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calendar   Friday - April 07, 2006

Prelude

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Michael RamirezThe Los Angeles Times

- “Defiant Iran’s Boast Over Missile Test”

As international action against the Islamic state’s nuclear weapons program galvanises, Iran yesterday announced the successful test-firing of a “top secret” missile - the third test of a new weapon within a week. State-run television called the missile an “ultra-horizon” weapon that it said could be fired from all military helicopters and jet fighters.

A brief video clip showed the missile, fired from a helicopter, hitting a target on the surface of the water. The tests come during war games held by the elite Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea since Friday, at a time of increased tensions with the United States over Iran’s nuclear program.

- “Two B-2s Could Take Out Iran’s Nuclear Assets”

Veteran foreign correspondent Arnaud de Borchgrave, writing for the United Press International, quotes a “prominent neo-con” with good White House and Department of Defence contacts, as the source of the assertion. Asked what would the US do if sanctions did not make Iran turn away from its nuclear target, the source replied, “B-2s. Two of them could do the job in a single strike against multiple targets.”

De Borchgrave writes in an amused vein, “So we looked up B-2s. The US Air Force only has 21 of them. Perhaps price had something to do with it. They came in at $2.2 billion a copy. But they can carry enough ordnance to make Iranians nostalgic for the Shah and his role as the free world’s gendarme in charge of the West’s oil supplies in the Gulf. These stealthy bombers have one major drawback in the Persian magic carpet mode. They can only attack 16 targets simultaneously; one short of the 17 underground nuclear facilities pinned red on Mossad’s target-rich PowerPoint presentations to the political leadership. Presumably, that’s why two B-2s would be required.”


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 04/07/2006 at 05:26 AM   
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calendar   Tuesday - April 04, 2006

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em …

File this one under “A” for Absolutely-Insane. When things like this start happening in a society then that society has become a self-parody. The Arabs need to wake up and smell the coffee before it’s too late. If all the Saudi women took this drastic step then we would have no reason to worry about radical ragheads any longer, would we? We just wait thirty or forty years and they’ll all be gone. Perhaps this is another Bushitlerchimp plan to rid the world of Muslims and steal all the oil? Mheh-heh ...

Tired Of Male Domination, 5 Saudi Women Change Sex
Mon Apr 3, 11:05 AM ET

RIYADH (Reuters) - Tired of playing second fiddle to men in conservative Saudi Arabia, five women decided if you can’t beat them, join them. Al Watan newspaper said the five women underwent sex change surgery abroad over the past 12 months after they developed a “psychological complex” due to male domination.

Women in Saudi Arabia, which adopts an austere interpretation of Islam, are not allowed to drive or even go to public places unaccompanied by a male relative. The newspaper quoted a senior cleric as saying the authorities have to fill what he described as a legal vacuum by issuing laws against sex change operations.

An interior ministry official told al Watan such cases are examined by religious authorities, and sometimes by psychologists, but those who undergo sex change are never arrested.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 04/04/2006 at 02:18 AM   
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calendar   Sunday - March 26, 2006

Muslim Madmen Report

Shortly before he was deposed, Saddam Hussein ordered the use of camels of mass destruction ....

Saddam Hussein planned to use “camels of mass destruction” as weapons to defend Iraq, loading them with bombs and directing them towards invading forces.

The animals were part of a plan to arm and equip foreign insurgents drawn up by the dictator shortly before the American-led invasion three years ago, reveals a 37-page report, captured after the fall of Baghdad and just released by the Pentagon.

It is part of a cache of thousands of documents that the United States Department of Defence says it does not have the resources to translate.

Meanwhile, Al Qaeda has been working on ways to poison your beer ....

An alleged al Qaeda terrorist plotting a bomb attack on Britain told accomplices to sell contaminated beer at soccer games or poisoned hamburgers from street vending stalls, an FBI informant told a court Friday. Waheed Mahmood, 34, accused with six other British men of plotting a terror strike, claimed during a meeting in Pakistan that he had already tested the poison plan, said the witness, Mohammed Junaid Babar.

Babar, 31, a U.S. citizen of Pakistani descent, has testified that he met a group of British Islamic militants in Pakistan who planned to bomb Britain’s electricity network, a London nightclub or one of Europe’s largest shopping malls, a 330-store center in southern England. Babar, who secretly pleaded guilty to several terrorist offenses in New York federal court, including having links with al Qaeda, said the poison plan was raised by Mahmood during a meeting at the Pakistan home of another suspect, Salahuddin Amin, in a village outside Lahore, Pakistan, in February 2003.

Babar, who was escorted by two U.S. marshals and protected by armed British officers outside the courtroom doors, claimed Mahmood said “you could get a job in a soccer stadium as a beer vendor.” “You just put poison in a syringe, inject it in a beer can and put a sticker on it, which would stop it leaking, and hand them out,” Babar said, recounting Mahmood’s proposal.

Finally, in Iran the Mad Mullahs are only a week or two away from having enriched uranium for nuclear weapons ....

Iran could be running a 164-centrifuge pilot cascade to enrich uranium by the end of March or beginning of April, diplomats close to the UN nuclear watchdog told AFP. This comes as the United Nations Security Council is stalled over issuing a statement that would call on Iran to suspend enrichment, which Tehran says is to produce nuclear reactor fuel but can make atom bomb material.

At the pilot cascade in the Iranian city of Natanz, “there is just piping to be finished, then they do vacuum tests, then they would test with inert gas and finally they would put in uranium gas to begin the process,” said a diplomat close to the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The diplomat, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue, said the cascade might be ready to begin enrichment as quickly as “within a week, maybe a week or two longer.

Yep, the Liberals in America are stuck on stupid and the Mad Muslims overseas are stuck on insanity. Ain’t it great being stuck in the middle with me?


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 03/26/2006 at 09:20 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - March 22, 2006

Here Comes Your 19th Nervous Breakdown

All of the tiny little kingdoms in the Middle East secretly sat back and laughed as the Barking Mad Mullahs in Iran performed their insane dance, taunting the US, the UN and anyone who offended them in the least. The radical throwbacks in Iran have now elected a President who is secretly waiting the arrival of the 12th Imam, known as the Mahdi, who will restore the Caliphate and make Islam reign supreme over the world. True ... he is proud of that belief.

It must have all seemed to be fun and games watching the Ayatollah Kohmeini tie Jimmy Carter up in knots but now that President Ama-ina-jihad is foaming at the mouth about nukes, the region is getting restless. Sure, they Iranians are madmen. They all know that but the problem with madmen is they are not very good at targeting coordinates, if you know what I mean. They could launch a missile at Israel and hit Mecca by mistake. You never know with madmen like that.

Add to that the fact that Iran sits over one of the most earthquake-prone regions in that area and you have all kinds of really nasty scenarios to worry about. To me though, the most worrisome aspect is that the Mad Mullahs in Iran have designed and implemented a worldwide strategy of suicide bombers. What’s to stop them from doing the same thing with an entire country? The answer is ... nothing, absolutely nothing ...

imageimageIran’s Nukes Concern Some Arab Countries
March 22, 2006, 1:00 PM EST

KUWAIT CITY (AP)

This tiny Gulf country is increasingly nervous—as are some of its neighbors—about Iran’s controversial nuclear program, right across the water. But heading into a key summit, Arab leaders are divided, and publicly squabbling, over how to defuse a crisis that has caused the West to haul Iran before the U.N. Security Council.

Countries close to Iran, including Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, have focused on safety issues, the threat of a possible regional arms race and the possibility that a crisis with the West could spill onto other nations. Iran’s nuclear program “still poses a big worry,” Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nayyan, the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, said this month.

But Arab countries farther away from Iran have insisted that the United States and Europe should not pressure Iran over its program unless they also push for an end to Israel’s nuclear program. In January, the secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, an Egyptian, quarreled publicly with the Emirates’ foreign minister after Moussa sent a message to the Gulf Cooperation Council summit, urging the leaders of the UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar to focus on Israel, not Iran.

Moussa repeated his stance last month, saying at one Arab meeting: “We should avoid double standards.” Israel maintains ambiguity over its nuclear program but is widely believed to have hundreds of nuclear warheads. The United States accuses Iran of seeking to develop nuclear weapons. But Iran says its nuclear program aims only to generate electricity and has insisted it has a right to carry out uranium enrichment, a process that can develop either fuel for a reactor or material for a nuclear weapon.

As they head into next week’s Arab League meeting in Sudan, both Iran’s program itself—and the fight over it—have many in the Gulf nervous. “Accidents happen in developed countries. What would reassure us that they won’t happen in a Third World country?” asked Kuwaiti strategist Sami al-Faraj. His Kuwait Center for Strategic Studies is advising the Kuwaiti government—as well as the secretariat-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council—on how to prepare for any nuclear accidents in Iran, he said. The country’s first nuclear reactor, expected to go online this year, is in Bushehr in southern Iran, just 150 miles across the Persian Gulf from Kuwait.

Iran is seismically unstable, and an earthquake could cause an accident that would be more disastrous for Gulf countries than for Iran. “A catastrophe that kills 200,000 people could mean wiping out half of Bahrain,” he noted. In addition, any pollution of the Gulf would shut down the six water desalination plants on the Arab shore, he said. But it’s not just safety issues that concern the Gulf states. Leaders also worry about a possible regional arms race, and fear the dispute with the West might prompt U.S. or Israeli airstrikes against Iran—something sure to rile Shiite Muslim communities in the largely Sunni Muslim Gulf countries.

- More on this bad case of nerves here ...


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 03/22/2006 at 01:31 PM   
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calendar   Friday - March 10, 2006

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 ....

imageimageLawyers 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.

- Read the rest of the story here ...


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 03/10/2006 at 04:01 AM   
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calendar   Tuesday - March 07, 2006

NJ Sinks Even Lower

Found this on Drudge this morning.  Apparenty, Assemblyman PETER J. BIONDI (from my former home district) has introduced a bill to stop people from getting their feelings hurt.  This bill is summerized thus:

Makes certain operators of interactive computer services and Internet service providers liable to persons injured by false or defamatory messages posted on public forum websites.

So the ISP would be liable if someone was injured by false or defamatory statements made on a public website.  What a crock.  How deeply do these people want to get in our lives?

Here’s the key paragraph:

This bill would require an operator of any interactive computer service or an Internet service provider to establish, maintain and enforce a policy requiring an information content provider who posts messages on a public forum website either to be identified by legal name and address or to register a legal name and address with the operator or provider prior to posting messages on a public forum website.

The bill requires an operator of an interactive computer service or an Internet service provider to establish and maintain reasonable procedures to enable any person to request and obtain disclosure of the legal name and address of an information content provider who posts false or defamatory information about the person on a public forum website.

In addition, the bill makes any operator or Internet service provider liable for compensatory and punitive damages as well as costs of a law suit filed by a person damaged by the posting of such messages if the operator or Internet service provider fails to establish, maintain and enforce the policy required by section 2 of the bill. [Emphasis mine -FC]

So now, ISP (and blog operators, presumably) would have to maintain a database of users, complete with real name and address so that the state of NJ can easily find them if someone gets harmed.  Good grief.  I’m out of words.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/07/2006 at 09:07 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - March 01, 2006

CBS Is Sirius-ly Ticked At Stern

CBS is suing Howard Stern for fraud. In one corner we have a network that defrauded the entire American people with Rathergate and in the other corner we have a sleaze-mongering potato-head. Have you ever wished our courts could just lock up both parties in a lawsuit and throw away the key? This almost tops Anna Nicole Smith’s goldigging at the Supreme Court today.

Andy Warhol was wrong. Not everyone deserves fifteen minutes. Tick-tick-tick-tick ....

imageimageCBS Sues Stern For Fraud
Says radio personality used CBS airtime for his own financial benefit;
Stern counters that former boss has ‘vendetta.’

February 28, 2006: 5:33 PM EST

NEW YORK (CNN)

CBS Radio says that Howard Stern was acting behind its back in his final months with the company, and intends to demonstrate that in court. In a suit filed Tuesday, the broadcaster alleges that Stern signed a secret agreement with Sirius Satellite Radio (Research) that would give him a payment of Sirius stocks worth over $200 million in January 2006 if he met subscriber targets.

CBS says Stern promoted Sirius in his final months with the company, in violation of his contract with the company. The lawsuit also says that Stern is keeping audio recordings that belong to CBS, a breach of contract. Stern responded by saying that CBS chief Les Moonves is pursuing a personal vendetta against him because the network’s radio fortunes have plunged since he left to join satellite radio.

“I’m offended. I really do think this is a personal vendetta. Les has had it in for me for a long time. I don’t deserve it,” Stern told a news conference. The New York Post reported the lawsuit would seek $500 million from Stern. The complaint was filed with the New York Supreme Court. The hugely popular Stern shocked the broadcasting world in October 2004 when he signed a five-year deal with Sirius reportedly valued at $500 million. In January, he began broadcasting on Sirius, where his locker room humor fills two entire channels.

He broadcast for CBS Radio until days before his switch and relentlessly spoke of that move as it neared. Stern was replaced by former Van Halen rock group lead singer David Lee Roth, whose ratings have paled in comparison, according to media reports. “They’re floundering,” Stern said, adding that talk of a suit was meant as a distraction from CBS Radio’s problems.

Stern said he had a meeting with Moonves and CBS Radio chief executive Joel Hollander about three weeks ago to discuss their complaints. “I said, ‘Les, what’s going on?”’ said Stern. “He said it’s nothing personal, it’s just business. But ... it is personal.” Stern’s move to Sirius, touted more than a year in advance, was seen as a bold bid by the fledgling satellite radio business to attract some of his millions of fans as paying subscribers.

Stern said his move garnered much media attention and CBS added to it, booking him for appearances on its news magazine show “60 Minutes” and “Late Show with David Letterman.” “I made them millions of dollars. If I was hurting them why did they keep me on the air for 14 months?” Stern said. “How can you have it both ways?”

He said he asked Moonves why he did not pull him off the air. “Les said, ‘I knew I could sue you later,”’ Stern said. Shares of CBS fell 1.3 percent on the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday.

CBS shares fell on the stock market yesterday? Sirius shares took a nosedive a few weeks ago, not long after Stern went on air. Poetic justice at work, perhaps?


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 03/01/2006 at 06:40 AM   
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calendar   Friday - February 24, 2006

Hu Framed Roger Rabbit

The entire world is becoming a cartoon. Humanity is becoming a parody of itself. That is my opinion and I’m sticking to it. Muslims are rioting over cartoons. Westerners are screaming “free speech” over cartoons. Now the ChiComs are banning cartoons - which may be a smart move since these imaginary doodles from someone’s pen are causing so much trouble around the globe.

To make matters worse, there aren’t even any decent cartoons any more. I mean, whatever happened to Bullwinkle, Mighty Mouse, Dudley Dooright, Bugs Bunny, Speedy Gonzalez and Road Runner? Now those were worth fighting over. Just remember: cartoons aren’t bad ... they’re just drawn that way ....

imageimageChina Bans Cartoons That Blend Animation
Feb 23 4:22 PM US/Eastern

BEIJING (AP)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit could be out of the picture in China - along with many other cartoon favorites. China has announced a ban on TV shows and movies that blend animated elements with live-action actors, a move aimed at nurturing local animators and apparently curbing the use of foreign cartoons.

Besides “Roger Rabbit,” the 1988 feature film in which actor Bob Hoskins performed beside several animated characters, popular children’s TV shows featuring human hosts and animated elements such as “Blue’s Clues” from the United States and Britain’s “Teletubbies” could be included in the ban. And “Space Jam,” the 1996 film featuring basketball great Michael Jordan alongside Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck could also be shelved.

The government’s main television and film regulator sent notice Feb. 15 to broadcasters and theaters that such films and shows could no longer be shown and that violators would be punished. It did not say what the penalties would be. It also did not give examples of banned programs but described them as “so-called cartoons that mainly feature real people and only occasionally have computer-generated elements.”

Communist authorities are eager to expand the country’s animation industry and also are worried about the influence of foreign pop culture on Chinese children. The cartoon ban is intended to “promote the development and prosperity of the cartoon industry in China,” said the statement issued by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.

The broadcast administration’s statement said it planned to review programs that had previously been granted licenses to make sure none of the banned programming is aired. Phone calls to the administration’s main office on Thursday weren’t answered. Japanese and Western animated programs have gained a foothold in China but the government wants to develop its own industry.

China already limits foreign cartoons on television to 40 percent of all cartoons broadcast. It has said it might ban all foreign cartoons from prime time television once the quantity and quality of domestic productions is considered adequate. Yet foreign cartoons dubbed into Chinese are a staple on late afternoon and weekend television.

Chinese studios have taken advantage of low labor costs to build a growing business handling the labor-intensive animation of cartoons for foreign studios. But they’ve had little luck building up their own brands. There are few Chinese-made cartoons aside from a handful of traditional tales such as “Journey to the West” and some government- financed titles.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/24/2006 at 08:05 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - February 23, 2006

Do Unto Others … As They Do Unto You

My first thought when reading this was, “no, this is not Christians fighting Muslims - this is one group of third-world savages fighting another group of third-world savages.” That didn’t seem to fit right so I decided to see what other bloggers on my blogroll had to say about it and if my first impression was right. Nearly every blogger I read on this subject seemed to feel the same way. Then I stumbled across Ace over at Ace Of Spades HQ who put into words exactly what I was thinking subconsciously but wouldn’t admit. Thanks Ace, for the reality check ...

I suppose I’m supposed to condemn the mob violence on both sides equally. But that’s a lot of bullshit. The Muslim mobs killed, beat, maimed, and burned because of some cartoons published in small country thousands of miles of way.

The Christian mobs are killing, beating, maiming, and burning because they were themselves killed, beaten, maimed, and burned last week.

Every group of human beings has the capacity for this kind of vicious, random, xenophobic violence. Some are, let us say, more easily set to murderous frenzy than others.

-- Ace

“In Nigeria, Christian Mobs Terrorize Back”

Nigerian Christians Mob Muslims
February 23, 2006, 11:37 AM EST

ONITSHA, Nigeria (AP)

Christians in this southern Nigerian city burned Muslim corpses and defaced wrecked mosques Thursday, showing little repentance after days of sectarian violence that has killed more than 120 people across the country. Onitsha has borne the brunt, with at least 80 of the deaths. The violence followed weekend protests over the publication of cartoons of Muhammad, the Islamic prophet.

“We don’t want these mosques here anymore. These people are causing all the problems all over the world because they don’t fear God,” said 34-year Ifeanyi Ese, standing amid the concrete rubble of an Onitsha mosque. With a crowd gathered, Ese angrily scrawled “Mohammed is a man, but Jesus is from above” on a shattered mosque wall with a burned stick.

Thousands of Nigerians have died in sectarian strife since 2000, when mostly Muslim northern states began implementing Islamic Shariah law in late 1999. Nigeria’s 130 million people are split between the two faiths, with Christians a majority in the south.

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The latest violence was touched off Saturday in the northern city of Maiduguri, when Muslim protests against cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad. The cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September, have set off sometimes violent protests around the world. The Maiduguri protests turned violent, and 18 people, most of them Christian, were killed.

Twenty-five more died in similar violence in the northern city of Bauchi, sparking reprisals in Onitsha. “The Muslims started it when they attacked the Christians due to the cartoon of Muhammad in Denmark. If they cartooned their god, well, they must endure it and not fight,” said Christian Ike, a 35-year old motorcycle taxi driver. “We want to be one Nigeria.” Emeka Umeh, who heads leading human rights group Civil Liberties Organization in Anambra state, said at least 80 people were killed in Onitsha—60 Tuesday and 20 Wednesday.

One entire Muslim district—an area of about 100 homes—was burned to the ground. Crumpled corrugated tin roofs lay on top of the remains of smoldering houses. At least nine bodies, all charred, lay in dirt streets as passers-by hurried past, holding cloths to their noses against the stench. Three other bodies burned on a pyre of flaming tires.

About 5,000 Muslims fled the city and took refuge across the Niger River in the neighboring town of Asaba. Several hundred of them sat beneath trees at a police barracks there, asking for help to travel northward as babies wailed. Adam Mohamed, a 40-year-old Muslim motorcycle mechanic, said mobs attacked and robbed Muslims as they fled across a bridge connecting the two cities.

“Some were killed. Others were thrown from the bridge into the water,” Mohamed said. “These people attacked us, burnt our mosques and killed our people. But by God’s grace, I escaped.” Most seemed resigned to their fate. “The prophet told us to accept what happens to us because it is our destiny,” said Abdul Salaam Danbuzu, a 26-year-old sheep herder from neighboring Niger. “We’re a small community and now we must all leave. All we can do is run.”

Trucks that usually carry fruit and other goods to market were packed with Muslims heading north. It wasn’t known how many Muslims lived in Onitsha. Gov. Chris Ngige extended a curfew imposed on Onitsha to the nearby towns of Nnewi and Awka, the state capital, after Muslim northerners had been attacked and killed in those places Wednesday, the local government radio station reported.

Deaths have also been reported by residents in violence the same day against Muslims in Enugu, a mainly Christian and ethnic Igbo-dominated city, some 60 miles north of Onitsha. A spokeswoman for the Nigerian Red Cross, Umo Okon, said there were 925 victims of violence in Onitsha over the two days, including deaths, injuries and people displaced from their homes. She did not have an exact breakdown.

The latest outbreak of fighting is the worst to hit Nigeria since 2004, when Muslim-Christian skirmishes in northern Nigeria’s Plateau and Kano states killed more than 700 people. The cartoons that reignited Muslim-Christian tension in Nigeria were the object of protests around the world. One caricature shows Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban with an ignited fuse.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/23/2006 at 01:00 PM   
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calendar   Tuesday - February 21, 2006

Biker Buddies

Reverend Fred Phelps is a piece of work. He and his congregation at the Westboro Baptist Church make the Democrats look positively sane. The man is a loon and it’s a wonder God hasn’t slapped a lightning bolt down on his ass yet.

What we’re talking about here is the polar opposite of the Liberals’ embracing of the homosexual lifestyle and ramming it down everyone’s throat. Phelps thinks homosexuals are evil and God is punishing us by killing US troops overseas because there are so many homosexuals in our country. I kid you not. I have never felt so alone, stuck in between these two groups of insane people. I object to the Liberals’ homosexual agenda but I positively detest Phelps.

I am glad to see there are decent people like the Patriot Guard Riders who are willing to stand up to Phelps and his miserable minions and shield the families of fallen heros from these madmen. I sometimes wonder if freedom of speech is worth having to put up with people like Phelps. There has to be a way to silence madmen like him without giving up our freedom to say what we want. In the good ol’ days there was. It was called “tar and feathers” and usually sufficed to keep the noise from jerks like Phelps down to a minimum.

imageimageMotorcyclists Roll to Soldier Funerals
February 21, 2006, 6:11 AM EST
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP)

Wearing vests covered in military patches, a band of motorcyclists rolls around the country from one soldier’s funeral to another, cheering respectfully to overshadow jeers from church protesters. They call themselves the Patriot Guard Riders, and they are more than 5,000 strong, forming to counter anti-gay protests held by the Rev. Fred Phelps at military funerals.

Phelps believes American deaths in Iraq are divine punishment for a country that he says harbors homosexuals. His protesters carry signs thanking God for so-called IEDs—explosives that are a major killer of soldiers in Iraq. The bikers shield the families of dead soldiers from the protesters, and overshadow the jeers with patriotic chants and a sea of red, white and blue flags.

“The most important thing we can do is let families know that the nation cares,” said Don Woodrick, the group’s Kentucky captain. “When a total stranger gets on a motorcycle in the middle of winter and drives 300 miles to hold a flag, that makes a powerful statement.” At least 14 states are considering laws aimed at the funeral protesters, who at a recent memorial service at Fort Campbell wrapped themselves in upside-down American flags. They danced and sang impromptu songs peppered with vulgarities that condemned homosexuals and soldiers.

The Patriot Guard was also there, waving up a ruckus of support for the families across the street. Community members came in the freezing rain to chant “U-S-A, U-S-A” alongside them. “This is just the right thing to do. This is something America didn’t do in the ‘70s,” said Kurt Mayer, the group’s national spokesman. “Whether we agree with why we’re over there, these soldiers are dying to protect our freedoms.”

Shirley Phelps-Roper, a daughter of Fred Phelps and an attorney for the Topeka, Kan.-based church, said neither state laws nor the Patriot Guard can silence their message that God killed the soldiers because they fought for a country that embraces homosexuals. “The scriptures are crystal clear that when God sets out to punish a nation, it is with the sword. An IED is just a broken-up sword,” Phelps-Roper said. “Since that is his weapon of choice, our forum of choice has got to be a dead soldier’s funeral.”

The church, Westboro Baptist Church, is not affiliated with a larger denomination and is made up mostly of Fred Phelps’ extended family members. During the 1990s, church members were known mostly for picketing the funerals of AIDS victims, and they have long been tracked as a hate group by the Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project.

The project’s deputy director, Heidi Beirich, said other groups have tried to counter Phelps’ message, but none has been as organized as the Patriot Guard. “I’m not sure anybody has gone to this length to stand in solidarity,” she said. “It’s nice that these veterans and their supporters are trying to do something. I can’t imagine anything worse, your loved one is killed in Iraq and you’ve got to deal with Fred Phelps.”

Kentucky, home to sprawling Fort Campbell along the Tennessee line, was among the first states to attempt to deal with Phelps legislatively. Its House and Senate have each passed bills that would limit people from protesting within 300 feet of a funeral or memorial service. The Senate version would also keep protesters from being within earshot of grieving friends and family members.

Richard Wilbur, a retired police detective, said his Indiana Patriot Guard group only comes to funerals if invited by family. He said he has no problem with protests against the war but sees no place for objectors at a family’s final goodbye to a soldier. “No one deserves this,” he said.

On the Web:

Patriot Guard Riders: http://www.patriotguard.org


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 02/21/2006 at 06:45 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - February 01, 2006

Boo. Freekin. Hoo.

Cindy’s Upset with the way the Capitol Police dog-walked escorted her from the SoTU last night. 
(sorry for the link folks, but you gotta do what you gotta do to get at the news)

What Really Happened.
...a message from Cindy Sheehan

Dear Friends,

As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight.

I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country.

There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press. (Shocker) So this is what really happened:

[blah...blah...blah...didn’t really want to go.....blah...blah...felt pressure because of the media......blah...blah....decided to go anyway...]

I had just sat down and I was warm from climbing 3 flights of stairs back up from the bathroom so I unzipped my jacket. I turned to the right to take my left arm out, when the same officer saw my shirt and yelled, Bitch! “Protester.” He then ran over to me, hauled me out of my seat and roughly (with my hands behind my back) shoved me up the stairs. I said something like, “I’m going, do you have to be so rough?”

It’s killing me.  “Don’t be so rough.  bully!” LOL  I sure do hope she runs for congress.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/01/2006 at 07:24 PM   
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calendar   Tuesday - January 31, 2006

Committed

The word “committed” has two distinct meanings. If you’re a Conservative, the first definition applies to you: Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. This is because Conservatives believe in America and are bound and determined to protect this country from terrorists and are wholly against the socialist madness coming from the wingnuts on the Left. If you’re a Liberal, the second definition applies to you: Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution. This is because you are barking mad and need to be placed in a nice quiet home out in the countryside where they play soothing music and give you hourly doses of medication to help you screw your head back on straight ...

Tasting Victory, Liberals Instead Have a Food Fight
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
(WASHINGTON POST)

The new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds congressional Democrats in the best position they’ve held in 14 years, besting President Bush and Republican lawmakers on Iraq, the economy, health care, immigration, ethics and more. All of which can mean only one thing: It is time for the Democrats to eat their own.

Right on cue, liberal activists including Cindy Sheehan and Ramsey Clark gathered yesterday at the Busboys & Poets restaurant and bookshop at 14th and V streets NW for what they billed as a forum on “The Impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.” But the participants, while charging the administration with “crimes against humanity,” a “war of aggression” and even “the supreme international crime,” inevitably turned their wrath on congressional Democrats, whom they regarded as a bunch of wimps.

“Does the Democratic Party want to continue to exist or does it want to ignore what 85 percent of its supporters want?” demanded David Swanson, a labor union official who runs “Impeach PAC” and other efforts to remove Bush from office. Singling out Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid (Nev.) for derision, Swanson said that Democrats who do the right thing “are exceptions.”

Sheehan, just back from Caracas, where she praised Venezuela’s anti-American president, Hugo Chavez, and called Bush a “terrorist,” said she expects Democrats will “seriously screw up” the midterm elections in November. Besides, “we can’t wait” for the election, said Sheehan, who is mulling a primary challenge to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

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“Cindy for the Senate!” called out moderator Kevin Zeese, a Ralph Nader acolyte. “It’s important for us to stop thinking as Democrats and Republicans and break out of this two-party straitjacket,” argued Zeese, a third-party candidate for Senate in Maryland. After the participants made their urgent calls for impeachment proceedings, John Bruhns, identifying himself as an antiwar Iraq veteran, rose for a clarification. If Democrats don’t first “gain control of one of the houses” of Congress, he wondered, “how else can we impeach this monster?”

Swanson had a ready brushoff for Democrats who won’t pursue impeachment because they’re in the minority: “Just go home if you’re going to talk that way.” Offering the lessons of 1994, he said: “The way the Republicans got the majority was not by being scared. . . . It was by going out and speaking on behalf of their base and letting themselves be called radicals.” Bruhns, wearing a crew cut and business suit, disagreed. Somebody in the audience called for him to “shut up.”

“They didn’t answer my question,” Bruhns protested after the exchange ended. “How do you get impeachment if you don’t win elections? I’m being practical.” Elected Democrats and their liberal base are in one of their periodic splits between pragmatism and symbolism. Under pressure from blogs and liberal groups, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) yesterday attempted an obviously doomed filibuster against the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel Alito—and Kerry got only 25 of the 60 needed votes.

Likewise, the chance of a Republican Congress moving to impeach Bush is close to zero. When one of the impeachment forum’s sponsors posted an item on its Web site about news coverage of the event, a reader responded that, without conservative support, “this becomes a cartoon image of the old pinko commie left, and fair game for the wingnuts at Fox.”

- Believe it or not, there’s even more to this madness here ...


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 01/31/2006 at 10:49 AM   
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calendar   Monday - January 30, 2006

Looney Cindy Update

Cindy Sheehan has decided to run against Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein in the California primaries in June and has already received her first endorsement ... from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. The insanity just never stops does it?


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 01/30/2006 at 07:08 AM   
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calendar   Saturday - January 28, 2006

Weekend Discussion

The topic for discussion this weekend is “Armageddon: Every Man For Himself”.

Scenario: the North Koreans and Iranians collaborate to sneak a submarine off the coast of California and launch a Taepo Dong-2 missile with a 50-megaton nuclear warhead. In a matter of minutes, the missile climbs over the Rocky Mountains to a height of 300 miles above St. Louis where it detonates. The military cannot respond fast enough to shoot down the missile before it delivers its deadly electromagnetic pulse just above the atmosphere.

All I’ll see here in St. Louis is a bright light and a brief concussion wave. As soon as the missile detonates, a travelling electrical wave spreads across the country at the speed of light. All electrical devices are instantly destroyed. All command & control infrastructure of the government ceases to exist. The internet disappears. Radio and TV are history. The power grid is down. Your vehicle’s wiring is melted. All public transportation comes to a halt. The lights go out and you’re cut off from everyone outside of walking distance. People in hospitals start to die. The food in your refrigerator starts to spoil. Panic sets in as people ransack and pillage grocery stores. Armed gangs walk the streets. Welcome to the 7th Century.

What’cha gonna do?

The scientific principles behind generating a high-altitude electromagnetic pulse are relatively easy to understand. A nuclear weapon is detonated between 25 miles and 300 miles above the Earth’s surface; the radiation reaching the atmosphere interacts with air molecules to produce high-energy electrons that speed across the Earth’s magnetic field as an instantaneous, invisible electromagnetic pulse. A nuclear device must be detonated above the Earth’s atmosphere in order to generate the high-altitude EMP effects.

An EMP can have devastating consequences for developed countries, because any metallic conductor in the area affected becomes a “receiver” for the powerful energy burst released by the blast. Such receivers include anything with electronic wiring--from airplanes and automobiles to computers, railroad tracks, and communication lines. If systems connected to these receivers are not protected, they will be damaged by the intense energy pulse. Indeed, depending on the strength of the pulse and the vulnerability of the equipment, the effects could range from interrupted phone conversations and radio interference to the melting of components in every type of electrical system.

An EMP damages unprotected electronic equipment within the blast’s “line of sight.” The size of the area in harm’s way (the EMP’s “footprint” on the Earth’s surface) is determined by the altitude of the explosion. The higher the altitude, the greater the land area affected (see Map below). A Scud-type ballistic missile launched from a vessel off the U.S. coast and detonated at an altitude of 95 miles would degrade electronic systems across one-fourth of the United States. A Taepo Dong-2 missile launched from North Korea probably could deliver a warhead 300 miles above America--enough to degrade electronic systems throughout the country. Crude weapons with low yields, like those used against Japan in World War II, would have ample power to cripple the United States.

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Source: American Heritage: “America’s Vulnerability” and Congressional Record: June 9, 2005 (House): Rep. Bartlett On NUCLEAR ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE.

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