You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein -
Saturday, October 09, 2004
Egyptians get a taste of what Radical Islam hath wrought
I say that with no pleasure whatsoever.
"Al-Qaida is willing to attack anytime and anywhere they can do damage. They just need the opportunity," said Hisham Kassem, an Egyptian human-rights advocate who has tracked Egypt's decade-long fight against Islamist militancy.PittsburghLIVE.com
Kassem, former publisher of the English-language Cairo Times magazine, recently launched a daily Arabic-language newspaper, Al Masri Al Youm (The Egyptian Today), which endorses civil rights, globalization and peace on its editorial pages.
"I don't know if they (security officials) could have done more," he explained, "and now the damage has been done."
At least 30 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in Thursday night's attacks. Most victims were Israeli tourists visiting the Sinai resorts on a holiday weekend.
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"Yesterday at around 10 p.m., we heard a strong boom that sounded like loud thunder, and then 30 minutes later we saw what looked like two lighting bolts with the same boom of thunder," said Sherif El-Gumrawy, owner of the Basata resort, located between the sites of the attacks in Taba and Ras Al-Sheitan (Satan's Head).
"Terrorism has no nationality or religion -- a lot of Egyptians also died," El-Gumrawy said.
"They were women and children, civilians there on holiday," an Egyptian shopkeeper, identifying himself only as Ibrahim, said of the victims. "This is forbidden."
Australia's most noxious Leftist columnist...
...is taking a month off after John Howard trounced his opposition in Aussie elections. Howard, a Bush ally, won an election that was in large measure a referendum on Australia's involvement in Iraq.
Hadn't heard about it? Go figure.
AND THERE'S MORE: Gore Lawsuit Challenges Australian Election Results
Hadn't heard about it? Go figure.
AND THERE'S MORE: Gore Lawsuit Challenges Australian Election Results
Disgusting
I can't decide if this is worse than the physical violence from the Left or not.
I guess the sign and banner were out of reach, so instead of destroying them, they had to tell the woman to pull them down. So much for the Left's love of free speech. Luckly, the woman is holding out, at least until all the Leftist banners are taken down along with hers.
But we all know that those leftists will never be asked to take their banners down. No, in the Left's mind free speech is for them, not anyone else.
Found at RNS.
The family of a soldier serving overseas says their landlord told them to take down a small banner they put up in support of the man.
Isabel Seiler put the banner up two weeks ago after joining Blue Star Mothers, a support group for parents with children in the military.
The banner features one blue star, signifying her son, Christopher, who is in the Army.
Families have displayed such banners since World War I, and they stay up until their children return home safely.
But on Wednesday night, Isabel says her landlord told her to take the banner, along with a "Support the Troops" sign, down.
"I'm upset," she said. "I'm upset because I look at the other apartment units around us, and they have Kerry-Edwards signs in their windows. And I don't understand why I can't have a Blue Star banner, because it's supporting our troops.
I guess the sign and banner were out of reach, so instead of destroying them, they had to tell the woman to pull them down. So much for the Left's love of free speech. Luckly, the woman is holding out, at least until all the Leftist banners are taken down along with hers.
But we all know that those leftists will never be asked to take their banners down. No, in the Left's mind free speech is for them, not anyone else.
Found at RNS.
Friday, October 08, 2004
Debate thoughts
Overall, Bush wins, but it took him a bit to warm up. For the first part of the debate, Bush looked on edge, and Kerry was getting into his whole "Bush lied ***hand gesture*** I'd do it differently" routine. Once Bush got warmed up, he held his own and then took the lead. By the time the debate was ending, Bush was rolling and leaving Kerry in the dust. That'll help him in the end, leaving people with a mental picture of Bush as the strong debater while wiping out the memory his early mishaps. Hell, by the end of the debates Kerry was pitching softballs of his own at Bush, and 'ol Dubya was smacking them out of the park.
I give it a C for Bush, and a D- for Kerry.
I can't believe I made it through listening to John Fonda Kerry for that long without breaking the TV.
I give it a C for Bush, and a D- for Kerry.
I can't believe I made it through listening to John Fonda Kerry for that long without breaking the TV.
Sick yet again
Gah - I've been sick more in the past three months than I have in the preceding three years.
I hate this.
Well, I have a vacation coming up next week. I'll be gone for two weeks, enjoying some much needed R&R. So Tim, we'll need to work out who does the Watcher of Weasels council. 'Cause once I head out the door, I'm not touching a computer for the next fourteen days. I'm going to be all over the Pacific Northwest. If there are any bloggers from Montana, Idaho or Eastern Washington who want to meet a fellow blogger, email me. Depending on where you live, I might be able to stop and have a beer with ya.
In the meantime, while I curl up and hack out something best not described on the web, hit the blogroll and enjoy yourself.
I hate this.
Well, I have a vacation coming up next week. I'll be gone for two weeks, enjoying some much needed R&R. So Tim, we'll need to work out who does the Watcher of Weasels council. 'Cause once I head out the door, I'm not touching a computer for the next fourteen days. I'm going to be all over the Pacific Northwest. If there are any bloggers from Montana, Idaho or Eastern Washington who want to meet a fellow blogger, email me. Depending on where you live, I might be able to stop and have a beer with ya.
In the meantime, while I curl up and hack out something best not described on the web, hit the blogroll and enjoy yourself.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
For our resident mouth-breather
Shots fired at a Bush/Cheney office in Knoxville,
Bush/Cheney headquarters in Orlando stormed and ransacked.
Bush/Cheney office in Wisconsin stormed by democrats.
Bush/Cheney signs vandalized with a chainsaw.
Swastika burned into lawn of Bush supporter.
Bush/Cheney headquarters in WA state burglerized (with only three computers containing voter information stolen, while every other thing of value was left behind).
Now, for the non-thinking such as tvd, none of this is proof that the Left is violent. Non of this is proof that the Left is behind the attacks. Maybe in tvd's make believe world, groups of rabid nuns are viciously ripping apart Bush/Cheney signs while hordes of nursing home occupants are shooting up Bush/Cheney headquarters.
But then, that's why I can safely call tvd the biggest fucking idiot I've seen this month. Bravo, tvd. You win the dumbass of the month award. Now go sit in the corner and shut the hell up.
Bush/Cheney headquarters in Orlando stormed and ransacked.
Bush/Cheney office in Wisconsin stormed by democrats.
Bush/Cheney signs vandalized with a chainsaw.
Swastika burned into lawn of Bush supporter.
Bush/Cheney headquarters in WA state burglerized (with only three computers containing voter information stolen, while every other thing of value was left behind).
Now, for the non-thinking such as tvd, none of this is proof that the Left is violent. Non of this is proof that the Left is behind the attacks. Maybe in tvd's make believe world, groups of rabid nuns are viciously ripping apart Bush/Cheney signs while hordes of nursing home occupants are shooting up Bush/Cheney headquarters.
But then, that's why I can safely call tvd the biggest fucking idiot I've seen this month. Bravo, tvd. You win the dumbass of the month award. Now go sit in the corner and shut the hell up.
Great moments in Socialism
If the Swedish Left Party has their way, the country will have a "man tax".
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A group of Swedish parliamentarians proposed levying a "man tax" to cover the social cost of violence against women.
"It must be obvious to all of us that society has a huge problem with male violence against women and that has a cost," Left Party deputy Gudrun Schyman told Swedish radio on Monday.
"We must have a discussion where men understand they as a group have a responsibility," said Schyman, one of the party members to sign the motion for debate on the new tax.
Sweden already has the highest taxes in the European Union as a percentage of gross domestic product to pay for its famous but hard-pushed cradle-to-grave welfare program.
It is also one of the world's most advanced nations in terms of gender equality, but Schyman said in a headline-hitting 2002 speech that discrimination in Sweden followed "the same pattern" as in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A group of Swedish parliamentarians proposed levying a "man tax" to cover the social cost of violence against women.
"It must be obvious to all of us that society has a huge problem with male violence against women and that has a cost," Left Party deputy Gudrun Schyman told Swedish radio on Monday.
"We must have a discussion where men understand they as a group have a responsibility," said Schyman, one of the party members to sign the motion for debate on the new tax.
Sweden already has the highest taxes in the European Union as a percentage of gross domestic product to pay for its famous but hard-pushed cradle-to-grave welfare program.
It is also one of the world's most advanced nations in terms of gender equality, but Schyman said in a headline-hitting 2002 speech that discrimination in Sweden followed "the same pattern" as in Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Linky Love!
Time for a bit more links in your face. Because there's just too much good stuff.
First up is Cold Fury, who has more good writing on his blog than I've seen in a while. He's got Pre-emtive debate coverage that had me snorting coffee out my nose....
And do not, I repeat DO NOT miss Mike's case for Bush.
QuandO writes about Kerry's one consistancy.
Ouch. Just ouch. That needs to be printed and distributed as far and as wide as possible.
And for those who remember Michelle Malkins first episode of Democrats behaving badly, the Left has been kind enough to give even more examples! Add in the Bush/Cheney headquarters in Bellevue, WA that were burglerized (stealing only the computers with voter information, and leaving everything else!) and people may just get a hint that the "Party of Tolerance" really aint.
But then, we already know that.
First up is Cold Fury, who has more good writing on his blog than I've seen in a while. He's got Pre-emtive debate coverage that had me snorting coffee out my nose....
Moderator: For Mr. Kerry: sir, may we assume from your answer then that you will place great importance on the mandates and approval of the UN, and will you make all US military action contingent upon UN approval?
Kerry: Hell no, I never said that! How dare you question my patriotism! It’s a very complex question, one that my Vietnam experience has left me well-prepared to deal with. Do you have any idea who I am, you pusillanimous serf?
Moderator: Um. Okay. For Mr. Bush: same question.
Bush: Fuck the UN. I dicked around with the UN once already, and you see what that got me: a buttload of WMDs hidden away in Syria and every terrorist and his sister’s cat’s grandmother loaded up on a pickup-truck convoy from ever’ got-damned pissant colony in the Third World and beyond to meet our boys at the Iraqi border with guns and bombs. Kofi Annan better not ever come around here askin’ me for shit, I’ll tell you that for nothin’.
Tomorrow’s MSM coverage: Ex-President Bush made a fool of himself last night by stumbling through bellicose platitude after bellicose platitude, as the dashing, tanned, articulate John Kerry sat back and let him eviscerate himself. It was pitiful.
And do not, I repeat DO NOT miss Mike's case for Bush.
But after Carter and Clinton, these blue-collar New Yawk hardasses felt deep down that if pressure wasn’t applied somehow, then nothing would be done, just like nothing had been done about all those other attacks that preceded—and, in fact laid the groundwork for—this one. If Gore had been President, to this day we’d still be engaged in talks—aka Kerry’s beloved “summit”—with the UN over what, if anything, to do about the Taliban. We might have launched a cruise missile or three, we might have arrested a couple of low-level AQ flunkies, and by now Gore would have moved on to the next domestic “crisis” requiring a quick and massive infusion of taxpayer money. You know it, I know it, anyone but the most dedicated Democrat knows it. And that dedicated Democrat probably knows it too—but he also knows he can’t afford to admit it.
There was a very real, palpable anger about Bush as he said what he said at Ground Zero, and I had been waiting more than a decade to hear those words and see that anger. So had you, and so had a lot of other people; we shared Bush’s anger, and we had long been angry about America’s credibility having been dragged through the post-Vietnam mud by every on-the-make Democrat with an agenda and a microphone. And in that one moment of clarity, Bush changed a lot of people’s minds about him. Some of them have since changed back, but I think that’s more a reflection on them than it is on him.
QuandO writes about Kerry's one consistancy.
One often hears that Mr. Kerry is a flip-flopper, and there is much truth to that assertion, but there is one area in which Mr. Kerry has rarely wavered. At every opportunity, when faced with the prospect of using American force anywhere in the world, Mr. Kerry’s refrain has been constant: Retreat, withdraw, surrender.
That was his prescription in the 1960s and 1970s when America was involved in Vietnam. We couldn’t win. The North Vietnamese would never be beaten. It was a tragic mistake. Retreat. Withdraw. Surrender.
That was his prescription in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was facing down the Soviet Union on the issue of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, and John Kerry supported a "nuclear freeze". No matter that the Soviets were filling Eastern Europe with SS-20s. No matter that the KGB was directly and indirectly funding the nuclear freeze movement. Anything the Soviets objected to was too dangerous to try. Retreat. Withdraw. Surrender.
While Nicaragua was becoming a Soviet client state, with thousands of Red Army "military advisors" in the country, Kerry was jetting down to Managua for hugs and photo ops with Commandante Ortega. No, he counseled, we shouldn’t be trying to overthrow the Sandinistas. We should be trying to come to a peaceful accomodation with them. We should retreat, withdraw, surrender.
When the weapons systems that Reagan wanted to rebuild the military after a decade’s decline in the aftermath of Vietnam, Kerry was always on hand to vote against them. It was too bellicose, it cost too much money, it would make the Soviets too edgy. At nearly every turn, his counsel was the same. Retreat. Withdraw. Surrender.
In 1991, during the first Gulf War, that was his prescription as well. Let the Arab League take care of it. Let the UN Sanctions work. Let somebody else deal with Saddam. Retreat. Withdraw. Surrender.
And now that we’re embroiled there once again, he sings the same refrain, loud as ever. It’s a quagmire. Our troops are dying for a mistake, fighting the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Elect me, and I’ll bring all our boys home. Because, I’ll do what I always do when faced with the prospect of using force to secure our safety and our interests...
Retreat. Withdraw. Surrender.
Ouch. Just ouch. That needs to be printed and distributed as far and as wide as possible.
And for those who remember Michelle Malkins first episode of Democrats behaving badly, the Left has been kind enough to give even more examples! Add in the Bush/Cheney headquarters in Bellevue, WA that were burglerized (stealing only the computers with voter information, and leaving everything else!) and people may just get a hint that the "Party of Tolerance" really aint.
But then, we already know that.
Rip, Shred, Tear
Johnny Knucles rips the Left a new one.
I'm loving it.
Constitution be damned. Leftists want to see some changes –– usually in the worst way. To the radical chic, individual achievement, liberty, self-government, self-determination, freedom of thought, and objective law are all hopelessly outdated and crudely primitive. They believe that American leadership is wrong and that global co-operation is the true path to peace and prosperity.
Kerry is running to finish the work he began in the early 1970s. For the Left, withdrawing from Iraq and the rest of the Middle East will mark a significant departure from world leadership. Forfeiting Iraq will complete what Vietnam started.
I'm loving it.
Hell Yeah!
The House of Representatives just voted to split up the 9th Circus Circuit Court of Appeals.
(pause while Dave does his happy dance in the living room)
If there ever was any hope for sane legislation in this area of the country, the first thing to do would be to take the San Francisco based 9th Circuit and drop it off the face of the earth. Barring that, locking them up in San Francisco and limiting their damage to that state is much more preferable to allowing them to fuck with the law in seven other states. There's a reason that the 9th Circus is the most overturned court in the Nation.
That reason is because this group of hyper-liberal, dope-smoking, bed-wetting leftists couldn't find their own asses with both hands, a map and a flashlight. A crack-smoking chimp could do a better job by simply jabbing at the paperwork with a pencil than these fucked up morons could do on their best day.
And then I get to this part:
(happy dance stops, gun cleaning commences)
The Donks are pissed that someone is trying to take away the one appeals court that rubber-stamps all their ludicrious bullshit.
Hey Dana, here's a news flash for ya. YOU fuckwits put those judges where they are. YOU fuckwits allowed the 9th Circus to become the laughingstock of the legal community. YOU fuckwits are the people who sat back and enjoyed having a hyper-liberal court imposing their judicial fiat against more rural states.
The 9th Circus is ALREADY hyper-liberal, and the rest of the states who have to suffer under it are rather sick of it. You don't want a hyper-liberal court in California? Too fucking bad, you live with what you created. And no Dana, I don't give a shit if you are a republican. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, and I haven't seen a solution come out of California since 1980, thankyouverymuch.
Think about it, the very fact that people are talking about creating a hyper-liberal court in California means they already know the 9th Circus is a load of bullshit.
Something that those of us in the states forced under their jurisdiction have known for years.
(pause while Dave does his happy dance in the living room)
If there ever was any hope for sane legislation in this area of the country, the first thing to do would be to take the San Francisco based 9th Circuit and drop it off the face of the earth. Barring that, locking them up in San Francisco and limiting their damage to that state is much more preferable to allowing them to fuck with the law in seven other states. There's a reason that the 9th Circus is the most overturned court in the Nation.
That reason is because this group of hyper-liberal, dope-smoking, bed-wetting leftists couldn't find their own asses with both hands, a map and a flashlight. A crack-smoking chimp could do a better job by simply jabbing at the paperwork with a pencil than these fucked up morons could do on their best day.
And then I get to this part:
However, the measure, which passed by a vote of 205-194, was not expected to become law because of strong opposition in the Senate. It is part of a larger bill that passed by voice vote and would create 58 new judgeships across the nation.
Opponents said the legislation's certain death in the Senate was evidence that Republicans were more interested, in the words of Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., in providing "campaign-season cannon fodder" to their political base than passing a bill that would relieve overburdened federal courts.
(happy dance stops, gun cleaning commences)
The Donks are pissed that someone is trying to take away the one appeals court that rubber-stamps all their ludicrious bullshit.
Most of the 21 California Republicans in the House initially opposed the measure, and their votes would have insured its defeat. But at least 10 Californians changed their votes to "yes" after huddling on the House floor, while five Republicans maintained their opposition.
"We don't want to create a hyper-liberal court in California" by putting the court's more conservative judges in the two new circuits, said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., among the vote-switchers.
Lawmakers were reassured that the new 9th Circuit would be given seven new judgeships to dilute, in effect, what they see as its liberal leanings, Rohrabacher said.
The bill is S. 878.
Hey Dana, here's a news flash for ya. YOU fuckwits put those judges where they are. YOU fuckwits allowed the 9th Circus to become the laughingstock of the legal community. YOU fuckwits are the people who sat back and enjoyed having a hyper-liberal court imposing their judicial fiat against more rural states.
The 9th Circus is ALREADY hyper-liberal, and the rest of the states who have to suffer under it are rather sick of it. You don't want a hyper-liberal court in California? Too fucking bad, you live with what you created. And no Dana, I don't give a shit if you are a republican. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, and I haven't seen a solution come out of California since 1980, thankyouverymuch.
Think about it, the very fact that people are talking about creating a hyper-liberal court in California means they already know the 9th Circus is a load of bullshit.
Something that those of us in the states forced under their jurisdiction have known for years.
Protestors Ransack Bush/Cheney Headquarters In Orlando
I think maybe it is time to hold John Kerry responsible for this stuff. The RNC now have enough material for a good thirty second ad.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
Cheney SPANKS Edwards
Click here for links to pundit reviews
This debate cements the association of KE04 with Style over Substance. The 1st debate between Bush and Kerry ended with Kerry having to provide the equivalent of essay question answers to his "global test" gaffe, his lies about General Tommy Franks, and his insane proposition that we should give Iran fn nuclear fuel to "test" them. I wonder what Flipper and his puppy will say next! No matter what their next stunts are, I'm sure they'll both say the word "clear" at least 400 maybe 600 times each.
This debate cements the association of KE04 with Style over Substance. The 1st debate between Bush and Kerry ended with Kerry having to provide the equivalent of essay question answers to his "global test" gaffe, his lies about General Tommy Franks, and his insane proposition that we should give Iran fn nuclear fuel to "test" them. I wonder what Flipper and his puppy will say next! No matter what their next stunts are, I'm sure they'll both say the word "clear" at least 400 maybe 600 times each.
"Flickering"
Were i a GOP advisor or operative, i'd make much of John Edwards' assertion that the light of America is "flickering". In fact, i think Vice President Cheney missed a great opportunity to put an explanation point on tonight's debate. This is a time when leaders should be rallying Americans, not putting forth the notion that America is flickering. Funny, isn't it, that that's what the terrorists would have us believe, that we are on our deathbeds.
I'd have liked to have seen Cheney open his closing statement with something like this:
"I first want to reaffirm for Americans what they already instinctively know. America's light is not flickering. America is the greatest invention in the history of mankind. We are an intrepid nation, a hard-working nation, an innovative and courageous and compassionate nation. We've yet to scratch the surface of the greatness that our love for freedom and liberty drives us toward. Pat Buchanan once said that immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. Millions of people worldwide yearn to come to America to share in our promise. They understand our dream, and our strength, and our commitment to this great nation and its ideals. America is not flickering, Senator, nor will she ever. Now..."
I'd have liked to have seen Cheney open his closing statement with something like this:
"I first want to reaffirm for Americans what they already instinctively know. America's light is not flickering. America is the greatest invention in the history of mankind. We are an intrepid nation, a hard-working nation, an innovative and courageous and compassionate nation. We've yet to scratch the surface of the greatness that our love for freedom and liberty drives us toward. Pat Buchanan once said that immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. Millions of people worldwide yearn to come to America to share in our promise. They understand our dream, and our strength, and our commitment to this great nation and its ideals. America is not flickering, Senator, nor will she ever. Now..."
Monday, October 04, 2004
Bob Melvin, Fired
OK, those of you who are not baseball fans can just skip ahead.
Bob Melvin, the Mariners manager, was fired on Monday.
So, just to get things straight, the head office traded Carlos Guillen to the Detroit Tigers, but Bob Melvin gets the blame for not having an adequate shortstop.
The head office traded away Freddie Garcia to the Chicago Whitesox, but Bob Melvin gets the blame for not having a Number One Ace.
The head office aquired Rich Aurilia and Scott Spezio, but Bob Melvin gets the blame for a non-defensive infield.
The head office has been calling up rookies from Tacoma like there was no tomorrow, but Bob Melvin gets the blame for not having an experienced team.
Brett Boone, Edgar Martinez, and the rest of the team struggle to deal with new players and the loss of team standards caused by the head office fucking with the team, but Bob Melvin gets the blame.
The head office trades away John Olerude, THE BEST DEFENSIVE FIRST BASE PLAYER IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE, but Bob Melvin gets the blame for a weak first base.
If the Mariners actually wanted to get a better team, here's what needs to happen. Bill Bavasi, fired. Howard Lincoln, fired. The entire head office, fired. Maybe after we cut the dead weight and worthless dipshits in the head office, we can start to get a better team in Seattle.
Until then, the head office is just going to continue to blame the manager, and the Mariners will be in last place in the AL West.
Reminds me of the DNC for a reason........
Bob Melvin, the Mariners manager, was fired on Monday.
So, just to get things straight, the head office traded Carlos Guillen to the Detroit Tigers, but Bob Melvin gets the blame for not having an adequate shortstop.
The head office traded away Freddie Garcia to the Chicago Whitesox, but Bob Melvin gets the blame for not having a Number One Ace.
The head office aquired Rich Aurilia and Scott Spezio, but Bob Melvin gets the blame for a non-defensive infield.
The head office has been calling up rookies from Tacoma like there was no tomorrow, but Bob Melvin gets the blame for not having an experienced team.
Brett Boone, Edgar Martinez, and the rest of the team struggle to deal with new players and the loss of team standards caused by the head office fucking with the team, but Bob Melvin gets the blame.
The head office trades away John Olerude, THE BEST DEFENSIVE FIRST BASE PLAYER IN THE AMERICAN LEAGUE, but Bob Melvin gets the blame for a weak first base.
If the Mariners actually wanted to get a better team, here's what needs to happen. Bill Bavasi, fired. Howard Lincoln, fired. The entire head office, fired. Maybe after we cut the dead weight and worthless dipshits in the head office, we can start to get a better team in Seattle.
Until then, the head office is just going to continue to blame the manager, and the Mariners will be in last place in the AL West.
Reminds me of the DNC for a reason........
Blogger is screwed up
Tries to publish this blog for ten minutes then just dies. Durn. I had something important to say, too.
Swastika Burned Into Grass On Bush-Cheney Supporter's Lawn
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Hmmm....
Add that to the shot fired into a Bush Campaign HQ in West Virginia and a burglary at a Bush HQ in Washington and you start to get the idea that maybe the terrorists have a lot of friends in America. They sure do use the same tactics.
Hmmm....
Add that to the shot fired into a Bush Campaign HQ in West Virginia and a burglary at a Bush HQ in Washington and you start to get the idea that maybe the terrorists have a lot of friends in America. They sure do use the same tactics.
I feel sometimes like....
...we spend quite a bit of time quoting Lileks here. Peep this, from today:
I've fired off an email to him, because he forgot the part about "...importation of firearms into economically-shunned geographies for the purpose of fomenting self-genocide among oppressed people of color...".
The stupid shit.
LILEKS (James) :: the Bleat
Rove Rove Rove your voteOy!
Harshly ‘till they scream
Hatefully hatefully hatefully hatefully
Life is just an unending opportunity to maximize global inequities and convert the resources of the third world into profits for a thin stratum of our plutocracy and meaningless diversionary consumer products for a bloated spoonfed sheeple whose obsequience and inability to apprehend our true agenda ensures the perpetuation of injustice
I've fired off an email to him, because he forgot the part about "...importation of firearms into economically-shunned geographies for the purpose of fomenting self-genocide among oppressed people of color...".
The stupid shit.
LILEKS (James) :: the Bleat
UNSCAM Update
Something stinks.
A LEAKED report has exposed the extent of alleged corruption in the United Nations’ oil-for-food scheme in Iraq, identifying up to 200 individuals and companies that made profits running into hundreds of millions of pounds from it.After you're done picking your jaw up off the floor, read on, if you dare: Times Online - Sunday Times
The report largely implicates France and Russia, whom Saddam Hussein targeted as he sought support on the UN Security Council before the Iraq war. Both countries were influential voices against UN-backed action.
Illuminating Mary Mapes
The CBS fake memo has been covered quite a bit round these parts, but I had not seen much information about Mary Mapes, Producer of 60 Minutes, until now. The linked piece has some info about here.
It ends, though, as all stories about this topic must end, with Dan Rather.
And there's more: John Leo enumerates a number of instances of outright bias in recent media coverage of Election 2004.
It ends, though, as all stories about this topic must end, with Dan Rather.
Mr. Carlson says he wishes his former colleague would let the story go. She clearly cared too much about "her" story of George W. Bush slacking in the National Guard. After it aired, CBS proudly proclaimed she had been working on it for five years. Mr. Rather has acknowledged that Mr. Burkett did not approach CBS News with the memos. Rather, Ms. Mapes approached him about whether he could find documents challenging Mr. Bush's military service. He quickly obliged. Ms. Mapes clearly wanted the memos to be real, and she and the CBS executives overseeing it rushed the story on air only four days after receiving all the documents--despite flashing red-lights from the document examiners they consulted.John Fund on Mary Mapes.
Mr. Carlson says that among its other sins, CBS simply didn't realize that most people don't care if Mr. Bush missed a physical while the Vietnam War was winding down more than 30 years ago. As one prominent journalist recently put it: "In the end, what difference does it make what one candidate or the other did or didn't do during the Vietnam War? In some ways, that war is as distant as the Napoleonic campaigns." The man who spoke those words--at a time when John Kerry was under attack by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth--was Dan Rather.
And there's more: John Leo enumerates a number of instances of outright bias in recent media coverage of Election 2004.
Gays Fight Against Ballpark
This is an interesting article. Excerpt:
"The most gay commercial strip in D.C. is going to be wiped out, and [Mr. Williams] doesn't say anything about that," said Mr. Siegel, who is an Advisory Neighborhood Commission member for the area. "It's like a fly swatter coming down and — boom — we are gone."The Washington Times: Metropolitan - October 04, 2004
Sunday, October 03, 2004
Now wait just a damn minute!
First of all, why the hell isn't Sandy Berger, Mr. "I stuff TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS DOWN MY PANTS" Berger, Mr. "I WAS THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR WHO ALLOWED KIM JONG ILL TO MAKE A NUCLEAR BOMB" Berger, Mr. "I WAS IN CHARGE OF NATIONAL SECURITY AND DID NOTHING ABOUT ANY TERRORIST ATTACKS ON AMERICANS" Berger, sitting in a federal jail cell rotting right now? Or is it commonplace to allow people who were caught committing a felony to walk around without any problem?
No, I guess if you get caught committing a felony, violating every security rule in the USA, shredding classified documents, stealing TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS from the national archives, you get to be JOHN KERRY'S SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR!
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Cover the ears of any small children near you folks, 'cause Daddy's gonna yell for a while.
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The very fact that this snotnosed sack of shit is out walking free when he should be in jail is simply a travesty. But the bigger travesty is that this fucking loon, this worthless putrid piece of pig feces is advising the Democratic nominee for president, which tells you all you need to know about the Donks. This is the worthless fucking assgoblin who was in charge when North Korea started building a nuke! This is the fucking shit-brained drug addled spineless half-wit who was in charge when Al-Queda was planning the September 11th attacks! THIS IS THE WORTHLESS FUCKING SACK OF SHIT WHO FAILED IN HIS JOB! MISERABLY! And then to cover his ass he STUFFED TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS IN HIS PANTS AND STOLE THEM FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES! He doesn't deserve a job, HE DESERVES TO HAVE SOMEONE JAM A 30-06 UP HIS ASS AND PULL THE TRIGGER!
But he's not in jail, and he's still stealing oxygen from every worthwhile person on earth, much to my dismay. Guess just what this felonious key advisor to John Kerry is doing?
He's trying to derail President Bush's foreign policy.
Enough. Fucking enough. E-fucking-nough. This asscannon needs to go to jail. For his felonious thefts of classified documents, for his failure to protect America, and for his attempted sabotage of America's foreign policy. This is the future if John Fonda Kerry gets elected, folks. Slimy backdoor politics. There is nothing the Democrats won't do to steal this election. Lie, cheat, steal, it doesn't matter, they'll do it. There is no slime too foul for them to wallow in. They will go overseas and verbally attack American Presidents. They will call Americans stupid, they will attack us at every turn. They will attack everything America stands for, just so that they can stay in power. They will actively work to hinder and prevent American foreign policy if they think it will help them get elected. The damage done doesn't matter to them. They just want power, and they'll do anything to get it.
So when Bush goes into Iraq with 40+ countries that's unilateral, and that's bad? But Bush should be unilateral with North Korea, and that's good? Shut the fuck up Berger, you pansie-assed, limp-wristed shitstain! You had your fucking chance, you fucking communist whore, and THANKS IN LARGE PART TO YOU, NORTH KOREA HAS A FUCKING NUCLEAR BOMB! It was YOUR FUCKING JOB to watch them and make sure it didn't happen, AND YOU FAILED AT IT BERGER, YOU SLIMY FUCKSTICK!
Fuck you, Berger. Fuck you, fuck your whore of a mother, and fuck the father you never knew because he didn't pay for the first time. Fuck you, fuck the horse you rode in on, fuck the goat that spawned it, and fuck the mountain it grazed on. Berger, you worthless fucking piece of shit, the only thing you're good for is a test subject for car-battery interrogation techniques, and I want to be the one to hook up the jumper cables to your shriveled nutsack!
You have lied, you have committed felonies, and now you are trying to place American in even more danger than you left it! You spineless weasel, you gutless fuckstick. You smegma-sented afterbirth of a beastiality clusterfuck. You shit-sucking cockgoblin, you toejam eating craven bootlicker, you utterly worthless puddle of vomit. You're the retarded love child of Neville Chamberlin and Benedict Arnold, with none of the class and even less charm! You're the end result of a failed ideology so desperate to keep their hands on the reins of power that you will do anything no matter how gutless and low to steal an election!
Pray to god that you never meet me, Berger, you foul commie-fellating, pond-scum dwelling rodent, because the first thing I will do is hit you so fucking hard that you'll be shitting your own fucking teeth for a week afterward! And THEN I'll show you what I do when I'm angry! You dictator coddling toad, you weak-willed simpering shitheel, you feckless coward, you G-D DAMNED FUCKING SON OF A BITCH! IF I HAD A CHANCE I WOULD PUNCH MY HAND DOWN YOUR THROAT, RIP OUT YOUR FUCKING BLACK HEART AND BEAT YOU WITH IT! YOU DON'T DESERVE TO BE AN AMERICAN! YOU DESERVE TO BE IN JAIL!
You can thank Claire over at SondraK's place for this little rant.
Oh, and for those who care, the tempature at which the human brain begins to die is Celsius 41.11. Go. Watch. Rage.
And any spelling errors in this post are due to the red curtain of blood in my eyes.
No, I guess if you get caught committing a felony, violating every security rule in the USA, shredding classified documents, stealing TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS from the national archives, you get to be JOHN KERRY'S SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR!
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Cover the ears of any small children near you folks, 'cause Daddy's gonna yell for a while.
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The very fact that this snotnosed sack of shit is out walking free when he should be in jail is simply a travesty. But the bigger travesty is that this fucking loon, this worthless putrid piece of pig feces is advising the Democratic nominee for president, which tells you all you need to know about the Donks. This is the worthless fucking assgoblin who was in charge when North Korea started building a nuke! This is the fucking shit-brained drug addled spineless half-wit who was in charge when Al-Queda was planning the September 11th attacks! THIS IS THE WORTHLESS FUCKING SACK OF SHIT WHO FAILED IN HIS JOB! MISERABLY! And then to cover his ass he STUFFED TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS IN HIS PANTS AND STOLE THEM FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES! He doesn't deserve a job, HE DESERVES TO HAVE SOMEONE JAM A 30-06 UP HIS ASS AND PULL THE TRIGGER!
But he's not in jail, and he's still stealing oxygen from every worthwhile person on earth, much to my dismay. Guess just what this felonious key advisor to John Kerry is doing?
He's trying to derail President Bush's foreign policy.
Sandy Berger, former White House National Security Advisor and key foreign policy and security advisor to Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry, hinted Wednesday that should Kerry win the U.S. presidential election in November, it was possible that the decision to reduce U.S. troops in Korea would be reconsidered.
Enough. Fucking enough. E-fucking-nough. This asscannon needs to go to jail. For his felonious thefts of classified documents, for his failure to protect America, and for his attempted sabotage of America's foreign policy. This is the future if John Fonda Kerry gets elected, folks. Slimy backdoor politics. There is nothing the Democrats won't do to steal this election. Lie, cheat, steal, it doesn't matter, they'll do it. There is no slime too foul for them to wallow in. They will go overseas and verbally attack American Presidents. They will call Americans stupid, they will attack us at every turn. They will attack everything America stands for, just so that they can stay in power. They will actively work to hinder and prevent American foreign policy if they think it will help them get elected. The damage done doesn't matter to them. They just want power, and they'll do anything to get it.
Berger indicated once again the need for direct talks between the U.S. and North Korea to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, stressing that sitting face-to-face with North Korea was not surrender. On the contrary, he said the U.S. could take a strong position.
He said the two biggest challenges in Northeast Asia were North Korea and Taiwan, and the next U.S. president would have to focus on eliminating North Korea's nuclear weapons development project and make clear to China that the use of arms against Taiwan would not be tolerated.
So when Bush goes into Iraq with 40+ countries that's unilateral, and that's bad? But Bush should be unilateral with North Korea, and that's good? Shut the fuck up Berger, you pansie-assed, limp-wristed shitstain! You had your fucking chance, you fucking communist whore, and THANKS IN LARGE PART TO YOU, NORTH KOREA HAS A FUCKING NUCLEAR BOMB! It was YOUR FUCKING JOB to watch them and make sure it didn't happen, AND YOU FAILED AT IT BERGER, YOU SLIMY FUCKSTICK!
Fuck you, Berger. Fuck you, fuck your whore of a mother, and fuck the father you never knew because he didn't pay for the first time. Fuck you, fuck the horse you rode in on, fuck the goat that spawned it, and fuck the mountain it grazed on. Berger, you worthless fucking piece of shit, the only thing you're good for is a test subject for car-battery interrogation techniques, and I want to be the one to hook up the jumper cables to your shriveled nutsack!
You have lied, you have committed felonies, and now you are trying to place American in even more danger than you left it! You spineless weasel, you gutless fuckstick. You smegma-sented afterbirth of a beastiality clusterfuck. You shit-sucking cockgoblin, you toejam eating craven bootlicker, you utterly worthless puddle of vomit. You're the retarded love child of Neville Chamberlin and Benedict Arnold, with none of the class and even less charm! You're the end result of a failed ideology so desperate to keep their hands on the reins of power that you will do anything no matter how gutless and low to steal an election!
Pray to god that you never meet me, Berger, you foul commie-fellating, pond-scum dwelling rodent, because the first thing I will do is hit you so fucking hard that you'll be shitting your own fucking teeth for a week afterward! And THEN I'll show you what I do when I'm angry! You dictator coddling toad, you weak-willed simpering shitheel, you feckless coward, you G-D DAMNED FUCKING SON OF A BITCH! IF I HAD A CHANCE I WOULD PUNCH MY HAND DOWN YOUR THROAT, RIP OUT YOUR FUCKING BLACK HEART AND BEAT YOU WITH IT! YOU DON'T DESERVE TO BE AN AMERICAN! YOU DESERVE TO BE IN JAIL!
You can thank Claire over at SondraK's place for this little rant.
Oh, and for those who care, the tempature at which the human brain begins to die is Celsius 41.11. Go. Watch. Rage.
And any spelling errors in this post are due to the red curtain of blood in my eyes.