We miss you, Gipper.

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From Mein Blogovault.

As opposed to real milestones like dually elected governments emerging from tyranny or terrorist leaders meeting their well-deserved ends, the media is trying to rescue its now lost "everything is bad for the GOP/America/Iraq" narrative by "reminding" people of things that they already are well aware of.

According to Lt. Smash, it looks like the Democrats are going to once again try to use the (apparent) significance of "two side-by-side zeroes" to formulate another negative headline and soundbytes to caterwaul around the media. The media, predictably, will be all too happy to oblige them since being knocked upside their collective skulls with the Rove non-indictment, the surging economy, the surprise and well-recieved trip into the warzone by the President and the death of a major (media hyped) al-Qaeda leader has left them a bit...off their game. And make no mistake - it is a game to the press.

None of these people (Democrats or press members) seem to be able, when pressed, to explain what exactly is so insignificant about fallen hero #2,499. Their emphasis on certain military deaths as headline-generators is sickening and sadly typical of a group of people who are more grounded in personal hatred of their political opponents than in the well-being and support of the nation's military.

And don't you dare question any of their "patriotism." Just don't, you massacre-covering, mass-murdering, cold-blooded fascist baby-killing, American-hegemonic-enabling monster. Speak truth to power instead. Right?

Their best attempt at discerning the "newsworthiness" of this number is that it (somehow) is a "psychologically" significant number. The fact that fallen hero #2,499 and #2,500 (or #2,501) are "different" in their minds is a point of contention to me and no doubt to many others. Both laid down their lives for their nation. Both have families that are no doubt grieving and dealing with the loss. But #2,500? That's a different story altogether! That's a "milestone."

It rather effectively supports the thesis that the media and that the Democrats do not really care about individual troops, their sacrifices or their accomplishments - so as long as we get to the next double-zero. Further evidence of this sickening obsession with evenly-rounded body counts comes from Common Dreams (a leftist Democrat supporting group), who chose to "commemorate" this "milestone" with a silent (oh, how reverent) anti-war/pro-surrender protest march. Rather than do something honorable, like perhaps laying a wreath at a memorial or raising money for slain troops families, they felt that making political and media-centric hey over the death of # 2500 is the right way to "honor" the memory of the fallen.

If that wasn't enough, the agit-prop brigade made "visuals" so that everyone can see how much these marchers "care" about the troops. These visuals included "banners, signs and flag-draped coffins." Actually, they aren't coffins. They are cardboard boxes created by puppeteers who think that street theater is going to stop the United States from pursuing Islamic terrorists worldwide.

Where will they be, however, when # 2,501 falls? I'll tell you where they'll be - right where they are right now. Home in their mothers' basements, bragging to their Kossak and FireDogLake minions while patting themselves on the back for a job well-done and a fun afternoon of "caring."

Support the troops - erradicate leftist agit-prop and troop smearing whenever confronted with it.

Also - Check out this DUmmie thread to verify that the nutroots do indeed follow the aforementioned pattern like Pavlovian dogs.

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Jae is a Filipina living in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is an ex-dancer who now models for a living. She is 5'3 and 96lbs. More here.

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What is going on with the Palestinians? First, they lost $450,000 in a hotel room. Then they were caught with $80,000 at a checkpoint. Now they have carried $22 million into the territories in 2 days in suitcases:

A Hamas government minister returned to the
Gaza Strip on Thursday with $2 million in his luggage for his money-starved government, a day after the foreign minister brought $20 million in cash into the coastal strip.

Security officials said Information Minister Yousef Rizka turned over the money to the Finance Ministry after crossing the border Thursday.

Fearing U.S. anti-terrorism sanctions, international banks have refused to allow Hamas to transfer money electronically to the Palestinian areas. In recent days, Hamas officials have taken matters into their own hands, physically carrying donations in their luggage.

Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar arrived with $20 million on Wednesday.

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A miraculous story from SportsPickle:

Moments after a slide tackle dropped him to the ground and left him writhing in pain with what seemed to be a broken femur or some other serious injury, Paraguayan midfielder Christian Riveros popped up and continued playing after referee Hans Kimmel failed to produce a yellow card.
“It’s amazing. I see it all the time in matches,” said Kimmel, a longtime referee. “I seem to have the power to heal serious injuries simply by deciding if the felled player was taken down legally or illegally. I can’t explain it, but I guess you could call me a miracle worker.”

I'm glad they got tough on this stuff a few years ago. The diving and whining and whinging is mostly absent from the English league but still happens in every Central and South American match I watch.

(What? Yeah, I'm American. You want me to watch Asian golf tournaments, 9-ball pool, and 90lb weightclass boxing all day? Of course I watch soccer. And rugby. And cricket. Want to make something of it?)

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It's no longer a Trinity, its a Quadrity: the Father, Son, Holy Ghost and Superman. The new movie features elements which link the superhero to Jesus:

The preview shows the hero with his eyes closed as the voice of his father -- Marlon Brando's, courtesy of 1978's "Superman" -- tells him he was sent to Earth because humans "lack the light to show the way."

"For this reason," continues the voice, "I have sent them you, my only son."

Online message boards and Web logs quickly latched onto the biblical resonance of those lines.

"The allusion to Jesus Christ could hardly be accidental," wrote Christian blogger Tom Gilson.

"Is this a new Superman for the new Evangelist red state America? Superman as Jesus?" asked one contributor to the Portland-based blog site Urban Honking.

The premise of the new Superman movie alone has fueled speculation that it's wearing its biblical comparisons on its long, tight sleeve. Superman, in the film, returns to Earth after a long absence, a narrative that's been likened to Jesus' death and resurrection.

Meanwhile, news reports that "Passion of the Christ" star James Caviezel was originally in the running for the lead role in "Superman Returns," which eventually went to Brandon Routh, convinced others that the film's makers were playing up the New Testament comparisons.

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I know we all got a big kick out of the Kossacks and their tinfoil hats this last weekend.

For those who missed it, this pic pretty much sums it up:

It raises the question: with the news media buzzing around all over the place, and the Kossacks straining for credibility in the real world, who could possibly have thought it was a good idea to slip the Kossacks several rolls of tinfoil?

Thanks to our deep cover operatives embedded around the globe, working at great personal risk in the cause of truth, we may be a little bit closer to finding an answer to that burning question:

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From deep within his Fort Collins bunker, Macktastic Rusty Wicked sends this comment from one of his posts:

Name: vanezza hashmi
Email Address: vene786@yahoo.co.uk
URL:

"" can you stupid f****** idiots stop going on about islam, leave our
religion alone,just why you have no religion or faith and you feel it
is ok to talk about islam,you have no right what so ever to discuss
islam ,mind your own business,you are nothing but a bunch of p**
eating,fanny licking sons of million dad's,just go home and ask your
slag,whore mother's who your father's are and you will be given the
names of all the men in the neighbour hood,go to hell you pigs

Well, vanezza, before this pig heads to hell, I'll give you the Official (not) Jawa Report Wikipedia entry, sent out by stalwart co-blogger The All Seeing Eye:

Jawa on Wikipedia, the Most Accurate Source Of Information Ever.

I feel sorry for the residents of Niue Island as jihadis search mercilessly for the Official Jawa Report Secret Base.

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1 I was this >< close to sending the following to venezza: hahhahhaahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA we have more toys... hahhahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA we might have more fathers than you...but at least we know they are human! hahahahahahahahahaAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ...but I thought better of it...

Posted by: Tracy Coyle at June 14, 2006 10:54 PM (x2eBy)

2 Chicken.

Posted by: Vinnie Editor In Chief Pro Tempore at June 14, 2006 10:56 PM (/qy9A)

3 Gee, do you think he should be sent this, just to piss him off? Or perhaps this?

Posted by: Macker at June 14, 2006 11:01 PM (smbGM)

4 This was my favorite: Much of the website is done in a tongue-in-cheek manner which can add to its offense. buahahaha! so true.

Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at June 14, 2006 11:25 PM (8e/V4)

5 "Who...who could have done this to these innocent jawas?" "Sandpeople."

Posted by: Gormless Norman at June 14, 2006 11:45 PM (3MMCf)

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Omaha radio talk show host Tom Becka, doing his best to be "edgy" and "provocative," not to mention "hip," gets the smackdown from Ann Coulter.

Listen to it here.

The money quote, "Christianity is not a religion."

Like PTG, I don't care what you think about Coulter, this guy should stick to interviewing Neighborhood Watch captains or some of the usual low-level ineffectual city bureaucrats.

In his own ad for his own show, he states "I'm no Rush Limbaugh..." and how true that is. I don't care what you think about Limbaugh, either, but you can't deny he's good at radio.

As the wife says about this interview, and I quote, "he's disrepectful, rude, and disgusting."

Amen.

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I repeat here a comment I received from some left-winger a while back. It was in response to something I wrote. I don't recall what I wrote, exactly. Frankly, it could've been just about anything I've written in the last two years. At any rate, this is what the lefty had to say to me:

You sound bitter, but more importantly, you sound unwilling to listen to an opinion other than one in agreeance with yours. You also seem eager to use terms like "leftist" and "peace" in a derogatory manner.

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Apparently, it depends on what they're protesting.

Protesting a war? Newsworthy.

Protesting the Spanish government's appeasement of terrorists? Not so newsworthy.

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The newly-minted Sith Masters do post. But they have homes too, yanno.

Bluto: Murtha says, "does this hypocrisy make me look fat?"

Mike: I know good gay, and this is NOT good gay.

Traderrob: Waiting for the jihadi version of "An Inconvenient Truth."

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Holy crap, I coulda been a Kennedy.

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What am I saying. They're all bad guys. It's just that some of the bad guys are slightly better than the worse bad guys.

The 1400 year old jihad machine chugs on:

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Islamic militants captured the last strategic town held by their warlord rivals Wednesday, consolidating their hold over a large swath of Somalia even as the country's parliament called for help from foreign peacekeepers.

The brave troops of the U.S. backed warlords show us how they earned our hard-earned tax dollars:

Hours after the Islamic force attacked the town of Jowhar from three directions Wednesday, the last of the warlords' remaining fighters fled east, some in pickup trucks with rooftop-mounted machine guns. Militiamen seized the airport, just outside town. Residents were fleeing and witnesses reported as many as 19 dead.

Talk about take the money and run.

So the country's ineffectual and worthless parliament is calling for international peacekeepers. Sorry chums, we've been down that road and we've seen what happens.

It may not be realpolitik, it will never be given the Official Government Seal of Approval, but it's plausible that the only thing now to keep Somalia from being the new base of operations for Osama and Co. is a nice carpet bombing.

It's either that, or wait until Somalia is used as a base to launch another 9/11.

And, since you didn't ask, but were thinking it, yes, nearly 13 years on, I'm still bitter. If you were doing word association, and said "Somalia," the first thing that would pop into my head would be "fuc* 'em."

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A terrorism expert informed the U.S. Senate today that the threat from home grown al Qaeda terror cells is real. How is it that al Qaeda can recruit terrorists in the U.S.? The internet.

Trust me, many of you would be genuinely shocked at reading the amount support terrorists get from American Muslims on bulletin boards. Of course, they always hedge this support by first declaring that the terrorist in question is not really a terrorist.

So, when many of them say, I don't support terrorism, they really mean it. The devil, though, is in the details of exactly what constitutes a terrorist.

Muslim parents, do you know what your children are up to on the internet? Between porn and Islamic message boards, I'd be more worried about the latter.

UPI:

"We are uncovering the spread of new violent extremists networks and cells that lack formal ties or affiliation with al-Qaida or other recognized terrorists groups," said John Scott Redd, the direction of the National Counterterrorism Center in testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday.

"These new networks are often made up of disaffected, radicalized individuals who draw inspiration and moral support froom al-Qaida and other violent extremists. Group members are most often young, in their teens and twenties, and froom families that are second or third generation immigrants to their western communities. To the outside observer, these terrorists might well appear to be fully assimilated members of their western communities." ....

"In one case, two individuals who are U.S. Muslim converts were c caught robbing a gas station to support their attack plans in California. Possible targets included synagogues, the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles, and a National Guard facility," Redd said....

"The emergence of this new brand of al-Qaida inspired, homegrown terrorism group poses real challenges to the intelligence community, and we are grappling with a whole new set of questions," Redd said. "The challenge of countering these cells is complicated by the fact that they may operate virtually, with much of their communication and planning taking place over the Internet. This network of virtual contacts increases the relative stealth with which these terrorists can organize, communicate and plan potential attacks." [emphasis mine]

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Did I say Unitarians? I meant Buddhists. Remember, all religions produce an equal proportion of murderous nuts and thugs. Repeat that mantra 20 times while genuflecting in the UN's general direction.

Times:

A PARIS court sentenced 25 Muslim militants yesterday for planning attacks against the Eiffel Tower and other targets with explosives in support of rebels fighting Russian forces in Chechnya.

Yes, I'm that bored in Ft. Collins that I've resorted to blogging.

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Any one in the Fort Collins area who wants to meet Rusty Shackleford for a night of debauchery* later in the week drop me a line. more...

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Happy Flag Day everyone! Wave them high!

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OK, so I had this idea. Being a huge believer in online video as an effective medium, I figured I'd do my part to highlight conservative / libertarian videos I could find posted on the web.

Of course, Michelle Malkin and the other talented folks at HotAir.com are doing an excellent job of producing and highlighting conservative video, but they certainly don't need any help from the likes of me. I was specifically looking for some amateur videos "off the beaten path," so to speak.

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Simply unbelievable.

From FrontPageMag.com:

We are at war with militant Islam, but you wouldn't know it from the Pentagon, which is busy erecting a shrine to Islam just five short years after Islamic terrorists destroyed a good chunk of its own building and killed more than 100 of its occupants. Worse, it's consulting on the project with a Wahhabi-educated cleric posing as a moderate.

Last week, military brass -- along with representatives from the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations -- dedicated the first Muslim prayer center for the Marines as a symbol of the military's "religious tolerance" and "respect" for the faith the enemy uses to attack us. Already, plans are in the works to build by 2009 a bigger mosque at the Marine base in Quantico so Muslim service members can have a "proper place" to worship, and one that "honors their religious heritage," officials say, not realizing that the mosque can also be used by the enemy to build a Fifth Column inside the Marines.

The idea for the center came from Navy Lt. Abuhena Mohammed Saifulislam, a young, smooth-talking Muslim chaplain, who wanted a permanent place of worship -- and "education" -- for the growing number of soldiers who are interested in -- and converting to -- Islam.

There's more at the link.

[Update 06/15/06]

In response to my email, the author of the FrontPageMag.com article (Paul Sperry) provided clarification indicating that the title of this post is incorrect. The subject mosque is being built at Quantico, not the Pentagon.

My interpretation of Sperry's piece was mistaken and was based upon statements that a shrine to Islam (prayer center) was dedicated last week and that a "bigger mosque" is to be built at Quantico. If a "bigger" mosque is being constructed, I allowed myself to assume that a smaller mosque, dedicated last week, already existed in the Pentagon.

Apologies to the readers and thanks to Vinnie for noting the error.

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