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The weblog of a killer: Joseph Duncan's personal webpage reveals sick mind and illusions of demonic possesion.

UPDATE 7/06: Groene family did not know Duncan.

Affidavit claims Shasta repeatedly molested, recounts horrible ordeal.

UPDATE 7/05: Videotape of Shasta Groene in a convenience store shortly before she was found here. Criminal information on Joseph Duncan Below.

Latest news:

A convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping Shasta and Dylan Groene (search) was due in court on Tuesday, as authorities awaited lab results that might confirm their fears the 9-year-old boy is dead.

"Possible" human remains were found at site in western Montana that authorities searched on Monday for signs of the missing boy. The grim news cast a cloud over the joyful reunion of Shasta, 8, and her father, seven weeks after she and her brother disappeared and her mother and two men were found brutally murdered.

Kootenai County Sheriff Rocky Watson said the remains were being sent to the FBI crime lab in Quantico, Va., for DNA analysis, which was expected to take three days.

Watson declined to answer questions, but the fact that he called a press conference at the place where reporters were following the Groene story indicated officials believe the remains were related.

"Unfortunately we believe Dylan to be deceased," Sheriff's Capt. Ben Wolfinger said after Watson's announcement. Shasta told authorities her brother was dead after she was found.

But family members said until there was proof Dylan was dead, they would continue to hope he would be found alive like Shasta was.

"At this point we don't have a confirmation. Until we do have a confirmation, our family is holding out hope that Dylan is still out there and needs to be found," Wendy Price, an aunt, told FOX News.

Demographic Information:
Date of Birth: 02/25/63
Sex: MALE
Race: WHITE
Height: 6-01
Weight: 150
Eyes: BLUE
Hair: BROWN

Residence Address:
KOOTENAI COUNTY JAIL
5500 N GOVERNMENT WAY
COEUR D'ALENE, ID 83815

Registration Information:
Expiration Date: Lifetime
Last Address Verification: 07/05/05

OFFENSES
1ST DEGREE RAPE - DUNCAN RAPED A 14 YEAR OLD BOY AT GUNPOINT. HE BURNED THE VICTIM WITH A CIGARETTE AND MADE THE VICTIM BELIEVE HE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED BY FIRING THE GUN TWICE ON EMPTY CHAMBERS. DUNCAN WAS TERMINATED FROM TREATMENT, SERVED A LENGTHY PRISON SENTENCE, WAS PAROLED, AND THEN ABSCONDED. DUNCAN HAD A LONG HISTORY OF SEXUAL AGGRESSION AS A YOUTH.
Conviction Date: 10/02/80
PIERCE CO, WA ,
Disposition: 20 YRS

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If you've had your head in the ground today then you'll want to know that 8-year-old Shasta Groene has been found alive six weeks after the grusome murder of her mom, mom's boyfriend, and her 13-year-old older brother. Dylan Groene is still missing and presumed dead but cops aren't certain that Dylan is dead or not.

There is some in-depth coverage about today's events at Conservative Thinking:
Shasta Groene Found; No Sign of Brother
Jumping into the Online Experience that was Joseph Edward Duncan III

There is going to be all kinds of news about this guy in the next few days. His rap sheet has been getting longer and longer by the day as authorities from the northwestern and north central United States report in to the media about what he's involved in.

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Dean Esmay has recently called for truth in labelling for those that embrace the insurgency. In that spirit, here are a few comments from reader's around the world. Especially important is the context in which these comments are made.

If you are a consumer of the more radical leftist media or much of the Arab press, you might be forgiven for believing the 'resistance' in Iraq is no different than any number of revolutionary movements--hence Michael Moore's Minutemen analogy. Further, the news you read would be full of alleged attrocities committed by U.S. soliders while such things as the intentional murder of civilians by the 'freedom fighters' would be downplayed or explained as a tiny minority of incidents.

If this was the news you were reading daily, you too would root for the Islamo-fascists in Iraq, because your perception of them would be quite different than reality. Hence, I have argued on this blog from day one that the Bush doctrine--that we will not distinguish between countries that support terrorists and the terrorists themselves--ought to be extended to media outlets as well. Any media outlet that openly supports those bent on creating a Taliban like state in Iraq are the enemy of the United States and legitimate targets in war.

Such was the case during WW II when Joseph Goebells, had he not taken his own life and the life of his wife and six children, would certainly have been tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his daily propaganda. It is also upon this principle which led to the conviction of Julius Streicher and for which he was hanged.

While such propaganda during times of peace may be seen as the price for an open society, the context of war changes everything. Words said in peace usually are harmless, but the same words during a shooting-war leads to death, destruction, and a continuation of hostilities.

What is the power of propaganda? I am convinced that most of the insurgents in Iraq actually believe they are fighting for a good cause. Further, they actually believe they are winning the long-term fight. If you were exposed to the daily propagandizing that they are exposed to, you might also. If we want to win we must convince those who may potentially go to Iraq to fight it is the insurgency that are the bad guys and that they are destined to fail.

Here is an example of a comment from a man who's IP address tracked to the Netherlands--which has a huge Muslim population and an even larger population of fascist apologists. What is so disgusting about the comment is the context in which it was given. The post described the taking of a Japanese hostage with an update that takes the reader to gruesome images of the dead man. Hans:

iraqi resistance has the right to defend thier land, what we see now is just the begining of long term fight..

i think the US is the real terrorist, and no matter what they do, this fight will never end, they are in for a more deadly and bloody Vietnam.
The so called terrorrist or insurgents are for me freedom fighters trying to free their land of occupying forces and they are doing well. for this to end the US must pull out of iraq because their main reason for going there is the oil and not WMD as claimed by bush. Shame to them!

YOU THE AMERICAN PIGS DESERVE WHAT THE GLORIOUS IRAQI FIGHTER FOR THE FREEDOM DO TO YOU> YOU BUSH IS A MURDERER>REMEMBER

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The press would have you believe that the Gitmo prisoners are docile and subservient victims being horribly brutalized by sadistic American soldiers. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Military authorities have previously disclosed some incidents of guard retaliation at Guantanamo Bay, which resulted in mostly minor disciplinary proceedings. What emerges from 278 pages of documents obtained by The Associated Press is the degree of defiance by the terrorism suspects at Guantanamo.

The prisoners banged on their cells to protest the heat. They doused guards with whatever liquid was handy — from spit to urine. Sometimes they struck their jailers, one swinging a steel chair at a military police officer.

Some prisoners at the U.S. base in eastern Cuba have gone on the attack, as in April 2003 when a detainee got out of his cell during a search for contraband food and knocked out a guard's tooth with a punch to the mouth and bit him before he was subdued by MPs. One soldier delivered two blows to the inmate's head with a handheld radio, the documents show.

In another case, an inmate threw a partially full urine bottle at an MP in May 2002, apparently because he believed the soldier had intentionally kicked his hospital bed. When the soldier threw the urinal back, the detainee grabbed a steel chair and swung it at guards before they subdued him.

Think about it, had these been American POWs in WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam etc, they would have been shot or hanged. What's amazing and the real story here is the amount of restraint our boys have shown.

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1 Sorry that this is off topic, but I think it is too important to ignore. Published: July 01, 2005 11:30 PM ET 'NEW YORK Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, presumably revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source, and what might happen to him or her. Tonight, on the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show, Lawrence O'Don nell, senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know that name--and it is, according to him, top White House mastermind Karl Rove. Here is the transcript of O'Donn ell's remarks: "What we're going to go to now in the next stage, when Matt Cooper's e-mails, within Time Magazine, are handed over to the grand jury, the ultimate revelation, probably within the week of who his source is. "And I know I'm going to get pulled into the grand jury for saying this but the source of...for Matt Cooper was Karl Rove, and that will be revealed in this document dump that Time magazine's going to do with the grand jury." Other panelists then joined in discussing whether, if true, this would suggest a perjury rap for Rove, if he told the grand jury he did not leak to Cooper.' Oh, oh!

Posted by: greg at July 02, 2005 07:23 AM (3D/yw)

2 Holy Christmas, that BUSH LIES bonehead might have been right about "Rove is Satan", even when blathering drunk or drugged! BUSH LIES is still a rotten punk, desert-dweller though. About Gitmo, those captives in there are real badasses, or local animal herders who have become so powerful behind bars that the Qaida uses them to boost recruitment. I'd rather have 'em put on trial than to have them be used as recruiters for the ugliest terrorists to come for America again. Call me stupid if you want, I say deny the Qaedas that recruiting asset.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 02, 2005 07:45 AM (ScqM8)

3 and then: 'Zogby Poll: 42% Would Support Impeachment Proceedings Against Bush Zogby | July 1 2005 President BushÂ’s televised address to the nation produced no noticeable bounce in his approval numbers, with his job approval rating slipping a point from a week ago, to 43%, in the latest Zogby International poll. And, in a sign of continuing polarization, more than two-in-five voters (42%) say they would favor impeachment proceedings if it is found the President misled the nation about his reasons for going to war with Iraq. The Zogby America survey of 905 likely voters, conducted from June 27 through 29, 2005, has a margin of error of +/-3.3 percentage points.' Another, Oh, oh, moment.

Posted by: greg at July 02, 2005 07:48 AM (3D/yw)

4 Published on Friday, June 4, 2004 by FindLaw 'The Serious Implications Of President Bush's Hiring A Personal Outside Counsel For The Valerie Plame Investigation by John W. Dean Recently, the White House acknowledged that President Bush is talking with, and considering hiring, a non-government attorney, James E. Sharp. Sharp is being consulted, and may be retained, regarding the current grand jury investigation of the leak revealing the identity of Valerie Plame as a CIA covert operative.' Reposted in light of the MSNBC revelation.

Posted by: greg at July 02, 2005 10:30 AM (3D/yw)

5 greg, didn't Zogby also say Kerry won the 2004 election? Anyway. Hmmm, so terrorists are "defiant" while our soldiers are "torturers"... is that about right, AP? FIlthy rag.

Posted by: Ariya at July 02, 2005 10:31 AM (IXXEm)

6 I don't put much reliance on polls. And especially ones which gather information from as little as 905 "likely voters". How many millions of "actual" voters are there? 120 million? 130 million? What cities did they call? How many in each city? Polls are simply guessing games and sometimes they get lucky. People grab at the one's they agree with regularly and see the one's they don't agree with as anomolies or they just ignore them. It'll be interesting to see if Rove is the guy.

Posted by: Oyster at July 02, 2005 10:33 AM (YudAC)

7 I just got back from the Live Aid concert. It's probably still going on. It's being held at Circo Massimo, the place where the chariot race in the movie, 'Ben Hur', supposedly takes place. I'm sure many of you neocons think it's all bullshit. Some of the hard core members probably think we should just kill the Africans and put them out of their misery. Maybe it is bullshit. I don't know, but it was fun. The Italian 'Yutes' are a fun bunch. I sat down on the hillside with a large group and we exchanged pleasantries. I didn't recognize any of the Italian bands and I think they were a little offended by that. I told them I remembered a great band from my last trip to Italy, Battista. They said he was indeed famous but he's dead now, so I apologized and they all laughed. I asked them if they had heard of Stevie Ray Vaughn and none of them had. Every once in a while I smelled something familiar. Something I hadn't smelled in decades. No not pussy, hashish. They say that of all the sensory modalities, the olfactory system can evoke the strongest memories.This may surprise you, but as a teenager I was a handful. In the 10th grade my mother found my stash of 1 hundred '747' qualudes. My mother told my dad and sent me off to live with him. My father was a visiting professor at the Univ. of Roma at the time. He was living with his new wife, a graduate student not much older than I. He really didn't want me around so he put me in a school to live, St. Steven's Episcopal (sp?)School in Rome. Everyone there was from a wealthy family except for me. One of the students was the son of the US ambassador to Italy. For Christmas, he and his family went to Saudi Arabia. And upon his return, using the cover of diplomatic immunity, he smuggled in to Italy a chunk of black opiated hash that was so fresh it was maleable and would liquify when lit. We split it up and each got about 10 grams. The most famous students were Idris and Rita Al Sanusi (sp?). They were both the sons of the deposed king of Lybia, King Idris. Idris was the heir to the thrown should the monarchy ever be reinstated. They didn't sleep at the school like the rest of us. Everyday, the drove to school followed by the Carabinieri, the Italian Federal Police. Kadaffi was out to kill them possibly. We were best friends. After school I'd hop in their car and get them high as the Carabinieri followed us. Although the offense for drugs was very serious at the time, I was immune from the law while I was in their car. Those were great times. I returned to the US the next year and we didn't keep in touch. I think about them from time to time, like tonight when I smelled the hash. I hope they're well and hope that someday Idris becomes King. I don't believe in monarchies, but he would make a good and kind king. I can't say the same thing about the younger brother, Rita though. Buona notte. Tomorrow I head south to the province of Calabria.

Posted by: greg at July 02, 2005 04:03 PM (3D/yw)

8 Ah the kaffirs Greg and his love toy DSM have demonstrated their ability to mouth the word of Allah as taught to them by the immans. Osama is overjoyed to see such wisdom by kaffirs, even though its harder to seperate them from the goats aand camels that are reserved for the glorious jihaddies. Continue your work and your vile relations will be ignored by the caliphate. Continue to spread the word of Osama.

Posted by: Osama at July 03, 2005 05:42 AM (DT110)

9 >>>"Oh, oh!" greg, don't hold your breath on this one. This is just another "scandal" in a lost list of failed Liberal scandals that have fizzled out with nothing more than a whimper. Rove is indeed mentioned in the notes turned over by Time magazine’s Matthew Cooper—but not as the source of the leak.

Posted by: Carlos at July 03, 2005 10:30 AM (UWO6N)

10 osama, is that really you? You're sounding more and more like a rightwinger every day. I'm very pleased with your progress.

Posted by: Carlos at July 03, 2005 10:33 AM (UWO6N)

11 "Osama" young imposterous man, you should be ashamed of yourself for being such a tasteless young naughty hooligan. Your dog has eaten your opium, pissed all over the cave you live in and then took a giant half-digested brillo pad and crayon steel wool rainbow dump right on your game plan. Just thinking of you makes me mad and I'm going out to shoot some more wasp's nests.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 04, 2005 06:06 AM (ScqM8)

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The following infidels, Zionist monkeys, and Crusador pigs get a fatwa for celebrating the Great Satan's anniversary! Click on the links below for blasphemy, heresy, and lies! Want to participate? Just link any of your most fatwa worthy posts to this post and send us a trackback. A fatwa will be issued below.

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Caption the above photo, get a fatwa!

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1 What about the original caption first? Then we can go from there... That must be an Israeli girl...

Posted by: Ariya at July 01, 2005 02:43 PM (IXXEm)

2 Edward Klein releases a photo from his recent book, "The Truth About Hillary" he says is proof of two of his assertions: That Sen. Clinton was deeply involved with lesbos (Code Pink) and Vince Foster. (Editor's note: Hillary Clinton involved with lesbos should not be constrewed not "good gay".)

Posted by: Editor at July 01, 2005 02:53 PM (adpJH)

3 golldang it! I screwed that one up... amend: ...Klein explained the lack of a face shot was to "hide his source". And "constrewed"[sic; correct: construed] was to be "conscrewed", you know, for a play on words. Is it Friday yet?

Posted by: Editor at July 01, 2005 02:57 PM (adpJH)

4 Victoria's Secret Wants You!!

Posted by: Bubbe at July 01, 2005 02:57 PM (cbAi4)

5 Ward Churchill’s girlfriend sits in the bedroom waiting to FRAG her lover when he gets home after finding out he was “CHIMPIN” another CU co-ed.

Posted by: Brad at July 01, 2005 02:58 PM (3OPZt)

6 "If you think you're getting in here, guess again"

Posted by: Jonathan at July 01, 2005 03:03 PM (wdVtc)

7 "Hipless 13-yeal old girl in big sister's thong plays with dad's gun."

Posted by: Carlos at July 01, 2005 03:12 PM (8e/V4)

8 Nice! The G in G-String stands for GLOCK.

Posted by: SayUncle at July 01, 2005 03:14 PM (CDrd/)

9 Is that a gun in your thong or...no, that's pretty clearly a gun in your thong.

Posted by: Eric J at July 01, 2005 03:16 PM (hrQvk)

10 Is that a gun in your pants or are you just happy to see me.

Posted by: Carlos at July 01, 2005 03:17 PM (8e/V4)

11 sorry Eric, I guess you beat me to it.

Posted by: Carlos at July 01, 2005 03:18 PM (8e/V4)

12 I'm going to blow your head off, but not before I fuck your brains out.

Posted by: Carlos at July 01, 2005 03:19 PM (8e/V4)

13 Power X2

Posted by: Darth Redneck at July 01, 2005 03:20 PM (PX+vn)

14 Basic Instinct II: No More Wussy-Ass Icepicks!

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at July 01, 2005 03:26 PM (JQjhA)

15 "Howie just wait till you get home you SOB. I called your desk 12 times already, Where hell are you at. And turn that cell phone back on you bastard I have not run up the phone bill enough yet. This usually occurs right after the last 4 calls when she did reach me. You think terrorists are scary.

Posted by: Howie at July 01, 2005 03:37 PM (D3+20)

16 [1] "Penis envy" is now officially an outdated concept. ------------------------------------------------- [2] "I discovered that while it was great for keeping whispy liberal boys at bay, Frank J. has suddenly begun stalking me." ------------------------------------------------- [3] "Speak for yourselves, girls (especially you, Jane.)" ------------------------------------------------- Plink in the pink. (apologies to all an sundry for this one)

Posted by: ccwbass at July 01, 2005 03:40 PM (wVtIP)

17 "Why do they hate us? Is it because we're murderous whores?" Thank YEEEEEW!

Posted by: sst at July 01, 2005 03:41 PM (zBFNs)

18 And I thought it took a while to get used to the "string in my ass" sensation.

Posted by: carin at July 01, 2005 03:44 PM (3OUyp)

19 LMAO! carin.

Posted by: Carlos at July 01, 2005 03:47 PM (8e/V4)

20 Katie Holmes prepares to surprise her fiance, Tom Cruise, with some suggestions for her character in the upcoming film, MI3: Hubbard Comes In From The Cold.

Posted by: tee bee at July 01, 2005 04:13 PM (q1JHF)

21 The worst part is getting a wedgie when I draw my gun. I gotta get a new holster...

Posted by: Gekkobear at July 01, 2005 04:14 PM (XWr9N)

22 "I have a gub." or Happiness is a warm gun Happiness is a warm gun When I hold you in my arms And I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm Because happiness is a warm gun -Yes it is.

Posted by: Aaron's cc: at July 01, 2005 04:34 PM (ov6Vw)

23 Daddy wanted to get us Uzis but couldn't find a concealed carry holster!

Posted by: Dan Melson at July 01, 2005 04:35 PM (8GGdx)

24 --------------------------------------------- "Take the Safety Off - Dial 976-GUNGIRLS" --------------------------------------------- Find Her Silencer - Win a $25 Gift Certificate --------------------------------------------- Calvin Klein Announces: Brooke Shields - Reloaded ------------------------------------------ Does This Handgun Make Me Look Fat? ------------------------------------------

Posted by: BumperStickerist at July 01, 2005 04:48 PM (ZmivM)

25 Shot in the ass and you're to blame...

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at July 01, 2005 04:53 PM (ScqM8)

26 Stretching the boundaries of "concealed" carry....

Posted by: Russ at July 01, 2005 05:19 PM (zShs1)

27 The question is, “What’s more annoying, the barrel against your cheek, or the lace in your crack”?

Posted by: Cindy at July 01, 2005 06:22 PM (48zd8)

28 buy now and save 50%--the glock strap.

Posted by: shawn at July 01, 2005 07:23 PM (kuSz0)

29 Ortho-Nova is marketing a new patch to the Second Ammendment Sisters. ______ Paris Hilton is ready the next time someone tries to steal her Blackberry. [OK, guys: tell me we haven't seen enough of Miss Hilton to know that's her non-existent derriere and almost non-existent undies!]

Posted by: Quid at July 01, 2005 07:46 PM (72bu2)

30 Conservative Dating. Meet the Red State girl of your dreams.

Posted by: William Teach at July 01, 2005 08:33 PM (HxpPK)

31 Feisty was glad to find a thong that matched her sweater and a gun that matched her pants so she could BANG! BANG! BANG! in utter style.

Posted by: Feisty at July 01, 2005 08:46 PM (QBrm4)

32 Do You really think you can handle this?

Posted by: Justin at July 01, 2005 09:30 PM (J7x9I)

33 This is why WE are going to lose you stupid FUCKS. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15797327%5E1702,00.html Assholes. No seriously, close your open browswer windows replete with porn, pull your pants back up, wipe the smirk off your face, and understand this at a fundamental level: WE are going to lose in Iraq at the current pace because the current climate of assholedom that you promote and/or subscribe to. And yes, I coined a term there. You're welcome... fuckstick.

Posted by: sst at July 02, 2005 12:08 AM (7VUbD)

34 Taking "pop a cap in your ass" to a whole new level.

Posted by: Will Franklin at July 02, 2005 12:31 AM (mXBZN)

35 Filing system for the anally retentive.

Posted by: greg at July 02, 2005 12:54 AM (3D/yw)

36 Don't even think about picking my weggie. Nothing gets between my calbins, except my automatic. sugar and spice and everything ammo. does my ass look big?

Posted by: Cav at July 02, 2005 02:21 AM (QGpLt)

37 Do it yourself tattoos. Inquire within.

Posted by: Chris Short at July 02, 2005 03:02 AM (0OCQY)

38 ‘xcuse me while I whip this out.

Posted by: phin at July 02, 2005 06:40 AM (DGPlf)

39 The newest Victoria's Secrets addition - "The Thongat Line" For those romantic evenings on the range, in the hood, or the trailer park.

Posted by: greg at July 02, 2005 08:15 AM (PXESm)

40 I didn't make the 8:15 post. Someone is impersonating me.

Posted by: greg at July 02, 2005 08:22 AM (3D/yw)

41 " Go ahead, make my day !"

Posted by: Michael Marler at July 02, 2005 09:27 AM (M7kiy)

42 If I get more more crack about my thong... I'll murderize ya! Does this thong clash with my Glock? Nice Glock! Thanks, I had it field stripped just for you.

Posted by: lawhawk at July 02, 2005 09:32 AM (It67r)

43 "The day my f***buddy also became my bodyguard" or "Let's see the Code PInk chicks do this."

Posted by: ratan at July 02, 2005 10:13 AM (pdzQc)

44 Yesterday, Senator Ted Kennedy presented evidence which he claims proves that Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld has sent the US military, most notably female soldiers, into combat without proper equipment.

Posted by: Graeme at July 02, 2005 12:12 PM (nzuqL)

45 The backstage competition was fierce for Tonya Harding,during the new Ice-capades mini tour "Trailer Tramps On Ice"

Posted by: Doug at July 02, 2005 12:38 PM (W+urw)

46 When you pry it form my... Nevermind.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at July 02, 2005 12:51 PM (ics4u)

47 Victoria's Secret reveals its new Gunderware line.

Posted by: Rodney Dill at July 02, 2005 01:29 PM (tGTSA)

48 Butt floss & a .45...........

Posted by: oxen at July 02, 2005 02:30 PM (D3EOk)

49 Hey ! I've saw that before ... thats a Redneck chastity belt ! The kind my daddy gave me growing up in North Carolina !

Posted by: Wanda at July 02, 2005 05:07 PM (ywZa8)

50 >>>"WE are going to lose in Iraq at the current pace because the current climate of assholedom that you promote and/or subscribe to." boo hoo hoo, I'm sure you're so worried about that. In fact you're hoping, nay, praying to goddess for it.

Posted by: Carlos at July 02, 2005 11:52 PM (UWO6N)

51 "I'll be brief Â…"

Posted by: ZiPpo, Imperial Privateer at July 03, 2005 07:13 AM (QaNJ/)

52 To me, that's a lady.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 04, 2005 09:41 AM (0yYS2)

53 "This gun is a real pain in the ass." or "Note to self: next time, no silencer."

Posted by: Venom at July 04, 2005 10:34 AM (dbxVM)

54 You are never wrong with a gun in your thong.

Posted by: Alnot at July 06, 2005 02:58 PM (pO1tP)

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So here are the things Howie found today. Submitted for your reading pleasure. And I wish people would stop calling with problems that aren't.

Iranian VP voice of '79 kidnappers.

Bush asks for fairness on Nominee to be named as early as next week.

Also we see that a team of special forces is still missing and the Taliban claims to hold at least one. This link may die quickly.

Iran progressing backwards??

A quick reversion of hard won social freedoms seems to be occuring right after that country's election.

full Story here.

David McCullough's 1776 exerpts. David has a new book out and they are reading exerpts each morning on NPR. Sounds pretty good. 102 Minutes on radio reader so far is pretty good. I was wondering if any of Osama's friends made the book.

Apparently Nancy Pelosi has upset several boggers while this is a bit stale it may still make for a good argument.

Captains quarters has a few things to say to start us off.

Full transcript of Ms. Pelosi's interview

Congress has cut funding for developers who use the recent Supreme Court Decision to push residents from homes. Like they will need it and this does not help small enterprise as far as I can tell.

Well that call I got sure put a cramp in my plan for deep editorial opinions. You may thank them below.

Have a fantastic weekend everyone and watch those fingies. But I like things that go boom.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin is on effin fire today!!

Good news, civilian casualties DOWN in Iraq.

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Take it for what it's worth, but it does bolster the theory offered in this post.

Times Online:

But today, an reformist newspaper in Tehran, Shargh, said that the Iranian students shown in the photograph were JaÂ’afar Zaker, a militant who went on to die in the Iran-Iraq war, and a student known only as Ranjbaran, who was later executed for alleged links to an extreme opposition group.

As for the American hostage shown in the photograph, The Times learnt yesterday that he is Jerry J. Miele, who was working at a communications officer at the Embassy in 1979. Reached at his home today in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, Mr Miele, 66, declined to comment on the photograph but said: "I don't have anything to say about the new President of Iran, I don't want to cause any trouble."

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No evidence yet Iran leader involved in 1979 siege

The article then goes on to list statements by the White House which amount to, "we're still looking into it", denials by the Iranians, and an interview with a former hostage who says he doesn't recall personally seeing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but he believes the others who say they did. Fair and balanced.

Related here and here.

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Ever want to e-mail a Taliban spokesman? You know, maybe find out his favorite color, which Beatles album he thinks is the best, or maybe what he thinks the prospects are for the AL taking the series this year.

Here are three e-mails from a pro-Talibam website with links to Mofti Latifollah Hakimi, spokesman for the 'Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan'. If you speak Pashtun, make sure to give him our best wishes!

alemarah@alemarah.com
alemarah1@yahoo.com
Khyber_safia@yahoo.com

As always, if you receive a reply, please FORWARD it to me immediately.

Interestingly enough, the website in question is registered to a man in Pakistan but is hosted on a Canadian server. Aren't there Canadian troops in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban today?

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UPDATE: Scroll down for updates.

Two days ago Iran Focus alleged that the photo below was of Iranian President Elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. We, of course, jumped right on the story.

Yesterday watching Hardball with Chris Matthews, one of the former hostages--I believe it was Don Sharer-- denied that the man in the photo above was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But he claimed that he was 100% sure that Ahmadinejad was one of his captors, but that the photo above was not of Ahmadinejad. He said that Ahmadinejad was only around occasionally and seemed to be a leader of some sort when he did come around.

Oxrant was the first that I know of to attempt to debunk this. I should have linked to it yesterday but I was busy being sick. Look at the photo comparison which he gives here. (Click image below for close-up)

It looks as if the critics may be right on this one. It should be noted, though, that noses can change over time. My father's, for instance, who broke his nose several times and it never looked the same. But having said that, Oxrant's comparison does seem compelling.

But wait....there's more. Oxrant notices some Freepers doing their homework here. The image compares recent photos of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to another person in the 1979 AP photos. Look at the man in the turtleneck, just to the right of the person circled above.

Were we simply looking at the wrong man in the photo? Go check out Oxen's other photo comparisons. Here's another page with more of the same photo comparisons.

CRITICAL UPDATE: Take this for what it's worth, but it certainly seems relevant. Times Online:

But today, an reformist newspaper in Tehran, Shargh, said that the Iranian students shown in the photograph were JaÂ’afar Zaker, a militant who went on to die in the Iran-Iraq war, and a student known only as Ranjbaran, who was later executed for alleged links to an extreme opposition group.

As for the American hostage shown in the photograph, The Times learnt yesterday that he is Jerry J. Miele, who was working at a communications officer at the Embassy in 1979. Reached at his home today in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, Mr Miele, 66, declined to comment on the photograph but said: "I don't have anything to say about the new President of Iran, I don't want to cause any trouble."

ANDREA MITCHELL:.... We have taken that picture, a number of pictures, in fact, to a former FBI photo expert, Chris. And he says that there is a less than 50 percent chance that the person in the photograph [ed: the one we highlighted two days ago] is the person that is now the president of Iran....

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about the—the question is, though—let me ask you to take a look at the picture again. This is the president-elect. We‘re going to show you a picture of the president-elect of Iran. There he is, the man on the right [ed: recent photo of Ahmadinejad].

The man on the left [ed: old AP photo that we highlighted] in the monitor you‘re looking at, Mr. Sharer, is someone who has been mentioned as someone who was close to you, who was one of the captors. It‘s really not important. But does the man on the left look like the man on the right you? And is the man on the left the man you remember as well?

SHARER: Yes. The man on the right [Ed: recent photo of Ahmadinejad] is the one that I saw that reminded me of it, and just about the same beard.

MATTHEWS: Right.

SHARER: Had a little half-inch, quarter-inch growth.

MATTHEWS: I know what you mean.

(CROSSTALK)

SHARER: And the man on the left [ed: the old AP photo that we highlighted], there‘s too much facial hair to really look at.

San Francisco Gate :

Six former American hostages have said they recognized Ahmadinejad.

"As soon as I saw the face, it rang a lot of bells to me," Don Sharer of Bedford, Ind., told CNN. The former naval attache at the Tehran embassy said he was 99 percent sure of his identification. "When you're placed in a life- threatening situation of that nature, you just remember those things," he said.

Another former hostage, William J. Daugherty, a former CIA officer who now lives in Savannah, Ga., said he remembered Ahmadinejad "acting in a supervisory or leadership capacity" during the early weeks of his captivity.

Retired Col. David Roeder, 66, who was deputy Air Force attache at the embassy in 1979, has told reporters that Ahmadinejad watched as interrogators threatened to kidnap Roeder's handicapped son in the United States and mutilate him "if I didn't start to cooperate."

In 1979, Dr. Daugherty was a young CIA agent. He was stationed in Tehran, the Iranian capital, when he and dozens of other Americans were captured and held for over a year. 25 years later, Dr. Daugherty says a familiar face from that time is now running Iran.

Last week Iranians picked a new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Daugherty says he's sure he was one of his captors.

"This is him, he's clearly- uh you can see he's trying very hard to look menacing and threatening here, here he's looking much more relaxed but you see the similarities in the nose, in the chin, the hair line, the eyebrows."

Dr. Daugherty is a professor at AASU here in Savannah now, teaching political science. He says he's not surprised the new president of Iran is one of his former captors. He says others have held positions in the Iranian government.

The Iranian government says these men are not the same person, but Dr. Daugherty says he knows they are.

"When somebody takes your liberty, puts your life in danger, causes your family great agony and humiliates your country, you don't forget who that person is."

UPDATE: Bryan Williams compares terrorists to Founding Father's. Sure Bryan, the British could have called the Founding Father's terrorists, just like Pakistanis like to call Osama bin Laden a 'freedom fighter' and Michael Jackson called Lisa Marie 'wife'.

UPDATE II: It gets worse, much worse. In our original post we noted that several unofficial biographies of Ahmadinejad claimed he was directly involved with murdering Iranians at home and abroad. Check out this from Dafydd over at Captain Ed's who found more from Global Security:

With the formation of the elite Qods (Jerusalem) Force of the IRGC, Ahmadinejad became one of its senior commanders. He directed assassinations in the Middle East and Europe, including the assassination of Iranian Kurdish leader Abdorrahman Qassemlou, who was shot dead by senior officers of the Revolutionary Guards in a Vienna flat in July 1989. Ahmadinejad was a key planner of the attack. He was reported to have been involved in planning an attempt on the life of Salman Rushdie....

Ahmadinejad, an unabashed conservative, resurrected the fervor of the 1979 Islamic Revolution during the campaign by saying Iran "did not have a revolution in order to have democracy, but to have an Islamic government." Ahmadinejad had a bloody background. He was responsible for the execution of hundreds of dissidents after the war.

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Well I've emaled Rusty again this AM. No response as of yet but maybe he will stir himself up and drop us a note later. Guest Posters have at it. I have maybe a few little items to post later. I'll try not to repeat my "OH MY GOD ITS DOWN" and post like a wild man. I think that response is due to 20 years working in DP 24/7. I've got that latest innovation a cell, phone provided by my fine employer that keeps me always on. It's just the culture. Remember the guy in Jurrasic Park trying to hack that morons password after he took the whole park down. Well that's me complete with mountian of cigarette buts. I run on Caffiene, Sugar, and cigarettes. So I get a bit wound up at times. Well except I'm not black or tall or good looking but you get the idea. If you readers have a subject think would make a good friday argument thread drop me a line.

UPDATE FROM RUSTY:

Bring out your dead!

I'm not dead yet.......

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1 Howie, Did you see the comments in the thread about the Iran President? they have a URL that says the wrong guy is being circled in the pictures displayed here. Might make for a update at least?

Posted by: dave at July 01, 2005 10:07 AM (fsJ2z)

2 Thanks dave but I just saw that Rusty seems to be updating things. Maybe he feels better and if so all I can say is. Hoooray!!!! Oh yyeeeeaaahhhhhh!!!!!

Posted by: Howie at July 01, 2005 10:12 AM (D3+20)

3 I think he's faking it. Doesn't want to blog...

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at July 01, 2005 10:21 AM (x+5JB)

4 Yeah but that's so unlike him. He must really feel crappy or be like indisposed. I worried about the guy all night. I'm kind of paranoid and he just let's me worry and worry. Bad Rusty bad.

Posted by: Howie at July 01, 2005 10:38 AM (D3+20)

5 Dave: oh yeah that is why everyone should post links. I can't be for sure myself. Even some of the hostages disagree. I do see a similarity in the pic. But also not quite certain.

Posted by: Howie at July 01, 2005 11:09 AM (D3+20)

6 Howie--I was kidding about Rusty.

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at July 01, 2005 01:42 PM (x+5JB)

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Fox News's Brian Wilson is currently on the phone live with the Fox News desk and has acknowledged that three independent sources that Justice O'Connor's resignation is going to happen. Brian Wilson speculated that there might be a letter to the White House en route.

More to Come...

Mary Katharine Ham says:

Just heard through the D.C. grapevine that Sandra Day O'Connor just retired. Very reliable source. I'll try to find more.

Updates will be seen at Conservative Thinking

Updated by Howie: I got a breaking news email from ABC confirming Justice O'Connor has retired.

http://abcnews.go.com/?CMP=EMC-1396

Update by Rusty: Er, uh, um-----ok, so I can't always be right!

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(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) A list of 36 wanted terrorist suspects along with a schedule of financial rewards has been issued by the Saudi Arabian Interior Ministry. Fifteen of the suspects are believed to be in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Twenty-eight of the 36 are Saudi citizens while the rest are scattered among Chad, Yemen, Kuwait, Mauritania, and Morocco. According to a statement released by the ministry, all 36 are al-Qaeda members wanted for terrorist acts inside the kingdom.

The reward scheme announced is generous.

Anyone providing information on any of the suspects that leads to the arrest of a suspect will receive SR 1million (US$266,000). If more than one suspect is arrested, the reward will be SR 5million (US$1. 3million). Reward for information that helps stop a terrorist operation is SR 7million (us$1.86 million).

With all the money being offered in bounties, i.e. $25 million just for Zarqawi, I'm surprised that there doesn't seem to be many people taking advantage.

Companion post at Interested-Participant.

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By Demosophist

The Academic Left's poster boy, Ward Churchill, advocates fragging "for peace." Well, we know there's no shame. But this can't help CU's fundraising or student recruitment very much. Are there any boundaries at all? I don't know, perhaps we don't want to stand in the way of people making complete fools of themselves and their ogranizations? But at some point won't well-meaning people start to think that if we don't draw the line somewhere, then maybe there's some flaw in the notion of patriotism, or the fight against totalitarianism? Won't they be justified in thinking we're not really serious? Is this a case of boiled frogs?

The irony is that I'll bet if someone advocated just beating the snot out of the guy he wouldn't hesitate to sue. (Hat tip: Instapundit)

(Cross-posted by Demosophist to Demosophia and Anticipatory Retaliation)

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I'm getting sick. RS v. 1.5 has been throwing up for the past 4 days. Looks like it's my turn. If I'm not back in a couple of days notify the authorities. Tell them Scott Baio has pinkeye and is on the loose.

UPDATE 6/30: I'm feeling much better now. Thanks for all the well wishes. But last night.......... more...

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Well first of all I would like to thank everyone bloggers and readers who took the time to send links and ideas. For me this site is all about getting to read Rusty and also read the comments of some of the brightest people I've seen. I started as a reader and I still consider myself to be just that. While I've been posting up here really it is all of you out there that make the site fun. So before I go a big thanks to everyone who has supported me. Rusty we all hope for your swift recovery.

Now one last thing. YBP wishes to discuss the very foundations of civilization. Since he sent links today I will oblidge him. And remember everyone watch the BP. It's the discussion that makes it cool. Let's not give ourselves a stroke now. I've got to go and do some real work too. I've been jumping back and forth so good afternoon all and....

Have a good one.

Link to the very foundations of civilization

Hat tip :YBP

Guest Posters: A big thanks to you too and feel free to continue as this will be the end of me for today.

Also for those bloggers that I referenced today. I'm still not up to speed on pings and trackbacks so my sincere apologies if I missed anyone or failed to do it correctly.

Updated : Rusty lives. I did get an email and Rusty says he feels a little bit better. I take that as was able to pull my head out of the bucket long enough to send an email. He says he probably will not blog today. Speedy recovery my master.

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I'll just say it's about time. I hope this comes to fruition.

"Ministers of member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in Yemen agreed to help "rebuild Iraq and enabling the Iraqi government to maintain security and stability," Yemeni Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi told reporters."

Full story here.

Hat Tip: YBP

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1 ill beleive it when it actually happens....fellow Muslims from other Muslim countries go to Iraq and construct schools, housing, office buildings, etc. instead of going there as scumbag terrorists to kill fellow Mulsims and destroy everything in their path...until than i will continue to doubt anything peacefull said by a Muslim

Posted by: THANOS35 at June 30, 2005 02:40 PM (RhtGz)

2 When hell freezes over.

Posted by: Carlos at June 30, 2005 04:29 PM (8e/V4)

3 Oh they'll try to help end it, but not by helping our side, but rather the insurgents. The Arabs have a strong track record of betting on the wrong horse. When we're done with Iraq we should invade the rest of them.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at June 30, 2005 06:47 PM (0yYS2)

4 IM:When we're done with Iraq we should invade the rest of them. Spoken like a true fascist!

Posted by: greg at July 01, 2005 06:46 AM (3D/yw)

5 IM:When we're done with Iraq we should invade the rest of them. Spoken like a true fascist. Bravo!

Posted by: greg at July 01, 2005 06:47 AM (3D/yw)

6 Greg, do you know what fascism is, or did you read it on Noam Chomsky's site and thought it had a nice ring to it? You see, fascism is a leftist ideology, conceived by Mussolini after he became disillusioned with communism and social-ism, which he considered too democratic. Mussolini was a fan of Nietzsche, as was Hitler, as was every other European monster of the early 20th century, and probably as are you. Fascism espouses constant conflict within a society, culminating within the complete destruction of existing civilization in order to bring about a new one. Fascism is not a struggle against barbarity for the good of civilization, but a struggle against civilization for the good of barbarity, just like all other leftist idologies. The one universal characteristic of leftism is its constant encouragement of class struggle, with its ultimate goal being the destruction of civilization as we know it. In the future as imagined by the left, there are no nations, no borders, no citizens, no rich, no poor, no rights, and no laws. There will be no nations because the UN will run everything. There will be no rich or poor because all systems of production will be destroyed. There will be no rights and no laws because all decisions will be made by UN commisars. All one has to do is look at Communist countries to see what future you and your friends have in mind for the rest of us. The only thing I promote is the liberation of all people from tyranny and to give them the chance to taste liberty and democracy. What do you promote? You promote fascism, not me. You promote tyrannical and murderous regimes, not me. You promote an ideology that has been responsible for the deaths of almost two hundred million people in the last century alone. You are misguided, misinformed, and misled, and you have no solutions other than "Burn it down!", which is typical of your kind, the true fascists. I know you and your tricks, so don't think you can toss out a word and watch me dodge it. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Kim, and you, are all birds of a feather.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at July 01, 2005 07:59 AM (0yYS2)

7 Here's where liberals (and moderates) are GOOD--if they're liberal (and moderate) MOSLEMS who are sick of the murders and help us to knock off (i.e. KILL) terrorists.

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at July 01, 2005 08:48 AM (x+5JB)

8 Syria and Iran are members of the OIC. Either they were out voted or they're bullshitting.

Posted by: greg at July 01, 2005 09:22 AM (3D/yw)

9 IM:'Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Kim, and you, are all birds of a feather.' They're more like you, idiot.

Posted by: greg at July 01, 2005 10:13 AM (3D/yw)

10 Carlos, Hell has already frozen over once. I know becaused I watched the Eagles "Hell Freezes Over" Tour. And the Eagles wouldn't lie.

Posted by: Butch at July 01, 2005 10:22 AM (Gqhi9)

11 Never beleive the Yemni officials or official news reports,normally they do the oppositite of what they say.

Posted by: Jane at July 02, 2005 10:20 PM (6krEN)

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Also today we have the fact that Time magazine is going to turn over reporter notes. While the journalists have refused to reveal their source their employer has caved.

Hat Tip: See Dubya (your advice did help)

Atricle here.

Also blogger John Cole has a post on the issue.

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Also today Michael L. Siegel has a discussion on the rebuilding in NY. Thanks Mike for sending the link. Osama may be interested. I'm trying to go quickly here as lunch is about over. Still more to come bit by bit.

Link to lawhawks post

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Whew where is Rusty when you need him huh?? Thanks for all the links and suggestions. I think I have enough to maybe get us through the day.

Michelle Malkin has a post on a Democratic poll showing that public support for Democrats is slipping faster than for Republicans.

Washington post story here.

Personally for me I think they pick the wrong arguments. The DSM issue for one makes me feel better. It's kind of like a space shot. You had better be thinking about it ahead of time. You can always abort at the last minute. And once the candle is lit, well there is no turning back. So the discussion of if would should have or not is dead to me. The candle is lit people.

Rusty seems to like Michelle so I think he would approve.

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