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Leftist Redeploys to Prison
He served one year in Iraq and I thank him for that. Unfortunately, like all the other defeatists, he has decided to surrender after only two years on the run.
On Thursday, a year and a half after going absent without leave before his second deployment to Iraq, Army Spc. Mark Wilkerson plans to return to Fort Hood to face his fellow soldiers and superiors.
"I just could not in good conscience go back to a war I felt was wrong," Wilkerson, 22, of Colorado Springs, Colo., said Thursday at Cindy Sheehan's protest camp site.
About 50 protesters joined Wilkerson at Sheehan's site near President Bush's ranch. Roughly a dozen in the group planned to travel with him about 40 miles south to the central Texas Army post near Killeen.
Wilkerson, who said he never left the country but won't reveal where he was, has consulted with an attorney but does not know exactly what penalties he faces. Others have served time in military prisons.
Simple desertion has been decreasing in the military in recent years — about 2,500 troops last year simply didn't show up for work, down from almost 5,000 in 2001, according to the Pentagon public affairs office.
Wilkerson was just 17 when he enlisted in the Army. He wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandparents, who also served in the military. Then after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, he felt even more sure of his decision, he said.
It's hard to criticize someone who went to Iraq--especially when I did not. Also, because I can understand the draw of celebrity when the leftist mobsters and media get their clutches on you. But he signed up and, therefore, broke his word to his fellow soldiers that needed him, the commanders that needed him, the President that needed him and the nation that needed him.
I hope his time in prison is safe and passes quickly.
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That Democrat Tone
Hackett, Democrat loser who ran for the House and the Senate, shows that great tone:
This is your party. I challenge leftists on this like Charles did before.
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This Is Your Chance
To all those on the left who said that 'of course' they decry the attacks on the property and persons of Republicans (as detailed by Aaron very well here), when in terms of prominent Democrats at least, the rest of us only hear the quiet chirping of crickets, here's your chance.
A National Guardsman was viciously attacked by a bunch of thugs shouting left-wing, anti-war, warmed over from the 70s slogans. (Hat tip to Michelle Malkin for the story which is unsurprisingly being ignored by the MSM.)
The comments are open. I know that a number of left-wingers troll the site, so I'm waiting for you to denounce this. I'll even read something that paul writes. I'm even willing to wade through the "Well what about (insert mythical crime supposedly perpetrated by the Bush administration here)?" just to see if you actually, honestly, truly, in your heart, disagree with this despicable, sick, criminal behavior.
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Set your Tivos
Sunday, September 10 @ 8/7c
Monday, September 11 @ 8/7c
Starring Harvey Keitel, Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Benyaer, Shirley Douglas, Patricia Heaton
The miniseries will take viewers behind closed doors at the CIA, the FBI and the White House and into the world of Richard Clarke, Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Sandy Berger and CIA Director George Tenet, among others. Viewers will follow the international manhunt for elusive bomber Ramzi Yousef (Nabile Elouahabi, Eastenders) and meet several key players in the 9/11 saga, including: John O'Neill, the career FBI agent who spent years zealously chasing bin Laden; then-ABC newsman John Miller (portrayed by Barclay Hope, Stargate SG-1), who interviewed bin Laden; Emad Salem and other key Muslim informants who aided the U.S.; and Ahmed Shah Massoud, commander of the Northern Alliance, a crucial American ally and the person bin Laden feared most.
The 9/11 Commission Report instantly became a national bestseller when it was published in July 2004. Writer Cyrus Nowrasteh (The Day Reagan Was Shot) uses this historic document as the basis for a powerful story with action as gripping and far reaching as the source material itself. Shot in Toronto, Morocco, New York and Washington, DC, actors portray the famous and infamous, along with the formerly anonymous and often heroic people thrust onto history's stage. Beginning with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and ending on the morning of 9/11, the miniseries draws on detailed information from the Report and other sources to take viewers on an unforgettable journey through the events that presaged that fateful day -- to understand what went right and wrong, and what can be learned from this crucial eight-year period.
Former ABC News anchor John Miller, now the FBI's Assistant Director of Public Affairs, was also a consultant on the project. His book, The Cell, co-authored with Michael Stone, was optioned by ABC for use in the teleplay. In addition, The Relentless Pursuit by Samuel Katz was also optioned.
The Path to 9/11 is executive-produced by Marc Platt (Empire Falls). The producers are Hans Proppe (Anne Frank) and Cyrus Nowrasteh (also the writer); and Governor Thomas H. Kean (Chair, The 9/11 Commission) is senior consultant. The director is David L. Cunningham. The miniseries is a production of UHP Productions, Ltd., and will be distributed by Touchstone Television.
TV Rating: TV-14 -- For more info visit www.tvguidelines.org
Simulcast in HDTV where available
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The Democrats Melt as Elections Heat up
Don't you love how the Dems can just say anything they want calling people "liars" and "jerks" and "incompetent" etc. But let Rumsfeld challenge them and they whine and cry! How can these people deal with terrorists if they cannot deal with an American election???
Democrats chastised Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld Wednesday for questioning the historical grasp of Bush administration war critics, accusing him of engaging in "dangerous business."
Several members of Congress had been urging Rumsfeld's resignation before he asserted to the American Legion that opponents displayed the kind of thinking that delayed military action against Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.
Rumsfeld said the world faces "a new type of fascism." And he warned against repeating the pre-World War II mistake of appeasement.
Rumsfeld's speech in Salt Lake City Tuesday, in which he also said that administration critics suffered from "moral confusion," prompted angry reactions from Democrats hoping to win back the majority in Congress.
"It is a dangerous business to accuse those who disagree with you of moral and intellectual confusion," [that's politics!] said Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. "Debate in our democracy is based upon respect, not vilification." [ah, yes. the whole "shut up!" rebuttal]
Said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi: "If Mr. Rumsfeld is so concerned with comparisons to World War II, he should explain why our troops have now been fighting in Iraq longer than it took our forces to defeat the Nazis in Europe." [can she explain why our forces are STILL in Germany 60 years later?]
Rumsfeld said it "was apparent that many have still not learned history's lessons." Aides later said he was not accusing the administration's critics of trying to appease the terrorists but was cautioning against a repeat of errors made in earlier eras.
Nevertheless, Rumsfeld's remarks were seen by many Democrats in Congress as fighting words.
Sen. Jack Reed, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said Rumsfeld has been "substituting sloganing for strategy" [and "substitution sloganing for strategy" isn't a slogan???] and delivered a "calculated political argument" to make people believe that to support a war against terror requires support of the administration's policies.
"I think the analogy is very, very weak," Reed, D-R.I., said of Rumsfeld's comparison of Iraq to World War II.
Rummy struck a nerve with this and the administration needs to drive it home in the next 60 days.
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Caption Contest Time!!!
Great pictures about the Death to Israel rally that the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake City happily attended.
And one of the unacceptable sins of Israel? Being ugly!
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Internetty Legal Picking
(This is just a whimsical post of links to odd Cyberlaw stories. And no, Cyberlaw is a legal subject, it is NOT about those shameful dreams you have with the cast of L.A. Law, please keep those to yourself.)
A Federal Judge asked the FBI why they didn't "just Google" people instead of going through a complicated FOIA request.
Another 'watchdog group' makes news by pointing out the obvious (AOL is badware? no kidding!).
A very, very cool idea is introduced here, it's a wiki for patent applications! (I could have used that in my 2L year).
One teenager hires another teenager to hack for him and goes to jail. (Moral of the story, solicitation of a crime is a crime itself, so do this garbage before you're 18.) Of course hacking and identity theft is such a big, bad deal, so it's good to see that those who do it get sent to their room. (All hope is not lost, one SOB just got 3 years of being someone's tushy monkey for a virus attack.)
And finally, a judge in Cajun Country says that a law blocking minors from buying video games violates free speech. I only wish he had been a judge where I was a teenager and ruled the same about drinking. Ah, well.
That's all for now. I'm off to go cast magic missile at the darkness.
(This post as cross-posted at my personal blog, which I can assure you is a total waste of your time.)
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Dems can't handle tough questions
The leftists are so used to a pass, but I guess Katrina is showing the soft underbelly of...Democrats.
New Orleans DA Walks out of Nightline Interview
Video here.
There is a taste of Cynthia McKinney influence in this behavior.
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This isn't a terrorist attack
That's what we will soon hear...just a guy with a Muslim-sounding name decides to start mowing down people in front of a Jewish Community center in SF (and others, including people on "Bush" street) with his SUV:
-- Two people, one of them a child, were seriously injured on the 3500 block of California Street in Laurel Heights.
-- Three people were hit at California and Fillmore streets. Witnesses said they included a man with a broken hip and a woman with a gashed head.
-- Two people were seriously hurt at Bush and Pierce streets.
-- One person was seriously injured at Bush and Buchanan streets.
-- One person suffered minor injuries in an incident at 1850 Fillmore St.
-- Two other people suffered minor injuries when they were hit at Pine at Divisadero streets.
-- Two people were hit and suffered minor injuries at Divisadero and Bush streets.
To understand the lefts' mindset, all we need to do is go right to the criminal mayor, Gavin Newsom*:
"This was so senseless and inexplicable,'' the mayor said afterward.
A man who is possibly a Muslim starts running down people. Utterly inexplicable...it's not like it happened before...oh, wait; it did:
Authorities say 23-year-old Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, who drove a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee into The Pit at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus around noon Friday, may have acted to avenge American treatment of Muslims.
Police intend to charge Taheri-azar, who graduated from UNC in December with a dual degree in psychology and philosophy, with nine counts of attempted murder and nine counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, said Capt. George Hare of the UNC Department of Public Safety.
The FBI joined the case because Taheri-azar, a native of Iran, "allegedly made statements that he acted to avenge the American treatment of Muslims. The ongoing investigation will work to confirm this," said Special Agent Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman in Washington.
*It's funny, he actually BROKE THE LAW by marrying homosexual couples and yet I don't see any Democratic protests or demands for him to be "frog marched" anywhere.
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Hottie Hero in Haditha
The pieces are not fitting together the way Fat Back Murtha and the Democrats/Media are hoping they would. Sgt. Frank Wuterich (the hottie), who is currently suing Fat Back Murtha for defamation, was actually recommended for a medal only weeks after the Haditha attack. This seems to support the Marines account of events and not what the leftist Democrats and the media wanted it to be:
The platoon commander for the squad of Marines who killed as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians during an attack in Haditha last year recommended later that the sergeant who led the attack receive a medal for his heroism that day, according to military documents.
Lt. William T. Kallop wrote in a praise-filled memo that the incident on Nov. 19, 2005, was part of a complex insurgent ambush that included a powerful roadside bomb followed by a high volume of automatic-weapons fire from several houses in the neighborhood. He lauded Sgt. Frank Wuterich for his leadership in the "counterattack" on three houses while the unit received sporadic enemy fire.
The proposed citation indicates that Kallop -- the only Marine officer at the scene as the incident unfolded -- believed the unit was under a coordinated insurgent attack when Marines stormed civilian homes and opened fire, killing women and children. Whether Marines felt threatened and believed the homes to be hostile is a central element of their defense against potential criminal charges.
It goes on...
Neal A. Puckett, an attorney for Wuterich, provided the documents and the Marine's regular fitness report dated Jan. 19 to The Washington Post, saying they support his client's version of events, and show that officers in the unit believe Wuterich and the other Marines did the right thing in the Haditha attack. Wuterich has since been promoted to staff sergeant. The award was approved by the Kilo Company commander and was sent to battalion and, later, regimental headquarters before being put on hold at the division level, Puckett said.
Lt. Col. Scott Fazekas, a Marine Corps spokesman, said Marine officials found no record of the award. Fazekas also declined to discuss the Haditha incident.
While residents in the Iraqi neighborhood have said the Marines went from house to house in a rage, killing civilians in cold blood, Kallop complimented Wuterich on his calm demeanor and suggested that the incident led the Marines to valuable intelligence. Kallop arrived on the scene after the initial explosion.
"Sgt. Wuterich ensured that he had 360 degree security and led a counterattack on the buildings to his south where his Marines were still receiving sporadic fire from," Kallop wrote in support of a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal with a combat distinguishing device for Wuterich. "That counterattack turned the tide of the ambush and killed a number of insurgents still attempting to fight or attempting to flee the area."
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NYPost: A Speech by Rumsfeld
By DONALD RUMSFELD
August 30, 2006 -- EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is adapted from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's speech yesterday at the American Legion National Convention.
THE American Legion has achieved a great deal for our country since its founding in the months following World War I.
That year, 1919 turned out to be one of those pivotal junctures in modern history - the beginning of a period where, over time, a very different set of views would come to dominate discourse and thinking in the West. A sentiment took root that contended that, if only the growing threats that had begun to emerge in Europe and Asia could be appeased, then the carnage and destruction of World War I might be avoided.
It was, as Churchill observed, a bit like feeding a crocodile, hoping it would eat you last.
There was a strange innocence. Someone recently recalled one U.S. senator's reaction in September 1939, upon hearing that Hitler had invaded Poland to start World War II: "Lord, if only I could have talked with Hitler, all this might have been avoided." Think of that.
Once again we face the same kind of challenges in efforts to confront the rising threat of a new type of fascism.
Today, another enemy - a different kind of enemy - has also made clear its intentions - in places like New York, Bali, London and Madrid. But many have still not learned history's lessons.
We need to face the following questions:
* With the growing lethality and availability of weapons, can we truly afford to believe that somehow vicious extremists can be appeased?
* Can we really continue to think that free countries can negotiate a separate peace with terrorists?
* Can we truly afford the luxury of pretending that the threats today are simply "law enforcement" problems, rather than fundamentally different threats, requiring fundamentally different approaches?
* And can we truly afford to return to the destructive view that America - not the enemy - is the real source of the world's trouble?
We hear every day of new plans, new efforts, to murder Americans and other free people. Indeed, the plot recently discovered that would have killed hundreds - possibly thousands - of innocents on planes from Britain to the United States should have demonstrated to all that the enemy is serious, lethal and relentless.
But we find ourselves in a strange time:
* When a database search of America's leading newspapers turns up 10 times as many mentions of one soldier at Abu Ghraib who was punished for misconduct than mentions of Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith, the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in the War on Terror.
* When a Newsweek senior editor disparagingly refers to the brave volunteers in our Armed Forces as a "mercenary army."
* When the former head of CNN accuses the American military of deliberately targeting journalists and the former CNN Baghdad bureau chief admits he concealed reports of Saddam Hussein's crimes when he was in power so CNN could stay in Iraq.
* And when Amnesty International disgracefully refers to the military facility at Guantanamo Bay - which holds terrorists who have vowed to kill Americans, and is arguably the best run and most scrutinized detention facility in the history of warfare - as "the gulag of our times."
Those who know the truth need to speak out against these kinds of myths and lies and distortions being told about our troops and our country. This watchdog role is even more important today in a war that is to a great extent fought in the global media - to not allow the lies and the myths be repeated without question or challenge, so that at least the second and third draft of history will be more accurate than the quick first allegations.
In this "long war," any kind of moral and intellectual confusion about who and what is right or wrong can severely weaken the ability of free societies to persevere.
Our enemy knows this well. They frequently invoke the names of Beirut and Somalia - places they see as examples of American retreat and weakness. And as we have seen most recently in Lebanon, they design attacks and manipulate the media to try to demoralize public opinion. They doctor photographs of casualties, use civilians as human shields and then provoke an outcry when civilians are accidentally killed in their midst.
The good news is that most of the American people, though understandably influenced by what they read and see in the media, have inner gyroscopes and good centers of gravity.
And I am confident that over time they will evaluate what is happening and come to wise conclusions.
One soldier, who recently volunteered for a second tour in Iraq, likely captured the feelings of many of his peers. In an e-mail to friends, he wrote:
"I ask that you never take advantage of the liberties guaranteed by the shedding of free blood, never take for granted the freedoms granted by our Constitution. For those liberties would be merely ink on paper were it not for the sacrifice of generations of Americans who heard the call of duty and responded heart, mind and soul with 'Yes, I will.' "
I believe the question is not whether we can win. It is whether we have the will to persevere. I believe that Americans do have that steel. And that we have learned the lessons of history, the folly of turning a blind eye to danger, and of ignoring our responsibilities.
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Bitch
There. I said it. This whole thing was a scam to sell books, get Vanity Fair spreads and to accuse the White House of questionable ethics.
She is a bitch and Joseph Wilson is a lying fag.
Whew. That felt good.
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What did John Mark Karr know and when did he know it? (A Democrats Perspective)
This is all too convenient.
Today and tomorrow was planned to be the lynching of the Bush Regime over the failures of the federal government--the failures we exaggerated and amplified to take the spotlight off the tragedy that was Democratic leadership at the local and state level).
Now, with perfect timing, Colorado (RED STATE) investigators revealed that Karr's DNA does not match that of Jon Benet's murderer. What is fishy about all this is that the DA (who is part of Bush's police state) knew that the DNA didn't match on Saturday and waited two days to disclose it to the media.
This is carbon copy of the playbook employed during Dick Cheney's attempted manslaughter cover-up.
Obviously, KKKarr is one of KKKarl Rove's stooges. KKKarr made this claim to first divert the corporate media's attention from the illegal, imperial Iraq war. Then the Colorado DA sits on the negative DNA match for two days to release it on the Katrina Anniversary*.
This is a call to revolution. We need to pray and hope for more 9-11's to overthrow this dictator. A few lives are a small price to pay for the millions we would be saving.
Plus, John Mark KKKarr looks like and abortion clinic bomber. Has anyone investigated that?
*The one small benefit is that this fiasco covers up the revelation that Richard Armitage was the leaker in the Valerie Plame national security crisis; all of our accusations were baseless, but hopefully no one will figure that out.
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Grief
In all the world nothing feels worse than the grief that we feel when a loved one dies. During such a time, words alone cannot alleviate our grief. The most that someone can do for us is to cry with us and to lend a shoulder to cry on.
The Bible tells of the time when a man named Lazarus died. His sisters Martha and Mary grieved. Lazarus had a friend named Jesus who went to Martha and Mary after Lazarus died. How did Jesus respond to their grief?
”When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, ”Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. ”Where have you laid him?” he asked. ”Come and see, Lord,” they replied. Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, ”See how he loved him!”*
Jesus wept. The ultimate preacher did not respond to Mary’s grief with words from a religious text. He cried instead. As the Jews pointed out, Jesus loved Lazarus. It would be correct to say that Jesus loved Mary, too. The one who claimed that he was “the way, the truth and the life” felt the same grief that Mary felt. And it would be reasonable to believe that Jesus gave Mary his shoulder to cry on.
What does this story mean to us today? Well, if God loves you like people say that He does, then He is going to be crying with you during your times of grief. He will do so even if you deny that He exists, because His love for you does not depend on you believing in Him.
In short, when you grieve, you do not grieve alone, whether you know it or not.
*John 11:32-36 (NIV)
Last Tuesday my wife's family was shaken by the sudden deaths of two loved ones.
One was my sister-in-law Bessy. The other was Brian, a quadriplegic man whom Bessy attended to around the clock. The two of them died in an automobile accident.
Thus, I spent this past weekend attending two funerals.
So, when I write about grief, I do so as one who is currently grieving.
- David
Cross-posted at Dodo World.
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Steve Centani and Olaf Wiig Freed!
I love waking up at 4:30am, seeing a FOXNews Alert and it actually being a real alert (they have an "alert" every 10 minutes or so on FNC).
They were freed this morning and FOXNews is showing footage of the meeting they had with the Prime Minister/Terrorist of the Palestinian territories. We should thank them for facilitating the reporters' release, but they are still terrorists and are still holding an Israeli soldier. Let's continue to pray for him.
Also, the terrorist kidnappers made Centani and Wiig convert to Islam (at the end of a barrel of a gun no doubt) on camera.
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Equal Opportunity Gay Hating
I think Steven Laffey can hang up the primary after reading this:
The Republican candidate wrote [the columns] in 1983 and 1984 while studying at Bowdoin College in Maine. The articles appeared in a paper published by campus Republicans.
In one column, Laffey said he has never seen a happy homosexual.
"This is not to say there aren't any; I simply haven't seen one in my lifetime. Maybe they are all in the closet," he wrote. "All the homosexuals I've seen are sickly and decrepit, their eyes devoid of life."
I certainly understand what he is saying. Rush notes that you often never find a "happy liberal" because they are always distressed about all the oppression and such. Here's the part I don't like:
In another column he wrote that pop music was turning the children of America into sissies, and criticized the singer Boy George, referring to him as "it."
"It wears girl's clothes and puts on makeup," he wrote. "When I hear it sing, 'Do you really want to hurt me, do you really want to make me cry,' I say to myself, YES, I want to punch your lights out, pal, and break your ribs."
It puts the lotion on its skin or it gets the hose again! Breaking ribs is a bit extreme, however, and while I believe he was joking, this seems to endorse gay bashing. Not good.
However, he was a dumb college kid at Bowdoin (pronounced Boe-Den). Let's take a look at the Democratic bigotry of grown-ups in Alabama:
A battle over race that had divided Alabama's Democratic Party came to an end yesterday when the party's executive committee reinstated a white woman as its nominee to represent a historically black Birmingham district in the state legislature.
The nominee, Patricia Todd, is a lesbian and, because she faces no opponent in November's general election, is in line to become the state's first gay legislator.
On Thursday, she had been disqualified by a party panel for failing to comply with a technicality that candidates had disregarded for years.
It goes on to say that the Democratic party machine wanted a black candidate no matter what:
Among those opposed to Todd's candidacy was Joe L. Reed, the state party's vice chairman of minority affairs. He called on voters to elect another black person to replace George Perdue, who has represented the district for more than two decades.
The campaign finance rule had not been enforced since 1988. Nevertheless, a five-person panel voted to disqualify Todd -- and Hendricks -- as candidates to be the party's nominee.
Can't have no dike on the Dem ticket! Thankfully, her candidacy was restored.
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More Cold Water on Algore's Environmental Armageddonism
This man is obviously in KKKarl Rove and Chimpy McBushitler's pocket.
A Russian scientist predicts a period of global cooling in coming decades, followed by a warmer interval.
Khabibullo Abdusamatov expects a repeat of the period known as the Little Ice Age. During the 16th century, the Baltic Sea froze so hard that hotels were built on the ice for people crossing the sea in coaches.
The Little Ice Age is believed to have contributed to the end of the Norse colony in Greenland, which was founded during an interval of much warmer weather.
Abdusamatov and his colleagues at the Russian Academy of Sciences astronomical observatory said the prediction is based on measurement of solar emissions, Novosti reported. They expect the cooling to begin within a few years and to reach its peak between 2055 and 2060.
Bundle up! And don't forget the article about how "global warming" is causing glaciers to GROW.
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Does Anyone Care?
Does anyone care that there is no news on the captured Israeli soldiers in Lebanon and Gaza?
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Bush Fearmongering is Frightening
Elanor Clift is in full spin mode after Bush's successful press conference last week. She is towing the line that Bush told the American people that Iraq would be a cakewalk (which is funny, because my father and I talked about the number of expected fatalities before the war started and I said I expected between 10-30 thousand; I must have all those Bush speeches saying there would be none) and says that Bush is back to "fearmongering."
And how does she describe this "fearmongering?" It's "frightful." But who is scaring people about real threats? Terrorism exists. Violent jihadism exists. Islamic-naziism exists. Iran's bloodlust for Israel exists. Bombs on planes exist. Conversations between Americans and terrorists overseas exist. A social security financial crisis exists. A threat to cultural unity through illegal immigration exists.
Yet the left tries to scare people with scenarios that do not exist. An American Theocracy does not exist. Cure-alls from embryonic cloning and experimentation do not exist. Waves of anti-abortion terrorists do not exist. Global destruction from "global warming" does not exist. Our ability to stop racist hurricanes does not exist. Running out of oil does not exist. Election theft conspiracies with voting machines does not exist. Destruction of social security does not exist.
And everytime the left mentions these theoretical scenario - they say it's scary and frightening and they want Americans to be frightened with them.
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Ace Pulls out the Flaming Skull again
He finds Democrats wishing for another 9-11 so that there can be "regime change" here in the United States. One of the reasons we need to get hit again is so George Bush cannot put another person on the Supreme Court.
They are the Party of Death.
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The Party of Death 0.5
I started reading Ramesh Ponnuru's, The Party of Death, and I just had to put it down. The discussion of abortion was stomach churning enough--and he had a great chapter on how the religious nuts (real nuts) muddied the debat with Terri Schiavo--but the chapter on the pro-euthenasia crowd is simply disgusting. I had know idea that doctors were arguing for being able to harvest organs from people if they were brain dead or in a coma....just sick.
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Freakin' Friday Softcore Surfin'
Those of you who've been around this blog for awhile may recall Professor Shade's weekly posts of titillating but work-safe links. In keeping with that tradition, here are a few stories that I stumbled upon:
A man at O'Hare Airport was confronted with a "penis-pump" in his suitcase. He was with his mother at the time, so he decided it would be less embarrassing if he said it was a bomb. DOH!
Apparently these pumps are all the rage, because a judge in Oklahoma was sentenced to hard time (sorry!) of four years in prison for pleasuring himself with one during trials.
Here's a video showing how to use the pump to impress women:
Apparently polar bears could use a little pumping up as well. Researchers report that their genitals are shrinking.
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Time to Bomb
I think America needs to remind Russia and China that we are simply pussyfooting around in Iraq with a democracy project - but that we can still reign fire from the skies and devestate the Iranian army.
"I know of no instances in world practice and previous experience in which sanctions have achieved their aim and proved effective," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told reporters during a trip to Russia's far east.
"Moreover, I believe that the question is not so serious at the moment for the U.N. Security Council or the group of six to consider any introduction of sanctions. Russia stands for further political and diplomatic efforts to settle the issue."
Ivanov is regarded as close to President Vladimir Putin.
The Security Council passed a legally binding resolution on July 31 telling Iran to suspend its nuclear enrichment program within 30 days or risk sanctions.
Iran says it is enriching uranium solely to generate electricity. The West suspects the Iranian nuclear program is a front for building atom bombs.
U.S., French and German leaders said that Iran's 21-page response to the incentives offer was unsatisfactory because it did not specifically agree to stop purifying uranium.
European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Friday that Tehran's reply had touched on "many different elements, different from the ones that we had proposed."
"For that reason we will have to hold a dialogue session ... or a conversation with the ... Iranians to improve upon some of the expressions and meanings of the subject matter treated in its document," he told Spain's RNE state radio.
But while Washington, backed by closest ally Britain, has said the six powers will move quickly to adopt sanctions if Iran disregards the deadline, Germany and France have been less conclusive in public and Russia and China have been unwilling.
"For the moment, it (the Iranian response) is not satisfactory," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on RTL radio, but added it was important to avoid escalating conflict with Iran and the Muslim world.
"The worst thing would be to escalate into a confrontation (between the West and) Iran on the one hand, and the Muslim world with Iran...," he said.
"I'm starting from the principle we should have a dialogue with the Iranians, that we must hold out our hands to them."
This is absolutely silly. France is a joke and is currently showing how spineless it is with Lebanon.
And for some reason, I think that the US and Israel should strong arm Germany to pay back their debt for WWII and smite the anti-Semites in Iran.
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Who Knew Jeff Goldstein was Hot?
I always thought him and Ace were fags.
But then after that leftist threatened to "Jon Benet" his son, I found out he was married with child.
He guest hosts over at Hot Air today. Pretty funny stuff...he's a handsome guy!
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All Your Fakes Are Belong to Us
Ace points to a tribute to us bloggers! It's GREAT (love the music - sounds like my college days)
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George Bush Hates Small Planets
News is breaking that the Bush administration has no plan for the solar system:
After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930. The new definition of what is -- and isn't -- a planet fills a centuries-old black hole for scientists who have labored since Copernicus without one.
Democrats issued the following press release:
"For too long, this administration has taken its eye of the celestial ball by focusing too much time and too many resources on Iraq. George Bush's policies of tax cuts for the gas giants and willful neglect of lesser planetoids have brought us to this place.
"Most Americans agree with our position that the constitution provides for Pluto's minority rights. Surveys show that almost 2/3's of Americans now believe that demoting Pluto was a mistake and that this administration purposefully and willfully mislead this Congress and the people by claiming Pluto had weapons of mass destruction.
" We need a new direction in our solar system. We must redeploy our resources to better serve our interests in the outer solar system, and our plan asks for that to be completed by the end of 2007."
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Total Babe
I don't know who this Bethany chic is, but she is a total hot babe. I watched her hot air video a few times.
She is a double-double animal style with fries and a strawberry shake!
Coming from this fag, that's a compliment! WOOF!
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More Scaremongering Predictions from Dems Untrue
What will Cameron Diaz say about this?
Women may buy the morning-after pill without a prescription - but only with proof they're 18 or older, federal health officials ruled Thursday, capping a contentious 3-year effort to ease access to the emergency contraceptive.
Girls 17 and younger still will need a doctor's note to buy the pills, called Plan B, the Food and Drug Administration told manufacturer Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BRL)
The compromise decision is a partial victory for women's advocacy and medical groups that say eliminating sales restrictions could cut in half the nation's 3 million annual unplanned pregnancies.
The pills are a concentrated dose of the same drug found in many regular birth-control pills. When a woman takes the pills within 72 hours of unprotected sex, they can lower the risk of pregnancy by up to 89 percent. If she already is pregnant, the pills have no effect.
Meanwhile, rape is still illegal heading into the 3rd year of Bush's second term. 
On Oprah's Wednesday 'voting party' show featuring very important celebrities like P. Diddy (Vote or Die!), Drew Barrymore, Christina Aguilera, svelte suffragette Cameron Diaz took to shock tactics to get the female vote out.
After a discussion on lynching and the vote, Diaz spoke of the dire consequences for women if they sit out this election:
Ms. DIAZ: We have a voice now, and we're not using it, and women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. We could lo--if you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote. But if you think that you have a right to your body, and you have a right to say what happens to you and fight off that danger of losing that, then you should vote, and those are the...
WINFREY: It's your voice.
Ms. DIAZ: It's your voice. It's your voice, that's your right.
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Testing Windows Writer Live
This is a new beta I am trying out on my new fabulous HP INTEL CORE 2 DUO 6600 MEDIA CENTER PC WITH 1G DDR2 @ 677MHZ!!!
My computer totally rocks!
Any blogger worth their salt should check this program out. It is neat! And the easiest program I have seen.
http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=4372c8c2-b76f-4d44-aea1-9835b61d8dc1
You can check out how it will look online with out posting it. It even has a page view where it is like you're typing directly onto the post (with all the formats) so you know how it is going to look before you post it.
Let's run some tests...
BOLD
center
And the program added that pretty frame to the test picture!
Kitty, I wonder how it handles tables???
Let's see:
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Steele's New Ad
Some are saying this is his first ad. It is not; I saw a horrible one he did for Hot Air a month ago. This one is perfect for Maryland. It kinda has a "Montel Williams Goes to Washington" feel to it that will play well in the black and white communities.
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Will this woman be interviewed on Larry King or Chrissy Matthews?
What a great woman. God bless her family and I am so grateful for her son's service (like I am so grateful for Casey Sheehan's).
Many in her country had turned against the war. The mayor of her city was organizing a protest against the president. And the insurgents in Iraq, Amy Galvez feared, were growing bolder by the day.
Galvez decided she had heard enough.
Hoping her words might persuade those who support the president, the war and the troops in Iraq to assemble in a great demonstration of patriotism and support, Galvez sat at her computer and began to type.
Galvez sat at her computer and began to type.
"My son, who is a resident of Salt Lake City, is now in Iraq," she wrote in an e-mail to The Salt Lake Tribune on Sunday. "American lives have been lost in this war because the enemy has been emboldened by our own words, actions and lack of support for our own mission."
Galvez was still sitting at her computer when she heard a car door close outside her northwest Salt Lake City home. Peering through the window, she saw two Marines coming up the walk.
Adam Galvez, 21, was killed Sunday in Iraq's volatile Al Anbar province in a roadside bomb attack that claimed the life of two other members of his battalion.
His death, the 2,607th U.S. fatality confirmed by the Department of Defense, comes as his hometown is bracing for the arrival of President Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who are scheduled to address the national convention of the American Legion next week at the Salt Palace Convention Center.
The city's mayor, Rocky Anderson, has pledged to protest the visit and has invited Cindy Sheehan, a prominent war protester who lost her son in Iraq, to speak at an anti-war demonstration.
Inside her home, now adorned by a flag at half-staff, on Tuesday, Amy Galvez said she was more determined than ever to ensure the mission for which her son fought and died is supported back home.
"I don't want Cindy Sheehan and Rocky Anderson to be the only voices the world hears," Galvez said Tuesday evening from the living room of her home in northwest Salt Lake City, not far from the airport where Air Force One is scheduled to touch down next week. "I want our voices to be heard. I want the world to know that our troops are wonderful."
And, she said, she wants people to know that her son made a choice to serve his country and was proud of his mission in Iraq.
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Gays Discover B.E.T.
The boysss and girlsss are in a tisssy because they discovered what happens when you get your own channel - you won't get shows on the network. Blacks discovered this 20 years ago.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation released its annual report on the number of homosexual characters in the new TV season yesterday and found just nine characters depicted in broadcast series -- down from last year's 10.
"After a landmark year of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender representation in films such as 'Brokeback Mountain,' 'Capote' and 'Transamerica,' the broadcast television networks continue to underrepresent their LGBT audience," said GLAAD, which appears not to pay much mind to pesky box-office results. Broadcast network suits, on the other hand, probably do.
This is a travesty! Fags and hags are not in enough shows!
Will & Grace
Queer as Folk
Ellen
Roseanne
The L-word
Oz
Rosie O'Donnell
ER
The Office
Desperate Housewives
Isaac
Entertainment Tonight
And then there are all the homosexual television networks!
Logo
Here!
E!
Style
HGTV
We
Lifetime
PBS
I am a fag and I only like to see gayness in my netflix queue.
If we are so fabulous, why would we want to be on Network TV? How 80s!
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GOOGLE JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER!?
Subject: was this a mistake on Google’s part?
1- Go to www.Google.com
2- Type in Failure
3- Look at it the first listing and see what comes up first
4- Who is going to get in touch with Google and tell them it’s a despicable political statement that has no place on their search engine. Bad enough they censor their Chinese Google customers.
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Homo say what?
I am not a fan of polls, because I believe the only polls that matter are elections.
But the left and their accomplices in the media live and die by these polls. Remember all that breathless hysteria for three weeks about president Bush's plummeting poll numbers? Everyday, there was a new poll showing Bush EVEN LOWER.
Well, let's see how much this poll gets played:
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, support for an unnamed Democratic congressional candidate over a Republican one narrowed to 2 percentage points, 47%-45%, among registered voters. Over the past year, Democrats have led by wider margins that ranged up to 16 points.
We might need to reestablish a suicide watch at Huffbollah.
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Leftwing Brilliance!
The left heralds themselves as the ones who believe in science; Madge (or Esther) didn't get the message:
When Madonna isn’t busy being crucified in concert or horseback riding in the English countryside, she wants to use the powers of Kabbalah to rid the world of nuclear waste.
The singer and her director hubby Guy Ritchie have been “lobbying the government and nuclear industry over a scheme to clean up radioactive waste with a supposedly magic Kabbalah fluid,” according to London’s Sunday Times.
Kabbalah Juice! Let's just give some to all the terrorists, too!
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Steve Centanni Still Missing
FOX News reporter Steve Centanni and cameraman Olaf Wiig are still missing. Michelle Malkin writes, "The disappearance of Centanni and Wiig is at least as newsworthy as--and far more threatening to our national security than--people falling off cruise ships or getting eaten by alligators or attacked by bees." Please keep these men in your prayers.
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How Things Change in just 24 Hours!
GOP's Financial Edge Shrinks, yesterday.
GOP Fundraising Outpaces Democrats, today.
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More on that Armageddonist Hoax
How is Algore going to explain this one?
Greenland's glaciers have been shrinking for the past century, according to a Danish study, suggesting that the ice melt is not a recent phenomenon caused by global warming.
Danish researchers from Aarhus University studied glaciers on Disko island, in western Greenland in the Atlantic, from the end of the 19th century until the present day.
"This study, which covers 247 of 350 glaciers on Disko, is the most comprehensive ever conducted on the movements of Greenland's glaciers," glaciologist Jacob Clement Yde, who carried out the study with Niels Tvis Knudsen, told AFP.
Using maps from the 19th century and current satellite observations, the scientists were able to conclude that "70 percent of the glaciers have been shrinking regularly since the end of the 1880s at a rate of around eight meters per year," Yde said.
"We studied 95 percent of the area covered by glaciers in Disko and everything indicates that our results are also valid for the glaciers along the coasts of the rest of Greenland," he said.
The biggest reduction was observed between 1964 and 1985.
"A three-to-four degree increase of the temperature on Greenland from 1920 to 1930, and the increase recorded since 1995 has sped up the ice melt," he said.
The effect of the rising temperatures in the 1920s and 1930s was "visible dozens of years later, and that of the 1990s will be (visible) in 10 or 20 years," Yde said, adding that he expected Greenland's glaciers to melt even faster in the future.
So we have to wait another 4-10 years to show the Democrats are anti-science, doomsday prognosticators?
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My Hometown Mentioned in the Washington Post!
I always get excited when my little hometown, Sierra Vista, AZ, (or Sorry Vista as we used to call it in high school) gets mentioned in the papers. Sierra Vista is the town that grew around Fort Huachuca, the Army's headquarters for military intelligence (where Andrew Sullivan's Torturers are trained).
It's been in the news often lately because of the border issue. Hannity did several shows for FNC on location there. More on the immigration issue showed up in WaPo this morning:
Last week, House Republican field hearings in San Diego explored the societal and governmental costs of illegal immigrants' use of health-care facilities and welfare. Another in Houston looked at "the criminal consequences of illegal immigration." One near here, in Sierra Vista, examined the nation's strained technical capacity to monitor "the efforts of terrorists and drug cartels" trying to "infiltrate American soil."
I miss my hometown a lot living in DC. I really miss how quiet and unconcerned the living was there. May I give you a quick tour?
To get you situated, here is where Sierra Vista/Fort Huachuca is located.
Here is one of the state HWYs leading into SV.
Here is Raymond W. Bliss hospital, the site of my birth on Friday, May 27, 1977.
First, the area was famed for the Buffalo Soldiers that were stationed at Fort Huachuca, the Chinese in the copper mines of Bisbee (think of the series Kung Fu) and the wild west violence that plagued Cochise County (think Tombstone, Wyatt Earp and the OK Corral). Here is a map to show you how close all these things are. The width of this map is probably about 60 miles.
Then the white man came.
Sierra Vista would become a haven for white boys with tricked out cars.
Now for some scenery. You will note that Sierra Vista translates to Mountain View. And boy did we have some awesome views! Imagine seeing this every day:
Here's some random person at dusk.
Here is Parker Canyon Lake (PCL) were the youth would go to drink and swim. My mother (who was also an army brat, who's father was stationed at Fort Huchuca, where she met my father, who was also and army brat, who's father was stationed at Fort Huachuca) had a friend in high school that drowned here. But who can resist?
Here is the roadrunner on the lamb hiding from the coyotes.
Here are some people who arrived using coyotes and need to be deported.
And here is a picture that is the closest one google could find of my old house near the parade field (I lived about three blocks away).
Here is a picture of our "municipal airport".
Carr Canyon and its waterfall.
I am getting tired, but here is another shot of Fort Huachuca. Hope you enjoyed the tour!
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When the Mayhem Settles Truth Begins to Surface
Have you ever noticed that Bush gets beaten to death in the height of hysteria, but when the dust settles, is usually vindicated?
We now have more on the utter incompetence of the local officials in New Orleans from Spike Lee's latest documentary:
The New Orleans police chief during Hurricane Katrina, Eddie Compass, says he unnecessarily "heightened people's fears" by repeating unconfirmed reports of out-of-control crime in the city during the aftermath of the storm, adding to the confusion caused by the disaster and potentially hampering rescue efforts.
"There were reports of rapes and children being raped. And I even got one report … that my daughter was raped," Mr. Compass says in the Spike Lee documentary "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," scheduled to air on HBO tonight.
Mr. Compass resigned from his post as New Orleans police superintendent in September 2005.
"In hindsight, I guess I heightened people's fears by me being the superintendent of police, reporting these things that were reported to me," Mr. Compass said of the unverified accounts of crime and disorder in flooded New Orleans that he repeated to the press and on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
"But there was really no way for me to check definitively. So instead I erred on the side of caution. I didn't want people to think we were trying to cover anything up. So I repeated these things without being substantiated, and it caused a lot of problems," he said.
Officials and local commentators have long suggested that the false reports of rampant crime following the hurricane were a reason for the slowness of rescue efforts. With recovery teams and humanitarian aid groups frightened to enter the city, many storm survivors were left stranded on roofs without food and water, in makeshift rafts, and in filthy conditions at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
What upsets me most is that leftists always believe the worst about black people. They actually believed that going 48 - 72 hours without food that people started to EAT each other.
Yes, I saw some people looting Walmart for Xbox and such, but mostly, we just saw people who were tired and frustrated.
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