(Denver, CO) Following up on previous posts (here and here), 40-year-old Sylvia Ann Johnson was charged with sexual assault and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for hosting weekly sex-drug parties for teenage boys. In accordance with a plea agreement, she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor sex-assault counts and nine felony counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

No sentencing date has been disclosed, but Johnson could spend 58 years in prison if the book is thrown at her. Two felony drug charges were dropped as part of the plea agreement.

To summarize, Johnson committed the crimes because she wasn't a cool kid in high school and, as a result, it seems she'll be spending a nice stretch in the cooler. How ironic.

[Update 1820 EDT] According to this report, Johnson will be sentenced on September 26. Also,

Each sexual assault count carries up to two years in jail and a fine of $5,000, and each contributing count carries up to six years in prison and a $500,000 fine, according to Pam Russell, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

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Crazy, amazing story up at the NY Post. (Registration required-numbskulls!) Sources told the DEA that Osama met with Colombian cartel leaders, and discussed buying tens of millions of dollars worth of cocaine from them, poisoning it, and shipping it on to America to kill thousands of cokeheads.

The evil plot failed when the Colombian drug lords bin Laden approached decided it would be bad for their business - and, possibly, for their own health, according to law-enforcement sources familiar with the Drug Enforcement Administration's probe of the aborted transaction. The feds were told of the scheme earlier this year, but its existence had never been made public. The Post has reviewed a document detailing the DEA's findings in the matter, in addition to interviewing sources familiar with the case.

Damn tootin' it would be bad for business! (pun intended.) Let's see: the cartels have a guaranteed annual income in the, oh, high hundred millions from these people, and Mister Turban Pants here wants to murder them all at once? Ever hear that story about the goose and the golden egg? That's a no-brainer for these rational businessmen, especially since such a collaboration would cause America to go all Clear & Present Danger--or more likely, Without Remorse-- upon their comfortable, secure buttockses.

So it's no surprise that the cartels turned Osama down. What's surprising is that he made such an idiotic offer in the first place--if in fact he did, and this source isn't just shining the DEA on. (Which I think is the most likely explanation for this story.)

And the other huge surprise is that in 2002, the Cartel leaders allowed themselves to meet with this guy. That's a huge risk right there. In fact...

If this meeting really happened, I think what went down is this. The Cartels saw a huge opportunity here--negotiate with Bin Laden, shine him on, string him along...

...and put in a back-channel call to the CIA, saying that "we're meeting with Osama bin Laden at a certain secret place in a week, and we'll give him to you if you'll just look the other way on us for fifteen years. Nobody has to know, you guys just pick up OBL, and we just stay out of the picture and mind our own business".

That's what I'd do, if I were a cartel leader.

If you were President Bush, and you got that offer, what would you do?

PS: This Foxnews article has the same story without the registration requirement, plus a note about a story that somehow escaped my watchful eye: in April, we arrested Osama's (alleged) top heroin broker. In New York City.

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1 Yeah, but does that bus run on flatulance and flowers??

Posted by: MCPO Airdale at July 26, 2005 02:41 PM (WOQ34)

2 It runs on Freedom of Speech and the blood of our brave soldiers who shed it in an effort to protect it for her. I wish she'd stop crapping all over the people trying to truly help the world out. The stupid bitch.

Posted by: RomeoDelta at July 26, 2005 03:01 PM (AHaCg)

3 Completely tasteless shit. Don't make fun of handicapped people. You are helping the enemy. [changing your name doesn't help. Grow up and get a sense of humor, dipshit - MDV]

Posted by: Pigpen at July 26, 2005 03:24 PM (PX+vn)

4 ROTFLOL!!!! Hey, Pigpen, just rember, you are the one who specifically referred to Democrats as handicapped. I would presume you meant mentally.

Posted by: William Teach at July 26, 2005 03:54 PM (IRsCk)

5 Are you trying to imply that I am MDV? Well, you'd be wrong. Even though I've never met MDV, he strikes me as someone who would have the intestinal fortitude to be able to sign his own name to what he writes. As for your "grow up and get a sense of humor" line, isn't it you just paragraph above that says not to make fun of handicapped people? Lighten up, Frances.

Posted by: RomeoDelta at July 26, 2005 04:04 PM (AHaCg)

6 RomeoDelta, I put that in Pigpen's comment. He commented under a different name on a post I did a few days ago. But, after further review, I should give him kudos for noticing that Jane Fonda is, indeed, handicapped.

Posted by: Mad Dog Vinnie at July 26, 2005 04:12 PM (Kr6/f)

7 MDV - Thanks for the clarification. Feel free to strike my comments, as the premise they are based on is incorrect.

Posted by: RomeoDelta at July 26, 2005 04:18 PM (AHaCg)

8 Just so you know, I do know how to mask myself decently (check out my IP now, dear)... I just don't care to. Seriously though, calling a retarded person a democrat is insulting to the retarded people. There is a tastless old joke about arguing with people on the internet being like competeing in the special olympics (even if you win you beat a retard). I understand the humor in that and in your post, but I also don't think humor at the expense of mentally disabled folks is something that I want to be associated with... and if someone on my ideological side of the fence use the mentally disabled to make fun of our opposition, I am going to say something about it. If you can't let a post stand as posted- and you mock your opposition by name calling (calling them a tard)- you might be a liberal (not a redneck). Oh, and don't call me Francis, the name's Psycho.

Posted by: Col. North Pigpen at July 26, 2005 04:39 PM (YAEN3)

9 Wow, I'm impressed, you can shift IP addresses. That's uber-talent if I've ever seen it. When you figure out how to get around posts that have comments closed, let me know. The proper ending to the saying is "even if you win, you're still a retard." As for the rest of your comment, you do things your way, I'll do my things my way. Sound reasonable, Francis?

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Judges on Tuesday handed down a rare maximum life sentence with no possibility of parole to the Dutch-born Muslim who confessed to - and expressed no regret for - shooting, stabbing and nearly decapitating filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

The murder stunned the country, heightened ethnic tensions and raised concerns about homegrown Islamic terrorism here and elsewhere in Europe.

Mohammed Bouyeri, 27, had mounted no defense at his two-day trial for the Nov. 2 slaying of Van Gogh, whom he accused of insulting Islam, and told the court he would do it again if given the chance.

Sorry chump, as much as I would like to have seen you fry, be shot, hanged, or worse, at least I get the satisfaction of knowing that you'll not soon receive your 72 toothless French whores in Paradise.

Okay, back to work.

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Joe Huffman, who writes the blog The View From North Central Idaho, may have been fired because his employer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a government contractor, didn't like his views on the Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms. According to Huffman, he was terminated without cause and without any opportunity to defend himself. Huffman's full account of the incident can be read here:

With a two inch high stack of printouts from Huffman's websites in front of him, Sutherland and McMillan explained they had a problem with some of his postings, claiming that Huffman had released business and customer sensitive information on his blog. Huffman, who has a high level security clearance, had made indistinct statements about work on his blog. There was no classified information on any of his websites.

When Huffman asked for specific details about what was wrong, they refused specifics. He repeatedly ask for a copy of the printouts, but was only allowed to see the top page.

Via The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler.

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1 Go get 'em Huffman!

Posted by: -keith in mtn. view at July 26, 2005 11:37 AM (vbPWL)

2 Libs are true to their stalinist roots. And this post is yet more evidence that freedom today is threatened by the Left, not the Right. No, greg, I'm not saying they ARE stalinists, only that modern Liberalism can be traced in a straight line back to the Bolshevik revolution. What we have in modern Liberalism is basically a kind of soft stalinism, and it's "soft" because they don't have the force of government to back them up. Or they'll fire you if they can. Also, they'll rant and rage and try to shut people up using PC speech codes and accusations of "hate" and "racism" and "nazi", and blah blah blah. They're frustrated stalinists.

Posted by: Carlos at July 26, 2005 11:47 AM (8e/V4)

3 If PNNL had a problem with his blog for which they intended to fire Huffman, they needed to explicate what aspect of his employment was violated by his blogging and give evidence, and they needed to demonstrate how they warned him of the offense, which they didn't. Otherwise, they should have simply laid him off, exercising their right under an at-will contract, assuming that was their agreement. The way they did this leaves them open to a labor dispute that could cost, along with negative publicity that will have an impact on business and morale. But the joke's on them: Trying to silence Second Ammendment support among bloggers is just spitting into the wind.

Posted by: tee bee at July 26, 2005 12:01 PM (q1JHF)

4 I also support the Bill; of Rights. I am looking at 2 long guns in my office right now. I have used them to kill lots of animals which I like to eat. I will also use them to defend my family if need be. Progressives be damned! PETA is full of sh-t and so is Pelosi. Carlos - - Joe was a real as-hole but you should capitalize his name anyway. Why stop in 1917 why no got back to THE CAPITAL?

Posted by: Rod Stanton at July 26, 2005 12:02 PM (Z6yVb)

5 I agree Carlos. The thought police are gonna PC America right into the ground. I think I read somewhere that we used to be able to hate our enemies and say derogatory things about them. Must have been nice to be able to say what you feel instead of having to do the PC tapdance.

Posted by: REMF at July 26, 2005 12:08 PM (aLiCo)

6 Carlos:I'm not saying they ARE stalinists, only that modern Liberalism can be traced in a straight line back to the Bolshevik revolution. " Carlos, Good point. Read about the Jewish influence in the Bolshevik revolution. "Amongst themselves, the Jews are quite candid about their sympathy for and involvement in Bolshevism. On 4 April 1919 the Jewish Chronicle: "There is much in the fact of Bolshevism itself, in the fact that so many Jews are Bolshevists, in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism at many points are consonant with the finest ideals of Judaism." (Perhaps this explains why the Red Army uses a Jewish star as its symbol?) Probably the best-known exposé of the Jewish role in the Bolshevik coup d'état was by Sir Winston Churchill, writing in the Illustrated Sunday Herald of 8 February 1920. Churchill wrote "With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of leading figures are Jews. Moreover the principal inspiration and the driving power comes from Jewish leaders." Communism was of course founded by Karl Marx whose grandfather was a rabbi by the name of Mordeccai. Marx was given his initial encouragement by a Communist-Zionist by the name of Moses Hess. As founder and editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, the main organ of leftist thought in Germany, he provided Karl Marx with his first important platform. Later, in Brussels, he collaborated with Marx on The German Ideology. It was Hess too who converted to Communism Friedrich Engels, the wealthy textiles magnate who later subsidised Marx from the profits of sweated labour in Britain and Germany. When the Bolsheviks overthrew the short-lived democratic government in Moscow and St. Petersburg in October 1917, it was a virtual Jewish coup d'état. The most prominent Jewish Commissar was Trotsky, real name Bronstein. He had been married by a rabbi in 1900, and whilst in exile in New York he had worked for Novy Mir, described in the Church Times (23 January 1925) as a "Yiddish newspaper." The various reporters and diplomats who were there at the time of the "Revolution" have given evidence as to its Jewish nature. The widow of the Guardian's correspondent Mrs. Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams wrote: "In the Soviet Republic all the committees and commissaries were filled with Jews." The most detailed description of Jewish influence in the Bolshevik 'revolution comes from Robert Wilton, the Russian correspondent of The Times. In 1920 he published a book in French, Les Derniers Jours des Romanofs, which gave the racial background of all the members of the Soviet government. (This does not appear in the later English translation, for some odd reason.) After the publication of this monumental work, Wilton was ostracised by the press, and he died in poverty in 1925. He reported that the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party was made up as follows: NAME NATIONALITY Bronstein (Trotsky) Jew Apfelbaum (Zinovief) Jew Lourie (Larine) Jew Ouritski Jew Volodarski Jew Rosenfeldt (Kamanef) Jew Smidovitch Jew Sverdlof (Yankel) Jew Nakhamkes (Steklof) Jew Ulyanov (Lenin) Russian Krylenko Russian Lounatcharski Russian " Read,'Robert Wilton, Russia's Agony (191 and The Last Days of the Romanovs (1920)." In 1920 he published a book in French, Les Derniers Jours des Romanofs, which gave the racial background of all the members of the Soviet government. (This does not appear in the later English translation, for some odd reason.) http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/wilton.html

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 12:10 PM (/+dAV)

7 Mark, Not my writing, merely a quotation.

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 01:58 PM (/+dAV)

8 Mark, I just checked and you are wrong! The Russian Red Star has 5 points: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6537645495&category=36070

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 02:01 PM (/+dAV)

9 Mark Flacy:"Perhaps this indicates that you are unable to count to 6." Perhaps you should shut the fuck up. Perhaps you have 6 fingers and play a hell of a banjo.

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 02:04 PM (/+dAV)

10 hm, I think his point was greg that the star of david, has six points, the Russian star you said has five, so how was he wrong?

Posted by: dave at July 26, 2005 02:14 PM (DO6vD)

11 Yes, I see. My apologies Mark. I think the rest of the article is very interesting though.

Posted by: greg at July 26, 2005 03:13 PM (/+dAV)

12 Carlos: Excellent post. But why do you always have to get Greg the traitor started on the JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOish thing.

Posted by: greyrooster at July 26, 2005 08:42 PM (CBNGy)

13 And Greg the traitor calls Greyrooster a racist. HA!

Posted by: greyrooster at July 26, 2005 08:43 PM (CBNGy)

14 I'm still astonished that Rusty allows this anti-semitic slime to comment here.

Posted by: SPQR at July 26, 2005 10:05 PM (xauGB)

15 How can it be anti-Semitic when it is the truth?

Posted by: greg at July 27, 2005 08:52 AM (/+dAV)

16 Bluto, interesting post, but can I have my comment back? I was addressing the topic, and then all hell broke loose. What kind of cave dweller draws corollaries from star points, and still gets it wrong?!? Pearls before swine and all.

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It's simple, the time of unions being powerful and relevant has long since past. Early in the 20th century when workers were oftentimes exploited by immensly powerful and heavy handed corporations the union was a natural, dare I say, even needed result.

The federal government oftentimes sided with the corporations (because they frequently were on the payroll as well) little power and few protections were afforded the average working man. The unions helped to fill the vacuum. They leveled the playing field forcing companies to negotiate with a partner of co-equal or near co-equal strength. Corporations were still powerful, profitable and growing but the situations improved for the average worker as well raising his pay, benefits and overall standard of living while at the same time affording him some basic protections.

Somewhere along the line the federal government decided they needed to be the protectorate of the American working man. Over a period of decades literally thousands of laws, edicts and madates spewed from within the bowells of the bureaucracy provided a giant "bubble" of collective immunization for the multitudes of average Joe's. This concurrent with the progressively increasing greed of the unions began to spell the end.

Companies no longer bargained from a position of superior or even co-equal power. They became the underdog being battered frontally by the unions and flanked by the federal government. Productivity waned, profits suffered. The corporations began to realize that they could not win a war against two such overwhelming opponents head to head.

The strategy they developed was multi-faceted and ingenious. First, when a union or the federal government makes doing business at a profit unfeasable, close up shop. Either move to a non-union area of the country or move offshore or even shut down completely. Second, preempt the union. Offer higher salaries, more benefits, better working conditions up front. A happy employee does not want to rock the boat. If he believes the union will not make things significantly better for him, why bother. The union wants 15% of his pay; Why vote for a union when the federal government and the company will do it for free. Lastly, eliminate as many working people as possible. If there is a machine that can do it, buy it. If there's technology out that that can eliminate men from the payroll, incorporate it. No matter how long it takes to break even on the investment, it's worth it. And so the paradigm has changed.

The Teamsters are right about one thing, the political obsession of the AFL-CIO has hurt them. After all at least a third of the card carrying union members vote Republican. It irritates these 30% that a big chunk of what was formerly their money is going to prop up Democrats. Many causes of which they personally disagree are being funded by their dues and that creates animosity in the ranks. The unions for a long time now have neglected to dance exclusively with the person that brung em.

Union membership is declining precipitously. Company's that continue to be beat up by them are destined to take one of the above courses of action. There may come a time when the only workers in this country remaining unionized are federal and municipal government employees. After all being that profit is not an issue, it's only the government as an employer who still is content to allow themselves to be extorted.

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The Teachings of Derwyn Lackey is a post written by a former student at the Center for Purposeful Living and takes you down the dark path of a cult "guru". I'd strongly recommend that everyone reads it.

I've also created a category at Our Life to house these posts to create a "one-stop-shop" for those seeking information about the group:

CPL/HSA/UfHG

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I hate writing this, but a good guy is grieving. Ron G., who writes the hilariously funny blog The Therapist, lost his father today.

Please send him your best, no matter what side you're on.

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Call me Donald Trump. Ok, not me exactly, but call loyal reader, Filthy Allah, Donald Trump. Thanks to his efforts, a British jihadi named Wasim Majid got fired.

On June 9th we posted some e-mail addresses from an al Qaeda support group masquerading as an X-Box bulletin board asking you, the readers, to e-mail these sons-of-bitches. To our surprise, one of the terrorist-loving assholes responded to quite a few readers.

It turns out he was British. Oh, and he worked for an immigration law-firm. Just the kind of person the Brits want working at an immigration law-firm: a jihadi or jihadi supporter.

Who knows, this piece of filth may have used his position to help other terrorist supporters into the U.K.? Pretty scary to think that pro-terrorist forces might become immigration lawyers and use their positions to bring more terrorists into Western countries.

Filthy Allah decided to contact the man's employer about the e-mail exchange he had with him. Long story short, just a few weeks after 7/7 the British law-firm has done the decent thing and fired Wasim Majid.

See ya, wouldn't want to be ya!

Note to British authorities: Now that Wasim is sans job, it might be in your best interests to keep an eye on the guy. Unemployment often gives rise to suicidal tendencies. Call me crazy, but the thought of a suicidal al Qaeda supporter wandering the streets of London makes me worry. Just a little.

UPDATE: And thanks to Jawa guest-poster The Dread Pundit Bluto, a jihadi journalist may have been fired! more...

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What is this? Don't these people have JOBS?

I couldn't wait to get home and post about Jane "Terrorists Need Love Too" Fonda's Leftard Express, but, alas, Both Chad and Suzanne beat me to it. Curse you!

I do have something to add though. I hope everyone will step up and get themselves some of these:

You can purchase them here.

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In an unattributed story on Friday, UK shrieking leftist paper The Guardian announced the firing of "journalist trainee" Dilpazier Aslam (who wrote this revolting opinion piece and turned out to be a member of a terrorist sympathizer organization), and may have libeled poor, inoffensive Bluto in the process:

Rightwing bloggers from the US, where the Guardian has a large online following, were behind the targeting last week of a trainee Guardian journalist who wrote a comment piece which they did not care for about the London bombings.
The story is a demonstration of the way the 'blogosphere' can be used to mount obsessively personalised attacks at high speed.

Perhaps the most extreme blog was posted by "dreadpundit", a right-wing New Yorker using the name "Bluto". He wrote: "Okay, Dilpazier, I've decided to bow to your 'logic' - sauce for the goose and all that. That's why I'm issuing a secular fatwah and asking for some loyal Briton to saw off your head and ship it to me (use Fed-Ex, please, so I can get a morning delivery, and do remember the dry ice, also, a videotape of the "execution")."

Disclaimer: I am not really interested in receiving the head of Dilpazier Aslam, nor do I advocate any act of violence against him. The spurious request is made to demonstrate via reductio ad absurdum that Aslam's logic is invalid, and, indeed, sophomoric in the extreme. This disclaimer is made because there is such an enormous number of imbeciles who advocate Leftist ideologies and who cannot be depended upon to recognize satirical comments. Forceps babies, each and every one of them.

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Jane Fonda to Oppose Iraq War on Bus Tour

Jane is up to her old traitorous tricks:

Actress and activist Jane Fonda says she intends to take a cross-country bus tour to call for an end to U.S. military operations in Iraq.
"I can't go into any detail except to say that it's going to be pretty exciting," she said.
Fonda said her anti-war tour in March will use a bus that runs on "vegetable oil." She will be joined by families of Iraq war veterans and her daughter.

I dare any politician who pretends to be in favor of the war on terror to stand up and call this woman what she really is--a traitor to the American way.

I'm waiting.

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Former Prime Minister John Major says that those who 'spit hate' against the Anglo-Saxon way of life should be deported.
Good for him:

People who "spit hate" at the British way of life should be deported, Tory former Prime Minister John Major said.

Mr Major spoke of the "uncomfortable reality" that many terrorists were born or lived in the UK but had been taught to hate its culture.
"There seem to be many people who, for reasons that are irrational, dislike the Anglo-Saxon way of life," he said.

He called for heavier penalties for those who incited violence at this "particularly sensitive time".

"Always difficult to balance this against freedom of speech but I think, at the moment, it is justifiable to protect the public," he argued.

Mr Major added: "As far as those who literally spit hate at our country and there are some of them - they spit hate at our country and they incite - I personally would be prepared to deport those where it is clear that what they are doing is causing civil unrest and may cost other people, as a result of that, their lives."

God bless this man. Now let's just hope that the politicians will hear reason and DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

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Euhporic Reality is rolling out an incredible story concerning Team 24 during the Vietnam War. It will be in seven parts so this is something I shall check back for. Thus far the team is deep in the jungle in Vietnam and about to be surrounded by the NVA.

This type of story is what medals are given for. Who knows, maybe these men did get medals. We have to read more to find out.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

And speaking of the Vietnam War, Jane Fonda apparently didn't get enough publicity during her book tour. She is planning on taking a bus (running on vegetable oil) trip to oppose the war in Iraq. Perhaps we should try to get her a meeting with the enemy in Iraq too. The difference being of course our enemy today would kill her instead of allow her to hang from the weaponry.

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This makes me so mad:

Ricky Martin ought to stick to what he knows. The singer-turned-humanitarian is in the Middle East this week, and is vowing to change public perceptions of Arab youth:

"I promise I will become a spokesperson, if you allow me to, a spokesperson on your behalf. I will defend you and try to get rid of any stereotypes," the 33-year-old singer told youngsters from 16 mainly Arab countries at a youth conference on Monday.
The children, ages 14 to 16, expressed concern about being labeled as "terrorists" by the West.
"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing," said Martin, who was born in Puerto Rico.
"Those comments are made out of ignorance and we have to sometimes ignore the ignorant, but we also have to educate the ignorant. You have me here as a friend," he said.

OKOK. Up to this point, I'm fine. Go for it. I mean, it's a free world, dowhatevahyawant. This is my problem:

Martin, whose hits include "She Bangs,""Shake Your Bon-Bon" and "Livin' La Vida Loca," posed for photos with fans, at one point draping over his shoulders a traditional Arab kaffiyeh headscarf with the slogan "Jerusalem Is Ours" written in Arabic on it.

Oh. OK. Funny. The terrorists feel that that Jerusalem is theirs, too.

B'uh? ... I mean, if he's trying to promote a more compassionate opinion of Arab youth, I mean, that they're peace-loving and not terrorists...shouldn't he start off by not wearing slogans that have been exciting war and bloodshed SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME???

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Ya'll know what to do.

We have a winner!

Darleen, from Darleen's Place, for:

"New PETA convert attempts proselytizing canivores wherever he finds them."

There were so many excellent entries the rest of you get second place.

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Howdy, friends. Were any of you unfortunate enough, as I was, to see the newest incarnation of "War of the Worlds"? Jeeebus, that sucked.

But part of the premise was interesting. To soften up the world's infrastructure, the aliens employ this thing called an EMP blast. Knocks out every piece of electronic equipment for hundreds of miles and fries it. When that happens, of course, chaos ensues and the world is ripe for the plucking. No radio. Even the cars won't start. A flash in the heavens, and we're in 1889.

Maybe y'all weren't aware of this, but the EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) isn't just science fiction. Any nuclear explosion in the atmosphere can make us go Dark Ages, and we're totally not set up to deal with it. Read this piece by Frank Gaffney in Imprimis, it'll get you up to speed.

Think about this: Let's say China wants to invade Taiwan and America has a President with some cojones who says, wait a minute, buster. Well, instead of incinerating an American city and provoking massive retaliation, China just lights off three megaton-range nukes way up in the sky--one over the east coast, one over the west coast, and one dead center to shut down NORAD and such like. Or skip the middle one, and light them off twenty miles from shore in international waters. "Wow, look at those nuclear tests we just launched!"

No American would probably even die as a direct result of the blast. (Fallout, rioting, etc. would cause a load of trouble, of course.) But by the time we get back online, and figure out what hit us, there's a PRC flag flying on Taipei.

Friends, this is one more reason we need to get serious about some sort of missile defense system for America. Land-based, space-based, whatever works. (I'm thinking space-based so we can tag incoming rockets in the boost phase, i.e., on the way up; however a lot of people don't think that a space-based system is practical.) We need to keep nukes out of the hands of terrorists, sure, but a lot of bad guys already have missiles that can reach our shores (including North Korea). And according to the article linked above, Iran is test-launching missiles in a manner consistent with EMP deployments.

Okay, back to terrorism.

--See Dubya

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Here's a reader comment from 'Malik' who writes from the exclusive area of Marina Del Rey, California. Scary thought that a jihadi or one of their supporters is a) American b) rich. Notice that he identifies America as YOU although he posts from an exclusive area of the California coast and writes like a native.

America it's time for you to be oblieterated just the way the all-mighty Romans were by the Barbarian hordes. See, they never thought they were vulnerable. They thought they had everyone standing at their doorstep well below. How ironic that history repeats itself...hmmm....

PS-Spent the day at my brother's house in Huntington Beach. Man, it's like 15 degrees cooler down there. Lucky bastard!

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By Demosophist

Today a Texan with a name that sounds like it ought to belong to a character in a Buck or Roy Rogers movie won the most grueling elite endurance contest on the planet for the seventh straight time! If he had never been near death with the "big C" today's accomplishment would've been enough. Indeed, it would have been enough had he stopped six years ago, after winning in 1999, but his recovery and return to bicycle racing not only at the top of his sport, but to create a legacy that will probably never be matched, has inspired people I love to fight against a similar infirmity. (Isn't it odd that he's the second great American cyclist in 20 years to live such a lesson?) more...

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BBC:

The Iranian judiciary has said that human rights abuses have been taking place in the country's jails.

A report drafted over several months says prison guards
have ignored a legal order banning the use of torture by blindfolding
and beating detainees.

It also criticises police for arresting people without sufficient evidence.

Why, I'm shocked and outraged, I tellya.  Who'da thunk it? 

I'm going to sit back, grab a snack, and see how long it takes Amnesty International to label Iranian prisons the "Gulag of our time."  Nah, they and the rest of the Axis of Appeasement will praise Iran for its newfound openess and transparency, and will call for America to be more like Iran.

Oh, but wait, there's more.

"We've taken steps and we can proudly state that all
these failings have now disappeared," Abbas Ali Alizadeh told AFP news
agency.

"Iranian prisons are among the best in the world."

The report found that some suspects were held in
undeclared detention centres run by a plethora of different security
organisations.

Inspectors were not allowed access to detention centres operated by the elite Revolutionary Guards, it said.

Probably because THOSE detention centers are such a model of rehabilitative gentility.  If these prisons were inspected, why, there would be such a rush to Iran to copy their model of pleasant incarceration that the country just couldn't handle the scrutiny.  I for one, am just happy to hear that Iran has cleaned up its prison procedures.

CP@VAM

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