapter.”
Notice that last part? Congress passes a law, then leaves the writing of the rules and regulations to implement it to…. someone outside Congress.
That’s the way the real world of government regulations works, folks.
Adam
August 25th, 2011
2:51 pm
John birch: Gadhafi is barking up the wrong tree, Condi very clearly prefers girls.
Or Alec Baldwin
Thulsa Doom
August 25th, 2011
2:52 pm
Joe Mama,
I didn’t have to serve in either Desert Storm. But my brother did. He was a Patriot battery commander protecting that big air base in Saudi Arabia I think it was whose name escapes me. Anyway, when the first rounds of SCUDS were fired his college buddy in ROTC fired off a patriot that downed the first scud and of course this guy was all over cnn. My brother was pi$$ed because he was on the opposite side of the ring and didn’t get to fire the missile that took down the scud. His buddy shot down 2 of them I think.
I also did business with a certain CEO of a well known company here in town that was an Englishman. He was the British division commander of the main British armored division and from what his other execs were telling me he personally led his tanks across the desert to confront the Iraqi armor. Very impressive man. He was in his 50s but this guy was extremely fit and trim like a dang 19 year old Marine. Smart as a whip too with a good sense of humor. If you’ve dealt with a few CEOs you know what a rare skill set and combination of great attributes they have. This gentleman was no exception.
Paul
August 25th, 2011
2:53 pm
Joe Mama
Spkr Boehner said he thought Pres Obama met the requirements of WPA. Then he said he didn’t. So he was for it until he was against it.
Rep Kucinich introduced legislation to cut off funding for Libyan operations. House Republican leadership tried to block it. In the end, a vote to cut off funds failed miserably.
So by their actions, not their rhetoric, Congress was fine with it.
md
August 25th, 2011
2:54 pm
Adam……gullibility usually doesn’t come with common sense……if one is gullible, going to the link will just confirm their gullibility………..
By the way, the link also disproved global warming…………..
Paul
August 25th, 2011
2:55 pm
jewcowboy
That was on Motor Week a week or two ago. Awesome ride. Sure doesn’t look like my daddy’s wagon – more like an artful crossover.
Adam
August 25th, 2011
2:56 pm
md
jewcowboy
August 25th, 2011
2:59 pm
Paul,
“Sure doesn’t look like my daddy’s wagon ”
Yeah…I have to say, I do have a twang of buyers remorse. I would love to have a wagon…but when I bought mine there weren’t any available in GA yet. The thought of going head to head with a Ferrari 458 while having the dogs and groceries in they back is so sweet.
Thulsa Doom
August 25th, 2011
3:00 pm
AmVet,
Well that sucks about your M-45. One of the nicest cars I’ve ever driven. You feelin ok? I noticed you posted a link from newsmax a con website and so I was wondering what in the hell is AmVet doing readin con websites. Will wonders never cease. Closet con?
Adam
August 25th, 2011
3:00 pm
End of Page 3:
Anti-Obama posts = 6
Individual anti-Obama posters = 3
Anti-Bush posts = 0
Individual anti-Bush posters = 0
Number of pages with anti-Obama posts = 3
Number of pages with anti-Bush posts = 0
Fake posts intended to skew the results = 1
Paul
August 25th, 2011
3:03 pm
jewcowboy
“The thought of going head to head with a Ferrari 458″
In about two seconds it’d be the 458’s head behind the CTS-V’s tail.
And a day later a Ferrari pulling into a Caddy dealership -
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 25th, 2011
3:04 pm
Now we must first think of the gullible before posting? What is Scout going to do for material?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 25th, 2011
3:05 pm
Dang it….. Adam, did you put me in the fake posts?
md
August 25th, 2011
3:07 pm
“Now we must first think of the gullible before posting?”
Not at all………..merely pointing out that there would be some…………….
Back Seater
August 25th, 2011
3:12 pm
Again, thanks Adam for proving my point
About time you lib’s start seeing the truth about our POTUS
Please keep up the tally
Keep Up the Good Fight!
August 25th, 2011
3:14 pm
yes md… I am sure that you demand that the Colbert Nation disclose that it is a comedy show
Or for that matter that the RNC and Fox websites do the same 
Oh lordy, think of the gullible…… why I do believe there is one in the back seat now
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
3:18 pm
Doom — “that big air base in Saudi Arabia I think it was whose name escapes me.”
KKMC? King Khalid Military City?
“when the first rounds of SCUDS were fired his college buddy in ROTC fired off a patriot that downed the first scud”
Nobody outside the military realized it then, but SCUDs don’t have a guidance system worth a rat’s hindquarters. From what I was told, they’re basically big skyrockets; you light the fuse and point it in the direction of your target, which you probably will not end up hitting. My OIC (who was an Artillery officer; I worked in a Division HQ section) said that we pretty much *had* to shoot them down, though; they scared the Saudis and if one DID hit its target, the US military would look bad. Besides, shooting down clunky old POS SCUDs gave our air defense arty guys some good practice.
“he personally led his tanks across the desert to confront the Iraqi armor. Very impressive man. He was in his 50s but this guy was extremely fit and trim like a dang 19 year old Marine. Smart as a whip too with a good sense of humor.”
I’ve heard that about Brit officers, but I’ve never met one. Being stationed in the Pacific as I was, my experience with overseas troopers was with Koreans and Aussies — and I LIKE Aussies. Those boys know how to get the job done, and they like to drink afterwards.
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
3:20 pm
Paul @ 2:53 — thank you for that reality check, sir. ^^^
Thulsa Doom
August 25th, 2011
3:20 pm
Adam,
That’s about as unscientific of a little study there as you can come up with. Of course there will be anti-Obama posts. He is the potus- has been for almost 3 years now and fairly or unfairly whoever is in office is going to get a good bashing for whatever does go wrong under his watch. Why would anyone be bashing Bush if he hasn’t even been here in nearly 3 years? The man is so yesterday’s news that it aint even funny.
md
August 25th, 2011
3:28 pm
“Oh lordy, think of the gullible…… why I do believe there is one in the back seat now”
Mr Drama?
1811/0311
August 25th, 2011
3:29 pm
Headline: “Fears Al Qaeda Infiltrating Libya Through Rebels”
“Key rebel leader is linked to terror group that wants to set up Islamist state in Libya”
Hummmmmm …………………
Thulsa Doom
August 25th, 2011
3:30 pm
Joe Mama,
It wasn’t the Air base you mentioned. I want to say AL Assad air base but I think that’s the base he was stationed at in Iraq. I can’t remember but for some reason I’m thinking the scuds were aimed at Israel but I’m probably just confusing the 2 because I’m pretty sure Saddam fired them at Saudi Arabia also. Anyway, they were easy to shoot down. Basically kinda like you said just like big busses that you set a fuse to and that’s it.
Bro told me that the troops got so complacent over the scuds being shot down with regularity that the biggest single casualty we took was because of a scud that got blown apart and the pieces were so big that it just fell to earth and happened to land on one of our camps and killed I’m guessing something like 17 or 27 soldiers in one fell swoop. Bro told me privately that the soldiers had become so complacent that many of them just didn’t take cover when the sirens went off and a good number of them that got hit in that shot were sitting in a mess hall just eating and not caring when the scud that was blown in 2 landed on them. He wasn’t there but that’s what he had been told happened from some other officers.
Thulsa Doom
August 25th, 2011
3:32 pm
Joe Mama,
It just hit me. He was at Dahran I think it was in the first gulf war.
Thulsa Doom
August 25th, 2011
3:38 pm
and I LIKE Aussies. Those boys know how to get the job done, and they like to drink afterwards. -Joe Mama
Hell they get to drink on board. We did a refueling mission with them during carrier operations out in the middle of the pacific one time and I remember seeing their sailors across the water and they had shorts as part of their uniform. Nice and cool they were in the hot ass Pacific. And they get a ration of 2 beers per sailor when their shift is done. You can’t give them away or sell them to another sailor of course. Use em or lose em but 1-2 suds after a 12-13 hour day at sea would be a nice thing.
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
3:40 pm
Doom — “Bro told me privately that the soldiers had become so complacent that many of them just didn’t take cover when the sirens went off and a good number of them that got hit in that shot were sitting in a mess hall just eating and not caring when the scud that was blown in 2 landed on them.”
I don’t doubt it, and I do remember that. Safety directives and regs are there to help make sure you don’t get killed or injured due to an accident or other preventable mishap. Not only were those guys in the chow hall wrong for not taking cover, their leadership was wrong for not making sure that they did. Safety’s a PITA sometimes, but I’d rather put up with the hassle than turn into a statistic.
I think the first few SCUDs were aimed at Israel, then I recall Saudi Arabia getting added into the mix.
Now all that plus the discussion of funny animals reminds me of this:
http://rolcats.com/155
Bosch, you will want to check that out, too. It’s Russian LOLcats, but with snarky (and incorrect) English translations. Seriously, some will make you LOL, so you might want to save them for home browsing.
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
3:47 pm
Doom — “And they get a ration of 2 beers per sailor when their shift is done.”
Don’t our Navy swabs get beer rations when underway? I thought y’all got some limited supply that the captain portioned out when and how he saw fit?
There’s no alcohol during Army field exercises, but when soldiers come in from the field, you don’t want to be standing between them and cold beer + grilled meat. When I got to Hawaii, the commanding general of the post had decreed no HMMWVs in the Burger King drive-thru and no dirty, ruck-carrying field solders inside the restaurant. I guess guys had been pretty eager for burgers after coming out of the field.
It’s not surprising, though; an extended period on nothing but MREs and T-Rats would put anyone off their feed. At least you sailors got three hots a day, most of the time.
Message from Matti
August 25th, 2011
3:56 pm
I like the little tiny bottles of tabasco sauce that come in the MREs.
Adam
August 25th, 2011
3:57 pm
Thulsa: Why would anyone be bashing Bush if he hasn’t even been here in nearly 3 years?
You tell me. Someone asserted that Bush gets bashed or blamed here more than Obama gets bashed or blamed here. I wanted to start checking to see if they were right, because my hypothesis is the opposite.
poison pen
August 25th, 2011
3:58 pm
Subject: FW: BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
President Obama has just confirmed that the DC earthquake occurred on a rare and obscure fault-line, apparently known as “Bush’s Fault”.
Obama also announced that the Secret Service and Maxine Waters continue an investigation of the quake’s suspicious ties to the Tea Party.
Conservatives however have proven that it was caused by the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.
Joe Mama
August 25th, 2011
4:03 pm
pp — “Conservatives however have proven that it was caused by the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.”
No, I heard it was caused by Chris Christie jumping into the campaign for President.
Doggone/GA
August 25th, 2011
4:05 pm
“President Obama has just confirmed that the DC earthquake occurred”
Hey Rip Van Winkle, did you JUST wake up?
Jay
August 25th, 2011
4:07 pm
sheets ….
poison pen
August 25th, 2011
4:10 pm
Joe, It would be dicey if he did.
Joel Edge
August 25th, 2011
4:55 pm
I think this is one thing we all actually agree on, creepy.
independent thinker
August 25th, 2011
9:08 pm
And this terrorist psycho was put on the good ole boy list by George W, and given military aid. Maybe he thought that was for being so charming to Condi!
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