Scoop This is a couple of days late to the party.

But we are still going to rock for our troops in Iraq!

On a personal note, I have two cousins and many friends fighting in Iraq. My friend Marcus Mathes died in Iraq. Before I started blogging on Scoop This, I blogged about Marcus on my .

We honor your sacrifice and celebrate your victory, Marcus.

Marcus Mathes.

Marcus hugs his wife.

More on Marcus Mathes at The Iraq Page.

Scoop This thanks all of our military men and women in Iraq, Afghanistan, and all around the world.

America is The Land Of The Free because of The Brave.

And Saddam Hussein and his sons are still burning in hell.

Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit

Rashid Rauf was initially wanted for questioning by police in England over the murder of his uncle in Birmingham. Rauf fled to Pakistan but was arrested in August 2006 by the Pakistani police for his alleged involvement in the plot to detonate liquid bombs in airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean. Rauf escaped Pakistani custody in 2007 but was killed by a U.S. missile on Saturday.

However, I am more interested in the cooperation between America and Pakistan and how they planned to kill Rauf.

The Independent

A secret meeting on board an American aircraft carrier between the US General David Petraeus and the head of the Pakistani military laid the foundation for the killing of Britain’s most wanted terrorist.

The Independent learned that talks held on board the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf three months ago led to General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani pledging to provide information on “high-value” targets such as Rashid Rauf, who died in a missile strike inside Pakistan on Saturday.

Senior UK security sources insisted that the lethal attack in North Waziristan on the 27-year-old Birmingham-born Rauf – accused of being involved in the plot to plant liquid bombs aboard transatlantic airliners – was “a unilateral American action” without any British involvement.

American officials stated that the intelligence on the whereabouts of Rauf and a Saudi Islamist, Abu Zubair al-Masri, was provided by Pakistani authorities. The agreement on sharing intelligence came during the meeting on the aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea in the last week of August, US sources said.

General Kayani, who had taken over from General Pervez Musharraf as the head of the Pakistani military, was brought to the ship by American helicopters. He was told about grave American disquiet over the help being given to the Taliban by elements of the Pakistani military and intelligence service, the ISI. According to US officials an agreement was reached at the conclusion of the “heated” meeting with General Kayani, in which the Pakistanis promised to supply high-quality intelligence.

I wonder if the Pakistani ISI knew all along where Rauf and al-Masri were hiding. Also, I wonder what General Petraues, on behalf of the American government, offered in return for intelligence on Rauf’s whereabouts. Money? Weapons? I believe that Pakistan received more than “shared intelligence”.

Also, I hope General Kayani arrests the Pakistani military and ISI members guilty of aiding the Taliban in North Warziristan.

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines

Jim Treacher

That’s an actual poll at the Philadelphia Inquirer, attached to some story about how wonderful Obama is. (Just in case we’d all forgotten.) Please click on that image and vote for Bobby Kennedy, just to be silly geese. It’s an embarrassing mistake, but in the Inquirer’s defense, RFK died before most of the paper’s remaining staff members’ parents were born.

The real answer, of course, is None of the Above. It’s starting to look like the former president Obama resembles most is either Bill Clinton or… George W. Bush! No wonder our netroots friends are seething. But then, that’s their natural state.

The Philadelphia Inquirer poll has been fixed.

Amy S. Rosenberg, the writer of the Philadelphia Inquirer column, rivals the liberal stupidity of her New York Time colleague, Gail Collins.

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines

Ziad Jarrah liked to drink beer and attend discos while at college. Then five years later, he steered Flight 93 into the ground, killing everyone on board.

I would almost surmise from the video that he is not “down for the cause”, but his murderous actions on September 11, 2001 prove otherwise.

Burn in hell, Ziad.

Hat Tip: Hot Air

Gain Collins stupidly writes in her new New York Times column:

Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning.

Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks — hasn’t got the clout, or possibly even the energy, to do anything useful. His most recent contribution to resolving the fiscal crisis was lecturing representatives of the world’s most important economies on the glories of free-market capitalism.

Putting Barack Obama in charge immediately isn’t impossible. Dick Cheney, obviously, would have to quit as well as Bush. In fact, just to be on the safe side, the vice president ought to turn in his resignation first. (We’re desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she’d defer to her party’s incoming chief executive, and Barack Obama could begin governing.

As a bonus, the Pelosi presidency would put a woman in the White House this year after all. On the downside, a few right-wing talk-show hosts might succumb to apoplexy. That would, of course, be terrible, but I’m afraid we might have to take the risk in the name of a greater good.

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air expertly takes Gail Collins to task by stating that Collins shows a remarkable ignorance of the President’s schedule, the Constitution, and America’s government. Also, Nancy Pelosi, if she were the President, would have to select her Cabinet members and other White House staff. Nancy Pelosi would have to wait until Congress confirmed the nominations of her Cabinet. If Gail Collins fancies herself as a feminist, she would like Nancy Pelosi to take orders from the next man who will be President and let Barack Obama be the President-by-proxy. Yes, that will go over well with women’s rights groups.

Gail Collins continues to write in her column that her plan would be disadvantageous for Barack Obama! Collins admits that Barack Obama would be rushed into his Presidency and that his transition “will not be the best in history”. Why would she write this idiotic entry if her call for President Bush’s resignation serves no purpose? Does she want to embarrass the New York Times even further? Columns written by stupid liberals such as Gail Collins is the second reason why the profitability of the New York Times has slumped (and the first reason is because the New York Times fits to print America’s military, political, and government agency secrets).

Gail Collins, representing all liberals, once again admits the stupidity of liberals and liberalism.

Live Leak

Malevo Ferreyra Commits Suicide In Front Of TV Crew!

Malevo Ferreyra was Chief of the Brigade of Investigations of the State Tucum án in Argentina in the late 70’s. He was convicted in 1991 for a triple homicide. He escaped, but he commited suicide in front of his wife and children when the National Guard wanted to arrest him last night.

Malevo Ferreyra kills himself 8 seconds into the video.

He dies while still holding the gun in his hand.

BBC

A former police chief in Argentina, wanted for alleged crimes against human rights, has shot himself dead in front of television cameras.

Mario Ferreyra was giving an interview on top of a water tank at his home in the northern province of Tucuman.

Police were coming to arrest him when he killed himself.

Mr Ferreyra was wearing his customary black shirt and cowboy hat and told the interviewer that he was innocent and had not committed any crimes.

He then told his wife, Maria, that he would love her forever, pulled a pistol from his boot and shot himself behind the ear.

‘Pact of silence’

The Cronica television cameras were still rolling, transmitting live, as the distraught family gathered round.

Police, who had come to arrest Mr Ferreyra at his farm, came running, but it was too late. He was dead.

Mr Ferreyra was accused of kidnapping and torture during the military government that ran Argentina between 1976 and 1983.

The victims’ families say the suicide was part of a pact of silence - that the ex-police chief would not testify against former colleagues accused of kidnapping and killing some of the tens of thousands of Argentines who died during a period that became known as the “Dirty War”.

If you are innocent, why commit suicide?

AllahPundit writes:

I can’t make up my mind on this one. Either it’s Obama trying to enact his economic policies with free-market capitalism in the way or it’s Hillary trying to run America’s foreign policy with Obama himself in the way. Your call.

Either way, AllahP, it is freaking funny!

Hat Tip: Hot Air

My septic tank blew up last night! I had to stay at a local hotel. I came back this morning to my apartment, and the stench was not as bad as I thought it would be.

Danny the Plumber from Mr. Rooter was able to fix my septic tank. He found baby wipes clogging the drain pipe. What the hell? I do not have any kids.

I was able to clean one of my bathrooms. I will clean the other bathroom as soon as I go buy some more Clorox bleach.

I will have to hire someone to rip out the carpeting that was damaged by the septic tank water.

I will post pictures later on today of Danny the Plumber and the disgusting aftermath left by the septic tank. First, I have to figure out how to decrease the size of the pictures I took.

More to come. Stay tuned…

UPDATE 1: Well, there goes $150.00 down the drain!

Hopefully, I will be able to blog today. I am super tired.

UPDATE 2: Danny the Plumber.

I am debating with myself whether or not to post the “aftermath” pictures. Perhaps I will post them later on today.

UPDATE 3: And the disgusting, horrible aftermath.

If I ruined your breakfast, sorry.

Telegraph.co.uk

A kitten has been born with two faces, and it meows simultaneously through both mouths.

However, the cat has a cleft palate and can only eat through one mouth.

Only one in a million kittens is born with two heads and it is unusual for this one to be doing so well.

In August a kitten with four eyes, two noses and one mouth was born in Ohio, but it died after five days.

The condition is thought to be more common among snakes and turtles.

The cat was delivered in a vet’s surgery in Perth, Western Australia, after its mother experienced complications during the birth.

Louisa Burgess, who helped deliver the cat told the Australian website InMyCommunity.co.au: “I have seen cats with two tails and extra legs, but not this.

“It has a full tummy and it survived the night so that is a good sign. It seems content, it meows and purrs.

“This is the result of a congenital deformity. Something has gone wrong in the early embryonic development,” she added.

The grey and white feline will be closely monitored in the next few days but appears to be healthy.

According to InMyCommunity.com.au the owners are planning to keep the kitten and are considering calling it Mr Men or Quasi Modo.

The kitty cat is kinda cute.

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines

Fox News.com

The Sexpert on Fox News asks: How many people have you slept with?

Should you share your number?

When it comes to professing how many people you’ve slept with, it is the ultimate “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” confession. For many, some things are better left unsaid.

You may be better off avoiding this conversation entirely, given you never know what kind of reaction you’re going to get.

For most people, claiming too many past lovers is frowned upon. For others, having too low a number can send their would-be lovers running for the hills, wary they’re a bit too “green.” So given the distress it evokes, is it in a couple’s best interest to have the “how many” conversation? And at what point should you ‘fess up your sexual experience (or lack thereof)?

Sharing is not only considered a sexual health courtesy, but a requirement in many ways. Some people see this revealing conversation as a form of bonding, since it’s such a personal issue. Having this conversation is also regarded as an emotional breakthrough, as in lovers don’t need to hold back about anything.

What’s up with all of the sex stories on Scoop This lately? Oh, wait, I posted them.

I would say that quality sex over quantity sex is better, but then all of my guy friends will laugh at me. Then again, all of my girl friends would be proud of me (and I would have a better chance to score).

Hat Tip: Hot Air Headlines