LetÂ’s see here aside from the evil McChimpy Hellibacon conspiracy with the JOOS to buy the umpires and catapult Houston to the Word Series. Yes itÂ’s them. Or it could be like my team sucks or the score at the end of the game or some shit like that. The umpires sucked equally hard for both teamsÂ… Â…or did they?

La Russa yer outta here!!!!!! Hey thatÂ’s a good idea.

What else is going on hmmm...???

TerroristÂ’s have recruited about 70 from UK in the last year via online.

Jihad Watch & The Times of London.

Watch for the Transcript of the FNS DICK Durbin interview that is if they ever get round to posting it. DICK will explain his partyÂ’s plan to win the war which is.......AHHHHH.err... to shoot holes in someone elseÂ’s plan. Sounds like a winner there DICK. While you were thinking that up guess we have been doing? Also if they ever post it see why Condi Rice is the smartest person on DC.

Paraphrased “No I would never want to run for President”.

I canÂ’t freakin quote it till you post it if you have it must be in tiny little print Chris you puffed toad you. Actually if you think about it Durbin looks more like a toad. It was like two puffed toads in a debate each puffing a little bigger. Wallace won.

Updated: OK transcript up. And here too.

And now back to Baseball....

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Al-Zawahiri has posted a statement saying this is a fabrication of the Black House.

Right Doc. So we would fabricate the best advice anyone could give Zaqueery. Nice try, of course you must disclaim it to raise doubt. Al-Qaeda is losing and you know it. Muslim public opinion is against you as they are seeing you for what you are, murderers. You bring nothing but suffering on those you say you fight for.

CNN:

Responding to al Qaeda in Iraq's denial, a spokesman for the U.S. director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, said top officials in the U.S. government are confident the letter is real. The spokesman said the letter was "verified by multiple sources over an extended period of time."

So Doc. Are you saying that Shia Slaughter in Iraq is just fine and dandy or what? That the murder of innocents and beheadings are exactly what Al-Qaeda should be doing? Or is the letter real? One or the other Doc.

Aso here on FOXNEWS

Also See Chad Evans' take at In the Bullpen.

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1 sounds like Zawahiri learned all about deniable culpability from DailyKOS. Seeing as it looks like his advice has been ignored, and in theory he's been made to look irrelevant by the "young dog" I'd be denying that I sent it too.

Posted by: dave at October 13, 2005 05:28 PM (CcXvt)

2 It must suck to use snailmail these days, and you just know they hate not being able to swap goat prØn like in the good old days when they didn't have to live in caves and had all the boys they cared to bugger.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 13, 2005 09:43 PM (0yYS2)

3 Looks like the Moslems originally believed that the reports of the atrocities committed in the name of Allah were either lies or exaggerations. I think they are learning otherwise through improved communications over the internet with corelegionists, as well as the personal experience of having to put up with the Taliban types.

Posted by: Phillep at October 13, 2005 10:37 PM (AYVCN)

4 Nearly every comment on Kos either denies the letter is real or has turned it around to poke fun (and be outright snide) toward the US. Why don't they all just take a one way trip east? Oh, because they like their freedom? That nasty little fact keeps popping up, dammit. Nevermind that the buggers are selfish with the concept of freedom. It's not good enough for others. I'll stop here before I start shouting epithets.

Posted by: Oyster at October 14, 2005 07:04 AM (YudAC)

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Today is five years since the Cole was bombed by Al-Qaeda while refueling at the port of Aden in Yemen. Michelle Malkin Asks that we all note this on our blogs. Below find a quote form some of Michelle's work from 2001.

Malkin:

BEFORE 9-11, there was 10-12. On this dark day, one year ago, a bomb ripped through the U.S.S. Cole - and tore apart the lives of 17 American families who lost loved ones in the terrorist attack...

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The US had released a full transcript of a letter to Al-Qaida in Iraq. The letter intercepted last week spells out Al-Qaida's plans. They are counting on the US backing out of Iraq and then using Iraq as a base to spread westward to Syria and Lebanon and then to attack Israel.

Yahoo News:

"Things may develop faster than we imagine," Ayman al-Zawahri wrote in a letter to his top deputy in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam — and how they ran and left their agents — is noteworthy. ... We must be ready starting now."

Al-Zawahiri also worries that Zaqueery is screwing things up. My opinion is that Zaqueery has indeed hijacked the resistance and Bin Laden and Al-Zawahiri are no longer in control. The Al-Qaeda leadership realize they have a madman in Iraq and are desparate to control him. The recent beheading of hostages I feel is a thumb in the eye to the old leadership of Al-Qaeda and Zaqueery asserting his control.

We don't want to repeat the mistake of the Taliban, who restricted participation in governance to the students and the people of Qandahar alone. They did not have any representation for the Afghan people in their ruling regime, so the result was that the Afghan people disengaged themselves from them. Even devout ones took the stance of the spectator and, when the invasion came, the amirate collapsed in days, because the people were either passive or hostile.

Read the whole transcript here.

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See California Conservative for the details. I've been so busy I have several things I wanted to blog but the time just is not there. So Sorry CC better late than never.

"We need to attack Jesus..." - atheist Philip Paulson,
who filed a lawsuit challenging the presence of the cross
on city land in 1989.

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1 >>>"The city has attempted twice to sell the property to the Mount Soledad Association, but federal courts have overturned the sales because they said the transactions favored a buyer who would preserve the cross." Wow. Now the activist courts are in the business of discerning people's hearts and motives. That's out of control.

Posted by: Carlos at October 10, 2005 11:35 AM (8e/V4)

2 As serious an issue as this may be, I couldn't help thinking, "Go ahead, Phil, attack Jesus, I think he can take you."

Posted by: Brian B at October 10, 2005 11:39 AM (rGfpg)

3 yep not a laughing matter cept how do you attack he in whom you don't believe. If you really don't believe why attack?

Posted by: Howie at October 10, 2005 11:46 AM (D3+20)

4 Yes, Carlos, that is one part of the business they are in. These activist judges will do whatever they can to destroy Christianity and whatever tradition might remain in the US. They know that the only way to destroy the US is to destroy the traditions and mores that unite us as a people. The wish to destroy Christianity I don't get, because what will ultimately take its place will utterly destroy the liberals and the Left. I am mystified by the motivation of the Left. What do they think will be accomplished? It is truly one of the mysteries of this age.

Posted by: jesusland joe at October 10, 2005 11:55 AM (rUyw4)

5 Jesus, The Bible speaks of anti-christs, and in my view this Lefties fit the bill to a tee. The Constitution restricts the GOVERNMENT'S acts and motives, not the people's. That's why that court ruling is so fucked up. It's basically saying that the citizen's motives (the buyer) are improper. The BUYER'S motives are unconstitutional. If he was instead an atheist, the sale coult have gone through! Unbelievable. Could these activistas in black robes be anymore transparent? I think not.

Posted by: Carlos at October 10, 2005 12:09 PM (8e/V4)

6 I just read an interesting (maybe) Instapundit co-analysis of Joe's question, the roots of this by a guy named James C. Bennett: which speaks to me as byproduct of anti-Catholic Protestant elitism: This is primarily an effect of the Calvinist Puritan roots of American progressivism. Just as Calvinists believed in the centrality of the depravity of man, with the exception of a minuscule contingent of the Elect of God, their secularized descendants believe in the depravity and cursedness of Western civilization, with their own enlightened selves in the role of the Elect. HTH

Posted by: -keith in mtn. view at October 10, 2005 12:12 PM (T85lV)

7 Brian took the words out of my mouth. I'd only add that Paulson is being disengenuous. He's attacking a target closer to home. Keith, while Calvinists and other Reformed thinkers believe in the depravity of man - and who can fault that kind of thinking? - they believe that only God can regenerate the heart. This doesn't make them less the sinner; the Holy Spirit works in their life through discipleship in scripture and fellowship toward their sanctification. It often seems that He's working faster in some of us than in others. Paulson could clearly benefit from a less-stony heart. To complete your analogy, one must remove a personal God from the equation, putting human wisdom and understanding at the pinnacle. With that sort of equation, it's easy to see how some of us believe we should be in authority over others, like shephards and sheep. Democracy is much more respectful of the individual.

Posted by: tee bee at October 10, 2005 12:27 PM (q1JHF)

8 I don't believe that any government entity should promote or discourage religion in any way whatsoever, but these people are on an anti-crusade, but we shouldn't be surprised, because they're just a bunch of ACLU commies. I'm an atheist, but not like them, not at all; these people make me sick and are traitors to the prinicples of Liberty.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 10, 2005 01:44 PM (0yYS2)

9 IM, you're the kind of atheist I can live with-- that we HAVE lived with since the founding of this country. But these anti-God types are out of control.

Posted by: Carlos at October 10, 2005 01:54 PM (8e/V4)

10 Carlos, the sentiments are mutual. I have nothing against Christians, and even think that Christianity is a necessary influence to the development of civil society, I'm just not wild about government involvement in religion. After all, do we want to look to the same government that gave us Amtrak and Social Security for our spiritual guidance?

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 10, 2005 02:01 PM (0yYS2)

11 Another wretched atheist trying to force himself on us all why should we be allow these jerks to force themselves on us they are your usial selfish self centered soclialists forcing the,selves on us and getting help from the supreume court and its band of idiots

Posted by: sandpiper at October 10, 2005 02:04 PM (U+eLg)

12 IM, the Europeans do. Their churches are state-sponsored. Their pastors are paid by the State. Ironic, no?

Posted by: Carlos at October 10, 2005 02:06 PM (8e/V4)

13 Fuck it, I'm going to attack Buddha. I'm going to punch that fat bastard right in the nose and wipe that silly smile off his smug little face. Grrrrrr! A little off topic: Type "Failure" into google, then press "I'm feeling lucky" and see what comes up. Hmmmmm...

Posted by: osamabinhiding at October 10, 2005 02:12 PM (Ttija)

14 osama, that's why I don't use google anymore. They can no longer be trusted.

Posted by: Carlos at October 10, 2005 02:13 PM (8e/V4)

15 Osama, So that's where you bin hiding. You're a googlebomber. How cute!

Posted by: jesusland joe at October 10, 2005 02:48 PM (rUyw4)

16 Yeah, it kind of makes you wonder, eh? Their stock is hyped anyway...

Posted by: osamabinhiding at October 10, 2005 03:42 PM (Ttija)

17 Jesus... One man, huge damage to humanity for thousands of years and to the future. The guy who inspired Muhammed who we all know led his masses to such a sofisticated and peaceful situation they are in today, the guy because of whom the Romano-Catholic church exists, most evil organisation of all times that had entire religions wiped out, peoples hunted to extinction, masses cowed to brainless lemmings and riches looted to it's replacement-of-Jesus-on-earth leader for 15 horrible, bloody, dark centuries. Therefore I'm suggesting attacking Jesus now is absolutely useless, the Jews should have had him stoned before or right after he made a mess at their temple.

Posted by: A Finn at October 10, 2005 04:53 PM (lGolT)

18 they tried but he escaped. they also tried after he healed the blind man on the sabbath but again they could not see him although he was right there. Odd huh? so finn want a copy of John I got one for you too.

Posted by: Howie at October 10, 2005 05:00 PM (D3+20)

19 Yes Carlos, it is ironic, but it is also part of why Europeans no longer go to church. And sandpiper, cut the "wretched atheist" crap. I don't go around saying "wretched Christian" every time a priest molests a little boy, do I? Watch your manners and remember, like I do, that it's acts, not labels, that are important.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at October 10, 2005 09:26 PM (0yYS2)

20 No thanks, Howie, I think I have a bible of some sort somewhere, or at least the New Testament in a little red pocket book (some preachers travel the country giving those to everyone... I've had 3 or so, they always manage to disappear, since they're leather coated and there's a dog in the house). So it was the inefficiency of fundamentalist Jews that allowed Jesus to live and preach on? Guess the J00s can be blamed for everything one way or another....

Posted by: A Finn at October 11, 2005 04:15 AM (cWMi4)

21 FWIW, IM, sandpiper, who makes me wonder if there are indeed commentbots, is best overlooked - and I think was just commenting on Paulson, not you. The bots rarely talk to other commenters.

Posted by: tee bee at October 11, 2005 08:58 AM (q1JHF)

22 Yes just like fin to be such a pigheaded fool. You woild think he would believe in God since it's a supernatural that some one has not bashed his thick skull in by now.

Posted by: Howie at October 14, 2005 10:02 AM (D3+20)

23 JESUS, IS GIVING EVERY MAN, WOMAN, & CHILD "ONE LAST CHANCE". NO MATTER HIS OR HER RACE, RELIGION, OR NATIONALITY; TO REPENT & TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAY; CONFESS JESUS CHRIST, AS LORD AND SAVIOUR. AND DO HIS WILL. mcgdogm

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The Army of Ansar al-Sunnah, a well-known terrorist organization in Iraq with ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda forces, has released a video in which two hostages are beheaded. The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video. Gruesome images from the video are posted below (WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES BELOW).

The two innocent civilians are identified as Shaker Mahmoud Jassim and Riyadh Najim Abdullah. The timestamp on the video indicates it was made on September 12th of this year, but the video was not uploaded to the internet until today.

As in all such videos, the terrorists first force the victims to 'confess' to various crimes before they are murdered. Pronouncement of guilt is made on the victims under Islamic law. Thus, the murder and torture done by the terrorists is legitimized in the eyes of radicals as the legal execution of criminals for crimes against Islam. The beheading is done with a knife, is slow, and very painful.

Jassim is forced in the video to 'confess' that he works for the U.S. Army as an informant. As in all jihadi videos, American forces are portrayed as tools of a wider Jewish conspiracy.

The AP reports that Jassim urges in his 'confession':

I call on everyone who works with the Jews and the Americans to repent to God and leave this job.

"We have become slaves to money," he said before he was taken outside and decapitated.

That those who do not “come back to your religion and repent” will also be slaughtered.

The Army of Ansar al-Sunna is an offshoot of The Army of Ansar al-Islam, a Salafist terror organization with roots in Kurdish Iraq. After the fall of the Hussein Regime, the former leader of Ansar al-Islam, Musab al-Zarqawi, took foreign elements to found Tawhid and Jihad--later pledging loyalty to Osama bin Laden and changing the name, once again, to al Qaeda in the Land of Two Rivers (Mesopotamia, or Iraq). Ansar al-Sunnah and al Qaeda are believed to operate seperately now, but occasionally announce collaboration with one another.

This is the first beheading video in many months. These types of videos are propaganda meant for domestic purposes. The reason the terrorists in Iraq stopped producing beheading murder videos, and instead turning to videos of IED and other attacks on U.S. forces, is because they believed that they were doing more harm than good. Such videos tend to turn off the great mass of the Iraqi people, and especially Sunni Muslims on whom the terrorists depend for support and anonymity.

This video can only mean one thing: the terrorists have run into a wall in Iraq, they feel they must resort to threatening the population once again. The terrorists are slowly but surely losing.

Graphic images from the video below:

WARNING: PROCEED AT OWN RISK.

Why show these images? This is the true face of the so-called insurgents in Iraq. They are nothing more than terrorists scum who have a vision for Iraq similar to that of the Taliban in Afghanistan. They are waging jihad not only against Americans, but against Iraqis. Most media outlets will not show you what the terrorists are actually doing in Iraq. We will. more...

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1 Yes, Rusty, every American adult should view these images so they can see the barbarians we are up against. If we sit around and wait 20 years and do nothing, then this is what will be going on here in the US. God forbid it!

Posted by: jesusland joe at October 05, 2005 04:46 PM (rUyw4)

2 I choose not to watch the videos. Just the same shit as before. Why see them again. More proof these people are not civilized. ARE THEY WORTH SAVING?

Posted by: greyrooster at October 05, 2005 06:06 PM (ywZa8)

3 Rooster - I totally get your point. At the same time, when a beheading becomes "old hat," then something is wrong. Each one should shock us and spur us into action. The images should strengthen our resolve to complete the task and send the murderers to their deaths.

Posted by: RomeoDelta at October 05, 2005 08:00 PM (Srmrz)

4 RomeoDelta: You're right. I just figure if the bastards figure I'm not going to view them maybe someone will be saved.

Posted by: greyrooster at October 05, 2005 08:44 PM (ywZa8)

5 Rush Limbaugh says America is at war, He is right on that count. However, Rush is a draft dodging drug addict that has no concept of 'war'. His foolish war is about 'ratings' and disagrrement between political ideology. Al-Qaeda and like MUSLIM organizations have sworn their life and children to the destruction of INFIDELS. That would be YOU, Mr. and Mrs. America! Visit HERE=> http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/contact1/pg4.html

Posted by: Beheading Videos at October 05, 2005 09:48 PM (tX99K)

6 And these "insurgents" are heros to millions, huh? What is wrong with this picture? I wonder what would happen if the media all of a sudden started calling a terrorist a terrorist? Maybe the world at large would get the idea .. finally. Beheaders are brutal, savage terrorists, period!

Posted by: Bubbe at October 05, 2005 10:23 PM (cbAi4)

7 Iraq's population out of Iraq NOW! eh? Yet again, the "root causes" of terrorism theory is completely blown by the senseless murder of their fellow Muslim neighbors. As usual coerced "confessions" are used to make the citizen confess to being an apostate which reaches it's sickening crescendo when the cutting off another Muslims head stops. I cannot comprehend the abject terror these men faced being lead out to their execution, knowing the brutal methods employed, and how long it takes to die, nor the pain inflicted upon them. may they find peace. Funny how you never see these images at a leftard rally, declaring the victories of the "minute men"

Posted by: dave at October 06, 2005 12:20 AM (CcXvt)

8 bunch of idiots killing their own people...and the worse part is that this *army's of god** whatever they call themselfs still find support from muslins?? when they goin to wake up and realize that they just wan to see blood they kill like 200 iraqis just to kill one american who is really killing their people us or them??

Posted by: realtouch at October 06, 2005 01:25 AM (SDgrr)

9 Dave: they'd probably be in a state of shock as soon as they started that last walk. As for the amount of time it takes to kill: have you ever read up on how kosher beef is slaughtered? A cut to the throat takes only a short moment to kill any creature. They're most likely dead long before the blade hit the bone. Not to mention that the windpipe was likely severed, the body under those conditions isn't going to sustain. And for all of those here that believe you're still alive for six seconds after being beheaded: consider that cutting off a finger can put a person into shock, getting your head cut off would probably do the same. Also dave, who ever said the left wing says we're winning? If anything that's more of a right wing state of thinking. The left consider this continuing battle a loss, another Nam. Realtouch: beheaded one's own citizenry is by no means new. The french (at the time considered the most civilized society) had beheadings. And yes, we're americans, we hate the french, but being intelligent americans we recognize that history repeats itself. The middle east is doing what all other societies have done in the past. This type of violence is infamous in history. And for all of you who would berate me for what i've just said: I've served in the IDF in the reserve unit Sar-El. My first base being Anatot which lies right on the border of the West Bank.

Posted by: WizrdKing at October 06, 2005 02:50 AM (xxmfk)

10 WizardKing: As you mentioned the French Revolution, You have most likely read the same litrature as I, that spoke of the head of the scientist that was rumored to have blinked thirteen times, after he said he would try to blink until he lost consciousness after decapitation. Truly a thought that kept me awake. Although your original assessment is correct, hypovolemic shock would most likely set in as soon as the head were severed. As for the Left, I was mentioning Micheal Moore's reference to the terrorists as "Minute men" as some of the left call them, or the "Iraqi Resistance" and why they ignore the blatant barbarism, you will never hear them mention it!

Posted by: dave at October 06, 2005 07:01 AM (CcXvt)

11 Wizrdking: My problem with your blog is as follows. (1) I cut my left middle finger off in a boat propeller once. IT HURT LIKE HELL. When they reattached it it HURT LIKE HELL. And for 6 weeks afterward in HURT LIKE HELL. Try it. (2) We slaughter animals all the time. Hogs and steers. Dead before the knife hits the bone. Bullshit! After trying the Jewish system I now shoot them between the eyes first to save the animal pain. Just Jewish propoganda to justify their cruel method of slaughter. What Jews do to animals is their business but don't feed me bullshit to justify it. I justify it as another cruelity brought about by religion. I don't fight against kosher butchering (butchering is a good word for it) because I figure mother nature is much more cruel. If you guys choose to dress funny and not eat pork chops I will fight for your right to be as you are. But don't feed me bullshit. I could change my mind.

Posted by: greyrooster at October 06, 2005 07:02 AM (M7kiy)

12 Wizardking: Just thought of something else that doesn't go down right. "BEING AN AMERICAN" You served in the IDF. Have you served in the United States Military? Hmmmmm. Is that like "being an American I served in the PLO". WEIRD!

Posted by: greyrooster at October 06, 2005 07:12 AM (M7kiy)

13 oh, the Muslims were beheading people hundreds of years before France started, they've just never stopped. Mohammed himself was present at the mass beheading of a Jewish tribe in Medina. It will never be history to Islam unless they rewrite their Koran and the sections like: "Therefore, when ye meet the Unbeliever's in fight, smite at their necks; at length, when ye have thoroughly subdued them, bind the captives firmly: therefore is the time for either generosity or ransom until the war lays down its burdens. " To name but a few.

Posted by: dave at October 06, 2005 07:12 AM (CcXvt)

14 Beheading videos: Ah! But Rush tells it like it is. He is a tool and has much value.

Posted by: greyrooster at October 06, 2005 07:15 AM (M7kiy)

15 Well I for one am glad to hear that the the terrorists have run into a wall. Between turning the corner,last throes, acts of desperation, et al I was beginning to think that our side was running low on positive meraphors. Rusty the converse view of your analysis id that the Army of Ansar now believes that poblic opinion is now so strongly behind them that they now will accept such videos. The vote on the constitution is coming up very soon after all the great things that were said about it "historic" the odds (English bookmakers) are lookung lomg, and a civil/religous war looking more possible. Will these United States decide to support one side over the other ? or actlike a referee and just try and keep them apart.A noble effort,peacekeeping, but it may make us a target for both sides, As far as journalists being shot; Rusty the only way to win this war is to show our moral superiorty. Rusty if we do start executing politically incottect/anti war journalists for not toeing the party line should we do videos also? Tp deter others? What about bloggers who defame these United States? Or politicans who vote against abuse and torture? What about bloggers who link to sites that show propoganda coming from the enemy? What about .........YOU !!!

Posted by: john Ryan at October 06, 2005 08:00 AM (ads7K)

16 Ryan I have a better one. WHAT ABOUT YOU!

Posted by: greyrooster at October 06, 2005 08:23 AM (M7kiy)

17 Word of caution to the uninformed: these terrorists slowly behead their victims. They use knives. The victims can be heard trying to scream and breathe as the knife cuts and air rushes from their lungs. These are not men with swords who take the heads in one chop.

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at October 06, 2005 09:18 AM (JQjhA)

18 John Ryan: You know what wins wars better than "Moral Superiority" ? actual firepower, and weapon superiority and the willingness to use it. The PC nature of this war, and the constant attempt to not offend delicate Muslim sensibilities, while allowing the label of "religion of peace" to be used constantly is really degrading the war effort.

Posted by: dave at October 06, 2005 10:03 AM (CcXvt)

19 Greyrooster, Sar-El is a multi-national volunteer reserve unit. It draws members from all around the globe. Sorry if i didn't clarify that earlier

Posted by: WizrdKing at October 06, 2005 12:00 PM (x8oLi)

20 John Ryan: fingers on home keys, please. And your yammering is getting on my nerves. Your constant blathering about "we have to keep the moral high ground" is duly noted. Mkay? How many times are you going to keep repeating the same mantra? At this point, we could descend much farther down the ladder of "morality" and still be leaps and bounds above the enemy. We can never reach the level of morality others have set for us. We're human. We make mistakes. We try to correct them. Morality will not win this war. They're idea of morality, and all those who support the "insurgency", is far removed from what ours is. They do not recognize that morality. What will win this war is killing the enemy and demoralizing all those who might consider joining the enemy. Period. Take a step outside your perfect little bubble of idealism and have a good hard look at what's going on in the world. And since you're so good at preaching morals, why don't you just head right on over to the middle east and preach to the jihadis and their supporters what "morality" is.

Posted by: Oyster at October 06, 2005 12:05 PM (YudAC)

21 Thank you for posting those heinous pictures. We get way too comfortable over here in the USA, just seeing anti-American images on TV. And the vast majority of Americans totally forget about 9-11 and forget about the true nature of those with whom we are at war.

Posted by: reverse_vampyr at October 06, 2005 02:11 PM (Ns5kk)

22 America is at war with itself, fools.

Posted by: Downing Street Memo at October 07, 2005 05:57 AM (A5eqb)

23 Downing street Moron: I believe Al Sharpton 1st made that quote. Oh well! Birds of a feather say the same things together. What it be willie.

Posted by: greyrooster at October 07, 2005 10:19 AM (M7kiy)

24 The guy in the second picture looks like Downing Street Moron's daddy. His mommy has nappy hair. I guess he's what you call a black muslim. Ha! I just discovered the reason for his hatred of white America.

Posted by: greyrooster at October 07, 2005 10:23 AM (M7kiy)

25 At least we can take comfort from the fact that they were beheaded in an introspective, peaceful inner struggle, culturally sensitive sort of way. I want to hear Bush talk more about this religion of peace I keep hearing about.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at November 19, 2005 11:02 AM (0yYS2)

26 colobration with invader that what they deserve you forget that american killing thousand iraqi innocent and use the camical wapeon and use everything to take a free oil .that what they deserve die .....even no muslim japnees or comminist will make the same way to those colobration with invaders safi

Posted by: foula at November 30, 2005 07:01 AM (jEsFz)

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We seem to be having a lot of posters you know the kind that post on old threads and say stuff like this:

Falluja

gg@ww.com

victory to the islamic army and the army of the mujahedeen,,allahu akbar. good is great.

I doubt that email is a good one but I disagree good is just good not great.

Also a live one on this thread.

Although our motto is bit different he is still watching you.

Our contacts thread is also a good one.

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New RINO sightings is up itÂ’s unearthly strange.

No more little piggie stress relievers. Gees give me a break. I hereby vow to eat left over pork chops at lunch every day for the duration of Ramadan.

Hat Tip: Big thanks to Mike at Mr. Muffler for getting Howie back on the road again for cheap.

In other strange and paranormal news Howie gets a beyond the Grave visit and interview with Ben Franklin. Actually IÂ’ve been worried about buying propane and propane related accessories this year. Mainly the fuel, I mean IÂ’m sitting on bone dry empty and winter is coming on. I entered the FS(thatÂ’s farm service city slicker) drawing for 100 bucks worth of free propane. Turns out I won. I mean I freaking won is that weird or not. Even stranger than that, Mr. FranklinÂ’s ghost delivered the C note to my door. Below is a record of our exchange.

Updated: Ok no comment? Well let's try this. Scott Baio was on Arrested Development tonight as Lawyer Bob Loblaw. His lawfirm speicalizing in cool stuff like Fraud, Tax Evasion, money laundering. Hope you saw, it was good stuff.

Nipsey Russell has died Hat Tip: The Filthy One

Typhoone Longwang has struck China and 59 soldiers are missing. Aside from the name of the storm, not funny.

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It is a dark day in the Vinnie household.

To be part of a blog that was publicly de-linked has brought shame to me and my family.

Do you realize, Dr., that I had to keep my children home from school to shield them from the cruel taunts of their peers over this?

Do you realize that you have plunged my wife even further in to her addiction to Rachael Ray? A torment I have fought against for years now?

This is what I am reduced to, Dr. Shackleford, for your inability to control your flying fickle fingers of fate upon your keyboard:



In a last great act of defiance, Rusty, I have done this. Make sure you click on that link in the post.

In unrelated news, may God continue to bless Roy Hallums and his family.

At least some people still understand what is truly meaningful in life.

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At least twelve people were killed in Kabul today when a mass-murderer on a motorcycle exploded himself in Afghanistan's capital city. You might have heard this in the news already, but look how New Zealand's Mail and Guardian is spinning the story. Here is the headline:

What? Is this a joke? Ok, so maybe the headline is misleading. You know, like a typo or something. Sometimes headlines don't do a story justice. The only people who have any doubt that the Taliban were simply the institutionalized political wing of the Salafist jihad in Afghanistan also wear tin foil and believe that 9/11 was an 'inside job'. Let's go on to the story:

Afghan officials believe al-Qaeda has renewed its ties with the Taliban.

The facts of the story actually get at what is really going on. What is meant is that the Taliban are now copying tactics used by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq, and that foreign jihadis with ties to al Qaeda are entering Afghanistan in larger numbers.

In an interview published this week, a Taliban commander boasted he had trained in Iraq for several months and was now bringing his expertise home.

"I want to copy in Afghanistan the tactics and spirit of the glorious Iraqi resistance," Muhammad Daud told Newsweek.

Hours before Wednesday's blast, the Afghan intelligence agency, the NDS, told security groups that al-Qaeda had formed a new group, named Fedayani Islam (Sacrifices for Islam), and sent suicide bombers into southern Afghanistan, seeking "targets of opportunity".

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On September 23rd the Islamic Media Front released a 16 minute news video on the internet called 'Sout al-Khalifa' or 'Voice of the Caliphate'. In recent months, al Qaeda in Iraq has accused al Jazeera of being too pro-Western. The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video. Images from it are posted below. Clips from the video can be seen at MEMRI TV (about 4 minutes). If you need a copy of the entire video, please e-mail.

WAPO:

An Internet video newscast called the Voice of the Caliphate was broadcast for the first time on Monday, purporting to be a production of al Qaeda and featuring an anchorman who wore a black ski mask and an ammunition belt.

The anchorman, who said the report would appear once a week, presented news about the Gaza Strip and Iraq and expressed happiness about recent hurricanes in the United States. A copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, was placed by his right hand and a rifle affixed to a tripod was pointed at the camera....

The lead segment recounted Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, which the narrator proclaimed as a "great victory," while showing Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia walking and talking among celebrating compatriots.

That was followed by a repeat of a pledge on Sept. 14 by Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, to wage all-out war on Iraq's Shiite Muslims. An image of Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born Sunni Muslim, remained on the screen for about half the broadcast.

The masked announcer also reported that a group called the Islamic Army in Iraq claimed to have launched chemical-armed rockets at American forces in Baghdad. A video clip showed five rockets fired in succession from behind a sand berm as an off-screen voice yelled "God is great" in Arabic. The Islamic Army asserted responsibility last year for the killing of Enzo Baldoni, an Italian journalist who had been kidnapped in Iraq.

A commercial break of sorts followed, which previewed a movie, "Total Jihad," directed by Mousslim Mouwaheed. The ad was in English, suggesting that the target audience might be Muslims living in Britain and the United States.

The final segment was about Hurricane Katrina. "The whole Muslim world was filled with joy" at the disaster, the anchorman said. He went on to say that President Bush was "completely humiliated by his obvious incapacity to face the wrath of God, who battered New Orleans, city of homosexuals." Hurricane Ophelia's brush with North Carolina was also mentioned.

Others: Captain Ed, James Joyner.

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Since Robbo is off putting flowers in his hair, I'll link to today's (actually yesterday's) chapter of LOTR as presented by Gary, the ex-donkey Tolkien geek par excellance.

I present it without Robert's usual commentary, except to say this; it warms my heart to see that civil rights in this nation have advanced to the point that Star Wars geeks and Tolkien geeks no longer must drink from separate fountains.

I have a dream
That one day, geeks will not be judged by their costumes at the conventions
But by the content of the characters they wish they could be.

UPDATE:

An anonymous commenter asks a vital question:

"What's a 'Tolkein'?"

Thank you, He Who Should Not Be Named, for that inquisitive nature of yours. However, I cannot answer, for I too have no idea what a "Tolkein" is.

I only know Tolkien.

But, if you simply must know, he's the guy that wrote that little read book that became that OTHER famous movie trilogy.

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1 What's a 'Tolkein'?

Posted by: Rusty at September 26, 2005 07:42 PM (JQjhA)

2 And GANDALF carried a sword GLANDRAN THE FOE HAMMER and thorin carried ORKRIS THE GOBLIN CLEAVER while bilbo had his trusty STING

Posted by: sandpiper at September 26, 2005 08:09 PM (uo3LX)

3 And my 9mm's name is "Señor Glock".

Posted by: Oyster at September 26, 2005 08:30 PM (YudAC)

4 Oh, that must me like George Lucas' pen name or something.

Posted by: Rusty at September 26, 2005 10:46 PM (JQjhA)

5 Tolkien — British philologist and writer of fantasies straight rip off from google search

Posted by: Roopesh at September 26, 2005 10:54 PM (YxeqH)

6 The only British philologist I'm aware of is that C.S. Lewis dude..........

Posted by: Rusty at September 27, 2005 12:20 AM (JQjhA)

7 Hm. I see some backwards looking folk are still clinging to their geekicist past, upset over the days when Tolkien Geeks and Star Wars Geeks were banned from intermarriage. Hate is not a family value, and mean people suck, Dr. Shackleford.

Posted by: Vinnie at September 27, 2005 01:17 AM (Kr6/f)

8 Tolkien created Indiana Jones? J.

Posted by: Jay Tea at September 27, 2005 04:08 AM (Q7zvB)

9 Ah, THAT Tolkien. The one that worked with George Lucas. Did he go to USC too?

Posted by: Rusty at September 27, 2005 10:41 AM (JQjhA)

10 I like pie.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 27, 2005 01:10 PM (0yYS2)

11 Quothe Oyster:"And my 9mm's name is "Señor Glock"." My wife named her Springfield Armory XD9 "Springy".

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 27, 2005 02:47 PM (0yYS2)

12 Maximus, I don't have a name for my Colt .45ACP Combat Commander but I named my new Springfield Armory SOCOM shorty. Talk about sweet!

Posted by: jesusland joe at September 27, 2005 04:21 PM (rUyw4)

13 You mean Friday the 13th no no that's not it.

Posted by: Howie at September 27, 2005 04:44 PM (D3+20)

14 I just bought a Mosin-Nagant 91/30 yesterday, and I have yet to name it. Since it's a Russian rifle, it will have to have a Russian name, so I will consult my Russian friend regarding suitable names for bad girls.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 27, 2005 05:54 PM (0yYS2)

15 Maximus, How about Boris?

Posted by: jesusland joe at September 27, 2005 09:05 PM (rUyw4)

16 Umm... I don't think Boris is a girl's name. I've known some Russian girls, and none of them were the "Boris" type.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 27, 2005 11:07 PM (0yYS2)

17 Well, then duh, the obvious choice would be Natasha. How about a generic "babushka?" But what does all this have to do with Tolkien? Heh.

Posted by: Vinnie at September 27, 2005 11:20 PM (Kr6/f)

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Ok more good news I can't handle more good news.

CBSNEWS.

The No. 2 al Qaeda leader in Iraq was killed Sunday night, U.S. officials say. Abu Azzam, reportedly the deputy to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, was shot during a house rain in Baghdad, according to Pentagon officials. As the aide to Zarqawi, Azzam was reportedly in control of financing foreign fighters coming into Iraq

Don't confuse this guy with Azzam the American see The Fourth Rail for Abu Azzam Al-Iraqi.

Also see Right Wing News and Ace of Spades.

In case you've missed it the last few days California Conservative has been on fire the last week. Check him out the last week has been great.

UPDATE by Rusty: James Joyner has more here. This is the time at the Jawa when we dance!

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If anyone is between Houston and Lake Charles, please speak up and let me know what the gas situation is where you are.

If you can help, please go read the rest.

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Rita Has come ashore just east of the TX/LA border. Rita was downgraded to a category 2 about 7:00 CDT. Some damage reported. I also have recieved reports of winds near 100 mph near Beaumont. Several Tornado warnings have also been issued. It's just a wait and see game now.

CNN has a pretty good update this AM.

The NHC said the storm made landfall at 2:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. EDT) at Cameron Parish, on the extreme southwest coast of Louisiana between Sabine Pass and Johnson's Bayou. Cameron Parish, is a flat marshy area stretching along the coast eastward from the Texas state line...... .....all but a few of the 10,000 residents of the parish evacuated. Damage from the storm was already reported in several locations, particularly Lake Charles, La.

Update:

Good news Rita has been downgraded to a tropical storm and initial reports are good considering. ZERO deaths reported so far and Damage has been less than expected. Reports after Katrina were good too, let's hope this one stays that way.

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Be careful don't step on the bo.........

ABCNEWS.

A pickup truck carrying masked Islamic militants and homemade rockets blew up at a Hamas rally Friday, killing at least 10 Palestinians, including children, and wounding 85, hospital doctors and witnesses said

Uh, Can you say Natural Selection?

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Ayman al-Zawahiri has released a new tape to Al-Jazeera.

Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri has dismissed the legitimacy of Afghanistan's parliamentary elections in a new tape broadcast by Aljazeera, saying the polls took place under the control of what he called "lords of war".

And you are what Mr. Zawahiri?

Also here on CNN.

"There is no reform except through jihad," he said in the video, broadcast on the Arabic-language TV network based in Qatar.

We got some reforming of our own to do Doc. We will find you.

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FOXNEWS:

Ever wonder why a person would strap on a bomb and blow himself and civilians to bits, me too?

Mohammed Ali, who claimed to be Saudi-born and appeared to be in his 20s, Ali said insurgents kidnapped him from a field near his home earlier this month, then drugged and beat him. His story was similar to those recounted by other captured militants. The captives routinely claim they were either coerced or fooled by insurgent leaders who promised them a role in the holy war against the U.S. military, only to find themselves as would-be suicide bombers sent to attack civilians.

Next.

Musab Aqil al-Khayal, a 19-year-old Syrian, was shown on state television Saturday confessing to his aborted involvement in a bombing earlier in the week in which a companion exploded his car bomb in the midst of day laborers assembled to find work. "Those dogs fooled me," he told Iraqi interrogators.

Ah now I see, come on Zaqueery strap one on and put your money where your mouth is. Having seen some of Al-Zarqawi's methods I would not put it past him.

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For the second time in a week, a terror organization has claimed to have used chemical weapons in Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq issued a statement yesterday claiming that it had launched ten 120mm mortar rounds loaded with chemicals against U.S. and Iraqi troops stationed in al-Madain.

A translation of the communique can be seen here, via Evan Kohlmann.

On Sept. 13th the Victorious Army Group in Iraq issued a statement claiming that it had used chemical weapons in Baghdad, including against American troops in the Green Zone (story and background here). There has been no confirmation of those reports.

The Islamic Army in Iraq (IAI) has been associated with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq in the past. The IAI stated that the chemical weapons were used to support Zarqawi's losing battle in Tel Afar. However, Zarqawi's group disclaimed any association to the earlier attack by The Victorious Army Group (or Sect, as he translates it) on the Green Zone with chemical weapons.

Terrorism expert Evan Kohlmann passes on information that The Victorious Army Group is rumored to be made of ex-Fedayeen Saddam and Iraqi intelligence personnel.

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A terror organization in Iraq, Jaish al-Rashideen, has posted a video in which it claims to have shot down a U.S. airplane. Images from the video below. more...

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1 Oh my god I hope the tiny pilot is OK. I hope they don't smurf his head off.

Posted by: Howie at September 15, 2005 10:53 AM (D3+20)

2 Oh! the Humanity! I can barely look at all the broken G.I Joe's laying around dying at the feet of the mighty Mujahadeen.

Posted by: dave at September 15, 2005 10:54 AM (CcXvt)

3 Note there is no damage to the tiny plane except there is some duct tape holding the wings on which probably come off on landing anyway so they don't break. I think it ran out of fuel or charge and just got picked up.

Posted by: Howie at September 15, 2005 11:03 AM (D3+20)

4 I guess they got tired of looking in awe at the glass Coca-Cola bottle that used to sit on that pedestal.

Posted by: JohnMc at September 15, 2005 11:30 AM (y+I+a)

5 Is this part of the terrorists' shock and awe campaign? Because I'm in shock at how lame and awful they are. Does making fun of terrorists count as making headway on the war on terror?

Posted by: lawhawk at September 15, 2005 11:39 AM (AcoYr)

6 That aircrsft looks much more like a UAV. Are you sure your arabic translation? It is more likely mechanical failure than a shootdown.

Posted by: raver dave at September 15, 2005 11:51 AM (XTKFt)

7 Yeah it looks like a UAV. I guess liberals will be disappointed that a pilot wasn't killed or captured.

Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 15, 2005 12:18 PM (0yYS2)

8 They "shot" it down? Where's the damage from what ever they shot it with or from the, surely, "crash" landing? Here it is to scale In other news, the Islamofascists have finally developed, after decades of research and development, their own version of the UAV.

Posted by: Oyster at September 15, 2005 12:39 PM (fl6E1)

9 No, it's a UAV. They do claim they shot it down. But, that's kind of the whole point of the post.......

Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at September 15, 2005 12:41 PM (JQjhA)

10 When I was a kid, I'd put firecrackers on my model planes, maybe that's what they're doing.

Posted by: Tim at September 15, 2005 12:42 PM (QrELf)

11 Can't you all see, this war orchestrated by KKKarl Rove is not worth all this loss of plastic and metal! Pounds and pounds of government products that could have supported the leeves in NO. Bush and Company are the biggest murderers blah blah blah...

Posted by: Wine-aholic at September 15, 2005 12:50 PM (Wsn+K)

12 Rusty, you should have titled your piece, "Terrorists shoot down model airplane, or maybe they went to Wal-Mart and bought one". Because this ain't no airplane.

Posted by: jesusland joe at September 15, 2005 05:25 PM (q9AWQ)

13 did the brave lions of Allah shoot it down with a slingshot???....

Posted by: THANOS35 at September 15, 2005 05:34 PM (FMsU7)

14 I think we have some images of the pilot of that "plane". Wizbang has more http://wizbangblog.com/archives/004955.php

Posted by: packetninja at September 16, 2005 08:21 AM (1uomX)

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