Monthly Archives: February 2008

Just Doing the Job Americans Won’t: Ramming School Buses

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By now the case is familiar to many, Alianiss Morales recklessly caused the death of four of her charges when she ran her van into a school bus after blowing through a stop sign. The woman had apparently been caught driving recklessly before.

She had no Driver’s License but had a photo I.D. issued by the state. Fox has been reporting that the I.D. was issued to two separate women using the same forged documents.

Michelle Malkin reported that Minnesota is lousy with sanctuary cities. Perhaps the families will have recourse in the courts to show those cities the error of their ways.

There is a memorial fund for the victims, and Morales is being less than cooperative making the ordeal for the parents that much harder. Keep them in your prayers and donate:

Memorial Fund for Families of Bus Crash Victims
United Southwest Bank
P.O. Box 288
Cottonwood, MN 56229

Update: Ouch. I totally misread the story (getting over the flu) the woman was driving a minivan. Damn You Theroflu! Well there you go lefties, look at my shame. I changed the post to something to reflect reality, but I’ll be sending out autographed print versions of my mistake to those who donate to the above memorial fund.

U.N. Police Attacked by Serbs

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The countdown until the U.N. demands America pacify the Serbian protesters in Kosovo began when U.N. forces came under attack by Serbians after French peace keepers refused to allow Serb nationals access to the Serbian areas in Kosovo:

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) – Serbs protesting Kosovo’s independence for a fifth straight day Friday attacked U.N. police guarding a key bridge in northern Kosovo with stones, glass bottles and firecrackers.

The U.S. Embassy in the Serbian capital Belgrade announced it would evacuate family members of the staffers following an attack on the compound Thursday. Serb protesters set fire to the embassy, angered by U.S. recognition of Kosovo’s declaration of independence over the weekend.

Serbia’s prime minister appealed for calm. Serbian President Boris Tadic called an emergency meeting of the national security council and said the rioting that engulfed the capital overnight must “never happen again.”

“I most sharply condemn the violence, looting and arson,” Tadic said in a statement. “There is no excuse for the violence. Nobody can justify what happened yesterday.”

Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence from Serbia on Sunday. The province, which is 90 percent ethnic Albanian, has not been under Serbia’s control since 1999, when NATO launched air strikes to halt a Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists. A U.N. mission has governed Kosovo since.

Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said Friday the violence was reminiscent of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic’s bloody crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo.

In Serb-dominated northern Kosovo, demonstrators waved Serbian flags and chanted “Kosovo is ours!” Police tried to keep protesters off the Kosovska Mitrovica bridge over the Ibar River. The bridge, which divides Kosovo Serbs from ethnic Albanians, has long been a flash point of tensions in Kosovo’s restive north.

“Kosovo is Serbia and we will never surrender despite blackmail by the European Union,” Dragan Deletic, a Serbian government official, told the crowd which responded by chanting “Kosovo is Serbia.”

Several EU countries, including Britain, Germany, France and Italy, have recognized Kosovo.

Tensions among demonstrators was higher than usual Friday because French NATO peace keepers on Kosovo’s border refused to allow the passage of several busloads of Serbs who wanted to join the Kosovo Serb rally Friday.

There were fears that Serbian soccer hooligans, the same ones who attacked the U.S. and other embassies in Belgrade on Thursday, were among those on the buses. Some of the hooligans apparently managed to evade the blockade, leading the clashes at the bridge.

I wonder how “soccer hooligans” managed to evade those oh so professional U.N. Peace keepers? By bribing them with underage girls?

If the newly minted Kosovo realizes that the U.N. can’t protect their borders, whose going to get the call to station troops in that “quagmire” that will be a waste of our precious blood and treasure? That’s at least how we on the right can frame it when President Obama sends troops there.

Venezuelans to be Issued Ration Cards

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Socialism at work! From The Devil’s Excrement:

Asdrubal Chavez, Vice-President of PDVSA and the President’s cousin (of course), announced that in the planned network of large (PDVAL) and smaller markets (PDVALitos) run by the PDVSA subsidiary, they will keep a register of all purchases, limiting purchases to once a day. Moreover, they have done the studies of how much food a family may need and purchases will be limited to those amounts. They will have a “file card” (read rationing card) to register purchases so as to avoid repeats and people exceeding the limits.

I weep for Venezuela, which will begin to look like Cuba within a decade.

Riots in Belgrade

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Civil unrest in the birth place of World War I. Who would have thought Kosovo Independence was a bad idea? Now an American embassy was attacked during riots by Serbian Nationalists in Belgrade:

Rioters stormed the U.S. embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, on Thursday and started a fire in protest of Kosovo’s declaration of independence earlier this week.

Serbian media said a charred body was found inside the embassy.

U.S. officials told FOX News that the embassy building was secured and the fire was extinguished, but angry demonstrators were still rioting well into the night. The mayhem came after a large organized protest against the situation in Kosovo.

Sources have provided conflicting reports on how extensive the breach of the U.S. Embassy was. Some told FOX News that no protesters made it into the building, which has been closed this week.

Other reports from The Associated Press noted masked attackers had gained entry and tried to throw furniture from an office. The reports also said a blaze had broken out inside one of the offices.

The neighboring Croatian Embassy also was attacked by the same group.

It took police about 45 minutes to appear at the scene, and firefighters arrived about the same time and put out the blaze. Police secured the U.S. Embassy and surrounding area, blocking off all access.

Russia, China and some reports claim Venezuela back the Nationalists. We and a crumbling Western Europe full of Islamists and peaceniks support Kosovo. So when the Nationalist backers start flooding the area with weapons and “advisers” what country is it going to fall to protect Kosovo?

So, does Obama or Clinton have an exit strategy from Serbia?

Gateway Pundit has more on the riots.