Friday
I get plenty of rest, and am up by 6 AM. I do my new stretches in the basement, and by eight am headed to the gym for a round of lower body lifts, finishing up with half an hour on the bike. Lolly is up and ready for breakfast when I get home, and so I fix us protein shakes. Afterward, we give Peppe ...
Report: $36 billion in mystery funds enter Turkey
Report: $36 billion in mystery funds enter Turkey Al-Monitor quotes insiders who speculate that the source of funds could be Iran, Syria or Qatar In the last 12 years, since the AKP party has taken over Turkey, over $36 billion in cash from undisclosed sources has flowed into Turkey, according to th ...
Egypt’s Brotherhood leaders to quit Qatar
Egypt’s Brotherhood leaders to quit Qatar Qatar has come under tremendous pressure to stop supporting the group and other Islamists Leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood exiled in Qatar will leave the Gulf country after it came under enormous pressure to cut support for the Islamist group, a Brother ...
Sundays With Tabs the Cat, Makeup and Beauty Blog Mascot, Vol. 313
This post is sponsored by Purina Pro Plan #proplancatpartner. For information about my posting policy, please see my Disclaimer. It sucks when you don’t get any downtime. Forty-five minutes after his paw stepped off the catwalk at New York Fashion Week last Thursday, Tabs was on a flight from JFK bo ...
Obama understands neither war nor Islam
Obama understands neither war nor Islam, Dan Miller’s Blog, September 14, 2014 Winston Churchill understood both. Instead of “blood, toil, tears and sweat,” Obama offers a coalition of unwilling nations which reject our basic values of freedom. He intends to arm and train “moderate” Islamists who no ...
Turkish Gov’t Fines Kurdish TV for Airing Holocaust Film ‘The Pianist’
The Pianist. Poster: Wikipedia Turkey’s chief television and radio authority has fined a Kurdish channel for airing the Academy Award-winning film, The Pianist, the local Hürriyet daily said Sunday. The 2002 drama, directed by Roman Polanski, is based on an autobiographical Holocaust-era memoir of t ...
Why Peak Oil Refuses To Die
Perhaps you’ve seen one of the recent barrage of articles claiming that fears of an imminent peak and decline in world oil production have either been dispelled (because we actually have plenty of oil) or are misplaced (because climate change is the only environmental problem we should be concerned ...
Can We Build a Second Iraqi Army?
A view of the Iraqi city of Mosul. Photo: Sgt. Michael Bracken via Wikimedia Commons. Secretary of State Kerry is in the Middle East, looking for regional allies for President Obama’s proposal to deal with the threat of the Islamic State (IS). That is entirely appropriate — IS poses a more immediate ...
In Fight Against ISIS, US Needs Turkey To Stop Flow Of Money, Supplies, Foreign Fighters
Over the past month, the Islamic State, the militant group which has now beheaded three hostages and is taking over large parts of Iraq and Syria in an attempt to establish a caliphate, has recruited thousands of soldiers from abroad. It is estimated ...
Galatasaray v Anderlecht: Unfancied pair meet in Turkey
Galatasaray and Anderlecht will know the importance of claiming an early victory when they meet in Group C of the UEFA Champions League. Qualification for the last 16 appears a tough ask for both teams after they were drawn alongside Arsenal and Borussia ...
Turkey Denies Treating Wounded Isis Commander
ANKARA -- After Turkey was accused by several Western media outlets in the recent weeks for being a highway for jihadists and criticizing Turkey for not taking preventative measures for allowing extremists to pass over Turkish borders to the ongoing wars ...
