Wednesday - June 21, 2006

Nuts!

Gen. Anthony Clement McAuliffe is best remembered for uttering a single word—no mean feat, considering that even the shortest Bible verse has two. Commanding the U.S. Army’s beleaguered and surrounded 101st Airborne Division during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, McAuliffe received a German surrender ultimatum. “Nuts!” he replied, and became a lasting symbol of American courage and determination under fire.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/21/2006 at 02:53 PM   
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Outrage!

On the same day that our enemy in the war on terror dumps the tortured, mutilated bodies of two US soldiers in a ditch in Iraq and scurries off to hide under their rocks, the ACLU steps out and accuses the US or torture, abuse and violation of human rights. There are days like this that make me wish I were a bomb-throwing anarchist with a closet full of molotov cocktails. If I were I’d have blown the ACLU’s headquarters to hell and gone by now.

What kind of group hides in a free country with all the human rights available to them and the freedom to do whatever they please and spends its time attacking the very insitution that allows them to be free? This is the same organization that seemingly does not care at all about mutiliated, beheaded terrorist captives or the bloody suicide bombers who have murdered innocent women and children in Iraq.

The ACLU are COWARDS! They pick an easy target in the US and harass us to death. Why don’t they go overseas, get together with Amnesty International and try to stop the barbaric behavior in Gaza, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia? There are subhuman tortures and outright genocide going on over there. The ACLU had rather scream at the US to adjust it’s coat and polish its shoes while ignoring the savages running around in loincloths and covered in blood. That sucks the big one ...

ACLU Condemns U.S. for Failing to Uphold Civil and Political Rights
_(6/20/2006)

NEW YORK—The American Civil Liberties Union today released a report to the U.N. Human Rights Committee condemning the U.S. government for failing to comply with its treaty obligations to protect and preserve a range of human rights protections at home and abroad. Drawing attention to some of the most vulnerable members of society, including women, children, minorities, immigrants and the accused, the ACLU offered detailed recommendations to bring the U.S. in line with universally recognized human rights standards.

“America should be a beacon of freedom throughout the world, not a country that violates the basic human rights of its own people,” said Ann Beeson, Associate Legal Director of the ACLU. The report, Dimming the Beacon of Freedom: U.S. Violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, documents the U.S. record on human rights in five areas: national security, women’s rights, racial justice, immigrants rights and religious freedom.

The Human Rights Committee is the U.N. body of experts charged with monitoring countries compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the primary human rights treaty. The United States ratified the treaty in 1992. The committee will review the official submission of the U.S. government on July 17 and 18 in Geneva. The ACLU will send a delegation to present the report and monitor the proceedings.

Dimming the Beacon of Freedom provides a detailed description of human rights violations in the United States. In addition to the impact of these rights violations on other vulnerable groups in the U.S., the report highlights how in the wake on September 11, 2001, Arabs, Muslims and South Asians, and to some extent all immigrants, were victims of discriminatory targeting by the government. It draws attention to the erosion of the right to privacy, discussing expanded surveillance and the government’s growing use of the states secret privilege to avoid accountability for abuses.

- More ACLU bulls**t at their site ...

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Liberal Stalker

She camped out in Crawford for months. She followed him back to Washington ... and New York. Now she’s followed him overseas to Austria. This is stalking, plain and simple. There are laws against that, aren’t there? Who’s paying this beeyatch’s way? Where is the money coming from for trips to Britain, France, Austria, Venezuela and cross-country tours every month. Isn’t there some way some kind of restraining order can be placed on this jerkwad? Let’s say, something along the lines “may not approach within 100 miles of the US”? Yeah, I like that ...

JUNE 21 (AP)—U.S. peace activist Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, California, center, marches along with leftist protesters in downtown Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, June 21, 2006, as they rally against U.S. President George W. Bush’s visit. President Bush is in Vienna to attend the EU-US summit.

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Down On The Bayou

I echo the sentiments of the cop in this cartoon. New Orleans is a great city and Katrina practically destroyed it. Now that people are starting to trickle back in from around the country where they have been refugees for nearly a year, the crime rate is rising back to “normal” levels - one of the highest in the nation. I really enjoyed the years I lived in that city and I hate to see it slide back into “crime city” again. N’awlins will probably always be famous for the best food and the worst crime in the USA ...

_{Steve Kelley—The New Orleans Times-Picayune}

- USA Today: “New Orleans sees its worst violence since before Katrina”

The gangland-style killings of five teenagers in New Orleans over the weekend punctuated a troubling trend in the hurricane-ravaged city: Murder is returning to normal faster than other facets of city life.

The deaths of the five teens brought the number of people killed in New Orleans to 52 this year, police Capt. John Bryson said Sunday. After months of nearly crime-free life that followed Hurricane Katrina, the murder rate is slightly below 2004, when New Orleans ranked No. 2 in the USA after Camden, N.J., for per-capita murders.

“It’s astronomic,” said Peter Scharf, a criminologist at the University of New Orleans. “This criminal justice system here is on its knees.”

The slayings were the worst violence to hit since a storm surge overwhelmed levees and flooded about 80% of the city Aug. 29. The five victims, ranging in age from 16 to 19, apparently were together in a sport-utility vehicle when the shootings occurred at 4 a.m. Saturday in a section of the Central City neighborhood known for drug trafficking.

“It was like 15 gunshots,” said Terrance Rayly, 23, who was staying in a nearby home. “I heard pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.”

- Reuters: “National Guard troops roll into New Orleans”

National Guard troops rolled into New Orleans on Tuesday in support of a police force struggling to keep peace in a city still badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina and reeling from the weekend slaying of five teens. Dozens of tan and camouflaged Humvees converged near the banks of the Mississippi River where commanders gave orders to secure the ghostly neighborhoods most devastated by the storm.

“If the criminals control, our families won’t return,” Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco told about 100 Guard soldiers and about 60 state police who will take their posts by Tuesday evening. Two hundred more Guard troops are due within a week. Guardsmen and women from around the nation were called in after Katrina to secure the city and quell looting, but they departed in February.

A rising murder rate, the return of drugs and the killing of five teens on Saturday galvanized officials to accelerate their plan to reinforce city police over the summer. Families preparing for the new school year, evacuees losing housing vouchers outside the city and construction workers are expected to arrive over the next few months as the sultry hurricane season reaches its peak.

“It is going to be a long, hot summer,” predicted police chief Warren Riley. The city needed an “overwhelming show of force,” Mayor Ray Nagin added. There is a growing sense in New Orleans the post-storm calm has lifted even before the city can completely recover. Only about 220,000 people, or half the pre-storm population, has come home to New Orleans, leaving many streets dark and increasingly dangerous.

Police say the 54 murders so far this year is down substantially from 2005, but the homicide rate, a measure taking into account the population, is about the same. “Crime has always been a part of New Orleans, as long as I’ve been alive,” said Sgt. Greg White, a 36-year-old guardsman from New Orleans.

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   Tuesday - June 20, 2006

Through The Looking Glass

“Three Of A Kind”
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U.S. Navy aircraft carriers USS Ronald Reagan (front), USS Kitty Hawk (middle) and USS Abraham Lincoln (back) sail in formation at the start of Valiant Shield 2006 in the Philippine Sea, June 18, 2006. As the largest joint exercise in recent history, it encompasses 28 naval vessels, nearly 300 aircraft and approximately 22,000 servicemembers from the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

-- U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Spike Call

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So Long, Dan

In a way, I am saddened to see Dan Rather leave CBS. Why? Because Rather is so transparently biased that he is a veritable poster-child for the biased mainstream media. Dan literally stands out among his peers in the news reporting industry. Over the years I’ve watched his “soft” interviews with Democrats like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and conversely his “attack” interviews with Republicans like Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush. I always knew exactly how many grains of salt to take with Dan Rather.

In recent years, the bias has become almost monumental in qualtity as well as quantity. The former low and the latter high. Dan has been teetering on the edge for quite some time. He barely made it through the 1980’s when Republicans Reagan and Bush ran the White House. If you do a little research on the period, you’ll find Bloom County cartoons as well as numerous incidents on the air when Dan seemed to almost flake out right in front of our eyes. Bill Clinton saved his sanity - for a short time. Had Clinton not been elected Dan would be living in a padded cell in a heavily sedated condition today.

The Clinton years only served to postpone the inevitable though. Like so many Democrats, Dan drifted farther and farther Left and since the 2000 election that drift Leftward has included a steep slide down a dark tunnel into wonderland. I remember Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite (before Uncle Walt went senile in recent years). Dan Rather was never in their class when it came to reporting and generating trust in viewers. Sadly, Dan never even came close to filling their shoes and that’s a fact.

I have always considered Dan Rather to be a bit of a flake. His rise to fame after the Kennedy assassination was purely due to his own conniving to grab coverage of the story and shove himself into the limelight. That episode in Dan’s career epitomized for me his whole “reason for being”. It was always “about him” not the story. Quite a few CBS News employees have spoken off the record about their relationships with Dan and more than a few described him as “arrogant” and “narcissistic “. I sensed the same thing whenever I watched him on air. There was just no question of ever trusting him with the news in my mind.

For those reasons I will miss Dan, for now I have no barometer to compare other broadcast news journalists with. I am left with a couple of journalists who are poster children for the Right and Conservatives in general (no, I won’t name names so forget it). They provide me with a measuring stick to compare radically conservative journalists to. I have nothing that far out on the Left any more after Dan’s departure.

Somehow I don’t think “Smilin” Katie Couric will measure up. She is biased for sure. I could give several recent examples of her Liberal tendencies. You can find a weekly record of them at the Media Research Center. I just don’t think she is in Dan’s league yet. The rest of the current crop of anchors at CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN and MSNBC are a bland lot. There’s no fire in any of them. They’re sneaky in the way they slant stories with a Liberal bias and against the current administration. They are Liberal midgets. Dan was a giant.

So I hope Dan got his gold watch and a nice retirement dinner from CBS and as he finds his way back to Texas where he plans to do broadcasts for Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, I wish him a fond farewell ... and I thank him for 44 years of showing me what a journalist should not be like. I salute Dan and wish him well and I would leave him with these words of Immannuel Kant, “In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” Adios ...

Rather Leaves CBS After 44 Years
_{Tue Jun 20, 2006 10:44am ET}

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Broadcasting giant Dan Rather will leave CBS News after 44 years as anchor and reporter where he built a reputation as a hard-driving journalist known for his quirky turn of phrase, the network said on Tuesday.

“Of all the famous names associated with CBS News, the biggest and brightest on the marquee are (Edward R.) Murrow, (Walter) Cronkite and Rather,” said Sean McManus, president of CBS News and Sports. “With the utmost respect, we mark the extraordinary and singular role Dan has played in writing the script of not only CBS News, but of broadcast journalism.”

CBS News said it was working on a prime-time special to mark Rather’s career to be broadcast in the fall. CBS said Rather’s contract was set to expire in November and that he had been unable to reach agreement on a new deal. Rather has told The New York Times he is considering hosting and producing a news program for HDNet, a high-definition television channel owned by fiery Internet billionaire Mark Cuban’s company.

But media pundits said in recent days the pending departure of Rather, 74, whose reputation was tarnished in 2004 by reporting a subsequently discredited report on President George W. Bush’s military record, was an unceremonious end for one of the network’s greats.

Rather’s 50-year career in journalism saw him cover the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the civil rights movement and Watergate. He has written six books, anchored six presidential election campaigns and covered a dozen wars on five continents.

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Just … DAMN!

Why is it that when US troops capture terrorists and treat them gently, according to the pansy-assed Geneva Convention all of the human rights groups start screaming “torture”, “abuse”, etc.?

Yet when the terrorists capture, torture and mutilate our troops news agencies like Reuters devotes three paragraphs to the killings and then quickly spends the next THREE PAGES of the report covering suicide bombings and other terrorist killings in Iraq? Bias? Or just plain BULLS**T?

I extend my deepest sympathies and regret to the families of Privates Tucker and Menchaca. There WILL be payback for this atrocity. Count on it.

Two U.S. soldiers Missing In Iraq Found Dead
_{Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:19am ET17}

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers who went missing south of Baghdad last week were killed and their bodies were found in an area where a group linked to al Qaeda said it had abducted them, an Iraqi defense official said on Tuesday. “The two soldiers were killed and they were found in Yusufiya near an electricity plant,” Major General Abdul Aziz Mohammed told a news conference in Baghdad.

He did not say when the soldiers were killed nor when their bodies were found. The U.S. military had launched an intense search for the men involving 8,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops. The Mujahideen Shura Council said on Monday it had kidnapped the soldiers—Private Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, from Madras, Oregon and Private Kristian Menchaca, 23, from Houston, Texas.

The two went missing at dusk on Friday after an ambush at a checkpoint in Yusufiya, a town in an area south of Baghdad some Iraqis call the “Triangle of Death, which is an al Qaeda stronghold. Another soldier was killed in the attack. The deaths dealt a blow to the U.S. military after it killed the al Qaeda leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in an air strike on June 7.

- More on the violence in Iraq at Reuters ...

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Fake ID’s Busted

It’s not often we get any good news on the illegal alien front. This Mexican bandito has been at this business (and I DO mean business) of supplying fake ID’s for ages. Why it took six years to pin him down is a mystery to me. He had a “franchise” operation spread over the US and there’s no telling how many millions of illegal aliens he helped to invade the US. Now, let’s see what happens to him. Will Mexico actually turn him over to us? Will the US courts just end up setting him free? Let’s all keep an eye on this jerk and see what happens.

Mexico Arrests Man in Fake Document Probe
_{June 19, 2006, 11:48 PM EDT}

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP)—Mexican authorities have arrested the leader of a far-flung ring that allegedly made and distributed forged immigration and identification documents in the U.S., American officials said Monday. Pedro Castorena, 42, was arrested Saturday in Guadalajara, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement.

The arrest of Castorena, who allegedly headed a ring that counterfeited and distributed such documents as resident alien cards, Social Security cards and American driver’s licenses, “deals a serious blow to one of the largest fraudulent document organizations in the United States,” said Julie Myers of the Department of Homeland Security.

Castorena, who was indicted in Denver last July on charges of conspiracy, fraud, misuse of visas and money laundering, was located last month in Jalisco by ICE agents with the help of Mexican federal agents and state police.

The documents were distributed in several U.S. states, including California, Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina, Nebraska, Iowa, New Mexico and Colorado, ICE said. U.S. authorities say Castorena ran his organization like a franchise-style company with cells in more than a dozen cities across the United States and with cell leaders paying a “franchise fee” to operate the business.

The investigation that led to Castorena’s arrest began in 2000 when U.S. federal officials began looking into the sale and distribution of counterfeit IDs in Denver. Mexican authorities took Castorena to Mexico City, where he’s waiting extradition to the United States.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/20/2006 at 07:15 AM   
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Racist!

_{Mike Lester—Rome News-Tribune (GA)}

- Boston Globe: “Grand jury decides not to indict McKinney”

A grand jury declined to indict Representative Cynthia McKinney yesterday in connection with a confrontation in which she admitted that she hit a Capitol Police officer who tried to stop her from entering a House office building. The incident occurred March 29 when McKinney, a Georgia Democrat , tried to enter a building without walking through a metal detector or wearing the lapel pin that identifies members of Congress. The guard did not recognize her as a member of Congress and asked her three times to stop. When she ignored him, he tried to stop her. McKinney then hit him. The next morning, she appeared on the House floor to apologize. (AP)

- ABC News: “Police Group Wants McKinney Scuffle Probed”

Police labor officials, angry over a federal grand jury’s refusal to indict Rep. Cynthia McKinney for assaulting a police officer, said Monday said they want the House ethics committee to review her conduct. And they said the grand jury’s decision last week sent the message that “it’s okay to hit a police officer.”

“We hope that members of Congress will review her actions in light of their rules within their own ethics committee,” Andrew Maybo, chairman of the U.S. Capitol Police Labor Committee, told reporters Monday at a news conference in Washington.

Maybo said the Fraternal Order of Police would send a letter later this week to the ethics committee suggesting that McKinney’s behavior violated an item in the chamber’s ethics manual that calls for members to “conduct (themselves) at all times in a manner which shall reflect creditably on the House of Representatives.”

- CNS News: “Black Republican Will Challenge Cynthia McKinney”

A little known African American woman announced Thursday that she will try to unseat Georgia Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, who has been mired in controversy since she struck a U.S. Capitol policeman in the chest with her closed fist. Catherine Davis, a human resources manager who has never held elected office, said she is running because McKinney’s “dismal legislative record and her outrageous behavior are an embarrassment to the hard-working folks in my district.” McKinney represents Georgia’s 4th Congressional District.

Davis is conservative. She favors a strict approach to immigration reform - the immediate securing of the borders and deportation of illegal residents, privatizing Social Security, Health Savings Accounts, school vouchers and the Fair Tax, which would eliminate the federal income tax and establish a federal sales tax.

McKinney was first elected to the U.S. House in 1992 to represent Georgia’s heavily Democratic 11th District. The district was redrawn by order of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1995 and McKinney was elected in the new, but still heavily Democratic 4th District in 1996. She lost her seat in 2002 when she was beaten in a Democratic primary, but when the winner then attempted a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2004, McKinney recaptured her old seat. Davis said she believes the district is ready for change after the controversy that has swirled around McKinney.

There is probably no more blatant example of a waste of oxygen than this woman. She is arrogant, racist and completely out of her mind.

Drunk with power, she cruises the halls of Congress, pandering to every camera she can find. Unfortunately, this is the kind of person the Democratic party sends to Washington over and over again.

I wish someone in Congress would stand up to these racists like McKinney and at the very least spank her for an ethics violation.

If any of us hit a policeman we’d be in deep kimchee by now. When this ditzy broad does it, she gets a pass. That’s not right.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/20/2006 at 06:40 AM   
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   Monday - June 19, 2006

THE REVOLUTION BEGINS!

Oxymoron: “Russian Intelligence” ... and you thought the CIA was totally f**ked up? Guess again, comrade! According to the KGB and Pravda, there is a military coup taking place right here in America even as I speak. There are running gun battles in the halls of Congress. Special forces are gunning down Senators left and right. George Bush has assumed dictatorial powers. American democracy is dead. Long live Emperor Bush!

At least that’s the way Pravda sees it.

These Russkis crack me up at times. I have to go browse their pages every now and then to find some comic relief in the daily news. Sadly, our comics here in the US are just falling down on the job lately and our media are too busy taking themselves seriously. Pravda however, seems to still be stuck in the old Commie propaganda mode and their “reports” make the National Enquirer and Britains’s SUN look like pikers in comparison. I mean nobody but nobody can come up with this level of fiction like the comrades in the glorious revolution.

Go ahead! Read this marvelous work of journalism. I’ve only copied half of the full report here. You absolutely have to follow the links and go read the whole thing. I promise you’ll crack a rib and maybe even die laughing at the “bias” in the story. Dan Rather needs to go join Pravda. He would fit right in. I promise! Now start reading and don’t blame me if you end up on the floor laughing your ass off. Treasure this story in its entirety. Our media can only dream of this kind of biased reportage. Enjoy ... !

_{P.S. Don’t tell anyone at DailyKOS or Democratic Underground or MoveOn.org about this story. They will take it as solid truth and then we’ll have to have a real coup just to shut them up and/or get rid of them.}

Russian Intelligence Says Constitutional
Crisis In The USA Takes Deadly Turn
_{June 6, 2006}

(PRAVDA)—Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting that the ongoing constitutional crisis that has erupted in the United States has taken a decidedly deadly turn as counter-coup forces attempting to block access to the American capitol engaged in a brief gun battle with US Army Special Forces leaving at least 3 dead.

Of this currently unfolding event we can read as reported by England’s Times Online News Service in their article titled “US Capitol Sealed Off After Gunshots Heard,” and which says:

“Police sealed off part of Capitol Hill today after reports that gunshots had been heard in the garage of a House of Representatives office building. The shots were heard in the garage level of the Rayburn Building, which houses offices of members of the US House of Representatives. Bill Pickle, the Senate Sergeant at Arms, told Reuters: “We have been told by staff of shots fired and the smell of smoke in the lobby of the Rayburn House building .”

Russian Intelligence reports further state that the United States Army has activated for this event their 4th Psychological Operations Group / Task Organization and which was the US military unit that coordinated the mis/disinformation campaign during the events of September 11, 2001 to such great effect.

The causes behind this latest escalation between the coup and counter-coup forces in the United States stem from the American President’s attempt to wrest total control of his country from both its elected representatives and its judiciary, and as we can read as reported by Italy’s Bellaciao News Service in their article titled “Bush Asserting Powers Accrued By Hitler,” and which says:

“President Bush has used ‘signing statements’ hundreds of times to vitiate the meaning of statutes passed by Congress. In effect, Bush is vetoing the bills he signs into law by asserting unilateral authority as Commander In Chief to bypass or set aside the laws he signs. For example, Bush has asserted that he has the power to ignore the McCain Amendment Against Torture, to ignore the law that requires a warrant to spy on Americans, to ignore the prohibition against indefinite detention without charges or trial, and to ignore the Geneva Conventions to which the U. S. is signatory.”

In effect, Bush is asserting the same powers seized by Adolf Hitler in 1933. His Federalist Society apologists and Department of Justice appointees claim that President Bush has the same power to interpret the Constitution as the Supreme Court. An Alito Court is likely to agree with this false claim. Bush Justice Department official and Berkeley law professor John Yoo argues that no law can restrict the President in his role as Commander In Chief. Thus, once the president is at war - even a vague, open-ended “war on terror” - Bush’s Justice Department says the president is free to undertake any action in pursuit of war, including the torture of children and the indefinite detention of American citizens.

In a further bid this week to tighten their grip upon the United States, military leaders have announced that their nation’s judges no longer have oversight over their actions, and as we can read as reported by the Reuters News Service in their article titled “US Says Gov’t, Not Courts, Should Judge Spy Secrets,” and which says:

“The United States government, not any court, is the best judge of whether to keep programs such as its controversial effort to eavesdrop on citizens a secret, an assistant attorney general said on Wednesday. Peter Keisler, an assistant attorney general, and other U. S. officials made the claim in the latest filing to a lawsuit alleging that telecommunications firm AT&T illegally allowed the government to monitor phone conversations and e-mail communications.

“In cases such as this one, where the national security of the United States is implicated, it is well established that the executive branch is best positioned to judge the potential effects of disclosure of sensitive information on the nation’s security, they wrote in a filing on Wednesday evening.”

But perhaps the greatest threat to the American people surrounding these events was the military leaders of the United States launching an unprecedented raid upon their nation’s Capitol Building, and as we can read as reported by the Chicago Sun Times News Service in their article titled “Bush Woos Fiery Hastert With 45-Day Cooldown”, and which says:

“President Bush ordered a 45-day cooling off period Thursday between Congress and the Justice Department in a battle over a lawmaker’s seized documents, a bid to patch frayed relations between the White House and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.

Hastert, usually a Bush loyalist, on Thursday accused the Justice Department of trying to intimidate’him by leaking information to ABC News. The leak was prompted, he said, by his complaints about a weekend FBI raid of Rep. William Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office. The Louisiana Democrat is the target of an FBI corruption probe. The Sun-Times learned that Hastert confronted Bush with his concerns over the FBI raid during the president’s trip to Chicago on Monday to address the National Restaurant Association.”

- Believe it or not, there’s even more of this silliness at PRAVDA! Da, comrade ...

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Mister Congeniality

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Cancelling AO-HELL

How many of you use AOL (a.k.a. “AO-HELL")? If you do, I don’t want to know about it, OK? Only idiots use AO-HELL ... and people who just don’t know better. I have to admit I signed up for the service several years ago when I was in transit between jobs and needed a dial-up connection during the move. It took me one month to get moved and get hooked back up to broadband again. It took two months to get AO-HELL to close the account and, most importantly, leave my credit card alone. F**KING JERKS!

This is a recorded session with a “helpful” AO-HELL representative by a guy who wanted to cancel his account. Pay attention to what happens and learn from this poor slob’s mistake. Listen as the cunning AOL-Qaeda representative tries every trick in the book to keep the schmuck from cancelling. Listen and learn ...

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Sleepless In Jericho

There are so many things wrong with this incident that I have been unable to comment on it for the last week.  How could this little girl dupe her parents into getting her a passport? Whatever possessed her to take money from a stranger in a war zone, purchase a plane ticket and go to meet him? She is only 16, which is the age of consent in Michigan and he is either 20 or 25, depending on which news source you read. Nobody is sure.

Fortunately, the girl was tracked down by US authorities in Jordan and shipped home. Now, poor Abdullah is crying himself to sleep because his “soulmate” didn’t appear. This AP report paints him as a jilted lover, not a sexual predator. Maybe. Regardless, he had no business enticing Katherine to run away and come help him raise goats for the rest of her life.

If I were Katherine’s father, I’m afraid there would be some stern punishment in store for her and I ain’t talking about taking her iPod away. By the time I got through with her, I’d probably have worn out three or four belts and the young girl wouldn’t be able to sit down for a month. Cruel? No, sometimes when a child acts like their brains are up their butt you need to communicate directly with the problem.

As for this MySpace.com crap, shut ‘em down. These chat rooms and meeting web sites have caused more trouble than they are worth. They have become nothing less than on-line crackhouses. Until we can figure out a way to protect minors completely on-line somebody needs to provide strict monitoring of these web sites. And somebody needs to give a stern lecture to Katherine’s parents about actually being parents instead of witless jerks. Period.

Palestinian Anguishes Over MySpace Romance
_{June 19, 2006, 11:22 AM EDT}

JERICHO, West Bank (AP)—The Palestinian man who befriended a 16-year-old Michigan girl through the MySpace.com Web site and invited her to join him in Jericho said he is heartbroken by U.S. authorities’ decision to send her back home.

Abdullah Jimzawi, 20, told The Associated Press that his love for Katherine Lester, of Gilford, Mich., was pure and they planned to marry. The music buff, who spends at least 10 hours a day on the Internet, decried attempts to portray him as an Internet predator.

“We love the same things, the same songs and we have similar dreams. I fell in love with her because she is innocent and goodhearted. We found ourselves as soul mates,” he told the AP on Sunday at his family’s comfortable house.

Jericho, a town of 17,000, is largely immune from the violence and mayhem plaguing the rest of the West Bank. Jimzawi, a high school dropout with close-cropped hair, a two-day beard and large, dark eyes, said Katherine was willing to convert to Islam and that the pair remain in close contact, speaking to each other at least five hours a day via Internet phone calls.

MySpace.com is a social networking Web site whose enormous popularity with teenagers has raised concerns among U.S. authorities, with scattered accounts of sexual predators targeting minors they meet on the site. Jimzawi works in his father’s business delivering goods to minimarkets and has never gotten into trouble.

Earlier this month, Katherine boarded a flight to Israel after slipping out of her mother’s house. At a stopover in Amman, Jordan, U.S. authorities seized her passport and sent her back home.

Had Katherine made it to Jericho, Jimzawi said, she would have slept in his sister’s bedroom, not his. He said he would have walked with her through the tree-lined streets of Jericho, and his family would have celebrated her 17th birthday together on June 21. “When I realized she wasn’t coming I felt my whole world collapse,” he said. “My tears didn’t stop and I couldn’t sleep for three days.”

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/19/2006 at 12:33 PM   
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Murtha Math

Try as hard as I can, I just cannot figure out where John Murtha is coming from. I realize he is a decorated war veteran but his recent comments and actions only serve to convince me he is suffering from some form of dementia or early senility. First he says, pull the troops out now, then he says we need to change direction in Iraq, then he gets in a cat-fight with Nancy Pelosi over who will be House Speaker “when” the Democrats win in November, now he says we can pull all our troops out and station them in Okinawa.

WTF?

I can’t figure this one out at all. How will having the troops 5,000 miles away help the Iraq people? Doesn’t he realize we gave Okinawa back to Japan years ago and have scaled back our presence on that tiny island? Congressman Murtha is becoming more and more like the Angry Left that now controls the Democratic Party. This is why we need term limits, folks. We could also probably use an annual mental examination of every member of Congress to determine if they are rational or not. After all, we don’t need to leave the lunatics in charge do we ... ?

Murtha’s Fuzzy Math
_{June 19, 2006 9:40AM ET}

Congressman John Murtha continues to make a fool of himself by suggesting we can effectively fight the terrorist insurgency in Iraq by “redeploying” our troops to a military base in Japan. Here’s what he told Tim Russert yesterday in the course of arguing that we don’t need a presence in Iraq to conduct the sort of quick-strike missions like the one that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi:

REP. MURTHA: So--and we don’t have to be right there. We can go to Okinawa. We, we don’t have--we can redeploy there almost instantly. So that’s not--that’s, that’s a fallacy. That, that’s just a statement to rial [sic] up people to support a failed policy wrapped in illusion.

MR. RUSSERT: But it’d be tough to have a timely response from Okinawa.

REP. MURTHA: Well, it--you know, they--when I say Okinawa, I, I’m saying troops in Okinawa. When I say a timely response, you know, our fighters can fly from Okinawa very quickly.

They can? The two 500-lb bombs that killed Zarqawi were dropped by F-16 fighter aircraft. According to the U.S. military: In an air-to-surface role, the F-16 can fly more than 500 miles (860 kilometers), deliver its weapons with superior accuracy, defend itself against enemy aircraft, and return to its starting point. Okinawa is 4,899 miles from Baghdad. Do the math.

Murtha also continued to play fast and loose with certain poll data points. He once again said “80 percent of the Iraqis want us out of there” a claim which many people questioned and which was eventually sourced by the liberal Think Progress to a single poll question from March 2006 contained in this report put out by the Brookings Institution. The question is worded “do you approve the government endorsing a timeline for U.S. withdrawal.” Not to be a stickler, but Iraqis endorsing a “timeline for withdrawal” is not quite the same as saying they “want us out of there.”

Another example: Murtha stated flatly to Russert yesterday, “The public is two-to-one against what we’re doing, and they want a change in direction.” That was news to me, because I distinctly remember the latest NBC/WSJ poll results on the question of whether Iraq was worth it or not: 40% said ‘yes,’ 52% said ‘no.’ Same thing with the most recent CNN poll (54% said the Iraq war was a mistake, 42% said it was not) and the latest USA Today/Gallup poll (51% say mistake, 46% not). You do not need an advanced degree in mathematics to know these numbers aren’t even close to two-to-one.

So where did Murtha get his “2-1” ratio? It looks like he cherry picked it from the latest CBS News poll in which 33% responded the war in Iraq was “worth it” and 62% said it was “not worth it.” As you can see, however, the CBS numbers are by far the worst of the entire batch of polls - which is no doubt why Murtha chose to cite them. Ironically, the next question on the CBS survey asks the following: “Looking back, do you think the United States did the right thing in taking military action against Iraq, or should the U.S. have stayed out?” Forty-four percent said we did the right thing, 51% said we should have stayed out.

Congressman Murtha is free to spin the absurd notion of pulling out of Iraq as a simple “change of direction” as he did yesterday, but at least he could do it without misstatements and mischaracterizations.

Posted by The Skipper     on 06/19/2006 at 11:42 AM   
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