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Pershing Sq. Restaurant Blocks Park Ave. at 42nd St., This Causes Massive Congestion & Pollution! But Does It Bother NYC Mayor Bloomberg?

2007-06-25T22:02:00.000-04:00

Environmental Hazard from Traffic Congestion from Pershing Square Restaurant. Is it being ignored by the local media?

If so, why?

Have you had lunch at this delightful outdoor cafe? You should, I love the place! In the picture, this is the view looking uptown on Park Avenue towards 42nd street. I wish we could shutdown like half the streets in Manhattan, it would really be a party!

Click here for the map to see where Pershing Square Restaurant blocks Park Avenue going South at 42nd St. This Causes Massive Congestion & Air Pollution! But Does It Bother NYC Mayor Mike "Congestion Pricing Tax" Bloomberg?

This is really quite a travesty. The following was cobbled together from an email we received after taking a look at this mess.

With good reason, more and more people are talking about this.

Environmental Hazard from Traffic Congestion from Pershing Square Rest. Ignored by MSM....

Dear Concerned Politicians, Journalists & Activists
and NYC drivers,

Do you know why traffic is so TOTALLY JAMMED UP in
Midtown, especially East Midtown, between about
mid-May until mid-October?

DO YOU EVEN CARE?!

Park Avenue at 42nd street is BLOCKED OFF going South!

Have you tried to go South down Park Ave. from 42nd
Street?

"Every Weekday: Pershing Square Plaza is open on the
southbound lanes of Park Ave between East 41st St and
East 42nd St on weekdays between the hours of 11 am
and 10:30 pm (May) through October – weather
permitting. The public seating promenade next to the
Altria Building is open weekdays between 11 am and 3
pm for bag lunches, conversations, book reading, and
sun worshipping. The outdoor café is open for dining
and drinks on weekdays between noon and 10:30 pm."
Grand Central Partnership

Did you know this has been going on EVERY YEAR SINCE
1997?

Have you seen this traffic farce, from about 11am to
10pm just about every day for just about half the
year?

Did you know the downtown entrance to Park Avenue on
42 street is blocked off from traffic so that the
Pershing Square Restaurant can make boatloads of money
serving cocktails to thousands?

Sounds like fun!

It's like a street fair or block party that goes on
for 6 months!

This is a MASSIVE traffic hazard. I have seen
ambulances and police cars stuck in traffic many times.

Who is Michael 'Buzzy' O'Keefe? I believe he is still the owner of
Pershing Square Restaurant, and the Water Club, that's who.

Is he a BIG BUDDY of Peter Kalikow, the former head of the
MTA and Chairman of The Grand Central Partnership ?

Is he also a BIG BUDDY of the supposedly 'practical',
anti-congestion and anti-pollution, green friendly Mayor Michael Bloomberg?

I have nothing against Michael O'Keefe, he's just a savvy businessman who rightfully and legally took advantage of a good deal. I hear he's a nice guy too. My problem is that it was handed to him by the City of New York, something that isn't really theirs to give away.

The sanctity of traffic congestion.

Who is the landlord of record of that space under the
Park Avenue Bridge?

Was this street deal a giveaway to get Michael 'Buzzy'
O'Keefe to sign on as tenant for a previously unsuccessful rental location?

Why is nothing being done about this massive traffic bottleneck in the heart of Midtown Manhattan?

It's not like the supposedly 'Green Friendly' Mayor Bloomberg can't do something about it.

The City seems genuinely concerned about air quality, and the Mayor is all puffed up about his "Congestion Pricing" tax scheme, which he must believe will be more successful than London's program.

Also, not only himself, but also the City Comptroller, the Borough President of Manhattan, and the Speaker of the City Council ALL sit on The GCP's 40+ member board along with a who's who of New York's business elite.

All of whom I'm sure, in their GCP duties have only the best interests of the City and its people in mind.

Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg*
Mayor of the City of New York

Hon. William Thompson, Jr.
Comptroller of the City of New York

Hon. Scott Stringer
Borough President of Manhattan

Hon. Christine C. Quinn
Speaker of the Council of the City of New York

Hon. Daniel R. Garodnick
New York City Council, District 4

David Diamond
Chair, Manhattan Community Board Five

Lyle Frank
Chair, Manhattan Community Board Six

Please look into this, check out all the cars that
would normally turn South down Park Ave at 42nd
street.

Watch on days when it is raining and the street is open.
It may average a few hundred cars PER hour! That's probably
a few thousand cars a day which are forced to keep
going East or West on 42nd street!

See how they have to go all the way down to Lexington
or 2nd ave to go back to Park Ave. 39th street and
Lexington Ave is often a joke. Tons of cars going
west on 39th across Lex and tons of cars turning West from Lex
on to 39th street.

Go check it out!

This is a HUGE mess and massive injustice to ALL New
Yorkers and visitors traffic-wise and to all the other restaurants
in the city WHO WOULD LOVE to be able to shutdown
the street in front or to the side and put tables out there.

How quaint!

Politicians clogging the streets on purpose for a frivolous
commercial privilege like this should earn a caning offense.

This is especially dangerous in a post-9/11 World.

Think of the children breathing all that carbon
monoxide that Bloomberg claims to want to clean up!

Calling 311 repeatedly has not cleaned this up, maybe
you can.

Hundreds of NYC journalists and politicians have been
sent this information, but NO ONE will write about it! Why?

Please call 311 today!

Please put a stop to this ASAP!!!

Turning down Park Avenue off 42nd street is a major traffic release valve. When it's cut off it really jams up 42nd street and then streets well beyond, it's a HUGE bottleneck mess!

Please call the Grand Central Partnership today!

The Grand Central Partnership
122 East 42nd Street, Suite 601
New York, NY 10168

Tel: 212.883.2420
Fax: 212.661.4384
Email: info@gcpbid.org

Call the Mayor, call your Council People.

Let the media and the traffic authorities know that you know!

Come on fellow bloggers, does this situation really annoy you?

It should, if so please write about it, tell your friends, tell the media, link to this post, visit the scene, take some pictures, some videos, post some on YouTube! Please help spread the word!

Just please think of the children, please save the CHILDREN!

And finally, please go have a nice time at the Cafe
before it gets shutdown, it really is wonderful.

But it's just wrong.

Better late than never...

Thank you!

:)

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Larry Benjamin's Blog
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New York Young Republican Record
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Austin Mojo - Tolls in the News
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Mohammad Cartoons About Mohammad Cartoons! Come & Get It! BeetleJuice presents...

2006-05-02T21:54:00.000-04:00

Come one, come all! See the cartoons of the Mohammad and the cartoons about the Muhammad cartoons, fair and balanced baby!
BeetleJuice presents : Showtime Unlimited

Tell your friends, show your Mom!

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Borders! Think Borders! Borders! Talk Borders...

2006-04-11T00:20:00.000-04:00

Well of course, the "peaceful" Muslims want our borders open, do you think maybe the NON-peaceful ones want them open too? Michelle Malkin: MUSLIMS FOR OPEN BORDERS

Check out these friends of terrorists advocating free movement for all, including IslamOfascist Terrorist Killer Monkees.

Then Go over to Ms. Malkin's here for more great border coverage and links to lots of stuff and pictures of posters asking "Honkies" to get their asses back to Europe and another nasty stuff from some not-so-friendly and totally ungrateful immigrants.

Borders! Think Borders! Borders! Talk Borders...Borders! Think Borders! Borders! Talk Borders...Borders! Think Borders! Borders! Talk Borders...Borders! Think Borders! Borders! Talk Borders...Borders! Think Borders! Borders! Talk Borders...Borders! Think Borders! Borders! Talk Borders...

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Monkey Scum of Suburbs Targets and Tortures French Jews

2006-04-02T05:44:00.000-04:00

If this story doesn't piss you off then you are sick. Barbarians of suburbs target French Jews - Sunday Times - Times Online:
"Matthew Campbell, Paris

THE pretty schoolgirl known as Yalda wore tight white trousers and thigh-high boots to the rendezvous. Her target, a young Jewish telephone salesman, quickly fell under her spell. He meekly followed her when she suggested a nightcap at her place.

It would be his last date.

The testimony of this 17-year-old femme fatale who happily offered herself as “bait” in the kidnapping of Ilan Halimi, whose tortured body was found on wasteland, has shocked a country which is haunted by a painful history of anti-semitism.

Yalda’s only moment of doubt came when she heard Halimi’s shrieks as he was carried away by thugs in balaclava helmets. “He screamed for two minutes, with a high-pitched voice like a girl,” she told investigators. ..."

These barbarian monkees must be hunted down and exterminated.

France can ill afford to let this human garbage run wild, the country is already in the toilet and it's getting worse.

Hopefully, with the new French labor law, more of these young Banloonies will be able to get jobs and then will be too busy to get into as much killer monkee mischief.

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Right Truth: Three year old Afghan bride, beaten and tortured..by Monkees!

2006-03-22T23:58:00.000-05:00

For those who defend this? Then EFF them!

Right Truth: Three year old Afghan bride, beaten and tortured: "Three year old Afghan bride, beaten and tortured

Gulsoma's father died when she was three years old. Her mother and new step-father didn't want her, so she was given to a 30 year old neighbor as his bride. From the beginning of this 'marriage', Gulsoma was beaten, starved, burned, caged, and used as a slave to the 'husband', father-in-law and twelve other family children.

'My father-in-law asked me to do everything — laundry, the household chores — and the only time I was able to sleep in the house was when they had guests over,' she says. 'Other than that I would have to sleep outside on a piece of carpet without even any blankets. In the summer it was okay. But in the winter a neighbor would come over and give me a blanket, and sometimes some food.'..."

But wait, the Religion of Peace, this must be an aborration. A totally isolated incident.

"When she couldn't keep up with the workload, Gulsoma says, she was beaten constantly.

"They beat me with electric wires," she says, "mostly on the legs. My father-in-law told his other children to do it that way so the injuries would be hidden. He said to them, 'break her bones, but don't hit her on the face.'" they used her as a human tabletop, forcing her to lie on her stomach then cutting their food on her bare back.

Then, she says, he locked her in a shed for two months. ..."

Yeah, but she must have deserved this right? I mean they're Muslims, their religion couldn't condone this, could it?

No, it must not, otherwise Islam would NOT be a Religion of Peace and Forgiveness. Right?

If this poor girl's 'family' actually believed their treatment of this girl was justified and right, the father wouldn't say 'break her bones, but don't hit her on the face.'.

He obviously knows that it is wrong, or at least that some other people in the community would definitely not approve.

People who do shit like this are total garbage. Human scum, and hating them is healthy and just.

They are amoung the worst savage killer monkeys on the planet.

It's total bullsheet to say 'Well, it's just their culture.' Like raping, torturing and beating little girls could be a legitimate part of any legitimate culture. To those who say this, I say 'EFF YOU! you sick fuck!'

If it is part of any culture, then it follows that that culture is a crap culture, a savage, primitive and evil culture.

That culture most certainly does not practice any 'Religion of Peace'.

Islam, Religion of Peace & Forgiveness? A Non-Example...

2006-03-22T23:23:00.000-05:00

The Legacy of Jihad - Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims [Andrew G. Bostom] - Note on Cover: "A consensus Muslim account of the massacre of the Qurayzah has emerged as conveyed by classical Muslim scholars of hadith (putative utterances and acts of Muhammad, recorded by pious Muslim transmitters), biographer's of Muhammad's life (especially Ibn Ishaq), jurists, and historians 2. This narrative is summarized as follows: Alleged to have aided the forces of Muhammad's enemies in violation of a prior pact, the Qurayzah were subsequently isolated and besieged. Twice the Qurayzah made offers to surrender, and depart from their stronghold, leaving behind their land and property. Initially they requested to take one camel load of possessions per person, but when Muhammad refused this request, the Qurayzah asked to be allowed to depart without any property, taking with them only their families. However, Muhammad insisted that the Qurayzah surrender unconditionally and subject themselves to his judgment. Compelled to surrender, the Qurayzah were lead to Medina. The men with their hands pinioned behind their backs, were put in a court, while the women and children were said to have been put into a separate court. A third (and final) appeal for leniency for the Qurayzah was made to Muhammad by their tribal allies the Aus. Muhammad again declined, and instead he appointed as arbiter Sa’d Mu’adh from the Aus, who soon rendered his concise verdict: the men were to be put to death, the women and children sold into slavery, the spoils to be divided among the Muslims. ..."

Should we imagine this was the only time Muhammad behaved this way?

Spread the word people!

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Blog Good News Blog! Spread Good News!

2006-03-22T22:40:00.000-05:00

With all the talk about the MSM just spinning the 'Bad' News of Iraq, and ignoring the good, and the eternal 'If it bleeds it leads.'media mantra; I wondered if there was a Good News Blog. Apparently there is. At first glance it looks pretty cool, all sorts of 'Good News' in all sorts of categories from all around the world.

Our little blue planet needs more good news blogs.

Please spread the word!

:)

Mike Whitney's 'Death Squad Democracy' Implies U.S. Trained Assassins Killing Americans!

2006-03-22T00:44:00.000-05:00

The impression I get from Mike Whitney'sDeath Squad Democracy over at Dissident Voice is that he is implying that the Iraqi insurgency isn't killing other Iraqis, but that they are being killed by Iraqi black-ops killers trained by U.S. Military secret assassination trainers. I think he seems to imply that these Iraqi Government Assassins are also launching offensives and bombings which end up killing American soldiers as well.

Here he goes:
"The notion that Iraq is now consumed by civil war depends on a number of assumptions that are inherently false. First of all, it assumes that the Pentagon is ignoring the fundamental principle that underscores all wars: “Know your enemy.” In this case, there’s no doubt about who the enemy is: it is the 87% of the Iraqi people who want to see an immediate end to the American occupation. Therefore, the greatest threat to American objectives of permanent bases and occupation is the camaraderie that manifests itself in the form of Arab solidarity or Iraqi nationalism.

To this end, the Pentagon, through its surrogates in the media, has created a “self-fulfilling” narrative that civil war is already under way. Most of the war coverage now makes it appear as though the violence is generated from ethnic tensions and sectarian hatred. But is it? Some of the more astute observers have noticed that other parts of the propaganda war, (like references to the “imaginary” al-Zarqawi) have completely vanished from the newspapers, as government spin-doctors are now devoting 100% of their time to promoting their latest product line: civil war. ..."

Read the rest of this Al-Jazeera contributor's rant here.

This Moonbat doesn't believe that the insurgent terrorists have been killing innocent Iraqi citizens.

He thinks the White House and the American Military want a civil war in Iraq.

He thinks that the new Iraqi Government wants a civil war in Iraq.

He therefore must believe that if the U.S. Military were to leave Iraq immediately there would be no ore fighting and just peace and love everywhere.

This boy is out there.

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The Buffoon Factor - Fairly Unbalanced

2006-03-05T04:31:00.000-05:00

Media Matters - O'Reilly threatened radio show caller with "a little visit" from "Fox security" for mentioning Olbermann's name on the air:

Summary: On his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly threatened to turn over the personal information of a caller to 'Fox security' because the caller mentioned MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. As Media Matters has noted, in recent weeks, Olbermann has repeatedly awarded O'Reilly the 'Worst Person in the World' designation during his show, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. ..."

What's up with Mr. O'Reilly huh? Is he losing it? Did I hear him say or read somewhere that he was planning to retire?

The guy didn't say squat, only "Keith Olberman".

" The caller began by telling O'Reilly, "I like to listen to you during the day." Continuing, the caller stated, "I think Keith Olbermann's show," at which point O'Reilly disconnected the call, proclaiming: "Mike is -- he's a gone guy. You know, we have his -- we have your phone numbers, by the way. So, if you're listening, Mike, we have your phone number, and we're going to turn it over to Fox security, and you'll be getting a little visit. ..."

He didn't even say anything nasty like "O'Reilly, you bloviating, porcine bastard.", or "O'Reilly, you fairly unbalanced, preening buffoon."

Even if someone actually said this O'Reiily wouldn't have a case. He has a call-in radio show, he askes people to call him, his show has a delay, they could cut anything out if they want.

It's fun to see O'Reilly rip apart and shout down some terrorist sympathizer or paedophile-coddling judge. But when he pulls this whacko bully stuff, it's just sadly pathetic.

CALLING ALL Howard Stern phone pranksters! Don't you dare call and goof Bill O'Reilly's show! You'll get in real trouble.

LOL...

Baba Buey to ya all!

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Mr. PRESIDENT! It's Not Islamophobia , It's IslamISTphobia!

2006-03-04T00:59:00.000-05:00

This thing with the Ports, it's NOT Islamophobia , it's IslamISTphobia! Do you hear that and understand this President Bush, Charles Krauthammer, Larry Kudlow, Jack Kemp and David Brooks, and RealClearPolitics?

My definition of IslamISTphobia: A rational and justified fear of violent radical IslamOfascists whose ideology calls for enslaving the planet with a world Caliphate and Sharia Law for everyone on Earth.

Islamophobia - Bad
IslamISTphobia - GOOD

Got it? IslamISTphobia: Don't be afraid of it, embrace it.

Tony Blankley boils down this 'Ports Deal' stuff: Townhall.com :: Columns :: Islamistphobia-phobia by Tony Blankley - Mar 1, 2006:

"Islamistphobia-phobia

Not by chance, some months ago -- well before the Dubai port issue had emerged -- I had had extended conversations with senior executives of an American port management company. They had explained the close inter-working of the management team with the Coast Guard, Customs and local law enforcement in trying to secure the full import process (which starts at foreign ports and continues on board ship, through the terminal and includes local law enforcement -- with management an active agent of that strived-for seamless process) .

Based on that and other research I had carried out last year for my book, I understood that merely repeating the mantra that "security is exclusively run by the Coast Guard, Customs and Homeland Security" -- as we heard late last week -- was somewhere between an incomplete and a deceptive statement. But for those with a limited knowledge of the topic and other policy axes to grind, once they were fed the mantra, it was a short step to the nativist, Islamophobic charge.

Of course Islamophobia is a repulsive mentality -- suggestive of old-fashioned hate of others. But, as Denmark's leading Islamic scholar, Jacob Skovgaard-Petersen, explained in 2004, there is a different and growing phobia, which he named "Islamistphobia." This is not an atavistic hatred of another man's skin or faith or last name, but is instead the fear of the ideas and conduct of radical Muslims. ..."

IslamISTphobia is a good thing, we must embrace it, not run from it, hide from it, or deny it. More and more people MUST become IslamISTphobic if we Planet Dwellers hope to eliminate this viscious, soulless disease of a growing number of hearts and minds.

The aforementioned big names running interference for the Prez seem to believe, or are acting like they believe, that Arab sensitivity is more important that America's sensitivity, security and/or peace of mind.

I wonder if they would approve of outsourcing Homeland Security to Saudi Arabia to Please Arabs?

In fact, many middle-easterners will probably laugh their asses off in disbelief if this deal goes through.

In their eyes we will be even BIGGER fools than they already think we are.

Do you really think for one minute that Arab nations would allow the U.S., the 'Great Satan', to run their ports?

They would never stand for it. No way!

We can make it up to the United Arab Emirates and other Arab countries in other ways. I'm not saying we should give them a break on the stolen children camel racing problems they have, but we'll think of something.

Frontpage Mag interviewed David Holly back in October about his very worthwhile and vital campaign to educate the masses about "The Nine Danger Signs of Militant Islam".

Read it all folks, and then read it again and again later and later.

This is a healthy and prudent fear that we should all seek out and strive to internalize.

Please spread the word, help save our planet from global slavery.

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Outsource Homeland Security to Saudi Arabia to Please Arabs!

2006-02-24T00:01:00.000-05:00

Hey, here's a great idea to please the Arab countries and all the Muslims, from moderates to radical IslamOfascist monkee killers that dream of destroying and taking over America:

The U.S. should outsource Homeland Security to Saudi Arabia! After all, they are one of our biggest allies in the Middle East when it comes to the GWIFT (Global War on Islamic Fascism & Terror).

Why not? This would be a great way to "make a statement" that we trust any country with our security, even one that secretly nurtures, finances and educates many of their citizenry toward desiring the Non-Islamic world to be enslaved under Sharia Law.

They'll really start to love us after this, terrorism will start to diminish, and many IslamOfascists will start becoming more and more Hippyish and Flowerchildish.

They'll no longer kidnap innocent men and women and slice their heads off on TV.

They will stop raping young women and then stoning them for adultery after they become pregnant.

They will stop hating all Jews and wanting to "wipe Israel off the map".

Why not? This would be a very nice gift to the Islamic world. A way of saying thank you for not comitting any major terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 9/11.

Hey look, TENNESSEE GUERILLA WOMEN points out how Canada beat much of the rescue effort down to New Orleans after Hurricaine Katrina.

We could probably save a lot of money too, and more and more Saudi citizens will need jobs as the lavish Saudi entitlements get harder and harder to sustain.

So, if after all the hoopla to come, the UAE doesn't get the U.S. Ports contract, we've got to give them something. Right?

Of course, otherwise the UAE won't want to be an ally of ours in the GWIFT.

(The Jawa Report makes an excellent clarification of 'Allies & Friends' here:
"Why Port Security Matters, and Why Allies are not Friends")

They'll become an enemy in the GWIFT? They'll probably start openly and proudly supporting the IslamOfascist murderers and attacking Western tourists in the fancy malls of Abu Dhabi.

Come on, get real. I think not.

They can't afford to be against us, they want continued access to our BIG AMERICAN DOLLARS and our young blond girls.

But, we have to give them something. Hmmm??

I got it, let's give them the U.S. Postal Service. What a patronage mill, they'll love it, and we'll save a lot of money too! And make money too of course! I wonder how much they would pay? $30 Billion? $100 Billion? WOW!

And is it even possible that they could do a worse job, after all, the management and all the workers will still be in place. Only the ownership of the work contract will change.

Hmmm??? What next? The Treasury and the U.S. Mint maybe.

And of course what about the airports? If selling another ally like Kuwait the contract to run the major U.S. Airports would make the Muslims really start to love us; it might actually be worth taking the chance at another massive terrorist attack the likes of which could make 9/11 look like we got off easy.

I mean, what are the odds?

Afterall, 'Making a statement' of friendship and trust to the Muslims is the most important thing.

Right?

Common Dreams points out that "Treasury Secretary John Snow, who signed off on this purchase, was formerly the head of CSX before he joined the Cabinet. A year after Snow joined the Cabinet, CSX sold off its overseas port operations to DP World for $1.23 billion. As chair of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., Secretary Snow presided over the committee’s approval of the ports deal. ..."

The far far left at Antiwar.com finally agrees with their favorite villain.

"In the face of an orgy of political grandstanding and Arab-bashing, Bush strongly defended his administration's approval of the deal and even threatened to veto any attempts by congressional bigots to block the deal. Maybe the realists are finally taking charge in the Bush White House."

Both Secretaries' Snow and Rice have asked "What kind of a statement are we making..." when we deny this deal to run our major ports to a country with shady but undeniable ties to terrorism.

Here's a statement:

We simply don't want to take any unnecessary chances with our lives. No offence intended. If Terrorism emanated from Europe we wouldn't want a European country running our ports either.

It's nothing personal. We'd love you guys (the UAE) to buy lots of American companies and stuff, just not a few things.

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IS Bush an IDIOT? Is The Left Right? Is U.S. Port Deal Islamic Trojan Horse?!

2006-02-22T00:54:00.000-05:00

I am very sad to say that the Left may have been Right all along. To allow the United Arab Emirates' company Dubai Port World to run several of our major ports, President Bush must be an idiot OR he must be insane or both, what else could it be?

Obviously, he doesn't WANT to put the USA in greater danger of a terrorist attack.

Thank God Michelle is starting to get wound up about this, she's got a bunch of stuff here: Michelle Malkin: BUSH DIGS IN

Here's one good reason Bush is way wrong: Globetrotting appeaser of dictators and defender of terrorist states Jimmy Carter agrees with him! From the Miami Herald, 'Carter backs Bush's stand on seaport-operations deal' (hat tip - Wizbang!)

WASHINGTON - President Bush is taking a battering from fellow Republicans, even the governors of New York and Maryland, over the administration's support for a decision that gives an Arab company control of some commercial operations at six major seaports -- including Miami-Dade's.

But he got a boost Monday from an unlikely source, frequent critic and former president Jimmy Carter, who downplayed fears that the deal poses a risk.

''The overall threat to the United States and security, I don't think it exists,'' Carter said on CNN's The Situation Room. ``I'm sure the president's done a good job with his subordinates to make sure this is not a threat. ...''

Read the rest here and get angry.

Of course Google News has tons of links to articles from around the world here.

This issue is getting louder and louder. I think Bush will lose this one, he could still turn this around to his advantage, or at least without doing too much more damage.

But I don't think he will. I think he's gonna try to fight this, and he and his cronies are going to look like total fools.

Why? Because if Bush & Co. does manage to get this deal done, the criticism will be endless, even if a terrorist attack attributed even in part to a screw-up in the ports doesn't happen.

Because even then, it still could happen.

If the deal gets through and a terrorist attack does happen, especially if the ports are found to have played a part; the partisan and the bi-partisan shit will totally hit the fan.

The Republicans will be gone from power for at least about 20 years I reckon.

Bush's name will be mud for the history books.

So why is Bush so behind this?

The Journal Standard is not and puts it quite simply: Opinion - Ports must be kept under U.S. control

"...Critics say it's wrong to judge a nation by the company it keeps. But we say it's not xenophobic at all to keep Islamic nations from controlling security for what are already the least secure points of entry into the nation. It's just common sense."

Maybe Bush is just trying to be 'open' and politically correct and embrace an Islamic state. He's trying to show that he cares for the innocent peaceful Muslims.

He wants to prove it so bad that he's willing to offer up our ports as a token of the trust and love he has for one of our biggest MidEast 'partners' in the Global War on Islamic Fascism and Terror, or rather the GWIFT.

Maybe at some point he was holding hands with Sheikh Khalifa, Ruler of Abu Dhabi, like he did last year on his ranch with King Saud from Saudia Arabia.

Take a look at these guys, do you really want them to be the bosses of the bosses of the major U.S. ports?

Maybe he feels he'd be letting down his filthy rich friend in the desert if he doesn't let him and their cronies make some BIG BIG money on this merger and the subsequent jumpstart of their little stock exchange into a Middle Eastern financial bonanza.

Hey, I'm all for them having a robust stockmarket in the MidEast, but not at this price.

By the way, I wonder why GlobalSecurity.org doesn't have any news on this today. That seems pretty lame.

Apparently, a few weeks ago, Bush nominated the Director of Operations for Europe and Latin America for DP World, Dave Sanborn, to be the influential Maritime Administrator reporting to Secretary of Transportation, Norm Mineta.

This port deal should NOT be shot down for any single reason like:

The CEO of DP World is a Mohammed Sharaf.

Or not because he looks like this here (scroll down).

Or not because terrorist funds have been laundered in Abu Dhabi.

Or not because weapons bound for terrorist states have flowed through their main port.

Or not because a couple of the 9/11 Terrorists were from the UAE.

Or maybe not even just because they are Islamics who more likely than not to have some friends and close connections who are terrorists or terrorist sympathisers and Radical IslamOfascists.

Not for any one of these reasons, but put them all together, and you have more than enough reason to shoot this stupid deal down.

Bush should just apologize to his Sheik friend and explain that it's not his fault, he was simply over-ruled by the American people. The U.S.A. he should point out is of course not a Monarchy like the U.A.E., it's not up to just the President of the United States.

In a true Democracy, he doesn't have the final say.

Finally, Jihad Watch rightfully asks "Has Bush Gone Mad?"

We all have to wonder whether the old boy has finally snapped.

Bush has finally promised his first veto will be against any legislation Congress puts forth to scuttle this deal.

Wouldn't it be mucho embarassing for Mr. Bush if his first veto ever was over-ridden?

Let's hope he comes to his senses, for the sake of all of us, and for the sake of the GWIFT.

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Watch HBO's Dealing Dogs - Kidnapped Dogs Brutalized!

2006-02-21T22:59:00.000-05:00

Check this new HBO movie out about a brave young man going undercover to work at a notoriously brutal and disgusting dog farm to gather loads of evidence to try to help the group 'Last Chance For Animals' shut down C.C. Baird's "Martin Creek Kennels":

HBO: Dealing Dogs - Synopsis: "Class B dealers operate under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture and are required by law to treat animals humanely. They are also required to purchase animals only when sellers have all appropriate documentation. Apparently, some dealers ignore these requirements while also purchasing animals that may be strays or may have been stolen directly from owners' yards.

Four years in the making, DEALING DOGS follows the undercover investigation of Martin Creek Kennel by the animal rights group Last Chance for Animals. A young man who goes by the name of 'Pete' in the film wore a hidden camera while he worked a low- level job hosing kennels at the dog dealer. Over the course of six months, Pete secretly filmed activities at Martin Creek Kennel, including the beating and shooting of dogs, and recorded footage of animals that were left to languish in their kennels and suffered from malnourishment, life-threatening disease and injury, among other abuses. Dog corpses are shown piled up on the property and in trenches after being butchered for their organs.

C.C. Baird and his family owned and operated Martin Creek Kennel, one of the largest Class B dealers in the United States, until Last Chance provided the results of their undercover investigation to federal authorities, who closed the facility in 2005. Baird's sentencing is expected to take place this winter. ..."

Read the rest here.

Eventually this Scum-Bag Dirt Ball was nailed with a very wimpy slap-on-the-wrist.
But at least they are shut down, hopefully for good.

But this total piece of shit Monkee totally deserves to die, and he's not even going to be in a nice cage for even one day. That's bullshit.

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Udland Jyllands-Posten's Cartoon Explanation

2006-02-20T18:55:00.000-05:00

Udland Jyllands-Posten:
"The Story Behind the Drawings

The story behind the Jyllands-Posten drawings of the prophet Mohammed began in late September 2005. "

Journalists working for Jyllands-Posten became aware of several instances of writers and artists in Denmark and abroad practising self-censorship for fear of offending prominent Muslims.

Danish author Kaare Bluitken wrote a primarily educational children's book about the prophet Mohammed, but ran into problems trying to find an illustrator. Certain interpretations of Islam find it inappropriate or directly forbid pictures of the prophet. Eventually, an illustrator did agree to work on the book, but only under the cloak of anonymity.

Jyllands-Posten published several articles addressing this state of affairs. The newspaper took a position that it is untenable for non-Muslims to be bound by Muslim scripture.

In order to find out exactly how widespread self-censorship is, the newspaper asked a number of Danish illustrators to submit their own personal interpretations of how the prophet might appear.

Twelve illustrators submitted drawings, which the newspaper published on 30 September 2005 as a contribution to the debate about self-censorship amongst journalists, authors, and artists. ..."

Read the rest here.

Check out more 'Cartoon explanations' from JP here.

ALSO, peruse the Mohammed Image Archive - Depictions of Mohammed Throughout History, and see that many artists have been depicting the Prophet Muhammed for many many years.

That site and others have been attacked by some Jihadist Hackers. Michele Malkin and others post stuff about
IslamOfascist Hackers trying to give the impression that they really care about these stupid cartoons.

They continue to pretend that they are actually peaceful and care about freedom.

The only 'freedom' they want is the freedom to enslave the world without anybody complaining or trying to stop them.

Eff them!

:)

Mideast Corruption: Its Biggest Problem!

2006-02-18T01:19:00.000-05:00

New York Post Online Edition: postopinion:
"THE WORST PLAGUE
By RALPH PETERS

February 17, 2006 -- CORRUPTION KILLS

WHAT does a standoff be tween a Texas sheriff's department and Mexican soldiers over a drug bust have in common with the electoral victory of Hamas and the current government crisis in Kenya?

Here's a hint: They all tie in with the fate of Iraq's new government, the Enron trials and environmental degradation in China.

The winning — and losing — answer is: corruption.

No single factor has been as destructive of good government and the hopes of billions of struggling human beings.

AIDS? Malaria? Avian flu? Corruption undercuts efforts to provide decent health care — just as it wrecks education systems and corrodes social bonds. Corruption is the great plague that makes all others worse.

Corruption kills. Sometimes directly, as when Mexican narco-insurgents shielded by regional politicians assassinate journalists fighting to clean up their country. Or when a crusading African politician dies in an 'accident.'

Usually, though, corruption kills indirectly. By robbing honest chances for better lives. By siphoning off funds meant for sewage systems or piped water. By delivering medicines long past their expiration dates — or no medicines at all.

From Latin America to China, university spaces and grades are for sale, while government jobs and contracts require kickbacks. Meritocracy — that great human hope — doesn't have a chance. Markets are distorted, and capitalism, which relies on the rule of law, gets a bad name where it never had a chance. The poor suffer. And they vote their desperation, putting fanatic religious parties in power in Palestine or electing a demagogue to the presidency in Venezuela.

Corruption makes a mockery of every religion, every system of government, every public institution. From Argentina through Nigeria to Pakistan, countries that should've punched their way to the economic middleweight bouts failed miserably instead — while privileged citizens bought luxury homes in Europe.

Corruption makes wars worse, too. Illicit arms deals, the lure of profits from "blood diamonds" or narcotics, or simple land grabs increase human misery geometrically. The Vietnam-era slogan "War is Good Business" applies far more viciously to the crippled "developing" world than it ever did to our own country.

Yes, we have corruption in the United States. You bet. After sex and violence, corruption's easily the third-oldest human pastime. But we don't look away. When we encounter corruption, we get angry. And we prosecute. Whether the case involves executives so rich they think they're untouchable, arrogant D.C. lobbyists — or members of Congress. It may take time, but here the corrupt go to jail.

Elsewhere, they go to Paris. Or Geneva. Or parliament.

Elsewhere, billions of human beings are born without hope if they don't belong to the right family, the right clan or tribe or the right religion.

Elsewhere, the rich and powerful not only steal from the poor and helpless, they rub their superiority in the faces of those they've dispossessed.

If you want to see cruelty more pernicious than physical torture, study corrupt societies. Much of the immigration, legal and illegal, to the USA isn't just a flight toward hope but a flight away from corruption and its consequences.

Corruption undercuts our strategic ambitions, too. In the course of a how-to-fix-Iraq discussion on Capitol Hill last fall, I remarked that, as long as we don't quit, the greatest threat to Iraq's future isn't terrorism, but the deeply embedded tradition of corruption. I don't think the senator hosting the meeting believed me, but I was deadly serious.

Without a sense of social responsibility that transcends blood and sect, it's hard to build a rule-of-law democracy. Corrupt politicians don't just steal money — they steal their country's future.

While we don't tolerate corruption here at home, we're still too willing to overlook it abroad. Yes, we have sound anti-corruption laws for our multinational corporations. But the scrutiny still isn't what it should be. And laws are worthless unless enforced.

As you'd expect, the hypocritical Europeans are much worse — despite holier-than-thou European Union anti-bribery rules (honored about as often as the old Soviet constitution). As for the Chinese and other up-and-coming economic players, they don't even pretend to obey international anti-corruption codes.

And we don't call them on it. Back in the overrated 1960s, a now-forgotten novel had a great title, "Everybody Knows and Nobody Cares." When it comes to global corruption, that's a perfect slogan.

Yes, fighting corruption abroad is tough. We lose contracts. "Friendly" governments turn against us. Demagogues blame us for their own sins. Nationalists are outraged.

But doesn't the fate of billions of human beings matter more?

Washington has to take an uncompromising stand against corruption — and not just a rhetorical one. If we're remotely sincere about democracy, human rights or religious tolerance, the battle starts with the fight against corruption.

It's about self-interest, too. 9/11 had its roots not only in religious fanaticism but also in the suffocating corruption of the Middle East. Nothing will deter hardcore fanatics, but give the average man or woman a chance and they're far less likely to strap on a suicide bomb.

Meanwhile, those Enron trials aren't about what's wrong with our system. They're about what's right with it."

Ralph Peters is a regular Post contributor.

You just keep telling us Ralph, please.

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Islamo Monkees KILLING Innocent Muslims Daily in Iraq!

2006-02-17T00:36:00.000-05:00

Apparently, the Main Stream Media (MSM)doesn't want the public to see evidence of the vicious terrorist IslamOfascist Monkees brutally torturing, killing and beheading their fellow Muslims. Men, women and children.

On practically a daily basis.

You see, if more of the masses saw these disgusting photos, more of the masses would start to realize how uncompromising and purely evil these murderous IslaMO Monkee scum truely are.

They would start to see the wisdom in working to annihalate ALL of them. Destroy them all without prejudice. They are scourge, these viscious killer monkees, they must all burn on earth before Hell gets a shot at them.

With a Hat-tip to LGF, here are the photos MSM doesn't want you to see, from The Jawa Report: Exclusive: Prisoner Abuse Photos from Iraq that MSM Won't Show You:
"February 16, 2006
Exclusive: Prisoner Abuse Photos from Iraq that MSM Won't Show You

**Jawa Report Exclusive**

The Jawa Report has obtained new photos from a new prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq. The photos show Iraqi prisoners being murdered by troops. The photos have not been published by a single mainstream news outlet.

The mainstream media has eagerly published old photos from the old Abu Ghraib scandal. These photos appear to show Iraqi prisoners in U.S. custody being abused, humiliated, and tortured. These old photos from an old scandal are sure to inflame more violence against U.S. troops in Iraq and against the elected government of our Iraqi allies.

The U.S. military has already prosecuted over 25 people over the Abu Ghraib scandal with another 2 soldiers scheduled to go on trial in the next few weeks. The U.S. government treats soldiers involved in such abusive activities as criminals. In fact, the original photos only appeared long after the U.S. military had begun an investigation into the abuses.

There is real abuse still happening in Iraq, though. The mainstream media does not want you to know about this abuse. They have refused to report on it. Even though the images are available to them, they refuse to show them.

These images are quite damning. They clearly show that prisoners in Iraq continue to be abused. More than abused, these images show prisoners in Iraq being murdered by the troops involved. Yet, nothing from the mainstream media.

The images below are not graphic. They show two prisoners in Iraq just before they are murdered by the soldiers holding them. They were both murdered by soldiers in Iraq in the last week. The soldiers holding them openly boast that the prisoners will be killed, even though this is clearly a violation of the Geneva Conventions. It is also clear that those involved are acting on the direct orders of their superiors all the way to the top of their chain of command. Instead of punishment for these acts of torture and murder, they are openly rewarded and praised.

We demand a U.N. investigation into the ongoing murder, rape, torture, humiliation, and abuse that continues to be widespread in Iraq on an almost daily basis. Clearly the mainstream media cannot be trusted to let the world know aobut these ongoing gross violations of international law and morality.

Below: Images taken from a video produced by The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah. The resistance soldiers prepare to murder an Iraqi prisoner. All Iraqis who fall into the hands of the mujahidin are eventually murdered. They are accused of the 'crime' of 'apostasy' and then beheaded or shot. Where is the U.N.? Where is Amnesty International? Where is al Jazeera? ..."

Read the rest and see the photos here.

Anybody who feels these monkees have any legitimacy at all is either a total fool, just plain ignorant, or one of the terrorists, or their direct supporters themselves.

If only we could lead these Jihadist Head-Chopping Monkees, and only them, all to one big isolated area...let them call it their own country.

It would probably take less than 24 hours before they committed and act of war, then the country could 'simply' be nuked.

It is us or them! GOT IT?

COMPRENDE???

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A Jewish University Hires Jew-Hater!

2006-02-09T22:20:00.000-05:00

Here's a great example of HIGHER education getting snookered by the allure of the peaceful Islam. From those diligent defenders of campus free speech, and monitors of encroaching IslamOfascism in American colleges and universities: Campus Watch.

Brandeis Appoints a Jihadist - Campus Watch: "Middle East studies in the News

* From survey: Brandeis University

Brandeis Appoints a Jihadist
by Robert Spencer
FrontPage Magazine
January 31, 2006

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21043

Providing new evidence of the academic Left's hardened anti-Americanism and sympathy for jihad terror, Khalil Shikaki has been appointed a senior fellow at Brandeis University's Crown Center for Middle East Studies.

Shikaki's involvement with Middle Eastern politics and culture has long been more hands-on than that of most academics. On February 24, 1998, terrorism expert Steven Emerson gave this testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee: 'Professor Khalil Shikaki seemed to possess such an impassioned voice for moderate political solutions to the Middle Eastern problems that it prompted the USF [the University of South Florida] to finalize its cooperative relationship with WISE [the World & Islam Studies Enterprise, of which Shikaki was the first director]. Yet documents seized by federal officials uncovered a wealth of information, including incriminating letters, proving Khalil Shikaki using Shallah as a courier to ferry information, messages and even operational materials to his brother Fathi in Damascus, head of Islamic Jihad. When publicly asked however, Khalil always maintained he had no contact with his brother.'

On May 23, 2000, Emerson gave additional and quite specific information about Khalil Shikaki when testifying about the World & Islam Studies Enterprise before the House Judiciary Committee: 'Documents seized by federal agents at the WISE office in November 1995 show that Khalil Shikaki, after his departure from WISE in 1992, contacted his brother Fathi Shikaki through Ramadan Abdullah. Evidence released in the federal investigation against WISE and ICP included a letter and a fax between Abdullah and Khalil Shikaki showing that Abdullah served as a go-between for the brothers. These communications contained references to various matters including support for a project headed by ‘Abu Omar,' a nom de guerre of Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzook…. In comments made by Khalil Shikaki on December 24, 1989 at the ICP Annual Conference, he proclaimed support for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad as a unifying element of the Islamic resistance in Palestine.' ..."

Read the rest here.

Clearly, this guy looks pretty damn dirty. How this info could get by a leading Jewish Unversity is beyond me.

But, maybe it didn't get by them. Maybe they knew all this.

And if so, then why would they want someone in their midst that most assuredly wants them dead?

Someone who wants all their families dead.

Someone who wants all of their fellow Jews around the world dead.

What is wrong with this picture?

What is really going on?

Do some Jews really condone terrorists killing innocent Jews?

Or do they really just think they can make friends with these radical IslamOfascists?

Maybe if they hug enough they will change their evil ideology?

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1st Michelle Malkin Film?: FIRST, THEY CAME: THE MOVIE

2006-02-07T01:58:00.000-05:00

MAJOR KUDOS to Ms. Malkin for creating this brilliant very short film to educate the masses; young and old, east and west, and left and right, about the encroaching evil which is creeping IslamOfascism and all its unadmited intolerance, cruelty, barbarism and brutality.

Regarding all this 'Cartoons of the Prophet' nonsense and escalating violence:
Michelle Malkin: FIRST, THEY CAME: THE MOVIE:
"By Michelle Malkin - February 04, 2006 11:05 AM

I couldn't sleep at all last night, so I toyed around with Windows Movie Maker and put together a little, 2-minute photo/video montage about the Muhammad cartoons.

It's called 'First, They Came'--and I hope it will speak to many around the world in a universal way. ..."

You really must see this a few times, I recommend pausing when you see it for a second time when you want to read all the Nutters' protest signs and stuff.
Download and watch the movie (.wmv file).

Non-Catholics don't have to obey Catholic doctrine, so why do non-Muslims have to obey the Islamic law of never creating a likeness of their Prophet Muhammad?

Muslims can't demand that non-Muslims not draw a picture of the Prophet.

Besides, what do you think is the real reason for this? They say that this is to reduce idolatry, that drawing a picture of Muhammad is idolatry.

Maybe the Prophet just wasn't very attractive and thus his likeness was deemed to be not a good tool for spreading Islam?

Just maybe?

No, I'm sure he was a very handsome man!

BizzyBlog has a take on this cartoon madness and Michelle's film and also dreams of Malkin for President!

She'd be much better than Hillary, a lot cuter too.

Run Michelle Run! Please make some more films someday! Go Michelle go!

:)

U.K. Easy on Sick Sex Crimes! What Would the 'Best Pedophile' Get?

2006-02-04T02:11:00.000-05:00

On Sky news I found this gem of an example of how lax the criminal sentences are. They redefine the word 'liberal'.
Pay-As-You-Go Paedophile Jailed: "Pay-As-You-Go Pervert
Updated: 19:36, Friday February 03, 2006

Britain's 'worst paedophile' has been jailed for three years after targeting thousands of children across the country.

Anthony Dore used untraceable pay-as-you-go mobiles to coerce boys and girls as young as five into committing sexual acts.

The shaven-headed 50-year-old posed either as a teacher or as a relaxation technique researcher to talk to his victims.

He concentrated on ethnic minority communities, which he believed would be more compliant, Inner London Crown Court heard.

Police said, considering the 'tens of thousands' of calls he made and the number of victims that came forward, he was the country's 'worst' paedophile.

Judge Quentin Campbell, sentencing, said Dore's lengthy and 'bizarre' reign of perversion may well have caused 'irreparable psychological harm' to his victims.

'Therefore your acts were evil in the extreme.'

Dore also targeted a huge number of other children while on bail.

The scaffolder, of St Albans Road, Nottingham, pleaded guilty to a total of 16 offences of inciting children to 'commit acts of gross indecency' between July 2003 and February last year."

WOW! Three whole years for targeting thousands of children! I think the courts were way too rough on this monkey piece of scum. But hey, he's the "'worst' paedophile", he deserves it right?

Are you nuts? He deserves to be beaten and raped every night for life times two in prison.

Obviously Britain really doesn't consider sex crimes against children to be that "evil in the extreme".

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Iraq Corruption SCUM: Robert J. Stein Jr. & Philip H. Bloom Deserve Iraqi Prison Dungeon Nightmare!

2006-02-01T21:11:00.000-05:00

Whether or not you HATE & DESPISE the Godless scum-sucking Butcher of Baghdad, this should really piss you off:
Former U.S. Official in Iraq to Plead Guilty to Corruption - New York Times: "By JAMES GLANZ
Published: February 1, 2006

A former American occupation official in Iraq is expected to plead guilty to bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and other charges in federal court on Thursday for his actions in a scheme to use sexual favors, jewelry and millions of dollars in cash to steer reconstruction work to a corrupt contractor, according to papers filed with the court.

The official, Robert J. Stein Jr., served as a comptroller and funding officer in 2003 and 2004 for the Coalition Provisional Authority, which governed Iraq after the American-led invasion. Four Americans, including Mr. Stein and the contractor, Philip H. Bloom, have been arrested in the case. Mr. Stein's plea, apparently with the understanding that he will cooperate with prosecutors, is the first to be made public.

The court papers depict a sordid exercise in greed and corruption that was spread much more widely that previously known. Including the four people already arrested, the papers indicate that a minimum of three other still unnamed co-conspirators also played a role in the scheme. In order to give more than $8 million in contracts and millions more in stolen cash to Mr. Bloom, the papers say, the conspirators accepted bribes, valuable goods and other favors.

Two of the Americans already arrested, Lt. Col. Debra Harrison and Lt. Col. Michael Wheeler, are senior Army reserve officers. The court papers indicate that the remaining unnamed co-conspirators are also Army reserve officers, for a total of at least five officers involved. But the papers suggest that others, identified only by opaque designations like "person H," may also have been involved in one way or another.

The goods included first-class plane tickets, watches and other jewelry, alcohol and cigars, the court papers say. They add that Mr. Bloom kept a villa in Baghdad where women dispensed "sexual favors" in exchange for official actions in his favor or for refraining from exposing the scheme.

Mr. Stein is accused of stealing outright at least $2 million in cash of American taxpayer money and Iraqi money that had been set aside for the reconstruction of Iraq by the American occupation. He also accepted more than $1 million in bribes and at least $600,000 of additional goods and cash that were the property of the C.P.A., the papers say.

The actions took place in a vast territory surrounding the Iraqi city of Hilla, south of Baghdad, where Mr. Stein was put in charge of at least $82 million of reconstruction money despite a previous conviction for felony fraud, which his Pentagon background check apparently missed. Mr. Bloom and some of the others wired money back to the United States to buy weaponry like grenade launchers and machine guns that Mr. Stein was prohibited from owning because of his conviction or that were illegal in themselves.

The court papers indicate that Mr. Stein has agreed to plead guilty in Federal District Court in Washington to counts of conspiracy, bribery, money laundering conspiracy, a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a machine gun.

The e-mail exchanges between Mr. Stein and Mr. Bloom, as detailed in the papers, are remarkable in their illustration of the daily business of apparently greed and graft. "I love to give you money," Mr. Stein wrote on Jan. 3, 2004, as he began steering work on an Iraqi police academy to Mr. Bloom.

At other times, Mr. Stein warns Mr. Bloom about others who are threats to expose their scheme or may want to get in on it themselves. "I will warn you to be very careful what you say around him," Mr. Stein writes on Jan. 27, 2004, about someone identified only as person D. "If he ever knows what we are doing he will want 'his cut!' "

Other exchanges show the day-to-day realities of doing business in Iraq with Westerners who are far from the routine pleasures of home. "Thanks for the booze," Mr. Stein wrote on Jan. 27. "That will give me some bargaining material here and there.""

Hopefully all the human garbage found culpable in this will discover the "day-to-day realities" of living in fear of rape and being beaten to death in prison.

We can only hope that the MSM, including all that is "Fair & Balanced", and especially the bloggers keep tearing at this like a pack of pitbulls on a Jack Abramoff poodle.

If President Bush has only half the brains the moonbats accuse him of having, he should see to it that all these people live miserable live for as long as possible in a deep dark Federal dungeon.

EFF them all! I'm effing totally disgusted. Total vile pieces of shit! I hope they ALL rot in HELL.

Other than that I have no real opinion on the matter.

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Out-of-Control Cindy Sheehan Blows Potential Photo-op With Her Impatience!

2006-02-01T01:44:00.000-05:00

BREITBART.COM - Activist Cindy Sheehan Arrested at Capitol:
"Jan 31 10:20 PM US/Eastern

By LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON

Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier in Iraq who reinvigorated the anti-war movement, was arrested and removed from the House gallery Tuesday night just before President Bush's State of the Union address, a police spokeswoman said.

Sheehan, who was invited to attend the speech by Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D- Calif., was charged with demonstrating in the Capitol building, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. The charge was later changed to unlawful conduct, Schneider said. Both charges are misdemeanors. ..."

Read the rest here.

Here Cindy SHEEhan had a great opportunity to create a real BIG scene during the State of The Union, but she just couldn't wait, as usual she couldn't control herself.

What a sad joke.

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State of The Union Address: Not Too Bad Mr. President!

2006-01-31T22:16:00.000-05:00

From Kevin McCullough's Musclehead Revolution: "LIVE BLOGGING: State of the Union tonight...

9:01pm EST
THE LIVE COVERAGE BEGINS:

10:03pm - 'And so we move forward, optimistic about our country, faithful to its cause, and confident of its victories to come. MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA!'

10:02pm - 'Before history is written in books it is written in courage...'

10:01pm - 'Work with the churches in the African American community...' When did President Clinton EVER utter those words?

10:00pm - 'End the waiting list for AIDS meds in America...'

9:59pm - 'Worthy of public responsibility...'

9:58pm - 'Human life is a gift from our Creator!'

9:56pm - 'I WILL CONTINUE TO NOMINATE PEOPLE THAT UNDERSTAND THAT JUDGES MUST BE SERVANTS OF THE LAW, AND NOT LEGISLATE FROM THE BENCH!'

9:55pm - 'WE MUST NEVER GIVE IN TO THE BELIEF THAT OUR COUNTRY IS IN DECLINE!'

9:54pm - 'A life of personal responsibility is a life of fulfillment...' WOW - what a statement!!!!

9:52pm - 'If we insure that America's children succeed in life, they will insure that America succeeds in the world!'

9:50pm - 'National Competitiveness Initiative', creative minds in science, super-computing, nano-technology, and leading the world in innovative ventures for years to come...

9:49pm - 'Energy - NUCULAR, ETHANOL, and make our dependence on middle eastern oil a thing of the past...'
9:48pm - 'Break the addiction to oil!'

9:47pm - 'Health savings accounts', 'Make it portable', 'PASS MEDICAL LIABILITY REFORM - this year' (Like 'em all)

9:46pm - Forget the stupid 'Guest worker program' - IMMIGRATE LEGALLY!!!!

9:45pm - 'Our nation needs orderly and secure borders' DUH!!!!!!!

9:44pm - 'Put aside partisan politics and get this problem (social security) solved...'

9:43pm - 'Congress did not fix Social Security' DEMOCRATS FINALLY STAND (RETARDS)

9:42pm - 'Pass the Line Item Veto' (Hey a little Ronald Reagan never hurts...)

9:41pm - 'Eliminate 140 programs that are not performing properly, and cut the deficit in half by 2009.'

9:40pm - 'Tax cuts produced economic growth...MAKE THE TAX CUTS PERMANENT!'

9:39pm - IMMIGRANTS? This economy could not function without them? Maybe... but we have no need for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS whatsoever. ..."

Read the earlier part here.

Not too bad a speech in my view.

Just let freedom ring!

:)

More Mexican "Military" U.S. Border Shenanigans Information...

2006-01-25T00:28:00.000-05:00

The LBPD read about these Mexican "Military" drug couriers repeatedly crossing the U.S. border to deliver drugs and shoot at our Border Patrol and local police a couple days ago and wishes to thank Joe Scarborough for bringing this up on his show Monday night.

It led to me posting this in a fit of righteous rage:
Mexican "Military" Must Be Killed When They Cross U.S. Border and Shoot at Border Patrol!

And now, thank God, my favorite pit-bull cutie Michele Malkin has latched onto this and has loads of info and a cool map here.

Go get'm Michele, please don't let go of this one!

:)

Clinton Bombs for Saddam's WMDs in 1998!!!

2006-01-23T23:02:00.000-05:00

More good stuff from: Michelle Malkin: DID BUSH LIE? GOOGLE IT

Who would have thunk it? Just enter "Clinton Iraq 1998" in Google and what comes right up all over the place? President Clinton announcing that he has bombed some of Saddam's WMD sites.

He and the Democrats were the first ones to claim (rightfully so) that Saddam was developing WMD and stalling and stonewalling the U.N. "inspections".

Here are the first five results from Google today:

From CNN 1998:

Clinton: Iraq has abused its last chance

Transcript: President Clinton explains Iraq strike

From The Weekly Standard:

The Clinton View of Iraq-al Qaeda Ties

Democrats for Regime Change

From The Federation of American Scientists:

Clinton Signs Iraq Liberation Act

"...The statement concluded, "Saddam is the problem and he cannot be part of
any solution in Iraq. Therefore, President Clinton's action today is
the most appropriate response to Saddam. Let him know that Iraqis will
rise up to liberate themselves from his totalitarian dictatorship and
that the US is ready to help their democratic forces with arms to do so.
Only then will the trail of tragedy in Iraq end. Only then will Iraq be
free of weapons of mass destruction. ..."

Rub this in Dean's, Kerry's, Murtha's, Pellozi's, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga's and Clinton's faces.

Spread the word...

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Mexican "Military" Must Be Killed When They Cross U.S. Border and Shoot at Border Patrol!

2006-01-23T22:56:00.000-05:00

DailyBulletin.com - News: "Reps Want Probe, Dreier, Hunter Ask for Investigation of Border Incursions
By Sara A. Carter, Staff Writer

Two California congressmen have formally asked for an investigation into reports that Mexican military have crossed into the United States more than 200 times in the past 10 years.

Citing a story first reported Sunday by the Daily Bulletin, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-San Diego, and Rep. David Dreier, R-Glendora, on Thursday asked the House Judiciary Committee, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the House Homeland Security Committee and the House International Relations Committee to investigate the incursions, which came to light in a President's Office of National Drug Control Policy map and document given to the newspaper.

Requests by Dreier, chairman of the House Rules Committee, and Hunter were made in jointly signed letters.

'There are reports that Mexican military personnel, or those posing as Mexican military personnel, are illegally crossing the southern border into the United States,' said Dreier and Hunter in a letter to Chertoff.

'Given the critical importance of border and national security, we respectfully request that you provide the documents reported by the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, explain how these incidents occur, and outline DHS' current policies to address these illegal crossings and your strategy for preventing similar acts in the future,' the letter stated. On Sunday, the Daily Bulletin first reported the details of a Department of Homeland Security, Customs and U.S. Border Protection document that showed 216 incursions since 1996 and a 2001 map detailing the incursions along the southern border.

On Wednesday, Chertoff played down the reports that outlined hundreds of border incursions by the Mexican military. He suggested many of the incursions could have been mistakes, blaming bad navigation of military personnel or criminals dressed as military personnel.

Mexican officials denied Wednesday any incursions made by their military.

But border agents interviewed over the past year have discussed confrontations with persons they believe to be Mexican military personnel. ..."

Read the whole article here.

Also check out:

Mexican Soldiers, Police Square Off in Texas.
By Sara A. Carter and Kenneth Todd Ruiz, Staff Writers

Mexican soldiers and civilian smugglers had an armed standoff with nearly 30 U.S. law enforcement officials on the Rio Grande in Texas Monday afternoon, according to Texas police and the FBI.

Mexican military Humvees were towing what appeared to be thousands of pounds of marijuana across the border into the United States, said Chief Deputy Mike Doyal of the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department.

Mexican Army troops had several mounted machine guns on the ground more than 200 yards inside the U.S. border -- near Neely's Crossing, about 50 miles east of El Paso -- when Border Patrol agents called for backup. Hudspeth County deputies and Texas Highway patrol officers arrived shortly afterward, Doyal said.

"It's been so bred into everyone not to start an international incident with Mexico that it's been going on for years,'' Doyal said. "When you're up against mounted machine guns, what can you do? Who wants to pull the trigger first? Certainly not us.''

An FBI spokeswoman confirmed the incident happened at 2:15 p.m. Pacific time.

"Bad guys in three vehicles ended up on the border,'' said Andrea Simmons, a spokeswoman with the FBI's El Paso office. "People with Humvees, who appeared to be with the Mexican Army, were involved with the three vehicles in getting them back across.''

Simmons said the FBI was not involved and referred inquiries to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

ICE did not return calls seeking comment. ..."

Keep reading this here.

President Bush has to tell Mexico's President Fox in no uncertain terms to put a stop to this. If he denies this is happening, which he most surely will, then we must capture some of these pigs for evidence. Dead or alive!

Put some special forces types down there to work with the border patrol and set a trap for these Mexican "Soldiers".

They can get the job done.

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How Many Times Can They Kill This Guy?

2005-11-29T22:43:00.000-05:00

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US governor reprieves man facing 1,000th execution:

"A convicted killer due to become the 1,000th prisoner to be executed in the US since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 was reprieved last night when the governor of Virginia commuted his sentence to life in prison.

Robin Lovitt, 42, found guilty of fatally stabbing a pool hall worker with scissors during a botched robbery, had been due to die by lethal injection at the Greenville correctional centre in Virginia today. ..."

Maybe this guy didn't do it. If it's ever proven that he's innocent, the State of Virginia can let him out, give him $5 Million and say they're sorry.

If they had killed him, there would have probably been less effort to try to prove him innocent, and maybe even more reason to try to suppress any new evidence in his favor.

If he still was found innocent eventually, how would the State of Virginia "apologise" then?

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South Park Skewers Scientology & Tom Cruise...They Might Sue!

2005-11-17T02:29:00.000-05:00

This week's South Park Episode really rocks the boats of Scientology and Tom Cruise.
Cartman is claimed by the Scientologist BIGwigs to be the reincarnation of their founder and spiritual mastermind, L. Ron Hubbard, author of Dianetics.

Celebrity scientologist Tom Cruise gets a lukewarm greeting from Cartman so he's devestated because he believes that his Idol's reincarnation doesn't think highly of his acting abilities.

So he runs and hides in a closet and won't come out.

No one can persuade Tom to "Come out of the closet!", not xwife Nicole Kidman, fellow Scientologist John Travolta nor "alleged" pedophile pop star
R. Kelly.

The Bigwigs convince Cartman to write down whatever thoughts pop into his head so they can sell his writings to his followers and make millions.

The Chief BIGwig explains the mystery of our existence to Cartman just like this part from Answers.com, but of course a great cartoon goes along with it:

"Xenu, the evil intergalactic ruler who implanted "thetans" or alien spirits, in earth's volcanoes 75 million years ago, after which they escaped and invaded human bodies. The ultimate belief of Scientology is that you are possessed by the spirits of aliens murdered 75 million years ago by "Xenu" and you have to exorcise these spirits."

Of course he doesn't tell him that only "those that reach the higher teachings (OT III) within the Church of Scientology will learn all about" this, and that "the cost of reaching OT III approaches $360,000."

Finally, they put Cartman out in front of a crowd of fawning devotees thinking he will spout the party line and and get the crowd to pony up big bucks for the reincarnated Messiah's deep thoughts.

Instead, Cartman proceeds to tell the crowd that Scientology is a HUGE worldwide SCAM!

The BIGwigs all strt freaking out and screaming that they will sue Cartman for calling their "religion a scam".

This finally brings Tom Cruise out of the closet screaming that he too will sue Cartman.

The show ends with Cartman screaming back: "Go ahead! SUE ME! SUE ME!" while standing on the stage above a huge "SCIENTOLOGY" sign.

LOLOLOLOLOL....

The Church of Scientology and their massive legal resources have sued many into submission.

It will be interesting to see if they choose to go up against the South Park team, Comedy Central and the ultimate media behemoth Viacom.

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OUTRAGE!!! Paris' Killer Looting Rioters Called SCUM! That's Not Fair! Whaaaa...

2005-11-05T03:52:00.000-05:00

VOA News - France's Chirac Calls for Calm Following Riots:
By Lisa Bryant
Paris
02 November 2005

"French President Jacques Chirac appealed for calm Wednesday following six straight nights of rioting in the low-income suburbs around Paris.

The clashes began after two teenage boys were accidentally electrocuted last Thursday, as they tried to scale a wall in the gritty Paris suburb of Clichy-Sous-Bois. A public prosecutor said the boys thought they were being chased by police. Police denied they had been pursuing them.

Either way, the incident has triggered nightly riots between largely ethnic-Muslim youths and police. The unrest has spread to other low-income housing projects around Paris which have large, ethnic-North African Muslim communities.

France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has responded with a firmness that has sparked criticism from both the leftist opposition and from members of his own center-right party. In particular, Mr. Sarkozy used the word scum to describe the rioters, and this has been particularly controversial.

Francois Hollande, who leads the opposition Socialist Party, told reporters Wednesday that such remarks were inappropriate.

Mr. Holland said that Mr. Sarkozy should not have stigmatized an entire population of ethnic immigrants with his slights.

Now the French government is striking a more conciliatory tone. After remaining silent for almost a week, President Chirac called for firmness in dealing with the rioters, but also for dialogue and respect. He also demanded an inquiry into the Thursday deaths for the two youths.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, a political rival of Mr. Sarkozy, echoed a similar message of justice and firmness. He promised concrete responses to unemployment and other problems facing communities like Clichy-sur-Bois in the coming weeks.

But experts like Dominique Sopo, head of the anti-discrimination group SOS Racism, says words are not enough.

What's needed Mr. Sopo says, are better programs to integrate second and third-generation ethnic immigrant youths into mainstream French society. Mr. Sopo and other analysts also fear the current violence may lead to greater popular support for the far-right National Front party. The party's leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, placed second in the last presidential elections, in 2002."

Oh wow, amazing! Killing, rioting, looting, car-burning scumbags are called "scum" by Sarkosy. How dare he! That's way too harsh! That's much worse than what the "scum" are actually doing!

What should he call them? Monkees? Savage killing monkees? Barbarian pieces of sheet?

Little bad boys? Silly kids? Little French schoolboys?

Calling them "scum" justifies what they are doing, it makes it ok that they are burning hundreds of cars and buses and buildings.

Calling them "scum" makes the name caller just as bad as the burning, looting, killing scum themselves.

What a load of insincere tolerance crap! Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy didn't call ALL muslim immigrants "scum", he just called rioting, killing, looting, molotov cocktail throwing, handicapped person burning pieces of human garbage scum "scum".

I think he was too gentle with them, too nice , too polite. Ooooo...SCUM, oh my! The outrage!

They're not just "scum", they're "Monkee Scum Pieces of Shit!.

And they should be told that if they don't disperse in 24 hours the army will start gunning them down in masse.

That's what this "SCUM" deserve.

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Youngest Terrorism Expert: FrontPage Interview with Ryan Mauro

2005-11-03T00:32:00.000-05:00

Everybody should read what this extroardinary young man Ryan Mauro has to say, please spread the word to others...

FrontPage magazine.com :: Secrets of Terror by Jamie Glazov: "Ryan Mauro"

By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 20, 2005

"Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ryan Mauro, the 19-year-old author of Death to America: The Unreported Battle of Iraq and the youngest hired geopolitical analyst in the country. He is a volunteer analyst for Tactical Defense Concepts and Northeast Intelligence Network and is the owner of WorldThreats.com. He will be speaking at the 2006 Intelligence Summit on his work in open-source intelligence.

FP: Ryan Mauro, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Mauro: Thank you for having me.

FP: You are quite a young fellow. It is quite exceptional for a 19-year-old to be an expert in geopolitical affairs. What got you involved in your work?

Mauro: Due to a visual disability of mine, I couldn't play sports as a kid. So with my time I read a lot and then around age 11 or 12, I got my first computer, which was around the time of the bombing of Iraq in December 1998. It started my interest in geopolitical affairs, even though my parents were not political. I can remember in 2000 not knowing the candidates involved in the race, but knowing the locations of all the Middle Eastern countries.

FP: I want to talk to you today about what your sources reveal about the Saddam-Al Qaeda connection, WMDs in Iraq under Saddam, and the Syrian-Iranian connection to the terrorism in Iraq. But first, let’s talk about the referendum in Iraq the other day and the high-voter turnout. This is quite a devastating blow to the terrorists isn’t it?

Mauro: This is a disaster for the terrorists. Lots of critics in the mainstream media pointed to the delays in writing the constitution and bickering, but no where else in the Arab world can such bickering occur. And you can bet that the Iraqis and the region as a whole noticed that. ..."

Now go read the rest of the interview, and remember the name: Ryan Mauro.

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2,250 + Scumbags Deserve To Die! U.N. to Detail Kickbacks Paid for Iraq's Oil - New York Times

2005-10-29T01:41:00.000-04:00

U.N. to Detail Kickbacks Paid for Iraq's Oil - New York Times:

"By WARREN HOGE
Published: October 27, 2005

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 26 - More than 4,500 companies took part in the United Nations oil-for-food program and more than half of them paid illegal surcharges and kickbacks to Saddam Hussein, according to the independent committee investigating the program.

The country with the most companies involved in the program was Russia, followed by France, the committee says in a report to be released Thursday. The inquiry was led by Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board."

"The findings are in the committee's fifth and final report, a document of more than 500 pages that will detail how outside companies from more than 60 countries were able to evade United Nations controls and make money for themselves as well as for the Hussein government.

Three investigators who described their findings in interviews declined to name the companies, though they said the companies would be identified in the document on Thursday. They refused to speak on the record about the report until it is released.

The new report studies the people outside Iraq who profited illicitly and how they did it. It will identify companies and individuals who took part, both deliberately and inadvertently, and will chronicle in detail the experience of 30 to 40 of them, the investigators said. ..."

Russia and France! What a surprise!

Hopefully these dirtball oil trading monkees will get more than a wittle slap on da wrist. But I bet they won't.

Let's hope they get their due from the "Justice" system. If not, we can only hope and pray that these 2251+ pigs are chosen for pain & death by some vicious raping muggers, killer gangs, serial killers, rabid dogs, diving swarms of angry birds, and ravenous red ants; or by those they have inadvertantly helped and fostered: Radical Islamist Terrorist Monkee Pieces of Shit.

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Mobile Tanka Poets of Tokyo Spreading the Words...

2005-10-05T13:50:00.000-04:00

Cellphone poets of Tokyo marry tech and tanka

Tuesday, October 04, 2005
By Phred Dvorak, The Wall Street Journal

TOKYO -- For years, Ayano Iida used email on her cellphone mainly to tap out quick messages to friends like "Let's get together tomorrow."

But these days, Ms. Iida's mobile is spouting out heartfelt verse like this: "The guy who I liked/second-best, was second-rate/in the school that he/went to; and also in his/performance between the sheets."

Ms. Iida, 26 years old, is one of a growing number of young Japanese using mobile phones to write and exchange tanka, an ancient form of unrhymed poetry whose roots reach back at least 1,300 years. Scores of tanka home pages and bulletin boards are popping up on cellphone Internet sites with names like Palm-of-the-Hand Tanka and Teenage Tanka. Japan's national public broadcaster airs a weekly show called "Saturday Night Is Cellphone Tanka," which gets about 3,000 poems emailed from listeners' mobiles each week on topics like parental nagging and the boy in the next class.

The marriage of tanka and cellphones is all the more unexpected because tanka is so bound up with Japanese tradition. Tanka, literally "short song," is thought to have first emerged around the eighth century. It is composed of 31 syllables arranged in a rigid, five-line pattern of 5-7-5-7-7. It's big on archaic words and has long been associated with high culture.

Courtiers of the 10th century exchanged love letters in tanka form, and the imperial family still pens tanka at the start of each year on topics like "happiness" and "spring." Tanka are often used to commemorate pivotal moments like death: Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima wrote two tanka before he slit his belly in ritual suicide in 1970.

But young Japanese say tanka is surprisingly suited to the cellphone. It's short enough to fit on little mobile screens, and simple enough to let young poets whip out bits of verse whenever the spirit moves them. In many ways, tanka is similar to the kind of terse, sparse messages Japanese kids have tapped out on their handsets for years -- especially in the early days of the cellphone when just a small number of characters could be crammed into one email.

"The rhythm and the length of tanka make it exactly the right vessel for what I want to say," says Ms. Iida, an ebullient woman in red-framed glasses who works nights at a bookstore in the city of Tochigi, a few hours north of Tokyo.

The new, freewheeling wave of poetry on cellphones is roiling the traditional, hierarchical tanka world. There, budding writers spend years of apprenticeship in poetry societies called kessha, under the guidance of a master poet. Many labor for 10 or 20 years before the master decides they're good enough to put out their own poetry collections.

Traditionalists frown on cellphone tanka's liberal use of slang and colloquial Japanese. They say the topics are frivolous and the writing shallow and one-dimensional. Some even take issue with the way tanka is displayed on a handset: horizontally to fit the screen rather than vertically as in traditional Japanese writing.

"Almost all of the cellphone poems are stuff I'd never call 'tanka,' " says Tokio Ishii, an 80-year-old former paper-company employee who is a ranking member of Shin Araragi, or New Yew Tree, one of Japan's most traditional kessha. "What we do is something like religious training. It's pure literature. On the cellphones what they're doing is more like a chat group."

True tanka should be complex and multilayered, says Kenya Washio, 61, an editor who for 27 years has been a member of the kessha Karin, which means quince in English. Sitting in his small, book-cluttered office, Mr. Washio, who writes under the pen name Ken Kodaka, points to a poem he wrote about 25 years ago: "Whither the baseball/stamped with the emblem of Health/which once I did throw/into the wide-spreading mitt/held by my elder brother."

The poem is a nostalgic yearning for the simple joy of playing catch with his brother and for his childhood in the years after World War II, explains Mr. Washio. And the word "Health" refers to both an old Japanese baseball brand and the vigorous, hopeful mood of that era.

What's more, Mr. Washio says, nobody improves in cellphone tanka because everyone is just too nice. In a kessha, poets learn their craft the hard way: by having their creations torn to shreds at group readings.

"Tanka is an exercise in masochism," he says. "You get criticized and put down; you curse, you're mortified, you cry. Then you go home and write some more."

The younger poets argue that the mobile phone has opened up tanka to a wider group of people who would never have put up with the rules and rigor of a kessha.

Ms. Iida, who writes under the initials A.I., was drawn to tanka in 2002 by the prizes offered in a writing contest she spotted in a magazine. Entrants could email poems from their handsets -- a big plus for Ms. Iida, who didn't have a computer.

Ms. Iida sent in three poems, and won a CD-ROM dictionary and box of fruit jellies. Encouraged, she searched for other tanka-related sites on her cellphone, and joined a fledgling group called Mobile Tanka.

Now, Mobile Tanka has more than 90 members, mostly in their teens and 20s. Members mail out calls for poems, then rank their favorites among the entries.

One recent summer day, Ms. Iida and three other Mobile Tanka members sat in a common room at a Tokyo university and put out a call for poems on "juice."

"It's summer break now, so students are probably close to their phones," said Ms. Iida, who finished after 10 minutes of furious tapping on her keypad. "Five so far," said Risa Watanabe, 27, a part-time postal worker, who was done five minutes later.

By the 30-minute time limit, seven tanka had come in. Ms. Watanabe's poem: "Juice spilled on homework/makes a pattern that looks like/handmade rice paper/leaves me solving equations/from in between the wrinkles."

"Unique," emailed in a member nicknamed Star. "Oddly dispassionate," wrote a member called Flower.

Some feel that despite the differences, cellphone tanka could be good for the tanka world. The tanka-writing population has been aging rapidly -- along with the rest of Japan -- and it's badly in need of new blood. Shin Araragi's members are 75 years old, on average, and they have dwindled to 3,000 from 10,000 10 years ago. One tanka on its Web site describes a visit to the urologist.

"Tanka Study," Japan's most prestigious tanka monthly, whose subscribers are in their 70s and 80s mostly, is reaching out to a younger audience by including a section for cellphone tanka, where the text is typed horizontally, unlike the rest of the magazine.

"We're really hoping that with the spread of cellphones, tanka will be able to survive," says Akiko Oshida, the magazine's editor.

Yet the divide remains wide -- even for people who bridge both worlds. Ms. Watanabe is a member of the traditional Shin Araragi, but says she relishes the freedom of her mobile compositions.

"The kessha is stuffy and I feel like I have to stifle myself," she says. "The tanka I write on my cellphone feels closer to me."

Fun stuff for sure, GO Tanka!
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Find This Monkey: Adam Gadahn of Orange County!

2005-09-12T23:15:00.000-04:00

Find This Monkey: Adam Gadahn of Orange County!

From: ABC News: Tape Released: American Al Qaeda Member Warns of Attacks: "Sept. 12, 2005 — In an apparent Sept. 11 communiqu�broadcast on ABC News, an al Qaeda operative threatens new attacks against cities in the U.S. and Australia.

'Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne, Allah willing. And this time, don't count on us demonstrating restraint or compassion,' the tape warns. 'We are Muslims. We love peace, but peace on our terms, peace as laid down by Islam, not the so-called peace of occupiers and dictators.'

* Video: New Al-Qaeda Tape"

American intelligence officials believe the man who appears on the tape to be Adam Gadahn of Orange County, Calif. Last year, Gadahn delivered a similar taped communiqué for al Qaeda. That tape was later deemed authentic.

On the new tape, delivered to ABC News in Pakistan on Saturday, Gadahn's message contains a very pointed al Qaeda threat against Los Angeles and Melbourne. U.S. intelligence officials are closely studying the tape, looking for clues that might lead them to the man who made it. One clue ABC heard on the tape was the sound of many children in a hallway.

This morning, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton acknowledged his city is a target for terrorists

"We're the entertainment capital of America," Bratton said. "All the negative images of America that these people hate are represented here in Los Angeles. ..."

Yeah right, "peace on our terms", like when every non-Muslim who chooses to remain non-Muslim is a 2nd class citizen whose required to pay a poll tax ("protection") to an Islamic central government.

Find This Terrorist Monkey: Adam Gadahn of Orange County!

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Is This A Terrorism Screw-up?

2005-09-12T22:35:00.000-04:00

Time will tell, it sure smells. From 1010 WINS: Jetliner Returns To Newark After Haze In Cabin: "Sep 12, 2005 6:43 am US/Eastern

(1010 WINS) NEWARK, N.J. Officials aren't sure what caused haze to fill part of the cabin of an American Airlines jetliner soon after taking off from Newark Liberty International Airport.

Flight 1147, with 109 passengers aboard, had departed for Chicago when flight attendants noticed the problem yesterday.

The aircraft turned back and landed safely at Newark. ..."

I haven't seen anything else about this yet, I'll have to poke around and keep an eye out.

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From Defense Tech: Why Katrina Matters

2005-09-06T01:47:00.000-04:00

Here's a great piece from Defense Tech explaining why the U.S. must respond MUCH better to Katrina type disasters if they ever hope to be able to respond to the next terrorist attack.
Defense Tech: Why Katrina Matters

Do your job Mr. DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, and you too FEMA!

You should be ashamed for being such bumbling beurocrats, and then you should get to work, be leaders, and get the job done. Make sure this incompetence in high places never happens that often again.

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Instapundit's Hurricane Katrina Charity Links

2005-09-06T01:26:00.000-04:00

Here's a very lengthy list of charities we can donate to for a long time. It's never too late send a few bucks, or a few bucks more.

This Katrina tragedy will take a lot of work for a real long time.

Please check these out and do everthing you can: Instapundit.com -

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Insurgents (Terrorist Monkees) Assert Control Over Town Near Syrian Border

2005-09-06T00:34:00.000-04:00

Insurgents Assert Control Over Town Near Syrian Border: "Zarqawi's Forces Kill U.S.-Allied Iraqis And Impose Strict Law, Witnesses Say

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, September 6, 2005; A20

BAGHDAD, Sept. 5 -- Fighters loyal to militant leader Abu Musab Zarqawi asserted control over the key Iraqi border town of Qaim on Monday, killing U.S. collaborators and enforcing strict Islamic law, according to tribal members, officials, residents and others in the town and nearby villages.

Residents said the foreign-led fighters controlled by Zarqawi, a Jordanian, apparently had been exerting authority in the town, within two miles of the Syrian border, since at least the start of the weekend. A sign posted at an entrance to the town declared, 'Welcome to the Islamic Republic of Qaim. ...'"

The US must squash this nonsense real quick. This must not be allowed to continue. Period!

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GO Jodi, Chris & Joe! GO! Connecticut Sues Pentagon Over Base Closing

2005-08-29T22:56:00.000-04:00

GO Jodi, Chris & Joe! GO! GO! GO!!!

1010 WINS - ALL NEWS. ALL THE TIME.: Connecticut Sues Pentagon Over Base Closing

"Aug 29, 2005 2:21 pm US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (HARTFORD) Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell filed a lawsuit Monday to stop the federal government from removing fighter jets from the Air National Guard Base at Bradley International Airport.

The national base closure commission last week approved a Pentagon plan to move nine of the 17 A-10 Thunderbolts from the 103rd Fighter Wing located at Bradley International Airport and retire the rest. The realignment is part of the Pentagon's proposal to shut or consolidate 62 major U.S. military bases and hundreds of smaller facilities.

Rell argues that the Pentagon needs her approval before moving or altering the guard unit.

The National Guard system, according to the lawsuit, is the successor to the original state militias. The state's right to maintain and direct that militia, the suit contends, is deeply rooted in both the U.S. and Connecticut constitutions. ..."

I don't know all the facts here but it seems that Connecticut, who will now be keeping the Nuclear Submarine Base, might just deserve NOT TO BE the only state WITHOUT a "flying mission", what ever that exactly entails.

It's obvious to me that Connecticut needs a most heavy duty "Flying Mission". Ready to be able to kick some butts in just a few minutes plus. Ready to be able to do what someone should have been able to do just about four years ago: Chase down a few errant passenger jets before they crash into some very tall buildings.

Go get'm Governor, please don't bow down to your fellow Republicans. They are way wrong on this one.

This is simply a State defending its State's Rights against the Pentagon and the White House.

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Paparazzi Who Cause Car Crashes Deserve To DIE!!!

2005-08-08T00:53:00.000-04:00

I just saw the movie Paparazzi and feel the photographer scumbags got everything they deserved. If I hear about this happening in real life, I will let out a very big CHEER!

The Daily Page: Going-Out: Movies: Reviews: Paparazzi

Perhaps the best way to think of it is as a war. On this side are the Hollywood stars with their armies of agents, managers, lawyers, publicists, handlers, personal assistants and, of course, bodyguards. And on this side are the paparazzi — guerrilla warriors armed with cameras, whose job it is to break through the stars’ defenses, steal small parts of their souls and sell them to the highest bidder. The lengths to which paparazzi will go to get “the shot” are legendary — hiding out in trees, digging through garbage, spitting on the stars and shooting their reactions. Car chases are routine. So is helicopter surveillance. And there’s very little the stars can do about it, George Clooney’s “Hard Copy” crusade notwithstanding. Even the paparazzi who were trailing Princess Diana that hot August night, one of whom called 911 while the others recorded the scene for both posterity and prosperity, got by with a slap on the wrist, if that.

Clearly, we’re dealing with scum-sucking whores here, which means they’re perfect fodder for a good old-fashioned revenge fantasy. ..."

The French justice system effed up with the Princess Diana killing.

Paparazzi Who Cause Car Crashes Deserve To DIE!!!

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How about? The Global War and Struggle Against Terror and Violent Islamic Extremism."

2005-08-05T17:19:00.000-04:00

It works for me. The radical Islamics are behind it, and that is who must be destroyed. Terminate without prejudice!

Christian Science Monitor Blog | Verbal Energy Archive August, 2005

Defining militancy downward: GWOT's next?
By Ruth Walker

Reports of the demise of the global war on terror (GWOT to those in the know, both hawks and doves) are greatly exaggerated.

So insists US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In an address in Texas this week, he denied that the Bush administration is backing away from GWOT in favor of "the global struggle against violent extremism" as the preferred term for well, you know, all this stuff that keeps happening.

The Dallas Morning News quoted him thus:

Some ask, are we still engaged in a war on terror? Let there be no mistake about it. It’s a war.

President Bush banged the same drum in a speech Wednesday: "Make no mistake about it, we are at war." Those interested in hard data have taken to counting how often he uses certain phrases. The tally for Wednesday's round: War on terror, 5; Global struggle against violent extremism, 0. ..."

So what we really have here is a "Global War and Struggle Against Terror and Violent Islamic Extremism."

Everybody happy now?

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KILL Mukhannas Terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri ASAP!!!

2005-08-04T15:46:00.000-04:00

KILL Mukhannas Terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri ASAP!!!

Al Qaeda to West: It's about policies | csmonitor.com: "Al Qaeda to West: It's about policies
In a broadcast Thursday, Al Qaeda's blamed Tony Blair for the 7/7 attacks.
By Dan Murphy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BAGHDAD – With an AK-47 at his side, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's No. 2, appeared in a videotape broadcast Thursday and claimed that the 7/7 bombings were payback for British participation in America's 'policy of aggression against Muslims.'

The video is another Al Qaeda message apparently intended to turn Western democracies against their leaders by explaining acts of terrorism as rational decisions from a group with specific political goals. It challenges the position of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Bush administration officials, who have insisted that the London attacks have nothing to do with Iraq and that terror attacks will continue regardless of policy. ..."

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Finally! A Lesson On Terror From France...Expel Extremist Monkees Now!

2005-07-29T23:59:00.000-04:00

It's about time! I only wish the U.S. Government had done it first, but I mostly hope they just plain do it sooner rather than later. Or even I fear, ever rather than never.

: "France ejects 12 Islamic 'preachers of hate'

By Colin Randall in Paris
(Filed: 30/07/2005)

The gulf between British and French treatment of preachers of hatred and violence was thrown sharply into focus yesterday when France announced the summary expulsion of a dozen Islamists between now and the end of August.

A tough new anti-terrorism package was unveiled by Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister and a popular centre-Right politician.

Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy: 'We have to act against radical preachers'

His proposals reflect French determination to act swiftly against extremists in defiance of the human rights lobby, which is noticeably less vocal in France than in Britain.

Imams and their followers who fuel anti-western feeling among impressionable young French Muslims will be rounded up and returned to their countries of origin, most commonly in France's case to its former north African colonies. ..."

YEY FRANCE! A most unlikely leader in this area. Better you than no one for sure! May God help you convince the world of your correctness. According to this article, the French are tough on terror. Well I guess maybe, as long as that doesn't include being against a monster like the butcher of Baghdad.

OK, so maybe they don't try to kill the BIG MONKEEEs, only the smaller ones. That's still better than nothing.

We must all denounce and destroy these Islamic extremist terrorist monkees. They are the scourge of the planet, a deadly virus worse then AIDS that must be exterminated with extreme prejudice. They have no right except the right to behave.

Hey Terrorist Islamic Extremist Monkees, stop trying to turn the whole planet into an Islamic one. It's not gonna happen. All "religions" should spread their word, that is natural. But to actively propose and promote that all non-Muslims should be either converted, killed or given 2nd class status is just gonna get you killed.

Be fair, be just, Allah does not want you to be this way. Your vile words are bastardised interpretations of the Koran. If not, then Islam is flawed, are you ready to concede that? Sadly, I don't think so. If Islam is really as great as you believe, then you should believe that eventually everybody will see the light and convet naturally. And you should see that if you continue in your terrorist ways you will do much HEAVY damage to Islam.

But do you really care? I doubt it.

Will the U.S. and the U.K. have the smarts and the balls to follow the French? I sure hope so! I believe, eventually they must, if they wish to surivive.

TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

:)

Cheers! One Less Robbing Monkee Scumbag! Newsday.com: Deputies Shoot Man Sought in Robberies

2005-07-21T20:49:00.000-04:00

Sometimes good things do happen:
Newsday.com: Deputies Shoot Man Sought in Robberies: "Deputies Shoot Man Sought in Robberies

By Associated Press

July 21, 2005, 2:58 PM EDT

TORRANCE, Calif. -- A serial robbery suspect who sported a tattoo saying 'Blue eyed Devil' was shot to death by police after he allegedly assaulted a deputy, carjacked an SUV and held up a pet store.

Robert Craig, 36, was shot after a brief chase that ended when he crashed the car and ran into an auto recycling yard, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

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Craig, who had been released from prison in March, was suspected in two Orange County robberies on Saturday and matched the description of a man suspected in at least 14 robberies in Los Angeles County.

Wednesday's pursuit began when a sheriff's deputy questioned Craig outside a motel when he was loading items into a car. The deputy recognized a tattoo on Craig's neck reading 'Blue eyed Devil' -- matching one seen in videotaped footage of at least one robbery.

The deputy went to call for backup but a struggle broke out and Craig wrestled the deputy to the ground before running away, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.

Craig jumped a wall and headed toward a restaurant, where he held a knife to the throat of an elderly man and attempted unsuccessfully to carjack his vehicle before commandeering an SUV, officials said.

'A female accomplice tried to get in the passenger's side and was tackled by a witness,' Amormino said.

Soon after, Craig allegedly robbed a pet store in Mission Viejo. About five hours later, he showed up at an undisclosed location near Torrance where undercover officers were waiting.

He sped off, leading police on a brief high-speed chase before crashing and running through an auto recycling plant, where Torrance police confronted him and he was killed, authorities said.

Authorities who searched Craig's car and motel room found two loaded guns, stolen license plates, methamphetamine and a pit bull, Amormino said.

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Now Here's a Movie Idea: Bomb Mecca! Congressman suggests way to retaliate for nuclear terror ...

2005-07-18T23:02:00.000-04:00

I pray this never happens, but I've thought for a couple years now that it would make a VERY volatile FILM:

Let's say, that in 2021, a group of 30-something "Christian" radical right-wing extremists insanely effected by 9/11 (maybe one or two of them lost his (or her) mother or father in the tragedy) and Islamic extremism decide to hatch a plot to crash an airliner loaded with a Nuke into Makkah (not Mecca, I just learned) during Ramadan...

details...details...details...

The Jawa Report discusses this sensitive subject here and has thus ignited some very incendiary comments.

Thanks to Ms. Malkin for bringing my attention to this loose-lipped congressman:

CNN.com - Congressman suggests way to retaliate�for nuclear terror - Jul 18, 2005: "Congressman suggests way to retaliate for nuclear terror
Spokesman: Tancredo was speaking hypothetically

Monday, July 18, 2005; Posted: 12:44 p.m. EDT (16:44 GMT)"

DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- A Colorado congressman told a radio show host that the U.S. could "take out" Islamic holy sites if Muslim fundamentalist terrorists attacked the country with nuclear weapons.

Rep. Tom Tancredo made his remarks Friday on WFLA-AM in Orlando, Florida. His spokesman stressed he was only speaking hypothetically.

Talk show host Pat Campbell asked the Littleton Republican how the country should respond if terrorists struck several U.S. cities with nuclear weapons.

"Well, what if you said something like -- if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites," Tancredo answered.

"You're talking about bombing Mecca," Campbell said.

"Yeah," Tancredo responded.

The congressman later said he was "just throwing out some ideas" and that an "ultimate threat" might have to be met with an "ultimate response."

Spokesman Will Adams said Sunday the four-term congressman doesn't support threatening holy Islamic sites but that Tancredo was grappling with the hypothetical situation of a terrorist strike deadlier than the September 11, 2001, attacks.

"We have an enemy with no uniform, no state, who looks like you and me and only emerges right before an attack. How do we go after someone like that?" Adams said.

"What is near and dear to them? They're willing to sacrifice everything in this world for the next one. What is the pressure point that would deter them from their murderous impulses?" he said.

Tancredo is known in the House for his tough stand on immigration.

Mohammad Noorzai, coordinator of the Colorado Muslim Council and a native of Afghanistan, said Tancredo's remarks were radical and unrepresentative but that people in Tancredo's position need to watch their words when it comes to sacred religious sites and texts.

Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed."

Will Hollywood ever have the balls to make such a film, I doubt it; the stupidity maybe, but not the balls. You see, it would serve to show that ALL terrorists are human shitbags, not just Christian ones, this is something Hollywood is deathly afraid of doing. Pussies!

:-(

KILL All These Angry Terrorist Monkeys!

2005-07-11T01:18:00.000-04:00

Foreign Affairs - Europe's Angry Muslims - Robert S. Leiken: "AN AMERICAN CONCERN

Fox News and CNN's Lou Dobbs worry about terrorists stealing across the United States' border with Mexico concealed among illegal immigrants. The Pentagon wages war in the Middle East to stop terrorist attacks on the United States. But the growing nightmare of officials at the Department of Homeland Security is passport-carrying, visa-exempt mujahideen coming from the United States' western European allies.

Jihadist networks span Europe from Poland to Portugal, thanks to the spread of radical Islam among the descendants of guest workers once recruited to shore up Europe's postwar economic miracle. In smoky coffeehouses in Rotterdam and Copenhagen, makeshift prayer halls in Hamburg and Brussels, Islamic bookstalls in Birmingham and 'Londonistan,' and the prisons of Madrid, Milan, and Marseilles, immigrants or their descendants are volunteering for jihad against the West. It was a Dutch Muslim of Moroccan descent, born and socialized in Europe, who murdered the filmmaker Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam last November. A Nixon Center study of 373 mujahideen in western Europe and North America between 1993 and 2004 found more than twice as many Frenchmen as Saudis and more Britons than Sudanese, Yemenites, Emiratis, Lebanese, or Libyans. Fully a quarter of the jihadists it listed were western European nationals -- eligible to travel visa-free to the United States.

The emergence of homegrown mujahideen in Europe threatens the United States as well as Europe. Yet it was the dog that never barked at last winter's Euro-American rapprochement meeting. Neither President George W. Bush nor Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice drew attention to this mutual peril, even though it should focus minds and could buttress solidarity in the West.

YOUR LAND IS MY LAND..."

Supreme Justice Souter's Land May Be Stolen!

2005-06-29T02:06:00.000-04:00

Supreme Justice Souter may reap what he's sown! From Freestar Media, LLC:

"Press Release

For Release Monday, June 27 to New Hampshire media
For Release Tuesday, June 28 to all other media

Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter's land.

Justice Souter's vote in the 'Kelo vs. City of New London' decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.

On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter's home.

Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.

The proposed development, called 'The Lost Liberty Hotel' will feature the 'Just Desserts Caf�' and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel 'Atlas Shrugged.'

Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans.

'This is not a prank' said Clements, 'The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development.'

Clements' plan is to raise investment capital from wealthy pro-liberty investors and draw up architectural plans. These plans would then be used to raise investment capital for the project. Clements hopes that regular customers of the hotel might include supporters of the Institute For Justice and participants in the Free State Project among others."

Ooh weeee...I sure hope this goes somewhere! This could be loads of fun!

Take that your Honor!

:)

Finally a Little Justice for Falun Gong...

2005-06-23T22:42:00.000-04:00

Finally, a little bit of long overdue justice for some Falun Gong followers. From The Epoch Times | Highest Hong Kong Court Throws Out Judgement Against Falun Gong Appellants:

"HONG KONG - In a reversal of a lower court’s 2002 ruling, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal dropped all charges remaining against 8 Falun Gong practitioners on Thursday.

The charges resulted from a meditative vigil 16 people held in Hong Kong in March 2002 outside the Liaison Office to the Beijing government. Police arrested and forcibly removed the 16 from the sidewalk. Six charges brought against the defendants included obstruction of a public place, obstructing police, and assault.

A high-profile trial in August 2002 found the Falun Gong practitioners guilty, with fines imposed. They appealed the convictions. Four of the six convictions originally entered against the entire group of 16 were quashed during a November 2004 court ruling.

The 61-page May 5 decision noted that, “the appellants were engaged in a peaceful demonstration in exercise of their constitutional right.”

The judgment said, “The inescapable conclusion is accordingly that the objective requirement of reasonable suspicion of a public place obstruction without lawful excuse cannot be made out either on the basis of what had been said at the briefings or of what was self-evident at the scene. It follows that the arrests for obstruction… were unlawful. This in turn means that the actions taken by the officers to remove the appellants from the vehicle while keeping them in police detention were not performed in the due execution of their duty.”

The court allowed the appeal of the defendants, and all four remaining convictions were quashed."

The next BIG victory for Falun Gong will hopefully be on the mainland.

Should we hold our breath?

:(

Dicks, Toads and Wimps...

2005-06-23T02:25:00.000-04:00

From USATODAY.com - Bush nudges Social Security bill without private accounts:

"WASHINGTON (AP) — With the acquiescence of their leaders, key House Republicans are drafting Social Security legislation stripped of President Bush's proposed personal accounts financed with payroll taxes and lacking provisions aimed at assuring long-term solvency.

Instead, according to officials familiar with the details, the measure showcases a promise, designed to reassure seniors, that Social Security surplus funds will be held inviolate, available only to create individual accounts that differ sharply from Bush's approach. ..."

I was afraid of this, of Bush caving in to the lying Dems regarding Social Security reform.

Wouldn't you rather have your heirs get your SS payments after your gone? Well wouldn't you? Why not? Why wouldn't you? Why? Why?

:((

We Want A Recess Appointment for Bolton! Recess Appointment! Come on Bush!

2005-06-20T19:31:00.000-04:00

We Want A Recess Appointment for Boltonas UN Ambassador! Recess Appointment! Come on Bush!

From all over the place, this one from Bloomberg.com: U.S.:

"Bush May Give Bolton Temporary Appointment to UN, Sen. Kyl Says

June 20 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush may give John Bolton a temporary appointment as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations if Senate Democrats continue to stall a vote on his nomination, Republican Senator Jon Kyl said today.

``It's really critical we get John Bolton confirmed,'' Kyl of Arizona, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, said in an interview. ``If we can't get him confirmed, my guess is he'll be appointed with a recess appointment.'' That would put Bolton in the position until the Congress adjourns late next year.

Bush, at a news conference today with the leaders of the European Union, refused to say whether he's considering a recess appointment. ``I think Mr. Bolton should get an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor,'' Bush said in response to a question. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also wouldn't rule out a recess appointment when asked about it yesterday on Fox News Sunday. ``We'll see what happens this week,'' Rice said.

The U.S. Senate is scheduled to vote later today on whether to end debate on Bolton's nomination and let it advance it to a final vote. Republicans hold 55 seats in the 100-member chamber and need 60 to override Democrats' stalling tactics.

Bolton's nomination was sent to the Senate March 17 and the delay on his nomination is an embarrassment for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist as well as the White House.

Democrats, led by Joe Biden of Delaware and Chris Dodd of Connecticut, say Bolton lacks the diplomatic skills needed to be UN envoy, that he abused subordinates and once tried to pressure intelligence analysts to change reports to conform to his views.

Seeking Names

Democrats say no vote should be held until the Bush administration releases classified information involving Bolton that they sought weeks ago.

Democrats refused to end debate on the nomination last month after the White House wouldn't release information on Bolton's receipt of names that had been censored in intelligence reports. Democrats want to learn whether Bolton used this intelligence to intimidate officials who disagreed with his views.

Supporters of Bolton, 56, dispute the criticism of him and say he will strongly defend U.S. interests and carry out needed reforms at the UN. He has won Senate confirmation to government posts on four prior occasions.

Kyl said Democrats are playing politics with Bolton's nomination, rather than opposing him on substantive grounds.

``I just can't believe that Democrats want to begin to again be negative,'' Kyl said. The Democrats' request for documents is a ``sideshow'' reminiscent of their obstruction during Bush's first term, Kyl said.

White House Scott McClellan said much the same thing to reporters today.

``It is unfortunate that the Democratic leadership continues to block his nomination, especially since he has majority support,'' McClellan told reporters at the White House. ``It is very clear now that the Democratic leadership is not interested in the information'' in the intelligence intercepts, he said. ``They are interested in blocking his nomination.''

To contact the reporter on this story:
Jeff St.Onge in Washington at jstonge@bloomberg.net."

We Want A Recess Appointment for Bolton! Recess Appointment! Come on Bush! DO IT SOON PLEASE!

:)

Extra Super-Sized "Rudy" Moment...Brings a Town to Tears

2005-06-12T23:54:00.000-04:00

Thanks to Ms. Malkin for linking over to this amazing SUPER-Charged "Rudy" experience that just happened out in California:

A long shot in more ways than one brings a town to tears: "A long shot in more ways than one brings a town to tears
Ryan Bellflower's future is uncertain, but for one shining moment...

By Tim Dahlberg
The Associated Press

CLOVIS, Calif. -- The chant began late in the fourth quarter in the basketball gym at Clovis East High. The students started it first, clapping their hands in unison and pounding the bleachers with their feet.

It didn't take long for the parents to pick it up, too. The noise grew until the whole gym seemed to shake.

'We want Ryno. We want Ryno.'

Pacing the sideline, Coach Tim Amundsen felt himself getting goose bumps. Less than 4 minutes remained in the game, and Clovis East was winning comfortably over rival Buchanan High. Now Amundsen had a decision to make.

It was senior night, the last time Ryan Belflower would wear his home uniform. Everyone in the gym knew his story.

Ryan was a special education student who would do anything to fit in and worked tirelessly to make that happen. His basketball career began..."

You must click over and read the rest of this amazing, touching, hopeful and inspiring story here.

Please don't ever forget this story, I know I won't.

:)

9/11 WTC Memorial to Blame USA for World's Evils - The Multi-Million Dollar 9/11 Insult

2005-06-08T23:06:00.000-04:00

This story is getting more and more play, I just saw it again at Little Green Footballs, please pass this info around, this is just a total disgrace!

Rudy PLEASE help us, Donald PLEASE speak out about this too, Mayor Nanny Michael Bloomberg let's see if you stick up for the city and the country here. lgf: The Multi-Million Dollar 9/11 Insult:

"tuesday, june 07, 2005

The Multi-Million Dollar 9/11 Insult

On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists hijacked airplanes and flew them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing almost 3,000 people and horrifying the world. (Except those parts of the world where they danced and celebrated.)

Now radical leftists have hijacked the Ground Zero Memorial at the World Trade Center, to install a self-hating lecture on America’s sins and human rights failings.

In Debra Burlingame’s words, it’s a multi-million dollar insult. And it’s brought to you by the ACLU and George Soros.

Debra Burlingame is the sister of the pilot whose plane was turned into a gigantic suicide bomb on 9/11, and she was interviewed today on Bill Bennett’s show; you can listen over the web here: Bill Bennett: Interviews.

UPDATE at 6/7/05 3:55:08 pm:

GOP Bloggers has contact information for the 9/11 Memorial: Reclaim the September 11 Memorial.

The board of directors of the International Freedom Center are:

Tom A. Bernstein (Chairman) - President of Chelsea Piers, President of the Board of Human Rights First

Paula Grant Berry (Vice-Chair) - Member of the Board, World Trade Center Memorial Foundation

Stephen B. Heintz - President of the Rockefeller Bros. Fund

Daniel T. Tishman - President of Tishman Construction Corporation

Tom Bernstein is an avowed liberal; I suggest calls to Daniel Tishman (212-399-3600). The International Freedom Center was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. to be at the 9/11 memorial, and the chairman of the LMDC is John Whitehead (212-962-2300). The LMDC board was appointed by New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (311 in NYC or 212-NEW-YORK outside NYC) and New York Governor George Pataki (518-474-8390). These people probably aren’t aware of what travesty is about to take place on hallowed ground, so let them know.

3:46 PM PDT
email this article"

This is pure bull sheet people. The 9/11 memorial at the future WTC is not the place for such blame-America-first crap.

Come on, get mad!

:(

People Who Do This Are Animals! Will The Corporations Save Us?

2005-06-07T22:59:00.000-04:00

Take note all you "tolerant" people, from the Center for Religious Freedom:

"...
Radical Islam's Rules shows that in the countries surveyed, state imposition of extreme Shari’a is characterized by:

* a lack of due process, stemming from vague and haphazard laws, untrained judges, and extrajudicial enforcement;
* cruel and unusual punishments, such as amputation, the removal of eyes, stoning, and crucifixion;
* the denial of equal rights under law to women, who are reduced to second-class status in marriage, divorce, and inheritance, and are denied full civil and political rights, equal education and employment opportunities, and equal treatment under the law. Rape and other forms of sexual exploitation often go unpunished due to rules of evidence that give women’s legal testimony less weight than men's;
* the denial of equal rights under law to non-Muslims, making them second class citizens and worse, nonpersons without legal protection, sometimes even from extra judicial killing. Non-Muslims are denied full civil and political rights, particularly regarding religious freedom, and are discriminated against in state education and employment and under rules of evidence;
* the state enforcement of blasphemy or apostasy laws that can carry the death penalty against Muslims who are not part of the dominant group, who dissent from the state-imposed version of Islam, or who criticize the government's policies;
* weak or non-existent democratically elected legislatures, whose power is negated by un-elected religious authorities officially responsible for voiding laws that they deem to be inconsistent with Shari’a;
* and denial of religious freedom to individuals, particularly those who are Muslim, through blasphemy and apostasy laws that punish dissent and debate.

Despite its threat to democracy and American interests, the state use of extreme Shari’a is little understood by American policymakers. With the Middle East now experiencing democratic ferment, understanding the relation of religion and law is more urgent than ever. The book proposes policy incentives for governments to find alternatives to extreme Shari’a.

Radical Islam's Rules: The Worldwide Spread of Extreme Shari'a Law (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), 226 pp., $27.95.

Editor Paul Marshall is Senior Fellow at Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom and the best selling and award winning author and editor of twenty books on religion and politics. His has contributed to the Wall St. Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, and many other publications. His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Russian, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Korean, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish, and Malay. Contributors include Stephen Schwartz, Mehrangis Kar, Hamouda Bella, Maarten Barends, Peter Riddell, Nina Shea, and a study group of the Rand Corporation."

This is some sick stuff. For more on this, keep an eye on Dhimmi Watch, stay tuned, spread the word.

Capitalism will not let this totally take over the world I believe, but it's still gonna be a mess.

The sane can, will and must beat the insane.

:)

Australians Throw Less Butts - U.S. Needs Pocket Ashtray and Field-Stripping Campaign...

2005-06-04T03:32:00.000-04:00

Found this on Reuter's Environmental News site Planet Ark:

"7 billion cigarette butts are littered by Australia's 3.7 million smokers every year.

As a result, 7% of Australia's bushfires are caused by discarded cigarettes - that's over 4,500 fires a year caused by cigarettes and smoking materials.

To combat this Planet Ark, Clean Up Australia and Landcare Australia have distributed half a million Go Green pocket ashtrays into 1,000 Coles Myer retail stores.

We want smokers to use the Go Green pocket ashtray for the great Australian outdoors:

* Keep our beaches and waterways clean

* Reduce the risk of bushfires

* Help protect our wildlife and vegetation

* Stop the littering of 7 billion butts

* Avoid butt littering fines"

...

We need these things here in America. I just can't understand how people who would never even throw a little piece of paper on the ground because they "hate littering", don't hesitate to always, always throw their cig butts on the ground, and most people never even stamp them out, they just throw a burning butt right into the streets, sidewalks and peoples yards.

Do what I do: Field-Strip your smokes. Either stamp it out with your shoe, and then throw it in the garbage, or tear off or pull off the butt (throw in garbage, or pocket butt bag), throw the cig part on the ground and stamp it out completely. Bits of tobacco and little specks of white paper on the ground are not the problem, they blow away into dust or decompose quickly, but cig butt filters stay around for years, thousands of years for the majority of them, which are made from plastic or other petroleum based concoctions. Camel cigs use cotton filters which might be gone in only 10 or 100 years I forget which.

NYC Mayor Michael "Bloomburglar" should commission an AD campaign promoting better BUTT behavior.

Come on people, don't be stupid; fight the urge to throw those butts on the ground, burning or not.

In addition to helping the environment immensely, if there's less cig butt litter anti-smoking ZEALOTS will have less to whine about.

:)

iPod Thieves Deserve Death When In The Act!

2005-06-04T01:52:00.000-04:00

Yup, it's fair, if some dirtball (which you are if you ROB someone) is killed in the act of a robbery using violence or the threat of violence, they deserved it, period! Rip an iPod off someone and run into the street and get smashed by a truck, and iCheer, yup, you deserved it.

Go ahead, pull that stolen iPod out when a policeman is chasing you, and get shot when he thinks it's a gun? iCheer, you deserved it! Some piece of sheet tries to steal an iPod and gets beaten to death by the owner, iCheer, he deserved it. And the victim should be given the benefit of the doubt in claims of self-defence.

From Gothamist: iPod Thefts Don't Surprise New Yorkers:

"The NYPD's news that iPods may be prompting a rise in subway crime gave the media a great way to sensationalize the darling MP3 player. For instance, ABC 7 had this cute graphic (right) and this catchy opening:

If the crime had a name, it would be called 'iRob'- subway riding-thieves targeting people listening to music on their iPod. When the time is right, the thief snatches the device and hops off the train just before the doors close.

But, as with many things, iPod users aren't that surprised and seem to be trucking along: One rider explains her nonchalance to the NY Times by saying, 'It was a concern when I first got it. But I live in Williamsburg, and on the L train everybody has one.' So along with funky glasses and exquisitely weathered denim, iPods seem to be standard issue in Williamsburg! Not only do we like the comparison of iPods to 8-ball jackets, which were stolen during many early 90s thefts, Gothamist liked one of the reader comments from yesterday's post and now we wonder the same: When are the iPod decoys coming? Or the headphones that look like hair extensions? "

Or just paint your headphone cords black like I did, cuz the white iPod ones are a "dead" giveaway.

Of course, if these thieves are caught and put through the system, and found guilty, they don't deserve a death sentence.

But in the act of committing a robbery using violence, the threat of violence, or even if a victim simply perceives the threat of violence, the robber(s) deserves whatever Karma dishes up for them, even a most painful and horrifying death.

:)

Everyone's Like Him! ...BE HITLER FOR 15 MINUTES...HAHAHAAaaaa....

2005-06-02T21:41:00.000-04:00

This is good for lotsa laughs, and yes, it's also quite pathetic. Found this over at Ms. Malkin's (who's on the list of course) Beautiful Atrocities: IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE WILL BE HITLER FOR 15 MINUTES:

"June 01, 2005
IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE WILL BE HITLER FOR 15 MINUTES

mamy31.jpg Rick Santorum compares Democrats to Hitler

Robert Byrd compares Republicans to Hitler

John Glenn compares Republicans to Hitler

Martha Stewart compared to Hitler

The Gallery of Bush=Hitler Allusions

George Soros: Worse than Hitler

North Korea compares Rumsfeld to Hitler

Hugo Chavez compares Spanish PM Jose Aznar to Hitler

Global warming worse than Hitler

..."

All these favorites and many, many more...

Let's try substituting Saddam for Hitler, see how that sounds. Who will be the first?

We humans are SO dang funny!

:)

Regina Crenshaw: Ugly, Evil X-Principal BeOTCH Deserves Massive Beating...

2005-06-01T22:51:00.000-04:00

Thank you Michelle for reminding us of this: Michelle Malkin: THE HORROR AT MIFFLIN HIGH: UPDATE:

"THE HORROR AT MIFFLIN HIGH: UPDATE
By Michelle Malkin � June 01, 2005 11:36 PM

Finally, charges have been filed in the monstrous case of an alleged gang rape of a handicapped girl and cover-up by her public high school's administrators:

Two students were charged today with sexually assaulting a mentally disabled girl in a high school auditorium. The former principal was charged with failing to notify police.

The case generated criticism because school officials did not immediately report the allegations to police and said they feared negative media attention if they did.

The 16-year-old girl told a teacher at Mifflin High School that she had been dragged into the auditorium March 9 and forced to perform oral sex on at least two boys as other students watched and one boy videotaped, according to investigators.

Two boys, Brandyn Hobbs, 15, and Timothy C. Armistead, 16, were charged with juvenile counts of sexual battery and kidnapping.

Regina Crenshaw, who was removed as principal because of the incident, was charged with failing to call police. If convicted, she could get anything from probation to 30 days in jail.

Crenshaw's still playing the blame game and waving around her victim card. A separate hearing on her termination scheduled for tomorrow.

***
Previous:

The horror at Mifflin High"

Since no one will beat the crap out of her, this pig of a woman should go to jail for years, just plain human trash...

:(

Bush-Haters Take Note: 10 Reasons To Hope Bush Lives

2005-05-29T17:53:00.000-04:00

Found over at the Drudge: Oregon Daily Emerald - 10 Reasons Not To Kill Bush:

Jennifer McBride
Columnist

May 25, 2005
Recently in Georgia, the president gave a speech only to have someone chuck a hand grenade at him. Lucky for all, the blast cap did not explode. Though originally thought to be a dud, the FBI later revealed the weapon was far from safe.

I can't possibly guess the assassin's reasoning, but I've heard enough people on campus proclaiming their hatred of George W. Bush to know that some wouldn't have shed many tears. And that's a shame.

If the assassin were looking for a way to hurt America, blowing up the president would be a good idea. Bush's martyrdom would put the last nail in the coffin of the liberal agenda. So, for those Bush-haters out there, here are 10 reasons you should stop praying for an assassinated G.W.B.:

1) Killing the president immediately generates sympathy for his cause. If the president died tomorrow, there would be no question that all of his nominees for the judicial branch would make it through the Senate.

2) A dead President Bush leaves a live Dick Cheney in charge. Need I say more?

3) The Pakistani political situation is drastically fragile. Should President Bush die, Musharraf's brutal, mostly secular dictatorship probably will be replaced by a brutal, religiously fundamental dictatorship, reducing the United States' chances of bringing in Osama bin Laden to nil.

4) Any criticisms of the administration will be regarded as more unpatriotic than ever. In the next election, you could expect to see Democratic primary candidates proclaiming that their Republican counterparts aren't 'fit to follow in President Bush's footsteps.'

5) Killing President Bush could spur another spate of international invasions, with or without U.N. approval. The U.S. military cannot deal with invading another country without further hollowing our ability to defend ourselves and respond to threats from other countries, such as a nuclear North Korea.

6) The news cycle would be justly co-opted. With the media so focused on one story, there wouldn't be time to examine important issues such as the government suppression in Uzbekistan or Egyptian election tampering. In fact, all foreign news that didn't directly affect the assassination would probably grind to a halt.

7) President Bush's status as a martyr would leave the electorate more polarized than ever, especially if liberals were seen as publicly irreverent to President Bush's memory. It would be a little different if natural selection decreed death-by-snacking, but toasting an assassin's success leaves a decidedly bitter taste in the national mouth.

8) Jeb Bush's popularity would skyrocket. He would undoubtedly win the Republican nomination and then the election in 2008. With the Supreme Court full of near-zombies, I would prefer a different man to pick the people who are going to strangle us with laws.

9) Killing George Bush won't end any of the policies people disagree with. An assassination would merely strengthen our resolve to stay the course in Iraq, keep troops in Saudi Arabia, support our Israeli allies, etc. Policies don't die just because the president does.

10) Slaying President Bush is simply immoral. Anyone who advocates purposefully killing someone defenseless (and a democratically elected leader, no less) is clearly value-challenged. I don't understand the logical contortions some people must go through to be anti-death penalty yet pro-assassination.

In all seriousness, I don't hate President Bush. I dislike a lot of his administration's choices, but I think he's a good man doing a difficult job. As a leader, you're always going to be hated. I am too often shocked by the vitriolic repulsion many people feel for our leader and America in general, especially because the loathing is often poorly informed. I've met people on this campus who see America as the worst human rights abuser in the world (unlike the angelic paradise of Cambodia) and people who sway liberal not because they actually know anything about issues but because it's popular.

Liberalism has to be more than a college fad or a collection of loudmouths whose idiotic comments stir headlines. The rabid dislike some people feel for a man they've never even met makes me ashamed to be a Democrat.

jennifermcbride@dailyemerald.com"

For the same reason, I predict some people will be ashamed to be Republicans if Hillary becomes President, and they see all the viscious hatred spewing from their side.

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Bomb-Selling Monkey Belongs In Gitmo But Will Remain Jailed In Houston

2005-05-29T06:48:00.000-04:00

Click2Houston.com - News - Bomb-Selling Suspect To Remain Jailed In Houston: "HOUSTON -- A man charged with trying to sell a bomb to terrorists will remain jailed in Houston without bond, a judge ruled Thursday.

Ronald Allen Grecula, of Bangor, Pa., has been held without bond since his arrest Friday at a Houston hotel during a meeting with undercover FBI agents. Investigators said Grecula was willing to build and sell an explosive device to terrorists to use against Americans.

He was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

A bond-reduction hearing was held Thursday afternoon. An FBI agent testified that she has recordings of Grecula and his obvious hatred of America, including one where he made a toast saying, 'Everybody wants to kill Americans. I'll drink to that.'

An undercover FBI agent pretended to be an al-Qaida operative.

The judge denied the bond motion and ruled that there was enough evidence in the case to send it to the grand jury.

Grecula's estranged wife, Monique, and their two children, live in The Woodlands.

The FBI said Grecula was also trying to find someone to kill his wife, since she has custody.

Grecula had previously been arrested in Malta for parental kidnapping. He was imprisoned in Pennsylvania before being released in March 2003.

If convicted, he could receive a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

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Judge Discriminating Against Paganism Is Out-Of-Order!

2005-05-27T23:51:00.000-04:00

Where's the ACLU when you need them? They routinely fight against Christian traditions, they defend Islamic Fascists, let's see if they step in to help their friends at the ICLU. Their help probably won't be needed however, this Judge is so wrong, it would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad and maddening.

From the Indianapolis Star: Judge: Parents can't teach pagan beliefs:

"An Indianapolis father is appealing a Marion County judge's unusual order that prohibits him and his ex-wife from exposing their child to 'non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals.'
The parents practice Wicca, a contemporary pagan religion that emphasizes a balance in nature and reverence for the earth.
Cale J. Bradford, chief judge of the Marion Superior Court, kept the unusual provision in the couple's divorce decree last year over their fierce objections, court records show. The order does not define a mainstream religion. ..."

Can you believe this? Is this idiot's ruling sick or what? Amazing!

"...As Wiccans, the boy's parents believe in nature-based deities and engage in worship rituals that include guided meditation that Jones says improved his son's concentration. Wicca "is an understanding that we're all connected, and respecting that," said Jones, who is a computer Web designer.
Jones said he does not consider himself a witch or practice anything resembling witchcraft.
During the divorce, he told a court official that Wiccans are not devil worshippers. And he said he does not practice a form of Wicca that involves nudity.
"I celebrate life as a duality. There's a male and female force to everything," Jones said. "I feel the Earth is a living creature. I don't believe in Satan or any creature of infinite evil.""

I pretty much agree with him here, but I would add that there are more than enough human creatures of definite evil.

I'm pretty confident this ruling will fail to survive on appeal, but I'm also sadly confident this judge won't be removed from a cushy job he clearly doesn't deserve.

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One of Saddam's Favors To The French!

2005-05-26T01:08:00.000-04:00

From Friends of Saddam: "Saddam wiped out a people and the migratory fly way of millions of birds. What used to be the home of a million people is now a desert and the birds have died. This was the 2nd Genocide on Kofi Annan's watch. ..."

...and he did it for the French oil giant Total at their request.

My friend, it was just beeznezz you understand, no?

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Being Fed To A Plastic Shredder Is Too Good For Saddam!

2005-05-22T02:51:00.000-04:00

From the NY Post: SADDAM'S LIFE IS A HARD CELL

But it's a relatively good life for an imprisoned scumbag.

"He can exercise in a 4,300-square-foot back yard while razor wire keeps out would-be attackers. He tends a small garden in a nearby courtyard.
It may look pretty basic from these [photos], but Saddam is pretty comfortable in there," a soldier who has seen the photos told the newspaper. "Hell, the man's got much more living space than most the GIs out here. You should see the tent I have to share with 30 other guys." ..."

Boohoo, feel sorry for poor Saddam because people released pictures of him in his underwear, how utterly horrible. At least give him some colored underwear or flowery boxers, that will spruce up the next batch of pictures.

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It's About Effin Time! Send'm To Gitmo!

2005-05-22T00:21:00.000-04:00

Sixty illegal immigrants and possible terrorist moles were arrested working in power plants and refineries

"BEAUMONT, Texas (AP) - Sixty illegal immigrants employed as contract workers at industrial plants - including refineries, power plants and an air cargo facility - were arrested as possible threats to homeland security, officials announced Friday.

The suspects "had access to sensitive critical infrastructure locations and therefore pose a serious homeland security threat," said Michael J. Garcia, assistant secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "Not only are their identities in question, but given their illegal status, these individuals are vulnerable to potential exploitation by terrorist and other criminal organizations."

The arrests - made Thursday and Friday in Texas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas - came as part of federal efforts to protect key facilities around the country. ..."

That's the way law enforcement! Let's round'm up and put'm away!

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Islamist Fascists Reject Saddam-Loving Muslim Brown Noser George Galloway!

2005-05-18T00:43:00.000-04:00

The Christian Right would never attack Hillary for kissing their butts. They might feel that she's being a total phony when she panders to them, but they wouldn't try to kill her.
Apparently, radical fanatical Islamic Moonbats may attack a non-Muslim who claims to support them if it looks like some Muslims may vote for the non-Muslim.
From Melanie Phillips's Diary: Gallows humour:
"George Galloway, whose far-left Respect party sucks up to radical Islamists in order to woo the Muslim vote, was last night forced to flee for his life from some of these said Islamists who threatened to string him up as a false prophet for enticing Muslims to take part in the un-Islamic activity of voting. ..."
(hat tip: LGF)

Why do they hate him so much? I can see why Saddam-haters and U.N. Food Scammer-haters do , but they don't physically attack him.

Why do fanatical radical Islamic Fundamentalist Fascists want to kill him?

Maybe it's because deep down in their trapped and tortured souls they know they are insane and therefore can't believe that anybody but one of them could honestly support them.

Maybe it's also because they believe that democracy and voting are evil, and therefore they are insane with jealousy when they see an infidel (Galloway is, in more ways than one) trying to woo the far vaster pool of moderate Muslims toward the grown-up and relatively civilized game of democracy, thus potentially away from their mad plan of world domination.

The Christian Right will never advocate doing something so savage and barbaric to the ass-kissing Hillary.

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Turn This Guilty Monkey Loose In Gen-Pop!

2005-05-12T01:07:00.000-04:00

Apparently this piece of evil scum has hugely expanded his criminal repetoire. I'm not sorry that it's healthy to hate cowardly garbage like this: KRT Wire | 05/11/2005 | Man says he killed girls after daughter disobeyed, prosecutors say:

"CHICAGO - (KRT) - Jerry Branton Hobbs III told police he became enraged when his 8-year-old daughter defied his order to come home, then killed the girl and her best friend with a small knife before dragging their bodies into the woods, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Hobbs, just released from a Texas prison last month, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Mother's Day slayings of his daughter, Laura Hobbs, 8, and her friend Krystal Tobias, 9."

Mr. Hobbs should be sentenced to life in prison in the general prison population of the most violent, gang and rape-filled, child killer-hating hell hole America can find. Don't put him in a Control Unit Prison where he's isolated 22-23 hours a day. He doesn't deserve the protection.

Keep an eye on him, and if he survives and starts to thrive in Gen Pop, then stick him in isolation. But don't rush to judgement, there's a good chance he'll be beaten to death in due time. Patience is a virtue.

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Let's Try Guilty BY REASON Of Insanity For A Change!

2005-05-11T22:54:00.000-04:00

If this piece of human trash had been found guilty by reason of insanity for bashing his sister's head in, he wouldn't have been able to kill his girlfriend's kid. It was from Newsday.com: Texas Jurors Convict Man in Boy's Death

"SAN ANTONIO -- A man was convicted of murder Wednesday for smothering his girlfriend's 6-year-old son and stuffing the boy's body in an oven last year.
Kenneth Pierott, 28, faces up to 99 years in prison. He showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
Jurors deliberated for just under four hours before rejecting the defense's argument that Pierott was mentally ill and didn't know smothering the child was wrong. ..."

"During the trial, prosecutors wheeled into the courtroom the beat-up oven in which Tre-Devin's body was found, lying in a fetal position. Police said the oven had all its burners on and the oven temperature turned to 600 degrees, but the oven did not heat because the pilot light wasn't lit.

Pierott was earlier found innocent by reason of insanity in the 1996 fatal beating of his sister, who suffered from cerebral palsy. Stephanie Pierott, 25, weighed only 43 pounds when Pierott beat her with a dumbbell so severely that he displaced her eyeballs and crushed her skull. He spent about four months in a state mental hospital in 1998 before he was released.

Jurors did not hear of his acquittal in the case. ..."

Thank God he's in Texas, hopefully this piece of vile garbage will be fried, either by the State, or by some fellow child killer-hating inmates before he serves out his life sentence. Let's pray he gets at least that.

People like this DO NOT deserve to live.

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Black Woman Fakes Hate Crime To Get Out Of Classes!

2005-05-07T00:24:00.000-04:00

Here's one example of one way all this "Hate Crime" business has been a huge mistake. This "Hate Crime" faker should be prosecuted completely. Imagine if the racial roles were reversed. From La Shawn Barber’s Corner - Alicia Hardin, Exposed:

"Update II: Alicia Hardin is going to have a hard time in life if she doesn’t learn to accept responsibility for her actions. She now claims she didn’t send the letters, and the cops “forced” her to say she did.

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By now most of you’ve heard about the black student at Trinity International University whose fake-hating caused the evacuation of minority students to a local hotel. We finally have a name to go with this treachery. Alicia Hardin has been charged with a hate crime for mailing “racist” threats to fellow students at the school. Why? Because she wanted to go home. She figure this stunt would convince her mother that the Christian college was “dangerous.”"

"The letters, filled with threats and racial slurs, were sent to two black students and a Hispanic student over the past three weeks. The third letter contained a threat to use a weapon against a black female student.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who met with students and parents after the letters were made public, said last week, “It was painful to talk with the students. They feel there are targets on their back because they are black, because they are involved in interracial dating relationships.”
However, the president of the university, Gregory Waybright, said Friday that there was no mention of interracial dating in the letters. (Source)"

...

What if this student faker had been a black man?

Imagine if a white woman did this: She sends threatening "KILL Whities!" letters, allegedly written by a black (or blacks), to fellow white students.

Now imagine a white man did this.

Of these four people, who would get the most punishment?

Who should get the most punishment?

Or, should all four people get the same punishment?

And what should that punishment be?

Here's an intersting piece on "reverse racism" of the name calling kind.

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Dhimmis and Dhimmitude: The Status of Minorities Under Islamic Rule - READ It Till You're Angry!

2005-05-04T21:16:00.000-04:00

Dhimmis and Dhimmitude: The Status of Minorities Under Islamic Rule

Do You Want Dhimmitude? Do You?

2005-05-04T10:25:00.000-04:00

The Los Angeles Billboard Project

"Hey Kids, Make Meth So Cops Can Steal Your Parent's Home!

2005-05-04T00:56:00.000-04:00

If you ever wondered whether the righteous "Drug Warriors" wanted kids to become the next drug criminals to keep the pipeline filled, you can stop wondering. I mean hey, the Drug War is a $20,000,000,000 (give or take a couple of billion) a year industry, it can't be just maintained; like all industries, it must expand.

Thanks to Little Miss Everywhere, Michele Malkin, for pointing me over to PunditGuy's "Cooking Meth 101"

"Our Tax Dollars At Work. And people wonder why parents choose to homeschool their kids..."

Original story here at Komo TV from the Seattle/Tacoma area:

"ELMA - A local woman went 'through the roof' when a deputy took his anti-drug message to high school.
She says he showed students how to make methamphetamines, and she has the video to prove it.
Grays Harbor County sheriff's deputy shows class, "And the reaction will start occurring down there and start bubbling up."

It is part chemistry class and part drug enforcement as a member of the Grays Harbor drug task force talks to Elma High School students about making Methamphetamine.
Deputy shows class: "Then you'll have a little bit down at the bottom, the white stuff, and that's your meth."
One parent considers it a recipe for disaster. ..."

Ya think? Not for the Warriors. The War costs BIG bucks, and the Warriors are allowed to help fund themselves by seizing peoples homes, cars, and cash. Even if they never charge the owners with a drug crime, they do all they can to try NOT to return what they've stolen.

Of course "The Elma Schools superintendent says the district will also review the material but stands by this effort to educate the students. ..."

And in all fairness "The sheriff's office says they don't give specifics about the recipe and they emphasize how explosive the process is."

But come on, don't you think this might inspire an extra kid here and there to find the missing pieces to the magic puzzle? The Pacific Northwest is known as a problem area.

Then, when the kids' meth labs explode in their parents' homes' basements, the Cops can come and still sieze the land, even if the house is destroyed. Good chance they'll get to keep it too, even if the parents are never charged.

Seriously, the Warriors want all people to stop using drugs so they can update their resumes and get new careers, they want to be made obsolete.

They don't want the focus of the war to be changed from enforcement to treatment, they don't want to have to retrain to become "Drug Treatment Officers", that's too touchy feely, they want to remain Warriors, it's much more exciting.

Tons of people are employed by the "Drug Fraud" effort, and quite a few are GETTING BLOODY RICH from it. They deserve employment and opportunity too. This is America after all.

:)

Muslims Killing Muslims! Iraqi Gov't Getting Mad!

2005-04-22T23:52:00.000-04:00

From the VOA News - Bodies of 50 Former Hostages Discovered in Iraq's Tigris River

"Iraq's president says the bodies of 50 people who were held hostage in recent days have been recovered from the Tigris River, and he has vowed action against the killers. Meanwhile, people in a town northwest of Baghdad reported they found 19 bullet-riddled bodies in a soccer stadium, and they believe the dead men were new Iraqi soldiers.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told reporters in Baghdad the bodies found in the river included men, women, and children. He says they were kidnapped late last week.

"Terrorists committed crimes there. It is not true to say that there were no hostages," he says. "There [were], they were killed and they [the hostage-takers] threw the bodies into the Tigris and more than 50 bodies have been brought out from the Tigris and we have the full names of those that were killed and those criminals who committed those crimes. And Mr. Prime Minister, Dr. Allawi, he is going to deal with it. ..."

Hopefully soon, the Good Muslims will start killing more and more of the BAD Muslims.

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Connecticut Legalizes Civil Unions for Gay Couples ! HaHa Religious Right! They Must Believe Recreational Sex is EVIL!

2005-04-20T22:32:00.000-04:00

Yup, get used to it, this should really increase Connecticut's population: Yahoo! News - Connecticut Legalizes Civil Unions for Gay Couples

Fox's "24" Is VERY Far Far-fetched BUT MOST Terrorists ARE Arab Islamic Fascists!

2005-04-18T22:49:00.000-04:00

Nfamous over at The Bottom Half just doesn't get this "Terrorist" stuff. The Bottom Half: "24" More Right-Wing Propaganda

"I didn't watch the first two seasons of "24", which currently stars Kevin Sutherland as Jack Bauer, but since football season doesn't start for a while I figured I'd give this season a shot. I must admit it is entertaining. There are a lot of shock and awes which leads me to my point. This season is all about Jack and CTC stopping the Arab terrorists. Do we really need to be further spreading anti-Islamic propaganda? Bush does just fine on his own.

Not only does "24" depict all Arabs as terrorirsts but CTC tortures them Abu Ghraib-style and worse in their efforts to extract information from them. It's almost as if they are trying to legitimize torture with the American public. I don't care how entertaining this show might be I will never support its warped depictions of Arabs or any other people. Unfortunately most people do fall prey to this media propaganda to some extent and end up supporting Bush even when disagree with him on pivotal issues. This type of show does nothing but increase tensions between all ethnic groups.

"24" stereotypes everyone. Women and minorities are passed over for promotions. Only white men are in charge of everything ultimately. I realize previous seasons had a black president which probably explains why "24" did so bad in the ratings those initial seasons. The same thing happened to Star Trek's "Deep Space Nine" series. People just don't like to see blacks running the show, not even many blacks themselves, even more appalling. In the end, there is no winner when we fan the flames of racism at every turn. We all lose."

Despite being very entertaining, Fox TV's thriller "24" (Mondays 9pm) is about as far-fetched and unrealistic as a TV show depicting realism could possibly be, but this year's terrorist villains, as master-minded by Middle Easterners (Arabs), are certainly the most believable part of the show.

Terrorists who are Arabs have committed many many thousands of admitted terrorist acts, most of these in Israel alone.

So "24" having Middle Easterners (Arabs) as most of the terrorists involved in their isolated 24 hour incidents is hardly a stretch.

Sorry, but I don't have the energy right now to list all the flaws in "24". Maybe later, suffice it to say that in real life nothing BIG and BAD ever happens and resolves itself within 24 hours.

That being said, I highly recommend it for heart-stopping, fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat TV entertainment; and for reminding us that the next terrorist attack we survive will most likely be perpetrated by Middle Eastern Islamofascists who will most likely have Arab blood.

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David B. Chalmers: Texas Businessman Indicted in UN Iraq Oil-for-Food SCAMOLA!

2005-04-14T13:35:00.000-04:00

From the New York Times: Finally, another American, this time a real American (but WHO REALLY is this guy?), not an Iraqi born one, has been indicted in the UN's Iraq Oil-for-Food SCAM:

"A Texas businessman, as well as a British and a Bulgarian citizen, have been indicted in New York for reportedly paying millions of dollars in secret kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq as part of the United Nations oil-for-food program.

The Texan, David B. Chalmers, a principal of Bay Oil U.S.A. Inc., and an associate of the company, Ludmil Dionissiev, a Bulgarian and permanent American resident, were arrested this morning at their homes in Houston.

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, David N. Kelley, said at a news briefing this morning in Manhattan that he would seek the extradition from England of a third defendant, John Irving.

Mr. Kelley said Mr. Chalmers and the other defendants played 'a pivotal role' in efforts to fix the price of oil that was traded and sold under the oil-for-food program and 'facilitated the payment of illegal surchages' on the oil to the Hussein government.

The money was intended to be used for relief purposes.

In a complaint stemming from the same investigation, a South Korean citizen, Tongsun Park, is charged with conspiracy to act in the United States as an unregistered agent of the Iraqi government in creating the oil-for-food program.

Mr. Park, who is believed to be living in South Korea, is said to have received $2 million from the Iraqi government, and to have used some of that money 'to take care of' a United Nations official, Mr. Kelley said.

Mr. Chalmers is the second American indicted in the scandal-ridden program.

Many member countries at the United Nations have refused to cooperate fully with a separate, independent inquiry by investigators looking into waste, fraud and mismanagement in the oil-for-food program, which was approved by the Security Council in 1995, allowing Iraq to sell limited quantities of oil in return for essential goods.

The Independent Inquiry Committee, head by Paul A. Volcker, former head of the Federal Reserve, has issued two interim reports of its findings, and a final report is due in midsummer.

In its first interim report, on Feb. 4, the commission found that the former head of the program, Benon V. Sevan, had a 'grave and continuing conflict of interest' in helping a friend obtain valuable Iraqi oil contracts and said a second United Nations official, Joseph Stephanides, had violated procurement rules. Both men have been suspended and are in the process of answering United Nations charges against them.

Questions have also been raised about the participation of Kojo Annan, son of the United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan. The elder Mr. Annan was criticized in the most recent interim report on the grounds that he failed to perceive the appearance of a conflict of interest when Kojo Annan was employed by a contractor employed by the program.

Kofi Annan told 1,600 employees gathered in the General Assembly hall on April 6 that there had been 'troubling lapses' in the management of the Iraq program but that he was making changes to prevent any recurrence.

The other American indicted in connection to the oil-for-food program was Samir A. Vincent, an Iraqi-American businessman. On Jan. 18, he pleaded guilty to lobbying influential Americans on behalf of Mr. Hussein without registering as a foreign agent. Mr. Vincent admitted he had secretly been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars and granted rights to sell millions of dollars' worth of Iraqi oil, in exchange for working to end United Nations economic sanctions imposed in 1990. He is now cooperating with Mr. Kelley."

Who is this fellow David Bay Chalmers Jr.?

Forbes Magazine mentioned Mr. Chalmers in their 11.15.04 "The Saddam Shuffle" by Michael Maiello

Friends of Saddam has more on Mr. David Chalmers here and here.

The Washington Post chimes in here.

When Chalmer's indictment was announced I searched out his company, Bayoil USA Inc. in Houston. Here is their #: 713.222.7100. Their Voice Mail system gives the name of their employees. I googled a one "John Overbey" (I later checked the spelling with someone who answered the phone a few days later) and found that a John Overbey and George Bush Sr. started an oil company called Bush-Overbey Oil Development Co. together in Houston in 1950.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/081400a1.html

I wonder whether if it's the same John Overbey (or a relation), he'd have to be 75-85 years old, but wouldn't it be a bit embarrassing to the President?

"A few houses away from George Bush there lived a certain John Overbey. According to Overbey, the "people from the east and the people from Texas or Oklahoma all seemed to have two things in common. They all had a chance to be stockbrokers or investment bankers. And they all wanted to learn the oil business instead." [fn 7] Overbey made his living as a landman. Since George Bush would shortly also become a landman, it is worth investigating what this occupation actually entails; in doing so, we will gain a permanent insight into Bush's character. The role of the landman in the Texas oil industry was to try to identify properties where oil might be found, sometimes on the basis of leaked geological information, sometimes after observing that one of the major oil companies was drilling in the same locale. The land man would scout the property, and then attempt to get the owner of the land to sign away the mineral rights to the property in the form of a lease. ..."
http://www.tarpley.net/bush8.htm

Let the truth be told, and the chips fall where they may...

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Dolphins Humping Enemy SCUBA Divers?

2005-04-12T23:18:00.000-04:00

After reading this piece from Foggy Ruminations, you won't be worried about enemy SCUBA divers ever again, probably.

Basically, the terrorists just aren't up to the task, what with all the the serious and precise training, technology, planning and attitude required. It's just too risky, the odds of success are extremely low, and there's generally not a big enough potential terror benefit.

With all this, they've still got the killer dolphins to worry about.

"Finally, the REASON AQ divers would never have the sack to enter any major US port, or come near US vessels in the Persian Gulf. Scroll down to the Mk 6 dolphin program which is managed by Navy EOD. Mk 6 dolphins are a diver’s worst nightmare, and that is no understatement. ..."

The following would make a great, crowd pleasing scene in some terrorism movie:

"These marine mammals are trained to find and attack divers that are operating in the patrol area. Imagine swimming around a US warship laden with explosives at night with ill intentions on your mind, and suddenly a 500 lb. dolphin rams into your side at full speed out of nowhere. Of course this dolphin has a nose cone attached to a .45 caliber contact initiated round for good measure.

Or how about a needle connected to a CO2 cartridge that injects the diver with gas forcing him to rapidly surface? Essentially the dolphin will continue to ram the diver until he surfaces… dead or alive. At which point, the guy will either have had a stroke or heart attack, certainly several broken bones, and perhaps even be shot from the pier. These things are for real, and they don’t dick around. ..."

And now for the final humiliation:

"After considering the cost, most terrorists would rather go with the old car bomb standby or the spray and pray at a crowded shopping mall routine. To add insult to injury, dolphins are very, shall I say, sexually aggressive by nature. Mk 6 dolphins don’t generally contain their appetites to their own species either. I’m not sure how that could be explained to Allah in the afterlife."

Finally, have the camera slowly fade to black as 3 huge horny dolphins brutally gang-hump the broken, bloody and humiliated terrorist, as his agonizing screaming and sobbing keeps getting softer and weaker once it goes black.

Please Hollywood, please bring back some good old terrorist movies, and give us more scenes like this one.

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Homeland Security Memo: Terrorism Records are Being Sanitized!

2005-04-11T21:04:00.000-04:00

The NarcoSphere || Homeland Security memo reveals terrorism records are being sanitized

Spammer Deserves Virginia Death Sentence? Parent's Home Bulldozed?

2005-04-09T00:50:00.000-04:00

The spammer is a scum bag, and so is the jury and the judge, so there. Spammees are the real idiots.

Stay Away Jimmy Carter, Stay Far Away!

2005-04-06T23:50:00.000-04:00

Boo hoo, little Jimmy Carter won't go to the Pope's funeral as part of President Bush's party. He was snubbed, Dubya didn't beg him to come. Boo hoo...

He also could've flown over on his own dime, who would of stopped him? But no, instead he sucks up to his imagined arch-enemy George W. Bush, and then acts all surprised and indignant when he partially imagines he's been spurned. Boo boo hoo...stay home Jimmy.

For a most entertaining and informative read on what was, and is wrong with former President Jimmy Carter, check out Matt May's piece "The Unmitigated Gall of Jimmy Carter" that I found at The American Thinker:

"According to The American Spectator, former president Jimmy Carter - through his lackeys at the Carter Center - inundated the White House with requests not only to be a part of the American delegation to the Vatican for the funeral of Pope John Paul II, but with requests to actually lead the American delegation should President Bush choose not to attend. A White House staffer told the Spectator that over 100 calls were placed on behalf of the worst president this nation has ever had.

Correctly, the White House told the former president (presumably in the most diplomatic way) to get lost...."

Mr. May mentions enough reasons why Carter was and is still a fool, without even bringing up one of the most despicable acts of his Presidency: That being when he bowed before the Iranian's and refused to "kick ass" for them kidnapping our Tehran Embassy staff back in 1979 and holding them hostage for 444 days until as soon as Reagan entered office, and then the Iranians got smart very quickly and immediately released them all.

"...In addition to making an ass of himself and embarassing the United States all over the world, and making nice with gangsters like Arafat and Castro, Carter was never seen as any great friend of the Vatican. Twice during his miserable term in office, Carter was confronted with the death of a pope. Twice he declined to attend the funerals and sent in his stead his wife to the first and his mother to the second. During the short time Carter was president when Pope John Paul II was heading the Catholic church, Carter did much to undermine the pope's wishes to eliminate the Marxist "Libertarian Theology" movement in the Latin American church by word and deed.

In short, because of his bililous hatred and disrespect for the president in particular and the office in general, and for his previous slaps in the face to the Vatican and to the policies of freedom championed by Pope John Paul II, Jimmy Carter has no business at the pope's funeral. His presence there would be an example of deep hypocrisy, and President Bush knows it to be so. No doubt, however, Carter's self-importance and bitterness at being left behind will tempt him to call upon the Vatican to enlist him in overseeing the college of cardinals as they congregate to elect a new pope. Remember, no election is certified and valid unless Mr. Peanut says so."

I know little Jimmy would be welcome down in Cuba sitting in front of Fidel's tube and watching the Pope's funeral on CNN.

boo hoo...

:)

FBI Crackerjacks - Stumblebums Again

2005-04-02T02:36:00.000-05:00

Duh! Apparently the FBI needed a tip to finally do a thorough search of Oklahoma Bomber Terry Nichol's home almost 10 years after the fact. CNN.com - FBI finds explosives in Nichols home - Apr 1, 2005

"Tipped they may have missed evidence a decade ago, FBI agents searched the former home of convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and found blasting caps and other explosive materials apparently related to the 1995 attack, officials said Friday.

FBI officials said the material was found buried in a crawl space of the house in Herington, Kansas, which wasn't checked by agents during the numerous searches of the property during the original investigation of Nichols and Timothy McVeigh...."

Wow, a crawl space! Ingenious! I would never expect anyone to be astute enough to search a crawl space, I can understrand how the FBI might miss that. I mean they'd have to get down on their hands and knees and crawl around and get dirty and stuff. What a pain, besides, no one trying to hide bomb making material would ever go to the trouble of using a crawl space, nah. It's just too obvious.

If it wasn't just so pathetic and sad, and downright reckless and dangerous, it would be hilarious.

SHAME! SHAME! SHAME! SHAME ON YOU!!!

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White Supremacists & Islamic Supremacists: Perfect Together!

2005-04-02T01:33:00.000-05:00

Bravo to CNN for bringing us this piece, time will tell if they stick with it: "CNN.com - An unholy alliance - Mar 29, 2005: "SEBRING, Florida (CNN) -- A couple of hours up the road from where some September 11 hijackers learned to fly, the new head of Aryan Nation is praising them -- and trying to create an unholy alliance between his white supremacist group and al Qaeda."

The Aryan Nation's National Director August Kreis says:

"'You say they're terrorists, I say they're freedom fighters. And I want to instill the same jihadic feeling in our peoples' heart, in the Aryan race, that they have for their father, who they call Allah.'"

"Kreis wants to make common cause with al Qaeda because, he says, they share the same enemies: Jews and the American government...."

"...The idea of a Nazi-Islamic alliance dates back to World War II, when Adolf Hitler played host to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, that city's Muslim leader. Some Nazis, moreover, found refuge in places like Egypt and Syria after the war..."

Hopefully this will fuel interest in exposing the truth about a Middle Eastern connection in the Oklahoma Bombing of April 1995.

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Oklahoma City Bombing Has Clear Mid-East Connection!

2005-04-02T00:42:00.000-05:00

After checking this out, see if you don't wonder why the FBI and the Justice Department not only refuse to investigate a Middle Eastern connection in the Oklahoma City Bombing, they also refuse to DENY that there WAS NOT such a connection.

You should also wonder why this intelligence bungling and Arab appeasement which began under the Clinton administration, has continued to this day under the supposed "War on Terror" Bush crowd.

Please read this and send everyone you know this story.

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On HBO: "Left of the Dial", For A Change...

2005-03-31T22:14:00.000-05:00

Who actually could have really thought that there was no place, or demand, for liberal talk radio? I mean come on, the U.S. is practically 50/50 when it comes to "Liberal" or "Conservative", at least with respect to most Democrat (liberal) vs. Republican (conservative) presidential elections.

The story of Air America Radio now showing on HBO: Documentaries - Left of the Dial, is an interesting and worthwhile viewing for liberals as well as conservatives.

Everybody should be inspired and energised by this, albeit for many different reasons.

You choose your own.

May the debating continue to begin...

:)

Kenny's Feeding Tube Removed!

2005-03-31T01:18:00.000-05:00

This week's episode of South Park addresses many wild angles of a "Terry Schiavo" type case.

Kenny (the character who is killed off in every show) gets hit, run over, and killed by a truck whose driver is distracted by playing the latest hand-held video game. He's thrilled that he's reached Level 4.

Kenny was hit because he was standing in the middle of the road distracted by playing the same game. He's thrilled that he's reached Level 59!

In Heaven, Kenny learns that because he has the highest score on Earth he's been chosen by God to lead Heaven in the impending video game-commanded war against the more populous and powerful Hell. Without their "Keanu Reeves", Heaven is doomed, just like the humans in "The Matrix" are doomed against the machines without Reeve's charachter "Neo".

But trouble looms, back on the Earthly plane, in the hospital, Kenny has been brought back to life after being dead for 24 hours. But now with severe brain damage, he's in a persistent vegetative state and must be kept alive with a feeding tube.

In his will (read while he's thought to be dead), Kenny has left the greedy Cartman all his worldly possessions, but his wishes for how he should be treated if he becomes a vegetable are on the last page, which has been lost.

So Cartman wants Kenny dead; to win their war, Hell needs him to live, and Heaven needs him to die.

A judge, siding with Cartman, orders his feeding tube to be removed.

So of course, the fight escalates, and everyone gets sucked into what becomes a huge media frenzy.

The Devil's boyfriend (yes, I said boyfriend) even tries feeding lines to a Bush-like Republican leader who is giving a speech arguing to save Kenny's life by re-inserting the feeding tube. Thus, if Kenny lives, Hell wins.

Finally, the judge finds the last page of Kenny's will which states that if he ever becomes a vegetable he wishes simply not to be shown on national television in that condition. So everyone leaves him alone in his hospital room, Kenny dies, and then goes back to Heaven, and proceeds to lead it to a decisive and violent victory over Hell.

The creators of South Park gently make fun of most everybody involved, except Kenny, and unlike Terry Schiavo, he'll be back next week.

I want to believe that Heaven, or its equivalent, has plans for Terry too.

:)

New Sistani Taliban Rising In Iraq

2005-03-24T01:29:00.000-05:00

Thanks to Healing Iraq for pointing out the dangers of an emerging new "Iraqi Taliban" trying to assert themselves by beating and robbing kids listening to music.

"Monday, March 21, 2005
Mahdi Army Beats 2 Students to Death in Basrah
No one seems to have reported the latest events in Basrah. Not any of the news services or the blogs.

Students of the Basrah and Shatt Al-Arab universities in Basrah city have been on strike for the last three days as a reaction to the attack last week by Sadrists and Mahdi Army militiamen on tens of students organising a field trip or a picnic at Al-Andalus park, downtown Basrah.

Hooded men assaulted the students with rubber cables and truncheons which resulted in the death of a Christian girl, Zahra Ashour, and another student who came to her rescue after militiamen had tore off her clothes and were beating her to death. He was shot in the head.

Students say that their belongings, such as mobile phones, cameras, stereo players and loudspeakers, were stolen or smashed to pieces by the militiamen. Girl students not wearing headscarves, most of them Christian, were severely beaten and at least 20 students were kidnapped and taken to Sadr's office in Al-Tuwaisa for 'interrogation' and were only released late at night.

Students also say the police and British soldiers were nearby but did not intervene..."

Let's hope the tables eventually turn on these little fanatics, and the new and future Iraqi government puts them gently but firmly in their places.

:)

HOORAY For NON-Greedy Billionaires!

2005-03-24T01:12:00.000-05:00

These guys at Google know they don't needBIG BONUSES at year end. In fact they must realize it makes a statement worth much more than 10s of $millions$ in the real long run.

'SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. (GOOG) pampers its employees with free food and many other perks, but the online search engine leader is more stingy when it comes to rewarding the trio of billionaires who run the company.

In a meeting held earlier this month, Google's board decided not to give 2004 bonuses to the company's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, or its co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, according to documents filed Wednesday by the Mountain View-based company.

The men, who consult on most of Google's key decisions, each received a $1,566 holiday bonus besides their salaries, which are modest compared with most high-profile companies. All Google workers received the same holiday bonus last year. Schmidt collects a $250,000 salary while Brin and Page each receive $150,000 annually, according to disclosures made as part of Google's closely watched initial public offering of stock.

The wealth created in that IPO ensured Google's three top executives would never have to work again, if they so desired.

All three men rank among the world's richest men. Brin and Page each are worth $7.2 billion, while Schmidt is worth $2.8 billion, according to Forbes magazine's most recent wealth survey..."

Yes, it's a very telling statement. What good can come from rubbing your wealth in your employees faces by reminding them that your BIG Multi-million $$ bonus means barely anything at all to you or to your net worth.

Google's going to get bigger and bigger, good move boys!

:)

New Jersey Laser Monkey Indicted!

2005-03-24T00:52:00.000-05:00

What an idiot this guy is, and he tried to blame it on his little daughter. This fool shined hisLaser at Commercial Jetsand then said his kid did it. What a stupid jerk, this is what a "monkey" is.

They leave the daughter part out of it here, but I remember the initial stories.

"NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A man accused of pointing a green laser beam at a small passenger jet, temporarily blinding the pilot and co-pilot, was indicted Wednesday under the federal anti-terror Patriot Act.

David W. Banach, who claimed he was looking at stars with his daughter, also was accused of lying to the FBI about the Dec. 29 incident in which the jet's windshield and cabin were hit three times with a beam as the plane approached Teterboro Airport..."

This monkey's going to a cage, I feel very sorry for his daughter.

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Brave Islamic Reformer Irshad Manji Does Bill Maher...

2005-03-12T00:33:00.000-05:00

The very brave Islamic progressive reformer,Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam Today.was on the panel of Bill Maher's show tonight. She was a voice of pure reason, and clearly enjoyed putting the often quite funny moonbat Richard 'but there's lots of other dictators out there...' Belzer into a nearly out of control liberal rhetoric rant.

Islam needs more truth-talkers like her, and the mad Mullah loving Islamowhackos put her in the same Blasphemy Club as Salman Rushdie.

Tarek Fatah, on Muslim WakeUp!, says she's "the Salman Rushdie wannabe author of the fatwa-shopping, newly released book, “The Trouble with Islam.”"

He takes issue with her book not mentioning the many Muslims that did fight against Nazism.

I don't think she has to worry about him, but let's hope that Irshad and growing voices like hers can stay safely away from the sickos. God willing, Inshalla!

False AP Headline: "Death of Italian Journalist Sparks Interest in Other Shootings"

2005-03-08T01:40:00.000-05:00

Believe it or not, some people just read headlines. Here's the AP claiming: Death of Italian Journalist Sparks Interest in Other Shootings

Well this was certainly a big and tragic mess, but of course the "Italian Journalist" wasn't killed. So how can AP let a headline like this slip through?

Most likely, accidentally on purpose, that's how.

Is this possibly a wishful-thinking slip on their part? Perish the thought!

UPdate 3/14: A couple of days ago I noticed that AP had changed their headline appropriately. It's comforting to know that AP editors are so much on the ball.

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FREE Speech Monkey of the Month: Matt Taibbi

2005-03-08T01:23:00.000-05:00

For crudely and cruelly insultingthe dying Pope like a politicaly aware 13 year old punk, the New York Press's Matt Taibbi will probably be looking over his shoulder fearing shadows for years.

Lloyd Grove at the NY Daily News lists many political and religious bigwigs who are just plain horrified.
With over 1.06 billion baptised Catholics by 2001, it's possible that just a few people might be insanely teed off about this.

What percentage of Catholics will be absolutely livid and out of their minds over this?
What about just 1%? Is that reasonable? No, let's say just .1%. Just one out of a thousand.
That will only be 1 million angry and seething Catholics possibly praying for the end of Matt Taibbi.

Let's hope praying is all they do.

Some may pray that Taibbi will someday insult Islam enough to get the Salman Rushdie treatment.

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Radical Islam Has NOTHING To Do With Peace!

2005-03-06T17:09:00.000-05:00

Wake up "Tolerant" Americans! Radical Islam is all about subjugating or killing anybody who IS NOT a radical Islamist.

Barbara J. Stock writes on FaithFreedom.org that "Muslime Enjoy Public Beheadings an Executions"

"...What we Americans are constantly told is that Islam is only peace and love. Tell that to the 1300 Iraqi policemen executed over a two month span. Tell that to Margaret Hassoon who had spent her adult life helping the people of Iraq . Tell that to the Afghani men who were beaten because their beards were too short, or those executed because they were caught listening to music. Tell that to the families of those burned to death in a bread oven. Tell that to the child beaten for flying a kite..."

These sick and most INTOLERANT racists and killers MUST be destroyed. Yes, destroyed! They are practically pure evil. Wake up, grow up and rise up "Tolerant" Americans and Europeans.

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God Made This: "Turbulent Star-Forming" Regions

2005-03-05T06:43:00.000-05:00

This picture is totally out there, a Hubble image from Space:

"Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this celestial object is actually just a pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (in NGC 2264) - so named because in ground-based images it has a conical shape - this monstrous pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region. This picture, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, on May 11, 2002, shows the upper 2.5 light-years of the Cone, a height that equals 23 million roundtrips to the Moon. The entire pillar is seven light-years long."

Does the entity that created this really care, one way or another, about same-sex marriages?

I highly doubt it.

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Hubble Image of Star Incubators

2005-03-05T06:17:00.000-05:00

This is much more than amazing, it must be seen: Star Incubators! Who would have thought? More incredible Hubble images of Deep Space can be found over here at Space.

Pack Your Gun, But Not Your Lighter! More Air Travel Tom Foolery!

2005-03-04T10:14:00.000-05:00

Pack your gun and bullets, but not your lighter, not even Zippos!

Keep Going Lebanon! You're Almost Free!

2005-03-01T01:10:00.000-05:00

Keep Going Lebanon! You're Almost Free! Almost free from those Syrian pigs anyway. Daniel Pipes writes that: Lebanon's Liberation Approaches

Bashar Al-Assad, you tool, you may be goin down!

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"The Making Of A 9/11 Republican" in Moonbat Land

2005-03-01T00:45:00.000-05:00

This piece from LGF and SF Gate should be required reading for all Americans, not just Moonbats and near-Moonbats: lgf: The Making Of A 9/11 Republican

I bet most Moonbats couldn't even read this whole article, they wouldn't be able to finish it, they would just shriek and move on...

:)

Watch A Little Tube Why Doncha!

2005-02-26T03:10:00.000-05:00

I watch a lot of tube, but thank God, I'm not this addicted. After I finish reading this hilarious piece on Amy's Robot, I'll be even more steadfast in my decision to probably never get Tivo.

Just don't start, just say NO!

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Ward Churchill: A Multi-Faceted Fraud

2005-02-26T02:50:00.000-05:00

Ward Chrurchill, now infamous for referring to 9/11 victims as deserving "little Eichmanns", is not only an intellectual fraud who falsely claims to be an American Indian, he's also a visual arts plagiarist.

What an idiot, read how he reacts to reporters with a video camera confronting him. Just like a caught little scammer on the CBS NY news bit "Shame On You!"

"...The work signed by Churchill virtually is a mirror image of Mails' 1972 pen and ink sketch, "The Mystic Warriors of the Plains."

KCNC reporter Raj Chohan took a cameraman to Churchill's office Thursday to confront him with the revelation and received an angry response.
"Get that camera out of my face," Churchill said.

Chohan followed the professor down the hallway to his office, trying to show him Mails' piece and asking to explain why it "looks like you ripped it off."

That prompted Churchill to take a swing at Chohan.

The reporter said: "Sir, that's assault, you can't do that. Can I ask you about this? It looks like you copied it."

Churchill: "I was just grabbed by the arm. And that [camera] gets out of my face."

Chohan: "Sir, we're allowed to take these pictures, this is a public space."

Churchill: "You're not allowed to grab me by the arm."

Chohan: "He didn't touch you sir, we've got it all on tape. Sir, this is called Winter Attack. It's a serigraph by you. It looks like it was copied from Thomas Mails artwork. Can we talk to you about that please?"

Churchill came out of his office several minutes later and agreed to talk, acknowledging his artwork is based on the Mails piece...."

What an evil, scheming, thieving, lying, talentless, terrorist-loving, America-hating dirtball this Ward Churchill monkey is. His hair sucks too!

Driver's Licences Are A Way To Register Illegal Immigrants!

2005-02-21T22:55:00.000-05:00

From the Quad-City Times:

"DES MOINES — The Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that illegal immigrants are not entitled to drivers licenses.

The court rejected an appeal from Polk County District Court brought by two illegal immigrants, identified by the pseudonyms “Juan and Maria Sanchez.” They were joined on the case by two unnamed licensed drivers who said it would be safer for all drivers if illegal immigrants could get licenses."

I don't understand why people don't want immigrants to be registered. Isn't that one of the problems with illegal immigrants? We don't know who most of them are, or where they are. They have no official or reliable identification. No listed address.

Most of them that need to drive, will, without a license. This means they may not be trained well at driving and understanding the traffic laws.

How can anybody want more bad drivers on the road?

People have the right to dislike immigrants, and to want to deny them benefits of citizenship. But how is having a "driver's license" in itself so great? I mean it's so basic to having everything run smoothly, that it should be a given; given the person takes any required classes and passes the written and driving tests, and pays any fees, that they should be given a license to drive an automobile.

The states can and do require all sorts of ID and information about license applicants, so in this way, if immigrants could get licenses then many illegal immigrants would apply for a license, and register, and have to give their addresses. And thus, if they needed to be picked up for criminal or terrorist questioning or to be deported, they could more reliably be found.

Their licenses could be marked, like with a Scarlet "II" for Illegal Immigrant, or use a code word like "Provisional Driver" or "Guest Driver" or something.

Immigrant drivers that violate traffic laws can be more reliably dealt with, at least the LAW would be pretty sure who they are.

Hopefully other state courts will not follow Iowa's.

Driver's Licences Are A Way To Register Illegal Immigrants!

FrontPage magazine.com :: War Blog by FrontPage Magazine

2005-02-15T00:57:00.000-05:00

FrontPage magazine.com :: War Blog by FrontPage Magazine

Defendthedefenders.org------Who has their Back?

2005-02-15T00:15:00.000-05:00

Defendthedefenders.org------Who has their Back?

Saudi Religious Police Hate Love & Roses

2005-02-14T01:41:00.000-05:00

NO Valentine's Day allowed, nor any red roses, boy aren't they clever.

LGF says "Those Wacky Saudis!", I say that's too kind, it's more like those Saudis are some sick evil basturds. Last year I also read about their Religious Pigs (they don't deserve to be called Police) confiscating roses being discreetly sold for the
outlawed Valentine's Day

These cretins call themselves "Muslims", but they don't even allow their people the "Celebration of the Islamic New Year or the Prophet Mohammad's birthday, common in other Muslim countries, is frowned upon in Saudi Arabia."

This government is beyond depraved.

Everybody should shout about these barbarians any chance they get.

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Happy Family Reunion Brings Happy Ending

2005-02-13T22:41:00.000-05:00

Here, read this happy tearjerker reunion story about a young couple that put their baby up for adoption years ago.

Michele Malkin said to have some tissues on hand, she wasn't kidding.

It's nice to read some good news for a change.

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