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Randy at WTVW asks that all his viewers talk this up today. So here goes. WTWV the Evansville/Vanderburgh County police and the Evansville Otters baseball team are holding a telethon this week to raise money for the American Red Cross for Hurricane relief. Last night a total of 20,020 dollars was raised. Calls will be taken on Thursday and Friday from 6 to 10 pm CDT. Donations can be by credit or debit card or if you prefer give your address and they will send you an envelope and you can pay by check. It's not so much how much you give but scrape up that change out of the couch and send it along.

Cingular Wireless has donated cell phones for our volunteers to take pledges. The following numbers will be used to donate during the three days of the phone-a-thon: (812) 618-6956, 618-6957, 618-6958, and 618-6959.

Then don't forget to log donations and mention The Jawa Report. No matter where you are, let's make our presence known. Also if you prefer note the blogadd for mercycorps on our home page.

Also one more thought. Some of the most effective relief efforts I've seen coverage of are done by churches. So toss an extra buck or two their way as well.

Also the company I work for in my real job has added another 20 grand to the effort bringing thier total to 45,000. Way to go.

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Guantanamo Prisoners Advised of their Fifth Amendment Rights

If ever there was a bad idea worse than this, I haven't heard of it. Hey, let's get the ACLU down to Cuba so they can advise the detainees that they have the right to remain silent! Remember, it was a detainee in Iraq, presumably who hadn't been read the Miranda warning, who gave up the location of Roy Hallums.

WND:

According to these sources, the ACLU lawyers advised the majority of the prisoners that they did not have to answer questions from military interrogators.
Â“ItÂ’s as if they were shoplifters in the U.S.,Â” said one source. Â“The lawyers may have left by now, but the damage is done. WeÂ’re sending guys down to interrogate on taxpayerÂ’s dime for absolutely no reason now.Â”
Apparently, the Pentagon believes the presence of ACLU lawyers at Guantanamo will help persuade the world it can give suspected terrorists a fair trial. The ACLU has been at the forefront of allegations of abuse of prisoners.

Is the Pentagon so naive as to think that anything they do will molify the hard Left? You know, short of full surrender that is.

Hat tip to Jay Stop the ACLU who has more commentary.

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Blanco Prevented Red Cross From Bringing Food and Water To Superdome

It appears that Nagin's hysterical rant should have been directed at his own governor.

The Red Cross is confirming to Major Garrett of Fox News that it had prepositioned water, food, blankets and hygiene products for delivery to the Superdome and the Convention Center in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, but were blocked from delivering those supplies by orders of the Louisiana state government (State Dept of Homeland Security), which did not want to attract people to the Superdome and Convention Center.

Garrett has no paper trail yet, but will follow up on his verbal confirmation from sources at the highest levels of the Red Cross.

Hugh Hewitt interviewed Garrett after he broke the story. Transcript at Radio Blogger.
The Red Cross backs up Garrett's story on their website here

Update:Confirmation on-camera from a senior Salvation Army official in Washington, D.C. that the Salvation Army was also blocked repeatedly from providing relief and supplies to the beleaugered people suffering in the Superdome and Convention Center.

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September 07, 2005

LGF versus Daily Kos

Little Green Footballs is pointing out a jewel of an article over at Daily Kos. The title:

17th street levee bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers

Basically the article takes two "witness" discussions and strings them together. Somehow, this is fit to print and is obviously the result of the massive influx of black helicopters to the region. One quote just totally shot down the story for me:

people are afraid to speak out... everyone who was near there heard the bombings... they bombed seven times.

Seven times? That's the Army Corp of Engineers! At most it would have taken two blasts to send that levee to Mexico with a quickness.

Daily Kos = Unrealistic Ninny

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1 Daily Kos = Unrealistic Ninny "unrealistic" implies at the very least that it's within the realm of plausibility. Don't you think you're being a bit generous? And the guy's a fucking moron, not a ninny.

Posted by: Carlos at September 07, 2005 08:34 PM (8e/V4)

2 Go to the thread at Kos and see how the moonbats discuss it amongst themselves. In a sad pathetic sort of way they're quite amusing.

Posted by: Carlos at September 07, 2005 08:39 PM (8e/V4)

3 The Moonbattery is reaching epic proportions. The race card is backfiring and the people don't buy the GWB kill the colored folk conspiracy either. It is a great day not to be a democrat

Posted by: Billy Budd at September 07, 2005 09:15 PM (BtK0i)

4 Bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers? Since the left is on a roll, maybe it was Haliburton .. or Big Oil .. or Walmart! .. or one of them damn big box home improvement stores like Home Depot or Loews! .. fell free to name the usual suspects.

Posted by: hondo at September 07, 2005 10:18 PM (4Gtyc)

5 Ha! That's nothing. ABC World News tonight interviewed a resident that lives near the levee and hear the levee break. He claims that the City broke it on purpose to get them. It seems that there are rumors on the leftist sites of witnesses claiming that the Army Corp of Engineers blew the levees, but on WNT, the guy clearly put the blame on the city, and not to save the other areas, but to get them.... New Orleans Victim Claims that City broke Levee, not Bush

Posted by: Fred Fry at September 07, 2005 11:00 PM (RPY7Q)

6 These morons would be funny if it weren't for the gravitas of the situation.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 07, 2005 11:07 PM (0yYS2)

7 The sad part is these folks (at Kos) actually think they have a shot at 'helping' a politician get elected. Oh, I'm, sorry did I say sad? I mean freaking great. I love those looney tunes political advisors. When they help to lose more elections, they will continue to have no idea why it is so. Whatver they come up with, you can be darn sure it will be conspiratal and the fault of the evil republicans.

Posted by: Defense Guy at September 07, 2005 11:28 PM (Tfv92)

8 PISSED!!! FEMA blocked water and the Red Cross - soldiers pointing guns at people's heads - mace in mothers' faces - alligators eating people - feds cutting telephone lines WAKE UP - SAMFESTER IS ON A RAMPAGE!!!!

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 08, 2005 06:57 AM (Fkq14)

9 I missed DSM. Glad you're back, pal!

Posted by: Oyster at September 08, 2005 07:37 AM (YudAC)

10 heh, that's too good. The Army Corps of Engineers bombed the levee. It's so stupid it's funny. Relying on IM logs as a source is just retarted anyway.

Posted by: tyler at September 08, 2005 08:28 AM (Y9Lwb)

11 DSM, Are you serious? It's been reported now that NO city officials blocked the Red Cross from going in because they didn't want more people going to the Superdome.

Posted by: wj at September 08, 2005 09:32 AM (tzeux)

12 DSM, you forgot the Army core of engineers bombing levies. It's all part of whitey's conspiracy to kill niggers.

Posted by: Carlos at September 08, 2005 10:02 AM (8e/V4)

13 Louisiana's state office of Homeland Security is who blocked the Red Cross from my understanding. Don't quote me, but I think that's what I heard. And someone countered that saying Louisiana didn't have an office of HS. They do.

Posted by: Oyster at September 09, 2005 04:42 AM (YudAC)

14 Carlos, Poverty is a conspiracy, yes, a conspiracy of silence and denial. A society is measured by the way it looks after its weakest members. America failed in NOLA, while the whole world watched. It's not about race, even though most who suffered and died were "black" (whatever that means!), and those who pointed guns at them and told them to go back were "white". It's about class, caste, and wealth. The rich look after themselves and leave the poor to drown, literally, in the filth and mud. You can turn this into a left/right argument, but you don't help anyone like that. Of course, helping others is something that only civilised societies do. America has slid so far into the depths of criminal selfishness that comments like "dumb fucking niggers deserved to die" are pretty much par for the course. Wait until it's your turn, buddy, when the gas runs out and your cities turn into deserts. Watch while the ultrarich take what's left and kick you out to die. And wonder whether this is really what conservatism is meant to be? Kick the poor guy in the balls while you sip champagne? No. Conservatism is about open economies, small state, self-help, and above all, a solid society based on high moral values.

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Afghanistan Rumor

A source is telling me that there will be some major news out of Afghanistan in the next few weeks. I wonder what I possibly could be implying?

These rumors have been wrong in the past. Call it wishful thinking. The source, though, is taking this all rather seriously. Not his usual MO.

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Tammy Imre and Sex With 8-Year-Old Boy

(Bridgeport, Connecticut) Remember Tammy Imre? Last November, the 30-year-old mother was arrested for a laundry list of charges related to having an ongoing sexual relationship with an 8-year-old neighborhood boy who was her 7-year-old daughter's playmate.

According to her attorney Donald Papcsy, in court today Imre agreed to plead guilty to reduced charges at a scheduled court appearance on Sept. 19. Apparently, she will receive something less than the ten-year minimum for first-degree sexual assault. The agreement allows her to claim an Alford plea where she doesn't plead guilty to all allegations but concedes that there is enough evidence to convict her. Prosecutor George Ganim Jr. wouldn't release any details, but said the victim's mother was satisfied with the terms of the agreement.

Consequently, we'll have to wait until September 19 to learn how long she will be sentenced in the slammer. Interestingly, she's already spent nine months behind bars since she couldn't cough up the $250,000 bail.

Companion post/pic at Interested-Participant.

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1 Weirdness. I don't know what is stranger - that these weird self-indulgent cultural oddities/perversions take place, or our morbid societal fascination and interest in the story. It's like our culture has mainstreamed the old carnival freakshow or made back issues of True Detective and The Enquirer headline news.

Posted by: hondo at September 07, 2005 04:32 PM (4Gtyc)

2 sure it is strange, but hardly a criminal act. A boy knows better than a girl what he wants, there is no such thing as rape in that sense.

Posted by: markus at September 07, 2005 08:10 PM (X1wqy)

3 I can imagine a helluva lot more traumatic things that could have happened to me when I was a young'n. Uh, I mean this is horrible, simply horrible.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 07, 2005 11:20 PM (0yYS2)

4 Somehow I got the feeling this Tammy is mentally retarded... Oh well, anyways, {enter apology for whatever comes to mind} and goodbye.

Posted by: A Finn at September 08, 2005 04:43 AM (cWMi4)

5 Markus, Maximus he was 8 you sick twits, EIGHT, he didn't even hit puberty yet. You must be joking when saying that the boy knew what he wanted. I have a son of the same age as this boy and he has no interest in girls at all yet. If a woman approached him to offer sex he would either simply not understand or run scared. It took considerable guile and seduction on the part of this woman to have sex with him. I had similar experience when I was a child and it makes me sick to my stomach when I see people trivializing sexual abuse of boys. The main difference in experience for a girl who was abused by a man and a boy who was abused by a woman is in the "Mrs Robinson attitude" that pervades our society. Women who were abused as children get compassion and understanding, men who were abused get "it's not a big deal" and "you should feel lucky" attitude. The effects of the "he got lucky" attitude is almost identical to the "she asked for it" attitude that used to apply to women. I know at least one boy who killed himself because of idiots who believed he should feel lucky for being sexually abused. You people don't know squat, you are confusing your adult fantasies with the confusion and emotional turmoil of a child. You in a very real way kill people.

Posted by: LarryW at September 08, 2005 10:37 AM (9ikeC)

6 Ya know Markus, IÂ’ve written some stupid comments. IÂ’ve read some stupid comments.....That said, If this blog were to give an award for STUPID COMMENT OF THE WEEK, you get my vote. If my 10-year-old son were victimized by this white trash piece of garbage, she would be taking a crap from the new asshole in her forehead. ThatÂ’s how funny this is.

Posted by: Brad at September 08, 2005 11:17 AM (6mUkl)

7 Why is it everyone is screaming about women having sex with boys, but pedophile priests have completely fallen off the radar? Is the former worse than the latter? I'd say if a boy was given the choice, he'd pick the woman every time, rather than getting cornholed. Sure it's wrong, it's illegal, and should be punished, but it's not the worst thing that could happen, and many worse things are happening to many other kids every day. And Larry, your hysterical rant is a little over the top in self righteousness. When I was 8, I was obsessed with girls, so I don't see it as a traumatic thing. Maybe you need to eat some red meat and shoot a gun or something, because you sound like a woman.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 08, 2005 02:11 PM (0yYS2)

8 Sad. Seems like even some on the right have slid down that slope of mainstreaming perversions.

Posted by: hondo at September 08, 2005 04:17 PM (4Gtyc)

9 Ok I must admit that 8 is young but it is time that we all recognised that a woman having sex with a willing boy is no where near the same as a man having sex with a young girl. Most boys want it and crave it and in 99% of cases no harm is done. Lets get real and admit that a woman deserves a far lighter sentence than a man for this, We should lower the age of consent for boys to 12. To send someone to jail for 20 or 30 years for something so trivial is in itself a crime by society - something akin to the Salem witch trials - in time and as our intelligence evolves - society will see its error of judgement here.

Posted by: Mich at September 09, 2005 03:10 AM (UXhiQ)

10 Markus and Mitch must belong to NAMBLA. FREAKING PEDOFILES THINK ITS OKAY TO MESS WITH AN 8 YEAR OLD. GET A LIFE- demonice )@$($#)$(&#$)(&#$

Posted by: Donna at September 09, 2005 10:24 AM (ptid4)

11 I just have to believe the people who think this is no big deal do not have children. No parent would make the kind of stupid remarks that have been posted above. This kid was only 8 years old. I think this rapist should be locked up for life. Anyone who thinks the rape of a child is some kind of joke or the fulfillment of some kind of fantasy is twisted in my view. Lock her up and throw away the key so she doesnÂ’t ruin another life.

Posted by: Brad at September 09, 2005 11:15 AM (3OPZt)

12 I have to agree with Brad. This is not an 18-year old boy we are talking about here. If this were my son it might be me on trial for taking her out. I just don't think some people realize what something like this could do to a child. Their ignorance is no excuse for such comments as were stated earlier in this thread.

Posted by: Bur at September 09, 2005 03:40 PM (Mctsz)

13 I suppose we're dealing with two different opinions that can come from the same person. When it comes to our own kids, something like this is terrible. But also to ourselves, especially to males (obviously...) it can be comepletely different. No, when I was 8 or 9, I wasn't interested in girls at all. That's because they all still looked like boys with long hair and dresses and pigtails. But I was interested in grown women. And my sexual fantasies at that time involve them. Look at Madonna. She built her entire fame and fortune and money around being the most obscene and offensive, sexually and politically entertainment figure because she knew that she could get the most money and fame by getting people to argue and hate each other (especially the generation gap between kids and their parents) over what she did. And she did it with a "Nay Nay Nay" attitude no matter how much she caused people to hate each other. Kinda like how a big Oil Company will destroy the enviorment just to make as much money as possible. But NOW the Madonna has kids of her own, she's done a complete 180. Even becoming religous, even if it is to a odd off-shoot cult of judaism. I wonder if she'll let her kids see that picture of her of someone ejaculating in her mouth. So you see what we have here.....!? Excuse me? What were we talking about? Oh well, have fun with that fellas

Posted by: killdozer at September 09, 2005 09:17 PM (ywZa8)

14 IÂ’d rather not talk about you beaten it killdozer. All IÂ’m saying is if a man or woman rapes an 8-year-old child he/she should not see the light of day again. (That would also include Priests). Whatever fantasies do or do not exist in the mind of an 8 year old do not mitigate the crime. And big oil? WTF?

Posted by: Brad at September 10, 2005 08:45 AM (6mUkl)

15 Sorry....just trying to make a point by way of analogy and it just ended up being a rant of sorts.

Posted by: killdozer at September 12, 2005 08:23 AM (M7kiy)

16 I think she should be put in jail and what she did was wrong: With that said, I was 9 when I had my first with a girl 16. Did I want it? Yes. Did she manipulate me? NO. She was a friend who was showing me something I was interested and curious about. I think that is the difference. The manipulation I guess. I think it is prevalent for kids/teens/adults to engage in this. Who else are you going to learn from at this age about sex besides someone who has know how?. At least I was not getting wrong information from friends who had no clue. I was shown all the facts. Did it tramautize me> Not at all. IT was a growing up experience and actually help me develop I think. I'm not condonig the manipulation and forcing of this situation. And I think girls/boys of any age who are curious and wish to experiment, either with other kids or adults, maybe should feel free to do so. It's part of growing up.

Posted by: John at September 20, 2005 11:22 AM (cAFEP)

17 If Imre were a man having sex with an 8-year-old boy we wouldn't be arguing that a boy knows what he wants. What if the boy already knows he's gay? I suppose the next thing you'll be telling us is that if Imre were having sex with an 8-year-old girl, that would be okay, too. Face it, 8 is too young. Women can (and do) commit statutory rape. For just a second, remove yourself from your own adolescent fantasies and recognize it for what it is.

Posted by: Hammurabi at September 20, 2005 04:33 PM (YEjLd)

18 A 30 year old retard knows that what she's doing is wrong, an 8 year old boy does not. Bottom line. Even worse, this woman's 7 year old daughter was privy to the whole thing. I would have beat that lady fiercely if she touched my son. They would have to drag me off her, and no man, or boy, or woman would want her for anything sexual after I put a vicious knuckle sugery on that ass. Great, send her to jail so she can be an even weirder sexual deviant when she gets out. Nice work. Vigalante justice would serve her better. And it would be a bloody warning to any other ladies, priests, or other pedofiles not to mess with children. I had a particularly sadistic priest who liked to beat us with a blackjack when I was in catholic school. After I took it from him and openened up a 50 stitch cut on his face with the thing, he quit abusing kids. Now that is justice.

Posted by: p1isher at September 20, 2005 04:55 PM (CaYUJ)

19 You humans have completely and irrevocably gone off the deep end of wrongness in nearly every way, some of which even I couldn't have imagined in The Beginning. FYI: Sexual acts between two willing participants of opposite gender, no matter what their age, is right and natural. Everything else (rape, homosexuality, bestiality, etc.) is an abomination and will be punished AFTER death. You have MY WORD on that. So why don't you assholes stop hurting one another and that nice planet I made for you, instead of constantly finding trivial things to bicker endlessly about?

Posted by: God at October 07, 2005 12:48 PM (zdkio)

20 "God" is a pedophile.

Posted by: sane at November 04, 2005 07:39 PM (sTRp7)

21 We don't know that she didn't have sex with her daughter or other little girls.

Posted by: Haley Marie at November 09, 2005 06:05 PM (NbqO7)

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Dumb Quote of the Day

"How come it's so easy to send planes in another country to kill everyone in a second, to destroy lives?"
Celine Dion voicing her anger at the New Orleans rescue delays.

1. It's not. The most ready battalion in the entire United States military takes a bare minimum of 18 hours to deploy. And that's only after they've spent two weeks preparing all of their equipment and everyone is standing by waiting.

2. Because destroying is always easier than the alternative. When you destroy, you can be indiscriminate.

Go back to Canada and sing some more of your horrid music, please.

Oh, but thanks for the million bucks.

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1 Dion like so many (not all) entertainers want to be taked seriously for something other than their (narrowly defined) entertainment talent. They are the evolution of the wandering minstrels and court jesters. They live in neurotic fear that they are perceived as shallow and empty one-trick ponies ... and the trick fades and popularity (extremely important to them) wanes with the fickleness of the audience. They need/crave the attention - it is the most powerful drug to them. The stances they take and utterance they make are obligatory and contrived to suit (and entertain) the insular communities they exist in. They are in essence play acting for their audience - giving them what they (or more often their PR rep) believes the audience (again insular) wants to hear. What does Dion actually believe - I really don't know - I just know what Dion says and everything she/they does is a performance.

Posted by: hondo at September 07, 2005 03:24 PM (4Gtyc)

2 Isn't there some way we can get the witch back to Canada? I cannot stand to look at her ugly face. Canada, take the wench back, now!

Posted by: jesusland joe at September 07, 2005 03:54 PM (q9AWQ)

3 Oh god no, please DO NOT send her back here. We're not interested.

Posted by: Tenfly at September 07, 2005 04:02 PM (M25MR)

4 F--k her - but not with my pr--k

Posted by: Rod Stanton at September 07, 2005 04:29 PM (tplWd)

5 I'm so positively flabberghasted at the sheer ignorance some people have when it comes to logistics that it's hard to express. I have a friend who is a pretty smart guy but he simply had NO clue. He honestly thought that we were able to put 50,000 troops into Haiti on 24 hours notice in 1994. I had to look it up and prove to him that it was closer to 1900 troops.... It didn't get into how long it took to actually get them there.

Posted by: Tony B at September 07, 2005 05:04 PM (QBrm4)

6 Who gives a crap what a untalented Canadian sez anyway???

Posted by: Mighty Whitey at September 07, 2005 06:06 PM (t+dsr)

7 It took us five days to get ready for the Haiti "invasion." Three of those were spent just rationing out supplies. Ammo, chemlights, shells, MREs, etc. Each soldier had to be provided with two IVs and five pairs of latex gloves due to the horrendous AIDS threat we were going in to.

Posted by: Drew at September 07, 2005 06:37 PM (HQiW4)

8 Yeah, Years of "one last chance" then months of begging the UN and old Europe to show some resolve is "in a second" but when we can not mobilize a corps of national guardsmen and get them into NOLA overnight it is a intolerable delay.

Posted by: Marcus Aurelius at September 07, 2005 06:55 PM (DwnsS)

9 No matter what she said, i'm proud of her for saying it. it takes guts to say the things she said. i don't think none of you can say that, because you guys are cowards. no matter what nationality she is, i'm glad she said it.

Posted by: Jeb at September 07, 2005 06:55 PM (LWemX)

10 Lots of ignorance out there! Celine deserves the credit for taking a stand. And I think it was VERY obvious it was not a performance. If it is, well she deserves the Oscar this year!! She pays more taxes than all of you and she can give her opinion even if you don't like it. And while you complain about her, what have YOU done in all of this? Celine, keep up the good work! If people are too patriotic to realize the efforts haven't been appropriate in their own country, it spells MORE TROUBLE TO COME. If you can so easily critize someone is trying to help such as Celine well then what are you waiting for to critize the gov't? You might not like her music, but she deserves credit for donating lots of money and helping out others. She does what she can! And she deserves credit for what she has achieved professionally. She has worked very hard to get where she is and people should not judge her because she has tons of money and is successful. Celine, thanks for being there and helping again and again. By the way, you guys forgot she went to sing in NY City a few days after 9/11, not long after giving birth? How many celebrities would have done that? Way to go Celine!!!!

Posted by: Bullet at September 07, 2005 07:09 PM (AXN7x)

11 Taking a stand? No, it stating her opinion which only echos those around her. Performance - yes. Efective? Well .. obviously you like it so I guess it was effective in a limited way. But what tactically matters is whether it's effective in a BIG way. Sorry, no. emminence front - its a put on.

Posted by: hondo at September 07, 2005 07:24 PM (4Gtyc)

12 "Entertainers get paid to "entertain".....period. So enough of the political ruminations. Shut up and.........Entertain us. M.W.

Posted by: Mighty Whitey at September 07, 2005 08:08 PM (t+dsr)

13 Another ding bat like CINDY SHEEHAN looking to lead her bunch of trouble makers around the country why dose the liberal idiots pay attention to these fools?

Posted by: sandpiper at September 07, 2005 10:12 PM (ciw10)

14 "Lots of ignorance out there!" Yes, Celine's, and yours. She gets zero credit for "taking a stance" when the stance is so moronic. Larry King should have given her a good slap and told her to snap out of it, the lady was hysterical.

Posted by: Carlos at September 07, 2005 11:00 PM (8e/V4)

15 I'm glad she spoke up, because I don't want anyone forgetting for one second how unbef***inglievably stupid the leftards are. If they shut up, they might appear sane, so I say mic them 24/7, feed them Red Bull and Twinkies, and have camera crews following their every move. Freedom of speech is a wonderful thing!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 07, 2005 11:25 PM (0yYS2)

16 Can we legally kick her out of Las Vegas?

Posted by: Defense Guy at September 07, 2005 11:30 PM (Tfv92)

17 Can't kick her out of Las Vegas. She brings so much money in taxes that the Bush administration won't let her go. They renewed her contract so her taxes would go towards improving rescue efforts. Go on Celine!

Posted by: Bullet at September 08, 2005 03:04 AM (GN7qz)

18 Hondo, you mentioned entertainers in your original post, but you were really referring to bloggers, weren't you?

Posted by: Venom at September 08, 2005 08:55 AM (dbxVM)

19 More dumb clucking from a real dumb cluck

Posted by: sandpiper at September 08, 2005 01:51 PM (uo3LX)

20 MORE FROM SOME DUMB BELL IN CANADUUHH

Posted by: sandpiper at September 10, 2005 07:30 PM (JyNSh)

21 I destroyed New Orleans because it was a place of sin and vile perversion. Notice also the fires in Southern California. And why do you think I sent that tsunami through the Sri Lanka area? It's too bad most of you are too stupid to comprehend that I'm just sick and tired of your bad behaviour! Keep going the way you are and I promise there WILL be more.

Posted by: God at October 07, 2005 01:09 PM (zdkio)

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American Hostage Freed, Family Reacts

Hostage Roy Hallums has been freed in Iraq. Members of his family have now confirmed this to me personally. They are elated. Family members are en route to a reunion with Roy as we speak. Thank you for your prayers and thanks to the Coalition Forces for rescuing Roy.

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American Hostage Roy Hallums Rescued in Iraq! (UPDATED)

UPDATE: This post to be updated throughout the day.

Update 13:19: Members of his extended family have now confirmed to me, personally, that Roy has been freed. They are elated. Family members are en route to a reunion with Roy as we speak. Thank you for your prayers and thanks to the Coalition Forces for rescuing Roy.

Many of Roy's family and friends, though, know only as much as they are being told in the media. If you have any tips about information that we are not covering, please e-mail me at mypetjawat-at-gmail-dot-com (remove 'at' and 'dot' and replace).

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Roy Hallums was abducted on Nov. 1st along with several other foreign contractors. The U.S. state department refused to comment on whether there was an American hostage in Iraq. On Nov. 30th, The Jawa Report reported that an American hostage was being held in Iraq. On Dec. 2nd, Roy's daughter Carrie and his ex-wife Susan contacted The Jawa Report confirming that Roy was taken hostage in Iraq and clarifying his name.

Since that time we have run dozens of stories on Roy and the other forgotten hostages in Iraq. We have also tried to raise funds for the Free Roy Foundation. I have personally been in contact with the Hallums family since our initial story ran. In the last few months I have feared that Roy was dead, but every so often I would get an e-mail from Susan reminding me to keep Roy in my prayers. Her faith, and the faith of Roy's daughters and grandchildren, never waivered.

I have not heard from Susan or Carrie yet, but I expect some word in the near future. While I am not an official spokesperson for the Hallums family, I am sure that Susan and Carrie would express their many thanks for your prayers and support throughout these trying months.

Thank you Jawa Report readers and friends. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

--Rusty Shackleford

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Cnn: Is reporting that Roy Hallums has been rescued. Details later. This really is good news.

Developing.

Roy Hallums, the U.S. contractor who was kidnapped in November, is rescued in Iraq, ex-wife says. Details soon.

Hat Tip: Filthy.

Also here on FOXNEWS

"I can confirm he's been released," Susan Hallums, 53, told The Associated Press by telephone. "Considering what he's been through, I understand he's in good condition."

UPDATE from Rusty: Today is one of the happiest days of my life. I'm literally crying.

Update 11:56: NYTimes, hat tip Lawhawk. It looks like Roy was freed thanks to a tip from a detainee. Guantanamo? Probably not, but Abu Ghraib is a distinct possibility:

Coalition forces acting on a tip from an Iraqi detainee Wednesday rescued American hostage Roy Hallums from an isolated farm house south of Baghdad, a military statement said. An Iraqi also was rescued....
Hallums was held in a farmhouse 15 miles south of Baghdad, the statement said, adding that rescuers were tipped to his whereabouts by an unidentified Iraqi detainee.
''I want to thank all of those who were involved in my rescue -- to those who continuously tracked my captors and location, and to those who physically brought me freedom today,'' Hallums said in the military statement.
''To all of you, I will be forever grateful. Both of us are in good health and look forward to returning to our respective families. Thank you to all who kept me and my family in their thoughts and prayers.''

This contradicts earlier reports that Roy Hallums was being held near Fallujah, but makes much more sense.

UPDATE II: More from CNN. more...

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1 Praise Jebus!

Posted by: Filthy Allah at September 07, 2005 10:54 AM (5ceWd)

2 See that bad luck streak is about over. I feel much better still snotty but this is great news.

Posted by: Howie at September 07, 2005 11:00 AM (Wwjxq)

3 Man, this is horrible news for the leftards!

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 07, 2005 11:13 AM (0yYS2)

4 Awesome Rusty! Glad to hear that he is in "good condition" and I can't even imagine how his family must feel. Say hello to cloud freakin 9!

Posted by: tyler at September 07, 2005 11:16 AM (Y9Lwb)

5 Nice. Reminiscant of when Terry Anderson was finally released, only better because he was rescued.

Posted by: Defense Guy at September 07, 2005 11:24 AM (jPCiN)

6 AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Rusty at September 07, 2005 11:25 AM (JQjhA)

7 This is really good news. I would support a fundraiser, so he can do like that Swedish guy and hire some "payback" guys to go out and hunt-down his abductors and finish them off.

Posted by: -keith in mtn. view at September 07, 2005 11:34 AM (lKqPU)

8 WELCOME BACK ROY! The rescue story should be good. Looking forward to reading it here.

Posted by: Brad at September 07, 2005 11:34 AM (3OPZt)

9 Excellent news - the NYT has more, including that the tip came from an Iraqi detainee, which led to a farmhouse outside Fallujah.

Posted by: lawhawk at September 07, 2005 11:34 AM (AcoYr)

10 Glad to hear.

Posted by: Will Franklin at September 07, 2005 11:36 AM (MswRc)

11 Forgot to include the NYT link: Coalition Forces Rescue U.S. Hostage in Iraq

Posted by: lawhawk at September 07, 2005 11:36 AM (AcoYr)

12 great! we rescued one person in iraq, while an estimated 10,000 float down Bourbon Street in the richest country in the world! yeah, us 'leftards' are really disappointed this guy got resuced, since we hate america so much. phil http://lefttochance.com

Posted by: phil at September 07, 2005 11:43 AM (TTiLg)

13 Go lick yourself Phil

Posted by: Howie at September 07, 2005 11:45 AM (D3+20)

14 Hell, Phil, you are obviously wasting your talents here... you should go down and assist... I bet Sean Penn needs more help with his red cup brigade even as I type! You can be his second personal photographer, or even a personal blogger. How cool!

Posted by: Wine-aholic at September 07, 2005 11:54 AM (Wsn+K)

15 Thank God. I hope the reunion with his family is very very soon!

Posted by: caltechgirl at September 07, 2005 12:13 PM (PI0gZ)

16 That's wonderful

Posted by: RepJ at September 07, 2005 12:14 PM (M7kiy)

17 Rusty - I am so happy for both the family and you. Your faith and hard work were rewarded. Thank God Phill - - go to H-ll.

Posted by: Rod Stanton at September 07, 2005 12:28 PM (tplWd)

18 Phil must consider himself a leftard. What a shame. Otherwise ... wonderful news! I simply can't imagine.

Posted by: Oyster at September 07, 2005 12:37 PM (fl6E1)

19 Here you go Phil http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050907/ap_on_re_us/iraq_hostage_calif I was just telling him about what was going on," Susan Hallums told CNN. "He didn't know about New Orleans. ... He was very sorry for all the people there."

Posted by: Howie at September 07, 2005 12:59 PM (D3+20)

20 Good job Rusty. You helped in a big way.

Posted by: elliott at September 07, 2005 01:02 PM (XlQVK)

21 Well done. No doubt about it, bloggers are coming into their own as a force- and that's a good thing.

Posted by: Sigmund, Carl and Alfred at September 07, 2005 01:08 PM (dHZc2)

22 Very good news!

Posted by: Venom at September 07, 2005 01:13 PM (dbxVM)

23 "Acting on a tip from a detainee..." That's a pretty important point from CNN's website. Capturing Islamofascists can be just as useful as eliminating them.

Posted by: Venom at September 07, 2005 01:25 PM (dbxVM)

24 We had nothing to do with this. Our only role was to keep Roy's name in the news, that's all. It was our brave soldiers in Iraq, with God's help, that did all the work!

Posted by: Rusty at September 07, 2005 01:25 PM (JQjhA)

25 Thank God. Rusty-good work. Make sure the family knows how thrilled we all are.

Posted by: Jane at September 07, 2005 01:27 PM (M7kiy)

26 While you are obviously correct about our soldiers, Rusty, keeping his name in the news is so small feat given the general "screw them" climate in certain media outlets. Not bad for an outfit named after a South Park/Star Wars reference.

Posted by: Wine-aholic at September 07, 2005 01:29 PM (Wsn+K)

27 Good job and thumbs up! We are rooting for you from one of Western Canada's foremost blogsites, SmallDeadAnimals Cheers, TonyGuitar

Posted by: TonyGuitar at September 07, 2005 01:30 PM (rmMzv)

28 Tony, Wait, you mean Kate is CANADIAN??? ;-) Thanks!

Posted by: Rusty at September 07, 2005 01:34 PM (JQjhA)

29 Cool beans. Score one for the good guys.

Posted by: WunderKraut at September 07, 2005 01:39 PM (+kCPe)

30 I'm very happy for Roy Hallums and his family.

Posted by: notHowie at September 07, 2005 01:49 PM (D3+20)

31 Welcome home Roy. Thank God you were rescued. Now let's hope that Jeffrey Ake will be rescued soon. He's the only American that is most likely still alive. Matt Maupin was most likely executed in the video shown in 2004. I haven't heard anything about Dean Sadek since January. No demands were ever made.

Posted by: George at September 07, 2005 01:51 PM (hrpbg)

32 Amen George, but don't write off Dean Sadek. We hadn't heard from Roy's captors for months and months.

Posted by: Rusty at September 07, 2005 02:01 PM (JQjhA)

33 To Roy and his family, God bless you and I'm thrilled that this story had a happy ending.

Posted by: MisterPundit at September 07, 2005 02:28 PM (PNzKN)

34 Oh, happy day! I am elated but this part made me cry: "He got to say he was sorry, and I got to say I loved him. We got to say things we never thought we would be able to say." Oh, man.

Posted by: Margi at September 07, 2005 04:29 PM (nwEQH)

35 Yay! That's wonderful news!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 07, 2005 05:28 PM (QriEg)

36 Hey Phil, you know why those corpses are floating down Bourbon Street? Because the leftard mayor and governor DROPPED THE BALL! How the hell is the governance of one city the mandate of the President? It isn't. It is the mandate of the elected officials of that city, and the state in which it resides, both of which are DEMOCRATS. That moron Nagin left a whole fleet of schoolbuses and city buses sitting in a motor pool while he abandoned ship, and the people had to walk out. You liberals are so stupid there are no words in any language sufficient to describe it.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 07, 2005 11:31 PM (0yYS2)

37 I have been scouring the leftistphere for even one blog on the left that mentions this exciting and hopeful story. Not one. Sad but not unexpected. A rescued captive is one that they can't use as a shill for their contention that everyone that dies in Iraq dies needlessly.

Posted by: SoCalPundit at September 08, 2005 12:37 AM (rMZKl)

38 IM Dean did. But he's not yer ordinary left nutcase. More like in the vein of what a Democrat used/is supposed to be.

Posted by: Howie at September 08, 2005 01:45 PM (D3+20)

39 Thanks God, that's a wonderful news

Posted by: chirurgia estetica at September 09, 2005 04:52 AM (Jnwjh)

40 Hey Rusty, Isn't the news so great?? I'm certainly glad I contacted you way back when no one was saying anything about this. Roy is a good friend and I hope and pray he fully recovers from this ordeal very soon. Thanks again for what you did. Butch

Posted by: Butch Conner at September 09, 2005 08:34 AM (kIola)

41 Thank God.

Posted by: Mark at September 09, 2005 11:41 AM (Vg0tt)

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WTW Snot blogging or is it

It seems lately that I just can't catch a break. Minor bout with the flu last month now the mother of all colds has me feelling down. Several other things not going my way either. Rep says field x is fouled up. Hey that's what you said to put there so I did. Stop whining before I ship you a snotrag via interoffice mail. We've got hurricane Katrina giving everyone an excuse to slam the Government. It was a freaking hurricane dumbasses. Blame the storm. OK lets see what has more power Government VS Nature. Uh duh I'll let you figure that one out yourself. Now to top it all off my hero Bob Denver has passed away. Yes while me Mum finished out college I stayed with the grandparents. I have an aunte that is only about 7 years older. We fought over Dinah Shore VS Gilligan every day. Grandma always let me watch Gilligan much to my Aunt's dismay. Howie lives so far and I'll not give in but may be a bit scarce for a few days. Best to save the blogging until I can think. You know, the nice thing about a run of bad luck is it will eventually end.

Congrats to Mark on the new grandbaby.

See this cool post on Califonia conservative.

Yes I've seen that happen before. But see Sean if yer boat is not so full of reporters you can open that sucker up and the water will drain out the plug hole and then you stick the plug in there no bailing required. River rat experience teaches many things.

Malcontent goes off on Author Marc Siegel

Author Marc Siegel was on "The Daily Show" last night, flogging his book False Alarm: The Truth About the Epidemic of Fear. I have not yet read the book, but his interview with Jon Stewart was troubling, to say the least.

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Civil War in Palestine? Arafat Cousin Assassinated, Nephew Taken Hostage

Not even a UN recognized nation-state, Palestine slowly creeps toward civil war. Who is in control of Gaza and the West Bank? No one. Israel fears bad press from its Western allies for striking at militant terror organizations such as Hamas, who openly display their weapons in organized press events, and the Palestinian Authority fears its own people, who support the terrorist cause. This is an intractible problem.

Not only did The Popular Resistance Committee assassinate the former head of PA security and cousin of Yasser, Moussa Arafat, they also have taken his son hostage.

Washington Post:

The former head of general security in Gaza, Moussa Arafat, was killed before dawn Wednesday when gunmen stormed his home here, dragged him outside and shot him in the street. The incident threatened to aggravate tensions among Palestinian factions and security services struggling for power in the Gaza Strip following Israel's evacuation of its 21 Jewish settlements here.
A militant faction known as the Popular Resistance Committees comprising disaffected members of various Palestinian parties asserted responsibility for the assassination of Arafat, who was a cousin of the late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. The group also claimed to have kidnapped his son, Manhal, a major in the Palestinian military intelligence service, from the three-story family home shortly after 5 a.m....
Arafat held the rank of minister and served as Abbas' military affairs adviser at the time of his murder, carried out in the street only a half-mile from the presidential compound.
"The way this was carried out underlines a very strong message, even if that message may not have been intended," said Ziad Abu Amr, an independent member of the Palestinian Legislative Council who often serves as a mediator between the various Palestinian factions. "It points out the chronic failure of the Palestinian Authority to establish law and order in Gaza and the price it is now paying for past decisions not to do so." ...
We are saying that we can take responsibility," Shaath told reporters here. "We will take all the steps necessary, and I don't think there is any doubt in anyone's mind. This is not political resistance to the occupation. This is a crime by any definition - no justifications, no pretext."
Moussa Arafat, 65, was a senior member of the important Fatah Revolutionary Council. The committee guides the secular nationalist movement that is the largest faction in Palestinian politics and whose members fill out the ranks of the Palestinian Authority....
The statement read over the phone described Moussa Arafat as a "collaborator," a term used to describe Palestinians who assist Israeli intelligence services. "He was one of the heads of the corruption and his poison spread among the Palestinian people," said a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, who identified himself as Abu Abeer. "We're going to deal with his son according to the results of the investigation we are conducting."

In response, there have been calls for the resignation of the Interior Minister, Naser Yousef, to resign. Xinhua:

A Palestinian intelligence officer Wednesday held interior minister Naser Yousef responsible for the assassination of former security chief Musa Arafat and urged him to resign.
Palestinian intelligence chief in the West Bank city of Nablus, Maher al-Fares, told a press conference that he wondered the Palestinian security forces didn't react quickly to the early morning attack on Musa's home in Gaza City which is just few metersaway from the preventive security headquarters.
He called on the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to find and punish those behind the assassination.

The one common theme running throughout press reports about the assassination and kidnapping, is that Moussa Arafat was wildly unpopular, especially among the militant youth movements in Palestine. He was at the center of accusations of corruption in the Palestinian Authority. The fact that his name was Arafat, connected his variouis high-ranking positions to the nepotism of the first-family of Palestine.

But notice that the specific charge that led to his assassination was collaboration. Thus, his execution was justified on Islamic grounds. Collaboration with the infidels is the most common reason given when terrorists murder hostages.

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An Idiot of the Highest Caliber

It seems that lately I've been taking a lot of shots at the New York Times. But when someone paints a bullseye 10 stories tall on themselves, it's kind of hard to resist. And the Times seems to enjoy associating itself with all sorts of disreputable idiots who feel no need to report facts.

In the case of Maureen Dowd today, I'm not even sure it's fair to call this an opinion piece. Speculation piece might be closer the target. Wild, drug induced, toxic fantasies would probably be just about on target. Of course Maureen, like every other looney liberal out there, is trying to find someone to blame for her perfect nanny state of New Orleans falling apart so horribly. After all, it couldn't have been the existing liberal social policy that caused the widespread violence and theft. The lack of law enforcement before all of this began surely couldn't have contributed to the rapes and murders that went on during the disaster. And lack of planning and action by the people who were actually in charge, the state and local government, wouldn't have had ANYTHING to do with the number of dead.

No, in Maureen's world, the fault lies with Dick Cheney. It's because he went on vacation and bought a house. Or maybe it's because he was late showing up. It's kind of hard to tell what exactly Maureen is trying to get at with her first paragraph. more...

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1 Also on the timeline, by Saturday, August 27 President Bush had declared a state of emergency in Louisiana. On August 28 President Bush had called Gov. Kathleen Blanco and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for New Orleans. (related post here and here, with apologies for my shameless self-promotion)

Posted by: Fausta at September 07, 2005 11:14 AM (DKjIn)

2 Well I know for certain that if disaster strikes my area, the first person I'm gonna look for is Dick Cheney. J.H. Christ, liberals are just begging to be dumped alive into mass graves.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 07, 2005 11:20 AM (0yYS2)

3 Mo Dowd and the NY Times, a marriage made in hell. They deserve each other.

Posted by: Defense Guy at September 07, 2005 11:28 AM (jPCiN)

4 Wow. I didn't think she could get worse. She's turned into a babbling moron. If I could make one person in the world just disappear (poof!) I'd have a hard time deciding on her or Juan Cole. I like the way she put this, "...the rich white people were saved and the poor black people were left to die hideous deaths." She paints a picture of the guard running in, saving all the white people ahead of time and laughing all the way back to safety after flipping a bird to the black people. This woman is just 'orrible. So it was ol' Dick Cheney the whole time. And I thought it was Bush. Stupid me.

Posted by: Oyster at September 07, 2005 11:49 AM (fl6E1)

5 More of the usial malarkey from the New York Pravda and its band of left-wing writters why dont those who read this rag use it for birdcage linning

Posted by: sandpiper at September 07, 2005 01:45 PM (g1M1/)

6 Now you're in for it Drew. I fisked MoDo a couple months back, and then the remorse set in. It was like fisking a high school newspaper or pulling wings off flies. I felt like such a bully.

Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at September 07, 2005 01:59 PM (RHG+K)

7 "I've been to New Orleans in the "before" time. It was a happy place with the children dancing and playing in the chocolate streams with gumdrop smiles"

Posted by: Henry at September 07, 2005 06:37 PM (RcUcQ)

8 As much as I hated seeing Bush win a second term, I got to admit I love watching the Right defend the failed policies, incompetence, cronyism that has come home to roost. I figure one more screw up and even the Republicans who have to run in 2006 will be asking for pitchforks and torches. Personally, I'm looking for Bush's poll numbers to drop in the low 20's by next summer. But then again low poll numbers mean nothing unless the recipient is a Democrat. (Sorry, I forgot that rule.) Except for the tragic deaths of the innocents, I'm enjoying every minute of this. Bob

Posted by: Bobog33 at September 28, 2005 11:58 AM (cbPAo)

9 Did you have something relavent to add to the conversation or were you just dropping by to try and bait someone? Oh, wait. I see. You thought the title was about you.

Posted by: Drew at September 28, 2005 12:01 PM (Ml8z/)

10 Aw Drew, I'm disappointed. Name calling? I actually believed that discussing failed policies (Homeland Security), incompentence (perhaps a few too many vacation/fund raising days during a disaster) and cronyism ("nice job Brownie") WAS relevent to the conversation. Perhaps I mistook this for a forum to exchange of ideas. Name calling....jeez. My mistake, sorry.

Posted by: Bobog33 at September 28, 2005 12:42 PM (cbPAo)

11 OK, I've read it four times now and I have yet to see where you actually discussed anything. You just stated that Bush has failed policies and his approval ratings are low. Big whoop. But hey, I've already learned that that's how it is with you libs. You don't let little things like facts stand in your way. The fact tha Maureen Dowd has not one leg to stand on for 99.9% of the crap that she spews never stops her from spewing it. And it never stops the Times from printing it. And it never stops morons like you from believing it. Come back when you actually have some proof of wrongdoing and maybe I'll be in more of a mood to "discuss" things. Then again, maybe I won't considering all the lies you libs try to spread. After all, when my daughter comes home from school and says that her teacher is trying to tell them that Bush is stealing money from the Hurricane relief efforts, I've pretty well lost my talking mood.

Posted by: Drew at September 28, 2005 12:48 PM (Ml8z/)

12 Please don't assume that I believe everything I read by either side. In fact, I have opinions and beliefs that might surprise you. But by calling me "An Idiot of the Highest Caliber" and a lying liberal, you've already shut down any real chance to discuss things. I go to various sites with various views to see how other people feel events that impact us all, to hear their concerns and how they view the world. Sometimes I agree, sometimes not. But I do honor their beliefs, even when I disagree. Nothing is more boring that sitting with your "side" on an issue just patting each other on the back in lockstep agreement. I take that back; what is more boring is the name calling/yelling that disguising itself as discussion. I just received a passionate email from a lifelong Republican from who feels that Tom DeLay stepping down (temporarily) is a good thing for his party and the causes that my friend believes in. I'll always take time to listen to someone who sees the nuanced gray in this black and white world. I'm going to respond to my friend. And I'll leave you and Defense Guy and Sandpiper alone to assume I'm a lying liberal and an Idiot of the highest caliber.

Posted by: bobog33 at September 28, 2005 01:44 PM (cbPAo)

13 Well, if you have beliefs that will surprise me, then they certainly will surprise me because you certainly don't take the time to write them down. That's post three and STILL you don't bring forth any facts that we could actually argue about. And what's even more laughable is that you the attempt to take the moral high ground about it. Are you reading from a playbook over there? Let's see if I can run this down: 1. You accuse Bush of wrongdoing without accusing him of anything specific. 2. When confronted and asked if you had anything relavent to add to the conversation, you attempted to deflect with generalites and STILL not bring forth any actual charges or facts 3. You then attempt to take the "moral high ground" on the basis that I call the like I see them because you STILL haven't brought forth anything that we could actually discuss. But hey, that's my fault because I called you an idiot. Never mind the fact that I called you an idiot after your initial post in which you brought forth nothing to discuss. Sounds like a pretty liberal argument to me.

Posted by: Drew at September 28, 2005 01:52 PM (Ml8z/)

14 Bush appointed Brown - who now tells us that everyone else was at fault including the administration for cutting funding. If Bush and Brown were begging for Blanco to evacuate the city then why did Bush think it would be OK to head out to a fund raiser in California? I think the point you conservatives miss is this; he shouldn't be blamed for not being on site but he should take the blame for not being ready. Billions of taxpayers dollars have been spent to prepare us for a disaster without warning (e.g. terrorist attack) but we had warning on this one and we failed. I know you are unable to do this but had a Democrat been president you'd be calling for his head. It works both ways. The buck stops with the pres - it's his watch and he missed an opportunity to show his leadership.

Posted by: Rip at September 28, 2005 05:10 PM (JD1HU)

15 Yeah, because we all know that a state and local government can't be responsible for their own state. Just exactly how stupid do you think people are? Why is it when we have SIX hurricanes in Florida, we don't have these problems. We have hurricanes in Texas and don't have these problems. We have THE SAME hurricane in Mississippi and don't have these problems. What's the difference here? The state and local goverments. And when you liberals pull your heads far enough out of your asses to see the light of day, maybe you'll be able to take your Bush-hating blinders off and fix the atrocity that is the Louisina government.

Posted by: Drew at September 28, 2005 06:50 PM (t6bdo)

16 Drew, it seems to me that you're the one with your head up your ass. I won't go as far as to extend that statement to an entire political faction, though, for two reasons. first, it's stupid to make rediculous blanket generalizations. and second, i don't think you're conservative anymore. you're a fanatic, and your particular blinders prevent you from separating what this administration does from what actual classic conservative ideals dictate as reasonable. quick! call me a blind liberal and make another moronic generalization!

Posted by: mc at September 29, 2005 12:56 PM (bX7ay)

17 Oh, yes. I'm a fanatic. I'm fanatic about pointing out idiocy whereever I see it. And this post seems to be attracting quite a bit of it. I can't call you a moronic liberal because I have no idea of your political motivation. You do, however, seem keen on personal attacks for someone who is so quick to condem them and that, in my book would make you a hypocritical asshole. All generalizations are wrong, including this one. But that doesn't stop people from making them. You can say liberals prefer to kill babies because most of them do. You can say liberals prefer wealth redistribution because most of them do. You can say liberals are idiots because most of them act that way. If you don't want to be generalized than stop identifying with a majority of people who act a certain way. Now, as far as what this administration does, I think, that if you read other posts by me you'll figure out that I'm not a particular fan of everything that this administration does. Try the one in which I'm asking what has happened to all the real conservatives. Or maybe my post about hypocricy on the right in the judicial nomination process. Then you'll realize that your statment is wrong and foolish. But I also don't believe in letting morons lay 100% of the blame for something like this at the feet of one man just because they don't like him. Or even at the feet of one administration. Most of what the libs do is politically motivated. They let buses sit and rot instead of using them to evacuate people and then blame it on the President. They turn the Red Cross away at the Superdome and then cry that the President is starving them. They have a government that is so corrupt and inefficient that anarchy reigns during a natural disaster and they try to lay it at the feet of someone else. The list goes on and on. Again I say, look at other areas that have been hit by the same natural disasters. NO ONE had the same problems. Does Bush just hate New Orleans? Or did he just not know what to do or how to respond in this one particular instance? Even though he had done the exact same thing six times prior in Florida over the past two years. Now, just so you don't think I'm simply shilling for Bush: 1. His immigration policies suck 2. He hasn't lowered taxes near enough 3. Spending is still out of control 4. Conservatives in congress act like money is no object when it comes to pork projects If you stil think I'm a shill, or a fanatic, or whatever then the best I can say is piss off because you aren't hearing what I'm saying. If you think I'm an ass, then you're right. I've got a low tolerance for stupidity and there are a lot of people in my life and on the web that are showing a lot of it right now. This whole stupid thing started simply because one moron wanted to come in and make blanket statements about the right, then when I respond in kind you want to attack me? Again, sounds kinda hypocritical to me. But hey, you keep on living in your little dream world where Bush is Satan and I'll keep on bashing you over the head with the facts. Anybody else want a piece?

Posted by: Drew at September 29, 2005 01:15 PM (Ml8z/)

18 oh come on. new orleans is nothing like any of those other places, and you know it. sure, project "hurricane pat" was total shit, and the local government can be faulted for inadequate preparation, but in an unprecedented situation like what happened in new orleans, where the emergency response infrastructure got the crap beaten out of it, if falls on the federal government to respond. that's one of the reasons we've been spending all this money -- so that if a crippling blow is dealt to a region, a coordinated response can be put in motion. preferably before people begin to die from residual damage. I don't think that bush is satan. i don't think anybody really does. I do believe that he doesn't care about the majority of people in america. If you're blugeoning with "facts" is to combat the notion that all fault leads to bush, than fine. he's certainly not the source of all our woes. but he is the president, and he does bear responsibility for the choices that this administration's made. your weaponized "facts" strain to imply that bush ill deserves the critisizm of the left, but i've parenthesized fact because you cleary pick and choose yours. you can beat someone over the head with a red bat as much as you want. it doesn't mean they don't come in blue.

Posted by: mc at September 29, 2005 01:54 PM (bX7ay)

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Jawa Report in MSM: Google and Evil in the Same Sentence?

Is the MSM out to wreck The Jawa Report? Yes. Er, at least that's what the CIA is beaming into my head through this uncomfortable tin-foil helmut as we speak. As you know, The Jawa Report is back in the Google News business. Just when I was trying to kiss and make up with the great provider of eyeballs, Pixy Misa of Ambient Irony sends me this Scotsman article:

Like many web users, I admire their anti-corporate approach and their pledges not to be evil. But now, some people are beginning to question if this terribly successful company might not be the new Microsoft. (For those of you you not au fait with these matters, there is a certain online consituency who view "Micro$oft" as the root of many of the world's evils)....
A site that does not have any Goodle ads on it is MyPetJawa.mu.nu. Referring to Revelation 13:16, it suggests that Google is the antichrist.
So much for "Don't be evil."

Did I say antichrist? I meant, incarnation of Christ. Come on Google, don't be mad......

Paranthetically I do have Google ads. I just love the irony in this site making money from ads from MAS, CAIR, and various Muslim Singles groups.

So, maybe it's me that's evil? After all, I didn't spend 6 years in evil graduate school just to be called Mr. Rusty Shackleford.

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September 06, 2005

Evil Bastard Slime-Toads

Got a spoof e-mail just now to another hotmail account, and it's really slick, and really sick:

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It is better quality than most spoof e-mails I receive, and the grammar is flawless. Only a close reading of the punctuation reveals it's a fraud. After searching out the IP addresses, I discovered the mail originated from a Singaporean web provider and the spoof site is hosted in Beijing.

I forwarded the mail off to stop-spoofing@amazon.com and I would encourage anyone else who receives this email to do the same. I lack the time to come up with sufficiently harsh invective to convey my contempt for these parasites. They are worse than looters, I believe, since they are effectively stealing from the Red Cross as well as from the owners of the credit card numbers they will steal. They prey on the generosity of good people, and they deserve no better than a looter would receive if he were caught stealing from the Red Cross.

PLEASE NOTE: This spoof e-mail did not actually come from Amazon.comÂ–it was mocked up by criminals in Asia to appear as if it came from Amazon. Amazon is another victim in this matter, as their reputation and relationships with their customers are damaged by it.

{Cross-posted at Patterico's Pontifications}

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1 Thanks for the heads up. Reason why I keep several email accts with primary unlinked and restricted to contacts only.

Posted by: hondo at September 06, 2005 10:58 PM (4Gtyc)

2 Hondo, do I know you? Your name is familiar, but your e-mail isn't.

Posted by: See-Dubya at September 06, 2005 11:15 PM (yCYiB)

3 Was a long time contributor on the old Vox Cap - disappeared after 9/11, only now looking for boards and blogs to converse

Posted by: hondo at September 07, 2005 12:22 AM (4Gtyc)

4 Ah. A friend from real life, posting occasionally at Ace of Spades and Oxblog, uses the same handle.

Posted by: See-Dubya at September 07, 2005 12:35 AM (yCYiB)

5 I'll look for him. It's an interesting handle if you've drawn it from the old book/film. Scoutin' for the Cav.

Posted by: hondo at September 07, 2005 12:43 AM (4Gtyc)

6 Hmm... Microsoft changing their political stand, replacing blue crash screen with red one. Now Windows users get a distinct hatred for red and vote blue, and no Bushes in the White House, unless the daughters decide to run and offer boobs for votes.

Posted by: A Finn at September 07, 2005 02:29 AM (cWMi4)

7 Yawn... Ever thought how long it would actually take to destroy the entire world leaving nothing but perhaps insects and bacteria alive? 10 minutes to irreversibly start to the process, if one happens to be in the Russian Army guarding old Soviet warheads... Really makes one wonder whether or not there's any point in helping or caring about other people instead of ruthlessly seeking longer, perhaps eternal lifespan and indestructability to avoid death when some guy with nuke codes decides he's had it with his life and wants to take everyone with him to nothingness.

Posted by: A Finn at September 07, 2005 03:07 AM (cWMi4)

8 Oh yes, sleeping... Well, depressing, boring morning read provided by: a Finn.

Posted by: A Finn at September 07, 2005 03:10 AM (cWMi4)

9 Dagnammit, I shall comment right wing semi-radical henceforth.

Posted by: A Finn at September 07, 2005 03:20 AM (cWMi4)

10 Thanx See-Dubya. I alway cursor over links in such emails to see where they're from. Some people though do fall prey to these scumbags. Good of you to bring it up. And I feel sorry for Finland.

Posted by: Oyster at September 07, 2005 05:15 AM (YudAC)

11 Thank you for your consern, but I only influence by boring people here, so there's really no need to think Finland might have to suffer the same kind of annoyance as comment readers do due to Rustys policy of not banning people if no-one takes them seriously or if they're not expert rightwing argument crushers or on a jihad. I'd hate to think Rusty thinks of me as a comic relief, since that means you have to suffer my presence for up to 3 hours a day if I'm really, really bored.

Posted by: A Finn at September 07, 2005 05:33 AM (cWMi4)

12 Oh yeah, which one is British, Oyster or sparky?

Posted by: A Finn at September 07, 2005 05:46 AM (cWMi4)

13 Never mind, Reeeeeeeeeetractor Chop! on my last comment.

Posted by: A Finn at September 07, 2005 06:07 AM (cWMi4)

14 I lack the time to come up with sufficiently harsh invective to convey my contempt for these parasites. I'd be happy to help....

Posted by: Brian B at September 07, 2005 08:11 AM (CouWh)

15 Rusty, it's time to do something about Finn. His posts are so pointlessly stupid that once I had gotten to the bottom of the page, I had forgotten what the post was about, and now have a headache. I think all that cellphone radiation has fried his brain.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 07, 2005 11:25 AM (0yYS2)

16 Figure that when a disaster like this happens there always some no good reptile wanting to make themselves rich these con artists should be thrown the gators

Posted by: sandpiper at September 07, 2005 01:48 PM (g1M1/)

17 Finn - your posts have absolutely nothing to do with the the thread topic. Apparently your just looking for a place to scribble your loose thoughts. I think a met you before in a subway station - off in the corner - having an intense argument - with yourself. Just two questions - who won the argument and which one pee'd in the corner.

Posted by: hondo at September 07, 2005 02:08 PM (4Gtyc)

18 Yeah, Finn, I've waxed Greg's posts for wandering way off topic before. So consider yourself warned. I was kinda proud of this post and then you go and shove a bunch of random crap in the comments... You can get your own blog for that, you know.

Posted by: See-Dubya at September 07, 2005 03:26 PM (firVH)

19 Or he could just join up with the Kossacks or the DUers. They'd love him.

Posted by: Oyster at September 08, 2005 08:25 AM (fl6E1)

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Saudis Kill Two Al-Qaeda Most-Wanted

(Damman, Saudi Arabia) According to an early report in the Arab News, two al-Qaeda members on the list of 36 most-wanted terrorists have been killed in a gunbattle outside a supermarket in the city of Damman in eastern Saudi Arabia. The two dead terrorists were identified as Zaid Saad Al-Samari, 31, and Walid Mutlaq Al-Radadi, 21. Two Saudi policemen also died from wounds received in the battle.

An area used as an operations center in Damman was put under siege by Saudi Security Forces.

"Sporadic gunfire is continuing around the buildings where the members of the deviant group are holed up," one security source said, adding that there were 10 suspects inside.
"The security forces have reinforced their positions and are bringing in bulldozers and additional heavy equipment."
"We're in no rush to storm the building as we’re hoping to capture them alive and obtain information about wanted terrorists," he said.
[ ... ]
There were unconfirmed reports that terrorists had killed one of their own colleagues when he tried to surrender to security officers.
The reports also indicated that the terrorists might have run away from Madinah after their commander Saleh Al-Oufi was gunned down by security forces last month.

The U.S. Consulate in the adjacent city of Dhahran was closed due to security concerns related to the shootout.

In an updated report from Reuters, Saudi Security forces stormed the terrorist stronghold and "cleared and secured" the area. A source estimated that at least six terrorists were killed and ten were wounded. Four policemen also died.

I think it's great that the Saudis are going after the al-Qaeda terrorists in the kingdom. However, they'll never win because they're fighting an enemy that continues to be resupplied with recruits from the Wahabi mosques and schools within the country. So, they're destined to fight forever unless the schools are reformed or dismantled which, of course, won't happen since Saudi Arabia is officially a Wahabi Nation.

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Gang Members Kill Sailor on Leave from Iraq, Wife and Baby Survive

If ever there was a case where the death penalty was called for, this is it. The suspects are still at large, but if it was me that found them.....

Osiel Hipolito's wife and unborn baby were also hurt. The baby was delivered later that same day. What do you say to a child who's birthday falls on the same day that her father was murdered?

AP:

A Navy sailor on leave from the war in Iraq was killed in a suspected gang shooting that also wounded his brother, pregnant wife, and the couple's unborn baby.
Osiel Hipolito, 20, was shopping at a strip mall near Compton with his wife and brother when he was assaulted by two men believed to be gang members, Sheriff's Deputy Scott Gage said.
"He goes to defend himself and one of the gang members draws a gun and begins shooting at the group," Gage said.
Hipolito was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The baby, a girl, was delivered prematurely with a leg wound. Hipolito's wife and brother were in stable condition, Gage said.

This NBC news report calls the baby, born hours later alive and well, a fetus. I'm shocked that a report could intentionally dehumanize this child in the headline and then report the same child is alive and well in the body of the article.

As in, "My father and this thing called a fetus--you know, this appendage attached to my mother which eventually became me, but wasn't really me until three hours later--were shot by gang members. My father died, but I survived. And by I, I mean the fetus which would become me, but wasn't me until several hours later. And by survived, I mean, well, er, I don't know, because how can something that is not legally alive survive anything?"

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1 I'm sure it was white guys that did it. In Compton. Yep.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 06, 2005 05:48 PM (0yYS2)

2 Careful Rusty, that kind of hate speech will get Google to pull your ticket pronto. You may only refer to the unborn even up to the point of crowning as: Fetus, Choice, Tissue, or as Dr Mengele at the abortion mill calls themÂ….Car, House and Pool payments. Just think, if Dr. Mengele dragged the baby out split her skull and sucked the brain out of this little girl 5 minutes before the low life Blood shot our Navy man, everything would have been all right with Pelosi, Kennedy and Boxer. Sons of bitches!!!

Posted by: Brad at September 06, 2005 05:58 PM (3OPZt)

3 I stoped being shocked by NBC's bigotry in 1957. Of course I'm old. They have used their "news" stories for opinion pieces since Korea. Tim R is a clasic America bashing NBC "reporter/host". So when I have control of the TV we do not watch chanel 4.

Posted by: Rod Stanton at September 06, 2005 06:17 PM (03F0I)

4 Like I keep saying, stockpile rope, because it can be reused and ammo costs money.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 06, 2005 10:06 PM (0yYS2)

5 Not very tolerant and feeling bad Howie says. Hangin ain't good enough.

Posted by: Howie at September 07, 2005 09:17 AM (D3+20)

6 Who cares if NBC called the child a fetus, baby, rugrat, little Johnnie or Suzy or whatever. There are much more improtant things to rant about than the use of one word. And I truly don't believe the child will care if one day he or she is handed an article in which they were referred to as a "fetus".

Posted by: J-Man at September 07, 2005 11:37 AM (b2hs0)

7 I'm not talking about "drop and snap", but "dangle and strangle", which is far less pleasant and more entertaining. There's also the visual impact and the added benefit of letting the corpses stay out for a few days, just so everyone gets the point.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 07, 2005 12:15 PM (0yYS2)

8 My father in law will shoot a squirrel and hang the varmint outside his riverfront cabin to keep other squirrels from coming around and eating from the bird feeders and the dog food bowls. They just seem to know that there is danger around the cabin when they see Alvin just a hanging there all stiff.

Posted by: Brad at September 07, 2005 12:36 PM (3OPZt)

9 Track down the no good low lifes and hang them from a tree without the idiot psyco-babble nit wits to offer this rediclous excuse why they would do it

Posted by: sandpiper at September 07, 2005 01:51 PM (g1M1/)

10 I was a commercial property appraiser in Compton back in the day (1996). I was asked to value a proposed shopping center in the heart of Compton. One of the big selling points was a police sub-station built in to the shopping center that contained a holding cell. You see, we take security seriously... This story is so way messed up. Is ANYONE able to get their brains around it?

Posted by: babs at September 07, 2005 03:00 PM (JgUhZ)

11 You know I read everyone's comments and you have a different point of view if you actually knew Osiel and his wife Liz. He was like my brother and I still can't believe he is gone after talkin to him 4 days before he was killed.

Posted by: joe at September 12, 2005 07:41 PM (ZbuwW)

12 I'm related to Liz and they finally, caught the basterd that did this. This is extremely sad and Osiel and Lynette will have to learn about their father and what happend through this reports and from loved ones.

Posted by: Mayra at September 16, 2005 12:00 AM (XVzGk)

13 My husband worked with Mr. Hipolito. I was so saddened to hear that this had happened to such a good guy. I am so hurt even though I never met him personally. My condolenses to his family and friends.

Posted by: Saddened at September 18, 2005 11:34 AM (6mUkl)

14 I'm reading all the comments, and I was stationed with Osiel. It hurts to hear what has happened to him because he focused on nothing more than his family. They were his world, and he would bring in pictures of birtday parties of his other child they have together. He was a good person who, for the two years I had known him, got along with veryone. He worked for me in the mainspace on the USS Germantown. I just left there two months ago, and to Pascagoula, MS. I can remember from when he first reported on board, he was always a person you could count on to get a job done and could be depended on by his friends to be there when they needed him. I'll miss him. Quick

Posted by: Quick at September 23, 2005 09:10 AM (PJ4Iq)

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Hell Freezes Over: Jawa Report Back on Google News

I think I'm going to cry. Those of you unfamiliar with our struggles with Google News can start here. It's been six long months, but we're finally back in business! Thank you Google News. Now, about that make-up sex.........

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