Tyler Drumheller - Another CIA LIAR

Bush's CIA Critic Claim Exposed as Untrue

By Ronald Kessler

WASHINGTON — In a "60 Minutes" interview on April 23, Tyler Drumheller, a former chief of the CIA's Europe division, made a sensational charge.

He claimed that President Bush and his White House ignored intelligence before the invasion of Iraq indicating that Saddam Hussein had no had weapons of mass destruction.

On the CBS-TV show, and in subsequent media interviews that appeared throughout the world, Drumheller said that the White House was excited about the fact that the CIA was getting information straight from Naji Sabri, the then Iraqi foreign minister. But when the White House found out this source was reliably saying that Saddam had no WMD, Bush and his White House weren't interested.

"He [Sabri] told us that they had no active weapons of mass destruction program," Drumheller told correspondent Ed Bradley in a segment called "A Spy Speaks Out."

"So in the fall of 2002, before going to war, we had it on good authority from a source within Saddam's inner circle that he didn't have an active program for weapons of mass destruction?" Bradley asked.

"Yes," Drumheller said, proclaiming himself outraged.

According to Drumheller, Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice brushed aside the CIA report on what Sabri had to say because "the policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy."

Drumheller saw "how the Bush administration time and time again welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not," Ed Bradley said in the introduction to the "60 Minutes" piece.

Now it appears Drumheller's claim was untrue, according to the findings of a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigation. Rather than undercutting the Bush administration's rationale for invading Iraq, Sabri's account shows how well-founded the intelligence on Saddam's weapons program appeared to be.

Ironically, just as Drumheller claimed that Bush ignored the truth about Iraq, the media have ignored the documentation in the Senate report demolishing Drumheller's claim.

An addenda to the Senate report on postwar findings about Iraq's WMD program says all the operational documents relating to Sabri indicate he told the CIA just the opposite of what Drumheller claimed. The Senate report refers to Sabri as a source with direct access to Saddam Hussein and his inner circle but does not name him.

"Both the operations cable and the intelligence report prepared for high-level policy-makers [based on interrogation of the source] said that while Saddam Hussein did not have a nuclear weapon, ‘he was aggressively and covertly developing such a weapon,'" the Senate report said.

The documents said "Iraq was producing and stockpiling chemical weapons," according to the addendum, signed by Sens. Pat Roberts, R–Kan., Orrin G. Hatch, R–Utah, and Saxby Chambliss, R–Ga. Iraq's weapon of last resort was mobile launched chemical weapons, which would be fired at enemy forces and Israel, the CIA documents said.

Moreover, there is "not a single document relating to this case which indicates that the source said Iraq had no WMD programs," the addenda said. "On the contrary, all of the information about this case so far indicates that the information from this source was that Iraq did have WMD programs."

What the source said was consistent with the CIA's October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, the report said. The report added: "The committee is still exploring why the former chief/EUR's public remarks differ so markedly from the documentation."

At least 134 stories and TV shows have referred to Drumheller's claims and his criticism of the CIA and Bush administration in general. One of the stories ran as the second lead of the June 25, 2006 Washington Post.

"Warnings on WMD ‘Fabricator' Were Ignored, Ex-CIA Aide Says," the headline over the Post story said. According to the story, Drumheller was dumbfounded when he saw a classified version of the speech Secretary of State Colin Powell was about to give to the United Nations citing Iraq's biological weapons factories on wheels.

Drumheller claimed he had warned George Tenet, the director of Central Intelligence, in a phone call, and John McLaughlin, the deputy director, in a personal meeting that the source for that claim, code-named "Curveball," was a fabricator.

Not until the 32nd paragraph of the Post story did the reader learn that both Tenet and McLaughlin said they had no recollection of warnings Drumheller allegedly gave them. Both men said they would have taken immediate action if he had.

While two former CIA officials said they recalled Drumheller telling them at the time about warnings he allegedly gave McLaughlin, no meeting with Drumheller appeared on McLaughlin's official calendar, according to the report of the Commission on Intelligence Capabilities of the U.S. Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, known as the Silverman-Robb commission.

Carroll & Graf is publishing Drumheller's book, "On the Brink: How the White House Has Compromised American Intelligence," written with Elaine Monaghan, on Sept. 28, according to the Amazon listing. The publisher's Web site lists the publication date as this winter.

Neither Drumheller nor a Carroll & Graf spokesperson responded to messages seeking comment.

So far, no media outlet has run the Senate committee's addendum demolishing Drumheller's claim that Bush and his White House did not want to hear the truth about whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Say WHAT?

I just heard that Rosie O'Donnel stated that "Fundamentalist Christians were just as dangerous as fundamentalist Muslims in America".

Pardon me.... I got so nauseous due to the stupidity of that statement that I think I'm going to vomit.

Once again, dear Rosie demonstrates why she should have never been allowed back onto a TV stage ever again. Tell me Rosie, when have fundie Christians hacked off someone's head just because they were a different religion? When have Christians blown up buildings and civilians in an attempt to get people to convert? And don't even try that Timothy McVeigh bullshit. He was as Christian as he was black. As in, HE WASN'T!

While Rosie is busy equating Christians with terrorists, in Muslim countries all over the mideast lesbians and gays are being executed simply because they're homosexual. Tell me Rosie, do you think you could live for five minutes in Iran? Because I don't. Not only would they kill you for being gay, they would probably hack off your head in order to stop the flow of stupidity that continues unabated from your blathering piehole.

Quite honestly, I'm sick of that stupid, blathering bitch, and I can't believe that anyone would put her back on television. But you know what makes me vomit even harder? Go over to Hot Air and watch the video. And when Rosie makes her statement, listen to the audience applaud. And realize that not only is Rosie so stupid that she makes a crack-smoking baboon seem intelligent, but the people who adore her ARE EVEN WORSE.

These people wallow in stupidity like a pig wallows in mud. They enjoy it. They're so damn retarded that they leap into the stupid pool with both feet. They're the political equivalent of the Flat Earth Society. They're a black hole of stupidity that sucks up any intelligent life. They're stupidity junkies, sucking down their daily fix of stupid and jonesing for another hit. They are ideological crack whores, and if they get their way they will be in charge of protecting this nation after the election.

I don't know about you, but having people elected by anyone as stupid as Rosie and her syphilitic syncophants scares the shit out of me.

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I'll take "Unilateral" for 2,500, Alex

I have written before on why Unilateralism isn't such a bad thing. Here's another example why, courtesy of Captain's Quarters.

THE political head of Nato appealed yesterday for alliance members to provide hundreds more troops for the mission in southern Afghanistan.

With most of the fighting burden falling on the shoulders of the British, US, Canadian and Dutch troops in the South, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the Secretary-General of Nato, said that some countries had failed to live up to their promises on troop numbers.

NATO is supposed to be a joint defense treaty. But when over half the members either cannot or will not pony up troops, then what good is it? In the modern world we live in, the new definition of "multilateral" means that the USA and the UK put up most of the troops, but we have the thumbs-up from everyone else. "Yay USA! You go and do it! Just don't ask for help, cause we can't give ya anything or anyone!"

We have got troops from almost every country in Europe, that's true. And I'm not trying to lessen the sacrifice of those troops. But let's face it, who would you want there: 50,000 American troops, or 200 French troops? Who could do the most good? I'll let Captain Ed give his two cents:

Perhaps people might recall the insistence of Europe and many here in America on engaging Afghanistan and Iraq through international alliances. We tried in both cases, and we had a lot more support from our allies with Afghanistan, as it had created much less controversy than the war against Saddam Hussein. Our relief by NATO was supposed to show America the benefits of "true" international coalitions in dealing with the complex problems of Southwest Asia.

However, once again, we see that the global community lacks the fortitude to make good on their promises and meet the challenge of their own demands. The same nations that scolded us over our supposedly unilateral approach now refuse to answer the phone when NATO calls on them to meet their pledges of troop support. The French do not belong to NATO, but the rest of Europe will blithely sit and watch Afghanistan's new democratically-elected government fall victim to a resurgent Taliban rather than lift a finger to help. Even Germany, with 2700 troops stationed in the quiet north, refuses to redeploy to assist the US, UK, and Canada in the more volatile southern region.

Tell me why we should be multilateral when the countries who scream at us to get global support refuse to support us? This charade does nothing but threaten stability in Afghanistan, because the help we thought we were going to get, and that we planned for, has failed to materialize. So while we planned and started a mission, we now have to react to cover the areas that are short, which effects our mission as a whole. We would have been better off if we had simply not counted on those countries for support and changed our ops plan to deal with that reality. There are areas of Afghanistan that are as lawless as the Anbar region of Iraq. The Taliban is still fighting us, only now they've had time to reorganize and resupply. Instead of platoon sized elements, we're now fighting battalion sized groups. And the troops that were supposed to be helping us from the EU in general are not there. So once again, it's falling on the USA and her close allies (the UK, Australia, Canada, Italy and Poland) to fill the gaps and deal with the situation. What has multilateralism gotten us in Afghanistan that we couldn't have gotten by just forging ahead with our allies? The blessing of Fermany and Grance Germany and France? So what?

Oh, and the same feckless idiots who were hollaring about multilateralism in Afghanistan are the same witless morons who want us to take a unilateral approach to North Korea. The same jackasses who shrieked that we needed a coalition in Iraq now want us to go head to head with Iran. They say we "sold out" our deplomacy to Europe when it comes to Iran. OK, fine. Does that mean that we can deal with Iran how we see fit? Not according to the Democrats, who never met a Bush plan they couldn't attack. Which tells me that they really don't care about multilateralism or unilateralism, it's all just cheap political stunts. So why are we playing this game?

Gah. I say it's time to tell the world to get bent. Put up or shut up. And that goes for the Democrats. Every time I hear a Dimocrap supporter go on about how the Democrats would make America safer, I always ask "So what's their plan?"

I have yet to get a response. That tells you something, doesn't it?

September 11th and the Past

I had a nice post all written up about the failures of the Democrats in general and Clinton in particular with regards to terrorism, bin Laden, and security. I've deleted it. One, it's old news, and it's been hashed, rehashed, and gone over way too often. Two, all the finger pointing from years ago doesn't mean squat when it comes to the terrorist appeasing tactics of the Democrats today.

Think about it: What good does pointing out past failures do us when the present day Democrats are fighting against every terror-fighting tactic we can come up with? Think of the NSA wiretapping programs. That program has been credited with stopping terror attacks at home and abroad, and the Democrats torpedoed it as fast as they could. And they did it by leaking the information to the New York Slimes. Yay Democrats. Thanks for disabling a working program. Tell me again how you would fight terrorists? Oh, that's right, you WOULDN'T. But from what we see today, they really don't have a problem with snooping and illegal activity per se. It's only the targets that they have a problem with. You see, snooping on terrorists is bad. Hacking into a computer to embarass a Republican is perfectly OK in their book.

The campaign of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Democratic rival acknowledged Tuesday that it downloaded - and leaked to the media - a recording of a private meeting in which the governor described a Hispanic legislator as having a "very hot" personality.

Of course, the Dimocrats are saying they didn't do anything wrong. Of course, they're lying. As usual.

Schwarzenegger spokesman Adam Mendelsohn said someone would have had to snoop to find the audio file.

"The file that was leaked to the Los Angeles Times was in a private area of the governor's server not accessible to the public without manipulation of information," he said.

Schwarzenegger's legal affairs secretary, Andrea Lynn Hoch, said the sound file was stored in a password-protected area. She said she forwarded the Internet Protocol address used to download the file to the California Highway Patrol, which is investigating.

So remember, according to the Dimocrats, snooping on terrorists is bad, but snooping on Republicans is good. And this is the polical party who says they're strong on national security? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

For the ACLU, 9/11 is just another day to attack the Bush Administration

Assholes

Memri Does 911 Memorial Video

Where was the good will in the muslim world on September 11, 2001? The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon should be remembered not only for those who we lost, but so that we may know and face our enemies.

Five years later

I haven't posted much today, because I've been up since 0500 ensuring that my unit's annual training goes smoothly. Another reason is because, quite honestly, I'm a little sickened by what I see in America today.

There are actually sick, twisted kooks who believe that September 11th was done by the US government, despite all the evidence to the contrary. The piles of evidence. The mountains. That's like standing outside a concentration camp and saying that the Holocaust didn't happen. And the Democrats are running one of these loons, these embarassments to humanity, for Senate.

There are people in America today who believe that George W. Bush is a bigger threat than terrorism. Indeed, they think that Bush is a terrorist, not Osama bin Laden.

Excuse me?

There are people in this country who actually believe that running away and hiding from terrorists, giving them whatever they want, will end terrorism. Like that worked for so well for three decades leading up to September 11th.

I cannot begin to accurately describe the kind of rank ignorance and stupidity it would take to believe any of the above. I really can't.

If it weren't for September 11th, I wouldn't be in uniform again. When I ETSed in 2000, I swore up and down that I would never again be part of the Armed Forces. Been there, did that, got the damn BDU shirt, and I'm done.

Yeah, right. Here I am once again with "U.S. Army" embroidered over my heart. And dammit, it's because I refuse to just sit around and wait to get hit. It's because I'm going to do more than deny, ignore and hide. I'm going to be a part of Operation Kill Terrorist Bastards, and I'm going to do my part to ensure that anyone who wants to kill my countrymen has to go through ME first. And I am very hard to kill. I[m doing it so that hopefully, sometime in the future, my step-son can go to work without worrying if he'll die in a bomb attack. I'm doing it so that people like Tim, and TVE, and Helen, and all the people who posted here can continue to do so without fear of being shut down by some Islamic Caliphate. I'm doing it so my family can live the way they want to.

I'm doing it so that people can sit at home and watch Fahrenheit 9-11 and drink beer and think "Damn, that George W. Bush is an idiot" while they scratch their shriveled nutsack and contemplate giving their hard three inches to the non-shaven wife.

But I'll tell you what. I'll lay down my life for my step-son, or my family. I'll lay down my life for all that which I hold dear. But more and more, it's becoming harder and harder to reconcile myself to the fact that I may have to lay down my life for someone who thinks that America is evil. In fact, I wouldn't lay my life down for Cindy Sheehan for all the money in America. Terrorists raping you and hacking off your head? Sorry 'bout that, Cindy. Hey, why don't you call Je$$e Jack$son and see if he can help you? I hear Al Sharpton is a real impressive negotiator, give him a call!

Luckily, when I go to war I won't be going to war for Cindy Sheehan. I'll be going to war for my family, and my step-son, and my Father who did his time before me in the jungles of Viet Nam, and my Grandfather, who fought the Japanese in the Pacific, and my Great-Grandfather who helped conquer the West in a U.S. Army cavalry uniform.

I'll be doing it for all of them.

In the meantime, I'm going to do my best to ensure that the idiots and brain-dead morons who want to tear down America continue to fail. I'm going to do my best to ensure that the Defeatocrats do not regain power. And I'm going to do my best to ensure that this country has the will to win a fight for our way of life and our very existence.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to clean my combat boots and drink a beer.

229 years ago today...

...The Battle of Brandywine, 11 September 1777.

As dawn broke on the morning of September 11th, Sir William Howe was in the process of dividing his army. At six o'clock, Knyphausen marched with 6,800 men along the Nottingham Road directly toward Chad's Ford. His mission was to engage Washington's attention while Howe marched at five o'clock with 8,200 men northeast from Kennett Square up the Great Valley Road, turned east across the Brandywine at Trimble's and Jeffries' fords, and then proceeded south around the American right flank. A dense fog cover initially shielded Howe's march, and locals kept him well informed of his route.

"locals kept him well informed of his route"

Some people didn't want to be freed from the tyranny that shackled them.

The more things change...

Nancy Diaz

All across the blogosphere today one will find profiles of Americans who died on 11 September 2001. Many of these profiles are part of the 2996 Project. This is one of them.

Nancy Diaz was 28 years old. She lived in New York City, and died at the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Nancy was a kitchen assistant at the Windows on the World restaurant:

Windows of the World was destroyed during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At the time of the attack on the World Trade Center, the restaurant was hosting regular breakfast patrons and the Waters Financial Technology Congress. Of those present in the restaurant at the time that American Airlines Flight 11 impacted the North Tower, all eventually perished as a result of the attack. This included 73 restaurant staff, 16 Waters employees, and 71 conference guests.

It is believed that the image of the The Falling Man was an employee at Windows On The World named Jonathan Briley.Windows on the World @ Wikipedia

From the New York Times:

Preparing for Caribbean Trip

Nancy Diaz loved to shop, but in her last days she was shopping with a purpose: Her daughter's birthday was coming up, and she was planning a trip to the Dominican Republic, where the girl lived with a greatgrandmother.

Planning to fly to the Caribbean on Sept. 14, she started her workday three and a half hours early, at 7 a.m., the previous Tuesday so she could use the free afternoon to prepare for her trip, said her brother, Leonel Diaz. A kitchen assistant, she was tending to the breakfast buffet on the 107th floor of the north tower when the first plane hit, he said.

Ms. Diaz, 28, who lived with her sister in the Bronx and had moved to the United States from the Dominican Republic less than three years ago, liked her American life, particularly her job, her brother said. She had a boyfriend at work (he was off on Sept. 11), and she had just heard from her boss that she had promotion potential. "They said 'You can be a manager. You're such a hard worker,' " Mr. Diaz said. Now Ms. Diaz's daughter is preparing to come to New York visit her family.

Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on October 1, 2001.

Remember: September 11, 2001 - Legacy.com

This has been a sobering project for me, for aside from that NYT tribute, there is no other information about Nancy Diaz out there.

If you've a mind, post at one (or more, or all) of the following sites.

Remember her.

9-11 Victim Memorial: Nancy Diaz

9-11 Memorial - Nancy Diaz

Guest Book - Nancy Diaz

Wow

Check out this YouTube post comments section. 451 comments so far. (I'm n336ap.) Lots of liberal moonbats but lots of informed conservatives, too. Join the fun. The video posted is a trailer for "Path to 9/11" which includes a bit of those deleted scenes. (See also here. One full hour of the 5-hour miniseries has been cut since Clinton's lawyers started threatening Disney's CEO.) And as usual, instead of responding to critisizm (unless you think calling someone a "liar" counts as a response), the DNC threatens and sues. Now the libtards are declaring all-out war on ABC. "Free speech for me, but none for thee," should be the DNC motto, but it is entertaining watching them twist and squirm, accusing the other side of fascism even as they are in the act of silencing their critics through intimidation and (il)legal force.

The delete scenes beg the question, "What was in Sandy Berger's pants?" Sandy Berger admitted to stealing five "code-word" classified (more secret than top-secret) security documents from the National Archives. He admitted to destroying three of the five documents. He admitted that he lied to federal investigators by telling them initially that he merely removed the documents “by accident.” Was he punished? Hell no! But that's not the point. Could it be that the Clinton gang is bullying ABC because its miniseries comes too close to the truth? Could it be that the deleted scene where special ops has bin Laden in their gun-sights but abort when Berger and Clinton refuse to authorize execution, despite approving the mission, is true in substance?

Presented without comment

From who else but Cox and Forkum. You need to go to the C & F website to see the thing in large format. For some reason it won't work on 4RWW's.

The DANE has a takedown

Of Sen (D) Jay Rockefeller that everyone needs to read.

It's amazing this guy is still on Capital Hill instead of a jail cell.

Oh, wait, maybe it's not so amazing, considering the quality of the people on Capital Hill.

Piling On

See, here's the problem the Left has - they've deluded themselves with their own lies for so long that when they throw a hissy-fit over a documentary and scream things like "CLINTON DID NO WRONG! IT'S ALL CHIMPY MCHITLERBURTON'S FAULT!" we on the right can whip out, y'know, actual facts and beat the Left with them. Like the fact that the US had Osama on video via an unmanned drone in 2000.

Scroll down that link, and you'll get to an interview that's rather revealing:

O‘DONNELL: But many people have made the impression that something in the Bush administration was done wrong. But there‘s evidence that the Clinton administration knew full well that bin Laden had the wherewithal and was planning to attack the United States. Who is to blame and did the president, Clinton, get this information?

SCHEUER: Certainly the president got the information. And most certainly his closest adviser, Sandy Berger and Mr. Clarke—Richard Clarke, had the information from 1996 forward that bin Laden intended to attack the United States. There‘s no question of that. And in terms of which administration had more chances, Mr. Clinton‘s administration had far more chances to kill Osama bin Laden than Mr. Bush has until this day.

O‘DONNELL: That‘s very interesting. I don‘t think that many Americans know that or think that everything that they‘ve heard—you‘ve spent your life tracking Osama bin Laden. From what we know now and what you know, how many missed opportunities were there to prevent the 9/11 attacks?

SCHEUER: Well, we had—the question of whether or not we could have prevented the attacks is one you could debate forever. But we had at least eight to 10 chances to capture or kill Osama bin Laden in 1998 and 1999. And the government on all occasions decided that the information was not good enough to act.

Ouch. But remember, according to the Dimocrats, Clinton wanted to get Osama, he just never had the chance.

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

As the saying goes..

Scratch a Democrat, find a dictator. As in, "If you air something we don't like, we'll yank your broadcasting license." Scroll down for the details. It's rather disgusting, and this is not the first time the Democrats have used the threat of a yanked broadcast license to silence something they didn't like.

So much for that whole "Free Speech" think the Left claims to be fond of, eh? As with morals, pricipals are things that the Left only pays lip-service to, and will discard at a moment's notice. Power is the only goal, and everything else can and will be sacrificed for that goal.

I think everyone needs to read this

Tell me again about how Clinton wanted to get Bin Laden? I don't think so.

As Patterson reveals in his New York Times bestseller Dereliction of Duty- the first missed opportunity occurred when Clinton was engaged in watching a golf tournament and became irritated when Patterson approached him. After Patterson'?s third attempt to get Clinton to return Sandy BergerÂ?s urgent phone calls, Clinton gave Patterson a cool response he would phone Berger on his way back to the White House. The defeated Berger knew that the opportunity was gone.

In another shocking account in the situation room of the White House, Berger was told by a military watch officer Â?Sir, weÂ?ve located bin Laden. We have a two-hour window to strike.? After Clinton did not return phone calls from Berger for over an hour, Clinton then wanted more time to study the situation. Dereliction of Duty reveals "?We ?'studied?' the issues until it was too late-the window of opportunity closed."?

So, as the Clintonistas rage and whine about the ABC documentary, just remember that Clinton was more interested in a golf tournament on TV than killing OBL.

Just so ya know.

Suddenly, everything became clear.

I mean, it makes too much sense, ya know?

Some species of male fish in the Potomac River and its tributaries are developing female sexual traits at a frequency higher than scientists have seen before, raising concerns about pollutants in a waterway that provides drinking water for millions of people.

The so-called "intersex fish," which produce immature eggs in their testes, were discovered in the Potomac rivershed in 2003 and have also been found in other parts of the country.

But the frequency that the U.S. Geological Surveys found last year is much higher than what has been found elsewhere, said fish pathologist Vicki Blazer.

In some Potomac tributaries, nearly all of the male smallmouth bass caught in last year's survey were the abnormal fish. In the Potomac itself, seven of 13 largemouth bass exhibited female characteristics, including three that were producing eggs.

If this doesn't perfectly explain Washington DC, I don't know what does.

They never learn, do they?

I mean, let's go down the list.

Endorse socialist policies despite an entire century of failure of those policies? Check.

Press for Socialized Healthcare despite the overwhelming evidence that it provides substandard care? Check.

Run a retired military officer on an anti-war, defeatist, cut-and-run policy?

Check.

Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And I've never seen anyone so adverse to learning from history as the Democrats.

So, didja catch Bush's Speech?

I think it was a speech that should have been given quite some time ago. But what I saw most was this: Bush, recognizing that there's no action he could do that would make people happy right now, tossed this ball into Congress' court. And it's not a nice round bouncy ball either. It's a hard, sharp, covered-in-poison-tipped-spikes kind of ball, and now the people who have been wailing and crying the loudest can put up or shut up.

"Fine, you say you want to fight terrorism? YOU tell me what the CIA can't do to terrorists. You want to give terrorists Geneva Convention rights? Fine. Put your name on a 'Yes' vote and we'll make sure the voters know about it come November."

It's not the total and complete bitchslapping that I would love to see, but it was definately a tossing of the gauntlet. Let's see how congress responds.

Hmmmmm....

Tim, what do you think about this?

Just so we don’t forget: tomorrow starts the pre-election period wherein, thanks to the McCain-Feingold Act, political organizations are not allowed to run ads or commercials critical of any politicians seeking election or reelection in November.

My pledge:

If a conservative organization wants to run a political ad criticizing any Congressman up for re-election during that 60-day window, I’ll let them run one on this website, for free, right up until Election Day

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Veeeeery IIIIIIINteresting.

Well, this sucks.

So I went to the doctor yesterday. He told me "Upper Respitory Infection" and gave me antibiotics. Sent me home for the day.

I woke up this morning, having barely slept because I was caughing too damn hard, and went to work. When I got to work, my training NCO looked at me and said "Dave, get your ass back to sick-call." So back to the doctor I went. This time I saw a different doctor, who poked and prodded and listened with his stethescope, and told me to get a chest X-ray done. Hmmm, OK. So I get the X-ray done, and about half an hour later he tells me that I have early stage pneumonia.

Boy, what a difference a day makes, huh?

So now I have even more antibiotics, and I'm going to be sitting on my couch for the next three days until my next doctor's appointment.

And yet they wonder

Why we can never trust the Left with our National Security.

This video, hosted on Google Video is called: “One of a kind 9/11 tribute (tears guaranteed)”. It begins with somber Enya music but a third of the way into it moves to Benny Hill music where it makes fun of all the people running away from the attack

What kind of sick prick do you have to be to turn people who are running for their damn LIVES into some kind of musical joke?

Found via Ace of Spades

If I weren't already sick

Then this would make me so. Anyone hear anything about Darfur anymore? Nah. It's not something that the media can blame on Bush, so they're not going to bother mentioning it.

I am literally aghast that people treat the UN or any of it's departments as a legitimate entity. I am stunned that there are people who think that any "peacekeepers" from any African country will actually keep the peace. And I am amazed that there are adults who think that we can somehow stop this genocide without direct military intervention. And yes, that means going into an African country and shooting Africans. Let's be blunt, shall we? The only way you're going to stop the murder and rape that is happening right now in Darfur is to go in there and physically stop the people doing the killing and raping. And that means killing those people, because they're not going to simply stop with a "Pretty please". These are not civilized humans. They're animals. They're barbarians. You cannot tell me that anyone who takes part in the systematic rape and destruction of hundreds of thousands of people is civilized in any sense of the word. The head monster of Sudan has already stated:

"[a]ny state that sponsors this draft resolution [authorizing UN peacekeeping troops in Darfur] will be regarded as assuming a hostile attitude against the Sudan."

Fine. Chalk me up as assuming a hostile attitude against the Sudan. In fact, chalk me up as assuming a hostile attitude towards most of Africa right now.

I have only heard two courses of action that make sense in Africa. One is to simply pull out and leave. Let them sink or swim on their own. That's the theory espoused by Kim du Toit, who grew up in South Africa and knows firsthand just how screwed up the continent can be. The other option is to simply re-colonize the entire place and force these people to live in the 21st century. You know, the century where you do not hack off a woman's breasts to ensure that she can't breastfeed any children.

But I'll tell you one thing - I am through pretending that these people are even remotely civilized. We need to drop that idea right now. Just because we can travel the world and visit places previously unheard of a century ago doesn't mean that the people in the places we visit are in any way, shape or form civilized. And so we have a choice - rip those people from their cesspool of barbarity, or leave them alone and close them off until they either civilize themselves or die.

Question about Steve Irwin

From the news:

Fatally injured "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin pulled a stingray's serrated barb from his chest before he lost consciousness and died, his manager said on Tuesday as fans worldwide mourned the exuberant naturalist.

I believe it is standard procedure to NOT remove a foreign object from one's body if one has been impaled by said object, yes? The reasoning being that an object that has invaded your body and remained inside your body is likely plugging any holes that it has made in blood vessels; you leave it there to act as a kind of stopper until you can get to hospital or some similar medical facility.

How to Treat a Wound Created by an Impaled Object - eHow.com

I am certainly not second guessing the guy, who was doubtlessly in shock and in considerable pain, but I wonder if he was fatally wounded upon being impaled or if he sealed his fate by removing the barb.

Or both.

Steve Irwin Full Coverage on Yahoo! News

Behold...

...The Plamegate Hall of Shame. Wonder when some intrepid Truth-to-Power-speaking reporter tracks down Colin Powell to see what he knew and when he knew it.

Myths and Theories

Interesting list here. Sample topic: Who Armed Saddam?

The DANE is on a roll....

Which is good, because I'm not. I'm still caughing up lungbutter and begging to be put out of my misery. And no, I'm not going to the hospital. If you've ever been to an Emergency Room down here in Puerto Rico, you would understand why. So go on over and check out the good stuff.

Well, crap

I guess you can only test your good luck so often before bad luck catches up to you.

Found via Rodger.

Democrats call fo hike in minimum wage....

...when they don't even pay their workers the current rate.

"Environmentalists" chewing their own tails in Vermont

Strange.

"One of Vermont's most deeply held environmental ethics is the protection and preservation of our mountaintops and ridge lines," said Jason Gibbs, a spokesman for Gov. Jim Douglas. "While the governor supports renewable energy ... he cannot support the commercialization and industrialization of our mountaintops."

Isn't it?

"For us to say we don't want wind turbines in Vermont is irresponsible," said James Moore, an environmental advocate with the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. "If not wind, are we going to be supporting coal and mountain top removal? Are we going to support oil and aging nuclear power plants and nuclear waste?"

Sometimes I think it's power itself they object to, since generation of same ALWAYS requires some sort of land use, and land is God.

Wind power a vexing question for Vermont

Mark this one down

And whip it out everytime some idiot Leftists tries to bleat that the UN is the solution to any problem.


Because the UN thinks that self-defense is not a right.

Now you tell me about the UN's moral authority. Go ahead, so that I can laugh at you. Dear sweet God, why are we even still a member of this corrupt, parasite infested, dictator riddled organization? Can anyone tell me that?

Gah. We need to demolish the UN building, with all the UN "diplomats" inside. Except John Bolton. Him, we save. The rest can go to hell.

Still Sick

My last temp check was 102.4 degrees. The wife is getting set up to take me to the hospital if it gets much worse.

Gack. I hate being sick. I really do.

Gack

That about sums up how I feel. Gack. I'm finally starting to break up the crud in my chest, but it hurts every time I cough. At least I'm starting to actually cough stuff up rather than deal with empty, wheezing gacking. Slowly, oh so slowly, I start to improve.

In the meantime, enjoy the blogroll. I'm going to drink myself into a stupor and pass out. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep more than an hour at a time.

Gah. Every time a long weekend or leave comes up, I either get sick or injured. I'm not liking that at all.

Linky Love

Since I'm under the weather, which is a nice way to say that I feel as if the Fat Fuck from Flint was sitting directly on my chest, I offer up links to writers who obviously feel better than I do.

Uno: Mark, I've been saying much the same thing for years now. Although I'm fairly certain that my plan called for bulldozers and tons upon tons of TNT.

Dos: Mr. Poretto points out the media's ramping into an all-out blitz against President Bush. We know that the Has-Been Media is the Democrat party's propaganda wing, and they're doing it yet again.

And Tres: Kim du Toit gives us an instructive lesson on traitors abroad, and how the lesson of their actions apply at home.

There. You can go read.

What a difference a day makes

Yesterday, I woke up early. About 5 AM. Went on a three and a half mile run with the dog. Came home, showered, went to work.

Today, I woke up early. About 4 AM. I had a 100.5 degree fever and I couldn't breathe. Yay. All in 24 hours.

I'm fairly certain this has something to do with the 200 square feet of mold covering the wall near my office. I'm bleaching the hell out of that wall as soon as I can breathe again.

Did you know...

...that Hezbollah fighters sometimes wear Israeli uniforms? Of course you didn't.

Well Golly

Them Leftists just know how to show their "peacefulness", don't they?

Don't they?

Other than that whole "Death to Israel" thing, that is. I mean, nothing screams "world peace" to me like calling for the death of an entire country. Gosh, that's peaceful!

Me neither

Riddle: What do the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and I have in common?

Answer: We all work for lunatics.

That is all.

I ain't blogging today

Because Analog Kid and David have been tearing it up over at RNS, and they've pretty much said anything I was going to say to begin with.

Click and scroll, my friends. Click and scroll.

So, I haven't said much about

John Karr, the guy snatched from Thailand because they thought me might be the Jonbenet Ramsey murderer. He's not getting charged in that case.

Now, what I want to know is this: Why the hell are people so damn upset? Really, why? They don't have any evidence that he's involved in the case, so he's not getting charged, and people are pissed off. Aren't they happy that false charges weren't pressed?

Now granted, Karr is a sick, sick pervert. I wouldn't allow him within two miles of any child of mine. He's getting sent to California to face child pornography charges. He made up stories about giving a six year old girl oral sex, for Pete's sake. He's a sick bastard, and I personally don't see why we couldn't just leave him in a different country for the rest of his life. He lost his license to teach a few years ago. He was about to start teaching in Thailand, and some of the crap they've dug up there shows that Karr is still a sick, perverted pedophile. I don't even want him on US soil. But he didn't kill Ramsey. Why are people so upset? Let him go to jail in California for what he did there and hope that he never gets out. But the media is in some sort of feeding frenzy, frothing at the mouth over the fact that Karr wasn't charged in that particular case.

Sheesh. Give it a rest, people. The case isn't closed.

Let me second this

Pat Buchanon is not a (R)epublican, he just plays one on TV.

He dropped out of the party to run as a 'Progressive' yet the TV pundits allow him to misrepresent himself as a "Conservative" so they can make the dismissive Strawman arguments.

Pat Buchanon does NOT speak for me, or Conservatives, or Republicans and the use of him is a transparent attempt to misrepresent the positions of Conservatives and Republicans.

You want to know the easiest way to tell if a TV news show is flat out bullshit? Just look to see who they have on as the token "conservative". If it's Pat Buchanan, you can be assured that the show is bullshit and flip to another channel. Buchanan hasn't been a Republican for years. Hell, he hasn't been considered a true conservative for decades by now. And yet he's brought in as if he's some great expert on conservatives in general and Republicans in particular, when in truth he's so far removed from the modern conservative movement and the Republican party that his statements are outright laughable.

So DANE, I second your opinions on Buchanan. Just for the record.

"Why we don't trust you"

Mary K. Ham has a post up with that very title. Look, at this point I don't trust a single media story out of any of the mainstream media groups. I'd sooner trust the ravings of a drug-addled nutcase in Westlake Center in Seattle than a story or poll from ABC/NBC/CBS/CNN at this point. But what really drives me nuts is the fact that the Has Been Media continue to try to refute the charges. They're like kids who you just caught with their hand in the cookie jar, and instead of fessing up that they did indeed steal those gingersnaps, they're standing there saying "Nonsense! I'm the most trustworthy kid in the world, and I can't believe you would say that I'm stealing cookies!" while their grubby, sticky little fingers are still wrapped around the snickerdoodles in the fucking cookie jar!

I can't figure out which is worse: The outright tools in the MSM, or the tools who actually believe them.

I'd like to be surprised....

Really, I would. But I'm not.

IDF forces from the Golani Brigade blasted open a Hizbullah bunker overnight Saturday some 400 meters from the security fence near Rosh Hanikra, it was reported on Sunday. The bunker was discovered a mere stone's throw from a UN post.

According to Lt.-Col. Jassem Elian, a senior officer in the Golani Brigade, "Hizbullah dug a 40-meter by two-kilometer pit, in which they built dozens of outposts."

Elian added that the bunker had "shooting positions of poured concrete," and that the combat posts inside were equipped with phone lines, showers, toilets, air ducts, and emergency exits, as well as logistical paraphernalia for Hizbullah.

Note my emphasis. Tell me, did UNIFIL happen to be away for a day while Hizbullah POURED CONCRETE FIGHTING POSITIONS????

Is there any reason what so ever to keep this farce with the UN running? Nope.

Purposely ignorant

Christoper Hitchens vs. Bill Maher's audience. Go read, or go download the video. It's yet another example of how Leftists will ignore what is right in front of their faces and focus on wholly imagined or made up memes.

Gah.

Sheesh

OK, I might as well get around to mentioning this story about raccoons invading Olympia, WA, since everyone else in the Blogosphere has done so. I first saw it at Random Nuclear Strikes. Kim du Toit had to close his comments on the subject.

Bottom line is this: If you want to see a perfectly good example of bed-wetting, whinging, crybaby, can't-do-jack-shit-without-help Leftism, go read that story. "Oh help us! 'Coons ate my kitty-cat! I need a group so that I can mourn and heal! Woe is us! Whatever will we do!?"

Jebus-H-Christ-on-a-POGO-STICK! What gets to me is that people are actually SURPRISED AT THIS! Like, "Oh gosh, I can't believe that the same festering shithole that produced Rachel "St. Pancake" Corrie would be a hellhole of Leftist sissy pondscum. Who woulda thunk it?" Or like "Gee, the same city that refused to let it's namesake, the USS Olympia, dock because it was a 'ship of war' can't deal with a simple raccoon problem. I wonder why?" Hell, I'll give you an answer: The people of Olympia are nothing more than the bottom of the political genepool. Socialists, Communists, Greens, and Democrats (redundancy alert!) who whine and seeth that SOMETHING needs to be done by SOMEBODY! But that SOMEBODY is always SOMEBODY ELSE, because god knows they can't do jack squat on their own! These people probably can't tie their shoes without a government funded study on shoe-tying. They are incabable of living unassisted, having given control of their lives to the ever-growing nanny state, and demanding that we do the same. They are not so much human has sacks of meat walking around begging for a puppetmaster to handle their strings. Anyone who thinks that these so-called people can actually deal with a simple raccoon problem on their own is smoking crack. We're not dealing with rational adults in Olympia, we're dealing with overgrown children and mental midgets who find the simplest tasks impossible unless they have governmental help. Hell, that's half the reason they're in Olympia to begin with! So that they can pressure the WA state government to help them with x, y, or z!

Piss on all of 'em. I enjoy listening to their wails. My only hope is that a real child doesn't get hurt.

There, I've put out my two cents on that subject.

Whoa...

I think he's a bit preturbed!

At this late stage of the game, debate is no longer a civic virtue. Now it's carping, sniping from the sidelines, weaselly nit-picking, and -- yes -- unpatriotic. When you mouth those faux "just because I..." formulations that Democrat political hacks spew like spit takes in a Three Stooges Looney Tune, you reveal yourself to be not only unpatriotic, but a gullible fool, who unthinkingly spouts the most recent thing he hears.

Ah-yup. He's ticked.

More please...

Need your good daily dose of common sense? DANEgerus has a loooooooong excerpt of Mark Styne that needs to be read. I'm not going to quote it, because there isn't one part that can be quoted. You have to read the whole thing. Just scroll down until you get to Mark Styne's part of the transcript.

OK, fine, I'll quote one paragraph:

Let me give a small example of the wrong way of looking at things. It’s not life threatening, but if you don’t understand the philosophy that underpins it, it can become life threatening. In your nation and in mine, many people have acknowledged, and indeed even boasted, that immigration changes our country. For example, in Australia, and to a lesser extent in Canada, there are a lot of people who wish to replace the monarchy with a republic and there are respectable arguments for and against the monarchy. But the dangerous argument is the lazy line pedalled by too many politicians that in an Australia or a Canada of evolving immigration patterns, an immigrant from Moldova or China or Brazil or Saudi Arabia can’t be expected to relate to the Queen, to the existing constitutional system. Now try this line the next time you’re in Saudi Arabia: if you immigrate to Saudi Arabia and say ‘hey man, I just can’t relate to the House of Saud, and what’s with this Wahhabism, can’t we get a couple of sports bars with wet t-shirt nights every Thursday’? The Saudis would have a grand old laugh about it and then behead you. So when we accept that argument, in essence we’re explicitly promoting the principle of reverse assimilation; that immigration imposes not the obligation that the immigrant assimilate to his new land, but that his new land assimilate to him. And thereby lies great peril, not for the Queen, she’ll get by, but for a whole bunch of the rest of us. Multiculturalism makes a nation no more than a holding pen, its whole merely the sum of its parts. And so in the absence of cultural confidence, demography will decide. Or in the superb summation of the American writer James C. Bennett, ‘democracy, immigration multiculturalism … pick any two’.

Now go read! And spread it around.

Macaca Bruhaha

There's been a lot of screaming over George Allen's "macaca" statement that he made a while back. While the Donks try to couch their arguments in as wildly varied styles as possible, each one boils down to one core statement that they're trying to make. To paraphrase:

"GEORGE ALLEN IS A RACIST! EEEEEEEEEEEEEK! BOOGYMAN!"

What to they base this argument on? Well, there's the whole "macaca" thing, and there's the fact that a while back, Allen owned a Confederate flag.

Oooooooo-kay. That's all they've got?

The same party of Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson, the same party of Al "Jews are Diamond Merchants" Sharpton, the same party as Robert "Grand Kleagle" Byrd, is trying to label George Allen as a racist.

A Republican president made Colin Powel SecState. The Democrats called him an "Uncle Tom".

A Republican president made Condoleza Rice SecState. The Democrats called her a "House Nigger".

A Republican president made Alberto Gonzales, a Hispanic, the AG. Who was Clinton's AG again? Oh, right. Janet Reno, quite possibly the whitest woman on the face of the earth.

The Republicans are running Lt. Gov. Steele in Maryland for a Sentate seat. The Democrats call him an "Oreo" and throw cookies at him.

But because Allen once owned a Confederate flag, he's a racist. Yeah. Why don't you run with that, Dimocrats? Keep it up. See you in November.

Chilling

Cap'n Jim has taken a little perusal of some documents that detail the Clinton's plans to disarm America. Here's a money quote:

"We are going to do to [the gun industry] what we did to tobacco. It's going to be a very large war."

Democrats: The party of gun control. The party of disarming America. The party that shits all over the 2nd Amendment every chance it gets.

Just keep that in mind come November. And factor in that some Leftists are once again trying to fly the "GUNS CAUSE CRIME!" flag. If the Leftists ever get back into power, you can watch all our gains in the 2nd Amendment area get cut away. Scratch a Democrat, find a dictator.

Pro-Choice my eye

Trying to keep Lieberman off the ballot.

Music sooths the savage beast

I'm listening to Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Comman Man" right now. I think if there was a quintessential sound for America, this would be the song. Bold, brassy, just a powerful sound that hits you at the right moment.

I don't think I can explain just now much music effects me on an almost genetic level. I think that's half the reason my music collection looks like a schizophrenic's hallucination. I've got everything except rap. From Copland, to Thenonius Monk, to Disturbed, I've got CD's from almost every imaginable music style. And every CD I have is because at least one of the songs managed to produce an almost overpowering emotion in me. To laugh, cry, scream or relax, or sometimes all of the above.

Even though my parents weren't the most musically talented people, they managed to raise me surrounded by music from the time I was born. I took piano lessons at an early age, tried my hand at the violin for a year, and eventually settled on percussion. In highschool I found out I could sing, and so I was in two choirs as well as the Concert Band by my senior year. I was also singing in my church choir until I left my hometown. Hell, I'm the de-facto director of my church choir right now until someone with real experience takes over the job. I'm the kind of guy who will get a song stuck in his head and it'll stay there until I find it and play it on my stereo once or twice. I've bought a couple of CD's that way. "Oh, THAT'S the song! Honey, I'm buying this!"

I can hear you saying "Yo, Dave, what's with this heart-pouring-out thing? Shut the hell up and rage!" I'll get around to it. But this whole post was started when I was searching for a song I'd heard in a movie, and stumbled across this page. It's a tribute to a beautiful woman, and it has the song I was looking for. "A Welsh Lullaby". Why point it out? Hell, I don't know. Maybe because a song that good needs to be heard. You can listen from the page, or download it as an MP3. I guarantee, you've heard this song before, you just might not have known the name of it.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have "Panis Angelicus" running through my head, and I need to go find a recording of it.

Piling on the Left

Over the past few weeks, there has been more damning evidence come out against the Left and what it proclaims to stand for than I can count. Hell, half the time I feel like I'm on information overload. "What? They did WHAT? How? When? Crap, they did it again! Didn't they learn the first time?"

This just adds to that pile.

The Swedish Foreign Ministry was delegated to investigate who knew what about corruption in the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq. The report has now been made public by a Swedish radio station. It says that Ole Kolby, Norway's U.N. ambassador at the time and head of the sanctions committee, knew about the program's corruption but "remained quiet for fear of angering Iraq and big companies involved in the program."

In short, they knew there was some backdoor hankey-pankey going on with Saddam and several countries, but the didn't let anyone know what they knew for fear of upsetting people.

Huh? Gosh, for people who claim to care about the rule of law (I mean, this is the group that was screeching about "International Law" for months leading up to the invasion of Iraq) they really play fast and loose with the facts when it suits their politics, don't they?

This is reminiscent of the recent admission by Kevin Drum, a rather prominent liberal, especially on the web, that he refrains from writing about the threat posed by Iran because doing so would help the Bush administration. One wonders how much of the "reality" reported in the news is influenced by the determination of both politicians and journalists not to mention the facts that tend to support the reasonableness of, and necessity for, the Bush administration's policies.

Um, yep. At this point, nothing that comes out of the Left should be taken as the truth until it's been double, triple, and quadruple checked by at least three people. They can't be trusted to tell the truth at all until it suits their politics, and most of the time you can't even trust them then.

Also, Mr. Volokh comments on the decline of Amnesty International. (Via Instapundit)

"[In a report accusing Israel of war crimes, Amnesty International] accused Israel of applying an overly broad interpretation of what constituted a military objective when it attacked power plants, bridges, main roads, seaports and Beirut's international airport, all of which are 'presumed to be civilian.'"

"Presumed to be civilian". Tell me, are the terrorists also "presumed to be civilian" since they don't wear uniforms and operate out of civilian centers? Volokh comments thusly:

I'm no military expert, but every book, movie, documentary, etc., I've ever seen on war assumes that at least bridges [how many WWII movies have a scene focused on taking a bridge?], roads and seaports are important military targets, and in modern times I'd have to put airports on that list, too. The idea that a country at war can't attack the enemy's resupply routes (at least until it has direct evidence that there is a particular military shipment arriving) has nothing to do with human rights or war crimes, and a lot to do with a pacifist attitude that seeks to make war, regardless of the justification for it or the restraint in prosecuting it [at least if it's a Western country doing it], an international "crime."

Bridges, roads, seaports and airports, when used to resupply an attacking force, no longer are "civilian". By their very use, they have become military targets. Much like using a hospital, school or religious building as a base of military operations allows the destruction of those buildings under the Geneva Convention, when you use an object for military purposes you make it a military target. This is basic level, privates-learn-this-in-basic-training kind of stuff. The fact that an agency supposedly devoted to protecting civilians can't even bother to read the damn Geneva Conventions and learn what is and is not permitted speaks volumes about that agency.

But then, I'll give a shit about world opinion when they focus on holding terrorists accountable more than they focus on condemning Israel.

C ? B ? O

Classic

Bizarre

Oof!

This is great

Life is delicious.

They said they would be greeted as liberators for toppling the old regime. Instead, they find themselves caught in a quagmire--a vicious, unwinnable civil war with incalculable costs in both resources and prestige.

We refer, of course, to the Democrats in Connecticut.

Tee hee hee!

Ummmm, read it all.

OpinionJournal - Declare Victory, Get Out

Hip-hopper sings Steele praise

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons will be the host of a campaign fundraiser Thursday for Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele's run for U.S. Senate.

The fundraiser for Mr. Steele, a Republican who would be the state's first black U.S. senator if elected, will be held at the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park in Baltimore.

Also scheduled to participate in the event are Cathy Hughes, founder and chairman of Radio One, a black-run broadcasting company specializing in urban markets, and hip-hop pioneer DJ Kid Capri.

I've been thinking and saying for some time that if black folk voted Republican in just one election, their political power would increase tenfold. Status quo is that Democrats take their vote for granted because they vote 90% Democrat and Republicans ignore them because they vote 90% Democrat. Here's hoping that changes.

The Washington Times

Maybe Simmons was offended by this disgrace.

I hate the American Left.

Mutiny on Flight 613

Or, when the government refuses to protect it's citizens, the citizens begin to protect themselves.

British holidaymakers staged an unprecedented mutiny - refusing to allow their flight to take off until two men they feared were terrorists were forcibly removed.

The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic.

Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 minutes before it was due to leave the Costa del Sol at 3am. Others waiting for Flight ZB 613 in the departure lounge refused to board it.

Here's the worst part: It's 99.999% likely that those two men were simply traveling somewhere, without any hostile intent. But people are recognizing that the government, both in the UK and here in the USA, is more interested in PC politics than any kind of real security. And in the face of a government who will not deal with the reality of islamic terrorism, the citizens will take steps to protect themselves.

And that's pretty damn scary, when you think of it. No matter how heavy handed the government can be, mob rule is generally worse.

Could this be the beginning of a backlash? Possibly. More likely it was simply people who are fed up with the lack of any realistic response by the government who is supposed to deal with these issues. Although, if it gets the government to actually deal with islamic terrorism in a realistic light, it could end up being a good thing. But based on what I've seen, the government will keep doing what it's doing, and people will simply get more and more upset until they take many matters into their own hands.

Via Instapundit.

Been light blogging

Been away on business, in New York, and on the way back on Wednesday caught This American Life on NPR, right after News and Notes, a political show with a roundtable of guests who all sit on the same side. Anyway, This American Life was "Last Words". If you have an hour and broadband I suggest a listen.

Ruthless

Ace savages Jacqueline.

Who doesn't love sockpuppets?

It's the ultimate admission that you have no argument, so you have to create an internet identity to show up and nod it's head very quickly while going "Yeah! Yeah!" in order to give your pathetic debate a shred of credibility.

Fortunately for us, no one is truly annonymous on the internet, and we can trace IP addresses back far enough to find out who's who. Granted, you need a bit more experience and knowledge than I have, which is when push comes to shove I find other people to do my tracing. But just because I'm not an internet sleuth doesn't mean it can't be done.

Two comments at this blog were signed with the names of real people who comment here, but were not written by them. Both originated from the IP address used by Connie Mack Berry of the Rachel Hunter campaign, and both contain other information that links back to the campaign site.

The Rachel Hunter campaign has shown itself willing to play fast and loose with the facts. Identity fraud is not clever, Connie. Do it again, and you will be banned from the comments here.

Now I've heard people asking "Does sockpuppetry hurt the Blogosphere?" Well, yes, but it would kill the blogosphere if the Right was doing it as well. As it is, while it might make your average joe somewhat cautious, when the only side doing sockpuppetry is the Left, we still have a way to go to catch up to them in terms of trust lost.

Oh, by the way....

The safety officer's course? Nailed it. 96% on the final exam. So now I have my first day off in twelve days.

Pardon me whilst I relax and catch up on news and blogging. I'm sitting in my bathrobe right now, with a cup of good strong coffee at my side. If things go well, I won't be out of my bathrobe until after noon.

Dude! I WANT ONE!

5.5cm long. 2.34mm rimfire ammo. You want a pocket rocket? Here it is.

I'm betting my wife would love it! She's the one that walked into a gun store, and after perusing for a while pointed one out and said "That one's cute!"

Which caused both the guy behind the counter and I to snort at the same time.

Found via Rodger's other site.

Media Blackout

Via Rodger.

Wednesday I caught wind of Nicole Kidman's issue ad in the Los Angeles Times. Signed by 85 top actors, directors and other Hollywood glitterati, it condemned Hezbollah and Hamas, and concluded:

If we do not succeed in stopping terrorism around the world, chaos will rule and innocent people will continue to die. We need to support democratic societies and stop terrorism at all costs.

Can you believe that a statement as fundamentally American, and sensible, as that could be faulted? I spent considerable time trying to find the ad without success (I just now found it here). It wasn't even mentioned in the Los Angeles Times online! A Google news search yielded nothing from Drive-by Media, who fall over themselves covering anti-war rants by the likes if the Dixie Chunks. This morning I discovered just how complete the news embargo was.

According to Nexis, not a single American news organization other than Fox News Channel has covered it

.

How is it that every error, every omission, every slip-up made by the media only benifits one group? That group would be the terrorists who love to blow up women and children at every opportunity.

That's not a mistake. That's a bias. The media has willingly whored itself out to Leftist ideology, and in doing so has turned itself into a propaganda organ for terrorist groups.

How pathetic and disgusting.

Dems and Wal-Mart

Check out the compendium that DANEgerus has put up regarding the Dimocrat's attack on Wal-Mart. Chock full of links, chock full of information.

Me? I'm not so big on Wal-Mart. I'd rather find local suppliers for my food. And I try not to buy anything that says "Made in China" on it, which is mostly what Wal-Mart is stocked with. But then, I can afford to be a little picky.

Other people can't afford that. And who am I to tell them "Listen, that was made in China, so you can't buy it"?

There are a whole host of reasons why the Dimocrats hate Wal-Mart. Go check out the Dane to see a few of them.

So what's the cure?

Anti-Semitism is a virus.

ANTI-SEMITISM IS NOT A SIGN, A SYMBOL, A BULLET, OR A GAS, IT'S A VIRUS. It is the oldest known virus to attack the human soul. The existence of Israel masks the existence of the virus by renaming it ("anti-Zionism"). Through the renaming of this ancient disease as a “political problem,” many people now become infected through their friends, families, at their schools, from their community, church, or nation, or from exchanging infected fantasies with infected ideologues. By changing the name of the disease it has become possible for many to deny that they have contracted the virus. This facilitates the current outbreak. It is a clever virus and this shape-shifting is one of its oldest methods of perpetuating itself.

The origin of the virus is unknown, but many suspect the area to be Bablyon and Sumur with an early leap across borders into Egypt. It was later transmitted through not-so-casual contact to much of the world by traders out of Northern Africa and the Roman Empire.

During the period following the fall of Rome, the virus found traction in early Christianity as a common carrier. In this host it thrived, and was able to survive and spread for many centuries. Of late, many parts of Christianity, now that it has become fragmented, have rejected the virus and those who host it, but strains of the virus can still be found at the center of many subsets of the Christian faith today.

Islam, of course, is the not-that-new major religion to not only host the virus, but to celebrate being infected with it, and to actively take measures to make sure that, within the body of Islam, the virus can thrive and expand.

You can read the whole thing. Found via BabyTrollBlog.

Huh

Well..... OK. Yeah, I guess so.

You scored as Maximus. After his family was murdered by the evil emperor Commodus, the great Roman general Maximus went into hiding to avoid Commodus's assassins. He became a gladiator, hoping to dominate the colosseum in order to one day get the chance of killing Commodus. Maximus is valiant, courageous, and dedicated. He wants nothing more than the chance to avenge his family, but his temper often gets the better of him. Maximus 79% William Wallace 71% Captain Jack Sparrow 63% Batman, the Dark Knight 54% Indiana Jones 54% The Terminator 50% El Zorro 46% James Bond, Agent 007 46% Lara Croft 42% Neo, the "One" 38% The Amazing Spider-Man 38% Which Action Hero Would You Be? v. 2.0 created with QuizFarm.com

One of the best movies of the past decade, in my opinion. But that's why I don't vote on the Oscars.

Found via Drumwaster.

Well, it figures..

I mean, when your political philosophy is based on State sanctioned and enforced theft, you eventually stop regarding private property as private at all.

Nissan leased a small squadron of electric vehicles to the California city of Pasadena. A week or so back, the cityÂ?s lease expired and Nissan sent their trucks to the city motor pool to collect their property.

The city employees then took it upon themselves to block the trucks sent by Nissan from entering the lot and collecting NissanÂ?s property.

Just like the Leftist judges on the Supreme Court endorsed the recent farce of "Eminent Domain", just like the Leftists want the government to take more and more of your money, and have more and more control of your life, when push comes to shove they have no problem taking property that belongs to someone else under the guise of the "greater good".

School Daze

I've been taking the Unit Safety Officer course for the past few days. So that explains my lack of posting. It's a 58 hour course pushed into a 40 hour workweek. Plus homework. I should be finished with it sometime Friday evening.

Joy of joys.

When my brain gets back to normal, I'll post a bit more. It's been a busy month for me at Casa Dave.

HOOAH!

"We are Number One. Don't ever apologise for it. Just be damned proud of it!"

-LTC Randolph White

A Revolutionary Idea

Via Protein Wisdom comes this link which suggests that the British might begin *gasp* profiling airline passengers.

The government is discussing with airport operators plans to introduce a screening system that allows security staff to focus on those passengers who pose the greatest risk.

The passenger-profiling technique involves selecting people who are behaving suspiciously, have an unusual travel pattern or, most controversially, have a certain ethnic or religious background.

Look, if you're looking for Islamic terrorists, strip searching a 80 year old grandmother named "Marjorie Oppenheimer" WON'T DO YOU ANY GOOD! Kim du Toit posted an updated quiz that I don't think can be posted enough. So I stole it and I'm posting it here.

1. In 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
(a) A salesman from Utah
(b) An construction worker
(c) A college student on Spring Break
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

2. In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes were killed at the Munich Olympics by:
(a) Your grandmother
(b) A Midwest auto-parts dealer
(c) A mom and her 6-year-old son visiting from Indiana
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

3. In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
(a) A bluegrass band
(b) Dallas Cowboy fans
(c) A tour group of 80-year-old women
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

4. During the 1980’s numerous Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
(a) A family on their way to Disney World
(b) Jesse Ventura
(c) A Boy Scout Troop
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

5. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
(a) A pizza delivery boy
(b) The UPS guy
(c) Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70-year-old disabled American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by:
(a) A girls’ choir
(b) A hardware store owner
(c) A secretary
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:
(a) A Marine officer with two weeks leave
(b) A plumber going to visit his mom
(c) A Catholic nun
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
(a) A college-bound freshman
(b) A cardiac surgeon on his way to Houston
(c) A waitress
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

9. In 1993, the World Trade Center was bombed by:
(a) A starving actress
(b) A mom with a newborn
(c) Twin six-year-old boys
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

10. In 1995, a plot to blow up U.S.-bound international flights over the Pacific was attempted by:
(a) Hawaiian school kids
(b) A decorated Vietnam veteran
(c) Twin sisters on their way to Paducah
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

11. In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
(a) A local TV weatherman
(b) A dad and his two sons on a ski trip
(c) A widower going to visit his grandchildren
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

12. In 2000, 17 sailors died in an attack on the USS Cole (DDG 67) in Yemen by:
(a) A child in a stroller
(b) A high school class on their way to visit Washington, DC
(c) Newlyweds on their way to Miami
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

13. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked—two flown into the World Trade Centers, one into the Pentagon and one into the ground in rural Pennsylvania. They were hijacked by:
(a) A retired police officer on a mission trip to Haiti
(b) A firefighter going to Maryland for training
(c) A paramedic on his way to vacation in Hawaii
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

14. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl and other Westerners were kidnapped and beheaded by:
(a) The Peace Corps
(b) Scottish clansmen
(c) Cuban refugees
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

15. In 2002, more than 330 hostages in Beslan and 130 hostages in Moscow were murdered in sieges by:
(a) American exchange students
(b) The Red Guard
(c) Church planters
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

16. In 2003 the United States liberated Iraq from “The Butcher of Baghdad,” but most American military personnel were killed by:
(a) Iraqi school-girls
(b) Street vegetable vendors
(c) Women without burkas
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

17. In 2004, more than 200 Spanish civilians were murdered on trains by bombs in Madrid, detonated by:
(a) Morning commuters
(b) A three-year-old Chinese girl
(c) Flamenco dancers
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

18. In 2005 more than 50 UK citizens were killed by bombs on trains in London, detonated by:
(a) Rail workers
(b) Those unable to hail taxis
(c) Wheelchair-bound grandmothers
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

19. In 2005, there were hundreds of casualties, men, women and children, killed by bombs in Jerusalem, Riyadh and Amman. These innocent civilians were murdered by:
(a) Construction workers
(b) Farmers
(c) Christian missionaries
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

20. In 2005, the city of Paris, and other European cities experienced an extended period of riots and destruction. The unrest was led by:
(a) “Youth”
(b) Soccer fans
(c) Catholic nuns
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

21. Since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, more than 2,500 Americans have been murdered by terrorists. 35,000 Iraqi men, women and children have also been murdered by terrorists. Most of the combat and civilians casualties were the result of bombs detonated in civilian population centers by:
(a) Portuguese fruit vendors
(b) Disgruntled transit union workers
(c) Nebraska schoolteachers
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

22. In 2006, hundreds of Israeli civilians have been killed by rockets launched by:
(a) the Salvation Army
(b) remnants of the ‘Jackson Five’
(c) the cast of ‘Friends’
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

23. In 2006, a plot to blow up 10 U.S.-bound planes from the U.K. was attempted by:
(a) members of the Royal Family
(b) Japanese tourists
(c) Metallica groupies
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

24. Since 2001, the FBI has reported that there are major terrorist cells still in U.S. urban centers. Several of these cells have been uncovered and cell members arrested. In every case, the terrorists cell members were:
(a) elderly Southern Baptists
(b) Lutheran Youth Groups
(c) Presbyterian ministers
(d) Middle Eastern Islamist males between the ages of 17 and 40.

We're not at war with the Swedish Bikini Team here. We know who wants to blow us up. We know who's calling for American's destruction. And just because the Left is more concerned with the FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELINGS of those poor widdle misunderstood militants doesn't mean that we have to play by their rules. At this point, I don't give a shit if people get pissed off. My step-son got on a plane today to go home. Do you know how long my wife stood at the airport with him?

Three hours.

Three hours of security checks on a blonde-haired, blue-eyed, 12 year old boy, because gosh, we don't want to upset anybody! Three hours of security checks because the Left can't admit that there's a group of people who want us to all die, and they don't want us to search for that group.

Fuck that.

I say we need to buck up, grab our balls back, and profile the hell out of any non-American muslim. And if that pisses off muslims, too damn bad. Maybe when muslims stop trying to blow up Americans, we can treat them like regular people.

Mark me down as unsurprised

Via Instapundit comes this:

Federal prosecutors in Miami were prepared to indict Raul Castro as the head of a major cocaine smuggling conspiracy in 1993, but the Clinton Administration Justice Department overruled them, current and former Justice Department officials tell ABC News.

Clinton probably had flashbacks to his college days and didn't want his main supply route cut off.

The more that comes out about Clinton's time in office, the more disgusted I become.

Disgusting

Can we question their patriotism now?

Gee, and they wonder why we call them anti-American....

Again, Disgusting.

Just Disgusting, but at least these people are Canadian, so I don't feel that they have much of a voice in American politics.

The General Speaks

And you had better listen.

David at Random Nuclear Strikes has found a letter from a US Army General who's rather pissed off at the Washington Post right now.

After spending almost three days traveling with and being interviewed by one of the co-writers of a very poorly written article (“Much Undone in Rebuilding Iraq, Audit says”, Washington Post, August 2, 2006), I’m astounded at how distorted a good story can become and what agenda drives a paper to see only the bad side to the reconstruction effort here in Iraq. Instead of distorting the facts, let’s get to the truth.

Being a General, he said things with a much nicer tone than I would have. But that's why he makes the big bucks, while us foul-mouthed NonComs deal with the daily crap.

He's also found a link to this site, which features rather different inspirational posters. (WARNING! WARNING! CONTAINS GAMING CONTENT!) AK has his favorite, but I like a few other ones. Check out the motto for "Chaotic Good". Yeah. I like that.

"Now I want you all to listen to me. I did. NOT. Have personal relations. With that man. Waheed Zaman."

Ace

Bomb Plot Commentary...

...from Democratic Underpants, via Gateway Pundit. You MUST see the comment by someone called "flyarm". It will make your day. I promise.

Light blogging notice

I'm going to be helping different units this weekend during training, and I won't have computer access. So, don't expect too much from me this weekend.

In the meantime, we've got Tim, TVE, and an awsome blogroll!

Been reading BabyTrollBlog lately?

If not, why not? It's on our blogroll, after all.

In any case, for those who haven't been keeping up on Alger and Dolly, Alger has a piece up about the fauxtography flap as it's seen by the Left. In this case, he quotes Oliver Willis, although I've seen Willis' sentiments expressed on almost every Leftist website, if it's been brought up at all. The major thrust of the Left's arguments are, in a nutshell, "What's the big deal?"

Go read Alger's response to it. It's worth the time.

BWAAHAAHAAAA!

Via this grumpy old fart.

I don't think that the Howling Moonbats know just how much ammunition they've given the Republicans. They really don't know. And what's better, they've removed a liberal Democrat from office in order to further their little games. And they're gloating about it!

I think I might just enjoy this November.

Jeez

Thanks to DANEgerus for leaving this in the comments below. Democrats, 2006. Hard to believe.

My Give-a-Damn's Busted

The Dixie Chicks have had to cancel several shows due to lack of ticket sales.

Several concerts on the Dixie Chicks' "Accidents & Accusations" tour have been canceled after slow ticket sales, but the group says it has replaced them with other dates.

Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, Memphis and Knoxville are among 14 cities no longer on the original schedule released in May, according to a revised itinerary posted Thursday on the Dixie Chick's Web site.

Look at those cities I emphasised. If Natalie Maines had just kept her yap shut, those cities would have sold out in hours. Not days. Not weeks. Hours.

But no, 'ol Natalie had to open her big mouth, and when the fans, you know, the people who buy the CD's and buy the concert tickets, when the fans had the audacity to show their disapproval with her little overseas speech, the Dixie Chicks didn't say "Oops, sorry, we shouldn't have said that". No, they had to say "You ignorant hayseeds, what do YOU know?!"

And now they can't sell concert tickets in frigging Memphis.

I'm sure there are country music singers out there who don't support the war. I'm sure there are country music singers out there who voted for John Kerry. But I don't care, so long as they keep their politics to themselves and just sing. But badmouthing my President overseas during a time of war doesn't sit well with me, and it doesn't sit well with most if not all of the people who buy country music.

Too bad, Natalie. Enjoy Canada.

Lieberman loses

And the downward spiral of the Democrat party continues.

What is the message here? There are quite a few messages, actually.

The Democrats apparently think that displaying a political opponent in blackface is perfectly OK.

The Democrats think that photoshopping your political opponent into a homosexual who's performing sexual acts on the President is also perfectly OK.

In fact, when it comes to gaining political power, anything goes for the Democrats. Standards? Morals? Decency? Who needs 'em, when you've got a primary to win!

The Democrats are the party of capitulation to terrorists.

The Democrats are the party of the Hard Left, the so-called "fringe" Left. But they're not the Fringe Left, they're in control of the Democrats and yanking that wheel harder to the Left than they have in recent years.

Every time the Democrats have been given a chance on the national level to prove that they can still field a candidate who's somewhat of a moderate, they've failed. In fact, every time the Democrats have been given a chance to prove that they are not the brainless, twiterpated asscannons that we say they are, they fail miserably! The only good thing you can say about the Democrats right now is that they didn't re-elect McKinney, but that's like saying "Well, we have to cut off both of your legs, but if you still had them your feet would be in great shape!" It's nice news, but compared to the damage the Democrats have done to themselves, it's too little, too late.

Whenever I get the chance, I'm going to pound on the Democrats as the party of surrender, the party of running away, the party of capitulation, the party of curling up into a ball and pretending that the world outside of our borders doesn't exist. Because that's what they've proven themselves to be.

Enjoy Lamont, Democrats. Because you're going to choke on him and candidates like him.

By the way, what is the Kos crowd now in politics? 1 for 20 or so?