April 19, 2005

Since When is 2,000 Years of Tradition Radical?

Andrew Sullivan is an idiot. Period.

Jeff G sums up my thoughts exactly:

Now, I’m no Catholic—and I ain’t really religious—but I suspect the point of following a religion in the first place is to actually believe in the thing. And so were I gay, and you decided from your perspective as a Catholic that because I put my thingie into the Devil’s slot, I will burn in a lake of fire for eternity, that’s cool by me—just so long as you don’t drop a stone wall on me in order to hasten the process.
And while Andrew Sullivan calls 2000 years of tradition 'radicalism....

Saudis Give 14,200 Lashes for 'Gay Wedding' Party
John Aravosis and Michael Rogers ruin the lives of gay Republicans
Saudis behead two more gay men
10,000 Reward Offered for Proof Gannon Had Gay Sex Top Officials
The Prime Minister of Malaysia Gets Jail Time for Sodomy
Zanzabar Gives 25 years for gay sex

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Network News is Dead

Well slap my ass and call me Charlie, Sam Donaldson proclaims network news is dead and he seems to think blogging is good for the news.

And speaking of blogging, John at Wuzzadem is trying out Microsoft's new blogging software. But I thought MSN Spaces was supposed to make all our lives better?

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Oh and if any one is to blame for the downfall of network news, it's Six Meat Buffet. Happy blogoversary!!!

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Comment Posting / Trackback Problem Fixed

Mental note: when using MT do not accidentally ban ALL IPs. Apparently when I tried to delete Collin Baber's ban earlier today I inadvertantly pressed enter with a blank IP field. Thus, all trackbacks and comments were banned. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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The Damned of the West (part 1): Interview With Susan Hallums

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UPDATE 9/07: ROY HALLUMS RESCUED IN IRAQ!!!! Details here. Or try the Main Page.
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Update: Part 2 of the interview is here.
Part 3 is an interview with Roy Hallums' daughter is here.

American Roy Hallums was abducted from his temporary Baghdad home on November 1st, 2004. He was in Iraq as a civilian contractor working on rebuilding efforts. His mission had everything to do with helping the Iraqi people rebuild their country after decades of war, mismanagement, and terror under the Saddam Hussein regime.

Roy was taken hostage along with six other foreign nationals, including a Fillipino named Robert Tarongoy. The U.S. did not publish the fact that an American citizen had been taken hostage because of a policy of treating civilian abductions as purely private matters. The Jawa Report was the first publication to identify Roy Hallums as the hostage.

Since that time we have been in contact with members of the Hallums family who started leaving comments at our site. Roy's daughter, Carrie Hallums Cooper, and his ex-wife, Susan Hallums, have been leading the charge to keep Roy's plight in the media.

Unfortunately the mainstream media has tended to bury stories of American hostages in the back pages until something dramatic happens, such as the release of a hostage video. The sad fact is that the American hostages in Iraq are forgotten casualties of war. We find this situation unacceptable and pledge to do our part in keeping these victims in the headlines.

I had the opportunity to have several e-mail conversations with both Susan Hallums and Carrie Hallums Cooper recently. They have graciously agreed to letting us interview them. What follows is part 1 in a series of interviews with the family of Roy Hallums. This segment features an interview with Susan Hallums.

tom_hamill_susan_hallums.jpgSusan is Roy Hallums ex-wife and the mother of Roy's two daughters, Amanda and Carrie. Susan is in the process of selling the small house she inherited from her mother. The proceeds from the sale will go for a reward offer for information on Roy's wherabouts in Iraq. You can support Roy Hallums family by sending donations to:

Free Roy Foundation
c/o Carrie Cooper
PO Box 947
Westminster, Ca. 92684

More information is on the Free Roy website.

Rusty Shackleford: Can you tell our readers a little something about the kind of man Roy is?

Susan Hallums: Roy is the kind of person that is always well liked by most everyone that is fortunate enough to meet him. He is a very kind and caring man. He has always been a great father and grandfather to our daughters and granddaughter. more...

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Afternoon Reads: Club Med Gaza Edition

Israelly Cool thinks Shimon Perez's notion of a Club Med style resort in Gaze is, er, interesting.

More claims of U.S. soldiers abusing poor innocent Iraqis debunked by the Dread Pundit Bluto.

Tim at Opinion Bug wonders what 'the true face of Islam' really is.

Collin Baber (yes, THE Collin Baber) sends me this Guardian article about the ordeal of British journalist Frank Gardner as he watched a colleague murdered in cold blood and then how he is shot 9 times by al Qaeda operatives. Here is the most disgusting thing from The Religion of Compassion:

They didn't help at all. To me this was extraordinary, they offered no reassurance, no glass of water, no blanket, no cushion, nothing. They were discussing the cartridge cases around. They were saying, 'Look, I think he's been shot, has he been shot, yes, he has, look at the bullet cases there,' as if I was just an exhibit in a museum. It was bizarre because I've had so much hospitality in the Middle East, so much kindness.

The Cedar Revolution has it's own blog. And that Joumanna Nasr is a total babe! .Thanks Totten

Bill Dauterieve wonders if maybe the Germans are suffering from post-genocidal depression disorder.

Jason at Texas Rainmaker on the use of the judicial filibuster and Richard Paez.

Confederate Yankee and I are discussing openning our own tax-exempt organization. Why not? If illegal aliens can have one why not bloggers?

Mark at Decision '08 has some pretty bad taste in music. But is it possible to love the art and hate the artist? Especially when the artist is a loud mouth left-wing supporting idiot.

Carpe Bonum thinks the WSJ has it all wrong on passports for day-trippers. I think he's probably right.

More on Steve and Virginia Pearcy, left-wing idiots.

Remember our linkage policy: you want a link, just e-mail!

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Ratzinger Chosen as Pope Benedict XVI

Robert Hayes of BNN e-mails to report that Cardinal Ratzinger has been named the 265th pope of the Roman Catholic church. Ratzinger has taken the name Benedict XVI. More at BNN.

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Moussaoui to Admit to 9/11 Role

Zacarias Moussaoui the so-called 20th hijacker is reported to be on the verge of pleading guilty to his role in the 9/11 attrocities. This is pretty big news. Personally, I'd like to see this go to trial because I want to hear the evidence the prosecuters have gathered. If there is no trial we might have to wait some time before Moussaoui's role in 9/11 is clarified.

Hat tip to California Yankee who has more.

WaPo:

Zacarias Moussaoui has notified the government that he intends to plead guilty to his alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and could enter the plea as early as this week if a judge finds him mentally competent, sources familiar with the case said yesterday.

Moussaoui's plan to plead guilty comes over his attorneys' objections and still has several obstacles -- including Moussaoui's own whim. The French citizen, the only person charged in the United States in the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, tried to plead guilty in 2002, claiming an intimate knowledge of the plane hijackings. But he rescinded his plea a week later. His mental state has been an issue in the case ever since, and U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema in Alexandria is scheduled to meet with Moussaoui this week to determine if he has the mental capacity to enter a plea now, the sources said.

In recent letters to the government and to Brinkema, Moussaoui said he is willing to accept the possibility of a death sentence, which sources said could resolve a key point of contention: Prosecutors are unlikely to drop their insistence on capital punishment. If Brinkema accepts a plea, she would then probably set a death penalty trial, at which jurors would decide if Moussaoui should be executed.

Moussaoui's indictment has been hailed by the Bush administration as proof that the government could fight terror in criminal courtrooms, and his trial is seen as a possible airing of the evidence gathered relating to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. If Moussaoui were to plead guilty, much of that evidence might never be heard....

Moussaoui is charged with conspiring with al Qaeda in the Sept. 11 attacks. When he tried to plead guilty three years ago, he declared his allegiance to Osama bin Laden and said he had detailed knowledge of the Sept. 11 plot. But after Brinkema gave him a week to think about it, Moussaoui withdrew his plea and claimed that although he is an al Qaeda member, he had no advance knowledge of the hijackings.

Also in 2002, Moussaoui fired his attorneys and began representing himself. In his motions, Moussaoui insulted those lawyers, who were appointed standby counsel; taunted the Justice Department; and called Brinkema everything from a "death judge" to a would-be Nazi SS officer. Brinkema later restored Moussaoui's attorneys to the case, and they are now arguing that he is mentally incompetent to enter a plea, sources said.

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The Collin Baber Banning Poll Results

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As the regular readers and commenters know, there has been quite a big controversy over my decision to ban Collin Baber. The above poll clearly shows that a majority of Jawa Report readers want him to go.

Who am I to go against the wishes of the people? I'm Rusty Shackleford, biyatch, that's who I am!!

Collin is back in. Won't he just piss people off? Yes. That's the point. I like getting people pissed off. People like Collin have a useful purpose. They force us out of complacency and let us see another world view. A distorted worldview that blames America first and foremost for all the problems in the world, but a common one nonetheless. It is the predominant worldview amongst the European elite and all too common in our universities.

Let us rise to the challenge of defending America against her enemies, foreign and domestic.

A word of caution to Collin, Greg, Actus, Bob, etc (our regular leftist commenters) don't piss ME off.

Also, to every one else: be civil. No, I don't mean you need to hold your punches, but please no hitting below the belt. Ok, maybe civil is not the word I'm looking for. Politics is just war by other means. But lately there has been too much back and forth about so-and-so liking to suck so-and-so's something-or-other. If this keeps up we're going to start resorting to yo-momma insults. more...

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April 18, 2005

The Ann Coulter Beaver Shot

So Ann Coulter's Time magazine photo is all the controversy. So I FINALLY find the pic every one is talking about, but I have to scroll up to see it.

First, the feet:

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Good Lord!! Do those belong to the Wicked Witch of the West or What? I'll grant that Coulter has big feet, but come-on! Either Coulter and Shaq where the same shoe size or these photos are seriously distorted.

Anyway, as I said, I'm scrolling up to see the photos. Next come the ankles and shins: more...

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Al Qaeda Using Beheading Images for Recruitment & Propaganda

zarqawi_propaganda_beheading.jpgEarlier we brought you the story of how al Qaeda in Iraq was planning to launch a new website, but before the website got off the ground it got hacked. Luckily, some enterprising hackers took the time to cache the website. While checking surfing through the al Qaeda site, I came across this image on their video upload page.

As you can see, the image is one of a bloody knife and a man holding up a severed head. These guys are now designing logos graphic art with a decapitation theme. Sick. Next we'll learn they've taken out a copyright for all things headless.

Do you need any more evidence of the death cult of terrorism or are you still suffering under the delusion that these people can be dealt with in a rational manner?

Also of note is the fact that it is an American based company based in Atlanta Georgia who was hosting the al Qaeda site.

UPDATE: Check out Interested Participants comments.

I'm no expert, but it seems that about the only other groups since the dawn of civilization who considered severed heads to be desirable trophies were primitive tribes in the tropics of South America, Africa, and some South Pacific Islands. The practice alone indicates a primitive mentality that honors only barbarism. This uncivilized worship of the severed head has arguably been best encapsulated and illustrated by the fiction of William Golding in Lord Of The Flies. In the novel, an isolated society ruled by thugs worships the severed head of a pig.

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Caption Contest Winners

Oh man, so many funny captions so little time! Seriously, they get better each week.

Martin: Warning: suicide bomber crossing

Right Wing Sparkle: "Injured in a car bomb? call 1-888-toughjihadlawyer!!!
We will get you the dinar you deserve!!!!"

Cal Tech Girl: Get your own MBNA Jihadi Visa card! Complete with Picture ID fraud protection. Choose between "Car Bomb" or "Dead Infidel" (not shown) background!

And special recognition goes to Steve the Llama Butcher for tracbacking his entry in, thus adding another link to The Jawa and upping my Ecosystem ratings!!: Z-man sez, "I just saved a bunch of money switching to GEICO--shouldn't you?"

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Pastor Beheaded for Evangalizing Muslims

Muslims are very tolerant of Christians---as long as Christians keep their traps shut that is. Pop quiz: what is the penalty for trying to convert a Muslim under sharia law? more...

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Zarqawi Website Hosted on U.S. Server, Gets Hacked

The propaganda arm of Abu Musab al Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq inadvertenly left the files for their yet to be started website open for hacking last weekend. The site is down now, but not before Evan Kohlmann grabbed this screenshot. I'll have some more on this later.

Interestingly enough, a quick WHOIS search reveals that al Qaeda is (or was) using Global Net Access, LLC, a company that is listed as located in Atlanta, Georgia.

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American Peace Activist Killed in Car Bomb Attack in Iraq

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It appears that Iraq's minutemen didn't really care that Marla Ruzicka was in Iraq trying to help civilians affected by the 'Evil Zionist Crusader forces occupation'. Note that she appears to have been killed on the same road that Giuliana Sgrena's car was shot by U.S. tropps. SF Gate:

Marla Ruzicka, 28, of Lakeport (Lake County), founder of CIVIC -- Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict -- died with her driver on the Baghdad Airport road Saturday when a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of security contractors that was passing next to her vehicle, according to her family and news reports quoting U.S. Embassy officials in Iraq.

The target of the attack apparently was not Ruzicka's vehicle, said her mother, who received the account from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

She was killed while traveling "to visit an Iraqi child injured by a bomb, part of her daily work of identifying and supporting innocent victims of this war," said CIVIC representative April Pedersen in a statement on the group's Web site.

Given the U.S. military's policy of not accounting for civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq, Ruzicka's work played a key role in drawing attention to the human tragedy of the war and giving the world a well-researched accounting of the cost in innocent lives.

Ruzicka grew up in Lakeport and made New York City her base for her frequent trips to the war areas. She continued going into the increasingly violent Iraqi conflict areas even after most international aid organizations and relief agencies had bailed out.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, she worked 15-hour days going out to scenes of civilian carnage and painstakingly documenting the toll. She also struggled to obtain relief for the families of the victims.

How would Ruzicka's mother know that her daughter was not the target of the attack? Either she has contacts with the 'insurgents' (which I doubt) or she believed that people like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq wouldn't target a blonde American woman.

CIVIC has Marla's online journals here. Apparently Marla Ruzicka was more than just a peace activist. Her mission, it seems, was to document the victim's of U.S. aggression. No documentation of those killed by terrorists, like herself.

Here are some more thoughts on Marla Ruzicka.

UPDATE: Via LGF this WSJ piece from 2002:

"Flaws in U.S. Air War Left Hundreds of Civilians Dead," blares the lead headline of yesterday's New York Times. "The American air campaign in Afghanistan, based on a high-tech, out-of-harm's way strategy, has produced a pattern of mistakes that has killed hundreds of Afghan civilians," claims reporter Dexter Filkins.

But the BBC reports that the Afghan government rejects Filkins's account: "A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai told the BBC that fewer than 500 civilians were believed to have been killed in US air strikes--a low figure considering the size of the military campaign."

Whom to believe? This passage from the Times account gives ample reason to doubt Filkins's objectivity:

Field workers with Global Exchange, an American organization that has sent survey teams into Afghan villages, say they have compiled a list of 812 Afghan civilians who were killed by American airstrikes. They say they expect that number to grow as their survey teams reach more remote villages.

Marla Ruzicka, a Global Exchange field worker in Afghanistan, said the most common factor behind the civilian deaths has been an American reliance on incomplete information to decide on targets.

"Smart bombs are only as smart as people on the ground," Ms. Ruzicka said. "Before you bomb, you should be 100 percent certain of who you are bombing."

So what is this Global Exchange, which Filkins describes only as "an American organization"? A look at its Web site makes clear it's a far-left outfit that opposed any military intervention in Afghanistan. Blogger Michael Moynihan has more details on Marla Ruzicka, who turns out to be a fervent admirer of Fidel Castro. There's also a "report" on the 2000 election dispute from the World Socialist Web Site, which quotes her as suggesting Republicans are terrorists:

Marla Ruzicka, 23, an officially accredited observer from the Green Party, commented on the tactics of the Bush supporters. She described them as "really nasty. There was one guy with a bald head, like a skinhead. They surrounded me and called me a baby killer, because of my support for the right to abortion. When I pointed out Bush's presiding over the death penalty, they said: no, no, that's justice. They're scary. Maybe they're the ones who should be on the terrorist lists."

Ruzicka, of course, is entitled to her opinions--but surely her extremist political agenda is relevant to Filkins's readers in determining how much weight to give to her comments. Meanwhile, buried in the 16th paragraph of Filkins's story is an admission that the whole thing is trumped up: "Indeed, the extraordinary accuracy of American airstrikes since they began in October has produced few of the types of disasters that plagued past wars, when bombs aimed at one target hit something else instead." Oh well, never mind.

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100+ Shiites Taken Hostage in Iraq (UPDATED: Hoax???)

4/18/05 Update: Could this all be a hoax? Traderrob first alerted me to this NY Times story which questions the veracity of earlier reports: Sent to Rescue Shiite Hostages, Iraqi Troops Find None:

By this afternoon, Iraqi army officials were reporting that the crisis in Madaen, which had been narrated in a stream of breathless television reports and news agency stories, was nothing but a tissue of rumors and politically motivated accusations.

The hysteria over Madaen was one vivid illustration of the way Iraq's daily violence and sectarian tension, which are real enough, can be easily twisted into fantasy here. In a country where phones are unreliable and roads between cities often blocked, facts can give way to a fast-running engine of rumor. And most people have good reason to believe the worst.

Pro-terrorist and leftwing publications already calling the whole operation a U.S. plot. Al Jazeera.com (not to be confused with al Jazeera.net, which is the real Al Jazeera):
He added that he had contacted some people in Madain and that they confirmed there was a fierce attack on the town despite the absence of fighters.

"We can call this another Falluja," al-Kubaisi said. He noted that interior ministry announced on 14 April that Iraqi forces will attack the town.

"We have urged them to keep the situation calm, but they have insisted to storm this safe city with its Sunni and Shiites residents. Therefore, this operation comes to create a sectarian strife in the town," he added.

Al-Hureya area in al-Wihda neighborhood was raided 22 days ago although there were no rebels there, al-Kubaisi said. Five days later, all families were thrown out, he added.

"Therefore, the issue is a matter of pursuing resistance fighters in Baghdad," he said, adding that "This is a U.S. plan. Unfortunately, Iraqi National Guardsmen have been dragged into such operations."

By 'another Fallujah' this man is referring to widespread reports in the Arab press and left-wing media of U.S. massacres of civilians.

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Speed of Thought is all over this one. Check his site out for updates. The numbers seem to be in flux, some reporting as low as 60 hostages other reports saying 150. Here's a bit of info from The Guardian:

Husseini said about 100 masked militants drove through Madain, capturing Shiite youngsters and old men. He and government officials said between 35 to 100 people were taken hostage.

A resident reached by telephone said the militants had returned early Saturday, shouting through loudspeakers that all Shiites must leave or the hostages would be killed. Later, the resident said, the town appeared calm and there was no sign of insurgents. Other residents said no hostages had been taken. The conflicting accounts could not be reconciled.

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Morning Reading: Darth Tater Edition

darth_tater_small.jpgGot a link? Just send it to me. Because that's just the kind of guy I am:

Shiite hostage crisis bogus?

The Lebanese Cedar Revolution now has its own blog, and it's being published from the tent-city itself.

I keep getting e-mails about the returned soldier who was arrested for detaining some illegal immigrants in Arizona. Honestly, I haven't really formed an opinion about this yet. Here's Confederate Yankee's take.

See your state capital from space. Cool.

Howard Dean attempts to reach out to people of faith by spitting in their faces.

Guess which major newspaper this post takes on? One guess.

Dan obviously had some serious time on his hands this weekend.

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April 16, 2005

Blog Sabbath Caption Contest: Zarqawi Edition

Caption this photo of a billboard in Iraq bearing the face of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Winners announced Monday with mucho fanfare.

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Which Side of the Blogosphere is Getting Paid?

AS A SUCCESSUL RIGHT-WING BLOGGER I DEMAND MY PAYCHECK!!! more...

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Pat Tillman: Even a Bigger Hero

Pat Tillman could have gone back to the NFL. Instead, he stayed in the Army Rangers and paid the ultimate sacrifice. Hero to the end.

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Playboy for Jihadis

via Evil Glenn Reynolds (not to be confused with Dr. Glenn Reynolds)

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