E Pluribus Reluctor --(those who resist)

John McCain (D), (R?), (?)

2008-02-01T08:18:00.001-08:00

As we look forward to the super-Tuesday primaries, those of us that consider ourselves conservatives of the Goldwater/Reagan model must pause before voting for any candidate in the name of expediency or pragmatism.

In my case, the last two elections were about defeating the greater evil. I never was overjoyed that another Bush family member would run the country. In 2000, I was a Forbes guy, then was forced to vote against Gore. Four years later, I was forced to vote against Kerry and the Breck Girl.

This election cycle, I find myself considering a sacrifice of even more of my core values to defeat either one of the outright Socialists running in Democrat's clothing. So I was left 'holding my nose' once again, throwing my support to John McCain. The John McCain who birthed McCain-Feingold, which squarely opposes the First Amendment to the Constitution. John McCain who cozied up with Ted Kennedy to allow twenty million illegal aliens to laugh at our laws, who gave us the 'gang of fourteen'-back room deal makers, who for decades has made bargains with liberals at the expense of principles he claims to have learned from Reagan, yet rarely applied in practice. In 2006, John McCain fought the Defense of Marriage Act and Rick Santorum every step of the way. And McCain know calls himself a Conservative when it's convenient?

And in light of our choices, remember this: John McCain in 2001 considered leaving the Republican party. In 2004, he is on record as having negotiated with JOHN KERRY to be his running mate. This is confirmed with audio recordings of both Kerry and McCain confirming this fact only four years ago. And that is why I have to throw my support to Mitt Romney. At least I know he will not ask to be Hillary's running mate to defeat the Obomination (spelling intentional).

Consider that before holding your nose and voting for the pragmatism of supposed 'electability'.

Why Rudy?

2008-01-13T09:54:00.000-08:00

Being a Californian, I always heard that NYC was a dangerous, dirty city run by the mob, with the the scraps being fought over by street gangs. Remember the movie "Escape From New York?" ...silly movie, but the image was somewhat accurate. Anyway, as a young kid, I remember some guy named Giuliani was always up front, putting mob guys in jail. Then later, I started hearing how much better NYC had become. People were often discussing walking through Central Park at night. I still don't know if I would do that, but it is clear that there was a major clean-up operation completed in NYC under Rudy's watch.

Flash forward to 9/11.

An outright act of war was declared on us by a theology. The world's financial hub was destroyed in an hour, our defense center almost suffered the same fate, and our center of government narrowly escaped total destruction as well. Rudy was up front immediately. He didn't hide out with protection details. He was grubby, tired, but solid and in control of information. This was clearly the result of previous years of good planning and knowledge of the departments of the city he operated. In short, on that Tuesday morning I saw the model of a President, and said it then. I knew we'd see him in this position some day, and that day is here. The threat has only retreated to the shadows momentarily, regrouping, planning, biding time. Remember, 9/11 was was put in motion five years before its execution. There will be other attacks, and no Democrat is prepared to take the action required. And most Republicans have become weak-kneed in the glare of world opinion, shaped by anti-US and liberal ideologies.

I believe the sole issue in this race is national security. Without it, health care, global warming, the economy, abortion, etc., are mere side shows for peace-era politics. I think Rudy understands this, and that is why had my vote before he even decided to run for President. Rudy has been my candidate since 9/12/2001, and will be our President on 1/20/2009.

Women Voters...

2008-01-09T22:42:00.000-08:00

"Feelings" are not a qualification....

"....Marianne Pernold-Young told CNN Wednesday she ultimately picked Barack Obama in Tuesday night's primary because of the Illinois senator's performance at a recent rally she attended.

"I was moved to tears. Not once, but twice," she said. "And he has this enormous electricity. And I was just taken aback. And I just had to go with my feelings."

Rudy's tax plan

2008-01-09T21:19:00.001-08:00

This makes sense. And it doesn't hurt to have a solid financial guy like Forbes sign on.

2008 Starts off with even more leftist bias

2008-01-06T17:02:00.000-08:00

Here's a little example of liberal media bias (yet again)....that's right, the same media that the MoveOn left claims is the lapdog of the right.

Today, January 6th, early afternoon, on MSNBC with Tim Russert and guests, analyzing the GOP:

Russert: ".......The Republicans are all over the place, divided, fractured and in disarray at this point. It seems like they need to go somewhere and get their act together if they expect to counter this Democrat momentum...(to female MSNBC commentator)....."

Female commentator: ".....(smiling gleefully).....where are the Republicans going to go?...somewhere up in the Appalachians?....."

Oh, ok. I get it now. Republicans are toothless backwoods neanderthals, only taking time off from incest and moonshining long enough to did up Jim Crowe and run him for President.

The liberal bias in the supposed 'mainstream' media is at this point not even subject to question. You just now have to pick between what flavor of liberal you want to watch.

In point of fact.....

2007-12-22T10:11:00.000-08:00

WATERBOARDING
IS THE ANSWER

Guns Save Lives------Again

2007-12-10T22:57:00.000-08:00

Of course the Leftstream Media will spin this two ways:

1-It's the presence of guns that enabled Murray to kill the people he did, not his own lack of control and hatred for others.

2-Stopping a murderer with firepower just perpetuates the supposed 'problem' of gun ownership.

...But what might have happened if a professor at Virginia Tech had had a gun on that horrible day when 32 were murdered? How many would still be alive today if a gun had been used to save lives?

____________

- "It seemed like it was me, the gunman, and God," said Jeanne Assam, describing her feelings as she confronted a man who charged into her Colorado Springs church Sunday firing a weapon.

Assam, a church security guard with law enforcement experience, fired her own weapon at the invader and stopped his attack, police say.

Police on Monday identified the gunman as Matthew Murray and said he was also responsible for an attack earlier Sunday at a missionary center some 80 miles away.

The two incidents left four people dead, in addition to the gunman, and five wounded.

Police said a man with a beard, wearing a dark jacket, glasses, and skullcap, entered the facility, got into a dispute with a staff member about whether he could stay there for the night, and then opened fire.

Two staff members, Tiffany Johnson, 26, and Philip Crouse, 24, died later Sunday from their injuries, Youth With a Mission co-founder Peter Warren said. Two other staff members were injured, and one was in critical condition.

Investigators tried to track the gunman through fresh snow with the help of dogs, but lost his trail in a heavily walked area, Deputy Chief Gary Creager of Arvada police said.

About 12 hours later, police say, Murray showed up at New Life Church as a service was letting out.

Police said Monday he had an assault rifle and two handguns, and may have had as many as 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

He fired on a family who were in or near their car. Two sisters, identified by police as Rachael Works, 16, and Stephanie Works, 18, were killed, and their father, David Works, 51, was also shot and is hospitalized in fair condition with two gunshot wounds.

Murray then entered the church, police say, where Assam was one of several volunteer security guards on duty.

"I saw him coming through the doors," she told reporters on Monday. "I took cover, and I waited for him to get closer, and I came out of cover and identified myself, and engaged him, and took him down. And that's pretty much it." Watch Assam tell how she stopped Murray »

Police said they were still investigating whether Assam's weapon killed Murray, or whether he might have died of a self-inflicted gunshot.

Assam extended her sympathy to the families of the victims "and of the gunman -- and I mean that very sincerely."

Phil Abeyta, who identified himself as Murray's uncle, appeared at another news conference and read a statement from the family asking for forgiveness.

"Our family cannot express the magnitude of our grief for the victims and families of this tragedy," he said. "On behalf of our family and our son, we ask for forgiveness. We cannot understand why this has happened."

Abeyta appeared with spokesmen from the Youth With A Mission center, who confirmed that Murray had been part of a training program five years ago.

Peter Warren, director of Youth With A Mission, said Murray did not go on the mission he was training for in 2002 because managers thought that "issues relating to his health made it unsafe for him to do so."

But a man who served at the center with Murray told CNN Monday that Murray was kicked out of the mission program for strange behavior. Watch more about Matthew Murray's background »

A source -- a long-time member of New Life Church -- said Murray had a falling out with Youth With A Mission after working with the organization a couple of years ago. The source said Murray sent antagonistic and threatening correspondence afterward.

Earlier Monday, Boyd said the gunman was unknown to parishioners there.

"He simply showed up on our property yesterday with a gun, with the intention of hurting people, and he did," Boyd said.

Boyd said the megachurch instituted security precautions after the shootings at the Denver area mission center.

Boyd said Assam was a hero in preventing further bloodshed, rushing to confront the gunman just inside the church. "She probably saved over a hundred lives," Boyd said. Watch pastor tell how guard saved lives »

"I give the credit to God. And I say that very humbly. God was with me and the whole time I was behind cover -- this has got to be God, because of the firepower that [the gunman] had vs. what I had," Assam said.

"I did not run away and I didn't think for a minute to run away, I just knew that I was given the assignment to end this before it got too much worse. I just prayed for the Holy Spirit to guide me."

She told reporters she had not slept since the shooting, "as I'm sure you can tell."

She said she was on the third day of a three-day regimen of fasting and prayer, wanting to know God's will for what to do with her life, when the shooting took place.

"I was weak, and where I was weak, God made me strong," she said. "He filled me and he guided me and protected me and many other people. And I'm honored that God chose me."

Assam was one of about a dozen volunteer security guards at the church, half of whom are armed, Boyd said. The guards are licensed, trained and screened, and are church members, not "mercenaries," he said. E-mail to a friend

The Left is honest once in a while

2007-07-31T08:43:00.000-07:00

A War We Just Might Win

MICHAEL E. O’HANLON and KENNETH M. POLLACK

Published: July 30, 2007

Washington

Keith Negley

VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration’s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.

Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.

After the furnace-like heat, the first thing you notice when you land in Baghdad is the morale of our troops. In previous trips to Iraq we often found American troops angry and frustrated — many sensed they had the wrong strategy, were using the wrong tactics and were risking their lives in pursuit of an approach that could not work.

Today, morale is high. The soldiers and marines told us they feel that they now have a superb commander in Gen. David Petraeus; they are confident in his strategy, they see real results, and they feel now they have the numbers needed to make a real difference.

Everywhere, Army and Marine units were focused on securing the Iraqi population, working with Iraqi security units, creating new political and economic arrangements at the local level and providing basic services — electricity, fuel, clean water and sanitation — to the people. Yet in each place, operations had been appropriately tailored to the specific needs of the community. As a result, civilian fatality rates are down roughly a third since the surge began — though they remain very high, underscoring how much more still needs to be done.

In Ramadi, for example, we talked with an outstanding Marine captain whose company was living in harmony in a complex with a (largely Sunni) Iraqi police company and a (largely Shiite) Iraqi Army unit. He and his men had built an Arab-style living room, where he met with the local Sunni sheiks — all formerly allies of Al Qaeda and other jihadist groups — who were now competing to secure his friendship.

In Baghdad’s Ghazaliya neighborhood, which has seen some of the worst sectarian combat, we walked a street slowly coming back to life with stores and shoppers. The Sunni residents were unhappy with the nearby police checkpoint, where Shiite officers reportedly abused them, but they seemed genuinely happy with the American soldiers and a mostly Kurdish Iraqi Army company patrolling the street. The local Sunni militia even had agreed to confine itself to its compound once the Americans and Iraqi units arrived.

We traveled to the northern cities of Tal Afar and Mosul. This is an ethnically rich area, with large numbers of Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens. American troop levels in both cities now number only in the hundreds because the Iraqis have stepped up to the plate. Reliable police officers man the checkpoints in the cities, while Iraqi Army troops cover the countryside. A local mayor told us his greatest fear was an overly rapid American departure from Iraq. All across the country, the dependability of Iraqi security forces over the long term remains a major question mark.

But for now, things look much better than before. American advisers told us that many of the corrupt and sectarian Iraqi commanders who once infested the force have been removed. The American high command assesses that more than three-quarters of the Iraqi Army battalion commanders in Baghdad are now reliable partners (at least for as long as American forces remain in Iraq).

In addition, far more Iraqi units are well integrated in terms of ethnicity and religion. The Iraqi Army’s highly effective Third Infantry Division started out as overwhelmingly Kurdish in 2005. Today, it is 45 percent Shiite, 28 percent Kurdish, and 27 percent Sunni Arab.

In the past, few Iraqi units could do more than provide a few “jundis” (soldiers) to put a thin Iraqi face on largely American operations. Today, in only a few sectors did we find American commanders complaining that their Iraqi formations were useless — something that was the rule, not the exception, on a previous trip to Iraq in late 2005.

The additional American military formations brought in as part of the surge, General Petraeus’s determination to hold areas until they are truly secure before redeploying units, and the increasing competence of the Iraqis has had another critical effect: no more whack-a-mole, with insurgents popping back up after the Americans leave.

In war, sometimes it’s important to pick the right adversary, and in Iraq we seem to have done so. A major factor in the sudden change in American fortunes has been the outpouring of popular animus against Al Qaeda and other Salafist groups, as well as (to a lesser extent) against Moktada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army.

These groups have tried to impose Shariah law, brutalized average Iraqis to keep them in line, killed important local leaders and seized young women to marry off to their loyalists. The result has been that in the last six months Iraqis have begun to turn on the extremists and turn to the Americans for security and help. The most important and best-known example of this is in Anbar Province, which in less than six months has gone from the worst part of Iraq to the best (outside the Kurdish areas). Today the Sunni sheiks there are close to crippling Al Qaeda and its Salafist allies. Just a few months ago, American marines were fighting for every yard of Ramadi; last week we strolled down its streets without body armor.

Another surprise was how well the coalition’s new Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Teams are working. Wherever we found a fully staffed team, we also found local Iraqi leaders and businessmen cooperating with it to revive the local economy and build new political structures. Although much more needs to be done to create jobs, a new emphasis on microloans and small-scale projects was having some success where the previous aid programs often built white elephants.

In some places where we have failed to provide the civilian manpower to fill out the reconstruction teams, the surge has still allowed the military to fashion its own advisory groups from battalion, brigade and division staffs. We talked to dozens of military officers who before the war had known little about governance or business but were now ably immersing themselves in projects to provide the average Iraqi with a decent life.

Outside Baghdad, one of the biggest factors in the progress so far has been the efforts to decentralize power to the provinces and local governments. But more must be done. For example, the Iraqi National Police, which are controlled by the Interior Ministry, remain mostly a disaster. In response, many towns and neighborhoods are standing up local police forces, which generally prove more effective, less corrupt and less sectarian. The coalition has to force the warlords in Baghdad to allow the creation of neutral security forces beyond their control.

In the end, the situation in Iraq remains grave. In particular, we still face huge hurdles on the political front. Iraqi politicians of all stripes continue to dawdle and maneuver for position against one another when major steps towards reconciliation — or at least accommodation — are needed. This cannot continue indefinitely. Otherwise, once we begin to downsize, important communities may not feel committed to the status quo, and Iraqi security forces may splinter along ethnic and religious lines.

How much longer should American troops keep fighting and dying to build a new Iraq while Iraqi leaders fail to do their part? And how much longer can we wear down our forces in this mission? These haunting questions underscore the reality that the surge cannot go on forever. But there is enough good happening on the battlefields of Iraq today that Congress should plan on sustaining the effort at least into 2008.

Why Isn't This News?

2007-06-15T07:55:00.000-07:00

DOW

13,665.90
+ 112.18

Oil is high. We've got two wars draining resources daily. More war looks possible in the Middle East, with Iran continuing its nuclear efforts. Our debt piles up with China owning more of us everyday.

Yet our economy is like a nuclear powered steam-roller. Record day after record day, and no one, Democrat or Republican....mentions it. Yet whenever some liberal starts talking economics or mentions the halcyon days of Bill Clinton, it's "We had the greatest economy under Clinton"

We have become bored with our own success. But mark my words, when and if the Dow drops 2000 points, it will be Bush's fault. And by the way, a 2000 point drop would be a great opportunity for many.

Time To Beat Their Heads In

2007-06-14T16:06:00.001-07:00

Sorry......that's honestly the first thought that came to my mind when I read that our idiot President (whomI voted for twice!) has somehow managed to win over enough RINO's to revive the Thing that Wouldn't Die- 'comprehensive immigration reform'.

So here we are a week after millions of us pounded on those traitorous senators who were willing to sell out our country -again- for either votes (Democrats) or lobbyist contributions (Republicans)

Senate supporters of a comprehensive immigration reform bill reach a tentative agreement to revive the measure, senators involved in the talks told CNN.

I'm not sure how many times we have to tell the REPUBLICANS, of all poeple: NO DISCUSSION ABOUT PATH TO CITIZENSHIP UNTIL THE BORDER---ALL OF IT----is closed and secured.

NO SCAMNESTY!

* Alexander (R-TN)
Bennett (R-UT)
* Cochran (R-MS)
* Coleman (R-MN)
* Collins (R-ME)
* Cornyn (R-TX)
* Craig (R-ID)
* Domenici (R-NM)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Kyl (R-AZ)Lott (R-MS)
* McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
* Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stevens (R-AK)
* Warner (R-VA)

+ + Call to Action #1 -- Call these Senators and say you opposethis "Amendments for Amnesty" deal
Sen. Hagel (202) 224-4224
Sen. Nelson (202) 224-6551
Key Senators to call:
McConnell 202/224-2541
Lott 202/224-6253
Kyl 202/224-4521
Brownback 202/224-6521
Burr 202/224-3154
Chambliss 202/224-3521
Cornyn 202/224-2934
Hutchison 202/224-5922
Isakson 202/224-3643
Warner 202/224-2023
Webb 202/224-4024

I know a Great Musician

2007-06-08T22:39:00.000-07:00

The idiot Sheryl Crow thought it wise to chastise us into using one toilet paper square per 'sitting'.

So naturally, it was appropriate for my friend, Greg Hall, to wax poetic about it.

Below are the lyrics, you can also hear the song here:
Greg Hall

One Square's All It Should Take

I see there are storm clouds forming
I fear it might be global warming
I've got to do something to make you listen to me

Look at the habits we're keeping
Our poor Mother Earth is weeping
I thought about this when I sat down to pee

Don't you know, when I go
I start condescending
To the wasteful masses
With cleanup pending
When you go, don't you know
One square's all it should take

Judgment comes easy for me
And other opinions--they bore me
But you better listen, because of my fame

Now here comes Orwell's Big Brother
While you're on the throne, he will hover
I'm using one square, and you'd best do the same

[chorus]

Maybe you'll just say 'whatever'
Sheryl's tours abuse the weather
But those emissions aren't the problem
My plan's best for you and you'd
Better not dare to disobey

Don't you dare ask about
My plane or my limousine
These rules aren't for me
Your dirty ass will save a tree

Tell me as I walk on by
Is there something on my thigh?

'Cause one square's all it should take (3)

"Dissolve the Congress"

2007-06-08T11:40:00.000-07:00

Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) said he has told the most virulent Republican opponents that he will not tolerate a raft of amendment votes designed simply to filibuster the measure, and he castigated his own party's senators for their vote switches.
"We're going to do this damned thing, and if we don't, I think we should dissolve the Congress and just go home," Lott fumed.

How We Got Here-Part 1

2007-06-07T14:36:00.000-07:00

Tired of hearing blathering liberals tell me 'it's all about oil' or 'American Imperialism', it occurred to me that once again we need a history review.

Present day Iraq has historically been something of a frontier zone. Because it served as an axis of trade routes and contact points between Asia and the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf and the Caucasus, Kurds, Turks, Arabs, Persians, Semites, Indo-Europeans, Muslims, Christians, Jews and members of various syncretic groups have lived (and continue to live) there.

In the late nineteenth century the Ottomans embarked on a centralizing mission designed to impose imperial government on outlying provinces, including Iraq. The Ottomans found themselves confronting the British, who ruled India and looked toward the Persian Gulf for further trade; they were determined to control it either directly or by proxy.

The British entered Basra in October 1914 to secure control of the Persian Gulf and protect Persian oil fields and communication lines to India. The British lacked sufficient troops. Secret agreements were made with the French and with Sharif Hussein, who controlled the Muslim holy cities in what is now Saudi Arabia. The Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 divided the Middle East into French and British spheres of influence.

With the creation of the new Iraqi state, old conflicts came again to the fore. These included border disputes, tribal unrest along the frontier, and disputes over water from Persian streams which fed Iraqi rivers. In an attempt to force gains on these issues, Persia refused to recognize the new Iraqi state until 1929. At the Paris Peace Conference a Persian delegation pressed the British for border concessions, which were refused.

With Iraqi independence in 1932 the issue took on new urgency. By 1934 Iraq was driven to complain to the League of Nations about Persia's "flagrant acts of aggression," thought attempts to resolve the dispute in the League went nowhere. In 1937 both sides agreed to make concessions, and a Frontier Treaty was signed.
As the Persians viewed Iraq as a British fabrication, they did not attempt to engage the country as an equal, and only in the period after British influence waned were real attempts at negotiations made. So long as the border itself remained mostly quiet, the British were happy to occupy themselves with the more pressing issues of early statehood and violence on the Syrian border.

Britain, as the occupying power, allowed self-rule in inland Syria at the end of the war. By the summer of 1919 financial pressures in Britain forced the imperial power to withdraw from Syria, leaving he French and Faisal (son of the Sharif Hussien-no relation to Saddam Hussein, a Baathist) to settle matters. The militant Arabs of Damascus wanted the French out of Syria. The French wanted to rein in the militant Arabs. The Syrian border was determined between 1918 and 1920. The British agreement on withdrawal from Syria led to a revolt against British rule in Iraq.

While the British were instrumental in fighting for Mosul's inclusion in Iraq, other border determinations were not entirely in their hands. A decline in domestic public support for imperial adventures meant that funding and manpower in Iraq were severely limited. The British had expanded the empire and shrunken their pocketbooks at the same time. Thus, they were unable to fight every border contest, and in the case of Iran, its refusal to engage with the British government generally meant that the border issues there were not for the British to fully resolve. The case of Syria revealed the severe limitations on British power, and even uncoordinated Arab moments led to the transfer of Iraqi lands to Syria.

Why September 11th?

2007-06-04T21:17:00.000-07:00

This is a fact that is difficult to find, even on the internet. While many Americans assume this date was purely random, or simply convenient from a tactical standpoint, we should start understanding the islamic mind, in order to defeat the evil that most of its devotees espouse so plainly.

.."For the strategists of the Turks, including an old Algerian corsair called Dragut, Malta was more than just the remnant of an antique military order: it was the key to a proposed offensive in the western Mediterranean, an offensive that was to cow the Spanish and if possible carry the jihad to the very doors of St. Peter's. And in any case, since Sicily, Sardinia, Majorca, and southern Spain itself had once been Islamic lands, it was a duty imposed upon the Sultan, by the iron principles of jihad, as duly constituted ruler, the successor to the caliph, to recover them from the infidel. Lands where the banners of the Crescent had once flown proudly must be returned to the Dar al-Islam (the House of Islam). The presence of the Maltese Knights barred such a project; and therefore the reduction of the island would be a prelude to a wider war. Said Dragut: "Unless you have smoked out this nest of vipers, you can do no good anywhere." In March of 1565, a fleet of nearly 200 vessels, bearing some 40,000 soldiers (including 6,500 elite shock troops known as the Janissaries), assembled in the Golden Horn for the Sultan's inspection. Dragut made two astute recommendations: move against the isle early in the season, and detach a significant flotilla to menace the Spanish mainland, thereby preventing aid from the Emperor. Once the invasion began, the more confident among the Sultan's advisers anticipated the victory to come -- in a matter of days.

The victory never came. Across Europe news of the bravery of Knights -- outnumbered five to one or more -- rang like a great tocsin. All throughout that brutal summer on the sun-baked isle, the Turks had been repulsed, time after time, in their attempts to take the Christian fortresses of Malta. One such fortress had been reduced to rubble by Turkish artillery, and its garrison (almost every one of them already dead) desecrated by enraged Turks; but the other had held. Casualties among the Sultan's army had been terrible, and disease ran rampant. The stiffness of the resistance, added to the depredations of pestilence and heatstroke, had won for Western Christians their first great victory over the Turk. La Valette's final address to his men has come down to us:

A formidable army composed of audacious barbarians is descending on this island. These persons, my brothers, are the enemies of Jesus Christ. Today it is a question of the defense of our faith -- as to whether the Gospels are to be superseded by the Koran. God on this occasion demands of us our lives, already vowed to his service. Happy will be those who first consummate this sacrifice.

The date of this victory has for us a certain resonance: it was September 11, 1565.

From that day we may date the decline of Turkish power on the Mediterranean. Six years later at Lepanto, a vast Ottoman fleet was decisively beaten by a comparable fleet of the Christian Holy League in one of the largest and bloodiest naval battles ever fought. The Knights were there on that day too. On another September 11, 1683, the Polish King John Sobieski led an army to relieve Vienna from a Turkish siege, in a battle that marks the end of the Turkish advance into Europe. These dates may strike us today as very ancient indeed; the reader may wonder what significance they have to us. The answer is that they form the conclusion to a very long story, a great tale of human drama, mostly forgotten now by a forgetful people -- a drama that, on yet another September 11th, was renewed here in America. It is the story of the Jihad..."

Muslim Terror Video on YouTube

2007-06-02T07:27:00.000-07:00

Click on "Terrortube" on right....creepy, especially the comments section on the youtube area.

http://www.snappedshot.com/categories/16-TerrorTube

Hearts and Minds #2

2007-05-31T21:42:00.000-07:00

Sunnis revolt against al-Qaida

By STEVEN R. HURST, Associated Press Writers Thu May 31, 6:51 PM ET

BAGHDAD - U.S. troops battled al-Qaida in west Baghdad on Thursday after Sunni Arab residents challenged the militants and called for American help to end furious gunfire that kept students from final exams and forced people in the neighborhood to huddle indoors.

The fight reflects a trend that U.S. and Iraqi officials have been trumpeting recently to the west in Anbar province, once considered the heartland of the Sunni insurgency. Many Sunni tribes in the province have banded together to fight al-Qaida, claiming the terrorist group is more dangerous than American forces.

"The events of the past two days are promising developments. Sunni citizens of Amariyah that have been previously terrorized by al-Qaida are now resisting and want them gone. They're tired of the intimidation that included the murder of women," Kuehl said.

They said the fighters drove through the streets using loudspeakers to claim that Amariyah was under the control of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida front group.

Armed residents were said to have resisted, set some of the al-Qaida gunmen's cars on fire and called the Americans for help. (!)

Hearts and Minds

2007-05-27T13:45:00.000-07:00

U.S. Frees 42 Iraqi Captives in Raid

By RAVI NESSMAN
Associated Press Writer
Published May 27, 2007, 2:31 PM CDT
BAGHDAD -- American forces freed 42 kidnapped Iraqis -- some of whom had been hung from ceilings and tortured for months -- in a raid Sunday on an al-Qaida hide-out north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

Military officials said the operation, launched on tips from residents, showed that Iraqis in the turbulent Diyala province were turning against Sunni insurgents and beginning to trust U.S. troops.

"The people in Diyala are speaking up against al-Qaida," said Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq.

And Democrats want us to leave...

2007-05-25T08:33:00.000-07:00

Torture, Al-Qaeda Style

Drawings, tools seized from Iraq safe house in U.S. military raid

MAY 24--In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like "blowtorch to the skin" and "eye removal." Along with the images, which you'll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters. Photos of those items can be seen here. The images, which were just declassified by the Department of Defense, also include a picture of a ramshackle Baghdad safe house described as an "al-Qaeda torture chamber." It was there, during an April 24 raid, that soldiers found a man suspended from the ceiling by a chain. According to the military, he had been abducted from his job and was being beaten daily by his captors. In a raid earlier this week, Coalition Forces freed five Iraqis who were found in a padlocked room in Karmah. The group, which included a boy, were reportedly beaten with chains, cables, and hoses. Photos showing injuries sustained by those captives can be found here.

Bob Kerrey sorta' gets it.

2007-05-22T22:22:00.000-07:00

A rare moment of lucidity from one of the most ga-ga liberals anywhere......

The Left's Iraq Muddle
Yes, it is central to the fight against Islamic radicalism.

BY BOB KERREY
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

At this year's graduation celebration at The New School in New York, Iranian lawyer, human-rights activist and Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi delivered our commencement address. This brave woman, who has been imprisoned for her criticism of the Iranian government, had many good and wise things to say to our graduates, which earned their applause.

But one applause line troubled me. Ms. Ebadi said: "Democracy cannot be imposed with military force."

What troubled me about this statement--a commonly heard criticism of U.S. involvement in Iraq--is that those who say such things seem to forget the good U.S. arms have done in imposing democracy on countries like Japan and Germany, or Bosnia more recently.

Let me restate the case for this Iraq war from the U.S. point of view. The U.S. led an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein because Iraq was rightly seen as a threat following Sept. 11, 2001. For two decades we had suffered attacks by radical Islamic groups but were lulled into a false sense of complacency because all previous attacks were "over there." It was our nation and our people who had been identified by Osama bin Laden as the "head of the snake." But suddenly Middle Eastern radicals had demonstrated extraordinary capacity to reach our shores.

As for Saddam, he had refused to comply with numerous U.N. Security Council resolutions outlining specific requirements related to disclosure of his weapons programs. He could have complied with the Security Council resolutions with the greatest of ease. He chose not to because he was stealing and extorting billions of dollars from the U.N. Oil for Food program.

No matter how incompetent the Bush administration and no matter how poorly they chose their words to describe themselves and their political opponents, Iraq was a larger national security risk after Sept. 11 than it was before. And no matter how much we might want to turn the clock back and either avoid the invasion itself or the blunders that followed, we cannot. The war to overthrow Saddam Hussein is over. What remains is a war to overthrow the government of Iraq.

Some who have been critical of this effort from the beginning have consistently based their opposition on their preference for a dictator we can control or contain at a much lower cost. From the start they said the price tag for creating an environment where democracy could take root in Iraq would be high. Those critics can go to sleep at night knowing they were right.

The critics who bother me the most are those who ordinarily would not be on the side of supporting dictatorships, who are arguing today that only military intervention can prevent the genocide of Darfur, or who argued yesterday for military intervention in Bosnia, Somalia and Rwanda to ease the sectarian violence that was tearing those places apart.

Suppose we had not invaded Iraq and Hussein had been overthrown by Shiite and Kurdish insurgents. Suppose al Qaeda then undermined their new democracy and inflamed sectarian tensions to the same level of violence we are seeing today. Wouldn't you expect the same people who are urging a unilateral and immediate withdrawal to be urging military intervention to end this carnage? I would.

American liberals need to face these truths: The demand for self-government was and remains strong in Iraq despite all our mistakes and the violent efforts of al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias to disrupt it. Al Qaeda in particular has targeted for abduction and murder those who are essential to a functioning democracy: school teachers, aid workers, private contractors working to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure, police officers and anyone who cooperates with the Iraqi government. Much of Iraq's middle class has fled the country in fear.

With these facts on the scales, what does your conscience tell you to do? If the answer is nothing, that it is not our responsibility or that this is all about oil, then no wonder today we Democrats are not trusted with the reins of power. American lawmakers who are watching public opinion tell them to move away from Iraq as quickly as possible should remember this: Concessions will not work with either al Qaeda or other foreign fighters who will not rest until they have killed or driven into exile the last remaining Iraqi who favors democracy.

The key question for Congress is whether or not Iraq has become the primary battleground against the same radical Islamists who declared war on the U.S. in the 1990s and who have carried out a series of terrorist operations including 9/11. The answer is emphatically "yes."

This does not mean that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11; he was not. Nor does it mean that the war to overthrow him was justified--though I believe it was. It only means that a unilateral withdrawal from Iraq would hand Osama bin Laden a substantial psychological victory.

Those who argue that radical Islamic terrorism has arrived in Iraq because of the U.S.-led invasion are right. But they are right because radical Islam opposes democracy in Iraq. If our purpose had been to substitute a dictator who was more cooperative and supportive of the West, these groups wouldn't have lasted a week.

Finally, Jim Webb said something during his campaign for the Senate that should be emblazoned on the desks of all 535 members of Congress: You do not have to occupy a country in order to fight the terrorists who are inside it. Upon that truth I believe it is possible to build what doesn't exist today in Washington: a bipartisan strategy to deal with the long-term threat of terrorism.

The American people will need that consensus regardless of when, and under what circumstances, we withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq. We must not allow terrorist sanctuaries to develop any place on earth. Whether these fighters are finding refuge in Syria, Iran, Pakistan or elsewhere, we cannot afford diplomatic or political excuses to prevent us from using military force to eliminate them.

Mr. Kerrey, a former Democratic senator from Nebraska and member of the 9/11 Commission, is president of The New School.

The best place for cigars

2007-05-12T13:49:00.000-07:00

Let's remember this in 2008

2007-03-30T20:55:00.000-07:00

Just when you thought the Democrats could not be any more treasonous:

White House slams top Dem's planned Syria visit

The White House has criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plans to stop in Syria during a Middle East trip that began Friday. "We discourage members of Congress to make such visits to Syria," said White House deputy spokeswoman Dana Perino. "This is a country that is a state sponsor of terror." Pelosi is scheduled to meet with Syria's president next weekend, according to Syria's ambassador to the United States.

ATTENTION GOP:
This needs to be used in your campaign ads, to remind the dim-witted American public who the real enemy within is.

They're here..

2007-02-25T21:56:00.000-08:00

FROM TODAY:

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

02/24/2007

ST. LOUIS — A St. Charles man accused of buying automatic weapons and a Claymore mine and bargaining for grenades was indicted this week on four federal machine gun charges.

Mousa M. Abuelawi, 22, of Franjoe Court, was originally arrested Dec. 29 and charged with three counts of illegal possession or distribution of a machine gun and conspiracy to violate machine gun statutes.

The case was sealed from public view and nothing happened for weeks, until U.S. Magistrate Judge Audrey Fleissig told prosecutors on Jan. 27 that they had 30 days to indict Abuelawi or she would dismiss the charges.

Abuelawi was indicted Thursday and accused of receiving, transferring and possessing a machine gun, according to federal court documents made public Friday. An affidavit filed with the court by FBI Special Agent Stephen M. Smith laid out the alleged weapons purchases this way:

During November and December, Abuelawi bought two M-16s, a Heckler & Koch MP-5 fully automatic submachine gun and a Claymore mine from a government informer, not knowing they had been rigged not to work.

He also negotiated to buy a box of 30 grenades and said he wanted any guns the informer could get, "big or small." The grenades were never delivered.
The men met several times in the 5700 block of West Florissant Avenue, where Abuelawi worked. One of Abuelawi's co-workers, Thaed Abde Sumad, met with the men once, according to the indictment, and "stated he wants to buy as many explosives as possible because, 'we're going to war.'" In an interview earlier this month, Sumad said he didn't remember the comment and suggested it may have been a joke.

Sumad said the purchases were intended as a money-making venture supplying St. Louis street gangs in a turf war. Sumad said he had no role in handling the weapons and was not involved in the negotiations. Sumad said he has been interviewed by FBI agents.

Abuelawi, who is a Palestinian immigrant, is single and has no children and no assets, court documents state. He was fired by the gas station, co-workers said earlier this month.

Scott Rosenblum, one of Abuelawi's lawyers, had no comment about the indictment...."

Never Forget, Never Forgive

2007-01-06T09:30:00.000-08:00

Saddam Will Not Die This Weekend

2006-12-28T19:53:00.000-08:00

"There is no Saddam in prison!. He is free man, planning glorious return to the power, I tell you!...He will torment your testicles for eternity!...NEVER will Great Uncle convicted!!...Saddam shows happy face all on TV tomorrow, you will see!"

Same Old Shiite..Truce # 12,014 broken by the palestinians

2006-12-27T21:55:00.000-08:00

"Israel decided on Wednesday to renew pinpoint attacks against Palestinian rocket-launching cells in Gaza, threatening to end its participation in a month-old truce that was first broken by Palestinians less than one hour after it took effect.

The decision came hours after a Palestinian rocket seriously wounded two Israeli teenage boys in Sderot, a town in southern Israel next to the Gaza border. Shortly after the new policy was announced, a rocket was launched from Gaza, but no injuries were reported.

Although Israel declared it remained committed to the truce, the decision to strike against rocket launchers clearly ratcheted up the violence level.

It could also undermine Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's recent efforts to bolster the moderate Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who is in a faceoff against Hamas. The Islamic militant group controls the Palestinian parliament and Cabinet.

Palestinian militants violated the truce within an hour after it took effect on Nov. 26.

Ah, yes. The religion of peace again.

Israel has so far refrained from responding, but Olmert had warned in recent days that his patience was wearing thin. The injuries of the two boys late Tuesday increased the already intense pressure on Olmert from political opponents and members of his Cabinet to take action.

Here is some 'responding' I would recommend, considering this has been going on for 60 years:

......don't worry, nobody has the guts to do what is required (yet)

Hamas government spokeswoman Ghazi Hamad denounced the Israeli decision to "continue their aggression against our people," but added: "We still believe that this agreement is alive, and both sides should respect this agreement because it is (in) the interest (of) our people.

Got it, Hamas. You rocket Israel, and they sit tight = PEACE. Israel surgically targets known terrorists = genocide.

Where's Mike Farrell?...

2006-12-26T21:09:00.000-08:00

"BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld
Saddam Hussein's death sentence for crimes against humanity and said he should hang within 30 days. .....The appeal court has approved the death sentence. They (the government) have the right to choose the date starting from tomorrow up to 30 days. After 30 days it will be an obligation to implement the sentence," the head of the Iraqi High Tribunal, Aref Abdul-Razzaq al-Shahin, told a news conference."

"We are against the death penalty as a matter of principle but particularly in this case because it comes after a flawed trial," an Amnesty International spokeswoman said.

Human Rights Watch, a New York-based group, also objected.

"Imposing the death penalty, indefensible in any case, is especially wrong after such unfair proceedings," said Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice program at Human Rights Watch.

In case anyone forgot, here's some photos of people denied a right or two, like breathing:

Yet, bloated bodies and all, this man wants Saddam to live a long, full life in air-conditioned splendor......I hope he makes the trip and waves his little anti-death penalty flags in Iraq, where a few kurds might exercise their new -found freedom of speech in his face.

Something Warm for Christmas Day..

2006-12-25T14:29:00.000-08:00

New (old) Strategery For Democrats

2006-12-25T12:28:00.000-08:00

Ted Rall, the swill-selling, poison pen darling of the tolerant Left, has tripped over the bong again and stumbled upon this little gem:

A reader responding to my column "When is a Win Not a Win?" from a few weeks ago has sent me a persuasive case for banning the Republican Party. As in making it illegal for the GOP to hold meetings or run for office. Forever.

It's not as wild as you might thing. Political parties are banned all over the earth. For instance, the Communist Party is banned in Russia and the Nazi Party is prohibited in Germany. The Republican Party hasn't murdered in the tens of millions, but why wait? The current band of GOP criminals, just getting started, has already killed over 600,000 Iraqis. While they're currently on the wane, they're a malevolent influence who will surely return to make America a worse place sooner rather than later.

Yeah, Ted. That'll show 'em. Ban it....when ideas run out, whatever it is liberals don't like....just ban it.

Support your local Air Force

2006-12-24T12:39:00.000-08:00

Profile In Courage-Virgil Goode (R)

2006-12-20T18:47:00.000-08:00

WASHINGTON -- A Virginia congressman will not apologize for writing that without immigration reform "there will be many more Muslims elected to office demanding the use of the Quran," his spokesman said.

(Just the way that Hispanics now dominate Southern California poilitics)

Republican Rep. Virgil Goode's letter to constituents also warns that without immigration reform "we will have many more Muslims in the United States."

Spokesman Linwood Duncan said Goode's letter was written in response to complaints his office received about Minnesota Rep.-elect Keith Ellison's request to be sworn in using the Quran.

Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to Congress.

Goode's office released the letter to CNN Wednesday.

In it, Goode wrote, "When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Quran in any way.

"The Muslim representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Quran.

"We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.

"I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped."

He added, "The Ten Commandments and 'In God We Trust' are on the wall in my office. A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Quran.

"My response was clear, 'As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, the Quran is not going to be on the wall of my office.' "

The Council on American-Islamic Relations asked Goode to apologize.

"Rep. Goode's Islamophobic remarks send a message of intolerance that is unworthy of anyone elected to public office," the council's Corey Saylor said in a statement. "There can be no reasonable defense for such bigotry."

Duncan told CNN that Goode stands by his comments.
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This is truly a great politician. He recognizes the threat and addresses it head-on......quite unlike the President we voted for.

I will be sending Representative Goode a check. I recommend that anyone who reads this do the same. The liberal media has a treasure chest's worth of ink and air-time to spend on condemning this man as racist or islamophobic. We must let him know he is in the right and should speak even louder.
http://www.house.gov/goode/

Another Of The Greatest Generaton Leaves Us

2006-12-08T07:37:00.000-08:00

Jeane Kirkpatrick has passed away.

One of the great ones is gone. It's a sad day.

Picking Your Battles--And This One Should Be A War

2006-12-03T08:09:00.000-08:00

Muslims love the Koran. They swear to it fives times daily, prostrating themselves in public and private. Possibly 'more devout' than many Christians or Jews, at least in outward appearance. I used to work with one of these peaceful Muslims. A nice guy, non-threatening in every way, always polite and smiling. Especially as he would reach next to the engineering drawings where he kept a little rug, unrolling it right there in the office, next to the computers and concrete samples as if it was as unremarkable as the sun in the sky.

Smiling Mohammed would do his thing quietly and resume clicking away on the keyboard like everybody else. I always wondered what his prayers were, being uttered silently in the land of the infidel. Was this his quiet victory, delivered part and parcel because of the national madness of 'tolerance' and political correctness? I would never know since smiling Mo excelled at appearing neutral on all subjects. I would sometimes hear the 'allah hu akbar' at the nd of his prayer. I'm not embarrassed to say I resented hearing that phrase right here in my own country.

The phrase 'God is Great' is also invoked just before the detonator goes off in the crowded Israeli bus, or the car-bomb, or the 'infidels' head is hacked off on video. These particular Muslims don't smile, and are far from neutral regarding their workplace ethic.

Am I saying Keith Ellison will blow himself up in a sub-committe hearing? Hardly.

But what is clear is the signal this muslim (apparently muslim first, then black, and thirdly American) sends: one of self-imposed exclusion, separatism and message to America of 'we're here, and you'd better tolerate us, no matter what we do'.

America does not survive only because of the Constitution. It survives because of its values. And these values are under assault on a daily basis. I say this one we fight to the bitter end.

Alone and Forsaken, Kicked in the Face, Part 1

2006-11-17T07:22:00.000-08:00

"Oh where has she gone to,
oh where can she be.
She may have forsaken
some other like me.
She promised to honor,
to love and obey.
Each vow was a plaything
that she threw away."

The lyrics to the cowboy's lament above came to my mind when I heard the news that Mel Martinez has been tapped by bush (no more capital letters for him) to lead the RNC straight down the big, gold-plated amnesty highway.

The GOP/Conservative side of the net has been all a-buzz regarding the message(s) sent and their meanings in the recent election. Those of us that believe that good borders make good neighbors, that a 'guest worker program' is a bald-faced lie and that bush is the reason we lost the election were hoping that the message we sent would translate into action steering the party at least a little bit back toward its traditional conservative roots.

'Hope' is the last name of a dead comedian and that's about it.

Rove and bush plunged the last knife in the drawer into the backs of those who put them in power this week with the selection of Martinez. Obvioulsy, out-pandering the Democrats is the new strategy. Why else would they select the most open-borders, pro-amnesty give-away-the-store socialist one could imagine?

So what is a Republican now, and what do they stand for?

to be continued.....meanwhile, enjoy a few shots of bush's border policy:

...I'm sure they are all bringing needed skills to contribute to the good of the nation. Look!, there's a software programmer poking his head through the fence!

..Citizens doing the job their (republican) government won't do. And yes, those are real guns with real bullets, because drug dealers and murderers are common at our border. By the way, Korans and documents with arabic writing have been found in increasing frequency at the border.

Banning (fill in the blank) ='s tolerance.....got it?

2006-11-13T12:21:00.000-08:00

Elton John: 'I would ban religion completely'

"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred toward gay people," John said in the Observer newspaper's Music Monthly Magazine. "Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays."

"But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion," he said. "From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."

John also criticized religious leaders for failing to do anything about conflicts around the world.

"Why aren't they having a conclave? Why aren't they coming together?"

John said those in his own field have been similarly lax.

"It's like the peace movement in the '60s. Musicians got through to people by getting out there and doing peace concerts, but we don't seem to do them any more," he said. "If John Lennon were alive today, he'd be leading it with a vengeance."

When I'm President, in order to counter the popular notion that celebrities deserve to be taken seriously when they talk, I will sign legislation that will force politicians to be taken seriously when they sing or act.

...This person should not be discussing politics:

...And this person should not be singing 'Rocket Man':

Meanwhile, back at the jihad......

2006-11-13T07:36:00.000-08:00

Iran plans to install 3000 centrifuges

Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN – Iranian experts and officials plan to install 3000 centrifuges by the end of the year under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini told reporters at his weekly press briefing on Sunday.

Hosseini said that Tehran views its right to enrich uranium on its own soil as its main nuclear position.

However, Iran welcomes any other suggestion as well, he added.

Iran is determined to continue its civilian nuclear activities within the framework of IAEA regulations, he noted.

Israel too weak to threaten Iran

Israel is too weak to threaten Iran because its political-security structure is fragile, he said.

If the Zionist regime ever dares to attack Iran, it will receive a “quick, firm, and destructive response” in a few seconds, he stressed.

But the Left tells us global warming is the real threat.

It's The Stupidity, Stupid!

2006-11-08T12:07:00.000-08:00

As one of the 'angry base', I felt no compulsion to vote straight Republican, and apparently many, many others felt no such allegiance either.

Admittedly, being in a deep blue state where many Liberals ran un-opposed, there was no great risk in voting Libertarian for dog catcher. Nonetheless, regardless of Prager's, Medved's and Rush's admonition to 'change the party from within', many of us felt totally abandoned and worse, taken for granted.

So here we are with San Fran Nan for speaker of the house. I say 'great'. Because in the next two years leading up to the national elections, she will have shown the country what contempt she holds for the populace, the rule of law, and for those constituents who do not share her extremist liberal views. Two full years of Liberalism of the worst kind will hopefully dash a bucket of cold water on the faces of the voting public. In this time I expect the GOP to acknowledge the base and realize that it wasn't the Dems who beat us , it was we who took the keys away.

Unbridled spending, a lack of any rational border or immigration policy during six years of single party rule have incensed the conservative wing of the party with attendant results. And the war in Iraq is a failure because there is no will to win it. We are more afraid of the media and public opinion than the enemy and his little car bombs. What happens when a real enemy shows up, that has an air force, a few armored divisions, and a modicum of military sophistication?

So, we have major difficulties ahead. But if the GOP can conjur up another Reagan, or the DNC can tell Hillary to go to her room, the country still has a chance at renewed greatness.

Wetting Their Pants

2006-11-08T07:39:00.000-08:00

Anybody else notice the barely containable glee that the media is displaying?

Wolf Blitzer last night: "WE are picking up two more seats in the House"

Chris Matthews : (smiling) "we need an new face like Barack Obama or Bill Richardson to get some life in the congress"

Chris Matthews: "We're only 5 seats away from the magic number"

And Gramma Katie's withered smile practically spread to the back of her head as she described one GOP loss after another.

So I guess the mask of media balance and indifference is finally off?.

Nasrallah and Hezbollah Victorious in U.S.

2006-11-08T07:36:00.000-08:00

My predictions are accurate, unfortunately, and even worse than I thought.

This will drastically shape the GOP strategy fro a candidate for 2008, since whoever the GOP supports will have to triangulate to a DNC run House and Senate.

So get ready: No border control, no immigration reform, tax hikes, failure in foreign policy.

If only W had listened to us about a year ago.

Predictions for Election Day

2006-11-07T07:59:00.000-08:00

Here's my predictions for today's elections. After two years of following trends on talk radio and the net, it is clear that dissatisfaction is wide-spread.

1. It will be a bloodbath for the GOP.

2. GOP loses House.

3. GOP loses the Senate or at best retains 1 vote majority, with no mandate.

4. Nancy Pelosi rides in on her alternative-fueled horse to save us all from ourselves.

5. DNC gains governorships.

6. Libertarians are viewed as spoilers.

All of this is the fault of a failed Bush administration. The way this group has squandered opportunity borders on the criminal. We had the once in a blue moon opportunity to get policy passed, with the Legislative and Executive branch in our hands for the first time in 40 years. Instead of listening to the base and actually doing something about borders and immigration while talking about national security, Bush ponied out the 'Guest Worker' program. Pandering efforts, such as gay marriage amendents, falls on deaf ears when Republicans bloat government more than any Democratic administration in history.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Well, we survived Clinton for eight years. Let's hope the GOP gets the memo today, and adjusts their liberal policies downward in order to not lose again in 2008.

Where Are They Going To Go?

2006-11-04T08:53:00.000-08:00

I'm sure Karl Rove has chortled that little gem across the table at strategy meetings for years.

In order to triangulate over to moderate democratic and hispanic voters, Bush gargles up the 'guest worker plan'.

Meanwhile, southern border ranchers------ranchers------- have taken up duties as protectors of our borders. Borders that have seen numerous 'OTM' (other than Mexicans) arabic-speaking males cross into our country. Korans have been found in the Arizona desert as recently as a month ago, as Bush is touring military bases telling obedient audiences that he's protecting America.

Idiot.

Joe Terrorist flies to Venezuala, courtesy of Hugo 'I hate America' Chavez, becomes Julio Sanchez, and begins his journey through central america up to the Great Satan. He makes it to Nuevo Laredo, a town run by drug lords, murderers and assorted thugs.
He then slips quietly across into your country, where he becomes John Patel, a nice, common, Indian-sounding name.

He is a cut-out, and he is here, with many more like him already here or on the way.

Out of 12,000,000 illegal aliens here, are we really to believe the Presidents line that they're all here looking for work? Is anybody really that dumb?

This President has spent us into an oblivion of debt that our children will pay, all the while leaving our front door wide open for real terrorists.

But the Democrats are even worse, so 'where are they going to go'?

Our Caribbean 'Auschwitz'

2006-10-01T10:21:00.000-07:00

A DEADLY KINDNESS
By RICHARD MINITER
September 15, 2006 -- GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA
ON the military plane back from America's most famous terrorist holding pen, the in-flight film was "V for Vendetta," a screed that tries to justify terrorism. It was a fitting end to a surreal, military-sponsored trip.
The Pentagon seemed to be hoping to disarm its critics by showing them how well it cares for captured terrorists. The trip was more alarming than disarming. I spent several hours with Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., who heads the joint task force that houses and interrogates the detainees. (The military isn't allowed to call them "prisoners.")

Harris, a distinguished Navy veteran who was born in Japan and educated at Annapolis and Harvard, is a serious man trying to do a politically impossible job. I spoke with him at length, and with a dozen other officers and guards, and visited three different detention blocks.
The high-minded critics who complain about torture are wrong. We are far too soft on these guys - and, as a result, aren't getting the valuable intelligence we need to save American lives.

The politically correct regulations are unbelievable. Detainees are entitled to a full eight hours sleep and can't be woken up for interrogations. They enjoy three meals and five prayers per day, without interruption. They are entitled to a minimum of two hours of outdoor recreation per day.

Interrogations are limited to four hours, usually running two - and (of course) are interrupted for prayers. One interrogator actually bakes cookies for detainees, while another serves them Subway or McDonald's sandwiches. Both are available on base. (Filet o' Fish is an al Qaeda favorite.)

Interrogations are not video or audio taped, perhaps to preserve detainee privacy.

Call it excessive compassion by a nation devoted to therapy, but it's dangerous. Adm. Harris admitted to me that a multi-cell al Qaeda network has developed in the camp. Military intelligence can't yet identify their leaders, but notes that they have cells for monitoring the movements and identities of guards and doctors, cells dedicated to training, others for making weapons and so on.

And they can make weapons from almost anything. Guards have been attacked with springs taken from inside faucets, broken fluorescent light bulbs and fan blades. Some are more elaborate. "These folks are MacGyvers," Harris said.

Other cells pass messages from leaders in one camp to followers in others. How? Detainees use the envelopes sent to them by their attorneys to pass messages. (Some 1,000 lawyers represent 440 prisoners, all on a pro bono basis, with more than 18,500 letters in and out of Gitmo in the past year.) Guards are not allowed to look inside these envelopes because of "attorney-client privilege" - even if they know the document inside is an Arabic-language note written by a prisoner to another prisoner and not a letter to or from a lawyer.

That's right: Accidentally or not, American lawyers are helping al Qaeda prisoners continue to plot.

There is little doubt what this note-passing and weapons-making is used for. The military recorded 3,232 incidents of detainee misconduct from July 2005 to August 2006 - an average of more than eight incidents per day. Some are nonviolent, but the tally includes coordinated attacks involving everything from throwing bodily fluids on guards (432 times) to 90 stabbings with homemade knives.

One detainee slashed a doctor who was trying to save his life; the doctors wear body armor to treat their patients.

The kinder we are to terrorists, the harsher we are to their potential victims.

Striking the balance between these two goods (humane treatment, foreknowledge of deadly attacks) is difficult, but the Bush administration seems to lean too far in the direction of the detainees. No expense spared for al Qaeda health care: Some 5,000 dental operations (including teeth cleanings) and 5,000 vaccinations on a total of 550 detainees have been performed since 2002 - all at taxpayer expense. Eyeglasses? 174 pairs handed out. Twenty two detainees have taxpayer-paid prosthetic limbs. And so on.

What if a detainee confesses a weakness (like fear of the dark) to a doctor that might be useful to interrogators, I asked the doctor in charge, would he share that information with them? "My job is not to make interrogations more efficient," he said firmly. He cited doctor-patient privacy. (He also asked that his name not be printed, citing the potential for al Qaeda retaliation.)

Food is strictly halal and averages 4,200 calories per day. (The guards eat the same chow as the detainees, unless they venture to one of the on-base fast-food joints.) Most prisoners have gained weight.

Much has been written about the elaborate and unprecedented appeal process. Detainees have their cases reviewed once a year and get rights roughly equivalent to criminals held in domestic prisons. I asked a military legal adviser: In what previous war were captured enemy combatants eligible for review before the war ended? None, he said.

America has never faced an enemy who has so ruthlessly broken all of the rules of war - yet never has an enemy been treated so well.

Of Gitmo's several camps, military records show that the one with the most lenient rules is the one with the most incidents and vice versa. There is a lesson in this: We should worry less about detainee safety and more about our own.

Some 20 current detainees have direct personal knowledge of the 9/11 attacks and nearly everyone of the current 440 say they would be honored to attack America again. Let's take them at their word.

Pray for Pneumonia

2006-07-31T21:54:00.000-07:00

HAVANA Cuba -- Cuban President Fidel Castro was undergoing intestinal surgery and provisionally handed over power in the Communist island nation to his younger brother Raul, according to a statement read on Cuban television Monday night.

Liberal Lunatic Trampled by the Truth

2006-07-08T21:35:00.000-07:00

Once in a while, good does triumph. Case in point when a leftist hate-witch with a Ph.D at University of Arizona resigns under pressure from the internet, of which I am proud to have taken part.

Debbie Frisch, formerly of Tucson, Arizona is now unemployed,thankfully.

What got her fired? Rumsfeld? Pat Robertson? Bush Von cheneyburton?

No. It was The Ugly Truth of what liberals really mean when they espouse 'tolerance', 'inclusion' and 'diversity'. Their pamphlet-talk is exposed for what it is: pure, distilled 100-proof hate:

From Lil' Deb's blog in regard to Jeff Goldstein at PROTEIN WISDOM:

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"..I’d like to hear more about your “tyke” by the way. Girl? Boy? Toddler? Teen? Are you still married to the woman you ephed to give birth to the tyke?

Tell all, bro! as I said elsewhere, if I woke up tomorrow and learned that someone else had shot you and your “tyke” it wouldn’t slow me down one iota. You aren’t “human” to me. So if you could just tell me the AGE and SEX of your “tyke,” I’d be stoked!
Thanx!

Ooh. Two year old boy. Sounds hot. You live in Colorado, I see. Hope no one Jon-Benets your baby.

Are you still married to the woman you humped to produce the toddler? I reiterate: If some nutcase kidnapped your child tomorrow and did to her what was done to your fellow Coloradan, Jon-Benet Ramsey, I wouldn’t give a damn.

You know, Jeff, I just don’t get it. You say, and I believe you, that a human female chose to procreate with you and you have produced a 2 year old progeny.

But you live in Colorado and I really can’t believe there are women desperate and/or stupid enough to procreate with the likes of you.

What am I missing, dude?

Bring it on, hombre.

Bring it on."

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But this Ward Churchill in drag still doesn't get it:

"Looks like someone at TalkLeft is siding with Mr. Goldstein. But here's a commenter named bigunit12 who gets it:

On one hand, what she wrote was wrong. But, on the other hand, it was only word. How many dead Iraqi mothers,American and Iraqi fathers, and Iraqi children are conservatives responsible for?

It is unbelievable that a comment saying I would not care if harm came to your child is such a crime to the rightwingnuts when they've been happy as clams to send American dupes to murder, maim, rape and torture (yup folks - depriving people of electricity and clean water is a form of torture!) Iraqi children for four years."

"We Played Soccer With Their Children"

2006-03-21T18:28:00.000-08:00

Today I received a letter from a dear friend, Jordan Moehnle. As most of you know, he is a 19 year-old United States Marine fighting terrorists-('insurgents' is far too polite a moniker)-in Fallujah, Iraq. He is not some p.o.g. pushing paper. He is on the streets pushing Hajji.

I asked him in a recent letter if the Iraqis hate us and want us to leave, since the media drumbeat never ceases.

His response, verbatim:

"To answer your questions, we're on the southern half (Fallujah) just outside the city across from the Euphrates river. No, the Iraqis don't hate us, as a matter of fact on our last patrol we stopped at two different house-holds where the families insisted we stay and have some tea, so we took turns posting security on the corners and going inside where we drank chi tea and played soccer with their children (I found this to be quite difficult in full combat gear and ended up falling on my face seceral times, much to the comic delight of the kids). so good times. As far as terrorism goes, these people are very uneducated and I don't know if they can learn a different lifestyle after all this time. But it's become clear to us that these people are learning that the U.S. is not the bad guy and their frustration is being redirected towards the insurgents"

Then there's this (paraphrased from his mother):

" They (Marines)are frequently required to commandeer houses as they have to have a place to sleep and operate from. Recently, they took over a sheikh’s house and he was not there but all his daughters were. There was some stir in that the daughters were apparently smitten with this houseful of Marines and proposals were profuse. An international incident was averted when the house was cleared for Marines only. Also, as a mom, I was relieved to hear that they usually leave homes cleaner and in better shape than when they arrived."

WE ARE the good guy. We've ALWAYS been the good guy. And while our methods have been ham-fisted or downright wrong at times, American intent, in the form of thousands of decent human beings like Lance Corporal Moehnle have never been in doubt.

Yet only today as I write this, Abu Ghraib is once again demanding our repentance.
I refuse to feel the slightest remorse for bored rear-area soldiers playing idiotic frat-boy pranks on people in a lawless environment. Those soldiers have been punished--military justice being notoriously swift and severe.

So when some fool sneers that the 'war is for oil', and 'the Iraqis despise us', ask them how it could be that our Marines can play soccer, drink tea, and entertain arabic females in their own homes when we're hated. The left needs the world to hate us, otherwise there is no interest in their headlines.

To bad success doesn't sell here.

But it does sell in Iraq.

A More Subtle, Yet Uglier Liberal Bias

2006-03-17T14:19:00.000-08:00

Every time I hear about a US serviceman being killed in Iraq, my spirit sinks a bit, and my resolve to see this war through to its conclusion is shaken, at least momentarily. I think of parents or spouses I’ll never meet getting that phone call in the middle of the night, or a personal visit from some official in a very obvious government vehicle. I briefly imagine that it was my son or daughter. How would I feel? Would I still support this war with no end in sight?

But what I most resent, short of the deaths themselves, is the orchestration and manipulation employed to elicit precisely this doubt.

On a recent Tuesday, I read about a helicopter crew being killed when their
ship was struck by enemy fire. Both were recovered by Air Force PJ’s. The story reads
“Two Killed in Iraq Today”, in a sub-headline.

On the following Wednesday, three soldiers are killed by an IED in a town miles away. Minor sub-headline again, 'below the fold', as it were.

Then on a Thursday, 2 soldiers die in a common vehicle accident.

But the CNN HEADLINE for that day reads: “Seven More Dead In Iraq”, with the implication that it’s another seven killed beyond the five killed on the previous days.

I thought I was going nuts, reading about an identical helicopter crash to the one I read about two days prior. I thought ‘wow, twelve guys killed in three days, four of them in the same manner’.

Knowing the MSM cannot be trusted with the truth, I read three quarters down the story, where this shows up: ‘Two airmen were also killed on Tuesday’.

So now, CNN, and I presume other networks use this anti-war, anti-Bush tactic of double reporting deaths on different days, and compiling a misleading total as ‘news’.

Yet another reason to never trust the leftstream media.

Maybe CNN should start counting soldiers killed in Vietnam as also being killed in this war, since they're so convinced it's the same conflict.

The Vision of the Annointed (on the Right)

2006-03-16T17:38:00.000-08:00

I’ve been reading VDH for close to ten years now, and while the Professor of Classics at Fresno navigates the turbulent waters of history and its current crop of agenda driven revisionists with a marked lucidity, he also has the intermittent and always useful memory lapse, allowing him to assail the detractors of the defunct Dubai ports deal as two political camps in an inverted cone of silence, whereby panic-stricken isolationists and ‘anybody but Bush’ devotees can hear their individual arguments coalesce to echo a ‘collective insanity’.

Ironically, VDH (whom I admire, read, and quote here on E Pluribus Reluctor on a regular basis)..parrots the left in this regard….”we know better, and you’re just dumb”.

Given the intellectual weight of the mighty Hanson, many are swayed by the sheer volume of his whispered assertions and assumed veracity of his proclamations that “Rarely has reason been so routed by pure emotion.”, Again, VDH assumes those who are against this deal are Clinton/Gore voters, worried 'about the children'.
former
Hanson goes on to essentially throw his hands in the air with examples of the Panama Canal (which I remember quite well, contrary to another assumption that we all forgot) , Chinese influence, the Mexican border, et al. And these are valid points, each of which requires redress in it own forum. This argument reminds me of my 8 year-olds son objection to my telling him to pick up his room: “ why should I dad, it’s already a mess?”. Because it’s the right thing to do, that’s why. And if it had been 19 Chinese terrorists on 9/11, I seriously doubt Americans would stand for that nation continuing to operate our largest port, the port of Los Angeles because- ‘oh well, we’ve been buying cheap Chinese stuff for years now anyway’. It took more than twenty years and the power of W.Edwards Demming for Americans to look at Japan as a legitimate trading partner instead of a partner in fascism with the third reich. (Got my Hitler reference in—can’t overlook that).

To be sure, the image of Hillary Clinton and Pat Buchanan shaking hands as the Dubai deal sank is naturally a convenient vehicle of validation for Hanson to point to mere emotion and hysteria as the impetus for the rejection of this business deal that apparently our president wasn’t even aware of, while simultaneously assuring us that he’s got our backs. This president and his family with their known connections to the Saudi royal family and even the Bin Ladens at one point do themselves no favors by allowing this transaction to proceed. Bush administration officials themselves refer to the less than 5% of shipping containers inspected as a gigantic hole in our security. We know that people have been successfully smuggled in shipping containers from the east. These were people only looking for a better life. Are we to suppose that terrorists and/or their weapons would be stopped by benevolent Islamic port employees in the Middle East sympathetic to American efforts in their homelands, because that is precisely where our security would reside, had this fox guarding-the-henhouse deal succeeded. The same president who has shown us through deeds that he is not interested in the very first order of business of security by simply mandating that our national sovereignty be maintained at our southern or northern borders, has ponied out the preposterous ‘guest-worker’ program, and who only this month was in India glad-handing the largest repository of out-sourced American jobs, was telling us to trust the UAE, a country that had all nineteen 9/11 terrorists pass through it, funneled money for the 9/11 atrocity, and even had its own royal family as the guests of Osama Bin Laden as late as 1999, according to CIA memo of 2/19/1999, mere months after Al Qaeda blew up two US embassies in Africa with money snaking through Dubai banks. But Dubai’s proximity to 9/11 doesn’t end there. 13 of the 19 terrorists entered the US via Dubai, with the original 20th hijacker –Mohammed al-Katani, also gliding through Dubai’s security net that George Bush wants our nation to put our trust in. Paul Sperry has outlined further indictments of this ‘ally in the war on terror’:..” It's also not surprising, given Dubai's cozy ties to bin Laden and Taleb leaders, that the hijackers were able to use Dubai as their financial base in addition to their forward staging base. As they came through Dubai, they were outfitted by the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed with credit cards, cash, bank accounts and American-style clothing. More than $100,000 in al-Qaida funds were funneled through Dubai banks. One single transfer from Dubai into al-Shehhi's and his pal Mohamed Atta's Florida checking account totaled $70,000.

The day before crashing his hijacked United Airlines jet, al-Shehhi wired $5,400 in leftover al-Qaida funds back to Dubai. Other hijackers also wired residuals there. After the attacks, investigators traced al-Shehhi phone calls back to the UAE, where he is now celebrated as a hero in mosques and other local gathering places outside the gaze of Western investors, who are too intoxicated by glittering high-rises and other signs of modernity to understand that the desert oasis is still haunted by ancient demons.”

I recommend a thorough read of the entire article here: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21467

I fear for Victor Davis Hanson’s reputation in conservative circles, because he has stated many well-researched opinions on matters sometimes beyond his purview and been correct. This Dubai Ports World deal however, reeked of what it was: very bad policy with another assumed friend of the U.S., and all for money, once again. It seems to me that in the post-9/11 era, any country that wishes to conduct commerce with us, and especially a country in the Middle east that owns a business where we rely on them to provide security from their home ports through inspections in foreign ports- is a pipe dream that must be a proven reality before any trust is bestowed.

In fact, if George Bush ever expects to resuscitate this political cadaver, he needs to borrow a phrase from the Great Communicator once used to bring the Soviet Bear to heel:

“Trust---but verified”

Drink Up, Iran

2006-03-08T12:28:00.000-08:00

Have you noticed the sudden abundance of those little lozenge-shaped cars with the stickers on the bumper that says something like: ‘Energy Saver”? .Yeah, me too.

Within one year of insane oil prices up nearly 40% brought on by instability in the middle east and orchestration by the multi-national oil companies, many consumers are reacting by dumping their rolling land yachts in favor of the new fuel-miserly vehicles offered suspiciously close on the heels of said inflated fuel prices.

That issue not withstanding, I’d like to buy one of these cars as more of a big third-finger to Iran and our Saudi 'allies in the war on terror'---(Thanks, George).

The lunatic-in-charge of the perpetually bellicose fiefdom of Iran now thinks the number four oil producer has us over a (55 gallon) barrel. Believing that Americans would sooner tolerate a nuclear tipped Iran than they would lines at the pump, Ahmadinejad is now threatening to significantly reduce oil exports to the U.S., (but not to France of course), or launch an outright embargo, reminiscent of the 1970’s if we don’t stop our girly whining about Iran’s ‘civilian purposes only’ nuclear program. After all, Ahmadinejad tells us, Iran needs the electricity generated by these reactors. The ocean of petroleum that Iran floats on just isn’t enough to keep Iran’s automotive and aircraft factories running, it’s ship-building concerns humming along, or its heavy industry churning out oil rigs, ships, or even military hardware such as tanks and submarines.

Just because you’ve never heard of Iran actually engaging in any of those energy-intensive industries doesn’t mean they don’t exist. It only means that Iranian-made cars, jets and 200,000-ton ships are reserved for non-infidels.

Oh, wait. Just before Achmed-a-whatever sputtered out the threat of embargo, he also postulated that "Israel should be wiped off the map", and not even thirty days prior claimed ‘Israel will be removed’.

So let’s review. If we (the U.S. and various but not all European countries) refuse to allow Iran to develop thermo-nuclear weapons changing for the worse the entire Middle East by ‘wiping Israel off the map’….we don’t get to drive our Suburbans to soccer practice, fuel prices will skyrocket again, and we’ll have less discretionary income to purchase cheap Chinese products. By the way, does the looming Iranian oil embargo apply to China, our trading partner that now enjoys most-favored nation status?

But the threats are not isolated to Israel. Iran not only thinks America will cower at the threat of price spikes or shortages, it thinks we will shrink from direct confrontation: (from the UK Telegraph in August 2004)….” Iran warned America and Israel last night that it was ready to launch pre-emptive strikes to stop them attacking its nuclear facilities.”…..” Ali Shamkhani, the Iranian defence minister, said the presence of American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan was not a threat to Teheran. On the contrary, American soldiers were now "hostages" to Iran”. 1979 taught us that Iran is quite adroit at middle eastern style diplomacy: hostage taking.

But short of all-out nuclear combat with Israel and our forces in Iraq, Iran’s tenuous grasp on regional influence stems from the viscous treasure beneath its arid soil. Without oil sales, there’s no money for nukes with which to blackmail its way onto the world stage. No money to pay Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and Hamas. No nukes, and Iran remains the post-1980 cultural throwback it has become.

So the question that we all knew would one day demand an answer is: who needs whom more?

Surely we need oil. Iran is the number four OPEC producer. Yet whose economy is in fact stronger? America leads the world in technology. Leading technology that includes the know-how in oil exploration, development, extraction and distribution. America feeds much of the world. Smokestack industries, though diminished by Asian competition still surpasses Iran’s by many decades. As proof, were the U.S. to in fact strike Iran, Iran’s air defense consists largely of aircraft purchased by the Shah in the 1970’s. We would be shooting down broken down F-14’s flown by Iranians with no training.

So Iranians sympathetic to their madman leaders rhetoric had better learn to embrace a diet rich in hydrocarbons, because while Americans have enjoyed the black gold for a while now, Iranians assume far too much about a supposed lack of American resolve.

Oh, and one last question for Tehran:
If the nuclear facilities now under construction are for 'civilian purposes of a peaceful nature only", why are they underground?

Islamic Oppression of Women-Worldwide

2006-03-07T17:38:00.000-08:00

As we STILL wring our hands about Abu Ghraib and other slights to Muslims in the western world, the western world itself continues to bleed and suffer at the hands of the Religion of Peace. In the dark and shadowy recesses of male Islamic misogyny, women are only to be viewed naked after the ritual of marriage has been completed. A muslim woman, married or otherwise who is seen even walking or enjoying a cup of coffee runs the risk of defiling her families (fathers') honor, resulting in her throat being slashed open.

This is the exotic religion and culture that we in the west are told by the liberal media and Hollywood to be tolerant of.

Diversity should be our virtue, we are instructed.

Yet several of the 9/11 hijackers had no such delusions about their piety:
"Sept 2-6 - Alleged hijacker Majed Moqed seen in two stores in Maryland looking over adult videos and books (MSNBC), Sept 10 - Alleged hijacker Hamza Alghamdi watches a porno in his hotel. (Wall Street Journal)

Sept 5 - Two or three of the alleged hijackers go gambling on a SunCruz Casino boat. (St Petersburg Times, USA Today)

Sept 7 - Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi both seen 'wasted' at Florida bar called Shuckums. (St Petersburg Times)

Sept 9 - Alleged Flight 11 hijacker sleeps with a high-priced prostitute (Boston Herald), Sept 10 - Four alleged hijackers spend the night looking for prostitutes in Boston. (Boston Globe)"

Quite an example they set. Last week, a 'moderate' muslim plowed his vehicle into a group of students at UNC:

"Driver plows into UNC crowd, hits 9

BY ROB SHAPARD, BETH VELLIQUETTE AND EMILY COAKLEY : The Herald-Sun
rshapard@heraldsun.com
Mar 3, 2006 : 11:38 pm ET

CHAPEL HILL -- A recent UNC graduate purposely drove an SUV into a crowded campus meeting area Friday, hitting nine people, police said.

UNC Police Capt. George Hare said campus police expected to charge Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar with at least nine felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill -- the weapon being the Jeep Cherokee he was allegedly driving. Hare declined to comment on a possible motive. The Associated Press quoted an FBI source as saying Taheri-azar, 22, was a native of Iran, and that he "allegedly made statements that he acted to avenge the American treatment of Muslims."

This week, Europe continues to sleep as its citizens are brutalized:

www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21502

Was this girl raped because of Halliburton's no-bid contracts?...or were the rapists, guests in a host country, simply expressing their displeasure with Anglo-European hegemony?

I'm sure that was the problem in Australia a couple months ago:

"..Four days after he set foot in Australia, the rape spree began. ..the Pakistani man began to berate one of his tearful 14-year-old victims because she had the temerity to shake her head at his testimony.....After taking an oath on the Quran, the man known only as MSK told the court he had committed four attacks on girls as young as 13 because they had no right to say no.. They were not covering their face or wearing a headscarf, and therefore, the rapist proclaimed: "Im not doing anything wrong."

Yet many Western leftists habitually excuse these crimes against women in order to maintain political solidarity with their allies in the Islamic world. After all, it would be tough to make common cause with Muslim groups in the antiwar movement if Progressives began to criticize the practice of polygamy.

But along with Islamic immigration to the West have come Third World value systems regarding the treatment of women. We must not be seduced by the false tenets of cultural relativism into a toleration of forced marriages, officially sanctioned rape, and honor killings.

Muslim Mental Disconnect

2006-02-10T17:32:00.000-08:00

....This single image caused riots in around the world...
(created in Egypt by a Muslim)

These images however....

(an American Civil Engineer's head in front of a Sha'rhia' law quotation)

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('Piss Christ' created by us, courtesy of our tax dollars in the form of NEA grants.....)

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(yes, that's what you think it is stretched over a 'sacred religious symbol')

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(Dung on the Virgin Mary as 'art')

........caused 'introspection and discussion'.

BUT WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT THE NSA LISTENING TO OUR PHONE CALLS.

Jordan, Good To Go

2006-01-09T17:52:00.000-08:00

On the far left: Private Moehnle relaxing at my house a few days before a temporary deployment to Hell.

George S. Patton once said of the Germans when faced with our troops in combat: "By God, I almost feel sorry for the sons of bitches, I really do". I don't think he would espouse a similar sentiment for today's islamic terrorist.

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It’s 8:45 on a Monday morning as I write this. I’m sitting in a comfortable chair, in a climate controlled environment alternating between typing and sipping a venti latte’. The only danger I’ve encountered is the usual twit on the cell phone while driving, a true urban threat. My little boy was still dreaming of Lego helicopters, my daughter of her favorite horse as I left for work today. The day moves on, largely an uneventful progression of time worthy of no more notice than any other day. Tonight, I’ll have a choice of what to eat, maybe enjoy a cigar, rounding out the day in a comfortable bed.

How is it we take these luxuries for granted as normal?…..as expected?

While so much of humanity toils under dictatorships, brutal fundamentalist theocracies, crushing poverty, social decay, or outright oppression, most Americans are inconvenienced by not much more than an irritating commute or rising interest rates.

How did we get to this point? We know it wasn’t always this way. The Civil War, the Great Depression, and certainly World War II taught us that life could be tenuous if not fleeting altogether. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were by no means guaranteed with war, economic chaos or Nazism on the march. What were the costs so long ago tendered by millions of great yet simple men I’ll never know? What unnamed horrors did they endure beyond what movies tell us that made it possible for me as a boy to just go to school without being hungry or scared?

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There is an old black and white picture of my Father, taken in 1943. He was in his early 20’s, wearing his blue (navy blue) Navy uniform. He answered the nation’s call in those years of uncertainty with the conviction of purpose that so often accompanies the confidence of youth. From stories he told me, he had no idea if he would ever come back home, given the fact that he saw naval combat in some major campaigns. He also told me that ‘everyone wanted to serve. A guy in his 20’s out of uniform stateside was a very unpopular person’. There was a stigma attached to ‘wash-outs’. He saw action against the Japanese in the South Pacific, took some shrapnel in one arm and also took some tuberculosis in both lungs from a prisoner of war. After recovering stateside, he went about his business as usual, because everyone ‘just did his job’. My Dad died in 2003, but I keep a pair of his shoes nearby to remind me that I can never fill them. He and a million others ‘just did their jobs’; ridding the world of a tyranny the world had never known before.

There is another picture I often stare at. This one is of a young man, 19 years old, who, as I type this is en route to Fallujah, Iraq. There is no draft, no compulsion by many of his peers to join in the struggle, which in my mind represents even greater stakes than World War II. Like those before him such as my father, he answered the call, and willingly. While most of his contemporaries are more concerned with which easy class to sign up for, what the coolest first-person-shooter video game is, or how much beer they can consume this Friday, Jordan will be immersed into the rest of the real world, with its immense depravation and cruelty. He will be in a real war, blunting the efforts of those who would love nothing more than to bring their brand of single-minded hatred to the very homes of those young American men so spoiled by the efforts of those who came before them, and of those like Jordan who now reach deep down inside themselves to see what they’re made of, to see If they’ve got what it takes to stand up to a flesh and blood enemy that gladly descends to the nadir of human ugliness. The enemy Jordan will face knows only the saturnalia of death, of murder, of torture, of destruction at all levels. This enemy is no other we have faced. This enemy must be stopped and crushed at all expense, for if we waver………he will not. Jordan recognized this, even though it may have been a distant recognition in the past few years, an intangible truth that demanded acknowledgement. And so it is, our young military consisting of professionals with discipline, honor, and ethics against an enemy that intentionally blows up Muslim children next to ice cream trucks, shoots muslims at weddings and funerals, and beheads muslims on street corners simply because they may have driven a truck or done any number of things not consistent with the mindset of hate or Sha’rhia law.

And while we are winning this war (we can only lose it in the American press) and will continue to do so, it will be a long nine months, and I look forward to seeing him once again in my home with that quiet demeanor and subtle humor. My one wish is that I could be there with him, for good or bad.

You, me, and our country is lucky to have men like Jordan, and when we see them anywhere we should let them know. They may not always be there.

May you sleep well tonight, courtesy of Jordan Moehnle.

Priceless

2005-12-12T10:24:00.000-08:00

Cindy Sheehan’s Book Signing
Sometimes several pictures are worth several thousand words:

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan waits for people to show up at her book signing near President Bush’s ranch on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 in Crawford, Texas.
Frankly I’m amazed the DNC/AP allowed these photos to see the light of day. Usually their photogs do their (unlevel) best to angle their cameras and crop their pictures to make Mother Sheehan always appear to be at the center of a worshipful swarm.
I’m afraid someone is going to be in hot water for letting us glimpse the truth.

While Your Back Was Turned....

2005-09-07T16:15:00.000-07:00

...Same-sex marriage skulked back in the dark of night, ignored in the din of Hurricane Katrina.

Well, here we are again. After a crushing defeat in 2004 whereby every state that tabled marriage protection initiatives passed them by huge margins, and only 5 years after Proposition 22 won a stinging victory of 61% to 39%, the California All-Democrat legislature has decided that 'counting all the votes' does not apply when said votes are against same-sex marriage laws.

Taking a direct cue from Massachusetts, mandated tolerance through legislative tyranny has become the mode' d'employ in this august body of those 'who know better'.

Meanwhile, those who say 'Republicans and Democrats are one in the same' should read this:

"...No Republicans voted in favor of the bill. Forty-one of the Assembly's 47 Democrats voted yes; four Democrats voted "no," and two abstained..."

""History will record whether we pushed a bit, took the lead to encourage tolerance, to encourage equality to encourage fairness," he (Tom Umberg-D-Anaheim) said...."

(yes, all the while doing so in your paneled chambers, far away from the glare of public scrutiny)

Why now, was this stealth bill drafted and run up the flagpole?

A 36% approval rating for the Governator, that's why. The cynical liberals know that the overwhelming majority of Californians are against same-sex marriage, and will not support another attempt at making it legal anytime soon. So, with Arnold's term quickly coming to a close, they are forcing him to choose power over principle. If he wants to be re-elected, he will sign this bill, or so they think.

'How can this happen' one wonders? How is it that a Democrat legislator can feel confident enough to write illegal law and vote on it without repercussion?...Gerrymandering. This state is so rigged, it's worse than a vegas slot-machine.

Democrats are in no danger of losing their seats because their districts are based on voter turnout and trends nearly mirroring their political disposition. No Democrat can win in Simi Valley, for example. No Republican can win in West Hollywood. And you can guess the shapes of their constituency bases on a map.

So, if Arnold caves, seeking a second term as Governor, he will cave, and the corrupt liberals will claim victory, cooing that 'Claifornia has finally beened enlightened'.

All the while, over 60% of the public will know they have been lied to yet again, and their voices ignored.

The hubris of today's liberal Democrat knows no bounds. No deceit, no scheme, no matter how illegal or damaging is enough stop and make them pause. Power and social elitism is the only prize they seek.

If they want to make same-sex marriage legal, then by God, do it the right way..put it to the voters. If this does pass, no gay person should think, even for a moment that their victory is anything but a sham, a house of cards built on deception.

Regardles of what one believes regarding gays or same-sex marriage, legislation in silence is un-American, irresponsible, and brutish.
This is a fight to the death and now is the time to organize against this Liberal Extremist Democrat machine of political evil.

2005-09-01T15:45:00.000-07:00

More Truth from Iraq-Michael Yon

2005-08-30T20:54:00.000-07:00

This is now my favorite mil-blog. When even I succumb to the liberal mainstream media's drumbeat of failure, this is the place to find a glimpse of the good work being done in Iraq:

from Michael Yon online magazine-

"On the first mission I ran in Mosul, we lost two soldiers and an interpreter, all killed by a car bomb. Others were horribly burned, scarred for life. Many of our wounded and killed soldiers got it right here, or in the immediate vicinity. The ISF takes serious losses in this part of town. But it's not entirely one-sided--the Deuce Four has killed well over 150 terrorists in this neighborhood in the past 10 months. But almost none of those made the news, and those that did had a few key details missing.

Like the time when some ISF were driving and got blasted by an IED, causing numerous casualties and preventing them from recovering the vehicle. The terrorists came out and did their rifle-pumping-in-the-air thing, shooting AKs, dancing around like monkeys. Videos went 'round the world, making it appear the terrorists were running Mosul, which was pretty much what was being reported at the time.

But that wasn't the whole story. In the Yarmuk neighborhood, only terrorists openly carry AK-47s. The lawyers call this Hostile Intent. The soldiers call this Dead Man Walking.

Deuce Four is an overwhelmingly aggressive and effective unit, and they believe the best defense is a dead enemy. They are constantly thinking up innovative, unique, and effective ways to kill or capture the enemy; proactive not reactive. They planned an operation with snipers, making it appear that an ISF vehicle had been attacked, complete with explosives and flash-bang grenades to simulate the IED. The simulated casualty evacuation of sand dummies completed the ruse.

The Deuce Four soldiers left quickly with the "casualties," "abandoning" the burning truck in the traffic circle. The enemy took the bait. Terrorists came out and started with the AK-rifle-monkey-pump, shooting into the truck, their own video crews capturing the moment of glory. That's when the American snipers opened fire and killed everybody with a weapon. Until now, only insiders knew about the AK-monkey-pumpers smack-down.

And there we were, in the Yarmuk traffic circle, where so many people die so violently. LT Keneally and SSG Eric Richardson had cuffed the guy with the striped shirt and the transmitter. LTC Kurilla started interrogating the terrorist, asking where the bombs are, stopping only for the interpreter.

Meanwhile, Strykers took up blocking positions, and began scanning the area for enemy. Everyone knew that other terrorists were out there, somewhere, watching us. After all, we were standing in what might be the most dangerous traffic circle in the universe.

I was thinking, of course: IEDs. Snipers. RPGs. Car bombs. Mortars. And then, after scanning the area and reflecting, I rethought and came up with: IEDs. Snipers. RPGs. Car bombs. Mortars. But we hadn't been shot at by snipers in days, and Kurilla managed to make the terrorist point to where the IEDs were buried. That's when automatic weapons started firing at us.

Bullets flying by, and enemy weapons firing: PaPaPaPaPaPaPaPaPaPow . . . zinnggg . . . GawGawGawGawPaPaGawGaw. . . . different types of weapons were shooting.
One of our big machine guns started boomboomboom . . . boomboomboom . . . boomboom boom, and then our guys with those little rifles they carry, poppop . . . poppoppoppop. . . . to my left . . . poppoppoppoppoppoppopp to my right, and then, boomboomboom PaPaPaPaPaPpoppoppoppopp GawGawGaw BOOM PaPaPpoppopGawGaw GawGawGawPaPaPpop popboom boom boom.

This was an appropriate time to run for cover. Enemy bullets snapping by. I saw at least two soldiers smiling--authors are not allowed to carry weapons PaPaPGawGaw
BOOM PaPaPpop zinnggg--dust clouding the air--sure would be nice to have a gun instead of a camera right now boompop Gawsnapsnap boom boompoppboomGawGawGaw.

I looked back to where we had been because the prisoner [the American soldiers always remind me that I should call prisoners "detainees"] was still there, handcuffed, and on his knees, with the radio transmitter lying beside him on the ground.

We had left the prisoner in the open. Bullets are snapping, and I'm crouched on a knee behind a Stryker. When I look back again, I see Kurilla standing out there, alone, next to the terrorist on the sidewalk. Bullets are kicking up dirt and Kurilla gives us a look: What the hell! You left the prisoner!

For a moment, I nearly ran back out to drag the terrorist behind the Stryker, but then I thought, Nope, he's a terrorist! If Kurilla gets shot, I'm definitely going to get him. But the terrorist can get shot to pieces and I don't care.

Instead of doing something useful--and I feel marginally guilty about this, but not too much--I start snapping photos as the Commander drags the guy by the collar to get him to the cover of the Stryker. I can't believe Kurilla is still alive after nearly a year of doing this"

What Cindy Sheehan Really Wants

2005-08-19T17:53:00.000-07:00

Christopher Hitchens nails this woman to the wall. The article is so good it needs a reprint here.

For those of you who don't know, Chris Hitchens is a Democrat.

What Cindy Sheehan Really Wants
Now imagine if she gets it.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Friday, Aug. 19, 2005,

....Caught in a lie?

When are the bureau chiefs of our newspapers and networks going to snap out of their own vacation-induced trances and send some grown-up correspondents down to Crawford, Texas? For weeks now, Cindy Sheehan has not been asked a single question that is any tougher than "How does it feel?" The media have been acting as her megaphone. After Slate published her real opinions on politics (a weird confection of pacifism with paranoid anti-Zionism) last Monday, she was eventually asked about her statement that her son Casey had been killed in a war for Israel, and she denied ever having made it. So, we must now say that, as well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist.

After Slate published an extract from a letter that she wrote last March to ABC Nightline, Anderson Cooper of CNN asked her about the anti-Israel remarks the letter contained. She denied making them and proceeded in her blog to assert that someone had gotten hold of her original letter and somehow doctored it. This dark and murky allegation—evincing further paranoia on her part—has been easily and convincingly refuted, as can be seen in this sidebar. Cindy Sheehan, not content with echoing the Bin-Ladenist line that the president is the real "terrorist" and that he is the tool of a Jewish cabal, has dug a pit of falsehood around her own wild story.

This week, before family matters called her away from Crawford, she mutated her demand—that the president lower himself into that pit and join her down there—into the shameless request that he join her for Friday prayers. The nerve! We all know how much the MoveOn.org forces believe in the power of prayer, and in the president's sincere religious convictions (their contempt for this is the only thing on which I agree with them). But, hey, try anything once for a tear-jerker or a bit of moral blackmail—what Maureen Dowd has so laughably called "absolute moral authority."

What do these people imagine that they are demanding? Would they like a referendum to be held, among the relatives of the fallen in Iraq, to determine the future conduct of the war? I think I can promise them that they would heavily lose such a vote. But what if the right wing were also to demand such a vote and the "absolute moral authority" that supposedly goes with it?

One of three things could then happen. The ultra-right anti-Zionist forces of David Duke and Patrick J. Buchanan, both of whom approvingly speak of Ms. Sheehan's popular groundswell, would still lose the vote. So would the media fools who semi-automatically identify Sheehan and her LaRouche-like drivel with the "left" or "progressive" forces. This would leave us with a random pseudo-majority, made up of veterans and their relatives. Who wants this to be the group that decides? One might as well live in a populist, jingoist banana republic. Never mind the Constitution, or even the War Powers Act. Only victims and martyrs can decide! Get ready to gather under the balcony of a leader who speaks rotundly of such glory.

Then there is the question of humanitarian or pacifist emotion. Some have perhaps been drawn to "Camp Casey" out of reverence for life. Their demand, however, is an immediate coalition withdrawal from Iraq. Have they seriously asked themselves how humane the consequences of that would be? The news of a pullout would put a wolfish grin on the faces of the "al-Qaida in Mesopotamia" brigade, as Mr. Zarqawi's force has named itself in order to resolve all doubt. Every effort would be made to detonate every available car-bomb and mine, so as to claim the withdrawal of coalition forces as a military victory for jihad. I can quite understand Ms. Sheehan's misery at the thought of her son being killed on some desolate road. But will she be on hand to console the parents whose sons are shot in the back while being ordered to surrender and withdraw?

I hope I don't insult the intelligent readers of this magazine if I point out what the consequences of such a capitulation would be for the people of Iraq. Paint your own mental picture of a country that was already almost beyond rescue in 2003, as it is handed back to an alliance of homicidal Baathists and Bin-Ladenists. Comfort yourself, if that's the way you think, with the idea that such people are only nasty because Bush made them so. Intone the Sheehan mantra—repeated this very week—that terrorism is no problem because after all Bush is the leading terrorist in the world. See if that cheers you up. Try it on your friends. Live with it, if you are ready to live with the consequences of what you desire.

This is an argument, about a real war, that deserves moral seriousness on all sides. Flippancy and light-mindedness have no place. Cindy Sheehan's cheerleader Michael Moore has compared the "insurgents" in Iraq to the American minutemen and Founding Fathers. Do I taunt him for not volunteering to fight himself in such a noble cause? Of course I do not. That would be a low and sly blow. Do I say that he is spouting fascistic nonsense? Of course I do. Is Cindy Sheehan exempt from any verdict on her wacko opinions because of her bereavement? I would say that she is not. Has she been led into a false position by eager cynics who have sacrificed nothing and who would happily surrender unconditionally to the worst enemy that currently faces civilization? That's for her to clarify. While she ponders, she should forgo prayer, stay in California, and end her protest.

Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair. His most recent book is Thomas Jefferson: Author of America.

Who's 'Able?'

2005-08-19T17:21:00.000-07:00

Abu Ghraib-31 consecutive days on the front page of the New york Times.

9/11 Commission-Endless media accusations of 'Bush New'

Cindy Sheehan-3,150,000 Googel results, 21,000 news paper mentions in one week.

Able Danger?...........'able who?'

"When the Able Danger story hit the blogosphere some two weeks ago, a few writers—including myself—immediately decided that the story smelled, well, right. Given the subterfuge we’ve all come to take for granted in Washington D.C., the politicization of the Sept. 11 Commission itself, and the misadventures of the MSM since the 2004 Presidential Elections, it came as no surprise to many in the New Media that an intelligence operation could be stopped from passing crucial information about the al-Qaeda plotters to the FBI as the result of the “wall of separation” created in 1995 by the Jamie Gorelick memo to FBI Director Louis Freeh and Mary Jo White, of the New York US Attorney’s Office investigating the first WTC bombings.

Some, however, were skeptical and delayed entering the fray until more solid information could be had regarding the reliability of reports that anonymous members of Able Danger had spoken with Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA) about their identification of an al-Qaeda cell operating in Brooklyn, New York, at least a year prior to the 2001 attacks. These sources told Weldon they had been stopped from communicating with the FBI by Defense Department lawyers who were, at the time, worried that if the information turned out to be incorrect, the military itself would be blamed for unnecessary intrusions upon the rights of those terror suspects because they were in the United States “legally.”

Indeed, the Drudge Report (go here) did not link to any story about the controversy until August 17th, and only after Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer stepped from the shadows to identify himself as one of the two sources for the information to the Sept. 11 Commission—and Representative Weldon—regarding the identification of Mohammed Atta as one of the al-Qaeda members in Brooklyn. Similarly, the stalwart PowerLine blog did not itself weigh in until August 16th—first to express its skepticism about Weldon and the story in general and then, in a quick turnaround, to say that the story looked as if it might be true after all (go here). Michelle Malkin has been tracking the story since August 11th, even while kicking the you-know-what out of the Air America scandal (go here) and offers a good review of how it has developed. Of course, the Freepers at Free Republic very quickly devoted a thread to “all things Mohammed Atta” and you can find some very lively discussions of what has so far been written there.

Now that Lt. Col. Shaffer himself has given interviews, the mainstream press has belatedly begun to carry the story. And the early skeptics, like John Podhoretz of the New York Post have come around. Instead of sniping at Representative Weldon’s credibility (he was, after all, selling a book—not that that seemed to give many in the MSM scruples when it came to Richard C. Clarke), he, like others, have begun to see that Weldon’s concerns about the Sept. 11 Commission’s handling of this explosive information was legitimate.

When Jamie Gorelick, author of the “wall of separation” directive, was named to the Sept. 11 Commission, the Washington Times questioned the propriety of her presence given her participation in a culture that may have led to intelligence and law enforcement failures prior to the 9/11 attacks. David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag went so far as to suggest—in 2004—that the Gorelick Memo itself was part of an attempt by the Clinton Administration to shield itself from investigations that seemed to indicate a connection between Chinese espionage and illegal foreign campaign contributions to the Democratic National Committee during the 1996 Presidential campaign. Coupled with the Able Danger information now coming to light, it is not unreasonable to conclude that one of the accidental results of the Clinton Administration’s attempt to insulate itself from prosecution for illegal activities was the failure to act on information that it seems now might have helped to prevent the 9/11 attacks.

For his part, John Aschcroft, in testimony before the Sept. 11 Commission, quite explicitly identified Gorelick’s 1995 memo as instrumental in creating an atmosphere in which individuals in the intelligence community were made to understand that their careers might be in jeopardy if they pushed information too hard. Specifically, he said,

“And the memorandum of which I spoke, which was crafted in 1995, specifically indicated that it was based on an understanding at that time that held the law would not countenance certain exchanges. I believe it was a mistaken impression of the law which was later corrected by the rulings of the FISA court of appeals. But if you look through the history of what happened just in the cases surrounding 9/11, time after time you find individuals being advised by their superiors that they could not or should not be involved in activity because such involvement would breach the wall.”

Ashcroft concluded these remarks by indicating that the Gorelick memo had a devastating effect on the US intelligence community’s ability not only to know what they knew, but to pass that information along to those who might actually do something about it:

I cited both the Mihdhar and Hazmi cases together with the Moussaoui case, each case where advice was given to individuals who wanted to be more active in their pursuit of individuals, that they should restrain themselves in their pursuits because of the wall. So it's my clear belief that the wall itself developed this culture which restrained in a substantial way the exchange of information in the intelligence and law enforcement communities” (emphasis added).

Ashcroft’s remarks have been wholly vindicated by Lt. Col. Shaffer’s impression that Able Danger’s attempts to meet with and pass information to the FBI on three separate occasions the summer before the 9/11 attacks were thwarted by lawyers in the Defense Department. According to the New York Times (go here), Shaffer “said he learned later that lawyers associated with the Special Operations Command of the Defense Department had canceled the F.B.I. meetings because they feared controversy if Able Danger was portrayed as a military operation that had violated the privacy of civilians who were legally in the United States.” In the same story, Shaffer is quoted as saying “I was at the point of near insubordination over the fact that this was something important, that this was something that should have been pursued . . . It was because of the chain of command saying we're not going to pass on information - if something goes wrong, we'll get blamed.”

When Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice testified before the Sept. 11 Commission, she said that the Bush Administration realized belatedly that “we were at war but not on a war footing.” The entire Able Danger story speaks to the differences of approach between the Clinton and the Bush Administrations in terms of their approaches to the threat of al-Qaeda and terrorist attacks against the United States.

Lt. Col. Shaffer witnessed the Clinton approach in his own efforts to get the FBI to move on the Mohammed Atta information culled from Able Danger’s “open source” investigations that revealed the al-Qaeda cell in Brooklyn prior to the 9/11 attacks. Such a response form DoD attorneys—whose worries were tuned to legal scruples rather than to interventionist moves that might stop whatever that al-Qaeda cell was planning—reveal the culture produced by the Clinton era Gorelick Memo. In a nutshell, the Able Danger fiasco illustrates what law enforcement and military personnel might tell you: lawyers worry about convictions; intelligence officers, military men and women, police officers, FBI and CIA agents worry about not only capturing criminals, but preventing crimes—not to mention acts of barbarism of historic proportions.

And given what has been said by Sept. 11 Commission members who have been caught with their pants down since the Able Danger information came to light, it is clear that the Sept. 11 Commission itself was infected from the very beginning with a Clinton-esque concern for covering all of its bases in coming up with a plausible explanation for the intelligence failures that led to 9/11. The Commission rejected the claims of Able Danger in October of 2003 because such inconvenient facts did not fit with the conclusions that, by then, the Commission had already drawn.

It is often said that the fish rots from the head down. This is true. The positive corollary to such a truism is that any institution will, over time, take on the personality of its leader. Hence, under the Clinton Administration—headed by a husband/wife team who both were lawyers—the Justice Department, as reflected by the Jamie Gorelick “wall of separation” directive, became lawlerly in its approach to the ongoing problem of international terrorism and especially in its approach to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. As we all know, President Clinton had an opportunity to take Osama bin Laden into custody when he was offered to the United States by officials in the Sudan. In language that is eerily similar to the DoD attorneys’ who reportedly rejected the Able Danger request to pass information about Mohammed Atta to the FBI, Clinton declined the offer, explaining later that Osama bin Laden had not been directly implicated in any “crimes” against the U.S. or its citizens—a lawyer thinking in terms of whether or not we would be able to get a conviction in a court of law, not a President whose responsibility is to protect American citizens from future terrorist attacks.

Is the Clinton Administration responsible for the failures that led to the 9/11 attacks? Depends on what the meaning of the word “is” is, I suppose.

Thank God President Bush is not an attorney."

The Cindy Sheehan Blog

2005-08-16T13:35:00.000-07:00

(click on the title to go to the blog)

A severe case of the vapors has stricken Cindy Sheehan and her host of court jesters over at the Crawford Ranch. Go to it and read some of the comments posted by the fevered.

In this photo, she takes her marching orders from Michael Moore or Ed Asner, I can't tell which....Either that or the voices in her head are stuck on a rewind/replay of 'all we are sayyyyyying, is givvvve peace a channnnnts'

Looks like Cindy's husband has jumped the rails and filed for divorce from this addled woman. Good for him.

It is so unfortunate that we have to continually state the obvious. One would hope that 7 years of World war II had taught us the value of sacrifice, and yes, the value of loss.

Here is a brief passage from Bruce Thornton's article over at VDH (see The Truth Mine on the right of this blog for the link)...

As much as we respect and sympathize with Ms. Sheehan's grief, then, we are under no obligation to respect her opinion about the necessity or justice of this war, or give it any more of a hearing than anybody else's. In fact, we should suspect that it reflects her understandable grief rather than any superior insight into the reasons for going to war. Those reasons should be debated and discussed through the political process, and they should reflect as much as possible fact and rational argument. Presenting those facts and arguments is the job of a responsible media. Unfortunately, exploiting suffering and indulging their political prejudices are often more important to the media than providing their fellow citizens with the resources needed to make the best decision.

You've Got To Be Kidding...

2005-08-12T20:52:00.000-07:00

Palestinian Ground to Ground artillery...I swear, this is a fence post from Home Depot with pie-tin metal for fins that look like something from Professor Fate's workshop.

History Points To This Man

2005-08-12T20:27:00.000-07:00

....While this event is unproven by historical fact, this much we know:

"Col. John J Pershing threatened the mullahs with . . . "splattering of pigs-blood on your houses and families and any who attack us and are killed will be buried in pig-skins." Consequently the mullahs made Pershing an Honorary Chieftan with little if any more trouble in his area of command."

"It was Colonel Alexander Rodgers of the 6th Cavalry who accomplished by taking advantage of religious prejudice what the bayonets and Krags had been unable to accomplish. Rodgers inaugurated a system of burying all dead juramentados in a common grave with the carcasses of slaughtered pigs. The Mohammedan religion forbids contact with pork; and this relatively simple device resulted in the withdrawal of juramentados to sections not containing a Rodgers. Other officers took up the principle, adding new refinements to make it additionally unattractive to the Moros. In some sections the Moro juramentado was beheaded after death and the head sewn inside the carcass of a pig. And so the rite of running juramentado, at least semi-religious in character, ceased to be in Sulu. The last cases of this religious mania occurred in the early decades of the century. The juramentados were replaced by the amucks. .. who were simply homicidal maniacs with no religious significance attaching to their acts."

Whatever the truth, today's generals would rather polish their stars than fight this war to win, so it seems.

'Big Brother' Is A Liberal

2005-08-12T13:14:00.000-07:00

"Bush wants to censor what I read at the library"

"The Right is intolerant of alternate views and lifestyles"

"All gays want is equality and to be left alone"

We hear these and many other mantras incessantly. Flip on the TV, it's a bunch of gay men showing straight men how stupid they are regarding what clothes to wear or what wallpaper matches the chiffon.

Thumb through a Newsweek or Time magazine, and it's a 2000 word essay on how gays are 'just like' the blacks of the civil rights era or Jews during the Holocaust, a particularly vile comparison. There is no Eichmann or Himmler shoving gays into ovens by the millions.

Drive down a major southern California street, and there is a 20-by-50 foot billboard depicting two male sweethearts beaming at each other as they hang over the rail of their 'gay cruise' ship.

And try taking your kids to 'gay day' at Disneyland. Their innocence will evaporate like a slurpee in the mid-day sun.

All of this would sit well with me. All of it. Gays are who they are, and enjoy the identical freedoms that I do as they should. While I don't watch gay TV shows, I don't mind their existence as long as they follow the same guidelines as other TV shows. I don't mind gay clubs, or most other contrivances which the gay community deems necessary.

What I object to is deceit and hypocrisy.

When gays use the courts and political pressure to ruin people's lives, they are no different in their actions than the institutional racists of decades past. Yet running cover for gay activist groups are the media themselves, trampling over each other and the Constitution in their rush to prove who is the most tolerant, like it's some sort of door prize.

Only a few of you know my real name. And only a few people knew
Matt Barber, a former employee of Allstate Insurance. No doubt, Allstate employs many blacks, women, and various other minorities. They even had a token conservative white guy, until January of this year. While gays have the right to free speech, Allstate insurance does not believe Mr.Barber enjoys such protections.

Mr. Barber, on his own time, in his own home wrote an article published in mensnewsdaily.com, criticizing the absurdity of the gay 'marriages' performed by activist San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom of late last year. Barber's writing was based on facts and data readily available to anyone. The article was a discussion of ideas, supposedly welcomed by all in the (formerly) liberal left. Mr Barber violated no laws, threatened no person, instigated no violence. Yet someone who knew he worked at Allstate likely threatened the company with a discrimination suit or some other cause d'jour, and Barber loses his job.

I have often said that liberalism and fascism will one day come full circle to in fact embody the principles that each other so adamantly reviled.

I just didn't realize it would be so soon.

Matt Barber's article that lead to his firing can be read here:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/a-b/barber/2004/barber121204.htm

The Other Side Of The Sheehan Family

2005-08-11T11:16:00.000-07:00

Thu Aug 11 2005 12:56:21 ET

The family of American soldier Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, has broken its silence and spoken out against his mother Cindy Sheehan's anti-war vigil against George Bush held outside the president's Crawford, Texas ranch.

The following email was received by the DRUDGE REPORT from Cherie Quarterolo, Casey's aunt and godmother:

Our family has been so distressed by the recent activities of Cindy we are breaking our silence and we have collectively written a statement for release. Feel free to distribute it as you wish. Thanks Ð Cherie

In response to questions regarding the Cindy Sheehan/Crawford Texas issue: Sheehan Family Statement:

The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son's good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect.

Sincerely,

Casey Sheehan's grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins.

George W. Bush is God.com

2005-08-09T15:53:00.000-07:00

The funniest man on Earth has a new blog...

I Think I Get It Now

2005-08-05T13:15:00.000-07:00

...1945

...2005

Israeli terror, Arab ideology

2005-08-04T15:57:00.000-07:00

A single Israeli soldier today murdered 4 Arabs on a bus with a rifle. A mob stormed the bus and subsequently lynched the soldier.

Within hours Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called the incident "a reprehensible act of a bloodthirsty Jewish terrorist who sought to attack innocent Israeli citizens."
"bloodthirsty terrorist", referring not to a Palestinian, but one of his own soldiers. Also note he referred to the Arabs killed as 'Israeli citizens'. "This terror incident is a deliberate attempt to harm the relations between the citizens of Israel," he said.

Interestingly enough, CNN somehow forgot to mention that the soldier was lynched by the arab mob, but drones on and on about Gaza.

Let's take a trip down the memory lane of quotes and images by various prominent islamic officials and arabs regarding atrocities in Israel, America, London and elsewhere:

video links: http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=67

Egyptian PM Hamadein Sabahi-7/17/2005: " I support Al-Qaeda when it kills Americans;any kidnapping and slaughtering of an American is good"

"Egyptian Islamist Dr. Muhammad Amara: "Terrorism in the Koranic Sense Is Not Violence"

" The Palestinians even named a street in Jenin after the suicide bomber who blew himself up in Iraq, killing 4 US soldiers."

ÂGod how great is your power and your might, and how humiliated your enemies,Â wrote one man who described himself as Âan oppressed SaudiÂ.

"Egyptian Driver Kidnapped by Al-Zarqawi in Iraq: My Kidnappers Were "The Purest People I Have Met"; May Allah Bless bin Laden"

" Lebanese Political Science Professor George Hajjar: America Is the New Nazism" - 7/13/2005

"Iraqi Shiite Cleric As'ad Qasir: The US Is Our Number One Enemy
Sahar TV (Iran) - 7/5/2005

"Terror in London (6) - Tehran Sermon: The US and Israel are the Father and Mother of Al-Qaeda; The Preacher Condemns London Attacks and the Crowd Cheers "Death to England"
Iran Ch.1 - 7/8/2005 - 00:02:37 "

...but there's nothing like visual images:

Palestinian outpouring of sympathy after 9/11 attacks

Palestinian day care

Arab style knick-knackery. (made in china no doubt)

They blow up so fast, don't they?...

..but we shouldn't profile. We should be tolerant and diverse.

....My form of tolerance^..

Architect-1,Professor-0

2005-08-02T15:59:00.000-07:00

Once again, facts and precision defeat slander and pamphlet-speak.

"Heidi", a Humanities Proffessor, stumbled on EPR, and decided to initiate a pointed debate in the comments section. I thought: 'uh-oh...big shiny PhD...I'm in for it."

After one of her posts being deleted for profane content, she cried 'censorship'. Yet the contents of her thinking became evident when she proclaimed with outright indignation, little gems like "we trained Bin Laden", "we installed Saddam Hussein."....later followed with "Guantanamo is a Gulag".

Oh I forgot, this person's profile starts off with 'Feminist Intellectual"

Well, an intellectual, feminist or otherwise would know that we did not train Bin Laden, we did not install Saddam Hussein, nor is a government-run prison in Cuba holding 520+ people anything remotely akin to the Soviet-era Gulag of the 1920's to 1950's whereby arguably 13,000,000 people died. Not a single soul has perished at Gitmo. But they do receive Qorans, prayer mats, a Muslim diet, and medical attention.

These and many, many other widely known facts continue to evade Heidi all the way up to the university level. The 'Prager Principle' is proving truer by the minute.

This sad fact that this 'Ph.D' is teaching impressionable youth simply adds further impetus to the already exploding home-schooling effort in the nation. When grown adults spout such nonsense, who will run this place in twenty years?

This Is Why They Lose

2005-08-01T16:56:00.000-07:00

While the GOP is busy raising money, selecting judges, and setting policy for the next ten years, regardless of who wins in '08, this is what fevered Democrats do over at, you guessed it, MoveOn:

"FIRE KARL ROVE SLOGAN CONTEST"

http://www.actionforum.com/forum/index.html?forum_id=271

"We want to create the sort of buzz about Karl Rove you can see when you walk down the street. That's why we've launched a Fire Karl Rove Slogan Contest to figure out the slogan for a downloadable poster we'll send to all 3.5 million MoveOn members. Suggest your best idea for a good slogan or rate the slogans of other MoveOn members. The collective ratings of MoveOn members will decide the winner. Slogan writing and rating ends at 8:00 PM Eastern on Tuesday, August 2, 2005. We'll then have a professional graphic artist design the downloadable poster that is the right size to print on a desktop printer and e-mail to all 3.5 million MoveOn members (with credit in the e-mail to the slogan's author). If you're the winner, we'll send you a framed copy of your poster in full-color.

...no doubt there are puppets involved somewhere..

Truth Revisited

2005-07-27T17:17:00.000-07:00

In light of flagging support of the war on terror, I thought it an appropriate time to remember that horrible week. A USAF Colonel penned this letter, which needs to be read by all.

"14 September, 2001

Dear friends and fellow Americans

Like everyone else in this great country, I am reeling from last week's attack on our sovereignty. But unlike some, I am not reeling from surprise. As a career soldier and a student and teacher of military history, I have a different perspective and I think you should hear it.

This war will be won or lost by the American citizens, not diplomats, politicians or soldiers. Let me briefly explain. In spite of what the media, and even our own government is telling us, this act was not committed by a group of mentally deranged fanatics. To dismiss them as such would be among the gravest of mistakes. This attack was committed by a ferocious, intelligent and dedicated adversary. Don't take this the wrong way. I don't admire these men and I deplore their tactics, but I respect their capabilities. The many parallels that have been made with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are apropos. Not only because it was a brilliant sneak attack against a complacent America, but also because we may well be pulling our new adversaries out of caves 30 years after we think this war is over, just like my father's generation had to do with the formidable Japanese in the years following WW II.

These men hate the United States with all of their being, and we must not underestimate the power of their moral commitment. Napoleon, perhaps the world's greatest combination of soldier and statesman, stated the moral is to the physical as three is to one. Patton thought the Frenchman underestimated its importance and said moral conviction was five times more important in battle than physical strength. Our enemies are willing — better said anxious — to give their lives for their cause. How committed are we America? And for how long?

In addition to demonstrating great moral conviction, the recent attack demonstrated a mastery of some of the basic fundamentals of warfare taught to most military officers worldwide, namely simplicity, security and surprise. When I first heard rumors that some of these men may have been trained at our own Air War College, it made perfect sense to me. This was not a random act of violence, and we can expect the same sort of military competence to be displayed in the battle to come. This war will escalate, with a good portion of it happening right here in the good ol' U.S. of A. These men will not go easily into the night. They do not fear us. We must not fear them.

In spite of our overwhelming conventional strength as the world's only superpower (a truly silly term), we are the underdog in this fight. As you listen to the carefully scripted rhetoric designed to prepare us for the march for war, please realize that America is not equipped or seriously trained for the battle ahead. To be certain, our soldiers are much better than the enemy, and we have some excellent counter-terrorist organizations, but they are mostly trained for hostage rescues, airfield seizures, or the occasional body snatch, (which may come in handy). We will be fighting a war of annihilation, because if their early efforts are any indication, our enemy is ready and willing to die to the last man. Eradicating the enemy will be costly and time consuming. They have already deployed their forces in as many as 20 countries, and are likely living the lives of everyday citizens.

Simply put, our soldiers will be tasked with a search and destroy mission on multiple foreign landscapes, and the public must be patient and supportive until the strategy and tactics can be worked out. For the most part, our military is still in the process of redefining itself and is presided over by men and women who grew up with - and were promoted because they excelled in - Cold War doctrine, strategy and tactics. This will not be linear warfare, there will be no clear centers of gravity to strike with high technology weapons. Our vast technological edge will certainly be helpful, but it will not be decisive. Perhaps the perfect metaphor for the coming battle was introduced by the terrorists themselves aboard the hijacked aircraft — this will be a knife fight, and it will be won or lost by the ingenuity and will of citizens and soldiers, not by software or smart bombs. We must also be patient with our military leaders.

Unlike Americans who are eager to put this messy time behind us, our adversaries have time on their side, and they will use it. They plan to fight a battle of attrition, hoping to drag the battle out until the American public loses its will to fight. This might be difficult to believe in this euphoric time of flag waving and patriotism, but it is generally acknowledged that America lacks the stomach for a long fight. We need only look as far back as Vietnam, when North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap (also a military history teacher) defeated the United States of America without ever winning a major tactical battle. American soldiers who marched to war cheered on by flag waving Americans in 1965 were reviled and spat upon less than three years later when they returned.

Although we hope that Usama Bin Laden is no Giap, he is certain to understand and employ the concept. We can expect not only large doses of pain like the recent attacks, but also less audacious sand in the gears tactics, ranging from livestock infestations to attacks at water supplies and power distribution facilities. These attacks are designed to hit us in our comfort zone forcing the average American to pay more and play less and eventually eroding our resolve. But it can only work if we let it. It is clear to me that the will of the American citizenry - you and I - is the center of gravity the enemy has targeted. It will be the fulcrum upon which victory or defeat will turn. He believes us to be soft, impatient, and self-centered. He may be right, but if so, we must change. The Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, (the most often quoted and least read military theorist in history), says that there is a remarkable trinity of war that is composed of the (1) will of the people, (2) the political leadership of the government, and (3) the chance and probability that plays out on the field of battle, in that order.

Every American citizen was in the crosshairs of last Tuesday's attack, not just those that were unfortunate enough to be in the World Trade Center or Pentagon. The will of the American people will decide this war. If we are to win, it will be because we have what it takes to persevere through a few more hits, learn from our mistakes, improvise, and adapt. If we can do that, we will eventually prevail.

Everyone I've talked to in the past few days has shared a common frustration, saying in one form or another, "I just wish I could do something!" You are already doing it. Just keep faith in America, and continue to support your President and military, and the outcome is certain. If we fail to do so, the outcome is equally certain. God Bless America

Dr. Tony Kern, Lt Col, USAF (Ret)
Former Director of Military History, USAF Academy .."

Liberals Off by Only 900%

2005-07-19T15:28:00.000-07:00

"Over 100.000 innocent Iraqi children, women and men have been slaughtered and
killed "

"Iraq : New International Study: 100.000 Iraqis died"

"100.000 IRAQI DEATHS--WORLD WIDE PETITION AGAINST THE ESCALATION"

"GeorgeWBush.org Forum > At least 100.000 Dead Iraqis"

"Voices in the Wilderness : Press Release: Lawton Peace Vigils For ...
... estimating that 100.000 Iraqis have been killed in the current war. “It seems
the majority killed are bystanders shot or bombed by mistake,”

...Google returned nearly 4000 stories that mentioned this staggering number-100,000 deaths- at the hands of George W. Hitler and the Reichpublicans' lust for world domination. Actually, I've been tracking this number in stories, and I've seen it morphing into 110,000-up to 140,000. The left asserts that our oil-thirsty military greases the tracks of its tanks with the livers of 6 year olds on its headlong rush to war, stopping briefly only to mow down some old people for target practice. Since the left says 100,000, well it must be true.

So naturally when I read this piece by the right wing extremist news source, the BBC, I was nodding my head once again in a knowing disbelief:

"'25,000 civilians' killed in Iraq

More than half of civilian deaths were caused by explosive devices
Nearly 25,000 civilians have died violently in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003, a report says.
The dossier, based on media reports, says US-led forces were responsible for more than a third of the deaths.

So, they're now saying US forces butchered only 8,000-9,000 people. Ridiculous. How could that number be so small? And no doubt every one of those poor Iraqis had their hands up, offering tea and cookies to our troops that were sadly mistaken for RPG's.

Elegant Nonsense

2005-07-18T16:50:00.000-07:00

Another great piece by VDH:...

Nearly 24 centuries ago, Plato warned not to confuse innate artistic skill with either education or intelligence.

The philosopher worried that the emotional bond we can forge with good actors might also allow these manipulative mimics too much influence in matters in which they were often ignorant.

So he would cringe that the high-school graduate Sean Penn is now capitalizing on his worldly fame from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" to pose as an informed commentator on the Iranian elections.

Then there's Robert Redford, who once played Bob Woodward in "All the President's Men" and apparently still believes that role made him an experienced Washington Post-like muckraker from the Watergate Era. These days Redford lectures reporters to go after George W. Bush, undeterred by the fact that the real journalist Dan Rather ended his career by just such an obsessed effort.

Redford and Penn, of course, aren't the only entertainers as would-be wise men and moralists who lecture us on the evils of the Bush administration.

more....

Grande Latte Please, Hold the Gay

2005-07-13T10:50:00.000-07:00

"The way I see it #43.....

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long.
I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

--Armistead Maupin "

The above was printed on the side of my coffee cup from Starbucks. Gee, thanks Starbucks, for the corporate sponsored browbeat. Listen to this hyperbole: "I repressed it"..."I surrendered my youth to the people I feared"..."I could have been out there loving someone"...

I see, so this person was afraid that what, he'd be sent to a camp in Cleveland and gassed? And we are supposed to believe that this person just bottled up his love for 'someone' and sat in the corner and cried his life away?. I won't presume to know.

So a coffee marketing minion picks this little ideogram up off of some website, and to make the monthly political correctness quota, orders it slapped onto cups so that consumers will be assured that Starbucks is 'inclusive' and 'tolerant'.

Had this kind of message been placed on a cup in the 1950's, my hat would be off to a company like Starbucks. When society truly looked askance at homosexuality fifty years ago, a professed sentiment of tolerance would indeed be a bold step forward, much like the early civil rights laws..(passed by Republicans and repulsed by Democrats).. of decades past.

But this is the 21st century, well into the age of gay 'rights', hate crime laws, same-sex marriage, 'Boy meets Boy' TV shows, lesbian kisses on prime time, and endless legislation to 'end bigotry'. Apparently, it's not enough to allow society to evolve in the most tolerant and pluralistic nation ever to grace the face of the Earth, no, we have to force it. A constant state of 'social revolution' must be maintained to keep the agitprop relevant, as Fidel Castro in Cuba who still wears his goofy uniform at 70-something years old knows. Were he to remove his uniform it would signal a sense of normalcy not harmonious with the required socialist angst. And so it is with the gay agenda, now seeped into the very pores of corporate America.

However,I don't need to be told to be tolerant. Believe it or not, I've never lynched a black, beat up a gay man, nor gassed a Jew and I've never known anyone, nor even heard of anyone of my contemporaries doing same, and I'm sick to death of being preached at from the extremist left that because I'm not gay, I therefore need to to be re-educated and enlightened. There is a dark history of this kind of re-education that I'm sure we're all familiar with.

But for Starbucks, victimhood and guilt are also a means to an end: money. I contend that companies do not only do this to demonstrate a presumed elevated social consciousness, but rather for fiscal consciousness. It's fashionable to espouse a veneer of tolerance, and gays are statistically financially more successful than non-gays on average. Sales!

Yet there are far more heterosexuals in the buying public, so I offer this retort to Starbucks, a purveyor of products to all:

"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. "
George Washington

This, a quote from a great man who suffered far more than any gay man of any era. He advocates a national vigilance, a sense of preparedness for sacrifice...............ideas long ago abandoned by the liberal left.

I prefer to drink from your cup, Mr. Washington.

Blair Knew

2005-07-11T08:28:00.000-07:00

After an exhaustive probe over the weekend, forensics investigators, terrorism experts and contemplative people in offices have arrived at the unfortunate conclusion that Prime Minister Tony Blair had over 50 Londoners murdered and another 700 maimed, to further his sinister, diminionist agenda.

Blair's ties to big business since his days before he stole the Prime Minister's office nearly a decade ago, have long been suspected. Blair, a failed soccer team owner and one time member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has sought to re-capture England's former colonies all over again by way of back room cronyism and payoffs. When that stopped working, 'he hoodwinked innocent muslims into carrying bombs onto trains and buses', experts say. We know the rest.

The investigation into Blair's obvious knowledge of the blasts last Wednesday began the previous week after the smoking gun, a letter dating August 10, 2004 to Nikhil Parekh, a Tandoori restaurant owner was leaked indicating that Blair was going to..... Scotland. Our sources have taken great risk to bring the truth forward to the light of day, posted here for the first time:

Additionally, secret internet photographs have been trickling in since the planned London bombings took place, clearly illuminating Blair's culpability. Our experts have selected several photographs which provide the damning evidence that points only to Blair. We will present here a series of photos in relation to the timeline of the London attacks:

Photo 1-The Blair Bush project concludes the planning stage:

If you look carefully, you will see that the man who's hand Blair is shaking is not George Clooney's, but George W. Bush's blood-stained paw. The conspiracy begins.

Photo 2-The G8 Summit:
As last week's G8 summit commenced, Blair was all alone in the room, giving his speech, which has now been proven to be a coded message to launch the attacks. Notice how Blair is wearing a dark suit, and is seated-....more incriminating evidence:

Photo 3-Rec.Room at GlenEagles:
Taken the very moment that Blair was 'informed' of the attacks, this photo captures the complete lack of surprise on his face. No amount of acting could prepare him for the level of scrutiny this image lays at his feet. He continued on, losing to Jacques Chirac 21-19, no doubt part of the script. He even went on to challenge Chirac to a 'best 2 out of 3', 3 minutes after the heinous attacks on London's unknowing citizens:

Photo 4-10 Downing St.:
In our last example of the Blair guilt, a hidden camera in the lapel pin of a Multi-National executive shows Blair's defensive posture when questioned about the underground blasts on Wednesday morning, July 6th. This time, he was not rehearsed by his handlers and apparently over-reacted, just like guilty people always do. He was heard to utter something like "Are you talking to me?". Experts are still working to decode that last phrase:

BlairCo had these innocent people killed to prop up his faltering government, and to further his selfish and dangerous campaign of world domination on the backs of the poor. Blair, a wholly owned subsidiary of BushCo, is simply carrying out the orders from his paymaster, George W. Bush. The British lapdog, the anglican poodle, the Wizard of Windsor, will stop at nothing to ensure that we all live in a world of orchestrated and well-funded fear of terrorism, so that he can take over his little piece of Europe.

We must stop him now.

Freidman on London

2005-07-08T16:47:00.000-07:00

Thursday's bombings in downtown London are profoundly disturbing. In part, that is because a bombing in our mother country and closest ally, England, is almost like a bombing in our own country. In part, it's because one assault may have involved a suicide bomber, bringing this terrible jihadist weapon into the heart of a major Western capital.

That would be deeply troubling because open societies depend on trust - on trusting that the person sitting next to you on the bus or subway is not wearing dynamite.

The attacks are also deeply disturbing because when jihadist bombers take their madness into the heart of our open societies, our societies are never again quite as open. Indeed, we all just lost a little freedom Thursday.

But maybe the most important aspect of the London bombings is this: When jihadist-style bombings happen in Riyadh, that is a Muslim-Muslim problem. That is a police problem for Saudi Arabia. But when Qaeda-like bombings come to the London Underground, that becomes a civilizational problem.

Every Muslim living in a Western society suddenly becomes a suspect, becomes a potential walking bomb. And when that happens, it means Western countries are going to be tempted to crack down even harder on their own Muslim populations.

That, too, is deeply troubling. The more Western societies - particularly the big European societies, which have much larger Muslim populations than America - look on their own Muslims with suspicion, the more internal tensions this creates, and the more alienated their already alienated Muslim youth become. This is exactly what Osama bin Laden dreamed of with 9/11: to create a great gulf between the Muslim world and the globalizing West.

So this is a critical moment. We must do all we can to limit the civilizational fallout from this bombing. But this is not going to be easy. Why? Because unlike after 9/11, there is no obvious, easy target to retaliate against for bombings like those in London. There are no obvious terrorist headquarters and training camps in Afghanistan that we can hit with cruise missiles. The Qaeda threat has metastasized and become franchised. It is no longer vertical, something that we can punch in the face. It is now horizontal, flat and widely distributed, operating through the Internet and tiny cells.

Because there is no obvious target to retaliate against, and because there are not enough police to police every opening in an open society, either the Muslim world begins to really restrain, inhibit and denounce its own extremists - if it turns out that they are behind the London bombings - or the West is going to do it for them. And the West will do it in a rough, crude way - by simply shutting them out, denying them visas and making every Muslim in its midst guilty until proven innocent.

And because I think that would be a disaster, it is essential that the Muslim world wake up to the fact that it has a jihadist death cult in its midst. If it does not fight that death cult, that cancer, within its own body politic, it is going to infect Muslim-Western relations everywhere. Only the Muslim world can root out that death cult. It takes a village.

What do I mean? I mean that the greatest restraint on human behavior is never a policeman or a border guard. The greatest restraint on human behavior is what a culture and a religion deem shameful. It is what the village and its religious and political elders say is wrong or not allowed. Many people said Palestinian suicide bombing was the spontaneous reaction of frustrated Palestinian youth. But when Palestinians decided that it was in their interest to have a cease-fire with Israel, those bombings stopped cold. The village said enough was enough.

The Muslim village has been derelict in condemning the madness of jihadist attacks. When Salman Rushdie wrote a controversial novel involving the prophet Muhammad, he was sentenced to death by the leader of Iran. To this day - to this day - no major Muslim cleric or religious body has ever issued a fatwa condemning Osama bin Laden.

Some Muslim leaders have taken up this challenge. This past week in Jordan, King Abdullah II hosted an impressive conference in Amman for moderate Muslim thinkers and clerics who want to take back their faith from those who have tried to hijack it. But this has to go further and wider.

The double-decker buses of London and the subways of Paris, as well as the covered markets of Riyadh, Bali and Cairo, will never be secure as long as the Muslim village and elders do not take on, delegitimize, condemn and isolate the extremists in their midst.

2005-07-07T16:50:00.000-07:00

Tattered, yes....but the sun does not set on Britain...........not just yet, arab filth.
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Statement of Donald Rumsfeld

"But if these terrorists thought they could intimidate the people of a great nation, they picked the wrong people and the wrong nation. For generations, tyrants, fascists, and terrorists have sought to carry out their violent designs upon the British people only to founder upon its unrelenting shores.
Before long, I suspect that those responsible for these acts will encounter British steel. Their kind of steel has an uncommon strength. It does not bend or break.
The British have learned from history that this kind of evil must be confronted. It cannot be appeased. Our two countries understand well that once a people give in to terrorists’ demands, whatever they are, their demands will grow.
The British people are determined and resolute. And I know the people of the United States are proud to stand at their side."

Amen.

Iran lays groundwork for Iraq power grab

2005-07-07T09:56:00.000-07:00

I can't believe how stupid we can be. First, we allow Iran to broadcast TV into Iraq, so that any information that Iraqis have is not from Americans who are there, but another Islamic Fundamentalist country with a history of decades of state sponsored terrorism.

Now, Iran is going to 'help train, rebuild, and modernize the Iraqi army".

This, as Iran continues to build nuclear facilities for 'electrical purposes'. The sea of oil that iran floats upon apparently cannot generate electricity.

"...It's a new chapter in our relations with Iraq. We will start wide defence cooperation," Iranian Defence Minister Admiral Ali Shamkhani told a joint news conference with visiting Iraqi counterpart Sadoun al-Dulaimi.

"We're going to form some committees which will be involved in mine clearance, identifying those missing from the war and also ... to help train, rebuild and modernise the Iraqi army," Shamkhani added.

Iran last year offered to train Iraqi border guards, but Baghdad declined the offer.

Meddling accusation

US and Iraqi officials have often accused Iran of stirring up instability in Iraq. Tehran denies meddling in Iraq or helping, arming or letting foreign fighters cross its borders. ..."

Hey, since we're at it, let's let Syria train Iraq's western border guards, then wonder why there are still car bombings and beheadings in Iraq.

You Can Help

2005-07-06T16:34:00.000-07:00

Be sure to visit this site, and spread the word.

War Was the Answer

2005-07-05T17:39:00.000-07:00

We endured a ten hour bus ride to a town called Gualala (yes, that's correct-only two 'la's').....about 100 miles north of San Francisco on the pacific coast and about a thousand centuries south of reality. The bus was great. Cramped, noisy, and with a bathroom reminiscent of an andy gump toilet, only about one third the size, directly above the engine's heat exchanger. So, as I would stumble around at 80 mph with my fly open, the 150 degree heat would waft up in a heady miasma of diesel oil and effluent. No worries though, as the bus driver had told us he had 'enough Red Bull' to keep him going through the night.

We left at 8pm from Simi Valley, with time being an irrelevant concept as day drifted into night and back again with no clear distinction behind my irritated and swollen eyelids. Like most invasions, ours began in the Land of Tolerance at 6am. It was like passing through time in many different ways. When we arrived, after setting up our camp, I strolled about the town, which was an odd assemblage of high-priced (bad) art galleries stuffed with paintings of trees and birdies, restaurants with names like 'PanGaea' and trinket shops with names like 'Noma' selling peace sign earrings and you guessed it-Birkenstocks, all inhabited by vintage hippies, alcoholic human driftwood, and the wealthy yet oh-so-concerned enviro-riche'. Our hotel was a 1903 original, with all the original trappings of the time, such as no room service, shared bathrooms with marginal plumbing, and the town drunks out back making sure that you too participated in their revelry two floors below at three in the morning.

So there we were, with our guns, cannons, flags, and gender-specific spousal cohabitants, all in the name of 'big oil' as the protest signs reminded us. It must have been 'Big Whale Oil' since for us, it was 1775. All very disorienting.

That’s right. We were protested. Re-enactors portraying the American Revolution were accused of 'glamorizing Bush's war'. The protests ranged from a single gray-haired woman with a 'give peace a chance' sign who was quite shaken that our musketry would sterilize seagulls and otters from nearly a mile distant, to five or six tye-dye-and-hemp wearing youth loudly declaring their unyielding support for dissent, or dissent from support, whichever it was. None of us were quite sure. Since our British contingent had previously taken the town, ‘end the occupation’ signs would have been better. Alas, hindsight.

After a pleasant chat with a couple of them, it became evident that their blend of amateur street theater and muted agitprop was either a half-hearted attempt at guilt mongering or self-flagellation. It was difficult to tell. But it was a break from the daunting labor of bong loading and Bush-effigy puppet building, something to do in a one-crosswalk town. Later on, after hours of joyfully terrorizing otters and seagulls, two of us approached 'give-peace-a-chance' lady asking for a photo-op with her. Not sensing imminent danger from two grown men adorned with gold epaulettes and knee-pants, she tentatively assented--'you want a picture?…with me?'...ummmm, okayyyyy'. Our two neo-soldiers from the past beamed for the camera with peace lady, immortalizing both the 1770's and 1960's simultaneously with a congruity usually reserved for planetary alignment and Blue Moons. Peace lady had no idea how priceless was the moment she provided us with:..

She then told our Captain that ‘I would have been there protesting England, too, if I had been alive then’. The reality of protest and its consequences coming from a woman in 18th century England evaded her, so we just smiled and nodded our heads.
Another adult, who informed me that he possessed a big shiny PhD., assured me that separation of church and state was in fact in the Constitution, and that Bush was ‘just like the other King George’ who wanted to ram his brand of theocracy down our throats, and that somehow--, in the midst of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts, Michael Moore, ACLU lawsuits everywhere, condom use being taught in elementary schools,--the country has become ‘way too conservative’. Again, I quickly sent him on his way, after concurring that, ok, Bush is Hitler. (I had to pee).

Anti-Bush signs and stickers bejeweled this little hamlet of happiness, with this example of open-mindedness taking the prize for intellectual inclusiveness. A large sign stating:“Where’s Lee Harvey Oswald when you need him?”, decorated not a hybrid, Earth-friendly car or a bicycle, but a large SUV. Hey, assassination is just another form of expression. Lighten up.

Yet there were signs of life in this otherwise hermetically sealed compound of liberalism. I met a home-schooled family who whispered to us that they-----owned guns----. I assured the mother of two boys that her secret was safe with us. Among everyone we met last weekend, her kids asked the most intelligent questions. Her 8 year old re-assured me that no, separation of church and state was not in the Constitution. Whew, that was close. PhD man nearly had me flummoxed.

We concluded our weekend in Granola with a battle; The ‘Battle of Granola Wood’. Fortunately, we were not asked to yell ‘bang’ during this event, as the sea otters were far enough away. The Americans prevailed, to the perplexed reaction of the 300-plus audience, who clapped anyway. They weren’t sure what was worse: British rule or American capitalism. I suppose if Mao or Lenin were in the ranks, they would have been comforted.

But one thing was certain. Gualala was now free again, to drift like so much socialist flotsam and jetsam in a swirling, fetid pool of capitalist individualism and prosperity.

Borders...relics of a bygone era

2005-06-29T15:44:00.000-07:00

Al-Jazeera wanted to broadcast from our Mexican border. That's right, the same Al-Jazeera that took a tank round in a Baghdad hotel for directing fire for terrorists early in the Iraq war.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44987

"...Reporter Nasreddine Hssaini, the Washington, D.C.-based Al-Jazeera reporter behind the series, said he wanted to go to Tombstone and interview leaders of the Minutemen and others. But the network canceled the project after Minuteman organizer Chris Simcox refused to cooperate and then notified the Border Patrol and members of the state's congressional delegation about Al-Jazeera's plans. ...

ummm, exactly why is there a reporter from Al-Jazeera in our country?

In case our borders suddenly tighten up down south, there's always the other one:

....feel better?

President Replay

2005-06-29T09:15:00.000-07:00

Yeah George, we know about freedom. Thanks for that.

But I'm getting really sick of hearing that freedom and liberty is our aim in Iraq. Our aim is establishing an island of economic and political stability palatable to a western culture in a turbulent sea of Islamic fundmentalism. The world cannot survive if fanatics control one of the sources of our planet's economy. We also cannot allow a nuclear Iran to overtake a weakened Iraq. So essentially, we have created for ourselves a gigantic military base in the midst of hostile territory.

This war is not about oil in the most narrow of terms. This war is about the elimination of the cesspool of Islamic radicalism, but we can't say that.

So instead, in one of the President's worst speeches to date, he drones on and on about the miracle of liberty. And liberty is great. We've liberated 50 million people in Afghanistan and Iraq, with ripple effects in Libya, Lebanon, Egypt and to a lesser extent the Palestinian territories. Quite an accomplishment considering none of these people exhibited any desire for the freedoms we hold so dear.

While we bleed giving the Iraqis freedom, we have to work just as hard convincing them they need it in the first place.

Them

2005-06-28T11:40:00.000-07:00

..(This photo was yanked off the net in less than 10 minutes)...
Musn't arouse the American public to support for the war, you see.

Us

2005-06-28T11:39:00.000-07:00

Finally, a decent self-portrait

2005-06-28T11:10:00.000-07:00

"..And of course such women selected for such a program, would have to be of a highly......stimulating nature..."

Qoran Desecration Strangely Contagious

2005-06-12T08:49:00.000-07:00

Two weeks ago, after Newsweek's unsubstantiated, non-corroborated fable about alleged Qoran desecration in Guantanamo collapsed like a bad souffle', the US media had itself all wound up in a flurry of self flagellation and mental torment. Did American soldiers go wee-wee in the Muslim Holy Book purposely, they shrieked? Did a young corporal flush it down the commode just for the enjoyment of watching a prisoner squirm in his Devo-suit? (if you're not aware, see Devo here: http://www.clubdevo.com/). While questions of policy in Iraq, nukes in North korea and Iran sat idly by, we were served up dose after heaping dose of 'Qoran Abuse'.

Seeing the west impale itself on a sword of manufactured guilt, the Palestinians saw the fruit of opportunity dangling from the tree, and quickly glommed onto the offense du'jour.

Before the terrorist in the Guantanamo had time to get up from his U.S. tax-payer provided prayer mat and Qoran, and subsequently recant his own baseless assertion in time for Newsweek to announce its investigation as to 'how this could have happened', Dan Rather style, it was proclaimed loudly from the minarets of the Religion of Peace that lo and behold...the Israelis were also 'abusing the Koran'. Yep, after decades of Palestinians being held for nothing more than parking tickets and library fines, the Israelis just now figured out how to really get under their skin. Air strikes and bulldozers the Palis can shake off, but mess with the Owners Manual of Hate?..look out. Coincidence you say? Well, it's obviously just another zionist plot, abeit 50 years delayed. Those tricky Jews.

Just like the Jenin funeral where the Palestinian corpse falls off the litter bearer into the street...and gets back on:

http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000012.html

...reality, fact, and truth continuosly evade the Palestinian mind.

News From Iraq Our Media Won't Tell You

2005-06-08T22:11:00.000-07:00

These are real accounts from the front. I left the spelling errors and typos intentionally:

“Rcrx21” a Soldier from MD, submitted 2-22-05:
“My experience taught me alot about being an American, and also about being an
American Soldier. As an aviation maintenace unit we dont expect casualties ("in the rear
with the gear", as i used to say when I was a grunt.) I did learn that sometimes we took
for granted that the civilian side of the world, since Vietnam, had not a good outlook on
Soldiers. But I did learn of nothing but support back here.”

“deegalaxy21” an Airman from NY, submitted 1-29-05:
“I respect my fellow marines and army soldiers compatriots for sacrificing
themselves in the line of fire; i especially want to have the young ones understand how
noble the cause is… Even though i have a rear support job i got a chance to talk to
soldiers and marines coming off the C-130 cargo planes for rest and recooperation and
even met an Iraqi linguinst who lives in Detroit,MI whose father escaped the saddam
regime in 1991 before the ground war ended via Jordan with his three little children(him
one of them)and his wife because he knew of the impending doom for bieng anti-saddam
in the town he lived in once the war was over… The Iraqi american told me that we as
Americans will never understand the magnitude of us freeing the country in words. His
eyes welled up when we talked about the human destruction saddam left behind to
include the discovery of 270 mass graves.”

“heatherb” a Soldier from OK, submitted 9-6-04:
“You cannot tell me that we are not doing the right thing when you watch little
kids run, literally run from their one room mud hut a mile away from the road come
running as your convoy is passing just to wave, not to beg for food or water, just to wave.
Or to be a woman and invited to sit amoung the Iraqi men and share their Chai with them
and listen as they share their stories of the days when their country was oppressed. To
have shared such time with the people of tha t country and to have learned about their
culture and that they are such a powerful proud people. And to know that I was apart of
liberating that, makes me proud to have gone over there to give those kids that run up to
us all those times the chance to never have tell the stories that the men sharing tea told,
but listen to them as I did. We are doing the right thing regardless of the disillusion of our
politicians. Be proud of what you've done. I am.”6

“navysuby3” a Sailor from AZ, submitted 9-5-04:
“I truly had a great time learning from each branch of service and our coalition
brothers. But I learned more form the average Iraqi, and learned that what we were doing
was just.”

3) Positive Reactions from the Iraqis: Creating a connection a
world away“huckleberry” a Soldier from MO, submitted 1-17-05:
“In March of 2003 my unit, the 203rd Engineer Battalion (ECB)(HVY) Houn
Dawgs, was activated, in May 2003 my unit was deployed to Iraq. During that time I
worked as both a Medic and for five months I had the unique opportunity of working side
by side with Iraqis (Arabs and Kurds) doing my civillian job... Software Developer. I
helped get the wheels in motion with my database counterpart for a national school
database and website (which now have yet to be realized). I'm proud of the work that our
Battalion had done all over Iraq in construction missions and surveying schools for
Rebuilding and Refurbishment. I'm also very proud to have met my software
development counterparts in the North and in Baghdad.”

“madmedic” a Soldier from CA, submitted 9-17-04:
“One thing that i'm sure no one will ever hear about is the first Iraqi baseball
game. It was nothing more than a bunch of kids that we had worked with for over two
months. they had gotten cleats, and uniforms from us, and for the most part loved playing
the game. We had all sorts of people show up for the game. Most all of the police, a large
number of kids, and even proment members of the city council. It was like watching any
kids play baseball back home. There were many errors, and a lot of swings that shouldn't
have been taken, but still this was the first time these kids could even think about playing
organized sports. We built everything for them, and we teach them. soon we'll hand it
over to Iraqi coaches, and mabey even try to get more than two teams playing.”

“blackrabbit” a Soldier from OR, submitted 8-29-04:
“Of a meeting with Iraqi leaders: It is hard to apologize for a nation; we had
abandoned the Iraqi people at the end of the Gulf War. We made a promise to help the
people rise up and take their country from Sudam; we broke that promise at the cost of
untold thousands of Iraqi lives. These men did not hold me responsible, instead they
wanted to say thank you for coming back (better late than never).
The meeting ended with the normal hand shakes, a meaningful handshake in Iraq
ends with your hand on your heart. This was the first time I felt like I needed to follow
that custom. This was such meaningful contact.”

“forresterfound” a Soldier from NY, submitted 1-20-05:
“I dealt with many Iraqis, and I fell in love with their humility, and their
willingness to give. An Iraqi will give you his food, even though he has nothing. I was learning Arabic, and enjoying trading with the friends that I made in An Najaf. I
remember that an Iraqi friend of mine at a power plant made a phone call to his little girl and wife so that they could talk to "a real American soldier." This was one side of my experience in Iraq.”

“CaseyCuller” a Soldier from NC, submitted 1-11-05:
“We worked a lot in this town on the outskirts of Fallujah, it was called Nasir-Wel-Al-
Salam (excuse the spelling) We would go there 4-6 times a week and sometimes spend
all day in the streets with the locals. There were many kids that loved to hang out with us.
Some were good, some were bad, one kid actually pointed out a IED one day, we
thanked him and gave him tons of candy. He probably saved someones life that day. We
loved to give the kids candy and pens.”
“This is a picture of me and the family of a girl I "adopted." She is in the yellow shirt, the
rest are her siblings. I gave her almost all my candy and pens. I thought she was so
adorable. I gave her Scooby-Doo doll my wife had sent to me for my birthday even. If I could have adopted her and brought her home I would have. To give her something better”

I think that last one says it all.

Dr. NO, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the Bum.

2005-06-08T13:53:00.000-07:00

Dr. NO, answering to the Coca-Cola company

DNC Chairman Howard "Doctor NO" Dean once again shot a few more holes into the waterline of the creaky DNC party boat. Taking time off from telling the nation what's wrong with conservatives, Republicans and everyone else to the right of George Soros, Dean retched up more political gold dust to be smelted for the '08 election. The party of 'NO' (NO , we don't like Bush, NO we don't like his plans, but NO we don't offer an alternative) is off the rails at midnight, heading for the cliff. With Howie at the switch and Micky Moore stoking the coals, not only could the GOP sleep '08 off, but more importantly, the DNC will finally groan and collapse under its self-made pool of bile and venom.

"Dean told a forum of journalists and minority leaders Monday that Republicans are "not very friendly to different kinds of people, they are a pretty monolithic party … it's pretty much a white, Christian party."

"Asked about it on the "Fox & Friends" show, GOP Party Chairman Ken Mehlman joked that "a lot of folks who attended my Bar Mitzvah would be surprised" he heads a Christian party. "

woops.

Dr.NO is the greatest gift to the GOP. Let's all make sure he stays put by letting MoveOn know what a good job he's doing.

"Said House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill.: "Last week's scandal was Deep Throat. This week's scandal was Dean's throat, and apparently Dean likes the taste of his own foot."

And MoveOn wanted to elect this man.

2005-06-07T17:11:00.000-07:00

Teach them young.....

Trenton firing a gun bigger than he is, April, 2005.

200,000 kids stolen by the CIA every year.

2005-06-03T13:17:00.000-07:00

From a real person, a liberal with a severe case of the negative humors:

from a poster at smirkingchimp.com:

"........The attorney of 2 of the prisoners at Guantanamo who were released
after a letter writing campaign, she told Amy Goodman that Blair had
done nothing, stated she thought Guantanamo was a test to see if
Americans and the world would let them get away with Concentration Camps
and now Death Camps and the attorney was very discouraged and said it
looked like the world was going to let them get away with it.

The CIA has been making people disappear for decades including at least
200,000 American children a year. I think that Guantanamo Bay is an
extention of the current MK-ULTRA plan the Internation Red Cross in
their report were very upset that psychiatrists and doctors were
observing the torture interrogations and writing up tailor made tortures
and abuse.

Thedoodabides.com has good advice on what you can do to help called
"Ethical Biscuits" and Cageprisoners.com. Please visit Amnesty and ACLU
to see what they are doing to stop this monstrosity.

Look up The Finders and Raven1.net and the Greenbaum speech...."

By this number, fully 900,000 American children are missing (2005 is only half over as I write this). The population of Montana, Wyoming,and Idaho combined................missing.

LIberal bias, Schmiberal bias

2005-05-25T08:24:00.000-07:00

This morning, while driving my Earth-hating, gas guzzling forest-killer to work, I flipped on a local hate radio station, KFI AM 640. "K" for KKK of course, "AM 640" for American hegeMony in 640 occupied nations working for the Carlysle Group. Between the host calling for the bludgeoning of old people and farm workers, there was a multi-national corporation commercial pitching a show I've never seen called "Law and Order". Unfortunately, the night that it is on, I'm taking puppy-drowning lessons at the local ReichStag (a church).

I was perplexed when the menacing voice described "Law and Orders'" next episode:

"Someone is out to kill liberal judges, and time is running out for the team to stop them. Don't miss the next chilling episode of law and Order, as extremists are tracked down and brought to justice"

I nearly gagged on my slave-traded Venti Latte.

What the hell is wrong with killing liberal judges? Don't all Reichthuglicans kill someone when they disagree with them? As if we tolerate for one second a liberal vomit-sack who dissents. Check the papers, Rethugs rampage on a daily basis, leaving a wake of corpses numbering in the thousands. I don't need Hollywood to tell me how to take care of business.

Why, just last week I pummeled a haggard old hippie in her '77 Volvo waiting at a red light to a bloody heap, becaue her "war is not the answer" sticker pissed me off. That's what repukes do. And now they want to make TV shows out of this? ...how dull. Then I hear all this claptrap about Hollywood having an anti-Konservative bias. How can they have a bias when everyone knows we want all liberals put in ovens?

Something's amiss in tinseltown.

New Star Wars title contest

2005-05-23T10:53:00.000-07:00

I saw the latest Star Wars movie. No wonder Lucas doesn't want to make these anymore. I won't give a full review here, but I will provide a forum for a revised title.

Why a new title?

Near the end (I wasn't sure if there was one) of this big, heaping glop of hokum, the newly-evilized Annakin Skywalker/Darth Vader utters
this jewel: (paraphrase)"If you're not with us, then you are with those who must die"

Previously, the evil emperor Palpatine (name?) proclaimed, with a menacing tone from under his grim reaper's hood: "we have provided you with "security, justice and peace", followed by the sensitive, thoughtful female's retort: "and this is how liberty dies-----to thunderous applause"

Looks like George Lucas called up MoveOn.org for a quick script revision.

So here we go. I'll start off. Please contribute.

"Bush Wars, episode 4 more wars, revenge of November"

"Star Wars is not the answer"

"Star Wars, episode 4, end the occupation"

Hey Hollywood, STFU.....And I mean that in the nicest way.

From an Iraqi

2005-05-20T16:10:00.000-07:00

I stumbled on this and wanted to preserve it here:

"Two pictures can make big difference

Before few days, I was walking in down town when a group of American forces accompanied by Iraqi national forces are searching a certain place in the market.
Usually in this kind of events you see only tough faces of American soldiers only holding their weapons in stand by action, suddenly, I saw a young American soldier who was holding his gun on his shoulder, smiling for people and even shaking hands of few Iraqis who were moving a round, and then I saw him saying hello with big smile on his face when he saw a young kid with a bandage covering his broken arm.
This scene reminded me with all times that we spent in war times in the last twenty five years , most of us are holding a human feelings even in war frontiers , we were obliged to go to war , but from inside we were not ready to cause any harm even to our supposed enemy ( by our leadership ).
I figured out that the world can see only the military uniform of any soldier but can’t see the inside of this soldier. To give you an example, the world talked too much and can recall very easily Lynndie England, the American soldier that was responsible for Iraqi prisoner’s abuse. See the picture.
But very rare to hear or see in many occasions that there is always a human beings inside the uniform who are against the Wars, and they feel very sorry for being in war frontier seeing much blood and sadness of death and may be they have no choice but to go and fight in any war see this picture for a kid who was killed on May 2, 2005 in Mosul after a suicide exploded himself killing 8 people.
Being a subjective and neutral blogger , we must give truth in subjective and neutral way beyond our emotional estimation , and this kind of coverage cannot be seen in Media that is affected by political limitations and objects.

a reply:

You might be interested in this firsthand information from the photographer who took that photo of the soldier carrying the little Iraqi girl:

Mosul

Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited a block or two and attacked the patrol away from the kids. Instead, the suicide bomber drove his car and hit the Stryker when about twenty children were jumping up and down and waving at the soldiers. Major Bieger, I had seen him help rescue some of our guys a week earlier during another big attack, took some of our soldiers and rushed this little girl to our hospital. He wanted her to have American surgeons and not to go to the Iraqi hospital. She didn't make it. I snapped this picture when Major Bieger ran to take her away. He kept stopping to talk with her and hug her.

The soldiers went back to that neighborhood the next day to ask what they could do. The people were very warming and welcomed us into their homes, and many kids were actually running up to say hello and ask soldiers to shake hands.

Eventually, some insurgents must have realized we were back and started shooting at us. The American soldiers and Iraqi police started engaging the enemy and there was a running gun battle. I saw at least one IP who was shot, but he looked okay and actually smiled at me despite the big bullet hole in his leg. I smiled back.

One thing seems certain; the people in that neighborhood share our feelings about the terrorists. We are going to go back there, and if any terrorists come out, the soldiers hope to find them. Everybody is still very angry that the insurgents attacked us when the kids were around. Their

The Golden Goose is angry

2005-05-19T10:31:00.000-07:00

Dear Senator Frist and all GOP Senators and congressmen-

I gave money to the 2000 and 2004 GOP campaign fund. I gave more money to defeat Tom Daschle. Of course, I voted for President Bush and all GOP candidates in my district.

Now, I am being asked to donate to the ‘President’s Dinner’. I have also given to this event previously.

My generosity is over, and it is due to two reasons: Borders and immigration.

Here is my message to you. It is succinct:

NOT ANOTHER NICKEL UNTIL YOU REFORM IMMIGRATION AND SEAL OUR BORDERS.

Good day Gentlemen. I trust my message was clear.

Trump is right!-

2005-05-18T15:29:00.000-07:00

While The Donald's comb-over is all wrong, the billionaire developer's take on Daniel Liebeskind's 'Freedom Tower' is all right. The design is wrong and it is weak, for many reasons.

First and most importantly, if we allow terrorists to re-shape our cityscape for any reason, we lose and they win. If we build towers that are shorter, it sends a message that we are afraid of another 9/11 style airstrike. If we build just another new building, like is currently proposed, we are saying in no uncertain terms that terrorists can change our cityscape at will. WE decide when to destroy a building, NOT THEM.

If Flight 93 had succeeded in ramming the White House as planned, would we agree to a post-modernist, Euro-style chateau, or would we build it exactly as it stood?...we know the answer. It would be rebuilt indentically, down to the undersized oval office, and rightly so.

Think of any important structures as being destroyed by terrorism. The Empire State in New York, the Chrysler building in Chicago, The Golden Gate bridge or Transamerica building in San Francisco. Were they attacked, would we allow terrorists to change our view of them? Had they had struck the the Houses of Parliament in our allies' country and toppled Big Ben, would the Brits rebuild a stumpy glass box with a digital clock on four sides, or would they stand tall and rebuild as they did in WW2, right in Hitler's face?. We should follow their example.

The week after 9/11, it occurred to me that the WTC must be rebuilt exactly as originally designed, except for one modification:
It should be taller than before, in defiance of terrorists. It would say : "you bloodied our nose, but we're bigger and stronger than ever before....beware"

I was proud to hear Mr. Trump champion ,only today, the identical sentiment: "The towers he advocates would be 111 stories tall - one floor taller than the lost towers.".. BRAVO!!

September 11th and the collapse of the WTC was a symbol for radical, murderous Islamists. For them it's a symbol of destruction.
for us, the WTC was a symbol of financial strength and civic progress.

I also appreciate symbolism. If we rebuild the WTC as it stood on September 10th, 2001, it will be a symbol consistent with our third finger in the faces of terrorists, a constant reminder of how we view their ideology of tyranny.

I wish Trump all success in his drive to scrap the current blunder of a design for what should be rebuilt: Minoro Yamasaki's original effort.

My solution to the immigration disaster

2005-05-17T13:47:00.000-07:00

Unless you live on some 1000 acre ranch in Wyoming, or a mansion in Beverly Hills, it is likely that you have been confronted with one or more of the results of the decades-old policy of unregulated illegal immigration. Like many Southern Californians, I grew up in a middle-class neighborhood that consisted of tidy homes with neatly manicured lawns, neighbors who knew each other and shared the common goal of a local cohesiveness.

If I threw a ball through Mrs. Porters window, my Dad was called, not a lawyer or the police. Mrs Huston, a sweet lady, let my friend and I practice our bait-casting on her front lawn-(yes, two 10-year old boys 'fishing' on grass....don't ask). We could stay out until 11 pm in the summers, playing with other kids.

Our neighborhood was stable, a anchor on which we could depend.

Sometime, in the late 1970's, families began to dissappear to other states, their once familiar homes suddenly occupied by people who didn't want to know us, didn't speak our language, and shot hostile glances our way. Later, graffiti began to appear where once there was none. Petty crimes such as burglary went on the up-tick. Instead of the Old Glory being flown on the 4th of July, Mexican flags went up on Cinco De Mayo. Didn't we defeat Santa Ana?, I wondered.

The wonderful old Japanese gardener, also a neighbor, who had the most meticulously maintained landscape I have yet to see, no longer tended people's lawns and shrubbery. He was replaced by a cheaper Latino gardener, who amazingly, provided shoddier work.

One day in the mid 1980's, I saw a grimy Latino man sitting on a corner with boxes of fruit tilted up in the hot sun. What was he doing? After all, there was a grocery store nearby that sold fruit of the kind this man was hawking. Why would someone by a bag of oranges on a street corner? What made this person think he could set up shop on a corner? The remnants of his lunch resided all over the sidewalk adjacent to him, his car stereo blaring out accordion music to keep his boredom in check, while the flies swarmed on the strawberries. This practice is now accepted as 'diverse' and we are encouraged by the liberal left to 'tolerate' the many varying facets of a different culture, which apparently include sub-standard food handling procedures.

Occasionally, when I was home in the mid-day for some reason or another, I began to notice pregant Latino mothers with 3,4,5 or more children walking in the street, while pushing an infant in a stroller. Why weren't the school-age kids in school?, I wondered. How could she afford to stay at home with that many kids?. (I had yet to truly understand my taxes at this point)

Another milestone came when someone actually shot a policeman dead. It was later reported that his murderer was an 'illegal alien'. 'That's a harsh term', I thought. Alien?. Like with a big head and webbed feet?.

Then, one day, I was sitting in my truck, waiting for the light to change. ....WHAM! I had just been rear-ended by another truck. Out gets a very drunk Latino man who speaks little English, yet knew enough of the vernacular to purchase and consume numerous beers while driving, as evidenced by the empties clinking around his floorboard. Latino-man tries to get back in his truck and drive away. I collar him and grab his keys. When the police finally do arrive, they determine that he is undocumented,unlicensed, uninsured, nor does he own the vehicle he is driving. Months later, when reviewing my ever-increasing insurance policy premium, I see a new category: 'uninsured motorist coverage". I have to pay my insurance company to insure against an illegal alien who by law has no business being on the road, nor in this country.
But asking an illegal alien to produce a valid license is 'racist'.

I'm sure there are millions of stories like mine, or worse.

It is time to recognize that we can no longer continue to allow our country to be literally invaded by those who are willing to reap the benefits of being here illegally, but have no interest in building our country, nor respecting American culture and history. Our health care premiums are increasing 10-20% per year to cover the indigent and illegals. Our schools are buried in a humanity that speaks languages other that what our Congress chose long ago. Our police and fire departments are overwhelmed, providing services for those who often despise our country as 'racist'. Millions and millions of dollars are spent to paint and re-paint (literally on a daily basis) the miles of private and public property defaced and vandalized by gang members with ties to Mexico and Central America. I myself have seen the same huge surface repainted 4 times in one week on a local freeway.

Only last week, we read of two policemen gunned down, one fatally, in Denver, Colorado. The illegal alien fled to Mexico, where there is no longer an extradition treaty, thanks to Jimmy Carter.

We are inundated, and our quality of life is declining.

This is not a racist rant. Legal, regulated immigration is part of what makes America great, and should always continue. Nor is this meant as a country specific attack. If my neighborhood was suddenly over-run with Irish or Canadians, the sentiment would be the same.

We must maintain our national identity in order to retain our values, without which we will cease to be a great nation. It is an absolute crime that a Korean can emmigrate to the U.S., live and die here without ever uttering a word of English or knowing what his adopted nation's flag stands for.

It is estimated that there are currently between 13 to 20 million illegal aliens in the U.S. They all require local, state, and/or federal services at one point or another. We can't feasibly deport 20 million people. We also cannot allow any more illegals in.

Here is my multi-part solution:

Strategically, we must force our government to acknowledge that the citizens are not willing to give away our country as a trade for cheap labor, regardless of what business lobbyists tell them. Amnesty is no solution, but it is a slap in the face to those who played by the rules and came here the right way. President Bush is the first pupil who needs to take the primer. He has been as bad as any liberal democrat on the illegal immigration issue.

A program of tiered amnesty is to be developed. Example, if an illegal alien came here in 1990, and has since grown a family to five people, he is welcome to stay, provided he is willing to at least partially re-imburse our governments by way of an 'restitution tax' over a five year period. The tax would be a percentage of income much like the percentage of tax I've paid my entire life for services used by illegal aliens. If he works under the table, the base poverty rate would be used. $10 per hour. The tax rate would be 30% the first year, and decrease over time. At some point, the Restitution Tax would sunset, required by law. If he refuses to pay, we seize all assets, including homes, vehicles, possessions, and deport him to his country of origin. We would soon see how many of these people really value being in the United States. We would soon determine the true motive of those who work here and send their money south.

Tactically, business is to be put on notice: Hire one illegal alien, pay $10,000...per offense. This is the teeth of my policy. Naturally, business will threaten us with higher prices, claiming they need the cheap labor. I believe this to be deflection. When illegals come here to work, stay here and marry, do they remain childless? Are families shrinking? Hardly.
There are enough residual workers of previous generations of immigrants, legal or otherwise,to fill the fields and textile factories as required. We really don't need anyone else coming over the border to pick tomatoes. What we do need are people with education and skills.

If we were to unite enforcement of existing hiring laws and a policy of Amnesty with Restitution, I believe we would have an immigrant populace that would appreciate being here, take pride of ownership of their communites and citizenship, and ultimately re-engage in the theory of the 'melting pot' which encourages unity, rather than the 'salad bowl' which ensures isolation.

The Siren of Islam

2005-05-06T15:42:00.000-07:00

This is scary, and real:

from the CDC:

Smallpox: An Attack Scenario
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no4/otoole.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/04/050413094549.htm

Smallpox Attack Possible, Bioterrorism Expert Says

"..Randall Larsen, senior adviser to the Center of BioSecurity in the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a frequent terrorism expert used by CBS, the History Channel, Discovery Channel and others, told listeners at the Bush Presidential Library that a possible bioterrorism attack could bring huge political problems for the U.S. at the same time we are trying to protect the health of our own citizens.

“An attack using smallpox is a very real possibility, and the problem is that only a handful of countries in the world have enough adequate supplies for their own people,” Larsen explained as he presented “Atlantic Storm,” a re-enactment of what might occur if a smallpox attack occurred worldwide.

“In 2001, we had only 12 million doses of smallpox vaccine in the United States. After viewing ‘Atlantic Storm,’ Congress approved production to cover everyone in the U.S. – about 300 million doses.

“But there is only enough vaccine right now for only 10 percent of the world’s population. Only a few countries – the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, The Netherlands and several more – have adequate supplies. So if other countries are attacked and they come to us for smallpox vaccine, do we give it to them? If so, have we risked the welfare of our own nation by doing so?

“The situation becomes a health problem and a worldwide political problem at the same time.”

Larsen said a smallpox attack could be a nightmare scenario.

To begin with, less than one percent of the doctors in the world have ever examined a person who had smallpox, he said.

“If you take all of the wars fought in the 20th century and add up the casualties, it comes out to about 100 million killed in the last 100 years,” he said.

“Smallpox has killed more than that throughout history. It kills about one-third of its victims, and those that it doesn’t kill, it makes them either blind or very weak. It’s a highly contagious disease that knows no borders.”

In the re-enactment of “Atlantic Storm,” various world leaders are brought together to discuss how to handle a smallpox attack on numerous countries. In the film, the president of the United States is played by Madeline Albright, former secretary of state.

Larsen frequently stopped the film to ask audience members how they would react, what steps they would take and if the steps taken by the world leaders were the correct ones.

In 1999, Larsen created the nation’s first academic course in homeland security. He said that a possible bioterrorism attack on the U.S. was very real, adding “In the 21st century, public health departments will be as important as the Department of Defense was in the 20th century.”

His lecture was sponsored by the Texas A&M University Integrative Center for Homeland Security and the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center.

CONFIRM BOLTON

2005-04-22T09:48:00.000-07:00

GO HERE...TAKE ACTION...MAKE SOME PHONE CALLS

http://www.confirmbolton.com/

This is too big to let it pass without a fight. If the democrat leftists can stop Bolton, they will be emboldened to do the same with the Supreme Court nominations, which are for life.

Hanoi Jane exposed to second-hand tobacco spittle

2005-04-20T16:58:00.000-07:00

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050420/ap_en_ot/fonda_spitter

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A man spit tobacco juice into the face of actress Jane Fonda after waiting in line to have her sign her new book, police said.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer traitor.

John Bolton- serial meanie

2005-04-20T11:23:00.000-07:00

In another fevered fit of the vapors, Senate Democrats are shrieking over the nomination of John Bolton to the UN. They don't like his 'style', which for democrats, is everything.

Apparently, democrats Barbara Boxer and James'sheets'-Byrd (Byrd was in the KKK) are mired in grief over this smoking gun:

"...Melody Townsel, who manages Townsel Communications, said she was bullied by Bolton in a Moscow hotel for two weeks in 1994. She described her experiences to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in an e-mail circulated by ranking Democrat Joseph Biden of Delaware..."

hmmm...any of you ever had a boss you didn't like?.

"...Bolton's bold and often-abrasive style has has earned him many critics over the years. In a now-famous 1994 speech at the World Federalist Association, Bolton declared that "there is no such thing as the United Nations." He added: "If the UN secretary building in New York lost ten stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference."

Why the UN is still located in the country that invented and defined for all the concept of individual liberty, and saved the world twice (so far) is beyond me.

Of course, John Bolton is exactly who we need at the UN. The UN allowed France to stonewall the enforcement of resolution 1441 in late 2003, thereby securing 4-1/2 months for Saddam to remove, hide, or destroy the wmd that Iraq had. 3000 liters of previously verified VX nerve agent are still unaccounted for.

"As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers. "

Bolton's nomination is simply a response
to the UN being the sanctuary of anti-american totalitarianism, dictators, and other freedom-hating countries.

Libya, until recently, is responsible for decades of state-sponsored terrorism, yet Kofi appoints Libya to the Human Rights Chair in 2002. Hubris ad Absurdum

And where is the U.N. (and the left) on Sudanese genocide?-(crickets chirping)....................

Let's also not forget thatSince the UN's inception in 1945, of the more than 700 resolutions passed, over 400 have been against Israel, a staunch ally of the U.S.

John Bolton will represent US interests as he shoud. This is our country, not some UN construct beholden to the likes of Jacques Chirac and Robert Mugabe, posters boys of the Blue Helmet Brigade.

America has always been the leader for human rights an democracy in the world. The UN has increasingly been the leader of socialist ideology under the cloak of tolerance and inclusion.

John Bolton is the perfect choice to thwart the globalist ethos.

The most important WWII veteran (to me)

2005-04-14T23:49:00.000-07:00

The last day of this month marks the 60th anniversary of Hitler’s suicide, which precipitated for good and all the end of World War II in Europe a week later. By the summer of 1945, U.S. soldiers in the European theater were making their way home.

On a bright, sunny day in the relaxed beauty of northern Italy’s Lake Como, at the base of a statue in the town square of the little village of Cernobbio, a 20-year-old lieutenant had his picture taken, a victor in a righteous war, for whom the only spoils that mattered was the chance to walk back into the lives of his loved ones on his own two feet. He was Lynn H. Hall, an army engineer who had spent the last two years of his young life taunting German regiments with decoy bridge-making in an effort to distract them from more pressing affairs on other fronts.

Hall, along with thousands of other young men, endured unenviable hardships intermixed with scenes of wonder. The long, sick trip across the Atlantic in a tossing ship, braving claustrophobic bunks and communal, sloshing trough-toilets; the terrifying panopticon experience of Monte Cassino, with the Nazi-occupied monastery atop the mountain glaring down perniciously at the Allied troops in the valley below like Sauron’s evil eye; exotic moments with Italian girls and their families around the hearth, stealing glances and hearts; finally getting hold of some real butter, eating an entire stick, and regretting it wholeheartedly soon after; standing at attention at a checkpoint as Winston Churchill drove by, being saluted by same, and having a news clipping, complete with photo, to prove it. Plus being witness to wickedness the likes of which most of us in our comfortable, civilian lifetimes will thankfully be spared.

When Hall was 71, he returned to Cernobbio with his 33-year-old son to steep himself in the memory of that life-changing episode of his youth, to taste that sense of coming full circle. Another picture was taken, same statue, same soldier, a little grey around the edges now. The two photos are framed side by side in his den.

Today, 15 April 2005, the man who risked his life to help defeat a cancerous evil all those years ago celebrates his 80th birthday. He’s my Dad, and he taught me everything I know about humor, laughter and wit. He showed me by example (he is a prolific letter writer) how effectively to put pen to paper, and instilled in me a penchant for language, especially English, which has guided my life. He has inspired lasting awe in me, a fierce pride—my Dad was a soldier, one of the lucky (bittersweet) ones who survived the battlefield to wrestle over the course of a long life with the nightmarish memories only long-retired war veterans can imagine.

Thanks, Dad, for all you’ve done, not just for me, but for our country.

Happy Birthday!

—Greg Hall, Northern Interloper

Save a human-BAD, save a dolphin-GOOD-PART II

2005-04-14T15:15:00.000-07:00

No sooner had the phophorous molecules cooled on my monitor after writing the GOOD/BAD post, then this story shows up, feeding tubes and everything:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/13/dolphin.rehab/index.html

"...In early March an estimated 80 rough-toothed dolphins stranded themselves in the shallows off Marathon in the Florida Keys...."

That sounds like a euphoric death. What's the problem? They weren't beached, they were sun-bathing. Shut up and pass the Pina Coladas.

"...The dolphins were placed in a water pen where they have been given round-the-clock care by hundreds of volunteers who signed up for four-hour shifts..."

Oh?...by whose court order? Why were these uneducated fools interfering with the Death Process?..Obviously, these are interventionist fanatics hell-bent on defying reality. 'Stop the madness'.

"...If we hadn't ... stepped in at all, and no one had stepped in, these guys all probably 100 percent would have died on those shores," ..."

I hope they get re-hab. Can't have Flipper forgetting how to jump through a hula-hoop. Were these dolphins insured?

"...Unable to eat on their own, they are fitted with a feeding tube to get them the needed nutrition..."

WHAT?!?!..FEEDING TUBES?!?..WITHOUT THE DOLPHINS' PRIOR CONSENT?!!

No doubt these parents of Gaea's children are maniacal freaks going to bizarre lengths to give these poor animals another chance at a life of abject misery- swimming, breathing and eating willy-nilly.

"...For Robert Lingenfelser, who heads the conservancy, this day's feeding preparations have not been moving fast enough.

"Have they been tubed yet?" Lingenfelser asks a volunteer.

"No, they haven't," the volunteer responds.

"Now! Now! These guys are two hours behind schedule," Lingenfelser tells them...."

...The rehabilation will likely last weeks, not days. ..."

Not if I can get that Florida Courthouse to send in the cops, it won't. Those dolphins are in a Permanently Vegetative State. Anyone with a Philco black-and-white could see that with their eyes closed.

"..Banick understands the commitment she has made.."

I understand that Banick needs to be committed...to the insane asylum. These dolphins were engaging in constitutionally protected self-assisted suicide, and their wishes are being thwarted by the evil, Deity-Thumping Nazis of the radical right.

..Freakin' fundamentalist pro-lifers.....sheesh, let the dolphins die in peace. That's what they obvioulsy want.

Good thing Terri Schiavo wasn't a dolphin. Those kooks would have forced life on her, too.

Black-muslim-murderer. Look out!, hot potato!

2005-04-12T09:07:00.000-07:00

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/04/12/101st.attacked.ap/index.html

Remember this guy?...I do.

I've been patiently awaiting any news of Hasan Akbar (catchy name, don't you think?).

This was the black US Army sergeant who converted to Islam, and later murdered two fellow soldiers as they slept, in the name of Allah. Akbar stole grenades, rolled them into a tent, then waited to open fire on the survivors as they stumbled out. He succeeded in wounding 14 more.

And why?

Islam, that's why.

A quote from Sergeant Akbar tells us why he attacked those who trusted him:"You guys are coming into our countries, and you're going to rape our women and kill our children."

..'our countries'?...'rape our women'?

This rejoinder should ring familiar, as this is not an isolated case. Kindred spirits reside in jail as we speak, in the forms of John Lee Malvo and John Allen Mohammad.

Maybe it's just my wacky way of looking at things, but it seems only a little daft to have muslim chaplains in the US military, consoling muslim soldiers, as they are about to strike a largely muslim-populated country.

Here's a little sample of what was coursing through Akbar's head, as the murderer/traitor pulled the pin:

Koran, 008.050-
"O Prophet! strive hard against the unbelievers and the Hypocrites, and be firm against them. Their abode is Hell,- an evil refuge indeed. "

Koran, 008.050-
": If thou couldst see, when the angels take the souls of the Unbelievers (at death), (How) they smite their faces and their backs, (saying): "Taste the penalty of the blazing Fire- "

And here's the Big Daddy, Zarqawi's favorite excuse to use a hand saw:

Koran 008.012-
"..When your Lord revealed to the angels: I am with you, therefore make firm those who believe. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them. "

But in the meantime, liberals squeal 'hate-speech' toward muslims in America. Akbar should swing from a rope, as clearly specified under the UCMJ. There are few greater crimes than taking the lives of fellow soldiers under color of service, and regardless of the NAACP's outcry, this man should be punished for his crimes like anyone else.

We either fight for America, or it will be dragged down for the islamic slaughter. It has come to this, and we are worried about public opinion, and bored with this enemy who hacks off heads, blows up children, and murders those who struggle for a better life with freedom.

Berger/Hacking

2005-04-09T14:27:00.000-07:00

In late July of 2004, a former national security advisor to a president of the United States was reported to have smuggled official documents out of the National Archives in his pants.

The hullaballoo that followed, oh wait ... there was no hullaballoo.

Within hours of discovering that their buddy, Sandy Berger, was in trouble, the mainstream media went into action. They needed a powerful news story to push the Berger affair off the front pages. So off they went to the police stations.

In a country as big as America, every police station in every city has a list of missing persons as long as your arm. With minimal effort, a case can be found involving a sympathetic and photogenic victim who may or may not yet have met with foul play.

How important is a missing persons case? However important the press wants it to be. In July 2004, a run-of-the-mill missing persons report became very important indeed, utterly eclipsing the Berger story and dominating the news for a week straight. Every night, anxious reporters gathered in some nowhere town in Utah to report that Lori Hacking, last seen alive by her very suspicious husband, was still missing. Breaking news: Nothing to report. It was over a month before her body was found in the local landfill, her husband charged with her murder.

In the meantime the public completely forgot about Sandy Berger stealing documents from the national archives, just the way the media wanted it. If it had been Condoleeza Rice instead of Berger, it would have been the biggest news story of the year, and we never would have heard a word about a small-town girl who went missing, one of thousands, and was later found murdered by her spouse.

Next time you see a missing persons case blown out of proportion, ask yourself what the media are trying to divert your attention from.