I've been following with interest, and more than a little confusion, the story of Current Television, the network by Al Gore that is debuting tomorrow. Below the fold is a lengthy analysis on what I think this network's main accomplishment in this new, and possibly exciting format of "citizen television" is going to be... more...

Posted by: Vinnie at 10:51 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
Post contains 59 words, total size 1 kb.

By Demosophist

So anyway, I'm gonna be down near the National Mall tomorrow morning, in case anyone wants to meet for hot dogs or pizza or something. Pretty close to the Air and Space Museum, or the Smithsonian "Castle." Should be free by about 10:00 AM in case there are any Jihadists who would like to take a shot at me. Which wouldn't be that tough to do, since I can't carry in "The District." About as vulnerable as I can be. Well, for a macho sonofabitch, I mean.

Just give me a time and place. Like the X-15 exhibit in the A&S Museum at 10:30AM? How about that?

I'm not going near that reflecting pool though. And I'm in a real shitty mood, so don't count on much scintilating conversation. It's freakin' July in the swamp, after all.

Posted by: Demosophist at 08:03 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
Post contains 151 words, total size 1 kb.

Can anyone please explain to me why the AP and CBS rush to bring us a phony fatwah story along with the image below on the right of a Muslim and a Crescent defaming our national symbol, but totally ignore the story behind the man and the image below on the left?

(Image on left is the Navy Cross, via Bob Lonsberry and Mary Jones. The disgusting image on the right that defames our nation's flag and in effect, symbolizes an Islamic takeover of America, is from the AP and CBS)

Had I not received an email about this I wouldn't have known about it either.

"The odd fact about the American media in this war is that it's not covering the American military. The most plugged-in nation in the world is receiving virtually no true information about what its' warriors are doing." If it doesn't undermine the war effort and our nation's effort to keep Islamofascists from blowing us up and replacing every church and synagogue in America and Europe with a mosque, the press doesn't report it.

For those of you who might not know, the man on the left in the image below is the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and he is proud to know the man on the right.

Meet Brian Chontosh, the man on the right; Churchville-Chili Central School Class of 1991, proud graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology, husband and about-to-be father, First lieutenant (now Captain) in the United States Marine Corps, and a genuine hero.

At 29 Palms in California Brian Chontosh was presented with the Navy Cross, the second highest award for combat bravery the United States can bestow. And "That's a big deal." But you didn't see it on the network news that night. And all you'd have read in Brian's hometown newspaper is two paragraphs of nothing.

All we get from the likes of the AP, CBS, and most of the MSM is a "non-stop feed of gloom and doom," but we get nothing about our progress in Iraq and on the War on Terror, and worst of all, we don't hear about our American heroes, the guys fighting and dying in the crotch of the world so all of us can continue on with our lives and the MSM can continue it's anti-military, anti-administration, anti-American, ostrich-imitating rants.

As Bob Lonsberry writes in the tribute to Capt Chontosh, "Accounts of American valor are dismissed by the press as propaganda, yet accounts of American difficulties are heralded as objectivity. It makes you wonder if the role of the media is to inform or to depress - to report or to deride. To tell the truth, or to feed us lies."

And as for our incredibly brave GIs who honorably do their duty, the ones "our grandparents would have carried on their shoulders down Fifth Avenue," well, we never hear anything from the media about them, and because of the MSM's failure to report what's right with our country, guys like Capt Brian Chontosh go completely ignored.

It was a year ago on the march into Baghdad. Brian Chontosh was a platoon leader rolling up Highway 1 in a humvee. When all hell broke loose.

Ambush city.

The young Marines were being cut to ribbons. Mortars, machine guns, rocket propelled grenades.

And the kid out of Churchville was in charge. It was do or die and it was up to him.

Hat tip with extra thanks to Red Falcon at The Steiner Aid, who posted on this story back on June 28.

Cross posted by Hyscience
Semper Fi! From one Marine to another.

Posted by: Richard@hyscience at 05:20 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
Post contains 660 words, total size 4 kb.

Al-Qaeda's websites are getting blasted off the airwaves, one by one, and the London Times and Israel think it's MI5 getting frisky:

The web has become the new battleground of terrorism, permitting a freedom of communication denied to such organisations as the IRA a couple of decades ago.

One global jihad site terminated recently was an inflammatory Pakistani site, www.mojihedun.com, in which a section entitled How to Strike a European City gave full technical instructions. Tens of similar sites, some offering detailed information on how to build and use biological weapons, have also been shut down. However, Islamic sites believed to be “moderate”, remain.

One belongs to the London-based Syrian cleric Abu Basir al-Tartusi, whose www.abubaseer.bizland.com remained operative after he condemned the London bombings.

Don't they wish they'd done this two months ago? (H/T: Little Green Fooballs)

Me? I think there's a certain little Jawa out there, fooling with their droids.

And speaking of the IRA...you know that "shoot subway bombers in the head" policy in Britain that some folks are getting upset about? It dates back to the Thatcher years. From the American Spectator:

If shoot-to-kill for suspected bombers was good enough for the IRA under Thatcher, why should al Qaeda get a pass under Blair?

Umm...because Abu Ghraib? No wait, I know this one...Guantanamo! Or maybe Imperialism! Blood for oil! I got it....Karl Rove!

Posted by: seedubya at 02:47 PM | Comments (6) | Add Comment
Post contains 236 words, total size 2 kb.

According to new reports, Osman Hussain, the suspect arrested in Italy following the botched London 7/21 bombings claims that they didn't intend to hurt anybody. Hussain doesn't consider himself a terrorist, and is fighting extradition to the UK.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

From the Associated Press:

ROME (AP) - A suspect in the failed London transit bombings admitted Saturday to a role in the attack but said it was only intended to be an attention-grabbing strike, not a deadly one, a legal expert familiar with the investigation said.

Osman Hussain told interrogators he wasn't carrying enough explosives even to "harm people nearby," the expert told The Associated Press. The expert spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the ongoing investigation, which under Italian law must remain secret.

Via Dr. Rusty Shackelford who was tipped to the story by reader Kim.

Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto.

Posted by: Bluto at 12:32 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
Post contains 202 words, total size 1 kb.

1 >>>Osman Hussain told interrogators he wasn't carrying enough explosives even to "harm people nearby," the expert told The Associated Press. Why of course not-- it's a religion of peace.

Posted by: Carlos at July 31, 2005 12:40 PM (8e/V4)

2 sure, now torture the intel out him, and cut his head off

Posted by: Ren at July 31, 2005 01:29 PM (a9tRx)

3 his court appointed lawyer is a VERY HOT female infidel. (u should post a photo!) but - sadly - she's probably a Leftie...

Posted by: reliapundit at July 31, 2005 01:54 PM (/816A)

4 He was just "teasin".

Posted by: Carlos at July 31, 2005 02:01 PM (8e/V4)

5 Hussain claims he's not a terrorist??????? here's a quote from Hussain reported in that AP story you linked : La Repubblica quoted Hussain as telling his interrogators. "We didn't want to kill, just sow terror." what is a terrorist if its not a person who sows terror?

Posted by: rombo at July 31, 2005 05:50 PM (Bdm5S)

6 There have been many ignorant statements by politicians responsible for taking us into the war in Iraq. The thread that stiches them all together is a breathtaking lack of historical knowledge, illustrated again by former UKs Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon. His explanation for the bloodbath: "I don't think we appreciated the level of fanaticism and sheer anarchic violence people were prepared to employ to oppose the creation of a democratic society." Why Not? Hoon and Co had plenty of warning before the invasion. All he needed was a knowledge of history to realise it was a good bet Iraq would become a battleground, not just between the rival Muslim ethnic groups but between traditional and fundamentalist factions. A recipe for disaster where the immediate beneficiaries would be the terror groups the invasion was designed to defeat. Now even Donald Rumsfeld is talking about troop withdrawal. If the US were to do that before Iraq achieves peaceful normality it would be the ultimate betrayal and a gift to the fanatics. A war on terror lost.

Posted by: Sally at August 01, 2005 12:39 AM (PM/BC)

7 ah, and all of those nails pushed into the explosives were not really for killing more people with shrapnel then?

Posted by: dave at August 01, 2005 01:35 AM (DO6vD)

8 Dave, I had the same observation as you regarding the leaked photos of the bombs showing the nails... they must be Nerf Nails™ I guess!

Posted by: Opinionated Vogon at August 01, 2005 09:11 AM (oi7Fg)

9 I think I just saw a pig fly by!

Posted by: jesusland joe at August 01, 2005 09:32 AM (DDXXI)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

It was two days ago on Friday thatÂ’s about 48 hours ago from today Sunday. When my Friends and I were all hanging out at RustyÂ’s blog.
But RustyÂ’s blog is not he name of the blog itÂ’s just the name of the song.ThatÂ’s why I call the song RustyÂ’s blog.

We all decided that it would be a nice gesture if we all posted stuff and commented on RustyÂ’s blog while he was on vacation.
So we packed up PCÂ’s, MacÂ’s and implements of destruction, loaded them all up in a green VW microbus and headed on over to the mu.nu domain.

When we got there we saw a pile of words. We figured one big pile was better than a bunch of little piles and rather than download his we decided to upload ours and thatÂ’s what we did.
Went home drank a bottle of homemade wine that couldnÂ’t be beat and didnÂ’t get up until the next morning. When we got a call from Officer Opie.

He said KidÂ…. Â…. We found your name on a piece of trash on the blog. We donÂ’t like your kind. And weÂ’re gonna move you down.
And after speaking of it for about 25 minutes on the gmail it came down to the fact that we were going to have to come down to the blog office.

When we got there was some good looking feisty girl sitting at a desk giving directions she said, “Go over there and wait on that bench marked group W”.
Group W is where they put you if you may not be moral or smart enough to post stuff on the blog after comiting your special blog crime.

There were all kinds of nasty critters sitting there on the bench. Greg, DSM, Greyrooster, IM, Filthy, Osama, Â…Â… There were commentrapers Â… Â… bloggerstabbers. Â…. .Â…bloggerrapers!!!Â…
They were all mean and nasty sounding and the biggest meanest ugliest bloggerraper of em all was coming right over to me and he was all mean and nasty and scary lookinÂ’.

He said, “What did you get?”

I said, “I didn’t get nothing, just had to pay $50 and let people read my garbage.”

They asked, “What are you here for?” and I said, “littering.”…. …. Well they all moved away from me there on the bench. …… ……

Till I said, “And creating a nuisance.” And they all came back and we had a good time talking about bloggerstabin’, comment rapin’, stupid postin’ and all kinds of groovy things.

Then Sith Master Rusty came over and said,

“Kid!”…………..

“Thisblog’sgot40000hits30000readers- 200regularcommenters23authorsi
workdmyassoffhowie- youmoronstoppissinoffthe
otherbloggers-a ndlikingthetrollsthinkaboutwhaty
oursay- infoolandthatgoesfortherestof- youtooyoubig
bunchofpainsintheass Â…Â…. For 45 minutes and none of us understood a thing he said. But we had fun playing sol in tiny windows on our cell phones and filling out the forms there.

We all went back home had another glass of homemade wine that couldnÂ’t be beat and didnÂ’t get up until the next morning. When it was time to go back to work. .
IÂ’ve been typing this crap for 25 minutes and I could go on for another 25 minutes. IÂ’m not proud Â… Â… or tired. But IÂ’ll give you a break and save it.

>
>
>

Guest posters and regulars have at it, commentators too, remember you are without trolls this week. DonÂ’t let me get too bored or IÂ’ll post something or start an argument. IÂ’ll be around if anyone needs anything I should have a bit of time now and then. Rusty should be back next week.

Signed Howie

humble sith beotch padawan to Sith Master Blogger Rusty Shackleford.

Posted by: Howie at 12:27 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
Post contains 623 words, total size 4 kb.

Well, that was disappointing. Not that Bochco's new show about the Iraq War offended me as an American - I didn't get the impression that a leftist, anti-war agenda was being pushed. No, Over There offended me as a writer.

And the show's writers started sucking right off the bat. From the Viet Vet cliché trooper lighting up a joint while on duty through the long, long tirade the held-past-his-tour-and-pissed-as-Hell sergeant inflicts on his squad, to the unimaginative use of cable-permitted expletives, Bochco's writing staff was underwhelming.

Do senior officers undermine their lieutenants' authority (and the chain of command) by agreeing with a sergeant who has just insulted the lieutenant's leadership abilities - in front of the men? I hope not.

Do sergeants address senior officers with contempt while using "goddamn" as a frequent modifier? Maybe once.

Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto. more...

Posted by: Bluto at 10:36 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment
Post contains 326 words, total size 2 kb.

A flailing President and a failed Presidency best sums up the tenure of Jimmy Carter in the White House. A one term President who's naiveity was surpassed only by his intellectual bewilderment. A Don Quixote mentality without the heart to do battle.

BIRMINGHAM, England — Former President Jimmy Carter said Saturday the detention of terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base was an embarrassment and had given extremists an excuse to attack the United States.

Carter also criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq as "unnecessary and unjust."

"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.," he told a news conference at the Baptist World Alliance's centenary conference in Birmingham, England.

"I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts."

Carter said, however, that terrorist acts could not be justified, and that while Guantanamo "may be an aggravating factor ... it's not the basis of terrorism."

Critics of President Bush's administration have long accused the U.S. government of unjustly detaining terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base on the southeastern tip of Cuba. Hundreds of men have been held indefinitely at the prison, without charge or access to lawyers.

"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people."

Companion OpiniPundit

Posted by: Traderrob at 04:49 PM | Comments (29) | Add Comment
Post contains 324 words, total size 2 kb.

1 As Presidents go, Carter made a great civilian.

Posted by: Jim at July 30, 2005 05:23 PM (ponKd)

2 Yeah and what's worse I actually voted for him. The last Democrat I ever voted for. Two terms of Carter and the country may have never recovered. In some small way owe the Mullahs thanks

Posted by: bill at July 30, 2005 05:52 PM (QJhZY)

3 Jimmy Carter convinced me to switch from being a Democrat to Republican. The ineptness of his administration was devastating to this country.

Posted by: Gary Aminoff at July 30, 2005 07:56 PM (mU+Tt)

4 So, your theory is the Iraq war is justified because you don't like Jimmy Carter? Makes perfect nonsense as most people who aren't looking at the facts do. It's called atack the attacker to make your point. What your point is I don't know other than Jimmy Carter, in your belief, was a horrible President so he must be wrong. Bush, who isn't even our elected president, is justified because he said so. Which also makes no sense. Hopefully the people that really care about America will wake up and see what's happened to them before it's too late. Hopefully they won't continue to attack someone, who by the way on a Nobel Peace Prize, who just might be right but they don't agree with. We are even though. I don't like George Bush. I like humanitarians instead of whatever you want to call what we have in the White House now.

Posted by: Shae Whiggens at July 30, 2005 08:23 PM (h7g5W)

5 Carter is trying to tell all of you something, it pays to listen!

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 30, 2005 09:19 PM (ScqM8)

6 The most crooked President in the history of America. He sold me on his plan to do away with the IRS and install an 12% flat tax. I only voted for this crook once. But it was the worst lapse of judgement in my life. What a scoundrel!

Posted by: Rod Stanton at July 30, 2005 09:21 PM (Z6yVb)

7 Shae, your paragraph contains so many idiotic statements, they aren't even worthy of taking the time to attack individually. Carter was an inept President. He, himself, characterized the economy under his own adminstration as being in a 'malaise'. Even most democrats think he was a bad President. And maybe you're too busy organizing your next PETA rally, but the election was on all the TV channels last November and Bush was, indeed, elected to the office of President with a record vote total of over 63 million and more than 50% of the popular vote - which Clinton didn't accomplish in either of his elections. So, get over it already. By the way, the Nobel Prize is awarded by the same type of Euros that are in the UN. It's pretty well-known that Carter has never met a dictator he didn't like. I guess since you don't keep up on current events such as US elections, I'll go out on a limb and guess that you weren't aware that any time a third-world dictator wants his election 'certified', Carter is already on speed-dial. Unbelievable. The audacity to compare Carter to any of our good Presidents is beyond comprehension. Any discussion of Carter should only be whether he is just the worst modern day President or the worst of all-time. I'm going remind you again. Bush won the election. You're opinion of him is in the minority. Get used to that losing feeling in the pit of your stomach.

Posted by: slug at July 30, 2005 09:43 PM (IKLwc)

8 Peanut Jim is the only president ever to have a new word coined just to describe the condition of the economy during his watch; stagflation, a combination of stagnated growth and runaway, triple digit inflation. He also presided over the ruin of the CIA and the military. He is also a traitor, as he went to Russia in 1984 to try to convince our enemies to help defeat Regan. He is a lowlife piece of shit who should be hanged and publicly exhibited for the amusement of the crows as an example.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 30, 2005 09:53 PM (0yYS2)

9 Carter doesn't just jack his jaws, he works. He wasn't a very good president, but that doesn't mean whatever he says should be automatically ridiculed and discounted. A lot of people actually agree with him about cuba, on both the right and left.

Posted by: Adam at July 30, 2005 10:44 PM (5DbtM)

10 Carter feels we should do the same thing now that he did back when he was Pres when the hostages were taken...nothing, but sit back and whine and beg....spineless bastard....go back to the peanut farm and take care of youre drunken brother, Billy....maybe he should go to Iraq and build houses there for the Iraqi people and do something constructive for the war effort instead of trying to knock it all down

Posted by: THANOS35 at July 30, 2005 11:04 PM (9gFP6)

11 Carter is a perfect example of the liberal leftist religious whack job. These are the same people who have led the divestment campaign against Israel by the Anglican Church. One wonders whether any of these people have ever read any history, much less the Bible that they claim allegiance to. They seek to blame the US for every problem in the World. You will never hear them condemn the terrorists or the thugs. Carter has also done irreparable harm to democracy throughout the World as he goes around and supposedly oversees elections to make sure they are fair. He has never seem a dictator he didn't like.(Castro, Mugabe, etc.) The real problem is that he lends legitimacy to these thugs. The fact that he is able to do these things shows how fragile democracy is in the World. He should not be tolerated by either his fellow Democrats or the Bush Administration.

Posted by: jesusland joe at July 30, 2005 11:19 PM (DDXXI)

12 Jhimmi Carter, who so holds the office of the President in such contempt he travels the world and undermines it, is a fine contemporary example of the Midrash adage: “He who becomes compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate.” He is one of those grand humanitarians who loves The People and despises individuals.

Posted by: Darleen at July 31, 2005 02:06 AM (FgfaV)

13 So the "Jawa Report" takes a lesson from Karl Rove's playbook, I see. It's the one titled, "Dealing with upleasant facts." Let's see what Rove has to say about that... "Whenever the message is not what we're trying to force on the American people, attack the messenger. Worked great on Wilson." Too bad for you guys that Carter, in this instance, is spot-on correct. There is no justification for the Iraq War. No WMD, no nukes, no Saddam-al-qaida connection. Nothing. No reason for us to be there. And he's absolutely right on Gitmo. Since it's only possible to support the Bush administration through an act of religious faith that requires one to eschew all evidence in favor of glib talking points, try this one: American's don't torture people. Repeat until it takes hold.

Posted by: The Raven at July 31, 2005 07:14 AM (2pA4p)

14 "So the "Jawa Report" takes a lesson from Karl Rove's playbook, I see. It's the one titled, "Dealing with upleasant facts." Let's see what Rove has to say about that..." This commmentary does not neccessarily represent the opinion Jawa Report or Rusty. The good Dr. has been kind enough to let me guest blog on his site. The opinions expressed our mine. You'll have to ask Rusty what his opinions are on the subject.

Posted by: traderrob at July 31, 2005 08:41 AM (3al54)

15 Raven, but evidently Americans do slander people without evidence. Examples being Carter, and yourself.

Posted by: SPQR at July 31, 2005 08:42 AM (xauGB)

16 Why DoesnÂ’t Former President Jimmy Carter go to Iraq? And build houses could it be racism does he not love the Piece Loving Arabs. I am sure he would have a lot to talk about with old Saddam. Saddam Hussein must be feeling mighty lonely puttering around his garden writing his poetry tearing the wings off of flyÂ’s and thinking now you are just like me Mr. fly as a tear runs down his cheek. Lonely days waiting for his meals to be served that delicious US Army chow that thirty million starving African would gladly give their right arm to be eating to. Support the Jimmy Carter challenge send him to Iraq to build houses. Please contact the Habitat for Humanity And tell them Iraq needs their help send Jimmy carter to Iraq to build houses. http://www.habitat.org/ publicinfo@habitat.org.

Posted by: Zebrab5 at July 31, 2005 09:20 AM (DoxEP)

17 Utterly irrelevant, killing the messenger, thereby ignoring the message. Let's talk about what former President Carter was reported to have said: 1. Guantanamo abuses are an embarassment that give terrorists an excuse to attack the US. You find the abuses at Guantanamo one of the great achievements of the Bush administration? Do you deny they feed anti-American propaganda efforts? Carter, of course, is absolutely right. 2. The Iraq war was unnecessary and unjust. There were no wmd's the only immediately imminent threat; the rest - the cakewalk, the flowers and kisses - is just neocon speculation which has no basis in consensual reality. Furthermore, Saddam had nothing to do with al Qaeda terrorism. Once again, Carter is right; the Bush/Iraq war was unnecessary. As for being unjust, which sound a little odd, let's not forget the full story of Fallujah has yet to be told publicly. Independent observers compared what happened there to Dresden. Diss the messenger all you want. But sooner or later, you're going to have to deal with the message. And Carter's absolutely right.

Posted by: tristero at July 31, 2005 11:46 AM (eCSS7)

18 This whole diary is an exercise in third-grade revisionist history. Containing Carter's presidency into beaten-to-death cliches his critics pinned on him long ago. Let's not forget that he was the original dark-horse populist Christian from the south who served in the Navy as a nuclear expert and was well grounded as the guy next door who you could trust for straight answers. He was the guy who honestly tried to grapple with the looming energy crisis and the danger to National Security our dependance on foreign oil is. He was guilty of being too far ahead of his time when most americans longed for a simple black and white delusion the Reagan presidency offered. Us against the World. We fell for it and continue to pay like village idiots who can't muster up enough sophistication to know even where Iraq is located on a map. Yeah, he was a "traitor and piece of shit"?! What does that say about your complete inability to lend any reasonable light on his service to our country? This President may not have been politically succesful enough to justify the laurels of who we judge to be great based on "effectiveness". But those metrics are elusive as far as history is concerned. He well may go down as the Greatest President in terms of honesty, evenhandedness, judgement, and perseverence. Too many people even today have to much respect for this man to accept the comments here as anything but flat out hysterical and bogus.

Posted by: edsdet at July 31, 2005 12:54 PM (ymlbU)

19 My reply is way to long ... just go here for it. http://jonathanandwanda.blogspot.com/2005/07/sadam-terror-ties-for-dummies.html

Posted by: Jonathan at July 31, 2005 01:07 PM (M7kiy)

20 What Guantanamo abuses are you people talking about? The only abuse I see is what our soldiers have to take from these thugs they are guarding down there. Of course, the propaganda put out by Carter, a useful idiot if there ever was one, has definitely given the jihadis all the ammunition they need to promote their cause. Al-Jeezera and all the other Arab propaganda outlets promote the jihad agenda by the hour. CNN and other US outlets give aid and comfort to jihad tv by reporting minor abuses as if it is torture. They then turn around and glorify these thugs who are chopping people's heads off. Day after day, hour after hour, the jihad TV networks report the alleged abuse of Arabs and Muslims, but never report the terror, murder, and general mayhem committed by these people in Iraq, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Phillipines, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Britain, Denmark, and many other places in the World. Religion of Peace my ass. You useful idiots on the left have an agenda also. You really hate the US and want it to fail. That's ok with me, you just ought to have the guts to say it.

Posted by: jesusland joe at July 31, 2005 01:09 PM (DDXXI)

21 Jimmy Carter is the original hugs not guns President. The list of his failures looks like a French History lesson. His experiences in the Navy predate his experiences from the time he found God and was saved. WW2 Jimmy was more likely to nuke someone than the religous sellout who became president. He failed to become Gov of Georgia, until he began lying to the blacks in the south about his anti-racism beliefs. He used the blacks in Georgia to gain office, and then drove the state into debt to create the new Georgia order. Fortunately, we all recovered, and are now on a true path that has achieved equality. He is blind and unworthy of a place in the worlld forum. The fact he was able to broker the peace between Isreal and Egypt only shows how desperately the two countries wanted it to begin with. He shames us in Georgia with his back stabbing rhetoric, and will only truley serve his country best wne he meets his maker.

Posted by: Kstumpf at July 31, 2005 03:18 PM (1hq2l)

22 Mr. Carter, what foreign policy injustice of your Administration was responsible for the seizing of Americans in Tehran in 1979?

Posted by: Gordon at July 31, 2005 03:34 PM (dEFhD)

23 Pete Fischer has an execellent commentary, here is a snippet http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fisher/050731 But what terrorists love are Liberals who side with them against their own nation and call for talks and peace. Because they know it gives them more time to plan, more time to amass weapons of destruction, and more time to catch them off guard. After all, the last time we had a spineless president; it gave the terrorist world 444 days to gain face in their own dark world for having bought the USA shame by kidnapping our citizens. Take your little grudge and use that anger to do something constructive, but leave the protection of this nation to those who have the will and the backbone to do just that. We have little patience for criticism from someone who failed to live up to his own oath of office. It is not action that incites these monsters, it is the inaction that emboldens them to continue striking while they hope and pray another Liberal will get into office and "talk" long enough for them to become stronger for their next strike.

Posted by: traderrob at July 31, 2005 04:04 PM (3al54)

24 Exactly. The peoples and culture of that region respect backbone. Cowardess acts (or non-actions) as were done under the Clinton administration are what led to them being emboldened to act as they have towards the US over the past years ... beginning with the first trade center bombing when Clinton did nothing about it.

Posted by: Jonathan at July 31, 2005 04:27 PM (M7kiy)

25 So, Bush attacking the wrong country and stirring up a hornest nest is better than what Clinton did? Are those troops dying in Iraq 'protecting and serving' the Constitution? No president is perfect (especially Carter). They are all flawed and all served by petty, ambitious, backstabbing bastards. Some of you need to remember this in your current hero worship.

Posted by: Adam at July 31, 2005 04:55 PM (5DbtM)

26 Adam, wake up! I'm not worshiping Bush or any other president. What I see is a group of people(Islamists, jihadis, Islamofacists, fundamentalists,etc.) who want to take us back to the Dark Ages(literally). There are only a few leaders in the world(Bush, Blair, and the chap in Australia) who are willing to take these people on. Bush is hardly perfect, but I honestly believe he is trying to turn the tide in the Middle East to democracy. It is the only chance we have to avert a catastrophe. I do not believe that the Arabs and Muslims will ever love us, but that is not what I wish for them. I want them to have the same chance that I have to raise a family, work hard and be rewarded for it, and to have a decent, safe place to live in. When they have this, I believe they will be too busy with the business of life to be suicide bombers and terrorists. What I do know is that the civilized world cannot afford to lose this fight in Iraq. Whether you agree on how we got there, the results of defeat would be too terrible to contemplate. Suffice it to say that the modern world would not be as we know it today.

Posted by: jesusland joe at July 31, 2005 05:22 PM (DDXXI)

27 Carter should stick to doing what he does best--nailing wood together.

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at August 01, 2005 09:12 AM (x+5JB)

28 Here is my 2 cents. The only reason Jimmy was elected President was due to timing and political party. The Democrats were destined to win the 1976 election due to the facts that the American people were fed up with the Republicans, (aka Watergate) who were a bunch of crooks (then and now). Now I do feel that Mr. Jimmy was one of the worst Presidents because not only did he give away the Panama canal, but he gave away our pride also. He made the United States look like a fool. As for the war in Iraq being legal or not, it is obviously legal. The U.S. Congress officially declared war on Iraq. (Unlike Korea or Vietnam.) Now was the war just? Yes, even forgetting about WMD and terrorist, Saddam refused to abide by the UN decisions forced upon him at the end of the first Gulf War. Those are the reason why this is a just war. As for Mr George W. being a traitor? No, I donÂ’t feel he is a traitor. He had the ok from the Congress to start the war. He has the right as CNC to order troops around. Now,I do feel he was an idiot for jumping the gun, and not waiting for all of our troops to be in positions before he started. But he at least did not give away our pride as Mr. Jimmy. Now do I like Mr. George W.? Far from it. I believe Cheney and him to be some of the biggest crooks in office. You can see them blatantly stealing from the US people. But I would have to say, if I had a choice between who I would want in office between Jimmy and Bush, I would have to go Bush.

Posted by: Butch at August 01, 2005 09:15 AM (Gqhi9)

29 Yeah. I saw a whole batch of Fishers stuff on the site you gave, http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fisher We need more people like him in this country. Voices like that need to be heard on tv. Be a blast to watch him banter with Hannity or Rush, huh?

Posted by: runovercamels at August 18, 2005 08:37 AM (6krEN)

Hide Comments | Add Comment

I now know Muslim women are hot and America is the greatest country in the world.

Taking a break from my writing/vacation duties I came across several Google Ads on my site that took me to a couple of Muslim Singles websites. Huzzah, I says to myself, what better way to get a fatwa than to say bad things about Muslim women? Victory is mine!

But in order to see what the chicks look like I had to register and upload a photo. No problem.

Married w/kids. Looking for mutÂ’ah wife [meaning wife for temporary enjoyment--ok in Shia teachings] to fulfill my needs while my wife is ha'rem [you know, OTR]. Must be faithful and willing to receive instruction and be disciplined [you know, I can slap you around if I want]. Must be at least 12 years older than Muhammed's (peace be upon his name) wife Aisha [Muhammed married a six year old.].

Raise her in an atmosphere of freedom. Give her rock and roll. Introduce her to a credit card and a shopping mall. Install cable TV with two MTVs and a VH1 station dedicated entirely to the 1980s. Then she transforms into this: more...

Posted by: Rusty at 02:51 PM | Comments (12) | Add Comment
Post contains 676 words, total size 6 kb.

So you managed to get Mr. Graham fired from his talk radio job.

Whoop de doo dah.

Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.

Despite your pathetic attempts, one simple fact remains.

You are the followers of the bloodiest "religion" ever to befoul planet Earth. Your holy book reads more like H.P. Lovecraft than anything else.

The prophet you exalt, Mohammed (Pig blood be upon his name) was a pedophile. He married, and had sex with, a 9 year old girl. Your prophet, Mohammed (Dog poop be upon his name) was also a pimp. Bet you didn't think that we'd find out what muta'a was, did you? Your prophet, Mohammed, when he was proselytizing (something Christians are executed for in your home countries) was considered a nutcase in his time.

This from my private email from one who knows:

When Muhammad
first got "touched" by Gabriel and was walking around
Mecca denigrating everyone's religion in Allah's name
(that's how Islam has been since the beginning), the
Meccan polytheists would diss him by calling him
"mudhammam," a play on his name which means
"reprobate, miscreant, lowlife," etc. Nice, huh? I
learned that in his biography (written 150± years
after his death), "Sirat Rasul Allah," by Ibn Ishaq
(ed. Ibn Hisham). Highly recommended book.

You don't have a religion, CAIR, you have a death cult. You don't like it? Tough shit. You had Yahweh, Christ, and even Buddha. You chose to follow Mohammed (gratuitous phlegm be upon him).

Bring it on, bitches, you'll still lose.

Posted by: Vinnie at 03:26 AM | Comments (12) | Add Comment
Post contains 265 words, total size 2 kb.

By Demosophist

I've never been convinced that the problem we confront with Totalitarianism 3.x is Islam, though there are certainly one or two mountains that need climbing for the people of the Ummah. There are, for instance, cultural reasons why most Muslims have a habit of avoiding statements that might put them at odds with other believers, even when there's deep disagreement. Tarek Heggy, a courageous Egyptian Muslim, satirizes this cultural duplicity by adopting an obvious artifice: "It is not I who criticizes and raises uncomfortable questions about the Ummah and its people, but my eccentric friend." Although an "inside joke," the purpose is far from humorous. If you haven't yet read Heggy's excellent series on Winds of Change that oversight can be easily corrected:

Thus Spoke My Eccentric Friend (1/5): Dreams of the Arabs
Thus Spoke My Eccentric Friend (2/5): A Word in the Palestinian Ear
Thus Spoke My Eccentric Friend (3/5): Rejecting Progress
Thus Spoke My Eccentric Friend (4/5): MI-6's Intelligence Failure
Thus Spoke My Eccentric Friend (5/5): What's in a Name?

(Cross-posted by Demosophist to Demosophia and Anticipatory Retaliation)

Posted by: Demosophist at 09:30 PM | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 194 words, total size 2 kb.

Dave of Garfield Ridge calls a short "educational" film he links to the most surreal film ever. It's that for sure, plus revolting (and NSFW due to shouted euphemisms for "wiener"): it's Planned Parenthood's take on how to educate the mentally handicapped about sex--from ugly-plaid-and-geeko-glasses 1975.

Other revolting things, besides the ones Dave mentions:

The idiot whistling and strumming soundtrack, like the gibbering voice of Azathoth across the cold void of space.

The bleached-out Poop-o-color print that all cheap-ass educational films and filmstrips seemed to come in. The IMDB entry says it was filmed in color--Yeah, it's in color: brown. Except for the twin black abysses of skeevy-looking narrator Richard Dix's pupils. Had the color just leached out of the film by the early 80's when I saw these things? No not this specific one, doofus, but films like this: Death Zones! (scroll down)

The funny thing is things really did look kinda colorless in the 1970's, according to my memories of that time which are, like most of America's, kinda hazy. (I have a good excuse.)

The vacuous nitrous-oxide smile on the face of the mom who catches her impaired son en flagrante and wishes him well. I've had a cult member try to recruit me and she was wearing that same beatific lobotomized smile the whole time.

The horrendous moral relativism of the 1970's and Planned Parenthood in particular...no values! Don't teach them any values! There are too many values out there already! You'll just confuse them! (Some things never change.)

Actually I'm surprised Planned Parenthood, given their eugenics-movement roots, didn't advocate a stricter control over the reproductive functions of the mentally handicapped.

How did our nation survive those dark times?

Posted by: seedubya at 08:01 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 289 words, total size 2 kb.

Have an interesting post? Just link to this post and send us a trackback and we will issue a fatwa against you. A lot of people keep sending me stuff not realizing that I'm on vacation. Here's your chance to participate without me having to do any actual, you know, work. more...

Posted by: Rusty at 05:46 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
Post contains 80 words, total size 1 kb.

Punk's not dead, oh no! Hat tip Professor Chaos. Any other Jawa authors should feel free to post their results here. I have a feeling we're a regular Breakfast Club of bloggers.

More below the fold. more...

Posted by: Rusty at 05:30 PM | Comments (18) | Add Comment
Post contains 124 words, total size 5 kb.

Chapter Eight of 'Brother Against Brother' is up at Euphoric Reality. I am not just posting their links because they purchased an ad or because I am friends with both writers, but the story is intriguing.

A quick summation is in order for those just tuning in. A team of special forces in Vietnam fought off an insurmountable number of NVA while the base was hesitating to bring in reinforcements. The men who survived though have been attacked by a fellow Vietnam Veteran who has accused the group of war crimes. The authors of Euphoric Reality, who were first contacted by the accusers, have painstakingly done their research into this story and found out the accusers have no leg to stand on.

The entire 'Brother Against Brother' episode is a lesson in why we should honor our heroes and why we as critical-thinking adults should look past what is told to us. Do yourself a favor and start from Chapter One if you have not done so already.

Posted by: Chad at 04:41 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment
Post contains 174 words, total size 1 kb.

These are my notes on today's sweep for the suspects in the July 21 failed terror bombings. All four prime suspects are believed to now be in custody. Of note is that police believe there may be a fifth bomber because a fifth device was found in a rucksack dumped on open ground at Little Wormwood Scrubs.

Here's a brief status of the investigation:

- SWAT teams in dramatic raids at several W. London locations with no reports of shots fired

- Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, arrested today in London for attempting to blow up the Number 26 bus in Shoreditch

- Ramsi Mohammed (possible alias) arrested today in London for attempting to bomb Tube near Oval

- Hussain Osman (aka Osman Hussain), 27, Somali-born naturalized Brit, was arrested today in Rome for attempting to bomb Tube at Shepherd's Bush

- Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, arrested in Birmingham last week for attempting to bomb Tube near Warren St.

- Two unnamed women were pinned to the ground and arrested today at Liverpool Street Station in London. Both were described as dark-skinned, 20-ish, Muslims with full headscarves. One woman ran when police asked to see inside the bag she carried.

- Total terror suspects currently in custody at 20.

Companion post at Interested-Participant.

Posted by: Mike Pechar at 03:54 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
Post contains 221 words, total size 2 kb.

Keith Olbermann has "discredited" the Osama-poisoned-my-cocaine-and-all-I-got-is-this lousy-T-shirt theory that we hashed out (snicker) a couple days ago. And if Keith Olbermann says it, you can put in the bank and slap your mama.

I pretty much peed on this story this three days ago. Can I have a damn show on MSNBC now?

I say pretty much because while I'm 99% sure this didn't happen, there is always that crazy one percent possibilty of just really crazy, entropic stuff going down. And there's maybe a two percent chance that something vaguely related to this happened--Hezbollah was busted with their own coke ring in South and North America, remember--and got distorted and passed along to the DEA through intelligence channels. Or perhaps through an arrested Colombian desperate to save himself from prosecution and making up crazy crap to string the feds along.

Wouldn't be the first time that happened. You guys ever heard of the "Dark Horizons" story? Basically, a busted Nicaraguan coke dealer in San Francisco claimed he was running coke for the contras and was under CIA protection. It blew up into this whole big deal and was promptly shown to be screwy...debunked by an independent commission. Then the reporter who broke the story was fired and later shot himself. That doesn't stop this story from remaining an article of faith among the conspiratorial left who are grasping at straw men for reasons to hate our country.

What's irritating to me, though, is the way Olbermann "debunks" this. More below the jump: more...

Posted by: seedubya at 03:03 PM | Comments (11) | Add Comment
Post contains 550 words, total size 4 kb.

First off, the issue here isn't about Christians, as much as what's become a tool of the MSM to propagate liberal views and liberal appeasement of Islamists, to the detriment of the continued existence of the American way of life. And of course it's not just against Christians, but our very civilization, it's just that Christians have become the MSM's favorite target as the so-called professional journalists do their utmost to facilitate the Islamization of America! Silence the Christians (the Sunday people) and the door is open for sharia and fullfilment of Islam's "Twenty year plan for America. "

As with most Christian Americans, I just can't help but notice the ongoing American press' love of Islam and it's embracement of everything anti-American and anti-military while allowing and promoting every deceitful feint of Islamic leaders to hide their true agenda - world domination and turning the White House into the Muslim House.

Today, an AP/CBS image in their hyped-up, dhimmi-article (which many Americans will get suckered into believing), "Muslim Scholars Condemn Terror," the AP and CBS made it over the top, insulting every American that ever fought(and those that are continuing to fight) for his/her country, and every American citizen that believes in freedom, tolerance, and our way of life.

[AP/CBS image - A 'Crescent and Stripes']

My very first thought when I saw the above treasonous image, what Clarity and Resolve refers to as the "new and improved Islamic American flag (with optional prostrated Muslim everyman in Western attire and Kufi skull cap), courtesy of al-Sociated Press/CBS," were the words, "FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS." (notice the Muslim encouragement of repealing our right to bear arms so we're defenseless should they feel the need for their jihad to turn violent or so their terrorists don't have John Q to deal with)

The AP and CBS, the so-called professional journalists, really got suckered into this fatwah thing, a fatwa issued by none other than the Fiqh Council of North America, headed by Muzammil Siddiqi, past-president of the Islamic Society of North America. As it's head, Siddiqi has advised American Muslims to participate in the political system - BUT ONLY IN ORDER TO CHANGE AMERICA INTO A MUSLIM COUNTRY... AND WE MUST NOT FORGET THAT ALLAH'S RULES HAVE TO BE ESTABLISHED IN ALL LANDS, AND ALL OUR EFFORTS SHOULD LEAD TO THAT DIRECTION (Infiltration, p 21., Nelson Current 2005). [much more to come on this and al-taqiyya in future posts]

Aside from the 'professionals' getting suckered, which I took no pleasure in, seeing the AP/CBS image symbolizing the defeat of America by Islamofascism, invoked a deep sense of disqust, and made me think of two images of my own that represent the exact opposite of what the AP and CBS have in mind for America:

For the benefit of the AP and CBS, THE ABOVE IMAGE IS THE TRUE AMERICAN FLAG - AND THERE IS NO MUSLIM ON IT AND THERE IS NO CRESENT WHERE OUR STATES ARE SYMBOLIZED.

As the AP/CBS image appears in print and online - the guys in the below image, and thousands like them, are fighting for the right and freedom of the AP, CBS, and the rest of the Islamofascist-supporting, Islamist-appeasing, ostrich-imitating American press to continue helping our enemy, the moderate-pretending Muslims and the Islamist agenda, to throw sand in our eye as they continue, with the help of the MSM, their ongoing culture and publicity war supporting the Islamication of our country, to the detriment of the religious freedoms of non-Muslims everywhere:

In the above image, two of our very special troops doing a very special job are risking their lives multiple time a day (I know this for a fact because I speak to the guy on the right with the rifle - several times a week), to bring a halt to the spread of Islamofascism around the world - while the likes of the AP, CBS, and the rest of the liberal MSM continue their own special assault against the very foundations upon which our nation was built. more...

Posted by: Richard@hyscience at 02:05 PM | Comments (20) | Add Comment
Post contains 1472 words, total size 12 kb.

I got home in time last night in time to catch some of Jim LehrerÂ’s interview with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. I must say Condi was much better than in other recent interviews IÂ’ve seen. That incident in Sudan the other day seems to have built a fire under her. She appeared relaxed and ready to move forward. Gone was the tired expression and canned answers. She looked refreshed. Pretty good interview especially the subject of GWT. Look out Hillary this may be the first lady President of the USA. SheÂ’s got you beaten by a mile.

When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill. And they want to kill in the name of a perverted ideology that really is not Islam, but they somehow want to claim that mantle to say that this is about some kind of grievance. This isn't about some kind of grievance. This is an effort to destroy, rather than to build.

I think IÂ’m in love. You go Condi. She even talks about the Bolton nomination and I detect that she is not Mr. BoltonÂ’s biggest supporter although she does give the polite answer considering her position. There's lots more at the above link.

Well, that's unfortunate and we -- what we can't be is without leadership at the United Nations. I can tell you, Jim, that I'm spending an awful lot of time these days preparing for the high-level meetings that are going to take place in September where all of the world's leaders are going to be here to talk about refreshing the United Nations after 60 years.
The United States needs to be active in that and we have a good team at the UN, but we need our permanent representative to the United Nations.

A quick review of Mr. BoltonÂ’s problems.

Although the split has largely been along party lines, one Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio, has joined Democrats in opposing Bolton's nomination.

Ed at Captains Quarters has more.

IÂ’ve got to say IÂ’m with Captain Ed. While Bolton is the right type of person IÂ’m not sure he is the right person for this position. The perception of him is that he is a jerk. I would hate to see all CondiÂ’s hard work ruined by this guy. IÂ’m pretty sure the President will stick with him. So Mr. Bolton should withdraw himself. I donÂ’t think he can or will be productive in that position. For sure abroad people have a bad perception of him. We need a strong personality there but IÂ’m pretty sure he is not it. My party should not waste political capital on this, is a mistake. Mr. Bolton is a loose-loose for my party and for America. A recess appointment will get the President what he wants but will also enforce the bad perceptions that this Casey Jones run we are on created. Maybe Trade him for Roberts would be good. We also have to consider that appointing this guy on a recess appointment will make the Roberts nonination that much harder. Which is more important?

Hat tip Omnipundit:

Actually I started this in the am until events took over.

Posted by: Howie at 01:28 PM | Comments (17) | Add Comment
Post contains 556 words, total size 4 kb.

You've heard of someone having a conniption.....well if you've never seen one keep your eyes peeled because you're about to see several from the likes of Reid, Kennedy, Durbin, Schumer, Clinton, Pelosi and others.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) The White House gave its strongest signal yet on Friday that President Bush will soon bypass the Senate and appoint John Bolton to become the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Senate Democrats have stalled the nomination of Bolton, a favorite of conservatives, over accusations he tried to manipulate intelligence and intimidated intelligence analysts to support his hawkish views while the top U.S. diplomat for arms control.

Bush can bypass the Senate and give Bolton a "recess appointment" when the Senate begins its August recess this weekend. Bolton would be able to serve until January 2007, when a new Congress is sworn in.

Asked about the possibility of a recess appointment for Bolton, White House spokesman Scott McClellan gave a strong hint.
"We do need a permanent representative at the United Nations. This is a critical time and it's important to continue moving forward on comprehensive reform," McClellan said.

Companion OpiniPundit

Posted by: Traderrob at 12:42 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
Post contains 201 words, total size 1 kb.