My dog squeeze list for 2005

Here is my list of things I really could have cared less about during 2005. Yes, I said cared less about because I care somewhat in the sense that they annoy me.
Hence my list and mild rant.
Read on! campers.

First, the tree hugging twits and unemployed socialists that violently riot in the streets during any given G-8 summit anywhere on this planet. Let's face it. When you can travel the world to do street combat with local cops, chant yourself horse and wave cheesy placards that nobody but cabbies and reporters see, you're a pimple on the butt of humanity. The G-8 leaders don't give a big brown pile about your antics in public.
You make no impact whatsoever except a negative one.
All you're really doing is wasting municipal resources, consuming fast food, filling up porta johns and fouling the precious metropolitan environment with your trash and personal waste. If you really want to make a difference, open a homeless shelter, join the peace corp or go back home (please!) and care for your sick grandma. Quit being a pimple.

Speaking of pimples, number two on my dog squeeze list are the historically challenged, leftist utopian youngsters who think that Che Guevara is hip. These pimple faced utopians spout all this 'tolerance', 'equality' and 'peace at all costs' nonsense then don t-shirts emblazoned with the impressionist image of this marxist mass murderer. This violent criminal championed hatred and justified his destructive deeds in the name of 'revolution'.
He is in good company with the likes of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro.
Che Guevara was a communist; an anti-capitalist. These fools are paying a lot of money to buy these T-shirts and making some capitalist rich. That's what I call irony. 'Che' must be spinning in his grave.

'C' is rump ranger rodeos; in real life or at the movies. Guess what, Sparky? Nobody cares who you're swapping body fluids with. If you choose to pursue an activity that elicits a gag reflex from most folks, don't come crying to me about how unfair life is or how tough you have it. Two guys driving a stick shift falls into that category.
And I don't need some over hyped hollywood movie or over zealous advocate preaching to me that your mattress aerobics are something that I should care about. I don't.
Get over yourself and your 'lifestyle'.

Numero cuatro takes aim at the brain dead heterosexuals and all the gag-o-matic television shows pitched at them. That partial list includes 'elimidate'; blind date; desperate house wives; temptation island; sex in the city; cheaters and,......wait. I think I'm gonna hurl! Geez louise.
Why don't you folks just rent a porno and cut straight to the chase? Or turn on animal kingdom and repeat the telephoto particulars via Tivo? Krykee! Go take a cold shower and quit this voyeuristic glee over other folks mating rituals. This especially applies to monitoring celebrity lives. Some folks rail against the homosexuals for undermining the idea of marriage in the world, but these over paid bags of hormones do far more to trash marriage in this world than any queer pair ever could. I guess when you are an over hyped millionaire common sense goes out the window.

Five, the leftist utopian nimrods of the democratic (socialist) party that bring nothing more to the current political debate than i hate dubya! i hate gw! i hate da chimp!
To be sure, George Bush is only a fair president, but if you can't bring anything more to the market place of ideas than school yard taunts, tired 'ol cliches and misinformation, then sit down and shut up. I would bet frogs to turtles that the previous presidential election was the only time you voted during the last 3 years. You probably don't have a clue who represents you in congress, occupies your state house or sits on the city council in your town. But you sure the heck hate dubya! Sit down and shut up.

6 is distracted drivers. Now I don't care if you are eating a cheese burger, yelling at your kids or yakking on the phone, if you can't pay 99% attention to the road you are traveling, then don't do those things! Park first, then deal with it! This rant also applies to the self absorbed twits who drive slow in the fast lane or who don't use turn signals or who take up two and a half parking spaces because their new car is more important than your piece 'o crap. And don't get me started on the nut jobs with a television in their car.
Distracted pedestrians aren't immune from my wrath either.
Just because some genius invented the ipod & mp3s doesn't mean you can stroll through a crowded downtown area with your head up your butt and expect the rest of humanity to look out for you. The same goes for the self important power suits with a cell phone surgically attached to their ear because the world won't spin if they aren't in constant communication with everyone. The digital revolution is a wonderful thing but it is making it far too easy to be much to rude to way too many people.
Put the technology down and be sociable!

That's my first annual dog squeeze list and I know you can't wait three hundred and sixty-five for the next one, so here we go.

Just kidding.

I am on vacation til next year. Happy new year and be safe!

Little orphan democracy

Victor Davis Hanson details why the leftists in the west try to suppress and obsfucate the successful paridigm shift of the politics in the mideast. For those of you educated in government schools, that means why don't democrats support democracy?
Read it.
Go on.
You know you want to.

An excellent read from Michael Yon

This is a post from December 21, 2005 on Michael Yon's blog. He sums up the perception of 'media spin' and 'propoganda' very well, especially in reference to the recent events in Iraq. Here's a little excert:
"There were three overwhelmingly successful elections in Iraq in 2005, two of which I witnessed and reported first hand. I found the montage accurate in the limited sense that it implies a majority of Iraqis are struggling for self-determination. In that sense, I found it both accurate and moving......."

"....Ironically, if the montage is a work of propaganda, it’s an unfortunate waste of money, like framing a guilty man. There is no reason to gild this image. The truth of what happened during this third of three voting days in Iraq is undeniably powerful all on its own."

Awesome. Check it out.

More goods news from Iraq plus a little schadenfreude

Woo hoo!
My hero, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, made a surprise visit to Iraq this past week. He made his stop in Fallujah to no doubt give a pep talk, but also announce that President George W. Bush has authorized cuts in US troops levels in Iraq. No word on when exactly those troop levels will be brought down.

Meanwhile, the hard work has to continue.
U.S. soldiers dug up a recently buried weapons cache of aging Soviet, French and German missles and rockets. This weapons stash was unearthed about 150 miles northwest of Baghdad. Munitions like these are of particular deadly importance because they are often the raw materials for I.E.D.'s; the insurgents weapon of choice against coalition forces. Also unearthed were various quantities of mines, mortars and machine gun rounds.

Speaking of digging things up.
Remember Sadr City? One year ago, U.S. troops were battling with insurgents through the neglected streets of this sprawling slum of 1 million mostly poor Shiite residents. Today, the nerve rattling blasts of deadly munitions has been replaced by the steady clatter of construction to repair sewers, deliver clean water and restore electricity. This construction is being supervised by Lt. Col. Jamie Gayton of the U.S. Army.
"This is an area that was neglected by the former regime for 30 years, so the people are very grateful for what we are doing," says Gayton. "But at the same time, once they get a taste of some improvement, they can also get a little anxious for more progress or for things to go a little faster."
Gayton says about a third of slated infrastructure improvements - budgeted at $300 million - have been completed.

But can progress in Sadr City be translated to other obliterated areas of Iraq? Can Fallujah be rebuilt?

Can Saddam sit down and shut up?
Schadenfreude is a German word that means 'to take pleasure in another's misfortune'. It's a perverse kind of pleasure that is probably unique to humans as a species. Saddam has been making noises lately about being 'tortured' while in custody. These claims have since been dismissed by an investigating judge.
Saddam made these same noises back in November.

Stop it.
I'm gettin' all misty eyed.

Jingle bells, shotgun shells, reindeer steaks for all!

Call me Ishmael. No, wait. Call me Scrooge. My friends call me Ebenezer. Just don't call me late for the roast beast! Ho, ho, ho.

I'm not a big fan of Christmas. Oh, I celebrate the holiday. I just don't like the debauched commercialism and self indulgent revelry that so often accompanies people's excuse to celebrate Christmas. I always thought that Easter was a much more festive and important holy day for the Christian to observe. After all, if Christ never rose from the dead, there would be no Good News (Gospel).

Now I hear that Christmas is under attack.
Excuse me, but I have never been told I couldn't erect a nativity scene or have an incredibly flammable shrub in my house decorated with dubious fire hazards and when was the last time you didn't hear rockin''round the clock Christmas music starting at one minute past midnight on Thanksgiving? Don't church bells still call the faithful and kids still squirm on Santa's lap? Thanks to my wife, Santa Claus explodes in my house every year leaving a residue of tinsel, wrapping and treats well into February much to the delight of our cats. Christmas gluttony is unchecked, insipid television commercials abound, discarded pine trees clog the landfill and wall street still loves the green profits from the Christmas slash holiday sales.

Christmas is under attack and I say so what?
Nothing much has changed. Kids still want everything on the store shelves and parents still go into merciless debt to procure more things than any one human being deserves for a lifetime. What has changed for the people protesting the attack on Christmas is the public perception that the traditional things from their heritage are still important to the culture at large. The celebration of Christmas was often a reflection of that cultural heritage and drew the particulars and participation of that celebration from the many Christian immigrants that came to the shores of the U.S.
The Catholic church gave us the very word Christmas from their 'Christ Mass'. The Protestant Germans gave us the Christmas tree. The Scandinavians gave us the Yule log. The Anglican English gave us caroling and Christmas cards. Currier & Ives immortalized it all in print. The American descendants distilled from all of them gave us the shopping mall.

Christmas is under attack and it is not the first time.
When Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan forces took over England in 1645, they banned the 'debauched & raucous' celebration of Christmas. Ministers who preached on the topic of Christmas risked imprisonment. Church wardens faced fines for decorating their churches. Puritans required stores to stay open Christmas day, as if it were any regular business day. The Puritans fell out of power in 1660 and the open celebrations slowly returned. Families, however, rarely ever gave gifts to one another.

In the new world, Christmas was outlawed in many of the early North American colonies; violators were fined five shillings, rendering Christmas virtually obsolete. From 1659 to 1681, the celebration of Christmas was actually outlawed in Boston. The holiday remained outlawed in the rest of Massachusetts until the second half of the nineteenth century.

During the American revolution against Great Britain, notables like George Washington did little to observe the holiday using instead the solitude to tend to personal matters. After the American Revolution, congress was in session on December 25, 1789, the first Christmas under America's new constitution doing business as usual. For most of America's first century, Christmas was a small day of little recognition outside the walls of a church.

Not until the early nineteenth century, did the holy day celebrations of Christians spill over into secular American life. In 1822, Clement C. Moore wrote a poem for his own children now called 'A night before Christmas'. It was published under the title 'A visit from St. Nicholas'. Yes, Virginia, he never once used the term Santa Claus. Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol" in 1843. No other book or story (save the Bible) has been more enjoyed, criticized, referred to, or more frequently adapted to other media. Some scholars have even claimed that in publishing "A Christmas Carol", Dickens single handedly invented the modern form of the Christmas holiday in England and the United States. As for Santa, Thomas Nast, the cartoonist, drew a picture of Santa Claus in 1863 pretty much as he is known today. In 1870, President Ulysses S Grant signed into law the federal holiday of Christmas and 1923 marked the first year of a "national" Christmas tree in Washington, D.C. The rest is commercial history.

Christmas is a religious holy day at its core, and in the United States, the faithful are free to observe and worship as they please. To be sure, the joy and beauty of the celebration did spill over into the common secular arena over the centuries and was enjoyed by all. But in a pluralistic society such as the United States, any failure of Christians to impact the culture at large and influence those whom they dwell with in this nation, falls squarely on the shoulders of the church (read: the Faithful). The Faithful need to get back to their roots and carry out the Great Commission right in their own backyard with their neighbors and friends, changing hearts and lives one person at a time. That is where true influence comes from and true impact will result. Christianity is very resilient and has grown stronger and flourished in the face of repression and oppression. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world; Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” Christmas glitter is merely a token reference to that glory and not the substantive heart of the matter. Don't make the glitter the focus of your holiday. Remember, Jesus is the reason for the season.

"Then, the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store." "Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

Next week:
Call me Ishmael.
Harpoons & tuna nets. White whale and dolphin for all!

Update: Planned Parenthood of Indiana wants everyone to know that nothing says 'Happy Holidays' like managing body fluids.

A little more joy from Iraq

An 11-year-old boy from Iraq underwent heart surgery Monday in New York, the first of four ailing children who will be treated this week after their families sought help from the American military's Civic Assistance Command in Baghdad.
That good news was made possible to these children and their families from the wonderful folks at the Gift of Life program and the Rachel B. Cooper Foundation (if anyone has a web address for the Rachel B. Cooper Foundation, please post it in a comment).

This personal victory comes on the heels of a national Iraqi triumph at the voting booth this past Thursday, Dec. 15. It was all over but the shouting when the Iraqi Independent Election Commission announced that complaints of vote fraud were very low.

"The complaints voiced by political parties and the IECI on election day were similar to complaints filed following the January elections: some polling centers did not open and voters complained of having to travel long distances to cast their ballots; a number of polling centers were short of ballots and ballot boxes; some voters found their names were missing from electoral lists and some were turned away at polling centers; and political parties and police were accused of intimidating voters to vote for specific parties in several towns."
Sounds like a normal day in a Chicago primary to me.

And to beat all, dogs and cats are sleeping together! The main Sunni Arab alliance, Iraqi Accordance Front, said it was open to forming a governing coalition with a religious Shiite bloc.
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, speaking in a nationally televised speech in Najaf, said that "the Iraqi people are sparing no effort to make the democratic process work."

More good news: A German aid worker, Mrs. Susanne Osthoff, who was taken hostage in Iraq last month has been freed and appears to be in good health. Her family is breathing a sigh of relief.


Excuse me. Is Spain our ally? Our gazpacho slurping buddies, the Spanish, grew some anti-terrorism stones and have arrested at least 15 people suspected of recruiting fighters to send to Iraq to participate in the insurgency.

One more? OK.
U.S. - Iraq army school.

Two more:
Historic Afgahn parliment opens in Kabul under tight security.




The hits just keep on coming.

Lancing the boil: more brilliant analysis by Victor Davis Hanson

Normally, I would be a smart aleck and say 'nuff said' and leave you the link. But not this time. This time I will go out on a publishing limb and print out a small excerpt.
What the hey.
It's almost Xmas and I'm livin' large!

"For some time, a large number of Americans have lived in an alternate universe where everything is supposedly going to hell. If you get up in the morning to read the New York Times or Washington Post, watch John Murtha or Howard Dean on the morning talk shows, listen to National Public Radio at noon, and go to bed reading Newsweek it surely seems that the administration is incommunicado (cf. “the bubble”), the war is lost (“unwinnable”), the Great Depression is back (“jobless recovery”), and America about as popular as Nazi Germany abroad (“alone and isolated”)."
.................
"In the face of that growing ulcer of discontent, we quietly kept on killing terrorists, promoting elections in Iraq, pressuring Arab autocracies to democratize, and growing the economy. All that is finally lancing the boil, here and abroad — and what was in there all along is now slowly oozing out, making the cure seem almost as gross as the malady."

You can find the complete essay by clicking here.
Do it. You know you want to.

Iraqis throng to polls in landmark vote

"It's a national celebration for all Iraqis," declared President Jalal Talabani, the country's first Kurdish head of state. This was the third national election this year. Millions voted in peace and relative calm with only a few minor disruptions being reported. "This is our day of victory. They will not drive us back to our homes. This is the end of terrorism," said Safia Mohammed, a Shiite voter reacting to one of the periodic explosions in the capital.

Strict security was enforced as 15.5 million Iraqis were called to vote for a four-year, 275-member parliament, with top candidates pledging to restore stability and pave the way for an exit of foreign troops. Even a large percentage of Iraq's Sunni population turned out in record numbers.

All this despite a dirty election trick stolen from the U.S. Democratic (socialist) Party's playbook to perpetrate election fraud by polluting the process with the implication of bogus ballots.
Nice try boys.

But desperate thugs use desperate measures even after months of western whiners trying to hype the loses and ignore the victories of this endeavor.
I guess someone forgot to inform the Iraqi people.


Now comes the hard part.
E Pluribus Unum - out of the many, one.

Tookie. Tookie. Lend me your tome.

Ouch. That was bad. Most people wouldn't recognize the parody anyway.
I am not a supporter of the death penalty. While in theory I believe there is a moral justification for an ethical, educated and rational society handing out this type of punishment, in reality it comes down to imperfect people working in a flawed system to meet out this final justice. The summation is that societies or governments shouldn't take away those things that it cannot fully restore if found in error.

The state of California executed Stanley 'Tookie' Williams' this morning at about 12:35 a.m. Am I gonna shed a tear for this man and his death? Nope. I think he was fairly tried and convicted. He had 24 years to remake his case through the appeals process and he was shot down (no pun) at every turn. Even the wacky ninth circuit court didn't think there was enough new evidence to halt the lethal proceedings. I didn't cry for his murdered victims either when they were shot gunned down by him 26 years ago even though they didn't have an appeals process.
And I don't recall the celebrity, 'tolerance at all costs' advocates pleading for the life of Donald Beardslee this past January either.
Who?
He was a convicted murderer executed by the state of California.
There were no last minute witnesses or stays from the governor. You see, Donald just wasn't hanging with the right crowd. He didn't write any books, have a cool nickname or attract the attention of that eternal media whore, Jesse Jackson. And I don't believe that Clarence Allan Roy will get much newsprint ink or hollywood sympathy either. Allen, who is 75 years old and confined to a wheel chair is the next scheduled execution for the state of California. My bet is that he will not be charismatic or celebrity hip enough to garner the kind of attention that accompanied the debate about 'Tookie'.
His gang didn't make the papers.

The population on California's death row now stands at 647 and for the celebrity, 'tolerance at all costs' advocates, I believe their main motivation is not about working methodically and judiciously inside a legislative system to affect a positive change on an unjust process. No, I believe their main motivation is flexing their own self aggrandizing celebrity muscle and glowing in the lime light of their own 'bohemian' bonfire against the backdrop of a society populated by imperfect, uncelebrated people working in a flawed system to meet out a legislated justice against individuals commiting horrible wrongs.
Those are the people where the real advocacy should belong.

From the yapping lap dog department

It does appear that the bigots, er, I mean diplomats at the U.N. engaged in some low ball shenanigans during the UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Nov. 29, 2005. According to the website, Eye on the UN, the stage was set for the annual occasion complete with the U.N. flag, the Palestinian flag, top U.N. delegates, and Palestinian officials. In the center of the stage was a large map detailing the region of Palestine and labeled as Palestine. No Israel, just Palestine. Evidently, Israel had been 'wiped off the map'.
Israel has been a UN member state for 56 years.

Meanwhile, over at the yapping lap dog's anemic cousin, the Hague, Croatian war crimes suspect General Ante Gotovina has arrived in the Netherlands from Spain to face trial at the UN tribunal. The general is accused of murdering 150 Serb civilians in 1995.
Don't worry though.
I'm quite certain we can all get in a nap considering this esteemed body's urgency for justice towards Slobodan Milosevic.

On a more serious note; in a ruling that threatens to undermine the stability of the entire region, Pakistan's supreme court has extended the ban on kite flying.

You just can't make this stuff up.

You just can't make this crap up!

Iran's Pres. whos-its spews forth more ridiculous crap about Israel being a 'tumor' and it should relocate to Europe. Oh, and he also doubts that millions of Jews were exterminated in the holocaust.
The world, as a whole, is growing very weary of this clown. If he wasn't so dangerous, I would laugh.

Speaking of dangerous clowns, Howard Dean is dumping the fecal matter from his cranium again. This is the face of the modern democratic (socialist) party. Rally 'round the white flag, boys!

Finally, I leave you with a common sense editorial about freedom and pandora's box in Iraq.

A series of flotsam & jetsam

The world is a strange place with twist and turns at every new day. Some of this stuff is so unexpected that one just can't make it up.
Right on the heels of the Iran nuclear debacle and Pres. whos-its tirade about wiping Israel off the face of the earth comes the revelation that the government of Iran admits to torturing prisoners and engaging in 'other' human rights abuses; like false imprisonment and unusual punishment.
Iran promises not to do it again.
Santa is also coming to town.

Iran also has a drug problem, in particular Afghan opium.
"The use of narcotics, particularly opium, has always been a problem in Iran. Tehran eventually eradicated opium crops in the country; but having Afghanistan, the world's biggest opium producer, as a neighbor means that the problem not only persists but is getting worse. Opiates are not the only issue, as Iranians' use of cannabis and synthetic drugs is increasing."
I guess the western 'devil' is not the only one with this scourge plauging its people.

On the bright side, an Iraqi court has sentenced saddam's nephew to 15 years in prison for financing insurgents and making bombs. Apparently he did the terrorist tango back and forth across the Syrian border to accomplish these dastardly deeds.
Excuse me.
But is there an iraqi language equivelent for the term 'white trash'? This whole family is an embarrassment to the gene pool.

And speaking of the Syrian border, guess who closed its norther border with that thorn in mid east peace? Iraq has closed that border (as much as that is possible) in anticipation of shannanigans during the upcoming elections in Iraq on Dec. 15.

It does appear that Syria is feeling the world heat to clean up its act and maybe help out its neighbor by taking out the trash. For the second day in a row, Syrian military forces have launched assaults upon terrorist encampments siezing bomb making materials and killing some of the rats.

Up north in Afghanistan, NATO has announced plans to expand its military duties in that country. Several thousand troops are expected to help out with keeping the peace by early next year.

It's a strange world.
This just in: Osama bin Laden is still dead no matter what Zawahri says (blah, blah, blah).

Good fences make good neighbors

Israel is not waiting around for the inevitable. The Israeli air force conducted another flawless test of its Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile on Friday, Dec. 2nd. It successfully intercepted an incoming target missile similar in size and speed to Iran's long-range Shahab-3 missile. A missile Iran claims it can now mass produce and has a range of over 1200 miles; well within striking distance of Israel.
A very wise bolstering of Israel's weapons systems considering that Iran just inked a 1 billion dollar weapons deal with Russia.
This comes in the midst of the continuing saga about Iran's pursuit of nuclear capabilities and that government's
staunch refusal to give up those capabilities for 'strictly peaceful purposes'.

But wait!

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), guess who has plans for nuclear warheads?!

Here's a little FAQ on why this might be important to the rest of the world.

Th ex Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, knows just what to do with all this disturbing information regarding Iran. But, it maybe too little, too late to persuade a world all to willing to tolerate bullies.

"Almost everything that is now written about Iraq rings not quite right"

Victor Davis Hanson and another brilliant analysis.
'Nuff said.

Pakistan. Oh! Pakistan.

Thursday's news hit me hard. 10 marines dead and 11 wounded outside of Fallujah in the bloodiest attack on U.S. troops since August. I seldom think of the families of soldiers killed. I most always think of the dead and what their time was like before that fateful moment. These marines were on a night patrol when the cowardly islamofascist detonated an I.E.D.
Krykee.
The cowards back in the U.S. senate would love this; more fuel for their frenzy to tuck tail and run! Then, more bad news on Saturday with another roadside I.E.D. killing 19 Iraqi soldiers just north of Baghdad. It got to me. A Dewar's scotch salute was in order and maybe a re-think of how this war is going.

Fat chance!
Listen up boys n girls 'cause this is gonna go quick. The good news in Iraq far outstrips the bad!

Didn't the U.S. marines uncover a cache of forty 150mm artillery shells last Thursday over in the Baghdad airport? Shells the islamo cowards cannot now use to ambush soldiers? It didn't stop Thursday's slaughter and it is not the first to be found and certainly not the last but it is one more piece of good news in shutting down the terrorists in Iraq.

Also, I do believe an islamo-fascist plot to attack Saddam's trial at the courthouse with shoulder fired rockets (!) was foiled over the weekend. I would say that is good news. At least it is one more thing gone right that the turn coats can't gloat about.

And how about that quick counter-offensive later Saturday night and into Sunday by the Iraqi forces who had just got their teeth kicked in earlier Saturday?
"Iraqi forces said they killed 20 rebels and captured 5 more in a counter-offensive in a town where 19 Iraqi troops were killed a day earlier, as US forces wrapped up their latest operations in the restive Al-Anbar province."

Good news? Who says there is no good news in this fight?
I say al qaida is running out of steam and the rats that once ruled the streets are finding few friends for their murderous deeds and tactics.

Then there is Pakistan. OH! Pakistan. Who's your buddy?! Pakistan has routinely come through with the big score against the fascists. If you blinked over the weekend then you missed it.
Headline: Pakistan kills Hamza Rabia, a top operational planner for al-Qaeda Even our rather biased friends over at the BBC thought this was good news. That toasted scumbag's predecessor, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was arrested by Pakistan back in May of this year. Libbi is said to have been third in al-Qaeda and is wanted over attempts on the life of Pakistan's president.
And that scumbag's predecessor, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the masterminds behind 9-11 was arrested by Pakistan back in 2003.
Pakistan. OH! Pakistan.

The hits just keep on coming!

Who is Rizgar Muhammad Amin & why doesn't Katie Couric want to talk to him?

Please don't get me started on cute lil katie. I'll simply lapse into an incoherent, obscene tirade against the over-priced, leftist myrmidon spewing out pablum for the masses issued from the democratic (socialist) party of America.

But who is Rizgar Muhammad Amin and how come he cannot be found in print or on the air in any (any!) western news source?

Give up?

He is the presiding judge at Hussein's trial. Yeah, that trial. The one nobody wants to talk about here in the states. Well Radio Free Europe took the time to interview Judge Rizgar Muhammad Amin back on Nov. 11 (!). The fact that this man is an ethnic Kurd and who now is chief judge at this trial is even more noteworthy considering the murderous oppression Kurds were under during the reign of Saddam.

And since no one on this side of the Atlantic is talking about this, I decided that it is up to moi. An excellent read and may the Independent Free Republic of Iraq be fortunate enough to be populated with more patriots such as this man.

Say, do you think when he is done he can come over and educate the democrats in the U.S. senate on the proper role of the judiciary??

The gang that couldn't shoot straight

War is serious business and people die so I am not making light of the danger that the coalition forces are placed in each and every day, but I do like making fun of the al-qaida bafoons in this Associated Press story.
Apparently, 'insurgent high' let out early today as some of the varsity squad borrowed a few offensive items from the equipment locker. These wayward 'boys' startled local Ramadi residents when they unsuccessfully tried to lob a few mortars shells into some coalition buildings where local tribal leaders and U.S. military officials were to meet today.

No injuries or significant damage was reported.

"The insurgents did leave behind posters and graffiti saying they were members of al-Qaida in Iraq and claiming responsibility for shooting down a U.S. drone. There were no reports of any U.S. drones being shot down, though."

Coach will probably keep 'em after school for extra laps on this one.