Tomfoolery of the Highest Order

Once again, the irony is lost on the AP:

Iraqis Decry U.S. Over President Choice

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Governing Council members accused American officials Monday of pressuring them to accept Washington's choice for Iraq's new president, prompting a delay in the announcement of a new government to take power from the U.S.-led coalition June 30.

U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi had hoped to complete the selection of the 26-member Cabinet by Monday. However, a Governing Council session that was to have chosen a president was postponed until at least Tuesday, with sharp differences remaining between the council and the coalition over the largely ceremonial head of state job.

You mean that there is political dissent in Iraq? Bush must be a complete failure because he could not get everyone to agree on everything!! Seriously, so f'n what? Political dissent is a good thing. (Only a dopey media liberal could think that Saddam winning with 100% of the vote was a true measure of Iraqi feelings towards him)

The media always fails to get that there were no Iraqis speaking out against anything just over a year ago. Soon enough, Iraqis will vote for who they want.

Side note; Anyone know when Germany was able to vote for the first time after the end of WWII? 1952...7 years after we defeated them. SOme context from the media now and then would be nice.

John Kerry, instead of giving us a Memorial Day break from all his bullshit, decided to use the occassion to rip Bush with this:

PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Democrat John Kerry ventured in to Republican leaning Virginia on Monday with a Memorial Day pitch targeting military families and a charge that President Bush "didn't learn the lessons of our generation in Vietnam."

Thank God for all of us that Bush did learn the lessons of Vietnam. Vietnam taught the American press that they can destroy American moral and the war effort. In addition, it taught the world that you don't have to beat the United States militarily, you just have to beat them in the press, which isn't too hard when the press is eager to portray the United States in the worst possible light. (i.e the Tet Offensive was a disaster for the Commies but thanks to the press, many to this day still think that it was a U.S. defeat)

Iraq=Vietnam? No way. But, if Kerry is elected, the aftermath might equal Cambodia.

A great joke for this wonderful holiday, via our friends at Freedom of Thought:

When Osama bin Laden died, he was met at the Pearly Gates by George Washington, who slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to destroy the nation I helped conceive!"

Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, "You wanted to end our liberties but you failed."

James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, "This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!"

Thomas Jefferson was next, beat Osama with a long cane and snarled, "It was evil men like you who inspired me to write the Declaration of Independence."

The beatings and thrashings continued as George Mason, James Monroe and 66 other early Americans unleashed their anger on the terrorist leader.

As Osama lay bleeding and in pain, an Angel appeared. Bin Laden wept and said, "This is not what you promised me."

The Angel replied, "I told you there would be 72 Virginians waiting for you in Heaven. What did you think I said?"

My man Jarome Iginla had a Gordie Howe hat trick last night, a goal, an assist, and a fight, in the Flames 3-0 smacking of the Lightning. Somebody tell Vincent LeCavalier that taking on Iginla is not a good idea, especially for a fairy frog like him.

Of course not. Neither are anyone else really, besides decent people like me. Certianly not the AP, the New York Times (save William Kristof), Reuters, al-Jazeera or the BBC.

Arab militia use 'rape camps' for ethnic cleansing of Sudan

Of course, even those teabags at the U.K. Telegraph can't bring themselves to say the raw truth:

After 50 years of conflict that have claimed almost 2 million lives, Sudan is now officially at peace - but unofficially, the war goes on. In Darfur, Sudan's western-most region, the people remain untouched by last week's peace agreement signed between the country's Islamic government and Christian rebels. Sudanese soldiers and the government-backed Janjaweed militia still terrorise, and at the centre of their campaign of "ethnic cleansing" is a policy of systematic rape designed to drive civilians from their settlements.

The bottom line is that Muslims are raping and killing Christians to root them out of Sudan. he have to read between the lines, and make factual connections to understand that. Why the media who lives and works in the free world takes the side of people who would kill them first if they ever came to power in their country is quite astonishing to me.

Thank you to the fine men and women of the United States Armed Forces, who have made many sacrifices, including the ultimate sacrifice, so that we may live in the greatest country every placed on this Earth by God and Man.



Without soldiers like those pictured above, without people like both of my late Grandfathers, I would be able to live the life of tomfoolery that I enjoy on a daily basis.

I will never accept the notion that everything that our fine men and women and have suffered and died for should be thrown away because of political correctness or political expediency.

God Bless America.

Like Brandon said, the white dude does look like the guy from the Nextel commerical.

...in Journalism 301, I would have been flunked immediately.

Rumsfeld Gives Commencement at West Point

WEST POINT, N.Y. - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, making no mention of the prisoner abuse scandal that has led to calls for his ouster, told a cheering crowd of graduating cadets Saturday that they will help win the global fight against terror.

Professor Lorenzi would have placed his red pen through that line so fast, he might have torn the paper. What someone doesn't do is NEVER the story, unless it is intrical to the story. Rumsfeld addressing the cadets at West Point has nothing to do with the prisoner abuse media-generated scandal.

It must have killed this reporter that Rumsfeld was so well-received by the people he may have to send into battle sooner or later. That's why he did everything he could in the article to bring Rumsfeld down.

Yes, Rumsfeld is a controversial figure, due to his brashness. I say, so what? When it comes down to it, who would you want defending you, Rumsfeld or some liberal worm who will let you die lest we hurt the feelings of some Muslim terrorist?

One more thing. I read a lot of books. In the last week, I have read Rumsfeld's War by Rowan Scarborough, Hating America: the New World Sport by John Gibson, and I am currently reading Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris. In it, they was a section about some of the questionable tactics employed by American troops occupying the Phillipines in 1902. (And guess who caused all the problems there: That's right, Muslims) Unlike the gutless politicos we have today, who would send their own mother to the wolves rather than lose 5 votes, a Senator (I forget his name at this moment) stood up and defended the soldiers, explaining what they were up against, and what made them do such things. He single-handedly ended the political firestorm by doing that.

Simply put, history isn't bunk. Rather, it always repeats itself. While failure to learn from it may make us doomed to repeat it, failure to learn it to begin with makes one inadequately prepared for its inevitable repeat.

I read this quote by a little old lady, and it was just so spot-on, I had to share it:

"I approve of it, and I've never heard of anyone ever having a problem with it," she said. "I can see it out my window, and I look forward to seeing it out there every morning. It means everything's right in the world."

What is she talking about? An American flag, which her 89-year old WWII veteran neighbor flies every day outside of his apartment.

Management of the retirement community where he and his wife live - citing policy about maintaining the appearance of the building's exterior - wants him to lower the flag for good.

Thanks to people like this veteran, Mr. Donald Lamp, the management has the freedom to be the insenstive asshole jerkoffs that they are. And, what makes this especially interesting is that this man is the father-in-law of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

Stephanie and I are about to have a house built in Albuquerque. The first question I asked the people at the developments where we went to look was, "It is there any restrictions on flying my American flag?" One of them answered, "Waivers are available on a case-by-case basis. You'll have to petition the.." I cut her off right there, and said "Thank you for your time" and walked away. She stopped us on the way out of the door and asked what the problem was. I said, "I am not spending 175 grand on a house and have to beg to fly the flag of the greatest, free-est country in the world." With that I left.

Another place I went to was quite different. I told them about the flag and the salesman said, "Of course we allow it. But if you decide to buy here, don't take my word for it. I'll have it put into writing so you can rest assured that no one will ever try to take it down. Besides, that type of thing won't happen here."

Take a guess who we chose to buy a house from.

[Hat tip: A Small Victory]

You can take a look at the front page of many daily newspapers by clicking here.

...he is too easily duped, because no matter how he tries to avoid saying it, he wants Kerry to win. Get this post:

KERRY GETS IT RIGHT:

In what his campaign billed as a major foreign-policy address, Kerry said that despite the fierce election-year politics, the country is standing together when it comes to preventing future attacks.

"This country is united in its determination to destroy you," said Kerry of the terrorists, in the first of a series of foreign-policy speeches timed to coincide with Memorial Day and President Bush's trip to Europe for D-Day ceremonies.

"As commander in chief, I will bring the full force of our nation's power to bear on finding and crushing your networks. We will use every available resource to destroy you," Kerry said in Seattle.

"More like this, please," says Reynolds. The good Professor should know better. No one believes for a second that he means a word of it. Even Kerry supporters know he is only saying it to appeal to swing voters. Kerry is kidding no one. The good Professor left this part out:

Despite the difficult situation in Iraq, Kerry barely touched on the beleaguered country, except to say that he would like the United Nations to appoint a high commissioner and have NATO more involved.

Same old stock crap that he has been running for a year now. And the Professor left this part out too:

The Massachusetts senator added, "As president, my No. 1 security goal will be to prevent the terrorists from gaining weapons of mass murder. And our overriding mission will be to disrupt and destroy their terrorist cells."

Isn't that exactly what Bush is doing now, yet Kerry is criticizing him to no end for it? And he left this part out too:

[K]erry promised to ensure that the men and women of the US military are the best-led, best-equipped and most respected fighting force in the world, and as commander-in-chief, he said he will never send troops into harm’s way without enough troops for the task or without a plan to win the peace. He also emphasized that not every problem should be viewed through the military lens and stressed that as President, he will deploy all the power – economic, intelligence and our values and ideas – in America’s arsenal to meet our challenges.

There was his out. Kerry would run back to the law enforcement approach, with an administration full of lawyers that would tell him "no can do" on anything, just like the Clinton administration. And, lastly, get this part:

"When I returned home from Vietnam, I joined my fellow veterans in vowing never to abandon any veterans of America’s wars, and my commitment to veterans and members of our military has never wavered and never will,” Kerry said. “We can build a stronger America by making sure we honor all our commitments to veterans and military families, and together we will."

Funny, but throwing his fellow soldiers under the bus is exactly what he did upon returning from Vietnam. Just look at his Senate testimony.

How can anyone possibly take Kerry at his word?

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Brendan e-mailed a review of The Day After Tomorrow from an Australian rag, and I had to pass it on:

The Day After Tomorrow, Roland Emmerich's latest disaster movie, although disaster doesn't seem a strong enough word. New York gets hit by a tidal wave, Scotland is snap frozen, Tokyo suffers hailstones the size of rockmelons, and Los Angeles is ripped apart by tornadoes. You wouldn't want to know what happens to Canada.

No less damage is done to science, but all in a worthy cause. The film is a pointed eco-disaster movie, warning us all, and especially the US Government, of the consequences of ignoring global climate change.

Yes I would want to see what happened to Canada, especially if it's Quebec. Get this sentence:

No less damage is done to science, but all in a worthy cause.

Think about the meaning of that sentence. It means simply, there are no scientific facts but that's not important when they get across the message that we want them to. Truth be damned.

The film is a pointed eco-disaster movie, warning us all, and especially the US Government, of the consequences of ignoring global climate change...It's Hollywood does Kyoto, and one of the first scenes lays out the blame, when the US Vice-President asks Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), a US paleoclimatologist, about who will pay the cost of the Kyoto accord (which the US and Australian governments have both refused to sign). "Our economy is every bit as fragile as the environment," says VP Becker (Kenneth Welsh). "Perhaps you should keep that in mind when you're making sensational claims."

Kyoto again? Oh, stop it. If Kyoto is so vital, how come it doesn't include China and India, who put America to shame when it comes to spewing pollution? Not to mention pretty much of all Asia is a disgrace when it comes to pollution. Ever been to Seoul, South Korea? Walking in that city is like standing next to the exhaust pipe of a bus.

Independence Day, the film that launched Emmerich into the Hollywood stratosphere, follows these rules. The Day After Tomorrow follows the rules, too, but in an intriguing way. Where Independence Day was a disaster movie cloaked in the American flag, TDAT is about the decline and fall of American pride.

Brendan asks, "Hmm. My national pride is just fine and dandy. What about you?" My answer to that is, "Yes, my pride is also fine and dandy. The problem is that liberal pride is shot to hell."

Will you go see this movie? Leave a comment and let me know. I plan to see it, for the comedy value and to see the special effects. But, only the true believers like Al Snore, uh, Bore, uh, Gore will take it seriously.

By the way, here's me in Seoul in 2002:

For a second, I thought I was reading Scrappleface. get this column in the Denver Post by some dope named Reggie Rivers.

Keep our slaves safe

Our military is one of the last bastions of slavery in the United States. At the moment, our slaves are stuck in a combat zone, getting killed and maimed, and there's nothing they can do about it except hunker down and pray.

Yes, our slaves signed up of their own free will, but most of them were as misled about their job as the rest of us were about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

And I don't think "slave" is too strong a word to describe someone who is not permitted to quit his job no matter how dangerous it becomes or how much he hates it. For most of us, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery and guaranteed that we have the right to withhold our labor. It doesn't protect soldiers.

Our armed forces recruiters are quite adept at making military service appear beneficial (it mostly is) and safe (it's not). The threat of war is minimized, because few rational people actually want to fight.

I just love the liberal columnist trick of minimizing the obvious fact that makes the whole point of the column worthless. Read this again:

Yes, our slaves signed up of their own free will, but most of them were as misled about their job as the rest of us were about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

That is right, it was free will, so the slavery analogy falls apart right there. Plus, everyone knows what they are getting into when they sign up. They are no illusions here, only to dumb liberals who think that the military is filled with lowlife scum with nowhere else to turn.

According to Chalmers Johnson, author of "The Sorrows of Empire," almost half of our enlisted forces are between 17 and 24 years of age, and they were lured into military service with promises of education, job training, escape from poverty, medical benefits and the chance to operate some cool, high-tech equipment.

Johnson wrote: "A real deterrent to recruitment is the possibility that a new soldier will find himself or herself in combat. Roughly four out of five young Americans who enlist in our all-volunteer armed forces specifically choose non-combat jobs ... ."

What? the military isn't like the weak, pussyfied Euro weenie militaries. It isn't a jobs or a social program, its for those who choose to serve this country and defend her. No one is forced to join, no matter how much liberals like this dope try to spin it.

The recruitment effort gets more aggressive at the high school level. Johnson wrote, "Complaints about harassment by military recruiters in San Diego became so numerous in 1993 that the San Diego Unified School district adopted a policy against releasing student information to recruiters of any kind."

Bans on overbearing campus recruiters became so common that President Bush addressed the issue in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The bill stated: "Any secondary school that receives federal funds under this Act shall permit regular United States Armed Services recruitment activities on school grounds, in a manner reasonably accessible to all students of such school."

This idiot must have taken too many shots to the helmet when he played in the NFL. Tying federal funding to military recruiter access to campuses isn't something that Bush started, it goes back to the Solomon Amendment and even before that. Plus, the reason schools were denying access to recruiters was not because of harrassment, it is because of bullshit liberal policies like their opposition to "don't ask, don't tell" and the gays in the military issue, amongst other things. Of course, liberal administrators want that government largesse, but want it without any strings attached, in order to continue their open hatred of the military unabated.

I guess though I can forgive rivers for his idiocy. After all, he played in the NFL, and we all know how much of a grip on reality pro athletes have.

When the August 6, 2001 PDB was released, the New York Times wondered why Bush didn't round up every Arab who tried to board an airplane. Now, when John Ashcroft announces a group of people wanted by the government, the Times not only places it on page A16, they accuse ashcroft of playing politics with national security.

As Ashcroft Warns of Attack, Some Question Threat and Its Timing

The White House came under criticism this year for not acting more aggressively in August 2001 when Mr. Bush was informed that Al Qaeda was planning to attack the United States or its interests abroad. In issuing a high-profile warning this time, the administration appeared intent on insulating itself from any perception that it was not responding vigorously enough.

But the announcement also came after weeks in which Mr. Bush's political standing has been battered by events in Iraq and as his re-election campaign is seeking to portray Mr. Kerry as opposed to the USA Patriot Act, the law giving the government broad powers to combat terrorism.

Just look at that blatant bullshit. Bush is "seeking to portray Mr. Kerry as opposed to the USA Patriot Act" because he IS opposed to it. (Well, maybe. I think he has flip-flopped on that too.) That is the same as if the Times wrote that Bush is "seeking to portray Mr. Kerry as being the junior Senator from Massachusetts."

It gets even better:

Harold Schaitberger, head of the International Association of Fire Fighters, told reporters in a conference call organized by Mr. Kerry's campaign that he found the timing of the announcement to be "politically convenient at best" because it came after "we see the president's approval ratings plummet."

If you read the entire article, you will find that this group, perhaps Kerry's biggest supporters, supply the entire justification for the headline. Once again, the Times carries the water for Kerry.

Read this sentence:

Coalition to suspend operations in Najaf

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S.-led coalition agreed Thursday to suspend military operations in Najaf as part of a deal negotiated by Iraqi leaders with rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to end a bloody standoff in the heartland of Shiite Islam.

Bloody standoff? It should say, "U.S. agrees to let Iraqi leaders negotiate in order to save the lives of the last of Sadr's goons. The United States agree to allow this instead of just killing each and every last one of them."

Friend of the blogosphere Daniel Aronstein send this along:

I watched the Kerry speech.

He's worse on WW4 than McGovern was on Vietnam!

And all this talk about what other countries feel about us!?!?!?!
Obviously he'd give Chirac and the UN a veto over our national interests.
He fails to see that our values are more important than alliances; that alliances which diminish our values and our ability to fight WW4 are not worth a thing.

Also Kerry said that TR said: "walk softly but carry a big stick", but TR said "SPEAK" softly .

In fact, according the the White House historian
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tr26.html)

"He liked to quote a favorite proverb, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick. . . . ' "
And Kerry quoted the self-avowed, openly communist poet again - L. Hughs - from an overtly communist poem again "let America be Amwerica" What's this mean!?!?!?

God help us, this man - who, through his lies, is more responsible for the Vietnam Syndrome than any other politician alive - must NOT be allowed to win.

Daniel Aronstein
NY, NY
http://www.c-span.org/homepage.asp

The only things I know about American Idol are what I learned from Professor Yin's blog, and that Elton John once said the voters were racist. That's because I never watch it because I would be bored stiff. I just looked at this year's winner, and I realized that, yes, it is a racist show.



Once again, the untalented white guy wins because of racial prejudice.

Al Gore, after his speech yesterday.

This is your party, summed up nicely by Al Gore. And this is why Kerry will not beat Bush. Blaming America is a sure failure.

More disturbing still was their frequent use of the word "dominance" to describe their strategic goal, because an American policy of dominance is as repugnant to the rest of the world as the ugly dominance of the helpless, naked Iraqi prisoners has been to the American people. Dominance is as dominance does.

Other than you leftist tossers, no one gives a shit about what the rest of the world thinks, because reasonable people know that the world only loves us when we are weak and we are dying.

There was then, there is now and there would have been regardless of what Bush did, a threat of terrorism that we would have to deal with. But instead of making it better, he has made it infinitely worse. We are less safe because of his policies. He has created more anger and righteous indignation against us as Americans than any leader of our country in the 228 years of our existence as a nation -- because of his attitude of contempt for any person, institution or nation who disagrees with him.

He has exposed Americans abroad and Americans in every U.S. town and city to a greater danger of attack by terrorists because of his arrogance, willfulness, and bungling at stirring up hornet's nests that pose no threat whatsoever to us. And by then insulting the religion and culture and tradition of people in other countries. And by pursuing policies that have resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women and children, all of it done in our name.

I'll say it again. To accept this premise, you must accept that the terrorists were nice, law-abiding goat herders until Bush forced them into the life of murder and mayhem. Al also forgot to mention that the 9/11 hijackers entered this country started their training for their acts while he was Vice President. One more thing. Lost in this joke of a speech was this gem:

In December of 2000, even though I strongly disagreed with the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to order a halt to the counting of legally cast ballots, I saw it as my duty to reaffirm my own strong belief that we are a nation of laws and not only accept the decision, but do what I could to prevent efforts to delegitimize George Bush as he took the oath of office as president.

The December of 2000 part is right, but every other word is pure bullshit.

Read this, and tell me what these 4 nations have in common:

Four nations propose Iraq resolution changes

UNITED NATIONS (May 26, 1:44 pm ADT) - Four key nations proposed major changes Wednesday to the U.S.-British draft resolution on Iraq, moves that would give the new Iraqi government the right to decide whether the multinational force remains in the country while limiting the force's mandate to January 2005.

A three-page proposal by China - which diplomats said was supported by Russia, France and Germany - would give the interim government that takes over on June 30 greater authority than the resolution introduced to the U.N. Security Council on Monday by Britain and the United States.

The proposal, obtained by The Associated Press, was submitted to council members Wednesday afternoon during a closed-door discussion of the U.S.-British draft.

You know the answer. Not one of them has lifted a finger to help us in Iraq. Let's break it down: China is basically a country of old school Commie assholes, who love to cause trouble. Germany is a pussyfied wimpy country full of government-dependent Socialists. France and Russia are trying to get us out of there before we discover too much about how they were bribed by Saddam.

With that being said, we should only address their concerns when they put boots on the ground and help out. If not, we should tell them to go scratch.

Who'd have thunk it? The clowns at the 9th Circus have discovered that states have rights independent of the federal government. And why not? It provided a great opportunity to rip their boogeyman, John Ashcroft.

Court Backs Oregon's Assisted Suicide Law

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ordered the Bush administration not to meddle with a state's assisted suicide law, ruling Wednesday that doctors in Oregon may prescribe lethal doses of medication to terminally ill patients.

Ruling on the nation's only law that allows doctors to assist in hastening the death of a patient, the court said U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot sanction or hold Oregon doctors criminally liable for prescribing overdoses, as the state's voter-approved Death With Dignity Act allows.

"The attorney general's unilateral attempt to regulate general medical practices historically entrusted to state lawmakers interferes with the democratic debate about physician assisted suicide," wrote Judge Richard Tallman in the 2-1 opinion by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. He said Ashcroft's action "far exceeds the scope of his authority under federal law."

Wow!! The will of the voters all of a sudden finds respect in the 9th Circus, too. This is a historic day.

For the record, I support the right to die with dignity, and the 9th Circuit was absolutely correct to rule this way. However, the breadth of their judicial activism is clear, as they once again are favoring their policy preferences.

A few years back, the State of Washington's power to prosecute doctors for assisting a suicide was upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court, WASHINGTON v. GLUCKSBERG, the court stated:

An examination of our Nation's history, legal traditions, and practices demonstrates that Anglo American common law has punished or otherwise disapproved of assisting suicide for over 700 years; that rendering such assistance is still a crime in almost every State; that such prohibitions have never contained exceptions for those whowere near death; that the prohibitions have in recent years been reexamined and, for the most part, reaffirmed in a number of States; and that the President recently signed the Federal Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997, which prohibits the use of federal funds in support of physician assisted suicide... In light of that history, this Court's decisions lead to the conclusion that respondents' asserted "right" to assistance in committing suicide is not a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.

(Also, Vacco v. Quill, decided the same term, held that, "New York's prohibition on assisting suicide does not violate the Equal Protection Clause.")

I am not a lawyer yet, but it seems to me that there is some leeway for States to allow assisted suicide if they so choose. In my view, Oregon's voters are within their rights to allow it. What really pissed me off were the cheap shots at John Ashcroft, disguised as legal opinion. (i.e. the use of one the left's most-hated terms, "unilateral.") Ashcroft has acted properly, both legally and morally. It doesn't take Learned Hand to surmise that if a state is not violating the due process clause by banning assisted suicide, then the federal government is not violating it either.

Simply put, I disagree with Ashcroft's policy in this matter. But he is not in anyway acting improperly.

(By the way, wasn't Dr. Jack Kevorkian the scourge of the liberal media for assisting suicides in the 1990's? That's how I remember it.)

Have you seen any of these scum?



I'd love to see more of this from the FBI. Let people see the scum we are dealing with. I'm sure that CAIR will complain about the "racial stereotypes" sooner or later.

It seems the New York times has decided to apologize...for not being anti-Bush enough.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times acknowledged on Wednesday it had failed to adequately challenge information from Iraqi exiles who were determined to show Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and overthrow him.

In an unusual note from the editors, "The Times and Iraq," the newspaper said it found a number of instances before the March 2003 U.S. and British invasion of Iraq and early in the occupation, of "coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been."

The note said editors "should have been challenging reporters and pressing for more skepticism."

The Bush administration also has been faulted for relying on inaccurate or incomplete intelligence in asserting Saddam had an ongoing weapons program, a primary reason cited for the U.S.-led war in Iraq. No significant biological, chemical or nuclear weapons have been found.

Is the Times beyond parody or what? Plus, notice the last paragraph (emphasis added) and those tricks used. Saddam ciould have easily restarted his programs, which the times clearly knows. And, just look how they downplayed the sarin and mustard gas discoveries of the last few weeks. Pathetic.

Now, why are they doing this? I suspect two reasons: First, to do something to answer the non-stop criticism of their paper. This way, they can say, "We've addressed our problems." But, instead of addressing their serious bias issues, they instead make up some crap about the lack WMD skepticism, not naming names of who was responsible, of course. This way, none of their core readership is offended. After all, they were conned by the evil Bush. And, the added benefit is that they can say, "Hey we admitted our mistake, why hasn't Bush?"

Second, this is a setup for their inevitable endorsement of John Kerry, which they are bascially doing now anyway. But, since they know better than anyone that there is no Kerry platform they can support directly, their written endorsement will have to list the Bush "mistakes."

And, as expected, they left themselves an out in case more sarin gas bombs are discovered:

We consider the story of Iraq's weapons, and of the pattern of misinformation, to be unfinished business. And we fully intend to continue aggressive reporting aimed at setting the record straight.

Please. If the Times really wants to honestly assess the crap that was their Iraq War reporting, they need to talk about a lot more than this. There are 2 books that document the Times bullshit during the run-up to and the duration of the Iraq War, "Journalistic Fraud" by Bob Kohn, and "Off With Their Heads" by Dick Morris. I suggest you read them if you ever get the chance.

Here is the entire joke of a mea culpa by the Times.

If you did not hear or see Al Gore today, watch it here on C-SPAN.

Al Gore is clinically insane. I almost feel sorry for him. Obviously, he has not gotten over the 2000 election, and I doubt he ever will. And to think, he came thisclose to being the President. If 9/11 happened and he was the President, he would have done squat. I am convinced that Gore is upset that the man he lost to has had the guts to do what was and is necessary. C'mon, really. If Al Gore ever thought he could have beaten Bush in 2004, he would have kept his cool over the last 4 years and have tried again. I know this is dime-stroe psychology, but I suspect Al Gore is beyond himself because he doesn't feel that Bush should be President, and that deep down he knows that Bush will be re-elected, which is killing him.

Any reasonable Democrat (yeah, I know, that's an oxymoron) has got to be ashamed of Al Gore.

They need to make sure you understand that Bush is creating terrorists. of course, to accept that, you must also accept that they did not exist before.

Report: al-Qaida Ranks Swelling Worldwide

LONDON - Far from being crippled by the U.S.-led war on terror, al-Qaida has more than 18,000 potential terrorists scattered around the world and the war in Iraq is swelling its ranks, a report said Tuesday.

Unlike the AP, the Democrat party, and liberals in general, the jihadists understand every bit as well as President Bush that this is the battle to determine the future. What makes me laugh is the number they cite, 18,000. If you had asked me yesterday about how many people al-Qaeda had, I would have answered, "Oh, I don't know, 50,000?" And, it gets better. Now, not only has Iraq caused more terrorism, Afghanistan has as well:

The report suggested that the two military centerpieces of the U.S.-led war on terror — the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — may have boosted al-Qaida.

Driving the terror network out of Afghanistan in late 2001 appears to have benefited the group, which dispersed to many countries, making it almost invisible and hard to combat, the story said.

This is pathetic reasoning, yet very typical. They are on the run. They didn't just pack up and set up shop elsewhere, continuing business as usual. And, as expected, the report acts as if diplomacy will send the al-Qaeda fighters back to their formerly productive lives.

Efforts to defeat al-Qaida will take time and might accelerate only if there are political developments that now seem elusive, such as the democratization of Iraq and the resolution of conflict in Israel, it said.

They seemed to forgotten the part that the only settlement acceptable to these scum is the eradication of Israel. Even then, they'll find a new target to blame for their worthless lives.

al-Qaeda cannot beat us. Only we can beat us. I fear for our future if John Kerry wins in November.

Professor Yin has a terrific take on this same article.

...Thomas Sowell is the brilliant, respected man that he is, and I can only write for this blog:

Liberals love to believe that they are just not getting their message out to the public, whether in this presidential campaign or on talk radio. In both cases, the problem is that their real message won't sell and the phony message that they try to sell is seen as being as phony as it is.

Sharp, simple, and to the point, in about 100 fewer words than a lesser writer can convey the same message.

Since I had problems with Blogger, I was unable to get my Finals prediction on the record. Now, since Calgary dominated Tampa Bay tonight, I'll look like a bandwagon jumper, but, so be it. The Flames in 6. Here's why: The Flyers softened up Tampa Bay, and Tampa Bay is not as good as the press they get. Calgary on the other hand, is being dismissed as nothing, despite that they beat all 3 of the top 3 seeds in the West, who all had over 100 points in the regular saeson. Plus, Calgary's captain, Jarome Ignila, is a winner, and has always has been. Just so you know, Ignila is my favorite player and has been for a while now. Yes, even more than any Flyer. If this guy played in a bigger U.S.-based market, he'd be a mega-star. I love the guy.

Watch the highlights here, and make sure you, if you haven't seen it, pay special attention to Iginla's second effort on his shorthanded goal. he is the best player in the world today, and I am praying that I get to see him hold the Stanley Cup over his head in a week or so.

Flames in 6.

They must have starting the Memorial Day holiday weekend quite early, or they are being their usual biased selves. (I'll let you decide which.) Otherwise they'd be making a big deal out of two stories that should have been huge today:

Tests confirm presence of sarin in artillery shell in Iraq: Pentagon

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Comprehensive testing has confirmed that a 155mm artillery shell discovered in Iraq earlier this month contained the deadly nerve agent sarin, a Pentagon spokesman said.

"Further testing has revealed that it was indeed sarin," said Lieutenant Colonel Barry Venable. "We're looking at what new risks this poses to our operations and people in Iraq," he said.

Since this doesn't conform to the "Bush lied" and "there was no WMD" memes that have been forced down our throats, this story is getting zero traction. But, the excuses are rampant. Now, it's "there are still no stockpiles" and this weapon "wasn't effective" anyway. I guess we'll need to lose a few thousand more people for anyone to care.

And, today President Bush met with the 7 Iraqis who hand their right hands severed by Saddam and his minions, and had new prosthetic hands attached by a Houston doctor. (I saw them on C-SPAN today but the video is not available on the C-SPAN website) These men are the subject of a documnetary by filmmaker Don North, who has been unable to get any U.S. network to show it. In fact, only Fox News (of course) mentioned it, as well as a few newspapers like the Houston Chronicle, Anchorage Daily News, and the Asbury Park Press. Joe Scarborough, to his credit, discussed it last night on his show on MSNBC. The Chicago Tribune buried the story, mentioning their meeting with Bush late in the article, but not until after the obligatory Abu Gharib prison scandal mention.

People can't be shown the brutality of Saddam first hand now, can they? They might be tempted to support Bush more. The press can't let that happen, truth be damned.

Blogger has given me and a ton of other blogs a lot of trouble over the last day or so but it seems to have been fixed. I'll try to get back to normal here.

Please comment early and often on your impressions of Bush's speech tonight.

I just love how the AP takes the word of scum at face value yet acts as if our people are lying bastards with an agenda:

U.S. Says Iraq Attack Site Wasn't Wedding

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. military introduced more photographs Monday to bolster its contention that American aircraft attacked a safehouse for foreign fighters near the Syrian border — not a wedding party, as claimed by Iraqi survivors and police and suggested by footage from the scene.

The military presented its case at a news conference while elsewhere in the capital, the widow of a popular Baghdad wedding singer who was among up to 45 people killed in Wednesday's attack said "he was an example of beauty."

"He had a warm voice," Khawla Ibrahim said of her 37-year-old late husband, Hussein al-Ali. "They always played his songs on the radio."

Hussein al-Ali? Wasn't his name Nazar al-Khalid just last week? Talk about having zero shame or integrity.

Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the coalition deputy chief of staff for operations in Iraq, introduced several new photographs Monday — those of a house and white powder he said was being tested for drugs.

Kimmitt again showed pictures of items the military said it found at the attack site, including machine guns, rounds of ammunition, a Sudan Airways plane ticket, medical gear, a Sudanese passport and battery packs associated with improvised explosive devises.

"These are pictures that are somewhat inconsistent in my mind with a wedding party," Kimmitt said. "One could say, yes, it is true that out in the desert you need to have a rifle to protect yourself against Ali Baba but the necessity for rocket-propelled launchers, rocket launchers in the bottom, special machine guns may be a little much for Ali Baba out there."

So, let's connect the dots that the AP and their liberal ilk don't want to. Sudan ordered Syria a month or so ago to get take their WMD's back home. (Sudan was also Osama bin Laden's hangout for a long time too.) The joint we destroyed was right along the Syria-Iraq border, and was a house for foreign fighters. The AP is staying on the "wedding" lie because they don't want people to put two and two together, which makes our mission look even more justified than it already is.

I just came across this over at Little Green Footballs. Haven't I been saying this?

Official IDF Source Confirms: Have Photos of Palestinians Killing 2 Palestinian Children

An official IDF source confirmed Amir Orens' 21 May story this afternoon to
IMRA that two Palestinian children who died in the Rafah procession incident
were murdered by Palestinian gunmen and that the IDF photographed the
shooting.

The official IDF source explained that the pictures have not been released
to the media because information derived from the photographs would
compromise security in the field at this time.

If those photos ever got released, I'll bet the media would be all over it....accusing Israel of faking them.

A man was fired from his job in Alabama because he refused to take off a pin that had Koran verses written on it. The ACLU was immediately outrag...uh, what was that? it was a Christian wearing a pin with the 10 Commandments on it? Never mind, the ACLU just ain't interested.

Ten Commandments pin uproar stirs debate on religion at work

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Debate over on-the-job religious speech has been fueled by the firing of a Hoover Chamber of Commerce employee for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments lapel pin.

Christopher Word said he started wearing the lapel pin daily in January. He recruited new business for the chamber.

Chamber Executive Director Bill Powell noticed the pin in March and asked Word to remove it. Powell said either Word or the pin had to go. Word refused to remove it and lost his job. The chamber's attorney said Word had been making "political statements" at his job and the chamber isn't against religion.

Perhaps he should have worn a rainbow pin that said "Fuck all heterosexuals." He would have had his job back in an hour, if he even lost it at all.

[Hat tip: Right Wing and Right Minded]

The reports of it have already been written. Only some of the details need to be filled in. We'll be reading things like,

"Bush failed to convince," "Bush, rocked from the Abu prison scandal," "responding to his drop in the polls," "answered criticism," etc.

No matter what, the liberal media will hate it.

2 stories supplied via e-mail by regular reader Brendan:

First, he states, "Berkeley (or is it Bezerkeley)" and then says this to me:

I know you're a budding law student (good luck, btw), bur please never follow the example of these preening, arrogant little shits. Did they ever don armbands to protest Saddam's cruelty/torture?

My friend, I already know that I will be one of the few conservatives in law school, and I don't care one whit. I have Emily, Stephanie, and a great family and a few very loyal friends. That's all I need. On to the story he sent:

Berkeley Professor Denounced for POW Memo

BERKELEY, Calif. - Some graduating University of California law students used their commencement Saturday to denounce a professor who helped the Bush administration develop a legal framework that critics say led to the abuse of Iraqi prisoners.

About one-quarter of the 270 graduates of Berkeley's Boalt School of Law donned red armbands over their black robes in a silent protest of a legal memo law professor John Yoo co-wrote when he served in the U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.

Outside the ceremony, they also passed out fliers denouncing Yoo for "aiding and abetting war crimes." Yoo said beforehand he didn't plan to attend the graduation.

"I respect freedom of thought, but I think he should abide by some basic moral standard," said Andrea Ruiz, 35, one of the armband-wearing students. "Respect for human persons is at the core of what the law is about."

A future ACLU shyster, no doubt. Ruiz is correct in principle. However, she fails to understand that we are dealing with scum who would gas Berkeley in a second if they could.

A petition signed by nearly 200 law students and alumni since Thursday alleges that Yoo's memo "contributed directly to the reprehensible violation of human rights in Iraq and elsewhere."

"We're embarrassed that he's at our institution," said law student Abby Reyes, who launched the petition. "We came to law school in order to uphold the rule of law, not to learn ways to wiggle our way out of compliance with it."

That sounds so nice, doesn't it? However, I wonder if any of them actually read the memo that Professor Yoo wrote. If they did, they might have discovered that he was arguing on established legal precedent. Since they don't agree with it, it isn't law. Typical liberalism at it's core.

And, then there's this:

Author booed for anti-Bush remarks

E.L. Doctorow, one of the most celebrated writers in America, was nearly booed off the stage at Hofstra University Sunday when he gave a commencement address lambasting President George W. Bush and effectively calling him a liar.

Booing that came mainly from the crowd in the stands became so intense that Doctorow stopped speaking at one point, showing no emotion as he stood silently and listened to the jeers. Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz intervened, and called on the audience to allow him to finish. He did, although some booing persisted.

Doctorow, who spent virtually all of his 20-minute address in Hempstead criticizing Bush, told the crowd that like himself the president is a storyteller. But "sadly they are not good stories this president tells," he said. "They are not good stories because they are not true." That line provoked the first boos, along with scattered cheers.

Note to Doctorow: Ragtime sucked. Someone also needs to tell him that the anti-Bush talking points have already fallen apart:

"One story he told was that the country of Iraq had nuclear and biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction and was intending shortly to use them on us," he said. "That was an exciting story all right, it was designed to send shivers up our spines. But it was not true.

"Another story was that the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, was in league with the terrorists of al-Qaida," he said. "And that turned out to be not true. But anyway we went off to war on the basis of these stories."

Those lines provoked an outburst of boos so loud the "Ragtime" author stopped the speech. Rabinowitz approached the podium and called for calm. "We value open discussion and debate," he said. "For the sake of your graduates, please let him finish."

Some students and most of the faculty responded with a standing ovation, and Doctorow resumed speaking. He attacked Bush for giving the rich tax breaks, doing "a very poor job of combating terrorism" and allowing the government to subpoena libraries "to see what books you've been taking out."

Let's see: Bush never said an attack was imminent, only that we should not wait until that point. al-Qaeda is all over Iraq, and the library book meme is crap. (Funny, liberals never sya that the government has had that power for a long time. They used the Unabomber's library records at his trial, for example. Bush wasn't President then.)

Bottom line: The Bush hatred just isn't out there, no matter how much the liberals in the media and beyond want us to think otherwise.

The latest anti-American headline from the AP:

Morgue Records Show 5,500 Iraqis Killed

BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 5,500 Iraqis died violently in just Baghdad and three provinces in the first 12 months of the occupation, an Associated Press survey found. The toll from both criminal and political violence ran dramatically higher than violent deaths before the war, according to statistics from morgues.

There are no reliable figures for places like Fallujah and Najaf that have seen surges in fighting since early April.

Indeed, there is no precise count for Iraq (news - web sites) as a whole on how many people have been killed, nor is there a breakdown of deaths caused by the different sorts of attacks. The U.S. military, the occupation authority and Iraqi government agencies say they don't have the ability to track civilian deaths.

But the AP survey of morgues in Baghdad and the provinces of Karbala, Kirkuk and Tikrit found 5,558 violent deaths recorded from May 1, 2003, when President Bush declared an end to major combat operations, to April 30. Officials at morgues for three more of Iraq's 18 provinces either didn't have numbers or declined to release them.

The AP's survey was not a comprehensive compilation of the nationwide death toll, but was a sampling intended to assess the levels of violence. Figures for violent deaths in the months before the war showed a far lower rate.

I just love the term violent deaths. What does that mean? It could mean crime victims, for example, as Iraq isn't exactly, say, Butte, Montana. It could mean Iraqi insurgents, Ba'ath Party remnants, and terrorists that our fine military sent to Allah. I could mean a whole slew of things. But that doesn't matter. We are supposed to feel sorry for those poor Iraqis.

Shockingly, the AP actually puts this in context:

That doesn't mean Iraq is a more dangerous place than during Saddam Hussein's regime. At least 300,000 people were murdered by security forces and buried in mass graves during the dictator's 23-year rule, U.S. officials say, and human rights workers put the number closer to 500,000.

Here's all the context you need: Let's just say that every single one of those 5,000 deaths was an innocent Iraqi. (even though I'd bet the number was no more 1,000 civilian deaths) It will only take the anywhere from 60-100 years for as many to die violently as did under Saddam.

You just gotta love the AP. They stay all over an important story and breathlessly bring you developments as they happen, just as long as they an anti-American. Sarin gas attack? No follow up. Berg beheaded? They couldn't give a damn. Mustard gas discovered? They have no idea it happened. But, if the AP can accuse Americans of needlessly killing "innocent" people, why let the facts het in the way of a good story? Get this headline:

AP: Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration

That is undeniable. The tape does show a wedding. But, is it the one they say we attacked? Of course not.

RAMADI, Iraq - A videotape obtained Sunday by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party that survivors say was later attacked by U.S. planes early Wednesday, killing up to 45 people. The dead included the cameraman, Yasser Shawkat Abdullah, hired to record the festivities, which ended Tuesday night before the planes struck.

"There was no evidence of a wedding: no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would expect from a wedding celebration," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said Saturday. "There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too."

But video that APTN shot a day after the attack shows fragments of musical instruments, pots and pans and brightly colored beddings used for celebrations, scattered around the bombed out tent.

Yeah, OK. Whatever the AP says. The first papragraph syas the vidoe guy was whacked. Then later, they say a video shot the day after is proof. Then, they say there is video of them driving through the desert going to the celebration. Convenient, isn't it? They have film from before the party, the camerman was killed, so no footage of the party, and video shot a day later, with easily plantiable crap, as the sum of their proof. Only the AP and American-haters have the uncommon ability to ignore all these facts and believe that our soldiers wantonly attacked a wedding.

From our old friend Thomas Friedman:

Unfortunately, such bizarre warnings could be the first of many, because while we have not found any W.M.D. in Iraq, we have found there a disturbing number of P.M.D.'s — people of mass destruction.

I guess Friedman missed reading, in his own paper, William Safire's recent column complaining about the media ignoring the sarin nerve gas find.

Also, Friedman "doesn't know" who is responsible for the 50-75 suicide bombings over the last year. Note to Tommy: "They" are dupes for people all over the Middle East, i.e. Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia and more, who cannot survive if a thriving free country exists in their midst.

For a dope, President Bush surely knows how to manage his time like no other man who ever lived. When he isn't starving children, killing innocent Iraqis, violating Saddam Hussein's rights, locking up hundreds of peaceful Muslims, destroying the environment, lining the pockets of his rich oil cronies, returning women's rights back to the stone age, destroying the entire education system, and causing the worst economy since the Great Depression, Bush is out in the desert killing Mexican illegals crossing the borders. How do I know this? Why, it's all in the New York Times:

Border Desert Proves Deadly for Mexicans

COVERED WELLS, Ariz., May 20 — At the bottleneck of human smuggling here in the Sonoran Desert, illegal immigrants are dying in record numbers as they try to cross from Mexico into the United States in the wake of a new Bush administration amnesty proposal that is being perceived by some migrants as a magnet to cross.

Can you believe the balls of the Times? This is the same paper who thinks we should let everyone in without delay or mere inconvenience. Perhaps they are upset that we just don't fire everyone from the border patrol and declare open borders. Unreal that the alleged "paper of record" is trying to pin these deaths on Bush. Did it ever occur to them that if those "poor" Mexicans stayed at home, they'd be alive today? And, if Bush has destroyed this country like the Times alleges every day, don't you think that once in a while an American would die in the desert trying to escape to Mexico or dorwn trying to raft into Cuba?

Note to the Times: I've lived in Arizona for a few years now, arriving while Clinton was still President. People were dying in the desert back then too.

That so-called "wedding party" where our soldiers supposedly murdered children was, as I and many others suspected, was a crock.

Coalition: Target not a wedding

A senior coalition military spokesman said Saturday that dozens of people killed in a U.S. attack in the Iraqi desert early Wednesday were attending a high-level meeting of foreign fighters, not a wedding. Photos shown to reporters in Baghdad support that contention.

Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said six women were among the dead, but he said there was no evidence any children died in the raid near the Syrian border. Coalition officials have said as many as 40 people were killed.

Kimmitt said video showing dead children killed was actually recorded in Ramadi, far from the attack scene.

"There may have been some kind of celebration," Kimmitt said. "Bad people have celebrations too. Bad people have parties too."

Kimmitt said troops did not find anything -- such as a wedding tent, gifts, musical instruments, decorations or leftover food -- that would indicate a wedding had been held.

Most of the men there were of military age, and there were no elders present to indicate a family event, he said.

What was found, he said, indicated the building was used as a way station for foreign fighters crossing into Iraq from Syria to battle the coalition.

"The building seemed to be somewhat of a dormitory," Kimmitt said. "You had over 300 sets of bedding gear in it. You had a tremendous number of pre-packaged clothing -- apparently about a hundred sets of pre-packaged clothing.

Let's see if this new evidence gets as much attention. I won't be holding my breath.

Show the Nick Berg beheading, or his kilers holding his head in his hand? No way, too shocking says the liberal media. But, a dead 3-year old girl, no problem. I will not show the picture of her, but it is available here.

Now, what's the difference between the two? Simple. To the media, a dead Jew is a good Jew, but they can't show it because Americans may hate Arabs and understand what kind of scum we are dealing with after seeing it. But, a dead child that will make people hate Israel and Jews even more than they already do is par for the course.

Saturday, May 22, 2004
Associated Press

Karbala Cools Down

KARBALA, Iraq — Officials with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani and anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Saturday that militiamen and U.S. forces had agreed to stop fighting in Karbala, a holy city where the two adversaries have engaged in intense battles in recent days.

I'm sure those AC 130 gunships pounding the hell out of the place had nothing to do with it. If the story was reported accurately, it would say, "U.S. agrees to stop killing al-Sadr's goons."

Those Palestinians really love the U.N., don't they?



RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Dozens of Palestinians, angry over Israel's bloodiest raid in the Gaza Strip in years, smashed the windows of a U.N. car Saturday and mobbed a shipment of humanitarian aid.

"Where have you been?" one man screamed as others pounded on the cars in the U.N. convoy as it entered a sealed-off neighborhood in Rafah refugee camp to survey damage and deliver aid supplies, including powdered milk.

In the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, witnesses said the army pulled out its armored vehicles but continued to cut off access roads to the rest of the camp, and had left residents without power or running water for days.

The U.N. must be run by the Zionists. Yeah, that's it. That's why the convoys were attacked.

The top headline right now on AP:

Child Shot in Gaza As Incursion Continues

RAFAH, Gaza Strip - A 3-year-old Palestinian girl was shot dead Saturday as a senior U.N. official toured a battle-scarred refugee camp where Israeli troops continue the hunt for weapons-smuggling tunnels and militants...

A 3-year-old girl was killed Saturday in the Brazil neighborhood while Hansen's delegation was in the area. Relatives said Rawan Mohammed Abu Zeid was killed by a gunshot to the head as she walked to a shop to buy candy.

"We were playing in the house when she told me she wanted some candy," said her brother Diyab Abu Zeid, 19, crying uncontrollably on the telephone. "The older kids in the neighborhood were going to the store so I let her go with them.

"There was no one in the street but the kids, not even other adults," he added.

Read the entire article. Nowhere does it say Israeli soldiers killed her, or quotes anyone accusing them of doing so. The story is wrapped around the main story about how Israel is conducting raids and destroying houses. This being the AP, we are meant to think that Israeli soldiers killed her, while the AP can deny that they said it, and it is not their fault what readers infer.

Do I think Palestinians shot her for propaganda purposes? You're damn right I do, until I see evidence telling me otherwise. And the word of a Gaza cab driver doesn't cut it with me.

President Bush fell off his bike. So what? But get this blurb from Drudge:

President fell off bike today... Kerry told reporters in front of cameras, 'Did the training wheels fall off?'... Reporters are debating whether to treat it is as on or off the record... Developing...

The only thing the reporters are doing is figuring out whether showing Kerry saying that hurts him or not. If they decide that it does, they'll bury it. But, they won't mention Kerry falling down and saying "I don't fall. That son of a bitch knocked me down."

Look at how the AP covered for Kerry:

Earlier this month, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry took a spill from his bicycle while riding with Secret Service agents through Concord, Mass., about 18 miles north of Boston. Kerry fell when his bike hit a patch of sand. He was not injured.

Told about Bush's mishap, Kerry said, "I hope he's OK. I didn't know the president rode a bike."

Kerry, a real classy guy. I don't give a damn about the ups and downs of the polls. No way America elects this guy over Bush. None.

A regular e-mailer sent this:

Can we finally drop the pretense that these assholes are our friends?

He was talking about the French, and he sent this link:

'Fahrenheit 9/11' Wins Cannes' Top Prize

CANNES, France - American filmmaker Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," a scathing indictment of White House actions after the Sept. 11 attacks, won the top prize Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.

"Fahrenheit 9/11" was the first documentary to win Cannes' prestigious Palme d'Or since Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" in 1956.

Someone could have made video of a horse shitting on a Bush/Cheney '04 sign, and it would have won. Poor Jacques Costeau, being mentioned in the same breat at that fat slob Michael Moore. Unlike Moore, Costeau made documentaries that not only contributed to the entire world, they were actually true!!

I won't see this movie, but I am sure when it is released the blogosphere will fisk it to no end.

Oh, the liberal media is crying foul for the poor democrats again:

South Dakota Senate Race Ensnarls Leaders

RAPID CITY, S.D. - Shattering precedent, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist campaigned for the defeat of his Democratic counterpart on Saturday, depicting Sen. Tom Daschle as a polarizing figure at home and an obstructionist thwarting President Bush's agenda in Congress.

How dare Frist go to South Dakota and tell the electorate exactly what kind of tool that Daschle is? And, most hilariously, take a look at whar Democrat they go to in order to get a quote complaing about the "incivility" of Frist campaigning against Daschle.

One Democrat took exception to Frist's politicking.

"What has become of civility? ... It used to be unheard of for Senate leaders to seek an active role against each other in campaigns," said Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who has served for more than 45 years and led his party for a dozen of them. "That time has gone," he lamented.

Look at that. Robert "KKK" Byrd is, to them, an appropriate figure to discuss civility.

Watch the video on this page. (Video link in top left hand corner, titled "Bush Congress Reaction.") This is the moment that Daschle will forever regret, the moment that will cost him re-election.

After that, watch this video clip. (Titled "Daschle Blasts Bush over Iraq.") Bush is at the top of his game, and they only show it for 3-4 seconds, then they give Daschle and that old coot Robert Byrd well over a minute, despite that they are being their usual pathetic selves. You can just feel the bias.

Daschle is in the wrong state to backstab President Bush like he has done. All of his recent nice words about Bush will mean nothing. People in South Dakota know the Daschle is representing the Democratic Party, not them, and he will get ousted in November for it, you watch.

From Mark Kilmer:

"I accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in July before I didn't not accept the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in July."

The campaign finance reform is really working out well, isn't it? Think of the logic trail here. Then it was, "Money makes campaigns unfair, so we need to change the rules." Now, it's, "The money is making this campaign unfair, so I need to go around the rules." So, thanks to those old geezers at the Supreme Court, allowing a blantant First Amendment violation pass constitutional muster, the only people stuck with following the rules are us, who can't run any ads within 60 days of the election.

If Bush tried this, we'd never hear the end of it.

Read this harrowing account from a prisoner:

'It starts off by being stripped naked in front of 10 police officers including two women, gratutious humiliation is used to break you down.' '... worst jail that you can possibly imagine.' 'Not even a hole to go to the bathroom. You have to piss against a wall and you sleep in piss on the concrete floor.' The torture victim demands 'the immediate shutdown of this secret underground prison'.

A prison in Iraq? Guantanamo Bay? No, in Marseille, France.

In fairness, I should post this:

Ore. Lawyer Held in Spain Attack Released

PORTLAND, Ore. - A lawyer who was arrested two weeks ago in connection with the terror attacks in Spain was set free Thursday after evidence pointed to another suspect in the deadly train bombings.

Brandon Mayfield's release came soon after Spanish officials said fingerprints found on a bag near the bombing site were that of an Algerian. U.S. authorities had previously said the prints were Mayfield's. The bag contained detonators similar to those used in the March 11 bombings, which killed 191 people and injured 2,000 others.

The left's new hero. Watch this guy come out of the woodwork everytime someone gets charged with aiding terrorists.

And, as the Times does better than anyone, they make it a race issue too. Just look at this headline for Bob herbert's column. (If you have read this blog for a while, then you know I think Herbert is the worst NY Times columnist. Yes, even worse than Dowd and Krugman.)

'Gooks' to 'Hajis'

Now what is his latest crap about? Hard to figure from this headline, but it is a sympathetic portrait of a gutless deserter named Camilo Mejia. (I'm surprised that Herbert did not find a way to use Mejia's ethnicity as a crutch.) There's even a hearsay story about some American mercilessly killing a child.

Read this crap if you want, but I am only going to quote the last sentence of Herbert's column:

Whatever the outcome of Sergeant Mejia's court-martial, he has made a contribution to the truth about Iraq.

Which is something that Herbert and his newspaper have yet to do.

This AP article is beyond sad. First the headline:

U.S. Planes, Tanks Hit Militia in Karbala

Now, read the first papragraph:

KARBALA, Iraq - American AC-130 gunships and tanks battled militiamen near shrines in this Shiite holy city Friday, and fighting was heavy in two other towns south of Baghdad. More than 450 Iraqis were released from the notorious Abu Ghraib jail — some emerging with fresh claims of abuse.

Huh? I thought this article was about the fighting.

And, look at the writer's name:

By FISNIK ABRASHI, Associated Press Writer

Who are these people that the AP is employing? Did it ever cross anyone's mind that they could be Ba'athist or al-Qaeda propagandists?

First, look at the back page of the Philly Daily News today:



After the way Keith Primeau played last night, as well as the way he has played during these playoffs, I wanted to kiss him too.



I have never been much of a Primeau fan. He has never been as good as advertised, and my buddy Joel and I used to joke that he would always "almost" score. (The Mike Mamula of hockey, too. If you are an Eagles fan, you know what I mean. If not, then here's why: Mike Mamula always "almost" made the sack, and "almost" made the play. He was always just short.) However, during this post-season, Primeau has played like a true leader, a man possessed, dare I say, like a Mark Messier. (Brandon, before you rip me for this, remember I am not saying he is Messier. Primeau needs to win 6 Cups to earn that comparison)

I cannot convey to you how much I want the Flyers to win the Cup. I really believe that if they win tomorrow night, they will beat the Calgary Flames in 6 games. Additionally, I actually believe the Hockey Gods favor the Flyers, and I really think they will win tomorrow night, a feeling I never had during the Eric Lindros years. The Flyers will win Game 7 tomorrow night. You watch.



Let's Go Fly-ers!!!

[Hat tip: Buzznet MoBlog]

From the AP:

18 Killed in Heavy Fighting in Karbala

I love it because I know, as an AP watcher, that all of the 18 killed were scumbag Arab/terrorists/Muslim extremists/not our fine soldiers. If they were Americans that were killed, the headline would scream it at us.

I hate it because people too lazy to read beyond headlines will likely think we lost 18 more people, making them think that things are getting worse and worse. (Don't think for a second the AP headline writers and editors don't count on this.) And, if people actually read the article, I hate that the 18 vermin killed are treated as morally equivalent to our soldiers. F them. I would not be one bit upset if we killed than many an hour, 24 hours a day.

KARBALA, Iraq - American tanks and AC-130 gunships pounded insurgent positions near two shrines in the center of the holy city of Karbala early Friday, and the U.S. military said it killed 18 fighters loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Gee, I thought I read and heard just yesterday about how Sadr got and was continuing to get the best of our military. We all know that our fine soldiers could kill every last one of them in an hour if we wanted to. Unlike those savages, we care about the people caught in the middle, and do not want to needlessly kill innocents.

And, don't you just love how everyplace is a "holy" city? May I live long enough to read about how the Palestinians bombed a bus in the holy city of Jerusalem. Karbala, Najaf, and I forget the others....exactly how many "holy" cities does Iraq have?

The fighting began after insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at U.S. tanks patrolling Karbala's so-called "Old City," said U.S. Army Col. Pete Mansoor of the 1st Armored Division.

The tanks returned fire, and more than two hours of heavy fighting followed. Smoke billowed from burning buildings. A rebel weapons cache was hit, the military said.

Much of the fighting was near the city's Imam Hussein and Imam Abbas shrines, which U.S. forces allege are being used by militiamen as firing positions or protective cover. Mansoor said the shrines were not damaged.

The military says it is doing its best to avoid damage to the gold-domed shrines. Al-Sadr, who launched an uprising against the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq last month, has accused U.S. forces of desecrating holy sites, and hitting the shrines would likely infuriate Shiite Muslims not involved in the conflict.

Who gives a shit about those places? Level them all.

The dead included a driver for a camera crew of the Al-Jazeera television network, the station reported.

Rashid Hamid Wali, 40, died while assisting a crew from the Qatar-based network that was filming the clashes from a hotel roof shortly after midnight, said Ahmed al-Sheikh, the network's news editor in Qatar.

It was unclear who was responsible.

It may be unclear who was responsible, but let me make it perfectly clear that I won't shed one tear for anyone from al-Jizbag-Zeera.

Memo to Bush: Victory is a winning campaign platform. Keep pounding Sadr and all of his goons. Give them what they love: Death.

This time from Robert Novak:

Bush's shaky base

WASHINGTON -- During George W. Bush's keynote address to the 40th anniversary black-tie banquet of the American Conservative Union (ACU) last week, diners rose repeatedly to applaud the president's remarks. But one man kept his seat through the 40-minute oration. It was no liberal interloper but conservative stalwart Donald Devine.

As ACU vice chairman, Devine was privileged to be part of a pre-dinner head-table reception with President Bush. However, Devine chose not to shake hands with the president. Furthermore, he is one of about 20 percent of Republicans that polls classify as not committed to voting for Bush's re-election.

The conventional wisdom portrays the latest Zogby Poll's 81 percent of Republican voters committed to Bush as reflecting extraordinary loyalty to the president by the GOP base. Actually, when nearly one out of five Republicans cannot flatly say they support Bush, that could spell defeat in a closely contested election. When Don Devine is among those one out of five, it signifies that the president's record does not please all conservatives.

Novak is a dope for writing this crap. First off, one example, no matter who it is, is not a trend. Second, as a man who was written about politics for many years, he should know that this is a typical interest group, whether liberal or conservative, election-year tactic. They act like they are not with the program, in order to be courted and not ignored or taken for granted. Novak knows that there is no way any of Bush's base will run to Kerry, yet doesn't let the facts or what he knows to get in the way of the story he wants out there:

Bush's saving grace for the 2004 election may be John Kerry. In the end, I am sure Don Devine will cast his ballot for George W. Bush, if only because the alternative is noxious. How many of the rest of that 19 percent of non-Bush voting Republicans in the Zogby Poll will fall in line may determine the outcome Nov. 2. That is the importance of Devine's little sit-down strike.

His last paragraph destroys the premise of his column. We deserve better from a man like Novak.

For my comic needs, I usually go to one of the three places: Scrappleface, The Onion, and the New York Times Correction page. Here's their latest laugher.

An article on Monday about the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that ended school segregation misstated a word in a paraphrase from President Bush, who attended a ceremony in Topeka, Kan. He called for a continuing battle to end racial inequality — not equality. (Go to Article)

Tak about a Freudian slip, or a delibarate one. How could any editor allow this to get by in the first place. If Bush actually said or hinted that we need to end racial equality, it would be front-page news from Maine to San Diego. But, then again, we all know the Times M.O.

Get these other laughers from the original article:

"On this day, in this place, we remember with gratitude the good souls who saw a great wrong, and stood their ground, and won their case," Mr. Bush said to a mostly white audience in an unusually brief speech of 12 minutes, which is about one-third the length of his standard stump speech. "And we celebrate a milestone in the history of our glorious nation."

Gee, no bias there. I would have flunked Journalism 301 if I editorialized like that.

"As far as we've come, we still have not met the promise of Brown," Mr. Kerry said on a cool, gray spring day. "We have not met the promise of Brown when one-third of all African-American children are living in poverty. We have not met the promise of Brown when only 50 percent of African-American men in New York City have a job. We have not met the promise of Brown when nearly 20 million black and Hispanic Americans don't have basic health insurance."

I thought Brown was about school desgregation. I didn't know it was a jobs or health care program too. One more part to spin your head at:

The commemoration brought the two candidates into unusually close contact, albeit in a Republican state that almost surely will not be in play this year. Accordingly, their visits were brief; Mr. Kerry flew off for Oregon, to campaign with Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, in one of the truly contested states this fall, while Mr. Bush flew to Atlanta, where he was expected to raise $3.2 million for the Republican Party at a fund-raiser at the home of Bob Nardelli, the chief executive of Home Depot.

See that? Earlier, the writer implied that because it was a race thing that made Bush come and go. Now, he suggests that both Bush and Kerry were brief because of the lack of political importance. Where was the mention that Kerry's talk was a lot shorter than his usual stump snoozer? And, notice it was made sure that we all knew that Kerry was going to merely campaign with fellow man-of-the-people Howard Dean, while Bush was going to yet another multi-million dollar fundraiser. A garbage rag of a paper, pure and simple.

...what took so long?

US to turn gays away from sperm banks

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government said it would ban homosexuals from making anonymous donations to sperm banks, in the name of preventing transmittable diseases, in a move swiftly condemned by gay rights groups.

That is the problem with gay rights groups: they put politics over reality. They can try all they want, the homosexual lifestyle is an inherent health risk.

"This new rule was developed with input from many concerned consumers, associations and tissue establishments. In all cases, we carefully considered the comments we received in the proposed rule and made changes in the final rule when the science supported the change," said Acting FDA commissioner Lester Crawford.

But homosexual rights groups slammed the move.

"The FDA guidelines are unscientific. There is a 72 hour test which would provide information as to whether a person was HIV positive, we know that even the International Red Cross accepts blood from men who have sex with men," said Roberta Sklar, spokesperson for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

"This is another instance of the Bush administration ignoring scientific information and putting forth their own agenda to satisfy the extreme right wing conservative voters. It does not take in current scientific findings and recommendations.

Uh, no. First off, the Red Cross has become a hack left wing group, and has no business accepting blood from homosexuals. Second, it isn't Bush ignoring scientific information, it is the homosexual groups. Besides, just like that global warming crap, science is manipulated for political ends.

Think about how far gay rights groups have come. They are reduced to complaining about not being able to donate sperm. They have gotten so much of their agenda, and are perpetual victims. No matter what, they'll biutch and moan. Before you know it, they complain they don't get affirmative action.

If you think my lack of acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle makes me a homphobe, then go ahead and make yourself feel better. I am not a homophobe, I have no fear of men. I am anti-homosexual agenda, so get it right. My gay friends and gay old college buddies know I feel this way about their lifestyle. That is why they like me. They know I am not lying to their faces while saying something else behind their backs.

On my other blog, John Kerry for President? You Must Be Joking, where I am one of 6 contributors, I got this e-mail from someone whose name I am withholding:

Last time I checked, the death penalty was against Catholic doctrine as well as abortion. Therefore, all Republicans who are Catholics should
also not take the Eucharist. I'm another Catholic for Kerry and proud
of it. Catholic social teaching calls Catholics to a moral obligation:
Standing up for human rights. ALL HUMAN RIGHTS. I would hardly call the
Republican platform, one which deprives the poor of health care,
education, and basic needs, representative of Christ's message.

I was raised a Catholic and continue to be a Catholic, but this sure sounds like old fashioned Socialist, Communist, and Marxist rhetoric to me. I just love the meme about Republicans denying health care. Socialized health care is a failure everywhere it exists, and this country has by far and away the best health care in the world. I won't even get into that. (By the way, has anyone ever seen a liberal hospital, privately funded? I never have. I have seen many Catholic, Christian, and Jewish hospitals, but never saw an ACLU, People for the American Way, Greenpeace, etc. hospital) And, on education, this woman must be joking. No one in history has ever spent more on education than Bush, on a bill mostly written by Ted Kennedy!! Just take a look at school vouchers, which Kerry has always been against. Catholic schools educate a hell of a lot better than public schools for a hell of a lot less money. Kerry, like his fellow Democrats, being owned by the teachers' unions, will continue the cycle of lousy schools, especially in inner cities. Faith-based iniatives will die a quick death if Kerry is elected. Can this woman, as a Catholic, really say with a straight face that the government does anything better (and cheaper) than religious groups?

As for the basic needs nonsense, it sure sounds like Karl Marx's famous quote, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Uh, no thanks.

Anyway, I responded to this woman with this e-mail:

Deprives the public of health care? What country is that? We aren't Socialist enough for you? And, this administration has spent more money on education, in a bill written by Democrat Ted Kennedy, than any other in history.

Typical liberal. Just keeping giving welfare and everything away to the "poor", and everything will be OK. Earth to you: The War on Poverty and the Great Society was 40 years ago, and it flopped.

Answer me this: Who gave you your education? Where do you get your health care and basic needs? Who provides for yuor family?

I look forward to your response and the continuing of our debate.

Here was her (non) response:

Actually, I was a registered Republican until last year, I'm against
welfare, and well aware of the fantastic contribution Ted Kennedy has
made to our country in his long-running term in office. I look forward
to writing you back, as well. Right now, though, I am off to work.

Read that twice. A registered Republican until last year who is aware of Ted Kennedy's "fantastic contribution." What contribution is that? In that one sentence, she exposes herself for a phony. If she bothers to answer my questions, I'll let you know. Don't hold your breath. I ain't holding mine.

...the 9/11 Commission could not be more of a kangaroo commission, this happens:

Families Lash Out at Giuliani at Hearing

NEW YORK - Outraged relatives of World Trade Center victims heckled former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday as their hopes that he would be grilled by the Sept. 11 commission faded in the face of gentle questioning and effusive praise from panel members.

My son was murdered because of your incompetence!" shouted Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son died in the trade center. Seated three rows behind Giuliani, she jabbed her finger at the former mayor and waved a sign that read "Fiction" as he gave the city's emergency response a glowing review.

Giuliani finished his testimony and abruptly left the auditorium minutes later, leaving many family members upset that they received few answers. Monica Gabrielle, who lost her husband, Richard, called it a "lost opportunity."

A lost opportunity for what? Giuliani didn't kill anyone, al-Qaeda did!! I cannot believe I have lost sympathy for many the 9/11 families. (But not all of them) Who in this world was prepared to deal with the attacks on the World Trade Center? No one!! They can't possibly be trying to make sure that the next time we are attacked, our cities are better prepared to deal with them, are they? Of course not. They are trying to disparage Guiliani simply because he has a future in the Republican party, and would have a great chance of beating Hillary in 2006 or even winning the Presidency in 2008.

"This was not a time for Rudy Giuliani to talk about all the great things he did on 9/11," she said. "He can save that for his talking tours. He should have told us what went wrong and what we should do now."

I can answer that question easily. No one was prepared to deal with an attack on that scale, and what we should do now is what Bush has been doing, taking the fight to the terrorists. Guiliani has no power to do anything, and didn't even when he was mayor.

Later, Giuliani was chastised by members of the public. A longtime city gadfly berated him and the commission, yelling, "Three thousand people murdered does not mean leadership!" He and another person were hustled out of the room.

Others in the audience shouted about the failure of Fire Department radios, shouting, "Talk about the radios!"

Sadly, this sounds like a prelude to a lawsuit against Motorola. I cannot believe the nerve of these people.

The final report comes out on August 26th, just in time for the Democratic convention. We already know that the report will find fault from Bush, Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld, the CIA, Guiliani, the NYFD, and the NYPD. Yet, there will be no blame placed at the feet of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. You just wait.

An hour ago, The Associated Press headline was that our troops killed 40 people at a wedding, mistaking celebratory gunfire for hostiel fire. Now, it says only this:

U.S. Aircraft Reportedly Kills 40 Iraqis

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. aircraft fired on a house in the desert near the Syrian border Wednesday, and Iraqi officials said more than 40 people were killed, including children. The U.S. military said the target was a suspected safehouse for foreign fighters from Syria, but Iraqis said a helicopter had attacked a wedding party.

It is funny how the AP at first uncritically accepted the charge that Americans killed people at a wedding. Now, they are showing the proper skepticism.

The area, a desolate region populated only by shepherds, is popular with smugglers, including weapons smugglers, and the U.S. military suspects militants use it as a route to slip in from Syria to fight the Americans. It is under constant surveillance by American forces.

In a statement, the U.S. Central Command said coalition forces conducted a military operation at 3 a.m. against a "suspected foreign fighter safe house" in the open desert, about 50 miles southwest of Husaybah and 15 miles from the Syrian border.

The coalition troops came under hostile fire and "close air support was provided," the statement said. The troops recovered weapons, Iraqi and Syrian currency, some passports and some satellite communications gear, it said.

Iraqis interviewed on the videotape said revelers had fired volleys of gunfire into the air in a traditional wedding celebration before the attack took place. American troops have sometimes mistaken celebratory gunfire for hostile fire.

Al-Ani, the doctor, said American troops came to investigate the gunfire and left. However, al-Ani said, helicopters later arrived and attacked the area. Two houses were destroyed, he said.

"This was a wedding and the (U.S.) planes came and attacked the people at a house. Is this the democracy and freedom that (President) Bush has brought us?" said a man on the videotape, Dahham Harraj. "There was no reason."

Another man shown on the tape, who refused to give his name, said the victims were at a wedding party "and the U.S. military planes came ... and started killing everyone in the house."

A wedding party going on at 3 A.M.? OK, that could happen, I've been to many parties that lasted all night. But, exucse me for not taking these people at their word, considering the entire circumstances. Plus, do any of you think that these people wouldn't keep children around either for protection or to use for propaganda purposes? Of course they would.

We all know that our troops don't randomly fire on anyone, especially if their is a chance of killing children. The AP's about-face tells me all I need to know about what really happened.

...the New York Times have more columns like this?

Sarin? What Sarin?

Don't miss William Safire's brilliant and spot-on column today about the lack of attention the media has paid to the attempted use of sarin nerve gas on our troops.

One small quibble. Safire neglected to mention his own newspaper's burying of the story.

...the New York Times just label itself, "The Official Paper of the John Kerry for President Campaign?" Get this laugher:

White House Is Trumpeting Programs It Tried to Cut

WASHINGTON, May 18 — Like many of its predecessors, the Bush White House has used the machinery of government to promote the re-election of the president by awarding federal grants to strategically important states. But in a twist this election season, many administration officials are taking credit for spreading largess through programs that President Bush tried to eliminate or to cut sharply.

For example, Justice Department officials recently announced that they were awarding $47 million to scores of local law enforcement agencies for the hiring of police officers. Mr. Bush had just proposed cutting the budget for the program, known as Community Oriented Policing Services, by 87 percent, to $97 million next year, from $756 million.

Yeah, OK. I'll take that seriously when the Times reports on all the vital programs that Kerry voted against, or that Kerry flat-out lied when he said he supported something when he didn't.

Because I read the Boston Business Journal headline for the article that talked about the death of an artificial heart patient, who was also Lee from Right-Thinking From the Left Coast's Dad. The headline was:

AbioCor patient dies as family pulls plug

I was so upset that Lee's Dad was trivialized like that, and his family was made to look like they ended his life. It was cruel, insensitive, and simply disgraceful. I showed it to Stephanie and she was pissed too. I sat and typed out a letter to the editor, expressing my outrage in a respectful manner, got in the car at 1:30 A.M., and dropped it in the mailbox. I was still upset when I got back home, so I picked up the phone and left a polite but firm 2-minute long message to the editor, George Donnelly, telling him that I understood the business aspects and how it might needlessly hurt the company, but, however, the headline was simply awful. I left my name and number just so the guy would know I was serious, and that I was not afraid to stand up and be counted.

A few minutes ago, I recieved a call from Mr. Donnelly. He explained in great detail that my complaint was taken seriously and discussed in his office, and they subsequently changed the headline to this:

AbioCor patient dies after liver, kidney fail

I must give credit to the Boston Business Journal. They took my complaint, along with a few others they received, seriously and addressed them. Look, we all know that Lee's family took his father off of life support for one of two noble reasons: So he would no longer suffer, or to respect his final wishes to not be kept alive when hope was lost. Everyone who reads this blog knows I despise the media as it is. But to disparage the family of writer of one of my favorite blogs senselessly, when he is mourning his father, was something I could not take silently.

I never met Lee, but he is my age and we think a lot alike. I love his blog and would love to have a few beers with the guy. I know he is in mourning, and someone needed to stand up for him, and I did so. And I am glad I did.

Get this headline:

Iraq War Weakens Bond Between Bush, Evangelicals

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Concern among evangelical Christians over the course of the war in Iraq is opening a crack in their strong bond with President Bush and the Republican Party, according to political analysts who track this powerful voting group.

But they caution there are doubts over whether John Kerry can lure evangelicals into the Democratic camp in November's presidential election.

"I know there are a lot of evangelicals who are disillusioned with the war and worried about a lot of things, the Woodward book, the Clarke book...(and) how we got into this thing," said Richard Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, referring to recent books on the al Qaeda threat and the Iraqi war and occupation.

Yeah, right. Reuters wishes. Evangelicals will never embrace Kerry, no matter how much the secularists want to convince themselves otherwise. Articles like this are a type of divide and conquer, to make evangelicals think that they might not be up to speed with other like-minded individuals.

If you aren't reading Thomas Sowell religiously, all I can ask is, "Why not?" Read his latest excellent column, called "The Hyena Press, Part II."

While flying back to Albuquerque from Philly last night, I saw this in the Philadelphia Daily News and just had to share it.



I love how cool and slick Smarty Jones looks in that strip. I will be praying for him to take the Triple Crown every night between now and the Belmont Stakes.

These days, The Weekly World News is more credible than the New York Times:



FRANCE: WE SURRENDER FOREVER!
By D. G. Bulger

French President Jacques Chirac has announced a plan for France to surrender retroactively in all of history’s previous wars, and to preemptively surrender to all potential enemies in future armed conflicts.

Members of the French legislature unanimously signed the new Declaration of Capitulation. It contains language that announces France’s immediate and unconditional surrender in all past and future international disputes, regardless of the circumstances.

“This will save so much time and effort,” announced Chirac at a press conference in Paris. “We as French people historically have always had the same solution when threatened – to give up. By surrendering now, we can cut back on our unnecessary military expenditures. Because we always eventually surrender anyway, we have truly been wasting this money.”

However, the decision to surrender is about much more than saving money. “It is really about who we are as a people,” explains French government spokesman Guy Belacque.

“Surrendering is what we do best, along with making wine and wearing ridiculous hats. Our military has always been a source of embarrassment. Why we have maintained one all these years is a mystery.”

With a hat tip to Freedom of Thought, read the whole thing. It made my day!!

...to read this story about how a Texas doctor gave 7 men, who had their hands cut off by Saddam, prosthetic hands. The saddest part: Their is a documentary on this that no U.S. TV network will show. Unbelievable. Plenty of time to run mind-numbing crap over and over again, but none to show the bad side of Saddam and Iraq while showing the good side of Americans. Once again, I ask this question: Why does the media prefer to protect scum like Saddam and Castro, people who would cut their throats first, over the greatest and most-free country to ever exist on the planet?

It seems in that train explosion in North Korea a few weeks ago a few Syrians were reunited with Allah.

N. Korean rail explosion foiled missile shipment to Syria

A North Korean missile shipment to Syria was halted when a train collision in that Asian country destroyed the missile cargo and killed about a dozen Syrian technicians.

U.S. officials confirmed a report in a Japanese daily newspaper that a train explosion on April 22 killed about a dozen Syrian technicians near the Ryongchon province in North Korea. The officials said the technicians were accompanying a train car full of missile components and other equipment from a facility near the Chinese border to a North Korea port.

Hmmmm. Why does Syria want to buy ballistic missiles? This is a problem that will need to be addressed, sooner or later, whether we like it or not.

Randy Johnson is one bad mother-shut your mouth. A sure-fire Hall of Famer, he pitched the 16th perfect game in baseball history tonight.



Atta boy Randy!!!

I found this update on the shell that exploded in Iraq the other day on Fox News:

Tests Confirm Sarin in Iraqi Artillery Shell

I looked elsewhere, and this is what I found:

CNN - Nothing

Reuters - Squatta

Associated Press - very little

No wonder they hate Fox News so much. Fox doesn't bury stories, regardless if they halp or hurt Bush. CNN, AP, and Reuters spin everything agianst Bush. Don't take my word for it. The proof is right there for you to see.

The 9/11 Commission is back to work, and here is their latest pronouncements:

Commission: Fire, Police Rivalry Hurt 9/11 Rescue

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rivalry between New York's police and fire departments and conflicting advice from emergency teams on Sept. 11, 2001, hampered efforts to save lives as the Twin Towers collapsed in a heap of smoke, the commission investigating the attacks said on Tuesday.

The panel, meeting less than 2 miles from the former site of the World Trade Center, said the "long-standing rivalry" between the two departments meant they considered themselves "operationally autonomous" and failed to work together in the largest rescue operation in New York's history.

"This rivalry has been acknowledged by every witness we have asked about it," a commission staff report read out at the public hearing said.

OK, this is a fair and reasoned assessment. But think of it like this: John Kerry and his rhetoric about making sure "first responders" have everything they need sure sounds like he'll make sure they are ready to respond to another massive attack like 9/11. George W. Bush is trying to make sure that first-responders never find out if their next rescue is better co-ordinated, because there won't be an attack to respond to. Digest that for a moment.

I read this comic and laughed because it is pretty close to accurate:



I am starting law school in August. (I won't say where until I start because if they read this blog and find out I am not parroting the liberal mantras they might revoke my acceptance) Part of the reason I decided to go to law school was that I had reached the apex of my DJ career, doing radio, nightclubs, and weddings, and I was getting too old to live like that anymore. And, in my day job, I have reached the maximum pay scale one could get in such a position and I could not bear doing what I do for another 25 years. People say the world does not need any more lawyers, and this is partially true. The world does not need any more liberal attorneys. You can just tell, in a lot of cases, that the ACLU-type hacks aren't getting a real challenge from the other side because deep down, the other attorneys are sympathetic to the liberal agenda.

I have met about 15-20 of my future classmates, and I can tell that I am one of the few conservatives. The reason I asked you last week "What is/Who are the Religious Right?" is because during a dinner get otgether with a few of my soon-to-be classmates, one of them complained about Bush and the "Religious Right" and how they are destroying this country. In his view, if Bush is re-elected, Roe v. Wade would be overturned and, to him, that was the worst thing in the world. I asked him 2 questions: 1 - "Who are the religious right exactly?" He had really no answer other than the usual liberal boogeymen who really don't exist. 2 - "Really, would the end of Roe v. Wade really be the worst thing in the world?" He stammered on about "women's rights" and the usual nonsense. Funy how liberals, when challenged, fall apart like a wet paper towel. I feel sorry for them in a way. They have been so insulated with like-minded individuals who spout the same nonsense, they cannot put up a real response to any contradiction to their point of view.

(For the record, the guy was a terrific person, and I just know I'll like him a ton, because for me the political is not the personal)

I hate the term the Religious Right, because it is used as some sort of negative label. Because I believe in God, attend church, and despise abortion, how exactly does that make me and people like me evil? It upsets me to no end how liberals are trying to destroy religion (except for Islam, of course) in this country, because they know that religion promotes morality, and they are promoting immorality. I just read a book by Robert Bork called "Coercing Virtue," and found a suggested retort to the term Religious Right: The Pagan Left. I may start using that. (Also, Ann Coulter's book Slander has a great chapter on this alleged Religious Right)

Liberals need to be stopped. I won't be able to stop them, but the ACLU-type hacks will have a formidable opponent some day soon.

Michael Smerconish, from my hometown of Philly (and a guy you will hear more and more from over the next few years), has a top-notch column in Monday's Philadelphia Daily News:

BUSH DIDN'T KILL NICK

The meat:

First and foremost, civilized people everywhere mourn for your family. Nick Berg was, by all accounts, a fine son - smart, ambitious and with an independent spirit for life. Twenty-six is way too young to die. No father should have to endure what you must be going through.

But...

George Bush did not kill your son. Nor did Donald Rumsfeld. And, quite frankly, you are the one politicizing his death when you introduce their names into the same breath as his obituary.

Read it all.

This must be a joke:

U.S. athletes warned not to wave flags

NEW YORK, NY, May. 16 (UPI) -- U.S. Olympic athletes have been warned not to wave American flags during the Summer Olympic Games in Athens for fear of a hostile reaction.

The Sunday Telegraph said U.S. Olympic officials have ordered their 550-member team to exercise restraint during the completion and the medal award ceremonies.

Restrain this!! If one of our own, who was trained for years and dedicated their lives to winning an Olympic medal wins one, they should be damn proud of it and continue the tradition of flag-waving. If the world doesn't like it, F THEM!!!

"American athletes find themselves in extraordinary circumstances in Athens in relation to the world as we know it right now," said Mike Moran, a former spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee, retained as a consultant to advise athletes.

"Regardless of whether there is anti-American sentiment in Athens or not, the world watches Americans a lot now in terms of how they behave and our culture," he said.

Yeah, and I watch how the rest of the world behaves too, and most of the are savage scum or immoral government-dependent losers, about 50 years behind us. (i.e. I haven't seen 15,000 people die from a heatwave here)

Using the flag as a prop or a piece of apparel or indulging in boasting behavior is becoming part of our society in sports, but we are trying, for 17 days, to break that culture, said Moran.

"What I am telling the athletes is, 'Don't run over and grab a flag and take it round the track with you,'" Moran said. "If a Kenyan or a Russian grabs their national flag and runs round the track or holds it high over their heads, it might not be viewed as confrontational."

Break the culture? Is this guy serious? This isn't 5th grade in England, where dodgeball isn't allowed to be played because it hurts the feelings of those who lose. Next, this guy will tell us that we should play musical chairs with 12 chairs for every 10 children, so everyone is a winner. The USOC should tell this pathetic liberal to pick up his last check at the front desk and never come back. What a dope.

...about no WMDs in Iraq?

Sarin Nerve Agent Bomb Explodes in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A roadside bomb containing deadly sarin nerve agent exploded near a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military said Monday. It was believed to be the first confirmed discovery of any of the banned weapons that the United States cited in making its case for the Iraq war.

As expected, the question quickly becomes, "Who are you going to believe, Hans Blix and his ilk or your own lying eyes?"

It appears two chemical components in the shell, which are designed to combine and create sarin during flight, did not mix properly or completely upon detonation, a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Kimmitt, however, said a small amount of the nerve agent was released.

Two former weapons inspectors — Hans Blix and David Kay — said the shell was likely a stray weapon that had been scavenged by militants and did not signify that Iraq had large stockpiles of such weapons.

Kimmitt said he believed that insurgents who planted the explosive didn't know it contained the nerve agent.

And the excuses keep on coming:

It was unclear if the sarin shell was from chemical rounds that the United Nations had tagged and marked for destruction before the U.S. invasion.

Prior to the war, U.N. inspectors had compiled a short list of proscribed items found during hundreds of surprise inspections: fewer than 20 old, empty chemical warheads for battlefield rockets, and a dozen artillery shells filled with mustard gas. The shells had been tagged by U.N. inspectors in the 1990s but somehow not destroyed by them.

Kay, who led a U.S. team hunting for weapons, said it appears that the shell was one of tens of thousands produced for the Iran-Iraq war, which Saddam was supposed to destroy or turn over to the United Nations. In many cases, he said, Iraq did comply.

There are two ways to look at that: Either the United Nations is an incompetent bunch of dolts who did not do a good job destroying the weapons, or an incompetent bunch of dolts who who were too busy busting the United States' balls instead of doing the right thing and holding Saddam's feet to the fire.

When John Kerry said on Hardball that WMD's may yet be found, that should have sent red flags all over the media. Of course it did not, and look what happened now. You just watch how quickly this story gets explained away and buried.

Our friend Lee at Right-Thinking from the Left Coast lost his Dad today. His father went down swinging, and survived with an artificial heart for quite a while. I give his father credit, because his pain will save a lot of lives in the future.

Lee, please accept my deepest sympathies.

I am sitting in Philly (New Jersey actually, but only 5 miles from the city), so that Emily could spend a few days with her Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop. I got a lot to vent about, and will get back to business on Tuesday.

Oh, and how about those Flyers and that Smarty Jones? What an awesome horse!! Of course, since he is a Philly-raised horse, I see him as one of my own. I am praying that 2 week from now, he'll take the triple crown.

...because they are realizing that the murder of Nick Berg is hurting the Arab propoganda effort. While our wonderful mainstream media is doing all it can to keep the prison abuse scandal front and center, and ignoring the Berg murder expect to tell everyone that his father blames Bush, the users of internet are all over the Berg story. Berg is by far and away the top search item all over the place (displacing Paris Hilton), and many bloggers like Instapundit and Andrew "I really care only about gay marriage but need to act like I really support Bush in Iraq in order to stay relevenat" Sullivan, amonst other bloggers, are reporting record traffic numbers in response to the Berg murder.

Now, as a result of the subsequent injury to the Arab world and Democratic Party propaganda, Al-Jazeera is questioning the authenticity of the Berg video!! Well, those screams sounded real to me, real enough that it may be a decade or more before I get them out of my head. Get this shit from Al-Jizbag-zeera:

Bloggers doubt Berg execution video

Revolting millions around the world, the video footage of an American citizen's execution has also raised numerous questions concerning its authenticity.

Even at first glance, internet bloggers were asking on Thursday why Nick Berg was wearing an orange jumpsuit – just like US prisoners wear.

Other net surfers point to the unlikely timing of the executioner's dubbed announcement that Berg was to die for "Iraqi prisoner abuse".

Really? Which bloggers? There is not one single blog named. None of the 50 or so I have read this week have even hinted that that the video is a fake. And, what does the jumpsuit have to do anything? I saw him answering questions about his family while wearing it, and that is more than enough for me. Really, who gives a damn what he was wearing, and how does that make for a reason to question the authenticity of the video? If you know the answer to that, then you are much smarter than I am.

The only question I have about it is not what happened, but when it happened.

The bottom line is this: The man was senselessly and brutally murdered, and it makes it harder for Americans to get upset about a few Iraqis being stripped naked and humiliated. Al-Jazeera knows this better than anyone, and is trying to "help the cause."

My fellow Americans seem to be outraged more at the Berg murder than at the prison humiliations. I am damn proud of them for it.

First, the going opinion here is that the assholes who were responsible for the mistreatment of the Iraqi prisoners are dopes. And they will be punished, severly. Move on, people. They're killing us. All that happened to them is some morons beat the shit out of them. I doubt the people who were imprisoned were there for jaywalking. Don't they remember those US CIVILIANS who were drug through the street, burning alive and hung with their intestines hanging out? I do.

To say that people are coming to Iraq in search of jobs is a fucking disgrace to the people who are here and believe in what this country is doing here. Thousands of KBR, DoD civilians and countless others would be outraged if they heard Mr. Rather's insight on why they are here. I'd like Mr. Rather to make that comment to my father-in-law (serving in Baghdad with the DoS, as a civilian). I think my dad would cut Dan Rather's throat.

To the Berg's family. Your son is heaven. He was a good man and will always be remembered as such. He came here to serve humankind. To me, he is a modern day martyr.

I've been reading Deliver Us From Evil by Sean Hannity. Thank God, for people like him, who understand that this is not a time for political quabbling. There is a war and there doesn't need to be division at the homefront. It certainly divides us here.

I have a project for the Conservatives who read this blog. Many of the soldiers in my unit believe that in not voting for Bush this November, they will be able to go home. I need good arguments on why he should be re-elected. I know why, but they've all heard my arguments. Help Me.

F liberals and their multilateralism. This is our war, we are standing up for ourselves. We are saying to the world that we will not get pushed around!

4. My dog -- Nothing speaks loyalty like a dog. And when you feel constantly backstabbed by the American press, you could use a little loyalty in your life.

3. School -- My goal for joining the military (first active duty with the Marines and the with the National Guard) was to aid in the terrifying process of paying for college. When you come from a family in which college graduation (attendance, for that matter) is a new concept, the thought of paying for college scared the crap out of me, so I took matters into my own hands and did my best to pay for it myself. Delay, it seems is the only thing I got from joining the military. 4 years of active duty, and with being only 3 semesters away from graduation, now I have to wait another year and a half (more than likely two years) in order to graduate.

2. Security -- Speaks for itself.

1. My wife -- Words can't even begin to describe.

The NAACP, which allegedly promotes the rights of African-Americans (but really is an arm of the Democrat Party), is upset about the only African-American female judge not being re-appointed to a 10-year term:

A decision by the state Judicial Selection Commission not to reappoint Hawai'i's only African-American judge, and one of the few women on the bench, to a 10-year term in Circuit Court "sends a terrible message to the community," Faye Kennedy, the first vice president of the local chapter of the NAACP said yesterday.

The selection commission filed a notice Monday with the Hawai'i Supreme Court saying that Circuit Judge Sandra Simms would not be reappointed. The commission gave no reason for its decision because the panel's internal rules require that all matters be kept confidential.

A state that prides itself on diversity has very few African American jurists and very few women on the bench, Kennedy said.

"There may be a perception, and I'm almost reluctant to say, but we had only one African American judge and she was not reappointed," Kennedy said.

"A lot of other judges have made controversial rulings and have been reappointed at the same time, but Judge Simms is perceived as too lenient," she said.

I guess sentencing a multiple felon to only probation after a gang-rape conviction is merely a minor issue to be ignored in light of her ethnicity and gender.

Funny how the NAACP isn't out there supporting Janice Rogers Brown, whose appointment to the D.C. District Court of Appeals is being held up by Democrats. Since she was appointed by Bush, somehow her being an African-American is nullified.

Via Cox and Forkum:

Oliver Willis, my favorite liberal blogger, has unearthed a way to blame Nick Berg's murder on Bush, one I never considered:

Abu Musab Zarqawi, the man who killed Nick Berg, the man who has killed hundreds of Iraqis, could have been taken out long ago by President Bush - but he didn't do it because it would have hurt his case for war.

Just brilliant Oliver. I seem to remember Oliver telling us that Iraq had nothing to do with al-Qaeda and that Colin Powell's appearance before the U.N., where Powell told the world that Zargawi was in Iraq, was a sham. But, I can't prove it since Oliver purged some of his archives. I guess he got tired of his readers exposing him as a dope.

Take a listen to this segment of today's Rush Limbaugh show, where Rush talks about Kerry's visit to a rib joint in Jacksonville. I almost drove off of Route 202 in Tempe, I was laughing so hard when I heard it.

...never ceases to amaze me. They are still harping on the humilitation of a few Iraqi criminals, yet all they can say about the vicious murder of Nicholas Berg is this:

Family of Executed American Angry with U.S. Govt.

Fair enough to report that. But, that is ALL they are saying. Outside of the Philly papers, I have yet to see the outrage in the media. Only this crap:

Harsh C.I.A. Methods Cited in Top Qaeda Interrogations

I have three words in response: So f'n what?

And, what's does the Boston Globe do? They run bogus pictures of Iraqis being raped!!

If Emily could talk, she'd be singing that Eminem song, "I think my Dad's going crazy!!"

I was on the $29 Phoenix to Albuquerque flight tonight, and continued my routine of picking up a discarded copy of the USA Today. I found this article quite interesting:

A culture clash at the heart of a painful custody battle Judge to decide whether American or Chinese family gets 5-year-old

Beginning with the deceitful headline, you can tell real quick which side the writers are taking here, and it isn't the caring white couple who have taken care of the little girl since she was born.

This highly publicized case has pitted the Bakers, the girl's legal guardians, against the Chinese immigrants who swear that they never meant to give her up permanently. It has inflamed the passions of observers on both sides, including many in the Chinese community in this country.

The Chinese community is upset now, but where were they when this baby was born and needed a decent home? Nowhere to be found, of course, since at the time this wasn't a headline-grabbing issue.

Both sides agree that the Bakers took Anna out of kindness. With the help of an adoption agency, the Hes placed Anna in the Bakers' home soon after the child was born. The plan was that the Bakers would care for the baby for three months until the Hes could get on their feet.

Jack faced legal problems after he was accused of sexually assaulting a student at the University of Memphis and dismissed from his job as a visiting professor. (A jury has since cleared him of this charge.) Casey was weak after a hard delivery. The Bakers had temporarily cared for 10 other children in the past.

But when the Hes were unable to take Anna back after 90 days, the couples entered into an agreement that is now at the heart of the dispute. The Hes say the Bakers told them that if they signed over custody to them, they could have Anna back anytime. The Bakers say they agreed to keep Anna because the Hes did not want her.

A few problems here. First, I swear that I read in the print version that this adoption was done through a Christian church or charity, but no mention in the online article. (Gee, I wonder why that is?) Second, this article calls him a visiting professor, but the New York Times article, announcing the decision in this case, says this:

Overwhelmed and without medical insurance, the Hes turned to Mid-South Christian Services when Anna Mae was born in January 1999. Through Mid-South, the Hes found the Bakers, experienced foster parents who agreed to take in Anna Mae while the Hes got back on their feet.

The battle has it roots months before Anna Mae was born, with an unrelated case in 1998. A fellow student at the University of Memphis, where Mr. He was studying for a graduate degree in economics, accused him of sexual assault. He was cleared of the charge, but lost his place at the university, his scholarship and his stipend, the couple's sole means of support. His student visa was revoked, and the old Immigration and Naturalization Service began deportation proceedings, which have halted for the custody case.

Big difference between a visiting Professor and a graduate student, don't you think? I suspect USA Today, not exactly a beacon of journalistic integrity, is shading the truth about this man in order to make you think he is more respectable than he really is. And, only in the timeline of the case, only found in the print edition, does the reader discover that they are facing deportation.

Thankfully, the judge in this case sided with the Bakers, the adoptive family, saying that the couple, Shaoqiang and Qin Luo He, had "failed to establish a meaningful relationship" with the girl, Anna Mae, because of "neglect and inattentiveness" and that the "physical environment of the Hes' home is unhealthy and unsafe." Judge Childers said they sought custody only so that they would not be deported... The decision calls Ms. He impetuous and calculating. Citing Mr. He's answers on loan and visa applications, it says his conduct is "marked by deceitfulness and dishonesty."

Of course, the Hes, who had a Chinese cultural explanation for everything, turned around and showed their full knowledge of American culture with their response:

"We are just shocked," Mr. He said. "We did not abandon our child."

They will appeal, he said, adding, "We are convinced that in Memphis, Tenn., justice does not come easy, especially for minorities and immigrants."

Sadly, once the reporters go home, so will the Hes supporters. Who are they kidding? This is not about being Chinese. To the Hes, this is about the Hes. To the Bakers, this is about the little girl. Why else would they have sold their house, take their oldest daughter out of college, and spend $400,000 to fight for custody?

I do feel sorry for the Hes. I am quite sure they love their daughter. But, they did the right thing by giving her up when they could not care for her. They should once again and do the right thing, and step aside, to let their daughter stay in the good environment she is in.

The front page of my hometown rag, The Philadelphia Daily News, has a terrific and spot-on cover today:



Exactly.

If I ever see Dan Rather in central park, I may decided to smack him upside the head and yell, "What's the frequency Kenneth?" Just look at this:

CBS used the Fallujah attacks on contractors for a more desperate political ploy: to portray Bush's economy as sinking. Dan Rather asked: "What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy, it may be, for some, the only job they can find."

Rather is a senile old fool who needs to join Cronkite out in the pasture.

My friend Gary from JoeHam.com has something you need to see. I did not post the picture here because I did not want to steal his bandwith. Take a good look, and you'll understand his salient point. Great work Gary!!

Cox and Forkum were a week ahead of the story with this one:

Those scumbags at the Times are just humming along, parroting the anti-Bush, anti-American line. And they start with the headline.

Video Appears to Show Beheading of American Civilian

Appears to show beheading? Give me a break. And it continues in the first sentence:

An American civilian who had gone to Iraq to look for work was captured last month by Islamic militants and beheaded, his family and American officials said, in an execution that was videotaped and briefly posted on a Web site today.

We all know the Times M.O. by now. They want you to think right away that this man was so desperate for work, he ran off to Iraq. There is no context about what kind of adventurist Berg was. They leave an important detail, which (shockingly) can be found in an Associated Press report:

While at Cornell, he traveled to Ghana to teach villagers how to make bricks out of minimal material. His father said Berg returned from Ghana with only the clothes on his back and emaciated because he gave away most of his food.

Michael Berg said his son saw his trip to Iraq as an adventure in line with his desire to help others.

"I would say he was a free spirit, very intelligent," said Nick Fillioe, a sports director at the West Chester YMCA. "He was a real smart guy. He knew a little bit about everything."

And here are the last two sentences. Think of the headline as you read them:

After the statement, the men pull the man to his side and put a large knife to his neck, according to journalists who watched the complete tape. A scream can be heard as the men sever his head, shouting, "Allahu Akbar!" — God is great.

Then they hold them man's head in front of the camera.

Appears to be beheaded? Doesn't watching them hold his head in their hands pretty much eliminate the need for a qualifier?

I'll be keeping an eye on the New York Times to see how long they remind us of Berg's murder. I'm sure they'll keep harping on it only if they can get some anti-Bush mileage out of it.

Nick Berg, from my hometown of Philiadelphia, was ruthlessly beheaded by some scumbag terrorists in what they say was revenge for the treatment of prisoners in Iraq. Maybe I haven't seen all the photos, but I don't seem to remember any of our soldiers beheading anyone.

Watch the press have ZERO outrage about this. Instead, they will act like Rumsfeld and Bush caused this to happen. And, look at his last name, Berg. I wonder if he was Jewish, and was chosen to be killed for that reason, just like Daniel Pearl. I have a feeling that no one will speculate or even care if that had anything to do with it.

The media in this country prefers those who kill Americans over Americans. I'd like to punch quite a few of those people in the mouth right now.

...to read a headline like this:

Bush's Backing of Rumsfeld Shocks and Angers Arabs

DUBAI (Reuters) - Arab commentators reacted with shock and disbelief on Monday over President Bush's robust backing of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld against calls for his resignation.

Shock? Disbelief? Really, who gives a shit? I sure don't. Just take a look at who they quote:

"After the torture and vile acts by the American army, President Bush goes out and congratulates Rumsfeld. It's just incredible. I am in total shock," said Omar Belhouchet, editor of the influential Algerian national daily El Watan.

"Bush's praise for Rumsfeld will discredit the United States...and further damage its reputation, which is already at a historic low in the Arab world," he added.

Uh oh, Bush has lost the Arab press. Big f'n deal!! This guy is from Algeria!! Who cares?

A Saudi businessman, who asked not to be named, said keeping Rusmfeld would be seen as Washington's quiet approval of the abuse.

"This just confirms that what is happening in Iraq in general, and especially what is happening in Abu Ghraib is sanctioned by the American administration and that is a hell of a position to be in.

"I see no advantage in keeping Rumsfeld. Bush should be building bridges with the outside world."

Yeah, OK. Only total capitulation to Arabs would satisfy those who complain that Bush isn't building bridges.

Reuters needs to realize that only Bush-haters give a damn about any of this shit.

In Philadelphia, where I grew up, the most popular target for lawsuits is SEPTA, which is the company that runs the buses, trolleys, and subways. When a SEPTA bus gets into an accident, there has been many a stampede to get on the bus after the accident, in order to fake the old "neck and back" pain, in order to get a lawyer and get paid. Well, it seems that Iraqis have their own version of this:

Frauds Try to Exploit Iraq Abuse Scandal

Fallujah native Abdul-Qader Abdul-Rahman al-Ani, his left elbow wrapped in bandages, his right forearm bound in a cast, recounted how he was beaten by soldiers who picked him up last month. The soldiers tied him and two others arrested with him to a tree and sodomized them one after the other, he told journalists.

"I ask President Bush," he said. "Does he agree with this?"

As Ani, 47, repeated his story, he was interrupted by Jabber al-Okaili, a member of one of the human rights groups that organized the gathering. "He's lying," al-Okaili shouted. "He's a liar!"

Al-Ani was rushed to an office, where al-Okaili and others unwound the bandage on his left arm and found the elbow unscarred and healthy. They cut off half of the cast on his forearm, even as al-Ani insisted, "By God, it's true, everything I say is true."

How long before the ACLU and every ambulance chaser from San Francisco to Boston shows up in the Middle East? I'm sure these guys are trying to line up clients right now.

Yeah, Kerry and his fellow Socialists want us to get our moral authority and approval of the French. Yeak, OK. Get this:

Bardot defends herself on racism charges

An American who reads this headline will automatically think that the press is calling her a racist, and she is trying to prove otherwise. But, in France, it is not like that, since free speech (unless it is to insult Bush or the USA) does not exist.

FRENCH film legend Brigitte Bardot defended herself in court yesterday against charges that she incited racial hatred in a best selling book.

"I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody," she said.

"It is not in my character. If I did hurt someone, I'm sorry."

But Bardot, 69, now an animal rights campaigner, also spoke out against racial mixing and expressed worries about the "infiltration" of France by Islamic extremists.

"Among Muslims, I think there some who are very good and some hoodlums, like everywhere," Bardot said.

Her book, Un cri dans le silence (A cry in the silence), topped French nonfiction bestseller lists last year. It took on issues such as racial mixing, immigration, the role of women in politics and Islam.

Bardot wrote that she opposed "the Islamisation of France".

The prosecutor asked for Bardot's conviction but left any penalty for the court to decide. The maximum punishment is one year's imprisonment, but Bardot is expected to escape with a fine if found guilty. A verdict is expected in June.

There, in a nutshell, is why I will never support "hate-crimes laws." Because liberals and whiny, full-of-shit groups like CAIR will try to have anyone who even deems to question their scuminess thrown in the clink.

Bardot has previous convictions for inciting racial violence after she criticised in print the Muslim practice of slaughtering sheep.

See what I mean? F France.

...I was so jaded by the New York Times that nothing could anger me anymore, they go and print this sentence:

More than a year after the fall of Baghdad, Mr. Bush found himself in the remarkable position of having to persuade Iraqis and Arabs generally that Iraq was better off under the American occupation than it had been under Saddam Hussein.

The sad part of all of this is that the New York Times and like-minded liberals actually consider this to be a debatable point. Really, who do they think they are kidding? You just know that the Times et al wants us to pull out of Iraq, just so they can turn around and blame Bush for the thousands upon thousands that will be slaughtered as soon as we are gone. of course, they'll somehow forget the obvious parallel, the mass killings in Cambodia right after the Democrats pulled all the funding for their protection.

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I need your help, and please answer this question as best as you possibly can, even if you really don't know. I expect to hear something from all the regulars here, like Cynthia, Rudy, Brandon, Mark K., Olsi, Erick, Eric, Gerlad, Bill, Jim, Brian B., and everoyne else:

What is/Who are the Religious Right?

I will discuss it more after I see your answers, and tell you why I asked then as well.

{Update: Even if you think the answers in the comments are sufficient, please add something, anything, to what you (yes, that includes you Brian B.) think the "Religious Right" is. Anything you can add is appreciated.}

China is putting the wonderful city of Hong Kong under its Commie thumb, a little more each day, and where are the so-called human rights watchdogs? You know where they are, crying about nothing important, as usual. And where is the U.N.? Too busy covering up their scandals and ignoring the mass killings in Sudan. Of course, liberals love Communists, and likely think that China is doing a wonderful thing. They probably think China is doing nothing more than "taxing the rich" or "redistributing wealth the the impoverished peoples of China."

Hong Kong warned about 'discontent'

HONG KONG — Clamping down further on Hong Kong's autonomy, Beijing warned the territory's legislature yesterday it has no right to criticize the central government's decision to rule out full democracy in the near future.

In the near future? You would have to be a dope liberal to think that democracy will ever exist again in Hong Kong. And, get this Orwellian, for-Western-consumption crap:

The state-run Xinhua news agency quoted a top official with China's liaison office in Hong Kong as saying local lawmakers would be acting unconstitutionally if they consider any motions that express "discontent with" or "condemn" China's ruling on democratic reform.

Acting unconstitutionally??!! Think about that for a moment. And, "deomcratic reform" in China means the elimination of democracy, pure and simple.

Plus, since Asians are successful in this country, and don't need racial preferences, the Chinese know that the Western "elites" will eat up this type of perfectly acceptable racism:

Another top Chinese official also branded the legislature's democracy advocates "bananas" — yellow-skinned Chinese on the outside, but with Western beliefs inside.

"These people, who badmouth China and Hong Kong, are sinners of the Chinese nation," Cheng Siwei, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, was quoted as saying by the Chinese newspaper Ming Pao. "They are just like bananas, yellow outside but white inside."

Just wonderful. Hating whitey, or by calling a non-white a whitey or Uncle Tom in this country, is perfectly OK. They press, without a hint of derision, repeats any type of charge like that. The Chinese are playing to the Western press, just like the Arab workd is doing.

Liberal Democrats will love this next part. Hell, they dream of this happening right here:

Ordinary voters will be allowed to choose 30 of 60 Legislative Council seats in September, up from 24 last time.

Although the other 30 seats will be chosen by special-interest groups — such as businessmen, bankers and doctors — who tend to side with Beijing, the central government is worried that Hong Kong could get a legislature that won't back Mr. Tung.

Here it would be trial lawyers, teachers unions, and labor unions, if Democrats had their way.

I'll say it again. China is tightening the noose on Hong Kong, and softening the press up, while the rest of the world is crying the blues over a few humiliated Iraqi thugs. When it all comes to a head, the world will take China's side. You watch.

...the French could not be more pathethic, this story comes along:

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Six hundred riot police will shield this year's Cannes film festival from protests by part-time French actors angered by planned cuts to their welfare benefits, officials said on Friday.

Perhaps French actors should do what American actors do: Wait tables at night while going to auditions during the day. (Besides Sophie Marceau, Gerard Depardieu, and that guy who was in Ronin, Godzilla, and a few other movies, I don't know any other French actors.) What losers.

Take a look at this Assholeiated Press photo I saw on the New York Times website:



Here's the caption:

In the southern city of Basra, fighters loyal to Moktada al-Sadr, the Shiite cleric, opened fire on British forces.

(By the way, take a good look at the photo. Can you say staged? The guy in the background is facing the other way. Hmmmm)

Still, this is an outrage. I cannot believe the media takes up the cause of these murderous thugs.

On this prison thing, I am telling you this: The law of unintended consequences will apply. The media and the Democrats think they are hurting Bush, but they are dead wrong if they think that Americans are stupid, and will pin this all of Bush and Rumsfled. While the elites drinking $8.00 lattes at Starbucks hate America, and think the New York Times is the Bible, real Americans are sitting at home wondering where is the outrage when Americans are brutally and savagely murdered. We all know that those few prisoners are not representative of our fine military. Those responsible will be spending the next several years at luxurious Leavenworth.

The press hates Bush and American power so much, and the Democrats are so desperate to get back to giving out handouts, union graft, and racial preferences, while raising our taxes so we have less money and less freedom, they do not give one damn at the future implications of a failure in Iraq. Like I said the other day, China is watching. If we fail in Iraq, and our national resolve is exposed as non-existent, I promise you this will happen:

After the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China will move on both Taiwan and Hong Kong. Bank on it. If the America-hating liberals don't want us to win in Iraq, they surely are not going to want us to win over China. (You think I am kidding? They why no uproar over Loral selling missile technology to China a few years ago? You already know the answer: Clinton was President) China knows this, and will overrun Taiwan and Hong Kong without a shot being fired, because America will be paralyzed, and there will be no call to stop it. The only thing keeping China at bay is the fear of what we might do. And then, they might, with no America to stand in the way, become hungry for a little more, and decide that it is time to settle that little island dispute they have had going on with Japan for sometime now. And then, they might decide to buddy up with Kim Jong-Il and settle the Korean War once and for all. But who cares about all that when gays can't legally get married here, right?

I am not being some tin-foil hat-wearing dope when I tell you that if China got real blustery and America did not take it lying down, the press will blame us for "incting" China. Unless of course a Democrat is president in 2008. Then China would not need to co-opt the America press. They would just do what they want and no one would say a word.

I will never understand this: Liberals hate America, and support the very people who, if given the chance, would destroy every freedom we have ever know. Think about what I just said: A few Iraqi prisoners are humiliated, and the liberals are convulsing. But, a pregnant woman and 4 her 4 daughters are murdered by their hero Palestinians, and there is barely a peep. And, what about women's rights? A woman can't drive, can't show herself, can't work, can't go to school, or, is disgustingly subject to genital mutilation in the Arab world? No problem. But, pay a woman here 18 cents a week less than a man, and you never hear the end of it.

Liberals are vile scum. But that's OK. They will find out soon enough that hating-America is a losing issue in the Presidential campaign.

There is a quote I once read somewhere, said by a Cuban immigrant, and it went something like this:

"America must succeed. If not, there will be no place for anyone to go for freedom."

There is no good news for President Bush that Reuters can't spin into bad. Get this laugher:

Stocks Fall, Jobs Data Sparks Rate Fears

From the headline, you are met to think, "UH, oh...the economy is tanking, just like Kerry said." But, the story does not match the shameless headline.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. blue chips declined, while technology stocks edged higher on Friday, after a report showing surprisingly strong jobs growth last month stoked fears the Federal Reserve will lift interest rates as early as June.

That's right. Now more jobs are a bad thing, because it will raise interest rates!! What a crock of shit!! You don't have to be an MIT economist to know that interest rates have been at record lows, and have nowhere to go but up. I don't care if you show me a report from a Wharton scholar, this is a false dichotomy of the highest order. John Kerry's international propaganda arm is really stretching here. Get this while you're at it:

Strength in Intel Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. helped lift the technology-laden Nasdaq and stem declines on the Standard & Poor's 500 index.

But interest rate-sensitive sectors like car makers, home builders and financials fell sharply. The Dow Jones Home Building index fell 4.3 percent, while the Standard & Poor's Auto Manufacturers index sank 2.8 percent.

Talk about reaching to make a point. The economy is not working out like Kerry and the Democrats were counting on, so we are back to them trying to knock Bush down on Iraq. Pa-f'n-thetic.

Kofi Annan is just a shameless scumbag:

U.N. BIDS TO SILENCE OIL-$$ WHISTLEBLOWER

May 7, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The United Nations has sent a stern letter to an important witness in the Iraq oil-for-food investigation, demanding that he not cooperate with congressional probes of the scandal, The Post has learned.
The letter - in the name of oil-for-food program chief Benon Sevan - was sent to a U.N. consultant after it was learned he had been talking to congressional investigators about allegations of wholesale corruption, officials said last night

The U.N. letter, obtained by The Post, reminded the consultant that under his contract with the oil-for-food program, he "may not communicate at any time to any other person, government or authority external to the United Nations any information known to them by reason of their association with the United Nations, which has not been made public."

"In view of the contractual provisions referred to above and the fact that these matters relate to internal U.N. procedures for administering the Programme, we would ask that you consult with the U.N. before releasing any documentation or information," the letter said.

Read this too.

Do an Associated Press and/or Reuters search to find an article about a Nigerian leader ordering all Christian churches destroyed. You will disover what I did, that there is no article to be found. I had to find it on an African webiste:

Zamfara Gov. Orders Demolition of All Churches

Governor Ahmed Sani of Zamfara State, has ordered the demolition of all churches in the state, as he launched the second phase of his Sharia project yesterday.

Speaking at the launch in Gusau, the state capital, Governor Sani disclosed that time was ripe for full implementation of the programme as enshrined in the Holy Quran.

He added that his government would soon embark on demolition of all places of worship of unbelievers in the state, in line with Islamic injunction to fight them wherever they are found.

Now, what happened to finally make the "unbiased" media notice, and place this as a top story? The Chrsitians decided to not take this lying down:

Thousands of Muslims Flee Nigeria Town After Attack

LAFIA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Thousands of Nigerian Muslims braved hostile Christian roadblocks on Friday to flee the town of Yelwa after an attack by Christian militia killed hundreds earlier in the week.

Ahhh...just smell the anti-Chrisitian, poor Jihadi bias. What is the reason for this, according to Reuters? Get this:

The conflict between the Christian Tarok tribe and the Muslim Fulani is rooted in their competing claims over the fertile farmlands of Plateau state in central Nigeria.

It has been stoked by a growing trend of religious hatred in Africa's most populous country, and the sense among the Christians that Muslims are outsiders in Plateau.

You think maybe, just maybe, the ordering of churches to be destroyed had a little something to do with it? Nahhhh. It's got to be those evil Christians.

Like I always mention, here we go with the "ready to go" headline.

Skeptical Arabs Watch Iraq Abuse Hearings

DUBAI (Reuters) - Arabic news channels showed live coverage of a U.S. congressional hearing on the handling of the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal on Friday, but few watchers thought Washington was determined to stop abuses.

The Arab reaction was similar to that which greeted President Bush (news - web sites)'s televised pledge on Wednesday to punish Americans who abused and killed Iraqi prisoners.

Many said the gesture was too little, too late.

As if I give a damn what those savages think. Maybe if they spent more time cleaning up their own disgraceful lives, none of this would have happened.

An unsigned e-mailer (who has e-mailed me before, wish he/she would leave a name) sent me this article:

True hero athlete Day's theme: Challenge yourself

with this note:

Don't really understand the point she's trying to make. Does she think that the younger Tillman feels his older brother died in vain, or that his death was meaningless? Cause nothing could be further from the truth. The kid's use of profanity might explain why it didn't pop up on the news, but I can certainly see how sorrow and anger might (uncomfortably) intertwine.

First off, consider the source, Gwen Knapp of the San Francisco Chronicle. From top to bottom, this is a strange article. All I can say is that it seems to be an anti-God piece, and an attempt to bring down Tillman's hero status a bit, using his own brother's words to do it. (How old was Tillman's younger brother anyway? The article doesn't say.) I am sure Tillman's brother was full of raw emotion, and I don't begrudge anything he said. But, once again, this column is strange.

Read for it for yourself, and leave some comments. Help us sort this out.

Did anyone hear Joe Lieberman today, wondering where all the apologies for all the Americans killed in Iraq and on 9/11? (As soon as I find a link, I will post it) It was terrific to hear. Unlike the ridiculous Democrats of today, Lieberman has made a man of reason. I would fear for Bush's re-election if people like Lieberman spoke for them. My respect level for Lieberman just went up a few more notches, and I was pretty high to begin with.

Of course, the liberal media could only say this:

U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, also said talk of resignation was premature on Friday.

John McCain, on the other hand, stunned me. I could not believe how he was putting Rumsfeld's feet to the fire. McCain knows real torture, and one would figure that he, of all people, could see the difference. Instead, McCain was no better than the Democrats, using this opportunity to continue his vendetta against Bush. Make no mistake, McCain has not gotten over the 2000 primary, and I have a feeling he never will.

Funny how Mr. Friedman just thinks the U.N. is the elixir for all that ails Iraq. I would like to see him explain this away:

U.N. Union Criticizes Annan Iraq Decision

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. staff union criticized Secretary-General Kofi Annan for sending U.N. employees to Iraq despite the danger and urged him Thursday to hold senior staff responsible for security lapses before the bombing of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

I guess with all that oil-for-food money gone, there's no reason to hang around Iraq anymore, huh? They must want transfers to the Bahamas and/or Ibiza. It gets worse:

The U.N. Staff Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution criticizing the world body's handling of the aftermath of the Aug. 19 bombing that killed 22 people, including U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, and wounded more than 150.

Were they criticizing the fact that the U.N. cut and run immediately? Of course not.

The resolution, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated Press, said the union was "dismayed that the secretary-general continues to send staff to Iraq despite the present highly volatile and insecure environment."

The union said it was "shocked" that "the secretary-general did not do justice to those who perished by not holding accountable all those senior U.N. officials whose managerial incompetence and gross negligence failed the staff."

But no outrage at not getting those who actually carried out the bombing. How typical of them.

The bombings led the United Nations to withdraw all staff from Iraq. Only small U.N. security and election teams are working with Iraqi officials in the transition of sovereignty to Iraqis on June 30. Last month, Annan rejected the possibility of sending a large U.N. staff to Iraq in the near future.

Friedman must no thave heard that last part.

Maureen Dowd, who infects the NY Times op-ed pages like Friedman does, had this nugget of wisdom today as well:

Senator Kerry jumped on the president yesterday for saying nothing about Crown Prince Abdullah's "outrageous anti-Semitic comments" that terrorists in Saudi Arabia get funds from "Zionists." The prince's remarks — and arrests of reformers — show that, far from transforming the Mideast into democracies that flower with love of America and Israel, the bumbling neo-cons have unleashed a rash of racism, revenge and hate.

Oh, Ok. The Middle East love the United States and Israel before Bush came along. Whatver you say honey.

If you read this blog regularly, then you know that I have serious contempt for Thomas Friedman. Sadly, he is probably the world's most influential columnist. There are many reasons why I despise his work. For example, he is a self-hating Jew who finds a hell of lot more problem with Israel and the United States than he has ever had for the Middle East jihadists. His moral equivalence and promotion of the U.N. are frankly astonishing. You know how Saddam was always paying off the Arab press, amongst others? Part of me has always wondered if the House of Saud is always painting his house or sending him new tires for his car. (That, by the way, is an allusion to radio payola) I hate to think that, but how else can you explain an intelligent man like Friedman being so blind and so unrealistic? I can't. Let's look at his latest waste of time.

We are in danger of losing something much more important than just the war in Iraq. We are in danger of losing America as an instrument of moral authority and inspiration in the world. I have never known a time in my life when America and its president were more hated around the world than today.

Really? Since when has the world openly looked at us as a moral authority? You should know better than to listen to the rest of the world when they talk. Just look at their actions? I mean, c'mon Tommy, how many people are leaving the U.S. to get a loft in Beirut? U.S. hatred did not start the day Bush came into office, no matter how hard you and your fishwrap want it to be true. It is leftist columnists like you, and your alleged "paper of record" that makes American look much worse than it is. And, the reason people outside the U.S. hate Bush is because they are afraid of him, and they know that he defends America first, regardless of their "enlightened" opinion.

Let me put it this way, about how the world truly thinks about us. Remember in high school, your buddy would say about the hottest girl in class, "I hate that bitch, she's a prissy, so and so," etc? Yeah, he said that to you, but you also knew that he would cut off 3 fingers to get into her pants. The world hates us because they are jealous of us, and would all come here if we let them. Think I am kidding? Then explain to me why one of those "tortured" prisoners wants to come here still.

This administration needs to undertake a total overhaul of its Iraq policy; otherwise, it is courting a total disaster for us all.

That overhaul needs to begin with President Bush firing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld — today, not tomorrow or next month, today.

Who are you kidding, Tommy? This fiasco is just an excuse to say want you always wanted to say, that Rumsfeld should go. You cannot be serious, getting rid of the Secretary of Defense in the middle of a war over this trivial matter. You also seemed to mention that the Department of Defense has been on this for months. They didn't start investigating and punishing as a response to 60 Minutes. And, here's the real laugher:

But it is hard to partner with someone when you become so radioactive no one wants to stand next to you. We have to restore some sense of partnership with the world if we are going to successfully partner with Iraqis.

That reminds me of an old Eddie Murphy joke, anout Johnny Carson's wife working at a boutique on weekends. "Wonderful honey. Now we have $300 million and $70 dollars."

Mr. Bush needs to invite to Camp David the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the heads of both NATO and the U.N., and the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria. There, he needs to eat crow, apologize for his mistakes and make clear that he is turning a new page. Second, he needs to explain that we are losing in Iraq, and if we continue to lose the U.S. public will eventually demand that we quit Iraq, and it will then become Afghanistan-on-steroids, which will threaten everyone. Third, he needs to say he will be guided by the U.N. in forming the new caretaker government in Baghdad. And fourth, he needs to explain that he is ready to listen to everyone's ideas about how to expand our force in Iraq, and have it work under a new U.N. mandate, so it will have the legitimacy it needs to crush any uprisings against the interim Iraqi government and oversee elections — and then leave when appropriate. And he needs to urge them all to join in.

This is serious analysis and commentary? Friedman needs to get real. Russia and France, 2 members of the Security Council, were on Saddam's payroll, thanks to the severely under-reported Oil-for-Food scandal. And, eat crow to Egypt, whose economy would collapse if it weren't for the $2 billion we give them in aid annually, Saudi arabia, who promotes Wahhibi Islam all over the world and has spent years paying off terrorists, to only get attacked anyway? And, Jordan? What do they have going for them besides peace with Israel? And, Syria? Look, if the press wasn't so anti-Bush, they'd have made a stink about Sudan making them take back the WMD's that Syria was hiding in their country. And that is only one example. Plus, Syria has occupied Lebanon for over 20 years now, and turned Beirut from what used to be a nice city to a hell hole. (Beirut was once known as the Paris of the Middle East)

And there he goes again with that U.N. legitimacy thing again. Memo to Friedman: Bush has spent the last 2 years telling the world, from the U.N. on down, about the importance of taking on the terrorists, and it has fallen mostly on deaf ears. It took one truck bomb to chase the U.N. out of Iraq, what makes you think they would stay the next time, when they have taught those scum that "one bomb and they'll run?"

While they may sound wonderful to the "intelligensia" I always see Friedman regaling on C-SPAN, in reality none of this nonsense is feasible. Friedman, like most of the media, is only using the poor treatment of Iraqi prisoners as reason and cover to spout their bullshit.

The only difference between the Bush-hating Paul Krugman and the Bush-hating Tom Friedman: Friedman's hatred almost sounds intelligent and reasonable.

I will say it again. It is crap like this that will get our people killed. If the world sees our press openly contemptuous of their own country, why would they feel otherwise? Friedman should walk around Syria, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia to understand they are the savages, not us. Oh, that's right. Nevermind. Friedman is Jewish. They'd kill him on sight.

From Little Green Footballs:

Remember that “worldwide wave of revulsion” when a pregnant Israeli mother and her four daughters were murdered in cold blood by Arabs who videotaped the atrocity? Remember the “worldwide wave of revulsion” when four security contractors helping to rebuild Iraq were burned alive, ripped apart, and hung from a bridge by Arabs in Fallujah? Remember the “worldwide wave of revulsion” when an Italian hostage was murdered by Arabs on video?

You don’t?

If I did hear that, I would take these pictures of those "poor" Iraqis a little more seriously.

How long before this guy is labeled a poor, innocent victim of the evil John Ashcroft and the Gestapo Bush administration?

WASHINGTON - A lawyer from Portland, Ore., was arrested by FBI agents Thursday as part of the investigation into the deadly train bombings in Spain, federal officials said.

Brandon Mayfield, a U.S. citizen, was taken into custody on a material witness warrant, said a senior law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The arrest is the first known in the United States with connections to the March 11 bombings in Madrid.

The FBI also searched the man's home, which he shares with his wife, the official said.

Mayfield's fingerprints were found on materials related to the Madrid bombings, said a second senior law enforcement official, also speaking on condition of anonymity.

Gee, how did those fingerprints get all the way to Madrid? Must be some sort of conspiracy against the man. Why, you ask? Must be this:

Earlier this year, in Portland, the last of six men and a woman were sentenced on charges of conspiring to wage war against the United States by helping al-Qaida and the former Taliban rulers of Afghanistan.

Mayfield represented one of those people, Jeffrey Leon Battle, in a custody case involving Battle's son. Law enforcement officials did not know of any further contacts between Mayfield and any of the other Portland terrorism defendants.

Just remember Mike Hawash before you think this guy is somehow a victim.

...because some liberals are truly in a serious fog.

But there's another possibility, one only now being floated by a few political operatives: 2004 could be a decisive victory for Kerry. The reason to think so is historical. Elections that feature a sitting president tend to be referendums on the incumbent--and in recent elections, the incumbent has either won or lost by large electoral margins. If you look at key indicators beyond the neck-and-neck support for the two candidates in the polls--such as high turnout in the early Democratic primaries and the likelihood of a high turnout in November--it seems improbable that Bush will win big. More likely, it's going to be Kerry in a rout.

These guys need to get out of the beltway more often. There is a famous quote I've heard many times. A woman said, after Nixon destroyed McGivern 49 states to1, something like this: "I don't understand how Nixon won. No one I know voted for him."

One part of the sentence destroys the whole point:

such as high turnout in the early Democratic primaries

Turnout this year was the third lowest ever. Sadly for the Democrats, it was higher than the last 2, which is what they are clinging on for hope. Oh well, why let facts get in the way?

This part is even more hilarious:

Bush: the new Carter

They wish. And the concluding sentence is hedged, defeating the whole purpose of the article:

Kerry needs to convince voters that he's up to the job--and that Bush isn't. If he can woo voters dissatisfied with Bush's policies, there's a potential--and historical precedent--for Kerry to win big.

My friends, this is what passes for insight on the left. Keep dreaming.

I'll bet Red China is having a great laugh at our expense, thanks to the liberal media, the Bush-haters, the Trotskyists, etc. Take a look at what I mean:

Display of Warships Signal Hong Kong of China's Resolve

HONG KONG, May 5 — A flotilla of Chinese warships sailed slowly down the length of Victoria Harbor today in a rare show of force that comes as democracy advocates here say they face growing intimidation by Beijing.

Two guided-missile destroyers, four guided-missile frigates and two submarines displayed China's military strength for the first time since the territory was handed over by Britain in 1997. It marked a distinct change of tactics by Beijing.

The Chinese military has been a nearly invisible presence here for the last seven years. Soldiers are required to wear civilian clothing when they leave their bases, and the main base is tucked away on an island at the harbor's western end..

But today , residents here watched as a submarine sailed past the downtown Bank of China tower, designed by I.M. Pei. Sailors in dress whites lined the sides of the destroyers and frigates, and some gave friendly waves to workers on a passing tugboat.

The People's Liberation Army described the visit as an occasion to honor the navy's 55th anniversary. But there was no such visit on the 50th anniversary in 1999. Today's display, too, came as people favoring popular elections here find themselves under growing pressure.

Does anyone really think that China, despite all of their bluster, would be pulling this shit if they did not think we were weak? I am sick and f'n tired of hearing about "Arab honor" while our honor is being flushed down the toilet by left-wing self-hating "Americans."

Think I am overreacting about China's intentions? Well, someone much closer to the scene seems to have gotten the message loud and clear:

The city's best-known radio talk show host, Albert Cheng, a longtime supporter of greater democracy and a critic of the local government, flew to Europe on Sunday, beginning a vacation that he said would last for the rest of the year.

He is not going on vacation. He is running for his life.

Great Britain should never have given Hong Kong back to China. You would have to be a senseless dope or a liberal (same thing actually) to think that the "One country, two systems" would last. Now, why was Hong Kong returned to China? Simple. Political correctness and the much-hated term colonialism. I could go on for hours about the geo-political ramifications of this, but who would care? Even though I didn't go to Harvard, I see perfectly clearly what is going on over there, and how it is really aimed at us.

Just take a good look at that:

Last week, Specter barely escaped a primary challenge, thanks to the support of President Bush. This week, he has (as usual) stabbed him in the back.

Senate Rebuffs Bush, Blocks New Rules on Overtime Pay

The Republican-controlled Senate voted yesterday to block new Labor Department rules that critics said would deny overtime pay to millions of white-collar workers, handing an embarrassing rebuff to the Bush administration on a politically sensitive jobs issue.

The Senate voted 52 to 47 to scrap the new rules despite recent changes to address earlier criticism, an intense lobbying campaign by Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao and a last-ditch GOP effort to avert defeat by proposing a long list of jobs for which overtime pay could not be eliminated.

But, on the final vote, Republicans Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colo.), Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Olympia J. Snowe (Maine) and Arlen Specter (Pa.) joined all Democrats present except Zell Miller (Ga.) in voting to protect overtime pay.

Specter is a real scum. I shudder at the thought of him chairing the Judiciary Committee, especially since there will be several new Supreme Court Justices in the next few years.

One other thing: I am fully supportive of those new overtime rules. They would improve my life immensely, and give me a ton more freedom.

I never thought I would read something like this.....yeah, right.

Bush Promises on Abuse Not Enough, Iraqis Say

Reuters, as expected couldn't wait to get this story out there. Where did they go? Why, to speak to some guy drinking tea. (I wonder if Joe Wilson was joining him for lunch)

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - For the men sipping tea in a cafe in Baghdad, George W. Bush's pledge that soldiers who abused Iraqi prisoners would be punished was credible -- but only if the Americans fulfill other pledges first.

Abdul-Kader Abdul-Rahim said Wednesday he did not doubt that the U.S. military would, as the U.S. president promised, investigate the abuses. But he doubted it would change things in Iraq, where people chafe under foreign occupation.

"I do believe the president when he talks about investigation because they live in a democracy and in this democracy even Bush can be investigated," he said.

"But what is happening in Iraq is different from their democratic regimes. We're all treated like prisoners here," he said, after watching Bush being interviewed on U.S.-funded Al Hurra television.

Oh, please. Now, pull out the violin for this crap:

Others were more skeptical, saying the Americans had not fulfilled pledges they gave Iraqis after toppling Saddam Hussein more than a year ago -- pledges on security, reliable electricity supplies, jobs and many more.

"We are an occupied nation, and when you are occupied you have nothing in your hand," said Yossuf Ayob.

"I don't know if we can believe this because the Americans have lost all their credibility when a year after the end of the war nothing has changed in our lives."

Maybe I missed the news for all those years, but I don't seem to remember al-Reuters going to tea joints and mining anti-Saddam quotes, fully attributed. The media completely ignores that reality. And, where did I read the most detailed articles about the real atrocities carried out by Uday and Qusay Hussein? Was it from Reuters, the New York Times, CNN, or the Associated Press? No, it was in Maxim and Sports Illustrated!!

I know that it would not be feasible or prudent, but part of me wants to say, "You know what, you are right. We are leaving right now, so we don't ruin your lives anymore. After all, it's what you want, right?"

Just a thought:

The liberal media bent over backwards to tell us all that the 9/11 hijackers were not representative of all Muslims. Why not the same rush to remind everyone that these 7 soldiers are in no way indicative of our great military?

It seems that Michael Moore's latest movie, Farenheit 911, is having a distribution problem. No matter, because I wouldn't waste a minute seeing it. However, this part of the NY Times article made me laugh:

Mr. Moore's films, like "Roger and Me" and "Bowling for Columbine," are often a political lightning rod, as Mr. Moore sets out to skewer what he says are the misguided priorities of conservatives and big business. They have also often performed well at the box office. His most recent movie, "Bowling for Columbine," took in about $22 million in North America for United Artists.

$22 million means it performed well? Oh please!! Roger and Me did $6 million in 1989, do they consider that "doing well" too? Or what about Moore's 1997 loser, The Big One? That did about $3 million.

Michael Moore is a fat, disgraceful slob, who impugned the country that made him rich. Someone needs to show him some great new inventions: A shower and razor blades. He is a punk.

From the one and only Michelle Malkin:

These people [CAIR] won't rest until they have achieved the Al Jazeera-fication of America's airwaves.

From her latest example of her brilliance, CAIR's war on conservative radio.

The United Nations is beyond a disgrace. It is parody. The lastest re-elected member of the Human Right Commission: Sudan!! Never mind that, as we speak, hundreds are being murdered there daily an an ethnic cleansing.

Sudan Elected to U.N. Rights Group, U.S. Walks Out

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan won re-election to the United Nations' main human rights watchdog on Tuesday, prompting the United States to walk out because of ethnic cleansing in the country's Darfur region.

I saw the clip of our representative (A Japanese-looking fellow) walk out, and I was quite proud of him for doing so.

Sichan Siv, the U.S. delegate to the council, accused Sudan of having no right to sit on the rights commission because of ethnic cleansing in Darfur where government troops are accused of backing Arab militia which pillage black Africa villages, raping and killing. The Khartoum government denies it is involved in ethnic cleansing.

"The United States will not participate in this absurdity," said Siv before briefly walking out of council chambers. "Our delegation will absent itself from the meeting rather than lend support to Sudan's candidacy."

He also walked out a year ago when Cuba won a seat on the commission.

As expected, Sudan's people are being real tools, sporting an attitude that they in no way have the right to convey.

Sudan's envoy immediately accused the U.S. delegation of "shedding crocodile tears," and said the United States had turned a blind eye as Iraqi prisoners were mistreated and civilians were harmed in battle.

Sudan's deputy U.N. ambassador, Omar Bashir Mohamed Manis, said the United States had no right to accuse anyone of human rights violations after the allegations of mistreatment of Iraqis held in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq.

Images of the Iraqi prisoners "are fresh in the minds of all justice-loving people around the world," he said.

There we go again. Moral equivalence between the humiliation of a few Iraqis and mass murder. Justice-loving people? My ass. If you are an American who takes those weasels at the U.N. seriously, all I can wonder is, why?

I got an unsigned e-mail today from a reader:

I've heard you talk a lot about Saddam's shredders. What are they and could you give me some info on this? Thanks!

Here's a few links to see. Click here, here, and here)

Of course, you can find the Saddam apologists all over the internet too, saying it is a lie, a lie spread by Reverend Moon, no proof, which is my favorite excuse, because liberals will deny any eyewitness account that doesn't reinforce their crap. Of course, if an eyewitness comes forward after 15 years, and has something to say that will help a convicted cop-killer, they'll believe it like it was the Gospel. (I know they are atheists and God-haters, but I can't think of a better parallel than the Gospel)

I just finished watching that scumbag asshole Ted Rall on The O'Reilly Factor. What a pompous, arrogant dirtbag. O'Reilly really gave him the business, and I was quite happy about it, to say the least. There was one thing he said towards the end of the interview that really got me charged up: He was complaining about the war on terror (which he says has not started yet) and pissed about all the people who have died: "Iraqis, Afghanis, and (oh by the way, it seemed to me) Americans."

Ted Rall is a vile man, full of hatred and contempt for the United States and President Bush. I have no idea why. WHat other country would he be given the opportunities he has had? NONE!! At the end of the O'Reilly interview, he got in a little plug about his upcoming book. It confirmed my suspicions, that his shameless cartoon about Pat Tillman was borne of the Rene Gonzalez fiasco. Rall was fired from the New York Tmes a few weeks ago. That should tell you how far left he is. (Click here for the story and the outrageous cartoon that got him shit-canned) And what better way to get his name front and center than to bash Pat Tillman. Monkey see, monkey do, in other words. I would give my next paycheck to slap this jerkoff in the face.

Today I received an unsigned e-mail, with a link, asking me why I never mentioned Rall on the blog. Frankly, I was so pissed off, I just wanted to forget it. (He also asked me about Saddam's shredders. I'll get him some more info soon)

Here's the link he left me. It's the news story of MSNBC pulling the cartoon, as they should have. If you want to find the cartoon, it is everywhere. I don't want to even look at it again.

..the media spent as much time pissing and moaning about Saddam's rape rooms, torture chambers, mass graves, and shredders as they have on 7 soldiers merely humilitaing a few Iraqis?

..Kofi Annan (and the media too) had expended as much effort pressuring Saddam as he has trying to cover up the U.N. Oil-For-Food scandal.

..the media spent 1/10th as much ink on Joe Wilson admitting this week that Iraq was indeed trying to purchase yellowcake in Niger as they did in trying to hang Bush on 16 words in the State of the Union.

..there was 1/64th the attention on the vicious murder of a pregnant women and her 4 daughters as there was on the murder of a "poor, wheelchair-bound" cleric who was responsible for countess murders and would have been for many more if not killed.

My point is simple. The biggest problem today is the Western Media, possibly even worse than terrorism itself. If Palestinians were held to the same standards as Jews, the issue would have been cleared up long ago. Instead, Arafat and his fellow scumbags know that the press will help dissuade free governments from putting his balls in the vise grips, where they truly belong. (Israel could have killed Arafat 1000 times over. Why haven't they? You already know the answer.) If Saddam was treated with half the skepticism as Bush is, things in Iraq would be much different. What, I ask you, gives a band of murderers who could never win any real battle hope? It's the media. We all know that if Bush did what he should have in Fallujah, and made it a modern-day Dresden, nearly every media outlet in the world would call him the greatest mass murderer in history.

The liberal media is killing our fellow Americans. They have for quite a while now, and will continue to do so.

Hamas and their ilk, scream "Death to Israel" and want nothing more than to see Israel meet its doom. Fortmer diplomats, who probably work at some Saudi-funded think tank now, are doing the same thing as the Israel-haters, only this time with "diplomatic" tactics:

Diplomats Criticize Bush Policy on Israel

WASHINGTON - Sixty former U.S. diplomats have signed a letter to President Bush contending that his "unabashed support" for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is costing the United States credibility and friends.

What friends? Credibility with whom? Do they mean that people who already hate out guts now will hate our guts even more. (See cartoon in the next post.) And, what friends? Do they mean false friends like Saudi Arabia and Egypt?

When I first moved to Tempe, Arizona to go to college, I did not know anyone. During a class argument, some dope liberal got thrashed by me, and so she turned to the favorite of the left, the ad hominem attack. She said, "No wonder you don't have any friends here." My response: "If friendship is predicated on whether or not I think I certain way, then I'm happy to remain friendless."

To those diplomats, I say "F OFF!!" I suspect Bush will say something similar, only more diplomatically than I have.

My favorite liberal blogger, Oliver Willis, has himself a new job, working at the new watchdog site, Media Matters, a web site devoted to "exposing" conservative bias in the media. I like Oliver's blog a ton, even though I think he can be a real dope sometimes. I wish him well, because he does deserve this opportunity. One thing though: Oliver is leaving Boston to go back to D.C. to work for this website. I have one piece of advice for Oliver: Rent, don't buy. That 2 million in seed money can evaporate real fast.

Take a look at this CAIR press release, starting with the headline:

TX Muslim gets 5 years for blades in carry-on

Immediately, you are supposed to think that a poor, nice, America-loving Muslim-American citizen was wrongy racially-profiled. That is simply a crock. Here's why:

Federal prosecutors believe that security screeners at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport foiled a Pakistani national's attempt last March to evade and test airport security for potential terrorist aims.

Authorities found 32 double-edged razor blades tucked in a coiled belt inside a cardboard box in Fazal Karim's carry-on luggage March 5, 2003.

A few months later, a federal jury convicted Karim of carrying and attempting to carry concealed dangerous weapons in air transportation and of making false statements about his immigration status. Karim, who is a Canadian citizen, was an undocumented immigrant at the time of his arrest.

As expected, CAIR obejects:

A spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in an earlier interview that Karim's prosecution fit a pattern of singling out travelers from predominantly Muslim nations after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Karim's defense attorney agreed...

Gee, it was all about his race, wasn't it? The 32 razor blades had nothing to do with it. Now, constrast that with the Fort Worth Telegram headline:

Pakistani gets five years for blades in carry-on at D/FW

Read that article and you will find what CAIR somehow forgot to mention:

"I don't know what's going on; I was scared," Karim said about why he lied to immigration officials that he was a tourist visiting friends in Houston. Karim insisted he never looked inside the cardboard box and did not know it contained the razor blades.

But Karim first attracted the attention of security screeners at D/FW by his suspicious behavior and then kept changing his story under questioning, Schattman said.

Security officers first noticed that Karim appeared to distance himself from his carry-on bag. After placing the bag on the conveyor belt leading to an X-ray machine, Karim did not walk through the adjacent magnetometer but selected one farther away.

He offered FBI agents three different explanations for the blades, Schattman said. First, Karim said he used the blades to shave the bottom of his full beard. Then he said they were for a friend in Houston. Finally, he said he did not know the blades were in the bag.

Transportation Security Administration officials told prosecutors that it was the only case on record where double-edged razor blades were confiscated from a passenger and screeners could not find a razor in the luggage.

Of course CAIR left that part out of the press release, because even they know this guy is a criminal. Don't believe for a second that CAIR is anything more than a pro-terrorist group, created by Hamas. Think I made that up? Then read this on-the-record testimony given in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Saudi largess has similarly been bestowed upon the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR), a U.S. based organization purporting to “promote a positive image of
Islam and Muslims in America” and “empower the Muslim community in America
through political and social activism.”1 However, in supporting claims of religious
discrimination, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and its leadership has
managed to disguise its true agenda of supporting militant Islam and protecting the
operations of radical groups supporting terrorism.
A careful review reveals that CAIR was a creation of the Hamas group in the
United States. CAIR leaders have been heard expressing their support for Hamas both in
public and on FBI surveillance tapes. CAIR has received support from, and lent support
to, Hamas financial conduits in the United States. Several CAIR officers and employees
have been recently indicted on terrorism-related charges. CAIR routinely questions the
motives behind U.S. counterterrorism policy and law enforcement.

They are vile scumbags who are not to be believed or taken seriously. The AP, The New York Times, and their liberal media ilk must know that, yet quote these jangos like the gospel. Don't you believe it.

A side note: Take a look at my picture to the left. It would take me about 2-3 months to use 32 razors. Is it fair to say that Muslims like Karim do not shave nearly as often as I do, and that 32 razors would be at least a year's supply for him?

As a result of this blog, I average about 5-6 e-mails a day from readers, 10-15 if you count the form e-mails disguised as personal ones. You know, the usual form letters, "I love your blog, and read it daily" crap, which I know is not true because some of them have thanked me for my support of the Palestinians, John Kerry, Howard Dean, and even my efforts to get help the cause of supporting a woman's "right to choose."

A little while ago, I received this e-mail:

I just came across your hate-filled blog while looking for something else, and you are (to use one of your favorite words) a real dope. What makes you think that, just because you have a computer, that you are smart enough to write about matters of law and politics? You also have no idea what you are talking about when you think you are funny by insulting John Kerry all the time. Kerry is a brilliant man, smarter than you can ever dream of being. You shouldn't think he is dumb simply because he doesn't stoop to simple insults to respond to the issues of joblessness and poverty, things that you think are something to be ridiculed.
Then again, no one can expect you to be any smarter. After all, you went to Arizona State University, not exactly a school for anyone with a brain. After all, while my alma mater Harvard can be found in every scholarly journal in publication, the only time anyone reads about Arizona State is the number of drunks and bimbos they contain within their confines, usually found in Playboy and Maxim. Perhaps you should have done more than get drunk and fondle sluts while you were at Arizona State, and you might have been able to sound educated once in a while.

I concede part of your point, pal. I did get drunk and have fun with a few, er, lovely ladies at Arizona State. To that I plead guilty. However, to simply assert that because you went to Harvard, and I went to ASU, that automatically makes you smarter and my views invalid, is laughable. OK, whatever you say. What you do not know is that I went to Penn (that's right, an Ivy League school) for a semester in 1994, and left because I F'N HATED IT THERE!! I could not stand the liberal professors who acted like they knew everything. For example, I took Urban Sociology, and I was the only one in the class that was actually raised in a city. Once, in a class, I had to listen to this dunce from Iowa's class project, about the 3 whole days she spent studying people on the subway. I could barely stifle my laugh, and finally said to her, "You need to spend about 5 more years down there to get it right." The professor responded with something like this, "Brian, she has the research to back up her assertions. How could you possibly refute her without doing a counter study?" I answered, "Well, I did take the subway to school every day for 6 years, not to mention about a couple hundred other times, and her observations are for the most part incorrect." Take a guess which one the fine Professor thought had a better grasp of the subway society....that's right, the dunce from Iowa.

One other thing, my Harvard friend, I did real research at Arizona State. I didn't waste my time on this crap, which is more than you can say about the "alleged" elite Harvard:

Harvard’s lack of gender non-specific bathrooms has caused transgender and gender-variant students to alter eating and drinking habits and suffer severe cases of dehydration, according to a report released yesterday by the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA).
The study, which encompassed first-year dormitories, upperclass houses, major classroom buildings and libraries, identified 38 gender non-specific bathrooms and 24 single-occupancy bathrooms assigned to either men or women.

Members of BGLTSA issued four major requests in connection with the study: the neutralization of all gender-specific, single occupancy bathrooms; proper labeling and designation of all bathrooms; inclusion of at least one acceptable gender non-specific bathroom in any future buildings; and immunity from disciplinary action for using a bathroom that a student deems appropriate for his or her gender.

BGLTSA Co-Chair Stephanie M. Skier ’05. who is also a Crimson editor, said that these recommendations are necessary to ensure the safety and rights of transgender members of the Harvard community.

What was that again about Harvard being such an elite university? Those people can even decide if they are a male or female, and what bathroom to use, and they are supposed to be smarter than me? Someone needs to tell them this: If you are dressed like a woman, or think you are a woman, use the women's restroom. If you choose to ignore those milk sacks you have and think you are a man, then use the men's room. Simple solution, and I didn't even have to commission a study.

If you missed good ol' Kofi on Meet The Press, you missed a real laugher. Annan is a world-class dirtbag, to say the least. The king of Sunday morning talk shows, Mark A. Kilmer, has the story.

My favorite part: Kofi said his son had nothing to do with the Oil for Food program. OK...sure...like I have nothing to do with this blog. Russert should have asked Annan, "If that's true, why did you fire the British company in charge of overseeing the inventory and replace them with a Swiss company who employed your son?"

I mined this from a column in the Washington Post:

The Power of a Peace Candidate

Why should voters choose Nader? Because Kerry, Nader told the reporters, "is stuck in the Iraq quagmire the same way Bush is." That leaves the independent as the sole choice for "the peace movement in this country."

Polls show the potential constituency for that movement is growing rapidly. A New York Times/CBS poll last week found that 46 percent of Americans now believe the United States should withdraw from Iraq as soon as possible -- a number equal to those who agree with Kerry and Bush on sticking it out. The percentage who believed the United States should have stayed out of Iraq had risen by 50 percent since December.

When I was studying for my B.S. in Political Science at Arizona State University, I was heavily involved in a lot of polling, and I know all the tricks. I'd live to know how the question I placed in bold was asked, because I fully believe that we should get of Iraq as soon as possible, but that doesn't mean I think we should get out now, or anytime soon. Read the contrast as stated, either leave as soon as possible or stick it out. That is a seriously flawed dichotomy. One has really nothing to do with the other. It is parallel to them asking will you vote for John Kerry or go to work this week? Polls are a joke.

Let's see. When Clinton was President, he did nothing of any substance to stop al-Qaeda or bin Laden. Yet, we are supposed to take Clinton's word that "al-Qaeda was his top priority," despite all the evidence to the contrary. Now, you can bet there are a ton of people who actually believe that it is Bush, not Clinton, who is lying now.

President Bush says Clinton placed little emphasis on terrorism

How much of a warning did Bill Clinton give incoming President George W. Bush that Osama bin Laden posed a grave danger? It depends on which President you ask. In his interview with the 9/11 commission last week, sources tell Time, Bush testified that Clinton appeared far more passionate about the dangers of North Korea's nuclear program and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to sources, Bush said Clinton "probably mentioned" terrorism as a national-security threat "but did not make it a point of emphasis." Clinton earlier told the panel that he had ranked bin Laden as the No. 1 problem the new Administration would face; he made the same point in a speech in New York City last October.

If you actually have the nerve to pick up for Clinton in the comments, please then supply us with what Clinton did to stop or retaliate for terrorism. I'd like to hear about his response to the USS Cole, Khobar Towers, the first WTC bombing, and the Africa embassy bombings.

Here's a headline:

Arabs outraged over the murder of 8-month pregnant woman and her 4 daughters

Palestinians massed on the streets to express outrage after this mother and her children were murdered in Gaza.



Yeah, right. Arabs are celebrating, because this was an Israeli woman and her family.

Pregnant mother and four daughters killed in Gaza terror attack

An Israeli woman in her eighth month of pregnancy and her four daughters were killed this afternoon when two terrorists opened fire at Israeli cars traveling on the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in the Gaza Strip. Soldiers shot the terrorists dead, but only after an explosive device at the scene detonated, wounding three soldiers, two of them with moderate-to-serious injuries.

The victims of the attack were identified as Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Merav (2). Tali's husband was not in the car at the time of the attack, ynet reported. The Hatuels lived on the Gush Katif settlement of Katif.

The Hamas terrorist organization claimed responsibility for the terror attack, Channel Ten television reported. Palestinian sources said, however, that the attack was a joint effort of Islamic Jihad and the Fatah's Popular Resistance Committees, media sources reported.

Nothing would make me happier than a swift, pain-inducing retaliation, preferably at the latest Hamas "leader of the month."

This incomparable dope is describing not the Holocaust, not the Rwanda genocide, not the Stalin mass purges, not Khyber Rouge, not the rape rooms, torture chambers and shredders run by Saddam, but of the American soldiers mistreatment of some Iraqi prisoners:

“What happened is the worst atrocity in human history and the perpetrators must be brought to justice,” said Uwe Preini, a visiting German travel industry executive.

Perhaps this first-class idiot needs to learn about his own country's history. After all, it was the Germans that made mass murder more efficient than anyone in history.

The New York Times today has an interesting, and, as expected, biased article on Justice Antonin Scalia. Unlike those justices like Ginsburg and Breyer, who fancy themselves as legislators while thinking that Zimbabwe has a respectable legal system, Scalia actually thinks the Constitution means what it says.

And that is the reason why the liberal media and their buddies all hate Scalia, and have expended a lot of energy in the last few months to discredit him. As soon as Scalia sits on the Court, you can count on him to rule against every pet liberal cause of the month, things like gay marriage. To him, the Constitution is not a "living, breathing" document. It is as dead as the paper it is written on. And that is how it should be. Like him or not, it would be disingenuous to say he is not a brilliant jurist.

This part of the article really upset me. Granted, I may only be starting law school in August, and in no way can match this professor in credentials, but I am confident that this professor's ethics are colored by his ideology.

Stephen Gillers, who teaches judicial ethics at New York University, draws a different comparison: "Since World War II, I think it's fair to say, the extrajudicial conduct of only three justices have become significantly newsworthy in a harmful way: Fortas, Douglas, Scalia."

Justice Abe Fortas resigned in an ethics scandal in 1969, and Justice William O. Douglas's unorthodox private life and public statements led Gerald R. Ford, then the House minority leader, to call for his impeachment in 1970.

"Scalia is calling undue attention to himself, by mixing it up publicly in a way we associate with players, not referees, which is what a judge is supposed to be," Professor Gillers said.

Justice Scalia is not, nor has ever, called attention to himself. He made only one mistake: He discussed the Newdow case publicly and then compounded it by recusing himself. By recusing himself in the Pledge case, where he would have surely voted to uphold the Pledge as currently constructed, all he did was allow the liberal media to smell blood in the water. If I am wrong, then why have I never heard the same media complain about Justice Ginsburg, who could have been called on the carpet even quicker than Scalia for some of the speeches she has made? We all know the answer. Ginsburg is a liberal, and Scalia is not.

And, what is beyond upsetting are the comparisons to Fortas and Douglas. Scalia, by all accounts, has always been a fair and honest man, and a good family man. He has 9 children, all of them sucessful in their own lives. There has never been a serious whiff of scandal around him that has not been media-manufactured. The complaints about the duck-hunting trip with Cheney are farcical. Scalia has known Cheney for 30 years, and it was Scalia who invited Cheney, long before this case same up. The media has no shame, and think nothing of smearing a fine man and justice like Scalia for little more than Bush-bashing by proxy.

Scalia is no Fortas or Douglas. Fortas was a snake. He had, ahem, outside interests while he was a sitting justice. And, he was one of LBJ's cronies, who leaked all of the Court's business to LBJ in advance. Fortas also had a wife who loved the high life, and constantly put pressure on "Dishonest Abe" because she was unhappy with the income of a Supreme Court Justice. That made him do some, ahem, questionable things.

Justice William O. Douglas was a huge embarrassment. But, since he was a liberal through and through, he mostly gets a pass, unless, like this case, they need to disparage Scalia. Then, he is trotted out as a seriously disingenuous parallel. Douglas had financial problems most of his life, which is what happens when you have several ex-wives to support. Because of this, he did a lot of questionable things to make money while he was on the Court. Plus, in his early years on the Court, Douglas was running for either President or Vice-President, using surrogates to politic for him while he stayed "above it all." (You have no idea how close Justice Douglas came to being FDR's running mate in 1944. If that had indeed happened, it would have been he, not Truman, who became President. I am not that sure if Douglas would have dropped the bomb on Japan in order to bring a swift end to WWII. Thank God we'll never know the answer.) When Douglas was in his 60's, he was running around chasing college skirts, and his last 2 wives were quite younger than him. (Not that I have a problem with him chasing young women, but he was not just old geezer, he was a sitting Supreme Court Justice.) Douglas was a lousy father, and a weasel in general. His entire life story, as he told it, was a fraud.

I like to fancy myself as an amateur Supreme Court historian. While many people are wasting their time watching Friends and The Apprentice (sorry, Professor Yin), I am reading books. I could tell you about many of the justices, from my favorites Oliver Wendell Holmes, Byron White, John Marshall, and Robert H. Jackson, to the worst, Thurgood Marshall and that raving anti-Semite James McReynolds. To me, lumping Scalia with Douglas and Fortas is borderline slander.

If you want to learn why I feel this way, there are 2 books that you should read. Both happen to have been written by the same author, the fine Professor Bruce Allen Murphy of Lafayette University. They are Wild Bill: The Legend and Life of William O. Douglas, and Fortas: The Rise and Ruin of a Supreme Court Justice. Read a few chapters of those books, and you'll be as upset as I was to hear Scalia compared to those two.

Jesse's advice to Kerry: African-American VP

The Rev. Jesse Jackson came to Philadelphia yesterday to address the National Conference of Black Mayors, one day after U.S. Sen. John Kerry spoke to the group.

Jackson offered some advice for the presumptive Democratic nominee for president - think about picking an African-American for vice president.

C'mon Jesse, haven't you realized by now that African-Americans like you are only brought out by the Democrats when they need stooges to help them out of a jam?

And, get this part:

Jackson rattled off the names of African-Americans who have risen through the political ranks with Republican support - Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

Contrast that with the prominent African-Americans who have risen through the ranks with Democratic support. For example, there's...uh...uh.......well....NOBODY!!!

(If I am wrong, use the comments to tell me who I missed. Don't bother if you think Al Sharpton or Joycelyn Elders are prominent)

According to some dope in the Seattle Times:

Immigration-law enforcement can be Kerry's winning ticket

Here's a sure-fire, guaranteed way for John Kerry to win the election: Say that as president, he will enforce the nation's immigration laws. No fancy programs required. No draconian new laws. No need for more border guards. Kerry should just say he will enforce the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. That means his administration will seriously go after employers who hire people not legally permitted to work in this country.

Do this, John Kerry, and you will become the 44th president of the United States.

There are only a few problems with this idea. One, no one would believe Kerry. Two, all of the left-wing illegal immigrant-loving groups own Kerry lock, stock, and barrell, and he would never have the balls to do this. Three, even if he did say he would enforce immigration laws, the outrage from the left would have him flip-flopping in a week, making him look even worse (if that's possible) than he does now. Thus, Kerry will never do anything of the sort. If reality can be ignored, then this columnist would be absolutely right on the money.

Nothing makes me laugh more than the liberal "logic" of the dopes and dunces who run the governments of, for example, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Seattle. They coddle the homeless, throw money at them, let them run wild, all in the name of "helping them back on their feet." (which they never seem to do) And, these idiots are always shocked to discover that the homeless problem gets worse, not better. They fail to realize that by coddling the homeless, it only attracts more homeless people. And why would anyone think otherwise. After all, if you were homeless, would you to go to, say, Tempe, Arizona, who will always try to throw you out of town, or Seattle, where they will bend over backwards, and even walk all over decent, hard-working, taxpaying citizens if necessary, to accomodate you? Of course, you'd go to Seattle.

And this is the result of "compassionate" homeless policies.

Sims approves homeless camp near Kirkland

King County Executive Ron Sims announced Thursday that he will allow a temporary tent city for homeless people on county property near Kirkland.

His action headed off a possible confrontation next week with two Seattle-based groups that earlier this month vowed to occupy park land somewhere in unincorporated King County on May 6 if no agreement could be reached on a permanent location for their ``Tent City4.''

Funny, isn't it, that these homeless people are able to organize and exert political pressure, yet can never seem to find a job or a place to live? A sad state of affairs up there. But at least those bums are getting rained on 250-300 times a year.

...wake me up when the Arabs are not angry about something.

Schwarzenegger Israel Trip Irks Arabs

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 24-hour trip to Israel has angered some Arab-Americans, who say he hasn't set aside time to hear from Palestinians.

Like anyone really gives a shit. I surely don't. However, if you read the rest of the article, you find out its real purpose: to disparage Schwarzenegger. And why not? Since they can't disparage the good job he has done as the governor of California, they have to resort to this crap, using a favorite media tactic usually reserved for Bush, the "I used to support him but not anymore" meme:

Arab-Americans said they wished he would take a detour to see the poverty and despair among Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza Strip and listen to their complaints about Israel.

"It's his prerogative to visit, but he should be fair to all races and religions," said Mohammed Abdullah, 46, a Palestinian-American who works as a butcher in Anaheim.

Did he vote for Schwarzenegger? "Unfortunately," Abdullah said.

And get this comedy:

The Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations plans to issue a report Monday that the group says will document an increase in anti-Muslim incidents nationwide. Its Anaheim-based California branch will issue a separate report about hate crimes in the state.

Yeah, CAIR is a honest reliable source. But, will someone explain this part to me? The article says:

The interviews in Anaheim offer an incomplete snapshot of the opinions of California's approximately 600,000 Arab-Americans, about 1.7 percent of the state's population.

and then it says this:

The group said California has the nation's highest number of [anti-Arab] incidents and largest population of Muslims, about a million.

First off, that sentence is terribly written. Is it a million Arabs in the population, or a million incidents? Since the article says California has 600,000 Arabs, it must mean that there were a million anti-Arab incidents. Give me a break!! What a crock!! We all know that if there was an anti-Arab incidents of any seriousness, we'd have it shoved down our throats night and day. Who does CAIR think they are kidding? Someone needs to tell them that waiting for 4 minutes to be seated at Denny's is not a hate crime, it's business as usual.

Get this howler from some Saudi clown, talking about the latest terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia:

Crown Prince Abdullah, speaking on Saudi television, said: "The kingdom will eliminate terrorism no matter how long it takes."

Later, the Saudi Press Agency quoted Abdullah as telling a gathering of princes in Jiddah that "Zionism is behind terrorist actions in the kingdom. I can say that I am 95 percent sure of that."

I can say that I am 100 percent sure that he is a dope.

One other thing: I thought the Islamists were pissed about us having troops on the "holy" land. Since we have had our guys out of there for a while, what are they upset about now? Must be our oppression of the Palestinians.

Read this outrageous story about a TV station in Chicago, so desperate to get a story, went to a woman's house to interview her. When she asked what it was about, the response was:

"I'm sorry to inform you that your son is deceased. "

Only it wasn't her son, but another student with the same name. Believe me I know first-hand the media attitude, "better to be first than to be right." Dis-f'n-graceful.

From Joe Ham:

The Democrats can spin this anyway they want, but the fact is that John Kerry is a lousy candidate. They should have just nominated Howard Dean. He would have gotten smoked, but would have energized the party and would have done a hell of a lot for their future, a la Goldwater in 1964.

Kerry Struggling to Find a Theme, Democrats Fear

WASHINGTON, May 1 — Two months after Senator John Kerry effectively captured the Democratic presidential nomination, party officials say his campaign is being regularly outmaneuvered by the White House as it struggles to find a focus and to make the transition from the primaries to the fight with President Bush.

Even while expressing confidence about Mr. Kerry's prospects, Democratic Party officials said they were concerned about what they described as his trouble in settling on a defining theme for his candidacy, the pace of his advertising and his progress in setting up field organizations in battleground states.

What are they talking about? He has a theme. It's "I'm not Bush." And, while that worked in the primaries, it won't work now.

In Ohio, the state that strategists for Mr. Kerry and Mr. Bush view as perhaps the most critical battleground, Mr. Kerry has yet to hire a state director or open a campaign office. His operation is relying so far on the work of committees working independent of the Kerry campaign.

Think about that. Relying on groups independent of Kerry. Thanks to campaign finance "reform," I don't believe that for a second. And this is my favorite part:

Mr. Bush's campaign opened its war room in early March, and it has pumped out a steady barrage of attacks and information about Mr. Kerry's record that Democrats said had blocked Mr. Kerry's attempt to make the election a referendum on Mr. Bush.

That's like Kerry trying to make water wet. Every election is a referendum on the incumbent, and this is only more proof that Kerry's theme is indeed "I'm not Bush."

For many Democrats, Mr. Kerry's single biggest difficulty was what they described as his continuing search for a defining theme for his candidacy — typically one of the most urgent tasks of any presidential candidate.

Last week, after completing the most in-depth poll of his campaign, Mr. Kerry unveiled yet another theme for his candidacy: "Together, we can build a stronger America." It was, by the count of one aide, the sixth message Mr. Kerry has rolled out since he announced his candidacy nearly 18 months ago.

No comment needed there. Kerry's people are saying it themselves, just like this part too:

"We need to be honest with ourselves: Our candidate is not one who's good with a 30-second sound bite," said Representative Harold E. Ford Jr. of Tennessee, co-chairman of Mr. Kerry's campaign. "He is very thoughtful and it takes him a while to say things."

Yeah, that damn nuance. He's smarter than all of us.

"Bush's message is clear," said Carter Eskew, who was a senior adviser to Mr. Gore. "His message is a steady leader and Kerry's a flip-flopper."

Exactly.

Kerry just said last week that Bush has spent $50 million dollars and "has nothing to show for it." If his own people are feeling the heat of Bush's steamrolling of Kerry, what do you think the public at-large is thinking?

It seems that Justice Souter was attacked while jogging last night. I'm sure his biggest worry right now is that the people who attacked him don't suffer from civil rights violations, and how poverty caused him to be attacked.

Anyway, here is the funniest part of the article:

Souter is among the youngest justices and is a regular jogger.

Souter is 64. That tells you all you need to know about those unaccountable old geezers.