. Seriously. And by
. Despite the fact that every bone in my body says, "Blog on Natalee Holloway, because of the hits, man, THINK ABOUT THE HITS!" I just can't bring myself to do it.
Ok. Got that out of my system. Now, where was I? Oh, yeah. Hey Dan, Red, or Tom, how about throwing us a link............
My own cause and niche are American hostages still in Iraq. And Red, Tom, Dan Riehl are right: bloggers like us have made contacts and have sources that the MSM are oblivious to. My posts on these hostages and their posts on whats-her-name in Aruba a case in point.
Anyway, my criticism still applies to the MSM. Yes, the Halloway story is important to some people--those in Aruba, in Alabama, or among those who knew Natalee personally. Very important. But why is it on all three news 24 hr news networks every day? This story is not worthy of being in national headlines for weeks. It is worthy of bloggers and local news outlets, but certainly not the national news.
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Come on now. This is a sure sign that we're winning the war. The media is in a feeding frenzy over the disappearance in Aruba (gee, can I get media credentials to go cover that story?!), sharks are attacking people (can you hear the theme from Jaws playing in the background? I knew you could), and no one is paying attention to the real problems of the day.
Exactly like what was ongoing on 9/10/01 (Chandra Levy, shark attacks, and blissful ignorance of militant Islam).
Posted by: lawhawk at June 29, 2005 10:07 AM (AcoYr)
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Some Bim from Bama gets herself pissy drunk and poked in the Whiskers by an uppity dutchman and it is 24/7 news. If she wasn't white with trashy make-up and reasonable boobies, we would never had heard of her.
She is probably crab meat now anyway.
Posted by: Filthy Allah at June 29, 2005 10:10 AM (yBHNA)
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Filthy, you have surpassed yourself with a lack of taste today.
Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at June 29, 2005 10:24 AM (x+5JB)
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Funny, her so called "friends" let her go off with this Dutchman and too dusky fellows and non go after her or offer to go with? What the F kind of friends are they then what??
All those so called pals of Natalie crying their crocodile tears for the friend they would not even bother stopping from leaving with native goofballs.
She is dead. She is crabmeat as Filthy Says. Get over it.
Posted by: Ob Snooks at June 29, 2005 10:34 AM (yBHNA)
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Good Point Snooks!
First off, any friend worth her salt should have and would have cockblocked the dutchman right off the bat faster than you can say Roofie. A real friend would have prevented Natalie Crabmeat from going with those dusky brutes let alone, a dirty dutchman.
Friends my ass.
Posted by: Filthy Allah at June 29, 2005 10:37 AM (yBHNA)
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I completely understand your point, Rusty, but (you knew there was a "but" coming, didn't you?) I get berated all the time by people who think I should have posted about something else when I post just about anything at all. As if I can't display concern for more than one thing at a time. Your posts mostly constitute events on the war or exposing terrorism in all its guises. This is the task you have selected to take on. Others have different priorities at different times.
I keep coming back here to get information and read links for exactly the reason you have taken on this task. That's what makes the blogosphere so great. Each person has a different idea of what's important
at that moment.
However, you, as an individual, probably sleep well at night knowing you are doing your part in countering the crap that passes as news for others. That's your "crusade", for lack of a better term. And you're more focused than most. But an occasional segue is not exactly a crime.
Posted by: Oyster at June 29, 2005 10:46 AM (fl6E1)
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I will tell you what, It will be a long time before I order the crab meat salad in any hotel in Aruba.
Posted by: Filthy Allah at June 29, 2005 10:48 AM (yBHNA)
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No, Filty's right, she and her friends exercised a decided lack of judgment that night, and she paid for it with her life. She was one of those perfect girls from a rich family who was destined for a good life, and decided she wanted to go be a whore for a week or so and then go back home where she was all sweetness and light, but it didn't work out like that. I'd lay even odds that she died sometime during the love-train, or has been sold as a sex slave in Columbia or Venezuela.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at June 29, 2005 11:00 AM (0yYS2)
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GET A LIFE PEOPLE AND QUIT SPEWING YOUR FILTY SCUMBAG LIES ! SHAME ! JERKS.....
Posted by: MARY at June 29, 2005 04:43 PM (hif5L)
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Rush made a great point this morning:
We got into Iraq, and then couldn't find the WMD, so obviously, the conventional wisdom says, THERE NEVER WERE ANY WMDs.
Well...
We have police and investigators swarming all over Aruba, which is a tiny little island, and no one can find Natalee Holloway. I guess that means THERE NEVER WAS A NATALEE HOLLOWAY!
Posted by: Gullyborg at June 29, 2005 04:58 PM (L+RaQ)
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ana,
terrible pictures indeed, but failure to stop at any military checkpoint in the world is going to lead to trouble.
5 U.S Soldiers killed in suicide bombing at roadside checkpoint in Tikrit:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/14/AR2005061400395.html
4 Iraqi national guard killed at checkpoint:
http://www2.chinadaily.com. cn/english/doc/2004-10/23/content_385093.htm
4 U.S soldiers killed at checkpoint in Najaf.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/bomb_03-29-03.html
16 people killed at checkpoint in Baghdad:
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/10/07/Worldandnation/Bomb_kills_16_at_chec.shtml
5 Iraqi soldiers killed at checkpoint suicide bomb:
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/061505/AP__B6N662TC.025.shtml
This is the problem when insurgents use tactics like these, because it means innocent civilians get killed when they fail to stop at a checkpoint, I read a comment on the site that soldiers could have stopped the car with shots through the engine block, seeing as most insurgents detonate the bombs themselves the normal method of stopping that is by killing the occupants.
It is the same with insurgents wearing civilian clothing and blending in with the general populace it means innocent people get shot, because soldiers are not willing to risk their life, or their fellow soldiers life on the chance of a misunderstanding when many people manning checkpoints have been killed by suicide bombers.
Posted by: dave at June 29, 2005 10:40 PM (fsJ2z)
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Dave thanks for these links - these are "not your normal news" and they must be shown. I do think that photo records such as the ones in the URL i sent earlier are fundamental. For what?
How can a president lead an entire nation to believe *his* rationale for the war after his lies about WMD, and his ficticious 9/11-Iraq connections .
I talk daily to several supposedley "informed" people that believe that indeed such a 9/11-Iraq link exists!
However I bet those same folks know precisely the latest developments in Natalee's case... Meaning that I completely agree with Rusty!!!Shark attacks, Natalees and fingers in chili are more important than the coverage of the war on *both* sides - more images like.
Posted by: ana at June 30, 2005 03:53 AM (siPLc)
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Thank Goodness others see this over-coverage
ad -nauseum for what it is....NOTHING! I am considering
cancelling cable "news" because if I want to read a rag I will buy national enquirer.
To CNN, MSNBC, FOX get some class and show viewers what we really need to see.
Small hick town gets on the map with this missing person, obnoxious mother with the most annoying voice ever, are attacking any poster on the SM and RW blogs, they are all small minded from small town narrow-minded idiots who are impressed because they are getting all this media attention.
Go and post something what they consider negative about their idol bethie and you will get lambasted. These are some sick small town hicks who are excited that they are finally in the limelight with their designer everything knockoffs, who may have a little more than most of the hicks in their state. Just please stop all the
media or you will LOSE a lot of viewers.
And to you small minded, narrowminded hicks on SM
get a life and get over yourselves, believe it or not majority of us could care less about BT the twit and her daughter!
Posted by: brooke at August 29, 2005 07:00 AM (x2QOL)
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