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-Short Attention Span Theater-
3 caught with sexual organs
The police in Lilongwe Thursday arrested three people in broad daylight at Lilongwe Hotel for being found in possession of male sexual organs.
It's illegal to have balls? What is this, the U.N.?
Do I have to check for cops when I go out to lunch today?
Only if you're meeting Patty Ann Brown at the Lilongwe Hotel. Papers please!
"Please! I should like to have my testicles returned to me!"
Sure, Dominique, here they are. How'd you notice they were gone?"
The parts, which included a penis and testicles, were oozing blood at the time of the arrest, police said.
I'd get that looked at if I was you
You may not believe this, but we've seen stranger things in an urban ER.
Central Region Police public relations officer Moyenda Chitimbe confirmed the development Thursday, saying the police arrested the three following a tip.
"Calling all cars! Be on the lookout for a bloody doinker and nuts! That is all!"
The three suspects were driving a saloon.
Britspeak for 4 door car
According to Chitimbe, the suspects wrapped the penis and testicles in a plastic bag to keep them fresh.
Nothing worse than a stale penis
That's what the little woman always tells me.
"Don't get mad, get GLAD!"
“The penis and testicles looked so fresh because they were still oozing blood.
"And how much is that one?"
"Oh, Maudette! You don't want that one! It doesn't look fresh!"
"How about that one?"
"Now, that's fresh!"
"From the look of things, they must have been removed them from a man the same day in the morning,” he said.
Oh, there were 3 guys with four sets of balls. Why didn't you say so earlier?
However, Chitimbe could not be drawn into disclosing names of the three alleged human parts traffickers for fear of jeopardising investigations.
There a big market in Lilongwe for those parts? Or would this fall into after-market upgrades?
“It's very difficult as of now to actually give you more details on the matter because we are still liaising with officers that have gone flat out investigating the matter,” said Chitimbe.
"They're taking this personally, y'know! 'There, but for the grace of God, go I. Or part of me.'"
But Chitimbe told The Daily Times that in the meantime, two of the three arrested have distanced the third person from any matter in connection with the arrest. The two, during interrogations at Central Region Police headquarters told the police the third man was just a mere taxi driver operating from one of the taxi ranks in the city. “The third man confessed that he was just hired and he did not even know the people who hired him,” said Chitimbe.
"Honest, officer! I wuz just sittin' at me hack stand, and these two guyz comes up and wanna go to the city dump! I din't do nuffin!"
Meanwhile, the police are still pressing the remaining two to substantiate their claim that they were just given the parcel containing the human private parts by another man.
"Really! It ain't ours!"
"Obviously not!"
"I mean, somebody give it to us!"
"And he seemed to be in an awful hurry, too!"
“The two, at the moment, are still insisting that they did not know that the parcel they were carrying contained those items,” said Chitimbe.
Yeah, I have people trying to give me bags of Bobbit takeout all the time.
"He told us it was a ham sammitch!"
Chitimbe asked this reporter to call him an hour later to check for more information on the matter.
"We posted a 'lost and found' notice. Somebody'll call, I'm sure, soon's they notice it's gone!"
"Yes, Dominique, we'll hold them for you. In a manner of speaking."
But Chitimbe could not be reached when called again.
"Tell 'em I'm not here!"
"He sez he ain't here!"
An eyewitness, an official from the hotel who refused to be named, disclosed that the two men had parked the saloon at the car park just close to one of the bars at the hotel. The two men except the driver came out and sat on the veranda along the pathway that leads to the hotel’s reception. “They were seen to be busy trying to make some connections on the phone until two CID [Criminal Investigation Officers] appeared and arrested them.
"Mbongo! We got a hot schlong! You got a buyer?"
"Ixnay on the ongshclay! Good evening, officers!"
"They were taken to the saloon, ordered to open the boot where a plastic bag was found containing the private parts,” said the eyewitness.
Perhaps this was a "Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" operation?
"Bring me the little head of Alfredo Garcia!"
Posted by: Steve || 04/07/2006 09:10 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Testicles, mighty handy for my lock box.

-- Billary Clinton
Posted by: Captain America || 04/07/2006 9:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Outstanding commentary, guys. ROFL!!
Posted by: Dave D. || 04/07/2006 9:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Stealing sexual organs? Man, that takes balls.
Posted by: BH || 04/07/2006 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Is this an example of organized crime?
Posted by: Mike || 04/07/2006 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Looky! It's a shutter gun and um...two rounds of bullet.
Posted by: Seafarious || 04/07/2006 10:47 Comments || Top||

#6  How much ya want for them?
Posted by: Maureen Dowd || 04/07/2006 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Now cut it out, guys!
Posted by: Mike || 04/07/2006 12:52 Comments || Top||

#8  "Balls!" cried the Queen, "If I had 'em I'd be King!"

"Nuts!" replied the Prince, "I've got 'em and I'm not King!"

"Crap!" bellowed the King, and thirty thousand loyal subjects squatted and heaved - for in those days the King's word was law.
Posted by: mojo || 04/07/2006 13:07 Comments || Top||

#9  SOmebody let Hillary know the attachment surgery is off.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 04/07/2006 13:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Something very brokeback about all of this.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/07/2006 14:04 Comments || Top||

#11  absolutely hilarious!!!
Posted by: anymouse || 04/07/2006 15:15 Comments || Top||

#12  Damn my dickslesia! I thought the Headline was "3 caught BY thir sexual organs"!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/07/2006 15:20 Comments || Top||

#13 
In Lilongwe's fair city,
Where girls are so pretty,
I first set my eyes on sweet Sitti Malone,
As she pushed her wheelbarrow
Through streets broad and narrow,
Crying, "Fresh Cockles and Testicles, alive, alive oh"!

Alive, alive oh! alive, alive oh!
Crying, "Fresh Cockles and Testicles, alive, alive oh"!

Now she was a Tackle-monger,
And sure twas no wonder,
For so were her mother and father before,
And they each wheeled their barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,

Crying, "Fresh Cockles and Testicles, alive, alive oh"!
Chorus:

She died of a fever,
And no one could save her,
And that was the end of sweet Sitti Malone.
Now her ghost wheels her barrow,
Through streets broad and narrow,

Crying, "Fresh Cockles and Testicles, alive, alive oh"!
Posted by: RD || 04/07/2006 20:09 Comments || Top||

#14  Chinese blogs were reporting on the discovery by Chicom authorities of several dozen bodies wrapped in various covers and hidden in local moutain terrain. Some authorites believe these people/victims, both young and old and of different genders, were deliberately killed EITHER FOR FOOD, OR TO SELL THEIR ORGANS FOR FOOD = CASH.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/07/2006 21:18 Comments || Top||

#15  Steve: I'm such a Peckinpah fan, I actually have the "Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia" DVD...heh heh
Posted by: Frank G || 04/07/2006 21:58 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Scores killed as Red Sea boat capsizes
At least 69 people have died after a boat carrying passengers to a traditional festival capsized in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti in East Africa. The wooden boat laden with construction materials and three times the passengers it was built for, sank just 100 metres from the port in Djibouti, a tiny Red Sea state, witnesses said. It was sailing for the town of Tadjoura, 35km northeast, when it went down shortly around 1pm local time on a pilgrimage known as Djamaad.

Ali Mohamed, a survivor told Reuters: "It was so quick that people were brought down by the materials which sank with them." The vessel was thought to have been carrying between 250 to 300 people.
Posted by: Fred || 04/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  pirate
then
Red Sea
then
Persian Gulf
then
pirate
then
Red Sea
so
Persian Gulf Next?
Posted by: 3dc || 04/07/2006 1:45 Comments || Top||


Britain
BAE bails on Airbus
Article linked, it's nice to know some Brits have their head on straight. Via Lucianne and EU Referendum had it yesterday. Items below from EU Referendum:

...Shares of Airbus parent EADS have, in the last few days, tumbled on reports of serious technical problems with the A380, and new that core investors are jumping ship, having decided to slash their holdings in the Franco-German aerospace giant.

These are France's media group Lagardère and Germany's DaimlerChrysler, and each are to divest themselves of 7.5 percent of EADS shares....

And:

...It seems that the Franco-German pair signalled long ago that they would dispose of EADS stock, but this was not until the new A380 super-jumbo had been delivered to its launch customer, Singapore Airlines in December. But what Ambrose adds is that, six weeks ago, an A380 wing failed a stress test, having ruptured at 1.45 times the maximum design load, when the certification requirement is for it to be able to sustain a 1.50 load factor.....
Posted by: anonymous2u || 04/07/2006 18:05 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hates to be technical but.... Ruh Oh!
Posted by: 6 || 04/07/2006 22:02 Comments || Top||


Europe
Anti-foreigner serial killer claims eighth victim in Germany
A serial killer targeting foreigners running small businesses claimed his eighth victim this week, leaving police baffled as to a motive.

A 39-year-old Turk found dead in his kiosk in Dortmund on Tuesday had been shot with the same gun used in the seven previous killings since September 2000, prosecutors said Friday.

All the victims except one were Turks. "In each case the killer visited his victims in their premises and shot them in the head several times," prosecutor Heiko Artkaemper said.

Nothing was stolen and the victims appeared to have offered no resistance. "The killings bear the hallmark of an execution," Artkaemper said.

Police have been unable to establish a motive for the crimes, which took place in five cities across the country, including Hamburg in the north and Munich in the south.

The victims appear to have been chosen at random, Artkaemper said. The only thing they had in common was that they were foreign and operated small businesses like fast-food outlets.

Police said there was nothing to suggest a political motive, blackmail or drugs involvement.

Authorities have offered a reward of 30,000 euros (36,000 dollars) for information leading to the arrest of the gunman.
Posted by: tipper || 04/07/2006 19:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Berlusconi hints at possible defeat as poll nears
Posted by: ed || 04/07/2006 11:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Gore urges moral crusade against global warming..and urges solar impeachment
Al Gore brought corporate executives and environmentally minded investors roaring to their feet Thursday with multimedia images of an overheating planet and a call for Americans to reclaim their "moral authority" by tackling global warming.
Bore does not understand the atmosphere, and climate dynamics. Antarctic cooling flatly contradicts the climate models that are the basis of the global warming hypothesis. The 1930s were warmer on the Arctic Rim than the 1990s.

"This is really not a political issue, it is disguised as a political issue," Gore said. "It is a moral issue, it is an ethical issue — If we allow this to happen, we will destroy the habitability of the planet. We can't do that, and I am confident we won't do that."
The moral issue is not global warming: It's immoral for a washed up, ignorant politician pandering to a scientifically ignorant crowd with biased, questionable data to resurrect a dead career.

As a U.S. senator, Gore gave global warming talks 15 years ago in Washington that relied almost entirely on scientists' best guesses and computer models.
Homer Simpson: "Models! Is there anything they can't do?"

Now bolstered by real climate changes, he has gone Hollywood, with movies of collapsing ice shelves, then-and-now shots of vanishing glaciers and lakes, telegenic photos of dwindling wildlife species — plus floods, tornadoes and, of course, hurricanes.
Total BS. The current climate is still recovering from the last ice age. The Northern Hemisphere is emerging from the warm phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. Think 1960s and 1970s.

"We have been blind to the fact that the human species is now having a crushing impact on the ecological system of the planet," Gore said.
Only around 5% of the world's greenhouse gases are generated by humans. That's a second order effect.

After Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005, federal hurricane scientists used the Greek alphabet in naming tropical storms.
This was anticipated as the Gulf of Mexico is undergoing it's warm phase.

"This is the first foretaste of a cup that will be offered to us again and again and again until we regain our moral authority," BS!! BS!! BS!!! Gore told members of Ceres, an organization of companies, investors and environmentalists pressing for greener behavior by corporations.

Gore's message is much the same as it was in the early 1990s, but his talk in Oakland comes at a political tipping point in the debate not about global warming, but what to do about it.
Mother Nature is the first order effect. If you could decrease by 80% human contribution...which would cost the global economy over a trillion dollars...it would likely not be measurable. Humans are a second order effect.

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia now insist on some percentage of renewables for their energy. Washington state and Oregon are considering a carbon tax. California and a coalition of eight Northeast states are setting mandatory caps on greenhouse gases and moving toward carbon markets. Oakland and 217 other U.S. cities with a total population of more than 40 million have endorsed the Kyoto treaty's limits on greenhouse gases.
BS!!! BS!!! BS!!!

More than 40 U.S. corporations in the Fortune 500 say they favor mandatory federal regulation of greenhouse gases, and many executives say they now see such emissions limits as inevitable within five to 10 years.
They see it's easier to spend money "doing their part" than going into bankruptcy in lawsuits. It's called pragmatism.

In Congress, the number of bills dealing with climate change has rocketed from seven in 1997 to more than 100 this year, said Truman Semans of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
It's the sexy money magnet.

"It shows what politicians believe it's important to have a record on, and they believe it's important to have a record on climate change," he said Thursday.
politicians can't spell science and wouldn't recognize it if it bit them in the butt.

New Mexico's U.S. senators, Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman, who led the Senate last summer in passing a resolution favoring some form of regulation on greenhouse gases, on Tuesday held the first hearings in Congress on creating a mandatory cap on greenhouse emissions and setting up a carbon market to drive less carbon-intensive technologies.
No one should be arguing that we should do nothing about the human contribution.

At those hearings, trade associations for the electric-power and mining industries opposed the new rules as potentially disastrous for the U.S. economy. But executives of General Electric, Wal-Mart, Duke Energy, Exelon and other companies urged the senators to move ahead.

If a carbon market were in place that could place a price on the right to release greenhouse gases, then technologies to curb those emissions would rise in value, and the corporate risks of those emissions could be quantified by financial markets, said Kaj Jensen of Bank of America.

"It's inevitable," Jensen told Ceres members. "The only real question we think is when we will have a market in place."
That's insane.

Many of the answers — increased energy efficiency, conservation, expanded use of alternative fuels — already are in hand, Gore argued.
No one is arguing that we should do nothing about the human contribution. But it is a flipping 2nd order effect for crying out loud!

"We already have everything we need to get started on solving this crisis. We can solve it," he said. The nation overcame slavery, gave women the right to vote, defeated global fascism on two fronts simultaneously and put a man on the moon, he said. "We can do this if we set our minds to this."
I move we sew Gore's mouth shut as the hot air, and methane from the bovine excrement contribute to global warming.

The issue is politically charged and billions are riding on it. Nobody is talking about the record cold in Europe...the impact of the Gulf Stream shutting down...and the radical changes in the Arctic ice pack this winter that will have long term effects on the weather. Nobody is talking about the variation in solar constant.

Posted by: anymouse || 04/07/2006 13:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm doing my part by farting my way to a warmer earth!
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/07/2006 15:43 Comments || Top||

#2  "Global warming " is no longer the operative phrase, Al. It's now "climate change". Say it with me..."climate change".
Cover your ass, no matter what happens. Didn't you get the memo? The "Pew Center on Global Climate Change" did.
Posted by: tu3031 || 04/07/2006 15:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Say, I've lost my Gore "Kamehameha" pic in a crash, if anyone has it, could they please repost it?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/07/2006 18:03 Comments || Top||

#4  "We have been blind to the fact that the human species is now having a crushing impact on the ecological system of the planet," Gore said.

Oh, for cryin' out loud... just eat a bullet, Al. Really. Off yourself, and you'll have the satisfaction that you did your own little bit to improve life on this planet by no longer consuming precious resources and no longer generating hot air.

Plus, the rest of us will be able to enjoy what few days we have left before the oceans rise and drown us all, or famine hits, BECAUSE WE WON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO ANY MORE OF YOUR DAMN BULLSHIT.

Jeepers. Can you imagine what it would have been like if this dingdong had won in 2000??????

Posted by: Dave D. || 04/07/2006 18:23 Comments || Top||

#5  www.junkscience.com is the best debunker of the shonky so-called science out there.

Nice comments anymouse.
Posted by: phil_b || 04/07/2006 18:26 Comments || Top||

#6  "Gore urges moral crusade"

"Gore" and "moral" in the same sentence....

doesnotcomputedoesnotcomputedoesnotecompute

**head explodes**
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/07/2006 19:56 Comments || Top||

#7  The Left > MANKIND MUST ABSOLUTELY AND UNDENIABLY CONTROL GOD + SUN, ETC. ERGO IS WHY WE'RE SENDING OUR MISSLES AND SPACESHIPS IN THE OTHER DIRECTION, D *** YOU!? Vote for the Dems in 2008, so that Americans in righteous indignation and moral outrage can work to save the Sun by not saving the Sun, ergo saving the Earth.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/07/2006 21:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Joe nails it ergo again!!!!! (At least Barbara got the right computer message, before unfortunately, her head exploded.) :)
Posted by: Inspector Clueso || 04/07/2006 21:27 Comments || Top||

#9  What is it with washed-up donk politicians? Can they do anything but complain and curse the US government? Gore doesn't have the brains of a chipmunk, and wouldn't understand scientific discussion of global warming if you spoon-fed it to him. This is just another attempt to grab publicity and pretend you're still relevant. He needs to move to Vanuatu and help the inhabitants deal with geomorphic glacial rebound that's drowning the islands.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 04/07/2006 21:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Sometimes I think there is deep meaning in what Joe says. Most days I think someone has written an AI and is having a little fun with us.
Posted by: phil_b || 04/07/2006 21:30 Comments || Top||

#11  Vanuatu and help the inhabitants deal with geomorphic glacial rebound that's drowning the islands.

OP, I assume you made that up, cos Vanuatu hasn't had glaciers in recent geological times and if it has isostatic readjustment (I think that's the term) would cause Vanuatu to rise (out of the ocean), not sink, because the weight of the ice has been removed.
Posted by: phil_b || 04/07/2006 21:35 Comments || Top||

#12  So, when big Al realizes that China is the major cause of greenhouse gases, is he heading off to Bejing with his anti-factorybreath sermon ?
I think not. And what happens if a volcano erupts causing a heavy does of greenhouse effect ? Will big Al throw himself in to please the volcano gods ? What about it, erh Al ?
Posted by: wxjames || 04/07/2006 21:43 Comments || Top||

#13  Hell wit it, Mars sharmarz, where's that damn wndowpane?
Posted by: 6 || 04/07/2006 22:04 Comments || Top||

#14  And what happens if a volcano erupts causing a heavy does of greenhouse effect ? Will big Al throw himself in to please the volcano gods ?

Oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease,oplease
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/07/2006 22:09 Comments || Top||

#15  RJ - too long, dude! ya broke the window
Posted by: Frank G || 04/07/2006 22:10 Comments || Top||

#16  Wha Happen? sorry didn't mean to destroy the format, no idea why it didn't wrap properly.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/07/2006 22:11 Comments || Top||

#17  Ya need spaces in there to break it up, Jim. Can't have long character strings without spaces, or she won't wrap.
Posted by: Dave D. || 04/07/2006 22:16 Comments || Top||

#18  thanks, no more run-ons, moderator please correct or delete, thanks
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/07/2006 22:18 Comments || Top||


Great White North
New Canadian PM's approval numbers way up
Usual caveats about lies, statistics, etc... but hey, Canadians seem to like their new boss.
Posted by: Seafarious || 04/07/2006 01:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.
Posted by: 2b || 04/07/2006 2:01 Comments || Top||

#2  thanks 2b
Posted by: Zimmerman || 04/07/2006 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  They elected a "right-winger" and Canuckistan still stands.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 04/07/2006 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Dear Mr. Prime Minister:

Would you please ring up President Bush and offer him 20,000 freshly cut 10' Canadian fence posts and 25 semi truck loads of concertina wire? This would be a healthy start, and do a lot for his approval numbers as well!
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/07/2006 14:07 Comments || Top||

#5  offer him 20,000 freshly cut 10' Canadian fence posts

If they're made of softwood lumber, forget it yankee :-)
Posted by: SA4511 || 04/07/2006 18:13 Comments || Top||

#6  I find this heartening. I didn't expect a shift this soon. It's good. I think most Canadians would be happiest just slightly right of centre. If we can stop Harper from tilting too far right - sentiments can continue to improve.

With this upswing in numbers, we can hope that the America bashing will be dropped for the idiocy it is and an improvement in general relations. We're still cranky about some stuff, mind you. But here's hoping for a return to respect and friendship.

We've just got to keep Harper propped toward moderate sometimes.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 || 04/07/2006 20:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Moonbat tells Bush he should be 'ashamed of yourself '
President George W. Bush faced a rare display of hostility from the public at a forum, when a man said he should be "ashamed of yourself".

The president, whose job approval ratings have sunk to all-time lows, had invited questions from the audience in a bid to show he was not out of touch with voters.

A man who appeared to be in his 50s and bore a slight resemblance to John Kerry, Bush's defeated Democratic foe in the last election, said: "Okay, I don't have a question.

"What I wanted to say to you is that I -- in my lifetime, I have never felt more ashamed of, nor more frightened by, my leadership in Washington, including the presidency, by the Senate, and ...," the man said, as the audience began booing.

"No, wait a sec -- let him speak," Bush said.

"I feel like despite your rhetoric, that compassion and common sense have been left far behind during your administration, and I would hope from time to time that you have the humility and the grace to be ashamed of yourself inside yourself," the man said.

He did not mention the continuing war in Iraq, which Bush is seeking to justify, but criticized the administration's wiretapping without warrant, environmental policy and the president's restrictive views on abortion.

Bush defended the wiretapping as constitutional and authorized under the "war on terror".

"You said, would I apologize for that? The answer ... is, absolutely not," Bush said.
Heh.
Posted by: Fleger Slavick5342 || 04/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That man has just become my newest personal hero. He's probably said just about everything I could say in the amount of time he could say it. the only saving grace of Bush is that he actually defended his right to say it. Bravo.
Posted by: GradStudent06 || 04/07/2006 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Riddle me this GradStudent...why should the POTUS be ashamed of using every legitimate tool at his disposal to protect the citizens of this nation? Bush's views on abortion are his and he's entitled to them as you are yours. If this tool in the audience is your new personal hero - it's obvious that your true education is yet to come. Good luck - you'll need it.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/07/2006 1:18 Comments || Top||

#3  GradStudent06, you sound like someone getting a masters in education or ethnic studies, a course of study where you and your fellow students are cheerfully cocooned and kept isolated from the real world and the necessity to do something useful.
Posted by: RWV || 04/07/2006 1:27 Comments || Top||

#4  grad student got it right. These reporters have got it down to one macro key that they use over and over again. This guy cut out everything but the key phrases they repeat like a mantra.

Low Poll Ratings, (this resonates with liberals because they are cattle)
Out of touch with voters He's not cool, like grad student.

This is clean and neat, almost like a prayer or Hail Mary for liberals. Say the words, blame Satan Bush and viola! they have absolved themselves of any responsibility for these problems in the world.

He did not mention the continuing war in Iraq, which Bush is seeking to justify, but criticized the administration's wiretapping without warrant, environmental policy and the president's restrictive views on abortion. Bush defended the wiretapping as constitutional and authorized under the "war on terror". (notice the quotes)

What I find most interesting is that they dropped No WMD from the repetition. I guess they've been told to nix that one off the macro seeing as how its a bit inconvenient now.
Posted by: 2b || 04/07/2006 1:40 Comments || Top||

#5  Heh...sweet 2b.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/07/2006 1:59 Comments || Top||

#6  video
Karl must have hired him, he's a gift
Posted by: RD || 04/07/2006 3:44 Comments || Top||

#7  He's so afraid that he stood up in a public forum and asked the president directly?

With this level of control over speech, America is obviously a fascist tyranny.

/sarcasm
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/07/2006 5:50 Comments || Top||

#8  If Bush = Hitler, why isn't this guy in Gestapo custody already?
Posted by: Mike || 04/07/2006 6:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Interesting to note that an event like this only takes place in America. I salute the POTUS.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/07/2006 6:57 Comments || Top||

#10  "#8 He's so afraid that he stood up in a public forum and asked the president directly?

With this level of control over speech, America is obviously a fascist tyranny."

Because Cynthia McKinney and Ward Churchill have yet to gain control of the reigns of power.
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 04/07/2006 7:10 Comments || Top||

#11  Follow up: Give the Left time ... they'll move us into Red Fascism ala Stalinism.
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 04/07/2006 7:11 Comments || Top||

#12  Tipping my pint to you Lancasters. Whhahaaa
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/07/2006 7:26 Comments || Top||

#13  The president, whose job approval ratings have sunk to all-time lows...

Except Congress' is 20 points below that of the President. You notice that the media never gives a comparative number.
Posted by: Hupomotle Fluling3523 || 04/07/2006 7:43 Comments || Top||

#14  I used to think that you people live in a cacoon, isolated from mainstream America. After a while, though, I'm starting to realize there's a lot of experience and wisdom in the Rantburg community.

Gonna have to go think about all this - I feel my opinions changing when I come this way.
Posted by: GradStudent06 || 04/07/2006 9:33 Comments || Top||

#15  I feel BD/LA/Cass.
Posted by: Criger Shaling7432 || 04/07/2006 9:38 Comments || Top||

#16  don't let one thread get to ya GradStudent06, thick skin counts as does an open mind.
Posted by: RD || 04/07/2006 9:45 Comments || Top||

#17  I think that it is intolerable that we use such inflammatory and insensitive language when describing someone who is merely exercising their constitutional rights of free speech to seek redress for wrongs both committed and perceived.
Posted by: Perfesser of Moonbat Studies || 04/07/2006 9:52 Comments || Top||

#18  And suddenly, I find myself on a Chinese blog....where they change your entries if they don't like them. Hmm. Knew it was gonna happen sooner or later...didn't realize how soon.
Posted by: GradStudent06 || 04/07/2006 9:54 Comments || Top||

#19  Later, at a beatnik coffeehouse . . . .

"Didya see that? I Stuck It To the Man, man! I got right in Chimpy McBushitler Haliburton's face and Spoke Truth To Power! An' him an' his knuckle-dragging Christer jackbooted Rethuglicn stormtroopers didn' try to put me in a reeducation camp or nothin'."

"Duude, it's, like . . . woah!"

"I'm so proud of you, Mortimer."

"You are? Well, like . . . do you wanna sleep with me or somethin' then?"*

"Well, . . . ."

*-Because, after all, what's the point of Speaking Truth To Power and Sticking It To The Man if you can't score with the hippie chicks afterward?
Posted by: Mike || 04/07/2006 10:11 Comments || Top||

#20  Gonna have to go think about all this - I feel my opinions changing when I come this way.

What do we get out of the deal iffin you do?
Posted by: badanov || 04/07/2006 10:54 Comments || Top||

#21  where they change your entries if they don't like them. Hmm. Knew it was gonna happen sooner or later...didn't realize how soon.

We of course change your entries before you even think of them by changing your mind and viewpoint with 'Civil, Well-reasoned discourse'...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/07/2006 11:20 Comments || Top||

#22  "That man has just become my newest personal hero."

Reminds me of that old Soviet joke:

"In the U.S., we can criticise our President"

"Hah! In Russia, we can criticise your President, too."

When someone is allowed to stand up at a public, televised gathering and freely lambaste a Democrat office-holder, then we can talk about heroics.
Posted by: Fordesque || 04/07/2006 12:49 Comments || Top||

#23  There's a lot of fishiness going on here.

I know for a fact that the moderators are too busy dealing with a DDoS attack today, but this is the day an atypical message has been posted under "Gradual Student"'s ID and then one posted accusing us of changing his message. (And the second one remains unaltered).

I think he or she is lying for the sake of causing trouble or being able to make an accusation. I think we should ban that IP, whoever it is.
Posted by: Phil || 04/07/2006 12:55 Comments || Top||

#24  It's "National F#$k with the Trolls Day" here at Rantburg. Carry on with your maintanence gentlemen, we'll handle the trolls out here.
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 04/07/2006 13:43 Comments || Top||

#25  Suddenly, I got nothin' to say.
Posted by: Yusef Islam || 04/07/2006 5:25 Comments || Top||

#26  While this concern about freedom of speech impacts American political discourse, Indonesian Muslims have accepted the publication of the semi-pornographic journal, "Playboy." This proves that Muslims are going in a positive direction.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1816436
Posted by: Yusef Islam || 04/07/2006 7:13 Comments || Top||

#27  [This comment not actually posted by RB regular]
Posted by: whitecollarredneck || 04/07/2006 16:54 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Earthquake jolts Tharparkar
MITHI: An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale jolted Tharparkar district and parts of the Indian state of Rajasthan across the border at about 5:30 pm on Thursday. Thousands of people in Mithi, Diplo, Nagarparkar, Chhachhro, Islamkot and Thariyo Halepota village came out of their homes and shops in fear. The epicentre of the quake was in the Runn of Kutch, an official of the Meteorological Department in Tharparkar said. No loss of life and property was reported.
Ummm... A little to the left, I think...
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US will not seek UN rights council seat
The United States, with its human rights record under attack, has said it will not run for a seat on the new UN Human Rights Council.
Good idea. Let Sudan have it.
Some human rights experts say US abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and its treatment of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, may have made it hard for Washington to win election to the council. Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said it was "childish" for Washington not to run for a seat, even though it risked the embarrassment of possible failure. "It's unfortunate that the Bush administration's disturbing human rights record means that the United States would hardly have been a shoo-in for election to the council.
We're busy doing things that are unpleasant, so that nitwits like Kenneth Roth can continue their lucrative ankle-biting careers. Guantanamo doesn't bother me a bit. Abu Ghraib was perpetrated by low-IQ sadists who're now in jug. HRW spends a lot of time criticizing the mote in our eye, while ignoring the beam in others'.
"Today's decision not to run seems like an effort to make a virtue of necessity," he said. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack explained Thursday's decision this way: Many democracies with strong human rights records had already put themselves forward for the May 9 election and "it's only fair that they have the opportunity to run for a seat on a council for which they have voted". The US would probably seek a seat on the 47-member council next year, but would meanwhile support the council financially and encourage it to address human rights abuses in Iran, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Sudan and North Korea, McCormack added.
Posted by: Fred || 04/07/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Considering that the UN Human Rights Council is another toothless feel-good UN sham, why should we waste time on it? Better to do what the rest of the world does, ignore it. Quite frankly, it is about time that we tell the rest of the world that we really don't care that much about their thinly disguised jealousy hypocritical criticism and will dispense with the notion that they can make rules that only we are supposed to follow. Most of the nations are like US Democrats, they only follow rules and obey laws that are, at the moment, convenient or when they can use them against their rivals.
Posted by: RWV || 04/07/2006 1:23 Comments || Top||

#2  MBD, you're pathetic.
Posted by: Criger Shaling7432 || 04/07/2006 5:40 Comments || Top||

#3  [OFF-TOPIC OR ABUSIVE COMMENTS DELETED]
Posted by: Yusef Islam TROLL


That's the most cogent comment he's made so far!
{/sarcasm}
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 04/07/2006 15:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Yessirreee, Bubba, Christina and Glaze-Gate = killing fields of ..............@ - its Torture, D**** YOU, ABSOLUTE HORRIBLE TORTURE, T-O-R-T-T-E-R, Torture!? AND NO JELLO OR YOGURT, EITHER!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/07/2006 21:06 Comments || Top||

#5  The Un is a farce and a toy in the hands of the muslim world. They rule it. Declining is an honourable thing. I hope Canada would follow suit - but it won't.
Abu Graib over decades of slaughter and abuse and horror. Yeah, that's equivalent. time to pull out of the UN.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 || 04/07/2006 21:10 Comments || Top||

#6  withdraw and use the funds to arm the south Sudanese - that's working for improving the world
Posted by: Frank G || 04/07/2006 21:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Suddenly, I got nothin' to say.
Posted by: Yusef Islam || 04/07/2006 5:38 Comments || Top||

#8  Suddenly, I got nothin' to say.
Posted by: Yusef Islam || 04/07/2006 6:03 Comments || Top||



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