(St. Cloud, Minnesota) In order to exhibit appropriate diversity and tolerance, St. Cloud State University (SCSU) has eliminated the selection and crowning of a homecoming king and queen. Henceforth, SCSU students will vote for homecoming 'royalty' consisting of two gender non-specific people. [As an aside, it's not absolutely clear that the homecoming royalty has to be human.]

The change will prevent a recurrence of the confusion experienced last year when a male student, Fue Khang, was selected as queen of the homecoming celebration. It would be embarrassing to have another Fue Khang queen.

SCSU has traditions and history dating back over 130 years and part of that past is the yearly homecoming celebration. Sadly, without a king and queen, homecoming will never be the same. Chalk up a victory for political correctness which has successfully attacked another tradition and forced SCSU, as an institution, to reject a part of its history.

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(Ford City, Pennsylvania) This is not a typical criminal case. The perpetrator, described as calm and amiable, is a stay-at-home mother with children aged 11, 14, and 16.

From Post-Gazette.com:

An Armstrong County woman who told friends and family she was expecting a child was charged yesterday with beating her pregnant neighbor over the head with a baseball bat, driving her to a remote rural road and attempting to cut the woman's baby out of her abdomen. The attack was thwarted by a boy on an all-terrain vehicle and police took the suspect into custody.

The victim, identified as Valerie Oskin, 30, of Ford City, was flown by helicopter to Allegheny General Hospital and was in critical condition yesterday. Doctors delivered her baby by emergency Caesarean section and the baby was healthy, officials said.

Confronted with evidence by investigators, the suspect, Peggy Jo Conner, 38, made a statement to state police that confirmed their suspicions.

"I don't think there was any question that her goal was to get that child out of there. If this kid had not come on the scene, she would have finished the job."

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One of the the things that I've always admired about Rusty and his blog is his willingness to post images that the MSM never would.

The images tend to be graphic, and viewing them causes righteous anger, and more than a little heartache.

Thankfully, however, I've managed to find an image that should cause great joy among the Jawa faithful.

Because the only good terrorist is...

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1 Looks like they're all wearing the same thing. I'd call that "uniforms". That makes them legitimate targets, right?

Posted by: Oyster at October 14, 2005 05:59 AM (YudAC)

2 I like the cutline under the photograph. Bodies of apparent militants lie in the street. Oh, brother, the hypocrisy of the AP is also lying there for anybody to see.

Posted by: jesusland joe at October 14, 2005 10:08 AM (rUyw4)

3 It's not like the AP reporter can go over and ask them, "Are you terrorists?"

Posted by: IO ERROR at October 14, 2005 10:48 AM (vhWf1)

4 Well jj, at least they didn't call them "freedom fighters" like they used to in the 70's and 80's, but they still didn't call them terrorists either. I guess murdering 300 kids in a school doesn't qualify one as a terrorist.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 14, 2005 11:12 AM (0yYS2)

5 "apparent militants". Not only are they loathe to use the word "terrorist", but now they can't even bring themselves to say "Islamic".

Posted by: Oyster at October 14, 2005 12:51 PM (fl6E1)

6 Apparent=Clear,(but we cant say,why R they Chechen rebels? Reds have been tough on them for sure.

Posted by: Monzter at October 15, 2005 03:40 AM (b3c8h)

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Meanwhile, back in the real world....

Jane deconstructs the antics of our allies the Yemeni gubmint, causing rivers of urine to flow through the mighty halls of that great power's hallowed governmental institutions.

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Menenze's ghost has been busted, banned, and now sits in a high-votage ectosplasmic container field. Unless the EPA shuts us down, we shouldn't be hearing from him again any time soon.

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**** Exclusive must cite The Jawa Report ****.

From time to time here we get Muslim posters in different areas. Some are terrorist supporters and some do their best to dispell the image that all Muslims support the terrorists. In fact the recent letter intercepted by the US shows that Al-Qaeda is painfully aware that it's tactics are the design of it's own defeat. If in fact Al-Qaeda and the other terrorists actually had the support they claim, there would be no occupation of Iraq. This is key. Muslims must fight the terrorist with both words and deeds to prevent further suffering for everyone. It appears that Muslims are waking up to that fact and rejecting the hate and random murders that are the hallmark of Al-Qaeda.

Below you will find two letters from a man in Pakistan who calls himself a fireman determined to fight the fires of hate spread by the Jihadists. Although the first letter is directed to Muslims only, the author has given me permission to post it here. These are the kind of people who need the US help we have been giving.

AN OPEN LETTER TO MUSLIMS ONLY
(Read And Circulate Message For Peace)

Dear Muslim Brothers and Sisters,

God forbid if any one of our near one and dear one is killed then the killer is evil, a beast and what not and should get penalty but if one among us kills anybody then he is not evil and we start lying, denying or even justifying the killing.... double standards? Being Muslims, many of our brothers and sisters are not working for peace. They are misguided, mistaken and spreading the virus of hatred and revenge through telling deliberate lies, disinformation and false accusations, which is resulting in death and miseries for number of innocent people living around the world at the hands of merciless KILLER MUSLIMS and also bringing bad name to MOHAMMED(PBUH).

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Al-Zawahiri has posted a statement saying this is a fabrication of the Black House.

Right Doc. So we would fabricate the best advice anyone could give Zaqueery. Nice try, of course you must disclaim it to raise doubt. Al-Qaeda is losing and you know it. Muslim public opinion is against you as they are seeing you for what you are, murderers. You bring nothing but suffering on those you say you fight for.

CNN:

Responding to al Qaeda in Iraq's denial, a spokesman for the U.S. director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, said top officials in the U.S. government are confident the letter is real. The spokesman said the letter was "verified by multiple sources over an extended period of time."

So Doc. Are you saying that Shia Slaughter in Iraq is just fine and dandy or what? That the murder of innocents and beheadings are exactly what Al-Qaeda should be doing? Or is the letter real? One or the other Doc.

Aso here on FOXNEWS

Also See Chad Evans' take at In the Bullpen.

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1 sounds like Zawahiri learned all about deniable culpability from DailyKOS. Seeing as it looks like his advice has been ignored, and in theory he's been made to look irrelevant by the "young dog" I'd be denying that I sent it too.

Posted by: dave at October 13, 2005 05:28 PM (CcXvt)

2 It must suck to use snailmail these days, and you just know they hate not being able to swap goat prØn like in the good old days when they didn't have to live in caves and had all the boys they cared to bugger.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 13, 2005 09:43 PM (0yYS2)

3 Looks like the Moslems originally believed that the reports of the atrocities committed in the name of Allah were either lies or exaggerations. I think they are learning otherwise through improved communications over the internet with corelegionists, as well as the personal experience of having to put up with the Taliban types.

Posted by: Phillep at October 13, 2005 10:37 PM (AYVCN)

4 Nearly every comment on Kos either denies the letter is real or has turned it around to poke fun (and be outright snide) toward the US. Why don't they all just take a one way trip east? Oh, because they like their freedom? That nasty little fact keeps popping up, dammit. Nevermind that the buggers are selfish with the concept of freedom. It's not good enough for others. I'll stop here before I start shouting epithets.

Posted by: Oyster at October 14, 2005 07:04 AM (YudAC)

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Just a little reminder that I'm away writing a major research project. Ok, well it's major to me. I'm getting the feeling that some of you aren't quite getting the stress related posts. If any of the other Jawa writers want to post, this is my long promised absence.

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Peter Mayhew the extremely tall actor underneath the Chewbacca suit will be sworn in as a new American citizen next week in Arlington Texas. FOXNEWS:

Mayhew, 60, played the fur-covered warrior Chewbacca must be a legal permanent resident for five years before becoming a citizen. The wait is three years if the person marries a U.S. citizen. He also must pass history, English and civics examsÂ… Â…"I am feeling very happy about it," Mayhew said. "Whatever people say about America, it is still one of the most wonderful countries in the world

Image credit and thanks to the very young and very talented Ben Marriot at sockyspace

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Nerves of steel no more
In calcium carbonate
My salvation lies.

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Simultaneous attacks on government installations in the Russian city of Nalchik have resulted in at least 60 deaths with scores wounded. Chechen rebels have claimed responsibility for the attacks. Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria province, is about 50 miles northwest of Beslan where Chechen gunmen killed hundreds last year, half of them schoolchildren.

From the BBC:

Kabardino-Balkaria, a Muslim region, lies close to war-ravaged Chechnya.

A regional leader told Itar-Tass news agency that a third of the 150 rebels that took part in attacks had been killed.

President Arsen Kanokov also said 12 civilians had been killed, although this figure has not been confirmed.

A source at Nalchik's Republican Hospital told Ekho Moskvy radio that the dead who had been brought in were "all people in uniform".

At least 40 injured people had been taken to the hospital, with more arriving all the time, the source added.

One unidentified security official has told Russian news agency RIA that the reason for the attack was the arrest on Wednesday of at least one radical extremist.

From ABC News Online:

One girl who ran out of the school said armed men were firing inside the building but security officials later made clear that armed police had entered the school to ensure its emergency evacuation due to its close proximity to the site of one of the buildings under attack.

Russian media said gun battles occurred at a number of locations in Nalchik and the city centre was saturated with security forces, while gunfire could be heard nearby.

A local journalist quoted by RIA-Novosti news agency said the gunmen were dressed in civilian clothing and took advantage of panic to blend in with the local population, hiding weapons under their clothes as they changed locations, before opening fire again on security forces.

[Update 0750 EDT, 10/13/05]

According to a senior Russian official, President Putin has ordered the city of Nalchik sealed and has given shoot-to-kill instructions for any person who puts up armed resistance.

[Update 1050 EDT, 10/13/05] by Rusty Shackleford:

This will not end well. Gateway Pundit also following crisis.

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All the other big blogs do it, why not this one?

Open thread, go ahead and beat each other up in the comments.

One caveat.

Comments containing the words "Harriet" and/or "Miers" will be summarily deep-sixed. So will any comments containing the words "Scott Baio" and "goat."

Have at you!

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Heeeeeeere's Rusty!

I never knew writing a book could be so maddening.

It's not so much that my finger keeps saying redrum to me or the annoying bartender constantly demanding I murder Jawa readers, as it is the tedium of writing the same lines over and over again.

No beer and no TV make Homer a something something.

UPDATE: I'm perfectly sane I tell you. And so am I.

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Today is five years since the Cole was bombed by Al-Qaeda while refueling at the port of Aden in Yemen. Michelle Malkin Asks that we all note this on our blogs. Below find a quote form some of Michelle's work from 2001.

Malkin:

BEFORE 9-11, there was 10-12. On this dark day, one year ago, a bomb ripped through the U.S.S. Cole - and tore apart the lives of 17 American families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attack...

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Syria's Interior Minister has reportedly 'committed suicide', Syrian state controlled media reports today. The story is fishy enough that many mainstream news outlets are making sure to put quotes around "committed suicide".

General Ghazi Kanaan was the former head of Syria's military intelligence in occupied Lebanon. Syrian intelligence agents or their proxies are suspected in the car-bombing assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. Kanaan's 'suicide' comes just prior to the official release of a UN report which is said to implicate Syria. Kanaan has long been a leading suspect in the assassination.

The U.S. has also frozen Kanaan's assets because of his role in helping Syria support known terrorist groups.

As Wunderkraut rightly points out, Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad told CNN that if a Syrian was behind Hariri's assassination, that person would be deemed 'a traitor':

But, he said, if the U.N. probe concluded that Syrians were involved, then they would be regarded as traitors and should be charged with treason and face punishment, either through the Syrian judicial process or by an international court.

DEBKA, of course, finds Kanaan's death a little too coincidental for their tastes:

Its occurrence hours before Assad was to go on the air for a landmark CNN interview suggests the president may have been preparing to sacrifice close aides to mute WashingtonÂ’s pressure on his own policies.

Ya Libnan, an online Lebanese news site says of a radio interview with Kanaan yesterday:

The interview sounded more like a speech than a question and answer session. He sounded as if he was reading all what he was saying . His last sentence was: I will not call any other channel with this information and named all the Lebanese channels. He went on to say " this is the last you will hear from me" I will not be calling again.

The news about his suicide will be a big blow to the UN investigating commission, since he must have know a lot about what went on in Lebanon and who is behind Hariri's assassination. Some political analysts are speculating that Kannan was killed to use him as the scapegoat and to hide the truth about who really killed Hariri.

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Due to a violation of The Jawa Reports' strict policy of supporting only the 'good gay' (you know, two hot chicks), the editorial board has removed today's WTW post. We apologize if this post has caused any uncomfortable imagery and/or feelings of unresolved anxiety and confusion.

Read the following in your most exaggerated masculine voice.

After a long hard day punching cattle the sweat drips off your manhood cause you're a man and sweat like only a man can. And when a man wants to know what a man wants to know when a man wants a mans taste. And when a man really wants to know what a man wants to know when a man really wants a man's taste. That taste is the taste of Wriglers Beef Flavored Gum. And now Wriglers introduces new barbecue beef flavored gum. From Wriglers the meat lovers gum.

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A survey of British men found that they thought about having sex 20 times daily. Unfortunately, the same survey found that they had sex approximately once a week. So, there are 140 simulations for every actual performance. With so many rehearsals, one would imagine that each performance is a classic.

On the other hand, the survey found women thinking of having sex a mere six times daily, 42 times per week. Nevertheless, they are twice as busy as men in actual performance, with two actual love-making sessions per week.

As a simple math problem, I haven't figured it out. Assuming essentially equal numbers of men and women in Britain, how in the world can men average having sex once a week while the women average twice a week?

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The US had released a full transcript of a letter to Al-Qaida in Iraq. The letter intercepted last week spells out Al-Qaida's plans. They are counting on the US backing out of Iraq and then using Iraq as a base to spread westward to Syria and Lebanon and then to attack Israel.

Yahoo News:

"Things may develop faster than we imagine," Ayman al-Zawahri wrote in a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam — and how they ran and left their agents — is noteworthy. ... We must be ready starting now."

Al-Zawahiri also worries that Zaqueery is screwing things up. My opinion is that Zaqueery has indeed hijacked the resistance and Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri are no longer in control. The Al-Qaeda leadership realize they have a madman in Iraq and are desparate to control him. The recent beheading of hostages I feel is a thumb in the eye to the old leadership of Al-Qaeda and Zaqueery asserting his control.

We don't want to repeat the mistake of the Taliban, who restricted participation in governance to the students and the people of Qandahar alone. They did not have any representation for the Afghan people in their ruling regime, so the result was that the Afghan people disengaged themselves from them. Even devout ones took the stance of the spectator and, when the invasion came, the amirate collapsed in days, because the people were either passive or hostile.

Read the whole transcript here.

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After futher talks a major Sunni party has agreed to support a change to the Iraqi constitution that would allow ammendments next year rather then the eight year ban on ammendments that was in the last draft.

ABCNEWS:

The sides agreed to a measure stating that if the draft constitution is passed, the next parliament will be able to consider amendments to it that would then be put to a new referendum next year, Shiite and Sunni officials said. A top Sunni negotiator, Ayad al-Samarraie of the Iraqi Islamic Party, said that if the current parliament approves the measure, "we will stop the campaign rejecting the constitution and we will call on Sunni Arabs to vote yes." Some other major Sunni parties were not present at the negotiations and it was not clear if they too would be willing to reverse their "no" campaigns.

As always in the middle east if there are five seconds left there is still time.

Also here on Yahoo News.

California Conservative has the story on attempts to derail the vote this week.

Updated: The Iraqi assembly has approved the changes.

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What a punk. Fiesty I'll toss you a link and hang in there. Rotate passwords often.

Hi friends...Someone I used to date got ahold of my Feisty username and password and decided to get revenge on me by deleting my entire blog because it means something to me to write.

Again what a jerk.

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