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Friday, February 29, 2008

Pelosi to investigate whitehouse aids

Doesn't this peevish twit have something better to do?

House Republican leaders were quick to ridicule Pelosi’s request, and used it as another opportunity to stress the importance of passing a bill updating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

“The terrorist threat to our country is not going away, and this sort of pandering to the left-wing fever swamps of loony liberal activists does nothing to make America safer,” said Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).
All this on the heels of pelosi's marxist lust for an additional $18 billion dollars in oil company revenues for the government.

~Brought to you by the same obtuse electorate that swoons for the obamanator.


Update: A lucid moment for the peevish twit & company. Is a FISA deal in the offing?

Israel is at war

And has been since its modern incarnation back in 1947 - even if the U.N. 'wipes' Israel off the map. Anyone with half an impartial brain knows that the murderous arab barbarians have pledged Israel's destruction and will not stop until all the Jews are drowning in the Mediterranean Sea.

The latest barbarian onslaught comes from those tolerant & amiable folks in Gaza known as hamas. Suicide bombings directed at civilians are their specialty, but for the past several months these cowards have launched a daily barrage of Iranian-made Grad rockets into civilian populations inside southern Israel.

Stable Hand rightly asks, "If the US had constant rocket attacks every day, how would we react?"

Israel Warns of Unleashing 'Holocaust' in Gaza if Rocket Attacks Continue

Israeli troops and tanks were in action Friday in northern Gaza, according to Palestinian witnesses and the military, and Israeli aircraft continued to pummel targets in the coastal territory. One attack near the town of Jebalya wounded five people, including two children and their grandmother, according to Dr. Moaiya Hassanain of Gaza's Health Ministry. The military said it carried out strikes targeting areas used by rocket squads.

The army said it was targeting rocket squads, and blamed militants for operating in populated areas. AP photos showed rockets being launched from densely populated areas in northern Gaza.

Israel does not intend to launch a major ground offensive in the next week or two, partly because the military prefers to wait for better weather, defense officials said. But the army has now completed its preparations and informed the government it's ready to move immediately when the order is given, the officials said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.

"It will be sad, and difficult, but we have no other choice," Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said Friday, referring to the large-scale military operation he said Israel was preparing to bring a halt to the rocket fire.
I can hear the euro weenie/hollyweird/utopian blue helmet crowd denouncing those 'brutal israeli nazis' as I type. Guaranteed - just like flies on dog squeeze.

US deploys USS Cole to Lebanon

Yes. That USS Cole. Mackie's back in town.

The USS Cole was the target of a bombing by al-Qaeda extremists in October 2000 in the Yemeni port of Aden that killed 17 US sailors. A top US official confirmed the deployment of the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole off the coast of Lebanon on Thursday but declined to say the show of force was meant for Syria or Iran.
Washington considers those two countries to be foes of Lebanese democracy.
No, no, no. Hezbollah is a peaceful, humanitarian oriented organization that promotes a free & democratic society. The evil U.S. of A. is the problem.
The pro-Iranian Hezbollah group accused the United States on Friday of endangering regional stability by deploying a warship off Lebanon and vowed to defy what it called an act of military intimidation.
Thanks, reuters!

Britain's Prince Harry withdrawn from Afghanistan

"Bullet magnet."

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Bloomberg Not Running for President

Yup. Me neither.

I love stories like this. Or should I say 'non-stories'. It means it's a slow news day.

'Fascism-for-thee-but-not-for-me' Bloomberg's non announcement that he isn't running is equivalent to 'not-corporate-made-tin-foil-hat' Nader's non announcement that he is running - a time waster.

Same for the blather about McCain being 'foreign born'. It means it's a slow news day.

Rat b@st@rd traitor reported dead

Is American al Qaeda member and indicted traitor Adam Gadahn dead? The JR says 'yes'.

$100,000.00 per foot wheel chair ramp

I would have been happy to bid it for a mere $90,000.00 per foot. I'm not greedy.

Where else but San Francisco City Hall could a 10-foot-long wheelchair ramp wind up costing $1 million?
And kalifornia wonders why it is broke.
Supervisor Jake McGoldrick said Tuesday that the issue went to the heart of liberal guilt that often drives the city's decision making.
Easy marks! I could use a quick buck from someone else's wallet. How do I get in on this stealing from the taxpayer bid process? Watch & learn, children.
-- $77,000 for the city's Bureau of Architecture project manager, design and construction fees.

-- $455,000 for the actual construction, plus asbestos removal.

-- $28,000 for a construction scheduling consultant.

-- $3,500 for an electrical consultant.

-- $68,000 for the Bureau of Construction Management to oversee the construction and various consultants.

-- $12,000 for Department of Technology and Information Services oversight.

-- $16,500 for permits and fees. (Yes, believe it or not, the city charges itself.)

-- And as much as $65,000 for bid overruns.

All for a total of: $1,123,000.

And counting.
Don't people go to jail for this kinda stuff? Oh. Wait. It's government. That means legal theft.

TY Boortz

Britain's Prince Harry in Afghanistan

Why don't you plague of locust's simply paint a bulls eye on him instead?

The deployment was not reported due to an agreement between the Ministry of Defence and news organizations. But the story was leaked by an Australian magazine and a German newspaper.
Yup. The taliban never reads or watches the international news. Idiots.

Barack Milhous Obama

Apparently, that middle name is acceptable.

Perhaps Billary is no longer a Rodham?

Virtual fence a flop

Your tax dollars at work.

'Virtual Fence' Along Border To Be Delayed.
U.S. Retooling High-Tech Barrier After 28-Mile Pilot Project Fails

Those problems included Boeing's use of inappropriate commercial software, designed for use by police dispatchers, to integrate data related to illicit border-crossings. Boeing has already been paid $20.6 million for the pilot project, and in December, the DHS gave the firm another $65 million to replace the software with military-style, battle management software.
Yes. Good thinking. They flubbed it, so let's give 'em more cash. (Boeing) estimated in 2006 that it would spend $7.6 billion through 2011 to secure the entire 2,000-mile southern border...

"The total cost is not yet known," testified Richard M. Stana, the GAO's director of homeland security issues, because DHS officials "do not yet know the type of terrain where the fencing is to be constructed, the materials to be used, or the cost to acquire the land."

Translation: a high tech money pit that resembles a gate.

Idiot alerts

From WFB to morons. What a difference a day makes...

~Hotties claim airline discrimination 'cause they're hotties.

~Mayor who posed in undies now unemployed.

~Alaskan citizens sue over loss of sea ice. - blame glowbull warming.

~Family python eats family dog.

~Iran weird beards launch & orbit rocket. What. Me worry?

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Let Us Talk of Many Things

William F Buckley, RIP From the CQ:

William F Buckley, a giant among political pundits and the man who gave modern conservatism its intellectual foundation, died today at age 82. Fittingly, he died at his desk, probably working on his next column.

Buckley will be missed, but his work will remain as lively and vibrant as ever. Few men and women can claim that kind of intellectual achievement and impact on society. Godspeed, sir, and thank you.

Maverick. Do we know you, John?

Bumped & updated because, after muddling through last night's democratic socialist schmooze fest, it's all I got! We're stuck, fellow conservatives. This is our pony in this race.

McCain. I guess. If I must.

It's not even the lesser of two evils. It's simple apathy. It must be late afternoon in America. Like GW before him, McCain only hits on one or two conservative cylinders - tax cuts and the W.O.T. Nope. Just the W.O.T. The Renaissance Nerd does an excellent job of enumerating the cobwebs inside my congested head about this RINO front runner:

And of the whole list of Republican candidates, McCain was the last one I wanted. He has poked the conservative movement in the eye too many times. As he started to gain momentum I got very frustrated, just like a lot of other conservatives. I didn't need Rush or Hannity of Laura Ingraham or anybody else to remind me that McCain-Feingold is the worst and most despicable legislation to be passed in my lifetime. But then again, Bush signed it...

McCain is hard-core on the Terror War, and this runs against the trend of the last 14 years. Everyone on the conservative side of the philosophical divide is disgusted at how McCain chums around with the media. We are all expecting them to turn on him the moment he is clearly the nominee. The NY Times endorsed him, but it's almost inconceivable that they'll endorse him over Obama (or possibly Clinton). Yet there is one thing that McCain could've done that would've assured him the support of the press corps without a doubt--he could've come out against the Terror War. This would not necessarily win him the presidency, because Americans aren't quite as stupid as the press thinks, or as reporters themselves are...

He's going to be the next president. The time for recrimination is over. The whole conservative movement should hold his feet to the fire whenever necessary, certainly, but trust in the bedrock of his character--when worse comes to worst, he'll fight. That's reason enough to get enthusiastic, because otherwise we'll get another folding chair like Bill and Hill, or an ostrich like Obama. There will be dark times ahead; there always are. It takes a warrior to preserve the perpetual flame of liberty.
Update: Polls...well, polls are... They suck. But the latest Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times survey shows
Obama is preferred by Democratic primary voters 48 percent to 42 percent, the first time he has overtaken Clinton in a Bloomberg/Times poll. In a general-election match-up among registered voters, McCain is 2 points ahead of Obama, within the margin of error; he beats Clinton by 6 points.

McCain runs ahead of Obama on every issue except health care. The Arizona senator has a 13-point advantage on Iraq and a 37- point lead on terrorism. He also does better on managing the economy. One area where Obama has a clear edge is on the question of who would bring the most change in Washington; the Illinois senator has an almost 3-to-1 lead.

In the line of duty

But I guess some tragedies are more exploitable than others.

Rio Rancho New Mexico Officer Germaine Casey was killed last year in the line of duty during a police escort of President Bush's motorcade. That's Time Online's headline at the far left from last year: Bush Motorcade Kills Officer. The implications of such wording are obvious.

Last week, Dallas Texas Officer Victor A. Lozada - Tirado was killed in the line of duty during a police escort of Hillary Clinton's motorcade. Time's headline? Officer Killed Escorting Clinton.

~It's blog meme: The media is biased, and it's like the weather - lots of talk but no one does anything about it. Obviously, money fuels the machine that publishes the bias. Somebody is watching/reading NBC, Time, CNN, NYtimes, huffypoo, herr ubermann, et al, and advertisers know it. There is an audience for BDS. Disgruntled sells. The media is a willing accomplice. And you always get more of what you pay for.

God bless the family & friends of Rio Rancho New Mexico Officer Germaine Casey & Dallas Texas Officer Victor A. Lozada-Tirado .... even if the chimpyMcHalliburtonDarthCheneyBloodyOilChristianista kabal did kill one of them.

TY House of Eratosthenes

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

For all you diehard Huckabee supporters

MikeHuckabee.com - I Like Mike!Back on Feb. 8, 2008, Mike Huckabee appeared at the Mid-American Nazarene College campus in Olathe, Kansas, and gave a 30 minute speech. I'm not a Huck fan, but the speech is actually quite good and worth a listen. I'm just of the opinion that this guy talks a good game, but his record reveals that he doesn't always put all the hard core political stuff into action.

I've provided links for download in two parts at the bottom of this post. As for the legal disclaimer, Bott Radio Network provided me with a copy of this speech, and I do have their permission to post these two MP3 files for download. Use as you bloggers see fit.

Please click on the links part 1 & part 2 and save to your hard drive. These can then be opened in any MP3 player such Media Player, iTunes, etc. Please try not to stream from my site to your player in order to save bandwidth.

Thanks and enjoy. Maybe afterwards you can write Mike and ask him to not prolong the agony any longer. I'm just saying.....

Wild ride

This planet rocks & rolls but we give as good as we get.

High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace.

The cargo ship Cougar Ace was entering Alaskan waters when its ballast tanks malfunctioned and a wave turned on its side. Millions of dollars in shiny new Mazdas were dangling feet from the cold water. Then the A-Team of sea salvage (including a geek) flipped it right side up without the help of cranes or tugs. My good friend Josh Davis wrote this breathtaking feature on the small group of divers, ship captains, salvage masters and ship architects who brought the Cougar upright again.
Follow the links to the Wired story. Good stuff about high tech on the high seas.

Ex- pres. slutty phone talk up for bid

I'll see you one Robed Obama picture, and raise you a collection of slutty phone conversations with ex-president Bill Clinton. It's like a bad soap opera (is that redundant?), only you can't make this stuff up!

FLOWERS PUTTING CLINTON PHONE CONVERSATIONS UP FOR BID

Gennifer Flowers is putting the tapes of her recorded conversations with Bill Clinton during their 12-year affair on the auction block, Vegas Confidential learned Monday.

Flowers, who came forward during Clinton's 1992 Presidential election campaign with details of the relationship, said she decided to part with the tapes after renewed interest surfaced. She was offered $5 million by a Japanese collector in the 1990s, she said.
And the timing is so coincidental!

Bionic Contact Lenses

I never could get used to the idea of inserting crafted plastic upon my eyeball, let alone the notion of some highly trained LASIK tech zapping my cornea with a laser, so I'm equally squeamish of this cyborg tech for the new millennium. Resistance is futile.

Imagine having night vision goggles, binoculars, and your favorite video game system all in your contacts. A University of Washington team created the lens. The contacts are filled with electronics and embedded with a wireless display.
I think sales at your local WalMart is a few years off seeing that the wizbang geeks still haven't figured out how to wirelessly power it up. But, soon enough, you will be assimilated! Hahahahahahaha! Watch the video.

Monday, February 25, 2008

Those poor, oppressed palistinians

They're simply victims of zionist brutality. Hollyweird will rescue them. The palistinian's own children sure ain't getting the job done.

Jew-hating rabbit threatens murder.

I'm numb and speechless at the perverted barbarian turds that foment this cult of death toward their own children. AP says it best:

Of all the Hamas kiddie-show clips we’ve posted, this one may be rock bottom as it includes not just the glorification of death but the glorification of murder — and not in the usual phony context of repelling some Israeli military advance either. Next time some halfwit tells you Hamas is about “resistance,” show them this and ask them what, precisely, they’re resisting.
"We will have peace in the Mid East when they love their children more than they hate us." - Golda Meir

Blogger notes

Ed Morrissey of Capt's Quarters fame joins the staff at HotAir.com

In the next few weeks, Ed will close down CQ and make Hot Air his exclusive home. (Update: Ed’s Hot Air e-mail address is ed@hotair.com)
Chips ahoy! Captain.

Dedication & gratitude

Look up 'dedication' in the dictionary and you'll find a picture of 1st Sgt. James Spears (ret). Vietnam veteran back in war zone

Retired in 1995 after 24 years in the Army, Sgt. Spears felt the call of duty after watching the World Trade Center's Twin Towers crumble in 2001 and picked up the phone just to let the Army know he was there if he was ever needed.

As the "human resources manager" for NATO and the Army"s 173rd Airborne Brigade"s Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, Sgt. Spears keeps the soldiers in line with stentorian growls across the mess hall and quiet, reassuring chats in his quarters.

"If you cut me, I"d probably bleed Army green, but this is definitely my last deployment" said the 54-year-old veteran, who is better known to his fellow soldiers as "Grumpy."
Look up 'gratitude' in the dictionary, and you'll find an immigrant who I'm proud to have in this country. Iraqi interpreter sent to the USA for protection, enlists in the Army to go back to Iraq. Instant citizenship anyone?
I want to serve this country because this country returned to me my life,” Wadi says. “If I had stayed in Iraq, I’d be dead now.”
~Nuff said.

Virtual fence or real deterrent?

Guess which one the Mexican officials are complaining about the loudest??

The 'virtual' border fence (read: over-priced gate) is up and running, but most folks around the AZ-Mex border have their doubts as to the effectiveness of their tax dollar investment.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced approval of the fence west of Tucson Friday. And while it is good to hear the fence apparently is working, it is naive to think this network of cameras and radar is the answer to our illegal immigration problems. But even assuming the fence is working as designed, this is not a practical way to secure the entire 1,969-mile border between the United States and Mexico. At a cost of more than $714,000 per mile, it would cost $1.4 billion to extend the virtual fence the length of the border.
The problems with type of 'barrier' is obvious to the Arizona legislature which passed an 'employer sanctions law' that "punishes employers who knowingly hire individuals who don't have valid legal documents to work in the United States. Penalties include suspension or loss of a business license.Its intent is to eliminate or curtail the top draw for immigrants to this country - jobs."

The Bush White House jumped on this (effective) bandwagon with its own announcement of significantly increased fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
The increased employer fines will take effect March 27. The minimum penalty would increase by $100 to $375. The maximum fine for a first-time offender would jump $1,000 to $3,200. And the maximum fine for repeated violations would rise from $5,000 to $16,000. Fines are assessed on a per-person basis, so an employer with 10 illegal immigrants on staff would pay 10 fines.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the administration was acting to fill the vacuum left by Congress and that fixes were needed to deal with illegal immigration and to improve the system through which people enter the U.S. legally. (it's about flippin' time!) He described the new hike in penalties as "part of our effort to continue to make it less appealing for people to break the law" and "a way to keep that pressure up."
The obvious result of this executive order is to reduce the enticement of easy jobs for illegal immigrants, plus encourage self deportation of those already here illegally back to their homeland.

So, we have a virtual border fence that is no more than an expensive, taxpayer financed gate, and we have real deterrents against job seeking illegal immigrants who have less incentive to border jump and stay here illegally. Guess which one the Mexican officials are complaining about the loudest?? Savor the irony.

TY KC Crime Scene.

Don't be evil

Googlag is forever. Government and corporate employees engage in an "epidemic" of snooping into databases.

Vast computer databases give curious employees the ability to look up sensitive information on people with the click of a mouse. The WE Energies database includes credit and banking information, payment histories, Social Security numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and energy usage. In some cases, it even includes income and medical information.
All your privacy are belong to us.

Mourning & pragmatism

A memorial service was held this Sunday for the victims of the deadly shooting at Northern Illinois University.

Classes are to resume Monday for the first time since the Feb. 14 shooting, in which NIU graduate Steve Kazmierczak opened fire in a classroom, killing five people and injuring 17 before committing suicide.
On the heels of this senseless tragedy comes word that some students will not continue to be sheep at slaughter. Students at BYU pack C&C firearms. Utah is the only state in the Union to allow properly licensed & registered students to carry weapons at all public universities.
University of Utah spokeswoman Coralie Alder stressed that although the school has become a poster child in the media regarding guns on campus, the debate is really a statewide issue. "The university is following the law as determined by the Utah Legislature during last year's session, which allows concealed weapon permit holders to carry guns on university and colleges campuses, as well as other locations," she said.
The only places on campus that have restrictions are the dormitories. Students can request a roommate who doesn't carry a gun.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Westboro turds subpoenaed by judge

Federal judge wants detailed Phelps financial data.

The matter is a $4 million question. That is the difference between what the Phelps family says it and their church is worth and the amount awarded to the family of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, whose funeral last year in Westminster, Md., was picketed by members of Westboro Baptist.
In the meantime, these westboro nutjobs are terrorizing yet another family at another funeral. This time in Houston Texas Florida.

Update: The Patriot Guard Riders (photo) respond to the westboro turds in Florida & Nevada with a courage, honor & discipline that eludes the little brown piles from Topeka.

TY JR!

'almost unearthly' Obama phenomenon

Those are the words of Missouri's 5th district Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D). The Prime Buzz has announced that Mr. Cleaver is chewing on a very sour political pickle because of his unwaivering support of billary's presidential bid.

Cleaver endorsed Hillary Clinton for president last summer. Then he sat back and watched as Barack Obama made his steady rise in the polls and carried Cleaver’s 5th District, albeit narrowly, on Super Tuesday.

During his administration, President Bill Clinton helped get money to Kansas City for a whole host of projects, including construction of the Bruce Watkins freeway through the middle of town. Cleaver was mayor then.
Congressman Cleaver is now one of those 'super delegates' that's all the rave right now.
“For me to say, `I know you guys (the Clintons) have been my friends, but I’m sorry, I’m out of here,’ I can’t do it,” Cleaver said. But in the meantime, Cleaver offers a word of caution. Obama may become the next president. But he can’t work miracles.

“That’s just not going to happen.”
Amen, brother. We finally agree on something.

Airborne sewage

FOX network fined for 'sexual' show. Way to go with the 'family values', FOX!

The Married By America program, which aired in 2003, included a topless woman straddling a man, whipped cream being licked off one woman's bare chest and an underwear-clad man being spanked by two female strippers.

The Federal Communications Commission said it would fine each of 13 Fox stations $US7000 ($7600) for an April 2003 episode.

Fox said it "strongly disagrees with the commission's conclusions".
Sorry dipsticks. The FCC is right. If you want promote and show that kinda crap, go buy a 'entertainment' cable outlet. Now, if these geniuses at the FCC would target springer's daily pervert circus, and the corrosive soft porn soaps, and the soul sucking banks/oprah maudlin shows, the airwaves would be even more sanitary.

Friday, February 22, 2008

What was his B.A.C.?

One more reason I will never vote for the obamanator - Ted Kennedy singing.

God save the Republic.

668

Not the beast. But in the neighborhood. New technology turns your body into a swipe card.

Telecom giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) is planning a commercial launch of a system to enter rooms that frees users from the trouble of rummaging in their pockets or handbags for ID cards or keys.

It uses technology to turn the surface of the human body itself into a means of data transmission.

Did McCain set himself up?

Tin foil hat edition.

A month ago, the ghey lady endorsed Maverick, and this week they're hosing him down with the flimsiest of allegations about impropriety from 20yrs ago.

~No admission from McCain.
~No admission from the lobbyist.
~No confirmation from a source willing to go on the record.
~No actual accusation from even their unnamed sources.
~Actual denials from staffers who say that the details of the allegations simply don't make any sense.
~In fact, there's one McCain former staffer who notes that the New York Times' story might be based not on the word of former McCain staffers, but other lobbyists.
AP summed it up this way:
A sex scandal that may not be a scandal tucked inside an ethics scandal that may not be an ethics scandal tucked inside an ethics scandal that was a genuine scandal 20 years ago, and for which McCain has begged forgiveness ever since.
This is journalism? The heck with the story. What dipstick of an editor approved this thing?? Would this train wreck of a tabloid clusterf**k have ever made it past legal unless....?

Faced with near revolt from the far right about Mav's RINO record and knee pad cooziness with the media, is this the genesis of Mav's campaign management into a lean, mean, chief exec machine?? From the CQ:
The New York Times may have done the impossible for the John McCain campaign and for Republicans in general. As predicted yesterday when their strange and threadbare allegations hit print, the attack united conservatives behind McCain.
Forget obama swoon or Rove! the magnificent bastard. Set 'em up. Knock 'em down. McCain. MBSCSDD? Did McCain set himself up?

It's brutal being brutal.

Fidel Castro: I'm Ready for a Vacation.

"...the process of selecting cuba's next government had left him exhausted."
Next government?

Hmm. Today's menu includes brutal totalitarian regime w/ collapsed economy & political prisoners or brutal oppressive dictatorship w/ failed marxist policies and 3rd world conditions. For dessert we have duplicitous demagoguery with moonbat personality cult worship or fomenting revolution topped with coupe and blood bath. Decisions, decisions.

TY BMEWS

Our changing climate.

Sleet, cold, treacherous roads and school closings. Come summer, it will be hot and dry. I think in the old days we simply refered to it as 'the four seasons'. Cue Vivaldi. Right now, area closings of schools, churches, and business stands at 112.

Dang global warming... climate change... February.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

O! JFK, where art thou?

John Forbes Kerry that is. Kerry, Hagel, Biden rescued by U.S. troops stuck in Iraq Afghanistan.

Helicopters carrying three senior U.S. senators made emergency landings Thursday in the mountains of Afghanistan because of a snowstorm.
Sens. John Kerry, Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel were aboard the aircraft. No one was injured, according a statement from Kerry’s office. The senators and their delegation returned to Bagram Air Base in a motor convoy, and have left for Turkey.
Savor the irony.

Home town boy pushed the button

Fire Controlman 2nd Class Andrew Jackson launched the missile that hit the dead satellite.

Your vote counts

Quoth the Raven: YOUTUBE SMACKDOWN HOW TO GUIDE.

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B.T. Barnum invented ebay?

Nails of the Crucifixion For Sale on eBay. 10,000 euros. The seller is French. Caveat emptor.

You're under arrest for being Christian

It's not one world. From the JR:

How many countries with a Muslim majority allow Christians to openly practice their religion? ONE. That's right, only one Muslim country allows full freedom of religion. Can you name it? Take your best shot in the comments section.
Hint: It ain't the moderate nation of Jordan where eight Christian evangelists were arrested for proselytizing - an integral part of that religion, often referred to as The Great Commission.

G spots & jewelry

Nothing good can come of this.

Small Study Concludes Some Women Do Not Have G-Spots.

"For the first time, it is possible to determine by a simple, rapid and inexpensive method if a woman has a G-spot or not," French news agency AFP quoted Emmanuele Jannini of the University of L'Aquila in Italy as saying. "Women without any visible evidence of a G-spot cannot have a vaginal orgasm.''
That defies all my limited experience, but, for all you men infatuated with such a woman, I don't recommend this type of jewelry purchase.

What could go wrong?

Google to Store Patients' Health Records, Raising Privacy Concerns.

The pilot project to be announced Thursday will involve 1,500 to 10,000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic who volunteered to an electronic transfer of their personal health records so they can be retrieved through Google's new service, which won't be open to the general public.
Yes. No one ever hacks computer data bases and steals sensitive info. Or maybe all one needs to do is 'google it'.
But the health venture also will provide more fodder for privacy watchdogs who believe Google already knows too much about the interests and habits of its users as its computers log their search requests and store their e-mail discussions. If the medical records aren't protected by HIPPA, the information conceivably also could be used for marketing purposes.
Don't be evil. Don't use googlag.

Don't be evil

Yes. That's the ticket. Don't be evil....and don't use googlag / yahoo!

Journalist Who Exposes U.N. Corruption Disappears From Google.
Since 2005, Matthew Lee, editor-in-chief, Webmaster and pretty much the only reporter for Inner City Press, has been focusing almost entirely on stories that deal with internal corruption inside the U.N., posting several stories online almost daily. Many of Lee's stories were featured prominently whenever Web users looked for news about the U.N. using the powerful Google News search engine, a vital way for media outlets both large and small to get their articles read.
But beginning Feb. 13, Google News users could no longer find new stories from the Inner City Press. It began with an innocuous-sounding yet chilling form letter from Google to Lee, e-mailed on Feb. 8:
"We periodically review news sources, particularly following user complaints, to ensure Google News offers a high quality experience for our users," it said. "When we reviewed your site we've found that we can no longer include it in Google News."
Tuyet Nguyen, president of the U.N. Correspondents Association, said he was fully behind Lee.
"The sad story about Google is that they're shutting people up and not doing a good thing for society by only defending their business interests," he said. "They have a responsibility to society in letting people speak out. And I'm not surprised that those U.N. agencies are trying to hide."
Not really. Googlag/yahoo has never met a brutal dictator or totalitarian regime it wasn't prepared to cooperate with for torture and imprisonment to expand its insidiously malignant global scrubber information conglomerate. But don't be evil...and don't use googlag / yahoo!

TY boortz

This is a test. This is only a test. Do not be alarmed.

The Navy says they have hit a disabled spy satellite, now local governments are preparing for potential debris.

The USS Lake Erie, armed with an SM-3 missile designed to knock down incoming missiles — not orbiting satellites — launched the attack at 10:26 p.m. ET (0326 GMT Thursday), according to the Pentagon. It hit the satellite as the spacecraft traveled at more than 17,000 mph (27,000 kilometers per hour).

Because the satellite was orbiting at a relatively low altitude at the time it was hit by the missile, debris will begin to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere immediately, a Pentagon statement said.

The elaborate intercept may trigger worries from some international leaders, who could see it as a thinly disguised attempt to test an anti-satellite weapon — one that could take out other nation’s orbiting communications and spy spacecraft.
Gee. Ya think?

Bonus round: To what extent did billyboys secret missile sheenanigans with the chi-coms play out in this scenario and how badly did sandy 'pants' berger's larceny contribute to it?

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

SCOTUS rulings for late winter

Some good; some bad.

~Court Upholds Ruling Protecting Student's Free Speech (what could go wrong?)
~Court Severely Limits Product Liability Lawsuits Over Medical Devices (parasites upset)
~Maine's Regulatory Scheme Against Tobacco Transporters Struck Down (follow the money)
~States Retroactively to Apply New Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (ouch)
~Employees Can Sue 401(k) Plan Administrators For Botching Their Investments (how about congress too?)

Wizbang has all the details.

Obamagasms

Yes, yes, yes. But what has he actually done? Obama supporter, Texas State Sen. Kirk Watson, had a hard time naming anything Obama has actually done in the Senate. The deer-in-the-headlights look is priceless.
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Part Three

107 ft muslim minaret in St. Louis suburb

No loudspeakers. Yet. From the Gateway Pundit:
In the last decade 50,000 Bosnians have moved to St. Louis and many to the South City Bevo Mill neighborhood. St. Louis today is thought to hold the largest Bosnian population in the nation.
From St. Louis Today:
The mosque is the Islamic Community Center, or Madina Masjid, at 4666 Lansdowne Avenue. A minaret is a tower from which the Muslim call to prayer is traditionally sounded. At a groundbreaking ceremony last July, Mayor Francis Slay said the 107-foot structure would likely be the first minaret in the city's history. But Madina Masjid's spiritual leader, Imam Muhamed Hasic, said the minaret is symbolic, not practical. There is no sound system or speakers on the minaret, which is scheduled to be completed next week. He said the minaret will not be used to call Muslims to prayer.
As long as that holds true, I've got no problem with it. America has been the land of opportunity and religious freedom since its inception. It should stay that way for all people, but what I & many others object to is immigrants coming here with aggressive ideologies to demand that the all others conform to them. If you've ever been to a muslim country and experienced the 5 times a day for 15 plus minutes at time, very loud speakered calls to prayer, you will understand that this could become a huge point of contention in middle America.

Dhimmitude watch

Wal-Mart Apologizes to Muslim Woman. My only question is 'why'?

"Please don't stick me up," a cashier told the shopper on Feb. 2, according to The Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Employees at the Riverdale, Utah store are to undergo 'sensitivity training'. In many parts of these here United States, 'don't stick me up' is a legitimate outcry when confronted by a masked individual. One has to demand which group really requires 'sensitivity training'?

It takes a village ...to defeat billary

And it looks like Barack Obama has enough supporters to fill a big city. Several of them. Suber explains the continued success of the obamanator express.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

The Grammy Awards

I think that hype-alooza snooza is coming up, so I'll get right on my predictions for this year's crop of warblers.

Plus: Lindsay. Get help. Please.

Bonus: All the celebrity mug shots you never wanted (bill gates is #94. Yes. That bill gates).

And this just in: Castro Quits: Clinton-Obama on Short List?

Must see T.V.

In Rules of Engagement, airing Tuesday, February 19, 2008, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE examines how the rules of war are interpreted in theory and in battle and what that says about the war in Iraq.

Jules Crittenden gives his review of this program from an advance copy.

If you want to know the basics on this political football, see principal participants and witnesses interviewed — Marines, Haditha survivors, reporters and lawyers — and see extensive private and military video footage and stills of 3rd Platoon, Kilo Company, 3/1 Marines in Haditha before, during and after the Nov. 19, 2005 incident, you’ll want to watch this.

Like most Frontline treatments, it is well-documented and painstakingly fair.
Like I said - must see T.V.

C and C considered at AZ schools

Or, why 'gun free zones' aren't. Bryan at HA expounds:

It should be clear now that declaring schools “gun free zones” does not make them gun free zones. It makes them killing fields if a mad gunman enters them and opens fire.

Allowing concealed carry at schools won’t, as some believe, mean that everyone will be armed and when violence erupts a free-for-all will ensue. It would mean that people who have demonstrated responsibility with firearms by undergoing certified training would be able to obtain a permit to carry. Those people would be the ones who would be most likely to respond to a mad gunman. They would be able to return fire and possibly end rampages and save lives.
BMW made a similar point last week concerning the slaughter at the Kirkwood, MO City Council meeting. And the Discerning Texan reiterates by declaring:
"Unfortunately, all of the recent American gun "massacres" in recent memory occurred in a gun free zone. Hello?? Is there anyone out there paying attention?"
DT then points us to the American Thinker with evidence that 'gun free zones' maybe the most dangerous places in America today.

Pay attention indeed.

Frogs legs gigantica & other weird stuff

~Thank God it wasn't escargot. Giant frog found in Madagascar.

~Or maybe you prefer your frogs more down to size & clairvoyant?

~Dang. Just missed valentine's day - Plastic fly rings with glittering eyes.

~I hate it when this happens - Pet goth girl on leash thrown off bus.

~The world demands it - China bans ghosts from the net.

~Network ratings rise - Toronto based Naked News debuts.

You can't make this stuff up....

Surface computing

I'm sure I'm behind the curve on this one, but so what. Watch this 2 minute video and be amazed. No more keyboard; no more mouse. Way cool and way expensive - about 5 to 10k - but for commercial use only. Retail consumers will have to wait about 4 more years. My only question is 'how often does it crash?'
No more keyboards... - The most amazing bloopers are here

TY GCP

Pop-bottle rocket headed into orbit?

Several years ago, one of Ken Schellenberg's "toy" rockets - actually a Kevlar-reinforced, experimental, single-stage missile pressurized with compressed nitrogen and packing high-tech instruments - flew to just under 379 metres (1,244 feet). Based on that research, Schellenberg is now convinced that it will be possible to put a bottle rocket into orbit. In preparation, he's working on sending a modified two-stage rocket - reinforced with ultra-strong carbon-fibre and fuelled by liquid CO2 - up about five kilometres.
The world's parasites lawyers are salivating for Murphy's law.

Monday, February 18, 2008

Revolucion & disfunction at govt schools - again

The tragic abuse & indoctrination of our children continues at tax payer expense. Reasons number 467, 468 & 469 to vote SCHOOL VOUCHERS.

Augustine Romero, director of Tuscon Unified School District's ethnic-studies department, directs a "$2.6 million "ethnic studies" program heavy on 'race-based resentment' of white people, and romantic portrayals of mass murdering sociopath che guevara, and brutal dictator fidel castro.
In one of Romero's TUSD classrooms, in fact, a video posted for a time on the Internet Web site YouTube showed at least four separate posters of the beret-capped Ché decorating the classroom walls. And a poster of Pancho Villa. And, yes, one poster of the godfather of the revolution himself, Fidel.
Quasi-marxist Romero offers the flimsiest of excuse for this abuse of children in this land of opportunity:
"With the ultraconservative orientation, people want to believe that if you offer a naive, simplistic, color-blind orientation, that's the only truth. "We transcend indoctrination because we offer multiple perspectives. It's a higher level of thinking."
Sounds more like the embrace of indoctrination to acclimate children to the boot of totalitarianism. And get this; next year this maybe a required course!

But, wait. There's more: Tucson High School students taught America is 'the land of oppression; teachers persecuted and labeled 'racist' for not spouting 'PC' drivel; and Az. state superintendent thwarted at review of materials!
TUSD's Ethnic Studies program first became an issue last fall when Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, Tom Horne, asked the district about it. He requested the books and other teaching materials used in the program.

They included texts titled Occupied America and The Pedagogy of Oppression. Another text, he said, "gloats over the difficulties our country is having at enforcing its immigration laws."

"Most of these students' parents or grandparents came to this country legally because it is the land of opportunity," he said. "They trust our public schools with their children. We should be teaching the students that this is the land of opportunity; they can achieve their ambitions if they work hard.
Your tax dollars at work, people. TY JR!

More disgust at Arizona govt. schools: Teacher worked for 6 months after teen-sex arrest.
A Florence Unified School District kindergarten teacher, Angela Csader, remained on the job for six months after she was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a 16-year-old, resigning only after the state notified the district, officials said. Charged with three counts of sexual conduct with a minor, she's been on supervised release and continued to go to her job at Anthem Elementary School until late January, when the Arizona Department of Education notified the district.

The state Department of Education has an investigation section that deals with teachers facing criminal charges. But under state law, school districts are responsible for notifying the department, which then revokes the teacher's certification. To be certified as a teacher, state law requires a fingerprint clearance card issued by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

But DPS officials said they don't notify schools if a fingerprint check pops up.

"There is no alert system where information about a teacher arrested would be forwarded," DPS spokesman Harold Sanders said.
What was that about 'supervised release'??! Un-frikken believable. Once again, the NEA goons put their union contract above the safety of your children. Your tax dollars at work, people.

I'll say it over & over again: If this horrible pattern of disfunction, mismanagement & abuse were to occur at a church, youth organization, or private school there would be such a media scream of condemnation and cry for retribution that would have any administrator, supporter, or financier associated with such private enterprise tarred, feathered and banished to the darkest margins of society, if not imprisoned.

Yet, we the people, bow down before the alter of the NEA & tax funded ‘public’ education that includes all, offends none, accepts everything, and only occasionally abuses or assaults our children, because we are an open minded, and ‘enlightened’ society.


I'll simply leave you with my broken record: VOTE SCHOOL VOUCHERS - VOTE SCHOOL CHOICE!
Vote School Vouchers - Vote School Choice

Monsters under Chavez's bed

With U.S. military troops next door in Colombia to pawn some narco trafficers, and Venezuelan oil assets frozen by Exxon parasites lawyers, plus his failure to be enthroned as el-presidente'-for-life, hugo chavez is looking over his shoulder an awful lot lately. But is one paranoid if 'they' really are out to get you? Maybe it's just fun to mess with his head.

Diplomat denies US plans to invade Venezuela.

Venezuela has no plans to halt oil exports to the United States as long as the U.S. does not invade Venezuela.

I wonder if hugo sleeps with the light on?

McCain. I guess. If I must.

It's not even the lesser of two evils. It's simple apathy. It must be late afternoon in America. Like GW before him, McCain only hits on one or two conservative cylinders - tax cuts and the W.O.T. Nope. Just the W.O.T. The Renaissance Nerd does an excellent job of enumerating the cobwebs inside my congested head about this RINO front runner:

And of the whole list of Republican candidates, McCain was the last one I wanted. He has poked the conservative movement in the eye too many times. As he started to gain momentum I got very frustrated, just like a lot of other conservatives. I didn't need Rush or Hannity of Laura Ingraham or anybody else to remind me that McCain-Feingold is the worst and most despicable legislation to be passed in my lifetime. But then again, Bush signed it...

McCain is hard-core on the Terror War, and this runs against the trend of the last 14 years. Everyone on the conservative side of the philosophical divide is disgusted at how McCain chums around with the media. We are all expecting them to turn on him the moment he is clearly the nominee. The NY Times endorsed him, but it's almost inconceivable that they'll endorse him over Obama (or possibly Clinton). Yet there is one thing that McCain could've done that would've assured him the support of the press corps without a doubt--he could've come out against the Terror War. This would not necessarily win him the presidency, because Americans aren't quite as stupid as the press thinks, or as reporters themselves are...

He's going to be the next president. The time for recrimination is over. The whole conservative movement should hold his feet to the fire whenever necessary, certainly, but trust in the bedrock of his character--when worse comes to worst, he'll fight. That's reason enough to get enthusiastic, because otherwise we'll get another folding chair like Bill and Hill, or an ostrich like Obama. There will be dark times ahead; there always are. It takes a warrior to preserve the perpetual flame of liberty.

Don't bring a sea lion to a killer whale fight


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Attacks fall in Baghdad 80% !

~~~Bumped & Updated~~~ (because the msm will toss this down the memory hole).

For a war that was some said was lost there has been Incredible Success this year! Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki roamed the streets of Baghdad today visiting shops and checkpoints "to send a message to the terrorists that security is now prevailing." Iraqis held parades and ate cake yesterday to celebrate the success of the Bush Surge. Scumbags Mark Cuban & Harry Reid took this as bad news & crawled inside a booze bottle.

More good news: In Baghdad, it's business as (un)usual.
It took four years to happen and four days to get the exhibits through the Green Zone's zipper-tight security and into place, but Baghdad's first-ever Business to Business Expo closed Sunday after a relatively seamless three-day run.

Still more good news: Soccer balls now preferred for grudge match.
Kadhimiya and Adhamiya, Shi'ite & Sunni communities separated geographically only by the Tigris river but more profoundly by sect, faced off on Sunday in a game to mark the first anniversary of a military offensive to restore order to Baghdad. "This game proves that sectarianism is finished in Iraq," said Abdul Satar Jawad, the coach of Sunni Arab Adhamiya.
Back stabbing congressman John Murtha (D-Pa.) found all of this horribly depressing & is seeking psychiatric help.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Climate change - can we spell 'scam' yet?

I think in the old days, we simply called this 'winter'. Here in the heart of cows & corn, we've been pummeled by ice n snow since last night. So much so, that KCI airport has been shut down since 6:30 this morning.
“Airplanes cannot operate safely in a half-inch or more of slush,” said KCI spokesman Joe McBride. KCI, which opened in 1972, has only closed its airfield a few times, McBride said. The longest it ever been closed was about four hours, he said.
As I write this, we're coming up on 6 hours being closed, and the weather guessers are predicting 6-8 more inches before we're done.

OK. That's the small picture. The goracle myrmidons will frantically describe the bigger picture of climate change. So what about the 'big picture'?
Temperatures in January set cold weather records and caused the Arctic Sea Ice to expand to its previous levels. This isn't the only sign of rising sea ice and extra-cold temperatures. The U.S. National Climatic Date Center reported the other day that temperatures in the United States set cold records in January. "The average temperature in January 2008 was 30.5 F. This is -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 49th coolest January in 114 years."
The Discerning Texan alerts to an ABC science special called 'The Great Global Warming Swindle' and sums it up nicely:
Just in case you have never seen it, go here and watch it all. It is well worth your time, and after watching all 9 segments, you will know more about this subject than 3/4 of the so-called "intelligensia" on the planet.
Hear, hear. Well said.

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Citizenship proof sought for Kansas voter ID

Power to the people!
A proof-of-citizenship bill passed the Kansas Senate last year and is awaiting action in the House. The measure also would require Kansans to show a photo ID at the polls. Current Kansas law only requires applicants for voter registration to sign an affidavit swearing they are a legal citizen.

But House Speaker Melvin Neufeld, whose fellow Republicans have made immigration legislation a priority this year, said it's not uncommon for an illegal immigrant to get a voter ID card and try to parlay that into other identification. The National Conference of State Legislatures says legislatures in 11 states have bills requiring proof of citizenship to vote. Arizona is the only state with such a law in place, and it was part of a voter-approved initiative in 2004. That provision has been upheld by federal courts.
Last year, The Kansas legislators enacted a law to make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to obtain a driver's license. The law requires either proof of citizenship or, for non-citizens, proof they are lawfully living in the state.

TY to The Kansas Citian!

A Billion Trees Probably Died to Build It


World's Largest Solar Farm Opens. Savor the green hypocrisy.

Toledo's idiot mayor drops 'F' bomb on radio

He must be infected with 'berkley-itis'. Marine-bashing Toledo mayor whines about “f***king ruckus”. What rock did this moron crawl out from???

Friday, February 15, 2008

Our friends - the saudis

Saudi rulers threatened to make it easier for jihadists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted. WTF? From the Guardian:

Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced "another 7/7" and the loss of "British lives on British streets" if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.

Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE.

The threats halted the fraud inquiry, but triggered an international outcry, with allegations that Britain had broken international anti-bribery treaties.

Yesterday, anti-corruption campaigners began a legal action to overturn the decision to halt the case. They want the original investigation restarted, arguing the government had caved into blackmail.
Un-frikken believable. Jihad Watch rightly asks,
"And is the (U.S.) State Department looking into the implications of this? Or will Bush return hat-in-hand to Saudi Arabia, in the spirit of his recent (rejected) request for a lowering of oil prices, and ask, Please, Sir, will you ease up on the global jihad?

Can there really be any further doubt about which side the Saudis are on?"

Danish imams urge 'cartoon' calm

But watch yer back, imam. Speaking 'christian-ese' will get you a death fatwa.

Mostafa Chendid, an imam at the Islamic Faith Community, said Danish media had confused freedom of expression with the freedom to insult others. But he called for all Muslims to "cool down" and "turn the other cheek," rather than pursue violence, saying this would harm Islam the same way the cartoons had. "We are trying to dampen the anger," he said at Friday prayers at a mosque in northern Copenhagen.
Not quite, imam. Freedom of expression does include the right to insult others - and be stupid - but not violent or destructive. Apparently, that point is lost on muslim immigrants because Denmark is burning (again).

From the Gates of Vienna:
The violence is also being billed as a response to the republication of the Motoons over the last few days, but the first cars were burning before the death-plot against Kurt Westergaard was publicly revealed and the plotters were arrested. But when PET foiled the murder of Kurt Westergaard and almost all newspapers re-printed the ‘turban bomb’ cartoon, they changed their motives to ‘insults to our dear prophet, Mohammad (pbuh)’.
Speculation is that the bitter cold weather will dampen the rioting 'yutes'. Arabs slow down considerably in cold weather....

For the slacker in your life

He or she is probably at the next desk right now. Eyeball stickers to place over eyelids.

'Tax Me More Fund' raises little revenue

When he proposed the bill, Delegate M. Kirkland Cox, Colonial Heights Republican and a sponsor of the legislation that created the Virginia fund, predicted the program would generate somewhere in the ballpark of $50,000 a year. But it has never taken off and has provided ammunition for conservatives like Mr. Cox and anti-tax activists.

"When I polled my constituents, there was a small number of them who supported higher taxes," Mr. Cox said. "So the theory is, if you want to impose your will on the majority you should be more than happy to step up to the plate and donate your money."
Public generosity reached its high point in 2003 when Virginians forked over $6,602. The low point was in 2006, when the state received a measly $19.36.
"It's amazing how people want to tax other people for every idea they have, and they are not willing to step up to the plate themselves, said Mr. Cox. "It's a real good way to make a point."
Not really amazing at all. It's simply called socialism.

Thanks for the memories

Game (almost) over. Romney endorses McCain, but Huckleberry hangs on.

It also puts added pressure on holdout Mike Huckabee to quit a race he cannot possibly win, though Huckabee said again yesterday he will stay in until someone gets the 1,191 delegates needed to win. McCain is definitely on track to clinch the nomination by the March 4 primaries in Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont, if not before.

Body snatched cadaver display?

Apparently, one can't smoke in Kansas City, but you can view posed, plasticized dead bodies of dubious origins.

"Bodies Revealed" is one of at least four touring exhibits featuring exquisitely preserved human remains that have played to huge audiences around the world. Scoring “Bodies Revealed” was considered a major coup for Union Station, which is counting on such high-profile shows to deliver much-needed crowds and revenues.
Ok. So what? People indulge in gross voyeuristic endeavors all the time. The hollywood 'slash n cash' B film craze and rubber necking at car crashes are perfect examples. The only problem here is that some of the bodies in this traveling display may have been acquired without the former owner's consent. At least that is what ABC’s Brian Ross is alleging in a 20/20 television special to be aired tonight.


Officials at Premier Exhibitions alerted Kansas City Union Station officials this week about the upcoming broadcast, but station officials believe the bodies in question are in a different touring exhibit than the one opening Feb. 29 at the station. Premier acknowledges that a sister exhibition called “Bodies … The Exhibition” uses unclaimed bodies of people who did not willingly donate them.
The management at Union Station stands by the 'integrity' of the display and insists that the cadavers were acquired through a supplier in Beijing and that all of the bodies came from willing Chinese donors.

No. I'm not going.

It's not one world

Most folks around these parts will recognize John Testrake's picture taken during the 17 day ordeal onboard TWA flight 847 back in 1985.

Capt. Testrake was the pilot of TWA Flight 847 from Athens, Greece, to Rome. The Richmond, Mo., resident became a national hero for his calm, smiling demeanor as he leaned out the cockpit window and talked to reporters while a Hezbollah guerrilla pointed a pistol at his head. Testrake retired in 1987 and died of cancer in 1996 after years of motivational speaking and flying for religious relief groups.
The only casualty from the 17-day hostage ordeal was U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem, 23, whom the hijackers beat, shot, and dumped on the tarmac at the Beirut International Airport. To this day, three of the four hijackers remain at large.

Meet Imad Mughniyeh, one the most ruthless, brutal terrorists in the world, and generally regarded as the master mind behind the hijacking of TWA flight 847. He was a Shi'ite muslim and top leader of hezbollah, Iran's proxy army sheltered by Syria. Hezbollah is the sworn enemy of Israel. On Wednesday, Imad was killed in car bomb explosion.
Before al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, there was Imad Mughniyeh, a top Hezbollah leader willing to kill, kidnap and maim en masse. Mughniyeh, one of the FBI's most wanted terrorists, was linked by U.S. officials to training anti-U.S. militias in Iraq in 2006.
Live by the bomb; die by the bomb. Mughniyeh’s actions left hundreds of dead on two continents.
*April 1983: A suicide bomber rams van packed with explosives into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, including 17 Americans.

*October 1983: Suicide attackers carry out near simultaneous truck bombings against barracks of French and U.S. peacekeeping forces in Beirut, killing 241 American Marines and 58 French paratroopers.

*March 1984: Lt. Col. William F. Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped and eventually killed in the beginning of a spate of kidnappings linked to Hezbollah.

*March 1992: A pickup truck packed with explosives smashes into the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 29 people.

*July 1994: A van packed with explosives levels a seven-story Jewish center in Buenos Aires, killing 95 people. Argentina issues an arrest warrant for Mughniyeh in 1999.

Hezbollah blames Israel and has vowed revenge for imad's death, going so far as to give this murdering sociopath a hero's send off and a martyr's funeral (really). But wait. There's more. In an interview on Hizbullah's Al-Manar television, Mugniyah's mother said Thursday that she is "pleased" that all three of her sons gave their lives for the Jihad way, and "...regrets not having a fourth son to offer Jihad."

It's not one world, and this is the determined face of an enemy sworn to hate & kill for its own sake, even to sacrifice their children, in the name of their 'god'.

Update: Did this moron die in a 'work related accident'?

Thursday, February 14, 2008

I'm numb from the horror

Al Qaeda in Iraq burns Hostages alive!

Video shows turban masked barbarians dousing their victims with some type of flammable liquid and throwing them into a burning pit while shouting "Allah u Akhbar" (satan is great).
I'm numb. Sick & numb. Sick, numb and thoroughly disgusted with all things sharia, muslim, allah or koran. If ever there was a perverse cult philosophy from H3LL that exacerbates all things wrong with the human animal, islam is it. NSFW!! Warning extremely graphic!

Our friends - the Saudis

Saudi govt. to execute illiterate woman for witchcraft.

Saudi law punishes 'witches' by beheading them. Among her accusers was a man who alleged she made him impotent.
This is sharia law, folks, and the fanatics won't stop until your world is subjugated to it.

What could go wrong?

Remember that ten ton spy satellite projected to fall uncontrollably from orbit and smash to Earth - sometime early March? Well, it's actually only 2.5 tons, but who's counting? The Pentagon, in their infinite wisdom, has decided to blast it into little pieces with a missile.

The military will have to choose a time and a location that will avoid to the greatest degree any damage to other satellites in the sky. Also, there is the possibility that large pieces could remain, and either stay in orbit where they can collide with other satellites or possibly fall to Earth.
Why I am thinking of a monkey with a handgun?

TY Ace