Monday - June 26, 2006

Treason!

I watched the interview with King and Specter on FOX News yesterday evening and I came away thinking I wanted to smack Specter up side his pointy little head and nominate King for President. Specter mumbled on and on about “we need to wait until we get all the facts” and “premature judgement”, etc. Yes, and Nero fiddled while Rome burned, Senator.

I also had a real problem with something else Specter said - that Americans have a “reasonable expectation of privacy” with phone calls but the same didn’t apply to banking records. WHAT? This is madness! I’d prefer it the other way around if I had to choose only one. For crying out loud, I just don’t care if someone wants to know who I’ve been calling. On the other side, I sure as hell don’t think it’s anybody’s business how I spend my money.

Congressman King tried to make the point that the NY Slimes should be investigated for possible treason. I completely agree. The administration asked the Slimes not to run the story and they must have had a pretty good reason for asking or else they wouldn’t have asked. Notice the repeated use of the word “ask”? That’s because of the First Amendment, which the modern media is abusing and bending almost to the breaking point.

I dont’ want some editor at the NY Slimes, who has a Leftist agenda and a desire to replace the administration, making decisions about what national security plans should be revealed to the entire world (and the enemy, in case the Slimes forgot). For one thing that editor does not have the whole picture and has no idea what damage he or she may incur with this blatant disregard for national security.

I propose that Congress drag the editors of the NY Slimes before an investigating committee and grill the asshats to find out by what authority they assume the power to keep the terrorists overseas and in sleeper cells here in the US so well informed about attempts to track them down and bring them to justice. Personally, I don’t feel a great need to stay informed as to how the work is being done to keep me safe and alive. All I care about is that it is being done. Perhaps the NY Slimes needs to see another 3,000 dead Americans before they decide to act responsibly? I certainly hope not ...

Lawmaker Wants Feds to Probe N.Y. Times
_{Jun 25 11:04 PM US/Eastern (AP via BREITBART)}

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.

Rep. Peter King cited The New York Times in particular for publishing a story last week that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records.

King, R-N.Y., said he would write Attorney General Alberto Gonzales urging that the nation’s chief law enforcer “begin an investigation and prosecution of The New York Times _ the reporters, the editors and the publisher.”

“We’re at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous,” King told The Associated Press. A message left Sunday with Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis was not immediately returned. King’s action was not endorsed by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, GOP Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

“On the basis of the newspaper article, I think it’s premature to call for a prosecution of the New York Times, just like I think it’s premature to say that the administration is entirely correct,” Specter told “Fox News Sunday.”

Stories about the money-monitoring program also appeared last week in The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. King said he thought investigators should examine those publications, but that the greater focus should be on The New York Times because the paper in December also disclosed a secret domestic wiretapping program. He charged that the paper was “more concerned about a left-wing elitist agenda than it is about the security of the American people.”

When the paper chose to publish the story, it quoted the executive editor, Bill Keller, as saying editors had listened closely to the government’s arguments for withholding the information, but “remain convinced that the administration’s extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data, however carefully targeted use of it may be, is a matter of public interest.”

In a letter posted on its Internet site Sunday that the Times said was sent to people who wrote to Keller, the editor said the administration argued “in a half-hearted way” that disclosure of the program “would lead terrorists to change tactics.” But Keller wrote that the Treasury Department has “trumpeted ... that the U.S. makes every effort to track international financing of terror. Terror financiers know this, which is why they have already moved as much as they can to cruder methods. But they also continue to use the international banking system, because it is immeasurably more efficient than toting suitcases of cash.”

Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, said the paper acted responsibly, both in last week’s report and in reporting last year about the wiretapping program. “It’s pretty clear to me that in this story and in the story last December that the New York Times did not act recklessly. They try to do whatever they can to take into account whatever security concerns the government has and they try to behave responsibly,” Dalglish said. “I think in years to come that this is a story American citizens are going to be glad they had, however this plays out.”

- More on the story at BREITBART ...

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Punching Out

Somehow the phrase “stay the course” is being turned into something bad by Liberals, Democrats and media pundits. The cartoon below illustrates the ignorance and sheer arrogance of trying to fight a fire or a war on a time clock. That is madness and the Left knows it.

The Democrats have pushed and leaned on the administration for months now to set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq and if you read the story below the cartoon from the Washington Post you’ll see that once the Pentagon released a “guideline” for troop reduction last week the Democrats started screaming, “HEY! That’s OUR plan! You stole it!”

Do you really want the Donks protecting us in this war? Do you believe for even one instant that Democrats have or ever had anything resembling a plan to fight the war on terror either in Iraq or Afghanistan? If you do, I have this lovely little bridge in Brooklyn I’ll sell you. Real cheap. One owner, low mileage.

_{Eric Allie - Chicago}

Democrats Cite Report On Troop Cuts In Iraq
Pentagon Plan Like Theirs, Senators Say
_{Monday, June 26, 2006 (WASHINGTON POST)}

Senate Democrats reacted angrily yesterday to a report that the U.S. commander in Iraq had privately presented a plan for significant troop reductions in the same week they came under attack by Republicans for trying to set a timetable for withdrawal.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that the plan attributed to Gen. George W. Casey resembles the thinking of many Democrats who voted for a nonbinding resolution to begin a troop drawdown in December. That resolution was defeated Thursday on a largely party-line vote in the Senate.

“That means the only people who have fought us and fought us against the timetable, the only ones still saying there shouldn’t be a timetable really are the Republicans in the United States Senate and in the Congress,” Boxer said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “Now it turns out we’re in sync with General Casey.”

Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), one of the two sponsors of the nonbinding resolution, which offered no pace or completion date for a withdrawal, said the report is another sign of what he termed one of the “worst-kept secrets in town”—that the administration intends to pull out troops before the midterm elections in November.

“It shouldn’t be a political decision, but it is going to be with this administration,” Levin said on “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s as clear as your face, which is mighty clear, that before this election, this November, there’s going to be troop reductions in Iraq, and the president will then claim some kind of progress or victory.”

At issue was a report yesterday in the New York Times that Casey presented a private briefing at the Pentagon last week in which he projected that the number of U.S. combat brigades—each with about 3,500 troops—would decrease from 14 to five or six by the end of 2007. About 127,000 U.S. troops are now in Iraq, including many support troops beyond the combat brigades.

- More Democratic Party silliness at the Washington Post ...

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   Sunday - June 25, 2006

HEY, BULLDOG!

- Game report from FIFA here. Yes, it was Beckham with the only goal ...

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The Liberal Plan

_{Michael Ramirez—Investors Business Daily}

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Apology

I apologize to all members for the e-mail that you all just received. As a general rule, I do not send out blanket e-mails to members. In fact, this is the first one in the history of this blog and was done so only at the insistence of my attorney. Even then, I resisted for over two weeks. If the message does not pertain to you, simply delete it and forget about it. I promise it’ll be a long, long time before you get another.

Some bloggers are like Nigerian “bankers” in that they feel like every post they put up deserves to be e-mail spammed to the entire world. That has never been my philosophy and never will be. If you want to read my mental meanderings then stop by here. I am not going to send any of the members here an e-mail advertising posts. I guard the member mailing list with every tool I have available.

On the plus side, I can finally clean out the member list of “vanished” members. About 40 or 50 of the e-mails were returned as undeliverable. I assume those members have died or moved on elsewhere and I will be cleaning the list out later this week. Again, please accept my sincere apologies for intruding into your e-mail inbox. Have a great day, all!

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Sharia Silliness

According to strict Islamic law (and this jerk in the story below), people should not be foolish or nekkid ... and they darn well better not do either at a football game. The problem with the Wahabbists (sp?) and Muslims who believe in strict Sharia law is ... they want to outlaw fun.

That’s all it comes down to. If Islam took over the world, according to these creeps, Planet Earth would be a dour, somber, depressing place to live. Which probably explains why radical Muslims are always so angry. Bummer, Mohammed!

Our rallying cry in the war that radical Islam is waging against us should be, “THEY CAN HAVE MY FUN WHEN THEY PRY IT FROM MY COLD, NEKKID BUNS!”

Now go forth and conquer! Flash your boobies! Paint your faces! Drink beer! Act foolish! Onward, nekkid warriors! Let’s show these sand monkeys how to play!

Saudi Cleric Decries World Cup
Soccer Enthusiasm
_{June 23, 2006}

(CNSNews.com) - Millions of soccer fans around the world are zeroed in on the World Cup tournament, but a Saudi cleric claims that public enthusiasm over sports turns people into fools and encourages nakedness.

“Some of the fans paint their faces with strange colors,” Sheik Muhammad Al-Munajid complained in a June 1 interview broadcast by a United Arab Emirates-based television channel, which serves Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries.

“Some of them look like demons ... The devil has turned these people into fools and made them change the way God created them, with all the things they are doing,” Al-Munajid said. The broadcast of Al-Munajid’s interview was intercepted by the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) and posted on the group’s website.

Al-Munajid also said the appearance of many women at the World Cup was inappropriate since they are usually not completely dressed. “The cameras at the soccer fields will zoom in on many things, including women,” said Al-Munajid, “who will not be wearing veils, of course and will be half naked in many cases.”

Al-Munajid was formerly employed by the Islamic Affairs Department, which is associated with the Royal Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C. However, MEMRI Executive Director Steven Stalinsky told Cybercast News Service that Al-Munajid was among the Saudi diplomats who did not get their diplomatic credentials renewed by the U.S. State Department in late 2003.

Stalinksy said his organization has clips of “at least a half a dozen TV appearances over the last two years of [Al-Munajid] on TV making outrageous statements.” On Jan. 6, 2005, Al-Munajid blamed the public enthusiasm over sports for some marital breakups. “[T]he fans’ support for teams reaches blows, both within the field and outside it, in schools, and other places, and this is a reason for divorce and various social tragedies,” he said

While acknowledging that “participating in sports activities is important” for women, Al-Munajid said he did not approve of public participation for women. “Some want women to participate in the Olympics!” Al-Munajid said in the interview from 2005. “Women are not allowed to participate in the Olympics in full view because this means exposing her nakedness.”

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Monumental Suck-Up

Memorials should be built for wars, not for religious groups who participated. There are probably an equal number of Muslims who fought and died in WWI from the other side, the Ottoman Empire, which sided with Germany. Chirac is simply sucking up to the Muslims in France who are gradually taking over the country. Meanwhile, at other cemeteries in France, Jewish graves in France are being vandalized by “parties unknown”. Yeah, it must have been Norwegians who did it, right?

What someone in Europe needs to do is build a huge 1,000,000 ton marble monument to the utter supidity, the rank indifference to potential deaths and the slimey political backroom games that were being played by Europe’s Kings and Emperors and Czars and Kaisers in the late 19th century that caused hundreds of millions of deaths, solved nothing and merely provided a breeding ground for an even worse conflict thirty years later. That’s the monument I’d like to see ... and after it’s built - drop it on Chirac’s head. Merde!

France Marks Muslim Dead Of WWI
_{Sunday, 25 June 2006, 14:26 GMT}

French President Jacques Chirac has marked 90 years since the Battle of Verdun by unveiling a monument to Muslims who fell in the key WWI battle.

The memorial is the first to Muslims who died in 300 days of clashes over the strategically located French town and in other World War I battles.

Mr Chirac hailed the French army in Verdun as “France in its diversity”. He also spoke of friendship with Germany at the ceremony, which was attended by the German ambassador.

France erected monuments in the 1930s to Jewish and Christian soldiers among the 300,000 who died at Verdun in 1916.

But until now Muslim soldiers have been honoured only by a small pillar dedicated to Africans who fought in the French army, and 592 graves in the Muslim section of a war cemetery in the town of Douaumont near the battlefields.

At the inauguration of the new white-walled, Moorish style memorial, Mr Chirac remembered Verdun as a moment when “the French nation came together and went forth to the end”.

“People of all walks of life, of all beliefs, of all religions, are at Verdun,” he said. Some 72,000 soldiers from France’s colonies - including Morocco, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia and Madagascar - died fighting under the French flag during World War I, he said.

- More Fwench Folly from the BBC...

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Through The Looking Glass

U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft perform maneuvers over Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, June 14, 2006, during exercise Northern Edge 2006. The joint exercise is one of a series of U.S. Pacific Command exercises that prepare joint forces to respond to crises in the Asian Pacific region. The aircraft are from 112th Fighter Squadron, Ohio Air National Guard.

- DoD photo by Master Sgt. Rob Wieland, U.S. Air Force.

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Sunday Funnies

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   Saturday - June 24, 2006

World (War) Cup

It’s a good thing the Americans have bowed out of World Cup competition and left the continent. The Brits and Krauts are at it again, banging heads in Stuttgart today. If this keeps up, somebody better start planning to send a lot of boats to Dunkirk. Eh, wot?

In other World War Cup news, the Fwench have a good defense planned out but no offense to speak of. Perhaps the Frogs should just go ahead and surrender to Spain? C’est la Guerre!

I’m betting the finals come down to Germany vs. Spain. Ask not for whom the ball rolls, it rolls for thee.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/24/2006 at 05:40 PM   
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Chess Boxing is a sport?

Believe it or not, and I didn’t when I first read this on Fark.com, Chess boxing is an actual sport in Europe. There’s even a World Chess Boxing Organization.

The rules are simple enough:

The basic idea in chessboxing is to combine the no.1 thinking sport and the no.1 fighting sport into a hybrid that demands the most of its competitors – both mentally and physically.

In a chessboxing fight two opponents play alternating rounds of chess and boxing. The contest starts with a round of chess, followed by a boxing round, followed by another round of chess and so on. In every round of chess the FIDE rules for a ´Blitz game´ apply, in every boxing round the AIBA rules apply with the following extensions and modifications: In a contest there shall be 11 rounds, 6 rounds of chess, 5 rounds of boxing. A round of chess takes 4 minutes. Each competitor has 12 minutes on the chess timer. As soon as the time runs out the game is over.

A round of boxing takes 2 minutes. Between rounds there is a 1 minute pause, during which competitors change their gear. The contest is decided by: checkmate (chess round), exceeding the time limit (chess round), retirement of an opponent (chess or boxing round), KO (boxing round), or referee decision (boxing round). If the chess game ends in a stalement, the opponent with the higher score in boxing wins. If there is an equal score, the opponent with the black pieces wins.

I’ve been thinking of how many World Chess Champions would survive a round of boxing for the title. My guess is that most would win the first round of chess and never have to box.

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Warp Drives Explained

- From: “Warp Drives” - Popular Science

How Do Warp Drives Work?

A spacecraft that travels at faster-than-light speeds by distorting, or “warping,” the fabric of spacetime. Instead of trying to move through space, the warp drive moves space itself. The ship sits inside a bubble of spacetime bound by a negative energy field that races across the cosmos.

1. Fuel Up: Start beyond Earth’s immediate gravitational pull. Convert matter into negative energy (particles with negative mass that are repelled by gravity rather than attracted to it).

2. Curve Spacetime: Emit pulses of negative energy to curve spacetime. Form a sphere around the ship with the energy, insulating passengers in their own private spacetime bubble.

3. Drop Out: The bubble warps spacetime so drastically that it actually slips out of the visible universe. Only a narrow tube of negative energy keeps it tied to our world.

4. Expand Space: Now that the craft is protected in its spacetime bubble, the real work can begin: Expand space behind the bubble at faster-than-light speed, and shrink the space in front.

What Do We Still Need To Develop To Have Warp Drives?

• Discover Negative Energy: There are no known particles with negative mass. The closest scientists have come is a phenomenon called the Casimir effect, wherein empty space between two conducting plates behaves as if it contains negative energy.


• Devise a Way To Manipulate It: Even if scientists could transform matter into negative energy, they would still have to find a way to focus it and create an infinitesimally thin, yet extraordinarily stable, bubble of the stuff around the spaceship.


• Harness Dark Energy: In recent years, cosmologists have been studying a mysterious force called dark energy that they think is accelerating the expansion of the universe. If scientists could generate it at the back of the bubble, it might move, or expand, space.


• Build Bubble Brakes: Because the spacetime carrying the ship would be completely cut off from the outside of the bubble, there would be no way to send a signal to turn off the warp drive. The signal would never get there, and the ship would never stop.


• Engineer Scott: Wait patiently for a child to be born in Scotland named Montgomery Scott who will be the only engineer in Star Fleet who can barely hold the warp engines together when the Romulans attack. Aye, Cap’n.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/24/2006 at 01:27 PM   
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Remember When ….

“A Chance To Lead”
TIME Magazine
_{August 16, 1968}

As they start on the road to November, the Republicans are united. Now what will they do with their unity? Richard Nixon is clearly in tune with his party. Will he be in tune with the country?

These are the chief questions that emerge from the Republican Convention and will dominate the political scene for the next 2½ months. The American party system allows a measure of plasticity every four years.

The Republicans are making the most of this chance. The painful ruptures of the past have been treated and very nearly healed—almost in a spirit of harmony or bust.

More confident than ever of his party's nomination, Humphrey felt more at leisure to consider his choice for the No. 2 spot. The Vice President could ill afford the eupepsia.

The Democratic Party is as badly split as ever over the war. In fact, South Dakota Senator George McGovern's belated entry into the race can only increase intraparty factionalism.

Robert Kennedy was once asked to name the most decent man in the Senate. "George McGovern," he replied. "He's the only decent man in the Senate." South Dakota's junior Senator felt much the same way about Kennedy.

The two were close friends for years, from the time that McGovern took over John F. Kennedy's Food for Peace program in 1961. Since Robert Kennedy's death, McGovern, 46, has been an unofficial rallying point for disenchanted R.F.K. forces who are unwilling to accept either Hubert Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/24/2006 at 01:14 PM   
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Opinion: Homosexual Adoption

Before I begin, let me state quite clearly for the politically correct crowd out there that I am not a homophobe. I could care less what other people do in their bedroom. With that said however, I do not think homosexual couples should be allowed to adopt children. In spite of the fact that I ignore their sexual habits, I still think the behavior is abnormal ... in much the same way that picking one’s nose at the dinner table is abnormal - harmless overall but disquieting, to say the least.

One can possibly ignore the nose-picker ... unless he or she prepared the dinner. Get the picture? In a similar manner, I don’t believe homosexuals should be allowed to raise and care for adopted children. It just isn’t right. For starters, every child absolutely needs a male and a female parent to keep things in balance during the learning years. This is most clearly evidenced by the rise in youthful offenders and criminals who were raised in single-parent homes. Having two parents of the same gender creates a similar imbalance. There are things that mothers do that fathers don’t (and vice versa) in raising children. Children need that balance.

There is also the problem that the child faces with his or her peers, whose parents are mostly heterosexual couples. The child can become alienated from his or her group of friends in adolescence and that creates a whole new world of problems. In case you haven’t figured out my stance yet, it all comes down to this: I don’t give a damn what the grownups want to do - what is best for the child?

In addition to all that, there is the problem of child abuse. I don’t know whether there is a prevalence of that type of behavior among homosexuals. I seriously doubt it. Sexual predators come in all shapes and sizes. I would however, have to cast a wary eye on homosexual couples wanting to adopt young children. I’m sure some truly want to be good parents, in spite of the arguments I presented above - and they may even be good people of good character. Then again, there are couples like the one below ...

Inquiry Ordered After Gay Couple
Jailed For Abusing Foster Children
_{Saturday June 24, 2006}

LEEDS - UK (GUARDIAN) - An independent inquiry is to be held into how a gay foster couple duped social services over photographs of young boys in their care whom they abused. They were jailed at Leeds crown court yesterday by a judge who accused them of wholesale betrayal of trust once their “ridiculous” reason for taking a picture of a foster-child urinating was believed.

Craig Faunch, 32, was sentenced to six years and his partner Ian Wathey, 41, to five. Judge Sally Cahill QC accused them of showing no remorse, empathy with their victims or responsibility in the role of foster parents. The couple, who were convicted at an earlier trial, targeted boys from difficult backgrounds. Judge Cahill said one 14-year-old victim suffered from autism while another had a background of drug-taking and sexual and physical abuse.

Referring to one teenager singled out by Faunch, she said: “You saw him as the ideal victim. You then chose to victimise and abuse him, showing the very depths of what you are prepared to do.” The court heard that Faunch and Wathey, from Pontefract, West Yorkshire, had abused four boys fostered to them by Wakefield, after checks showed that they had no police record and met all the council’s requirements. Suspicions were raised when the photograph was found by the child’s mother. But the court heard that staff had decided that the men had been “naive and silly”, accepting their explanation that they used the picture to embarrass boys into closing the toilet door.

Judge Cahill said: “Once you realised social services would not take any action and believed your ridiculous story about why you had taken the photograph, you went on to abuse others in your care, believing yourself safe from the authorities.” Both men were convicted of multiple charges of sexually abusing 14-year-old boys. Wathey was cleared of two charges of having sexual activity with an eight-year-old.

Kitty Ferris, Wakefield’s director for children in need, said that internal procedures had been reviewed pending the independent inquiry. But “correct procedures had been carried out at every stage”, including unannounced house visits. She said: “Allegations were referred to the police as quickly as possible. The council has offered support to children who have been affected.” Both men have been banned for life from working with children and will remain on licence for three years after release.

_{(-- Hat tip to Brit reader LyndonB for the lead on this story --)}

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