Say What?

Look carefully at the list below for the one terrorist organization that is NOT listed. And why is it not listed? Simple, our State Department (the one run by Hilary Clinton) has not listed it as a terrorist organization. Give you a clue, just look at the last terrorist organization on this list (just added by the way this last August 12th, but it did not become official until last wednesday, September 1st). And below the list, the reasons given why this terrorist organization is not a terrorist organization by our State Department (and remember, our president controls that department).

Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. FTO designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business.

Current List of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations

1. Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
2. Abu Sayyaf Group
3. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
4. Al-Shabaab
5. Ansar al-Islam
6. Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
7. Asbat al-Ansar
8. Aum Shinrikyo
9. Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
10. Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA)
11. Continuity Irish Republican Army
12. Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group)
13. HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
14. Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
15. Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
16. Hizballah (Party of God)
17. Islamic Jihad Group
18. Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
19. Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) (Army of Mohammed)
20. Jemaah Islamiya organization (JI)
21. Kahane Chai (Kach)
22. Kata’ib Hizballah
23. Kongra-Gel (KGK, formerly Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK, KADEK)
24. Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LT) (Army of the Righteous)
25. Lashkar i Jhangvi
26. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
27. Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
28. Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
29. Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
30. National Liberation Army (ELN)
31. Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
32. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
33. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLF)
34. PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
35. Tanzim Qa’idat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (QJBR) (al-Qaida in Iraq) (formerly Jama’at al-Tawhid wa’al-Jihad, JTJ, al-Zarqawi Network)
36. al-Qa’ida
37. al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
38. al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (formerly GSPC)
39. Real IRA
40. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
41. Revolutionary Organization 17 November
42. Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
43. Revolutionary Struggle
44. Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso, SL)
45. United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
46. Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI)
47. Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan

See it above? Now why is the TALIBAN, the original group in Afghanistan not on the above list?

Man, you want to see something very damn weird?

Okay, September 11, 2001. Surely you all remember that date?

The flight number of the first plane to hit the first tower? QN 33 NY

Now this is the freaking strange part, and very damn weird!

Open Microsoft Word and do the following:
1. Type in capitals Q33 NY. This is the flight number of the first plane to hit one of the Twin Towers.
2. Highlight the Q33 N
3. Change the font size to 48.
4. Change the actual font to the WINGDINGS try it, it’s not a joke you will really see something that will shock you!

Is the freaking strange or what?

Will the media call the Silver Spring/Discovery Channel gunman an environmental terrorist?

Very interesting as you read the above.

Then again, maybe the gunman is just angling for a job in the White House. Consider the book Ecoscience, written by Obama’s “science czar,” John Holdren:

Even more troubling: Over the weekend, a blogger at Zombietime.com unearthed a book written over 30 years ago by John Holdren, President Obama’s “science czar.”

The book, Ecoscience, was co-written with neo-Malthusian prophet of doom and scientific laughingstock Paul Ehrlich. In it, Holdren advocates a series of bizarre and horrifying measures to deal with an overpopulation threat that never materialized.

Among the suggestions in the book: Laws requiring the abortion or adoption of illegitimate children; sterilizing women after having two children; legally requiring “reproductive responsibility” to those deemed by pointy-headed eugenicists to “contribute to general social deterioration”; and incredibly, putting sterilizing agents in the drinking water.

Naturally, these population control measures would be enforced by “an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force.” Very recently, Holdren was still listing the book on his C.V.

Yesterday, we had gone room by room, checking the floors, moving furniture to look underneath, and we did this at least 3 times. We even went through all the trash containers, twice no less. And could find no trace of my wedding ring. Wife had even gone through our bed, taking up the sheets, checking the pillows, the comforter, and found nothing.

Last night, I crawled into bed and out of my new habit, was running my hands all over the sheets. Nothing. And fell asleep.

This morning, I was half awake-half asleep. Tossing and turning. BAM! On one turn, I felt the ring with my left hand! Yep, found the wedding ring! Grabbed that sucker and came to my wife and showed it to her.

Yes, the ring in back on my fat finger where it belongs! Yes, once I squeezed it on the finger, it will not come off unless I really tug at it. So why did it come off in the first place, while I was sleeping? Only the Good Lord knows the answer to that one!

I say mystery solved! But not really, as I said.

Okay, you all can go back to your lives.

Set this one up this way: I have fat assed fingers! My wedding ring has always been a bitch to take off. The other day our granddaughter was here for dinner and she joked about how I am the only person she knows that has fat fingers and my ring will not come off (she tried). Got all this?

This morning, up and at them early. Took my shower and shaved. Got dressed. Got my mug filled with coffee. Grabbed a little cigar (my wife rations them out to me at a max of one per hour). And opened up the front door, let our dog out, then I followed. Sat down to enjoy my coffee. Reached into my pocket and got my faithful zippo and started to light my little cigar when I noticed something missing. Yes, my damn wedding ring was gone! Not there! just a nice indentation where it had been wrapped around my finger.

So wife and I looked and checked the bathroom very carefully (no way it could go down the drains). Even emptied the trash in the bathroom and went through carefully. Then to the bedroom. Careful check (with a flashlight) under the bed, in the closet and on the bed (under the covers). Did not find the ring!

We left and went shopping and when we got back home? A second check by me of all the rooms. Even outside again where I had sat. I checked and rechecked and still no sign of my wedding ring!

See, that is a freaking mystery! What the hell happened to my wedding ring? How could a ring that rarely would come off my finger decide to just up and leave? Will I ever find my wedding ring? (wife said, you will find it. about 1 day after you buy a new one).

Do such freaking mysteries happen to you?

Okay, today sifted through all the various ideas I had gotten from quite a few people plus those I came up with in regards as to what to make of XRMO. Remember, it had been a directory, so that freaking idea was trashed (surprised how many people said to make it a directory again). Then it ran the gamut from a url short site to an image/file hosting site to making it a search engine. To tell you the truth, not one idea really made my hairs tingle. And then someone sent me a link to a site that sells a nice template, etc. to make a site selling wordpress themes. Well, after looking at that site, and the demo, and having others check it out, that idea got canned (saving me some money by the way). Earlier, on namepros chat (see, no link to them! let them pay for a link here…hahahahahaha…hear me NPQueen and RJ?) someone just posted out of the blue “Random Ramblings from Iowa”. Well, I saw that and put it at the back of my mind (yes, I do have a mind, such as it is) to come back later and see if I could do something with it.

See the title of the blog “Say What? |Random Ramblings from Iowa”? Well, that is the blog now for sure. I will post whenever I have some odd reason to post on whatever it is that enters my mind or I see with my eyes. So do stay tuned and come back often. Because I am here to tell you that you will never know what I will actually ramble on about or try to pass off on you! It may be the weather (which reminds me, do hurricanes have a mind such that they say “I am going to AIM for the coast of Florida”?), it may be our political screwups, hell might even throw up a rude picture or video just to shake things up a bit or a nice picture of a nude woman. Now you are being forewarned that when you come to the Say What? blog that anything can be posted here. To tell you the truth, I think I will just do my oddest best to shock the shit out of my readers!

So do two things right now! One is bookmark this blog so you can find it again (some of you I know are like me and have a memory like a sieve when it comes to finding the way back to a site or blog) and two is even better in that I would appreciate you clicking on any banner or link you see now on the blog and will come up in the future. After all, if I have to come up with random ramblings all the time the least I should expect is some money…..

Update 8-29: Seems like XRMO is in a heck of a lot of automatic submitters and a heck of a lot of manual submitters toolbox. As it still seems submit.php is getting hit over 150 times a day! One would think that at some point fast, these submitters would say “hmm…not getting to XRMO, so must remove”. Maybe this will happen in the next month or so?

I dropped the directory for two simple reasons:

1. total lack of valid submissions

2. nothing but spam submissions

Now XRMO.com is a blog.

It will take me a day, or two, or a bunch of days, to come up with a good niche for this blog.

So bear with me here.