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Pak army frees 30 at army HQ, ending siege
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Eric Holder Will Decide if You Belong to a Hate Group
Posted by: Phaimble Chains9937 || 10/11/2009 00:38 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Common, Eric works for Nobel Peace laureate (practically a saint), why worry?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2009 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Paragraph 3 - Could define posters on a Blog or Website

(3) EVIDENCE OF ASSOCIATION OR AFFILATION WITH HATE GROUP.—The following shall constitute evidence that a person is associated or affiliated with a group associated with hate-related violence:
(A) Individuals possessing tattoos or other body markings indicating association or affiliation with a hate group.
(B) Individuals known to have attended meetings, rallies, conferences, or other activities sponsored by a hate group.
(C) Individuals known to be involved in online activities with a hate group, including being engaged in online discussion groups or blog or other postings that support, encourage, or affirm the group’s extremist or violent views and goals.
(D) Individuals who are known to have in their possession photographs, written testimonials (including diaries or journals), propaganda, or other materials indicating involvement or affiliation with a hate group. Such materials can include photographs, written materials relating to or referring to extreme hatred that are clearly not of an academic nature, possession of objects that venerate or glorify hateinspired violence, and related materials, as determined by the Attorney General.

Posted by: Titus Grusomp3181 || 10/11/2009 1:12 Comments || Top||

#3  No could about it. Section 3c nails us all to a wall at will.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/11/2009 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Does 3d mean any book by Coulter, Beck or Limbaugh?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 10/11/2009 8:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Heck, and I'm with a local Tea Party, which is well known to be composed of racists, Nazis, GOP pawns and haters!
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 10/11/2009 8:58 Comments || Top||

#6  People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong's regime (1949-1975) (Communist): 40000000 dead
Soviet Union, Stalin's regime (1924-53) (Communist): 20000000 dead
Third Reich, Adolf Hitler's regime (1889-1945) (National Soci@list): 15000000 dead [not counting WWII European Theater 42000000]
- source.

One would expect that an impartial AG would focus his/her efforts on the most hateful and destructive groups and their ideologues of the past 100 years. However, that would mean dealing with the base of the current administration and its program of soci@list justice and redistribution.



Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2009 9:01 Comments || Top||

#7  "its program of soci@list "justice" and redistribution"

Fixed that for ya', P2k.

No extra charge - I'm in a generous mood this morning. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/11/2009 10:09 Comments || Top||

#8  I humbly stand corrected. :)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2009 10:22 Comments || Top||

#9 
I hereby officially declare myself a Hate Group.

I hate Eric Holder and Barack Hussein 0bama.

Now prosecute me, Holder. I dare ya.
Posted by: Parabellum || 10/11/2009 10:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Trotskyite's begin the purge of the peasants. Lessons from Lenin's peasant purge have been studied and ignored.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/11/2009 10:44 Comments || Top||

#11  The rumblings have been going on for some time. Anyone who disagrees with Bambi and his minions for ANY reason whatsoever could be considered a "Hate Group".
Posted by: WolfDog || 10/11/2009 10:54 Comments || Top||

#12  Its been going on by the media for at least 40 years Wolf. Anyone who disagrees with the Left is a 'Racist' and 'Hate Group' - dispite the fact that just about every hate group in history has been based on a leftist agenda. See Proc's list above. You can add items from our own history - Jim Crow Laws, KKK, etc....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/11/2009 11:19 Comments || Top||

#13  What about Black Panthers?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/11/2009 14:38 Comments || Top||

#14  That doesn't count. They were Oppressed. Gives them automatic immunity from hate speech rules and a permanent pass for oppression of others.
Posted by: lotp || 10/11/2009 15:31 Comments || Top||

#15  What about Black Panthers

In my experience, that is the single most common tattoo after barbed wire. No way any politician labels millions of minorities as members of a hate group over some ink.

Flaming crosses on the other hand are worn by a bajillion whites because they think fire and crosses are cool. I wouldn't surprised to see them be classified as haters.
Posted by: Mike N. || 10/11/2009 15:56 Comments || Top||

#16  Mike...wrong answer. Black is the operative word in Black Panthers and blacks cannot be racist. Understand? I thought that everyone knew only Caucasians were capable of race hatred. Sheesh.
Posted by: anymouse || 10/11/2009 17:52 Comments || Top||

#17  One of these days, the ordinary citizens of this nation are going to get fed up, and the death toll here may be 10-20 million as well. Too bad the Obumble administration is making that more of a sure thing every day. God, what stupidity.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 10/11/2009 20:40 Comments || Top||

#18  Anyone who disagrees with Bambi and his minions for ANY reason whatsoever could be considered a "Hate Group".

You forgot "Racist".
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/11/2009 22:54 Comments || Top||

#19  Anyone who disagrees with Bambi and his minions for ANY reason whatsoever could be considered a "Hate Group".

You forgot "Racist".

On second thought, MUSLIM is conspicuously absent.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/11/2009 22:57 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Gore upbeat on climate bill
Yes, but is that based on a feeling or properly analyzed information?
Posted by: Elmolutch Glavigum4511 || 10/11/2009 10:01 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  With the Gorebot, it has to be feewings.

He's constitutionally incapable of properly analyzing anything.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/11/2009 13:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Gore makes money out of making the government seek rent on his behalf.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/11/2009 14:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember this whenever you're talking to a Kleiner Perkins partner.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 10/11/2009 15:54 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm so old, I remember when Al Gore had principles.
Posted by: mom || 10/11/2009 21:55 Comments || Top||

#5  that was Al Gore Sr., and no, he didn't
Posted by: Frank G || 10/11/2009 22:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Sterling snark, Frank. ;-p

And oh, so true.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/11/2009 22:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
They still spell it 'Amerika'
Hat tip, Instapundit
For those of us who grew up in the era when Weather Undergrounders Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn were familiar names in the news, it is always discomforting to be reminded of Barack Obama's many associations with people of the radical left - Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, etc.

Such folks' political thought never progressed beyond the 1960s because the revolutionary New Left didn't disappear, it simply went on to graduate school and then careers, mostly in the mainstream media, academia, the non-profits, the bureaucracy of state and local social work, and Blue State politics. Many bought BMWs and flat screens who nevertheless never stopped dreaming of revolution. In their hearts, they still spell it "Amerika."

...Obama grew up suffused in this culture of obsessive alienation and its distempered worldview, it is his fundamental frame of reference concerning America's past and its principles. Early on in places like Harvard and Chicago, he learned to speak always in language that appears to reassure when in fact it obscures and conceals his roots and what those roots tell us about who he appoints and why he follows the policies he does.

Whatever Barack and the people he has surrounded himself with may profess with their mouths at any particular time, their actions show they still loathe America and our standing as most powerful nation on earth, as well as our free enterprise, individual liberty, reverence for family and local communities, Main Street, the U.S. military, Christianity, and every other hallmark of the traditional culture and values of Western civilization.
How much of an exaggeration would it be to claim that USA is under foreign occupation right now?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2009 01:07 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How much of an exaggeration would it be to claim that USA is under foreign occupation right now?
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

Not much of an exaggeration when one considers the polls that show anywhere from 50-60% (or more) of Americans view themselves as some form of Conservative.
Posted by: WolfDog || 10/11/2009 10:46 Comments || Top||

#2  How much of an exaggeration would it be to claim that USA is under foreign occupation right now?

Not an exaggeration, an hallucination.
Posted by: 746 || 10/11/2009 12:18 Comments || Top||

#3  well, pretty soon it will be Americccpa or USSA so they can quit their bitchin.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 10/11/2009 13:11 Comments || Top||

#4  We've always had that kind of idiot. It must be some sort of recessive, genetically -- I'm sure the science wallahs will turn it up sooner or later, along with a tendency toward breast cancer or a susceptibility to succumb to an XMRV infection.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/11/2009 13:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Hey 746, how is working for the Justice Department working out?
Posted by: whitecollar redneck || 10/11/2009 17:32 Comments || Top||

#6  i sell cigarettes to kids, its great
Posted by: 746 || 10/11/2009 23:45 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Iceland looks to serve the world
Posted by: tipper || 10/11/2009 09:03 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's a trick. The only other thing Iceland has done in recent years is to Bjork us.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 10/11/2009 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  It's a cookbook!
Posted by: Frank G || 10/11/2009 11:52 Comments || Top||

#3  now there's something the Alaskans can get on board with.
Posted by: 746 || 10/11/2009 12:15 Comments || Top||

#4  We need to brush up on our renewable energy, but cooling energy in winter is a cinch. Locate the hub in the Interior, where you have lots of low temps in winter (20F to -60F) and you can use this cold air for cooling.

However, the long legs for servers are vulnerable. There is more to data than carbon footprints---there are security and reliability issues. Of course the Gaia worshipers do not see that on their radar screens. Another good intentioned road to he11.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/11/2009 17:23 Comments || Top||

#5  In a country where hydroelectric power is plentiful, reliable and dirt cheap, they have a serious problem with overbuilding of expensive, unreliable geothermal energy from the good years of subsidies handed out by a once cash rich and now bankrupt government.

Green energy the world over in a nutshell IMHO.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/11/2009 19:18 Comments || Top||

#6  D *** NG IT, HASN'T THE BAMMER SENT IN THE MARINES TO CONQUER GREENLAND + ICELAND YET, ala "CALL OF DUTY: MODERN/GLOBAL WARFARE #8"!

IOW, what the Artic is tryng hard NOT to say is
ICELAND = NOT-NYC-AMERIKA-FUTURE-HEADQUARTERS-FOR-FUTURE-GLOBAL-GUBBERMINT.

Serving the finest in OWG-NWO, PRE-CATASTROPHE SOLYENT GREEN,ORANGE, PURPLE, .......
......@ETC. "FUTURAMA" CUISINE!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 10/11/2009 20:45 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sun 2009-10-11
  Pak army frees 30 at army HQ, ending siege
Sat 2009-10-10
  'Al-Qaeda-linked' Cern worker held
Fri 2009-10-09
  B.O. gets Nobel Peace Prize, just like Arafat
Thu 2009-10-08
  Car bomb at India's Kabul embassy
Wed 2009-10-07
  Terrorist cell found in Hamburg. Surprise.
Tue 2009-10-06
  Zazi had senior al-Qaida contact
Mon 2009-10-05
  Bomb Hits UN Office in Pakistan Capital; 4 Killed
Sun 2009-10-04
  Tensions in Jerusalem after new Al-Aqsa clashes
Sat 2009-10-03
  Tahir Yuldashev confirmed titzup
Fri 2009-10-02
  20 Palestinian prisoners freed after Shalit video released
Thu 2009-10-01
  Third drone strike in past 24 hours
Wed 2009-09-30
  Al Shabaab rebels declare war on rivals
Tue 2009-09-29
  US missile strikes kill eight
Mon 2009-09-28
  Ismail Khan Survives Suicide Boomer
Sun 2009-09-27
  Twin suicide kabooms kill 23 in Peshawar, Bannu


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