The Liberal Constitution

Here's an excerpt:

We the People of the United States progressive-minded citizens of the North American Province of the United Nations, in Order to form a more perfect Union obtain a far groovier chakra, establish Social Justice, get righteous with Mother Earth, insure domestic Tranquility partnerships of any nature, provide for the common defence promotion of peace, free love and a total lack of responsibility, promote the general creation of the Welfare State, and secure the Blessings of Liberty some boss doobage to for ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America North American Province of the United Nations.

Hilarious...go here to read the rest.

The Liberal Constitution

Here's an excerpt:

We the People of the United States progressive-minded citizens of the North American Province of the United Nations, in Order to form a more perfect Union obtain a far groovier chakra, establish Social Justice, get righteous with Mother Earth, insure domestic Tranquility partnerships of any nature, provide for the common defence promotion of peace, free love and a total lack of responsibility, promote the general creation of the Welfare State, and secure the Blessings of Liberty some boss doobage to for ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America North American Province of the United Nations.

Hilarious...go here to read the rest.

Patriotism or Propaganda?

When reading Michael Yon's blog, I was surprised to see there was so much difference between his slideshow and that of MSNBC. Take a look at both and vote. Unfortunately, MSNBC didn't select Michael's pic as one to vote on, although it does appear in the Editor's Choice.
There is also nowhere you can tell them that they aren't showing all the pics to vote on. Anyway, take a look as BOTH slideshows, and let the music play in both.




Which one do you think is more upbeat?

Finally, a Judge shows some Cajones

After seeing the American Communist Liberals Union walk all over the common man in the interest of their anti-american agenda, it's refreshing to see a judge finally tell it like it is and throw these idiots out of court.

They don't and never will, speak for me.

A U.S. appeals court today upheld the decision of a lower court in allowing the inclusion of the Ten Commandments in a courthouse display, hammering the American Civil Liberties Union and declaring, "The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state."

Attorneys from the American Center for Law and Justice successfully argued the case on behalf of Mercer County, Ky., and a display of historical documents placed in the county courthouse. The panel voted 3-0 to reject the ACLU's contention the display violated the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.

The county display the ACLU sued over included the Ten Commandments, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Magna Charta, the Star Spangled Banner, the National Motto, the Preamble to the Kentucky Constitution, the Bill of Rights to the U. S. Constitution and a picture of Lady Justice.

And...

Writing for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Richard Suhrheinrich said the ACLU's "repeated reference 'to the separation of church and state' ... has grown tiresome. The First Amendment does not demand a wall of separation between church and state."

Suhrheinrich wrote: "The ACLU, an organization whose mission is 'to ensure that ... the government [is kept] out of the religion business,' does not embody the reasonable person."

Nancy Pelosi just doesn't "Get It"

Nancy's response to President Bushs' speech:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement tonight in response to President Bush’s speech on Iraq:

“Tonight the President acknowledged more of the mistakes he has made in Iraq, but he still does not get it. Iraq did not present an imminent threat to the security of the United States before he began his war of choice. The President’s speech tonight was further evidence that after almost three years, he still does not understand that crucial fact.

”President Bush persists in pursuing a flawed policy that has not made the American people safer nor made the Middle East more secure. It is time for a new direction in Iraq — not more of the same."

Her direction would be the direction of "retreat."

I bet she didn't even listen to the speech. If she did, she didn't "listen." Bush said to leave now would hurt the image if the US as a strong ally and create mistrust all over the world. It would also hurt all the troops that gave the ultimate sacrifice.

Man, I cannot believe such self-involved egotists live and breath in the white house.

Thanks be to Little Green Footballs.

Tookie Williams

They should not call what they did an "execution."
They should call it a "Post-Birth Abortion."

Day in the Life of Al-Zarqawi

One of my favorites, Iowahawk, has posted another day in the life of Al-Zarqawi. His stuff is hilarious. Here's the whole article.

Here's an excerpt:

Shit, I though I was gonna spray some Mecca-Cola through my nose when I saw Khalid behind them, doing that throat-slash thingy with his hook, but I kept it together. "Sure! Sounds like a plan, guys! Umm, why don't you go with Khalid. He'll take you out back and have you fill out the transfer forms." Long story short, they're back in Paris. Torsos, at least.

It's Like Staring at a Car Wreck

You know it's wrong but you just can't stop staring.

That seems to be the mindset of USA Today and the Associated Press. They just can't bring themselves to report anything positive about Iraq. Oh they did recently, but not until they reported the negative first.

Posted by Noel Sheppard on December 12, 2005 - 12:49.
As reported yesterday by NewsBusters, a brand new ABC News/TIME poll depicted Iraqis as being very optimistic about themselves and the future of their country. The Associated Press via USA Today is sharing this information with its readers by focusing attention on the negatives first. The article, entitled “Most Iraqis Oppose U.S. Troops, Poll Says,” began:

“Most Iraqis disapprove of the presence of U.S. forces in their country, yet they are optimistic about Iraq's future and their own personal lives, according to a new poll.

“More than two-thirds of those surveyed oppose the presence of troops from the United States and its coalition partners and less than half, 44%, say their country is better off now than it was before the war, according to an ABC News poll conducted with Time magazine and other media partners.”

Then the article addressed the positives:

Two Reasons I'm Glad Bush Won in 2004

John Kerry:

"And there is no reason that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the--of--the historical customs, religious customs. Whether you like it or not--Iraqis should be doing that."

Howard Dean:

"The idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong,"

Thanks whatdoyamean Dean...our troops over there standing in harm's way everyday just so you can say something assinine like that, really appreciate you setting the effort back by about a year.

Add to these, most any public statement by Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, and/or Barbara Boxer (to name a few) and you know why I'm glad Bush won in 2004.

Now, on to life.

You Best Source of Information on the War

Most people of the "left" persuasion read a story from the Main Stream Media (MSM) that says the war has gone wrong, Bush lies, and the Hildebeast is ready to take over as President, and they immediately form an opinion, fire up their computers and start the Bush bashing.
What they don't know is there is a large reservoir of people in the thick of it all in Iraq and Afghanistan that have their own blogs. Their blogs are called Milblogs" or "Military Blogs" and they are the best source of the truth you are gonna get.
BlackFive today talks about the 2005 Weblog awards that is going on. It also lists the best military blogs in one spot.

Go there, and vote if you want, but the main thing...read these blogs...then you can show your "knowledge" in a more informed way.

Am I just getting old or what?

I have been watching Saturday Nite Live and I have not seen one thing funny yet.
It used to be funny but I just can't relate. Every rare once in awhile, I hear or see something fleetingly funny, then it's gone.

It was good once. At least it's finally in High Definition.

Cream Reunion

Man, it has been a long time since I wished I was stoned. I'm watching the Cream reunion on PBS.
...closing my eyes....
remembering those times....
funny how some songs just plant you right back in a forgotten time.

Cool

Fighting for Their Cause

I heard Michael Savage say something yesterday that was profound (imagine that).
He said,
"If they are willing to die for their cause and we are not willing to kill for our survival, then we are doomed to fail (paraphrased)."

Makes sense

Look into the faces of these Children

and tell me we aren't doing any good in Iraq:

Thank you to Michael Yon.

A Joke so Stupid, It's Funny....Maybe Not

Once upon a time, there was a goodly king. He ruled over a vast land filled with happy subjects and life in abundance. But not everyone was happy. The count was jealous and wanted to be king. Everytime he mentioned it, the king would just tell him to go away.
One night, the king did his usual routine, took a bath, brushed his teeth, placed his crown on the nightstand, and read his favorite Stephen King novel until he fell asleep.
The next morning, his crown was gone!
He immediately knew that the count had taken his crown. He called the count into his chambers and told him to return the crown. Being the kind, benevolent king that we was, he offered the count the chance to fess up and return the crown and nothing would happen.
The count refused.
So, the king said, "You give me no choice, I must call the tribunal." The count just shrugged.
The tribunal met the next day and the king once again offered the count the chance to return the crown and nothing would happen.
The count once again refused.
The King had no other choice but to bring the count in front of the kingdom's subjects and administer justice. The next day, the king and the count stood before the entire kingdom. The king, being the kind king that we was, once again asked the count to return his crown, no questions asked.
The count refused.
So, the king had no other choice but to condemn the count to death.
The next morning, the subjects gathered in the square while the count was marched up to the execution platform. The executioner stood silently, waiting for orders.
The kind king, once again told the count, "Now look count, I know you took my crown. We don't have to do this. Just return the crown and we can forget all this nonsense."
The count refused.
So, with a heavy heart, the king ordered the executioner to proceed. The executioner slowly raised his huge axe in the air, and started his downward thrust just as the count yelled, "Wait, I will give the...."
Too late.

So, what's the moral of this story?













Don't hatchet the count before he chickens.

Now I know why Casinos will not be in Texas anytime soon

I like to play slot machines and video poker. I don't let it get away from me and I'm not homeless because of it. I do enjoy it as a fun outlet for stress. I do not however, enjoy having to drive fouir hours one way just to play.
Since a lot of states have started building casinos all around, I often wondered why Texas hasn't built any. I mean c'mon, we have bingo, lotto, megamillions, horse and dog tracks, and eight-liners in some places, what's the deal with not having casinos?
I now know it's because of Lousiana lobbyists and probably the Lousiana Gaming Commision. Ther're lining the pockets of our members of congress, to keep it out of Texas.
Every time I have been able to go to Lousiana for a day of fun, I can't help but notice the license plates in the parking lots of those casinos. I am not kidding, I bet 90 percent of the cars have Texas plates. And, whenever I ask anyone where they are from, it's usually Houston.
So, can you imagine what would happen to those great casinos if we opened some up here in Texas? They would fold in about a year.

Here is a recent example of members of Congress getting caught red-handed with their hands if the cookie jar.

Lawmakers Acted on Heels of Abramoff Gifts
Nov 17, 9:20 AM (ET)

By JOHN SOLOMON and SHARON THEIMER

(AP) U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton speaks to the Juneau and Alaska Chamber of Commerce, Monday,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly three dozen members of Congress, including leaders from both parties, pressed the government to block a Louisiana Indian tribe from opening a casino while the lawmakers collected large donations from rival tribes and their lobbyist, Jack Abramoff.

Many intervened with letters to Interior Secretary Gale Norton within days of receiving money from tribes represented by Abramoff or using the lobbyist's restaurant for fundraising, an Associated Press review of campaign records, IRS records and congressional correspondence found.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid sent a letter to Norton on March 5, 2002, also signed by Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev. The next day, the Coushattas issued a $5,000 check to Reid's tax-exempt political group, the Searchlight Leadership Fund. A second Abramoff tribe sent another $5,000 to Reid's group. Reid ultimately received more than $66,000 in Abramoff-related donations between 2001 and 2004.

In the midst of the congressional letter-writing campaign, the Bush administration rejected the Jena's casino on technical grounds. The tribe persisted, eventually winning Interior approval but the casino now is tied up in a court dispute.

Congressional ethics rules require lawmakers to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest in performing their official duties and accepting political money.

So, can you truthfully say our so-called "leaders" have our security and well-being in mind? Sorry, ain't happening.

Here is the source of this story.

Protect the Afghan Kids this Winter

There is a request from a soldier for us to send children's winter clothes to his address in Afghanistan. The original request was through Soldier's Angels but I picked it up at BlackFive.

Here is a excerpt:

What I really need is children's winter clothing...jackets, gloves and boots (boys and girls). The winters in Afghanistan are so incredibly brutal on the kids that are in the outlining areas. We want to try to help as many of the kids here as humanly possible. If you could...send them to my military address below, that would be the best way. The nights are already getting down into the thirtys and when the first rain and snow hits, it will be very difficult to reach some of the villages.

Thanks so much and God Bless You!

MAJ DOUGLAS ALAN MCKEWAN
TF GUN DEVIL
TF 3-319th AFAR/CAT-A Team Leader
Kandahar, Afghanistan

Mailing Address:
MCKEWAN, DOUGLAS A.
TF 3-319 AFAR
APO, AE. 09355

Not Posting Lately

Haven't been posting lately 'cause my wife has been battling Chron's disease and has undergone another operation. That's two since I have known her these last ten years. She doesn't deserve this but she will get through it. I'll be posting again soon.

Man Claims he has Seen Noah's Ark

Some believe this 2003 satellite image shows Noah's Ark (courtesy: DigitalGlobe)

The Tulsa, Okla., man says his faith in God led him to believe in the biblical story of Noah's Ark, but his trip to a remote area in eastern Turkey led him to accept the historic vessel was genuine.

Val Smith says he traveled to Mt. Ararat recently to see what a 1960 Life magazine article suggested was the final resting place for the Ark, though the journey was an attempt to solidify, not validate, his faith.


"If God's word is true, then these remains are out there somewhere," he told KTUL-TV in Tulsa. "There's some of this actually happening."

When he arrived, he found a number of artifacts – iron rivets, petrified wood and ancient tar – he says are all a part of the Ark.

The Office of the President

It seems nowadays that the image I have of the presidency has been distorted.

Before, the president could enjoy doing a second term and getting a lot ot things accomplished.
But, from Nixon on, it seems in the first four years, the President has to do al lot of things to get re-elected. He then spends the other four years fighting off the indictments and accusations. The respect for the presidency and the president's image is damaged because of this.

Have you seen that too?
I think it all comes from whatever party that is not in power at the time.
The Democans did it to Nixon,to Reagan. They would have gutted the senior Bush if he had been re-elected. They're doing it to Bush Jr. now.
The Republicrats have done it to Carter and Clinton (remember Kenneth Starr?) It seems whoever is elected, the other party spends all its effort demeaning and undermining the president. They have been successful.

There have been only two presidents to which this doesn't apply; Ford and Johnson (LBJ). They did only one term and weren't re-elected or refused to run again (LBJ).

This is not good for our country.

It seems all we see and hear from the media in a president's second term is who is indicted, who is accused, and who is expected to resign. The president seems to have to spend the rest of his second term fighting to stay above water while the alligators pull him from below.
It's ineffective and distracts the administration from doing its job. And when things get missed, the snowball affect kicks in. Everything snowballs, and the president assumes lame duck status.
C'mon, knock it off...quit whining...and let the president do his job.

From the WTF? File

OK, it's lunchtime and I just lost my appetite.

A Dallas cab driver is in big trouble for getting caught on tape sprinkling dried feces on pastries.

49-year-old Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh is on trial for allegedly throwing fecal matter on pastries at a Fiesta grocery store.

Police said they found a pile of human feces by his bed.

He would dry it, either by microwave or just letting it sit out and grate it up with a cheese grater and then sprinkle it at the store, officials said.

Neither attorneys in the case is clear about a motive or why the defendant would resort to something so repulsive.

Prosecutors will show a surveillance videotape of the defendant, which shows him sprinkling a substance on the food.

The FBI arrested Nahidmobarekeh but turned the case over to local prosecutors after they determined it was not a national security issue.

Journalist Jailed for Criticizing Islam

Women’s Magazine Editor Convicted of “Blasphemy”
Douglas J. Hagmann, Director

24 October 2005; Kabul, Afghanistan: On Saturday, a women’s magazine editor was sentenced to two years in jail after being convicted of blasphemy by Kabul’s Primary Court for publishing anti-Islamic articles, including one that challenged the belief that Muslims who convert to other religions should be stoned to death..

Ali Mohaqiq Nasab was arrested on October 1 after his magazine Haqooq-i-Zan (translation: Women’s Rights) argued that converting from Islam is not a crime that should be punished by death, as called for under Islamic Shariah law.

Presiding judge Ansarullah Malawizada stated that “the Ulama Council (Afghanistan’s clergy) sent us a letter saying that he should be punished, so I sentenced him to two years [in] jail.

Other articles identified as blasphemous included the criticism of the harsh punishment of 100 lashes for adultery, and calling for women to be equal to men under Islamic law According to Islamic law, for example, the value of a female witness is only considered to have half the value of a male. Mohaqiq has three weeks to appeal the verdict.

A Jurassic Tree Grows in Australia

United Press International


The Wollemi pine, a 200 million-year-old tree from the Jurassic period long thought to be extinct, has reportedly been found growing in Australia.

The exact location is being kept secret -- even scientists are blindfolded before being flown to the site. A park ranger discovered a small grove of the trees in Australia, the London Mirror reported. Specimens are now to be sold by auction to make sure the species survives.

But the Mirror noted buyers will need a large garden, since the Wollemi pine tree can grow as high as 120 feet, with a three-foot-wide trunk.

Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens told the newspaper the discovery is the equivalent of finding a small dinosaur still alive.

One Down, For Now

"They didn't shut us down. They took all our equipment, which had the effect of shutting us down." - E-Mail Spammer

Uuh...what? Shut down, but not shut down?

Oct 16, 9:17 PM (ET)


WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) - A man described as one of the nation's leading senders of spam says an FBI raid on his home office has halted his e-mail operation.

Warrants unsealed last week show that a September raid on Alan M. Ralsky's home in a Detroit suburb included the seizure of financial records, computers and disks.

"We're out of business at this point in time," Ralsky said. "They didn't shut us down. They took all our equipment, which had the effect of shutting us down."

Terry Berg, the top deputy in the Detroit U.S. attorney's office, declined to comment.

Ralsky, 60, has said that he has 150 million or more e-mail addresses, and he has been a target of anti-spam efforts for years.

Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) sued him in 2001, saying he shut down its networks with millions of e-mail solicitations. He settled, promising not to send spam on its networks.

A federal law that took effect last year bans use of misleading subject lines and the sending of commercial e-mail messages that appear to be from friends. It also bans use of multiple e-mail addresses or domain names to hide senders' identities.

Four Religious Truths

1. Muslims do not recognize Jews as God's chosen people.

2. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

3. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian World.

4. Baptists do not recognize each other at Hooters.

The Best Commentary on Bush and Katrina

The best commentary I have seen on the whole Katrina fiasco does not come from an American, but from a Canadian. David Warren, from the Ottawa Citizen wrote an excellent summation of the mess in Louisiana. Here it is in its entirety. It's called, "Blame Throwing."

There's plenty wrong with America, since you asked. (Everybody's asking.) I'm tempted to say, the only difference from Canada, is that they have a few things right. That would be unfair, of course -- I am often pleased to discover things we still get right.

But one of them would not be disaster preparation. If something happened up here, on the scale of Katrina, we wouldn't even have the resources to arrive late. We would be waiting for the Americans to come save us, the same way the government in Louisiana just waved and pointed at Washington, D.C. The theory being, that when you're in real trouble, that's where the adults live.

And that isn't an exaggeration. Almost everything that has worked in the recovery operation along the U.S. Gulf Coast has been military and National Guard. Within a few days, under several commands, finally consolidated under the remarkable Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, it was once again the U.S. military, efficiently cobbling together a recovery operation on a scale beyond the capacity of any other earthly institution.

We hardly have a military up here. We have elected one feckless government after another, who have cut corners until there is nothing substantial left. We don't have the ability even to transport and equip our few soldiers. Should disaster strike at home, on a big scale, we become a Third World country. At which point, our national smugness is of no avail.

From Democrats and the American Left -- the U.S. equivalent to the people who run Canada -- we are still hearing that the disaster in New Orleans showed a heartless, white Republican America had abandoned its underclass.

This is garbage. The great majority of those not evacuated lived in assisted housing, receive food stamps and prescription medicine and government support through many other programmes. Many have, all their lives, expected someone to lift them to safety, sans input from themselves. And the demagogic mayor they elected left, quite literally, hundreds of transit and school buses parked in rows to be lost in the flood, that could have driven them out of town.

Yes, that was insensitive. But it is also the truth; and sooner or later we must acknowledge that welfare dependency creates exactly the sort of haplessness and social degeneration we saw on display, as the floodwaters rose. Many suffered terribly, and many died, and one's heart goes out. But already the survivors are being put up in new accommodations, and their various entitlements have been directed to new locations.

The scale of private charity has also been unprecedented. There are yet no statistics, but I'll wager the most generous state in the union will prove to have been arch-Republican Texas, and that nationally, contributions in cash and kind are coming disproportionately from people who vote Republican. For the world divides into "the mouths" and "the wallets".

The Bush-bashing, both down there and up here, has so far lost touch with reality, as to raise questions about the bashers' state of mind.

Consult any authoritative source on how government works in the United States, and you will learn that the U.S. federal government's legal, constitutional, and institutional responsibility for first response to Katrina, as to any natural disaster, was zero.

Notwithstanding, President Bush took the prescient step of declaring a disaster, in order to begin deploying FEMA and other federal assets, two full days in advance of the stormfall. In the little time since, he has managed to coordinate an immense recovery operation -- the largest in human history -- without invoking martial powers. He has been sufficiently Presidential to respond, not even once, to the extraordinarily mendacious and childish blame-throwing.

One thinks of Kipling's "If --" poem, which I learned to recite as a lad, and mention now in the full knowledge that it drives postmodern leftoids and gliberals to apoplexy -- as anything that is good, beautiful, or true:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise...

Unlike his critics, Bush is a man, in the full sense presented by these verses. A fallible man, like all the rest, but a man.


David Warren

N'uff Said

Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans

By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
Guest Commentary » September 30, 2005
Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:

What would you do?
What would you do if you were black?
Sadly, the two questions don’t have the same answer.
To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like.

For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question. If you’re black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city, then you’ll probably wait for the government to save you.

This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They would take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest of the community. Then local government would come in.

No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.

Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on “racist” President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans, above and beyond the federal government’s proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in America, “overseeing” billions of dollars. I wonder where that money will end up.

Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on government, they should blame the local one. Responsibility to perform – legally and practically – fell first on the mayor of New Orleans. We are now all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin – the black Democrat who likes to yell at President Bush for failing to do Nagin’s job. The facts, unfortunately, do not support Nagin’s wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, “recent reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through on his own city’s emergency-response plan, which acknowledged that thousands of the city’s poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city.”

One wonders how there was “no way” for these people to evacuate the city. We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You’ve probably seen it by now – the photo showing 200 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin?

Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution from Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining New Orleans residents into the Superdome and the city’s convention center. We know how that plan turned out.

About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder.

President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had New Orleans’ black community taken action, most would have been out of harm’s way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves.

All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks’ moral poverty – not their material poverty – that cost them dearly in New Orleans. Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated – they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption. New Orleans, to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to tell them so.

The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, and author of “Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America.”

More Prisoner Abuse Pics on the way, Thanks to the ACLU and a Judge

So, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein has ordered the Government to release more pictures is the poor prisoners being embarassed by some juvenile guards. All at the prodding of the ACLU.
What purpose will this serve? Who will suffer when the pics are sent around the world?
The troops in the middle east will suffer. They will be targeted more so than they already are.
Also,some innocent people in those barbaric countries will be killed just like they were when the first pics came out and when the stories circulated about their precious Koran (or however the hell you spell it) being flushed down a toilet. The government tried to stop it because of this.
The misguided judge chose otherwise:
U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said that terrorists "do not need pretexts for their barbarism" and that suppressing the pictures would amount to submitting to blackmail.

"Our nation does not surrender to blackmail, and fear of blackmail is not a legally sufficient argument to prevent us from performing a statutory command. Indeed, the freedoms that we champion are as important to our success in Iraq and Afghanistan as the guns and missiles with which our troops are armed," he said.

Is he saying the US Government is trying to commit blackmail by suppressing the pics? How INSANE is that?

The ACLU has been trying to get them out all along, which is no surprise. Anytime the ACLU can embarrass this government, they will do so. Just watch. Whenever you see a protest, a legal action against our government, or an outrageous claim against our government, you can bet the ACLU will be somewhere back there, prodding.

The American Civil Liberties Union sought release of the photographs and videotapes as part of an October 2003 lawsuit demanding information on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody and the transfer of prisoners to countries known to use torture. The ACLU contends that prisoner abuse is systemic.

"It's a historic ruling, said ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero. "While no one wants to see what's on the photos or videos, they will play an essential role in holding our government leaders accountable for the torture that's happened on their watch."

Just a sec....had to get the duct tape...Fine I will be watching and I want to see just how "accountable" the ACLU and this insane judge will be when people get killed. I want to see how they'll squirm out of it.

Nailing It

Subject: Mc Comb aftermath of Katrina To my friends and family: From a Mc Comb Resident

WHAT I HAVE SEEN SINCE KATRINA AND RITA:

The poor and the wealthy hurt by the storm.

Black, white, Hispanic, Oriental and Indian all hurt by the storm.

Christian people giving, giving, giving.

Churches going all out to minister in Jesus' name.

Neighbors going door to door helping one another.

Thugs and hoodlums going door to door looking for someone vulnerable.

Ice and water being fought over as police tried to keep the peace.

People coming up from New Orleans taking over empty houses because shelters are full.

Out of town volunteers coming with food and staying for now a week still serving it.

The Churches all over this part of the country doing what Christians do in a crisis.

The Red Cross doing a great job in the shelters.

The Salvation Army doing a great job in the community.

Four Hundred crewman from everywhere bring back the power to our homes, churches and businesses.

Lines at service stations a block to a mile long.

National Guardsman patrolling the streets of Mc Comb along with Kentucky policemen protecting us from the hoodlums and thugs of Mc Comb, Pike County and New Orleans (the most dangerous city in the world before Katrina.)

Drug dealers working outside shelters.

Doctors, nurses and other hospital personnel working tirelessly, even sleeping in the hospital to do the job God called them to do.

WHAT I HAVE NOT SEEN:

The ACLU setting up a feeding line.

People for the American Way helping in the shelters.

The NAACP doing any work whatsoever.

The American Atheist organization serving meals in the shelters.

Jesse Jackson directing traffic at the gas stations.

People from Move On .Org doing anything constructive.

I could go on but you get my message. Its the Christian people with love and compassion who do the work.

The gripers in Congress should come on down and get in line to pass the water and the ice. Are you listening Hillary, Chuck, Teddy and all the sorry loafers we call Senators and Congressmen. They don't have a clue as to what this life is all about here on the Gulf Coast.

Boy I feel better now.

Teddy will never volunteer to help in any mess like this one, remember, Teddy doesn't help anyone in deep water.

Lovely Rita Passes On

Well, kinda anticlimatic ending I guess. Rita decided to go East instead and all we got was a warm breeze. I'm recuperating from putting up all the boards. So, three days and 560 dollars later...all is back to normal. How can I tell?
Because Wal-Mart is open again.

Rita Update

Folks...thank you very much for your concern.
We will be completing the boarding up and will be in place by tomorrow. I will try to stay online off and on until the power goes out. As soon as the power returns, I'll send a message. We are out of the storm surge area and I'm only concerned about the wind...and the horses.
I understand this is a huge storm and we are taking every precaution. I will try to take some pics and post if and when I can.

Not so Lovely Rita Heading my Way

I live about 30 miles inland from the Texas Gulf Coast and the eye of the storm is projected to make landfall about 20 miles South. I plan to stay here because we have a lot of animals and we can't get them out.
I'm not concerned with flooding as much as I am with the wind and the tornadoes. My wife is in line at a hardware store now trying to get more wood for the windows.
I have two horses I'm very worried about since the barn is not strong enough to handle the winds. Everyone tells me to let them out and they will do fine in the open field. I'm no too sure about that.

Anyway, I will try to contiue updates at least until Friday when the full effects will be felt.

See you on the other side.

John Kerry, New Orleans Hero

This guy just seems to hang around like a recurring hemorrhoid doesn't he?

Kerry Requests Silver Star After Piloting Swift Boat Through New Orleans


WASHINGTON, DC --- John Kerry contacted the Pentagon today to request a Silver Star for a recent swift boat mission he ran through the streets of New Orleans. While the Pentagon claims the mission was unauthorized, Kerry claims it was a secret mission approved by the highest levels of the government.

"I clearly remember listening to the radio and hearing President Bush deny that swift boats were in New Orleans," said Kerry. "And there I was on a swift boat in New Orleans. Dodging bullets. Scanning the shore for enemy fire and mortar attack. The band aid on my hand covers a wound I received while moving too quickly on deck for a photo op and scraping against the railing."

Sean Penn tried to join Kerry on his own swift boat, but it sank before leaving dock. Penn forgot to put the plug in the bottom of the boat and refused to stuff his Communist flag in the hole to prevent flooding.

THIS JUST IN!

The president of the United States uses the bathroom just like you and me!

GEEZ, last I saw there was real news happening in the World. Did the news agencies just run out of stories or what?

Man, the president went to the bathroom at the U.N. What a news flash! I hope he sent a subterranean message to Reuters.

Get back to the world people. Nothing to see here.

Move Along

Show's over...nothing to see here...too busy to post anything right now.

Finally, Words of Reason Concerning Katrina

A few truths, for those who have ears and eyes and care to know the truth:

1.) The hurricane that hit New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama was an astonishing tragedy. The suffering and loss of life and peace of mind of the residents of those areas is acutely horrifying.

2.) George Bush did not cause the hurricane. Hurricanes have been happening for eons. George Bush did not create them or unleash this one.

3.) George Bush did not make this one worse than others. There have been far worse hurricanes than this before George Bush was born.

4.) There is no overwhelming evidence that global warming exists as a man-made phenomenon. There is no clear-cut evidence that global warming even exists. There is no clear evidence that if it does exist it makes hurricanes more powerful or makes them aim at cities with large numbers of poor people. If global warming is a real phenomenon, which it may well be, it started long before George Bush was inaugurated, and would not have been affected at all by the Kyoto treaty, considering that Kyoto does not cover the world’s worst polluters — China, India, and Brazil. In a word, George Bush had zero to do with causing this hurricane. To speculate otherwise is belief in sorcery.

5.) George Bush had nothing to do with the hurricane contingency plans for New Orleans. Those are drawn up by New Orleans and Louisiana. In any event, the plans were perfectly good: mandatory evacuation. It is in no way at all George Bush’s fault that about 20 percent of New Orleans neglected to follow the plan. It is not his fault that many persons in New Orleans were too confused to realize how dangerous the hurricane would be. They were certainly warned. It’s not George Bush’s fault that there were sick people and old people and people without cars in New Orleans. His job description does not include making sure every adult in America has a car, is in good health, has good sense, and is mobile.

6.) George Bush did not cause gangsters to shoot at rescue helicopters taking people from rooftops, did not make gang bangers rape young girls in the Superdome, did not make looters steal hundreds of weapons, in short make New Orleans into a living hell.

7.) George Bush is the least racist President in mind and soul there has ever been and this is shown in his appointments over and over. To say otherwise is scandalously untrue.

8.) George Bush is rushing every bit of help he can to New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama as soon as he can. He is not a magician. It takes time to organize huge convoys of food and now they are starting to arrive. That they get in at all considering the lawlessness of the city is a miracle of bravery and organization.

9.) There is not the slightest evidence at all that the war in Iraq has diminished the response of the government to the emergency. To say otherwise is pure slander.

10.) If the energy the news media puts into blaming Bush for an Act of God worsened by stupendous incompetence by the New Orleans city authorities and the malevolence of the criminals of the city were directed to helping the morale of the nation, we would all be a lot better off.

11.) New Orleans is a great city with many great people. It will recover and be greater than ever. Sticking pins into an effigy of George Bush that does not resemble him in the slightest will not speed the process by one day.

12.) The entire episode is a dramatic lesson in the breathtaking callousness of government officials at the ground level. Imagine if Hillary Clinton had gotten her way and they were in charge of your health care.

God bless all of those dear people who are suffering so much, and God bless those helping them, starting with George Bush.


Ben Stein, American Spectator

The State of the Survivors

Joshwa Coyette, 3, cries Saturday inside the Houston Astrodome, where he’s staying with his siblings. Their mother is still missing.


I have been ignoring this blog for the past few days to allow this Katrina disaster to sink in. I chose not to post anything on the disaster since I couldn't really add anything that wasn't already covered by someone, somewhere and why bother regurgitating the same stuff in different words?

I guess I can only relate my first-hand experience with the survivors I have met here in Houston.

I ride the MetroRail everyday and my first stop is at the Astrodome. Yesterday, I overhead a gentleman on the train mention that he was from New Orleans and was looking for work. I can't say he was lacking in confidence because he was holding a new plastic hard hat he had apparently just bought that was still in its packaging. I engaged him in conversation and soon heard a lot.

I heard how he had waded through chest-high water, passed several bodies (he said they just tied the body to a tree or other fixture so it wouldn't float away).

I heard how he, his fiancee, and daughter were here in Houston while his other daughter was taken to California.

I heard him say he probably would never go back to Louisiana and plans to stay here. He said he would probably go back and salvage what he could, then return here to start a new life. That is what I have heard from everyone I talked to; they don't want to go back...nothing there for them anymore.

I heard him say he worked construction for the City of New Orleans and he showed me his employee card.

I also heard him say all he wanted was a "hot" meal. They seemed to take good care of them in the dome but hot food was not a real priority. "You have to have hot food." He said.

I showed him the construction sites along the train route, the hospital district, and the downtown district.

We talked for awhile until my train stop came up. I took him with me to my office in downtown Houston to try and contact someone from the crew that is doing the remodeling here. When we reached the lobby, we ran into a guy that worked for the company installing automation lines. He too was from Louisiana.
He got some phone numbers from the guy and took off back to the train to get off at the hospital stop and check the construction sites around there.
I guess he found a job because he hasn't called back.

It also seems that the population in and around the astrodome area has dropped considerably. I heard it has gone from 25,000 to around 9,000 people.

That is good.

It's good to see the people getting back on their feet,back into life, and not sitting around waiting for a handout.

Things are getting better.

Death Toll in Lousiana Alone might Top 10,000

A US Senator from Lousiana predicted today the the death toll from hurricane Katrina will START at 10,000 and go up.

"My guess is that it will start at 10,000, but that is only a guess," Vitter said, adding that he was not basing his remarks on any official death toll or body count.

David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, also called for the immediate deployment of regular US combat troops in New Orleans, saying the build-up of National Guard troops was too slow to quickly restore order. I agree to that.

The Tsunami hit on day one...we were there on day two. What happened here? Those in charge have been too slow in fixing this problem. They should have had troops landing from helicoptors and securing the sensitive areas before the wind stopped. I hope this is not what we can expect if, for God's sake, we get hit with some massive, nationwide terrorist attack.

Where is Our Relief?

If I remember right, last year there was a huge tsunami that wiped out several towns and villages in certain places of the world. I also remember a certain Norwegian diplomat from the U.N. that bad-mouthed the U.S. saying we were "stingy" with our relief money to these poor victims of a natural disaster. There was a national uproar. Our congress immediately coughed up several million dollars...more than the U.N. by the way.

Now, yesterday there was a "catastrophic" hurricane that hit Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. This was a huge blow to the U.S. and state economies. New Orleans alone is facing environmental disaster.
Maybe I missed it, I don't think so since I stay abreast of news, but have you heard of any country or the U.N. announcing they were coming to the aid of the U.S.? Have you heard anyone from the U.N. denouncing the countries for being "stingy" with their funds?
I Didn't think so.

I believe I know why.

These countries aren't offering aid because they first, do not want to, and second, they know that we do not want or need their measely tokens of aid. They know we are the most powerful nation in the world and we are that way because we know how to take care of our own. They know we will jump to their aid the minute a catastrophe strikes them because that is the way we are. Despite all the america-haters out there that spend their worthless existence trying to find ways to discredit America, we will not hesitate to help another country or group of people.

We will survive this and anything else that comes our way and will be there tomorrow if need be to help another country in need because, that's the way we are.

N'uff Said.

Gates of Fire

Everyone has an opinion about the war in Iraq. Some don't give a rat's butt as long as it doesn't interfere with their lives.
I have a vested interest in this war because I spent 20 years in the military and can relate to what our people are going through over there. Just like in every war, political agendas, public opinion, and reasons for being there, fall to the wayside when someone is trying to kill you. The only thing that matters is taking care of your buddies and living through the ordeal. If you ever go through something like that, you remember who you were with and what happened for the rest of your life. Nothing you do for the rest of your life will ever compare to those minutes under fire.
There are a lot of good blogs from Iraq out there and I link to them to get the word on what is actually happening there. If you haven't done that and all you know about Iraq is from the media...you are definitely uninformed.
I think the best one is from Michael Yon. He's an independent journalist reporting directly from the action. His recent post was very moving and thought provoking. You must take time to read it. If it doesn't move you in one way or another, you have more things to worry about than the war.
He reports two things that were disturbing to me; The first one...In the firefight, there were two soldiers that apparently did nothing. Michael didn't mention what happened to them afterward. The second was the scumbag terrorist they apprehended was a recent release from guess were...Abu Gharib. That's right, he was released to be free to try to kill our troops. He got his though and is probably speaking in falsetto now.
Read the blog. It is the best and I wish Michael the best over there.

Ranch in Arizona Given to Illegals

OK, look, I need to get to work but since reading about this, I have been bouncing off the walls.
An Arizona judge has given a 7-acre ranch to two ILLEGAL ALIENS (a man and woman, both Salvadorians) that were roughed up by the owner of the ranch. The owner was put in jail for pistolwhipping one scumbag (a male) and I guess he looked at the female the wrong way or something. Anyway, they hired an ambulance-chasing lawyer, and found a sympathetic judge; there you go. Two people that came into American soil ILLEGALLY instead of doing it the legal way, get this ranch and the owner is put in jail.
How can a judge do this? What insanity do we live in these days?
I can understand the person being jailed for going overboard, but to lose his ranch because of it?? When I worked in law enforcement, someone was charged with assault, jailed or fined, then that was it. Now you risk losing your home and life? OOHH MAN...I can hardly type.
My first questions when reading this was; what are those two still doing in the US and why aren't they deported? Here is my answer:

Mancia, who lives in Los Angeles, and Leiva, who lives in the Dallas area, have applied for visas available to immigrants who are the victims of certain crimes, Bruner said. Until a decision is made on their applications, they can stay and work in the United States.

They claimed they suffered "post-traumatic stress" from the incident.
They won the lottery man...

Apparently, the evil ranch owner was convicted for gun possession and had priors. He gave the ranch to his sister who was scared out of her wits by the shyster lawyers at some socialist organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center, so she gave the ranch to the court.

Dees said Foote appeared to have no substantial assets, but Nethercott had the ranch. Shortly after the judgment, Nethercott gave the land to his sister, Robin Albitz of Prescott. The Southern Poverty Law Center sued the siblings, saying that the transfer was fraudulent and was meant to avoid the judgment. Albitz, a nursing assistant, signed over the land to the two immigrants last week.

"It scared the hell out of her," Margaret Pauline Nethercott, the mother of Nethercott and Albitz.

From the WTF? File

Ex-Personal Assistant Sues Carlos Santana

I seems an assistant to Carlos Santana is suing the guitarist for damages claiming he was fired after his consciousness was "calibrated" and determined that it was too low.
I went down to see Billy, my mechanic and asked if I could borrow one of those "spiritual calibrators." He said he looked around but couldn't find one. I think he was just fun'in with me but I'm not sure.
I sure would like to try out one of those things.

LIFE EXPLAINED

On the first day God created the dog. God said, "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. I will give you a life span of twenty years."

"The dog said, "That's too long to be barking.
Give me ten years and I'll give you back the other ten. So God agreed.

On the second day God created the monkey. God said, "Entertain people, do monkey tricks, make them laugh. I'll give you a twenty year life span."

The monkey said, "How boring, monkey tricks for twenty years? I don't think so. Dog gave you back ten, so that's what I'll do too, okay?" And God agreed.

On the third day God created the cow. God said, "You must go to the field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer. I will give you a life span of sixty years."

The cow said, "That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. Let me have twenty and I'll give back the other forty." And God agreed again.

On the fourth day God created man. God said, "Eat, sleep, play, marry, and enjoy your life. I'll give you twenty years."

Man said, "What? Only twenty years! Tell you what, I'll take my twenty, and the forty the cow gave back and the ten the monkey gave back and the ten the dog gave back, that makes eighty, okay?"

"Okay," said God, "You've got a deal."

So that is why the first twenty years we eat, sleep, play, and enjoy ourselves; for the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family; for the next ten years we do monkey tricks to entertain the grandchildren; and for the last ten years we sit on the front porch and bark at everyone.

Life has now been explained to you.

I'm Tired of Cindy Seehan

I understand she lost her son. I feel a lot for her and all the Mothers that have lost their sons. My Mother thanked God everyday after I returned from Southeast Asia. I could not image if she had lost me BUT...This so-called "Protest" outside of Crawford has turned into a media circus with poor, delusioned Cindy right in the middle of it.
Now, sadly, it has become a life-mission for her. Her husband is leaving her, her family is trying to disengage from her. She is standing alone, with all the liberal groups scrambling to get in front of the camera on her behalf. They're even interfering with that guy's ability to "practice" for dove season.
All in all, there is something coming that may or may not be relief from this embarassing fiasco. Move America Forward is organizing a "You Don't Speak for Me, Cindy" Tour that plans to show up there next week. It will feature military family members who have loved ones serving in the war against terrorism in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The delegation will be led by Deborah Johns of Northern California Marine Moms. She will lead the caravan to Crawford, Texas where she and Move America Forward Chairman, Melanie Morgan, will lead a “WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS & THEIR MISSION” rally in Crawford on Saturday, August 27th, 2005.
Should prove interesting.

Letter of Apology

Thanks to Media Lies.

This "Letter of Apology" was written by Lieutenant General Chuck Pitman, US Marine Corps, Retired:

"For good and ill, the Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an issue. On the one hand, right thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity of the actions while on the other hand, political glee will take control and fashion this minor event into some modern day massacre.

I humbly offer my opinion here:

I am sorry that the last seven times we Americans took up arms and sacrificed the blood of our youth, it was in the defense of Muslims (Bosnia, Kosovo, Gulf War 1, Kuwait, etc.).

I am sorry that no such call for an apology upon the extremists came after 9/11.

I am sorry that all of the murderers on 9/11 were Islamic Arabs.

I am sorry that most Arabs and Muslims have to live in squalor under savage dictatorships.

I am sorry that their leaders squander their wealth.

I am sorry that their governments breed hate for the US in their religious schools, mosques, and government-controlled media.

I am sorry that Yassar Arafat was kicked out of every Arab country and high-jacked the Palestinian "cause."

I am sorry that no other Arab country will take in or offer more than a token amount of financial help to those same Palestinians.

I am sorry that the USA has to step in and be the biggest financial supporter of poverty stricken Arabs while the insanely wealthy Arabs blame the USA for all their problems.

I am sorry that our own left wing, our media, and our own brainwashed masses do not understand any of this (from the misleading vocal elements of our society like radical professors, CNN and the NY TIMES).

I am sorry the United Nations scammed the poor people of Iraq out of the "food for oil" money so they could get rich while the common folk suffered.

I am sorry that some Arab governments pay the families of homicide bombers upon their death.

I am sorry that those same bombers are brainwashed thinking they will receive 72 virgins in "paradise."

I am sorry that the homicide bombers think pregnant women, babies, children, the elderly and other noncombatant civilians are legitimate targets.

I am sorry that our troops die to free more Arabs from the gang rape rooms and the filling of mass graves of dissidents of their own making.

I am sorry that Muslim extremists have killed more Arabs than any other group.

I am sorry that foreign trained terrorists are trying to seize control of Iraq and return it to a terrorist state.

I am sorry we don't drop a few dozen Daisy cutters on Fallujah.

I am sorry every time terrorists hide they find a convenient "Holy Site."

I am sorry they didn't apologize for driving a jet into the World Trade Center that collapsed and severely damaged Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church - one of our Holy Sites.

I am sorry they didn't apologize for flight 93 and 175, the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, the murders and beheadings of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl, etc....etc!

I am sorry Michael Moore is American; he could feed a medium sized village in Africa.

America will get past this latest absurdity. We will punish those responsible because that is what we do. We hang out our dirty laundry for the entire world to see. We move on.

That's one of the reasons we are hated so much. We don't hide this stuff like all those Arab countries that are now demanding an apology.

Deep down inside, when most Americans saw this reported in the news, we were like - so what? We lost hundreds and made fun of a few prisoners. Sure, it was wrong, sure, it dramatically hurts our cause, but until captured we were trying to kill these same prisoners. Now we're supposed to wring our hands because a few were humiliated?

Our compassion is tempered with the vivid memories of our own people killed, mutilated and burnt amongst a joyous crowd of celebrating Fallujahans.

If you want an apology from this American, you're going to have a long wait!

You have a better chance of finding those seventy-two virgins.

Chuck Pitman Lieutenant General, USMC (Ret)

'NUFF SAID

Cool Stuff

You heard about the Marines taking Fallujah awhile back. Thanks to Gateway Pundit, The "Cool Stuff" link takes you to a nicely done video of those brave marines "Get'in R Done."

Also, this picture tells a story much better than any words. If you have trouble reading the text, click on the image or go to navyseals.com.

Is Europe being run by Cowards?

A very straight-forward and striking article has surfaced in Australia's national daily newspaper, The Australian.
On August 1st, a writer for the Australian Mathias Doepfner,wrote that Europe has weakened itself through appeasement.
In his article, he says:

Europe still hasn't learned. Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word equidistance, often seems to countenance suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.

Similarly, it generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore the almost 500,000 victims of Saddam Hussein's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace movement, to harangue George W. Bush as a warmonger.

This hypocrisy continues even as it is discovered that some of the loudest critics of US action in Iraq made illicit billions - indeed, tens of billions - of dollars in the corrupt UN oil-for-food program.

Today we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in The Netherlands, Britain and elsewhere in Europe? By suggesting - wait for it - that the proper response to such barbarism is to initiate a Muslim holiday in Germany.

He goes on to say:

Instead of defending liberal values and acting as an attractive centre of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, the US and China, it (Europe) does nothing. On the contrary, we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to the supposedly arrogant Americans, as world champions of tolerance, which even Germany Interior Minister Otto Schily justifiably criticises.

I have talked to many people here in America who are fed up with the attitudes. Attitudes that smell of isolationism, arrogance...and appeasement. That overall belief that since we are WAY over here in the strongest nation in the world, we are untouched by what's happening in those "foreign" countries. When we are faced with a direct attack or affront, most Americans fight back, some don't. Some prefer to appease. Some prefer to "understand" the Terrorists and offer consilatory gestures to sooth their feathers.
From what I read in this article, America is a proud nation but it stands to lose its courage through cowardice in dealing with terror. This is NOT the way to go.

Doepfner summed up the overall attitude of Europe in his final paragragh.

These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbour's house. Appeasement? That is just the start of it. Europe, thy name is Cowardice.

I hope this will label will not be hung on us. Europe needs to "Grow a Pair" and America had best check its Big Brass Balls every now and then to make sure they are still there.

11 Year Old Charged Felony for Throwing a Rock?

Give me a freaking break!
An 11-year old girl in Fresno, California (big surprise) was handcuffed and taken to juvenile hall for hitting another kid in the head with a rock. Granted, being hit in the head is not good but to be thrown in jail? C'mon.
If they had these Gestapo cops in my neighborhood when I was a boy, I would still be locked up. We threw rocks at each other all the time.
One time, my cousin and I were having a rock fight with some other kids. We threw rocks blindly over a building at each other. You didn't see the kids, just the rocks. I threw one over the center of the building, then I heard a "WHAHHH!" from the other side. I guess we won.
A few days later, my cousin and I were throwing rocks in a canyon (this is in the Texas Panhandle.) I stood up right in front of Bobby just as he was throwing...smacked me right in the back of the head! I still have a scar from that.
Hell, we would have regular BB-gun fights and not think anything of getting shot in the forehead with a BB. If we didn't have BB-guns we would throw firecrackers at each other.
It was fun. We didn't go to jail for it!
GEEZ

Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali

This person is a woman but she has a huge pair of brass ones for telling it like it is concerning the Islamists of the Shari’a-based societies and the teachings of Mohammed. As a result, she lives under constant threat of death.
Now, doesn't the idea of a group of people threatening someone with death by just exercising her freedom of speech tell you something about this so-called "Religion of Peace?" Here is an excerpt:

The terrorists, and the Shari’a-based societies to which they aspire, have an entirely different philosophy. Humans are born to serve Allah through a series of obligations that are prescribed in an ancient body of writings. These edicts vary from rituals of birth and funeral rites to the most intimate details of human life; they descend to the point of absurdity in matters such as how to blow your nose, and with what foot to step into a toilet. Muslims, according to this philosophy, must kill those among them who leave the faith, and are required to be hostile to people of other religions and ways of life. This hostility requires them to murder innocent people and makes no distinction between civilians and the military.

Thanks to Little Green Footballs for the info.

Muslims and the Nazis - The Origin of Al-Qaeda

First you say, "No, that can't be, Islam is the religion of peace." Then you come across the speech by John Loftus, Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General at NavySeals.com . and you find this article by Chuck Morse way back in March, 2003, and you say, "Yeah, that makes sense." As you read, you will also see that Saddam Hussein has a connection. One of the original founders was Hussein's Uncle. Gotta keep it in the family.

Quite a legacy from the Muslim Brotherhood to Al-Qaeda. And yes, typing the words, "VANNA" and "NAZI" in a search engine, and doing the search, does yield some interesting information on this topic.

Can You Feel the Love?

Think again.

Muslims Defeated the U.N. Resolution to condemn the use of terrorism in the name of religion.

The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) submitted the resolution to the U.N. Human Rights Commission (which is a joke in itself but that's another story) in Geneva in response to moves by Islamic clerics to...and get this...legitimize the current wave of terror attacks!!!

And this is the Religion of Peace?

IHEU representative David Littman tried to deliver a prepared text in the name of three organizations hoping that the U.N. Human Rights Commission would "...condemn calls to kill, to terrorize or to use violence in the name of God or any religion."

He was unable to finish his speech because of heckling by Islamic Clerics.

What more prove to you need that these people are out to get us and our allies? What needs to be done to finally put an end to this madness?

I'm Feeling It

Egyptian Parliament Leader Praises Killing Americans

Go to this site and see these videos. These bastards are saying it is righteous to be killing American troops in Iraq. Here is an excerpt:

Please note that […] represents a break in scene.

Segment 1: Egyptian MP Praises Killing American Soldiers

Hamadein Sabahi: "The responsibility for the slaughter of [the Egyptian ambassador in Iraq] lies, first and foremost, with George Bush, his administration, and his military forces, occupying Iraq."

Host: "And who else is responsible?"

Sabahi: "The Egyptian government. It's directly responsible.

[…]

"Since the beginning of the crisis in Iraq, the Egyptian government's position was submissive, meek and contemptible. This position did not reflect the will of the Egyptian people, or the interests of the Arab nation. Rather, it has reflected submission to the American interests."

Host: "And who was the third killer?"

Sabahi: "The third killer is the collaborating puppet government, which has no legitimacy in Iraq.

[…]

Sabahi: "When the conflict is directed against the Americans, it is good. Any weapon that kills an American is good. Any gun aiming at the Marines is good. Any kidnapping or slaughtering of an American in Iraq is good."

Abd Al-Rahim Ali: "In Iraq, there are a million Western and international intelligence agencies, which help Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi to disintegrate this country, and to keep the Americans there for another million years."

Sabahi: "Are you saying America is behind Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi?"

Ali: "Of course. There is no doubt. I want to tell you something."

Sabahi: "You mean that America is responsible for the killing of our ambassador?"

Ali: "Of course it is. The American occupation and the campaign in Baghdad between Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi and the Americans is the cause.

[…]

"Al-Zarqawi, the "Qui'dat Al-Jihad" organization in Iraq, and the Americans are the ones who slaughtered the Egyptian ambassador, and prior to that, slaughtered the Egyptian driver, and they are the ones slaughtering the citizens."

Sabahi: "You cannot but salute this organization when it kills any American soldier - I'm not saying a civilian. I say that the presence of the Al-Qa'ida squads in Iraq as resistance fighters, or as part of the resistance, is a positive phenomena that should be supported."

Ali: "I totally disagree."

Sabahi: "I support Al-Qa'ida when it kills Americans."

[…]

Ali: "Where is Al-Qa'ida? Tel Aviv is still standing. Those who attacked the two towers in America cannot attack Sharon and Tel Aviv? Osama bin Laden did not donate a single pound or dollar to the Palestinian resistance. Hamas and Islamic Jihad are there. Osama bin Laden did not donate a single pound to the Palestinian resistance. He did not send a single fighter to the Palestinian territories to blow himself up at those who oppress the Palestinians every day. Where is Osama bin Laden?"

Sabahi: "I agree with you completely..."

Ali: "Bin Laden's a liar." ( I agree)

Sabahi: "No, no. He's not a liar. Indeed, I call upon him to go to Tel Aviv."

Ali: "He won't go. What's stopping him?"

Sabahi: "I am not responsible for Al-Qa'ida, and I'm not Osama bin Laden's spokesman." (Yes, you are)

Ali: "But you welcome their presence in Iraq."

Sabahi: "Of course. I welcome them wherever there is American occupation."

Ali: "They are an arrow in the heart of Iraq."

Sabahi: "I welcome their presence, I support them, and I call to assist them, so that they attack every American soldier."

I am doing all I can to keep from jumping up from this desk and finding these worthless assholes. How dare they say that the U.S. is the cause of these murderous bastards killing anyone and everyone just for the sake of killing.
Here's a note....the American Troops would pull out right now IF you idiots would stop killing everyone!! That's the only reason we are still there.

That does it man. Just get us out of there and let them blow each other up.

Making Fun of Terrorists

It's Monday...not quite riled up enough to rant today. I will say that I just can't believe those Allah Snackbar cowards would bomb Egypt. It's a Muslim country for God's sake.

If that isn't proof enough for you that they aren't doing this global TERRORISM in the name of religion, that they are only doing it to kill as many people as they can, then there is no hope for you and you need to "Grow a Pair."

Here's a funny I heard over the weekend:

Two long-time terrorists met on the street. Makmed said to Abdul, "Abdul, long time no see, how are your children?"

Abdul pulled out his wallet and showed him a picture of a girl. "This is Fatawa. She martyred herself a year ago." He flipped to a picture of a boy and said, "This is Mohammed. This picture was taken two weeks before he blew himself up, taking many infidels with him."

Makmed thought to himself awhile then said,
"Ahh Kids, they sure blow up fast."

Journalists-Homicide Bombers

It seems that a whole group of people need to "Grow a Pair." These are the journalists covering the TERRORISTS both in Iraq and in London. They are now calling the TERRORISTS "Homicide Bombers." I even saw it in one of my favorite news agencies...FOX News.

WTF??? When did these dumbasses change from TERRORISTS to Homicide Bombers? I mentioned this before but it seems there is no concrete answer as to why their titles have changed. Is there some political or legal motivation behind this? I would love for someone to 'splain this to me, please.

Yes, they are committing homicide when they kill innocent people BUT they are committing homicide through TERROR!!

I found something in the Urban Dictionary that mentions Homicide Bombers but does not really offer any explanation as to WHY they changed the name.

Another name for a suicide bomber, coined by Fox News in their quest to become more "fair and balanced." Problem is, homicide bomber is redundant because any idiot who detonatnes any bomb that kills someone, regardless of if it is strapped to his/her body or not, is considered a homicide. The reason the other networks say suicide bomber is because the bomber blows themself up also. See also, Fox News calls the Tsunami disaster the "killer wave" disaster. Way to EDJUMICATE (sp?)the public, Mr. Murdoch.

GEEZ, get a pair journalists...

Scotty is Gone

James Doohan
1920-2005

May the wind be always at your back.

Do Not Send this Poor Girl to Jail

Send her this way...(only kidding). This girl Deborah Lefave, is accused of having sex with a 14 year-old boy. She is facing a lot of jail time. The poor boy was sexually abused and will be permanently scarred. GIVE ME A BREAK! The only problem that kid has is not being able to wipe that permanent smile off his face!

Most boys lose their virginity at about that same age. AND...most men who did lose their virginity at that age would tell you it was with an older woman. Most men would also like to be able to say the person they lost it to looked like this.

She should be punished in some way...I'm sure she has lost her teaching certificate for one, but c'mon, years of jail time? Grow a pair and leave her alone.

Mohammed Atta's Father

Remember Mohammed Atta, the main 9/11 attacker? His Father has praised the bombings in London! In an interview with CNN, he said he would

"like to see more attacks like the July 7 bombings"

This man is either just plain crazed or is a real threat to the western world.

According to CNN, Mohamed el-Amir passionately vowed that he would do anything within his power to encourage more attacks, and asked CNN for $5,000 in order to allow them to tape another interview. He stated that the money would be donated to someone to carry out another terror attack.

Man, that is scary...and he's walking around free......I love living in a free world.

Can you feel the love?

Miracles do Happen

As was reported on other Blogs like, The RANTING RIGHTWING HOWLER and Ace of Spades , it appears that France is actually showing signs that they are growing a pair, at least if you believe what they say. I prefer to wait and see what they ACTUALLY do first.
It seems the French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy (real French name there huh?) has said he will expel any Imam preaching violence;

Speaking after meeting his Spanish counterpart in Madrid, Mr Sarkozy said he would seek the expulsion of imams in France "whose sermons are radical".

This is a great step forward and it should have been done long ago (I hope our lawmakers are listening.

Bastille Day

In tribute to Bastille day I have chosen an entire country that needs to "Grow a Pair." If we all think real hard, we will know that that country is France. Happy Bastille Day and enjoy IMAO's take on the French.

Also, thank you Vilmar at Ranting Right Wing Howler for the link to IMAO.

http://rightwinghowler.blogspot.com/

To the Brits

This is a collection from some of Brits that reacted to the cowardly bombings in London. You "grew a pair" a long time ago. These idiots have nothing on you people and your history. You will endure this and triumph in the end. I especially like this one:

To quote an old Londoner who lived through the blitz and got caught up in the Canary Wharf explosion: "I've been blown up by a better class of bastard than this!"

In the Name of Islam

Tell me the terrorists are doing this in the name of Islam.

Tell her Uncle.

Shahara IslamA devout Muslim, 20-year-old Shahara Islam had a dental appointment before going to work at the Co-operative Bank, and called her uncle at 9.45am that morning. She died in the explosion on the No 30 bus.

Picture from The Guardian.

More on this brave girl here:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article299095.ece

The Justice Department and Homeland Security

These organizations need to "Grow a Pair" and grow a pair quickly! In light of the recent reports by Joseph Farah at World News Daily (WND), the evil terrorists have already smuggled in nukes through the Mexican border and are poised to let them loose.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45203

The Justice Department and Homeland Security need to get on this right away and find out if it's true or not. Even the thought of them being able to do something like this just rattles me. If the WND can find information on this, why can't these organizations?

Also, hats off to Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado who is showing that he has a pair. He is a staunch critic of the government's lax immigration and border enforcement policies and he's calling the Justice Department on the carpet, demanding they show evidence (if any) of nukes on our soil.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45246

The BBC

Unfortunately, I must chose the BBC for the next group that needs to "Grow a Pair." I give them this advice because of their recent decision to remove "Terrorist" from their reporting and replace it with "Bomber."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/
main.jhtml?xml=/news
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Hello? Anybody home?

A "Terrorist" is someone who creates "TERROR" through a cowardly act, like "bombing." A "Bomber" is someone who creates what?.....TERROR by bombing. (It's also a drink I used to enjoy involving whiskey and beer, but that was the old days).

The BBC took the word out because their guidelines state that their, credibility is undermined by the "careless use of words which carry emotional or value judgments."
Consequently, "the word terrorist' itself can be a barrier rather than an aid to understanding" and its use should be "avoided,"the guidelines say.

An 'aid to understanding?' What do you need to understand? You were BOMBED by TERRORISTS!

In my opinion, doing something like this damages the BBC's credibility much more than not "understanding" terrorists.

Man, I am just totally bewildered by these "Font Fondlers" who call themselves journalists.

For this little act of political correctness, you folks at the BBC need to "Grow a Pair."

Profiling

The first group of people I want to advise to "Grow a Pair" is the good people that make up our Law Enforcement, Homeland Security and Immigration departments. If you look at the Chronological history of all terrorists attacks in the world, thanks to this link to our State Department:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm

You will see that 98 percent of the acts were done by males of Middle Eastern descent between the ages of 19 and 35...no little old ladies in walkers...no middle-aged white guys from Minnesota.

You would think you would be investigating and watching males of Middle Eastern descent between the ages of 19 and 35 wouldn't you? No, we are told we cannot do that. That would be what? Exactly, profiling...we cannot have that.

Our good people in these departments need to "Grow a Pair" and say, "No, we are not going to pick people at random, we are not going to do strip searches on little old ladies in the airports. We are going to be watching males of Middle Eastern descent between the ages of 19 and 35.

C'mon, grow a pair.

GROW A PAIR

I have re-titled this blog to "Grow a Pair." It seems on a daily basis I see people make decisions that are so cowardly and candy-assed that I just want to tell them to "Grow a Pair!"
If you ask, "Grow a pair of what?" then you are probably a candidate.

For you sheltered people, "grow a pair" partially means to:

• Get some courage
• Develop some intestinal fortitude
• Grow a spine
• Face challenges with integrity
• Make an unpopular decision

Also, a "pair" means:

• Balls (regular or brass)
• Gonads
• Cujones
• Apples

Too many people in positions that can make a difference, (American as well as the rest of the world) seem to make the least offensive decision possible. As long as it doesn't cause any harm or offend anyone. These people definitely need to "Grow a Pair."

So, as time goes by, I'm sure I will find and post examples of those who need to "Grow a Pair."