March 01, 2005

Muse, thy name is Bonfire

This week's Bonfire of the Vanities is up, and it's written in an ambic iambic pentameter style. Too high brow? Think Snoop Dogg meets Alfred, Lord Tennyson--biyatches.

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Blog Rountable

DrewB comes up with some funny schtick over at a conservative bulletin board as he fantasizes what would happen if the left and right blogosphere got together for a conference. My favorite part?

Rusty Shackleford: Hey Kos, Yoda did a survey that says 47% of blog readers know your mother!

Willis: Racist! [read the rest]

There is nothing that a blogger loves more than for someone to stroke his vanity! You probably will need to be somewhat familiar with divisions in the blogosphere to really get this, but it is funny.

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French Hostage Video Emerges

French journalist Florence Aubenas has appeared in a new video pleading for her life. Unlike other hostage videos, no clear demands were reportedly made for her release.

She is described in the video as looking in poor health and her clothing filthy. The one-minute video is in English. Al Jazeera reports Ms. Aubenas as saying:

My name is Florence Aubenas. I'm French. I'm a journalist with Liberation....

Please help me. My health is very bad. I'm very bad psychologically also...

Reuters adds that Aubenas makes a direct plea to French Member of Parliament, Didier Julia, a member of Jacques Chirac's UMP party:
I ask particularly for the help of the French deputy Didier Julia. Help me Mr Julia, help me. It's urgent.
Mr. Julia went on a special mission to Iraq last fall in an effort to free two other French journalists, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot. The two were eventually freed, reportedly for ransom.

Because Florence Aubenas comes from a country that opposed the war in Iraq, it is presumed that her captors are simply seeking ransom. Common criminals and terrorist groups have resorted to hostage taking as a way of funding their activities in Iraq.

(Image: AFP)

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February 28, 2005

Alleged Terrorist is "Rosa Parks" of Muslim Community

The Washington Times runs a story today about something we reported on last Friday. Ahmed Omar Abul Ali met with Zubayr Al-Rimi, al Qaeda's #2 man in Saudi Arabia. Zubayr Al-Rimi was wanted in connection with the murders of nine Americans in Saudi Arabia before he was shot by Saudi police in a September shootout.

Meanwhile the New York Times runs an article yesterday in which Muslim-Americans compare the would-be Presidential assassin to Rosa Parks:

Our whole community is under siege," said Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, a spokesman for the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, where Mr. Abu Ali and his family worshiped. "They don't see this as a case of criminality. They see it as a civil rights case. As a frontal attack on their community."...

"The feeling I get here on a daily basis must be what it was like to be a member of Martin Luther King Jr.'s church following the case of Rosa Parks," said Imam Abdul-Malik. "People always ask, 'What is the latest from the courthouse?' "

Even as Mr. Ali's parents feign that their son couldn't be a terrorist, the article also goes on to describe the mosque attended by the family as Wahhabi. Nope, never heard of a pious Wahhabi wanting to kill Americans or anything.

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Zarqawi Planning Attack in US

Fox News is reporting that intercepted communications between Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi indicate that Zarqawi has been urged to focus his efforts on attacking the US. The report also indicates Zarqawi may also be on the verge of getting caught and that this strategy might come because of increased pressure in Iraq. (ht: Ace of Spades)

UPDATE: More from USA Today which doesn't name Zarqawi, but which alludes to it when it says:

"A U.S. counterterrorism official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the "very vague" information alluded to moving forward on planning for operations outside of Iraq.
Meaning, al Qaeda is part of the planning of operations in Iraq now. Meanwhile Zarqawi's group has claimed several attacks ain Iraq over the past few days. Notice how fewer and fewer of these attacks are aimed at Americans?

UPDATE Something or other: Other recipients of KKKarl Rove al Qaeda Meme *: Jeff 'I'm not an online terrorist posing as a Jew' Goldstein, Steve 'Allahu-Akhbar Jew-dog' Green, Speed of 'Only Zionist pigs can think that fast' Thought, Shape 'not a Jew, but a Zionist nontheless' Days, Jeff 'Son of a Pig' Quinton

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Yes, I Like Killing Bad Guys: A reply to Duncan Black

The problem with Duncan "Atrios" Black is that he believes he knows what the real motivations of Conservatives are. For instance this from his blog today: more...

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American Hostage Rescued in Iraq (and it's a child!)

The terrorists have resorted to holding children hostage. This is the only information I could gather about Hussein al Saadi. How many more American hostages are there in Iraq? From the AP:

US citizen Hussein al-Saadi, 10, who was kidnapped for a ransom of 150,000 US dollars two weeks ago, is kissed by his father Saadi Abdul-Aziz as they are reunited in the southern town of Basra in Iraq Monday, Feb. 28, 2005, after he was rescued by the Iraqi police who raided the kidnapper's hideout.

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Online Jihadis Using Jewish Names

I was beginning to wonder why the majority of my hate-mail and death threats were coming from some guy named Goldstein. From SITE:

A popular jihadi message board, affiliated with al-Qaeda, had provided “how-to” information on “penetrating Jewish email addresses”. The author of this posting instructed members to use Jewish-sounding names and Western, including Israeli, domain addresses when registering for free email accounts such as Hotmail.com and Yahoo.com. The author also provided examples of such possible names and addresses.

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Jawa to Go: PDA Version Now Available

The Jawa Report is now available in PDA Version. Now you can read The Jawa Report at your next staff meeting. Just pretend like your taking notes on whatever it is your CFO is blathering on about while getting the skinny on the GWOT. Just don't let him catch you while looking at images from the latest Zarqawi produced snuff video. That, would not be good. Orgle!

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10 Year Old American Hostage Rescued in Iraq

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Anti-Syrian Forces in Lebanon Win!

Wow, it's like a neo-cons wet dream come true. AP:

With shouts of "Syria out!," more than 25,000 flag-waving protesters massed outside Parliament today in a dramatic display of defiance that swept out Lebanon's pro-Syrian government two weeks after the assassination of a former prime minister.

Cheering broke out among the demonstrators in Martyrs' Square when they heard Prime Minister Omar Karami's announcement on loudspeakers that the government was stepping down. Throughout the day, protesters handed out red roses to soldiers and police.

Blog Roundup: Jeff Goldstein, LGF, Vodkapundit, Instapundit, Captain Ed, Roger L. Simon, Slant Point, Dean's World

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Putin Wonders Why Bush Fired Dan Rather

One of the interesting things about foreign governments is that they think we do things in the US just like they do. For instance, when President George W. Bush was elected the natural reaction of many in the world was to write this off as dynastic succession. After all, that is the way things are done in their country.

Time:

But when Bush talked about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media and explained that democracies require a free press, the Russian leader gave a rebuttal that left the President nonplussed. If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs? Bush was openmouthed. "Putin thought we'd fired Dan Rather," says a senior Administration official. "It was like something out of 1984."

The Russians did not let the matter drop. Later, during the leaders' joint press conference, one of the questioners Putin called on asked Bush about the very same firings, a coincidence the White House assumed had been orchestrated. The odd episode reinforced the Administration's view that Putin's impressions of America are often based on urban myths fed to him by ill-informed aides.

Hat tip Confederate Yankee who wonders if it was Oliver Willis who is advising Putin.

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Terrorists Behead Another Woman; second beheading victim this week and third woman

Iraqi police found the beheaded body of a woman in Baghdad's al Adl district today. The woman was the second beheading victim in the past week. This also marks the third time in a week a woman had been murdered in Iraq, apparently for 'collaboration'.

Various news sources, including al Jazeera, report that the woman was dressed in black, her body wrapped in a carpet. A note attached to the corpse simply read: "Spy".

It is quite common for Islamic terrorists to accuse their victims of being a spy or collaborator. Hostages are often forced to make confessions before their captors murder them--whether they are beheaded or shot. Usually, working in any capacity with the Iraqi government is enough to convince terrorist forces that a person is a spy. [hat tip: Paul at Wizbang who e-mailed this to me] more...

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Mass Murder by Terrorists in Iraq Kills 100+

The latest estimate of the car-bombing mass murder in Hilla Iraq is 110. The number climbs with each new report. The mass murders continue in Iraq as a result of the combination of Islamist rhetoric against the 'Crusader Forces' and the Leftist media reinforcing the Americans as agressors and brutal occupiers. The terrorist murderers justify such homicide bombings as legitimate resistance to occupation and their targets as collaborators.

NDTV:

A massive car bomb blast killed over 110 people and wounded as many as 130 in the central Iraqi town of Hilla.

The attack is being described as the single deadliest in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

The explosion took place when a suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of people who had lined up to outside a medical centre to get their medical certificates required for government jobs.

Hundreds of people were ferried to the hospital and many of the injured are reported to be in a serious condition.

Devastated scene of crime

The number of dead and injured is particularly high because there was also a crowded market place nearby.

Several shops and parked cars were also destroyed in Hilla, which is located 95 kilometres south of capital Baghdad.

It's primarily a Shia town, and the blast comes at a time when Iraqi groups are holding talks to form a new Shia-dominated government following last month's historic general elections.

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Yes, the site was down...

...sorry about that. I wish that it was because of a massive burst of traffic, but it wasn't. Just one of the normal every day glitches so common on the internet. The cause? Orgling Gremilins---yips!

Will return to blogging as soon as I get done edumacating the masses.

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February 26, 2005

Blog Sabbath

Remember that tomorrow is the blog Sabbath. I urge all to observe.

But Rusty, you say, I don't believe in your Sabbath day observance mumbo and/or jumbo.

Just remember folks, blogs were made for bloggers and not bloggers for the blog. more...

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Jeff Gannon

Jeff Gannon is evidently running a bit short on cash, although the goatee works for him. So help a guy out.

Since the link seems to be uncooperative, here's a screen capture:

Gannon.jpg more...

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Florida Judge Orders Pope Removed from Life Support*

Clearwater, Fla. In a shocking development in the Terri Schiavo case today, a Florida appeals court ordered Vatican doctors to remove all life support from the ailing Pope John Paul II.

In a decision sure to have international repercussions, Judge George Greer ruled that although Terri Schiavo's lawyers had provided substantial evidence that the Pontiff responded to external stimuli by doing such things as "eating, talking, praying, and blessing the faithful," that such behaviors were simple auto-responses that in no way proved any type of self-awareness. Despite plans to attend Sunday prayers tomorrow, the judge proclaimed the Pope to be in a "constant vegetative state".

"We understand and sympathize with the feelings that Catholics, Christians, and humanitarians of all stripes have for the Holy Father," Judge Greer announced from the bench, "but this is a nation of laws. As such we must not let any moral considerations, whatever their source may be, interfere with justice."

The judges order would require doctors at Rome's Gemelli hospital to withhold all medical care from the Pope, including food & water and strapping the Pope down if he reflexively objects that he is hungry and/or thirsty. However, the Court's order will not take affect until March 18th allowing time for the case to be appealed.

"We will appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court," Terri Schiavo lawyer David Gibbs III said in a press conference immediately following the unexpected ruling.

NARAL, the ACLU, and attorney's for Michael Schiavo, Terri's husband, have already begun work on amicus curae briefs in support of the judges decision to euthenize the Pope. "The right to die is an essential aspect of human dignity," said George Felos, Michael Schiavo's attorney and spokesman, "and the right to kill those who no longer have any value and are a drain on the economy is unseperable from this right."

"The legal principle of convenience," he added, "has triumphed today over the arcane remnants of religious bigotry which threaten to shake the very foundations of our secular society had the judge not ruled in our favor."

Reactions from the Vatican were swift. An emergency meeting was called for all available ranking Church officials and thousands gathered for a candle-light vigil in Saint Peter's Square. A spokesperson for the Papal state immediately denounced the ruling as contrary to the teachings of the Church and said the Vatican would join the appeal to judge Greer's ruling.

Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC strongly condemned the ruling. When asked what the Church would do if John Paul were to lose the appeal, McCarrick said, "As Catholics we believe that preserving the sanctity of life is the first duty of governments and of individual followers of Christ."

"What judge Greer has done today is essentially to sanction the murder of the Holy See," he went on, "and we cannot and will not stand for this! We must protect the life of the innocent at all costs--even if that means a non-violent protest or fast of some kind. Maybe even a prayer vigil--a long one. I really hope that works."

Today's ruling came as a shock to many legal experts who claimed that the Pope had no standing in the Schiavo case and the court no authority to make the ruling. Even so, Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe announced his support of the decision as the logical extension of the application of internationl law in the US.

"Besides," said Tribe, "the guy is really old."

The Pope is expected to make a statement about the case tomorrow.

*satire

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Is American Hostage in Iraq Keith Maupin Alive?

Let's hope so. Keith Maupin is the only American serviceman still considered 'captured' by the Army. A video was released shortly after he was taken hostage showing a man being executed. However, the video was of very poor quality and the Army has not been able to confirm the victim on the video was Maupin.

Let's not forget that there are at least four other Americans hostages in Iraq: Roy Hallums, Dean Sadek, Tim Bell, and Bill Bradley. We urge our troops in Iraq to continue the search for their comrades. The fight will not be over until all American civilians held hostage come home. Roy Hallums and Dean Sadek are known to be alive as both were shown in videos pleading for their lives. Tim Bell and Bill Bradley's fate are unknown.

Cincinnati Enquirer:

For Keith and Carolyn Maupin, there can be no closure as long as their son remains missing....

Throughout Greater Cincinnati, and particularly near his home in Clermont County, yellow ribbons adorn trees, cars and mailboxes as reminders of Matt Maupin. In August, the Maupin family said they had received 10,000 letters of support from around the country, sometimes 500 a day. A store in Batavia reported selling out of yellow ribbon. There have been rallies, vigils and calls from President Bush.

The memories of Maupin are not of a soldier, but of a young man working to build a life. He graduated from Glen Este High School and enrolled at University of Cincinnati's Clermont College. He joined the reserves to help pay for school. And then his unit was called up and life changed for him, as it has for so many other young men and women in the past few years...

Their concern remains our concern. Their son is our neighbor. He represents the sons and daughters of all our neighbors who are serving their country.

This community has shown its heart to the Maupin family and will continue to do so. We will help them maintain their vigil. This community's watch will remain until Matt Maupin finally comes home.

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Rusty Shackleford is a Little Eichmann: Ted Rall edition part II

Hey Ted Rall, here is a comment I recieved from one of your brothers-in-arms today:

hwahaha....goddamn assmerican!!! after the cruelty you've done, you're still sayin' that you're good??!! or f*ckin innocent??! it's a pleasure to kill person like you and your f*ckin conservative catholic-jew
president!!!!
Indeed.

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