Friday - March 10, 2006

The Lesson Of Enron

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/10/2006 at 04:36 AM   
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Cartoon Execution

"The religion of peace” is becoming a really, really tired cliché. The practitioners of Islam are starting to make Klingons seem downright peaceful. Here’s an example of what you could expect if you had to live under sharia law.

The editor in Yemen who published some of the cartoons, even though he did it in a critical context, is on trial for his life. Probably the most telling quote from this news story is when the lawyer prosecuting the case ”demanded the death penalty for the editor by recounting how the Prophet Muhammad approved of the killing of a lady who had insulted him”.

If this is a “religion of peace”, then I’m a Klingon ....

Lawyers Ask Death Penalty for Yemen Editor
_{March 9, 2006, 6:35 PM EST}

CAIRO, Egypt (AP)

Lawyers for a cleric have urged a judge in Yemen to condemn to death a local editor who published the Danish caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, the newspaper’s Web site said Thursday.

The editor of the Yemen Observer, Mohammed Al-Asadi, told The Associated Press he is being prosecuted by both the state and a prominent Islamic cleric, Sheik Abdulmajid al-Zindani, whom the United States has accused of supporting terrorism.

Editors of two other Yemeni papers that published the cartoons, Al-Ra’i al-Am and Al-Huriya, have also been charged with offending Islam. Their trials have not yet started.

It appeared unlikely that a court would hand down executions in any of these cases. Yemen, a poor, lawless, Arab country at the foot of the Arabian Peninsula, has a secular, U.S.-allied government that controls the judiciary.

But the case highlights once again the extent of the sensitivities over these cartoons throughout the Muslim world—even when, as in this case, they are displayed in a critical context. The Yemen Observer published thumbnail copies of some of the cartoons in its Feb. 4 edition, but it covered them with a thick black cross to show its disapproval. In two accompanying articles, the paper condemned the cartoons and reported reactions from across the Muslim world.

When al-Asadi appeared in court on Wednesday, 21 lawyers representing al-Zindani demanded the death penalty for the editor by recounting how the Prophet Muhammad approved of the killing of a lady who had insulted him, the newspaper reported on its Web site.

“They said that they wanted the same punishment to be applied to those who abuse the prophet,” al-Asadi told the AP, “but the judge said there were many things missing from the prosecution team’s argument, and told them to complete their file.” The lawyers also asked the court to close the newspaper and confiscate its assets.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 03/10/2006 at 04:01 AM   
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Schadenfreude

Is it any coincidence that the Paleswinians and the Liberal Leftists in the US keep throwing up this Hitler/Nazi thing? What is the obsession with old Adolph? That asshat has been dead and gone for over sixty years. The Paleswinians are so full of s**t it’s running out of their ears. These idiots don’t need a country. They need an institution, preferably one with padded walls.

I’m beyond being sick and tired of their incessant whining and hatred. These pathetic pinheads need to be thankful we’re not Nazis. The Nazis would have exterminated them a long time ago if not for the US and the allies stopping the fascists in their tracks. If there’s any fascism or nazism going on in the world today, it’s all in the Middle East. And it wants to spread ....

Palestinians Step Up Anti-U.S. Rhetoric
Poll showed 65% supportive of al-Qaida’s attacks
_{March 10, 2006}

(WORLDNET DAILY)

Rhetorical attacks against the U.S. and the West by the official Palestinian Authority press are increasing, with stories in the past week equating Western leader with Adolf Hitler, according to a media monitor.

In separate stories, the PA’s leading daily newspaper evoked Hitler and defined American neo-conservative ideology as Nazi “Aryan supremacy doctrine,” reports Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch.

“There is a new ideological Nazism, which has started to dominate the West, but it doesn’t speak openly about its totalitarian Nazism, but carries it out in practice,” wrote Hafez Barghuthi, editor in chief of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 4. “I see in many minor and senior Western officials, copies of Hitler,” he said. “Many of the Western institutions are as if they are managed by the Gestapo and the S.S.”

Barghuthi wrote that while “the Jews suppose they are safe from this Nazism, which is directed towards the people of the third-world and Latinos, they are mistaken, since it is not possible that the wolfish Nazi feelings will not eventually turn against them … because the neo-conservative idea is derived from the remnants of the Nazi idea, and is an Aryan supremacy doctrine, with new terminology.”

An article in the same daily scorned the U.S. for “introducing dubious elements amongst the Muslims, such as democratic ideology.”

- There’s more to this story at WND...

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/10/2006 at 03:21 AM   
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Priorities

_{Don Wright—The Palm Beach Post}

- CAIR Chairman Elected to Board of ACLU-Florida

“American Muslims view the protection of civil liberties as one of the most important issues facing our nation today,” said Ahmed. “By working with the ACLU in Florida, I hope to strengthen constitutional rights and help balance those rights with legitimate national security concerns.” Ahmed is a resident of Jacksonville, Fla.

The ACLU of Florida, with headquarters in Miami, is the local affiliate of the national organization. It has 16 staff members, 16 chapters and more than 22,000 members and supporters across Florida.

Perhaps the most obvious problem with CAIR is the fact that at least five of its employees and board members have been arrested, convicted, deported, or otherwise linked to terrorism-related charges and activities.

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   Thursday - March 09, 2006

That’s Entertainment

It’s time to present the BMEWS Motion Picture Awards.

The winner for Best Five-Minute Clip From Any Film Ever is here.

There’s even more of these cool clips here.

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/09/2006 at 11:59 AM   
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Shock Wave

Occasionally mankind looks up at the stars and the hairless apes see something that boggles their puny little minds and makes them wet their loincloths. This is one such day. NASA has just announced that there is a five-car pile-up going on way out yonder. “Way out yonder” is s Southern hairless ape technological term that means “300 million light years over there”.

Take a good look at the picture below. There are five galaxies involved in this massive collision. The green arc is actually a “shock wave” of epic proportions composed of extremely hot hydrogen gas. It’s heading our way. It’ll be here in 300 million years (give or take a few hundred million years). In the meantime, contemplate how it must really suck to be living on a planet in the middle of this cataclysm. And you thought hurricanes were bad .... ?

This photograph, taken by the Spitzer space telescope and a ground-based telescope in Spain, shows the Stephan’s Quintet galaxy cluster, with one of the largest shockwaves ever seen in the Universe. The green arc in the photograph is the point which two galaxies are colliding. There are actually 5 galaxies in this photograph, but two have been so beaten up, all that’s left are their bright centers. The galaxies are located 300 million light-years away in the Pegasus constellation.

This false-color composite image of the Stephan’s Quintet galaxy cluster clearly shows one of the largest shock waves ever seen (green arc), produced by one galaxy falling toward another at over a million miles per hour. It is made up of data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and a ground-based telescope in Spain.

Four of the five galaxies in this image are involved in a violent collision, which has already stripped most of the hydrogen gas from the interiors of the galaxies. The centers of the galaxies appear as bright yellow-pink knots inside a blue haze of stars, and the galaxy producing all the turmoil, NGC7318b, is the left of two small bright regions in the middle right of the image. One galaxy, the large spiral at the bottom left of the image, is a foreground object and is not associated with the cluster.

The titanic shock wave, larger than our own Milky Way galaxy, was detected by the ground-based telescope using visible-light wavelengths. It consists of hot hydrogen gas. As NGC7318b collides with gas spread throughout the cluster, atoms of hydrogen are heated in the shock wave, producing the green glow.

- From: Universe Today

- The Original News Release: Max Planck Society

- Origin Of The Photo: NASA Spitzer Space Telescope Center

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/09/2006 at 11:25 AM   
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An Eye For An Eye

The NY Times buried this story on page 18 even as they ran a massive three-part series with a glowing portrait of the imam of a Brooklyn mosque (while glossing over his sympathies for the terrorist group Hamas). I can’t think of a better reason to post it here in living color.

Yes, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar is a fruitcake. The problem is he’s an Iranian fruitcake (there does seem to be an awful lot of that species). So he rents a big SUV and tries to kill as many “American infidels” as possible. After he was allowed to come to the US and get an education in one of our top universities. He is being held on $5.5 million bond. Cue up the ACLU to make sure his rights are protected and make sure the Liberals know where to protest his sentence at his execution.

Oh ... did I forget to mention that his countrymen back home are trying to build a nuclear bomb ... ?

Defendant Offers Details of Jeep Attack at University
March 8, 2006

(NEW YORK TIMES)

The man charged with nine counts of attempted murder for driving a Jeep through a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last Friday told the police that he deliberately rented a four-wheel-drive vehicle so he could “run over things and keep going,” according to court papers released yesterday by investigators.

Details in the search warrant for the Carrboro, N.C., apartment of the defendant, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, suggest that he had planned his actions for months and was disappointed the attack had not done more damage. None of the nine people who were struck by the Jeep Grand Cherokee as they were standing in a campus commons area known as the Pit were seriously injured.

According to statements taken by the police, Mr. Taheri-azar, 22, an Iranian-born graduate of the university, felt that the United States government had been “killing his people across the sea” and that his actions reflected “an eye for an eye.”

He also told investigators he had been thinking about taking some kind of retaliatory action for two years and had been planning last Friday’s attack for two months, the warrant said. He said he was disappointed that more people were not in the commons around noon, when the area is typically crowded, and he told a detective, Matthew Dodson, that he rented the four-wheel-drive vehicle so he could inflict as much damage as possible.

- Read the rest at the NYTimes...

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/09/2006 at 10:18 AM   
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Quote Of The Day

“I have to say it is a little shocking to see all these big names here, these huge stars. The Oscars is really, I guess, the one night of the year where you can see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party.”

-- Jon Stewart, at Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony

In case you missed the Oscars last Sunday night, here are the highlights:

• Best song went to a musical tribute to the overseers of human sex slaves, an occupation known as “pimping”;


• best picture went to a movie about racism in Los Angeles;


• best supporting actor went to the movie about how oil companies murder people; and


• best supporting actress went to the movie about how pharmaceutical companies murder people.

Curiously missing from Oscar night’s festivities was any reference, even in passing, to the 150,000 brave Americans currently risking their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

On behalf of red state America, let me be the first to say: “Screw you, Hollywood.”

- Anns’s just getting warmed up, there’s plenty more at WND ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/09/2006 at 05:58 AM   
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Mum’s The Word

Oh well. So much for freedom of speech. Wait! I forgot, this is Britain after all. They don’t have free speech - just a free lunch for Muslim immigrants. You’d never be able to pull this off in the US, land of the free and home of the million-dollar book deal. The ACLU would be in court before the ink was even dry on the new rules.

New Rule Muzzles British Diplomats
After embarrassing revelations, writing tell-all books is banned
Wednesday, March 8, 2006 - 11:11 p.m. EST (04:11 GMT)

LONDON (AP)—Britain issued new rules for diplomats Wednesday to stop the publication of tell-all memoirs such as a recent portrayal of Prime Minister Tony Blair as star-struck and senior ministers as “political pygmies.”

Ministers were chagrined in November when former Ambassador to the United States Sir Christopher Meyer published his explosive “D.C. Confidential.” Meyer depicted Blair as star-struck and failing to stand up for Britain in the run-up to the Iraq war, and he described senior Cabinet members as “political pygmies.”

In the memoir, Meyer also told how, as a Downing Street press secretary, he would brief former Conservative Prime Minister John Major as the prime minister washed and dressed in the morning, sometimes while Major’s wife, Norma, lay in bed.

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who has accused Meyer of breaking a trust, published the new guidelines Wednesday, which specifically prevent Foreign Office staff from “writing anything that would damage the confidential relationship between ministers, or between ministers and officials.”

- There’s even more on page two at CNN ...

Oddly enough Cherie Blair, wife of Tony, has just published a 944-page, £145 ($252 US) law textbook titled ”The Negligence Liability of Public Authorities”. The book is a how-to manual for those wishing to sue for compensation for their own stupid acts. People like Carl Murphy ....

When Carl Murphy was 9 years old, he was trespassing at a warehouse near Liverpool and broke through the roof of the building. He fell 40 feet and suffered a skull fracture. When he turned 18 last year he sued the building’s owner, claiming that had the site had a better security fence to keep him out, he wouldn’t have been injured.

“The papers just call me a yob and a thug because I’ve been done for robbery and assault but those were just silly stupid little things, like.” Murphy was awarded 567,000 pounds. He said he’d spend his windfall on a “flash car” and “a big house so I have a place to live with me mum when she gets out of jail.”

- The Telegraph (UK), March 3, 2005 ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 03/09/2006 at 05:24 AM   
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Hitchhikers Guide To Insanity

That’s it. Shut it down. Turn out the lights. Let’s all go home. We have been here on this planet entirely too long. Personally, I have seen enough of these stupid earthlings to last me a lifetime. I wouldn’t give two zorkons for the chances of this lawsuit actually succeeding but does that ever stop these creatures? Let’s get out of here before they start reciting Vogon poetry ....

Men’s Rights Group Eyes Child Support Stay
Wed Mar 8, 5:20 PM ET

NEW YORK (AP)

Contending that women have more options than they do in the event of an unintended pregnancy, men’s rights activists are mounting a long shot legal campaign aimed at giving them the chance to opt out of financial responsibility for raising a child.

The National Center for Men has prepared a lawsuit — nicknamed Roe v. Wade for Men — to be filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Michigan on behalf of a 25-year-old computer programmer ordered to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend’s daughter. The suit addresses the issue of male reproductive rights, contending that lack of such rights violates the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection clause.

The gist of the argument: If a pregnant woman can choose among abortion, adoption or raising a child, a man involved in an unintended pregnancy should have the choice of declining the financial responsibilities of fatherhood. The activists involved hope to spark discussion even if they lose.

“There’s such a spectrum of choice that women have — it’s her body, her pregnancy and she has the ultimate right to make decisions,” said Mel Feit, director of the men’s center. “I’m trying to find a way for a man also to have some say over decisions that affect his life profoundly.”

Feit’s organization has been trying since the early 1990s to pursue such a lawsuit, and finally found a suitable plaintiff in Matt Dubay of Saginaw, Mich. Dubay says he has been ordered to pay $500 a month in child support for a girl born last year to his ex-girlfriend. He contends that the woman knew he didn’t want to have a child with her and assured him repeatedly that — because of a physical condition — she could not get pregnant.

- As if that’s not enough, there’s more here ...

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Innocent Until Proven Stupid

From the Gitmo Files at the Christian Science Monitor we have below some of the ridiculously funny excuses given by prisoners at Gitmo for what they were doing when they were captured in Afghanistan. I especially like the last one: don’t leave home without it ....

“I did have those guns - but they belonged to the government of Afghanistan.”

“I was just showing off when I talked about Osama bin Laden.”

“We lost our goats. That’s why we were looking through binoculars.”

“I’ve never even picked up a gun. Well, once. I cut my finger.”

“I needed to survive, so I did work with the government, which was at the time the Taliban government”

“I was unhappy in Qatar, and thought that in Afghanistan I could more easily find a wife.”

“Why would I kill Americans when I have a friend who worked for American Express?”

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No Habla Nucular

I don’t know which is scarier: that Mexico’s only nuclear power plant had problems or the fact that Mexico even has a nuclear power plant. No wonder they’re swarming over the border trying to get out as quickly as possible. Speedy Gonzalez does not want to glow in the dark. Si ....

Mexico’s Only Nuclear Plant Shuts Reactor
March 8, 2006, 10:48 PM EST

VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP)

Mexico’s only nuclear power plant was forced to shut one of its two reactors Wednesday because of a damaged electric cable, officials said. Ranulfo Marquez Hernandez, deputy state secretary of civil protection, called the incident “minor but unusual.”

“There were no injuries to people or the environment or anything,” Marquez said. “The plant will continue working at its full capacity this afternoon.” Marquez would not say what damaged the cable but said it forced plant operators to shut down the reactor until the cable could be replaced later Wednesday.

The Federal Commission of Electricity said in a statement there was no need to evacuate any plant workers or nearby residents. The incident was the second to affect the federally owned plant, located about 50 miles northwest of Veracruz, in recent months. In late 2005, a small fire broke out on the roof of a building housing one of the two reactors.

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Follow The Money

_{John Trever}—The Albuquerque Journal

A college can be stripped of federal funding if its law school denies full access to military recruiters because it opposes the “don’t ask, don’t tell’’ policy on gays and lesbians in the armed forces, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday.

The court rejected law schools’ arguments that requiring them to treat the Pentagon like any other employer violated their freedom of speech by forcing them to spread a message they oppose.

“Accommodating the military’s message does not affect the law schools’ speech, because the schools are not speaking when they host interviews and recruiting receptions,’’ Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the 8-0 decision. Justice Samuel Alito, who was not on the court when the case was argued in December, did not participate.

- The San Francisco Chronicle, March 7

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   Wednesday - March 08, 2006

Alabama Arsonists Arrested

It ”started as a joke and got out of hand”. What’s so funny about burning down a church? I don’t get it. Did I miss a punchline in this somewhere? Thank God it wasn’t some racial hate s**t. My home state of Alabama had enough of that crap back in the bad ol’ days. Now it seems all the folks back home have to contend with are stupid, irresponsible, s**t-fer-brains, goobered-up, chicken-s**t, dumba**, jerks. If these were my kids, the cops would not have much left to arrest. I’d beat every one of them bloody until they screamed for mercy. At which point I’d beat ‘em a little more .. and a little more .. and a litttle more .. and ........

Three College Students Arrested
March 8, 2006, 2:44 PM EST

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP)

Three college students were arrested Wednesday in a string of nine rural Alabama church arsons last month that allegedly were set first as “a joke” and later as a diversion, federal agents said.

Benjamin Nathan Moseley and Russell Lee Debusk Jr., both 19-year-old students at Birmingham-Southern College, appeared in federal court Wednesday and were ordered held on church arson charges pending a hearing Friday.

Matthew Lee Cloyd, 20-year-old junior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, was arrested later Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Artur Davis said. Davis said he learned of Cloyd’s arrest from the FBI. Calls to the FBI about Cloyd’s arrest were not immediately returned. Cloyd previously attended Birmingham-Southern.

“While all three are entitled to have their day in court, we are very hopeful that this is the end to the fear that has been rampant in West Alabama,” Davis said. The arrests came in a probe of arsons at five Baptist churches in Bibb County south of Birmingham on Feb. 3 and four Baptist churches in west Alabama on Feb. 7. The federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency had made the arsons its top priority, with scores of federal agents joining state and local officers.

Moseley admitted to the arsons after his arrest Wednesday, according to an ATF affidavit presented at the initial court appearance. The affidavit said Moseley told agents that he, Cloyd and Debusk went to Bibb County in Cloyd’s Toyota sport utility vehicle on Feb. 2 and set fire to five churches. A witness quoted Cloyd as saying Moseley did it “as a joke and it got out of hand,” according to the affidavit.

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