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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Saddam In Custody -- Moore, Soros, Dean Still At Large (Coulter)
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 07/01/2004 20:55 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Heh.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/01/2004 23:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Man, nobody cuts like Coulter. Right to the bone.

Hey, Zenster - this is how we "met", remember? I commented on a Coulter Editorial piece and you came screeching through with your Shrub stuff. Trying to forget? It's nice here in RB, isn't it?

And I still love Coulter's writing. She calls all the spades spades. What a concept - total honesty.
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 23:19 Comments || Top||


Twinkies’ GI Joe giveaway sparks furor
The Minnesota Twins’ latest giveaway idea is drawing criticism from anti-war groups. The Twins plan to distribute a GI Joe action figure at Monday night’s game against the Kansas City Royals . The first 5,000 children at the game will get a nearly four-inch high action figure called Duke. The Twins say the promotion is a way to honor local military personnel. But groups such as Veterans for Peace , Friends for a Non-Violent World and Women Against Military Madness object to the giveaway and are asking the Twins to cancel it.
This rates about a 7.2 on my Whine-o-meter™.
Posted by: Dar || 07/01/2004 12:16:26 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But groups such as Veterans for Peace , Friends for a Non-Violent World and Women Against Military Madness object to the giveaway and are asking the Twins to cancel it.

Tough shit. It's their promotion, and they can do as they please.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 07/01/2004 12:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Shit. Just tell them Duke is gay. That'll shut these assholes up.
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/01/2004 12:21 Comments || Top||

#3  The Twins suck, but I grew up on GI Joe and GI Joe RULES! I'd go to the game just to piss off the peaceniks.
Posted by: Chris W. || 07/01/2004 12:25 Comments || Top||

#4  The filthy anti-war wankers have their own dolls 'Pete the Protester' and 'Liberal Larry'. Pete comes with unwashed hippy hair and a 'nuke me' protest sign. (There was a goof up at the doll plant, the sign should have read. 'Kerry for King in 04')

'Liberal Larry' can not hold a sign since he is already holding a bag full of drugs.
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 07/01/2004 12:47 Comments || Top||

#5  It's strange that twinks would protest the twinkies giveaway.
Posted by: Anonymous5494 || 07/01/2004 13:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Here's an idea. If you object to GI Joe, DONT TAKE ONE when you go into the stadium!!

Sheesh
Posted by: Doc8404 || 07/01/2004 14:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Dude, I would definitely buy a "Pete the Protestor" or "Liberal Larry" doll. Gotta have someone for the GI Joes to beat the crap out of in bar fights.
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 07/01/2004 15:17 Comments || Top||

#8  Dude, I would definitely buy a "Pete the Protestor" or "Liberal Larry" doll. Gotta have someone for the GI Joes to beat the crap out of in bar fights.
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 07/01/2004 15:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Robert, we could set up a cage match, lolol
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 07/01/2004 15:32 Comments || Top||

#10 
I expect that the Twins appreciate the free advertising that the protests provide. I bet that the membership of all those groups includes a maximum of 20 Twins fans and possibly two season ticket holders.

Note: I predict that both lefty-kook season ticket holders will burn their remaining tickets at the rally ... and then be sighted sitting in their regular seats the following weekend. John Kerry has created a hold new genre of protest: the sham photo-op.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/02/2004 0:41 Comments || Top||


Man shoots, misses recruiter, kills self in beef with USAF
EFL: A 42-year-old Hayward man with an apparent grudge against the U.S. Air Force walked into a recruiting office Wednesday, shot several times at a recruiter, then killed himself with a bullet to the head. Lt. Steve Pricco said the male recruiter narrowly escaped multiple rounds fired at him by the assailant. "He was very lucky," Pricco said.
Maybe the guy washed out of basic cuz he failed marksmanship?

Pricco said many questions remained unanswered Wednesday, but a preliminary investigation indicated the gunman walked into the Air Force recruiting office at 1:37 p.m. The man approached a lone Air Force recruiter who was sitting at a desk, working on a laptop. "The suspect mumbled something unintelligible, pulled out a revolver and fired at the recruiter at very close range," Pricco said. One bullet struck the laptop screen, shattering it and sending shards of glass into the recruiter's face.
Humm, I don't think this qualifies for a Purple Heart
Kerry got one for less.

As the recruiter retreated from the gunfire, the gunman shot at him at least twice more, Pricco said. The recruiter, who suffered some nicks to his face and neck from the destroyed laptop, escaped serious injury. Moments after opening fire on the recruiter, the gunman pointed the revolver toward his own head and fired. He died in the office, just inside the front doors.
Pricco said the gunman had left a note on the pavement in front of the recruiting office. While he would not divulge its contents, Pricco said the note indicated that the man had specifically targeted the U.S. Air Force office. The note, handwritten and consisting of about four or five lines, also apparently mentioned several people by name and rank.
I'll bet he turns out to be ex-AF, most likely kicked out for something. Or he tried to enlist and was denied. Since they give his age as 42, he's been stewing about it for a while.

"This does not appear to be random, based on the contents of the note," Pricco said, declining to elaborate. He also said the man had written something on the revolver with white marker that further indicated that he was targeting the Air Force. It was unknown what connection, if any, the gunman may have had to the military.
Ok, we've all thought about shooting our recruiters, at one time or another.
Posted by: Steve || 07/01/2004 11:26:56 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Three close shots and never hit the guy? Now I know we Air Force types are not the best shots, but I can hit something at close range at least once out of three. I bet this guy was tossed or denied re-elistment for mental reasons. Wonder who is on the list? FYI I am GLAD that the recruiter is fine not disappointed.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) || 07/01/2004 12:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Soldier, clean up that mess and get this office operational innediately. We have men to recruit and we require a clean, brain and skull fragment-free office in which to do so.
Posted by: Chris W. || 07/01/2004 12:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Give the psycho credit. He didn't miss when it counted.
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/01/2004 12:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Air base nearby? I'm guessing... pregnant daughter.
Posted by: BH || 07/01/2004 13:12 Comments || Top||

#5  "Give the psycho credit. He didn't miss when it counted."

-too bad that shot wasn't his first.
Posted by: Jarhead || 07/01/2004 13:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Jarhead! How's it going? Back from your deployment already?
Posted by: Raj || 07/01/2004 13:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Jarhead! Welcome back to RB! I was getting worried - long time no read.
Posted by: Doc8404 || 07/01/2004 14:29 Comments || Top||

#8  I bet he was a peacenik.
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 07/01/2004 15:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Okay, full disclosure - I recruited for the USAF from Sept 89 to Aug 93, and let me assure you: easily 25% of the people who walk into a recruiter's office are out of their f**king minds.
I had:
*A man who came in carrying a baseball bat insisting that I had to drive him from Akron OH to Washington DC to tell the FBI about an alien plot on President Bush(41)
*A woman who had a 200+ page handwritten letter to the White House demanding a private 1-800 number to the President.
*A man who was easily 400 lbs - and could only get through the office door with great difficulty - demanding to be made an officer at once, and with a guaranteed job as a pilot.
*The best(and weirdest) of all: A woman (6'6" and easily 300 lbs) who kept coming in and asking if she could join. Of course, I always had to tell her no. Well, one day she comes charging in and drops a pile of blueprints - about a foot high - on my desk and says if I don't get her in, she's sending the other copy of these to the Canadians. She then storms out.
I open up the blue prints - they are (and I kid you NOT) the main USAF Civil Engineer blueprints for almost every building at Wright Patterson AFB, OH - a major R&D and logistics base. Needless to say, I am on the phone to the leadership within a few minutes, tell them the story and am told if she ever shows up again, I'm to stall her and call them at ONCE.
Fast forward about a week later. There's a knock at the office door, and two Akron PD detectives are standing there. They tell me that my friend with the blueprints did a header that morning off the Route 8 bridge - 300 ft over the Cuyahoga Valley and (literally)went through the roof of a factory under the bridge. My business card was the only thing in her pocket besides her ID and welfare card. Before she jumped, she was screaming ...something about the Canadians being after her.


Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/01/2004 16:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Damn Mike! What stories!
Write a book!

BTW just to finish the tale....
Were the Canadians after her?
Posted by: Shipman || 07/01/2004 16:11 Comments || Top||

#11  Damn, Mike - your life is a LOT more interesting than mine!

Shipman - LOL.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/01/2004 16:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Mike, why would you ever leave a fun job like that?
This dodo from Hayward reminds me of a story an AF training NCO once told me: A recruit was on barracks guard and decided to hang himself. He tied a bedsheet around the rafter and the other end around his neck. He waited on top of a footlocker until the TI came through the door and then he jumped off. But the sheet was too long so he came to no harm. That is until the NCO got in his face shouting "damn you airman can't you do anything right?"
Glad that the recruiter's encounter was with an equally incompetant moron.
Posted by: GK || 07/01/2004 16:24 Comments || Top||

#13  What would Brian Boytono do? Blame Canada! Oh Blame Canada!
Posted by: AllahHateMe || 07/01/2004 16:58 Comments || Top||

#14  Mike, I bet we find out the Canadians are behind this shooting as well! FYI someone left a Canadian Quarter in our snack fund last week! And last night I saw a Canadian baseball team on the TV. And finally I saw a vehicle with Canadian license plates at a gas station on I-5. I tell you I'm getting a little nervous. I mean what if they force us to learn FRENCH! ARGH! BLAME CANADA, BLAME CANADA! REMEMBER THE WAR OR 1812!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) || 07/01/2004 17:42 Comments || Top||

#15  Cyber Sarge, the first sign that the Canadians are coming will be the Canada Geese. We always send them as the spearhead of an invasion. Look for them this fall...
Posted by: Patrick || 07/01/2004 18:09 Comments || Top||

#16  ...FWIW - the Akron cops later told me that there was no evidence she'd ever even left the Akron city limits, and her telephone records showed nothing other than local calls.
Of course, those Canadians ARE fiendishly clever....

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/01/2004 20:17 Comments || Top||

#17  Geez Mike,

I thought I detected a little condescension from the recruiter when I looked into joining the Army after 9/11.

I'm sane, reasonably fit, well educated, blah, blah, blah but was four years too old. I think this young woman had seen her share already of "9/11 patriots" (she said a lot of guys in my situation--"old",married, kids, but pissed off with terrorists--had been in).

I guess I never considered she probably had a lot of psychos to deal with then as well.

I swear I'm not psycho--I just wanted to kill jihadis. Is that so wrong? ; )

Posted by: JDB || 07/01/2004 20:23 Comments || Top||

#18  Raj/Doc - been out the last month on leave. Moving the wife and kid from S.C. back to Lejeune, I won't deploy until next year (so they tell me) ;)
Posted by: Jarhead || 07/01/2004 22:23 Comments || Top||


Obituary for a Patriot: Maj. Gen. George S. Patton Dies at 80
Posted by: Dragon Fly || 07/01/2004 06:53 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Perhaps Elvis will play at the funeral.

Nevermind.... I remember the kid now.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/01/2004 8:35 Comments || Top||

#2  If I remember the story correctly, he was ready to invade North Vietnam when the Pentagon found out. He was then quickly moved to another assignment and the story hushed up. Just a chip off the old block. God bless him.
Posted by: Steve || 07/01/2004 8:40 Comments || Top||

#3  As a colonel he commanded the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Vietnam and rose to the rank of major general when he was about to be named commander of U.S. armored forces in Germany. It was 1980, Jimmy Carter was president, and when the Soviets objected to so able a son of their old enemy being given such a command, Carter flinched and Patton retired in disgust.

Looks like another reason has just been provided to despise Jimmy Carter.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 07/01/2004 12:01 Comments || Top||

#4  [H]e was about to be named commander of U.S. armored forces in Germany. It was 1980, Jimmy Carter was president, and when the Soviets objected to so able a son of their old enemy being given such a command, Carter flinched and Patton retired in disgust.
Should have held on a few more months 'til Ronnie took office. He would have told the Sovs where to stick their opinion.
Posted by: Dar || 07/01/2004 12:03 Comments || Top||

#5  I remember pictures of him drinking out of a VC skull when he was over there.
Bet that would go over real big these days.
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/01/2004 12:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Looks like another reason has just been provided to despise Jimmy Carter.

As if any more are needed, unless you like piling on (and I do).
Posted by: Raj || 07/01/2004 13:06 Comments || Top||


Spacecraft Cassini Enters Saturn's Orbit
Posted by: Steve White || 07/01/2004 1:10:54 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All your planet are belong to us!
Posted by: Dar || 07/01/2004 12:09 Comments || Top||

#2  The Cassini Probe is really sponsored by Halliburton, and they're looking for ways to mine the solar system. The little Huygens probe is really a "Genesis" device like in "Star Trek II," and it's going to speed Titan's evolution, so Cheney can start exploiting its oil reserves.

Damned Halliburton.

CHEEEEEENNNNNNNEEEEEEYYYYY!!!! (Kirk screaming out Khan's name)
Posted by: Anonymous5420 || 07/01/2004 14:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Today's images are fantastic. Cassini's arrival is a major defeat for the eco-left luddites, who have made a veritable industry out of bashing Cassini ever since its nuclear power source was selected.

With Saddam Hussein about to go on trial, they aren't having much luck with the other side of their agenda either.
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Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 07/01/2004 16:45 Comments || Top||


Britain
Three-nation alliance trampled by ’rogue elephant’ Chirac
EFL & Hat tip to Instapundit
Britain has concluded that its three-nation alliance with France and Germany is in effect over after a series of rows between Tony Blair and the French President, Jacques Chirac.
What took so long?
Ministers believe President Chirac has become impossible to work with, and one government source described him as a "rogue elephant". The strategy of "trilateralism" has now given way to limited ad hoc co-operation on specific issues.
Someone has been shaking the Clue Tree (TM)
Asked if the three-way approach was dead, one Blair aide replied, "yes". The Prime Minister’s change of tack emerged as he accused France and Germany of watering down moves to ensure stability in Iraq and Afghanistan and warned that this week’s Nato summit had not faced up to the threat of global terrorism.
And today’s Understatement Award goes to....
Posted by: Dragon Fly || 07/01/2004 8:15:08 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chirac reacted with a furious taunting. "'Ow dare you call me an 'elephant,' you English pig-dogs! I am a weasel, and I am proud to be a weasel, you sons of a silly person! It is not called "Axis of Weasels" for nothing. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries! Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."
Posted by: Mike || 07/01/2004 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Just as long as he doesn't wave his private parts at us.
Posted by: Spot || 07/01/2004 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Or, heaven forbid, fart in our general direction.
Posted by: docob || 07/01/2004 11:10 Comments || Top||

#4  "Three-nation alliance"???

Er, how many members does the EU have again? These guys need to stop talking about "alliances" - the rest of the EU members might start to feel left out or something....
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 07/01/2004 12:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Another yea! for Tony. He is one of the few leaders in Europe with enough intelligence, knowledge, good sense, and biting wit to hobble Chirac's megalomania.
Posted by: jules 187 || 07/01/2004 12:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Excellent deliciously funny rant, #1.

Another yea! for Tony. He is one of the few leaders in Europe with enough intelligence, knowledge, good sense, and biting wit to hobble Chirac's megalomania.
I agree with you that Blair is smart and funny. But Blair himself shares Chirac's flaw of expansive ego. I appreciate the fact that Blair was a major partner in GWB's decision to invade Iraq. But Blair is a committed socialist and don't any of us forget that. If Blair resided in the USA, he's run as a Democrat with Hilary as his VP or vice versa. Blair has ruined the UK's education system. He has put the UK at great risk due to his demented loosey goosey refuge/immigration policies. Blair has tried to ram EU/Brussels committee government on the Brits and only when his back was to the wall did he agree to allow the Brits a vote on the issue. Blair represented a great danger to the UK preserving its proud heritage and culture.

Posted by: rex || 07/01/2004 14:14 Comments || Top||

#7  I still want to see the German reaction.
Posted by: Liberalhawk || 07/01/2004 14:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Rex, I am shocked because I agree with you completely!
You called Tony perfectly, except you forgot to add that under his "leadership," crime rates in Britain have skyrocketed with their lenient sentences, anti-gun policies and molly-coddling of criminals and he's further wrecked the National Health Service (which was pretty bad to start with) as well as the education system.
Time for Howard and the Tories to take power.
Posted by: Jen || 07/01/2004 14:25 Comments || Top||

#9  Wretchard has some observations regards Chirac, NATO, Afghanistan, and piracy. Worth a look, IMHO.

I would like to see NATO expel France - then see if that change can save it from becoming insignificant.
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 15:05 Comments || Top||

#10  would like to see NATO expel France
Heck, I'd like to see NATO invade Frawnce. No more foie gras for you!
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/01/2004 15:14 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Kolzak Testimony: Continuing Human Rights Abuses in Cuba
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/01/2004 03:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Suggestion to Mr. Kolzak (The Night Stalker??): communicate your concerns to HRW or AI and see if anything happens.....but whatever you do, don't hold your breath...
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 07/01/2004 12:11 Comments || Top||

#2  The Varela Project is amazing to me:

But despite this very real danger, Cubans are clearly losing their fear of the dying regime and are demanding a role in building their own democratic future. An authentically independent civil society -- the building blocks of a real democracy -- is developing before our eyes. The Varela Project is a peaceful call for a national referendum on political and economic reforms in Cuba that seeks to take advantage of a clause in the Castro constitution that requires the national assembly to consider a referendum upon the petition of 10,000 citizens. The regime obviously never thought that such a provision could be used against it, but it happened. Over 11,000 signatures were collected from ordinary Cuban citizens in 2002 and presented to the National Assembly. This showed incredible courage on the part of those who signed and registered their identification numbers. The response from the regime was to arrest over 20 of the organizers and to sentence them to long prison terms. But instead of capitulating to this pressure, civil society leader Oswaldo Paya and his colleagues reconstituted their effort and collected and delivered an additional 14,000 signatures. These thousands of Cuban citizens cannot be dismissed by the government as an insignificant, miniscule group of misfits. Vladimiro Roca, the son of one of the founders of the Cuban Communist Party, was jailed along with Marta Beatriz Roque, Felix Bonne, and Rene Gomez Manzano in 1997. Vladimiro himself did over 5 years in prison yet continues his work. We admire and applaud these valiant and principled efforts to promote peaceful and positive changes in Cuba despite active hostility from the Castro government. And we welcome the growing optimism in Cuba itself that the end of the dictatorship is near.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/01/2004 23:02 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Increasing Number of Heroes in DPRK
This needs no embellishment.
Five decades have passed since the titles of Hero of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (June 30, 1950) and Labor Hero (July 17, 1951) were instituted. Thousands of heroes have been produced during the period. The history of the victorious Korean revolution is associated with feats of the heroes. The anti-Japanese revolutionary war veterans, who fought against the Japanese imperialists and accomplished the historical cause of national liberation in August 1945 under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung, rallied around him, were the first generation of heroes produced by Korea. By carrying forward their spirit, the Korean people displayed mass heroism to the full in the Fatherland Liberation War against the U.S. imperialist aggressors from June 1950 to July 1953. The Korean war produced 533 heroes and twice heroes of the Republic. They defended the freedom and independence of the country by giving full play to their matchless bravery and self-sacrificing spirit. Among the heroes were a platoon leader Kim Chang Gol and Ri Su Bok, 18, who ensured the advance of their units by covering the enemy’s machine guns with their bodies; Kang Ho Yong who rolled down to enemies with a hand-grenade in his mouth after losing his arms and legs during a combat and blasted himself among them; Jo Sun Ok who destroyed a tank with a hand-grenade at the cost of her life; Thae Son Hui who distinguished herself in air battles as the first woman fighter pilot in Korea; and Jo Ok Hui who had a good record of service in the Jinamsan People’s Guerrilla Army.
Anybody know if hand grenade boy lived?
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/01/2004 7:31:44 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mind you, some of these same sort of heroes are also the ones stupid enough to charge back into burning buildings after the train explosion so they could rescue state mandated portraits of Kim and Pappy Kim.

Do they award these medals to young parents who usher grandma and grandpa out into winter's snowy embrace when the food is running short?

Where's the one for satisfactorily complying with the "Let's eat two meals a day" government imposed starvation campaign?

What do they award the "corn guards" who are posted to keep farmers from stealing their own ripening crops?

The only thing "heroic" about all of this is the restraint shown by North Korean citizens in not rending Kim from limb to limb while he still breathes.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/01/2004 21:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Stakhanovite efforts all! The "hand grenade inhis mouth" imagery, however, forces me to put off my dinner...
Posted by: borgboy || 07/01/2004 22:13 Comments || Top||


Hong Kong Braces for Huge Democracy March
Posted by: Steve White || 07/01/2004 1:20:58 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
13yo ’sold’ to her rapist
A 13-year-old Turkish girl was married off by her family to her rapist who paid them "the price of a truck" to escape a long jail sentence, newspapers in Istanbul reported today. The story came to light when public officials realised her family had tried to change her age to 16 to make the marriage legal. The girl, from the village of Damlibogaz, in western Turkey, was 10 years old when a family friend, aged 20, started sleeping with her. The rapes continued for a year before she fell pregnant and gave birth to a girl. Her rapist, Ferit Cicek, was sentenced to 18Âœ years in jail. His family then promised the girl’s family 10 billion Turkish pounds ($9600) for an arranged marriage which would allow the young man to walk free.

Turkish law currently allows sharp reductions in prison sentences for rapists who agree to marry their victims. In 2002, 546 men took advantage of the procedure and another 163 in the first four months of 2003, according to official figures. Parliament is in the process of amending the law to close the loophole. The young girl was married off by her farm-working parents last month in a ceremony at the local prison after they, and two witnesses, testified before a court that she was three years older than officially believed. The parents now face a prison sentence of three to eight years for lying to public officials. "They sold me for 10 or 12 billion pounds. With it, my father wanted to buy himself a truck," the young girl told reporters. Her father also accepted to be interviewed by reporters in exchange for money. "I’ve got to think of myself," he told Aksam newspaper.
Posted by: tipper || 07/01/2004 9:00:45 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm really tired of hearing people apologize for backward Muslims. All of Arab Islam at least is destructive, backward and dangerous. While nominally an isolationist I'm beginning to think that the only hope for world is for the US to lead a coalition of like minded nations in dragging the middle east into the modern world.
Posted by: Formerly Dan || 07/01/2004 10:00 Comments || Top||

#2  Comments, Murat?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2004 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Wow. How widespread is this kind of mindset in Turkey? It certainly shatters my preconceived notions about Turkey if this kind of "commoditization" of daughters' sexual assets is widepsread...
Posted by: jules 187 || 07/01/2004 11:11 Comments || Top||

#4  "I’ve got to think of myself..."
"In fact, that's all I think about."
Posted by: Dar || 07/01/2004 12:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Turkish law currently allows sharp reductions in prison sentences for rapists who agree to marry their victims.

Hello, does anyone over there actually care what the victim thinks?????
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 07/01/2004 12:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Hello, does anyone over there actually care what the victim thinks?????

*Begin Medieval Mind Mode*
Victim? What victim? You mean the man facing decades in prison for just doing what the little trollop was asking for?
*End Medieval Mind Mode*
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 07/01/2004 13:43 Comments || Top||

#7  Good thing Turkey is a bastion of Moderate Muslims, else the guy would've had to kill her.
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 14:21 Comments || Top||

#8  .com--Bullseye.
Posted by: jules 187 || 07/01/2004 14:30 Comments || Top||

#9  or bravely throw acid in her face, like any Muslim father would do to save the honor of the family.
Posted by: anymouse || 07/01/2004 14:48 Comments || Top||

#10  Turkish law currently allows sharp reductions in prison sentences for rapists who agree to marry their victims. In 2002, 546 men took advantage of the procedure and another 163 in the first four months of 2003, according to official figures.

Anyone care to bet what sort of lather (and rightfully so) women's rights advocates will work up over this little chestnut?

Marrying off rapists to their victims? That's going to make for mutually satisfying matrimonial conditions, all right. Calling Turkey a "moderate Muslim nation" is like labeling a crocodile a "pool maintenance technician."
Posted by: Zenster || 07/01/2004 16:28 Comments || Top||

#11  Anyone care to bet what sort of lather (and rightfully so) women's rights advocates will work up over this little chestnut?

Sadly, with the exception of me and perhaps a handful of others, they are busy salivating over Bill & Hillary at the DNC book lovefest.
Posted by: jules 187 || 07/01/2004 16:57 Comments || Top||

#12 
Anyone care to bet what sort of lather (and rightfully so) women's rights advocates will work up over this little chestnut?
Well, that's a silly question, Zenster. How very non-multicultural of you.

Since the "men" in question are (a) not white, (b) not Christian, and especially (c) not American, the so-called "women's rights" groups in this country (and the rest of the West) won't say anything at all.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/01/2004 19:52 Comments || Top||

#13  jules and Barbara, thank you for the lumps that I, perhaps only, partially deserve. I still refuse to believe that this world can be so blinded by partisan politics as to ignore such blatant simultaneous affronts to both reason and ethics.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/01/2004 21:54 Comments || Top||

#14  hear the fucking crickets Zen? That's the feminist majority sitting on their collective asses
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2004 22:13 Comments || Top||


Chirac’s Rule, a New Rule, Is Applied to a Rival
Nicolas Sarkozy very much wants to be the president of France. Too much, it seems, for President Jacques Chirac. From inside Élysée Palace, Mr. Sarkozy, the 49-year-old minister of finance, is viewed as nakedly ambitious and politically tone-deaf, a man who has broken the unspoken code that bans the flaunting of ambition, especially if it involves the replacement of the boss. The issue is particularly raw because Mr. Sarkozy is also the most popular politician on the right, more popular than the man he serves. And Mr. Chirac has not decided whether to seek a third presidential term three years from now, when he will be 74.
(or go to jail)
So in a dramatic, if crude, move to neutralize his most dangerous political rival, Mr. Chirac told Mr. Sarkozy in a meeting a week ago that he could achieve his goal of becoming the head of the governing Union for a Popular Movement this fall, a post that brings with it huge sums of money, personal prestige and the force of the party machine. The only thing Mr. Sarkozy has to do is quit his day job and leave the government, in effect invoking a new rule ...
Chirac in a bind? Great
Posted by: Capt America || 07/01/2004 6:36:49 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Spiderman 2 "meant to silence Moore"
ScrappleFace.
(2004-06-30) -- Spider-Man 2 is part of "a web of deception, a conspiracy to silence" Oscar-winning documentarist Michael Moore, according to the filmmaker whose Fahrenheit 9/11 is America’s current number one box office smash.

"It’s not just the cynical timing of the release of Spider-Man 2," said Mr. Moore, "but the movie endorses the unilateral and so-called righteous use of power to overcome so-called evil. This is a thinly-veiled rebuttal of Fahrenheit 9/11 and the entire security plank of the Democrat National Committee platform."

Mr. Moore added that buying a ticket to Spider-Man 2 is "tantamount to voting for George Bush."
Posted by: Korora || 07/01/2004 9:26:43 AM || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I definitely gotta take the kids to see this one now.
Posted by: Mike || 07/01/2004 10:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Ima going today after work. Check www.boxofficemojo.com for weekend tix sales numbers - bet F-9/11 drops to $2-3 mill max....all the kool-aid drinkers have seen it, there won't be any new sales rush
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2004 10:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Frank to you put on a tie to go to the movies? Sort of a change of pace?
Posted by: Shipman || 07/01/2004 11:23 Comments || Top||

#4  man the left realy is beyond parody.. if not for the scrappleface note.. I would have thought this was real
Posted by: Dcreeper || 07/01/2004 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Conspiracy! CONSPIRACY!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 07/01/2004 11:56 Comments || Top||

#6  I saw it last night and it is fantastic. Much MUCH better than the first movie.
Posted by: Chris W. || 07/01/2004 12:38 Comments || Top||

#7  nope! BTW Spiderman in 1 day ($38.6M est.) passed what Moore's crap's done since it came out ($35.6M) ...proving that his film's not even good fiction
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2004 12:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Spider-Man really is the anti-Farenheit. As evidence, permit me to quote The Mighty James Lileks on the first Spider-Man film:

. . . when historians sift through the pop-culture of America looking for hints and clues, they will notice that a character born in Vietnam-era 1963 reached a mass appeal in 2002, shortly before the Second Iraq War, and they will pay particular attention to the recurring phrase:

With great power comes great responsibility.

Go ahead; argue this is a sign of Western self-delusion, or a statement of solemn principles - that’s not my point. I’m just saying that that simple homily means something about the culture from which it came. Not: with great power comes great opportunity for burying your foes beneath the spiked wheels of your juggernaut! or with great power comes booty like you would - not - believe! Of course, the next question is, responsibility to do what? And there the arguments start. The EUians would mean we have a responsibility to sign Kyoto and join the ICC; others would insist we have a responsibility to reduce global income inequality, or smash states that are on a crash course to develop weapons of mass destruction. You could say that Spider-Man’s credo is the central dilemma of a unipolar world. But that would be silly.

Accurate, but silly.

If people can get PhDs today on the diaries of 18th century plantation wives . . . then they certainly can get a doctoral degree in 2102 dissecting a culture’s approach to the relation between power and responsibility, and why that concept popped up in 2002. They’ll probably miss the point, because the point is simple: do good, because that’s what good people do.

We’re never as good as our myths, but surely it says something that our myths are good.
Posted by: Mike || 07/01/2004 12:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Muahahahahaha! You only think this is parody! For behold, noted Right Wing Death Beast Richard Cohen recommends Spiderman over Moore's movie! (WaPo, so registration required):

Some of that old feeling returned while watching Moore's assault on the documentary form. It is so juvenile in its approach, so awful in its journalism, such an inside joke for people who already hate Bush, that I found myself feeling a bit sorry for a president who is depicted mostly as a befuddled dope. I fear how it will play to the undecided.

For them, I recommend "Spider-Man 2."

HA-ha!
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 07/01/2004 14:39 Comments || Top||

#10  I would give anything to see Moore entangled, trying to fight his way out of, Spidey's web.
Posted by: Capt America || 07/01/2004 17:40 Comments || Top||

#11  Sheesh! I'd give anything to be referred to as a Right Wing Death Beast! *killer nym envy* :-)
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 17:48 Comments || Top||

#12  You ever read Tim Blair, .com? All Tim's readers are RWDBs by (dis)courtesy.
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 07/01/2004 18:27 Comments || Top||

#13  Angie - Yeah, but that's as a group, sniff sniff. Your post struck my envy nerve, heh!
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 18:32 Comments || Top||

#14  Yeah, that's right, Mikey. Everything is all about you.

Sheesh.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/01/2004 19:54 Comments || Top||

#15  You know what is odd. Is that Moore has never done a movie attacking the horrible war in Chechenya, the murder of millions in the Sudan and the corrupt dealings of corparations from other countries, the arrest of journalists in Cuba and gasing of Kurds by Saddam.
Instead he wants to destroy the United States. The country that gives him the chance to say anything he wants. He could not say these things in Iraq or Russia(without begining killed).
Thousands and thousands have died in Checheyna but Moore has been silent. In other countries he would have been jailed, but he lives in a free country. Those who support Moore should know that it is because he lives in a free society that Moore can ACTUALLY speak/and do a movie.
Posted by: Anonymous5654 || 07/09/2004 20:04 Comments || Top||

#16  Moore and people like them JUSTIFY, in ignorant peoples minds, that attacks on the United States are acceptable. That those who would attack and kill innocent people are justified in doing so because the United States deserves it. The more you demonize a group of people, like Moore is doing, the easier it is too feel hatred towards them.

Yet if they turn their back on crimes in Chechnya and the Sudan and corruption in their own countries.
Posted by: Anonymous5654 || 07/09/2004 20:14 Comments || Top||

#17  Is there a link for the source of this quote?
Posted by: Kev || 07/13/2004 11:26 Comments || Top||

#18  I Need a link to the quote because when I go to the scrappleface item it basically repeats what you've got here. It has in it two links, one is a CNN article about Spiderman 2 and the other is an article that discusses box office returns.
Neither of the linked articles contain the quotes attributed to Moore, and in fact the quotes appear to originate with Scrappleface. Is there another article that you could link to that would perhaps verify these somewhat ridiculous quotes?
Posted by: Kev || 07/13/2004 11:37 Comments || Top||

#19  Kev,
Scrappleface is a satire site. Read it and have a good chuckle!
Posted by: ed || 07/13/2004 11:42 Comments || Top||

#20  As for this article, I would love to know what news agency released this and if there is any "real" documented proof Michael Moore actually said this. It seems that both you left and right wing people like to use false statements to sway public opinion about somebody. I would also like to have solid proof as to where Michael Moore says he supports the terrorists. Please, if you people have any decency, make these links available. Independent news sights are better than totally left, totally right wing sites.

Thanks,

Servicemember78
Posted by: servicemember78 || 07/15/2004 10:10 Comments || Top||

#21  Servicemember - Scrappleface is a joke site. It's just humour...
Posted by: Bulldog || 07/15/2004 10:22 Comments || Top||

#22  So much for the land of the free. After reading much of this site and other Republican partisan information centres, I fear for the future.

The left claims the right owns the news. The right claims the left owns the news... Everything is a fight against the political enemy. The American empire will crumble one day and you will have only your selves to blame for not listening to your whistle-blowers.

-Random Canadian Ranter
Posted by: Canadian Ranter || 07/19/2004 12:36 Comments || Top||


Micheal Moore busted in a public lie - and a crime?
Dunno if this one has been posted...
"I am an Independent," the filmmaker told reporters. "I’m not a member of the Democratic party."

Which is not exactly correct. New York City Board of Elections records show that Moore, 50, registered to vote in Gotham in 1992, checking off "Democratic" as his party affiliation (below you’ll find a copy of his original registration form)... Now here’s the good part: Moore is simultaneously registered to vote in Michigan...
Imagine if this had been a Wealthy Conservative (As wealthy as Moore) who claimed not to be a Republican - registered in 2 different palces to vote
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/01/2004 4:00:13 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Further"moore"...

He is trying to get people to falsely register to vote in "swing" states...

On his web site, Moore asks visitors to take his "Pledge of Democratic Allegiance," which calls for them to register ten new voters this summer and spend one October weekend in a swing state. "The important thing is, if you live in a place like New York or Texas, you gotta head over to Pennsylvania or New Mexico," writes Moore,
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/01/2004 4:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Moore has long struck me as the type of individual that thinks his country is HIS literally. There is no room for opinions outside his own. People like that no matter what their political persusions find repungnant. And if he is registered to vote in more than one state and votes in each he should be charged with voter fraud.
Posted by: cheaderhead || 07/01/2004 6:07 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't know, as much as I hate the fat fuck, this looks like an honest mistake, at least on the two registrations. He's moved his registration to Michigan, and not yet terminated his registration in New York. Since he hasn't voted on either since the Michigan registration, I have to give him the benefit of the doubt. Shame they didn't catch him voting both registrations, though.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 07/01/2004 7:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Thing is, even when caught in a lie he doesn't admit it, he just claims it's a Republican plot to discredit him and that it's all made up by Republicans. One has to wonder if this level of reality denial is actually on the level of a mental disorder.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 07/01/2004 7:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't think it is a crime to be double registered. The crime is when you double vote.

There is no evidence he double voted.

Posted by: mhw || 07/01/2004 10:12 Comments || Top||

#6  mhw,

When I moved to Virginia, I didn't write New Jersey to tell them to cancel my voter registration there. I don't even know how you do it. I just assumed that when I registered in VA that the information would get there somehow.

We have other Moore things to worry about.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 07/01/2004 11:45 Comments || Top||

#7  Also I've considered myself an Independent from time to time without meaning any association with the acutal Independent party. Its just a way of claiming no allegence to any part (in his case Green or Dem).

Moores a pig but this is much ado about nothing.
Posted by: yank || 07/01/2004 11:48 Comments || Top||

#8  MHW
Do we know if that has been checked?
Posted by: jawa || 07/01/2004 12:12 Comments || Top||

#9  By the way Mike, you puttin on a little weight,
or did you just eat a phone booth?
Posted by: Capsu78 || 07/01/2004 12:42 Comments || Top||

#10  He looks like he's a member of the Biscuits N' Gravy Party.
Posted by: Chris W. || 07/01/2004 15:36 Comments || Top||

#11  Back in my misspent youth as a Democrat, I was living in London, England, during the 1984 Elections. I recieved two absentee ballots; I completed one and returned it, then tore the other up so as not to get charged with election fraud.

Later, as a Democratic registrar, I got paid to go door to door to make sure registered Democrats still lived at their registered addresses. If not, we struck them from the rolls.

Coincidentally, Michael Moore has many rolls.
Posted by: JDB || 07/01/2004 20:39 Comments || Top||

#12  My emphasis was meant to be on his lying about being a Democrat (He is registered as one and voted as one in 2001), and his devious plan to try to influnce votes in swing states by sending out-of-state people there to register to vote.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/01/2004 22:03 Comments || Top||


KILLERS WITH CAMERAS By RALPH PETERS
IMAGINE if, on D-Day, the Nazis had been allowed to place camera teams on Omaha Beach — with our suffering soldiers forbidden to interfere. What if, on top of that, the Germans had invented American atrocities against French civilians — and our own officials defended their right to do so in the name of press freedom? That’s the situation with al-Jazeera in Iraq. Staffed by embittered exiles and pan-Arabist ideologues — the last Nasserites — al-Jazeera is so consumed by hatred of America and the West that the network would rather see Iraq collapse into a bloodbath than permit the emergence of a democracy sponsored by Washington.

Rest at the link. Well-written piece.
Posted by: Anonymous5089 || 07/01/2004 1:07:19 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Considering the head of IRG publicly stated that they were to scope out 26 locations, heelllooo
Posted by: Capt America || 07/01/2004 6:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, a problem. But where is Colin Powell, that statute bound defender of American State interests, while al-Jazeera crap fertilizes terror? You can find him on al-jihad, mouthing stale rhetoric about "freedom."
Posted by: Dog Bites Trolls || 07/01/2004 17:28 Comments || Top||

#3  That's faith based freedom kamel krap.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/01/2004 18:33 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
USA Moslems: 54% for Kerry, 26% Nader, 14% Undecided, (6% Bush)
From The Council on American-Islamic Relations
... 54 percent of eligible Muslim voters said they would vote for Kerry, while 26 percent favored Nader. A sizable 14 percent of Muslim voters said they are still undecided. (Fifty-five percent of the respondents said they voted for President Bush in the 2000 election.)

According to CAIR’s survey of 1161 individuals taken this month, 34 percent of respondents said the Democratic Party best represents American Muslim interests, closely followed by the Green Party at 24 percent. Almost one-quarter (22 percent) of the respondents said no party reflected their views.

On other issues, only 11 percent of respondents said they are better off now than they were four years ago. Forty-five percent said they experienced some form of anti-Muslim discrimination or bias in the past year and 87 percent felt less secure since the invasion of Iraq. However, 81 percent said they feel free to practice their faith in America.

When asked to list the most important domestic issue they will use to determine a presidential choice, almost 40 percent of respondents cited civil rights, followed by the economy at 25 percent. More than 90 percent said American policy in the Middle East is the most important international issue. ...

Thirty-five percent of respondents said they visit a mosque once a week, while a similar number go to mosques more frequently. Six percent said they do not go to a mosque at all. Almost all of the respondents said they are registered to vote or plan to vote in November.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester || 07/01/2004 10:37:24 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't think that CAIR understands that it is best not to convince Bush, a possible eventual winner that you are not even worth courting. CAIR also sends a message to Kerry that they are solidly in his corner and don't need to be serviced.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/02/2004 2:20 Comments || Top||


The Living Room Candidate
Posted by: growler || 07/01/2004 16:52 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004 is an innovative online exhibition presenting more than 250 television commercials from every election year beginning in 1952, when the first campaign ads aired, and including ads from this year's campaign. Visitors can watch nearly four hours of TV commercials and explore the expanding world of Web-based political advertising. The site includes a searchable database and features commentary, historical background, election results, and navigation organized by both year and theme.

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Some fun stuff there!
Posted by: growler || 07/01/2004 16:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Was that Adlai Stevenson or Merton Muffley in '52 and '56?
________borgboy
Posted by: borgboy || 07/01/2004 22:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Once again I am nostalgic for Barry Goldwater - the last honest politician in America! As a lad I campaigned for him...

______________AUH2O
Posted by: borgboy || 07/01/2004 22:19 Comments || Top||


adjustable rate mortgage rate drops again (to lowest rate in history)

<em>I’ve put the May 2004 index rate in bold in the chart below.

For those of up with adjustables based on the 11th district rate, we say, "woo hoo".

The impact this has is another chunk of spendable income has just be injected into the economy offseting the 25 basis point increase of yesterday. I doubt the Kerry campaign even understands this stuff, but if they did they would have some trouble making it fit into their narrative of misery

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004

January 4.901 5.514 2.823 2.308 1.811
February 4.967 5.426 2.744 2.257 1.841
March 5.002 5.198 2.653 2.210 1.815
April 5.078 4.946 2.723 2.208 1.802
May 5.196 4.745 2.772 2.130 1.708
June 5.357 4.498 2.847 2.113
July 5.456 4.274 2.821 2.018
August 5.509 4.106 2.763 1.946
September5.548 3.974 2.759 1.923
October 5.589 3.628 2.708 1.909
November 5.607 3.368 2.537 1.821
December 5.617 3.074 2.375 1.902
Posted by: mhw || 07/01/2004 10:05:26 AM || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


Paging Dr. Frankenstein...please come pick up your sKeery Monster
Posted by: Atropanthe || 07/01/2004 07:11 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is he throwing stones at glass houses again?
Posted by: Dragon Fly || 07/01/2004 8:25 Comments || Top||

#2  "I never miss the ball! That SOB threw it too hard and it was dark and it's all hot and it hurts and stuff...owee owee owee..."
Posted by: eLarson || 07/01/2004 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  he and his aids got off the plane to do a little photo-op throwing the ball. What's with the pathetic JFK "touch football games" photo attempts? Is there anyone more uncomfortable in their own skin than this asshole?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2004 10:34 Comments || Top||

#4  That is a classic Frankenstein's Monster silhouette sKeery is sporting.
Posted by: Atropanthe || 07/01/2004 11:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Nothing I like better to do than put on a tie and go play ball. It's so relaxing.
Posted by: Dar || 07/01/2004 12:08 Comments || Top||

#6  I'd love to ride my bike with this guy. I'd make him suffer.
Posted by: Raj || 07/01/2004 13:19 Comments || Top||

#7  The photo is supposed to invoke memories of feel-good movies,"THE NATURAL" and "FIELD OF DREAMS" and associate them w/Kerry.By being shaded and not standard facial and body pic the photo is meant to imply heroic achievements playing Great American Pastime.Might make a good movie poster,but apparently doesn't make anybody here want to run out and vote for THE SHADOW.(Had a discussion w/co-workers about Kerry/Bush and after listening to one diatribe against evil Haliburton shadow government,I came back w/Kerry is nothing but a shadow.A shadow has no depth,no fixed position,always changing shape,cannot achieve anything on its own,and relies on someone else to exist.)
Posted by: Stephen || 07/01/2004 13:48 Comments || Top||

#8  I came back w/Kerry is nothing but a shadow.A shadow has no depth,no fixed position,always changing shape,cannot achieve anything on its own,and relies on someone else to exist

Great stuff.
Posted by: Atropanthe || 07/01/2004 15:00 Comments || Top||

#9  I'll bet that glove was manufactured overseas using "outsourced" labor.
Posted by: Chris W. || 07/01/2004 15:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Reminds me of that Munsters episode where Herman tried out for the Dodgers.
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/01/2004 19:44 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Blind, Diabetic Sheik Eating M&Ms in Order to Incite Terrorist Attacks
From Fox News
... Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (search), who is currently serving a life sentence, has reportedly stopped taking his insulin medicine and started eating M&Ms to make his diabetes worse. The blind cleric has apparently been upset about not getting the specific brand of tea he likes in prison. ...

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who was the prosecutor in Abdel-Rahman’s 1995 trial, testified he believed for some time that the sheik “was going to play with his medical condition” because he knew the U.S. government would be blamed if something happened to him. Abdel-Rahman is a highly regarded spiritual leader among his militant followers, and there is still concern that should his health decline, those followers would retaliate against the United States. In 1997, his supporters vowed to kill then-President Bill Clinton and the sheik’s trial judge if Abdel-Rahman became ill while in prison.
Posted by: Mike Sylwester || 07/01/2004 11:30:39 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ask him what his color M&M he likes. Do you think he will notice if we print Menorahs on all the green ones?
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/02/2004 2:17 Comments || Top||


Tighter border security has smugglers trying New Mexico
Tighter security along the California and Arizona borders with Mexico has led smugglers to make another run at the New Mexico frontier, a congressional subcommittee has been told. Trafficking in illegal drugs and illegal aliens has surged along New Mexico’s 180-mile border with Mexico as a result, officials testified Tuesday at a hearing of the subcommittee on criminal justice, drug policy and human resources.

U.S. Rep. Mark Souder, R-Ind., chairman of the subcommittee, heard statements from local commanders of various agencies that comprise the Department of Homeland Security about the impact of the drug trade on Southwestern border security. The hearing was held at the invitation of U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., who also participated. Souder said the Southwest border remains the primary conduit for illegal drugs into the United States. Up to three-fourths of such narcotics cross that frontier, he said. But the primary mission is stopping terrorists from crossing, said Luis Barker, chief patrol agent for the El Paso Sector of the Border Patrol. From fiscal 2002 to the present, Barker said, checkpoint operations including five in New Mexico account for 18 percent of Border Patrol narcotic seizures. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Kenneth Cates said criminal smuggling organizations are adaptable -- they smuggle narcotics one day and human cargo the next. Those who pooh-pooh the dangers of loosey goosey border control with Mexico and label critics "racists" or "isolationists" without their visionary genius of defending America by spreading democracy around the globe need their "common sense" vision re-tested, IMO.
Posted by: rex || 07/01/2004 12:08:20 AM || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Pull ALL the troops out of Korea and Germany, put one more division into Iraq rotation, and put the other on the southern border.
Posted by: OldSpook || 07/01/2004 4:04 Comments || Top||

#2  That'll work. :)
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 07/01/2004 12:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah, now that it's moved east into New Mexico, it's become a problem. Guess the "originals" and the art and croissant crowd started screaming.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/01/2004 20:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Whats Gov. Bill Richardson's take on this? Anyone heard a peep?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2004 22:07 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm w/O.S. on this one, way past due to seal that thing up.
Posted by: Jarhead || 07/01/2004 22:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Demographics are key. "One Man One Vote" means heathens will eventually rule...
_______________________________
Today Zimbabwe
Tomorrow Arizona
Posted by: borgboy || 07/01/2004 23:53 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 23:55 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
British servicemen were "forcibly escorted" into Iran’s territorial waters
EFL

The men maintain they had been operating in Iraq’s waters and had not strayed into Iran’s, UK defence secretary Geoff Hoon said.

But Iran’s foreign ministry claims British officials have admitted the boats entered its waters by mistake.

"The minutes admitted that the British boats entered the Iranian waters by mistake," Mr Asefi said in a statement issued through Iran’s official news agency.

And, he added, Mr Straw, during a telephone conversation with Iran’s Foreign Minister, Kamal Kharrazi, had also said the British soldiers entered Iranian waters by mistake.

Responding to that issue the foreign secretary said later: "The sequence is that initially we thought, and a British Army spokesman said, that the servicemen had strayed into Iranian waters by mistake. In their debrief, I understand the crews have said that they were on the Iraqi side of the border."

He added that while the British denial that its servicemen had strayed into Iranian waters is likely to prolong the return of its navigational equipment, it is the equipment itself that can ultimately retrace the exact movements of the team.

Posted by: growler || 07/01/2004 4:00:32 PM || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..it is the equipment itself that can ultimately retrace the exact movements of the team.

Assuming the equipment is returned at all, and returned undisturbed.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 07/01/2004 17:47 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Saddam wants his mommy lawyer.
A video of the court proceeding aired shortly before 9 a.m. EDT, showing the 67-year-old Saddam seated in front of the judge, with a wooden bar separating the two. The tape showed the judge from behind and from the side. When asked if he could afford a lawyer, Saddam retorted: "The Americans say I have millions hidden in Switzerland. How can I not have the money to pay for one?"

"I am John Kerry Saddam Hussein, I was in Vietnam the president of Iraq," Saddam said, according to a pool report from inside the proceeding. The former dictator’s hands were cuffed when he was brought to the court but the shackles were removed for the 30-minute long arraignment that was held at Camp Victory, a former Saddam palace on the outskirts of Baghdad. A judge read the charges against the Butcher of Baghdad and 11 of his top lieutenants.
obviously the abbreviated version
The seven broad charges against Saddam are the killing of religious figures in 1974; gassing of Kurds in Halabja (search) in 1988; killing the Kurdish Barzani (search) clan in 1983; killing members of political parties in the last 30 years; the 1986-88 "Anfal" campaign of displacing Kurds (search); the suppression of the 1991 uprisings by Kurds and Shiites; and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. "I cannot believe you, an Iraqi, are charging me with this when you know Kuwait is part of Iraq," Saddam told the judge, later adding, "I did all of these things as president, so don’t strip me of that title."
I’m sure that they’ll find other things to strip you of, bub
At one point, Saddam said he was only protecting Iraqi people from Kuwaitis who wanted to turn Iraqi people into "prostitutes." The judge interrupted Saddam, saying he is not allowed to use such language in his court.
or what? you’ll rip out his tongue?
Saddam questioned the court’s jurisdiction, refused to sign a list of seven preliminary charges against him and defended the invasion of Kuwait saying he did it "for the Iraqi people." The deposed leader called Kuwaitis "dogs" and branded the hearing as "theater," saying the real criminal is President Bush.

"He’s the bully he’s always been 
. It sounds like he’s been getting defensive advice from George Soros and Michael Moore," former U.S. attorney Joe DiGenova told Fox News after the court proceedings were over.
I want "Free Saddam" on the protestors signs and in their slogans!
The White House didn’t respond directly to Saddam’s anti-Bush comments.
Invasing Iraq and deposing his sorry ass obviously was not a direct response.
"The president is pleased that Saddam Hussein and his regime leaders have been brought to justice by the Iraqi people for atrocities he and his regime committed," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters Thursday. "I think what you’re seeing is, from the court itself, justice and rule of law are part of the new Iraq." Saddam didn’t want to be in court without his mommy a lawyer and did not want to sign any papers without his lawyer present. He said he wanted to be addressed as the Slayer in Theif, Saddam Khan president of Iraq, not the former president of Iraq. He also argued with the judge and laughed when the judge said he was tasked by the coalition authorities to try him. "He needs to understand that today his job was to sit there, be quiet, or stand, and listen," said Court TV anchor Lisa Bloom.
Perhaps a not so gentle reminder? Exhibit 48,692,381: bloody wood chipper getting rolled in might encourage him.
Saddam wore a gray, pinstriped suit with an open-collar white shirt and black shoes. His beard was trimmed and he had heavy bags under his eyes. He sat calmly, occasionally gesturing with his hands while addressing the court. Saddam sometimes took notes on a piece of yellow paper and gestured with his hands. He often stroked his trimmed beard and appeared to seethe thoughtful.
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Israel-Palestine
New Israeli technology sees through walls
An Israeli start-up has developed a revolutionary technology that allows the user to see through walls. If commercialized, it could benefit both the military and the rescue services.
not to mention tapping into the exploding voyeur market
In military operations, such a device could sometimes mean the difference between success and failure. In October 1994, for instance, an Israeli force assaulted a house in Bir Naballah, north of Jerusalem, in an effort to rescue kidnapped soldier Nachshon Wachsman, whom Hamas had threatened to kill if Israel did not release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. But the force could not see what was happening inside the house, and Wachsman was killed during the assault. This lack of information also cost the life of Captain Nir Poraz, who commanded the force.

The hundreds of anti-terror operations that have taken place since have only sharpened the need for a way to see through walls in urban fighting. Over the last four years, many soldiers have been killed by wanted men firing from inside houses full of civilians.

But now, a small, Herzliya-based company called Camero is offering a solution: a radar system, based on UWB (ultra wideband) technology, that can produce three-dimensional pictures of what lies behind a wall, from a distance of up to 20 meters. The pictures, which resemble those produced by ultrasound, are relatively high-resolution. Although the figures are somewhat blurred, the system enables the user to follow what is happening behind the wall in real time.

"The company was born of urgent operational needs," said CEO Aharon Aharon - and not only those of the military. "When disaster victims must be rescued from a collapsed building or a fire, time is of the essence," he explained. "Rescue forces often invest enormous resources and precious time in combing the rubble, or endanger their lives by entering the flames, even if it is not clear that there are any survivors behind the walls."

There are partial solutions to this problem, such as fiber optic cameras that are inserted through holes drilled in a wall. But such cameras are limited to line of sight: They cannot "see" through internal walls.

Camero was born at the Jerusalem Global venture capital fund (JVG), when Amir Be’eri, a former defense establishment employee associated with the fund (his most recent position was CEO of Infineon), developed a way to emit UWB radio waves. UWB was a new technology at the time, and it was necessary because ordinary radio waves do not provide high enough resolution to be useful. Yet radio waves are necessary because other types of waves do not pass through walls.

Another problem with radio waves is that they do not function well around metal. However, Camero has developed sophisticated software that enables its technology to work even on steel-reinforced concrete walls.

Be’eri, with his defense background, recognized the potential of the new technology and recruited Aharon, a former senior executive at Zoran and Seabridge. Together, the two recruited seven experts in RF (radio frequency) technology, signal processing and three-dimensional imaging. Camero also recently raised $5 million from JVG, Walden Israel and Motorola Ventures.

In addition, several big names have joined Camero’s advisory board, including the Israel Defense Forces’ former GOC Northern Command Amiram Levine and a high-ranking American general.

Aharon said an initial prototype of the device is expected to be ready in 18 months - a rather long wait for such a "hungry" market, where customers would be willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for such a device.

Moreover, Camero has a competitor: A company called Time Domain, which also uses UWB technology to see through walls, has been active for six months and is already selling millions of dollars worth of devices a year. But Camero’s technology is superior in several important respects. First, it can be used from a distance of 20 meters, whereas Time Domain’s product must be right next to the wall in question. Second, it gives a detailed picture of everything in the room, whereas Time Domain’s product locates objects, but gives no information about their shape or size.
Posted by: PlanetDan || 07/01/2004 3:06:01 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
A View from the Eye of the Storm -- An Excellent Tutorial
Posted by: tipper || 07/01/2004 22:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq-Jordan
BREAKING: Polish troops find more chemical rounds in Iraq
The source is in Polish. Apparently it is a significant find and Donald Rumsfeld was made aware of this at the last NATO summit by the Polish defense minister. Testing is underway. The information about a bunker containing the chemical came from Iraqis. It is not known yet if these rounds are pre-1991.
Posted by: Rafael || 07/01/2004 5:22:58 PM || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That should read: the information about the bunker containing the chemical rounds (shells) came from Iraqis.
Posted by: Rafael || 07/01/2004 17:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Oops. These were not shells but rockets ("Grad"), and 82mm mortar rounds, containing cyclosarin gas (as confirmed by the Polish defense minister Jerzy Szmajdzinski).
Posted by: Rafael || 07/01/2004 17:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Picture of a Grad rocket launcher.
Posted by: Rafael || 07/01/2004 17:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Question: When does WMD get recognized as such?

Answer: When several people are killed as a result.
Posted by: Capt America || 07/01/2004 17:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Reuters says they were pre-91. Even if so, Saddam was obliged to report them. Now we've got 12 that Duelfer found, the one that exploded, plus these - at least 16. Total almost 30. At what point do we have a stockpile?
(and this excludes any that left the country, of course)
Posted by: Liberalhawk || 07/01/2004 17:38 Comments || Top||

#6 
At what point do we have a stockpile?
LH - as far as the lamestream media, the LLL, and (with a few exceptions) the Dems are concerned, NEVER.

Why do you ask?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/01/2004 17:56 Comments || Top||

#7  You know what has always botherd me was when the "aluminum tubes" were said to be for rocket motors. Then there was found a rocket warhead for chemicals by the UN inspectors. The question I always had was the diameter of empty warhead happened to be near or the same as all this "high strength" aluminum?
Posted by: bruce || 07/01/2004 18:27 Comments || Top||

#8  Cap. America, Concerning recognization of these Chemical Weapon rockets....

So.... where do the media reporters spend most of their time again? The Bagdad bar? Perhaps they need a up-close-and-personal interview with a WMD....

Unfortunately I think that would be the only way for the media to acknowledge that there really are WMD in Iraq. And no, I do not feel that we should actually use them on anyone.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/01/2004 18:33 Comments || Top||

#9  CF - I recall, during run-up to the war, when the UN Inspectors had been let back in - because of Bush's troop build-up, of course - a conveniently forgotten fact, and they showed these "Inspectors" checking out a site with some unknown cylinders which were capped on both ends. If you recall, they allowed no American Inpectors in... Anyway, the film footage showed these "Inspectors" on-site and one of them unscrews the cap from one end of a cylinder and stuck his nose in it - !!! - one must presume he was sniffing for WMD's, heh. Luckily, for him, this cylinder was unused. They didn't identify the man or what country he was from, but methinks he was about as well-informed as the stud reporters riding herd at the Baghdad Hilton Bar. Of course, that is a possible use for the media in Iraq... WMD canaries...
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 18:43 Comments || Top||

#10  Proud Polack checking in. Way to go, boys!
Posted by: Chris W. || 07/01/2004 20:32 Comments || Top||

#11  Having read both the Reuters and the Polish version they appear to differ in some details. The Reuters version refers to shells. The Polish version refers to rockets. The Reuters version appears certain that the rockets are pre-1991. The Polish version does not appear so certain.

Has anyone noticed a slightly shrill quality in the Reuters article?
Posted by: Dave Schuler || 07/01/2004 23:11 Comments || Top||

#12  and WTF difference does it make if they're pre-1991, Al-Rooters? Still illegal, and we'd be happy to let your reporters take a sniff if you think they're harmless...
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2004 23:25 Comments || Top||

#13  I went through a two-month Damage Control Asistant School in 1989 prior to becoming a DCA on a destroyer. This included a week of lectures by a major in the Army's chemical corps. Having had a glimpse into the CBRD world during that same time period, I am incredulous about Iraq having cyclosarin stocks that would lead them to leave shells rusting away in different bunkers throughout the country. I guess it is conceivable, though, as they must have had one of the sloppiest ammunition accountability regimes on the face of the earth.
The whole idea of having unmarked CBR shells pre-1991 is inconceivable to me. Were they planning on getting their ass kicked and having their military slapped under a UN inspection regime? At least I can understand why they had had a grab bag of sloppily kept PPE in every bunker - there was no telling when there guys were going to have an work accident that proved terminal to all snuffies in the general area.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/02/2004 1:04 Comments || Top||

#14  The whole "pre-91" spin is, frankly, baloney.
Posted by: someone || 07/02/2004 2:29 Comments || Top||

#15  But, but, but ... we have already been informed countless occasions by Kerry & the Dems there are no WMD anywhere concerning Iraq(??)

Wonder how these items just keep popping up? Sometimes sand blows away, uncovering hidden stashes of large objects, such as MIG fighter Jets and even smaller ones like Saddam's various WMD.

Eventually, even in Syria & Lebanon the wind has an effect on sand. ;)
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 07/02/2004 3:10 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Richard Clarke: Big Part of Moore’s Movie ’a Mistake’
Via NewsMax, so you know it’s true... :)

Former White House terrorism czar Richard Clarke, who served as a principal source for conspiracy filmmaker Michael Moore’s movie "Fahrenheit 9/11," said this week that the central premise of the film is "a mistake."

Um, how about "is wrong" or "is a lie"?

In an interview with the Associated Press, Clarke took issue with Moore’s waistline criticism that President Bush allowed prominent Saudis, including members of Osama bin Laden’s family, to fly out of the U.S. in the days after the 9/11 attacks.

Saying Moore’s version of the episode has provoked "a tempest in a tea pot," Ummm, something to drink! Clarke called his decision to make the bin Laden family flyout a big part of the film’s indictment against Bush "a mistake."

Oh, that mistake!

"After 9/11, I think the Saudis were perfectly justified ... in fearing the possibility of vigilantism against Saudis in this country. When they asked to evacuate their citizens ... I thought it was a perfectly normal request," he explained.

In May, Clarke confessed that he and he alone made the decision to approve the flyouts.

"It didn’t get any higher than me,” he told The Hill newspaper. "On 9/11, 9/12 and 9/13, many things didn’t get any higher than me. I decided it in consultation with the FBI.”

Clarke told the 9/11 Commission the same thing in March, after first detailing the episode for Vanity Fair magazine last August - leaving plenty of time for Moore to adjust his film to the facts as recounted by his primary source.

And he chose not to, despite the facts, further exposing Moore Big Macs for the lying, hypocritical fraud that he is.
Posted by: Raj || 07/01/2004 1:33:29 PM || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hope that Kato Kailien kicks Richard Clarke's tush on the next Celebrity survivor show.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/02/2004 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  This did take place while Bush was president, right? Then shouldn't he be held responsible for all this?
Posted by: ConservativeView || 09/01/2004 10:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Tech
Sharp rings for the planet kings beyond the sky
PASADENA, Calif. (Reuters) - Hours after it completed a journey of nearly seven years to Saturn, the spacecraft Cassini sent its first pictures back to Earth on Thursday, showing sharp edges and ripples of energy in the planet’s enormous rings. The early photos, taken from the unilluminated side of the rings, were full of electronic "noise" and only in black and white, but were still clear enough to show fine ring structures and edges sharper than might be expected, given all the particles in the rings colliding with each other.

"Ring scientists love sharp edges. They’re very mysterious -- they have to be held sharp by some mechanism," said Carolyn Porco, leader of the Cassini imaging science team. Scientists were thrilled with the quantity and clarity of the images -- the closest pictures of the rings that will be taken during the mission. "These images are more or less serendipity," Porco said.

The images also showed "density waves," disruptions in the particles in the rings caused by the energy of moonlets passing outside them, that scientists said could best be compared to the pattern of bunching and thinning out seen in traffic jams.

Scientists from NASA and other international agencies cheered and called the photos "beautiful" and "mind-blowing." "It’s so flawless it almost seems faked -- but it’s not," Porco said in live commentary from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here.

The truck-sized probe slipped through those rings and entered orbit around Saturn on Wednesday night, after traveling 2.2 billion miles since its October 1997 launch. Along the way, it used the gravity of Venus, Earth and Jupiter to slingshot it out to the sixth planet from the sun. Cassini is set to spend at least four years studying the planet, its rings and some of its 31 known moons. Much of that time will be dedicated to Titan, one of the solar system’s largest and most intriguing moons, with an atmosphere and composition that have inspired science fiction dreams of an emerging home for life.
It carries on its back a smaller craft, Huygens, which is designed to break away in December and plummet onto the surface of Titan for a brief study of that moon’s atmosphere, which is mostly methane and nitrogen. That portion of the mission was designed largely by the European and Italian space agencies.

In fact, the $3 billion mission has been hailed as a model of international cooperation, with scientists from 17 countries participating. Yet the mission has gone without a hitch, from the launch to the orbital insertion, which was completed within one second of the schedule first set years ago.
Posted by: Korora || 07/01/2004 12:33:12 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Russia
Chernobyl Pictures
I posted this a year or so ago, its a site that chronicles a Russian bikers travels through the dead zone on a Japanese crotch rocket. Thought provoking with interesting pictures.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 07/01/2004 8:52:44 AM || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's still a freaky site.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/01/2004 11:26 Comments || Top||

#2  That photo where she's yards away from the reactor itself with a rad meter in her hand is creepy. I wouldn't get within a quarter of a mile of that place. Exploring the city's abandoned buildings sounds like fun tho...
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 07/01/2004 13:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Creepy. I never realized they estimated 300-400K deaths.

God bless them.
Posted by: Chris W. || 07/01/2004 15:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Few people truly understand the ultimate ramifications of what the meltdown meant.

One of the most fertile places on earth is California's San Joaquin Valley. In places the topsoil can be 500' deep.

One of the only other locations of such fertility on this entire planet was a small Ukraine town called "Chernobyl." Soviet Russia poisoned their own bread basket. This is the lingering crime that will always go unanswered as people in the region starve for food each winter.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/01/2004 17:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Soviet Russia poisoned their own bread basket. This is the lingering crime that will always go unanswered as people in the region starve for food each winter.

Yea, but what about the 5 foot diameter mutant cabbage. And the cows with 4 udders.
Posted by: Zpaz || 07/01/2004 20:25 Comments || Top||

#6  Yea, but what about the 5 foot diameter mutant cabbage. And the cows with 4 udders.

Those easily feed the kids born with two mouths.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/01/2004 21:34 Comments || Top||

#7  What, this got posted again? For the last time, IT'S A FAKE.

5 seconds of work with google produces a resounding refutation of this forgery.

More links:
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/chernobyl_trip/
http://www.badastronomy.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=12471&highlight=
http://boingboing.net/2004/05/26/girl_photoblogs_cher.html
Posted by: gromky || 07/01/2004 23:29 Comments || Top||

#8  Good heavens! I've been conned!
Proto-Americans hate being conned!
I hate having the sucker sign over me head!
Nuke 'em!
Posted by: Shipman || 07/02/2004 11:23 Comments || Top||


Iraq-Jordan
BBC reports a pro Bush Iraqi
EFL
Kathem Moula Asim, 75
Retired but working as a local guard in the market
"... The situation is in the hand of God and we respect our new leaders.

"May god keep Bush and Allawi, because Bush threw out Saddam and Allawi will give us safety and security.

"I think we should try and execute Saddam. He took our sons! He took my two sons from their colleges 25 years ago. I never heard from them again."

I think the BBC suits must have been at the brothel this morning. How could they have allowed a pro-Bush quote from an Iraqi to slip into their newspaper - well you can be sure the NYTimes will be more vigilant.
Posted by: mhw || 07/01/2004 8:31:22 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Well, you see, Old Boy, the man said that Allawi will give them safety and security. Something that the Texas Barbecue Jockey failed to do."
(/BBC exec between gin-and-tonics)
Posted by: eLarson || 07/01/2004 9:38 Comments || Top||

#2  from Iraqthemodel today a story about a hard core communist who admires and supports the US - better not tell Al Guardian about this

Well, Al-Hidjiya said “son, tell this man that Um Mushtaq says go with the blessings of Allah, you have suffered a lot for the sake of our country and we were not able to thank you in person and this makes us so sad” and she also said “although this is not right, because he is not Muslim but I have to say it and I don’t care what others may say”
My friend laughed as he said that.

I should mention that friend is a hard core communist who paradoxically bares strong admiration and gratitude and for America.
-How can she ask for Allah’s blessings for Bremer when she believes that it’s not right for a Muslim to ask so? I said with a smile.
-You know these old people with their old fashion minds but she said she loves him as if he were an Iraqi Muslim.
I said good bye to my friend and thought about what he said, and I thought about writing a letter to Mr. Bremer and I don’t know how to deliver it.
Posted by: mhw || 07/01/2004 9:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Wow-BBC willing to let a positive light reflect on America's actions-incredible. A miracle in our lives.

Side note-can anyone give a good explanation on why (ELSEWHERE) Bremer is viewed as having not done a good job? When I think what all those coalition leaders had to contend with, I am astonished they did as well in so many areas as they did (and that is not a slap against them--it's was a colossal challenge).
Posted by: jules 187 || 07/01/2004 11:16 Comments || Top||

#4  BBC lets a pro-America viewpoint through? Looks like this is the year the Cubs make it!
Posted by: Korora || 07/01/2004 15:09 Comments || Top||

#5  jules 187 - I agree with you: it's more than obvious that some things were done right and among them were some extremely convoluted and difficult situations - and a perfect answer (depending upon the critic - usually an illogical fantasy) wasn't even remotely possible. Presented with the same resources and circumstances as faced by Bush, Bremer, & Co, the solutions offered by the harshest critics are damned thin on the ground.

I find this hypocrisy to be extremely miserly and unworthy behavior. Credit where due is merely acknowledging the same reality from which they demand recognition of the failures.
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 15:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Jules

The case against Bremer comes from several viewpoints. One subset says that he delayed Iraqi control too long, disbanded the army too fast. One subset says he overuled the GC too many times thus subverting their authority. Another subset says he put too much emphasis on reconstruction, not enough on voter registration. Another says he could have started regional voting already. Another says...
Posted by: mhw || 07/01/2004 16:10 Comments || Top||

#7  As a man from Texas, I have but one thing to say.... eLarson, fuck you
Posted by: Halfass Pete || 07/01/2004 17:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Pete, baby, hang on -- I'm from Texas too - and I can assure you that eLarson was making fun of the stuffed-shirt variety of Beeb Exec (Note the close tag). Easy up, there, bubba, he's on our side, I promise. :-/
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 17:46 Comments || Top||

#9  ima think .com is right. ima in texas to!
Posted by: muck4doo || 07/01/2004 17:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Mucky - Texas? No offense Ship Mucky, but say it ain't so! No WAY can someone who spells as, um, creatively, as you be from the hardcore classrooms I knew! I recall setting school records for licks in the 4th and 7th grades - and some were for shoddy work, not merely acting up! 4 or 5 solid shots does wonders for an unruly / lazy young man! Unless, of course, you're much much younger, heh, the edumacational bidness has declined a tad, methinks!
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 18:01 Comments || Top||

#11  ima got all my education in san francisco bay area and a litle upstate new york.
Posted by: muck4doo || 07/01/2004 18:07 Comments || Top||

#12  Aw, you just said that to make me feel better -- THANX! Lol! You're awright, Muck, my man!
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 18:09 Comments || Top||

#13  Mucky - this is (definitely) for you:
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 18:13 Comments || Top||

#14  .com ...LMAO!!!
Posted by: Dragon Fly || 07/01/2004 18:18 Comments || Top||

#15  roflmao! that is to funny! its true tho about bay area education. ima late comer to texas. important thing is im here now. gonna stay here till kids is on they own then maybe go back to california. i am just think this is better place to raise them.

by the way ima not shipman. i think he is live in florida.
Posted by: muck4doo || 07/01/2004 18:20 Comments || Top||

#16  The Texas University System is amazing - you will get the best facilities and material (can't speak for the faculties, these days) available anywhere for dirt-cheap tuition. Unbeatable and you only need 6 months to meet residency req's. All mineral rights on state lands and all offshore rights (Texas only state to retain offshore rights upon joining the Union) were deeded to the State University system - oil, bro, oil royalties, to be more specific. Lot$ of Money! Low tuition.
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 18:29 Comments || Top||

#17  Mucky, welcome to Texas--you're gonna love it!
Yee-haw!
Posted by: Jen || 07/01/2004 18:30 Comments || Top||

#18  Florida it is. We have excellent skools here.
Posted by: Shipman || 07/01/2004 18:36 Comments || Top||

#19  We in Florida think Buchanan is great.
Posted by: Chris W. || 07/01/2004 20:41 Comments || Top||

#20  Which Buchanon? The dead Prez or, uh, that other guy with the wacked-out agenda that only he can possibly untangle?
Posted by: .com || 07/01/2004 23:05 Comments || Top||


Africa: Subsaharan
Crackdown on Nigeria’s militias
EFL
Nigeria’s police have announced that they will no longer tolerate Christians the country’s ethnic militias. Inspector General of Police Tafa Balogun said on Wednesday the groups were "mushrooming" but are not allowed to operate under the constitution. "We are not going to allow any ethnic militia to operate on Nigerian soil," he told the BBC. Since the return of civilian rule in 1999, some 10,000 people have died in communal clashes.
Posted by: Dragon Fly || 07/01/2004 8:04:23 AM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Is the near term future of yet another OPEC nation open civil war? It's looking likely since the jihadists must 'kill all infidels'.
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 07/01/2004 22:43 Comments || Top||


Nigeria Region Will Resume Polio Vaccines
A northern Nigerian region that banned polio vaccinations last year citing safety concerns will resume them in the next few days, the World Health Organization said Wednesday amid heightened fears about the international spread of the crippling disease. Ibrahim Shekarau, governor of the mostly Muslim Nigerian state of Kano, accepted in May that the oral polio vaccine is safe and effective, said Dr. David Heymann, who is overseeing WHO's effort to eradicate the disease. The state is now receiving WHO assistance and is preparing to resume vaccinations in the next few days, Heymann said. Shekarau halted the vaccinations in September 2003 after goofy claims by some nut-ball Islamic leaders that the vaccines were part of a U.S.-led plot to spread infertility and AIDS among gullible African Muslims. Nigerian federal officials and the United Nations deny the ludicrous claims. "To date, the ongoing suspension of immunization campaigns in Kano has put thousands of children in African countries at risk of polio paralysis," said WHO director general Lee Jong-wook. "The suspension has also resulted in the re-emergence of polio in countries which had been polio free." Countries across the continent are increasingly scared to death concerned about the rate at which the disease is spreading internationally from northern Nigeria since immunization was suspended in September 2003. Ten previously polio-free countries have now been reinfected.

The U.N. health agency warned last week that Africa is on the brink of the biggest polio epidemic in years, with the disease hitting Nigeria hard and re-emerging in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region. "Kano state in Nigeria is now the only polio-endemic area where immunization is not taking place," Heymann said. He said the country has enough vaccine but faces an increased urgency to distribute it since the rainy season is about the begin, which would improve conditions for the disease to spread. Nigeria has reported 259 polio cases this year, compared with 56 in the same period in 2003. The total number of polio cases globally has reached 339 so far this year, almost double the number for the same period last year.
All preventable.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/01/2004 1:22:56 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ten previously polio-free countries have now been reinfected.

Thanks for nothing, you ignorant Islamic mullah retards.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 07/01/2004 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I have to disagree, Steve - I doubt this kind of blind stupidity is preventable. Except perhaps with a case of lead poisoning in the right places. ;-)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/01/2004 1:44 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm starting to seriously doubt all this "we owe the Muslims, because they preserved the knowledge of the West during the Dark Ages" crap, when there's this kind of idiocy bubbling up from all corners of the Islamic world.
Posted by: Desert Blondie || 07/01/2004 2:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Countries across the continent are increasingly scared to death concerned about the rate at which the disease is spreading internationally from northern Nigeria since immunization was suspended in September 2003. Ten previously polio-free countries have now been reinfected.

And a big "thank you" to our northern Nigerian mullahs. Couldn't have done this without them.

Barbara, I'm rather fond of any deserving parties experiencing the fast onset type of lead poisoning. I'm confident that we're in violent agreement over this.

From UPI Commentary: Al-Qaida's agenda for Iraq:

What Al-Ayyeri sees now is a "clean battlefield" in which Islam faces a new form of unbelief. This, he labels "secularist democracy." This threat is "far more dangerous to Islam" than all its predecessors combined. The reasons, he explains in a whole chapter, must be sought in democracy's "seductive capacities."

This form of "unbelief" persuades the people that they are in charge of their destiny and that, using their collective reasoning, they can shape policies and pass laws as they see fit. That leads them into ignoring the "unalterable laws" promulgated by God for the whole of mankind, and codified in the Islamic shariah (jurisprudence) until the end of time.

The goal of democracy, according to Al-Ayyeri, is to "make Muslims love this world, forget the next world and abandon jihad." If established in any Muslim country for a reasonably long time, democracy could lead to economic prosperity, which, in turn, would make Muslims "reluctant to die in martyrdom" in defense of their faith.

Remember folks, disease and pestilence are the terrorists' friend. It's what the Islamists want. Keep citizens in abject poverty long enough and even people's very lives become commodities. Technological retrogression alone is a form of human genocide, it could only be outshone by theocracy's ability to slaughter en mass. The "Jonestown" sort of Kool-Aid Kwotient™ shown in this polio epidemic represents a new high low in Fundamentalist stupidity.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/01/2004 4:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Desert Blondie-
Don't fall for that "we owe the Muslims, because they preserved the knowledge of the West during the Dark Ages" crap
It was the Byzantine Empire (i.e., the eastern Roman Empire) that did the preserving, not the Muslims (who in fact got their knowledge from the Byzantines).
Posted by: Spot || 07/01/2004 10:30 Comments || Top||

#6  when are we gonna get serious and spread some mullah-cide on these assholes? one shot, one kill
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2004 10:51 Comments || Top||



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