By Demosophist

There are still lots of mysteries associated with this so-called issue, including why there's an investigation without a crime in the first place, but the thing that has always stumped me was why the Bush Administration just didn't undermine "Yellow-cake Joe's" authenticity by pointing out that his report said just about the opposite of what he was claiming in his NYT Op-ed, and on CNN. Well, it turns out the Administration couldn't have taken that direct route to clarity by referring to what was in his report, because he didn't write one. more...

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Ah yes what to post today. Well cool It looks like that has been taken care of by our good friends around the blogosphere. Thanks guys.

Elisa at Boxer Watch sends us these.

As we noted in this post, Senator Boxer is circulating a petition demanding a "strategy" and a "timetable" for the mission in Iraq. At the time of this posting, 35,352 people have signed her petition.

We need to make sure that President Bush hears the OTHER side - our support for his efforts to promote democracy in the Middle East in a realistic way.

We have posted a petition at PetitionOnline.com - you'll find it here

Romeodelta sends us this tidbit on the Germany releasing yet another terrorist

His post is based on this AP story.

Indeed one of my favorite words is now off limits. Gee hope I donÂ’t have to cough up 5 GÂ’s for that. Well like they can get blood from a turnip anyway.

Thanks to Glen Reynolds for his one.

Also President Bush will Announce Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement at 9:00pm EDT.

I think she will be confirmed easily.

Updated:

I've noticed people commenting on old threads a lot lately. Check out this one

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(North Union Township, Pennsylvania) A local youth baseball coach was arrested and charged with bribing one of his boys to intentionally throw at an autistic player.

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Eric Forsythe, who heads the R.W. Clark Youth Baseball League in North Union Township, said he was shocked when Mark Downs Jr., 27, of Dunbar was charged last Friday with bribing player Keith Reese, 7, with $25 to hit teammate Harry Bowers Jr., 9, in the face with a baseball to keep him from playing.

When hitting Bowers in the ear with a ball didn't keep him off the field, he intentionally hit him in the groin with another throw, state police charged.

If the allegations prove true, Downs obviously doesn't possess the moral and ethical qualities suited for leading youngsters and it's beyond me what he could have been thinking.

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(Tampa, Florida) We have fresh news regarding teacher Debra Lafave, the stunning 24-year-old who mixed it up with a 14-year-old student. At a hearing yesterday, it was announced that plea negotiations broke down and Lafave is scheduled to be tried in December. Her lawyer indicates that she will plead insanity.

Companion post with new pic at Interested-Participant.

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A Congressman shows his nads.

The Kossacks go all sissy over it.

So I ask the Jawa faithful, after reading the above, what should we do if a single, or multiple WMD attack occurred in the U.S.?

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Something both sides of the political spectrum can agree on.

This is disgusting.

(in the interest of full disclosure, I feel compelled to inform you that the Merri of Merri Musings is, unfortunately for her, my wife)

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Have an interesting post? Want the Shura Council of the Queer Mujahadin Foo Fighters to issue a fatwa? Then link your most fatwa worthy post to this one and we will dispatch the Chris Byrne-Salmon Rushdie annhialation squad to get you! Blasphemy is still a crime on Tatooine.

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Carnival of the Liberty #3 is up.

Check it out!

Calm down, greg, it's the Carnival of LiberTY, not LiberAL, you probably wouldn't like it.

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I'll be back. In the meantime.... more...

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The winner of the Blog Sabbath Caption Contest is....

Greg! (no wait, sorry, wrong paper, that's the Blog Sabbath Conspiracy Theory Contest for next week...ah here it is)

The winner is...

Russ, for ""Iron Chef French... Iron Chef English... Allez cuisine!""
(watch The Iron Chef on the Food Network...you'll get it)

Honorable mention:

Lakebear with:
"He closed his eyes and lost himself in the smell of brie and kippers."

AJ Strata for:
"Will you two whiney Europeans PLEASE SHUT UP!"

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Remember the gut wrenching speech by Dick (The Turbin) Durbin

Military investigators did not substantiate major charges of prisoner abuse contained in one FBI agent's e-mail that was read on the Senate floor by Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin as an example of U.S.-sanctioned torture at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The unnamed FBI agent wrote that she saw one al Qaeda suspect lying in his own excrement, that he had pulled out his own hair and that he had no food and water. The female agent also said he was shackled to the floor and subjected to loud rock music and to extreme temperatures.

Mr. Durbin, of Illinois and the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, read the e-mail June 14 in a speech attacking the Bush administration. He then likened Guantanamo interrogation techniques to the Nazis, Josef Stalin's prisoner gulag, Pol Pot and the internment of Japanese during World War II. He later issued an apology on the Senate floor.

That investigation was completed last week by Air Force Lt. Gen. Randall M. Schmidt, who commands the 12th Air Force, the air component of U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the 520-inmate prison at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo.

Gen. Schmidt wrote in his report, "Another FBI agent stated she witnessed a detainee short shackled and lying in his own excrement. The [investigation] was unable to find any documentation, testimony, or other evidence corroborating the third agent's recollection to this allegation or her e-mail allegation that one of the detainees had pulled his hair out while short shackled."

His statements were widely quoted by the Arab media including al-Jazeera. That is appropriate considering that both parties would be equally as likely to give America the benefit of the doubt.

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Who was responsible for killing 32 Iraqi children lined up to get candy from members of the United States military? Al Qaida in Iraq claims they were not at fault. Al Jazeera* has found out who is responsible; the United States military (via Ace).

Iraqi experts are saying that the recent car bomb that killed some 18 children was not the work of the anti-occupation fighters but of the U.S. occupation troops.

A traffic lieutenant who asked not to be identified said to a media source that U.S. solders crazily raced out of the street less than a minute before the explosion and that after the blast they did not return to the bomb scene but continued to hurry out of the area.

Yes, the United States military drove a car into a crowded pack of children and right next to other United States soldiers to detonate an explosive. Instead of yelling out "Allah Akhbar" they yelled "Git'r'done!"

Perhaps the soldiers were tyring to secure the perimeter or they were wary of a second attack as has been the case on several occassions? Nah, for Al Jazeera* it's better to go ahead and print conspiracy theories as truth only when that conspiracy theory damages the enemy. Logic need not apply.

*As alerted by The Commissar, Aljazeera.com is not the same as Al Jazeera the Arab media station.

Cross-posted at ITB

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A new report from Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) bluntly accuses British intelligence and counter-terrorist organizations of knowingly allowing Middle Eastern terrorist groups to operate freely within the United Kingdom. It directly contradicts statements made earlier by Lord Chancellor Charles Falconer and characterizes the UK as a base for international terrorism:

By the mid-1990s the UK's intelligence agencies and the police were well aware that London was increasingly being used as a base by individuals involved in promoting, funding and planning terrorism in the Middle East and elsewhere. However, these individuals were not viewed as a threat to the UK's national security, and so they were left to continue their activities with relative impunity, a policy which caused much anger among the foreign governments concerned. As a result of giving lower priority to international terrorism, the British authorities did not fully appreciate the threat from Al-Qaeda. The failure to gain any warning from existing information of the 9/11 attacks on the United States was an intelligence failure of the entire Western alliance, not only of the US intelligence community.

Cross-posted at The Dread Pundit Bluto, who apologizes in advance for any typographical eccentricities (first time using Movable Type).
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Stunning you say, absolutely stunning. It can't be true, not THAT Abdurahman Alamoudi, the man who "portrayed himself as a “moderate Muslim” who served as a liaison between the U.S. government and American Muslims for two decades.

You can't possibly believe that a founder of the American Muslim Council (AMC), a Wahabi front, who played a key role in developing the Pentagon's Muslim chaplain program, who represented the State Department and attended meetings at the White House spanning two administrations, could possibly be an al Qaeda sympathizer and a terrorist.

However, on the other hand, remember what President George Bush said on November 21, 2001:

"If you harbor terrorists, you are terrorists. If you train or arm a terrorist, you are a terrorist. If you feed a terrorist or fund a terrorist, you're a terrorist, and you will be held accountable by the United States and our friends."

Well, I choose to believe that moderate Muslims do exist but that many apparently moderate Muslims choose to live a life of subterfuge in order to further the radical Islamic agenda, and that those Muslims, are not moderates but are indeed terrorists living among us who have and continue to attempt to, infiltrate our government and subvert our laws and culture to facilitate the establishment of Islamic law in the U.S.. A fabrication you say! Lets look at some facts:

First of all, the Northeast Intelligence Network, in it's article on the Almoudi revelation, writes:

(...) Pioneers in the research and investigation of Islamic terrorism such as Steve Emerson, Daniel Pipes, Bruce Tefft and others exposed the true nature of the “moderate” Alamoudi long before his arrest in September 2003 on multiple terrorism related financing charges. Convicted in 2004, the most recent allegation of Abdurahman Alamoudi raising money for al Qaeda while rubbing elbows with the Washington elite continues to boggle the mind of any reasonable person as it well should.

But it's a fluke you say, just a fluke. A rare bad apple in the batch. I say that's nonsense! more...

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All is not right in the world. And on that note, exit stage right.......... more...

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Well itÂ’s Sunday again. IÂ’ve said before that I will do a Sunday thing so now I have to live up to that. First of all Howie is pretty much pooped. So bear with me I debated doing a post or not but I said I would so here goes.

Not too far off on my 7/3 Sunday entry it was Thursday instead of Tuesday. Lucky guess huh? Been looking around the news outlets and the blogoshere this week. Pretty dull if you aren’t interested in “The Rove Affair”. Just what are they trying to drown out? Well it turns out quite a bit of good news in the world this week. The terrorists are on an all out blitz. See suddenly now the shoe is on the other foot. For a bit there it seemed that we were shooting ourselves in the foot every week. Mr. Murphy has gone over to the terrorist’s side for a bit. I’m sure he’ll be back now and then. I read yesterday of a push by the terrorists to take Baghdad. Every attack they kill like one or two soldiers and 20 to 50 Iraqi’s. Time is showing them for what they are. They now know they cannot win the political war and are resorting to trying to win now win big. The tool of terrorism has become a lead weight on their necks. That’s it boys shoot yourselves in the foot some more. Heck, even a Nigerian email scammer got time this week. Can there be any doubt.

I would not want to downplay the real feeling I had this week about a downhill run here. But a cornered animal is the most dangerous. The enemy has run himself into a corner and now people everywhere are starting to turn against him. Britain is going to become more active, Muslims themselves are turning away from bombing innocents to a certain extent knowing the evil is just too obvious to deny any longer. Yes a good battle for the hearts and minds this week. We've won that one this month so far. Feels good. I see President Bush is allowing aid Directly to Palestine and they are right now being tested to see if they can make it work. Things have been going well there and terrorist groups who get their power from the conflict are trying to stop it. Israel is also stepping up its pressure. I hope the Palestinian Authority can prevail here the wind seems right. My fear is that too much Israeli pressure plays into the terroristÂ’s strategy.

Got some links & stuff IÂ’ve saved up for a few days. Good and bad mostly good news followed by the terrorist shooting themselves in the foot again trying to take it back. DonÂ’t let them.

A good essay on Marketplace that IÂ’ve got to listen to again and learn more about by Stanford Unger. Some freedom of speech issues there to look into.

Also IÂ’ve been catching a good portion of 102 Minutes a book about the 9/11 hijackings that is so far pretty good. Still plenty left on Radio Reader. WKMS does streaming IÂ’m not sure how many steams they can do. The show airs weekdays at 6:30 CDT. Good book.

A fine example of how the world is getting harder for the enemy. Yes they are falling out of fashion because now at long last even our oldest and most fickle ally France yes can you believe it France is getting on board.

USS Neverdock has more on that one.

Yes Muslims too.

The economy is on the mend and dong well as is the Federal Deficit. Definitely not as fun as the Rove thing but vastly more important.

From my Illinois Republican newsletter.

"DEFICIT FALLING. The White House reported this week that the deficit is falling and will continue to fall due to strong economic policy, which has generated much higher than expected tax revenues. As a result, this year's budget will fall to $333 billion which is $79 billion less than in 2004 and $94 billion less than forecasted by the Bush Administration in February. The White House now expects the deficit to decline to 1.1% of gross domestic product by 2009. Currently it sits at 2.7% of GDP (RNC Research 7/15/05)"

What does our enemy think about all this. Well they are really pushing. Up to 10 car bombs in one day. One attack I read of had two US dead and twenty innocents. They are letting off bombs like there is no tomorrow. I can see why. He has to win now and canÂ’t. So you are going to see more stories like this one from fear mongers ABCNEWS.
The Sadam Charges are OK but the Iraq bombing summary is pretty rough.

Also worth worrying about this week is Dictator Hugo Chavez. He has recently imported millions of guns for his military while at the same time moving to take them from citizens. This guy is consolidating power. Here you go YBP IÂ’m sure youÂ’re intrested.

"Venezuela's highest Catholic prelate on Sunday condemned President Hugo Chavez's rule as a dictatorship and urged Venezuelans to reject it in an attack likely to strain already poor church-government ties."

IÂ’ll be out Monday so guest posters are welcome as Rusty indicated. With my Master absent I can use all the help I can get. IÂ’ll be available by email this week. And you guys behave Mad Dog is watching. IÂ’m such a push over and he isnÂ’t. Have a great week IÂ’ll be back now and then and on Wednesday. With Rusty out IÂ’ll try and keep an eye on things. Time for a glass of that fine wine I made. Yes the little woman and I are going to have a glass.

I shall not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Yes guys feel free to add to that one in comments. Be good.

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What he said.

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I'm leaving for my home-town of Los Angeles in two days. Don't know if I'll be blogging for the next three weeks. Maybe a post here and there. Maybe not. A lot depends on how much of my manuscript gets written. Schtoopid editors and their demands...

Anyhoo, I'll be mostly in the San Gabriel Valley and the occasional day spent with the homies in South Central. E-mail me if you want to get together for lunch or something.

Other than the personal type e-mails don't expect a response from me. If you want a post plugged I'll refer you to the care of my co-authors/guest-posters/biyatches who can be contacted here. Any one else who want to guest post let me know. Into their hands I have commited the keys of the kingdom

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I've insulted, desecrated, blasphemed, begged, and pleaded for a fatwa for well-over a year now and how do the Islamofascist pigs pay me back? By giving this guy a fatwa!! I am soooo jealous of Chris Byrne of The Anarchangel blog. The FBI contacted him a couple of days ago and told him they had credible evidence of a plot against his life made on Arabic websites. In the next post he warns whatever misunderstanderer of the RoP that had issued the fatwa that he owns a gun and will use it (picture of said gun here). In this post he reveals that the FBI told him that it was a Palestinian terrorist organization in Europe that had targetted him for Team Infidel's Koran desecration work.

This is my kinda guy! How come I'm not on your blogroll, man? It would be kinda like getting a fatwa by association or something. And as the proud owner of the Flush the Koran blog and the originator of the Karnival of the Koran Krapping let me say how disappointed I am that no one invited me to join Team Infidel!! For that, I issue a fatwa on you Chris Byrne. A fatwa on all of you Team Infidel!!

Hat tip: Gaijin Biker, Ryan, and David Gulliver for caring enough about my fatwa obsession to e-mail me this.

On a related note I just received the following e-mail from CAIR. It looks like it will be another 8-10 weeks before I can desecrate the Koran again...... more...

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1 There's your problem, Rusty. The Quran is only considered "holy" if it is printed in Arabic, as were the ones that Byrne and crew demolished. As soon as the Quran is translated, it ceases to be the "word of Allah", which, of course, begs the question, "what kind of dimestore 'god' speaks only one language?"

Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at July 17, 2005 04:28 PM (RHG+K)

2 Quite so... get an Arabic one, or it doesn't count.

Posted by: Kathy K at July 17, 2005 05:03 PM (PD84x)

3 he sure is armed to the teeth....daym, all he needs is a bazooka and some claymores and he is set....i wish him good hunting

Posted by: THANOS35 at July 17, 2005 05:30 PM (5sR9u)

4 I brought a Arabic Qur'ran back from my time in the Middle East. The people I gave to as a gift found it be a perfect support for the lower shelf of their coffee table!

Posted by: Marcus Aurelius at July 17, 2005 06:33 PM (mQTvx)

5 They make good coasters too, and if you get the kind with the high quality paper where the pages are real thin, they make good TP.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 17, 2005 08:50 PM (0yYS2)

6 Despite what the other commenters have said...I think you got hosed, Rusty. Rip off!!!

Posted by: Feisty at July 17, 2005 10:19 PM (QBrm4)

7 "You was robbed!!"

Posted by: CDR Salamander at July 18, 2005 10:49 AM (PJ4Iq)

8 Maybe someday the terrorists can learn to hate me too? Maybe, in time. Maybe, in time.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at July 18, 2005 12:10 PM (JQjhA)

9 Good Service

Posted by: Frank Johnson at July 18, 2005 11:52 PM (NMCqV)

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Apologies to the Lord of Moons (aka, Allah) for breaking my Sabbath commitment today but Tony Blair gave a speech yesterday that literally had my jaw dropping. My wife was stunned that I used a profanity, something I never do around the house, when I said something like, "Holy shit, Tony Blair is the first politician I've ever heard who actually gets it." And his speech was so close to something I had just written the day before that I can't help but think that Tony Blair, or one of his speechwriters, reads The Jawa Report.

Here is the text of the most honest and amazing speech I've heard from a politician since 9/11. Not only does it correctly identify the war as one not against terror but against an evil fascist ideology but was also given with courage and conviction. Tony Blair's speech, in my mind, is right up there with John F. Kennedy's innagural in which he warned "every nation...whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

Text of Blair's speech. Read it all: more...

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