Wednesday - August 23, 2006

Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day

It was bound to happen sooner or later ... criminals taking advantage of the Religion Of Pees. This is probably one more reason why immigrants need to leave their medieval ways where they came from. I see a lot of Asian women with head scarves and big droopy dresses around town and I can live with that but when women start parading around this country clad in head to toe black bags I think it’s time to call a timeout. You never know what might be underneath all that fabric. It might just be Jack The Ripper for all you know ...

Burqa-Clad Robber Sentenced to 82 Years
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - August 23, 2006, 9:45 PM EDT

A man convicted of robbing businesses while wearing traditional Islamic women’s clothing that hid his face was sentenced Wednesday to 82 years in prison. Stanley Skeeters, 30, was convicted in March of the armed robberies of three pizza parlors and a grocery store committed by a burqa-clad gunman.

“Employees were tied up and terrorized, staring at the barrel of a sawed-off shotgun, wondering if they were going to live to see another day,” U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan said.

Skeeters was convicted of conspiracy, interference with interstate commerce by robbery and firearms charges. His attorney did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/23/2006 at 11:32 PM   
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Blog Felon

Well, it’s official. The blogosphere now has its first official (accused) felon. Blogger Debbie Frisch, official blog-nut-troll has been served in Eugene, Oregon on charges of stalking and telephone harassment. Blog P.I. has the full story on this latest development in a sad but frightening affair.

It all goes back to her sudden, deranged obsession with Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom and her subsequent harassment and threats against his children. The charges in Oregon appear to be from an unrelated series of harassment attacks on colleagues at the University Of Oregon prior to her troubles with Goldstein.

The saga of Deborah Frisch, long-time comment troll and all-around kook, took another troubling, but not exactly unforeseeable turn in the last 48 hours. As far as we know, she is now the first troll of the political blogosphere to face criminal charges relating to such activity. On August 21 she was arraigned in an Oregon courtroom on charges of stalking and telephone harassment.

According to Don’t Hire Deb, a blog devoted to documenting Frisch’s outrageous behavior while depriving her own site of traffic, Frisch posted either $4,000 bail or $400 to a bondsman, and must reappear in court on September 25th. As is speculated in DHD comments and elsewhere, this likely stems not from Frisch’s well-publicized Jeff Goldstein-related misadventures (to the best of our knowledge she’s never called him) but rather similar interactions with former colleagues at University of Oregon (where she was denied tenure in 1994 and served as an adjunct until July 2001) including calling, emailing, and a quickly-removed post to her blog.

Just a few months ago, Frisch was an obscurity known only to the blogs she trolled, such as Eugene’s Oregon Commentator and Steve Verdon’s Deinonychus Antirrhopus. But at this point, she is undergoing the most severe public self-destruction we’ve seen yet.

-- Blog P.I.

You can go read the rest of this sorry history and current developments at Blog P.I. or you can visit Deb’s blog and see for yourself. The blogosphere can be a dangerous place. People will get out of control at times and there will always be trolls out there looking for something to jump on and obsess over. The blogosphere does bring out the best in online interactivity and communication of ideas but it also brings out the worst in some people. As long as the blogosphere and the internet is free and wide open that will always be the case. Somehow we all have to live with that. And the trolls out there need to take note .... you can go too far across the line and then you’re in deep guana. Just ask Deb.

_{(thanks to Squiggler for tipping me off on this and for bringing me up to date on the saga)}

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/23/2006 at 04:19 PM   
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Headline Of The Day

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/23/2006 at 03:37 PM   
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Sheer Terror!

What’s worse than Snakes On A Plane? Samuel L. Jackson just found out. OH! MY! GAWD!

_{(-- hat tip to Dave Barry)}

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/23/2006 at 01:47 PM   
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IslamoNazis?

Jonah Goldberg compares modern Muslims to German Nazis and the similarities are eerily close - especially considering the fact that a lot of Middle Eastern leaders sided with the Germans in WWII. And the Nazis welcomed them. What they had in common was ... a fear of Jews. You heard that right - fear. Of. Jews.

The Swastika and the Scimitar
Anti-Semitic paranoia is alive and well among Muslims.
By Jonah Goldberg
_{(NRO) - August 18, 2006, 3:38 a.m.}

The Jews everywhere are “the Muslim’s bitter enemies,” said a prominent Islamic leader. Throughout history, the “irreconcilable enemy of Islam” has conspired and schemed and “oppressed and persecuted 40 million Muslims,” he said. In Palestine, the Jews are establishing “a base from which to extend their power over neighboring Islamic countries.” And, he proclaimed, “This war, which was unleashed by the world Jewry,” has provided “Muslims the best opportunity to free themselves from these instances of persecution and oppression.”

Sound like Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah? Or perhaps Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? Nope. It was the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Husseini, in 1942. An ardent Nazi supporter, Husseini delivered his speech at the opening of the Islamic Institute in Berlin, one day after the Allies denounced the Nazis for “carrying into effect Hitler’s oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe.” Husseini’s address was approved by Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Joseph Goebbels was in attendance. The Reich press office widely distributed the comments.

- More from Goldberg at NRO ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/23/2006 at 12:36 PM   
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If Only, If Only - Updated

I saw this referenced a couple of times this morning.  Tell me, dear readers, what you find wrong in this picture:

Dorling Kinderly: Presidents - The Ultimate Sticker Book

This is a test of your keen observation skills.  Put your answers in the comments

***Update ***
As some of you noticed, John F***ing Kerry is on the cover of this book of Presidential stickers.  Well, DK must have seen the massive upswing in traffic we provided today and updated the picture.  But never fear dear readers, BMEWS is always here to provide the real news.  We found the same book available on Amazon.com.  Prey tell, what cover do they have?

Heh, heh, heh.

Unbelievable.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/23/2006 at 09:00 AM   
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ACLU Plan: Destroy America?

- Stop The ACLU: “O’Reilly: Does Judge Taylor Want Americans To Die?”

- Judicial Watch: “U.S. District Judge Who Presided Over Government Wiretapping Case May Have Had Conflict of Interest”

- Stop The ACLU: “The ACLU and forum shopping in NSA case”

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/23/2006 at 09:30 AM   
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Reader Poll: Immigration Reform

OK, time for another Reader Poll (YAY!). Today’s poll is about Immigration Reform and whether you think the Senate Bill or the House Bill or some other option is best. Below the poll is a side by side comparison of the two bills (courtesy of the Washington Post). Speaking of the WAPO, you might want to read this article in today’s edition about the expected cost of the Senate Bill. Here is an excerpt:

Cost of Senate Immigration Bill Put at $126 Billion
_{(WASHINGTON POST) - Tuesday, August 22, 2006}

The Senate’s embattled immigration bill would raise government spending by as much as $126 billion over the next decade, as the government begins paying out federal benefits to millions of new legal workers and cracks down on the border, a new Congressional Budget Office analysis concludes.

The CBO’s five-year cost estimates include $800 million to hire 1,000 additional Border Patrol agents; $2.6 billion to build detention facilities for 20,000; $3.3 billion to build and maintain 370 miles of border fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along the U.S.-Mexico frontier; and $1.6 billion to establish a computerized system to verify the eligibility of applicants for lawful employment.

But that may understate the political costs of those entitlement claims. Over the next decade, legalized workers and their families, in addition to guest workers and theirs, would claim $24.5 billion in tax refunds through the earned income credit and child credit, $15.4 billion in Medicare and Medicaid, $5.2 billion in Social Security benefits and $3.7 billion in food stamps and child nutrition programs, the report estimates.

In the long run, tax revenue generated by new workers would ease the baby-boom generation’s burden on Social Security and offset virtually all the additional spending, said James Horney, a senior fellow at the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/23/2006 at 08:25 AM   
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Ahhh, The Smell of Pacifism - Updated

via the Geek

Cat-killing raccoons on prowl in west Olympia

OLYMPIA - Raccoons are cute, until they kill one of your cats.

That is what a west Olympia neighborhood is learning this summer.

Raccoons have killed about 10 cats in a three-block area near the Garfield Nature Trail at Harrison Avenue West and Foote Street Southwest.

Problem wildlife coordinator Sean Carrell of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife called the situation “bizarre, weird.”

OK, so we have this neighborhood that has a little varmint problem.  I know the readers of this blog know what the next step is.  Heck, any 12 year old with an once of sense knows what the next step is.

But this is Washington state.

“I’ve never heard a report of 10 cats being killed. It’s something we’re going to have to monitor,” he said. He added that they may have to bring in trappers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Typical liberal response: “let’s do a study.” Oy

The problem got so bad that residents Kari Hall and Tamara Keeton even started a Raccoon Watch after having an emotional neighborhood meeting attended by about 40 people.

“It was a place for people to mourn and cry,” Hall said.

What??  A neighborhood meeting to mourn and cry?  Good grief.

At the meeting, they encouraged people to stop feeding the raccoons. They also decided to keep their pets and pet food inside. And they decided to carry pepper spray to drive off raccoons that attack again.

Keeton and Pam Corwin have decided to have “cat coops” built so their pets can go outside and have some room to roam, with protection.

[snip]

“I’m afraid of them,” she said of the raccoons. “I carry an iron pipe with me” when I go out at night, she added.

[and]

“We were right there trying to get him off the cat,” she said. “The cat was screaming, and the raccoon was ferocious. My husband and a neighbor grabbed a shovel and a bat, and they were waving them until it took off. It was scary.”

Oh for heaven’s sake.  GET A .22 YOU MORONS!!!!!

The neighbors hired trapper Tom Brown, a nuisance wildlife control operator from Rochester.

Normally, Brown said, he can fix a problem in a few weeks, but he has set traps there for six weeks and caught only one.

Brown said he’s going to back off for a while until the food supply dries up.

He said his goal is to make them feel uncomfortable. Until that happens, they aren’t likely to leave.

I think I’m going to puke.  He wants them to feel uncomfortable????

“It’s like a freeway in the back yard,” she said. “It’s like clockwork. They come between 9 and 9:30 every night.”

“You’ve got to watch which ones are bad,” Hall said. “It’s not all of them. We just have to arm ourselves with pepper spray.”

Yeah, that will help, you neutered form of a man.  Six weeks.  This neighborhood has been terrorized by possibly rabid raccoons who have shown a bloodthirst for killing, apparently more concerned for the feelings of the critters than for the safety of their own pets and kids.  They are unwilling to do what needs to be done to rid them of the plague, even though they know exactly where they will be and when.

In the words of Kim DuToit: “I’m off to the range”

***Update***
Oh boy.  I did not realize they had a comments section on this story.  Here’s a gem:

I am one of the pet owners described in this story. I am also a lifelong conservative Republican and a proud WWII vet and I’d like to damn to hell each and everyone one of you southern hicks who are spouting off here. How dare you bring your moronic political rants into my neighborhood, with all your assumptions about Washingtonians and our way of life.

Olympia is a city. We are not some backwood hollow, where we can just come out guns ablazing.

You people need to take care of your own problems (and you certainly have a lot of them) and leave us to sort out our own.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/23/2006 at 07:22 AM   
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   Tuesday - August 22, 2006

Hezbullshiite

See the pretty little picture below? It’s all sweetness and light, eh? Kinda makes you want to run out and enlist in the Religion of Pees, don’t it? No? Well then, you must be an evil Zionist infidel pig and we will destroy all of you Jew-loving donkeys and your stomachs will roast in hell. So there!

Now come on. Admit it. If it weren’t for the fact that they’re intent on killing us these asshats would be highly entertaining. As it is we will be forced to nuke the whole bunch one day and things will be mighty damn boring after that.

In case you’re wondering where this is going, I just visited the Official Web Site of Hezbollah in Iran. They even have an English version and after browsing around a little my firewall and anti-virus software didn’t complain. You never know though.

How did I get there. Well, it’s a long story and it involves a picture of a ship being sunk. It all started at Castle Arrrghh!, which led me to Andrew Bolt at Australia’s Herald Sun where I found an interesting set of pictures that caused coffee to shoot from my nose and ruin a perfectly good keyboard. I hate it when that happens.

This is a hoot, folks! The Hezzys are caught red-handed using some photographic trickery to rouse up the Arab Street. Follow the links above and go see for yourself. Put down the coffee or Diet Pepsi first. This is a Serious Bullshiite Alert™ ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/22/2006 at 11:36 AM   
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Imperial Fisking

Sorry, I’m running late this morning. I’ve spent the last hour or so at Emperor Darth Misha’s castle. His Imperial Nastiness is in rare form today and has unleashed a fisking of such proportions that Bill Whittle must be tearing his hair out. I stand in awe of the razor-sharp wit and moonbat-bashing skills of the Right Wing Death Beast. Here’s a small (very small) taste of what awaits you in the Rottweiller Dungeons. Let the beatings begin ...

The Original Moonbat
…or, as he’s also known, George Monbiot of the al-Grauniad who, it is believed, is the reason that the term exists today. Based on the idiocy of his drivel, it’s hard not to believe it.

Last week I argued that Israel’s attack on Lebanon was premeditated: Hizbullah’s capture of two soldiers gave Israel’s government the excuse to launch an assault it had been planning since 2004. Both Bush and Blair knew that it would happen and gave it their approval.

Even though it did, it has to be admitted, come at an awfully inconvenient time. What, with all of the coordination required in order to cook up the fake terrorist bust and all, the entirely fictional plot to blow up a dozen or so airliners in mid-air that was “unravelled” *wink, wink* in order to divert attention from the earth-shattering, revolutionary defeat of Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primaries. Remember that? You don’t? Of course you don’t. That’s exactly why Bush and Blair did it.

But, thankfully, in spite of them being so awfully busy with cooking up a global terror plot and timing it just right in order to steal the limelight from — we forget — somebody in Connecticut who’d just won a primary, they thankfully found the time to phone in their approval of a plot they’d cooked up in 2004. In Crawford. Over a game of Texas Hold ‘Em. Just after supper.

I was, of course, denounced by supporters of Israel’s government as an anti-semite and an apologist for terror.

That’s because “village idiot” gets awfully repetitive after a while, and we Right Wing Death Beasts so abhor dull routines. Not to mention that we were getting all manner of negative attention from the Village Idiots’ Association and their attorneys. Something about defamation, if we remember correctly.

But on Sunday this hypothesis was confirmed by an article Seymour Hersh published in the New Yorker.

Oh well. With that kind of unimpugnable testimony in your favor, we’ll just have to rest our case. Noted tinfoil hat wearing loony tune Sy Hersh confirms your theory??? Oh dear. We’re devastated. Utterly destroyed, we tell you.

We kid.

- Go read the rest of this epic fisking as Darth Misha drops the hammer down in grand style...

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UN Wussies Tossed Aside

I found this via LGF this morning. There is really nothing surprising about this story. Hezbollah decided to test the new UN forces in Lebanon and blew right by them. The UN forces cheerfully obliged by getting out of the way. But never fear, the last line of this story below is really encouraging ...

Hizbollah Pushes Past Guards In Show Of Force
(TELEGRAPH-UK) NAQOURA, Lebanon - 08/21/2006

Hizbollah mourners on a funeral parade shoved aside anti-tank barriers at a United Nations base in Lebanon yesterday in a demonstration of their new political strength. The party had been told it would be allowed to bury three “martyrs” at the Naqoura town cemetery inside the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) compound, but only if there was no flag-waving or political sloganising.

When the chanting procession, several hundred strong, reached the gates, it found the way barred by cruci-form steel tank traps. Mourners argued with the French guards, but failed to gain entry. A mob of young men then dragged the barriers away and the UN opened the gates. “They will eat us alive,” said a middle-aged official as the throng surged in.

A column of black-shirted men carried the three coffins to the graveyard. They waved yellow Hizbollah banners and portraits of the movement’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and yelled anti-Israeli and anti-American doggerel.

Among the mourners was Naqoura’s mayor, Hussein Darwish, a 59-year-old former teacher. “Israel is allowed to carry on raiding our country without Unifil doing anything,” he said, referring to an abortive raid by Israeli commandos in the Bekaa valley the previous day. “Why do they try to stop us burying our dead the way we wish?” The angry scenes were seen as a troubling portent of what may happen when a boosted UN force begins deploying to police the delicate, week-old ceasefire.

“Until now we’ve had good relations, but I don’t know what will happen after this,” said Mr Darwish. “Every-one is waiting.” Others among the mourners complained that when they sought shelter at the base during the bombardments of the month-long conflict, they were placed in open ground without bedding or water. Unifil’s hitherto easy dealings with the locals are partly due to its initial mandate, which only required it to observe and report. The new force will be expected to fill the space left by the departing Israelis and Hizbollah fighters, and police the border area, although its rules of engagement have not been finalised.

Its activities will inevitably bring it into close contact with Hizbollah, which has moved fast to consolidate its political grip on the region. Nowhere in the border area yesterday was there any sign of the Lebanese Army. It has been warned by Israel that it will not be allowed to deploy close to the frontier before the arrival of international troops. There was little sign yesterday that the security vacuum would be filled soon.

UN officials are desperate to get a vanguard force of 3,500 on the ground within a fortnight. But Israel is opposing the use of troops from some of the Muslim countries with which it does not have diplomatic ties but have offered to supply soldiers. By last night, Unifil’s standing force of 2,000 had been supplemented only by the arrival of 49 French military engineers.

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/22/2006 at 10:30 AM   
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Pull My Finger

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It’s All Over Now

End Of The World Announced

Today is August 22. This year, August 22 marks the holy day on the Islamic calendar that is the day of reckoning for Shiites. Some Shiite sects believe that August 22 could correspond to the end of the world.

Early reports from Iran this morning state that the Twelfth Imam appeared in Teheran and issued the following statement: “Where’s my cheese?”

It also turns out that today is the day scheduled by the Christian God for the end of the world. In Jerusalem, a man appeared claiming to be the “Anti-Christ” and these four weird dudes on horseback rode up and started blowing up Muslims and angels appeared everywhere and locusts swarmed and people suddenly disappeared and ....

Hold on! This late breaking news—The end of the world has been rescheduled due to slow ticket sales. You may now resume normal activites ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 08/22/2006 at 06:39 AM   
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