Sunday - April 23, 2006

Who Ya Gonna Call?

Paranormal Specialists Review Strange Sightings On Mystic Ship
_{Apr 22, 12:09 PM EDT}

MYSTIC, Conn. (AP)—Specialists in paranormal research are investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be home to the ghost of a long-ago seafarer. A five-member team from the Rhode Island Paranormal Research group visited Mystic Seaport on Friday night to spend time on the Charles W. Morgan, a wooden whaling ship where several visitors have reported seeing the apparition.

The 165-year-old craft made 37 ocean voyages in search of whales during the 60 years it was in use. About 1,000 men worked on the Morgan over those decades. The ship, due for a $3.5 million restoration next year, one of the main attractions at the Mystic Seaport maritime museum. The Rhode Island Paranormal Research Group became interested in the Morgan after receiving reports from three different groups of people about the apparition.

The visitors said that while touring the ship last summer, they saw a man in what appeared to be 19th-century clothing working below deck. They said the man, who had a pipe in his mouth, nodded at them but did not speak. When they went returned to the main deck and asked a museum interpreter what the man was doing, they were told that no one was down below and that no one was assigned to be on the boat that day.

“I automatically questioned it, but they insisted they saw something down there,” Andrew Laird, founder of the paranormal research group, told The Day of New London. He said that when he asked the three groups for more details, they responded with the same accounts. The three groups were from Massachusetts, Arizona and New York and did not know each other.

They visited within a week’s time of each other. “The fact that we had three reports that were the same made everyone’s eyebrows go up,” Laird said. He said that he also received about 40 other reports of possible paranormal activity before those groups related their experiences. Museum officials gave the group permission to conduct the investigation.

“We’re interested in what they find out,” said museum publicist Mike O’Farrell, who attended Friday night’s investigation. “It’s not so much we believe in ghosts and spirits, but it’s a chance to do something fun.” Laird and the other investigators said their few hours on the ship convinced them that there was enough evidence of paranormal activity in certain areas to warrant a return visit with more sophisticated equipment.

Renee Blais, who described herself as a “sensitive” who uses touch and smell to connect with a place’s energy, said she felt the presence of a seaman named Gerald. She also described a sense of “sickness, death and despair” among about 15 men as they rode out a large storm in their cramped sleeping quarters. Some museum employees might not be surprised by the speculation that the whaling ship is haunted. Dawn Johnson, a longtime museum interpreter who used to be assigned to the Morgan, said she used to hate to go down below and close up for the night.

“It was creepy down there at night,” she said. “It’s cold and clammy. You hear moans and creaking, and you wonder what it is.” Laird said that 90 percent of the time, his group finds a natural explanation for what people are experiencing, whether it’s an animal making noise, something structural in the house or a hoax.

“We mainly go in to investigate. We’re not saying a place is haunted. We go in with an open mind,” he said. The group also recently investigated reports at Ledge Light in New London Harbor, and believes the brick lighthouse is haunted by a woman and group of children. They plan to return there on June 3.

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Enough Is Enough!

Islamist Protest In N.Y. –- ‘Mushroom Cloud On Way’
Rally at Israeli consulate features pictures of Muslim flags flying over White House
_{April 22, 2006 7:10 p.m. Eastern}

A New York rally by the Islamic Thinkers Society outside the Israeli consulate yesterday featured chants of “The mushroom cloud is on its way! The real holocaust is on its way!” The demonstration by the Queens-based group was monitored by the Investigative Project on Terrorism whose members noted signs including “Islam will Dominate” and a picture with an Islamic flag flying over the White House. According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, the Islamic Thinkers Society is an offshoot of London’s Al-Muhajiroun, a group that celebrated the 9/11 attacks, referring to the hijackers as “the Magnificent 19,” and posting a burning picture of the Capitol on its website.

- More At WorldNet Daily ...

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   Saturday - April 22, 2006

Out Of Town

By the time you read this, I will be in Atlanta where I have some personal business to attend to. My flight leaves Friday night at 8:30pm and it will be late before I get there and fight my way through Hartsfield Intl. Airport (an airport I love to hate).

From there I’m travelling down to Montgomery, Alabama to spend a little time with family and relax for a few days. Then I have a few more stops to make before arriving back here in St. Louis next Wednesday evening. It will be an interesting trip, to say the least.

I have posted a few “time-delayed” posts to give you something to read over the next few days (this one should go off Saturday afternoon around 1:00) and of course Mr. Christian will pop in every now and then to keep you up to date on what is going on out there in the big, bad world.

I even have a tentative promise from Ronald Reagan’s Ghost that he will drop by during my absence to entertain you briefly. There will be other posts between now and next Thursday from me, inluding three essays I have been working on over the last few weeks. They have already been logged and set to go off next week.

The first of these essays will appear on Monday morning and will address the recent “dust-up” here at the blog which resulted in five members being banned. Don’t look for any trash talk or name-calling. I simply believe I owe you, the other members out there, some kind of version of what happened from my perspective instead of the hysterical ranting of those who were shown the door and told not to come back.

Yes, I am aware of the e-mails flying back and forth as well as the almost hilarious (and possibly slanderous?) personal attacks against me that have been publicly posted at two other infantile blog sites (who shall remain nameless).

For the most part, I have ignored all of this because I have more important things on my plate, like a real job and a life, which some of these attackers seem to be lacking. If you’d like a brief preview of my feelings about all this, you can visit my other home at The Argoknot and read my essay ”On Anger”. There will be more on this topic on Monday morning. Stay tuned ....

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Can You Hear Me Now?

This story needs no intro and all I have to say is .... BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA ......

Wrong Number: Interpreter Answers Cell Phone,
Dupes Insurgents
_{Saturday, April 22, 2006}

IBRAHIM AL MARKHUR, Iraq — One misplaced cell phone and one savvy interpreter equaled one dead insurgent, several pieces of intelligence and a whole lot of captured weapons. On a routine patrol, U.S. troops with 1st Battalion, 68th Armor came upon a house in the midst of dense greenery and at the end of a dusty country road.

Staff Sgt. Matthew Nicodemus, 33, said he immediately noticed that no Iraqi men were around. Suddenly, a cell phone inside the home rang, said Nicodemus, of Altoona, Pa. “The interpreter went in and answered the phone, and on the other end of the phone the person said, in Arabic, ‘Hey, coalition forces are here, go ahead and run away,’ and he specifically said, ‘Go and run into the palm groves all around here,’ ” Nicodemus said.

The troops then fanned out into the palm groves and found several weapons including several rocket-propelled grenades and hand grenades, two AK-47s and a new sniper’s rifle, Nicodemus said. They also found a hand-written map of a U.S. military base, diagrams on how to build rockets and a CD-ROM with several thousand files written in Arabic, said Sgt. 1st Class Michael Greer, 35, of San Luis Obispo, Calif.

If that weren’t enough, the insurgent kept calling the interpreter back to ask what the Americans were doing. The interpreter kept the act going. “He’s basically acting like, you know, he’s watching us ... making sure everything is fine,” Nicodemus said.

- Read The Rest Of This Hilarious Incident at Stars & Stripes

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Saturday Silliness

_{(Memo From Skipper: I have the same “To-Do” list today)}

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   Friday - April 21, 2006

Taking Out The Trash

So far, I have refused to comment on this story that has the MSM all in a tizzy. They have been all over it right from the beginning and where the media goes, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will follow. Jackson is convinced there is racism involved. The media has nothing better to cover right now. The case involves drunk, rich college kids and poor hard-working strippers and a major university. It has everything to whet the appetite of the sensationalist media. Except substance. This is pure crap, plain and simple. Let me make a few key points and then I’ll shut up ....

• Lacrosse is not a sport. It is recreation for rich white kids. Blacks don’t play it because they know it’s not a sport.


• Any stripper who goes to a drunken party for college jocks knows what she is getting into. Reference: “Animal House”.


• For years the media have touted the benefits of DNA testing in helping to free unjustly accused black murderers. Now all of a sudden when DNA tests clear a bunch of rich white kids, the tests are “suspect”? Make up your mind. Are the tests good or not?


• Does Jesse Jackson have a real job anywhere? Does Al Sharpton? Why do these two see a racist under every bed? Why does the media even bother with these two TV whores?


• What kind of ignoramus university has a “blue devil” for a mascot? Do their “sports” teams play with “blue balls”? Is that why their jocks hire strippers? Don’t answer that. I don’t want to know.

Other Stripper Speaks Out
_{Friday April 21, 2006 11:03AM}

DURHAM, N.C. (AP)—At first, a stripper who performed at a Duke University lacrosse team party doubted the story of a colleague who told police she was dragged into a bathroom and raped. Now, Kim Roberts isn’t so sure.

“I was not in the bathroom when it happened, so I can’t say a rape occurred—and I never will,” Roberts told The Associated Press on Thursday in her first on-the-record interview. But after watching defense attorneys release photos of the accuser, and upset by the leaking of both dancers’ criminal pasts, she said she has to “wonder about their character.”

“In all honesty, I think they’re guilty,” she said. “And I can’t say which ones are guilty ... but somebody did something besides underage drinking. That’s my honest-to-God impression.”

The attorneys claim Roberts at first told a member of the defense team that she did not believe the accuser’s allegations. They say she has changed her story to gain favorable treatment in a criminal case against her. They note she also e-mailed a New York public relations firm, asking in her letter for advice on “how to spin this to my advantage.”

“We believe ... her story has been motivated by her own self-interest,” said attorney Bill Thomas, who represents one of the uncharged players. “I think that a jury will ultimately have to decide the question of her credibility.”

Roberts, 31, was arrested on March 22—eight days after the party—on a probation violation from a 2001 conviction for embezzling $25,000 from a photofinishing company in Durham where she was a payroll specialist, according to documents obtained by the AP.

On Monday, the same day a grand jury indicted lacrosse players Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, a judge agreed to a change so that Roberts would no longer have to pay a 15 percent fee to a bonding agent. District Attorney Mike Nifong signed a document saying he would not oppose the change.

“It seems she is receiving very favorable financial treatment for what she is now saying,” Thomas said.

Mark Simeon, Roberts’ attorney, said the bond conditions were changed because Roberts is not considered a flight risk. Nifong, who hasn’t spoken with reporters about the case in weeks, didn’t return a call seeking comment.

- More On This Story At Sports Illustrated (which really ought to know better than to cover this crap) ...

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Sweating In Their Burkhas

These people just don’t get the idea of America. You come here, you leave the baggage behind. You don’t come to America and start telling everyone already here how to act. You blend in and get along. That’s the rule. Get over it. Is it any wonder Muslim immigrants have a hard time assimilating everywhere they go?

It’s this kind of crap that starts it. They want it all their way and if you disagree, they file a lawsuit or start torching cities. Time to put a quota on immigrants from the Middle East - no more than one per year. Yep, that should keep the whining and complaining and separatist bulls**t to a minimum ....

Muslim Women Want Single-Sex Workouts
_{April 21, 2006, 10:20 AM EDT}

LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (AP)—About 200 Muslim women who have memberships to the Fitness USA chain of athletic clubs have signed a petition asking the gyms to honor what they say was a promise to provide separate exercise times for women and men. Arrwa Mogalli, 28, of Dearborn, said she bought a $1,465 lifetime membership after being promised that a Lincoln Park facility would be open only to women on certain days.

The gym in this Detroit suburb opened a new part of the center this month to both sexes every day. “I felt like all the money I just spent ... has gone to waste,” Mogalli said. The women are asking the chain to restore single-sex exercise days for the entire gym or to put up a divider so men and women cannot see each other while exercising.

“In Islam, there are codes of modesty for both genders,” said Ammerah Saidi, 23, of Dearborn. “When you’re working out, you’re not dressed modestly, and you’re bending in provocative ways, so you can’t be working out with the opposite gender.” The company is reviewing the women’s concerns, said Jodi Berry, administrative director for Fitness USA. But the company said that the women’s written contracts say nothing about gender.

Fitness USA: http://www.fitnessusa.com

Council on American-Islamic Relations: http://www.cair-net.org

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Thinking Hard

How do you guarantee a Republican is elected President in 2008? The answer is below. Proposed campaign slogan for Senator Gigolo: “I decided not to run again before I decided to run” ....

Kerry “Thinking Hard” About 2008 Run For President
_{Fri Apr 21, 2006 4:42am ET16}

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Thursday he was seriously thinking about another White House bid in 2008 and will decide before the year is out. “I will make that decision toward the end of the year, but I’m thinking about it hard,” Kerry said in response to a question at the Latin Economic Forum at the United Nations.

“If you can get help me find 60,000 votes in Ohio ...,” he joked, referring to the close race in that state on which his 2004 loss to President Bush hinged. Kerry, a U.S. senator from Massachusetts, has criticized Bush on a range of issues, particularly the war in Iraq. On Thursday, he focused on Latin America, saying Bush lost interest in the region after the September 11 attacks.

“Relations between the United States and Latin America today are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War,” Kerry said. Other Democrats seen as potentially seeking the nomination include U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and Kerry’s former running mate, John Edwards.

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Perfect Fit

_{Mike Lester—Rome News-Tribune, Rome (GA)}

- CBS News: “Picking The New White House Press Secretary”

- NEWSMAX: “Bill Clinton Aided Iran in Quest for Nukes”

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   Thursday - April 20, 2006

“Operation Crushed Nuts”

Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (Ret.), who served as assistant vice chief of staff of the United States Air Force, has an answer to the Iranian Problem should the Mad Mullahs continue to build nuclear weapons in this week’s issue of The Weekly Standard ....

What would an effective military response look like? It would consist of a powerful air campaign led by 60 stealth aircraft (B-2s, F-117s, F-22s) and more than 400 nonstealth strike aircraft, including B-52s, B-1s, F-15s, F-16s, Tornados, and F-18s. Roughly 150 refueling tankers and other support aircraft would be deployed, along with 100 unmanned aerial vehicles for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and 500 cruise missiles. In other words, overwhelming force would be used.

The objective would be, first and foremost, to destroy or severely damage Iran’s nuclear development and production facilities and put them out of commission for at least five years. Another aim would be to destroy the Iranian air defense system, significantly damage its air force, naval forces, and Shahab-3 offensive missile forces. This would prevent Iran from projecting force outside the country and retaliating militarily. The air campaign would also wipe out or neutralize Iran’s command and control capabilities.

This coalition air campaign would hit more than 1,500 aim points. Among the weapons would be the new 28,000-pound bunker busters, 5,000-pound bunker penetrators, 2,000-pound bunker busters, 1,000-pound general purpose bombs, and 500-pound GP bombs. A B-2 bomber, to give one example, can drop 80 of these 500-pound bombs independently targeted at 80 different aim points.

This force would give the coalition an enormous destructive capability, since all the bombs in the campaign feature precision guidance, ranging from Joint Direct Attack Munitions (the so-called JDAMS) to laser-guided, electro-optical, or electronically guided High Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) for suppression of Iranian surface-to-air missiles. This array of precision weapons and support aircraft would allow the initial attacks to be completed in 36 to 48 hours.

- More on “Operation Crushed Nuts” at The Weekly Standard ...

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Excellent Choice!

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Barking Moonbat Of The Week

Iraq `Human Shield’ Trying to Avoid Fine
_{April 20, 2006, 4:18 AM EDT}

KERHONKSON, N.Y.—Before the bombs fell on Baghdad, Judith Karpova went there to put herself in harm’s way, hoping to prevent attacks on a population that was already suffering. The activist was among dozens of “human shields” who poured into Iraq as the U.S.-led offensive loomed in early 2003, but she left before the war began.

A peace activist for roughly half her life, Karpova protested the Vietnam War, took on an anti-nuclear crusade in the ‘80s and was gassed during anti-globalization protests during a 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.

Paying her own way, she arrived in Amman, Jordan, on Feb. 17, 2003, and took an Iraqi-sponsored bus trip to Baghdad with a few dozen other human shields. It was Karpova’s first trip to Iraq. She spent five days at an oil refinery with another shield, Faith Fippinger.

The shields stationed themselves at potential airstrike targets in Iraq such as food storage warehouses and refineries. U.S. officials warned them that there was no way to guarantee their safety and critics accused them of being pawns of Saddam Hussein.

But 10 days before the military campaign began, Karpova left Iraq. She cited several reasons, including not wanting to upset a brother recuperating from a stroke and fear for her life. When she got home, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control informed her that she was not licensed to engage in “travel transactions” in Iraq and later fined her $6,700.

Karpova sued, arguing her constitutional rights to free speech and travel were being violated. She also disputes that she provided an economic service for Iraq. A federal judge in October granted a government motion to dismiss Karpova’s complaint. Karpova’s appeal, which she filed last month, is being watched by the three other Americans hit with fines.

The fine seems to have done little to dampen Karpova’s zeal. She spent time last summer near President Bush’s ranch in Texas at the peace camp organized by Cindy Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son died in Iraq.

- More on this nutcase from NewsMax ...

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Space Aliens In Court

I know why the Supreme Court decided to hear this case. It’s because Ruth Bader Ginsburg is actually a Martian herself. No, really. I mean ... just look at the woman. No human looks that weird. Besides, the voices told me so ...

Supreme Court Takes Up Insanity Defense
_{Wednesday, April 19, 2006}

WASHINGTON (AP)—Supreme Court justices rarely talk about Martians. But on Wednesday, extraterrestrials were at the heart of a case brought by a schizophrenic teenager who says he killed an Arizona police officer because he thought the lawman was a space alien. Until now, the high court has avoided challenges to insanity defense laws, even as states around the country toughened their laws following John Hinckley’s acquittal by reason of insanity in the 1981 shooting of President Reagan.

It was a surprise when justices agreed to review Eric Michael Clark’s case, and they seemed uninterested Wednesday in broadly addressing the constitutional rights of psychotic criminal defendants whose lawyers want them sentenced to psychiatric facilities instead of prisons. Court members, however, did repeatedly refer to the unusual facts of Clark’s case, signaling that they are likely to rule very narrowly. He was a popular football star until he became convinced that aliens had taken over his town, Flagstaff, Ariz., as a “platinum city” and that his own parents were aliens.

Justices David H. Souter and Stephen Breyer both mentioned Martians. Justices John Paul Stevens questioned whether someone who thought he was on a mission to kill space aliens could receive the death penalty for killing a person instead. When Arizona lawyer Randall Howe said that the slain officer was wearing a uniform and driving a police cruiser, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that Clark’s lawyer “wants to introduce (evidence) on the other side, `I had delusions, I thought I killed an alien.’”

The Supreme Court has never said mentally ill accused criminals have the right to an insanity defense, and four states do not allow for that: Idaho, Kansas, Montana and Utah. The remaining states have a variety of standards for proving insanity, and Clark’s lawyer argued that Arizona’s is almost impossible to meet, violating the constitutional rights of mentally ill defendants.

- More Space Aliens Here ...

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A Good Start

Do the math. If there are 12 million illegal aliens in this country today then they only have to have about 12,000 busts like this before we get things under control. Just think ... only 11,999 to go ....

Bosses, Workers Seized In Immigration Raids
_{Thursday, April 20, 2006 - 9:20 a.m. EDT (13:20 GMT)}

WASHINGTON (CNN)—Federal immigration authorities rounded up more than 1,000 illegal immigrants at dozens of sites and charged nine individuals of the firm that employed them, federal law enforcement officials announced. Seven current and former managers of IFCO Systems, which has offices in several states, were arrested and charged in connection with the employment of illegal immigrants, said U.S. Attorney Glenn Suddaby in Albany, New York.

Suddaby said two lower level employees were also charged in the case. Wednesday’s action against IFCO Systems—an industry leader in the manufacture of wooden pallets, crates and containers—came as Homeland Security and Justice Department officials prepared to announce steps to toughen internal enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and other Bush administration officials and a federal prosecutor will appear at the agency’s Washington headquarters Thursday. They will announce the new strategy aimed at employers and disclose the results of the enforcement actions targeting IFCO Systems.

Customs officials said agents made more than a thousand arrests in nearly 40 locations including Houston, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; Phoenix, Arizona; and Albany, New York. A customs official said federal authorities checked a “sample” of 5,800 IFCO employee records last year and found that 53 percent had faulty Social Security numbers. “They were using Social Security numbers of people that were dead, of children or just different individuals that did not work at IFCO,” Immigration and Customs agency chief Julie Myers told CNN.

“The Social Security Administration had written IFCO over 13 times and told them, ‘Listen, You have a problem. You have over a thousand employees that have faulty Social Security numbers. And we consider that to be a big problem.’ And IFCO did not do anything about it,” Myers said. Myers said a yearlong investigation revealed that IFCO managers had induced illegal immigrants to work there, telling some of them to doctor W-2 tax forms or saying that they did not need to fill out any documentation at all.

- More on this story at CNN ...

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