Sorry about The Jawa Report being down today. Something happened to the mu.nu server that knocked all of us down. It looks like it is working now. We are still having trackback and commenting problems. Hopefully, those will be resolved soon.

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1 Glad to hear it. I thought you had a D.O.S. attack.

Posted by: Rod Stanton at August 23, 2005 04:26 PM (03F0I)

2 We did have a D.O.S. attack... Just a little one, fortunately. If it hadn't been for the spam flood coming in at the same time, we'd have been fine. Comments are working now, by the way.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 23, 2005 05:44 PM (ymzzr)

3 Still bloody slow though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 23, 2005 05:47 PM (ymzzr)

4 Aye Carumba! Slow is better than nothing ;-)

Posted by: Rusty at August 23, 2005 06:01 PM (JQjhA)

5 See what IP addresses generated the DOS. Maybe we can retaliate. Nothing meand of course.

Posted by: Rod Stanton at August 23, 2005 06:33 PM (03F0I)

6 Well, the only thing I noticed was that I couldn't seem to edit some misspellings in my comments. Other than that, it seemed fine. Of course, I generally just use the text feed rather than the html browser page, which probably takes a lot less bandwidth.

Posted by: Demosophist at August 23, 2005 07:06 PM (EGrxk)

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Here are the transcropts of Cindy Sheehan's speech at a pro-Lynne Stewart rally at San Francisco State University earlier this year. Lynne Stewart, it should be remembered, was convicted of aiding her terrorist client Omar Abdel-Rahman pass communications out of his prison cell. You've probably seen some of these quotes before, but like me, may not have read the entire speech. Included in her speech is Sheehan's notion that perhaps al Qaeda was not behind 9/11--by inference 9/11 was caused by Israel--and she repeats the Leftist lie propogated by Giuliana Sgrena and the Arab media that the U.S. is using nuclear weapons in Iraq.

The last two comments by Sheehan put her in the extreme outer reaches of sanity. Not only are they totally outrageous, they are also seditious. If a neocon conspiracy was really behind 9/11 and if the U.S. was really dropping nuclear weapons on Iraqi civilians then Sheehan would be right and it would not only be immoral to support the war but it would be immoral not to actively fight U.S. troops.

Shawn from Bareknucklepolitics sent me this a few days ago but I didn't have time to post on it. When Rob from Say Anything posted on it yesterday, I figured I had better share it with you. more...

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Update: Ernie has the video!

Brutally Honest has provided us with the greatest movie quote ever. It's from a 1940 film called "The Ghost Breakers."

Geoff: "When a person dies and is buried, it seems there's certain voodoo priests who have the power to bring him back to life. "
Mary: "How horrible. "
Geoff: "It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes, walking around with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring. "
Larry: "You mean like democrats?"

Click on over to his place for the sound clip.

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Stop the ACLU has been doing a bang up job keeping an eye out on an organization that puts simplistic fifth grade truisms taught at American law-schools above national security. That's not all they do, though, for instance, check out Jay's post on a new series of Abu Ghraib photos soon to be released. It's like the American media want to help Abu Musab al-Zarqawi recruit some more head chopping jihadis!

Stop the ACLU is trying to raise money to buy ad space in the Washington Times. They need $2,500 to buy a full page ad. To donate, go here.

If you don't have any spare cash, maybe you can help with an online rummage sale to be held on e-Bay on their behalf? Contact Zaphriel from Conservative Birth at Zaphriel@gmail.com if you have items you are willing to donate.

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Chris Short, of Conservative Thinking and Jawa Sith apprentice, has launched a new online store. Dude, where are all the hot models?

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Pat Robertson has lost it. We all knew the day was coming, but it has finally arrived. The longtime leader of The 700 Club has publically called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez.

“You know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it,” Robertson said. “It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don’t think any oil shipments will stop.”

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I recently got an email from AFA. This is normal as I tend to get them once a week or so asking me to pledge support to this cause or another. Most of the time I just ignore them because I simply don't have time to respond to every call to arms that comes down the pipeline. But this one had me taking a second look.

Your help is needed to stop pornographers from having their own Internet domain.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is studying the possibility of giving the pornography industry their own domain. ICANN would ask the pornographers to voluntarily move to the new triple X domain which would contain nothing but pornography. There would be no law to force them to the new triple X domain. ICANN would depend on the good character and integrity of the pornographers to be considerate of others, including our children!!!

In addition to having the triple X domain, the pornographers could (and would) continue sending out billions of pornographic images on every other domain. As bad as pornography is on the Internet now, it would be infinitely worse with the triple X domain. The establishment of a triple X domain would give legitimacy to the pornographers.

I'm not arguing for or against porn on the internet. It's there, it's going to be there no matter what I do or think. But I do think that it needs to be regulated just as adult book stores are. If you can't prove how old you are, you can't get in. Yes, I realize that the prospect of proving your age across the internet poses its own unique set of problems. But that doesn't mean that it should be abandoned.

But that's not the point of my post. My point is actually a question. What the heck is the AFA thinking? Seriously, what are they objecting to? Allowing someone to run a pornographic web site no more legitimizes it than allowing someone to run an adult book store. Last time I checked, they're pretty much free to run whatever type of business they like (within the bounds of conventional law). Heck, I'm all for the creation of a ".xxx" domain. It would make my life SO much easier. When I configure firewalls and content filters, I'd know exactly what to block. Yes, I know, there's nothing forcing pornographers to use the domain name. But there would be a number of them who would use it. And those would just make dealing with the whole thing so much easier.

All in all, I just can't seem to get worked up about this one and instead of support, I think I'll be sending the AFA a big WTF?

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We need to establish an absolute exit date for leaving Iraq in order to resolve any uncertaintly that might be lurking in the minds of the "insurgents" and Americans, like Chuck Hagel, fretting over whether to learn the Iraqi dialect of Islam or stick with the classical Q'oranic dialect. So I propose that if things aren't getting better by, say... Jan. 1, 3001 we get the heck out. I know it's something of a concession to the moonbats, and it's giving the enemy far more information than we ought to, but it's time we made up our minds that we just can't stay there forever. And we also ought to tell the jihadis, just for the sake of clarity, that their alternative to surrender is to go the way of the Thugs.

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With adequate evidence that the Sinai Peninsula is a hotbed for terrorists, several thousand Egyptian police supported with armored vehicles were mobilized yesterday to search and apprehend perpetrators and anyone with information. The sweep started in the towns of El-Arish and Sheikh Zuayed and a total of about 500 individuals were detained for questioning. El-Arish has been identified as an explosives smuggling center.

In addition to the towns, security forces fanned out on the desert in the operation which is expected to take several days. The manhunt has been called open-ended, whatever that means. Hopefully, it means that they will continue searching and apprehending terrorists until there are none residing anywhere outside the comfy walls of Egyptian prisons.

Companion at I-P.

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A second officer has come forward to cooberate Lt. Col. Shaffer's story concerning Able Danger and the indentification of Atta.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 - An active-duty Navy captain has become the second military officer to come forward publicly to say that a secret defense intelligence program tagged the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attacks as a possible terrorist more than a year before the attacks.

The officer, Scott J. Phillpott, said in a statement today that he could not discuss details of the military program, which was called Able Danger, but confirmed that its analysts had identified the Sept. 11 ringleader, Mohamed Atta, by name by early 2000. "My story is consistent," said Captain Phillpott, who managed the program for the Pentagon's Special Operations Command.
"Atta was identified by Able Danger by January-February of 2000."

His comments came on the same day that the Pentagon's chief spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita, told reporters that the Defense Department had been unable to validate the assertions made by an Army intelligence veteran, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, and now backed up by Captain Phillpott, about the early identification of Mr. Atta.

The Pentagon better come up with something a bit more in keeping with the accumulating evidence.

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As hostage taking becomes more and more unpopular as a propaganda tool, news of hostages being released in Iraq becomes more frequent. I hadn't heard that these Pakistanis had been taken hostage last week, but I am glad to hear that they have been freed. Other news reports indicate that the three Egyptians and two Indians, kidnapped with the Pakistanis, have also been freed. more...

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Another bomb goes off in Beirut targetting Christians. I'm sure that the Iranian backed Hezbollah, which runs its own TV station in Beirut, had nothing to do with it.
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UPDATE: Looks like a false alarm. While we should applaud the Kurdish and Shiite representatives for looking to find consensus with the Sunni minority, but at some point you just have to move on. Bloomberg:

Iraq's lawmakers agreed on a draft constitution and will use three more days to consider amendments in an attempt to resolve differences among Sunnis, Kurds and Shiites, the parliament speaker said in an Iraqi state television broadcast.

``We received the draft of the constitution,'' Iraqi National Assembly President Hachim al-Hasani said within 10 minutes of a midnight deadline in Baghdad to submit the constitution to lawmakers. ``But there are some points that are still outstanding and need to be addressed in the next three days.''

National Assembly member Bahaa Al-Aaraji just told Al-Iraqia TV that an agreement has finally been reached among the leaders of political bodies on the final draft of the constitution and that disputes over issues like federalism, distribution of resources and the role of Islam have been solved.

MSM now confirming:

``We have assurances that leaders have agreed on nearly all items,'' Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's spokesman, Laith Kubba, said in a telephone interview today from the capital, Baghdad. ``Substantial progress has been made.''

Iraqi Shia and Kurdish negotiators say they have agreed on a draft constitution after weeks of talks and are to present it to parliament regardless of whether the minority Sunnis agree.

it was agreed upon that no laws that are against the widely agreed upon values of Islam can be issued and no laws that are against the values of democracy and human rights can be issued.

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Wow. I never thought I'd live to see the day that Glenn Reynolds would be #2 on the TTLB Ecosystem. I was hoping to knock Glenn off his #1 high-horse, or if not me then IMAO or one of Frank J's minions at The Alliance, but at least it wasn't Kos--anybody but Kos.

In related hell-freezes-over news, The Jawa Report is now #27 in the TTLB Ecosystem. We've broken Mortal Human status in the past for a day or so before quickly falling to our much more deserved Playful Primate status--like Laurence Simon, we've always thought this blog was full of crap. This time, though, we've managed to stay up there with the big boys for a couple of weeks, and it doesn't seem to be a glitch.

So, watch your back Michelle Malkin, here I come. Only 4363 links to go!

Oh, and here's a suggestion for The Alliance. more...

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Often we hear from those on the Left that I disagree with the Iraq War but I do support our soldiers 110%. Here is an e-mail forwarded to me claiming Starbucks refuses to send coffee to our troops.

UPDATE: Thankfully, This turns out to be an urban myth. So if you get the e-mail posted below, do not pass it on. more...

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Notice the new-new site? The Jawa Report should load 10x faster than it has been the last few weeks. The center column should adjust to fit your screen size and we've adjusted the font color. Further, the page is now skinnable. What this means is that if you don't like the white text on black background you can switch to a black text on light background. Cool, eh?

Thanks to Bryan of METAGFX studios, and who blogs here, for coming up with the original kick ass design concept. Muchos gracias also to Phin of Apothegm designs, and who is also an A+ blogger here, for retooling the site so that it would run faster and for working out some of the original kinks. Last shout out to Gordon the Cranky Neocon for coming up with the new Jawa Mos Eisly logo and to Professor Chaos for finding that Thomas Mann quote.

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1 This is so much nicer! "The Jawa Report" font at the top fits much better.

Posted by: tyler at August 22, 2005 01:20 PM (Y9Lwb)

2 Cool wider is better.

Posted by: Howie at August 22, 2005 01:21 PM (yC9sH)

3 Ahhh.

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at August 22, 2005 01:40 PM (x+5JB)

4 Much better

Posted by: REMF at August 22, 2005 01:54 PM (xuZWQ)

5 Will it still have the same crappy content? I'm seriously, it's a million times better.

Posted by: Leopold Stotch at August 22, 2005 03:26 PM (Bo+tE)

6 Ah, Movable Type, how I loathe thee. Seriously though, it is much faster, which I like. I just don't like the white background on the comments. I would much rather have it black like the rest of the page.

Posted by: IO ERROR at August 22, 2005 04:35 PM (HaVXj)

7 Rusty - kudos to your web design people; it looks *excellent!* I definitely like the adjustable width AND the skin choice. Keep up the excellent work, and one day you, too, will be a Higher Being... Well, officially, at least! ;-) -- R'cat CatHouse Chat

Posted by: Romeocat at August 22, 2005 05:31 PM (4LkDo)

8 I have to say that i really like the new design. Loads faster and easier to read. Thumbs Up!

Posted by: Rick at August 22, 2005 06:45 PM (GAC+X)

9 Love the new design Rusty, fantastic!

Posted by: Tim at August 22, 2005 08:01 PM (SQGMu)

10 Looks great and doesn't barf when I load it in my RSS reader (JetBrains Omea Reader 2.0). Are you going to enable full posts for RSS feeds? ...pretty please?

Posted by: Zuke at August 23, 2005 01:48 AM (bW04V)

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An artist in Brooklyn has decided to create a rather explosive piece for a display at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council right before September 11. And what is this "art" that he is creating? A suitcase bomb. That's right, he is creating a fully functional suitcase bomb complete with remote detonation cell phone trigger.

Of course, it could be truly inert: Mr. Hackett’s bomb could be a conceptual hoax. On display, the suitcase, he said, will be open to afford a view of its workings; whether it is truly operational, as he claims, is something only he will know. It will probably not, as the artist joked, have “a big red ‘Do Not Push!’ button.”

And that, as far as I'm concerned, is the only thing that will keep him from getting arrested immediately. As it is, I still think the police should test it and if it's live, he should be locked up.

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Paul Krugman has completely outdone himself. Last week, the moron wrote a story (it must be a story, there's no truth in it), claiming that Gore won the 2000 election. Several conservative bloggers took him to task for this ignorant statement which has been proven wrong again and again. Today, he attempts to justify his lies by repeating them.

The 2000 election is still an open sore on the body politic. That was clear from the outraged reaction to my mention last week of what would have happened with a full statewide manual recount of Florida.

This reaction seems to confuse three questions. One is what would have happened if the U.S. Supreme Court hadn't intervened; the answer is that unless the judge overseeing the recount had revised his order (which is a possibility), George W. Bush would still have been declared the winner.

The second is what would have happened if there had been a full, statewide manual recount - as there should have been. The probable answer is that Al Gore would have won, by a tiny margin. (emphasis mine)

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As Joan Baez pretends any one ever really cared about her music by reliving her glory days that never really were, remember the words made famous by The Red Hot Chili Peppers:

People
Keep on learnin'
Soldiers
Keep on warrin'

I'll do the teachin' part and let our brave soldiers to the warrin. Good hunting, and remember to pop a terrorist for me. It's the Religion of Peace update:

Tattoine:
Is the CIA finally taking Rusty Shackleford's recommendations to heart and shutting down al Qaeda press releases or have we just killed so many of Michael Moore's minutemen that there's no one left to man the keyboard? Al-Qaida's Network in Iraq Goes (Temporarily) Silent.

French Report: Iran will get nuke bomb soon.

40 more 'good' Taliban warriors--you know, dead. (via NIF)

Al Qaeda WMD attack against British Parliament foiled. (via ITB)

No Sharia in Iraq! Scroll to bottom of this post to find out how you can help.

Is Sean Penn finally getting it? Not likely, but interesting report any way. (via Talk Left)

Totten: Darfur is the Bosnia of our time. Wrong, Darfur is the Cambodia of our time.

Support for terrorism falling in Middle East (via The Puppy Blender)

Bryan of The Junk Yard Blog Michelle Malkin's blog does a first class fisking of some of the anti-Iraq-war arguments.

If you missed last night's Inside 9/11 on The National Geographic Channel you missed the best 9/11 report yet made. The Countterrorism blog's Steve Emerson was prominently featured and the 2 hour show held nothing back, including scathing criticism of the Clinton Administration.

British equvelant of CAIR blames JOOs for negative media images.

Domestic Dhimmis (featuring Cindy Sheehan):
Presbyterians can't help it if they're antisemites, they were predestined that way. (via Discarded Lies)

Was Michael Grahan fired because of pressure from CAIR or did he quit?

Dennis Kucinich not gay after all, get's married to Brit. Ok, not all the way gay at least.

Vietnam Vet who knows nothing about Vietnam--or Iraq.

Operation 'Word to your mother' (aka, 'You don't speak for me Cindy Sheehan') is on.

The L.A. Times runs a column by Patterico "Peacenick paper fawns over antiwar mom."

Sheehan's latest idiotic statement revealed: "This country is not worth dying for.”

More idiocy from Sheehan: "The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush."

Confused over which is lesser of two evils: McCain v. Clinton in '08.

Anti-dhimmitude from Newt Gingrich, a John Hawkins interview.

ACLU fighting to remove Bible from everywhere, replace with Quran.

The Great Raid reviewed: NY Times idiots don't realize that Japs worse than Nazis in treatment of POWs.

Funny:
Geek dressed as stormtrooper caught shoplifting (Via FARK)

Bloggers: Where are they now? (2040)

Welcome back Kotter, I mean Commissar.

Carnival of the RINO sightings is up. Check it out.

Happy Blogoversary Aaron.

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Rusty wrote about something I neglected, because I wasn't sure how to frame the issue. I considered posting something using precisely the same quote from Michael Yon that Dr. Shackleford used here. While folks like Chuck Hagel suggest we're losing in Iraq, based on the train wreck of incompetent reporting and distorted information provided by MSM, genuinely astonishing things are happening that point to precisely the opposite conclusion. Does anyone understand how difficult a global war against stateless totalitarianism actually is? And does anyone appreciate the almost-miraculous fact that we're not just holding our own, but beating them at their own game one small victory at a time?

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